Bedford Level Act 1667

IV. 15 C. II. c. 17. § 8. Days for Sales for Non-payment of Taxes appointed.

Serjeant at Mace of the Great Levell to deliver Possession to Purchaser by Precept under Corporate Seal.

And whereas by the said recited Act it is amongst other Things provided That Sales for Non payment of Taxes shall be made at Ely upon Wednesday and Thursday in Whitson weeke yearely, the which Season is found to be inconvenient For Remedy whereof bee it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That from and after Whitson weeke which shall be in the Yeare of our Lord one thousand six hundred sixty eight those Dayes for Sales shall be altered and changed unto the said Wednesday Thursday and Friday after the said first Sunday in Aprill in every Yeare and all other Matters and Things concerning or relateing to Sales for Non payment of Taxes by the said recited Act provided are to stand in Force and to be observed with this that the Serjant at Mace of the said Great Levell shall from tyme to tyme by Precept under the Seale of the Corporac[i]oon of the said Great Levell in Nature of a Writt of Habere fac possessionē at Comon Law deliver Possession unto such p[er]son or p[er]sons as shall purchase any part of the said nynety. five thousand Acres for Non payment of Taxes, and the said Governor Bayliffes and Conservators are hereby required and authorized to affixe the Seale of the said Corporation from tyme to tyme to such Precept or Precepts at the Charge of the Parties requireing the same Any Law Statute Usage or Custome to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.