Bedford Level Act 1667

X. Recital that, by the Refusal of the Corporation to convey the said Lands, Rents had accrued due.

The said Samuel Sandys and Edwin Sandys declared entitled thereto, and the several Occupiers to pay the same; to be recovered by the said Samuel and Edwin Sandys.

And whereas the said severall Shares and Lotts of the said nynety five thousand Acres herein before vested and setled in the said Samuell Sandys the Younger and Edwyn Sandys and their Heires as aforesaid ought to have been conveyed unto the said Samuell Sandy the Elder or his Trustees by the said Governor Bayliffes and Conservators of the said Corporac[i]on by virtue of the said before menc[i]oed Act, as in and by the same they were required and directed which they refused to doe, whereby the Rents Issues and Profitts thereof have not been paid to, nor could bee received by the said Samuell Sandys the elder or his Trustees or by any other by to or for his or their Use Bee it therefore hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the said Samuell Sandys and Edwyn Sandys shall and are hereby intituled to the said Rents Issues and Profitts of the said Shares and Lott[er] since the passing of the said recited Act which have not really been paid to the said Corporac[i]on for Taxes or to the said Samuell Sandys the Elder and the Occupiers and Possessers thereof, are hereby appointed to pay the same accordingly, and in default of Payment thereof or of any prete thereof they the said Samuell Sandys and Edwyn Sandys are hereby authorized and impowered to sue for and by virtue of this Act shall recover the same wherein noe Esoigne Protec[i]on or Wager of Law shall be allowed, and shall likewise have their Costs of Suite expended therein Any thing herein to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding