Rebuilding of London Act 1670

LXXII. The King and Privy Council may determine Differences concerning Sergeants Inn in Fleet Street;

and to order Recompense to Rob: Mellish Esq. and to decree a Lease of Premises belonging to Dean and Chapter of York.

Provided alwayes, and bee it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That as to the House called Sergeants Inne in Fleete streete, of which the Society of Judges and Sergeants at Law were Tennants at the time of the late Fire and many yeares before That the Kings most Excellent Majestie his Heires & Successors and his or their Privy Councell shall be and are hereby impowered to heare and determine all Differences and Demands whatsoever touching the said House with the appurtenances and all things else to doe relateing to the rebuilding thereof, and to make Orders and Decrees concerning the same as fully to all intents and purposes as the Judges of the Courts of Kings Bench and Common Pleas and Barons of the Exchequer might, could or may doe concerning any [X1 other] Houses burnt downe by the late Fire by vertue of this and the said former Act or either of them; And his said Majestie and Councell are [X2 hereby alsoe] impowered to order and decree such satisfaction and recompence unto Robert Mellish of the Inner Temple Esquire as to them shall seeme just and reasonable, and to order and decree one Lease of the Premisses whereof the Inheritance belongeth to the Deane and Chapter of Yorke not exceeding in the whole sixty yeares for the use of the said Society, and the said Deane and Chapter and their Successors [X3 are] hereby enabled and enjoyned to make accordingly, And what shall be soe ordered or decreed by his said Majestie & Councell as aforesaid shall be good and effectuall in Law to all intents and purposes by vertue of this Act; And the said Judges and Barons of the Exchequer are hereby excluded from makeing any Order or Decree touching the said House with the appurtenances.

Editorial Information

X1 interlined on the Roll.

X2 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: alsoe hereby O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]

X3 O. omits.