Duchy of Cornwall Act 1670

VI. Recital that divers Fee-farmers before the 23d Oct. 1642, and since the 29^th May 1660, have been discharged, their Discharges confirmed.

Proviso for the Queen and others.; Exception of Dukes of Cornwall.

And whereas by certaine Covenants or Agreements on the Kings Part contained in the originall Reservation of some of the said Fee Farme Rents or by the true Intent thereof, or by some Decrees in the Court of Augmentation or Exchequer made before the three and twentyeth Day of October in the Yeare of our Lord one thousand six hundred forty and two, or since the nine and twentyeth Day of May in the Yeare of our Lord one thousand six hundred and sixty diverse Fee-Farmers were to be discharged, and Allowances to be made of diverse Pensions, Portions, Rents Resolute or other Things of the like Nature, and the Charge thereof hath beene since allowed by his Majestie out of the said Fee Farme Rents upon the Accompts of Bayliffes Ministers and Receivers; it is hereby provided and declared That this Act or any Thing herein contained shall not be construed to annull or avoid any such Covenants or Decrees, but that the same shall be allowed against the said Purchaser or Purchasers as it should have beene against his Majestie his Heires and Successors if the Letters Patents or Grants of such Fee Farme Rents hereby intended to be confirmed had not beene made; Saveing unto the Queenes Majestie and to all and every other Person and Persons Bodyes Pollitique and Corporate their Heires and Successors and every of them (other then the Kings Majestie his Heires and Successors, and other then the Dukes of Cornwall for the Time being, and other then such Person as shall have, inherite or enjoy the said Dukedome of Cornwall by force of any Act of Parlyament or other Limitation whatsoever) all such Right, Title and Interest, Possession, Leases or Estates as they or any of them had or should or might have, or of right ought to have had in or to the said Rents or any of them, or any of the Lands charged or chargeable with them or any of them as fully and amply as they should or might have had before the Letters Patents thereof made as if this Act had never beene had or made; Any Thing herein before contained to the contrary notwithstanding.