Duchy of Cornwall Act 1670

X. All Sums of Money, Rents, &c. to be allowed to maintain a School, &c. to remain as heretofore.

Trustees may convey to such Persons as they think fit for the Performance of such charitable Uses.

[X1 Provided alwayes and bee it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That such and soe much of the said Fee Farme Rents and Premisses and such Summes of Money, Rents resolute, Pensions, Stipends, Sallaryes, Annuityes, Almes, Corodyes, Proffitts and Allowances as are due and payable, or which are chargeable upon have beene or ought to be paid or allowed to or for the Maintenance of any Grammar Schoole or Schollars, or for or towards the Reparation of any Church, Chappell, Highway, Cawsey Bridges, Schooles, Almeshouses, Castles or any other Uses, upon, out of, or for the Premisses or any of them to be setled upon Trustees according to this Act as aforesaid shall be and continue to be paid and allowed as they were and have beene heretofore. And the said Trustees are hereby authorized and required to sett out, convey and assure [X1 to] such Person and Persons and their Heires, Bodyes Pollitique and Corporate and their Successors and Assignes as they the said Trustees shall thinke fitt in Trust for the Performance of the Uses aforesaid or any of them, such of the said Fee Farme Rents Dutyes or Summes of Money payable as aforesaid, as shall amount to any of the Summes soe charged, limitted or allowed to, or for the Uses or Purposes aforesaid. Any Thing in this Act or Instructions, to the contrary notwithstanding. And after such Conveyance the Purchasers of the Residue of the said Fee-farme Rents shall be discharged of the said Dutyes and Payments.]

Editorial Information

X1 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: unto O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]