Legal Proceedings During Commonwealth Act 1661

C. II. c. 11. recited.

Recital that no Act has been passed inflicting Penalties on Lord Mounson and others.; The Manors, Lands, &;c. of the said Lord Mounson and others,; of which they were seized the 20th March 1646, or since, forfeited and vested in His Majesty; and the personal Estate of which some of them were possessed at the time of their Death.; and of which others of them were possessed on 11th Feb. 1659; forfeited, and vested in His Majesty.

WHEREAS in a certaine Act passed in the late Assembly held att Westminster in the twelfth yeare of His Majesties Reigne and confirmed by the Authority of this present Parliament Entituled An Act of Free and Generall Pardon Indempnity and Oblivion (amongst other things) it is provided that nothing therein conteyned should extend to discharge the Lands Tenements Goods Chattels Rights Trusts and other the Hereditaments late of Isaac Ewre deceased Sir John Danvers deceased Sir Thomas Maleverer Baronett deceased William Purefey deceased John Blakiston deceased Sir William Constable Baronett deceased Richard Deane deceased Francis Aleyn deceased Peregrin Pelham deceased John Moore deceased John Aldred alias Alured deceased Humphrey Edwards deceased Sir Gregory Norton Baronet deceased John Venn deceased Thomas Andrewes Alderman deceased Anthony Stapley deceased Thomas Horton deceased John Fry deceased Thomas Hammond deceased and Sir John Bourchier deceased of and from such paines penalties and forfeitures as by one other Act of Parliament intended to bee afterwards passed for that purpose should be expressed and declared All which persons before mentioned were whilst they lived notoriously knowne to have beene wicked and active Instruments in the prosecution and compassing of that horrid and Execrable Treason the Murder of our late Soveraigne Lord King Charles the first of ever blessed memory And whereas William Lord Mounson James Challoner Sir Henry Mildmay Sir James Harrington John Phelps and Robert Wallop who in the month of January One thousand six hundred forty and eight did act and sit in that traiterous Assembly which proceeded against the Person and Life of our said late Soveraigne X1 King Charles the First and Sir Arthur Haslerig who in his life [X2 time] did commit many horrid and traiterous Crimes against the Person Crown and Dignity of his late Majestie of glorious memory and his Majesty that now is are all of them excepted out of the said Act and reserved to future Paines Penalties and Forfeitures not extending to life since the passing of which Act so as aforesaid confirmed Sir Arthur Haslerig and [X2 James] Challoner died and no Act hath yet passed for the inflicting of due Paines Penalties and Forfeitures upon the persons and Estates of the Offenders aforesaid Wee therefore the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled doe beseech your Majestie that it may be Enacted And be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majestie by and with the advice and consent of the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by authority of the same That all and every the Mannors Messuages Lands Tenements Rents Reversions Remainders Possessions Rights Conditions Interests Offices Fees Annuities and all other the Hereditaments Leases for yeares Chattels Reall and other things of what nature soever they be of them the said Isaac Ewer Sir John Danvers Sir Thomas Maleverer William Purefoy John Sir William Constable Richard Deane Francis Aleyn Peregrin Pelham John Moore John Aldred alias Alured Humphrey Edwards Sir Gregory Norton John Venn Thomas Andrewes Anthony Stapley Thomas Horton John Fry. Thomas Hammond Sir John Bourchier William Lord Mounson James Challoner Sir Henry Mildmay Sir James Harrington John Phelps Robert Wallop and Sir Arthur Haslerig which they or any of them or any other person or persons to theire or any of theire uses or in trust for them or any of them had the five and twentieth day of March in the yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred forty and six or att any time since shall stand and be forfeited unto your Majesty your Heires and Successors and shall bee deemed vested and adjudged to be in the actuall and reall possession of Your Majestie without any Office or Inquisicon thereof hereafter to be taken or found And alsoe that all and every the Goods Debts and other the Chattels personall whatsoever of them the said Isaac Ewer Sir John Danvers Sir Thomas Maleverer William Purefoy John Blakiston Sir William Constable Richard Deane Francis Aleyn Peregrin Pelham John Moore John Aldred alias Alured Humphrey Edwards Sir Gregory Norton John Venn Thomas Andrewes Anthony Stapley Thomas Horton John Fry Thomas Hammond Sir John Bourchier James Challoner and Sir Arthur Haslerigg whereof they or any of them att the time of theire respective deaths or any other in Trust for them or any of them stood possessed or interessed in Law or Equity and all the Goods Debts and other the Chattels personall whatsoever of them the said William Lord Mounson Sir Henry Mildmay Sir James Harrington John Phelps Robert Wallop whereof upon the eleventh day of February in the yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred fifty and nine they or any of them on any other in trust for them or any of them stood possessed either in Law or Equitie shall bee deemed and adjudged to be forfeited and are hereby vested and put into the actuall and reall possession of your Majesty without any further Office or Inquisition thereof hereafter to be taken or found

Editorial Information

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

X2 interlined on the Roll.