Post Office, etc., Revenues Act 1685

III. Reciting that; by Demise of the; late King the; Inheritance of the; Post Office; Revenues, and the; said £24,000.; per Ann. vested in; King James II.

Doubts removed as to due Execution of Power given to the King to settle a Jointure on the Queen; The King to stand seized of the said Revenues, and £24,000. per Ann.

And whereas by the Demise of his late Majestie the Reversion Fee-simple and Inheritance as well of the said Revenues Issues and Profitts of the Generall-Letter-Office or Post-Office as of the said Rent or Summe of Twenty foure thousand pounds issueing out of the Excise of Beere Ale and other Liquors are come and vested to and in the Kings Majestie his Heires and Successors in right of the Crowne of England And his Majestie being Graciously pleased to obviate all Doubts and Scruples which may at any time hereafter bee moved or stirred for or concerning the due Execution of any Powers given to his Majestie by the name of James Duke of Yorke in and by the said Acts of Parlyament and Letters Patents for setleing a Joynture upon his Royall Consort or in Relation to any further Provision which his Majestie shall please to make out of the said Revenues for the better and more honourable Support of the Royall State and Dignity of his Dearest Consort Maria now Queene of England Bee it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majestie by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and the Commons in this present Parlyament Assembled and by the Authoritie of the same That the Kings Majestie his Heires and Successors shall from henceforth be and stand Seized of and in all and singular the Revenues Issues and Profitts of the said Generall Letter-Office or Post-Office and of and in the said Yearely Rent or Summe of Twenty foure thousand pounds Issueing out of the Hereditary Excise of one Intire and Indefeasable Estate in Fee-simple The said Acts of Parlyament and Letters Patents for Créating of Estates Taile in His Majestie notwithstanding.