Vagrancy Act 1698

VIII. Recital that there is an ancient Hospital at Kingston-upon-Hull; and of Stat.9 W.III.c.47.p.

The said Clause repealed, &c.; and the said Hospital to stand as if the said Act had not been made.

And whereas there is an ancient Hospitall or Corporation in the Towne of Kingston upon Hull called or knowne by the Name of the Guild or Brotherhood of Masters and Pilotts Seamen of the Trinity House in Kingston upon Hull founded upon the Incouragement of Navigation and for the Releife of poor distressed Seamen their Widows and Children within the said Towne of Kingston upon Hull And whereas an Act passed in the Third Sessions of the last Parliament holden in the Ninth and Tenth Yeares of His now Majesties Reigne intituled An Act for erecting Workhouses and Houses of Correction in the Towne of Kingston upon Hull for the Imployment and Maintenance of the Poor there wherein there is contained a Clause to this Effect that all Charitable Gifts Devises and Dispositions that shall hereafter be given devised or disposed to or for the Use of the said Towne or of any Place within the same shall be paid to and be had received and enjoyed by the Corporation in the said Act made to and for the Use of the Poor of the same Towne by which Clause all Gifts made by Seafaring Men or others well-disposed for the Endowment of the said Hospitall of the Trinity House in Kingston upon Hull for the better and further Maintenance of the said distressed Seamen their Widows and Children are or may be prevented or discouraged to bestow any Charitable Benefaction thereon least the same should be or be claimed to be applied to the Use of the Poor of the said Towne in generall contrary to the Intention of such Benefactor by Meanes whereof the said Hospitall is likely to be greatly prejudiced by the Clause aforesaid and other Clauses in the said Act contrary to the Intent thereof Be it therefore declared and enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said recited Clause in the said Act shall stand absolutely repealed And that neither the said recited Clause or any other Thing in the said Act contained shall extend or be construed to affect or extend to the said Hospitall or Corporation of Trinity House in Kingston upon Hull nor to the Prejudice of the Poor belonging thereunto but shall (as to them and every of them) stand repealed and void and that the said Hospitall or Corporation of the Trinity House aforesaid and all the Poor belonging and to be belonging thereunto shall in all respects stand and be in the same Freedome Plight and Condition as they were before the making the said Act and as if the said Act had never been made.