Crown Lands (Forfeited Estates) Act 1698

XII. Claims to be tendred to Trustees, signed by Party: Claimant to express his Demands, and how grounded; and the Circumstances of Incumbrances;

Claim to be entered; and be heard and determined by the Trustees before 25th March 1701.

And to the Intent that all such Claimes may be fairly made heard and determined Bee it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all such Claimes shall be made and tendred to the said Trustees or any Seaven or more of them, written in Parchment, and signed by the Party making the same, or such other Person or Persons on his, her or their Behalfe as aforesaid, and such signeing shall be testified by Three or more credible Witnesses, who shall subscribe their Names thereunto, to attest the same; And every Claimant shall therein particularly expresse all such Estate Right, Title, Interest, Use, Possession, Reversion, Remainder Office, Annuity, Service, Rent, Debt, Benefitt, Charge or Incumbrance he hath, demands or claimes, or pretends to have, demand or claime in, to, out of, or upon any Part of the Premisses, and by and under, or by vertue of what Grant Gift, Settlement, Conveyance, Security, Title or Incumbrance he or they doe claime the same; And if such Party Claimant hath, demands or claimes any Estate, Right, Title, or Interest in or to any Part of the Premisses, by vertue of any Incumbrance for any Debt or Su[m]me of Money whatsoever, such Party shall alsoe in his Claime sett forth such Incumbrance, and the Dates and Contents thereof, and the Witnesses thereto, and if the same be recorded, when and where the same was entred of Record, and whether such Debt or Su[m]me of Money was and is really due, and remaines wholly unpaid or unsatisfied, or what Part, or how much thereof hath beene really and truly paid or satisfied, by Money paid, Perception of Profitts, or by any other Waies or Meanes howsoever; And every such Claime shall be transcribed by Order of the said Trustees, and entred in Books to be provided and kept by them for that Purpose, as a perpetuall Memoriall thereof and the said Trustees, or any Seaven or more of them, are hereby impowered and required, according to the best of their Discretions, to heare, determine, and adjudge every such Claime or Demand, att any time or times after the Entry thereof, and before the Five and twentieth Day of March, One thousand seaven hundred and one; And for preventing any Surprise therein, the said Trustees, or any Seaven or more of them, are hereby charged and required to appoint some reasonable time when they intend to proceed upon any such Claime, in order to the Determination thereof