Crown Lands (Forfeited Estates) Act 1698

XIII. Claimants to answer Claims and produce Writings, &c. upon Oath.

Regulation as to administering any Oath where Party resides in England, or in Ireland; If Claim not allowed, Claimants barred.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That every Party Claimant shall, if required by the said Trustees, or any Seaven or more of them, upon Oath answer to the Truth of his Claime, and upon Oath produce before the said Trustees, or any Seaven or more of them, att their hearing such Claime, all such Deeds, Writings, and Evidences as are in his Custody or Power, any waies concerneing the said Claime, which Oaths (aswell to the Party Claimant, as to the Witnesses to the Deeds or Writings by vertue whereof he makes his Claime) may be administred to any Person or Persons resideing in England, by any of the Judges of the Courts of Kings Bench, Common Pleas, or Exchequer att Westminster, and to Persons resideing in Ireland by any Seaven or more of the said Trustees; And if such Claime or Demand shall not be allowed by the said Trustees, or any Seaven or more of them, the Party claiming his Heires, Executors, Administrators and Assignes, or any claimeing by from or under them, or any of them, shall be for ever debarred and without Remedy; And the said Trustees or any Seaven or more of them, shall or may in such Cases dispose of such Writings, Deeds or Evidences, in such Manner as to them shall seeme meet and convenient