Crown Lands (Forfeited Estates) Act 1698

XXII.

After Time expired for entering; Claims, Trustees, before 25th March 1702, to sell the Estates vested in them and not claimed, after 10th Nov. 1700; and the Estates claimed; as soon as the Claims are determined; Notice of Time and Place of Sale; Sale by Auction, and Biddings in Sterling Money, English Value; Contracts, &c. entered by Trustees; Buyers to have a Note of Contract, under Hands and Seals of Trustees; Upon Payment, by Buyers, of Money into Exchequer in Ireland, and Certificate, Trustees to execute Bargain and Sale; to be entered by Trustees and delivered to Purchasers, to be inrolled in Chancery in Ireland. Fee; Docket entered; Fee.

And that all every the Honours Baronies, Mannors, Castles, Messuages, Lands, Tenements, Rents, Reversions, Remainders, Estates, Interests and Hereditaments, of what nature soever, herein before vested in the said Trustees, may be disposed of in the most beneficiall manner for the Publick, and the Produce or Value thereof applied to the Uses, Intents, and Purposes herein after appointed: Bee it further enacted That from and after the time herein before appointed, for entring such Claimes, as aforesaid, shall be expired, the said Trustees, or any Seaven or more of them, shall and are hereby enabled and required att any time or times before the Five and twentieth Day of March, One thousand seaven hundred and two, to sell all and singular the Estates and Interests vested in them, as aforesaid, and every or any Part or Parcell thereof, that is to say, such of the said Estates and Interests, concerneing which no Claime or Claimes shall be entred within the time herein before limitted for that Purpose, as soone as conveniently may be after the Tenth Day of November, One thousand seaven hundred; and such of the said Estates and Interests, for or concerning which, any Claime or Claimes shall be entred, as aforesaid, as soone as conveniently may be, after such Claime or Claimes relateing to such Estates or Interests respectively shall be determined, the said Sales to be made to any Person or Persons, Bodies Politick or Corporate, their Heires, Successors, Executors, Administrators, or Assignes, who shall become Purchaser or Purchasers thereof, for such Estate and Interest therein respectively, as is herein before vested in the said Trustees; and in order thereunto, the said Trustees, or any Seaven or more of them, shall cause Publick Notice to be given by the space of Fourteene Daies att the least of the Time and Place when and where they intend to begin to expose to Sale any Part or Parcell of such Premisses and att such appointed time shall expose the same to Sale in such Parts or Proportions, as they shall think convenient, by Cant, or Auction, begining or setting up the same att such Price as the said Trustees, or any Seaven or more of them, shall think fitt; and every Person or Persons, who shall thereupon bid most for the same, in Sterling Money, as such Money is valued in England, shall be deemed and reputed to be the Purchaser or Purchasers thereof; and the said Trustees, or any Seaven or more of them, shall imediately, upon every such Sale or Contract, cause an Entry to be made in their Books of all and every the particular Estates soe sold or contracted for, and what Estate and Interest they sell therein, and of the Buyers Names, and Places of Abode, and the Prices agreed upon; and for the further Satisfaction of such Buyers or Contractors, if they shall insist thereupon, the said Trustees, or any Seaven or more of them, shall give a Note in Writing, under their Hands and Seales unto the severall Buyers respectively, expressing the Particulars by them bought, and for what Estate or Interest therein, and the Price or Consideration thereof, and the Time of such Sale or Contract; and thereupon every such Buyer or Buyers, shall pay the Price agreed upon into the Receipt of His Majesties Exchequer in Ireland, att such time as the said Trustees or any Seaven or more of them shall appoint; And the said Trustees, or any Seaven or more of them, being certified of the Payment thereof, shall execute an Indenture of Bargaine and Sale of the Parcell soe bought and paid for, as aforesaid, to every such Buyer or Buyers thereof, for such Estate or Interest therein, as the said Trustees, or any Seaven or more of them, shall have contracted to sell the same; every which said Indenture shall particularly expresse, or recite the Considerac[i]on paid or given for the same, and shall thereof acquitt and discharge every such Purchaser or Purchasers, his and their Heires, Successors, Executors, Administrators, and Assignes and every such Indenture shall be immediately thereupon entred and transcribed in Books, to be provided by the said Trustees for that Purpose, and shall be then delivered to such Purchaser, or Purchasers, as aforesaid; And every such Purchaser or Purchasers, shall cause such Indenture to be inrolled in His Majesties Court of Chancery in Ireland within Six Months after the Date thereof, paying for the Inrollment thereof the Summe of Six Shillings and Eight Pence for every Skin of Parchment, and no other or greater Fee or Reward whatsoever; And a Dockett thereof shall be entred in the Auditors Office in the Court of Exchequer in Ireland, paying Twelve Pence for entring thereof, and no more.