Crown Lands (Forfeited Estates) Act 1698

XXIV. Purchasers having inrolled Conveyances, actually seised of Premises.

Sheriffs, on Precept from Trustees, to put Purchaser in Possession; Purchasers to hold clear of Quit-rents, &c. and of all other Demands; (Exception), and of Breaches of Trust by Trustees. Estates held of the King in Soccage, as of his Castle of Dublin, subject to such Crown Rents, &c. as they were on 13th Feb. 1688; which Crown-Rents, &c. to be for Support of Government of Ireland, and unalienable; All Grants and Incumbrances thereon, since the said 13th Feb. declared void; Purchasers not paying their Money in time; Penalty; New Sale .

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every Person and Persons, Bodies Politick and Corporate, and their Heires, Successors, Executors, Administrators and Assignes, makeing any such Purchase, and haveing any such Conveyance and Assurance as aforesaid, and causeing the same to be inrolled as aforesaid, within the Space of Six Months next after the Date thereof, shall be, and is hereby adjudged to be in the actuall Seizin and Possession of such Parts or Parcells of the Premisses as shall be soe purchased and conveyed: And the said Trustees, or any Seaven or more of them, are hereby authorized and impowered (if need be) to issue out their Precept or Precepts to the Sheriffes, or other proper Officer or Officers, of and in the respective Counties, thereby commanding them to cause Possession to be delivered to such Purchaser or Purchasers his, her or their Heires, Successors, Executors, Administrators and Assignes, or to whom they or any of them shall appoint And all and every such Purchaser or Purchasers, his, her, or their Heires, Successors, Executors, Administrators or Assignes, shall hold and enjoy the same for such Estate and Interest therein respectively, as shall be conveyed by the said Trustees, or any Seaven or more of them, in such Indenture of Bargaine and Sale, freed and discharged of and from all Arreares of Quitt-Rents, Crowne-Rents, and Chiefries, att any time accrued or to grow due before the Date of such respective Conveyances, and of and from all other Claimes and Demands of His Majesty, His Heires and Successors, and of the said Trustees, their Heires, Executors, Administrators, and Assignes, and of all and every other Person and Persons whatsoever (other than and except such Claimes and Demands which shall be allowed by the said Trustees, or any Seaven or more of them, on the Determination of such Claimes, as aforesaid) and alsoe freed and discharged of and from any Breach of Trust, which can or may be pretended to be committed by the said Trustees in not strictly pursueing the Powers or Directions given by this Act; neverthelesse the said forfeited Estates shall after such Sale or Sales thereof be held of the Kings Majesty, His Heires and Successors, as of His Castle of Dublin, by free and common Soccage Tenure, and shall be subject from the time of the Date of such respective Sale and Conveyance, to such Crowne-Rents Quitt-Rents and Chiefries issueing thereout respectively, as the same were respectively lyable to, and charged with on the said Thirteenth Day of February, One thousand six hundred eighty eight; All which Quitt-Rents, Crowne-Rents, and Chiefries, and all other the Quitt-Rents Crowne-Rents and Chiefries belonging to the said Crowne of Ireland, on the said Thirteenth Day of February One thousand six hundred eighty eight, shall for ever hereafter remaine and be for the Support and Maintenance of the Governement of the said Kingdome of Ireland, and shall be and are hereby enacted and declared to be unalienable; And all Grants, Charges, and Incumbrances since the said Thirteenth Day of February,; made or att any time or times hereafter to be made of the same, or any Part thereof, or wherewith or whereby to affect, charge or incumber the same, or any Part thereof with any Annuity, Pension, Rent Debt, Su[m]me or Su[m]mes of Money, Charge, or Incumbrance whatsoever, shall be, and are hereby enacted and declared to be null and void to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever: Neverthelesse it is hereby declared and enacted, That if any Person or Persons, who shall have contracted for any such Purchase, shall not within the time appointed, pay the Summe of Money contracted for, every such Buyer shall forfeite One fifth Part of the Consideration-Money contracted for, and the said Trustees or any Seaven or more of them, may and shall proceed to a new Sale of all and every such Lands Tenements and Hereditaments.