Crown Lands (Forfeited Estates) Act 1698

XXVII.

Persons possessed of Lands, &c. hereby vested in Trustees, shall before 10th Aug. 1700, give Trustees, a true Account thereof in Writing; Penalty. and to answer the Profits from 2d Nov. 1699, till the Time of Sale; on Neglect, &c. Prosecution in the Name of the King's Attorney General.

And to the end that all and every the Rents, Issues and Profitts ariseing or growing out of all and every the said Estates and Interests herein before vested in the said Trustees, may from and after the said Second Day of November, One thousand six hundred ninety nine, untill such Sale or Sales be made thereof, as aforesaid, be answered and paid to such Person or Persons as the said Trustees, or any Seaven or more of them shall authorize and appoint to collect and receive the same for the Uses herein after mentioned: Bee it further enacted, That all and every Person or Persons, who are or shall, before the Tenth Day of August, One thousand seaven hundred, be possessed of any Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments by this Act vested in the said Trustees, as aforesaid, shall, before the said Tenth Day of August, One thousand seaven hundred, send Notice thereof in Writing to the said Trustees, containing a true Particular of the Quantity and Quality of such Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, and under what Yearely Rents, Covenants, and Contracts the same were or are held and enjoyed, and what is the true and utmost Yearely Value thereof; And upon any wilfull Neglect or Default thereof, or Fraud therein, shall forfeite Three Yeares Value of the Rents and Profitts thereof, and shall yeild and pay all and every the Rents reserved and payable of and for the said Estate or Estates, or otherwise account for the Profitts of the same, during their respective Occupation thereof, from the said Second Day of November, One thousand six hundred ninety nine untill such Sale or Sales soe made thereof as aforesaid, to such Person or Persons, and att such Places, as the said Trustees, or any Seaven or more of them X1 shall, for that Purpose, direct and appoint: And in case any Person or Persons shall refuse or neglect to pay and answer the Rents and Profitts of the said Estates, according to such Directions, as aforesaid, That then it shall and may be lawfull to and for the said Trustees or any Seaven or more of them, to direct a Prosecution in the Name of His Majesties Attorney Generall of England or Ireland, against the Person or Persons soe neglecting or refuseing to pay or answer the same, as in case of a Debt due to His Majesty, and when recovered, the same shall be immediately paid to such Person or Persons as the said Trustees, or any Seaven or more of them shall direct, to be applied for the Uses, Intents and Purposes appointed by this Act.

Editorial Information

X1 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: of them O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]