Escape of Debtors, etc. Act 1696

X. On or before 24th June 1697, all Conveyances of the Inheritance and Leases of King's Bench and Fleet Prisons, &c. to be inrolled; and all present and future Conveyances, &c. to be inrolled in Six Months after Execution thereof, or else to be void.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That on or before the Foure and twentieth Day of June One thousand six hundred ninety seven all & every the Conveyances Grants and Mortgages of the Inheritance of the aforesaid Prisons of Kings Bench and Fleet or either of them and of the Prison houses Lands Tenements Buildings & other Hereditaments to the said Prisons of Kings Bench and Flee or either of them X1 belonging or in any wise apptaining and all Leases thereof and the respective Titles of the Marshall of the Kings Bench and Warden of the Fleet Prisons thereunto or of him or them in whom the Inheritance or Inheritances of in & to the said Prisons and Prison-houses and Premisses or either of them now are and all Trusts and Declarations of Trust thereunto or unto either of them relating shall be inrolled (viz^t:) that of of the Marshall of the Kings Bench in the Kings Bench Court and that of the Warden [X2 of the] Fleet in the Court of Co[m]mon Pleas att Westminster and that all future Conveyances Grants & Mortgages of the Inheritance of the said Prisons of Kings Bench and Fleet or of either of them or of any Part of either of them and all Leases thereof and all Trusts and Declarations of Trust thereunto or unto either of them relating shall be so enrolled in the respective Courts as aforesaid within Six Months next after the executing of every or any such Conveyances Grants Mortgages or Leases or such Trusts or Declarations of Trusts thereunto or unto either of them relating or of any of them and if any such Conveyances Grants or Mortgages of the Inheritance of the said Prisons of Kings Bench or Fleet or either of them [X2 or of any Part of either of them] or any such Trusts or Declarations of Trust thereunto or unto either of them relating or any Leases of the said Premisses be not so enrolled within the Times limitted as aforesaid in the said Courts respectively as aforesaid that then and in such Case as well the present as all future Conveyances Grants and Mortgages of every of them & the Inheritance of the said Prisons of King's Bench and Fleet or either of them or of any Part of either of them and all Leases thereof and all Trusts and Declarations of Trust thereunto or unto any of them relating shall be and are hereby declared to be utterly void and of none effect as if the same had never been executed Any Law Statute or Custome to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.

Editorial Information

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

X2 interlined on the Roll.