Escape of Debtors, etc. Act 1696

XI. Office of Marshal of the King's Bench and Warden of the Fleet to be executed by those who have the Inheritance of the said Prisons, or their Deputies, &c.; and the Marshal and Warden answerable for their Deputies.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the said First Day of May the said Offices of Marshal of the Kings Bench Prison and Warden of the Fleet and each of them shall be executed by the several Persons to whom the Inheritance of the Prisons Prison-houses Lands Tenements & other Hereditaments of the said Prisons of Kings Bench and Fleet or either of them shall then belong or appertaine respectively in his or their respective proper Person or Persons or by his or their sufficient Deputy or Deputies (for which Deputy or Deputies and for all Forfeitures Escapes and other Misdemeanors in their respective Offices by such Deputy or Deputies permitted suffered or co[m]mitted the said Person or Persons in whom the aforesaid Inheritances respectively are or shall then be shall be answerable) and the Profitts and aforesaid Inheritances of the said several Offices shall be sequestred seized or extended to make satisfaction for such Forfeitures Escapes and Misdemeanours respectively as if premitted suffered or co[m]mitted by the Person or Persons themselves or either of them in whom the respective Inheritances of the said Prisons shall then be.