Bridlington Piers Act 1696

VII. Recital of Grant of Manor of Burlington to John Earl of Holderness, by Letters Patent 20th Sept. 21 Jac.I.

Commissioners to survey and inspect the Repairs of the said Pier, and certify to Quarter Sessions, who are to assess the Lands mentioned in the said Grant; and on Non-payment; Distress; Receivers accountable to the Quarter Sessions.

And⁷ whereas King James the First by his Letters Patents bearing date the Twentieth Day of September in the Twenty first Yeare of his Reigne did give and grant the Manour of Bridlington alias Burlington in the County of York to John Earle of Holdernesse his Heires and Assigns for ever under the Rents and Covenants therein reserved and expressed and the said John Earle of Holdernesse for himselfe his Heires and Assignes did covenant and grant that hee and they from time to time att their owne Costs and Charges should well and sufficiently build repaire and uphold the Port or Peer of Bridlington alias Burlington aforesaid and all Walls Jettyes Sluces Sockers and Locks thereof for the better preservation of all Shipps and other Vessells which should come to the said Port or Peer and that the King his Heires and Successors from thenceforth should be acquitted exon[er]ated & indempnified from all Expences and Costs thereon to be [X1 exended] for ever as by the said tres Pattents more att large may appeare to the end therefore the said Port Peer Walls Jetteys Sluces Sockers and Locks may be the better rebuilt repaired and maintained for the future and that the Rents Issues and Profitts of the said Mannor of Bridlington alias Burlington may be so applied Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the First Day of May One thousand six hundred ninety seven the said Arthur Lord Viscount Irwin Sir Griffith Boynton Sir Charles Hotham Sir William Strickland Sir William S^t. Quintin Sir Michael Wharton Sir Matthew Peirson Sir William Hustler Sir Richard Osbaldeston Ralph Wharton John Buck Robert Monckton Hugh Bethell Robert Bierly Charles Osborne Esquires and the Wardents of Trinity-house att Hull for the time being or any three or more of them shall have Power from time to time to survey examine & inspect the sufficient Building and Repaires of the said Peers Walls Jetteys Sluces Sockers and Locks and the State and Condition of the same to certifie in writing under their Hands to the said Justices att their said General Quarter Sessions who are hereby impowered to charge the several Lands specified in the said Grant with such equal Sesse or Assessments from time to time as they shall judge sufficient and necessary for repaire of the same and in default of Payment thereof it shall be lawfull for such Person or Persons as shall be authorized and appointed to receive the same by Warrant under the Hands and Seales of any three or more of such Justices of the Peace att the said General Quarter Sessions to distraine the Person or Persons so refuseing by his or their Goods or Chattells and the Distresse so taken to keep by the space of Foure Days att the Costs and Charges of the Owners thereof and if the said Owners doe not pay such respective Sess or Assessment within the space of Foure Days then the Distresse so taken to be appraised by two or more of the Inhabitants where the said Distresse is taken and there to be sold by the Person or Persons so impowered for the Payment of the said Sess or Assessment and the Overplus coming by the Sale (if any be) over and above the Charges of taking & keeping the said Distresse to be i[m]mediately restored to the Owner thereof and the Persons so authorized to receive the said Sess or Assessment shall give Security to be accountable from time to time to the said Justices att the General Quarter Sessions for the due Application of the same.

Editorial Information

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