Whereasin and by an M1Act passed in the first year of the reign of her late Majesty Queen Anne, intituled “An Act for the better support of her Majesty’s household and of the honour and dignity of the Crown,” it was (amongst other things) enacted, that all and every grant, lease or other assurance, which from and after the twenty-fifth day of March one thousand seven hundred and two should be made or granted by her said Majesty, her heirs or successors, kings or queens of this realm, under the great seal of England, Exchequer seal, seals of the duchy and county palatine of Lancaster, or any of them, or by copy of court roll, or otherwise howsoever, of any manors, messuages, lands, tenements, rents, tythes, woods or other hereditaments (advowsons of churches and vicarages only excepted), within the kingdom of England, dominion of Wales or town of Berwick upon Tweed, or any of them or any part thereof, then belonging or thereafter to belong to her Majesty, her heirs or successors, or to any other person or persons in trust for her Majesty, her heirs and successors, in possession, reversion, remainder, use or expectancy, whether the same were or should be in right of the Crown of England, or as part of the principality of Wales or of the duchy or county palatine of Lancaster, or otherwise howsoever, to any person or persons, bodies politick or corporate whatsoever, whereby any estate or interest whatsoever in law or equity should or might pass from her Majesty, her heirs or successors, should be utterly void and of none effect, unless such grant, lease or other assurance should be made for some term or estate not exceeding thirty-one years or three lives, or for some term of years determinable on one, two or three lives, and unless such grant, lease or assurance respectively should be made to commence from the date or making thereof; and if such grant, lease, or assurance should be made to take effect in reversion or expectancy, that then the same, together with the estate or estates in possession of and in the premises therein contained, should not exceed three lives or the term of thirty-one years in the whole, with various other provisions and restrictions; but in the said Act there is a proviso that the said Act should not extend to disable her Majesty, her heirs or successors, to make certain leases, copies or grants of offices, lands or hereditaments, parcel of the duchy of Cornwall, as therein mentioned, or to disable her Majesty, her heirs or successors, to make any grant or restitution of any estate or estates thereafter to be forfeited for any treason or felony whatsoever, or to disable her Majesty, her heirs or successors, to grant, demise or assign any lands, tenements or hereditaments, which should be seized or taken into her or their hands upon any outlawry at the suit of her or their subjects as had been usual, or any estate whatsoever which was or should be seized, extended or taken in execution for any debt owing or to be due to the Crown, as she or they should think fit, or to make any grants or admittances which of right or custom ought to be made of any copyhold lands, tenements or hereditaments, parcel of any manor or manors of her Majesty, her heirs or successors, or to disable the trustees for sale of fee farm and other rents therein mentioned from executing the powers vested in them as therein mentioned: And whereas in and by an Act made in the first year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled M2“An Act for the support of his Majesty’s “household and of the honour and dignity of the Crown of “Great Britain,” it is (amongst other things) enacted, that the revenue arising to his Majesty by rents of lands, or for fines of leases of the same or any of them (except the revenue of the duchy of Cornwall), should from and immediately after the demise of his late Majesty King George the Second be during his present Majesty’s life carried to and made part of the general aggregate fund established by the Act of the first year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the First, and be during the said term issued and applied in the manner therein-after mentioned to the uses to which the said fund was or should be made applicable: And whereas in and by another Act made in the thirty-fourth year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled“ An Act for the better management of the land revenue of the Crown, and for the sale of fee farm and other improveable rents,”further provisions are made touching grants, leases and other assurances, which should be made or granted by his Majesty, his heirs or successors, under the great seal or seal of the Exchequer, or either of them, of any manors, messuages, lands, tenements or hereditaments, within the kingdom of England and dominion of Wales, or any of them or any part thereof, then belonging or thenafter to belong to his Majesty, his heirs or successors, and being within the ordering and survey of the Exchequer in England: And whereas his Majesty has purchased certain freehold and customary or copyhold and leasehold manors, lands, tenements and hereditaments, out of the monies issued and applied for the use of his privy purse, or with other monies not appropriated to any particular service, and which said manors, lands, tenements and hereditaments have been conveyed or surrendered to his Majesty or to some person or persons in trust for his Majesty, and his Majesty hath hitherto held and enjoyed the same as his sole and exclusive property; but by reason of the general words used in the said Act in the first year of her late Majesty Queen Anne the freehold lands, tenements and hereditaments so purchased by his Majesty, and such as may hereafter be purchased out of such monies as aforesaid, may be deemed subject to the restrictions and provisions contained in the said Acts; and it may be doubted whether such copyhold or customary and leasehold purchases by or in trust for his Majesty as aforesaid do not also fall within the said recited Acts: And whereas it is reasonable that all manors, lands, tenements or hereditaments of any tenure whatsoever, which have been or shall be purchased by and conveyed to or in trust for his Majesty, or which shall be purchased by and conveyed to or in trust for his Majesty’s heirs and successors, out of monies issued and applied for the use of his or their privy purse, or with any monies not appropriated to any publick service, and also all manors, lands, tenements or hereditaments, which have come to his Majesty or shall or may hereafter come to his Majesty, his heirs or successors, by the gift or devise of or by descent or otherwise from any ancestor or other person, not being King or Queen of this realm, should be held and enjoyed by his Majesty, his heirs and successors, freed and discharged from all the provisions and restrictions of the said recited Acts of the first year of her late Majesty Queen Anne and the first and thirty-fourth years of his present Majesty (except as herein-after provided), and should be saleable and disposeable either by grant or otherwise in his or their lifetime, or by his or their last will and testament in writing, in such manner as he or they shall think fit: