Acts of the Parliaments of England

Part 5 (1695-1701)

1695 (7 & 8 Will. 3).

c. 1Lady KatherineFane's estate: sale of reversion of fee farm rents given to her by her grandfather John Bence.

c. 2Sir ThomasParkyns' estate: sale of lands in Huby and Easingwold in Yorkshire and settlement of others in lieu.

c. 3Enabling Sir Thomas Pope Blount to make a marriage settlement for his oldest son.

c. 4Manor of Madeley (Salop.): vesting in trustees.

c. 5Enabling Thomas Stoner, a minor, to make a jointure and settlement of his estate in marriage.

c. 6Samuel Powell's estate: vesting in trustees for payment of debts.

c. 7Enabling Anthony Earl of Kent and Henry Grey his son to make a jointure for Henry's wife Jemima.

c. 8Lord Francis Powlett's estate: provision for younger children.

c. 9Sir Nicholas and Sir Lawrence Stoughton's estate: sale for payment of debts and portions for daughters of Sir Nicholas.

c. 10Enabling Richard Haynes to settle a jointure on his wife and to exchange lands with Thomas Stevens' trustees.

c. 11Edmond Warner's estate: sale of part for payment of debts.

expld.- Warner's estate 1696 (c. 23).

c. 12Enabling John Aunger, an infant, and his mother to lease his estate.

c. 13Manor of Barkhampstead: sale of part for payment of incumbrances and purchase and settlement of other lands.

c. 14Naturalization of the children of Henry de Nassau Seignior de Auverquerke.

c. 15John Fownes' estate: sale of lands in Devon and settlement of others to the same uses.

c. 16Sir JamesChamberlaine's estate: exchange of lands in common hill or field of Salford (Oxfordshire) for other lands in order to make an inclosure.

c. 17St. James's parish, Westminster: power to raise money to discharge debts incurred in building the church, rectory, vestry and other public works.

c. 18St. Lawrence Old Jury (London): ascertaining and settling payment of the impropriate tithes to Balliol College, Oxford and confirming an award concerning the same.

r.(saving)- City of London (Various Powers) 1950 (c. v), s. 18, sch. 2.

c. 19Naturalization of JamesStanhope and others.

c. 20Naturalization of Salomon Eyme and others.

c. 21Thomas Rider's and Christopher Clitherow's estates: exchange of messuages in London for manors of Bilsington and other lands in Kent.

c. 22Bluet and John Wallop's (minors) estates: leasing and purchasing other lands.

c. 23William Midford's (an infant) estate: sale of manor of Pespoole (Durham) for payment of debts and incumbrances.

c. 24Empowering Anne, Duchess of Buccleuch and her son James, Earl of Dalkeith to grant leases for improving ground in St. Martins-in-the-Fields (Middlesex).

c. 25Enabling trustees to raise money to construct a wet dock and to improve an estate of the Marquess and Marchioness of Tavistock at Rotherhithe (Surrey).

c. 26Naturalization of William Viscount Tunbridge and other children of Earl of Rochford.

c. 27Improvement of ahouse and ground in Great Queen Street.

c. 28Sir Robert Sawyer's estate: sale of a messuage in Lincoln's Inn Fields and purchase of other lands and tenements to be settled to the same uses.

c. 29Settlement of lands and rentcharges on the rector of Maidwell church (Northamptonshire) and his successors, and in lieu settling other lands and discharging tithes belonging to the said church according to agreements between the patron and the rector made upon inclosure of lands in Maidwell, and later with the consent of the Ordinary confirmed by a Court of Chancery decree.

c. 30Richard Jones' and Mary Gufford's (minors) personal estate: settling in trustees.

c. 31Bristol water supply.

c. 32Bristol: erection of hospitals and workhouses and better employing the poor.

r.in pt.- Bristol Imprvt. 1822 (c.xxiv), s.1.

c. 33Sir William Barkham's estate: sale of lands to pay debts and provide for children.

c. 34Enabling Sir Charles Heron to sell lands for payment of a portion and debts.

c. 35Enabling Sir Thomas Wagstaffe to raise a portion for Frances his only daughter.

c. 36Sale of the moiety of manor of Shepton Mallet (Somerset) and a divided moiety of manor of Wells (Somerset) for payment of a mortgage and maintenance of Mary, wife of William Sandes, and her children.

c. 37Making towns of Stretton and Princethorpe a separate parish fromWolston (Warwickshire).

c. 38Joseph Dawson's estate: vesting part in trustees for payment of debts and for provision for maintenance and marriage of his daughters.

c. 39William Ridout's (an infant) estate: sale of lands in Horsington (Somerset) for payment of incumbrances and for preserving the residue for him.

c. 40Thomas Bigg's and wife's estate: vesting lands in Chislett (Kent) in trustees for payment of debts and provision for children.

c. 41Revesting in the King the Honour of Tutbury and Forest of Needwood (Staffordshire) and manors, parks, lands, offices and other profits belonging to them, and vacating certain letters patent.

1696 (8 & 9 Will. 3)

c. 1Naturalization of Lord Agram and others.

c. 2Crompton Mynors' estate: settlement of manor of Treyagoe (Herefordshire) and other lands and increasing portion of Theodosia his daughter.

c. 3Sir John Hotham's estate: sale of manor of Holme and Swanage (Dorset) for discharging a mortgage and paying debts.

c. 4Oliver Neve's estate: sale of two houses in London and vesting lands in Norfolk to the same uses.

am.- Neve's estate 1696 (c. 22).

c. 5Enabling James Duke of Ormond to raise money by sale of woods and to make leases for lives for payment of debts, encouraging English plantation in Ireland and enabling Charles Earl of Arran to make leases of his estate in Ireland.

c. 6Bishop of London and Earl of Nottingham advowsons exchange.

c. 7For satisfying debts of Francis late Lord Holles.

c. 8Enabling Sir Ralph Ashton to rectify an omission in his marriage settlement.

c. 9Francis Griffith's estate: sale for payment of debts.

c. 10Mary Savile's (an infant) estate: settlement upon her marriage.

c. 11Jeffery Stockley's estate: sale of lands in Cheshire for payment of debts and provision for his daughter Mary.

c. 12Charles Milson's estate: sale of land for payment of debts and legacies and purchase of land for Edward Milson.

c. 13Enabling Nicholas Goodwin the elder and the younger to sell the manor of Winslow (Buckinghamshire) and to purchase other lands to be settled to the same uses.

c. 14William Melward's estate: vesting lands in Herefordshire in trustees for payment of debts.

c. 15Edward Kerrey's estate in Binoeston (Salop.): vesting in trustees for payment of incumbrances and portions for his children, and confirmation of his marriage settlement.

c. 16Thomas Panton's estate: sale of land for payment of debts and a jointure for his wife Mary.

expld.- Panton's estate 1714 (c. 16).

c. 17Naturalization of JohnKeyser and others.

c. 18Edward and Mary (his wife) Leigh's estate: sale of manors of Waxham and Horsey and lands in Norfolk and purchase of others.

c. 19William James' estate: sale of lands for payment of debts and provision for himself and his wife and children.

c. 20Importing goods and merchandise laden in Turkey in ships called "Success" and "Dragon Galley" paying customs as if imported by English ships.¹

c. 21William Fallows' (an infant) estate in Cheshire: sale for payment of debts secured by mortgages.

c. 22Oliver Neve's estate: rectification of a defect in Oliver Neve's estate Act 1696 [c. 4].

c. 23Edmond Warner's estate: explanation of Edmond Warner's estate Act 1695 [c. 11].

c. 24Roger Crowle's (a lunatic) estate: vesting part in trustees to raise portions for younger children.

c. 25Samuel Trotman's estate: sale of lands in Barking, East Ham, West Ham and Woolwich (Kent and Essex ) and settlement of other lands in lieu.

c. 26Speedy payment of the late Sir William Thompson's debts.

c. 27Annulment of Hannah Knight's (an infant) marriage settlement and directing her guardianship.

c. 28William Hamond's marriage settlement: power to sell the manor of Rowling (Kent) comprised in the settlement by mistake.

1697 (9 Will. 3).

c. 1Vesting in Sydenham Baker a certain rent, messuages and lands in Devon and securing to John and Henry Baker money in lieu of their claims to them.

c. 2Enabling Simon Lord Bishop of Ely and successors to lease Downham manor house and lands and confirming a recent lease thereof by the Bishop and clearing him and others from dilapidations.

c. 3Sir Francis and Dame Isabella Guybon's estate: sale of manor of Avenalls and lands in or near Gunthorpe (Norfolk) and settlement of other lands in lieu.

c. 4Naturalization of GerrardMaesacker and others.

c. 5Enabling RebeccaLassels to sell copyhold lands and houses in Ealing (Middlesex).

c. 6GeorgeFarrington's estate: sale of lands in Middlesex and Surrey, settled upon the marriage of William Farrington his nephew, and purchase of others in Lancashire.

c. 7William Knott's estate: sale of a lease of houses in Bread Street, London, for payment of debts, and settlement of another estate in lieu.

c. 8Enabling Thomas Kinnersly, an infant, to make a jointure and settlement of his estate.

c. 9Naturalization of DudleyVesey.

c. 10Enabling JohnLewin to sell certain messuages in Southwark for payment of debts.

see: John Lewin's estate 1697 (c. 35).

c. 11Charles, Earl of Macclesfield's divorce and making illegitimate the children of Anne his wife.

c. 12Bishopric of Chichester: enabling the Bishop of Chichester to grant leases of property in Chancery Lane.

c. 13Naturalization of CharlesMay.

c. 14Rectification of a mistake in William Gardner's marriage settlement.

c. 15Sir Coppleston Bampfylde's estate: making and renewal of leases during the minority of him and his brother John Bampfylde.

c. 16John Hall's (a lunatic) estate: settling subject to a debt charged thereon.

c. 17Erection of Crediton (Devon) hospitals, workhouses and houses of correction and better relief of the poor.

c. 18Erection of Tiverton (Devon) hospitals and workhouses for better employment and maintenance of the poor.

r.in pt.- Bristol Imprvt. 1822 (c. xxiv), s. 1.

c. 19Confirming and establishing the administration of Sir William Godolphin's goods and chattels.

c. 20Naturalization of John FrancisFauquire, JosephDucasse and others.

c. 21Sir Ralph Hare's estate: settlement, making a jointure and raising portions and maintenances for his younger children.

c. 22George Hewett's estate: sale of lands in Middlesex and purchase of others in Leicestershire to be settled to the same uses.

c. 23Wriothesly Baptist late Earl of Gainesborough's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts.

c. 24Annexing the rectory of Whitbourne (Herefordshire) to the Bishopric of Hereford.

c. 25Settling of Viscount and ViscountessLisburne's estates in Ireland.

c. 26Correction of a conveyance concerning Sir Edward and Charles Turner's estate.

c. 27Robert Smith's estate: sale of land for payment of debts.

c. 28John Houghton's estate: sale of manors of Bastwick and Laviles (Norfolk) for payment of debts and settlement of another estate in lieu.

c. 29Enabling Streynsham Master to sell lands in Kent and to convey lands in Derbyshire to the same uses.

c. 30Enabling Paris Slaughter, William Druce and Dame Elizabeth Chapman to import several bales of Italian silk.

c. 31Settling certain lands in Essex on Thomas Burgh and his heirs in lieu of other lands conveyed by him according to the decree and will of Sir Samuel Jones.

c. 32ThomasDavies estate: sale of certain customary messuages and lands within manor of Gillingham (Dorset) for payment of debts.

c. 33City and County of the City of Exon [Exeter]: erection of hospitals and workhouses for better employing and maintaining the poor.

c. 34City of Hereford: erection of hospitals and workhouses for better employing and maintaining the poor.

c. 35JohnLewin's estate:correction of the Act of 1697 [c. 10] [sale of certain messuages in Southwark for payment of debts].

c. 36Nicholas Cary's estate: vesting in trustees a moiety of certain messuages and lands in Hackney (Middlesex) for Susanna Cary his widow and relict.

c. 37Colchester: erection of hospitals and workhouses for better employing and maintaining the poor.

c. 38Naturalization of WilliamLloyd and others.

c. 39Sir John Churchill's estate: confirmation of sale of part pursuant to his will and two Chancery decrees.

c. 40Vesting the manor of Alveston and lands in Gloucestershire in trustees to be sold for payment of debts and other purposes.

c. 41Confirmation of a lease granted by Bishop of Winton [Winchester] of a parcel of wasteground in Alverstoke (Hampshire) for constructing and improving waterworks there.

c. 42Sir William Walter's estate: securing portions for his children by Lady Mary, his second wife, and preventing doubts concerning the construction of the articles and will mentioned in them.

c. 43Relief of EdwardBackwell's creditors.

c. 44DianaCecill's and others' estate: vesting lands and hereditaments in Maidstone and elsewhere in Kent in trustees.

c. 45Confirmation of conveyance by George Pitt and others of manor of Tarrant Preston and other lands in Dorset to John Pitt.

c. 46Newcastle-upon-Tyne water supply.

c. 47Kingston-upon-Hull: construction of workhouses and houses of correction.

r.- Hull Poor Relief 1824 (c. xiii), s. 1.

c. 48Shaftesbury: construction of workhouses and houses of correction for better employment and maintenance of the poor.

c. 49Naturalization of PeterGaron and others.

c. 50Naturalization of HillaryReneu and others.

c. 51Freedom of ships "Panther," "Gloucester," "Frigott," "Scarborough" and "Antelope" (formerly prize and condemned) to trade as English built ships.²

c. 52Allowing "Maryland Merchant" of Bristol to import her lading.³

c. 53Freedom of ships "Ruby Prize" and "Plymouth" to trade as English built ships.⁴

c. 54Robert Mascall's estate: vesting a copperas⁵work in trustees for sale for payment of debts.

c. 55JosephSmith's estate: sale of three houses in Swan Alley in Coleman Street, London, for payment of debts.

c. 56JohnJenkin's estate: sale of part for payment of debts.

c. 57JohnHawkes' estate: sale of land in Salop. for payment of debts.

c. 58HumphreyWalrond's estate: sale of part for provision for two lunatic children, payment of debts and portions for other children.

c. 59Freedom of "Sally Rose" (formerly prize) to unload and to trade as an English built ship.⁶

c. 60Vesting in Thomas Rogers the manor of Westcourt and lands in Kent and securing to John Higgens and Alice his wife, and for portions for Irene, Margerett, Mary and Alice Cesar, money in lieu of their claims.

c. 61Estates of Sir Edward and Hopton Wyndham (both deceased): enabling trustees to make leases, grant copies and receive the rents and profits during the minority of Sir William Wyndham.

c. 62Enabling Humphrey Trafford to raise £4000 on his estate for payment of debts.

1698 (10 Will. 3).

c. 1Edward, Earl of Derwentwater's estate: sale of woods and timber for payment of debts and discharge of incumbrances.

c. 2Naturalization of ElizabethFarewell.

c. 3Naturalization of NicholasLepell.

c. 4Naturalization of BartholomewOgilby and others.

c. 5Freedom of ships "Margaret" and "Friendship" of Bristol.⁷

c. 6Naturalization of James St. Pierre, John Denty and Remond Hensbergh.

c. 7Naturalization of Charles de Siburg and Francis St. George.

c. 8Naturalization of William de Witt and Godfrey Lloyd.

c. 9Naturalization of JohnMeoles.

c. 10Relief of Sir RobertVyner's creditors.

c. 11Naturalization of TheophilusRabesineres and others.

c. 12GeorgePenne's estate: sale of land for payment of debts.

see: George Penne's estate 1708 (c. 6).

c. 13Naturalization of Philipde Chenevix and others.

c. 14Naturalization of William Lower, William Darnell and Peter Godby.

c. 15Naturalization of AnthonyColumbiere and others.

c. 16Naturalization of GeorgeBurnett.

c. 17Naturalization of Mark De Moncall and David Loches.

c. 18Naturalization of John FrancisDe Carcassonet and others.

c. 19Naturalization of Captain ThomasBrowne and others.

c. 20Naturalization of John de Philipand others .

c. 21Naturalization of PeterBarailleau and others.

c. 22Freedom of ship "Charles,"flyboat of Exeter.⁸

c. 23Naturalization of Isaac Gouyquettede St. Eloy.

c. 24Settlement of augmentations on certain vicarages for ever.

c. 25Confirming grant and settlement by William Forster of manors and lands in Durham and Northumberland to Thomas Lord Fairfax and others upon certain trusts.

c. 26Sir Thomas Darcy's estate: sale of part for payment of debts.

c. 27Edward Price's estates: transfer of a charge of £1000 from an estate in Montgomeryshire to one in Herefordshire and Radnorshire for use of his younger children.

c. 28George Scott's estate: sale of part for payment of debts and portions for siblings and settlement of the other part.

c. 29Dudley Vesey's estate in Hintlesham (Suffolk): sale for payment of debts.

c. 30Robert Aldworth and his wife's estate in or near Wantage (Berkshire): sale for payment of debts and purchase of another for use of wife and children.

c. 31EncouragingThomas Savery's invention for raising water and relating to all sorts of mill work.

c. 32Naturalization of ScipioGuy and others.

c. 33John Moor's estate: sale of manors of Halwill and Becket (Devon) for payment of debts.

c. 34ThomasLascells' estate: sale for payment of debts.

c. 35JohnYoung's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts and legacies.

c. 36Enabling Liverpool to build and endow a church and making the town and liberties a distinct parish from Walton.

expld.- Liverpool castle church 1714 (c. 21).

r. in pt.- Liverpool City Churches 1897 (c.cxiii), s.29(1)(3)(4), sch.1.

c. 37Thomas and Rowland Okeover's estate: making a jointure and settlement on Thomas' marriage.

c. 38Enabling Katherine Leeke, an infant, to settle her estate on her marriage.

c. 39Sir Thomas Seyliard's estate: sale of lands in Kent for payment of sisters' portions.

c. 40Enabling Thomas Byde (an infant) to contract for buying his mother's jointure and to settle a small estate in Great Amwell (Hertfordshire) and for securing and raising a portion for Barbara Byde, his sister.

see: Thomas Byde's estate Act 1712 (c.16).

c. 41Sale of manor of Lordington and Whitney and other lands in Sussex and laying out £5,000 to purchase other lands.

c. 42Samuel Wake or Jones' estate: sale of lands for payment of debts and purchase of lands adjoining the manor of Waltham Holy Cross (Essex).

c. 43Ann Bridges' (an infant) estate: sale of an estate in Bermuda and laying out in England the proceeds for her use.

c. 44Enabling Cyriac Weslyd to sell part of his estate, which by marriage articles was agreed to be settled upon his wife and children, and to settle the other part to the same uses.

c. 45Freedom of ships "Hawke" and "Rainbow" to trade as English built ships.⁹

c. 46John Bull's (an infant) estate: sale of lands in Kent for payment of debts and annuities and for provision for younger children.

c. 47Sir WilliamPulteney's estate: enabling the grant of leases for payment of debts of William Pulteney, his son.

c. 48Enabling PophamConway and Francis and CharlesSeymourto lease their estates.

c. 49Zenobia Hough's estate: sale for payment of her husband's debts.

c. 50Freedom of ship "Hope" (of great length and very serviceable for importing masts) to trade as an English built ship.¹⁰

c. 51John Athy's estate: enabling William Wrayford and Dame Ann Richto lease houses and ground in Covent Garden.

c. 52Sir Francis Andrews' estate: sale of manor of Downham (Essex) and purchase of other lands.

c. 53Ships "King William" and "Charles the Second:" discharge from penalties of the Act of navigation.¹¹

c. 54Enabling ThomasMethwold to raise £1200 upon his estate for improvements made to it.

c. 55Thomas Cowslade's (an infant) estate: sale of freehold and leasehold houses to discharge a mortgage and purchase other lands.

c. 56Naturalization of AugustineCloribus and others.

c. 57Naturalization of Samuel Bernadeau, Peter Chantreau des Gaudree and others belonging to His Majesty's Guards and Grenadiers.

c. 58Naturalization of RichardLegg and others.

c. 59Naturalization of Sir David Collier, Isaac la Melionere, Peter de Belcastel and William Reiatore.

1698 (11 Will. 3).

c. 1Enabling ThomasNoble to sell an undivided third part of the manor of Foxton (Leicestershire) after the settlement of lands of greater value to the same uses.

c. 2Duke of Norfolk's divorce from Lady Mary Mordant.

c. 3Ann Baldwin's estate: sale of a capital messuage and lands called Wiltons and other lands in Buckinghamshire.

c. 4Continuing the Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading to the East Indies a Corporation.

c. 5Rectifying a mistake in Thomas Hopwood's marriage settlement in order to raise portions for younger children and pay debts.

c. 6John Clobery's estate: payment of debts and raising portions and maintenance for children.

c. 7Enabling Thomas May to sell lands in Suffolk settled on his marriage and to convey others to the same uses.

c. 8Joseph and Sarah Gardiner's estate: sale for payment of debts and legacies and applying residue upon specified trusts.

c. 9Arthur Lacy's estate: sale of lands and manors for payment of mortgage and purchase of demesne lands to be settled to the same uses.

c. 10Thomas Siderfin's estate: sale of manor of Exton and other lands in Somerset for payment of debts.

c. 11Making a convenient way out of Chancery Lane to Lincoln's Inn Fields.

see: Chancery Lane and Lincoln's Inn Fields Way 1700 (c. 26).

c. 12Robert and John Merefield's estate: settlement and ascertaining proportions between Robert's widow and his children.

c. 13Settlement of differences concerning Dame Mary Bond's will and performance of it.

c. 14Charging estate of Sir Thomas Robinson with £7000 for his sister Ann's portion and settlement of her estate on him in lieu.

c. 15Confirmation of a lease and indentures between the city of Norwich and Richard Barry, George Sorocold and Richard Soame and for lighting Norwich's streets.

c. 16Catherine Fitzgerald Villiers' estate: settling, raising money for payment of debts and securing portions for her five younger children by her late husband Edward Fitzgerald Villiers.

c. 17Enabling Edward Mansell to sell or mortgage the impropriate rectories of Llanriddian and Penrice [Glamorgan] for payment of debts and raising portions for younger children, and settling the manor of Henleys and other lands.

c. 18George Harrison's estate: sale of reversion and inheritance of farm of Nethercote (Oxfordshire) for payment of debts and legacies.

c. 19Sir Josiah Child's estate: vesting land in trustees for better performance of covenants entered into upon marriage of his eldest son to Sir Thomas Cooke's daughter.

c. 20Philip Holman's estate: supplying the loss of indentures of lease and release to George Holman his son.

c. 21Henry Butler's estate in Lancashire: leasing of part for discharging incumbrances.

c. 22Thomas Cowper's estate: vesting part in trustees for payment of debts.

c. 23Thomas Barlow's estate: confirmation of sale of manor of Stansall and tenements in Yorkshire, settling other lands to the same uses and purchase of other lands to be so settled.

c. 24Sale of manor of Fenham (Northumberland) for payment of debts of Thomas Riddell and his son Edward and raising portions for Thomas' daughters.

c. 25Charles Hore's estate: sale of part for payment of debts and settling other part to raise a portion and maintenance for Elizabeth his daughter by his former wife and making a jointure for his present wife Mary and provision for their children.

c. 26Enabling Dalby Thomas to sell lands in Islington (Middlesex) settled on his marriage by Dorothy, his wife, as part of her jointure, he settling another estate in lieu.

c. 27Bluett Wallop's estate: sale of inheritance of a twelfth part of several manors, lands and tenements during his minority and purchasing others.

c. 28Enabling Leonard Wessell to sell the manor of Acres-Fleet (Essex), settled on his marriage with Sarah his wife as part of her jointure, and to purchase other lands.

c. 29Taking the estate in law of messuages and lands mortgaged to Jeffery and Samuel Howland and their heirs "out of" Marquis of Tavistock and his lady.

c. 30Confirmation of a lease of ground for the rector and churchwardens of the parish ofSt. Martins Ogars, London, to build a church for worship in French according to the usage of the Church of England.

c. 31BryanJanson's estate: sale for payment of debts and provision for wife and children.

c. 32Freedom of ship "Martha of Margam."¹²

c. 33Naturalization of TheodoreJacobson and others.

c. 34Naturalization of OliverD'Harcourt and others.

c. 35Naturalization of JohnBourges and others.

c. 36Naturalization of John Ricard and Jacob Dabbadie.

c. 37Naturalization of Francis Vandertyd, Agneta Vandermersch, Henry Lowman and James Gabriel Le Tresor.

c. 38Naturalization of Isaac Delagard, John Batero and others.

1700 (12 & 13 Will. 3).

c. 1Faster payment of the creditors of James late Duke of Ormond and of the present Duke of Ormond.

see: Establishment of purchase of lands in Ireland by Sir Alexander Cairnes from James Duke of Ormond 1710 (c. 11).

c. 2Elizabeth Viscountess Bulkeley's estate: sale of lands in Devon and Exeter for payment of debts.

c. 3Robert Viscount Kilmorey's (an infant) estate: settlement of manors and lands in England upon a treaty of marriage.

c. 4Enabling Sir Charles Barrington to settle a jointure and make provision for his younger children.

c. 5Enabling Sir Robert Marsham to dispose of lands in Hertfordshire and to settle other lands in Kent to the same uses.

see: Marsham's estate 1702 (1 Ann. St. 2) (c. 1).

c. 6Construction of Kings Lynn hospitals and workhouses.

r.- Kings Lynn Imprvts. and Mkts. 1803 (c. xxxvii), s. 2; L.G.B. Provnl. O. Confn.(Cumberworth, &c.) 1876 (c. xiv), art. 1 of Boro. of Kings Lynn O.

c. 7Construction of Norwich Court of Requests: for recovering small debts under forty shillings.

c. 8Enabling Stephen Jermyn to make provision for younger children and for his eldest son's advancement.

c. 9Norfolk: sale of manors and lands in South Pickenham and elsewhere, and purchase and settlement of others to the same uses.

c. 10Peter Trevisia's estate: discharge of a mortgage and maintenance for widow and child.

c. 11Faster payment of Christopher Killiow's debts and raising portions and maintenance for his siblings in pursuance of his father's will.

c. 12Humphrey Hide's estates: vesting in trustees for raising portions for his younger children.

c. 13Furnishing the town of New Deal with fresh water.

c. 14Richard Nodes' estate: sale of a messuage and lands in Stevenage (Hertfordshire) for making provision for his wife and children.

c. 15William Davison's estate: sale for payment of debts and raising portions for children.

c. 16Separating James Earl of Anglesea from his wife Countess Katharine by reason of his cruelty.

c. 17Sir John Dillon's divorce from Mary Boyle.

c. 18Ralph Box's divorce from Elizabeth Eyre and enabling him to marry again.

c. 19John Fawconer's estate: sale of lands for payment of debts.

c. 20New trustees for City of London's trust lands.

c. 21Removal of Hertford County Gaol.

r.- S.L.(R.) 2008 (c.12), sch.1.pt.2, group 10.

c. 22Better performance of Henry Apsley's will.

c. 23Thomas Bennet's estate in Newton cum Barton [Larton] (Cheshire): vesting in trustees for use of the poor of West Kirby pursuant to his will.

c. 24Enabling William Vaughan and Frances Vaughan his intended wife, both infants, to perform marriage articles.

c. 25Change of Ellis Mew's surname to the surname St. John.

c. 26Making good the deficiency of the charges of making a way out of Chancery Lane into Lincoln's Inn Fields.

see: Making a convenient way out of Chancery Lane to Lincoln's Inn Fields 1698 (11 Will. 3) (c. 11).

c. 27Declaring the authenticity of Sir JosephHerne's will.

c. 28Naturalization of JaneBarksteadand vesting several mortgages and securities in her.

c. 29Naturalization of ArchibaldArthur and enabling him to dispose of hisestate.

c. 30Naturalization of Jacob AugustePyngot and others.

c. 31Naturalization of Adrian Loftland and others.

c. 32Enabling Sir Thomas Stanley to charge manors and lands in Lancashire with £300 for payment of his sisters' portions and his debts.

c. 33James Deane's estate: sale for his and his family's benefit according to its settlement.

c. 34Richard Bigg's estate in Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire: charging part with

 payment of debts.

c. 35Naturalization of Peter Bagneol, Daniel Senault and others.

c. 36Naturalization of Gaspar Cordoso, Herman Vant Wedde and others.

1701 (13 & 14 Will. 3).

c. 1Naturalization of Charlotte the wife of Hugh Boscowen.

c. 2Lionel Earl of Orrery's estate: sale of lands and tenements for payment of debts and settlement of other lands.

1. A series of public Acts passed between 1660 and 1697 restricted the use of foreign vessels for trade. Between 1696 and 1711 thirty-three ships were relieved from these provisions by private legislation. (W. Holdsworth, A History of English Law, vol. VI (2nd ed. 1937), pp. 316-318 and vol. XI (1938), pp. 84-85; F. Clifford, A History of Private Bill Legislation (1885), vol. I, p. 488). Phrases such as Freedom of ships etc., are commonly used in the titles of the private Acts concerned.[back]

2. See n.1, above.[back]

3. See n. 1, above.[back]

4. See n. 1, above.[back]

5. A word most commonly applied to ferrous sulphate, used in dyeing, tanning and making ink (Oxford English Dictionary).[back]

6. See n. 1, above.[back]

7. See n. 1, above.[back]

8. See n. 1, above.[back]

9. See n. 1, above.[back]

10. See n. 1, above.[back]

11. See n. 1, above.[back]

12. See n. 1, above.[back]