Chronological Tables of the Private and Personal Acts

Acts of the Parliaments of England

Part 5 (1695-1701)

1695 (7 & 8 Will. 3).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

expld.- Warner's estate 1696 (c. 23).

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

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

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

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

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

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

c. 18 St. 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. 19 Naturalization of James Stanhope and others.

c. 20 Naturalization of Salomon Eyme and others.

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

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

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

c. 24 Empowering 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. 25 Enabling 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. 26 Naturalization of William Viscount Tunbridge and other children of Earl of Rochford.

c. 27 Improvement of a house and ground in Great Queen Street.

c. 28 Sir 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. 29 Settlement 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. 30 Richard Jones' and Mary Gufford's (minors) personal estate: settling in trustees.

c. 31 Bristol water supply.

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

 

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

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

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

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

c. 36 Sale 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. 37 Making towns of Stretton and Princethorpe a separate parish from Wolston (Warwickshire).

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

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

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

c. 41 Revesting 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. 1 Naturalization of Lord Agram and others.

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

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

c. 4 Oliver 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. 5 Enabling 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. 6 Bishop of London and Earl of Nottingham advowsons exchange.

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

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

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

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

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

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

c. 13 Enabling 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. 14 William Melward's estate: vesting lands in Herefordshire in trustees for payment of debts.

c. 15 Edward 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. 16 Thomas 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. 17 Naturalization of John Keyser and others.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

c. 25 Samuel 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. 26 Speedy payment of the late Sir William Thompson's debts.

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

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

1697 (9 Will. 3).

c. 1 Vesting 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. 2 Enabling 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. 3 Sir 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. 4 Naturalization of Gerrard Maesacker and others.

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

c. 6 George Farrington'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. 7 William 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. 8 Enabling Thomas Kinnersly, an infant, to make a jointure and settlement of his estate.

c. 9 Naturalization of Dudley Vesey.

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

 

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

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

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

c. 13 Naturalization of Charles May.

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

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

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

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

c. 18 Erection 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. 19 Confirming and establishing the administration of Sir William Godolphin's goods and chattels.

c. 20 Naturalization of John Francis Fauquire, Joseph Ducasse and others.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

c. 31 Settling 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. 32 Thomas Davies estate: sale of certain customary messuages and lands within manor of Gillingham (Dorset) for payment of debts.

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

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

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

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

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

c. 38 Naturalization of William Lloyd and others.

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

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

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

c. 42 Sir 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. 43 Relief of Edward Backwell's creditors.

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

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

c. 46 Newcastle-upon-Tyne water supply.

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

 

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

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

c. 49 Naturalization of Peter Garon and others.

c. 50 Naturalization of Hillary Reneu and others.

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

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

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

c. 54 Robert Mascall's estate: vesting a copperas ⁵ work in trustees for sale for payment of debts.

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

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

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

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

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

c. 60 Vesting 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. 61 Estates 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. 62 Enabling Humphrey Trafford to raise £4000 on his estate for payment of debts.

1698 (10 Will. 3).

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

c. 2 Naturalization of Elizabeth Farewell.

c. 3 Naturalization of Nicholas Lepell.

c. 4 Naturalization of Bartholomew Ogilby and others.

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

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

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

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

c. 9 Naturalization of John Meoles.

c. 10 Relief of Sir Robert Vyner's creditors.

c. 11 Naturalization of Theophilus Rabesineres and others.

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

 

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

c. 13 Naturalization of Philip de Chenevix and others.

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

c. 15 Naturalization of Anthony Columbiere and others.

c. 16 Naturalization of George Burnett.

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

c. 18 Naturalization of John Francis De Carcassonet and others.

c. 19 Naturalization of Captain Thomas Browne and others.

c. 20 Naturalization of John de Philip and others .

c. 21 Naturalization of Peter Barailleau and others.

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

c. 23 Naturalization of Isaac Gouyquette de St. Eloy.

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

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

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

c. 27 Edward 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. 28 George Scott's estate: sale of part for payment of debts and portions for siblings and settlement of the other part.

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

c. 30 Robert 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. 31 Encouraging Thomas Savery's invention for raising water and relating to all sorts of mill work.

c. 32 Naturalization of Scipio Guy and others.

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

c. 34 Thomas Lascells' estate: sale for payment of debts.

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

c. 36 Enabling 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. 37 Thomas and Rowland Okeover's estate: making a jointure and settlement on Thomas' marriage.

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

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

c. 40 Enabling 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. 41 Sale of manor of Lordington and Whitney and other lands in Sussex and laying out £5,000 to purchase other lands.

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

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

c. 44 Enabling 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. 45 Freedom of ships "Hawke" and "Rainbow" to trade as English built ships. ⁹

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

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

c. 48 Enabling Popham Conway and Francis and Charles Seymour to lease their estates.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

c. 56 Naturalization of Augustine Cloribus and others.

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

c. 58 Naturalization of Richard Legg and others.

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

1698 (11 Will. 3).

c. 1 Enabling Thomas Noble 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. 2 Duke of Norfolk's divorce from Lady Mary Mordant.

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

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

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

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

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

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

c. 9 Arthur 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. 10 Thomas Siderfin's estate: sale of manor of Exton and other lands in Somerset for payment of debts.

c. 11 Making 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. 12 Robert and John Merefield's estate: settlement and ascertaining proportions between Robert's widow and his children.

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

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

c. 15 Confirmation 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. 16 Catherine 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. 17 Enabling 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. 18 George Harrison's estate: sale of reversion and inheritance of farm of Nethercote (Oxfordshire) for payment of debts and legacies.

c. 19 Sir 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. 20 Philip Holman's estate: supplying the loss of indentures of lease and release to George Holman his son.

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

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

c. 23 Thomas 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. 24 Sale of manor of Fenham (Northumberland) for payment of debts of Thomas Riddell and his son Edward and raising portions for Thomas' daughters.

c. 25 Charles 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. 26 Enabling 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. 27 Bluett Wallop's estate: sale of inheritance of a twelfth part of several manors, lands and tenements during his minority and purchasing others.

c. 28 Enabling 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. 29 Taking 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. 30 Confirmation of a lease of ground for the rector and churchwardens of the parish of St. Martins Ogars, London, to build a church for worship in French according to the usage of the Church of England.

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

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

c. 33 Naturalization of Theodore Jacobson and others.

c. 34 Naturalization of Oliver D'Harcourt and others.

c. 35 Naturalization of John Bourges and others.

c. 36 Naturalization of John Ricard and Jacob Dabbadie.

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

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

1700 (12 & 13 Will. 3).

c. 1 Faster 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. 2 Elizabeth Viscountess Bulkeley's estate: sale of lands in Devon and Exeter for payment of debts.

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

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

c. 5 Enabling 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. 6 Construction 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. 7 Construction of Norwich Court of Requests: for recovering small debts under forty shillings.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

c. 21 Removal of Hertford County Gaol.

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

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

c. 23 Thomas 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. 24 Enabling William Vaughan and Frances Vaughan his intended wife, both infants, to perform marriage articles.

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

c. 26 Making 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. 27 Declaring the authenticity of Sir Joseph Herne's will.

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

c. 29 Naturalization of Archibald Arthur and enabling him to dispose of his estate.

c. 30 Naturalization of Jacob Auguste Pyngot and others.

c. 31 Naturalization of Adrian Loftland and others.

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

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

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

  payment of debts.

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

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

1701 (13 & 14 Will. 3).

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

c. 2 Lionel 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]