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<HEAD>AN ACT For the taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries.</HEAD>
<P>_WHereas the Four and twentieth day of <HI>February,</HI> in the year of our Lord, One thou&s;and &s;ix hundred forty five, the Court of Wards and Liveries, and all Ward&s;hips, Liveries, Primer-&s;eizins, and Ou&s;trelemaines, and all other Charges incident or ari&s;ing for, or by rea&s;on of Ward&s;hips, Livery, Primer|&s;eizin, or Ou&s;trelemaine; and all Tenures by Homage, and all Fines, Li|cences, Sei&s;ures, and Pardons for Alienation, and all other Charges inci|dent thereunto, was by the Lords and Commons then a&s;&s;embled in Parliament, taken away; And all Tenures by Knights Service, either of the King or others, or by Knights Service, or Capite, or Soccage in Capite of the King, were turned into free and common Soccage; For the further e&s;tabli&s;hing and confirming the &s;ame, Be it De|clared and Enacted by His Highne&s;s the Lord Protector, and the Parliament, That the Court of Wards and Liveries, and all Ward&s;hips, Liveries, Primer-&s;eizins, and Ou&s;tre|lemaines, and all other Charges incident and ari&s;ing, for, or by rea&s;on of any &s;uch Tenures, Ward&s;hip, Livery, Primer-&s;eizin, or Ou&s;trelemaines, be taken away, from the &s;aid Four and twentieth day of <HI>February,</HI> One thou&s;and &s;ix hundred forty five: And that all Homage, Fines, Licences, Sei&s;ures, Pardons for Alienation, incident or ari&s;ing, for or by rea&s;on of Ward&s;hip, Livery, Primer-&s;eizin, or Ou&s;trelemaine, and all other Charges incident there|unto, be likewi&s;e taken away, and is hereby Adjudged and Declared to be taken away, from the &s;aid Four and twentieth day of <HI>February,</HI> One thou&s;and &s;ix hundred forty five: And that all Tenures in Capite, and by Knights Service of the late King, or any other per&s;on, and all Tenures by Soccage in Chief, be taken away; And all Tenures are hereby Enacted and Declared to be turned into free and common Soccage, from the &s;aid Four and twenti|eth Day of <HI>February,</HI> One thou&s;and &s;ix hundred forty five; and &s;hall be &s;o Con&s;trued, Ad|judged, and Declared to be for ever hereafter turned into free and common Soccage.</P>
<P>Neverthele&s;s, It is hereby Enacted, That all Rents certain and Heriots, due to Mean Lords or other private Per&s;ons, &s;hall be paid; And that where any Relief, or Double anci|ent yearly Rent, upon the death of an Ance&s;tor, was in &s;uch Ca&s;es formerly due and pay|able, a Double ancient yearly Rent onely in lieu thereof, &s;hall now be paid upon the Death of an Ance&s;tor, as in free and common Soccage; And that the &s;ame &s;hall be recovered by the like Remedy in Law, as Rents and Duties in free and Common Soccage.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Hen: Scobell, Clerk of the Parliament.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed by <HI>Henry Hills</HI> and <HI>John Field,</HI> Printers to His Highne&s;s, 1656.</P>
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