WHereas in and by a late Act of Parliament , Entituled , An Act for advancing the sale of Fee-Farm Rents , and the Instructions therein mentioned , It is amongst other things Enacted , That the immediate Tenant , liable to the payment of any Rent , shall be preferred in the Purchase of it , before any other ; so as such immediate Tenant tender himself to the Lord Treasurer , or Lords Commissioners of the Treasury , to Contract within Six Moneths after the passing of any Patent to Trustees for Sale thereof , and notice thereof published by His Majesties Proclamation , and perfect His Contract , and pay on secure His Money within Six Moneths after , at such Rate as shall be agreed , not exceéding Twenty Years purchase : His Majesty therefore having by His Letters Patents under His Great Seal of England , bearing date the Eleventh day of this instant November , granted unto Francis Lord Hawley , Sir Charles Harbord Knight , Sir William Haward Knight , Sir John Talbot Knight , Sir Robert Steward Knight , and William Harbord Esquire , their Heirs and Alligns , divers Feé-Farm Rents , and other Rents , and Annual Payments therein mentioned , as Trustees for Sale thereof , according to the said Act ( All which Rents in the said Letters Patents mentioned , are of the yearly value of Forty shillings and upwards ) Doth by this His Proclamation give notice to all His Loving Subjects , whom it doth on may concern , That the Rents in the said Patent mentioned , shall forthwith be sold : And doth hereby require all and every person and persons , Bodies Politick and corporate , who by the said Act are entituled as immediate Tenants , to any preference in the Purchase of any such Rents , that they take care to proceed in their Purchases , and perfect their Contracts within the time limitted by the said Act ; or in default thereof , the same shall be sold to such others as shall desire to deal and contract for them : And doth further by this His Royal Proclamation declare , That a former Proclamation bearing date the Fourteénth day of June last , whereby His Majesty gave notice of several Rents passed to the said Trustees by His Letters Patents dated the Thirteénth day of the same June , will ( as to the time of Six Moneths limitted by the said Act ) expire on th Fifteénth day of December next ; and that immediately after the said Expiration , the Rents contained in the said Patent of the said Thirteénth of June ( not by that time contracted for by the immediate Tenants ) shall be exposed to Sale to such others , as will desire to deal and contract for them .