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AN ACT For the taking away the COURT OF Wards and Liveries .

At the Parliament begun at Westminster the 17th Day of September , Anno Domini , 1656.

LONDON : Printed by Henry Hills and John Field , Printers to His Highness . 1657.

AN ACT For the taking away the COURT OF Wards and Liveries .

WHereas the Four and twentieth day of February , in the year of our Lord , One thousand six hundred forty five , the Court of Wards and Liveries , and all Ward-ships , Liveries , Primer-seizins , and Oustrelemaines , and all other Charges incident or arising for , or by reason of Ward-ships , Livery , Primer-seizin , or Oustrelemain ; And all Tenures by Homage , and all Fines , Licenses , Seizures , and Pardons for Alienation , and all other Charges incident thereunto , was by the Lords and Commons then assembled 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 establishing and confirming the same ; Be it Declared and Enacted by his Highness the Lord Protector , and the Parliament , That the Court of Wards and Liveries , and all Ward-ships , Liveries , Primer seizins , and Oustrelemains , and all other Charges incident & arising , for , or by reason of any such Tenure , Ward-ship , Livery , Primer seizin , or Oustrelemaines , be taken away , from the said four and twentieth day of February , One thousand six hundred fourty five : And that all Homage , Fines , Licences , Seizures , Pardons for Alienation , incident or arising , for or by reason of Ward-ship , Livery , Primer-seizin , or Oustrelemain , and all other Charges incident thereunto , be likewise taken away , and is hereby adjudged and declared to be taken away , from the said four and twentieth day of February , One thousand six hundred forty five : And that all Tenures in Capite , and by Knights service of the late King , or any other person , 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 said four and twentieth Day of February , one thousand six hundred forty five ; and shall be so Construed , Adjudged , and Declared to be for ever hereafter turned into free and common Soccage .

Nevertheless , It is hereby Enacted , That all Rents certain and Heriots , due to Mean Lords or other private Persons , shall be paid ; And that where any Relief , or Double ancient yearly Rent , upon the death of an Ancestor , was in such cases formerly due and payable , a Double ancient yearly Rent onely in lieu thereof , shall now be paid upon the death of an Ancestor , as in free and common Soccage ; And that the same shall be recovered by the like Remedy in Law , as Rents and Duties in free and common Soccage .

London , Printed by Henry Hills and John Field , Printers to His Highness , 1657.