An act for the taking away the Court of VVards and Liveries. England and Wales. Parliament. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A82467 of text R211926 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.20[48]). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A82467 Wing E1133 Thomason 669.f.20[48] ESTC R211926 99870593 99870593 163465 2248509422

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A82467) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163465) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 247:669f20[48]) An act for the taking away the Court of VVards and Liveries. England and Wales. Parliament. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Printed by Henry Hills and John Field, Printers to His Highness, London : 1656. Text in black letter. Signed: Hen: Scobell, Clerk of the Parliament. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng England and Wales. -- Court of Wards and Liveries -- Early works to 1800. Courts -- England -- Early works to 1800. A82467 R211926 (Thomason 669.f.20[48]). civilwar no An Act for the taking away the Court of VVards and Liveries. England and Wales. Parliament. 1656 1 541 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2007-10 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-10 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-11 Sampled and proofread 2007-11 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
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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 Wardships , Liveries , Primer-seizins , and Oustrelemaines , and all other Charges incident or arising for , or by reason of Wardships , Livery , Primer-seizin , or Oustrelemaine ; and all Tenures by Homage , and all Fines , Licences , Seisures , 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 Wardships , Liveries , Primer-seizins , and Oustrelemaines , and all other Charges incident and arising , for , or by reason of any such Tenures , Wardship , Livery , Primer-seizin , or Oustrelemaines , be taken away , from the said Four and twentieth day of February , One thousand six hundred forty five : And that all Homage , Fines , Licences , Seisures , Pardons for Alienation , incident or arising , for or by reason of Wardship , Livery , Primer-seizin , or Oustrelemaine , 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 .

Hen: Scobell , Clerk of the Parliament .

London , Printed by Henry Hills and John Field , Printers to His Highness , 1656.