Reasons humbly offered, why the sale of the lands, and estates, belonging to the late Bishop of Durham, should not be confirmed. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A92277 of text R212137 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.19[26]). 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 A92277 Wing R564 Thomason 669.f.19[26] ESTC R212137 99870783 99870783 163364 2240953890

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Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A92277) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 163364) Images scanned from microfilm: (Thomason Tracts ; 246:669f19[26]) Reasons humbly offered, why the sale of the lands, and estates, belonging to the late Bishop of Durham, should not be confirmed. 1 sheet ([1] p.) s.n., [London : 1654] Imprint from Wing. Annotation on Thomason copy: "October 1654". Reproduction of the original in the British Library. eng Leases -- England -- Early works to 1800. Church lands -- England -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660 -- Early works to 1800. A92277 R212137 (Thomason 669.f.19[26]). civilwar no Reasons humbly offered, why the sale of the lands, and estates, belonging to the late Bishop of Durham, should not be confirmed. anon. 1654 1 478 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. 2007-07 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-08 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-09 Sampled and proofread 2007-09 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
REASONS Humbly offered , why the Sale of the LANDS , and ESTATES , belonging to the late Bishop of DURHAM , should not be confirmed .

1. BY long usage and course of time , the Tenants of those Lands and their Ancestors , have enjoyed the same in Nature of a Customary Inheritance .

1. By Tenant-Right . Afterwards by taking Leases , never exceeding three yeers Fine , doing Border-service , &c.

2. When a Tenants Lease did expire , it was usual for the said Tenant to sell his Interest in the Premises for seven yeers purchase and somtimes more .

3. When the Parliament in the yeer 1647. did pass an Ordinance for the sale of Bishops Lands , they did provide in the said Ordinance ,

1. That all matter of Right , both in Law and Equity , should be saved to the said Tenants .

2. That the said Ordinance should be sent to the respective Sheriffs in every County to be published in every Market-Town , whereby all such Persons who claimed any Right in those Estates , might have the knowledge , to put in their Claims to the Surveyors . But the Sheriff of that County , never had the Ordinance sent unto him , or if he had , yet was the same never published in any of the Market-Towns in that County , whereby the Tenants might have timely and due notice to make out their Respective Claims before the Surveyors .

Whereupon not any one Tenant that held by Lease of the said Bishop and did usually renue their Leases , as aforesaid , did make known to the Surveyors their Usual and Equitable Right .

4. This Ordinance was the first Ordinance for sale , that ever came forth in this Nature . And the said Tenants living eleven score miles off London , were kept the more in ignorance , by reason they never had any Member of Parliament to serve for them , as all the rest of the Counties in England had , to give them notice what they had to do to preserve their Rights .

5. That this concerns the being and subsistance of many hundred Families , who with their Ancestors for many hundreds of yeers enjoyed their Respective Estates , never paying to the Bishops above 50 s. per . An. Rent for the best Farm .

All whose Estates are now purchased by five , or six Persons at most , some of whom , have turned the Tenants out of Doors , their Wives and Children going a Begging , without regard to their Ancient and Equitable Right : and others kept in Prison after possession of their Farms were obtained by the Purchasors .