A. D. 1699. Anno decimo & undecimo Gulielmi III. C. 26. 33 CAP. XXVI. An Aft for opening the ancient and making any new Roynes and Watercourfes in and near Sedgemore ill PR. the County of Somerfet, for rendring the faid Moor more healthful and profitable to the Inhabitants, Anno Regni Guliel.vii III. undecimo. < A T the Parliament begun at Wejiminjler the four and twentieth Pay of Augujl, Anno Dom. 1698. in ' _/^ the tenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord IVilllam the Third, by the Grace of God, of ' England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. And from thence continued ' by feveral Prorogations and Adjournments, to the fixteenth Day of November 1699, being the fecond
- Seffion of this prefent Parliament.
CAP. I. An Act for taking away the Bounty Money for exporting Corn, from the ninth Day of February one EXP; thoufand fix hundred ninety-nine, to the nine and twentieth Day of September one thoufand feven hundred. 'Anno Regni Gulielmi III. undecimo & duodecimo. C A P. II. An Aft for granting an Aid to his Majefty by Sale of the forfeited and other Eftates and Inte- refts in Ireland, and by a Land-Tax in England, for the feveral Purpofes therein mentioned. 2 s. in the Pound. ' W 7 H E R E A S foon after your Majefty and your late Royal Confort of ever bleffed Memory were ' W gracioufly pleafed to accept the Crown and Royal Dignity of this Kingdom, and the Dominions ' thereunto belonging, many of your Majefty's Subjefts, contrary to their Duty and Allegiance, traite- ' roufly adhering to your Majefty's Enemies, levied and maintained, within your Realm of Ireland, a ' defperate and bloody War and Rebellion againft your Majefties, who by the Blefling of God upon ' your Majefty's Royal Conduft and Courage, and the Affiftance and very great Expence of your Ma-
- jefty's Englijh Subjefts, were reduced unto their due Obedience to the Crown of England : And where-
' as it is highly reafonable, that the Efl:ates of fuch Rebels and Traitors fhould be applied, in eafe of your ' Majefty's faithful Subjefts of this Kingdom, to the Ufe of the Publick :' We your Majefty's moft du- tiful and loyal Subjects, the Commons in Parliament affembled, moft humbly befeech your Majefty, that it may be enafted ; And be it enafted by the King's moft excellent Majefty, by and with the Ad- vice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in Parliament affembled, and by the Authority of the fame, That all and every the Honours, Manors, Baronies, Caftles, Melfuages, Lands, All Lands, Tc- Tenements, Rents, Reverfions, Services, Remainders, Poffeffions, Royalties, Franchifes, Jurifdiftions, nements, &c. in Privileges, and Appurtenances thereunto belonging, or in any wife appertaining. Rights of Entry, Rights Iff^'^nd, whereof ofAftion, Titles, Conditions, Ufes, Trufts, Powers, and Authorities, Leafes for Life, Lives, or Years, viae/orTttaint- Penfions, Annuities, Rent-charges, and Hereditaments, whether Freehold, Copyhold, or of what Na- ed of Treafon, ture or Kind foever they be, within the faid Realm of Ireland, whereof any Perfon or Perfons, who ftand &c, fince convifted or attainted of the faid High Treafon or Rebellion, or other Treafon committed in foreign '3 Febr. 16S8. Parts fince the thirteenth Day of February one thoufand fix hundred eighty-eight, or who fhall be con- viiSled or attainted of any fuch Treafon as aforefaid, by or before the laft Day of Trinity Term, which fhall be in the Year of our Lord one thoufand feven hundred and one, or who ftand convidted or attainted of High Treafon, by reafon of being found by Inquifition to have died or been flain in adlual Rebellion, •"■ ■*'"> ^'si j" fmce the faid thirteenth Day of February one thoufand fix hundred eighty and eight, was or were feifed ^'^"^l R^ ^ll'on, , or poffefled, or interefted in, or intitled unto, on the thirteenth Day of February one thoufand fix hun- y^re feifed or dred eighty-eight, or at any Time fince, in their ov/n Right, or to their own Ufe, or whereof any other '"'"^fted •"> Perfon or Perfons was or were feifed or poffefled, or interefted in, to the Ufe of or in Truft for them, or any of them, on the faid thirteenth Day of February, or at any Time fince, or whereof the late King or whereof the James the Second, or any in Truft for him, or to his Ufe, was feifed or poffeffed, or interefted in, at the *f ^^'/j'"^'^^' Time of his Acceffion to the Crown of England, and all Judgments, Statutes, Recognizances, Extents, ^^^ aTl^udg-"^* ' Mortgages, and Securities for Money, Right of Redemption of Mortgages, or other Securities, Debts ments, Securi- ■ of Record, and other Debts, Specialties, Obligations, Goods, and Chattels, of what Nature or Kind ties. Debts, &« foever, which any of the faid Perfons fo convidted or attainted, or to be convifted or attainted, were Jliall be vefted in poffefled of, or interefted in, in their own Right, or any other in Truft for them or any of them, ftood. iowiI™anrth" poffeffed of, or interefted in on the faid thirteenth Day oi February one thoufand fix hundred eighty-eight, Hdrs^&c, ^^ or at any Time fince, ftiall be, and are hereby vefted and fettled, and adjudged, declared, and taken to be in the adlual and real Poffeffion and Seifin of Sir Cyril IVyche Knight, Francis Annejley Efquire, Jarnes Hamilton^ Efquire, John Baggs Efquire, John Trencbard Efquire, John IJkam Efquire, Henry Langford Vol. IV. F Efquire,
