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708 C. 32 — 34. Anno fecimdo Georgii II. A. D. 1729. to the King's fworn Servants of the King's or Queen's Majefty fhall be repealed ; and if any fuch Perfon bath offended fwom Servants, contrary to fuch Part of the (aid Act intended to be hereby repealed, he fhall be freed from all Penalties and repealed. Incapacities incurred thereby. C A P. XXXII. An A <St to impower bis Majefty, his Heirs and Succeffors, during the Life of Thomas Barn- bridge, Efquire, to grant the Office of Warden of the Prifon of the bleet to ftich Perfon or Perfons as his Majefty fhall think fit ; and to incapacitate the faid Thomas Bambridge to enjoy the laid Office, or any other whatfoever. EXP. H E R E A S Tljomas Bambridge, Efquire, is by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing Date the thirtieth Day of September in the fecond Year of the Reign of his prefent Majefty, appointed Warden or Keeper of the Fleet, and of the Cuftody of the Prifon and Gaol of the Fleet, and of ' the Prifoners committed or to be committed to the faid Prifon and Gaol of the Fleet, and Keeper of

  • his Majefty's old and new Palaces of Wejlminjler, during the Term of his natural Life, unlefs he furrenders

' or forfeits, and the Reverfion thereof to Dowga'l Cuthbert, Efquire, for the Term of his Majefty's Life,

  • upon the fame Conditions ; and whereas his Majefty has been pleafed to order his Attorney General to pro-

' fecute at Law the faid Thomas Bambridge for wilfully permitting feveral Debtors, as well to his Majefty as ' todiverfe of his Subjects, to efcape, and for being guilty of the mod notorious Breaches of his Truft and ' the higheft Crimes and Mifdeameanors in the Execution of his faid Office, and having arbitrarily and unlaw- ' fully loaded with Irons, put into Dungeons and deftroyed Prifoners for Debt put under his Charge, in Vio- ' lation and Contempt of the Laws of this Kingdom; as alfo to profecute James Barnes, William Pindar, ' John Everett and Thomas King, for being Agents and Accomplices with the faid Thomas Bambridge in the « Commiffion of his faid Crimes: And whereas there is great Danger of Efcapes and of the Continuance of < the Cruelties and Barbarities before-mentioned, in cafe the faid Thomas Bambridge, or any of his Agents, ' fhould continue to execute the faid Offices, which may tend as well to the Prejudice of his Majefty, as his « Subjects ; for the preventing of which it is neceffary to difable the faid Thomas Bambridge to hold or exe- « cute the faid Office of Warden of the Prifon of the Fleet, or to have or exercife any Authority relating « thereto :' Be it therefore enacted, &c. " After 14 June 1729, T. B. difabled to hold the Wardenfhip of the Fleet : His Majefty to appoint another " Warden. T. B. to deliver to the Judges of the Common Pleas a Lift of his Prifoners on Oath, and alfo " all Securities ; which are vefted in the new Warden, to whom he is to transfer all Prifoners in his Cuftody. " T. B. not delivering fuch Lift, &c. guilty of Felony. New Warden not to fell or farm out any Office. " James Barnes, &c. difabled from any Office in the Fleet. T. B. made incapable of exercifing any Office. " This Act not to prevent any Profecution againft T B. Sec." CAP. XXXIII. An Act for obviating any Doubts or Difficulties that may arife from an Act palled in the firft Year of his prefent Majefty, intituled, An A£i to explain and amend an Ac! faffed in the thirteenth Year of his late Ma- jejiys Reign, intituled, An Act for Sale of fuch of the forfeited Eftates in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland, as remain unfold, and are vefted in the Crown, and for determining fuch Claims on the faid Eftates, as having been duly entred remain undetermined. EXP. Judgments and Determinations by the Delegates in Scotland may be amended and reverfed, as by Aft 6 Geo. 1. c. 24. Delegates to determine all Caufes undetermined. CAP. XXXIV. An Act for eftablifhing an Agreement with feven of the Lords Proprietors of Carolina, for the Surrender of their Title and Intereft in that Province to his Majefty. HERE AS his late Majefty King Charles the Second, by his Letters Patent under the Great Seal of England, bearing Date at Wejlminjler in the fifteenth Year of his Reign, did grant and confirm unto Edward then Earl of Clarendon, George then Duke of Albermarle, William then Lord Craven, John ' then Lord Berkley, Anthony then Lord AJhley, Sit. George Carteret, Knight and Baronet, Sir William Berkley, ' and Sir John Colleton, Knight and Baronet, all fince deceafed, their Heirs and Affigns, all that Territory or

  • Tract of Ground fituate, lying and being within his faid late Majefty's Dominions in America, extending

' from the North End of thelfland called Lucker Ijland, which lieth in the Southern Virginia Seas, and within ' fix and thirty Degrees of the Northern Latitude, and to the Weft as far as the South Seas, and fo Southerly ' as far as the River Saint Matthias, which bordereth upon the Coaft of Florida, and within one and thirty ' Degrees of Northern Latitude, and fo Weft in a direct Line as far as the South Seas aforefaid, together with all and fingular Ports, Harbours, Bays, Rivers, Ifles and Iflets belonging unto the Country aforefaid, ' and alfo all the Soil, Lands, P'ields, Woods, Mountains, Farms, Lakes, Rivers, Bays and Iflets, fituate, '"* lying or being within the Bounds or Limits aforefaid, with the fifhing of all Sorts of Fifh, Whales and ' Sturgeons, and all other Royal Fifties in the Sea, Bays, iflets and Rivers within the PremifTes, and the Fifh ' theiein taken ; and moreover all Veins, Mines, Quarries, as well difcovered as not difcovered, of Gold, ' Silver, Gems and precious Stones, and all other whatfoever, whether of Stones, Metals or any other Tiling

  • whatfoever found or to be found within the Country, Ifles and Limits aforefaid, and alfo the Patronage and

' Advowfons of all Churches and Chapels, which, as Chriftian Religion fliould increafe within the Country, ' Ifles.