226 3 Geo. 2, c. 29 C. 26. Anno nono Georgii II. 6 Ceo. 2. c. 5, concerning Pa- pifts filiates. Deeds and WiHs made iince 29 Sept. 1717^ for Con- veyance of 'the Lands of Pa- piftS, (hall be good, ifinrra- led by 29 Sept. 1736. But not to ex- tend to Deeds, Wills, or Leafes, not in- 1 oiled, whereof Advantage was taken before 2 i'eb. 1735. Concerning Pa- fijti fee farther No Purchafe of Lands, &c. made by Pro- te It ants for va- luable Conside- ration to be a- votded for want of iurol- ■nient; Exception. A. D. 1736. . • pafled in the third Year of his prefent Majefty's Reign, intituled, An Aft for continuing and amending an
- Aft regulating the Price and Ajfize of Bread ; for Relief of Bankrupts whofe Certificates were not allowed
- before the Expiration of a late Aft for the better preventing Frauds committed by Bankrupts ; for a/lozviu?
' further Time for Inrolment of Deeds or Wills made by Papifts, and for Relief of Protejlant Pur chafers and '■LeJ/ees; and for making further Provifion concerning Certificates relating to the Settlements of poor Per fins ' and -the Charges of maintaining and removing certificated Perfins ; it was enacted, for the'Relief of fuch
- Proteftant Purchafers and LefTees, and fuch other Peribns as had neglected or omitted to inroll their
, * Deeds or Wilis in due Time, that every Deed and Will then made iince the nine and twentieth Day ' of September in the Year of our Lord one thoufand feven hundred and feventeen, in order to pal/
- alter or change any Manors, Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, or any Intereft therein, or Rent
- or Profit thereout, from any Papift or Perfon profefling the Popiih Religion (though not then inrolled )
- fhould be as good and effectual in the Law as the fame would have been in caie the laid Dec's and
' Wills had been inrolled within the Times limited in the Claufes in the faid former Acts for the Inrol-
- ment thereof, provided the fame Deeds and Wills fhould be inrolled on or before the nine and twen-
tieth. Day of ■September one thoufand feven hundred and thirty-one, in fuch Manner as by the laid
- Claufe in the foid rirft-mentioned Act was directed : And whereas by a Claufe in another Act of Par-
' liament palled in the fixth Year of his prefent Majefty's Reign, intituled, An Aft for allowing further f Time for the Inrolment of Deeds and Wills made by Papijls, and for Relief of Protejlant Purchafers and 1 Lefifees ; it was enacted, That every Deed and Will then made fince the twenty-ninth Day of Sep- ' tember one thoufand feven hundred and feventeen, in order to pafs, alter or change any Manors
- Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, or any Intereft therein, or Rent or Profit thereout, from anv
' Papift or Perfon profelling the Popiih Religion (though not inrolled) fhould be as good and effectual 4 in the Law as the fame would have been in cafe the faid Deeds and Wills had been inrolled within 6 the Times limited in the faid Claufes in the faid Acts for the Inrolment thereof ; provided the fame 5 Deeds and Wills fhould be inrolled on or before the twenty-ninth Day of September one thoufand ' feven hundred and thirty-three, in fuch Manner as by the faid Claufe in the faid rirft-mentioned Act
- is directed : And whereas feveral of his Majefty's Proteftant Subjects, fince the nine and twentieth
' Day of September one thoufand feven hundred and feventeen, have purchafed Lands and taken Leafes
- upon Fines paid, where fome fmall Rents have been referved from Papifts or Peribns profefling
- the Popiih Religion, and have neglected and omitted to inroll their Purchafe Deeds ai:d Leafes
- within the Times limited by the faid Claufes in the faid Acts directed for the Inrolment thereof
' and are in Danger of being defeated of their faid Purchafes and Leafes : And whereas feveral In-
- fants and others claiming under the laft Wills and Teftaments of Papifts or Perfons profefling the
- Popiih Religion, may be defeated of their Manors, Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, fo devi-*
4 fed to them, through the Neglect or Omiflion of the Executors or Truftees of fuch Wills to inroll the
- fame in due Time according to the Direction of the faid Claufe in the faid Acts ; ' To relieve
therefore fuch Proteftant Purchafers, Devifees and LefTees, and fuch other Perfons as have neglect- ed or omitted to inroll their Deeds or Wills in due Time as aforefaid, Be it enacted by the~Au- thority aforefaid,- That every Deed and Will made iince the nine and twentieth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thoufand feven hundred and_ feventeen, in order to pafs, alter or change any Manors, Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, or any Intereft therein, or any Rent or Profit thereout from any Papift or Perfon profefling the Popifh Religion, though not inrolled, (hall be as wood and effectual in the Law as the fame would have been in cafe the faid D.eeds and Wills had been inrolled within the Times limited by the faid Claufes in the faid Acts for the Inrolment thereof, provided the fame Deeds and Wills (hall be inrolled on or before the nine and twentieth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand feven hundred and thirty-fix, in fuch Manner as by the faid Ciaufe in the faid firfl>men-tioned Act is directed. VIII. Provided always, That nothing herein contained (hall extend, or be conftrued to extend to make good any fuch Deed, Will or Leafe already made, and not inrolled, of the Want of Inrolment whereof Advantage fliall have been taken on or before the fecond Day of February in the Year of our Lord one thoufand feven hundred and thirty-five, but every fuch Deed, Will and Leafe, fhall remain of -fuch Force and Effect only, as the fame would have had if this Acf had never been made, and of none' other Force or Effect. J j Geo: 2. c. 17. 33 Geo. 2, c. 13. ' IX. And whereas many Purchafes made by Proteftants fince the faid twenty-ninth Day of September ' one thoufand feven hundred and feventeen, may be in Danger of being impeached or called in Que*
- ftion, in regard that fome Deeds or -Wills through which the Title thereto is derived ou^ht to
- have been inrolled according to the faid Acts, but have not been fo inrolled by reafon that it was
' not known to fuch Purchafers that the Perfons who made fuch Deeds or Wills were Papifts ; * Be it therefore further enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That no Purchafe made for full and va- luable Confederations of any Manors, Mefluages, Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, or of any In- - terelf therein, by any Proteftant or Proteftants, and merely and only for the Benefit of Proteftants, (hall I be impeached or avoided, for or by reafon that any Deed or Will, through which the Title thereto is - derived hath not been inrolled as required by the faid Acts, fo as no Advantage was taken of the want of Inrolment thereof before fuch Purchafe was made, and fo as fuch Purchafer or Purchafers had not Notice before fuch their Purchafe that the Perfon or Perfons who made fuch Deed or Will was or were a Paoift or Papifts, and fo as no Decree or Judgment hath been obtained for want of the Inrolment of fuch Deeds or Wills, CAP.
