Ecclesiastical Leases Act 1575
(18 Eliz. 1) C A P. XI.
'W H E R E A S by a Statute made in a Parliament holden atWestminster the second Day of April in the thirteenth Year of the Reign of our most gracious Sovereign Lady, intituled, An Act against fraudulent Gifts, to the Intent to defeat Dilapidations of Ecclesiastical Livings, and for Leases to be granted by Collegiate Churches , It was amongst other Things enacted by the Authority of Parliament, That from thenceforth all Leases, Gifts, Grants, Feoffments, Conveyances or Estates to be made, had, done or suffered, (2) by any Master and Fellows of any College, or by any Dean and Chapter of any Cathedral or Collegiate Church, Master or Guardian of any Hospital, Parson, Vicar or any other having any Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Living, or any Houses, Lands, Tithes, Tenements or other Hereditaments, being any Parcel of the Possessions of any such College, Cathedral Church, Chapter, Hospital, Parsonage, Vicarage or other Spiritual Promotion, or any ways appertaining or belonging to the same, or of any of them, to any Person or Persons, Bodies Politick or Corporate; (3) other than for the Term of twenty-one Years or three Lives, from the Time of any such Lease or Grant shall be made or granted, whereupon the accustomed yearly Rent or more shall be reserved and payable yearly during the said Term; (4) shall be utterly void and of none Effect, to all Intents, Constructions and Purposes; any Law, Custom or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding, as in the said Act more plainly appeareth:
II Practices to defeat the Meaning of the foresaid Star. 1 Anders 65.
II. Sithence the making of which said Estatute, divers of the said Ecclesiastical and Spiritual Persons and others, having Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Livings, have from Time to Time made Leases for the Term of twenty-one Years or three Lives, long before the Expiration of the former Years, contrary to the true Meaning and Intent of the said Statute:' (2) Be it therefore enacted by this present Parliament, Thatall Leases hereafter to be made by any of the said Ecclesiastical, Spiritual or Collegiate Persons or others, of any their said Ecclesiastical, Spiritual or Collegiate Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, whereof any former Lease for Years is in Being, not to be expired, surrendered or ended within...
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