Enabling the City of Winchester to convey the estates of St. John the Baptist s Hospital, Winchester to trustees appointed by the Court of Chancery, and authorizing the City of Bristol to convey a sum to the trustees, under a grant of Sir Thomas White, pa Act 1829
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1829 c. 44 |
| Year | 1829 |
ANNO DECIMO
GEORGII IV. REGIS.
Cap.
44.
An Act to enable the Mayor, Bailiffs, and Com-
monalty of the City of
Winchester
to convey
certain Estates, the Possessions of the Hospital
of Saint John
the
Baptist in
Winchester,
to Trus-
tees to be appointed by the Court of Chancery;
and to enable such Trustees to exercise certain
Powers over the said Estates
;
and to authorize
the Mayor, Burgesses, and Commonalty of the
City of Bristol to convey to the said Trustees a
certain Sum payable every Twenty-fourth Year
under a Grant of Sir Thomas White; and for
other Purposes. [24th June 1829.]
W
HEREAS by a Royal Charter or Letters Patent of Her late Letters
Majesty Queen Elizabeth, bearing Date the Twenty-third Day Patent,
of January in the Thirtieth Year of Her Reign, stating
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(amongst other Things) that in the said City of
Winchester
there was a
certain Hospital, with divers Lands and Tenements to the same pertaining
and belonging, from Time whereof no Memory of Man was to the con-
trary, founded for pure and perpetual Alms, commonly called " The
Hospital or House of
Saint
John the Baptist," in which some poor People
were relieved and provided as well with Victuals and Apparel
as
with other
[Private.] \Q S Necessaries;
10°GEORGII IV.
CapM.
Necessaries; which said Hospital, with all the Lands and Tenements there-
unto belonging, always had been and then was in the Government, Ordi-
nance, Distribution, Disposition, and Management of the Mayor, Bailiffs,
and Commonalty of the aforesaid City; and that for the better Relief and
Sustenance of the poor and infirm Persons living in the said Hospital
divers Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments had been theretofore given
and granted, to the Use of the aforesaid Hospital, as well by one Richard
Lamb as by others, to the Mayor, Bailiffs, and Commonalty aforesaid, by
separate and divers Names, sometimes by the Name of the Mayor and
Bailiffs, Guardian of the Hospital of
Saint John
the
Baptist,
sometimes by
the Name of Master or Keeper of the Hospital of Saint
John,
sometimes
by the Name of the Master and Brethren of the Hospital or House of
Saint
John
the Baptist; and also stating that many Disputes and Ambi-
guities had arisen and were daily arising because the Name of the aforesaid
Hospital was somewhat obscure and uncertain; in order that all Disputes,
Questions, Ambiguities, and Contentions might be altogether taken away
and removed, and that the Name of the aforesaid Hospital should not in
future be doubtful, the said Queen, of Her special Favour, and from Her
certain Knowledge and mere Motion, did, by
these
Presents,
found, establish,
and ordain the aforesaid Hospital of One Keeper of Lay Brethren and
Sisters, and that the Mayor, Bailiffs, and Commonalty of the City of
Winchester,
and their Successors, should be the Keeper of the aforesaid
Hospital, and that the Mayor, Bailiffs, and Commonalty of the City of
Winchester
should be thereafter by the same Name founded, called, incor-
porated, and in Fact, Deed, and Name be reputed and esteemed to be the
Keeper of the Hospital of
Saint John
the Baptist of
Winchester,
and that
they and their Successors, by the said Name of Mayor, Bailiffs, and Com-
monalty of
Winchester,
Keeper of the Hospital of Saint
John
the Baptist in
Winchester,
should have perpetual Succession, and should be in Law fit and
proper Persons in all and all Manner of real, personal, criminal, and mixed
Plaints and Pleas, as well Spiritual
as
Temporal, to plead and be impleaded,
to answer and be answered, and by the same Name to demand, receive,
appropriate, have, enjoy, and possess, grant and discharge all and singular
whatsoever Lands, Tenements, Profits, Hereditaments, Goods, Chattels,
and Rights whatsoever they might be, and that they and their Successors
should thereafter have a Common Seal for Demises and Grants, and other
Leases, Contracts, and Proceedings whatsoever to be treated, done, and
executed between the said Mayor, Bailiffs, and Commonalty, Keeper of
the said Hospital, and their Successors, and other Persons whatsoever ; and
moreover of Her special Favour, and of Her certain Knowledge and mere
Motion, the said Queen, for
Herself,
Her Heirs and Successors, did give,
grant, appropriate, confirm, and release to the said Mayor, Bailiffs, and
Commonalty of the City of
Winchester,
Keeper of the aforesaid Hospital,
and to their Successors, as well all and singular Goods and Chattels,
as all and singular Manors, Messuages, Lands, Tenements, Woods,
Underwoods, Rents, Reversions, and other Hereditaments whatsoever and
wheresoever, within the Kingdom of
England,
which theretofore had been
given, granted, or confirmed (or were specified, contemplated, or intended
to be given, granted, or confirmed to the aforesaid Mayor, Bailiffs, and
Commonalty of the City of
Winchester,
or
to the aforesaid Keeper, Master,
Brethren, Sisters, or to any of them, or any of their Predecessors, by
whatever Name or Addition) for the Maintenance,
Relief,
and Support of
the said Hospital, and that they, the aforesaid Mayor, Bailiffs, and Com-
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monalty of the City of
Winchester,
Keeper of the Hospital aforesaid, and
their Successors, should retain, enjoy, possess, have, and quietly keep all
the Premises, without any Hindrance of the said Queen,Her Heirs and
Successors, to have and to hold all and singular the Manors, Lands, and
Tenements, and other the Premises aforesaid, to the Mayor, Bailiffs, and
Commonalty of the City of
Winchester,
Keeper of the Hospital aforesaid,
and their Successors for ever, from the said Queen and Her Successors, ifi
pure and perpetual Alms, willing nevertheless that they and their Succes-
sors should allow and cause to be allowed to each Brother and Sister of
the Hospital aforesaid, out of the Lands and Tenements aforesaid, such
Allowance, Alms, and Relief as they were wont to be allowed in Times
past; and the said Queen did aiso, for Herself and Her Successors, grant
that the aforesaid Brethren and Sisters, and all other Ministers and Offi-
cers of the said Hospital, should be chosen, constituted, managed, and
governed in all Things by the aforesaid Mayor, Bailiffs, and Cdmmonalty,
Keeper of the aforesaid Hospital, according to the Ordinances and Statutes
theretofore made or thereafter to be made by the aforesaid Mayor, Bailiffs,
and Commonalty, Keeper of the Hospital aforesaid, according to their
sound Discretions, so that they might not be repugnant to the Prerogative
Royal or to the Laws or Statutes of the Kingdom of England: And First Infor-
whereas on the Twenty-first of March One thousand eight hundred and nation and
eleven an Information and Bill was filed in the High Court of Chancery ,"!., v1"
by His late Majesty's then Attorney General, at the Relation of the then 21st March
Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of
Saint Thomas
1811.
in the City of
Winchester,
of the Poor of the Parish of Saint
Lawrence
in
the said City, of the Poor of the Parish of Saint
Maurice
in the said City,
of
the
Poor of the Parish of
Saint
Mary
Calendar
in the said City, of the
Poor of the Parish of Saint Peter
Colebrook
in the said City, of the Poor
of the Parish of Saint
Peter Cheesehill'm
the East
Soke
of the said City, and
also of the Poor of the Parish of Saint
John
in the East Soke of the said
City, Informant, and by the said several Churchwardens
and
Overseers of the
said several
Parishes,
Plaintiffs, against the Mayor, Bailiffs, and Commonalty
of the City of
Winchester,
and One of the then Overseers or Church-
wardens of each of the said Parishes of Saint
Lawrence,
Saint Maurice,
and Saint
Peter Colebrook
in the said City, Defendants, for the Purpose of
obtaining an Account of the several Estates and Funds therein mentioned
as having been given, devised, or bequeathed unto the Mayor, Bailiffs, and
Commonalty of the City of
Winchester
for charitable Purposes, and which
were then subsisting for the Benefit of poor Persons within the City and
Liberties of
Winchester,
and the Soke and Suburbs
thereof,
and of the
Application
thereof;
and praying that an Account might be taken, under
the Direction of the Court, of all and every the Sums of Money received
by the Mayor and Corporation of
Winchester,
the Predecessors of the said
Defendants, or by the said Defendants, or either of them, on account of the
Trusts aforesaid, or which, without their wilful Neglect or Default, might
have been so received by them, and of the Application thereof j arid if it
should appear that the said Mayor and Corporation of
Winchester
had
misapplied the same or any Part
thereof,
then that the Defendants might
be decreed to make good the same, and that the same might be applied
pursuant to the Trusts
thereof;
and that it might be referred to One of
the Masters of the said Court to approve of proper Persons to act as
Trustees for the Execution of the Trusts aforesaid, in the Place and Stead
of the said Defendants, and that all proper and necessary Directions might
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