Hospital of St. John the Baptist, Winchester estate: enabling the trustees to effect an exchange with Sir Edmund Antrobus Act 1841
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
ANNO QUARTO & QUINTO
VICTORLE REGINiE.
^^^^^^.^^^^^^^^*^^^^^^^^*^.)fj*^^*^^^**^^^**^^^^^^^^^***
Cap.
38.
An Act to enable the Trustees of the Hospital of
Saint John the Baptist in the City of Winchester
to eifect an Exchange with Sir Edmund Antrobus
Baronet, under the Authority of the Court of
Chancery. [21st Jim* 1841.]
HEREAS by a Royal Charter or Letters Patent of Herj^tt^rtsofthe
late Majesty Queen Elizabeth, bearing Date the Twenty- 3Qt^ EHza-
third Day of January in the Thirtieth Year of Her Reign, beth.
stating (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 contrary, 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 Necessaries, which said Hospital,
with all the Lands and Tenements thereunto belonging, always had
been, and then was, in the Government, Ordinance, Distribution,
Disposition, and Management of the Mayor, Bailiffs, and Com-
monalty 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
[Private*] h given
950 4° & h° VICTORIA. Ccw.38.
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 the Master or Keeper of the Hos-
pital of Saint John the Baptist, 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 Ambiguities had arisen^ and
were daily arising, because the Name of the aforesaid Hospital was
somewhat obscure and uncertain; in order that all Disputes, Ques-
tions,
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 those 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 Common-
alty of the City of Winchester should be thereafter, by the same Name,
founded, called, incorporated, 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 Commonalty 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
lingular 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
Jlerself,
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 Succes-
sors,
as well all and singular Goods and Chattels, as all and singular
Manors, Messuages,
Lands,
Tenements, Woods, Underwoods,
Rents,
Re-
versions, 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
Commonalty 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
1 Queen,
To continue reading
Request your trial