Suppression of Monasteries Act 1540
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1540 c. 20 |
| Year | 1540 |
(32 Hen. 8) C A P. XX.
'W HERE divers and sundry Sites, Circuits and Precincts of late Monasteries, Abbathies, Priories, Nunneries. Colleges, Hospitals and other Ecclesiastical and Religious Houses and Places, and divers Honours, Castles, Manors, Messuages, Lands, Tenements, Liberties, Privileges, Franchises and other Hereditaments, by divers and sundry Statutes heretofore made, been assigned, limited and appointed to the Older, Rule, Survey and Governance of the Court of our Sovereign Lord the King, called the Court of Augmentations of the Revenues of his Crown, and of the Chancellor, Officers and Ministers of the same, (2) by the which Statutes it is not fully, plainly nor expressly declared or rehearsed, how and in what wise, and by what special Officers and Ministers, the Liberties, Privileges and Franchises, which the late Owners of the same Sites, Circuits, Precincts, Honours, Castles, Manors, Messuages, Lands, Tenements and other the Premisses had, used and exercised, should be ordered, used, exercised and put in Execution:' (3) Be it therefore enacted by the King our Sovereign Lord, with the Assentof the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and of the Commons, of this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That all and singular the same Liberties, Franchises, Privileges and temporal Jurisdictions, which the said late Owners had, used and exercised lawfully, by themselves, or by their Officers or Ministers, or might have used or exercised, within three Months next before that the said Sites, Circuits, Precincts, Honours, Castles, Manors, Messuages, Lands, Tenements and other the Premisses, came to the Possession of the King's Highness, shall be by Virtue of this present Act revived, and be really and actually in the King's Highness, his Heirs and Successors, and shall be in the Rule, Order, Survey and Governance of the King's said Court of Augmentations of the Revenues of his Crown, and of the Chancellor, Officers and Ministers of the same; (4) and that the same Liberties, Franchises, Privileges and Temporal Jurisdictions, and all manner Fines, Issues, Amerciaments, and other Profits and Commodities, of what Kinds or Natures soever they be, coming, growing or rising by Reason or Occasionof them, or any of them, shall be used, exercised and occupied to all Intents, Purposes, Conditions and Respects, and shall be claimed, levied, collected and taken by such Stewards, Bailiffs, and other Officers and Ministers, as shall please the King's Highness to name and appoint, in like Manner, Form, Fashion and Condition as they or any of them were lawfully used, exercised, executed, claimed, levied, collected and taken, before that they came to the Hands and Possession of our said Sovereign Lord; (5) and that the same Stewards, Bailiffs, Officers and Ministers, shall be accomptant for the Issues and Revenues of their Bailiwicks and Offices, and shall be compelled to account in the said Court of Augmentations, like as the King's Receivers or other Officers Accomptants in the said Court heretofore have done or ought to do.
'II. And where also divers and sundry Sites, Circuits and Precincts of late Monasteries, Abbies, Priories, Nunneries, Colleges, Hospitals and other Ecclesiastical and Religious Houses and Places, and also divers Honours, Castles, Manors, Messuages, Lands, Tenements, Liberties, Privileges, Franchises and other Hereditaments, which been comen to the King's Hands by Attainder or Attainders of High Treason, been assigned, limited and appointed to the Order, Rule, Survey and Governance of the King's general Surveyors; (2) and for as much as it is not fully, plainly nor expressly known or declared, how and in what wise, and by what special Officers or Ministers, the temporal Liberties, Privileges, Franchises and temporal Jurisdictions, which the late Owners of the said Sites, Circuits, Precincts, Honours, Castles, Manors, Messuages, Lands, Tenements and other the Premisses had, used and exercised, should be ordered, used and put in Execution:' (3) Be it therefore enacted by Authority aforesaid, That all and singular the same Liberties, Franchises, Privileges and temporal Jurisdictions, which the late Owners of the said Sites, Circuits, Precincts, Honours, Castles, Manors and other the Premisses, which been come into the King's Hands by Attainders, as is aforesaid, lawfully had, used and exercised by themselves, or by their Officers or Ministers, or which they might have used or exercised, within three Months next before that the same Sites, Circuits, Precincts, Honours, Castles, Manors and other the Premisses, came to the Possession of the King's Highness, shall be by Virtue of this Act revived, and be really and actually in the King's Highness, his Heirs and Successors, and shall be in the Rule, Order, Survey and Governance of the King's said General Surveyors, and of the Officers and Ministers of the same; (4) and that the same Liberties, Franchises, Privileges and Temporal Jurisdictions, and all manner of Fines, Issues, Amerciaments and other Profits and Commodities, of what Kinds or Natures soever they be, coming, growing or rising by reason or occasion of them, or any of them, shall be used, exercised and executed to all Intents, Purposes, Conditions and Respects, and shall be claimed, levied, collected and taken by such Stewards, Bailiffs and other Officers and Ministers as shall please the King's...
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