# Bedford Level Act 1663, Section XV: Recital that divers Lots of the said 95,000 Acres belonged to Persons herein named.


Governor, &c. to stand seized of the said Lots in trust for the Persons and in manner herein mentioned; and to execute Estates of such Lots accordingly.
And whereas the Shares Lotts Parts and Proportions of and in the said nynety five thousand Acres which in pursuance of the said Indenture of fowerteene Parts, and by virtue or Intention of the said Act and Law of Sewers made at Lynne doe belong and appertaine to the said Samuell Sandys the Elder or his Trustees Sir. William Terringham, Sr Richard Onslow and other the Assignees and Trustees of Henry late Earle of Arundell and Surrey deceased Arthur Earle of Anglesey Thomas Lord Culpepper Robert Phillips Robert Scawen. and to divers other Persons the Participants of the said Earle Francis and Partyes to the said Indenture or their respective Heires Executors Administrators or Assignes are now possessed and enjoyed by divers Persons who tooke contracted for or accepted of or by such who clayme and derive their Interest and Title from and under such Persons as did take contract for or accept of pretended Estates or Conveyances of the same made or pretended to be made by certaine Persons mentioned in and by the said pretended Act of the nyne and twentyeth Day of May one thousand six hundred forty and nyne to have Authority to sell the Shares Lotts Parts and Proportions of such of the Adventurers and Participants of the said Earle Francis, and of their respective Heires and Assignes as should refuse or make default of Payment of such Taxes as should by colour and in pursuance of the said pretended Act be imposed upon them respectively in respect of their Shares and Lotts in or out of the said nynety five thousand Acres Bee it therefore enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said Governor Bayliffes and Comonalty of the said Company of Conservators of the said Great Levell of the Fenns and their Successors shall actually stand seised and possessed of all and every the Shares Lotts Parts and Proportions last mentioned In Trust nevertheless to and for the use and Behoofe of the said Samuell Sandys the elder or his Trustees in trust for him, Sir William Terringham Sir Richard Onslow and others the said Assignees and Trustees of Henry late. Earle of Arundell and Surrey deceased Arthur Earle of Anglesey Thomas Lord Culpepper Robert Phillips, Robert Scawen and of their respective Heires and Assignes and to and for the respective Uses and Behoofes of the said other Persons the Participants of the said Earle Francis, and Parties to the said Indenture of fowerteene Parts and of their respective Heires and Assignes, now out of Possession of their respective Shares Lotts Parts and Proportions of the said nynety five thousand Acres as heretofore in or about the Month of October in the thirteenth Yeare of the Raigne of the late King Charles of ever blessed Memory were respectively allotted severed sett forth or divided for or as the respective Shares Lotts Parts and Proportions of such of the Adventurers the Participants of the said Earle Francis and Partyes to the said Indenture of fowerteene Parts their respective Heires Executors Administrators and Assignes from and under whom the said Samuell Sandys the Elder or his Trustees, Sr William Terringham Sr Richard Onslow and others the Assignees and Trustees of Henry late Earle of Arundell and Surrey deceased Arthur Earle of Anglesey Thomas Lord Culpepper Robert Phillips Robert Scawen and the said other Persons the Participants of the said Earle Francis and their respective Heires Executors Administrators and Assignes now out of Possession of their respective Shares Lotts Parts and Proportions doe respectively clayme and derive their said Shares Lottes Parts and Proportions And the said Governour Bayliffes and Cominalty of the Company of Conservators, are hereby authorised and required to execute respective Estates of the said Shares Lotts Parts and Proportions accordingly subject and lyable nevertheless with the residue of the said nynety five thousand Acres in equall proportion to all Taxes and Charges to be laid and imposed by virtue of this Act for preservation of the said Great Levell from drowning

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha2/15/17/section/XV (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/bedford-level-act-1663/section-XV
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