Section VIII Proviso for Presentees under Letters Patent.

Provided alsoe That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not extend to prejudice the Title of any person or persons who by Letters Patents under the Great Seale since the first day of May and before the twenty sixth of August One thousand six hundred and sixty have obtained from his Majestie any Grant of any Deanery Headship of any House Rectorship of any Colledge Canons place Prebendary Fellowship or Schollership within either of the Universities or the Colledges of Eaton Westminster or Winchester but that all and every the said Grants and Letters Patents shall be of such and noe other force and effect as the same should have beene if this Act had not beene made Any thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding.