# Crown Lands (Forfeited Estates) Act 1698, Section XX: Trustees to secure the Personal Goods and Chattels so vested in them, and make an Inventory thereof; and by whom forfeited; and (being appraised upon Oath) to sell the same by Auction.


Notice thereof; Trustees may expose such Goods to Sale at a lower Rate than Appraisement; Trustees to enter Contracts, &c. in their Books.
And to the Intent the Personall Goods and Chattells herein before vested in the said Trustees may be disposed of, and the Value thereof applyed for such Publick Uses as are herein after mentioned Bee it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the said Trustees, or any Seaven or more of them, shall, as soone as conveniently may be, use their utmost Endeavours to secure all such Goods and Personall Chattells in such Places and in the Custody of such Persons as shall be thought most proper by the said Trustees, for preventing any Losse or Imbezelment thereof, and shall make or cause to be made, a true and perfect Inventory or Inventories thereof containeing a particular Account of all such Goods and Chattells, by whom they were forfeited, and when and by whom delivered to the said Trustees, or any Persons by them appointed to receive the same.; And shall alsoe cause a just Appraisement thereof, to be made upon the Oaths of any Two Persons, to be appointed by the said Trustees, or any Seaven or more of them for that Purpose (which Oath the said Trustees, or any Two or more of them, are hereby impowered to administer) And the said Trustees, or any Seaven or more of them, are hereby authorized and required to sell all and singular such Goods and Chattells soe inventoried and appraized, according to their best Skill and Judgment: And for that Purpose shall cause publick Notice to be given by the Space of Three Daies, of the Time and Place when and where they intend to begin to expose to sale any Part or Parcell thereof, and of the severall Particulars then and there to be sold, att which Time they shall sell the same by Cant or Auction to such Person or Persons who shall bid most for the same in Sterling Money, as such Money is valued in England, soe as the bidding be equall to or exceed the Appraizement thereof Neverthelesse the said Trustees, or any Seaven or more of them, shall and may, if they find it necessary soe to doe, expose such Goods or Chattells to sale in such Manner as aforesaid, att a lower Rate and Price than the Appraizement thereof, and in such Case are enabled to sell the same att the utmost Rate and Price they can obtaine for the same upon such Sale thereof; And the said Trustees, or any Seaven or more of them, shall imediately upon every such Sale or Contract cause an Entry to be made in their Books of all and every the Particulars soe sold or contracted for, and of the Buyers Names and Places of Abode and the Prices agreed upon.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/11/2/section/XX (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/crown-lands-forfeited-estates-act-1698/section-XX
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