# Crown Lands (Forfeited Estates) Act 1698, Section XXVI


How such forfeited Estates, subject to Debts or Incumbrances, or Rent-charges, may be sold; Proviso for Sale thereof in Parcels; In such Case, Trustees to apportion Rent Charges.
And forasmuch as divers Mannors, Messuages, Lands Tenements, Hereditaments and Premisses aforesaid, herein before vested in the said Trustees, and directed to be sold as aforesaid, may happen to be subject to severall such Debts, Charges or Incumbrances affecting such Estates or Interests, as aforesaid, whereby the Sale of such Premisses may be obstructed Bee it therefore further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawfull, to and for the said Trustees, or any Seaven or more of them, either to sell any such Part of such Premisses, subject to such Debt, Charge or Incumbrance affecting the same as may be sufficient to cleare such Debt, Charge or Incumbrance, and thereby cleare the Residue of such Premisses subject thereunto, or to sell any such Premisses subject to such Debt, Charge or Incumbrance by such Rules and Methods, as aforesaid, to any Person or Persons Bodies Politick and Corporate, who shall be desirous to purchase the same, subject to such Debts, Charges or Incumbrances, as shall be allowed by the said Trustees, or any Seaven or more of them, as aforesaid, upon heareing and determineing any Claime or Claimes thereunto; And in case any Mannors, Messuages, Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments hereby directed to be sold, stand charged with any Rent-charges or other Rents, and the same shall, by the said Trustees, or any Seaven or more of them, be found necessary and convenient to be sold in Parcells, and the whole Estate soe charged shall not be sold together, then it shall and may be lawfull to and for the said Trustees, or any Seaven or more of them, and they are hereby required indifferently, according to the best of their Discretion and Judgment, to apportion such Rent-charges or other Rents issueing thereout; and from thenceforth every such Rent-charge or other Rent shall be chargeable upon and recoverable out of the respective Lands soe purchased only according to such Apportionment made by the said Trustees, or any Seaven or more of them, and not otherwise; Any Law or Statute to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/11/2/section/XXVI (the official version)
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