Section II Proviso as to the Estate to be made by such Leases and Grants; and as to the Rent to be reserved.
Provided always That every such Lease or Grant so made or to be made be not for more than One Two or Three Lives or for Thirty one Years or under X1 or for some Term of Years determinable upon One Two or Three. Lives and not above and if such Leases or Grants be made in Reversion or Expectancy that then the same together with the Estates in Possession do not exceed Three Lives or the Term of Thirty one Years and not in any wise dispunishable of West and so as upon every such Lease shall be reserved the ancient or most usual Rent or more or such Rent as hath been reserved yielded or paid for the same Lands for the greater Part of Twenty Years next before the Year of our Lord One thousand six hundred and sixty hath and shall be reserved due and payable to him or her that shall have the Inheritance or other Estate of the said Dutchy And where no such Rent hath been reserved or payable that then upon every such Lease there shall be reserved a reasonable Rent not being under the Twentieth Part of the clear Yearly Value of the Messuages Parks and Lands Tenements or Hereditaments contained in such Lease and all Leases and Grants otherwise made or to be made shall be null and void.
Annotations
Editorial notes
- X1
Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: or under O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]