# Rebuilding of London Act 1670, Section LXIII: Recital that the Mercers Company have designed a Free School on the Site of St. Mary Cole-Church.


The said Site, &c. vested in the said Company.; Money to be paid by the Company towards rebuilding the Church to which St.Mary Cole-Church is united.
And whereas the Wardens and Commonaltie of the Mistery of the Mercers of the City of London at the time of the said Fire were seised in Fee of the Rectory and Parish Church Impropriate of Saint Mary Cole-Church (the said Church being an upper Roome about Ten Foote higher then the Streete and lyeing over certaine Roomes and arched Vaults or Cellars of the said Wardens and Commonalty) upon the Scite of which Church they have designed to build a Free Schoole and other Buildings conformable to the Rules of the said former Act, and to remove the Dead Bodyes and Bones of such as have been buryed upon the Arches, and to cause them to be decently reposed within the Body of their Chappell commonly called Mercers Chappell, Bee it therefore hereby enacted That the Scite of the said Parish Church and the Materialls thereof remaining upon the said Scite be, and are hereby setled upon the said Wardens and Commonaltie and their Successors for ever, And that the said Wardens and Commonaltie shall pay to the Lord Maior and Aldermen of the City of London for the same such summe of Money towards the rebuilding of the Church whereunto the same is by this Act appointed to be united as shall be agreed upon betweene the said Lord Maior and Aldermen and the said Wardens and Commonalty, or be assessed by a Jury impanneled and sworne, as by the said former Act is directed in any other case, Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha2/22/11/section/LXIII (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/rebuilding-of-london-act-1670/section-LXIII
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