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Section XIII Certain Leases made by former Ministers confirmed.; Exception.

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Provided alwayes and be it Enacted That all Grants and Leases made for a valueable consideration paid or given of any Copyhold or Freehold Lands belonging to any Sequestred Liveing or Rectory (excepting the Glebe and Tythes) for three Lives or Twenty one yeares according to former usage wherein the auntient Rent is reserved made by any Minister or Ecclesiasticall person possessed of the said Rectory or Liveing by any reall or pretended Authority before the five and twentyeth of December One thousand six hundred fifty nine shall continue as good and effectuall in Law to all Intents against the Ejected and Sequestred Incumbent to be restored and all others as if they had beene made by the proper Incumbent.