Section IX IX. Proviso for the Borough of St. Albans.X1

Provided alsoe and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That this Act or any thing therein contained shall not in any wise extend to debarr or hinder the Maior and Burgesses of the Burrough of Saint Albans in the County of Hertford or their Successors from enjoying useing and exercising of all such Libertyes Powers and Authorities to them heretofore granted by severall Letters Patents under the Great Seale of England by Queene Elizabeth and King James of famous memoryes for the erecting appointing and licensing of three severall Wine Taverns within the Burrough aforesaid for and towards the maintenance of the Free schoole there, but that the same Libertyes Powers and Authorities shall be and are hereby established and confirmed and shall remaine X2& continue in and to the said Maior and Burgesses and their Successors to and for the charitable use aforesaid, and according to the tenor of the Letters Patents aforesaid as though this Act had never beene made Any thing herein contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.