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The TITLES of the STATUTES.

mutiny or desert their Majesties Service; and for punishing false Musters, and for the Payment of Quarters.

14. An Act for the Review of the quarterly Poll granted to their Majesties in the last Session of this present Parliament.

15. An Act for continuing certain Acts therein mentioned, and for charging several joint Stocks.

16. An act to prevent Frauds by clandestine Mortgages.

17. An Act for the regaining, encouraging, and settling the Greenland Trade.

18. An Act to prevent malicious Informations in the Court of King's Bench, and for the more easy Reversal of Outlawries in the same Court.

19. An Act for preventing Suits against such as acted for their Majesties Service in Defence of the Kingdom.

20. An Act for the better Discovery of Judgments in the Courts of King's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer, at Westminster.

21. An Act for delivering Declarations to Prisoners.

22. An Act for regulating Proceedings in the Crown Office in the Court of King's Bench at Westminster.

23. An Act for the more easy Discovery and Conviction of such as shall destroy the Game of this Kingdom.

24. An Act for reviving, continuing, and explaining several Laws therein mentioned, which are expired and near expiring.

25. An act for continuing the Acts for prohibiting all Trade and Commerce with France, and for the Encouragement of Privateers.

PRIVATE ACTS.

Anno 4 W. & M.

1. AN Act for the Sale of the Estate of Anthony Eyre, Esq; deceased, for Payment of his Debts, and Portions, for his Children.

2. An Act for vesting the Estate real and personal, late of Henry Hawley, in Trustees, to be sold, or otherwise disposed, for the Benefit of his Daughters and Heirs Susan and Mary, who are both Infants.

3. An Act for clearing and removing some Doubts which may arise in an Act of Parliament, intituled, An Act for the vesting several Manors, Lands, and Rents in the Counties of Lincoln, Berks, and Devon, in Trustees, to be sold for the buying other Manors and Lands, to be settled for the same, or the like Uses, as those to be sold are now settled.

4. An Act to enable Sir John Wentworth, Baronet, an Infant under the Age of one and twenty Years, to make a Jointure out and Settlement of his Manors and Lands in the Counties of York, in the County of the City of York, and Westmoreland.

5. An Act for the more speedy and effectual Execution of the Trust created by the Will of Sir Anthony Brown, Baronet, deceased, and of a Decree in Chancery thereupon.

6. An Act to enable Alexander Popham, Esq; to settle a Jointure upon his Wife, and to make Provision for younger Children, upon Receipt of 12000l. Portion, to be applied for Payment of his Debts.

7. An Act to enable Sir George Parker of Ratton in the County of Sussex, Baronet, to make a Settlement upon his Marriage, notwithstanding his Minority.

8. An Act to enable William Wake, Gent. and William Wake, Doctor in Divinity, to make Leases for Lives, or Years, within the Manor of Shipwick, in the County of Dorset.

9. An Act for the rectifying a Mistake in a certain Act of this present Parliament, passed in the Year 1691. intituled, An Act to vest certain Lands of William Molyneux, Gent. in Trustees, for raising the Sum of 2000l. for paying the Portions to his younger Brothers and Sisters, pursuant to a Decree in the Court of Chancery.

10. An Act for the enabling Sir William Mannock, Baronet, to charge his Estate for the raising his younger Childrens Portions.

11. An Act for settling the Manor of Kings North, for the enabling Barnbam Powel, Esq; to make Provision for his younger Children.

12. An Act to enable Ralph Macclesfield to sell Lands for Payment of Debts, and making Provision for his Wife and Children.

Anno 4 & 5 W. & M.

13. An Act for dividing the Chapelries of North Chapel and Dugton from the Parish of Petworth, and erecting them into new Parishes; and for settling the advowsons and Rights of Patronage of the Rectories of Petworth, North Chapel, Dungton, Clower, Farnham Royal, Worplesdon, Kirby, Overblows, and Catton, and the Vicarage of Long Horsley.

14. An Act for the Sale of certain Manors, Messuages, Lands, and Hereditaments, late the Estate of Francis Osbaston, Esq; deceased, for the Payment of his Debts and Legacies, and raising ten thousand Pounds for the Portion of Mary Osbaston, his Daughter, chargeable upon the said Estate.

15. An Act to enable Sir Thomas Wroth, Baronet, to make a Jointure and Settlement upon his Marriage, and to make a Provision for his Sister, notwithstanding his being under the Age of one and twenty Years.

16. An Act for the settling a Jointure on the Wife of Anthony Danby, Esq; and for making Provision for his Brothers and younger Children, and for Payment of his Debts.

17. An Act for confirming the Sale of certain Wood Lands in the County of Southampton, and certain Articles of Agreement made between Isaac Woollaston and Richard Woollaston, Esquires.

18. An Act for the more speedy and effectual Execution of the Trust created by the Will of Henry Baynton, Esq; deceased, and for raising a Portion for his Daughter.

19. An Act to enable Richard Walthall, Esq; to sell Lands for the Payment of Portions and Debts.

20. An Act for the better Assurance of the Manor of Wood Lands, and Hundred of Knoulton, unto Edward Seymour, Esq;

21. An Act to enable Trustees to sell Part of the Lands and Tenements of Matthew Pitt, Esq; and Robert Pitt, Gent. for the Payment of Debts, and to settle the rest of the Lands upon the said Matthew and Robert, and the Wife of the said Robert, and their Issue.

22. An Act for settling the Estate of Francis Boyle, Lord Viscount Shannon, in the Kingdom of Ireland.

23. An Act to enable Humphry Lord Bishop of Bangor, to make a Lease of Bangor House, with the Appurtenances, in the Parish of St. Andrew Holborn, London, for a competent Term of Years, in order to the new Building and improving the Rent thereof, for the Benefit of his Successors.

24. An Act for vesting the Manor of Bancroft, otherwise Thonocke, otherwise Lowthonocke, Hinton, otherwise Hengton, and other Lands in the County of Lincoln, Isle of Ely, and Counties of Cambridge and Norfolk, in Trustees, for the Payment of the Debts of Thomas Towers, Esq; and making Provision for his Wife and Daughter.

25. An Act to enable Thomas Goodwin the younger, to sell Lands for the Payment of Debts, and making Provision for his Wife and Children.

26. An Act to enable Roger Price, Esq; to sell some Part of his Estate, for Payment of Portions to the Daughters of John Price, Esq; deceased.

26. An