Reasons humbly offered, why the sale of the lands, and estates, belonging to the late Bishop of Durham, should not be confirmed. 1654 Approx. 3 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2008-09 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A92277 Wing R564 Thomason 669.f.19[26] ESTC R212137 99870783 99870783 163364

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 eng Leases -- England -- Early works to 1800. Church lands -- England -- Early works to 1800. Great Britain -- History -- Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660 -- Early works to 1800. 2007-07 Assigned for keying and markup 2007-08 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-09 Sampled and proofread 2007-09 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
REASONS Humbly offered, why the Sale of the LANDS, and ESTATES, belonging to the late Biſhop of DURHAM, ſhould not be confirmed.

1. BY long uſage and courſe of time, the Tenants of thoſe Lands and their Anceſtors, have enjoyed the ſame in Nature of a Cuſtomary Inheritance.

1. By Tenant-Right. Afterwards by taking Leaſes, never exceeding three yeers Fine, doing Border-ſervice, &c.

2. When a Tenants Leaſe did expire, it was uſual for the ſaid Tenant to ſell his Intereſt in the Premiſes for ſeven yeers purchaſe and ſomtimes more.

3. When the Parliament in the yeer 1647. did paſs an Ordinance for the ſale of Biſhops Lands, they did provide in the ſaid Ordinance,

1. That all matter of Right, both in Law and Equity, ſhould be ſaved to the ſaid Tenants.

2. That the ſaid Ordinance ſhould be ſent to the reſpective Sheriffs in every County to be publiſhed in every Market-Town, whereby all ſuch Perſons who claimed any Right in thoſe Eſtates, might have the knowledge, to put in their Claims to the Surveyors. But the Sheriff of that County, never had the Ordinance ſent unto him, or if he had, yet was the ſame never publiſhed in any of the Market-Towns in that County, whereby the Tenants might have timely and due notice to make out their Reſpective Claims before the Surveyors.

Whereupon not any one Tenant that held by Leaſe of the ſaid Biſhop and did uſually renue their Leaſes, as aforeſaid, did make known to the Surveyors their Uſual and Equitable Right.

4. This Ordinance was the firſt Ordinance for ſale, that ever came forth in this Nature. And the ſaid Tenants living eleven ſcore miles off London, were kept the more in ignorance, by reaſon they never had any Member of Parliament to ſerve for them, as all the reſt of the Counties in England had, to give them notice what they had to do to preſerve their Rights.

5. That this concerns the being and ſubſiſtance of many hundred Families, who with their Anceſtors for many hundreds of yeers enjoyed their Reſpective Eſtates, never paying to the Biſhops above 50 s. per. An. Rent for the beſt Farm.

All whoſe Eſtates are now purchaſed by five, or ſix Perſons at moſt, ſome of whom, have turned the Tenants out of Doors, their Wives and Children going a Begging, without regard to their Ancient and Equitable Right: and others kept in Priſon after poſſeſſion of their Farms were obtained by the Purchaſors.