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32 H. 8, CAP. 34, COVENANTS. 441 tures, or other Hereditaments, for term of Life or Lives, or for term of Years, by Writing under their Seal or Seals, contain- ing certain Conditions, Covenants, and Agreements to be per- formed, as well on the part and behalf of the said Lessees and Grantees, their Executors and Assigns, as on the behalf of the said Lessors and Grantors, their Heirs and Successors; (2) and forasmuch as by the common Law of this Realm, no Stranger to any Covenant, Action, or Condition, shall take any Advan- tage or Benefit of the same, by any means or ways in the Law, but only such as be Parties or Privies thereunto, by the reason whereof, as well all Grantees of Reversions, as also all Grantees and Patentees of the King our Sovereign Lord, of sundry Manors, Lordships, Granges, Forms, Meases, Lands, Tenements, Meadows, Pastures, or other Hereditaments late belonging to Monasteries, and other Religious and Ecclesi- astical Houses dissolved, suppressed, renounced, relinquished, forfeited, given up, or by other means come to the Hands and Possession of the King's Majesty since the fourth Day of Feb- ruary, the seven and twentieth Year of his most noble Reign, be excluded to have any Entry or Action against the said Les- sees and Grantees, their Executors or Assigns, which the Les- sors before that time might by the Law have had against the same Lessees for the Breach of any Condition, Covenant, or Agreement comprised in the Indentures of their said Leases, Demises, and Grants: (3) Be it therefore enacted by the King our Sovereign Lord, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by Authority of the same, That as well all and every person and persons, and Bodies politick, their Heirs, Successors, and Assigns, which have or shall have any Gift or Grant of our said Sovereign Lord, by his Letters Patents of any Lordships, Manors, Lands, Tenements, Rents, Parsonages, Tithes, Por- tions,* or any other Hereditaments, or of any Reversion 336 or Reversions of the same, which did belong or appertain to any of the said Monasteries, and other Religious and Ecclesi- astical Houses, dissolved, suppressed, relinquished, forfeited, or by any other means come to the King's Hands since the said fourth Day of February, the seven and twentieth Year of his most noble Reign, or which at any time heretofore did be- long or appertain to any other person or persons, and after came to the hands of our said Sovereign Lord, (4) as also all other persons being Grantees or Assignees to or by our said Sov- |
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