The last will and testament of Sir Thomas Gresham, Knt / [Sir Thomas Gresham].

  • Thomas Gresham
Date:
[1825]
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Credit: The last will and testament of Sir Thomas Gresham, Knt / [Sir Thomas Gresham]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and may be lawful to and for all Bodies Politic, Corporate, or Collegiate, and all Trustees, Mortgagees, and Feoffees in Trust, Guardians of Infants, and Committees of Lunaticks and Idiots, Executors, and Administrators whatso¬ ever, and all and every other person or persons whatsoever who are or shall he seized, possessed, or interested in, any lands or tenements standing, or be¬ ing contiguous or adjoining to, the said College, to bargain and sell the same to such person or persons as the Commissioners of His Majesty’s Treasurv now being, or any three or more of them, or the High Treasurer, or the Commis¬ sioners of His Majesty’s Treasury for the time being, or any three or more of them, shall, by writing under his or their hands, appoint to contract for the purchase thereof, for the purpose aforesaid ; and such lands or tenements so to be purchased, shall be conveyed to His Majesty, his heirs, or successors, by Deed or Deeds to be inrolled in His Majesty’s Court of Kings Bench ; and when so purchased, shall be and be deemed to be, and are hereby declared to be, vested and annexed to the Imperial Crown of this Realm, and shall be and remain for ever unalienable from the same ; and all contracts, agreements, and sales, and all conveyances by such Deeds inrolled as aforesaid, which shall be made by such Bodies Politick, Corporate, or Collegiate, or other persons afore¬ said, shall be valid and effectual to all intents and purposes ; any Law, Statute, or Usage, or any other matter or thing to the contrary notwithstanding; and all and every sum and sums of money which shall be paid to or for the use of such Body Politick, Corporate, or Collegiate, or other person or persons afore¬ said, for the purchase of any lands or tenements for the purposes of this Act, shall be respectively laid out, and invested in, the purchase of other lands, te¬ nements, and hereditaments, which shall be conveyed and settled to and upon, and subject to, such titles, uses, trusts, limitations, remainders, and contingen¬ cies, as the lands and tenements sold for the purpose of this Act were settled, limited, and assured, at the time of such sale, and shall be held and enjoyed accordingly; and until such purchase-money shall be re-invested in lands as aforesaid, the same shall be laid out in the purchase of Stocks in some of the Publick Funds, or placed out on Government or real Securities, at interest; and such interest shall be paid to and for the use of such person or persons as would have been intitled to the rents and profits of the lands and tenements so sold for the purposes of this Act, as aforesaid. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That when the Excise Office shall be built at Gresham College aforesaid, and the said Office shall be s\ry for render¬ ing- the aid Building more commodious, are impowered to sell and con¬ vey the same for that pur¬ pose ; and after con¬ veyance and Inr lin t >f the Deed of Sale, the Pre- m' a to vest in the Crown una¬ lienable. Money paid for* the same to be laid out in other Pur¬ chases, and to be settled to the same Uses 5 and till that can be done, to be laid out in some of the Publick Funds. All Acts, &c. done at the Excise Office, kept and held there, the same shall be called The Excise Office, and that all and every act and acts, thing and things, matters and concerns, made, done, and lege, deemed executed there, for the receipt and management of His Majesty’s Duties of done at the’ Excise, shall be and are hereby declared to be as good and valid in the Law, to all intents and purposes, as such act or acts, matters, things, or concerns, would have been, had the same been made, done, and executed, at the said Office of Excise in the Old Jewry, had this Act never been made. Saving always to the King’s most Excellent Majesty,his heirs and successors, Reservation of and all and every person and persons. Bodies Politic and Corporate (other than Rlghts’ and except the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London, and the Wardens and Commonalty of the Mystery of Mercers of the City of London, and all persons claiming by, from, and under them) all such estate, right, title, and interest, in, to, and out of, the said College, Ground, and Premisses herein before mentioned, or any part thereof, as fully and amply, to all intents and purposes, as if this Act had not been made. And whereas in and by the said last Will and Testament of the said Sir Tho¬ mas Gresham, the Mayor, Commonalty, and Citizens of the City of London, and the Wardens and Commonalty of the Mystery of Mercers of the City of London, were directed to permit and suffer the Seven Persons elected and appointed to read the Seven Lectures in the said Will mentioned, to have the occupation ol all the Mansion-House, Gardens, and other appurtenances, (now called
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