August, 1647
[23 August, 1647.]
Whence the six moneths for payment of the latter moyety shall be reckoned.; Interest to be rebated on the purchase.
Be it Ordered and Ordained by the Lords and Commons
assembled in Parliament, That whereas in the late Ordinance of
Parliament, made the 16 of November, Anno Dom. 1646. it is
appointed that the Purchasers of any Bishops Lands shall pay
the latter moyety of his Purchase money within six moneths
after the sealing of the Assurance; And whereas divers Purchasers
have before the sealing of the Assurance obtained the possession
of the said Purchased Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, in all
such cases the said six moneths wherein the latter moyety of the
Purchase money ought to be payed, shall be reckoned from the
time of the Contract and not from the sealing of the Assurance;
And that in lieu thereof the Purchaser shall have and enjoy all
the mean Profits which he hath had, or received in the mean
time; And that the Treasurers for Bishops Lands shall allow
and rebate to any Purchaser, who hath any money due by the
said Ordinance, the Interest which shall be due unto him,
together with the principal, the same to be defalked at the times
of payment of his Purchase money; And that all Assignees of
any moneys due by the said Ordinance, may defalk the same
upon Purchasers in like manner as the Lenders themselves
might do. And the Contractors, Trustees, Treasurers, and all
others imployed in the sale of Bishops Lands, are hereby required and enjoyned to perfect and seal the respective Conveyances or Assurances with all possible expedition.