Person upon whom the said Title of Marquis of Wellington should descend, either before or after his Marriage with any • Woman or Women, by any Deed or Deeds, or Writing or Writings, with or without Power of Revocation, to be by him 'sealed and delivered in the Presence of Two or more credible • Witnesses, (but subject and without Prejudice to the Annuity or Annuities, yearly Sum or Sums, if any, which should be then subsisting and payable by way of Jointure or Jointures out of the said Manors, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, by virtue of any Grant, Limitation, or Appointment to be made in pursuance of the Honour therein contained,) to 6 grant, limit, and appoint unto such Woman or Women whom ' he should so marry, for her or their Life or Lives, and for her 6 or their Jointure or Jointures in bar of Dower, as therein-after was expressed, any Annuity or yearly Sum not exceeding the Sum of One thousand five hundred Pounds of like lawful • Money, clear of all Taxes, Charges, and Deductions whatsoever, by Act of Parliament or otherwise howsoever, to commence and take effect immediately after the Decease of the Person granting, limiting, or appointing the same, and to be issuing and payable out of the said Rents and Profits of the said Manors, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, and to be paid and payable by equal quarterly Payments, the first of the said quarterly Payments to be made on the Quarter Day which should first happen after the Decease of the • Person who should have appointed the Annuity or yearly Sum last therein-before authorized; and it was by the nowreciting Act further enacted, that the said Manors, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments should not at one and the same Time be subject to the Payment of more than the yearly Sum of Three thousand Pounds for or in respect of any Jointure or Jointures which should be made in 6 pursuance of the Powers therein-before contained; and in the • now-reciting Act are contained divers other Powers, Provisions, ⚫ and Declarations respecting the said Premises: And whereas by an Act also passed in the Fifty-third Year of the Reign of 53 G. 3. c. 133. His said late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act to amend an Act of the present Session of Parliament, for granting

a Sum of Money for purchasing an Estate for the Marquis of Wellington and his Heirs, in consideration of the eminent and signal Services performed by the said Marquis of Wellington to • His Majesty and the Public, it was amongst other things enacted, that so long as the said Title, Honour, and Dignity of Marquis of Wellington should endure, and until there should be a Failure of Issue of the Body of the said Marquis of Wellington, neither the said Marquis of Wellington, nor any other Person to whom the Manors, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments so to be purchased should or might descend or stand limited by virtue of the Limitations directed by the herein-before mentioned Act, should have any Power, by Fine or Recovery, or by the Exercise of any Power, or by any other Act, Assurance, or Conveyance in the Law, to hinder, bar, or dis

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<inherit any the Person or Persons to or upon whom the said Manors, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments were by the 'said recited Act to be vested or limited from holding or enjoying the same according to the said Limitations, other than and except such Leases and Jointures, and Power of felling and selling Timber, and disposing of the Monies thence 6 arising, as might be made or exercised under the Provisions' of the said recited Act, and Grants of Lands or Tenements held by Copy of Court Roll according to the Customs of the respective Manors to be purchased whereof the same might be held, but all such Fines, Recoveries, Acts, Assurances, and Conveyances, other than such Leases and Jointures, and Powers, and Grants by Copy as aforesaid, should be and were 'thereby declared and enacted to be void; and it was by the now6 reciting Act further enacted, that on Failure of the Heirs of the Body of the said Marquis of Wellington the Manors, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments so to be purchased as aforesaid should go and remain to the Use of the said Marquis, his Heirs and Assigns; which ultimate Remainder or Reversion in Fee Simple it should be lawful for the said Marquis of Wellington, and his Heirs and Assigns, at any Time or Times during the Continuance of the said Honour, Title, ' and Dignity of Marquis of Wellington, and until there should be a Failure of Issue of his Body, notwithstanding any thing therein-before contained, to grant, convey, devise, or dispose of by Deed or Will, or other Assurance or Assurances by which Freehold Estates in Remainder or Reversion were 'capable by Law of being conveyed or disposed of: And whereas by an Act passed in the Fifty-fourth Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act for settling and securing an Annuity on Arthur 54 G. 3. c. 161. Duke of Wellington and his Heirs; and for empowering the Lord High Treasurer or Lords Commissioners of the Treasury

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to advance out of the Consolidated Fund of Great Britain a Sum of Money in lieu of such Annuity, to purchase an Estate, in order to accompany the said Title, in consideration of the eminent and signal Services performed by the said Duke of Wellington to • His Majesty and to the Public; and for making further Provision "for the Disposal of a Sum of Money granted by an Act of the last Session of Parliament for purchasing an Estate for the said • Duke then Marquis of Wellington, it was amongst other things ' enacted, that One Annuity or yearly Sum of Thirteen thou'sand Pounds should be issued and issuing and paid and payable out of and charged and chargeable upon the Consolidated Fund of Great Britain, and the same should from Time to Time be paid quarterly, free and clear of all Taxes and 'Deductions whatsoever, in Manner and Form following; (that is to say,) to Arthur Duke of Wellington, and to the Heirs Male of the Body of the said Duke to whom the said Title, Honour, and Dignity of Duke of Wellington should descend, 6 pursuant to the Limitation of the Patent whereby the said Dignity was granted, and in default of such Heirs Male then

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to and for the Benefit of such Person or Persons and to such Uses as were therein-after mentioned, limited, and directed, • expressed, and declared; and it was by the now-reciting Act further enacted, that it should be lawful for the Lord High Treasurer or the Commissioners of the Treasury in Great Britain for the Time being, upon Application of the said Duke, or of the Heirs Male of the Body of the said Duke who might succeed to the Title of the Duke of Wellington, to advance, at One Time or from Time to Time, to the Trustees for the Time being for the Purposes of an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament (being the firstly herein-before ' recited Act of Parliament), as amended by another Act passed in the same Session of Parliament (being the secondly herein-before recited Act), out of the Consolidated Fund of Great Britain, in lieu of the said Annuity of Thirteen thousand Pounds, or any Part thereof, any Sum or Sums not exceeding in the whole the Sum of Four hundred thousand Pounds, for the Purpose of enabling the said Trustees, with the Approbation of the said Lord High Treasurer or Lords Commissioners, to purchase Manors, Lands, Tenements, and • Hereditaments, to be settled to the Use of the said Duke, ' and the Heirs Male of his Body to whom the Title of Duke of Wellington should descend, and to support the Dignity and the Dukedom, and in default of such Heirs Male then to and for the Benefit of such Person or Persons and to such Uses as were therein-after mentioned, limited, and directed, expressed, and declared; and from the Time when such Sum of Four hundred thousand Pounds or any Portion thereof might be so advanced, the whole of the said Annuity, or a Part thereof proportionate to the Principal Sum so advanced, should cease and determine; and it was by the 'now-reciting Act further enacted, that the Trustees for the Time being for the Purposes of the said recited Acts of the • then last Session of Parliament should be Trustees for the Purposes of the now-reciting Act, and should have all such Powers and Authorities, and be entitled to all such Rights, • Privileges, and Exemptions, and should be subject to all the same Provisions and Regulations, in the Execution of the Trust reposed in them by the now-reciting Act, as they had and were entitled to in relation to the Trusts of the said recited Acts; and that the Sum of One hundred thousand Pounds 'granted by the said first-recited Act of the then last Session of Parliament, or so much thereof as should not have been laid ⚫ out in the Purchase of Manors, Lands, Tenements, or HereditaC ments, and also any Manors, Lands, Tenements, and Heredita❝ments which might have been or might be purchased by or with the Money granted under the same Act or any Part thereof, ⚫ should be liable and subject to all the Rules, Regulations, and Restrictions in the now-reciting Act mentioned and contained with respect to the Money to be advanced under the 'now-reciting Act, and with respect to any Manors, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments to be purchased under the now

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reciting Act, and as if the said Sum of One hundred thousand Pounds had been granted by the now-reciting Act, and as if the " said Estates had been purchased under the Provisions of the now-reciting Act; and it is by the now-reciting Act further enacted, that it should be lawful for the said Trustees to whom the said Sum of Four hundred thousand Pounds, or any Part ⚫ thereof, might be advanced as aforesaid, and they were thereby required, to lay out and invest the said Sum of Four hundred thousand Pounds, or any Part thereof, in the Purchase of Freehold or Copyhold or Customary Manors, Lands, Tenements, ' and Hereditaments, of a good Estate of Inheritance in Fee Simple in Possession, to be free from Incumbrances (except Fee Farm and Quit Rents and other Rents and Services), to 'be situate in any Part of Great Britain; and the said Freehold Manors, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments should, when so purchased, be forthwith settled, conveyed, and assured to the said Trustees, their Heirs and Assigns, to the Use of the said Duke of Wellington and the Heirs Male of the Body of the said Duke of Wellington, and in default and in failure of such Heirs Male then to the said Trustees and their Heirs, to the Use of the said Trustees and their Heirs upon the several Trusts and for the Benefit of the several Persons therein-after limited and directed, mentioned, expressed, and declared; and it was by the now-reciting Act further enacted, ⚫ that it should be lawful for the said Duke of Wellington, or for any Person upon whom the said Title of Duke should descend, in manner therein mentioned to grant, limit, and appoint any Annuity or yearly Sum not exceeding the Sum of Two thousand five hundred Pounds by way of Jointure or Jointures, free from all Deductions, to be issuing and payable out of the 'said Annuity of Thirteen thousand Pounds thereby granted, or out of the Rents and Profits of the said Manors, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, if the said Sum of Four hundred thousand Pounds should have been advanced and invested as aforesaid, such Jointure or Jointures to be payable quarterly, and to be in addition to any Jointure or Jointures chargeable under the Provisions of the said first-recited Act of the then last Session of Parliament on Manors, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments purchased or to be purchased by or with the Money granted by the said recited Act, or any Part thereof; and it was by the now-reciting Act further enacted, that the said Annuity of Thirteen thousand Pounds, and the said Manors, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments to be pur'chased under the Authority of the now-reciting Act, should 'not at one and the same Time be together subject to the Payment of more than the yearly Sum of Three thousand Pounds for or in respect of any Jointure or Jointures which 'should be made in pursuance of the Powers therein-before 'contained, in addition to the yearly Sum of Three thousand 'Pounds chargeable by the said first-recited Act of the then last Session of Parliament; and it was by the now-reciting Act further enacted, that upon Failure of Heirs Male of the [No. 2. Price 2d.] B

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• Body of the said Arthur Duke of Wellington to whom the said Title, Honour, and Dignity of Duke of Wellington might C descend as aforesaid, then and in such Case, as to the said Annuity, yearly Rent, or Sum of Thirteen thousand Pounds, or so much thereof as should then remain payable, and as to the said Sum of Four hundred thousand Pounds, or so much 'thereof as should not have been advanced as aforesaid, and as to the said Sum of One hundred thousand Pounds granted by the said firstly herein-before recited Act, or so much thereof as should not have been paid according to the said Act, and as to the Securities upon which the said Sums of Money should be invested pursuant to the Powers contained in the ⚫ said Acts, and also as to all and every the Manors, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments so to be purchased with the said Sum of Four hundred thousand Pounds, or any Part thereof, as aforesaid, under the now-reciting Act, or which might have been or might be purchased with the said Sum of One hundred thousand Pounds, or any Part thereof, granted by the firstly herein-before recited Act of Parliament, the Trustees for the Time being under the now-reciting Act were to convey or stand seised and possessed of and interested in the same and every Part thereof to the Uses, upon the Trusts, and in manner therein mentioned, for the Benefit of such Daughter or Daughters or other Descendants of the said • Arthur Duke of Wellington as therein mentioned; and that upon Failure of Heirs of the Body of the said Arthur Duke of Wellington the said Premises respectively should go and remain to the Use of the said Arthur Duke of Wellington and his Heirs and Assigns for ever; which ultimate Remainder or Reversion in Fee Simple it should be lawful for the said Duke of • Wellington and his Heirs and Assigns, at any Time or Times during the Continuance of the said Honour, Title, and Dignity of Duke of Wellington, and until there should be a Failure of Issue of the Body of the said Arthur Duke of Wellington as 'aforesaid, to grant, convey, devise, and dispose of by Deed or Will, or by any other Assurance or Assurances by which Freehold Estates in Remainder or Reversion are capable by Law of being conveyed or disposed of, any thing in the now-reciting Act contained to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding: And whereas by an Act passed in the Fifty-fifth Year of His 55 G. 3. c. 186. said late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act 'for granting an additional Sum of Money for providing a suitable Residence and Estate for the Duke of Wellington and his Heirs, • in consideration of the eminent and signal Services performed by the said Duke to His Majesty and the Public, it was amongst other things enacted, that out of all or any of the Aids or 'Supplies granted to His Majesty for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifteen there should and might be issued any Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding the Sum of Two hundred thousand Pounds of lawful Money ' of Great Britain, free and clear of all Taxes and Deductions whatsoever, to the Trustees under the said recited Acts, for the

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