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An Act expressing an order for uses, wills, and enrollments.{1} >How by the common law lands transferred.> Ss.XII XVI rep. by SLR (I) 1878 >Lands, &c. shall not pass by bargain and sale, unless by writing, indented, sealed and inrolled. XVII. {5} A ND from the first day of May, which shall be in the yeare of our Lord God, one thousand six hundred thirty and five, no mannors, lands, tenements, or other hereditaments, shall passe, alter or change, from one to another, whereby any state of inheritance or freehold shall be made or take effect in any person or persons, or any use thereof to be made, by reason onely of any bargain and sale thereof, except the same bargain and sale be made by writing indented, sealed and inrolled, in any of the Kings courts of record at Dublin{6}, or else within the same county or counties, where the same mannors, lands or tenements, so bargained and sold, lye or be, before the custos| rotulorum{7}, and two justices of the peace, and the clarke of the peace of the same county or counties, or two of them at the least, whereof the clarke of the peace to be one; and the same inrollment to be had and made within six months| next after the date of the same writings indented; the same custos rotulorum{7}, or justices of the peace, and clarke, takeing for the inrollment of every such writing indented| before them, where the lands comprised in the same writings exceede not the yearely value of [{8}#2] , [10p], that is to say, [5p] to the justices, and [5p] to the clarke; and for the inrollment of every such writing indented before them, wherein the lands comprised exceede the summe of [#2] in yearly value, [25p] that is to say, [12p] to the justices; and [12p] to the said clarke for the inrolling of the same: and that the clarke of the peace for the time being, within every such county, shall sufficiently inroll and ingrosse in parchment, the same deeds or writings indented, as is aforesaid, and the rolls thereof at the end of every yeare, shall deliver unto the said custos rotulorum of the same county for the time being, there to remaine in the custody of the said custos rotulorum for the time being, amongst other records of the same counties, where any such inrollments shall be so made, to the intent that every party that hath to do therewith, may resort and see the effect and tenor of every such writing so inrolled.XVIII. PROVIDED alwayes, that this act, nor any thing therein contayned, extend to any mannor, lands, tenements or hereditaments, lying, or being within any citty, burrough, or towne corporate within this realm, wherein the mayors, recorders, chamberlaines, bayliffes, or other officer or officers, have authority, or have lawfully used to inroll any evidences, deeds, or other writings within their precincts or limits; any thing in this act contained to the contrary notwithstanding.
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