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27 H.8.16. Eng Lands, &c. shall not pass by bargain and sale, unless by writing indented, sealed, inrolled.
Inrollment before custos rot. &c.
within six months after date of the writing.
Fees for inrollment.
Clerk of the peace to ingross, and deliver to custos rot.
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XVII. And be it further enacted by the authority of this present Parliament, that 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, wereby any state of inheritance of 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 King’s courts of record at Dublin, 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, 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, or justices of the peaces 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 forty shillings, two shillings, that is to say, twelve pence to the justices, and twelve pence to the clarke; and for the inrollment of every such writing indented before them, wherein the lands comprised exceede the summe of forty shillings in yearley value, five shillings, that is to say, two shillings sixpence to the justices, and two shillings six pence 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.
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