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Trin. 9 Jac. Regis.
The King by Letters Patents dated 9. April, the ninth year of his Reign, did Grant to VVilliam Stockdale in these words.
Such, and so many of the Debts, Duties, Arrearages, and Sums of Money being of Record in our Court of Ex∣chequer, Court of Wards, Dutchy-Court, or within any Court or Courts, &c. in any year, or several years, from the last year of the Reign of H. 8. to the 13th.
year of Our Dear Sister, as shall amount to the sum of 1000 l. To have, tak••, levy, &c. the said Debts, &c. to the said VVilliam Stockdale his Executors, &c.
And in this Case divers Points were resolved:
1. That the said Grant of the King is void for ••he in∣certainty, for thereby no Debt in certain can pass: As if the King have an 100 Acres of Land in D. and he Grants to a Man 20 Acres of the Lands in D. without descri∣bing them by the Rent, Occupation, or Name, &c. this Grant is void.
2. When the Patentee Claims by force of this word Arreragia.
It was resolved clearly, That he shall not have Arrear∣ages of Rents, Reliefs, and mean Rates of Lands, &c. in the Court of Wards, &c. if the Patent go not fur∣ther.
But the Proviso in the end of the Patent, viz. Provi∣ded, that the said VVilliam Stockdale shall take no benefit by any means of Arrearages of any Rents, &c. untill Sir Patrick Murrey and others be paid the sum of 1000 l. &c. hath well explained what Arrearages the King intended: But clearly mean Rates are not within the words, for they are the Profits of Demesne Land.