Anno primo Caroli Regis.  
❧ An Act to enable the King's Majesty to make Leases of Lands, parcel of his Highness' Duchy of Cornwall, or annexed to the same.  
WHereas the King Our Sovereign Lord, being in the life time of His Royal Father of blessed memory, seized of the said Dukedom of Cornwall, did bargain and contract for Leases and Estates to be made of diverse Messages, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, parcel of the said Dukedom of Cornwall, which Leases and Estates, His Majesty was enabled to have made in His said Father's life time, by an Act of Parliament made in the last Session of Parliament, entitled, An Act to enable the most Excellent Prince Charles to make Leases of Lands, parcel of His Highness' Duchy of Cornwall, or annexed to the same. And because His Majesty, having received diverse Fines, and sums of Money, according to the said Contracts, and having entered into Treaty with diverse others for like Estates, the finishing of which Contracts, and making the said Leases, was prevented by His Majesty's access to the Imperial Crown of this Realm, is graciously pleased for the good of his poor Tenants of the said Duchy Lands, to proceed to the full accomplishment of the Contracts, and Leases of the premises.  
Be it therefore enacted by our said Sovereign Lord the King, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by authority of this present Parliament, That all Leases to be made within the space of three years now next ensuing by our said Sovereign Lord the King, by letters Patents, Indentures, or other writings under His great Seal of England, or Seal of the Court of Exchequer, of any Manors, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, parcel of the possessions of the said Duchy of Cornwall, or annexed to the same, shall be good and effectual in Law, according to the purport and content of the said Leases, against our said Sovereign Lord the King's Majesty, his Heirs and Successors, and against all and every person or persons, that shall hereafter have, inherit or enjoy the said Dukedom of Cornwall, by force of any Act of Parliament, or other limitation whatsoever.  
Provided always, That every such Lease so to be made, of any Manors, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments in possession, shall be made but for three lives or fewer, or for one and thirty years or under, or some other term of years determinable upon one, two, or three lives, and not above. And if such Leases be made in reversion, That then the same, together with the Estates in possession, do not exceed three lives, or the term of one and thirty years, and not in any wise dispunishable of waste: And so as upon every such Lease shall be reserved the ancient or most usual Rent, or such Rent as hath been yielded or paid for the greater part of twenty years next before the making of the said Leases, and shall be reserved due and payable, by, or to him or her that shall have the inheritance or other Estate, of the said Manors, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments. And where no such Rent hath been reserved or payable, that then, upon every such Lease, there shall be reserved a reasonable Rent, not being under the twentieth part of the clear yearly value of the Manors, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments contained in such Lease.  
And be it further ordained and enacted by authority of this present Parliament, That all Covenants, Conditions, and Reservations, and other agreements contained in every Lease so to be made, as aforesaid, shall be good and effectual in Law, according to the words and contents of the same, aswell for, and against them, to whom the Reversion of the same Manors, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments shall come, as for and against them to whom the said Leases shall come, respectively: As if our said Sovereign Lord the King's Majesty at the time of the making of such Covenants, Conditions, and Reservations, and other agreements were seized of an absolute and indefeizible estate in Fee simple, in the same Manors, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments: Saving always to all and every person and persons, bodies Politic and Corporate, their Heirs and Successors, Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, (other than our said Sovereign Lord the King's Majesty and his Heirs, and all and every person and persons that shall hereafter have, inherit, or enjoy the said Dukedom of Cornwall, by force of any Act of Parliament, or other limitation whatsoever) all such Rights, Titles, Estates, Customs, Interests, Terms, Claims, and Demands whatsoever, of what kind, nature, or quality whatsoever, of, in, to, or out of the said Manors, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, or any of them, as they or any of them had, or aught to have had before the making of this Act, to all intents and purposes, and in as large and ample manner and form, as if this Act had never been had or made: This Act or any thing therein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.   

❧ Imprinted at London by BONHAM NORTON and JOHN BILL, Printers to the Kings most Excellent Majesty. M.DC.XXVI.