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Governors may, without licence in Mortmain, purchase lands not above 2000 l. per annum in the whole, or any personal estate, for enlarging the building, or for the sick.
and grantees in Mary Mercers deed, & trustees of the hospital, may convey to said governors, to uses in said deed:
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VI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said governors of the said hospital and their successors shall and may without licence in mortmain purchase, take or receive any manors, lands, tenements, annuities, or hereditaments in possession, reversion, or contingency, not exceeding the value of two thousand pounds a year in the whole, of the alienation, gift, or devise of any person or persons having a right, and not being otherwise disabled to alien, grant, or devise the same, who are hereby enabled to transfer and grant the same accordingly, or any goods, and chattles, and personal estate whatsoever, as well for enlarging the said stone-house or building, as for the relief, support, and maintainance of the sick and infirm persons to be placed in the said hospital: and that the said right honourable lord chief baron Bowes and Boleyn Whitney esquire, grantees in the said deed of the said Mary Mercer, and also that the trustees of the said hospital, may and are hereby impowered and enabled to grant and convey the said stone-house with the appurtenances, and also the said plot of ground, which came by mesne assignments from the said Edward Burleigh to the said trustees, to the said governors of the said hospital and their successors upon the several trusts, and to the same uses, and under the same rules, directions and restrictions, as in and by the said deed of the said Mary Mercer are limited and appointed concerning the same, and to no other use, intent, or purpose whatsoever.
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