And if such Freeholder give, sell or alien only a Part of such Lands or Tenements to any, the Feoffee or Alienee shall immediately hold such Part of the Chief Lord, and shall be forthwith charged with the Services for .so much as pertaineth, or ought to pertain, to the said Chief Lord, for the same Parcel, according to the Quantity of Land or Tenement given, sold or aliened, for the Parcel of the Service so due." The second, third, fourth and fifth sections practically re-enact the statute of Charles II. abolishing military tenures, the fifth being in these words, " Provided always, and be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That this Act, or any Thing herein contained, shall not take away, nor be construed to take away or discharge, any Rents certain, or other Services incident or belonging to Tenure in common Soccage, due or to grow due to the People of this State, or any mesne [middle] Lord, or other Private Person, or the Fealty or Distresses incident thereto." The Sixth and final

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

section enacts " That the Tenure upon all Gifts, Grants, and Conveyances heretofore made, or hereafter to be made, of any Manors, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, of any Estate of Inheritance, by any Letters Patent under the Great Seal of this State, or in any other Manner, by the People of this State, or by the Commissioners of Forfeitures, shall be and remain Allodial, and not Feudal, and shall forever hereafter be taken and adjudged to be, and to continue in free and pure Allodium only."