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<P><DATE><HI>Anno quarto et quinto, Philippi &amp; Mariae.</HI></DATE></P>
<P>&leaf; <HI>Actes</HI> made at a Parliament begon and holden at We&s;tmin&s;ter, the .xx daye of Ianuary, in the fourth and fift yeare of the reigne of oure &s;oue|raigne Lorde and Lady, Philippe and Marye by the grace of God, kinge and Quene of England, Spayne, Fraunce, both the Sicilles, Ieru&s;alem, and Irelande, defendours of the faith Archidukes of Au&s;tria, Dukes of Burgondie, Millaine and Bra|bant, counties of Ha&s;purge Flaunders, and Tyrol, and there continued and kepte vntyll the .vij. day of Marche, then next folow|inge, and enacted as foloweth.</P>
<P><HI>Cum priuilegio Regiae Maie&s;tatis.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>&leaf; The Table.</HEAD>
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<ITEM>_AN Acte for the confyrmation of letters patentes. Cap. i.</ITEM>
<ITEM>An acte for the hauynge of Hor&s;e, Armoure, and Weapon. Cap. ii.</ITEM>
<ITEM>An acte for the takinge of mu&s;ters. Cap. iii.</ITEM>
<ITEM>An acte that acce&s;&s;aries in murder and dyuers felonies, &s;hall not haue the benefit of clergie. Cap. iiii.</ITEM>
<ITEM>An acte touchinge the makinge of wollen clothes. Cap. v.</ITEM>
<ITEM>An acte to enquyre of Frenchemen beynge deni&s;ens. Cap. vi</ITEM>
<ITEM>An acte to make vp the Iury with circum&s;tantibus, where the kynge and Quenes maie&s;ties or the Quenes maie&s;tie is a party. Cap. vii.</ITEM>
<ITEM>An acte for the puni&s;hement of &s;uche as &s;hall take away maydens that be inheritours, beynge within age of .xvi. yeares, or that mary them without the con&s;ent of theyr parents. Cap. viii</ITEM>
<ITEM>An acte for the continuation of certaine &s;tatutes. Cap. ix.</ITEM>
<ITEM>An acte for the confirmation of the Sub&s;edye of the clergie. Cap. x.</ITEM>
<ITEM>An acte of a Sub&s;edye and one fyftene graunted by the temporal|tie. Cap. xi.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>&para; An Acte for the confirmation of Letters Patentes.</HEAD>
<P>_WHERE &s;ythen the .vii. daye of Iulye in the fir&s;t yeare of the Quenes Maie&s;ties reygne dyuers and &s;ondry Honors, Ca&s;tels, Manoures, Lands, Tenements, Rentes, Reuercions, &s;er+uices, and other hereditamentes, haue bene conueyed and a&s;&s;ured to her high+nes, her heyres and Succe&s;&s;oures by or from diuers and &s;undrye per&s;ons, &amp; bodies politike, a&s;wel for the di&s;charge and &s;ati&s;faction of great debtes, and &s;ummes of monye, as for other good con&s;iderations. For the perfytte a&s;&s;uraunce confirmation and further &s;uretye whereof.</P>
<P><HI>BE IT</HI> enacted ordeyned and e&s;tably&s;hed by the kyng and Quenes Maie&s;tyes, the Lordes Spirituall and Temporal, and the commons in thys pre&s;ent Parliament a&s;&s;embled, and by thaucthoritie of y^e &s;ame. That all Feoffementes, Fynes, Surrenders, a&s;&s;uraunces, conueyan|ces and e&s;tates in any wi&s;e co~ueyed had or made, to or for our &s;ayd So+ueraygne Lorde and Lady, the kyng and quenes Maie&s;ties, or to or for our &s;ayde &s;oueraygne Lady the quene, by or from anye &s;uche per&s;o~ or per&s;ons, bodies politike or corporate, of any &s;uch Honors, ca&s;tels ma+noures, La~des, Tenements, Rentes, Reuertions, Seruices, or other hereditamentes, for anye debte, &s;umme or &s;ummes of monye or other con&s;ideration, what&s;oeuer, &s;hall &s;tande remayne &amp; be good and auai|leable in the lawe to all intentes, con&s;tructions, and purpo&s;es, accor|dynge to the true meanynge, intente and purporte of the &s;ame.</P>
<P><HI>SAVINGE</HI> to all and euery per&s;onne and per&s;onnes, and to their heires bodyes politike and corporate, &amp; to their Succe&s;&s;oures, and to euerye of them, (other then &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;onnes, and their heyres and wyues, and euerye of them bodies politike and corporate, &amp; their &s;ucce&s;&s;oures and euery of them, of or from whome, the kyng &amp; quenes highnes, or the quenes hyghnes onelye hath obteyned or purcha&s;ed, the &s;ayde premi&s;&s;es, or anye percell thereof, by exchaunge, gyfte bar|gayne, fyne, Feoffement, recouery, dede, inrolled or otherwi&s;e) al &s;uch right title, intere&s;t, v&s;e, po&s;&s;e&s;&s;io~, rentes, reuercions, Remainders, Olfi+ees, Fees, Commons, profyttes, and commodities, what&s;oeuer which they or any of them haue might or ought to haue had of, in or to the pre+mi&s;&s;es or any part thereof in as large and ample maner, forme and con+dition to al intentes co~&s;tructions and purpo&s;es, as yf this acte had ne|uer bene had ne made. Thys pre&s;ent Acte or any thing therein contei|ned
<PB REF="3">to the contrarye notwith&s;tandynge.</P>
<P><HI>AND</HI> where a&s;well our &s;ayd &s;oueraigne lorde, &amp; Lady, as our &s;ayde &s;oueraigne Lady the Quenes highnes, &s;ithens the &s;aid .vii. day of Iuly in y^e fir&s;t yere of her maie&s;ties reigne, a&s;wel for diuers &amp; gret &s;o~mes of mony, as al&s;o for diuers &amp; &s;ondry other co~&s;iderations, haue, &amp; hath bar|gained, &s;old, giuen or grau~ted by their or her graces &s;o~dry letters pate~ts indentures, or other writinges, &s;ealed vnder y^e great &s;eale of England, or the &s;eale of the Duchy of Lanca&s;ter, a&s;wel to bodyes politike &amp; cor|porate, as to diuers and &s;ondry other their louing &amp; obedient &s;ubiects, diuers and &s;ondry honors, ca&s;tels, manors, landes, tenements, rentes, reuercions, &s;eruyces, &amp; other hereditamentes, in fee &s;ymple, fee tayle, or for terme of lyfe, lyfes or yeares, as in the &s;ame &s;eueral letters patents, indentures, &amp; other wrytynges, is mentioned &amp; declared. And to thin|tent the &s;ame letters patents, indentures, &amp; other writinges, &s;hulde be of good auayleable and perfit force &amp; effect, to al and euery her highnes louyng Subiectes, according to the true meaning &amp; effect of the &s;ame.</P>
<P><HI>OVRE SAIDE</HI> Soueraygne Lorde and Ladye the kynge and Queene, are contented and plea&s;ed, that it be enacted by thauthoritie of thys pre&s;ent parliamente. And therefore by oure &s;ayd Soueraygne lord, and lady, the kyng and quenes maie&s;ties, the laides &s;piritual and temporal, and the commo~s in this pre&s;ent parliamente a&s;&s;embled, be it enacted and e&s;tabli&s;hed, y^e a&s;wel al and &s;inguler letters patents, inden|tures and other writinges Sealed vnder the greate Seale of Eng|lande, or vnder the Seale of the Duchy of Lanca&s;ter, and heretofore made or graunted by our &s;ayde &s;oueraygne Lord and Lady, the kyng and Quene, or by our &s;aid &s;oueraigne lady the Quene, for any Su~mes of monye, or for and vpon any other con&s;ideratio~s, as al other letters pate~tes, hereafter to be made by our &s;aide &s;oueraigne lorde &amp; ladye, for any &s;umme or &s;u~mes of monye during the &s;pace of Seuen yeares next en&s;uynge the makyng of this acte, to anye body politike, or corporate, or to any other per&s;o~ or per&s;onnes, what&s;oeuer, of any honors, ca&s;tels, manors, lorde&s;hippes, graunges, Me&s;es, la~des, tenements, medowes pa&s;tures, rentes, reuercions, &s;eruyces, woodes, aduou&s;ons, nominati|ons, patronages, annuities, rightes, intere&s;tes, entrees, conditions, letes, courtes, liberties, priuileges, fraunchy&s;es, or of anye other heredi+tamentes, with their appurtenaunces, or of any parte or percell of the~ &s;ealed with or vnder the great &s;eale of Englande, or vnder the Seale of the Duchy of Lanca&s;ter, of what&s;oeuer kynde, nature, or qualitye they or any of the~ be or &s;halbe reputed knowen or taken, w^t their appur+tenaunces or any part or percel of the~, &s;halbe good perfyt and effectu|al in y^e lawe, and &s;hal &s;tand, be take~, reputed, demed, &amp; adiudged good perfit &s;ure auayleable &amp; effectual in the lawe, a&s;wel again&s;t the kynge and Quenes Maie&s;ties, as again&s;te the queene her heires and &s;ucce&s;|&s;ors according to the tenor of the &s;aid letters pate~ts, the &s;ame to be ex|pounded co~&s;trued demed &amp; adiudged mo&s;t beneficial for the patentees
<PB N="iii" REF="3">and grau~tees of the &s;ame, according vnto the wordes &amp; purport of euery the &s;aid letters patents, without any confirmation, licence, or tolleration of the quene, her heires or &s;ucce&s;&s;ors, any mi&s;naminge, mi&s;recital, or non recitall of any the &s;ame honors, ca&s;tels, maners, landes, teneme~tes &amp; other the premi&s;|&s;es or any percel therof, or any lacke of fyndinge of offices, or inqui&s;itions of and in the premi&s;&s;es, wherby the title of the Quenes highnes therin oughte to haue ben founde before the makinge of the &s;ame letters patentes or other writinges, or any mi&s;recital, or none recitall of lea&s;es therof before made, as well of record as not of record, or any lacke of the certaintie, mi&s;ca&s;tinge, ra|ting, or &s;etting forth of the yearly values and rates of the premi&s;&s;es, or of the yearly rentes re&s;erued of &amp; for the premi&s;&s;es or any percel therof, mentioned or conteined in any the &s;aid letters patentes, or other writinges, or for that the premi&s;&s;es be, or any part thereof is valued to a more or le&s;&s;e value in the &s;ayd letters patentes or writinges, then the &s;aid manors, landes, tenemen|tes, and other the premi&s;&s;es, then were or &s;halbe in yearly value, or any mi&s;|naming of the townes, Hamlettes, pari&s;hes, or counties wher the &s;ame ho|nours, Ca&s;tels, manors, landes, tenementes, rentes, hereditamentes, and other the premi&s;&s;es and euery percell therof, or any percell therof lien or ben, or any lacke of the true naminge of the landes, tenementes, or hereditame~|tes, or of the natures, kindes, &s;ortes, or quantities of the &s;ayde po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions or hereditamentes or any percell therof, or any lacke of the true naminge of the corporation, or any lacke of atturnement, liuery, or &s;ea&s;on, or any mi&s;naming of any the late tenauntes or fermours of the &s;ame &s;o &s;old or geuen, notwith|&s;tandinge.</P>
<P><HI>PROVIDED</HI> alwayes and be it enacted by thauctoritie afore&s;aid, that this acte nor any thinge therin conteyned &s;hall not extend to make anye letters patents of any office or offices, to be of any other effect, force, or &s;trength the~ the &s;ame letters patents were or &s;huld haue ben before y^e making of this act.</P>
<P><HI>PROVIDED</HI> alwayes and be it enacted by thauctoritie afore&s;ayde, that all and &s;inguler &s;uche patentees, grauntees, and donees, and euerye of them, whiche at any time heretofore &s;ithens the &s;ayd &s;euenth day of Iuly haue ob|teyned and gotten of our &s;ayd Soueraigne Lorde and Lady the kyng and Quene or of any of them, or at any time hereafter duryng the &s;pace of &s;euen yeares, &s;hall obtaine and get of our &s;ayd Soueraigne lord and lady the king and Quene that nowe be, or of any of them, by way of exchaunge, or for any &s;umme or &s;ummes of monye, any letters patents of any mona&s;teries, abba|thies, priories, nonneries, or other eccle&s;ia&s;ticall po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions, or of any percell of them, or of any other manours Landes Tenementes or Hereditaments what&s;oeuer, whiche at the date and makyng of any the &s;ame letters paten|tes &s;o made, &s;ithens the &s;aide &s;euenth daye of Iulye or hereafter to be made durynge the &s;pace of &s;euen yeares as is afore&s;ayde, were or &s;halbe of better and more yearely valewe to the kynge and Quenes highnes or to anye of them, in yearly rent and ferme, then was, is, or &s;halbe conteined, mentioned or &s;pecified in any &s;uche letters patentes, or in the perticulers or rate thereof made or to be made by any auditour or auditours, &s;urueyour or &s;urueyours
<PB REF="4">or other officer, that then euery &s;uche patentee, grauntee, and donee, theyr heyres executours or a&s;&s;ignes and euery of them, within one yeare nerte af|ter office and other due profe order and decre therof made and had, or to be made and had within the &s;pace and terme of tenne yeares nexte after this pre&s;ent parliament in the courte of the e&s;chequer, &s;hall content and paye vn|to the quenes maie&s;tie her heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;ours, for the &s;ame ouerplus and more value of the &s;ame mona&s;teries, abbathies, priories, nonneries, manors landes, tenementes, and other hereditamentes what&s;oeuer, with their ap|purtenaunces, &s;o &s;olde, geuen, graunted, or exchaunged as is afore&s;ayde, af|ter the rate of twenty yeares purcha&s;e, and accordinge to the yearely value and rate as the &s;ame manours, Landes, tenementes, and other heredita|mentes what&s;oeuer, were at the time of the making of any &s;uch letters pa|tentes &s;o made, or to be made in maner &amp; fourme afore&s;ayd. Any thyng co~tei+ned in any &s;uch letters patentes to the contrary in any wi&s;e notw^t&s;tanding.</P>
<P><HI>PROVIDED</HI> al&s;o and be it further enacted by thauctoritie afore&s;ayde, that this acte or any proui&s;ion therein conteyned, &s;hall not in any wy&s;e extend to confyrme, ratifie, or make good anye lea&s;e or lea&s;es, made or to be made by our &s;ayde Soueraigne Lorde and Lady the kynge and Quene, or by anye of them for terme of life, lifes, or for yeares, wherevpon the olde and accu&s;to|med rentes or more, be not, or hereafter &s;hall not be re&s;erued, and yearelye payable duringe the tyme and terme of euerye &s;uche lea&s;e, nor that this pre|&s;ente acte &s;hall in any wy&s;e extende to reuiue or make good anye letters pa|tentes made of any office or offices to anye comptroller, cu&s;tomer, alneger, &s;ercher ne to anye letters patentes of the graunte of any other office or offi|ces heretofore graunted or made by the kinge and Quenes maie&s;tie, or any of them, whiche nowe be or at anye tune heretofore haue ben adnichilated, determined or made voide by iudgement, by auctoritie of parliament, or by decree, nor to anye patent to be made to anye per&s;on or per&s;ons for terme of yeares, or during y^e minoritie of any heyre of any manours Landes or tene|mentes, whereof any trauer&s;e hereafter &s;halbe tendred within three mone|thes after any office founde and certified into anye of the kinges courtes of recorde, ne to make good anye letters patentes made by oure layde Soue|raigne lorde and Ladye or any of them, of anye office or offices to be of anye other effecte force or &s;trength then the &s;ame letters patentes were or &s;hould haue bene before the makinge of this Acte.</P>
<P><HI>PROVIDED</HI> alwayes and be it enacted by thaucthoritie afore&s;ayde, that this acte or any thinge therin conteined, &s;hall not extende to any letters pa|tentes whiche at any tyme heretofore &s;ithen the beginninge of the Quenes maie&s;ties reigne haue ben made or hereafter &s;halbe made by the kynge and quenes highnes, or by the quenes maie&s;tie onely, to any per&s;on or per&s;onnes of any manours Landes, tenementes, rentes, reuercions, &s;eruices, or other hereditamentes, by force of any information, &s;uite, or &s;ugge&s;tion, made, or to be made to her highnes, that the &s;ame manoures, landes, tenementes, or o|ther hereditamentes, &s;o conteyned in any &s;uche letters patentes, were con|cealed landes, nor to any letters patentes heretofore made by our &s;ayde &s;o|ueraigne Lorde and lady the kinge and Quenes maie&s;ties, or any of them,
<PB N="iiii" REF="4">to Rau&s;e Iack&s;on clerke, nowe mai&s;ter of the ho&s;pitall of the Sauoye in the pari&s;he of Saint Clementes Dacorum, without the barres of the new tem+ple London, and to his brethren, beyng perpetuall Chaplaynes of the &s;ame Ho&s;pitall, and to theyr &s;ucce&s;&s;oures, but that the &s;ame letters patentes and euery of them, &s;hall &s;tande, remayne, and be in the &s;ame force, &s;trength, and effecte, as they were before the makinge of this acte, any thinge in this acte mentioned to the contrary notwith&s;tandinge.</P>
<P><HI>AND</HI> where the manoure of Southwell in the countie of Nottingham, and al&s;o the Scite and procincte of the colledge of Southwell in the &s;ame countie together, with diuers other landes, tenementes, and hereditamen|tes to the &s;ayde late colledge lately belongynge or appertaininge, were con|ueyed and a&s;&s;ured by indenture, fine, or otherwy&s;e, by or from Iohn Bea|mount e&s;quier, vnto our late Soueraigne Lorde kinge Edward the Sixte and to his heyres and &s;ucce&s;&s;ours, for the di&s;charge and &s;ati&s;faction of di|uers great &s;ummes of money, wherein the &s;ame Iohn Beamounte was in|detted to the &s;aid late king. Be it enacted and e&s;tabli&s;hed by the aucthoritie afore&s;aid, that the &s;aide co~ueyaunce and a&s;&s;uraunce &s;halbe perfect, good, &s;uf|ficient and auayleable again&s;t the &s;aid Beamount and his heyres, to all in|tentes, con&s;tructions and purpo&s;es, according to the purport, tenor, and true meaning of the &s;ame conueiaunces, and a&s;&s;uraunces. Sauing to al and eue+ry per&s;on or per&s;ons, and bodies politike and corporate, their heires and &s;uc+ce&s;&s;ours and euery of them, other then the &s;aid Iohn Beamount, his wyfe, and his heyres, and all other clayming any e&s;tate or intere&s;te by or from the~ or any of the~ &s;ithens the &s;ame conueiaunce and a&s;&s;uraunce, all &s;uch right, ti|tle, intere&s;t, po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, e&s;tate, lea&s;es, rentes, &s;eruices, commons, and all other profites and commodities what&s;oeuer, as they or anye of them, &s;houlde, or might haue had if this acte had neuer ben had ne made. Anye thinge therein conteyned to the contrary, notwith&s;tandinge.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>AN ACTE</HI> for the hauing of hor&s;e, armour, and weapon.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The .ii. Chapiter.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_FOR THE BETTER</HI> furniture and defence of thys Realme. Be it enacted by the kyng and quenes Maie|&s;ties, with tha&s;&s;entes of the lordes &s;pirituall and temporall and the commons in this pre&s;ent parliamente a&s;&s;embled, &amp; by aucthoritie of the &s;ame, that a&s;much of al &amp; euery acte and Statute concernyng onely the keping or fyndinge of hor&s;e, hor&s;es, or armoure, or of any of them heretofore made or prouyded, and all &amp; euery forfeyture, and penaltye, concernyng onely the &s;ame, &s;halbe fro~ hence forth vtterly voyde repealed and of none effect. And be it further enacted by thaucthoritie afore&s;ayd, that euery noble man, gentelman &amp; other tem|poral per&s;on, after the rate &amp; proportion hereafter declared &s;hal haue &amp; kepe in a redines &s;uch hor&s;es, geldinges, Armoure &amp; other furniture for y^e wars, at the le&s;t, &amp; in &s;uch &s;ort &amp; maner as is &amp; &s;halbe in this act hereafter expre&s;|&s;ed and declared. That is to &s;aye, all and euery per&s;on temporall, hauynge any honors, lorde&s;hippes, manors, hou&s;es, landes, meadowes, pa&s;tures or
<PB REF="5">woodes of e&s;tate of enheritaunce or freholde, to the clere yerely value of one thow&s;and pound or aboue, &s;hall from &amp; after the fir&s;t day of May, which &s;hal be in the yere of our lord god, a thou&s;and .v. hundred fifty &amp; eight, haue, find, kepe &s;u&s;teine &amp; mainteine w^t in this realme of Engla~d, of their owne proper and at their owne proper co&s;tes and expences .vi. hor&s;es, or geldyngs, able for dimilaunces, wherof .iii. of the~ at the lea&s;te to be hor&s;es, with &s;ufficiente harne&s;&s;es, &s;teele &s;adels and weapon, requi&s;it and apperteyning to the &s;ayde demylaunces, hor&s;es or geldynges, and tenne light hor&s;es or geldinges able and mete for light hor&s;emen, with the furniture of harnes and weapon re|qui&s;ite for the &s;ame. And al&s;o forty cor&s;elettes furni&s;hed, fortye almayne ry|uettes or in &s;tede of the &s;aid almaine riuettes, forty cotes of plate, cor&s;eletes or brygandines furni&s;hed fortye pykes .xxx. longe bowes .xxx. &s;hefes of ar|rowes .xxx. &s;teele cappes or &s;culles .xx. blacke billes, or halberdes .xx. haque buttes, and twenty morians or &s;alettes. And euery per&s;on temporal hauing any honors, lorde&s;hippes, manors, hou&s;es, landes, meadowes, pa&s;tures or woodes, of any &s;uch e&s;tate as is afore&s;aid, to the clere yerely value of a thou &s;ande markes, or aboue, and vnder the clere yearelye value of a thou&s;ande pound, &s;hal haue, finde, &s;u&s;teine and maintaine within this realme of their owne proper and at their owne proper co&s;tes and expences, foure hor&s;&s;es or geldinges, able for dimilaunces whereof two at the lea&s;te to be hor&s;es, with &s;uffycyente harne&s;&s;es, and weaponne, and &s;adels mete and requy&s;yte to the &s;ayde dymylaunces Hor&s;es or Geldynges, and &s;yxe lyghte hor&s;es or geldinges, able and mete for light hor&s;emen, with furniture of harnes, and weapon requi&s;ite for the &s;ame. And al&s;o of armor and weapo~ .xxx. cor&s;elets furny&s;hed .xxx. almayne ryuettes or in &s;tede of the &s;ayde almaine ryuettes, xxx. cotes of plate, cor&s;elettes, or brygandynes furny&s;hed .xxx. pykes, twen|tye long bowes .xx. &s;hefes of arrowes .xx. &s;tele cappes or &s;culles, ten blacke billes or halbertes, tenne haquebuttes, and ten morians or &s;alletes. And euery per&s;on temporall hauing honors, lord&s;hips, manors, hou&s;es, landes, meadowes, pa&s;tures, or wodes of any &s;uch e&s;tate as is afore&s;aid, to the clere yerely value of foure hundred poundes or aboue, and vnder the clere yerely value of a thou&s;ande markes &s;hal haue, finde, kepe, &s;u&s;teine and meynteyne as is afore&s;ayd two hor&s;es, or one hor&s;e and one geldyng able for dimilaun|ces, with &s;ufficient furniture of harnes, &s;tele &s;adels and weapo~ for the &s;ame as is afore&s;ayde, and foure geldynges able for lyght hor&s;emen with &s;uffici|ent harnes and weapon for the &s;ame, and al&s;o .xx. cor&s;elettes furni&s;hed .xx, almayne riuettes furni&s;hed, or in &s;tede of almaine riuettes, twenty cotes of plate cor&s;elettes or bryga~dines furny&s;hed, twe~ty pykes, fyftene long bowes fyftene &s;hefes of arrowes, fyftene &s;teele cappes or &s;culles, &s;ixe haquebuttes, and &s;ixe moryans or &s;alletes. And that euerye per&s;on temporal hauyng lord &s;hippes, manors, hou&s;es, landes, meadowes, pa&s;tures, or wods, of any &s;uch e&s;tate as is afore&s;ayde, to the clere yerely value of .CC. poundes or aboue, and vnder the clere yerely value of .CCCC. pou~des, &s;hall from the &s;aid fir&s;t day of May, haue kepe &s;u&s;teine and mainteine .i. gret hor&s;e or gelding, able for a dimilaunce, with &s;ufficient furniture of harnes, &s;teeled &s;adle, &amp; weapon
<PB N="v" REF="5">for the &s;ame, &amp; two geldings, able for light hor&s;eme~ w^t harnes and wea+pons &s;ufficient, as is afore&s;aid, for the &s;ame, and al&s;o ten cor&s;elettes fur+ni&s;hed, ten almaine riuettes, or in y^e place of almaine riuettes, x. cotes of plate, cor&s;elettes or brigandines furni&s;hed, x. pikes .viii. long bowes viii. &s;hefes of arrowes .viii. &s;tele Cappes or &s;culles, three haquebutts, &amp; three morians or &s;alettes. And euery per&s;on temporall hauing any lord &s;hippes, manors, hou&s;es, landes, meadowes, pa&s;tures, or woodes, of any &s;uch e&s;tate as is afore&s;aid, to the clere yerely value of one hundred pou~ds, or aboue, &amp; vnder the yearely value of .ii. hundrede pounds &s;hal from and after the &s;ayde fir&s;t day of May, haue, kepe, and maynteine (as is afore&s;ayd) two geldinges, able and mete for light hor&s;eme~, with &s;ufficient harnes, and weapon requi&s;it for the &s;ame. And al&s;o thre cor|&s;elettes furni&s;hed, thre almaine riuettes, or in &s;tede of them &s;oo manye cotes of plate, cor&s;elettes, or brygandines furni&s;hed .iii. pikes .iii. long bowes, thre &s;hefes of arrowes, thre &s;teele cappes or &s;culles, two haque|buttes, and two morians or &s;allettes. And al&s;o euery per&s;on temporall hauing lorde&s;hippes, manors, hou&s;es, landes, meadowes, pa&s;tures, or wooddes, of any &s;uch e&s;tate as is afore&s;aid, to the clere yearely value of a hundred markes or aboue, and vnder the yearelye value of a hundred poundes, fro~ the &s;aid fir&s;t day of May, &s;hal haue, kepe, mainteine and &s;u&s;teine one gelding able and mete for a light hor&s;ema~, w^t the harnes &amp; weapo~ &s;ufficient &amp; requi&s;it for the &s;ame, two cor&s;elettes furni&s;hed, two almaine riuittes, or in &s;tede of y^e &s;ame two cotes of plate, or briga~dines furni&s;hed, two pikes, two lo~g bowes, two &s;hefes of arrowes .ii. &s;teele cappes or &s;culles .i. haquebut .i. morian or &s;alet. And al&s;o euery per&s;on te~poral, hauing lord&s;hips, manors, hou&s;es, lands, meadowes pa&s;tures or wods, of any &s;uch e&s;tate as is afore&s;ayd, to y^e yerely value of .xl. pou~|des or aboue, &amp; vnder the yerely value of a hundred markes, &s;hal fro~ &amp; after y^e &s;aid fir&s;t day of May, haue mainteine &amp; kepe .ii. cor&s;elettes fur|ni&s;hed .ii. almaine ryuettes, or in &s;tede of y^e &s;ame .ii. cotes of plate, cor|&s;elettes or briga~dines furni&s;hed, two pikes, one long bowe, one &s;hefe of arrowes, one &s;teele cap or &s;cull .ii. haquebuttes .ii. morians or &s;allets. And al&s;o euery per&s;o~ te~poral hauing lord&s;hips, manors, hou&s;es, landes meadowes, pa&s;tures, or wods of any &s;uch e&s;tate as is afore&s;aid, to the clere yerely value of .xx. poundes or aboue, and vnder the yerely value of fourty poundes, &s;hal fro~ y^e &s;aid fir&s;t day of May, haue, kepe, &amp; main|teyne one cor&s;elet furni&s;hed, one pike, one haquebut, one moria~ or &s;aller, one long bowe, one &s;hefe of arrowes, &amp; one &s;teele cap or &s;cull. And al&s;o euery per&s;o~ te~poral hauing lord&s;hipes, manoures, hou&s;es, landes, mea|dowes, pa&s;tures or wods, of any &s;uch e&s;tate as is afore&s;aid, to y^e cleare yerely value of .x poundes or aboue, &amp; vnder the yearelye value of .xx. pou~d, &s;hal fro~ &amp; after the &s;aid day haue, kepe, &amp; &s;u&s;teine one almaine ry|uitte, cote of plate or brygandyne furny&s;hed, one haquebut .i. morian, or &s;allet, &amp; one long bowe, &amp; one &s;pefe of arrowes, one &s;teele cap or &s;cul. And al&s;o euery per&s;o~ temporal hauing lord&s;hips, manors, hou&s;es, la~des,
<PB REF="6">meadowes, pa&s;tures or woodes, of &s;uch e&s;tate as is afore&s;ayde, to the clere yerely value of fyue poundes or aboue, &amp; vnder the yerely value of x. poundes, &s;hal from and after the &s;ayd fir&s;t day of May, haue, kepe, &amp; &s;u&s;teyne one cote of plate furni&s;hed, one blacke byll, or halbert, one long bowe, one &s;hefe of arrowes, and one freele cap, or &s;cull. And al&s;o euerye per&s;onne temporal, hauyng goodes or cattells to the value of one thou|&s;ande markes or aboue, &s;hall from the &s;ayde fir&s;te daye of Maye, haue fynde, kepe, &s;u&s;teyne, and mainetayne as is afore&s;ayde, one hor&s;e, or gel dynge able for a demylaunce, with &s;ufficient harnes, &s;tele &s;adle, &amp; wea|pon, requi&s;ite and conuenient for the &s;ame, and one geldinge able and mete for a light hor&s;eman, with harnes and weapon &s;ufficient and re|qui&s;ite as is afore&s;ayd for the &s;ame, or eightene cor&s;elets furni&s;hed in y^e &s;tede of the &s;ayd hor&s;&s;e, and geldyng, and furniture of the &s;ame at hys choy&s;e. And al&s;o &s;hall from the &s;ame day haue, fynd, kepe, and mayne|tayne of armoure and weapon, two cor&s;eletes furni&s;hed, two almaine ryuettes, or for the &s;ame almonryuettes, two cottes of plate, two cor&s;e|lettes, or two brygandynes furny&s;hed, two pykes, foure longe bowes, foure &s;hefe of arrowes, foure &s;tele cappes or &s;culles, and three haque|buttes, with thre morians, or &s;alletes. And al&s;o euery per&s;on temporal hauynge goodes or cattels, to the values hereafter in this pre&s;ent act, &s;pecyfyed and declared, &s;hall from and after the &s;ayde fir&s;t day of May haue fynde, kepe, &s;u&s;teyne and maynetayne &s;uch geldynges, armoure, weapon and furniture forwarre as is hereafter declared. That is to &s;aye, hauynge to the value of foure hundred poundes or aboue, and vn+der the value of a thou&s;ande markes, one geldynge able and meate for a lyghte hor&s;eman with &s;ufficient harnes and weapon requi&s;ite, and mete for the &s;ame or .ix. cor&s;elettes, furny&s;hed at his election, and al&s;o &s;hal haue, fynde, and kepe one other cor&s;elette furni&s;hed, one pike, two almayne ryuetes, or plate cotes or brygandines furny&s;hed, one haque|but, two longe bowes, two &s;hefes of arrowes, and two &s;tele cappes or &s;culles. And hauynge in goodes and catteles, to the valewe of two hundrede pounde or aboue, and vnder foure hundred, one cor&s;elet fur|ni&s;hed one pyke two almayne ryuetes, plate cotes, or brygandynes, fur+ny&s;hed one haquebut, one murryan or &s;alet, two long bowes and two &s;hefe of arrowes, and two &s;cules or &s;tele cappes. And hauyng in goods and cattells to the value of a hundred poundes or aboue, and vnder .ii. hundred, one cor&s;elette, furny&s;hed and one pyke, one payre of almayne ryuyttes, one plate cote, or payre of brygandine furny&s;hed, two long bowes, and two &s;hefes of arrowes, and two &s;culles. And hauynge as is afore&s;ayde, in goodes and catteles, to the value of fourtye poundes, or aboue, and vnder a hundred poundes, two payre of almon riuettes, or two cotes of plate or brygandynes, furny&s;hed, one longe bowe and one &s;hefe of arrowes, one &s;tele cappe or &s;cull, and one blacke byll, or hal+bert. And hauynge as is afore&s;ayde in goodes and cattelles to the va|lewe
<PB N="vi" REF="6">of .xx. poundes or aboue, and vnder .xl. poundes, one payre of al|mayne riuettes, or one cote of plate, or one paire of brygandines, two longe bowes, two &s;hefes of arrowes, two &s;culles or &s;teele cappes, and one blacke byll or halbert. And hauinge as is afore&s;ayde to the value of tenne poundes or aboue, and vnder twenty poundes, one longe bowe, one &s;hefe of arrowes, with one &s;t&euml;ele cappe or &s;cull, and one blacke byll or halbert. And al&s;o that euery per&s;onne temporall, not beynge aboue charged by this acte, hauinge, or that hereafter &s;hall haue any annuitie or annuities, or yearely fee or fees for terme of life, or of any e&s;tate of in|heritaunce, or any copyholde or copyholdes, for terme of lyfe, or of anye e&s;tate of inheritaunce, to the cleare yearelye value of .xxx. poundes or aboue, &s;halbe charged and chargeable with &s;uch furniture of warre as is afore&s;ayde, in euery degree, qualitie, and condition, according to the proportions and rates before expre&s;&s;ed, limitted, and appointed for goodes and cattels.</P>
<P><HI>AND</HI> be it further enacted by the aucthoritie afore&s;ayde, that euerye per&s;onne whiche by vertue of the acte made in the parliamente holden at we&s;tmin&s;ter in the .xxxiii. yeare of the reigne of kynge Henrye the eyght, was bounde (by rea&s;on that his wife &s;houlde weare &s;uche kynd of apparell or other thing, as in the &s;ame &s;tatute is &s;pecially mentioned and declared) to kepe or fynde one greate &s;toned trottinge hor&s;e and is not by this act before charged, to haue, mainteyne, and kepe any hor&s;e or geldinge, &s;hall from the &s;ayde fyr&s;te daye of Maye, haue, kepe, and maynteyne one geldinge, able and mete for a light hor&s;eman, with &s;uf|ficient harnes and weapon for the &s;ame, in &s;uche maner and fourme as euery temporall per&s;onne hauinge lorde&s;hippes, hou&s;es, landes, mea|dowes, pa&s;tures or woodes of &s;uche e&s;tate as is afore&s;ayde, of the clere yearely value of one hundred markes, is charged or appoynted to find haue and maynteyne by this pre&s;ent acte.</P>
<P><HI>AND BE IT</HI> further enacted by thaucthoritie afore&s;ayde, that yf any per&s;onne chargeable by this acte, as is afore&s;ayde, &s;hall by the &s;pace of any thre whole monethes after the &s;ayde fyr&s;t daye of Maye, lacke or wante the &s;ayde number and kindes of hor&s;es, geldinges, armoure, weapon, and furniture afore&s;ayde, or any of them, after &s;uche rate, pro|portion, maner, and fourme as is in this acte aboue limitted, declared, and appoynted. That then euery &s;uche per&s;onne &s;hall forfeyt and loo&s;e for euery &s;uche thre monethes that he &s;hall &s;o lacke and want the &s;ame number and kyndes of hor&s;es, geldinges, armoure, weapon, and fur|niture, or any parte thereof, for euery hor&s;e or geldynge &s;o lackyng, ten poundes, and for euery dimilaunce and turniture of the &s;ame, thre pou~|des, and for euery cor&s;elet and furniture of the &s;ame .xl.s. and for euery almayne ryuette, cote of plate, or brigandine, and the furniture of the &s;ame .xx.s. and for euery bow &amp; &s;hefe of arrowes, byl, halbert, haque but &s;teele cappe, &s;cull, moryan and &s;alette .x.s. the one moytie of which &s;aid
<PB REF="7">forfeytures, &s;halbe to the kinge and Quene oure Soueraygne Lorde and Ladye, and to theyres and &s;ucce&s;&s;ours of the &s;ame our &s;oueraygne ladye, and the other moytye to him or them that wyll &s;ue for the &s;ame in any courte of recorde, by byll, playnte, action of debte, or informati|on, in the whiche byl, playnt, action, or information, no wager of lawe, e&s;&s;oyne, or protection &s;hall be allowed or admitted.</P>
<P><HI>AND BE IT</HI> further enacted by the aucthoritie afore&s;ayde, that the inhabitauntes of euery citie, boroughe, towne, pari&s;he, and hamlette within this realme, other then &s;uche as are &s;peciallye charged before in this acte, &s;hall haue, fynde, kepe, &s;u&s;teyne, and mainteyne, at theyr com|mon charges and expences, &s;uche harnes, and weapon, and as muche therof as &s;halbe appoynted by the comi&s;&s;ioners of our &s;ayd &s;oueraigne lorde and ladye, and of the heyres and &s;ucce&s;&s;ours of the &s;ame our &s;oue|raygne lady, for the mu&s;ters or vewe of armour within &s;uche citie, bo|roughe, towne, pary&s;he or hamletre, there to be kepte, in &s;uche place as by the &s;ayd comi&s;&s;ioners &s;hall be apoynted. And the numbers and kin|des therof to be wrytten and compri&s;ed in a payre of indentures, to be made betwene the &s;ayde commi&s;&s;ioners or two of them at the lea&s;te, and twelue, eyghte, or foure of the chiefe&s;t of euery &s;uche citie, borough towne, pari&s;he, or hamlette, wherof one part to remayne with the cheif officer of the &s;ame citie, borough, towne, pary&s;he, or hamlette: and the other part to remayne with the clerke of the peace of the &s;hyre or coun|tye where euery iuche citie, towne, borough, pary&s;he, or hamlette &s;hall &s;tande or be. And if the &s;ame inhabitauntes of euery &s;uch citie, borough towne, pary&s;he, or hamlette, other then &s;uche as are &s;peciallye (as is a|fore&s;ayde) charged, &s;hall lacke or wante &s;uche harnes or weapons, or any parte thereof, as &s;hall be vnto them appoynted by the &s;ayd comi&s;&s;i|oners for the mu&s;ters or vewe of armoure, as is afore&s;ayde, by the &s;pace of any thre monethes together next after any &s;uch appointment made: that then the &s;ame inhabitauntes &s;hall forfeyte for euery the &s;ayd thre monethes for euery &s;uche harnes or weapons &s;o lackyng after the rate aboue limitted, the one moytie therof to be to our &s;ayde &s;oueraigne lord and ladye, and to theyres and &s;ucce&s;&s;ours of our &s;aid &s;oueraygne lady, and thother moytie to hym or them that wyll &s;ue for the &s;ame in any of the courtes of recorde of our &s;ayd &s;oueraygne lorde and Ladye, and of the heyres and &s;ucce&s;&s;ours of the &s;ame oure &s;oueraigne Ladye, by byll, playnte, action of debte, or information, wherein no wager of lawe, e&s;|&s;oyne or protection &s;halbe admitted or allowed.</P>
<P><HI>AND BE IT</HI> further enacted by thauctoritie afore&s;ayde, that the lord Chauncellour of Englande for the tyme beynge, &s;hall haue full power and aucthoritie by vertue of this pre&s;ente acte, frome time to time to graunte out commi&s;&s;ions vnder the great &s;eale of England, to the Iu|&s;tices of peace within euery &s;hyre or countie of this realme, or to &s;o ma|ny of them as by his di&s;cretion &s;hall be thought mete and conueniente
<PB N="vii" REF="7">for the appointinge and limittinge of the &s;ayd harne&s;&s;es and weapo~s, to be founde, kept, and mainteyned, in euery &s;uch citie, borough, towne pari&s;he, and hamlette, at the common charges of the inhabitauntes thereof, as is afore&s;ayde.</P>
<P>Prouided alwayes, that this acte or any thinge therein conteyned &s;hall not extende to take awaye or di&s;charge any tenaunt, or fermour, of his &s;eruice or couenaunte towardes his Lorde, for the fyndinge of hor&s;e, armoure, or weapon, or for doynge of &s;eruice by him &s;elfe or anye other, whiche, by the tenure of his lande or ferme, he is bounde to do, at the time of makinge of this acte, but that he &s;hall yelde, paye, and doe the &s;ame in as large ample maner and fourme, as though this act had neuer bene had ne made.</P>
<P><HI>AND</HI> be it further enacted by thaucthoritie afore&s;ayd, that the iu|&s;tices of peace, of euery Shire, &s;hal haue power and aucthoritie by ver+tue of this acte, from time to time, to make &s;earch and vewe of and for the &s;ayd furnytures of hor&s;es, geldinges, armour and weapon, to be founde mainteined and kept by any per&s;on aboue&s;aid, hauynge lord|&s;hyppes, manors, hou&s;es, landes, meadowes, pa&s;tures or woodes to y^e clere yerely value of .CC. poundes or vnder, and not aboue the yearely value of .CCCC. pounds, or to be found, mainteined or kept by any per+&s;on or per&s;ons chargeable by this act, by rea&s;on of hys or their goodes, cattels, annuities, fees, or copyholdes as is afore&s;ayd, and to heare and determine at their quarter Se&s;&s;ions all and euery the defaultes com|mitted or done contrary to this acte, within the countye, where &s;uche Se&s;&s;ions &s;halbe kept, by inqui&s;ition, pre&s;entment, byl, or informatyon before them exhibited, or by examination of two lawefull wytnes, at the di&s;cretion of the &s;ame Iu&s;tyces, &amp; to award proce&s;&s;e therevpon as though they were indicted before them by verdict of .xii. men or more. And vpon the conuiction of the offender by informatio~ or &s;uit of anye other then the kinge or the quene, or of theires or &s;ucce&s;&s;ours of y^e quene to make e&s;treates of the one moitie of the &s;aid forfeytures to be leuyed to thu&s;e of oure &s;ayd &s;oueraygne lorde and lady, or of theirs or Succe&s;+&s;ors of the &s;ame our &s;oueraigne lady, as they v&s;e to doo of other fynes i&s;&s;ues, and amercyamentes, growynge in the Se&s;&s;yons of peace, and to awarde execution of the other moytie for the compleynaunte or informer agayn&s;te the offender, by <HI>fieri facias</HI> or <HI>capias,</HI> as the kinges Iu&s;tices at we&s;tmin&s;ter, may doo and v&s;e to doo. And yf any &s;uch con|uiction &s;hal hereafter happen at thonely &s;ute of oure &s;ayde &s;oueraygne lorde and ladye, or of the heires or &s;ucce&s;&s;oures of the &s;ame our Soue|raygne lady, that then the whole forfeytures to be e&s;treated and leuy|ed to their v&s;es onelye.</P>
<P><HI>AND BE IT FVRTHER</HI> enacted by the aucthorytie afore&s;ayde, that when&s;oeuer anye per&s;onne &s;hall at anye tyme hereafter be con|uicted by vertue of this acte, for anye defaulte or thinge mentioned
<PB REF="8">in thys acte, that then the &s;ame per&s;on &s;hal not otherwi&s;e or eft&s;ones be vexed, troubled, &s;ued or conuicted for the &s;ame defaulte or thing, wher|fore he &s;halbe &s;o conuicted.</P>
<P><HI>AND</HI> be it moreouer enacted by the auchtoritie afore&s;ayde, that yf anye Souldioure &s;hall at anye tyme hereafter make &s;ale of his hor&s;e, harnes, and weapon, or anye of them contrarye to the fourme of the &s;ayde &s;tatute, made in the &s;aide &s;econde and thirde yeares of the &s;aide late kinge, that then not onely the &s;ame Souldiour &s;hall incurre the penalties of that &s;tatute, but al&s;o the &s;ayde &s;ale made by &s;uche &s;oul|dioure to any per&s;on or per&s;onnes knowing him to be a &s;ouldior, &s;halbe voyde and of none effecte, agayn&s;t him or them that founde or &s;et forth the &s;ayde hor&s;e, harne&s;&s;e, and weapon, or any of them, to, or for the fur|niture of &s;uche &s;ouldioure to &s;erue with the &s;ame.</P>
<P><HI>PROVIDED</HI> alwayes, that no per&s;on &s;hall be impeached or troubled for any offence done contrary to this acte, onle&s;&s;e pre&s;entmente or &s;ute therof be had, made, or taken w^t in one yeare next after thoffence done, any thing in this act to y^e contrary therof in any wy&s;e notw^t&s;tanding.</P>
<P><HI>PROVIDED</HI> alwaye and be it enacted by the aucthoritie afore&s;ayde, that if at any time hereafter it &s;hal fortune any per&s;on or per&s;ons afore|&s;ayde, to be &s;ued or impeached for any forefeyture or penaltie, for not ha|uinge, &s;u&s;teyninge, or kepinge &s;uch furniture of cor&s;elets, pykes, haque|buttes, or morians, as by this acte is before limitted, rated, and apoin|ted, and for his or theyr excu&s;e and aun&s;were, &s;hall alleage and pleade that the &s;ame furniture &s;o lacking, coulde not by him or them conueni|ently be had, gotten, or prouided, for want and lacke of the &s;ame with|in this realme, accordinge to the tenure and purporte of this acte, the &s;ame matter of want and lacke as is afore&s;ayde, &s;hall be allowed, and taken for a good and &s;ufficient aun&s;were and barre in the lawe, in ca&s;e it be true, and if the &s;ame be denied or trauer&s;ed, that thervpon an i&s;&s;ue &s;halbe ioyned, and that the triall &s;hall be of euery &s;uche i&s;&s;ue onelye had by the certificate to be made by the Lord Chauncellour, Lorde Trea|&s;urer, the Lorde pre&s;ident of the Councell, the Lorde Stewarde of the Kynges and Quenes mo&s;te honorable hou&s;eholde, the Lorde pryuye Seale, the Lorde Admirall, and the lorde Chambrelayne of the &s;ayde hou&s;eholde, or by thre of them, in wrytinge vnder theyr &s;eales, or the &s;eales of thre of them, this pre&s;ente acte, or anye &s;tatute, lawe, or v&s;age heretofore had to the contrary notwith&s;tanding.</P>
<P><HI>PROVIDED</HI> al&s;o and be it enacted by the aucthoritie afore&s;ayde, that no per&s;onne or per&s;onnes chargeable by vertue of this Acte, to or for the fyndynge or hauynge of anye Hor&s;e, Geldynge, Armoure, Weapon, or furnyture for the warre, as is afore&s;ayde, &s;hall be charged with the &s;ame, or with any of them both, for his manours, hou&s;es, lan|des, meadowes, pa&s;tures and woodes, and al&s;o for his goodes, catels, fermes, lea&s;es, copyholdes, rentes, annuities.</P>
<PB N="viii" REF="8">
<P>Prouided al&s;o and be it further enacted by thauctoritie afore&s;ayde, that this acte or any thinge therein conteyned, &s;hal not in any wy&s;e ex|tend or be adiudged or interpreted, to abrogate, repeale, or make voyde any part, &s;entence, matter, clau&s;e, article, or thinge, conteyned or &s;peci|fied in the &s;tatute, made in the .xxxiii. yeare of the raygne of the late no|ble Prince of worthy memory kinge Henry the eight, for or concerning the hauing of long bowes and arrowes, &amp; the v&s;ing, order, exerci&s;yng, and mayntenaunce of archery, and &s;hotinge in longe bowes, but that the &s;ame &s;tatute, and euery article, clau&s;e, &s;entence, and thinge therein conteyned and &s;pecified, touching, or in any wy&s;e concerninge the ha|uinge of longe bowes, arrowes, v&s;inge, order, exerci&s;inge, or mainte|naunce of archerye, and &s;hotinge in longe bowes, &s;hall &s;tande and re|mayne in force, and be ob&s;erued, perfourmed, and kepte, accordynge to the tenure, effecte, and true meaning of the &s;ayd acte, vpon the paynes conteyned in the &s;ame, as this acte had not bene hadde ne made, this pre&s;ent act or any thinge therin conteyned to the contrary in any wy&s;e notwith&s;tandinge.</P>
<P><HI>PROVIDED</HI> al&s;o, that yf it &s;hall fortune the &s;ayde furniture of armure afore&s;ayd, or any parte therof, at any time hereafter to be lo&s;t or &s;pente in any &s;eruice of defence of this realme, or elles the hor&s;es or geldinges afore&s;ayd, to be kylled or di&s;troyed, or els by &s;ome other occa&s;ion to be dead, that in &s;uch ca&s;e or ca&s;es, no per&s;on or per&s;ones &s;halbe charged w^t any forfeiture or penaltie afore&s;ayde, for not hauinge &s;uche quantitie or number of armour, hor&s;es, or geldinges as is afore&s;ayde, &s;o that he or they within one yeare next after &s;uch lo&s;&s;e or want, do &s;upply the &s;ame againe in al points, according to the true meaning and purport of this act, any thing in the &s;ame act to the contrary therof notwith&s;tanding.</P>
<P>Prouided al&s;o, that the want of any gauntlet or gauntlets, &s;hal not be demed, accoumpted, or taken for anye tacke or wante of furnyture for a cor&s;elet, any wordes before expre&s;&s;ed, &s;oundinge to the contrarye notwith&s;tandyng.</P>
<P>Prouided al&s;o and be it enacted by thaucthoritie afore&s;ayde, that euery per&s;on and per&s;ons charged with the fyndinge of any haque but, and his or theyr &s;eruaunt or &s;eruauntes, &s;hall and may exerci&s;e and v&s;e &s;hotinge in the &s;ame haquebutte, at &s;uche markes as are limitted and appointed by the &s;tatute made in the .xxxiii. yeare of the raygne of king Henry the eyght, or at theyr owne proper games, &s;o that they cary not, or v&s;e not the &s;ame haque but in any hyghe waye, vnle&s;&s;e it be comynge or goynge to or from the mu&s;ters, or marching towardes or from the &s;eruyce of defence of the realme, any clau&s;e or article in the &s;ayde acte of the .xxxiii. yeare, to the contrary notwith&s;tanding.</P>
<P>Prouided alwayes, that this acte ne any thinge therin conteyned, &s;hall extende to charge any per&s;on or per&s;ons, dwellinge or abydinge within the countreis of Northwales, and Southwales, and within
<PB REF="9">the countye Palentine of Lanca&s;ter and Che&s;ter, or either of them, with the findinge or hauinge of any haque but, but that they and euery of them, &s;hall and maye at theyr wyll, libertie, and plea&s;ure, haue and kepe, in &s;tede and place of euery haquebutte, charged by this acte, one longe bowe, and one &s;hefe of arrowes, ouer and be&s;ides &s;uche other ar|mour and munition as is by the lawes of this realme limitted and ap|poynted, anye thinge in this acte to the contrarye notwyth&s;tandinge.</P>
<P><HI>PROVIDED</HI> alwayes that the Lorde Chauncelour of England, or keper of the greate &s;eale for the tyme beinge, &s;hall and maye from time to time by vertue of the kinge and Quenes highnes commi&s;&s;ion, name a&s;&s;igne, and appointe comi&s;&s;ioners in euery citie, boroughe, and towne corporate, wherein there be Iu&s;tices of the peace, as well in Englande as in Wales, &s;o many of the &s;ame Iu&s;tices of peace, with &s;uche and as manye other per&s;onnes, to be ioyned with them dwellinge oute of the &s;ayd cities, boroughes, and townes corporate, as he or they &s;hall thinke mete, to take viewe of armour in euerye of the &s;ame cities, boroughes, and townes corporate, accordinge to this pre&s;ente acte, and al&s;o to a&s;|&s;igne what harnes and armoure &s;hall be prouided and kepte by the in|habitauntes of euery &s;uche citie, boroughe, and towne corporate, as is afore&s;ayde, accordinge to this pre&s;ent acte.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="3" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>AN ACT</HI> for the takinge of mu&s;ters.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The .iij. chapter.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_WHERE</HI> heretofore commaundement hath ben geuen by the kinge and Quenes maie&s;ties, and other the progenitours of the Quenes maie&s;tie, kynges of this realme, to diuers and &s;ondry per&s;onnes, to mu&s;ter their maie&s;ties people and &s;ubiects of this theyr realme of England, and to leuye a number of them for the &s;er|uice of theyr maie&s;ties and of this realme, in theyr warres, &s;uche as were mo&s;t hable and likelie&s;t to &s;erue well in the &s;ame, whiche &s;eruice hath ben greatly hyndered, as well for that a greate number hath ab|&s;ented them from the &s;ayde mu&s;ters, whiche ought to haue come to the &s;ame, as al&s;o for that manye of the moo&s;t hable and likelye men for that &s;eruice, haue bene through frend&s;hippe or rewardes, relea&s;ed, forborne, and di&s;charged of the &s;ayd &s;eruice, &amp; &s;ome other not being able or mete, taken, appointed, and cho&s;en thervnto, and yet the &s;ame di&s;abilitie and vnaptnes notwith&s;tanding, the &s;ame vnable &amp; vnmete per&s;ons vpon &s;ummes of mony, or other kind of rewardes, or exactions by the~ payd, to &s;ome &s;uche as had the order of the &s;aide mu&s;ters, haue ben al&s;o relea|&s;ed and di&s;charged of the &s;ayd &s;eruice, to the great impouery&s;hmente of
<PB N="ix" REF="9">the &s;ubiectes, and cheyfely to the great peryl and daunger of this noble realme, in the hinderaunce of the true and nece&s;&s;ary &s;eruyce thereof.</P>
<P><HI>FOR</HI> remedy wherof, be it enacted by the king and quene our &s;oue|raygne lord and lady, with tha&s;&s;ent of the lordes Spirituall and tem|porall, and the commons in this pre&s;ent parliament a&s;&s;embled, and by thaucthoritie of the &s;ame, that yf anye per&s;on or per&s;ones, that &s;hal be commaunded, at any time hereafter, generally, or &s;peciallye, to mu&s;ter afore any &s;uch as &s;hall haue aucthoritie or commaundement for y^e &s;ame by, or from the kyng and quenes Maie&s;ties, or by theires or &s;ucce&s;&s;ors of the quenes maie&s;tie, or by any lieutenaunte, wardeyne or other per|&s;on or per&s;onnes aucthory&s;ed for the &s;ame, do willyngly ab&s;ente hym or them &s;elfes from the &s;ame mu&s;ters, hauyng no true and rea&s;onable ex|cu&s;e of &s;yckenes, or other laweful impediment, or at their apparaunce at &s;uch mu&s;ters, do not bryng with them &s;uch their be&s;t furnyture of ar|raye, and armoure, as he or they &s;hal then haue for hys or their owne per&s;on in a redynes, &s;hall for euery &s;uch defaulte and offence, haue and &s;uffer impri&s;onment by the &s;pace of ten dayes, without bayle or maine|pryce, by the commaundemente of &s;uche as &s;hall haue aucthoritie as is afore&s;ayd, to take the &s;ame mu&s;ters, onle&s;&s;e he or they &s;oo offendyng as is afore&s;ayd, doo agree to or with the &s;aid commi&s;&s;ioners, or two of the~, to paye to thu&s;e of the kyng and quene our &s;oueraygne lord and ladye, or of the heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;oures of the &s;ame oure &s;oueraygne ladye, for euery &s;uch offence, fourty &s;hyllynges for a fyne, whiche &s;ayde fyne after agrement for the payment of the &s;ame as is afore&s;ayd, &s;halbe certified and e&s;treated into the court of the e&s;cheker at We&s;tmyn&s;ter, by &s;uch as &s;hall haue power to take the &s;ayd mu&s;ters as is afore&s;ayd, or by two of the~, vnder their &s;eales or y^e &s;eales of two of the~, within the &s;pace of two monethes next after &s;uch agrement, to pay the &s;ayde fyne had or made, and the &s;ame fyne &s;o e&s;treated to be leuyed in &s;uch fourme as fynes a&s;|&s;e&s;&s;ed by the Iu&s;tyces of a&s;&s;i&s;e, or of Gaole deliuerye, in their circuites are v&s;ed to be leuyed.</P>
<P><HI>AND <HI>BE IT</HI> FVRTHER</HI> enacted by the aucthoritie afore&s;ayd, that if any per&s;on or per&s;onnes which at any time or tymes hereafter &s;hall be commaunded or appoynted by the kyng and Quene our Soueraygne Lord and lady, or by the heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;ours of the &s;ame our Soue|raygne Lady, by their commi&s;&s;ion, letters, or otherwy&s;e authory&s;ed, to leuye mu&s;ter or make any men to &s;erue in their warres, or otherwy&s;e for the defence of thys realme, do by any meane exact, leuy, receaue, or take, or cau&s;e to be taken any &s;u~me or &s;u~mes of mony, or other rewarde or thing what&s;oeuer, of any per&s;on or per&s;ons, for &s;eruice in the warrs, or that &s;halbe appointed, named or mu&s;tred to &s;erue in ani &s;uch &s;etuice, or for the &s;paryng, relea&s;yng or di&s;chargyng of &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;ones from the &s;ayde &s;eruice, that then euery &s;uch per&s;on that &s;o &s;hall offende in exactyng, receauyng or takyng by any waies or meanes anye &s;u~me
<PB REF="10"> <GAP DESC="duplicate" EXTENT="1 page">
<PB N="ix" REF="10"> <GAP DESC="duplicate" EXTENT="1 page">
<PB REF="11">or &s;ummes of monye, or other reward, or thyng what&s;oeuer as is afore &s;aid, &s;hal for euery &s;uch offence forfeite .x. times &s;o much as he &s;hal &s;o re|ceyue exacte or take.</P>
<P><HI>AND</HI> be it further enacted by thauctoritie afore&s;ayd, that yf any ca|pytayne, pety capitayne or other, hauynge charge of men for &s;eruyce in warre, &s;hal for any aduauntage, lucre or gayne by hym to be taken, or receyued, dy&s;charge or lycence, any of the &s;ouldyours, or men appointed to &s;erue in the warres, vnder his rule or order, to depart from y^e &s;ame &s;eruyce, or &s;hall not paye vnto his &s;ouldioures, and to euerye of them, their full and whole wages, conducte and coate monye, within tenne dayes next after that &s;uch capitayne, pety capitayne, or other hauynge charge of men as is afore&s;ayd, &s;hall haue receyued the &s;ame, that then the party &s;o offendyng in geuyng any &s;uche lycence or dy&s;charge as is afore&s;ayde, &s;hal lo&s;e &amp; forfeyt for euery &s;uch offence, ten tymes the value of the thing &s;o taken or receyued, and &s;hal al&s;o paye to euery &s;ouldiour from whom he &s;hall &s;o withhold any the &s;ayd wages, conduct, or coate mony; treble the &s;umme &s;o withholden, the one moytie of al which for|feytures, other then &s;uch as before by this act is lymitted or geuen to the &s;ould your or &s;ouldyors as is afore&s;ayd, for their wages, coate or con+ducte mony withdrawen, &s;halbe to the king and the quenes maie&s;ties, and theirs and &s;ucce&s;&s;oures of the quenes maie&s;tye, and thother moitie there of to hym or them that wyll &s;ue for the &s;ame, by action of debte, byll, playnt, information or otherwy&s;e, in any court of record, in which action or &s;ute no e&s;&s;oygne protection or wager of law, &s;halbe allowed.</P>
<P><HI>AND</HI> be it further enacted by the aucthoritie afore&s;ayd, that all Iu|&s;tices of a&s;&s;i&s;es in their circuites, and al Iu&s;tyces of peace, within the lymittes of their commi&s;&s;ion, in their a&s;&s;i&s;es and &s;e&s;&s;yons, and Stew|ardes of leetes, lawedayes, and libertyes, at their leetes and lawdaies &s;hal and maye from tyme to tyme enquire, here, and determyne euerye of the &s;ayd offences, commytted or done contrary to thys acte, wythin the precynctes of their commy&s;&s;ion, leete or lybertye, and yf any per&s;on or per&s;ons &s;halbe before the &s;ayde Iu&s;tyces of a&s;&s;i&s;e, Iu&s;tices of peace, or any of them, pre&s;ented or indicted of any thoffe~ces afore&s;aid that the~ the &s;aid iu&s;tices of a&s;&s;i&s;e, or iu&s;tices of peace, before whom &s;uche indyte|ment or pre&s;entment &s;halbe taken or had, &s;hal and may by the aucthori|tye of this act, award &s;uch proces again&s;t euery &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;ons &s;o indited as vpo~ inditements of tre&s;pas is v&s;ed and accu&s;tomed to be made, &amp; if any &s;uch per&s;o~ or per&s;ons &s;o indited, do appere before the &s;aid iu&s;tices &amp; confe&s;&s;e the &s;ame, or plede to the &s;ame indytementes, &amp; after by verdycte of .xii. menne &s;hal be of any the &s;ayde offences conteyned in &s;uch inditeme~t or inditements conuicted, y^t the~ the &s;aid Iu&s;tyces before who~ any &s;uch conuyction &s;halbe &s;o had, &s;hal &amp; may award &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;ons &s;o conuycted vnto pry&s;on, there to remayne without bayle or maynepryce, vntyll &s;uch tyme as he or they haue payd, or &s;ati&s;fyed the
<PB N="x" REF="11">moytie of the forfeiture afore&s;ayd, vnto the kyng and quenes maie&s;ties v&s;e, and thother moitie therof vnto hym or them that &s;hal come before the &s;ayd Iu&s;tyces and geue euidence agayn&s;t the partye to be conuic|ted at the time of the &s;ayd conuiction, and by who&s;e euydence he &s;halbe of the &s;aid offe~ce conuicted. And yf any &s;uch co~uiction &s;halbe had w^tout any euydence openly giuen by any per&s;on or per&s;ons, that then the par|tye conuicted as afore&s;ayd &s;hal remayne in pri&s;on as is afore&s;ayd, vntil he haue &s;ati&s;fyed the hole forfeiture to the king and quenes maie&s;ties v&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>PROVIDED</HI> alwayes and be it further enacted by thauctoritie afore &s;ayd, that yf any the offences afore&s;ayd, touching captaines, pety cap|taynes, or other hauyng charge of men, &s;halbe committed durynge the time that any army or number of me~ being vnder a lieuten aunt &s;halbe a&s;&s;embled and continue together, or by any captaine, pety captaine, or other hauyng charge of men that &s;hal &s;erue vnder any lord warden, or other cheiftayne, that then vpon complaint thereof, the lord lieutenau~t or the lord warden, or other cheyftayne, durynge the tyme of anye hys or their commy&s;&s;yon &s;hall and maye heare, order, and determyne the &s;ame offences, by hys or theyr dy&s;cretyons.</P>
<P>Prouyded alwayes that thys acte, nor any thyng therein conteined &s;hall not in any wi&s;e extend to take awaye or di&s;charge any tenaunte or fermoure of hys &s;eruice or couenaunt, towardes hys lord, for the fin|dynge of hor&s;e, armor or weapon, or for doynge of &s;eruyce by hym &s;elfe, or by any other, whych by the tenure of hys lande or otherwy&s;e is bou~|den to do before the makyng of thys acte, but that he &s;hal yelde, do and paye the &s;ame in as ample maner and forme as though this arte had ne+ver bene had or made.</P>
<P>Prouyded al&s;o and be it further enacted by thaucthoritie afore&s;ayd that yf any &s;uch capytayne, pety captaine, or other hauynge charge of men as is afore&s;ayd, &s;halbe at anye tyme hereafter conuycted, or or|dered by vertue of thys acte, for anye of hys offences afore&s;ayde, that then the &s;ame Capytaine, petie Capitaine or other hauing charge of me~ as is afore&s;aid, &s;o conuicted, &s;hal not otherwi&s;e or eft&s;ones be vex+ed, troubled, &s;ued, or conuicted for the &s;ame offence, whereof he &s;hal be &s;o before conuicted or ordered.</P>
<P><HI>AND</HI> where one braunch or article conteyned in the &s;tatute made in the &s;econde and thyrde yeare of the reygne of the late kynge Edwarde the &s;yxte, intituled, an acte touchinge the true &s;eruyce of Captaynes, and Souldyoures, whereby the departure of anye Souldyoure &s;er|uynge as in the &s;ayde acte is expre&s;&s;ed, wythoute lycence of the lyeu|tenaunte or other offycer or offycers named in the &s;ayde acte, or in their ab&s;ence, of their deputies, was made felonye is of noo force, &s;trengthe, ne effecte, at thys pre&s;ente, by rea&s;onne of the acte of repeale of certayne trea&s;onnes felonyes and primynyre made in
<PB REF="12">the fir&s;t &s;e&s;&s;ion of the parliament holde~ at We&s;tmin&s;ter, in the fyr&s;tyere of the Quenes maie&s;ties reygne. Be it for good and rea&s;onable con&s;ide|ratyons enacted and e&s;tably&s;hed by thaucthoritie of thys pre&s;ent parli|ament, that the &s;ayd braunch or article, and euerye &s;entence and mat|ter therin conteyned, be from henceforth holy reuyued, and recontynu|ed, and be and remayne in full &s;trength and effect to al intentes, co~&s;truc+tions and purpo&s;es, the &s;ayde acte of repeale notwith&s;tandynge. And that al and euery other article, clau&s;e, prouy&s;o, and matter conteined in the &s;ame acte, &s;hall &s;tand, remayne, and be in their full force, &s;trengthe, and effecte. Any thing in this acte conteined to the contrary notwith|&s;tandynge.</P>
<P><HI>AND</HI> yet neuerthele&s;&s;e wherin the &s;ayd acte it is prouyded, that no per&s;on or per&s;ones, &s;hould be charged for the takynge or receyuynge of any gyfte or rewarde of anye of hys or their tenauntes or frendes to|wardes the releyfe, ayde, or helpe of the &s;ame per&s;onnes beynge com|maunded to &s;erue in warres, or otherwy&s;e to fynd men on hor&s;ebacke, or on fote, within thys realme or withoute, nor for the gyfte, rewarde, ayde or helpe re&s;erued, or couenaunted, to be payde or gyuen to any per+&s;on appoynted to &s;erue in warres, or to fynde hor&s;e or men, to &s;erue by rea&s;on of any graunt, couenaunte re&s;eruation, cu&s;tome or tenure, any thyng in the &s;ayd acte to the contrary notwith&s;tanding, as by the &s;aid acte and prouy&s;o more playnely it doth and maye appeare. Be it enac|ted by thaucthoritie of this pre&s;e~t parliame~t, y^e no per&s;on or per&s;ons &s;hal or may by coulour of the &s;aid proui&s;o, or of any wordes or matter therin conteyned, exact or demaund, or leuy any &s;umme or &s;ummes of mony, hor&s;e, armoure, or any other thyng, other then &s;halve employed furth|with in the pre&s;ent &s;eruyce of tho&s;e warres, of the kynge and queenes maie&s;ties, her heires or &s;ucce&s;&s;oures, for whych it is leuyed, the whyche &s;umme or &s;ummes of mony, hor&s;e, armoure, or other thyng, or as much thereof as &s;hal not be &s;pent, lo&s;t, or con&s;umed in the &s;ayd &s;eruyce, &s;halbe rendred and re&s;tored to &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;ones, as payde or delyuered the &s;ame, vpon the penaltyes and forfeytures, conteyned in y^e &s;aid acte.</P>
<P><HI>PROVIDED</HI> alwayes, that no per&s;on or per&s;ons, inhabitynge within any cytye, borough, or towne corporate, being a countye of it &s;elfe, or in whych any Iu&s;tices of peace be or herealter &s;halbe, by charter, &s;halbe compellable by vertue of thys acte, to make his or their apparaunce, with &s;uch furniture as is afore&s;ayd, at any mu&s;ter hereafter to be had, or taken out of the Suburbes, precinct, or lyberties of the &s;ame Citye, Borough or Towne, nor before any per&s;on or per&s;ons, aucthory&s;ed by co~mi&s;&s;ion or otherwi&s;e as is afore&s;aid, onle&s;&s;e the maior, or other hed of fycer, of &s;uch citie, borough, or towne, &amp; one other di&s;crete inhabitaunt of the &s;ame at the lea&s;t be ioyned in the &s;ame commi&s;&s;ion or other auc|thoritie as is afore&s;ayd, with the &s;ame other per&s;on or per&s;ons &s;o auc|thori&s;ed, any thing before mentioned to the contrary notwith&s;ta~ding.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="4" TYPE="chapter">
<PB N="xi" REF="12">
<HEAD><HI>AN ACTE</HI> that acce&s;&s;aries in murder and dyuers felonies, &s;hall not haue the benefit of clergie.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The .iiii. Chapter.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_FOR THE</HI> due puny&s;&s;hmente of &s;uche as com|maunde, coun&s;ell, or hire any per&s;on or per&s;ons, to com+mit, perpetrate, or do any petie trea&s;on, wylful murdre, or any of the offences in this pre&s;ente acte mentioned. Be it enacted by the aucthoritie of this pre&s;ente par|liamente, that all and euerye per&s;onne and per&s;onnes that after the fyr&s;te daye of Marche next comminge, &s;hall maliciou&s;ly commaunde, hyre, or coun&s;ell any per&s;on or per&s;ons, to committe or do any petye trea&s;on, wylfull murder, or to do any robberye in any dwel|lynge hou&s;e or hou&s;es, or to committe or do any robbery in or nere any high waye in the realme of Englande, or in any other the Queues do|minions, or to commit or do any robbery in any place within the mar|ches of Englande agayn&s;t Scotlande, or wylfully to burne any dwel|lynge hou&s;e, or any parte thereof, or anye barne then hauynge corne or grayne in the &s;ame, that then euerye &s;uche offender or offenders, and euery of them beynge outlawed thereof, or beynge thereof arraygned and found gyltie by the ordre of the lawe, or beyng otherwy&s;e lawfully attaynted or conuicted of the &s;ame offence, or beynge arraygned ther|of do &s;tande mute of malice or frowarde mynde, or do chalenge perem|torye aboue the nombre of twenty per&s;ons, or wyll not aun&s;were dire|ctly to &s;uche offence, &s;hall not haue the benefite of his or theyr clergye.</P>
<P><HI>PROVIDED</HI> alwayes and be it enacted, that euery lorde and lordes of the parliament, and piere and piers of the realme, hauing place and voyce in the parliament, vpon euery inditement for any of the offences afore&s;ayd, &s;halbe tryed by theyrpiers, as hath bene accu&s;tomed by the lawes of this realme.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="5" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>AN ACT</HI> touchinge the makinge of wollen clothes.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The .v. Chapter.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_WHERE</HI> in the parliament holden at we&s;tmin+&s;ter, in the fift and &s;ixt yeare of the reigne of our late &s;o+ueraigne lorde kinge Edward the &s;ixte, there was by great deliberation and adui&s;e one good acte made for the true &amp; perfect making of wollen cloth within this realme, &s;ythence the makyng wherof, diuers clothiers found them &s;elues agreued, alleging that it is vnpo&s;&s;ible for them to ob+&s;erue y^e &s;ame act in all poyntes, &amp; haue in this pre&s;ent parliame~t praied &s;ome mitigation therof, it is therfore at theyr &s;pecial in&s;tau~ce &amp; reque&s;t ordered, e&s;tabli&s;hed, enacted, &amp; prouided, in maner &amp; fourme folowing.</P>
<PB REF="13">
<GAP DESC="duplicate" EXTENT="1 page">
<PB N="xi" REF="13">
<GAP DESC="duplicate" EXTENT="1 page">
<PB REF="14">
<P><HI>IN PRIMIS,</HI> that euery white cloth &amp; clothes comonly called longe Worce&s;ters, &amp; all like clothes of like making mentioned in the &s;aid act, which by y^e &s;ame was limited to weigh .ixxxiiii. pou~des, being wel &s;cou+red, thicked, milled, and fully dryed, &s;hal weigh .ixxv. pou~ds at the lea&s;t.</P>
<P>Ite~, euery white cloth which &s;halbe made in the counties of Wylte&s;. Glouce&s;ter, &amp; Somer&s;et, or any of the~, or els where of like makinge, be|ing apointed by the &s;aid acte to weigh .lxiiij. pounds, &s;hal weigh being well &s;coured, thicked, milled, and fully dried .lxj. poundes at the lea&s;te.</P>
<P><HI>ITEM,</HI> euery broade cloth made in the &s;hyres of Kent and Su&s;&s;ex, or at the towne of Reding, or any of them, or els where of like makynge, mentioned in the &s;ayd acte, whiche by the &s;ame was limitted to weigh lxxxx. poundes at the lea&s;t, &s;hall weygh beinge well &s;coured, thicked, mylled, and fully dried .lxxxvi. poundes at the lea&s;te.</P>
<P><HI>ITEM,</HI> that euery cour&s;e &s;hort cloth made in y^e &s;hyres of Suff. Norff. and E&s;&s;ex, or any of them, or els where of like &s;ort, &amp; euery cour&s;e clothe to be made within the Shyre of Kent, not exceadinge the price of &s;yxe poundes, all whiche by the &s;ayde Acte are appoynted to conteyne .vii. quarters of a yarde at the lea&s;t in breadth, &s;hall conteyne and be at the water, beyng thorough wette, &s;ixe quarters and a half within the li&s;te through and by all the whole cloth at the lea&s;te.</P>
<P><HI>ITEM,</HI> euery yarde of cloth commonly called handy warp, being wel+&s;coured, thicked, mylled, and fully dried, &s;hall conteyne the breadth &s;pe|cified in the &s;aid act, &amp; &s;hal weigh two poundes and a half at the lea&s;t.</P>
<P>And fora&s;much as many per&s;ons do counterfet the making of Cok|&s;al, Bocking and Braintree clothes comonly called handiwarpes, ad|ding there vnto &s;uch like li&s;tes as the makers of &s;uche clothes do, to the great deceipte of the king and Quenes maie&s;ties &s;ubiectes. Be it ther|fore enacted, that no per&s;on or per&s;ons from the fir&s;t day of May nexte coming, &s;hal adde vnto any cloth or clothes, any &s;uch like li&s;te or li&s;tes, except the warpe therof be &s;ponne vpon the rocke or di&s;taffe, vpo~ paine of forfeyture of the &s;ame cloth or clothes, or the very value therof. Pro|uided alwayes that the clothe makers within the citie of Worce&s;tour may make &s;uche li&s;tes as they haue done heretofore.</P>
<P>Item that no per&s;on or per&s;ons inhabiting within the we&s;triding in the countie of yorke, &s;hal make or cau&s;e to be made any broade clothe or clothes called pewkes, tawneis, violets, or grenes, except the wolther of before it be conuerted into yarne, be fyr&s;t died, litted, and coulered w^t the couler blue, of the value of two pence a pou~d, vpo~ pain of forfeiture of euery &s;uch colored cloth, or y^e value therof, wherof the wol &s;hal not be fir&s;t died, litted, &amp; colored w^t the couler blue of .ij. d. a. li. as is afor&s;aid.</P>
<P>Item that euerye ordinarye kar&s;ey mentioned in the &s;aid acte, &s;hall conteine in length in the water betwixte .xvi. and .xvii. yardes, yarde and ynche, and being wel &s;coured, thicked, milled, dre&s;&s;ed, &amp; fully dried &s;hall weighe .xix. poundes the peece at the lea&s;te. And euerye kar&s;eye
<PB N="xii" REF="14">called &s;ortinge kar&s;ey, mentioned in the &s;ayde Acte, beynge well &s;cou|red, thicked, mylled, dre&s;&s;ed, and fully dryed, readye to be &s;hewed, &s;hall weyghe .xxii. poundes at the lea&s;te.</P>
<P><HI>ITEM,</HI> that euery Deuon&s;hyre kar&s;ey called Do&s;&s;one, the whiche is appoynted by the &s;ame &s;tatute to weygh beynge drye .xiiij. poundes at the lea&s;te, &s;hall weygh beinge well &s;coured, thicked, mylled, and fullye dryed, after the rate of euery yarde one pounde at the lea&s;te.</P>
<P><HI>ITEM,</HI> that one article mentioned in the &s;ayde &s;tatute concernynge wel&s;he cottons touchinge the length and weight, &s;halbe clearely void, and euery gode of wel&s;he lininge &s;hall conteyne and be three quarters of a yarde in breadth in the water, and &s;hall weygh one pounde and a halfe quarter, and euery yarde of cotton beyng fully wrought and cot|toned, &s;hall weygh one pounde at the lea&s;te.</P>
<P><HI>AND</HI> be it further enacted, that no per&s;on or per&s;onnes whiche &s;hal buye to &s;ell agayne by waye of retayle or otherwi&s;e, anye of the &s;ayde wel&s;he lininges, &s;hall dre&s;&s;e or worke, or cau&s;e to be dre&s;&s;ed or wrought within his or theyr dwellynge hou&s;e or hou&s;es, or in any other place by him &s;elfe, or his &s;eruaunt or &s;eruauntes, anye of the &s;ayde wel&s;he linin|ges, but &s;hall put the &s;ame to &s;ome &s;uche per&s;on or per&s;ons, as &s;halbe of the arte or &s;cience of Sheremen, Cottoners, or fry&s;ers, to be by theim wrought and dre&s;&s;ed, vpon payne of forfeyture for euery wel&s;he cotton or lyninge, fry&s;ed or cottoned to the contrary .vj. <ABBR>s.</ABBR> viij.
<ABBR>d.</ABBR></P>
<P><HI>ITEM,</HI> that all and euerye cotton or cottons called Manche&s;ter, Lancke&s;hire, and Che&s;&s;hyre cottous, and all clothes called Manche|&s;ter Rugges, or Manche&s;ter Fry&s;es, maye be deuyded into two halfe peeces, and &s;hall conteyne and be after the rate of &s;uche breadth and weyght, as in the &s;ayd actis limitted and apoynted to a whole peece of euery of the &s;eueral peeces of cottons &amp; rugges afore&s;ayd any thing in the &s;aid former &s;tatute to the contrary in any wi&s;e notwith&s;ta~ding.</P>
<P><HI>AND</HI> if any cloth or kar&s;ey of the &s;euerall kindes of makinges, men|tioned in the &s;aid former act, or this e&s;tatute, do excede the &s;eueral len|gthes mentioned in the &s;ame, that then euery yarde &s;o excedinge, &s;hall weygh after &s;uch rate as euery yarde of &s;uche cloth or kar&s;eys contey|ning the &s;ayd &s;euerall lengthes, &s;hall or ought to weygh, vpon payne of forfeyture for euery yarde, not weyinge after &s;uche rate .v.s. And if any &s;uche cloth or kar&s;eys &s;hall lacke of &s;uch weyght as by the &s;ayd &s;tatute or this acte it ought and is appoynted to haue, then the maker thereof or other per&s;on in who&s;e handes or po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion the &s;ame &s;hall be founde, &s;hall forfeyte for euery pounde lacking aboue .iiij. poundes .v.s. and al|&s;o for euery pounde exceadinge not aboue .iiij. poundes .ij. <ABBR>s.</ABBR> in maner and fourme as in the &s;ayd former acte is appointed.</P>
<P><HI>ITEM,</HI> one article mentioned in the &s;aid &s;tatute, wherein the alneger is prohibited to &s;et his &s;eal to any cloth or kar&s;ey which &s;hal proue pur|&s;y, bandy, &s;qually, in or by warpe or wofe, or els &s;hal happen to be euell
<PB REF="15">burled or wa&s;ted in the mylle, or otherwy&s;e to be full of holes, mylbrac|kes, or to be hoolye, &s;halbe voyde and of none effecte.</P>
<P><HI>ITEM</HI> it is enacted that if at any time after the fyr&s;te daye of Maye, anye clothe or kar&s;ey, thoroughe the defaulte or necligence of the kar|ders, &s;pinners, or weauers, or any of them, &s;hal, or do proue eyther pur|&s;ey, cockeley, bandye, &s;qually, or rowye, by warpe or woofe, or els &s;hall happen to be euell burled, or wa&s;ted in the myll, or elles thoroughe the defaulte or necligence of the myll man, or otherwy&s;e, to be full of holes, mylbrackes, or to be hooly, that then the maker of euery &s;uche clothe or ker&s;ey &s;o beynge defectiue or faultie as is afore&s;ayde, &s;hal fixe vnto eue|rye ende of the &s;ayd clothe or kar&s;eye &s;o beynge defectiue and faultye, and offred to be &s;olde, one &s;eale of leade, in the whiche &s;eale &s;halbe in|graued this worde (faultye) vpon payne of forfeyture of &s;uche clothe or kar&s;ey, or the value thereof &s;o offred to be &s;olde, wherevnto &s;uche &s;eale &s;hall not be &s;et.</P>
<P><HI>ITEM,</HI> the article mentioned in the &s;ayde former acte of retourninge of defectiue clothes, kar&s;eyes, fri&s;es, or cottons beyng tran&s;ported ouer the &s;eas by the marchauntes, &s;halbe vtterly voyde. But neuertheles be it enacted by the aucthoritie afore&s;ayde, that if it &s;hall fortune hereafter any marchaunte or marchauntes, to tran&s;porte anye clothe or clothes, kar&s;eys, fry&s;es, or cottons, whervnto the &s;eale with this word (faultye) was not annexed at the tyme of the &s;ale therof by the clothier, and the &s;ame clothes, kar&s;eys, fry&s;es, or cottons &s;o tran&s;ported, or anye of them to be founde faultie or defectiue, and the &s;ame marchaunt or marchau~|tes therof, within two yeares after &s;uche &s;ale, to brynge a certificate, &s;ealed with the &s;eale of any towne or companye in the parties beyonde the &s;eas, or &s;igned by a Notarye there, after the accu&s;tomed maner, te|&s;ti&s;ienge and declarynge therby the lo&s;&s;e and damage whiche the mar|chauntes &s;hall haue &s;u&s;teyned by &s;uche defectiue and faultie clothe or clothes &s;o tran&s;ported, that then the clothier or clothiers, or other per|&s;on of whome the clothe or clothes was boughte, theyr executours or admini&s;iratours, &s;hall within &s;ixe wekes nexte after reque&s;te made by the &s;ayde marchaunte, his executours, admini&s;tratours, or a&s;&s;ignes, well and truelye &s;aty&s;fye coutente and paye, to &s;uche marchaunte, his executours or admini&s;tratours, or a&s;&s;ignes, all and euery &s;uche &s;umme and &s;ummes of money as &s;hal &s;o be mentioned, expre&s;&s;ed, and declared in the &s;ayd certificate, vpon payne of forfeyture to the partye greued, for euery none payment vpon &s;uche reque&s;te, double the value of &s;uche &s;umme or &s;ummes mentioned in the &s;ayde certificate.</P>
<P><HI>PROVIDED</HI> alwayes, that &s;uche marchaunte &s;hall not in anye wy&s;e haue by vertue of this act, any recompence for lacke of length, breadth, or weyght, of, or for any cloth, whervnto the &s;eale of any citie-borough or towne corporate &s;halbe fixed.</P>
<P><HI>ITEM,</HI> yf any per&s;onne &s;hall by him &s;elfe, or by any other per&s;onne by
<PB N="xiii" REF="15">him procured cou~terfet, &s;et to, or take away fro~ any cloth, kar&s;ey, fri&s;e, rugge, or cotton, any &s;eale appoynted to be fixed to any clothe, kar&s;eye, fry&s;e, rugge, or cotten, eyther by this acte, or by the &s;ayde former e&s;ta|tute, that then euerye &s;uche per&s;onne &s;o offendinge, &s;hall incurre and haue like penalties, forfeitures, and puni&s;hmentes, as in the &s;ayde for|mer acte is apoynted and limitted for the like offence.</P>
<P>And for the better execution as well of this pre&s;ente acte, as of the &s;ayde former e&s;tatute, and to the intente that all kinde of kar&s;eys, cot|tons, fri&s;es, rugges, and other wollen cloth, made in any towne &s;halbe the better knowen, it is further enacted, that the &s;eal of euery borough or towne corporate, appoynted, or to be appoynted for the &s;ealynge of anye &s;uche kynde of cloth, &s;hall be fixed to all and euery &s;uche kynde of clothe, beynge well and &s;ub&s;taunciallye made within &s;uche Citie, bo|roughe, or towne corporate, whyche clothe &s;o Sealed with the &s;eale of anye Citie, Boroughe, or Towne corporate, &s;hall not be &s;earched, tryed, or viewed by anye Searcher or Sealer of anye other Citie, Boroughe, or Towne corporate, by vertue of his &s;ayde office, anye thynge in thys acte, or in the &s;ayde former e&s;tatute to the contrary not|with&s;tandinge.</P>
<P>Item, be it further enacted by the auctoritie afore&s;ayde, that euerye per&s;onne and per&s;onnes, not dwellinge and inhabitinge within anye Citie, Borough, or corporate towne, and makinge any of the clothes or kar&s;eys afore&s;ayde, maye lawfullye bringe the &s;ame to the nexte Citie, Boroughe, or corporate towne, where anye &s;uche kynde of clothes or kar&s;eys be or &s;halbe commonlye made, there to be &s;ealed in maner and fourme as is before expre&s;&s;ed.</P>
<P>Item, yf any Searcher or Sealer apointed, or to be appointed by vertue of this pre&s;ente acte, or of the &s;ayde former Statute, &s;hall &s;ette the Seale of anye Citie, Boroughe, or Towne corporate, to any cloth, whiche &s;hall not conteyne &s;uche lengthe, weyghte, and breadth, as in the &s;ayde former Statute, or in this pre&s;ente acte is appoynted, that then the Mayer and Cominaltie, or Baylyf and Comynaltie, or other corporation of the Towne&s;hippe, by what&s;oeuer name or names it or they &s;halbe incorporated, where &s;uche cloothe, karfeye, fry&s;e, cotton, or rugge &s;halbe &s;o &s;ealed, &s;hall forfeyte and lo&s;e the hole value of the cloth &s;o fealed.</P>
<P>It is al&s;o enacted by the aucthoritie of this pre&s;ente parlyamente, that the &s;ayd Searchers or Sealers, and euery one of them, &s;hall haue full power and aucthoritie by vertue of this Acte, in the daye tyme, to entre into all and euerye hou&s;e and hou&s;es, of euerye per&s;onne or per&s;onnes, where he or they &s;hall thinke mete to &s;earche, and to trye all and euerye kynde of cloothes, kar&s;eyes, fry&s;es, and rugges as they &s;hall fynde defectyue, eyther in lengthe, breadthe, or weyghte, and the &s;ame to trye by water and weyghte, and al&s;oo to &s;earche
<PB REF="16">and &s;ea&s;e as forfeyte all and euery cloth and clothes made of other co|lours then in the &s;ayde former acte is appointed, fryars gray, crane co|loure, purple, and olde medley coulours, moo&s;te commonly v&s;ed to be made before twenty yeares la&s;t pa&s;t, onely excepted.</P>
<P><HI>AND</HI> yf anye manner of per&s;onne or per&s;ones, at any tyme after the fyr&s;te daye of Maye nexte comminge, &s;hall deny, with&s;tande, or with|holde any cloth or clothes, kar&s;eys, fry&s;es, rugges, or any of them, from the &s;ayde Sealers or Searchers, or any of them, or wyll not &s;uffer the~ to enter into theyr &s;hops, warehou&s;es, hou&s;es or places wher theyr clothes, kar&s;eys, fry&s;es, or rugges &s;hall be, the &s;ame to be &s;earched and tryed as is afore&s;ayde, that then euerye &s;uche per&s;on or per&s;ons &s;o de|nyinge or with&s;tandinge, for euery &s;uche with&s;tandyng, withholding or deniall, to forfeyt and lo&s;e .x. poundes.</P>
<P>Be it lykewy&s;e further enacted, that it &s;hall not be lawfull for any of the &s;ayde Searchers, or Sealers, or anye other per&s;onne, to &s;earche anye manner of wollen cloothe or kar&s;eye, wherevnto the Seale of a Citie, Boroughe, or Towne corporate, &s;hall be fyxed, within the com|mon clothe markette of London, commonlye called Blackewell hall, or in anye common clothe faire, or clothe markette of anye other Citie, Boroughe, or Towne corporate, in and durynge the tyme of the fayre or markette, anye Acte or Statute to the contrarye notwyth&s;tan|dynge.</P>
<P><HI>BE IT</HI> further enacted, that all and euerye article, clau&s;e, and &s;en|tence in the &s;aydeformer Statute made in the fyfte and &s;ixte yeare of the reygne of oure &s;ayde late Soueraigne Lorde, kynge Edwarde the Syxte, beinge not repugnaunte or contrary to anye article, clau&s;e or &s;entence conteyned in this pre&s;ente acte, &s;hall &s;tande in full force and effecte.</P>
<P>Prouided alwayes, that no per&s;one or per&s;onnes &s;hall incurre the daunger, penaltye, or forfeyture limitted and appointed for any offence in the &s;ayde former acte, the which is already mittigated or otherwi&s;e appointed by this pre&s;ent acte.</P>
<P><HI>AND</HI> be it further enacted by the aucthoritie afore&s;ayde, that eue|rye clothier &s;hall cau&s;e euerye clothe whiche he &s;hall put to &s;ale, frome and after the fea&s;te of the Natiuitie of Sainte Iohn Bapti&s;te necte commynge, to be marked with the letter M. crowned, wrought in the cloth, vpon payne to forfeyte .xx.s. for euerye clothe, beynge &s;olde or put to &s;ale by anye &s;uche clothier after the &s;ayde fea&s;t not marked with the &s;ayde lettre M. as is afore&s;aide.</P>
<P>And moreouer be it enacted by the auctoritie afore&s;ayd, that no per+&s;on or per&s;ons after the &s;aid fea&s;t of the natiuitie of S. Iohn Bapti&s;t, &s;hal &s;el or put to &s;ale within the realme of England, any coloured cloth of any other colour or colours then are hereafter in this act mentioned that is to &s;aye, &s;carlet, red, crim&s;on, morrey, violet, pewke, brownble vs
<PB N="xiiii" REF="16">blacke, grene, yellowe, blue, oriche tawny, ru&s;&s;et, marble, gray, &s;ad new coulour Azner, watchet, &s;hepes couloure, Lyon colour, motleye, yron gray, friers graye, crane colour, purple, and olde medley colour, mo&s;te comonly v&s;ed to be made aboue and before .xx. yeares la&s;t pa&s;t.</P>
<P><HI>ITEM,</HI> where as diuers aunciente cities, boroughes, and townes corporate within this realme of England, hath ben in times pa&s;t well and &s;ub&s;tauncially inhabited, occupied, maynteyned, and vpholded, as well by rea&s;on of makinge of broad wollen clothes and kar&s;eys, as al&s;o by diuers other artificers, inhabitinge then in the &s;ayd townes, at whiche time al&s;o the vyllages and hu&s;bande townes floury&s;&s;hed, and hu&s;bandrye and tyllage was well mainteined, to the great benefite of the realme, and all the people therin, fora&s;much as diuers yeares pa&s;te, &s;uche per&s;ons as do v&s;e the feat or mi&s;tery of cloth making, not conten+ted to liue as artificers, and with the trade wherein they haue bene brought vp, do daylye plante them&s;elues in villages and townes, be|inge no cities, boroughes, nor corporate townes, and there occupying the &s;eate and place of a hu&s;bandman, do not onely ingro&s;&s;e diuiers fer|mes and pa&s;tures into theyr handes, di&s;plea&s;ing the hu&s;bandman, and decaying the ploughes and tyllages, but al&s;o drawe with them out of cities, boroughes, and townes corporate, all &s;orte of artificers, wherby not onely diuers auncient cities, boroughes, and townes corporate, are vtterlye decayed, de&s;troyed, and depopulated, but al&s;o hu&s;bandrye and tyllages very muche decayed, to the great hurte, damage, and pre+iudice of this realme, and the people therin, yf &s;pedy remedy be not for|&s;ene. And fora&s;muche al&s;o as the weauers and workemen of clothiers when they haue ben traded vp in the trade of cloth making and wea|uinge .iij. or .iiij. yeares, do for&s;ake theyr may&s;ters, and do become clo|thiers and occupiers for the~ &s;elues, without &s;tocke, &s;kyll, or knowledge to the great &s;claunder of the true cloth makinge, be&s;ides a greate num|ber of inconueniences whiche do growe to the common welth of this realme therby, as dayly experience teacheth. Be it therefore ordeyned and enacted by thauctoritie of this pre&s;ent parliamente, that from and after the fir&s;t daye of Maye next comminge, no per&s;onne or per&s;onnes what&s;oeuer, &s;hall v&s;e or exerci&s;e the feate or mi&s;terye of makinge, wea|uynge, or rowinge of wollen clothes, longe or &s;horte, or kar&s;eyes, pyn|ned whites, or playne &s;treites, to thintente to put the &s;ame to &s;ale, but onely in a market towne where cloth hath commonlye ben v&s;ed to be made by the &s;pace of ten yeares la&s;t pa&s;t, or in a citie, borough, or towne corporate, vpon payne of forfeyture for euery &s;uche wollen cloth or kar+&s;ey, made, wouen, or rowed out of &s;uch citie, borough, towne corporate or market towne, fyue poundes.</P>
<P><HI>AND</HI> it is further enacted, that from and after the fyr&s;t day of May no per&s;on what&s;oeuer, &s;hall weaue or make, or put to weauinge or ma|kinge any wollen clothes or kar&s;eys la&s;t rehear&s;ed, to be &s;olde, vnles
<PB REF="17">&s;uche per&s;on &s;hall haue bene apprentice to the occupation of makinge, weauinge, and rowinge of clothe or car&s;eys, or haue ben exerci&s;ed ther in by the &s;pace of &s;euen yeares before, vpon payne of forfeyture of &s;uche cloth, or the value thereof.</P>
<P>And be it further enacted by the auctoritie afore&s;ayde, that all and euery paynes, penalties, and forfeytures to be due by force of this &s;ta|tute, or of the &s;ayd former acte being not otherwy&s;e appointed, &s;hall be deuided equally into two partes, whereof the one &s;halbe to the quenes highnes, her heires and Succe&s;&s;ours, and thother vnto him that will &s;ea&s;e (in ca&s;es where &s;ea&s;er is limitted or appointed) or elles to him or them that wyll &s;ue for the &s;ame paynes, penalties, and forfeytures, or any of them, by action, byll, playnte, information, or otherwi&s;e, in anye courte of recorde, wherein no e&s;&s;oyne, protection, wager of lawe, or in|iunction &s;hall be admitted, allowed, or obeyed.</P>
<P><HI>PROVIDED</HI> alwayes, that it &s;halbe lawfull to anye per&s;on, nowe v|&s;ynge or exerci&s;inge the feate or mi&s;terye of makynge, weauynge, or rowinge of clothe or kar&s;ey, to inhabite and dwell where he now doth, and there to v&s;e the makinge, weauinge, or rowinge of cloth or kar&s;ey, as he hath done heretofore, any thinge in this acte to the contrary not|with&s;tandinge.</P>
<P><HI>PROVIDED</HI> alwayes, that it &s;hall be laweful to all and euery per&s;on or per&s;ons, whiche nowe do, or hereafter &s;hall inhabit or dwell in anye of the Shires of Northwales or Southwales, Che&s;&s;hyre, or Lancka &s;hyre, We&s;tmerland, Cumberland, Northumberlande, By&s;hoprike of Durham, Cornewall, Suffolke, Kent, the towne of Goddelmyne in the countye of Surrey, or yorke&s;hyre, beyng not within twelue myles of the citie of yorke or in any the townes or vyllages nere adioyninge the water of Stroude in the county of Glouce&s;ter, where clothes hath ben v&s;ually made by the &s;pace of twenty yeares la&s;t pa&s;t, and hauynge bene prentice to the occupation of clothe makinge, or exerci&s;ed in the &s;ame by the &s;pace of &s;euen yeares, to &s;et vp, v&s;e, and exerci&s;e the feate or my&s;tery of makinge, weauinge, or rowinge of clothe oute of a citie, bo|rough, or markette towne, as heretofore they myghte haue done, anye thinge in this acte to the contrary not with&s;tandinge.</P>
<P>Prouided al&s;o, that it &s;halbe lawfull to any per&s;on, nowe v&s;ynge or exerci&s;inge, or that hath v&s;ed or exerci&s;ed the feate or my&s;terye of clothe makinge, the &s;ame to contynus, v&s;e, and exercy&s;e, althoughe he hathe not bene therevnto apprentice, or haue exerci&s;ed the &s;ame by the &s;pace of &s;euen yeares, anye thinge in this Acte to the contrary notwith&s;tan|&s;tandinge.</P>
<P>Prouided alwayes &amp; be it al&s;o further enacted by thaucthoritie afore &s;ayd, that it &s;hall be lawful to euery per&s;on and per&s;ons, to &s;ell &amp; put to &s;ale by retaile or otherwy&s;e, all &amp; euery &s;uche coloured cloth and clothes as he or they nowe haue, as frelye as he or they maye lawfully &s;ell anye
<PB N="xv" REF="17">clothes of the collours in thys pre&s;ent acte allowed to be &s;olde, vntyll the fea&s;t of Saynt Mychaell tharchaungell nect en&s;uyng, Thys acte or the &s;ayd former &s;tatute, in any wy&s;e notwith&s;tandyng.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="6" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>AN ACTE</HI> to enquyre of the behauor of french men being Denizens.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The .vi. Chapter.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_IN THEIR</HI> mo&s;t humble wy&s;e, &s;hewen vn: to your mo&s;t royall Maie&s;tie, the lordes &s;pirituall and temporall, and all other your mo&s;t louyng and obedie~t Subiectes, the commons in your mo&s;te high courte of parliament a&s;&s;embled, that where at a parlyament hol+de~ at We&s;tmin&s;ter, in the .xiii. yere of the reigne of king Rychard the &s;econd, it was for &s;ondrye good con&s;iderations, ordeyned and enacted, that no alyen frenchman, &s;hould haue or enioye any bene|fyce within thys realme, but that they &s;houlde be auoyded forthewith out of the &s;ame, before a certeyne time in the &s;ayde acte limytted, as in the &s;ame acte is more playnely conteyned. And that at what hower, any pryores alyens, conuentuall or other benefice or offyce, geuen by tytle of the kyng, did voyde by laches, or deathe of the &s;ayde pryor, and other occupyers, that than (duryng the warres) hone&s;t per&s;ons Eng|ly&s;he, &s;hould be put therin, in the place of them to accomply&s;he diuyne &s;eruyce, and none of the enemyes afore&s;ayd. And yet notwith&s;tandyng the &s;ayd ordynaunce, the &s;ayde alyens frenchmen, by euell imaginati|on and brocage, to contynue the euyll my&s;chyfes of the &s;ayd ordinau~ce dyd purcha&s;e letters patentes of the kynge to be denizens, and lyeges of the kynge, and &s;o &s;ware to continue the &s;ame, to thuitent to occupye and enioye the &s;ayd benefices, and by that meanes dyd occupye greate number of benefices, agayn&s;te the &s;ayd ordynaunce, by meanes where of the alyens french were incre&s;ed, to the demini&s;hing of the Subiects of the kynge and the trea&s;ure of the kynge and the Realme dyd carrye oute of thys Realme, and the councell of the kynge did di&s;couer to the enemyes of fraunce, to the great damage of the kyng and the Realme. For remedy whereof at a parliament holden at We&s;tmin&s;ter, the fyr&s;te yeare of the reigne, of the mo&s;t worthy prynce of famous memory, king Henry the fyfte, the &s;ame king con&s;ideryng the my&s;chyfes afore&s;aid, by thaucthoritie of the &s;ame parlyamente, wylled that the &s;ayd ordinau~ce &s;hould be &s;aufely holden and kepte, and put in due executyon, (certaine pryor aliens excepted) and that they &s;houlde put in &s;uretye, not to di&s;|couer nor cau&s;e to be dy&s;couered, the councell nor the &s;ecretes of the
<PB REF="18">Realme. And where &s;ythence the makynge of the &s;ayde Actes of Par|lyamente, &s;ondrye other good lawes and actes, haue benne made, a&s;|well in the tyme of kynge Rycharde the thyrde, as in the tyme of kyng Henrye the Eyghte, in whych actes, it is prouyded, lymytted, ordey|ned and declared, vnder what &s;orte the &s;ayde Alyens, and euerye of them &s;houlde v&s;e them&s;elfes within thys Realme.</P>
<P><HI>AND</HI> where al&s;o by one acte of Parlyament made at We&s;tmyn&s;ter, in the two and thyrtye yeare of the raygne of the &s;ayde late kyng Hen|rye the Eyghte, it was enacted amonge&s;t other thynges conteyned in the &s;ayde acte that al maner of Straungers borne oute of hys gra|ces obey&s;aunce, whyche before that tyme were made Denyzens, or that after that &s;houlde be made Denyzens, from and after y^e fyr&s;t daye of September then nexte commynge, &s;houlde be bounden, and be obe|dyente, by, and vnto all the fore&s;ayde actes and &s;tatutes, made in the fyr&s;te yeare of the &s;ayde kynge Rycharde the thyrd, and in the fourtene and one and twentye yeares of the &s;ayde kynge Henrye the Eyghte, and to all the contentes of the &s;ame, and to all other actes, and &s;tatutes of thys Realme before that tyme, made or from henceforth to be made. And that al&s;o in al and euery Letters Patentes, of or for anye Deny|zen from and after the la&s;te daye of the &s;ame Parlyamente, &s;oo holden in the &s;ayde two and thyrtye yeare, to be made to anye &s;traunger, not beynge borne vnder the kynges obey&s;aunce, there &s;houlde be contey|ned in euerye &s;uche Letters Patentes, a prouy&s;o that he or they to whome &s;uche Letters Patentes, &s;halbe &s;oo made and graunted, &s;houlde be bounden and be obedyente by and vnto all the actes, and Statutes, of thys Realme, as is afore&s;ayde, and to all and euerye the contentes of the &s;ame, as by the &s;ame actes more playnelye it dothe and may appeare.</P>
<P>Yet Sythence the makynge of the &s;ayde &s;euerall Actes, a greate number and multytude of the frenche nacyon, haue aryued into thys Realme, a&s;well nere to the Sea&s;yde, as el&s;e where, and vnder a fayned fal&s;e and vntrue promy&s;e or othe of alegyence, and faythe promy&s;ed to be by them borne to thys Realme, they haue of late yeares &s;ithence the &s;ayde two and thyrtye yeare of the Reygne of the &s;ayde late kynge Henrye the Eyghte, by &s;yny&s;ter and vndue meanes obteyned, dyuers and &s;ondrye &s;euerall Letters Patentes, whereby they be made Deni|zens, and by force thereof doo emoye the lybertyes and pryueleges of thys Realme, and yet contrarye to the true meanynge of the &s;ayde Letters Patentes, in theyr condytions and behaunures, they doo re|mayne Frenche, and daylye from tyme to tyme do di&s;couer the coun+cell, &s;tate and priuities of this Realme, and compa&s;&s;e, Imagyne, and procure &s;ondrye my&s;chyfes and damage to be done by the frenche na|cyon
<PB N="xvi" REF="18">to thys Realme, contrarye to the &s;ayde Actes of Parlyamente, and contrarye to their &s;ayde letters patentes, and the prouy&s;o contey|ned in the &s;ame.</P>
<P><HI>FOR</HI> remedy whereof, and for the auoydyng of the imminent peryll that for want of due prouydence, may en&s;ue to your mo&s;t royal per&s;on, (whome our Lord GOD, longe pre&s;erue to reygne ouer vs) and to thys your hyghnes Realme, by the malicious and &s;ecrete practy&s;es of the &s;ayd Denizens, we mo&s;t humblye be&s;ech your mo&s;t excellent Ma|ie&s;tie, to haue vigilante care and tender con&s;yderatyon, of youre owne &s;uretye, and pre&s;eruation of thys youre Realme, and hauynge good and &s;ure experience of your accu&s;tomed honorable and mercyfull di&s;po+&s;ition and inclination, do al&s;o moo&s;te humblye be&s;ech the &s;ame, that by youre royall a&s;&s;ente, it maye be enacted by thaucthoritye of this pre&s;ent parlyament, that al french men, and all and euery other per&s;onne and per&s;onnes, borne in any place, beyond the Seas, which at the tyme of the byrth of any &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;ones, was vnder the french kinges obey&s;aunce, not beynge Denizens, other then &s;uche as the kynge and Quenes highnes, or the quene onely &s;hall &s;pecyally lycence, lymit, and appoynte to remayne within thys Realme, &s;hall departe oute of thys Realme, and out and from the dominions and terrytories of the &s;ame, there to remayne and contynue withoute retorne into thys Realme, durynge the time and contmuaunce of the warres, betwene the french kynge and oure Soueraygne Ladye the quene, or her heires or &s;ucce&s;|&s;oures. And that our Soueraygne Lorde and Ladye, the kynge and the queene, or her hyghnes onelye, by the aucthoritie of thys Acte, by their letters patentes, vnder the great Seale of Englande, &s;hall and maye haue full power and aucthoritie, from time to tyme, duryng the lyfe of the quenes hyghnes (whych almyghty GOD long pro&s;per and contynue) after offyce founde or other due profe, of the my&s;deamenor of anye &s;uch Denizen, committed contrary to the lawes of this realme to repeale and make voyde all and &s;ynguler letters patentes, or a&s;ma|nye of them, as to her hyghnes &s;hall &s;eme good, made &s;ythence the &s;ayd two and thyrtye yeare of the Raygne of Kynge Henrye theyghte, to anye alyen or &s;traunger borne frenche, and vnder the obey&s;aunce of of the frenche kynge, concernynge onelye the makynge of &s;uche alyen, or Straunger Denyzen, the &s;ame Letters Patentes of repeale, to be proclaimed and v&s;ed in maner and fourme folowynge, that is to &s;aye, that euery &s;uch Letters Patents of repeale, &s;hal conteine the names &amp; &s;urnames of euery &s;uch alien Straunger, who&s;e letters Patents &s;hal &s;oo be repealed, and &s;halbe &s;olempnlye and openly redde and proclai|med in the kynge and Queenes Courte of Chauncerye, betwene the howres of nine, and a leuen, before none, one day in anye one terme to be kepte at We&s;tmyn&s;ter, and in &s;uche and a&s;manye termes
<PB REF="19">and counties of this realme, as &s;halbe limitted, or appoynted, or other wi&s;e &s;eme mete to the quenes maie&s;tie, at any tyme hereafter, durynge her highnes &s;ayd lyfe, and that al and euery &s;uch letters patentes, to be repealed in maner and forme afore&s;ayde, from, and immediately after xxx. dayes nexte en&s;uynge &s;uch repeale, &s;hall touchyng onelye the ma|kyng of &s;uch alyen or &s;traunger denizen, be voyde and of none effecte, and not before.</P>
<P><HI>AND</HI> be it further enacted by thauchorytie afore&s;ayd, that &s;uch ali|ens and &s;traungers denizens, who&s;e patentes the queenes hyghnes hereafter &s;hal fortune to allowe or confirme, or whom her hyghnes &s;hal lycence to remayne and tarry in thys Realme, &s;halbe bounden to the kynge and Queenes maie&s;ties, by recogni&s;aunce, not to dy&s;couer nor cau&s;e to be di&s;couered the councell nor the &s;ecreates of thys Realme, and further to be bounde and obedyente vnto and by the lawes and &s;tatutes of the &s;ame, and yf any &s;uch alyen borne frenche, and vnder the obey&s;aunce of the french kyng, as is afore&s;ayde, &s;hall refu&s;e to know|lege any &s;uch recogni&s;aunce, that then the &s;ayde confirmation, allow|aunce, and lycence, &s;halbe voyde and of none effect.</P>
<P><HI>PROVIDED</HI> alwayes that yf any &s;uch alyen as is afore&s;ayd, &s;hal haue purcha&s;ed any Manour, Landes, Tenementes, or hereditamentes, of anye e&s;tate of inherytaunce, within thys Realme, &s;ythence the tyme that he was made denizen, or y^e any Manor, Landes, Tenementes, or hereditamentes within this realme, were gyuen to any &s;uch alien, of any e&s;tate of inherytaunce, by any letters patents, or in y^e &s;ame letters patentes, whereby he was made denizen, that the &s;ame Manor, lan|des, tenementes, and hereditamentes, after the decea&s;e of &s;uche alien, who&s;e letters patentes, of makyng denizen, &s;halbe as is afore&s;aid, repe|led, &s;hall and maye di&s;cende, remayne or come vnto &s;uche his heyre or heyres, as bene borne within thys realme, and as be inheritable to the &s;ame, or to &s;uch other per&s;on or per&s;onnes that &s;houlde by the lawes of thys realme, haue and enioye the &s;ame, or any part thereof, yf thys acte or no &s;uch repeale had bene made in &s;uch maner and forme as thoughe no &s;uch repeale were had or made, the &s;ame repeale or any thing in this acte to the contrary not with&s;tandyng.</P>
<P>Prouided al&s;o that it &s;halbe lawefull to the Quenes maie&s;tie, her heyres and &s;ucce&s;&s;oures, immediatelye from and after the departure of euery &s;uch denizen, out of thys Realme, to receyue and take the cleare yerely i&s;&s;ues, reuenues, and proffyts of al &s;uch Manours, Lands, Te|nementes, Rentes, Fees, Annuityes, and Heredytamentes, whereof any &s;uch Denyzen were &s;ea&s;&s;ed or hadde at the tyme of thys acte, or at the tyme of hys departure oute of thys Realme, as is afore&s;ayde, for and durynge the lyfe of euerye &s;uche Denizen, in as ample and large maner and forme, and in &s;uche qualytye, condytyon, and degree, as
<PB N="xvii" REF="19">anye &s;uche deni&s;en mighte lawfullye haue receyued and taken at the tyme of the makyng of this pre&s;ent acte, and not otherwi&s;e, any thinge in this acte conteyned to the contrary notwith&s;tandinge.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="7" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>AN ACTE</HI> to make vp the Iury with circum&s;tantibus, where the kynge and Quenes maie&s;ties or the Quenes maie&s;tie is a party.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The .vii. Chapter.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_WHERE</HI> in the parliament holden at We&s;tmin+&s;ter the .xiiij. day of Ianuary in the .xxxv. yeare of the reygne of the moo&s;t noble and victorious Prince king Henry the eyght, late kynge of Englande, amonge&s;te other thinges it was enacted and e&s;tably&s;hed, for the &s;pedye tryall of I&s;&s;ues ioyned betwene party and par|tye, in anye of the kynges courtes of recorde holden at We&s;tmin&s;ter, to be tryed by the verdicte of twelue menne, before the Iu&s;tices of a&s;&s;i&s;e, or <HI>ni&s;i prius,</HI> that in euerye wrytte of <HI>habeascorpora,</HI> or <HI>di&s;tringas,</HI> with a <HI>ni&s;i prius,</HI> delyuered of recorde to the Sheryffe or other mini&s;ter or mini&s;ters to whome the makynge of the retourne &s;hall apparteyne, where a full Iurye &s;hall not appeare before the Iu&s;tices of a&s;&s;i&s;e or
<HI>ni&s;i prius,</HI> or elles where after appearaunce of a full Iurye, by chalenge of any of the par|ties, the Iurye is lyke to remayne vntaken for default of the Iurours, that then the &s;ame Iu&s;tices vpon reque&s;t made by the partyes playn|tyfe or demaundaunte, &s;hall haue aucthoritie by vertue of the &s;ayd act, to comaunde the Sherif or other mini&s;ter or mini&s;ters, to whome the makynge of the &s;ayde retourne &s;hall appertayne, to name and apoynte as often as nede &s;hall requyre, &s;o many of &s;uche other hable per&s;ones of the &s;ayde countye then pre&s;ent at the &s;ayde a&s;&s;i&s;es or ni&s;i prius, as &s;hall make vp a &s;ull Iurye, whiche per&s;ones &s;o to be named and enpanelled by &s;uche Sherif or other mini&s;ter or mini&s;ters, &s;halbe added to the for|mer pannell, and theyr names annexed to the &s;ame, as by the &s;ayde act more at large appeareth, whiche Statute was made to endure tyll the ende of the nexte parlyamente, and after was and is frome tyme to tyme contynued, and doeth nowe remayne, &s;tande, and be in effecte, whiche acte doth not extende to any Iury enpanelled, to trye an y&s;&s;ue ioyned betwene the kynge and the partye, or betwene &s;uche as pur&s;ue any matter for the kynge and them &s;elues.</P>
<P>Be it therefore enacted, ordeyned, and e&s;tably&s;hed by the kynge and Quenes maie&s;ties the lordes &s;pirituall and temporall, and the
<PB REF="20">commons in this pre&s;ent parliament a&s;&s;embled, and by the aucthoritie of the &s;ame, that frome and after the lyr&s;te daye of Iune next cominge, the Iu&s;tices of a&s;&s;i&s;e and <HI>ni&s;i prius,</HI> before whome anye tryall &s;hall be made, by vertue of anye wrytte of
<HI>habeas corpora,</HI> or <HI>di&s;tringas,</HI> with a <HI>ni&s;iprius,</HI> where a full Iurye &s;hall not appeare, or after appearaunce of a full Iurye by chalenge the Iurye is lyke to remayne vntaken, for defaulte of Iuriours, &s;hall haue aucthoritie by vertue of this Acte, vpon reque&s;t made for the kynge and Quene her heyres or Succe&s;&s;oures, by anye aucthori&s;ed therevnto, or a&s;&s;igned by the Iu&s;tices of the Courte be|fore whome the &s;ayde enque&s;te &s;hall be taken, or vppon reque&s;te to be made by the partye that foloweth as well for the kynge and Queene, her heyres and Succe&s;&s;ours, as for hym &s;elfe vppon anye penall Sta|tute or hys or theyr Attourney, to commaunde the Sheryffe, or other mini&s;ter or mini&s;ters, to whome the makynge of the &s;ayde retourne &s;hall appertayne, to name and appoynte, as often as nede &s;hall require &s;o manye of &s;uche other hable per&s;onnes of the &s;ayde Countye then pre&s;ente at the &s;ayde a&s;&s;i&s;es, or <HI>ni&s;i prius,</HI> and to adde and annexe the na|mes to the former pannell, as &s;hall make vppe a full Iurye of twelue menne for the tryall of euerye &s;uche I&s;&s;ue. And that all and euerye clau&s;e, &s;entence, article, and proui&s;o compri&s;ed in the &s;ayde former acte, &s;hall be taken, enterpreted, and expounded, to geue the lyke and the &s;ame aduauntage and commoditie to the kynge and Quenes maie|&s;ties, her heyres and Succe&s;&s;oures, and all &s;uche per&s;onne and per|&s;onnes as &s;hall pur&s;ue anye action, byll, playnte, or information for the kynge and Quenes maie&s;ties, her heyres and Succe&s;&s;ours onelye, or for them and the partye, as the partye playntyfe in anye other action &s;houlde or myghte haue by vertue of the &s;ayde Acte, in &s;uche fourme and condition, to all intentes and purpo&s;es, as yf &s;uch actions or &s;uites for the kynge hadde bene &s;pecially and perticulerly mentioned and de|clared in the &s;ayde Acte.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="8" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>AN</HI> Acte for the puni&s;hemente of &s;uche as &s;hall take awaye maydens that be inheritours, beynge within the age of &s;ixtene yeares, or that marye them without the con&s;ente of theyr parentes.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The .vij. chapter.</HEAD>
<PB N="xviii" REF="20">
<P><HI>_WHERE</HI> maydens and women chyldren of no|ble men, gentlemen, and others, as well &s;uche as be heyres apparaunte to theyr aunce&s;tours, as others, ha+uynge lefte vnto them by theyr father or other aunce|&s;tre and freindes, landes, tenementes, and heredita|mentes, or other greate &s;ub&s;taunces in goodes and ca|telles moueable, for and to thintente to aduaunce them in marryage &s;omewhat lyke, accordynge to theyr degrees, and as myght be moo&s;te for their &s;uertye and comforte, as well for theim &s;elues, as of all other theyr freinds and kynne&s;folkes, be often tymes vnwares to theyr &s;ayd freindes or kynne&s;folkes, by flattery, tryfelynge gyftes, and fayre pro|mi&s;es of manye vnthryftye and lighte per&s;onages, and thereto by the intreatye of per&s;ones of lewde demeanoure and others, that for rewar+des bye and &s;ell the &s;ayde maydens and chyldren, &s;ecretlye allured and wonne to contracte matrimonye with the &s;ayde vnthryftye and lyght per&s;onages, and therevpon either with &s;lyghte or force, oftentymes be taken and conueyed awaye from theyr &s;ayde parentes, freindes, or kynne&s;folkes, to the high di&s;plea&s;ure of almyghtye God, di&s;pargement of the &s;ayde chyldren, and the extreame contynuall heuynes of al theyr freindes, whiche vngodlye dealynge for lacke of whole&s;ome lawes to the redre&s;&s;e thereof, remayneth a great familier and common mi&s;cheife in this oure common welth.</P>
<P>For remedye whereof be it enacted by the kynge and Quenes ma+ie&s;ties, the lordes &s;piritual and temporall, and the commons of this pre+&s;ent parliamente a&s;&s;embled, and by the aucthoritie of the &s;ame, that it &s;hall not be lawfull to anye per&s;on or per&s;ons, to take or conuey awaye or cau&s;e to be taken or conueyed awaye any mayde or woman chylde vnmaried, beynge within the age of &s;ixtene yeares, out, of, or from the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, cu&s;todye, or gouernaunce, and agayn&s;t the wyll of the father of &s;uche mayde or woman chylde, or of &s;uche per&s;onne or per&s;onnes to whome the father of &s;uche maide or woman chylde, by his la&s;te wyll and te&s;tamente, or by any other acte in his life tyme hath or &s;hall apoint a&s;&s;igne, bequeth, geue, or graunte the ordre, kepynge, education, or go|uernaunce of &s;uche mayde or woman chylde, excepte &s;uche takyng and conueyinge awaye as &s;halbe had, made, or done, by, or for &s;uche per&s;on or per&s;onnes, as without fraude or couyn be, or then &s;hall be the ma&s;ter or my&s;tres of &s;uche mayde or woman chylde, or the gardeine in &s;ocage or gardeyne in chyualrye, of or to &s;uche mayde or woman chylde.</P>
<P>And be it further enacted by the aucthoritie afore&s;ayd, that yf anye per&s;on or per&s;ons aboue the age of .xiiij. yeares, &s;hall from and after the fyr&s;te daye of Apryll nexte commynge, vnlawfullye take or conueye or cau&s;e to be taken or conueyed any mayde or woman chylde vnmaried beyng within the age of .xvi. yeares, out, of, or from the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, and agayn&s;t the wyll of the father or mother of &s;uche chylde, or oute or from
<PB REF="21">the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, and agayn&s;t the wyll of &s;uche per&s;onne or per&s;onnes as then &s;hall happen to haue by anye lawfull wayes or meanes, the ordre kepynge, education, or gouernaunce of anye &s;uche mayden or woman chylde, that then euery &s;uche per&s;on &amp; per&s;ons (&s;o offendinge) beynge thereof lawfully attaynted, or conuicted by the ordre and due cour&s;e of the lawes of this realme, other then &s;uche of whom &s;uche per&s;on taken awaye &s;hall holde any landes or tenementes by knightes &s;eruyce, &s;hal haue and &s;uffer impri&s;onmente of his and theyr bodies by the &s;pace of two whole yeares without bayle or maynprice, or elles &s;hall pay &s;uche fine for his or theyr &s;ayde offence, as &s;halbe a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed by the coun&s;el of the Quenes highnes her heyres or &s;ucce&s;&s;ours in the Starre Chambre at We&s;tmin&s;ter.</P>
<P>And be it further enacted by the auctoritie afore&s;ayde, that yf anye &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;ones after the &s;ayd day, &s;hall &s;o take away, or cau&s;e to be taken awaye as is afore&s;ayde, and deflower anye &s;uche mayde or woman chylde as is afore&s;ayde, or &s;hall agayn&s;te the wyll, or vnknow|inge of or to the father of any &s;uche mayde or woman chylde, yf the fa|ther be in life, or agayn&s;te the wyll, or vnknowinge of or the mother of any &s;uche mayde or woman childe (hauinge the cu&s;todye and gouer|naunce of &s;uche chylde, yf the father be deade) by &s;ecrete letters, me&s;&s;a|ges, or otherwi&s;e, contracte matrimony with any &s;uch mayden or wo|man chylde, except &s;uche contractes of matrimonie as &s;hall be made by the con&s;ente of &s;uche per&s;on or per&s;onnes as by the title of ward&s;hippe &s;hall then haue, or be intituled to haue the mariage of &s;uche mayde or woman chylde, that then euerye &s;uche per&s;on or per&s;ons &s;o offendyng, beynge thereof lawfully conuicted as is afore&s;aid, &s;hal &s;uffer impri&s;on|mente of his or theyr bodies by the &s;pace of fyue yeares, without bayle or mayneprice, or elles &s;hall paye &s;uche fyne for his or theyr &s;ayd offence as &s;halbe a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed by the &s;ayd coun&s;el in the &s;aid &s;tarre Chambre. The one moytye of all whiche fynes &s;hall be to the kynge and Quenes ma|ie&s;ties, her heyres and Succe&s;&s;oures, the other moytye to the parties greued.</P>
<P>And be it further enacted by the &s;ayde aucthoritie, that the kynge and Quenes highnes honourable Councell of the Starre Chamber by byll of complaynte, or information, and Iu&s;tices of a&s;&s;i&s;e by inqui|&s;ition or indictemente, &s;hall haue aucthoritie by vertue of this acte, to heare and determine the &s;ayde offences, vpon euerye whiche indicte|mentes and inqui&s;itions &s;uche proce&s;&s;e &s;halbe awarded and lye, as v|pon an indictement of tre&s;pace at the comon lawe.</P>
<P>And further be it enacted by the aucthoritie afore&s;ayde, that if any woman chylde or mayden, beynge aboue the age of twelue yeares, and vnder the age of &s;ixtene yeares, do at any time con&s;ent or agree to &s;uch per&s;onne that &s;o &s;hall make any contracte of matrimonye, contrarye to
<PB N="xix" REF="21">the forme and effecte of this e&s;tatute, that then the next of the kynne of the &s;ame woman chyld or mayde, to whom thinheritaunce &s;hould di&s;|cende, retorne, or come after the decea&s;e of the &s;ame woman chylde and mayde, &s;hall from the tyme of &s;uch a&s;&s;ent and agrement, haue, holde, &amp; enioye al &s;uch la~des, teneme~ts, and hereditaments, as the &s;ame woma~ chylde and mayden, hadde in po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion, reuertion, or remaynder, at the tyme of &s;uch a&s;&s;ent and agrement, durynge the lyfe of &s;uch per&s;on that &s;hall &s;o contracte matrimony. And after the decea&s;e of &s;uche per&s;on &s;oo contractynge matrimony, that then the &s;ayd landes, tenementes, and heredytamentes, &s;hall di&s;cend, reuert, remayne, and come to &s;uch per&s;o~ or per&s;ons as they &s;houlde haue done in ca&s;e thys acte had neuer byn hadne made, other then to him onely that &s;o &s;hal contracte matrimony.</P>
<P><HI>PROVIDED</HI> alwayes and be it enacted, that this act nor any thing therin conteyned, &s;hall extende to take awaye or diminy&s;he any lyber|tye, cu&s;tome, or aucthoritie touchynge or concernyng anye Orpha~t or Orphantes, whych nowe be, or hereafter &s;halbe within the Citye of London, or any other citie, boroughe, or towne, where Orphantes are commonlye v&s;ed to be prouyded for, either by graunte, or by cu&s;tome, but that the lorde Maire of the &s;aid citie of London, and the aldermen of the &s;ame for the time being, and al and euery other heade offycer or officers, of anye other citie, borough, or towne, wher &s;uch Orphantes be prouyded for, &s;hall and maye haue and take like rule, order, kepynge and charge of &s;uch orphant and orphantes, and of all their landes, te|nementes, goodes, and cattels, as heretofore they or any of them law|fullye had or v&s;ed, or lawfully might haue had and v&s;ed, yf this act had not bene made.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="9" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>AN ACTE</HI> for the continuation of certayne Statutes.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The .ix. Chapter.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_WHERE IN THE PARLIAMENT</HI> BE|gon and holden at London, the thyrd day of Noue~ber, in the .xxi. yere of the reigne of our mo&s;t drede Soue|raygne lord of mo&s;t famous memory, kyng Henrye the eight, and from thence adiourned to We&s;tmin&s;ter, and there holden &amp; continued by diuers prorogations, vn|to the di&s;&s;olution therof, one acte was made and e&s;tabli&s;hed for the re|&s;traint of caryage &amp; conueying of hor&s;es and mares out of this realme. And al&s;o one other act was ther made for the true winding of wolles. And one other act was there made to re&s;traine kylling of wainlinges, bullockes. Stiers &amp; heyfers, being vnder the age of two yeres, which &s;aid &s;eueral actes were the~ made to endure &amp; continue vnto the nexte parliamente, as by the &s;aide &s;euerall actes, more playnelye appeareth.
<PB REF="22">And where al&s;o in the &s;ame Parliamente one other acte was made and e&s;tably&s;hed for attayntes, to be &s;ued for the puni&s;hment of periu|rye vpon vntrue verdictes, which acte la&s;t before rehear&s;ed, was then made and ordeyned to continue and endure to the la&s;te day of the next parliamente, as by the &s;ame acte more playnely at large is &s;hewed and maye appeare.</P>
<P><HI>AND</HI> where al&s;o in the parlyament begonne and holden at We&s;t|myn&s;ter the eyghte daye of Iune, in the eyght and twe~ty yeare of the reygne of oure &s;ayde mo&s;t dreade Soueraygne Lorde, kynge Henrye the eight, and there continued and kept vntyll the di&s;&s;olution thereof. It was ordeyned and enacted, that all and &s;ynguler the &s;ayde actes aboue remembred, and euerye of them, &s;houlde continue and endure in their force and &s;trength, and al&s;o be ob&s;erued and kepte vntyl the la&s;te daye of the nexte parliament, as by the &s;ame acte amonge&s;t other thin|ges therein conteyned, more playnelye appeareth. And where al&s;o in the Parliamente begonne and holden at We&s;tmyn&s;ter, the eyght and twentye daye of Apryll, in the one and thyrtye yeare of the reygne of oure &s;ayde late moo&s;te dreade Soueraygne Lorde, kynge Henrye the eyght, and there continued vntyll the eyght and twentye day of Iune then nexte folowynge, it was ordeyned and enacted by thaucthorytie of the &s;ame parlyamente, that all and &s;inguler the &s;ayde &s;euerall actes aboue remembred, and euery of them, and al clau&s;es, artycles, and pro|uy&s;ions in them, and euerye of them conteyned, &s;houlde contynue and endure in their force and &s;trength, and al&s;o be ob&s;erued and kept vntill the la&s;te daye of the nexte Parlyamente, as by the &s;ame Acte amon|ges other thynges therein conteyned, more playnelye appeareth.</P>
<P><HI>AND</HI> where in the Parlyamente holden at We&s;tmyn&s;ter, in the fiue and thyrty yeare of the Reygne of oure &s;ayd late Soueraygne Lord, kynge Henrye the Eyghte, one acte was made for the pre&s;eruation of woodes, to endure for &s;euen yeares then nexte folowynge, and from thence to thende of the nexte Parlyamente, as by the &s;ame acte more playnelye it dothe and maye appeare. And where al&s;o at the Parlya|mente holden at We&s;tmyn&s;ter, in the &s;euen and thyrtye yeare of the raygne of the &s;ayde late kynge Henry the eyghte, and there continued and kepte vntyll the di&s;&s;olution thereof, it was ordeyned and enac|ted that all and &s;inguler the &s;ayde actes aboue mentioned, and euerye of them (excepte the &s;ayde acte made for the pre&s;eruation of woodes, as is afore&s;ayde) &s;houlde contynue and endure in their force and &s;tren|gthe, and al&s;o be ob&s;erued and kepte vntyll the la&s;te daye of the nexte Parlyamente, then nexte folowynge, as by the &s;ame Acte amonges other thynges therein conteyned, more playnelye appeareth.</P>
<P><HI>AND</HI> where al&s;o at the Se&s;&s;yon of the Parlyamente ended at
<PB N="xx" REF="22">We&s;tmin&s;ter the .xiiij. daye of Marche, in the thyrd yeare of the raygne of oure late Soueraigne Lorde kynge Edwarde the Sixte, one acte was made for the true courryinge of leather, which acte was made to endure to the ende of the nexte parliaments, as by the &s;ame acte more playnelye appeareth.</P>
<P>And where al&s;o at the Se&s;&s;ion of a parliament ended at We&s;tmin|&s;ter the fyr&s;te daye of February, in the fourth yeare of the raigne of our &s;ayde late Soueraigne Lorde kynge Edwarde the Sixte, one Acte was then and there made concerninge the buyinge of rother bea&s;tes. And al&s;o one other acte was then and there made, touchinge the buy|inge and &s;ellynge of butter and che&s;e, whiche &s;ayde &s;euerall actes were then and there made to endure and contynue vnto the ende of the next parlyamente, as by the &s;ame &s;euerall actes more at large it doeth and maye appeare.</P>
<P>And where al&s;o at the Se&s;&s;ion of a parliamente by prorogation holden at We&s;tmin&s;ter the .xxiii. daye of Ianuarye in the fyfte yeare of the raygne of our &s;ayd late Soueraygne Lord kyng Edwarde the Syxte, one other acte was then and there made, agayn&s;te regratours and fore&s;tallers, to endure vnto the ende of the nexte parliamente, whiche all and &s;ynguler the &s;ayde actes aboue mentioned together, with the &s;ayde acte for pre&s;eruation of woodes, at a parliamente hol|den at We&s;tmin&s;ter the fyr&s;te daye of Marche, in the &s;euenth yeare of the raygne of oure &s;ayde Soueraygne Lorde kynge Edwarde the Sixte, and there continued and di&s;&s;olued the la&s;te day of the &s;ame mo|neth of Marche, and all clau&s;es, articles, and proui&s;ions in theim, and euerye of them conteyned, were there reuiued and continued, to &s;tand in theyr force and &s;trengthe vntyll the la&s;te daye of the nexte parlia|mente.</P>
<P>And where al&s;o at the Se&s;&s;ion of a parlyament holden by proroga|tion at We&s;tmin&s;ter the .xxiiij. daye of October, in the fyr&s;te yeare of the raigne of oure moo&s;te gratious Soueraigne Ladye the Queenes maie&s;tie, and there continued and kepte vntyll the di&s;&s;olution there|of, one acte was there made and e&s;tably&s;hed, agayn&s;te vnlawfull and rebellious a&s;&s;embles, to endure to the ende of the nexte parliamente, as by the &s;ame acte more playnelye doth and maye appeare.</P>
<P>And where al&s;o at the &s;ame Se&s;&s;ion of parliament la&s;t before men|tioned, all and &s;inguler the actes aboue mentioned, and before that tyme continued at &s;ondry parliamentes, as is afore&s;ayde, and all clau|&s;es, articles, and proui&s;ions in theim and euerye of theim conteyned, were there reuiued and continued to &s;tande in their force and &s;trength vnto the la&s;t day of the next parliament.</P>
<P>And where al&s;o at a parliament begon and holden at We&s;tmin&s;ter
<PB REF="23" MS="y">the .xij. daye of Nouember, in the fyr&s;te and &s;econde yeares of the reig|nes of oure moo&s;t gratious Soueraigne Lorde and Ladye the kyng and Quenes maie&s;ties, and there contynued and kepte vnto the di&s;|&s;olution of the &s;ame, beynge the &s;ixtenth daye of Ianuarye then nexte en&s;uynge, one acte was then and there made agayn&s;te &s;editious wor|des and rumours, to endure to the ende of the nexte parliamente, as by the &s;ame acte moore playnelye it doeth and maye appeare. And where al&s;o in the &s;ayde Parlyamente la&s;te before recited, all and &s;in|guler the Actes aboue mentioned that were before that tyme conti|nued at &s;ondrye parliamentes as is afore&s;ayde, and all clau&s;es articles and proui&s;ions in them and euerye of them conteined, were by auctho|ritie of the &s;ayde parliamente, there reuiued and continued to &s;tande in theyr force and &s;trengthe, vnto the la&s;te daye of the nexte Parlia|mente.</P>
<P><HI>AND</HI> where at a parliamente begonne and holden at We&s;tmin|&s;ter the one and twentye daye of October, in the &s;econde and thyrde yeares of the reygnes of our afore&s;ayde Soueraygne Lorde and La|dye the kynge and Quenes maie&s;ties, and there continued vntyll the di&s;&s;olution of the &s;ame, beynge the nynth daye of December then next en&s;uinge, one Acte was then and there made for the kepynge of milche kyne, and for the breadynge and rearinge of calues. And one other Acte for the reedifyinge of decayed hou&s;es of hu&s;bandrye, and for the encrea&s;e of Tyllage, the &s;ayde three &s;euerall actes to endure tyl the la&s;t day of the next parliament. Fora&s;muche as all and &s;inguler the &s;ayde &s;euerall actes aboue mentioned be good and beneficiall for the comon wealth of this realme.</P>
<P><HI>BE IT</HI> therefore enacted, ordeyned, and e&s;tably&s;hed by the king and Quenes maie&s;ties, oure Soueraygne Lorde and Ladye, with the a&s;|&s;ente of the lordes &s;pirituall and temporall, and the commons in this pre&s;ente parliament a&s;&s;embled, and by the aucthoritie of the &s;ame, that all and &s;inguler the &s;ayde &s;euerall actes and e&s;tatutes aboue mentio|ned and rehear&s;ed, and euerye of theim, and all clau&s;es, articles, and proui&s;ions in them and euery of them conteyned, &s;hall be reuiued, con|tinued, &s;tande, and endure in theyr full force and &s;trength, to all inten|tes, con&s;tructions, and purpo&s;es, and &s;hall be ob&s;erued and kepte in all thinges vntyll the la&s;te daye of the nexte parliamente.</P>
<P><HI>PROVIDED</HI> alwayes, and be it enacted by the aucthoritie afore&s;aid that this pre&s;ente acte of continuaunce of &s;tatutes, or any thinge ther|in conteyned, &s;hall not in any wy&s;e extende, to repeale or make voyde one acte of parliamente, entituled, an acte for the &s;ale of dyuers wynes and &s;pyces broughte in by marchauntes, made and ordeyned in this pre&s;ente parliamente, nor any clau&s;e, article, or matter therein contey|ned, but that the &s;ame Acte, and euerye thynge therein conteyned &s;hall be of as good &s;trengthe, force, and effecte, to all intentes,
<PB N="xxi" REF="23">and purpo&s;es as if thys acte of continuaunce of &s;tatutes, had not bene had nor made, any thynge herein conteyned to the contrarye in anye wy&s;e notwith&s;tandynge.</P>
<P><HI>AND</HI> where in the parliamente begonne and holden at We&s;tmyn|&s;ter the .xxi. day of October, in the &s;econd &amp; third yeares of the reignes of our &s;ayde Soueraygne lord and lady, kyng Philippe and Queene Mary, and there continued and kept vntyll the .ix. daye of December, then next en&s;uynge, one acte was then and there made, entytuled, an acte for the releife of the pore, the &s;ayd acte to endure to the latter ende of the fyr&s;t &s;e&s;&s;ion of the next Parliament. Fora&s;much as the &s;ayd acte is good and beneficiall for the comen welth of this realme, be it there|fore enacted, ordeyned, and e&s;tably&s;hed, by the aucthoritie of this pre&s;e~t Parliament, that the &s;ayde acte, la&s;te aboue mentioned and rehear&s;ed, and all clau&s;es, articles, and prouy&s;ions in the &s;ame conteyned, &s;halbe reuyued, contynued, &s;tande and endure, in full force and &s;trength, to all intentes and purpo&s;es, and &s;halbe ob&s;erued and kept, in al thynges, vn+tyll the la&s;t day of the next parlyament.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="10" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>AN ACTE</HI> for the confirmation of the Sub&s;edy of the cleargye.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The .x. Chapter.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_WHERE THE PRELATES</HI> and Clergy of the prouynce of Canterburye, haue mo&s;t louyngly and lyberally for certayne con&s;iderations, geuen and grau~|ted to the kyng and quenes Maie&s;ties, a Sub&s;edye of eyghte &s;hyllynges of the pounde, to be taken and leuied of all and &s;ynguler the Spiritual promocions, within the &s;ame prouynce, durynge the tearme of foure yeares now next en&s;u+inge, in &s;uche certayne maner and forme, and with diuers exceptions and prouy&s;yons &s;pecyfyed and conteyned in a certayne in&s;trument, by them thereof made and delyuered to the queenes hyghnes, vnder the Seale of the mo&s;t reuerend father in God, Reginald Poole Cardinal Archby&s;hoppe of Canterburye, and prymate of al Englande, as in the &s;ame in&s;trument exhibyted in thys pre&s;ent parliament, more playnelye doth appeare, the tenor whereof en&s;ueth in the&s;e wordes.</P>
<P>The Prelates and clergye of the prouynce of Canterburye, be|ynge lawefullye congregated and a&s;&s;embled in a conuocation or Sy|node vpon greate and weyghtye cau&s;es to them purpo&s;ed, and amon|ge&s;t them well wayed and debated, con&s;ideryng their mo&s;te bounden duetyes to the kynge and quenes Maie&s;tyes, the great and ample be|nefytes they haue receyued of their munificency and bountyfull good|nes, for an euident declaration of their good hartes and myndes, &s;pe|cyally
<PB REF="24">nowe whe~ the imminent nece&s;&s;itie for the defence of the Realme requyreth pre&s;ente ayde and remedye, with one vnyforme agreament, accorde, and con&s;ent together, with moo&s;te hartye good wyll, haue gy|uen and graunted, and by the&s;e pre&s;entes, doo geue and graunte to the kynge and Queenes Maie&s;tyes, one entyre Sub&s;edye, in manner and forme folowynge. That is to &s;aye, that euerye Archeby&s;hoppe. Bi|&s;hoppe, Abbotte, Pryor, Abbate&s;&s;e, or Pryore&s;&s;e, Deane, Archedeacon, Prebendarye, Prouo&s;t, may&s;ter of Colledge, may&s;ter of Ho&s;pytalles, par&s;on and Vycare, and euerye other per&s;on and per&s;ons, of what&s;o|euer name or degree he or they be, enioyinge anye Spyrytuall pro|mocyon or other temporall po&s;&s;e&s;&s;yons, to the &s;ame Spyrytuall pro|motions annexed, nowe not deuyded nor &s;eperated by Acte of Parly|amente or otherwy&s;e, from the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;yon of the Cleargye, &s;hall paye vnto the kynge and Queenes Maie&s;tyes, for euerye pounde that he or they maye yearelye dy&s;pende by rea&s;onne of the &s;ayde Spyrytuall promotion, the &s;umme of Eyghte &s;hyllynges. And for the true and cer|tayne knoweledge of the yearelye vallewe of the &s;ayde promotyons, and euerye of them, whereof payment &s;halbe made, the rate, taxation, valuation, and e&s;tymation, remaynynge of Recorde, in the kynge and quenees Maie&s;tyes late courte of the fyr&s;te Frutes and Tenthes, and nowe in their Courte of the E&s;chequer, for the paymente of the Di&s;me of the Cleargye, concernynge all &s;uche promotions, as be in po&s;&s;e&s;&s;yon of the cleargye, or anye other, not deuyded by acte of Parlyamente, or otherwy&s;e as is afore&s;ayde, &s;halbe folowed and ob&s;erued without ma|kynge anye other valuatyon, rate, taxation, or e&s;tymation, then in the &s;ayde Recorde is compry&s;ed and mentioned.</P>
<P><HI>AND</HI> where by the great bountye and godly di&s;po&s;ition of the kyng and Queenes Maie&s;ties, certayne relygyous hou&s;es, haue benne of late erected and endowed with Spyrituall and Temporall po&s;&s;e&s;&s;y|ons, the taxe whereof is not &s;pecyfied in the Recordes of Thexcheker, or el&s;e where within anye of their Maie&s;ties Courtes, &s;uche taxe and valuation of the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;yons of the &s;ayde Relygyous hou&s;es, &s;halbe fo|lowed for the paymente of thys Sub&s;edye, as the By&s;hoppe of that di|oce&s;&s;e within the whyche the &s;ayde relygyous hou&s;es be Scituated, &s;hall vpon dewe &s;earche and examination, certifye vnder hys Seale, into the Exchequer before the fyr&s;te daye of Maye nexte en&s;uyng, in whiche taxe the &s;aide By&s;hoppe &s;hall and maye make all &s;uche allow|aunces as by the acte of Parliamente, made in the &s;ixe and twentye yeare of the late kynge of famous memorye Henrye theight, of and for the grauntynge of the perpetuall Tenthe, were appointed, graunted, and a&s;&s;igned in the valuation and taxe of all Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall and &s;piri|tuall promocions, for the due and true paymente of the late perpetuall
<PB N="xxii" REF="24">tenthe, and al&s;o &s;hall and maye further allowe all &s;uche Summes of monye, as are geuen, a&s;&s;ygned, or appoynted to the fyndyng and main+tenaunce of poore menne, Scoole may&s;ters, v&s;&s;hers, gramaryens, cho|ri&s;ters and other offycers and myny&s;ters, &s;eruynge and founde with|in the &s;ayde Mona&s;teryes, and religyous hou&s;es.</P>
<P><HI>PROVIDED</HI> alwayes that fora&s;muche as the tenthe parte of the &s;ayde valuation and taxe afore mentyoned, &s;halbe for a tyme vpon certayne rea&s;onable con&s;yderations and re&s;pectes yearelye payde by the Cleargye, &s;oo that there remayneth onelye nyne partes to the in|cumbente cleare, thys Sub&s;edye of Eyghte &s;hyllynges of the pounde, &s;halbe vnder&s;tande and mente onelye of the &s;ayde nyne partes, and of no more, where and &s;oo longe as the Tenthe is or &s;halbe payde.</P>
<P>Al&s;o the &s;ayde Prelates and Cleargye further doo graunte, that thys Sub&s;edye of eyghte &s;hyllynges of the pounde, of the yearelye va|lue of euerye promocion, taxed as is afore&s;ayde, &s;halbe payde to the kynge and Queenes Maie&s;tyes, within foure yeares nexte en&s;uynge the date hereof, That is to &s;aye, two &s;hyllinges of euery pounde, in eue|rye of the &s;ayde foure yeares.</P>
<P>The fyr&s;t paymente thereof to be due at the fyue and twentye daye of Marche, whyche &s;halbe in the yeare of oure Lorde GOD, a thou&s;ande fyue hundrede fyftye and eyghte, and the Seconde pay|mente thereof to be due, at the fyue and twenty daye of Marche, then nexte folowynge, whyche &s;halbe in the yeare of oure Lorde GOD, a thou&s;ande fyue hundred fyftye and nyne.</P>
<P>The thyrde paymente thereof to be dewe the fyue and twentye daye of Marche, then nexte folowynge, whyche &s;halbe in the yeare of oure Lorde GOD, a thou&s;ande fyue hundred and &s;yxtye.</P>
<P>And the fourthe and la&s;te paymente thereof to be due at the &s;ayde fyue and twentye daye of Marche then nexte en&s;uynge, whyche &s;halbe in the yeare of oure Lorde GOD, a thou&s;ande fyue hundred &s;yxtye and one, to be delyuered and payde yearelye, by &s;uche per&s;onne and per&s;onnes as in thys pre&s;ente graunte &s;halbe appoynted, to haue the collection thereof, to be payde into the receypte of the kynge and Queenes Maie&s;tyes E&s;chequer, or to &s;uche per&s;onne or per&s;onnes, place and places, to whome and where it &s;hall plea&s;e theyr hyghnes to appoynte for the receypte thereof, before or at the Tenthe daye of Iune, in euerye of the &s;ayde foure yeares, withoute payinge any thing to the receyuer or receyuours, or to anye other offycer or per&s;onne by theyr Maie&s;tyes to be a&s;&s;ygned, for anye dy&s;charge, acquyttaunce, or <HI>Quietus e&s;t,</HI> vpon paymente and receypte of the &s;ame Sub&s;edye, to be geuen and delyuered, but onelye twelue pence for the acquyt|taunce.</P>
<PB REF="25">
<P><HI>ITEM</HI> the &s;ayd prelates and clergye, doo al&s;o graunte that euerye prei&s;t and all other &s;pirituall per&s;ons, hauyng a pention by rea&s;on of y^e di&s;&s;olution of any the late mona&s;teryes, colledges, free chappeles, chau~+teryes, fraternities, guyldes, and ho&s;pytalls, or of anye other &s;pirituall dignitie, and corporation, nowe di&s;&s;olued, and extingui&s;hed within the &s;ayd prouynce of Canterburye, &s;hal lykewy&s;e paye to their highne&s;&s;es eyght &s;hyllynges of euery pounde of the &s;ayd pencyons, within the &s;aid foure yeares, at &s;uch dayes and tymes, as is before &s;pecified, and that for the &s;ure and a&s;&s;ertayned payment thereof, deduction and retention of the &s;ayde eyght &s;hyllynges, &s;halbe made yerely in the handes of the payers of the &s;ayd pencion, after the rate of two &s;hillynges of the pou~d, euery of the &s;ayd foure yeares, to be deliuered and payde vnto their ma+ie&s;ties v&s;e, at &s;uch tyme and to &s;uch per&s;ones as the Sub&s;edy of eyght &s;hyllynges of the pound afore&s;ayd, &s;halbe payd vnto.</P>
<P><HI>ITEM</HI> that euery &s;typendarye prei&s;t, receyuyng annuall &s;tipende of eyght pounde by the yeare, and vnder, (beinge no perpetuitie) within the &s;ayde prounce, &s;hall paye vnto their Maie&s;ties v&s;e &s;ixe &s;hyllynges eyght pence yearely, during the &s;ayd foure yeares, at &s;uch tyme and to &s;uch per&s;ones as the &s;aide Sub&s;edy &s;halbe payde, and vnder the &s;ame penaltyes as the re&s;t of the clergie doo paye for their promotions. And that euery prei&s;t receyuyng aboue eight pounde yearely and not aboue ten pounde, to pay lykewy&s;e tenne &s;hyllynges. And that euerye prey&s;te receyuynge aboue tenne pounde, and not aboue twentye markes, to paye thyrtene &s;hyllynges foure pence yerelye, durynge the &s;ayde foure yeares at &s;uche tyme and to &s;uche per&s;onnes as the &s;ayde Sub&s;edye &s;halbe payde. And that euery prei&s;te takynge &s;typende aboue twentye markes, to paye lykewi&s;e two &s;hyllynges of the pounde, euerye yeare duringe the &s;ayde foure yeares, in &s;uch maner and forme as the re&s;te of the clergye doo paye for their promotion &s;pirituall, and for defaulte or lacke of payment by the &s;aide &s;tipendaryes, that euery per&s;on, vycarre or other &s;pirituall or temporall per&s;on, proprietarye, or fermour, hiring anye prei&s;t to &s;erue in anye place, &s;halbe an&s;werable for the paiment of the &s;aide prey&s;te in that behalfe, after the &s;aide rates, and &s;hal and may make retencion of his and their wages quarterly, of &s;oo muche as the &s;ayde &s;tipendaries be charged with, by this pre&s;ente commi&s;&s;ion and graunte euerye of the &s;ayde foure yeares.</P>
<P><HI>ITEM</HI> the &s;ayde prelates and clergye, further doo graunt that euery Archeby&s;hoppe and By&s;hoppe, and the Sea beinge vacante, euerye Deane and Chapter of that Sea voyde, &s;halbe Collectoures of thys Sub&s;edye, within their proper Dyoce&s;&s;e, durynge the &s;ayde foure yeares.</P>
<P><HI>AND</HI> to thintente the kynge and quenes Maie&s;ties maye be &s;urely and duelie an&s;wered and payde of the &s;ayde Sub&s;edie, in maner and fourme afore&s;ayde, and the Collectoure of the &s;ame throughlye char|ged
<PB N="xxiii" REF="25">and di&s;charged accordinge to the tenour of this graunte.</P>
<P>The &s;ayde prelates and Cleargie do ordeyne and decree with one a&s;&s;ente and con&s;ente, that euerye Collectoure of the afore&s;ayde Sub|&s;idye, and of euerye parte and percell thereof, and theyr lawfull depu|tye or deputies, &s;hall haue full power and aucthoritie agayn&s;te euerye per&s;onne and per&s;onnes lyable, charged and bounde to paye the &s;ayde Sub&s;idye or anye parte thereof, denyinge, refu&s;inge, or delayinge to paye the &s;ame, or makynge anye defaulte in the paymente thereof, at the daye or dayes that it oughte to be payde (after lawfull warnynge to them geuen per&s;onallye, or at theyr Churches or man&s;ions) to pro|cede with the cen&s;ures of the Churche, that is to &s;aye, by &s;u&s;pention, excommunication, or interdiction, and al&s;o by &s;eque&s;tration of the frui+ctes and profits of theyr benefices or promotions &s;pyrytuall, in who&s;e handes &s;oeuer they be, and to make &s;ale of the &s;ame fruictes, and by all other lawfull remedyes by theyr di&s;cretions thoughte conueniente, to coarcte, con&s;trayne, and compell them and euerye of theim, to the full and vndelayde &s;ati&s;faction of the &s;ayde Sub&s;edye, and euerye parte and percell thereof, and &s;hal al&s;o haue lyke power and aucthoritie, both to ab&s;olue or cau&s;e to be ab&s;olued, all per&s;onnes &s;o payinge, from al the &s;ayde cen&s;ures and other paynes, and al&s;o to relea&s;e and reuoke al &s;uch proce&s;&s;e as &s;hall be made agayn&s;te them, or any of them, after they &s;hall haue fullye &s;ati&s;fyed the &s;ayde Sub&s;idye accordingelye. And vpon full paymente or &s;ati&s;faction of the &s;ayde Sub&s;idye or anye parte thereof, all &s;uche acquittaunce or acquittaunces, whiche &s;hall be made by the collectour or his lawfull deputie, &s;hall be &s;ufficiente for the di&s;charge of the &s;ame.</P>
<P><HI>PROVIDED</HI> alwayes, and it is ordeyned and decreed, that all and euery per&s;onne and per&s;onnes, refu&s;inge or neglecting to paye the &s;aid Sub&s;edye at tyme conueniente, as is afore&s;ayde, &s;hall for his or theyr fyr&s;te defaulte or necligence in not payinge the Sub&s;edye, accordynge to the purporte and tenoure of this graunte, beare all the charges and rea&s;onable expences of the &s;ayd Collectoure or his deputye, in coming goynge, and demaundinge of the &s;ame, and for the &s;econde tyme lyke|wy&s;e offendynge in none paymente, to paye to the &s;ayde Collectoure, or his deputye the fourth parte of the &s;ayde Sub&s;edye, ouer and aboue the &s;ayde &s;umme vpon him or his churche or per&s;onne allotted and tax|ed, whiche he is bounde to paye, and charged by this acte of free graunte.</P>
<P>Al&s;o the &s;ayde prelates and clergye do further ordeyne and decree, that yf anye per&s;onne or per&s;onnes aboue named, chargeable to this Sub&s;edye, or anye parte thereof, after the &s;ayde cen&s;ures and proce&s;&s;e executed agayn&s;t him or them, yet &s;tyll ob&s;tinately refu&s;e, neglecte, or make delaye to paye the &s;ame, or anye parte thereof as is before&s;ayde,
<PB REF="26">that then after lawfull monition geuen vnto him or them, refu&s;ing, ne|glectinge, or delayinge by the &s;ayde Collectours, or theyr lawfull de|putie or deputies, per&s;onallye, or at theyr Churches, doo &s;tyll by the &s;pace of thyrtye dayes refu&s;e, or negiecte to make payment of the &s;ayde Sub&s;idye, that then, and in euerye &s;uche ca&s;e, it &s;hall be lawfull to the &s;ayde collectoure or his lawfull deputie, euerye &s;uche per&s;onne &s;o refu|&s;inge, neglectinge, or delayinge and contempning the&s;e former proce&s;|&s;es, to depriue, amoue, and de&s;titute from his or their benefice, &s;pyrytu|all promotion, or pention Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall, anye appellation, inhibition, or other remedy, ordinary or extraordinary notwith&s;tanding: the &s;aid per&s;onnes &s;o refu&s;inge, to be and remayne for euer without hope of re|gre&s;&s;e to &s;uche theyr promotion as he or they &s;halbe depriued of, for the cau&s;es afore&s;ayde, by anye new pre&s;entation of him or them to be made to the &s;ame. And that it &s;hall be lawfull to the patrone of the &s;ayde be|nefice or benefices, or other Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall promotions, frome whiche the &s;ayde per&s;onne or per&s;onnes &s;o neglectinge to paye &s;hall be depry|ued, to pre&s;ente vnto, or conferre euerye &s;uche benefice or promotion Spirituall, as yf the &s;ayde Incumbente or Incumbentes were decea|&s;ed.</P>
<P><HI>ITEM</HI> the &s;ayde prelates and clergye further do ordeyne and decree, that of &s;o muche as the &s;ayde Collectours &s;halbe charged with in their accoumptes, clearelye to be payde into the receipte of the &s;ayde E&s;che|quer, or to &s;uche per&s;onne or per&s;onnes as it &s;hall plea&s;e the kynge and Quenes maie&s;ties to appointe for the receypte of the &s;ame, &s;hall be al|lowed to the &s;ayde collectoure vpon his &s;ayde accoumpte for the &s;ame, for euerye pounde &s;ixe pence, by waye of rewarde, or in liewe of his charges, collection, portage, conueying, and payinge of the &s;ayd Sub|&s;edye.</P>
<P><HI>PROVIDED</HI> alwayes that no Spyrytual promotion, or any landes, po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions, or reuenues annexed to the &s;ame, beynge charged by thys graunte or acte of the prouince of Canterburye, or anye goodes or ca|telles growinge, beynge, or renewynge of the &s;ame, or apparteyninge to the owners of the &s;ame Spirituall promotions, &s;hall be charged or made contributorye to anye .xv. or anye other Sub&s;idye all readye graunted, or within fyue yeares nexte en&s;umge the date of this pre&s;ent to be graunted by the laitye to the kynge and quenes highne&s;&s;es.</P>
<P><HI>ITEM,</HI> the &s;ayde prelates and cleargye further graunte, that all Deanes, Archedeacons, Dignities, Prebendaries, preachers, and pe|tye Canons, of all Cathedrall and Collegiate Churches within the &s;ayde prouynce, &s;hall be charged with this Sub&s;idye for theyr owne portions onelye, thereof to paye eyghte &s;hyllynges of the pounde, with in the &s;ayde foure yeares, as is aboue rehear&s;ed, and that tho&s;e porti|ons of rentes and reuenues whiche theyr highnes. or any of theyr mo&s;t
<PB N="xxiiii" REF="26">noble progenitoures, or any other per&s;ons, haue giuen vnto the &s;ayde cathedral or Collegiate Churches, for the mayntenaunce of pore men, Scoole may&s;ters, v&s;hers, gramariens, chori&s;ters, and other offycers and myny&s;ters, not to be charged with anye parte of thys Sub&s;edye.</P>
<P>Prouyded al&s;o that euery par&s;on, vicar, or &s;pirituall man, paying any pencion whereof no allowaunce is made in the valuation of hys &s;ayde benefice, in the recordes of the &s;ayde late Courte of fyr&s;te frutes, or E&s;chequer, or otherwy&s;e, &s;hal and maye retayne two &s;hyllynges of euerye pounde, of euerye &s;uche pencion, euery yeare durynge the &s;ayde foure yeares, to his owne releyfe, in con&s;ideration that he is charged to paye hys Sub&s;edye of eyght &s;hyllynges of the pounde, out of euery pounde of the &s;ayde pention. Any thinge to the contrary notwith&s;tan|dynge.</P>
<P>Prouyded al&s;o that where certayne landes, tenementes, rentes, tythes, pencyons, porcions, frutes, and other hereditamentes, lately be lougynge to diuer&s;e cathedrall churches, and other places eccle&s;ia&s;ty|cal, within the &s;ayde prouynce of Canterburye, or anye other yearelye paymentes, goyng out or beyng paid oute of the &s;ayde Landes, Tene|mentes, and other the premi&s;&s;es, or anye of them, whiche were geuen and a&s;&s;ygned to be be&s;towed, and &s;pente to and vpon the fyndyng and maintenaunce of certaine chauntryes, anniuer&s;aryes, obyttes, lightes, lampes, and other lyke thyngs, intentes, and purpo&s;es, be of late come into the handes and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of the kynge and Quenes Maie&s;tyes, our Soueraygne Lorde and Ladye, by force of a &s;tatute therof made in the fyr&s;t yeare of the reygne of our late Soueraigne lord king Ed|warde the &s;yxte, as by the &s;ame Statute more plainelye appearethe. That the &s;ayde cathedrall churches and the deanes or pre&s;ydentes, and chapters of the &s;ame, and all other places and per&s;ones to whome the &s;ayde landes, rentes, and all other the premi&s;&s;es or anye of them did lately apperteyne, &s;hal not be charged to and with anye contributyon or paymente of thys Sub&s;edy, of and for that parte or portion where|vnto the kynge and queenes maie&s;ties, be and hath bene entituled or po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed of. nor of, and for anye the &s;ayde yearelye paymentes, goinge oute or payde oute of the premi&s;&s;es, or any parte thereof. But that thys &s;ayde Sub&s;edye &s;halbe vnder&s;tande to be chargeable and dewe onely of all and &s;inguler landes, tenementes, rentes, tithes, pencions, porty|ons, frutes, and other hereditamentes, which do yet &s;tyll remayne, not di&s;&s;euered from the handes and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of the &s;aide cathedrall chur|ches, and other the places and per&s;onnes afore&s;ayd. And that deduc|tion and allowaunce be made to them and euerye of them, in the pai|ment of the &s;ayde Sub&s;edye, out of the valuation, taration, and e&s;ty|mation, made for the payment of the &s;ayde Di&s;me, remayninge of re|corde, in the kyng and quenes maie&s;ties court of the E&s;cheker, for that
<PB REF="27">rate and portion or yearelye paymente which is come into the handes and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of our &s;ayd Soueraygne lord and lady, or otherwi&s;e &s;e|uered from the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions of the &s;ayde cathedrall churches, and other places and par&s;ons afore&s;ayd, by force of the Statute premy&s;ed.</P>
<P><HI>PROVIDED</HI> al&s;o that euerye par&s;on and vicar, who&s;e benefyce is aboue the valuation of fyue poundes, and not aboue &s;ixe pound thir|tene &s;hillinges and foure pence, after the rate of the late perpetual te~th, &s;hall paye euerye yeare of the &s;ayd foure yeares onely, Sixe &s;hillinges eyght pence, as Stipendary prei&s;tes of eyghte pounde yearely wages benne charged to do by force of thys acte, and graunt, and none other|wy&s;e. And that al par&s;ons and vycars, who&s;e benefices be of the valu|ation of fyue pound or vnder, after the rate of the &s;ayde late perpetuall Tenthe, &s;hall not be charged nor chargeable with thys Sub&s;edye, or anye parte thereof.</P>
<P>Prouyded alwayes that this Sub&s;edye graunted by the cleargy &s;hall not be demaunded or leuyed oute of anye benefice, hou&s;e of &s;tu|dentes, or colledge, &s;cituate or &s;et within the vniuer&s;ities of Orforde &amp; Cambridge, or of anye benefice, or other reuenues, vnto anye hou&s;e of Studentes, or colledge in Oxforde or Cambrydge, vnited, appropri|ed, or appertayninge, or of the colledge of Eaton, nigh Winde&s;our, or of the Colledge of Winche&s;ter, founded by Wyllyam Myckeham, &s;ome tyme By&s;hoppe of Winche&s;ter, or any pore men, women or chyldren li|uynge of alme&s;&s;e, in any Ho&s;pitalles, alme&s;&s;e hou&s;es, alme&s;&s;e halles, or of gramer &s;cooles, or of anye other churche or benefice, or of any other reuenues of the &s;ayde hou&s;es, Colleges, or ho&s;pitalles, alme&s;&s;e hou&s;es, or alme&s;&s;e halles, or gramer &s;cooles, or to any of them annexed, appro|pried or otherwy&s;e appertayning.</P>
<P>Prouyded al&s;o that euery prey&s;t and all other late profe&s;&s;ed rely|gions par&s;ons, hauyng a pention by re&s;on of the di&s;&s;olution of the late Mona&s;teries, Colledges, free Chappells, Chauntryes, Frateruytyes. Guyldes, and Ho&s;pytalls, or anye other incorporation, within the pro|uynce of Canterburye, and beynge of the &s;umme of fortye &s;hyllynges or vnder, and not aboue, &s;hal not be charged or chargeable to the &s;ayde Sub&s;edye or anye parte thereof, for anye &s;uch pencion of fourtye &s;hyl|lynges or vnder. Anye thynge conteyned in this graunt to the contra|tye notwith&s;tandyng.</P>
<P>Fynallye the &s;ayde Prelates and Cleargye, beynge de&s;yrous that the &s;ayde Sub&s;edye maye be entierlye contented and payde to thu&s;e of the kynge and Quenes Maie&s;ties, within the &s;ayde foure yeares, do graunt, ordeyne, and decree, that yf it &s;hal happen in thende of the &s;ayde foure yeares, anyde arrerages of the &s;ayde Sub&s;edye to be be|hynde vnpayde by rea&s;on of the exilitie, and decaye of anye benefyces, or other &s;pirituall promotions, lyable to thys Sub&s;edye, That then it
<PB N="xxv" REF="27">&s;halbe lawefull to euerye Archeby&s;hoppe and By&s;ihoppe, within their &s;euerall Dioce&s;&s;e, by the con&s;ent of his cleargye, and the Sea beynge voyde, to the Deane and Chapter of that Sea voyde, to a&s;&s;e&s;&s;e &amp; taxe all and &s;inguier the eccle&s;ia&s;ticall promocions, within their &s;ayde &s;eue|rall Dioce&s;&s;e, to become contributors to the full &s;ati&s;faction of the &s;ayd Sub&s;edye, the &s;ame to be collected, leuyed, and payde the nexte yeare immediatelye en&s;uynge the &s;ayde forth yeare, at the dayes and vnder the paynes, forme, &amp; qualities aboue limitted. Anything in this graunt to the contrarye notwith&s;tandyng.</P>
<P><HI>AND</HI> for the true and &s;ure payment of thys Sub&s;edye, graunted by the &s;ayde Prelates and Clergye of the prouynce of Canterburye, accor+dynge to the tenor, purporte, effecte, and true meaninge of this pre&s;ent in&s;trument. The &s;ayde Prelates and Cleargye moo&s;te humblye de&s;ire and requyre the kynge and Queenes moo&s;te excellente Maie&s;ties, that it maye be enacted by aucthortie of this pre&s;ente Parlyamente, that the prouy&s;yons conteyned in the fore&s;ayde graunte, &s;hall &s;tande good and effectuall to all intentes and purpo&s;es, mentioned in the &s;ayde graunte. And that all proce&s;&s;es and penalties, and all other clau&s;es, touchynge the payment of the &s;ayde Sub&s;edye, and the leuy|inge and collection of the &s;ame, and of euerye percell thereof, may be by the &s;ayde Prelates and Cleargye, and their lawefull deputies, put in due execution accordynge to the true meanynge thereof, withoute in|currynge anye penaltyes or daungers of anye lawes and &s;tatutes of thys Realme.</P>
<P><HI>AND</HI> for the true and &s;ure paymente of the &s;ayd Sub&s;edye, graun|ted by the &s;aid prelates and cleargy, of the &s;ayd prouynce of Canterbu|ry, accordyng to the tenor, effect, and true meanyng of the &s;aid in&s;tru|mente. Be it enacted by the kynge and Quenes Maie&s;ties, with tha&s;|&s;ente of the lordes &s;pirituall and temporall, and the commons in thys pre&s;ent parlyamente a&s;&s;embled, and by thaucthoritie of the &s;ame, that the &s;ayde gifte and graunt, and euery matter, &s;umme of mony, proui|&s;ion, clau&s;e, and &s;entence in the &s;ayde in&s;trument conteined be ratified, e&s;tably&s;hed, and confirmed by thaucthoritie afore&s;ayd.</P>
<P><HI>AND</HI> furthermore be it enacted by thaucthoritie afore&s;ayde, that euerye per&s;onne that &s;halbe appoynted to the collection and ga|therynge of the &s;ayde Sub&s;edye, &s;hall haue full power and aucthoritie to leuye take and perceyue the &s;ame Sub&s;edye, by thaucthoritie of the cen&s;ures of the churche, in maner and forme as in the &s;ayde in&s;trument of graunt is conteyned, without daunger of the lawes of this realme or by di&s;tre&s;&s;e vpon the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of the fermours or occupyers of the landes, and tenementes, chargeable by the &s;ayd in&s;trumente, for or to the paymente of any &s;umme or &s;ummes of monye, or otherwy&s;e by the di&s;cretion of the collector thereof. And that no repleuye, prohibition, or
<PB REF="28">&s;uper&s;edias &s;halbe allowed, or obeyed for any per&s;on or per&s;ones, ma|kyng defaulte of payment of the &s;ayd Sub&s;edy, contrary to the tenor of the grauntes thereof, vntyll &s;uche tyme as they haue truely &s;aty&s;&s;y|ed and contented all &s;uche parte and porcions, as to the~ in that behalfe apperteyneth. And that euerye &s;uche fermoure and fermoures, theyr executours and a&s;&s;ignes, that &s;hall fortune hereafter, to be charged to and with the paymente of the &s;ayd Sub&s;edy, or anye parte therof, &s;hal by thaucthoritie afore&s;ayde, be allowed and retayue in his handes, as muche of his yerelye rente and ferme, as the &s;umme which he &s;hall for|tune to paye for his Lorde or Le&s;&s;or &s;hall extende vnto, except the &s;aid fermor or fermours, their executors and a&s;&s;ignes, by the lea&s;e &amp; grau~te that they haue of anye parte of the landes, and tenementes, chargea|ble to thys &s;aide Sub&s;edye, or by force of anye couenaunte or artycle, therein conteyned, be bounden and charged to paye the &s;ame, and ther of to di&s;charge their lea&s;&s;or and landlord, durynge the terme mentio|ned in the &s;ayd lea&s;&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>PROVIDED</HI> alwayes and be it enacted by thaucthoritie of thys pre&s;ent parliament, that euery laye per&s;on hauyng a &s;pirituall promo|tion chargeable by this acte, and al&s;o hauynge temporall po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions, goodes, cattells, and debtes, chargeable to this Sub&s;edye graunted by the temporaltye, &s;halbe charged, taxed, and &s;et for hys &s;ayd &s;piritual promocions with the cleargy, and for his &s;aid temporall po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions, &amp; cattells, with the temporaltye, and not otherwy&s;e, anye thinge before mentioned to the contrary notwith&s;tandyng.</P>
<P>And be it further enacted, by thaucthoritie of thys pre&s;ent parly|ament, that the &s;ayd archeby&s;hoppes, and Bi&s;hoppes, and other par|&s;onnes chargeable to and with the collection of the &s;ayd Sub&s;edye of eyghte &s;hyllynges of the pounde, within the &s;ayd prouynce of Canter|burye, &s;hall haue vppon euery payment thereof made in the Queenes courte of the e&s;cheker, or ells where the kyng and quenes Maie&s;tyes &s;hall appoynte the &s;ame to be payed, a &s;ufficiente acquittaunce in wry|tynge, of &s;uche per&s;on or per&s;ones, as their maie&s;ties &s;hall appoynt for the receipte thereof, the &s;ame acquittaunce witne&s;&s;ing the &s;ame receipt, of as much of the &s;ame &s;umme of the &s;ame Sub&s;edy, as &s;hall be by any of them &s;o receiued, and euery &s;uch acquitaunce, in wryting, &s;ealed, and Subcribed with the name or names of euery &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;ones, that &s;o by their highne&s;&s;es appoyntment &s;hall receyue anye of the &s;ayd Summes of monye, &s;halbe as good and effectuall in the lawe, and al|&s;o a &s;ufficiente di&s;charge, to all intentes, con&s;tructions, and purpo&s;es, as if it were made by acte of Parlyamente. And that euerye per&s;onne and per&s;onnes, which &s;hal haue and receaue anye &s;uche acquytaunce, &s;hall paye but onelye two pence, for euerye of the &s;ame acquyt|taunces.</P>
<PB N="xxvi" REF="28">
<P><HI>BEIT</HI> al&s;o further enacted by the aucthoritie afore&s;ayde, that all and euerye graunt and grauntes of all and euery Summe and Summes of moneye whiche hereafter &s;hall be graunted to the kynge and Que|nes Maie&s;ties by the cleargye of the prouince of yorke, &s;hall be of the &s;ame &s;trengthe, force, and effecte, in all thinges as the &s;ayde graunte made by the &s;ayde prouince of Canterburye, and &s;hall be taxed, certifi|ed, collected, leuied, and gathered accordinge to the tenoure, fourme, and effecte of this pre&s;ente acte of parliamente, to all intentes, con&s;tru|ctions, and purpo&s;es, in &s;uch maner as thoughe it were &s;pecially, plain|lye, and perticulerlye expre&s;&s;ed and rehear&s;ed in this acte by expre&s;&s;e wordes, tearmes, and &s;entences in theyr &s;euerall natures and kyn|des.</P>
<P><HI>PROVIDED</HI> alwayes and be it enacted by the aucthoritie afore&s;ayd, that all proui&s;os before rehear&s;ed, conteyned in the &s;ayde graunte of the prelates and cleargy of the prouynce of Canterburye, and the lyke or the &s;ame proui&s;ions hereafter to be conteyned in the graunte of the prelates and cleargye of the prouince of yorke, &s;hall be good and effe|ctuall, and to be ob&s;erued and kepte in euerye poynte and article, ac|cordynge to the true purporte and meanynge of the &s;ame.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 N="11" TYPE="chapter">
<HEAD><HI>AN ACTE</HI> of a Sub&s;idie, and one fiftene graunted by the temporaltie.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">The .xi. Chapter.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_WE THE KINGE AND</HI> Quenes Maie&s;ties Moo&s;te humble, faythfull, and obediente &s;ubiectes, the Lordes &s;pyrytuall and temporall, and the commons in this pre&s;ente parlia|ment a&s;&s;embled, callynge to oure re|membraunce the great and manyfold charges, whiche theyr graces haue all readye &s;u&s;teined by the rea&s;on of thys pre&s;ent warre that their highnes haue had, and yet haue agayn&s;t the frenche kynge and the Scottes, the auncyent enemies of this Realme, and perceiuinge al&s;o that the malyce of the &s;ame Frenche kynge and Scottes are &s;uche, that they haue and dayly do practi&s;e by all di&s;honorable wayes and meanes, with the ayde and power of all theyr confederaties and alies, to anoye theyr Maie&s;ties, and this theyr Realme, and other the dominions of the &s;ame, and by al lykelyhode, yf oportunitie of tyme and place &s;o permitte, doo mynde to
<PB REF="29">make &s;ome inua&s;ion into &s;undrye partes of this realme, as well vpon the Sea co&s;te as els where, whiche yf it &s;houlde happen, woulde be no &s;mall annoyaunce as well to theyr Maie&s;ties, as to the hole e&s;tate of this realme. For the wy&s;e preuention and re&s;i&s;tence whereof (lea&s;t any &s;uch &s;huld happen to be attempted) theyr highnes &s;halbe enforced, not onely to mayneteyne a conueniente number, and nauye of &s;hyppes v|pon the narrowe Seas, but al&s;o a great power and number of &s;ouldi|ers, to continue in diuers and &s;undrye partes of the borders and froun+tiers of this realme, redye prepared to all purpo&s;es, to re&s;i&s;t al &s;uch ma|licious attempts or inua&s;ions, and to defende the libertye and honour thereof, whiche cannot be put in order and readines, withoute greate Summes of monye, to be defraied and emploied for the &s;ame. And fur+thermore con&s;idering that the &s;ame &s;hall not be onely for the &s;uertye of their maie&s;ties per&s;onnes (whom we pray to god maye longe raygne ouer vs,) and likewi&s;e for the &s;uretye of this Realme, and theyr Ma|ie&s;ties louynge Subiectes of the &s;ame, but al&s;o maye be a greate ter|roure, feare, and di&s;courage to the &s;ayde frenche kynge and Scottes, and all theyr confederates, and alies, to attempte anye &s;uch inua&s;ion or other enterpry&s;e. Haue graunted vnto our &s;aid Soueraigne lady, her heyres and Succe&s;&s;ours, one Sub&s;edye, and one .xv. and tenth, to be taxed, rated, and leuied of our goodes, cattels, landes, and tenementes in maner and fourme as hereafter in this pre&s;ent acte is limitted and conteined: And albeit that we doubte not but that our &s;aid mo&s;t grati|ous Soueraigne lorde and lady a&s;&s;ure them &s;elues, that we their gra|tious moo&s;te louinge &s;ubiectes, knowe the &s;ame to be farre vnder the charges whiche theyr maie&s;ties are lyke to &s;u&s;teyne in this behalfe. Yet neuerthele&s;&s;e we mo&s;te humblye be&s;eche theyr highnes to accepte this oure gifte, as a declaration of our true and mo&s;t faythfull hartes, who be, and by gods a&s;&s;i&s;tence alwayes &s;halbe, by all wayes and mea|nes, and in all re&s;pectes, ready to &s;erue with all conformitie and obedi|ence for the pre&s;eruation of theyr moo&s;t royall per&s;onnes, and defence and &s;uretie of this theyr maie&s;ties realme and dominions, as to the du tye of good and obedient &s;ubiectes apperteyneth.</P>
<P>Wherefore we the &s;aid lordes and comons, for the great and vrge~t con&s;iderations afore&s;ayd, by one hole a&s;&s;ent, by auctoritie of this pre&s;e~t parliament, do geue and graunt to our &s;ayde Soueraygne Lady, the quenes highnes, her heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;oures, towardes the &s;ayd great co&s;tes, and ine&s;timable charges, one hole .xv. and tenth, to be payd, ta|ken &amp; leuied of the moueable goodes, cattels, and other thinges v&s;uall to &s;uch .xv. and tenthe, to be contributorye and chargeable within the Shires, Cities, Boroughes, Townes, &amp; other places of this their ma|ie&s;ties realme, in maner and fourme afore time v&s;ed, except the &s;umme of &s;ixe thou&s;ande pounde thereof fullye to be deducted of the Summe
<PB N="xxvii" REF="29">that one hole .xv. and tenth atteyneth vnto, in releif, comforte and di&s;|charge of the pore cities, townes, &amp; boroughes of this her &s;ayd realme, wa&s;ted, de&s;olate, or di&s;troyed, or ouer greatly empoueri&s;hed, after &s;uch rate as was and hath afore this time bene had and made vnto euerye Shire, and to be deuided in &s;uche maner and forme as heretofore for one hole .xv. and tenth hath ben had and deuided.</P>
<P>And the &s;ayd one hole .xv. and tenth, the exceptions and deducti|ons afore&s;ayde therevpon had, deducted, and allowed, to be payde in maner and fourme folowinge. That is to &s;aye, the hole .xv. and tenth, to be payde to her a&s;&s;ignes in the receipte of her highnes e&s;chequer, be fore the tenth daye of Nouember next comminge.</P>
<P><HI>AND</HI> be it further enacted by the aucthoritie afore&s;ayde, that the knightes elected and retorned of, &amp; for the Shires within this realme for this pre&s;ente Parliamente, Citezens of Cities, and Burge&s;&s;es of Boroughes and townes, where collectours haue bene v&s;ed to be na|med and appointed for the collection of any .xv. and tenth, before this tyme graunted, &s;hall name and appointe before the la&s;te daye of Au|gu&s;te nexte comminge, &s;ufficient and able per&s;ons, for the Collection of the &s;ayd .xv. and tenth, in euery of the &s;ayd Shyres, Cities, Boroughes and townes, the &s;ayde per&s;onnes then hauynge landes, tenementes, and other hereditamentes, in his owne ryghte, of an e&s;tate of inheri|taunce of the yearelye value of tenne poundes, or in goodes worth one hundreth poundes at the lea&s;te. And al&s;o &s;uche per&s;on or per&s;ons, &s;o by them to be named and appointed for the collection of the &s;ayde .xv. and tenth, &s;halbe by them &s;euerally apoynted, and allotted into hundredes. Rapes, Wapentakes, cities, boroughes, and townes. And al&s;o the &s;ayd per&s;ones &s;o named and apoynted for the collection of the &s;ame .xv. and tenth, &s;halbe charged and chargeable vpon his or theyr accoumpte or accoumptes in the e&s;chequer, to be made with all &s;uche &s;umme or &s;um|mes of mony, as the hundredes, rapes, wapentakes, cities, boroughes and townes where he or they &s;hall &s;o happen to be appointed amount vnto, and of no more &s;umme or &s;ummes.</P>
<P>And vppon the paymente of &s;uche Summes of monye, as he &s;hal|be charged with, &s;hall be di&s;charged and haue his quietus e&s;t, the none accoumptinge, or none payment of any other his fellowes, or the in&s;ufficiency of them or anye of them, notwyth&s;tandynge. And the names and &s;urnames of euerye of the &s;ayde Collectoures, for the &s;ayde xv. and tenth together, with the place allotted to theyr Collection and charge, the &s;aid knightes, citizens, &amp; Burge&s;&s;es for the Shyres, cities, and boroughes whervnto they be elected, named, and retourned, &s;hal certifie before the kynge and quene in theyr chauncery, before the .xiii. daye of October no we nexte folowinge, accordinge to the tenure of this acte. And yf defaulte of anye &s;uche certifieng be hadde or made, in
<PB REF="30">fourme as is aboue&s;ayd, then the lorde Chauncellour of Englande for the time beynge, &s;hall immediatelye after, name and appointe Collec|toures for the collection of the &s;ame .xv. and tenth, in manner &amp; fourme as the &s;ayde knightes of the &s;hyre, citizens of cities, and Burge&s;&s;es of Bouroughes &s;houlde haue doone, and as afore tyme haue bene v&s;ed. The whiche &s;ayde collectours and euery of them &s;hall haue like allow|aunce vpon theyr accoumptes, for theyr fees, wages, and rewardes for the collection of the &s;ayde .xv. and tenthe, in as large manner and fourme as anye collectoure or collectoures of .xv. and tenth, haue had at anye &s;ea&s;on in time pa&s;te. And that the barons of the kynge and quenes E&s;chequer for the time beinge, &s;hall and may from time to time awarde &s;uche proces for the &s;pedye payment thereof agayn&s;t the colle|ctoure and collectoures of the &s;ame, as by theyr di&s;cretions &s;hall be thought conueniente.</P>
<P><HI>PROVIDED</HI> alwaye and be it enacted by the aucthoritie of this pre|&s;ente parliament, that the &s;ayde Lorde Chauncellour, knightes of the &s;hyres, Citi&s;ens of Cities, and Burge&s;&s;es of Burroughes. Townes, and other places, hauynge aucthoritie by this pre&s;ente acte, to name and nominate the &s;ayde Collectoures, of, or for the &s;ayde fyftene and tenth, &s;hall vpon theyr nomination and election hadde and made, take by aucthoritie of this pre&s;ente parliamente, &s;ufficiente recogni&s;aunce, or by obligation of euerye per&s;onne &s;o by them to be named to be boun+den to the kynge and Queenes Maie&s;ties in the double Summe of theyr collection, and to be endorced vppon &s;uche condition, that yf the &s;ayde collectoure or collectoures, doo truelye contente and paye to the v&s;e of the kynge and Quene in theyr receypt of theyr E&s;chequer before the &s;ayde tenth daye of Nouember nowe nexte en&s;uynge, &s;o muche of the Summe of money, allotted and appointed to his collection, as the &s;ame Collectoure &s;hall haue collected and gathered. And do lyke wy&s;e after the &s;ayde tenthe daye of the moneth of Nouember, contente and paye to the kynge and Quenes Maie&s;ties v&s;es at the &s;ame receypte, the re&s;idue of his collection &amp; charge, w^tin one moneth next after &s;uch tyme as he &s;hal haue gathered and collected the &s;ame re&s;idue, that then the &s;ayde recogny&s;aunce or obligation to be voyde, or elles to &s;tande in his full &s;trength and vertue, whiche recogni&s;aunce or obligations &s;oo taken, the &s;ayde knyghtes of the Shyre, Citi&s;ens and Burge&s;&s;es, and euerye of theym, takynge anye &s;uche recogni&s;aunces or oblygatyons, &s;hall certy&s;ye and delyuer to the Lorde Trea&s;urer and Baronnes of the &s;ame E&s;chequer, before the &s;ayde tenth daye of Nouember nowe nexte en&s;uynge, vppon payne of forfeyture of ten pounde to the Quene for euerye recoguy&s;aunce or oblygation &s;oo to be taken and not certi|fied.</P>
<P>And that euerye inche collectoure vpon reque&s;te to him made, &s;hal
<PB N="xxviii" REF="30">make and knowledge the &s;ame recogni&s;aunce or obligation according lye, vpon like payne and forfeiture of tenne pounde to the Queene for his refu&s;all thereof. And that the Trea&s;urer or Barons of the e&s;cheker vpon the payment of the &s;ame collection, or at the &s;ayde daye, &s;hal can|cell and delyuer the &s;ayde recogni&s;aunce or obligation to the &s;ayde col|lectour or collectours, without any fee, or rewarde to be payde to anye per&s;on for the &s;ame.</P>
<P>And furthermore for the greate and weyghtye con&s;iderations a|fore&s;ayde, we the Lordes Spirituall and Temporall, and Commons in this pre&s;ent Parliament a&s;&s;embled, do by oure like a&s;&s;ente and auc|thoritie of this Parlyamente, geue and graunte to oure &s;ayde Soue|raygne Lady the Quenes Maie&s;tie, her heyres and Succe&s;&s;ours, one entyer Sub&s;edye, to be rated, taxed, leuyed, and payde at one hole and entyre paymente, of euerye per&s;onne Spyrytuall and Temporall, of what e&s;tate or degree he or they be, accordynge to the tenure of thys acte, in manner and fourme folowynge. That is to &s;aye, as well of eue+ry per&s;onne borne within this realme of Englande, Wales, or other the Quenes dominions, as of all and euery Fraternitie, Guild, Corpo+ration, Mi&s;terye, Brotherheade, and Cominaltye, corporated or not corporated, within this Realme of Englande, Wales, or other the que|nes dominions, beynge worth fyue pounde, for euerye pounde, as wel in coyne, and the value we of euerye pounde that euerye &s;uche per&s;onne, Fraternitie, Guylde, Corporation, My&s;terye, Brotherheade, and Co|mynaltye, corporate or not corporate, hath of his or theyr owne, or any other to his or theyr v&s;e, as al&s;o plate, &s;tocke of marchaundi&s;es, all ma|ner of corne and blades, hou&s;eholde &s;tuffe, and of all other goodes mo|ueable, as well within the Realme as without, and of all &s;uch &s;ummes of money as to him or them is or &s;halbe owyng, wherof he or they tru&s;t in his or their con&s;ciences &s;urely to be payde (excepte and out of the pre+mi&s;&s;es deducted &s;uche &s;ummes of money as he or they owe, and in his or theyr con&s;ciences truely intendeth to paye, and excepte al&s;o the ap|parell of &s;uche per&s;onnes, theyr wyues and chyldren belongynge to theyr owne bodies, &s;auynge Iuelles, golde, &s;yluer, &s;tone and pearle) &s;hall paye to and for the &s;ayde Sub&s;edy, two &s;hillinges eyght pence of euery pounde.</P>
<P>And al&s;o of euerye alien borne oute of the Queenes obey&s;aunce, as well Denizen as other, inhabitinge within the Realme, of euerye pounde that he or they haue in coyne, and the value of euerye pounde in plate, corne, grayne, marchaundi&s;e, hou&s;eholde&s;tuffe or other goodes Iuelles, Cattelles, moueable or vnmoueable as is a&s;ore&s;ayde, as well within this Realme as without, and of al &s;ummes of monye to him or them owyng, whereof he or they tru&s;t in his or theyr con&s;cience or con+&s;ciences to be payde (excepte and of the &s;ame premi&s;&s;es deducted euery
<PB REF="31">&s;uche Summe or &s;ummes of mony which he or they doo owe, and in his or theyr con&s;cience or con&s;ciences intendeth truely to pay) &s;hal pay of and for euery pounde, to and for the payment of the &s;ayde Sub&s;edy fyue &s;hyllinges .iiij.d. for euery pounde.</P>
<P>And al&s;o that euery alien and &s;traunger, borne oute of the queenes dominions, beynge denizen or not denizen, not beynge contrybutorye to anye of the rates aboue&s;ayde, &s;hall paye to and for the paymente of the &s;ayde Sub&s;idy, eyght pence foreuery poll, and the may&s;ter, or he or &s;he with whome the &s;ame alien is or &s;halbe abidinge at the tyme of the taxation or taxations thereof, to be charged with the &s;ame for lacke of payment thereof.</P>
<P>And be it further enacted by the aucthoritie afore&s;ayde, that euery per&s;on borne vnder the quenes obey&s;aunce, and euery corporation, fra+ternitie, guylde, mi&s;terye, brotherheade, and cominaltie, corporate or not corporate, for euery pounde that euerye of the &s;ame per&s;onnes, and euery corporation, fraternitie, guylde, my&s;tery, brotherhead, and co~mi|naltie, corporate or not corporate, or anye other to his or their v&s;e hath in fee &s;imple, fee tayle, for terme of lyfe, terme of yeares, by execution, warde&s;hyppe, or by copye of courte roll. of and in any honoures, ca&s;tels Manours, landes, tenementes, rentes, &s;eruices, hereditamentes, an|nuities, fees, corrodies, or other yearelye profyttes, of the yearelye va|lue of twentye &s;hyllynges, as well within aunciente demeane, as other places pryuyleged, as elles where, and &s;o vpwardes, &s;hall paye to and for the paymente of the &s;ayde Sub&s;edy, foure &s;hyllynges of eue|ry pounde.</P>
<P>And euerye alien borne oute of the Quenes obey&s;aunce, in &s;uche ca&s;e, to paye at the &s;ayd payment eight &s;hyllynges of euery pound.</P>
<P>And that all &s;ummes pre&s;ented and chargeable by this acte, either for goodes and debtes, or for landes and tenementes, and other the premi&s;&s;es, as is in this acte conteyned, &s;halbe at the &s;ayde payment &s;et and taxed after the rate and portion, accordynge to the true meaninge of this acte (landes and tenementes chargeable to the dy&s;ines of the clergy, and yearlye wages due to &s;eruauntes for their yearelye &s;eruyce (other then the kinge and Quenes &s;eruauntes takynge yearelye wa|ges of fyue poundes or aboue, onely except and forpry&s;ed.) And that all plate, coyne, iuelles, goodes, debtes, and cattelles per&s;onnalles, beynge in the onelye cu&s;todye of anye per&s;onne and per&s;onnes, to the v&s;e of anye corporation, fraternitie, Guilde, mi&s;terye, brotherhead, or anye comminaltie, beynge corporate or not corporate, be and &s;hall be rated, &s;et, &amp; charged by rea&s;on of this act, as the value certified by the pre&s;en|ters of that certificate, to be &s;worne of euerye pounde in goodes and debtes as is aboue&s;ayde. And of euery pounde in landes, tenementes, annuities, fees, corrodies, or other yearely profittes, as is aboue&s;ayde.
<PB N="xxix" REF="31">And the &s;ommes that are before rehear&s;ed, &s;ette, and taxed, to be leuy|ed and taken of them that &s;hall haue &s;uche goodes in cu&s;todie, or other|wi&s;e charged for landes as is before rehear&s;ed. And the &s;ame per&s;onne or per&s;onnes, and body corporate by thaucthoritie of this acte, &s;hall be di&s;charged agayn&s;te him or them that &s;hall or oughte to haue the &s;ame at the tyme of the paymente or delyuerye thereof, or at his otherwy&s;e departure from the cu&s;todye or po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of the &s;ame, (excepte and al|wayes forpri&s;ed from the charge and a&s;&s;ea&s;&s;ement of this &s;ubledye, all goodes, cattels, Iuelles, and ornamentes of Churches and Chappels, whiche haue bene ordeined and v&s;ed in Churches or Chappels, for the honoure and &s;eruice of almightie God.) And this payment of the &s;ayd &s;ub&s;edy &s;hall be by aucthoritie afore&s;ayde, taxed, a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed, and rated ac|cordinge to this acte, in euerye Shyre, Rydinge, Lathe, Wapentake, Rape, Citie, Borough, Towne, &amp; euery other place within this realme of Englande and Wales, and other the Quenes dominions, before the la&s;te daye of Apryll next comminge.</P>
<P>And the perticuler Summes of euerye Shyre, Rydinge, Bur|roughe, Towne, and other places afore&s;ayde, with the perticuler na|mes of &s;uche as are chargeable for and to the paymente of the &s;ayde Sub&s;edye, to be taxed and &s;ette by the Commi&s;&s;ioners to the &s;ame ly|mitted, or two of theim at the lea&s;te, with the names of the hyghe col|lectoures, and in the &s;ame fourme &s;hall be certified in the kynge and Queenes E&s;chequer, before the la&s;te daye of Maye nexte commyng, with the names of the highe Collectoures of the &s;ame. And the &s;ayde Summes in manner and fourme afore&s;ayde, to be taxed for the pay|mente of the &s;ayde Sub&s;idye, &s;hall be payde in the kynge and Quenes Receipte of theyr E&s;chequer afore&s;ayde, to the v&s;e of oure &s;ayde Soue|raigne Ladye, before the .xxiiij. daye of Iune nexte comminge. And the Summes of and for the &s;ayde Sub&s;idie, &s;halbe taxed, &s;ette, a&s;ked, and demaunded, taken, gathered, leuyed, and payde to the v&s;e of oure &s;ayde Soueraigne Lady, and her heyres and Succe&s;&s;oures in forme aboue&s;ayde, as well within the liberties, fraunchi&s;es, Saynctuaries, aunciente demeane, and other what&s;oeuer place, exempte or not ex|empte, as withoute (excepte &s;uche Shyres, places, and per&s;onnes as &s;hall be forpri&s;ed in and by this pre&s;ente acte) anye graunte, charter, pre&s;cription, v&s;e, or libertye, by rea&s;on of any letters patentes, or other priuiledge, pre&s;cription, allowaunce of the &s;ame, or what&s;oeuer other matter of di&s;charge heretofore to the contrary made, graunted, v&s;ed, or obteyned notwith&s;tandinge.</P>
<P>And it is further enacted by the aucthoritye of this pre&s;ente parlia|mente, that euerye &s;uche per&s;onne, as well &s;uche as be borne vnder the queenes obey&s;aunce, as euerye other per&s;on Straunger borne, deny|zen or not denizen inhabitinge within this realme, or within Wales,
<PB REF="32">or other the Quenes dominions, whiche at the tyme of the &s;ame a&s;&s;e&s;|&s;inge or taxation to be hadde or made, &s;hall be oute of this realme, and oute of Wales, and haue goodes or cattels, landes, or tenements, fees or anuities, or other profittes within this realme, or in Wales, &s;hall be charged and chargeable for the &s;ame, by the certificate of the inhabi|tauntes of the parties where &s;uche goodes, cattels, landes, teneme~ts, or other the premi&s;&s;es then &s;hall be, or in &s;uche other place where &s;uche per&s;onne or his factoure deputye or attourneye, &s;hall haue his moo&s;te re&s;orte vnto within this realme or in Wales, in lyke manner as yf the &s;ayde per&s;onne were or hadde ben at the tyme of the &s;ayde a&s;&s;ea&s;&s;ynge within this Realme. And that euerye per&s;onne abydynge or dwel|lynge within this Realme, or withoute this Realme, &s;hall be charged or chargeable to the &s;ame Sub&s;edye, graunted by thys Acte, ac|cordinge, and after the rate of &s;uche yearelye &s;ub&s;taunce, or valewe of landes and tenementes, goodes, and cattelles, and other the premy&s;|&s;es, as euerye per&s;onne &s;o to be charged &s;hal be &s;et at the time of the &s;aid a&s;&s;ea&s;&s;inge or taxation vppon hym to be made, and in none other|wy&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>AND</HI> furthermore be it enacted by the aucthoritie afore&s;ayde, that for the a&s;&s;ea&s;&s;inge and orderynge of the &s;ayde Sub&s;edye to be duelye hadde, the Lorde Chauncelloure of Englande, or the keper of the greate Seale, the Lorde Trea&s;urer of Englande, the Lorde Stew|arde of the Kynge and Queenes Honorable Hou&s;eholde, the Lorde pre&s;ident of the kynge and Quenes honorable Coun&s;ayle, the lord pri|nye Seale for the time beynge, or two of them at the lea&s;t, whereof the Lorde Chauncellour of Englande, or keper of the great Seale for the time beynge to be one, &s;hall and maye name and appointe, of, and for euery Shyre and Rydyng, and other places a&s;wel within this realme as in Wales, and other the Quenes dominions, and al&s;o of and for eue+rye Citie and Towne, beynge a countye in it &s;elfe, and of, and for the I&s;le of Wyght, &s;uch certeyne nomber of per&s;onnes, of euery of the &s;aid Shires, Rydinges, Lathes, Wapentakes, Rapes, Cities, Townes, and I&s;le of Wight, and euery other place, and other the inhabitauntes of the &s;ame, to be Commi&s;&s;ioners with in the &s;ame, whereof they be inhabytauntes, and al&s;o of, and for the honorable hou&s;eholde of the Quenes Maie&s;tie, and the Lady Elizabeths grace, in what Shyres or other places, the &s;ayde hou&s;eholdes &s;hall happen then to be. And the Lorde Chauncelloure and other with him before named in lyke ma|ner, maye name and appoynte of euerye other &s;uche Burroughe, and towne corporate, a&s;well in Englande as in Wales, and other the Que|nes dominions as they &s;hall thinke requi&s;ite, &s;yxe, fyue, foure, three, or two of the heade officers, and other &s;adde hone&s;te inhabitauntes of euery of the &s;ayde Cities, Burroughes, and Townes Corporate, ac|cordynge
<PB N="xxx" REF="32">to the number and multitude of people beynge in the &s;ame. The whiche per&s;onnes yf anye &s;uch be therevnto named, of the &s;ayde inhabytauntes of the &s;ayde Burroughes, and Townes Corporate, not beynge countyes in them &s;elfes, &s;halbe ioyned and putte in as com|my&s;&s;yoners, with the per&s;onnes named for &s;uche Shyres, and Ry|dynges, as the &s;ayde Burroughes, and townes corporate, not beynge counties in them &s;elues, be &s;et and haue their being, whych per&s;ons &s;o named for &amp; of y^e &s;aid boroughes, &amp; townes corporate, not being coun|ties, by rea&s;on of their dwelling in the &s;ame, &s;hall not take vpon the~ne none of the~ to put any part of their commi&s;&s;ion in execution for the pre+my&s;&s;es oute of the &s;ayde Boroughes and Towne Corporate, wherein they beynge &s;o named onelye for the &s;ame be dwellynge. And al&s;o not to execute the &s;ayde commy&s;&s;yon within the Burroughe or Towne Corporate, wher they be &s;o dwellynge, but at &s;uche dayes, and tymes, as the &s;ayde other commy&s;&s;yoners for the &s;ame Shyre, and Rydynge &s;hall thereto lymytte and appoynte, within the &s;ame Burroughe or towne corporate, not beynge countye corporate, whereof they &s;oo be, and not out of &s;uche Burrough or towne, and in that maner to be ay|dynge and a&s;&s;y&s;tynge with the &s;ayde other commy&s;&s;yoners, in, and for the good executynge of theffecte of the &s;ayde commy&s;&s;yon, vpon paine of euerye of the &s;ayde commi&s;&s;ioners &s;oo named for euerye &s;uche cytye Burrough, and towne corporate, not being a county, to make &s;uch fine as the &s;ayd other comi&s;&s;ioners in the commi&s;&s;ion, of, &amp; for the &s;aid &s;hire or rydynge &s;o named, or three of them at the lea&s;t, &s;hal by theyr dy&s;cre|tions &s;ette and certyfye into the kynge and queenes E&s;cheker, there to be leuyed to the v&s;e of her Maie&s;tie, in like manner as &s;uche or like Sommes hadde bene &s;ette and rated vpon euerye &s;uche per&s;onne for the &s;ayde Sub&s;edye. The whyche commi&s;&s;yoners &s;o named of and for the &s;ayde Cityes, Burroughes, and Townes, not beynge countyes, &amp; onelye putte in the &s;ayde commy&s;&s;yon by rea&s;onne of theyr dwellynge in the &s;ame, &s;hall not haue anye parte of the portion of the fees, and re|wardes of the commy&s;&s;yoners and theyr clerkes, in thys acte after|wardes &s;pecyfyed. And the lorde Chauncelloure of Englande, and ke|per of the kynge and Queenes great Seale for the tyme beynge, &s;hall make and directe oute of the courte of Chauncerye, vnder the kinge &amp; quenes greate Seale, &s;euerall commi&s;&s;ions. That is to &s;aye, to euerye Shire, Rydynge, Lath, Wapentake, Rape, cytye, Towne, Burrough I&s;le, and hou&s;eholde, vnto &s;uch per&s;onne and per&s;onnes, as by his di&s;|cretion and other with hym afore named and appointed in lyke maner and fourme as is afore rehear&s;ed, &s;hall be thoughte &s;uffycyente for the &s;ea&s;&s;ynge and leuyinge of the &s;ame Sub&s;edye, in all &s;hyres and places, accordynge to the true meanynge of thys acte. Whyche Commy&s;&s;yon for the paymente of the &s;ayde Sub&s;edye, &s;hall be dyrected and dely|uered
<PB REF="33">to the &s;ayde commi&s;&s;ioners, or to one of them before the fyr&s;te daye of Apryll next comminge, and to euerye of the &s;ayde commy&s;&s;y|ons tenne Sedules, conteynynge in them the tenoure of thys acte, &s;hall be affiled, by the whyche commi&s;&s;yon the commy&s;&s;ioners in eue|rye &s;uche commy&s;&s;yon, named, accordynge to thys acte, and as manye of them as &s;hall be appoynted by the &s;ame commy&s;&s;yon, &s;hall haue full power and aucthorytye to putte the effecte of the &s;ame commy&s;&s;yon in execution.</P>
<P>And that by the aucthoritie of this acte, after &s;uch commi&s;&s;ion to them dyrected, they maye by theyr a&s;&s;entes and agrementes, &s;euer the~ &s;elues for the execution of their commy&s;&s;yon in hundredes, Lathes wardes, and rapes, Wapentakes, townes, pari&s;hes, and other places, within the lymyttes of theyr &s;ayde commy&s;&s;yon, in &s;uche forme as to them &s;hall &s;eme expediente to be ordered, and betwene them to be com+moned and agreed, accordynge to the tenoure and effecte of the com|my&s;&s;yon to them therein dyrected. Vpon which &s;eueraunce euery per|&s;onne of this pre&s;ent parliament that &s;halbe commi&s;&s;yoner, &s;halbe a&s;&s;ig+ned in the hundred wherein he dwelleth.</P>
<P><HI>PROVIDED</HI> alwaies that no per&s;onne be or &s;hal be compelled to be anye commi&s;&s;ioner, to and for the execution of thys pre&s;ente acte, but onelye in the Shyre where he dwelleth and inhabyteth. And that eue+rye per&s;onne beynge a&s;&s;igned to the contrary therof, in anye wi&s;e &s;hall not be compelled to putte in execution the effecte of thys acte, or anye parte thereof.</P>
<P><HI>AND</HI> it is al&s;o enacted by the aucthoritie of this pre&s;ent parliament, that the commi&s;&s;ioners and euerye of them whiche &s;halbe named, ly|mitted and appoynted accordynge to thys acte, to be commi&s;&s;ioners in euerye &s;uche &s;hyre, Ridinge, Lath, Wapentake, Rape, Cytye, towne, Burroughe, I&s;le, and the &s;ame hou&s;eholdes, or any other places, and none other &s;hal truelye, effectuallye, and dylygentlye for theyr parte, execute the effecte of thys pre&s;ent acte, according to the tenoure therof in euery behalfe, and noo otherwy&s;e by anye other meanes, wythoute omi&s;&s;ion, fauoure, dreade, malyce, or anye other thyng to be attempted and done by them or anye of them to the contrary thereof. And y^e &s;ame Commy&s;&s;yoners and as manye of them as &s;halbe appointed by y^e &s;ame commi&s;&s;ion, and none other for thexecution of the &s;ame Commy&s;&s;yon and acte, &s;hall for the taxation of the &s;ame payment of the &s;ayd Sub&s;i|die before the, vi. daye of Apryll nexte commynge, by vertue of the com+mi&s;&s;ions deliuered vnto them in fourme aboue&s;ayde, directe their &s;e|uerall or ioynte precepte vnto eight, &s;euen, &s;ixe, fiue, foure, or thre or mo, as for the number of the inhabitauntes &s;halbe requi&s;ite, of the moo&s;te &s;ub&s;tanciall di&s;crete, and hone&s;t per&s;ons inhabytauntes, to be named by the &s;ayde commi&s;&s;ioners, or by as manye of them as &s;halbe appoyn|ted
<PB N="xxxi" REF="33">by the &s;ayd commi&s;&s;ion, of, and in hundredes, lathes, rapes, wapen|takes, wardes, pary&s;hes, townes, and other places, a&s;well within ly|bertyes, Fraunchy&s;es, auncient demeane, places exempted, and &s;aintu+aryes as withoute, within the limittes of the &s;hires, rydinges, lathes wapentakes, rapes, Cities, Townes, Burroughes, or I&s;le afore&s;ayd, and other places within the limittes of theyr commy&s;&s;yon, vnto the co~|&s;tables, &s;ubcon&s;tables, Baylyffes, and other like officers, or myny&s;ters of euery of the &s;ame hundredes, townes, wardes, lathes, wapentakes, pary&s;hes, and other places before&s;ayd, as to the &s;ame Commy&s;&s;ioners and euery number of them, or vnto three or two of them by theyr dy&s;|cretion in diui&s;yon &s;hall &s;eme expedient, as by the maner &amp; v&s;e of that parties &s;halbe requi&s;ite. Strayghtlye by the &s;ame precepte chargynge and commaundyng the &s;ame inhabytauntes, con&s;tables, and other of|fycers afore&s;ayde, to whome &s;uche precepte &s;halbe &s;oo directed, to ap|peare in their proper per&s;onnes, before the &s;ayde Commy&s;&s;yoners, or &s;uche number of them as they &s;hall deuide them &s;elfes, accordynge to the tenoure of the &s;ayde commi&s;&s;ion, at certayne dayes and places, by the &s;ayde commi&s;&s;yoners or any number of them as is afore&s;ayd, with|in Cities, Burroughes, and townes Corporate, or withoute in anye other place, as is afore&s;ayd, by their dy&s;cretions, &s;hall be lymytted ther vnto, to doo and accomply&s;he al that to them on the partye of the king and Queenes maie&s;ties, &s;halbe enioyned touchynge thys acte. Commaundyng further by the &s;ame precepte, that he to who&s;e handes &s;uch precept &s;hall come, &s;hall &s;hewe or deliuer the &s;ame to the other in|habytauntes or offycers named in the &s;ayde precept, and that none of them fayle to accomply&s;he the &s;ame, vpon payne of fortye &s;hillinges, to be forfeyted to the Quenes Maie&s;tye.</P>
<P><HI>AND</HI> it is further ordeyned by the aucthoritie of thys pre&s;ente Parlyamente, that euerye of the Commy&s;&s;yoners then beynge, in the Shire, and hauynge noo &s;ufficiente excu&s;e for hys ab&s;ence, &s;hall at the daye and place prelyxed, for that parte wherevnto he was lymytted to appeare in hys proper per&s;onne. And there the &s;ame Commy&s;&s;yoners beynge pre&s;ente, or a&s;manye as &s;halbe appoynted by the kynge and queenes Commy&s;&s;yon, &s;hall call or cau&s;e to be called before them the &s;ayde inhabytauntes, and offycers, to whome they haue directed their &s;ayde preceptes, and whyche hadde in commaundemente there to ap|peare by the &s;ayde precepte of the &s;ayde commy&s;&s;yoners, and yf anye per&s;on &s;oo warned make defaulte, onles he then be letten by &s;yckenes or lawefull excu&s;e, and that let then be wytne&s;&s;ed by the othes of twoo credible per&s;onnes, or yf anye appearynge, refu&s;e to be &s;worne in forme folowynge, to forfeyte to the kynge and queenes Maie&s;ties, forty &s;hil|lynges, and &s;oo at euerye tyme appoynted by the &s;ayd commy&s;&s;ioners, for the &s;ayde taxations, vnto &s;uch tyme, the number of euery &s;uche per|&s;onnes,
<PB REF="34">haue appeared and certified in fourme vnder written, and eue+rye of them, &s;o makynge defaulte, or refu&s;ynge to be &s;worne, to forfeyt to the kyng and queenes Maie&s;ties, fortye &s;hyllynges. And vpon the &s;ame appearaunce had, one of the mo&s;t &s;ub&s;tanciall inhabytauntes, or officer &s;o beynge warned and appearynge before the &s;ayd commi&s;&s;yo|ners, &s;halbe &s;worne vpon a boke, openlye before the commi&s;&s;ioners in fourme folowyng. I &s;hal truely enquyre with my felowes, that &s;halbe charged with me of the hundrede, wapentake, warde, towne or other place, of the be&s;t and mo&s;t value of the &s;ub&s;taunce of euery per&s;on dwel|lynge and abydynge within the limittes of the places, that I and my felowes &s;halbe charged with, and of other, which &s;hal haue his or their mo&s;t re&s;orte vnto anye of the &s;ayde places, and chargeable with anye &s;umme of monye, by this acte of the &s;ayd &s;ub&s;edye, and of all other arti|cles that I &s;halbe charged with touchyng the &s;ayd acte, and according to the intente of the &s;ame. And therevpon as nere as it maye be, or &s;hall come to my knowledge, truely to pre&s;ente and certifye before you the names, &s;urnames, and the be&s;te and vttermoo&s;te &s;ub&s;taunce and va|lues, of euerye of them, alwell of landes, tenementes, and other heredi|tamentes po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions, and proffytttes, as of goodes, cattells, debtes, and other thynges, chargeable by the &s;ayde acte, withoute anye con|ceylemente, loue, fauoure, affection, dread, feare, or malyce, as neare as god wyll geue me grace, &s;o helpe me God and the holye contentes of this boke.</P>
<P><HI>AND</HI> euery other per&s;on that &s;hall appere there by the &s;ame pre|ceptes &s;hal make like othe, and vpon the othe &s;o taken as is afore&s;ayde, by the inhabytauntes and officers of euery hundred, ward, wape~take towne, or other place, the &s;ayd commi&s;&s;ioners, &s;hall openly there tede or cau&s;e to be red vnto them the &s;ayd rates, and openlye declare the ef|fect of their charge vnto them, in what maner and fourme they ought and &s;huld make their certificate, accordyng to the rates and &s;ummes thereof aboue&s;ayde, and of all maner of per&s;onnes, as wel of alyens &amp; &s;traungers, denizens or not denizens, inhabytyng within thys realme as of &s;uch per&s;onnes as be borne vnder the Queenes obey&s;aunce char+geable to thys acte.</P>
<P><HI>AND</HI> of the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions goodes and cattels, of fraternities, guyldes, corporations, brotherhedes mi&s;teries, and comminaltyes, and other as is aboue&s;ayde, and of per&s;ones beynge in the partyes of beyond the Seas, hauynge goodes or cattels, landes, or tenementes, within thys Realme as is afore&s;ayd. And of al goodes beyng in the cu&s;tody of any per&s;onne or per&s;onnes, to thu&s;e of anye other as is aboue&s;ayde, by the whych information, and &s;hewing the &s;ayde per&s;onnes &s;huld haue &s;uch playne knowledge of the true intente of this pre&s;ent Acte, and of the maner of their certyfycate, that the &s;ame per&s;ones, &s;hall haue no re&s;o|nable
<PB N="xxxii" REF="34">cau&s;e to excu&s;e them by ignoraunce. And after &s;uch othe and the Statute of the &s;ayde Sub&s;idie, and the maner of the &s;ayde certificate to be made in writinge, conteyninge the names and &s;urnames of eue|ry per&s;onne, and whyther they be borne withoute the Queenes obey|&s;aunce or within, and the be&s;t value of euery per&s;onne, in euery degre, as well of yerely value of landes and tenementes, and of &s;uch lyke po&s;|&s;e&s;&s;ion and profittes, as the value of goodes and cattelles, debtes, and euery thing to the certificate requi&s;ite and nece&s;&s;ary to them declared, the &s;ayde Commi&s;&s;ioners there beyng, &s;hal by theyr di&s;cretions apoint and limitte vnto the &s;ayde per&s;onnes an other daye and place to ap|peare before the &s;ayde commi&s;&s;ioners, and charginge the &s;ayd per&s;ons that they in the meane time &s;hall make diligente enquirie by all wayes and meanes of the premi&s;&s;es, and then and there euerye of them vpon payne of forfeyture of .xl.s. to the kynge and Quenes Maie&s;ties, to ap+peare at the &s;ayde newe prefixed daye, and place, there to certifie vnto the &s;ayde Commi&s;&s;ioners in wrytinge, according to theyr &s;ayd charge and accordinge to the true intente of the &s;ayd graunt of Sub&s;edy, and as to them in maner afore&s;ayde hath bene declared and &s;hewed by the commi&s;&s;ioners. At which daye and place &s;o to them prefixed, yf anye of the &s;ayde per&s;ons make defaulte, or appeare, and refu&s;e to make the &s;ayd certificate, that then euery of them &s;o offendinge, to forfeyte to the kynge and Quenes Maie&s;ties, forty &s;hyllynges, except onelye a rea&s;o|nable excu&s;e of his defaulte, by rea&s;on of &s;yckenes, or otherwy&s;e by the othes of two credible per&s;onnes, there witne&s;&s;ed be had. And of &s;uche as appeare ready to make certificate, as is afore&s;ayd, the &s;ayd commi&s;|&s;ioners there beyng &s;hall take and receaue the &s;ame certificate, and eue+rye part therof, and the names and values, and &s;ub&s;tance of euery per|&s;on &s;o certified. And if the &s;ame commi&s;&s;ioners &s;ee cau&s;e rea&s;onable they &s;hall examen the &s;ayde pre&s;enters therof, and thervpon the &s;ayde commi&s;&s;ioners at the &s;ayd dayes and place, by theyr agremente emon|ges them &s;elfes, &s;hal from time to time openly there prefixe a daye at a certayne place or places within the limittes of theyr commi&s;&s;ion by theyr di&s;cretion, for theyr further proceding to the &s;ayd a&s;&s;e&s;&s;yng of the &s;ayde Sub&s;idie, and therevpon at the &s;ayde day of the &s;ayde certificate as is afore&s;ayde taken, the &s;ame commi&s;&s;ioners &s;hall make theyr pre|cepte or preceptes to the con&s;tables, &s;ubcon&s;tables, Baylyffes, or other officers of &s;uche hundredes, wapentakes, townes, or other places a|fore&s;ayde, as the &s;ame commi&s;&s;ioners &s;hall be of, compri&s;inge and con|teyninge in the &s;ame precepte, the names and furnames of all per&s;ons pre&s;ented before them in the &s;ayde certifycate, of whome yf the &s;ayde commi&s;&s;ioners or as many of them as &s;halbe therevnto appoynted by the kynge and quenes commi&s;&s;ion, &s;hall then haue vehement &s;u&s;pect to be of more greater value or &s;ub&s;taunce in landes, goodes, cattelles, or
<PB REF="35">&s;ummes of monye owynge to them, or other &s;ub&s;taunce before&s;a&s;d, the~ vpon &s;uche per&s;onne or per&s;onnes &s;halbe certified, the &s;ame commi&s;&s;io+ners &s;hall make theyr precepte or preceptes, directed to the con&s;tables, baylyffes, or other officers, to who~ &s;uch precept &s;halbe directed, co~mau~|ding the &s;ame con&s;tables, bailiffes, or other officers, to warne &s;uch per+&s;onnes who&s;e names &s;halbe compri&s;ed in the &s;ayd precept, at their ma~|&s;ions, or to theyr per&s;onnes, that the &s;ame per&s;ons named in &s;uche pre|ceptes, and euery of them, &s;hall per&s;onally appeare before the &s;ayd com+mi&s;&s;ioners, at the &s;ame newe prefixed day and place, there to be exami|ned by al wayes and meanes by the &s;aide commi&s;&s;ioners, of theyr grea+te&s;t &s;ub&s;taunce and be&s;t value, and of all and euerye &s;ummes of money owynge to them, and other what&s;oeuer matter concernynge the pre|mi&s;&s;es or anye of them, accordynge to this Acte. At whiche daye and place &s;o prefixed, the &s;ayde commi&s;&s;ioners then there beynge, or as ma|ny of them as &s;hall be there vnto appoynted by the kynge and Quenes commi&s;&s;ion, &s;hall cau&s;e to be called the &s;ayde per&s;onnes, who&s;e names &s;halbe compti&s;ed in the &s;ayde precepte, as is before&s;ayde, for theyr exa|mination. And if any of tho&s;e per&s;onnes whiche &s;houlde be warned as is before&s;ayde to be examyned, whyche at anye tyme after the war|nynge, and before the prefyred daye, &s;halbe within &s;uch place wher he maye haue knowledge of his &s;ayde appearaunce to be made, make de|faulte and appeare not, onles a rea&s;onable cau&s;e, or elles a rea&s;onable excu&s;e by the othes of two credible per&s;onnes before the &s;ayde commi&s;+&s;ioners be truely alledged for his di&s;charge, that then euerye of them &s;o makynge defaulte, to be taxed to the kynge and Queenes Maie&s;ties, with and at the double &s;ummes of the rate that he &s;houlde or oughte to haue ben &s;ette at for and after the be&s;te value of hys landes, or &s;ub|&s;taunce vpon him certified, yf he had appeared, by the di&s;cretion of the commi&s;&s;ioners there beynge. And whiche commi&s;&s;ioners &s;hall trauell with euery of the per&s;onnes &s;o then and there appearynge, who&s;e na|mes &s;hall be expre&s;&s;ed in the &s;ayde precepte or preceptes, and in whome anye vehement &s;u&s;pecte was or &s;hall be hadde, in fourme afore&s;ayde, by all &s;uche wayes and meanes they can. And that euerye &s;pirituall per|&s;on at the &s;ayde taxations of the &s;ayde Sub&s;edye, &s;hall be rated and &s;et accordinge to the rate aboue&s;ayde, of, and for euerye pounde that the &s;ame &s;pyrituall per&s;on or any other to his v&s;e, hath by di&s;cent, bargayne or purcha&s;e, in fee &s;imple, fee tayle, terme of lyfe, terme of yeares, by ex|ecution, by warde, or by copy of courte rolle, in any manours, landes, tenementes, rentes, &s;eruices, offices, fees, corrodies, annuities, or here|ditamentes, after the true, iu&s;te, and yearelye value thereof, after, and accordinge as other the kynge and Quenes Maie&s;ties &s;ubiectes, born within this realme be charged in &s;ourme aboue remembred. So that it extende to the yearely value of twentye &s;hyllynges or aboue. And yf
<PB N="xxxiii" REF="35">any per&s;on certified or rated by vertue of thys acte, be he commi&s;&s;ioner or other to anye maner of value, doth finde hym &s;elfe greued wyth the &s;ame pre&s;entment, &s;ea&s;&s;ynge, or taxinge, and therevpon complayne to the commy&s;&s;yoners before whome he &s;halbe rated, &s;ea&s;&s;ed, or taxed, or before two of them. That then the &s;aid commi&s;&s;ioners &s;hal by al waies and meanes examen perticulerly and di&s;tinctlye the per&s;onne &s;oo com|playnynge, and other his neyghboures by their di&s;rretion, of euery his landes and tenementes aboue &s;pecified, and of euerye his goodes, cat|tells, and dettes, aboue mentioned, and after due examynatyon and perfitte knowledge thereof had and perceaued by the &s;ayd commi&s;&s;io|ners, whiche &s;hall haue power by the aucthoritie afore&s;ayde, the &s;ayde commi&s;&s;yoners or two of them, to whome any &s;uche complaynt &s;halbe made, by theyr di&s;cretions vpon the oth of the &s;ayde per&s;onne &s;oo com|playnyng, maye abate, defalke, encrea&s;e or enlarge the &s;ame a&s;&s;e&s;&s;eme~t accordynge as it &s;hall appeare vnto them iu&s;te vpon the &s;ame examy|nation. And the &s;ame Summe &s;o abated, defaulked, encrea&s;ed, or en|larged, to be &s;treated in fourme as hereafter en&s;ueth, &s;o that he come be+fore the e&s;treates of the &s;ame a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ynge be deliuered by the &s;ayde com|mi&s;&s;ioners, into the kyng and Queenes maie&s;ties e&s;cheker. And if it be proued by wytne&s;&s;e, his owne confe&s;&s;yon, or other lawefull wayes or meanes, within a yeare after any &s;uch othe made, that the &s;ame per&s;on &s;o taxed and &s;worne was of any better or greter value in lands, goods or other thynges aboue &s;pecifyed at the tyme of hys &s;ayd othe, then the fame per&s;on &s;o &s;worne did declare vpon his &s;ayde oth, that then euerye &s;uch per&s;on &s;o offending, &s;hall lo&s;e and forfeyte to the kyng and quenes maie&s;ties &s;o much in lawefull mony of Englande as the &s;aid per&s;on &s;o &s;worne was &s;et at or taxed to paye. And al per&s;ons &s;et, rated, and taxed as is afore&s;ayd, &s;halbe bound and charged by the &s;ame, and the &s;omme or &s;ommes vpon hym &s;et to be due towardes the payment of the &s;ayde Sub&s;edy and to be leuied as hereafter &s;halbe &s;pecified.</P>
<P>And al&s;o it is enacted by the &s;ame aucthoritie, that euery per&s;on, to be taxed at the &s;ame taxation as is afore&s;aid, &s;halbe rated taxed and &s;et and the &s;omme on him &s;et to be leuied at &s;uch place wher he and his fa|mylye at the tyme of the &s;ame pre&s;entment to be made, &s;hall kepe hys hou&s;e or dwellyng, or where he then &s;halbe moo&s;te conuer&s;aunte aby|dynge and re&s;yaunte, or &s;hal haue hys mo&s;t reforte, and &s;halbe be&s;t kno+wen, at the tyme of the &s;ayde certificate to be made, and no where els. And that no commi&s;&s;yoner for thys Sub&s;edy &s;halbe rated or taxed for his goodes, or landes, but in the Shire and other place where he &s;hall be commi&s;&s;ioner. And that yf any per&s;on chargeable to thys acte, the tyme of the &s;ayde a&s;&s;e&s;&s;yng, happen to be out of thys realme, and out of Wales, or farre from the place where he &s;halbe knowen, then he to be &s;ette where he was la&s;t abydynge in thys Realme, or within Wales,
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<PB REF="37">and be&s;t knowen, and after the &s;ub&s;tau~ce and value, and other profites of euery per&s;on knowen, by thexamination, certificate, and other ma|ner of wy&s;e as is afore&s;ayde. The &s;ayde commi&s;&s;ioners or as manye of them, as &s;halbe appoynted by the kyng and quenes Maie&s;ties commi&s;+&s;ion, &s;hall after the rate afore&s;ayd, &s;et and taxe euery per&s;on, according to the rate of the &s;ub&s;taunce and value of his lands, goodes, and other proffyttes, whereby the grete&s;t and mo&s;t be&s;t &s;omme accordyng to his moo&s;te &s;ub&s;taunce, by rea&s;onne of thys acte myghte or maye be &s;ette or taxed.</P>
<P><HI>PROVIDED</HI> alwaies that euery &s;uch per&s;on, whych &s;halbe &s;et or tax+ed for payment of, and to this Sub&s;edy, for and after the yearely value of his landes, tenementes, and other real po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions or proffites, at the &s;ayde taxations, &s;hal not be &s;ette and taxed, for his goodes and cattels, or other moueable &s;ub&s;taunce, at the &s;ame taxation. And that he that &s;hall be charged or tared for the &s;ame Sub&s;edy, for his goodes, cattels, and other moueables at the &s;ame taxation, &s;hall not be charged taxed or chargeable for his landes, or other real po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions, or proffits aboue &s;ayd, at the &s;ame taxation, nor that anye per&s;on be double charged for the &s;ayde Sub&s;edy, neither &s;et or taxed at &s;euerall places, by rea&s;on of thys acte, any thing conteined in this pre&s;ente acte notwith&s;tandyng.</P>
<P><HI>AND</HI> that it be ordeyned by the &s;ame aucthoritie of thys pre&s;ent parlyament, that no per&s;on hauynge two man&s;ions, or two places to re&s;orte vnto, or calling him &s;elfe hou&s;eholde &s;eruaunte, or waitinge &s;er|uaunt to the kyng and quenes Maie&s;ties, or other lord or lady, mai&s;ter or mai&s;tres, be excu&s;ed vpon hys &s;aying from the raxe of the &s;aid Sub|&s;edy in nether of the places, where he may be &s;et, onle&s;&s;e he bring a certi+fycate in writyng from the commi&s;&s;ioners, wher that he is &s;oo &s;ette in dede at one place. And if any per&s;on that ought to be &s;et by re&s;on of his remouyng or re&s;orting to two places, or by rea&s;on of his &s;aying that he ells wher was taxed, or by rea&s;on of any priuilege by his dwellynge or abydynge in any place not beyng forpry&s;ed in thys acte, or otherwy&s;e by hys couine or craft happen to e&s;cape from the &s;ayde taxations, and be not &s;et, and that proued by pre&s;entment examination or informatio~ before the &s;ame commy&s;&s;yoners, or a&s;manye of them as &s;halbe by the &s;ame commi&s;&s;ion appointed, or by the Barons of the kyng and quenes maie&s;ties e&s;chequer, or two iu&s;tyces of the peace of the countye where &s;uch per&s;on dwelleth, then euerye &s;uch per&s;on that by &s;uche meanes or otherwy&s;e wyllinglye by couine &s;hall happen to e&s;cape from the &s;ayde taxation or payment afore&s;ayd, and not be rated, taxed, or &s;ette, &s;halbe charged vpon the knowledge and proffe thereof with and at the dou|ble value that he &s;houlde or ought to haue bene &s;et at afore, accordynge to hys behauour, the &s;ame double value to be taxed gathered, and pay+ed of hys goodes and catcells, landes, and tenementes, to wardes the
<PB N="xxxiiii" REF="37">&s;ayde Sub&s;edy, and further to be puni&s;hed accordyng to the di&s;crety|ons of the barons, iu&s;tices and commi&s;&s;yoners before whom he &s;halbe conuycted for hys offence and deceite in that behalfe.</P>
<P><HI>AND</HI> further be it enacted by thaucthoritie afore&s;ayd, that the &s;ayde commy&s;&s;ioners of euery commi&s;&s;ion &s;hall accordyng to their diui&s;ions and after they be deuided haue full power and aucthoritie by this act, to &s;et tax and &s;e&s;&s;e euery other commi&s;&s;ioner ioyned with them in eue|ry &s;uch commi&s;&s;ion and diui&s;ion. And &s;hal al&s;o a&s;&s;e&s;&s;e euerye a&s;&s;e&s;&s;oure, within their diuy&s;yon for hys and their goodes, landes, and other the premi&s;&s;es as is aboue&s;ayd, by the whych &s;ayde commy&s;&s;yon the &s;ayde commi&s;&s;ioners, &s;hall indifferently &s;et taxe and &s;e&s;&s;e them &s;elfes and the &s;ayd a&s;&s;e&s;&s;oures, and that a&s;well the &s;ummes vpon euerye of the &s;ayde commy&s;&s;yoners and a&s;&s;e&s;&s;oures, &s;oo &s;e&s;&s;ed, rated, and taxed as the &s;ummes made and pre&s;ented by the pre&s;enters &s;worne as is afore&s;ayd, &s;halbe writtenne certifyed and e&s;treated. And the e&s;tretes thereof to be made with other the inhabytauntes of the parties, within the ly|mites of the &s;ame commi&s;&s;ion and diuy&s;yon, &s;o to be gathered and leui|ed in lyke maner as it ought or &s;hould haue bene, yf the &s;ayd commi&s;&s;i|oner had not bene in the &s;ayde commi&s;&s;ion. And that all per&s;ons of the e&s;tate of a Baron or barons, and euery e&s;tate aboue &s;halbe charged w^t their frehold and value as is afore&s;ayd, by the chauncellor or keper of the gret Seale, Tre&s;urer of England, lord pre&s;ident of the kynge and quenes maie&s;ties pryuy councell, and lord prynye Seale, for the tyme beynge, or other per&s;ons by the kyng and quenes maie&s;ties auctorytie, to be limitted, and they to be charged for the &s;aid &s;eueral paymentes of the &s;ayde Sub&s;edye after the forme of the &s;ayde graunte accordynge to the taxation afore&s;ayde, and the &s;ummes vpon them &s;ette with the names of the Collectoures appoynted for the gatheringe and pay|inge of the &s;ame, to be e&s;treated, delyuered, and certyfied at dayes and places aboue &s;pecyfyed, by the lorde Chauncelor, tre&s;orer, lord pre&s;ide~t of the councel, and lord pryuy Seale for the tyme being, or &s;uch other per&s;ons, as &s;halbe limitted by the kyng and quenes maie&s;ties, and af|ter the taxes and a&s;&s;e&s;&s;es of the &s;ayd &s;immes vpon and by the &s;ayd a&s;|&s;e&s;&s;ynge and certificate as is afore&s;ayd made, the &s;ayde commi&s;&s;ioners or as many of them as &s;halbe there vnto appointed by the kynge and quenes maie&s;ties commi&s;&s;ion, &s;hal with al &s;pede and withoute delaye, by the writinge e&s;treted of the &s;ayd taxe thereof, vnder the Seale and &s;ignes manuel of the &s;ayd commi&s;&s;yoners, or of as manye of them as &s;hal be appointed at y^e le&s;t to be made, &s;halbe deliuered vnto &s;ufficient &amp; &s;ub&s;tantiall inhabitauntes con&s;tables, &s;ubcon&s;tables, Baylyffes, and other offycers, ioyntly of hundredes, townes, pary&s;hes and other pla|ces afore&s;ayde, within their limittes, or to other &s;ufficiente per&s;onnes inhabytauntes of the &s;ame onely by the di&s;cretion of the &s;ame commi&s;|&s;ioners,
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<PB REF="39">and as the place and parties &s;hall requyre, a&s;wel the perticuler names as &s;urnames, as the remembraunce of all &s;ummes of monye, taxed and &s;ette of and vpon euery per&s;on a&s;wel man as woman char|geable to thys acte, hou&s;eholder and al other inhabitauntes and dwel+lers within the &s;ayde pari&s;hes, townes, and places contributory to this acte of Sub&s;edye. By aucthoritie of whiche writynge or e&s;trete &s;o de|lyuered, the &s;ayde offycers and other perfonnes &s;o named and deputed &s;euerallye, &s;hall haue full power and aucthoritie by vertue of thys acte immediatelye after the delyuerye of the &s;ayde wrytynge or e&s;treate, to demaunde leuye and gather of euery per&s;on therein &s;pecified, the &s;u~me or Summes in the &s;ame wrytinge or e&s;trete compri&s;ed. And for none paymente thereof to di&s;trayne the &s;ame per&s;onne or per&s;onnes &s;oo be|ynge behynde by their goodes and cattells. And the di&s;tre&s;&s;es &s;oo ta|ken to kepe by the &s;pace of eyght dayes at the co&s;tes and charges of the owner thereof. And yf the &s;ayde owner do not pay &s;uche &s;umme of mo|nye as &s;halbe taxed by thys acte within the &s;ame .viii. dayes, then the &s;ame di&s;tre&s;&s;e to be appray&s;ed by foure, three or two of the inhabitaun|tes where &s;uch di&s;tre&s;&s;e is taken, and al&s;o to be &s;olde by the &s;ayd con&s;ta+ble and other collectoure for the paymente of the &s;ayde monye, and the ouerplus comynge of the &s;ale and kepynge thereof yf any be, to be im|mediatelye re&s;tored to the owner of the &s;ame di&s;tre&s;&s;e which &s;ayd offy|cers and other per&s;onnes, &s;oo deputed to a&s;ke, take, gather and leuye the &s;ayde Summes, &s;hall an&s;were and be charged for the portion one|ly to them a&s;&s;igned or limitted, to be gathered, leuied and compry&s;ed in the &s;ayde wrytinge or e&s;trete to them as is before &s;ayde deliuered, to thu&s;e of our Soueraygne Lady the Quenes Maie&s;tie, and her heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;oures. And the &s;ayd &s;umme in that writing or e&s;trete com|pry&s;ed to pay vnto the high collector or collectors of that place for the collection of the &s;ame in maner and forme vnderwritten, thervnto to be named and deputed, and the &s;ame inhabitauntes and offycers &s;oo gatheryng the &s;ame perticuler &s;ummes, for their collection thereof, &s;hal retaine for euery twenty &s;hillynges, &s;o by them receued and payd two pence, and that to be allowed at the payment of their collection by the~ to be made, by the hygh collector or collectoures.</P>
<P><HI>AND</HI> further be it enacted by the &s;ayde aucthoritie, that the &s;aid commi&s;&s;yoners or the more parte of them as &s;hall take vpon them thex ecution and be&s;ynes of the &s;ayd commy&s;&s;ion, &s;hal for the &s;ame paiment of the &s;ayd &s;ub&s;edye, name &s;uch &s;ufficient and able per&s;ons, which then &s;hall haue and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e landes and other hereditaments, in their owne right of the yearely value of twenty poundes, or goodes to the value of two hundred markes at the lea&s;te, and the per&s;onnes feuerallye by the dy&s;cre&s;ions of the &s;ame commi&s;&s;yoners, in &s;hires, ridynges, lathes, wa+pentakes, rapes, cities, townes corporat, and other what&s;oeuer places
<PB N="xxxv" REF="39">a&s;wel w^t in places priuileged as withoute, not beinge forpri&s;ed within this act to be high collectors, &amp; haue the collection and receipt of y^e &s;aid &s;ummes &s;et &amp; leuiable within the precinct, limit, and bondes wher thei &s;halbe &s;o limitted to gather and receiue. So euery of the which collec|tors &s;o &s;euerally named, the &s;aid co~mi&s;&s;ioners or two of them at the le&s;t &s;hal w^t al&s;pede and without delay after the &s;ayd whole &s;u~me of the &s;aid &s;ub&s;edy, be &s;et by all the limits of the &s;ame theyr comi&s;&s;ion, or in &s;uche li|mits as the high collectors &s;halbe &s;o &s;euerally a&s;&s;igned, &s;hal vnder their &s;eales, and &s;ignes manuel deliuer one e&s;treat indented in perchemente to euery of the &s;aid high collectors, compri&s;ing in it the names of al &s;uch per&s;ons as were a&s;&s;igned to leuy the &s;ayd perticuler &s;ummes, and the &s;ummes of euery hundred, wapentake, towne, or other place afore&s;aid, with the names and &s;urnames of the per&s;ons &s;o chargeable according to the e&s;trete &s;o fir&s;t therof made as is afore&s;aid, and deliuered, and the collectors &s;o to be a&s;&s;igned, &s;halbe charged to aun&s;wer the hole &s;umme compri&s;ed in the &s;aid e&s;treat limitted to his collection as is afore&s;ayde.</P>
<P>Prouided alwayes and be it enacted by the aucthoritie afore&s;ayd, that the &s;ayd comi&s;&s;ioners hauinge auctoritie by this acte to name and nominate the &s;ayde high collectors of the &s;ayd &s;ub&s;edy, &s;hal immediat|ly vpon the nomination and election, take by auctoritie of this pre&s;ente parliament, &s;ufficient recogni&s;aunces or obligations, without any fee, or rewarde to be payde therefore of euerye per&s;on &s;o by them to be na|med to be high collectours, to be bound to the kynge and quenes maie+&s;ties, in double &s;umme of the &s;umme of his collectio~, and to be indorced and made vpon &s;uch condition, that is to &s;ay, for the collectio~ of y^e &s;ame paiment of the &s;ayd &s;ub&s;edy, that if the &s;ayd collector his heyres or exe|cutors do truelye content and pay to the v&s;e of the quenes maie&s;tie, her heyres or executors, in receipt of the &s;aid e&s;chequer before the &s;aid .xxiiij day of Iune next cominge, &s;o muche of the &s;ayd &s;umme of mony allot|ted and appointed to his collection, as he &s;hall collecte and gather, and contente and paye the re&s;idue of his collection and charge within one moneth next after &s;uch time as he hath gathered and collected y^e &s;ame re&s;idue, that then the &s;aide recogni&s;aunce or obligation to be voyde, or elles to &s;tand in full &s;trength and vertue, whiche &s;ayd recogni&s;aunces or obligations &s;o taken, the &s;ayd comi&s;&s;ioners &s;hall &s;euerallye certyfye and deliuer into the king and quenes maie&s;ties e&s;chequer, with the &s;e|uerall certificates of the &s;ayd taxations and rates of the paymentes of the &s;aid &s;ub&s;edy, at and by the tyme to them pre&s;cribed and appointed by this act, for the certificate of the taxation of the &s;ayd &s;ub&s;edye, vpon payne of forfeyture of .x. poundes to the kynge and quenes maie&s;ties, for euery recogni&s;aunce or obligation not certified, and that euery &s;uch collector &s;o elected named and cho&s;en, vpon reque&s;t to him made, &s;hall knowlege &amp; make the &s;ayd recogni&s;au~ce or obligation, vpo~ like pain of forfeiture of .x. pou~ds to the king &amp; quenes maie&s;tie for y^e refu&s;al therof.
<PB REF="40">And euery &s;uch collector &s;o deputed hauing the &s;aid e&s;treate in perche|ment as is afore&s;aid, &s;hall haue auctoritie by this act, to appoint dayes and places within the circuit of his collection for the payment of y^e &s;aid &s;ub&s;edy to him to be made, and therof to gene warninge by proclama|tion or otherwy&s;e to all the &s;ayd con&s;tables or other per&s;ons or inhabi|taunts, hauing the charge of the perticuler collectio~ within the hundre+des, pari&s;hes, townes, or other places by him or them limitted to make payment for theyr &s;ayd perticuler collection of euery &s;umme as to them &s;hal aperteyne, and if at the &s;ayd day and place &s;o limitted and prefixed by the &s;ayd collectour, the &s;aid con&s;table, officer, or other per&s;ons or in|habitauntes as is before&s;ayd, for the &s;aid perticuler collection appoin|ted &amp; a&s;&s;igned within &s;uch hundred, citie, towne, or other place, do not pay vnto the &s;ayde collectours the &s;u~me within theyr &s;eueral hundreds townes, pari&s;hes, and other places due &amp; compri&s;ed in the &s;aid e&s;treate therof to them deliuered by the &s;aid comi&s;&s;ioners or &s;ome of them as is afore&s;ayd, or &s;o much therof as they haue by any meanes receiued, ij. d. of euery pounde, for the &s;aid perticuler collection as is before&s;ayde, al|wayes to be therof allowed, excepted, and abated, that then it &s;hall be lawful to the &s;aid high collectours and euerye of them, and to theyr a&s;|&s;ignes, to di&s;traine euery of the &s;ayde con&s;tables, officers, and other in|habitantes, for theyr &s;ayd &s;eueral and perticuler collections of the &s;aid &s;ummes compri&s;ed in the &s;ayd e&s;treat and writing therof, to them and euery of the~, as is before expre&s;&s;ed, deliuered, or for as much of the &s;ame &s;umme as &s;o then &s;hal happen to be gathered and leuied, and be behind and vnpaid by the goods and cattels of euery of them &s;o being behind, and the di&s;tres &s;o taken, to be kept, apray&s;ed, and &s;old as is afore&s;aid, &amp; therof to take and leuy the &s;ummes &s;o then being behind and vnpayd, and the ouerplus coming of the &s;ale of the &s;ayd di&s;tres if anye be, to be re&s;tored and deliuered vnto the owner in fourme aboue remembred.</P>
<P>Prouided always that no per&s;on inhabitinge in any citie, borough or towne corporate, &s;halbe compelled to be an a&s;&s;e&s;&s;our or collectour, of or for any part of the &s;ayd &s;ub&s;edy, in any place or places out of the &s;ayd citie, boroughe, or towne corporate where he dwelleth.</P>
<P>And it is al&s;o by the &s;aid auctoritie enacted, y^t if any inhabitaunte or officer, or what&s;oeuer per&s;on or per&s;ons charged to and for the collec|tion or receypt of any parte or portion of the &s;ayd Sub&s;edy, by any ma|ner of meanes according to this acte, or any per&s;on or per&s;ons for them &s;elues, or as keper, gardian, deputy, factour, or attourney, of or for anye other per&s;on or per&s;onnes, of anye goodes and cattelles of the owner therof at the tyme of the &s;ayde a&s;&s;ea&s;&s;yng to be made, beyng out of this realme, or in anye other parties not knowen, or of and for the goodes and cattels of anye other per&s;on or per&s;onnes, of anye corporation, fra|ternity, mi&s;terye, or other what&s;oeuer cominaltye, beynge incorporate, or not incorporate, and all per&s;onnes hauing in theyr rule, gouernau~ce
<PB N="xxxvi" REF="40">and cu&s;tody any goodes or cattells at the tyme of the &s;ayd a&s;&s;e&s;&s;yng to be made or which for any cau&s;e for and by collection, or for him &s;elfe, or for any other, or by rea&s;on that he hath the rule, gouernaunce, or cu&s;to|dye of any goodes or cattels of any other per&s;on or per&s;ons, corporati|on, cominaltye, or fraternitie, guild, or mi&s;tery, or any &s;uch other like, or as factoure deputie or attorney of or for any per&s;o~, &s;halbe taxed, rated, valued, &amp; &s;et to any &s;umme or &s;ummes by rea&s;on of this acte, and after the taxation or a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ing vpon ani&s;uch per&s;on or per&s;ons as &s;halbe char+ged with the receipt of the &s;ame, happen to die or depart from the place where he was &s;o taxed and &s;et, or his goodes or cattels be &s;o eloined, or in &s;uch pryuye and couerte maner kepte as the &s;aid per&s;on or per&s;ons charged with the &s;ame, by e&s;tretes or other wrytynges from the &s;ayde commi&s;&s;ioners, or a&s;many of them as &s;halbe thervnto apoynted by the &s;ayde commi&s;&s;ion as is afore&s;ayde, canne ne may leuy the &s;ame &s;umme or &s;ummes compri&s;ed within the &s;ame e&s;tretes by di&s;tres within the li|mits of theyr collection as afore&s;ayd, or cannot &s;el &s;uch di&s;tres or di&s;tre&s;+&s;es as be taken for any of the &s;ame paymentes, before the tyme limitted to the highe collectoure for hys paymente to be made in the kynge and Queenes maie&s;ties receipt, then vpon relation thereof made, with due examination by the othe or examination of &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;onnes, as &s;halbe charged with or for the receypte or collection of the &s;ame be|fore the &s;ayde commi&s;&s;ioners, or as many of them as by the &s;ayde com|mi&s;&s;ion &s;halbe therevnto apoynted, where &s;uche per&s;on or per&s;onnes, or other as is afore&s;ayde, theyr goodes and cattells were &s;et and taxed and vpon playne certificate thereof made in the kyng and quenes ma|ie&s;ties e&s;cheker by the &s;ame comi&s;&s;ioners, as wel of the dwelling place, names, and &s;ummes of the &s;ayd per&s;onnes of whom the &s;aide &s;ummes cannot be leuied and had as is afore&s;aid, then a&s;well the con&s;tables &amp; other inhabitau~ts appointed for the &s;aid perticuler collection again&s;t the high collectors, as the high collector vpon his accounte and othin the &s;ayd e&s;cheker to be di&s;charged thereof, and proces to be made for the kyng and quenes maie&s;ties out of the &s;ayd e&s;cheker, by the di&s;creti|on of the Barons of the &s;aid e&s;cheker agayn&s;t &s;uch per&s;on his heires or executours, &s;o being behind with his payment, and ouer that the &s;ame commi&s;&s;ioners to whom any &s;uch declaration of the premi&s;&s;es &s;halbe made in forme afore&s;aid, from time to time &s;hal haue ful power and auc+thoritie to direct their precept or preceptes vnto the &s;aid per&s;on or per|&s;ons charged with any &s;u~me, of for or vpon any &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;ons, or other as is afore&s;aid, or to any &s;herif, &s;teward balif, or other what&s;oe+uer officer mini&s;ter, per&s;on or per&s;ons of &s;uch place or places wher any &s;uch per&s;o~ or per&s;ons, &s;o owing &s;uch &s;u~me or &s;u~mes &s;hal haue la~des and teneme~ts, or other hereditame~ts or real po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions, goodes, &amp; cattels wherby anye &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;ons &s;o indetted, his heires executours,
<PB REF="41">or a&s;&s;ignes or other hauynge the cu&s;todye, gouernaunce, or di&s;po&s;ition of any goodes cattells, lands, or tenementes, or other hereditamentes, which ought or maye, by this acte lawefully be di&s;treined or taken for the &s;ame, hath and &s;hall haue goodes, cattells, landes, tenementes, or other po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions whereof &s;uche &s;umme or &s;ummes, which by any &s;uche per&s;on or per&s;onnes maye or oughte to be leuied, be it within the ly|myttes of &s;uche commi&s;&s;ion where &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;onnes was and were taxed, or withoute, within anye place within thys Realme of Englande, Wales, or other the queenes Maie&s;ties dominions, mar|ches or territors, by which precept as well &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;onnes, as &s;halbe charged to leuye &s;uch monye, as thofficers of the place or places where &s;uch di&s;tres maye be taken, &s;hall haue ful power and aucthoritie to di&s;trayne euerye &s;uche per&s;on indetted, charged and chargeable by thys acte, or his executours or admyny&s;tratours of hys goodes and cattells, hys gardians, factours, deputies, le&s;&s;es, fermers, and a&s;|&s;ygnes, and alother per&s;onnes, by who&s;ehandes or oute of who&s;e lan|des any &s;uch per&s;on &s;hould haue rent, fee, annuitie, or other profytte, or whiche at the tyme of the &s;ayde a&s;&s;e&s;&s;inges &s;hall haue goodes or cattels or anye other thynge moueable, or anye &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;ones beyng indetted or owynge &s;uche &s;umme, and the di&s;tre&s;&s;es &s;o taken, cau&s;ed to be kepte, appray&s;ed, and &s;olde, in lyke maner and forme as is afore&s;ayd, for the di&s;tre&s;&s;e to be taken vpon &s;uch per&s;on to be taxed to the &s;aid &s;ub|&s;edy, &amp; being &s;ufficient to di&s;traine w^t in the lymyts of the collectours, inhabytantes, or other offycers, charged with or for the &s;ame &s;u~mes &s;o vpon them to be taxed. And if any &s;uch di&s;tres for none paymente hap|pen to be taken oute of the limit of the &s;ayd per&s;ons charged and a&s;&s;ig+ned to leuye the &s;ame, the per&s;on &s;o charged for the leuye of euery &s;uche &s;umme by dy&s;tre&s;&s;e, &s;hall perceaue and take of the &s;ayde dy&s;tres for the laboure of euerye per&s;on goyng for thexecution thereof, for euery mile that anye &s;uche per&s;on &s;o laboureth for the &s;ame two pence, and euerye fermoure, tenaunt, gardian, factor, or other what&s;oeuer per&s;on, beyng di&s;treyned or otherwy&s;e charged for payme~t of any &s;uch &s;u~me or &s;u~mes or anye other &s;ummes by rea&s;onne of thys acte, &s;halbe of &s;uche &s;umme or &s;ummes of him or them &s;o leuied and taken, di&s;charged and acquy|ted at hys nexte daye of payment of the &s;ame, or at the delyuery of &s;uch goodes and cattells as he that is &s;o di&s;trayned had in hys cu&s;tody and gouernaunce agayn&s;t him or them that &s;halbe &s;oo taxed and &s;ette, anye graunt or writyng oblygatory or other what&s;oeuer matter to the con|trarye made heretofore notwith&s;tandyng.</P>
<P>And yf anye &s;uch per&s;on that &s;houlde be &s;o di&s;treyned haue no lan|des or tenementes &s;uffycyente whereby he or hys tenauntes and fer|moures maye be di&s;trayned, or hath aloined, aliened, or hid his goodes and cattells whereby he &s;houlde or myght be di&s;trayned, in &s;uch maner
<PB N="xxxvii" REF="41">that &s;uche goodes and cattelles &s;hall not be knowen or founde, &s;o that the &s;umme of or by him to be payde in the &s;ayde fourme, &s;hall ne can be conueniently leuied, then vpon relation thereof vnto the commi&s;&s;io|ners, or to as manye of them as by the &s;ayd commi&s;&s;ion &s;halbe thervn|to appoynted, where &s;uche per&s;on or per&s;ons was taxed and &s;et, by the othes of him or them that &s;halbe charged with the leuy and paymente of that &s;umme or &s;ummes, the &s;ame commi&s;&s;ioners &s;hall make a precept in &s;uche maner as is afore&s;ayd, for to attache, take, &amp; arre&s;t the body of &s;uche per&s;on or per&s;ons that oughte to paye the &s;ayde &s;ummes, and by this acte &s;hall be charged with and for the &s;ayde &s;umme and &s;ummes, and theim &s;o taken, &s;afelye to kepe in pri&s;on within the &s;hyre or other place, where anye &s;uche per&s;on or per&s;ons &s;hall be taken and attached, there to remayne without bayle or mayneprice, vntyll he haue payde the &s;ame &s;umme or &s;ummes that &s;uche per&s;ons for him &s;elfe or for anye other by this acte &s;hall be charged or oughte to be charged withal, and al&s;o for the fees of euery &s;uche arre&s;te to him or them that &s;hall execute &s;uche precepte twenty pence, and that euery officer vnto whome &s;uche precepte &s;halbe directed, do his true diligence, and execute the &s;ame v|pon euery per&s;on &s;o beynge indetted, vpon payne to forfeyt to the king and Quenes maie&s;ties, for euery default in that behalfe .xx. &s;hyllinges and that no keper of any gayle, from his gayle &s;uffer anye &s;uche per&s;on to go at large by lettinge to bayle, or otherwy&s;e to departe oute of his pri&s;on before he haue payd his &s;ayde det, and the &s;ayde .xx. pence, for the &s;ayd arre&s;te, vpon payne to forfeyt to the kinge and quenes maie&s;ties, forty &s;hyllynges, and the &s;ame gayler to paye vnto the kynge and que|nes maie&s;ties, the double value as well of the rate whiche the &s;ayd per+&s;onne &s;o impri&s;oned was taxed at, as of the &s;ayde .xx. pence for the fees, and like proce&s;&s;e and remedye in like fourme &s;hall be graunted by the &s;ayde commi&s;&s;ioners, or as many of them as by the &s;ayd comi&s;&s;ion &s;hal|be therevnto apoynted at like information of euery per&s;on or per&s;ons, beynge charged with any &s;umme of money for any other per&s;on or per|&s;ons, by rea&s;on of the &s;ayde Sub&s;edye, and not thereof payde, but wil|fully withdrawen, ne the &s;ame leuiable within the limites where &s;uch per&s;ons were thervnto taxed, and if the &s;umme or &s;ummes beynge be|hynde vnpayde by any per&s;on or per&s;onnes, as is afore&s;ayde, be leuied and gathered by force of the &s;ayde proces to be made by the &s;ayde com|mi&s;&s;ioners, or if in defaulte or for lacke of paymente thereof, the per&s;on or per&s;onnes &s;o owinge the &s;ayde &s;umme or &s;ummes of money, by pro|ces of the &s;ame commi&s;&s;ioners to be made as is afore&s;ayde, be commit|ted to pri&s;on in fourme aboue&s;ayde, that then the &s;ame commi&s;&s;ioners whiche &s;hall awarde &s;uche proces, &s;hall make certificate thereof in the &s;ayde e&s;chequer, of that &s;halbe done in the premi&s;&s;es in the terme nexte folowynge, after &s;uche &s;umme or &s;ummes of money &s;o beinge behinde
<PB REF="42">&s;halbe leuied and gathered, or &s;uche per&s;on or per&s;onnes for none pay|mente of the &s;ame committed to pry&s;on. And if it happen anye of the &s;ayde collectours to be a&s;&s;igned, or any mayer, &s;heriffe, &s;tewarde, con|&s;table, the headborough, hou&s;eholder, baylif, or any other officer or mi|ni&s;ter, or other what&s;oeuer per&s;on or per&s;ons, to di&s;obey the &s;ayd com|mi&s;&s;ioners or any of them, at the rea&s;onable reque&s;te to theim made by the &s;ayde commi&s;&s;ioners, for execution of the &s;aid commi&s;&s;ion, or yf any of the offycers or other per&s;ons do refu&s;e that to them &s;hall appertayne and belonge to do, by rea&s;on of any precepte to him or them to be dire|cted, or anye rea&s;onable commaundement, in&s;taunce, or reque&s;te tou|chinge the premi&s;&s;es or other defaulte in any appearaunce or collection to make, or if any per&s;on being &s;u&s;pect, or not, to be indifferently taxed as is afore&s;ayde, do refu&s;e to be examined accordinge to the tenoure of this acte, before the &s;ayde commi&s;&s;ioners, or as many of them as &s;halbe thervnto a&s;&s;igned as is afore&s;ayde, or wyll not appeare before the &s;ame commi&s;&s;ioners, vpon warninge to him made, or els make re&s;i&s;taunce or re&s;cues vpon any di&s;tres vpon him to be taken, for any percell of the &s;ayde Sub&s;idie, or committe any mi&s;behauour in any maner of wy&s;e contrary to this acte, or committe any wylful omi&s;&s;ion or other what|&s;oeuer wylfull, not doynge or mi&s;doinge contrary to the tenour of this acte or graunt, the &s;ame commi&s;&s;ioners and euerye nomber of them a|boue remembred, or two of them at the lea&s;te, vpon probable knowlege of any &s;uche mi&s;demenours had by information or examination, &s;hall and maye &s;et vpon euery &s;uche offender for euery &s;uch offence in name of a fyne by the &s;ame offender to be forfeyted .xl.s. or vnder, by the di&s;|cretion of the &s;ame commy&s;&s;ioners. And further the &s;ame commi&s;&s;io|ners and euery number of them, or two of them at the lea&s;t, &s;hall haue auctoritie by this pre&s;ent acte, to puni&s;he euery &s;uch offender by impri|&s;onment, there to remaine and be delyuered by theyr di&s;cretion, as &s;hal &s;eme to them conuenient, the &s;ayde &s;ynes if anye &s;uche be, to be certified by the &s;ayd commi&s;&s;ioners that &s;o a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed the &s;ame into the kynge and quenes maie&s;ties e&s;chequer, there to be leuied and payd by the collec|toures of that partes for the &s;ayde Sub&s;idie retourned into the &s;ayde e&s;chequer, to be therewith charged with the payment of the &s;ayd &s;ub|&s;edy, in &s;uche maner, as if the &s;ayde fynes had ben &s;et and taxed vppon the &s;ayd offenders for the &s;ayd Sub&s;idye.</P>
<P>It is al&s;o enacted by the &s;ayde aucthoritie of this parliament, that euery of the &s;ayd highe collectours, whiche &s;hal accoumpt for any part of the &s;ayde Sub&s;edye in the &s;ayde E&s;chequer vpon theyr &s;ayde &s;eue|rall accoumptes to be yelded, &s;halbe allowed at euery of the &s;ayde pay|mentes of the &s;ayd Sub&s;edye, for euery pounde limitted to his collecti+on, whereof any &s;uche collectour &s;halbe charged and yelde accoumpte &s;ixe pence, as percell of theyr charge, that is to &s;aye, of euerye pounde
<PB N="xxxviii" REF="42">therof for &s;uch per&s;ons as then haue had the perticuler collection in the townes and other places as is afore&s;aid, &s;pecified in his collection two pence and other two pence of euery pounde thereof, euery of the &s;ayde cheife collectours theyr accoumptauntes to reteyne to theyr owne v&s;e for theyr labour and charge, in and about the premi&s;&s;es, and two pence of euery pound re&s;idue to be deliuered, allowed, and payde by the &s;ayd collectoures &s;o beynge thereof allowed, to &s;uche of the commi&s;&s;ioners as &s;hall take vpon them the bu&s;ines and labour, for and aboute the pre|mi&s;&s;es, that is to &s;aye, euerye collectoure to paye that commi&s;&s;ioner or co|mi&s;&s;ioners whiche had the orderynge of the wrytinges, of, and for the &s;ayd Sub&s;edy, where the &s;ayd collectour or collectours had their col|lection, for expences of the &s;ayde commi&s;&s;ioner &s;o taken vpon them the &s;ayd bu&s;ines and laboure of theyr clerkes, writinge the &s;ayd preceptes and e&s;treates for the &s;ayd collections, the &s;ame la&s;t two pence of euerye pound to be deuided amonge&s;t the &s;ayde commi&s;&s;ioners, hauynge re|garde to theyr labour and bu&s;ynes, taken by them or theyr &s;ayd clerkes in and about the premi&s;&s;es, for the whiche part &s;o to the commi&s;&s;ioners atteyninge, the &s;ayd commi&s;&s;ioners, &s;yxe, fiue, foure, thre, or as manye of them as &s;hall be thervnto appointed by the kynge and Quenes ma|ie&s;ties commi&s;&s;ion, and euery of them ioyntly and &s;euerally for his and theyr &s;ayd part, may haue his remedy agayn&s;t the &s;ayde collectoure or collectours, which therofben and might haue ben allowed by action of debte, in the whiche the defendaunte &s;hall not wage his lawe, neither protection, neither iniunction, or other e&s;&s;oigne &s;hall be allowed. And that no per&s;on nowe beyng of the number of the companye of this pre|&s;ent parliament, nor any commi&s;&s;ioner, &s;halbe named or a&s;&s;igned to be any collectour or &s;ubcollectour, or pre&s;entour of the &s;ayde &s;ub&s;edie, or of any parte therof, nor no comi&s;&s;ioners &s;hall be compelled to make anye pre&s;entment or certificate, other then in the kinge and quenes maie&s;ti|es &s;aid e&s;cheker, of, for, or concerning the &s;ayd &s;ub&s;edy or any part ther|of, and likewi&s;e that none other per&s;on that &s;hall be named or a&s;&s;igned to be commi&s;&s;ioners in any place, to and for thexecution of this act of &s;ub+&s;edy, be or &s;halbe a&s;&s;igned or named head collectours of any of the pay|mentes of the &s;ayd &s;ub&s;edy, neither of any parte thereof. And that eue|ry &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;ons which &s;halbe named and apointed as is afore+&s;aid to be hed collectors of y^e &s;aid &s;ub&s;edy, or for any part therof, &amp; euery of the~ be &amp; &s;halbe acquited &amp; di&s;charged of al maner fees rewards, &amp; of euery other charges in the king and Quenes Maie&s;ties E&s;chequer, or els where, of them or any of them by rea&s;on of that collection, payme~ts or accoumptes, or anye thynge concerninge the &s;ame, to be a&s;ked, and that yfanye per&s;onne receaue and take anye fees, rewardes, or plea|&s;ures of anye &s;uche accoumptante, that then he &s;hall forfeit to the kyng and Quenes maie&s;tie, for euery peny or value of penye &s;o taken, twen|tye
<PB REF="43">pence, and &s;uffer impri&s;onment at the king and quenes Maie&s;ties plea&s;ure, and after the taxinge and &s;ea&s;ynge of the &s;ayde Sub&s;edye, as is afore&s;ayde, had and made, and the &s;ayd e&s;treates thereof in parche|ment vnto the collectours in maner and fourme before rehear&s;ed deli|uered, the &s;ayde commi&s;&s;ioners whiche &s;hall take vpon them thexecu|tion of this acte, within the limittes of theyr commi&s;&s;ion, by theyr agre+mentes, &s;hall haue metynge together, at whiche metynge euerye of the &s;ayde commi&s;&s;ioners whiche then &s;hall haue taken vpon them thexe|cution of anye parte of the &s;ayde commi&s;&s;ion, &s;hall by him &s;elfe, or by his &s;ufficient deputye, truelye certifie and brynge forth vnto the &s;ayde commi&s;&s;ioners named in the &s;ayde commi&s;&s;ion, the certificate and pre|&s;entmente made before hym, and &s;uche other Commi&s;&s;ioners as were limitted with him in one limit, &s;o that the &s;ame certificate maye be ac|compted and ca&s;t with the other certificates of the other limittes with in the &s;ame commi&s;&s;ion, and then the &s;ayde commi&s;&s;ioners and euerye number of them vnto two at the lea&s;te, as is afore&s;ayde, yf anye be in lyfe, or theyr executours or admini&s;tratours of theyr goodes, yf they be then dede, &s;hall ioyntlye and &s;euerallye, as they were deuided within theyr limits, vnder their &s;eales by theyr di&s;cretion, make one or &s;eueral wrytynges, indented, conteyninge in it as well the names of the &s;ayde collectours by the commi&s;&s;ioners, for &s;uch collection and accoumpte in the e&s;chequer, and paymente in the &s;ayde receypte, deputed and a&s;&s;yg|ned, as the gro&s;&s;e and &s;euerall Summes wrytten vnto euerye &s;uche collectoure to receaue the &s;ayde Sub&s;idye. And al&s;o all fynes, amerci|amentes, and other forfeytures, if any &s;uche by rea&s;on of this acte hap|pen to be within the precincte and limitte of theyr commi&s;&s;ion, to be certified vnto the kynge and quenes maie&s;ties &s;ayde e&s;chequer, by the &s;ayde commi&s;&s;ioners, in whiche writinge or writinges indented &s;o to be certified, &s;halbe playnely declared and expre&s;&s;ed, the hole and entyre Summe or Summes of the &s;ayde Sub&s;edye, &s;euerallye lymitted to the collection of the &s;ayde collectoure, &s;euerallye deputed and a&s;&s;ygned to the collection of the &s;aide Summes, &s;o that none of the &s;ayde colle|ctours &s;o certified in the &s;ayde E&s;chequer, &s;hall be compelled there to accompte, or to be charged, but onely to and for the &s;umme limytted to his collection, and not to or for anye &s;umme limitted to the collection of his felowe, but that euery of them &s;hall be &s;euerallye charged for theyr parte limitted to theyr collection.</P>
<P>And if the &s;ayd commi&s;&s;ioners ioyned in one commi&s;&s;ion amonge&s;t them &s;elfes in that matter cannot agre, or yf anye of them be not redye or refu&s;e to make certificate with other of the &s;ame Commi&s;&s;ioners, That then the &s;ame commi&s;&s;ioners maye make &s;euerall indentures in fourme afore&s;ayde, of theyr &s;euerall limittes, or &s;eperations of Colle|ctours, within the limittes of theyr commi&s;&s;ion, vppon and in the hun|dredes,
<PB N="xxxix" REF="43">wardes, wapentakes, Lathes, Rapes, or &s;uch other like diui&s;i|ons within theyr&s;ayde &s;euerall lymyttes of their commy&s;&s;yon, as the places there &s;hall requyre, to be &s;euered and deuyded, &amp; as to the &s;ame commy&s;&s;ioners &s;hal &s;eme good to make diui&s;ions of their limits or Col|lectyons for the &s;euerall charges of the &s;ame Collectoures. So that al|waye one Collectoure &s;halbe charged and accoumpte for hys parte to hym to be limitted onely by hym &s;elfe and not for anye Summe lymyt|ted to the parte of any of hys felowes, and the charges of euerye of the collectoures to be &s;et and certifyed &s;euerally vpon them, and euery &s;uch Collectoure, vpon hys accompte and paymente of the Somme of mo|nye lymitted within hys collection to be &s;euerallye by hym &s;elfe, acquy|ted and dy&s;charged in the &s;ayde e&s;chequer, without payinge anye ma|ner fees, or rewardes, to anye per&s;onne or per&s;onnes for the &s;ame, vp|on the payne and penaltye la&s;t aboue&s;ayd, and not be charged for anye portion of any other collectoure. And yf anye Commy&s;&s;yoner after he hath taken certificate of them, that, as is afore&s;ayde, &s;hall before anye &s;uch commi&s;&s;ioner be exammed, and the Summes rated and &s;ette and the bokes and wrytynges thereof beynge in hys handes, or yf anye col|lectoure, or other per&s;on charged with any receipte of anye parte of the &s;aid &s;ub&s;edy, or any other per&s;on taxed, or otherwi&s;e by this act charged with and for anye percell of the &s;ayde Sub&s;edye, or with anye other Summes, or fynes, amerciamentes, penalty, or other forfeyture, hap|pen to dye before the Commi&s;&s;ioner Collectoure or other what&s;oeuer per&s;on or per&s;onnes haue executed accomply&s;hed, &s;atified, or &s;ufficient lye di&s;charged, that whych to euery &s;uch per&s;onne &s;hall appertayne or belonge to doo accordynge to thys acte, then thexecutours and heires of euery &s;uch per&s;on, and al other &s;ea&s;ed of anye landes, or tenementes, that anye &s;uch per&s;on beyng charged by thys act and decea&s;&s;ing before he be dy&s;charged thereof, or anye other to hys v&s;e, onelye had of e&s;tate of inheritaunce, at the tyme that anye &s;uche per&s;onne was named com|mi&s;&s;ioner, collectoure, or otherwi&s;e charged with and for anye maner of thinge to be done, &s;ati&s;fyed, or payde by rea&s;onne of thys acte, and all tho&s;e that haue in theyr po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions or handes, anye goodes, or cattells that were to anye &s;uche per&s;onne at the tyme of hys death, or any lan|des, or tenementes, that were the &s;ame per&s;onnes at the tyme he was as is afore&s;ayd, charged by this act, &s;halbe by the &s;ame, compelled, and charged to do and accomply&s;he in euery ca&s;e as the &s;ame per&s;on &s;oo be|ynge charged &s;hould haue done and myght haue bene compelled to do yf he had bene in playne lyfe, after &s;uch rate of the landes, and goodes of the &s;ayde commi&s;&s;ioner or collectoure as the partye &s;hal haue in hys handes. And yf the &s;ayde Commy&s;&s;yoners for cau&s;es rea&s;onable them mouynge &s;hall thynke it not conuenyent to ioyne in one certyfycate as is before&s;ayde, then the &s;ayde per&s;onne or per&s;onnes that &s;hal fir&s;t iome
<PB REF="44">together, or he that &s;hal fyr&s;te certifye the &s;ayde writynge indentyd (as is afore&s;ayde) &s;hall certyfye all the names of the commi&s;&s;ioners of that commi&s;&s;ion, whervpon &s;uch wrytinges &s;halbe there then to be certy|fyed, with the diui&s;ion of the hundreds, wapentakes, wardes, tithings or other places, to and amonge &s;uch commy&s;&s;yoners of the &s;ame com|mi&s;&s;ion where &s;uche &s;eperations and diuy&s;yon &s;halbe, with the gro&s;&s;e Sommes of monye a&s;well of and for the &s;ayde Sub&s;edye, taxed or &s;et of or within the &s;ayde hundredes, wardes, wapentakes, or other pla|ces, to hym or them deuyded or a&s;&s;ygned, that &s;hall &s;oo certyfy the &s;aid fyr&s;te wrytynge, as of fynes, amerciamentes, penaltyes, or other for|feytures, (yf anye happen to be) within the &s;ame lymyttes, wherof the &s;ame wrytynges &s;halbe certified, and after &s;uche wrytynges indented whyche as is afore&s;ayde, &s;halbe certyfyed &amp; not conteyne in it the hole and full Summes &s;et and taxed within the lymyttes of the &s;ame com+my&s;&s;yon, thother commi&s;&s;ioners of the &s;ame before the day of paiment of the &s;ayde Sub&s;edye, &s;hall certifye into the &s;ayde exchequer, by theyr wrytynge or wrytinge, indented to be made as is afore&s;ayd, the gro&s;&s;e and &s;euerall Summes &s;et and taxed within the places, to them lymit|ted, for the &s;ayde Sub&s;edye, and other fynes, amercyamentes, penal|tyes, and forfeytures, with the names of the hundredes, wardes, wa|pentakes, and other places, to them a&s;&s;igned, or ells by theyr &s;ayd wri|ringes indented to certyfye at the &s;ayd place before the &s;ayd day of pai|mente, &s;uche rea&s;onable cau&s;es, for their excu&s;es, whye they maye not make &s;uche certifycate of and for the &s;ayde Sub&s;edye, whyche &s;ynes amercyamentes, and other forfeytures growinge or &s;ette by rea&s;on of the cau&s;es of their lettes or of their none certyfying as is aboue&s;ayd, or ells in defaulte thereof proces to be made oute of the kyng and quenes maie&s;ties &s;ayde E&s;cheker, agayn&s;te the &s;ayd commy&s;&s;yoners, and eue|rye of them not making certificate, as is afore&s;ayde, by the dy&s;cre&s;yon of the Tre&s;urer or Barons of the &s;ayde e&s;chequer.</P>
<P><HI>PROVIDED</HI> alwayes and be it enacted by thaucthoritye afore&s;ayd, that the inhabytauntes of the Pary&s;he of Saynte Martynne called Stamforde Baron, in the Suburbes of the burroughe and towne of Stampforde, in the Southe parte of the water there called Welland, whych hereafter &s;halbe contributorye to the paymente of thys pre&s;ent Sub&s;edye, graunted to the quenes maie&s;tie, her heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;ors, &s;halbe a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed, rated, and taxed for thys tyme by &s;uch commy&s;&s;yoners, whych &s;halbe appoynted for the taxynge, ratyng, and &s;e&s;&s;ynge of &s;uch Sub&s;edye or taxe within the countye of Lyncolne, and &s;hal be for this tyme contrybutorye, and paye the &s;ayde Sub&s;edye, to the collectoure or collectoures, whyche &s;halbe a&s;&s;ygned and appoynted for the leuying and gatherynge of the &s;ame, with the aldermen and burges of the &s;aid boroughe and towne of Stampford.</P>
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<P>Prouyded alwayes and be it enacted by the aucthoritie afore&s;aid that all and euery per&s;on and per&s;onnes, hauynge manoures, landes, tenementes, and other hereditamentes, chargeable to the payment of the Sub&s;edye, graunted to the Quenes Maie&s;tie, by this acte, and al|&s;o hauynge &s;pirituall po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions chargeable to her &s;ayde Maie&s;tie, by the graunte made by the cleargy of thys Realme, in this their conuo|cation, and ouer thys hauyng &s;ub&s;taunce in goodes, and cattels, char|geable by thys &s;ayd acte, that then yf any of the &s;ayd per&s;on or per&s;ons be hereafter charged a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed and taxed for the &s;ayde manoures, lands, and tenementes, and &s;pirituall po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions, and al&s;o a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed, charged &amp; taxed for his or their goodes, or cattells, that then he or they &s;halbe on|lye charged by vertue of thys acte, for his and their &s;ayde manoures, landes, tenementes, hereditamentes, or &s;pirituall po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions, or onely for hys &s;ayde goodes, and cattels, the be&s;te thereof to be taken for the quenes Maie&s;tie and not to be charged for both, or double charged for anye of them, anye thyng in thys acte conteined to the contrary in any wy&s;e notwith&s;tandyng.</P>
<P>Prouyded alwayes that thys graunt of Sub&s;edy, nor anye thynge therein conteyned, in any wi&s;e extende to charge the inhabitauntes, or dwellers within Ireland, Ierne&s;ey, and Garne&s;ey, or anye of them, of or concernynge any manours, landes, tenementes, or other po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions goodes, cattels, or other moueable &s;ub&s;taunce, whyche the &s;ayd inha|bytauntes or dwellers or any other to their v&s;e haue within Ireland, Ierne&s;ey, and Garne&s;eye, or in anye of them, or of for or concernynge anye fees, or wages, whych anye of the &s;ayde inhabytauntes, or dwel|lers haue of the kynge and quenes Maie&s;ties, for there attendaunce, and doynge &s;eruyce to oure &s;ayd &s;oueraygne. Lord and Ladye, in Ire+lande, Ierne&s;ey and Garne&s;eye, or in anye of them, anye of them, anye thynge in this pre&s;ente acte, to the contrary in any wi&s;e notwith&s;tandyng.</P>
<P>Prouyded al&s;o that thys pre&s;ent acte of Sub&s;edy, ne anye thynge therein conteyned, extende to anye of the Engly&s;he inhabytauntes, or re&s;iauntes, in any of the countyes of Northumberlande, Cumberland We&s;tmerlande, the towne of Barwycke the towne of Neweca&s;tell vpon Tyne, and the By&s;hopricke of Durham, nor to anye of them, of for or concerninge any manoures, landes, tenementes, or other po&s;&s;e&s;&s;i+ons, goodes, cattells, or other moueable &s;ub&s;taunce, whyche the &s;ame Inhabytauntes or dwellers, or any other to their v&s;e haue within the &s;ayde counties of Northumberlande, Cumberlande, We&s;tmerlande, or the towne of Barwicke, the towne of Neweca&s;tell vpon Tyne, or the By&s;hoprycke of Durham, or anye of them, or of for and concerning any fees, or wages, whiche anye of the &s;ayde. Inhabytauntes, or dwel+lers haue of the kynge and Queenes Maie&s;tyes, for their atten|daunce and doinge &s;eruyce to the kynge and Quenes maie&s;tyes, for or
<PB REF="45">within the &s;ayde counties of Northumberlande, Cumberlande, We&s;t|merlande, the towne of Barwycke, the Towne of Neweca&s;tell vpon tyne, and the By&s;hopprycke of Durham, or anye of them, to or for the &s;ayde taxynge, leuying gatherynge or paymente, but that the Engli&s;h inhabytauntes, and re&s;iauntes, and euerye of them, of the &s;aid cou~ties By&s;hopricke, and townes, and euerye of them, &s;halbe of and from the &s;ayde Sub&s;edye, and euerye percell thereof, and for their manoures, landes, tenementes, fees, wages, goodes, and cattells, lyinge and be|ynge in the &s;ayde counties, townes, and By&s;hoprycke, or anye of them vtterlye acquited and di&s;charged. Any thing in thys pre&s;ente acte be|fore rehear&s;ed to the contrary notwith&s;tandyng.</P>
<P><HI>PROVIDED</HI> al&s;o that all letters patentes, graunted by the king or queenes maie&s;tie or anye of her mo&s;t noble progenitoures, to anye Cy|ties, Burroughes, or townes, within thys realme, of anye maner ly|bertyes, pryuileges or exemptions from the burden and charge of any &s;uche graunt of Sub&s;edyes, whych be at thys pre&s;ent time in force and vayleable, &s;hal remayne good and effectuall, to the &s;ayde Cytyes, Bur|roughes, and townes, hereafter, accordynge to the purportes thereof, thoughe the inhabytauntes of the &s;ame, &s;hall vpon the gret and weigh tye con&s;yderation of the graunt afore&s;ayd, be for thys graunt charged and contributory, in like maner, fourme and &s;orte as other Cityes, bur|roughes, and townes whych be not in anye wy&s;e pryuileged, be from &s;uch graunt of Sub&s;edy excepted.</P>
<P><HI>PROVIDED</HI> alwayes and be it enacted by the aucthoritie afore&s;aid, that no Orphant or Infant within the age of .xxi. yeare, borne within anye of the quenes maie&s;ties dominions, &s;halbe charged to anye pay|mente of thys Sub&s;edye, for hys or her goodes and cattelles, to him or her lefte or bequethed. Anye thyng in thys acte conteined to the contra+rye notwith&s;tandyng.</P>
<P><HI>PROVIDED</HI> al&s;o that thys acte nor any thing therein conteined, &s;hal extende to the goodes, or landes of anye college, Hall, or O&s;tell, with|in the vniuer&s;ities of Oxenforde, and Cambrydge, or any of them, or to the goodes or landes of the colledge of Wynton founded by By&s;hope Wyckeham, or to the goodes or landes of the college of Eton, nexte Wynde&s;ore, or to the goodes, or Landes, of anye free gramer &s;coole, within the realme of Englande or Wales, or to the goodes of anye re|der, Scolemay&s;ter, or &s;coller, within the &s;ayde vniuer&s;ities and colled+ges, or anye of them, there remaynynge for &s;tudye, withoute fraude or couyne, or to the goodes and landes of any Ho&s;pytall, mea&s;ondewe or Spitelhou&s;e prepared and v&s;ed for the &s;u&s;tentation and releyfe of pore people. Anye thyng in thys acte conteyned to the contrary in any wi&s;e notwith&s;tandyng.</P>
<P>Prouyded al&s;o, and be it enacted by the aucthoritie afore&s;ayde, that
<PB N="xli" REF="45">fora&s;muche as diuers and &s;undrye the kynges and Quenes Maie&s;ties tenauntes and other inhabitauntes and dwellers within the coun|ties of Penbroke, Carmarthen, Cardigan, Glamorgan, Breckenocke, Radnour, Mongomery, Denbigh, Flynt, Merioneth, Angle&s;ey, Car|naruan, and of the countye palantine of Che&s;ter, be at this pre&s;ente tyme charged and chargeable with the &s;euerall paymentes of diuers great &s;ummes of monye by the name of My&s;e, due to their maie&s;tyes, accordinge to the &s;euerall cu&s;tomes of the &s;ayde counties, for the pay|ment whereof diuers and &s;undrye the gentlemen and other the inha|bitauntes, be, and &s;tand bounden to theyr highnes. And that al&s;o ther do remayne yet vnpayde in diuer&s;e of the &s;ayde dominions and coun|tie palantyne, the Sub&s;edye graunted to the kynge and Quenes ma|ie&s;ties.</P>
<P>Be it therefore ordeyned and enacted by thaucthoritie afore&s;ayde, that this acte of Sub&s;edye, or any thynge therein conteyned, &s;hall not extende to charge any of the kynge and Quenes tenauntes and other inhabitauntes and dwellers within any of the &s;ayde counties of Pen|broke, Carmarthen, Cardigan, Glamorgan, Brecknocke, Radnoure, Mongomery, Denbigh, Flint, Merioneth, Angle&s;ey, Carnaruan, and the countie palantine of Che&s;ter, beynge charged or chargeable wyth the &s;ayde My&s;e, for, or in any of the paymentes of the &s;ayde Sub&s;idye, graunted to the kynge and Quenes Maie&s;ties by this acte, vntyll the &s;euerall dayes and tymes appointed and agreed for the paiment of the &s;ayde My&s;e, &s;hall be expired. And likewy&s;e the dayes and tymes of the &s;ayde Sub&s;idye latelye graunted to oure &s;ayde Soueraygne Lorde and Ladye be pa&s;t and expyred. And that then the paiment of the &s;ayd Sub&s;idye graunted by this pre&s;ent acte, &s;hall be made at the receipte of the kynges and queenes E&s;chequer, before the fyr&s;t daye of Marche nexte folowinge, after the dayes appointed for the latter paymente to be made of the &s;ayde my&s;es, and al&s;o of the payment of the &s;ayd former Sub&s;idye.</P>
<P>Furthermore be it enacted by thauctoritie afore&s;ayd, that y^e tenants and dwellers of euerye the &s;ayde counties in this proui&s;o remembred, &s;hall &s;euerally before the fea&s;t of Pentheco&s;t nexte en&s;uinge, certifye in the &s;ayd court of E&s;chequer, vnder the &s;eales of two Iu&s;tices of peace of euerye the &s;ayde counties, whereof one to be of the Quorum, when and what daye the la&s;te payment of the &s;ayde &s;euerall mi&s;es, nowe due in any of the &s;ayde counties &s;hall ende and expyre.</P>
<P>Prouided al&s;o, that the &s;ayde graunte of Sub&s;idie, or anye other thinge therein conteyned, doo not in anye wy&s;e extende to be preiudi|ciall or hurtefull to the inhabitauntes or re&s;iauntes at thys pre&s;ente tyme, within the fyue portes, or to anye of theyr members, incorporate or vnited to the &s;ame fyue portes, or to anye of the &s;ame fyue portes, of,
<PB REF="46">or for any parte or percell of the &s;ayde Sommes graunted in this par|liament, of the &s;ayd inhabitauntes nowe re&s;iaunt, or any of them, to be taxed, &s;et, a&s;ked, leuied, or payde, but the &s;ayde inhabitauntes and re&s;i|auntes in the &s;ayde fyue portes, and theyr members, be and &s;hall be, of, and from the &s;ayde graunte and paymente of the &s;ayde &s;ub&s;edy during their re&s;iauncy there, and no lenger, clearlye acquited and di&s;charged, any matter or what&s;oeuer thinge in this pre&s;ente acte had or made to the contrary notwith&s;tandinge.</P>
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<CLOSER>God &s;aue the Kynge and the Quene.</CLOSER>
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<P>&leaf; <HI>Excu&s;um Londini IN AEDIBVS IOHANNIS <HI>CAVVODI.</HI> Tipographi Regiae Ma|ie&s;tatis.</HI></P>
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<OPENER><DATE><HI>Anno. M.D.LVIII.</HI></DATE></OPENER>
<P><HI>Cum priuilegio ad imprimen|dum &s;olum.</HI></P>
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