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<HEAD>AN ACTE OF THE RELIEF GRAVNTED TO THE KINGES MAIESTIE by the Lordes and co~mons.</HEAD>
<P>_WHyle&s;t we the kynges maie|&s;ties faythfull louing and obedient &s;ubiectes, the lordes &amp; co~mons a&s;&s;em|bled in this pre&s;ent parliament do co~|&s;yder the pre&s;ent &s;tate of the worlde, what great troubles be in all places, what enemies both his maie&s;tie and this his realme hath and is lyke to haue, and that their malice and ha|tred is bent, partly to dymini&s;he his graces maie&s;tie &amp; the honour of this his Realme, partly to &s;poile the &s;ame of the iu&s;t, true, &amp; auncient enheritaunce, right, and title, that his high|nes &amp; his mo&s;t noble progenitours kinges of this Realme of England haue alwayes had to the Realme of Scotland, being a member and part of his kingdome and dominion: and chieflye for that we of late ha|uing abandoned the aucthoritie of the By&s;hop of Rome and his wic|ked doctrine, haue and do adhere to Chri&s;te and his mo&s;t holy word, as becometh all chri&s;tians to do, that mean to be no le&s;&s;e in dede, then they profe&s;&s;e in name: Whyle&s;t we al&s;o con&s;yder, that his grace, and we his faithful and obedient &s;ubiectes be but one body politique, his highnes the head and we the members, and that no good or felicitie can come to the one, but the other &s;halbe partaker therof, and that no hurt or ad|uer&s;ytie can happen to the one where with y^e other &s;hall not al&s;o be gre|vid: Whyle&s;t al&s;o we con&s;yder the practy&s;es and policies of other prin|ces and potentates, what great preparations, they make both of men and al&s;o of other furniture for the warres, and what great trea&s;ure thei of late haue leuied and gathered of their &s;ubiectes: we perceyuing that all the kynges maie&s;ties procedings holye tend to the aduauncement of the true glorie of God, the maintenaunce of the maie&s;tie of the Im|periall crowne of this Realme, and the defence and &s;auitee of vs &amp; this his realme, fully minded to cleaue &amp; &s;tick to God &amp; his mo&s;t holy word, vtterlie determined to mainteyne his graces honour and all &s;uch righ|tes and titles as be annexed to his Imperiall croune, pre&s;t and redie, to defende our &s;elfes &amp; this his realme &amp; our countrie: and fynally con|tent to leaue father, mother, brethren, &s;y&s;tren, wyfes, chyldren, landes, goodes, yea, and this mortal life al&s;o, rather then we would deny Chri&s;t and for&s;ake his worde, whiche is the lyuelye foode of ma~s &s;oule, rather then we would &s;uffer his royall maie&s;tie, to be in any part dimini&s;hed, rather then we would con&s;ent, that the Imperial crowne of this realme &s;hould be depriued of any honour, tytle, ryght or intere&s;t therunto belo~|gyng:
<PB REF="2"> &amp; fynally rather then any forien powre, &s;hould do vs or our cou~|trie any hurt or iniurye, haue thought it good to prepare and make not only our per&s;ones redie for the warres, hauing a full affyaunce &amp; par|fyt co~fydence in God, that as he alwaies hath lent victorie to &s;uche as profe&s;&s;ed him &amp; put their hole tru&s;t in him: albeit they were but verye few and that very feble in mans &s;ight, in re&s;pect of y^e multitude &amp; force of their enemies: &s;o he now wyll haue &s;peciall regarde &amp; eye to this litle realme, and vs his poore &s;eruau~tes &amp; litle flocke, taking to his charge and defence our litle &s;hephard, tyll yeares &amp; &s;trength make him better able to vicket with his enemies, &amp; that therfore he with vs &amp; for vs wyl deui&s;e to with&s;ta~d, re&s;i&s;t, &amp; &s;ubdue the force and pui&s;&s;au~ce of our &s;toute foes, no more ours then his, at the lea&s;t, ours for his cau&s;e: but al&s;o to make among vs a ma&s;&s;e of money, to relief &amp; mainteine the great &amp; me|&s;tymable charges that our mo&s;t graciou&s;e &s;oueraigne lorde hath &amp; dai|lie doth &s;u&s;teine, a thing much vnable to &s;erue any pece of his pre&s;ent nece&s;&s;ities, if his grace did meane to &s;pare any part of his own trea&s;ure, be&s;eching his grace, not to ca&s;t his eyes, vpon the &s;malnes of this our &s;ymple pre&s;ent, but to laye by it our good wylles, whiche we make the chiefe&s;t part of our relief, it faithfully promy&s;yng, al the re&s;t to be redy, when peryll or enemy &s;hall declare this not to &s;uffyce. Fir&s;t we his gra|ces &s;aid &s;ubiectes do by the aucthoritie of this pre&s;ent parliament frely and franckelie geue and graunt vnto his mo&s;t royall maie&s;tie a relief, to continue by the &s;pace of .iij. yeres to be rated, taxed, leuied and gathe|red of euery par&s;on of what e&s;tate or degree he be, according to the te|nour of this acte after the rate and in maner and fourme followyng, y^t is to &s;ay, a&s;wel of al &amp; euery per&s;on as is or hereafter &s;halbe his graces natural &s;ubiectes, as of al &amp; euery fraternitie, guilde, corporatio~, mi&s;tery brotherhed, companye and cominaltye corporat or not corporat within this realme of England, wales and other the kynges dominions being worth ten pondes in money, Coyne, plate, &s;tocke of marchandi&s;e, corne grayne, &s;hepe, bea&s;tes, cattals or other goodes mouable, a&s;well within this realme as without, and of all &s;uche &s;o~mes of money as to hym or them is or &s;halbe owing, wherof he or they tru&s;t in their co~&s;cientes &s;uer|lye to be payed: yerely twelue pence of euery pound. And of euery alien or &s;traunger borne out of the kinges obey&s;aunce a&s;well deny&s;en as not deny&s;en inhabityng or re&s;yaunt w^t in this realme or any other y^e kinges dominions beyng worth ten poundes in money, coyne, plate, &s;tocke of marchandi&s;e, corne, grayne, &s;hepe, bea&s;tes, cattals, or other goodes mo|uable, a&s;well within this realme as without, and of al &s;uche &s;ommes of money as to him is or &s;halbe owing, wherof he tru&s;teth in his co~&s;cience to be &s;uerly payed: yerely two &s;hyllynges of euery pound. And of euery alyen or &s;traunger borne out of the kinges obey&s;aunce a&s;well deny&s;en as not deny&s;en inhabiting or re&s;yaunt within this realme or any other the kynges dominions, beyng worth twenty &s;hyllynges and vnder ten poundes in money, coyne, plate, &s;ttocke of merchaundi&s;e, corne, grayne,
<PB N="ij" REF="2" MS="y"> &s;hepe, bea&s;tes, cattell, or other goodes mouable, a&s;wel within this real|me as without, and of al &s;uch &s;ommes of money as to him is or &s;halbe owing, wherof he tru&s;teth in his co~&s;cience to be &s;uerly paid, yerely twelf pence of euery pound. Except &amp; out of y^e premy&s;&s;es deducted &s;uche &s;om|mes of money as any per&s;on or per&s;ones before chargeable owe and in his or their co~&s;cie~ce truly minde to paie. And excepted al&s;o y^e apparel of &s;uch par&s;ons their wifes &amp; childre~ belongi~g to their awne bodies, &s;aui~g iewels, gold, &s;yluer, &s;tone &amp; perle. Excepted al&s;o alwayes from y^e charge, a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ement &amp; payment of y^e &s;aid relief, all money, goodes &amp; cattalles of orphanes bequethed or lefte vnto them by their parentes or other their frendes decea&s;&s;yd. And y^t all plate, coyne, Iewels, goodes, debtes, &amp; cat|tals, per&s;onalles, being in y^e rule &amp; cu&s;todie of any per&s;on or per&s;ones to the v&s;e of any corporatio~, fraternitie, guild, mi&s;terie, brotherhod, co~pay|nye or any cominaltie being corporat, or not corporat, be &amp; &s;halbe rated, &s;et, &amp; charged by rea&s;on of this acte, at y^e value certefied by y^e pre&s;e~tours of y^e certificat, to be &s;worne, of euery pou~d in goodes, &amp; debtes as is abo|ue&s;aid. And y^e &s;ommes y^t are before reher&s;ed, &s;et &amp; taxed, to be leuied, &amp; ta+ken of them y^t &s;hall haue &s;uch goodes in cu&s;todie, as is before reher&s;ed. And y^e &s;ame par&s;on, or par&s;ones, &amp; bodye corporate by the aucthorite of this acte, &s;halbe di&s;charged again&s;t him or them, y^t &s;hal or ought to ha|ue y^e &s;ame at the time of the paiment or delyuerie therof, or at his other|wy&s;e departure from y^e cu&s;todie or po&s;&s;e&s;&s;io~ of y^e &s;ame. Except &amp; alwaies forpry&s;ed from y^e charge &amp; a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ement of this relief, all goodes, cattals, Iewels, &amp; orname~tes of churches &amp; chapelles, ordeined, &amp; v&s;ed in chur|ches or chappelles, for diuine &s;eruice therin to be celebrated. Al&s;o we y^e kinges maie&s;ties &s;ubiectes do geue, &amp; graunt to his highnes, eight pe~ce to be payed yerely, duryng the &s;aid .iij. yeres, by euery other per&s;one not borne vnder y^e kinges obei&s;aunce, being deni&s;en, or no deni&s;en, other then women couert, &s;ouldiers, &amp; &s;uch per&s;ones as be vnder y^e age of .xii. yeres, dwelli~g or re&s;yau~t w^t in this realme or any other y^e kynges domi|nions. And y^e &s;ayd reliefes, &s;halbe by y^e aucthoritie afore &s;ayd: taxed a&s;|&s;e&s;&s;ed &amp; rated, during y^e &s;aid .iii. yeres, in euery &s;here: riding, lathe, wape~|take, rape, citie, Borough, toune, &amp; euery other place, within this realme of Englande, &amp; wales, &amp; other y^e kinges dominions, in fourme followi~g that is to &s;ay: y^e fyr&s;t yere before y^e xx. daye of Marche, &amp; the other two yeres, before y^e .xx. daye of Ianuarie. The fyr&s;t paiment of y^<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;aid relief, to be had, made &amp; paide, at y^e receipt of the kinges exchequer before the vi. day of May next comming. And the &s;econd to be made &amp; paied, at y^e &s;aid receipt, before y^e .xx. day of Aprill, which &s;halbe in y^e yere of our lord God after y^e computacion of the churche of England .M.cccccl. And the third payment to be had &amp; made at the &s;ayd receipt, before y^e .xx. day of Apryll which &s;halbe in the yere of our lorde .M.ccccc.li. And the &s;om|mes aboue &s;ayd: of and for the &s;ayd relief, &s;halbe taxed, &s;et, a&s;ked, &amp; de|maunded, taken, gathered, leuied, &amp; payed, vnto the v&s;e of our &s;ayd &s;o|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">eraigne lord, his heyres &amp; &s;ucce&s;&s;ours, in fourme aboue &s;ayd, a&s;well
<PB REF="3"> within liberties, fra~che&s;yes, &s;anctuaries, auncient demea&s;ne, and other what&s;oeuer place exempte, or not exempt, as without. Except &s;uche &s;hy|res, places, and per&s;ones, as &s;halbe forpri&s;ed, in &amp; by this pre&s;e~t acte: any graunt, charter, pre&s;cription, v&s;e or lybertie, by rea&s;on of any letters pa|tentes, or other priuilege, pre&s;cription, alowaunce of the &s;ame or what &s;oeuer other matter of di&s;charge here tofore to the contrary made grau~|ted, v&s;ed, or obteigned notwith&s;tanding. And it is further enacted by y^e aucthorytie of this pre&s;ent parliament, y^t euery &s;uch per&s;on, a&s;well &s;uch as be borne vnder y^e kinges obei&s;aunce, as euery other per&s;on &s;trau~ger borne, deni&s;en or not deny&s;en, inhabiting within this realme, or within wales, or other y^e kynges dominio~s, whiche at y^e time of y^e &s;ayd a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ing or taxacion yerely to be had or made, &s;halbe out of this realme, &amp; out of wales, &amp; hau&egrave; goodes or cattals, within this realme, or in wales, &s;halbe charged &amp; chargeable for the &s;ame, by y^e certificat of y^e inhabytauntes of the partyes, wher &s;uch goodes, cattals, landes, tenementes, or other the premi&s;&s;es tha~ &s;halbe, or in &s;uch other place, wher &s;uch per&s;on or his fac|tor, deputie or attorney, &s;hal haue his mo&s;t re&s;orte vnto withi~ this real|me, or in wales, in lyke maner as if y^e &s;ame per&s;one were or had ben at y^e tyme of y^e &s;ame a&s;&s;e&s;&s;yng within this realme. And y^t euery per&s;on, abidi~g or dwelling within this realme, or without this realme, &s;halbe charged, and chargeable to y^e &s;ame relief, grau~ted by this acte, according and af|ter y^e rate, of the value of his &s;ub&s;tau~ce, goodes &amp; cattals, and other pre|my&s;&s;es, as &s;uch par&s;on &s;o to be charged, &s;halbe &s;et at in the time of y^e &s;aid a&s;&s;e&s;&s;yng, or taxacion vpon him to be made, and in none otherwy&s;e.</P>
<P>And further we the kinges &s;ubicctes, do geue and graunt frelye to his highnes, one other relief to be paid, yerely duryng .iij. yeres, at y^e rcceipt of y^e kinges exchequer, after the rate &amp; in maner, &amp; fourme folo|wyng, y^t is to &s;aye, of euery Ewe, kept for the mo&s;t parte of the yere, in &s;euerall &s;alt, or fre&s;he mar&s;hes, or in leuerall pa&s;ture, y^t is to &s;ay: groun|des not commen, nor co~menly v&s;ed to be tylled. .iii. pence. Of euery we|ther, and other &s;here &s;hepe kept in pa&s;ture or mar&s;hes, as is afore &s;ayd, two pe~ce. And of euery &s;here &s;hepe kept, on co~mons or on &s;eueral grou~|des, commenly v&s;ed to be tylled thre half pence. To be paied yerely, du|ring the &s;ayd .iii. yeres, by the owner, or owners of the &s;ame &s;hepe, &amp; not by any per&s;on that hath the &s;ame &s;hepe in farme, or by lea&s;&s;e, paiyng a rent ar any other profyt for the &s;ame, or whiche is or &s;halbe bound by any maner of couenau~t or &s;uretie to re&s;tore the &s;ame, or as many &s;hepe or the value therof at any tyme.</P>
<P><HI REND="roman">PROVIDED</HI> alwaies and be it enacted by the auctoritie afore|&s;ayd, that euery per&s;on not hauing aboue the nomber of ten &s;here &s;hepe, &s;hal paye yerely durig the &s;aid .iii. yere, one halfpeny, for y^t polle of eue|ry &s;uche &s;here &s;hepe, and that euery per&s;on hauing aboue ten &s;here &s;he|pe, and not aboue .xx. &s;hall paye for euery of them but one peny, duryng euery of the &s;ayd .iii. yeres, any thyng before in this graunt of the relief of &s;hepe, co~teined to the contrarye in any wy&s;e notwyth&s;tandyng. The
<PB N="iij" REF="3" MS="y"> fyr&s;t paiment of the &s;aid relief of &s;hepe, to be made before the fyr&s;t daye of Nouember, next comming: the &s;econde before the fyr&s;t daie of Noue~|ber whiche &s;halbe in the yere of our lord God .M.ccccc.l. And the third before the fyr&s;t daye of Nouember, which &s;halbe in the yere of our lord God M.ccccc.li.</P>
<P><HI REND="roman">PROVIDED</HI> alwayes and be it ordeined and enacted by the aucthoritie afore&s;ayd, that if the value of the &s;hepe, cattall, and other moueable goodes, of him or her, that hath &s;hepe chargeable to the pay|ment of the &s;aid relief, being ra&s;ed and gathered into one hole and en|tire &s;ome and value, &s;halbe found greater, and more for the aduaunce|ment of this relief, than the payme~t that ought to be made by the polle of the &s;aid &s;hepe, as is before declared, that then the owner of the &s;ayd &s;hepe, &s;hall not be chargeable with the payment, after the rate of the polle. And if it &s;hall appere that the paiment after the rate of the polle &s;hall excede in value, and be more beneficial to the king, then the money rated of the hole &s;ub&s;taunce of any per&s;one: That then &s;uch per&s;on ha|uing &s;hepe &s;halbe charged to paie after y^e rate of the polle, and not after the value of his entier &s;ub&s;taunce: The relief payed the yere before of his entier &s;ub&s;taunce to be taken, and accompted as percell of the &s;om|me that &s;halbe due and payable in the hole at the yeres ende vpon the accompt made for the polle of his &s;hepe.</P>
<P><HI REND="roman">&para; ALSO</HI> we the kinges &s;ayd &s;ubiectes by the aucthorytie afore|&s;ayd, do geue and graunt vnto the kinges maie&s;tie, one other relief, that is to &s;aye. viii. pens of the pounde, of the pryce and value of al and &s;ynguler wollen clothes, car&s;eyes, fry&s;es, cottons, kendales, &amp; all other kinde of wollen clothes, of what &s;orte or making &s;oeuer they be, that fro~ the fea&s;t of the Natiuitie of &s;aint Iohn Bapti&s;t next co~ming, during thre yeres then next folowing &s;halbe made by any per&s;one to be put to &s;ale, the &s;ame relief to be leuied and gathered yerely during the &s;aid thre yeres, of the maker of the &s;ayd clothe, in &s;uch maner and fourme as he|reafter in this acte &s;halbe declared.</P>
<P><HI REND="roman">PROVIDED</HI> alwaies, and be it ordeined &amp; enacted, by the auc|thoritie afore&s;aid, that if it &s;hall appere that the rate of. viii. pens of the pounde, of the price and value of the clothe, by &s;uche clothier made as is afore&s;aid, &s;hall excede the rate of .xii. pence of the pounde, of his goo|des and cattals, that then euerye &s;uche clothier, &s;hall paye onely after the rate of. viii. pence of the pounde, of the clothes, &amp; not after the value of his goodes and cattals, the relief payed the fyr&s;t yere of his entier &s;ub&s;taunce to be taken&punc; and accompted as percell of the &s;omme that &s;halbe due and payable in the hole at the fir&s;t yeres ende vpon acco~pte for the clothes by hym made as is afore &s;aid. The &s;econd relief, paied of his entier &s;ub&s;taunce, to be taken and accompted as percell, of the &s;ome that &s;halbe due and payable, in the hole at the &s;econd yeres ende vpon accompt for the clothes by him made, as is afore &s;aid. And the third re|lief,
<PB REF="4"> payed of his entier &s;ub&s;taunce to be taken and accompted as per|cell of the &s;omme that &s;halbe due and payable in the hole at the third yeres ende vpon accompt for the clothes by him made, as is afore&s;ayd.</P>
<P><HI REND="roman">PROVIDED</HI> al&s;o, and be it ordeyned and enacted by the auc|thorytie afore&s;ayd, that if any per&s;one to the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">ntent to defraude the kin|ges maie&s;tie of the reliefs graunted by this acte, or any parte therof do coloure and take vpon him, by the a&s;&s;ent or con&s;ent, of the true owner therof, to be owner, or proprietary of any goodes, &s;hepe, clothes, or other thinges chargeable to the payment of the &s;ayd relief, and in dede &s;hal|be founde, tryed or proued, not to be iu&s;t and ryght owner therof, vpon any informacion therof to be made in the kinges courte of exchequer wythin two yeres next after &s;uche offence, that not onlye &s;uche goodes, &s;hepe, clothes, and other thinges, or the value therof &s;halbe forfayted to the kyng, but al&s;o the partie &s;o fal&s;elye colouring the &s;ame, or preten|ding to be owner, or proprietarye of the &s;ame, &s;hall forfeyte and lo&s;e to the kyng, the treble value therof, to be leuied of his goodes and cattals, landes, and tenementes to the kinges v&s;e.</P>
<P><HI REND="roman">AND</HI> to the entent that the kinges maie&s;tie may be iu&s;tly and truly &s;aty&s;fied of the &s;ayd relief, of the value and &s;ub&s;tau~ce of euery mannes goodes, and other &s;ommes, to be payed by &s;iraungers, deny&s;ens or not deny&s;ens, by vs to his highnes geuen in maner and fourme afore ex|pre&s;&s;ed, and in no part therof be defrauded, as our entent and hope is his grace &s;hall not be: Be it ordeyned and enacted by the aucthoritie afore&s;ayd, that the lord Chauncellour of Englande, the lord Thre&s;au|rour of England, the lord Pre&s;ydent of the kinges mo&s;t honorable coun&s;ayll, the lord Priuie &s;eale, and the lord great Chamberlayne of England, for the tyme beyng, or two of them at the lea&s;t, wherof the lord Chauncellour or the lord Threa&s;ourer, to be one of them, &s;hal and may name and appointe of and for euerye &s;hyer, rydyng, and other places, a&s;well within this realme, as in wales, and other the kinges dominio~s, as al&s;o for euerie citie and toune, beyng a countie of it &s;elfe, and of and for the I&s;le of wyght, &s;uch certayne nomber of per&s;ones of euerye of the &s;ame &s;hyres, rydynges, lathes, wapentakes, rapes, cities, tounes, and I&s;le of wight, and euerye other place, and other the inhabitauntes of the &s;ame, to be commi&s;&s;ioners within the &s;ame, wherof they be inhaby|tauntes, and al&s;o of and for the honorable hou&s;holdes of the king our &s;oueraigne lorde, the ladie Marie, and the ladye Elyzabeth graces, the kynges maie&s;ties li&s;ters, certayne hed officers of the &s;ame, to be com|mi&s;&s;ioners of the &s;ame hou&s;holdes, in what &s;hyres or other places, the &s;ayd hou&s;holdes &s;hal happe~ then to be: &amp; the lord Chauncellour, or lord Thre&s;aurour, and other with him before named, in like maner may na|me and appoincte of euerye other &s;uche borough and toune corporat, a&s;well in England, as in wales, and other the kinges dominions, as they &s;hall thinke requi&s;yte, &s;yx, fyue, foure, thre, or two, of the hed offy|cers,
<PB N="iiii" REF="4" MS="y"> and other &s;ad and hone&s;t inhabitauntes of euery of the &s;ayd cy|ties, boroughes and tounes corporat, according to the nomber &amp; multi|tude of people beyng in the &s;ame: the whiche per&s;ones if any &s;uche be therunto named of the &s;ayd inhabitauntes of the &s;ayd boroughes and tounes corporate, not beyng counties in them &s;elfes, &s;halbe ioined and put as commi&s;&s;ioners with the per&s;ones, named for &s;uch &s;hyres and ry|dinges, as the &s;ayd boroughes and tounes corporat not being counties in them &s;elfes be &s;et, &amp; haue there beyng: which per&s;ones &s;o named, for &amp; of the &s;ayd boroughes and tounes corporat, not beyng cou~ties, by rea|&s;on of there dwellyng in the &s;ame, &s;hall not take vpon them, ne none of them, to put any parte of there commi&s;&s;ion, in execution for the premy&s;|&s;es, out of the &s;ayd borough or toune corporat, wherin they beyng &s;o named onely for the &s;ame, be dwelling, and al&s;o not to execute the &s;ayd commi&s;&s;ion, within the borough or toune coporat, wher they be &s;o dwellyng, but ioyntly wyth thre at the lea&s;t of the other commi&s;&s;io|ners wythin the &s;hyre or rydyng, and in that commi&s;&s;ion wherin they be &s;o dwellyng, at &s;uche dayes and tymes, as the &s;ayd other commi&s;&s;io|ners for the &s;ame &s;here and ryding, &s;hal therunto lymyte and appoinct within the &s;ame borough or toune corporat, not beyng countie corpo|rat, wherof they &s;o be, and not out of &s;uch borough or toune, and in that maner to be aiding and a&s;&s;y&s;ting, with the &s;aid other commi&s;&s;ioners, in and for the good executing of the effect of the &s;ayd commi&s;&s;ion, vpon peyne of euery of the &s;ayd commi&s;&s;ioners, &s;o named for euery &s;uch citie, borough, and toune corporat, not beyng a countie, to make &s;uche fyne as the &s;ayd other commi&s;&s;ioners in the commi&s;&s;ion, of and for the &s;ayd &s;hyre or riding &s;o named, or thre of them at the lea&s;t, &s;hall by there dy&s;|crecions &s;et and certefye into the kinges exchequer, ther to be leuyed to the v&s;e of our &s;ouereygne lord the king, in lyke maner as &s;uch or lyke &s;ommes had ben &s;et and rated vpon euery &s;uch per&s;one for the &s;ayd re|lief: The whiche commi&s;&s;ioners &s;o named, of and for the &s;aid cities, bo|roughes and tounes, not beyng counties, and only put in the &s;aid com|mi&s;&s;ion by rea&s;on of there dwellyng in the &s;ame, &s;hall not haue any part of the porcion of the fees and rewardes for the commi&s;&s;ioners, and the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> clerkes in this acte, afterward &s;pecifyed. And the Chau~cellour of Eng|lande, or keper of the kynges great Scale for the tyme beyng, &s;hall make and direct out of the courte of chauncery, vnder the kinges great &s;eale, &s;euerall commi&s;&s;ions, that is to &s;aye, to euerye &s;hyre, rydyng, la|the, wapentake, rape, citie, toune, borough, I&s;le, and hou&s;holde, vnto &s;uche per&s;one and per&s;ones, as by his di&s;crecion and other with hym before appoincted and named, in lyke maner and fourme as is afore reher&s;ed, &s;halbe thought &s;uffycient for the &s;e&s;&s;yng and leuyeng of the &s;ayde relief in all &s;hyres and places, accordyng vnto the true mea|nyng of this acte: whiche commi&s;&s;yon &s;halbe directed and deliuered to the &s;ayd commi&s;&s;ioners, or to one of them yerely, duryng the &s;aye thre
<PB REF="5"> yeres, in maner and fourme folowyng, that is to &s;aye: the fyr&s;t yere be|fore the tenth daye of Marche next commyng, and the other two yeres, yerely before the fyr&s;t daye of Ianuary: and to euery of the &s;ayd com|mi&s;&s;ions, ten cedules, conteynyng in them the tenour of this acte, &s;halbe affyled, by the whyche commi&s;&s;ion the commi&s;&s;yoners in eue|ry &s;uche commi&s;&s;ion named, according vnto this acte, or as many of them as &s;halbe appoincted by the kinges co~mi&s;&s;ion, &s;hall haue full po|wer &amp; aucthoritie to put the effect of y^e &s;ame commi&s;&s;ion in execucion. And that by aucthoritie of this acte, after &s;uch commi&s;&s;ion to them dy|rected yerely during the &s;aid thre yeres, they may by their a&s;&s;entes and agrementes, &s;euer them &s;elfes for y^e execucion of their co~mi&s;&s;yon, in hu~|dredes, lathes, wardes, rapes, wapentakes, tounes, pary&s;&s;hes, &amp; other places, within the lymytes of their &s;ayd commi&s;&s;yon, in &s;uch fourme as to them &s;hall &s;eme expedient to be ordred, and betwene them to be com|moned &amp; agreed, according to the tenour and effect of the commi&s;&s;ion to them therin directed, vpon whiche &s;eueraunce, euery per&s;on of this pre|&s;ent parliament that &s;halbe commi&s;&s;ioner, &s;halbe a&s;&s;ygned in the hun|dreth where he dwelleth.</P>
<P><HI REND="roman">PROVIDED</HI> alwaies, that no per&s;one be or &s;halbe compelled to be any commi&s;&s;ioner, to and for the execution of this pre&s;ent acte, but only in the &s;hire where he dwelleth and inhabiteth: and that any per&s;on being a&s;&s;ygned to y^e contrarye therof, in any wi&s;e &s;hal not be co~pelled to put in execucion the effect of this act, or any parte therof. And it is al&s;o enacted by y^e aucthorytie of this pre&s;ent parliament, that the commi&s;&s;io|ners, and euery of them whiche &s;halbe named, lymyted, and appoincted accordyng vnto this acte to be commi&s;&s;ioners, in euerye &s;uche &s;hire, ry|dyng, lathe, wapentake, rape, cytie, toune, borough, I&s;le, and the &s;ayd hou&s;holdes or any other place, and none other, &s;hall truly, effectually &amp; dylygently for ther parte, execute the effect of this pre&s;ent acte, accor|dyng to the tenour therof in euery behalfe, and none otherwy&s;e by any other meanes, wythout omi&s;&s;ion, fauour, dread, malice, or any other thyng to be attempted and done by them, or any of them, to the contra|ry hereof: and the &s;aid commi&s;&s;ioners, or as many of them as &s;halbe ap|poincted by the &s;ayd commi&s;&s;ion, and none other, for the execution of the &s;ayd commi&s;&s;ion, and acte, &s;hall the fyr&s;t yere of the paiment of this relief of goodes, before the .xx. daye of Marche, and the other two ye|res, yerely before the .xvi. daye of Ianuary, by vertue of the commi&s;|&s;yons, delyuered vnto them, in fourme aboue&s;ayd, dyrect their &s;euerall or Ioynte precept vnto. viii. vii. vi. v .iiii. or thre, or moo, as for the nomber of the inhabitauntes &s;halbe requy&s;yte, of the mo&s;t &s;ub&s;tanciall di&s;crete, and hone&s;t per&s;ones inhabytauntes, to be named by the &s;aid co~mi&s;&s;ioners, or by as many of them as &s;halbe appoincted by y^e &s;aid co~|mi&s;&s;ion, of &amp; in hundredes, lathes, rapes, wape~takes, wardes, pari&s;hes, tounes, &amp; other places, a&s;wel w^tin liberties, frau~chi&s;es au~cie~t demeanes
<PB N="v" REF="5" MS="y"> places exempted, and &s;anctuaryes, as without, within the lymytes of y^e &s;hires, ridinges, lathes, wapentakes, rapes, cities, tounes, boroghes, or I&s;le, afore&s;aid, &amp; other places within y^e limites of there commi&s;&s;ion, and to the con&s;tables, &s;ubcon&s;tables, batlliffes, &amp; other like officers or myni|&s;ters, of euery of y^e &s;aid hundredes, tounes, wardes, lathes, wape~takes, pari&s;hes, &amp; other places before &s;aid: as to y^e &s;ayd commi&s;&s;ioners, &amp; euery nomber of them vnto thre or two of them, by there di&s;crecion in diui&s;io~, &s;hal &s;eme expedient, as by y^e maner and v&s;e of y^e parties &s;halbe requi&s;ite, &s;traitly by y^e &s;ame precept charging &amp; commau~ding y^e &s;ame inhabitau~|tes con&s;tables, &amp; other officers afor&s;aid to whom &s;uch precept &s;halbe &s;o directed to appere in their proper per&s;ones before y^e &s;aid co~mi&s;&s;ioners, or &s;uch nomber of them as they &s;hall deuide them &s;elfes, according to y^e tenour of y^e &s;ayd commi&s;&s;ion, at certain dayes &amp; places by y^e &s;aid co~mi&s;|&s;yoners, or any nomber of them as is aboue&s;ayd, within cities, borou|ghes, or tounes corporat, or without in any other place as is afore&s;aid, by ther di&s;cretions &s;halbe limited therunto, to do &amp; accompli&s;he all y^t to them on y^e part of our &s;oueraigne lord y^e king &s;halbe enioyned touching this acte: co~maunding further by y^e &s;ame precept, y^t he to who&s;e handes &s;uch precept &s;hall come, &s;hall &s;hewe or delyuer y^e &s;ame to the other inha|bitau~tes or officers, named in y^e &s;ame precept, &amp; y^t none of the~ faile to ac|co~pli&s;he y^e &s;ame, vpo~ paine of fortie &s;hillinges, to be forfaited to y^e king.</P>
<P><HI REND="roman">AND</HI> it is further ordeined by y^e &s;aid aucthoritie of this parliame~t, that y^e &s;aid daye &amp; place prefyxed, &amp; limited in y^e &s;aid preceptes, euery of the co~mi&s;&s;ioners, then beyng in y^e &s;hyre, &amp; hauing no &s;ufficient excu&s;e for his ab&s;ence, &s;hall at y^e &s;ayd day, &amp; place prefixed for y^t parte wherunto he was limited, appere in his proper per&s;on, &amp; there y^e &s;ame commi&s;&s;ioners being pre&s;ent, or as many as &s;halbe appoincted by y^e kinges commi&s;&s;io~, &s;hal cal or cau&s;e to be called before them, y^e &s;ayd inhabitau~tes &amp; officers, to who~ thei haue directed ther &s;aid preceptes, &amp; which had in co~maunde|me~t, ther to apere by y^e &s;aid precept of y^e &s;aid co~mi&s;&s;ioners. And if any per+&s;on &s;o warned, make default onle&s;&s;e he the~ be letted by &s;yckne&s;&s;e or law|ful excu&s;es, &amp; y^t let then to be witne&s;&s;ed by the othes of two credyble per|&s;ones: Or if any &s;o appering refu&s;e to be &s;worne in fourme folowing, to forfayte to the kyng fortie &s;hyllinges: &amp; &s;o at euery tyme during y^e &s;ayd thre yeres prefixed for y^e &s;ame cau&s;e, vnto &s;uch time, the nomber of euery &s;uch per&s;ons, haue appered &amp; certefied in fourme vnder written: &amp; euery of them &s;o making default, or refu&s;ing to be &s;worne, to forfaite to y^e king fortie &s;hillinges: &amp; vpo~ the &s;ame apparaunce had, one of y^e mo&s;t &s;ub&s;ta~|ciall inhabitauntes or officer, &s;o ther being warned, &amp; appering before the &s;ayd commi&s;&s;yoners, &s;halbe &s;worne yerely during y^e &s;aid thre yeres, vpon a boke openly before the commi&s;&s;ioners in fourme folowing.</P>
<P>I &s;hal truly enquire w^t my fellowes, y^t &s;hallbe charged w^t me, of y^e hu~|dred, wapentake, warde, toune, or other place, of y^e be&s;t &amp; mo&s;t value of y^e &s;ub&s;taunce of euery par&s;on, dwellyng &amp; abiding within the limites of y^e places that I and my fellowes &s;halbe charged with, &amp; of other whiche
<PB REF="6" MS="y"> &s;hal haue his or their mo&s;t re&s;ort vnto any of y^e &s;aid places, &amp; chargea|ble w^t any &s;ome of money, by this acte of this &s;aid relief, &amp; of al other ar|ticles, y^t I &s;halbe charged with, touching the &s;ayd acte, and accordig to the entent of the &s;ame, and there vpon, as nere as it may or &s;hal come to my knowlege, not only truly to pre&s;ent and certefye before you, the na|mes, &s;urnames, additions, and the be&s;t and vttermo&s;t &s;ub&s;taunce and values of euery of the~ of there goodes, cattalles, dettes, &amp; other things, chargeable by y^e &s;ayd acte, and how many &s;trau~gers, deni&s;ens or not de|riy&s;ens, beyng aboue the age of .xii. yeres, be re&s;iau~t and dwellyng w^tin the lymytes of my charge, of what value in goodes and other thinges, chargeable to the payment of this relief they be, &amp; whether they be hou&s;|holders or &s;eruau~tes, or otherwi&s;e vnder y^e rule &amp; gouernme~t of ther pa|rentes without any conceilement, fauour, loue, affeccion, dread, feare, or malyce, &s;o helpe me God, and the holy contentes of this boke.</P>
<P><HI REND="roman">AND</HI> euery other per&s;one y^t &s;hall appere there yerely by y^e &s;ayd pre|ceptes, &s;hall make like othe, and vpon y^e othe &s;o taken as is before &s;ayd: by y^e inhabitau~tes &amp; officers of euery hundred, ward, wapentake, toune, or other place, y^e &s;aid co~mi&s;&s;ioners &s;hal yerely openly there read or cau&s;e to be read vnto them y^e &s;ayd rates, &amp; ope~ly declare y^e effect of their char|ge vnto them, in what maner &amp; fourme they ought &amp; &s;hould make there certifycates, according to y^e rates &amp; &s;ommes therof aboue&s;aid, and of al maner of per&s;o~s, a&s;wel of Aliens &amp; &s;trau~gers, deni&s;ens, or not deny&s;e~s, inhabyted within this realme, as of &s;uch per&s;ones as be borne within y^e kynges obey&s;aunce, chargeable to this acte, &amp; of the goodes &amp; cattalles of fraternities, guildes, corporacions, brotherhedes, mi&s;teriers, co~pai|nies, and cominalties &amp; other, as is aboue &s;aid: and of per&s;ons being in the parties of beyond y^e &s;ea, hauing goodes or catals within this realme as is before &s;ayd: &amp; of all goodes being in cu&s;tody to y^e v&s;e of any other, as is aboue &s;aid: by y^e which informacio~ &amp; &s;hewing, y^e &s;ayd per&s;ons &s;hal haue &s;uch playn knowlege of y^e true entent of this pre&s;ent acte, &amp; of the manour of ther certificat, y^t the &s;ame per&s;ons &s;hall haue no rea&s;onable cau&s;e to excu&s;e them by ignorau~ce. And after &s;uch othes, &amp; y^e &s;tatute of y^e &s;aid relief, and y^e maner of the &s;aid certificat, to be made in writting con|teining y^e names, &s;urnames, and additions of euery per&s;one, &amp; whether he be borne without y^e kinges obei&s;aunce or within, and y^e be&s;t value of euery per&s;one in euery degre, of y^e value of goodes, and cattals, dettes, and euery thing to their &s;ayd certificat, requi&s;ite and nece&s;&s;arye to them declared: y^e &s;ayd commi&s;&s;ioners ther beyng, &s;hall by ther di&s;cretions ap|poinct &amp; limite vnto y^e &s;aid per&s;ones, an other daye &amp; place to apere be|fore the &s;ayd commi&s;&s;ioners, &amp; charging y^e &s;ayd per&s;ones, y^t they in the meane tyme &s;hal make diligent enquiry by al waies &amp; meanes of y^e pre|mi&s;&s;es, &amp; then &amp; ther euery of the~, vpo~ paine of forfaiture of .xx. &s;heli~gs, to y^e king, to appere at the &s;aid new prefixed daie &amp; place, ther to certifye vnto y^e &s;aid co~mi&s;&s;ioners in writing, according to there &s;aid charge, &amp; ac+cordi~g to y^e true ente~t of y^e &s;aid grau~t of relief, &amp; as to the~ in maner afor|&s;ayd
<PB N="vi" REF="6" MS="y"> hath ben declared &amp; &s;hewed by the commi&s;&s;yoners, at which daye &amp; place &s;o to them prefixed, if any of y^e &s;ayd per&s;ones make default, or ap|pere &amp; refu&s;e to make y^e &s;ayd certificat: y^t then euery of the~ &s;o offe~ding, to forfayte to the king fortye &s;hyllynges: Except only a rea&s;onable ex|cu&s;e for his default by rea&s;on or &s;ycknes or otherwi&s;e by y^e othes of two credyble per&s;ones there witne&s;&s;ed be had: &amp; of &s;uche as appere redy to make certificat, as is afore &s;aid y^e &s;ayd co~mi&s;&s;ioners ther being &s;hal ta|ke and receiue the &s;ame certifycat &amp; euery parte therof, and the names values and &s;ub&s;taunce of euery per&s;one &s;o certifyed: And if the &s;ame co~mi&s;&s;ioners &s;e cau&s;e rea&s;onable, they &s;hal examine y^e &s;aid pre&s;entoures therof, &amp; there vpon the &s;ayd commi&s;&s;ioners at the &s;ayd dayes &amp; place by there agrement among them &s;elfes &s;hall yerely during the &s;ayd thre yeres, openly ther prefyx a daye at a certain place or places with in the lymites of there commi&s;&s;ion by their di&s;crecion, for their further proce|ding to the &s;ayd a&s;&s;c&s;&s;yng of the &s;ame relief, and there vpon at the &s;ayd daye of the &s;aid cettifycat (as is before &s;ayd) taken, the &s;ame commi&s;&s;io|ners &s;hal make their precept or preceptes to the con&s;tables, &s;ubcon&s;ta|bles, bailiffes or other officers of &s;uch hundredes, wapentakes, tounes or other places afore &s;ayd, as the &s;ame commi&s;&s;ioners &s;halbe of, co~pry|&s;yng &amp; conteyning in the &s;ame precept the names, &s;urnames &amp; additio~s of all per&s;ones pre&s;ented before them in the &s;ayd certificates: of whome if the &s;ayd commi&s;&s;ioners or as many of them as &s;halbe therunto ap|poincted by y^e kinges commi&s;&s;ion &s;hal then haue veheme~t &s;u&s;pect to be of more greater value or &s;ub&s;tau~ce in goodes, cattals or &s;o~mes of mo|ney owing to them, or other &s;ub&s;taunce before &s;aid, then vpon &s;uch per|&s;on or per&s;ones &s;halbe certefyed, the &s;ame co~mi&s;&s;ioners &s;hal make there precept or preceptes directed to the con&s;table, bailyffes, and other offy|cers, commaunding y^e &s;ame con&s;tables bailiffes &amp; other officers, to who~ &s;uch precept &s;halbe directed to warne &s;uch per&s;ones who&s;e names &s;hall be compri&s;ed in the &s;aid precept, at there mancions or to their per&s;ones, that y^e &s;ame per&s;ones named in &s;uch preceptes &amp; euery of them, &s;hal per|&s;onally appere before y^e &s;aid commi&s;&s;ioners at y^e &s;ame new prefyxed day and place, ther to be &s;worne &amp; examined by al wayes and meanes by the &s;aid commi&s;&s;ioners of ther greate&s;t &s;ub&s;taunce and be&s;t value, and of al and euery &s;ommes of money owing to them, and other what&s;oeuer mat|ter co~cerning y^e premi&s;&s;es or any of them, accordi~g to this acte. At which daye and place &s;o prefyxed, the &s;ayd commi&s;&s;ioners than there beyng, or as many of them as &s;halbe theru~to appoincted by the kynges co~mi&s;&s;io~, &s;hall cau&s;e to be called the &s;ayd per&s;ones, who&s;e names &s;halbe compry|&s;ed in y^e &s;aid precept, as it is before &s;aid for their examinacio~. And if any of the per&s;ones whiche &s;hould be warned, as is before &s;ayd, to be exami|ned, whiche at any tyme after the warning, and before the prefyxed day &s;halbe within &s;uch place, wher he may haue knowlege of the &s;ayd appe|rau~ce to be made, make default &amp; appere not&punc; onle&s;&s;e a re&s;onable cau&s;e, or els a rea&s;onable excu&s;e by the othes of two credyble per&s;ones before the
<PB REF="7" MS="y"> &s;ayd commi&s;&s;yoners be truely alleged for his di&s;charge, that then euery of them &s;o makinge default, to be taxed and charged to the king with &amp; at the double &s;o~mes of the rate that he &s;hould or ought to haue ben &s;et at, for and after the be&s;t value of his goodes &amp; &s;ub&s;taunce vpo~ him cer|tefied, if he had appered, by y^e di&s;crecion of the co~mi&s;&s;ioners there being. And in like maner if any of them &s;u&s;pected, as is before &s;ayd, appere &amp; refu&s;e to be &s;worne in fourme folowing: then euery &s;uche offender to be taxed and charged to the king with and at the double &s;omme of the rate that he &s;hould or ought to haue ben &s;et at, for &amp; after y^e be&s;t value of his &s;ub&s;taunce vpon him certefied by y^e &s;aid per&s;ones y^t made the certificat, as is before &s;aid, by y^e di&s;crecions of the co~mi&s;&s;ioners ther than beyng &amp; euery of the per&s;ones &s;o ther &amp; then apperyng: Who&s;e names &s;halbe ex|pre&s;&s;ed in the &s;aid precept or preceptes, &amp; in whom any vehement &s;u&s;pect was or &s;halbe had in fourme aboue &s;ayd, &s;hall trauell with y^e &s;ame per|&s;one &s;o &s;u&s;pecte, by all &s;uche waies &amp; meanes they can: And further the &s;ayd Commi&s;&s;ioners, or as many of them as &s;halbe hereunto appoinc|ted by the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ion, by ther di&s;crecion &s;hall openly &s;were y^e &s;ame per&s;on in this maner and fourme folowing.</P>
<P>&para; I &s;hall faythfully, truly, and plainly according to my knowlege, &s;hew vnto you the kinges Commi&s;&s;ioners, and to other by you a&s;&s;ig|ned, the be&s;t and greate&s;t value or aboue of all my goodes &amp; Cattals, &amp; &s;omes of money to me owing, accordi~g to y^e grau~t of this acte of relief, &amp; truly aun&s;wer to y^t I &s;halbe examined of, touchi~g the premi&s;&s;es, with|out couyn or deceipt, &s;o helpe me God, &amp; the holy co~tentes of this boke.</P>
<P>And if any per&s;one that &s;houlde appere be excu&s;ed in fourme afore+&s;aid by witnes of credyble per&s;ones, y^e &s;ame per&s;ones &s;halbe examyned by their othes of his or their greate&s;t and be&s;t value and &s;ub&s;taunce &s;o lacking and excu&s;ed, and by the be&s;t of ther certifycat or knowlege, or of the other fir&s;t certifycat vpon him or the~ made, the &s;ame per&s;one &s;o lac|king and excu&s;ed of his apparaunce to be &s;et and rated by the &s;aid Co~|mi&s;&s;ioners, or otherwi&s;e to be &s;et and rated in this ca&s;e as &s;hall &s;eme be&s;t by the di&s;cretions of the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners. And if it happe~ to be pro|ued by witnes, his owne co~fe&s;&s;io~ or other lawful waies or meanes, withe~ one yere after any &s;uch othe made, y^t the &s;ame per&s;on &s;o taxed and &s;wore~, was of any greater or better value in goodes or other thinges aboue &s;pecifyed at the tyme of his &s;aid othe, then y^e &s;ame per&s;one &s;o &s;worne did declare vpo~ his othe: That the~ &s;uch per&s;one &s;o offending &s;hal lo&s;e &amp; for|fayte to y^e king foure tymes &s;o much in lawful money or England as y^e &s;ame per&s;one &s;o &s;worne was &s;et &amp; taxed at, to paie for the &s;ayd Relief.</P>
<P>And if any per&s;on certefied or rated by vertue of this acte, be he com|mi&s;&s;ioner or other, to any maner of value, do fynd him &s;elfe greued w^t the &s;ame pre&s;entme~t &s;e&s;&s;yng or taxing, &amp; ther vpon complain to y^e Com|mi&s;&s;yoners, before who~ he &s;halbe rated, &s;e&s;&s;ed or taxed, or before two of them, that then the &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners, &s;hall by all wayes and meanes examine particularlye &amp; di&s;tynctlye the per&s;one &s;o co~plainaunt &amp; other
<PB N="vij" REF="7" MS="y"> his neighbours, by their di&s;crecion, of euery his goodes, cattalles &amp; deb|tes aboue mencioned, and after due examinacion, and perfect knowlege therof had and perceiued by the&s;aied Commi&s;&s;ioners&punc; whiche &s;hall haue power, by aucthoritie afore&s;aid: the&s;aid Commi&s;&s;ioners, or two of theim to whom any &s;uche complaint &s;halbee made by their di&s;crecions, vpon the othe of the&s;aid per&s;on &s;o complainyng, maie abate, defalke, encrea&s;e, or enlarge the&s;ame a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ement, accordyng as it &s;hall appere to theim iu&s;t vpon the&s;aid examinacion, and the&s;ame &s;omme &s;o abated, defalked, encrea&s;ed, or enlarged by theim, to bee &s;treated in forme as hereafter en|&s;ueth, &s;o that he come before the extreates of the&s;aid a&s;&s;e&s;&s;yng be deliue|red by the&s;aied Commi&s;&s;ioners into the kynges Exchequer. And if it be proued by witnes, his awne confe&s;&s;io~, or other lawfull waies or meanes within a yere after any &s;uche othe made, that the&s;ame per&s;one &s;o taxed &amp; &s;worne, was of any greater or better value in goodes, or other thynges aboue &s;pecified, at the tyme of his &s;aied othe then the&s;ame per&s;one &s;o &s;worne, did declare vpon his &s;aied othe: that then euery &s;uche per&s;one &s;o offendyng, &s;hal lo&s;e &amp; forfaite to the kyng .iiii. tymes &s;o muche in lawful money of Englande, as the&s;ame per&s;one &s;o &s;worne, was &s;et at or taxed to paie. And all per&s;ones, &s;ette, rated and taxed as is afore&s;aied, &s;halbee bounde and charged by the&s;ame: and the &s;omme or &s;ommes vpon hym &s;et, to bee due towardes the paiment of this relief, and to bee leuied as hereafter &s;halbe &s;pecified.</P>
<P><HI REND="roman">AND</HI> it is al&s;o enacted by the&s;aid aucthoritie, that euery per&s;on ye|rely duryng the&s;aid .iii. yeres, as is afore&s;aid, &s;halbe rated, taxed and &s;et and the &s;ome on hym &s;et to be leuied at &s;uche place, wher he &amp; his family at y^e time of the&s;ame pre&s;entme~t to be made, &s;hal kepe his hou&s;e or dwel|lyng, or where he then &s;halbe mo&s;te conuer&s;aunt abidyng or re&s;iaunt, or &s;hall haue his mo&s;te re&s;ort, and &s;halbee be&s;t knowen at the tyme of the|&s;aied certificat to bee made, and no where els. And that no Commi&s;&s;io|ner for this Relief of goodes, &s;halbe rated or taxed for his goodes, but in the &s;hire, citie, or other place, where he dwelleth and is Commi&s;&s;ioner. And if any per&s;one chargeable to this Acte, at the tyme of the&s;aid a&s;&s;e&s;|&s;yng, happen to be out of this realme, and out of Wales, or farre from the place where he &s;halbe knowen, then he to bee &s;et where he was la&s;t a|bidyng, in this realme or within Wales, and be&s;t knowen. And after the &s;ub&s;taunce and value of euery per&s;one, knowen by the examinacion, cer|tificat, and other maner of wi&s;e, as is afor&s;aid, the&s;aied Commi&s;&s;ioners or as many of theim as &s;halbe appoyncted by the kynges Commi&s;&s;ion, &s;hall after the rate afore&s;aid, &s;et and taxe euery per&s;on, accordyng to the rate of &s;ub&s;taunce, and value of his goodes and cattalles: whereby the greate&s;t and mo&s;te be&s;t &s;omme, accordyng to his mo&s;te &s;ub&s;taunce, by rea&s;on of this act, ought or maie be &s;et or taxed.</P>
<P><HI REND="roman">BE</HI> it al&s;o ordeigned by the&s;aid aucthoritie, that no per&s;one hauyng twoo mancions, or twoo places to re&s;ort vnto, or callyng hym&s;elf hou&s;|holde
<PB REF="8" MS="y"> &s;eruaunt or waityng &s;eruaunt, to the kynges highnes, his graces &s;i&s;ters, or to any noble man or woman, &s;halbe excu&s;ed vpon his &s;aiyng, from the taxe of the&s;aied relief in neither of the places where he maie bee &s;ette, onle&s;&s;e he bryng a certificat in writyng from the Commi&s;&s;ioners, where that he is &s;o &s;et in deede at one place. And if any happen to bee &s;et in twoo places, vpon certificat thereof made, the be&s;t and mo&s;te &s;omme vpon hym &s;o taxed, to bee taken and abyde, and the other to bee di&s;char|ged, &s;o that the&s;ame certificat of his a&s;&s;e&s;&s;yng and paiment, bee made thereof in writyng, vnder the &s;eales of the Commi&s;&s;ioners, or of as ma|ny of theim as &s;halbee appoyncted by the kynges Commi&s;&s;ion: whiche certificat &s;o made, &s;halbe at all tymes a &s;ufficient di&s;charge for hym, and the Collectour of the&s;ame, a&s;well again&s;t any Collectour, that &s;hall de|maunde the&s;ame vpon hym rated or taxed, as again&s;t the kyng and all other per&s;ones.</P>
<P>And if any per&s;one that ought to bee &s;et, by rea&s;on of his remouyng or re&s;ortyng to two places, or by rea&s;on of his &s;aiyng, that he els where was taxed, or by rea&s;on of any priuilege, by his dwellyng or abidyng in any place, not beyng forepri&s;ed in this Acte, or any otherwi&s;e by his couyn or crafte, happen to e&s;cape from the yerely a&s;&s;e&s;&s;yng, and bee not &s;ette, and that proued by pre&s;entment, examinacion or informacion, be|fore the&s;aied Commi&s;&s;ioners, or as many of theim as &s;halbe by the&s;ame Commi&s;&s;ion appoyncted, or by the Barones of the kynges Exchequer, or twoo Iu&s;tices of the Peace of that countrey, where &s;uche per&s;one dwelleth: then euery &s;uche per&s;one, that by &s;uche meanes or other wy&s;e, wilfully by couyn, &s;hall happen to e&s;cape from the a&s;&s;e&s;&s;yng of the|&s;aied reliefes, or of any of theim, and not bee rated, taxed, and &s;et, &s;halbe charged vpon the knowlege and proffe thereof, with, and at the double value that he &s;hould, or ought to haue been &s;ette at afore, accordyng to his behauoure: the&s;ame double value to bee leuied, gathered and paied of his goodes, and cattalles, landes and tenementes, towardes the&s;aid relief, and further to bee puni&s;hed, accordyng to the di&s;crecions of the Barones, Iu&s;tices, or Commi&s;&s;ioners, before whom he &s;halbe conuicted for his offence and deceipt in that behalfe.</P>
<P>And it is further ordeigned and enacted by the aucthoritie afore&s;aid, that not onely euery a&s;&s;e&s;&s;our &s;halbe rated, taxed and a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed yerely, du|ryng the&s;aied three yeres, for the value of his goodes and cattalles, by the Commi&s;&s;ioners, or the mo&s;te part of theim, by whom he is appoyn|cted to bee an a&s;&s;e&s;&s;our, but al&s;o that euery Commi&s;&s;ioner a&s;&s;igned and deputed, for the orderyng, taxyng, ratyng, and leuiyng of this relief, graunted to the kynges Maie&s;tie, of twelue pence of the pounde, of the value of euery mannes goodes, dwellyng within the precinct and limit of his Commi&s;&s;ion, for his awne &s;ub&s;taunce in goodes, &s;halbe &s;e&s;&s;ed, ta|xed, valued and rated yerely, duryng the&s;aied three yeres, by the exami|nacion and &s;e&s;&s;yng of the re&s;t of the Commi&s;&s;ioners, named in the&s;ame
<PB N="viij" REF="8" MS="y"> Commi&s;&s;ion, or the mo&s;te part of theim, after &s;uche value of his goodes and cattalles, as is mencioned in this Acte. And that all per&s;ones of the e&s;tate of a Baro~ or Barone&s;&s;e, not being maried, and euery e&s;tate aboue &s;halbe examined and charged, of the paiment of this relief of their goo|des, before the lorde Chauncellor, the Lorde Thea&s;aurer of Englande, and lorde priuey &s;eale for the tyme beyng, or other per&s;ones by the kyn|ges aucthoritie to be limited: and thei to bee charged yerely, duryng the|&s;aid thre yeres, for their goodes and &s;ub&s;taunce, accordyng to their exa|minacion afore&s;aied. And the &s;ommes vpon them &s;et, with the names of the Collectours appoyncted, for the gatheryng and paiyng of the&s;ame, be extreated, deliuered, and certified at daies and places aboue &s;pecified by the&s;aied Chauncellor, Thea&s;aurer, and lorde priuey Seale for the tyme beyng, or &s;uche other per&s;ones, as &s;halbe appoyncted by the Kyn|ges highnes.</P>
<P><HI REND="roman">AND</HI> it is further ordeined and enacted, by thaucthoritie afore&s;aid, that after the Taxes and A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ementes, of the&s;aied &s;ommes, vpon and and by the&s;aied examinacion and certificat, as is afore&s;aied made, the|&s;aied Commi&s;&s;ioners &s;hall yerely duryng the&s;aied three yeres, within .x. daies nexte after the Taxacion and A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ement, of paiment of the&s;aied Relief, by writyng Indented to bee made of the&s;aied Taxacion and A&s;|&s;e&s;&s;ement, vnder the &s;eales and &s;ignes manuelles of the&s;aied Commi&s;&s;i|oners, deliuer vnto &s;ufficient and &s;ub&s;tanciall inhabitauntes, Con&s;ta|bles, Subcon&s;tables, Bayliffes, or other officers ioyntly of Hundredes. Tounes, Pari&s;hes, and other places afore&s;aied within their limites, or to other &s;ufficient per&s;ones, inhabitauntes of the&s;ame, onely by the di&s;|crecio~ of the&s;ame Commi&s;&s;ioners, and as the place and parties &s;hall re|quire, a&s;well the particular names and &s;urnames, as the remembraunce of all &s;ommes of money, Taxed and &s;ett of and vpon euery per&s;one, a&s;|well manne as woman chargeable to this Act, hou&s;holder, and al other inhabitauntes and dwellers, and all Fraternities, Guyldes, Corpora|cions, Mi&s;teries, Brotherhoddes, Compaignies and Cominalties, cor|porat or not corporat, within the&s;aied Pari&s;hes, tounes &amp; places, contri|butory to this Act of relief. By aucthoritie of whiche writyng, or e&s;treat &s;o deliuered, the&s;aid officers or other per&s;ones &s;o named and deputed &s;e|uerally, &s;hall haue full power and aucthoritie by vertue of this act, un|mediatly after the deliuery of the&s;aid writyng or e&s;treate, to demaunde, leuie, and gather of euery per&s;one and Fraternitie, Guyld, Corporacion Mi&s;tery, Brotherhod, Compaignie, and Comminaltie, corporate or not corporate therin &s;pecified, the &s;omme or &s;ommes in the&s;ame writyng or e&s;treat co~pri&s;ed. And for non paiment therof to di&s;train the goodes and cattalles, of &s;uche per&s;one, Fraternitie, Guylde, Corporacion, Mi&s;tery, Brotherhod, Compaignie and Comminaltie, corporat or not corporat, and the di&s;tre&s;&s;e &s;o taken, to kepe by the &s;pace of eight daies, at the co|&s;tes and charges of the owners thereof: And if the&s;aied owner doo not
<PB REF="9"> paie &s;uche &s;omme of money, as &s;halbe taxed by this acte, within the &s;ame viii. daies, then the&s;aid di&s;tre&s;&s;e to be appri&s;ed, by .iiii .iii. or two of the in|habitantes, where &s;uche di&s;tre&s;&s;e is taken, and al&s;o to be &s;olde by the&s;aid Con&s;table and other collector for the paiment of the&s;aid money: and the ouerplus commyng of the &s;ale and kepyng thereof (if any be) to bee im|mediatly re&s;tored to the owner of the &s;ame di&s;tre&s;&s;e, whiche &s;aied officers and other per&s;ones &s;o deputied to a&s;ke, take, gather, and leuie the &s;aied &s;ommes, &s;hall an&s;were and bee charged for their porcion, onely to theim a&s;&s;igned or limited, to be gathered, leuied, and compri&s;ed in the &s;aied wri|tyng or e&s;treate, to theim as is afore&s;aied deliuered, vnto the v&s;e of our &s;ouereigne lorde the kyng, his heires and &s;ucce&s;&s;ors, and the&s;aid &s;omme in that writyng or e&s;treat co~pri&s;ed, to pay vnto the high collector or col|lectors, of that place for the colleccion of the &s;ame, in maner and fourme vnder written, to be named and deputed: and the &s;ame inhabitau~tes and officers, &s;o gatheryng the &s;ame perticular &s;o~mes, for their colleccio~ ther|of, &s;hall reteigne for euery .xx. s~. &s;o by theim receiued and paied .ii. d. and that to be allowed at the paiment of their colleccion, by them to be made to the high collector or collectors.</P>
<P><HI REND="roman">PROVIDED</HI> alwaies, and be it ordeigned and enacted, by thau|cthoritie afore&s;aid, that if any per&s;one not beyng the kynges &s;ubiect na|turally borne, deni&s;en or not deni&s;en, beyng aboue the age of .xii. yeres, &amp; not worth .xx. s~. in goodes, and be at the tyme of the paiment of the reli|fes, of. viii. d. due by this acte of euery &s;uche per&s;one, or at any tyme du|ryng the&s;aid thre yeres, in &s;eruice with any man or woman, or vnder the gouernaunce of his or her father or mother, that euery &s;uche Ma&s;ter or Mai&s;tres, father or mother, &s;halbe charged with the paiment therof, for &s;uche per&s;on in like maner and fourme, as he or &s;he is or ought to be for the reliefes due by them&s;elfes. And that it &s;halbee lefull for euery &s;uche Ma&s;ter and Mai&s;tres to defalke, abate, and reteigne of the wages of &s;uche &s;eruaunt, &s;o muche as he or &s;he had before paied for &s;uche &s;eruau~t towardes the paiment of the&s;aied reliefes.</P>
<P><HI REND="roman">AND</HI> further bee it enacted by the&s;aied aucthoritie of this pre&s;ent Parliament, that the&s;aid commi&s;&s;ioners, &s;hall yerely duryng the&s;aid .iii. yeres, name &s;uche &s;ufficient and able per&s;ones, whiche then &s;hall haue &amp; po&s;&s;ede landes, or other hereditamentes in their awne right, of the yere|ly value of .x. l. or goodes to the value of an. C. marke at the le&s;t, and the &s;ame per&s;ones &s;euerally, by the di&s;crecions of the &s;ame commi&s;&s;ioners in &s;hires, Ridynges, Lathes, Wapentakes, Rapes, cities, tounes corporat, and other what&s;oeuer places, a&s;wel within places priuileged as without not beyng forpri&s;ed in this act, to be high collectors~ &amp; haue the colleccio~ and receipt of the&s;aied &s;ommes, &s;et &amp; leuiable within the precinct, limites and bou~des, where thei &s;halbee &s;o limited to gather &amp; receiue: to euery of the whiche collectors &s;o &s;euerally named, the&s;aid co~mi&s;&s;ioners, or two of the~ at the le&s;t, yerely duryng the&s;aid .iii. yeres, within .xii. daies next after
<PB N="ix" REF="9" MS="y"> the&s;aied whole &s;omme of the&s;aid reliefes, &s;halbe &s;et and rated by all the limites of the &s;ame their commi&s;&s;ion, or in &s;uche limites as the high col|lectors &s;halbe &s;o &s;euerally a&s;&s;igned, &s;hall vnder their &s;eales and &s;ignes manuell, deliuer one e&s;treate indented in parcheme~t, to euery of the &s;ame high collectors, compri&s;yng in it the names of all &s;uche per&s;ones, as wer a&s;&s;igned to leuie the&s;aied particular &s;ommes, and the &s;ommes of euery hundred, Wapentake, toune, or other place afore&s;aid, with the names &amp; &s;urnames of the per&s;ones &s;o chargeable, accordyng to the e&s;trete &s;o fir&s;t thereof made (as is before&s;aied) and deliuered: and the collector &s;o to bee a&s;&s;igned, &s;halbe charged to aun&s;were the whole &s;omme, compri&s;ed in the &s;aied e&s;trcate limited to his colleccion, as is afore&s;aied.</P>
<P><HI REND="roman">PROVIDED</HI> alwaies and be it enacted by thauctoritie afor&s;aid, that the&s;aid commi&s;&s;ioners hauyng aucthoritie by this act, to name the|&s;aied high collectors of the&s;aied reliefes, yerely duryng the&s;aied thre ye|res, &s;hall immediatly vpon their nominacion and eleccion, take by au|cthoritie of this pre&s;ent Parliament, &s;ufficient Recogni&s;aunces or Ob|ligacions, without any fee or reward to be paied therefore, of euery per|&s;one &s;o by theim to bee named to bee high Collector, to bee bound to the kyng in the double &s;omme, of the &s;omme of his colleccion, and to bee en|dorced and made vpon &s;uche condicion, that if the&s;aied Collectour, his Heires or Executors, do truly content and paie, to the v&s;e of the kyng, his Heires, or Executours, in his receipte of his Exchequer, before the daie appoyncted by this acte, &s;o muche of the&s;aied &s;omme of money, al|lotted and appoyncted to his colleccion, as he &s;hall Collect and gather, and content and paie the re&s;idue of his Colleccion and charge, within one moneth next after &s;uche tyme, as he hath gathered and collected the &s;ame re&s;idue: that then the&s;aid recogni&s;aunce or obligacion to be voyd, or els to &s;tand in his ful &s;trength and vertue. Whiche recogni&s;aunce or obligacion &s;o taken the&s;aid co~mi&s;&s;ioners &s;hall certifie &amp; deliuer into the Kynges Exchequer, with the certificat of the&s;aied taxacion and rate of the&s;aied relief, at and by the tyme to theim pre&s;cribed and appoyncted by this act, vpon pein of forfeiture of .x. l. to the kyng, for euery recogni|&s;aunce or obligacion not certified. And that euery &s;uch collector &s;o elec|ted, named and cho&s;en, vpon reque&s;t to hym made, &s;hall knowlege and make the&s;aid recogni&s;aunce or obligacion, vpo~ like pein and forfeiture of .x. l. to the kyng, for the refu&s;al therof: and euery &s;uche collector, &s;o ye|rely deputed, hauyng the&s;aied e&s;treate in patchement, as is afore&s;aied&punc; &s;hall haue aucthoritie by this act, yerely duryng the&s;aied three yeres, to appoynct daies and places, within the circuite of his Colleccion, for the paiment of the&s;aied relief to hym to bee made, and thereof to geue war|nyng by Proclamacion or otherwi&s;e, to all the&s;aid Con&s;tables, or other per&s;ones or inhabitauntes, hauyng the charge of the particular collec|cion, within the Hundredes, Pari&s;hes; Tounes, or other places by hym or them limited, to make paiment for their &s;aied particuler colleccion of
<PB REF="10"> euery &s;ome, as to the~ &s;hall appertein. And if at the&s;aid daie &amp; place &s;o li|mited and prefixed by the&s;aid collector, the&s;aied Con&s;tables, officers, or other per&s;ones or inhabitauntes (as is afore&s;aied) for the&s;aid particuler colleccion appoyncted and a&s;&s;igned within &s;uche hundred, citee, toune, or other place, do not paie vnto the&s;aid collectors, the &s;ome within their &s;euerall hundredes, tounes, Pari&s;hes, and other places, due &amp; compri&s;ed in the&s;aid e&s;trcates thereof to them deliuered by the&s;aid commi&s;&s;ioners, as is before &s;aid, or &s;o muche therof as thei haue by any meane receiued (ii. d. of euery pound for the&s;aied particuler colleccion, as is before&s;aied, alwaies to be therof allowed, excepted &amp; abated) that then it &s;halbe law|full to the&s;aid high collectors, and euery of them, and to their a&s;&s;ignes, to di&s;train euery of the&s;aied Con&s;tables, officers, and other inhabitaun|tes for their &s;aied &s;euerall and particuler colleccion of the&s;aid &s;ommes, compri&s;ed in the&s;aied e&s;treate and writyng therof, to them and euery of them, as is before expre&s;&s;ed deliuered: or for a&s;muche of the &s;ame &s;omme, as &s;o then &s;hall happe~ to be gathered and leuied, beyng behynd and vn|paied, by the goodes and cattalles, of euery of the~ &s;o beyng behind: and the di&s;tre&s;&s;e &s;o taken, to be kept apprei&s;ed and &s;old, as is afore&s;aid: and therof to take and leuy the &s;ome &s;o then beyng behynd and vnpaied, and the ouerplus commyng of the &s;ale of the&s;aied di&s;tre&s;&s;e (if any bee) to bee re&s;tored and deliuered vnto the owner, in forme aboue remembred.</P>
<P><HI REND="roman">PROVIDED</HI> alwaies, that no per&s;one inhabited in any citce, bo|rough, or toune corporat, &s;halbe compelled to be an a&s;&s;e&s;&s;or or collector, of, or for any part of the&s;aid relief, in any place or places, out of the&s;aied Citee, Borough, or toune, corporate where he dwelleth. And it is al&s;o by the&s;aid aucthoritie enacted, that if any inhabitaunt or officer, or what&s;o|euer per&s;one or per&s;ones charged, to, and for the colleccion or receipt, of any part or porcion of the&s;aid relief, in any of the&s;aid thre yeres, by any maner of meane, accordyng to this act, or any per&s;on or per&s;ones for the~ &s;elfes, or as keper, deputie, factor or atturney, of, and for any other per|&s;on or per&s;ons, of any goodes and cattalles, and the owner therof at the tyme of the&s;aid a&s;&s;e&s;&s;yng to be made, beyng out of this realme, or in any other parties not knowen, or of, and for the goodes and cattalles of any other per&s;on or per&s;ones, or of any corporacion, fraternitie, guyld, mi&s;te|ry, compainy, or other what&s;oeuer comminaltie, beyng incorporat or not incorporate, and all per&s;ones hauyng in their rule, gouernaunce, or cu|&s;tody, any goodes or cattalles, at the tyme of the&s;aid a&s;&s;e&s;&s;yng, or any of them to be made, or whiche for any cau&s;e, for, &amp; by colleccion or for hym &s;elf, or for any other, or by rea&s;on that he hath the rule, gouernaunce, or cu&s;tody of any goodes or cattalles, of any other per&s;on or per&s;ones tra|ternitie, Guylde, Corporacion, Cominaltie, Compaignie, or Mi&s;tery, or any &s;uche other like or as factor deputie, or attorney, of or for any per&s;o~, &s;halbee taxed, rated, valued, and &s;et to any &s;omme or &s;ommes, by rea&s;on of this act: and after the taxacion or a&s;&s;e&s;&s;yng, vpon any &s;uche per&s;on or
<PB N="x" REF="10" MS="y"> per&s;ones, as &s;halbe charged 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 and cattalles to bee &s;o eloyned, or in &s;uche priuie and couert maner kept, as the&s;aid per&s;one or per&s;ones charged with the &s;ame, by extreates or other writyng fro~ the&s;aid commi&s;&s;ioners, cannot ne may leuy tht &s;ame &s;ome or &s;omes, co~pri&s;ed within their &s;aid extreates by di&s;tre&s;&s;e, within the limites of their colleccion, as is befor&s;aid, or ca~not &s;el &s;uche di&s;tre&s;&s;e, or di&s;tre&s;&s;es as be taken for any of the&s;aid yerely paimentes, before y^e tyme limited to the high collector, for his paime~t to be made in the kynges receipt: then vpon relacion therof made, with due examinacion by the othe or exami|nacion of &s;uche per&s;one or per&s;ones, as &s;halbe charged with, and for the receipt and colleccion of the &s;ame, before the&s;aied commi&s;&s;ioners, or one of them, or before the high collector or collectors, where &s;uche per&s;one or per&s;ons or other, as is afore&s;aid, their goodes and cattalles wer &s;et and taxed: and vpo~ plain certificat therof, made into the kynges Exchequer, by the &s;ame commi&s;&s;ioners, or any one of them, or vpon the othe of one of the high collectors, in the&s;aid court of thexchequer, of y^e dwellyng place, names and &s;ommes of the&s;aid per&s;ones, of whom the&s;aid &s;ommes ca~not be leuied &amp; had, as is before&s;aied, then a&s;well the Con&s;tables and other inhabitauntes, appoincted for the particuler colleccion, again&s;t the high collectors, as the high collector, vpon his accompt and othe in the&s;aied Exchequer, to be di&s;charged therof, and proce&s;&s;e to be made for the kyng out of the&s;aied Exchequer, by the di&s;crecions of the Barons of the&s;aied Exchequer, again&s;t &s;uche per&s;o~, his heires or executors, &s;o beyng behind with his paiment. And ouer that the &s;ame co~mi&s;&s;ioners, to who~ any &s;uch declaracion of the premi&s;&s;es, &s;halbe made in forme afore&s;aid, fro~ tyme to tyme, &s;hall haue full power &amp; aucthoritie, duryng the&s;aid .iii. yeres, to di|rect their precept or preceptes, vnto the&s;aid per&s;on or per&s;ones, charged with any &s;ome, of, for or vpon any &s;uch per&s;on or per&s;ons, or other as is aboue&s;aid, or to any &s;hirieffes, &s;tewardes, bailieffes, or other what&s;oeuer officer, mini&s;ter, per&s;o~ or per&s;o~s, of &s;uche place or places, where any &s;uche per&s;on or per&s;ons, &s;o owyng &s;uche &s;ome or &s;ommes, &s;hall haue landes &amp; teneme~tes, or other hereditamentes, or real po&s;&s;e&s;&s;io~s, goodes or cattals, wherby any &s;uche per&s;on or per&s;ons &s;o indebted, his heires, executors, or a&s;&s;ignes, or other hauyng the cu&s;tody, gouernaunce, or di&s;po&s;icio~ of any goodes, cattals, la~des, tenementes, or other hereditame~tes which ought or may by this act lawfully be di&s;treined, or taken for y^e&s;ame, hath &amp; &s;hal haue goodes, cattals, la~des, teneme~tes, &amp; other po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions, wherof &s;uche &s;ome or &s;o~mes, whiche by any &s;uche per&s;on or per&s;ons, maie or ought to bee leuied, be it within the limite of &s;uche commi&s;&s;ion, where &s;uche per&s;on or per&s;o~s, was or wer taxed, or without in any place within this realme of Engla~de, Wales, or other the kynges dominio~s, Marches or territo|ries: by whiche precept a&s;wel &s;uche per&s;on, or per&s;ons as &s;halbe charged to lcuie &s;uche money, as thofficers of the place or places, where &s;uche di|&s;tre&s;&s;e
<PB REF="11"> &s;tre&s;&s;e maie bee taken, &s;hall haue full power and aucthoritie, to di&s;treine euery &s;uche per&s;one indebted, charged or chargeable by this acte, or his executors or admini&s;trators of his goodes and cattals, his factors, de|puties, le&s;&s;ees, fermours and a&s;&s;ignes, and all other per&s;ones, by who&s;e handes or out of who&s;e landes any &s;uche per&s;one, &s;hould haue rent, fee, annuitie, or any other proffite, or whiche at the tyme of the&s;aid a&s;&s;e&s;&s;yn|ges &s;hal haue goodes or cattalles, or any other thyng moueable, of any &s;uche per&s;one or per&s;ones beyng indebted, or owyng &s;uche &s;omme. And the di&s;tre&s;&s;e &s;o take~, to cau&s;e to be kept apprei&s;ed and &s;old, in like maner and forme, as is afore&s;aid, for the di&s;tre&s;&s;e to be taken vpon per&s;ones, to be taxed to the&s;aid relief, and beyng &s;ufficient to di&s;trein, within the limi|tes of the collectors, inhabitauntes, or other officers charged with or for the&s;ame &s;ommes, &s;o vpon theim to be taxed. And if any &s;uche di&s;tre&s;&s;e for none paiment, happen to be taken out of the limite of the per&s;ones char|ged and a&s;&s;igned to leuie the&s;ame, the per&s;o~s &s;o charged for the leuiyng of euery &s;uche &s;omme by di&s;tre&s;&s;e, &s;hall perceiue and take of the&s;ame di|&s;tre&s;&s;e, for the labor of euery per&s;on, goyng for thexecucio~ therof, for eue|ry mile that any &s;uche per&s;on &s;o laboreth for the&s;ame .ii. d. And euery fer|mor, tenaunt, factor, or other what&s;oeuer per&s;one beeyng di&s;treined, or other wi&s;e charged for paiment of any &s;uche &s;omme or &s;ommes, or any other &s;omme, by rea&s;on of this act, &s;halbe of &s;uche &s;omme or &s;ommes, of hym or them &s;o leuied and taken, di&s;charged &amp; acquited at his nexte daie of paiment of the&s;ame, or at the deliuery of &s;uche goodes and cattalles, as he that is &s;o di&s;treined had in his cu&s;todie or gouernaunce, again&s;t him or them that &s;halbe &s;o taxed and &s;et: any graunt or writyng obliga|tory, or other what&s;oeuer matter to the contrary made heretofore not|with&s;ta~dyng. And if any &s;uche per&s;on, that &s;hould be &s;o di&s;treined, haue no landes or tenementes &s;ufficient, wherby he or his tenauntes, and fer|mors maie be di&s;treined, or hath eloyned, alyened or hid his goodes and cattalles, wherby he &s;hould or might be di&s;treined, in &s;uche maner that &s;uche goodes and cattalles &s;hall not bee knowen, or founde, &s;o that the &s;omme by hym to be paied in the&s;aid forme, &s;hall ne can be conueniently leuied&punc; then vpon relacion thereof vnto the Commi&s;&s;ioners, where &s;uche per&s;one or per&s;ones was taxed and &s;et, by the othes of hym or them, that &s;halbe charged with the leuy &amp; paiment of that &s;ome or &s;ommes, the&s;ame commi&s;&s;ioners &s;hal make a precept, in &s;uche maner as is afor&s;aid, for to attache, take &amp; arre&s;t the body, of &s;uche per&s;on or per&s;ones, that ought to paie the&s;aid &s;ommes, &amp; by this act &s;halbe charged with and for the&s;ame &s;omme or &s;ommes, and them &s;o taken &s;afely to kepe in pri&s;on, within the &s;hire or other place, where any &s;uche per&s;on or per&s;ons &s;halbe take~ and attached there to remain without baile or mainpri&s;e, vntil he haue paied the &s;omme or &s;o~mes, that &s;uche per&s;ones for hym&s;elf or for any other, by this act &s;halbe chargeable, or ought to be charged withall, &amp; al&s;o for the fees of euery &s;uche arre&s;t to hym or the~ y^t &s;hal execute &s;uch precept .xx. d.
<PB N="xj" REF="11" MS="y"> And that euery officer, vnto whom &s;uche precept &s;halbe directed, do his true diligence to execute the&s;ame, vpon euery per&s;one &s;o beyng indebted vpon pein to forfaict to our &s;aied &s;ouereigne Lorde the Kyng, for euery default in that behalfe .xx. s~. And that no keper of any gaile, fro~ his gaile &s;uffre any &s;uche per&s;on to go at large by lettyng to baile, or otherwi&s;e to depart out of his pri&s;on, before he haue paied his &s;aied debt, and the&s;aid xx. d. for the&s;aied arre&s;t, vpo~ pein to forfaite to our &s;ouereigne lorde .xl. s~ and the&s;ame gailer to paie vnto our &s;aied &s;ouereigne Lorde, the double value a&s;well of the rate, whiche the&s;aid per&s;one &s;o impri&s;oned was taxed at, as of the&s;aied .xx. d. for the fees. And like proce&s;&s;e and remedy in like fourme &s;halbe graunted by the&s;aied commi&s;&s;ioners, at like informacion of euery per&s;one or per&s;ones, beyng charged with any &s;omme of money for any other per&s;one or per&s;ones, by rea&s;on of the&s;aied reliefes, euery of the&s;aid thre yeres, and not therof paied, but wilfully withdrawen, ne the &s;ame leuiable within the limite where &s;uche per&s;on was therunto taxed. And if the &s;omme or &s;ommes, beyng behynd vnpaied, by any per&s;one or per&s;ones, as is before &s;aied, bee leuied and gathered by force of the&s;aied proce&s;&s;e, to be made by the&s;ame comi&s;&s;ioners, or if in default, or for lacke of paiment thereof, the per&s;one or per&s;ones &s;o owyng the&s;aied &s;omme or &s;ommes of money, by proce&s;&s;e of the&s;ame commi&s;&s;ioners to be made (as is afore&s;aied) be committed to pri&s;on in forme aboue &s;aied, that then the &s;aied commi&s;&s;ioners, whiche &s;hall award &s;uche proce&s;&s;e, &s;hall make cer|tificat therof in the&s;aid Exchequer, of that &s;halbe doen in the premi&s;&s;es, in the Terme next folowyng, after &s;uche &s;omme or &s;ommes of money &s;o beyng behynd, &s;halbe leuied, and gathered, or &s;uche per&s;one or per&s;ones for none paiment of the&s;ame committed to pri&s;on.</P>
<P><HI>AND</HI> if it happen any of the&s;aied collectors, to bee a&s;&s;igned, or any Maior, Sherif, Steward, Con&s;tables, hedboroughes, hou&s;holder, bai|lief, or any other officer or mini&s;ter, or other what&s;oeuer per&s;on or per&s;o~s to di&s;obey the&s;aied co~mi&s;&s;ioners or any of the~, in the rea&s;onable reque&s;t to them made, by the&s;aied commi&s;&s;ioners, for yerely execucion of the&s;aid co~mi&s;&s;ion, duryng the&s;aied .iii. yeres: or if any of thofficers or other per|&s;ones, do refu&s;e that to theim &s;hall appertein or belong to do, by rea&s;on of any precept to him or the~ to be directed, or any rea&s;onable commau~d|ment, in&s;tau~ce or reque&s;t touchyng the premi&s;&s;es, or other default in any apparau~ce or colleccio~ do make, or if any per&s;on beyng &s;u&s;pect or not to be indiffere~tly taxed, as is afore &s;aid, do refu&s;e to be examined according to the tenor of this act, before the&s;aied commi&s;&s;ioners, or as many of the~ as &s;halbe therunto a&s;&s;igned, as is afore&s;aid, or wil not appere before the &s;ame co~mi&s;&s;ioners, vpon warnyng to hym made, or els make re&s;i&s;tau~ce or re&s;kous vpon any di&s;tre&s;&s;e, vpon him to be take~ for any percell of the &s;aid relief, or co~mit any mi&s;behauor in any maner of wi&s;e co~trary to this act, or co~mit any wilfull omi&s;&s;ion, or other what&s;oeuer wilfull none do|yng or mi&s;doyng, contrary to the tenor of this act or graunt: the&s;ame co~|mi&s;&s;ioners,
<PB REF="12"> or twoo of them at the lea&s;t, vpon probable knowlege of any &s;uch mi&s;demeanours, had by informacion or examinatio~&punc; &s;hall and maie &s;et vpon euery &s;uche offendour, for euery &s;uche offence in name of a fine, by the&s;ame offendor to be forfeited .xx. s~. or vnder, by the di&s;crecio~ of the|&s;ame Commi&s;&s;ioners. And further, the&s;aid commi&s;&s;ioners, &amp; euery nom|ber of the~, to two of them at the le<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters">, &s;hal haue aucthoritie by this pre&s;ent Parliament, to poni&s;he euery &s;uche offendor by impri&s;onment, there to remaigne and to bee deliuered by their di&s;crecion, as &s;hall &s;eme to theim conuenient. The&s;aied fines (if any &s;uche bee) to bee certified by the&s;aied commi&s;&s;ioners, that &s;o a&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed the&s;ame, into the&s;aid kynges Exchequer, there to be leuied &amp; paied, by the Collectors of that parties for the&s;aied reliefes, returned into the&s;aid Exchequer, to bee therewith charged with the paiment of the&s;aied Relieffes in &s;uche maner, as if the&s;aid fines had been &s;et and Taxed vpon the&s;aied offendours, for the&s;aied Reliefes.</P>
<P><HI REND="roman">IT</HI> is al&s;o enacted by the&s;aid aucthoritie of this pre&s;ent Parliament that euery of the&s;aied high Collectours, whiche &s;hall accompte for any parte of the&s;aid Reliefes in the kynges Exchequier, vpon their &s;euerall &s;aied accoumptes to bee yelden, &s;halbee allowed yerely duryng the&s;aied three yeres, for euery pound limited to his Colleccion wherof any &s;uche Collectour &s;halbe charged, and yelde accompte, &s;ixe pence, as parcell of their &s;aied charge, that is to &s;aie, twoo pence of euery pounde therof&punc; for &s;uche per&s;ones as then haue had the particuler Colleccion, in the Tou|nes and other places (as is afore&s;aied) &s;pecified in his Colleccion: and other twoo pence of euery pounde thereof, euery of the&s;aied chief Col|lectours there accomptant, to receiue to their awne v&s;e for their laboure and charge, in and about the premi&s;&s;es: and .ii. d. of euery pound, re&s;idue to bee deliuered&punc; allowed and paied by the&s;aied Collectours, &s;o beeyng thereof allowed, to &s;uche of the Commi&s;&s;ioners as &s;hall take vpon them the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e and laboure, for and aboute the premi&s;&s;es: That is to &s;aie, euery Collectour to paie that Commi&s;&s;ioner or Commi&s;&s;ioners, whiche had the orderyng and the writynges, of and for the&s;aied Reliefes, where the&s;aid Collectour or Collectours had their Colleccion, for expences of the&s;aied Commi&s;&s;ioners&punc; &s;o takyng vpon them the&s;aied bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, and la|bour of their clerkes, writyng the&s;aied preceptes and e&s;treates for the|&s;aied Colleccions, the&s;ame la&s;t twoo pence of euery pounde, to bee deui|ded emonge&s;t the&s;aied Commi&s;&s;ioners, hauyng regard to the labor and bu&s;ines, taken by them and their &s;aied clerkes, in and about the premi&s;|&s;es: for whiche parte &s;o to the&s;aied Commi&s;&s;ioners atteignyng; the&s;aied Commi&s;&s;ioners, and euery of them ioyntly and &s;euerally, for his or their &s;aied parte&punc; maie haue his remedy again&s;t the&s;aied Collectour or Col|lectours, whiche therof been and might haue been allowed, by accion of debt, in whiche the defendaunt &s;hal not wage his lawe, neither proteccio~ or other e&s;&s;oyne &s;halbe allowed.</P>
<P><HI REND="roman">AND</HI> that no per&s;one now beyng of the nomber of the compaignie,
<PB N="xij" REF="12" MS="y"> of this pre&s;ent Parliament, nor any Commi&s;&s;ioner &s;halbe named or a&s;|&s;igned to be any Collector, &s;ubcollector, or pre&s;entor of the&s;aied reliefes, or of any part therof, nor no Commi&s;&s;ioner &s;halbe co~pelled, to make any pre&s;entment or certificat, other then in the kynges Exchequer, of for or concerning the&s;aid reliefes, or any part therof in any of the&s;aid .iii. yeres And likewi&s;e that none other per&s;one, that &s;halbee named or a&s;&s;igned to be commi&s;&s;ioner in any place, to and for thexecucio~ of this act of reliefes in any of the&s;aid .iii. yeres, be or &s;halbe a&s;&s;igned or named hed collector, in any of the&s;ame thre yeres of the&s;aid reliefes, neither of any part there of. And that euery &s;uche per&s;one or per&s;ones, whiche &s;halbe named and appoyncted (as is afore&s;aid) to be hed Collectors, in and for one of the|&s;aied thre yeres, &s;hall not be compelled to be Collector, for the other and la&s;t yere. And the&s;aied Collectors, whiche &s;halbe a&s;&s;igned for the collec|cion of the&s;aid reliefes, or for any part therof, and euery of them be and &s;halbe acquited and di&s;charged, of all maner fees, rewardes, and of eue|ry other charge in the kinges Exchequer or els where, of them or any of theim, by rea&s;on of that colleccion, paiment or accomptes, or any thyng concernyng the&s;ame to bee a&s;ked. And that if any per&s;one receiue and take any fees, rewardes or plea&s;ures of any &s;uche accomptant: that then he &s;hall forfeit to the kyng, for euery peny or value of a peny &s;o taken .xx pence, and &s;uffre impri&s;onment at the kynges plea&s;ure.</P>
<P><HI REND="roman">AND</HI> after the taxyng &amp; a&s;&s;e&s;&s;yng of the&s;aid yerely reliefes (as is be|fore&s;aid) had &amp; made, and the&s;aied e&s;treates therof in parchement, vnto the Collectors (in maner &amp; forme before reher&s;ed) deliuered, the&s;aid Co~|mi&s;&s;ioners whiche &s;hall take vpon them the execucion of this act, within the limites of their Commi&s;&s;ion, by their agrementes &s;hall haue metyn|ges together, at whiche metyng euery of the&s;aid commi&s;&s;ioners, whiche then &s;hall haue taken vpon the~, thexecucion of any part of the&s;aid com|mi&s;&s;ion, &s;hall by hym&s;elf, or by his &s;ufficient deputie, truely certifie and bryng furth vnto thother commi&s;&s;ioners, named in the&s;aid Commi&s;&s;ion the certificat and pre&s;entment made before hym &amp; &s;uche other commi&s;&s;i|oners, as wer limited with him in one limite, &s;o that the&s;ame certificates may be acco~pted and ca&s;t with other certificates, of thother limites with in the&s;ame commi&s;&s;ion: and then the&s;aid commi&s;&s;ioners, and euery nom|ber of the~, vnto two at the lea&s;t (as is a fore&s;aied) if thei be in life, or their executors, or admini&s;trators of their goodes, if thei bee then dedde, &s;hall ioyntly &amp; &s;euerally as thei wer deuided within their limites, vnder their &s;eales yerely, duryng the&s;aid .iii. yeres, by their di&s;crecio~ make one or &s;e|uerall writynges, indented, conteinyng in it a&s;well the names of the&s;aied collectors, by the co~mi&s;&s;ioners for &s;uche colleccion, &amp; accompt in thexche|quer, and paime~t in the&s;aid receipt, deputed &amp; a&s;&s;igned, as the gro&s;&s;e and &s;euerall &s;ommes, written vnto euery &s;uche Collector, to receiue the&s;aied reliefes, &amp; al&s;o all fines, amerciamentes &amp; other forfaitures, if any &s;uche by rea&s;on of this act, happen to be within the precinct &amp; limite of their co~+mi&s;&s;ion,
<PB REF="13"> to be certified into the kynges Exchequer by the&s;aid commi&s;&s;io|ners yerely, duryng the&s;aid .iii. yeres, before the daies of paiment therof, at the&s;aied receipt limitted &amp; appoyncted. In whiche writyng or writyn|ges, indented &s;o to be certified, &s;halbe plainly declared &amp; expre&s;&s;ed, a&s;wel the whole &amp; intier &s;omme and &s;ommes of the&s;aid relief, &s;euerally limited to the colleccion of the&s;aied Collectours, as the names of the&s;aied Col|lectours, &s;euerally deputed and a&s;&s;igned to the Colleccion of the&s;aied Sommes, &s;o that none of the&s;aied Collectours, &s;o certified in the&s;aied Exchequer, &s;halbee compelled there to accoumpt or to bee charged, but onely to and for the &s;ommes limited to his Colleccion, and not to or for any &s;omme limited to the Colleccion of his felowes, but that euery of theim &s;halbee &s;euerally charged for their partes, limited to their Col|leccion. And if the&s;aied Commi&s;&s;ioners, ioyned in one commi&s;&s;ion, emo~|ge&s;t theim&s;elfes, in that matter cannot agree, or if any of theim bee not ready, or refu&s;e to make certificat with other of the&s;ame Commi&s;&s;io|ners: that then the&s;ame Commi&s;&s;ioners maie make &s;euerall Indentu|res (in fourme afore&s;aid) of their &s;euerall limites or &s;eperacions of Col|lectours, within the limites of their Commi&s;&s;ion, vpon &amp; in the Hundre|des, Wardes, Wapentakes, Lathes, Rapes, or &s;uche other like diui&s;i|ons, within their &s;aid &s;euerall limites of their commi&s;&s;ion, as the places there &s;hall require to bee &s;euered and deuided, and as to the&s;ame Com|mi&s;&s;ioners &s;hall &s;eme to make diui&s;ions, of their limites or Colleccions, for the &s;euerall charges of the&s;ame Collectours, &s;o that alway one Col|lectour &s;halbee charged and accoumpt for his parte to hym to bee limi|ted onely by hym&s;elf, and not for any &s;omme limited to the parte of any of his felowes. And the charge of euery of the Collectours, to be &s;et and certified &s;euerally vpon theim, and euery &s;uche Collectoure, vpon his accoumpt and paiment of the &s;ommes of money, limited within his col|leccion, to bee &s;euerally by hym&s;elf acquited and di&s;charged in the&s;aied Exchequer, without paiyng any maner of fees or rewardes, to any per|&s;one or per&s;ones for the&s;ame, vpon the pein and penaltie la&s;t aboue &s;aid and not to bee charged for any porcion of any other Collectours. And if any Commi&s;&s;ioner after he hath taken certificat of the~ that (as is afore|&s;aid) &s;hall before any &s;uche Commi&s;&s;ioner be examined, and the &s;ommes rated and &s;et, and the bokes and writynges therof, beyng in his handes: or if any Collector or other per&s;on, charged with any receipt of any part of any of the&s;aid reliefes, or any other per&s;on, taxed or otherwi&s;e, by this act charged, with and for any parcell of the&s;aid relieffes, or with any o|ther &s;o~mes, for fine, amercement, penaltie, or other forfeiture, happen to dye before &s;uche Commi&s;&s;ioner, Collector, or other, what&s;oeuer per&s;one or per&s;ons haue executed, accompli&s;hed, &s;ati&s;fied, &amp; &s;ufficiently di&s;char|ged it, whiche to euery &s;uche per&s;one &s;hall appertein or belong to do ac|cordyng to this act: then the Executors and Heires of euery &s;uche per&s;o~ and all other &s;eazed of any landes or tenementes, that any &s;uche per&s;on
<PB N="xiii" REF="13" MS="y"> beeyng charged by this acte and decea&s;&s;yng before he be di&s;charged thereof, or any other to his v&s;e onely had of e&s;tate of inheritaunce at the tyme that any &s;uche per&s;on was named Commi&s;&s;ioner, Collectour, or in any otherwi&s;e charged with &amp; for any maner of thyng to be done, &s;ati&s;fied or payed, by rea&s;on of this act, and all tho&s;e that haue in their po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions or handes any goodes or cattalles, that were to any &s;uche per&s;on at the tyme of his death, landes or tenementes that wer the&s;ame per&s;ones at the tyme that he was (as is afore&s;ayd) charged by this acte, &s;halbe by the&s;ame compelled and charged to do &amp; accompli&s;he in euery ca&s;e as the &s;ame per&s;on, &s;o beyng charged, &s;hould haue done and might haue been compelled to do, if he had been liuyng, after &s;uche rate of the landes &amp; goodes of the &s;ayd Commi&s;&s;ioner or Collectour, as the partie &s;hall haue in his handes. And if the&s;ame Co~mi&s;&s;ioners for cau&s;es rea|&s;onable them mouyng &s;hall thynke it not co~uenient, to ioyne in one cer|tificat, as is before &s;ayd: then the &s;ayd per&s;on or per&s;ones that &s;hall fir&s;t ioyne together, or he that &s;hal fir&s;t certifie the &s;ayd writyng indented, as is afore&s;ayd, &s;hal certifie all the names of the Co~mi&s;&s;ioners of that Co~|mi&s;&s;ion, wherevpon &s;uche writynges &s;halbe there than to be certified, with diui&s;ions of the hundredes, wapentakes, wardes, tithynges, or o|ther places to and among &s;uche Commi&s;&s;ioners, of the&s;ame Co~mi&s;&s;ion, with the names of the&s;ame Co~mi&s;&s;ioners where &s;uche &s;eperacions &amp; de|ui&s;ions &s;halbe, with the gro&s;&s;e &s;u~mes of money a&s;well of &amp; for the &s;ayd Relief taxed or &s;et of or within the &s;ayd hundredes, wardes, wape~takes or other places to him or them deuided or a&s;&s;igned that &s;hall &s;o certifie the &s;ayd fir&s;t writyng, as of fynes, amerciamentes, penalties, and other forfaitures, if any happen to be within the&s;ame limittes, whereof the &s;ame writynges &s;halbe certified.</P>
<P>And after &s;uche writyng indented, which (as is afore&s;ayd) &s;halbe cer|tefied, and not contayne in it the whole and full &s;ommes &s;et and taxed within the limyttes of the&s;ame Commi&s;&s;ion, the other Commi&s;&s;ioners of the &s;ame, euery of the &s;ayd thre yeres before the day of paiment of the &s;ayd Relief at the &s;ayd receipt limitted and appoincted by this act, &s;hal certifie into the &s;ayd Exchequier by their writyng or writynges inden|ted to be made, as is before&s;ayd, the gro&s;&s;e and &s;euerall &s;ummes &s;et and taxed within the places to them limitted for the &s;ayd &s;ub&s;idie and other fynes, amerciamentes, penalties, and forfaytures, with the names of the hundredes, wardes, wape~takes, and other places to them a&s;&s;igned: or els by their &s;ayd writynges indented to certifie at the &s;ayd place be|fore the day of payment therof at the &s;ayd receipt, as is afore&s;ayd, re&s;o|nable cau&s;es for their excu&s;es, why they may not make &s;uche certificat of and for the &s;ayd Relief, with fynes, amerciamentes, penalties, and other forfaitures growyng or &s;et by rea&s;on of the cau&s;es of their lett<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">s, or of their non certifiyng, as is aboue &s;ayd, or els in default therof, pro|ces to be made out of the Kynges Exchequier again&s;t the &s;ayd Com|mi&s;&s;ioners
<PB REF="14"> and euery of theim not makyng certificat, as is afore&s;ayd, by the di&s;crecion of the The&s;aurour &amp; Barons of the &s;ayd Exchequier.</P>
<P>Prouided alwayes that if any per&s;on or per&s;ones chargeable to this Relief of payment for his goodes &s;hal happen at any tyme duryng the &s;ayd thre yeres to be &s;et or pre&s;ented in two or mo places then one, and the &s;ame beyng certified into the kynges court of Exchequier, that then the partie or parties &s;o &s;et or pre&s;e~ted &amp; certified takyng a corporal other before the Barons of the kynges Exchequier, or before any two of the~, or before any per&s;on or per&s;ones beyng aucthori&s;ed by co~mi&s;&s;ion to be directed from the &s;ayd Barons or any of theim, whiche commi&s;&s;ion or co~mi&s;&s;ions the &s;ayd Barons or ii. of them &s;halbe authori&s;ed &amp; haue full power &amp; aucthoritie to make by this act, that he or they is or be the &s;ame &s;elfe per&s;on or per&s;ons &s;o &s;et, and that he or they is or be, &s;et or pre&s;ented in two or mo places then one. And that he or they haue then been by the &s;pace of one yere nexte before the takyng of the &s;ayd othe more conuer|&s;aunt and dwellyng in any one of the &s;ame places where he or they &s;hal &s;o happen to be &s;et or pre&s;ented then in the other: that then the partie of parties &s;o &s;et or pre&s;ented in two or mo places then one, and &s;o takyng his othe without any other plee in writyng, &s;halbe clerely di&s;charged a|gain&s;t the kyng, his heyres &amp; &s;ucce&s;&s;ours or euery of the &s;ayd a&s;&s;e&s;emen|tes and pre&s;entmentes, &s;auyng onely of the a&s;&s;e&s;ement and pre&s;entment in the place where he or they was or were mo&s;te conuer&s;aunt &amp; dwellyng as is before &s;ayd.</P>
<P>And be it al&s;o enacted by the aucthoritie afore&s;ayd, that the Barons of the kynges Exchequer or two of theim for the tyme beyng, &s;hal not onely haue full power &amp; aucthoritie to receiue and take the othe of &s;uche partie or parties as &s;halbe &s;o &s;et or pre&s;ented in any mo places then one, but &s;hall al&s;o vpon the &s;ame othe or othes &s;o taken, di&s;charge the partie &amp; parties of all &s;uche &s;ummes of money as he or they &s;hould bee in any wi&s;e charged with, &s;auyng onely of &s;uche &s;ummes of money as the &s;ame partie or parties were &s;o &s;e&s;&s;ed at in &s;uche place and places where he or they were mo&s;t conuer&s;aunt and dwellyng as is afore&s;ayd.</P>
<P>And to the intent the kynges maie&s;tie may be truly &amp; iu&s;tly an&s;wered of the &s;ayd relief of the polle of &s;hepe before by vs grau~ted to his high|nes: be it ordained and enacted by the aucthoritie afore&s;ayd, that yerely duryng the&s;ayd iii. yeres before the fir&s;t day of May, there &s;halbe a Co~|mi&s;&s;ion with ten cedules containyng in them the tenor of this acte to be annexed to &s;uche commi&s;&s;ion directed vnder the kynges great &s;eale of England into euery cou~tie, &s;hyre, ridyng, citie, borough, toune corporat, and the I&s;le of Wight, and into all and euery other place within this realme and other the kynges dominions that is or &s;halbe chargeable to the paiment of the &s;ayd Relief of the polle of &s;hepe to &s;uche per&s;ones as the &s;ame yere before were Commi&s;&s;ioners for the a&s;&s;e&s;ement and taxacio~ of the value of euery per&s;ons goodes and &s;ub&s;taunce, in the &s;ame &s;hire
<PB N="xiiii" REF="14" MS="y"> or other place, or to as many of them as &s;halbe then liuyng, and to &s;uche other per&s;ones as the &s;ayd lorde Chauncelor and other with him before named &s;hall name and appoinct. By the whiche commi&s;&s;ion the Com|mi&s;&s;ioners &s;hal haue full power and aucthoritie to enquire by the othes of the Per&s;on, Vicar or curate, &amp; iiii. or as many hone&s;t per&s;ons of euery pari&s;h, village, and hamlet within the limittes of their co~mi&s;&s;ion, wher|of the Con&s;table, Tithyngman or Bor&s;older &s;halbe one, if any Con&s;ta|ble, Tithyngman or Bor&s;older be dwellyng in the &s;ame pari&s;he, village or Hamlet, and by the othes of as many other hone&s;t &amp; di&s;crete per&s;ons as they &s;hall thynke co~uenient, or otherwi&s;e by &s;uche meanes and polli|cies as they &s;hal thynke be&s;t, wherby the truth may appeare of the nom|ber and natures of all and &s;ynguler &s;heepe beyng within the limittes of their commi&s;&s;ion, who&s;e they be, in what toune or pari&s;h the owner dwel|leth, and of what &s;tate or degree he is, and whether for the mo&s;te part of the yere they be kept in &s;euerall pa&s;tures, or &s;euerall mar&s;hes, or in com|mons, or groundes commonly v&s;ed to be tylled: the tenor of whiche othe hereafter foloweth.</P>
<P>&para; Ye &s;hall diligently enquire and iu&s;tly and truly pre&s;ent and certifie vs the kynges Comm&s;&s;ioners what nomber of Ewes, Wethers &amp; other &s;here &s;hepe be within the limittes of your charge, who&s;e they be, in what toune or pari&s;he the owner dwelleth, of what condicion and degre he is, &amp; whether for the mo&s;te part of the yere they be kept in &s;euerall pa&s;tures or &s;eueral Mar&s;hes, or in co~mons or grou~des comenly v&s;ed to be tylled, as ye tru&s;t to be &s;aued by the merites of Chri&s;tes pa&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P>And it is al&s;o ordained and enacted by the aucthoritie afore&s;ayd, that yerely duryng the &s;ayd thre yeres, on the Tue&s;daye after the fea&s;t of the Natiuitie of &s;ainct Ihon Bapti&s;t, there &s;halbe a generall &s;uruay made, of all and &s;inguler &s;hepe, in euery pari&s;h, village and other place within this realme, the I&s;le of Wight &amp; other the kynges dominions chargea|ble to the payment of this Relief of &s;heepe, by &s;uche per&s;ones as &s;halbe appointed &amp; &s;worne to do the &s;ame in maner and fourme before reher&s;ed. And that vpon &s;uche &s;uruay, euery &s;hepe &s;halbe taken for a &s;here &s;hepe that is at the tyme of the &s;uruay of the age of one yere or more, albeit the &s;ame &s;hepe be not at that tyme &s;horne.</P>
<P>And it is further ordained and enacted by the aucthoritie afore&s;ayd, that if any par&s;on to the intent to defraude the execucion of this &s;tatute &s;hall remoue the &s;ayd daye of &s;uruay his &s;heepe before the &s;uruay taken from the v&s;ual place where thei were comonly kept for the mo&s;te part of the yere, or els &s;hall cau&s;e them or any part of them to be conueyed to a|ny other place whereby they &s;hall not be &s;uruayed, or whereby the kyng &s;hall lo&s;e any part of the Relief to him geuen by this &s;tatute, that euery per&s;on &s;o offe~dyng &s;hall forfaite and lo&s;e to the kynges Maie&s;tie, treble &s;o muche as he ought to pay by vertue of this &s;tatute.</P>
<P>And it is al&s;o ordayned &amp; enacted by the aucthoritie afore&s;ayd, that if any per&s;on &s;ommoned to appeare before the &s;ayd co~mi&s;&s;ioners, do make
<PB REF="15"> defaulte hauyng no rea&s;onable excu&s;e: or appearyng, &s;hal refu&s;e to take the &s;ayd othe, or takyng the &s;ayd othe &s;hal not diligently attend and en|deuour the execucion therof, or &s;hall not appeare and make pre&s;entment before the &s;ayd Co~mi&s;&s;ioners at &s;uche tyme &amp; place as he &s;halbe appoin|ted, that euery per&s;on &s;o offendyng for euery &s;uche default &s;hal forfayte and lo&s;e to the kynges Maie&s;tie xl. s~.</P>
<P>And it is al&s;o ordayned and enacted by thaucthoritie afore&s;ayd, that yerely duryng the &s;ayd thre yeres within one moneth next after the &s;ur|uay of &s;hepe, and the pre&s;entmentes made by the viewers of the &s;heepe in maner and forme as is before declared, the Commi&s;&s;ioners in euery &s;hire or other place &s;hal all or the mo&s;t part a&s;&s;emble them &s;elues toge|ther, and conferre the pre&s;entme~tes made before them of the &s;hepe, with the pre&s;entmentes before made of the value of the goodes &amp; &s;ub&s;taunce of all per&s;ones within the limittes of their commi&s;&s;ion. And that vpon &s;uche collacions of the pre&s;entmentes if it &s;hal appeare vnto them that any per&s;on is chargeable by vertue of this acte to paye for the polle of his &s;hepe whiche before was not charged for his goodes. Or that if any per&s;on within the limittes of their co~mi&s;&s;ion be chargeable to pay more after the rate of the polle of his &s;hepe pre&s;e~ted before them, then he was before for the value of his &s;ub&s;taunce of his goodes, the &s;aid Co~mi&s;&s;io|ners or the more part of them as they &s;halbe deuided, &s;hall within one moneth next after &s;uche a&s;&s;emble by their writynges indented to be &s;ig|ned and &s;ealed by them, make furth extreates of all &amp; &s;inguler &s;u~mes of money that any per&s;on ought to paye for the rate of y^e polle of his &s;hepe not beeyng before charged with his goodes, or for the ouerplus that a|ny per&s;on ought to pay for that the rate of the polle of his &s;heepe doeth &s;urmount the paiment before made of y^e value of his goodes, &amp; the&s;ame writynges &s;hal not onely deliuer vnto &s;ufficient and &s;ub&s;tanciall inha|bitantes, Con&s;tables, Subcon&s;tables and other officers and per&s;ones ioyntely of hundredes, tounes, pari&s;hes, and other places within the li|mittes where the owners dwel or haue their mo&s;te v&s;ual abidyng, to be leuied, gathered, and receiued of the owner of &s;uche &s;heepe or his execu|tours or admini&s;tratours, but al&s;o &s;hall in like maner deliuer the like writyng to the high Collectour of the &s;ame limit, to charge him with the receipt therof of the Subcollectour or Subcollectours, &amp; the payment therof at the kynges receipte. And that the &s;ayd Subcollectours, and Commi&s;&s;ioners, &s;hall not onely haue for their labours vi. d. of euery pound, commyng, growyng and to bee payed to the kynges Maie&s;tie for the Relief of the polle of the &s;heepe by vertue of this acte, but al&s;o that they and euery of them &s;hall haue the like power and auctoritie to gather and leuy the&s;ame, and all fynes and forfaytures commyng and growyng for the execucion and gatheryng of this Relief of the polle of &s;hepe by &s;uche like waies and meanes as before in this act be limitted &amp; appointed for the leuiyng and gatheryng of the Relief of goodes. And that the &s;ayd Co~mi&s;&s;ioners, Collectours and all and euery other per&s;on
<PB N="xv" REF="15" MS="y"> and per&s;ons &s;hall behaue, ordre, and v&s;e them&s;elues in all &amp; euery thyng concernyng thexecucion of this part of the &s;tatute touchyng the leuiyng and gatheryng of the relief of the polle of the &s;hepe, as before in this act is limitted &amp; appointed for to do touching the Relief of the goodes vpo~ like paynes, penalties &amp; forfaitures as be before declared in this acte.</P>
<P>Prouided alwayes and be it ordained and enacted by the aucthoritie afore&s;ayd that al &amp; &s;inguler &s;ummes of money due to the kynges Ma|ie&s;tie of this Relief of the polle of &s;hepe, &s;halbe gathered by the Subcol|lectour or high collectour of the limittes where the owner dwelleth and none other place.</P>
<P>And it is further ordayned and enacted by the aucthoritie afore&s;ayd, that the &s;ayd Co~mi&s;&s;ioners for the &s;uruay of the nombre and value of the &s;hepe &s;hal yerely duryng the&s;ayd thre yeres make returne and certi|ficat vnto the kynges Exchequier before the x. day of October a&s;wel of the count<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="2 letters"> parte of al and euery extreates deliuered by them to the high Collectours, as al&s;o of all and &s;inguler pre&s;entmentes made before the~, and of all &amp; &s;inguler their procedynges concernyng the &s;ayd co~mi&s;&s;ion. And that in the ende of all and euery their certificats they &s;hall make &s;pecial remembrau~ces and declaracions of all and &s;inguler per&s;ons not dwellyng within the limittes of their co~mi&s;&s;ion, that haue &s;heepe within the limittes of the&s;ame commi&s;&s;ion, where &s;uche per&s;ons dwel, &amp; of what &s;tate and degree they be, what nombre, and what kynde of &s;hepe they be, and in what grou~des for the mo&s;t part of the yere they be kept. And that vpon &s;uche returne and certificat of the commi&s;&s;ion to be made by the Commi&s;&s;ioners for the &s;uruay of &s;hepe beyng conferred with the bokes of the taxation and value of the &s;ub&s;taunce or euery per&s;on, if it &s;hal ap|peare that the kynges Maie&s;tie ought to haue more by any meanes to|ward the &s;ayd Relief then before was payed or payable, that then vpon an extreate therof to be made out of the &s;ayd court of the Exchequier to the high collectour of the place where the partie that ought to pay more dwelleth, the&s;ame Collectour &s;halbe therwith charged, &amp; &s;hall gather &amp; leuy the&s;ame in like maner and fourme as he ought to do the re&s;t of his Collections.</P>
<P>And to thintent the kynges Maie&s;tie may be iu&s;tly an&s;wered for the Relief by vs before graunted of the price and value of all clothes: be it ordayned and enacted, that the Commi&s;&s;ioners to be appointed for the taxacion of the Relief of the &s;ub&s;taunce of euery per&s;on, &s;hall haue full power and aucthoritie by vertue of this acte, and of their commi&s;&s;ion, as they &s;halbe deuided, to name, con&s;titute, and appoint, in euery Citie, Borough, Toune, Hundred and pari&s;he, within the limittes of their de|ui&s;ions by their di&s;crecions, &s;uche and &s;o many hone&s;t, &s;ub&s;tancial, and di&s;crete menne, to be prai&s;ers of the &s;ayd clothes, chargeable to the pay|ment
<PB REF="16"> of this Relief of clothes, as they &s;hall thinke conuenient &amp; nece&s;&s;a|ry, &amp; them from tyme to tyme to alter &amp; put newe in their places as they &s;hall haue occa&s;ion. And that the&s;ayd pray&s;ers before they take vpon them the apprai&s;ement of &s;uche clothes, &s;halbe &s;worne in maner &amp; forme folowyng.</P>
<P>&para; Ye &s;hal faythfully and truely e&s;teme and &s;et the iu&s;t pryce &amp; value of all &s;uche clothes as &s;halbe brought vnto you to be viewed and pray|&s;ed, as ye &s;hal in your co~&s;ciences thynke the&s;ame worth to be &s;olde when they &s;halbe wrought, and the&s;ame &s;hall not &s;uffer to be deliuered out of your cu&s;tody, tyl ye haue made of the colour, kynde and pryce therof an entry both in the boke of the clothier and al&s;o of the Aulnageour or his deputie, &amp; &s;et to your handes or markes declaryng who was the owner of the clothe, and the kind and price therof, &s;o helpe you God and by this booke.</P>
<P><HI REND="roman">AND</HI> it is al&s;o ordayned and enacted by thaucthoritie afore&s;ayd, that all kynde of clothes whiche from and after the fea&s;t of the Natiuitie of &s;ainct Ihon Bapti&s;t next commyng, duryng the &s;pace of thre yeres then folowyng, &s;halbe made within this realme, or Wales, to be vttered and put to &s;ale, &s;halbe &s;ealed with the kynges &s;eale, remainyng in the cu&s;to|dy of the Aulnageour, or his deputie, or deputies, and prai&s;ed by two of the &s;ayd prai&s;ers at the lea&s;t, and entred into the bokes hereafter in this act mencioned, vpon paine of forfayture of the &s;ame clothe, the one halfe to the kynges Maie&s;tie, the other to the partie that &s;hall &s;eaze the &s;ame.</P>
<P><HI REND="roman">AND</HI> it is al&s;o enacted by thaucthoritie afore&s;ayd, that there &s;halbe it. bookes yerely made, of the apprai&s;yng of all and euery kynde of clothe to be made duryng the &s;ayd .iii. yeres, thone of which bokes to remaine with the Aulnageour or his deputie, wherin &s;halbe written the colour, kynde and price of all and &s;ynguler clothes viewed and appray&s;ed that yere, accordyng to the tenor of this &s;tatute, vnto whiche boke, the owner of euery cloth or &s;ome other per&s;on for him, and the prai&s;ours, &s;hal &s;et to their handes or markes when the clothe is &s;ealed: And the other booke &s;hal remayne with the owner of the &s;ayd clothe whervnto the &s;ayd Aul|nageour and pray&s;ours &s;hal &s;et their handes and markes. And that the owner of all and euery cloth chargeable to the payment of the Relief of clothes graunted by this acte, yerely within xx. dayes after the yere ex|pired, &s;hal deliuer his &s;ayd booke &s;o &s;ub&s;cribed or marked with the han|des of the Aulnageour or his deputie and pray&s;ours to the Commi&s;&s;io|oners for the taxacion and a&s;&s;e&s;ment of the &s;ayd Relief within the li|mitte where &s;uche clothier dwelleth, or to one of them, vpon payn of for|fayture by the &s;ame clothier of treble &s;o muche as he ought to pay to the kyng by rea&s;on of the afore&s;ayd Relief of his clothes &s;o &s;ealed.</P>
<P><HI REND="roman">AND</HI> it is further ordayned and enacted by the aucthoritie afore&s;ayd,
<PB N="xvi" REF="16" MS="y"> that euery Aulnageour &s;hall yerely fro~ &amp; after the &s;ayd fea&s;t of the Na|titutie of &s;aint Ihon Bapti&s;t next commyng, kepe a par&s;ite booke of the colour, kynd, and price of all and &s;inguler clothes by him &s;ealed, and the names of the owners therof in maner and fourme as is before declared, and the&s;ame booke yerely &s;hal make and deliuer to the Commi&s;&s;ioners, for the taxacion of goodes within the limites wher &s;uche Clothe maker dwelleth, or to one of them, within xx. dayes next after the yere expired.</P>
<P><HI REND="roman">AND</HI> it is further ordayned and enacted by the aucthoritie afore&s;ayd, that if any Aulnageour or his deputie do not make and deliuer the&s;ayd booke in maner and forme before reher&s;ed, or do wylfully conceale any clothe by him &s;ealed, &amp; do not entre it into the &s;ayd booke, that for &s;uche offence the &s;ayd Aulnageour &s;hal not onely forfayte his office, but al&s;o &s;hal make fyne at the kynges will.</P>
<P><HI REND="roman">AND</HI> it is al&s;o ordayned and enacted by thaucthoritie afore&s;ayd, that the &s;ayd Co~mi&s;&s;ioners of that limitte hauyng receiued the &s;ayd bookes of the Aulnageour or his deputie or deputies, and the owner of the clo|thes, &s;hal conferre the rates of the Relief of the clothes&punc; comprehended in the &s;ayd bookes, with the taxacion and payment of the owner of the &s;ame clothes for his goodes. So that if it &s;hal appeare thereby to them that the owner of any cloth is chargeable to pay for his clothes, whiche before was not chargeable for his goodes, or that &s;uche owner ought to paye more after the rate of the Relief of his clothes containyng in the bookes deliuered to theim, then he was before charged for the value of his &s;ub&s;taunce of his goodes, the &s;ayd Commi&s;&s;ioners as they be deui|ded &s;hal within one moneth next after the &s;ayd bookes receiued, by their writyng indented to be &s;igned and &s;ealed by them, make furth extreates of al &amp; &s;inguler &s;ummes of money that any per&s;on ought to pay for his clothes, not beeyng before charged with his goodes &amp; for the ouerplus that any &s;uche per&s;on ought to pay for that the rate of the clothes doeth &s;urmount the payment of the value of his goodes before made: and the &s;ame writyng &s;hal deliuer to the high Collectour of the&s;ame limitte, to charge him with the receipt hereof, of the maker of the &s;ayd clothes: and the payment therof at the kynges receipte. And that the &s;ayd high Col|lectour &s;hal haue the like power &amp; aucthoritie to gather &amp; leuy the&s;ame, by &s;uche like wayes and meanes as before in this acte bee limitted and appointed to the Subcollectour for the leuiyng and gatheryng of the Relief of goodes.</P>
<P><HI REND="roman">AND</HI> it is further ordayned and enacted by the aucthoritie afore&s;ayd, that the &s;ayd Commi&s;&s;ioners &s;hall yerely duryng the &s;ayd thre yeres make returne and certificat into the kinges Exchequier before the tenth daye of October, not only of the counterpane of all and euery extreate
<PB REF="17"> deliuered by him to the high Collectour, but al&s;o of the booke receiued of the Aulnageour as is afore&s;ayd, and the prai&s;ours names, and of all and &s;inguler their procedynges co~ceruyng the &s;ayd payment of the Re|lief of clothes.</P>
<P>And it is further ordayned and enacted by the aucthoritie afore&s;ayd, that euery of the &s;ayd high Collectours whiche &s;hall accompt for any part of the &s;ayd Relief of clothes in the kynges Exchequier, vpon their &s;euerall &s;ayd acco~ptes to be yelden, &s;halbe alowed yerely duryng y^e &s;ayd thre yeres, for euery pound limitted to his Collection, wherof any &s;uche Collectour &s;halbe charged and yelde accompte, vi. d. as parcell of their &s;ayd charge, that is to &s;ay, ii. d. of euery pound thereof for &s;uche per&s;ons as bee limitted to be pray&s;ours, for their paynes and labours: and other ii. d. of euery pound therof, euery of the &s;ayd chiefe Collectours there ac|comptant, to receiue to their owne v&s;e for their labours and charge in &amp; aboute the premi&s;&s;es: and ii. d. of euery pounde re&s;idue to be deliuered, allowed and payed by the &s;ayd Collectours, &s;o beeyng thereof allowed, to &s;uche of the Commi&s;&s;ioners as &s;hal take vpon theim the bu&s;ynes and labour for &amp; about the premi&s;&s;es, that is to &s;ay, euery Collectour to pay that Commi&s;&s;ioner or Commi&s;&s;ioners whiche had the orderyng and the writynges of and for the &s;ayd Relief of clothes where the &s;ayd Collector or Collectours had their colleccion, for expences of the &s;ayd Commi&s;&s;io|ners &s;o takyng vpon them the &s;ayd bu&s;ynes and labour of their clerkes writyng the &s;ayd preceptes and e&s;tretes for the &s;ayd colleccions: the &s;ame la&s;t ii. d. of euery pound to bee deuided among the &s;ayd Commi&s;&s;ioners, hauyng regard to the labour and bu&s;ynes taken by them and their &s;ayd clearkes in and aboute the premi&s;&s;es. For whiche parte &s;o to the &s;ayd commi&s;&s;ioners attainyng, the &s;ayd co~mi&s;&s;ioners vi. v. iiii. iii. or as many of them as &s;halbe therto appointed by the kynges commi&s;&s;ion and eue|ry of them ioyntly and &s;euerally for his or their &s;ayd part may haue his remedy again&s;t the &s;ayd Collectour or Collectours whiche thereof been and might haue been allowed by accion of debt, in whiche the defendant &s;hall not wage his lawe, neither proteccion, Iniunccion or other e&s;&s;oyne &s;halbe allowed.</P>
<P>Prouided alwayes, that this graunt of Relief nor any other thyng therin contayned, do in any wy&s;e extend to charge the inhabitauntes or dwellers within Ireland, Bulleyne and the countie of the&s;ame, Calleys, Hammes, Guy&s;nes and the Marches of the&s;ame, Ierne&s;ey and Garne|&s;ey or any of them, of for or co~cernyng any goodes whiche the &s;aid inha|bitauntes or dwellers, or any other to their v&s;e haue within Irelande, Bulleyne, the countie of the &s;ame, Calleys, Hammes, Guy&s;nes, or other Marches of the&s;ame, Ierne&s;ey, Garne&s;ey, ar in any of them.</P>
<P>Prouided al&s;o, that the &s;ayd graunt of Relief do not in any maner of wi&s;e extend or be preiudicial or hurtful to thinhabitau~tes or re&s;iauntes
<PB N="xvii" REF="17" MS="y"> at this pre&s;ent tyme within the fiue Portes corporate, or to any of their membres incorporate or vnited to the &s;ame fiue Portes, or to any of the &s;ame fiue Portes, of or for any part or parcel of the &s;ayd &s;ummes grau~|ted in this pre&s;ent Parliament of the &s;ayd inhabitauntes now re&s;iau~tes or any of them to bee taxed, &s;et, a&s;ked, leuied or payed, but that the &s;ayd inhabitauntes and now re&s;iauntes of the &s;ayd Portes &amp; their membres and euery of them, bee and &s;halbe of and fro~ the &s;ayd graunt &amp; payment of the &s;ayd Relief of their goodes and cattalles duryng their re&s;iauncie there and no lenger acquited and di&s;charged, any matter or what&s;oeuer thyng in this pre&s;ent acte made or had to the contrary notwith&s;ta~dyng.</P>
<P>Prouided al&s;o that this pre&s;e~t act of Relief, ne any other thing therin co~tayned extend to any of the Engli&s;h inhabitau~tes or re&s;iau~tes in any of the cou~ties of Northu~berland, Cumberla~d, We&s;tmerland, the toune of Barwyke, the toune of Newca&s;tle vpo~ Tyne and the bi&s;hopricke of Durham, nor to any of them, of for or co~cernyng any goodes, clothes or &s;hcepe, whiche the &s;ame inhabitauntes or dwellers or any other to their v&s;e, haue within the &s;ayd counties of Northumberland, Cumberland, and We&s;tmerla~d or the toune of Barwike, the toune of Newca&s;tle vpo~ Tyne, or the bi&s;hopricke of Durham or any of theim, but that they and euery of them, &s;halbe of &amp; from the &s;ayd Relief, of and for their goodes, liyng and beyng in the &s;ame cou~ties, tounes &amp; bi&s;hopricke or any of the~, vtterly acquited and di&s;charged, any thing in this pre&s;ent act before re|her&s;ed to the contrary notwith&s;tandyng.</P>
<P>Prouided al&s;o that this act ne any thyng therein contained &s;hall ex|te~d to the goodes of any College, Hall, or O&s;tle within the vniuer&s;ities of Oxford &amp; Cambryge or any of them, or to the goodes of the College of Wynton. founded by bi&s;hop Wykham, or to the goodes of y^e College of Eton next Wynde&s;ore, or to the goodes of any reader or &s;choler with in the &s;ayd Vniuer&s;ities and Colleges, or any of them there remainyng for &s;tudye, without fraude or couyn, any thyng in this act contayned to the contrary in any wy&s;e notwith&s;tandyng.</P>
<P>Prouided alwayes and be it enacted by thaucthoritie afore&s;ayd that no &s;piritual per&s;on &s;halbe charged by this act for any of his goodes or cattalles, other then for &s;heepe, nor &s;halbe charged by this acte for any &s;uche his &s;hepe whiche he hath, or at any tyme within thre yeres next fo|lowyng &s;hal haue or kepe for the only purpo&s;e to be &s;pe~t or eaten in his hou&s;e, &s;o as the nombre of the &s;ame &s;hepe &s;o purpo&s;ed to be &s;pent &amp; eaten yerely in his &s;ayd hou&s;e, do not excede the nombre of foure hundreth &s;hepe for one yere, nor for any &s;uche his &s;hepe as do go and fede, or &s;hall go or feede for the mo&s;t part of euery yere of iii. yeres next co~myng vpo~ his landes, tenementes or conunons, whereof &s;uche &s;piritual per&s;one is or &s;halbe &s;eazed in the right of his churche or promocion &s;piritual, whi|che la~des, tenementes or commons be chargeable to the payment of the fir&s;t fruites and tentes.</P>
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<P>And fora&s;muche as diuers and &s;ondry the kynges Maie&s;ties tena&s;i|tes and other thinhabitauntes and dwellers within the cou~ties of Pen|broke, Carmarthen, Cardygan, Glamorgan, Breknock, Radnor, Mou~t+gomery, Denbigh, Flynt, Marioneth, Angle&s;ey, Carneruon and of the countie Palentine of Che&s;ter, be at this pre&s;ent tyme charged &amp; charge|able with the &s;euerall paymentes of diuers great &s;ummes of money (by the name of a My&s;c) due to his Maie&s;tie, according to the &s;eueral cu&s;to|mes of the &s;ayd cou~tres, for the payment wherof diuers and &s;ondry the gentlemen and other the inhabitantes of the &s;ayd counties be and &s;tand bound to his highnes: The kyng our &s;oueraigne lorde is therfore plea|&s;ed and contented that it be prouided, ordained &amp; enacted by the auctho|ritie afore&s;ayd, that this act or any thing therin co~tained, &s;hal not extend to charge any of the kynges Maie&s;ties tenauntes &amp; other thinhabita~tes and dwellers within any of the &s;ayd cou~ties of Penbroke, Carmarthen, Cardygan, Glamorgan, Brecknock, Radnor, Mou~tgomery, Denbigh, Flynt, Marioneth, Angle&s;ey, Carnaruon and the countie Palentine of Che&s;ter beyng charged or chargeable with the &s;ayd My&s;e for or with a|ny of the paymentes of the &s;ayd Relief grau~ted to y^e kinges Maie&s;tie by this acte, vntill the &s;euerall dayes and tymes appointed and agreed for the paimentes of the &s;ayd My&s;es &s;halbe expired. And that the fir&s;t pay|ment of the &s;ayd relief for goodes &s;halbe made at the receipt of y^e kinges Exchequier before the fir&s;t day of Maye then nexte folowyng after the day appointed for the later payment to bee made of the &s;ayd My&s;e, and &s;o yerely before the fir&s;t day of May at the receipt of y^e &s;ayd Exchequer vntil the thre &s;eueral payme~tes of the &s;ayd Relief be fully made in &s;uche and like maner, forme and ordre as is ordayned and appointed by this act for the kynges &s;ubiectes concernyng the &s;ayd Relief of goodes to be made at the receipt of the &s;ayd Exchequer, accordyng to the tenor of this pre&s;ent act. And al&s;o that the fyr&s;t paymentes of Relief for clothes and &s;hepe in euery of the &s;ayd &s;eueral Counties &s;halbe made in the &s;ayd Ex|chequer after the &s;ayd Mi&s;es, due to bee payde, at &s;uche and like dayes &amp; tymes yetely as is afore limited by this acte: this act or any thing ther|in contayned to the contrary in any wi&s;e notwith&s;tandyng.</P>
<P>And furthermore, be it enacted by aucthoritie afore&s;ayd that the te|nauntes and dwellers of euery of the &s;ayd counties in this proui&s;o re|membred, &s;hall &s;euerally before the fea&s;t of &s;ainct Martyne the bi&s;hop next en&s;uyng, certifie in the kynges &s;ayd Court of Exchequer vnder the &s;eale of two Iu&s;tices of peace of euery of the &s;ayd counties, whereof one to be of the Quorum, when and as what day the la&s;t payment of the &s;ayd &s;eueral My&s;es in euery of the &s;ayd counties &s;hal ende and expire.</P>
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