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AN ACT FOR THE GRANTING OF EIGHT ENTIRE SUBSIDIES BY THE PRELATES AND CLERGY OF IRELAND.  
DUBLIN, Printed by the Society of Stationers. M.DC.XXXIIII.   

AN ACT FOR THE GRANTING OF EIGHT ENTIRE SUBSIDIES BY THE PRELATES AND CLERGY OF IRELAND.  
WHere the Prelates and Clergy of the Kingdom of Ireland, for diverse weighty considerations, respecting his Majesty's extraordinary occasions, have lovingly & liberally, given and granted to the Kings most excellent Majesty, Eight whole and entire Subsidies, of Four shillings in the pound, to be taken and levied of all and singular their promotions spiritual, within the same Kingdom, at such days and times, and in such certain manner and form, and with such exceptions & provisions, as be specified and declared in a certain Instrument by them thereof made, and delivered to the Lord deputy, under the Seal of the most reverend Father in God, james, Lord Archbishop of Ardmagh, and Primate of all Ireland, which Instrument is now exhibited in this present Parliament, to be ratified and confirmed: The tenor whereof ensueth in these words, viz.  
Illustrissimo ac potentissimo Principi, ac Domino nostro clementissimo, CAROLO Dei gratiâ, Angliae, Scotiae, Franciae, & Hiberniae Regi, fidei defensori etc. jacobus divinâ providentiâ Armachanus Archiepiscopus, totius Hiberniae Primas & Metropolitanus, cum omni observantiâ tanto Principi debito, prosperum in hâc vitâ successum, & in futurâ, aeternam foelicitatem. Serenissimae vestrae Majestati, per publicum hoc instrumentum, notum facimus: Quod Praelati & Clerus totius Hiberniae, in sacrâ Synodo Nationali, juisu serenissimae Majestatis vestrae, in Ecclesiâ Cathedrali sancti Patricij Dublinij, legitimè congregati, recolentes multa illa & summa beneficia, quae communiter cum caeteris subditis vestris percipiunt (veluti sunt purae religionis exercitium, justitiae administratio, publicâque pax, in quâ omnium bonorum affluentia continetur,) & multò magis singularem Majestatis vestrae zelum erga decorem domus Dei, & haereditatiam illam munificentiam, quâ ordinem Ecclesiasticum, Regia Majestas vestra, paternis insistens vestigijs, prosequitur: non modo Deo Optimo Maximo, humillimas pro vobis gratias agendas, & assiduas preces pro Regni vestri tranquillitate fundendas, sed etiam gratitudinem suam aliquo judicio Regiae vestrae sublimitati testificandam duxerunt, & Octo integra & ultronea Subsidia, unanimi confensu, nemine prorsus dissentiente, Regiae vestrae sublimitati, alacritèr concesserunt; supplicitèr Majestatem vestram rogantes, ut ex affectus largitate, potiùs quàm rei ipsius tenuitate, hoc officium suum metiatur. Tenor verò concessionis praedictae, se habet in hunc quo sequitur modum.  
Most gracious and dread Sovereign, we your Majesty's most loyal Subjects, the Prelates and Clergy of this Church & Kingdom of Ireland, called together out of the several Provinces of Ardmagh, Dublin, Cashell, and Tuam, by the authority of your Highness' Writ, & orderly assembled in a Nationall Synod, or Convocation, being lately dejected & depressed to the lowest degree of misery and contempt, by the wars and confusion of former times, having our Churches ruined, our habitations left desolate, our possessions aliened, our persons scorned, our very lives hourly subject to the bloody attempts of rebellious Traitors. And now by the piety & bounty of your blessed Father, and by the gracious influence of your sacred Majesty, being new enlived, and beginning to lift up our heads out of darkness and obscurity, do freely acknowledge to your immortal glory, before God and the whole Christian world, That as no Church under Heaven did ever stand more in need, so none did ever find more royal and munificent Patrons and Protectors, than the poor Church of Ireland. You have not only made restitution of that which the iniquity of former Ages had bereft us of; but also as though you intended to expiate their faults, enriched us with new and Princely endowments: All which great Favours, do yet become more sweet unto us, whilst we entertain them as pledges of your future unexhausted goodness: And if we do not seriously endeavour throughout our whole lives, to make unsayned expressions of true loyalty and thankfulness to your sacred Majesty, we deserve to be condemned by men, and punished by God, as monsters of ingratitude. To which infinite obligations, and many others, we may add your Majesty's inestimable goodness, in providing for us your present Deputy, Thomas Viscount Wentworth, a Governor so just, careful, provident, & propitious to the Church. Wherefore considering the vast expense of Treasure by your Majesty, & your Predecessors, for the protection and establishment of this Church and Kingdom; We the Prelates and Clergy assembled in this Nationall Synod, whose dependence (under God) is wholly upon your Majesty: not as though our weakness were able to contribute any thing worthy of the favourable acceptance of so great and puissant a Monarch; but as an exemplary testimony of our loyal affection: We your said Prelates and Clergy, with a general and unanimous consent, agreement, and accord, most willingly and readily, have given & granted, and by these presents do give and grant, to your Highness, your Heirs and Successors, Eight entire Subsidies, of Four shillings in the pound, in manner and form following, That is to say: That every Archbishop, Bishop, Deane, Archdeacon, Provost, Master of College, Prebendary, Parson, and Vicar, and every other person and persons, of whatsoever name or degree he, or they be, within the Realm of Ireland, having & enjoying any Spiritual promotion, or other Temporal possessions to the same Spiritual promotion annexed, now not divided or separated by Act of Parliament, or otherwise, from the possession of the Clergy, shall pay to your Highness, your Heirs and Successors for every pound that he may yearly receive and dispend, by reason of the said spiritual promotion, the sum of Four willings for every of the said Eight Subsidies, and for the true and certain value of all the promotions, and every of them, whereof the payment of these Eight Subsidies shallbe made, the rate, taxation, valuation, & estimation, now remaining of Record in your Majesty's Court of Exchequer. And that hereafter shall come & remain in the same Court, where no former valuation is there of Record already for the payment of the twentieth part, granted unto King Henry the eight of worthy memory, in the eight and twentieth year of his reign; concerning such promotions as now be in possession of the Clergy, shall only be followed and observed, without making any other valuation, rate, taxation, or estimation, then in the said Record is, and shallbe respectively comprised.  
Provided always, that forasmuch as the twentieth part of the said rate and valuation before mentioned, is yearly paid to your Highness, so as there remains only nineteen parts yearly to the incumbent clear, these Eight Subsidies of Four shillings in the pound, shallbe understood & meant only of every full pound of the said nineteen parts, and nothing for any other money, not amounting to a full pound. And your Prelates and Clergy do also grant, That these Eight Subsidies of Four shillings of the full pound of the nineteen parts of the yearly value of every spiritual promotion aforesaid, within the said Kingdom, taxed and to be taxed, as is aforesaid, shallbe paid to your Majesty, your Heirs and Successors, in manner and form following: That is to say, The first payment and moiety of the first of these Eight Subsidies, viz. Two shillings of every full pound, as aforesaid, to be due, at, and upon the first day of April, which shallbe Anno Domini one thousand six hundred thirty five. And the second payment and moiety of the first of the said Eight Subsidies, viz. other two shillings of every full pound, as aforesaid, to be due, at, & upon the first day of October, which shallbe Anno Domini one thousand six hundred thirty five: And the first payment and moiety of the second of the said Eight Subsidies, viz. Two shillings of every full pound, as aforesaid, to be due, at, and upon the first day of April, which shallbe Anno Domini one thousand six hundred thirty six: And the second payment and moiety of the second of the said Eight Subsidies, viz. Two shillings of every full pound, as aforesaid, to be due, at, and upon the first day of October, which shall be Anno Domini one thousand six hundred thirty six. And the first payment and moiety of the third of the said Eight Subsidies, viz. Two shillings of every full pound as aforesaid, to be due, at, and upon the first day of April, which shallbe Anno Domini one thousand six hundred thirty seven. And the second payment & moiety of the third of the said Eight Subsidies, viz. Two shillings of every full pound, as aforesaid, to be due, at, and upon the first day of October, which shallbe Anno Domini one thousand six hundred thirty seven. And the first payment & moiety of the fourth of the said Eight Subsidies, viz. Two shillings of every full pound, as aforesaid, to be due, at, and upon the first day of April, which shall be Anno Domini one thousand six hundred thirty eight. And the second payment and moiety of the fourth of the said Eight Subsidies, viz. Two shillings of every full pound, as aforesaid, to be due, at, and upon the first day of October, which shallbe Anno Domini one thousand six hundred thirty eight. And the first payment and moiety of the fift of the said Eight Subsidies, viz. Two shillings of every full pound, as aforesaid, to be due, at, and upon the first day of April, which shall be Anno Domini one thousand six hundred thirty nine: And the second payment & moiety of the fift of the said Eight Subsidies, viz. Two shillings of every full pound, as aforesaid, to be due, at, and upon the first day of October, Anno Domini one thousand six hundred thirty nine. And the first payment and moiety of the fixed of the said Eight Subsidies, viz. Two shillings of every full pound, as aforesaid, to be due, at, and upon the first day of April, Anno Dommi one thousand six hundred and forty. And the second payment and moiety of the fixed of the said Eight Subsidies, viz. Two shillings of every full pound, as aforesaid, to be due, at, and upon the first day of October, Anno Domini one thousand six hundred & forty. And the first payment and moiety of the seaventh of the said Eight Subsidies, viz. Two shillings of every full pound, as aforesaid, to be due, at, and upon the first day of April, which shallbe Anno Domini one thousand six hundred forty one. And the second payment and moiety of the seaventh of the said Eight Subsidies, viz. Two shillings of every full pound, as aforesaid, to be due, at, and upon the first day of October, which shallbe Anno Domini one thousand six hundred forty one. And the first payment and moiety of the eight and last of the said Eight Subsidies, viz. Two shillings of every full pound, as aforesaid, to be due at and upon the first day of April, which shall be Anno Domini one thousand six hundred forty two: And the second and last payment and moiety of the eight and last of the said Eight Subsidies, viz. Two shillings of every full pound, as aforesaid, to be due at and upon the first day of October, which shall be Anno Domini one thousand six hundred forty two, To be delivered and paid by such person and persons, as in this present grant shallbe appointed to have the collection thereof, to the Vice-treasurer, or general Receiner of this your Realm of Ireland, for the time being, or to such person or persons, and in such place or places as shall please your Highness, to appoint to be paid: viz. every of the aforesaid payments, which shallbe due upon the first day of April, in any of the years aforesaid, to be made at or before the last day of june, than next following every of the aforesaid days, in which every of the said payments shallbe due. And every of the aforesaid payments, which shallbe due upon the first day of October in any of the years aforesaid to be made, or before the last day of December next following every of the aforesaid days when the said payments shallbe due, without paying any thing to the Receiver, or to any other officer or persons to be assigned for the receipt thereof, for any acquittance or other discharge or dispatch upon any such payment or receipt of the said Eight Subsidies or any part thereof, but only four pence, and that to the Clerk, for writing the acquittance or discharge for every of the said payments.  
Provided always, that no person that is or shallbe promoted to any benefice or spiritual promotion, and shall compound with your Majesty, your Heirs or Successors, for the first fruits of the same, from the first day of April, which shallbe in the year of our Lord God, one thousand six hundred thirty five: And before the first day of October, which shallbe in the year of our Lord God, one thousand six hundred forty two, shallbe contributory, or charged for the same benefice or promotion, to your Highness, your Heirs or Successors, with any part of the said Eight Subsidies during the first year, after the time of any such compounding, for his first fruits. Item your Highness said Prelates & Clergy do grant, that every Archbishop, Bishop, and the See, being void, every Oeane & Chapter of that See void, & none other person or persons, shallbe Collectors of the said Eight Subsidies, within their proper Diocese, during the time appointed, for the payment of the said Eight Subsidies. And your said Prelates and Clergy do most humbly beseech your Majesty, that it may be enacted by your Majesty, & your high Court of Parliament, for the speedy payment of the said eight Subsidies, & to avoid delays thereof, That when, and as often, as any Collector or Collectors, charged with the collection of the said Eight Subsidies, or of any part of them, or their, or any of their under-collector or under-collectors, Deputy or Deputies or any of them, shall offer the payment of them or of any part of them, to the use of your Majesty your Heirs or Successors, to any person or persons appointed to receive the same, by your Highness, or by the Vice-treasurer or general Receiver, that the said person or persons, so appointed, shall within four days next after such appointment, receive or cause to be received, the money so offered, to be paid without any further delay: & deliver one sufficient Bill testifying the receipt thereof, to the said Collector, or his under-collector or Deputy, upon every such particular payment. And that every such Auditor as is or shallbe appointed to take or receive the account of any such Collector or Collectors, or of their several under-collectors or Deputies, shall within six days next after request to him to be made, truly and indifferently, take the said account, and make allowance, as by this grant is appointed, upon pain that every such person or persons appointed to receive the same sum or sums of money so offered. And every such Auditor shall lose & forfeit for every default or delay to be made to the Collector or Collectors, under-collector or under-collectors, Deputy or Deputies so offering to make payment & account, as is aforesaid, the sum of ten pounds, lawful money of Ireland, the one moiety thereof to be to your Majesty, your Heirs and Successors: And the other moiety to the said Collector or Collectors, under-collector or under Collectors, Deputy or Deputies so grieved, the same to be paid upon complaint to be made to the said Vice-treasurer or general Receiver, or to the Lord Chief Baron of your Majesty's Court of Exchequer, who upon such complaint, shall presently examine the matter, and finding default, shall commit the offendor to Ward, there to remain, until he shall have paid the said several sums so forfeited. And for the better levying and recovery of the said Eight Subsidies, your said Prelates and Clergy, do likewise most humbly beseech your Majesty, that it may be enacted by your Majesty, and the said high Court of Parliament, in manner and form following. That is to say, That every Collector of the said Eight Subsidies, and of every part and parcel thereof, and their lawful under-collector and under-collectors, Deputy or Deputies, may have full power and authority to use all such ways, and means, and processes, as be prescribed in the Act of the twentieth part, for the collection and levying thereof, & may make account of the same before the Vice-treasurer of Ireland, for the time being, or general Receiver of your Highness' Revenue of this Kingdom of Ireland, or any other officer by your Highness, or your Court of Exchequer, to be appointed for the same, and in such place as your Majesty shall likewise all gne in such wise, and after such form only, as the said Archbishop and Bishops be now charged to make account for the said twentieth part, whereby is meant, that the lack and default of payment, of and for any spiritual promotion or promotions, shall only charge such Incumbent or Incumbents, & such others as be bound to pay the same: And that the Archbishop, Bishop, Deane & Chapter, gathering that which they can receive, and making payment thereof, shall for the rest, not by them received, be discharged by their certificate to be made to your Highness' Court of Exchequer, for every of the aforesaid payments, which shallbe due upon the first day of April, in any of the aforesaid years, at, or before the last day of june, next following every of the aforesaid days, when every of the said payments shallbe due: And for every of the aforesaid payments which shallbe due upon the first day of October, in any of the aforesaid years, at or before the last day of December, next following every of the aforesaid days, when the said payments shallbe due: And that six pence of every pound, wherewith the Collector shallbe charged in his account, clearly to be paid into the Receipt of your Majesty's Exchequer, or into such other place as shall please your Highness to appoint, shallbe allowed to the said Collector upon his account for the same, at every of the aforesaid several times of payment for the charges of the said Collection, any portage, safe conveying, and paying of the said eight subsidies: And morcover that it maybe enacted likewise, that after payment of the said Eight Subsidies shallbe once due by virtue of this grant, if any Incumbent of any benefice or promotion Spiritual, charged to the payment of any of the said Eight Subsidies, or any part thereof, being at any time after that the said payments shallbe due, lawfully monished, either personally, or at his dignity, Stall, Church or Mansion house, by the Archbishop, Bishop of his Diocese, or his under-collector or under-collectors, Deputy or Deputies, or by the Dean & Chapter (the See being void) or by any of their under-collector or under-collectors, Deputy or Deputies, authorized in that behalf, to appear by himself, or his Deputy, at a certain day & place of convenient distance to the said Incumbent, then to be signified & preunxed, and then & there to pay such part of the said Eight Subsidies for his Benefice or promotion Spiritual, or the whole, as then by virtue of this grant shallbe due: do not either at the same day & place so to him signified & prefixed, truly content and pay, or cause to be contented & paid, such payments of the said eight Subsidies, as then by him shallbe due: to be paid unto the same Archbishop, or Bishop, or to his under-collector or under-collectors, Deputy or Deputies, or to the Dean & Chapter of any See being void, or to their under-collector or under-collectors, Deputy or Deputies, or to one of them, showing sufficient deputation from the said Archbishop, Bishop, or Deane and Chapter, under his or their Seal in that behalf, being ready at the said day and place so signified and prefixed, to receive any payment of the said Eight Subsides then due, and openly demanding the same, or else pay every of the payments of the said Eight Subsidies given by this grant within Fifty days, next after any such prefixed days of warning, at the furthest, (so that open demand be made of every of the said payments of the said Eight Subsidies, in, and at the said day and place before prefixed) that then every Incumbent, so making default of any of the payments aforesaid, which shallbe due from him for any of the parts of the said Eight Subsidies, as aforesaid; after such default thereof certified into your Majesty's Exchequer, in writing, under the Scale and hand-writing of any Archbishop, or Bishop, or the Common Seal of the Dean and Chapter, (the See being void) charged with the Collection of the said Eight Subsidies, or of any part of them, so that the said Certificate shallbe made according to the form hereafter expressed and exhibited into your Majesty's said Court of Exchequer, viz. for every of the aforesaid payments of the said Eight Subsidies which shallbe due the first day of April, in any of the aforesaid years, at or before the last day of june, next following every of the aforesaid days, when every of the said payments shallbe due: And for every of the aforesaid payments which shallbe due upon the first day of October, in any of the aforesaid years, at, or before the last day of December, next following every of the aforesaid days, when the said payments shallbe due, as aforesaid, shall forfeit and lose unto your Majesty, your Heirs and Successors, all the profits which of that only dignity, benefice, or promotions for the which he maketh such default of payment, and wherefore such certificate shallbe made, shall come, grow and arise unto him, over and above the charges of serning the cure, and the true and annual twentieth part due to be paid out of his living, in one whole year next after such certificate made and delivered unto your Highness' Court of Exchequer and there admitted, in case the same Incumbent shall so long live, and that every such certificate of any such default of payment, shallbe made according to the tenor and effect ensuing, mutatis mutandis. Honorabilibus & egregijs viris vice-thesaurar' & Baronibus de Scaccario illustrissimi Domini nostri Caroli Dei gratia Angliae, Scotiae, Franciae, & Hiberniae Regis fidei defensor' etc. vester humilis I. permissione divinâ A: Episcopus; authoritate & vigore cujusdam Actus Parliament' Anno regni dicti Domini Regis decimo, editi & provisiad colligendum & levandum octo Subsidia eidem Domino Regi incodem Parliamento, per Prelatos et Clerum totius Hiberniae concessum, viz. pro prima solutione primi Subsidij solvend primo die Aprilis, ultim' praeterit infra Diocesym nostram. A: doputat'et authorizat'omnimodam reverentiam tantis viris debitam cum honore vestr' Reverentijs harum serie` annuncio et certifico me praefat'Episcopum (modo quo profertur) deputat et authorizat' sufficien' et cum omni diligentiâ requisivisse per N. O. subcollectorem, sen deputat' meum in hac parte, de quovis beneficio et promotione Ecclesiasticâ, in quadam seedula praesentibus anneka, specificat ' summas dictae primae solutionis dicti Subfidij, prodictis beneficijs et promotionibus debit'et solvend dioto primo die Aprilis ult' praeterit', prout ineadem scedula praesentibus annexa, plemus liquet et apparet: Sed dictas summas ex causis in eadem scedul' allegatis, recipere nompotui. In ●ujus rei restimonium, sigillum meum praesentibus apposui, dat' _____ die Mensis _____ Anno Domini _____ The form of which Seedule above mentioned ensueth. Civitas. D. vel decanat' de _____ A. B. Rector vel Viccar' ibidem monitus fuit apud _____ predict _____ die _____ ultimo praeterit' per _____ _____ subcollectorem scu deputat' meum, ad solvend' apud Ecclesiam de _____ in Com. _____ die _____ prox' fequen' solutionem, five illam partem dioti Subsidij per ipsum debitum primo die Aprilis ultimo praeterit' pro promotione suâ praedict'. Sed praedictus A.B. _____ nec apud Ecclesiam de _____ praed' _____ eodem _____ die _____ nec alibi per quinquaginta dies, postea summam peripsum debitam ut profertur, solvit vel satissecit, neque dict' summam de proficuis dict' promotionis, nec de bonis & catallis dict' _____ _____ aliquo modo levare five recipere potui.  
Provided always, that if any person or Incumbent, chargeable by this Act or grant, to any payment of the said Eight Subsidies, or any part thereof, shall proffer to tender any payment of any sum due to the Archbishop or Bishop, or to the Dean and Chapter where the See is void, or to any under-collector or vuder-Collectors, Deputy or Deputies of any Archbishop, Bishop, or Deave and Chapter aforesaid, at any time before the certifieate exhibited into the Exchequer, as is aforesaid: That then notwithstanding the Certificate made, as is aforesaid, against any such person, the said jucumbent or person against whom the Certificate was so made, shall and may aver the offer or tender of his payment, as is aforesaid: And the same shall be tried either by sufficient witnesses before the Vice-treasurer or Barons of the Exchequer, or by the trial of tweive men upon any issue thereupon to be joined betwixt the said Incumbent, and any other person and persons, that he or any for him did offer or tender payment of the sum due, as aforesaid: which being found for the Incumbent, than every such Ineumbent shall have and enjoy his promotion or promotions still without forfeiture or losing to your Majesty, your Heirs or Successors, any the profits thereof, and as though no Certificate or default of any such payment had been made or exhibited, any thing in this present grant or Act to the contrary notwithstanding.  
And further that it may be enacted likewise, that every Archbishop, and Bishop, and Deane and Chapter of every See, vacant, and other persons chargeable to and with the Collection of the said Eight Subsidies, shall and may have upon every payment of the said Eight Subsidies made to the Vice-treasurer, or general Receiver of Ireland for the time being, or to such other person or persons in place and places, to whom and where it shall please your Highness or Court of Exchequer, to appoint for the receipt thereof at every of the aforesaid times of payment, a sufficient acquittance, discharge, or Quietus est, in writing, of the aforesaid Vice-treasurer, or general Receiver, or such other person or persens, as either your Highness, or your said Court of Exchequer shall assign for the receipt thereof; The same acquittance, discharge, or Quietus est, witnessing the receipt of so much of the same sum of the said Eight Subsidies, as shallbe so received, and every such acquittance, discharge or Quietus est in writing, subscribed with the name or vames of the Vice-treasurer, or Receiver general for the time being, or of such Auditor or other person or persons, as it shall please your Highness, or your said Court of Exchequer to appoint for the same receipt, shall and may be good and effectual in the Law, and be also a sufficient discharge to all and every of the said Collectors, to all such intents, constructions and purposes, as if the same were made by Act of Parliament. And that every of the said Collectors shall pay but only three shillings four pence Irish for every general or final acquittance, discharge, or Quietus est, for every payment of the said Eight Subsidies. And if any person so assigned, shall refuse or delay to make such a general or final acquittance, discharge, or Quietus est, for any payment of the said Eight Subsidies, or shall require or take for the same, any more than three shillings four pence Irish: Or if any other Officer of the Exchequer, shall require and take of any Collector or Collectors, or of his or their under-collector or under-collectors, Deputy or Deputies, in respect of the Collection, payment or account of the said Eight Subsidies or any part thereof, or for expedition, or for any other cause or pretence whatsocuer concerning the same, any fees or sums of money, other than are before in this present grant expressly allowed unto them, shall forteit the sum of Ten pounds of lawful money of Ireland, to be paid and recovered in like manner, and to the same use, as is before limited & expressed in this Statute, touching the like forfeitures of Receivers and Auditors: And also that every particular acquittance, which upon any payment of the said eight Subsidies, shallbe made by any Collector or Collectors of the said Eight Subsidies, or of any payment of them, or by his or their under-collector or under-collectors, Deputy or Deputies in that behalf, to any Incumbent of any benefice or promotion spiritual, or to any person or persons contributary and chargeable to and with the said Eight Subsidies, or any part or payment of them, shallbe good and effectual in Law, and a full and sufficient discharge to every such Incumbent, and other person, and his beneficeand promotion spiritual; of and for all other such sum and sums of money, as by the same acquittance shallbe acknowledged to be received in respect of the same benefice or promotion for any part of the said Eight Subsidies: And that no acquittance of any other person or persons made before such certificate, shall in any wise discharge any person or promotion, for any part or payment of his said Eight Subsidies, nor of any pain, penalty, or forfeiture specified in this grant. And to the intent it may be known to the Court of Exchequer, who be the under-collector or under-collectors, Deputy or Deputies of every such Archbishop, Bishop, or Deane and Chapter authorised to receive the same, & to make acquittance thereof; every Archbishop, Bishop, & Deane, & Chapter of any See being void, shall yearly, together with their certificate , certify the names of every the under-collectors or Deputies to be appointed, as is aforesaid.  
Provided always, that no Collector of the said eight Subsidies, or of any part of them, shall use any process or compulsory means, or exact any fees or sums of money for the same, or otherwise, of any person, for not paying the said eight Subsidies, or any part thereof, at such certain day & place as shallbe by the Collector or his under-collector, or Deputy prefixed, in case the said person shall tender the same unto the Collector or his under-collector, or Deputy, within xx. day's next after such prefixed day: And that the said Collectors shall not by themselves, or any others take of any person for the receipt of any several payments of the said eight Subsidies, & for his acquittance thereupon, any more than iiii. d. sterling, by any colour or pretext whatsoever. Provided always, that no spiritual promotions, nor any lands, possessions or revenues annexed to the same, being charged by this grant, or any goods or chatles growing, being, or remaining upon the same, or elsewhere appertaining to the owners of the spiritual promotion, or to any of them, shallbe charged or made contributary to any other Subsidy already granted to your Highness by the Laity, or hereafter to be granted, during the time appointed by this grant, for the payment of the said Eight Subsidies.  
Provided also, that all Deans, Archdeacon's, Dignities, Masters, Wardens, & Prebendaries of all Cathedral and Collegiate Churches & Colleges, or any of them, shallbe charged with these eight Subsidies, for those possessions, revenues & promotions only which to their several promotions, dignities & rooms are clearly & distinctly limited, & to their only use severed, thereof to pay the twentieth part, being deducted for every and each of the said eight Subsidies, Four shilliags of every full pound, in manner & form as is above rehearsed: And that all those rents, possessions, profits, portions, hereditaments, & spiritual promotions, & every of them heretofore by your Highness, or any of the Kings and Queens of this Realm, or any other person or persons whatsoever, given, granted, bequeathed, devised, or impropriated unto the said Cathedral or Collegiate Churches or Colleges, or to any of them which any ways be assigned, employed or used, either for or towards the yearly maintenance of Readers of Divinity, poor men, Schoolmasters, Ushers, Grammarians, Pettie-Canons, Conduets, Vicars-Chorall, Singingmen, Choristers, Virgars, Sextons, or of any other necessary or daily Officers or Ministers in such Cathedral or Collegiate Churches or Colleges, or any of them, or for or towards the repairing or re-edifying of any of the same Cathedral or Collegiate Churches or Colleges, shall not be charged with any part of these eight Subsidies: The certainty of which portions aswell chargeable to these eight Subsidies, as not chargeable, in this behalf the Archbishop or Bishop of the Diocese, or the See being under the Dean & Chapter, or any other to whom the same shall or may appertain, upon due search & examination, shall certify under his or their Seals, into your Highness said Court of Exchequer, at or before the several days aforesaid, appointed for the payment of the said 8. Subsidies. Provided always, that every Parson, Vicar, or other spiritual person, paying any pension, whereof no allowance is made in the valuation of his promotion or benefice, shall & may retain to his own use & relief, so much of every pound of every such pension for every payment of the said 8 Subsidies, as he standeth charged by this grant to pay, for every part & payment of the said eight Subsidies out of every pound, for the whole valuation of his spiritual promotion, any covenant, grant or bond to the contrary notwithstanding. Provided also, that these eight Subsidies granted by the Clergy or any part of them, or any of them, shall not be demanded or levied out of the house of Students or College, called Trinity College, situate in or near unto the City of Dublin, or out of any Hospital, Almshouses, or Grammar-Schooles, or of any Church-benefice, or other revenues to the said College, Hospitals, Almshouses or Grammar-Schooles, or to any of them annexed, appropriated, or otherwise appertaining. And for the sure and true payment of the said eight Subsidies granted by your said Prelates and Clergy, according to the tener, purport, effect, and true meaning of this present grant, your said Prelates and Clergy, most humbly desire your Highness, that this their said gift, grant, and eight Subsidies, & every matter, sum of money, petition, clause, provisions, reservations and sentenees in this Instrument contained, concerning the said Eight Subsidies, may be ratified, established, & confirmed by authority of your Highness' court of Parliament. In quorum omnium & singulorum, & praemissorum fidem & testimonium, nos Iacobus Aichiepiscopus Armachanus, totius Hiberniae Primas antedictus, has praesentes Literas nostras testimoniales, five hoc praesens publicum instrumentum, ad humilem rogatum Praelatorum, & Cleri praedicti Sigilli nostri appensione ac signo, nomine & subscriptione johannis Forth Armigeri _____ notarij publici, jussimus & fecimus communiri. Dat' 26 die instant' mensis julij, Anno Domini millesimo sexcentesimo tricesimo quarto, Regnique vestri foelicissimi, serlicet Angliae Scotiae Franciae & Hiberniae decimo, et nostrae translationis nono. Wherefore for the sure 〈◊〉 true payment of the said Subsidies, granted by the said Prelates & Clergy, according to the tenor effect & true meaning of the said Instrument. Be it enacted by the kings most excellent Majesty, with the assent of the Lords spiritual & temporal, & the Commons in this present Parliament assembled, & by the authority of the same, That the said gist, grant, & every matter, sum of money, petition, provision, clause and sentence in the same Instrument contained, shall stand & be ratified, established & confirmed by the authority of this present Parliament.  
And further be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That every person that shallbe appointed to the collection & gathering of the said Subsidies, shall have full powers authority to 〈◊〉 take & perceive the said Subsidy, by the authority of the Censures of the Church (that is to say) by Suspension, Excommunication, or Interdiction, & also by sequestration of the fruits & profits of their benefits and promotions spiritual, in whose h●●ds soever they b●, and to make sale of the said fruits, without danger of the Laws of this Realm, or by distress upon the possessions of the Farmers & Occupiers of the lands and tenements chargeable by the said Instrument, for or to the payment of any sum or sums of money to be due by force thereof, or otherwise by the discretion of the Collector thereof. And that no replevin, prohibition, or supersedeas shallbe allowed or obeyed, for any persons making default of the payments of the said Subsidies, or any of them, contrary to the tenor of the grant thereof, until such time, as they have truly satisfied & contented all such pa●ts & partions as to them in that behalf appertaineth, & that every such Farmer & Farmers, their Executors & assigns that shall fortune hereafter to be charged to or with the payment of the said Subsidies, or any part thereof, shall by the authority aforesaid, be allowed & retain in his hands, as much of his yearly rent & farm, as the sum which he shall fortune to pay for his Lord or Lessor shall extend or amount unto, except that the said Farmer or Farmers, their Executors or Assigns, by the Lease and grant that they have of any part of the lands, tithes, profits or tenements, chargeable to the said Subsidy, or by force of any Covenant or Article therein contained, be bound & charged to pay the same, & thereof to discharge the Leassor and Landlord, during the term mentioned in the said Lease.  
And likewise be it enacted by the authority of this present Parliament, That whereas diverse Curates, liable to these Subsidies, being oftentimes removable, do serve aswell in diverse impropriations belonging to the King's Majesty, as in other spiritual promotions belonging to other persons: That for the speedy recovery of the said Subsidies, it may be lawful to the said Collector or Collectors of the said Subsidy, their Deputy or Deputies, to levy the said Subsidies upon the Farmer or Farmers, or occupiers of all such impropriations, or spiritual promotions, by all censures of the Church aforesaid, & every of them, or by way of distress of Tithes of the said impropriation or impropriations & spiritual promotions, or otherwise upon the goods and chartels of the said Farmer or Farmers and occupiers: In which case no inhibition, prohibition, replevin, or other process adwarded to the contrary, shallbe obeyed, any Laws, statutes, privileges or customs to the contrary hereof, heretofore made, granted or used, or hereafter to be made, granted or used to the contrary, in any wise notwithstanding. And that it may be lawful to the Collector and other Officers and Ministers of such Archbishop, Bishop, Deane and Chapter, for not payment of the said Subsidies after the same shallbe due, in or at any of the said times of payment, to prize & value the said distress & distresses, by two indifferent Neighbours by him to be chosen, and the distress and distresses so prized to sell, & thereof to detain so much money as shall amount to the sum payable to the King's Majesty, with the reasonable charges also of the said Collector sustained in that behalf, and the rest of the money made of the said Distress to be delivered and paid to the owner and occupier thereof.  
Provided always, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that every Lay person having spiritual promotion, chargeable by this Act, and also temporal possessions, goods, chattles & debts, charged to the Subsidies granted in this Parliament by the Temporalty, shallbe taxed, charged and set for the said spiritual promotions with the Clergy and his temporal possessions and chattles real, with the temporalty and not otherwise: any thing before mentioned to the contrary notwithstanding.