Anno secundo & Tertio Philippl & Mariae.  
ACTS made at a Parliament, begun and held at Westminster, the xxi day of October, in the second and third year of the reign of our sovereign Lord, and Lady Philip and Mary, by the grace of God, king & Queen of England, France, Naples, jerusalem, and Ireland, defenders of the faith, Princes of Spain and Cycilie, Anchedukes of Austria, dukes of Myllayn, Burgundy, and Braband, counties of Haspurge, Flaunders and Tyroll, and there continued and kept to the dissolution of the same, being the ix day of December than next ensuing, were enacted as followeth.  
Cum privilegio Regiae Maiestatis.   decorative border incorporating the royal English blazon or coat of arms  

The Table.  

AN act for the reedifying of Castles and Forts, and for the enclofing of grounds upon the borders towards Scotland. Cap. i  
An act for the re-edifying of decayed houses of husbandry, and for the increase of tillage. Cap. two  
An act for the keeping of mylche kine, & for the breading & rearing of calves ca iii  
An act for the extinguishement of the first fruits, and touching order and disposition of the ten these, of spiritual and ecclesiastical promosions, and of rectories and personages impropriate remaining in the queens majesties hands. cap. iiii.  
An act for the relief of the poor. cap. v.  
An act against the excessive taking of the King and queens majesties purveyors. cap. vi.  
An act against the buying of stolen borses. cap. seven.  
An act for the amendyge of high ways. cap. viii.  
An act to make void divers licences of houses where in unlawful games be used. cap. ix.  
An act to take examination of prisoners suspected of any manflaughter or felony. cap. x.  
An act touching weavers. cap. xi  
An act for the vieving and selling of oaths commonly called Brydgewaters. cap. xii.  
An act for the inhabitants of Hallifaxe touching the buying of woles. cap. xiii.  
An act for the reedifying of four mills near the city of Hereford. cap. xiiii.  
An act that purveyors shall not take victuals within .v. miles of Cambridge and Oxford. ca xv  
An act touching watermen and bargemen upon the river of Thamyse. cap. xuj  
An act to take away the benefit of clergy from Benet Smith for the murder of Rufford. ca xvii.  
An act touching commyssions of the peace and jail delivery in towns corporate not being counties. cap. xviii.  
An act touching Powdike in marshelande. ca p. xix.  
An act for the enlarging of the duchy of Lancaster. cap xx.  
An act for the continuation of ceriayne statutes. cap. xxi.  
An act for the confirmation of a Subsidy granted by the clergy. cap. xxii.  
An act of a subsidy granted to the King and queens majesties by the temporalty. ca xxiii.    


¶ An act for the reedifying of Castles and forts, and for the enclosing of grounds, upon the borders towards Scotland.  
¶ The first Chapter.  
FOR the better habitation, restoring, and reedyfyinge of the Castles, fortresses and fortelettes, villages, and houses that be decayed within the Counties of Northumber land, Cumberlande, Westmereland, and the Bishopric of Durham. And for the better manuring, and employing the grounds within the same, and for the more increase of of tillage.  
Be it enacted by the King and queens majesties, the Lords spiritual and temporal and the commons of this present parliament assembled, and by authority of the same, that from and after the first day of December next ensuing, commission under the great Seal of England, shallbe directed from time to time, as need shall require to such persons as shallbe there unto named and appointed by the king and queens Majesties, and theirs and Successors of the queen, by their bill or bills signed with their sign manuel to be directed to the chancellor of England for the time being, which commyssions shallbe according to the manner, form, tenor and effect hereafter ensuing. Philip and Mary. etc. Know ye that we have assigned you or any number of you being Syxe at the least of the which we will that. A. B. & C. shallbe three to be our Commissioners, to survey our Counties of Northumberland Cumberland Westmoreland and the Bysshypryke of Durham or as much thereof as to you or two of you whereof. A. B. & C. shallbe three shallbe thought convenient and by such ways and means as you best can to inquire what and how many castles, fortresses, and forttelletes, villages, houses, and habitations have been decayed within the same, and by whom and by what occasions and how many of them are meet to be re-edified, and also how many castles, fortresses, and fortelettes, villages, houses and habitations were meet to be made of new within the said Counties and Bishopryke, and in what places the same were most meet to be situate, and what parts of the said Counties and bishopric be most apt for to be enclosed and converted to tillage or other necessary manuraunce meet and convenient for those countries, and the people of the same, and also to inquire what persons be owner's Lords, proprietaries, Fermoures, and possessors of the same or claim any interest in the same, and what estate or estates, terms or interests, they, or any of them have of and in the same. And thereupon to take such order for the reedifying of such the Castles, Fortresses and Fortelettes, Villages, houses, and habitations heretofore decayed, and for the new erecting and making of others, and the situations of the same and for the enclosing and converting to tillage or other necessary manuraunce, such parts and portions of the said counties and bishopric as to you, or two of you whereof. A. B. & C. shallbe three, shallbe thought most meet and convenient.  
provided always that by colour or virtue of this commission you do not reedifye, new make, or enclose, or cause to be re-edified new made and enclosed, as above said in any place or places, in any of the said counties or Byshopryckes being in distance and lying above twenty miles from the known parts of the borders of Scotland. And we do give unto you, or unto any number of you being six at the lest whereof. A. B. and C. shallbe three, full power and authority, to inquire by the oaths of the honest and lawful men of the counties of Northumberlande, Cumberlande, Westmerelande, and the county palentine of Durham afore said, aswell within the liberties as without, by whom the truth may be best known, who hath or holdeth any Lands, or tenements, or useth or perceiveth any common of pasture, or other profit aprender in the said counties or bishopryke throughout the hole parts of the same, & all those persons and every of them, or such of them, to tax, assease, charge, dystrain, and pain after the quantity of their lands, tenements and rents, by the number of acres and perches after the rate of every personnes profit, rent or tenure or after the quantity of their common of pasture or profit, aprender or other commodities there, by such ways and means, and in such manner and form, as to you, or two of you whereof A. B. C. to be three shall seem most convenient to be ordained and done for the reedefyinge, making new, and enclosing as is aforesaid. And also to depute and assign diligent faithful and true keepers, bailiffs, Surveyors, Collectors, Expenditours, and other ministers and officers, such as you our said commissioners that shall appoint them, will answer for, for the reedefyinge new making and enclosing, as is aforesaid, and finishing of the premisses and every of them. And to hear the accounts of the Collectors, and other ministers of & for the receipt & laying out of the money that shallbe levied and paid in and about the said reedifing, new making, enclosing and finishing of the premisses and of every parcel thereof, and to distrayn for the arrearages of every such collection, tax or assessment, as often as shallbe expedient, or otherwise to punish the deptours and deteynours of the same, by fines, amerciaments, pains, and other like means after your good discretions. And also to arrest, and take as many carts, oxen, beasts, and other instruments necessary, and as many workmen and labourers as for the doing, making, and finishing of the premises, shall suffice, paying for the same competent wages, salary and stipend And also to take such and as many trees, woods, underwoods, quicksettes, stone, and timber, and other necessaries, as for the same works, and reparations shallbe sufficient at a reasonable price by you or two of you, of the which we will that A. B. C. shallbe three, to be assessed or limited aswell within the limits and bounds aforesaid, as in any other place and places, within the said county, counties or county palentine. And to make and ordain statutes, ordinances, and provisions, from time to time as the case shall require for the safe guard, conservation, redress, correction, and reformation of the premises, and of every of them after the laws and customs of Rumneye marsh in the county of kent, or otherwise by any ways or means after your own wisdoms and discretions, and to hear and determine all and singular the premises, aswell at our sewte as at the seute of any other whatsoever complaining before you, or six of you, whereof. A. B. C. shall be three after the laws and customs aforesaid, or otherwise, by any other ways or means, after your discretions. And also to make and direct writs, precepts, warrauntes, and other commandments, by virtue of these presents to all Sheriffs, bailiffs and all other ministers, officers and other persons, aswell with in the liberties as without before you or two of you whereof the said A. B. C. to be three at certain days, terms and places, to be prefixed to be returned and received and further to continued the process of the same. And finally we do give unto you or to any number of you, being six at the lest whereof A. B. C. shall be three full power and authority to do all and every thing and things which shallbe requisite for the due execution of the premises, by all ways and means after your discretions. And therefore we command you that at certain days and places, when and where you, or six of you whereof the said A. B. C. to be three shall think expedient, ye shall meet together and survey the said Counties and bishopric, as is aforesaid, and accomplish, fulfil, here, and determine, all and singular the premises in due form, and to the effect aforesaid after your good discretions And all such, as ye shall find negligent, gainsaying, or resisting your doings and procedings, in & for the due execution of this out commission, that ye do compel them by distress, fines, or amerciaments, or by other reasonable punishments, ways, or means, which to you, or two of you, whereof. A. B. C. shallbe three, shall seem most expedient for the speedy remedy and redress thereof.  
And all such things as by you shall be made and ordained in this behalf, aswell within the liberties as without, that ye do cause the same firmly to be observed, doing therein as to our justices appertaineth after the form and effect of this present commission, & the act of parliament concerning the premises made and provided and according to your wisdoms, and discretions, Saving always to us such fines & amerciaments as to us thereof shall belong. And we also command aswell our sheriff or sheriffs of our said counties of Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmoreland, and the byshopryke of Durham and every of them, as all and every other bailiffs ministers, & officers within the said counties and county palentine, that they and every of them shall 'cause to come before you and two of you, of the which A. B. C. shall be three, at such days and places, as ye shall appoint unto them, such and as many honest men, of his or their baliwyke or rooms, aswell within the liberties, as without by whom the truth may be best known, to inquire of the premises or any part thereof, commanding also all the said sheriffs, ministers and officers, aswell within the liberties as without, that they and every of them shall be attendant to you in and about the dew execution of this our commission. In witness whereof we have caused these our letters to be made patents, Witness ourself at the 
             
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And it is also enacted, that every such person, as shallbe named commissioner in the said commission, after that he shall have knowledge thereof, shall effectually, put his diligence, and attendance in and about the execution, of the said commission. And he shall take a corporal oath before the Lord chancellor or before such to whom the said Lord chancellor, shall direct the Kings writ of Dedimies potestatem, to take the same, or before the justices of the Peace, in the quarter Sessions holden in the shear where such Commission shallbe directed. The tenor of which oath hereafter ensueth. You shall swear that you to your cunning, wit, and power, shall truly and indifferently execute the authority to you given by this commission, without any favour affection, corruption, dread, or malice, to be borne to any manner person or persons, and as the case shall require you shall consent and endeavour yourself for your part, to the best of your knowledge, and power to the making of such wholesome, just, equal, and indifferent laws, and ordinances, as shall be made and devised by the most discrete and indifferent number of your fellows, being in commission with you, for the making, erection, and preservation, of all and every such things, as are contained and specified in the said commission. And the same Laws, and Ordinances to your cunning, wit, and power, cause to be put in dew execution without favour, meed, dread, malice, or affection, as God you help, and all saints.  
And over that be it enacted, that the commissioners, hereafter to be named in any of the said commissions, according to the purport and effect of the same Commissyons, shall have full power and authority, to make constitute and ordain Laws, Ordinances, and decrees, concerning the premisses, and further to do all and every thing, mentioned in the said commission, according to the purport effect, words, and true meaning of the same, and the same Laws, decrees, and ordinances, so made to reform, repel and amend and make new from time to time, as the cases necessary shall require.  
provided alway and be it enacted that if any person or persons being assessed, or taxed, to any Lot, tax, or charged, for any Lands, tenements, or Hereditamentes, within the limits of any commission hereafter to be directed by virtue of this act, do not pay the said lot, tax, and charge according to the ordinance and assignment of the Commissioners, having power, of th'execution of the said commission by reason whereof it shall happen, the said commissioners having power of the execution of such commission for lack of payment of such lot, tax, and charged, to decree and ordain the same Lands, tenements, & hereditaments from the owner, or owners thereof, & their heirs, and theirs, executors, and assigns, of every of them, to any person or persons, for term of years term of life, in fee simple, or fee tail, for payments of the same lot tax, and charge, That then every such decree, and ordinance, so by them made, engrossed in parchment, and certified under their Seals, into the Court of chancery, with the Kings or the Queens, her heirs or Successors, royal assent, had to the same, shall bind all and every person and persons, that at the making of the same decree had any right and interest in the same, their heirs, and Successors for ever.  
provided always and be it enacted, that no order, or decree to be made by the said commissioners or any of them, shall bind, or conclude, any right or Interest of any person or persons, nor the breach of any decree or order, shall be cause of forfeiture, of the right or interest, of any person or persons, except the same decree, and or dynaunce, so made by the said commissioners, and Syxe of them, whereof. A. B. C. shallbe three, be engrossed in perchment, and certified under their Seals in to the Court of chancery, and that the royal assent of the king and Queen her heirs and successors, be first had to the same.  
Provided also and be it enacted that every decree and ordinance so had, made certified and assented unto shall bind all and every person & persons, that at the making of the same decree had any interest, in the lands, tenements, or hereditaments so decreed, in use possession, reversion, or remainder their heirs and feoffs, and every of them. And not to be in any wise reformed unless it be by authority of parliament hereafter to be summoned and held within this Realm. Saving to all and every person and persons bodies politic and corporate their heirs and successors, other than such as shall forfeytte by this statute their Interest in the same Lands tenements, or hereditaments, in possession reversion or remainder all such interest, and titel, as they or any of them shall have at the time of the same forfeitures.  
And also it is provided by authority aforesaid that the same Laws, ordinances, and decrees, to be made & ordained by the said commissioners or six of them by authority of the said Commission, shall bind aswell the Lands, tenements, and hereditaments of the Queen our sovereign Lady her heirs, and successors as all and every other person and persons, and their heirs for such their interest as they shall fortune to have or may have in any lands tenements, or hereditaments, or other casual profit, advantage, or commodity whatsoever they be whereunto the said laws ordinances, and decrees shall in any wise extend according to the true purport, meaning and intent of the same laws.  
And it is furthermore by thauthority aforesaid established and enacted, that if any manner person or persons of what estate or degree soever he or they be that from henceforth doth take upon him or them to sit by virtue of any of the said Commyssions, not being before sworn, in form as is aforesaid and according to the tenor of the oath afore specified. Or if any person so named and sworn, do sit as is aforesaid, dwelling within the said twenty miles, or not having Lands, and tenements, or other hereditaments, in fee simple, fee tail, or for term of life to the clear yearly vallewe of forty pounds above all charges, to his own use except he be learned in the laws of this realm, that is to say, admitted in one of the four principal Inns of Court, for an utter barrister and not dwelling within the said twenty miles, shall forfeit forty pounds for every time that he shall attempt so to do, the one half thereof to be to our sovereign Lord and Lady, the king and the queen her heirs and successors the other half thereof to those of him or them that wylsue therefore by action of debt bill plaint or information in any of the queens courts, in which action or suit no wager of law shallbe admitted, nor any essoin or protection shallbe allowed. And if any action of trespass or other suit shall happen to be attempted against any person or persons, for taking of any distress, or any other attēd●ing by authority of the said Commission, or by authority of any laws or ordinances made by virtue of the said commission, the defondaunt or defendants in any such action shall and may make avoury, conisance, or justification for the taking of the same distress, or other act doing touching the premises or any of them alleging in such avouri, conifaunce or justification, that the said distress, trespass, or other act, whereof the plaintiff complaineth was done by authority of the commission, for the surveying of the counties of Northumberlande, Cumberland, Westmoreland, and the bishopric of Durham, made and provided, or for such act or cause as the said defendant did by authority of the said Commission, and according to the tenor purport, and effect of this present act, made the second and third years of the reygue of our sovereign lord and Lady king Phisyp and Queen Mary, without any expressing, or rehearsal of any other matter or circumstance couteined in this present act, or any commission laws statutes or ordinances thereupon to be made, whereupon the plaintiff, shall be admitted to reply that the denfendaunt did take the said dystaesse or do any other act or trespass supposed in his declaration of his own wrong without any such cause alleged by the said defendant whereupon the issue in every such action shallbe joined to be tried by verdict of xii men, and none otherwise, as is accustomed in other personal actions, and upon the trial of that issue the hole matter to be given on both parties in evidence according to the very truth of the same. And after such issue tried for the defendant or nonsuit of the plaintiff after apearaunce the same defendant to recover triple damages by reason of his wrongful vexation in that behalf with his costs also in that part sustained, and that to be assessed by the same jury or writ to inquire of damages, as the cause shall require.  
And it is also enacted that every of the said Commissioners shall have and perceive four shillings, for every day that they shall take pain in th'execution of this commission, and one Clerk, by them to be assigned two shillings for every day of the rates, taxes, lots and Sums of money that shallbe assessed, or lost by authority of the said Commission, and to be levied, and paid by their dyscretions. And that the said commissioners, or six of them shall have power and authority to limit, and assign such reasonable sums of money to the said Clerk, for writing of books, and process concerning the premises, and to the Collectors, expenditors, and such other as shall take pain in the dew execution of the said commission, the same to be levied by distress or otherwise out of the lands, so surveyed as by the dyscretions of the said commissioners, or Six of them, whereof A. B. C. to be three, shall be thought reasonable.  
provided alway that whensoever and as often as such commission, as is afore limited, shall be made and directed, to any person or persons for the information and amendment of orin●●aye of the premisses, specified in the said commission within the fees liberties or possession of the Duchy of Lancaster, that then such Commissioners, as shall execute any such commission, shallbe always named and appointed as is above said. And that in every such case, two commyssions shallbe awarded and made according to the tenor of the commission above expressed, one thereof under the great Seal of England and the other under the Seal of the same Duchy as before time hath been accustomed. any thing afore rehearsed in this present act, to the contrary thereof not withstanding.  
And it is further enacted, that the said commission from time to time, as the case shall require shallbe had and obtained without any money or other charge, to be paid for the Seals or writing of the same.  
And it is further enacted, that every commission to be made by authority of this act shall endure and continued for the tearine of sevon years next after the test of the commission. Nevertheless after any commission made and delivered out of the Court of chancery, the king and queens hyghnesses and theirs and successors of the Queen, shall always at their pleasures by write of supersedeas out of the said Court of chancery, at any time dyschardge aswell every such commission as every commissioner that shallbe made or named, by authority of this act, after which discharge the said Commissioners, so discharged, shall have no power nor authority, to proceed in th'execution of their commission, nor in any thing by authority of this act.  
provided always that whensoever and as often as such commission as is afore limited, shallbe made and directed to any person or persons, for the reformation & amendment, of or in any of the premises, specified in the said Commission, within the fees, liberties, and possessions of the bishopric of Durham, or within the fees, liberties and possessions of any other place, where there is liberty, and jurisdiction of county Palentine that in every such case two commissions shallbe awarded, and made according to the tenor of the commission above expressed, one thereof under the great Seal of England, and the other under the Seal of the county Palentyne in manner and form as is above provided, for the duchy of Lancaster, any thing afore rehearsed in this present act to the contrary notwithstanding.  
And nevertheless be it enacted, that if the officers of the said duchy, or of the said Byshopryche, or county palentine, do not deliver the commission by them or one of them to be made within six days after the request shall be made for the same, that then the commission under the great seal only shall proceed in the said county Palatine, without any other commission.  
And it is provided and also enacted, that the royal assent limited to be had unto the laws and ordinances to be made by the said commissioners, as is addnesayde, shallbe certified into the said court of Chancery under the privy seal, and that there shall not any sum of money be paid for the same privy seal.  
provided always, that the Chancellors and such other as shall have the custody of the seals of the said Byshopriche of Durham, or within the fees, liberties, and possessions of any other place, where there is liberty and jurisdiction, of the county palentine upon reasonable request, and upon the sight of the commission, under the great Seal of England, shall without delay, make out an other commission under the seal of the said county Palatine according to the tenor of the commission to them showed, under the great seal, and to those commissioners named in the same commission and to none other, nor in other maver.  
And be it further enacted and established by thauthority aforesaid, that all charges and sums of money hereafter to be rated and taxed by virtue of such commission upon any of the lands tenements or hereditaments of our sovereign Lady the queen, her heirs or successors, for any manner of thing or things concerning the articles of this commission, shallbe gathered and levied by distress, or otherwise in like manner and form, as shall or may be done in the lands, tenemmentes, and hereditaments, of any other person or persons, and that all bills of acquittance, signed with the hand or hands of such Collector or receiver, as shall have the collection thereof by the appointment of the said Commissioners, or two of them, shallbe aswell a sufficient discharge, to the tenants, farmers, and occupiers of the same grounds so to be charged for the said sum wherewith their grounds shallbe so charged, as also a sufficient warrant to all & every the receivers, auditers, & other whatsoever officer or officers, of our said sovereign lord & lady the king & queen, her heirs & successors for the allowance to such tenant, fermor, or occupier of the same. ¶ Provided also & be it enacted, that the said commissioners shall not let nor set any part or parcel of the premises, nor shall not meddle with the rating, renting or valuing of any part or parcel of the premises, but the same shall remain & be at the disposition of the lords & owners of the same, as they were be the making of this act, except it be for the causes of forfeiture above specified, any thing heretofore mentioned to the contrary notwithstanding  
provided always, and be it enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that all issues and forfeiture, fines, and amerciaments, which shall rise, happen, and grow, by any occasion whatsoever by virtue or colour of this act or any commission to be made by authority of the same, aswell within the liberties and counties palentyne as without whither they shall seem to be due to the king and queens majesties, her heirs and successors or to any other person or persons, or bodies politic or corporate, shallbe levied, employed and converted, in and about the charges and expenses concerning the execution of this act, in such sort, manner, and form, as by the said commissioners or six of them, whereof three to be of the Quorum, shallbe ordered, adjudged, or decreed. Any thing in this act, or in any commission aforesaid to the contrary notwithstanding.  
provided always that this statute shall only continued for ten years next after the end of the session of this parliament. And further to the end of the next parliament than next following.   

☞ An act for the reedefying of decayed houses of husbandry and for the increase of tillage.  
☞ The second Chapter.  
WHere as by an statute made in the fourth year of the reign of king Heury the seventh, it was ordained, enacted, and established, that no person of what estate, degree, or condition that he were, that then had any house, or houses, that within any time within three years then passed, had been or that then were or after should be let to farm with twenty acres of land at lest or more lying in tillage and husbandry, that the owner or owners of every such house or houses and land, should be bound to keep, sustain, and maintain houses and buildings upon the said ground, and land, convenient and necessary for the maintaining and upholding of the said tillage and husbandry. And if any such owner or owners of any such house or houses, and land, did take, keep, and occupy any such house, or houses, and land, in his or their own hands, that the said owner or owners by the same authority, should be bound in likewise to keep and maintain houses and buildings upon the said grounds and land convenient and necessary for the maintaining and upholding of the said tillage and husbandry. And if any man did contrary to the premises or any of them, that then it should be lawful to the king (if any such lands or houses were holden of him immediately) or to the lords of the fees, if any such lands were holden of them, immediately to receive yearly half the value of thissues and profits of any such lands, whereof the house or houses, were not so maintained or sustained, and the same halfendele of thissues and profits to have hold and keep, to his or their own use, without any thing therefore to be paid or given to such time as the same house or houses should be sufficiently builded or repaired again. And that no manner of free hold should be in the king ne in any such lord or lords by the taking of any such profits of or in any such lands in no manner of form but only the king and the said lord or lords, should have power to take receive and have the said issues and profits as is abovesaid, and therefore the king or the said lord or lords to have power to distrain for the same issues and profits to be had and perceived by them in form aforesaid by the authority of the said act. As by the said act more at large it doth and may appear.  
For as much as the said act is good and profitable to the common wealth, it is therefore ordained that the said act & every branch therein shallbe from henceforth put in due execution, and remain and continued in force for evermore.  
And where as the provision in the said act doth only extend to house or houses, having twenty acres of land at lest, or more lying in tillage and husbandry, upon the interpretation of which words some doubt hath risen. Be it enacted by thauthority of this present Parliament, that the said statute and the penalty and purveyance of the same, shall from henceforth extend to houses to be decayed that have or hereafter shall have twenty acres of ground or more to them lying or belonging, whether the same or any part thereof be, hath been, or shallbe used or put in tillage or not, the said twenty acres to be accounted and measured, after the quantity, rate, and measure of the Statute or ordinance, called the Statute treatise or ordinance de terris mesurandis, and not otherwise, any usage or custom or other thing whatsoever to the contrary thereof not withstanding.  
And for a further provision for reedefying of houses decayed and restoring of pasture ground to tillage and for increase of corn. Be it ordained and enacted by th'authority of this present parliament that the king and queens highness and theirs & successors of the Queen's Majesty, shall and may at all times hereafter as often as to them shall seem needful, and convenient; award their highness commission or commissions under the great Seal of England to be directed to such persons as to them shall seem meet, able and convenient, whereof three at the lest shallbe of the Quorum, authorizing them thereby, or four of them at the least, whereof two to be of the Quorum, to execute and see executed this present act according to the true intent, effect, and meaning of the same, the which commissioners or four of them at the lest, whereof two to be of the Quorum, by virtue of the said commission, and of this present act, shall have full power and authority to inquire, hear, and determine by the oaths of twelve men, or by information or other lawful ways and means, used in other cases, in any of the king & queens highness ordinary courts of record, all and singular defaults and offences, committed or done, since the feast of Saint George, the martyr, in the twenty year of the reign of the late king of famous memory king Henry the eight, or hereafter to be committed or done, aswell contrary to the tenor and effect of the said former act, as contrary to one other act made in the parliament holden in the seventh year of the reign of the said late king Henry the eight, entitled, an act to avoid letting down of towns. And also to inquire, here, order, & determine by the said ways and means, all grounds whatsoever converted, from tillage to pasture, since the said feast of S. George the martyr, in the said twenty year of the said reign of the said king Henry the eight, or hereafter to be converted from tillage to pasture, and also of all ground in or near any corn field newly used or employed sithence the said feast, or hereafter newly to be used employed or converted to the keeping of coneys, not being lawful warren, and whereby any corn of any person or persons, other than the owner of the same coneys, sithence the said feast, hath been or hereafter shallbe decayed, destroyed or consumed, and the said commissioners, or four of them, whereof two to be of the Quorum, shall and may take order and direction, for the reformation of such offences, decays and defaults in manner and form following, that is to say, they or four of them at the lest, whereof two to be of the Quorum shall & may bind by recognisance, in good sums of money, to be knowledged to the use and behoof of our sovereign lord the king and our sovereign. Lady the Queen, her Heirs and Successors, which recognisance by this Act, they shall be enabled to take the person or persons, first offending and guilty, in any of the foresaid decays or defaults, and then being or continuing owner in Fee simple, Fee Tail, for term of life, for term of years, or by copy of Court roll, in possession, or in reversion, or remainder after any estate or estates, for term of years or for term of life of such decayed house or houses, and ground thereunto lying or of ten acre's parcel thereof, or of such ground converted from tillage to pasture, or of such ground which is or shallbe used or employed to the keeping of connyes as is aforesaid, or any of them in such sums of money as to such commissioners shall seem reasonable for the re-edifying of such decayed houses, and for the converting of such ground so converted from tillage to pasture into tillage again, and for the diminishing and destroying of coneyes, within such convenient time and in such manner & form, as to the same commissioners or four of them whereof two to be of the Quorum, shall seem meet and convenient and by their discretions shallbe set limited and appointed. And if the offender or offenders do devil in any other Shire, or can not be gotten to be bounden by recognisance before the said Commissioners as is aforesaid. That then the say Commissioners or four of them whereof two to be of the Quorum, shall take such other order for the re-edifying of the houses and converting the grounds to tillage and destroying of connyes, according to this statute as shallbe thought meet by their discretions, and shall 'cause the same their order to be entered of record within one month after their said order made, & shall within the same month deliver or 'cause to be delivered, the copy of their said order, signed and sealed by them or four of them to the tenant fermor or servant, keeping residing or inhabiting the ground or place for the which the order shallbe made, to the intent the same may be delivered over or declared to the said owner or owners, that shall or ought to be charged, by or with the same. And if the place, in which any such decayed house or houses, hath been, or shallbe situate, shallbe found in the hands of any person or persons, other than such person or persons as first did suffer or make the said decay, than the said Commissioners or four of them whereof two to be of the Quorum, shall and may order and enjoin all and every person and persons having the immediate and present inheritance in the said grounds and places wherein any of the aforesaid decay shallbe found as is aforesaid, to reedify, and build again the same decayed house either in the said place where it was decayed or near unto the same, within the same town, parish, or hamlet, within such time, & in such sort as to the said Commissioners or four of them, whereof too to be of the Quorum, shall seem reasonable and convenient. And shall further assess and tax all and every person and persons, having any particular estate in the said grounds, belonging to any such house decayed, for term of life, years, or by copy of Court roll, to be Contrybutorye towards the said Reedyfycation, and building in such Sum or Sums of money to be paid to the foresaid person having the immediate and present inheritance, and being ordered and enjoined to reedifye the same, as to the said commissioners, or four of them whereof two to be of the Quorum, shall seem meet and reasonable, having respect and regard to the several estate, and terms of all and every the said particular tenants, and to the commodities, profits, and emoluments, thereto severally and respectively belonging, and also having respect to such covenants, grants, agreamentes and conditions as be, or shallbe contained in any lawful writing made concerning the estate of any of the persons to be charged for the said reedification, or for the contribution of any thing to wards the same freehold, estate remainder or reversion as is aforesaid, according to their several interest, estates, commodities and profits.  
And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid that all and every person and persons bodies politic and corporate, that shall have any estate or interest, i● any of the said houses, places or grounds, wherein any of the aforesaid decays shallbe committed & found, or presented as is beforesaid from or by any person or persons so ordered and enjoined as is aforesaid, shallbe charged and chargeable according to his or their estate, or estates, commodities and profits, in the same, in like sort and manner as he or they from whom or by whom the same estate or estates, shallbe by any means derived, or conveyed, should or aught to have been by force of the said commandment and injunction. And also that the person or persons that shallbe appointed or charged by the said orders & injunctions, or by this statute, to reedifye any of the decayed houses before said and to have any contribution, rate or sum of money, or other thing of any others, towards the same, shall and may by virtue hereof have one action of debt for the same against the party or parties, appointed to pay the same, and against their heirs executors or assigns in any of the king and queens Majesties, ordinary Courts of record, or shall sue for the same by information before the said Commissioners or four of them, whereof two to be of the Quorum, in which suit no injunction wager of law protection nor essoign shallbe allowed, for the defendant. And if any party or parties that should or aught to pay or give any Sum of money, or other thing in contribution as is aforesaid, shall upon a reasonable request thereof to be made wilfully refuse or delay to pay or give the same. That then the plaintiff upon his suit to have and recover triple damages against the said defendant.  
And further be it enacted that if the said ground or grounds so converted from tillage to pasture, or used or employed to the keeping of connyes, to the destruction of corn as is above said, shallbe found in the hands or possession of any person or persons, other than such as did convert the said grounds from tillage to pasture, or use or employ the said grounds with connyes as is aforesaid, that then the said commissioners or four of them whereof two to be of the Quorum, shall and may order and enjoin the occupiers of the said ground or grounds so converted from tillage to pasture, or so used or employed to the keeping of connyes as is aforesaid to turn the same again into tillage, or to destroy or diminish the said connyes kept upon the same ground within such time and upon such pains as by them shallbe limited and appointed.  
And be it further enacted by thauthority aforesaid, that every such order and injunction above mentioned, shallbe entered of record and the copy thereof written in parchment and signed and sealed by the said commissioners or four of them whereof two to be of the Quorum, and delivered to the occupier or occupiers of the ground or place wherein any of the foresaid offences, decays, or defaults, shall be found as is aforesaid, to the intent the same may be delivered over or declared to all such other persons as shall or aught to be bounden or charged by the same.  
And further be it enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that the said commissioners or four of them whereof two to be of the Quorum shall and may have power and authority by force of the said Commission and of this act, to commit every person refusing to be bound by recognisance as is aforesaid, and every the said particular tenants refusing to declare to the said commissioners or four of them whereof two to be of the Quorum, how long or what his said particular estate is to prison into the next jail in the said county there to remain without bail or maynepryce until he shallbe bound in recognisance as is aforesaid or show or declare his or their particular estate, or estates in the premisses to the said commissioners or four of them whereof two to be of the Quorum, as is aforesaid.  
And be it further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that the Sheriffs and all other ministers, within the counties where such Session shallbe appointed, shallbe attendant upon the said commissioners and shall return before them all such process and precepts as they shall have in commandment to do, and be obedient unto them as they are bound to be to the justices of peace or of Oyer, and determiner at all times and places for the execution of the said commission and of this Act. And the same commissioners or four of them whereof two to be of the Quorum, shall have power & authority to inquire here and determine as is aforesaid, of, for & upon all forfeitures recognisances, and breeches of orders, and Injunctions that shallbe taken, knowledged or made before the said commissioners, or four of them, and to assess such fines and amerciaments as to them shall seem meet and convenient, upon the sheriff and other officers, and persons, whatsoever making default, and for contempts and other misdemeanours before them. And shall have authority to reform all impanalles to be returned before them as the justices of peace may do.  
And further be it enacted by thauthority aforesaid, that every of the Commissioners shall have for every day he shall sit to execute this commission ten shillings, and to the clerk that shall serve and write all process and other records before the said commissioners, for every day he shall attend upon the said commissioners, three shillings and four pence, the same to be paid by the Sheryffe or clerk of the court of the fines, forfeitures and amerciaments, that shall aryle or be cessed for any matter or default before the said commissioners, and the Sheriff, to be allowed upon his account for the same. So that the same be noted and specified in the estreat, signed by the said Commissioners or four of them, whereof two to be of the Quorum.  
provided always and be it enacted by thauthority aforesaid, that the said commissioners or any of them by virtue of this act shall not have power or authority to do any thing touching the offences or defaults aforesaid contrary to the ordinance or purveyance of any statute, heretofore made or to the exclusion or taking away of any benefit or liberti permitted or saved to any manner of person by any provision in any of the said statutes or contrari to th'effect of any licence heretofore granted by the king and queens highness, or the queens highness or any of the ancestors or predecessors of the queens highness, so that the same licence be showed to them, or four of them, under seal before conviction of the offence or defaults aforesaid. Any thing aforesaid to the contrary thereof in any wise not withstanding.  
And forasmuch as it is like to be that some houses having twenty acres of ground or more, to them lying or belongyug, be decayed without any willing default in them that had the inheritance or possession thereof, as by fire, breaches, and surrounding of waters, or by destruction of enemies, or rebels, or of such as had particular estates therein without impeachment of waste, or by such other like means or ways, and that they who by the ordinance aforesaid, should re-edify the same, are of such poverty that they can not by all intendment reedifye or build up all the same houses again.  
And forasmuch also as some perchance have erect & builded up new houses in some other places upon the same lands lying to the said houses, or upon some other land near thereunto in lieu and place of the houses decayed, which are as available to the common wealth as the new reedefying of the decayed houses in the old places should be, in which cases equity requireth, they should not be punished for the said decay.  
And forasmuch as it is like to be that some ground converted from tillage into pasture is divided into divers small parcels remaining and being in divers and several men's hands, so that any one part will not be sufficient to keep a plough upon. And for that some grounds have been tilled for dystroyinge of moss bushes, broom, fyrres heath, and not only to be continued in tillage and such like. And that also some demeans in the absence of the owners have been divided to sundry occupiers, who hath tilled the same, not being commonly used to tillage before the said feast of S. George, & for that divers other particular cases may fortune to be which the general purveyance of this statute can not remedy without greater hurt than good to be done by the same. And for that also that in some places of this realm it is not necessary the purueyen of this statute to extend and to be fully executed, but in some places and upon some occasions or causes, it may more conveniently be spared then put in ure, and is therefore necessary to refer such things with all other circumstances, to the discresions of the commissioners who may more perfectly understand the same.  
Be it therefore ordained and enacted by authority of this present parliament that the said commissioners or four of them at the least, whereof two to be of the Quorum, shall and may consider the said cases and such other like, and use their discretions in temporing and qualifying of the said general purveyance of this or any of the foresaid former statutes, & in ordering the said cases and such other like, and to omit the execution and penalty of this act, and of the other former acts accordingly, as to the wisdom's and discretiones of them or four of them at the least, whereof two to be of the Quorum, shallbe thought moste necessary. This act or the aforesaid former acts in any wise notwithstanding. And shall have power and authority to cancel recognisances taken before them, and not appearyuge to them forfeited, if it shall seem to them or four of them, whereof two to be of the Quorum, meet and convenient.  
And it is further ordered and enacted by authority of this present parliament, that where as any ground by means of this act shall fortune hereafter to be converted from pasture in't tillage according to th'intent of this act, which ground is chargeable with any rent reserved since the time the same ground was converted from tillage to pasture, and which was reserved and made the greater, in consideration that the same was so converted from tillage into pasture or stored with connyes, that all such rents if they be greater than the ground turned into tillage, or the ground by reason of the destruction of conneyes is worth, shall be abated and apportioned by the said Commissioners, or four of them, whereof too to be of the Quorum, according to their discretions, if they shall think the same so meet.  
provided always, and be it enacted by th'authority aforesaid that the retaining or none payment of any such part or portion of any rents that shallbe abated or deducted by the commissioners as is aforesaid, shallbe no breach or forfeiture of any bond, penalty covenant, grant, or condition to be contained in any Indenture, bond, obligatory, or other writing, agreement, or promise what soever to the contrary notwithstanding.  
And further be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the said Commissioners or four of them, whereof two to be of the Quorum, shall have power and authority by virtue hereof, to make and direct forth precepts and processes, aswell to the Sheriff of the county, as to all other freholdes and persons that ought to attend or appear before the said commissioners for the trial answering or proving of any offence against this statute or against any of the aforesaid former statutes, to appear before them at any day and time that the said Commissioners or four of them whereof two to be of the Quorum, shall lymytte or appoint, and upon the appearance of the said people to give day over from time to time, as they shall think meet.  
And be it enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that if any such person or persons as presently have, or hereafter shall have any houses builded, or re-edified, or to be re-edified, or any grounds to be converted to tillage, according to the tenor and effect of this statute, or of any of the aforesaid statutes, that then the said person or persons, their heirs or assigns shall within three years next after the end of this Session of this Parliament, dimise, or let to farm the houses already builded or re-edified with the twenty acres of ground, which before time did appertain and lie to the same, or ten acre's parcel thereof, if there be now no more of the same lands in their hands that hath the houses builded or reedefyed, or aught to reedify the same, or with so much other lands lying convenient for the said house, and shall dymyse, and let to farm the houses hereafter to be reedefyed within two years after the same, shall be so reedefyed with the twenty acres of lands, or the ten acre's parcel thereof or the like number of acres as is before said. And if any of the said houses, and lands, shall not be so dimised or let to farm as is aforesaid, That then the said commissioners or four of them at the least, whereof two to be of the Quorum, shall have power and authority, by virtue of this act, to dimise and let the said house and lands to any person or persons, having no other farm or tenements, within the same parish, nor having any action, or suit at that parliament against the owner, and requiring the same for seven. years, at the most for such reasonable rent and upon such reasonable covenants, as the said Commissioners, shall think meet for both parties. So that they take good assurance for the payment of the rents and performing of covenants, to the owner of the same as they shall think convement, upon which lease the owners of the house and lands, so let, their executors & assigns and every of them for the time being, and also every such lease, their executors, and assigns, and every of them, shall have such remedy and actions th'one against the other, as they should or might have had if they themselves, had only been privy and parties, to the said leases.  
And be it enacted by thauthority aforesaid, that if any person or persons shallbe condemned or charged with or for any offence that he or they aught not to be charged withal, by this act or by any of the aforesaid former statutes, that then the said party and parties shall and may have his or their travers, and remedy therefore in the star Chamber, before the Council there.  
And be it enacted by thauthority aforesaid, that this statute shall at the pleasures of the king and queens majesties her heirs and Successors, be put in execution, either by Commissioners to be appointed according to the tenor of this act, or else by the commissioners to be appointed by their majesties for th'execution of certain statutes thereof made in this Session of this present parliament.  
provided always and be it enacted by th'authority aforesaid that this act nor any thing therein contained shall extend to any house, or building made or to be made by any tenants in dower or other particular tenant without th'assent of him or them in reversion or remainder of estate of inheritance, unless the same house or building be or shallbe made and erected according to th'intent and purvey of this estate. Any thing in this statute to the contrary notwithstanding.  
And be it further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that if any person or persons, shall be convicted or condemned of or for any offence or forfeiture, of any recognisance, or other matter contained & specified in this act, upon any information at the suit of any party or parties, that then th'one moiety of all such forfeitures, & Sums of money as shallbe due for th'offence or forfeiture contained in the information shallbe to the party or parties, that shall exhibit and prosecute the same. Any thing in this act or in any of the aforesaid acts to the contrary not withstanding.  
And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid that the said commissioners or four of them at the lest, whereof two of them to be of the Quorum, shall enroll, or cause to be enrolled, of record all such orders provisions pains penalties forfeitures fines, amerciaments, condempnations and convictions, as shallbe had, made, set, taxed, lost, or forfeited by reason or occasion of any matter or thing contained in this act or in any of the aforesaid former acts, and the same Records to be well observed and kept, in such sort and order as the said commissioners or four of them, whereof two of them to be of the Quorum shall think meet and convenient.  
And be it further enacted by thauthority aforesaid that the said commissioners or four of them at the least, shall by virtue hereof have aucthoryty to make or cause to be made process for the levying of all such amerciaments, fines, sums of money, and forfeitures, that shallbe due to be paid by reason of any presentment, judgement, recognisance order, inumction assessment, default, or other matter, whatsoever had, made, given or done, according to the purport and intent of this statute, as justices of peace may do for any fines or forfeitures before them. And the said Commissioners or four of them whereof two to be of the Quorum, shall yearly at the feast of saint Mighel th'archangel make or cause to be made estreats, indented of all such forfeitures penalties fines amerciaments, and Sums of money as shallbe due in the year next before the said feast upon the forfeiture of any recognizance or for any of the causes or offences abovesaid, the same estretes to be subscribed and sealed by the said Commissioners or four of them whereof two to be of the Quorum, th'one part thereof to be sent into the court of Exchequer, at Westminster, within xl days after Myghelmas. And tother part thereof to be delivered to the Sheriff of the Shire, which shallbe a sufficient warrant to him and his deputy, to levy the same in such sort as he aught or may levy the sums contained in the streets, to the sheriffs, directed forth of the Court of Exchequer, and the Sheryffe to discharge therewith his account.  
And be it enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that if any offender, shall once be condemned, and pay his fine or forfeiture for any of the offences aforesaid in any court before any justices or Commissioner, having authority for that purpose, that then the said offen dour or offenders, shall not eftsoons be charged again for that offence being passed, but shall and may plead his former payment, in bar thereof.  
And be it further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that the clerk or clerks, that shall write the matters and records before the said commissioners, shall take for the entry of pleas & other his doings such fees and none other as shallbe appointed by the said commissioners, or four of them whereof two to be of the Quorum, and written in a table that shallbe fixed openly in the place where the Sessions shall be kept upon pain that the said clerk so offending shall loose & forfeit to the party grieved, triple the value of that which was so taken and he or they that shall embesel any recognisance or record shall for every such offence loose and forfeit. u.li. and be committed to prison until he shall pay the said sum of. u.li. and also make such other recompense and satisfaction, as the said commissioners, or four of them whereof two to be of the Quorum, shall think convenient.  
provided always and be it enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that this act nor any thing therein contained shall extend to charge any person or persons that shall keep any ground in pasture for the keeping of his or their own horses, kine, or other cattle, for th'only victual to be spent in his or their house or houses.  
And be it further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that this act nor any thing therein contained shall in any wise extend to re-edify any chief manor place nor any other houses or buildings, but such as shallbe meet and convenient for the farmers or tenants, of any other fermeholdes, or tenants for the maintenance of the grounds that be or shallbe assigned or laid to be occupied with the said houses builded and to be builded according to the intent of this statute, by the discretion of the said commissioners or four of them whereof two to be of the Quorum, nor shall extend to convert to tillage any ground not exceeding five acres, which is or shallbe used and enclosed for any garden orchard hopyarde rapesede or for coneyes, for th'only provision of any man's house and to be spent in the same, and not being hurtful to the corn of any person or persons, other than the owners of the said coneyes so that the said garden, orchard, hopyard or coney garth shall lie adjoining or nigh within one mile to the dwelling house of the owner thereof, nor shall extend to convert any ground to tillage, which is or shallbe left untiled & not sown with corn by reason of the evilness bareness or barrenness of the same until such time as the said ground shallbe apt and meet for tillage and to bear corn again, as by the said Commissioners or four of them, whereof two to be of the Quorum, shallbe thought convenient, this statute or any other statute to the contrary notwithstanding.  
And be it further enacted by th'authority aforesaid that if any person or persons at any time after the Session of this present parliament, shall convert or turn to pasture any ground now being eareable and kept most commonly in tillage for the space of twenty years last passed before the Session of this present parliament, and shall not ear and break up to tillage as much other ground now being pasture within the said lordship or parish where the said ground so converted doth lie, within one year next after any such conversion, and shall not keep the said new eared ground continually in tillage after any such conversion, unless that for barrenness thereof he or they shall convert the same to pasture upon the like order of earing so much other ground being pasture within the said lordship where such conversion shallbe made, shall loose and forfeit for every acre converted into pasture contrary to the form of this act yearly. u.ss. th'one half thereof to the king and queen's majesties, & the other to him or them that will sue for the same by bill plaint or information, in any court of record, wherein no essoygne protection or wager of law, shallbe allowed for the defendant. This act to endure to the last day of the next parliament.   

☞ An Act for the keeping of mylche kine, and for the breeding and rearing of Calves.  
☞ The iii Chapter.  
FOr as much as of late years a great number of persons within this realm have laid their lands farms, and pastures, to feeding of sheep, oxen, runtes, schrubbes, steres, & hekfers, and such other like cattles having no regard or care to breed and rear up young beasts and cattle, whereby is grown great scarcity of cattle and victual necessary for the sustenance of divers sorts of people within this realm, and more is like to be, if speedy remedy be not provided.  
It is therefore by th'authority of this present parliament enacted that every person, which from the feast of the Purification of our lady next ensuing shall keep or feed above the number of six score shear sheep for the most part of the year upon his or her several pastures, lands, feedings, or fermes, apt or meet for milch kine and wherein no other person hath at the making of this present act, common for any cattle of any time of the year, shall by authority of this act, yearly so long as he shall keep or feed the said number of six score shear sheep, for every threescore shear sheep so kept or fed, keep one milk cow, and shall breed and rear up yearly for every six score shear sheep so kept as is aforesaid one Calf upon pain of forfeiture for every month that any such person, shall not for every three score shear sheep as is aforesaid, keep or feed one mylche Cow, twenty shillings for every Cow so not kept. And for lack of rearing and breeding of one calf for every six score shear sheep, to forfeit likewise twenty shillings for every calf so not reared and fed, and that every person which after the foresaid feast of the Purification of our lady, upon his or her several pastures as afore is said, shall keep or feed above the numbered of twenty oxen, runtes, Scrubbes, Steres, hekfayres, or kine, shall by th'authority of this act, for every ten beasts of the said sorts so kept or fed, keep and nowrishe one milk cow, and breed rear and wain yeareliand keep for one whole year one Calf for every two milch kine so charged to be kept upon the several pains and forfeitures afore rehearsed, except the said Calf, or Calves shall chance to die within the said years, without covin or fraud thereto added, th'one half of which saved forfeitures shallbe to the use of our said sovereign Lord and Lady the king and queens Majesties and the other half to those of the party, that within one year after th'offence committid will sue for the same in any of the king and queens majesties Courts of Record, or before the justices of peace, in the same Shire, where any such cause of forfeiture shallbe had at the general Sessions (who by authority of this act shall have power to hear and determine the said offences) by bill information presentment, action of debt, or detinue, in which action or suit no essoign, protection, wager of law or licence to the contrary shallbe allowed.  
provided always, that this act nor any clause thereof shallbe extended to bind any person to keep mylche kine, ne yet to breed or rear calves, as afore is expressedde for such sheep or other beasts, as the same person shall keep and feed to the intent only to be spent in his or their house or houses, without fraud or covin. This act to endure only unto th'end of seven years next following the feast of the Purification of our lady aforesaid, and from thence to th'end of the parliament than next following.   

☞ An act for the extynguyshement of the first fruits and touching order and disposition of the tenths of spiritual and ecclesiastical promotions, and of rectories, and personages impropryate, remaining in the Queen's majesties hands.  
¶ The four chapter.  
WHere at a parliament holden at Westminster the third day of November in the xxi year of the reign of our late sovereign Lord king Henry the viii and upon prorogation there holden the third day of November, in the xxvi year of the said late king, for the maintenance of his royal estate then being recognyfed the only supreme head in earth, next and immediately under god, of the church of England. It was enacted by the authority of the said parliament, that the said king his heirs and successors kings of this realm, should have and enjoy from time to time to endure for ever, of every such person & persons, which at any time after the first day of january, than next coming, should be nominated, elected, prefected, presented, collated, or by any other means appointed to have any arch byshoppryche, byshoppryche, abbey, monastery, pryorye, college, hospital, archedeaconrye, deanery, Provosteshyppe, Prebend, Parsonage, Vicarage, Chaunterye, Frechapell or other dignity, benefice, office, or promotion spiritual, within this realm, or else where within any of the kings dominions of what name, nature, or quality soever they were, or to, or of whose foundation, patronage or gift soever they belonged, the first fruits, revenues, and profits, for one year of every such Archebyshopryche, Byshopryche, Abbey, Monastery, priory, College, Hospital, Archedeaconry, Deanery, Provostshype, Prebend, Parsonage, Vicarage, Chauntery, Frechappell or other dignity, benefice, office, or promotion spiritual aforenamed, whereunto any such person or persons, should after the said first day of Ianuarye be nominated elected prefected, presented, collated or by any other means appointed, and that every such person and persons, before any actual or real possession or meddling with the profits of any such Archbyshopryche, Bysshoprych, Abbay, Monastery, Pryorye, College, Hospital, Deanery Provostshyp, Prebend, Parsonage, Vycarege, Chaunterye, Frechappell or other dignity, benefice, office, or promotion spiritual should satisfy, content and pay, or compound or agree to pay to the kings use at reasonable days upon good sureties the said first fruits and profits, for one year.  
And where further in the said parliament it was enacted by authority aforesaid, that the said king his heirs and successors, kings of this realm, for more augmentation and maintenance of the royal estate of th'imperial crown and dignity of supreme head, should yearly have take retain and enjoy, united and knit to his imperial crown for ever one yearly rend or pension amounting to the value of the tenth part of all the revenues, rents, fermes, tithes ofspringes emoluments & of all other profits, as well called spiritual as temporal then appertaining or belonging, or that from thence forth should belong to any archebyshopperyche byshopryche, abbey, monastery, pryorye, archedeacourye, deanery, hospital, college, house collegiate, prebend, cathedral Church, collegiate Church, conventual Church, parsonage, vicarage, chaunterye, frechappel, or other benefice or promotial spiritual of what name nature or quality soever they were or be within any diocese of this realm, or in Wales the said pension or annual rent to be yearly paid for ever to the said late king his heirs & successors kings of this realm, at the feast of the nativity of our Lord God. And that the first payment thereof should begin at the feast of the nativity of our Lord God which then should be in the year of our Lord God a thousand, five hundredth thirty and five, and to be paid yearly by such as should be appointed, to have the collection thereof by the same act in such manner and form, as should after that time be limited by the said act before the first day of Apryll, next following after the said feast of the nativity of our Lord, as in the said at amongst other things, more plainly appeareth.  
The king and the queens most excellent Majesties for divers urgent considerations them their honours and consciences specially moving, will that it be enacted, and therefore be it enacted by authority of this present parliament, that all payments of the said first fruits shall from hence forth cease and be clearly extinct and deter mined for ever. And that aswell all and singular archbishopperiches, byshopryches, & other benefices, dignities and promotions spiritual afore charged and chargeable to and with the payments of the first fruits, as all and every possessor, owner and incumbent of the same, and their successors shall from and after the viii day of August last passed, and so from thence forth at all times for ever be clereli exonerate acquitted and discharged against our said sovereign lord and lady and against the heirs and successors of our said sovereign lady of and from the payment and payments of all and every the said first fruits in as ample and large manner and form, as they were before the making of the said act. And as though the same act had never been had ne made.  
provided always, and be it enacted by th'authority aforesaid that this act or any thing therein contained shall not in any wise extend to extynguyshe or discharge any recognisance or other bond obligatory, or any pain penalty debt or forfeiture had made or due to the queens highness her heirs and successors, at any time before the said eight day of August, last passed for and concerning the said first fruits.  
And where as since the said xxvi year of the said late king Henry the eight, his Majesty, and the late king Edward the sixth, and our said sovereign Lord and Lady, the king and the queens Majesties, or any of them have before this time by their several and sundry letters patents, given granted and assured aswell unto sundry bishops and their successors, as to diverse Cathedral Churches, Deans, and chapters, colleges and other ecclesiastical and spiritual persons and corporations and their Successors diverse manors, Lands, tenements, Rectories, personages, tithes gleblandes and other hereditaments, to hold in pure and frank all moyne or by any other tenure, & to pay yearly unto their majesties their heirs and successors one yearly rent in the name of a tenth, or the tenth part of the yearly value of the same, as by the said several patents more at large doth appear.  
Our said sovereign Lord and Lady, the King and queens Majesties that now are, further wyllen that it be enacted, and be it enacted by thauthority of this present parliament, that the said perpetual pension, annual, rend or tenth, mentioned and contained in the said act, made in the said xxvi year of the reign of the said late king henry the eight, and the said several rents and tenths reserved upon the said letters patents for and in the name of a tenth or any of them from and after the feast of S. Michael th'archangel last passed shall not be paid or payable unto their Majesties, her heirs or successors, and that aswell all and singular the Archbyshoprykes bishoprics, and other the benefices, dignities, Deans, and Chapters, Colleges, Corporations and spiritual promotions, aforesaid as all and every possessor Owner, propryetories and incumbent of the same and their successors and every of them from and after the said feast of Saint Michael tharchangel last passed shallbe clearly exonerate acquitted and discharged of and for the payment of the said perpetual pension, annual rent or tenths aforesaid, and of the said tenths reserved upon the said letters patents, and of every of them against our said sovereign lord and lady, and the heirs and successors of the Queen, to th'intent that the same shallbe ordered used and disposed in manner and form as hereafter in this act shall be expressed. And for the better declaration of their majesties good and godlidispositions in the premises, their highness doth by authority of this present parliament clearly give over renounce and relinquish from them, and the heirs and successors of the Queen's highness, the said perpetual pentyon, annual rent, and tenth, and the said rents reserved nomine decimae upon the said several letters patents & all their. right, titel, and interest, which they or the said heirs or successors of oursayd sovereign lady the queen have, or may have in or to the same. ¶ And where divers and sundry rectories personages and benefices impropryat, glebe lands, tithes, oblations, pensions, portions, and other proftes, and emoluments ecclesiastical & spiritual to the same, or any of them belonging, & the reversion & reversions of divers of them, since the twenty year of the reign of the said late king Henry the viii came unto the hands & possession of the said late king. And likewise since his death unto the hands of the said late king Edward the sixth, and after unto the hands and possession of the king and queens majesties that now are, as in the right of her highness of an statute of inheritance. Their majesties like good catholic and christian princes earnestly tendering the instruction of their people in true and sincere doctrine, and therewithal weighing the poverty and skarsenesse of living of many and sundry benefices and cures within this realm, and other their dominions, by reason where of sufficient and able curates can not be gotten to serve the same, likewise wyllen that it be enacted.  
And therefore be it enacted by thauthority of this present parliament that their majesties and the heirs and successors of the queens highness, shall not from the feast of S. Michael tharchangel last paste receive, perceive, take or enjoy, any the issues, revenues, profits, or commodities, of the said rectories, personages, benefices, glebe lands tithes, oblations, pensions, portions, and other profits, and emoluments, ecclesiastical and spiritual aforesaid, or any of them or of the rencrtion or reversions of them or any of them, but doth from and after the said feast, clearly give over, renounce, and relinquish by the authority aforesaid, the said rectories, personages benefices, glebe lands, tithes, oblations, pensions portions, and other profits and emoluments ecclesiastical and spiritual aforesaid, and every of them and the reversion and reversions of them and of every of them, and all their xyght, title, use, interest, and demand of in or to the same, from them & the heirs & successors of the queens majesty for ever to be used employed, ordered, and disposed, in manner and form as in this act hereafter is expressed and declared.  
Provided always, and be it enacted by thauthority of this present parlinment, that this act or any thing therein contained shall not in any wise extend to extinguish, discharge, or give a way any of thissues, tenements, or profits of the said rectories, personages, & benefices impropryat, globe lands, tithes, oblations, pensions, & portions, aforesaid or any arrearages of rents of the same, or the arrearages of any of that said seueral tenths before specified or of any part or parcel thereof, dew unto their majesties her heirs and successors at the said feast of S. Michael the archangel last passed, or any time before the said feast, but that their hyghnesses, her heirs and successors shall have, receive, and enjoy, all and singular the said arrearages of the said rents, and several tenths, the we at or before the said feast, in like manner and form as if this act had not been made, any thing before mentioned, law, use, or custom, to the contrary not withstanding.  
provided also and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid that this act or any thing therein contained shall not in any wise extend to extynguyshe, discharge, or give away any yearly rent, teserued for and in the name of a tenth, upon any letters, patents, heretofore made and granted by our said sovereign lord king Henry the eight, king Edward the sixth, and by our sovereign Lord and Lady the king and queens Majesties, or by any of them to any person or persons and to their heirs, or in fee tail general or special, or for term of life, lives or years, or to any bodies politic or corporate, and to their successors other then to spiritual & ecclesiastical corporations and to their successors, but that the king and queens majesties, her heirs and successors, shall have, perceive and enjoy, all and singular the said rents so reserved upon any of the said letters patents, not being made and granted to any spiritual or ecclesiastical persons and corporations, and to their successors as is aforesaid, in like manner and form as if this act had never been made.  
And where the king and the queen's Majesties stand charged for the payment of sundry rents pensions, annuities, corrodyes, fees, and other yearly payments severally grannted aswell by divers & sundry late abbots, priors, masters of colleges, masters of hospytals, chauntery priests, and other ecclesiastical and spiritual persons before the dissolution of their houses, to divers and sundry persons, severally or jointly for term of life, lives, or years, as also by her said father king Henry the eight, and by her said brother king Edward the sixth, and by her majesty, or by any of them to divers & sundry religious persons and others severally or jointly for term of life lives or years, the names of all which persons together with their several yearly rents pensions annuities corrodies fees and yearly payments and prosytes, shallbe specially and particularly set fourth and contained in a certain book indented, whereof the one connterpayne to be signed by our said Sovereign lady the queen and the other with the sign manuel of the most revereud father in God Reignold Poole Cardinal and Legate de later, of the Pope's holmes and of the Sea apostolic, specially sent unto their majesties, and to their kingdoms, and dominions, to the intent our said sovereign Lord and Lady the king and queens Majesties, their heirs and successors should be from the said feast of saint Michael the archeaungell last passed, and at all times from henceforth, clearly exonorated, acquitted, discharged, or saved harmless, of and from the payment of the said rents, pensions, annuities, corrodies, fees and yearly payments aforesaid. Our said Sovereign Lord and Lady the king and the queens majesties are pleased, and contented that it be enacted.  
And therefore be it enacted by thauthority of this present parliament that such, and so many of the clergy of this realm, as the said Lord Legates grace shall from time to time name and appoint and the successors of them and every of them (if it shall so please the said Lord Legates grace to name appoint and assign them) shall from the said feast of saint Mychell last passed, and so from thence forth from time to time until the said rectories, personages, and benefices impropriate, and other the said spiritual profits, shallbe other wise ordered used and employed by the assygnessient of the said Lord Legates grace, as hereafter is expressed and declared, have, take, perceive, and receive, aswell all and singular the said perpetual pension, annual rents, or tenths, and every of them at such days and time, and by all such ways and means, as the same is limited and appointed to be paid either by the said several letters patents or by the said former statute made in the said xxvi year of king Henry the viii or by any other statute made for and concerning the true payment of the said tenths or any of them, as also all and singular the issues, revenues, profits, and commodities, of and in all and singular the said rectories, personages, and benefices impropryate, glebe lands, tithes, oblations, pensions, portions, and other profits, and emoluments, ecclesiastical and spiritual aforesaid, & of the reversion and reversions thereof, when they shall fall by all such ways remedies and means, for the levying and recovery of the rents and profits of the said premisses, as our said sovereign Lord and Lady her highness heirs and successors should or might have done if the said premisses had still continued in their Majesties hands and possession, to this use and intent, and purpose following that is to say, that such and as many of the clergy of this realm and their successors, as the said most reverend father the Lord Legates Grace, shall name and appoint, as is aforesaid, shall therewith satystye, content, and pay, or cause to be satisfied, contented, and paid, to all and every the said religious persons and others named within the said book indented which at this time have or aught to have any pension, corrodye, annuity, yearly rend, profit, or fee, for term of life, lives or years, as is aforesaid, all and singular their said pensions, corrodies, annuities, rents, or fees at such days and times as is limited and appointed by several letters patents, or other writings or grants to them made. And in such manner and form as our said sovereign Lord and Lady the king and queens hyghnesses her heirs and successors should or ought to have paid the same, if this act had never been had ne made, any thing before mentioned to the contrary not withstanding. And that they shall exonerate acquit, and discharge, or save harmless the said king and queens majesties, and her heirs and successors kings of this realm, of and for the payment of all and singular the said pensions, annuities, corrodies, and fees, and shallbe further bound for the assurance thereof, as shallbe devised by their majesties, with the assent of the said lord Legate. any thing before mentioned to the contrary not withstanding. And to the intent the poor benefices and cures of this Realm, and other the dominions thereto belonging may be hereafter furnished with good and able curates to instruct the people with good and sincere doctrine, and to be able to maintain hospitality and for and to other godly intents and purposes to be done within this realm. Our said sovereign lord and lady the king and queens majesties of their most gracious dispositions, are pleased and contented and wyllen that it be enacted.  
And be it enacted by thauthority aforesaid, that the said Lord Legate shall and may dispose, order, employ, and convert the said rectories, personages, and benefices impropriate, glebe lands, tithes oblations, pensions, portions, and other the said profits, and emoluments, ecclesiastical and spiritual, to & for th'increase and augmentation of livings of the incumbentes of the said, or other poor cures and benefices, or otherwise for the finding of preachers or the exhibition of scholars within this realm and dominions of the same, as by the godly wisdom and discretion of the said lord Legate shallbe thought most mere & convevyent, saving to all and every person & persons, bodies politic and corporate, and their heirs assigns and successors and every of them, other than our said sovereign lord & lady the king and queens majesties, and the heirs & successors of the queens highness all such personages, nominations, presentations, advowsons, right, title, possession, interest, reversion, remainder, entre, condition, fees, offices, rents, annuities, commons, leases, liberties, & all other commodities thing and things, profits and hereditaments whatsoever in like manner & form to all intentes constructions & purposes as they or any of them should might or aught to have had in or out of any of the said tenths, personages, rectories, benefices, vycareges, tithes pensions, portions, oblations, obuentions, or in or to any the premisses or any part thereof in as ample and large manner as if this act had never been had ne made.  
Provided always and be it further enacted by the authority of this present parliament that immediately after the decease of the said persons named in the said book to be indented, and the determination of their senerall statutes and rights, and to the said annuities fees rents, and corrodies, the said payment of the said perpetual pension annual payment or tenth, & of the said tenths & rents reserved nomine decimae upon any letters patentes, made unto ecclesiastical & spiritual persons aforesaid, shall utterly cease & be determined for ever, any thing herein contained to the contrary in any wise not withstanding.  
And be it further enacted by the authority of this present parley ament, that all and singular person and persons bodies politic and corporate, being spiritual and ecclesiastical and their successors and every of them, which shall hereafter have & enjoy any of the said rectories personages, and benefices impropryat, glebe lands, tithes, oblations, pensions, portions, and other profits, and emoluments ecclesiastical and spiritual afore said shall and may have and enjoy, by authority of this act like advantages, means, benefices, actions & remedies against the loesses and grants their executors administrators, or assigns, and every of them, by entre for none payment of rent from henceforth to be due, or for any waist hereafter to be done, or for breach or not performing of any condition or covenant or agreement from henceforth to be performed, fulfilled or done contained and expressed in the indentures of the said leases or grants against all & every the said lesees, farmers and grantees and their executors administrators and assigns & every of them as if the said person and persons bodies politic and corporate spiritual and ecclesiastical, their successors and every of them should and might have had if they had been perty or privy to the said indentures loesses and grants, and likewise that all & every the said farmers lessees & grantees, their executors, administrators and assigns and every of them shall and may have and enjoy such part of the premises as is contained in their lease and leases, grant or grants, during such time as is mentioned and limited in any such lease or leases, grant or grants, yielding and paying the yearly rents and services reserved upon the same lease or leases, and performing all & singular covenants and agreements, specified in every such lease and grant the which on the leasees part are to be observed and kept, and further shall have like action advantage benefit, and remedy against all and every the said person and persons bodies politic and corporate Spiritual and ecclesiastical, and their successors and every of them which shall have and enjoy any part of the premisses for any condition covenant grant or agreement hereafter broken or not performed contained and expressed in their several indentures of their leases and grants, or any of them the which on the part and behalf of the lessours are to be observed and kept, as the same leasses or grants or their executors admynistratoures and assigns, or any of them might or should have had against the said person or persons bodies politic and corporate, ecclesiastical and spiritual, and their successors or any of them, if they had been both perty and privi to the said indentures leases and grants.  
Provided also and be it enacted by thauthority aforesaid that this act or any thing therein contained, shall not extend to take away from our said sovereign Lady the Queen, her heirs and Successors, the Patronages of any vicarage belonging to any of the foresaid personages and rectories impropryat, but that her highness her heirs and successors shall continued and remain patroness, and patrons of the said vycareges in manner and form as if this act had never been had ne made. Any thing before mentioned to the contrary notwithstanding.  
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if it happen any of the said rectories and personages impropryate, whereof there is no vicar, or that hath vicareges endowed, and the patronage of the same appertaineth unto the queens Majesty, her heirs and successors, to be here after dysapropryate and made presentable or otherwise employed as is aforesaid, that then her highues her heirs and successors shall by virtue of this act be judged and deemed very and undoubted patrons of every such rectory and parsonage disapropriated, and made presentable. This act or any other law, use, or custom to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.  
And be it further enacted by th'authority of this present parliament, that if it fortune any of the said rectories and personages impropriate the patronages of the vycarege, whereof doth or shall appear ta'en unto any person or persons bodies politic & corporate other then to our said sovereign lady the queen, her heirs and successors to be hereafter disapropriated and made presentable, that then in every such case the said person & persons, bodies politic & corporate, the which then shallbe patrons of the said vicareges, shallbe patrons of the said parsonage so disapropriated in like estate degree and condition as they were of the patronage of the vicarage before the said disapropriation of the said rectory or rectories impropriated, any thing in this act or any law, or custom to the contrary notwithstanding  
provided also, and be enacted by the authority aforesaid, That when and as often as any person or persons, to whom the said pensions annuities, Corrodies or fees aforesaid, or any of them do be long shallbe paid thereof, by th'authority of this act or otherwise satisfied by any order that shallbe taken upon the same by any other than the queens majesties her heirs or successors, that then such person or persons or any of them so paid or otherwise satisfied, shall not demand the same again of the king or Queen's majesties her heirs or successors, nor shallbe double paid of the same, the provision and order of payment thereof before specified, or any other thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding.  
Provided also and be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if it fortune the said Lord legate, to decease before such time as the contents of this act, limited & appointed to his grace to be done, be fully accomplished and executed, that then it shallbe lawful unto the Archbysshoppes of Canterbury and Work, for the time being, and to the eldest Byshope of this realm by consecration, and in the time of the vacation of the said Archbyshoprykes, or of either of them, then to the Dean and Chapter of the seas, or sea so void, during the said time of vacation and to the said eldest bishop, for the time being, to do execute & accomplish all and every thing and things touching the order and disposition of the premises, as that said most reverend father the Lord Legate shall in his life time lymytte assign and prescribe unto them, & as his grace should or might have done. And that the said archbishops and bishop, or the said Deans and chapters in the time of vacation, and the said eldest bishop as is aforesaid shall from time to time after the disease of the said Lord Legate have full power and authority by virtue of this act, to do and execute all and every thing and things touching thorder and disposition of the said premises accordingly as it shallbe prescribed unto them by the said Lord legate: And as the said Lord Legates grace, should or might have done if he had lived. any thing before mentioned to the contrary notwithstanding.  
And where as divers and sundry of the said rectories, personages and benefices impropriate, glebe Lands, tithes, oblations, pensions, portions, and other profits and emoluments, Ecclesiastical and spiritual have been heretofore dimised and granted to sundry persons for term of lice, lives, or years, aswell by diverse and sundry late Abbots, Priors, Master of Hospitals, and Colleges, and other religious and spiritual persons, and governors, before the Dissolution of their several Houses, and Places, as since, by the said late King henry the eight, King Edward the the sixth, and by our sovereign Lord and Lady, the king and the queens majesties, or by any of them, and in and by the said leases and giants, there is also comprehended and dimised to gathers with the said premises; or with some part of the same, divers and sondlye manors, lands, tenements, and other hereditaments, and upon some of the said leases and grants, is one hose and entire yearly rent, reserved for the said spiritual possessions, & for the said other manours, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, there with also granted and let, as by the said several leasses and grants, it may appear or be duly proved. And where also divers of the said rectories, personages, benefices impropriate and other the spiritual possessions aforesyd, have been heretofore of so long continuance & time, dimised, let, and occupied together, with manors, lands, tenements, and other hereditaments, and so jointly occupied and used, that it is to be doubted that some ambiguity, question, and controversy may hereafter rise and grow, aswell for the division, and severance of the glebe lands, and other possessions of divers of the said rectories, and personages, from other the said manors, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, which have been royned with the same, in lease, & occupation, as for the apporcioning and rating, of the said hole and entire yearly rents reserved upon such leases as is aforesaid. For the avoiding of which ambiguities, questions and coutroversies, and to the intent a good indifferent rate & apporeyament of the said entire rent may be made according to the quantity of the said spiritual possessions so let, and that the glebe lands of the said rectories & personages, and other the said spiritual possessions, so let, with other lands and possessions as is aforesaid, may hereafter be known divided and used in severalty from the other temporal possessions where with they be let, so that such spiritual persons as shallbe incumbentes or owners of the said spiritual possessions may have enjoy and receive the same and other profits & rents thereof in severaltye from the other temporal possessions aforesaid, without any interruption or question according to the king & queens Majesties most godly intent and meaning. Be it therefore enacted by thauthority of this present parliament that in all cases where the said rectories, glebe lands, and spiritual possessions, or any part thereof is let dimised or granted with any of the said mannouts, lands tenements or hereditaments temporal, under one rent undivided, or where the said glebe lands and spiritual possessions are not certainly known divided or severed from the other temporal possessions there withal also let, granted and occupied several Cominissions shallbe from time to time awarded out of the Court of thexchequer to six indifferent persons, whereof three to be of the spiritually & three to be of the temporalty, giving them authority by bertue of the same, to call before them twelve good and indifferent men inhabiting within the country, whereof every of them shall have lands, tenements, or hereditaments, of estate of frehold, to the yearly value of five pound at the lest, where the said rectories, glebe lands, and spiritual possessions do lie, and the same twelve upon their oaths, shall indifferently divide and sever by sufficient meats and bonds, the said glebe lands of the said rectories and other spiritual possessions, from the other lands and possessions with the same let, and to rate and apportion how much yearly rent shall be yearly paid for the said rectories and other spiritual possessions so let, and how much yearly rent shall be paid for the said Manors Lands, tenements, or other temporal Hereditamentes therewithal let and granted, as the same twelve shall upon their oaths & consciences think and judge to be according to the quantity and value of the things so let and granted, and the rating division and apporcioning of the said entire rent, and the seneraunce and division as well of the said glebe lands and spiritual possessions from the other manors lands, tenements, and hereditaments temporal, as also of the said manors lands tenements, and hereditaments temporal, from the said glebe lands and spiritual possessions being certified under their seals and the seals of the said commissioners into the said court of Exchequer, shallbe as good and effectual in the law as if the said rate or apporciament of the said rend or the division and severance of the said manors lands tenements and hereditaments, had been made, and done by th'authority of this present parliament, any law, use, or custom, to the contrary notwithstanding.   

¶ An Act for the relief of the poor.  
¶ The .v. chapter.  
TO the intent that idle and loitering persons and valiant beggars may be avoided, and the impotent, feeble and lame, which are the poor in very deed, should be hereafter well provided for.  
Be it enacted by the king and queen our sovereign Lord and Lady, with the assent of the Lords spiritual & temporal and the commons in this present parliament assembled, & by th'authority of the same, that the statute made in the xxii. year of the late king of famous memory king Henry the viii & also that statute made in the iii & four years of the reign of the famous king Edward the sixth, concerning beggars vagabonds, and idle persons, and every article, clause, branch, sentence, and other things contained in them, and in either of them other then such things as shallbe by this present act otherwise ordained and pronided for, shall stand, remain, and be in there full force and effect and shallbe also from henceforth justly & truly put in execution according to the true meaning of the said several statutes & either of the.  
And further be it enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that yearly on some one holiday in the christmas in every city, borough & town, corporate, the Mayor, bailiffs, or other head officers for the time being, and in every other Paryshe of the country the person, vicar, or curate, and the churchwardens, having in a register or book as well all the names of the inhabitants and house holder's, as also the names of all such impotent, aged, and needy persons as being within their city, borough town corporate, or parish, are not able to live of themselves, nor with their own labour, shall openly in the church and quietly after divine service, call the said householders and inhabitants together, among whom the Mayor or other head officers, and two of the chief inhabitants in every such city, boroughs, and Towns corporate, such as the Mayor or other head office shall think meet, and the person vicar or curate and churchwardens in every other parish, shall elect nominate and appoint yearly two able persons or more, to be Gatherers and collectors of the chartable almose of all the residue of the people inhabiting within the parish whereof they be chosen collectors for the relief of the poor, which collectors the Sondaye next after their election, or the Sondaye following if need require, when the people are at the Church at divine service, shall gently ask and demand of every man and woman, what they of their charity willbe rontented to give wekelye toward the relief of the poor, and the same to be written in the said register or book, and the said gatherers so being elected & chosen shall justly gather and truly distribute the same charitable almose weakly by themselves or their assigns, to the said poor and impotent persons of the said cities, boroughs, towns corporate, & parishes, without fraud, or covin, favour or affection, and after such sort that the more impotent may have the more help, and such as can get part of their living to have the less, and by the disscretion of the collectors to be put in such labour as they be sit & able to do but none to go or sit openly a begging upon pain limited in the aforesaid statutes.  
Be it enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that no person or persons so elected nominated, & appointed to be gatherer or gatherers as is aforesaid, shall refuse the said office, but shall justly & truly execute the same, by the space of one hole year next ensuing upon pain to forfeit forty shillings to the almose box of the poor, to be levied by the churchwardens, where they or he dwelleth of the goods of the said gatherer or gatherers so refusing by distress.  
And further be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the said gatherers or collectors, shall make their just account, quarter lie to the Maiours or chief officers, of the said cities, boroughs, and towns corporate, & in every parish of the country, to the person, bicare, or curate, & churchwardens of the parish, at which account such of the parish as will may be present, & when they go out of their office, they shall deliver, or cause to be delivered forthwith upon th'end of their accounts all such superplusage of money as then shall remain of their collection undistributed, to be put in the common chest of the Church, or in some other safe place, to the use of the poor at the oversight and discretion of the Maiours, officers, and other before mentioned. And if the said collectors or any of them do refuse to make their said account within eight days, than the bishop of the diocese or the ordinary of the place, shall have authority, by virtue of this act, to compel the said person or persons, by censures of the Church, to make their said accounts before such persons as the said bishop or ordinary shall appoint, and to make immediate payment of the sums wherewith by determination of the said account they shallbe charged.  
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if any person or persons being able to further this charitable work do obstinately & frowardly refuse to give towards the help of the poor, or do wilfully discourage other from so charitable a deed, the person, vicar or curate, and Churchwardens of the parish wherein he dwelleth, shall then gently exhort him or them towards the relief of the poor, and if he or they will not so be persuaded, then upon the certificate of the person, vicar or curate of the parish to the bishop of the diocese or Ordinary of the place, the same bishop or ordinary shall send for him or them to induce or persuade him or them, by charitable means and ways, to extend their charity as in this act is well meant and intended, and so according to discretion to take order for the charitable reformation of every such obstinate person, and for the better maintenance of this charitable work, it is ordained and established by authority aforesaid, that where as the late king of famous memory king Henry the eight, by his several erections and foundations hath ordained and appointed any sum or sums of money to those of the poor, not being taken away otherwise by act of parliament, whether the same be in any Cathedral Church. College, or else where the Bishop of the diocese for the time being shall from time to time examine how and after what manner the said money is bestowed, and calto accounted the parties which retain the said money so that it may appear that the same is distributed to the poor, according to the good intent and purpose of the said noble king that granted the same.  
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, if it shall chance any parish to have in it more poor and impotent folks not able to labour, than the said parish is able to relieve, that then in every such parish not standing in any City or town corporate, two or three of the chief inhabitants of the same parish, and in every city and town, corporate, the mayor or chief officers of the same city or town corporate, calling to them two or three of the chief parishioners of the same parish such as the said maior or head officer shall think meet, shall certify unto the justices of peace of the county where the same parish is the number & names of the persons, with which they be succharged, and upon such certificate, the said justices of the peace in the same county or two of them whereof one to be of the Quorum, shall consider and examine the said certificate, and finding the same true, shall then grant unto such, and as many of the said poor folks as by their discretion they shall think good, a sufficient licence under the seal appointed for the limit, to go abroad to beg get & receive the charitable alms of the inhabytaunts of the country out of the said parishes, cities and towns so surcharged in which licence the places towns and parishes to which such poor folks are by that licence licenced to resort, shall in the same licence be named limited & appointed, be it one hundred or more, in the said county at the said discretion of the same justices, and if any of the said poor folks so licenced shall transgress the limits to them appointed and resort to beg at other places, than is in the said licence named, the party so transgressing and offending to be taken for a valiant beggar, and punished according to the statute made in the said xxii year of king henry the eight, and his or their licence to be taken from them.  
And be it further enacted, that where any of the said cities, boroughs towns corporate or parish so surcharged, is situate and standing in one county or two Counties of this realm, or situate and standing in one, and immediately adjoining to another County of the realm, as the city of Bristol and towns of Ludloo, & Stanford stand, that in that cities the said Mayer, head officers and inhabitants of every such City Borough, Town corporate, and Paryshe, shall make certificate unto the justices of the said Counties adjoining to the same Cities, boroughs. towns porate, and parishes, and the same justices of the said adjoining county or Counties to do, give licence, and follow the order above remembered, according as other justices of the Counties, in which the parish surcharged standeth, is limited and authorized to do.  
And be it also enacted that in all City's boroughs and Towns corporate, within which be divers parishes, the Mayor, and head officers of every the same Cities, boroughs and towns corporate, shall consider the state and ability of every such parish, and if the same Mayor and officers, shall understand by their discretion that the parishioners of any one of the said parishes is of such wealth and honour that they have no poverty amongs them or be able sufficiently to relieve the poverty of the parish where they inhabit and dwell, & also to help and secure poverty else where further, that then the said Mayor and officers with the assent of two of the most honest & substantial inhabitants of every such wealthy parish, shall consider the nedenesse of thinhabitants of the other parish, or parishes within the same city or town corporate, and move induce and persuade the parishioners of the wealthier parish charitably to contribute somewhat according to their ability towards the weakly relief succour and consolation of the poor and needy within the other parish or parishes aforesaid, where need is.  
And be it also enacted that all and every such poor folks as by any such licence are to be licenced and aucthorysed to resort out of the limits liberties and franchises of all and every such city borough and town corporate, into any the said counties to beg, get and gather the charitable alms of good people, shall at all times when the same goeth abroad to beg, wear openly upon him or them both on the breast and the back of his or their uttermost garment some notable badge or token to be assigned unto him by the Mayor or head officers of the same city Borough and town Corporate or parish, with the assent of the justices of the peace that shall grant the same licence upon pain to be taken for a valiant beggar, and to be punished as afore is remembered, and shall also carry his licence with him upon like pain. This act to endure to the latter end of the first session of the next parliament.  
provided always, and be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that this present Act nor any thing therein contained, shall not extend or be prejudicial unto the Mayor sheriffs, and citizens of the city of Chester, for or concerning any gift or grant of any annuity or yearly rent, heretofore, made, given, or granted, by the said famous king Edward the sixth, unto the said Mayor, sheriffs, and citizens of the said city, going out of any manors, lands, tenements, and hereditaments of the Cathedral church of Chryst and our Lady within the city of Chester, but that the same Mayor, sheriffs, and citizens shall and may from henceforth, receive, use, and employ the same authorities, yearly rents, or profits, to such uses, and intents, and according to the said gift of the said famous King any thing in this present Act to the contrary notwithstanding.  
Provided always and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all and every sum and sums of money from henceforth to be collected or gathered within the city of London or the liberties of the same by virtue of this act, shallbe paid over to the go vernours of the hospital called the hospital of Christ'S church within the said city of London for the time being and shallbe by them from time to time distributed & bestowed for the relief of the poor of the said City, according to their wisdom's and discretion's, any thing in this act mentioned to the contrary notwithstanding.   

¶ An Act against the excessive taking of the king and the queens majesties purveyors.  
¶ The sixth chapter.  
FOr the avoiding of the great annoyance and hindrance commonly done to the Subjects of this realm, by purveyors and takers of beeves, wether's Lambs, Calves, all kinds of grain Butter, Chease bacon, all kinds of pullen, and to eschew hereafter not only the great deceit ministered and done daily by the said purveyors and takers, but also hereby to advance the king and queens majesties better service in the premisses, with the contentation of all their highness faithful and most obedient subjects.  
Be it therefore enacted by our said sovereign Lord and Lady with the assent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and the commons in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that after the feast of the birth of our Lord next ensuing, every such commission as shallbe made, granted, and directed, to any person or persons, whatsoever whereby the same person or persons, or their deputies shall have authority to take any beeves, Weathers, Lambs, Calves, or any kind of salt fish, or any kind or kinds of grain, or any butter in barrels or other vessels Chease, Baken, Coneys, Pigs, Gese, Capons, or Hens, that the same commission or commissions, shall not extend or continued above the space of six months at the farthest next ensuing the date of any of the said commissions. And after the end of the said six months every of the said commissions to be void and of no force nor effect, whatsoever words matter or sentences shallbe contained or expressed in any of the same commissions.  
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that in all and every such commission or commissions to be granted after the said feast of the birth of our lord, shallbe plainly as well contained and expressed such county or counties, as any of the said beeves, wethers, lambs, calves, hogs or swine, or any kind of salt fish, or any kind or kinds of grain, butter, chease, bacon, connyes, pigs, geese, capons, or hens, or any of them, is to be levied, purveyed or taken in, by any of the person or persons or their deputy or deputies so authorized by the virtue of the said commission or commissyons, as also the just, true, and full proportion and number of all and every such beeves, wethers, lambs, calves, swine, any kind of salt fish, or any kind or kinds of grain, butter in barrels or other vessels, chease, bacon, coneyes, pigs, geese, capons and hens, or any of them as the said person or persons their deputy or deputies or any of them shallbe by force and virtue of the said commission or commissions authorized to levy take or purvey within any of the said county or counties.  
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that to every such commission or commissions after the said birth of our lord to be made granted and directed as is aforesaid, shallbe annexed so many blanks in parchment as there shallbe several counties expressed named and contained within the said commission or commissions or any of them, in the which blanks shallbe fair and legeable written all and every such beeves, wethers, lambs, calves, swine, any kind of salt fish, or any kind or kinds of grain butter chease bacon, connyes, pigs, geese, capons and hens, with the true and several prices of the same, and every of them as shallbe levied gathered and purveyed, by any person or persons their deputy or deputies, or any of them, as shallbe thereunto authorized by any such commission or commissions aforesaid within any particular town parish or hamlet, set, lying, and being, within any those county or counties, as shallbe named, contained, and expressed, within the said commission or commssyons, or any of them whereunto shallbe subscribed the name or fygne manuel of all and every such high constable or constables, petty constable or constables, headborow or head boroughs as shallbe by any precept to him or them directed, by any person or persons, their deputy or deputies, or any of them, authorized thereunto by such commission or commissyons to be granted, as is aforesaid, privy or knowledging to the delivery of the said beeves, wethers, lambs, calves, any kind of saltefyshe, or any kind or kinds of grain, butter, chease, bacon, coneyes, pigs, geese, capons and hens, or any of them.  
And be it further enacted by authority aforesaid, that every person or persons their deputy or deputies or any of them which shall be by commission or commissons, hereafter to be granted as is afore said, authorized to levy take or purvey, any beeves, wethers, lambs, calves, swine, saltefyshe, or any kind or kinds of grain, butter in barrels or other vessels, chease, bacon connyes, pigs, geese capons, and hens, or any of them, as is beforesaid, shall make a doket or brief in writing, subscribed with his or their name or names, containing all & every such beeves wether's lambs calves swine kind of salt fish, kind or kinds of grain, butter in barrels, or other vessels, chease, bacon connyes pigs gese caponnes, and hens or any of them, as he or they shall by virtue of the said commission or commissions levy, take, or purvey, within any particular town parish or hamlet, set lying and being within any such county or counties, as shallbe named contained and expressed within the said commission or commissions or any of them, and the same doket or doketes, brief or brefes, fair and legyablye written and subscribed as is aforesaid, shall well and truly deliver to the said high constable petty constable, or hedborow or one of them, at such present time as the said beeves, wethers, lambs, calves, swine, salt fish kind or kinds of grain butter, chease, bacon, connyes, pigs, geese, capons, and hens, or any of them shallbe delivered to them or any of them upon pain of forfeiture of. C. marks, of lawful money and one years imprisonment as often as he shall so offend. The one moiety of which forfeiture to be to the king and queen's majesties, and the other moyte to him that will sue therefore in any of the king and queens court of Record, by bill plaint write information or otherwise, wherein no wager of law protection or essoign to be allowed. All which doketes or brefes the said high constable or constables, petty constable or constables, headborowe or headboroughs, shall deliver over to the justices of peace at the next general sessions to be holden within any of the said counties. And that the same justices or two of them may and shall from time to time certify the whole number and content of all and every the said dokets and brefes, to the Lord Steward of the king and queens most honourable household, for the time being, or to the treasurer and Comtroller of the same, or any of them, or to the treasurer and controller of the king and queens ships, if provision of any the things aforementioned be provided or taken, for the victailing of the navy, or any of the king or queens majesties ships, whereby the serving of any of the foresaid Commission or Commissions, & true answering of the same shall fully appear.  
provided always and be it enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that it shall not be lawful to any person or persons, their deputy or deputies or any of them, which shallbe authorized by such commission or commissions hereafter to be granted as is aforesaid, to levy, take or purvey any beeves, wethers, lambs, calves, any kind of saitfyshe kind or kinds of grain butter in barrels or other vessels, cheese bacon, coneyes, pigs, geese, capons, and hens, or any of them other wise, or in any other sort and manner, then is in several estatuts heretofore for purveyors made ordained provided appointed limited and expressed, upon such pain and pains, as in the said several statutes is contained and expressed.  
And forasmuch as the good & necessary laws heretofore made and provided against the abuses and evil doings of purveyors are not taken to extend to the under takers deputies, & servants of any such purveyors, by whom therefore the people of this realm be oftentimes very uncharytablye and unlawfully used and oppressed.  
Be it therefore enacted by th'authority of this present parliament that all and every such laws statutes and provisions as heretofore have been made and ordained against purveyors, and all and every the pains penalties forfeiture and loss, contained mentioned, or appointed, in any of the same laws or statutes against purveyors and takers or any of them, shall also be extended and executed upon every of their undertakers, deputies, & servants. And all other which by colour shall after the first day of january next coming, take any victual or any other thing, by virtue or force of any such commission from any the king and queens majesties Subjects contrary to the tenor and effect of any of the said laws or statutes, in like manner and form to all intentes and purposes, as the same laws and statutes, or any of them, and the pains and forfeitures therein contained, should, might, or aught to be executed and extended against purveyors and Takers themselves or any of them. And as strongly and amply, as if the said undertakers, deputies, and servants were specially and particularly recited and named in every of the same statutes.  
Provided always, and be it enacted by th'authority aforesaid for the better execution of this act, and all other acts concerning pnrueyours, that all and every commission and commyssions that from hencefourth shallbe made & granted unto any purveyor or purneyours shallbe written and set fourth from time to time in the english tongue and not otherwise.   

¶ An Act against the buying of stolen horses.  
¶ The seventh chapter.  
FOR as much as stolen horses, Mares, and geldings by thenes and their confederates be, for the most part sold exchanged given or put away in houses stables, backesydes and other secret and privy places. of markets and fairs, and the toll also privily paid for the same, whereby the true owners thereof, being not able to try the falsehood and covin betwixt the bier and seller of such horse, mare, or gelding, is by the common laws of this realm without remedy.  
Be it therefore enacted by the authority of this present parliament that the owner, governor, ruler, farmer, steward, bailiff or chief keeper of every fair and market overt within this realm, & other the queens dominions shall before the feast of Easter next, and so yearly appoint and limit out one certain and special open place within the town, place, field, or circuit, where horses, mares, geldings and Colts, hath been and shallbe used to be sold, in any fair or market overt in which said certain and open place as is aforesaid, there shallbe by the said ruler or keeper of the said fair or market, put in and appointed one sufficient person, or more to take toll and keep the same place from ten of the clock before none until son set of every day of the foresaid fair and market, upon pain to loose and forfeit for every default, forty shillings, and that every toll gatherer his deputy or deputies, shall during the time of every the said fairs and markets, take their due and lawful tolls, for every such horse, mare, gelding, or colt, at the said open place to be appointed as is beforesaid and betwixt the hours of ten of the cloak in the morning, and the sun set of the same day, yfit be tedered and not at any other time or place, and shall have presently before him or them at the taking of the same toll the parties to the bargain exchange, gift, contract, or putting away of every such horse mare, gelding or colt, and also the same horse, mare, gelding and colt, so sold exchanged or put away, and shall then write or cause to be written in a book to be kept for that purpose, the names, surnames, and dwelling places of all the said parties, and the colour with one special mark at the lest, of every such horse, mare, gelding or colt, in pain to forfeit at and for every default, contrary to the tenor hereof forty shillings. And the said tolle gatherer or keeper of the said book, shall within one day next after every such fair, or market, bring and deliver his said book to the owner, governor, ruler, steward, bailiff, or chief keeper of the said fair or market, who shall then 'cause a note to be made of the true number of all horses, mares, geldings, & colts, sold at the said market or fair, & shall there subscribe his name or set his mark thereunto, upon pain to him that shall make default therein to loose and forfeit for every default forty shillings, and also to answer the party grieved, by reason of the same his negligence in every behalf.  
And be it further enacted by the aucthorstie aforesaid, that the sale gift exchange or putting away after the last day of February now next coming in any fair or market overt of any horse, mare, gelding, colt, that is or shallbe thevyshelye stolen or feloniously taken away from any person or persons, shall not altar take away nor exchange the property of any person or persons to, or from any such horse, mare, gelding, or colt, unless the same horse, mare, gelding, or colt, shallbe in the time of the said fair, or market, wherein the same shall be sold given exchanged or put away, openly ridden led walked driven or kept standing, by the space of one hour together at the least, betwixt ten of the cloak in the morning and the sun setting, in the open place of the fair or market wherein commonly horses are commonly used to be sold and not with in any house, yard, back side, or other privy or secret place, and unless all the parts to the bargain contract, gift, or exchange, present in the said fair or market, shall also come together and bring the horse, mare, gelding or colt, so sold, exchanged, given or put away to the open place appointed, for the tolle taker or for the book keeper, where no tolle is due, and there enter, or cause to be entered their names and dwelling places, in manner as is aforesaid, with the colour or colours and one special mark at the lease of every the same horses mares, geldings or colts in the tollers' book, or in the keeper's book for that purpose, where no tol is due as is aforesaid, and also pay him their toll, if they ought to pay any, and if not, than the bier to give one penny for the entry of their names, and executing the other circumstances afore rehearsed, to him that shall write the same in the said book, and if any horse, mare gelding or colt, that is or shallbe thevyshelye stolen or taken away, shall after the said last day of Februarye next coming, be sold given, exchanged or put away, in any fair or market, and not used in all points according to the tenor and intent of this statute that then the owner of every such horse, mare, gelding, or colt, shall and may by force of this statute seize or take again the said horse, mare, gelding, or colt, or have any action of detinue or replivin for the same, any sale gift exchange or putting away, of any such horse mare, gelding, or colt, other then according to this statute in any wise not withstanding, the one half of all which forfeitures to be to the King and queens Majesties, her heirs and successors, and the other to him or them that will sue for the same before the justices of peace, or in any of the king and queens majesties ordinary courts of Record, by bill plaint, action of debt, or information, in which suits no protection, essoin or wager of law, shall be allowed.  
And be it enacted by thauthority aforesaid that the justices of peace of every place and county as well within liberties as with out, shall have authority in their sessions within the limits of their authority and commission, to inquire here and determine, all offences against this statute, as they may do any other matter triable before them.  
provided always, that in every such fair and market where any toll is nor shallbe due ne leviable by reason of the freedom liberty or privilege of the said fair or market, the keeper or keepers of the book touching the execution of this present act, shall take nor exact but one penny upon and for every contract, for his labour in writing the entry, concerning the premisses in manner & form as is before declared.   

¶ An Act for the amending of high ways.  
¶ The eight chapter.  
FOR amending of high ways being now both very noisome and tedious to travel in, and dangerous to all passengers and carriages.  
Be it enacted by the authority of this present parliament, that the Constables and Church wardens of every parish within this Realm, shall yearly upon the Twesoaye or Wednesdaye in Easter week, call together a number of the Parochians, and shall then elect and choose two honest persons of the parish, to be surveyors and orderers for one year, of the works for amendment of the high ways in their parish, leading to any market town, the which persons shall have authority by virtue hereof, to order and direct the persons and carriages that shallbe appointed for those works by their dyscretions, and the said persons so named shall take upon them the execution of their said offices upon pain every of them making default to forfeit twenty shillings. And the said constables and church wardens shall then also name and appoint four days, for the amending of the said ways before the feast of the nativity of S. john baptist then next following. And shall openly in the church the next sunday after Easter give knowledge of the same four days, and upon the said days the parochyans shall endeavour themselves to thamending of the said ways, and shallbe chargeable thereunto as followeth that is to say, every person for every plowlande in tillage or pasture that he or she shall occupy in the same parish and every other person keeping there a draft or plough, shall find & sand at every day and place to be appointed for thamending of the ways in that parish as is aforesaid, one wain or cart furnished after the custom of the country. with oxen, horses, or other cattle, and all other necessaries meet to cari things convenient for that purpose, and also two able men with the same, upon pain of every draft making default ten shillings and every other householder and also every cotiger and labourer of that parish able to labour and being no hired servant by the year, shall by themselves or one sufficient labourer for every of them upon every of the said four days, work and travel in th'amendment of the said high ways upon pain of every person making default to loose for every day xii pence. And if the carriages of the parish or any of them shall not be thought needful by the supervisors to be occupied upon any of the said days, that then every such person that should have sent any such carriage, shall sand to the said work for every carriage so spared two able men there to labour for that day upon pain to loose for every man not so sent to that said work twelve pence. And every person & carriage above said, shall have and bring with them such shovels, spades, picks, matockes, and other tolls, and instruments, as they do make their own dyches and fences withal and such as be necessary for their said work. And all the said persons and carriages shall do and keep their work as they shall be appointed by the said supervisors, or one of them, eight hours of every the said days, unless they shall be otherwise licensed by the said superuysours or one of them.  
And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid that the Steward and Stewards of every let or lawedaye shall therein have full power and authority, to inquire by the oaths of the suitors of all and every th'offences that shall be committed within the let or law day, against every point, and article of this statute, and to assess such reasonable fines, and amercyamentes for the same, as shall be thought meet by the said steward. And in default of such inquiry or presentment, the justices of peace of every place or county shall have authority to inquire of the same offences, which shallbe committed within the limits of their commission at every their quarter sessions and to assess such fines therefore, as they or two of them, whereof one to be of the Quorum, shall think meet. And the steward of every let and law day shall make estretes indented of all the fines forfeitures, and amerciaments, for the defaults presented before him & shall deliver th'one part thereof sealed and signed by him to the balyfe or high constable of every hundred, rape, lath, or wapentake, wherein the defaults shallbe presented & tother half to the constable and church wardens of the parish, wherein the defaults was made, the same to be ye rely delivered within six weeks after the feast of S. Mychel tharchangel, & the clerk of the peace shall make the like estretes indented of the fines forfeitures and amerciaments for the defaults presented before the justices of peace and shall seal subscribe & deliver the same, in like sort as is aforesaid the which estreats & every of them shallbe a sufficient warrant to the said bailiff or chief constable to levy the said amerciaments, fines, and forfeitures, by way of distress And if no sufficient distress can be found by the said bailyffe or head constable, or if the said offender shall obstinately refuse to pay the said amerciament, fine, or forfeiture, and do not pay the same within twenty days after a lawful demand of the same by the said officer, that then every such person to forfeit the double somme that he should before have paid.  
And be it further enacted, that every of the said bailiffs & head constables shall at the least once every year betwixt the first day of March & the last day of Apryl, make a true account and payment of all such sums of money (to the constable & churchwardens of every parish wherein the offences was committed or to two of them) as he shall have collected upon any of the aforesaid estreats, upon pain to forfeit for every time he shall not so do xl shillings.  
And be it enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that all fines amerciaments and forfeitures which shallbe dew for any offence against the purvey of this statute, shallbe to the churchwardens of every parish wherein th'offences shallbe committed to be bestowed of the high ways in the said parishes, and the said churchwardens shall have authority to call the said bailiff and headconstable to account be fore the justices of peace or two of them whereof one to be of that Quorum by bill, information or otherwise. The which justices shall have authority to take the said account, and to commit the said bailiff or head constable to prison, there to remain until he shall pay all such arrearages as shallbe adjudged by the said justices, & every of the said bailiffs, & head constables upon their accounts shall have allowed for every pound he shall collect & pay viii pence for his own pains and xii pence for the fees of the clerk of the peace or steward of the late for thestrates indented of every several parish that they shall deliver as is aforesaid, & the successors of every churchwardens shall have the like action of account against their predecessors as is before appointed against the bailiffs. This act to continue for seven years next after the beginning of this parliament. And to the end of the next parliament than next following.   

¶ An Act to avoid divers licenies of houses wherein unlawful games be used.  
¶ The ix chapter.  
Most humbly beseecheth the queens most excellent highness your loving and obedient Subjects, the commons in this your present parliament assembled that where by reason of divers sundry licenses heretofore granted to divers persons, aswell within the city of London, and the Suburbs of the same as also in divers other places, within your highness realm, for the having, maintaining, and keeping of houses, gardens, and places for bowling, tenyse, dicing, white, and black, making and marring, and other unlawful games, prohibited by the laws and statutes of this realm, divers and many unlawful assembles, conventicles seditions, and conspiracies, have and been daily, secretly practised, by idle and misruled persons, repairing to such places, of the which robberies and many other misoemeanours, have ensued to the breach of your highness peace. For remedy whereof it may please your highness that it may be enacted by your highness the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the commons in this present parliament assembled that from and after the feast of the birth of our lord God then next coming, every license, placard, or grant, made to any person or persons, for the having maintenance, or keeping of any bowling all is dicing houses, or any other unlawful games, prohibited by the laws and statutes of this realm, shallbe from the said feast utterly void and of none effect.   

¶ An act to take examination of prisoners suspected of any man slaughter or felony. Chapy ten  
WHere in the last parliament holden at Westminster amongst other things it was enacted, that such justices of the peace as have authority, to bail any prsoner brought before them for any manslaughter or felony, before any bailment or maineprice should take the examination of the said prisoner & information of them that bring him of the fact & circumstances thereof, and the same or as much thereof as shallbe material to prove the felony, shall put in writing before they make the same bailment, which said examination together with the said baylement the said justices should certify at the next general goal delivery, to be holden within the limits of their commission, as by the same act more plainly is contained & may appear.  
And forasmuch as the laid act doth not extend to such prisoners as shallbe brought before any justice of peace for manslaughter or felony & by such justice shallbe committed to ward for the suspicion of such manslaughter or felony, & not bailed, in which case examination of such prisoner & of such as shall bring him, in as necessary or rather more than where such prisoner shallbe fet to bail or mainpryce. ¶ Be it therefore enacted by th'authority of this present parliament, that from hence forth such justices or justice before whom any person shallbe brought for manslaughter or felony, or for suspicion thereof, before he or they shall commit or sand such prisoner to ward shall take thexamination of such prisoner & information of those that bring him of the fact & circumstance thereof, & the same or as much thereof as shallbe material to prove the felony, shall put in writing within ii days after the said examination and the same shall certify in such manner & form & at such time as theishould & aught to do if such prisoner so committed or sent to ward had been bailed or let to mainepryse, upon such pain as in the said former act is limited & appointed for not taking, or not certifying such examinations as in the said former act is expressed. ¶ And be it further enacted that the said justices shall have authority by this act to bind all such by recognisance or obligation, as do declare any thing material to prove the said manslaughter or felony against such prisoner as shallbe so committed to ward to appear at the next general goal delivery to be holden within the county, city, or town corporate, where the trial of the said manslaughter or felony shallbe, then & there to give evidence against the party, and that the said justices shall certifis the said bands taken before them in like manner, as they should & aught to certify the bands mentioned in the said former act, upon the pain as in the said former act is mentioned for not certifying such bands, as by the said former act is limited and appointed to be certified.   

An Act touching weavers.  
The eleventh chapter.  
FOrasmuch as the weavers of this realm, have aswell at this present parliament, as at diverse other times, complained that the rich and wealthy clothier's do many ways oppress them, some by setting up and keeping in their houses, diverse looms, and keeping and maintaining them by journey men and persons unskilful, to the decay of a great number of artificers, which were brought up in the said science of weaving, their families and houseshould, some by engrossing of looms into their hands, and possession, and letting them out at such unreasonable rents, as the poor artificers are not able to maintain themselves, much less their wives family and children, some also by giving much less wages and higher, for the weaving and workemanshype of cloth, them in times past they did, whereby they are enforced utterly to forsake their art and occupation wherein they have been brought up.  
It is therefore for remedy of the premises, and for thaduoidinge of a great number of inconveniences which may grow (if in time it be not foreseen) ordained established & enacted, by authority of this present parliament, that no person using the feat or mystery of cloth making and dwelling out of a city, borough, market town or corporate town, shall from the feast of Saint Michael tharchangel, now next ensuing, keep retain or have in his or their house or possession any more or above one woollen lome at one time, nor shall by any means directly or indirectly receive or take any manner profit gain or commodity by letting or setting any lome, or any house wherein any lome is or shallbe used and occupied, which shallbe togethers by him set or let upon pain of forfeiture for every week that any person shall do contrary to the tenor and true meaning hereof twenty s.  
And be it further ordained and enacted by like authority, that no woollen weaver using or exercising the feat or mystery of weaving and dwelling out of ciiie borough market town or town corporat shall after the said feast have, or keep at any one time above the number of two woollen looms, or receive any poffyt gain or commodity be directly or indirectly as is aforesaid by any more than two looms at one time upon pain to forfeit for every week that any person shall offend or do to the contrary twenty s. And it is further ordained & enacted by like authority that no person which shall after the said feast use exercise or occupy only the feat or mystery of a weaver & not clothmakyng shall during the time that he shall use the feat or mystery of a weaver, keep or have any tucking mill, or shall use or exercise the feat or mystery of a tuckinge mill, or dier upon pain to forfeit for every week that he shall so do, xx. s.  
And it is further ordained and enacted by like authority that no person which after the said feast shall use exercise or occupy the feat or mystery of a tucker, or fuller, shall during the time that he shall so use that said feat or mystery, keep or have any lome in his house or possession or shall directly or indyrectly take any profit or commodity by the same, upon pain to forfeit for every week twenty shillings. And it is further ordained and enacted by like authority, the no person whatsoever which heretofore hath not used or exercised the feat mystery or art of cloth making, shall after the said feast make or weave or cause to be made or woven any kind of broad white wolen clotheses, but only in a city borough town corporate or market town, or else in such place or places where such clotheses have been used to be commonly made, by the space of ten years next before the making of this act, upon pain of forfeiture for every cloth otherwise made five pounds.  
provided always and be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that it shall not be lawful to any person or persons being a weaver, or that doth or shall use the act or mystery of a weaver or weaving, dwelling out of a city, borough town corporate or market town, to have in his and their service any more or above the number of two apprentyces at one time, upon pain to forfeit for every time that he shall offend or do contrary to this branch, or article, the sum of ten pounds. And further be it enacted by th'authority aforesaid that it shall not be lawful to or for any person or persons, to set up the art or mystery of weaving after the said feast of Sayut Mychel unless the same person or persons so setting up the same art or mystery of weaving have been apprentyce to the same art or mystery or exercised the same by the space of Seven years at the lest upon pain of twenty pounds, to be forfeited to the king and queens Majesties her grace's heirs or successors, The one moiety of all which forfeitures shallbe to the king and Queen's highness her heirs and Successors. And the other moyte to him or than that will sue for the same in any court of record, by action of debt, bill plaint or information, wherein no wager of law essoign or protection shallbe admitted or allowed for the defendant.  
provided always and be it enacted by the authority alore said, that this act nor any thing therein contained, shall in any wise extend or be prejudicial to any person or persons, that doth or shall dwell in the counties of Pork Cumberland Northumberlande and Westmoreland, but that they and every of them shall and may have & keep looms in their houses, and do and exercise all and every thing & things, for or concerning spinning, weaving, cloth working, and clothmakyng in the said county as they or any of them might have done, or exercised lawfully before the making of this statute, any thing contained in this statute to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding   

An act for the viewing and sealing of clotheses commonly called bridge waters.  
The twelft chapter.  
WHere before this time, the boroughs and towns of Brydgewater Taunton and Charde in the county of Sommersetshere have been well and substantially inhabited occupied maintained and upholden, for the most part by reason of the making of woollen clothes commonly called Brydgewater Taunton & Charde Clotheses which in times past were much desired aswell beyond the Seas, as in this realm of England, and thereby the inhabytaunts and poor people of the said boroughs and towns, and of the country there abouts were daily set on work and had sufficient living by the same, and where also the said towns in times past were of gretforce and strength, to serve the king and queens highness progenytoures and ancestors, kings of this realm. Forasmuch as of late divers persons inhabiting and dwelling in the villages hamelettes and small towns of husbandry in the said cowtie of Sommersete which were never prentices or skilful in making of the said clothes aswell for their private wealths & commodities, as also because they would be out of the we search of their clotheses to be made according to the statute therefore provided, not regarding the maintenance of the said borrow and towns, nor the common wealth of the handy crafts men and other poor people, which chiefly had there living and sustenance by making of the said clotheses, have of late days exercised used and occupied the mysteries of cloth making weaving fulling and shearing within their houses, and have so deceitfully made wrought and stretched the said clotheses, to the infamy and slander of cloth making, in such sort and manner that not only the same sorts of clotheses are grown out of estimation, but also the said towns are in great decay ruin and depopulation.  
For remedy whereof be it enacted by authority of this present parliament, that no person whatsoever inhabiting, or which shall hereafter inhabit within the said County shall after the feast of the Purification of our Lady next coming commonly called Candle mass put to sale any kind of such clotheses as is aforesaid, or clothes of like nature making and sort, made or to be made within the said county, except such cloth be first viewed searched and seen in one of the boroughs or towns aforesaid, whether the same be perfectly and truly made according to the statute, and also that the same be sealed with the Seal of one of the said boroughs or towns in such sort manner and form, as in the statute made in the .v. year of the reign of our late sovereign Lord king Edward the vi entitled an act for the true making of woollen cloth, is for sealing of clotheses, provided and enacted upon pain that every person offending or doing contra rye to the true meaning of this act, shall forfeit the cloth sold or the balew thereof, the moiety of all which forfeitures shallbe to our sovereign Lord and Lady the king and queens Majesties, the heirs and Successors of the queens Majesty, and the other half to him or them that will sue for the same in any of the king and Quenees majesties court of record, her heirs and Successors, wherein no essoygne protection or wager of law shallbe admitted or allowed.   

An act for the inhabitants of Halyfaxe touching the buying of woulles.  
The xiii chapter.  
Forasmuch as the parish of Halyfaxe and other places thereunto adjoining being planted in the great wastes and moors where the fertility of ground is, not apt to bring forth any corn, nor good grass, but in rare places, and by exceeding and great industry of thinhabitants. And the same inhabitants altogether do live by clothmakyng, and the great part of them neither getteth corn, nor is able to keep a horse to carry woles, nor yet to buy much wool at once, but hath ever used only to repair to the town of Halyfaxe and some other nigh thereunto, and there to by unto the woldryver some a stone, some two & sum three or four, according to their ability, and to carry the same to their houses some three, four .v. and two miles of, upon their heads and backs, and so to make and convert the same either into yarn, or cloth, and to cell the same, and so to buy more wool of the woldryver, by means of which industry the barren grounds in those parties be no we much inhabited & above five hundredth households there newly increased within these forty years past, which now are like to be undone and driven to beggary, by reason of the late statute made, that taketh away the will driver, so that they can not now have their will by such small portions as they were wont to have, and that also they are not able to keep any horses whereupon to ride or fet their wols further from them in other places, unless some remedy may be provided. For the remedy whereof be it enacted by the king and Quenees Majesties by the lords spiritual and temporal, & commons in this present parliament, & by thauthority of the same, that from henceforth, it shallbe law full to any person or persons inhabiting within the parish of Halifax to buy any wool or wols, at such times as the clothiers may by the same, otherwise then by engrossing & forstalling, so that the persons so buying the same, do carry or cause to be carried that said wols so bought by them, to the town of Halifaxe, & there to sell the same to such poor folks of that & other parishes adjoining, as shall work the same in cloth or yarn (to their knowledge) & not to the rich & wealthy clothier nor to any other to cell again, and if either the said woldriver shall sell his said wols at any other place forth of the said town of Halifax or if any such shall by their wols at Halyfaxe, shall sell their wols that they bought again unwrought in yarn or cloth, that then every such offender to loose & forfeit the double value of the wool so sold or uttered, the one moiety thereof to be to the king & queens majesties, her heirs & successors kings of this realm, & tother moyte to him or them that will sue for the same in any of the king & queens majesties courts of record, or before the justices of peace in their sessions, who by virtue hereof in their open sessions shall have authority upon information, to hear & determine the same and to make process against the offenders as in any other case to be determined before them.   

¶ An act for the reedefyinge of four mills near the city of Herforde. Cap xiiii  
SHe wen unto your majesties your humble supplyantes, the dean & chapter of the cathedral church in the cirie of Herforde, and also the mayor & commonalty of the said city, that where until the xix year of the reign of the late king of famous memory king Henry the viii the dean & chapter of the said cathedral church then being were seized in their demean as offee, as in the right of the said church of & in two corn mills & two fulling mills set upon the river of Wie, within one quarter of a mile of the said city, with the water coming to & going from the said mills & also with a wear upon the same river then belonging to the said mills, which mills time out of mind were & have been so beneficial for thinhabitants of the said city that thereby clothmakyng was there greatly increased, & very much people there inhabiting set on work, as weavers, fullers, walkers, spinners & carders, whereby the said city was well occupied, and the inhabitants thereof them very wealthy and rich, and so continued until the said, xix. year of the said late king Henry the viii at which time by wrongful suggestion made to the said late king, upon malice born to the said dean & chapter, & by a private letter from the said late king by sinister means obtained, all the said four mills were thrown down & destroyed, by reason whereof the clothmaking in the said city utterly cessed And thereby the same city hath run in such extreme ruin and decay, that the people there inhabiting (who before that time were there well occupied in the mysteries aforesaid) are now not able for lack of work to get their own living to their utter impoverishing and defacing of the said city, which is no we so filled with such numbered of poor, as may not be relieved there, unless clothemaking be there set forth and maintained as it was before, which greatly should increase again, if the said four mills, or other for them, were re-edified and builded.  
It may therefore please your majesties that it may be enacted by your majesties, the lords spiritual and temporal, and the commons in this present parliament assembled, and by th'authority of the same, that at any time hereafter, it shallbe lawful to the said dean & chapter of the said cathedral church of Hereforde for the time being, or their fermoures or assigns, to build, re-edify, and set up, or cause to be built, re-edified, and set up of new, in the places where the said mills were builded, or as near to the said places as conveniently may be, so it be upon the soil or ground of the said dean and chapter, four other sufficient mills, that is to say two corn mills, and two fulling mills. And that from the time that the said four mills in form aforesaid, shallbe sufficiently builded and set up, the said dean and chapter and their successors, shall and may be seized of the said mills, and of the water coming to & going from the said mills, and of the fyshinge in the same water, and the ways and paths leading to the same mills, and of the said wear of such estate as the said dean and chapter then being, at the time that the said mills or any of them, were thrown down or destroyed, were seized of the said other mills and of the said waters, fyshinges, ways, paths, and wear, belonging to the said four mills or any of them.  
And it may be further enacted by thauthority aforesaid that the said dean & chapter of the said cathedral church for the time being their fermoures or assigns, shall have time to build & set up or cause to be built & set up, the said four mills in manner and form aforesaid, within the space of eight years next after the first day of this present parliament. Saving unto all & every person and persons bodies politic and corporate their heirs and successors, other than the said dean and chapter and their successors, all such rights, states titles, and interests, which they or any of them had or aught to have of and in the premises, or any of them, before the said mills were thrown down and destroyed, in such manner and form as though this act had never been had or made.   

☞ An acts that purveyors shall not take victuals within five miles of Cambridge and Oxford. ¶ The xu Chapt.  
Humbly sue to your majesties, the societies, Colleges and companies, of your true and faithful subjects, and daily orators the scholars and students of both your majesties universities, Cambridge and Orforde that where it hath been accustomed time out of mind that both the said market towns of Cambridge and Oxford, wherein the said two universities be set, and the circuit of five miles next adjoining, hath been free from any charge or molestation of any common takers, or purveyors for vyctuall whereby the said markets, were more plentifully served with victual and the poor estate of a great multitude of scholars, having very bore and small sustentation thereby relieved, and now by the means that contrary to the same laudable custom, divers purveyors & takers have of late excessively frequented the said markets, and thereby given occasion to make the vyctelles both more scant and much dearer to a notorious decay of scholars, which also daily in this great dearth is like to increase and be more lamentable, to the hindrance of god's service, the dishonour of the realm, the discomfort of all good and holy men, loving learning and virtue.  
It may therefore please your majesties of your great pity and haboundaunte favour and love towards your said two universities, being the very two only nurses of good learning in this realm, with the assent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and the commons in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the sanie, to enact, ordain, and establish, that from henceforth no manner of purveyor, taker, bager, looder, or other minister, may or shall take or bargain for any kind of vyctuall or grain, in any of the said markets or towns of cambridge, and the city of Oxford, nor shall take or bargain for any vyctuall within the compass of five miles, thereto adjoining without the consent agreement or good will of the owner or owners, neither shall attempt to carry, take away, or bargain for any manner of grain, or other vyctuall, bought or provided within the said, space of five miles by any common minister, of any College, hostel, or hall, to be spent within any of the said Colleges, hostel, or halls, upon pain of the forfeiture of the quadruple value, of any such manner grain, or vyctuall so taken or bargained for, in any of the said markets, or within the said space of five miles, against the will of the owners, as is above said, or attempted to be taken, carried away or bargained for being provided as is above said, for to be spent in any the Colleges, hostels, or halls. And further shall suffer imprisonment for the space of three Months without bail or mamepryse and that the Chancellor or vice chancellor or his Commyssary for the time being, in either of the said universities, with two justices of peace, of the county, wherein the said universities be set shall have full power by authority of this act, to inquire by the oaths of xii men, of and upon the defaults and offences commytred contrary to the tenor thereof, and to see due punishment and reformation thereof in form aforesaid, from time to time, the one half of which foresaid forfeitures to be to the common treasure of either the said vuiversityes respectivelye to the fault committed against this their privilege, the other half to the party that wylsue for the same by action of debt, bill plaint or otherwise in any court of Record. or before the foresaid chancellor his vice chancellor or Commyssary for the time being, and two justices of peace, as is before expressed.  
provided that this act shall not be put in execution at any time or times whensoever your Majesties, or the heirs or Successors of your maiestieour sovereign Lady, shall please to come to any of both the said universities, or within seven miles of either of them but shallbe in suspense during that time only and not longer.  
provided always and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that this act or any thing therein contained, shall not in any wise be prejudicial or hurtful, to the Mayor Balyffes, and commonalty, of the City of Oxford, nor to the Mayor and commonalty of the town of cambridge, or to their successors, for and concerning any of their liberties, or privileges, but that they & every of them and their successors, respectivelye, may have and use the same, in such manner and form, as they or any of them might or aught to have done before the making of this act, any thing in this act contained to the contrary not with standing.   

☞ An acts touching watermen and bargemen upon the river of Thamyse.  
☞ The xvi chapter.  
WHere as heretofore for lack of good government and dew order, amongst whyrymen, and watermen, exercising, using, and occupying rowing upon the river of Thamyse, there have diverse and many misfortunes, and mischances, happened and chanced of late years past, to a great numbered of the king and queens Subjects, aswell to the nobility, as to other the common people, that have passed and repassed, and been carried by water by reason of the rude ignorant and unskilful number of watermen, which for the most part been masterless men, and single men of all kinds of occupations, and faculties, which do work at their own hands. And many boys being of small age, and of little skill, and being persons out of the rule and obedience of any honest master, and governor, and do for the most part of their time use dicing and carding, and other unlawful games, to the great and evil example of other such like, and against the Common wealth of this Realm. And all which said evil and ignorant persons, in the time of presting by commission, for the service of the king and queens most royal majesties, upon the Sea, for that they have no known place of abiding, do for the most part absent and convey themselves into the Country, and other secret places, practising there robberies, and felonies, and other evil detestable facts, to the great annoyance of the common wealth. And so after the said commission of presting ended, often times the said evil persons do repair again to their former trade of rowing, coulouring their evil deeds, & also divers of them being very ignorant for lack of convenient time of learning & exercise, in that which they might obtain sufficient knowledge of their occupation do oft times presume and enterprise to receive diverse of of our said sovereign lord and lady the king and queens Majesties loving subjects, into their boats and whyryes, and do carry and convey their said Subjects, from place to place by water upon the said river of Thames, whereby divers per sons have been rob and spoiled of their goods, & also drowned. And for and by the occasion aforesaid, be daily put in fear & peril of their lives, the which is very lamentable & not to be permitted or suffered in any common wealth. And by reason also that a great number, and the most part of the whyryes, and boats, now occupied and used, and of late time made for ro wing upon the said river, beune made so little and small in portion, and so straight and narrow, in the bothome, varying much from the old substantial sort, and sure making of boats & whiries which was used before the space of twenty years last passed, in so much as the most part of the boats & whiries used at this day been so shallow and tycle that thereby great peril & danger of drowning hath many times ensued and daily is like to ensue unless some speedy remedy, be herein had and provided.  
For reformation whereof, be it enacted by the king and queen's Majesties the lords Spiritual and Temporoll, and the Commons in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same. That there shallbe yearly appointed, chosen, & elected, by the Mayor, and court of Aldermen, of the city of London, for the time being the number of eight persons, of the most wise discreet and best sort of water men being householders, and occupying as watermen upon the said river between grauesende and windsor, which election shallbe yearly at the first court of aldermen, to be holden with in the said city next after the first day of March, & the same eight persons so elected shallbe named & called the overseers, and rulers, of all the whyrymen & watermen, that from & after the said first day of March shall use occupy or exercise any rowing upon the said river of Thamyse, betwixt Gravesend and Wyndsore aforesaid which said overseers and rulers, shall keep and maintain good order and obedience, amongst the said watermen according to the true meaning of this present act.  
And also be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that after the feast of Penticost next coming no person nor people where two watermen and not above the number of two shall row together in one boat or whyry, in any place or places betwixt Gravesende, & Wyndsore aforesaid shall presume or enterprise to receive or take any person or people into his or their boat or whyrie, to the intent to cari or convey him or them therein unless one of the same two watermen have been for the most part exercised and used in rowing upon the said river of Thamyse by the space of two hole years, before that time And that also one of the same two watermen, at the lest be duly admitted and allowed by the same eight Overseers and rulers, or the most part of them by writing under their known seal to be a sufficient and able watermen, upon pain that every person & persons presuming or offending contrary to the true meaning of this present act, shall by the said eight overseers or rulers be committed to prison in one of the Counters of the city of London, there to remain by the space of one month, or less as the offence shall require.  
And also be it further enacted that no person nor persons being single men not keeping houseshould and not retained, shall from and after the said feast of Pentecost next coming use or exercise to row between Gravesend and Wyndsore aforesaid, unless he or they be prentice or prentices, or in service retained with a master by the hole year at the lest upon pain of like imprisonment.  
And also be it further enacted that the Lord Mayor of London and the Aldermen of the same City, and the justices of peace, within the shires next adjoining to the said river of Thamyse, every of them within their several jurisdictions and authorities shall have full power and authority by virtue of this present act, upon complaint made to them or any of them by the said overseers and rulers, or two of them, or the master or masters of any such servants not only to examine, here, and determine all complaints, and offences to be done or committed by any such person or persons, that shall offend contrary to the true meaning of this present act, and to set at large all and every such person & persons, as shall fortune to be impry soned by the said overseers and rulers according to this act if just cause shall appear unto them so to do. But also by their good discretions and wisdom to punish correct, and reform, the said Overseers and Rulers, and every of them that shall unjustly or without good cause or ground, punnyshe any person or persons, by colour of this present Act, or any thing therein contained.  
And be it further enacted by thauthority aforesaid, that if any person or persons whatsoever from hence forth do or shall make any whyrye or boat, to the intent commonly to use rowing and carrying people upon the said river of Thamis, which shall not be xxii foot and a half in length, and four foot and a half broad in the midshyppe, or which shall not be substantially and well able and sufficient to carry two persons on one side tied, according to the old quantity, scantling, thickness of board, goodness, and good proportion, heretofore had, and used, that then the same boat or boats, so being made contrary to the proportion and sort before expressed, shall be taken as forfeit, and shall be forfeit, the one half thereof to the king and queens Majesties, our said sovereign lord and ladies use, and to the use of the heirs and successors of the queens majesty. And the other half to him ortheym that will sue for the same, in any of the king and queens majesties courts of Record, by action of detinue Bill, plaint, Information, or otherwise, wherein no wager of law essoign, protection, or injunction, shall be allowed for the defendant.  
And be it further enacted that if any person or persons, which from and after the said feast, shall use and exercise the occupation of rowing betwixt Gravesend and windsor aforesaid, which in the time of the execution of any Commission of presting, that shall be had for the service of the king and Quenees Majesties, and the heirs and Successors of the queens Majesty, in their affairs, shall willingly, voluntarily, and obstinately, withdraw, hide, or convey him or themselves, in the same time of presting into secret places, and out corners, and after when such time of presting is overpassed shall return and come again to the said river of Thamise, to row betwixt gravesend and Wyndsore afore said, & that duly proved by two indifferent witness, before the said mayor & court of aldermen, or justices of the peace & two of the said rulers, that then he or they so doing & offending, shall suffer imprisonment by the space of two weeks, and be banished any more to row from thenceforth upon the said river of Thames, by the space of one hole year and a day, than next following.  
And be it further enacted, that it shallbe lawful to the said viii rulers for the time being. & their successors from time to time to convent and call before them at some convenient place, by them to be appointed, all and every such person and persons, which from and after the said feast of pentecost, shall occupy and use the said trade and occunation of rowing betwixt Gravesende and Wyndsore aforesaid and shall enter and register the name and names of them, and every of them that shall be by them allowed or admitted for watermen, to row betwixt Gravesende and windsor aforesaid, in a book to be made for the same intent and purpose, and to take such further order and direction therein, with every the said parties, by the authority of this present act, as it shall seem meet and necessary by the discretion of the said ouer●eers, and rulers for the time being. And also that the said overseers and rulers, shall and may by authority of this act, oversee, vyewe, and survey, at all and every time and times hereafter, all manner boats and whyries, that shall from & after the said feast be made, before the said boat or boats, whyrye or whyryes, be launched out of the yard or ground wherein the same boat or boats, whyry or whyryes, shall fortune to be made, into the said river of Thamyse, to the intent that they and every of them may be made and prepared in such manner and form, and according to the goodness, proporci on and quantity, in this present act before limited and expressed.  
And be it further enacted by th'authority aforesaid that if any person or persons, which at any time hereafter shallbe elected or chosen to be a ruler or overseer, as before is expressed do hap negligently to use & exercise, his or their room or place, or that will obstinately refuse to take upon him or them, the room or rooms, place or places, of any the said overseers or rulers, that then all, and every such offender or offenders so offending, shall loose and forfeit the sum of tyve pounds of lawful money of England. The one half whereof shallbe to our said sovereign lord and lady the king and queens matesties use, and to those of the heirs and successors of the queen's majesty, and tother half to him or them, that will sue for the same in any of the king and queens majesties courts of record, by action of debt, or by any other the ways or means above specified, wherein no wager of law, essoin, protection, or miunction, shallbe admitted or allowed, for the defendant or defendants.  
And be it further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that the said mayor and court of aldermen of the said city of London, for the time being, shall from time to time at their discretion's limit, set, & assess assess the price and prices, and fummes of money that every person or persons, so authorized to row as is aforesaid betwixt Gravesend & Wyndsore aforesaid shall take for his or their labour, or far from place to place particularly betwixt Gravesende and Windesore aforesaid, and the same prices and assessementes to be set, shall bring or 'cause to be brought to the privy Council of our sovereign lord and Lady the king and queen to be viewed and seen by some of the said privy council, and after that the said assessementes and prices, shallbe signed and subscribed with the hands of two of the said privy council at the lest, the said Mayor and court of Aldermen for the time being shall 'cause the said prices and assessementes to be written and set up in tables in the guild hall, in the city of London, Westminster hall, and elsewhere, where the said Mayor and court of Aldermen shall think convenient. And every person and persons that shall take for his or their fare or labour above the prices that shallbe assessed, viewed, written, and set up in form aforesaid, shall forfeit for every such offence forty shillings, and also shall suffer imprisonment by one half year, the one moiety of the said forfeiture to be to the king and queens Majesties, their heirs and Successors, and tother moiety thereof, to him or them that will sue for the same in any of the king and queens majesties courts o● record, by action of debt, or by any other the ways or means above specified, wherein no wager of law, essoin, protection, or injunction, shallbe admitted or allowed for the defendant or defendants.  
And be it further enacted by th'authority aforesaid that no person nor persons occupying or using any Western barge, shall retain, take, or receive into his or their service, any single person, not keeping house or household, but only such as shall be retained with him or them by the hole year, and no householder, but such as he or they will and shall answer for, for his or their good behaviour, upon pain of for feature for every such offence forty shillings, the one moyte thereof to be to the king and queens Majesties, her heirs and successors and the other moiety thereof to him of them that will sue for the same in any of the king and queens courts of Record by action of debt, or by any other the ways or means above specified, wherein no wager of law essoin, protection, or injunction, shallbe admitted or allowed for the defendant or defendants.   

☞ An act to take away the benefit of clergy from Benet Smith for the murder of Rufforde.  
¶ The xvii Chapter.  
IN most humble wise showeth unto your most excellent hygnesses, & to the lords and commons in this present parliament assembled, your true subject and daily oratryce Margery Rufforde widow, late the wife of Gyles Rufforde, late of Edlesburgh in your grace's county of Buckyngham esquire, deceased, that where one Benedict Smyth late of Edlesburgh aforesaid yeoman, otherwise called Benet Smith late of Edlesburgh in the said county of Buckingham gentleman, of his cruel mind and deadly malice and hatred which he the said Benedict had and did bear unto the said Gyles Rufforde, he the said Benedict in the term of Easter in the first year of the reign of your highness our said sovereign lady the queen, did purchase and commence a writ of appeal of robbery returnable in your highness bench commonly called the kings bench, against the foresaid Gyles Rufford, and other persons supposing by the same writ, and by the declaration thereupon made, that the said Gyles Rufforde and the other persons named in the said writ, the seventh day of Apryll in the said first year, at little Gaddesden, in your grace's county of Hertford, did feloniousely steal, take, and bear away from the person of the said Benedict one cloak, a velvet purse, sixteen pounds ten shillings in money humbred, & other things of the money goods and cattles of the said Benedict, whereupon the said Gyles Rufforde and the said other persons named in the said writ, did appear and were arraigned in the said bench and thereunto plead not guilty and thereupon the said parties were at issue, as by the records there remaining in the said bench plainly appeareth, the which said issue not being tried, the said Benedict Smith, not ceasing to execute his said devilish malice & cruelty, but intending utterly to destroy the said Gyles Rufford, & the said other persons named in the said writ, he the said Benedict together with one john Godfrey of Edlesburgh aforesaid yeoman, the seven and twenty day of September in the first and second years of your hyghnesses' reigns, at Ware in the said county of Hertford did falsely conspire to indite the said Gyles Rufforde and the said other persons, of the said robbery and felony mentioned in the said writ of appeal whereupon they the said Benedict and john Godfrey did then, and there, before your hyghuesses' justices of general jail delivery, then and there holden indite the said Gyles Rufforde, and the said other persons, named in the said appeal, of the said robbery and felony, upon which said mditement, the said Gyles Rufforde was afterward then, and there, before the said justices arraigned, & thereunto did pled not guilty, and put himself upon the country, whereupon he the said Eyles was afterward then, and there, thereupon found not guilty, as by the records thereof plainly appeareth.  
And yet the said benedict Smyth not yet leaving his said vexation and malice, did afterward sue forth process to have the said issue tried between him & the said Gyles Rufforde joined in the said writ of appeal whereupon process continued against the jury thereupon returned in the said county of Hertford, until the said iutye did appear in the said bench, at a certain day, at which day the said Benedict Smyth with his witnesses and councillors did give in evidence to the said jury to prove the said Gyles guilty of the said felony, and the said Gyles in like manner with his witnesses and councillors did give in evidence to the said jury to prove him the said Gyles not to be guilty of the said felony, whereupon the said jury was charged to try the said issue. And afterward when they were agreed upon their verdict thereof, and ready to yield up the said verditte, the said benedict being solemnly called in the said bench, did make default and was nonsuit in his said writ of appeal, by reason whereof aswell the said Gyles as the said other persons named in the said writ were discharged of the said suit, against the said Smyth, as by the records thereof remaining in the said bench plainly appeareth, by reason and occasion of all which said shame, slanders, vexations, troubles & charges, that the said Gyles Rufforde was put unto through the false and slanderous means of the said Benedict he the said Gyles intending to recover again part of his said charges, did afterward in the said bench commence & sue a bill of conspiracy against the said Benedict Smyth, & john Godfrey for their said false and untrue conspiracy, in procuring the said false indictment, whereunto the said Benedict and john Godfrye pleaded not guilty, whereupon they were at issue, and thereupon process did continued in the said bench until a wryt of Nisiprius was a warded out of the said bench, into the said county of Herford to try the said issue, where at the assizes holden at Hertford in the said county of Hertford, in the xxii day of july in the first and third years of your hyghuesses' reinss, it was found before the justices of the said Nisiprius by the jury thereupon empaneled, that the said benedict & john Godfrey were guilty of the said conspiracy, and the said jury assessed damages to four score and ten pounds, & ten pounds for the costs of the said suit, as by the records of the said Nisiprius plainly may appear, since which said verdict so given the said Benedict Smyth being led with the instigation of the devil, and increasing in more mischief and malice against the said Gyles, did move, stir, labour, hire, and procure, one Fraunces Coniers, late of London gentleman, and one john Spencer, late of London yeoman, to murder & kill the said Gyles Rufforde, and promised the said Frances and john Spencer forty pounds to commit the said murder, and he the said Benedict did give unto the said Frances and john Spencer too javelins and a dag to commit the same, whereupon the said Frances Conyers, and john Spencer at divers and several times, aswell in your said county of Buckyngham as in your grace's counties of Hertforde, Mydd▪ and Hunt▪ did go about to commit the said murder, and at the last by the great labour and desire of the said Smyth, they the said Frances and john Spencer afterward that is to wit, the tenth day of September last passed, at Alconburye Weston, in your grace's county of Hunt▪ by the procurement aforesaid did maliciously and feloniously kill and murder the said Gyles Rufforde, for which murder so committed and after relation thereof made unto the said Smyth, he the said Benedict Smith, did afterward sand to the said murderers a ring of gold, and twenty shillings in money, by the forenamed john Godfrey, in part of payment of the said forty pounds, as by the several confessions of the said murderers, and also by the confession of the said john Godfrey, and divers other most manifestly may appear, which said murder was and is one of the most detestable and heinous murders, all the circumstances considered, that was done or committed by such false practises conspiracies and devices within the time of any man's remembrance within this your Realm, to the evil and perilous ensample of all other like offenders.  
It may therefore please your most excellent hyghnesses the premisses considered, and for the avoiding of such detestable murders, hereafter, that it may be enacted by your hyghnesses, the lords spiritual and temporal, and the commons in this present parliament assembled, & by the authority of the same, & be it enacted by the said aucthoryty, that if the said Benedict Smyth otherwise called Benet Smyth, be or shallbe in any manner of wise hereafter lawfully indicted in your said county of Buckingham, or elsewhere, or appealed as accessary to the said murder, for the procuring of the same, and be hereupon found guilty by verditte of twelve men, or shall confess the same upon his arraignment, or shall not answer thereunto directly according to the laws of this your realm, or shall stand wilfully or of malice mute, or shall challenge peremptory above the numbered of twenty persons, that then he the said Benedict shall not be admitted to have or enjoy the privilege or benefit of his clergy, but shallbe put from the same. Any law Statute or custom in this your realm to the contrary notwithstanding.   

¶ An act touching commissions of the peace and jail delivery in towns corporate not being Counties.  
The xviii Chapter.  
WHere the king and queens most excellent highness and their noble progenitors kings of this realm, have heretofore granted their several commyssions directed aswell unto the majors, recorders, and other grave men, and inhabitants of certain ancient and famous Cities & towns corporat, within their realm of England, not being counties in themselves, as also unto divers other worshipful and learned men dwelling out of the same cities and towns corporat, aswell for the keeping of their peace good ordering of their people, & executing of their laws & statutes, within the same Cities and towns corporat, as also for the delivery of their majesties prisoners remaining in the jail there, & after the granting of such commyssions their majesties have granted divers other like commissions unto certain worshipful and learned men of the shires, lathes, rapes, ridings, and wapentakes, of this Realm of England, for the confirmation of their peace, and also delivering of their prisoners remaining in their jails within the same shires, lathes, rapes, rydinges, and wapentakes, which commissions so bearing a later date, have been a supersedeas and clear discharge unto all and singular the said former commissions granted unto the said cities and towns corporat not being counties in themselves, so that the said Mayor and other grave and chiefest officers of every such City and town corporate have been charged to sue for the renewing again of such commyssions both for the peace and goal delivery, to the great expenses, costs, and charges, of the said Mayor, and other thin habytauntes of such cities, and towns corporat, & to the great protracting and delay of justice there in the mean time. For reformation whereof, & for the better advancement of justice in the premises.  
Be it therefore enacted by the king and queens majesties, the lords spiritual and temporal and the commons in this present parliament assembled, and by th'authority of the same, that all and singular commission and commissions granted or to be granted, to any such City or town corporate, not being as is aforesaid, a county in itself for the keeping of their peace & delivery of the prisoners remaining in the jails of any such city or town corporate, not being a county in it sefe, shall stand, remain, & be good available and effectual in the law, to all intents, constructions, and purposes, the granting of any like commission of peace or jail delivery, to any commissioner or commissioners for the conservation of the peace, or delivery of the prisoners remaining in the jail of any shire, lath, rape, riding or wapen take, within this realm of England, bearing date after the said commission or commissions, granted as is aforesaid, to any such city or town corporate, not being as is aforesaid, a county in itself, to the contrary notwithstanding.   

¶ An Act touching Powdike in Marshelande.  
☞ The xix Chapter.  
WHere in the parliament holden at Westminster in the xxii. year of the reign of the late king Henri the viii there was an act made & established for the preservation of Marsheland in the county of Norf. entitled an act touching Powdyke in Marshelande, by the which act it was provided & enacted, that if any perverse and malicious person did cut down and break any part or parts of the dike called the new Powdyke in Marshelande, in the county of Norff & the broken dike, otherwise called Oldfielde dyke by Marsheland in the Isle of Elye in the county of Cambridge, or of any other bank being pencel of the rind and uttermost part of the said country of Marsheland aforesaid, made for the defence & preservation of the same country of Marsheland, that every such offence from hence forth by any person or persons committed & done otherwise then in working upon the said bank or dikes, for the repairing, fortifying, and amending, of the same, should be taken, reputed, and adjudged felony, and that the offenders and doers of the same, & every of them, be adjudged and reputed felons, and that the justices of the peace of the said counties of Norff. and Cambridge within the same Isle, at every of their sessions within the same Isle and counties to be kept, by th'authority aforesaid, should have full power to 'cause inquiry to be made of every such offence so at any time after in form afore said to be committed & done, and to award like process against every of the said offenders with like judgement & execution of the same if they or any of them be thereof found guilty, by verdict or otherwise as the said justice hath used & accustomed to do upon other felonies being felony at the common law, as by the record of the said act more plainly appeareth. And albeit the said statute was a very good and beneficial statute for the defence of the said country of Marshelande, yet the said Statute was and is by one act and statute lately made for the repeal of treasonnes and felonies in the first year of the reign of our late sovereign Lord king Edward the sixth, amongst divers other things clearly repealed and made void, by reason whereof, aswell the said country of Marsheland, as the inhabitants of the same and their goods and chattels presently stand and remain in great danger of drowning and surrounding, to their utter impoveryshement and undoing.  
For reformation whereof, be it enacted by authority of this present parliament, that the said act and statute made in the said parliament holden in the said xxii year of the reign of the said late king Henry the eight, entitled an act concerning Powedyke in Marshelande, and all and every branch article penalty & sentence therein contained shall from the twenty day of january next coming be revived and stand and be in perfect force strength and effect in the law to all intents constructions and purposes as the same was before the repeal thereof had and made. Any thing mentioned and contained in the said act of repeal or any other law or statute to the contrary notwithstanding.   

¶ An act for the enlarging of the Duchy of Lancaster.  
The twenty chapter.  
FOR as much as the king and queen our sovereign Lord and Lady considering and regarding the estate of the duchy of Lancaster being one of the most famous pryncelyest and stateliest pieces of our said sovereign lady the queens ancient inheritance, do perceive and consider that the possessions & yearly revenues of the said duchy are & have been of late greatly diminished, aswell by reason of sundry gifts, grants & seals made by the late kings of famous memory Henry the eight, and Edward the sixth, late kings of England father & brother to our said sovereign lady the queens highness as also by reason of sundry exchanges made with divers their loving Subjects, of sundry manours, lands, tenements, possessions, and hereditaments, lately belonging to the same duchy, and the manors, lands, tenements, possessions, and hereditaments, being received and taken in recompense of the said exchanges be not annexed to the said duchy but been in thorder survey and governance of other courts and places so by their highness taken and received in exchange.  
And forasmuch also, as their majesties do mind and intend to preserve, advance, maintain, and continued, the ancient and honourable estate of the said duchy, our said sovereign lord and lady therefore be pleased and contented that it be enacted ordained & esta blyshed by their majesties, with the assent of the lords spiritual and temporal and the commons in this present parliament assembled and by th'authority of the same, that all honours, Castles, lordships, manors, lands, tenements, possessions, and hereditaments, within this realm of England which at any time since the xxviii day of january in the first year of the reign of our said late sovereign Lord king Edward the sixth, were parcel of the possessions of the said Duchy of Lancaster or which were united & annexed to the said duchy by authority of parliament, letters patents or otherwise. And which at any time since the said xxviii day of january have been given granted alienated bargained sold exchanged or otherwise severed from the said Duchy by our said late sovereign lord king Edward the sixth, or by our said sovereign lady the Queen that now is, or by our sovereign Lord and Lady the king and quenees Majesties that now be, to or with any person or persons, and which said honours, castles, lord ships, manors, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, since such gifts, grants, alienations, bargain, Sales, exchanges, or severance thereof so made as is aforesaid, been comen or returned again to the hands of our said late sovereign lord king Edward the sixth or to the hands of our said sovereign Lady the queen, or to the hands of our said sovereign Lord and Lady, the king and Queen, or to the hands of her majesty, her heirs and successors, in possession, reversion remainder or otherwise by attainder, escheat forfeiture, purchase, remainder, or otherwise. And which now be or remain in the hands of our said sovereign lord and lady the king and queen's Majesties, of any estate of inheritance, shall from the time the same came and reverted again, to the hands of our said late sovereign lord king Edward the sixth, or to the hands of our said sovereign lady the Queen, or the hands of our said sovereign lord and lady the king and queen, by authority and force of this act be united and annexed for ever unto the said Duchy of Lancaster, and shallbe adjudged deemed and taken for ever, for and as parcels and members of the said Duchy of Lancaster and that all such and those of the said Manoures' Lands, tenements and hereditaments, which be lying within the County palentine of Lancaster, shall be of the same nature quality kind and condition, to all intentes constructions and purposes, as others the ancient possessions of the said Duchy lying and being within the said county palentine of Lancaster, be & aught to be, and all those and such of the said manors lands tenements & hereditaments which be lying out of the said county palentine of Lancaster shallbe of the same nature quality kind and condition to all intentes constructions and purposes, as other ancient possessions of the said duchy lying and being out of the county palentine of Lancaster, be & aught to be, and shallbe in the letting setting order rule survey receipt and governance of the chancellor, council, and officers of the said Duchy of Lancaster for the time being, for evermore in like and the same manor and form, to all intentes and purposes, as others the said ancient possessions, belonging to the said duchy, been, have been, or owen to be.  
And that all the said honours, Castles, lordships, manours, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, united, and annexed to the said duchy of Lancaster, by authority and force of this act, and all and singular gifts, grants, leases, letters patents, and writings thereof, or of any parcel thereof hereafter to be made by the king and queens highness, or by the heirs and successors of her majesty shall for evermore pass and be made under such of the said duchy, as other the ancient possessions of the said duchy, have used to pass, and be made, and not under any other seal or otherwise, and with the like and the same livery of season attornements ceremonies orders and circumstances in the law and in the same manor and form, as other the ancient possessions of the said Duchy.  
And the letters patentes, charters and writings thereof heretofore of ancient time made, have used and ought to be made and passed and not otherwise nor in any other manner and form, any law statute usage or custom to the contrary thereof, in any wise notwithstanding.  
And be it further enacted, ordained, and established by th'authority aforesaid, that our said sovereign Lord and Lady the king and Queen that now been, and the heirs and successors of her majesty, may from time to time hereafter at their liberties and pleasures, by their grace's letters patents, to be sealed with the great seal of England, unite, annex, limit, assign and appoint any other their honours, Castles, lordships, manours, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, lying and being within this their said realm of England, unto their said duchy of Lancaster, for the further augmentation, honour, and estate of the said duchy at their wills and pleasures.  
And that all and every such annexing, lymytting, assignment, and appointment, made or to be made by our said sovereign Lord and Lady the king and Queen, or by the heirs or Successors of our said sovereign Lady the Queen, of any their honours, Castles, lordships, manors, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, unto the said Duchy of Lancaster, by any their said letters patentes, under the great Seal of England, shallbe as good and available as if it were done by authority of parliament. And that all such honours, castles, lord ships, manours lands, tenements and hereditaments lying and being within the said county palentine of Lancaster, which shall happen to be united and annexed to the said Duchy by force of any such letters patents, shall from the test of the said letters patents, within the order, survey, rule governance jurisdiction letting and setting of the said Duchy of Lancaster, for the time being as other the possessions of the said Duchy, lying and being within the said county palentyne of Lancaster, have used and owen to be. And that all other honours, castles, lordshipes' manors, lands tenements and hereditaments lying and being out of the said county paleutyne of Lancaster, which shall happen to be united, and annexed to the said Duchy by force of any such letters patents, shallbe from the test of the said letters patents within thorder survey rule governance jurisdiction, letting and setting of the said duchy of Lancaster, as others the possessions of the said duchy of Lancaster, lying and being out of the said county Palatine, of Lancaster, have used and owen to be. Saving to all and every person and persons bodies politic and corporate, their heirs successors and assigns, and to their heirs successors and assygnes, of every of them all such right title interest, entries, conditions, occupations possession lease & leases, fees, annuities offices, rents, services commons, profits, commodities, casements, actions, suits, demands thing & things, whatsoever which they or any of them should might orought to have had into or out of any the premises before the making of this act in like & in the same manner form & condition to all intents constructions & purposes, as if this act had never been had or made, any thing in this act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.  
Provided always and be it enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that this act or any thing or things therein contained shall not in any wise extend to enable or give any liberty to our said sovereign lord and lady the king and queen nor to the heirs and successors of our said sovereign lady the Queen to unit & annex to the said Duchy of Lancaster, by their letters patents any honours, castles lordships, manors lands, tenements, or hereditaments, being any part or parcel of the ancient inheritance of the crown, or of the principality of Wales or of the duchy of Cornwall, or of the Earldom of Chester, or any their honours, castles, lordships, manors, lands tenements, or hereditaments set lying or being within the counties of Chester and Flynt, or either of them nor to give annex or assign to the said duchy of Lancaster, any honour's castles, lordships, manors, lands, tenements or hereditaments, exceeding and amounting in the hole, above the yearly value of two thousand pounds, any clause, article, or thing in this act rehearsed contained or specified to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.   

¶ An act for the continuation of certain statutes.  
☞ The xxi Chapter.  
WHere in the parliament begun and holden at London the third day of November in the xxi year of the reign of our most dread sovereign lord of most famous memory king Henry the eight, and from thence adjourned to westminster, and there holden and continued by diverse prorogations unto the dissolution thereof, one act was made and established for the restraint of carriage and conveying of horses and mares, out of this Realm, and also one other act was there made for the true winding of wols, and one other act was there made to restrain killing of wainglings, bullocks, stiers, and heifers, being under the age of two years, which said several acts were then made to endure and continue unto the next parliament, as by the said several acts more plainly appeareth. And where also in the same parliament one other act was made and established for attaints to be sued for the punishment of perjury upon untrue verdyctes, which acts last before rehearsed were then made and ordained to continued and endure to the last day of the next parliament as by the same act more plain lie at large is showed and may appear.  
And where also in the parliament begun and holden at Westminster the viii day of june, in xxviii year of the reign of our said most dread sovereign lord king Henry the eight, and there continued and kept until the dissolution thereof. It was ordained and enacted that all and singular the said acts above remembered & every of them should continued & endure in their force & strength and also be observed & kept until the last day of that next parliament, as by the same act amongst other things therein contained more plainly appeareth. And where also in the parliament begun & holden at Westminster the xxviii day of April in the xxxi. year of the reign of our said late most dread sovereign lord king Henry the viii & there continued until the xxviii day of june than next following, it was ordained & enacted by thauthority of the same parliament that all & singular the said several acts above remembered, and every of them & all clauses, articles, and provisions in them and every of them contained should continued & iudure in their force & strength & also be observed & kept until the last day of the next parliament as by the same act amongs other things therein contained more plainly appeareth. And where in the parliament held at Westminster in the xxxv year of the reign of our said late sovereign lord king Henry the viii one act was made for the preservation of woods to endure for seven years then next following, and from thence to the end of the next parliament, as by the same act more plainly doth and may appear.  
And where also at the parliament holden at Westminster in the xxxvii. year of the reign of the said late king Henry the eight, and there continued and kept until the dissolution thereof, It was ordained and enacted that all and singular the said acts above mentioned & every of them (except the said act made for the preservation of woods, as is aforesaid) should continued and endure in their force and strength and also to be observed and kept until the last day of the next parliament than next following, as by the same Act amongst other things therein contained more plainly appeareth.  
And where also at a session of the parliament ended at Westminster the xiiii day of March, in the third year of the reign of our late sovereign lord king Edward the sixth, one act was made for the true currying of leather which act was made to endure to th'end of the next parliament as by the same act more plainly appeareth. And where also at the session of a parliament ended at Westminster the first day of February in the fourth year of the reign of our said late sovereign lord king Edward the fixed, one act was then and there made concerning the buying of rother beasts, and also one other act was then and there made touching the buying and selling of butter and cheese, which said several acts was then and there made to endure and continued to the end of the next parliament, as by the same several acts more at large doth and may appear.  
And where also at the session of a parliament by prorogation holden at westminster that xxiii day of january in the fift year of the reign of our said late sovereign lord king Edward the sixth, one other act was then and there made against regratoures and forestalleres to endure to the end of the next parliament, which all and singular the said acts above mentioned together with the said act concerning the preservation of woods, at a parliament holden at westminster the first day of march in the seventh year of the reign of our said sovereign Lord King Edward the sixth, and there continued and dissolved the last day of the same month of March, and all clauses articles & provisions in them and every of them contained were there revived and continued to stand in their force and strength until the last day of the next parliament.  
And where also at the session of a parliament holden by prorogation at westminster the xxiiii day of October in the first year of the reign of our most gracious sovereign Lady the Queen's Majesty, and there continued and kept until the dissolution thereof, one act was there made and established against unlawful and rebellious assembles, to endure to the end of the next parliament as by the same act more plainly doth and may appear. And where also at the same Session of parliament last before mentioned, all and singular the acts above mentioned and before that time continued at sundry parliaments as is aforesaid, and all clauses articles and provisions in them and every of them contained, were there revived and continued to stand in their force and strength unto the last day of that next parliament.  
And where also at the session of a parliament begun & holden at Westminster the xii day of November in the first and second years of the reigns of our most gracious sovereign Lord and Lady the king and queens Majesties, and there continued and kept to the dissolution of the same, being the xvi day of january than next ensuing, one act was then and there made against seditious words and tumours to endure to the end of the next parliament as by the same act more plainly doth and may appear. And where also in the said parliament last before recited, all and singular the acts above mentioned that were before that time continued at sundry parliaments, as is aforesaid, & all clauses articles and provisions in them and every of them contained were by authority of the said parliament there revived and continued to stand in their force and strength unto the last day of the next parliament.  
Forasmuch as all and singular the said several Acts above mentioned, be good and beneficial for the common wealth of this Realm. Be it therefore enacted ordained and established by the king and queens Majesties, our sovereign Lord and Lady with th'assent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and the commons of this present parliament assembled and by th'authority of the same, that all and singular the said several acts and statutes above mentioned and rehearsed, and every of them, and all clauses, articles, and provisions in them and every of them contained, shallbe revived continued stand and endure in their full force and strength, to all intents, constructions and purposes, and shallbe observed and kept in all things until the last day of the next parliament.   

An act for the confirmation of a subsidy granted by the clergy.  
¶ The xxii chapter.  
WHere the prelate's and clergy of the provinces of Canterbury, and York have most lovingly and liberally for certain considerations them moving given and granted to the king and queens Majesties a subsidy of six shillings of the pound to be taken and levied of all and singular their spiritual promotions within the same several provinces within the term of three years, now next ensuing in such certain manner & form▪ and with divers exceptions and provisions specified and contained in a certain instrument by them thereof made and delivered unto the queens majesty, as in the same instrument exhibited also in this present parliament more plainly doth appear, the tenor whereof ensueth in these words.  
The prelate's and clergy of the provinces of Canterbury, and York, being lawfully congregated & assembled in a synod upon great and weighty causes to them purposed and among the same well weighed and debated, considering their most bounden duties to the king and queens Majesties, and how great and ample benefits, they have received of their munificens and bounteful goodness for an evident declaration of their good hearts & minds, in remembrance of the said benefits with one uniform agreement accord and consent, and together with most hearty good wills have given & granted, and by these presents do give and grant to the king & queen's Majesties one Subsidy in manner and form following. That is to say, that every archbishop, bishop, Deane, archdeacon, Prebendary, Provoste, master of Colleges, master of hospitals, person, vicar and every other person & persons of whatsoever name or degree he or they be, enjoying any spiritual promotion, or other temporal possessions of the same spiritual promotions annexed, now not divided nor separated by act of parliament, or otherwise from the possession of the clergy, shall pay to the king and queen's highness, for every pound that he or they may yearly dispend by reason of the said Spiritual promotion the sum of six shillings. And for the true and certain knowledge of the yearly value of the said promotions and every of them, whereof payment shallbe made, the rate taxation valuation and estimation remaining of record in the king and queens majesties late Courts of the first fruits and tenths, & now in their court of thexchequer for the payment of the Disme of the clergy, concerning all such promotions as be in possession of the clergy, or any other not divided by act of parliament or otherwise as is aforesaid, shallbe followed and observed without making any other valuation, rate, taxation or estimation then in the said record is comprised and mentioned.  
provided always, that forasmuch as the tenth part of the said valuation and tax afore mentioned, shallbe for a time upon certain reasonable considerations and respects yearly paid by the said clergy, so that there remaineth only nine parts to the incumbent clear, this subsidy of Syxe shillings of the pound shallbe understand and meant only of the said nine parts, and of no more.  
Also the said prelate's and clergy, further do grant, that this subsidy of Syxe shillings of the pound, of the yearly value of every promotion taxed as is aforesaid, shallbe paid to the king and queens Majesties, within three years next ensuing the date here of that is to say, too shillings of every pound, in every of the said three years, the first payment thereof to be due at the first day of October next ensuing, which shallbe in the year of our Lord God a thou said five hundredth fifty and six, and the second payment thereof to be due in the first day of October, than next following, which shallbe in the year of our Lord God a thousand five hundred thirty & seven the third and last payment thereof to be due at the said first day of October, which shallbe in the year of our Lord God, a thousand five hundred thirty and eight, to be delivered and paid yearly by such person and persons, as in this present grant shallbe appointed to have the collection thereof, to be paid into the receipt of the king and queens majesties exchequer, or to such person or persons, place or places, to whom and where it shall please their highness to appoint for the receipt thereof, before or at the last day of january in every of the said three years, without paying any thing to the receavor or receivers by their majesties, to be assigned for any dyschardge, acquittance, or quietus est, upon payment and receipt, of the same subsidy, to be given and delivered, but only twelve pence, for their acquittance.  
Item the said prelate's and clergy also do grant, that every priest, and all other spiritual persons, having a pension by reason of the dissolution of any the late monasteries, Colleges, free Chapels chantries, fraternities, guilds and hospitals, or of any other spiritual dignity and corporation, now dissolved and extinguished within any of the said provinces, shall likewise pay to their highness six shillings of every pound, of the said pensions within the said three years, at such days and times, as is before specified, and for the sure and assartayned payment thereof, a deduction or rectention of the said six shillings shallbe made yearly in the hands of the payers, of the said pension after the proportion of two shillings of the pound every of the said three years to be delivered and paid unto their majesties use at such time and to such persons as the said subsidy of Six shillings of the pound aforesaid shall be paid unto.  
Item that every stipendiary priest, receiving annual stipend of eight pounds & under, being no perpetuity within the said provinces shall pay unto their majesties use, six shillings eight pence yearly during the said three years at such time and to such persons as the said subsidy shallbe paid, & under the same penalties, as the rest of the clergy, do pay for their promotions. And that every priest receiving above eight pounds and not above ten pounds to pay likewise ten shillings. And that every priest receiving above ten pounds, and not above twenty marks to pay thirteen shillings four pence, yearly during the said three years, at such time and to such persons as the said subsidy shallbe paid. And that every pressed taking stipend above twenty marks to pay likewise two shillings of the pound every year during the said three years, in such manner & form, as the rest of the clergy do pay for their promotions spiritual. And for default or lack of payment thereof by the said stipendaries, that every person vicar and other spiritual person hiring any priest to serve in any place shallbe answerable for the payment of the said priest in that behalf after the said rates, and shall or may make retention of his or their wages quarterly, of so much as the said stipedary is charged with, by this present confession and grant every of the said three years. Item the said prelate's and Clergy further do grant the every archbishop and Bishop, and the Sea being vacant every Dean and Chapter of the Sea voided, shallbe Collectors of this subsidy within their proper diocese during the said three years.  
And to th'intent the king and queens Majesties may be surely and duly answered and paid of the said subsidy in manner and form aforesaid, and the Collectors of the same, thoroughly charged and discharged according to the tenor of this grant, the said prelate's, and clergy do ordain and decree with one assent and consent that every collector of the foresaid Subledy, and of every part & parcel thereof, and their lawful deputy or deputies shall have full power and authority by these presents toprocede against every person and persons leyable charged and bound to pay the said subsidy, or any part or parcel thereof denying refusing or delaying to pay the same, or making any default in the payment thereof, or any part thereof at the day or days that it ought to be paid, after lawful warning to them given personally or at their churches or mansions, by the censures of the Church. That is to say by suspension excommunication or interdiction, and also by sequestration, of the fruits and proftytes of their benefices, or promotions spiritual, and to make sale of the same fruits, and all other remedies lawful by their discretions, thought convenient, to correct constrain & compel them and everpe of them, to the full and undelayde satisfaction of the said subsidy and every part and parcel thereof, and shall also have like power and authority both to absolve them so paying, from all the said censures and other pains, and also to release and revoke all such processes as shall be made against them or any of them after they shall have fully satisfied the said subsidy accordingly.  
provided always, and it is ordained and decreed that all and every person and persons refusing or neglecting to pay the said subsidy at time convenient as is aforesaid, shall for his or their first default or negligence in not paying the subsidy according to the purport and tenor of this grant bear all the charges and reasonable expenses of the said collector or his deputy in coming going, and demanding of the same, and for the second time likewise offending in none payment, to pay to the said Collector or his deputy the fourth part of the said subsidy, over and above the said Sum upon him or his Church, or person allotted and taxed, which he is bound to pay and charged by this act of free grant.  
Also the said prelate's and clergy do further ordain and decree that if any person or persons above named chargeable to this Subsidy or any part thereof, after the said censures and process executed against him or them, yet still obstinately refuse neglect or make delay, to pay the same or any part thereof (as is beforesaid) that they after lawful monition given unto him or them, so refusing neglecting or delaying, by the said Collectors or their lawful deputy or deputies personally or at there churches, do still by the space of thirty days refuse or neglect to make payment of the said subsidy, that then and in every such case, it shallbe lawful to the said Collector or his lawful deputy, every such person so refusing, neglecting, or delaying, and contemning the said former processes, to deprive, amove, and destitute from his or their benefices, spiritual promotion or pension ecclesiastical, any appellation, or inhibition or other remedy ordinary or extraordinary not withstanding, the said person so refusing, to be and remain for ever without hope of regress to such the promotion as he or they shallbe deprived of for the causes aforesaid by any new presentation of him or them to be made to the same, and that it shallbe lawful to the patron of the said benefice or benefices or other ecclesiastical promotions, from which the said person or persons so neglecting to pay shallbe depryned, to present unto every such benefice or promotion spiritual as if the said incumbent or in cumbentes were deceased.  
Item the said clergy further do ordain and decree, that of so much as the collectors shallbe charged with, in their accounts clearly to be paid into the receipt of the said Exchequer, or to such person or persons, as it shall please the king & queens majesties to appoint for the receipt of the same, shallbe allowed to the said collector upon his said account for the same for every pound six pence by way of reward or in lieu of his charges, collection, portage, and conveying and paying of the said subsidy.  
provided always, that no spiritual promotion or any lands, possessions or revenues, annexed to the same, being charged by this grant or act of the provinces of Caunterburye and York, or any goods or cattles growing, being or renewing of the same, or appertaining to the owners, of the said spiritual promotions shallbe charged or made contrybutory to any fifteen, or any other subsidy already granted to the king and queens highness of the lay fee, or hereafter to be granted during the term of the said three years.  
Item the said Prelates and clergy, further grant, that every of the new erected by shops, deans, prebendaries, peticannones, and preachers shall be charged with this subsidy for their own portions only thereof to pay six shillings of the pound, within the said three years as is above rehearsed of other bishops and spiritual personns, and those portions of rents and revenues, which their highness or any of their most noble progenitors have given unto them for the maintenance of poor men, schoolmasters ushers gramaryans, chorysters, and other officers or ministers, not to be tharged with any part of this subsidy.  
provided also that every parson, vicar, or other spiritual man paying any pension whereof none allowance is made, in the valuation of his said benefice in the records of the said late court of first fruits or Exchequer, shall and may retain two shillings of every pound of every such pension every year during the said three years, to his own releyse in consideration that he is charged to pay his subsidy of six shillings of the pound out of every pound of the said nine parts of his promotion.  
provided also that where certain lands, tenements, rents tithes, pensions, portions, fruits, and other hereditaments, lately belonging to divers cathedral churches, or to other places ecclesiastical within the said provinces of Caunterburye and York, which were given and assigned to be bestowed and spent to and upon the finding and maintenance of certain chantries, anniversaries, obits, lights, lamps, and other like things, intents, and purposes, be of late come into the hands and possessions of the king and queens Majesties our sovereign Lord and Lady by force of a Statute thereof, made in the first year of the reign of our late sovereign Lord king Edward the sixth, as by the said statute more plainly appeareth, that the said cathedral churches, and the deans or presidents, and chapters of the same, & all other places and persons to whom the said lands rents and all other the premises, or any of them did lately appertain, shall not be charged to & with any contribution or payment of this subsidy, of and for that part or portion whereunto the king and queens highness be & have been entitled or possessed of. But that this said subsidy shallbe under stand to be chargeable and dew only of all and singular Lands, tenements rents, tithes, pensions, portions, fruits and other hereditaments, which do yet still remain not dissevered from the hands and possession of the said Cathedral churches, and other the places & persons aforesaid, and that deduction & allowance be made to them and every of them in the said payment of the Subsidy, out of the hole valuation taxation and estimation made for the payment of the said disme remaining of record, in the king and queens majesties court of thexchequer, for that rate and portion which is come to the hands and possession of our said late sovereign Lord or otherwise severed from the possessions of the said Cathedral churches, and other places and persons aforesaid, by force of the statute promised.  
provided also that every person and vicar whose benefice is above the valuation of five pound and not above six pound thirteen shillings four pence, after the rate of the late perpetual tenth, shall pay every year of the said three years only, vi. shillings viii pence as the said stipendaries do and not otherwise.  
And that all persons and vicars whose benefices be of the valuation of five pounds or under after the rate of the said late perpetual tenth, shall not be charged or chargeable with this subsidy or any part thereof.  
provided always that this subsidy, granted by the clergy shall not be demanded or levied out of any benefice house of students or College situate or set within the universities of Oxford & cambridge, or of any benefices or other revenues unto any house of students, or College of Oxford and cambridge united appropriate or appertaining, or of the College of Eton, nigh Wyndesoure or of the College of winchester, founded by William Wyckham sometime Bysshope of Wynchester, or of any poor men, women or children living of alms in any hospitals, alms houses, alms halls, or of any grammar schools, or of any other Church, or benefices or of any other revenues of the said houses, Colleges, hospitals alms houses, or alms halls, or grammar schools to any of them annexed appropriate or otherwise appertaining.  
provided also that every priest and other late professed religious persons, having a pension by reason of the dissolution of the late monasteries, Colleges, free chapels, chantries, fraternities, guilds and hospytals, or any other incorporations, within the provinces of Caunterbury and York, or any of them, and being of the sum of forty shillings, or under, & not above, shall not be charged, or chargeable to the said subsidy, or any part thereof for any such pension of forty shillings, or under, any thing contained in this grant to the contrary notwithstanding.  
finally the said prelate's and clergy, being desirous that the said subsidy may be entirely contented and paid to those of the king and queens majesties, within the said three years, do grant ordain and decree, that if it shall happen in the end of the said three years, any arrearages of the said subsidy to be behind unpaid, by reason of thexility or decay of any benefice or other spiritual promotion, leyable to this subsidy, that then it shallbe lawful to every Archbishop, and Bishop within their several diocese, by the counsel of his clergy, & the sea being void, to the dean and Chapytoure of the sea void, to assess and tax all and singular the ecclesiastical promotions, within their said several diocese, to become contributories to the full satisfaction of the said subsidy, the same to be collected levied and paid the next year immediately ensuing the said third year at the days and under the pains form and qualities above limited Any thing in this grant to the contrary notwithstanding.  
And for the true and sure payment of this subsidy granted by the said prelate's and clergy of the provinces of Caunterburye, and York, according to the tenor purport effect and true meaning of this present instrument, the said prelate's and clergy most humbly desire and require the king and the queens most excellent majesties that it may be enacted by authority of this present parliament, that the provisions contained in the foresaid grant shall stand good and effectual to all intentes and purposes, mentioned in the said grant. And the all processes and penalties, and all other clauses touching the payment of the said subsidy, and the levying and collection of the same, and of every parcel thereof, may be by the said prelate's and Clergy & their lawful deputies put in due execution, according to the true meaning thereof, without incurring any penalties or dangers of any laws or statutes of this Realm.  
And for the true and sure payment of this subsidy granted by the said prelate's and clergy of the provinces of Caunterburye and York, according to the tenor purport effect and true meaning of this present instrument.  
Be it therefore enacted by the king & the queens majesties, with th'assent of the Lords spiritual and temporal & the commons in this present parliament assembled and by th'authority of the same, that that said gift and grant, and every matter, sum of money, clause and sentence in the said instrument contained be ratified established and confirmed by th'authority aforesaid.  
And furthermore be it enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that every person that shallbe appointed to the collection and gathering of the said subsidy, shall have full power and authority to levy take & perceive the same Subsidy, by authority of the censures, of the church, in manner and form as in the said instrument of grant is contained, without danger of the laws of this realm, or by distress upon the possession of the farmers or occupiers of the lands, and tenements, chargeable by the said instrument, for or to the payment of any sum or sums of money, or otherwise by the discretion of the collector thereof, and that no replevye prohibition or supersedeas, shallbe allowed or obeyed for any person or persons making default of payment of the said subsidy, contrary to the tenor of the grants thereof until such time as they have truly satisfied and contented all such part and portions as to them in that behalf appertaineth. And that every such farmer & farmers their executors and assigns that shall fortune hereafter to be charged to and with the payment of the said subsidy, or any part thereof, shall by th'authority aforesaid be allowed and retain in his hands as much of his yearly rent and farm, as the sum which he shall fortune to paifor his Lord or Leassor shall extend unto, extept the said fermoure or fermoures their executors and assigns, by the lease & grant that they have of any part of the lands and tenements chargeable to this subsidy, or by force of any covenant or article therein contained, be bound & charged to pay the same, & thereof to discharge their leassor and landlord during the term mentioned in their said lease.  
provided always and be it enacted by th'authority of this present parliament, that every lay person having a spiritual promotion chargeable by this act, and also having temporal possessions goods, Cattles, and debts chargeable to this subsidy granted by the temporalty, shallbe charged taxed & set for his said spiritual promotions, with the clergy, and for his said temporal possessions & cattles, with the temporalty and not otherwise. Any thing afore mentioned to the contrary notwithstanding.  
And be it further enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that the said Archebyshopes and bishops, and other persons chargeable to & with the collection of the said subsidy of Six shillings of the pound, within the said provinces of Canterbury, and York shall have upon every payment thereof made in the queen's Court of thexchequer, or else where the king & the queens majesty shall appoint the same to be paid a sufficient acquittance in writing of such person or persons as their majesties shall appoint for the receipt thereof, the same acquytaunce witnessing the same receipt of as much of that same sum of the same subsidy as shallbe by any of them so received, & every such acquittance in writing, sealed and subscribed with the name or names of every such person or persons, that so by their high nesses appointment shall receive any of the said sums of money shallbe as good and effectual in the law, and also a sufficient discharge to all intentes constructions and purposes, as if it were made by act of parliament, and that every person and persons, which shall have and receive any such acquittance, shall pay but only two pence for every of the same acquittance.   

¶ An act of a subsidy granted to the king and queens Majesties by the temporalty.  
¶ The xxiii Chapter.  
WE the Lords & commons in this present parliament assembled the king and queens Majesties most loving and obedient subjects, calling to our remembrance, the great and sundry benefits which we have many ways received at their majesties most gracious hands, and considering also besides, the great debts, wherewith the imperial crown of this realm was charged, when it pleased almighty God first to call the queens majesty to the governance of the same the great intolerable charges, wherewith her majesty hath been many ways burdened. For some declaration of our most bounden duties, with one assent, and consent, by authority of this present parliament, do give and grant to the king and queen's majesties, their heirs and successors, kings of this realm, one entire subsidy, to be rated, taxed, levied, and paid, at two several payments of every person, spiritual and temporal, of what estate, or degree he or they be, according to the tenure of this act, in manner and form following, that is to say, aswell of every person, borne within this realm of England, Wales, or other the king and queens dominions, as of all, and every fraternity, guild, corporation, mystery, brotherhood, and commonalty, corporated, or not corporated, within this realm of England, Wales, or other the king & queens dominions being worth .v. pounds, & under ten pounds, for every pound aswell in corn, & the value of every pound, that every such person, fraternity, gild, corporation, mystery, brotherhood, & commonalty, corporate or not corporat, hath of his or their own, or any other, to his or their use, as also plate, stock, of merchandizes, all manner of corn & blades household stuff & of all other goods movable, aswell within the realm, as with out, & of all such sums of money as to him and then is or shallbe owing whereof he or they trust in his or their consciences surely to be paid except and out of the premisses deducted such sums of money as he or they own and in his or their conscience truly intendeth to pay And except also the apparel of such persons their wives and children belonging to their own bodies, saving jewels gold Silver stone and pearl, eight pence of and for every pound, to and for the first payment of the said subsidy, and to and for the second payment other eight pence of every pound. And also of every person borne under the king and queens obeisance, and all and every corporation fraternity guilded mystery brotherhood, and commonalty, corporate and not corporate, being worth ten pounds, in goods as is afore specified, and under the value of twenty pounds shall pay to, and for the first payment of the said subsidy twelve pence and to & for the second payment, other twelve pence, of every pound And likewise every person and persons, borne under the king and queens obeisance, and every corporation fraternity guild mystery brotherhood and commonalty corporate and not corporate, being worth in goods as is aforesaid, twenty pounds, and so upwards in goods as is beforesaid, shall pay to and for the first payment of the said subsidy syxetene pence and to and for the second payment other syxetene pence of every pound. And also of every alien and stranger borne out of the King and Queen's obeisance aswell denizen as other inhabytinge within this Realm, of every pound that he or they have in coin, and the value of every pound in plate, corn, grain, marchandyce, household stuff, or other goods, jewels, chattels, movable or unmovable, as is aforesaid aswell within this realm as without, and of all sums of money to him or them owing, whereof he or they trust in his or their conscience or consciences to be paid except and of the same premises deducted every such sum or sums of money which he or they do own and in his or their conscience or consciences intend truly to pay, of and for every pound, to five pounds, to and for the first payment of the said subsidy, eight pence, and to and for the second payment of the said subsidy other eight pence of every pound. And likewise of, and for five pound, and for every pound, from five pounds to ten pounds to and for the first payment of the said subsidy, twelve pence, and to and for the second payment of the said subsidy other twelve pence of every pound. And of and for ten pounds to twenty pounds, to and for the first payment of the said subsidy. xviii.der. and to and for the second payment of the said subsidy, other. xviii.der. of every pound. And of and for twenty pounds in good as is before rehearsed, and so upward, to and for the first payment of the said subsidy two shillings, and to and for the second payment of the said subsidy, other two shillings of every pound. And also that every alien and stranger borne out of the king and queens dominions, being denizen, or not denizen, not being contributory to any of the rates abovesaid, shall pay to and for the first payment of the said subsidy four pence and to and for the second payment of the said subsidy, other four pence for every poll. And the master, or he or she, with whom the same alien is, or shallbe abiding, at the time of the taxation, or taxations thereof, to be charged with the same, for lack of payment thereof.  
And be it further enacted by thauthority aforesaid, that every person borne under the king and queens obeisance, and every corporation, fraternity, guilded, mystery, brotherhood, and commonalty corporate, or not corporate, for every pound that every of the same person, and every corporation, fraternity, guild, mystery, brotherhood, and commonalty, corporat, or not corporat, or any other to his or their use hath in fee simple, fee tail, for term of life, term of years, by execution, wardship or by copy of court role of & in any honours Castles, manors, lands, tenements, rents, services, hereditaments, annuities, fees, corrodies, or other yearly proffittes, of the yearly value of twenty shillings aswell within ancient demesne and other places privileged, as else where & so up wards, shall pay to and for the first payment of the said subsidy, two shillings of, & for every pound, and to and for the second payment of the said subsidy other two shillings, of and for every pound. And every alien, borne out of the king and queens obeisance, in such case to pay at either of the said payments iii shillings of every pound, and that all sums, presented, & chargeable by this act, either for goods & debts, or for lands and tenements & other the premises as is in this act contained and being no full pound shall be at either of the said payments set and taxed after the rate and portion according to the true meaning of this act (lands and tenements chargeable to the dimes of the clergy, and yearly wages due to servants for their yetely service (other than the king & queens servants, taking yearly wages of five pounds or above) only excepted, and forprised)  
And that all Plate, Coin, jewels, Goods, debts, and Cattles, parsonals, being in the rule and custody of any person and persons to those of any Corporation, Fratermtie, guild, Mystery, Brotherhead, or any commonalty, being corporate or not corporate, be and shall be rated, set and charged, by reason of this act, as the value certified by the presenters of that certificate, to be sworn of every pound in goods and debts as is abovesaid. And of every pound in Lands, tenements, annuities, Fees, Corrodyes, or other yearly profits as is abovesaid. And the sums that are before rehearsed set and taxed, to be levied & taken of them, that shall have such goods in custody or otherwise charged for lands as is before rehearsed.  
And the same person, or persons and body corporate by thauthority of this act shallbe discharged against him, or them that shall or ought to have the same at the time of the payment, or delivery thereof, or at his otherwise departure from the custody, or possession of the same. Except and always forprised from the charge, and assessment of this subsidy, all Goods, chattels, jewels and Ornaments of Churches, and chapels which have been ordained and used in Churches or chapels for the honour and service of almighty God. And the first payment of the said Subsidy, shallbe by th'authority aforesaid taxed, assessed and rated according to this act in every Shire Riding, Lathe Wapentake Rape, city borough, Town, and every other place within this Realm of England and Wales, and other the kings and Queen's Dominions, before the fift day of january next coming. And the second payment of the said Subsidy, shallbe by th'authority aforesaid taxed, assessed, & rated before the tenth day of March, which shallbe in the year of our Lord god a thousand five hundred fifty and six. And the particular sums of every Shire, Riding, Borough, Town, and other places aforesaid, with the particular names of such as are chargeable for and to the said first payment of the said subsidy, to be taxed and set by the Commissioners, to the same limited, or two of them at the lest with the names of the high Collectors. And in the same form shallbe certified in the king and queens Exchequer before the first day of February next coming, with the names of the high collectors of the same. And the particular sums of every shire riding borough town, and other places aforesaid with the particular names of such as are chargeable for and to the second payment of the said subsidy to be taxed and set by commissioners, to the same to be limited or two of them at the lest, with the names of the high Collectors and in the same form shallbe certified into the king and queens Exchequer, before the sixth day of Apryll which shallbe in the year of our Lord God a thousand five hundred, fifty and seven with the names of the high collectors. And the said sums in manner and form aforesaid, to be taxed for the first payment of the said subsidy, shallbe paid into the king and queens receipt of their Exchequer aforesaid, to the use of our said sovereign Lord and Lady, before the first day of March, next coming, and the said sums in manner and form aforesaid to be taxed for the second payment of the said subsidy, shallbe paid into the receipt aforesaid, to those aforesaid, before the twenty day of May which shallbe in the year of our Lord God a thousand, five hundred, fifty and seven. And the sums abovesaid of and for the said Subsedye shallbe taxed, set asked and demanded, taken, gathered, levied, and paid unto those of our said Sovereign Lord and lady, & theirs and successors of our said sovereign Lady, in form abovesaid aswell within the liberties, franchises, sanctuaries, ancient demesne, and other whatsoever place, exempt or not exempt, as with out except such shires, places and persons, as shallbe forprised in & by this present act, any grant, charter prescription use or liberty, by reason of any letters patents, or other privilege, prescription, allowance of the same, or whatsoever other matter of discharge heretofore to the contrary made, granted, used, or obtained notwithstanding.  
And it is further enacted by thauthority of this present parliament that every such person, aswell such as be borne under the king and queen's obeisance, as every other person stranger borne Denizen or not Denizen, inhabiting within this realm or within Wales, or other the king and queens dominions which at the time of the said assessings or taxations, or of either of them, to be had, or made, shall be out of this Realm, and out of Wales, and have goods or chattels, lands or tenements, Fees, or annuities, or other proffyttes within this Realm or in Wales, shall be charged and chargeable for the same by the certificate of the inhabitants of the parties where such Goods, chattels, Lands, tenements, or other the premises then shallbe, or in such other place where such person or his factor deputy or attorney shall have his most resort unto within this Realm or in Wales, in like manner as if the said person were or had been at the time of the said assessing, within this realm. And that every person abiding or dwelling within this realm or without this realm, shallbe charged or chargeable to the same subsidy granted by this act, according and after the rate of such yearly substance or value of lands, and tenements, goods, Cattles, and other the premisses as every person so to be charged shall be set at in the time of the said assessing or taxation upon him to be made and in none otherwise.  
And furthermore be it enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that for the assessing and ordering of the said Subsidy to be duly had the Lord Chancellor of England or the keeper of the great Seal the Lord treasurer of England, the Lord Stuarde of the king and queens majesties household, the Lord president of the king and Queen's honourable council and the Lord privy Seal for the time being or too of them at the lest, whereof the lord chancellor of England, or keeper of the great seal, for the time being to be one, shall and may name and appoint, of and for every shire and riding, and other places, aswell within this realm, as in Wales and other the king and queens dominions, and also of, and for every City, and town being a county in itself, and of and for the Isle of Wight, such certain number of persons of every of the said Shires, ridings, Laths, Wapentakes, rapes, cities, towns and Isle of Wight, and every other place and other the inhabitants of the same, to be commissioners within the same, whereof they be inhabitants. And also of and for the honourable household of the king and queens majesties, and the Lady Elizabethes grace, and the Lady Aune of Cleaves, in what shires or other places the said household shall happen then to be, and the Lord Chancellor, and other with him before named, in like manner may name and appoint of every other such borough and to wns Corporate, aswell in England, as in Wales, and other the king and queen's dominions, as they shall think requisyt. vi.u.iiii. three, or two of the head officers and other sad honest inhabitants of every of the said cities, boroughs and towns corporate, according to the number and multitude of people being in the same, the which persons, if any such be thereunto named of the said inhabitants of the said boroughs, and towns corporate not being counties in themselves, shallbe joined and put in, as Commissioners, with the persons named, for such Shires, and ridings as the said boroughs and towns corporate not being counties in themselves, be set & have their being, which persons so named, for and of the said boroughs, and towns corporate not being counties, by reason of their dwelling in the same, shall not take upon them, ne none of them, to put any part of their commission in execution for the premisses out of the said boroughs, & town corporate, wherein they being so named only for the same be dwelling, and also not to execute the said commission within the borough or town corporate where they be so dwelling, but at such days and times as the said other commissioners for the same shire, and riding shall thereunto lymytte and appoint, within the same borough or town corporate, not being county corporate, whereof they so be, and not out of such borough or town, and in that manner to be aiding & assisting with the said other commissioners in and for the good executing of the effect of the said commission, upon pain of every of the said commissioners so named, for every such city, borough, and town corporate, not being a county, to make such fine as the said other commissioners in the commission of, & for the said Shire, or riding so named or three of them at the jest, shall by their discretions, set and certify into the king and queens exchequer, there to be levied to the use of the king and queens Majesties, in like manner as such or like sums had been set and rated, upon every such person for the said Subsidy the which commissioners so named, of & for the said city, boroughs and towns, not being counties & only put in the said commission by reason of their dwelling in the same, shall not have any part of the portion of the fees, and rewards of the commissioners, and their clerks in this act afterward specified. And the lord chancellor of England or keeper of the king and queen's great Seal, for the time being, shall make, and direct out of the court of chancery, under the king and queens great Seal, several commissions, that is to say, to every shire, riding Lathe, Wapentake, Rape, city, Town Borough, Isle, and household unto such person, and persons, as by his discretion, and other with him aforenamed & appointed in like manner and form as is afore rehearsed, shallbe thought sufficient, for the sessing and levying of the said subsidy, in all shires, & places according to the true meaning of this act, which commission for the first payment of the said subsidy, shallbe directed and delivered to the said commissioners, or to one of them, before the first day of December next coming. And the commission for the second payment of the said Subsidy shallbe directed and delivered to the said commissioners or one of them, before the first day of February, which shallbe in the year of our lord god, a thousand five hundred fifty and six.  
And to every of the said commissions, ten cedules containing in them the tenor of this act shallbe affyled. By the which commission, the commissioners in every such commission, named according to this act, & as many of them as shallbe appointed by the same commission shall have full power and authority, to put the effect of the same commission in execution. And that by authority of this act after such commission to them directed, they may by their assents, and agreamentes, sever themselves for th'execution of their commission in hundreds, lathes Wards, Rapes, Wapentakes, Towns, parishes, and other places within the limits of their said commission, in such form as to them shall seem expedient to be ordered and between them to be commoned and agreed, according to the tenor and effect of the commission to them therein directed upon which severance every person of this present parliament that shallbe commissioner shallbe assigned in the hundred wherein he dwelleth.  
provided always, that no person be, or shallbe compelled to be any commissioner, to and for the execution of this present act, but only in the Shire where he dwelleth and inhabiteth. And that any person being assigned to the contrary thereof, in any wise shall not be compelled to put in execution the effect of this act, or any part thereof.  
And it is also enacted by th'authority of this present parliament that the commissioners, and of every of them, which shallbe named, limited and appointed according to this act, to be commissioners in every such Shire, Riding, Lath, Wapentake, Rape, City, Town, borough, Isle, and the said households or any other place, and none other, shall truly, effectually, and diligently, for their part execute the effect of this present act, according to the tenor thereof, in every behalf and none otherwise, by any other means, without omission favour, dread, malice, or any other thing to be attempted and done by them, or any of them to the contrary thereof.  
And the said commissioners, and as many of them as shallbe appointed by the said commission, and none other, for th'execution of the said Commission and act, shall for the taxation of the said first payment of the said subsidy, before the sixth day of December next coming and for the taxation of the said second payment of the said subsidy shall before the sixth day of February, which shallbe in the year of our Lord God, a thousand, five hundred, fifty and six, by virtue of the commissions delivered unto them, in form abovesaid, direct their several or joint precept, unto eight, seven, six, five, four or three, or more, as for the number of the inhabitants shallbe requisite, of the most substantial discrete and honest persons, inhabitants to be named by the said commissioners, or by as many of them as shall be appointed by the said Commission, of and in hundreds, Laths, Rapes, Wapentakes, Wards, Parishes, Towns, and other places aswell within liberties, franchises, ancient demesnes, places exempted, & sanctuaries, as without within the limyttes of the shires, ridings, Laths, Wapentakes, rapes, cities, towns, boroughs, or Isle, aforesaid, and other places within the limits of their commission, and to the Constables, Subconstables, Bailiffs, and other like officers or ministers of every of the said Hundreds, Towns Wards, Laths, Wapentakes, parishes, and other places before said as to the said Commissioners and every number of them, or unto three or two of them by, their discretion in division, shall seem expedient as by the manner and use of that parties shallbe requisite.  
straightly by the same precept charging and commanding, the same inhabitants, Constables, and other officers aforesaid, to whom such precept shallbe so directed to appear in their proper persons before the said Commissioners, or such number of them as they shall divide themselves according to the tenor of the said commission at certain days and places by the said commissioners or any number of them as is aforesaid, within Cities, boroughs or towns corporate or without, in any other place as is aforesaid, by their discretions shallbe limited thereunto, to do and accomplish all that to them on the part of the king and the queen's Majesties, shall be enjoined touching this art, commanding further by the same precept that he to whose hands such precept shall come, shall show or deliver the same to the other inhabitants or officers, named in the said precept. And that none of them fail to accomplish the same upon pain of forty shillings to be forfeited to the king and queen's Majesties.  
And it is further ordained by th'authority of this parliament that the said day and place prefixed and limited in the said precept every of the Commissioners, then being in the Shire and having no sufficient excuse for his absence shall at the said day and place prefixed for that part whereunto ●e was limited, appear in his proper person, and there the same commissioners being present, or as many as shall be appointed by the king and queens Commission, shall call or cause to be called before them, the said inhabitants and officers, to whom they have directed their said precepts. And which had in commandment there to appear by the said precept of the said commissioners, and if any persons so warned, make default, unless he then be let by sickness or lawful excuse, and that let then be witnessed by the oaths of two credible persons, or if any appearing, refuse to be sworn in form following, to forfeit to the king & queens majesties forty shillings, and so at every time appointed by the said Commissioners for the said taxations, unto such time the number of every such persons have appeared, & certified in form under written, and every of them so making default, or refusing to be sworn to forfeit to the king and queens majesties forty shillings, and upon the same appearance had, one of the most substantial inhabitants or officer, so being warned and appearing before the said Commissioners, shallbe sworn upon a book openly before the Commissioners in form following. I shall truly inquire with my fellows that shallbe charged with me of the hundred, Wapentake, Warde, Town, or other place, of the best and most value of the substance of every person dwelling and abiding within the limits of the places that I and my fellows shallbe charged with, and of other which shall have his or their most resort unto any of the said places, and chargeable with any sum of money by this act, of this said subsidy, and of all other articles that I shallbe charged with touching the said act, and according to the intent of the same, and thereupon as near as it may, or shall come to my knowledge, truly to present and certify before you the names, surnames, and the best and uttermost substance, and values of every of them, aswell of lands, tenements, and other hereditaments, possessions, and profits, as of goods, cattles, detes, and other things, chargeable by the said act, without any concealment, favour, love affection, dread, fear, or malice, so help me god and the holy contents of this book. And every other person, that shall appear there yearly by the said precepts shall make like oath, and upon the oath so taken, as is aforesaid, by the inhabitants, and officers, of every hundreds, ward, wapentake, town, or other place, the said commissioners shall openly their read or cause to be read unto them, the said rates, and openly declare th'effect of their charge unto them, in what manner and form they aught and should make their certificate, according to the rates, and sums thereof abovesaid, and of all manner of persons aswell of aliens, and strangers denizens, or not denizens, inhabiting with in this realm, as of such persons as be borne within the king and queens obeisance, chargeable to this act.  
And of the possessions, goods, and cattles of fraternities, guilds corporations, brotherheddes, mysteries, and commonalties, and other as is abovesaid. And of persons, being in the parties of beyond the seas, having goods, or cattles lands or tenements, within this realm, as is beforesaid. And of all goods, being in the custody of any person or persons, to those of any other, as is above said, by the which information and showing the said persons, should have such plain knowledge of the true intent of this present act and of the manner of their certificate, that the same personnes shall have no reasonable cause to excuse them by ignorance, and after such oaths, and the statute of the said subsidy, and the manner of the said certificate to be made in writing, containing the names and surnames, of every person, and whether he be borne without the kings and queens obeisance, or within and the best value of every person, in every degree, aswell of yearly value, of lands, and tenements, and of such like possession, and proffytes, as the value of goods, and cattles, debts, and every thing to their certificate requisite, and necessary to them declared, the said commissioners there being, shall by their discretions, appoint, and lymytte unto the said persons, another day, and place to appear before the said commissioners, and charging the said persons, that they in the mean time shall make diligent inquiry by all ways, and means of the premisses, and then, and there every of them, upon pain of forfeiture of forty shillings to the king and queens majesties, to appear at the said new prefixed day and place, there to certify, unto the said commissioners in writing, according to their said charge, and according to the true intent of the said grant of subsidy, and as to them in manner aforesaid, hath been declared, and she wed by the commissioners, at which day and place so to them prefixed, if any of the said persons make default, or appear, & refuse to make the said certificate, that then every of them so offending to forfeit to the king and Queen's majesties, forty shillings, except only a reasonable excuse of his default, by reason of sickness or otherwise, by the oaths of two credible persons, there witnessed be had, And of such as appear ready to make certificate, as is aforesaid, the said commissioners there being, shall take and receive the same certificate and every part thereof and the names, values and substance of every person so certified, and if the same commissioners see cause reasonable, they shall examine the said presenters thereof, and thereupon the said commissioners at the said days & place, by their agreement among themselves, shall from time to time openly there prefyxe a day, at a certain place, or places, within the limits of their commission, by their discretion, for their further proceeding to the said assessing of the same subsidy, and thereupon, at the said day of the said certificate, as is aforesaid, taken, the same commissioners, shall make their precept, or precepts, to the constables, subconstables, bailiffs, or other officers, of such hundreds, wapentakes, towns, or other places aforesaid, as the same commissioners shallbe of, comprising and containing in the same precept, the names and surnames of all persons presented before them in the said certificate, of whom if the said commissioners, or as many of them, as shallbe thereunto appointed by the king and queens commission, shall then have vehement suspect, to be of more greater value, or substance, in lands goods, cartels, or sums of money owing to them, or other substance beforesaid then upon such person or persons shallbe certified, the same commissioners shall make their precept or precepts directed to the Constable bailiffs, or other officers commanding the same Constable Bailiffs, or other officers to whom such precept shallbe directed, to warn such persons whose names shallbe comprised in the said precept at their mansions, or to their persons, that the same persons named in such precepts, and every of them shall personally appear before the said commissioners, at the same new prefixed day and place, there to be sworn, and examined, by all ways and means, by the said commissioners, of their greatest substance, and best value, and of all and every sums of money owing to them, and other whatsoever matter concerning the premisses, or any of them, according to this act, at which day & place so prefixed, the said commissioners, than there being, or as many of them as shallbe thereunto appointed by the king and queens commission, shall 'cause to be called the said persons, whose names shallbe comprised in the said precept as is beforesaid, for their examination. And if any of those persons which should be warned, as is beforesaid, to be examined, which at any time after the warning, & before the prefixed day, shallbe within such place where he may have knowledge of his said appearance to be made, make default, & appear not, unless a reasonable cause, or else a reasonable excuse, by the oaths of two crodible people before the said commissioners be truly alleged for his discharge, that then every of them so making default, to be taxed & charged to the king and queens majesties, with and at the double sums of the rate that he should or aught to have been set at, for and after the best value of his land, or substance, upon him certified if he had appeared, by the discretion of the commissioners there being. And in like manner, if any of them suspected, as is beforesaid, appear and refuse to be sworn in form following, than every such offender to be taxed, and charged to the king and queen's majesties, with and at the double sums of the rate he should or aught to have been set at, for, and after the best value of his substance upon him certified by the said persons that made the certificate, as is beforesaid, by the discretions shall travel with every of the persons, so then and there appearing, whose names shallbe expressed in the said precept, or precepts, & in whom any vehement suspect was or shallbe had in form abovesaid, by all such ways and means they can. And further the said commissioners or as many of them as shallbe here unto appointed by the said commission by their discretions shall openly swear the same person in this manner and form following.  
I shall faithfully truly, and plainly according to my knowledge she we unto you, the king and queens commissioners, and to other by you assigned, the best and greatest value, or above, of all my yearly profits, in Lands, tenements, Rents, or such other like possessions, yearly profits, and fee, and the best and greatest value of all my goods and Cattles, & Sums of money to me owing according to the grant of this act of Subsidy, and truly answer to that I shallbe examined of, touching the premises without covin or deceit, so help me God, and the holy contents of this book.  
And if any person that should appear be excused in form aforesaid by witness of credible persons, the same persons shallbe examined by their others, of his or their greatest and best value & substance, so laching and excused & by the best of their certificate, or knowledge, or of the other first certificate, upon him or them made, the same person so lacking, & excused of his appearance, to be set, & rated, by the said commissioners or otherwise to be set, & rated, in this case as shall seem best by the discretions of the said commissioners. And if it happen to be proved by witness, his own confession, or other lawful ways, or means within one year after any such oath made, that the same person so taxed & sworn, was of any greater, or better value, in lands, goods or other things above specified, at the time of his said oath, than the same person so sworn did declare upon his oath. That then such person so offending, shall loose & forfeit to the king & queens majesties, as much more in lawful money of England, as the same person so sworn was set & taxed at, to pay for the said Subsidy. And that every spiritual person, at either of the said taxations of the said Subsidy, shallbe rated & set accerding to the rate abovesaid, of and for every pound, that the same spiritual person or any other, to his use hath by descent, bargain or purchase, in fee simple, fee Tail, term of life, term of years, by execution, by ward, or by copy of Courteroll, in any Manors, Lands, tenements, Rents, Services, Offices, Fees, Corrodies, Annuities, or hereditaments, after the true just and yearly value thereof, after and according as other the king and queen's majesties subjects, borne within this realm, be charged in form above remembered, so that it extend to the yearly value of twenty shillings, or above. And if any person certified or rated by virtue of this act be he commissioner, or other, to any manner of value doth find himself grieved with the same presentment, sessing, or taxing, and thereupon complain to the Commissioners, before whom he shallbe rated, sessed, or taxed, or before two of them, that then the said commissioners, shall by all ways and means, examine particularly and distinctly the persons so complaynaunte, and other his neighbours, by their discretion of every his Lands and tenements, above specified and of every his goods, cattles, and debts, above mentioned and after due examination and perfect knowledge thereof, had and perceived by the said Commissioners, which shall have power by th'authority aforesaid. The said commissioners or two of them to whom any such complaint shallbe made, by their discretions upon the oath of the said person so complaining, may abate, defalk, increase, or enlarge the same assesement, according as it shall appear to them just upon the same examination. And the same Sum so abated, defalked, increased, or enlarged, to be streated in form, as hereafter ensueth. So that he cometh before the estreats of the same assessing be delivered by the said Commissioners, into the king and queens majesties Exchequer. And if it be proved by witness, his own confession, or other lawful ways or means, within a year after any such oath made that the same person so taxed and sworn, was any better or greater value in Lands, Goods, or other things above specified at the time of his said oath, than the same person so sworn did declare upon his said oath. That then every such person so offending shall loose and forfeit to the king and queen's majesties, so much in lawful money of England, as the same person so sworn, was ser at or taxed to pay, and all persons set rated and taxed, as is aforesaid shallbe bound and charged by the same, & the Sum or sums upon him set to be due towards the payment of the said Subsidy and to be levied as hereafter shallbe specified.  
And also it is enacted by the said authority that every person to be taxed at either of the said taxatious as aforesaid, shallbe rated taxed and set, & the Sum on him set to be levied at such place where he and his family at the time of the same presentment to be made shall keep his house or dwelling, or where he than shallbe most conversant abiding or res●aunt or shall have his most resort, and shall be best known at the time of the said certificate to be made, and no where else, and that no commissioner for this Subsidy, shallbe rated or taxed for his goods or lands, but in the Shire or other place where he shallbe Commissioner and that if any person chargeable to this act the time of the said assessing, happen to be out of this Realm, and out of Wales, or far from the place where he shallbe known, than he to be set where he was last abiding in this realm or within Wales, and best known & after the substance and value & other profits of every person known by the examination cerifycate and other manner of wise as is aforesaid. The said Commissioners or as many of them as shallbe appointed by the king & queens majesties commission shall after the rate aforesaid, set & tax every person according to the rate of the substance & value of his lands goods & other profits, whereby the greatest & most best sum according to his most substance, by reason of this act might or or may be set or taxed.  
provided always, that every such person which shallbe set or taxed for payment of and to this subsidy for and after the yearly value of his lands tenements and other reail possessions, or profits at any of the said taxations, shall not be set and taxed for his goods and cattles or other movable substance, at the same taxation. And he that shallbe charged or taxed for the same subsidy for his goods, Cateles and other movables at any of the said taxaons, shall not be charged, taxed, or chargeable for his lands or other real possessions and profits abovesaid, at the same taxation nor that any person be double charged for the said Subsidy, neither set or taxed at several places, by reason of this act, any thing contained in this present act, not withstanding.  
And that it be ordained by the said authority of this present parliament, that no person having two mansions, or two places to resort unto or calling himself household servant or waiting servant to the king and queens majesties, or other Lord or Lady, master or misteresse, be excused upon his saying from the tax of the said subsidy, in neither of the places where he may be set unless he bring a certificate in writing from the Commissioners where that he is so set in deed at one place. And if any other then commissioner happen to be set in two places, upon certificate thereof made, the best and most Sum upon him so taxed to be taken & abide, and tother to be discharged, so that the same certificate of his assessings and payment be made thereof in writing under the seals of the commissioners, or of as many of them as shallbe appointed by the king and queens commission, which certificate so made shallbe at all times a sufficient discharge for him and the collector of the same, as well against any collector that shall demand the same upon him rated or taxed, as against the king and queen's Majesties, and all other persons. And if any person that ought to be set, by reason of his removing or resorting to two places, or by reason of his saying that he else where was taxed, or by reason of any privilege by his dwelling or abiding in any place (not being forprised in this act) or otherwise by his coven or craft, happen to escape from the said taxations or either of them, and be not set, and that proved by presentment, examination, or information, before the said commissioners, or as many of them as shallbe by the same commission appointed, or by the Barons of the king & queens majesties exchequer, or two justices of the peace of the county where such person dwelleth, than every such person that by such means or otherwise willingly by covin, shall happen to escape from the said taxations, or payments aforesaid or any of them, and not be rated, taxed, & set shallbe charged upon the knowledge and proof thereof, with & at the double value that he should, or aught to have been set at afore, according to his behaviour. The same double value to be levied, gathered, & paid of his goods, and cattles, lands and tenements, towards the said Subsidy, and further to be punished, according to the dyscretyons of the Barons, justices, and commissioners, before whom he shallbe convicted for his offence, and deceit in that behalf.  
And further be it enacted by th'authority aforesaid that the said Commissioners of every commission shall according to their divisions, and after they be divided have full power & authority by this Act, to set, tax, and sesse every other Commissioner joined with them in every such Commission and division, and shall also assess every assessour within their division, for his & their goods, lands, and other the premises, as is abovesaid, by the which said commission, the said Commissioners shall indifferently set, tax, and sesse themselves and the said assessors, and that aswell the sums upon every of the said Commissioners and assessors so sessed, rated, and taxed, as the Sums made and presented by the presenters sworn as is abovesaid, shallbe written certified set and estreated. And the estreats thereof to be made, with other the inhabitants of that parts, within the limits of the same commission, and division so to be gathered and levied, in like manner as it ought or should have been if the said Commissioner had not been in the said Commission.  
And that all persons of the estate of a Baron or barons, and every estate above, shall be charged with their freehold and value as is aforesaid, by the chancellor and keeper of the great Seal, Treasurour of England, Lord precedent of the King and queens Majesties privy council, and Lord privy Seal for the time being, or other persons by the king and queens majesties authority, to be limited, and they to be charged for the said several payments of the said subsidy, after the form of the said grant according to the taxation aforesaid. And the Sums upon them set, with the names of the Collectors appointed for the gathering and paying of the same, to be extreated delivered and certified at days and places above specified by the Lord Chancellor, Treasuroure, Lord Precedent of the Council, and Lord privy Seal, for the time being, or such other persons as shall be limited by the king and queens Majesties, and after the taxes and assesses of the said Sums, upon and by the said assessions and certificate, as is aforesaid made the said Commissioners, or as many of them as shallbe thereunto appointed by the king and queens majesties commission, shall with all speed, and without delay, by the writing extreated of the said tax thereof, under the seal and signs manuel of the said Commissioners or of as many of them as shallbe appointed at the lest to be made shallbe delivered unto sufficient, and substantial inhabitants, Constables, Subconstables, bailiffs and other officers, jointly of hundreds, towns, parishes, and other places a foresaid, with in their limits or to other sufficient persons, inhabitants of the same only, by the discretion of the same commissioners and as the place and parties shall require, aswell the particular names, as surnames, as the remembrance of all sums of money taxed and let of and upon every person as well man as woman chargeable to this Act, householder and all other inhabitants, and dwellers whthin the said parishes, towns, and places, contributory to this Act of Subsidy, by authority of which writing, or estreat so delivered the said officers or other persons so named and deputed severally shall have full power and authority by virtue of this Act, immediately after the delivery of the said writing, or estreat, to demand, levy, and gather of every person therein specified, the sum or sums in the same writing, or estreat comprised  
And for none payment thereof, to destrayne the same person or persons, so being dehind by their goods and cattles, and the distresses so taken, to keep by the space of eight days, at the cost and charges, of the owner thereof. And if the said owner do not pay such sum of money as shall be taxed by this act, within the same eight days, than the same distress to be appraised, by four, three or two of the inhabitants, where such distress is taken, and also to be sold by the said Constable, and other collector, for the payment of the said money. And the overplus coming of the sale, and keeping thereof, if any be, to be immediately restored to the owner of the same distress, which said officers, and other persons so deputed to ask, take, gather, and levy, the said sums, shall answer and be charged for the portion only to them assigned, or limited, to be gathered, levied and comprised in the said writing, or estreat, to them as is beforesaid, delyugred unto the use of our sovereign Lord, and Lady the King and the Queen's Majesties, and the heirs and successors of our said sovereign Lady the Queen. And the said Sum in that writing or estreat comprised, to pay unto the high collector, or Collectors of that place, for the collection of the same, in manner and form under written, thereunto to be named and deputed, and the same inhabitants, and officers, so gathering the same particular sums for their collection thereof, shall retain for every twenty shilling so by them received and paid two pence, and that to be allowed at the payment of their collection, by them to be made, to the high collector, or collectors.  
And further be it enacted by the said authority, that the said Commissioners, or the more part of them, as shall take upon them the execution & business of the said Commission, shall for either of the same payments of the said subsidy, name such suffycyente, and able persons, which then shall have, and possede, Land, and other Hereditamentes, in their own right, of the yearly value of ten pound, or goods, to the value of one hundred marks at the least, and the persons severally by the discretions of the same commissioners, in Shires, ridings, Laths, Wapentakes, Rapes, Cities, Towns corporat, and other whatsoever places, aswell with in places privileged as without, not being forprised with in this act to be high collectors, and have the Collection, and receipt of the said sums, set, and leviable within the precinct, lymytte, and bonds, where they shallbe so limited to gather, and receive. To every of the which collectors, so severally named, the said Commissioners, or two of them at the least, shall with all speed, and with out delay, after the said whole Sum of the said subsidy, be set by all the limits of the same their Commission, or in such limits as the high collectors shallbe so severally assigned, shall under their seals, and signs manuel, deliver one estreat, indented in parchment, to every of the said high collectors, comprising in it the names of all such persons as were assigned to levy the said particular sums, and the sums of every hundred, Wapentake Town, or other place aforesaid, with the names, and surnames of the persons so chargeable, according to the estreat so first thereof made, as is aforesaid, and delivered. And the collector so to be assigned, shallbe charged to answer the whole sum, comprised in the said estreat, limited to his collection, as is aforesaid.  
provided always, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the said Commissioners, having authority by this act to name, and nominate the said high Collectors of the said subsidy, shall immediately upon the nomination, and election, take by authority of this present parliament, suffycyente recognisances, or obligations, without any fee, or reward to be paid therefore, of every person so by them to be named to be high collector, to be bound to the king and queens majesties, in double Sum of the Sum of his collection, and to be endorsed & made upon such condition, that is to say for the collection of the said first payment of the said subsidy, that if the said collector his heirs or executors, do truly content and pay to those of the king & queens Majesties, and theirs or executonres of the Queen's Majesty, in their receipt, of their Exchequer, before the first day of March, next coming so much of the said Sum of money, allotted, & appointed to his Collection, as he shall collect and gather. And content and pay the residue of his collection and charge within one month next after such time as he hath gathered, and collected the same residue. That then the said recognisance, or obligation, to be voided or else to stand in full strength and virtue. And for the collection of the said Second payment, of the said Subsidy, upon condition that if the said collector, his heirs or executors, do truly content and pay, to those of the king and queens majesties, and theirs or executors of the queens majesty, in their receipt of their exchequer, before the twenty day of may, which shallbe in the year of our lord God a thousand, five hundred, thirty and seven, so much of the said sum of money, allotted, and appointed to his collection, as he shall collect, and gather, and content and pay the residue of his collection and charge, within one month next after such time, as he hath gathered, and collected the same residue, that then the said recognisance, or obligation, to be void, or else to stand in full streng the and virtue, which said several recognisances, or obligations so taken, the said Cominissyoners shall severally certify, and deliver into the king and queens majesties Exchequer, with the several certificates of the said taxations, and rates of the payments of the said subsidy, at and by the time to them prescribed and appointed by this act, for the certificate of the said several taxations of the said subsidy, upon pain of forfeiture of ten pounds, to the king and queens majesties, for every recognisance or obligation not certified. And that every such collector so elected, named and chosen upon request to him made, shall knowledge and make the said recognisance or obligation, upon like pain and forfeiture of ten pounds to the king and queen's Majesties for the refusal thereof, and every such collector so deputed, having the said estreat in parchment as is aforesaid, shall have authority by this act to appoint days and places within the circuit of his collection for the payment of the said subsidy to him to be made, and thereof to give warning by proclamation or otherwise, to all the said Constables or other persons or inhabitants having the charge of the particular collection within the hundreds, parishes, towns, or other places by him or them limited to make payment for their said particular collection of every sum, as to them shall appertain. And if at the said day and place so limited and prefixed by the said collector the said Constable, officers, or other persons or inhabitants as is beforesaid, for the said particular collection appointed, and assigned within such Hundred City, town or other place do not pay unto the said Collectors, the sum within their several hundreds towns parishes and other places, due and comprised in the said estrate thereof to them delivered by the said commissioners or some of them, as is beforesaid, or so much thereof as they have by any mean received, two pence of every pound for the said collection, as is beforesaid always to be thereof allowed excepted and abated, that then it shallbe lawful to the said high Collectors and every of them, and to their assigns, to distrain every of the said Constables, officers, and other inhabitants for their said several and particular collection of the said Sums comprised in the said estreat and writing thereof to them, and every of them, as is before expressed, delivered, or for as much of the same sum as so then shall happen to be gathered and levied and behind, and unpaid by the goods and Cattles of every of them so being behind and the distress so taken, to be kept appraised and sold as is aforesaid, and thereof to take and levy the sums, so then being behind and unpaid and the overplus coming of the sale of the said distress if any be to be restored & delivered unto the owner in form above remembered.  
Provided always, that no person inhabiting in any city, borough or town corporat shallbe compelled to be an assessour or collector of or for any part of the said subsidy, in any place or places out of the said city borough or town corporat, where he dwelleth.  
And it is also by the said authority enacted, that if any inhabytaunt or officer, or whatsoever person or persons charged to and for the collection or receit of any part or portion of the said subsidy by any manner of means according to this act or any person or persons, for themselves, or as keeper, Guardian, deputy, factor, or attorney, of or for any other person or persons of any goods, and Cattles of the owner thereof, at the time of the said assessings to be made, being out of this realm or in any other parts not known, or of and for the goods and cattles of any other person or persons, of any corporation, fraternity, mystery, or other whatsoever cominalty, being incorporate or not incorporate, and all persons having in their rule governance and custody, any goods or cattles, at the time of the said assessing or any of them to be made or which for any cause, for and by collection, or for himself or for any other, or by reason that he hath the rule governance or custody of any goods or chattels of any other person or persons corporation, commonalty, fraternity, guild, or mystery, or any such other like, or as factor, deputy, or attorney of, or for any person shallbe taxed rated valued & set to any sum or sums by reason of this act, & after the taxation, or assessing upon any such person or people as shallbe charged with the receit of the same happen to die, or depart from the place where he was so taxed & set, or his goods or cattles so eloyned, or in such privy and covert manner kept, as the said person or people charged with the same by extreates or other writings from the said commissioners or as many of them as shallbe thereunto appointed by the said commission as is afore said, can ne may levy the same sum or sums comprised within their said extreates by distress within the limits of their collection as is afore said, or cannot cell such distress or distresses, as be taken for any of the said payments, before the time limited to the high collector for his payment, to be made in the king & queens majesties receipt, then upon relation thereof made with due examination by the oath or examination of such person or people, as shallbe charged with and for the receipt & collection of the same before the said commissioners, or as many of them as by the said commission, shall be thereunto appointed, where such person or persons or other as is aforesaid, their goods and cattles were set and taxed, and upon plain certificate thereof made in the king and queens majesties Exchequer, by the same commissioners as well of the dwelling place, names and Sums of the said persons, of whom the said Sums, can not be levied, and had as is aforesaid, then aswell the constables and other inhabitants, appointed for the said particular collection against the high Collectors, as the high collector upon his account and oath, in the said Exchequer to be discharged thereof, and process to be made for the king and queens Majesties, out of the said Exchequer by the discretion of the Barones' of the Exchequer, against such person his heirs or executors so being behind with his payment. And over that the same commissioners, to whom any such declaration of the premisses shallbe made in form aforesaid, from time to time shall have full power and authority, to direct their precept or precepts unto the said person or persons, charged with any Sum of for or upon any such person or persons, or other as is abovesaid or to any sheriff, Steward, Baylyffe, or other whatsoever officer minister person or persons, of such place or places, where any such person or persons, so owing such Sum or Sums, shall have lands, and tenements, or other hereditaments, or real possessions, goods and Cattles, whereby any such person or persons so indebted his heirs, executors or assigns, or other having the custody go vernaunce or disposition of any goods cattles, Lands, tenements or other hereditaments, which aught or may by this act lawfully be distrained or taken for the same, hath and shall have goods cattles, Lands, tenements and other possessions, whereof such Sum or Sums, which by any such person or persons may or aught to be levied, be it within the limits of such commission where such person or persons was and were taxed, or without in any place within this realm of England, Wales, or other the king and queens majesties Dominions, Marches, or territories by which precept as well such person or persons as shallbe charged to levy such money as the officers of the place or places, where such distress may be taken shall have full power and authority to destraine every such person, indebted charged and chargeable by this act, or his executors or administrators of his goods chattels, his guardians factoures deputies Leasses farmers and assigns and all other persons by whose hands, or out of whose lands any such person should have rend, fee, annuity or other profit or which at the time of the said assessings, shall have goods or cattles or any other thing movable of any such person or persons being indebted or owing such Sum. And the distresses so taken caused to be kept appraised and sold in like manner and form as is aforesaid, for the distress to be taken upon such person to be taxed to the said Subsidy and being sufficient to distran within the limits of the Collectors inhabitants or other officers charged with or for the same Sums, so upon them to be taxed, and any such distress for none payment, happen to be taken out of the limit of the said people charged and assigned to levy the same, the people so charged for the levy of every such sum by distress, shall perceive & take of the same distress, for the labour of every person, going for th'execution thereof, for every mile that any such person so laboureth for the same, two pennies And every farmer, tenant, guardian, factor, or other whatsoever person, being distrained, or otherwise charged, for payment of any such sum or sums, or any other sum, by reason of this act, shallbe of such sum or sums, of him or them so levied and taken discharged & acquitted at his next day of payment of the same, or at the delivery of such goods, and chattels, as he that is so dystrained had in his custody and governance against him or them, that shallbe so taxed, and set, any grant or writing obligatory or other whatsoever matter to the contrary made, heretofore notwithstanding.  
And if any such person that should be so distrained have no lands, or tenements sufficient whereby he or hystenauntes, and farmers may be distrained, or hath eloyned, aliened, or hid his goods, and Catels, whereby he should or might be distrained in such manner that such goods and chattels shall not be known or found, so that the Sum of or by him to be paid in the said form, shall ne can be conveniently levied, then upon relation thereof unto the commissioners or to as many of them as by the said Commission shallbe thereunto appointed where such person or persons, was taxed and set by the oaths of him or them that shallbe charged with the levy and payment of that sum or sums, the same commissioners shall make a precept in such manner as is aforesaid, for to attach, take, & arrest, the body of such person or persons that aught to pay the said sums, And by this act shallbe charged with, and for the said Sum or sums, and them so taken safely to k●pe in prison within the shire or other place where any such person or persons, shallbe taken and attached, there to remain without bail or maynepryce until he have paid the same Sum or Sums, that such persons for himself, or for any other by this act shallbe chargeable, or ought to be charged withal. And also for the fees of every such arrest to him or them that shall execute such precept, twenty pence. And that every officer unto whom such precept shallbe directed, do his true diligence and execute the same upon every person so being indebted upon pain to forfeit to the king and Queen's Majesties for every default in that behalf twenty shillings, & that no keeper of any jail, from his jail, suffer any such person, to go at large by letting to bail or otherwise to depart out of his prison, before he have paid his said debt, & the said twenty pence for the said arrest, upon pain to forfeit to the king and queens Majesties, forty shillings. And the same Gaoler to pay unto the king and queen's Majesties, the double value as well of the rate which the said person so imprisoned was taxed at, as of the said twenty pence for the fees, and like process & remedy in like form shallbe granted by the said Commissioners, or as many of them as by the said commission, shallbe thereunto appointed at like information of every person or persons, being charged with any sum of money, for any other person or persons, by reason of the said subsidy, and not thereof paid, but wilfully withdrawn, ne the same levyable, within the limits where such person was thereunto taxed. And if the Sum or Sums being behind unpaid by any person or persons, as is aforesaid be levied and gathered by force of the said process, to be made by the said commissioners, or if in default, or for lack of payment thereof the person or persons, so owing the said Sum or Sums of money, by process of the same commissioners, to be made as is aforesaid, be committed to prison, in form above said, that then the same commissioners which shall award such process, shall make certificate thereof in the said exchequer of that shallbe done in the premises in the term next following after such, sum or Sums of money, so being behind shallbe levied & gathered, or such person or persons for none payment of the same committed to prison. And if it happen any of the said collectors, to be assigned to any mayor, sheriff, steward, constable, the headborowe, householder, Baylyffe, or any other office, or minister or other whatsoever person or persons to disobey the said commissioners or any of them, in the reasonable request to them made by the said commissioners for execution of the said commission, or if any of the officers or other persons, do refuse that to them shall appertain or belong to do by reason of any precept to him or them to be directed, or any reasonable commandment, instance, or request touching the premises, or other default in any appearance, or collection, to make or if any person being susperte or not, to be indifferently taxed as is aforesaid, do refuse to be examined according to the tenor of this act, before the said Commissioners, or as many of them as shallbe thereunto assigned as is aforesaid, or will not appear before the same Commissioners, upon warning to him made, or else make resistance or rescons upon any distress upon him to be taken for any parcel of the said Subsidy, or commit any misbehavour in any manner of wise contrary to this act, or commit any wilful omission or other whatsoever wilful, not doing, or misdoing contrary to the tenor of this act or grant, the same cominissioners, and every number of them above remembered, or two of them at the lest upon probable knowledge of any such misdemeners had by information, or examination, shall and may set upon every such offender for every such offence, in name of a fine by the same offender, to be forfeited, forty shillings, or under by the discretion of the same Commissioners. And further the same commissioners and every numbered of them, to two of them at the lest, shall have authority by this present act, to punish every such offender by imprisonment there to remain and to be delivered by their discretion as shall seem to them convenient. The said fines if any such be to be certified, by the said commissioners, that so assessed the same into the said king and queens majesties exchequer there to be levied and paid, by the collectors of that parts, for the said subsidy, returned into the said exchequer, to be therewith charged with the payment of the said subsidy in such manner as if the said fines had been set and taxed upon the said offenders for y said subsidy.  
It is also enacted by the said authority of this parliament, that every of the said high collectors, which shall account for any part of the said Subsidy in the king and queens Majesties exchequer upon their several said accounts, to be yielded, shallbe allowed at every of the said payments of the said subsidy for every pound limited to his collection, whereof any such collector shallbe charged and yield account, six pence as parcel of their charge, that is to say, of every pound thereof for such person as then have had the particular collection in the Towns and other places, as is aforesaid specified in his collection two pence, and other two pence of every pound thereof every of the said chief collectors there accomptaunce to receive to their own use for their labour and charge, in and about the premisses, and two pence of every pound, Residue to be delivered, allowed and paid, by the said collectors, so being there of allowed to such of the commissioners, as shall take upon them the Business and labour, for and about the premisses, that is to say every collector to pay that commissioner or commissioners, which had the ordering of the writings, of and for the said subsidy, where the said collector or collectors had their collection, for expenses of the said commissioners so taking upon them the said business & labour of their clerks, writing the said precept and estreats for the said collection, the same last two pence of every pound, to be divided amongst the said commissioners having regard to their labour and business, taken by them or their said clerks, in & about the premisses, for the which part so to the said commissioners attaining the said commissioners. vi.u.iiii.iii. or asmanye of them as shallbe thereunto appointed by the king and queen's Majesties, commission and every of them jointly and severally for his & their said part may have his remedy against the said collector, or collectors, which thereof been and might have been allowed by action of debt, in which the defendant shall not wage his law neither protection, neither Injunction, or other essoin shallbe allowed. And that no person now being of the number of the company of this present parliament, nor any Commissioner, shallbe named or assigned to be any collector or Subcollector or presenter of the said subsidy or of any part thereof, nor no Commissioner, shallbe compelled to make any presentment or certificate, other then in the king & queens majesties Exchequer, of for or concerning the said subsidy, or any part thereof. And likewise that none other person that shallbe named or assigned to be Commissioners in any place, to and for thexecution of this act or subsidy be or shallbe assigned or named head collectors of any of the payments of the said subsidy, neither of any part thereof. And that every such person or persons, which shall be named and appointed (as is aforesaid) to be head collectors in & for the first payment of this subsidy, shall not be compelled to be collector for the Second payment of the same subsidy, nor of any part thereof. And the said collectors which shallbe assigned for the collection of the said subsidy, or for any part thereof, & every of them be and shallbe acquitted and discharged of all manner fees, rewards, and of every other charges in the king and Queen's majesties exchequer, or else where, of them or any of them by reason of that collection, payment, or accounts, or any thing concerning the same to be asked, and that if any person receive and take any fees, rewards or pleasures of any such accomptaunte. That then he shall forfeit to the king & the queens majesties, for every penny or value of penny so taken twenty pence, & suffer imprisonment at the king and queens majesties pleasure. And after the taxing, and assessing of the said. Subsedyes, as is aforesaid, had and made, and the said estreats thereof, in parchment unto the collectors, in manner and form before rehearsed, delivered, the said commissioners which shall take upon them th'execution of this act within limits of their commission by their agreements shall have meeting together, at which meeting, every of the said commissioners, which then shall have taken upon them th'execution of any part of the said commission shall by himself or by his sufficient deputy truly certify & bring forth unto the said commissioners named in the said commission the certificate and presentment made before him and such other commissioners, as were limited with him in one limit. So that the same certificate, may be accounted and cast with other certificates of the other limits, within the same commission and then the said commissioners, and every number of them unto two at the least as is aforesaid if any be in life, or their executors, or administrators of their goods, if they be then deed, shall jointly and severally as they were divided within their limits under their Seals, by their discretion make one or several writings▪ indented containing in it aswell the names of the said collectors by the commissioners for such collection, and account, in the Exchequer, and payment in the said receipt, deputed and assigned as the gross and several Sums, written unto every such collector to receive the said subsidy. And also all fines amercyamentes, and other forfeitures, if any such, by reason of this Act, happen to be within the precinct, and Lymytte of their commission, to be certified into the said king and Queen's majesties Exchequer by the said commissioners, in which writing or writings, indented so to be certified shallbe plainly declared and expressed the hole and entire Sum or Sums, of the said subsidy, severally limited, to the Collection of the said collectors severally deputed and assigned to the Collection of the said Sums. So that none of the said Collectors so certified in the said exchequer, shallbe compelled there to account, or to be charged, but only to and for the Sum limited to his Collection, and not to or for any sum limited to the Collection of his fellow, but that every of them shallbe severally charged, for their part limited to their collection. And if the said commissioners, joined in one Commission amongst themself in that matter, can not agree, or if any of them be not ready or refuse to make Certificate with other of the same commissioners. That then the same Commissioners, may make several Indentures, in form aforesaid of their several limits or separations, of collectors within the limits of their commission, upon and in the hundreds, wards, Wapentakes, Laths Rapes, or such other like divisions, within there said several limits of their commission, as the places there shall require to be severed and divided & as to the same commissioners, shall seem good to make divisions, of their limits, or Collections, for the several charges of the same collectors, So that always one Collector shallbe charged & account for his part to him to be limited only by himself, and not for any Sum limited to the part of any of his fellows, and the charges of every of the Collectors, to be set and certified severally upon them & every such Collector upon his account and payment of the Sum of money, limited within his collection to be severally by himself acquitted and discharged in the said Exchequer without paying any manner of fees, or rewards, to any person or persons, for the same, upon the pain and penalty, last abovesaid, and not to be charged for any portion, of any other collector. And if any commissioner after he hath taken certificate of them that as is aforesaid shall before any such commissioner be examined and the Sums rated and set, and the books and writings thereof, being in his hands, or if any collector or other person charged with any receipt of any part of any of the said subsidies or any other person taxed or otherwise by this act charged with and for any parcel of the said Subsedyes, or with any other sums, or fine antereiament penalty, or other forfeiture, happen to die before the commissioner, Collector or other whatsoever person or persons, have executed, accomplished, satisfied, or sufficiently discharged that which to every such person shall appertain or belong to do, according to this act, than thexecutors and heirs of every such person, and all other sessed of any Lands, or tenements, that any such person being charged by this act, and disceasing before he be discharged thereof, or any other to his use only had of estate of inheritance at the time that any such person was named Commissioner, Collector, or otherwise charged with and for any manner of thing to be done satisfied or paid by reason of this act, and all these that have in their possessions or hands, any goods, or cattles, that were to any such person at the time of his death, or any Lands, or tenements, that were the same persons, at the time he was as is aforesaid charged by this act, shallbe by the same compelled and charged to do, and accomplish in every case as the same person so being charged, should have done, and might have been compelled to do, if he had been in plain life after such rate of the Lands, and goods of the said Commissioner or Collector, as the party shall have in his hand, and if the same Commissioners for causes reasonable them moving, shall think it not convenient to join in one certifycat, as is beforesaid, than the said person or persons, that shall first join together, or he that shall first certify the said writing indented as is aforesaid shall certify all the names of the commissioners of that commission whereupon such writings shallbe there then to be certified, with division of the hundreds, wapentakes, wards, tithings, or other places, to and among such commissioners, of the same commission, with the names of the same commissioners where such separations, and divisions shall be, with the gross sums of money, as well of & for the said Subsidy, taxed or set of or within the said hundreds, wards, wapentakes, or other places to him or them divided, or assigned, that shall so certify the said first writing, as of fines, amerciaments, penalties, or other forfeitures, if any hap to be within the same limits, whereof the same writings shallbe certified, and after such writing indented which as is aforesaid shallbe certified, and not contain in it the hole and full Sums, set, and taxed, within the limits of the same Commission, the other Commissioners of the same before the day of payment of the said Subsidy, shall certify into the said Exchequer by their writing or writings indented to be made as is afore said, the gross and several sums set, and taxed within the places to them limited for the said subsidy, and other fines, amerciaments, penalties, and forfeitures, with the names of the hundreds, wards, wapentakes, and other places to them assigned, or else by their said writings indented, to certify at the said place before the said day of payment, such reasonable causes for their excuses, why they may not make such certificate, of and for the said Subsidy which fines, amerciaments, and other forfeitures, growing or set by reason of the causes of their lets, or of their none certifying as is abovesaid, or else in default thereof process to be made out of the king and queens majesties Exchequer, against the said Commissioners, and every of them, not making certificate as is aforesaid, by the discretion of the Treasurer or Barons of the said Exchequer.  
provided always, and be it enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that the inhabitants of the parish of Saint Martin, called stamp sord Baron, in the Suburbs of the borrow, and town of Staunforde in the South part of the water, there called Welland, which hereafter shallbe contributory to the payment of this present Subsidy granted to the king and queens majesties, their heirs and successors, shallbe assessed, rated, and taxed for this time by such Commissioners, which shallbe appointed▪ for the taxing, rating, and sessing of such Subsidy, or tax within the county of Lincoln, & shall be for this time contributory, and pay the said Subsidy to the collector, or Collectors, which shallbe assigned and appointed, for the levying and gathering of the same, with the Aldermen and burges of the said Borough and town of Stampforde.  
Provided always, & be it enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that all and every person, & people, having manors, lands, tenements, & other hereditaments, chargeable to the payment of the subsidy granted to the king & queens majesties, by this act, & also having spiritual possessions chargeable to their said majesties, by that grant made by that clergy of this realm in this their convocation. And over this, having substance in goods & cattles chargeable by this said act, that then if any of that said person or persons be hereafter charged, assessed, and taxed for the said Manors, Lands, and tenements, & spiritual possessions, and also assessed, charged and taxed for his or their goods, & cattles that then he or they shall be only charged by virtue of this Act, for his and their said manors, lands, tenements, hereditaments, and spiritual possessions, or only for his said goods, and cattles, the best thereof to be taken for the king and queens majesties, and not to be charged for both, or double charged for any of them, any thing in this act contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding. Provided always, that this grant of subsidy nor any other thing therein contained, in any wise extend to charge the inhabit aunts or dwellers within Ireland, Calais, Hams, Euysnes, and the marches of the same, jernesey, and Garnesey, or any of them, of or concerning any manors, lands, tenements, or other possessions goods, cattles, or other, movable substance, which the said inhabitants, or dwellers, or any other to their use, have within Ireland Calais Hams, Guysnes, or other the marches of that same, jernsey Garnesey, or in any of them, of for or concerning any fees, or wages which any of the said inhabitants, or dwellers have, of the king and queens majesties, for their attendance, and doing service to our said sovereign Lord and Lady, in Ireland, Calais, Hams, Guyshes, and the marches of the same, jernesey, and Garnsey, or in any of them, any thing in this present Act to the contrary notwithstanding.  
provided also that this present Act of subsidy, ne any thing therein contained, extend to any of the english inhabitants, or resiants in any of the counties of Northumberland, Cumberland Westmerlande, the town of Barwycke, the town of Newcastle upon Tine, and the bishopric of Durham, nor to any of them of for or concerning any manors, lands, tenements, or other possessions goods, cattles, or other movable substance, which the same inhabitants or dwellers, or any other to their use, have within the said Counties of Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmerlande, or the town of Barwycke, the town of Newecastle upon Tine, or the bishopric of Durham, or any of them, or of for or concerning any fees or wages which any of the said inhabitants, or dwellers have of the King and queens majesties for their attendance, and doing service to the king and queens Majesties, for or within the said counties of Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmoreland, the town of Barwycke, the town of Newcastle upon Tyne, and the bishopric of Durham, or any of them, to or for the said taxing, levying, gathering, or payment, but that the english inhabitants, and resyauntes, and every of them of the said counties, bishopric and Towns, and every of them, shallbe of and from the said subsidy, and every parcel thereof, and for their manors, lands, tenements, fees wages, goods, and cattles, lying and being in the same counties, Towns and bishopric, or any of them utterly acquitted and discharged, any thing in this present act before rehearsed to the contrary notwithstanding.  
Provided also that all letters patents, granted by the king and queens majesties, or any of their most noble progenitors, to any cities, boroughs, or Towns within this realm of any manner of liberties, privileges or exemptions from the burden and charge of any such grants of Subsedyes which be at this present time in force and vailable shall remain good and effectual to the said Cities, boroughs, and towns hereafter, according to the purportes thereof though the inhabitants of the same, shall upon the great & weighty consideration of the grant abovesaid, be for this grant charged, and contributory in like manner form, and sort as other cities, boroughs, and towns which be not in any wise privileged, be from such grant of Subsidy excepted.  
provided always, and be it enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that no Orphan, or Infant, within the age of xxi year, borne with in any of the kings and queens majesties dominions, shallbe charged to any payment of this subsidy, for his goods and cattles to him left, or bequeathed, any thing in this act contained to the contrary notwithstanding.  
Provided also and be it enacted, that forasmuch as diverse, & sundry the king and queens majesties tenants, and other inhabitants, and dwellers within the counties of Penbroke, Carmarthen Cardigan, Glamorgan, Breckenocke, Radnour; Monnegomery, Dembyghe, Flynt, Merioneth, Anglesey, Carnarvan, and of the county Palentine of Chester, be at this present time charged and chargeable with the several payments of diverse great sums of money, by the name of mice, due to their majesties, according to the several customs of the said counties. For the payment whereof, diverse and sundry the gentlemen, and other the inhabitants of the said counties, be and stand bound to their highness. Be it therefore ordained and enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that this act of subsidy or any thing therein contained, shall not extend to charge, any of the queen's majesties tenants, and other thinhabitants and dwellers within any of the said counties of Penbroke, Carmarthen, Cardigan, Glamorgan, Brecknock, Radnoure, Monnegomery, Denbyghe, Flynt, Merioneth, Anglesey, Carnarvan, and the county palantyne of Chester, being charged, or chargeable with the said mice, for or in any of the payments of the said subsidy granted to the king and queens majesty by this act, until the several days and times appointed, and agreed for the payments of the said myses shallbe expired. And that the first payment of the said subsidy shallbe made at the receipt of the queen's exchequer, before the first day of March than next following, after the day appointed for the latter payment to be made of the said myses. And the second, or last payment of the said subsidy, to be made by, or before the twenty day of may, in the next year following, after the said first payment of this subsidy.  
And furthermore be it enacted by thauthority aforesaid, that the Cenauntes, and dwellers of every of the said counties in this proviso remembered, shall severally before the feast of pentecost, next ensuing, certify in the said Court of Exchequer, under the seals of two justices of peace of every of the said counties, whereof the one to be of the Quorum, when and what day the last payment of the said several myses now dew in any of the said counties, shall end and expire.  
provided also, that the said grant of subsidy, or any other thing therein contained, do not in any manner of wise extend, to be proiudiciall, or hurtful to thinhabitants or resiants at this present time, within the five ports corporate, or to any of their members incorporate, or united to the same five ports, or to any of the same five ports, of or for any part, or parcel of the said Sums granted in this present parliament of the said inhabitants now resyaunt, or any of them, to be taxed, set asked, levied, or paid, but the said inhabitants, and resiants in the said five ports, and their members, be and shallbe of, and from the said grant and payment of the said subsidy during the resyauncye there, and no longer, clearly acquitted and discharged, Any matter, or whatsoever thing in this present act had or made to the contrary notwithstanding.  
provided also that this act, nor any thing therein contained shall extend to that goods or lands of any college, hall, or hostel, within the universities of Oxenford and cambridge, or any of them, or to the goods or lands of the college of Wynton, founded by bishop wickhan orto the goods or lands of any common free grammar school within that realm of England, or Wales, or to the goods of any reader, schoolmaster or scholar within the said universities, & colleges, or any of them there remaining for study, without fraud or covin, or to the goods and lands of any hospital, measondue, or Spyttelhouse, prepared and used for the sustentation and relief of poor people. Any thing in this act contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.   
God save the king and the Queen.   

EXCUSUM LONDINI IN AEDIBUS JOHANNIS CAWODI TYPOGRAPHI REGIAE MAIESTATIS.  
Anno. M.D.L.U.   

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