AN ACT OF THE RELIEF GRANTED TO THE kings MAJESTY by the Lords and commons.  
Whilst we the kings majesties faithful loving and obedient subjects, the lords & commons assembled in this present parliament do consider the present state of the world, what great troubles be in all places, what enemies both his majesty and this his realm hath and is like to have, and that their malice and hatred is bend, partly to diminish his grace's majesty & the honour of this his Realm, partly to spoil the same of the just, true, & ancient inheritance, right, and title, that his highness & his most noble progenitors kings of this Realm of England have always had to the Realm of Scotland, being a member and part of his kingdom and dominion: and chiefly for that we of late having abandoned the authority of the Bishop of Rome and his wicked doctrine, have and do adhere to Christ and his most holy word, as becometh all christians to do, that mean to be no less in deed, than they profess in name: Whilst we also consider, that his grace, and we his faithful and obedient subjects be but one body politic, his highness the head and we the members, and that no good or felicity can come to the one, but the other shallbe partaker thereof, and that no hurt or adversity can happen to the one where with the other shall not also be grevid: Whilst also we consider the practises and policies of other princes and potentates, what great preparations, they make both of men and also of other furniture for the wars, and what great treasure they of late have levied and gathered of their subjects: we perceiving that all the kings majesties proceedings holy tend to the advancement of the true glory of God, the maintenance of the majesty of the Imperial crown of this Realm, and the defence and safety of us & this his realm, fully minded to cleave & stick to God & his most holy word, utterly determined to maintain his grace's honour and all such rights and titles as be annexed to his Imperial crown, priest and ready, to defend ourselves & this his realm & our country: and finally content to leave father, mother, brethren, sistren, wives, children, lands, goods, yea, and this mortal life also, rather than we would deny Christ and forsake his word, which is the lively food of man's soul, rather than we would suffer his royal majesty, to be in any part diminished, rather than we would consent, that the Imperial crown of this realm should be deprived of any honour, title, right or interest thereunto belonging: & finally rather then any forien power, should do us or our country any hurt or injury, have thought it good to prepare and make not only our persons ready for the wars, having a full affiance & perfect confidence in God, that as he always hath lent victory to such as professed him & put their hole trust in him: albeit they were but very few and that very feeble in man's sight, in respect of the multitude & force of their enemies: so he now will have special regard & eye to this little realm, and us his poor servants & little flock, taking to his charge and defence our little shepherd, till years & strength make him better able to vicket with his enemies, & that therefore he with us & for us will devise to withstand, resist, & subdue the force and puissance of our stout foes, no more ours then his, at the least, ours for his cause: but also to make among us a mass of money, to relief & maintain the great & mestymable charges that our most gracious sovereign lord hath & daily doth sustain, a thing much unable to serve any piece of his present necessities, if his grace did mean to spare any part of his own treasure, beseeching his grace, not to cast his eyes, upon the smallness of this our simple present, but to lay by it our good wills, which we make the chiefest part of our relief, it faithfully promising, all the rest to be ready, when peril or enemy shall declare this not to suffice. First we his graces said subjects do by the authority of this present parliament freely and frankly give and grant unto his most royal majesty a relief, to continue by the space of three years to be rated, taxed, levied and gathered of every parson of what estate or degree he be, according to the tenor of this act after the rate and in manner and form following, that is to say, aswell of all & every person as is or hereafter shallbe his graces natural subjects, as of all & every fraternity, guild, corporation, mystery brotherhood, company and commonalty corporat or not corporat within this realm of England, wales and other the kings dominions being worth ten ponds in money, Coin, plate, stock of merchandise, corn grain, sheep, beasts, chattels or other goods movable, aswell within this realm as without, and of all such sums of money as to him or them is or shallbe owing, whereof he or they trust in their consciences surely to be paid: yearly twelve pence of every pound. And of every alien or stranger borne out of the kings obeisance aswell denysen as not denysen inhabiting or resyaunt with in this realm or any other the kings dominions being worth ten pounds in money, coin, plate, stock of merchandise, corn, grain, sheep, beasts, chattels, or other goods movable, aswell within this realm as without, and of all such sums of money as to him is or shallbe owing, whereof he trusteth in his conscience to be surely paid: yearly two shillings of every pound. And of every alien or stranger borne out of the kings obeisance aswell denysen as not denysen inhabiting or resyaunt within this realm or any other the kings dominions, being worth twenty shillings and under ten pounds in money, coin, plate, sttocke of merchandise, corn, grain, sheep, beasts, cattle, or other goods movable, aswell within this realm as without, and of all such sums of money as to him is or shallbe owing, whereof he trusteth in his conscience to be surely paid, yearly twelve pence of every pound. Except & out of the premisses deducted such sums of money as any person or persons before chargeable own and in his or their conscience truly mind to pay. And excepted also the apparel of such parsons their wives & children belonging to their own bodies, saving jewels, gold, silver, stone & pearl. Excepted also always from the charge, assessment & payment of the said relief, all money, goods & chattels of orphans bequeathed or left unto them by their parents or other their friends deceased. And that all plate, coin, jewels, goods, debts, & chattels, personals, being in the rule & custody of any person or persons to the use of any corporation, fraternity, gild, mystery, brotherhood, compaynye or any commonalty being corporat, or not corporat, be & shallbe rated, set, & charged by reason of this act, at the value certified by the presentours of the certificate, to be sworn, of every pound in goods, & debts as is abovesaid. And the sommes that are before rehearsed, set & taxed, to be levied, & taken of them that shall have such goods in custody, as is before rehearsed. And the same parson, or parsons, & body corporate by the authority 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 & always forprised from the charge & assessment of this relief, all goods, chattels, jewels, & ornaments of churches & chapels, ordained, & used in churches or chapels, for divine service therein to be celebrated. Also we the kings majesties subjects do give, & grant to his highness, eight pennies to be paid yearly, during the said three years, by every other person not borne under the kings obeisance, being denisen, or no denisen, other than women covert, soldiers, & such persons as be under the age of xii years, dwelling or resyaunt with in this realm or any other the kings dominions. And the said reliefs, shallbe by the authority afore said: taxed assessed & rated, during the said iii years, in every shear: riding, lathe, wapentake, rape, city, Borough, town, & every other place, within this realm of England, & wales, & other the kings dominions, in form following that is to say: the first year before the xx. day of March, & the other two years, before the twenty day of januarie. The first payment of the said relief, to be had, made & paid, at the receipt of the kings exchequer before the vi. day of May next coming. And the second to be made & paid, at the said receipt, before the twenty day of April, which shallbe in the year of our lord God after the computation of the church of England. M. cccccls. And the third payment to be had & made at the said receipt, before the twenty day of Apryll which shallbe in the year of our lord. M. ccccc.li. And the sums above said: of and for the said relief, shallbe taxed, set, asked, & demanded, taken, gathered, levied, & paid, unto the use of our said so●eraigne lord, his heirs & successors, in form above said, aswell within liberties, franchesyes, sanctuaries, ancient demesne, and other whatsoever place exempt, or not exempt, as without. 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 what soever other matter of discharge here tofore to the contrary made granted, used, or obtained notwithstanding. And it is further enacted by the authority of this present parliament, that every such person, aswell such as be borne under the kings obeisance, as every other person stranger borne, denisen or not denysen, inhabiting within this realm, or within wales, or other the kings dominions, which at the time of the said assessing or taxation yearly to be had or made, shallbe out of this realm, & out of wales, & hauè goods or chattels, within this realm, or in wales, shallbe charged & chargeable for the same, by the certificate of the inhabitants of the parties, where such goods, chattels, lands, tenements, or other the premises than 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 same person were or had been at the time of the same assessing within this realm. And that every person, abiding or dwelling within this realm, or without this realm, shallbe charged, and chargeable to the same relief, granted by this act, according and after the rate, of the value of his substance, goods & chattels, and other premisses, as such parson so to be charged, shallbe set at in the time of the said assessing, or taxation upon him to be made, and in none otherwise.  
And further we the kings subicctes, do give and grant freely to his highness, one other relief to be paid, yearly during three years, at the rcceipt of the kings exchequer, after the rate & in manner, & form following, that is to say, of every Ewe, kept for the most part of the year, in several salt, or fresh marshes, or in leverall pasture, that is to say: grounds not comen, nor commonly used to be tilled. iii pence. Of every wether, and other shear sheep kept in pasture or marshes, as is afore said, two pennies. And of every shear sheep kept, on commons or on several grounds, commonly used to be tilled three half pence. To be paid yearly, during the said iii years, by the owner, or owners of the same sheep, & not by any person that hath the same sheep in farm, or by lease, paying a rent are any other profit for the same, or which is or shallbe bound by any manner of covenant or surety to restore the same, or as many sheep or the value thereof at any time.  
PROVIDED always and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that every person not having above the number of ten shear sheep, shall pay yearly durig the said iii year, one halfpenny, for that polle of every such shear sheep, and that every person having above ten shear sheep, and not above twenty shall pay for every of them but one penny, during every of the said iii years, any thing before in this grant of the relief of sheep, contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding. The first payment of the said relief of sheep, to be made before the first day of November, next coming: the second before the first day of November which shallbe in the year of our lord God. ccccc.l. And the third before the first day of November, which shallbe in the year of our lord God M. ccccc.li.  
PROVIDED always and be it ordained and enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if the value of the sheep, cattle, and other movable goods, of him or her, that hath sheep chargeable to the payment of the said relief, being razed and gathered into one hole and entire some and value, shallbe found greater, and more for the advancement of this relief, than the payment that ought to be made by the poll of the said sheep, as is before declared, that then the owner of the said sheep, shall not be chargeable with the payment, after the rate of the poll. And if it shall appear that the payment after the rate of the poll shall exceed in value, and be more beneficial to the king, than the money rated of the hole substance of any person: That then such person having sheep shallbe charged to pay after the rate of the poll, and not after the value of his entire substance: The relief paid the year before of his entire substance to be taken, and accounted as parcel of the some that shallbe due and payable in the hole at the years end upon the account made for the poll of his sheep.  
¶ ALSO we the kings said subjects by the authority aforesaid, do give and grant unto the kings majesty, one other relief, that is to say. viii. pens of the pound, of the price and value of all and singular  clothes, carseyes, fryses, cottons, kendales, & all other kind of  clothes, of what sort or making soever they be, that from the feast of the Nativity of saint john Baptist next coming, during three years then next following shallbe made by any person to be put to sale, the same relief to be levied and gathered yearly during the said three years, of the maker of the said cloth, in such manner and form as hereafter in this act shallbe declared.  
PROVIDED always, and be it ordained & enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that if it shall appear that the rate of. viii. pens of the pound, of the price and value of the cloth, by such clothier made as is aforesaid, shall exceed the rate of xii pence of the pound, of his goods and chattels, that then every such clothier, shall pay only after the rate of. viii. pence of the pound, of the clothes, & not after the value of his goods and chattels, the relief paid the first year of his entire substance to be taken▪ and accounted as parcel of the some that shallbe due and payable in the hole at the first years end upon account for the clothes by him made as is afore said. The second relief, paid of his entire substance, to be taken and accounted as parcel, of the some that shallbe due and payable, in the hole at the second years end upon account for the clothes by him made, as is afore said. And the third relief, paid of his entire substance to be taken and accounted as parcel of the some that shallbe due and payable in the hole at the third years end upon account for the clothes by him made, as is aforesaid.  
PROVIDED also, and be it ordained and enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if any person to the ●ntent to defraud the kings majesty of the reliefs granted by this act, or any part thereof do colour and take upon him, by the assent or consent, of the true owner thereof, to be owner, or proprietary of any goods, sheep, clothes, or other things chargeable to the payment of the said relief, and in deed shallbe found, tried or proved, not to be just and right owner thereof, upon any information thereof to be made in the kings court of exchequer within two years next after such offence, that not only such goods, sheep, clothes, and other things, or the value thereof shallbe forfeited to the king, but also the party so falsely colouring the same, or pretending to be owner, or proprietary of the same, shall forfeit and lose to the king, the triple value thereof, to be levied of his goods and chattels, lands, and tenements to the kings use.  
AND to the intent that the kings majesty may be justly and truly satisfied of the said relief, of the value and substance of every man's goods, and other sums, to be paid by siraungers, denysens or not denysens, by us to his highness given in manner and form afore expressed, and in no part thereof be defrauded, as our intent and hope is his grace shall not be: Be it ordained and enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the lord Chancellor of England, the lord Thresaurour of England, the lord president of the kings most honourable counsel, the lord Privy seal, and the lord great Chamberlain of England, for the time being, or two of them at the least, whereof the lord Chancellor or the lord Treasurer, to be one of them, shall and may name and appoint of and for every shire, riding, and other places, aswell within this realm, as in wales, and other the kings dominions, as also for every city and town, being a county of itself, and of and for the Isle of wight, such certain number of persons of every of the same shires, ridings, lathes, 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 households of the king our sovereign lord, the lady Marie, and the lady Elyzabeth graces, the kings majesties listers, certain head officers of the same, to be commissioners of the same households, in what shires or other places, the said households shall hap then to be: & the lord Chancellor, or lord Thresaurour, and other with him before named, in like manner may name and appoint of every other such borough and town corporat, aswell in England, as in wales, and other the kings dominions, as they shall think requisite, six, five, four, three, or two, of the head officers, and other sad and honest inhabitants of every of the said cities, boroughs and towns corporat, according to the number & 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 as commissioners with the persons, named for such shires and rydinges, as the said boroughs and towns corporat not being counties in themselves be set, & have there being: which persons so named, for & of the said boroughs and towns corporat, not being counties, by reason of there dwelling in the same, shall not take upon them, ne none of them, to put any part of there commission, in execution for the premisses, out of the said borough or town corporat, wherein they being so named only for the same, be dwelling, and also not to execute the said commission, within the borough or town coporat, where they be so dwelling, but jointly with three at the least of the other commissioners within the shire or riding, and in that commission wherein they be so dwelling, at such days and times, as the said other commissioners for the same shear and riding, shall thereunto limit and appoint within the same borough or town corporat, not being county corporat, whereof they so be, and not out of such borough or town, and in that manner to be aiding and 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 corporat, not being a county, to make such fine as the said other commissioners in the commission, of and for the said shire or riding so named, or three of them at the least, shall by there dyscretions set and certify into the kings exchequer, there to be levied to the use of our sovereign lord the king, in like manner as such or like sums had been set and rated upon every such person for the said relief: The which commissioners so named, of and for the said cities, boroughs and towns, not being counties, and only put in the said commission by reason of there dwelling in the same, shall not have any part of the portion of the fees and rewards for the commissioners, and the● clerks in this act, afterward specified. And the Chancellor of England, or keeper of the kings great Scale for the time being, shall make and direct out of the court of chancery, under the kings 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 before appointed and named, in like manner and form as is afore rehearsed, shallbe thought sufficient for the sessing and levying of the said relief in all shires and places, according unto the true meaning of this act: which commission shallbe directed and delivered to the said commissioners, or to one of them yearly, during the say three years, in manner and form following, that is to say: the first year before the tenth day of March next coming, and the other two years, yearly before the first day of january: 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 unto this act, or as many of them as shallbe appointed by the kings commission, shall have full power & authority to put the effect of the same commission in execution. And that by authority of this act, after such commission to them directed yearly during the said three years, they may by their assents and agreements, sever themselves for the execution of their commission, in hundred, lathes, wards, rapes, wapentakes, towns, parishes, & 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 & 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 hundredth where 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 the authority of this present parliament, that the commissioners, and every of them which shallbe named, limited, and appointed according unto this act to be commissioners, in every such shire, riding, lathe, wapentake, rape, city, town, borough, Isle, and the said households or any other place, and none other, shall truly, effectually & 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 hereof: and the said commissioners, or as many of them as shallbe appointed by the said commission, and none other, for the execution of the said commission, and act, shall the first year of the payment of this relief of goods, before the twenty day of March, and the other two years, yearly before the xvi day of january, by virtue of the commissions, delivered unto them, in form abovesaid, direct their several or joint precept unto. viii. seven. vi. v 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 shallbe appointed by the said commission, of & in hundreds, lathes, rapes, wapentakes, wards, parishes, towns, & other places, aswell within liberties, franchises ancient demeans places exempted, and sanctuaries, as without, within the limits of the shires, ridings, lathes, wapentakes, rapes, cities, towns, boroghes, or Isle, aforesaid, & other places within the limits of there commission, and to the constables, subconstables, batlliffes, & other like officers or ministers, of every of the said hundreds, towns, wards, lathes, wapentakes, parishes, & other places before said: as to the said commissioners, & every number of them unto three or two of them, by there discretion in division, shall seem expedient, as by the manner and use of the parties shallbe requisite, straightly by the same precept charging & commanding the same inhabitants constables, & 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 & places by the said commissyoners, or any number of them as is abovesaid, within cities, boroughs, or towns corporat, or without in any other place as is aforesaid, by their discretions shallbe limited thereunto, to do & accomplish all that to them on the part of our sovereign lord the king shallbe enjoined touching this act: 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 same precept, & that none of them fail to accomplish the same, upon pain of forty shillings, to be forfeited to the king.  
AND it is further ordained by the said authority of this parliament, that the said day & place prefixed, & limited in the said precepts, every of the commissioners, then being in the shire, & having no sufficient excuse for his absence, shall at the said day, & place prefixed for that part whereunto he was limited, appear in his proper person, & there the same commissioners being present, or as many as shallbe appointed by the kings commission, shall call or cause to be called before them, the said inhabitants & officers, to whom they have directed there said precepts, & which had in commandment, there to apere by the said precept of the said commissioners. And if any person so warned, make default unless he than be letted by sickness or lawful excuses, & that let then to be witnessed by the oaths of two credible persons: Or if any so appearing refuse to be sworn in form following, to forfeit to the king forty shillings: & so at every time during the said three years prefixed for the same cause, unto such time, the number of every such persons, have appeared & certified in form under written: & every of them so making default, or refusing to be sworn, to forfeit to the king forty shillings: & upon the same appearance had, one of the most substantial inhabitants or officer, so there being warned, & appearing before the said commissioners, shallbe sworn yearly during the said three years, 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, ward, town, or other place, of the best & most value of the substance of every parson, dwelling & abiding within the limits of the places that I and my fellows shallbe charged with, & of other which shall have his or their most resort unto any of the said places, & chargeable with any some of money, by this act of this said relief, & of all other articles, that I shallbe charged with, touching the said act, and according to the intent of the same, and there upon, as near as it may or shall come to my knowledge, not only truly to present and certify before you, the names, surnames, additions, and the best and uttermost substance and values of every of them of there goods, chattels, debts, & other things, chargeable by the said act, and how many strangers, denizens or not deriysens, being above the age of xii years, be resiaunt and dwelling within the limits of my charge, of what value in goods and other things, chargeable to the payment of this relief they be, & whether they be householders or servants, or otherwise under the rule & government of their parents without any conceilement, 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 before said: by the inhabitants & officers of every hundred, ward, wapentake, town, or other place, the said commissioners shall yearly openly there read or cause to be read unto them the said rates, & openly declare the effect of their charge unto them, in what manner & form they ought & should make there certifycates, according to the rates & sums thereof abovesaid, and of all manner of people, aswell of Aliens & strangers, denizens, or not denysens, inhabited within this realm, as of such persons as be borne within the kings obeisance, chargeable to this act, & of the goods & chattels of fraternities, guilds, corporations, brotherhedes, misteriers, compainies, and commonalties & other, as is above said: and of persons being in the parties of beyond the sea, having goods or catals within this realm as is before said: & of all goods being in custody to the use of any other, as is above said: by the which information & showing, the said persons shall have such plain knowledge of the true intent of this present act, & of the manor of their certificate, that the same persons shall have no reasonable cause to excuse them by ignorance. And after such oaths, & the statute of the said relief, and the manner of the said certificate, to be made in writing containing the names, surnames, and additions of every person, & whether he be borne without the kings obeisance or within, and the best value of every person in every degree, of the value of goods, and chattels, debts, and every thing to their said certificate, requisite and necessary to them declared: the said commissioners there being, shall by their discretions appoint & limit unto the said persons, an other day & place to apere before the said commissioners, & charging the said persons, that they in the mean time shall make diligent inquiry by all ways & means of the premises, & then & there every of them, upon pain of forfeiture of twenty shelings, to the king, to appear at the said new prefixed day & place, there to certify unto the said commissioners in writing, according to there said charge, & according to the true intent of the said grant of relief, & as to them in manner aforesaid hath been declared & showed by the commissioners, at which day & 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 forty shillings: Except only a reasonable excuse for his default by reason or sickness or otherwise by the oaths of two credible persons there witnessed be had: & of such as appear ready to make certificate, as is afore said the said commissioners there being shall take and receive the same certifycat & 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 presentoures thereof, & there upon the said commissioners at the said days & place by there agreement among themselves shall yearly during the said three years, openly their prefix a day at a certain place or places with in the limits of there commission by their discretion, for their further proceeding to the said asscssing of the same relief, and there upon at the said day of the said cettifycat (as is before said) 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 afore said, as the same commissioners shallbe of, comprising & containing in the same precept the names, surnames & additions of all persons presented before them in the said certificates: of whom if the said commissioners or as many of them as shallbe thereunto appointed by the kings commission shall then have vehement suspect to be of more greater value or substance in goods, chattels or sums of money owing to them, or other substance before said, then upon such person or persons shallbe certified, the same commissioners shall make there precept or precepts directed to the constable, bailiffs, and other officers, commanding the same constables bailiffs & other officers, to whom such precept shallbe directed to warn such persons whose names shall be comprised in the said precept, at there mansions or to their persons, that the same persons named in such precepts & every of them, shall personally appear before the said commissioners at the same new prefixed day and place, there to be sworn & 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 premises or any of them, according to this act. At which day and place so prefixed, the said commissioners than there being, or as many of them as shallbe thereunto appointed by the kings commission, shall cause to be called the said persons, whose names shallbe comprised in the said precept, as it is before said for their examination. And if any of the persons which should be warned, as is before said, to be examined, which at any time after the warning, and before the prefixed day shallbe within such place, where he may have knowledge of the said appearance to be made, make default & appear not▪ unless a reasonable cause, or else a reasonable excuse by the oaths of two credible persons before the said commissioners be truly alleged for his discharge, that then every of them so making default, to be taxed and charged to the king with & at the double sums of the rate that he should or ought to have been set at, for and after the best value of his goods & 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 before said, appear & refuse to be sworn in form following: then every such offender to be taxed and charged to the king with and at the double somme of the rate that he should or ought to have been set at, for & after the best value of his substance upon him certified by the said persons that made the certificate, as is before said, by the discretions of the commissioners there than being & every of the persons so there & then appearing: Whose names shallbe expressed in the said precept or precepts, & in whom any vehement suspect was or shallbe had in form above said, shall travel with the same person so suspect, by all such ways & means they can: And further the said Commissioners, or as many of them as shallbe hereunto appointed by the said Commission, by their discretion shall openly swear the same person in this manner and form following.  
¶ I shall faithfully, truly, and plainly according to my knowledge, show unto you the kings Commissioners, and to other by you assigned, the best and greatest value or above of all my goods & cattles, & sums of money to me owing, according to the grant of this act of relief, & truly answer to that I shallbe examined of, touching the premises, without covin or deceit, so help me God, & 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 oaths of his or their greatest and best value and substance so lacking and excused, and by the best of their certifycat or knowledge, or of the other first certifycat upon him or than made, the same person so lacking and excused of his appearance to be set and rated by the said Commissioners, or otherwise to be set and rated in this case as shall seem best by the discretions of the said Commissioners. And if it hap to be proved by witness, his own confession or other lawful ways or means, withen one year after any such oath made, that the same person so taxed and sworn, was of any greater or better value in goods or other things above specified at the time of his said oath, then the same person so sworn did declare upon his oath: That then such person so offending shall lose & forfeit to the king four times so much in lawful money or England as the same person so sworn was set & taxed at, to pay for the said Relief.  
And if any person certified or rated by virtue of this act, be he commissioner or other, to any manner of value, do find himself grieved with the same presentment sessing or taxing, & there upon 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 & distynctlye the person so complainaunt & other his neighbours, by their discretion, of every his goods, chattels & debts above mentioned, and after due examination, and perfect knowledge thereof had and perceived by the said Commissioners, which shall have power, by 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 assessment, according as it shall appear to them just upon the said examination, and the same some so abated, defalked, increased, or enlarged by them, to be streated in form as hereafter ensueth, so that he come before the extreates of the said assessing be delivered by the said Commissioners into the kings 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 & sworn, was of any greater or better value in goods, or other things above specified, at the time of his said oath then the same person so sworn, did declare upon his said oath: that then every such person so offending, shall lose & forfeit to the king four times so much in lawful money of England, as the same person so sworn, was set at or taxed to pay. And all persons, set, rated and taxed as is aforesaid, shallbe bound and charged by the same: and the some or sommes upon him set, to be due towards the payment of this relief, and to be levied as hereafter shallbe specified.  
AND it is also enacted by the said authority, that every person yearly during the said iii years, as is aforesaid, shallbe rated, taxed and set and the some on him set to be levied at such place, where he & his family at the time of the same presentment to be made, shall keep his house or dwelling, or where he than shallbe moste conversant abiding or resiant, or shall have his most resort, and shallbe best known at the time of the said certificate to be made, and no where else. And that no Commissioner for this Relief of goods, shallbe rated or taxed for his goods, but in the shire, city, or other place, where he dwelleth and is Commissioner. And if any person chargeable to this Act, at 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. And after the substance and value of every person, known by the examination, certificate, and other manner of wise, as is aforesaid, the said Commissioners or as many of them as shallbe appointed by the kings Commission, shall after the rate aforesaid, set and tax every person, according to the rate of substance, and value of his goods and chattels: whereby the greatest and most best some, according to his most substance, by reason of this act, aught or may be set or taxed.  
BE it also ordained by the said authority, that no person having two mansions, or two places to resort unto, or calling himself household servant or waiting servant, to the kings highness, his grace's sisters, or to any noble man or woman, shallbe excused upon his saying, from the tax of the said relief 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 happen to be set in two places, upon certificate thereof made, the best and most some upon him so taxed, to be taken and abide, and the other to be discharged, so that the same certificate of his assessing and payment, be made thereof in writing, under the seals of the Commissioners, or of as many of them as shallbe appointed by the kings Commission: which certificate so made, shallbe at all times a sufficient discharge for him, and the collector of the same, aswell against any collector, that shall demand the same upon him rated or taxed, as against the king 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 foreprised in this Act, or any otherwise by his covin or craft, happen to escape from the yearly assessing, 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 Barones' of the kings Exchequer, or two justices of the Peace of that country, where such person dwelleth: then every such person, that by such means or other wise, wilfully by covin, shall happen to escape from the assessing of the said reliefs, or of any of them, and not be rated, taxed, and set, shallbe charged upon the knowledge and proof thereof, with, and 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 and paid of his goods, and chattels, lands and tenements, towards the said relief, and further to be punished, according to the discretions of the Barones', justices, or Commissioners, before whom he shallbe convicted for his offence and deceit in that behalf.  
And it is further ordained and enacted by the authority aforesaid, that not only every assessour shallbe rated, taxed and assessed yearly, during the said three years, for the value of his goods and chattels, by the Commissioners, or the most part of them, by whom he is appointed to be an assessour, but also that every Commissioner assigned and deputed, for the ordering, taxing, rating, and levying of this relief, granted to the kings Majesty, of twelve pence of the pound, of the value of every man's goods, dwelling within the precinct and limit of his Commission, for his own substance in goods, shallbe sessed, taxed, valued and rated yearly, during the said three years, by the examination and sessing of the rest of the Commissioners, named in the same Commission, or the most part of them, after such value of his goods and chattels, as is mentioned in this Act. And that all persons of the estate of a Baron or baroness, not being married, and every estate above shallbe examined and charged, of the payment of this relief of their goods, before the lord Chancellor, the Lord Theasaurer of England, and lord privy seal for the time being, or other persons by the kings authority to be limited: and they to be charged yearly, during the said three years, for their goods and substance, according to their examination aforesaid. And the sums upon them set, with the names of the Collectors appointed, for the gathering and paying of the same, be extreated, delivered, and certified at days and places above specified by the said Chancellor, Theasaurer, and lord privy Seal for the time being, or such other persons, as shallbe appointed by the Kings highness.  
AND it is further ordained and enacted, by th'authority aforesaid, that after the Taxes and Assessementes, of the said sums, upon and and by the said examination and certificate, as is aforesaid made, the said Commissioners shall yearly during the said three years, within ten days next after the Taxation and Assessment, of payment of the said Relief, by writing Indented to be made of the said Taxation and Assessment, under the seals and signs manuelles of the said Commissioners, deliver unto sufficient and substantial inhabitants, Constables, Subconstables, Bailiffs, or other officers jointly of hundreds. Towns, Parishes, and other places aforesaid within 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 and surnames, as the remembrance of all sums of money, Taxed and set of and upon every person, aswell man as woman chargeable to this Act, householder, and all other inhabitants and dwellers, and all Fraternities, guilds, Corporations, Mysteries, Brotherhoddes, Compaignies and commonalties, corporat or not corporat, within the said Parishes, towns & places, contributory to this Act of relief. 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 and Fraternity, guilded, Corporation Mystery, Brotherhod, company, and Commonalty, corporate or not corporate therein specified, the some or sommes in the same writing or estreat comprised. And for non payment thereof to distrain the goods and chattels, of such person, Fraternity, guild, Corporation, Mystery, Brotherhod, company and Commonalty, corporat or not corporat, and the distress so taken, to keep by the space of eight days, at the costs and charges of the owners thereof: And if the said owner do not pay such some of money, as shallbe taxed by this act, within the same viii. days, then the said distress to be apprized, by iiii iii 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 deputied to ask, take, gather, and levy the said sums, shall answer and be charged for their portion, only to them assigned or limited, to be gathered, levied, and comprised in the said writing or estreat, to them as is aforesaid delivered, unto the use of our sovereign lord the king, his heirs and successors, and the said somme 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, 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 s. so by them received and paid ii d. and that to be allowed at the payment of their collection, by them to be made to the high collector or collectors.  
PROVIDED always, and be it ordained and enacted, by th'authority aforesaid, that if any person not being the kings subject naturally borne, denisen or not denisen, being above the age of xii years, & not worth twenty s. in goods, and be at the time of the payment of the relives, of. viii. d. due by this act of every such person, or at any time during the said three years, in service with any man or woman, or under the governance of his or her father or mother, that every such Master or Maistres, father or mother, shallbe charged with the payment thereof, for such person in like manner and form, as he or she is or aught to be for the reliefs due by themselves. And that it shallbe leeful for every such Master and Maistres to defalk, abate, and retain of the wages of such servant, so much as he or she had before paid for such servant towards the payment of the said reliefs.  
AND further be it enacted by the said authority of this present Parliament, that the said commissioners, shall yearly during the said iii years, name such sufficient and able persons, which then shall have & possede lands, or other hereditaments in their own right, of the yearly value of ten l. or goods to the value of an. C. mark at the jest, and the same persons severally, by the discretions of the same commissioners in shires, Ridynges, Laths, Wapentakes, Rapes, cities, towns corporat, and other whatsoever places, aswell within places privileged as without not being forprised in this act, to be high collectors & have the collection and receipt of the said sums, set & leviable within the precinct, limits and bounds, where they shallbe so limited to gather & receive: to every of the which collectors so severally named, the said commissioners, or two of them at the jest, yearly during the said iii years, within xii days next after the said whole sum of the said reliefs, shallbe set and rated 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 same 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 & surnames of the persons so chargeable, according to the estrete so first thereof made (as is beforesaied) and delivered: and the collector so to be assigned, shallbe charged to answer the whole somme, comprised in the said estrcate limited to his collection, as is aforesaid.  
PROVIDED always and be it enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that the said commissioners having authority by this act, to name the said high collectors of the said reliefs, yearly during the said three years, shall immediately upon their nomination and election, take by authority of this present Parliament, sufficient 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 in the double somme, of the some of his collection, and to be endorsed and made upon such condition, that if the said collector, his Heirs or Executors, do truly content and pay, to the use of the king, his Heirs, or executors, in his receit of his Exchequer, before the day appointed by this act, so much of the said some 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 his full strength and virtue. Which recognisance or obligation so taken the said commissioners shall certify & deliver into the Kings Exchequer, with the certificate of the said taxation and rate of the said relief, at and by the time to them prescribed and appointed by this act, upon pein of forfeiture of ten l. to the king, 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 l. to the king, for the refusal thereof: and every such collector, so yearly deputed, having the said estreat in patchement, as is aforesaid▪ shall have authority by this act, yearly during the said three years, to appoint days and places, within the circuit of his Collection, for the payment of the said relief 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 some, as to them shall appertain. And if at the said day & place so limited and prefixed by the said collector, the said Constables, officers, or other persons or inhabitants (as is aforesaid) for the said particular collection appointed and assigned within such hundred, city, town, or other place, do not pay unto the said collectors, the some within their several hundreds, towns, Parishes, and other places, due & comprised in the said estrcates thereof to them delivered by the said commissioners, as is before said, or so much thereof as they have by any mean received (two. d. of every pound for the said particular collection, as is beforesaied, always to be thereof allowed, excepted & 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 asmuch of the same somme, as so then shall hap to be gathered and levied, being behind and unpaid, by the goods and chattels, of every of them so being behind: and the distress so taken, to be kept appreised and sold, as is aforesaid: and thereof to take and levy the some so then being behind and unpaid, and the overplus coming of the sale of the said distress (if any be) to be restored and delivered unto the owner, in form above remembered.  
PROVIDED always, that no person inhabited in any citce, borough, or town corporat, shallbe compelled to be an assessor or collector, of, or for any part of the said relief, in any place or places, out of the said city, Borough, or town, corporate where he dwelleth. And it is also by the said authority enacted, that if any inhabitant or officer, or whatsoever person or persons charged, to, and for the collection or receipt, of any part or portion of the said relief, in any of the said three years, by any manner of mean, according to this act, or any person or persons for themselves, or as keeper, deputy, factor or attorney, of, and for any other person or persons, of any goods and chattels, and the owner thereof at the time of the said assessing to be made, being out of this realm, or in any other parties not known, or of, and for the goods and chattels of any other person or persons, or of any corporation, fraternity, guilded, mystery, compainy, or other whatsoever commonalty, being incorporate or not incorporate, and all persons having in their rule, governance, or custody, any goods or chattels, at the time of the said assessing, or any of them to be made, or which for any cause, for, & 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 traternitie, guild, Corporation, Commonalty, company, or Mystery, or any such other like or as factor deputy, or attorney, of or for any person, shallbe taxed, rated, valued, and set to any some or sommes, by reason of this act: and after the taxation or assessing, upon any such person or persons, as shallbe charged with the receipt of the same, happen to die or departed from the place, where he was so taxed and set, or his goods and chattels to be so eloyned, or in such privy and covert manner kept, as the said person or persons charged with the same, by extreates or other writing from the said commissioners, cannot ne may levy  same some or sums, comprised within their said extreates by distress, within the limits of their collection, as is beforsaid, or cannot sell such distress, or distresses as be taken for any of the said yearly payments, before the time limited to the high collector, for his payment to be made in the kings receipt: then upon relation thereof made, with due examination by the oath or examination of such person or persons, as shallbe charged with, and for the receipt and collection of the same, before the said commissioners, or one of them, or before the high collector or collectors, where such person or persons or other, as is aforesaid, their goods and chattels were set and taxed: and upon plain certificate thereof, made into the kings Exchequer, by the same commissioners, or any one of them, or upon the oath of one of the high collectors, in the said court of thexchequer, of the dwelling place, names and sums of the said persons, of whom the said sums cannot be levied & had, as is beforesaied, then aswell the Constables and other inhabitants, appointed for the 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 out of the said Exchequer, by the discretions of the Barons of the said 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 premises, shallbe made in form aforesaid, from time to time, shall have full power & authority, during the said iii years, to direct their precept or precepts, unto the said person or persons, charged with any some, of, for or upon any such person or persons, or other as is abovesaid, or to any shirieffes, stewards, bailieffes, or other whatsoever officer, minister, person or people, of such place or places, where any such person or persons, so owing such some or sums, shall have lands & tenements, or other hereditaments, or real possessions, goods or chattels, whereby any such person or persons so indebted, his heirs, executors, or assigns, or other having the custody, governance, or disposition of any goods, chattels, lands, tenements, or other hereditaments which ought or may by this act lawfully be distrained, or taken for thesame, hath & shall have goods, chattels, lands, tenements, & other possessions, whereof such some or sums, which by any such person or persons, may or ought to be levied, be it within the limit of such commission, where such person or people, was or were taxed, or without in any place within this realm of England, Wales, or other the kings dominions, Marches or territories: by which precept aswell such person, or persons as shallbe charged to lcuie such money, as th'officers of the place or places, where such distress stress may be taken, shall have full power and authority, to distrain every such person indebted, charged or chargeable by this act, or his executors or administrators of his goods and chattels, his factors, deputies, lessees, farmers and assigns, and all other persons, by whose hands or out of whose lands any such person, should have rend, fee, annuity, or any other profit, or which at the time of the said assessings shall have goods or chattels, or any other thing movable, of any such person or persons being indebted, or owing such some. And the distress so taken, to cause to be kept appreised and sold, in like manner and form, as is aforesaid, for the distress to be taken upon persons, to be taxed to the said relief, and being sufficient to distrain, within the limits of the collectors, inhabitants, or other officers charged with or for the same sums, so upon them to be taxed. And if any such distress for none payment, happen to be taken out of the limit of the persons charged and assigned to levy the same, the people so charged for the levying of every such somme by distress, shall perceive and take of the same distress, for the labour of every person, going for th execucion thereof, for every mile that any such person so laboureth for the same ii d. And every fermor, tenant, factor, or other whatsoever person being distrained, or other wise charged for payment of any such somme or sommes, or any other some, by reason of this act, shallbe of such some or sommes, 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 distrained had in his custody or 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 his tenants, and farmers may be distrained, or hath eloyned, aliened or hid his goods and chattels, whereby he should or might be distrained, in such manner that such goods and chattels shall not be known, or found, so that the somme by him to be paid in the said form, shall ne can be conveniently levied▪ then upon relation thereof unto the Commissioners, where such person or persons was taxed and set, by the oaths of him or them, that shallbe charged with the levy & payment of that some 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, & by this act shallbe charged with and for the same somme or sommes, and them so taken safely to keep in prison, within the shire or other place, where any such person or persons shallbe taken and attached there to remain without bail or mainprize, until he have paid the some or sommes, that such persons for himself or for any other, by this act shallbe chargeable, or aught to be charged withal, & also for the fees of every such arrest to him or them that shall execute such precept twenty d. And that every officer, unto whom such precept shallbe directed, do his true diligence to execute the same, upon every person so being indebted upon pein to forfeit to our said sovereign Lord the King, for every default in that behalf twenty s. And that no keeper of any gail, from his gail suffer any such person to go at large by letting to bail, or otherwise to departed out of his prison, before he have paid his said debt, and the said xx. d. for the said arrest, upon pein to forfeit to our sovereign lord xl s and the same jailer to pay unto our said sovereign Lord, the double value aswell of the rate, which the said person so imprisoned was taxed at, as of the said twenty d. for the fees. And like process and remedy in like form shallbe granted by the said commissioners, at like information of every person or persons, being charged with any some of money for any other person or persons, by reason of the said reliefs, every of the said three years, and not thereof paid, but wilfully withdrawn, ne the same leviable within the limit where such person was thereunto taxed. And if the some or sommes, being behind unpaid, by any person or persons, as is before said, be levied and gathered by force of the said process, to be made by the same commissioners, or if in default, or for lack of payment thereof, the person or persons so owing the said somme 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 said 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 some or sums of money so being behind, shallbe levied, and 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, or any Mayor, Sheriff, Steward, Constables, headboroughs, householder, bailiff, or any other officer or minister, or other whatsoever person or people to disobey the said commissioners or any of them, in the reasonable request to them made, by the said commissioners, for yearly execution of the said commission, during the said iii years: or if any of th'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 do make, or if any person being suspect or not to be indifferently taxed, as is afore said, 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 reskous upon any distress, upon him to be taken for any parcel of the said relief, or commit any misbehaviour in any manner of wise contrary to this act, or commit any wilful omission, or other whatsoever wilful none doing or misdoing, contrary to the tenor of this act or grant: the same commissioners, or two of them at the least, upon probable knowledge of any such misdemeanours, 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 offendor to be forfeited twenty s. or under, by the discretion of the same Commissioners. And further, the said commissioners, & every number of them, to two of them at the le●●, shall have authority by this present Parliament, to punish every such offendor by imprisonment, there to remaigne 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 kings Exchequer, there to be levied & paid, by the Collectors of that parties for the said reliefs, returned into the said Exchequer, to be therewith charged with the payment of the said Relieffes in such manner, as if the said fines had been set and Taxed upon the said offenders, for the said Reliefs.  
IT is also enacted by the said authority of this present Parliament that every of the said high Collectors, which shall account for any part of the said Reliefs in the kings Exchequier, upon their several said accounts to be yelden, shallbe allowed yearly during the said three years, for every pound limited to his Collection whereof any such collector shallbe charged, and yield account, six pence, as parcel of their said charge, that is to say, two pence of every pound thereof▪ for such persons as then have had the particular Collection, in the Towns and other places (as is aforesaid) specified in his Collection: and other two pence of every pound thereof, every of the said chief Collectors there accountant, to receive to their own use for their labour and charge, in and about the premises: and ii d. of every pound, residue to be delivered▪ allowed and paid by the said Collectors, so being thereof allowed, to such of the Commissioners as shall take upon them the business and labour, for and about the premises: That is to say, every collector to pay that Commissioner or Commissioners, which had the ordering and the writings, of and for the said Reliefs, where the said collector or Collectors had their Collection, for expenses of the said Commissioners▪ so taking upon them the said business, and labour of their clerks, writing the said precepts and estreats for the said Collections, the same last two pence of every pound, to be divided amongst the said Commissioners, having regard to the labour and business, taken by them and their said clerks, in and about the premises: for which part so to the said Commissioners atteigning; the said Commissioners, and every of them jointly and severally, for his or 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 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, subcollector, or presenter of the said reliefs, or of any part thereof, nor no Commissioner shallbe compelled, to make any presentment or certificate, other then in the kings Exchequer, of for or concerning the said reliefs, or any part thereof in any of the said iii years And likewise that none other person, that shallbe named or assigned to be commissioner in any place, to and for th execucion of this act of reliefs in any of the said iii years, be or shallbe assigned or named head collector, in any of the same three years of the said reliefs, neither of any part there of. And that every such person or persons, which shallbe named and appointed (as is aforesaid) to be head Collectors, in and for one of the said three years, shall not be compelled to be Collector, for the other and last year. And the said Collectors, which shallbe assigned for the collection of the said reliefs, or for any part thereof, and every of them be and shallbe acquitted and discharged, of all manner fees, rewards, and of every other charge in the kings 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 accountant: that then he shall forfeit to the king, for every penny or value of a penny so taken .xx pence, and suffer imprisonment at the kings pleasure.  
AND after the taxing & assessing of the said yearly reliefs (as is beforesaid) had & made, and the said estreats thereof in parchment, unto the Collectors (in manner & form before rehearsed) delivered, the said Commissioners which shall take upon them the execution of this act, within the limits of their Commission, by their agreements shall have meetings 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 and bring forth unto tother commissioners, named in the said Commission the certificate and presentment made before him & such other commissioners, as were limited with him in one limit, so that the same certificates may be accounted and cast with other certificates, of tother limits with in the same commission: and then the said commissioners, and every number of them, unto two at the least (as is a foresaid) if they be in life, or their executors, or administrators of their goods, if they be then dead, shall jointly & severally as they were divided within their limits, under their seals yearly, during the said iii years, 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, & account in thexchequer, and payment in the said receipt, deputed & assigned, as the gross and several sums, written unto every such Collector, to receive the said reliefs, & also all fines, amerciaments & other forfeitures, if any such by reason of this act, happen to be within the precinct & limit of their commission, to be certified into the kings Exchequer by the said commissioners yearly, during the said iii years, before the days of payment thereof, at the said receipt limited & appointed. In which writing or writings, indented so to be certified, shallbe plainly declared & expressed, aswell the whole & entire some and sommes of the said relief, severally limited to the collection of the said Collectors, as the names 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 sums limited to his Collection, and not to or for any somme limited to the Collection of his fellows, but that every of them shallbe severally charged for their parts, limited to their Collection. And if the said Commissioners, joined in one commission, amongst themselves, in that matter cannot 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 & in the hundreds, Wards, Wapentakes, Laths, Rapes, or such other like divisions, within their said several limits of their commission, as the places there shall require to be severed and divided, and as to the same Commissioners shall seem to make divisions, of their limits or Collections, for the several charges of the same Collectors, so that always one collector shallbe charged and account for his part to him to be limited only by himself, and not for any somme limited to the part of any of his fellows. And the charge of every of the Collectors, to be set and certified severally upon them, and every such collector, upon his account and payment of the sums 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 above said and not to be charged for any portion of any other Collectors. 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 reliefs, or any other person, taxed or otherwise, by this act charged, with and for any parcel of the said relieffes, or with any other sums, for fine, amercement, penalty, or other forfeiture, happen to die before such Commissioner, Collector, or other, whatsoever person or persons have executed, accomplished, satisfied, & sufficiently discharged it, which to every such person shall appertain or belong to do according to this act: then the Executors and Heirs of every such person and all other seized of any lands or tenements, that any such person being charged by this act and deceassing 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 in any otherwise charged with & for any manner of thing to be done, satisfied or paid, by reason of this act, and all those that have in their possessions or hands any goods or chattels, that were to any such person at the time of his death, lands or tenements that were the same persons at the time that he was (as is aforesaid) charged by this act, shallbe by the same compelled and charged to do & 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 living, after such rate of the lands & goods of the said Commissioner or collector, as the party shall have in his hands. And if the same Commissioners for causes reasonable them moving shall think it not convenient, to join in one certificate, as is before said: then 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 than to be certified, with divisions of the hundreds, wapentakes, wards, tithynges, or other places to and among such Commissioners, of the same Commission, with the names of the same Commissioners where such separations & divisions shallbe, with the gross sums of money aswell of & for the said Relief 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, and other forfeitures, if any happen 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 whole and full sums set and taxed within the limyttes of the same Commission, the other Commissioners of the same, every of the said three years before the day of payment of the said Relief at the said receipt limited and appointed by this act, shall certify into the said Exchequier by their writing or writings indented to be made, as is beforesaid, 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 day of payment thereof at the said receipt, as is aforesaid, reasonable causes for their excuses, why they may not make such certificate of and for the said Relief, with fines, amerciaments, penalties, and other forfeitures growing or set by reason of the causes of their lett●s, or of their non certifying, as is above said, or else in default thereof, process to be made out of the Kings Exchequier against the said Commissioners and every of them not making certificate, as is aforesaid, by the discretion of the Thesaurour & Barons of the said Exchequier.  
Provided always that if any person or persons chargeable to this Relief of payment for his goods shall happen at any time during the said three years to be set or presented in two or more places than one, and the same being certified into the kings court of Exchequier, that then the party or parties so set or presented & certified taking a corporal other before the Barons of the kings Exchequier, or before any two of them, or before any person or persons being authorized by commission to be directed from the said Barons or any of them, which commission or commissions the said Barons or two. of them shallbe authorized & have full power & authority to make by this act, that he or they is or be the same self person or persons so set, and that he or they is or be, set or presented in two or more places than one. And that he or they have then been by the space of one year next before the taking of the said oath more conversant and dwelling in any one of the same places where he or they shall so happen to be set or presented then in the other: that then the party of parties so set or presented in two or more places than one, and so taking his oath without any other plea in writing, shallbe clearly discharged against the king, his heirs & successors or every of the said assesementes and presentments, saving only of the assesement and presentment in the place where he or they was or were most conversant & dwelling as is before said.  
And be it also enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the Barons of the kings Exchequer or two of them for the time being, shall not only have full power & authority to receive and take the oath of such party or parties as shallbe so set or presented in any more places than one, but shall also upon the same oath or oaths so taken, discharge the party & parties of all such sums of money as he or they should be in any wise charged with, saving only of such sums of money as the same party or parties were so sessed at in such place and places where he or they were most conversant and dwelling as is aforesaid.  
And to the intent the kings majesty may be truly & justly answered of the said relief of the poll of sheep before by us granted to his highness: be it ordained and enacted by the authority aforesaid, that yearly during the sayd three years before the first day of May, there shallbe a Commission with ten cedules containing in them the tenor of this act to be annexed to such commission directed under the kings great seal of England into every county, shire, riding, city, borough, town corporat, and the Isle of Wight, and into all and every other place within this realm and other the kings dominions that is or shallbe chargeable to the payment of the said Relief of the poll of sheep to such persons as the same year before were Commissioners for the assesement and taxation of the value of every persons goods and substance, in the same shire or other place, or to as many of them as shallbe then living, and to such other persons as the said lord Chancellor and other with him before named shall name and appoint. By the which commission the Commissioners shall have full power and authority to inquire by the oaths of the Person, Vicar or curate, & iiii. or as many honest persons of every parish, village, and hamlet within the limits of their commission, whereof the Constable, Tithyngman or Borsolder shallbe one, if any Constable, Tithyngman or Borsolder be dwelling in the same parish, village or Hamlet, and by the oaths of as many other honest & discrete persons as they shall think convenient, or otherwise by such means and policies as they shall think best, whereby the truth may appear of the number and natures of all and singular sheep being within the limits of their commission, whose they be, in what town or parish the owner dwelleth, and of what state or degree he is, and whether for the most part of the year they be kept in several pastures, or several marshes, or in commons, or grounds commonly used to be tilled: the tenor of which oath hereafter followeth.  
¶ Ye shall diligently inquire and justly and truly present and certify us the kings Commssioners what number of Ewes, Weathers & other shear sheep be within the limits of your charge, whose they be, in what town or parish the owner dwelleth, of what condition and degree he is, & whether for the most part of the year they be kept in several pastures or several Marshes, or in commons or grounds commonly used to be tilled, as ye trust to be saved by the merits of Christ's passion.  
And it is also ordained and enacted by the authority aforesaid, that yearly during the said three years, on the tuesday after the feast of the Nativity of saint John Baptist, there shallbe a general survey made, of all and singular sheep, in every parish, village and other place within this realm, the Isle of Wight & other the kings dominions chargeable to the payment of this Relief of sheep, by such persons as shallbe appointed & sworn to do the same in manner and form before rehearsed. And that upon such survey, every sheep shallbe taken for a shear sheep that is at the time of the survey of the age of one year or more, albeit the same sheep be not at that time shorn.  
And it is further ordained and enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if any parson to the intent to defraud the execution of this statute shall remove the said day of survey his sheep before the survey taken from the usual place where they were commonly kept for the most part of the year, or else shall cause them or any part of them to be conveyed to any other place whereby they shall not be surveyed, or whereby the king shall lose any part of the Relief to him given by this statute, that every person so offending shall forfeit and lose to the kings Majesty, triple so much as he ought to pay by virtue of this statute.  
And it is also ordained & enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if any person summoned to appear before the said commissioners, do make default having no reasonable excuse: or appearing, shall refuse to take the said oath, or taking the said oath shall not diligently attend and endeavour the execution thereof, or shall not appear and make presentment before the said Commissioners at such time & place as he shallbe appointed, that every person so offending for every such default shall forfeit and lose to the kings Majesty xl. s.  
And it is also ordained and enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that yearly during the said three years within one month next after the survey of sheep, and the presentments made by the viewers of the sheep in manner and form as is before declared, the Commissioners in every shire or other place shall all or the most part assemble themselves together, and confer the presentments made before them of the sheep, with the presentments before made of the value of the goods & substance of all persons within the limits of their commission. And that upon such collations of the presentments if it shall appear unto them that any person is chargeable by virtue of this act to pay for the poll of his sheep which before was not charged for his goods. Or that if any person within the limits of their commission be chargeable to pay more after the rate of the poll of his sheep presented before them, than he was before for the value of his substance of his goods, the said Commissioners or the more part of them as they shallbe divided, shall within one month next after such assemble by their writings indented to be signed and sealed by them, make forth extreates of all & singular sums of money that any person ought to pay for the rate of the polle of his sheep not being before charged with his goods, or for the overplus that any person ought to pay for that the rate of the poll of his sheep doth surmount the payment before made of the value of his goods, & the same writings shall not only deliver unto sufficient and substantial inhabitants, Constables, Subconstables and other officers and persons jointly of hundreds, towns, parishes, and other places within the limits where the owners dwell or have their most usual abiding, to be levied, gathered, and received of the owner of such sheep or his executors or administrators, but also shall in like manner deliver the like writing to the high collector of the same limit, to charge him with the receipt thereof of the Subcollectour or Subcollectours, & the payment thereof at the kings receit. And that the said Subcollectours, and Commissioners, shall not only have for their labours vi. d. of every pound, coming, growing and to be paid to the kings Majesty for the Relief of the poll of the sheep by virtue of this act, but also that they and every of them shall have the like power and authority to gather and levy the same, and all fines and forfeitures coming and growing for the execution and gathering of this Relief of the poll of sheep by such like ways and means as before in this act be limited & appointed for the levying and gathering of the Relief of goods. And that the said Commissioners, Collectors and all and every other person and persons shall behave, order, and use themselves in all & every thing concerning th'execution of this part of the statute touching the levying and gathering of the relief of the poll of the sheep, as before in this act is limited & appointed for to do touching the Relief of the goods upon like pains, penalties & forfeitures as be before declared in this act.  
Provided always and be it ordained and enacted by the authority aforesaid that all & singular sums of money due to the kings Majesty of this Relief of the poll of sheep, shallbe gathered by the Subcollectour or high collector of the limits where the owner dwelleth and none other place.  
And it is further ordained and enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the said Commissioners for the survey of the number and value of the sheep shall yearly during the sayd three years make return and certificate unto the kings Exchequier before the x. day of October aswell of the count●● part of all and every extreates delivered by them to the high Collectors, as also of all and singular presentments made before them, and of all & singular their proceedings concerning the said commission. And that in the end of all and every their certificates they shall make special remembrances and declarations of all and singular persons not dwelling within the limits of their commission, that have sheep within the limits of the same commission, where such persons dwell, & of what state and degree they be, what number, and what kind of sheep they be, and in what grounds for the most part of the year they be kept. And that upon such return and certificate of the commission to be made by the Commissioners for the survey of sheep being conferred with the books of the taxation and value of the substance or every person, if it shall appear that the kings Majesty ought to have more by any means toward the said Relief then before was paid or payable, that then upon an extreate thereof to be made out of the said court of the Exchequier to the high collector of the place where the party that ought to pay more dwelleth, the same collector shallbe therewith charged, & shall gather & levy the same in like manner and form as he ought to do the rest of his Collections.  
And to th'intent the kings Majesty may be justly answered for the Relief by us before granted of the price and value of all clothes: be it ordained and enacted, that the Commissioners to be appointed for the taxation of the Relief of the substance of every person, shall have full power and authority by virtue of this act, and of their commission, as they shallbe divided, to name, constitute, and appoint, in every City, Borough, Town, Hundred and parish, within the limits of their divisions by their discretions, such and so many honest, substantial, and discrete men, to be praisers of the said clothes, chargeable to the payment of this Relief of clothes, as they shall think convenient & necessary, & them from time to time to alter & put new in their places as they shall have occasion. And that the sayd praisers before they take upon them the appraisement of such clothes, shallbe sworn in manner & form following.  
¶ Ye shall faithfully and truly esteem and set the just price & value of all such clothes as shallbe brought unto you to be viewed and praised, as ye shall in your consciences think the same worth to be sold when they shallbe wrought, and the same shall not suffer to be delivered out of your custody, till ye have made of the colour, kind and price thereof an entry both in the book of the clothier and also of the Aulnageour or his deputy, & set to your hands or marks declaring who was the owner of the cloth, and the kind and price thereof, so help you God and by this book.  
AND it is also ordained and enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that all kind of clothes which from and after the feast of the Nativity of saint John Baptist next coming, during the space of three years then following, shallbe made within this realm, or Wales, to be uttered and put to sale, shallbe sealed with the kings seal, remaining in the custody of the Aulnageour, or his deputy, or deputies, and praised by two of the said praisers at the least, and entered into the books hereafter in this act mentioned, upon pain of forfeiture of the same cloth, the one half to the kings Majesty, the other to the party that shall seize the same.  
AND it is also enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that there shallbe it. books yearly made, of the appraising of all and every kind of cloth to be made during the said iii years, th'one of which books to remain with the Aulnageour or his deputy, wherein shallbe written the colour, kind and price of all and singular clothes viewed and appraised that year, according to the tenor of this statute, unto which book, the owner of every cloth or some other person for him, and the praisours, shall set to their hands or marks when the cloth is sealed: And the other book shall remain with the owner of the said cloth whereunto the said Aulnageour and praysours shall set their hands and marks. And that the owner of all and every cloth chargeable to the payment of the Relief of clothes granted by this act, yearly within xx. days after the year expired, shall deliver his said book so subscribed or marked with the hands of the Aulnageour or his deputy and praysours to the Commissiooners for the taxation and assessment of the said Relief within the limit where such clothier dwelleth, or to one of them, upon pain of forfeiture by the same clothier of triple so much as he ought to pay to the king by reason of the aforesaid Relief of his clothes so sealed.  
AND it is further ordained and enacted by the authority aforesaid, that every Aulnageour shall yearly from & after the said feast of the Natitutie of saint John Baptist next coming, keep a parsite book of the colour, kind, and price of all and singular clothes by him sealed, and the names of the owners thereof in manner and form as is before declared, and the same book yearly shall make and deliver to the Commissioners, for the taxation of goods within the limits where such Cloth maker dwelleth, or to one of them, within xx. days next after the year expired.  
AND it is further ordained and enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if any Aulnageour or his deputy do not make and deliver the sayd book in manner and form before rehearsed, or do wilfully conceal any cloth by him sealed, & do not entre it into the said book, that for such offence the said Aulnageour shall not only forfeit his office, but also shall make fine at the kings will.  
AND it is also ordained and enacted by th'authority aforesaid, that the said Commissioners of that limit having received the said books of the Aulnageour or his deputy or deputies, and the owner of the clothes, shall confer the rates of the Relief of the clothes▪ comprehended in the said books, with the taxation and payment of the owner of the same clothes for his goods. So that if it shall appear thereby to them that the owner of any cloth is chargeable to pay for his clothes, which before was not chargeable for his goods, or that such owner ought to pay more after the rate of the Relief of his clothes containing in the books delivered to them, than he was before charged for the value of his substance of his goods, the said Commissioners as they be divided shall within one month next after the said books received, by their writing indented to be signed and sealed by them, make forth extreates of all & singular sums of money that any person ought to pay for his clothes, not being before charged with his goods & for the overplus that any such person ought to pay for that the rate of the clothes doth surmount the payment of the value of his goods before made: and the same writing shall deliver to the high collector of the same limit, to charge him with the receipt hereof, of the maker of the said clothes: and the payment thereof at the kings receit. And that the said high collector shall have the like power & authority to gather & levy the same, by such like ways and means as before in this act be limited and appointed to the Subcollectour for the levying and gathering of the Relief of goods.  
AND it is further ordained and enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the said Commissioners shall yearly during the said three years make return and certificate into the kings Exchequier before the tenth day of October, not only of the counterpane of all and every extreate delivered by him to the high collector, but also of the book received of the Aulnageour as is aforesaid, and the praisours names, and of all and singular their proceedings concerning the said payment of the Relief of clothes.  
And it is further ordained and enacted by the authority aforesaid, that every of the said high Collectors which shall account for any part of the said Relief of clothes in the kings Exchequier, upon their several said accounts to be yelden, shallbe allowed yearly during the said three years, for every pound limited to his Collection, whereof any such collector shallbe charged and yield account, vi. d. as parcel of their said charge, that is to say, two. d. of every pound thereof for such persons as be limited to be praysours, for their pains and labours: and other two. d. of every pound thereof, every of the said chief Collectors there accountant, to receive to their own use for their labours and charge in & about the premises: and two. d. of every pound residue to be delivered, allowed and paid by the said Collectors, so being thereof allowed, to such of the Commissioners as shall take upon them the business and labour for & about the premises, that is to say, every collector to pay that Commissioner or Commissioners which had the ordering and the writings of and for the said Relief of clothes where the said Collector or Collectors had their collection, for expenses of the said Commissioners so taking upon them the said business and labour of their clerks writing the said precepts and estretes for the said collections: the same last two. d. of every pound to be divided among the said Commissioners, having regard to the labour and business taken by them and their said clerk in and about the premises. For which part so to the said commissioners attaining, the said commissioners vi. v. iiii. iii. or as many of them as shallbe thereto appointed by the kings commission and every of them jointly and severally for his or 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, Iniunction or other essoin shallbe allowed.  
Provided always, that this grant of Relief nor any other thing therein contained, do in any wise extend to charge the inhabitants or dwellers within Ireland, Bulleyne and the county of the same, calais, Hams, Guysnes and the Marches of the same, jernesey and Garnesey or any of them, of for or concerning any goods which the said inhabitants or dwellers, or any other to their use have within Ireland, Bulleyne, the county of the same, calais, Hams, Guysnes, or other Marches of the same, jernesey, Garnesey, are in any of them.  
Provided also, that the said grant of Relief do not in any manner of wise extend or be prejudicial or hurtful to th  inhabitauntes 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 resiauntes or any of them to be taxed, set, asked, levied or paid, but that the said inhabitants and now resiants of the said Ports & their members and every of them, be and shallbe of and from the said grant & payment of the said Relief of their goods and chattels during their resiauncie there and no longer acquitted and discharged, any matter or whatsoever thing in this present act made or had to the contrary notwithstanding.  
Provided also that this present act of Relief, ne any other thing therein contained extend to any of the English inhabitants or resiauntes in any of the counties of Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmoreland, the town of Barwyke, the town of Newcastle upon Tyne and the bishopric of Durham, nor to any of them, of for or concerning any goods, clothes or shcepe, which the same inhabitants or dwellers or any other to their use, have within the said counties of Northumberland, Cumberland, and Westmoreland or the town of Barwike, the town of Newcastle upon Tyne, or the bishopric of Durham or any of them, but that they and every of them, shallbe of & from the said Relief, of and for their goods, lying and being in the same counties, towns & bishopric or any of them, utterly acquitted and discharged, any thing in this present act before rehearsed to the contrary notwithstanding.  
Provided also that this act ne any thing therein contained shall extend to the goods of any College, Hall, or Ostle within the universities of Oxford & cambridge or any of them, or to the goods of the College of Wynton. founded by bishop Wykham, or to the goods of the College of Eton next windsor, or to the goods of any reader or scholar with in the said Universities and Colleges, or any of them there remaining for study, without fraud or covin, any thing in this act contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.  
Provided always and be it enacted by th'authority aforesaid that no spiritual person shallbe charged by this act for any of his goods or chattels, other then for sheep, nor shallbe charged by this act for any such his sheep which he hath, or at any time within three years next following shall have or keep for the only purpose to be spent or eaten in his house, so as the number of the same sheep so purposed to be spent & eaten yearly in his said house, do not exceed the number of four hundredth sheep for one year, nor for any such his sheep as do go and feed, or shall go or feed for the most part of every year of three years next coming upon his lands, tenements or conunons, whereof such spiritual person is or shallbe seized in the right of his church or promotion spiritual, which lands, tenements or commons be chargeable to the payment of the first fruits and tents.  
And forasmuch as divers and sundry the kings majesties tenasites and other thinhabitants and dwellers within the counties of Penbroke, Carmarthen, Cardygan, Glamorgan, Breknock, Radnor, Mountgomery, Denbigh, Flynt, Marioneth, Anglesey, Carneruon and of the county Palentine of Chester, be at this present time charged & chargeable with the several payments of divers great sums of money (by the name of a Mysc) due to his Majesty, according to the several customs of the said countries, for the payment whereof divers and sundry the gentlemen and other the inhabitants of the said counties be and stand bound to his highness: The king our sovereign lord is therefore pleased and contented that it be provided, ordained & enacted by the authority aforesaid, that this act or any thing therein contained, shall not extend to charge any of the kings majesties tenants & other thinhabitantes and dwellers within any of the said counties of Penbroke, Carmarthen, Cardygan, Glamorgan, Brecknock, Radnor, Mountgomery, Denbigh, Flynt, Marioneth, Anglesey, Carnarvan and the county Palentine of Chester being charged or chargeable with the said mice for or with any of the payments of the said Relief granted to the kings 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 relief for goods shallbe made at the receipt of the kings Exchequier before the first day of may then next following after the day appointed for the later payment to be made of the said mice, and so yearly before the first day of May at the receipt of the said Exchequer until the three several payments of the said Relief be fully made in such and like manner, form and order as is ordained and appointed by this act for the kings subjects concerning the said Relief of goods to be made at the receipt of the said Exchequer, according to the tenor of this present act. And also that the first payments of Relief for clothes and sheep in every of the said several Counties shallbe made in the said Exchequer after the said Mises, due to be paid, at such and like days & times yetely as is afore limited by this act: this act or any thing therein contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.  
And furthermore, be it enacted by authority aforesaid that the tenants and dwellers of every of the said counties in this proviso remembered, shall severally before the feast of saint Martyne the bishop next ensuing, certify in the kings said Court of Exchequer under the seal of two justices of peace of every of the said counties, whereof one to be of the Quorum, when and as what day the last payment of the said several Myses in every of the said counties shall end and expire.   

Imprinted in the house of Richard Grafton, printer to the Kings Majesty.  
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