And whereas the Remedy for recovering Rents Seck, Rents of Assize and chief Rents, are tedious and difficult,’ from and after the twenty-fourth Day of June one thousand seven hundred and thirty-one, all and every Person or Persons, Bodies Politick and Corporate, shall and may have the like Remedy by Distress, and by impounding and selling the same, in cases of Rents Seck, Rents of Assize and chief Rents, which have been duly answered or paid for the Space of three Years, within the Space of twenty Years before the first Day of this present Session of Parliament, or shall be hereafter created, as in case of Rent reserved upon Lease; any Law or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding.