Taxation Act 1625

II. Power to Collectors to levy Subsidies by Authority of Censures of the Church and by Sequestration, Distress, & c.

And further be it enacted by the authoritie aforesaid, that every p[er]son that shalbe appointed to the collecting and gathering of the said Subsidies, shall have [X1 full] power and authoritie to levie take and p[er]ceive the said Subsidies by the Authoritie of the Censures of the Church, That is to saie, by Suspension, Exco[m]municacion, or Interdiccion, and also by Sequestracion of the fruites and proffitts of their Benefices and promocions Spirituall, in whose hands soever they be, and to make sale of the same fruits, without danger of the Lawes of this Realme, or by distresse uppon the possessions of the Farmers or occupiers of the Lands and Tenements chargeable by the said Instrument, for or to the payment of any so[m]me or so[m]mes of monie to be due by force thereof, or otherwise by the discrecion of the

Farmers paying for their Lessors may retain out of Rent.; Exception.

Collector thereof. And that no Replevie, Prohibicion, or Sup[er]sedeas, shall be allowed or obeyed for anie p[er]sons making default of the payment of the said Subsidies or any of them contrary to the tenor of the Graunt thereof, untill such time as they have trulie satisfied and contented all such part and porcions as to them in that behalfe appertayneth. And that every such Farmor and Farmors their Executors and Assignes that shall fortune hereafter to be charged to or with the payment of the said Subsidies or anie part [X2 of them,] shall by the Authoritie aforesaid be allowed and retaine in his hands as much of his yearelie Rent and Farme as the so[m]me which he shall fortune to pay for his Lord or Leasour shall extend unto; (except that the said Farmor or Farmors their Executors or Assignes, by the Lease and Graunt that they have of any part of the Landes Tithes Proffitts [X3 and] Tenements chargeable to the said Subsidies or by force of any Coven^ant or Article therein contayned, be bound and charged to pay the same, and thereof to discharge the Leasor and Landlord during the terme mencioned in the said Lease.)

Editorial Information

X1 O. omits.

X2 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: thereof O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]

X3 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: or O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]