Taxation Act 1625

III. Subsidies may be levied by Distress on Farmers of Impropriations.

Sale of Distress.

And likewise, be it enacted by the authoritie of this p[re]sent Parliament, That whereas divers Curates liable to the Subsidies, being oftentymes removeable, doe serve aswell in divers Impropriacions beloingning to the Kings Majestie, as in other Spirituall promocions belonging to other p[er]sons, that for the speedy recoverie of the said Subsidies it may be lawfull to the said Collector or Collectors of the said Subsidies their Deputie or Deputies to levie the said Subsidies uppon the Farmor or Farmors, or occupiers of all such Impropriacions or Spirituall p[ro]mocions by all censures of the Church aforesaid, and every of them, or by way of distresse of Tithes of the said Impropriacion or Impropriacions and Spirituall p[ro]mocions, or otherwise uppon the goods and chattells of the said Farmor or Farmors and Occupiers, in which case no inhibicion p[ro]hibicion Replevin or other p[ro]cesse awarded to the contrary shalbe obeyed, any Lawes Statutes Priviledges or Customes to the contrary hereof heretofore made graunted or used or hereafter to be made graunted or used to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding. And that it may be lawfull to the Collector and other Officers and Ministers of such Archbishop, Bishop, Deane and Chapter for not payment of the said Subsidies, after the same shalbe due in or at any of the said tymes of payment, to prise and value the said Distresse or Distresses by two indifferent neighbours by him to be chosen, and the Distresse and Distresses so prised to sell and thereof to detaine so much mony as shall amount to the so[m]me payable to the Kingsmost Excellent Majestie with the reasonable charges also of the said Collectors susteined in that behalfe, and the rest of the money made of the said Distresse to be delivered and paid to the Owner and Occupier thereof.