Taxation (No. 5) Act 1640

V. Officer, &c. after the Determination of this Grant unduly continuing to receive the Subsidy.

Premunire.

And It is further enacted that any Customer or Comptroller or anie other Officer or person that after the determinac[i]on of this Grant shall take or receive or cause to be taken or received the said subsidy su[m]ms of money or any other imposic[i]on uppon Merchandize whatsoever exported or imported except the same by Grant in Parliament bee due or by such Grant shall become due, or have bin continuallie paid from the end of the raigne of the late King Edward the Third untill the begining of the raigne of the late Queene Mary shall incurr and sustaine the paines penalties and forfeitures ordained and provided by the Statute of Provision and Premunire made in the sixteenth yeare of King Richard the Second and shall alsoe from thencefourth bee disabled dureing his life to sue or impleade anie person in anie Acc[i]on reall mixt or personall or [X1 in] anie Court whatsoever.

Editorial Information

X1 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: interlined O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]