Taxation (No. 2) Act 1627

XXXVI. Proviso for Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, Winchester College, Eaton College, Poor Knights of Windsor, and Free Schools, and Readers, &c. in the Universities, and for Hospitals, &c.

Provided also that this Acte nor any [X1 thing] therein contayned shall extend to the lands or goods of any Colledge Hall or Hostell within the Univ[er]sities of Oxford and Cambridge or any of them or to the Goods or Lands of the Colledge of Winton founded by Bishopp Wickham or to the goods or lands of the Colledge of Eaton next Windsor or to the Lands Tenenments or revenews onelie assigned and appointed for the sustentacion and living of the poore Knights founded in the Castle or Colledge of Windsor by our late Soveraigne Lord King Henry the eight or to any the Goods or Chattells of the same Knights or any of them or to the Goods or lands of any X2 free Grammer Schoole within the Realme of England or Wales or the goods of any Reader Schoolemaister or Scholler or any Graduate or Resiant or remayning for studie without fraude or covine within any the said Univ[er]sities and Colledges or townes of Oxford and Cambridge or Suburbes of the same or to any of them or to any of their servants attending dailie uppon any of them nor to the goods of any Officer Minister Almes men or servants belonging to any of the said Univ[er]sities Colledges Halls or Hostells and dwelling and resiant within the said Univ[er]sities or either of them or within either of the said Townes of Oxford and Cambridge and the Suburbs of the same without fraude or covin or to the goods and lands of any Hospitall Maisondieu or Spittlehouse p[re]pared and used for the sustentacion and releife of poore people Any thing in this Act contayned to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.

Editorial Information

X1 O. omits.

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