Taxation (No. 3) Act 1663

Recital of Grant of Four entire Subsidies given by the Clergy of Canterbury.

Tenor of the Instument.; Prelates, &c. of Province of Canterbury assembled in Convocation.; grant Four whole Subsidies of 4s. in the Pound on all Spiritual Promotions.; Benefices shall be valued according to Taxation of the Tenth under 26 H. VIII. c. 3.

Whereas the Prelates and Clergy of the Province of Canterbury for diverse weighty Considerations respecting His Majestyes extraordinary Occasions have loveingly and liberally given and granted to the Kings most Excellent Majestie Fower whole and intire Subsidyes of Fower shillings in the pound to be taken and levyed of all and singular their Promotions Spirituall within the same Province at such dayes and times and in such certaine manner and forme and with such Exceptions and Provisions as are specifyed and declared in a certaine Instrument by them thereof made, and delivered unto the Kings Majesty under the Seale of the Right Reverend Father in God Gilbert Lord Bishop of London, which Instrument is now exhibited in this present Parliament to be ratyfyed and confirmed, the tenoure whereof ensueth in these words.

Excellentissimo et Potentissimo in Christo Principi, et Domino nostro Clementissimo Domino Carolo secundo Dei gra Anglie Scõe Francie et Hibernie Regi Fidei Defensori &c Gilbertus permissione Divina London Episcopus presentis Sacre Synodi sive Convocationis Prelatorū et Cleri Cantuariensis Provinciæ Presidens sive locū tenens sufficienter et legitime constitutus omnimodā Obedientiā et Subjectionē ac Felicitatē et Salutē in Eo per quem Reges regnant et Principes dominantur Vestre Serenissime Regie Sublimitati per p[re]a[m] publicū Instrumentū sive has Literas nostras Testimoniales significamus et notū facimus, Quod Prelati et Clerus Cant Provincie in sacra Synodo Provinciali sive Convocatione vigore et authoritate Brevis Vestri Regii Reverendissimo in Christo Patri et Domino Guilielmo Providentia Divina Cantuar Archiepiscopo totius Anglie Primati et Metropolitano modo defunto in domo Capitulari Vestre Ecclesie Cathedralis Divi Pauli London octavo die Mensis Maii An[n]o Dm[m]i Millesimo sexcentesimo sexagesimo primo inchoata et celebrata de die in diē et loco in locū usqq[uire] ad tricesimū diē mensis Maii An[n]o Dm[m]i Millesimo sexcentesimo sexagesimo tertio jam current continuata et prorogata, et a dicto tricesimo die mensis Maii ac de die in die et loco in locū usqq[uire] ad et in decimū tertiū diē Mensis Junii An[n]o Dm[m]i Millesimo sexcentissimo sexagesimo tertio jam instant continuata et Prorogata et post mortē dci Reverendissimi Patrisac a dicto [X1 decimo] tertio die Mensis Junii p[re]dct vigore Brevis vestri Regii Custodi Spiritualitatis Archiepiscopatus Cant (Sede [X2 Archiepiscopali] Cant vacant) direct ac vigore Commissionis a dco Custode Spualitatis Archiepiscopalis Cant nobis in hac parte etiā direct, ac de die in diē et loco in locū usqq[uire] ad et in vicesimū diē jā instant Mensis Junii etiā continuata et prorogata et a dicto vicesimo die instantis Mensis Junii de die in diē et loco in locū usqq[uire] ad et in vicesimū septimū diē jā instant Mensis Junii etiam tent et continuata in Ecclesia Collegiata Divi Petri Westmonesteriens legitimè congregat pro quibusdā magnis arduis et urgentibus causis per nos eis ppositis ac inter eos matura deliberacioe ponderatis pro defensione Regnorū et Dominiorū Vestrorū necnon et pro eorū erga Vestrā Regiā Sublimitatē observantia et obsequio Quatuor ultranea ac spontanea et voluntaria Subsidia vestre Regie Majestati unanimi eorū consensu et assensu dederunt et concesserunt prout tenore presentis publici Instrumenti (seriē concessionis hujusmodi in se continentis) plenius liquet et apparet; humiliter et obnixe Vestre Regie Majestati supplicantes, quatenus hec eorū quatuor Subsidia pro Vestra solita Clementia benignē accipiatis, ac bene consulere gratiose dignemini. Tenor vero dce Concessionis de verbo in verbū sequitur et est talis.

Most Gratious Soveraigne Your Majestyes leige and humble Subjects the Prelates and Clergy of the Province of Canterbury called together by the Authority of Your Highnesse Writt and orderly assembled at this present in a Provinciall Synod or Convocation maturely considering their Duty and Service which they owe to Your Majestie as to their Soveraigne Lord, in thankfull acknowledgement of the many Blessings which they enjoy under Your gratious Government and Protection and well weighing the great and extraordinary Expences whereat Your Majestie now is, and hereafter is like to be for Support of Your Estate and Defence of Your Realmes and Dominions with one agreement and uniforme consent have given and granted And by these presents doe give and grant to Your Highnesse Your Heires and Successors Fower whole and intire Subsidyes of Fower shillings in the pound in manner and forme following (that is to say) that every Archbishop Bishop Deane Archdeacon Provost Master of a Colledge, Prebendary Parson or Vicar and every other person [X3 or] persons of whatsoever name or degree he or they be within the Province of Canterbury haveing and enjoying any Spirituall Promotion or other Temporall Possessions to the same Spirituall Promotion annexed now not divided nor seperated by Act of Parliament or otherwise from the Possession of the Clergy shall pay to Your Highnesse Your Heires and Successors for every pound that he may yearely receave and dispend by reason of the said Spirituall Promotion the sūe of Fower shillings for every of the said Fower Subsidyes, And for the true and certaine value of all the Promotions and every of them whereof the payments of these Fower Subsidyes shall be made, the Rate Taxation, Valuation and Estimation now remaining of Record in Your Majestyes Court of Exchequer for the payment of a perpetuall Disme or Tenth granted unto King Henry the Eighth of worthy memory in the six and twentyeth yeare of his Raigne concerning such Promotions as now be in the [X4 possessions] of the Clergy shall onely be followed and observed without makeing any other Valuation Rate Taxation or Estimation then in the said Record is comprised;

Editorial Information

X1 interlined on the Roll.

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

X4 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: poffeffion O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]