Taxation (No. 3) Act 1663

VI. Incumbents, &c. being monished and not paying Subsidies, Proceedings.

Such Default shall be certified into Exchequer.; Penalty.

And moreover that it may be enacted likewise That after any Payment of the said Fower Subsidyes shall be once due by vertue of this Grant, If any Incumbent of any Benefice or Promotion Spirituall charged to the Payment of any the said Fower Subsidyes, or any part thereof being at any time after that the same Payment shall be due, lawfully monished either personally or at his Dignity Stall Church or Mansion House by the Archbishop or Bishop of the Diocesse or his Under Collector or Under Collectors Deputy or Deputyes, or by the Deane and Chapter (the See being void) or by any of their Under Collector or Under Collectors Deputie or Deputyes authorized in that behalfe, to appeare by himselfe, or his Deputy at a certaine day and place of convenient distance to the said Incumbent then to be signifyed and prefixed, And then and there to pay such part of the said Fower Subsidyes for his Benefice or Promotion Spirituall or the whole as then by vertue of this Grant shall be due doe not either at the same day and place soe to him signifyed and prefixed truely content and pay or cause to be contented and paid such Payments of the said Fower Subsidyes as then by him shall be due to be paid unto the same Archbishop or Bishop, or to his Under collector or Under collectors Deputy or Deputyes or to the Deane and Chapter of any See being void or to their Under Collector or Under Collectors Deputy or Deputyes or to one of them shewing sufficient Deputation from the said Archbishop Bishop or Deane and Chapter under his or their seale in that behalfe being ready at the said day and place soe signifyed and prefixed to receive any Payment of the said Fower Subsidyes then due, and openly demanding the same, or else pay every of the Payments of the said Fower Subsidyes given by this Grant within Fifty dayes next after any such prefixed dayes of warning at the farthest soe that open demand be made of every of the said Payments of the said Fower Subsidyes in and at the said place and day before prefixed, That then every Incumbent soe makeing defaulte of Payment of any of the Payments aforesaid which shall be due from him for any of the parts of the said Fower Subsidyes as aforesaid after such defaulte thereof certifyed into Your Majestyes Exchequer in writeing under the seale and hand writeing of any Archbishop or Bishop, or the common Seale of the Deane and Chapter (the See being void) charged with the Collection of the said Fower Subsidies or any part thereof soe that the said Certificate shall be made according to the forme hereafter expressed and exhibited into Your Majestyes said Court of Exchequer (viz) For every of the aforesaid payments of the said Fower Subsidyes which shall be due the Fifth day of October in any of the aforesaid yeares at or before the last Returne of Hillary Terme next following every of the aforesaid dayes when every of the said payments shall be due, And for every of the aforesaid payments which shall be due upon the Six and twentyeth day of March in any of the aforesaid yeares at or before the last Returne of Trinity Terme next following every of the aforesaid dayes when every of the said payments shall be due as aforesaid shall forfeite and loose unto Your Majestie Your Heires and Successors all the Proffitts which of that onely Dignitie Benefice or Promotion, for the which he maketh such defaulte of Payment and whereof such Certificate shall be made shall come grow and arise unto him over and above the Charges of serveing the Cure; And the annuall Tenth due to be paid out of his said Liveing in one whole yeare next after such Certificate made and delivered unto Your Highnesse Court of Exchequer and there admitted in case the said Incumbent shall soe long live, And that every such Certificate of any such defaulte of payment shall be made according to the tenoure and effect ensueing Mutatis mutandis.

Form of Certificate of Default.

Honorabilibus et Egregiis viris Domino Thesaurario et Baronibus de Scaccario Illustrissimi Domini nostri, Domini Caroli secundi Dei gratia Anglie Scotie Francie et Hibernie Regis Fidei Defensoris &c Vester humilis permissione divina Authoritate et Vigore cujusdam Actus Parliamenti Anno Regni dicti Domini Regis editi et provisi ad colligendū et levandū Subsidia eidē Domino Regi in eodē Parliamento per Prelatos et Clerū Cantuariensis Provincie concessa viz pro prima solutione primi et integri Subsidii solvend die Octob p[re]terit infra Dioces nostrā Deputatus et Authorizatus omnimoda reverentia tantis viris debitā cum honore, Vestris Reverentiis harū serie annuncio et certifies, me prefatū Episcopū modo quo p[re]fertur deputatū et authorizatū sufficienter et cum omni diligentia requisivisse per N: O, Subcollectorē seu Deputatū meū in hac parte de quovis Beneficio et Promotione Ecclesiastica in quadā Schedula presentibus annex : specificat, sumas solutionis dci primi integri Subsidii pro dictis Beneficiis et Promotionibus debitas et solvendas dco quinto die Octobris ult p[re]terit prout in eadē Schedula p[re]sentibus, annex : plenius liquet et apparet; sed dictas summas ex causis in eadē Schedula allegatis recipere non potui, In cujus rei testimoniū sigillū Daū die