Taxation (No. 3) Act 1663

VIII. Quietus est to Archbishops, &c. being Collectors.

Such Quietus est a good Discharge in Law.; Fee for Quietus est.; Refusing, &c. Quietus est, or taking a larger Fee.; Penalty £10.; Particular Acquittance by Collector to Incumbent, &c. a full Discharge in Law.; Acquitance before Certificate not good.; Names of Under collectors, &c. to be certified by Archbishop, &c.

And further that it may be enacted likewise That every Archbishop and Bishop and Deane and Chapter of every See vacant and other persons chargeable to and with the collection of the said Fower Subsidyes within the said Province of Canterbury shall and may have upon every payment of the same Fower Subsidyes made to the Lord High Treasurer or Under Treasurer of England for the time being, or to such other person or persons in place and places to whom and where it shall please Your Highnesse or Your Court of Exchequer to appoint for the receipt thereof at every of the aforesaid times of Payment a sufficient Acquittance Discharge or Quietus est in writeing of the aforesaid Lord High Treasurer or Under Treasurer or of such other person or persons as either Your Highnesse, or Your said Court of Exchequer shall assigne for the receipt thereof or as heretofore in the like case it hath beene accustomed, the same Acquittance Discharge or Quietus est witnessing the receipt of soe much of the same summe of the said Fower Subsidyes as shall be soe received, And every such Acquittance Discharge or Quietus est in writeing subscribed with the name or names of the Lord High Treasurer or Under Treasurer for the time being, or of such Auditor or other persons as it shall please Your Highnesse or Your said Court of Exchequer to appoint for the same Receipt, or of such others as heretofore in like cases it hath beene used shall and may be good and effectuall in the Law and be alsoe as sufficient a discharge in Law to all and every of the said collectors to all such intents constructions and purposes as if the same were made by Act of Parliament. And that every of the said Collectors shall pay but onely Three shillings and fower pence for every generall or finall Acquittance Discharge or Quietus est for every payment of the said Fower Subsidyes, And if any person soe assigned shall refuse or delay to make such a generall or finall Acquittance Discharge or Quietus est for any payment of the said Fower Subsidyes or shall require or take for the same any more then Three shillings fower pence or if any other Officer of the Exchequer shall require or take of any Collector or Collectors or of his or their Under collector or Under collectors Deputy or Deputyes in respect of the collection payment or accompt of the said Fower Subsidyes or any part thereof for expedition, or for any other cause or pretence whatsoever concerning the same, any Fees or Summes of money other then are before in this present Grant expressely allowed unto them shall forfeite the summe of Ten pounds of lawfull money of England to be paid and recovered in like manner unto the same uses as is before limitted and expressed in this Grant touching the like forfeiture of Receivours and Auditors, and alsoe that every perticular Acquittance which upon any payment of the said Fower Subsidyes shall be made by any Collector or Collectors of the said Fower Subsidyes or of any payment of them, or by his or their Under collector or Under collectors Deputy or Deputyes in that behalfe to any Incumbent of any Benefice or Promotion Spirituall, or to any person or persons contributary and chargeable to and with the said Fower Subsidies or any part or payment of them shall be good and effectfull in Law, and a full and sufficient Discharge to every such Incumbent and other person and his Benefice and Promotion Spirituall of and for all such summe and summes of money as by the same Acquittance shall be acknowledged to be received in respect of the same Benefice or Promotion Spirituall for any payment or any part of the said Fower Subsidyes, And that noe Acquittance of any other person or persons made before, such Certificate shall in any wise discharge any person or promotion for any part or payment of the said Fower Subsidies, Nor of any paine penaltie or forfeiture specifyed in this Grant, And to the intent it may be knowne to the Court of Exchequer who be the Under collector or Under collectors Deputie or Deputyes of every such Archbishop Bishop or Deane and Chapter authorized to receive the same and to make Acquittance thereof, every Archbishop Bishop and Deane and Chapter of every See being void shall yearely together with their Certificates aforementioned certifie the names of every the Under collectors or Deputyes to be appointed as is aforesaid,