Taxation (No. 3) Act 1663

XIX. Subsidies may be levied by Distress on Farmers of Impropriations.

Sale of Distress.

And likewise be it enacted by the Authoritie of this present Parliament That whereas diverse Curates lyeable to the Subsidyes being oftentimes removeable, doe serve aswell in diverse Impropriations belonging to the Kings Majestie as in other Spirituall Promotions belonging to other persons That for the speedy recovery of the said Subsidyes it may be lawfull to the said Collector or Collectors of the said Subsidyes their Deputy or Deputyes to levy the said Subsidyes upon the Farmer or Farmers or Occupiers of all such Impropriations or Spirituall Promotions by all Censures of the Church aforesaid and every of them or by way of distresse of Tythes of the said Impropriation or Impropriations and Spirituall Promotions, or otherwise upon the Goods and Chattells of the said Farmer or Farmers and Occupiers, In which case noe Inhibitión Prohibition Replevy or other Processe awarded to the contrary shall be obeyed, Any Lawes Statutes Priviledges or Customes to the contrary hereof heretofore made granted or used, or hereafter to be made granted or used to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding. And that it may be lawfull to the Collector or other Officers and Ministers of such Arch Bishop Bishop Deane and Chapter for not payment of the said Subsidyes after the same shall be due in or at any of the said times of payment to prize and value the said distresse and distresses by two indifferent Neighbours by him to be chosen, And the distresse and distresses soe prized X1 and thereof to detaine soe much money as shall amount to the summe payable to the Kings most Excellent Majestie with the reasonable charges alsoe of the said Collectors sustained in that behalfe, And the rest of the money made of the said Distresse to be delivered and paid to the Owner and Occupier thereof.

Editorial Information

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