Taxation (No. 2) Act 1663

XXVIII. Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, Winchester College and Eaton College, the Poor Knights of Windsor, Free Schools and Reader, &c. in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridege, and Hospitals, &c. not chargeable.

Provided alsoe That this Act nor any thing, therein contained shall extend to the Lands or Goods of any Colledge Hall or Hostell within the Universityes of Oxford and Cambridge or either of them, or to the Goods or Lands of the Colledge of Winton founded by Bishop Wickham, or to the Goods or Lands of the Colledge of Eaton next Windsor, or to the Lands Tenements or Revenues onely assigned and appointed for the sustentation and liveing of the poore Knights founded in the Castle, or Colledge of Windsor by our late Soveraigne Lord King Henry the Eighth or to any the Goods or Chattells of the same Knights or any of them or to the Goods or Lands of any Common Free Grammer Schoole within the Realme of England and Wales or the Goods of any Reader Schoole master or Schollar or any Graduate Resiant or remaining for Study without Fraude or Covin within any the said Universityes and Colledges of Oxford and Cambridge or to any of them, or to any of their servants tending dayly upon any of them, or to the Goods and Lands of any Hospitall Meason dieu or Spitle House prepared and used for the sustentation and releife of poore people Any thing in this Act contained to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.