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Hearth Money Act 1664
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V.The succeeding Tenant liable for the broken Half Year.
Stopping up, or concealing Chimnies, &c. Penalty.
And bee it further enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid That if any person occupying any Hearth or Stove chargeable to His Majestie shall leave or relinquish any House, Edifice Lodgeing or Chamber before any of the halfe yearely Feasts whereon the same is appointed to be paid [X1unto] His Majestie His Heires and Successors; In every such case the next Occupyer thereof shall be chargeable with the same for the said halfe yeare. And X2 if any person shall fraudulently stopp up deface cover or conceale any Chimney Hearth or Stove chargeable by the said Act, and the same be proved either by Confession of the party or upon Oath before one Justice of Peace or Cheife Magistrate or by their view he shall for such offence pay double the value of the Duty [X3of] the same to be levyed as aforesaid,
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X1Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: to O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]
X2Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: that O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]
X3Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: for O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]
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