Crown Lands (Forfeited Estates) Act 1698

LXXXII. Privileged Places, Persons, &c. not exempt.

Fee-Farm and other Rents, &c. Annuities, &c. liable; Tenants to pay proportionably; Indemnified.

And be it further enacted and declared, That no priviledged Place or Person, Body Politick or Corporate, within the Counties, Rideings, Cities and Townes aforesaid, shall be exempted from the said Assessments and Taxes; And that they and every of them, and alsoe all Fee-Farme-Rents and all other manner of Rents, Payments, Summe and Summs of Money, or Annuities issueing out of or payable for any Lands, shall be liable towards the Payment of every Summe by this Act to be taxed & levied; And all the Tenants are hereby directed and authorized to pay them proportionably, according to the Rates and Assessments by this Act, appointed and directed; And all such Tenants shall be hereby saved and kept harmlesse by the Authority of this Act, from any further Payment of any such Proportion of any such Rent, Rents, Summs of Money or Annuities to any Person or Persons to whom any such Rent Rents, Summs of Money or Annuities, as aforesaid, should or ought to be paid, to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever, as fully and amply, as if they had paid the same to any Person or Persons to whom the same is or are reserved or become due.