Crown Lands (Forfeited Estates) Act 1698

LXXXVI. Auditors, &c. to make a certain Allowance to Parties paying Rents due to the Crown, &c.

Penalty £20; Auditors, &c. who set any Person insuper; Proceedings; Penalty £200.

And it is hereby further enacted, That all and every Auditors Reeves, Receivers and their Deputy and Deputies, who auditt or receive any Fee-Farme Rents, or other chiefe Rents due to His Majesty or the Queene Dowager, or to any Person or Persons claimeing by any Grant or Purchase from or under the Crowne, shall allow Two Shillings for every Pound of the said Rents, and proportionably for any greater or lesser Summe, to the Party or Parties paying the same, without any Fee for such Allowance, upon the Penalty of Twenty Pounds to the Parties grieved, to be recovered, as aforesaid, And if any Auditor of the Revenues, or any of them belonging to His Majesty, or to Her Majesty Katherine the Queene Dowager, or any Deputy or other Person acting for or on the Behalfe of any such Auditor, shall in the Account of any Reeve, Receiver or otherwise, set insuper any Tenant or other Person, or make any such Tenant or other Person, or his or their Estate, liable to any Distresse, Forfeiture, or Vexation whatsoever for any Summe or Summs of Money, which by the true Intent and Meaning of this Act ought to be allowed after the said Rate of Two Shillings in the Pound, or shall refuse, neglect or delay to allow and finally to discharge the same in the proper Accounts wherein the same ought to be allowed or discharged, That then and for every or any such Offence, every such Auditor or Deputy, or Person acting for such Auditor, shall forfeite the Summe of Two hundred Pounds to the Party grieved, to be recovered, as aforesaid, and shall be alsoe incapable to enjoy his Office or Place, or any other Office or Place of Trust or Profitt under His Majesty, or the said Queene Dowager.