Land Tax Act 1696

XXXVIII. Proviso for Universities, Colleges of Windsor, Eton, Winchester, and Westminster, and for Hospitals in respect of Scite of College, &c.

and for Christ's Hospital and other Hospitals and Almshouses; and for Almsmen, &c. of Almshouses, &c. whose Maintenance does not exceed £20 per Ann.

Provided That nothing in this Act contained shall extend to charge any College or Hall in either of the Two Universities or the Colleges of Windsor Eaton Winchester or Westminster or the Corporation of the Governors of the Charity for the Reliefe of Poor Widdows and Children of Clergymen or the Colledge of Bromley or the Charity settled by Tobias Rustat lately deceased upon the Masters Fellows and Scholars of Jesus Colledge in Cambridge in trust for Six Poor Clergymens Widdows and for the Maintenance of Eight Poor Scholars in the said College Sons of Clergymen deceased or any Hospital or Almshouses or any Free School for or in respect of the Scite of the said Colledge Halls Almshouses Free Schools or Hospitalls or any Master Fellow or Scholar of any such College or Hall or in any other Free Schools or any Reader Officer or Minister of the said Universities Colleges or Halls or any Masters or Ushers of any School or any Almsmen of any Hospital or Almshouse for or in respect of any Stipends Wages or Profitts whatsoever ariseing or growing due to them in respect of the said several Places or Imployments in the said Universities Colleges Schools Hospitals & Almshouses or to charge any of the Houses or Lands belonging to Christs Hospital Saint Bartholomews Bridewell Saint Thomas and Bethlehem Hospital in the City of London and Borough of Southwarke or any of them or to the said Corporation of the Governors of the Charity for the Reliefe of Poor Widdows and Children of Clergymen or to the Colledge of Bromley or to the said Charity settled by Tobias Rustat deceased nor to extend to charge any the Almsmen or Almswomen or other Poor Persons inhabiting within any other Hospital or Almshouse for or in respect of any Rent or Revenues payable to them or any such of them for their im[m]ediate Use and Releife whose Anual? Maintenance and Profitts shall not exceed in the whole the Su[m]m of Twenty Pounds.