Taxation (No. 2) Act 1697

IV.

Landlords to abate for Fee Farm Rents or other Annual Payments issuing out of their Estate.

And whereas many of the Mannors Messuages Lands Tenements Tithes Hereditaments and Premises intended by this Act to be charged with the Pound Rate as aforesaid stand incumbred with or are subject and liable to the Paym[en]t. of several Rent Charges or Annuities or other annual Payments issueing out of the same or to the Payment of diverse Fee-farme-Rents Rents-service or other Rents thereupon reserved or charged by reason whereof the true Owners and Proprietors of such Manors Messuages Lands Tenements or Hereditaments doe not in truth receive to their owne use the true yearely Value of the same for which neverthelesse they are by this Act [X1 charged] with a certaine Pound Rate Itt is therefore declared and enacted by the Authority aforesaid That it shall and may be lawfull to and for the Landlords Owners and Proprietors of such Manors Messuages Lands Tenements Hereditaments & Premisses being charged with a Pound Rate as aforesaid to abate and deduct and to retaine and keep in his or their hands out of every such Fee-Farme-Rent or other annual Rent or Payment so much of the said Pound Rate which shall be taxed or assessed upon the said Manors Messuages Lands and Premisses as a like Rate for every such Fee-Farme-Rent or other annual Rent or Payment respectively shall by a just Proportion amount unto and all and every Person and Persons who are or shall be any way intituled to such Rents or Annual Payments are hereby required to allow such Deductions and Payments upon the Receipt of the Residue of such Moneys as shall be due and payable to them for such Rents or annual Payments reserved or charged as aforesaid.

Editorial Information

X1 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: Chargeable O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]