Penalty £10, &c.
Provided also and be it enacted That all & every Auditor Reeve Receivor & their Deputies who receive any Fee-Farme Rents or other Chief Rents due to His Majestie or the Queen Dowager or to any Person or Persons claiming by any Grant or Purchase from or under the Crowne shall allow and discharge a Rate to be abated and deducted out of such Rents in proportion to the Rate to be taxed or assessed on the Lands or Hereditaments out of which such Rents shall be issuing or payable to the Partie and Parties so paying the same without any Fee for :such Allowance and Discharge upon the Penalty of forfeiting the Su[m]m of Ten Pounds and loseing their respective Offices if they faile therein.