the Landlords and Owners to deduct 4s. in the Pound for such Rents; to be allowed by the Persons entitled to such Rents upon Payment of the Residue.
And whereas many of the Mannors Messuages Lands Tenements Tythes Hereditaments and p[re]misses intended by this Act to be charged with the Pound Rate as aforesaid stand incumbred with or are subject and lyable to the payment of severall Rent. Charges or Annuityes 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 Mannors Messuages Lands Tenements [X1Hereditaments] and p[re]misses doe not in truth receive to theire owne use the true yearely value of the same for which neverthelesse they are by this Act charged to pay the full Pound Rate of Four shillings for every Twenty shillings of the true yearely value: 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 Mannors Messuages Lands Tenements Hereditaments and p[re]misses as are charged with the Pound Rate as aforesaid to abate and deduct and to retaine and keepe in his or theire hands Four shillings in the Pounde for every Fee-Farme Rent or other Annuall Rent or Payment charged upon or issueing out of the p[re]misses or any part thereof or thereupon reserved And all and every Person and Persons who are or shall be any way intituled to such Rents and Annuall Payments are hereby required to allowe such deducc[i]ons and payments upon the receipte of the residue of such moneyes as shall be due and payable to them for such Rents or Annuall Payments reserved or charged as aforesaid.
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