23 Rector or Tithe owners not to receive gratuity for letting Tithes other than by half-yearly or yearly payments.

Provided also, that no rector or tithe owner, in right of his rectory, vicarage, or curacy, or the lessee of either of them respectively, who shall agree for or let his tithes of the said common field lands during the said term of six years, or any part thereof, shall receive any fine, foregift, gratuity or compensation whatever, other than by equal half-yearly or yearly payments.