Taxation Act 1627

II. Power to Collectors to levy Subsidies by Censures of the Church, and by Sequestration, Distress, &c.

Farmers, &c. may retain Monies paid for their Lessors.

And further be it enacted by the authoritie aforesaid that every p[er]son that shalbe appointed to the collecting and gathering of the said Subsidies shall have power and authoritie to levie take and p[er]ceive the said Subsidies by the Authoritie of the censures of the Church That is to saie by Suspension Exco[m]municacion or Interdiccion and also by Sequestracion of the fruits and proffitts of their Benefices and p[re]mocions Spirituall in whose hands soever they be and to make sale of the same fruits without daunger of the Lawes of this Realme or by distresse upon the possessions of the Farmors or occupiers of the Lands and Tenements chargeable by the said Instrument for or to the payment of any so[m]me or so[m]mes of mony to be due by force thereof or otherwise by the discrecion of the Collector thereof, And that no Replevie Prohibicion or Sup[er]sedeas shalbe allowed or obeyed for any p[er]sons making default of the payment of the said Subsidies or any of them contrary to the tenor of the Graunt thereof untill such time as they have trulie satisfied and contented all such part and porcions as to them in that behalfe appertayneth And that every such Farmor and Farmors their Executors and Assignes that shall fortune hereafter to be charged to or with the payment of the said Subsidies or any part thereof shall by the Authoritie aforesaid be allowed and retaine in his hands as much of his yearelie Rent and Farme as the Su[m]me which he shall fortune to pay for his Lord or Leasour shall extend unto (except that the said Farmor or Farmors their Executors or Assignes by the Lease and Graunt that they have of any part of the Lands Tithes Proffitts or Tenements chargeable to the said Subsidies or by force of any Covenant or Article therein contayned be bound and charged to pay the same, and thereof to discharge the Leasour and Landlord during the terme mencioned in the said Lease.)