Restoring of Ministers Act 1660

IX. Persons to whom arrears of Fifths due, or their representatives, or Parson Honywood, enabled to recover the same by Action of Debt.

And whereas diverse Fifths or summes of money in lieu therof are in arreare and unpaid by such as have beene formerly possessed of Sequestred Liveings It is further Enacted by Authoritie aforesaid that every Ecclesiasticall Person or Minister now liveing, or the Executors or Administrators of every Ecclesiasticall Person or Minister deceased to whom any fifths or summes of money in lieu therof are or were due or payable by any such order or agreement or to the said [X1 Master] Honywood as aforesaid and are yet in arreare shall have the said Fifths or summes of money in arreare as aforesaid paid unto them respectively, And they are hereby respectively enabled to recover the same by Action of Debt at the Common Law to be brought against every such person or Minister who ought to have paid the same by vertue of any such order or agreement or to the said [X1 Master] Honywood as aforesaid dureing the respective possession of such Ecclesiasticall Benefice Liveing or Promotion of or for which the

Proviso for former Payments.

said Fifths or summes of money in lieu thereof were or ought to have beene or to be paid, in all which Actions noe Essoygne Wager of Law or protection shall be allowed And that noe person to whom Fifths have beene formerly paid shall be hereafter questioned for the same.

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