Taxation (No. 3) Act 1663

XIII. Proviso for Lands, &c. formerly granted for Obits, &c. and come into the Hands of King Edw. VI. under I Edw. VI. c. 14.

Provided alsoe and your [X1 said ] Prelates and Clergy doe most humbly beseech Your [X2 Majestie] That it may be enacted by Your Majestyes Authoritie and Your High Court of Parliament That where certaine Lands Tenements Rents Spirituall Promotions Tythes Pensions Portions Fruites and other Hereditaments lately belonging to diverse Cathedrall Churches and to other places and persons Ecclesiasticall within the said Province of Canterbury, which were given and assigned to be bestowed and spent in and on findeing and maintaining of certaine Chauntryes Anniversaryes Obits Lights Lamps and other like charges intents and purposes of late came into the hands and Possessions of the late King of famous memory Edward the sixth by force of a Statute thereof made in the first yeare of his Raigne as by the said Statute more plainely appeareth That the Cathedrall Churches and the Bishops Deanes or Presidents and Chapters and Prebendaryes of the same and all other places and persons Ecclesiasticall and every of them to whom the said Lands Rents and other the Premisses or any of them did lately appertaine shall not dureing the time appointed by this Grant for the payment of the said Fower Subsidyes be charged to and with any payment of Subsidie of and for that part and portion of Lands Tenements Rents Spirituall Promotions & other Hereditaments or any of them, whereunto the said late King by force of the said Statute was intitled, or possessed of, nor of any yearely Rents or Payments goeing out of the said Cathedrall Churches and other the places and persons Ecclesiasticall aforesaid, And that deduction and allowance thereof be made to them and every of them accordingly in and upon every payment of the said Fower Subsidyes out of the whole Taxation Valuation and Estimation made for the payment of the said perpetuall Disme or Tenth remaining of Record in Your Highnesse Court of Exchequer as aforesaid for the rate and portion of Lands Tenements Rents Spirituall Promotions and other Hereditaments, and those yearely payments whereunto the said King was intituled or possessed of, or which since the makeing of the said Statute by reason that they have beene found as Lands Tenements Rents Tythes or other Hereditaments concealed from the said King Edward the sixth, the late King Henry the [X3 eigth,] the late Queene Mary, the late Queene Elizabeth King James and King Charles the first of glorious memory or any of them or from Your Majestie or otherwise are severed from the possessions of the said Cathedrall Churches and other places and persons aforesaid, or [of] any of them by force of the Statute premised or any otherwise;

Editorial Information

X1 interlined on the Roll.

X2 Highnesse O

X3 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: Eight O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]