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 3° c - 39' Anno tricefimo tertio H e n r 1 c i VIII. A. D. 1 541. The Liberties of the Duchy of Lan sailer laved. merits of the faid Debts, of the faid Debt and Duty ; any Thing before rehearfed to the contrary notwith- standing. LXXXI. Provided alio, That this Act, nor any Thing therein contained, fhall in any wife extend to minifh, abrogate, or take away, any Realties, Liberties, Privileges, Franchifes, Preeminences, Jurifdic- Pr-iceff and Exe- cutions for Debts pr.jv.in;; in the Exchequer. main, sind be to the faid Duchy of Lancafter and County Palatine, and to every of them, as fully, wholly and plenarily, as they were before the making of this prefent Act; any Thing in the fame contained to the contrary notwithstanding. LXXXII. Provided alway, and be it enacted by the Authority aforefaid, That all Manner of Procefs, ProcefTes, and Executions for Debts, only coming or growing in the Court of the Exchequer, fhall be made in the fame Court of the Exchequer, by fuch Officer and Officers, Clerk or Miniffer of the fame Court, as hath been afore this Time ufed to be made, after and with fuch Kind of Procefs, ProceiTes and Executions, as by this Act is limited and declared ; any Thing in this Act contained to the contrary not- withstanding. RHP. by 1 Ed. 6. c. 12. Within what Time any Col- lectors or Re- ceivers of the JC/ng's Fifteens, Src. fhall pay the fame to the King's Ufe. Statutes made at Weftminfter, Anno 34 ^35 Hen. VIII. and Anno Dom. 1542-3. CTS made in the Seffion of this prefent Parliament holden upon Prorogation at Weftminjler the two and twentieth Day of "January in the four and thirtieth Year of the Reign of our moil dread Sovereign Lord Henry the Eighth, by the Grace of God, King of England, France and Ireland, ' Defender of the Faith, and of the Church of England, and alfo of Ireland, in Earth the Supreme Head, ' and there continued and kept to the twelfth Day of May in the five and thirtieth Year of our faid Sove- ' reign Lord, to the Honour of God, and for the common Weal and Profit of this his Realm.' CAP. I. Recourfe must be had to the Catholick and Apostolick Church for the Decifion of Controverfies ; and there- fore all Books of the Old and New Testament in Engliflo, being of TindaFs falfe Translation, or com- prifing any Matter of Christian Religion, Articles of the Faith, or holy Scripture, contrary to the Doc- trine let forth fithence Anno Dom. 1540. or to be fei forth by the King, fhall be abolifhed. No Printer or Bookfeller fhall utter any of the aforefaid Books. No Perfons fhall play in Enterlude, fing or rhime, contrary to the faid Doctrine. No Perfon fhall retain any EngliJIj Books or Writings concerning Matter against the holy and bleffed Sacrament of the Altar, or for the Maintenance of Anabaptists, or other Books abolifhed by the King's Proclamation. There fhall be no Annotations or Preambles in Bibles or New Testaments in Englifl). The Bible fhall not be read in Engli/b in any Church. No Women or Ar- tificers, Prentices, Journeymen, Servingmen of the Degree of Yeomen or under, Hufbandmen, nor La- bourers, fhall read the New Testament in Englijh. Nothing fhall be taught or maintained contrary to the King's Instructions. And if any fpiritual Perfon preach, teach, or maintain any Thing contrary to the King's Instructions or Determinations, made or to be made, and fhall be thereof convict, he fhall for his first Offence recant, for his fecond abjure and bear a Fagot, and for his third fhall be adjudged an Heretick, and be burned and lofe all his Goods and Chattels. CAP. II. An Act for Collectors and Receivers. HERE divers and fundry high Collectors of the Fifteens and Subfidies to the King's Highnefs, and divers other his particular and general Receivers of his Revenues and Duties, being within the Survey, Rule, and Order of his Majesty's Court of the Exchequer, the Duchy of Lancafler, the Court of the Augmentations of the Revenues of his Crown, the Court of the general Surveyors, the Court of the Wards and Liveries, and the Court of the Tenth and First-fruits, have heretofore after the Collection, Levying, or Gathering of the King's Fifteens, Subfidies, Rents, Debts, and other his Money and Du- ties, retained, occupied, and converted the fame to their own fingular Profit and Commodity, as in loan- ing or laying out the fame for Gains in purchafing Lands of great Value, and in buying of Wools and other Merchandife, whereby the King's Majesty hath oft times lost great Part of his Debts and Duties, and fometime forborn the fame by a long Seafon, after fuch Time as the fame have been due and* ga- thered :' (2) For Reformation whereof, be it enacted, ordained, and establifhed by the King's Highnefs, with the AfTent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this prefent Parliament ailem- bled, and by the Authority of the fame, That every high Collector of any Fifteens, Subfidy, or other Tax or Loan, and all and every other the King's faid particular and general Receivers of any the faid Sums of Money and other Duties belonging to the King, from and after the first Day of July next coming, ftall within the Space of three Months next after fuch Days and Times, as any the faid Fifteens, Subfidies, Rents, Sums of Money, or other yearly Profits, fhall be due and payable to the King, his Heirs or Suc- 3 ceflbrs,