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Rh thereof fully be deduced, that is to say, five thousand pounds of either of the said whole Fifteenes and Tenths, of the summe that one whole Fifteene and Tenth attaineth unto, in reliese, comfort and discharge of the poore townes, cities and boroughs of this your said realme wasted, desolate and destroyed, or over greatly impoverished, after such rate as was and hath afore this time bin had & made to every shire, and to be divided in such maner and forme as heretofore for one whole Fifteene and Tenth hath been had and divided." And the said two whole Fifteens & Tenths (the exceptions and deductions aforefaid, thereupon had, deducted and allowed) to be paid in maner & forme following : that is to say, the whole first Fifteene and Tenth, except before excepted, to be paid to your Highnes in the receit of your Highnes Exchequer, before the tenth day of November next comming. And the said second Fifteene & Tenth, except before excepted, to be paid to your Highnesse in the receipt of your Exchequer before the tenth day of November, in the yeere of our Lord God, 1560.

V. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, that the Knights elected and returned, of and for the Shires within this Realme for this present Parliament, Citizens of Cities, and Burgesses of Boroughs and Townes, where Collectors have been used to be named and appointed for the collection of any Fifteene and Tenth, before this Time granted, shall name and appoint yeerely before the last day of Augst, in either of the said two yeeres, suffieient and able persons for the collection of the said Fifteenes and Tenths, in every of the said Shires, Cities, Boroughs and Townes, the said persons then having lands, tenements, and other hereditaments, in his or their owne right of an estate of inheritance of the yeerely value of tenne pounds, or in goods worth an hundred pounds at the least. And also such person or persons so by them to bee named and appointed for the collection of either of the saide Fifteenes and Tenths, shall be by them severally appointed and allotted into Hundreds, Rapes, Wapentakes, Cities, Boroughs and Townes. And also the said persons so named and appointed for the collection of the said Fifteenes and Tenths, shall be charged and chargeable upon his or their account or accounts in the Exchequer to be made, with all such summe or summes of money, as the Hundreds, Rapes, Wapentakes, Cities, Boroughs and Townes, where he or they shall so happen to be appointed, amount unto, and of no more summe or summes. And upon the paiment of such summes of money as he or they shall be charged with, shall be dischargcd, and have his or their Duictus est, the non accounting or non paiment of any other of his fellowes, or the insufficiencie of them or any of them notwithstanding. And the names or surnames of every of the said Collectors, for the said Fifteenes and Tenths, during either of the said two yeeres, together with the place allotted to their collection and charge, the said Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses for the Shires, Cities and Boroughs, whereunto they be elected, named and returned, shall certify before the Queene in her Chancerie before the thirteenth day of October, in every of the same two yeeres, according to the tenor of this Act. And if the default of any such certifying be had or made in forme as is aforesaid, then the Lord Chancellor of England, or Keeper of the great Seale for the time being, shall immediately after name and appoint Collectors, for the collection of either of the said Fifteenes and Tenths, in manner and forme as the said Knights of the Shires, Citizens of Cities, and burgesses of Boroughs should have done, and as aforetime have been used. The which said Collectors, and every of them, shall have like allowance upon their accounts, for their fees, wages, and rewards, for the collection of the said Fifteenes and Tenths, in as large maner and forme as any Collector or Collectors of Fifteens and Tenths, have had at any season in time past. And that the Barons of the Queenes Exchequer, for the time being, shall and may from time to time award such Processe for the speedy paiment thereof against the Collector and Collectors for the same, as by their discretions shall be thought convenient.

VI. Provided alwayes, and be it enacted by the authoritie of this present Parliament, that the said Lord Chancellor, or Keeper of the great Seale for the time being, Knights of the Shires, Citizens of Cities, and Burgesses of Boroughs, Townes, and other places, having authority by this present Act, to name and nominate the said Collectors, of or for the said Fifteenes and Tents, shall upon their nomination and election had and made, take by authoritie of this present Parliament suffieient recognisances or obligations, of every person so by them to be named, to be bound to the Queens Majestie in the double summe of the summes of their Collection, and to be indorsed upon such condition, "that if the said Collector or Collectors, doe truely content and pay, to the use of the Queenes highnesse in her receipt of the Exchequer, before the tenth day of November, in every of the said two yeres, so much of the summe of mony allotted and appointed to his collection, as the same Collector shall have collected and gathered, and doe likewise after the said tenth day of the moneth of November, in every of the laid two yeeres, content and pay to the Queenes Majesties use at the same receipt, the residue of his collection and charge, within one moneth next after such time as he shal haue gathered & collected the same residue: that then the Recognisance or obligation to be void, or else to stand in his full strength and vertue :" which Recognisance or Obligation so taken, the said Knights of the Shire, Citizens and Burgesses, and every of them, taking any such Recognizances or Obligation, shall certifie and deliver to the Lord Treasurer, and Barons of the same Exchequer, before the same tenth day of November, in every of the said yeeres, upon paine of forfeiture of x. li to the Queenes highnesse, for every Recognisance or Obligation so to be taken and not certified. And that every such Collector upon request to him made, shall make & knowledge the same Recognisance or Obligation accordingly, upon like paine & forfeiture of x. li. to the Queene, for his refusall thereof, and the Treasurer or Barons of the Exchequer, upon the paiment of the same collection, or at the said dayes, shall cancell and deliver the said Recognisance or Obligation to the said Collector or Collectors, without any fee or reward to be paid to any person for the same. VII. And