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Rh shalbe compelled to make any presentment or certified, other then in the Queenes Majesties said Exchequer, of, for, or concerning the said Subsidy, or any part thereof. And likewise, that none other person that shalbe named or assigned to bee Commissioners in any place, to & for the execution of this Act of Subsidy, be or shall be assigned or named, head Collectors of any of the payments of the said Subsidy, neither of any part thereof. And that every such person or persons, which shalbe named and appointed as is aforesaid, to be head Collectors, in and for the first paiments of this Subsidy, dial not be compelled to be Collector for the second paiment of the said Subsidy, or for any part thereof. And the said Collectors which shalbe assigned for the collection of the said Subsidy, or for any part thereof, & every of them, be and shall be acquited and discharged of all maner fees, rewards, & of every other charges in the Q. Majesties Exchequer, or elsfewhere, of them or any of them, by reason of that collection, paiment, or accompts, or any thing concerning the same to be asked. And that if any person receive and take any fees, rewards, or pleasures of any such accompt, that then he shall forfeit to the Queenes Majestie for every peny, or the value of penie so taken v. s,. and suffer imprisonment at the Queens Majesties pleasure. And after the taxing and assessing of the said Subsidy, as is aforesaid, had or made, and the said estreates therof in parchment, unto the Collector in maner and forme before rehearsed, delivered, the said Commissioners which shall take upon them the execution of this Act, within the limits of their commission, by their agreements shall have meeting together, at which meeting every of the sayd commissioners which then shall have taken upon them the execution of any part of the sayd commission, shall by himselfe, or by his suficient Deputie, truly certifie and bring foorth unto the sayd commissioners named in the sayd commission, the certificate and presentment made before him, and such other commisssioners as were limited with him in one limit, so that the same certificate may be accounted and cast with the other Certificates of the other limits within the same Commission: and then the sayd Commissioners, and every number of them, unto two at the least, as is aforesayd, if any be in life, or their executors or administrators of their goods, if they then be dead, shall jointly and severally as they were divided within their limits, under their seales by their discretion, make one or severall writings indented, containing in it aswell the names of the said collectors by the Commissioners, for such collection and account in the Eschequer, and paiment in the sayd receipt, deputed and assigned, as the grosse and severall summes written unto every such collector, to receive the sayd Subsidie. And also all fines, amerciaments, and other forfeitures, if any such by reason, of this Act happen to be within the precinct and limit of their Commission, to be certified into the Queenes Majesties sayd Eschequer by the sayd Commissioners, in which writing or writings, indented so to be certified, shall be plainly declared and expressed, the whole and intire summe or summes of the sayd Subsidie, severally limited to the collection of the sayd collector, severally deputed and assigned to the collection of the sayd sums, so that none of the sayd collectors so certified in the sayd Eschequer, shall be compelled there to account or to be charged, but onely to and for the summe limited to his collection,, and not to or for any sum limited to the collection of his fellow, but that every of them, shall be secerally charged for their part, limited to their collection. And if the sayd Commissioners joyned in one commission, amongst themselves in in that matter cannot agree, or if any of them be not ready, or refuse to make Certificate with other of the same commissioners, that then the same commissioners may make severall indentures in forme aforesayd, of their severall limits or separations of collectors, within the limits of their commission, upon, and in the hundreds, wards, wapentakes, laths, rapes, or such other like divisions within their sayd severall limits of their commission, as the places there shall require to be severed and divided, and as the same commissioners shall seeme good to make divisions of their limits or collections, for the severall charges of the wame Collectors, So that alway, one Collector shall be charged and account for his part to him to be limited onely by himselfe, and not for any summe limited to the part of any of his fellowes, and the charges of every of the Collectors, to be set and certified severally upon them: and every such Collector upon his account and paiment of the summe of money limited within his Collection, to be severally by himselfe acquited and discharged in the sayd Eschequer, without paying any maner fees or rewards to any person or persons for the same, upon the paine and penaltie last abovesaid, and not to be charged for any portion of any other collector. And if any Commissioner after hee hath taken Certificate of them, that, as is aforesayd, shall before any such Commissioner be examined, and the summes rated and set, and the bookes and writings thereof being in his hands, or if any Collector or other person charged with any receipt of any part of the said Subsidie, or any other person taxed, or otherwise by this Act charged with, and for any parcell of the sayd Subsidie, or with any other summes, or fines, amerciament, penaltie, or other forfeiture, happen to lie before the Commissioner, Collector, or other whatsoever person or persons, have executed, accomplished, satisfied, or sufficiently discharged, that which to every such person shall appertaine or belong to doe, according to this Act, then the executors and heires of every such person, and all other seized of any lands or tenements, that any such person being charged by this Act, and decessing before he be discharged thereof, or any other to his use onely had of estate of inheritance, at the time that any such person was named commissioner, collector, or otherwise charged with and for any maner of thing to be done, satisfied, or paid by reason of this Act, and all those that have in their possessions or hands, any goods or chattels, leases or other things that were to any such person or persons, at the time of his death, or any lands or tenements, that were the same persons at the time he was, as is aforesayd, charged by this Act, shall be by the same compelled and charged to doe and accomplish to doe in every case, as the same person so being charged should have done, and might have beene compelled to doe, if he had beene in plaine life, after such rate of the lands and goods of the said commissioner or collector, as the party shall have in his hand: and if the sayd commissioners for causes reasonable them mooving, shall thinke it not convenient to joyne in one Certificate,