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APPENDIX.
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great and weighty consideration of the grant aforesayd, be for this grant charged and contributorie, in like maner, forme, and fort, as other Cities, Boroughs, and Townes, which be not in any wise priviledged, be from such grant of Subsidie excepted.

XXXIII. Provided alwayes, and be it enacted by the authoritie aforesaid, that no Orphant, or Infan, within the age of one and twenty yeeres, borne within any the Queenes Majesties Dominions, shall be charged to any paiment of this Subsidy, for his or her goods, and chattels, to him or her left or bequeathed, any thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

XXXIV. Provided also, that this Act, nor any thing therein contained, shall extend to the goods or lands of any Colledge, hall, or hostell, within the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, or any of them, or to the goods or lands of the colledge of Winton, founded by Bishop Wickham, or to the goods or lands of the colledge of Eaton next Windsor, or to the goods or lands of any common free Grammer schoole within the Realme of England or Wales, or to the Goods of any Reader, Schoolemaster, or Scholler, or any Graduat within the sayd Universities and colledges, or any of them, there remaining for study, without fraud or covin, or to the goods and lands of any Hospitall, meason de dieu, or Spittell house, prepared and used for the sustentation and reliefe of poore people, any thing in this Act contained to the contrary, in any wise notwithstanding.

"XXXV. Provided also, and be it enacted that forasmuch as divers and sundry of the Queenes Majesties tenants, and other inhabitants and dwellers within the Counties of Pembroke, Carmarthen, Cardigan, Glamorgan, Brecknocke, Radnor, Montgomerie, Denbigh, Flint, Merioneth, Angleseie, Camaruan and of the Countie Palentine of Chester, be at this present time charged and chargeable with the severall paiments of divers great summes of money by the name of mise, due to her Majesty, according to the severall customes of the said Counties."

XXXVI. Be therefore ordained and enacted by the authority aforesayd, that this Act of Subsidie, or any thing therein contained, shall not extend to charge any or the Queenes tenants, and other inhabitants and dwellers within any of the said Counties of Pembroke, Carmarthen, 'Cardigan, Glamorgan, Breckenocke, Radnor, Montgomerie, Denbigh, Flint, Merioneth, Angleseie, Carnaruan, and the Countie Palantine of Chester, being charged or chargeable with the said mise, for, or in any of the paiments of the sayd Subsidie granted to the Queenes Majesty by this Act, untill the sayd severall daies and times, for the paiment of the said mises, shall be expired, and untill the dayes and times of the severall Subsidies, lately granted to our late Sovereigne Lord and Sovereigne Lady, King Philip, and Queene Marie, be also past and expired: and that then the first paiment of the said Subsidie granted by this present Act, shalbe made at the receipt of the Queenes Exchequer, before the first day of March next following, after the last dayes of the last paiment to be had or appointed of the said mises, and of the paiment of the sayd former Subsidies. And the second paiment of this Subsidy, to be made by or before the first day of March next after the sayd first paiment of the sayd Subsidie.

XXXVII. Furthermore, be it enacted by the authoritie aforesaid, that the tenants and dwellers of every of the sayd Counties in this proviso remembred, shall severally before the feast of Pentecost next insuing, certifie into the sayd Court of Exchequer, under the seales of two Justices of Peace of every of the sayd Counties, whereof one to be of the Quorum, when and what day the last paiment of the sayd severall Mises now due in any of the said Courts, shall end and expire.

XXXVIII. Provided also, that the sayd grant of Subsidie, or any other thing therein contained, doe not in any wise extend to be prejudiciall or hurtfull to the inhabitants or resiants at this present time within the five ports corporate, or to any of their members incorporate, or united to the same five ports, or to any of the same five ports, of, or for any part or parcell of the sayd summes granted in this Parliament of the sayd inhabitants now reliant, or any of them, to be taxed, set, asked, levied, or payd. But the sayd inhabitants and resiants in the sayd five ports, and their members, be and shall be of, and from the sayd grant and paiment of the sayd Subsidy, during their reliance there, and no longer, cleerely acquitted and discharged: any matter, or whatsoever thing in this present Act had or made to the contrary notwithstanding.

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