WHere the Prelates and Clergie of the Kingdome of Ireland , for diuers weightie considerations , respecting his Maiesties extraordinary occasions , haue louingly & liberally , giuen and granted to the Kings most excellent Maiestie , Eight whole and entire Subsidies , of Foure shillings in the pound , to bee taken and levyed of all and singular their promotions spirituall , within the same Kingdome , at such dayes and times , and in such certaine manner and forme , and with such exceptions & prouisions , as be specified and declared in a certaine Instrument by them thereof made , and deliuered to the Lord Deputie , vnder the Seale of the most reuerend Father in God , Iames , Lord Archbishop of Ardmagh , and Primate of all Ireland , which Instrument is now exhibited in this present Parliament , to be ratified and confirmed : The tenor whereof ensueth in these words , viz.

Illustrissimo ac potentissimo Principi , ac Domino nostro clementissimo , CAROLO Dei gratiâ , Angliae , Scotiae , Franciae , & Hiberniae Regi , fidei defensori &c. Iacobus divinâ providentiâ Armachanus Archiepiscopus , totius Hiberniae Primas & Metropolitanus , cum omni observantiâ tanto Principi debito , prosperum in hâc vitâ successum , & in futurâ , aeternam foelicitatem . Serenissimae vestrae Majestati , per publicum hoc instrumentum , notum facimus : Quod Praelati & Clerus totius Hiberniae , in sacrâ Synodo Nationali , juisu serenissimae Majestatis vestrae , in Ecclesiâ Cathedrali sancti Patricij Dublinij , legitimè congregati , recolentes multa illa & summa beneficia , quae communiter cum caeteris subditis vestris percipiunt ( veluti sunt purae religionis exercitium , justitiae administratio , publicâque pax , in quâ omnium bonorum affluentia continetur , ) & multò magis singularem Majestatis vestrae zelum erga decorem domus Dei , & haereditatiam illam munificentiam , quâ ordinem Ecclesiasticum , Regia Majestas vestra , paternis insistens vestigijs , prosequitur : non modo Deo Optimo Maximo , humillimas pro vobis gratias agendas , & assiduas preces pro Regni vestri tranquillitate fundendas , sed etiam gratitudinem suam aliquo judicio Regiae vestrae sublimitati testificandam duxerunt , & Octo integra & ultronea Subsidia , unanimi confensu , nemine prorsus dissentiente , Regiae vestrae sublimitati , alacritèr concesserunt ; supplicitèr Majestatem vestram rogantes , ut ex affectus largitate , potiùs quàm rei ipsius tenuitate , hoc officium suum metiatur . Tenor verò concessionis praedictae , se habet in hunc quo sequitur modum .

Most gracious and dread Soueraigne , wee your Maiesties most loyall Subiects , the Prelates and Clergie of this Church & Kingdome of Ireland , called together out of the seuerall Prouinces of Ardmagh , Dublin , Cashell , and Tuam , by the authority of your Highnes Writ , & orderly assembled in a Nationall Synode , or Convocation , being lately deiected & depressed to the lowest degree of misery and contempt , by the warres and confusion of former times , hauing our Churches ruined , our habitations left desolate , our possessions aliened , our persons scorned , our very liues hourely subiect to the bloody attempts of rebellious Traytors . And now by the piety & bounty of your blessed Father , and by the gracious influence of your sacred Maiestie , being new enlived , and beginning to lift vp our heads out of darknes and obscurity , doe freely acknowledge to your immortall glory , before God and the whole Christian world , That as no Church vnder Heauen did euer stand more in neede , so none did euer finde more royall and munificent Patrons and Protectors , then the poore Church of Ireland . You haue not onely made restitution of that which the iniquitie of former Ages had bereft vs of ; but also as though you intended to expiate their faults , enriched vs with new and Princely endowments : All which great Fauours , doe yet become more sweet vnto vs , whilst we entertaine them as pledges of your future vnexhausted goodnes : And if we doe not seriously endeauour throughout our whole lives , to make vnsayned expressions of true loyaltie and thankfulnesse to your sacred Maiestie , wee deserue to be condemned by men , and punished by God , as monsters of ingratitude . To which infinite obligations , and many others , we may adde your Maiesties inestimable goodnes , in prouiding for vs your present Deputy , Thomas Viscount Wentworth , a Gouernour so iust , carefull , prouident , & propitious to the Church . Wherefore considering the vast expence of Treasure by your Maiestie , & your Predecessors , for the protection and establishment of this Church and Kingdome ; Wee the Prelates and Clergie assembled in this Nationall Synode , whose dependance ( vnder God ) is wholly vpon your Maiestie : not as though our weakenes were able to contribute any thing worthy of the fauourable acceptance of so great and puissant a Monarch ; but as an exemplary testimony of our loyall affection : Wee your said Prelates and Clergie , with a generall and vnanimous consent , agreement , and accord , most willingly and readily , haue giuen & granted , and by these presents doe giue and grant , to your Highnes , your Heires and Successors , Eight entire Subsidies , of Foure shillings in the pound , in manner and forme following , That is to say : That euery Archbishop , Bishop , Deane , Archdeacon , Provost , Master of Colledge , Prebendary , Parson , and Vicar , and euery other person and persons , of whatsoeuer name or degree hee , or they be , within the Realme of Ireland , hauing & enioying any Spirituall promotion , or other Temporall possessions to the same Spirituall promotion annexed , now not diuided or separated by Act of Parliament , or otherwise , from the possession of the Clergie , shall pay to your Highnes , your Heires and Successors for euery pound that he may yearely receiue and dispend , by reason of the said spirituall promotion , the summe of Foure willings for euery of the said Eight Subsidies , and for the true and certaine value of all the promotions , and euery of them , whereof the payment of these Eight Subsidies shal be made , the rate , taxation , valuation , & estimation , now remaining of Record in your Maiesties Court of Exchequer . And that hereafter shall come & remaine in the same Court , where no former valuation is there of Record already for the payment of the twentieth part , granted vnto King Henry the eight of worthy memorie , in the eight and twentieth yeare of his reigne ; concerning such promotions as now be in possession of the Clergie , shall onely be followed and obserued , without making any other valuation , rate , taxation , or estimation , then in the said Record is , and shal be respectiuely comprised .

Prouided alwayes , that forasmuch as the twentieth part of the said rate and valuation before mentioned , is yearely payed to your Highnes , so as there remaines onely nineteene parts yearely to the incumbent cleare , these Eight Subsidies of Foure shillings in the pound , shal be vnderstood & meant onely of euery full pound of the said nineteene parts , and nothing for any other money , not amounting to a full pound . And your Prelates and Clergie doe also grant , That these Eight Subsidies of Foure shillings of the full pound of the nineteene parts of the yearely value of euery spirituall promotion aforesaid , within the said Kingdome , taxed and to be taxed , as is aforesaid , shal be payed to your Maiestie , your Heires and Successors , in manner and forme following : That is to say , The first payment and moytie of the first of these Eight Subsidies , viz. Two shillings of euery full pound , as aforesaid , to be due , at , and vpon the first day of Aprill , which shal be Anno Domini one thousand six hundred thirtie fiue . And the second payment and moytie of the first of the said Eight Subsidies , viz. other two shillings of euery full pound , as aforesaid , to be due , at , & vpon the first day of October , which shal be Anno Domini one thousand sixe hundred thirty fiue : And the first payment and moytie of the second of the said Eight Subsidies , viz. Two shillings of euery full pound , as aforesaid , to be due , at , and vpon the first day of Aprill , which shal be Anno Domini one thousand sixe hundred thirty six : And the second payment and moytie of the second of the said Eight Subsidies , viz. Two shillings of euery full pound , as aforesaid , to be due , at , and vpon the first day of October , which shall be Anno Domini one thousand six hundred thirty six . And the first payment and moytie of the third of the said Eight Subsidies , viz. Two shillings of euery full pound as aforesaid , to be due , at , and vpon the first day of Aprill , which shal be Anno Domini one thousand six hundred thirty seauen . And the second payment & moytie of the third of the said Eight Subsidies , viz. Two shillings of euery full pound , as aforesaid , to be due , at , and vpon the first day of October , which shal be Anno Domini one thousand six hundred thirty seauen . And the first payment & moytie of the fourth of the said Eight Subsidies , viz. Two shillings of euery full pound , as aforesaid , to be due , at , and vpon the first day of Aprill , which shall be Anno Domini one thousand six hundred thirty eight . And the second payment and moytie of the fourth of the said Eight Subsidies , viz. Two shillings of euery full pound , as aforesaid , to be due , at , and vpon the first day of October , which shal be Anno Domini one thousand six hundred thirty eight . And the first payment and moytie of the fift of the said Eight Subsidies , viz. Two shillings of euery full pound , as aforesaid , to be due , at , and vpon the first day of Aprill , which shall bee Anno Domini one thousand six hundred thirty nine : And the second payment & moytie of the fift of the said Eight Subsidies , viz. Two shillings of euery full pound , as aforesaid , to be due , at , and vpon the first day of October , Anno Domini one thousand six hundred thirty nine . And the first payment and moytie of the fixt of the said Eight Subsidies , viz. Two shillings of euery full pound , as aforesaid , to be due , at , and vpon the first day of Aprill , Anno Dommi one thousand six hundred and forty . And the second payment and moytie of the fixt of the said Eight Subsidies , viz. Two shillings of euery full pound , as aforesaid , to be due , at , and vpon the first day of October , Anno Domini one thousand six hundred & forty . And the first payment and moytie of the seauenth of the said Eight Subsidies , viz. Two shillings of euery full pound , as aforesaid , to be due , at , and vpon the first day of Aprill , which shal be Anno Domini one thousand six hundred forty one . And the second payment and moytie of the seauenth of the said Eight Subsidies , viz. Two shillings of euery full pound , as aforesaid , to be due , at , and vpon the first day of October , which shal be Anno Domini one thousand six hundred forty one . And the first payment and moytie of the eight and last of the said Eight Subsidies , viz. Two shillings of euery full pound , as aforesaid , to be due at and vpon the first day of Aprill , which shall be Anno Domini one thousand six hundred forty two : And the second and last payment and moytie of the eight and last of the said Eight Subsidies , viz. Two shillings of euery full pound , as aforesaid , to be due at and vpon the first day of October , which shall be Anno Domini one thousand six hundred forty two , To be deliuered and payed by such person and persons , as in this present grant shal be appointed to haue the collection thereof , to the Vice-treasurer , or generall Receiner of this your Realme of Ireland , for the time being , or to such person or persons , and in such place or places as shall please your Highnes , to appoint to bee payed : viz. euery of the aforesaid payments , which shal be due vpon the first day of Aprill , in any of the yeares aforesaid , to be made at or before the last day of Iune , then next following euery of the aforesaid dayes , in which euery of the said payments shal be due . And euery of the aforesaid payments , which shal be due vpon the first day of October in any of the yeares aforesaid to be made , or before the last day of December next following euery of the aforesaid dayes when the said payments shal be due , without paying any thing to the Receiuer , or to any other officer or persons to be assigned for the receipt thereof , for any acquittance or other discharge or dispatch vpon any such payment or receipt of the said Eight Subsidies or any part thereof , but onely foure pence , and that to the Clarke , for writing the acquittance or discharge for euery of the said payments .

Prouided alwayes , that no person that is or shal be promoted to any benefice or spirituall promotion , and shall compound with your Maiestie , your Heires or Successors , for the first fruits of the same , from the first day of Aprill , which shal be in the yeare of our Lord God , one thousand six hundred thirty fiue : And before the first day of October , which shal be in the yeare of our Lord God , one thousand six hundred forty two , shal be contributary , or charged for the same benefice or promotion , to your Highnes , your Heires or Successors , with any part of the said Eight Subsidies during the first yeare , after the time of any such compounding , for his first fruits . Item your Highnes said Prelates & Clergie doe grant , that euery Archbishop , Bishop , and the See , being voyde , euery Oeane & Chapter of that See voyde , & none other person or persons , shal be Collectors of the said Eight Subsidies , within their proper Diocesse , during the time appointed , for the payment of the said Eight Subsidies . And your said Prelates and Clergie doe most humbly beseech your Maiestie , that it may be enacted by your Maiestie , & your high Court of Parliament , for the speedy payment of the said eight Subsidies , & to avoyde delayes thereof , That when , and as often , as any Collector or Collectors , charged with the collection of the said Eight Subsidies , or of any part of them , or their , or any of their vnder-collector or vnder-collectors , Deputy or Deputies or any of them , shall offer the payment of them or of any part of them , to the vse of your Maiestie your Heires or Successors , to any person or persons appointed to receiue the same , by your Highnes , or by the Vice-treasurer or generall Receiuer , that the said person or persons , so appointed , shall within foure dayes next after such appointment , receiue or cause to be receiued , the money so offered , to be payed without any further delay : & deliuer one sufficient Bill testifying the receipt thereof , to the said Collector , or his vnder-Collector or Deputie , vpon euery such particular payment . And that euery such Auditor as is or shal be appointed to take or receiue the accompt of any such Collector or Collectors , or of their seuerall vnder-Collectors or Deputies , shall within six dayes next after request to him to bee made , truly and indifferently , take the said accompt , and make allowance , as by this grant is appointed , vpon paine that euery such person or persons appointed to receiue the same summe or summes of money so offered . And euery such Auditor shall loose & forfeite for euery default or delay to bee made to the Collector or Collectors , vnder-Collector or vnder-Collectors , Deputie or Deputies so offering to make payment & accompt , as is aforesaid , the summe of ten pounds , lawfull money of Ireland , the one moytie thereof to be to your Maiestie , your Heires and Successors : And the other moytie to the said Collector or Collectors , vnder-Collector or vnder Collectors , Deputie or Deputies so grieued , the same to be payed vpon complaint to be made to the said Vice-treasurer or generall Receiuer , or to the Lord Chiefe Baron of your Maiesties Court of Exchequer , who vpon such complaint , shall presently examine the matter , and finding default , shall commit the offendor to Ward , there to remaine , vntill he shall haue payed the said seuerall summes so forfeited . And for the better levying and recouerie of the said Eight Subsidies , your said Prelates and Clergie , doe likewise most humbly beseech your Maiestie , that it may bee enacted by your Maiestie , and the said high Court of Parliament , in manner and forme following . That is to say , That euery Collector of the said Eight Subsidies , and of euery part and parcell thereof , and their lawfull vnder-Collector and vnder-Collectors , Deputie or Deputies , may haue full power and authority to vse all such wayes , and meanes , and processes , as be prescribed in the Act of the twentieth part , for the collection and levying thereof , & may make accompt of the same before the Vice-treasurer of Ireland , for the time being , or generall Receiuer of your Highnes Revenew of this Kingdome of Ireland , or any other officer by your Highnes , or your Court of Exchequer , to bee appointed for the same , and in such place as your Maiestie shall likewise all gne in such wise , and after such forme onely , as the said Arch-Bishop and Bishops be now charged to make accompt for the said twentieth part , whereby is meant , that the lacke and default of payment , of and for any spirituall promotion or promotions , shall only charge such Incumbent or Incumbents , & such others as bee bound to pay the same : And that the Arch-Bishop , Bishop , Deane & Chapter , gathering that which they can receiue , and making payment thereof , shall for the rest , not by them receiued , bee discharged by their certificate to be made to your Highnes Court of Exchequer , for euery of the aforesaid payments , which shal be due vpon the first day of Aprill , in any of the aforesaid yeares , at , or before the last day of Iune , next following euery of the aforesaid dayes , when euery of the said payments shal be due : And for euery of the aforesaid payments which shal be due vpon the first day of October , in any of the aforesaid yeares , at or before the last day of December , next following euery of the aforesaid dayes , when the said payments shal be due : And that six pence of euery pound , wherewith the Collector shal be charged in his accompt , clearely to bee payed into the Receipt of your Maiesties Exchequer , or into such other place as shall please your Highnes to appoint , shal be allowed to the said Collector vpon his accompt for the same , at euery of the aforesaid seuerall times of payment for the charges of the said Collection , any portage , safe conveying , and paying of the said eight subsidies : And morcouer that it maybe enacted likewise , that after payment of the said Eight Subsidies shal be once due by vertue of this grant , if any Incumbent of any benefice or promotion Spirituall , charged to the payment of any of the said Eight Subsidies , or any part thereof , being at any time after that the said payments shal be due , lawfully monished , either personallie , or at his dignitie , Stall , Church or Mansion house , by the Arch-Bishop , Bishop of his Diocesse , or his vnder-Collector or vnder-Collectors , Deputie or Deputies , or by the Deane & Chapter ( the See being voyde ) or by any of their vnder-Collector or vnder-Collectors , Deputie or Deputies , authorized in that behalfe , to appeare by himselfe , or his Deputie , at a certaine day & place of convenient distance to the said Incumbent , then to be signified & preūxed , and then & there to pay such part of the said Eight Subsidies for his Benefice or promotion Spirituall , or the whole , as then by vertue of this grant shal be due : doe not either at the same day & place so to him signified & prefixed , truly content and pay , or cause to be contented & payed , such payments of the said eight Subsidies , as then by him shal be due : to be payed vnto the same Arch-Bishop , or Bishop , or to his vnder-Collector or vnder-Collectors , Deputie or Deputies , or to the Deane & Chapter of any See being voyde , or to their vnder-Collector or vnder-Collectors , Deputie or Deputies , or to one of them , shewing sufficient deputation from the said Arch-Bishop , Bishop , or Deane and Chapter , vnder his or their Seale in that behalfe , being ready at the said day and place so signified and prefixed , to receiue any payment of the said Eight Subsides then due , and openly demanding the same , or else pay euery of the payments of the said Eight Subsidies giuen by this grant within Fifty dayes , next after any such prefixed dayes of warning , at the furthest , ( so that open demaund be made of euery of the said payments of the said Eight Subsidies , in , and at the said day and place before prefixed ) that then euery Incumbent , so making default of any of the payments aforesaid , which shal be due from him for any of the parts of the said Eight Subsidies , as aforesaid ; after such default thereof certified into your Maiesties Exchequer , in writing , vnder the Scale and hand-writing of any Arch-Bishop , or Bishop , or the Common Seale of the Deane and Chapter , ( the See being voyde ) charged with the Collection of the said Eight Subsidies , or of any part of them , so that the said Certificate shal be made according to the forme hereafter expressed and exhibited into your Maiesties said Court of Exchequer , viz. for euery of the aforesaid payments of the said Eight Subsidies which shal be due the first day of Aprill , in any of the aforesaid yeares , at or before the last day of Iune , next following euery of the aforesaid dayes , when euery of the said payments shal be due : And for euery of the aforesaid payments which shal be due vpon the first day of October , in any of the aforesaid yeares , at , or before the last day of December , next following euery of the aforesaid dayes , when the said payments shal be due , as aforesaid , shall forfeit and loose vnto your Maiestie , your Heires and Successors , all the profits which of that onely dignitie , benefice , or promotions for the which he maketh such default of payment , and wherefore such certificate shal be made , shall come , grow and arise vnto him , ouer and aboue the charges of serning the cure , and the true and annuall twentieth part due to be payed out of his liuing , in one whole yeare next after such certificate made and deliuered vnto your Highnes Court of Exchequer and there admitted , in case the same Incumbent shall so long liue , and that euery such certificate of any such default of payment , shal be made according to the tenor and effect ensuing , mutatis mutandis . Honorabilibus & egregijs viris vice-thesaurar' & Baronibus de Scaccario illustrissimi Domini nostri Caroli Dei gratia Angliae , Scotiae , Franciae , & Hiberniae Regis fidei defensor' &c. vester humilis I. permissione divinâ A : Episcopus ; authoritate & vigore cujusdam Actus Parliament' Anno regni dicti Domini Regis decimo , editi & provisiad colligendum & levandum octo Subsidia eidem Domino Regi incodem Parliamento , per Prelatos et Clerum totius Hiberniae concessum , viz. pro prima solutione primi Subsidij solvend primo die Aprilis , ultim' praeterit infra Diocesym nostram . A : doputat'et authorizat'omnimodam reverentiam tantis viris debitam cum honore vestr' Reverentijs harum serie` annuncio et certifico me praefat'Episcopum ( modo quo profertur ) deputat et authorizat' sufficien' et cum omni diligentiâ requisivisse per N. O. subcollectorem , sen deputat' meum in hac parte , de quovis beneficio et promotione Ecclesiasticâ , in quadam seedula praesentibus anneka , specificat ' summas dictae primae solutionis dicti Subfidij , prodictis beneficijs et promotionibus debit'et solvend dioto primo die Aprilis ult' praeterit' , prout ineadem scedula praesentibus annexa , plemus liquet et apparet : Sed dictas summas ex causis in eadem scedul' allegatis , recipere nompotui . In ●ujus rei restimonium , sigillum meum praesentibus apposui , dat' _____ die Mensis _____ Anno Domini _____ The forme of which Seedule aboue mentioned ensueth . Civitas . D. vel decanat' de _____ A. B. Rector vel Viccar' ibidem monitus fuit apud _____ praedict _____ die _____ ultimo praeterit' per _____ _____ subcollectorem scu deputat' meum , ad solvend' apud Ecclesiam de _____ in Com. _____ die _____ prox' fequen' solutionem , five illam partem dioti Subsidij per ipsum debitum primo die Aprilis ultimo praeterit' pro promotione suâ praedict' . Sed praedictus A.B. _____ nec apud Ecclesiam de _____ praed' _____ eodem _____ die _____ nec alibi per quinquaginta dies , postea summam peripsum debitam ut profertur , solvit vel satissecit , neque dict' summam de proficuis dict' promotionis , nec de bonis & catallis dict' _____ _____ aliquo modo levare five recipere potui .

Prouided alwayes , that if any person or Incumbent , chargeable by this Act or grant , to any payment of the said Eight Subsidies , or any part thereof , shall proffer to tender any payment of any summe due to the Archbishop or Bishop , or to the Deane and Chapter where the See is voyde , or to any vnder-Collector or vuder-Collectors , Deputie or Deputies of any Archbishop , Bishop , or Deaue and Chapter aforesaid , at any time before the certifieate exhibited into the Exchequer , as is aforesaid : That then notwithstanding the Certificate made , as is aforesaid , against any such person , the said Iucumbent or person against whom the Certificate was so made , shall and may averre the offer or tender of his payment , as is aforesaid : And the same shall be tryed either by sufficient witnesses before the Vice-treasurer or Barons of the Exchequer , or by the tryall of tweiue men vpon any issue thereupon to be ioyned betwixt the said Incumbent , and any other person and persons , that he or any for him did offer or tender payment of the summe due , as aforesaid : which being found for the Incumbent , then euery such Ineumbent shall haue and enioy his promotion or promotions still without forfeiture or loosing to your Maiesty , your Heires or Successors , any the profits thereof , and as though no Certificate or default of any such payment had beene made or exhibited , any thing in this present grant or Act to the contrary notwithstanding .

And further that it may be enacted likewise , that euery Archbishop , and Bishop , and Deane and Chapter of euery See , vacant , and other persons chargeable to and with the Collection of the said Eight Subsidies , shall and may haue vpon euery payment of the said Eight Subsidies made to the Vice-treasurer , or generall Receiuer of Ireland for the time being , or to such other person or persons in place and places , to whom and where it shall please your Highnes or Court of Exchequer , to appoint for the receipt thereof at euery of the aforesaid times of payment , a sufficient acquittance , discharge , or Quietus est , in writing , of the aforesaid Vice-treasurer , or generall Receiuer , or such other person or persens , as either your Highnes , or your said Court of Exchequer shall assigne for the receipt thereof ; The same acquittance , discharge , or Quietus est , witnessing the receipt of so much of the same summe of the said Eight Subsidies , as shal be so receiued , and euery such acquittance , discharge or Quietus est in writing , subscribed with the name or uames of the Vice-treasurer , or Receiuer generall for the time being , or of such Auditor or other person or persons , as it shall please your Highnes , or your said Court of Exchequer to appoint for the same receipt , shall and may be good and effectuall in the Law , and be also a sufficient discharge to all and euery of the said Collectors , to all such intents , constructions and purposes , as if the same were made by Act of Parliament . And that euery of the said Collectors shall pay but onely three shillings foure pence Irish for euery generall or finall acquittance , discharge , or Quietus est , for euery payment of the said Eight Subsidies . And if any person so assigned , shall refuse or delay to make such a generall or finall acquittance , discharge , or Quietus est , for any payment of the said Eight Subsidies , or shall require or take for the same , any more then three shillings foure pence Irish : Or if any other Officer of the Exchequer , shal require and take of any Collector or Collectors , or of his or their vnder-Collector or vnder-Collectors , Deputie or Deputies , in respect of the Collection , payment or accompt of the said Eight Subsidies or any part thereof , or for expedition , or for any other cause or pretence whatsocuer concerning the same , any fees or summes of money , other then are before in this present grant expressely allowed vnto them , shall forteit the summe of Ten pounds of lawfull money of Ireland , to be payde and recouered in like manner , and to the same vse , as is before limited & expressed in this Statute , touching the like forfeitures of Receiuers and Auditors : And also that euery particular acquittance , which vpon any payment of the said eight Subsidies , shal be made by any Collector or Collectors of the said Eight Subsidies , or of any payment of them , or by his or their vnder-collector or vnder-collectors , Deputie or Deputies in that behalfe , to any Incumbent of any benefice or promotion spiritual , or to any person or persons contributarie and chargeable to and with the said Eight Subsidies , or any part or payment of them , shal be good and effectuall in Law , and a full and sufficient discharge to euery such Incumbent , and other person , and his beneficeand promotion spirituall ; of and for all other such summe and summes of money , as by the same acquittance shal be acknowledged to be receiued in respect of the same benefice or promotion for any part of the said Eight Subsidies : And that no acquittance of any other person or persons made before such certificate , shall in any wise discharge any person or promotion , for any part or payment of his said Eight Subsidies , nor of any paine , penaltie , or forfeiture specified in this grant . And to the intent it may be known to the Court of Exchequer , who be the vnder-collector or vnder-collectors , Deputie or Deputies of euery such Archbishop , Bishop , or Deane and Chapter authorized to receiue the same , & to make acquittance thereof ; euery Archbishop , Bishop , & Deane , & Chapter of any See being vayde , shall yearly , together with their certificate afore-mentioned , certifie the names of euery the vnder-collectors or Deputies to be appointed , as is aforesaid .

Prouided alwayes , that no Collector of the said eight Subsidies , or of any part of them , shall vse any processe or compulsarie meanes , or exact any fees or summes of money for the same , or otherwise , of any person , for not paying the said eight Subsidies , or any part thereof , at such certaine day & place as shal be by the Collector or his vnder-collector , or Deputy prefixed , in case the said person shall tender the same vnto the Collector or his vnder-collector , or Deputie , within xx . dayes next after such prefixed day : And that the said Collectors shal not by themselues , or any others take of any person for the receipt of any seuerall payments of the said eight Subsidies , & for his acquittance thereupon , any more then iiii . d. sterling , by any colour or pretext whatsoeuer . Prouided alwayes , that no spirituall promotions , nor any lands , possessions or revenues annexed to the same , being charged by this grant , or any goods or chatles growing , being , or remaining vpon the same , or elsewhere appertaining to the owners of the spirituall promotion , or to any of them , shal be charged or made contributarie to any other Subsidie alreadie granted to your Highnes by the Laitie , or hereafter to be granted , during the time appointed by this grant , for the payment of the said Eight Subsidies .

Prouided also , that all Deanes , Archdeacons , Dignities , Masters , Wardens , & Prebendaries of all Cathedrall and Collegiate Churches & Colledges , or any of them , shal be charged with these eight Subsidies , for those possessions , revenues & promotions only which to their seuerall promotions , dignities & roomes are cleerly & distinctly limited , & to their only vse seuered , thereof to pay the twentieth part , being deducted for euery and each of the said eight Subsidies , Foure shilliags of euery full pound , in manner & forme as is aboue rehearsed : And that all those rents , possessions , profits , portions , hereditaments , & spirituall promotions , & euery of them heretofore by your Highnes , or any of the Kings and Queenes of this Realme , or any other person or persons whatsoeuer , giuen , granted , bequeathed , deuised , or impropriated vnto the said Cathedrall or Collegiate Churches or Colledges , or to any of them which any wayes be assigned , imployed or vsed , either for or towards the yearely maintenance of Readers of Diuinitie , poore men , Schoolmasters , Vshers , Grammarians , Pettie-Canons , Conduets , Vicars-Chorall , Singing-men , Choristers , Virgars , Sextons , or of any other necessarie or daylie Officers or Ministers in such Cathedrall or Collegiate Churches or Colledges , or any of them , or for or towards the repairing or re-edifying of any of the same Cathedrall or Collegiate Churches or Colledges , shall not be charged with any part of these eight Subsidies : The certaintie of which portions aswell chargeable to these eight Subsidies , as not chargeable , in this behalfe the Archbishop or Bishop of the Diocesse , or the See being vnder the Deane & Chapter , or any other to whom the same shall or may appertaine , vpon due search & examination , shall certifie vnder his or their Seales , into your Highnes said Court of Exchequer , at or before the seuerall dayes aforesaid , appointed for the payment of the said 8. Subsidies . Prouided alwaies , that euery Parson , Vicar , or other spirituall person , paying any pension , wherof no allowance is made in the valuation of his promotion or benefice , shall & may retain to his own vse & reliefe , so much of euery pound of euery such pension for euery payment of the said 8 Subsidies , as he standeth charged by this grant to pay , for euery part & payment of the said eight Subsidies out of euery pound , for the whole valuation of his spirituall promotion , any couenant , grant or bond to the contrary notwithstanding . Prouided also , that these eight Subsidies granted by the Clergie or any part of them , or any of them , shall not be demanded or levied out of the house of Students or Colledge , called Trinitie Colledge , scituate in or neare vnto the Citty of Dublin , or out of any Hospitall , Almes-houses , or Grammar-Schooles , or of any Church-benefice , or other revenues to the said Colledge , Hospitals , Almes-houses or Grammar-Schooles , or to any of them annexed , appropriated , or otherwise appertaining . And for the sure and true payment of the said eight Subsidies granted by your said Prelates and Clergie , according to the tener , purport , effect , and true meaning of this present graunt , your said Prelates and Clergie , most humbly desire your Highnes , that this their said gift , grant , and eight Subsidies , & euery matter , summe of money , petition , clause , prouisions , reseruations and sentenees in this Instrument contained , concerning the said Eight Subsidies , may be ratified , established , & confirmed by authoritie of your Highnes court of Parliament . In quorum omnium & singulorum , & praemissorum fidem & testimonium , nos Iacobus Aichiepiscopus Armachanus , totius Hiberniae Primas antedictus , has praesentes Literas nostras testimoniales , five hoc praesens publicum instrumentum , ad humilem rogatum Praelatorum , & Cleri praedicti Sigilli nostri appensione ac signo , nomine & subscriptione Iohannis Forth Armigeri _____ notarij publici , jussimus & fecimus communiri . Dat' 26 die instant' mensis Iulij , Anno Domini millesimo sexcentesimo tricesimo quarto , Regnique vestri foelicissimi , serlicet Angliae Scotiae Franciae & Hiberniae decimo , et nostrae translationis nono . Wherefore for the sure 〈◊〉 true payment of the said Subsidies , granted by the said Prelates & Clergie , according to the tenor effect & true meaning of the said Instrument . Be it enacted by the kings most excellent Maiestie , with the assent of the Lords spirituall & temporal , & the Commons in this present Parliament assembled , & by the authoritie of the same , That the said gist , grant , & euery matter , summe of money , petition , prouision , clause and sentence in the same Instrument contained , shall stand & be ratified , established & confirmed by the authoritie of this present Parliament .

And further be it enacted by the authoritie aforesaid , That euery person that shal be appointed to the collection & gathering of the said Subsidies , shall haue full powers authoritie to 〈◊〉 take & perceiue the said Subsidie , by the authoritie of the Censures of the Church ( that is to say ) by Suspension , Excommunication , or Interdiction , & also by sequestration of the fruits & profits of their benefites and promotions spiritua●l , in whose h●●ds soeuer they b● , and to make sale of the said fruits , without danger of the Lawes of this Realme , or by distresse vpon the possessions of the Farmers & Occupiers of the lands and tenements chargeable by the said Instrument , for or to the payment of any summe or summes of money to bee due by force thereof , or otherwise by the discretion of the Collector thereof . And that no ●●plevin , prohibition , or supersedeas shal be allowed or obeyed , for any persons making default of the payments of the said Subsidies , or any of them , contrary to the tenor of the grant thereof , vntill such time , as they haue truly satisfied & contented all such pa●ts & partions as to them in that behalf appertaineth , & that euery such Farmer & Farmers , their Executors & assignes that shall fortune hereafter to be charged to or with the payment of the said Subsidies , or any part thereof , shall by the authoritie aforesaid , be allowed & retaine in his hands , asmuch of his yearely rent & farme , as the summe which he shall fortune to pay for his Lord or Lessor shall extend or amount vnto , except that the said Farmer or Farmers , their Executors or Assignes , by the Lease and grant that they haue of any part of the lands , tithes , profits or tenements , chargeable to the said Subsidie , or by force of any Couenant or Article therein contained , bee bound & charged to pay the same , & thereof to discharge the Leassor and Land-Lord , during the terme mentioned in the said Lease .

And likewise be it enacted by the authoritie of this present Parliament , That whereas diuers Curates , lyable to these Subsidies , being oftentimes remoueable , doe serue aswell in diuers impropriations belonging to the Kings Maiestie , as in other spirituall promotions belonging to other persons : That for the speedie recouery of the said Subsidies , it may bee lawfull to the said Collector or Collectors of the said Subsidie , their Deputie or Deputies , to levy the said Subsidies vpon the Farmer or Farmers , or occupiers of all such impropriations , or spirituall promotions , by all censures of the Church aforesaid , & euery of them , or by way of distresse of Tithes of the said impropriation or impropriations & spirituall promotions , or otherwise vpon the goods and chartels of the said Farmer or Farmers and occupiers : In which case no inhibition , prohibition , replevin , or other processe adwarded to the contrary , shal be obeyed , any Lawes , statutes , priuiledges or customes to the contrary hereof , heretofore made , granted or vsed , or hereafter to be made , granted or vsed to the contrary , in any wise notwithstanding . And that it may bee lawfull to the Collector and other Officers and Ministers of such Arch-bishop , Bishop , Deane and Chapter , for not payment of the said Subsidies after the same shal be due , in or at any of the said times of payment , to prize & value the said distresse & distresses , by two indifferent Neighbours by him to be chosen , and the distresse and distresses so prized to sell , & thereof to detaine so much money as shall amount to the summe payable to the Kings Maiestie , with the reasonable charges also of the said Collector sustained in that behalf , and the rest of the money made of the said Distresse to be deliuered and payed to the owner and occupier thereof .

Prouided alwayes , and bee it enacted by the authoritie aforesaid , that euery Lay person hauing spirituall promotion , chargeable by this Act , and also temporall possessions , goods , chattles & debts , charged to the Subsidies granted in this Parliament by the Temporaltie , shal be taxed , charged and set for the said spirituall promotions with the Clergie and his temporall possessions and chattles reall , with the temporaltie and not otherwise : any thing before mentioned to the contrary notwithstanding .