August 1643
[24 August, 1643.]
Ord. of 25 July, 1643; Tenants shall pay the sums assessed on their Landlords.; To be defalked out of their next Rent.; Indempnity; Distress in case of refusal
Whereas in a late Ordinance of Parliament, Entituled A
Declaration and Ordinance of the Lords and Commons in
Parliament, for the speedy raising of a Body of Horse for the
preservation, peace and safety of the Kingdome, to resist the
insolencies and outrages committed by the Souldiers of the
Kings Army there is no Provision made that the Tenants shall
pay the several sums of Money that shall be Assessed upon their
Landlords for the Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments which
they hold of them; by reason of which Omission great Inconvenience is likely to happen unto the Commonweal (if it be not
prevented) for that many of the said Landlords are gone out of
the Countrey, and many others of them have not sufficient Goods
to be found, whereby to be distrained for the said sums of
Money: For remedy of which Inconvenience, Be it now Ordained
by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, That
whatsoever sums of Money are, or shall be set or imposed by
vertue of the said recited Ordinance, upon any Landlords, for or
in respect of any Lands, Tenements, or hereditaments, held of
them by any Tenants, the same sums of Money shall be paid by
their several and respective Tenants (for and on the behalf of the
said Landlords) for and toward the raising of the aforesaid Body
of Horse; which said sums of Money (so to be paid by the said
Tenants for their Landlords as aforesaid,) the said several and
respective Tenants shall (upon such payment made by them
thereof) deduct and defalk out of the next Rents payable by
them unto their Landlords, and for so doing, the said Tenants
and their Heirs, Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, and
every of them shall be (by force of this Ordinance) acquitted and
for ever saved harmless against the said Landlords and their
Heirs, Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, and every of
them, any Grant, Covenant, Condition, Writing Obligatory, or
other matter whatsoever made heretofore to the contrary notwithstanding. And it is further Ordained by the said Lords
and Commons, That if any of the said several and respective
Tenants shall refuse or neglect to pay (for and on the behalf
of their respective Landlords) any of the said several and
respective sums of Money (so imposed, or to be imposed by force
of the said recited Ordinance upon their said several and respective Landlords, for, or in respect of any Lands, Tenements, or
Hereditaments held of the said Landlords by the said Tenants
as aforesaid) for and towards the raising of the aforesaid Body of
Horse, unto such persons unto whom the same Moneys ought to
be paid by the intent and meaning of the said recited Ordinance,
That then it shall and may be lawfull to and for the respective
Deputy-Lieutenants, and Committees of Parliament, mentioned
in the said recited Ordinance, or any two of them, to appoint a
distress of the Goods of such Tenants to be taken, and to be sold
for satisfaction of the same sums of Money; which distress and
sale shall be taken and made accordingly.