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due or payable, shall ensue or be continued against such Offender, so long as the same Person shall continue in coming to Divine Service , according to the Intent of the said Estatute.
VII. And where, by the said former Statute, the third Part of the Forfeitures for not coming to Divine Service is limited to the Poor (2) Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That shall and may be lawful to and for the Lord Treasurer of England, Chancellor and Chief Baron of the Exchequer for the Time being, or two of them, to assign and dispose of the full third Part of the twenty Pounds for every Month paid or to be paid into the Receipt of the Exchequer, as is aforesaid, for the Relief and Maintenance as well of the Poor, and of the Houses of Correction , as of impotent and maimed Soldiers, as the same Lord Treasurer, Chancellor and Chief Baron , or any two of them, shall order or appoint ; anything in the said Estatute made in the said three and twentieth Year of her Majesty's Reign mentioned to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.
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VIII. Provided always, That this Act , or any Thing therein contained , shall not in any wise extend or be construed to make void or impeach any Grant or Lease heretofore made bona fide, without Fraud or Covin, whereupon any yearly Rent or Payment is reserved or payable ; (2) or any Grant or Lease hereafter to be made bona fide, without Fraud or Covin, whereupon the accustomed yearly Rent or more shall be reserved ; (3) or any other Conveyance, Assurance or Assignment whatsoever heretofore made bona fide, upon good Consideration , and without Fraud or Covin, which not or shall not be revokable at the Pleasure of such Offender ; (4) otherwise than to give Benefit and Title to her Majesty, her Heirs and Successors , to have , perceive and enjoy such Rents and Payments during the Continuance of such Lease and Grant, according to the true Meaning of this Act. IX. And provided also, That this Act , or any Thing therein contained, shall not in any wise extend or be construed to continue any Seizure of any Lands or Tenements of such Offender in her Majesty's Hands, or in the Hands of her Heirs or Successors, after the said Offender's Death, which Lands or Tenements he shall have or be seized of only for Term of his Life, or in the Right of his Wife ; any Thing in this Act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.
1 The text below is as printed in Statutes at Large (1770) pp. 656-7. Cf. Introd. p. x, footnote 13. The erroneous reading mentioning not the coming the 1770 edition of S. at L. (corrected in later editions) .
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