Anno xi henrici vij Statuta bonu[m] publicum concerne[n]tia edita in parliamento tento apud westmonesterium xiiij die Octobris anno regni illustrissimi Domini nostri regis Henrici septimi.

For leuyenge of the arrerages of the beneuolence laste graū¦ted Capitulo x:

PRayen the comyns in thys present parlyament assembled that where dyuers and many of your subgetes seuerally graunted to your hyghnes dyuers sommes of moneye of theyr free wylles and beneuolence for the deffence of this your realme towarde the charge and greate expences that your hyghnes susteyned and bare for the sayd deffence aswell in your sayd viage royall in the parties of Fraunce beyonde the see as on this syde in and for abowte the same whyche viage your sayd hyghnes toke vpon you in your moost royall personne ••o the grete Ieoperdye and labour of the same aswell for y^e sayd defence of thys

your sayd realme as for the suerty profyte weele & commodite of vs all youre true lyege men and subgettes enhabited in the same / of which sommes of money dyuers your sayd subgettes inhabyted in the same of which sommes of money dyuers your sayd subgettes full louyngly haue made to you true payment ac∣cordyng to theyr grauntes and other many seuerall summes of money by dy∣uers your subgettes to you in that partye graunted as yet remayn not content ne payed. part wherof reste in the hondes of the sayd grauntours and parte in the hondes of the Commyssyoners Collectours & receyuours in that party ass∣ignyd for the leuy rerynge and kepynge of the same whiche is not only to the da¦mage losse and hurte of your sayd hyghnes / but also to the murmure grudge & myscontentynge of suche your sayd subgettes as hauen made their sayd pay∣mentes in that behalfe / Wherfore may it please youre sayd hyghnes by the ad∣uyse and assent of your lordes spyrytuall and temporall and the Comyns in th¦is present parlyament assembled and by autoryte of the same / to ordeyne enac¦te and establyssh that proclamacyon be made in euery Shyre towne and hun∣dred within this your reame / that euery persone & persones whiche haue not cō¦tente and payed the sommes of money by them graunted to your hyghnes for the causes remembred / That suche Commyssyoners Collectours Receyuours & other persones deputed to receyue the same that they do make payment ther∣of within thre monethes nexte after the sayd proclamacyon made to the sayde Commyssyoners Collectours Receyuours or other persones that herafter shall be therunto deputed or assyngned by your highnes by your letters patentes vn¦der your greate seale in lyke wyse to be proclamed / And that the sayd Commis¦syoners haue auctoryte and power to make processe to take euery such persone or persones as soo shall make defaute of payment by his body. and the same to commyt to the comyn gaole there to remayne and abyde without bayll or maȳ¦npryse vnto the tyme he hath payed his sayd dutyes or ellys-fynde suffycyent suerty for the payment of the same to the sayd Cōmyssioners agreable / And yf ony suche persone that hath made payment of his sayd duty graunted. be deces∣sed. that thenne the goodes and catayles of hym decessed beyng in the hondes of his executures of admistratours not admynystred be charged and chargeable to the sayd payment / And that the sayd Commyssyoners haue lyke auctoryte & power to doo ordeyne and awarde processe for the leuy of the same / as the Ba∣rons of the kinges Eschequer doo and may doo for the kynges dutyes restynge afore theym of recorde in the sayd Eschequer ¶And the sayd Commyssyoners Collectoures or Receyuours afore this tyme therunto deputed or that hereafter for and to the same shall be deputed hauyng and takynge the Recept of the same your money or ony perell therof. be seuerally countable for the porcyons by the¦ym seuerall receyued before your Tresorer of your warres that was by you as∣sygned in your sayd vyage royall or ony other persone or persones that heraf∣ter by your hyghnesse shalbe therunto deputed and assygned of and for all suche sommes of money as they seuerly haue receyued or shall come to theyr hondes before suche

Auditours as by your hyghnes shall be assygned in that partye. And yf ony of the sayd Commyssyoners Collectours or Receyuours come not to make theyr accomptes att suche daye and place as shall be lymytted in your pryue seale to theym dyrected in that partye that thenne vpon Certyfycat of the delyuere of y^e sayd wryttes or pryue seales made by hym that the same delyuered vpon his o∣the vnto the Chaunceller of Englond for the tyme beyng. the sayd Chauncel¦ler for the same tyme beyng haue auctoryte and power to make Commyssyons vnder your greate seale to certayne persones by his discrecyon to be lymytted and chosen to take the bodyes of the sayd persones that soo shall make defawte and theym to commyte to warde on lesse thenne he make before the sayd Tre∣sorers or Commyssioners such excuse as to them shall seme resonable. there to re¦mayne tyll they haue made theyr accomtes of and for the premysses and satys¦fyed content and payed the dutie by theim dewe vpon theyr sayd accomptes Tresorer of your warres or to suche other persone or persones to your vse as your grace shall depute and assygne in that partye to receyue the same / ¶And ••uer this be it enacted by the sayd auctoryte. that yf ony trauers fortune to be ••ytwene the sayd Commyssyoners afore this tyme assigned to receyue the kyn¦••es sayd duties collectours and the sayd grauntoures of and for payeng & not ••••yenge receyuynge or not receyuynge of the sayd somme or sommes of money or o∣ny parte therof that thenne yf the sayd grauntours shewe acquytaunce wri¦tynges bylles or byllettes wherby it may appere afore the Commyssyoners he¦reafter to be assygned the Commyssyoners or Collectours afore this tyme ass∣ygned in fourme reherced haue receyued the somme or sommes of money or o∣ny parte therof that shall be in trauers / or that the sayd grauntours offre to brȳ¦ge two wytnesse or mo that wyll wytnesse and testefye the sayd payment or that ony grauntour or grauntours denye the graunte of ony suche somme or sōmes of money or ony part therof of theym demaunded. that therupon the sayd com∣myssyoners herafter to be assygned. haue auctoryte and power to here the hole matere euydence wrytynges witnesse and proues concernynge the sayd trauers and denyenge of the sayd grauntes and thenne to charge and discharge euery of the sayd persones by theyr dyscrecyons as they shall seme best / and the same charge or dyscharge to binde and discharge euery of the sayd partyes ayenst y^e kynges highnes as yf it were adiuged before y^e Auditours assygned by due ory¦ginal in ony of y^e kȳges courtes of record bytwene party & partye in accyon of accomptes or ellis that the kynge were playntyf in the sayde accyon of accōpte ¶Be it also ordeyned by the sayd auctoryte that the sayd Commyssyoners he∣••eafter to be assygned by y^e kyngs hyghnes / shal by theyr dyscrecyon vpō their accompte and full payment made of all sommes of money by theym receyued or to be receyued by the Collectour or receyuours of the sayd sōmes of beneuo∣lence shal by theyr-dyscrecyōs alow vnto y^e sayd receyuours & Collectours / such theyr resonable costes & rewardes as they for y^e gaderȳg of y^e said sōmes haue sus¦tened / Prouyded alway y^t this act shal not extēd to charge ony heyre of ony man that hath afore tyme graūted ony somme of mony by way of his beneunlence