The third part of the reports of severall excellent cases of law, argued and adjudged in the courts of law at Westminster in the time of the late Queen Elizabeth, from the first, to the five and thirtieth year of her reign collected by a learned professor of the law, William Leonard ... ; with alphabetical tables of the names of the cases, and of the matters contained in the book.

CCCXLIV. Sledd's Case. Mich. 32 Eliz. In the Kings Bench.

SLedd of Great Melton in the County of Oxon,* 1.1 was assessed to 7 s. for a Fifteenth: And upon refual to pay the same, the Collector distrained the Beasts of Sledd, and sold them. There∣upon Sledd brought Trespass against him the in the Kings Bench. And the Collector exhibited a Bill against Sledd; Who shewed by his Counsel, That the Statute of 29 Eliz. which enacted this Fifteenth, Provides, That the said Fifteenth shall be levied of the moveable Goods, Chattels, and other things usual to such Fifteenths and Tenths, to be Contributory and chargeable. And shewed further, That his Beasts distrained fuerunt tempore distri∣ctionis, upon the Glebe-Land of a Parsonage presentative, which he had in Lease; which Glebe-Land is not chargeable usually to Fif∣teenths granted by the Temporalty, nor the Cattel upon it. It was the Opinion of the Iustices, That although the Parson him∣self shall pay Tenths to the King, yet the Lay-Farmor shall pay Fifteenths, and his Cattel are distrainable for the same upon the Glebe-Lands of the Parsonage. And therefore it was awarded, That the Distress and the Sale were lawful.

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  2 Len. 146.