Crown Revenues Act 1553
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
(7 Edw. 6) C A P. I.
'F Orasmuch as the King's Majesty's Treasurers, and general and particular Receivers and Bailiffs of his Honours, Castles, Lordships, Manors, Lands and Tenements, Reversions, Possessions and other his Hereditaments inEngland, Wales and Calice, and the Marches of the same, or elsewhere within the King's Dominions, have not so justly, speedily, neither duly made yearly Payments of such Sum and Sums of Money as hath been by them and every of them received of the King's Majesty's Revenues, Possessions and Profits, into the King's Majesty's Treasury according to their Duties, but yearly do detain and keep the same to their own Gain, Prosit and Lucre, contrary to all Right, Truth and Equity, and to the manifest, Injury, Wrong and Hindrance of and to the King our Sovereign Lord:' 1
II Every Officer that now is accomptant to the King shall be bound for his true Accompt and Payment.
II. Be it therefore enacted by the King our Sovereign Lord, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That every Treasurer and general and particular Receiver, Collector and Bailiff, and other Minister Accomptant, which now is charged or chargeable with or for the Receipt of any of the King's Majesty's Money, Rents or Revenues whatsoever, not being bound with Surety or Sureties by Obligation, Recognisance or otherwise, to our late Sovereign Lord the King, or to our Sovereign Lord the King that now is, for or concerning their Office or Offices before the xx. Day ofDecember next coming, or at any Time or Times before the same xx. Day of December , if they or any of them be reasonably required, shall upon Pain of Forfeiture of his Office be bound to the King's Majesty by sufficient Writing obligatory in reasonable Sum or Sums of Money; (2) The same Writing obligatory to be made with or upon Condition, that the Person which shall be so bounden, his Heirs, Executors, Administrators, Deputy or Deputies, or one of them, from Time to Time shall yield a present and true Accompt of all Sums of Money, and other Things that the same Treasurer and general and particular Receiver, Collector, Bailiff or other Minister Accomptant, shall, may, or reasonably might be charged with, concerning or by reason of his or their Office or Offices: (3) And also shall make Payments of the same Sums of Money at such Days and Times, and in such Manner and Form, as hereafter in this Act is expressed and declared.
III Every Officer to the King accomptant hereafter to be named shall be bound with Sureties for his true Account and Payment.
III. And be it further enacted, That all and every Person and Persons hereafter to be named, assigned or appointed to be Treasurer or general or particular Receiver, Collector or Bailiff, or Minister Accomptant of our said Sovereign Lord the King, shall before any their Entry, Executing, Using or Exercising of his or their Office or Offices whereunto he or they shall be so nominated or appointed, together with Surety or Sureties, acknowledge and make sufficient and lawful Bond or Bonds to the King's Majesty, in such Court of Record where the same Officer or Officers is or shall be accomptable and chargeable, that they, their Heirs, Executors, Administrators, Assigns or Deputies, shall truly accompt and pay all such Sums of Money as shall come to their Hands, or shall, may, or reasonably might be charged with concerning his or their Office or Offices to the King's Use, within the Circuits of their several Receipts and Collections, at such or like Days and Times, and in such Manner and Form as is abovesaid, to be contained in the Conditions of every of the said Bonds, upon Pain of Loss and Forfeiture of his or their Office or Offices, and of his and their Letters Patents of the same Office or Offices.
IV Receivers Precepts unto Accomptants to make Payment of their Collections due to the King at Easter.
IV. Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That every Receiver of the King's Majesty's Honours, Manors, Lands, Possessions, Rents and Revenues for the Time being, or his Deputy or Deputies, all yearly make his several Precepts to all and singular the Collectors, Ministers and Bailiffs Accomptant within the Circuit of his Office, charging and commanding them on the King's Majesty's Behalf, by the same Precept, to appear before them personally, or by their sufficient Deputy or Deputies, for whom they will answer, within the County where the same Offices, Bailiwicks, Receipts or Collections do lie, at a certain Day and Place in the same Precept to be limited, and to pay to the King's Majesty's Use such Sums of Money as they ought to do by Reason of any of their said Offices, being due to our said Sovereign Lord the King at or before the Feast ofEaster, which they have or may by any lawful or due Mean levy or receive within or by Reason of their said Offices or Collections: (2) And that the same Precepts shall be severally delivered to every of the said Officers, Ministers and Bailiffs Accomptant, or to their Deputy or Deputies, or else be left at their Dwelling-houses, or at the Manor, Lordship or Place where their Receipt or Collection is or ought to be, twelve Days at the least before the Day of Appearance to them given and prefixed in the same Precept or Precepts.
V The Penalty where an Accomptant maketh Default of Appearance or Payment.
V. And if any of the said Ministers, Collectors or Bailiffs Accomptant, upon or after any such Precept or Precepts at any Time hereafter made by any such Receiver, and being delivered and left in Form aforesaid, do make Default at the same Day and Place assigned and appointed in and by the said Precept or Precepts, that then the same Collector, Minister or Bailiff Accomptant so making Default, and not appearing as is aforesaid, and being thereof duly and lawfully convicted in the Court where the Revenue is or shall be answered, shall for the first Offence lose and forfeit to the King our Sovereign Lord his whole Fee for that Year wherein he shall so make Default, or the Value thereof; (2) and for Non-payment of the said Money due and payable at or before the said Feast ofEaster unto our said Sovereign Lord the King, within or by reason of his said Office, Collection or Bailiwick, shall lose...
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