Lands of Crown Accountants Liable for their Debts Act 1571

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1571 c. 4
Anno decimo tertio Regin E l i z a b e t h . An Act to make the Lands, Tenements, Goods and Chattels of Tellers, Receivers, &c.liable to the Payment of their Debts.

(13 Eliz. 1) C A P. IV.

FO R the better Security of the Queen's Majesty, her Heirs and Successors, against such as shall have the Receipt and Charge of the Money and Treasure of her Highness, her Heirs and Successors, (2) Be it declared and enacted by the Queen's Majesty, with the Assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That all Lands, Tenements, Profits, Commodities and Hereditaments, (3) which any Treasurer or Receiver in or belonging to any of the Queen's Majesty's Courts of the Exchequer, Wards and Liveries, or Duchy ofLancaster , Treasurer of the Chamber, Cofferer of the Houshold to the Queen's Majesty, her Heirs or Successors, Treasurer for the Wars, Treasurer of any Fort, Town or Castle, where any Garrison is or shall be kept, Treasurerof the Admiralty or Navy, Treasurer, Undertreasurer or other Person accomptable to the Queen's Majesty, her Heirs or Successors, for any Office or Charge of or within the Mint, Treasurer or Receive of any Sums of Money imprest, or otherwise, for the Use of the Queen's Majesty, her Heirs or Successors, or for Provisions of Victual, or for Fortifications, Buildings or Works, or for any other Provisions to be used in any the Offices of the Queen's Majesty's Ordnance and Artillery, Armory, Wardrobe, Tents and Pavilions, or Revels, Customer, Collector, Farmer of Customs, Subsidies, Imposts or other Duties within any Port of the Realm, Collector of the Tenths of the Clergy, Collector of any Subsidy or Fifteen, Receiver General of the Revenues of any County or Counties, answerable in the Receipt of the Exchequer, or in the Court of Wards and Liveries, or the Duchy ofLancaster , Clerk of the Hamper, (4) now hath, or at any Time hereafter shall have, within the Time whilst he or they or any of them shall remain accountable; (5)shall for the Payment and Satisfaction unto the Queen's Majesty, her Heirs and Successors, of his or their Arrearages, at any Time hereafter to be lawfully, according to the Laws of this Realm, adjudged and determined upon his or their Account (all his due and reasonable Petitions being allowed) be liable to the Payment thereof, (6) and be put and had in Execution, for the Payment of such Arrearages or Debts to be so adjudged and determined upon any such Treasurer, Receiver, Teller, Customer, Collector, Farmer, Officer or Accountant, as is before-named, (7) in like and in as large and beneficial Manner to all Intents and Purposes, as if the same Treasurer, Receiver, Teller, Customer, Farmer or Collector, upon whom any such Arrearages or Debts shall be so adjudged or determined, had the Day he became first Officer or Accountant stood bound by Writing obligatory, having the Effect of a Statute of the Staple, to her Majesty, her Heirs or Successors, for the true Answering and Payment of the same Arrearages or Debts.

S-II Certain Cases wherein the Queen may sell the Accountants Lands.

II Certain Cases wherein the Queen may sell the Accountants Lands.

'II. And forasmuch as many Times it may come to pass, that the Queen's Highness, her Heirs or Successors, shall not or may not be conveniently satisfied of the Debt to be determined or due upon any Account or Farm as is aforesaid, by way of Extent, for that the yearly Value of the Lands extended will not satisfy her Highness, her Heirs or Successors, within the Compass of many Years, so as thereby great Lossmight ensue to her Highness, her Heirs and Successors;' (2) For Remedy thereof be it further enacted, That if any Treasurer, Receiver, Collector, Farmer, Customer, Teller, Collector of Custom, Subsidy or Impost, or other Person Accountant before-mentioned, which shall from and after the Feast of St.Michael the Archangel now next coming receive or be chargeable with any Money or Treasure of our said Sovereign Lady the Queen, her Heirs or Successors, (3) and shall upon the Determining of his or their Account (all his and their due Petitions to them upon the same Account being allowed) or by reason of any Farm, as aforesaid, be found in Arrearages, or to owe unto our said Sovereign Lady the Queen, her Heirs or Successors, any Sum or Sums of Money, (4) and shall not within the Space of six Months next after his or their Accounts finished, or Debt known, (having Allowance of his or their due and reasonable Petitions, as is aforesaid) truly satisfy and pay all such Arrearages and Sums of Money as he or they shall owe upon Determination of his or their Account, or upon his or their Debt known, as is aforesaid; (5)that then it shall and may be lawful to the Queen's Highness, her Heirs and Successors, at...

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