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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1823 edition. Excerpt: ... Parliament directed him to grant for levying the said monies, and he refused to errant such warrants; wherefore it petition, can, ., .... T... was prayed, that his Lordship would grant the Feti lssue their war-r J' v a rant for levvine doners ms warrant to levy the several sums of money the sums assessed. 'so so respectively due to them by distress and sale of such 1748.1748. And Lord Harcourt declared he entirely concurred goods of the parties so refusing to pay, according to v-/ the directions of the Act of Parliament." Exparte Lord Harcourt thinking the matter of the Petition of great consequence to the Inhabitants of the several Parishes mentioned in the Act, as well as to the Clergy of the City of London, as no such complaint since the making of the Act had been before made to the Lord Chancellor, or Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, or to any two of the Barons of the Exchequer, desired the assistance of Mr.Baron Bury and Mr. Baron Price; and on 2nd December following, the matter came on again in their presence, when it appeared that several of the quarterly sums claimed by the Petitioners became clue, and in arrear, when the houses or other hereditaments whereon such quarterly sums were assessed stood empty, or were in the possession of former tenants or occupiers thereof, and a question thereupon arisingj whether such sums so assessed upon the several houses within the several Parishes mentioned in the Act, for making up certain annual sums of money to be paid in lieu of Tithes, were become a fixed or real charge upon the houses whereon they had been so assessed, so that the arrears which became due in the time of former tenants, or when the houses were empty, might be levied on the succeeding tenants; the further...