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Printed in NC, 4: 219-20.
To all Mayors Sheriffs Aldermen, Commissioners, Iustices of the peace, Constables, Headboroughs, Press-masters & other his
Whereas by Ancient Charters
cessors Kings & Queens of England It hath been
& other Ministers of his ch
them are & shall be freed & discharged from being put into any Assizes, Iuries, Inquests or Attaints although the
same should touch his
Escheator Constable Collector Inquisitor or Assessor of Tenths Fifteents Subsidies Talliages Aides or other Impositions
nor beare any other Office nor service whatsoever. And that they & every of them should be quit & discharged
forever in the City of London & all other Cities Towns & places where they do inhabit & where their estates
do lye of all Assessments Taxations Talliages Aids Loanes Contributions Fifteent
sitions whatsoever & every part thereof to the Kings y
Realme of England & otherwise granted & to be granted And likewise from all Imprests Suits Actions Arrests Attaints
&c And that all Pleas and complaints (pleas of Freehold & of the Crown only excepted) should be adjudged before
the Warden of his
grieved in their Lands Tenements Rents Goods or Chattels but should have their due allowance a
thereof before the Treasurer & Barons of the Exchequer. And whereas in the Terme of St Michael in the two &
in pursuance to the said Charters ordered that the Collectors of Taxes granted by Parliament or otherwise do upon
certificate under the hand & seale of the Warden of his
goods or chattels or upon their Tenements in any City Town or place where the same do lye but shall return them
with the summs assessed uwith upon the accounts of the said Collectors Now I Isaac Newton Es
Warden of his
Parish of St Leonards Shoreditch is one of my Clerks belonging to his
enjoy the Privileges & Immunities before mentioned & all other Privileges that may of right belong appertein
unt
of his
presents Given under my hand at the Mint within the Tower of London this r
& Ireland Defender of the Faith &c