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Section II Proviso for Clergymen, Students in the Universities and of Law, the Trained Bands, and other Persons herein named.

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Provided alwaies that this Act shall not extend to the pressing of any Clergyman or any Schollers or Students or priviledged persons of either of the Universities Innes of Court or Chancery or any of the Trained bands of this Realme or to X1 the pressing of any other person who was rated towards the payment of the last Subsidies or that shall be rated or taxed towards the payment of any Subsidies hereafter to be granted before the time of such impresting or to the eldest son of any person who is or shall be before the time of such impresting rated in the subsidie Booke at three pound lands or five pound goods or to any person of the rank or degree of an Esquire or upwards or to the son of any such person of the said ranke or degree or of the Widow of any such person or to any person under the age of eighteen or above the age of threescore yeares or to any Marriners Seamen or Fishermen

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X1

Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: to O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]