Section VI
Deans, &c. to give Notice to Collectors of Name, &c. of Person buried. Penalty £5.
And whereas diverse Persons are buried in other Parishes than where they lived or resided by reason whereof the Duties payable upon the Burial of such Person or p[er]sons are not answered to His Majesty Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from & after the Foure and twentieth day of June One thousand six hundred ninety and six the said Deans Parsons Deacons Vicars Curates and their respective Substitutes shall and are hereby required within Ten Days after any Person or Persons shall be by them buried in their respective Parishes Precincts and Places who X1are Inhabitants or resided in any other Parish or Place to give Notice in Writing of the Day and Place and Name of such Person or Persons so by him or them buried as aforesaid to the Collectors or one of them of the Parish p[re]cinct or Place where such Person or Persons last lived or inhabited on paine to forfeit for every Neglect herein the Su[m]m of Five Pounds to be recovered by such Person and in such Manner as aforesaid.
Annotations
Editorial notes
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Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: Were O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]