Section XVII Payments of Tithes, &c. to the present Possessors a Discharge.

Provided alwayes and bee it Enacted That all and every person and persons who have paid or satisfied by composition or otherwise any Tythes Pensions Oblations Obventions Rents or other Ecclesiasticall Dutyes belonging to any Rectory Viccaridge or other Ecclesiasticall Benefice or Promotion to any person or persons being in possession or receiving the proffitts thereof by colour or pretence of any Authoritie or to their Assignes or any others, claiming from by or under them shall be and are hereby discharged of and from the same Tythes Pensions Oblations Obventions Rents and other Ecclesiasticall Dutyes against all and every person and persons whatsoever,