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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-members-of-parliament-act-1700/section-LXXI",
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  "legislation": "aep/Will3/12-13/10",
  "legislation_title": "Taxation: Members of Parliament Act 1700",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-members-of-parliament-act-1700",
  "path": "section/LXXI",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "LXXI",
  "heading": "LXXI. Proviso for Annuities to Queen Dowager, and the Prince and Princess of Denmark.",
  "text": "Provided alwaies and be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That this Act or any thing therein conteined shall not charge or be construed to charge Her Majestie the Queen Dowager or Her Treasurer or Trustees with the abovementioned Duty or Payment of Three for every Twenty Shillings by the Year for or in respect of the Yearly Sume of Tenn thousand nine hundred seaventy two Pounds Nineteen Shillings and Three Pence and One Twenty fourth Part of a Penny and One thousand two hundred thirty six Pounds Sixteene Shillings and a Penny Halfe Penny granted to Her Majestie by Two severall Letters Patents under the Great Seale of England one bearing Date on or about the Twentieth Day of December One thousand six hundred seventy two and the other bearing Date on or about the Ninth Day of October One thousand six hundred and seventy four or to charge His Royall Highnesse Prince George Hereditary of Denmarke and Her Royall Highnesse the Princesse Ann of Denmark or either of them or their Trustees with the abovementioned Duty or Paiment of Three Shillings for every Twenty Shillings by the Yeare for or in respect of the yearly Sume of Thirty thousand Pounds and Twenty thousand Pounds by the Yeare granted to severall Persons in Trust for their Royall Highnesses by severall Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England bearing Date on or about the Twentieth Day of February One thousand six hundred and eighty five and the Three and twentieth Day of May One thousand six hundred and ninety but that the said Annuities or yearly Summes and Her Majesty the said Queen Dowager and their Royall Highnesses and their respective Trustees Treasurers and Receivors Generall in respect of the same shall by virtue hereof be acquitted and discharged of from and against the said Duty of Three Shillings for every Twenty Shillings by the Year and all Paiments whatsoever which might be charged by this Act for or in respect of the said yearly Sumes as if this Act had never been made Any thing herein conteined to the contrary notwithstanding",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "label": "X1",
      "text": "interlined on the Roll."
    },
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      "label": "X2",
      "text": "Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: Shillings O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Will3/12-13/10/section/LXXI",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:22:06.535910+00:00"
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}