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No amerciaments, &c. against said corporation,
shall be discharged by privy signet, &c.
and officers of exchequer may detain amount of such fines, &c. out of the annual interest payable to said corporation.
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XII. Provided always, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all amerciaments, fines, and issues against the said corporation, and their successors, to be had, charged, or estreated in or upon account of any suits or actions, to be prosecuted or brought against them, shall not be pardoned, acquitted, or discharged, by any letters of signet, privy seal, or great seal of your Majesty, your heirs or successors, or otherwise howsoever; and in case any such amerciaments, fines, or issues, shall be estreated into your Majesty's exchequer, against the said corporation, upon any process for non-appearance, at the suit of any person or persons, that then it shall and may be lawful to and for the officers of your Majesty's exchequer for the time being, and they are hereby directed to detain so much money out of the annual interest or produce of the said sum of six hundred thousand pounds, as the said amerciaments, fines, or issues, shall amount unto, out of the said yearly sum, so payable to the said corporation.
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