John Trapp on Ezra 7:24

Verſe 24. And alſo we certifie you, that touching any of the Prieſts;] Theſe he taketh ſpecial order for, that they be freed from publike payments: and the like care was taken by our Anceſtours for the Miniſters of the Church of England, as appeareth by Magna Charta, chap. 14. Their maintenance is of the Law of Nature, Gen. 47.22, Jezabel provided for her Prieſts; Idolatrous Micah for his Levite; the Papiſts for their ſhavelings, granting them many and great immunities, and being ſo free to them, that there was need of a Statute of Mortmain providing that men ſhould give no more to the Church. But tempora mutantur, &c.