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Gentlemen of £300, and Persons above, except Peers, Widows, &c. of a certain Income,; to pay £4 quarterly.; Proviso for Gentlemen and Widows, &c.; making Oath of less Property.
And be it further enacted that over and above the sums aforesaid every Gentleman or person so reputed or owning or writing himselfe such having an estate in the whole either real or personal of the clear value of three hundred pounds or more and every person above that quality and not a Peer of this Realme and all Widows having a Dower or Joynture of the cleare yearely value of One hundred pounds or more or being worth in the whole the cleare sum of One thousand pounds and all unmarried Women being worth in the whole in any Estate real or personal the cleare sum of One thousand pounds shall pay to Their Majesties the sums hereafter menc[i]oned (that is to say) the sum of twenty shillings on the third day of May in the said yeare One thousand six hundred ninety two the sum of twenty shillings on the third day of August in the said yeare One thousand six hundred ninety two the sum of twenty shillings on the third day of November in the said yeare One thousand six hundred ninety two and [X1the] sum of twenty shillings on the third day of February [X1in the said yeare] One thousand six hundred ninety two And no Gentleman Widow or unmarried Woman not having such Estates respectively and thereof makeing Oath before two or more of the respective Comissioners hereafter mentioned shall be charged with the said quarterly sum[m] of twenty shillings.
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