Taxation (No. 2) Act 1625

V. Absentees whether Natives or Aliens charged by Certificate of Inhabitant of Place where Lands,&c. be.

Rule by which they are to be charged.

And it is further enacted by the authoritie of this p[re]sent Parliament, That every such p[er]son aswell such as be borne under the Kings obeysance, as every other p[er]son Stranger borne, Denizen or not Denizen, inhabiting within this Realme, or within Wales, or other the Kings Dominions, which at the tyme of the same assesings or Taxacions or ev[er]y of them to be had or made, shalbe out of this Realme, or out of Wales, and have goods chattells lands [X1 and] tenements fees or an[n]uities, or other proffitts within this Realme, or in Wales shalbe charged and chargeable for the same by the Certificate of the inhabitants of the place where such goods chattells lands tenements or other the p[re]misses then shalbe, or in such other place where such p[er]son or p[er]sons, or his or their Factor Deputie, or Attorny shall have their most resort unto, within this Realme or in Wales, in like manner as if the said p[er]son were or had byn at the tyme of the said assessing within this Realme: And that every p[er]son abiding or dwelling [X2 within] or without this Realme, shalbe charged or chargeable to the same Subsidies graunted by this Act, according and after the rate of such yearelie substance, or value of lands, or tenements goods chattells and other the p[re]misses, as every p[er]son so to be charged, shalbe set at, the tyme of the said assessing or taxacion upon him to be made and no otherwise.

Editorial Information

X1 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: or O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]

X2 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: within this O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]