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Commissioners to direvct Precepts to certain number of Inhabitants in Hundreds,&c. to appear before Commissioners.; Persons who receive Precepts are to shew such Precepts to the other Inhabitants named therein.; Penalty 40s.
And be it alsoe enacted by the authoritie of this p[re]sent Parliament, That the Co[m]missioners and every of them which shalbe named lymitted and appointed according to this Act to be Co[m]missioners in every such Shire Riding Lathe Wapentake Rape Citie Towne Borough Isle and the said houshold, or any other place, and none other, shall trulie effectuallie and diligentlie for their part execute the effect of this p[re]sent Act, according to the tenor thereof in every behalfe, and no otherwise by any other meanes without omission, favour, dread, malice, or any other thing to be attempted or done by them or any of them to the contrary thereof, And the said Co[m]missioners, or as many of them as shalbe appointed by the said Co[m]mission, and none other, for the execucion of the said Co[m]mission and Act, shall for the taxacion of the said first Subsidie, before the twentith day of September next ensuing; And for the Taxacion of the said second Subsidie, shall before the twentith [X1day] of March next co[m]ming by vertue of the Co[m]mission delivered unto them in forme [X2aforesaid,] direct their severall or joyntp[re]cept or p[re]cepts unto eight, seaven, sixe, five, foure, three or two, as for the nomber of the Inhabitants shalbe requisite of the most substanciall discreet and honest p[er]sons inhabitants to be named by the said Co[m]missioners, or by as many of them as shalbe appointed by the said Co[m]mission of and in Hundreds Lathes Rapes Wapentakes Wards Parishes Townes and other places aswell within Liberties, Franchesies, Auncient demesne, places exempted and Sanctuaries, as without, within the lymitts of the Shires, Ridings, Lathes, Wapentakes, Rapes, Citties, Townes, Boroughs, and Isle aforesaid, and other Places within the lymitts of their Co[m]mission, and to the Constables, Subconstables, Bailiffs and other like Officers and Ministers of every of the said Hundreds, Townes, Wards, Lathes, Wapentakes, Parishes and other Places aforesaid, as to the said Commissioners and every nomber of them or unto three or two of them by their discrecion in division shall seeme expedient, as by the manner and use of those parts, shalbe requisite, straitlie by the said p[re]cept charging and co[m]maunding the said Inhabitants Constables and other Officers aforesaid, to whome such p[re]cept shalbe so directed to appeare in their p[ro]per p[er]sons before the said Co[m]missioners or such nomber of them, as they shall divide themselves, according to the tenor of the said Co[m]mission at certaine daies and places by the said Co[m]missioners or any nomber of them as is aforesaid, within Cities Boroughs or Townes corporate or without in any other Places as is aforesaid, by their discrecion shalbe lymitted thereunto, to doe and accomplish all that to them on the part of the Kings Majestie shalbe enjoyned touching this Act: Co[m]maunding further by the same p[re]cept, that hee to whose hands such p[re]cept shall come, shall shew and deliver the same to the other Inhabitants or Officers named in the same p[re]cept, And that none of them faile to accomplish the same uppon paine of fortie shillings to be forfeited to the Kings Majestie.
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