Taxation (No. 2) Act 1625

XV. Proviso for Persons having two Mansions, or being Houshold Servants or Waiting Servants to the King or others.

Persons unduly escaping Taxation,; on Proof thereof before Commissioners or Barons of the Exchequer,; taxed at Double Value.

And that it be ordeyned and enacted by the said authoritie of this p[re]sent Parliament, That no p[er]son having two Mansions, or two places to resort unto, or calling himselfe Houshold servant, or waiting servant to the Kings Majestie, or other Lord or Lady, Master or Mistresse, be excused uppon his saying, from the taxes of the said Subsidies, in neither of the places, where he may be set or taxed, unlesse he bring a Certificate in writing from the Co[m]missioners where that he is so set or taxed indeed at one place. And if any p[er]son that ought to be set and taxed to these p[re]sent Subsidies by reason of his removing or resorting to two places, or by reason of his saying that he elsewhere was taxed, or by reason of any priviledge of his dwelling or abiding in any place not being foreprised in this Act, or otherwise by his covine or crafte, or by any words or sayings or otherwise: or if any that is a Co[m]missioner or Assessor of others, happen to escape from the said taxacions for the payment of these Subsidies, or any of them, and be not set and taxed according to the true intent of this Act, and that proved by p[re]sentment, Examinacion, Informacion, or otherwise before the said Co[m]missioners, or two of them, or before the Barons of the Kings Ma^ts Exchequer, or two Justices of the Peace of that Countie where such p[er]son dwelleth: Then every such p[er]son that by such meanes or otherwise, willinglie by covin or without just cause, shall happen to escape from the said taxacions or payments aforesaid or any of them, and shall not be rated taxed and set shall be charged upon the knowledge and proofe thereof, with, and at the double value of so much as he should, might or ought to have bene set or taxed at by vertue of this Act: And the same double value to be levied gathered and paid of his Goods and Chattells, Lands and Tenements towards the said Subsidies, and further to be punished according to the discrecion of the Barons, Justices and Co[m]missioners, before whome he shalbe convicted for his offence and deceit in that behalfe.