Taxation (No. 2) Act 1625

XVII. Rates estreated under the Sign Manual and Seal of the Commissioners, and Estreat delivered to sufficient; Inhabitants,&c. of Hundreds,&c.

By virtue of Estreat Officers,&c. to levy Rate.; Distress.; If Rate not paid in Eight Days then Distress appraised and sold.; Officers,&c. to answer for the Portion limited to them, only.

And be it further enacted by the authoritie aforesaid, That after the taxes and assesses of the said so[m]mes uppon and by the said assessing and certificate as is aforesaid made, the said Co[m]missioners or as many of them as shalbe thereunto appointed, and have authoritie by the Kings Majesties Co[m]mission, shall with all speed, and without delay by their writing estreate the said taxes thereof, under the Seales and Signes Manuell of the said Co[m]missioners, or as many of them as shalbe appointed at the least. and the same shall deliver unto sufficient and substanciall Inhabitants, Constables, Subconstables, Bayliffs, and other Officers joyntlie of Hundreds, Townes, Parishes, and other Places aforesaid within their lymitts, and to other sufficient p[er]sons, Inhabitants of the same, onelie by the [X1 discrecions] of the said Co[m]missioners, with the assent of the high Collector, and as the place and parties shall require, aswell the particuler names& surnames, as the remembrance of all [X2 so[m]mes] taxed and sett of and uppon every p[er]sons, aswell man as woman chargeable to this Acte, Housholders and all other Inhabitants and Dwellers within the said Parishes, Townes and Places contributorie to this Act of Subsidies, by authoritie of which writing and estreat so delivered, the said Officers and other p[er]sons so named and deputed, severally shall have full power and authoritie by vertue of this Act, imediatelie after the delivery of the said writing or estreat, to demaund levie and gather of every p[er]son therein specified the su[m]me and su[m]mes in the same writing or estreat comprised, and for non payment thereof, to distreine the same p[er]son or p[er]sons so being behinde, by their goods and chattells, and the distresse so taken to keepe by the space of eight daies, at the costs and charges of the owner thereof, And if the said owner do not pay such so[m]me of money as shalbe taxed by authoritie of this Act within the same eight daies, then the same distresse to be appraised by foure or three or two of the inhabitants where such distresse is taken, and also then to be sold by the Constable or other Collector for the payment of the said money, and the overplus co[m]ming of the sale and keeping thereof (if any be) to be imediatelie restored to the owner of the same distresse, Which said Officers and other p[er]sons so deputed to aske, take, gather and levie the said so[m]mes, shall aunswere and be charged for the porcion onelie

Allowance to Officers on Rate recovered.

to them assigned and lymitted to be gathered levied and comprised in the said writing or estreat, so to them as aforesaid, delivered to the use of our Soveraigne Lord the Kings Majestie, and his Heires and Successors, and the said so[m]me in that writing or Estreat to be comprised to pay unto the high Collector or Collectors of that place for the colleccion of the same, in manner and forme underwritten, thereunto to be named and deputed, and the same. Inhabitants and Officers, so gathering the same particular so[m]mes for their colleccion thereof, shall retaine for every twentie shillings so by them received and paid, two pence, And that to be allowed at the payment of their colleccion by them to be made, to the high Collector or Collectors.

Editorial Information

X1 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: discrec[i]on 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: so[m]mes of Money O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]