Taxation (No. 2) Act 1625

XVIII. Commissioners may appoint Collectors

to be High Collectors.; Commissioners to deliver Estreats under their Seals and Sign Manual to Collectors.; Collectors to answer the Sums comprized in Estreat.

And further be it enacted by the said Authoritie, that the said Co[m]missioners, or the more part of them, as shall take uppon X1 the execucion and busines of the said Co[m]mission, shall for every of the said payments of the said Subsidies name such sufficient and able p[er]sons, which then shall have and possesse lands and other Hereditaments in their owne right of the cleare yearelie value of fortie pounds, or goodes to the value of foure hundred pounds, at the least, as he shalbe taxed in the Subsidie Booke, if any such be in the said lymitts, and for want of such so assessed, then those to be appointed Collectors that then shalbe sufficient, and rated and taxed in the Subsidie Bookes in lands and goods neerest to the values aforesaid, as by their discrecions shalbe thought good in Shires, Ridings, Lathes, Wapentakes, Rapes, Cities, Townes, corporate, and other whatsoever places, as well within places priviledged, as without, not being foreprised within this Act, to be high Collectors, and to have the colleccion and receipt of the said so[m]mes set and leviable within the p[er]cinct lymitts and bounds, where they shalbe so lymitted and appointed to be high Collectors, And to every of the said Collectors so severally named, the said Co[m]missioners or two of them at the least, with all speed and without delay, after the said whole so[m]me of any payment of the said Subsidies be set by all the lymitts of the same their Co[m]mission, or in such lymitts as the high Collectors shalbe so severallie assigned, shall under their Seales and Signe manuall, deliver one estreate indented in Parchment comprising in it the names of all such p[er]sons as were assigned to levie the said particuler so[m]mes, and the so[m]mes of every Hundred, Wapentake, Towne, or other place aforesaid, with the names and surnames of the p[er]sons so chargeable according to the Estreat so thereof first made, and delivered as is aforesaid. And the Collectors to be assigned, shalbe charged to aunswere the whole so[m]me comprised in the said Estreat lymitted to his colleccion, as is aforesaid.

Editorial Information

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