Taxation (No. 2) Act 1625

XXVI. Commissioners, if they cannot agree,&c. may make several Indentures.

Collectors not chargeable for other Collectors.; Commissioners or Collectors or Persons taxed, dying before discharged, Heirs and Executors chargeable as such Persons would have been if alive.

And if the said Co[m]missioners joyned in one Co[m]mission amongest themselves in that matter cannott agree, or if any of them be not ready, or refuse, to make certificate with other of the same Co[m]missioners, that then the said Co[m]missioners may make severall Indentures [X1 in forme] aforesaid, of their, sev[ers]all lymitts or separacions of Collectors within the limitts of their Co[m]mission, uppon and in the Hundreds, Wards, Wapentakes, Rapes, or such other like divisions, within the said severall lymitts of their Co[m]mission, as the places there shall require to be severed and divided, and as to the same Co[m]missioners shall seeme good to make divisions or other lymitts or Colleccions, for the severall charges of the same Collectors, so that alway one Collector shalbe charged, and account for his part to him to be lymitted onely by himselfe, and not for any some lymitted to the part of any of his fellowes: And the charges of every of the collectors to be set and certified severally uppon them. And every such Collector uppon his account and payment of the so[m]me of monie lymited within [X2 his] colleccion to be severallie by himselfe acquited and discharged in the said Exchequer without paying any manner Fees or Rewards to any p[er]son or p[er]sons for the same, upon paine and Penaltie last abovesaid, and not to be charged for any porcion of any other Collector. And if any Co[m]missioner after he hath taken certificate of them, that, as is aforesaid, shalbe before any Co[m]missioners exaied and the so[m]mes rated and set, and the bookes and writings thereof being in his handv, or if any Collector or other p[er]son charged with anie receipt of anie part of the said Subsidies, or any other p[er]son taxed or otherwise by this Act charged with or for any parcell of the said Subsidies, or with any other so[m]me Fine Ant[er]ciament Penaltie, or other Forfeiture, happen to die before the Co[m]missioners Collector or other whatsoever p[er]son or p[er]sons have executed, accomplished satisfied, or sufficientlie discharged that, to which every such p[er]son shall appertaine or belong to doe according to this Act, Then the Executors and Heires of every such p[er]son, and all other seized of any Lands and Tenements that any such p[er]son being charged by this Act and deceasing before he be discharged thereof, or any other to his use onelie, had of an Estate of Inheritance at the tyme that any such p[er]son was named Co[m]missioner, Collector, or otherwise charged with or for any manner of thing to be done satisfied or paid by reason of this Act. And all those that have in their possession or hands any Goods, Chattells, Leases, or other things that were to any such p[er]son or p[er]sons at the time of his death, or any Lands or Tenements that were the same p[er]sons at the time that he was, as is aforesaid, charged by this Act shalbe by the same compelled and charged to doe, and accomplish in every case, as the same p[er]son so being charged should have done, or might have byn compelled to doe, if he had bene in plaine life, after such rate of the Lands and Goods of the said Co[m]missioner or Collector, as the partie shall have in his Hands.

Editorial Information

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