Taxation (No. 2) Act 1625

XXVII. Commissioners not thinking fit to join in one Certificate Proceedings.

Commissioners making Default of Certificate, Process out of Exchequer against them.

And if the said Co[m]missioners for causes reasonable them moving, shall thinke it not fitt to joyne in one Certificate, as is aforesaid, then the said p[er]son or p[er]sons, that shall first joyne together, or hee that shall first certifie the said writing indented as is aforesaid, shall certifie all the names of the Co[m]missioners of that Co[m]mission, whereuppon such writing shalbe there then to be certified, with division of the Hundreds, Wapentakes, Wards, Tythings, and other places, to and among such Co[m]missioners of the same Co[m]mission, with the names of the said Co[m]missioners, where such Separacions and Divisions shalbe, with the grosse so[m]mes of money, aswell of and for the said Subsidies taxed or set, of or within the said Hundreds, Wards, Wapentakes, or other places to him or them divided or assigned, that shall so certifie the said first Writings, as of the Fines, Amerciaments, Penalties and other Forfeitures, if any happen to be within the same Limitts, whereof the same writings shalbe certified: And after such writings indented, which, as is aforesaid, shalbe certified, and not contayne in it the whole and full so[m]mes set and taxed within the Limits of the same Co[m]mission, the other Co[m]missioners of the same, before the day of payment of the said Subsidie, shall certifie into the said Exchequer, by their writing or writings indented to be made, as is aforesaid, the grosse and severall so[m]mes, set and taxed within the places to them limited, for every of the said Subsidies, and other fines, ant[er]ciaments, penalties and forfeiture, with the names of the [X1 Hundreds,] Wards, Wapentakes, and other Places to them assigned, or else by their said writings indented, to certifie at the same place, before the same day of payment, such reasonable causes for their excuses, why they may not make such certificate of and for the said Subsidies Fines Amerciaments and other forfeitures growing or set by reason of the causes of their lets, or of their not certifying, as is aforesaid, or else in default thereof, p[re]cesse to be made out of the Kings Majesties said Exchequer, against the said Co[m]missioners, and every of them not making certificate, as is aforesaid, by the discrecion of the Tresurer and Barons of the said Exchequer.

Editorial Information

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