Taxation (No. 5) Act 1640

II. On Merchant Denizens, for Wool, 33s. 4d. per Sack, and for for every 240 Woolfells 33s. 4d. and for Hides and Backs £3. 6s. 8d. per Last;

On Merchant Aliens, for Wool, £3. 6s. 8d. per Sack, and for every 240 Woolfells £3. 6s. 8d. and for Hides and Backs £3. 13s. 4d. per Last; and also all Duties on Merchandize exported or imported by virtue of Letters Patent since 1 Jac. I. and which were continued and paid at the Beginning of this Parliament.

And further the said Commons by the advise assent and authority aforesaid Do give and grant unto oer said Leige Lord oer Soveraigne for the causes aforesaid, one other Subsidie that is to say Of every Merchant borne Denizen of and for everie Sack of Wooll thirtie three shillings foure pence, and of and for everie two hundred and fortie Woolfells thirtie three shillings and foure pence and of and for everie Last of Hides and Backs three pounds six shillings eight pence, and so after the same rate for everie lesse or greater quantitie for any the same Merchandize more or lesse And of every Merchant stranger not borne denizen of and for everie sack of Wooll Three Pounds six Shillings and eight Pence And of and for everie two hundred and fortie Woolfells Three Pounds six [X1 Shillings] and eight Pence, and for everie Last of Hides and Backs Three Pounds thirteen Shillings foure pence, and so of all the said Woolls Woolfells Hydes and Backs and of everie of them after the rate And such other so[m]mes of money as have been ymposed upon any Merchandize either outward or inward by p[re]text of any tres Patents Co[m]mission under the Great Seale of England or Privie Seale since the first yeare of the raigne of his late Ma[jes]tie King James of Blessed Memory and w^ch were continued and paid at the beginning of this p[re]sent Parliam[en]t. To have take enjoy and perceive the subsidies aforesaid and other the fore menc[i]oned su[m]ms and everie of them and everie part and parcell of them to our said leige Lord and Soveraigne from the fifteenth of July One thousand six hundred fourty one to the tenth [X1 Day] of August next ensueing.

Editorial Information

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