Search Legislation

Taxation Act 1640

 Help about what version

What Version

  • Latest available (Revised)
  • Original (As enacted)
 Help about opening options

Opening OptionsExpand opening options

Status:

This is the original version (as it was originally enacted). This item of legislation is currently only available in its original format. The electronic version of this Act has been contributed by British History Online and is taken from the printed publication.
Read more

  1. Introductory Text

  2. Distresses of the Army and People in the Northern Parts....

  3. II.Lands, & of the Yearly Value of 20s. 4s. in the Pound.

  4. III.Aliens and others, who at the time of the said Assessments are out the Realm,

  5. IV.For the assessing the said Subsidies great Officers of State to appoint Commissioners.

  6. Names of Commissioners

  7. And for the County of Bedford

  8. For the Towne of Bedford

  9. For the County of Buckingham

  10. For the Town and Borough of Buckingham

  11. For the County of Berk

  12. For the Borough of New Windsor

  13. For the County of Cornwall

  14. For the County of Cumberland

  15. For the County of Cambridge

  16. For the Towne of Cambridge

  17. For the Countie of Chester

  18. For the City and the County of the City of Chester

  19. For the County of Derby

  20. And for the Borough of Derby

  21. For the County of Devon

  22. For the City and County of Exon

  23. For the County of Dorset

  24. For the Towne and County of Pool

  25. For the County of Yorke and for the Westrid of the County of Yorke

  26. For the Northrid of the County of Yorke

  27. For the Eastrid of the County of Yorke

  28. For the City and County of the City of [the7] Yorke

  29. For the Towne and County of Hull

  30. For the County of Essex

  31. For the Town of Colchester

  32. And for the Towne of Malden

  33. For the Towne of Harwich

  34. For the County of Gloucester

  35. For the City and County of the City of Gloucester

  36. For the County of Huntington

  37. And for the County of Hertford

  38. For the Towne and Borough of Saint Albans

  39. For the County of Hereford

  40. For the City of Hereford

  41. For the County of Kent

  42. For the City and County of the City of Canterbury

  43. For the City of Rochester

  44. For the Parts of Lyndsey in the County of Lyncolne

  45. For the Citie of Lincolne

  46. For the Borough of Boston

  47. For the Parts of Holland in Com. p[re]d

  48. For the Parts of Kestaven in the County of Lincolne

  49. For the County of Leicester

  50. For the County Palatine of Lancaster

  51. For the County of Middlesex

  52. For the Citie of Westminster

  53. And for the Dutchy of Lancaster

  54. For the City of London

  55. For the County of Monmouth

  56. For the County of Northampton

  57. For the Borough of Northampton

  58. For the County of Nottingham

  59. For the Towne of Nottingham

  60. For the County of Norfolk

  61. For the Towne of Thetford

  62. And for the City of Norwich

  63. For the Towne of Lynne Regis

  64. For the Towne of Yarmouth

  65. For the County of Oxford

  66. And for the City of Oxon

  67. For the County of Rutland

  68. For the County of Surrey

  69. For the Borough of Southwarke

  70. For the County of Stafford

  71. For the City and County of the City of Litchfeild

  72. For the County of Salop

  73. For the Towne of Shrewsbury

  74. For the County of Southampton

  75. For the Isle of Weight

  76. For the City of Winchester

  77. For the Towne and County of Southampton

  78. For the County of Suffolke

  79. For the Towne of Ipswich

  80. For the Borough of Saint Edmonds Bury

  81. For the Town of Aldborough

  82. For the Towne of Orford

  83. For the Towne of Hadleigh

  84. For the County of Somerset

  85. For the City and County of the City of Bristow

  86. For the County of Sussex

  87. For the Citie of Chichester

  88. For the County of Westmerland

  89. For the County of Wiltes

  90. For the Citie of New Sarum with the Close

  91. For the County of Worcester

  92. For the City and County of the City of Worcester

  93. For the Borough of Evesham

  94. For the County of Warwick

  95. For the City of Coventrey

  96. For the County of Anglesey and Town of Bewmares

  97. For the County of Brecknocke

  98. For the County of Cardigan

  99. For the County of Carmarthen

  100. For the Borough and County of the Borough of Carmerthen

  101. For the County of Carnarvan

  102. For the County of Denbigh

  103. For the County of Flint

  104. For the County of Glamorgan

  105. For the County of Merioneth

  106. For the County of Pembroke

  107. And for the Towne of Pembroke.

  108. For the Towne and County of Haverford West

  109. For the County of Mountgomery

  110. For the County of Radnor

  111. V.Commissioners to execute Act according to the tenor thereof.

  112. VI.Persons named in Precepts to appear before the Commissioners.

  113. VII.Assessors misbehaving.

  114. VIII.Commissioners to be rated at such Place where they shall be Commissioners;

  115. IX.Proviso for Persons having Two Mansions, or being Household Servants or Waiting Servants to the King or others.

  116. X.The Power of Commissioners to tax other Commissioners, and also Assessors.

  117. XI.Rates estreated under the Seals and Sign Manual of the Commissioners; and Estreats delivered to sufficient Inhabitants, &c. of Hundreds, &c.

  118. XII.Commissioners may appoint Collectors.

  119. XIII.Commissioners to take Recognizances of Collectors.

  120. XVII.Assessors, Attornies, Factors, &c. after being charged with Receipt of Assessment, dying or removing or concealing their Goods, &c. or when Monies comprized in Estreat cannot be levied by Distress, or where Distress cannot be sold;

  121. XVII.Allowance to High Collectors and their Accountants.

  122. XIX.Proviso for Stamford Baron.

  123. XX.Persons having Temporal and Spiritual Possessions, and also Personal Property, not to be doubly charged.

  124. XVIII.Orphans and Infants not chargeable to Subsidies.

  125. XIX.Proviso for Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, Winchester College, Eton College, Poor Knights of Windsor, and Free Schools, and Readers, &c. in the Universities, and for Hospitals, &c.

  126. XX.Inhabitants of Cinque Ports for the most Part of the Year before the Grant not chargeable during Resiance only.

  127. XXI.Like Proviso for Inhabitants of Rumney Marsh.

  128. XXII.Alien or Denizen assigning his Lands, &c. to his Child with Intent to defraud the Subsidy, such Child chargeable as an Alien.

  129. XXIII.Recital that £50,000 had been advanced by the City of London, £50,000 by Sir John Harrison Knight, Member for the Town of Lancaster, and William Harrison Esq. Member for the Town of Queenborough in Kent.

  130. XXIV.Treasurer not to pay Monies on any other Warrant.

  131. XXV.The passing of this Act not to determine the Session.

Back to top

Options/Help