Taxation Act 1640

XII. Commissioners may appoint Collectors.

Qualification. Commissioners to deliver Estreats under their Seals and Sign Manual to Collectors. Collector to answer Sum comprized in Estreat.

And further be it enacted by the said authority X1 that such of the said Commissioners or the more part of them as shall take upon them the execution and businesse of the said Commission shall for the payment of the said Subsidies name such sufficient and able persons which then shall have and possesse Lands or other Hereditaments in theire owne right of the cleere yearely value of fourty pounds or goods to the value of foure hundred pounds at the least as hee shall be taxed in the Subsidy booke (if any such be in the said limits) and for want of such soe assessed then those to be appointed Collectors that then shall be sufficient and rated and taxed in the Subsidy bookes in lands and goods neerest to the values aforesaid as by theire discretions shall be 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 in this Act to be high Collectors and to have the Collection and receipt of the said Su[m]ms set and leviable within the Precincts limits and bounds where they shall be soe limited and appointed to be high Collectors and to every of the said Collectors soe severally named the said Commissioners or twoe of them att the least with all speed and without delay after the said Subsidies be set by all the limits of the same theire Commission or in such limits as the high Collectors shall be soe severally assigned shall under theire seales and signes manuall deliver one Estreat indented in Parchment comprising in it the names of all such persons as were assigned to levy the said particular Su[m]ms of every Hundred [X2 and] Wapentake Towne or other Place aforesaid with the names and Sirnames of the persons soe chargeable according to the Estreat soe hereof first made and delivered as is aforesaid and the Collectors to be assigned shall be charged to answeare the whole Su[m]me comprised in the said Estreat limited to his Collection as is aforesaid.

Editorial Information

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