Taxation (No. 2) Act 1640

Commissioners named in cap. 2. ante, and others in this Act named, empowered to levy the Subsidies granted by the said Act; and to appoint Assessors, &c. for the first Two of the said Subsidies, as they may find convenient; and as to the other Two, as the said Act, cap. 2. directs. Names of Commissioners appointed by this Act. Power to such Commissioners to act.

Forasmuch as by reason of the shortnes of the time Commissions could not issue forth in convenient time into divers parts of this Kingdome for the assessing rating and leavying of the two first Subsidies granted in this present Parliament according to the dayes & times in the said Act limited and expressed upon which some question and doubts have beene and are conceived whether the power of the said Commissioners for assessing and taxing of the said two Subsidies were determined before the said Commissioners had received theire severall Commissions for the taking away of which Scruple and other doubts and supplying of other defects of the said Act Be it enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty the Lords Spirituall & Temporall and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same that all Commissioners in the said Act named and such other persons as in this Act hereafter shall be named and any twoe or more of them for and towards the payment of every of the said foure Subsidies by vertue of this Act shall have within theire severall and respective limits power to assesse tax and leavy the said Subsidies and to assesse rate and taxe every Spirituall Person or Clergyman for all the Mannors Lands Tenements Rents Services Offices Fees Corrodies Annuities and Hereditaments which he hath or any other to his use have by descent bargaine or purchase in Fee Simple Fee Taile for Terme of life or yeares or by execution Wardshipp or Copy of Court Roll according to the yearely value thereof as other the Kings Majesties Subjects borne within this Realme in and by the said Act are limited & appointed to be rated and taxed soe that it extend to the yearely value of twenty Shillings or above and to authorize nominate and appoint Taxers Assessors Collectors and other Officers for the taxing assessing leavying and paying in of the said Subsidies and take such bonds and Recognizances and use such meanes for the compelling such Officers to undertake and execute such Offices as by the said Act is p[re]scribed as for and concerning the two first of the said Subsidies at such convenient times and places before the eighth day of May next ensuing as to them shall seeme convenient And as concerning the other twoe of the said Subsidies at such times and in such manner as in the said Act is limited and p[re]scribed And that by vertue of this Act Sir John Lawrence Baronet Sir Arthur Manwaring Sir Edward Salter Sir John Parsons Sir Robert Lovett Knights Thomas Hampson Francis Cheyney the elder William Bowyer Henry Bulstrode Thomas Stafford Edmond West Gabriel Hipesley John Crooke Anthony Ratcliffe Edmond Waller of Gregories William Wheeler Raynes Love Esquires with the residue of the Commissioners for the County of Buckingham and Sir Humphrey Tracy Baronet Sir Richard Ducy Baronet Sir John Tracy Knight John Chamberlain William Mooreton John Keyt William Leigh Michael Rutter and Anthony Hodges Esquires with the residue of the Commissioners for the County of Gloucester by vertue of this Act shall have full power and authority to make Taxes and Assessments send forth Warrants and Precepts authorize nominate and appoint Assessors Taxers Collectors and other, Officers for the assessing taxing leavying gathering and paying in of the said foure Subsidies within theire severall and respective Counties and take Bonds and Recognizances of the said Collectors and Officers and use all other meanes in and by the said Statute limited and appointed and to authorize and compell the said Collectors and Officers to doe theire duties in the p[re]misses and to doe and execute all things in as ample manner and forme as if the said persons had in the said Act and the Commissions thereupon issued beene nominated Commissioners for theire severall and respective Counties.