Taxation (No. 8) Act 1640

IV. Real and Copyhold Estates, Offices, and other Profits, to pay Proportion of Monies charged upon Counties according as the same shall be divided and set upon each Town, &c.

Sums charged upon Offices taxed by Commissioners, to be Surplusage Money. ; Aliens and Popish Recusants Convict to pay Double.; The Moiety of such Payment to be Surplusage Money, and disposed of for the great Affairs of the Kingdom. ; Except Yearly Wages of Servants under £ 10. other than the King's Servants, taking £5. ; Personal Estate held for Corporations to be rated;; and for every Pound in Land, Annuities, Corrodies, &c. ; Proviso for Ornaments, &c. of Churches and Chapels.; The first Moiety to be taxed before the 20th May 1642.; The other Moiety before the 20th Nov. 1642. ; Names of Persons charged and collectors to be certified into the Exchequer. The First Moiety before the 20th June 1642.; and the other Moiety before the 20th December following.; The First Moiety to be paid to the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Chamberlain of London, &c.; 20 July 1642, at or in the Chambers of London and York respectively.; The other Moiety to the said Lord Mayor, &c. of London on the 20th January 1642, ; in the said Chambers of London & York respectively.; Acquittances to be given to the collectors under Hands and Seals of Treasurers, &c. ; Producing Acquittances, Warrant for collectors to pass their Accounts. ; Payments within Liberties, &c..

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that every person borne under the Kings obeysance as well ecclesiasticall as temporall and every Corporation fraternitie guild mystery brotherhood and communalty corporate or not corporate as well ecclesiasticall as temporall for every pound that every of the same persons and every Corporation Fraternity Guild Mistery Brotherhood and Communaltie corporate or not corporate or any other to his or theire use in trust or otherwise hath in fee simple fee tayle for terme of life terme of yeares by execution wardship or by Copy of Court Roll of and in any Honours Castles Mannors Lands Tenements Rents Services Tithes Oblac[i]ons Obvenc[i]ons Annuities Offices of Proffit Fees Corodies or other yearely profits or hereditaments of the yearely value of twenty shillings as well within ancient demeasne and other places priviledged as else where and so upwards shall pay to and towards the said su[m]m of Four hundred thousand pounds and other su[m]m and su[m]ms of money aforesaid his and theire proportionable part and portion of such su[m] or su[m]ms of money as are imposed charged and set upon each severall Countie according as the same shall be divided distributed taxed or set upon each severall Town Hamlet Parish or Place where such person or persons is or shall be chargeable by this act and the true intent & meaning thereof which said sum or su[m]ms of money so to be charged upon or for Offices shall be taxed according to the discretion of the Commissioners and to be surplusage money and no part of the Four hundred thousand pounds And every Alien Denizen or not denizen borne out of the Kings obeysance and every Popish Recusant convict [X1 of what estate or degree soever they be or which before the time of y^e assessmm[en]t of the sd sum or su[m]ms of money ] by this present act graunted shall be a Popish Recusant convict or [X1 which shall be indicted for Popish Recusancy and ] theire indictments are or shall be removed by Certiorari or being not removed shall not by appearance and traverse legally be discharged before the said Assesment so to be made or being of the age of twenty and one yeares shall not have received the Holy Communion according to the Rites of the Church of England within one whole yeare next before the said Assessment shall be made in such case to pay to and towards the said su[m]m of Four hundred thousand pounds and other su[m]m and su[m]ms aforesaid a proportion double to those of the like estate being no Recusants or Aliens and the moyetie or one halfe of the said Recusants part to be no part or parcell of the said Foure hundred thousand pounds but surplusage money to be disposed for the great affaires of the kingdome according to the true intent and meaning of this act. And that all su[m]ms to be presented and chargeable by this act either for goods and debts or either of them or for Lands tenements and other the premisses as is in this act conteyned shall be att the said payment sett and taxed after the rate and proportion according to the true meaning of this act Yearely wages due to servant's for theire yearely service under ten pounds by the yeare (other then the Kings Servants taking yearely wages of five pounds or above) onely excepted and foreprized And that all plate Coyne Jewells Goods Debts and Chattels personall and all Lands tenements and other the premisses as aforesaid being in the rule and custody of any person or persons to the use of any Corporation Fraternity Guild Mystery Brotherhood or any Communalty being corporate or not corporate be and shall be rated set and charged by reason of this act for and toward the payment of the said Four hundred thousand pounds and other sum and su[m]ms of money aforesaid in proportionable manner as aforesaid And for every pound in Lands tenements annuities fees offices of profit corrodies and other yearely profits as is aforesaid And the su[m]ms that are above rehearsed set and taxed to be leavied & taken of them that shall have such goods in custody or otherwise charged for lands as is before rehearsed And the same person and persons and bodies corporate by authority of this act shalbe discharged against him or them that shall or ought to have the same att the time of the payment or delivery thereof or at his (otherwise departure from the custody or possession of the same Except and alwaies foreprised from the charge and assesment of the said severall su[m]ms of money all goods chattels and Ornaments of Churches and Chappels which have beene ordained and used in Churches and Chappells for the honour and service of Almighty God And the first [X2 money] or one halfe of the said severall su[m]ms so charged and set on the said severall Counties Cities Towns liberties places and persons aforesaid shall be by the authority aforesaid taxed sessed and rated according to this act in every Shire Riding Lathe Wapentake Rape City Borough Town and every other place within this Realm of England and Dominion of Wales before the twentieth day of May in the yeare of our Lord God One thousand six hundred forty two And the other moytie or one halfe thereof shall by the authority aforesaid be taxed sessed and rated before the twentieth day of November 1642 And the particular su[m]ms of every Shire Riding Borough Town and other places aforesaid with the particular names of such as are or shall be chargeable to and for the payment of the said severall su[m]ms of money to be taxed and set by the Commissioners for the same to be limited or two of them at the least with the names of the high Collectors And in the same form shall be certified into the Kings Court of Exchequer the first moytie or one halfe of the said severall su[m]ms of money before the twentieth day of June which shall be in the yeare of our Lord God (according to the computation of the Church of England) One thousand six hundred fourtie two and the other moytie or one halfe of the same before the twentieth day of December then next following and the said su[m]ms in form aforesaid to be taxed to and for the payment of the aforesaid first moytie or one halfe shall be paid in one entire su[m]me unto Sir Richard Gurney Knight and Baronet Lord Maior of the Citie of London Sir John Cordall Sir Thomas Soome Sir John Gayer Sir Jacob Garret Alderman Atkins Alderman Pennington Sir John Wollestone Alderman Addams Alderman Warner Master Samuel Vassell Master John Venn the Chamberlaine of the City of London for the time being and to such other person or persons as are appointed by this act to receive the same to the uses in this act expressed at or before the twentieth day of July One thousand six hundred fourtie two at or in the Chambers of the City of London and Yorke respectively according to the intent of this act And the said su[m]ms in manner aforesaid to be taxed for the payment of the said other moytie or one halfe shall be paid at one entire su[m]me unto the said Sir Richard Gurney Knight and Baronet Lord Maior of the Citie of London Sir John Cordall Sir Thomas Soome Sir John Gayer Sir Jacob Garrett Alderman Atkins Alderman Pennington Sir John Wolleston Alderman Addams Alderman Warner Master Samuel Vassell Master John Venn the Chamberlaine for the Citie of London for the time being and to such other person or persons as are appointed by this act to receive the same to the uses in this act expressed at or before the twentieth day of January One thousand six hundred fourty two at or in the said Chambers of the Cities of London and Yorke respectively And that the said Treasurers or Receivers or any one or more of them upon the receipt of any money from the High collectors by this act to be authorized shall make unto every of the said Collectors one or more acquittance or acquittances under the hands and scales of the respective Treasurers or Receivers that shall receive the same testifying the receipt of so much money as he shall receive and that the producing of the said Acquittances so made shall be as sufficient a Warrant for the said Collectors to passe theire account as any tally or constat out of the receipt And the su[m]ms aforesaid shall be taxed set asked and demanded taken gathered leavied and paid to the p[er]sons and uses in this present act expressed as well within liberties franchises Sanctuaries ancient demeasne and other whatsoever places exempt or not exempt as without (except such Shires places and persons as shall be foreprized in and by this p[re]sent act) Any Grant Charter p[re]scription Use or Liberty by reason of any Letters Patents or other priviledge p[re]scription allowance for the same or whatsoever other matter or discharge heretofore to the contrary made granted used or obtained notwithstanding.

Editorial Information

X1 interlined on the Roll.

X2 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: Moiety O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]