Taxation (No. 3) Act 1640

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

Commissioners to direct Precepts to certain Number of Inhabitants in Hundreds, &c. to appear before the Commissioners.; Persons who receive Precepts are to shew such Precepts to the other Inhabitants named therein. Penalty 40s.

And be it alsoe enacted by authority of this present Parliament that the Commissioners and every of them which are named limited and appointed according to this Act to be Commissioners in every such Shire Ryding Lathe Wapentake Rape City Towne Borough Isle and the said Household or any other Place and none other shall truly effectually and diligently for theire parts execute the effect of this present Act according to the tenour thereof in every behalfe and no otherwise by any meanes without omission favour dread malice or any other thing to be attempted or done by them or any of them to the contrary thereof And the said Commissioners or as many of them as shall be appointed by the said Commission and none other for the execution of the said Commission and Act shall for the taxation of the said two Subsidies before the tenth day of October by vertue of the Commission delivered to them in forme aforesaid direct theire severall or joynt Precept or Precepts unto eight seaven six five four three or twoe (as for the number of Inhabitants shall be requisite) of the most substantiall discreet and honest persons and inhabitants to be named by the said Commissioners or by as many of them as shall be appointed by the said Commission of and in Hundreds Lathes Rapes Wapentakes Wards Parishes Townes and other Places aswell within Liberties Franchises ancient demesne Places exempted and Sanctuaries as without within the limits of the Shires Rydings Lathes Wapentakes Rapes Cities Townes Boroughs and Isle aforesaid and other Places within the Limits of theire Commission and to the Constables Subconstables Bailiffes and other like Officers and Ministers of every of the said Hundreds Townes Rapes Wapentakes Wards Parishes and other Places aforesaid as to the said Commissioners and every number of them or to three or twoe of them by theire discretion in division shall seeme expedient and as by the manner and use of those parts shall be requisite straitly by the said Precept charging and commanding the said Inhabitants Constables and other Officers aforesaid to whom such Precept shall be soe directed to appear in theire proper persons before the said Commissioners or such number of them as they shall divide themselves according to the tenour of the said Commission at certaine dayes and places by the said Commissioners or any such number of them as is aforesaid within Cities Boroughs or Townes Corporate or without in any other place as is aforesaid by theire discretion to be limited thereunto to doe and accomplish all that to them on the parte of the Kings Majestie shall be enjoyned touching this Act commaunding further by the said Precept that he to whose hands such precept shall come shall shew and deliver the same to the other Inhabitants or Officers named in the said Precept and that none of them faile to accomplish the same upon paine of forty shillings to be forfeited to the Kings Majestie