Barons and Persons of higher Estate taxed by the Lord Privy Seal, the Earl Marshall, and others.; Rate estreated and certified.
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that the said Commissioners in every Commission which shall be or inhabite in any County or Place within the limits of theire Commission or the more parte of them shall have full power and authority by this Act to set tax and [X1sesse] every other Commissioner joyned with them in every such Commission and the said Commissioners within theire division shall alsoe assesse every Assessor within theire division for his or theire Goods Lands and other the premisses as aforesaid by which said Commission the Commissioners to whom it shall appertain shall indifferently set taxe and assesse themselves and the said Assessors and that aswell the Sums upon every of the said Commissioners and Assessors soe assessed rated and taxed as the Sums made and presented by the presentors as abovesaid shall be written certified set and estreated and the Estreats thereof to be made with other the inhabitants of that part and within the limits of the same Commission and division soe to be gathered and leavied in like manner as it ought and should have beene if the said Commissioners had not beene in the said Commission And that all persons of the Estate of a Baron or Baronesse and every Estate above shall be charged with theire freehold and value as is aforesaid by Henry Earle of Manchester Lord Privie Seale Thomas Earle of Arundell and Surrey Earle Marshall of England Philip Earle of Pembroke and Montgomery Lord Chamberlain of His Majesties Household Henry Earle of Bathe Thomas Earle of Southampton Robert Earle of Essex Edward Earle of Dorset William Earle of Salisbury Robert Earle of Warwick Oliver Earle of Bullingbrooke Thomas Earle of Berks Henry Earle of Dover Henry Earle of Stamford William Lord Viscount Say and Seale Mountague Lord Willoughby de Er. Francis Lord Dacres Ferdinando Lord Hastings Philip Lord Wharton Edward Lord Mountague Charles Lord Howard de Char. William Lord Grey de Warke John Lord Roberts John Lord Pawlet & George Lord Goring or any eleaven of them or more for the payment of the said two Subsidies after the forme of the said Grant according to the taxation aforesaid and the Su[m]ms of and upon them to be taxed and set with the names of the Collectors which Collectors shall be appointed by the Lord Chancellour or Lord Keeper of the Great Seale for the time being for gathering and paying of the same to be estreated delivered and certified at the dayes and places above specified by the said Henry Earle of Manchester Lord Privie Seale Thomas Earle of Arundell and Surrey Earle Marshall of England Philip Earle of Pembroke and Montgomery Lord Chamberlaine of His Majesties Household Henry Earle of Bathe Thomas Earle of Southampton Robert Earle of Essex Edward Earle of Dorset William Earle of Salisbury Robert Earle of Warwicke Oliver Earle of Bullingbrooke Thomas Earle of Berks Henry Earle of Dover Henry Earle of Stamford William Lord Viscount Say and Seale Mountague Lord Willoughby de Er. Francis Lord Dacres Ferdinando Lord Hastings Philip Lord Wharton Ed. Lord Mountague Charles Lord Howard de Char. William Lord Grey de Warke John Lord Roberts John Lord Paulet and George Lord Goring or any eleaven of them and more.
Editorial Information
X1Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: assesse O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]