Taxation (No. 4) Act 1640

Sums payable by Persons of the several Ranks hereafter mentioned.A Duke £100.; A Marquis £ 80.; An Earl £60. ; A Viscount £ 50.; A Baron £ 40.; Eldest Son of Earl £40.; Eldest Son of Viscount £ 35.; Eldest Son of Baron £30. ; A Baronet £30.; A Knight of the Bath £30.; Knight Batchelor £20.; King's Serjeant £25.; Serjeant £20.; King's Counsel £20.; Esquire £ 10.; Widow rated at One-third according to the Rank of her Husband.; All other Persons £100. per Anu. £5.

Whereas the present raising of great su[m]ms of money for the speedy disbanding of both Armies is a matter of so vast consequence and urgent necessity that not onely the firme and happy peace between the two Kingdomes of England and Scotland but alsoe the well being and prosperity of this kingdome depends upon it which said su[m]ms of money cannot be soe suddenly raised as the pressing occasion doth require without some extraordinary meanes used to the which all well affected persons in this soe visible exigent of the Common Wealth will cheerefully submit. May it therefore please your Most Excellent Majestic That it may be enacted And be it enacted by the Kings Most Excellent Majestie the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same That all and every person and persons of the severall rankes and degrees hereafter menc[i]oned shall to the purpose aforesaid contribute and pay the severall sums of money hereafter in this Act set downe and appointed that is to say Every person of the degree of a Duke of England Scotland or Ireland inhabiting or residing within this Kingdome shall pay the su[m]m of One hundred pounds Every person of the degree of a Marquesse of either of the said three Kingdomes and inhabiting and resideing within this Kingdome the sum of fowerscore pounds Every person of the degree of an Earle of either of the said three Kingdomes and inhabiting and residing within this Kingdome the sum of threescore pound Every person of the degree of a Viscount of either of the said three Kingdomes and inhabiting and residing within this Kingdome the sum of fiftie pounds Every person of the degree of a Baron of either of the three Kingdomes and inhabiting and residing within this Kingdome the sum of fourty pounds The eldest Sonne of every Earle of either of the said three Kingdomes and residing within this Realme being of the age of one and twenty yeares fourty pound The eldest Son of every Viscount of either of the said three Kingdomes residing within this Realme being of the age of one and twenty yeares thirty five pounds the eldest son of every Baron of either of the said three Kingdomes and residing within this Realme beinge of the age of one and twenty yeares thirty pound Every person of the degree of Baronets of either of the three Kingdomes or of Nova Scotia and inhabiting and residing within this Kingdome the sum of thirty pound Every person who is a Knight of the Order of the Bath inhabiting and residing within this Kingdome the sum of thirty pound Every person whoe is a Knight Batchelour inhabiting and residing within this Kingdome the sum of twenty pound Every person whoe is the Kings Serjeant at Law the sum of twenty five pounds Every other Serjeant at Law the sum of twenty pound Every person who is of the Learned Councell to the Kings Majestie the Queene or Prince and by vertue thereof or by any Privie Seale practises within the Barrs at Westminster the sum of twenty pound Every person of the degree of an Esquire or soe reputed inhabiting and residing within this Kingdome and above the age of one and twenty yeares the sum of ten pounds Every Widdow respectively according to her husbands degree shall pay the third part rated by this Bill upon that degree of which the husband of such Widdow was in his life time Every person of what degree or quality soever below the degrees above mentioned inhabiting and residing within this Kingdome and whoe can dispend One hundred pounds per annum of his or her own either in Lands Leases Money Stock or otherwise the sum of five pound