Taxation (No. 4) Act 1640

II. Persons of the several Ranks hereaftermentioned.

Bishop £60.; Dean £40.; Canon £20.; Prebend £10.; Parson of £100.; per Annum £5. doctor in Law, Advocate £10.; Archdeacon £15.; Chancellor to Bishop, &c. £15.; doctor in Physick £10.; Register to Bishop, &c. £10. £5.; proctor £5.

And Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that all and every person and persons of the severall ranks and degrees hereafter mentioned 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 Bishop of this Kingdome shall pay the sum of threescore pounds Every Dean of any Cathedrall Church in England the sum of forty pounds Every Canon resident of any Cathedrall Church within this Kingdome the sum of twenty pounds Every Prebend of any Cathedrall Church within this Kingdome albeit he be not resident the sum of ten pound Every Parson or Vicar being Owner of a Parsonage or Vicaridge or other Estate of the cleer yearely value of One hundred pounds the sum of five pound Every person that is doctor in the Civill or Cannon Lawes or Advocate the sum of ten pounds Every person who is an Arch Deacon shall pay the sum of fifteen pound Every person who is Chancellour to any Bishop or Commissary or Officiall to any Dean or Arch Deacon the sum of fifteene pounds Every doctor in Phisick the sum of ten pounds Every person who is Register to any Bishop ten pounds and to any Arch Deacon five pound Every proctor in any ecclesiasticall Court five pound.