Taxation (No. 4) Act 1640

IV. The several Offices hereafter mentioned.

Prothonotary K. B. £40.; Clerk of the Crown K. B. £20.; Custos Brevium K. B. £40.; Master of the Rolls £60.; Clerk of the Crown in Chancery £20.; Clerk of the Chancery £ 30.; Usher of Chancery £30.; Cursitor £5.; Clerk of the Petty Bag £10.; Examiner £10.; Prothonotary of C. P. £20.; Custos Brevium C. P. £ 60;Philazer of C. P. £5.; Attorney of the Court of Exchequer £10.; Auditor £10.; Clerk of the Court of Wards and Liveries £60.; Attorney of that Court £5.; Auditor £10.; Feodary £10.; Escheator £5.; Clerk of Duchy Court £10.; Auditor £10.; Clerk of the Privy Seal £10.; Attorney of Court of Requests £10.; Clerk of the Signet £10.; Attorney at Law £3.; Officer under the King, except Houshold, receiving £10 per Ann. £10.; Estate of £50. per Ann. 40s. of £20. per Ann. 5s.; of £10. per Ann. 2s.; of £5. per. Ann. 1s.; All other Persons above 16. and not receiving Alms, 6d.

And Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every such person and persons who is possessed of any of the severall Offices or Places hereafter menc[i]oned in theire owne rights shall pay the severall sums hereafter menc[i]oned that is to say The Prothonotary of the Kings Bench the sum of fourty pound The Clarke of the Crowne in the Kings Bench twenty pound The Custos Brevium of the Court of Kings Bench fourty pound The Master of the Rolls threescore pound The Clarke of the Crowne in the High Court of Chancery twenty pound Every one of the Six Clarks in the said Court of Chancery thirty pound The Usher of the Court of Chancery thirty pound Every Cursitor of the said Court five pound Every Clarke of the Petty Bag ten pound Every Examiner of the said Court tenn pound Every Prothonotor of the Court of Common Pleas twenty pound The Custos Brevium of the Court of Common Pleas threescore pound Every Philizer of the said Court five pound Every Atturney of the Court of Exchequer ten pound Every Auditor of the said Court ten pound The Clarke of the Court of Wards and Liveries threescore pound Every Atturney of that Court five pound Every Auditor of that Court ten pound Every Feodary ten pound Every Escheator five pound The Clarke of the Court of the Dutchy of Lancaster ten pound Every Auditor of that Court ten pound Every Clarke of the Privie Seale ten pound Every Atturney of the Court of Requests ten pound Every Clarke of the Signet ten pound Every Atturney at Law of any of the Courts at Westminster the sum of three pound Every person in any Office or Place under his Majestie except his Majesties Servants in ordinary of his Household who receiveth the yearely fee of ten pound the sum of ten pound Every person that can dispend in Lands Leases Money Stocke or otherwise of his or her owne proper estate fifty pound yearely the sum of fourty shillings Every person who can dispend of his or her owne proper estate twenty pound yearely in Lands Leases Money Stock or otherwise the sum of five shillings Every person who can dispend of his or her owne proper estate ten pound yearely in Lands Leases Money or Stock the sum of two shillings Every person who can dispend of his or her owne proper Estate five pound yearely in Lands Leases Money or Stock the sum of one shilling And every other person of what estate or degree soever he or shee be with in his Majesties Kingdome of England and Dominion of Wales and not rated before in this present Act nor receiving alms and above the age of sixteen yeares shall pay six pence