Taxation (No. 4) Act 1640

IX. Persons residing in London or within Fifteen Miles, paying as herein directed,

Upon Certificate thereof discharged.; Persons residing in other Parts of the Kingdom, paying to certain Members of the House of Commons, on Certificate,; discharged.

And It is further enacted and declared by the authority aforesaid that if any person or persons of what degree ranke or quality soever inhabiting and residieing within the Citie of London or within fifteen miles distant from the said City shall before the time limited by this Act pay unto Sir Edmund Wright Lord Maior of the Citie of London Sir James Cambell Sir George Whitmore Sir Nicholas Rainton Sir Christopher Cletherowe Knights Aldermen of the said City and Robert Bateman Esquire Chamberlain of the said City or any of them and to the uses in this Act menc[i]oned such sum or sums of money as by this Act he or shee is appointed to pay upon a Certificate or Acquittance from the said Sir Edmund Wright Sir James Cambell Sir George Whitmore Sir Nicholas Rainton Sir Christopher Cletherowe Robert Bateman or any of them acknowledging the Receipt of such sums the said parties severally shall be thereby discharged of for or concerning the said sums and if any other person or persons of what degree ranke or quality soever within the Kingdome of England or Dominion of Wales shall likewise before the time limited by this Act pay unto Sir Arthur Ingram Sir Robert Pye Knights William Wheeler and William Bell Esquires Members of the House of Commons or any of them and to the uses in this Act such sum or sums of money as by this Act he or shee is appointed to pay upon a Certificate or Acquittance from the said Sir Arthur Ingram Sir Robert Pye William Wheeler and William Bell or any of them acknowledging the receipt of such sums the said parties severally shall thereby be discharged of for or concerning the said sums and all such payments shall be taken as an acceptable service to this Kingdome.