Taxation (No. 4) Act 1640

VI. Commissions under the Great Seal for levying the Rate to the several Commissioners named in c. 4. ante.

Commissioners for Bristol.; The Cinque Ports.; Dover.; Folkstone.; Feversham.; Seaford.; Hastings.; New Romney.; Lidd.; Hithe.; Sandwich. Rye.; Winchelsea.; Ten Schedules affixed to Commissions containing the tenor of Act.; Commissioners to divide themselves; and to execute Act without Favour, &c.; Commissioners to direct Precepts to certain Number of Inhabitants, &c. in Hundreds, &c. to appear before Commissioners; and on Appearance Commissioners to read the Rates, and instuct them how to make their Certificates, &c. and after such Charge to prefix another Day for Appearance and bringing in Certificates, under a Penalty;and thereupon the Commissioners to make the Precepts to collectors, &c.; Commissioners suspecting Estate &c. to be of greater Value than specified may examine, but not on Oath, and set Rate.; Persons refusing to pay.; Distress.; If Rate not paid in four Days Distress appraised and sold.; Overplus to Owner.; Officers, &c. to answer for the Portion limited to them only.; Money comprized in Estreat to be paid to the Sheriff of the County.; To whom Sheriffs of Counties, &c. to pay Monies received by them.; Rate to be paid in current Money and none in Farthings;

And Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that for the better sessing ordering and leavying of the said sums soe limited and appointed by this Act to be paid as aforesaid severall Commissions shall forthwith be made and directed by the Lord Chancellour or Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England for the time being out of the Court of Chancery under the Great Seale unto the severall Commissioners named in one Act lately made in this present Parliament intituled An Act for the further releife of his Majesties Armie and the Northern parts of the Kingdome And alsoe one other Commission for the City of Bristoll to John Taylor Esquire now Maior of the said City John Gomning John Tomlinson Andrew Charleton Richard Holworthy William Jones Ezekiell Wallis George Knight and John Lock Esquires And other Commissioners to every of the Cinque Ports that is to say To the Maior for the time being Stephen Munings Thomas Day John Brome William Richards Samuel Dell Robert Brome Jurats for the towne and Port of Dover and theire eight members For the towne and port of Folston the Maior for the time being Robert Culverdown Thomas Inneth For Fevesham to the Maior for the time being Reynold Edwards John Castlock Boys Ower For Seaford to Walter Everenden Maior Sackvile Porter Thomas Elphick junior Jurats For the Town and Port of Hastings to the Maior for the time being Master Boyse Master Barlowe Master Crompe For the Towne and Port of New Romney to Robert Wyvell Maior Stephen Etherick John Wilcock William Lancaster Gentlemen For the Towne of Lidd to Clement Tipp Bailiffe Thomas Struggle John Bate William Godfrey Gentlemen For the Town and Port of Hieth and the Member of it to the Maior for the time being William Deed John Downe John Hogben John Crumpe John Lambert For the Town and Port of Sandwich and the Members thereof to Stephen Inkpett Maior William Wilson George Wood Mathew Peak Jurats For Rye with the Members thereof to Robert Erwen Maior Richard Cockram Joseph Bembrick Allen Gribble Jurats The Members to Rye Tenderden Robert Poope Maior Samuel Short Esquire John Austen Thomas Short Jurats For the Towne of Winchelsea to the Maior for the time being and Daniel White a Jurat And to every of the said Commissioners ten Schedules containing in them the tenor of this Act shall be affixed by which Commission the Commissioners in every such Commission named according to this Act and as many of them as shall be appointed by the said Commission shall have full power and authority to put the effect of this Act in execution and after such Commissions to them delivered may by theire consents and agreements sever themselves for the execuc[i]on of the said Commissions in Hundreds Lathes Wards Rapes Wapentakes Townes and Parishes and other places within the Limits of the said Commissions in such manner and forme as by the said Act is appointed and shall truly effectually and diligently for their parts execute the effect of this present Act without omission favour dread malice or any other thing to be attempted or done by them or any of them to the contrary and shall with in two dayes after the said Commission delivered to them direct theire severall or joynt Precept or Precepts to such In habitants Constables Sub-Constables Bailiffes and other like Officers and Ministers and such number of them and as in and by the said Act is appointed and att such theire appearances the said Commissioners or soe many as shall be thereunto appointed shall openly read or cause to be read unto them the said Rates in this Act menc[i]oned and openly declare the effect of theire charge unto them and how and in what manner they ought and should make theire Certificates according to the Rates and su[m]ms thereof abovesaid and of all manner of persons as well Aliens and Strangers Denizen or not Denizens inhabiting within this Realme as of such Popish Recusants and other persons who be borne under the Kings Obeysance chargeable by this Act and after such charge given shall at the discretion of the said Commissioners or any two of them prefix another day to the said persons to appeare before the said Commissioners and bring in theire Certificates under such penaltie for every default as by the said Act is appointed & thereupon at the day of the said Certificate the said Commissioners shall make theire Precept or Precepts to such Officers or collectors being able and sufficient in every Hundred Wapentake Town or other place aforesaid as they the said Commissioners or any two or more of them shall thinke fit comprizing and containing in them the names and sirnames of all persons presented before them in the said Certificate of whom or [X1 of] any of them if the said Commissioners or any two of them in theire severall Limits shall have certaine knowledge or vehement suspect that he or shee is of greater value then is upon such person or persons soe certified or specified that then the said Commissioners shall upon examination thereof by good and lawfull meanes without oath set such rate and rates upon every such person or persons as shall be according to the true intent and meaning of this Act and if any person or persons shall refuse to pay the severall sums and proportions appointed by this Act for such person to pay upon demaund made by the Constable or Officer of the said place according to the Estreats delivered to them by the said Commissioners it shall be lawfull to and for such Constable or Officer for non payment thereof to distrain the person or persons so refusing by his or theire Goods & Chattels and the distresses so taken to keepe by the space of foure dayes at the costs and charges of the Owner thereof And if the said Owner doe not pay the said sum of money due by this Act within the said foure dayes then the same distresse to be apprised by three or two of the Inhabitants where such distresse is taken and then to be sold by the said Officer for the payment of the said money and the overplus coming by the sale (if any be) over and above the charge of keeping the said distresse to be immediately restored to the Owner thereof And the said Officers and other persons so deputed to aske take gather & levie the said sums shall answer and be charged for the portion only to them assigned and limited to be levied gathered and comprised in the said writing and estreat soe to them as aforesaid delivered to the persons and uses in this Act expressed and the said su[m]m in that writing or estreat to be comprized to pay unto the said Commissioners or any two of them with all speed and without delay at such day and place as by them shall be appointed and the said Commissioners to whom the said su[m]ms or any of them shall be paid shall with all speed and without delay carry and pay the same unto the Sheriff of the said County or Citie respectively wherein the said su[m]ms shall or ought to bee collected and paid And every such Sheriffe shall with all speed and without delay pay or cause to be paid all and every the sums by him received to the persons and uses in this Act expressed that is to say the high Sheriffes of the severall Counties of Yorkeshire Cumberland Westmerland Nottingham the Countie and Towne of Nottingham the County Palatine of Chester the Countie of the Citie of Chester the County Palatine of Lancaster Lincolneshire the Countie and Citie of Lincolne Derbyshire Staffordshire the Countie of the Citie of Litchfeild the Citie of Yorke and Countie of the same the town and countie of Kingston upon Hull respectively to the Lord Maior of the Citie of Yorke and to Thomas Hodgson Henry Tompson and William Scot Aldermen of the said City at the Chamber in the said City of Yorke and the high Sheriffs of every other County or City respectively within this Kingdome of England or Dominion of Wales to the Treasurers in this Act named at or in the Chamberlaines Office in Guildhall within the said City of London All & every which said sum and sums soe to be paid by force and vertue of this Act shall be paid in currant money of England and none of it in farthings to the intent the same may be paid and received with more expedition.

Editorial Information

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