Taxation (No. 2) Act 1627

1. Introductory Text

2. Most gracious Soveraigne wee your Majesties most humble and loyall...

3. II. Five Subsidies on Real Estates, 4s, in the Pound.

4. III. Times of rating First and Second Subsidies.

5. VI. Absentees whether Natives or Aliens charged by Certificate of Inhabitants of the Place.

6. VII. Commissioners to be appointed by Lord Chancellor and other great Officers.

7. VIII. Such Commissioners not to have Fees.

8. IX. Commissioner being a Popish Recusant, &c.

9. X. Commissioners to execute Act according to the Tenor thereof.

10. XI. Persons named in such Precepts to appear before the Commissioners.

11. XII. Proviso as to Englishmen being Nobility of Scotland and Ireland only residing in England.

12. XIII. Assessors misbehaving.

13. XIV. Remedy for Persons aggrieved by the Assessment.

14. XV. Commissioners to be rated at such Place where they shall be Commissioners;

15. XVI. Remedy for Commissioners and other Persons taxed in any Place other than where they are Commissioners, or where resiant for most part of the preceding Year.

16. XVII. Double Charge not to be allowed.

17. XVIII. Proviso for Persons having two Mansions, or being Household Servants or Waiting Servants to the King or others.

18. XIX. The Power of Commissioners to tax other Commissioners, and also Assessors.

19. XX. Rates estreated under the Sign Manual and Seals of Commissioners; and Estreats delivered to Sufficient Inhabitants, &c. of Hundreds, &c.

20. XXI. Commissioners may appoint Collectors.

21. XXII. Commissioners to take Recognizances of Collectors.

22. XXIII. Persons having been Collectors of former Subsidies not to be appointed Collectors of subsequent Subsidies unless they shew Quietus est.

23. XXIV. Assessors, Attornies, Factors, &c. after being charged with Receipt of Assessment, dying or removing or concealing their Goods, &c. or when Monies comprized in Estreat cannot be levied by Distress, or where Distress cannot be sold;

24. XXVI. Persons distrained having no Lands, &c.

25. XXVII. Allowance to High Collectors and their Accountants.

26. XXVIII. Commissioners, &c. not compellable to make Presentment other than to Exchequer.

27. XXIX. Head Collector for First Subsidy not compellable to be Collector for the other Subsidies.

28. XXX. Commissioners not thinking fit to join in one Certificate, Proceedings.

29. XXXI. Proviso for Stamford Baron.

30. XXXII. Persons having Temporal and Spiritual Possessions, and also Personal Property, not to be doubly charged.

31. XXXIII. Proviso for Scotland, Ireland, Jersey, and Guernsey.

32. XXXIV. Proviso for Patents of Liberties.

33. XXXV. Orphans and Infants not chargeable to Subsidies.

34. XXXVI. Proviso for Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, Winchester College, Eaton College, Poor Knights of Windsor, and Free Schools, and Readers, &c. in the Universities, and for Hospitals, &c.

35. XXXVII. Inhabitants of Cinque Ports for the most Part of the Year before the Grant not chargeable during Resiance only.

36. XXXVIII. Like Proviso for Inhabitants of Rumney Marsh.

37. XXXIX. Alien or Denizen assigning his Lands, &c. to his Child with Intent to defraud the Subsidy, such Child chargeable as an Alien.

38. ITEM quedam Petic[i]oes privatas p[er]sonas conc[er]nentes in se formam Actus continen exhibite fuerunt p[re]dco D[omi]no Regi in Parliamento p[re]dco Quar[um] Tituli subscribuntr videlt.