Taxation (No. 2) Act 1627

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

Aliens and Popish Recusants Convict 8s. in the Pound.; Plate, &c. held for Corporations to be rated.; Lands, Corodies, Fees, &c.; Proviso for Ornaments, &c. of Churches and Chappels.

And be it further enacted by the authoritie aforesaid That every p[er]son borne under the Kings obeysance, and every Corporacion Fraternitie Guild Misterie Brotherhood & Co[m]monaltie corporate or not corporate for every pound that every of the same p[er]sons and every Corporacion Fraternitie Guild Misterie Brotherhood and Co[m]monalty corporate or not corporate, or any other to his or their use hath in Fee simple Fee taile for terme of life terme of yeares by Execucion Wardshipp or by Copie of Court Roll of and in any Honors Castles Mannors Lands Tenements Rents Services Hereditaments An[n]uities Fees Corrodies or X1 yearelie proffitts of the yearelie value of twentie shillings as well within auncient demesne and other places priviledged as elswhere and so [X2 upward] shall pay to and for every of the said five Subsidies foure shillings of and for every pound And every Alien denizen or not denizen borne out of the Kings obeysance and every Popish Recusant convict of what estate or degree soever they be of, or which before the tyme of the assessement of the severall Subsidies by this p[re]sent Act graunted shalbe a Popish Recusant convict or which shalbe indicted for Popish Recusancie and their indictments are or shalbe removed by Cerciorari or being not removed, shall not by apparance and traverse legallie discharge their said indictments at the next assizes or within two generall Sessions of the peace where the said p[er]sons shalbe indicted respectivelie in such case to pay to and for every of the said five severall Subsidies eight shillings for every pound, And that all so[m]mes to be p[re]sented and chargeable by this Act either for goods and debts or either of them or for Lands Tenements and other the p[re]misses as is in this Act conteyned shalbe at every of the said Payments set and taxed after the rate and p[ro]porcion according to the true meaning of this Act, Landes and Tenements chargeable to the dismes of the Clergie and yearelie wages due to servants for their X3 service (other then the Kings servants taking yearelie wages of five pounds or above) onelie excepted and foreprised, And that all Plate Coyne Jewells Goods Debts and Chattellct p[er]sonalls and all Lands Tenements and other the p[re]misses as aforesaid being in the rule and custodie of any p[er]son or p[er]sons to the use of anie Corporacion Frat[er]nitie Guild Misterie Brotherhood or anie Co[m]monaltie being corporate or not corporate be and shalbe rated sett and charged by reason of this Act at the value c[er]tified by the presenters in their Certificate for every pound in goods and debts as is aforesaid. And for every pound in Lands Tenements An[n]uities Fees Corrodies and other yearelie p[re]ffitts as is aforesaid, and the so[m]mes that are above rehearsed sett and taxed to be levied and taken of them that shall have such goods in custodie or otherwise charged for Lands as is before rehearsed, And the same p[er]son and p[er]sons and bodies corporate by authoritie of this Act shalbe discharged against him or them that shall or ought to have the same at the tyme of the payment or deliverie thereof or at his otherwise departure from the custodie or possession of the same. Except and alwaies foreprised from the charge and assessement of the said Subsidies all Goodes Chattells Jewells and Ornaments of Churches and Chapples, which have been ordained and used in Churches and Chappells for the honor and service of Allmightie God.

Editorial Information

X1 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: other O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]

X2 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: upwards O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]

X3 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: yearly O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]