Taxation (No. 2) Act 1627

IX. Commissioner being a Popish Recusant, &c.

or not having a Mansion-house, &c.; Acting, Penalty £100.

Provided alwaies, and be it enacted by the authoritie aforesaid that if any p[er]son or p[er]sons shalbe named a Co[m]missioner or Co[m]missioners for the assessing or ordering of the said five Subsidies or anie part of them that either shalbe a Popish Recusant that hath forborne [X1 to repayre] to some Church Chappell or usuall publike place of Co[m]mon, Prayer to heare divine Service by the space of six moneths next before the end of this Session of Parliament, Or that hath not in his or their owne possession and occupacion a Mansion house wherein he or they or his or their family or families, or part of them have resided for the most part of three yeares next before the end of this Session of Parliament scituate and being within the Countie wherein he or they shalbe named a Co[m]missioner or Co[m]missioners as aforesaid and shall by vertue or colour of such Co[m]mission take uppon him or them to assesse or order any of the said five Subsidies or anie part of them shall forfeit for every time that he or they shall take uppon him or them to assesse or order any of the said five Subsidies or any part of them the so[m]me of one hundred pounds of lawfull mony of England, The one Moytie to be to the use of the poore within the Countie or within the Riding or Division of the Countie wherein he or they shall offend contrary to this Act, and the said Moitie shalbe disposed of by the Co[m]missioners of the Peace within the said Countie Riding or Division or by the greater nomber of them at their generall Sessions of the Peace to be holden within the said Countie Riding or Division where the offence shalbe co[m]mitted as aforesaid and the other moytie to such p[er]son or p[er]sons as shall sue for the same in any Court of Record by Accion of Debt Bill Plaint or Informacion wherein no Essoyne Proteccion or Wager of Law shalbe allowed.

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