Taxation (No. 2) Act 1627

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

Rule by which they are to be charged.

And it is further enacted by authoritie of this p[re]sent Parliament, that every such p[er]son aswell such as be borne under the Kings obeysance as every other p[er]son Stranger borne Denizen or not Denizen inhabiting within this Realme or within Wales or other the Kings Dominions, which at the tyme of the same assessings or Taxacions or any or every of them to be had or made shalbe out of this Realme or out of Wales and have goods chattells lands or tenements Fees or an[n]uities or other p[ro]ffitts within this Realme or in Wales shalbe charged and chargeable for the same by the Certificate of the Inhabitants of the place where such Goods chattells lands tenements or other the p[re]misses then shalbee or in such place where such p[er]son or p[er]sons or his or their Factor Deputy or Attorny shall have his or their most resort unto within this Realme or in Wales in like manner as if the said p[er]son were or had byn at the tyme of the said assessing within this Realme. [X1 And that every p[er]son abiding or dwelling within or without this Realme] shalbe charged and chargeable to the said severall Subsidies graunted by this Act according and after the rate of such yearelie substance or value of lands or tenements goodes chattells and other the p[re]misses, as every p[er]son so to be charged shalbe set at, at the tyme of the said assessing or taxacion uppon him to be made and no otherwise.

Editorial Information

X1 interlined on the Roll.