Taxation (No. 2) Act 1627

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

Commissioners not to execute Act out of their Limits;Certificate by Commissioners into the Exchequer.

And be it further enacted by the authoritie aforesaid, that for the assessing and ordering of the said five severall Subsidies to be duly had the Lord Chauncellor of England or the Lord Keeper of the great Seale, the Lord Tresurer of England the Lord President of the Kings Councell the Lord Privie Seale the Lord Admirall of England the Lord Steward of the Kings houshold and the Lord Chamberlayne of the Kings most honorable Houshold for the Tyme being or two of them at the least (whereof the Lord Chauncellor or Lord Keeper of the great Seale for the tyme being to be one) shall and may name and appoint of and for every Shire Riding and other Places aswell within this Realme as within Wales and other the Kings Dominions, as also of and for every Citie and Towne being a Countie of it selfe and of and for the Isle of Wight such certaine nomber of p[er]sons of every of the same Shires Ridings Lathes Wapentakes Rapes Cities Towne and Isle of Wight and every other Place as they shall thinke convenient to be Co[m]missioners of and within the same place whereof they bee inhabitants, and also of and for the honorable houshold of the Kings Majestie, in what Shire or other place the said houshold shall happen then to be. And the Lord Chauncellor or Lord Keeper of the great Seale for the tyme being and other with him before named or two of them as is aforesaid in like manner may name and appoint of every other such Cittie Borough and Towne corporate aswell in England as in Wales and other the Kings Dominions as they shall thinke fitt and requisite sixe five fower three or two of the head Officers and other honest inhabitants in every of the said Citties Boroughes and Townes corporate according to the nomber and multitude of the people being in the same, The which p[er]sons (if any such be) thereunto named of the said Inhabitants of the said Cities Boroughes Townes Corporate not being Counties of themselves shalbe joyned and put in as Co[m]missioners with the p[er]sons named for such Shires and Ridings as the said Cities Boroughes and Townes corporate not being Counties in themselves be set and have their being: Which p[er]sons soe named of and for the said Cities Boroughes and Townes corporate not being Counties by reason of their dwelling in the same shall not take uppon them or any of them to put any part of their Co[m]mission in execucion for the p[re]misses out of the said Cities Boroughes and Townes corporate wherein they be soe named nor to execute the said Co[m]mission within the Citie Burrough or Towne corporate where they shalbe so dwelling, but at such daies and tymes as the said other Co[m]missioners for the same Shire or Riding shall thereunto lymitt and appoint within the said Citie Borough and Towne corporate not being a Countie whereof they be soe named and not out of the said Citie Borough or Towne and in that manner to be ayding and assisting with the said other Co[m]missioners in and for the good executing of the effect of the said Co[m]mission uppon paine of every of the said Co[m]missioners soe named for every such Citie Borough and Towne corporate not being a Countie to make such Fine as the said other Co[m]missioners in the Co[m]mission of and for the same Shire or Riding so named or three of them at the least shall by their discrecions set and certifie into the Kings Exchequer there to be levied to the use of the Kings Majestie in like manner as if such or like so[m]mes had byn set and rated uppon every such p[er]son for the said Subsidies.