Taxation (No. 2) Act 1627

VIII. Such Commissioners not to have Fees.

Several Commissions directed out of Chancery.; Schedules delivered to Commissioners.; Commissioners to divide themselves.; copellable to act out of their Shires.

The which Co[m]missioners so named of and for the said Cities Boroughes and Townes not being Counties, and onelie put into the said Co[m]missions by reason of their dwelling in the same, shall not have any part or porcion of the Fees [X1 or] rewards of the Co[m]missioners and their Clerkes in this Act [X2 afterwards] specified and allowed. And the Lord Chauncellor of England or Keep of the great Seale of England for the tyme being shall make and direct out of the Court of Chauncery under the great Seale severall Co[m]missions, That is to saie, for every Shire Riding Lathe Wapentake Rape Citie Towne Borough Isle and the said houshold unto such p[er]son and p[er]sons as by his discrecion and such of the other with him before named and appointed as is before rehearsed shalbe thought sufficient for the sessing and levying of the said five severall Subsidies in all Shires and Places according to the true meaning of this Act, which Co[m]missions for the payment of the said two first of the said Subsidies shalbe directed and delivered to the said Co[m]missioners or to one of them before the twentith day of June now next co[m]ming, And the Co[m]mission for the payment of the third of the said five Subsidies shalbe directed and delivered to the said Co[m]missioners or to one of them before the last day of the Moneth of August now next co[m]ming. And the Co[m]mission for the payment of the fourth of the said five Subsidies shalbe directed and delivered to the said Co[m]missioners or to one X3 before the tenth day of November next comming, And the Co[m]mission for the payment of the fifth and last of the said Subsidies shalbe directed and delivered to the said Co[m]missioners or to one of them before the twentith day of Januarie now next ensuing. And to every of the said Co[m]missions tenne Schedules conteyning in them the tenor of this Act shalbe affiled. And for the Co[m]missioners better discovery of Popish Recusants severall Schedules shalbe delivered unto them with their severall Co[m]missions out of the Exchequer and Certificates from the Clerkes of the Assizes and of the Peace and other the like Officers and from the Ministers and Churchwardens of every Parishe of the names of such Popish Recusantctas are to be charged by this Act, By the which Co[m]mission the Co[m]missioners in every such Co[m]mission named according to this Acte and as many of them as shalbe appointed by the said Co[m]mission shall have full power and authoritie to put the effect of the said Co[m]mission in Execucion And that by authoritie of this Acte after such Co[m]mission to them delivered they may by their assents and agreements sever themselves for the execucion of their Co[m]mission [X4 by] Hundreds Lathes Wardes Rapes Wapentakes Townes Parishes and other Places within the lymitts of the said Co[m]mission in such forme as to them shall seeme expedient to be ordered and betweene them to be co[m]muned and agreed according to the tenor and effect of the Co[m]mission to them therein directed, Uppon which severance every p[er]son of this p[re]sent Parliament that shalbe Co[m]missioner shalbe assigned to the Hundred where he dwelleth. Provided alwaies that no p[er]son be or shalbe nominated or appointed to be any Co[m]missioner to or for the execucion of this p[re]sent Act, but onelie in the Shire where he hath a Mansion house wherein he or his familie have resided and inhabited by the greatest part of three yeares last past, And that any p[er]son assigned to the contrary thereof in any wife shall not be compelled to put in execucion the effect of this Act or anie part thereof.

Editorial Information

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

X2 interlined on the Roll.

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

X4 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: in O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]