Taxation (No. 2) Act 1627

X. Commissioners to execute Act according to the Tenor thereof.

Commissioners to direct Precepts to certain Number of Inhabitants of Hundreds, &c. to appear before Commissioners.; Persons who receive Precepts are to show such Precepts to the other Inhabitants named therein.; Penalty 40s.

And be it alsoe enacted by [X1 the] authoritie of this p[re]sent Parliament, that the Co[m]missioners and every of them which shalbe named lymitted and appointed according to this Act to be Co[m]missioners in every such Shire Riding Lathe Wapentake Rape Citie Towne Borough Isle and the said houshold or any other place and none other shall trulie effectuallie and diligentlie for their Parts execute the effect of this p[re]sent Act according to the tenor thereof in every behalfe and no otherwise by anie meanes without omission favour dread malice or anie other thing to be attempted or done by them or anie of them to the contrary thereof, And the said Co[m]missioners or as many of them as shalbe appointed by the said Co[m]mission and none other for the execution of the said Co[m]mission and Act shall for the taxacion of the said two first of the said five Subsidies before the five and twentith day of June next co[m]ming And for the taxacion of the third of the said five Subsidies shall before the tenth day of September next ensuing, And for the taxacion of the fourth of the said five Subsidies shall before the twentith day of November next co[m]ming And for the taxacion of the fift and last of the said Subsidies shall before the one and thirtith day of January next ensuing by vertue of the Co[m]mission delivered unto them in forme aforesaid direct their severall or joynt Precept or Preceptct unto eight seaven sixe five foure three or two (as for the nomber of Inhabitants shalbe requisite) of the most substanciall discreet and honest psons inhabitants to be named by the said Co[m]missioners or by as many of them as shalbe appointed by the said Co[m]mission of and in Hundredct Lathes Rapes Wapentakes Wards Parishes Townes and other Places aswell within Lib[er]ties Francheses Ancient demesnes places exempted and Sanctuaries as without within the lymitts of the Shires Ridings Lathes Wapentakes Rapes Cities Townes Boroughs and Isle aforesaid and other places within the lymitts of their Co[m]mission and to the Constables Subconstables Bayliffs and other like Officers and Ministers of every the said Hundreds Townes Wards Lathes Wapentakes Parishes and other places aforesaid as to the said Co[m]missioners and every nomber of them or to three or two of them by their discrecion in division shall seeme expedient and as by the manner and use of those parts shalbe requisite, straightly by the said Precept charging and co[m]maunding the said Inhabitants Constables and other Officers aforesaid to whome such Precept shalbe soe: directed to appeare in their p[ro]per p[er]sons before the said Co[m]missioners or such nomber of them as they shall divide themselves according to the tenor of the said Co[m]mission at certaine dayes and Places by the said Co[m]missioners or any such nomber of them as is aforesaid within Cities Boroughes [X2 and] Townes corporate or without in any other places as is aforesaid by their discrecion to be lymitted thereunto to doe and accomplish all that to them on the part of the Kings Majestie shalbe enjoyned touching this Act Co[m]maunding further by the same Precept that he to whose hands such Precept shall come, shall shew and deliver the same to the other Inhabitants or Officers named in the same Precept, And that none of them faile to accomplish the same uppon paine of fortie shillings to be forfeited to the Kings Majestie.

Editorial Information

X1 O. omits.

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