Taxation (No. 2) Act 1627

XIII. Assessors misbehaving.

Commissioners may set a Fine upon them.; Estreated into the Exchequer.

And it is further enacted that if the said Taxors or Assessors shall not dulie behave themselves in their inquirie taxacion Assessement or Certificate but shall affeccionatelie corruptlie or partially demeasne themselves in that behalfe in such wise that the Co[m]missioners shall by their consideracions deeme them offenders worthie of punishment for not doing their duties therein, that then foure or more of the Co[m]missioners in that Countie for the said Subsidie shall have power and authoritie by their discrecions either to charge the said Assessors uppon their corporall oathes for the better service aforesaid in that behalfe or else by their discrecions to taxe and set uppon the said Assessors for their misdemeanors in that behalfe such a fine or paine as they shall thinke good, so that it exceed not the so[m]me of tenne pounds and the same fine or paine at their discrecions to estreat into the Court of X1 Exchequer, Every which Fine so taxed and set by foure of the said Co[m]missioners or more and being estreated with the Scedule and Bookes of that lymitt shalbe levied and aunswered to the Kings use in like manner and forme to all intents and purposes as any other so[m]mes that shalbe taxed and become due by vertue of this Statute and Acte of Subsidie and not in any other wise or manner.

Editorial Information

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