Taxation (No. 2) Act 1627

XIX. The Power of Commissioners to tax other Commissioners, and also Assessors.

Barons and Persons of higher Estate taxed by the Lord Chancellor, Lord Treasurer, and other Persons named by the King.; Rate estreated and certified.

And be it further enacted by the authoritie aforesaid That the said Co[m]missioners in every Co[m]mission which shalbe or inhabite in any countie or place within the lymitts of their Co[m]mission or the more part of them shall have full power and authoritie by this Act to set taxe and sesse every other Co[m]missioner joyned with them in every such Co[m]mission and the said Co[m]missioners within their Division shall X1 assesse every Assessor within their Division for his or their goods lands and other the p[re]misses as is [X2 aforesaid;] By which said Co[m]mission the said Co[m]missioners to whome it shall appertaine shall indifferentlie sett taxe and sesse them[X3 selves] and the said Assessors, and that aswell the so[m]mes uppon every of the said Co[m]missioners and Assessors so assessed rated and taxed as the so[m]mes made and p[re]sented by the Presenters as is abovesaid shalbe written certified sett and estreated and the Estreats thereof to be made with other the inhabitants of that part and within the lymitts of the same Co[m]mission and Division so to be gathered and levied in like manner as it ought and should have byn if the said Co[m]missioners had not byn in the said Co[m]mission And that all p[er]sons of the estate of a Baron or Baronesse and every estate above shalbe charged with their freehold and value as is aforesaid by the Chauncellor or the Lord Keeper of the great Seale of England and the high Treasurer of England for the tyme being or the one of them together with other such p[er]sons as by the Kings Majesties authoritie or co[m]maundement shalbe named and appointed and they to be charged for the said severall payments of the said Subsidies after the forme of the said Graunt according to the taxacion aforesaid And the so[m]mes of and uppon them to be taxed and sett with the names of the Collectors appointed for gathering and paying of the same to be estreated delivered and certified at the daies and places above specified by the Lord Chauncellor or Lord Keeper of the great Seale and Lord Tresurer or one of them together with such other p[er]sons as thereunto shalbe named as is aforesaid.

Editorial Information

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

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

X3 interlined on the Roll.