Taxation (No. 2) Act 1627

XVI. Remedy for Commissioners and other Persons taxed in any Place other than where they are Commissioners, or where resiant for most part of the preceding Year.

Fee for Allowance.

And that every p[er]son taxed in any Countie or place other then where he X1 is a Co[m]missioner for the Subsidie if he be a Co[m]missioner upon certificate made to the said Court of Exchequer under the hands and seales of two Co[m]missioners for the same Subsidie in the same Countie or Place where such p[er]son and his family were resiant for the most part of the yeare then next before or where he is a Co[m]missioner for the taxacion and payment of the same Subsidie testifying his most resiaunce, having a family or being a Co[m]missioner shalbe a sufficient discharge for the taxacion of that p[er]son in any other places and of and for all other so[m]mes of mony uppon such p[er]sons [X2 to be] set and taxed save onelie the taxacions made in that Countie [X3 and] place, from which such certificate shalbe made as is aforesaid, and for the su[m]me of mony upon such p[er]son there assessed or taxed, And that such certificate without any Plea or other circumstance shalbe a sufficient warrant as well to the Barons and Auditor and Auditors of the said Court of Exchequer as to all and every other Officers to whome the allowance thereof shall appertaine paying for such discharge and allowance onelie sixe pence and no more.

Editorial Information

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

X3 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]