Taxation (No. 2) Act 1627

XVIII. Proviso for Persons having two Mansions, or being Household Servants or Waiting Servants to the King or others.

Persons unduly escaping Taxation; ; on Proof thereof before Commissioners or Barons of Exchequer; ; Taxed at double Value.

And be it ordayned and enacted by the authoritie of this present Parliament That no p[er]son having two mansions or two places to resort unto or calling himselfe Houshold servant or Waiting servant to the Kings Majestie or other Lord or Lady master or mistresse be excused uppon his saying from the taxes of the said Subsidies in neither of the places where he may be set or taxed unlesse he bring a Certificate in Writing from the Co[m]missioners where he is so set or taxed indeed at one place And if any p[er]son that ought to be set and taxed to these p[re]sent Subsidies by reason of his removing or resorting to two places or by reason of his saying that he was elswhere taxed or by reason of any Priviledge of his dwelling or abiding in any place not being foreprised in this Act or otherwise by his covine or craft or by any words or sayings or otherwise, Or if any that is a Co[m]missioner or Assessor of others happen to escape from the said [X1 taxacion] from the payment of these Subsidies or any of them and be not set and taxed according to the true intent of this Act and that proved by Presentment Examinacion Informacion or otherwise before the said Co[m]missioners or two of them or before the Barons of the Kings Majesties Exchequer or two Justies of Peace of that Countie where such p[er]son dwelleth Then every such p[er]son that by such meanes or otherwise willinglie by covine or without just cause shall happen to escape from the said taxacions or payments aforesaid or any of them and shall not be rated taxed and set shalbe charged upon the knowledge and proofe thereof with and at the double value of so much as he should might or ought to have bene set or taxed at by vertue of this Act, And the same double value to be levied gathered and paid of his goods and Chattells Lands and Tenements towards the said Subsidies, and further to be punished according to the discrecions of the said Barons Justices or Co[m]missioners before whome he shalbe convicted for his offence and deceit in that behalfe.

Editorial Information

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