Taxation (No. 2) Act 1627

XXI. Commissioners may appoint Collectors.

Qualification, ; to be High Collectors.; Commissioners to deliver Estreats under their Seals and Sign Manual to Collectors.; Collector to answer the Sums comprized in Estreat.

And further be it enacted by the said Authoritie that such of the said Co[m]missioners or the more part of them as shall take uppon them the execucion and busines of the said Co[m]mission shall for every of the said payments of the said Subsidies name such sufficient and able p[er]sons which then shall have and possesse lands or other Hereditaments in their owne right of the cleere yearelie value of fortie pounds or goodes to the value of foure hundred pounds at the least as he shalbe taxed in the Subsidie Booke (if anie such be in the said lymitts) and for want of such so assessed, then those to be appointed Collectors that then shalbe sufficient and rated and taxed in the Subsidie Bookes in lands and goods neerest to the values aforesaid as by their discrecions shalbe thought good in Shires Ridings Lathes Wapentakes Rapes Cities Townes corporate and other whatsoever places aswell within places priviledged as without not being foreprised in this Acte to be high Collectors and to have the colleccion and receipt of the said so[m]mes set and leviable within the p[re]cincts lymitts and bounds, where they shalbe so lymitted and appointed to be high Collectors And to every of the said Collectors soe severallie named the said Co[m]missioners or two of them at the least with all speed and without delay after the said whole so[m]me, of any payment of the said Subsidies be set by all the lymitts of the same their Co[m]mission or in such lymitts as the high Collectors shalbe soe severallie assigned shall under their Seales and Signes manuall deliver one estreate indented in Parchment comprising in itt the names of all such p[er]sons as were assigned to levie the said particular so[m]mes and the so[m]mes of every Hundred Wapentake Towne or other place aforesaid with the names and surnames of the p[er]sons soe chargeable according to the Estreate so thereof first made and delivered as is aforesaid, And the Collectors to be assigned shalbe charged to aunswere the whole so[m]me comprised in the said Estreate lymitted to his colleccion as is aforesaid.