Taxation (No. 2) Act 1627

XXII. Commissioners to take Recognizances of Collectors.

Condition of Recognizance for first Two Subsidies; ; for Third Subsidy; ; for Fourth Subsidy.; for Fifth Subsidy; Commissioners to certify Recognizances into the Exchequer.; Penalty, £10.; Collectors not making Recognizance, Penalty £20.; Exchequer to cancel Recognizances on Payment of Collection into Exchequer without Fee.; Collectors may appoint Days and Places for Payment of Collection.; Assessor, &c. not paying Collection to High Collector, abating the Allowance of 2d. in the Pound.; Distress.; Proceedings thereon.

Provided allwaies and be it enacted by the authoritie aforesaid that the said Co[m]missioners having authoritie by this Acte to name and nominate the said high Collectors of every the said Subsidies shall ymediatelie uppon their no[i]acion and eleccion take by authoritie of this p[re]sent Parliament sufficient Recognizances or Obligacions without any Fee or reward to be paid therefore of every p[er]son so by them to be named to be high Collectors to be bound to the Kings Majestie in the double so[m]me of the so[m]me of his colleccion and to be indorsed and made uppon such condicion that is to saie for the colleccion of the payment of the said two first of the said five Subsidies: That if the said Collector his Heires or Executors doe trulie content and pay to the use of the Kinges Majestie his Heires or Successors in the receipt of the said Exchequer att or before the tenth day of July now next co[m]ming soe much of the said so[m]me of mony allotted and appointed to his colleccion as he shall collect and gather and content and pay the residue of his colleccion and charge within one moneth next after such tyme as he hath collected and gathered the same residue, that X1 the said Recognizance or Obligacion to be void or els to stand in full strength and vertue And for the colleccion of the third of the said five Subsidies uppon condicion, That if the said Collector his heires or executors doe trulie content and pay to the use of the Kings Majestie his Heires or Successors in his receipt of Exchequer at or before the twentith day of October next ensuing soe much of the said so[m]me of mony allotted and appointed to his colleccion as he shall collecte and gather and content and pay the residue of his colleccion and charge within one moneth next after such tyme as he hath collected and gathered the same residue: That then the said Recognizances or Obligacions to be void or els to stand in full strength and vertue, And for the colleccion of the said fourth Subsidie of the five Subsidies aforesaid, uppon condicion, That if the said Collector his heires or executors doe trulie content and pay to the use of the Kings Majestie his Heires or Successors in his receipt of Exchequer at or before the said twentith day of December now next ensuing soe much of the said so[m]me of mony allotted and appointed to his colleccion as he shall collect and gather and content and pay the residue of his colleccion and charge within one moneth next after such tyme as he hath collected and gathered the same residue, That then the [X2 same] Recognizances and Obligacions to be void or els to stand in full strength and vertue And for the colleccion of the said fift and last of the said Subsidies uppon condicion That if the said Collector his heires or executors doe trulie content and pay to the use of the Kings Majestie his heires and Successors in his receipt of Exchequer at or before the said first day of March now next ensuing so much of the said so[m]me of mony allotted and appointed to his colleccion as he shall collect and gather and content and pay the residue of his colleccion and charge within one moneth next after such tyme as he hath collected the same residue, That then the said Recognizances or Obligacions to be void or els to stand in full strength and vertue, Which said severall Recognizances or Obligacions soe taken the said Co[m]missioners shall severally certifie and deliver into the Kings Majesties Exchequer with the severall Certificates of the said Taxacions and Rates of the payments of the said Subsidies at and by the tymes to them p[re]scribed and appointed by this Acte for the certificate of the said severall Taxacions of the said Subsidies uppon paine of forfeiture of ten pounds to the Kinges Majestie for every Recognizance or Obligacion not soe certified And that every such Collector soe elected named and chosen uppon request to him made shall knowledge and make the said Recognizance or Obligacion uppon paine of forfeiture of twentie pounds to the Kings Majestie for the refusall thereof, And that the Tresurer and Barons of the Exchequer for the tyme being uppon payment of the said severall colleccions of the Subsidies at the dayes and tymes herein lymitted for the payment thereof X3 to the Collector or Collectors without any other warrant and without any fee or reward to be paid for the same to any p[er]son, And every Collector so deputed having the said Estreat in parchment as is aforesaid shall have authoritie by this Act to appoint daies and places within the circuit of his colleccion for the payment of the said Subsidies to him to be made and thereof to give warning by p[ro]clamacion or otherwise to all the Constables or other p[er]sons or inhabitants having the charge of the particular colleccion within the Hundreds Parishes Townes or other places by him or them lymitted to make payment of the said particuler colleccion of every so[m]me as to them shall appertaine And if at the same day and place so lymitted and p[re]fixed by the said high Collector the said Constable Officers or other p[er]sons or inhabitants as is aforesaid for the said particular colleccion assigned and appointed within such Hundred Cittie Towne or other place doe not pay unto the said high Collector the some within their severall Hundreds Townes Parishes and other places due and comprised in the said Estreat thereof to them delivered by the said Co[m]missioners or some of them as is aforesaid or so much thereof as they have by anie meanes received (two pence for every pound for the said particular colleccion as is aforesaid allwaies thereof to be allowed excepted and abated) that then it shalbe lawfull to the said high Collectors and every of them and to their assignes to distraine every of the said Constables Officers and other inhabitants for their said severall and particular colleccion of the said so[m]mes comprised in the said Estreat and writing thereof to them and every of them as is before expressed delivered or for so much of the same so[m]me as so then shall happen to be gathered and levied and behind and unpaid by the goods and chattells of every of them so being behind and the distresse so taken to be kept and appraised and sold as is aforesaid and thereof to take and levie the so[m]mes soe then being behinde and unpaid and the overplus co[m]ming of the sale of the said distresse (if any be) to be restored and delivered unto the owner in forme above remembred.

Editorial Information

X1 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: then 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: said 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: shall cancell and deliver the Recognizances or obligac[i]ons for the payment thereof O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]