Taxation (No. 2) Act 1627

XXIII. Persons having been Collectors of former Subsidies not to be appointed Collectors of subsequent Subsidies unless they shew Quietus est.

Penalty £100.

Provided alwaies, and be it enacted by the authoritie aforesaid, That no p[er]son or p[er]sons shalbe nominated or appointed to be a high Collector or Collectors for the second or other Subsidie graunted by this Act which before that tyme hath byn a Collector or Collectors for the first or for any former Subsidie unlesse such p[er]son or p[er]sons so to be nominated or appointed high Collector or Collectors for the second or any [X1 such] other former Subsidie doe first shew forth before him or them by whome he shalbe nominated and appointed his Quietus est for his discharge of his colleccion before appointed to his charge uppon paine of one hundred pounds to be paid and forfaited by him or them that [X2 shall so] nominate and appoint any such Collector contrary to this p[re]sent Act.

Persons living in Cities, &c. not to be appointed Collectors or Assessors out of them.

Provided alwaies, that no p[er]son inhabiting in any Cittie Borough or Towne corporate shalbe compelled to be any Assessor or Collector of or for anie part of the said Subsidies in any place or places out of the said Cittie Borough or Towne corporate where he dwelleth.

Editorial Information

X1 interlined on the Roll.

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