Poll Tax (Amendment) Act 1660

VI. Commissioners to issue out Warrants under Hand and Seal to Officers to distrain on Tenants for Default of Landlords.

Officers to distrain accordingly.

And bee it further enacted by the authoritie aforesaid that the said Commissioners or any three of them are hereby required and impowered to issue out their warrant or warrants under their hands and seales or under the hands and seales of any three of them to the Constables Pettie Constables or other his Majesties Officers Ministers or other persons inhabiting within the severall Countyes Cittyes Townes and places respectively requireing them or any of them to distraine the goods and chattells of all and every person and persons and every tennant and tennants for and on the behalfe of his her or their respective Landlord, who shall refuse or negclect to pay the respective summes charged upon him her or them by vertue of the aforesaid Act, And the said Constables Petty Constables and other his Majesties said Officers and Ministers and other persons inhabiting as aforesaid are hereby required to make such distresse accordingly