Poll Tax (Amendment No. 2) Act 1660

Doubts, &c. respecting. c. 9. ante.

c. 10. ante recited.; Reasons for passing this Act.; All Persons to pay the several Sums of Money appointed by the said Acts; also 40s. per Cent. on all their Estates Real and Personal.; Proviso for Estates under £5 per Ann.

WHEREAS through some doubts ariseing upon or by negligence in the execution of one Act of this present Parliament intituled An Act for the speedy provision of money for the disbanding and paying off the forces of this kingdome both by land and sea, and alsoe of one other Act intituled An Act for supplying and explaining certaine defects in the aforesaid Act, the same Acts doe not answere the ends aforesaid in such measure as was expected without some [X1 further] explanation of the sence thereof and a review of the severall assessments made thereby, soe that some persons may not escape without payment at all or goe away at very small proportions whilest others pay their just and full due It is therefore enacted and declared by the Kings most excellent Majestie by and with the consent and advice of the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled and by the authoritie of the same that all and every person and persons of the severall ranks degrees or qualifications in the said Act or Acts mentioned shall contribute and pay the severall and respective summes of money therin appointed to be paid (any pretence of exemption being the Kings Majestyes servants to the contrary notwithstanding) and alsoe that X2 every person and persons ecclesiasticall and temporall bodyes pollitique and corporate shall pay for their estates both reall and personall the summe of forty shillings for one hundred pounds per annum and soe proportionably for a greater or lesser estate, and for every hundred pounds personall estate after the rate of five pounds per annum provided it extend not to estates under five pounds per annum,

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X1 interlined on the Roll.

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