Poll Tax (Amendment No. 2) Act 1660 (c. 28)

IV. Barristers at Law, and Persons written or writing themselves Esquire, to pay as Esquires.

And be it further enacted and declared that every Barrester at Law, and every other person or persons that hath or have subscribed to any deed or writing wherein he or they have beene written or intituled Esquire, or that hath or have acted by vertue of any Commission or pretended Commission Act or pretended Acts of Parliament wherein they have before the sitting of this Parliament beene written or entituled Esquire shall pay as reputed Esquiers within the said Acts,