Poll Tax (Amendment No. 2) Act 1660

V. Persons having paid, on Certificate of Commissioner to be discharged;

what such Certificate to express.; Proviso for Persons having paid for Estates in one or more Counties.

And to the intent that none that have or shall pay his or their due proportions that he or they ought to pay in respect of his or their quality or degree may be doubly charged, every person that hath or shall pay his full proportion for his or her degree and quality the same exceeding the proportion of his or her estate reall and personall shall by certificate under the hands and seales of three or more of the Commissioners within the same County or precincts where such summe hath or shall be paid be discharged from further payment for his or her estate soe that it be perticularly expressed in every such certificate where such estate lyeth, and the severall and respective values thereof soe that it may appeare that his or her proportion for his or her degree or quality doth exceed that of his or her estate, And alsoe where any person or persons bodyes pollitique or corporate have paid or shall pay for his her or their estate in one or more Countyes he or they shall by like certificate or certificates X1 for soe much and such values specially mentioned to be paid in the said certificates and noe more,

Editorial Information

X1 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: bee discharged in other places O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]