Subsidy Act 1660

VI. Recital that no Rates can be imposed on Merchandize without Authority of Parliament.

A Book of Rates agreed by the Commons House of Parliament subscribed by the Speaker.

And because noe rates can be imposed upon Merchandize imported or exported by Subjects or Aliens but by co[m]mon consent in Parliament Bee it further Enacted and Declared by the Authoritie aforesaid that the rates intended by this present Act shall be the rates mentioned and expressed in one Booke of Rates intituled The Rates of Merchandize That is to say The Subsidy of Tonnage, The Subsidy of Poundage and The Subsidy of Woollen cloathes or old Draperies as they are rated and agreed on by the Commons House of Parliament sett downe and expressed in this Booke to be paid according to the Tenor of the Act of Tonnage and Poundage from the fower and twentieth day of June inclusively, in the twelfth yeare of his Majesties Raigne dureing his Majesties Life, and subscribed with the hand of Sir Harbotle Grimston Barronet Speaker of the House of Commons Which said Booke of Rates composed and agreed on by Your Majesties said Commons and alsoe every Article rule and clause therin contained shall be and remaine dureing Your Majesties Life as effectuall to all intents and purposes as if the same were included perticularly in the Body of this present Act.