Poll Tax Act 1660

IV. Officers of the Courts of Chancery and King's Bench.

Warden of the Fleet.; Officers of the Courts of Chancery.; Officers of the Court of Common Pleas.; Officers of the Treasury, Exchequer, Duchy Court, &c.; Attornies at Law.; Officers in His Majesty's Household.; Single Persons above 16.; All other Persons not before rated nor receiving Alms.; The said Rates to be paid in London, and within 10 miles, within Six Days after Proclamation of Act. In all other Counties, &c. within Twelve Days.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that all and every such person and persons who is possessed of any of the severall Offices or Places hereafter mentioned in their owne rights shall pay the severall summes hereafter sett downe that is to say The Prothonatary of the Court of Kings Bench the summe of One hundred pounds. The Clerke of the Crowne of the Court of Kings Bench aforesaid twenty pounds. The Custos Brevium of the said Court forty pounds. The Marshall of the Kings Bench fifty pounds. The Master of the Rolls threescore pounds. The Clerke of the Crowne in the Court of Chauncery forty pounds. The Clerke of the Rules in the Kings Bench ten pounds. The Warden of the Fleet fifty pounds. The Clerke of the Hannaper forty pounds. The Master of the Subpena Office forty pounds. The Clerks of the Inrollment ten pounds apeice. The Usher of the Court of Chauncery thirty pounds. Every one of the Six Clerks in the said Court of Chauncery forty pounds. Every Cursitor of the said Court ten pounds. Every Clerke of the Petty Bag five pounds. Every Examiner of the said Court ten pounds. The Cheife Register in the said Court of Chauncery twenty pounds. Every Under Register the summe of ten pounds. Every person that is admited as an Underclerke in any of the Offices of the Six Clerks in Chancery the summe of three pounds. The Clerks of the Chappell of the Rolls three pounds apeice. Every Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas the summe of fifty pounds. The Custos Brevium of the said Court fowerscore pounds. Every Philezer of the said Court ten pounds. The Master of the Fine Office thirty pounds. The Clerke of the Warrants ten pounds. The Clerke of the Outlawryes twenty pounds. The Clerke of the Kings Silver Office twenty pounds. The Clerke of [X1 the] Statutes twenty pounds. The Clerke of the Treasury ten pounds. The Clerke of the Habeas Corpora Office ten pounds. The Exigenter of the Citty of London forty pounds. Every other Exigenter in the Common Pleas five pounds. The Kings Remembrancer in the Court of Exchequer the summe of forty pounds. The Lord Treasurers Remembrancer in the said Court the su[m]me of ten pounds. Every of the Tellers of the Court of Exchequer twenty pounds apiece. Every Attourney of the Court of Exchequer belonging to the Office of the Kings Remembrancer ten pounds. Every Attourney of the Office of Pleas in the Court of Exchequer ten pounds. The Remembrancer of First Fruits and Tenthes in the said Court the su[m]me of twenty pounds. The Clerke of the Pipe in the said Court the summe of forty pounds. The Forraigne Opposer in the said Court the summe of twenty pounds. The Clerke of the Estreates in the said Court the summe of twenty pounds. The Clerke of the Pleas in the said Court the summe of thirty pounds. The Auditor of the Receipt of the Exchequer the summe of forty pounds. The Clerke of the Pell in the receipt aforesaid thirty pounds. The Usher of the said Court of Exchequer the summe of twenty pounds. Every Attourney in the Office of Pleas in the said Court of Exchequer ten pounds. Every Auditor in the said Court ten pounds. The Clerke of the Court of the Dutchy of Lancaster ten pounds. Every Auditor of the said Court ten pounds. Every Clerke of the Privy Seale ten pounds. Every Clerke of the Signet ten pounds. Every Attourney at Law of any of the Courts at Westminster or in the Courts of Law or Equity within any of the Countyes Palatine of Chester Lancaster or Durham or Marches of Wales the summe of three pounds. Every person in any Office or place under his Majesty (except his Majestyes Household Servants in ordinary) who receiveth the yearely fee of ten pounds the summe of ten pounds. The Leiutenant of the Tower of London fifty pounds. Every person that can dispend in Lands Leases Money Stocke or otherwise of his or her owne proper estate one hundred pounds per annum the summe of forty shillings and soe proportionably for a greater or lesser estate provided it extend not to persons under five pounds yearely. Every person being a single person and above the age of sixteene yeares the summe of twelve pence. And every other person of what estate or degree soe-ever he or she be within his Majestyes Kingdome of England and Dominion of Wales not rated before in this present Act, nor receiving Alms, and being above sixteene yeares of age shall pay six pence. And all the severall persons of the severall degrees ranks and qualityes before sett forth in this Bill shall pay the severall proportions and rates appointed by this Bill [X2 in manner & forme] to be disposed of as in this present Act hereafter is expressed that is to say Every person of the severall degrees ranks and qualityes before mentioned within the Citty of London and ten miles from the same shall within six dayes after proclamation made of this Act in the accustomed places within the said Citty, and the severall Countyes within the said distance respectively pay the severall rates appointed by this Act to be paid by them, and every person of what degree ranke or quality soe-ever throughout the Kingdome of England and Dominion of Wales within twelve dayes after proclamation made of this Act in the accustomed places of the severall Countyes shall pay the severall rates appointed by this Act to be paid by them.

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