Taxation (No. 2) Act 1663

1. Introductory Text

2. Four entire Subsidies presented, at Two several Payments.

3. II . Persons, Corporations, &c. having Lands, &c. of Twenty Shillings yearly Value.

4. III. First Two Subsidies how to be rated.

5. IV. Absentees, whether Natives or Aliens, to be charged by Certificate of Inhabitants of Place.

6. V. Commissioners for assessing the King's Household to be appointed by Lord Chancellor, Lord Treasurer, and other great Officers.

7. VI. Commissioners for Counties, &c.

8. For the County of Bedford

9. For the Towne of Bedford

10. For the County of Bucks

11. For the Towne of Buckingham

12. For the County of Berks

13. For the County of Cornwall

14. For the County of Cumberland

15. For the Citty of Carlisle

16. For the County of Cambridge and Isle of Ely

17. For the Towne of Cambridge

18. For the County of Chester

19. For the Citty and County of the Citty of Chester

20. For the County of Derby

21. For the Burrough of Derby

22. For the County of Devon

23. For the Citty and County of the Citty of Exon

24. For the County of Dorset

25. For the Towne and County of Poole

26. For the Bishoprick of Durham

27. For the West Rideing of the County of Yorke.

28. For the North Rideing of the County of Yorke

29. For the East Rideing of the County of Yorke

30. For the Citty and County of the Citty of Yorke.

31. For the Towne and County of Kingston upon Hull.

32. For the County of Essex

33. For the Towne of Colchester

34. For the Towne of Malden

35. For the Towne of Harwich

36. For the Liberty of Havering

37. For the County of Gloucester

38. For the Citty and County of the Citty of Gloucester.

39. For the County of Huntington

40. For the Towne of Huntington

41. For the County of Hertford

42. For the Burrough of St. Albanes

43. For the County of Hereford

44. For the Citty of Hereford

45. For the County of Kent

46. For the Citty and County of Canterbury

47. For the Citty of Rochester

48. For the parts of Lindsey in the County of Lincolne.

49. For the Citty and County of the Citty of Lincolne.

50. For the Parts of Holland

51. For the Parts of Kestaven

52. For the County of Leicester

53. For the Burrough of Leicester

54. For the County Palatine of Lancaster

55. For the Burrough of Wigan

56. For the Burrough of Liverpoole

57. For the Burrough of Clitherowe

58. For the County of Midlesex

59. [For the Liberty of the Dutchy of Lancaster

60. For the Citty of Westminster

61. For the Citty of London

62. For the County of Monmouth

63. For the County of Northampton

64. For the Towne of Northampton

65. For the County of Nottingham

66. For the Towne of Nottingham

67. For the Towne of Newarke upon Trent

68. For the County of Norfolke

69. For the Towne of Thetford

70. For the Citty of Norwich

71. For the Towne of Lynne Regis

72. For the Towne of Yarmouth

73. For the County of Northumberland

74. For the Towne of Newcastle upon Tyne

75. For the Towne of Berwicke upon Tweede

76. For the County of Oxford

77. For the Citty of Oxford

78. For the County of Rutland

79. For the County of Surrey

80. For the Burrough of Southwarke

81. For the County of Stafford

82. For the Citty and County of the Citty of Litchfeild.

83. For the County of Salop

84. For the Towne of Shrewsbury

85. For the County of Southampton

86. For the Isle of Wight

87. For the Citty of Winchester

88. For the Towne and County of Southampton

89. For the County of Suffolke

90. For the Towne of Ipswich

91. For the Burrough of St Edmonds Bury

92. For the Towne of Aldborough

93. For the County of Somerset

94. For the Citty of Bath

95. For the Citty and County of the Citty of Bristoll.

96. For the County of Sussex

97. For the Citty of Chichester

98. For the County of Westmerland

99. For the County of Wilts.

100. For the Citty of New Sarum

101. For the County of Worcester

102. For the Citty and County of the Citty of Worcester.

103. For the Burrough of Evesham

104. For the County of Warwicke

105. For the Citty and County of the Citty of Coventry.

106. For the County of Anglesey

107. For the County of Brecon

108. For the County of Cardigan

109. For the County of Carmarthen

110. For the Burrough of Carmarthen

111. For the County of Carnarvan

112. For the County of Denbigh

113. For the County of Flint

114. For the County of Glamorgan

115. For the County of Merioneth

116. For the County of Montgomery

117. For the County of Pembrooke

118. For the Towne and County of Haverford West

119. For the County of Radnor

120. VII. Commissioners to execute Act according to the Tenor thereof.

121. VIII. Commissioners to direct Precepts to certain Number of Inhabitants in Hundreds, &c.

122. IX. Persons named in Precept to appear before Commissioners.

123. X. Assessors misbehaving, Commissioners may set a Fine upon them.

124. XI. Commissioners to be rated at such Place where they shall be Commissioners

125. XII. Double Charges not to be allowed.

126. XIII. Proviso for Persons having Two Mansions, or being Household Servants or Waiting Servants to the King or others.

127. XIV. The Power of Commissioners to tax other Commissioners, and also Assessors.

128. XV. Rates to be estreated under the Seal and Sign Manual of the Commissioners, and Estreat delivered to sufficient Inhabitants, &c. of Hundreds, &c.

129. XVI. Commissioners may appoint Persons; to be High Collectors.

130. XVII. Commissioners to take Recognizances of Collectors.

131. XVIII. Persons having been Collectors of First Subsidy not to be appointed Collectors of Second Subsidy unless they shew Quietus est.

132. XIX. Persons living in Cities, &c. not to be Collectors or Assessors out of them.

133. XX. Persons after being charged with Receipt of Assessment, dying or removing or concealing their Goods; or when Monies comprized in Estreat cannot be levied by Distress; or where Distress cannot be sold.

134. XXI. Persons distrained having no Lands, &c.

135. XXII. Allowance to High Collectors upon their Accounts.

136. XXIII. Proviso for Stamford Baron.

137. XXIV. Persons having Spiritual and Temporal Possessions, and also Personal Property, not to be doubly charged.

138. XXV. Exception for Scotland, Ireland, Jersey, and Guernsey.

139. XXVI. Proviso for Patents of Liberties, &c. to Cities, &c.

140. XXVII. Orphans and Infants' not chargeable to Subsidies.

141. XXVIII. Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, Winchester College and Eaton College, the Poor Knights of Windsor, Free Schools and Reader, &c. in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridege, and Hospitals, &c. not chargeable.

142. XXIX. Alien or Denizen assigning his Lands, &c. to his Child, with Intent to defraud the Subsidy, such Child chargeable as an Alien.

143. XXX. Inhabitants of Cinque Ports for the most Part of the Year before the Grant not chargeable during Resiance.

144. XXXI. Inhabitants of Rumney Marsh in like manner not chargeable.

145. XXXII. Regard to be had to Debts and former Subsidies