Taxation (No. 2) Act 1663

Four entire Subsidies presented, at Two several Payments.

Guilds, &c. Corporate and not Corporate, to pay.; Proviso for Apparel, &c.; Two Shillings and Eight-pence of every Pound.; Aliens and Popish Recusants Convict,; Five Shillings and Four-pence of every Pound. Aliens Seven Years old. Popish Recusants Convict,; 17 Years old, or 21 Years old, not having received the Sacrament. Eight-pence Poll.

MOST Gratious Soveraigne Wee your Majesties most dutyfull and Loyall Subjects the Commons assembled in Parliament haveing entred into a due and serious consideration of those difficulties and dangers which have soe long threatened the Peace and exhausted the Treasure of this Kingdome, and well knowing those weighty and important occasions which doe still presse your Majestie, and with all humble thankfulnesse acknowledging the many blessings we enjoy through the Justice and the Peace, the Wisedome and [X1 the] Pietie of your Majesties Royall Government doe chearefully and unanimously and with hearts fully and intirely devoted to your Majesties Service humbly present your Majestie with the free Guift of Fower intire Subsidies which wee humbly beseech your Majestie gratiously to accept of as a testimony of the most dutyfull Affections of us your Subjects, And that your Majestie would be pleased that it may be enacted, And be it enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majestie the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by Authoritie of the same That our said Soveraigne Lord the Kings Majestie His Heires and Successors shall have receive and enjoy Fower intire Subsidies to be rated taxed levyed and paid at Two severall Payments of every person Spirituall and Temporall of what Estate or Degree he or they be of according to the tenour of this Act in manner and forme following that is to say That as well every person borne within this Realme of England Wales Towne of Berwicke upon Tweede or other the Kings Dominions as all and every Fraternity Guild Corporation Misterie Brotherhood and Commonaltie Corporate and not Corporate within this Realme of England Wales or other the Kings Dominions being worth Three pounds aswell in Coyne, And the value of every pound that every such Person Fraternitie Guild Corporation Misterie Brotherhood and Commonaltie Corporate or not Corporate hath of his or their owne, or any other hath to his or their use, As alsoe in Plate Stocke of Merchandice, all manner of Corne and Graine Householdstuffe, and of all other Goods moveable aswell within this Realme as without, And of all such summes of money as to him or them is or shall be oweing whereof he or they trust in his or their conscience surely to be paid (except and out of the premisses deducted such summes of money as he or they doe owe and in his or their consciences intend truely to pay, and except alsoe the apparell of every such persons their Wives and Children belonging to their owne Bodyes saveing Jewels Gold Silver Stone and Pearle) shall pay to and for every of the said Subsidyes Two shillings eight pence of every pound, And alsoe every Alien and Stranger borne out of the Kings obeisance aswell Denizens as others inhabiting within this Realme, And alsoe every Popish Recusant Convict, or which before the time of the Assessment of the severall Subsidies by this present Act granted shall be Popish Recusant, Convict, or which are, or shall be indicted for Popish Recusancy, And their Indictments either are or shall be removed by Certiorari, or being not removed shall not by Apparance and Traverse legally discharge their said Indictments at the next Assizes or within two Generall Sessions of the Peace where the said persons shall be indicted respectively, of every pound that he or they shall have in Coyne, and the value of every pound in Plate Corne Graine Merchandize Householdstuffe or other Goods Jewells Chattells Moveables and unmovables as is aforesaid aswell within this Realme as without, And of all summes of money to him or them oweing, whereof he or they trust in his or their consciences to be paid (except and out of the premisses deducted every such Summe and Summes of money which he or they doe owe, and in his or their conscience or consciences intend truely to pay) shall pay to and for every of the said Subsidyes Five shillings and fower pence for every pound, And alsoe that every Alien and Stranger borne out of the Kings Dominions being Denizen or not Denizen not being contributary to any the Rates aforesaid, and being of the age of seaven yeares or above, And every Popish Recusant Convict, or which before the time of the Assessment of the severall Subsidies by this present Act granted shall be a Popish Recusant Convict, and being of the age of seaventeene yeares, or which being of the age of one and twenty yeares hath not received the Holy Coo[m]munion within one yeare then last past shall pay to and for every of the said severall Subsidyes eight pence for every Poll, And the Master or he or she with whom the said Alien is, or shall be abideing at the time of the Taxation or Taxations thereof to be charged with the same for lacke of payment thereof.

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