Taxation (No. 2) Act 1663

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

Rule by which they are to be charged.

And it is further enacted by Authority of this present Parliament That every such persons aswell such as be borne under the Kings Obeysance, as every other person stranger borne Denizen or not Denizen inhabiting within this Realme or within Wales, Towne of Berwicke upon Tweede or other the Kings Dominions which at the time of the said Assessings or Taxations or any or every of them to be had or made shall be out of this Realme or out of Wales and have Goods Chattells Lands or Tenements Fees or Annuityes or other Proffitts within this Realme or in Wales shall be charged and chargeable for the same by the Certificate of the Inhabitants of the place where such Goods Chattells Lands Tenements or other the Premisses then shall be, or in such place where such person or persons or his or their Factor Deputy or Attourney shall have his or their most resorte unto within this Realme or in Wales in like manner as if the said person were or had beene at the time of the said assessing within this Realme; And that every person abideing or dwelling within or without this Realme shall be charged and chargeable to the said severall Subsidyes granted by this Act according and after the rate of such yearely substance or value of Lands or Tenements Goods Chattells and other the Premisses as every person soe to be charged shall be sett att, at the time of the said Assessing or Taxation upon him to be made and noe otherwise.