Taxation (No. 2) Act 1663

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

Barons and Persons of higher Estate taxed by the Lord Chancellor, Lord; Treasurer, and other Persons herein named.; Rate to be estreated and certified.

And bee it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the Co[m]missers appointed by this Act and all other Co[m]missers appointed by his Majestie which shall be or inhabit in any County or place within their respective Limitts or Commission or the more part of them, shall have full power and Authority by this Act to sett taxe and sesse every other Co[m]misser joyned with them, And the said Co[m]miss[ion]ers within their Division shall alsoe assesse every Assessor within their Division for his or their Goods Lands and other the Premisses as is abovesaid shall indifferently sett taxe and sesse themselves and the said Assessors, And that aswell the summes upon every of the said Co[m]miss[ion]ers and Assessors soe assessed rated and taxed as the summes made and presented by the Presenters as is abovesaid shall be written certifyed sett and estreated and the estreates thereof to be made with other the Inhabitants of that part, and within their respective Limitts and Division soe to be gathered and levyed in like manner as it ought and should have beene if the said Co[m]missers had not beene nominated Co[m]miss[ion]ers, And that all persons of the Estate of a Baron or Baronesse and every Estate above shall be charged with their freehold and value as is aforesaid [X1 by Edward Earle of Clarendon Lord Chauncellour of England Thomas Earle of Southampton Lord High Treasurer of England John Lord Roberts Lord Privy Seale Charles Duke of Richmond George Duke of Albemarle John Marquesse of Winchester, Mountague Earle of Lyndsey Lord Great Chamberlaine of England, Edward Earle of Manchester Lord Chamberlaine of His Majestyes Household William Earle of Bedford Richard Earle of Dorsett John Earle of Bridgewater James Earle of Northampton John Earle of Clare Thomas Earle of Cleaveland Thomas Earle Rivers Mountjoy Earle of Newport John Earle of Thannet Francis Viscount Mountague Charles Lord [X2 Delaway] George Lord Berkley of Berkeley George Lord Eure Philip Lord Wharton Henry Lord Arundell Charles Lord Howard of Charleton William Lord Craven Francis Lord Newport Christopher Lord Hatton Richard Lord Vaughan Thomas Lord Colpeper John Lord Lucas Robert Lord Lexington John Lord Berkley of Stratton Charles Lord Cornwallis and Anthony Lord Ashley or any seaven or more of them] for the said severall payments of the said Subsidyes after the forme of the said Grant according to the Taxation aforesaid, And the Summes of and upon them to be taxed and sett with the names of the Collectors, [X1 which Collectors shall be appointed by the Lord Chauncellour or Lord Keeper of the Great Seale of England for the time being] for gathering and paying of them to be estreated delivered and certifyed at the dayes and places above specified [X1 by the said Edward Earle of Clarendon Lord Chauncellour of England Thomas Earle of Southampton Lord High Treasurer of England John Lord Roberts Lord Privy Seale Charles Duke of Richmond George Duke of Albemarle John Marquesse of Winchester Mountague Earle of Lindsey Lord Great Chamberlaine of England Edward Earle of Manchester Lord Chamberlaine of His Majestyes Household William Earle of Bedford Richard Earle of Dorset John Earle of Bridgewater James Earle of Northampton John Earle of Clare Thomas Earle of Cleaveland Thomas Earle Rivers Mountjoy Earle of Newport John Earle of Thannet Francis Viscount Mountague Charles Lord Delawar George Lord Berkley of Berkley George Lord Eure Philip Lord Wharton Henry Lord Arundell Charles Lord Howard of Charleton William Lord Craven Francis Lord Newport Christopher Lord Hatton Richard Lord Vaughan Thomas Lord Culpeper John Lord Lucas Robert Lord Lexington John Lord Berkley of Stratton Charles Lord Cornewallis and Anthony Lord Ashley or any seaven or more of them.]

Editorial Information

X1 annexed to the Original Act in a separate Schedule.

X2 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: Delawar O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]