Taxation (No. 2) Act 1663

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

By virtue of Estreat Officers, &c. to levy Rate.; Distress.; If Rate not paid in Eight Days, then Distress to be appraised and sold.; Officers, &c. to answer for the Portion limited to them only.; Allowance to Officers on Rate received.

And be it further enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid That after the Taxes and Assesses of the said Su[m]mmes upon and by the said Assessing and Certificate as is aforesaid made the said respective Co[m]miss[ion]ers or as many of them as shall be thereunto by this Act appointed, or have Authority by the Kings Majestyes Commission shall with all speede and without delay by their writeing estreate the said Taxes thereof under the Seales and Signes Manuall of the said Co[m]missers, or as many of them as shall be appointed at the least, And the same shall deliver unto sufficient and substantiall Inhabitants Constables Sub-Constables Bayliffes and other Officers joyntly of Hundreds Townes Parishes and other places aforesaid within their Limitts, And to other sufficient persons Inhabitants of the same onely by the Discretion of the said Co[m]missers with the assent of the High Collectors and as the places and partyes shall require aswell the perticular names and surnames as the Remembrance of all summes of Money taxed and sett of and upon every person aswell Man as Woman chargeable by X1 this Act Householders and all other Inhabitants and Dwellers within the said Parishes Townes and Places contributory to this Act of Subsidyes. By Authority of which Writeing and Estreate soe delivered the said Officers and other persons soe named and deputed severally shall have full power and authority by vertue of this Act immediately after the delivery of the said Writeing or Estreate to demand leavy and gather of every person therein specified the su[m]mme and su[m]mmes in the [X2 said] Writeing or Estreate comprised, and for non-payment thereof to destraine the same person or persons soe being behind by their Goods and Chattells, and the Distresse soe taken to keepe by the space of Eight dayes at the costs and charges of the Owner thereof, And if the said Owner doe not pay such summe of money as shall be taxed upon him or her by Authority of this Act within the same eight dayes, then the same Distresse to be appraised by Fower Three or Two of the Inhabitants where such Distresse is taken, and alsoe then to be sold by the Constables or other Collectors for the payment of the said money and the overplus comeing by the sale (if any be) over and besides the charge of keepeing the said Distresse to be imm[m]ediately restored to the owner thereof which said Officers and other persons soe deputed to aske take gather and leavy the said Summes shall answere and be charged for the portion onely to them assigned and limitted to be gathered leavyed and comprized in the said Writeing or Estreate soe to them as aforesaid delivered to the use of our Soveraigne Lord the Kings Majestie and His Heires and Successors, and the said Summe in that Writeing or Estreate to be comprized to pay unto the High Collector or Collectors of that place in manner and forme underwritten thereunto to be named and deputed, and the same Inhabitants and Officers soe gathering the same perticular summes for [X3 the] Collection thereof shall retaine for every Twenty shillings soe by them received and paid Two pence and that to be allowed at the payment of their Collection by them to be made to the High Collector or Collectors,

Editorial Information

X1 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: by O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]

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

X3 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: their O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]