Taxation (No. 2) Act 1663

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

Commissioners to deliver Estreats under their Seals and Sign Manual to Collectors.; Collectors to answer the Sums comprized in Estreat.

And further be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That such of the said Co[m]missers or the greater part of them [X1 that] shall take upon them the execution of this Act shall for every of the said payments of the said Subsidyes name such sufficient and able persons which then shall have and possesse Lands or other Hereditaments in their owne right of the cleare yearely value of Forty pounds, or Goods to the value of Fower hundred pounds at the least as he shall be taxed in the Subsidy Booke (if any such be in the said Limitts) and for want of such soe assessed then those to be appointed Collectors that then shall be sufficient and rated and taxed in the Subsidy Bookes in Lands and Goods neerest to the values aforesaid as by their Discretions shall be thought good in Shires Rideings Lathes Wapentakes Rapes Cittyes Townes Corporate and other whatsoever places aswell within places priviledged as without not being foreprized in this Act to be high Collector And to have the Collection and Receipt of the said Summes sett and levyable within the Precincts Limitts and Bounds where they shall be soe limitted and appointed to be High-Collectors, And to every of the said Collectors soe severally named the said Co[m]miss[ion]ers or two of them at the least with all speede and without delay after the said whole Summe of any payment of the said Subsidies be sett by all their respective Limitts, or in such Limitts as the high Collector shall be soe severally assigned shall under their Seales and Signes Manuall deliver one Estreate indented in Parchment compriseing in it the names of all such persons as were assigned to leavy the said perticular summes and the summes of every Hundred Wapentake Towne or other Place aforesaid with the names and surnames of the persons soe chargeable according to the Estreate soe thereof first made and delivered as is aforesaid, And the Collectors to be assigned shall be charged to answere the whole Summe comprized in the said Estreats limitted to his Collection as is aforesaid

Editorial Information

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