Taxation Act 1666

XXXIV. Lenders of Money and Furnishers of Wares, &c. under this Act to have free Access to Books.

Tally of Loan to Lender, and Warrant for Interest at £6 per Cent. per Ann. to be paid every Three Months. Persons furnishing the Navy and Ordnance to have Warrant for; Payment on Certificate, which is to be had without Fee.; Orders for Re-payment to be registered according to Date of Tally, and paid in course; ; without Preference.;Whether for Payment of Moniei lent or for Goods, &c. furnished to the Navy, &c.; Monies to come in by this Act liable to satisfy such Loans.; No Fee for providing or making Books, &c.; or for Payment of Money lent; Penalty.; Punishment. ; Undue Preference by Officer; Penalty. ; Undue Preference by Deputy; Penalty. ; Auditor, Clerk of the Pells, or. Teller not making Payments in due Order; Penalty.

And that it shall be lawfull for any person or persons willing to lend any money, or to furnish any Wares Victualls Shipps Goods or other Necessaries on the Credit of this Act at [X1 the] usuall times when the Exchequer is open to have accesse unto and [X2 review] and peruse all or any of the said Bookes for their Information of the state of those Moneyes and all ingagements upon them for their better incouragement to lend any moneyes or furnish any Goods Wares Victualls Shipps or other Necessaries as aforesaid. And that the Auditor of the Receipte his Deputyes and Clerkes shall be assistant to such persons for their better and speedier satisfaction in that behalfe, And that all and every person and persons who shall lend any Moneyes to Your Majestie and pay the same into the [X3 Receipt of the] Exchequer shall immediately have a Tally of Loane strucke for the same and an Order for his Repayment beareing the same Date with his Tally, in which Order shall be alsoe contained a Warrant for payment of Interest for forbearance after the Rate of Six per Cent. per Annu[m] for his consideration to be paid every three Moneths untill the repayment of his Principall. And that all person and persons who shall furnish Your Majestie, Your Officers of the Navy or Ordnance with any Wares Goods Shipps Victualls or any other Necessaries for the Service aforesaid shall upon Certificate of the Coo[m]mis?ers and Officers of the Navy or of the Master or Coo[m]mis?ers and Officers of the Ordnance or some of them without delay forthwith have made out to them Warrants or Orders for the payment of the Moneyes due or payable unto them, which Certificates the said Officers of Your Navy Coo[m]mis?ers and Officers of the Ordnance shall make without Fee Charge or Delay And that all Orders for Repayment of Money lent shall be registred in course according to the Date of the Tallyes respectively. And that all Orders signed by the Lord Treasurer and Under Treasurer of the Exchequer for payment of moneyes for Goods Wares Victualls and other Necessaries furnished to Your Majestie Your Officers Master or Coo[m]miss?ers as aforesaid shall be registred in course according to the time of bringing to the Office of the Auditor of Receipte the Certificates above-mentioned. And that all Orders soe signed for payments directed by His Majestie shall be entred in course according to their respective Dates and none of the sortes of Orders above mentioned either for Loanes of Money; Supplyes of Wares Goods Victualls or other necessaries or by speciall direction shall have preference one before another but shall all be entred in their course according to the dates of the Tallyes the times of bringing their Certificates and the dates of the Orders for Payments directed by His Majestie as they are in pointe of time respectively before each other, And that all and every person and persons shall be paid in course according as their Orders shall stand entred in the said [X4 Register] Booke be it Orders for Payments directed by His Majestie or [X3 of] moneyes lent, or for Wares Commodities Shipps Victualls or other necessaries furnished as aforesaid soe as that the person Native or Forreyner his Executors Administrators and Assignes who shall have his Warrant or Order Warrants or Orders first entred in the said Booke of Registry shall be taken and accounted as the first person to be paid upon the moneyes to come in by vertue of this Act, And he or they that shall have his or their Warrants or Orders Warrant or Order next entred shall be taken and accounted the second person to be paid and soe successively and in course And that the moneyes to come in by this Act shall be in the same Order lyeable to the satisfaction of the said respective partyes their Executors Administrators or Assignes successively without preference of one before another and not otherwise and not be divertable to any other use intent or purpose whatsoever, And that noe Fee Reward or Gratuity directly or indirectly be demanded or taken of any Your Majestyes Subjects for providing or makeing of any such Bookes Registers Entries View Search or Certificate in or for payment of money lent or the Interest thereof, or for payment of any money upon any Order upon any Contract for Wares and Goods furnished to the use of Your Majesties Navy and [X5 Ordinance ] as aforesaid by any of Your Majestyes Officer or Officers their Clerkes or Deputyes on paine of payment of treble damages to the party greived by the partie offending with Costs of Suite, And if the Officer himselfe take or demand any such Fee or reward then to loose his place alsoe, And if any undue preference of one before another shall be made either in point of Registring contrary to the true meaning of this Act by any such Officer or Officers then the partie offending shall be lyeable by Action of Debt or on the Case to pay the value of the Debt Damages and Costs to the partie grieved and shall be forejudged from his Place or Office, And if such preference be unduely made by any his Deputy or Clerke without direction or Privity of his Master then such Deputie or Clerke onely shall be lyeable to such Action Debt Damages and Costs and shall be for ever after uncapeable of his Place or Office, And in case the Auditor shall not direct the Order or the Clerke of the Pells record or the Tellar, make payment according to each persons due place and order as afore[X6 said ] directed then he or they shall be judged to forfeite, and their respective Deputyes and Clerks herein offending to be lyeable to such Action Debt Damages and Costs in such manner as aforesaid.

Editorial Information

X1 interlined on the Roll.

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

X4 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: Registred O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]

X5 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: Ordnance O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]

X6 interlined on the Roll.