Taxation Act 1667

IV. The Prices of Wine sold by Retail.

Proviso as to French Wines.

And for the better enabling the several and respective Retailers aforesaid to pay the Duties hereby imposed It shall and may be lawfull to and for every Retailer of Wine during the time aforesaid to ask demaund and receive of all and every theire Customers to whom they shall utter or sell by way of Retail or otherwise any French Wines Spanish Wines or other Wines the Su[m]m of Four pence for every Quart of French Wine by them retailed uttered or sold over and above the Price at which the said Wine ought to have been sold if this Act had not been made and soe after that Rate for a greater or lesser quantity and alsoe the Su[m]m of Six pence for every Quart of Spanish Wines or any X1 Wines whatsoever soe retailed uttered or sold over and above the Price att which the said Wine ought to have beene sold if this Act had not beene made and soe after that Rate for a greater or lesser quantity Provided that no French Wines shall be sold above the Rate of Twelve pence the Quart nor any Spanish Wines above the Rate of Twoe shillings the Quart the addic[i]onall Duty being included.

Editorial Information

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