Tillage Act 1670

II. When Corn does not exceed the Rates herein mentioned certain Duties as herein mentioned to be paid.

And it is hereby further enacted by the authoritie aforesaid That when the Prices of Corne and Graine at the times, Havens and places when and where the said Corne or Graine shall be imported into this Kingdome exceede not the Rates hereafter following there shall be answered and paid for the Custome and Poundage thereof these Rates That is to say

For every Quarter of Wheate when the same shall not exceede the Price of Three and fifty shillings and fower pence the Quarter there shall be paid for the Custome and Poundage thereof the summe of sixteene shillings, And when the same shall exceede the summe of three and fifty shillings and fower pence the Quarter, and yet not above fower pounds the Quarter, That then there shall be answered and paid for the Custome and Poundage of every Quarter of Wheate the summe of eight shillings;

For every Quarter of Rye when the same doth not exceede the price of forty shillings the Quarter there shall be answered and paid for the Custome and Poundage thereof the summe of sixteene shillings the Quarter.

For every Quarter, of Barley or Malt when the same doth not exceede the price of two and thirty shillings the Quarter, there shall be answered and paid for the Custome and Poundage thereof the summe of sixteene shillings the Quarter.