Crown Lands (Forfeited Estates) Act 1698

LXV. Manors, Lands, Quarries, Mines, Parks, Fishings, &c. Annuities, Rent Charges, &c. as well within ancient Demesne as without, to be charged with a Pound Rate; to be charged with as much Equality as possible; to be paid into the Exchequer by Four Quarterly Payments. The First Payment to be made on 15th May 1700.

And to the end the full and entire Summes by this Act charged upon the severall Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Townes and Places respectively as aforesaid, may be fully and compleatly raised and paid to His Majesties Use, Bee it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That all and every Mannors, Messuages, Lands and Tenements, and alsoe all Quarries, Mines of Coale, Tinn or Lead, Copper, Mundick-Iron, or other Mines, Iron-Works, Salt Springs and Salt-Works, all Allom-Mines or Works all Parkes, Chases, Warrens, Woods, Underwoods, Coppices, and all Fishings, Tithes, Tolls, Annuities, and all other yearely Profitts, and all Hereditaments of what Nature or Kind soever they be, scituate, lying and being, happening or ariseing within the severall and respective Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Townes or Places aforesaid respectively, or within any Parts of the same, as well within ancient Demense, and other Liberties and priviledged Places, as without, and all and every Person and Persons Bodies Politick and Corporate, Guilds, Misteries Fraternities and Brotherhoods, whether Corporate or not Corporate, haveing or holding any such Mannors, Messuages Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments, or other the Premisses, in respect thereof, shall be charged with as much Equality and Indifference as is possible, by a Pound Rate, for or towards the said severall and respective Summes of Money by this Act sett and imposed, or intended to be imposed for or upon all and every such Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Townes or other Places hereby charged therewith, as aforesaid, soe that by the said Rates soe to be taxed or assessed, for or upon the said Ready Moneys, Debts, Goods, Wares, Merchandizes, Chattells or Personall Estates, and for or upon the said Offices or Employments of Profitt, and for and upon the Pensions, Annuities, Stipends or yearely Payments aforesaid, and for and upon the said Mannors, Messuages, Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments, and other the Premisses, according to the Purport, and true Meaneing of this present Act, the full and entire Summes hereby appointed to be raised, as aforesaid, shall be compleatly and effectually taxed, assessed, levied, and collected, and shall be paid into the Receipt of His Majesties Exchequer, by Four Quarterly Payments; the First Payment thereof to be made upon or before the Fifteenth Day of May, which shall be in the Yeare of our Lord, One thousand seaven hundred.