Taxation (No. 4) Act 1696

XIV.

Recital of c. 6. ante, § 10.; § 57.; § 58.; § 59.; 1 W. &M. c.8; 3 W. & M. c. 6.; 1 W. & M. c. 8.; 1 W. & M. c. 18. § 10.; Manors, &c. as charged by c. 6. ante, charged with a further Sum of 1s. in the Pound for One Year from 25th Jan. 1696.

And whereas wee Your Majesties said dutiful and loyal Subjects the Co[m]mons [X1 in Parliament assembled] for carrying on the Warr against France and the Defence of Your Majesties Realmes did humbly present Your Majesty with a certaine Aid or Supply upon all Lands Tenements and Hereditaments to be raised by a Pound Rate of Three Shillings for every Twenty Shillings of the true Yearely Value thereof (amongst other things) by an Act of this present Parliament (entituled An Act for granting an Aid to His Majesty as well by a Land Tax as by several Subsidies and other Duties payable for One Yeare) by which it was enacted That all and every Manors Messuages Lands and Tenements as also all Quarries Mines of Coal Tin or Lead Copper Mundick Iron or other Mines Iron-Works Salt Springs and Salt-Works all Allum Mines or Worke all Parkes Chaces Warrenns Woods Underwoods Coppices and all Fishings Tythes and Tolls whatsoever and also all An[n]uities Rents Charge and other Rents and Yearely Profitts issuing or payable of or for any Estate Terme or Interest whatsoever out of any Lands Tenements and Hereditaments and all Hereditaments of what Nature or Kind soever scituate lyeing and being happening renewing or ariseing within the Kingdome of England Dominion of Wales or Towne of Berwick upon Tweed should be and are thereby charged for One Yeare onely and no longer with the Su[m]m of Three Shillings for every Twenty Shillings of the true and full Yearely Value and so in Proportion for any greater or lesser Value and all and every Person and Persons Bodies Politick and Corporate Guilds Mysteries Fraternities and Brotherhoods whether Corporate or not Corporate having or holding any Manors Messuages Lands Tenements Hereditaments or other the Premisses should yield any pay to His Majesty the Su[m]m of Three Shillings for every Twenty Shillings by the Yeare which the said Manors Messuages Lands Tenements and Hereditaments and other the Premisses should be worth to be leased if the same were truely and bona fide leased or demised att a Rack Rent and according to the full true and Yearely Value thereof without any respect had to the present Rents reserved for the same if such Rents have been reserved upon such Leases or Estates made for which any Fine or Income hath been paid or secured or have been lessened or abated upon Consideration of Money laid out or to be laid out in Improvements and without respect had to any other Rates or Taxes thereupon imposed or making any Abatement in respect of Reparations Taxes Scots Parish Duties or any other Charges whatsoever which said Su[m]m of Three Shillings for every Twenty Shillings by the Yeare of the said true Yearely Value of all the Premisses aforesaid was by the said Act appointed to be assessed levied and collected in manner therein mentioned and to be paid & payable by all and every the X2 said Person or Persons Bodies Politick or Corporate Guilds Mysteries Fraternities or Brotherhoods having or holding any such Manors Messuages Lands Tenements Hereditaments & other the Premisses by Twelve equal Monthly Payments the First Payment whereof was to be made on the Five and twentieth Day of February in the Yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred ninety six and every other Monthly Payment to be made on the Five and twentieth Day of every X3 Kalendary Month successively until the whole should be satisfied And whereas it was thereby further enacted That every Papist or reputed Papist being of the Age of Sixteene Yeares and upwards who had not taken the Oaths mentioned and required to be taken by an Act of Parliament made in the First Yeare of the Reigne of King William and Queen Mary intituled An Act for the abrogating the Oaths of Supremacy & Allegiance & appointing other Oaths should yeild and pay unto His Majesty double the Su[m]ms and Rates as is therein mentioned Provided neverthelesse That if any such Papist or reputed Papist within Ten Days after the First Meeting of the Co[m]missioners thereby authorized to be appointed in the respective Counties or Places where hee or she ought to be taxed or assessed according to the Intent of the said Act should take the said Oaths before Two or more of the said Co[m]missioners in that case hee or she should not be liable to be double assessed as aforesaid and it was thereby also enacted That every Person being of the Age of Sixteen Yeares and upwards and being within this Realme att the time of the Execution of the said Act who should not before that time have taken the Oaths mentioned and required to be taken by the said Act intituled An Act for the abrogating the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance and appointing other Oaths and upon Su[m]mons by Warrant under the Hand and Seale of any Two or more of the said Co[m]missioners should refuse to take the said Oaths att the time appointed in the said Warrant or should neglect to appeare att such time before the Co[m]missioners in order to take the said Oaths should also pay double as in the said Act is expressed and that every Gentleman or so reputed or owning or writing himselfe as such or being above that Quality who by virtue of an Act made in the Third Yeare of the Reigne of King William and Queen Mary intituled An Act for raiseing Money by a Poll Payable Quarterly for One Yeare for carrying on a vigorous Warr against France did pay or ought to have paid double the Su[m]ms charged by the said Act or were or ought to have been returned into the Exchequer for Non-payment thereof who should not voluntarily appeare before the said Co[m]missioners or any Two or more of them within Ten days after the First Meeting, of the said Co[m]missioners in the respective Place or Places where hee ought to be taxed or assessed and take the said Oaths appointed by the said Act made in the First Yeare of the Reigne of King William and Queen Mary such Person should likewise pay double as in the said Act is specified and moreover itt was thereby enacted That any One or more of the said Co[m]missioners upon Information given or upon any Cause of Suspicion in that behalfe should and are thereby required and enjoyned to cause every suspected Person or against whome such Informac[i]on should be given to be su[m]moned to appeare to take the said Oaths as aforesaid and it is thereby provided that whereas certaine persons Dissenters from the Church of England Co[m]monly called Quakers and knowne to be such do scruple the taking of any Oath itt should be sufficient for any such Person to make and subscribe the Declaration of Fidelity contained in an Act made in the Parliament held in the First Yeare of the Reigne of King William and Queen Mary intituled An Act for exempting His Majesties Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the Penalties of certaine Laws and every such Person so doeing should not be liable to or charged with any the double Rates aforesaid As by the said Act amongst others things therein contained doth more fully appeare And whereas wee Your Majesties said Subjects the Co[m]mons in Parliament assembled are sensible that a further Aid and Supply is requisite & necessary for the Ends and Purposes aforesaid Wee doe humbly present Your Majesty with the free Guift of the further Rates and Assessments herein after menc[i]oned and doe humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted and be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every Manors Messuages Lands and Tenements as also all Quarries Mines of Coal Tin or Lead Copper Mundick Iron or other Mines Iron-works Salt-springs and Salt-works all Allum Mines or Workes all Parks Chaces Warrens Woods Underwoods Coppices & all Fishings Tythes and Tolls whatsoever and also all Annuities Rents charge & other Rents and Yearely Proffitts issuing or payable of or for any Estate Terme or Interest whatsoever out of any Lands Tenements and Hereditaments and all Hereditaments of what Nature or Kind soever charged by the said other Act for One Yeare with the said Su[m]m of Three Shillings for every Twenty Shillings of the full Yearely Value and so in proportion for any greater or lesser Values shall by virtue of this Act for One Yeare to be reckoned from the Five and Twentieth Day of January One thousand six hundred ninety six be charged with and they who have or hold the same shall yeild & pay unto His Majesty the further Su[m]m of One Shilling for every Twenty Shillings that is to say in the whole Foure Shillings for every Twenty Shillings of the full Yearely Value and so in proportion for any greater or lesser Value.

Editorial Information

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

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

X3 subsequent, O. and King's Printer's Copy.