Taxation (No. 6) Act 1696

& 7 W. III. c.7. § 8.

From 24 June 1697 till 25 June 1698, every Hawker, &c. to pay a Duty of £4.; and an additional £4 for every Horse, &c.

Whereas an Act of Parliament was made in the Sixth and Seventh Yeares of His Majesties Reigne intituled An Act for granting to his Majesty several additional Duties upon Coffee Tea Chocolate and Spice towards Satisfaction of the Debts due for Transport Service for the Reduction of Ireland in which Provision was made for the Payment of Interest att Five pounds per Centum for Three Yeares for the Principal Sum[m]s of Three hundred and thirty thousand seven hundred and sixty nine pounds ten shillings seven pence then allowed to be due for the said Transport Service for the reducing of Ireland which Duties have proved very deficient to answer such Interest Wee your Majesties most dutiful and loyal Subjects the Co[m]mons in Parliament assembled being willing that a further Provision may be made and Fund raised for making good to your Majesties said Subjects the Deficiency of that Provision do hereby give & grant unto your Majesty the Duties herein after mentioned and do humbly beseech your Majesty that it may be enacted and be it enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal & Co[m]mons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That from & after the Foure and twentieth Day of June One thousand six hundred ninety seven until the Five and twentieth Day of June which shall be in the Yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred ninety eight there shall be answered and paid to his Majesty his Heires & Successors by every Hawker Pedler Petty Chapman or any other trading Person or Persons going from Towne to Towne or to other Means Houses & travelling either on Foot or with Horse Horses or otherwise within the Kingdome of England Dominion of Wales or Towne of Berwick upon Tweed (except as herein after is excepted) carrying to sell or exposing to sale any Goods Wares or Merchandizes a Duty of Foure pounds and that every Person so travelling with a Horse Ass or Mule or other Beast bearing or drawing Burthen shall pay the Su[m]m of Foure pounds from the said Fource & twentieth Day of June One thousand six hundred ninety seven to the Five & twentieth Day of June One thousand six hundred ninety eight for each Horse Ass or Mule or other Beast bearing or drawing Burthen hee or she shall so travel with over and above the said first mentioned Duty of Foure pounds.