Land Tax Act 1696

IV. Great Officers of State, Judges, Masters in Chancery, &c. as herein mentioned,

(Exception); over and above the said Duty of 4d. per Month, to pay 4s. 4d. in the Pound.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every p[er]son or Persons whatsoever who att the time of the Execution of this Act shall have receive or enjoy or are to have receive or enjoy any Salary Fee or Wages (such Wages as are before charged by this Act onely excepted) or any Perquisitts Allowances Poundage Gratuities Rewards Emoluments Income or Proffits whatsoever or of any kind soever as great Officers of State Co[m]missioners Judges Masters in Chancery Cursitors Philizers Clerks in Chancery or the Exchequer and other Courts of Law or Equity or other Clerks as Secondaries Agents Receivers Accomptants Stewards Bayliffs Reeves or other Officers or Ministers or by reason of any Co[m]mission Office Imployment or Place of Trust whether the same be great or small Ecclesiasticall Civil or Military or doe or doe not belong to any Court of Law or Equity or have any Relac[i]on to His Majesties Revenues or be of any other Kind whatsoever from and under His Majesty His Heires or Successors or by or under Her Majesty Katherine the Queen Dowager of England or by or under Their Royal Highnesses Prince George Hereditary of Denmark and the Princesse Ann of Denmark or any of them or by or under the Lord or Lords of any Manor or Manors or by or under any other Authority or Persons whatsoever and all and every their Clerks Deputies Assistants and Substitutes whatsoever (such Military Officers who are or shall be in Muster by the Muster-Master General of the Army Navy or Ordnance in respect of such Officers onely excepted) shall yeild and pay unto His Majesty His Heires or Successors (over and above the Duty of Foure Pence per Month charged upon all Persons as is first above mentioned) within the Space or Time of One Yeare to be reckoned as aforesaid the full Su[m]m of Foure Shillings and Foure Pence for every Twenty Shillings by the Yeare of such Salary Fee Wages Perquisitts Allowances Poundage Gratuities Rewards Emoluments Income or Profitts howsoever or wheresoever the same or any of the be or shall be payable or perceptible or the Value accruing or to accrue for or by reason or occasion thereof the same to be paid by Monthly Payments (that is to say) so much as Foure Pence per Pound upon such Salary Fee Wages Perquisites and other the Premisses last mentioned shall amount unto upon the said Two and twentieth Day of February and from thenceforth the like Su[m]m att the end of every Eight and twenty Days or Foure Weeks as aforesaid until the said whole Su[m]m of Foure Shillings & Foure Pence for every Twenty Shillings by such equal Monthly Payments shall be fully satisfied and paid.