Land Tax Act 1696

V. Serjeants, Barristers, Attornies, Proctors, &c. not being charged with the said last mentioned Duty of 4d. per Month, to pay, over and above the first mentioned Duty of 4d. per Month, 4s. 4d. in the Pound.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every Sergeants att Law Barristers Attorneys Sollicitors and all Publick Notaries & Scriveners or Persons practising as such and every Chancellour Com[i]missary Official and Register and every Advocate Proctor Apparitor and Persons practising as such all Broakers to Merchants and all Factors and other Persons acting by Co[m]missions from Merchants or others and all and every Person or Persons practising the Art of Physick or Chirurgerie and all Apothecaries and all and every Person and Persons exerciseing any other Professions whatsoever not charged with the Duty of Foure Pence per Pound per Month by the Clause last aforegoing shall yeild and pay unto His Majesty His Heires and Successors (over and above the Personal Duty of Foure Pence per Month 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 which hee she or they shall or may receive perceive or take for or by reason of such his her or their Practices or Professions within the time aforesaid by Monthly Payments (that is to say) so much as Foure Pence per Pound upon the Yearely Income or Profitts of their and every of their said Practices or Professions 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 and Foure Pence for every Twenty Shillings of the said Yearely Income or Profitts by such equal Monthly Payments shall be fully satisfied and paid.