Land Tax Act 1696

VIII. Farmers, Graziers, &c.

over and above the said Personal Duties, to pay 12s. for every £100, by Monthly Payments; and so in Proportion; How the said Duties assessed.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every Person or Persons having in his her or their Tenure Possession or Occupation any Lands Arrable Meadow or Pasture Tenements Woods or Hereditaments whereupon att the time of the Execution of this Act there shall be any Horses Mares Geldings Colts Bulls Oxen Cows Calves Sheep Lambs Swine or other Cattle great or small whether the same do belong to such Persons respectively or are taken by way of Agistment or to keep for others or any other Quick Stock upon Land shall (over and above all other Rates and Duties before charged by this Act upon such Person or p[er]sons) yield and pay to His Majesty His Heires and Successors for the same within One Yeare to be reckoned as aforesaid att the Rate of Twelve Shillings for every Hundred Pounds of the true and real Value thereof by Monthly Payments (that is to say) so much as Twelve Pence for every Hundred Pound or proportionably for a greater or lesser Value shall amount unto upon the said Five and twentieth Day of February and from thenceforth the like Su[m]m upon the Five and twentieth Day of every Kalendary Month then next & successively ensuing until the said whole Su[m]m of Twelve Shillings for every Hundred Pounds or proportionably for a greater or lesser Value by such equal Monthly Payments shall be fully satisfied and paid All which, said Rates Duties and Payments shall be assessed raised levied collected and paid in such Manner and under such Rules Authorities and Directions as are herein after menc[i]oned.