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Poll Tax Act 1697
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II.Gentlemen having an Estate of £300 or more.
Widows having Dower or Jointure of £ 100, &c; Unmarried Women having an Estate of £1,000.
And be it further enacted That over and above the Sums aforesaid every Gentleman or Person so reputed or owning or writing himself such having an Estate in the whole either Real or Personal or in both of the clear [X1Yearly] Value of Three hundred Pounds or more And every Person above that Quality (and not a Peer of this Realm) and Widows having a Dower or Joynture of the clear Yearly Value of One hundred Pounds or more or being worth in the whole the clear Sum of One thousand Pounds And all unmarryed Women being worth in the whole in any Estate Real or Personal the clear Sum of One thousand Pounds shal severally pay unto His Majesty the Sum of Twenty Shillings Quarterly at the several Days before mentioned during One Year as aforesaid And no Gentleman Widow or unmarryed Woman not having such Estates respectively and thereof making Oath before Two or more of the respective Commissioners hereafter appointed shal be charged with the said Quarterly Su[m]m of Twenty Shillings.
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