Poll Tax Act 1697

III. Cursitors, Philizers, Attornies, Proctors, &c.

Certain Preachers not of the Church of England to pay Double; Also certain Clergymen of the Church of England.

And be it further enacted That every Cursitor Philizer Attorney Sollicitor Clerk in Chancery or Exchequer or other Courts of Law or Equity or Scrivener or practising as such and every Chancellor Commissary Official and Register and every Advocate Proctor Apparitor and Public Notary or practising as such and all other Officers in any Court and all Merchant Brokers to Merchants and Pawn-Brokers shal be charged and pay Twenty Shillings Quarterly at the several Days before mentioned and none of the said Persons so charged to be further liable or to be charged or pay as a Gentleman or reputed Gentleman And alsoe that every Clergyman not being a Lord Spiritual having or receiving in or by any Benefice Benefices Contribution or otherwise to the Value of Sixty Pounds by the Year or upwards and every Preacher or Teacher in any Congregation whatsoever not having taken Orders according to the Discipline of the Church of England having or receiving in Gratuities Contributions Rewards and Bounties or any of them to the Value of Sixty Pounds a Year or upwards shal be charged and pay Twenty Shillings Quarterly at the several Days before mentioned and none of the last mentioned Persons so charged to be further charged or pay as a Gentleman or reputed Gentleman And also that every Preacher or Teacher in any Congregation whatsoever not having taken Orders according to the Discipline of the Church of England having and receiving by any Contribution or otherwise to the Value of One hundred and fifty Pounds per Annum or upwards shal pay double the said Sum of Twenty Shillings Quarterly at the several Days before mentioned And also every Clergyman having in several Benefices or in several Ecclesiastical Promotions or in a Benefice & Promotion or in several Benefices and Promotions in the whole the Yearly Value of One hundred and fifty Pounds or upwards shal pay double the Sum charged upon other Clergy-men And every Tradesman Shopkeeper and Vintner having an Estate in the whole of the clear Value of Three X1 Pounds and upwards shal over and above the aforesaid Quarterly Sums of One Shilling pay unto His Majesty the Sum of Ten Shillings Quarterly on the several Days before mentioned during the said Year.

Editorial Information

X1 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: Hundred O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]