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Poll Tax Act 1697
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XXIII.Receivers General certifying Arrears due where Monies have been received.
Penalty to Party; Penalty to His Majesty.
And for preventing such unjust Vexations as might be occasioned by such Persons as shall be appointed Receivers General of any the Sums of Money granted by this Act and to the Intent the said Receivers General may return a true Account into His Majesties Court of Exchequer of such Sums of Money as shall [X1be] received by them and every of them their and every of their Deputy and Deputies Be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any such Receiver General shall return or certifie into the said Court any Sum or Sums of Money to be in Arrear and unpaid after the same hath been received either by such Receiver General or by his Deputy or Deputies or any of them or shall cause any Person or Persons to be [X2set ] Insuper in the said Court for any Sum or Sums of Money that hath been so received that then every such Receiver General shall forfeit to every Person [X3or] Persons that shall be molested vexed or damaged by reason of such unjust Certificate Return or Setting Insuper. Treble Damages that shall be thereby occasioned the said Damages to be recovered by Action of Debt Bill Plaint or Information in which no Essoign Protection or Wager of Law shall be allowed or any more then One Imparlance and shall also forfeit to His Majesty His Heirs and Successors Double the Sum that shall be so unjustly certified or returned or caused to be set Insuper.
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X1interlined on the Roll.
X2Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: let O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]
X3Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: and O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]
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