Poll Tax Act 1688

IV. Judges, Serjeants, at Law, Barristers, Advocates, Persons practising Physick, to pay 3s. in the Pound out of yearly Profits.

Servants at above £3. Wages to pay 12d. in the Pound. £3. and under, to pay 6d. in the Pound, except Board Wages.; Exceptions to the Poll.

And bee it further Enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid That all Judges and other Persons haveing at the Time of the Execution of this Act any Judiciall Office or other Office or Place of Profit And all Serjeants at Law. Barresters Attourneys Sollicitors and Scriveners And all Advocats Proctors and Publique Notaries And all and every Person and Persons Practising the Art of Phisick shall pay unto Their Majestyes the Summe of Three shillings out of every Twenty Shillings which he or they doe receive by his or their respective Salaries Offices Practices or Professions in one yeare And all and every Servant which at the time of the Execution of this Act shall recieve above Three Pounds per Annu[m] Wages for his her or their Service shall pay unto Their Majestyes the Summe of Twelve pence for every Twenty shillings by the yeare And that shall recieve Three Pounds per Ann[um] Wages or under for his or her Service shall pay unto Their Majestyes the Summe of Six pence for every Twenty shillings by the yeare which shall be due or payable to him her or them for his her or their Wages Except for Board wages And all and every person and persons of what Age Sex or Condition soever shall pay unto Their Majesties the Summe of One shilling Except such persons as shall recieve Almes of the Parish where they dwell and their Children being under the Age of Sixteene yeares at the time of the Execution of this Act And X1 Except all Children being under the Age of Sixteene yeares of all Day Labourers and of all Servants in Husbandry and of all other Persons who by reason of their Poverty are Exempted from Contributing to the Church and Poore And alsoe Except all Children being under the Age of Sixteene yeares of such who hath Foure or more Children and is not worth in Lands Goods and Chattells the Summe of Fifty pounds.

Editorial Information

X1 Variant 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]