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Poll Tax Act 1688
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VII.Rates of Payment by Ecclesiastics. Archbishop, £50. Bishop, £20. Deans, £10.
Archdeacons, £2. 10s; Canons and Prebendaries not rated at above £30. £20. except Sole Prebends. Doctors in Divinity Law, and Physick, £5; Two Livings amounting to £120, £5.
And bee it further Enacted and Ordained That all and every the Person and Persons within the Kingdome of England Dominion of Wales and Towne of Berwicke upon Tweede who at the time of Execution of this Act shall be of the severall Orders Ranks or Degrees hereafter mentioned shall to the purpose aforesaid pay the severall Summes of Money hereafter in this Act sett downe and appointed (That is to say) Every Person of the Order and Degree of an Arch-Bishop shall pay the Summe of Fifty pounds Every Person of the Degree and Order of a Bishop the Summe of Twenty Pounds Every Person of the Degree of a Deane of any Cathedrall or Collegiate Church shall pay the Summe of Ten pounds Every Person of the Degree of an Archdeacon shall pay the Summe of Fifty shillings Every Person of the Degree of a Canon or Prebendary of any Cathedrall or Collegiate Church excepting such sole Prebendary who is a sole Corporation and his Prebend not rated in the Exchequer at above Thirty pounds shall pay the Summe of Fifty-shillings Every Person of the Degree of a Doctor of Divinity Law or Physicke shall pay the Summe of Five pounds Every Person holding two or more Benefices haveing Cure of Soules which shall amount together to the cleare yearely value of One hundred and twenty pounds shall pay the Summe of Five pounds
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