Poll Tax Act 1688

XXV. Persons lending Money on Credit of Act, not exceeding £300,000, to have Tallies of Loan.

Persons furnishing Navy or Ordnance with Goods, on Certificate thereof, to have Warrants for Payment.

And bee it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authoritie aforesaid That all and every Person and Persons who shall Lend any Moneys not exceeding Three hundred thousand Pounds in the whole to Their Majestyes upon the Credit of this Act and pay the same into the Receipt of the Exchequer shall immediately have a Tally of Loane strucke for the same and an Order for his Repayment bearing the same date with his Tally In which Order shall be alsoe contained a Warrant for payment of Interest for Forbearance after the Rate of Seven pounds per Centu[m] per Ann[um] for his Consideration to be paid every Three months untill Repayment of his Principall And that all Person and Persons who shall furnish Their Majestyes Their Officers of the Navy or Ordnance with any Wares Goods Shipps Victualls or any other Necessaries for the Service aforesaid shall upon Certificate of the Commissioners and Officers of the Navy or of the Master or Commissioners and Officers of the Ordnance or some of them without delay forthwith have made out to them Warrants or Orders for the Payment of the Moneys due or payable unto them which Certificate the said Officers of their Navy Commissioners and Officers of the Ordnance shall make without Fee Charge or Delay.