Poll Tax Act 1689

IV. Judges, Serjeants at Law, Barristers, Advocates, and Persons practising Physick, to pay 3s. in the Pound.

Every other Person to pay is.; 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 Profitt And all Serjeants at Law Barristers Attourneys Solicitors and Scriveners And all Advocates Proctors and Publicke Notaries And all and every Person and Persons practiseing 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 person and persons of what Age Sex or Condition soever shall pay unto Their Majestyes the Summe of One shilling (Except such persons as shall receive Alms 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 except all Children being under the Age of Sixteene yeares of all Day-Labourers and of all Servants in Husbandry And also Except all other Persons who by reason of their Poverty are Exempted from Contributing to the Church and Poore And the Children of all such Persons being under the Age of Sixteene yeares And also Except all Children being under the Age of Sixteene yeares of such who have Foure or more Children and are not worth in Lands, Goods and Chattells the Summe of Fifty pounds