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Poll Tax Act 1689
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X.Merchant Strangers, £10. Jew Merchants, £20.
Jew Brokers, £5; Every other Jew of 16 Years, 10s; Proviso for French Protestants having received Public Charity.
And bee it further Enacted and Ordained by the Authoritie aforesaid That every Merchant Stranger Resideing within this Kingdome shall pay the Summe of Ten pounds Every Jew who is a Merchant shall pay the Summe of Twenty pounds Every Jew who is a Broker shall pay the Summe of Five pounds and every other Jew of the Age of Sixteene yeares and upwards the Sum of Ten shillings Provided That none of the French Protestants that have received any Share of the Publick Charity Collected by vertue of Letters Patents for their Reliefe shall be Charged by vertue of this Act
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