Taxation (Tonnage and Poundage) Act 1689

12 Car. II. c. 4.; Tonnage and Poundage given to the King for Four Years; The said Act and an Order of the Commons annexed thereto, dated 17 May 1662, in force.

The Commons assembled in Parlyament reposeing Trust and Confidence in your Majestyes for the guarding and defending of the Seas against all persons who shall attempt to invade this your Realme or to disturbe your Subjects in their Trade and Commerce towards the defraying the necessary Charge thereof And alsoe for the better enabling your Majestyes to prosecute the present Warr against the French King and for the reduceing of Ireland with speede and vigour have chearfully and unanimously given and granted and doe hereby give and grant unto your Majestyes the Subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage and other Summes X1 given and granted unto his late Majestie King Charles the Second for his Life by an Act of Parlyament made in the Twelfth yeare of his Raigne Entituled A Subsidie granted to the King of Tonnage and Poundage and other Summes of Money payable upon Merchandize Exported and Imported according to the Rates in the said Act mentioned and Rules and Orders thereunto annexed (other then such concerning which it is otherwise provided or ordained by any Act made in the last Parliament) And doe most humbly beseech your Majesties That it may be enacted And bee it enacted by the King and Queens most excellent Majestyes by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the authoritie of the same That the aforesaid Subsidie of Tonnage and Poundage and other Sums of Money payable upon Merchandize be levyed collected and paid unto their Majestyes for the Terme of Foure yeares to commence and be computed from the foure and twentyeth day of December in the yeare of our Lord one thousand six hundred and ninety And that the aforesaid Act and every Article Rule and Clause therein mentioned And alsoe an Order of the Commons in Parliament assembled made in pursuance of the Rules and Orders annexed to the aforesaid Act for setleing of Officers Fees dated the seventeenth of May one thousand six hundred sixty two and signed by Sir Edward Turner then Speaker shall be of full force and effect to all intents and purposes dureing the said Terme of foure yeares as fully and in like manner as if the same were particularly and at large recited and sett downe in the Body of this Act

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X1 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: of Money O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]