Poll Tax Act 1691

III. Cursitors and other Officers in Courts of Law, &c.

Merchants and Brokers.; Clergymen of £60 and upwards.; Preachers not having Orders.; Clergymen of £120 and upwards.; Tradesmen, Shopkeepers, Vintners of £300 and upwards.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that every Cursitor Philizer Attorney Sollicitor Clerk in Chancery or Exchequer or other Courts of Law or equity or Scrivener or practising as such and every Chancellor Com[m]issary Official and Register and every Advocate Proctor and Publick Notary or practising as such and all other Officers in any Court and all Merchants and Brokers to Merchants shall be charged and pay twenty shillings quarterly att the several Days before mentioned And none of the said Persons so charged to be further liable to be charged or pay as a Gentleman or reputed Gentleman And also that every Clergyman not being a Lord Spiritual having or receiving in or by any Benefice or Contribution or otherwise sixty Pounds by the yeare or upwards And every Preacher or Teacher in any Congregation whatsoever not having taken Orders according to the discipline of the Church of England (other then French Protestant) shall be charged and pay twenty shillings quarterly att the several days before menc[i]oed And none of the said last menc[i]oed persons so charged to be further charged or pay as a Gentleman or reputed Gentlemen And also every Clergyman having more then one Benefice or Ecclesiastical Promotion being in the whole of the yearly value of One hundred and twenty pounds or upwards shall pay double the Sums charged upon other Clergymen And every Tradesman Shopkeeper and Vintner having an Estate in the whole of the clear value of three hundred pounds and upwards shall over and above the aforesaid quarterly sums of one shilling pay unto Their Majesties the sums hereafter menc[i]oed that is to say the sum of ten shillings on the third day of May in the said yeare One thousand six hundred ninety two the sum of ten shillings on the third day of August in the said yeare One thousand six hundred ninety two the sum[m] of ten shillings on the third day of November in the said yeare One thousand six hundred ninety two the sum of ten shillings on the third day of February in the said yeare One thousand six hundred ninety two.