Taxation (No. 2) Act 1692

III. Militia Officers having Estates chargeable to pay, though not actually charged.

Persons who at the Execution of 3 W. & M. c. 6. had been Justices of Peace, Sheriffs, &c. and were not assessed to pay; Clergymen with £300, or having Benefice, &c. of £60, to pay.

And be it further enacted That all and every Deputy Lieutenants and other Officers of the Militia haveing any Estate or Estates of such value as ought by Law to be chargeable to find or contribute to the finding of a Horse and Horseman with Arms ought to be assessed and taxed and shall pay for such Estate or Estates although such Officers be not actually charged to the finding or contributing to find a Horse and Horseman with Arms And alsoe that all Persons who at the time of the execution of the said Act for the quarterly Poll were or formerly had been Justices of the Peace Sheriffs or Deputy Lieutenants of any Counties Rideings Divisions or Cities or who were appointed Commissioners for any County Rideing or City by the said Act being worth Three hundred Pounds and were not assessed Twenty shillings quarterly ought to be assessed and taxed and shall pay after that rate or so much as together with what they have been already assessed and payed will make up Twenty shillings quarterly And alsoe that every Clergyman being worth Three hundred Pounds or haveing in or by any Benefice or other Estate ecclesiasticall or temporall or in both to the value of Sixty pounds by the Yeare or upwards ought to be assessed and to pay after the rate of Twenty shillings quarterly or so much as together with what he hath been already assessed and paid will make upp Twenty shillings quarterly And that in all other things the said before menc[i]oned Act bee fully to all Intents and Purposes executed according to the true intent and meaning thereof