Taxation Act 1692

IV. Rates upon Brandy collected as by

12 Car. II. c. 24; 15 Car. II. c. 11.

And be it further enacted That the several Rates and Duties upon Strong Water Aqua vite or Brandy comonly called single Brandy or Strong Water and upon X1 Water Spirits or Brandy above Proof called double Brandy shall be raised levied collected and paid unto their Majesties their Heires and Successors dureing the time before mentioned in the same manner and forme and by such rules means and ways and under such Penalties and Forfeitures as are mentioned expressed and directed in one Act of Parliament made in the Twelfth yeare of the Reign of the late King Charles the Second entituled An Act for taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries and Tenures in Capite and by Knights Service and Purveyance and for settling a Revenue upon His Majestie in lieu thereof And alsoe in another Act of Parliament, made in the Fifteenth yeare of his Reigne entituled An additional Act for the better ordering and collecting the Duty of Excise and preventing the Abuses therein or in either of them or in any other Law now in force relateing to the Revenue of Excise.

Editorial Information

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