Taxation (No. 2) Act 1694

12 Car. II. c. 4.; Tonnage and Poundage given for 5 Years; 12 Car. II. c. 4. in force for 5 Years.

The Co[m]mons assembled in Parliament reposeing trust and confidence in your Majesties for the guarding and defending of the Seas against all persons who shall attempt to invade this your Realme or to disturb your Subjects in their Trade and Commerce towards the defraying the necessary charge thereof and alsoe for the better enableing your Majesties to prosecute the present War against the French King with vigour have cheerfully and unanimously given and granted and doe hereby give and grant unto your Majesties the subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage and other su[m]ms of money given and granted unto His late [X1 Maesty] King Charles the Second for his Life by an Act of Parliament made in the Twelfth yeare of his Reigne entituled A subsidy granted to the King of Tunnage and Poundage and other su[m]ms 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 or in this present Parliament) and doe most humbly beseech your Majesties that it may bee enacted. And bee it enacted by the King and Queens most excellent Majesties by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Co[m]mons in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same That the aforesaid subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage and other su[m]ms of money payable upon Merchandize bee levied collected and paid unto their Majesties for the terme of Five yeares and noe longer to commence on the Twenty sixth day of December in the yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred ninety foure and that the aforesaid Act and every Article Rule and Clause therein menc[i]oed and alsoe an Order of the Commons in Parliament assembled made in pursuance of the Rules and Orders annexed to the aforesaid Act for settling of Officers Fees dated the Seventeenth of May One thousand six hundred sixty two and signed by Sir Edward Turner then Speaker shall bee of full force and effect to all intents and purposes dureing the said terme of Fives yeares as fully and in like manner as if the same were particularly and att large recited and sett downe in the body of this Act.

Editorial Information

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