Taxation (No. 3) Act 1694

III.

All Manors, Lands, &c. as well within ancient Demesne as other Liberties, charged with 4s. in the Pound; Bodies Politic, &c. having Manors, &c; to pay 4s. in the Pound; as if let at a Rack Rent, without respect to present Rents or Monies laid out in Improvements or Repairs, Taxes, &c; to be paid Quarterly.

And to the end a further aid and supply for his Majesties occasions may be raised by a charge upon all Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with as much equality and indifference as is possible by a Pound Rate of Four shillings for every Twenty shillings of the true yearely value for one yeare and noe longer Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That all and every Mannors Messuages Lands and Tenements As alsoe all Quarries Mynes of Coal Tyn or Lead Copper Mundick-Iron or other Mynes Iron-Works Salt Springs and Salt Works All Allome Mynes or Works All Parks Chases Warrens Woods Underwoods Coppices and all Fishings Tythes Tolls Annuities and all other yearely Profitts whether the same be issueing out of Lands or Tenements or be otherwise payable and all Hereditaments of what nature or kinde soever they be scituate lying and being happening or ariseing within the Kingdome of England Dominion of Wales or Towne of Berwicke upon Tweede or within any the Countyes Cytyes Boroughs Towns Divisions Rideings Hundreds Lathes Wapentakes Parishes and Places thereof aswell within ancient demesne and other Liberties and Priviledged Places as without shall be and are hereby charged for one yeare only and noe longer with the su[m]me of Four shillings for every Twenty shillings of the full yearely value and soe in p[ro]porc[i]on for any greater or lesser value And all and every person and persons bodies politicke and corporate guilds misteries fraternities and brotherhoods whether corporate or not corporate haveing or holding any Mannors Messuages Lands Tenements Hereditaments or other the p[re]misses shall yeild and pay unto his Majestye the su[m]me of Four shillings for every Twenty shillings by the yeare which the said Mannors Messuages Lands Tenements Hereditaments and other the p[re]misses are now worth to be leased if the same were truly and (bona fide) leased or demised att a Rack Rent and according to the full true yearely value thereof without any respect had to the p[re]sent Rents reserved for the same if such Rents have beene reserved upon such Leases or Estates made for which any fyne or income hath beene paid or secured or have beene lessened or abated upon considerac[i]on of money laid out [X1 or to be laid out] in improvements and without any respecte had to any former Rates or Taxes thereupon imposed or makeing any abatement in respect of reparac[i]ons taxes parish dutyes or any other charges whatsoever Which said su[m]me of Four and twenty shillings for the yearely profitt of every hundred pounds value of all personall estates as aforesaid and Four shillings for every Twenty shillings by the yeare of the said true yearely value of all other the p[re]misses shall be assessed levyed and collected in manner hereafter menc[i]oned and shall be paid into the Receipte of his Majesties Exchequer by Four quarterly payments the first payment thereof to be made the Five and twentieth day of March which shall be in the yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred ninety five:-

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