Taxation (No. 4) Act 1690

Reasons for the present Grant.

Duties upon Wines and Vinegar given 1 Jac. II. c. 3. given to their present Majesties, &c. till 24th June 1696.

Most Gracious [X1 Soveraigne.]

Wee your Majestyes most Dutyfull and Loyall Subjects the Commons in Parliament assembled taking into our serious Consideration the great and necessary Expences in which your Majesties are engaged for our Defence and Safety have chearfully and unanimously given and granted unto your Majestyes the Impositions and Duties hereafter mentioned for and dureing the Terme hereafter expressed And wee doe most humbly beseech your Majestyes that it may be enacted And bee it enacted by the King and Queens most excellent Majestyes by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and Commons in this present Parlyament assembled and by the authoritie of the same That the severall Impositions [X2 and Duties] upon Wines and Vinegar granted by an Act made in the first yeare of the late King James intituled An Act for granting his Majestie an Imposition upon all Wines and Vinegar imported betweene the foure and twentyeth day of June one thousand six hundred eighty five and the foure and twentyeth day of June one thousand six hundred ninety and three shall be continued from the three and twentyeth day of June in the said yeare one thousand six hundred ninety three and shall be raised levyed collected answered and paid unto their Majestyes and their Successors untill the foure and twentyeth day of June one thousand six hundred ninety six and noe longer And that the said Act and all Powers Provisions Penalties Articles and Clauses therein contained shall continue and be of full Force and Effect untill the said foure and twentyeth day of June One thousand six hundred ninety six [X2 and] shall be applyed practised and executed for the raising levying collecting answering and paying the said Duties hereby continued according to the tenor and intent of this present Act.

Editorial Information

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

X2 interlined on the Roll.