Taxation Act 1640

1. Introductory Text

2. Distresses of the Army and People in the Northern Parts....

3. II. Lands, & of the Yearly Value of 20s. 4s. in the Pound.

4. III. Aliens and others, who at the time of the said Assessments are out the Realm,

5. IV. For the assessing the said Subsidies great Officers of State to appoint Commissioners.

6. Names of Commissioners

7. And for the County of Bedford

8. For the Towne of Bedford

9. For the County of Buckingham

10. For the Town and Borough of Buckingham

11. For the County of Berk

12. For the Borough of New Windsor

13. For the County of Cornwall

14. For the County of Cumberland

15. For the County of Cambridge

16. For the Towne of Cambridge

17. For the Countie of Chester

18. For the City and the County of the City of Chester

19. For the County of Derby

20. And for the Borough of Derby

21. For the County of Devon

22. For the City and County of Exon

23. For the County of Dorset

24. For the Towne and County of Pool

25. For the County of Yorke and for the Westrid of the County of Yorke

26. For the Northrid of the County of Yorke

27. For the Eastrid of the County of Yorke

28. For the City and County of the City of [the'] Yorke

29. For the Towne and County of Hull

30. For the County of Essex

31. For the Town of Colchester

32. And for the Towne of Malden

33. For the Towne of Harwich

34. For the County of Gloucester

35. For the City and County of the City of Gloucester

36. For the County of Huntington

37. And for the County of Hertford

38. For the Towne and Borough of Saint Albans

39. For the County of Hereford

40. For the City of Hereford

41. For the County of Kent

42. For the City and County of the City of Canterbury

43. For the City of Rochester

44. For the Parts of Lyndsey in the County of Lyncolne

45. For the Citie of Lincolne

46. For the Borough of Boston

47. For the Parts of Holland in Com. p[re]d

48. For the Parts of Kestaven in the County of Lincolne

49. For the County of Leicester

50. For the County Palatine of Lancaster

51. For the County of Middlesex

52. For the Citie of Westminster

53. And for the Dutchy of Lancaster

54. For the City of London

55. For the County of Monmouth

56. For the County of Northampton

57. For the Borough of Northampton

58. For the County of Nottingham

59. For the Towne of Nottingham

60. For the County of Norfolk

61. For the Towne of Thetford

62. And for the City of Norwich

63. For the Towne of Lynne Regis

64. For the Towne of Yarmouth

65. For the County of Oxford

66. And for the City of Oxon

67. For the County of Rutland

68. For the County of Surrey

69. For the Borough of Southwarke

70. For the County of Stafford

71. For the City and County of the City of Litchfeild

72. For the County of Salop

73. For the Towne of Shrewsbury

74. For the County of Southampton

75. For the Isle of Weight

76. For the City of Winchester

77. For the Towne and County of Southampton

78. For the County of Suffolke

79. For the Towne of Ipswich

80. For the Borough of Saint Edmonds Bury

81. For the Town of Aldborough

82. For the Towne of Orford

83. For the Towne of Hadleigh

84. For the County of Somerset

85. For the City and County of the City of Bristow

86. For the County of Sussex

87. For the Citie of Chichester

88. For the County of Westmerland

89. For the County of Wiltes

90. For the Citie of New Sarum with the Close

91. For the County of Worcester

92. For the City and County of the City of Worcester

93. For the Borough of Evesham

94. For the County of Warwick

95. For the City of Coventrey

96. For the County of Anglesey and Town of Bewmares

97. For the County of Brecknocke

98. For the County of Cardigan

99. For the County of Carmarthen

100. For the Borough and County of the Borough of Carmerthen

101. For the County of Carnarvan

102. For the County of Denbigh

103. For the County of Flint

104. For the County of Glamorgan

105. For the County of Merioneth

106. For the County of Pembroke

107. And for the Towne of Pembroke.

108. For the Towne and County of Haverford West

109. For the County of Mountgomery

110. For the County of Radnor

111. V. Commissioners to execute Act according to the tenor thereof.

112. VI. Persons named in Precepts to appear before the Commissioners.

113. VII. Assessors misbehaving.

114. VIII. Commissioners to be rated at such Place where they shall be Commissioners;

115. IX. Proviso for Persons having Two Mansions, or being Household Servants or Waiting Servants to the King or others.

116. X. The Power of Commissioners to tax other Commissioners, and also Assessors.

117. XI. Rates estreated under the Seals and Sign Manual of the Commissioners; and Estreats delivered to sufficient Inhabitants, &c. of Hundreds, &c.

118. XII. Commissioners may appoint Collectors.

119. XIII. Commissioners to take Recognizances of Collectors.

120. XVII. Assessors, Attornies, Factors, &c. after being charged with Receipt of Assessment, dying or removing or concealing their Goods, &c. or when Monies comprized in Estreat cannot be levied by Distress, or where Distress cannot be sold;

121. XVII. Allowance to High Collectors and their Accountants.

122. XIX. Proviso for Stamford Baron.

123. XX. Persons having Temporal and Spiritual Possessions, and also Personal Property, not to be doubly charged.

124. XVIII. Orphans and Infants not chargeable to Subsidies.

125. XIX. Proviso for Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, Winchester College, Eton College, Poor Knights of Windsor, and Free Schools, and Readers, &c. in the Universities, and for Hospitals, &c.

126. XX. Inhabitants of Cinque Ports for the most Part of the Year before the Grant not chargeable during Resiance only.

127. XXI. Like Proviso for Inhabitants of Rumney Marsh.

128. XXII. Alien or Denizen assigning his Lands, &c. to his Child with Intent to defraud the Subsidy, such Child chargeable as an Alien.

129. XXIII. Recital that £50,000 had been advanced by the City of London, £50,000 by Sir John Harrison Knight, Member for the Town of Lancaster, and William Harrison Esq. Member for the Town of Queenborough in Kent.

130. XXIV. Treasurer not to pay Monies on any other Warrant.

131. XXV. The passing of this Act not to determine the Session.