Taxation Act 1640

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

Barons, and Persons of higher Estate, taxed by the Lord Privy Seal and others. Rate estreated and certified.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that the said Commissioners in every Commission which shall be or inhabite in any County or Place within the limits of theire Commission or the more parte of them shall have full power and authoritie by this Act to set tax and sesse every other Commissioner joyned with them in every such Commission. And the said Commissioners within theire division shall alsoe assesse every Assessor within theire division for his or theire Goods Lands and other the Premisses as aforesaid by which said Commission the Co[m]mission[er]s to whom it shall appertain shall indifferently set tax and sesse themselves and the said Assessors and that aswell the su[m]ms upon every of the said Commissioners and Assessors soe assessed rated and taxed as the Sums made and presented by the Presentors as abovesaid shall be written certified set and estreated and the Estreats thereof to be made with other the Inhabitants of that part and within the limits of the same Commission and division soe to be gathered and leavied in like manner as it ought and should have been if the said Commissioners had not been in the said Commission And that all persons of the Estate of a Baron or Baronesse and every Estate above shall be charged with theire Freehold and value as is aforesaid [X1 by Henry Earle of Manchester Lord Privie Seale Thomas Earle of Arundell and Surrey Earle Marshall of England Phillip Earle of Pembroke and Mountgomery Lord Chamberlain of His Majesties Household Henry Earle of Bathe Thomas Earle of Southampton Robert Earle of Essex Edward Earle of Dorset William Earle of Salisbury Robert Earle of Warwick John Earle of Bristoll Oliver Earle of Bullingbrooke Thomas Earle of Berks Henry Earle of Dover William Lord Viscount Say & Seale Mountague Lord Willoughby de Er Ferdinando Lord Hastings Phillip Lord Wharton Edward Lord Mountague Charles Lord Howard de Char William Lord Grey de Warke John Lord Roberts John Lord Paulet George Lord Goring and Thomas Lord Savill or any eleven of them or more] for the severall Payments of the said Subsidies after the form of the said Grant according to the taxation aforesaid and the Su[m]ms of and upon them to be taxed and set with the names of the Collectors [X1 which Collectors shall bee appointed by the Lord Chancellor or Lord Keeper of the Great Seale for the time being] for gathering and paying of the same to be estreated delivered and certified at the dayes and places above specified [X1 by the said Henry Earle of Manchester Lord Privy Seale Thomas Earle of Arundell & Surrey Earle Marshall of England Phillip Earle of Pembrooke and Mountgomery Lord Chamberlain of His Majesties Household Henry Earle of Bathe Thomas Earle of Southampton Robert Earle of Warwick John Earle of Bristoll Oliver Earle of Bullingbrook Thomas Earle of Berks Henry Earle of Dover William Lord Viscount Say and Seale Mountague Lord Willoughby de Er Fardinando Lord Hastings Phillip Lord Wharton Edward Lord Mountague Charles Lord Howard de Char William Lord Grey de Warke John Lord Roberts John Lord Paulet George Lord Goring & Thomas Lord Savill or any eleven of them or more.]

Editorial Information

X1 O. omits.