Taxation (No. 2) Act 1663

II Persons, Corporations, &c. having Lands, &c. of Twenty Shillings yearly Value.

Four Shillings in every Pound; Aliens, &c. Eight Shillings in the Pound.; Proviso for Land chargeable to Tithes and Servants Wages.; Plate, &c. held for Corporations, to be rated.; Land, Corrodies, Fees, &c. Proviso for Ornaments, &c. of the Church.

And be it further enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid That every person borne under the Kings Obeisance and every Corporation Fraternitie Guild Misterie Brotherhood and Commonaltie Corporate or not Corporate for every pound that every of the said persons and every Corporation Fraternity Guild Mistery Brotherhood and Commonaltie Corporate or not Corporate or any other to his or their use both in Fee simple Fee taile for terme of life, terme of yeares by Execution or by Copy of Court Roll of and in any Honours Castles Mannours Lands Tenements Rents Services Hereditaments Annuityes Fees Corrodyes or other yearely Proffitts of the yearely value of Twenty shillings aswell within Auntient Demeasne and other places priviledged as elsewhere, and soe upward shall pay to and for every of the said Fower Subsidies Fower shillings of and for every pound. And every Alien Denizen or not Denizen borne out of the Kings Obeizance, and every Popish Recusant convict of what Estate or Degree soever they be of, or which before the time of the Assessment of the severall Subsidyes by this present Act granted shall be a Popish Recusant convict, or which shall be indited for Popish Recusancy, and their Indictments are or shall be removed by X1 Certiorari, or being not removed shall not by Apparance and Traverse legally discharge their said Indictments at the next Assizes, or within two Generall Sessions of the Peace, where the said persons shall be indicted respectively in such case to pay to and for every of the said Fower severall Subsidies Eight shillings for every pound, And that all summes to be presented and chargeable by this Act either for Goods and Debts or either of them or for Lands Tenements and other the premisses as is in this Act contained shall be at every of the said Payments sett and taxed after the rate and proportion according to the true meaning of this Act Lands and Tenements chargeable to the Disms of the Clergy and yearely Wages due to Servants for their yearely Service (other then the Kings Servants, takeing yearely Wages of Five pounds or above) onely excepted and foreprized, And that all Plate Coyne Jewells Goods Debts and Chattells personall and all Lands Tenements and other the premisses as aforesaid being in the rule and custodie of any person or persons to the use of any Corporation Fraternity Guild Mistery Brotherhood or any Commonaltie being Corporate or not Corporate be and shall be rated sett and charged by reason of this Act at the value certifyed by the Presenters in their Certificate for every pound in Goods and Debts as is aforesaid, And for every pound in Lands Tenements Annuityes Fees Corodyes and other yearely Proffitts as is aforesaid, And the summes that are above rehearsed sett and taxed to be levyed and taken of them that shall have such Goods in custody, or otherwise charged for Lands as is before rehearsed, And the same persons and persons and bodyes Corporate by authoritie of this Act shall be discharged against him or them that shall or ought to have the same at the time of the payment or delivery thereof, or at his otherwise departure from the custodie or possession of the same, except and alwayes foreprized from the charge and Assessment of the said Subsidyes all Goods Chattells Jewells and Ornaments of Churches and Chappells which have beene ordained and used in Churches and Chappells for the honour and service of Almighty God.

Editorial Information

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