Taxation (No. 2) Act 1663

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

Persons unduly escaping Taxation; on Proof thereof before Commissioners or Barons of the Exchequer; to be taxed at Double Value.

And be it ordained and enacted by the Authority of this present Parliament That noe person haveing two Mansions or two places to resorte unto, or calling himselfe Household servant or Waiteing servant to the Kings Majestye or other Lord or Lady Master or Mistrisse be excused upon his saying from the Taxes of the said Subsidyes in neither of the said places where he may be sett or taxed unlesse he bring a Certificate in writeing from the Co[m]missers where he is soe sett or taxed indeed at one place, And if any person that ought to be sett and taxed to these present Subsidyes by reason of his removeing or resorting to two Places, or by reason of his saying that he was elsewhere taxed by reason of any Priviledge of his dwelling or abideing in any place not being foreprized in this Act or otherwise by his covin, or craft, or by any words or sayings, or otherwise, Or if any that is Commisser or Assessor of others happen to escape from the said Taxations for the payment of these Subsidyes or any of them, and be not sett and taxed according to the true intent of this Act and that proved by Presentment [X1 Information Examination] or otherwise before the said Co[m]missers or two of them or before the Barons of the Kings Majestyes Exchequer or two Justices of Peace of that County where such person dwelleth, Then every such person that by such meanes or otherwise willingly by covin or without just cause shall happen to escape from the said Taxations or payments aforesaid or any of them and shall not be rated taxed and sett shall be charged upon the knowledge and proofe thereof with and at the same double value of soe much as he should might or ought to have beene sett or taxed at by vertue of this Act; And the same double value to be leavyed gathered and paid of his Goods and Chattells Lands and Tenements towards the said Subsidyes, And further to be punished according to the discretions of the said Barons Justices or Co[m]missers before whom he shall be convicted for his offence and deceite in that busines,

Editorial Information

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