Taxation Act 1666

X. Rates of Paytnents by Peers, &c.

Duke resident in the Kingdom £50. Marquess £40.; Earl £30.; Viscount £25. Baron £20.; Eldest Son of Duke of 21 Years £30.Eldest Son of Marquess £25.; Eldest Son of Earl of 21 Years £20.; Eldest Son of Viscount of 21 Years £17. 10s., Eldest Son of Baron of 21 Years £15; Baronet £15.; Knight of the Bath £15.; Knight Batchelor £10.; Serjeant at Law £15.; Esquire of 21 Years £5.; Widow to pay the Third Part of Rate on her late Husband's Degrees. Gentlemen above 16 Years 20s.

And bee it further enacted and ordained That all and every person and persons who at the time of the execution of this Act shall be of the severall Rankes and Degrees hereafter mentioned shall to the purpose aforesaid contribute and pay the severall summes of money hereafter in this Act sett downe and appointed. That is to say Every person of the Degree of a Duke of England Scotland or Ireland inhabiting and resideing within this Kingdome shall pay the summe of Fifty pounds, Every person of the Degree of a Marquese of any of the said three Kingdomes inhabiting and resideing within this Kingdome shall pay the summe of Forty pounds, Every person of the Degree of an Earle of any of the said three Kingdomes and inhabiting or resideing within this Kingdome the sumrne of Thirty pounds, Every person of the Degree of a Viscount of any of the said three Kingdomes and inhabiting and resideing within this Kingdome the summe of Twenty five pounds, Every person of the Degree of a Baron of any of the said three Kingdomes and inhabiting or resideing within this Kingdome the summe of Twenty pounds, Every eldest Sonne of a Duke of any of the said three Kingdomes, and inhabiting or resideing within this Kingdome being of the age of One and twenty yeares the summe of Thirty pounds, Every eldest Sonne of a Marquesse of any of the said three Kingdomes and inhabiting and resideing within this Kingdome being of the age of One and twenty yeares the summe of Twenty five pounds, Every eldest Sonne of an Earle of any of the said three Kingdomes and inhabiting or resideing within this Kingdome being of the age of One and twenty yeares the summe of Twenty pounds, Every eldest Sonne of a Viscount of any of the said three Kingdomes and inhabiting or resideing within this Kingdome being of the age of One and twenty yeares the summe of Seaventeene pounds ten shillings, Every eldest Sonne of a Baron of any of the said three Kingdomes and inhabiting or resideing within this Kingdome being of the age of One and twenty yeares Fifteene pounds, Every person of the Degree of a Baronet of any of the said three Kingdomes or of Nova Scotia and inhabiting or resideing within this Kingdome the summe of Fifteene pounds, Every person that is a Knight of the Order of the Bath inhabiting or resideing within this Kingdome the summe of Fifteene pounds, Every person who is a Knight Batchelor inhabiting or resideing within this Kingdome the summe of Ten pounds, Every Sergeant at Law the summe of Ten pounds, Every person of the Degree of an Esquire or soe reputed inhabiting or resideing within this Kingdome and above the age of One and twenty yeares the summe of Five pounds, Every Widdow respectively according to her Husbands Degree shall pay the Third part rated by this Act upon that Degree of which the Husband of such Wife was in his life time, And every Gentleman or reputed Gentleman above the age of Sixteene yeares the summe of Twenty shillings