Taxation Act 1685

III. Duties on Spirits; levied as by; 12 Car. II. c. 24; 15 Car. II. c. 11.

And bee it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the severall Rates and Duties of Excise upon Strongwaters Brandies and other Liquors above mentioned shall be raised levyed collected and paid unto your Majestie your Heires and Successors dureing the Time before mentioned in the same Manner and Forme and by such Rules Meanes and Wayes and under such Penalties and Forfeitures as are mentioned expressed and directed in one Act of Parliament made in the Twelfth Yeare of the Raigne of our late Gracious Soveraigne King Charles the Second of Blessed Memory Entituled An Act for takeing away the Court of Wards and Liveries and Tenures in Capite and by Knights-Service and Purveyance and for setleing a Revennue upon his Majestie in lieu thereof And alsoe in one other Act of Parliament made in the Fifteenth Yeare of his said late Majesties Raigne Entituled An Additionall Act for the better Ordering and Collecting the Duty of Excise and preventing the Abuses therein or in either of them