Taxation (No. 3) Act 1694

XLVII. Gentlemen, who by 3 W. & M. c.6. paid double, or have been returned into Exchequer for Non-payment, not appearing before the Commissioners to take the Oaths, to pay double.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That every Gentleman or soe reputed or owneing or writeing himselfe such or being above that quality who by virtue of an Act made in the third yeare of the raigne of King William and Queene Mary entituled (An Act for raiseing money by a poll payable quarterly for one yeare for carrying on a vigorous Warr against France did pay or ought to have paid double the su[m]mes charged by the said Act or were or ought to have beene returned into the Exchequer for nonpayment thereof who shall not voluntarily appeare before the said Co[m]missioners or any two or more of them within tenne dayes after the first meeteing of the said Co[m]missioners in the respective place or places where he ought to be taxed or assessed and take the said oaths appointed by the said Act made in the first yeare of the raigne of King William and Queene Mary (which Oaths the said Co[m]missioners or any two or more of them are hereby impowered and required to administer and to make an entry or memorandum thereof in some Booke to be kept for that purpose) such person shall be charged with and pay double the su[m]mes which by force or virtue of this Act he should or ought to have paid; to be assessed levyed collected answered recovered and paid in such manner by such wayes and meanes and according to such rules and Direcc[i]ons and under such penalties and forfeitures as are before in this Act expressed or appointed for or concerneing the above menc[i]oned rates and su[m]mes which are hereby intended to be doubled as aforesaid:-