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land_n	pay_v	rent_n	tenant_n	2,576	5	9.7256	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A83241	An ordinance of the Lords & Commons assembled in Parliament, for the raising of moneys to be imployed towards the maintenance of forces within this kingdom, under the command of Sir Thomas Fairfax knight. And for the speedy transporting of and paying the forces for carrying on the War of Ireland. / 7 Julii, 1647. Ordered by the Commons assembled in Parliament, that Mr. Husband do forthwith print six thousand of the ordinance for raising moneys for maintenance of the army under the command of Sir Thomas Fairfax knight. ; H: Elsynge, cler. Parl. D. Com.; Laws, etc.	England and Wales.; Elsynge, Henry, 1598-1654.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1647 (1647)	Wing E2020A; ESTC R175205	22,551	40

proportions and divisions ● rates in the said places and likewise shall and may there agree ● devide and sever themselves for the better execution of this Ord● nance into such Wards hundred places and divisions within the respective Cities Counties and places as to them shall seeme axpedent And to take to their Assistance for the more speedy execune● of the said service in their severall divisions such able and fu●●ent persons as they shall thinke fit and to assemble and meet ● often as to them shall seeme good and forthwith the 〈◊〉 Commissioners or any two or more of them respectively are 〈◊〉 authorized and re●uired to direct their warrants to such 〈◊〉 or persons as they shall think fit within their severall and respe● divisions to be Assessors of the said Rates which said persons are hereby authorised and required to ●ssesse all and every person and persons having any reall or personall Estate within the Limits Circuits and bounds of their respective divisions according to the rate and proportion in this Ordinance mentioned And be it further Ordained That the severall and respective Commissioners in each of the severall Counties Cities and places or such as they or any two of them shall nominate and appoint shall have power to Assesse and levy the severall summes before mentioned upon the Lands Goods Annuities Rents Offices or other estate reall or personall in such manner and form and according to the most equall and usuall Rates for levying of money for maintenance of the Forces for the defence of the King and Parliament or by a certain Rate upon the true yearly values of Lands Rents Annuities Offices Hereditaments and according to the true value of goods Chattells Debts or other Estate reall or personall within the said severall Counties Cities Limits or places respectively And to the end the said Rates be equally and indifferently Assessed and the monies duly collected and true account thereof made The said Assessors are hereby required within six dayes after such Assessement made to deliver one Copy of their respective Assessements fairly written and subscribed by them unto the said respective Commissioners and the said respective Commissioners are hereby ordered and required to signe and Seale three duplicates of the said respective Assessements whereof one Duplicate the said respective Commissioners are to deliver to the respective Collectors with warrant to them to collect the said Assessements And one other Duplicate to such person or persons as the Houses of Parliament shall afterwards appoint for the receiving of the Monyes to be levyed by vertue of this Ordinance And the third duplicate unto the Committee of the Accompts of the Kingdome who are hereby authorized to administer and Oath to the person that shall bring the said Duplicates to the Committee for the accounts as hath been accustomed in the Court of Exchequer in case of the Estreats of Subsidies and the said severall commissioners or any two of them are hereby respectively authorised from time to time to nominate one or more sufficient and honest persons in every division or ●l●●tment to be Collectors of the said Monies so assessed and rated which said Collectors are hereby authorized and required to collect the said Monies so assesed and the said Commissioners or any three or more of them are hereby authorized to allow and pay to the said respective Collectors and their subcollectors one penny a piece in the pound for their paines in collecting the said monies and one penny in the pound to the Commissioners Clerks respectively for their pains in faire writing the said Afsessements and Duplicates And if any person shall refuse or neglect to pay any sum of money whereat he shall be rated or assessed That then it shall and may be lawfull to and for the said Collectors or any of them who are hereby required and authorized thereunto to levy the sum so assesed by distresse and sale of the goods of such person so refusing or neglecting to pay deducting the sum assessed and the reasonable charges of distre●ning and restore the overplus to the owner thereof and to break open any House Chest trunk box or other thing where any such goods are and to call to their assistance any of the Trained bands or any other forces within the Cityes Counties or places where any resistancy shall be made or any other person or persons whatsoever which said forces and persons are hereby required to be aiding and assisting in the premises as they shall answer the contrary at their perills And if any question or difference happen upon the taking of such distresse between the parties distrained or distreining The same shall be ended and determined by the said Cōmissioners or any two or more of them And the said severall Commissioners or any two or more of them are hereby authorised to use such other lawfull wayes or meanes for the speedy levying of the said assessements as to them shall be thought fit and if any person or persons shall neglect or refuse to pay his assessement and convey his or their Goods or other personall Estate whereby the sum of money so assessed cannot be levyed according to this Ordinance then the said respective Commissioners or any two or more of them are hereby authorized to imprison the persons sequester the estate of every such person for the advancement of the said service the tenants of all Houses and Lands which shall be rated by vertue of this Ordinance are hereby required and authorised to pay such summes of money as shall be rated upon such House and Lands and to deduct out of th●ir Rents so much of the said rates as in respect of the Rents of every such House and Lands the Landlords should or ought to pay and beare and the Landlords both mediate and immediate according to their respective interest are hereby required to allow-such deductions and payments upon the receipt of the residue of their Rents And be it provided that every Tenant paying the said Assesment shall be acquitted and discharged for so much money as the said assessement shall amount unto as if the same had been actually paid unto such person or persons unto whō his Rents should have been due and payable Provided also be it Ordained That all Fee-farme Rents or other Rents due to his Majestie all Rents and other summes reserved by the late Court of Wards out of any Wards Infants or Lunatick estates and all other manner of Rents payments and sums of money and all Annuities issuing out of any Lands within any City or County shall be liable towards the payment of any sum by this Ordinance to be Taxed Leavied And all the Tenants of any Fee-farme Rent other Rent summes of money or Annuities aforesaid are hereby directed authorized to pay them proportionably according to the Rates and Assessements by this Ordinance appointed and Ordained And all such Tenants shall be hereby saved kept harmelesse by authority of both Houses of Parliament

from any further payment of such portion of any such Rent Rents Sums or Annuities either to the Exchequer to the Cōmittee of the Revenue to the Court of wards or to any other person or persons to whom any such Rent Rents payments sums of mony or annuities as aforesaid shall or ought to be paid to all intents and purposes whatsoever as fully and as amply as if they had paid the same into the Exchequer to the Committee of the Revenue or to any person or persons to whom the same is reserved become due And if any diffrence shall arise between Landlord and Tenant or any other concerning the said rates The said several Commissioners or any two or more of them in their severall divisions have hereby power to settle the same as they shall think fit And it is further ordained that if any person or persons shall find him or themselves agrieved that he or they is or are over rated and shall within six daies after demand made complain to the Commissioners who signed or allowed his or their assessement the major part of the said Commissioners who signed or allowed his or their assesment shall have power upon examination within 8 dayes after the demand as aforesaid to relieve such person or persons as they shall see cause and the said collectors and every of them are hereby required from time to time to pay such s●m and summes of money as shall be by them collected by vertue of this O●dinance to such person or persons as the houses of Parliament shall afterwards appoint for the receiving of the monies to be levied by vertue of this Ordinance And be it further ordained by the said Lords and Commons that if any person or persons shall wilfully neglect or refuse to perform his duty in the due and speedy execution of this present Ordinance the said respective Commissioners or any five or more of them have hereby power to impose upon such person or persons so refusing or neglecting their duties such fine or fines as to them shal be thought fit and cause the same to be levied by distresse and sale of goods in manner and form aforesaid provided that no fine to be imposed by any of the said Commissioners shall for any one offence exceed the sum of twenty pounds to be paid for the Forces raised by vertue of this ordinance and that no fine to be imposed upon any Assessor Collector or other person to be imployed by the said Commissioners in the said service shall for any Offence exceed the summe of forty shillings which said fine not exceeding forty shillings shall and may be assefsed and imposed by the said cōmissioners or any three or more of them and that no priviledged place or person Body politique or Corporate within the Cities Counties and places aforesaid shall be exempted from the said Assessements and Taxes And be it further Ordained that the said severall and respective Commissioners and every of them shall from time to time give a true and perfect accompt of all their doings and proceedings in the execution of this Ordinance to the two houses of Parliament or to suck persons as they shall appoint Provided alwaies that such Rates and assessments that shall bee made by vertue of this Ordinance upon any Peeres Members Assistants or Attendants upon either of the Houses of Parliament for any Rate or Tax made within the Cities of London and Westminster or Lines of Communication shall before the same be Leavied be presented to the respective Houses where any Peeres Members Assistants or Attendants shall be concerned therein respectively and by such respective House allowed and approved of any thing in this Ordinance to the contrary notwithstanding provided also that every Lord Lievtenant who is not disabled by Ordinance of Parliaments to sit in the house of Peeres shall in their severall and respective Counties be Commissioners now appointed by this Ordinance Provided alwaies That nothing contained in this Ordinance shall be extended to charge either of the Universities or any of the Colledges or Halls within the said Universities nor any the Rents and Revenues due and payable to the said Universities or Colledges or any of them nor to charge any Master Fellow or Schollar of any of the said Colledges nor any Reader Officer or Minister of the said Universities or Colledges or any of them for and in regard of any stipend wages or profit whatsoever arising or growing due to them or any of them in respect of their said severall places and imployments in the said Vnivesities and that nothing in this Ordinance contained shall be extended to charge any of the Colledges of Winchester Eaton or Westminster or any Hospitall or Almes-house or any free Schoole or any the Rents and Revenues due and payable to them or any of them and that the Tenant and Tenants of all and every the said Vniversities Colledges Halls Hospitalls Almes-houses and free Schooles respectively shall be charged by vertue of this Ordinance for so much onely as the Lands and Tenements held by the said Tenant or Tenants respectively are worth by the yeare over and above the Rent or Revenue therefore respectively due or payable to the said Vniversities Colledges Halls Hospitalls and Almes-houses or any of them respectively any thing in this present Ordinance to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding Ioh. Brown Cler. Parliament FINIS