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A45968
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An act for granting a supply to His Majesty, by raising money by way of a poll
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Ireland.
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1697
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Wing I304; ESTC R39282
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AN ACT FOR Granting a Supply TO HIS MAJESTY BY Raising Money by way of a POLL. DVBLIN Printed by Andrew Crook Printer to the King 's Most Excellent Majesty on Cork-Hill near Copper-Alley MDCXCVII An ACT for Granting a supply to His Majesty by raising Money by way of a POLL. CHAP. XXXIII WE Your Majesty's most Dutiful and Loyal Subjects the Commons of IRELAD in Parliament Assembled having a grateful sense of the Benefits we enjoy under the Auspicious Reign of our great Deliverer and Defender with all Thankfulness and Humility own Your Majesty's Goodness towards us and Your Indefatigable Pains and Care for our Safety And taking into our Consideration that many Debts Contracted by Your Majesty for our Security and Preservation remain unpaid through a Deficiency of Your Majesty 's Established and Settled Revenue to discharge the same As a further Acknowledgment of the Sincerity and Loyalty of our Hearts Do most humbly Present Your Majesty a Freé Gift of the several Summs hereafter following to be Levyed in manner herein-after expressed for and towards the payment and discharge of the Debts and other Ends hereafter particularly mentioned And do veseéch Your Majesty to accept thereof And that it may be Enacted And be it Enacted by the King 's most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by the Authority of the same That all and every person and persons of what Age Sex or Degreé soever that shall be in this Kingdom at the time of executing this Act shall pay unto His Majesty Two shillings sterl per ann To commence from the Sixth day of November in the Year of Our Lord God One thousand Six hundred Ninety seaven except the Wives and Daughters of Day-Labourers living with their Parents and the Sons of Day-Labourers who have not attained their Age of Eighteén Years and also except Widows who by reason of their poverty are discharged from paying Hearth-money and all persons living on Alms. And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That all and every person and persons who at the time of the execution of this Act shall be of the several Qualities Ranks Orders and Degreés hereafter mentioned shall Annually pay unto His Majesty the several Summs hereafter in this Act set down and appointed beside and over and above their said Annual Poll of Two shillings sterl That is to say Every Arch-Bishop of this Kingdom shall pay the Summ of Fifty pounds sterl Every Bishop of this Kingdom shall pay the Summ of Twenty pounds sterl Every Dean of this Kingdom shall pay the Summ of Ten pounds sterl Every Arch-Deacon of this Kingdom shall pay the Summ of Five pounds sterl Every Cannon or Prebendary of this Kingdom shall severally pay the Summ of Fifty shillings sterl Every Doctor of Divinity Law or Phisick shall pay the Summ of Five pounds sterl Every Person having two or more Benefices with Eure of Souls making together One hundred pounds sterl or upwards shall pay Five pounds sterl Every person having one Benefice with Cure of Souls of the Yearly Value of One hundred pounds sterl shall pay Threé pounds sterl Every person having one or more Benefice or Benefices with Cure of Souls of the Yearly Value of Fifty pounds sterl and under a hundred pounds Yearly Value shall pay the summ of One pound sterl and no more Every person having a Sine Cure or Benefice without Cure of Souls of the Yearly Value of One hundred pounds sterl shall pay the summ of Ten pounds sterl and so after the Rate proportionably for any greater or lesser Sine Cure or Benefice without Cure of Souls being under or above the Yearly Value of One hundred pounds sterl Every Parson or Incumbent having but one Benefice with Cure of Souls and not residing thereon or having more Benefices then one with Cure of Souls and not residing on any one of them shall pay for every such Benefice of the Yearly Value of One hundred pounds ster the summ of Ten pounds ster and after that Rate proportionably for every greater or lesser Benefice And every Parson or Vicar having any Benefice or Benefices with Cure of Souls under the Yearly Value of Fifty pounds ster shall pay the summ of Ten shillings Every Chancellor of a Diocess or Vicar-General shall pay Five pounds ster Every Register of a Diocess shall pay the summ of Two pounds ten shillings ster Every Chancellor of a Cathedral shall pay two pound ten shillings ster Every Dignitary of what nature or kind soever shall pay Two pounds ten shillings sterl Every Curate having no Benefice shall pay Ten shillings and no more And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That every person and persons who at the time of the execution of this Act shall be of the several Ranks and Degreés hereafter mentioned and shall be then within this Kingdom or that hath any Estate in Lands Tenements or Hereditaments in the same shall pay unto His Majesty the several Summs of Money hereafter in this Act set down and appointed That is to say Every person of the Degreé of a Duke of this Kingdom shall pay the summ of Fifty pounds sterl Every person of the Degreé of a Marquess having any Estate in this Kingdom shall pay Forty pounds Every person of the Degreé of an Earl inhabiting or resideing in this Kingdom at the time of the execution of this Act or having any Estate in the same shall pay the summ of Thirty pounds sterl Every person of the Degreé of a Viscount that shall be in this Kingdom at the time of the execution of this Act or that hath any Estate in the same shall pay the summ of Twenty five pounds sterl And that every person being of the Degreé of a Baron of this Kingdom who shall be in the same at the time of the execution of this Act or that hath any Estate in this Kingdom shall pay the summ of Twenty pounds sterl And that every person being eldest Son of such Duke who is Charged Fifty pounds as aforesaid shall pay Thirty pounds sterl Every younger Son of such Duke so Charged as aforesaid shall pay the summ of Twenty five pounds sterl Every eldest Son of such Marquess as is before Charged shall pay the summ of Twenty five pounds Every younger Son of such Marquess shall pay the summ of Twenty pounds sterl Every eldest Son of such Earl as is before Charged with Thirty pounds sterl shall pay the summ of Twenty pounds sterl Every younger son of such Earl as is Charged as aforesaid the summ of Fifteén pounds sterl Every eldest son of such Viscount Charged by this Act with the payment of Twenty five pounds sterl shall pay the summ of Seaventeén pounds ten shillings sterl Every younger son of such Viscount so Charged as aforesaid shall pay the summ of Thirteén pounds six shillings and eight pence Every eldest son of such Baron