THis your Maiesties Realme of Ireland most dread and gratious Soueraigne hath in former times beene subiect to so many miseries, as that it hath beene a continuall burthen to the Crowne of England with­out yeelding any retribution or returning of any commodity or profitt to the same. And albeit infinit Treasures haue beene from time to time expended in and vppon this Kingdome, yet did it neuer thereby become more rich and wealthy, but conti­nued in want and penurie, as it was before: The true cause whereof did arise from the great and long discentions and trou­bles which did waste and depopulate the whole Land, made all possessions vncertaine, and disabled the Subiects to im­prooue the commodities of the same: But forasmuch as since the beginning of your Maiesties most happy Raigne, all the causes of warre, discention and discontentment, are taken away by the rooting out of many wicked and vngratefull Traytors, by receauing all the Irishry into your gratious Protection, by setling of your Subiects estates in their Lands, by your Commissions for Surrendors, and defectiue Titles, by secu­ring their liues, as well by generall as particular Pardons, by remitting many great arrears of Rents meane profits, and forfeitures, by confirming and enlarging the Priuiledges of your Cytties and Townes Corporate, by establishing the Circuits and visitations of Iustice throughout the Kingdome: And lastly by the Plantation of [...]lster with Brittish Colo­nies, your Maiestie now being in the absolute and peaceable possession of this your Vineyard, and hauing cleered it from [Page]the thornes and bryers of Rebellion, fenced it as well with the Law as with the Swoord, & planted it with so many Ci­uill Subiects of England and Scotland, may now iustly expect some fruite thereof: And therefore wee your Maiesties most loyall and louing Subiects assembled in this present Parlia­ment most gratefully acknowledging that wee haue receaued from your Maiestie these inestimable benefits before expressed, doe with all duety & humble affection present vnto your High­nes one entyer Subsidy, most humbly beseeching your Maie­stie to accept thereof, as the first fruites of this your poore Kingdome of Ireland: and to that end wee humbly beseech your Maiestie that it may be enacted.

And be it enacted by the Lords Spirituall and Tempo­rall and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that your Highnes, your Heires and Successors, shall haue and receaue one entyer Subsidy to bee rated, taxed leuied and payd at two seue­rall and equall payments of euery person Spirituall and Tem­porall, of what estate or degree hee or they be, according to the Tenour of this Act in manner and forme following.

That is to say, as well that euery person borne within this Realme, or other his Maiesties Dominions, as all and euery Fraternity, Guild, Corporation, Mysterie, brotherhood and Cō ­monalty corporated or not corporated within this Realme, or other his Maiesties Dominions being worth three poundes, for euery pound as well in Coine, and the value of euery pound that euery such person, Fraternity, Guild, Corporation, Myste­ry, brotherhood and Commonalty, corporate or not corporate, hath of his or their owne, or any other to his or their vse: As also Plate, stocke of Marchandise, all manner of Corne, and Graine, housholdstuffe, and of all other goods mooueable as well within this Realme as without, and of all such summes of money as to him or them is or shalbe owing: whereof hee or they trust in his or their conscience surely to bee payed except and out of the premises deducted such summes of money as he or they owe, and in his or their consciences intendeth truely to pay. And except also the apparell of euery such person, their Wiues and Children belonging to their owne bodies, sa­uing Iewels, Gould, Siluer, Stone and Pearle shall pay to and for the said Subsidy in two seuerall payments two shil­lings eight pence of euery pound, that is to say, sixteene pence of euery pound at euery of the said payments: And also euery alien and Stranger, borne out of the Kings obeysance, as well [Page 2]Denizen as others inhabiting within this Realme, of euery pound that hee or they shall haue in Coine, and the value of euery pound in Plate, Corne, Graine, Marchandise houshould­stuffe, or other goods, Iewests, Chattels, mooueable or vnmon­ueable, as is aforesaid as well within this Realme as with­out, & of all summes of money to him or them owing, where­of he or they trust in his or their conscience to be paid, except and out of the same premises deducted, euery such summe or sūmes of money, which he or they doe owe, and in his or their conscience or consciences intend truely to pay, shall pay to and for the said Subsidie in two feuerall payments fiue shillings and foure pence of euery pound, that is to say, two shillings eight pence of euery pound, at euery of the said payments: And also that euery Alien, and Stranger borne out of the Kings Dominions, being Denizen or not Denizen, not being contri­butory to any the Rates aforesaid, and being of the age of sea­uen yeares or aboue, shall pay to and for the said Subsidy, eight pence for euery Poll at two seuerall payments, that is to say foure pence for euery Poll at euery of the said pay­ments: and the master or hee or shee with whome the said Alien is or shalbe abyding at the time of the taxation or taxa­tions thereof, to bee charged with the same for lacke of pay­ment thereof.

And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that euery person borne vnder the Kings obeysance, and euery Cor­poration, Fraternity, Guild, Mistery, Brotherhood & Commo­nalty corporate or not corporate, for euery pound that euery of the said persons, and euery Corporation, Fraternity, Guild, Mistery, Brotherhood, & Cōmonalty Corporate or not Corpo­rate, or any other to his or their vse hath in Fee-simple, Fee-tayle for tearme of life, tearme of yeares by execution, ward­shipp, or by coppie of Court Roll, of & in any Honors, Castles, Mannors, Lands, Tenements, Rents, Seruices, Heredita­ments, Annuities, Fees, Corrodies or other yearly profits of the yearly value of twenty shillings, as well within auncient demeasne, and other places priuiledged as els [...]where, and so vpward shall pay to and for the said Subsidy at two seuerall payments foure shillings of and for euery pound, and euery Alien Denizen or not Denizen borne o [...] of his Maiesties obeysane [...] in such case to pay to and for the said Subsidy, at two seuerall equall payments eight [...]llings of euery pound: and that all summies to bee presented and chargeable by this Act either for goods and debtes, or either of them, or for lands [Page]and Tenements, and other the premises, as is in this Act contained, shalbe at euery of the said payments set, and taxed after the Rate and proportion according to the true meaning of this Act, Lands and Tenements, chargeable to the twen­tieth part of the Clergy, and yearly wages due to Seruants, for their yearely seruice (other then the Kings Seruants, ta­king yearely wages of fiue poundes or aboue onely excepted, and foreprised: And that all Plate, Coyne, Iewells, goods Debts, and Chattels personals, and all Lands, Tenements, and other the premises as aforesaid, being in the rule and cu­stodie of any person or persons, to the vse of any Corporation, Fraternity, Guild, Mistery, Brotherhood, or any Commonaltie being Corporate or not Corporate, bee and shalbe rated set, & charged by reason of this Act, at the value certified by the pre­senters of that certificate of euery pound in goods and debts, as is abouesaid: And for euery pound in Lands, Tenements, Annuities, Fees, Corrodies, and other yearely profits as is a foresaid: And the sūmes that are aboue rehearsed set, & taxed, to be leuied and taxed of them that shall haue such goods in custodie or otherwise charged for lands as is before expressed: And the same person or persons, and body corporate, by autho­rity of this Act shalbe discharged against him or them, that shall or ought to haue the same at the time of the payment or deliuery thereof, or at his otherwise departure from the custo­dy or possession of the same (except and alwaies forprised from the charge and Assesment of this Subsidy, all Goods, Chat­tels, Iewels & Ornaments of Churches, or Chappels which haue beene ordained and vsed in Churches or Chappels for the honor and seruice of Almighty God. And the first payment of the said Subsidy shalbe by the authority aforesaid, taxed, sessed, and rated according to this Act: In euery County, Ba­rony, Cantred, Citty, Borough, Towne and euery other place within this Realme of Ireland, before the first day of Septem­ber next comming which shalbe in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand sixe hundred & fifteene: And the second payment of the said Subsidy shall bee by the authority aforesaid taxed, sessed, and rated according to this Act in euery County Ba­rony, Cantred, Citty, Borough, Towne, and euery other place within this Realme of Ireland, before the first day of March, which shalbe in the said yeare of our Lord God one thousand sixe hundred and fifteene, and the particular summes of euery County, Barony, Cantred, Citty, Borough, Towne, or other places aforesaid, with the particuler names of such as are or [Page 3]shalbe chargeable for and to the first payment of the said Subsidy to bee taxed and set by the Commissioners for the same to bee limitted, or two of them at the least, with the names of the High Collectors, and in the same forme shalbe certified into the Kings Exchecquer, before the first day of October, which shalbe in the yeare of our Lord God, one thou­sand sixe hundred and fifteene, and the particular summes of euery Countie, Barony, Cantred, Cyttie, Borough, Towne or other places aforesaid, with the particular names of such as are or shalbe chargeable for and to the second payment of the said Subsidy to bee taxed and set by the Commissioners for the same to bee limitted, or two of them at the least, with the names of the High Collectors, and in the same forme shalbe certified into the Kings Exchecquer before the first day of Aprill, which shalbe in the yeare of our Lord God, one thou­sand sixe hundred and sixteene: And the said summes in forme aforesaid to bee taxed to and for the first payment of the said Subsidy, shalbe payd in one entier summe into y^e Kings Receipt of his Exchecquer aforesaid, to the vse of our said Soueraigne Lord, at or before the first day of December, which shalbe in the said yeare of our Lord God, one thousand sixe hundred and fifteene, and the said summes in manner and forme aforesaid, to bee taxed, to and for the second payment of the said Sub­sidy, shalbe paid in one entier summ einto the Receipt aforesaid, to the vse aforesaid, at or before the first day of Iune, wich shal­be in the yeare of our Lord God, one thousand sixe hundred and sixteene, and the summes aforesaid of and for the said Sub­sidie, shalbe taxed, set, asked, and demaunded, taken, gathered, leuied, and payd, to the vse of our said Soueraigne Lord, his heires and successors, in forme aforesaid, as well within the Li­berties, Franchises, Sanctuaries, auncient Demeasnes, and others whatsoeuer places, exempt or not exempt, as with­out. Any graunt, Charter, Prescription, Use, Libertie, or Free­dome, by any letters Patents, or other priuiledges, prescrip­tion, or allowance of the same, or whatsoeuer other matter of discharge, to the contrary heretofore made, vsed, graunted or obtained notwithstanding.

And it is further enacted by the authority of this present Par­liamēt that euery such person as well such as be borne vnder the Kings obeysance, as euery other person stranger borne, Denizen or not Denizē inhabiting within this Realme which at y^e time of y^e same Assessings or taxatiōs, or of euery of thē to be had or made shalbe out of this Realme, & haue goods, Chattels, lāds or Tenements, [Page]Fees, or Annuities or other profits within this Realme shalbe charged and chargeable for the same by the certificate of the inhabitants of the place, where such Goods, Chattels Lands, Tenements or other the premises then shalbe, or in such other place, where such person or persons, or his or their factors, Deputy or Atturney, shall haue their most resorte vn­to within this Realme in like manner as if the said person were or had beene at the time of the said Assessing within this Realme: And that euery person abyding or dwelling within this Realme or without this Realme, shalbe charged or chargeable to the same Substdy graunted by this Act, accor­ding and after the Rate of such yearely substance or value of Lands, or Tenements, Goods, Chattels and other the premises, as euery person so to be charged shalbe set at the time of the said Assessing or taxation vppon him to be made and none otherwise.

And bee it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that for the Assessing and ordering of the said Subsidie to bee duely had the Lord Deputie or other cheefe Gouernour of this Realme for the time being with th'aduise of the Lord Chauncellor, the Vice-Treasurer, the Lord Cheefe Iustice of his Maiesties cheefe place, the Lord Cheefe Iustice of his Maiesties Court of Common pleas, the Lord Cheefe Baron of his Maiesties Court of Exchequer, and the Maiester of the Rolls for the time being, or any two or moe of them, shall or may name and appoint of and for euery Countie or Sheire within this Realme, as also of and for euery Citty and Towne being a County of it selfe, such and so many Persons as they shall thinke conuenient to bee Commisso­ners of and in the said seuerall Counties Citties or Townes And aliso the said Lord Deputy or other Cheefe Gouernour with th'aduise aforesaid, in like manner may name and ap­point of euery other such Bourough and Towne Corporate within this Realme as they shall thinke requisite Sixe, Fiue Foure, Three, or Two, of the Head Officers and other honest Inhabitants of euery of the said Citties, Boroughes and Townes Corporate according to the number & multitude of the people being in the same, the which Persons if any such be therevnto named of the said Inhabitants of the said Bo­roughes, and Townes Corporate not being Counties of them­selues shallbe toyned and put in as Commissioners with the persons named for euery such County or Counties as the said Boroughes, and Townes Corporate not being Counties [Page 4]by reason of their dwelling in the same, shall not take vppon them, nor none of them, to put any part of their Commission in execution, for the pre­mises, out of the said Citties, Bouroughes, and Townes-corporate wherein they bee so named onely, nor to execute the said Commission within the Cittie, Bourough, or Towne-corporate where they bee so dwelling, but at such daies and times as the said other Commissioners, for the same Sheire or Countie, shall therevnto limitt and ap­point within the said Cittie, Bourough or Towne­corporate, not being a Countie, whereof they bee so named, and not out of such Cittie, Bourough, or Towne: And in that manner to bee ayding and assisting, with the said other Commissioners in and for the good executing of the effect of the said Commission, vppon pame of euerie of the said Commissioners so named, for euerte such Cittie, Bourough, and Towne-corporate, not being a Countie, to make such Fine as the said other Commissioners in the Commission of and for the same Sheire or Countie so named, or three of them at the least, shall by their discretion, s [...]t and certi­fie into the Kings Exchequer, there to bee leuied to the vse of the Kings Maiestie, in like manner as if such or like summes had beene set and rated vppon euery such person, for the said Subsidie, the which Commissioners so named of, and for the said Citties, Bouroughes, and Townes, not being Counties, and onely put into the said Commis­sion, by reason of their dwelling in the same, shall not haue any part of the portion of the Fees and Rewardes of the Commissioners, and their Clerkes in this Act, afterwardes specified and allowed: And the said Lord Chancellor of this Realme for the time being, shall make and [...] of the Court of the Chauncerie vnder the great Seale seuerall Commissions: That is to say, for euery Shire, or Coun­tie, and for each Cittie, Towne, and Brough vnto such person and persons, as by his discretion, or any of the other with him before named, and appointed, as is before re­hearsed, shalbe thought sufficient for the Assessing and [Page]and leauying of the said Subsidy in all Shires & places accor­ding to the true meaning of this Act, which Commission for the first payment of the said Subsidy shalbe directed, and deliuered to the said Commissioners, or to one of them before the first day of Iuly, which shalbe in the yeare of our Lord God one thousand sixe hundred and fifteene, and the Commission for the second payment of the said Subsidy shalbe directed and de­liuered to the said Commissioners, or to one of them before the first day of Ianuarie then next following, which shalbe in the said yeare one thousand sixe hundred and fifteene, and to eue­rie of the said Commissions ten Scheduls containing in them the Tenour of this Act shalbe affiled, by the which Commis­sion the Commissioners in euery such Commission named ac­cording to this Act, and as many of them as shalbe appointed by the said seuerall Commissions shall haue full power and au­thority to put th'effect of the same Commission in execution: And that by the authority of this Act, after such Commission to them directed they may by their assents, and agreements seuer themselues for th'execution of their Commission in se­uerall Baronies, Cantreds, Hundreds, Townes, Parishes, and other places within the limits of the said Commission, in such forme as to them shall seeme expedient to bee ordered, and betweene them to bee communed and agreed vppon ac­cording to the Tenour and effect of the Commission to them therein directed.

And bee it also enacted by the authority of this present Parliament that the Commissioners, and euery of them which shalbe named limitted and appointed, according to this Act to bee Commissioners in euery such Shire, or County, Citty, Towne, Borough, or any other place, and no other, shall truly effectually and diligently for their part execute th'effect of this present Act according to the Tenour thereof, in euery behalfe, and no otherwise by any other meanes without omission, fauour, dread, malice, or any other thing to bee attempted or done by them or any of them to the contrary thereof. And the said Commissioners or as many of them as shalbe appointed by the said Commission, and none other for the execution of the said Commission and Act, shall for the taxation of the first payment of the said Subsidy before the tenth day of August which shalbe to the said yeare of our Lord God one thousand sixe hundred and fifteene: And for the taxation of the said se­cond payment of the said Subsidy shall before the tenth day of February which shalbe in the said yeare of our Lord [Page 3]God one thousand sixe hundred and fifteene by vertute of the Commission deliuered vnto them in forme aforesaid direct their seuerall or ioynt precept or precepts vnto eight, seauen, sixe, fiue, foure, three, or two, as for the number of the inhabitants shalbe requisite of the most substantiall, discreete, and honest persons inhabitants to bee named by the said Commissioners, or by as many of them as shalbe appointed by the said Commis­sion of and in the Baronies, Cantreds, Hundreds, Wards, Pa­rishes, Townes, and other places as well within liberties, franchises, and places exempted as without within the limits of the Shires, Counties, Cittyes, Townes, Boroughes and other places within the limits of their Commission, and to the Constables, subconstables, Baylifes, & other like Officers and Ministers of euery of the said Baronies, Cantreds, Hun­dreds, Townes, Wards, Parishes and other places aforesaid as to the said Commissioners, and euery number of them, or vnto three or two of them by their discretion in diuision shall seeme expedient. Straightly by the said precept, charging and commaunding the said inhabitants, Constables and other Of­ficers aforesaid, to whom such precept shalbe so directed, to ap­peare in their proper persons before the said Commissioners or such number of them as they shall diuide themselues accor­ding to the Tenour of the said Commission, at certaine daies and places by the said Commissioners or any other number of thē as is aforesaid, within Citties, Boroughes, or Townes corporate or without in any other places as is aforesaid, by their discretion shalbe limitted therevnto to doe and accom­plish all that to them on the part of the Kings Maiestie shal­be enioyned touching this Act: commaunding further by the said precept, that hee to whose hands such precept shall come, shall shew and deliuer the same to the other inhabitants or Offi­cers named in the same precept, and that none of them faile to accomplish the same vppon paine of forty shillings to be for­feited vnto the Kings Maiestie.

And it is further ordained by the authority of this present Parliament, that at the said day and place prefixed and limitted in the said precept, euery of the said Commissioners then being within this Realme and hauing no sufficient excuse for his ab­sence at the day and place prefixed for that part, wherevnto hee was limitted, shall appeare in his proper person: And there the same Commissioners being present, or is many of thē as shalbe appointed by the kings Maiesties Commission, shall call or cause to be called before them the said inhabitants and Officers [Page]to whome they haue directed their said Precepts, and which had in commaundement there to appeare, by vertue of the said Precept. And if any person so warned, make default, vnlesse hee then bee letted by sicknesse or lawfull excuse, and that let, then bee witnessed by the oathes of two credible per­sons, or if any appearing, refuse to serue in forme following, then euerie such person so making default or refusing to serue, shall forfeit to the Kings Maiestie fortie shillings, and so at euerie time appointed by the said Commissioners for the same taxation, vntill such time the number of euery such persons haue appeared and certified (in forme vnder-written, euerie of them so making default, or refusing to serue) shall forfeite to the Kings Maiestie fortie shillings. And vppon the same appa­rance had, they shalbe charged before the Commissioners, by all conueniēt wayes and meanes, (other then by corporall oath) to enquire of the best and most value of the substance of eue­ry person dwelling and abyding within the limits of the pla­ces that they shalbe charged with, and of other which shall haue his, or their most resorte vnto any of the said places, and chargeable, with any summe of money by this Act, of the said Subsidie, and of all other things requisite touch­ing the said Act, and according to the intent of the same: And therevppon as neere as it may bee, or shall come to their knowledge, truely, to present and certifie before the said Commissioners, the names and surnames, and the best and vt­termost substance and values of euerie of them, as well of Lands, Tenements, and other Hereditaments, pos­sessions, and profits, as of goods, Chattels, Debts, and other things chargeable by the same Act, with­out any concealment, loue, fauour, affection, dreade, or malice, vppon paine of forfeiture of fiue pounds or more, to bee taxed, extracted, and leuied in forme as hereafter in this present Act shalbe limitted or ap­pointed, and therevppon the said Commissioners shall openly there reade, or cause to bee reade vn­to them the said Rates in this Act mentioned, and openly declare the effect of their charge vnto them, in what manner and forme they ought and should make their certificate according to the Rates & sūmes thereof aforesaid, & of all manner of persons [Page 5]as well of Aliens and Strangers, Dentzens or not Denizens inhabiting within this Realme, as of such persons as be borne vnder the Kings obeysance chargeable to this Act, and of the possessions, Goods, and Chattels of Fraternities, Guilds, Cor­porations, Brotherhoods, Mysteries, Commonalties, & other as is aboue said, and of persons being in the parts beyond the Seas, hauing Goods and Chattels, Lands or Tenements within this Realme as is aforesaid, and of all Goods being in the custody of any person or persons to the vse of any other as is abouesaid, by the which information and shewing the said persons should haue such plaine knowledge of the true in­tent of this present Act, & of the manner of their certificat that they in the same persons shall haue no reasonable cause to ex­cuse them by ignorance. And after such charge and the statute of the said Subsidy, and the manner of the said certificate to be made in writing conteining the names, and surnames of euery person, and whether hee bee borne without the Kings obey­sance, or within, and the best value of euery person in euery degree, as well of the yearely value of Lands and Tene­ments, and of such like possessions and profits, as of the value of Goods and Chattels, Debts and euery thing to their cer­tificate requisite and necessary to them declared the said Com­missioners there being shall by there discretions appoint and limit vnto the said persons another day and place to appeare before the said Commissioners and charging the said persons that the meane time shall make diligent inquiry by all waies and meanes of the premises: And then, and there euery of them vppon paine of forfeiture of forty shillings to the Kings Ma­iestie to appeare at the newe prefixed day and place there to certifie vnto the said Commissioners in writing according to their said charge and according to the true intent of the said graunt of this present Subsidy, and as to them in manner aforesaid hath beene declared and shewed by the Commissio­ners at which day and place so to them prefixed, if any of the said persons make default or appeare, and refuse to make the said certificate, that then euery of them so offending to forfeit to the Kings Maiestie forty shillings, except there be a rea­sonable excuse of his default by reason of sicknes or otherwise by the oaths of two credible persons their witnessed, and of such as appeare ready to make certificate as aforesaid the said Commissioners there being, shall take and receaue the same certificate and euery part thereof, and the names, values and substance of euery person so certified. And if the said Cōmissio­ners [Page]see cause reasonable, they shall examine the said presen­ters thereof, and therevppon the said Commissioners, at the said daies and place, by their agreement amongest themselues, shall frō time to time their opēly prefixe a day at a certaine place or places, within the limits of their Commission, by their dis­cretion for their further proceeding, to the said Assessing of the same Subsidy: And therevppon at the said day of the said certificate as is aforesaid taken, the same Commissioners, shall make their Precept or Precepts, to the Shiriffs, Vndershi­riffs, Constables, Sub-constables, Bailiffs or other Officers of such Shires, Baronies, Cantreds, Hundreds, Townes, or other places aforesaid, as the same Commissioners shalbe of, comprising and containing in the said Precept the names and surnames of all persons presented before them in the said cer­tificate, of whome if the said Commissioners, or as many of them as shalbe therevnto appointed by the Kings Commis­sion, shall then haue vehement suspect, to bee of more greater value or substance in Lands, Goods, Chattels or summes of money, owing to them, or other substance before said, then vp­pon such person or persons, so certified and specified as afore­said, the same Commissioners shall make their Precept or Precepts directed to the Shiriffs, Vndershiriffs, Constables, Bailiffs, or other Officers, commaunding the same Shiriffs, Vndershiriffs, Constables, Bailiffs, [...] other Officers, to whom such Precepts shalbe directed, to warne such persons, whose names shalbe comprised in the said Precepts, at their man­sions, or to their persons that the same persons named in such Precepts, and euery of them, shall personally appeare before fore the said Commissioners, at the same newe prefixed day and place, there to bee examined by all waies and meanes, (other then by corporall oath) by the said Commissioners, of their greatest substance and best value, of all and euery summe, and summes of money, owing to them, and other what­soeuer matter concerning the premises, or any of them, accor­ding to this Act. At which day and place so prefixed, the said Commissioners then and there being, or as many of them as shalbe therevnto appointed by the Kings Commission, shall cause to bee called the said persons, whose names shalbe com­prised in the said Precept as is aforesaid, for their examina­tion: And if any of those persons, which shalbe warned as is aforesaid, to bee examined, which at any time after the war­ning, and before the prefixed day, shalbe within such place where hee may haue knowledge of his said apparance to bee [Page 5]made, make default and app [...] not, [...] a reasonable cause, or else a reasonable excuse by the [...]at he s [...]t [...]d the dible persons, before the said Commissioners be truly alleadged fork is discharge, that then euerie or them so making default, to be taxed and char­ged to the Kings Maiestie, with and at the double summe of the rate, that he should, or ought to haue beene set at, for and after the best value of his lands or substance vppon him certified, if hee had appeared by the discretion of the said Cōmissioners there be­ing, which Cōmissioners shall trauell with euery of the other per­sons then and there appearing, whose names shalbe expressed in the said Precept or Precepts, & in whome any behement suspect was, or shalbe had in torme aforesaid, by all such wases, & meanes as they can (other then by corporall oath) for y^e better knowledge of their best value, either in hereditaments, or possessions, or else in goods and debts, & there vppon shall haue power and authori­ty, by vertue of this Act, according to their discretions to inlarge and increase the taxations of such persons, as they shall so finde, by due examination, to be of greater value or substance in lands, or goods, then they were presented at, and that euery spirituall person at euery of the said taxations, of the said Subsidy, shalbe rated, and set, according to the [...]le abouesaid, of & for euery pound that the same spirituall person for and other, to his vse hath by dis­tent, bargaine, purchase in Fee simple, Fee taile, tearme of life, tearme of yeares, by execution, by [...] shipp, or by coppie of Court-Roll in any M [...]iors, Lands, Tehements, Rents, Seruices, Offices, Fees, Cor [...]od [...]es, or Hereditaments, after the true, tust, and yearely value thereof and according as other the Kings Maiesties Subiects, borne within this Realme bee char­ged in forme abone remembred, so that it extend to the yearely value of twenty shillings, or aboue.

And it is further enacted, that if the said taxors or assessors, shall not duely behaue themselues in their inquirse, taxation, as­sesment, or certificate, but shall affectionally [...] ly demeane themselues in that behalfe, [...] y^e Com­missioners shall by their considerations, [...] worthy of punishment, for not doing [...], that then foure or more of the Commissioners [...], for the same Subsidy, shall haue power [...] either to charge the said assessors vpon [...] the better serutre aforesaid [...] tions to tax [...] & set vpon euery of the [...] meanors in that behalfe such [...] good, so that it exceed not the summe of [...], and the same [Page]fine or peine at their [...] y^e Court of Exche­quer, euery which fiue to taxed & set by foure of y^e said Cōmissio­ners, or more, being estreated with the Schedule, & Bookes of y^e limit, shalbe leuied & answered to the Kings vse, in like manner & forms to all intents & purposes, as any othersummes that shalbe taxed, & become, due by vertue of this statute & Act of Subsidy, & not in any otherwise or manner. And if any person certified, or ra­ted, by vertue of this Act, whether he be a Commissioner, or other to any manner of value, doth finde himselfe grieued with the same presentment, sessing or rating, and therevppon complaine to the Commissioners, before whome he shalbe called, fessed, or taxed, or before two of them, before the same taxation be certified into the Court of Exchequer, that the said Commissioners, or two of them shall by all waies & meanes, examine particularly and dis­stinetly, the person so complaining vppon his oath, and other his neighbours, by their discretions, of euery his Lands and Tene­mēts aboue specified, & of euery his goods, Chattels, and debts aboue-mentioned: And after due examinatiō and perfect know­ledge thereof had, and perceaued by the said Commissioners or two of them, which shall haue power by authority aforesaid, the said Comissioners, or two of them, to whome any such complaīt shalbe made, by their discretions vpon the oath of the said person so complaining, may abate, defalke, increase or inlarge y^e same as­sessments, according as it shall appeare to them iust, vppon the same examination, & the same sūme so abated, defalted, increased or enlarged shalbe by thē estreated in forme as hereafter ensueth. And if it be proued by wittnesses or by the parties owne confes­sion or other lawful waies or meanes, within a yeare after such oath made, that y^e same person sorated or sworne was of any bet­ter, or greater value in Lands, Goods, or other things aboue spe­cified at the time of his said oath, then the same person so sworne did declare vpon his said oath, that thē euery person so offending, shall loose & forfeit to his Maiestie so much lawful money of Eng­land, as he the said person so sworne was set at, or taxed to pay.

And also it is attacked by the same out hority, that euery person to be rated and taxed as is aforesaid, shalbe rated, & set, and the [...] on him set, to bee leuied at such place where hee and his family were [...] the most part of the yeare next before the [...] presentment and taxation made, & no where else. And that no Commissioner for this [...] shalbe rated or taxed [...] his [...] in the Countie or other place where hee [...] Commissioned [...]; And that if [...] person chargea­ble to [...] at the time of the said assessing happen to [Page 6]bee out of this Realme, or farre from the place where he shalbe knowen, then hee to bee set, where hee was last abyding in this Realme, and after the substance, value, and other pro­fits of euery person, to bee knowen by examination, certificate or other manner of wise, as is aforesaid, and that the said Com­missioners, or as many of them as shalbe appointed by the Kings Maiesties Commission, or Commissions, shall after the rate and rates aforesaid, cause euery person so to be set, rated, and taxed, ac­cording to y^e rate of the substāte, & value of his lāds, goods Chat­tels, and other profits chargeable by this Act, whereby the grea­test, or most best summe, or sūmes, according to his most substance by reason of this Act, might or may be set or taxed. And that eue­ry person taxed in any County or place, other then where he and his family were resident, for the most part of the yeare, then next before, or in any County or place, other then where he is a Com­missioner for the Subsidy, if he be a Commissioner, vppon certi­ficate, made to the said Court of Exchecquer, vnder the hands & seales of two Commissioners for the same Subsidy, in the same Coūty or place where such person, & his family were resiant, for the most part of y^e yeare next before, or where he is a Cōmissioner, for the taxation & paymēt of y^e same Subsidie, testifying such his most restācy, hauing a family, or being a Cōmmissioner, shalbe a suf­ficiēt discharge for y^e taxation of that person in all other places & of & for all other summes of money vppon such persons so set and taxed, saue onely the taxation made in that County, or place from which such certificate shalbe made as is aforesaid, and for the sūme of money vppon such persons, there assessed, or taxed. And that such certificate, without any plea, or other circumstance, shalbe a sufficient warrant, as well to the Barons and Auditor, and Auditors of the said Court of Excheequer, and to all, and euerie other Officers to whome the allowance thereof, shall ap­pertaine, paying for such discharge and allowance, onely sixe pence, and no more. Prouided alwaies that euerie such per­son, which shalbe rated, or taxed, according to the intent and true meaning of this Act, for payment of and to this Subsi­die, for and after the yearely value of his Lands, Tenements, & other reall possessions, or profits, at any of the said taxations shall not after be set and rated for his goods, and Chattels, or other moneable substance at the same taxation, and that hee that shalbe set, charged, or taxed for the same Subsidy, for his goods, Charels & other moueables, at any of the said taxations, according to the true meaning of this Art shall not after be chat­ged, taxed or chargeable, for his lends or other reall possessions, [Page]and profits abouesaid, at the same taxations, or any of them, nor that any person by any taxation bee double charged for the said Subsidy, nor set, or taxed at seuerall places, by reason of this Act. But if any person happen to be double set, taxed, or charged either in any place, or at seuerall places, then he to bee dischar­ged of the one taxation & charged with the other according to the meaning and intent of this Act, any thing contained in this present Act, to the contrary notwithstanding.

And that it bee ordained and enacted, by the said authori­ty of this present Parliament, that no person hauing two mansions, or two places to resort vnto, or calling himselfe house­hold seruant, or waiting-seruant to the Lord-deputy, or other Lord, or Lady, Master, or Mistres bee excused vppon his say­ing, from the taxes of the said Subsidy, in neither of the pla­ces where he may bee set or taxed, vnlesse he bring a certifi­cate, in writing from the Commissioners, where that he is so set or taxed indeede at one place: And if any person that ought to bee set and taxed to this present Subsidy, by reason of his remouing and resorting to two places, or by reason of his say­ing that hee else where was taxed, or by reason of any priui­ledge of his dwelling, or abyding in any place not being fore­prised in this Act, or otherwise by his Couine or craft, or by any words, or sayings, or otherwise, or if any that is a Com­missioner, or Assessor of others happen to escape from the said taxation, for the payment of this Subsidy, and be not set and taxed, according to the true intent of this Act, and that prod­ned by presentmēt examination, information or otherwise, before the said Commissioners, or two of them, or before the Barons of the Kings Maiesties Exchecquer, or two Iustices of the Peace, of the County where such person dwelleth, then euerie such person, that by such meanes, or otherwise willingly by Co­uin, or without iust cause, shall happen to escape from the said taxations, or payments aforesaid or any of them, and shall not bee rated, taxed and set, shalbe charged vppon the knowledge and proofs thereof, with & at the double value of somuth as he should might, or ought to haue beene set, and taxed at, by ver­tue of this Act, and the same double value to bee gathered, lea­uied, and payd, of his Goods and Chattels, Lands and Te­nements, towards the said Subsidy, and further to bee puni­shed according to the discretions of the Barons, Iustices, and Commissioners, before whome hee shalbe committed for his offence and deceipt in that behalfe.

And hee it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that [Page 7]the said Commissioners, in euery Commission, which shall [...] or inhabit, in any County or place, within the simits of their Com­mission, or the more part of them, shall haue full power and authority by this Art, to set, taxe, and sesse euery other Com­missioner ioyned with them, in euery such Commission and the said Commissioners within euery diuision shall also assesse euery assessor within his or their diuision, for his or their goods, Lands, and other the premists as is aboue­said, by the which said Commission, the said Commis­sioners, to whome it shall appertaine, shall indifferently set, taxe, and sesse themselues, and the said assessors, and that as well the summes vppon euerie of the said Commissioners and Assessors so sessed, rated, and taxed, as the summes made and presented by the presentors, as is aforesaid, shal be written certified, set, and estreated, and the estreats thereof to be made with the other inhabitants of that part, and within the li­mits of the same Commission and diuision so to bee gathered and leauied, in like manner as it ought, or should haue beene, if the said Commissioners had not beene in the said, Commis­sion: And that all persons of the estates of a Baron, or Barons, and euerie estate aboue, shalbe charged with their freeh [...] [...] and value as aforesaid, by the Lord-deputy or other Chiefe Gouernour of this Realme, with the a [...]erise aforesaid: And they to bee charged for the said seuerall payments of the said Subsidy, after the forme of the said graunt, according to the taxation aforesaid: And the summie of and vppon them to bee set, and taxed, with the names of the Collectors appointed for the gathering, and paying of the same, to bee estreated, de­liuered, and certified, at daies and places alone specified, by the Lord-deputy, or other Chiefe Gouernour of the said Realme for the time being, together, with other such persons as there­vnto shalbe named as is aforesaid.

And bee it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that after the taxes, and assesses of the said summes, vppon and by the said Assessing and certificate, as is aforesaid made, the said Commissioners, or as many of them, as shalbe there­unto appointed, and haue authority by the Kings Maiesties Commission, shall with all speed and without delay by their writting estreate the said taxes thereof under their [...] and signes Mannuall, if the said Commissioners, or as ma­ny of them, as shalbe appointed at the least and the same shall deliuer vnto sufficient and substantiall thhabitants, Shiri [...]s, Vndershiriffs, Constables, Subconstables, Bailiffs, and other [Page]Officers [...]yntly, of Baronies, Ca [...]treds, Hundreds, Townes, Parishes, and other places aforesaid, within their limits, and other sufficient persons Inhabitants of the same, onely by the discretion of the said Commissioners, with the assent of the High Collector. And as the place and pa [...]ties shall require, as well the particular names and surnames, as the remem­brance of all summes of money taxed, and set, of and vppon euerie person as well man as woman chargeable to this Act, House-holders and other Inhabitants and dwellers within the said Parishes, Townes and places contributory to this Act of Subsidie: By authority, of which writing and estreate so deliuered, the same Officers and other persons so named and deputed seuerally [...], shall haue full power and authority, by vertue of this Act, immediatly after the deliuery of the said writing or estreate, to demaund, leuie, & gather, of euery person therein, speeissed; the snmme & summes, in the same writing or estreate comprised, and for not payment thereof, to distraine the same person or persons so being behinde, by their Goods and Chattels, and the distress [...] so taken to keepe by the space of eight daies, at the costs and charges of the owner thereof. And if the said owner, doe not pay such summe of money, as shalbe leauied by authority of this. [...] within the said eight daies, then the same distr [...]sse to be appraised by foure, three, or two of the Iuhabi [...]ts▪ where [...] distresse is taken, and also then to dee fould by the Constable or other Collector, for the payment of the said muney, & the ouerplus comming of the sale and keeping there of, if any bee, to bee immediatly restored to the owner of the same distresse, which said Officers and othr persons so [...], to aske, take, gather, and leauy the the said summes, shall answere and bee charged, for the por­tion onely to the l [...]signed, and limitted to bee gathered, lea­uied and comprised in the said Writting of estreate, so to them as is aforesaid [...]ered, to the vse of our. Soueraigne Lord the Kings [...] and his Heires and Successors, and the said summe in that writting or estreate comprised, to pay vnto the High Collector or Bollectors of that place, for the collec­tion of the same, in manner and forme vnerwritten, therevn­to to [...]e [...] named and deputed. And the same Inhabitants and [...], so gathering the same particular summes, for their collection thereof, sh [...] retaine for, euery twenty shillings so by them re [...]ation and pays, two pence, and that to be allowed at the payment of their collection, by them to bee made to the [Page 8]High Collector or Collectors. And [...] for the said authority that the said. Commissiones, [...] part of them, as shall take vppon them, the [...] and [...] ­sines of the said Commission, shall for euery or the said pay­ments of the said Subsidie, name such sufficient [...] per­sons, which then shall haue and possests lands and other here­ditaments in their owne right of the cleare [...] of twenty pounds, or goods to the value of foure [...] at the least, as hee shalbe taxed in the Sul [...]ie Booke [...] any such be in the said limits, & for [...] of such so assested, [...] those to bee appointed Collectors that then shalbe sufficient in lands or goods neerest to the values aforesaid, as [...] their discretion shalbe thought good in the seuerall Counties. Shines, Citties, Townes-corporate, and other what so ouer places, as well within places priuiledged as without, not being foreprised within this Act, to bee High Collector [...], and to haue the look­ [...] and receipt of the said summes set, and leauiable, within the Precluts, Limits, & Bounds where they shall be so limi­red and appointed to bee High Coll [...]rs, and to euerie of the said Collectors so seuerally [...], the said Commission [...], or [...] of them at the least, with all [...] and without [...] the whole summè of any payment of the said Subsidy be set, by all the limits of the same their. Commission, or in [...] di­mits as the High Collectors shalbe so seue [...]lly assig [...]ed, s [...]alk vnder their. Seales and signes Mannuall, deliuer one estreate indented in parchment, comprising in it the names of all such persons as were assigned to leauy the and particular [...] And the summes of euerie Ba [...]ny, Contred, Hundred, Cittie, Towne, and other places aforesaid, with the names and surnames of the persons so chargeable according to [...] thereof, made and deliuered as is [...]gesaid, and the Collec­tors to bee assigned, shalbe charged to answere the whole [...] comprised in the said estreate limitted to his collertion as is aforesaid.

Prouided alwaies, and be it enacted by the authority afore­said, that the said Commissioners hauing authority by this Act, to name and nominate the said High Collectors of the said Subsidy, shall immediatly [...] [...] take by authority, of this [...] recogni [...]an [...]es or obligations [...] so bee payd therefore of euery [...] med to bee High, Collectors to bee [...] Kings Ma­ [...]ie, in the double summe, of the [...] of his collection and [Page 8]to be [...] and [...]ade vpon such condition, That is to say for the [...] of the said first payments of the said Subsidie, that [...] the [...] Collector, his heires or executors, doe truely content and pay to the vse of the Kings Maiestie, his Heires and [...] in the Rereipt of the said Excherquer, at or be­fore she said first day of December, which shalbe in the said yeare or our Lord God one thousand sixe hundred and fifteene, so much of the said summe of money, allotted and appointed to his col­lection, as hee shall collect and gather, and content, and pay the residue of his collection, and charge within one moneth next after such time as he hath gathered and collected the same re­sidue, that then the said recognisances or obligations to be voyd, or else to stand in full strength and vertue. And for the collection of the said second payment, of the said Subsidy, vpon condi­tion, that if the said Collector, his heires or executors, doe truely rontent and pay to the vse of the Kings Maiestie, his Heires and Su [...]ssors, in his Highnes Court of Excherqu [...], at or before the said first day of Iune, which shalbe in the said yeare of our Lord God, one thousand sixe hundred and sixercene, so [...] of the said [...] of money, alloted and appointed to his [...], as her shall [...] and gather, and content and pay the rest one of his collection, and charge, within one moneth [...]xt-after [...] as he hath collected and gathe­red the said [...] that the [...] the said recognisances, or obli­gations to be [...], or else to stand in [...] strength and vertue: which said recogni [...]ces or obligations so taken, the said Com­missiones shall secretally certifie, and deliuer into the Kings Maisties Excherquer, with the seuerall certificats of the said [...] and rates of the payment of the said Subsidy, at and by the time [...] them pres [...]ibed and appointed by this Act, for the said certificate of the said seuerast raxarsons of the said Subsidise, vpon [...] of forfeiture of ten pounds to the Kings Mai [...], for euery such recognifances or obligations not to certified, and that euerie such Collector so elerted, named and ch [...]in, vpon requ [...] to him made, shall knowledge, and make the said recognisance or obligation, vpon paine of forfeiture of twenty pounds to the Kings Maiestie for the refusall there­of, and that the [...] and Barons of the Exchecquer for the [...] of the stuerall conections of the [...] and times therein limitted for the [...] Lancell and deliuer the said recog­ni [...]ces or obligations, for the payment thereof, to the Col­lector, or Collectors, without any other warrant, and with­out [Page 9]any F [...] or [...] to her paid for the same, to [...] per­son, and euerie Collector [...] the said estreat, in parchment as is aforesaid, shall haue authority by this Act, to appoint [...]ies and places within the circuit of his collection, for the payment of the said Subsidie to him to bee made, and thereof to giue warning by Proclamation or other­wise, to all the Constables, or other persons or Inhabitants, hauing the chargs of the particular collections within the Ba­ronies, Cantreds, Hundreds, Parishes, Townes or other places by him or them limitted, to make payment for the said particular collection of euerie summe, as to them shall ap­pertaine. And if at that same day, and place so limitted and prefixed by the said High Collector, the said Consta­bles, Officers, or other persons or Inhabitants, as is a­foresaid, for the said particular collection assigned and ap­pointed within such Baronie, Cantred, Hundred, Eyttie-Towne, or other place, doe not pay vnto the said high Col­lectors, the summe within their seuerall Baronies, Cantreds Hundreds, Townes, Parishes and other places due and comprised within the said estreat thereof, to them deliuered by the said Commissioners [...], some of them as is aforesaid, or somuch thereof as they haue by and [...]aues receaued, two pence for euerie pound, for the said particular collection as is aforesaid, alwaies thereof to bee allowed excepted and abated, that then it shalbe lawfull to the said High Collec­tors and euerie of them, and to their assignes to distraine euerie of the said Constables, Officers and other Inhabi­tants, for their said seuerall and particular collection, of the said summes comprised in the said estreat, and writing there­of to them, and euerie of them as is before expressed, deli­uered, or for so much of the same summe, as so then shall happen to bee gathered and leauied, and bee behinde and vn­payd by the Goods and Chattels of euerie of them, so being behinde and vnpaid: And the distresse so taken to bee kept, and appraised, and sould, as is aforesaid, and thereof to take and leauie the summes, so then being, behinde and vnpaid, and the ouerplus comming of the sale of the said distresse, if any bee to bee restored and deliuered vnto the owner in forme aboue remembred.

Prouided alwaies, and bee it enacted by the authority afore­said, that no person or persons shalbe nominated or appointed to bee High Collector or Collectors for the second payment of the said Subsidie graunted by this Act, which before that time [Page]hath beene a Collector or Collectors, for the [...] payment of any p [...]t of the said [...] person or persons so to [...] and appointed to bee High Collector or Collec­tors for the said second payment, doe first shewe forth before h [...], or the in, by whome hee shalbe so nominated and appoin­ted his quietus est for his discharge of his collection, before ap­pointed to his charge, vppon paine of one hundred pounds to bee paid and forfeited by him or them, that so shall nomi­nate, and appoint any such Collector contrary to this pre­sent Act.

And it is also by the said authority enacted, that if any Inhabitants or Officers, or whatsoeuer person or persons char­ged, to and for the collection and Receipt, of any part or por­tion of the said Subsidie, by any manner of meanes, accor­ding to this Act, or any person or persons, for themselues or as keeper, Guardian, Deputie, Factor, or Arturney, of or for any person or persons of any Goods, or Chattels of the owner thereof, at the tune of the said assessing to bee paid, being out of this Realme, or in any other part not knowen, or of and for the Goods and Chattels of any other person or persons of any Corporation, Fraternitie, Mysterie or other whatsoeuer Commonaltie being corporate or not corporate, and all per­sons hauing in their rule gouernance, and custodie, any Goods or Chattels, at the time of the said assessings, or any of them to bee made, or which for any cause for and by collec­tion or for himselfe, or for any other, or by reason that he hath the rule, Gouernance, or custodie, of any Goods or Chattels of any other person or persons, Corporation, Commonaltie, Fraternitie, Guild, or Mysterie, or any such other like, or as Factor, Debitor or Arturney, of or for any person shal­bee taxed, valued, tared, and set to any summe or summes by reason of this Act, and after the taxation and assessing vppon any such person or persons, as shalbe charged with the Receipt of the same, happen to die, or depart from the place where hee was so taxed and set, or his Goods and Chattels bee so estoyned, or in such priuie or couert manner kept, as the said person or persons, charged with the same by the estreats or other writing from the said Commissioners, or as many of them as shalbe therevnto appointed by the said Commission as is aforesaid, can nor may leauy the same summe or summes comprised to th [...] the said estreats, by distresse within the limits of their collection as is aforesaid, or cannot sell such distresse [Page 10]or distresses as bee taken for any of the said pa [...]its, before the time limitted, to the High Collector for the pay­ment to bee made in the Kings Maiesties Receipt, then vp­pon relation thereof with due examination, by the oath or exa­mination of such person or persons, as shalbe charged with and for the Receipt and collection of the same before the said Commissioners, or as many of them as by the said Com­mission, shalbe therevnto appointed, where such person or persons, or other as is aforesaid, their Goods and Chattels, were set and taxed: And vppon plaine certificate thereof made into the Kings Maiesties Exchecquer, by the same Commissioners, as well of the dwelling place, names and sum­mes of the said persons, of whome the same summes cannot bee leauied, and had as is aforesaid, then as well the Consta­bles, and other Inhabitants, appointed for the same particu­lar collection, against the High Collectors, as the High Collec­tor, vppon his accoumpt and oath, in the said Exchecquer, to bee discharged thereof, and processe to bee made for the Kings Maiestie out of the same Exchecquer by the discretions of the Barons of the same Exchecquer against such person his heires or executors, so being behinde with his payment, and ouer, that the same Commissioners, to whome any such declaration of the premises shalbe made, in forme aforesaid, from time to tune shall haue full power and authority, to direct their Precept or Precepts, to the said person or persons, charged with any summe, of, for, and vppon any such person and persons, or other as is aforesaid, or to any Shiriffe, Steward, Bailife or other whatsoeuer Officer, Minister, person or persons of such place or places, where any such person or persons, so owing any such summe or summes, shall haue Land and Tenements or other Hereditaments, or reall possessions, Goods and Chat­tels, whereby any such person or persons so indebted, his heires executors or assignes, or other hauing the custodie, go­uernance or disposition of any Goods, Chattels, Lands, Te­nements, or other Hereditaments, which ought or may by this Act, lawfully bee distrained or taken for the same, hath and shall haue Goods, Chattels, Lands, Tenements, or other possessions, whereof such summe and summes, which by any such person or persons, may or ought to bee leauied, be it within the limits of such Commission, where such person or persons was or were taxed, or without, in any place within this Realme of Ireland, by which Precept as well such person or persons shalbe charged to leauy such money as the Officer of the place [Page]or places, where such distresse may bee taken, shall haue full power and authority to distraine euerie such person indebted, charged, or chargeable by this Act, or his executors or admi­nistrators of his goods and Chattels, his Guardians, Factors, Deputies, Lessees, Farmers, and assignes, and all other persons, by whose hands, or out of whose lands, any such person should haue, Fee, Rent, Annuitie, or other profitt, or which at the time of the said assessing, shall haue Goods, or Chattels, or any other thing mooueable of any such person, or persons, being indebted, or owing such summe, and the distresses so taken, cause to bee kept, appraised, and sould in like manner, and forme as is aforesaid, for the distresse to be taken, vpon such persons to be taxed, to the said Subsidie, and being sufficient to distraine within the limitts of the Collectors, inhabitants, or other Officers charged with or for the said summes, so vpon them to bee taxed. And if any such distresse, for non payment hap­pen to bee taken, out of the limits of the said persons, char­ged and assigned, to leauy the same, the person so charged for the leauying of any such summes by distresse, shall perceaue and take of the same distresse, for the labor of euerie such per­son going for the execution thereof, for euerie mile that any such person so laboreth for the same two pence: And euerie Far­mer, Tenant, Guardian, Factor, or other whatsoeuer per­son being distramed, or otherwise charged for payment of any such summe, or summes, or any other summe, by reason of this Act, shalbe of such summe or summes, of him or them, so lea­uied and taken, acquited and discharged at his next day of pay­ment of the same, or at the deliuery of such Goods and Chat­tels, as hee that is so distrained, had in his custodie or go­uernance, against him or them, that shalbe so taxed and set. Any graunt, or writing obligatory or other whatsoeuer matter to the contrarie made, heretofore notwithstanding. And if any such person that should bee so distrained haue no Lands or Te­nements sufficient, whereby hee and his Tenants and Far­mers may bee distrained, or haue aliened, eloyned, or hid his Goods and Chattels, whereby hee should or might bee di­strained, in such manner that such Goods and Chattels should not bee knowen or found, so that the summe of, or by him to bee paid in the said forme, shall not, ne can bee conuenient­ly leauied, then vppon relation thereof to the Commissioners, or to as many of them, as by the said Commission shalbe there­vnto appointed, where such person or persons were taxed and set, by the oathes of him or them, that shalbe charged with [Page 11]the leauying and payment of that summe or summes, the same Commissioners shall make a Precept in such manner as is aforesaid, for to attach, take and arrest, the body of such per­son or persons, that ought to pay the said summes, and by this Act, shalbe charged with, and for the said summe or summes, and them so taken safely to keepe in prison within the Coun­tie, or other place where any such person or persons shalbe taken and attached, there to remaine without bayle or main­prise, vntill hee hath paid the said summe or summes, that such person for himselfe, or for any other by this Act, shalbe chargeable, or ought to bee charged withall, and also for the Fees of euerie such arrest, to him or them that shall execute such Precept, twenty pence, and that euery Officer to whome such Precept shalbe directed, doe his due diligence and exe­cute the same, vpon euerie person so being indebted, vpon paine to forfeit to the Kings Maiestie, for euerie default in that be­halfe, twenty shillings, and that no keeper of any Goale, from his Goale suffer any such person to goe at large, by letting to bayle or otherwise to depart out of his prison, before he hath payd his said debt, and the said twenty pence for the said ar­rest, vpon paine to forfeit to the Kings Maiestie forty shil­lings, and the same Goaler, to pay to the Kings Maiestie, the double value, as well of the rate, which the said person so imprisoned, was taxed at, as of the said twenty pence, for the Fees, and like processe and remedy, in like forme shalbe graun­ted by the said Commissioners, or as many of them, as by the said Commission shalbe therevnto appointed, at like infor­mation of euery person, or persons, being charged with any summe of money, for any other person or persons, by reason of the said Subsidie, and not thereof payd, but wilfully with­drawen, nor the same leuiable within the limitts, where such persons were therevnto taxed. And if the summe or summes, being behinde and vnpaid, by any person or persons as is afore­said, bee leauied and gathered by force of the said processe, to bee made by the said Commissioners, or if in default or for lacke of payment thereof, the person or persons so owing the said summes of money, by processe of the same Commissioners to bee made as is aforesaid, bee committed to prison in forme aboue said, that then the said Commissioners which shall ad­warde such processe, shall make certificate thereof, in the said Exchecquer, of that shalbe done in the premises, in the tearme next following, after such summe or summes so being behinde, shalbe leauied and gathered, or such person or persons, for non [Page]payment of the same, comitted to prison. And if it happen any of the said Collectors, to bee assigned, or any Mayors, Shi­riffs, Stewards, Constables, Bayliffs or any other Officer, or Minister, or other whatsoeuer person or persons, to disobey the said Commissioners, or any of them in the reasonable request to them made by the said Commissioners, for the execution of of the said Commission, or if any of the Officers, or other per­sons doe refuse, that to them shall appertaine, or belong to do by reason of any Precept to him or them to bee directed, or any reasonable commaundement, instance, or request touching the premises, or other default in any apparance or collection, to make: Or if any person being suspected, not bee indiffe­rently taxed, as is aforesaid, doe refuse to bee examined ac­cording to the Tenor of this Act, before the said Commis­sioners, or as many of them as shalbe therevnto assigned as is aforesaid, or will not appeare before the same Commissio­ners, vppon warning to him made, or else make resistance, or refuse, vpon any distresse vpon him to bee taken, for any par­cells of the said Subsidie, or committ any misbehauiour in any manner of wise contrary to this Act, or committ any wil­full omission, or other whatsoeuer wilfull doing or misdoing, contrarie to the Tenor of this Act or Graunt, the same Com­missioners, and enerie number of them aboue remembred, or two of them at the least, vpon probable knowledge of any such misdemeanors, had by information or examination, shall and may set vpon euerie such offendor, for euery such offence in the name of afine by the same offendor to bee forseited, forty shillings or vnder, by the discretion of the same Commissio­ners: And further the same Commissioners, and euerie num­ber of them, or two of them at the least shall haue authority by this present Act, to punish euerie such offendor by impri­sonment there to remaine, and to bee deliuered by their dis­cretion, as shall seeme to them conuenient, the said Fines (if any such bee) to bee certified by the said Commissioners that so assessed the same into the said Kings Maiesties Exchecquer there to be leuied and paid by the Collectors of that part of the said Subsidie, returned into the said Exchecquer, to be there­with charged, with the payment of the said Subsidie, in such manner, as if the said Fines, had beene set and taxed, vpon the said offendors for the said Subsidie.

And it is also enacted by the said authority of this pre­sent Parliament, that euery of the said High Collectors, which shall accoumpt for any part of the said Subsidie, in the said [Page 12]Exchecquer, vpon their seuerall accoumpts to be yeelded, shal­bee allowed at euer [...] of the said payments, of the said Subsi­die, for euerie pound limitted to his collection, whereof any such. Collector, shalbe charged and yeeld accoumpt, sixe pence, as par­cell of his or their charge, that is to say, of euerie pound there­of such persons, as then haue had the particular collection of the Townes, and other places, as is aforesaid, specified in his collection two pence, and other two pence of euerie pound thereof, euerie of the said chiefe Collectors, or their accoump­tants, to retaine to their owne vse, for their labour and charge in and about the premises, and two pence of euerie pound residne to bee deliuered, allowed and paid by the said Collectors so being thereof allowed, to such of the Commissioners as shall take vppon them the busines and labour, for and about the premises, that is to say, euerie Collector to pay that Com­missioner or Commissioners which had the ordering of the wri­tings, of and for the said Subsidie, where the said Collector or Collectors, had their collection, for the expences for the said Commissioners, so taking vppon them the said busines, and labour of their Clarks writing of the said Precepts and ex­tracts of the said collections, the sanie last two pence of euery pound to bee deuided amongst the said Commissioners, hauing regard to their labour and busines taken by them and their said Clarks, in and about the premises, for which part so to the Commissioners appertaining, the said Commissioners, Sixe, Fiue, Foure, Three, or Two, or as many of them as shalbe therevnto appointed by the Kings Maiesties Commission, and euerie of them ioyntly and seuerally, for his and their said part, may haue his remedie against the said Collector or Collectors, which thereof beene or might haue beene allowed by action of debt, in the which the defendant shall not wage his law, nei­ther protection, neither iniunction, or essoyne shalbe allowed, and that no person now being of the number of the Compa­ny of this present Parliament, nor any Commissioner shalbe named or assigned to bee any Collector or Subcollector or presenter of the said Subsidies, or any part thereof, nor any Commissioners shalbe compelled to make any presentment or certificate, other then into the Kings Maiesties said Ex­checquer, of, for or concerning the said Subsidie, or any part or parcell thereof: And likewise that no other person that shal­be named and assigned to bee Commissioner in any place to and for the execution of this Act of Subssdie, bee or shalbe assigned or named Head-collector, of any of the payments of [Page]the said Subsidie, neither of any part thereof, and that euery such person or persons which shalbe named and appointed, as is aforesaid, to bee Head-collectors of and for the first pay­ment of the said Subsidie, and collection thereof, or of any part thereof, shall not bee compelled to bee Collector for the second payment of the said Subsidie, nor for any part thereof and the said Collectors which shalbe assigned for the collec­tion of the said Subsidie, or any part thereof, and euerie of them, bee and shalbe acquitted and discharged, of all manner Fees, Rewards, and of euerte other charges in the Kings Ma­iesties Exchecquer or else where, of them or any of them by reason of that collection, payments or accoumpts, or any thing concerning the same to bee asked: And that if any person re­ceaue or take any Fees, Rewards or pleasures, of any such accoumptant, or vse any vnnecessary delay in their accoumpt that then hee shall forfeit vnto the Kings Maiestie, for euerie penny or value of euerie penny or penny-worth, so taken fiue shillings, and fiue pounds to the partie grieued, for euerie such delay and suffer imprisonment, at the Kings Maiesties plea­sure, and after euerie taxing and assessing of the said Subsi­die, as is aforesaid, had or made, and the said estreats there­of in parchment vnto the Collector, in manner and forme be­fore rehearsed deliuered, the said Commissioners, which shall take vppon them the execution of this Act within the limitts of their Commission by their agreements, shall haue meetings together, at which meeting euerie of the said Commissioners which then shall haue taken vppon them the execution of any part of the said Commission, shall by himselfe or his sufficient Deputie, truely certifie, and bring forth vnto the said Com­missioners named in the said Commission, the certificate and presentment made before him, and such other Commissioners as were limitted with him in one limitt, so that the same cer­tificate may bee accounpted and cast, with th'other certificats of th'other limits within the same Commission, and then the said Commissioners and euerie number of them, vnto two at the least as is aforesaid, if any bee in life, or their executors or administrators of their goods if they then bee dead, shall ioyntly and seuerally as they were deuided in their limits, vn­der their Seales by their discretion, make one or seuerall wri­tings indented, containing in it as well the names of the said Collectors, by the Commissioners for such collection and ac­counpts in the Exchecquer, and payments in the same Re­ceipt deputed and assigned, as the grosse and seuerall summes [Page 13]written vnto euerie such Collectors to receaue the said Sub­sidie, and also all fines amerciaments, and other forfeitures, if any such by reason of this Act, happen to bee within the Precinct and limitt of their Commission, to bee certified into the Kings Maiesties said Exchecquer by the said Commis­sioners, in which writing or writings, indented so to bee cer­tified, shalbe plainely declared and expressed, the whole and entire summe or summes of the said Subsidies, seuerally li­mitted to the collection of the said Collectors seuerally, depu­ted and assigned to the collection of the said summes, so that none of the said Collectors so certified in the said Exchecquer, shalbe compelled there to accoumpt or to bee charged, but one­ly to and for the summes limitted to his collection, and not to and for any summe limitted to the collection of his fellowes, but euerie of them shalbe seuerally charged for their part li­mitted to their collection: And if the said Commissioners ioyned in one Commission amongst themselues in that mat­ter cannot agree, or if any of them bee not ready or refuse to make certificate with other of the same Commissioners, that then the said Commissioners, may make seuerall Indentures in forme aforesaid, of their seuerall limits or separations of Collectors, within the limitts of their Commission vpon and in the Baronies, Cantreds, or such other like deuisions with­in the said seuerall limitts of their Commission, as the places there shall require to bee seuered and deuided, and as to the same Commissioners shall seeme good to make deuisions of their limitts or Collections, for the seuerall charges of the same Collectors, so that alway one Collector, shalbe charged and accoumpt for his part to him to bee limitted onely by himselfe, and not for any summe limitted to the part of any of his fel­lowes, and the charges of euerie of the Collectors, to bee set and certified seuerally vppon them: And euerie such Collec­tor, vppon his accoumpt and payment of the summe of mo­ney limitted within his collection, to bee seuerally by himselfe acquitted and discharged in the said Exchecquer, without paying any manner of Fees or rewardes, to any person or persons for the same, vppon paine and penaltie last aboue­said, and not to bee charged for any portion of any other col­lector, and if any Commissioner after he hath taken certificate of them, that as is aforesaid shalve lefore any such Commis­sioners examined, and the summes rated and set, and the Books & writings thereof being in his hands, or if any Collector [Page]or other person charged with any Receipt of any part of the said Subsidie, or any other person taxed, or otherwise by this Act charged, with or for any parcell of the said Subst­die, or with any other summe. Fine, amerciament, penaltie, or other forfeiture, happen to die before the Commissioners, Collectors, or other whatsoeuer person or persons haue exe­cuted, accomplished, satissied or sufficiently discharged, that which to euerie such person shall appertaine, or belong to doe according to this Act, then the executors and heires of eue­rie such person, and all other seissed of any Lands and Ce­nements, that any such person being charged by this Act, and deceasing before hee be discharged thereof, or any other to his vse onely had of estate of inheritance, at the time that any such person was named Commissioner, Collector, or otherwise charged with or for any manner of thing to bee done, satis­fied or payd by reason of this Act, and all those that haue in their possessions or hands, any Goods, Chattels, Leases, or other things that were to any person or persons, at the time of his death, or any Lands or Tenements that were to the same persons, at the time hee was, as is aforesaid, charged by this Act, shalve by the same compelled and charged, to doe and accomplish in euerie Case, as the same person so being charged, should haue done or might haue beene compelled to doe it hee had beene [...] pla [...]e life, after such rate of the Lands and Goods of the said Commissioner or Collector, as the partie shall haue in his hands, and if the said Commissio­ners for causes reasonable them moueing, shall thinke it not conuenient to ioyne in one certificate as is aforsaid: Then the said person or persons that shall first ioyne together, or hee that shall first certifie the said writing indented, as is aforesaid, shall certifie all the names of the Commissioners of that Commission, wherevppon such writing shalbe there then to bee certified, with deuision of the Baronies, Cantreds, Hundreds, Tythings and other places, to and among such Commissioners of the same Commission, with the names of the same Commissioners where such separations and deuisi­ons shalbe, with the grosse summes of money, as well of and for the said Subsidie taxed or set, of or within the said Ba­ronies, Cantreds, Hundreds, Tythings or other places to him or them deuided or assigned, that shall so certifie the said first writing, as of the Fines amerciaments, penalties & other forfeitures, if any happen to bee within the same limits, where­of [Page 15]the same writings shaide certi [...]ed, and after such writing indented, which as is aforesaid shalbe certified, and not con­taine in it the whole and full summes set and taxed within the limits of the said Commission, the other Commissioners of the same before the day of payment of the said Subsidie, shall certifie into the said Exchecquer, by their writing or writings indented to bee made as is aforesaid, the grosse and seuerall summes set and taxed within the places to them li­mitted, for the said Subsidie, and other Fines, amerciaments, penalties, and forfeitures, with the names of the Baronies, Cantreds, Hundreds, Tythings and other places to them as­signed, or else by their said writings indented, to certifie at the same place before the same day of payment, such reason­able causes for their excuses, whie they may not make such certificate, of and for the said Subsidies, Fines, amercia­ments, and other causes growing or set, by reason of the cau­ses of their lets, or of their not certifying as is aforesaid, or else in default thereof processe to bee made out of the Kings Maiesties said Exchecquer, against the said Commissioners, and euerie of them, not making certificate as is aforesaid, by the discretion of the Treasurer and Baruns of the said Ex­checquer.

Prouided alwaies, and bee it further enacted by the autho­rity aforesaid, that all and euerie person and persons, hauing Mannors, Lands, Tenements and other Hereditaments chargeable to the payment of the said Subsidie, graunted to the Kings Maiestie by this Act, and also hauing spirituall possessions chargeable to his said Maiestie, by the graunt made by the Cleargie of this Realme in their conuocation, and ouer this hauing substance in Goods, and Chattels, charge­able by this sayd Act, that then if any of the said person or per­sons be hereafter charged or assessed, and taxed for the said Mannors, Lands and Tenements and spirituall possessions, and also assessed charged and taxed, for his and their Goods and Chattels, that then hee or they shalbe onely charged by vertue of this Act, for his and their said Mannors, Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments and spirituall possessions, or ene­ly for his said Goods and Chattels, the best thereof to bee taken for the Kings Maiestie and not to bee charged for both, or double charged for any of them. Any thing in this Act con­tained to the contrarie, in any wise notwithstanding.

Prouided alwaies, that this graunt of Subsidie or any [Page]thing therein contained in any wise extend not, to charge the Prouost, fellowes and schollers, of the Colledge of the holie Trinitie neere Dublin, nor any Mannors, Lands, Tene­ments, or other possessions, Goods, Chattells or other moue­able substance, which the said Prouost fellowes & schollers, or any others to their vse, haue within this Realme of Ireland. Any thing in this present Act, to the contrarie in any wise notwithstanding.

Prouided alwaies, and bee it enacted by the authoritie aforesaid, that no Orphant or Infant within the age of twen­ty and one yeares, borne within any the Kings Maiesties Dominions, shalbe charged to any payment of this Subsidy for his or her Goods and Chattels to him or her left or be­queathed: Any thing in this Act contained to the contrarie notwithstanding.

Prouided neuerthelesse, and bee it enacted by the autho­ritie aforesaid that if any Alien or Stranger borne, Denizen or not Denizen, and dwelling or inhabiting within this Realme of Ireland, shall assigne or conuay ouer vnto any his or their Childe or Children borne within this said Realme of Ireland any his or their Lands, Tenements, Goods and Chattels to the intent thereby to defraud the Kings Maiestie of his said Subsidie of or for the same, that then all and euerie such Child or Children, so being seised of any such Lands and Tenements, or possessed of any such Goods or Chat­tels, shalbe charged and chargeable, to and with the payment of double the said Subsidie for the same Lands Tenements, Goods and Chattels at the said rates and values as Aliens and Strangers Denizens or not Deni­zens are before limitted and appointed to pay.