# Poll Tax Act 1688, Section V: Rates of Payment by Peers, &c.


Dukes resident in the Kingdom, £50; Marquesses, £40.; Earls, £30; Viscounts, £25.; Barons, £20.; Eldest Sons of Dukes of 16 Years, £30.; Younger Sons, £25.; Eldest Sons of Marquesses, £25.; Younger Sons, £20.; Younger Sons £15.; Eldest Sons Viscounts, £17. 10s.; Younger Sons, £13. 6s. 8d.; Eldest Sons of Barons, £12.; Baronets, £15.; Knights of the Bath, £15; Knights Bachelors, £10.; King's Serjeant, £20; Serjeants at Law, £15.; Esquires, £5; Gentlemen, 20s.; Widow to pay the Third Part of Rate on her late Husband's Degree.
And bee it further Enacted and Ordained That all and every Person and Persons who at the Time of the Execution of this Act shall be of the severall Ranks and Degrees hereafter mentioned shall to the purpose aforesaid Contribute and Pay the severall Summes of Money hereafter in this Act sett downe and appointed That is to say Every Person of the Degree of a Duke of England Scotland or Ireland Inhabiting and Resideing within this Kingdome of England shall pay the Summe of Fifty pounds Every Person of the Degree of a Marquesse of any of the said Three Kingdomes Inhabiting and Resideing within this Kingdome shall pay the Summe of Forty pounds Every Person of the Degree of an Earle of any of the said Three Kingdoms and Inhabiting and Resideing within this Kingdome shall pay the Summe of Thirty pounds Every Person of the Degree of a Viscount of any of the Three Kingdoms and Inhabiting and Resideing within this Kingdome shall pay the Summe of Twenty five pounds Every Person of the Degree of a Baron of any of the said Three Kingdoms and Inhabiting and Resideing within this Kingdome shall pay the Summe of Twenty pounds Every eldest Sonne of a Duke of any of the said Three Kingdomes and Inhabiting and Resideing within this Kingdome being of the Age of Sixteene yeares shall pay the Summe of Thirty pounds Every younger Sonne of a Duke of the said Three Kingdomes and Inhabiting and Resideing within this Kingdome being of the Age of Sixteene yeares the Summe of Twenty five pounds Every eldest Sonne of a Marquesse of any of the said Three Kingdomes and Inhabiting and Resideing within this Kingdome being of the Age of Sixteene yeares the Summe of Twenty five pounds Every younger Sonne of a Marquesse of any of the said Three Kingdomes and Inhabiting and Resideing within this Kingdome being of the Age of Sixteene yeares the Summe of Twenty pounds Every eldest Sonne of an Earle of any of the said Three Kingdomes and Inhabiting and Resideing within this Kindome being of the Age of Sixteene yeares the Summe of Twenty pounds Every younger Sonne of an Earle of any of the said Three Kingdomes and Inhabiting or Resideing within this Kingdome being of the Age of Sixteene yeares the Summe of Fifteene pounds Every eldest Sonne of a Viscount within any of the said Three Kingdomes and Inhabiting or Resideing within this Kingdome being of the Age of Sixteene yeares the Summe of Seaventeene pounds ten shillings Every younger Sonne of a Viscount of any of the said three Kingdomes and Inhabiting and Resideing within this Kingdome being of the Age of Sixteene yeares the Summe of Thirteene pounds six shillings eight pence Every eldest Sonne of a Baron of any of the said Three Kingdomes Inhabiting and Resideing within this Kingdome being of the Age of Sixteene yeares the Summe of Fifteene pounds Every younger Sonne of a Baron of any of the said Three Kingdomes and Inhabiting and Resideing within this Kingdome being of the Age of Sixteene yeares the Summe of Twelve pounds Every Person of the Degree of a Baronet of any of the said Three Kingdomes or Nova Scotia and Inhabiting and resideing within this Kingdome the Summe of Fifteene pounds Every person that is a Knight of the Order of the Bath Inhabiting and Resideing within this Kingdome the Summe of Fifteene Pounds Every Person who is a Knight Batchelor Inhabiting and Resideing within this Kingdome the Summe of Ten pounds Every Serjieant at Law being the Kings Serjieant the Summe of Twenty pounds And every other Serjieant at Law the Summe of Fifteene pounds Every Person of the Degree of an Esquire or soe reputed or owning or writeing himselfe such Inhabiting or Resideing within this Kingdome and being of the Age of Sixteene yeares the Summe of Five pounds Every Gentleman or reputed Gentleman or owning or writeing himselfe such above the Age of Sixteene yeares Inhabiting or Resideing in this Kingdome the Summe of Twenty shillings Every Widow respectively according to her Husbands Degree shall pay the third part Rated by this Act on that Degree of which the Husband of such Wife was in his Lifetime.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/WillandMar/1/13/section/V (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/poll-tax-act-1688/section-V
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