# Subsidy Act 1640, Section II: Merchant Denizen to pay, every Sack of Wool 33s. 4d. every 240 Woolfels 33s. 4d. every Last of Hides and Backs £3. 6s. 8d. and so in Proportion for every greater or less Quantity.


Merchant Strangers to pay, every Sack of Wool £3. 6. 8. every 240 Woolfels £3. 6s. 8d. every Last of Hides and Backs £3. 13s. 4d. and also certain Duties by Letters Patent, or Great or Privy Seal, since 1 Jac. I.
And further the said Commons by the advice assent and authoritie aforesaid Doe give and grant unto you our said liege Lord our Soveraigne for the causes aforesaid One other subsidie that is to say Of every Merchant born Denizen of and for every Sack of Wooll thirtie three shillings foure pence And of and for every two hundred and fourty Woolfels thirtie three shillings four pence And of and for every last of Hides and Backs three pounds six shillings eight pence and so after the same rate for every lesse or greater quantitie for any the same Merchandize more or lesse And of every Merchant Stranger not born denizen of and for every Sack of Wooll three pounds six shillings eight pence and of and for every two hundred fourtie Woolfels three pounds six shillings eight pence And for every last of Hides and Backs three pounds thirteene shillings foure pence and so of all the said Wools Woolfels Hides and Backs and of every of them after the rate And such other su[m]ms of Money as have been imposed upon any Merchandize either outward or inward by p[re]text of any Letters Patents Commission under the Great Seale of England or Privie Seale since the first yeare of the Reigne of his late Majestie King James of Blessed memorie And which were continued and paid at the begining of this present Parliament. To have take enjoy and perceive the Subsidies aforesaid and other the aforementioned su[m]ms and every of them and every part and parcell of them to you our said leige Lord and Soveraigne from the ninth day of August 1641. to the first day of December next ensuing

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha1/16/22/section/II (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/subsidy-act-1640-aep-cha116-22/section-II
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