{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/subsidy-act-1640/section-II",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/subsidy-act-1640/section-II.json",
  "legislation": "aep/Cha1/16/29",
  "legislation_title": "Subsidy Act 1640",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/subsidy-act-1640",
  "path": "section/II",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "II",
  "heading": "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. 6s. 8d.; 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.",
  "text": "And further the said Commons by the assent advice and authority aforesaid doe give and graunt unto you our said leige Lord Our Soveraigne for the causes aforesaid One other subsidy that is to say of every Merchant borne Denizen of and for every sacke of Wooll thirty three shillings foure pence and of and for every two hundred and forty Woolfells thirty three shillings foure 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 quantity for any the same merchandize more or lesse And of every Merchant stranger not borne denizen of and for every sacke of Wooll three pounds six shillings eight pence and of and for every two hundred forty Woolfells three pounds six shillings eight pence and for every Last of Hides & Backs three pounds thirteene shillings foure pence and so of all the said Woolls Woolfells Hides and Backs and every of them after the rate and such other su[m]mes of money as have beene 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 Memory and which were continued and paid att the begining of this present Parliament To have take enjoye and perceive the Subsidies aforesaid and other the foremenc[i]oned su[m]mes and every of them and every part and parcell of them to you our said leige Lord and Soveraigne from the last day of January One thousand six hundred forty one to the five and twentieth day of March next ensuing",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha1/16/29/section/II",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:38:22.163861+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}