# Taxation (No. 2) Act 1627, Section XX: Rates estreated under the Sign Manual and Seals of Commissioners; and Estreats delivered to Sufficient Inhabitants, &c. of Hundreds, &c.


By virtue of Estreat Officers, &c.; to levy Rate.; Distress.; If Rate not paid in Eight Days, then Distress appraised and sold.; Officers, &c. to answer for the Portion limited to them only.; Allowance to Officers on Rate recovered.
And be it further enacted by the authoritie aforesaid, That after the Taxes and assesses of the said so[m]mes uppon and by the said assessing and certificate as is aforesaid made, the said Co[m]missioners or as many of them as shalbe thereunto appointed and have authoritie by the Kings Majesties Co[m]mission shall with all speed and without delay by their writing estreate the said taxes thereof under the Seales and Signes Manual of the said Co[m]missioners or as many of them as shalbe appointed at the least; And the same shall deliver unto sufficient and substanciall Inhabitants Constables Subconstables Bayliffes and other Officers joyntlie of Hundreds Townes Parishes and other places aforesaid within their lymitts and to other sufficient p[er]sons Inhabitants of the same onely by the discrecion of the Co[m]missioners with the assent of the high Collector and as the place and parties shall require aswell the particuler names and surnames as the remembrance of all so[m]mes of mony taxed and sett of and uppon every p[er]son as well man as woman chargeable by this Act Housholders and all other Inhabitants and dwellers within the said p[er]ishes Townes and places contributory to this Act of Subsidies: By authoritie of which writing and estreat soe delivered the said Officers and other p[er]sons soe named and deputed severally shall have full power and authoritie by vertue of this Act ymediatelie after the delivery of the said writing or estreat to demaund levy and gather of every p[er]son therein specified the so[m]me and so[m]mes in the same writing or estreat comprised and for non payment thereof to distreyne the same p[er]son or p[er]sons soe being behind by their goods and chattells and the distresse soe taken to keepe by the space of eight daies at the costs and chargs of the owner thereof And if the said owner doe not pay such so[m]me of money as shall be taxed uppon him or her by authoritie of this Acte within the same eight daies, then the same distresse to be appraised by foure three or two of the inhabitants where such distresse is taken, and alsoe then to be sold by the Constable or other Collector for the payment of the said mony and the overplus co[m]ming by the sale (if any be) over and besides the charge of keeping the said distresse to be imediatelie restored to the owner thereof, Which said Officers and other p[er]sons so deputed to aske take gather and levie the said so[m]mes shall aunswere and be charged for the porcion onelie to them assigned and lymitted to be gathered levied and comprised in the said writing or estreat soe to them as aforesaid delivered to the use of our Soveraigne Lord the Kings Majestie and his Heires and Successors, and the said so[m]me in that writing or Estreat to be comprised to pay unto the high Collector or Collectors of that place in manner and forme under written, thereunto to be named and deputed and the same Inhabitants and Officers so gathering the same particular so[m]mes for their colleccion thereof shall retaine for every twentie shillings so by them received and paid two pence, And that to be allowed at the payment of their colleccion by them to be made to the high Collector or Collectors.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/Cha1/3/8/section/XX (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-no-2-act-1627/section-XX
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