Section X Proviso for Persons having two Mansions, or being Houshold Servants or Waiting Servants to the King or others.

Persons unduly escaping Taxation,; on Proof thereof before Commissioners or Barons of the Exchequer,; taxed at Treble Value.

And be it ordained and enacted by the authority of this present parliament that no person having twoe Mansions or two places to resort unto or calling himselfe household Servant or waiting Servant to the Kings Majestie or other Lord or Lady Master or Mistres be excused upon his saying from the taxes of the said two Subsidies in neither of the places where he may be set or taxed unlesse he bring a Certificate in writing from the Commissioners where he is X1to set or taxed indeed at one place and if any person that ought to be set and taxed to these two present Subsidies by reason of his removeing or resorting to two places or by reason of his saying that he was else where taxed or by reason of any priviledge of his dwelling or abiding in any place not being foreprised in this Act or otherwise by his covin 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 taxations for the payment of the said twoe Subsidies or either of them and be not set and taxed according to the true intent of this Act and that proved by presentment examination information or otherwise before the said Commissioners or twoe of them or before the Barons of the Kings Majesties Exchequer or two Justices of Peace of that County where such person dwelleth then every such person that by such meanes or otherwayes willingly by covin or without just cause shall happen to escape from the said taxations or payments aforesaid or any of them and shall X2not be rated taxed and set shall be charged upon the knowledge and proofe thereof with and att the triple value of soe much as he should might or ought to have beene sett or taxed at by vertue of this Act and the same triple value to be leavyed gathered and paid of his Goods and Chattels Lands and Tenements towards the said Subsidies.