{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-no-3-act-1688/section-III",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-no-3-act-1688/section-III.json",
  "legislation": "aep/WillandMarSess2/1/1",
  "legislation_title": "Taxation (No. 3) Act 1688",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-no-3-act-1688",
  "path": "section/III",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "III",
  "heading": "Manors, &c. to pay 2s. in the Pound for One Year.",
  "text": "Persons, Bodies Politic and Corporate, Guilds, &c. Corporate or not Corporate, holding Lands, &c. to pay 2s. in the Pound at their full present yearly Value at a Rack Rent; without Respect to former Rates, or Allowance for Repairs, &c.; Assessment paid Quarterly into the Exchequer.\nAnd to the end a further Aide and Supplie for Their Majestyes Occasions may be Raised by a Charge upon all Lands Tenements and Hereditaments with as much Equality and Indifferencie as is possible by a Pound-Rate of Two Shillings for every Twenty Shillings of the true Yearely Value for One Yeare onely and noe longer Bee it further enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid That all and every Mannours Messuages Lands and Tenements as alsoe all Quarries Mines of Coale Tin or Lead Iron Works Salt-Springs and Salt Works all Allom Mines or Works All Parks Chases Warrens Woods Underwoods Coppices and all Fishings Tythes Tolls Annuities and all other yearely Profitts and all Hereditaments of what Nature or Kinde soever they be Scituate Lying Being Happening or Ariseing within the Kingdome of England Dominion of Wales or Towne of Berwicke upon Tweede or within any the Counties Cities Burroughs Townes Divisions Rideings Hundreds Lathes Wapentakes Parishes and Places thereof as well within Auntient Demesne and other Liberties and Priviledged Places as without shall be and are hereby Charged for One Yeare onely and noe longer with the Summe of Two shillings for every Twenty shillings of the full yearely Value and soe in proportion for any greater or lesser Value And all and every Person and Persons Bodies Politick and Corporate Guilds Misteries Fraternities and Brotherhoods whether Corporate or not Corporate Haveing or Holding any Mannours Messuages Lands Tenements Hereditaments or other the Premisses shall yield and pay unto Their Majesties the Summe of Two shillings for every Twenty shillings by the yeare which the said Mannours Messuages Lands Tenements Hereditaments and other the Premisses are now worth to be Leased if the same were truely and bona fide Leased or Demised at a Racke Rent and according to the full true Yearely Value thereof without any respect had to the present Rents reserved for the same if such Rents have beene reserved upon such Leases or Estates made for which any Fine or Income hath beane paid or secured or have beene lessened or abated upon Consideration of Money laid out or to be laid out in Improvements And without any respect had to any former Rates or Taxes thereupon Imposed or makeing any Abatement in respect of Reparations Taxes Parish Dutyes or any other Charges whatsoever Which said Summe of Two shillings for every Twenty shillings by the Yeare of the said true yearely value of the Premisses shall be Assessed Levyed and Collected in manner hereafter mentioned and shall be paid into the Receipt of Their Majestyes Exchequer by Foure Quarterly Payments The first Payment thereof to be made upon the Five and Twentyeth day of March which shall be in the Yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred and ninety.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/aep/WillandMarSess2/1/1/section/III",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:26:46.277072+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."
}