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AN Act for the grant of one entire Subsidy by the Temporalty.  
DUBLIN. Imprinted by john Franckton Printer to the Kings most excellent Majesty Anno 1615.   

An Act for the grant of one entire Subsidy by the Temporalty.  
THis your majesties Realm of Ireland most dread and gracious Sovereign hath in former times been subject to so many miseries, as that it hath been a continual burden to the Crown of England without yielding any retribution or returning of any commodity or profit to the same. And albeit infinite Treasures have been from time to time expended in and upon this Kingdom, yet did it never thereby become more rich and wealthy, but continued in want and penury, as it was before: The true cause whereof did arise from the great and long dissensions and troubles which did waste and depopulate the whole Land, made all possessions uncertain, and disabled the Subjects to improve the commodities of the same: But forasmuch as since the beginning of your majesties most happy Reign, all the causes of war, dissension and discontentment, are taken away by the rooting out of many wicked and ungrateful Traitors, by receiving all the Irishry into your gracious Protection, by settling of your subjects estates in their Lands, by your Commissions for Surrendors, and defective Titles, by securing their lives, as well by general as particular Pardons, by remitting many great arrears of Rents mean profits, and forfeitures, by confirming and enlarging the Privileges of your Cities and Towns Corporate, by establishing the Circuits and visitations of justice throughout the Kingdom: And lastly by the Plantation of ulster with British Colonies, your Majesty now being in the absolute and peaceable possession of this your Vineyard, and having cleared it from the thorns and briars of Rebellion, fenced it as well with the Law as with the Sword, & planted it with so many Civil Subjects of England and Scotland, may now justly expect some fruit thereof: And therefore we your majesties most loyal and loving Subjects assembled in this present Parliament most gratefully acknowledging that we have received from your Majesty these inestimable benefits before expressed, do with all duty & humble affection present unto your Highness one entire Subsidy, most humbly beseeching your Majesty to accept thereof, as the first fruits of this your poor Kingdom of Ireland: and to that end we humbly beseech your Majesty that it may be enacted.  
And be it enacted by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that your Highness, your Heirs and Successors, shall have and receive one entire Subsidy to be rated, taxed levied and paid at two several and equal payments of every person Spiritual and Temporal, of what estate or degree he or they be, according to the Tenor of this Act in manner and form following.  
That is to say, as well that every person borne within this Realm, or other his majesties Dominions, as all and every Fraternity, Guild, Corporation, Mystery, brotherhood and Commonalty corporated or not corporated within this Realm, or other his majesties Dominions being worth three pounds, for every pound as well in Coin, and the value of every pound that every such person, Fraternity, Guild, Corporation, Mystery, brotherhood and Commonalty, corporate or not corporate, hath of his or their own, or any other to his or their use: As also Plate, stock of Merchandise, all manner of Corn, and Grain, household-stuff, and of all other goods movable as well within this Realm as without, and of all such sums of money as to him or them is or shallbe owing: whereof he or they trust in his or their conscience surely to be paid except and out of the premises deducted such sums of money as he or they own, and in his or their consciences intendeth truly to pay. And except also the apparel of every such person, their Wives and Children belonging to their own bodies, saving jewels, Gould, Silver, Stone and Pearl shall pay to and for the said Subsidy in two several payments two shillings eight pence of every pound, that is to say, sixteen pence of every pound at every of the said payments: And also every alien and Stranger, borne out of the King's obeisance, as well Denizen as others inhabiting within this Realm, of every pound that he or they shall have in Coin, and the value of every pound in Plate, Corn, Graine, Merchandise householdstuff, or other goods, jewests', Chattels, movable or unmonueable, as is aforesaid as well within this Realm as without, & of all sums of money to him or them owing, whereof he or they trust in his or their conscience to be paid, except and out of the same premises deducted, every such sum or sums of money, which he or they do owe, and in his or their conscience or consciences intent truly to pay, shall pay to and for the said Subsidy in two feveral payments five shillings and four pence of every pound, that is to say, two shillings eight pence of every pound, at every of the said payments: And also that every Alien, and Stranger borne out of the King's Dominions, being Denizen or not Denizen, not being contributory to any the Rates aforesaid, and being of the age of seven years or above, shall pay to and for the said Subsidy, eight pence for every Poll at two several payments, that is to say four pence for every Poll at every of the said payments: and the master or he or she with whom the said Alien is or shallbe abiding at the time of the taxation or taxations thereof, to be charged with the same for lack of payment thereof.  
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that every person borne under the King's obeisance, and every Corporation, Fraternity, Guild, Mystery, Brotherhood & Commonalty corporate or not corporate, for every pound that every of the said persons, and every Corporation, Fraternity, Guild, Mystery, Brotherhood, & Commonalty Corporate or not Corporate, or any other to his or their use hath in fee-simple, Fee-tail for term of life, term of years by execution, wardshipp, or by copy of Court Roll, of & in any Honours, Castles, Manors, Lands, Tenements, Rents, Services, Hereditaments, Annuities, Fees, Corrodies or other yearly profits of the yearly value of twenty shillings, as well within ancient demesne, and other places privileged as elsewhere, and so upward shall pay to and for the said Subsidy at two several payments four shillings of and for every pound, and every Alien Denizen or not Denizen borne o● of his majesties obeysane● in such case to pay to and for the said Subsidy, at two several equal payments eight ●●●llings of every pound: and that all summies to be presented and chargeable by this Act either for goods and debts, or either of them, or for lands and Tenements, and other the premises, as is in this Act contained, shallbe at every of the said payments set, and taxed after the Rate and proportion according to the true meaning of this Act, Lands and Tenements, chargeable to the twentieth part of the Clergy, and yearly wages due to Servants, for their yearly service (other than the King's Servants, taking yearly wages of five pounds or above only excepted, and foreprised: And that all Plate, Coin, jewels, goods Debts, and Chattels personals, and all Lands, Tenements, and other the premises as aforesaid, being in the rule and custody of any person or persons, to the use of any Corporation, Fraternity, Guild, Mystery, Brotherhood, or any Commonalty being Corporate or not Corporate, be and shallbe rated set, & charged by reason of this Act, at the value certified by the presenters of that certificate of every pound in goods and debts, as is abovesaid: And for every pound in Lands, Tenements, Annuities, Fees, Corrodies, and other yearly profits as is a foresaid: And the sums that are above rehearsed set, & taxed, to be levied and taxed of them that shall have such goods in custody or otherwise charged for lands as is before expressed: And the same person or persons, and body corporate, by authority of this Act shallbe discharged against him or them, that shall or aught to have the same at the time of the payment or delivery thereof, or at his otherwise departure from the custody or possession of the same (except and always forprised from the charge and Assessment of this Subsidy, all Goods, Chattels, jewels & Ornaments of Churches, or Chapels which have been ordained and used in Churches or Chapels for the honour and service of Almighty God. And the first payment of the said Subsidy shallbe by the authority aforesaid, taxed, sessed, and rated according to this Act: In every County, Barony, Cantred, City, Borough, Town and every other place within this Realm of Ireland, before the first day of September next coming which shallbe in the year of our Lord God one thousand six hundred & fifteen: And the second payment of the said Subsidy shall be by the authority aforesaid taxed, sessed, and rated according to this Act in every County Barony, Cantred, City, Borough, Town, and every other place within this Realm of Ireland, before the first day of March, which shallbe in the said year of our Lord God one thousand six hundred and fifteen, and the particular sums of every County, Barony, Cantred, City, Borough, Town, or other places aforesaid, with the particular names of such as are or shallbe chargeable for and to the first payment of the said Subsidy to be taxed and set by the Commissioners for the same to be limited, or two of them at the least, with the names of the High Collectors, and in the same form shallbe certified into the King's Exchequer, before the first day of October, which shallbe in the year of our Lord God, one thousand six hundred and fifteen, and the particular sums of every County, Barony, Cantred, City, Borough, Town or other places aforesaid, with the particular names of such as are or shallbe chargeable for and to the second payment of the said Subsidy to be taxed and set by the Commissioners for the same to be limited, or two of them at the least, with the names of the High Collectors, and in the same form shallbe certified into the King's Exchequer before the first day of April, which shallbe in the year of our Lord God, one thousand six hundred and sixteen: And the said sums in form aforesaid to be taxed to and for the first payment of the said Subsidy, shallbe paid in one entire sum into the Kings Receipt of his Exchequer aforesaid, to the use of our said Sovereign Lord, at or before the first day of December, which shallbe in the said year of our Lord God, one thousand six hundred and fifteen, and the said sums in manner and form aforesaid, to be taxed, to and for the second payment of the said Subsidy, shallbe paid in one entire sum einto the Receipt aforesaid, to the use aforesaid, at or before the first day of june, which shallbe in the year of our Lord God, one thousand six hundred and sixteen, and the sums aforesaid of and for the said Subsidy, shallbe taxed, set, asked, and demanded, taken, gathered, levied, and paid, to the use of our said Sovereign Lord, his heirs and successors, in form aforesaid, as well within the Liberties, Franchises, Sanctuaries, ancient Demesnes, and others whatsoever places, exempt or not exempt, as without. Any grant, Charter, Prescription, Use, Liberty, or Freedom, by any letters Patents, or other privileges, prescription, or allowance of the same, or whatsoever other matter of discharge, to the contrary heretofore made, used, granted or obtained notwithstanding.  
And it is further enacted by the authority of this present Parliament that every such person as well such as be borne under the King's obeisance, as every other person stranger borne, Denizen or not Denizen inhabiting within this Realm which at the time of the same Assessings or taxations, or of every of them to be had or made shallbe out of this Realm, & have goods, Chattels, lands or Tenements, Fees, or Annuities or other profits within this Realm shallbe charged and chargeable for the same by the certificate of the inhabitants of the place, where such Goods, Chattels Lands, Tenements or other the premises then shallbe, or in such other place, where such person or persons, or his or their factors, Deputy or Attorney, shall have their most resort unto within this Realm in like manner as if the said person were or had been at the time of the said Assessing within this Realm: And that every person abiding or dwelling within this Realm or without this Realm, shallbe charged or chargeable to the same Substdy granted by this Act, according and after the Rate of such yearly substance or value of Lands, or Tenements, Goods, Chattels and other the premises, as every person so to be charged shallbe set at the time of the said Assessing or taxation upon him to be made and none otherwise.  
And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that for the Assessing and ordering of the said Subsidy to be duly had the Lord deputy or other chief Governor of this Realm for the time being with th'advise of the Lord Chancellor, the Vice-Treasurer, the Lord Chief justice of his majesties chief place, the Lord Chief justice of his majesties Court of Common pleas, the Lord Chief Baron of his majesties Court of Exchequer, and the Maiester of the Rolls for the time being, or any two or more of them, shall or may name and appoint of and for every County or Shire within this Realm, as also of and for every City and Town being a County of itself, such and so many Persons as they shall think convenient to be Commissioners of and in the said several Counties Cities or Towns And aliso the said Lord Deputy or other Chief Governor with th'advise aforesaid, in like manner may name and appoint of every other such Bourough and Town Corporate within this Realm as they shall think requisite Six, Five Four, Three, or Two, of the Head Officers and other honest Inhabitants of every of the said Cities, boroughs and Towns Corporate according to the number & multitude of the people being in the same, the which Persons if any such be thereunto named of the said Inhabitants of the said boroughs, and Towns Corporate not being Counties of themselves shallbe toyn and put in as Commissioners with the persons named for every such County or Counties as the said boroughs, and Towns Corporate not being Counties by reason of their dwelling in the same, shall not take upon them, nor none of them, to put any part of their Commission in execution, for the premises, out of the said Cities, Bouroughes, and Townes-corporate wherein they be so named only, nor to execute the said Commission within the City, Bourough, or Towne-corporate where they be so dwelling, but at such days and times as the said other Commissioners, for the same Shire or County, shall thereunto limit and appoint within the said City, Bourough or Towne-corporate, not being a County, whereof they be so named, and not out of such City, Bourough, or Town: And in that manner to be aiding and assisting, with the said other Commissioners in and for the good executing of the effect of the said Commission, upon pain of every of the said Commissioners so named, for everte such City, Bourough, and Towne-corporate, not being a County, to make such Fine as the said other Commissioners in the Commission of and for the same Shire or County so named, or three of them at the least, shall by their discretion, s●t and certify into the King's Exchequer, there to be levied to the use of the King's Majesty, in like manner as if such or like sums had been set and rated upon every such person, for the said Subsidy, the which Commissioners so named of, and for the said Cities, Bouroughes, and Towns, not being Counties, and only put into the said Commission, by reason of their dwelling in the same, shall not have any part of the portion of the Fees and Rewards of the Commissioners, and their Clerks in this Act, afterwards specified and allowed: And the said Lord Chancellor of this Realm for the time being, shall make and 〈◊〉 of the Court of the Chancery under the great Seal several Commissions: That is to say, for every Shire, or County, and for each City, Town, and Brough unto such person and persons, as by his discretion, or any of the other with him before named, and appointed, as is before rehearsed, shallbe thought sufficient for the Assessing and and levying of the said Subsidy in all Shires & places according to the true meaning of this Act, which Commission for the first payment of the said Subsidy shallbe directed, and delivered to the said Commissioners, or to one of them before the first day of july, which shallbe in the year of our Lord God one thousand six hundred and fifteen, and the Commission for the second payment of the said Subsidy shallbe directed and delivered to the said Commissioners, or to one of them before the first day of januarie than next following, which shallbe in the said year one thousand six hundred and fifteen, and to every of the said Commissions ten Scheduls containing in them the Tenor of this Act shallbe affiled, by the which Commission the Commissioners in every such Commission named according to this Act, and as many of them as shallbe appointed by the said several Commissions shall have full power and authority to put th'effect of the same Commission in execution: And that by the authority of this Act, after such Commission to them directed they may by their assents, and agreements sever themselves for th'execution of their Commission in several Baronies, canters, Hundreds, towns, Parishes, and other places within the limits of the said Commission, in such form as to them shall seem expedient to be ordered, and between them to be communed and agreed upon according to the Tenor and effect of the Commission to them therein directed.  
And be it also enacted by the authority of this present Parliament that the Commissioners, and every of them which shallbe named limited and appointed, according to this Act to be Commissioners in every such Shire, or County, City, Town, Borough, or any other place, and no other, shall truly effectually and diligently for their part execute th'effect of this present Act according to the Tenor thereof, in every behalf, and no otherwise by any other means without omission, favour, dread, malice, or any other thing to be attempted or done by them or any of them to the contrary thereof. And the said Commissioners or as many of them as shallbe appointed by the said Commission, and none other for the execution of the said Commission and Act, shall for the taxation of the first payment of the said Subsidy before the tenth day of August which shallbe to the said year of our Lord God one thousand six hundred and fifteen: And for the taxation of the said second payment of the said Subsidy shall before the tenth day of February which shallbe in the said year of our Lord God one thousand six hundred and fifteen by vertute of the Commission delivered unto them in form aforesaid direct their several or joint precept or precepts unto eight, seven, six, five, four, three, or two, as for the number of the inhabitants shallbe requisite of the most substantial, discreet, and honest persons inhabitants to be named by the said Commissioners, or by as many of them as shallbe appointed by the said Commission of and in the Baronies, canters, Hundreds, Wards, Parishes, Towns, and other places as well within liberties, franchises, and places exempted as without within the limits of the Shires, Counties, Cities, Towns, boroughs and other places within the limits of their Commission, and to the Constables, subconstables, Bailiffs, & other like Officers and Ministers of every of the said Baronies, canters, Hundreds, towns, Wards, Parishes and other places aforesaid as to the said Commissioners, and every number of them, or unto three or two of them by their discretion in division shall seem expedient. Straightly by the said precept, charging and commanding the said inhabitants, Constables and other Officers aforesaid, to whom such precept shallbe so directed, to appear in their proper persons before the said Commissioners or such number of them as they shall divide themselves according to the Tenor of the said Commission, at certain days and places by the said Commissioners or any other number of them as is aforesaid, within Cities, boroughs, or Towns corporate or without in any other places as is aforesaid, by their discretion shallbe limited thereunto to do and accomplish all that to them on the part of the King's Majesty shallbe enjoined touching this Act: commanding further by the said precept, that he to whose hands such precept shall come, shall show and deliver the same to the other inhabitants or Officers named in the same precept, and that none of them fail to accomplish the same upon pain of forty shillings to be forfeited unto the King's Majesty.  
And it is further ordained by the authority of this present Parliament, that at the said day and place prefixed and limited in the said precept, every of the said Commissioners then being within this Realm and having no sufficient excuse for his absence at the day and place prefixed for that part, whereunto he was limited, shall appear in his proper person: And there the same Commissioners being present, or is many of them as shallbe appointed by the king's majesties Commission, shall call or cause to be called before them the said inhabitants and Officers to whom they have directed their said Precepts, and which had in commandment there to appear, by virtue of the said Precept. And if any person so warned, make default, unless he then be letted by sickness or lawful excuse, and that let, then be witnessed by the oaths of two credible persons, or if any appearing, refuse to serve in form following, than every such person so making default or refusing to serve, shall forfeit to the King's Majesty forty shillings, and so at every time appointed by the said Commissioners for the same taxation, until such time the number of every such persons have appeared and certified (in form underwritten, every of them so making default, or refusing to serve) shall forfeit to the King's Majesty forty shillings. And upon the same appearance had, they shallbe charged before the Commissioners, by all convenient ways and means, (other then by corporal oath) to inquire of the best and most value of the substance of every person dwelling and abiding within the limits of the places that they shallbe charged with, and of other which shall have his, or their most resort unto any of the said places, and chargeable, with any sum of money by this Act, of the said Subsidy, and of all other things requisite touching the said Act, and according to the intent of the same: And thereupon as near as it may be, or shall come to their knowledge, truly, to present and certify before the said Commissioners, the names and surnames, and the best and uttermost substance and values of every of them, as well of Lands, Tenements, and other Hereditaments, possessions, and profits, as of goods, Chattels, Debts, and other things chargeable by the same Act, without any concealment, love, favour, affection, dread, or malice, upon pain of forfeiture of five pounds or more, to be taxed, extracted, and levied in form as hereafter in this present Act shallbe limited or appointed, and thereupon the said Commissioners shall openly there read, or cause to be read unto them the said Rates in this Act mentioned, and openly declare the effect of their charge unto them, in what manner and form they ought and should make their certificate according to the Rates & sums thereof aforesaid, & of all manner of persons as well of Aliens and Strangers, Dentzens' or not Denizens inhabiting within this Realm, as of such persons as be borne under the King's obeisance chargeable to this Act, and of the possessions, Goods, and Chattels of Fraternities, Guilds, Corporations, Brotherhoods, Mysteries, Commonalties, & other as is above said, and of persons being in the parts beyond the Seas, having Goods and Chattels, Lands or Tenements within this Realm as is aforesaid, and of all Goods being in the custody of any person or persons to the use of any other as is abovesaid, by the which information and showing the said persons should have such plain knowledge of the true intent of this present Act, & of the manner of their certificate that they in the same persons shall have no reasonable cause to excuse them by ignorance. And after such charge and the statute of the said Subsidy, and the manner of the said certificate to be made in writing containing the names, and surnames of every person, and whether he be borne without the King's obeisance, or within, and the best value of every person in every degree, as well of the yearly value of Lands and Tenements, and of such like possessions and profits, as of the value of Goods and Chattels, Debts and every thing to their certificate requisite and necessary to them declared the said Commissioners there being shall by there discretions appoint and limit unto the said persons another day and place to appear before the said Commissioners and charging the said persons that the mean time shall make diligent inquiry by all ways and means of the premises: And then, and there every of them upon pain of forfeiture of forty shillings to the King's Majesty to appear at the new prefixed day and place there to certify unto the said Commissioners in writing according to their said charge and according to the true intent of the said grant of this present Subsidy, and as to them in manner aforesaid hath been declared and showed by the Commissioners at which day and place so to them prefixed, if any of the said persons make default or appear, and refuse to make the said certificate, that then every of them so offending to forfeit to the King's Majesty forty shillings, except there be a reasonable excuse of his default by reason of sickness or otherwise by the oaths of two credible persons their witnessed, and of such as appear ready to make certificate as aforesaid the said Commissioners there being, shall take and receive the same certificate and every part thereof, and the names, values and substance of every person so certified. And if the said Commissioners see cause reasonable, they shall examine the said presenters thereof, and thereupon the said Commissioners, at the said days and place, by their agreement amongst themselves, shall from time to time their openly prefix a day at a certain place or places, within the limits of their Commission, by their discretion for their further proceeding, to the said Assessing of the same Subsidy: And thereupon at the said day of the said certificate as is aforesaid taken, the same Commissioners, shall make their Precept or Precepts, to the Shiriffs, Vndershiriffs, Constables, Subconstables, Bailiffs or other Officers of such Shires, Baronies, canters, Hundreds, towns, or other places aforesaid, as the same Commissioners shallbe of, comprising and containing in the said Precept the names and surnames of all persons presented before them in the said certificate, of whom if the said Commissioners, or as many of them as shallbe thereunto appointed by the King's Commission, shall then have vehement suspect, to be of more greater value or substance in Lands, Goods, Chattels or sums of money, owing to them, or other substance before said, then upon such person or persons, so certified and specified as aforesaid, the same Commissioners shall make their Precept or Precepts directed to the Shiriffs, Vndershiriffs, Constables, Bailiffs, or other Officers, commanding the same Shiriffs, Vndershiriffs, Constables, Bailiffs, 〈◊〉 other Officers, to whom such Precepts shallbe directed, to warn such persons, whose names shallbe comprised in the said Precepts, at their mansions, or to their persons that the same persons named in such Precepts, and every of them, shall personally appear before fore the said Commissioners, at the same new prefixed day and place, there to be examined by all ways and means, (other then by corporal oath) by the said Commissioners, of their greatest substance and best value, of all and every sum, and sums of money, owing to them, and other whatsoever matter concerning the premises, or any of them, according to this Act. At which day and place so prefixed, the said Commissioners then and there being, or as many of them as shallbe thereunto appointed by the King's Commission, shall cause to be called the said persons, whose names shallbe comprised in the said Precept as is aforesaid, for their examination: And if any of those persons, which shallbe warned as is aforesaid, to be examined, which at any time after the warning, and before the prefixed day, shallbe within such place where he may have knowledge of his said appearance to be made, make default and app●●●● not, 〈◊〉 a reasonable cause, or else a reasonable excuse by the ●at he s●●t●●d the dible persons, before the said Commissioners be truly alleged fork is discharge, that then every or them so making default, to be taxed and charged to the King's Majesty, with and at the double sum of the rate, that he should, or aught to have been set at, for and after the best value of his lands or substance upon him certified, if he had appeared by the discretion of the said Commissioners there being, which Commissioners shall travel with every of the other persons then and there appearing, whose names shallbe expressed in the said Precept or Precepts, & in whom any vehement suspect was, or shallbe had in torme aforesaid, by all such wases, & means as they can (other then by corporal oath) for the better knowledge of their best value, either in hereditaments, or possessions, or else in goods and debts, & there upon shall have power and authority, by virtue of this Act, according to their discretions to enlarge and increase the taxations of such persons, as they shall so find, by due examination, to be of greater value or substance in lands, or goods, than they were presented at, and that every spiritual person at every of the said taxations, of the said Subsidy, shallbe rated, and set, according to the ●●le abovesaid, of & for every pound that the same spiritual person for and other, to his use hath by distent, bargain, purchase in Fee simple, Fee tail, term of life, term of years, by execution, by 〈◊〉 ship, or by copy of Court-Roll in any Meteors, Lands, Tehements, Rents, Services, Offices, Fees, Cor●od●es, or Hereditaments, after the true, tust, and yearly value thereof and according as other the King's majesties Subjects, borne within this Realm be charged in form above remembered, so that it extend to the yearly value of twenty shillings, or above.  
And it is further enacted, that if the said taxors or assessors, shall not duly behave themselves in their inquirse, taxation, assessment, or certificate, but shall affectionally 〈…〉 lie demean themselves in that behalf, 〈…〉 the Commissioners shall by their considerations, 〈…〉 worthy of punishment, for not doing 〈…〉, that then four or more of the Commissioners 〈…〉, for the same Subsidy, shall have power 〈…〉 either to charge the said assessors upon 〈…〉 the better serutre aforesaid 〈…〉tions to tax● & set upon every of the 〈…〉 meanors in that behalf such 〈…〉 good, so that it exceed not the sum of 〈…〉, and the same fine or pain at their 〈…〉 the Court of Exchequer, every which five to taxed & set by four of the said Commissioners, or more, being estreated with the Schedule, & Books of the limit, shallbe levied & answered to the King's use, in like manner & forms to all intents & purposes, as any othersummes that shallbe taxed, & become, due by virtue of this statute & Act of Subsidy, & not in any otherwise or manner. And if any person certified, or rated, by virtue of this Act, whether he be a Commissioner, or other to any manner of value, doth find himself grieved with the same presentment, sessing or rating, and thereupon complain to the Commissioners, before whom he shallbe called, fessed, or taxed, or before two of them, before the same taxation be certified into the Court of Exchequer, that the said Commissioners, or two of them shall by all ways & means, examine particularly and disstinetly, the person so complaining upon his oath, and other his neighbours, by their discretions, of every his Lands and Tenements above specified, & of every his goods, Chattels, and debts abovementioned: And after due examination and perfect knowledge thereof had, and perceived by the said Commissioners or two of them, which shall have power by authority aforesaid, the said Commissioners, or two of them, to whom any such complaint shallbe made, by their discretions upon the oath of the said person so complaining, may abate, defalk, increase or enlarge the same assessments, according as it shall appear to them just, upon the same examination, & the same sum so abated, defalted, increased or enlarged shallbe by them estreated in form as hereafter ensueth. And if it be proved by witnesses or by the parties own confession or other lawful ways or means, within a year after such oath made, that the same person sorated or sworn was of any better, or greater value in Lands, Goods, or other things above specified at the time of his said oath, than the same person so sworn did declare upon his said oath, that then every person so offending, shall lose & forfeit to his Majesty so much lawful money of England, as he the said person so sworn was set at, or taxed to pay.  
And also it is attacked by the same authority, that every person to be rated and taxed as is aforesaid, shallbe rated, & set, and the 〈◊〉 on him set, to be levied at such place where he and his family were 〈…〉 the most part of the year next before the 〈◊〉 presentment and taxation made, & no where else. And that no Commissioner for this 〈…〉 shallbe rated or taxed 〈◊〉 his 〈…〉 in the County or other place where he 〈◊〉 Commissioned 〈◊〉; And that if 〈◊〉 person chargeable to 〈…〉 at the time of the said assessing happen to be out of this Realm, or far from the place where he shallbe known, than he to be set, where he was last abiding in this Realm, and after the substance, value, and other profits of every person, to be known by examination, certificate or other manner of wise, as is aforesaid, and that the said Commissioners, or as many of them as shallbe appointed by the King's majesties Commission, or Commissions, shall after the rate and rates aforesaid, cause every person so to be set, rated, and taxed, according to the rate of the substante, & value of his lands, goods Chattels, and other profits chargeable by this Act, whereby the greatest, or most best sum, or sums, according to his most substance by reason of this Act, might or may be set or taxed. And that every person taxed in any County or place, other then where he and his family were resident, for the most part of the year, than next before, or in any County or place, other then where he is a Commissioner for the Subsidy, if he be a Commissioner, upon certificate, made to the said Court of Exchequer, under the hands & seals of two Commissioners for the same Subsidy, in the same County or place where such person, & his family were resiant, for the most part of the year next before, or where he is a Commissioner, for the taxation & payment of the same Subsidy, testifying such his most restancy, having a family, or being a Commmissioner, shallbe a sufficient discharge for the taxation of that person in all other places & of & for all other sums of money upon such persons so set and taxed, save only the taxation made in that County, or place from which such certificate shallbe made as is aforesaid, and for the sum of money upon such persons, there assessed, or taxed. And that such certificate, without any plea, or other circumstance, shallbe a sufficient warrant, as well to the Barons and Auditor, and Auditors of the said Court of Excheequer, and to all, and every other Officers to whom the allowance thereof, shall appertain, paying for such discharge and allowance, only six pence, and no more. Provided always that every such person, which shallbe rated, or taxed, according to the intent and true meaning of this Act, for payment of and to this Subsidy, for and after the yearly value of his Lands, Tenements, & other real possessions, or profits, at any of the said taxations shall not after be set and rated for his goods, and Chattels, or other moneable substance at the same taxation, and that he that shallbe set, charged, or taxed for the same Subsidy, for his goods, Charels & other movables, at any of the said taxations, according to the true meaning of this Art shall not after be chatged, taxed or chargeable, for his lends or other real possessions, and profits abovesaid, at the same taxations, or any of them, nor that any person by any taxation be double charged for the said Subsidy, nor set, or taxed at several places, by reason of this Act. But if any person happen to be double set, taxed, or charged either in any place, or at several places, than he to be discharged of the one taxation & charged with the other according to the meaning and intent of this Act, any thing contained in this present Act, to the contrary notwithstanding.  
And that it be ordained and enacted, by the said authority of this present Parliament, that no person having two mansions, or two places to resort unto, or calling himself household servant, or waiting-seruant to the Lord-deputy, or other Lord, or Lady, Master, or Mistress be excused upon his saying, from the taxes of the said Subsidy, in neither of the places where he may be set or taxed, unless he bring a certificate, in writing from the Commissioners, where that he is so set or taxed indeed at one place: And if any person that ought to be set and taxed to this present Subsidy, by reason of his removing and resorting to two places, or by reason of his saying that he else where was taxed, or by reason of any privilege of his dwelling, or abiding in any place not being foreprised in this Act, or otherwise by his Covine 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 taxation, for the payment of this Subsidy, and be not set and taxed, according to the true intent of this Act, and that prodned by presentment examination, information or otherwise, before the said Commissioners, or two of them, or before the Barons of the King's majesties Exchequer, or two justices of the Peace, of the County where such person dwelleth, than every such person, that by such means, or otherwise willingly by covin, or without just cause, shall happen to escape from the said taxations, or payments aforesaid or any of them, and shall not be rated, taxed and set, shallbe charged upon the knowledge and proofs thereof, with & at the double value of somuth as he should might, or aught to have been set, and taxed at, by virtue of this Act, and the same double value to be gathered, levied, and paid, of his Goods and Chattels, Lands and Tenements, towards the said Subsidy, and further to be punished according to the discretions of the Barons, justices, and Commissioners, before whom he shallbe committed for his offence and deceit in that behalf.  
And he it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the said Commissioners, in every Commission, which shall 〈◊〉 or inhabit, in any County or place, within the simits of their Commission, or the more part of them, shall have full power and authority by this Art, to set, tax, and sesse every other Commissioner joined with them, in every such Commission and the said Commissioners within every division shall also assess every assessor within his or their division, for his or their goods, Lands, and other the premists as is abovesaid, by the which said Commission, the said Commissioners, to whom it shall appertain, shall indifferently set, tax, and sesse themselves, and the said assessors, and that as well the sums upon every of the said Commissioners and Assessors so sessed, rated, and taxed, as the sums made and presented by the presenters, as is aforesaid, shall be written certified, set, and estreated, and the estreats thereof to be made with the other inhabitants of that part, and within the limits of the same Commission and division so to be gathered and levied, in like manner as it ought, or should have been, if the said Commissioners had not been in the said, Commission: And that all persons of the estates of a Baron, or Barons, and every estate above, shallbe charged with their freeh● 〈◊〉 and value as aforesaid, by the Lord-deputy or other Chief Governor of this Realm, with the a●erise aforesaid: And they to be charged for the said several payments of the said Subsidy, after the form of the said grant, according to the taxation aforesaid: And the summie of and upon them to be set, and taxed, with the names of the Collectors appointed for the gathering, and paying of the same, to be estreated, delivered, and certified, at days and places alone specified, by the Lord-deputy, or other Chief Governor of the said Realm for the time being, together, with other such persons as thereunto shallbe named as is aforesaid.  
And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that after the taxes, and assesses of the said sums, upon and by the said Assessing and certificate, as is aforesaid made, the said Commissioners, or as many of them, as shallbe thereunto appointed, and have authority by the King's majesties Commission, shall with all speed and without delay by their writing estreat the said taxes thereof under their 〈◊〉 and signs manual, if the said Commissioners, or as many of them, as shallbe appointed at the least and the same shall deliver unto sufficient and substantial thabitants, Sheriffs, Vndershiriffs, Constables, Subconstables, Bailiffs, and other Officers ●yntly, of Baronies, Ca●treds, Hundreds, towns, Parishes, and other places aforesaid, within their limits, and other sufficient persons Inhabitants of the same, only by the discretion of the said Commissioners, with the assent of the High Collector. And as the place and pa●ties shall require, as well the particular names and surnames, as the remembrance of all sums of money taxed, and set, of and upon every person as well man as woman chargeable to this Act, Householders and other Inhabitants and dwellers within the said Parishes, Towns and places contributory to this Act of Subsidy: By authority, of which writing and estreat so delivered, the same Officers and other persons so named and deputed seuerally●, shall have full power and authority, by virtue of this Act, immediately after the delivery of the said writing or estreat, to demand, levy, & gather, of every person therein, speeissed; the snmme & sums, in the same writing or estreat comprised, and for not payment thereof, to distrain the same person or persons so being behind, by their Goods and Chattels, and the distress● so taken to keep by the space of eight days, at the costs and charges of the owner thereof. And if the said owner, do not pay such sum of money, as shallbe levied by authority of this. 〈◊〉 within the said eight days, than the same distress to be appraised by four, three, or two of the Iuhabi●●●ts▪ where 〈◊〉 distress is taken, and also then to dye fold by the Constable or other Collector, for the payment of the said muney, & the overplus coming of the sale and keeping there of, if any be, to be immediately restored to the owner of the same distress, which said Officers and othr persons so 〈◊〉, to ask, take, gather, and levy the the said sums, shall answer and be charged, for the portion only to the l●●●signed, and limited to be gathered, levied and comprised in the said Writing of estreat, so to them as is aforesaid ●●●●ered, to the use of our. Sovereign Lord the King's 〈◊〉 and his Heirs and Successors, and the said sum in that writing or estreat comprised, to pay unto the High Collector or Bollectors of that place, for the collection of the same, in manner and form unerwritten, thereunto to●e● named and deputed. And the same Inhabitants and 〈◊〉, so gathering the same particular sums, for their collection thereof, sh●●● retain for, every twenty shillings so by them re●●ation and pays, two pence, and that to be allowed at the payment of their collection, by them to be made to the High Collector or Collectors. And 〈…〉 for the said authority that the said. Commissiones, 〈…〉 part of them, as shall take upon them, the 〈◊〉 and desines of the said Commission, shall for every or the said payments of the said Subsidy, name such sufficient 〈…〉 persons, which then shall have and possests lands and other hereditaments in their own right of the clear 〈…〉 of twenty pounds, or goods to the value of four 〈…〉 at the least, as he shallbe taxed in the Sul●●●ie Book 〈◊〉 any such be in the said limits, & for 〈◊〉 of such so assested, 〈◊〉 those to be appointed Collectors that then shallbe sufficient in lands or goods nearest to the values aforesaid, as 〈◊〉 their discretion shallbe thought good in the several Counties. Shines, Cities, Townes-corporate, and other what so over places, as well within places privileged as without, not being foreprised within this Act, to be High Collector●●, and to have the look 〈◊〉 and receipt of the said sums set, and leaviable, within the Precluts, Limits, & Bounds where they shall be so limired and appointed to be High Colours, and to every of the said Collectors so severally 〈◊〉, the said Commission●●●, or 〈◊〉 of them at the least, with all 〈◊〉 and without 〈…〉 the whole summè of any payment of the said Subsidy be set, by all the limits of the same their. Commission, or in 〈◊〉 dimits as the High Collectors shallbe so severally assigned, s●alk under their. Seals and signs manual, deliver one estreat indented in parchment, comprising in it the names of all such persons as were assigned to levy the and particular 〈◊〉 And the sums of every Ba●●ny, Contred, Hundred, City, Town, and other places aforesaid, with the names and surnames of the persons so chargeable according to 〈◊〉 thereof, made and delivered as is ●●●gesaid, and the Collectors to be assigned, shallbe charged to answer the whole 〈◊〉 comprised in the said estreat limited to his collertion as is aforesaid.  
Provided always, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the said Commissioners having authority by this Act, to name and nominate the said High Collectors of the said Subsidy, shall immediately 〈…〉 〈◊〉 take by authority, of this 〈…〉 recogni●an●es or obligations 〈…〉 so be paid therefore of every 〈…〉med to be High, Collectors to be 〈…〉 King's Ma●●●ie, in the double sum, of the 〈◊〉 of his collection and to be 〈◊〉 and ●●ade upon such condition, That is to say for the 〈◊〉 of the said first payments of the said Subsidy, that 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 Collector, his heirs or executors, do truly content and pay to the use of the King's Majesty, his Heirs and 〈◊〉 in the Rereipt of the said Excherquer, at or before she said first day of December, which shallbe in the said year or our Lord God one thousand six hundred and fifteen, so much of the said sum of money, allotted and appointed to his collection, as he shall collect and gather, and content, and pay the residue of his collection, and charge within one month next after such time as he hath gathered and collected the same residue, that then the said recognizances or obligations to be void, or else to stand in full strength and virtue. And for the collection of the said second payment, of the said Subsidy, upon condition, that if the said Collector, his heirs or executors, do truly rontent and pay to the use of the King's Majesty, his Heirs and Successors, in his highness Court of Excherqu●●, at or before the said first day of june, which shallbe in the said year of our Lord God, one thousand six hundred and sixercene, so 〈◊〉 of the said 〈◊〉 of money, allotted and appointed to his 〈◊〉, as her shall 〈◊〉 and gather, and content and pay the rest one of his collection, and charge, within one month ●●xt-after 〈…〉 as he hath collected and gathered the said 〈◊〉 that the● the said recognizances, or obligations to be 〈◊〉, or else to stand in 〈◊〉 strength and virtue: which said recogni●●●ces or obligations so taken, the said Commissiones shall secretally certify, and deliver into the Kings Maisties Excherquer, with the several certificates of the said 〈◊〉 and rates of the payment of the said Subsidy, at and by the time 〈◊〉 them prescribed and appointed by this Act, for the said certificate of the said severast raxarsons of the said Subsidise, upon 〈◊〉 of forfeiture of ten pounds to the Kings Mai●●●, for every such recognifances or obligations not to certified, and that every such Collector so elerted, named and ch●●in, upon requ●● to him made, shall knowledge, and make the said recognizance or obligation, upon pain of forfeiture of twenty pounds to the King's Majesty for the refusal thereof, and that the 〈…〉 and Barons of the Exchequer for the 〈…〉 of the stuerall conections of the 〈…〉 and times therein limited for the 〈…〉 Lancell and deliver the said recogni●●●ces or obligations, for the payment thereof, to the Collector, or Collectors, without any other warrant, and without any F●● or 〈◊〉 to her paid for the same, to 〈◊〉 person, and every Collector 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the said estreat, in parchment as is aforesaid, shall have authority by this Act, to appoint ●●ies and places within the circuit of his collection, for the payment of the said Subsidy to him to be made, and thereof to give warning by Proclamation or otherwise, to all the Constables, or other persons or Inhabitants, having the chargs of the particular collections within the Baronies, canters, Hundreds, Parishes, Towns or other places by him or them limited, to make payment for the said particular collection of every sum, as to them shall appertain. And if at that same day, and place so limited and prefixed by the said High Collector, the said Constables, Officers, or other persons or Inhabitants, as is aforesaid, for the said particular collection assigned and appointed within such Barony, Cantred, Hundred, Eyttie-Towne, or other place, do not pay unto the said high Collectors, the sum within their several Baronies, canters Hundreds, towns, Parishes and other places due and comprised within the said estreat thereof, to them delivered by the said Commissioners 〈◊〉, some of them as is aforesaid, or somuch thereof as they have by and ●●aues received, two pence for every pound, for the said particular collection as is aforesaid, always thereof to be allowed excepted and abated, that then it shallbe lawful to the said High Collectors and every of them, and to their assigns to distrain every of the said Constables, Officers and other Inhabitants, for their said several and particular collection, of the said sums comprised in the said estreat, and writing thereof to them, and every of them as is before expressed, delivered, or for so much of the same sum, as so then shall happen to be gathered and levied, and be behind and unpaid by the Goods and Chattels of every of them, so being behind and unpaid: And the distress so taken to be kept, and appraised, and sold, as is aforesaid, and thereof to take and levy the sums, so then being, behind and unpaid, and the overplus coming of the sale of the said distress, if any be to be restored and delivered unto the owner in form above remembered.  
Provided always, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that no person or persons shallbe nominated or appointed to be High Collector or Collectors for the second payment of the said Subsidy granted by this Act, which before that time hath been a Collector or Collectors, for the 〈◊〉 payment of any p●●t of the said 〈…〉 person or persons so to 〈…〉 and appointed to be High Collector or Collectors for the said second payment, do first show forth before h●●●, or the in, by whom he shallbe so nominated and appointed his quietus est for his discharge of his collection, before appointed to his charge, upon pain of one hundred pounds to be paid and forfeited by him or them, that so shall nominate, and appoint any such Collector contrary to this present Act.  
And it is also by the said authority enacted, that if any Inhabitants or Officers, or whatsoever person or persons charged, to and for the collection and Receipt, of any part or portion of the said Subsidy, by any manner of means, according to this Act, or any person or persons, for themselves or as keeper, Guardian, deputy, Factor, or Arturney, of or for any person or persons of any Goods, or Chattels of the owner thereof, at the tune of the said assessing to be paid, being out of this Realm, or in any other part not known, or of and for the Goods and Chattels of any other person or persons of any Corporation, Fraternity, Mystery or other whatsoever Commonalty being corporate or not corporate, and all persons having in their rule governance, and custody, any Goods or Chattels, at the time of the said assessings, or any of them to be made, or which for any cause for and by collection or for himself, or for any other, or by reason that he hath the rule, Governance, or custody, of any Goods or Chattels of any other person or persons, Corporation, Commonalty, Fraternity, Guild, or Mystery, or any such other like, or as Factor, Debtor or Arturney, of or for any person shallbe taxed, valued, tared, and set to any sum or sums by reason of this Act, and after the taxation and assessing upon any such person or persons, as shallbe charged with the Receipt of the same, happen to die, or departed from the place where he was so taxed and set, or his Goods and Chattels be so estoyned, or in such privy or covert manner kept, as the said person or persons, charged with the same by the estreats or other writing from the said Commissioners, or as many of them as shallbe thereunto appointed by the said Commission as is aforesaid, can nor may levy the same sum or sums comprised to th●● the said estreats, by distress within the limits of their collection as is aforesaid, or cannot sell such distress or distresses as be taken for any of the said parasites, before the time limited, to the High Collector for the payment to be made in the King's majesties Receipt, then upon relation thereof with due examination, by the oath or examination of such person or persons, as shallbe charged with and for the Receipt and collection of the same before the said Commissioners, or as many of them as by the said Commission, shallbe thereunto appointed, where such person or persons, or other as is aforesaid, their Goods and Chattels, were set and taxed: And upon plain certificate thereof made into the King's majesties Exchequer, by the same Commissioners, as well of the dwelling place, names and sums of the said persons, of whom the same sums cannot be levied, and had as is aforesaid, then as well the Constables, and other Inhabitants, appointed for the same particular collection, against the High Collectors, as the High Collector, upon his account and oath, in the said Exchequer, to be discharged thereof, and process to be made for the King's Majesty out of the same Exchequer by the discretions of the Barons of the same Exchequer against such person his heirs or executors, so being behind with his payment, and over, that the same Commissioners, to whom any such declaration of the premises shallbe made, in form aforesaid, from time to tune shall have full power and authority, to direct their Precept or Precepts, to the said person or persons, charged with any sum, of, for, and upon any such person and persons, or other as is aforesaid, or to any Sheriff, Steward, bailiff or other whatsoever Officer, Minister, person or persons of such place or places, where any such person or persons, so owing any such sum or sums, shall have Land and Tenements or other Hereditaments, or real possessions, Goods and Chattels, whereby any such person or persons so indebted, his heirs executors or assigns, or other having the custody, governance or disposition of any Goods, Chattels, Lands, Tenements, or other Hereditaments, which ought or may by this Act, lawfully be distrained or taken for the same, hath and shall have Goods, Chattels, Lands, Tenements, or other possessions, whereof such sum and sums, which by any such person or persons, may or aught to be levied, be it within the limits of such Commission, where such person or persons was or were taxed, or without, in any place within this Realm of Ireland, by which Precept as well such person or persons shallbe charged to levy such money as the Officer of the place or places, where such distress may be taken, shall have full power and authority to distrain every such person indebted, charged, or chargeable by this Act, or his executors or administrators of his goods and Chattels, his Guardians, Factors, Deputies, Lessees, Farmers, and assigns, and all other persons, by whose hands, or out of whose lands, any such person should have, Fee, Rent, Annuity, or other profit, or which at the time of the said assessing, shall have Goods, or Chattels, or any other thing movable of any such person, or persons, being indebted, or owing such sum, and the distresses so taken, cause to be kept, appraised, and sold in like manner, and form as is aforesaid, for the distress to be taken, upon such persons to be taxed, to the said Subsidy, and being sufficient to distrain within the limits of the Collectors, inhabitants, or other Officers charged with or for the said sums, so upon them to be taxed. And if any such distress, for non payment happen to be taken, out of the limits of the said persons, charged and assigned, to levy the same, the person so charged for the levying of any such sums by distress, shall perceive and take of the same distress, for the labour of every such person going for the execution thereof, for every mile that any such person so laboureth for the same two pence: And every Farmer, Tenant, Guardian, Factor, or other whatsoever person being distramed, or otherwise charged for payment of any such sum, or sums, or any other sum, by reason of this Act, shallbe of such sum or sums, of him or them, so levied and taken, acquitted and discharged at his next day of payment of the same, or at the delivery of such Goods and Chattels, as he that is so distrained, had in his custody or governance, against him or them, that shallbe so taxed and set. Any grant, or writing obligatory or other whatsoever matter to the contrary made, heretofore notwithstanding. And if any such person that should be so distrained have no Lands or Tenements sufficient, whereby he and his Tenants and Farmers may be distrained, or have aliened, eloyned, or hide his Goods and Chattels, whereby he should or might be distrained, in such manner that such Goods and Chattels should not be known or found, so that the sum of, or by him to be paid in the said form, shall not, ne can be conveniently levied, then upon relation thereof to the Commissioners, or to as many of them, as by the said Commission shallbe thereunto appointed, where such person or persons were taxed and set, by the oaths of him or them, that shallbe charged with the levying and payment of that sum or sums, the same Commissioners shall make a Precept in such manner as is aforesaid, for to attach, take and arrest, the body of such person or persons, that aught to pay the said sums, and by this Act, shallbe charged with, and for the said sum or sums, and them so taken safely to keep in prison within the County, or other place where any such person or persons shallbe taken and attached, there to remain without bail or mainprize, until he hath paid the said sum or sums, that such person for himself, or for any other by this Act, shallbe chargeable, or aught to be charged withal, and also for the Fees of every such arrest, to him or them that shall execute such Precept, twenty pence, and that every Officer to whom such Precept shallbe directed, do his due diligence and execute the same, upon every person so being indebted, upon pain to forfeit to the King's Majesty, for every default in that behalf, twenty shillings, and that no keeper of any Goal, from his Goal suffer any such person to go at large, by letting to bail or otherwise to departed out of his prison, before he hath paid his said debt, and the said twenty pence for the said arrest, upon pain to forfeit to the King's Majesty forty shillings, and the same Gaoler, to pay to the King's Majesty, the double value, as well of the rate, which the said person so imprisoned, was taxed at, as of the said twenty pence, for the Fees, and like process and remedy, in like form shallbe granted by the said Commissioners, or as many of them, as by the said Commission shallbe thereunto appointed, at like information of every person, or persons, being charged with any sum of money, for any other person or persons, by reason of the said Subsidy, and not thereof paid, but wilfully withdrawn, nor the same leviable within the limits, where such persons were thereunto taxed. And if the sum or sums, being behind and unpaid, by any person or persons as is aforesaid, be levied and gathered by force of the said process, to be made by the said Commissioners, or if in default or for lack of payment thereof, the person or persons so owing the said sums of money, by process of the same Commissioners to be made as is aforesaid, be committed to prison in form above said, that then the said Commissioners which shall adwarde such process, shall make certificate thereof, in the said Exchequer, of that shallbe done in the premises, in the term next following, after such sum or sums so being behind, shallbe levied and gathered, or such person or persons, for non payment of the same, committed to prison. And if it happen any of the said Collectors, to be assigned, or any Mayors, Shiriffs, Stewards, Constables, Bailiffs or any other Officer, or Minister, or other whatsoever person or persons, to disobey the said Commissioners, or any of them in the reasonable request to them made by the said Commissioners, for the execution of of the said Commission, or if any of the Officers, or other persons do refuse, that to them shall appertain, or belong to do by reason of any Precept to him or them to be directed, or any reasonable commandment, instance, or request touching the premises, or other default in any appearance or collection, to make: Or if any person being suspected, not be indifferently taxed, as is aforesaid, do refuse to be examined according to the Tenor of this Act, before the said Commissioners, or as many of them as shallbe thereunto assigned as is aforesaid, or will not appear before the same Commissioners, upon warning to him made, or else make resistance, or refuse, upon any distress upon him to be taken, for any parcels of the said Subsidy, or commit any misbehaviour in any manner of wise contrary to this Act, or commit any wilful omission, or other whatsoever wilful doing or misdoing, contrary to the Tenor of this Act or Grant, the same Commissioners, and every number of them above remembered, or two of them at the least, upon probable knowledge of any such misdemeanours, had by information or examination, shall and may set upon every such offendor, for every such offence in the name of afine by the same offendor to be forseited, forty shillings or under, by the discretion of the same Commissioners: And further the same Commissioners, and every number of them, or two of them at the least shall have authority by this present Act, to punish every such offendor by imprisonment there to remain, and to be delivered by their discretion, as shall seem to them convenient, the said Fines (if any such be) to be certified by the said Commissioners that so assessed the same into the said King's majesties Exchequer there to be levied and paid by the Collectors of that part of the said Subsidy, returned into the said Exchequer, to be therewith charged, with the payment of the said Subsidy, in such manner, as if the said Fines, had been set and taxed, upon the said offenders for the said Subsidy.  
And it is also enacted by the said authority of this present Parliament, that every of the said High Collectors, which shall account for any part of the said Subsidy, in the said Exchequer, upon their several accounts to be yielded, shallbe allowed at euer●● of the said payments, of the said Subsidy, for every pound limited to his collection, whereof any such. Collector, shallbe charged and yield account, six pence, as parcel of his or their charge, that is to say, of every pound thereof such persons, as then have had the particular collection of the Towns, and other places, as is aforesaid, specified in his collection two pence, and other two pence of every pound thereof, every of the said chief Collectors, or their accoumptants, to retain to their own use, for their labour and charge in and about the premises, and two pence of every pound residne to be delivered, allowed and paid by the said Collectors so being thereof allowed, to such of the Commissioners as shall take upon them the business and labour, for and about the premises, that is to say, every Collector to pay that Commissioner or Commissioners which had the ordering of the writings, of and for the said Subsidy, where the said Collector or Collectors, had their collection, for the expenses for the said Commissioners, so taking upon them the said business, and labour of their Clarks writing of the said Precepts and extracts of the said collections, the sanie last two pence of every pound to be divided amongst the said Commissioners, having regard to their labour and business taken by them and their said Clarks, in and about the premises, for which part so to the Commissioners appertaining, the said Commissioners, Six, Five, Four, Three, or Two, or as many of them as shallbe thereunto appointed by the King's majesties Commission, and every of them jointly and severally, for his and their said part, may have his remedy against the said Collector or Collectors, which thereof been or might have been allowed by action of debt, in the which the defendant shall not wage his law, neither protection, neither injunction, or essoin shallbe allowed, and that no person now being of the number of the Company of this present Parliament, nor any Commissioner shallbe named or assigned to be any Collector or Subcollector or presenter of the said Subsidies, or any part thereof, nor any Commissioners shallbe compelled to make any presentment or certificate, other then into the King's Majesties said Exchequer, of, for or concerning the said Subsidy, or any part or parcel thereof: And likewise that no other person that shallbe named and assigned to be Commissioner in any place to and for the execution of this Act of Subssdie, be or shallbe assigned or named Head-collector, of any of the payments of the said Subsidy, neither of any part thereof, and that every such person or persons which shallbe named and appointed, as is aforesaid, to be Head-collectors of and for the first payment of the said Subsidy, and collection thereof, or of any part thereof, shall not be compelled to be Collector for the second payment of the said Subsidy, nor for any part thereof and the said Collectors which shallbe assigned for the collection of the said Subsidy, or any part thereof, and every of them, be and shallbe acquitted and discharged, of all manner Fees, Rewards, and of every other charges in the King's majesties Exchequer or else where, of them or any of them by reason of that collection, payments or accounts, or any thing concerning the same to be asked: And that if any person receive or take any Fees, Rewards or pleasures, of any such accoumptant, or use any unnecessary delay in their account that then he shall forfeit unto the King's Majesty, for every penny or value of every penny or pennyworth, so taken five shillings, and five pounds to the party grieved, for every such delay and suffer imprisonment, at the King's majesties pleasure, and after every taxing and assessing of the said Subsidy, as is aforesaid, had or made, and the said estreats thereof in parchment unto the Collector, in manner and form before rehearsed delivered, the said Commissioners, which shall take upon them the execution of this Act within the limits of their Commission by their agreements, shall have meetings together, at which meeting every of the said Commissioners which then shall have taken upon them the execution of any part of the said Commission, shall by himself or his sufficient Deputy, truly certify, and bring forth unto the said Commissioners named in the said Commission, the certificate and presentment made before him, and such other Commissioners as were limited with him in one limit, so that the same certificate may be accounpted and cast, with th'other certificates of th'other limits within the same Commission, and then the said Commissioners and every number of them, unto two at the least as is aforesaid, if any be in life, or their executors or administrators of their goods if they then be dead, shall jointly and severally as they were divided in their limits, under their Seals by their discretion, make one or several writings indented, containing in it as well the names of the said Collectors, by the Commissioners for such collection and accounts in the Exchequer, and payments in the same Receipt deputed and assigned, as the gross and several sums written unto every such Collectors to receive the said Subsidy, and also all fines amerciaments, and other forfeitures, if any such by reason of this Act, happen to be within the Precinct and limit of their Commission, to be certified into the King's Majesties said Exchequer by the said Commissioners, in which writing or writings, indented so to be certified, shallbe plainly declared and expressed, the whole and entire sum or sums of the said Subsidies, severally limited to the collection of the said Collectors severally, deputed and assigned to the collection of the said sums, so that none of the said Collectors so certified in the said Exchequer, shallbe compelled there to account or to be charged, but only to and for the sums limited to his collection, and not to and for any sum limited to the collection of his fellows, but every of them shallbe severally charged for their part limited to their collection: And if the said Commissioners joined in one Commission amongst themselves in that matter cannot agree, or if any of them be not ready or refuse to make certificate with other of the same Commissioners, that then the said Commissioners, may make several Indentures in form aforesaid, of their several limits or separations of Collectors, within the limits of their Commission upon and in the Baronies, canters, or such other like divisions within the said several limits of their Commission, as the places there shall require to be severed and divided, and as to the same Commissioners shall seem good to make divisions of their limits or Collections, for the several charges of the same Collectors, so that always one Collector, shallbe charged and account for his part to him to be limited only by himself, and not for any sum limited to the part of any of his fellows, and the charges of every of the Collectors, to be set and certified severally upon them: And every such Collector, upon his account and payment of the sum of money limited within his collection, to be severally by himself acquitted and discharged in the said Exchequer, without paying any manner of Fees or rewards, to any person or persons for the same, upon pain and penalty last abovesaid, and not to be charged for any portion of any other collector, and if any Commissioner after he hath taken certificate of them, that as is aforesaid shalve lefore any such Commissioners examined, and the sums rated and set, and the Books & writings thereof being in his hands, or if any Collector or other person charged with any Receipt of any part of the said Subsidy, or any other person taxed, or otherwise by this Act charged, with or for any parcel of the said Substdie, or with any other sum. Fine, amerciament, penalty, or other forfeiture, happen to die before the Commissioners, Collectors, or other whatsoever person or persons have executed, accomplished, satisfied or sufficiently discharged, that which to every such person shall appertain, or belong to do according to this Act, than the executors and heirs of every such person, and all other seissed of any Lands and Cenements, that any such person being charged by this Act, and deceasing before he be discharged thereof, or any other to his use only had of estate of inheritance, at the time that any such person was named Commissioner, Collector, or otherwise charged with or for any manner of thing to be done, satisfied or paid by reason of this Act, and all those that have in their possessions or hands, any Goods, Chattels, Leases, or other things that were to any person or persons, at the time of his death, or any Lands or Tenements that were to the same persons, at the time he was, as is aforesaid, charged by this Act, shalve by the same compelled and charged, to do and accomplish in every Case, as the same person so being charged, should have done or might have been compelled to do it he had been 〈◊〉 pla●e life, after such rate of the Lands and Goods of the said Commissioner or Collector, as the party shall have in his hands, and if the said Commissioners for causes reasonable them moving, shall think it not convenient to join in one certificate as is aforesaid: Then the said person or persons that shall first join together, or he that shall first certify the said writing indented, as is aforesaid, shall certify all the names of the Commissioners of that Commission, whereupon such writing shallbe there then to be certified, with division of the Baronies, canters, Hundreds, tithings and other places, to and among such Commissioners of the same Commission, with the names of the same Commissioners where such separations and divisions shallbe, with the gross sums of money, as well of and for the said Subsidy taxed or set, of or within the said Baronies, canters, Hundreds, tithings or other places to him or them divided or assigned, that shall so certify the said first writing, as of the Fines amerciaments, penalties & other forfeitures, if any happen to be within the same limits, whereof the same writings shaide certi●ed, and after such writing indented, which as is aforesaid shallbe certified, and not contain in it the whole and full sums set and taxed within the limits of the said Commission, the other Commissioners of the same before the day of payment of the said Subsidy, shall certify into the said Exchequer, by their writing or writings indented to be made as is aforesaid, the gross and several sums set and taxed within the places to them limited, for the said Subsidy, and other Fines, amerciaments, penalties, and forfeitures, with the names of the Baronies, canters, Hundreds, tithings and other places to them assigned, or else by their said writings indented, to certify at the same place before the same day of payment, such reasonable causes for their excuses, why they may not make such certificate, of and for the said Subsidies, Fines, amerciaments, and other causes growing or set, by reason of the causes of their lets, or of their not certifying as is aforesaid, or else in default thereof process to be made out of the King's Majesties said Exchequer, against the said Commissioners, and every of them, not making certificate as is aforesaid, by the discretion of the Treasurer and Baruns of the said Exchequer.  
Provided always, and be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all and every person and persons, having Manors, Lands, Tenements and other Hereditaments chargeable to the payment of the said Subsidy, granted to the King's Majesty by this Act, and also having spiritual possessions chargeable to his said Majesty, by the grant made by the Clergy of this Realm in their convocation, and over this having substance in Goods, and Chattels, chargeable by this said Act, that then if any of the said person or persons be hereafter charged or assessed, and taxed for the said Manors, Lands and Tenements and spiritual possessions, and also assessed charged and taxed, for his and their Goods and Chattels, that then he or they shallbe only charged by virtue of this Act, for his and their said Manors, Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments and spiritual possessions, or enely for his said Goods and Chattels, the best thereof to be taken for the King's Majesty and not to be charged for both, or double charged for any of them. Any thing in this Act contained to the contrary, in any wise notwithstanding.  
Provided always, that this grant of Subsidy or any thing therein contained in any wise extend not, to charge the Provost, fellows and scholars, of the College of the holy Trinity near Dublin, nor any Manors, Lands, Tenements, or other possessions, Goods, Chattels or other movable substance, which the said Provost fellows & scholars, or any others to their use, have within this Realm of Ireland. Any thing in this present Act, to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.  
Provided always, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that no Orphan or Infant within the age of twenty and one years, borne within any the King's majesties Dominions, shallbe charged to any payment of this Subsidy for his or her Goods and Chattels to him or her left or bequeathed: Any thing in this Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding.  
Provided nevertheless, and be it enacted by the authority aforesaid that if any Alien or Stranger borne, Denizen or not Denizen, and dwelling or inhabiting within this Realm of Ireland, shall assign or convey over unto any his or their Child or Children borne within this said Realm of Ireland any his or their Lands, Tenements, Goods and Chattels to the intent thereby to defraud the King's Majesty of his said Subsidy of or for the same, that then all and every such Child or Children, so being seized of any such Lands and Tenements, or possessed of any such Goods or Chattels, shallbe charged and chargeable, to and with the payment of double the said Subsidy for the same Lands Tenements, Goods and Chattels at the said rates and values as Aliens and Strangers Denizens or not Denizens are before limited and appointed to pay.  
FINIS.   

Imprinted at Dublin by john Franckton Printer to the Kings most excellent Majesty for Ireland. Anno Domini. 1615. * (*) ** (*) *