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Rh the Queenes Majestie, or other Lord or Lady, master or mistresse, be excused upon his saying from the taxes of the said Subsidy in either of the places where he may be set, unlesse he bring a certificat in writing from the Commissioners where that he is so set in deed at one place. And if any person that ought to be set, by reason of his remooving or resorting to two places, or by reason of his saying that he elsewhere was taxed, or by reason of any priviledge by his dwelling or abiding in any place, not being foreprised in this Act, or otherwise by his couin or craft happen to escape from the said taxations, and be not set, and that prooved by presentment, examination or information, before the said Commissioners, or as many of them as shall be by the same Commission appointed, or by the Barons of the Queenes Majesties Exchequer, or two Justices of the peace, of the County where such person dwelleth, then every such person that by such meanes or otherwise willingly by couin shall happen to escape from the said taxation or payment aforesaid, and not be taxed, rated and set, shall be charged upon the knowledge and proofe thereof, with and at the double value that hee should or ought to have beene set at afore, according to his behaviour, the same double value to be levied, gathered 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 shall be convicted for his offence and deceipt in that behalfe.

XXI. And further be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the said Commissioners of every Commission, shall according to their divisions, and after they be divided, have full power and authority by this Act, to set, taxe, and sesse every other Commissioner, joyned with them in every such Commission and division, & shall also assese every Assessor, within their division, for his and their Goods, Lands, and other the premisses, as is abovesaid. By the which said Commission, the said Commissioners shall indifferently set, taxe and assesse themselces, and the said Assessors. And that as well the summes upon every of the said Commissioners and Assessors so assessed, rated and taxed, as the summes made and presented by the Presentors, sworne as is abovesaid, shall be written, certified, set and estreated, and the estreats thereof to be made with other the Inhabitants of those parts within the limits of the same Commission and division, so to be gathered and levied, in like manner as it ought or should have beene, if the said Commissioners had not beene in the saide Commission. And that all persons of the estate of a Baron or Barons, and every estate above, shall bee charged with their freehold and value, as is abovesaid, by the Chancellor or Keeper of the great Seale, Treasurer of England, Lord President of the Queenes Majesties privy Counsell, and Lord privy Seale for the time being, or other persons by the Queenes Majesties authority to be limited, and they to be charged for the said severall payments of the said Subsidy, after the forme of the said Grant, according to the taxation aforesaid, and the summes upon them set, with the names of the Collectors appointed for the gathering and paying of the same, to bee estreated, delivered and certified, at dayes and places above specified, by the Lord Chancellor, or Keeper of the great Seale, Treasurer, Lord President of the Counsell, and Lord privie Seale for the time being, or such other persons as shall bee limited by the Queenes Majestie. And after the taxes and assesses of the said summes upon and by the said assessing and certificat, as is aforesaid, made, the said Commissioners, or as many of them as shall be thereunto appointed by the Queenes Majesties Commission, shall with all speed, and without delay, by the writing estreated of the said taxe thereof, under the Seales and signes manuell of the said Commissioners, or as many of them as shall be appointed at the least, to be made, be delivered unto sufficient and substantial Inhabitants, Constables, subconstables, Bailiffes, and other officers, joyntly, of hundreds, townes, parishes, and other places aforesaid, within their limits, or to other sufficient persons Inhabitants of the same onely, by the discretion of the said Commissioners, and as the place and parties shall require, as well the particular names and surnames, as the remembrance of all summes of money, taxed and set, of and upon every person, as wel man as woman, chargeable to this Act, householder, and all other Inhabitants and dwellers within the said parishes, townes and places contributory to this Act of Subsidy. By authority of which writing or estreat so delivered, the said officers and other persons so named and deputed severally, shall have full power and authority by vertue of this Act, immediately after the delivery of the said writing or estreat, to demaund, levy, and gather of every person therin specified, the summe or summes in the same writing or estreat comprised, and for non payment thereof, to distraine the same person or persons so being behind, by their goods and chattels, and the distresse so taken, to keepe by the space of eight dayes, at the costes and charges of the owner thereof. And if the said owner doe not pay such summe of money as shall be taxed by this Act, within the same eight dayes, then the same distresse to be appraised by foure, three or two of the Inhabitants where such distresse is taken, & also to be fold by the said Constable or other Collector, for the paiment of the said money, and the overplus comming of the sale and keeping thereof (if any be) to bee immediatly restored to the owner of the same distresse, which said officers and other persons so deputed to aske, take, gather, and levie, the said summes, shall answere and be charged for the portion only to them assigned or limited, to be gathered, levied, and comprised in the said writing or estreat so to them (as is aforessaid) delivered, to the usbe of our Soveraigne Lady the Queenes Majestie, and her heires, and successors. And the said summe in that writing or estreat comprised, to pay unto the high Collector or Collectors of the place for the collection of the same, in maner and forme under written, thereunto to be named and deputed, and the same inhabitants and officers so gathering the same particular summes, for their collection thereof, shall retaine for every twenty shillings so by them received and paid, two pence, and that to be allowed at the payment of heir collection by them to be made to the high Collector or Collectors.}} XXII. And further be it enacted by the said authoritie, that the said Commissioners, or the more part of them, as shall take upon them the execution and businesse of the said Commission, shall for either of the same payments of the said Subsidie, name such sufficient and able persons, which then shall have possessed