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A.D. 1702. to the Royal Dignity of these Realms after a King that constantly maintained the true Religion Laws and Liberties therein established) reflecting upon Your Majesties most excellent Disposition to preserve and continue Your People in the full and free Enjoyment of the same Religion Laws and Liberties and of all other Blessings which good Subjects can hope for in the most auspicious Reign whereby our Hearts are inflamed with a dutiful Agection to Your Majesty, and being desirous of settling upon Your Majesty for the Expences of Your Civil Government a Revenue equal at least to the Revenue enjoyed for that Purpose by any of Your Royal Predecessors to make a special acknowledgement to Your Majesty for Your great Grace and Favor to us Your Commons have therefore freely and unanimously resolved to give and grant and do hereby give and grant to You our most Gracious Sovereign Lady Queen Anne (whom God long preserve) the several Rates Duties Impositions and Charges hereinafter mentioned during Your Majesties Life And do most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted and be it enacted by the Queens most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That from and after the Ninth Day of March in the Year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and one for and during the Term of the Natural Life of Her Majesty Queen Anne (whom God long preserve) the said Rates and Duties of Excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors granted to His said late Majesty King Charles  by the said Act made in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty King Charles the Second intituled A Grant of certain Impositions upon Beer Ale and other Liquors for the Increase of His Majesties Revenues during His Life and which were granted to Their late Majesties King William and Queen Mary by the said Act made in the Second Year of their Reign for Their Lives and the Life of the Survivor of them (other than and except the said Duty of Six Pence for every Barrell of Vinegar Beer granted by the same Acts) and also the said Duty of Six Pence Part of the said Duty of Eight Shillings granted to His late Majesty King William  for and upon every Barrel of Vinegar Vinegar Beer or Liquor preparing for Vinegar which shall be brewed or made of any English Materials by any Person or Persons whatsoever for Sale and so in proportion for a greater or lesser Quantity by the said Act made in the Tenth Year of His Reign shall be levied collected and paid to Her Majesty in the same Manner and Form and by such Rules Ways Means and Methods and under such Penalties and Forfeitures as are mentioned and expressed in the before mentioned Acts or any of them relating to the said Duties of Excise or any of them or by any other Law now in force relating to the Revenue of Excise And that all and every the said Laws relating to the Revenue of Excise shall be of full Force and Effect to all Intents and Purposes for the levying receiving ascertaining and recovering the said Duties of Excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors hereby granted in the same Manner as if the same were repeated and enacted in the Body of this present Act.

And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid That the said further Subsidies of Tonnage and Poundage and other Duties upon Wines Goods and Merchandizes granted by the said Act made in the Ninth Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty King William shall from and after the said Ninth Day of March during Her Majesties Life be raised levied collected paid and satisfied unto Her Majesty by the same Ways Means and Methods and by the same Rules and Directions and with the same Allowances as are mentioned in the same Act made in the Ninth Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty King William: And the same Act and every [ Article ] Rule and Clause therin contained or thereby referred to so far as the same relates to the raising levying collecting and making Allowances out of the said Subsidies and other Duties shall be of full Force and Effect to all Intents and Purposes during Her Majesties Life as if the same were particularly and at large repeated and set down in the Body of this Act]

And it is hereby enacted and declared That the said Hereditary Rates and Duties of Excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors and the said Duties of Excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors hereby granted to Her Majesty for the Term of Her Life subject nevertheless to the Incumbrances herein after mentioned and the said Revenue of the General Letter Office or Post Office or the Office of Postmaster General and the said small Branches of Her Majesties Revenue (that is to say) The First Fruits and Tenths of the Clergy the Fines for Writs of Covenant and Writs of Entry payable in the Alienation Office the Post Fines the Revenue of the Wine Licenses the Moneys arising by Sheriffs Profers and Compositions in the Exchequer and by the Seizures of uncustomed and proibited Goods The Revenue of the Dutchy of Cornwall and any other Revenue arising by the Rents of Lands in England [and ] Wales or for Fines for Leases of the same or any of them and the Moneys arising by the mid further Subsidies of Tonnage and Poundage and other Duties hereby granted and all other the Branches and Revenues which were chargeable with the said yearly Sum of Seven hundred thousand Pounds (the said Duty of Four and an Half per Centum in Specie arising in Barbadoes and the Leeward Islands in America always excepted and foreprized) shall be for the Support of Her Majesties Houshold and of the Honor and Dignity of the Crown yet nevertheless the said Hereditary Rates and Duties of Excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors and the [said ] Rates and Duties of Excise upon Beer Ale and other Liquors hereby granted to Her Majesty during Her Life and every of them shall be liable and subject to the said weekly Payment of Three thousand seven hundred Pounds according to the Tenor and Effect of the said Act of Parliament made in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of His said late Majesty King William in the same manner as the said Hereditary Rates and Duties of Excise and the said Rates and Duties of Excise which were granted in the Second Year of the Reign of Their said late Majesties and every of them jointly or severally would have been liable to the same weekly Payment if His said Majesty had continued in this Life during the said Term of Five Years Any thing herein containd to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding