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<DATE>2008-03-04</DATE>
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<NAME>Elspeth Healey</NAME>
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<P>I Allow this to be Printed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Rob. Atkyns.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>&s;&s;. To <GAP DESC="blank"> being by us approved and appointed Collectors for the <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1+ words"> within the <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1+ words"> of the Moneys payable to Their Maje&s;ties by vertue of an Act of this pre&s;ent Parliament, Intituled, An Act for a Grant to Their Maje&s;ties of an Aid of Twelve Pence in the Pound for one Year for the nece&s;&s;ary Defence of Their Realms.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THe&s;e are in Their Maje&s;ties Name to Will and Require you, That you Collect and Levy of the &s;everal and re&s;pective Per&s;on and Per&s;ons in the E&s;treat or A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ment hereunto annexed men|tioned, the &s;everal and re&s;pective Sum and Sums of Money on them re&s;pectively Rated or A&s;|&s;e&s;&s;ed; And to that end you are by the &s;aid Act required to make demand thereof of the Parties them&s;elves within &s;ix days after the Receipt hereof; And if any Per&s;on or Per&s;ons &s;hall neglect or refu&s;e to pay, upon your demand, the &s;everal Rates and A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ments wherewith he is Charged by the &s;aid Act for or in re&s;pect of his Goods, Chattels, Per&s;onal E&s;tate, Offices, or Imployments, and which he ought to pay; Or if the Pound Rate, or any Payment thereof charged upon any Mannors, Me&s;&s;uages, Lands, Tene|ments, Hereditaments, and Premi&s;&s;es, &s;hall be neglected or refu&s;ed to be paid, you are hereby Autho|rized and Required to Di&s;trein the Per&s;on or Per&s;ons &s;o refu&s;ing or neglecting to pay, by his or their Goods or Chattels, or to di&s;trein in and upon the Me&s;&s;uage, Lands, and Tenements &s;o Charged, and the Goods and Chattels then and there found, and the Di&s;tre&s;s &s;o taken to keep by the &s;pace of four days at the co&s;t and charges of the Owner thereof, and if the Owner do not pay the &s;ame within the &s;aid four days, the &s;aid Di&s;tre&s;s is hereby directed to be appraized by three or two of the Inhabitants where the Di&s;tre&s;s is taken, and there by you to be &s;old for payment of the &s;aid Money, and the Overplus coming by the &s;aid Sale, (if any be) (over and above the Charges of taking and keeping the &s;aid Di&s;tre&s;s) you are immediately to re&s;tore to the Owner thereof: And the better to enable you to Levy the Money A&s;|&s;e&s;&s;ed by &s;uch Di&s;tre&s;s and Sale, it is by the &s;aid Act declared lawful to break open in the day time any Hou&s;e, and by vertue of this our Warrant, any Trunk, Che&s;t, Box, or other things wherein any &s;uch Offenders Goods are, calling to your a&s;&s;i&s;tance therein the Con&s;tables, Tythingmen, and Headboroughs within your <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1+ words"> where any refu&s;al, neglect or re&s;i&s;tance &s;hall be made, as by the &s;aid Act of Parliament is directed, and they and every of them are hereby required to be aiding and a&s;&s;i&s;ting unto you in the Premi&s;&s;es; And where no &s;ufficient Di&s;tre&s;s is to be found, you are to make and deliver to the Head-Collector a perfect Schedule fairly written in Parchment under your Hands and Seals, to be allowed by two or more of us (or other) Their Maje&s;ties Commi&s;&s;ioners for the &s;aid <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1+ words"> containing the Names, Sirnames, and places of abode of every per&s;on within your Collection who &s;hall make default of Payment, and of the Sum and Sums charged on every &s;uch Per&s;on, to the end the &s;ame may be returned into Their Maje&s;ties Court of <HI>Exchequer,</HI> and the per&s;on &s;o making de|fault of payment may be charged by Proce&s;s of the &s;aid Court; And in ca&s;e any Lands or Hou&s;es within your Collection &s;hall be unoccupied, and no Di&s;tre&s;s can be had for the &s;ame, nor the true Owner found, by rea&s;on whereof the Rates and A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ments upon &s;uch unoccupied Lands cannot be levied, you are to make complaint thereof to us, to the end the &s;ame may be by us Certified into Their Maje&s;ties &s;aid Court of <HI>Exchequer,</HI> and the Per&s;ons made Debtors to Their Maje&s;ties, and Proce&s;&s;es i&s;&s;ued out again&s;t the Body, Goods, and all other Lands of &s;uch Debtor, until the &s;ame be fully paid; And where any Per&s;on or per&s;ons chargeable with any Rates or A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ments by the &s;aid Act impo&s;ed, &s;hall be under the age of 21 years, in every &s;uch ca&s;e their Parents, Guardians or Tutors re&s;pectively, upon default of payment by &s;uch Infant, are made liable and chargeable with the payment which &s;uch Infants ought to have made, and upon neglect or refu&s;al may be proceeded again&s;t in like manner as again&s;t other Per|&s;ons making default of payment as afore&s;aid. And the &s;everal and re&s;pective Tenants of all and every the Me&s;&s;uages, Mannors, Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments, and Premi&s;&s;es, which by vertue of the &s;aid Act &s;hall be charged with any Pound Rate, are hereby required to pay &s;uch Sums of Money as &s;hall be rated upon the &s;ame, and to deduct out of the Rent &s;o much thereof as in re&s;pect of the Rents the Land|lord ought to bear; But the Tax or A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ment which &s;hall be made or impo&s;ed in re&s;pect of any Hou&s;e or Tenement which any Emba&s;&s;ador, Re&s;ident, Agent, or other Publick Mini&s;ter of any Foreign Prince or State, doth or &s;hall Inhabit or Occupy, is to be paid by the Landlord or Owner re&s;pectively; And the Tax or A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ment made or impo&s;ed upon the Shares or Intere&s;t in the <HI>New-River</HI> or <HI>Thames, Hide-Park,</HI> or <HI>Maribone-water-works,</HI> or on the Stock or Stocks of all Companies of Merchants in <HI>Lon|don,</HI> charged by the &s;aid Act, and on the Stock and Shares for Printing, are to be paid by the Gover|nors and Trea&s;urers of the &s;aid Companies, and Trea&s;urers of the &s;aid Water-works, and Stock for Printing; And the A&s;&s;e&s;&s;ment laid upon our &s;elves or any other Their Maje&s;ties Commi&s;&s;ioners for put|ting the &s;aid Act in Execution, you are to levy and gather as it &s;hould or ought to have been, if we or they had not been Commi&s;&s;ioners; And you are further Required to take &s;uch &s;peedy and effectua Order and Care in the Premi&s;&s;es, that you fail not to levy and pay into the Head-Collector of the &s;aid <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1+ words"> the total Sum of <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1+ words"> (Being tne <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1+ words"> Payment (or one moiety) of the Moneys charged upon your &s;aid <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1+ words"> by vertue of the &s;aid Act) at &s;uch place as &s;hall be appointed you within ten miles of your &s;aid <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1+ words"> on or before the <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1+ words"> day of <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1+ words"> now next coming: Hereof you are not to fail, as you will an&s;wer the contrary at your utmo&s;t Peril.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under our Hands and Seals <DATE>the <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1+ words"> day of <GAP DESC="blank" EXTENT="1+ words"> in the Fir&s;t Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord and Lady <HI>William</HI> and <HI>Mary,</HI> by the Grace of God, of <HI>England, Scotland, France,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> King and Queen, Defenders of the Faith, <HI>&amp;c. Anno&abque; Dom.</HI> 1689.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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