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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<STC T="C">R224861</STC>
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<HEAD>A Probable Calculation of the Annual Income To be RAISED by a <HI>Tax on Marriages, Burials, and Legacies.</HI></HEAD>
<P>COmputing there be Free-Holders in <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Wales,</HI> 466716. who have Votes for Knights of the Shire: And that tho&s;e who have no Votes are 26 to One, there are &s;ubject to the&s;e Ca&s;ual Payments 12134616.</P>
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<ROW>
<CELL>Marriages,</CELL>
<CELL>If Yearly Married Peers, and others, computing one in One Hundred, at 121346. paying one with another 20 <HI>s. per Annum.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>121346 l.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Burials,</CELL>
<CELL>At 10 <HI>s.</HI> as a Medium one with another, computing 242692. at one in Fifty Per&s;ons being Buried, is the &s;ame Sum of</CELL>
<CELL>121346 l.</CELL>
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<ROW>
<CELL>Legacies,</CELL>
<CELL>Allowing one in Two Hundred, in a Year, at 10 <HI>s. per</HI> Legacy</CELL>
<CELL>60673 l. 1 s. 7 d.</CELL>
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<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>So as the Annual Revenue will be</CELL>
<CELL>303365 l. 1 s. 7 d.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>Whereout if there be allowed for Collecting and lo&s;s</CELL>
<CELL>13365 l. 1 s. 7 d.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>There will come clear into the <HI>Exchequor, per Annum</HI></CELL>
<CELL>290000 l.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>Which in Ten Years time amounts to Two Millions and Nine Hundred Thou&s;and Pounds</CELL>
<CELL>2900000 l.</CELL>
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<P>The&s;e Payments are ea&s;y, for that no Per&s;on pays bat when is gained or &s;aved.</P>
<P>The Collection is &s;o much the more ea&s;y, for that Regi&s;tring of Marriages and Buryals are already in U&s;e, and all Wills Regi&s;tred in <HI>Eccle&s;ia&s;tical Courts;</HI> and there may be a Clau&s;e in the Bill, that this <HI>New Duty</HI> being paid, &s;hall be a Di&s;charge to any Per&s;on not taking Licen&s;e or Faculty, or Publi&s;hing their Baines, by which will be &s;aved 16 <HI>s.</HI> and 8 <HI>d.</HI> by the one, and 1 <HI>s.</HI> by the other.</P>
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<HEAD>The perticuler Rates of every Per&s;on &s;ubject to this <HI>Tax.</HI></HEAD>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label" COLS="3">Marriages.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">Burials.</CELL>
<CELL ROLE="label">Legacies.</CELL>
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<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>l.</CELL>
<CELL>s.</CELL>
<CELL>d.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Of every Arch-Bi&s;hop, Duke, or Marque&s;s</CELL>
<CELL>50</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="16">The like, except &s;uch Per&s;on as &s;hall wear <HI>Badge</HI> or <HI>Li|very,</HI> or is <HI>Buried</HI> with|out Fees, or at a <HI>Publick Charge.</HI></CELL>
<CELL ROWS="16">For any <HI>&s;um</HI> or value of any Devi&s;e or Beque&s;t which &s;hall exceed the value of 4 <HI>l</HI> 12 d. per. <HI>l.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Every Dutche&s;s, or Marchione&s;s the like.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Every Earl</CELL>
<CELL>30</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Every Counte&s;s the like.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Every Vi&s;count, Bi&s;hop, and Baron</CELL>
<CELL>20</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Every Vi&s;counte&s;s and Barone&s;s the like.</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Every Banneret, Baronet, Knight of the <HI>Bath,</HI> and other Per&s;on (not Noble) taking place of them</CELL>
<CELL>10</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Every Lady</CELL>
<CELL>10</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Every E&s;quire, or Reputed E&s;quire</CELL>
<CELL>5</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Every Son or Daughter of &s;uch E&s;quire</CELL>
<CELL>2</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Every Gentleman, Merchant, Mayor, or Bailiff of a Town or Corporation, Ma&s;ter of any Guild or Fraternity</CELL>
<CELL>2</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Their Son or Sons, Daughter or Daughters</CELL>
<CELL>1</CELL>
<CELL>10</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Every other Per&s;on having Forty Shillings <HI>per Annum,</HI> or any Trade or Profe&s;&s;ion requiring any Stock</CELL>
<CELL>1</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Every Son or Daughter of &s;uch Per&s;on</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>10</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Every other Per&s;on not taking Alms, or wearing Livery</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>10</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>Every other Per&s;on what&s;oever</CELL>
<CELL>0</CELL>
<CELL>2</CELL>
<CELL>6</CELL>
</ROW>
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