That all common Handicrafts-men not residing in Corporations or Sea Towns , shall pay equally with the Husbandman and petty Farmer .

That all Car-men and Carriers shall pay equally with the Husbandman and petty Farmer .

That all In-holders and Shop-keepers not in Corporations , shall pay equally with the Yeoman and chief Farmer .

That every person of what degree soever , under the degree of a Baron that can dispend Ten pounds per annum in Lands , Tenements , Hereditaments , Beneficial Leases , Offices Civil or Military , or otherwise , shall pay ( over and above the sums in the former Qualifications mentioned ) two shillings Sterl . for every such Ten pounds a year he hath .

That every other person or persons of either sex of what degree or quality soever , as well Souldiers as others being above the age of fifteen years , and not comprised within any of the said Qualifications before mentioned , shall pay two shillings Sterl .

And it is further ordained by the authority aforesaid , that all & every person and persons chargeable with any sum of money by this Ordinance , shall be rated and charged for his or her degree and quality in such place onely , where he or she , or his or her Family was resident for the space of three months next before , or where he or she shall be found resident at the time of putting of this Ordinance in execution , and no where else .

And that all and every person beforementioned , and every absentee under the degree of a Baron , that hath neither Family , Stock , or habitation within this Realm shall pay for all and every ten pounds per annum , which he or she shall have in Lands , Leases , Tenements , or Offices , the sum of two shillings for each ten pounds in the County or place where the same shall respectively accrew or arise , which said sum every Tennant or Deputy holding the same , shall be liable to pay , and shall and may defaulk the same out of the Rent or sums due to the said Landlord , or other person that shall so be absent as aforesaid , unless by Contract , or Covenant between such Landlord and Tennant it be otherwise agreed or provided for .

And it is further ordained by the authority aforesaid , that all the sums of money due and payable by virtue of this Ordinance , shall be paid unto the high Collectors hereafter named , or to be named by virtue of this Ordinance , at two distinct payments , by even and equal portions , the first moyety thereof to be paid on or before the tenth day of April next ensuing ; And the second moyety thereof to be paid to the said high Collectors on the feaventh day of May then next following ; And the said high Collectors within six days after receipt of each of the said several moyeties respectively , are hereby required to pay the same to the Vice-Treasurer and other persons hereafter appointed for the receipt thereof , accordingly as hereby is afterwards limited .

And whereas there is very great reason that in Cities , Burroughs , and Towns Corporate in respect of the several degrees and qualities of persons therein residing , there should be a more exact distinction of such persons , then will or can be assertained under the aforementioned distinctions ; Therefore it is hereby ordained , that the more particular proportioning the sums to be paid by the several persons residing within such Corporations as aforesaid , ( for which Commissioners are in and by this Ordinance named and appointed ) shall be left to the order and discretion of the said Commissioners , or some of them of that County where the said Corporations respectively are , ( being not counties of themselves ) being joyned unto certain other honest and substantial Inhabitants of every of the said Cities , Burroughs , and Towns Corporate as are herein named to be Commissioners for such Cities Burroughs and Towns Corporate by this Ordinance . And the Commissioners hereby appointed for the County wherein such City , Burrough , or Town Corporate doth lie , and the Commissioners hereby appointed for such City , Town , or Burrough are required within four days after notice of this Ordinance to meet together , and they or any three or more of them , ( whereof one Inhabitant within such City , Town , or Burrough , and one Commissioner for the said County are always to be two ) are to set such rates and sums of money upon the Inhabitants of such respective Cities , Towns , or Burroughs as to them shall be thought fit , due and equal regard being had to the profits and advantages arising out of each persons Traffick , Trade , Stock , Profession , or Manufactory , so as no such rate or sum of money to be set upon any person or persons , be under the rate before expressed , for their respective qualities , degrees , offices , and Estates , and as they would have been assessed if he or they did not live in any City , Burrough , or Town Corporate .

Provided that every Baronet , Knight , Esquire , and Gentleman , and every other person or persons , residing in any City , Burrough , or Town Corporate , not using any Merchandize or Trade , shall pay according to the rates aforementioned and no otherwise ; And the said proportions so set , are to be leavyed and received in manner as hereafter in this Ordinance for the same and the other sums hereby limited is provided , And where such Cities , Towns , or Burroughs are Counties of themselves , then to the discretion of the Commissioners for such Cities , Towns and Burroughs . And also that every Alyen or stranger born out of the Realms of England , Scotland , and Ireland , being Denizens or not Denizens , of what degree or quality soever , and being of the age of seaven years or above , shall pay double the sum of money which a free born Subject of these Realms being in the same degree or qualification which the said Alien is by this present Ordinance to pay .

And be it further ordained by the authority aforesaid , That every such person or persons of the several degrees or qualities aforementioned , as well such as be born within England , Scotland , or Ireland , as every other person , stranger born , Denizen , or not Denizen inhabiting within this Realm or else where , which at the time of the said ratings so to be had or made shall be out of this Realm , and have Goods , Chattels , Lands or Tenements , Fees , or Annuities , or other profits within this Realm shall be chargeable , and charged for the same where such Goods , Chattels , Lands , Tenements , Fees , Annuities , or other profits then shall be , or in such other place where such person or persons , or his or their Factors , Deputie , Agent or Attourney shall have his or their most usual resort unto within this Realm , in like manner as if the said person were or had been at the time of the said rating within this Realm .

And be it further ordained by the Authority aforesaid , That every Master or Mistress being sole with whom any Servant is or shall be abiding at the time of the ratings aforesaid , liable to the payments in this Ordinance , as also every Guardian , Father , or Mother being a Widdow , with whom any Child or Children are residing at the time of the ratings aforesaid , not being marryed , and lyable to the payments in this Ordinance , and also every Husband is , and are , and shall be charged for such respective payments due from their Wives , Children , or Servants , for lack of payment thereof by such Wives , Servants , or Children , And that it shall and may be lawful for every Master or Mistress to defaulk such sum or sums of money as he or she shall deposit or lay down for their Servants , out of such wages as are or shall hereafter grow due to such Servants .

And be it further ordained by the authority aforesaid , That for the better and more regular ordering of the said moneys to be rated , charged and paid , that the several persons hereafter in this Ordinance named , or any three or more of them be , and are hereby appointed Commissioners within the several Counties , Cities , Burroughs in which they are so named and appointed , who hereby have full power and Authority to put the same in effectual execution , and that by the authority of this Ordinance after notice thereof given them , they may by their assents and agreement sever themselves for the execution thereof in the several Baronies , and other places within the limits of their said County , in such form as to them shall seem expedient to be ordered ; And the said Commissioners , or any three or more of them shall direct their several or joynt precept or precepts unto such a number of the able and discreet Protestant Inhabitants if they may be had , to be named by the said Commissioners as aforesaid of and in the Baronies , Parrishes , Towns and other places within the limits of their County , straitly by the said precept or precepts , charging them to appear in their proper persons before the said Commissioners , or such number of them as they shall divide themselves into , at a certain day and place as by the discretion of the Commsssioners as aforesaid shall be limitted and appointed , regard always to be had where with conveniency it may be that such place appointed be for the most indifferent ease and travail of the Inhabitants of the said County , whose appearance shall be necessary towards the execution of this Ordinance commanding further by every such precept , that he to whose hand such precept shall come , shall shew , and deliver the same to the other Inhabitants named in the same precept , and that none of them fail to accomplish the same upon pain of forty shillings .

And it is further ordained by the Authority aforesaid , That at the said day and place prefixed and limitted in the said precept , every of the said Commissioners then being within this Realm , not having sufficient excuse , shall appear in his proper person , and there the said Commissioners being present , or any three or more of them , shall call , or cause to be called before them the said Inhabitants to whom they have directed their precept , and if any person so warned make default , unless he then be letted by sickness or other lawful excuse , or if any appearing , refuse to serve in form following , then every such person so making default or refusing to serve , shall forfeit forty shillings , and upon the same appearance had , they shall be charged before the Commissioners by all convenient ways and means to inquire of all and every person within the respective places limited to their care of each sex , of and above the age of fifteen years and of what Rank , Quality , or Degree he or they are , and also of what Estate he or they have by the year in Lands , Offices or otherwise chargable by virtue of this Ordinance , and of the dwelling and abiding places of such persons within the limits of the places that they shall be charged with , and of all others which shall have his or their most resort unto any of the said places , and chargable with any sums of moneys by this Ordinance , and of all other things requisite touching the said Ordinance , 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 sir-names , and the qualifications and estates of every person residing within the limits of the places that they shall be charged with , without any concealment , love , favour , or affection , dread or malice , upon pain of forfeiture of five pounds , to be taxed , extracted , and leavyed in form as hereafter in this Ordinance shall be limitted and appointed , and thereupon the said Commissioners shall openly there read , or cause to be read unto them , the several qualifications of the persons , and the sums by such persons under such qualifications payable as is in this Ordinance mentioned , and in what manner and form they ought to make their Certificate , and of all manner of persons as well Alyens and strangers , Denizens or not Denizens inhabiting within this Realm , as of such persons as be born within the said three Realms , and of persons being in the parts beyond the Seas , having Goods and Chattels , Lands or Tenements within this Realm as aforesaid ; and of all goods being in the custody of any person or persons to the use of any such absentee : by the which information and shewing the said persons shall have such plain knowledge of the true intent of this present Ordinance , that they shall have no reasonable cause to excuse themselves by ignorance .

And after such charge , and this Ordinance , and the manner of the said Certificate to be made in writing , and every thing requisite and necessary to their said Certificate to them declared , the said Commissioners there being , shall by their discretion appoint and limit unto the said persons another day and place to appear before the said Commissioners , and charging the said persons that they in the mean time shall make diligent inquiry by all ways and means of the premisses , and then and there every of them upon pain of forfeiture of fourty shillings 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 this Ordinance , as to them in manner aforesaid hath been declared and shewed 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 , then every of them so offending to forfeit forty shillings ; except there be a reasonable excuse , and of such as appear ready to make the Certificate as aforesaid , the said Commissioners there being , shall take and receive the same Certificate , and if the 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 there openly prefix a day at a certain place or places within the limits of their County by their discretion for the further proceeding in the execution of this Ordinance , and thereupon at the said day of the said Certificate , as is aforesaid taken , the said Commissioners shall make their precept or precepts to such persons or Offcers as they shall think fit within their jurisdiction , comprising in the said precepts the names and sir-names of all such persons presented before them in the said Certificate , of whom the said Commissioners shall have cause to suspect to be of a different qualification , or value in Lands , Offices or otherwise , then under what they are in the said Certificates returned , ( except the Commissioners upon their own knowledge can assertain the same , in which case they have power by this Ordinance to amend the said Certificate ) accordingly , to warn such persons whose names shall be comprised in the said precepts at their mansions , or to their persons , that the same persons , and every of them shall personally appear before the said Commissioners at the same new prefixed day and place , there to be examined concerning the premisses , at which day and place so prefixed , the said Commissioners then and there being , shall cause to be called the said persons , whose names are comprised in the said precept for their examination , and if any of those persons which shall be warned , which at any time after the warning , and before the prefixed day , shall be within such place where he may have knowledge of his said appearance to be made , make default and appeare not , unlesse upon reasonable cause or excuse shown , that then every of them so making default , to be charged and rated according to such Qualification or Value as aforesaid , as he or they are supposed or suggested to be comprized in , and Power and Authority is hereby given to the said Commissioners to inlarge or increase or other wise to abate or diminish the ratings of such persons , as they shall find by due examination , or upon their own knowledge to be falsly returned under any Qualification .

And if any person or persons that ought to be rated and charged to any of the payments in this Ordinance mentioned , by reason of his or their resorting , and removing from place to place , or by reason of his or their saying that he or they were else where charged , or by reason of any priviledge of his or their dwelling or abiding in any place not being foreprized in this Ordinance , or otherwise by his or their covin or craft , or by any words or sayings , or otherwise , or if any that is a Commissioner , or Presenter , or Assessor of others , happen to escape from the said chargings , and be not rated and charged according to the true intent of this Ordinance , and that proved by presentment , examination , or information , or otherwise , before the said Commissioners , or any three of them ; then every such person that by such means , or otherwise willingly by covin , or without just cause , shall avoid the payments or chargings aforesaid or any of them , shall be charged upon the knowledge and proofs thereof with and at treble the value of so much as he , or they , should , might or ought to have been rated and charged at by virtue of this Ordinance for his or their degree or quality , onely a third part of which penalty or treble value , the Commissioners of each County , or any three or more of them , are hereby impowered to allow to any person or persons that shall discover the frauds aforesaid or any of them , and the same treble value to be gathered , leavyed and of his or their Goods , and Chattels , Lands , and Tenements in manner as hereafter is expressed .

And be it further ordained by the Authority aforesaid , that the said Commissioners which shall be or inhabit in any County , or place within the limit of that County , or the greater part of them , shall have full power and authority by this Ordinance , to rate , charge , and sess every other Commissioners joyned with them in that County , according to their respective qualifications , and the said Commissioners within every division , shall also rate and charge every Presenter or Assessor within his or their division according to their respective qualifications and estates as aforesaid , and that as well the sums upon every of the said Commissioners and Presenters so set , rated , and charged as the sums made and presented by the presenters shall be written , certifyed , set and estreated , and the estreats thereof to be made with the other Inhabitants of that part , and within the limits of the said County or division , so to be gathered and leavyed in like manner as it ought or should have been if the said Commissioners or Presenters had been private persons .

And be it further ordained by the Authority aforesaid , that after the said rates and charges of the said sum upon and by the said Assessing , and Certificate as is aforesaid made , the said Commissioners , or any three or more of them shall with all convenient speed by their writing , estreat the said rates and charges thereof under their seals and signes manual , and the same shall deliver unto such sufficient and substantial Inhabitants of the Baronies , Parrishes , and other places aforefaid within their limits , as shall be approved by the high Collectors hereafter to be appointed , containing as well the particular names and sir-names , as the remembrance of all sums of moneys not in Figures but in writing at large , charged and set of and upon every person chargable by this Ordinance according to their several qualifications and estates as aforesaid , by Authority of which writing and estreat so delivered , the same persons so named and deputed severally , shall have full power and authority by virtue of this Ordinance , immediately after the delivering of the said writing or estreat , to demand , leavy , and gather of every person therein specified the sum or sums in the said writing or estreat comprized , and for non-payment thereof , to distrein the said person or persons so being behind by their Goods and Chattels , and the distresses so taken , to keep by the space of six days , at the costs and charges of the owner thereof : and if the said owner or owners do not pay such sum or sums of moneys as shall be rated or charged upon him or them by authority of this Ordinance within the said six days , then the same distress to be apprized by two of the Inhabitants where such distress is taken , and then to be sould by the said Collectors for the payment of the said moneys , and the overplus coming of the sale and keeping thereof ( if any be ) immediately to be restored to the owner or owners of the distress , which said persons so deputed to take , ask , gather , and leavy the said sums , shall answer and be charged for the portion onely to them assigned , and limited to be gathered and leavyed , and comprized in the said writing or estreat , so to them ( as is aforesaid ) delivered , and the said sums in that writing or estreat comprized , to pay unto the high Collector of that County for the collection of the same in manner and form under written thereunto to be named and deputed .

And further be it ordained by the said Authority , that the said Commissioners which shall be present at their first meeting , or the major part of them , shall then name and appoint one sufficient and able person , as by their discretion shall be thought fit , residing within the limits of their County to be high Collector , and to have the collection and receipt of the said sums set and leavyable within the said County , and the said Commissioners , or any three or more of them with all convenient speed , after the whole sum be rated and charged in all the divisions of their County , shall under their Seals and Signes manual , deliver unto the said high Collector , one estreat indented , comprizing in it the names of all such persons as were assigned to leavy the said particular sums , and the sums of every Barony , Cantred , Hundred , City , Town , Parish , and other place aforesaid , with the names and sir-names of the persons so chargable according to the estreats thereof made and delivered as aforesaid , and the said high Collectors to be assigned , shall be charged to answer the whole sum comprized in the said estreat limited in his collection .

Provided alwayes , and be it ordained , that before the delivery of the aforesaid Estreats unto the said high Collector , the said high Collector to enter into Bond with sufficient Security to the use of his Majestie , his Heirs and Successors , before the said Commissioners or any Three or more of them , to be bound in double the Summe of his Collection upon Condition , that if the said Collector his heires or Executors do truely content and pay unto the Vice-Treasurer , and Treasurer at Warrs for the time being , his Deputy or Deputies , or his or their Order , all and every the summe and summes of Money , which he shall receive within the Limits of his Collection accordingly , as from time to time he shall receive the same , That then the said Obligation to be void , or else to remaine in full force and vertue , which said Obligation so taken , the said Commissioners shall send and cause to be delivered unto the said Vice-Treasurer and Treasurer at Warre for the time being , his Deputy o● Deputies , with the severall Estreats of the said Chargings and Rates within the Limits of their severall Iurisdictions , and also Abstracts thereof , under the hands and seales of the said Commissioners , or any Three , or more of them , to the Lords Iustices , or other Chief Governor or Governors for the time being , on or before the foureteenth day of April next , and the said Vice-Treasurer , his Deputy or Deputies , upon payment of the said severall Collections at the times herein limitted for the payment thereof , shall cancell and deliver the said Obligation to the said high Collector without any Fee or Reward , and every high Collector so deputed having the said Estreat as is aforesaid , shall have Authority by this Ordinance , to appoint daies and places , within the Divisions of that County , whereof he is high Collector , for the payment of the said Summes to him respectively to be made , and thereof to give Notice to all such persons , having the Charge of the perticular Collections within the Barronies , Cantreds , Hundreds , Parishes , Townes , or other places , to make payment of the perticular Collections of every Sum as to them shall appertaine , and if at that same day and place so prefixed and limitted by the said high Collector , the said persons appointed for the particular Collection , within such Barrony , Cantred , Hundred Citty , Town , Parish , or other place , do not pay unto the said Collector the sum within the several Barronies , Cantreds , Hundreds , Towns , Parrishes , and other places due and comprized within the said Estreat thereof to them delivered by the said Commissioners , or some of them , or so much thereof , as they have by any meanes received , that then it shall be lawfull to the said high Collector and his Assignes , to distrein every of the said persons for their said several and particular Collections of the said Summes comprized in the said Estreat to him ( as is before expressed ) delivered , or for so much of the same Summe , as to them shall happen to be gathered and levied , and to be behind and unpaid , by the Goods and Chattels of every of them so behind and unpaid , and the Distresses so taken to be kept and appraised and sould as aforesaid , and thereof to take and levy the Sums so then being behind and unpaid , and the overplus comming of the Sale of the said Distresse ( if any be ) to be restored and delivered to the Owner in Forme above remembred .

And it is also by the said Authority Ordained , That if any person charged to and for the Collection and Receipt of any part or portion of the Summes comprized in the said Estreats according to this Ordinance , after all lawfull meanes and endeavours by him used to collect and ce●e●●e the same , yet if by the dying of any person , or departure of any person from the place where he was so charged , and set or being an Absentee , or that his Goods and Chat●e s be so eloyned , or in such privy or covert manner kept , as that the said person or persons charged with the same by Estreats , or other Writing from the Commissioners , cannot or may not Levy the Summe or Summes comprized within the said Estreats , by Distresse within the Limitts of their Collection , then upon Relation thereof , and due Examination of such person or persons as shall be charged with and for the Receipt and Collection of the same before the said Commissioners , or any Three of them , where such person or persons were rated and charged , and upon plaine Certificate therein made unto the said Vice-Treasurer , and Treasurer at Warre for the time being , his Deputy or Deputies by the said Commissioners , of the dwelling place , Names and Summes of the said persons , of whom the same Sums cannot be levyed and had , then the said persons appointed for the same particular Collection against the high Collector , as the high Collector upon his Account to be discharged thereof , And over that the said Commissioners , to whom all such Declaration of the Premisses shall be made in Forme aforesaid , from time to time 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 or persons , or to any other person , or to any Sherriffe , Steward , Bayliffe , 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 Summes shall have Lands , Tenements , or other Hereditaments , or reall Possessions , Goods and Chattels , whereby any such person so indebted , his Heires , Executors Assignes , or other having the Custody , Governance or Disposition of any Goods , Chattels , Lands , Tenements or other Possessions , whereof such Summe and Summes which by any such person and persons may or ought to be levyed , be it within the Limit of such County , where such person or persons was or were charged , or without in any place within this Realme of Ireland , by which Precept as well such person or persons shall be charged to Levy such Money , as the Officer of the place or places where such Distresses may be taken , shall have full Power and Authority to distraine every such person indebted , charged , and chargeable by this Ordinance , or his Executors or Administrators of his Goods , Chattels , his Guardians , Factors , Deputies , Lessees , Farmors and Assignes , and all other persons by whose hands , or out of whose Lands , every such person should have Fee , Rent , Annuity , or other Profits , or which at the time of the said Rating or Charging , shall have Goods or Chattels , or any other thing moveable of any such person or persons being indebted , or owing such Summe , and the Distresses so taken , cause to be kept , appraised and sould in like manner and forme as is aforesaid . And if any such Distresse for non-Paymenc , happen to be taken out of the Limits of the said persons charged and assigned to levy the same , the person so charged for leavying any such Summe by Distresse , shall have 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 , to be levyed upon the Partie making default by Distresse , over and above the Summe charged on the said Party , every such Farmor , Tennant , Guardian , Factor , or other whatsoever person being distrained , or otherwise charged for Payment of any such Sum or Sums , or any other Summe by reason of this Ordinance , shall be of such Summe or Summes of him or them so leavied and taken , quitted 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 shall be so charged , and set any Grant or Writing Obligatory , or other whatsoever matter to the contrary made heretofore notwithstanding .

And be it further ordained by the authority aforesaid , That all penalties mentioned in this Ordinance which shall happen to be incurred by any person or persons , shall be set down particularly in the estreat which shall be delivered to any person or persons particularly appointed to collect and receive the several sums in their respective divisions where such person or persons are residing , by whom such penalty shall be incurred , and to be leavied and received in such manner and form by the said Sub-Collectors , and paid over to the High-Collector as if such penalties had been imposed upon such persons for the sums rated and charged upon them for their respective qualifications , and in the same estreats to be returned to the said Vice-Treasurer and Treasurer at War for the time being , his Deputy or Deputies , that thereby a particular account of such penalties may be had , as also the sum or sums being behind or unpaid by any person or persons which are to be leavyed and gathered by virtue of the aforesaid process to be made by the said Commissioners , that further Order may be taken therein ; And if any Collector or other person , charged with any receipt of any part of the said several sums , or any other person rated or otherwise by this Ordinance charged with or for any part of the said several sums , or with any other sum , penalty , or other forfeiture , happen to die before the Collectors , or other whatsoever person or persons have executed , accomplished , satisfyed , or sufficiently discharged , that which to every such person appertain or belong to do according to this Ordinance , then the Executors and Heirs of every such person and all others , seized of any Lands and Tenements that any such person being charged by this Ordinance , and deceasing before he be discharged thereof , or any other to his use , onely had of Estate of Inheritance , at the time that any such person was named , Collector , or otherwise charged with or for any manner of thing to be done , satisfyed or paid , by reason of this Ordinance , 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 Ordinance , shall be by the same compelled and charged to do and accomplish in every case as the same person being so charged should have done , or might have been compelled to do if he had been living after such rate , of the Lands and Goods of the said Collector , or other person as abovesaid , as the party shall have in his Lands .

And it is further ordained by the authority aforesaid , That the Commissioners hereby appointed in the several Counties , Cities , Towns and Burroughs in this Realm , are and shall be hereby authorized , out of the moneys that shall be raised by virtue of this Ordinance , to make such allowances to the High-Collectors , and other Collectors , and Clerks that shall be by them imployed , or for any other charges that shall to them seem requisite for the better leavying and bringing in the several sums of money herein formerly mentioned as to them shall be thought fit and necessary , so as the allowances so to be made by the said Commissioners , do not exceed the sum of Twelve pence in the pound , which said Twelve pence in the pound is to be allowed by the said Treasurer unto the several High-Collectors upon their respective accounts .

Provided always , that this Ordinance , or any thing therein conteined , in any wise extend not to charge the Provost , Fellows and Schollers of the foundation of the Colledge of the Holy Trinity near Dublin , nor to any Hospital men , or people living upon Alms.

And whereas it hath been declared to this General Convention , that the insolvencies and deficiencies of the two former Polls hath principally risen from , and been occasioned by the removeal of many of the Vnder-tennants , and meaner sort of people out of the Towns and Villages wherein they did inhabite at the time of making up the Estreats , or Lists of the Inhabitants of such Townes and Villages , and that purposely to avoid the Payments of the said Pole-monies , so that the Collectors of the severall Counties and Barronies could neither finde them , or their Distresses , to make Payment of the Summe or Summes chargrd on them in the said Estreats , to the great dis-service of his Majestie , and disappointment of the Expectations of this Generall Convention : And forasmuch as the same could not happen without the Connivance of the Land-Lord , Farmor , or Head-Tennant of such Towne or Village . Be it therefore ordained by the authority aforesaid , that where any person or persons inhabiting in any of the Townes and Villages of this Kingdome at the time of Laying in of this present Poll , shall go about to remove him or themselves , out of such Towne or Village as aforesaid , That then it shall and may be lawfull for such Land-Lord , Farmor , or Head-Tenant , residing in any such Towne or Village to distraine , and he is hereby Ordered to distraine on the Goods or Chattels of such person or persons to double the Value of the Pole-money , rated on them by this present Ordinance , and the same to deliver to the Collector of that Barrony , who is to dispose of the same , as by this present Ordinance he is appointed to dispose of other Distresses . And where any Land-Lord , Farmer , or Head-Tennant of any of the said Townes and Villages , shall neglect or faile to distraine as aforesaid , That then the Collector nominated and appointed for that Barrony , shall demand the Summe or Summes rated on such person or persons so departed from such Land-Lord , Farmor or Head-Tennant , and upon non Payment , to distraine on the Goods or Chattels of such Land-Lord , Farmor or Head-Tennant , and the same to dispose of , as by Vertue and Authority of this Ordinance in other cases of Distresse he is authorized and appointed .

Provided alwayes , and it is hereby Ordained , That Sir William Vsher Knight , and Thomas Boyd Merchant , Members of this Convention , shall be , and are hereby impowr'd by this Generall Convention , from time to time to take an Account of what money is , or shall be raised by Vertue of the second Ordinance of this Convention for Pole-money , towards Satisfaction of the said Money due by Statute Staple to Alderman Daniell Bellingham from severall Members of this Convention , and of what part thereof , the said Money so raised , and to be raised , shall fall short to satisfie . And the high Collectors of the severall Counties in the Province of Leinster , are hereby required within the times above limitted , to pay the severall Summes of Money that shall be raised by vertue of this Ordinance in the severall Counties in the said Province of Leinster , to the said Sir William Vsher and Thomas Boyd , who out of the said Monies are to satisfie and pay to the said Alderman Bellingham , what shall remaine due unto him upon the said Statute Staple , by the Dificiency of the money raised , or to be raised by the said second Ordinance for Pole-money . And after Satisfaction of the said Money so due by the said Statute Staple , and the Interest thereof , the said Sir William Vsher and Thomas Boyd are hereby required to pay the residue of the said Money , that shall be so by them receceived to his Majesties Vice-Treasurer , and Treasurer at Warre , for his Majesties use . And the said Sir William Vsher and Thomas Boyd , are to make such allowances out of the said moneys to be by them received as by the said Vice-Treasurer , is to be made out of the residue of the moneys to be paid unto him by virtue of this Ordinance .