A probable calculation of the annual income to be raised by a tax on marriages, burials, and legacies. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B28385 of text R224861 in the English Short Title Catalog. Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 5KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B28385 Wing P3540 Interim Tract Supplement Guide 816.m.6[82] ESTC R224861 ocm99885712

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 eng Taxation -- England -- Early works to 1800. Marriage -- Taxation -- Early works to 1800. Burial -- Taxation -- Early works to 1800. eebo A probable calculation of the annual income to be raised by a tax on marriages, burials, and legacies. . n/a 1695 1 585 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2014-07 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-11 Sampled and proofread 2014-11 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A Probable Calculation of the Annual Income To be RAISED by a Tax on Marriages , Burials , and Legacies .

COmputing there be Free-Holders in England and Wales , 466716. who have Votes for Knights of the Shire : And that those who have no Votes are 26 to One , there are subject to these Casual Payments 12134616.

Marriages , If Yearly Married Peers , and others , computing one in One Hundred , at 121346. paying one with another 20 s . per Annum . 121346 l. Burials , At 10 s . as a Medium one with another , computing 242692. at one in Fifty Persons being Buried , is the same Sum of 121346 l. Legacies , Allowing one in Two Hundred , in a Year , at 10 s . per Legacy 60673 l. 1 s . 7 d .   So as the Annual Revenue will be 303365 l. 1 s . 7 d .   Whereout if there be allowed for Collecting and loss 13365 l. 1 s . 7 d .   There will come clear into the Exchequor , per Annum 290000 l.   Which in Ten Years time amounts to Two Millions and Nine Hundred Thousand Pounds 2900000 l.

These Payments are easy , for that no Person pays bat when is gained or saved .

The Collection is so much the more easy , for that Registring of Marriages and Buryals are already in Use , and all Wills Registred in Ecclesiastical Courts ; and there may be a Clause in the Bill , that this New Duty being paid , shall be a Discharge to any Person not taking License or Faculty , or Publishing their Baines , by which will be saved 16 s . and 8 d . by the one , and 1 s . by the other .

TheperticulerRatesofeveryPersonsubjecttothisTax.   Marriages . Burials . Legacies .   l. s . d .     Of every Arch-Bishop , Duke , or Marquess 50 0 0 The like , except such Person as shall wear Badge or Livery , or is Buried without Fees , or at a Publick Charge . For any sum or value of any Devise or Bequest which shall exceed the value of 4 l 12 d . per . l. Every Dutchess , or Marchioness the like .       Every Earl 30 0 0 Every Countess the like .       Every Viscount , Bishop , and Baron 20 0 0 Every Viscountess and Baroness the like .       Every Banneret , Baronet , Knight of the Bath , and other Person ( not Noble ) taking place of them 10 0 0 Every Lady 10 0 0 Every Esquire , or Reputed Esquire 5 0 0 Every Son or Daughter of such Esquire 2 0 0 Every Gentleman , Merchant , Mayor , or Bailiff of a Town or Corporation , Master of any Guild or Fraternity 2 0 0 Their Son or Sons , Daughter or Daughters 1 10 0 Every other Person having Forty Shillings per Annum , or any Trade or Profession requiring any Stock 1 0 0 Every Son or Daughter of such Person 0 10 0 Every other Person not taking Alms , or wearing Livery 0 10 0 Every other Person whatsoever 0 2 6