Tonnage and Poundage Act 1640

II. Merchant Denizen to pay, every Sack of Wool 33s. 4d. every 240 Woolfells 33s. 4d.

every Last of Hides and Backs £ 3. 6s. 8d. and so in Proportion for every greater or less Quantity.; Merchant Strangers to pay, every Sack of Wool £ 3. 6s. 8d. every 240 Woolfells £3. 6. 8d.; every Last of Hides and Backs £ 3. 13s. 4d. and also certain Duties by Letters Patent, or Great or Privy Seal, since 1st Jac. I.

And further the said Commons by the advice assent and authority aforesaid Doe give and grant unto our said Leige Lord our Soveraigne for the causes aforesaid One other Subsidie that is to say Of every Merchant born Denizen of and for every Sack of Wooll thirty three shillings four pence and of and for every two hundred and fourty Woolfells thirty three shillings foure pence And of and for every last of Hides and Backs three pounds six shillings eight pence and soe after the same rate for every lesse or greater quantity for any the same Merchandize more or lesse and of every Merchant Stranger not born Denizen of and for every Sack of Wooll three pounds six shillings eight pence And of and for every twoe hundred fourty Wolfells three pounds six shillings eight pence And for every Last of Hides and Backs three pounds thirteen shillings four pence and soe of all the said Woolls Woollfels Hides and Backs and of every of them after the rate and such other su[m]ms of Money as have beene imposed upon any Merchandize either outward or inward by pretext of any Letters Patents Commission under the Great Seale of England or Privie Seale since the first yeare of the reigne of his late Majesty King James of Blessed Memory and which were continued and paid at the begining of this present Parliament To have take enjoye and perceive the Subsidies aforefaid and other the foremenc[i]oned su[m]ms and every of them and every part and parcell of them to our said Leige Lord and Soveraigne from the five and twentieth of May One thousand six hundred fourty one to the fifteenth of July next ensuing.