Taxation Act 1698

Recital that Duties upon Exportation of Woollen Manufactures, by Stat. 12 Car. II. c. 4., except such as taken away by Stat. 25 Car. II. c.6., were continued by Stat. 8 & 9 W.III. c.20.

Recital of Stat. 14 Car. II. c. 11. § 33; Reasons for passing this Act; All subsisting Duties upon the Exportation of Home Woollen Manufactures to cease.

Whereas certain Subsidies or Duties which were payable upon the Exportation of the Woollen Manufactures as well of the old as the new Draperies by the Act of Tonnage and Poundage made in the Twelfth Year of the Reigne of King Charles the Second and by the Book of Rates thereunto annexed (except such part thereof as hath been taken away by an Act made in the Five and twentieth Year of the Reigne of the said late King Charles the Second intituled An Act for taking [X1 off] Aliens Duties upon Commodities of the Growth Product and Manufacture of the Nation) are by an Act of Parliament made and passed in the Eighth Year of His now Majesties Reigne intituled An Act for makeing good the Deficiencies of severall Funds therein mentioned and for enlarging the Capitall Stock of the Bank of England and for raising the Public Credit granted to continue untill the First Day of August which shall be in the Year of our Lord One thousand seaven hundred and six And whereas by an Act of Parliament which was made in the Fourteenth Year of the Reigne of the said late King Charles the Second intituled An Act for preventing Frauds and regulating Abuses in His Majesties Customs All Woollen Manufactures exported from any Port of this Kingdom capable of a Ship or Vessell of Two hundred Tons upon an ordinary full Sea to any Part or Place of the Mediterranean Sea beyond the Port of Malaga in any Ship or Vessell that hath not Two Decks and doth X2 carry lesse than Sixteene Pieces of Ordnance mounted together with Two Men for each Gunn and other Ammunition proportionable are (amongst other things) liable to a further Duty of One p Cents as by the said severall Acts Relation being thereunto had may more fully appeare And whereas the Wealth and Prosperity of this Kingdom doth in a great measure depend upon the Improvement of its Woollen Manufactures and the profitable Trade carried on by the Exportation of the same which Trade ought by all proper meanes to be encouraged Be it therefore enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spirituall and Temporall and the Commons in Parliament assembled and by the Authority of the same That from and after the Thirtieth Day of March One thousand and seaven hundred all and every the Subsidies Duties and Summs of Money by the Acts before mentioned or any of them or by any other Act or Acts of Parliament or Law whatsoever now in Force granted continued due or payable or to grow due or payable for or upon the Exportation of any Long Cloths Short Cloths Kerseys Bays or Serges Cottons Stuffs Stockings Hatts Capps or any other Manufactures of Wooll or made of Sheeps Wooll or Coney Wooll or mixed with any or either of them and which are or shall be made or manufactured within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales or Towne of Berwick upon Tweede shall cease determine and be no longer due or payable to His Majesty His Heires or Successors for so much as shall be exported after the said Thirtieth Day of March the aforesaid Acts of Parliament or any of them or any other Law Statute Ordinance Custom Prescription or Provision whatsoever to the contrary notwithstanding

Editorial Information

X1 Variant reading of the text noted in The Statutes of the Realm as follows: of O. [O. refers to a collection in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge]

X2 not, in King's Printer's Copy.