Taxation Act 1700

From 24th March 1700 to 29th March 1706, there shall be paid by way of Excise the Duties following.

Most Gracious Sovereign We your Majesties most dutiful and loyal Subjects the Commons of England in Parliament assembled as a further Supply for Your Majesties necessary Occasions have given and granted unto Your Majesty the Rates and Duties herein after mentioned and do most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted And be it enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by and with the Advice and Consent, of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the Authority. of the same That from and after the Twenty fourth Day of March in the Year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and until the Twenty fifth Day of March One thousand seven hundred and six and no longer there shall be paid by way of Excise unto His Majesty His Heirs and Successors for all Low Wines or Spirits of the First Extraction made or drawn by any Distiller or other Person making or drawing Spirits or Strong Waters for Sale or Exportation within the Kingdom of England Dominion of Wales and Town of Berwick upon Tweed the Rates and Duties following over and above the Duties payable for Spirits perfectly made that is to say

For every Gallon of Low Wines or Spirits of the First Extraction made or drawn from any Foreign or imported Materials or any Mixture therewith Four Pence

For every Gallon of Low Wines or Spirits of the First Extraction made or drawn only from any Sort of Drink or Wash brewed or made from any Sort of Malt or Corn other than and except Brewers Wash and Tilts One Penny.

For every Gallon of Low Wines or Spirits of the First Extraction made or drawn from Brewers Wash or Tilts or any Mixture therewith One Penny.

For every Gallon of Low Wines or Spirits of the First Extraction made or drawn from any [X1 other] Sort or Kind of English Materials or any Mixture therewith Three Half pence

Editorial Information

X1 interlined on the Roll.