By the 27th. of Eliz: c. 13. Sect. 5 It is Enacted that
if any Inhabitant of any such Town Parish. Village or Hamlet
shall obstinately refuse and deny to pay the said Taxation and
Assessment so by the said Constables Constable Headboroughs
or Headborough taxed and Assessed that then it shall and
may be lawful to and for the said Constables and Headboroughs
and every of them within their several Limits and Jurisdictions
to distrain all and every person and persons so refusing and denying
by his and their Goods and Chattels and the same distress to
sell and the money thereof coming to retain to the use aforesaid
and if the Goods or Chattels so distrained and sold shall be
of more Value than the said Taxation shall come unto that then
the Residue of the said Money over and above the said Taxation
shall be delivered unto the said person or persons so distrained

By the 8th. of Geo: 2d. c. 16. s. 10 It is Enacted
that if any such Officer of Officers who are to levy and Collect
such Taxations and Assessments as aforesaid shall refuse or
Neglect to levy and Collect the same within such time as Shall
be limited and appointed by the said Justices of the Peace for
their doing thereof or shall refuse or Neglect to pay and deliver
over the sums of Money so levied and Collected to the said
Sheriff and also to the said Justices in such Manner as the
Same in the several Cases herein before mentioned are respectively
directed to be paid within the respective time herein before
limited for such Payment thereof every such Officer shall for
every such Refusal or Neglect forfeit double the sum appointed
to be by him levied and Collected as aforesaid.