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June 3. |
Order in the Committee for Compounding to Wm. Hale, messenger, to take
into custody John Woodman, for not perfecting his accounts and paying in
the money due; the County Committee of Hants to assist in case of resistance.
[G 14, p. 146.] |
June 3. |
Committee for Compounding to [Lambert] Godfrey. We hear that you
hold all the books and papers belonging to the late county committee in Kent,
which will be very useful to the present county committee. We therefore beg
you to deliver them, that the committee may proceed more effectually in
sequestrations. [G 30, p. 191.] |
June 3? |
Committee for Compounding to the Militia Commissioners, Kent. We hear
that in your assessment for the monthly taxes, you assess the sequestered estates
at double the value of the others. Parliament did not intend when they passed
the vote to make these estates pay taxes, and if you proceed thus, we must appeal
to them. You must only assess them as other estates. [G 30, p. 191.] |
June 3. |
Committee for Compounding to the County Committee for Lancashire. If
the persons who have taken contracts refuse to make them good, you must try
further, and certify what is the utmost you can procure for those estates. We
impose a fine of 40l. on Ambrose for not bringing in his accounts according to
the order of 5 Dec. last. |
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When your officer, Mr. King, was here, we appointed you agents and commissioners to act according to the directions of Parliament, and not at their
own pleasure, as Ambrose would do. You are to levy the arrears due for
sequestered estates from Col. Standish, and complain of his proceedings to the
Lord General. [G 30, p. 210.] |
June 3. |
Committee for Compounding to the County Committee of Lancashire. We
have seen a letter from you to Rob. Massey, whom we lately appointed a
joint-commissioner with you, refusing to act with him, because you say he
sought the place. He did not seek it, but coming to inform us about the
Countess of Derby, we, hearing of his fidelity and suffering for Parliament,
appointed him a commissioner, and hope you will not give us further
trouble, but conform and act with him, that we may continue our good esteem
of you. |
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We wonder to have only received 1,635l. from your county, the revenue being
13,000l. a year; the Earl of Derby's estate is 4,000l. Return what remains
speedily, Parliament's urgent occasions calling for it. [G 30, p. 210.] |
June 3. |
Committee for Compounding to Mr. Squibb. We have told the County Committee for Lancashire to apply to you for directions touching the debts on
sequestrations, and we beg you to examine the state of sequestrations in this and
other counties on your way as you return, and advise the commissioners therein,
especially touching Peter Ambrose, who has not brought in his accounts as
ordered, and has been reproved for his neglect. |
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Also assist in inducing them to act with Rob. Massey. |
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The sequestrations there amount to 13,000l. a year, and only 1,635l. is
returned. Tell them of the Parliament's necessity, that their returns may be
quicker. We hope your speedy return. [G 30, p. 210.] |
June 6.
Hereford. |
County Committee of Hereford to the Committee for Compounding. We
send you depositions about the estate of Lord Craven, held by Hen. Williams.
[G 157, p. 412.] Enclosing, |
i. Depositions above alluded to, almost defaced. May 1, 1651. [G 157, p. 409.] |
June 7.
York. |
Luke Robinson to Sam. Moyer. I have expected to hear from you about my
evidences of the transactions of the Earl of Newcastle's Committee. I now
hear that Thos. Thompson, their clerk, is in question. Many who have
been of our party have been gained by him, and I have been privately and
earnestly entreated to suppress the things in my hands, in plain English, to
burn the papers. If you command it, they shall be produced, but I must have
a discharge for what I give in; they should be sent straight to London, lest
they miscarry by delay, or fall into other hands. There are some fat persons
concerned who ought to pay fines towards the public charge. [G 114, p. 919.] |
June? |
[Committee for Compounding to Luke Robinson.] We hear that you have
many evidences of the Earl of Newcastle's Committee's transactions in Yorkshire, the examination of which may be of advantage. We desire you to send in
the papers by the first convenient messenger. Send them to some friend in the
city, and on our receipt of them, we will inventory them, and send you the list
subscribed, as your discharge. [G 114, p. 917.] |
June 11. |
Petition of [Capt.] John Smith, assistant to the County Committee for
Gloucester, to the Committee for Compounding, for his last quarter's salary
and his pay in future. Was appointed 26 Nov. last at 4s. a day, on account of
special service, but has received nothing, though he has expended much money
and been at great trouble in the business. [G 118, p. 368.] |
June 11. |
Order of the Committee for Compounding that, to avoid trouble by the multiplicity of requests for discharge from sequestration of fee-farm rents sold by the
trustees, any of the committee may order the discharges, on production of
the trustees' order, and a constat from the auditor that the fee-farm rents are
issuing out of the estate, and were formerly due to the late King. [G 14, p. 156.] |
[June 11.] |
Request that Edw. Rogers may show cause why he should not pay any sum of
money ordered to be brought in, for satisfaction of Mr. Collett. [G 76, p. 336.] |
June 11. |
Order that Rogers pay within a month 20l. as a fine for not bringing in the
bribes. [G 14, p. 155; 76, p. 336.] |
June 11. |
Committee for Compounding to the County Committee for Salop. Directions in cases. You are not to allow an extent by Thos. Baker on the estate
of Rob. Matthews of Blodwall, on pretence of extent, mortgage, or incumbrance,
without order from us. [G 30, p. 380.] |
June 13. |
Committee for Compounding to the County Committee for Devon. No duplicates being given by the former committee, you are to return us the names
of some to whom it is proved before you by oath that our former letters were
given, but who have not obeyed the directions of the Act, and we shall proceed
with them as directed by Parliament. [G 30, p. 35.] |
June 13. |
Committee for Compounding to the County Committee for Cumberland.
We have had no duplicate returned by the late committee from Leath Ward,
according to the Act of 25 Jan. 1650. As the service is prejudiced by this
neglect, send us the names of 4 gentlemen to whom notice was given, and who
have not pursued the directions of the Act, and we will proceed as directed by
Act of Parliament. [G 30, p. 127.] |
June 13. |
Committee for Compounding to the County Committee for North Wales.
No duplicates have been returned from cos. Auglesey, Denbigh, Flint,
Carnarvon, or Merioneth. You are therefore to send the names of some of those
gentlemen who have neglected our orders, with depositions of their having had
notice of our former orders. [G 30, p. 341.] |
June 13. |
Committee for Compounding to the Committee for Sequestrations for South
Wales. We find no returns as ordered in the Act from cos. Brecon, Glamorgan,
and Radnor. You are to send up the names of some of those who neglect our
orders, on oath being taken that they had notice, and we shall proceed as
directed by Parliament. [G 30, p. 418.] |
June 14.
Nottingham. |
30. County Committee for Notts to the Committee for Compounding. We
enclose the certificate of divers justices of the peace, verderers of Sherwood
Forest, and other officers and gentlemen of this county, touching Fulwood, which,
without any reason, has been endeavoured to be drawn to co. Derby, whereas
by ancient records and other testimony, it is evident that it has been, and still
is, in co. Notts. We therefore desire that however you dispose of the profits,
whether to be managed by us or the Commissioners for co. Derby, you will not
give them occasion by your order to entrench upon the rights of co. Notts, as
they are very apt to do. With query as to what has been done on the letters
to the County Committee for Derby. [¾ page.] Enclosing, |
30. i. Certificate by Thos. Lindley J.P., and 23 others, that Fulwood Fields, now
in question between the Commissioners for cos. Notts and Derby, are within
the forest of Sherwood, and in co. Notts, as appears by an inquisition taken
upon the oaths of a jury of both the counties in 14 Edw. III., as also
by another taken in 30 Hen. VIII., both of which are now in the Exchequer; as also upon the experience of some of the deponents, who have been
at the perambulation of the forest of Sherwood, and others who have known
both assessments and tithes paid for the same to the parish of Sutton in
Ashfield, co. Notts. June 9, 1651. [1 page.] |
June 14.
Bristol. |
31. County Committee for Somerset to the Committee for Compounding.
We send a survey of the delinquents' estates and two-third parts of such
recusants' estates as are under sequestration, also an account of the old rents
payable out of the several sequestered manors. There are other estates lately
discovered, extended for debt or other incumbrances, which we have seized and
secured. [¾ page.] |
June 14.
Bristol. |
32. County Committee for Somerset to the Committee for Compounding.
We send herewith the accounts of the late Committee for Sequestrations here,
and will levy for the arrears mentioned therein and pay them into your treasury.
With notes for a reply. [1 page.] |
June 16.
Hereford. |
John Williams to Jas. Russell, one of the Committee for Compounding.
Luke Hemings summons me before the Barons of Exchequer, and also some
of the late Committee for Sequestrations and their officers, employed to secure
his goods for a debt due on bond, and forfeit to the State. Pray file a bail for
me, and search the office of the Exchequer pleas, and send me a copy of the
charge. [G 157, p. 413.] |
June 16.
Chepstow. |
33. County Committee for Monmouth to the Committee for Compounding.
We have endeavoured to inform ourselves of the true value of the estates of
Papists and delinquents under sequestration, and have contracted for them for
7 years with those who offered the highest, having also posted them in the
market towns, and enclose an account. The rent mentioned is clear from
all incumbrances of thirds or fifths, annuities, or contributions, one tax now
amounting to a fourth part of our estates in most parts of this county. |
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We have 1,000l. of the last account and some arrears, and desire order for its
disposal; we doubt not shortly to have in as much more of this year's rents. If
we might return this money by the agent for Ireland in Bristol, it would save
charge and hazard. Many of the tenants have called for their leases, but we
have delayed granting them until we have your confirmation of our contracts.
[1 page.] |
June 17. |
Order in the Committee for Compounding, that Rob. Massey is forthwith to
repair to co. Lancaster, to execute his place as a Commissioner for Sequestrations there. [G 14, p. 165.] |
June 17. |
Committee for Compounding to the County Committee for London. We find
you have forborne receiving the rents from some of the tenants of Ald. Bunce's
sequestered estates because they were over-eased in their taxes. You are to
receive rents and arrears, and make such allowance of taxes as other landlords
do by order of Parliament. [G 30, p. 256.] |
June 17.
Haberdashers' Hall. |
34, 35. Committee for Compounding [to the county committees]. Enclosed
are instructions for making leases after your contracts are confirmed by us;
that they may be confirmed, you are to survey the sequestered estates, certify
them according to the Act of 25 Jan. 1650, and contract with those who will
give most rent, the Commonwealth bearing the taxes. |
Notwithstanding that our 40th instruction in page 8 provides that the
answer to our letters and orders be returned according as they are directed
to you from us, yet the answers to letters and orders which come from us as
"Commissioners for Advance of Money" are returned to us as "Commissioners
for Compounding," &c., and vice versa, which is a great hindrance to our
proceedings, we acting in a distinct capacity, and having distinct registers,
the business which we now act being heretofore in the management of distinct
committees. |
We also find that our 47th instruction is not observed, but when certificates
and depositions are returned, the parties have either had copies delivered them,
or are privy to them, and the letters sent to or by the parties have been opened
ere they come to our hands. This for the future you must prevent. |
Pray return with all speed into our treasury at Goldsmiths' Hall what moneys
remain in your hands, the Parliament's urgent occasions calling earnestly for
the same, and send us certificates of yourselves and officers having taken the
oath appointed by Act of 15 April 1650, that such certificates may remain upon
record, and that we may appoint others in the place of those who have not
duly taken the oath. |
Take care not to discharge any estate from sequestration upon composition
of the delinquent, except upon the particulars sent you with the letters of
suspension or orders of discharge; if any case be not heard within the time
limited by us, and an order be sent you from us to discharge the sequestration
within a month after the expiration of such time limited, you are to proceed
as if there had been no such order. [Printed, with MS. signatures, 1¾ pages;
also G 14, p. 163.] Enclosing, |
35. i. Form of an indenture of lease of the lands of delinquents by the
Commissioners for Sequestrations in the county where they are situated.
[Printed, 3½ pages.] |
June 17.
Northwich. |
36. County Committee for Cheshire to the Committee for Compounding.
Last February we sent you examinations in the cases of five residents in
Brereton, and desire to know if you have adjudged any of them delinquents,
that we may proceed to sequester their estates; otherwise the profits of their
lands for this year will be lost. Some of their lands He void, none daring to
meddle with them, nor are we empowered to let or dispose of them; if any do
meddle with them, they will expect for their rent to be secured from danger by
the power of Parliament. Noted to send the commissioners word which of the
parties are yet unheard, and how far proceeded. [2/3 page.] |
June 17.
Northwich. |
37. County Committee for Cheshire to the Committee for Compounding. Particulars of cases. We have hinted that the charges of levies and taxes lie very
heavy upon estates in Chester City for this year. We have endeavoured in
the bargains we have made to ease the State of them. There are only Col.
Werden, [George] Hope, and Mr. Dichfield's estates in the city, which come to
little more than 60l. a year, out of which we are to pay levies and taxes because
we could not procure tenants in gross at a clear rent. |
There is now a demand made of a late assessment upon all estates in the city
for money that should have been paid the army in 1647, and since, which for
the sequestered estates in the city comes to nearly 20l. Having paid all assessments hitherto, we scruple at payment of this so long due; we enclose you
particulars of the demand, under the hands of two of the Militia Commissioners
and the assessors, and desire your direction, as it is alleged that all friends and
others who have any estates in the city must, and do pay it, and the like is
expected, and that speedily, from sequestered estates. [We can pay no assessments backward further than 24 Dec. 1649. Therefore you must not let any
arrears of levies be laid on or received from sequestered estates before that
time.] |
We have continued the sequestration upon the rectory of Great Budworth;
shall we receive the rents and profits for the time past remaining in the tenants'
hands, as without them we cannot pay any augmentations ? We received the
forms of leases, but no direction whether you intend them for all sequestered
estates, as well under 20l. as above, or for one year or more, and whether we
are to receive the rents, or the tenants are to pay them to your treasurers.
[The leases are for one or seven years, and they are to receive the rents.]
The passages between brackets are marginal notes of a reply. [2½ pages.]
Enclosing, |
37. i. Note by John Whittell and Saml. Buck, Commissioners for the Militia, that
there is 422l. 14s. 0d. due for arrears for the first nine months' assessments for
the army, which could not be collected on account of the sickness then in the city
of Chester. That in Dec. 1650, there was an order of the Army Committee to
pay off 220l. of these arrears, and that the assessments began in Feb. 1647,
and the sickness broke out in June 1647, and continued the whole year.
[4 ½ page.] |
June 17. |
Report by Peter Brereton on the case of the Commissioners for the 4 Northern
Counties. |
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That on 2 March 1649, Parliament ordered that all fines and compositions
of old and new delinquents, in cos. Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Durham, should be employed for paying and disbanding forces and
other public charges there; and that Sir Hen. Vane, sen., Sir Arth. Hesilrigge,
and others, should be a committee to deal with them according to rule, returning particulars to the Committee for Compounding to present to Parliament. |
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That in 25 Jan. 1650, the Committee for Compounding were given the disposal
of all the sequestered estates, and on 15 April 1650, Sam. Moyer, Jas. Russell,
and others were appointed commissioners thereon. |
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The query is, whether the power of the Northern Commissioners was ended
by appointment of the other commissioners; if not, whether moneys should be
paid to their receivers, or to the treasurers at Goldsmiths' Hall; and if the
latter, whether they should be employed for service of the Northern Counties,
or whether the case should be referred to Parliament. [G 63, p. 775–777.] |
June 18 ? |
[Committee for Compounding to the Barons of Exchequer.] Several cases
have reached us in which your orders as Commissioners of Appeal, though long
since granted, have not been prosecuted, and thus the delinquent enjoys his
estate. We are bound by our trust to acquaint you therewith, and to desire
you to insert a proviso in each order that you send to our registrar, that it be
brought to us before it is sent into the country; for in many cases we have
returns whereby we may discover the fraud or delay, and thus be able to
proceed. |
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Your registrar has not returned us the certificates on the Act of 25 Jan. 1650,
and several delinquents are on appeal who were sequestered in 1645 and
1646. [G 129, p. 734. Draft.] |
June 18. |
Committee for Compounding to Col. Pyne. Note of 4 lines in short[G 108, p. 1103.] |
June 19. |
Order of the Committee for Compounding, that 9 cows distrained by
Mr. Woodman, receiver of the Gurney House Trustees, from John Smith, for a
rent of 10 qrs. of wheat payable out of the sequestered estate of the Bishop
of Chichester, be returned, or good cause shown to the contrary, Mr. Smith
not being as yet admitted tenant by the Committee for Compounding. |
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Order that the Essex Committee survey Newhall Manor, and certify what it
is worth for a 7 years' lease, as park, pasture, or ploughed ground, and the
state of the timber and deer. [G 14, pp. 163, 170.] |
June 19. |
Certificate from the County Committee of Bedford to the Committee for
Compounding, that the undersheriff has appointed a bailiff to the Bailiwick of
Mashead Hundred, belonging to the Earl of Cleveland, but they have thought
fit to appoint James Bull, who has long faithfully served the Parliament in
arms, he being now married and settled in the county, and giving over his
military employment, and they beg the Committee for Compounding to grant
him a patent for holding the said office. With note that the Committee for
Compounding approve what they have done. [G 146, p. 183.] |
June 19.
Pool. |
38. County Committee for North Wales to the Committee for Compounding. We have leased several tenements and parcels of land from the 25th
of March last. Particulars of the leases. With note of reply, 8 July, that they
are to certify whether they have viewed the above premises according to the
Act and their instructions, when further order as to the confirmation of the
contracts will be given. [1 page; also G 30, p. 341.] |
June 20. |
Note of rents and arrears for delinquents' estates owing to the State in
Middlesex, London, &c. |
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The Spanish ambassador, for a house of the Marquis of Winchester |
3,000 |
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Sir Robt. Parkhurst for part of the Glass House |
30 |
0 |
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The Lords Commissioners [of the Great Seal?] for
the Duke of Buckingham's house at Chelsea |
140 |
0 |
0 |
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Sir Gilb. Pickering, for Walsingham House |
80 |
0 |
0 |
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[Hen.] Sealy for Lord Craven's house |
30 |
5 |
0 |
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Seymour Bowman, for the lands of Sir John Penruddock, recusant |
154 |
17 |
4 |
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[G 162, p. 495.] |
June 23.
Winchester. |
39. County Committee for Hants, to the Committee for Compounding.
The estate of Prother Ellis having been seized for the State by Mr. Woodman,
and not accounted for by him, it was appraised at 700l., whereof we charged
him to have received 323l., the rest being in bonds and remaining in his hands.
Pray take some effectual course for taking such money and bonds out of his
hands. He has upwards of 2,000l. in hand, and we have lately made a new
discovery of some of his receipts for money yet unaccounted for. [¾ page.] |
June 24. |
Information by Thomas Fowle to the Committee for Compounding against
Capt. John Burgess, of Bristol, that he associated with Cavaliers, favoured delinquents and malignants, opposed the militia, spoke ill of Col. Pyne and the
county commissioners, and is a drunkard, swearer, and cheat, &c. [G 71,
pp. 601, 602.] |
June 24.
Durham. |
40. County Committee for Durham to the Committee for Compounding. We
will pursue your instructions for leases, and are now viewing and surveying estates
under sequestration. We have 3,000l. ready to pay in, and have written to the
treasurers at Goldsmiths' Hall for their assistance (being so far distant) for payment of it at Newcastle. We will observe your directions as to discharging
estates. We have returned a certificate of our having taken the oath appointed
by the Act of 15 April, as also of our clerk and agent having taken it. [1 page.] |
[June 26.] |
Statement by Edw. Bowles of the case of — Forbes, a Scot, preacher at
Newton, co. York. That he had an augmentation of 50l. a year from the tithes
at Linton, paid till Michaelmas 1649. That in April or May 1650, he was
obliged to leave by the Act ordering unlicensed Scots to depart the nation, and
not knowing how to transport himself, Edw. Bowles and another of the parish
allowed him the ½ year's maintenance ending 24 March 1650, he having taken
pains in his place, and Parliament not passing the Act forbidding augmentations
to non-engagers till May. Bond was given for restitution in case of disallowance to Mr. Rymer, the treasurer, who threatens to put it in execution,
unless the Committee for Compounding allow of the 25l. so paid. Request for
its allowance. [G 85, p. 790.] |
June 26. |
Order of the Committee for Compounding granting the request, if the case be
as informed. |
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Order that Auditor Sherwin state the case of John Woodman, he having
answered the charge against him by the Commissioners of co. Hants, and certify;
the commissioners to reply to his answer if they will. [G 14, pp. 180, 182.] |
June 26. |
Committee for Compounding to Col. John Gorges and others of co. [Somerset].
On perusal of your papers and notice of your desires whilst with us, and your
information of many in your county who have had their sequestrations taken
off as being not worth 200l., when their estates were worth much more, you are
to re-sequester such estates, we having no power to grant discharges on that
account, the pretended power being only proposals upon the treaty. |
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We hear your fellow-commissioner, Sam. Whetcomb, has not accounted for the
sequestration moneys in his hands, though commissioners are not to act unless
they make up their accounts within 20 days after receipt of their commission.
You must therefore tell him to forbear acting till he has perfected his accounts.
We have suspended Mr. Burgess as agent, unless he clear himself from the
charge against him. [G 36, p. 194.] |
June 26. |
Committee for Compounding to Hugh Audly and — Harvey. You are to
appear before us on Friday to give an account touching your arresting Sir Ben.
Rudyard, who is attending a cause depending before us, on his coming hither.
[G 36, p. 194.] |
June 26.
Knutsford. |
41. County Committee for Cheshire to the Committee for Compounding.
Particulars of cases. Touching leases to be made, you direct us to contract
with those who will give the most rent, and the Commonwealth to bear taxes,
but your former directions to us were to set all estates for clear rents, which we
have done for this year. |
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We have observed your 19th instruction, only sometimes we have enclosed
a letter to you as Committee for Advance of Money, and at other times as
Committee for Compounding, as we did in ours of the 17th inst., concerning
the inhabitants of Brereton, to which we desire speedy answer. As to delivering
copies of examinations to delinquents, we are no ways blameworthy, nor shall
merit it for the future, nor trust delinquents with the carriage of letters;
we will return all moneys as they come to hand. We hope the arrears will be
speedily got in, which, with the Midsummer rents, we will quickly send up.
1 ⅓ pages.] |
June 27. |
Order of the Committee for Compounding, appointing Edw. Freeman, of
Gray's Inn, steward of the courts of sequestered estates in cos. Hereford and
Worcester. [G 12, p. 255.] |
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Capt. Hen. Appleton of the Leopard to have a buck out of one of the
sequestered parks of Lord Dunbar. [G 14, p. 165.] |
June 28.
York. |
42. County Committee for Yorkshire to the Committee for Compounding.
We have received and will observe your obstructions for demising delinquents'
lands for the future. [½ page.] |
June 30. |
43. Sir Wm. Boteler to the Committee for Compounding. I have lately
received a letter from the present County Commissioners for Bedford, which
I have appointed Mr. Lloyd to present to you for your orders. When I attended
you 12 months since, I received your directions only to return them the rent
rolls and particulars concerning those estates which were sequestered by us, and
how long they had been sequestered, with some other particulars for which
I immediately gave directions, and which rest only with Capt. Smith, our
former sequestrator, to give satisfaction in. As for the records, &c., in our
hands, which these gentlemen require, and which we only keep for our justification, you then declared it was not your intention to take them from us, but
that the present commissioners should have a perusal and transcripts of them
as they might desire, which they have always had when they sent for them. |
I beg that the gentlemen of the former committee may not be exposed to the
pleasure of the present commissioners, and that if there be any supposed
default, we may be answerable for it before you, to whose sentence we shall
readily submit. We performed very faithful service without any expectation of
reward, and are confident there is not so ill a return in store for us as to be fined
without cause, and without being heard in our defence, [1 page.] Enclosing, |
43. i. Committee for Sequestrations, Co. Bedford, to the late County Committee.
We have often been desired by the Committee for Compounding to request you
to deliver up to us all records, rent-rolls, evidences, and papers in your
possession which concern sequestrations, but none of them have as yet been
returned; we likewise acquainted you that we were commanded to levy 20l.
upon every member of the former committee for his default, which must be
forthwith done, if they are not speedily delivered, and we question whether
the commissioners will be satisfied without levying the aforesaid penalty,
though the papers be at this time delivered in, as the time prefixed for it is
long since expired. We therefore entreat you to no longer defer to satisfy us
therein. |
With note of reply by the Committee for Compounding, that it is not their
intention to impose the fine if the work is done; that the original records
are not desired, but only recourse to and transcripts of them when required;
and that if Capt. Smith was a sequestrator, and has not accounted, they
are to fine him, or any other who has received moneys of the Parliament, and
not accounted after notice. [1 page.] |
June 30.
Northwich. |
44. County Committee for Cheshire to the Committee for Compounding.
Particulars of cases. We received your order of the 3rd instant in the case
of Sam. Aston, son of Sir Arthur Aston, of Cattenhall, a deceased Papist
and delinquent, directing us to allow him and his sisters a fifth part of
the Cattenhall estate, now under sequestration, but which — by your order of
14 Nov. 1650, in the case of Lieut. Col. Gilbert Gerard, who holds the said
estate, — you prohibit, and we are not thereby to distrain for the rent, or empowered
to receive the same until the pleasure of the Parliament is known; the rent
therefore remains in Col. Gerard's hands. [The Committee for Compounding
will consider what is to be done herein, and in the meantime Col. Gerard is to
pay the fifth part to the children.] |
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We have received order from the Council of State to desist from, meddling
with the estates of those gentlemen whom they had formerly ordered us to
seize and secure; as also a like order in the case of [John] Shalcross; but
we forbear to give any discharge as to his estate, because we had order from
you to seize and secure it. |
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We are importuned by the tenants, to whom the Dee Mills, in Chester,
belonging to Sir Fras. Gamul, delinquent, are let for 226l. clear rent for one
year (the Dean and Chapter's rent, Mr. Cotton, a £ Papist's fee-farm rent, and
Lady Gamul's fifth part out of the same excepted), to inform you that they
complain that the levies and taxes charged upon the rent in the city, being
above 4l. a month, will be very heavy for them to pay besides the rent, and
they will be great losers unless you order some allowance out of their rent. As
we have no power to make any abatement after a bargain made and returned to
you, we commend their request to you, and desire your answer. |
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With marginal notes of reply, 9 July. You must see that the sequestered
rents are not overcharged more than other rents of private men. The Dean and
Chapter's rent, the fee farm, and the fifths must bear their proportion of the
taxes. As yet it is not the proper time for us to determine, but you are to
observe the directions herein given, and in due time, if requisite, we shall
further consider of it. [1 page; also G 30, pp. 91, 92.] |
[June.] |
Committee for Compounding to the County Committee for Lancaster. Notes
of cases. We cannotallow the abatements you request for tenants holding at
rack rents. As to the disturbance made by the receivers of the public revenue
on the State's tenants, you are not to allow them to receive the rents unless
they are allowed here, and you are to defend any tenants who are disturbed,
and return the names of the disturbers. [G 30, p. 209.] |
June. |
Note by John Browne and Alex. Roberts of 6 leases of delinquents' estates in
co. Kent, made before the order of 30 Aug. 1650, of 4 not yet sealed, made in
Nov. 1650, and of 3 made March and June 1651. [G 158, pp. 259–266.] |