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| Oct. 1. |
Order of the Committee for Compounding for payment to Peter Brereton of
the balance due of 130l., being his 26 weeks salary at 5l. a week. |
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Like order for Aud. Sherwin for the balance due of 175l. for salary for self
and clerks for half a year. [G 17, p. 296.] |
Oct. 1.
Whitland. |
Jen. Dawkins and Morris Thomas, Commissioners for South Wales to the
Committee for Compounding. We find that in Dec. 1646, the site of Whitland
Abbey, co. Carmarthen, was valued at 13l. 6s. 8d., and it and other lands value
3l. 13s. 4d. and 11l. were extended and delivered to Rich. White, on an order of
the Upper Bench, as the moiety of the lands of Rob. Brett, for a debt of
1,444l. 1s. 9d. and 4l. 10s. cost. The rest of Brett's estate is still sequestered
for delinquency. [G 167, p. 679.] |
Oct. 5.
Carmarthen. |
Jen. Dawkins and Morris Thomas to the Committee for Compounding. We
send the money names in our last by John Lloyed, a drover, on bond to pay it
before 1 Dec., and beg our discharge. We have paid Mary Brett her 1/5 part as
ordered. [G 167, p. 687.] |
| Oct. 6. |
Order in Parliament that the Committee for Compounding attend the
Committee of the Bill for Sale, who are to meet at 2 p.m., and so de die in diem,
and confer about the list of delinquents, &c., and that Messrs. Salway, Hill,
Say, Goodwin, Ash, and Colonels Dove and Fielder be added to that committee. |
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With note by Garland for the Committee for Compounding to meet the
said committee in the Speaker's Chamber at 8 a.m. to-morrow, to perfect the
list, &c. [G 172, p. 669.] |
| Oct. 6. |
Order of the Committee for Compounding that the registrars deliver out no
original papers on any pretence whatsoever, but produce them when called for,
as they will answer any future miscarriage by reason of their neglect, and that
they make diligent search for such as are missing. [G 13, p. 47.] |
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Order on request of the registrars for a certain fee for searches, that they be
allowed 4d. a search for the last year, and in future, they being put to great
trouble and expense in searches, and having taken great pains in alphabetizing
and methodizing their books, and filing their papers, so as to be readily produced.
[G 17, p. 311.] |
| Oct. 7. |
County Committee for Notts to the Committee for Compounding. On your
order of 9 Sept. to return the names of all treasurers, collectors, sequestrators,
or others who have received sequestration money since 1 April 1643, to examine
their accounts, and to return copies, we summoned all concerned to bring in
their accounts attested. Several prove that they gave up their accounts to the
sub-committee of accounts for the county, by order of Parliament, and have no
copies. We sent to the said sub-committee. Who refuse to deliver the accounts
without a particular order to themselves, having had a special order to receive
and keep them. [G 164, p. 327.] |
Oct. 7.
Drury House. |
Trustees for sale of forfeited lands to the Committee for Compounding. "Mr.
Armyne, purchaser of Greeneham and Whitwell manors, co. Rutland, part of
Sir George Benyon's estate, is much opposed by Captain Barry and the other
sub-commissioners there, who threaten to distrain James Wallet should he pay
rent to Armyne, whose tenant he is, in contempt both of your orders and ours
for discharging the sequestration, and to the great discouragement of all purchasers, wherefore we pray you to consider speedy means of redress." [G 62,
p. 429.] |
Oct. 7.
Exeter. |
County Committee for Devon to the Committee for Compounding. Mr. Tripe
has managed Rowland Pitt's estate, sequestered as Thos. Marsham's, to his own
account, but we have lately let it at a good improved value. Marsham is
dead, and his son enjoys Leigham Manor here, and lands in Cornwall, which are
not sequestered. [G 151, p. 409.] |
Oct. 9.
Exeter. |
John Searle and Richard Clapp, Commissioners for co. Devon, to the Committee for Compounding. We were busy carrying on the work of the old agents,
when Clapp was served by Mr. Tripe with your order of 16 Sept. to appear
before you in 28 days. |
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Since Tripe left the work, i.e., from Ladyday to Michaelmas 1652, we received
1,281l. 14s. 7¼d., of which 850l. 10s. is paid in, 201l. 4s. is paid in fifths, fee-farm
rents bought off, and augmentations, commissioners' salary, 64l. 1s. 6d.; clerks',
agents', and incidental charges, 166l. 0s. 7d. We will send particulars when the
work is done. We told Mr. Tripe what we had against him, that is the
delaying his accounts; but at his request, we are willing to bury the past in
oblivion. We are not prosecuting arrears of rents, but all say they are discharged by the Act. We want your order therein. We enclose our rents.
[G 151, p. 403.] Annexing, |
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i. Account of receipts from 21 estates named by the Committee for Sequestrations,
co. Devon. [G 151, p. 407.] |
| Oct. 12. |
Petition of Agricola Waylett, County Commissioner for Cambridge, to the
Committee for Compounding. On articles being exhibited against him, the
informer, John Payment, was first ordered to make good the charge in 14 days,
and then it was ordered that the case should be proved before the Commissioners
of co. Hunts, notice being given to petitioner; he attended, but nothing could
be done, only one commissioner being present. Believes Thos. French, the
agent, is the true informer; does not know Rayment at all. Begs 24 days'
warning, that he may produce his witnesses. [G 127, p. 403.] |
| Oct. 12. |
Order in the Committee for Compounding that he have 20 days' notice, and
give the County Commissioners of Cambridge and their agent timely notice;
both parties allowed to cross-examine witnesses. [G 17, p. 318.] |
| Oct. 12. |
Committee for Compounding to the Commissioners of County Wilts. In your
list sent on ours of 19 March 1652, you certify several who have compounded for
delinquency and paid in their fines, contrary to our directions. You are to
make careful search in the books of the late committee, and your own, and
send copies of the orders concerning each, putting apart those of each case. |
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Certify us also which of the estates were not in the State's hands, as several
named complain that they are falsely returned as sequestered. Say whether
they were ever under sequestration, and "how the hands of the State came to be
taken off, and when," and give your full knowledge of them. [G 17, p. 316.] |
| Oct. 12. |
Committee for Compounding to Mr. Pigott. We remind you of your dismissal on 13 Aug. last from acting as sequestrator of co. Lancaster, which we
question not but you know; yet pursuing your former refractoriness and disobedience, we find your name set to divers certificates, as though you had not been
dismissed, which we think a great contempt of us, especially coming from a
minister of the law, who ought to know better. Give a speedy account why you
act without warrant, or we shall use the authority given us to punish such as
disobey. [G 17, p. 320.] |
| Oct. 14. |
Committee for Compounding to the County Committee for Rutland. The
trustees for sale of lands forfeited for treason inform us of your contempt
of our orders and theirs in the case of Mr. Armyne, in threatening to distrain
his tenant, which we regard as an act of ill consequence, reflecting on the
honour of Parliament and our proceedings. We expect you to account speedily
for your acts, and in future to respect all purchasers, in observance of the
orders and rules sent you from us. Let this be a warning to you. [G 17,
p. 334.] |
Oct. 15.
Bridgwater. |
Depositions taken before John Pyne, John Buckland, and Rich. Jones, on.
an order of 20 Sept. 1652 from the committee for regulating the excise, concerning the complaints of the farmers of excise in co. Somerset, and the
petition of Hen. Banks, constable of Cheddar, viz.:— |
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Depositions on behalf on John Rogers, collector of excise, to prove that
Banks was licentious, quarrelsome, and a malignant. Also |
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Depositions on behalf of Banks to prove that Rogers was violent and quarrelsome. [G 66, pp. 41–166.] |
| Oct. 15. |
Committee for Compounding to the County Committee for Notts. As to
yours of 23 July about Mansfield Manor, though we doubt not your fidelity,
yet when things are given out that may call it in question, for your vindication,
as well as ours, we desire the clearest satisfaction. Therefore, though we do
not doubt your orderly proceedings (except that you should not let any manor,
wherein is liberty to grant estates, fell timber, or keep courts), yet to clear
yourselves, certify the value of the estate, how and to whom let, and when and
for what time. [G. 30, p. 326.] |
| Oct. 15. |
Committee for Compounding to the Commissioners for North Wales. We
cannot grant you the delay you ask in bringing in the remainder of the composition money for North Wales, so you must use all expedition, as Parliament
expects an account. [G 30, p. 342.] |
| Oct. 19. |
Order in the Committee for Compounding that—as the Northamptonshire
Committee are not satisfied with our confirmation of the lease of Lady
Tresham's estate unless it be positive—we hereby declare that it is
absolutely confirmed, if they have proceeded as they have certified. [G 17,
p. 343.] |
Oct. 19.
Hereford. |
Capt. Ben. Mason to [a fellow commissioner]. Complaints of his negligence
and obstructing the service. Proceedings as to Gage's woods, Lord Scudamore's
son, the keeping of courts, &c. I beg you to hasten down for dispatch of
business. [G 102, pp. 139, 140.] |
| Oct. 20. |
Order of the Committee for Compounding that—as the officers in the letter
office employed by Att.-Gen. Prideaux have readily conveyed letters into the
counties and brought returns for three years, without compensation—Mr.
Bayley receive 5l. from Goldsmiths' Hall and give it to the officers, with thanks
for their care, and a request for its continuance. [G 17, p. 345.] |
Oct. 20.
Taunton. |
Sam. Whetcomb to the Committee for Compounding. You ask my
accounts. I was treasurer 10 or 14 days only at the first sitting of the committee at Taunton, with Fras. Tuthill, to whom I gave my money and
accounts. I was constable with Roger Gale, and ordered to collect from Sir
Wm. Portman's estate 60l. and received 40l., which I spent in fire and candles
for the guard during the sieges. As commissary, I received corn for the
soldiers, which I delivered to the houses where they were, and the remainder,
with the keys, to Col. [Rob.] Blake, then governor, when the sieges were
ended. [G 167, p. 219.] |
| Oct. 21. |
Committee for Compounding to the Barons of the Exchequer, commissioners
for appeals in sequestrations. We have received several of your orders of
discharge, and found on search that the parties have had fines set and paid
nothing, and did not acquaint you, taking you by surprise, as did others whom
we had adjudged as Commissioners for Advance. Take care in future not to
grant discharges without certificates from us, and tell us when you adjudge
any cause for the State, that we may see it executed. [G 17, p. 351.] |
Oct. 21.
Brecon. |
County Committee for Brecon to the Committee for Compounding. We
cannot find in this county any estates of the recusants convicted in London
and Middlesex. We offer the oath of abjuration to all we suspect, but can discover no recusants but those in the list formerly sent. |
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You wished us, on 19 April, to forbear sequestering the estate of Wm.
Lloyd, Parliament having given him till 20 May to pay his fine. Tell us
whether his being voted a delinquent, 6 Nov. 1646, is not ground for sequestration, as he has paid no part of his fine. [G 167, p. 661.] |
| Oct. 21. |
John Carew to the Committee for Compounding. John Jago being dead,
I conceive Major Peter Ceeley, who is well-affected to the government, a fit
successor. |
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With note for his appointment. [G 74, p. 5.] |
| Oct. 26. |
76. Act for continuing the Commissioners for Compounding with delinquents, and managing estates under sequestration, and also those for Advance
of Money, who formerly sat at Haberdashers' Hall, from 31 Oct. 1652 to 1 Nov.
1653. [Printed. 1 page; also G 172, p. 685.] |
| Oct. 26. |
Order of the Committee for Compounding, that the committee will not sit
on 5 Nov. next. [G 37, p. 52.] |
Oct. 26.
Cardigan. |
County Committee for Cardigan to the Committee for Compounding. We
received on 7 Oct. a list of recusants convicted in London and Middlesex,
letters of 12 Aug. and 15 Sept., and a copy of that of 19 March. There are
none of those recusants, nor any others in this county. We have summoned
the sequestration officers to bring in their accounts, and also send copies of depositions about John Jones and another named, and also against Rich. James,
charged with guilt in the late insurrection in this county. We have secured
his estate, and allowed him to examine witnesses, especially as to 2,000l.,
his wife's portion, due to Reignold Jenkins. We have 178l. 12s. in hand, and
wish to pay it to the treasurers-at-war for the first disbursements needed in
these parts. [G 167, p. 693.] |
| Oct. 27. |
Order of the Committee for Compounding, that Major Peter Ceeley be commissioner of co. Cornwall in place of John Jago, lately dead. [G 12, p. 507.] |
| Oct. 27. |
Order on a Parliament order prefixed of 17 Dec. 1651, that the treasurers at
Goldsmiths' Hall pay the treasurers-at-war 100,000l., after the 83,396l. 2s. 6d.
already charged on that receipt. [G 12, p. 510.] |
Oct. 28.
Haberdashers' Hall. |
77. Committee for Compounding to the county committees. We authorize
you to continue acting upon the former commissions and instructions sent to
you by us until you shall receive other orders, Parliament having renewed
their Act for our continuance as Commissioners for Compounding and Advance
of Money, which is to abide in force until 1 Nov. 1653. If any officer under you
has not done his duty, or is not worthy of the trust committed to him, signify
the same' to us, and you shall have speedy directions and order touching the
same. We hope and doubt not but you have taken care for the paying in of
the Commonwealth's money, according to former order. [Printed, ½ page; also
G 31, p. 780.] |
