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| May 3. |
Committee for Compounding to the County Commissioners for Durham.
You are to pay 5,000l. on order of Wm. Leman and John Blackwell, treasurersat-war. [G 25, p. 56.] |
| May 3. |
Committee for Compounding to Col. Pyne. Considering what you write
about the tediousness of transcribing all the books of the late committee, we
only desire you, according to the Act of 25 Jan. 1650, to allow the present
commissioners to have recourse to them whenever needful, the mere search of
a clerk not satisfying us, when, by Act of Parliament, it should be done by the
commissioners. [G 25, p. 57.] |
| May 3. |
Request by Nath. Quash, for the County Committee of Somerset, to the Committee for Compounding, for directions. |
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1. Whether the estate [of Wadham Windham], sequestered and sold or let
by the late committee in August 1645, but never discharged by the sequestration committee or county committee, is now sequestrable. |
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Answer. That the party concerned is to show cause why it should not be
sequestered. |
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2. Whether in the estate [of Chris. Doddington], sequestered by the late
committee, appeal made to the Barons of Exchequer, and by them referred to
Parliament, should be re-sequestered and the profits taken till discharged. |
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Answer as above. |
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There are several like cases before the commissioners. [G 167, p. 239.] |
May 3.
Northwich. |
County Committee for Chester to the Committee for Compounding. We
have, as you required us, called to Rob. Gregg, examiner in the Excise at
Chester, and Ald. Peter Leigh, for a list of the persons who compounded at the
reducing of the city, and we send their reply. You have ordered the County
Committee for Lancaster to sequester the estate of the Countess of Derby.
If you have sent us any such directions, they have not come to hand. [G 149,
p. 323.] Enclosing, |
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i. Rob. Gregg and Ald. Peter Leigh to the County Committee for Chester. We
cannot send the list required, because we have not, nor ever had, any proceedings or particulars about those compositions. We much marvel how
information has been given that we have them. Chester, 26 April 1653.
[G 149, p. 325.] |
| May 4. |
Order of the Committee for Compounding, that those cases which come in
to be discharged on the Act of Pardon be heard among the reports, according
to the date of the petition. [G 37, p. 123.] |
| May 5. |
Committee for Compounding to the County Committee for Norfolk. In
answer to [Tobias] Frere's queries as to a case of suspension before the Act of
Pardon, that Act does not help Papists, because the ancient statute laws remain
unrepealed, ordering prosecution for recusancy. If the debt in question were
sequestered, the sequestration stands good; if not, the oath of abjuration
tendered and refused is a sufficient conviction; therefore sequester 2/3 enter
your charges, and send us a copy that we may examine witnesses. [G 30,
p. 442.] |
| May 10. |
Committee for Compounding to the County Committee for co. Derby. We
confirmed for one year the contracts signified to us in yours of 7 May, if let
according to the Act of 25 Jan. 1650, and our instructions thereon. [G 30,
p. 30.] |
| May 10. |
Committee for Compounding to the County Committee for Norfolk. As
several sums are due upon the accounts for Norfolk, you are to levy them by
distress and sale of goods, restoring the overplus, if any, and returning the
money into the Goldsmiths' Hall treasury. [G 30, p. 295.] |
| May 11. |
Order of the Committee for Compounding, that Thos. Baker of the Strand
appear next week, and account on oath with the auditor for his receipts as collector or solicitor for sequestrations in county Hants. |
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Order that Edw. Clarke attend this day fortnight to answer questions about
the estate of Roger Calcott, deceased, late commissioner and treasurer for
sequestrations, co. Middlesex. [G 25, pp. 65, 66.] |
| May 12. |
Order of the Committee for Compounding, on request of Mr. Leech, registrar,
that his salary of 5l. a week for himself and 4 clerks be paid weekly, that he may
more conveniently pay his clerks; to last from 21 April to 1 Nov. 1653, if he
continue registrar so long. [G 25, p. 67.] |
| May 18. |
Order of the Committee for Compounding, on the charge against Col. John
Gorges about Rich. Cheesman, on which Gorges requests that the proceedings
be certified, that the county committee send up all the said proceedings for
examination. [G 25, p. 72.] |
| May 19. |
Order of the Committee for Compounding, that the registrar deliver to
Brereton and Reading the respective reports delivered in by them which are not
yet determined, and that they endorse such as immediately concern the State,
and where it will be prejudiced by delay, with a note to signify the same.
[G 37, p. 143.] |
May 19.
Carmarthen. |
Jen. Dawkins and Morris Thomas to the Committee for Compounding. You ask
if we took the oath ordered by Act of Parliament 15 April 1650. We have never
seen that Act; but according to your instructions, in Dec. 1651, we have took the oath
prescribed by Parliament 27 May 1644. Wm. Fleming has not taken the oath,
nor acted at all. You ask what books and papers we received, but we had none,
except four rent-rolls of the sequestered estates of Rob. Brett and Nich. Lewis.
The moneys we have sent up, but have 40l. to send by the next return. [G 167,
p. 677.] |
| May 25. |
6. Alphabetical list of delinquents' who have had fines set upon them before
May 25, 1652, and no part thereof paid before 25 May 1653, with the amount of
such fines. With marginal notes and corrections. [8 pages, printed.] |
| May 27. |
Order of the Committee for Compounding that the letter of 26 April last to
the several counties concerning arrears be re-inforced. |
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That the auditor be heard on Thursday, on obstructions in passing the
accounts of the county commissioners. |
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Order on a Council of State order of 25 May, that Aud. Sherwin receive the
money paid into Goldsmiths' Hall till further order, and give receipts, and
that Mr. Leech subscribe every receipt before discharges be given. [G 37,
p. 149.] |
May 27.
Exeter. |
County Committee for Devon to the Committee for Compounding. The
agents who in 1650, for want of a tenant, managed Broadclist sheaf, sequestered
from Edm. Reynell, have perfected their accounts and paid in the money, and
now there is unexpectedly demanded of Giles Moore, the State's tenant, by the
Revenue Committee, a fee-farm rent for which they threaten to distrain. We
beg that it may be taken off, or an order granted for repayment. |
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With note of reply, 31 May. If it be proved that there is such a fee-farm
rent payable from the rectory, we shall order its payment; till then, you are
not to suffer the State's tenant to be troubled. [G 152, p. 439; 30, p. 41.] |
