Cases before the Committee: October 1644

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'Cases before the Committee: October 1644', in Calendar, Committee For Compounding: Part 2, (London, 1890) pp. 866-869. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/compounding-committee/pt2/pp866-869 [accessed 11 April 2024]

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October 1644

Wm. Gandy and Thos. Harrison, [Reading, Berks].

23 Oct. 1644. Vol. A No. or p.
Their cases left by Parliament to the County Committee of Berks, Bucks, and Oxon. 1
2		 60
32

[Wm.] Gibson, London, Delinquent. (fn. 1)

Vol. A No. or p.
23 Oct. 1644. Rich. Waring to obtain from the Committee of Sequestrations at Camden House a certificate touching the time of his sequestration and the money owing him by Sir Thos. Soame and the Widow [Anne] Parker, and to consult with Deputy Avery. 2 31
26 Dec. 1644. Order by the House of Commons that Sir Thos. Soame pay the 1,000l. due to Mr. Gibson to the Committee at Goldsmiths' Hall. Mr. Hall, the merchant, to give him a release for the same. 1
2		 24
42
18 June 1646. Order by the House of Commons that the Committee for Compounding appoint a day for Sir Thos. Soame to pay in such money as he has belonging to Gibson, and consider a fitting security to indemnify him against the delinquent. 3 145

Col. Ant. Hungerford, M.P., Blackbourton, Oxon.

Vol. A No. or p.
C.175 466
NOTE 175 465		 23 Oct. 1644. Order in Parliament to the Committee for Compounding to examine into the offence for which he stands committed. 1
2		 60
32
P.E. 175 461
467
470
P.R. 2 121
C. 175 466
L. 175 463
479
C.P. 2 134
H. 3 10
D. 175 477,
471 469
R. 175 451
173 68
NOTE 4 23		 4 Nov. 1645. He begs to compound for delinquency in going to Oxford, whither he went not on the first summons, but was forced by a party of horse, who seized him at the house where he remained for the safeguard of his wife and 8 children. Never took up arms, nor executed a commission, nor was he present at the great vote against Parliament. Surrendered before 1 Oct. 1644, since when he has undergone a long and chargeable imprisonment in the Tower. 175 473
4 November. Letters to be written to the County Commissioners of Oxon, Berks, Wilts, and Gloucester. 2 121
29 Jan. 1646. Fine at 1/10, 2,532l. 3 29
28 April. Allowed three months for his second payment, his estate being still under the power of the Oxford garrison. 3 90
5 June. The House of Commons accepts 2,532l. as his fine, his estate being 226l. 13s. 4d. in fee, and 107l. old rents. 1 99
13 July 1647. Order for a letter to the County Committees of Berks and Wilts, to complain that being a delinquent of a high nature, he has paid no part of his fine, by reason of the undue favour he receives through being unsequestered by them. 4 104
12 October. Having elapsed his second payment, he is ordered to be apprechended and his estates re-sequestered. 4
228		 124 62
17 November. Sequestration of his estate suspended if he will prosecute a resolution in the Lords' House on his fine before 1 January. 4 139
5 May 1648. Begs that his sequestration, ordered 22 March last, may be suspended, his ordinance not having passed the Lords' House. Granted. 94
4		 334
201
7 Nov. 1650. Begs to compound on additional particulars 175 456
20 November. Fine at ⅓, 250l. 12 22
23 November. Paid and estate discharged 12 40

Sir Geo. Sandes, or Sondes, K.B., Throwley, Kent.

Vol. A No. or p.
23 Oct. 1644. His case left by Parliament to the Committee of Sequestrations for Plymouth. 1
2		 60
32
P.E. 178 257
C. 178 263		 29 Nov. 1645. He begs to compound on the Parliament order of 4 October last, and to be released, having been two years in prison at excessive charges; meantime he has been deprived of goods and estate worth 30,000l. and nothing allowed for his maintenance. Has contracted debts to the amount of 7,000l. From his estate, worth 1,600l. a year, he contracted with the Committee of the West to pay 800l. half yearly to the garrison at Plymouth. 178 249
4 March 1646. Order that he be summoned from the Tower when the sub-committee appoint. 3 50
D. 178 265 14 March. Allowed to come from the Tower from time to time to prosecute his composition. 3 54
R. 178 245 9 April. Fine, 3,350l. 3 75
4 June. His case to be reviewed about an allowance to be made for Throwley Rectory. 3 127
10 May 1649. Begs that having been long imprisoned, and sequestered unheard, though never in arms, he may suffer no prejudice, as he is on his appeal to the Barons of Exchequer. 115 187
7 March 1650. His estate to be sequestered for having paid no part of his fine. 9 31
28 March. His woods to be cut down and sold towards raising his fine. 9 39
10 April. Ordered to pay in at once his fine of 3,350l. 7 97
19 April. Having paid in half, letters of suspension granted him 7 107
P.R. 8 167 30 May. Begs that having paid ½ his fine, deduction may be made from the second ½ which was set at 2 years' value, he being but tenant for life on the estate, and having a statute of 2,000l., of which 700l. remains due, to John Good win, M.P. 115 189
21 June. Rejected; but when he has paid the full fine, he shall be heard about the extent to Goodwin. 8 160
25 June. Fine paid and estate discharged 8 167
168
P.R. 12 2
R. 178 251		 31 October. Begs to compound at the same rate as before for 100l. a year, part of the manor of Badlesmere. This, with Lees Court, Selling Rectory, &c., Kent, were settled by the late Sir Rich. Sandes on his wife Katherine. Compounded for the reversion thereof after Dame Katherine Sandes, but now finds that Badlesmere Manor is his own possession. 178 253
255
19 November. Fine at 1/10 100l. 12 19
C. 34 119 21 November. Paid and estate discharged 12 31

John Apsley, Pulborough, Sussex.

29 Oct. 1644. Vol. A No. or p.
C. 32 134
258
P.E. 226 501
P. R. 25 226
226 509
D. 226 503
505
R. 226 497		 Returned as a delinquent, but no proceedings taken 1
2		 61
33
19 Oct. 1653. Begs to compound for his estate on the votes of 3 Sep. 1653, not having acted against Parliament since 30 Jan. 1649. 62
226		 358
507
1 November. Fine at ⅓, 100l. 12 573
30 December. Fine reduced on allowance for a mortgage to 50l. 12 590
14 Feb. 1654. Paid and estate discharged 24 11
55
Claimants on the Estate.
P.R. 99 695 28 Aug. 1650. Arthur Levitt, of Petworth, Sussex, petitions that John Apsley in 1633 mortgaged to him for 300l. lands in Pul borough Park, &c., value 24l. a year, which lapsed to him in 1636 for non-payment. As Apsley is a delinquent, and has not compounded, begs to compound for the same on the Act of 1 Aug. 1650, and meantime not to be interrupted in possession. 99 695
22 March 1654. Levitt complains that the county commissioners threaten to distrain him for his receipts from the estate, being what is justly due to him, and begs an order for forbearance, Apsley having only had abatement in his composition for what is justly due to petitioner. 99 681
22 March. The mortgagee discharged from payment of arrears, the Committee for Compounding being satisfied as to his right to what he has received. 25 318
O.C.C. 87 353
D. 87 352
R.C. 17 704
87 339
C. 87 346
343
32 258
D. 87 349		 24 Feb. 1653. Stephen Alcock, of Rochester, Kent, having a mortgage by John Apsley for 600l. on Pulborough, Sussex, it was sequestered for Apsley's recusancy, but petitioner allowed to retain it till the debt was paid, yet of late it is re-sequestered; begs that he may receive the rents. 87 331
341
19 May 1653. He begs that the auditor may report the present state of the account. Granted. 87
325,
25		 330,
327,
75
R. 87 335 22 November. The auditor reports balance due of 921l. 3s. 9d. 87 323
D. 87 350 16 March 1654. Alcock complains that Apsley, having compounded for the reversion of the estate after payment of the debt, petitioner is distrained and forced to pay 25l. on pretence of arrears due by Apsley. 87 333
16 March. He is to be allowed the profits on security for a month, and the case to be heard in a fortnight. 25 313
314
30 March. Sequestration discharged, and restitution made to petitioner. 23 15, 89

Sir Edw. Ford, Sussex.

Vol. A No. or p.
29 Oct. 1644. Returned as a delinquent, but no proceedings taken. 1
2		 61
33
10 April 1649. Petition to the Committee for Compounding to compound (missing) received, and referred. 5 84
29 May. Fine to be set both ways and presented to the House 6 72
9 July. On petition to Parliament (missing) he is admitted to compound on Oxford Articles, and the remainder of his fine unpaid is remitted. 85 305
10 July. Sequestration discharged 6 156

Footnotes

  • 1. This case really belongs to the Committee for Advance of Money, where it is treated on pp. 276–279, but the above entries are in the books of the Committee for Compounding, by mistake of the clerks.
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