Cases before the Committee: March 1655

Calendar, Committee For Compounding: Part 5. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1892.

'Cases before the Committee: March 1655', in Calendar, Committee For Compounding: Part 5, (London, 1892) pp. 3231-3233. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/compounding-committee/pt5/pp3231-3233 [accessed 18 April 2024]

March 1655

Claimant on the Estate of Richard Osbaldeston, Sholley, or Shewley, Co. Lancaster.


7 March 1655.		Vol. G	No. or p.

L.C.C. I.&D. 243 96 97 C. 34 4 243 98 D. 243 99,100 R. 243 101 C. 243 102	John Osbaldeston, servant of Sir Wm. Harvey, of Hengrave, Suffolk, begs discharge of, or examination of his right to lands in Osbaldeston and Balderston, co. Lancaster, left him by his father, Richard [Osbaldeston], in reversion after Margaret, his father's then wife, both of whom are now dead; but ²/3 of the premises being sequestered for their recusancy, the County Committee will not give them up without order.	108 243	835 94
	7 March 1655. County Commissioners to examine and Reading to report.	27 243	316 95

William Parry Wynn, aged 80, Co. Flint.


	Vol. G	No. or p.

His estate, co. Flint, being sequestered for recusancy, Nich. Brereton and another rated it at 26 acres, value 6l. 10s., yet his rent is raised to 9l., which in these extreme hard times he is unable to pay. Begs reduction and allowance for repairs.	132	427
9 March 1655. The County Commissioners to certify why the rent was raised, whether the estate grew out of repair in the State or the petitioner's possession, and what the charge of repair will be.	27	330

Claimant on the Estate of Henry Butler, Recusant, Dorset.


15 March 1655.		Vol. G	No. or p.

NOTE 62 445	Charles Arundel, by John Talbot, his guardian [appointed by the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal], petitions, stating that lands, cos. Dorset, Somerset, and Wilts, were settled on trustees by his great grandfather for payment of debts now discharged, with remainder to his grandfather William, and his father, Charles, both dead, and to their heirs, and now the lands devolve on him, but those in Dorset are sequestered for recusancy of Hen. Butler, who has no title to them.	62	475 469
D. 62 471 474 R. 62 447	15 March 1655. Case referred to the Treasury Commissioners	27	316
D. 62 471 474 R. 62 447	10 June. Order in Council that the Committee for Sequestrations commit the case of Charles Arundel to the Treasury Commissioners, to consider and report.	29	95
R. 62 463	27 June. Order in the Committee for Sequestrations that the registrar deliver to Arundel a copy of Reading's report in his case for transmission to the Treasury Commissioners. [The two first entries on p. 1225, supra, seem to belong to this case.]	29	95

Claimants on the Estate of Lord Thomas Somerset, 5th Son of Henry, 10th Earl of Worcester.


		Vol. G	No. or p.

L.C.C. &D. 111 481 –492, 499–506 173 715 D. 111 493 –498, 507, 509, 515 C. 33 437 111 511–515 R. 111 457	15 March 1655. William, Lord Petre, and Humphrey Weld, of East Lulworth, Dorset, beg discharge of the manors of Castle Bytham and Little Bytham, co. Lincoln, demised by Thos. Somerset, a son of the late Earl of Worcester, for whose recusancy they are sequestered, to Benjamin Weston, who conveyed them to petitioners.	111	446 479
	15 March. Referred to the Lincolnshire Commissioners	27 111	316 477
	24 May. Claim allowed and estate discharged	23	1690

James Rogers, Richmond, Surrey.


22 March 1655.		Vol. G	No. or p.

	Order by the Treasury Commissioners that the Committee for Compounding certify whether he has ever been adjudged a delinquent, or had any part of his estate secured or sequestered.	114	677
C. 114 675 –681	3 April 1655. They certify that he has never been a delinquent nor sequestered.	27	349

Claimants on the Estate of Thomas Ayrey, Recusant, Westmoreland.


23 March 1655.		Vol. G	No. or p.

	George Rogers and Rob. Stirling beg allowance of their title to houses and lands in Whinfell and Patton, Westmoreland, conveyed to them by John, son and heir of Thos. Ayrey, to sell for payment of debts, &c., but they cannot do it, ²/3 being sequestered for recusancy of Thos. Ayrey, who is dead.	114	683
C. 34 24	23 March 1655. The County Commissioners to certify and Reading to report.	27	316

Purchaser of the Estate of James Linkhorne, Bowyet, Hants.


		Vol. G	No. or p.

O.T.T. 100 165	23 March 1655. Discharge from sequestration of a house in Otterbourne parish, forfeited by him, and bought from the Treason Trustees by Ab. Browne.	18	981

Norfolk Tenants.


	Vol. G	No. or p.

23 March 1655. And. Tanner, and numerous other tenants named of sequestered estates, petition that they are tenants on rack-rents by leases which granted allowances for repairs, and deduction for out-rents and other reprises, of which they delivered in an account, yet unnoticed. Are returned as being in arrears with their rents, and will suffer much unless relieved. Beg that their accounts may be allowed, and the levying of the arrears stopped, and that the present Commissioner, who alleges he has no power to make them the allowances, may be ordered to examine their case.	106	931
23 March. Referred to the County Commissioner to take proof of what has been expended; the levy of arrears suspended for 3 months, after which all that is judged due is to be paid in; all out-rents under 40s., when proved, are to be allowed without further trouble to petitioners.	27	346
23 March 1655. Like petition of Rob. Barrett and numerous other tenants of sequestered estates in Norfolk.	106	933
23 March. Like order to the County Commissioner	27	346