Volume A 79: August 1643

Calendar, Committee For the Advance of Money: Part 1, 1642-45. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1888.

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'Volume A 79: August 1643', in Calendar, Committee For the Advance of Money: Part 1, 1642-45, (London, 1888) pp. 23-24. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cttee-advance-money/pt1/pp23-24 [accessed 21 April 2024]

August 1643

Aug. 12. Order that Martin Dallison, clerk to this committee, pay the 3 officers, for their attendance from 30 Nov. to 31 May last, their salaries from 10l. to 3l., with 30s. to the maid that washes the committee's rooms, and that he pay the same ½ yearly. [A 2, p. 50.]
Aug. 12. 109. Table of assessments on the Ordinance for 1/20 and 1/5 paid from 21 June to 12 Aug. 1643, giving sums assessed, lent formerly, paid to treasurers, and abated, but not the names of the payers. [2½ pages.]
Aug. 16. Order in the House of Commons referring to the Committee for Advance of Money the petition of Jas. Fenn, merchant adventurer. All that desire to pass beyond seas, with their wives or families, are to bring a testimony from that committee before a motion is made. [A 2, p. 55. Commons' Journals, Vol. III., p. 207.]
110. Order in the Committee for Advance of Money that the Committee for the Safety of Surrey levy sums from 110l. to 1000l. assessed on 10 persons named, lately residing there, but forbear to levy any moneys assessed before 27 July, and that they proceed in the same way with the rest of the county. [1 page; also 2, p. 62.]
Aug. 17. 111. Order in the House of Commons, that the Committee for Advance of Money summon Sir John Brownlow and 7 other gentlemen of co. Lincoln who reside here, for non-payment of sums from 200l. to 1,000l. assessed on them by the Committee for Defence of co. Lincoln. [2/3 page.]
Aug. 26. Order in Parliament that—as many of those assessed for the 1/20 and weekly assessments, &c., have refractorily and wilfully allowed the days for payment to elapse, and secretly conveyed away their goods, and absented themselves to avoid payment, or have suffered imprisonment and their houses stand empty, whereby they might be free from bearing part of the common charges which these necessitous times require—the Committee for Advance of Money have power to let the said houses, and to employ the rents to pay the assessments; the tenants to be indemnified against the imprisoned persons, in paying rent and parish duties. [A 2, p. 68. Lords' Journal, Vol, VI., pp. 198, 199.]
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