Volume A 83: January 1647

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 83: January 1647', in Calendar, Committee For the Advance of Money: Part 1, 1642-45, (London, 1888) pp. 59-61. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cttee-advance-money/pt1/pp59-61 [accessed 24 March 2024]

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January 1647

Jan. 1. Mr. Lane to pay Col. Aldrich 100l. out of Sir Thos. Wilbraham's money, and the remainder of the sum assigned to him out of the next moneys that come in from persons assessed, not already assigned. [A 5, p. 167.]
Jan. 4. 1. Bill of Fras. Lawrence for 14 days' journey to Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Isle of Ely, and Cambridge, to summon 9 persons named to pay their assessments, with notes relative to the cases. [2/3 page.]
Jan. 5. 2. County Commissioners for Kent to the Committee for Advance of Money. We received yours of 23 Dec. on 31 Dec., and issued orders to our receivers and treasurers to bring in their moneys, of which 2/3 are payable to the State, and ⅓ to the treasurers of the county for its use. We hope not to be thought backward for detaining small sums which would not have paid for their carriage, We returned a schedule to Guildhall, in Michaelmas 1643, but since then the Ordinances for Assessments have directed another course. We have sent our accounts as ordered, and hope not to be put to accumulated trouble. The sequestrations here are low, on account of the many compositions of delinquents, and they decrease daily, as do our rentals and schedules. If you will give us time, we will satisfy you as well as our other public engagements will permit. [1 page.]
Jan. 9. Mr. Young, treasurer to the Committee of Sequestration for Essex, to bring in his accounts and money in hand out of sequestered estates, and pay it to the Guildhall Treasurers, or in default, to be committed to Peter House till further order.
Mr. Calthorpe to bring in his accounts of moneys received on sequestration in Essex to Mr. Cox forthwith, and pay in the money, or be committed to Peter House.
The letter from the Committee of Sequestration in co. Kent, in answer to a letter from this committee, to be considered on Friday.
Geo. Dawson, of co. Herts, admitted as a collector to this committee, with the usual allowances, and a commission to be granted him accordingly. [A 5, pp. 168, 169.]
Jan. 13. Thos. Davies and Thos. Wakeworth to pay to Mr. Lane the 30l. they are engaged for to him, being money owing to Pritchard, a delinquent.
Sir John Temple, who owes 600l. to Sir Chas. Lucas, delinquent, is not to pay it to him, but to this committee. [A 5, pp. 172, 173.]
Jan. 15. Thos. Muschamp, who, by order of this committee of 7 Aug. last advanced 100l. to Agmondisham Muschamp, to be paid in course, with interest at 8 per cent.
From the first moneys that come in from the persons in the list set apart for Ireland (the 400l. paid by Sir Thos. Wilbraham excepted,) 100l. is to be paid to Nich. Loftus, deputy-treasurer for Ireland, for Capt. Cromwell, captain of the Lord-Lieutenant's guard, according to an order of the Committee for Ireland of this day.
Young and Calthorpe, the Essex Treasurers, to pay the Guildhall Treasurers to-morrow, 2,000l., part of their receipts from delinquents' estates, being part of the 4,931l. 13s. 4d. named by the Essex Committee as in their hands, and the rest within a month, or be committed to Peter House.
Mr. Pulley, the solicitor for sequestrations in Essex, to bring to committee an account of all profits received from Papists' and delinquents' estates, with the inventories and rentals, or in default, to be committed to prison. Also to account to the committee for the salaries, fees, and allowances received in virtue of his office.
The treasurers for Kent to send in their accounts, and pay in their balance at Guildhall within 30 days.
The Committee of Accounts requested to give no allowances of fees or salary to the county collectors or sequestrators, without certificate from this committee that they have pursued their orders and fulfilled their trusts.
The sequestration officers, in the counties to which letters have been sent by this committee requiring an account, who have not performed the contents, are, within a month, to pay in their arrears, and send their accounts, inventories and rentals to Dan. Cox. In case of delay or refusal, they are to be sent to prison. Copies of this order to be sent to each county, that they may conform accordingly. [A 5, pp. 174–177.]
Jan. 16.
Worksop.
3. Lynam Robins to Mr. Dallison and Cox. I have 900 tenants to deal with; I and 6 more are on horseback daily, and have got 1,200l. from the best tenants, but for the rest, it is a sore tax. Some remove their goods for fear of distress. Send me up some blank summonses for them to appear before the committee. We are troubled how to return the money this dead time. The Earl of Arundel's son, Mowbray, and Maltravers, is assessed for his 1/20; shall I stay his rents till the committee are satisfied? And also Sir John Wolstenholme's rents? With notes of orders relative to the Earl of Arundel's debts and rents. [1⅓ pages.]
Jan. 20. The money appointed for Col. Apsley's soldiers to be paid to Major Powell, "to be distributed according to their proportions to the rest of the officers expressed in a list remaining with the treasurer."
Mr. Lane to have special care for payment of 130l. ordered to Wm. Roberts.
Also to pay Mr. Snowden 40s. for writing over the names of delinquents taken before the Militia of London, and their dwellings.
Also from the next money coming in on the Irish list to pay Mr. Loftus, deputy-treasurer for Ireland, 40l. 2s. 4d., to be paid to Capts. Vaisey and Knight, according to an order of the Committee for Ireland. [A 5, pp. 178, 179.]
Jan. 21. 4. Parliamentary Order that the Earl of Northumberland be added to the Haberdashers' Hall Committee, in place of Lord Brooke, deceased. [½ page.]
Jan. 22. 5. Notes from the proceedings of the Committee for Advance of Money for the day. [2/3 page.]
Jan. 22. Major Stephens, Lieut. Clement Forister, and Cornet Thos. Lloyd, to have ½ the money they discover of delinquents' estates towards their arrears, on their being cast up by the Committee for Assessments.
A green cloth carpet to be bought for the great parlour table, paid for, and placed to the account of committee expenses.
The Earl of Northumberland added to this committee, by order of the House of Lords of 21 Jan. 1647. [A 5, pp. 180, 181.]
Jan. 22.
Sheffield Manor.
6. Lynam Robins to Mr. Dallison and Cox. Let me have a reply to my last, for the old proverb is fulfilled, "A man takes much care in getting money, and then more care in keeping it." Mr. Griffith and I have got 17,000l. or 18,000l., and we cannot get it returned. Pray direct us how to get it to London. Some ask 30s. and some 40s. per cent. for exchange. [1 page.]
Jan. 29. 7. Printed order filled in for notices to be given to 17 persons named, chiefly in Somersetshire, to pay in their assessments of from 80l. to 300l. [1 page.]
Jan. 29. Whereas the Committee of Sequestration for Sussex say, in their letter of 19 January, that they understand the sequestrations of that county are granted for maintenance of the garrisons there, and therefore have forborne to perform the contents of this committee's late letter; and whereas this committee aimed not so much at the disposal of the moneys got in on sequestrations, as at the return of the schedules;—Order that the said committee take care to perform the said letters, and that they send to this committee the orders of both Houses, whereby the sequestrations of the county are granted for maintenance of its garrisons.
The clerk to issue warrants for seizing the rents, debts, and estates of those persons assigned for payment of 5,000l. for Ireland who have not made their composition, or paid their assessments.
Rich. Braham having an estate for 3 lives in ½ of ⅓ of the Subpœna Office in the Court of Chancery, and not having compounded for it, being unable to do so, as excepted within the propositions;—Order that Ralph Darnell, late an attorney of the Court of Wards, who has lost his place by the taking away of the court, be put into the said office, and receive the fees and profits as held by Braham, and give in accounts to this committee, whereon allowance shall be made him for his pains; this order to continue till further order, and the officers to put him in possession. [A 5, pp. 184–186.]
Jan. 8. Notes of proceedings upon 9 cases of assessment on nobles, knights, &c. [1 col.]
Jan. 9. Note of proceedings in levying, in 1645 and 1646, the assessments on 12 persons named, whose money was to go towards 5,000l. to be raised for Ireland. Also notes of moneys charged by warrant from the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, to be paid by Sir Adam Loftus, Treasurer-at-war for Ireland. [2½ pages.]