August, 1645
[6 August, 1645.]
Monthly rate of £2800 on Lincolnshire for its defence.; Persons assessed by former Ord. to be assessed in like manner by this.; Additional members of Committee.; Powers of Committee.;Treasurer.; Treasurer's, Collectors', and Clerks' Allowances; Register Books.; Treasurers, etc., accountable to Committee.; Penalty for Treasurers and Collectors that neglect their office.; Standing Committee.; Powers.; To reside in County and relieve each other.;Values of Horses, etc. lost to be deducted from soldiers' pay.
Whereas the county of Lincoln hath raised a considerable
number of Horse, Foot and Dragoons for their necessary defence,
and must be at a great charge in maintaining the same and
their garisons, and in providing other things requisite for the
defence and safety of the said County, and without the raising
of Moneys to defray the charge, the County cannot be preserved
in such safety as is necessary; it is therefore Ordained by the
Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled, and by Authority
of the same, That for the intents and purposes aforesaid, there
shall be Monethly Charged, Rated, Taxed and Leavied upon the
said County, from the first of July last, the sum of Two thousand
eight hundred pounds, until the first of Ianuary next (if in the
mean time the two Garisons of Newark and Belvoir shall not be
Reduced to the Obedience of the King and Parliament:) And
be it further Ordained, That every person and persons within
the said County, that were or ought to be Assessed or Taxed by
vertue of an Ordinance of Parliament, Intituled, An Ordinance
for raising and maintaining of Forces for the defence of the
Kingdom, under the command of Sir Thomas Fairfax Knight,
shall be Assessed and Taxed by this present Ordinance in the
same maner as they are or ought to be Assessed and Taxed by
vertue of the forementioned Ordinance, and shall be liable to as
great Forfeitures and the Penalties for not Paying, Assessing, or
Rating the Sum or Sums to be Assessed upon them, as they
should or might have been Assessed, if the same had been
Assessed by the beforementioned Ordinance; and the persons
or Committees named in the said Ordinance, together with
Edmond Ellis, William Oldfield, Iames Harrington, Arthur
Samuel, Thomas Williamson, Iohn Welthorp, Humphrey Walcot,
Thomas Copledike, William Lister, Edmond Nelthorp, and
Richard Williamson, Esquires; Iames Trolop, Michael Muckton,
Gent. Francis Fisher, Barnaby Bowtel, Esquires; William
Thomson, Richard Filkin, William Davison, John Disney,
Richard Bryan, Iohn Wincop, and Nehemiah Rawson, Gent.
are by vertue hereof added to them for the Assessing, Collecting
and Leavying of the said Moneys in the said County, are named
and trusted in this Ordinance, and have as full Power and
Authority given them by this Ordinance, to nominate and
appoint Collectors and Assessors, and to Leavy, Distrain, Fine
and Imprison, and Sequester, as they or any of them have by
vertue of the said last mentioned Ordinance: And if any person
or persons shall finde him or themselves agrieved at any
Assessment made by vertue of this Ordinance, and shal make
their complaint unto any three or more of the Committee before
whom the Assessment was alowed, that then the said Committee,
or any three or more of them, shall have power hereby to do
Justice therein, according to the true intent of this Ordinance:
And the said Collectors shall pay the several sums by them
Collected and Leavied unto William Bury, Gent. Treasurer, who
is to issue forth the same for the use and Service of the said
County, by the Vote of the Major part of the said Deputy
Lieutenants, or any three of them present, and by their Order in
pursuance thereof under their hands, and not otherwise. And
it is further Ordained, That three pence half peny in the pound
shall be allowed for every Sum of Money which shall be Collected
and paid, whereof one peny shall be for the several Collectors,
two pence for the said Treasurer, and one half peny for the
Clerks pains: And the Treasurer aforesaid shall keep a Register
Book of the several Sums Received and paid out by him; And
the said Committees, or any three of them, shall have hereby
power and authority given them, to call all Treasurers, Collectors
and others that have, or any time shall be thought to have any
of the Moneys in their hands, to an Accompt; And if any of
them shall refuse to Accompt, or to pay in the Moneys wherewith they are charged, That the said Committee or any three of
of them shall Fine them double the Sum charged upon them,
which if it be not paid within six days after the same is set, and
notice thereof left at his or their dwelling house; It shall be
lawful, to and for the said Committee to issue their Warrants to
distrain for the same, and if there be not sufficient distress
wherewith to satisfie, Then the said Committees may imprison
the offender herein, and Sequester his Estate, until the money
charged and the Fine set be Leavied and paid; And in case the
said Treasurers and the Collectors shall refuse or neglect to
Leavy or receive the sums of money to be Assessed and set by
vertue of this Ordinance; It shall be lawful for the said Committee, or any three of them to fine the said Treasurer, or
Collectors, not exceeding the Sum of twenty pounds, and to
Leavy the same by way of Distress and sale of their goods, or
by imprisonment, as they shall think fit: And it is further
Ordained, that the Deputy Lieutenants and Committees of the
said counties, or any five or more of them, Three whereof to be
Deputy Lieutenants, shall be a standing and constant Committee
in the said county, who shall have hereby power to put in
execution all former Ordinances whatsoever heretofore made,
touching the affairs of that county, according to the said
Ordinances, as if they had been particularly named in the
said Ordinances; And for the better effecting of the premises,
the said Deputy Lieutenants and Committee, or any five of
them as aforesaid, shall be resident in some convenient place
within the said County, and shall have power to Adjourn them
selves from time to time, and from place to place within the said
County, as they shall think fit; And after five or more of them
shall have set fourteen days, then the minor part of the said
Committee to be free, and they to send for so many others in
their stead, and the major part there still to remain other fourteen days, & then they also to be free, sending for three others,
and so to change the Committee successively during the
troubles, or till further Order be taken, giving notice from time
to time to them which are to succeed, six days before they are
to make their appearance at the appointed place, and such as
fail according to notice, their names to be certified to the House
of Commons by the residue of the Committee then upon the
place; And it is further Ordered, that the said Committee shall
have power to call to an Accompt all such Soldiers, whether
Troopers or others, as shall any way causlesly or negligently
loose or imbezle any Horse or Armes committed unto them,
not being lost in services, and to deduct out of their pay so
much as the said Horse or Armes shall amount unto: And
lastly it is Ordered, that the said Standing Committee shall
have and be alowed five shillings per diem a piece towards
their necessary charges.
Mablethorpe, etc. exempted.
Provided always, that this present Tax and Leavy shall not
extend to the inhabitants, or Towns, or places of Mablethorpe,
Winthorne cum Stain, Streeby cum Woodthorpe, and Maltby,
in respect of their great loss lately sustained by the Sea.