Volume A 79: May 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: May 1643', in Calendar, Committee For the Advance of Money: Part 1, 1642-45, (London, 1888) pp. 19-21. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cttee-advance-money/pt1/pp19-21 [accessed 24 March 2024]

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May 1643

May 1. Summons to the assessors for C— Ward to attend on Tuesday, at the giving up the accounts of the collectors of the 1/20 part in their ward.
Order that—whereas divers persons assessed have solicited their assessors to certify that on better information they find cause to abate the assessments, whereon they were referred to make their protestation, though the days limited by the assessments are elapsed, yet as it appears that the assessors have been wrought on one by one to recall the act done by their joint consents—no such certificates be henceforth admitted, unless all the assessors attend the committee in person with their certificates, and give their reasons concerning the same. [A 1, p. 133.]
May 1. 81. Report by Hen. Browne and Wm. Haycock of horses found in the Mews, and belonging chiefly to servants of the King. [¾ page.]
May 2. 82. Order in the House of Commons that [Roger] Hill, [Denis] Bond, and Sir Peter Wentworth be added to the Committee for Advance of Money, instead of Sir Wm. Brereton, Sir Thos. Soame, and Mr. Purefoy. [⅓ page. Commons' Journals, Vol. III., p. 67.]
May 6. Order that any horses entered or listed by any person after his assessment shall not be accepted in part thereof.
Order that the 300l. of Sir John Gayre's paid to Mr. Gosse be repaid him, and then paid to him by the Treasurers, that so Sir John may have the Public Faith for it. [A 1, p. 140.]
May 6. 83. Order in Parliament—as many have requested an explanation, for their indemnity, of the Ordinances authorizing the collectors to receive rents, tithes, debts, &c., for assessment—that all persons who pay the same shall be discharged against the creditor, landlord, or rector, and saved from any penalty for non-payment. If they refuse to pay, the collectors are authorized to distrain the said rents, tithes, or debts for the assessment. [2½ pages, damaged. Lords' Journals, Vol. VI., p. 34.]
May 6. 84, 85. Two copies of the preceding order, printed. [1 page each.]
May 8. Order in the House of Commons that 10,000l. be sent forthwith to Lord Fairfax, by his agent, Mr. White, out of the moneys of those who have not contributed, or not proportionably to their estates, and that till that sum be paid, none of those moneys be issued. The Committee for Advance of Money to take special care thereof. [A 1, p. 141. Commons' Journals, Vol., III., p. 75.]
May 8. 86. List of 98 common councilmen in the several wards who have subscribed, and mostly paid in sums from 25l. to 500l. Total, 7,261l. [3 pages.]
May 8. 87. List of the collectors of the several wards, noting the sums they have paid in, and those still remaining in their hands. [7 pages.]
May 9. 88. Order that for more speedy supply of the army, who are unable to march for want of money, no acquittances for horses listed since 29 November last, nor for weekly assessments as contributions for soldiers of London, be admitted in part payment of assessments. Also as several who have been distrained were released on private affidavits, that no goods distrained from such be released, unless the assessors and collectors and the parties distrained from be heard before this committee, within two or three days of the distraint. The clerk to report collectors who neglect their duty of attendance on the committee, or of speedy execution of warrants, that their offences may be punished. [1 page; also A 1, p. 143.]
May 9. Warrant to Sam. Gosse to pay to Wm. Hawkins 700l. out of the goods distrained from Capt. Marm. Royden, Capt. Edm. Foster, and Rob. Swinnerton, the 700l. being borrowed from him at the instance of some of this committee, to supply some pressing necessities of the army, with promise that it should be repaid. [A 1, p. 144.]
May 9. Committee for Advance of Money to the Lord Mayor. We desire you and the aldermen to appoint 26 persons named, and such others as you think fit, as collectors of the weekly assessments in the several wards. [A 1, pp. 145, 146.]
May 11. Note of the printing of an Ordinance of Parliament for the speedy raising of money throughout the whole kingdom of England and Wales, by taxing such as have not contributed at all, or not according to their abilities. [A 2, p. 7.]
May. 12. 89. Note of what moneys have been recently collected, what paid in, and what remain in hand. [12/3 pages.]
May 13. Order that on account of the pressing necessities of the army, the collectors of weekly assessments in London go to the houses of the people, gather in the moneys, and move them to pay the whole assessments for 3 months in advance. That they give to the collectors for distress notice of all who have not paid up, that they may be distrained, and the money paid to the collectors first nominated for weekly assessments, to be by them paid to the Goldsmiths' Hall Treasurers. This order to be printed and published. [A 1, p. 148.]
May 15.
Fleet St.
90. Thos. Ball to Dr. Burgess, Haberdashers' Hall. My landlord, Mr. Drake, has paid in 12l. to Guildhall, and can show acquittances for 8l. more. Deal gently with him, and if this will suffice, let him be discharged. Excuse my necessary courtesy, I am tender of anything that looks like disservice to the public. [1 page.]
May 25. Order to the assessors of Farringdon Without, Fleet Street side, to make a further and fuller assessment in their division, and return it on Monday, as many there have not contributed, or not in proportion to their estates.
Order that collectors appear before the committee, to give account of assessments, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, at 4 p.m.
Order that whereas divers persons have not paid in their voluntary subscriptions for defence of Parliament, &c., and that sundry in Southwark and other suburbs are within this subscription, if any of the said arrears or moneys can be got in, and employed for the auxiliaries raised by the Salters' Hall Committee in Bread Street, the same may be allowed on the accounts of the Committee at Weavers' Hall, whereby the persons so lending may have the Public Faith, provided this committee have an account of the sums so employed. [A 1, pp. 154–162.]
May 26. Order in the House of Commons that the Committee for Advance of Money have power in London, and within 20 miles of it, to call before them those who have not contributed proportionably, and appoint assessors to assess them at 1/20, and committees to ease those over-rated. This Ordinance not to extend to the assessing of any members of either House of Parliament, or of any assistant of the House of Peers, as that House shall have power to assess its members and assistants. [A 2, p. 7. Printed in part in Commons' Journals, Vol. III., p. 105.]
May 30. Order that—as Sir Oliver Luke inhabits the house of Sir Wm. Fleetwood, who has an assessment of 200l. unpaid, whereby Sir Oliver's goods may be in danger of being molested—his goods be severed from those of Sir Wm. Fleetwood and appraised, and on Luke's paying the appraisement, the goods be delivered to him, and no other goods be molested. [A 1, p. 157.]