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'Volume G 259: February 1654', in Calendar, Committee For Compounding: Part 1, (London, 1889) pp. 668-671. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/compounding-committee/pt1/pp668-671 [accessed 17 April 2024]
February 1654
Feb. 1. | 19. Warrant by the [Drury House] Trustees for sale of lands forfeited for treason to their treasurers to pay to Edw. Hore, surveyor of the said estates, 38l. 16s. for salary and travelling charges, from the money received on the first Act for Sale. [Printed form, filled up. 1 page.] | |||||
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Feb. 7. | Order by the Commissioners for Inspecting the Treasuries, that the Haberdashers' Hall Committee certify next Friday the whole proceedings in the claim of Wm. Dickins, Mr. Abel, and the vintners about the wine license. [G 138, p. 255.] | |||||
Feb. 10. | 20. Ordinance of the Lord Protector and Council, for better disposing of estates under sequestration, that Josias Berners, Edw. Winslow, Rich. Moore, John Upton, Edw. Carey, and Rice Williams be appointed commissioners for disposing of all estates of delinquents now sequestered, or of those who shall be adjudged delinquents on cases now depending, and of all under sequestration for recusancy; with power to let and dispose of the estates, provided no lease be for more than a year. The rents to be paid at Goldsmiths' Hall to Rich. Sherwin and John Leech, appointed treasurers. They are to call to account all commissioners, treasurers, and officers employed in the counties by the former Committee for Compounding, and all who have any rents in hand are forthwith to pay them in to the said treasurers before 25 March; in default, a fine not exceeding ½ the moneys in their hands is to be levied on their lands and goods by the said commissioners. They are, as they see cause, to continue or remove the former county commissioners and their agents, reducing them to the number necessary for the service, and thus lessening the public charge. | |||||
The county commissioners are to retain as their salary 1s. in the pound on all moneys paid in at Goldsmiths' Hall, and other officers to have such salary as the commissioners think fit. | ||||||
The commissioners to have the same power to compound with the persons in the additional Act for Sale as the late Committee for Compounding had, and to allow claims and charges on the estates. Also to examine into the delinquency of persons not formerly judged, receive informations of debts belonging to delinquents or Papists, re-sequester estates where charges allowed have expired, receive fines for compositions which have lapsed payment, if paid in before 5 March, rectify any mistakes in casting, and upon payment, discharge the sequestration. | ||||||
Also to order payment of quit rents and out rents, &c., on sequestered estates, with arrears since 24 Dec. 1649, and to repay moneys unduly received. | ||||||
All delinquents who have not compounded or are in any Act of Sale, who shall discover any of their real or personal estate not compounded for, may compound for real estates at 1 year's value, and for personal at 1/6, and the commissioners shall compound with and discharge them, provided the composition be perfected before 20 April 1654. The said commissioners and those in the counties to have power to examine witnesses on oath. The commissioners to determine all causes which on 31 Jan. last were before them as an Indemnity Committee. [Printed, 7 pages.] | ||||||
Feb. 14. | Order of the Commissioners for Sequestrations (fn. 1) that letters signed by Registrar Bayly be sent this night to the several counties, to publish the ordinance of Protector and Council whereby the Commissioners for Compounding are constituted a Committee for managing estates under sequestration. [G 31, p. 792.] | |||||
Feb. 14. Haberdashers' Hall. |
21. Commissioners for Sequestrations to [the county committees.] Enclosed is an ordinance of the Lord Protector and his Council, whereby we are constituted Commissioners for the managing estates under sequestration. Let it be published with all speed, that all persons concerned may take notice thereof. We also expect you to pay in all moneys in your hands, and perfect your accounts by the time limited in the said ordinance. | |||||
You are likewise to call upon all such tenants and farmers of sequestered estates as are in arrears to pay in all moneys due, and you are hereby continued and empowered to act according to the tenor of such ordinance, until you receive further commission from us. [¾ page, printed; also G 31, p. 792.] | ||||||
Feb. 14. Truro. |
County Committee for Cornwall to the Commissioners for Sequestrations. We send you proffers for estates that we have posted, to be set for 7 years, and desire your confirmation, that we may make the leases. [G 149, p. 419.] Enclosing, | |||||
i. Note of proffers for the following estates:— | ||||||
Hannibal Buggens, St. Keverne, to Thos. Tyack for45l. | ||||||
Thos. Blake, Broock, to Thos. Tyack for 30l. | ||||||
Petherick Jenkin, Lanivett, to Peter Wymond, for 40l. | ||||||
[G 149, p. 417.] | ||||||
Feb. 16. | Order of the Commissioners for Sequestrations that John Jenkinson be continued steward for keeping courts in cos. Cambridge and Hunts, and Isle of Ely. [G 12, p. 602.] | |||||
Feb. 19. | Col. Rob. Overton and Hugh Bethell to the Commissioners for Sequestrations. By a late ordinance of Protector and Council you are to appoint Commissioners for Sequestrations in the several countries. We recommend Capt. Rob. Stafford, our friend and neighbour, for employment in co. York. His election will be useful to the State and will oblige us. [G 120, p. 471.] | |||||
Feb. 21. | Order of the Commissioners for Sequestrations that Mr. Winslow and Upton, taking Mr. Brereton to assist, consider how to lessen the charge of officers employed in managing estates under sequestration. [G 37, p. 265.] | |||||
[Feb. 23.] | Petition of Wm. Brewen, agent for sequestrations co. Durham, to the Commissioners for Sequestrations, for an allowance to Wm. Story, whom he has been obliged to employ as assistant; no one man is able to do the work, the county being very great, the revenue large, and he having lost many horses in the service. [G 143, p. 38.] | |||||
Feb. 23. | Order of the Commissioners for Sequestrations—on certificate from the Durham Committee, 31 Jan. 1654, that Wm. Brewen, their late solicitor and now agent, has been at much charge and pains, and forced to keep an assistant, and has lost several horses by continual riding—that 50l. be allowed him therefor, and paid him by the county committee. [G 25, p. 301; 143, p. 39.] | |||||
Feb. 23. | Statement by Capt. P. Thorp, that the order of 11 Jan., for his case to be examined by Thomson and Harvey, was not delivered him till 25 Jan.; that he set off next morning for Lincoln, and arrived on the 31st, but Mr. Harvey had come up to London. Therefore he begs that Step. Burston, clerk of the committee, and other witnesses may be examined in his behalf. [G 122, p. 134.] | |||||
Feb. 24. | Petition of Capt. Phil. Thorp to the Commissioners for Sequestrations. Begs renewal of the order for examination of witnesses, and delay of 3 weeks, Harvey, one of the commissioners in his case, having come up to town, so that it could not be examined in the country. [G 122, p. 133.] | |||||
Feb. 24. | Order thereon granting him the 3 weeks time requested; Stephen Burston, clerk to the committee, who is in town, to be examined here, and Disney's agent to have leave to cross-examine him. | |||||
Order that the auditors with all speed make out and deliver in a list of the sums in gross of the revenue of each county distinctly, both Papists and delinquents, whose estates are under sequestration. [G 25, pp. 301, 302.] | ||||||
Feb. 25. York. |
County Committee for York to the Commissioners for Sequestrations. We have received the ordinances for better managing estates under sequestration and your instructions of 14 Feb., and will do our best therein. [G 172, p. 571.] | |||||
Feb. 28. | Order of the Commissioners for Sequestrations—on an order in Council, prefixed, of 15 Feb.—that the Goldsmiths' Hall treasurers pay to the servants of the Committee of Public Debts the following salaries:— | |||||
Capt. Jos. Larke, clerk, 80l. a year. | ||||||
Chris. Fist, his assistant, 40l. a year. | ||||||
Edw. Friend, usher, 30l. a year. | ||||||
Wm. Blundell, messenger, 40l. a year. | ||||||
John Sparrow, messenger, 40l. a year, and 5l. for paper, books, firing, &c., from 20 July to 12 Dec. 1653. [G 12, p. 604.] | ||||||
Feb. | 22. List of 196 persons still under sequestration for delinquency or recusancy, with the dates of sequestration, when given in the returns, and the yearly revenue of their estates, arranged in alphabetical order of counties, and alphabetically in each county. [9 pages.] | |||||
Feb.? | 23. Commissioners for Sequestrations to the Protector. We beg your pleasure in sundry doubtful points in the ordinance of 10 Feb. last. It does not revive the Acts of 25 January and 15 April 1650, whereby the late Committee for Compounding could execute any other Acts, ordinances, or instructions for compositions, sequestrations, &c., but gives us only the powers therein expressed, which we conceive to be short of what was intended. | |||||
1. We are to manage all cases depending 31 Jan. last, but have no express power to sequester, nor any such for adjudging delinquents. | ||||||
2. We are to call to account the agents of the late Committee for Compounding, and get in all moneys in their hands before 25 March 1654, and in default, to forfeit them; but we are only empowered to levy the penalty, not the rents or moneys. | ||||||
3. The County Commissioners are to have 1s. in the pound, and we are to salary our officers, but there is no power to give warrants for salaries or incidental charges. | ||||||
4. We may receive information about debts, &c., on estates under sequestration, but we cannot proceed to judgment thereon, nor receive information touching estates belonging to delinquents whose cases are depending. | ||||||
5. We may order re-payment of quit rents, moneys unduly received, &c., but we doubt whether the Goldsmiths' Hall treasurers can repay such moneys, as by the ordinance of 18 Jan. 1654, they are to pay all their receipts to the war treasurers, till 20,000l. is satisfied. | ||||||
6. We and the County Commissioners have power to examine on oath, but not to compel persons to be examined, or to punish the refractory. | ||||||
The late Committee for Compounding also enjoyed several powers not given to us, viz.:— | ||||||
To compound upon savings, and sequester if the parties neglect to compound. | ||||||
To proceed on the Yorkshire Engagement, (fn. 2) not finished, which may yet bring in large sums. | ||||||
To sequester 2/3 of Papists' estates, for want of which the State daily suffers, as on their deaths, we have to allow of conveyances and discharge the sequestration. | ||||||
To protect from suits or trouble those who acted under the late Committee for Compounding or Committee for Advance of Money. | ||||||
To pay ministers the sums allowed by the Committee for Plundered Ministers from sequestered estates, and the wives and children of delinquents their fifths. | ||||||
We beg such further powers as may tend to the public good. [3 pages, signed.] | ||||||
Feb. ? | 24. Note of the powers granted to the Committee for Compounding and Committee for Advance of Money by Parliament 16 June and 25 Oct. 1649, and by the Ordinance of 10 Feb. 1654, and of their being empowered by the Protector to put in execution all powers heretofore given to the said committees. [1 page.] |