Cases before the Committee: April 1655

Calendar, Committee For Compounding: Part 5. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1892.

'Cases before the Committee: April 1655', in Calendar, Committee For Compounding: Part 5, (London, 1892) pp. 3233-3235. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/compounding-committee/pt5/pp3233-3235 [accessed 23 April 2024]

April 1655

Thomas Gunter, Abergavenny, Co. Monmouth.


	Vol. G	No. or p.

The Monmouth Committee report him as 12l. in arrears for rent of his house.	173	687
6 April 1655. Order that the arrears be levied on him, and 20s. fine.	30	273
3 July. He begs discharge of a house in Abergavenny, formerly sequestered for his recusancy, but the County Committee forbore proceedings, on plea that the house is not his own. Is poor, and 86 years old.	88	735
3 July. To be discharged on oath taken that he has no other house.	29	3

Claimant on the Estate of John Sherborne, Recusant, Co. Lancaster.


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L.C.C. I.&D. 109 887 –896 D. 109 883 917 R. 109 867 C. 34 14 109 901 –907	3 April 1655. Thos. Parker, of Browsholme, co. York, begs discharge of ²/3 of a messuage, tenements, and lands in Ribleton, co. Lancaster, to which he is entitled by conveyances from John Sherborne, late of Ribleton, and Henry his son, and which are sequestered for the Popery of John Sherborne. But he having died, and being buried 20 March 1655, the premises ought to come to petitioner.	109	881 913
	3 April. Referred to the County Commissioners	27 109	358 879
	27 July. Claim allowed and sequestration discharged	28	20

Claimant on the Estate of John Ainscoe, alias Martin (late), Recusant, Co. Lancaster.


10 April 1655.		Vol. G	No. or p.

	Order on the petition (missing) of Wm. Parke, of Walton in the Dale—for discharge of ²/3 of a messuage inhabited by John Ainscoe, alias Martin, and a barn. &c., in Walton, sequestered for his recusancy,—granting discharge, Martin being dead, and the Committee's interest therein determined.	27	363

Tristram Axworthy, Milton, Devon.


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C. 32 28	10 April 1655. Begs discharge of his estate in Alberston and Garracroft, Cornwall, leased at an undervalue, and sequestered for his supposed delinquency; also examination into the cause of sequestration, and whether he was sequestered before 1 Dec. 1651.	144	498
	10 April. Referred to the County Committee	27	361
R.C. 22 9 143 513 C. 34 9 144 503 –509 R. 144 499	5 July. The returns being made that there is nothing to render him liable to sequestration,—he being an ignorant person, altogether unacquainted with sequestrations, but a great sufferer therefrom,—he begs reference to counsel, and an order for discharge of his estate. Noted as referred to Reading.	144	495 511
R.C. 22 9 143 513 C. 34 9 144 503 –509 R. 144 499	26 July. Order on report that the claim cannot be allowed, nor the sequestration discharged on the Act of Pardon.	21	1317

Robert Parkin, Recusant, Woodhall, Co. York.


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10 April 1655. Begs an order to the County Committee to set him out a third in kind of his sequestered estate, allowing him his mansion-house.	144	528
10 April. Granted, and the County Committee are to set out his ⅓ in kind.	20	1180

Claimant on the Estate of William Woodson (late), Recusant, Hants.


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10 April 1655. John Croke begs discharge of a tenement held by Wm. Woodson, now dead, in the manor of Dibden, Hants, for which petitioner compounded 5 years since.	78	20
10 April. Referred to the County Commissioner	27	358

Richard Burton, Preston, Co. Lancaster.


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Begs an order to the County Committee to examine his title to ⅓ of Bradley House, Marsden, sequestered for delinquency of Simon Blakey, and Ann his widow, though by their death it has come to petitioner; it is only value 20s. a year. Begs an order to the County Committee to discharge it, as the clearing it before this Committee would be a great charge.	71	642
11 April 1655. The County Commissioners allowed to discharge it if under 40s. a year value, and on oath that the State's interest therein is determined.	27	365

Claimant on the Estate of Dorothy, Mother of John Berry, Devon.


24 April 1655.		Vol. G	No. or p.

L.C.C. I.&D. 243 105 106 L.C.C. I.&D. 243 107 108 C. 34 23 243 109 110 R. 243 111	Edw. Pyne and 2 others petition that in 1653 John Berry demised to them Berrynarbor and Mattinghoe manors. Devon, for 120 years, in trust for payment of debts and raising portions for his younger children; but they cannot proceed because on a mistake of the County Committee, the estate is sequestered for recusancy of Dorothy, mother of John Berry, who has no interest therein. Beg discharge and repayment of profits since the commencement of their interest.	108 243	1089 103
	24 April 1655. Referred to the County Commissioner and Reading.	27 243	359 104
	26 July. Beg an order for further examination of evidence, which they could not procure before. Granted.	108 29	1087 44

Thomas Jones, Rector of Caereinion, Co. Montgomery.


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24 April 1655. Petitions that he was presented by the Protector 16 Aug. 1654 to the rectory, and on 4 September had an instrument for it from the Committee for Approving Public Preachers. Rice Wynn was ejected therefrom for scandal by the Society for Propagation of the Gospel. Has claimed his arrears, but finds the tithes are partly in the parishioners' hands, and partly in those of the County Commissioners, who will not allow him his rights without an order, which he requests.	95	313
24 April. The County Commissioners to certify why and from whom the arrears were sequestered, and what profits they have from them.	27	369

Claimants on the Estate of John Williamson, Co. Warwick.


25 April 1655.		Vol. G.	No. or p.

L.C.C. I.&D. 64 425, 431–442 NOTE 29 83 C. 34 9 64 443 –448 R. 64 413 D. 64 411	Barbara and Mary Askew [daughters of the late Robert Askew] beg discharge of a tenement and lands in Lapworth, co. Warwick, worth 16l. a year, purchased in 1641 by their father of Wm. Ashby, and then in lease for 12 years to John Williamson, but sequestered for his recusancy.	64	423 449
	25 April 1655. Referred to the County Commissioner	27	359
	27 July. Claim allowed and discharge granted, on deposition of John Williamson that he has no other title to the estate.	28	23
	14 May 1656. Order confirmed, the oath being duly taken	28	28