Cases before the Committee: July 1655

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

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'Cases before the Committee: July 1655', in Calendar, Committee For Compounding: Part 5, (London, 1892) pp. 3240-3241. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/compounding-committee/pt5/pp3240-3241 [accessed 19 April 2024]

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July 1655

Lancashire Delinquents.

3 July 1655. Vol. G No. or p.
Eliz. Bretton, widow, John Rossall, Wm. Nickson, and Wm. Crichlowe, all beg the benefit of their discharges by the County Committee, their estates being under 40s. a year, and they unable else to subsist. 83 200
3 July 1655. Granted, if they have an undoubted right to the estates, and if the value is not more than 40s. 29 6

Sampson Coyney, Weston Coyney, Co. Stafford.

5 July 1655. Vol. G No. or p.
Ralph Coyney petitions that his nephew, Sampson Coyney, granted him in 1637 a rent-charge of 40s. for life on his lands, but the estate is sequestered for recusancy and delinquency of Anne, widow of Sampson, and John, his son, so that the annuity has not been paid for 3 years. Being aged and past labour, having no other livelihood, and having served and suffered for Parliament, begs relief. 139 443
5 July 1655. Order for discharge of the annuity on his proving to the County Commissioners that it is but 40s. a year, and that he has a good title thereto. 29 8
17 July 1655. Wm. Lawton begs discharge of the sequestered 2/3 of a messuage. mill, and lands, in Brerehurst and Talke, co. Stafford, the reversion of a third part of which his father bought of Sampson Coyney, and Anne, his wife. Mary Erdwick, widow, had an estate therein for life; she is lately dead, and yet the premises are continued under sequestration for her recusancy. 99 483
17 July. The County Committee to examine and certify, and Reading to report. 29 11

Lancashire Delinquents.

11 July 1655. Vol. G No. or p.
Banaster Maynard, Rich. King, Hugh Cooper, and Cuthbert Cordwell, beg the benefit of discharges granted by the County Committee for all estates under the yearly value of 40s., according to former orders of the Committee for Compounding. 104 464
11 July 1655. The County Commissioners are to discharge them if satisfied that their value does not exceed 40s., and that petitioners have an undoubted right thereto. 29 18

Claimant on the Estate of Robert Sowerbuts, Recusant, Redisnap, Co. Lancaster.

12 July 1655. Vol. G No. or p.
Elizabeth Sowerbuts, his widow, and John, his son and heir, complain that the County Commissioners, supposing her to be a recusant, will not discharge the 2/3 of her husband's estate, let at 15s. a year. Beg an order for discharge, with repayment of receipts from the estate. 145 260
12 July 1655. The discharge by the County Commissioners ordered. if the estate be of so small value, and if petitioners prove their title to it. 27 417

Claimants on the Estate of Margaret Wells, Recusant, Dorset.

Vol. G No. or p.
12 July 1655. Samuel Holmes, of Andover, Hants, and George Rythe, of St. Andrew's, Holborn, Middlesex, beg leave to prove their title to ½ of Gedlingston house, Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, and out-houses and sundry lands, demised to them 6 July last by Thos. Wells for 21 years, or his life, but they are sequestered for recusancy of Marg. Wells, grandmother of Thomas, and she is now dead. 89 1005
12 July. Referred to the County Commissioner and Reading 29 10

Claimant on the Estate of Edward Downes, Bodney, Norfolk.

17 July 1655. Vol. G No. or p.
Fras. Bacon and 2 others beg allowance of their title to the estate in Bodney, and elsewhere in Norfolk, settled on them by Edm. Downes, 2/3 being sequestered for his recusancy. 65 77
17 July 1655. County Committee to examine and certify, and Reading to report. 29 11

Claimant on the Estate of Robert Roberts, Co. Flint.

20 July 1655. Vol. G No. or p.
John Roberts, infant of 3 years, by Wm. Stoddart, his guardian, begs discharge of 2/3 of an estate in Nerquis, co. Flint, of which Rob. Roberts, his grandfather, died seized, and which was sequestered for his recusancy. John Roberts, his eldest son and heir, is also dead, and petitioner is John's son and heir. 114 755
20 July 1655. County Committee to examine and certify, and Brereton to report. 27 403

Claimant on the Estate of John Peacock, Chichester, Sussex.

26 July 1655. Vol. G No. or p.
Thos. Harpur begs leave to recover by law against John Peacock a debt of 1,000l. and 50s. costs, granted by the Common Pleas, 14 Charles, of which he has received but 100l. interest, being hindered by the sequestration of 2/3 of the estate for Peacock's recusancy; also begs an order to the Commissioners of cos. Sussex and Hants to certify the cause of sequestration. 91 223
26 July 1655. Order to the County Commissioners accordingly 29 11
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