Charles I - volume 539: April 1644 | British History Online

Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I, 1625-49 Addenda. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1897.

'Charles I - volume 539: April 1644', in Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Charles I, 1625-49 Addenda, (London, 1897) pp. 659. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/domestic/chas1/addenda/1625-49/p659 [accessed 20 April 2024]

April 1644



April 2/12. Williamstadt.	188. Henry Bury to Colonel Goring, the Tower, or in his absence to Alderman Pennington, Lieutenant of the Tower. I was glad to see your hand, though you call me to an account for which I have already your discharge. After so many revolutions in the world, either I or my papers might well have miscarried, but I have accounts to prove that you have not employed the 3,000l. received from the sheriff of Hampshire, by order of the House of Commons, to any other than the use intended, viz., payment of Portsmouth garrison, and such other works as you thought needful for defence of the town. The sum I paid thereon appears by my account in Mr. [John] Lobb's hands to be 1,300l., also bills for 26 weeks' work by 60 or 100 men, with materials, and Mr. Biggs' bills, so there was very little overplus for Colonel Goring or myself. This I will depose, making as much conscience of an oath "as the most pious zealot in Portsmouth." If any complain of non-payment, I affirm that in 1641 you paid much more than you received from Parliament for the garrison and works. If Mr. Lobb and Mr. Biggs will not produce their accounts, I will make ready those you desire and deliver them when commanded. Those that say the Portsmouth garrison was not paid according to the account are not soldiers or men of worth, but "knights of the post or sons of Belial." I shall clear you of such horrid and false aspersions. [2 pp. See letter of John Biggs, calendared under date 28th May 1644, Vol. DI., No. 146.]
April 11.	189. Order in the Committee of both Kingdoms that Sir William Balfour have his fortnight's pay as General of the Horse in the present payment of the two horse regiments of my Lord General and Sir William Balfour. [½ p.]