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Calendar, Committee For Compounding: Part 1. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1889.

'Volume G 250: April 1650', in Calendar, Committee For Compounding: Part 1, (London, 1889) pp. 192-207. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/compounding-committee/pt1/pp192-207 [accessed 24 April 2024]

April 1650


Cumberland.

April ?	Petition of Paul and Alice Freeman, Rich. Nymlin, and Marg. Fletcher, poor people of Leeds, co. York, to the Committee for Compounding. Had their houses burned down for preservation of the town in the late wars, and had an order for 300l. towards their losses, but have only received 170l.; and their tedious journeys and attendance in London has cost them all they have received, so that they can neither find bread nor lodging, and must lie in the streets if not relieved. Beg enough to subsist on, to be repaid out of the 130l. still due, or must perish for want. Noted "Not in the power of this committee." [G 85. p. 589.]
April 1.	Like petition of the above and Rob. Worrall to the said committee. The 300l. was granted by Parliament order, 21 July 1647, from estates of delinquents not then sequestered. They have only received 165l., and have spent more than half in journeys about it, and the late county committee being out of power, they can expect no more without an order, which they beg for. With recommendation by Lord Fairfax. [G 85, p. 592.]
April 1.	Order thereon, that the Commissioners for York examine what sums have been received by petitioners, and certify; and then the case to be stated to the House. [G 9, p. 41.]
April 1.	Order of the Committee for Compounding, that the horses seized at Sir Thos. Sandys' be discharged, on oath that they belong to Mr. Rea and Mr. Lee.
	Order that the treasurers attend to-morrow afternoon. [G 9, p. 41; 10, p. 15.]
April 1. Newcastle.	1. George Redshaw, agent to the County Committee for Northumberland, to the Committee for Compounding. I will execute my office as carefully as possible, and give you a full account of all discoveries I can make. "The county is very spacious, and lies near bad instruments to a commonwealth." In the 16th article of your instructions, you require an account of the profits from keeping courts upon Papists' and delinquents' estates, and what copyhold lands there are in them. The gentleman who kept these courts has died, and I doubt the records cannot be got; but the usual time of keeping them was Easter and Michaelmas, so that if you send me an order for keeping them, I will return you a just account, and hope to make some discoveries. As soon as the lands are let for the ensuing year, I shall go about some new delinquents, and take an account of the late collectors and sequestrators, that you may know how the rents have been disposed of. [1 page.]
April 1. Leicester.	2. The late County Committee for Leicester to the Committee for Compounding. Enclosed is the duplicate concerning sequestrations here. We have delivered the other copy to your commissioners here, and taken care to make a full return, and are confident it will clearly show our real endeavours to observe your commands with all expedition, the rather as many formerly and still entrusted in this service have either deserted it or are absent, and if we bad stayed for their coming or writing, it would have occasioned much delay. [1 page.] Enclosing,
	2. i. List of 23 persons sequestered whose estates have been assigned to other persons, or the sequestrations stayed upon precedent estates and titles, allowed by orders of Parliament or of the Committee for Sequestrations, between 1644 and 1647. Also
	List of 12 who have been discharged upon their appeal to the Committee for Sequestrations, and 7 to the Barons of Exchequer, between 1645 and 1648. Also
	List of 42 who have been discharged upon their compositions by the Commissioners for Compounding, between 1645 and 1649. [3¼ pages.]
April 2.	Order of the Committee for Compounding, that John Sherren, of Faversham, sequestrator to the late committee of co. Kent, deliver to this committee the bond now in his hands, and the bill in Chancery against him by Sir John Mills, to be referred to Reading and St. Nicholas, and Sherren to have his charges, 1l. 16s. 10d.
	That Sherren be also allowed 30s., expended in getting in sequestration arrears in Kent.
	Order that Mr. Say report to the House the case of Gilb. Millington, M.P., Felley, co. Notts, viz., that 6 years since the Earl of Newcastle made his house a garrison, and plundered him to the certified value of 1,713l.; that 10 February 1648, the House of Commons referred his Case to a committee to examine and report; that the Committee recommended for him the sequestrations of Ansley Woodhouse and Kirby Woodhouse, belonging to the Earl of Newcastle, and worth 140l. a year, till satisfied; that on reference to the county committee, the rents were paid him last year, and he desires continuance.
	Order that the mistake in Capt. Boy's account of 17l. 1s. 1½d. be allowed.
	Also that the 52l. 13s. 7d. charged upon Bix as due to Corbet, as certified by the Kent committee, be allowed on bix's account. [G 9, pp. 42, 43.]
April 2. North Laffenham.	3. Evers Armyne and Benj. Norton, County Commissioners for Rutland, to the Committee for Compounding.
	We cannot give the information required by yours of 26 February, as the chief delinquents and men of estate were sequestered by the committee sitting at Rockingham Castle in 1642 and 1643, as Col. Horsman and his father; or else they were sequestered by Col. Waite and Capt. Thatcher at Burley House, in 1643 and 1644, and before we acted. I, Armyne, did not come into the county until the end of 1644, when by order of Parliament I put forces into the garrison at Burley, and arranged for their pay; and I, Norton, did not act until the beginning of 1648. List of the chief delinquents similar to that given March 1648. The rest were all sequestered in 1642 to 1644, and before either of us acted. None can tell you the value of their estates in 1640 but those who acted, nor the arrears on the said estates but those that received the sequestrations, as Captains Thatcher and Barry, the one as a commissioner and the other as solicitor for the sequestrations, put in by the Committee for Sequestrations, and not by the county committee, for which they receive and challenge great pay.
	We have neither received nor challenge any pay; and yet, according to the order of Parliament, we hope we have discharged our trust in raising forces, and taking care to pay them, and in sequestering, without the assistance of any solicitor, such as were not sequestered before. One of us kept a book to control the receivers of sequestration money; but when Burley House was burnt down, it was either lost or destroyed, to our great loss; and since then the distractions have been so great between Col. Waite and the sub-committee of accounts on one side, and some of the county committee on the other, that he could not act: neither need he, because the sub-committee of accounts, after the house was burnt, resided in the stables of Burley House, kept their office there, and took examinations on oath, which we are not authorised to do, and thus rendered our voluntary performance useless; but we trust our services may be accepted, remuneration dispensed, and we not put upon impossible tasks.
	P.S.—If there be any profit to be had. others who seek for such places get them; but if there be any trouble without profit, that they lay upon those that seek for no place at all. Capt. [Mat.] Barry, the solicitor, and Capt. Thatcher, undertook to send the particulars you desire. [1½ pages.]
April 2. Winchester.	4. County Committee for Hants to the Committee for Compounding. One of the late sequestrators for this county, who acted for Southampton, on perusing our commission, told us that we had not anything to do there, it being a town and county of itself; and that by all former ordinances of Parliament, they acted within themselves, without any relation to the county. We desire further instructions, as we apprehend the like objection may be made concerning the Isle of Wight. [¾ page.]
April 3. Oxford.	5. County Committee for Oxford to the Committee for Compounding. We desire your confirmation of Elisha Coles as our clerk, and a meet allowance. We recommend Richard Appletree, of Deddington, to be added to Robert Leicester as agent for sequestrations; the service will be more than one person can perform. [¾ page.]
April 3. Preston.	6. County Committee for Lancaster to the Committee for Compounding. We have received your commission of 1 Feb. last authorising us to act, as also an order for Peter Ambrose to be agent or sequestrator for this county. We shall not be wanting to advance the service, but unless we have necessary officers, we cannot act. Mr. Ambrose says he is unable to undergo the burden of the sequestrations within the whole county, and that having hitherto only been employed as one of four agents within one hundred, it has been as much as he can undertake; and indeed, our county being very large and the sequestrations numerous, without the officers formerly recommended to you on 20 Feb., when we took off half the number, the service will be slighted. We therefore commend the enclosed list of officers, and desire your order for their acting. [1¼ pages.] Enclosing,
April 3. Preston.	6. i. List of 11 persons proposed to he receiver, clerk, auditor, agents, and messenger to the said committee. [½ page.]
April 3. Preston.	7. County Committee for Lancaster to the Committee for Compounding. Since the receipt of your commission authorising us to act, we have received many complaints from the farmers of sequestered estates of obstructions in the enjoyment of those estates, and other grievances, which we cannot redress; it tends much to the prejudice of the Commonwealth if sequestered estates may not be quietly enjoyed, and the farmers relieved in the counties, and not forced to make suit to you. Let some speedy course be taken for redressing complaints touching sequestrations. Notes of a case. [1 page.] Enclosing,
April 3. Preston.	7. i. Order in the County Committee for Lancaster, that the agents for sequestration in Blackburn Hundred shall seize and sequester the real and personal estate of Robert Carr and Peter Parker, for obstructing the sequestration of Henry Boughty's estate in Thornley, unless John Strakie and Robert Cunliffe, to whom the business between Hen. Murgatroyd, Hen. Sherborne, and Allen Battle is referred, forthwith make a final agreement between them, so that Sherborne and Battle be not damnified by farming the said Mr. Doughty's lands. Manchester, 30 Jan. 1649. [Copy, ½ page.]
April 4. Taunton.	Presentation to the Committee for Compounding by Alex. Popham, John Pyne, and 3 others, of 7 faithful and honest gentlemen, not liable to exception, as Sequestration Commissioners for co. Somerset, viz.:— Wm. Ceely. Thos. Latch. John Georges. John Cary. Rich. Bovett. Geo. Sampson, jun.,
	and James Pearse, as assistant. Endorsed, Captain Barker versus Capt. Mason. [G 102, p. 327.]
April 5.	8. Act empowering Sam. Moyer, Jas. Russell, Edw. Winslow, Josias Berners, Wm. Molins, Art. Squibb, jun., and Rich. Moore, to be Commissioners for Compounding with delinquents, and managing the sequestered estates of delinquents and recusants; also giving them the powers of the Committee for Advance of Money at Haberdashers' Hall, from 22 April next to 23 Jan. 1652. Proviso, that they do not interfere with the powers given 26 Nov. 1642 to the Army Committee, and that they take an oath given of fidelity in discharge of duty, without favour or reward; all the sub-commissioners to take the same oath. Proviso, that they are not to pay away money without order of Parliament. [2½ pages, printed.]
April 5.	Petition of Rich. Dormett to the Committee for Compounding.
	Was employed by the late Committee as collector for sequestrations in Cos. Stafford and Chester, and had a lease of Cheadle Manor, the Marquis of Winchester's, at 60l. a year. Begs its confirmation, or an order to the County Committee to let him have it as cheap as any other. Noted, that the County Committee are to let the manor to the ablest and fittest person that will give the most rent. [G 81, p. 160.]
April 5.	Order of the Committee for Compounding to Hen. Harris, of Chipping Norton, co. Oxon., to appear in 7 days, to answer informations against him. [G 7, p. 92.]
April 5. Coventry.	9. Commissioners of co. Warwick to the Committee for Compounding. The trustees for raising 50,000l. for Ireland have leased Sir Charles Smith's estate to his friend Mr. Caryll for 3 years at 652l. 10s. 11d., but with many abatements. Are we to continue this, or must he compound for it ? Are we to pay ministers from delinquents' and Papists' estates, on orders from the Committee for Plundered Ministers ? Some ministers have subscribed the engagement, others have not. Some arrears of rent the parties offer to pay us, not wishing to have to send them to London. The agents of Sir Charles Smith and Mr. Sheldon beg return of the bonds for payment of rent, which, on taking their leases, they were forced to give in to the trustees for Ireland upon payment of their rent to us. [1 page.]
April 6. Nottiugham.	10. Commissioners of co. Notts to the Committee for Compounding. Particulars of the estates of the Earl of Chesterfield and John Scrope. Let us have speedy directions as to the wood, as the season for sale is at hand. Also say whether we are to proceed on the information of delinquency we sent up March. 21, and whether annuities, fifths, augmentations, &c., are to be granted from delinquents' estates, "for the importunities of many are very great, and threats to distrain tenants of sequestered lands very frequent." [¾ page.]
April 6. Kendal.	11. County Committee of Westmoreland to the Committee for Compounding. We have treated with several persons for estates under sequestration, and raised the values as much as we could, and continued the occupiers of some estates in their leases according to your instructions. We enclose particulars of the old rents under sequestration, and the value of the timber surveyed. Send a reply about the officers in the former list, as the estates will not be meddled with until your resolution is known; their non-appointment will be very prejudicial, and the tenants will be disabled by the delay to pay their rents.
	The courts for the manors being mostly Court Leets, your resolutions are necessary, as the time is near for keeping them, otherwise they will not be again kept until Michaelmas. We enclose the charge against Major [Arthur] Scaife and Robert Wardell, a sequestrator, and others; consider them, so that we may act with safety and without contradiction. There are several delinquents' and Papists' estates for which we cannot at present find fit tenants. [1 page.]
April 7. Little Strickland, Westmoreland.	12. Capt. Rich. Crackenthorp, one of the County Committee for Westmoreland to the Committee for Compounding. Having on 16 March last received a commission with instructions from the late Commissioners for Sequestrations for this county, I, with the rest of the commissioners, met thereupon, but most of us not being satisfied that we had power to lease estates under sequestration, we made returns then, and shortly after, certificates of what offers were made.
	Westmoreland, by its great mountains, is divided into two parts, at times very difficult to pass, between the bottom of Westmoreland and the barony of Kendal, in which two parts are kept the two sessions of the peace. The old committee divided in two, and transacted business distinctly, but the old Committee for Compounding, naming 4 commissioners only, named myself for the bottom of this county; so I am obliged, before anything can be acted, to go into the barony, or they are forced to come to me, which, in things requiring haste, often hinders business, and is like to do; for we, meeting on the 4th inst., did not appoint another meeting until 14 days after, hoping to hear from you; but the same day some of our agents, going by our appointment to some sequestered estates, to take in beasts to grass for the benefit of the State in the bottom of this county, Robert Wardell, agent for the old committee, would not suffer our agent to do so, pretending that the old committee had leased the same. He was encouraged by Major Arthur Scaife, and his brother, Cornet Lancelot Scaife, who keep certain delinquents' lands from us by the sword. Yet these grounds, thus kept by these persons, are raised in their yearly revenue to near 200l. a year more than they were let for by the old committee; this is not the only loss, but others take encouragement thereby, and withstand our seizures, so that we are forced by soldiers to desist from making benefit, and to enter into suits at law with Wardell and others, by impounding their goods on the State's grounds.
	I beg your orders to free the State of these contests, or to free me of this service; not that I deny to serve, but I desire that another person living in this part may be added to the commission, and propose John Fallowfield, who was faithful from the beginning, and is a Commissioner for the Monthly Assessment for the Army. [1 page.] Enclosing—
	12. i. James and John Thomson, Thomas Waller, and Henry Petty, to the County Committee for Westmoreland. Being at Hartley Manor House on 29 Jan., the day published for letting the domain lately belonging to Sir Phil. Musgrave, divers people repaired thither to take it, and a candle was lighted and set up by Rob. Wardell, the agent, he saying that who lid the most while the candle burned should farm the domain for the ensuing year. Thereupon Mr. Warwick, John Gibson, and others bid, but they were put back by Major Arthur Scaife, who threatened that whoever took it, he would eat it with his troop of horse, and he took it himself for 153l. 5s.
	Afterwards the major, hearing that all estates under seuqestration would be let for years by the Committee for Compounding, threatened that whoever took the domain of Hartley, which he had taken of the old committee, should have a longer sword than he, and thereby win it, in spite of whoever should say to the contrary, before they should enjoy it; and Thomas Buster, the major's trumpeter, threatened with an oath that if any one brought any horses on the grounds, he would run his sword through their guts. 3 April, 1650. [1 page.]
	12. ii. Certificate by Francis Blenkinsop to the County Committee for Westmoreland, that Robert Wardell, Major Arthur Scaife, and Cornet Lancelot Scaife, his brother, came to Brough, on the 3rd inst, and farmed the domain of Helbeck, and leased Graistone Flat Close and other parts to Rich. Foster and John, his son. 4 April, 1650. [½ page.]
	12. iii. Petition of Henry Petty to the County Committee for Westmoreland, for protection in his business on the State's account. I was employed by them to enquire into the estates of delinquents under sequestration in the bottom of Westmoreland, and their woods and customary rents, and to acquaint some persons that if they desired to farm any of them, they might come and treat with the Commissioners; but at Kirkby Steven, Thomas Buster, one of Major Art. Scaife's trumpeters, swore that if any brought horses into the domain of Hartley, now under sequestration, which he called his major's grounds, he would run his sword in their guts; he also threatened another agent, who had treated about farming Hartley domain; and while you were sitting at Shap, and treating about the farming of estates, another of the major's soldiers said that Capt. Rich. Crackenthorp, one of the Commissioners, and his major had been at words, and that if he let the said domain to farm, it would come to blows. [1 page.]
	12. iv. Petition of James Thomson and John, his son, to the County Committee for Westmoreland. At the farming of Hartley domain, John Thomson offered 153l. for it, but Major Art. Scaife has taken it at 133l. (sic.), and threatens violence, and frightens the whole family, because an offer was made to farm the domain. Begs them to consider how the State suffers by his proceedings, no one daring to farm any estate where he or his brother, Cornet Lancelot Scaife, are. They farm the domain of Helbeck of the former committee at small rates, and endeavour to hold their farms by the sword. Beg the committee to certify the annexed challenge, and the contents of the other papers, to the Committee for Compounding, who will no doubt take such course that the State is not further prejudiced. [1 page.]
	12. v. Edward Morley to [John] Thomson. You being a double officer, and accorded with the Levellers, and I being one of the meanest of Major Scaife's troop, set you at defiance, and desire you will vindicate yourself according to your profession, by meeting me in Gramskey by 8 o'clock to-morrow with back swords; otherwise send me an answer. [¼ page.]
April 9.	13, 14. Order in Parliament that the Committee at Goldsmiths' Hall consider something to be tendered to the House for their declaration, touching savings put in by delinquents in their particulars, so that no injury may be done to particular persons, nor prejudice to the State. [2 copies, ½ page each; also G 1, p. 222.]
April 9.	Order of the Committee for Compounding, that summons be issued to the persons in the additional list presented on behalf of Lady Moore by John Hurst, counsellor-at-law.
	That Mr. Blagrave's report in the case of the officers of Plymouth garrison, with an attested list of their names, be sent to the auditors at Worcester House, to audit their accounts and certify.
	That Edw. Martin have a 7 years' lease of 19 tenements called York House, rents at 300l. a year, at which they were valued on survey.
	Summons to Thomas and Hen. Laurence, of Friday St., London, to appear and show cause why they should not be sequestered, on information that during the late wars, they imported goods of great value to Oxford, on license from the late King. [G 7, pp. 93, 94.]
April 9.	15. Account by Wm. Collins, auditor, of 10 Papists named in Kent, and 6 in Essex, who have made their first payment by way of advance, for one half-year, to Roger Calcott and Edw. Fox, receivers for the Prince Elector's revenue, including also the rent of the estate of Lord Montague in Sussex, reserved for the Elector. Total receipts in Kent, 1,290l. 3s. 4d; in Essex, 815l. [1 page.]
April 9. Hull.	16. County Committee for Hull to the Committee for Compounding. We have prepared our accounts, and are ready to pay our moneys. But there are only 4 of us here—Thos. Raikes, deputy mayor, John Bernard, from home, Nich. Denman, and Wm. People, both aged and infirm—and we cannot, undergo so great a journey. We have therefore solicited Sir John Bourchier, who is well known to us, to represent the truth hereof, and desire you will give commission to some here to take our accounts, receive the money, and give us a discharge. [1 page.]
April 9. York.	17. County Committee for Yorkshire to the Committee for Compounding. We have done our endeavours in setting estates here, and have let them at the highest rate we could, and taken security for the rents; but we find, to the contempt of the authority of Parliament and yourselves, that divers persons refuse to yield possession, or suffer the tenants to quietly enjoy them; we sit to no purpose when we cannot have our desires made good. We let the estate of Thomas Horner at Brathwaite, and [Fras.] Topham at Agglethorpe, against whom there are some pretended charges from the Exchequer, for arrears of recusants' compositions, which, by the Act of 25 Jan. last, were absolutely taken away.
	Nevertheless, Major Capperthwaite, major to Col. Charles Fairfax, and Capt. Robert Anderson, lately reduced from Col. Wastell's regiment, under pretence of arrears of the compositions made with the lord-deputy for recusancy, have distrained their goods. The parties complained to us, and we ordered the men to deliver the goods or show cause to the contrary; but they refused to deliver the beasts or to obey our order. Thereupon we ordered Major Smithson, major to Col. Lilburne, to cause the goods to be delivered. He ought to have aided us therein, but he also refused, so that the poor tenants have had their goods kept in fold for 10 days already, and they are still impounded, to the great charge of the people, they buying hay at 1s. the stone for their preservation. We entreat your order by the next post, or we shall be discouraged to proceed any further. Robt. Binloss, of Bedale, refuses to yield a sequestered farm there let by us; and Nich. Cockerill, of Hollinghill, has done the like.
	In all these affronts to Parliament, yourselves, and us, we crave order for dealing with offenders, and power to give possession, or it will be in vain for us to act further, and these ill precedents will encourage others to practice the like, as they will levy all the Papists' rents in the country, and so little or nothing will come to the Treasury. [Copy, 2 pages.]
April 10.	Order of the Committee for Compounding that the gentlemen of Sussex agree among themselves to recommend agents for sequestration in the county. [G 7, p. 97.]
April 10. Durham.	18. County Committee for Durham to the Committee for Compounding. We have had divers consultations about the most expeditions way of bringing the sequestrations of the county to an account; but as divers persons were sequestered by Sir Wm. Armyne and the rest of the Commissioners of Parliament, (fn. 1) and also many sequestered in 1644, when the county was in much distraction, we find the business so difficult that it cannot be effected in the time allotted to us, and we must intreat your favour for the enlargement of the time. [¾ page.]
April 10. Alnwick.	19. County Committee for Northumberland to the Committee for Compounding. The delinquents have moved us for orders for their 5th parts, and the tenants for an allowance for repairs, pretending inconvenience both to the Commonwealth and themselves, if the dwellings, &c., are not kept in repair. We desire directions, having no power to grant such, allowances. Notes of cases.
	Dr. Gray, a dangerous incendiary, and invective person, has cut down and sold some of the woods belonging to the Earl of Newcastle, and threatened the tenants for paying their rents to the State. [2 pages.]
April 10. Bodmin.	20. County Committee for Cornwall to the Committee for Compounding. We cannot give in any particular accounts, because the old committee have only certified in the general. The present tenants are willing to advance their rents much, on promise of 3 years' leases. We want directions about the salary of our agents. [1 page, defaced.]
April 13.	Order of the Committee for Compounding that Sir Art. Hesilrigge acquaint the Council of State with the letter from the Yorkshire Commissioners, and desire their order to require the soldiers not to keep possession of any estate against order, and to assist the commissioners there in executing the Act of Parliament, and this committee's orders thereon.
	Order that the committee adjourn till Wednesday [17 April]. [G 7, p. 101.]
April 15. Salop.	21. County Committee for Salop to the Committee for Compounding. We enclose depositions taken before the late committee against 20 malignants, whose estates are inventoried and secured, and we desire your resolutions thereon. Some army officers propose to discover several delinquents of great value, if they may be assured of a good reward for their pains, but we have no directions.
	With note of reply, 12 May, that they are to assure such discoverers that they will be rewarded by Parliament, when any delinquency is presented to judgment. Mr. Fowlewill take care to prosecute the cases. [1 page; also G 30, p. 379.]
April 17.	Order of the Committee for Compounding, that 2 agents be employed for sequestration in Sussex, Thos. Crouch being agent for the East Division. [G 7, p. 103.]
	22, 23. Like order on a Parliament order given of 15 April,—referring to them the accusations and examinations against [Thos.] Shadford, Sir Rich. Bellasise, George Lilburne, and Sir Wm. Langley—that Bellasise be discharged, having been heard before the committee, and judged not liable to sequestration, and that as the informations against the other 3 are not full, the County Committee of Durham examine and certify.
	Order referring the accounts of the late Committee for co. Rutland to the auditors of this committee, to examine and report. [G 7, pp. 103, 104; 1, p. 228.]
April 17. Plymouth.	24. Jos. Hunkyn and Jas. Pearse to Thomas Boone, M.P. We received by Mr. Carter a commission directed to us and John Marshall, and subscribed by you, as also instructions from the Committee for Compounding, grounded on the late Act for the better managing the estates of Papists and delinquents; but hearing since that the Committee for Compounding has been voted down by Parliament, we doubt whether our commission and instructions are not determined also; but what most sticks with us is that the instructions are not full enough to enable us to advance the public service.
	In your first instructions you require us to inform ourselves, by perusal of books, &c., of all delinquents and their estates, and what profits have been received thereof, and by whom, which is a work of no little labour and time, nor can be done unless we have fit persons under us; Mr. Carter alone cannot compass such a work.
	In the residue of the instructions, you have not given us that power formerly given by the ordinances of Parliament to the meanest agent. We can neither convene before us, nor examine, nor set nor let, but only certify; and before the answer be returned from you, the opportunity of setting will be past.
	We presume you are not well acquainted with the condition of this county, in relation to the setting of sequestered estates; it differs much from the counties near London. Estates here lie waste, and few will take them; they will here let only in surveys, where the best offer is to be heard, and the price presently given; otherwise there would be no offer for them. For personal estate, as goods [cattle], what shall we do with them when we have seized them, for we cannot keep them on our own charge until we have answer from you, and who shall drive them ? It was never our breeding to do it, and we have no power to disburse money for that purpose.
	In the said instructions you require us to certify what proof can be made to warrant any charge against a delinquent, to which we say that none will complain against their neighbours unless they are examined upon oath, and so forced to discover them, and we have no power at all to do it. You likewise require us to do all things on our own view, which will be a matter of such vast trouble and expense to us that we cannot go through it.
	We hear that some delinquents have turned out some of your tenants, and we have no power to relieve them, except by advising them to apply to the Justices of Peace; but whether they will relieve them or not, we cannot say.
	With marginal notes, being draft of a reply dated 1 May. We hope your scruples are removed by our late letters, and you will serve the public. As to your objections, we have added Mr. Dore to the committee at your desire, and shall allow you another agent to join with Mr. Carter, though we have refused it to other counties. You have now full power to examine on oath, and also to summon witnesses, and if any are refractory, send us their names and we will make an example of them. You had before power to let estates for one year; we hereby authorize you to let for 3, and shall soon enlarge the term to 7. You shall have fit allowance for the seizing of personal estates, and powers sent to give oaths, and to call before you clerks, solicitors, or agents, who refuse to return the names. [1 page; also G 30, p. 32.]
April 18. Westminster.	25, 26. Order to the county committees to seize and sequester the estates of those who, after passing the reports for their compositions, have neglected to pay their fines; and to detain them till they bring certificate of payment of the fine, and of the penalty inflicted by Parliament on 9 April 1649. [Also G 9, p. 45.] Annexing,
	i. Lists of persons who have so neglected payment in the following, counties:— Bedford 2. Berks 4. Bucks 3. Cambridge 5. Chester 17. Cumberland 8 Derby 4. Devon 19. Durham 6. Essex 3. Gloucester 4. Herts 1. Kent 5. Lincoln 31. Northampton 5. Nottingham 13. Northumberland 11. Sussex 3. Suffolk 3. Salop 6. Southampton (Hants) 7. Somerset 19. Stafford 9. Surrey 4. York 64
	[G 9, pp. 45, 46]
April 19.	Order of the Committee for Compounding that Reading and Leech consider what allowance should be made to—Walford, messenger, for his journey. With their report that as he had to ride into 6 counties, from Hants to Cornwall which took from 7 Feb. to 11 March, 1650, he should have 10s. a day for horse hire, diet, and horse meat, and what the committee please extra "in regard of his fall and tiring his horse." [G 127, p. 459; 7, p. 107.]
	Order of the said Committee that 5l. each be advanced to 5 messengers sent by this committee to the several counties. [G 7, p. 107.]
April 19. The Rolls.	Wm. Lenthall, Speaker, to the Committee for Compounding. As we have lately passed an Act empowering you to manage all sequestered lands, presume on your courtesy to recommend Capt. Hen. Jervoise of Hampshire, son of Sir Thos. Jervoise, as your treasurer. He has faithfully adhered to Parliament by land and sea. [G 95, p. 625.]
April 19. Salop.	27. County Committee for Salop to the Committee for Compounding. Since our return from London, we have seized on 30 new delinquents, and sent you a list of them, with the depositions, last week. Since then we have discovered as many more, which have been passed by through the neglect of the late committee's agents, and we are now seizing their estates, and making a return of the proofs.
	We have found that Sir Thos. Wolriche, and many others, have compounded at undervalue, and request you, before they enter their compositions, to put a stop to them, that the State be not deceived. Many have compounded 4 years since, and not made their own discoveries, and are thus, we conceive, deprived of the privileges of composition. If so, we shall bring you in 20,000l. profits. We have seized Lord Craven's estate, but his-tenants are so numerous that we cannot yet give you a full account of it.
	We beg to be allowed our fees on all these new delinquents, and on our reviews, though the compositions be made with you, as it is a great loss to us to neglect our own business only to mind this.
	With notes of reply 14 May. Certify to us the particulars and proofs of under valuation, and seize what is under value, for which the delinquent cannot compound, unless Parliament give further order.
	Call Lord Craven's bailiffs to account on oath, for we hear they have large arrears in hand. The delinquents returned to be noticed, and the Committee for Compounding to consider how they may be prosecuted to judgment. [2 pages; also G 30, pp. 379, 380.]
April 23.	Order of the Committee for Compounding [being the new committee at their first sitting, all the members present]:—
	That John Leech be continued registrar, on taking the oath.
	That none but the commissioners and those under oath be present at the passing of any vote.
	That all cases shall be prepared by counsel in course as exhibited, and so returned to this committee, and heard and determined.
	That a register be kept of cases prepared, and a list of those appointed for hearing set upon the door the day before.
	That the committee sit every Monday afternoon to consider, of orders referred to them by the House.
	That they sit every Tuesday from 9 to 12, and from 2 to 6, on composition reports; every Thursday and Friday, on sequestrations and discoveries; and every Friday morning for motions and petitions.
	That next Friday they choose Sequestration Commissioners for London. [G 8, pp. 1, 2.]
April 25. Westminster.	28. Additional instructions by the Commissioners for Compounding to the County Commissioners in England and Wales. You are to receive all arrears of rent unaccounted for, and return the same to the treasury at Goldsmiths' Hall; and if any person refuse to pay the money in his hands due to the State, you are to certify, that the penalty provided by the Act of 25 Jan. 1650, may be imposed.
	You are to use your utmost endeavour to discover all Popish recusants within the ordinance of 19 Aug. 1643, not yet discovered, and to administer the Oath of Adjuration to all suspected of recusancy. On their refusing, you are to seize and secure ²/3 of their real and personal estates, and certify to us; and if they are adjudged sequestered, to sell the same, after appraisal, for the use of the Commonwealth. [1 page, printed.]
April 25. Chelmsford.	29. County Committee for Essex to the Committee for Compounding. Enclosed are particulars of obstructions, the removal thereof we find very necessary for carrying on our business. [Abr.] Barrington (one of our number) will attend you herewith, and acquaint you of the resolutions of this committee concerning, the sequestrations and compositions of delinquents engaged in the insurrection in Essex in 1648. We have appointed John Mann, another of us, as treasurer for receiving the money arising from sequestrations in this county. [¾ page.] Enclosing
	29. i. Queries on the instructions sent by the Committee for Compounding. On the 4th instruction, neither the Act nor instructions interpret the words "If the estate shall so long continue."
	On the 6th Article we cannot certify what proof can be made against any delinquent, unless we have power to examine upon oath.
	On the 7th a list should be sent us of augmentations granted to ministers out of the estates of delinquents, for which allowance has been made on composition.
	On the 16the we cannot certify what profit may be made by the grant of copyhold estates, until the courts have been kept, most of them having hitherto been kept by authority not derived from this committee.
	On the 17th we have received several orders from the Barons, which cannot be obeyed, as we have no power to administer an oath. Neither do we find that the Act or instructions provides us with aid in case of resistance. Also there is an absolute necessity of other assistants besides the agent.
	As to the sequestering of actors in the late insurrection, the standing committee of the county claim a title to them, the liberty of compounding with such delinquents being granted them by an Act of Parliament, with which Act, and the desires of the committee, Sir Wm. Masham and Sir Hen. Mildmay, who serve for the county, will acquaint you; we intreat a speedy answer, because something may very suddenly be done by us therein.—Chelmsford, Mar. 30, 1650. [1 page.]
	29. ii. Copy of portions of the above queries. Chelmsford, April 25, 1650. [¾ page.]
	29. iii. Order of the House of Commons that;—whereas the sequestrations of the real and personal estates of delinquents in the late insurrection of Essex were ordered to be applied to the maintenance of the forces raised and to be raised in that county for its defence, and also the fines of all the said delinquents in Essex not formerly sequestered. And whereas, by an ordinance of Parliament of 25 Nov. last, 5,000l. was granted to the army under Lord Fairfax, to be forthwith raised by the County Committee for Essex out of the estates of delinquents in the late insurrection;—the standing committees of the said county shall have power to fine and compound with the said delinquents for the said estates, according to the directions given by this House to the Commissioners at Goldsmiths' Hall, and to give such delinquents a full discharge, and to dispose of the money so raised to the aforesaid uses, and apply the balance towards satisfaction of the losses of the well-affected of Colchester, who have suffered by the insurrection.—May 3, 1649. [Copy, ½ page.]
April 25.	Reports by Sir Art. Hesilrigge's secretary, Ant. Pearson, of the fines set in the 4 Northern counties, by the commissioners appointed by Act of Parliament, 2 March 1649, for compounding with delinquents in the last war.
	The papers referred to in Vol. 227 are particulars of estates only. Those in Vol. 250 are petitions, all in the same form,—stating that the petitioner adhered to the enemy in the last war, and begs to compound on the rates of Parliament—and also the same particulars of estates, signed. These also give the dates of acceptance and fine, from June 14 to Aug. 9, 1649. A few later petitions are also appended as belonging to the same series, though they did not enter into the report.
	The reports are preceded by an alphabet [G 227, pp. 703–728] to a book of 114 pages, now lost, relating to these compositions, and by a list of the compounders. [G 227, pp. 729–736; see also G 8, p. 3.]
	Then follow abstracts of the compositions, viz.:—
		£	s.	d.	G 227
	John Aglionby, Drawedykes	153	3	4	737
	Thos. Langkake, Great Salkeld	13	0	0	739
	Lancelot Relffe, Great Braithwaite	10	0	0	741
	George Wilkinson, Millrigg	33	12	0	743
	Wilfred Ireton, Threlkeld	100	0	0	745
	Rich. Tickell, Cockermouth	20	12	8	747
	John Chambers, Raby Cotes	28	13	4	749
	John Senhouse, Seascale	130	0	0	751
	Wm. Patrickson, Weddiker	54	17	0	753
	Rich. Barker, carpenter, Castle Sowerby	9	0	0	755
	Hen. Baynes, tanner, Carlisle	13	4	8	757
	John Ireton, Irton	40	2	1	739
	Nich. Whitfield, Alston Moore	56	10	0	761
	George Relffe, Castle Sowerby	10	0	0	763
	John Munckhouse, Caldbeck	8	0	0	765
	John Lamplugh, Lamplugh	400	0	0	767
	Rob. Highmore, Armanthwaite	81	5	0	769
	George Graham, The Nunnery	53	10	4	771
	Oswald Bird, Kirk Oswald	12	0	0	773
	John Cape, draper, Carlisle	51	0	0	775
	Wm. Musgrave, Clea	21	0	0	777
	Sir Edw. Musgrave, Bart., Hayton	830	19	10	779
	George Denton, Cardew [Carden ?] (tithes at Cardew accepted for 90l. thereof)	200	0	0	783
	John Patrickson, Calder Abbey	50	7	0	785
	Wm. Carleton, Carleton Hall, Penrith (tithes at Newton accepted for 200l. thereof)	298	13	4	787
	William & John Whelpdale, Penrith	256	7	8	789
	Sir Wm. Musgrave, Crookdale	273	6	8	791
	Thos. Dykes, Wardal	155	15	0	793
	Thos. Wybergh, St. Bees	130	13	4	795
	Wm. Briscoe, Sowterfield (20l. of it paid to the Cumberland Committee)	60	0	0	797
	Jos. Patrickson, Carswell Howe	62	10	0	799
	Rich. Musgrave, Bolton	82	17	6	801
	Thos. Stephenson, Goborough. D.D. (for the whole fine a lease of his ½ of Newburne Rectory, accepted)	300	0	0	803
	Pet. Senhouse, Ellingbrook Hall	30	0	0	805
	Wm. Wilson, Carlisle	30	16	2	807
	Bern. Kirkbride, Ellerton	14	13	4	809
	Wm. Musgrave, Penrith	70	0	0	811
Northumberland.
	John Carr, West Ditchburne	34	14	0	859
	John Orde, Westwood	304	0	0	861
	George Whitehead, Bulmer	4	0	0	863
	Wm. Carr, Crayhall	40	0	0	865
	Charles Brandling, Alnwick Abbey	898	0	0	867
	John Ramsey, Berwick	779	15	3½	869
	Ralph Bowes, Hexham	20	12	0	871
	Thos. Clavering Learchild	74	18	6	873
	Mark Errington, West Denton	67	15	0	875
	Gilb. Errington	66	13	4	881
	John Ridley, Hardriding	16	11	4	877
	Roger Reede, North Shields	210	0	0	879
	John Foster, jun., Etherston	83	19	4	883
	John Foster, sen.,	32	0	0	885
	John Saunderson, Healey	126	14	0	887
	Hen. Milburne, Bedlington	27	19	4	889
	Thos. Foster, Etherston	273	0	0	891
	George Lawson, Newton-by-the-Sea	30	5	10	893
	Edw. Conyers, Hopton	79	0	0	895
	George Orde, Sameshouse	40	3	4	897
	Lancelot Algood, Hexham	70	4	0	899
	Thos. Jackson, Merchant, Newcastle	33	6	8	901
	David Errington, Beefront	15	0	0	903
	Wm. Strother, Kirk Newton (tithes of Milfield, Coupland, and Yeavering accepted for 600l.)	1095	10	0	907
	Sir Fras. Liddell, Bamborough	342	16	10	909
Westmoreland.
	30, 31. Rob. Atkinson, Kirkby Stephen	45	0	0	911
	Thos. Wybergh, Bolton	29	15	4	915
	32, 33. Rich. Crackenthorpe, New biggin (was in both wars, but never compounded)	214	6	8	917
	Edw. Newinson, Newby Stanes	160	3	4	919
	Sir Thos. Strickland, Sizergh	308	10	0	921
	Rob. Barton, Breekes	22	10	0	925
	Wm. Guy, Kendal	18	0	0	929
	34, 35. Wm. Wright, Brougham	76	19	0	937
	Wm. Wormley, Rosegill	293	12	4	939
	John Mounsey, Patterdale	28	0	0	941
	Wm. Smith, Whitewall	4	0	0	943
	James, eldest son of Allan Bellingham, Gathorne	9	13	2	947
	36, 37. Thos. Sanford, Askham (being sick, compounds by his mother)	53	15	0	949
	38, 39. Lancelot Machell, Crackenthorpe (was in the enemy's' garrison, and assisted in the latter war)	106	2	2	913
	40, 41. John Parke, Kendal	26	0	0	933
	42, 43. Ant. Knipe, Fairbank	6	0	0	923
	44, 45. George Mawson, Melkinthorpe	9	17	6	945
	Miles Hal head, Underbarrow	4	10	0	951
	Rich. Robinson, Natland	10	0	0	953
	James Moore, Bentbank	40	0	0	955
	Wm. Spencely, Kirkby Stephen	6	0	0	957
	46, 47. John Beck, mercer, Kendal	9	10	0	959
	48, 49. John Petty, Soulby	6	17	6	935
	50, 51. Rowland Harrison, Lyth	10	0	0	931
	52, 53. Leonard Airey, Kentmere (was in both wars, and never compounded)	17	10	0	927
	Rob. Hilton, Moreton	118	10	0	961
	Jos. Edmondson, Kirkby Kendal	18	4	0	963
	Wm. Langbane, Barton-in-the-Bottom	6	0	0	965
	Rowland Dawson, Kendal	70	0	0	—
	54, 55. John Fothergill, Ravenstonedale	17	10	0	—
	56, 57. John Wharton, Kirkby Thure (was in Carlisle garrison)	120	18	6	—
Durham.
	John Husband, Sunderland	4	10	0	815
	58, 59. Cuthbert Appleby, Langleydale (was in arms in the first war, but never compounded)	60	0	0	817
	Rob. Taylor, Rainton, Lanchester parish	25	0	0	819
	60. Thos. Tempest, Stanley	100	0	0	821
	Thos. Orde, Long Riding	73	13	4	823
	Nich. Tempest, Stewkley	123	6	8	825
	Claudius Hamilton, Gateshead	80	18	0	827
	61, 62. Wm. Reed, Kelloe	20	17	0	829
	63, 64. Thos. Conyers, Wolly	96	19	0	831
	Wm. Barnes, Darlington	438	0	0	833
	John Buttery, Nesbet	165	0	0	837
	65, 66. Rob. Clavering, Axwell houses	105	0	0	839
	67, 68. Thos. Bowes, Streellam [? Streatham]	456	0	0	841
	69, 70. George Bellasis, Durham	80	0	0	835
	71, 72. Wm. Frizell, Durham	40	0	0	813
	Wm. Collingwood	28	0	0	843
	Gascoigne Eden, Billingham	66	0	0	845
	73–75. Ralph Fetherstonehaugh, Toft	310	16	0	847
	John Armourer, Cornhill	71	6	8	849
	John Hilton, Hilton (the settlement of 45l. a year from Monk Wearmouth accepted for 450l.)	484	12	0	851
	John Jackson, Harraton	436	14	7	853
	John Tempest, Old Durham	305	9	0	855
	John Fetherstonehalgh, Stanhope-in-Wardall	547	10	0	857
	76, 77. Nich. Woodhouse, Cornforth	20	0	0	—
	78, 79. Ald. Wm. Orde, Berwick-on-Tweed	564	0	0	905
April 26.	Order of Parliament that the Committee for Compounding-examine the whole state of the arrears of the revenue of the bishopric of Durham, and all other bishoprics in England and Wales not within the additional Act for providing maintenance for ministers, what they amount to, and in whose hands they are, and certify the same to Parliament, that they may dispose of them as they think fit. [G. 102, pp. 673, 674.]
April 26.	Presentation by Col. John Venn of Capt. Thos. Sherman and Wm. Haslop as Commissioners for Sequestrations in London, and of Rich. Styleman as agent. [G 99, p. 757.]
April 26.	Order of the Committee for Compounding for a commission to Sherman, Haslop, and John Price, presented by Col. Venn, to be Sequestration Commissioners for London, Mr. Haslop engaging to relinquish his employment as overseer of the houses granted to the poor. [G 8, p. 7.]
April 26. Westminster.	80. Committee for Compounding to the County Committee of Lincoln. Being appointed by the enclosed Act, Commissioners for Compounding and Sequestration, we reinforce the orders given you by the late Committee for Compounding. We send you their instructions, and beg the speedy and exact returns required by the Act of 25 Jan. last; also payment of all profits and arrears, as required by Parliament order 25 Oct. 1649, which is most needful, or progress cannot be made in those, supplies which necessity requires. [1 page.]
April 26.	Committee for Compounding to the Commissioners of Sequestrations for Herts. We send the Act by which we are constituted a Committee for Compounding, and a letter to the late commissioners for your county, desiring a return on the Act of 25 Jan. 1650. Certify its delivery and the answer, and your own taking the prescribed oath. We also send an Act supplying what was defective in the former one, and an additional instruction, in executing which, and the orders of the late Committee for Compounding, for sequestering those who neglect to pay their fines, we desire your, utmost diligence. [G 93, p. 3.] Annexing,
April 26.	i. Additional instructions, 26 Feb. 1650, as on p. 200 supra. [G. 93, p. 5.]
April 26. Chelmsford.	81. John Maidston, one of the County Commissioners for Essex to the Committee for Compounding. In the absence of those entrusted with me, I beg to acknowledge receipt of your 3 orders, but we had already seized the estate, and will execute your other commands with all care. I can neither ascertain where Dr. John Norton nor his estate is. [½ page.]
April 26.	82. County Commissioners for Salop to the Committee for Compounding. A fortnight since we returned by post the depositions against 30 delinquents, and we now send a list of 36 more, against most of whom we have sufficient evidence; against others only a single testimony, and are therefore endeavouring to get more proof.
	With note of reply, 14 May, that where they have two witnesses to prove the delinquency, they may seize and secure; and where only one, they are to endeavour to obtain further proof, and if obtained, then to seize also, and send up copies of all the charges and depositions. [1 page; also G 30, p. 379 (2)].
	Also list of 36 new delinquents whose estates have not been sequestered by the late Committee for co. Salop, viz.:— Thos. Merick. John Corbett. Hen. Vaughan. Thos. Ford. John Clough. Thos. Milward. Rich. Morris. Thos. Holland. Wm. Dacks. Lewis Davies. Wm. Northwoods. Thos, Phillipps. Isaac Martin, clerk. Edw. Morris. John Haynes. Hen. Baughe. Thos. Edwards. — Edwards, of Killhewry. Mat. Price. Thos. Gardener, sen. Wm. Edwards. Rich. Nesse. Rich. Cooper. Wm. Keene. John Williams. Morris Davies. James Rowley. John Griffiths. Fulke Crompton John Hill. Nath. Davies. Ant. Hunt. Vincent Edwards. Art. Ward. Morris Evans. — Ambler, clerk.
	[1 page.]
April 28. Nottingham.	83. County Commissioners for co. Notts to John Leech, secretary to the Committee for Compounding at Westminster. We have several times addressed the Committee, sent informations against delinquents, and asked for instructions, but have received no answer, more than your certificate to [Gilbert] Millington, wherein we perceive that the pressing occasions of the times would not permit leisure to give an answer; so that for want of instructions, the public service, not only in those, but many other things of a like nature, is retarded. Procure us an answer to our addresses, or at least the sense of the committee. [²/3 page.] Enclosing,
	83. i. Queries.— May wood be allowed out of Sherwood Forest for repair of Newark Mills, sequestered for delinquency of the Earl of Berkshire, or out of the woods of John Scrope, a delinquent. [Note that they may cut wood for the service required.]
	What course is to be taken to restrain carriers from mills of neighbouring towns fetching grist from Newark, to the great prejudice of the State's tenants?
	Whether 5th parts are to be allowed of the clear yearly revenue.
	Whether witnesses produced for the defence of any accused for delinquency are to be examined on oath. [½ page.]
April 29. Chepstow.	84. County Committee for Monmouth to the Committee for Compounding. Your commission and instructions not reaching us until the end of March, the time limited for making a return is sooner than we are able to perform, and the books and papers [of the late committee] yield but little furtherance.
	We require instructions as to the Earl of Worcester's estate, which has been disposed of by the Irish Committee, according to ordinance of Parliament, and whether we shall take cognizance thereof; and if so, how to proceed as to a 5th part allowed to the Earl's daughters. Also whether the grants by the Committee for Ireland of his estate, and some by the late committee of this county for three years, are to be allowed, we finding some part undervalued. Also whether the assignations made by the late county committee of certain rents due this year are to stand, because we find some assignations yet to be made upon considerable estates, towards payment of arrears and fortifying and victualling Chepstow Castle.
	We also find a considerable estate of Lord Hopton's, once sequestered, now converted to particular uses under pretence of extents upon it; what shall we do in it? Also as to ordering of courts in some sequestered manors, the want whereof hinders our proceedings.
	With marginal notes for a reply that they are to improve the Earl of Worcester's estate to the utmost; that if the allowance of a 5th part to the Earl's daughters was made since 25 Oct. 1649, it is void, as also all grants by the county committee for more than one year. No assignations to be allowed on Lord Hopton's estate, If Sir Arthur Hopton had any estate in their county, they are to seize and secure it. [1 page.]
April 29.	Order of the Committee for Compounding, that any motion on behalf of the Commonwealth have precedence after the matter then in debate, any orders appointing particular business to particular days notwithstanding.
	That the treasurers send in accounts of moneys in arrear on second payments, unto 30 April instant. [G 8, p. 8.]
April 30. York.	85. County Committee for York to the Committee for Compounding. We have received your letter, Acts, and instructions, and the letter to the old committee, but these instructions, and what we received from the late committee for compounding, fall so far short that the sequestrations cannot be prosecuted with advantage without an enlargement; therefore we desire a speedy answer to the enclosed particulars. [1 page.] Enclosing,
	85. i. Queries for further reply, viz.:—
	1. The Act allows us to examine on oath in cases sent to us by you, but we want the same power in cases to be sent by us to you, on informations about delinquents, and discovery of their estates here.
	2. We want power to allow witnesses their expenses, or they will not appear.
	3. Some have offered discoveries, but they slight the 12d. in the pound, and will not for that undergo the ill will of their neighbours.
	4. What is to be done about the estates of Papists beyond seas who cannot have the oath tendered to them, and to those known to be Papists, but who by the Act of 1643, cannot have the oath tendered them till they are 21; and is this regulation to hold good for those beyond seas?
	5. We have no power to restrain cutting down wood, and though we certify you, we have no answer, so that offenders are encouraged.
	6. We have no power to enforce our orders, and the offenders are thus emboldened, and it would be great trouble to certify every offence to you.
	7. We cannot pay the augumentations allowed to ministers, which reflects much both on you and us.
	8. If sheriffs may lay on executions and charges without acquainting you or us, most of the lands will be discharged. Pray suspend these till allowed by you, so that the tenants may not be distrained before the rent day, not forced to pay more than the rents for which we are obliged to engage ourselves at the letting, or the lands would lie waste.
	9. The late Committee for Compounding ordered us to receive all rents and arrears, but gave us no power to levy upon refusers.
	10. This committee, with Hull, and the city and county of York, is so large that it needs 6 agents; we want power to appoint them, and an allowance for them. [2½ pages.]
April 30.	Note in the Committee for Compounding that [Wm.] Draper, commissioner for co. Oxon, presented the return of Papists and delinquents. Their request to have Rich. Appletree joined to Rob. Leicester as agent was respited. On their request for a steward to keep courts, John Watson was appointed.
	Order that the said commissioners certify what manors are in the county, wherein are estates for lives to be granted. [G 8, p. 13.]
April 30.	Committee for Compounding to the Commissioners for co. Gloucester. We find by a letter from the mayor, &c., of Gloucester, that 300l. is due to the State by Dan. Partridge, on contract for the sequestered estate of Sir Rich. Ducy; you are to require Partridge to pay it in to this committee, till the pleasure of the House be known. [G 8, p. 14. The order for this letter, dated 25 April, is in G 8, p. 3.]
April 30.	Committee for Compounding to Lord-General [Fairfax.] We would have satisfied your request about paying to Paul Freeman and others of Leeds, out of the sequestrations in co. York [see p. 192, supra] the arrears due to them by order of Parliament, but we are prohibited by Parliament from payment of money without their special order; we therefore advise them to apply to the House. In any concern wherein we may, we are your humble servants. [G 8, p. 14.]
April 30.	86. Certificate by John Wollaston that John Price, Thos. Sherman, and Wm. Haslop, have taken before him an oath for faithful discharge of the duties committed to them by the Committee for Compounding, without favour or hope of reward. [²/3 page.]