Volume A 79: March 1643 | British History Online

Calendar, Committee For the Advance of Money: Part 1, 1642-45. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1888.

'Volume A 79: March 1643', in Calendar, Committee For the Advance of Money: Part 1, 1642-45, (London, 1888) pp. 16-18. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cttee-advance-money/pt1/pp16-18 [accessed 24 April 2024]

March 1643



March 1.	Order that the offer of divers persons in Billingsgate Ward, to pay ½ their assessments in cheese and butter, on the reasonable valuation of competent men, and the other ½ in money, be accepted by the collectors. [A 1, p. 113.]
March 2.	36. Return of goods and money, seized from 13 persons in Castle Baynard Ward, and of 2 imprisoned for non-payment. [1 page.]
March 2.	Order that for the more perfect keeping of the accounts brought in to the Guildhall Treasurers, for assessment on the Ordinance of 29 November, they give acquittances to every person bringing in money, giving the names of the persons from whom they receive it, and of those from whom it was distrained, or upon whom it was assessed, and for what it is brought in, and that a book of such receipts be kept by themselves. [A 1, p. 111.]
March 4.	Order in the House of Commons, that the houses of Thos. Massam, merchant, Milk Street, and of Alderman Sir Wm. Acton, be forthwith seized, for laying in, disposal, and sale of goods, distrained on the Ordinance of 29 November last. [A 1, p. 115. Commons' Journals, Vol. II., p. 989.]
March 4.	37. Order in the Committee for Advance of Money, that the persons named in a schedule annexed appear at Haberdashers' Hall, as often as, and when they are summoned. [½ page; also A 1, p. 114.]
March 5.	38. List of 30 persons in Farringdon Ward Within, who have promised to lend sums from 3l. to 25l., for the urgent affairs of the kingdom, on the Ordinance of 29 November. With note of tickets delivered 18 March. [1 column.]
March 6.	39. Order that 13 chests of sugar, bought by Wm. Williamson, be delivered to him on payment of 4l. the cwt., ready money upon delivery. [½ page; also A 1, p. 113.]
March 7.	Order in the House of Commons that the collectors of Cripplegate Ward Within be appointed to execute the order [of 4 March] for seizing the houses of Ald. Acton, and Mr. Massam. [A 1, p. 117. Commons' Journals, Vol. II., p. 992.]
March 9.	40. Certificate by the assessors of St. Saviour's, Southwark, of their approval of their 2 additional collectors. 6 signatures. [½ page.]
March 9.	41. Request by the assessors of St. Olave's, Southwark, for 3 collectors named to be added for their parish. [½ page, damaged.]
March 9.	42. Jos. Marsh, clerk to the Committee for Advance of Money, to Mr. Dallison. Request that Jacob Bonnamy and Art. Hollingworth, sent to Peterhouse by their warrant, for divers moneys in arrear, may be released. [½ page.]
March 11.	43. List of 8 distresses made in Langbourne Ward, from 18 February to 11 March 1643. With account of goods and money seized. [1 column.]
March 13.	44. Brief note of business in the Committee for Advance of Money. Query, whether certificates for abatement, from aldermen instead of M.Ps., are to be accepted from persons in Southwark. Mr. Middleton refuses to be an assessor. Mr. Halsted to take acquittance of 400l. in Sheriff Andrews' hand, as part of his assessment. [1 page.]
March 14.	Order that,—as divers collectors of assessments are found to be negligent, or partial in certifying where distress may be had to satisfy the sums assessed, and where there is no distress:—the clerk of this Committee give to the new collectors the names of all whose days for payment are elapsed, and the sums unpaid; whereupon they, without further certificates of the old collectors, are to levy the sums, by distress or otherwise. If sufficient distress cannot be had to satisfy the sums assessed, the new collectors are to apprehend the persons, and carry them before the Committee of the House of Commons for examinations, to be proceeded against according to the Ordinance of 29 November. [A 1, p. 118.]
March.	45. Draft of the above, dated 11 March. [1 page.]
March 20.	46. Request by Sir David Watkins that Christopher Dighton and John Robinson, under-searchers at Gravesend, may be sent for, and deliver for Parliament's use 1,400l., seized at Gravesend, ½ of which belongs by patent to Edward Watkins, searcher of London, till the difference between him and the Gravesend searcher, now before the Lords in Parliament, be settled; the rather that Richard Ward, the principal agent in the difference, being a great malignant, and assessed at 400l., is fled to Oxford, and that Robinson, worth 40,000l., has brought his family from Gravesend, and lives very obscurely in London, to avoid payment of contributions. [1 page.]
March 21.	47. Return of 4 persons in Walbrook Ward who have gone away, but 2 hold offices in Poultry Counter, and one in the Customs, which would pay their assessments. [²/3 page.]
March 23.	48. Heading of an unfinished order in the Committee for Advance of Money. [¼ page.]
March 27.	49. Committee for Advance of Money to the common councilmen, churchwardens, and collectors in every place within London and the suburbs. As divers sums subscribed on the Ordinance of 2 January are not gathered and paid into Guildhall, and accounts thereof have not been given to this committee, though orders to that purpose have been issued, you are to gather and pay in the sums subscribed, and bring in writing to Haberdashers' Hall next Friday an account of what is paid in, the dates of the acquittances, and the sums still unpaid. [¾ page. Printed form, filled up.]
March 28.	50. Order in the House of Commons that the Committee for Advance of Money have power to send for their collectors and assessors, and require an account of their proceedings in the weekly assessment. Also that they reconcile, as they best may, the objection made by the City against the common councilmen being committees. [²/3 page. Commons' Journals, Vol. III., p. 22.]
March.	51. Return by Rob. Pardon and Jas. Love, churchwardens, of 21 persons in St. James's parish, Garlickhithe, who are able, but have not lent money towards the 60,000l. "Not one man that will subscribe for a penny in this parish." [1 page.]
March.	52–54. Notes of moneys paid in by the residents in Olave's Southwark, and Portsoken and Aldgate Wards. [3 papers.]
March.	55–65. Printed forms of certificates by the collectors of the several wards and parishes, that they have left notices at the houses of the persons therein named that the money has not been paid, but there are sufficient goods to raise the assessment by distress. [11 papers, 1 to 10 names on each paper.]
March.	66–71. Like forms of certificates where there is neither money, goods, nor rents to satisfy the assessment by distress. [6 papers.]
March.	72–76. Certificates by persons assessed above the value of their estates, as to what is the 1/20 part of their estates, and recommendations, signed by the Lord Mayor and 3 others, that the sums specified should be accepted in full of the assessments, 24 February—31 March, 1643. [Printed forms filled up, 4 papers.]
March ?	77. Breviate of the proceedings of the Committee for Advance of Money in levying the ¹/5 and 1/20 part.
	The assessors gain their information from the books of rates of the several parishes, with assistance of some well-affected persons. They make a roll of assessments, sign it, and deliver it to the clerks, who enter it in a large book, in 7 columns, viz.:—
	1. The party assessed.
	2. The sum assessed.
	3. Date of the delivery of his ticket of notice by the collector.
	4. What he has contributed on the propositions.
	5. What money is paid in.
	6. What money is abated him.
	7. The name of the collector in whose charge he is. (fn. 1)
	The clerks give signed commissions to the collectors for levying the assessment, and fill up the blank notices, and enter the persons assessed alphabetically in a calendar.
	If the parties appear within 10 days and pay in the 1/20, they shall have relief on their oaths if they be over-rated.
	In default of appearance, if no sufficient distress can be found, the clerks are to issue warrants for their apprehension.
	In case of distraint or apprehension, ½ the assessment is to be paid before the person assessed can have audience of the committee, which may then accept the ½, or admit him to make his affidavit.
	A book of entries is kept of all orders made for persons assessed, and the assessment discharged accordingly.
	If the collectors are forced to levy rents, they are to give acquittances for them.
	The collectors have 3d. in the pound, paid by the State, for all moneys that are paid in 10 days; if later, the assessed parties are to pay this, and also all incident charges. [1²/3 pages.]
March ?	78. Order in the Committee for Advance of Money that those who have avoided the assessment by declaring their willingness to advance money on the late Ordinance, but have not paid it in at Guildhall, be assessed at the sums they volunteered to pay, or more if the assessors think fit. A return of these and others fit to be assessed to be made next Tuesday. [²/3 page, draft corrected.]
March ?	79. Dr. Rich. Zouch to the Committee for Advance of Money. On 2 March 1643, an order was granted by the House of Lords, on reading a paper from the resident for Portugal, and delivered me 9 March, to examine whether the goods seized on belonged to Portuguese. The papers were in Portuguese, which few people are able to translate, and it cannot be done till Saturday night. [1 page.]