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| Aug. 1. |
21. Commissioners for Lancashire to the Committee for Advance of
Money. We will join heartily with Col. Rigby in any course to the equal
payment of the arrears of all the soldiers in the county, but we fear the business
before you is contrary to that end. We do not know that Col. Shuttleworth
has employed sequestration for the arrears of his soldiers, but if he has, we
shall oppose him in it. We hear that the whole profits of the country, and
a tax of 4,000l. a month, which is far above what it is able to pay, will hardly
keep them together, but they mutiny and desert the service. There was a
division wherein Col. Ashton acted, but it was not allotted to him for payment
of his soldiers only; 3,000l. of sequestration money was allotted to them, but
the soldiers hardly made ½ their money, as it was paid in chairs and stools,
and household goods, and it was not an allowance from Col. Rigby, but a debt
to Col. Ashton's soldiers, who were most in arrears, and had cleared from the
enemy that part which Col. Rigby now takes for his own. Also, Ashton gave
him 2 foot companies to begin his regiment, to which he never added 300 more,
and has only 1 or 2 officers who were in service when the Earl of Derby was
beaten out of the country. Therefore the old soldiers are likely to mutiny, if
they see the others paid first. [1½ pages.] |
| Aug. 2. |
On information of goods and moneys of delinquents concealed in and about
the house of Mrs. Smith, Cursitor's Alley, Chancery Lane, order that they be
seized, inventoried, and brought away. [A 4, p. 224.] |
| Aug. 4. |
Order that the goods now in custody of Mr. Nicolls, of Haberdashers' Hall,
be not moved or molested without special order of this committee, and before
any such order be given, the Earl of Manchester is to be acquainted therewith;
the goods brought from the upper rooms to be carried back to the places
whence they were removed. |
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Hen. Hartstong and Geo. Lewis, officers to the Committee of Examinations,
who kept in custody 6 persons taken at the house in Long Acre 10 days,
to have 10l. from the money then taken for their pains and charges.
[A 4, pp. 226, 228.] |
| Aug. 8. |
Order—on information that divers goods, money, and plate of Papists and
delinquents are in the house of Mrs. Morgan, Holborn, London, and also
the persons of Papists and Jesuits,—that search be made, and that the
goods, plate, &c. in the house be seized and inventoried, and any suspected
Jesuits or Papists brought before the Committee for Examinations. [A 4,
p. 231.] |
| Aug. 11. |
The order of 30 June touching the sequestration and disposal of the estates
of certain delinquents in Lancashire rescinded, a great part of their estates
being already sequestered, and inconveniences like to ensue if the order be
executed. [A 4, p. 234.] |
| Aug. 11. |
Information that there are several goods, money, and plate belonging to
delinquents concealed in the house of Mr. Emery, Popinjay Alley, Fleet Street.
[A 21, p. 23.] |
| Aug. 11. |
Order that the said goods be seized and secured, and locks broken in case of
resistance. [A 4, p. 236.] |
| Aug, 12. |
22–27. Order in Parliament that whereas by the Ordinances for the 1/5
and 1/20, those who paid their money within the time limited to the Guildhall
Treasurers should have the Public Faith for the same; and whereas some
moneys have not been paid at Guildhall, but to the Committee for Advance
of Money, order that those who pay within the limited time, and have the
attestation of the clerk of this committee and the treasurer, shall have
the Public Faith for their 1/5 and 1/20. The said treasurer and clerk to keep an
account unto what persons, and for what sums it is given. [Printed, 1 page,
6 copies.] |
| Aug. 13. |
Lieut.-Col. Gee to have ½ the delinquents' estates he shall discover, towards
his arrears for service in Ireland. [A 4, p. 237.] |
| Aug. 13. |
28. Capt. Rob. Preston, on recommendation affixed of the Speaker of
11 August, informs that in the house of — Perkins, in the Savoy, there
are 3 trunks of goods of Alex. Courtney, who is in actual war against Parliament, and 3 of Mat. Williams, also in war against Parliament with Hopton,
and of Ant. Homerston, heretofore in action against Manchester, and there
drowned. [A 21, p. 24.] |
| Aug. 13. |
Order that the money, plate, &c., belonging to them, or any other Papists or
delinquents, be seized, sequestered, inventoried, and brought away. |
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On affirmation of Abigail Steed that the 7 small pieces of plate are hers, and
she a Protestant, and lately come from France, and that this is all her estate—order that the plate and a piece of tabby be restored to her. [A 4, p. 237.] |
| Aug. 15. |
Major Geo. Ulrick to have ½ such delinquents' estates as he shall discover
towards his arrears. [A 4, p. 241.] |
| Aug. 18. |
A person not named, who has this day made a discovery of Papists and
delinquents' estates, to have 5s. in the pound of all that comes in thereon.
[A 4, p. 241.] |
| Aug. 20. |
The estate of Capt. Hudson, of Stow, co. Stafford, having been sequestered
by this committee before any seizure by the Committee of Sequestrations,
order that the tenants pay the rents to none other than the collectors of this
committee, and that they pay them in 14 days. [A 4, p. 242.] |
| Aug. 25. |
29. Deposition of Thos. Field, Giles in the Fields, that Capt. Hildyard,
a prisoner escaped from Ely House, induced him to join the King at Oxford,
whither he went with Hildyard from Mr. Sherwood's, of Highgate, where
Hildyard left clothes and money. [¾ page.] |
| Aug. 25. |
Information that there are moneys, plate, and jewels belonging to delinquents
concealed in the house of Mr. Bowles in Chancery Lane. [A 21, p. 26.] |
| Aug. 25. |
Order thereon that they be seized and sequestered. [A 4, p. 243.] |
| Aug. 25. |
Information that Sir Hen. Compton has in his hands 2,000l. belonging to
Mrs. Arundel, a Papist. [A 21, p. 27.] |
| Aug. 25. |
The assessment of Mrs. Padman discharged, she being a lunatic and in great
want, as appears by petition of Sarah Spence. [A 4, p. 245.] |
