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Feb. 2. St. Alban's. |
10. Commissioners for Sequestrations for co. Bedford to the Sequestration
Committee. As to that part of your letter that concerns moneys received upon
sequestration, we have sent up our treasurer herewith to pay in his receipts.
The last payment he made was 200l. more than he had received, so that we
have not been remiss in our payments. The not sending up the schedules of
the appraisement of the personal estates of persons sequestered, according to
the Ordinance, has rested wholly upon the default of the Solicitor of
Sequestrations appointed by the committee, but they shall be sent up by the
25th inst. [1 page.] |
Feb. 3. |
11. Notes by Thos. Lindsey and Rich. Cole, officers of the Committee for
Advance of Money, of a journey to issue summonses, &c., containing mention of
the "gallant house and park, with deer, &c.," of Col. Pigott, at Long Ashton,
co. Somerset, who is worth 2,000l. a year, and the "fair house and grounds" of
Capt. Norton, Abbott's Leigh, who lives at a high rate, having 1,000l. a year.
[1 page.] |
Feb. 8. Coventry. |
12. County Commissioners for Warwickshire to the Committee for Advance
of Money. We have received your order, and that of the House of Commons of
10 November, ordering us to pay in all our sequestration money. This county
was the first in the kingdom attempted by the enemies, Warwick Castle and
Coventry besieged, and divers garrisons of the enemy were in and about the
county, which enforced us to raise a greater militia of horse and foot, and erect
many more garrisons in this county than in any other about us, both to drive
out the enemy and secure the county. This we did partly by taxes and partly
by sequestration, which then yielded very little, because none durst be tenants
but the owners or their agents, as the enemy seized the cattle of those who
rented sequestered estates, and drove them away prisoners; we had therefore
to borrow large sums, which are not yet repaid. |
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Also many of us maintained soldiers at our own charge, for which we have
had no recompense, so that all the sequestrations and assessments of the county
come very short of the maintaining of the militia, which we carried on till
their reducing was ordered by Parliament. |
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Our treasurer has often given accounts to the Committee of Accounts,
and the last time there was 175l. due to him. Since the reduction of
the militia and taxes, by order of the House, we had to promise the reduced
lieutenants and other under-officers a good sum, not yet paid Also by
Parliament Order we have disbursed 1,600l. for advance of forces for Ireland,
of which we still owe 690l., beside great sums,—for which some Parliamentary
men of the committee are engaged—which were borrowed to provide arms and
ammunition, and raise forces, when Lord Brooke first took upon him the
command of the associated counties of Warwick and Stafford. We have had
no moneys from the State, either to pay the militia or disband them when
reduced, or to advance money for those that went for Ireland (being 4 foot
companies and one troop of horse) when almost all the counties bordering on
the enemy have had liberal contributions from the State. |
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As we have had nothing for our pains, we trust we shall not be left in debt
for the public, as we must be if the sequestrations are disposed of before the
debts are paid. [2 pages.] |
Feb. 10. |
Mr. Doyley to have the arrears of his allowance, appointed by both Houses
of Parliament, paid. [A 5, p. 191.] |
Feb. 11. |
13. Bill by Fras. Lawrence for an 8 days' journey into Lincolnshire, to
summons 4 persons for assessments of from 500l. to 1,500l. each. [⅓ page.] |
Feb. 12. |
Mr. Pulley to perform the committee's order of 15 January last by Friday
next, and attend the Committee for Advance of Money at that time. |
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Further time granted him on his request. |
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The order of 29 January last, granting Rich. Braham's share in the subpœna
office to Ralph Darnell, vacated, the office having been formerly granted
by the Commissioners of the Great Seal to Sir Hen. Vane, sen. |
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Those who are within the Articles of Oxford to have 14 days' respite from any
proceeding touching their 1/20. |
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No collectors to sequester or deliver tickets beyond 20 miles from London,
until the committee be acquainted with the particular business, and give their
license. [A 5, pp. 192, 193.] |
Feb. 19. Shrewsbury. |
14. Commissioners for Sequestrations for County Salop to the Committee
for Advance of Money. In reply to yours of 15 Jan., requiring us to put in
execution all ordinances and instructions concerning sequestrations, and send up
a schedule of the estates of Papists and delinquents sequestered, and such money
as has been received to the treasurers at Guildhall, we beg to state that Parliament, by their Ordinance of 13 June 1644, taking into consideration the
then condition of this county, authorised the commissioners here to apply the
moneys so raised for the maintenance of such forces as they should raise for the
service of the Parliament, with which forces we have reduced the county to the
obedience of Parliament, and have therein expended greater sums than have
been, or could be, as yet raised here, and there are yet great sums in arrear to
the commanders and officers employed in that service. There is a troop of
horse and the two garrisons of Shrewsbury and Ludlow Castle, which are
continued until further order, and are to be maintained out of the said sequestered estates. [1 page.] |
Feb. 20. |
This committee to meet on its business at 8 a.m. every Monday, in the
Queen's Court, Westminster. [A 5, p. 196.] |
Feb. 25. |
15. List by Thos. Lindsey, collector, of 14 persons whose assessments
amount to 17,200l., but they have paid nothing, though they have large estates.
[1⅓ cols.] |
Feb. 26. |
The sequestration collectors in Essex to deliver to Mr. Pulley, their solicitor,
a perfect account of all their receipts and payments, which he is to present to
the committee in a week. |
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Order on petition of Sam. Harlwin, that Mr. Lane take care to pay in the 30l.
ordered him as speedily as he can. [A 5, pp. 198, 199.] |
Feb. |
16. Note [by Lynam Robins] of his expenses for 6 days, at 6s. a day, in delivering tickets for 5 assessments of from 400l. to 1,500l. [⅓ page.] |