Cases brought before the committee: July 1653

Calendar, Committee For the Advance of Money: Part 3, 1650-55. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1888.

'Cases brought before the committee: July 1653', in Calendar, Committee For the Advance of Money: Part 3, 1650-55, (London, 1888) pp. 1467-1469. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cttee-advance-money/pt3/pp1467-1469 [accessed 24 April 2024]

July 1653

Edwin Brace, Clerk, Doverdale, Ombersley, Co. Worcester.


13 July 1653.		Vol. A	No. or p.

LET. 164 2 DEP. 164 3	Petitions that his estate being lately seized by the county commissioners for assisting the King of Scots in 1651, he may have a copy of his charge and leave to examine witnesses. Granted.	164 12	1 384
E.W. 13 126	24 Oct. 1654. Publication of depositions ordered	13	124
DEP. 164 4 LET. 164 5 INT. 164 6 7 DEP. 164 6 7 PUB. 13 142	3 April 1655. Brace's counsel alleging that one witnesses cannot be cross-examined, because be has fled beyond seas for misdemeanour, order that the county commissioners certify whether this is true, and that the other witnesses be summoned to confirm their former examinations.	13	154

Capt. Wm. Baltazar. Irishman.


	Vol. A	No. or p.

Information by Thos. Shelton, that in 1648 and later he acted under commands from the late King of Scots, and the Earl of Ormond, was a pirate at sea, is taken, is within the Ordinances of Sequestration, and is now to be tried for his life.	23 164	93 8
19 July 1653. Order thereon that Jasper Gill, of Bristol, detain linen, cloth, &c., value 250l., in his hands, belonging to Baltazar, the Council of State ordering the Committee for Advance of Money to make fit allowance to Shelton, from the moneys paid in on Baltazar's prosecution.	12	392
22 Feb. 1654. Baltazar being released on bail by order of the Council of State, Shelton is to show cause why the linen stayed 19 July should not be released.	13	76
28 Feb. Shelton begs an order to examine witnesses in Bristol, in proof of his charge.	164	9
28 Feb. Six weeks allowed, and Baltazar to have leave to crossexamine witnesses.	13	78

Fras. Quantin, Recusant, Fleet Street.


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Information that Wm. Gower owes him 50l. on bond	23	93
14 July 1653. Quantin to show cause why ²/3 thereof should not be paid to the Committee for Advance of Money.	164	10
25 July. Gower and Quantin to appear, and show cause why ²/3 of the said debt should not be paid to the treasury, in respect of Quintin's recusancy.	12	389

Col. Rob. Whitley, Co. Pembroke.


16 July 1653.		Vol. A	No. or p.

	County commissioners send depositions to prove that he was a major for the King of Scots in Worcester, listed soldiers, sent in provisions, &c., and that his wife, who was a Gerard, was con- veyed out of the city after it was taken.	164	11 12

Elizabeth, Duchess Of Hamilton, Widow of William, 2nd Duke, and her 4 Daughters.


21 July 1653.		Vol. A	No. or p.

	Petition that she attended the late Parliament till their dissolu- tion, but could not obtain a hearing. That for 10,000l. portion, which she brought to William, late duke, she had lands of 1,000l. a year settled on her in 1639, for a jointure; yet by a declaration of Scotland, these lands were sequestered with her husband's other estate, though her counsel certify that the lands are not sequestrable. That part of the lands were ap- pointed by Parliament to be settled on Gen. Monk, though he declined them as being her jointure. Begs restoration to her jointure, her poverty being so increased by long attendance on the late Parliament for justice, that she and her children have to live on charity and borrowed bread. There is enough beside of the duke's estate to pay Monk's 500l. a year. With reference thereon to the Committee for Advance of Money, to state the matter of fact and the settlement of the jointure.	12	398
	22 July 1653. Reference thereon by the Committee for Advance of Money to Brereton, to report.	12	399
	28 July. The duchess begs a commission to the County Commis- sioners of Hunts to examine John Delavalle on oath, touching his knowledge of an agreement made in 1639, between the Earl of Lanark, afterwards Duke of Hamilton, and Jas. Maxwell, [afterwards Earl of Dirleton,] and to certify. Granted.	164 13	12 402
	6 Aug. 1653. They send up his deposition on interrogatories, he being counsellor-at-law to James Maxwell and his daughter, now Duchess of Hamilton, as to the validity of the marriage settlement sent therewith.	164	14 15
	19 Aug. John Pulford, on behalf of the Duchess, requests the delivery of the settlement to him, that he may attend Brereton with it. Noted as passed.	164	16
	9 Sept. 1653. The Duchess begs the examination in Scotland of Lord Abergavenny, Sir John Scott, and others, to prove the payment by her father to Duke William, her late husband, of 16,000l., and a special commission to take their examinations.	164	17
DEP. 164 20	9 Sept. Committee for Advance of Money to Judge Advocate Hen. Whalley, Col. Thos. Read, Rich. Saltonstall, and Sam. Desborough, Commissioners in Scotland. We request you to take the examinations of Lord Abergavenny, Scott, and others, on the interrogatories herewith sent, and to return them to us sealed, speedily.	25 164	69 18 19
	31 Oct. 1653. Order in Parliament that the Commissioners for removing Obstructions hear and examine the claim of the Duchess of Hamilton to the manor of Kincale, surveyed at 500l. a year, and part of the Duke's estate in Scotland, which has been held for 2 years by Gen. Monk.	164	21
	1 Nov. 1653. Order by the said commissioners, for counsel to peruse the evidences and state the fact, in order to a report to be made to Parliament.	164	22
REP. 164 23 DEP. 164 24 (fn. 1)	12 Nov. Hen. Whalley and Sam. Desborough, Commissioners in Scotland, certify the Committee for Advance of Money of their sending up the depositions in the case.	164	25
CERT. 164 27	18 Nov. Request by Rob. Wakeman for delivery of the deeds about the Duke's estate; with receipt thereof by Jas. Robinson.	164	26