May 1643
[3 May, 1643.]
Appointment of Persons to put Ord. for Weekly Assessement in execution.
The Lords and Commons in Parliament Assembled, finding
that the Moneys rated upon the Counties by the Ordinance for
the weekly Assessement are not returned up with such expedition
as the emergent and present necessities doe require: Have
thought fit, and doe Order and Ordain that two or more Persons
of trust shall bee, and are hereby appointed for each County to
take especiall care herein, and to put in execution with all
industry and fidelity within their respective Counties: for which
they are appointed these instructions hereunto annexed: And
shall have such allowance towards their Charges and Expences
in this Service, as upon their respective Accounts shall bee
thought fit by the Lords and Commons, viz. For the County of
Middlesex Sir John Francklyn Knight, and Sir Edward Barkham
Knight and Baronet: for the County of Kent Sir Henry Hayman
Knight and Baronet, and Thomas Blunt Esquire: for the City
and County of Canterbury Sir Edward Masters, and Sir William
Man, Knights: for the County of Essex Sir Richard Everard
Baronet, and Sir Thomas Honywood Knight: for the County of
Surrey Sir John Dingley Knight, and John Goodwin Esquire;
for the Borough of Southwark, with the Parishes of Rotherhith,
Newington-Buts and Lambeth, John White Esquire, and
Cornelius Cooke: for the County of Sussex Herbert Morley and
John Baker, Esquires; for the County of Hertford Sir Thomas
Dacres Knight, and John Heydon Esquire: for the County of
Cambridge Thomas Symons Esquire, and Thomas Thompson
Gent. for the Isle of Ely Sir Miles Sands Knight, and William
Fisher Esquire: for the County of Suffolk Sir William Spring,
Baronet, and William Heveningham Esquire: for the County of
Norfolk, and the City and County of Norwich Sir John Hubbert
Baronet, Samuel Smith and Thomas Toll, Esquires: for the
County of Huntington Onslow Winch and Tirrill Jocelyn, Esquires: for the County of Buckingham, Henry Bulstrode and
Thomas Tirrill Esquires: for the county of Bedford Sir John
Burgon Baronet, and Samuel Brown, Esquire: for the county
of Southampton Richard Whitehead, and Richard Norton, Esquires: for the Isle of Wight Sir Henry Worsely Baronet, and
John Buckley Esquire: for the county of Northampton Sir
Richard Samuel Knight, and John Crew Esquire: for the county
of Berks Sir Francis Knoles the younger, and Tanfield Vachell
Esquire: for the county of Wilts Sir Edw. Hungerford Knight,
and Edward Goddard of Upham Esquire: for the county of
Somerset Sir John Horner Knight, and Alexander Popham,
Esquire: for the county of Dorset Sir Walter Erle Knight, and John
Fitz-James of Lewsam Esquire: for the county of Warwick Godfrey
and the county of the city of Glocester Sir Robert Cooke Knight,
Edward Stephens, and Thomas Purry, Esquires: for the city of
Westminster Sir Robert Pye Knight, and John Glynne Esquire.
Instructions.
Instructions for the Gentlemen that are appointed by the
Ordinance hereunto annexed, to take care within their
respective Counties, of the speedy payment of the weekly
Assessement, and other payments for the Army.
I. You shall forthwith call all the Collectors within the
severall Divisions before you, and strictly examine what Monies
have beene already collected by vertue of the Ordinance for the
weekly Assessment, and cause all such Moniese to be with all
possible speed safely sent up to the Treasurer of the Army,
according to the said Ordinance.
II. Such Moneys as are due, or shall grow due, and not yet
collected. you shall cause to bee speedily levyed, and sent up. as
aforesaid.
III. Where you shall finde the said Ordinance hath not been
put in execution, you shall informe your selves who bee the
Committees of that Division, and through whose default such
neglect hath hapned, and certifie their names to the Lords and
Commons in Parliament.
IV. You shall cause such Committees as are next to the
place where such negligence or defect shall be found, forthwith
to put the said Ordinance in execution, and to make their
Assessements for the whole three moneths mentioned in the said
Ordinance, and to appoint Collectors with all speed to collect the
same according to the said Ordinance.
V. You shall enquire whether the Assessors thorowout the said
County have made their Assessements according to the said
Ordinance; and such as you shall finde to have been negligent,
or otherwise faulty therein, you shall cause them to be fined by
the Committees, according to the power given by the said
Ordinance; and their Fines to bee collected and returned, together
with the rest of the Money assessed.
VI. You shall likewise cause all Collectors, who have neglected
their duties in collecting the said Assessements, to be fined
according to the said Ordinance, and their Fines to bee leavyed
and returned accordingly.
VII. You shall take care that a true and exact List be forthwith made in Parchment faire written, of the names & sirnames,
and places of abode of all such persons within the County, as
are assessed by vertue of the said Ordinance, and refuse to pay
the Moneys so assessed upon them, and whose Moneys you
cannot leavie by distresse, and to returne a true Copy of the said
List under the hands of the said Committees, or under the hands
of two of them at the least, that such further course be taken
with such persons listed as shall be thought fit.
VIII. You shall take speciall care that all Moneys here after to
be leavied by any other Ordinance of Parliament for the maintaining of the said Army, be duly and speedily leavied accordingly.
IX. You shall once every week, and oftner if it may be, give
an account in writing of your proceedings herein, and of all other
things you shall conceive advantageous for this service, to the
Speaker of the House of Commons.