April, 1645
[3 April, 1645.]
Monthly rate of £2,800 on Lincolnshire, from Jan. 1644/5 to July 1, 1645.; Ord. 15 Feb. 1644/5 applied.; Additional members of Committee.; Committee's Powers; Aggrieved Persons.; Allowances to Collectors and Clerks.; Treasurer keep Register.; Power to call Treasurers and others to account.; Penalty for neglectful Treasurers and Collectors.; Five of said Committee to reside in County and relieve each other.; Charge on Revenue of
lectors and Assessors, and to Leavy, Distrain, Fine, and Imprison,
and Sequester, as they or any of them have by vertue of the said
last mentioned Ordinance.; Lincoln Cathedral.; Inhabitants of Malberthorp, etc., exempted..
Whereas the County of Lincoln hath raised a considerable
number of Horse, Foot and Dragoons for their necessary Defence,
and must be at great charges in maintaining the same, and in
providing other things requisite for the defence and safety of the
said County, and without the raising of Moneys to defray the
charge the County cannot be preserved in such safety as is necessary: It is therefore Ordained by the Lords and Commons in
Parliament assembled, and by Authority of the same, That for
the intents and purposes aforesaid, there shall be monethly
Charged, Rated, Taxed, and Leavied upon the said County, from
the first of Ianuary, 1644. the sum of Two Thousand and eight
hundred pounds, until the first of Iuly, 1645. (if in the meantime
the two Garisons of Newark and Belvoir shall not be reduced to
the obedience of the King and Parliament:) And be it further
Ordained, That every Person and Persons that were or ought to
be Assessed or Taxed by vertue of an Ordinance of Parliament,
Intituled, An Ordinance for Raising and Maintaining of Forces
for the Defence of the Kingdom, under the command of Sir
Thomas Fairfax Knight, shall be Assessed and Taxed by this
present Ordinance in the same manner as they are, or ought to be
Assessed and Taxed by vertue of the before mentioned Ordinance, and shall be lyable to as great forfeitures and penalties
for not paying the sum or sums to be Assessed upon them, as they
should, or might have been, if the same had been Assessed by
the before mentioned Ordinance: And the Persons or Committees
named in the said Ordinance, together with William Oldfield,
Iames Harrington, Thomas Williamson, John Nelthorpe, Humphrey Walcot, Tho: Copledike, William Lister, Edward Nelthorp, and Richard Williamson, Esquires; Michael Munckton
Gentlemen, Francis Fisher, Barnaby Boutel, Esquires; William
Thompson, Richard Filkin, William Daveson, Iohn Disney,
Richard Bryan, Iohn Wincop and Nehemiah Rawson, Gent. are
by vertue hereof added to them for the Assessing, Collecting and
Leavying of the said monies in the said County, are named and
trusted in this Ordinance, and have as full power and Authority
given them by this Ordinance to nominate and appoint Collector
And if any Person or Persons shall
finde him or themselves agrieved at any Assessment made by
vertue of this Ordinance; and shall make their Complaint unto
any three or more of the Committee before whom the Assessment
was allowed; That then the said Committee, or any three or more
of them, shall have power hereby to do therein what shall be fit:
And the said Collectors shall pay the several sums by them Collected and Leavied, unto William Bury Gent. Treasurer who is
to Issue forth the same for the use and service of the said County,
by the vote of the Major part of the Deputy Lieutenants, or any
three of them present, and by their Order in pursuance thereof
under their hands and not otherwise; And it is further Ordained,
that two pence half peny in the Pound shall be allowed for every
sum of money which shall be Collected and paid, whereof one
peny shall be for the several Collectors; one peny for the said
Treasurer, and one half peny for the Clerks pains; And the
Treasurer aforesaid shall keep a Register Book of the several
sums received and paid out by him; and the said Committees,
or any three of them, shall have hereby power and authority given
them, to call all Treasurers, Collectors, and others that have, or
any time shall be thought to have any of the said Moneyes in
their hands to an Accompt; And if any of them shall refuse to
Accompt, or to pay in the Moneys wherewith they are Charged;
That the said Committees, or any three of them, shall fine them
double the sum charged upon them, which if it be not paid within
six days after the sun is set, and notice thereof left at his or their
dwellinghouse, It shall be lawful to and for the said Committee
to Issue their Warrants to Distrain for the same; and if there
be not sufficient distress wherewith to satisfie; Then the said
Committees may imprison the Offender herein, and Sequester his
Estate, until the Money Charged, and the Fine set, be Leavied
and paid: And in case the said Treasurers or Collectors shall
refuse or neglect to Leavy, or receive the sums of Money to be
Assessed and set by vertue of this Ordinance; it shall be Lawful
for the said Committees, or any three of them, to Fine the said
Treasurer, or Collectors, not exceeding the Sum of twenty
pounds; And to Leavy the same by way of distress, and the sale
of their Goods, or by Imprisonment, as they shall think fit: And
it is further Ordained, That there shall be five of the aforesaid
Committee constantly residing in the said County; The first five
to be nominated by the Committee now remaining at Lincoln,
who are to meet upon notice given unto them, or left at their
dwellings six days before; And they to continue one fortnight,
and then two of them to be released, and other two upon like
notice by them to be nominated and appointed to come in their
rooms; and then at the Moneths end the other three to be released, and three more upon like notice by them to be nominated
and appointed to come in their rooms, and so successively to go
through the whole Committee; And it is further Ordained, that
the said Committee shall have power to receive out of the
Revenues belonging to the Cathedral Church of Lincoln three
hundred pounds yearly, which they are to pay and allow unto
such Ministers as shall continue with them in the City of Lincoln, and bestow their pains there, until two able Ministers shall
be setled there, according to the Order of the House of Commons,
in that case lately made: Provided always, that this present Tax
and Leavy shall not extend to the Inhabitants or Towns and
places of Malberthorp, Withurn cumstain, Strooby cum Woodthorpe, and Malthy, in respect of their great loss lately sustained
by the inundation of the Sea.