July, 1645
[10 July, 1645.]
£13000 to be paid to Thomas Toll Esq. for maintenance of 500 Horse to be raised in Eastern Association.
Whereas Five hundred Horse are forthwith to be raised out of
the Eastern Association, to be sent towards the borders of the said
Association: And whereas the charge of the raising of the said
Horse, and maintaining them four Moneths, doth amount unto
the sum of Thirteen thousand pounds; It is this day Ordered
by the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, That
Thomas Foot Esq; Alderman of the city of London, and the
rest of the Commissioners of Excize and new Impost, do pay the
said sum of Thirteen thousand pounds unto Thomas Toll Esq;
one of the Aldermen of Lyn in the County of Norfolk, or to such
other person or persons as shall be nominated and appointed by the
Committee of the Members of the House of Commons for the said
Association, together with the Interest for the same, after the
rate of eight pounds per cent. for so long time as the same or any
part thereof shall be forborn, as the same shall follow in course
after the Assessments that are now charged upon the said Excize
and new Impost; and shall not by any other Order or Ordinance
of one or both Houses of Parliament be debarred from satisfying
and reimbursing themselves accordingly; and that the same
Commissioners of Excize shall pay the said sum of Thirteen
thousand pounds unto the said Thomas Toll, or to such other
person or persons to be nominated as aforesaid, for the use aforesaid, whose Receipt shall be their sufficient discharge in this
behalf: And that the said Thomas Toll or such other person or
persons as shall be nominated as aforesaid, do pay the Money
by him so received, to such persons of the several Counties of the
said Association, as the standing Committee of the several
Counties of that Association respectively, or any five or more of
them under their hands in writing shall nominate and appoint,
according to the proportions of Horse Assessed, and set upon the
Counties of the said Association by Order of both Houses of Parliament, bearing date the fifth of July, 1645.