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than the Sum charged upon their parish by the legall rate and
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they acknowledged that the Money by them raised over and above
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what they had paid to the use of the Treasurer was still in their
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hands. Your Committee had it in their intention to have caused
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all the Original Collecting Books to have been cast up to see what has
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been actually collected and consequently what remains in the
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Collectors hands but that has not been yet done for want of an
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opportunity of seeing those Books which they confest they had
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destroyed In the course of this enquiry it appeared that severall
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parishes to prevent any oppression upon them had ordered the just
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Sum and no more to be paid out of the Land tax But this precaution
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appears also to have been abused for upon view of the receipts
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in some of those parishes Your Committee entertained a suspicion
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that they had paid their proportion in a year wherein No trophy
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money was ordered to be assessed Viz. the year from Midsummer
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1720 to Midsummer 1721 and the annext receipt for
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St. Pancras
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is
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expressly so and it appears also by the Originall Warrants annexed
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that Warrants were filled up by the Clerk to the Lieutenancy and
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signed and sealed by three Deputy Lieutenants and issued into
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the parishes of
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St. Margaret Westmr. and St. Giles in the Fields
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without any previous order of the Board to justify the same
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The Clerk being examined hereupon alledged that the
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Messenger had altered the Warrants after they were delivered
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The Messenger as firmly denied it to that your Committee must
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leave it to be decided by this Court observing only that between the
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two the parishes have been drawn in to pay a year's rate in their
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wrong. Your Committee therefore thought it necessary to require
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of the Treasurer of the Trophy money to give them an account of
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what money he had reced as Treasurer who after much pressing
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was at last prevailed upon to send them the annexed account which
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confirm'd their suspicion for he there charges himself to have reced
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for the year 1720. the sum of £127:18s:7d: and for the year 1721. the
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sum of £144:13s:6½d Now if by the years 1720 and 1721 is to be
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understood the years beginning at Midsummer 1720 and
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Midsummer 1721 then the first sum of £127:18s:7d: was
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unwarrantably reced if by the years 1720 and 1721 is to be
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understood the years ending Midsummer 1720 and Midsummer
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1721 then the last sum of £144:13s:6½d was unwarrantably
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reced and one or other of them ought to be charged to his Debet
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which is not done in his account brought to be passed by this Court.
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The Treasurer being summoned to solved this difficulty appeared
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