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<p n="249">than the Sum charged upon their parish by the legall rate and<lb></lb>
they acknowledged that the Money by them raised over and above<lb></lb>
what they had paid to the use of the Treasurer was still in their<lb></lb>
hands. Your Committee had it in their intention to have caused<lb></lb>
all the Original Collecting Books to have been cast up to see what has<lb></lb>
been actually collected and consequently what remains in the<lb></lb>
Collectors hands but that has not been yet done for want of an<lb></lb>
opportunity of seeing those Books which they confest they had<lb></lb>
destroyed In the course of this enquiry it appeared that severall<lb></lb>
parishes to prevent any oppression upon them had ordered the just<lb></lb>
Sum and no more to be paid out of the Land tax But this precaution<lb></lb>
appears also to have been abused for upon view of the receipts<lb></lb>
in some of those parishes Your Committee entertained a suspicion<lb></lb>
that they had paid their proportion in a year wherein No trophy<lb></lb>
money was ordered to be assessed Viz. the year from Midsummer<lb></lb>
1720 to Midsummer 1721 and the annext receipt for <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO40001_geo224">St. Pancras</rs>
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is<lb></lb>
expressly so and it appears also by the Originall Warrants annexed<lb></lb>
that Warrants were filled up by the Clerk to the Lieutenancy and<lb></lb>
signed and sealed by three Deputy Lieutenants and issued into<lb></lb>
the parishes of <rs type="placeName" id="LMSMGO40001_geo225">St. Margaret Westmr. and St. Giles in the Fields</rs>
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without any previous order of the Board to justify the same<lb></lb>
The Clerk being examined hereupon alledged that the<lb></lb>
Messenger had altered the Warrants after they were delivered<lb></lb>
The Messenger as firmly denied it to that your Committee must<lb></lb>
leave it to be decided by this Court observing only that between the<lb></lb>
two the parishes have been drawn in to pay a year's rate in their<lb></lb>
wrong. Your Committee therefore thought it necessary to require<lb></lb>
of the Treasurer of the Trophy money to give them an account of<lb></lb>
what money he had reced as Treasurer who after much pressing<lb></lb>
was at last prevailed upon to send them the annexed account which<lb></lb>
confirm'd their suspicion for he there charges himself to have reced<lb></lb>
for the year 1720. the sum of £127:18s:7d: and for the year 1721. the<lb></lb>
sum of £144:13s:6½d Now if by the years 1720 and 1721 is to be<lb></lb>
understood the years beginning at Midsummer 1720 and<lb></lb>
Midsummer 1721 then the first sum of £127:18s:7d: was <lb></lb>
unwarrantably reced if by the years 1720 and 1721 is to be<lb></lb>
understood the years ending Midsummer 1720 and Midsummer<lb></lb>
1721 then the last sum of £144:13s:6½d was unwarrantably <lb></lb>
reced and one or other of them ought to be charged to his Debet<lb></lb>
which is not done in his account brought to be passed by this Court.<lb></lb>
The Treasurer being summoned to solved this difficulty appeared</p>
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