proportion in a year wherein No trophy Money was Ordered to be
assessed Viz. the year from Midsummer 1720 to Midsummer 1721
and the annext receipt for St. Pancras as is eppressly so and it appear
also by the Originall Warrants annexed that warrants were filled up
by the Clerk to the Lieutenancy and signed and sealed by three
Deputy Lieutenants and issued into the parishes of St. Margaret
Westmr and St. Giles in the Fields without any previous Order of the
Board to justify the same, The Clerk being examined hereupon
alledged that the Messenger had altered the warrants after they were
delivered. The Messenger as firmly denied it, So that your Committee
must leave it to be decided by this Court observing only that between
the two the parishes have been drawn in to pay a years rate in the
wrong, Your Committee therefore thought it necessary to require of
the Treasurer of the Trophy money to give them an account of what
money he had reced as Treasurer who after much pressing was at las [..]
prevailed upon to send them the annext account which confirmed
their suspicion for he there charges himself to have reced for the
year 1720 the Sum of £127:18s:7d: and for the year 1721 the Sum of
£144:13s:6½d Now if by the years 1720 and 1721 is to be understood the
years begining at Midsummer 1720 and Midsummer 1721 then the
first Sum of £127:18s:7d: was unwarrantably reced, if by the years 172 [..]
and 1721 is to be understood the years ending Midsummer 1720 and
Midsummer 1721 then the last sum of £144:13s:6½d was unwarrantably
reced, and one or other of them ought to be charged to his Debet which
is not done in his account brought to be passed by this Court. The
Tresurer being sumoned to solve this difficulty appeared and told
your Committee that by the year 1721 in his account was meant
the year ending Midsummer 1722 and said the mistake was
occasioned by the Collectors themselves who desiring receipts for
the year 1721 he (not having notice that no Trophy money was
ordered to be assessed that year) gave them receipts accordingly.
Which was a gross neglect in those who should have appriz'd him
thereof and has made it difficult for your Committee to direct h [..]
the several parishes who have paid their money upon such [..]
receipts shall be made sensible that nothing is due from them for
any time before Midsummer 1722 The warrants now out being
for a year ending Midsummer 1722 which is a different year
from what they have already paid for and consequently they