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