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A83101 An ordinance of the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament for making the Covent-Garden Church parochiall. And for dividing the same from the parish of Martins in the Fields, upon severall articles and conditions. : Also for giving power to 34. persons who are made governours of the said parish to assesse and leavy maneys [sic] for the payment of two ministers, and for other parochiall uses, and to nominate constables and all other officers of the said parish. England and Wales. Parliament. 1646 (1646) Wing E1896; ESTC R222730 4,559 13

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no Inhabitants be assessed by vertue of this Ordinance or any thing therein contained above the yearely rate of eighteene pence in the pound according to the true value of the yearely Rent of the House wherein such Inhabitant shall dwell within the said Parish at the time of making of this Assessement which rate shall not be charged on the Rent of any Inhabitants Person or Landlord of any house but shal be Assessed on the severall Inhabitants according to their abilities not exceeding the said Summe of eighteene pence per pound in proportion to their severall Rents as aforesaid for any one yeare and so proportionable for a greater or lesser time And it is further Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That in case the said Summes be not paid in manner aforesaid That then the said Governours or any three of them shall or may from time to time authorize any person or persons to Leavie the same by distresse and sale of the goods of such person as shall be so in arreare returning the overplus to the Owner or else recover the same in Action of Debt to be brought in the name of the Rector for the time being wherein no Wager of Law to be allowed to the defendants And it is further Ordained That the said Governours and their Successors shall out of the Moneyes so by them received pay unto the said Rector and his Successors the yearely Summe of 150 pounds To the said Assistant and his Successors the yearely Summe of 150 pounds the same payments to be made at the daies aforesaid or within twentie one dayes after And that the said Governours and their Successors shall hold and injoy the said house late in the occupation of the said William Russell during the Tearme of the aforesaid twenty seven yeares and shall convert and imploy as well the profits of the said house during the said Tearme of twenty seven yeares as also all other moneyes remaining in their hands over and above the said three hundred pounds for the wages of the said Church-Officers and such other publique uses as shall seeme fit to the said Governours or the greater number of such of them as upon a publique warning shall assemble together so as the number so assembled exceed the number of seven persons And it is further Ordained That in case any default of payment happen of any the Summes aforesaid the Lord Keeper or Commissioners of the great Seale for the time being shall and may upon the complaint of the partie grieved in this behalfe give reliefe according to the true intent of this Ordinance And for as much as there is severall demands made by the Parish of S. Martins against the said new erected Parish touching Contribution to the Debts Poore and High-wayes of the Parish of Saint Martins and also there are severall demands made by the said new erected Parish of contribution to the Debts of the said new erected Parish and touching a proportionable part of the publique Revenues of the said Parish of Saint Martins and what proportion each Precinct should beare in publique Charges and Assessements It is therefore further Ordained by the Authority aforesaid That the said new Parish of Covent-Garden shall pay one Fifth part of the Publique Debts of the Parish of Saint Martins the said Debts being audited and then allowed by the Commissioners of the great Seale and shall also pay one Fifth part towards the mending of the High-wayes of the Parish of Saint Martins And shall also pay the Summe of one Hundred Seventeene Pounds One shilling Foure pence farthing halfe farthing and the Fifth part of an halfe farthing Quarterly to be paid unto the Parish of Saint Martins for the maintenance of their poore which said Summe shall be paid by the Parish of Covent-Garden to the Parish of Saint Martins for ever And the said Parish of Covent-Garden shall receive one Fifth part of the Publique Revenue of the Parish of Saint Martins forever towards the payment aforesaid And if the said Summes aforesaid shall not be paid it shall be lawfull for the Parish of Saint Martins to Leavie the aforesaid Rate for the poore and the proportion for the High-wayes by all such lawfull meanes as they may doe in their owne Parish by the Lawes and Statutes of this Realme Provided that for the neglect of their payment of the Rate of the Poore the same shall not extend to the making lyable Bedford-House to distresse for the same Provided alwayes And it is neverthelesse Declared That this present Ordinance and the matters therein Ordained shall be subject to such Regulation as the Lords and Commons in Parliament shall hereafter Ordaine John Browne Cler. Parl. Hen. Elsynge Cler. Parl. Dom. Com. Die Sabbati 31. Jan. 1645. WHereas in an Ordinance of the Lords and Commons in Parliament touching the making of the Precinct of Covent-Garden Parochiall there is a Clause touching Allowance to be made by the said Parish of Covent-Garden to the Poore of the Parish of S. Martins in these words following That is to say And shall also pay the summe of one Hundred seventeene Pounds one Shilling foure Pence Farthing halfe Farthing and the fifth part of a halfe Farthing Quarterly to be payd unto the Parish of S. Martins for the maintenance of their Poore Which said summe shall be payd by the Parish of Covent-Garden to the Parish of S. Martins for ever As by the said Ordinance amongst other things contained it doth appeare For Explanation of the said Clause it is hereby declared and Ordained by the Lords and Commons in Parliament That the true meaning of the said Clause was and is and shall be taken to be that the yearely summe of one Hundred seventeene Pounds one Shilling foure Pence Farthing halfe Farthing and the fifth part of a halfe Farthing shall be every Yeare for ever payd by the said Parish of Covent-Garden to the said Parish of S. Martins at foure Termes in the Yeare viz. Vpon every five and twentieth day of March foure and twentieth day of June three and twentieth day of September and three and twentieth day of December by equall Portions for and towards the maintenance of the Poore of the said Parish of S. Martins and in full discharge of the said Parish of Covent-Garden from all further Contributions thereunto Iohn Browne Cler. Parliament