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A34093 A retrospect into the Kings certain revenue annexed to the crown under the survey of His Majesties court exchequer : with the proceedings upon two sevral petitions presented to His Majesty, concerning the chauntry rents, &c. and the first fruits, and tenths of the clergy ... / by George Carew. Carew, George, Esq. 1661 (1661) Wing C550; ESTC R24253 43,859 25

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There were several Auditors and Receivers appointed to bring in the Kings Revenue which was then very great and troublesom to collect out of several Demisable Lands Profits of Courts Wood-sales c. which are since reduced to certainties of Fee-Farms and Tenths being such dry Rents that neither rise nor fall Yet to the wonder of the World as Sir Robert Cotton observes although the cause be taken away the effect continues And notwithstanding the ●ings Revenue in all Counties of England is brought from one shilling to a peny yet the supernumerary ●fficers remain to the great charge of the King and grievance of the People ANCIENTLY The Sheriff of every County was accountable for the Kings Rents and it would conduce much to the Kings benefit and common good of the Subject if it were reduced into the same Method The King would then be certain of his Rents and the Tenants of a good discharge and still keep their money in the Countrey their travel and pains spared to carry their money to Audits There being several very considerable Fee-Farm Rents viz. in Yorkshire one Fee Farm Rent of 800 l. per Annum In other Counties many Tenants pay 500 l. others 7 8 900 l. per Annum of Fee-Farm Rents It is therefore very absurd unsafe and chargeable That the Kings great Rents should be payd to a Receiver and he to pay them afterwards into the Receipt So that when the Auditors Receivers Clerks Fees Dyet Poundage Arrears supers eight thousand pounds respite money upon Accompt always left in the hands of one and twenty Receivers at 3 or 400 l. a piece and other allowances considered the Noble is brought to nine pence the King impoverished and those Officers inriched which hath been the continual practice ever ●nce the Auditors and Receivers were appointed to the dammage of the Crown many hundred thousand pounds part of which is not pardoned That they stand accountable for at this day The Proposals of Walter Devereux and George Carew FIRST That all the Kings Rents shall be charged in the great Roll of the Exchequer And that the Tenants chargeable with any of the said Rents above 20 l. per Annum shall pay the same into his Majesties Receipt of the Exchequer half-yearly and be discharged of their payments according to the course of the Court as by the Statute of 51. H. 3. and 10. E. 1. is directed And such as fail to pay their Rents to be levied by the Process of the Court. SECONDLY That all the Kings Rents under 10 l. per Annum in every County except the Collection of the Chantry Rents to be charged in the Sheriffs Accompts THIRDLY That the Stewards and Bayliffs of the Kings Honours Mannor● Courts and Baylywi●ks sh●ll take the I●sues of their Offices or any others that will give most at certain rates by Lease according to the Quit-rents Fines casualties and other perquissts that they have yielded for 21 years before the late War and to pay the said Farms into the Receipt or to the Sheriff according to the value respectively This being done the King cannot be defrauded his Revenue will be certainly payd The people duly discharged and accommodated The yearly Accompt without difficulty declared by two Auditors The rest and the 21. Receivers wholly laid aside as useless All things then remaining upon Record to publique view for the common safety of King and People Arguments raised from the Proposals WHEREIN will the supernumerary Auditors and all the Receivers be prejudiced if the King allow them Pensions answerable to their Salleries and save forty thousand pounds per Annum to the King and People As King Henry the 8th did when he suspended many of them as useless before Or wherein will the Kings Tenants that pay the great Rents be prejudiced if they pay the money into the Receipt and receive legal Discharges which are recorded for the security of the People rather then to trust to Auditors Accompts in their own keeping or to Receivers Acquittances which are often lost and many years after the Kings Tenants sued and vexed with process causlesly Or wherein will the Kings Tenants of small Rents be prejudiced if they pay them into the Sheriffs hands whose Deputies Bayliffs and Officers in every Division are ready at their own doors to receive them rather then ride twenty or thirty miles to an Audit waiting and loosing their time and often ve●ed with Messengers to the great Outcry of all people throughout the Kingdom The like convenience will be to the Kings Tenants of the Chantery Rents as in the Method already proposed by the said Walter Devereux and George Carew to the Lord chief Baron Or wherein will the Kings Honour or Profit be lessened by this Method it being more advantagious for all men to pay their Rents at home then ride far to an Audit to pay one shilling and to eat and drink two shillings upon the Kings Accompt neglecting their own occasions to a far greater loss● otherways Objections raised by the Auditors and Receivers THAT the Revenue hath been brought in by them above eighty years That they have Patents for their lives under the great Seal to receive the said Rents and Audit the Accompts That they bought their places at great Rates That the Kings Rents cannot be so speedily and safely answered by the Tenants Sheriffs or general Collectors And that the Method of the Kings Houshold expences will not be observed if the course be altered in bringing in of the Revenue Answered by Walter Devereux and George Carew THAT It was never intended that Receivers should be continued in that way of Receipt after the Rents were ascertained But that the Revenue should be brought in again by the ancient way of the Sheriffs As by the Statute de Scaccario made the 5● H. 3. and the Statute of Rutland in the 10th E. 1. The Kings Pa●ents granted to Auditors and Receivers for their lives were ex gratia mero motu And if they have since bought their places of others their Advantages must accru● to them from the Injuries done to the King or People That the Sheriffs of all Counties are persons chosen to serve the King and Countrey being Landed men and of ability there to answer the King and Subjects dues they taking Security of the Under Sheriffs Bayliffs Deputies and other Officers to be answerable to them for the Issues of their Offices at a day certain And the Lord Treasurer may design the payments of the Kings Revenue according to the several purposes ordained ORIGINALLY The Kings Rents were payd in kinde by Cattle Corn Hay Oats and other Provisions for the Kings Houshold The inconveniency of that was found great for Tenants to bring their Carriages from places far distant to the Court so then by Agreement they payd their Rents to the Sheriffs the grand Officers of the several Shires who payd the said Rents Scaccario nostro