OF PHILIP, FIRST EARL OF CHESTERFIELD. Ill 



By the Commissioners for Compoundinge 



9° April 165 1 

 Gent'. 



Wee desire you to take notice tliat the Parliament have 

 granted five pounds per weeke to be paid out of our Treasury to 

 the Earle of Chesterfeild in lieu of his fifth part & therefore you 

 are not to pay any fifth part to the said Earle's wife or children or 

 to or for theire use. Wee remaine 



Yo' affectionate freinds 



*Jo : Berners +Sam : Mover 



Ric. Moore :|:Edw : Winslow 



For the Commissioners for sequestrations in the County of 

 Derby sitting at Derby 



these for the service of the Comon-wealth. 



By the Commissioners for Compoundinge &c 



6 May 1651 

 Gent. 



Wee desire that you forthwith certifie unto us the true 



yearly value of the Estate of the Earle of Chesterfeild in your 



County Wee remayne 



Your affectionate freinds 



Jo : Berners Sam : Mover 



Ric : Moore Edw : Winslow 



[Rough copy of reply at foot] 

 Gent. 



According to your order of the vj"' instant concerning the 

 yearely value of the Earle of Chesterfeilds estate in this county we 

 doe hereby certefie that the said Earles estate in this county is 



• Josias Berners was one of the Council of State in 1659. He subscribed a 

 letter with nine others to General Monk thanking him for his great service to 

 the Commonwealth, and their own resolution to stand and fall with him in 

 defence thereof ; he was also of the Rump Parliament who agreed to settle the 

 King's lands at Hampton upon Richard Cromwell. 



t Samuel Moyer was member for London and of Barebones Parliament ; he 

 was one of the Council of State in 1653. 



t Edward Winslow was an arbitrator of the diflferences about the ships left 

 by the Danes in 1653, vide Heath's Chronicle, p. 357. 



