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Crown ; which rent being unpaid the executors of Bickers have 

 made their re-entry and avoided the re-demise, and the whole 

 principal debt of £1700 remains unpaid. The manor of Kingsbury, 

 in Somerset, yielding £20 in old rents, is mortgaged to Frances, 

 daughter of Sir John Weld, in consideration of £3000 debt and 

 interest, but no part being paid the mortgagee is in possession by 

 order of the Committee of Lords and Commons for Sequestrations. 

 The manor of West Pennard, in Somerset, worth in old rents £20 

 a year, is mortgaged to Dudley, Lord North, in trust for the Lady 

 Dacre, in consideration of £5000 debt and interest, which being 

 wholly unpaid the mortgagee is here also in possession. The castle 

 of Newark and lands at Newark, Stoke, and Avesham, in Notts, 

 worth annually ££10, are mortgaged to Lady Katharine Gargrave, 

 in consideration of £2060, but no part thereof being paid the 

 mortgagees are in possession. His five water corn-mills and two 

 fulling mills, at Newark, yielding £90 per annum, are mortgaged 

 to Sir Edward Powell for £500, which being unpaid Sir Edward 

 Powell hath entered. The customs of Carlyle, yielding annually 

 [a blanJc] are mortgaged to Sir Theobald Gorges in consideration of 

 £2000 with proviso to be void on payment, but no part is paid and 

 the said customs are now of no value. He formerly held a lease 

 from the Crown of the post-fines at a rent of £2272 8s., then of 

 much greater value than this rent, but now, having been long out 

 of possession and the Court of Wards being down, he knows not 

 what it yields, but he desires a reserved liberty to compound for the 

 same when its value shall be ascertained. He had also a pension 

 from the Crown of £1000 a year out of the Tin farm, but has 

 received nothing these many years. He is indebted to several 

 persons at least £20,000, and his tenants have paid for the Par- 

 liament's service fully £3300 to re-imburse which will take at least 

 three years. (He had formerly received £200 a year for keeping 

 the King's mares and foals, but this form of emolument, having 

 shared in the ruin of his royal master, could not now be scored 

 against him.) 



A letter from Sir Thomas Fairfax was put in, acknowledging 

 that the EaiTs house at St. James's had sustained so much damage 



