Buckinghamshire Contributions for Ireland 1642
By John Wilson
Bucks Record Society

The document relates to the first of three schemes – the Act for loans and free gifts approved on 31 January (16 Charles I c.30), one of the last to receive Charles’s assent. This Act would introduce a dual system of voluntary contributions which were to be used both for the succour of refugees and for the mounting of an invasion of Ireland by an English army.

Castlethorpe

£ s. d.
Mr. Thos. Wycharley 6 0
Jn. Tennant 1 0
Ric. Stringer 4
Hugh Scotte 1 0
Ric. Parratt sen 5 0
Ric. Parratt jun 5 0
Ric. Parratt the smith 1 0
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Thos. Earle 13 4
Ric. Pease 4
Thos. Nicholls 6 0
Geo. Wadall 6
Isac. Nicholls 4
Jn. Johnson 9
Wm. Parratt 6
Thos. Denton 3
Thos. Ellis 6
Thos. Palmer 6
Jn. Mills 6
Ric. Mills 6
Rob. Panter 6
Thos. Warren 4
Thos. Bartram 6
Fran. Bett 1 0
Allen Mapley 6
Jn. Parratt constable 1 0
Thos. Phillips 2
Thos. Salman 1
Thos. Bourden 1 0
Rob. Wall 2
Ric. Collison 1 0
Wm. Stamer 1 0
Thos. Collison 2 0
Fran. Clarke 1 0
Jn. Collison 2
Wm. Osborne 6
Jn. Norton 6
Ric. Jenkins 2
Rob. Parratt 6
Ric. Parratt 4
Ric. Moores 2 6
Jn. Warren sen 2
Jn. Warren jun 6
Wm. Wilcocks 6
Jn. Peake 1 0
Thos. French 1 0
Wm. Wilde 6
Thos. Baylie 6
Mark Parratt 1 0
Wm. Gibbs 6
Geo. Bacchus 1 0
Mrs. Phil. Nourse 1 0 0
Mrs. Mary Hocknell 6
Eliz. Ellis 6
Margt. Prestwick 6
Mary Betts 6
Ann Parratt 6
Bridg. Speede 6
Mary Sur 6
Ann Nicholls 4
Fran. Hawkins 6
Thos. Church 1 0
Jn. Parratt 1 0
Ant. Baylie 1 0
Rowland Jervoise 21.
4 12 0

1. 2 struck through