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Free and voluntary present, 1661
National Archives, E179/80/333/2
Charles II's second Parliament awarded him a special "present" in July 1661. This was an ad hoc way of raising funds for the Crown outside normal taxation (the Hearth Tax started in 1662). Commissioners went round the main towns in each county (hundred by hundred) collecting cash or promises, and if necessary returned to receive payment. Read more on the National Archives website. The extracts below are from the book kept by the Bucks Commissioners. Grandborough contributed much more generously than Winslow, and it would be interesting to know if that reflects how the inhabitants felt about Charles, or just more efficient commissioners. There isn't much overlap with the people who paid the 1663 Subsidy, some of whom were absentees.
Subscripcions taken at Winslowe the six & twentieth day of September 1661 before Robert Lovett Berrnard Turney and William Abraham esqrs com(missioner)s &c.
Readie Money
Names from Dunton, Mursley, Weedon, Stewkley, Cublington
| £ | s | d | ||
| Winslowe | John Watts | 00 | 10 | 00 |
| John Henley | 00 | 10 | 00 |
Then subscribed and since payd
Names from Soulbury, Whitchurch, Swanbourne, Linslade, Marsworth, Mursley, Stewkley
21 of October 1661
Subscribed then but noe money paid
Names from Drayton Parslow, Edlesborough, Hardwick, Stewkley
| Winslow | £ | s | d | |
| pd | Benjamin Leache | 00 | 05 | 00 |
| paid | Benedicte Glenister | 00 | 03 | 00 |
| paid | Thomas Goodwin | 00 | 05 | 00 |
| paid | Daniell Seare | 00 | 05 | 00 |
| paid | Willm Whitehall | 00 | 02 | 06 |
| paid | Mathew Bisshoppe | 00 | 03 | 00 |
| paid | Willm Townsend | 00 | 10 | 00 |
| paid | Henry Wyatt | 00 | 05 | 00 |
| paid | Richard Phippes | 00 | 05 | 00 |
| paid | John Hogson | 00 | 05 | 00 |
Names from Great Horwood
Att Wing the 21th of October 1661 before Thomas Stafford Robert Lovett Edmund West Bernard Turney esqrs & Wm Abraham gent com(missioner)s &c.
Readie Money in Cotteslowe Hundred
| Little Horwood | £ | s | d | |
| Thomas Curtis | 00 | 04 | 00 | |
| Henry Smyth | 00 | 02 | 06 | |
| John Hawkins | 00 | 02 | 06 | |
| Thomas Oakly | 00 | 04 | 00 | |
| Hugh Willett | 00 | 02 | 06 | |
Adhuc Hundred de Buck'
2d of October 1661
Subscribed but nor payd
| Little Horwood | £ | s | d | |
| paid | John Addams | 00 | 02 | 00 |
There is a separate document for Ashendon Hundreds
National Archives, E179/80/333/1
The subscriptions of divers of his Ma(jes)ties subiects of the Towns parishes & hamlets within ye Three Hundreds of Ashenden for a free & voluntary present to his Ma(jes)tie taken by Sir Ralph Verney knt & barronet Sir Richard Pigott knt John Dormer & Richard Grenvile Esqrs & other of his Ma(jes)ties Com(missioner)s in ye said three hundreds
| Grandborow | £ | s | d | |
| Benedick Holland of ye elme | 00 | 13 | 04 | |
| George Rutland | 00 | 12 | 00 | |
| John Stevens senr | 00 | 16 | 00 | |
| Robert Stevens | 00 | 15 | 00 | |
| Nicholas Wyatt | 00 | 10 | 00 | |
| Benedick Holland of ye pound | 00 | 02 | 06 | |
| Thomas Holland | 00 | 02 | 06 | |
| John Stevens | 00 | 05 | 00 | |
| Thomas Mountague | 00 | 02 | 06 | |
| Joseph Holliday | 00 | 01 | 00 | |
| John Thorp | 00 | 05 | 00 | |
| Edward Thorp | 00 | 04 | 00 | |
| William Thorp | 00 | 01 | 00 | |
| George Stevens | 00 | 01 | 00 | |
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