Payment to Scotland Act 1640

Recital that £300,000. had been agreed to be given for Relief of our Brethren in Scotland, and that £220,000.

remained unpaid.; The said £220,000. to be paid into the Chamber of London at the Days herein mentioned.

Whereas the sum of three hundred thousand pounds was in this present Session of Parliament agreed to be given for a freindly assistance and releife towards the supply of the Losses and necessities of our brethren of Scotland of which sum of three hundred thousand pounds there is already paid the full sum of eighty thousand pounds and there remaines behinde and unpaid the sum of two hundred and twenty thousand pounds For securing the payment whereof Be it enacted by the King our Soveraign Lord and by the Lords and Commons in this present Parliament assembled and by the authority of the same that the said sum of two hundred and twenty thousand pounds shall be paid into the Chamber of the Citie of London for the use of our said Brethren of Scotland at the dayes hereafter in this Act mentioned that is to say the sum of One hundred and ten thousand pounds part thereof shall be paid into the said Chamber of London for the use aforesaid upon or before the foure and twentieth day of June in the yeare of our Lord God One thousand six hundred fourty two and the sum of one hundred and ten thousand pounds residue of the said sum of two hundred and twenty thousand pounds shall be paid into the said Chamber of London for the use aforesaid upon or before the foure and twentieth day of June in the yeere of our Lord God One thousand six hundred fourty three.