Excise (No. 3) Act 1660

XXIX. Proviso for E. Backwell, for Payment of £28,450.

When and to whom, and for what Purposes, the same advanced.

Provided alwayes and be it further Enacted that this Act or any thing therein contained shall not be prejudiciall to Edward Backwell Alderman of London as to the summe of twenty eight thousand fower hundred and fifty pounds (or any part thereof) by him advanced upon the credit of severall Orders of this present Parliament, and by them charged on the receipt of the Grand Excise, that is to say the summe of five thousand pounds payable to his Majestyes Surveyour Generall for the repaire of his Majestyes houses charged by vertue of an Order of the sixth of September One thousand six hundred and sixty with Interest for the same, the summe of ten thousand pounds advanced to her Highnesse the Princesse Royall being charged with Interest by an Order of the thirteenth of September One thousand six hundred and sixty, the summe of ten thousand pounds payable to her Majestie the Queene of Bohemia being charged together with Interest by an Order of the thirteenth of September One thousand six hundred and sixty, the summe of three thousand fower hundred and fifty pounds payable for Provisions for Dunkirke by Order of the twenty sixth of November One thousand six hundred and sixty, which summe of twenty eight thousand fower hundred and fifty pounds together with Interest for the same according to the tenor of the said Orders after the rate of six per cent. shall be paid to the said Edward Backwell or his Assignes out of the Grand Excise and the Arreares thereof in course as is by the said Orders appointed, and in case the same shall fall short in payment by the twenty fifth of December One thousand six hundred and sixty that then the remainder shall continue secured to him out of the whole Excise in course as aforesaid, and that noe other payments be made out of the Excise but what is appointed by this present Parliament in course to precede the same untill the said Debt due to the said Edward Backwell be satisfied, and that in case any part of the moneyes due to Alderman Backwell be paid out of that part of the Excise which shall grow due to the Kings Majestie that then his Majestie shall be reimbursed the same out of the first moneyes that shall come in of the Arreares of Excise that will be due the said twenty fifth of December.