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Cheeke, Russell Tipping families: Archer of Tanworth

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William Lowndes to the Rt. Hon. the lords commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury. Copy of memorial Stating the case on consideration of a petition of Dame Anne Tipping, he summarises the terms of the Countess of Dorchester's grant of £3,500 p.a. for 99 years or life from 1685, to be paid from the quitrents of Ireland, and of the grant of £600 p.a. for 31 years from 1692 made to Lady Russell in recompense for her release to the crown of a debt of £10,000 owed to her late husband Thomas Cheeke, to be paid from the rent of £1,500 reserved on the Countess's grant. It appears by the deposition of Hezekiah Bushnel that £3,161:17:2 is still due on account of this latter grant, and since Lady Russell's pension was not paid at all for 17 years and then in a very dilatory manner, it is petitioned that great damage has been suffered by way of loss of interest. Although an Act of 11 William III laid down that the quitrents of Ireland should be for the support and maintenance of the Government of that Kingdom, in the circumstances it is in the power of the crown to make good the arrears and to compensate with a sum in gross for the loss sustained by the petitioner and her mother in this affair