Entry Book: December 1665 | British History Online

Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 1, 1660-1667. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1904.

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'Entry Book: December 1665', in Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 1, 1660-1667, ed. William A Shaw( London, 1904), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/cal-treasury-books/vol1/pp692-701 [accessed 8 November 2024].

December 1665


Date.	Nature and Substance of the Entry.	Reference.

Dec. 2	Money warrant for one year's arrear to Monsieur le Febure on his fee of 40l. per an. as Apothecary in ordinary to the Household: and the like on his fee of 150l. per an. as Professor in Chymistry.	Ibid, p. 94.
Dec. 2	Money warrant for the usual salary to be paid to Sir William Morton, nominated a justice of the King's Bench by letters patent of the 23rd ult.	Early Entry Book XIII. p. 94.
	Warrant from Treasurer Southampton to the Auditor of the Receipt for the 1,000l. remaining unassigned out of the money warrants for 5,000l. to Hugh May, Paymaster of the Works, for carrying on the building at Greenwich, to be paid out of the Customs Farm for June.	Ibid.
	Money warrant for 400l. to Edward Progers, one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber, without accompt, for keeping of the deer in the North Park at Hampton Court since 1662, March 13, with hay, beans, and pease, and other disbursements about said park.	Ibid, pp. 95–6.
	Appending:—Royal warrant for same dated the 18th ult.
	Same, dormant, for the pension of 200l. per an. to Thomas Wyndham, one of the King's equerries, to be constantly paid, payment thereof having been stopped on the general order for the suspension of all pensions.	Ibid, pp. 96–7
	Prefixing:—As above.
Dec. 5	Money warrant for 103l. 18s. 6d. to Sir William Swan, His Majesty's Resident at Hamburg for his extraordinaries from 1663, Oct. 31 to 1665, March 28: as by his accounts thereof signed by the Principal Secretaries of State.	Ibid, p. 97.
	Same for 1,700l. to Hugh May, Paymaster of the Works, to be employed in bringing the water from Hyde Park through St. James's Park to Whitehall: as by the Privy Seal of 1664, August 30.	Ibid, p. 98.
	Same for 605l. to same for fitting the palace of Nonsuch for the Receipt of the Exchequer and for repair of the Duke of Monmouth's lodgings near the Cockpit.	Ibid.
	Nomination by Treasurer Southampton of Thomas Lambert to be one of the transcribing clerks in the Excise office, loco John Lambert, his late father, deceased.	Ibid, p. 99
	Treasurer Southampton to the Attorney General for Col. Edward Grey and Sir Thomas Daniell to lay before him the present state of the settlement of the manor of Stanford, co. Notts, and the nearness of its reversion to the Crown by the spending of the entail of Robert Raynes to whom it was granted by Queen Mary.	Ibid, p. 100.
	Prefixing:—Note of petition by said Grey and Daniell for a grant of said manor: and note of reference from the King dated Oxford the 2nd inst.
	Money warrant for 5,000l. to Sir George Downing towards the maintenance of such of His Majesty's subjects as have been taken at sea and are kept prisoners in any of the United Provinces.	Ibid, p. 106.
Dec. 6	Treasurer Southampton to Sir Charles Harbord, dated from Oxford, forwarding for reference petitions from John Pratt, John Mogge, William Harrison, John Hay, and John Dyer for renewing leases in the Duchy of Cornwall.	Ibid, p. 98.
	Report from same to the King on the petition of Cary Heydon, daughter of Sir John Heydon, Master of the Ordnance to the late King, for a grant of Wootton Copse of about 80 acres in New Forest in place of a small rent of 50l. per an. assigned to her, but of which she has been disappointed. Can give no countenance to the suit.	Ibid, p. 99.
	Prefixing:—Note of said petition and of the reference thereof from the King, dated Whitehall, Nov. 23 last.
Dec. 6	Warrants from Treasurer Southampton and Lord Ashley to Francis Stevens, &c., for the arrest of the following sheriffs for arrears (detailed) of the hearth money unpaid, viz.: of Gloucester, Carmarthen, Merioneth, Flint, Montgomery, Haverford West, Lancaster, Durham, Newcastle, Wilts, Bucks, Southampton, Essex, Cambridge and Huntingdon and Rutland.	Early Entry Book XIII. pp. 151–4.
	Appending:—Instructions for the Sergeant at Arms, and account of the bail to be given by the said sheriffs.
	Same from same to same to arrest Lodowich Lewis, Clerk of the Peace of co. Cardigan, for not returning the rolls of the fire hearth money by which the accounts of James Lewis, junr., the sheriff of said county, might be finished, the said sheriff having twice futilely sent his deputy to London to account for the said duty.	Ibid, p. 151.
Dec. 7	Money warrant, dormant, for payment to Sir John Griffith of the annuities or yearly fees of 2s. a day for his office of Captain of the blockhouse of Tilbury, and 20l. per an. and 4d. a day for the Captainship of said blockhouse, being in all 62l. 11s. 8d. per an.: he being thereto appointed by royal letters patent of Feb. 17 last.	Ibid, pp. 100 1.
	Same for the annuity or yearly pension of 250l. to Elizabeth daughter of Sir John Lawson, lately deceased: as by the letters patent of August 20 last.	Ibid, p. 101.
	The like for Ann, another daughter of said Lawson, and further for one quarter to the executrix of said Lawson due upon his letters patent, he having died the day after Midsummer.	Ibid, pp. 101–2.
	Money warrant for 254l. 17s. 1d. to the Treasurer of the Chamber to be paid to the Bishop of London, in part of 565l. 4s. 2d. due to him as His Majesty's Almoner for His Majesty's daily and monthly alms.	Ibid, p. 104.
	Same for 200l. to Henry Progers, one of the equerries in ordinary, towards repair of his house in the Mews.	Ibid.
	Appending:—Royal warrant for same of date Oct. 30 last.
	Same for 1,123l. to William Gombledon [Gomeldon] for several jewels sold and several set in gold for the King and Queen and 370l. for a diamond Garter provided for the Duke of Monmouth.	Ibid, p. 105.
	Appending:—Royal warrant for same of date 1663, August 30: and note of Treasurer Southampton's letter of direction hereupon.
Dec 8	Same for the salary of 2l. 13s. 4d. a day to Sir William Morton for 27 days' riding Judge of Assize for Norfolk this Summer Assize: being the ancient allowance to such judges.	Ibid, p 124.
	Report to the King from Treasurer Southampton on the petition of Andrew Mill for a reversion of the next place in the Customs in consideration of the sufferings of his father, formerly Major and Lieut. Col. of Horse. Recommends the case, as "the petitioner's father and family were my neighbours in the country."	Ibid, p. 106.
	Prefixing:—Note of said petition, and order of reference, dated Whitehall, June 10 last.
Dec. 11	Treasurer Southampton to the Auditor of the Receipt, dated Oxford, to repay to the Wardrobe the 950l. which was diverted from the Wardrobe and used to meet the charge of the waggons that were to bring up the Royal Aid moneys.	Early Entry Book XIII. p. 108.
Dec. 12	Warrant from same to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands for a constat in order to a grant of the manors of Petersham and Ham in fee farm, other parts in lease, to Sir Lyonell Tollmach in favour of the Countess of Dysart his wife and her sisters, to whose father, the late Earl of Dysart, the late King intended a grant of the whole for a longer term.	Ibid, pp. 125–6.
	Appending:—Royal warrant for same, dated Oxford, 1665, Oct.—
	Treasurer Southampton to the Justices at Newcastle, directing them not to assess Lord Townshend's farm of the duty of 4s. per chaldron on coals exported, the said Lord's receiver of that duty having been arrested for non-payment of an assessment. "In our opinion things of that nature ought not to bee assessable for in effect that is but to lay the tax on His Majesty's customes."	Ibid, p. 109.
	Same and Lord Ashley to the Commissioners of the Royal Aid in every county, inciting them not to defer their meetings nor to forbear to issue their warrants for payment of the quarterly payments, all which delay the collectors and receivers in making return of their moneys.	Ibid.
	Money warrant for 95l. 17s. 0d. to Andrew Lawrance, Surveyor of His Majesty's highways for repairing ways, gates, bridges, &c.	Ibid, p. 111
[?]	Entry of demise by lease under the Exchequer Seal of certain marsh lands called Rockley Marsh, &c., co. Cumberland, to Theobald Earl of Carlingford, Sir Edward Green and William Dike.	Ibid, p. 126.
Dec 13	Royal warrant, dated from Oxford, to Treasurer Southampton to to confer on Andrew Mill the first vacant place of a King's landwaiter or undersearcher in London port or customer of an outport.	Ibid, X. p. 350.
Dec. 14	Report to the King from Treasurer Southampton on the petition of Col. Edward Grey concerning the manor and lands mentioned in Robert Raynes's petition.	Ibid, XIII. p. 110.
	Prefixing:—The Attorney General's report to Treasurer Southampton on said petition.
	Money warrant for 525l. to George Paynter for the use of Sir Thomas Clifford. Envoy Extraordinary to the two Crowns of Denmark and Sweden, for the charge of his equipage and journey: as by the Privy Seal of the 30th ult.	Ibid, pp. 110–1.
	Warrant from Treasurer Southampton to the Receipt for tallies to be levied on the Farmers of the London Excise for their discharge of the sum of 21,000l., being an allowance to them out of the rent of their farm for the period June 24 last to Nov. 8 last, in consideration of their loss from the raging of the plague: as by the Privy Seal of the 27th ult.	Ibid, pp. 111–2.
	Treasurer Southampton to the Auditor of the Receipt to have a special care for the payment of the arrears due to Francis Corbett on his board wages of 3s. 4d. a day, he being to pass the seas for the recovery of his health.	Ibid, pp. 112–3.
Dec. 14	Money warrant for 10,000l. to the Earl of Sandwich for a half year for the ordinary charges of the Wardrobe, and 2,500l. for the extrordinaries of same for the year to end at 1666, Sept. 29.	Early Entry Book XIII. pp. 113–4.
	Treasurer Southampton to the Auditor of the Receipt to settle an assignment of 6,000l. (given to the Earl of Sandwich for the Wardrobe) on the Royal Aid; its previous assignment on the four subsidies of the laity having failed in respect those subsidies amounted not to that sum which was expected.	Ibid, p. 114.
	Money warrant for 589l. 17s. 8d. to Sir William Boreman, Keeper of the new-planted dwarf orchard at His Majesty's honor of Greenwich for three years' building and planting there; and also for his arrears from Lady Day past on the various fees amounting to 148l. per an. for officers, &c., there.	Ibid, p. 115.
	Representation to the King from Treasurer Southampton concerning the Crown's right in the forest or chase of Kingswood, near Bristol, by way of report on the petition from Sir Baynham Throckmorton. The soil belongs to the lords, and with them the possession has gone, and the franchise and liberty of the chase only belongs to the Crown, for discharge whereof your Majesty might justly pretend to a part of the soil or composition, and might probably if the trespasses in digging coal pits, &c., had not been pardoned by the Act of Oblivion. For this purpose of getting some composition with the lords a commission was granted to Sir Nicholas Throckmorton (since dead) and Sir Gilbert Gerrard. Discusses the question of the reward to be made to these Commissioners for their trouble. "I had in my eye somewhat that concerned the publick, which was, since this is a place from whence great store of coale (and that somewhat of the nature of Newcastle coale) is like to be digged and that there is a hope the river there may be made navigable from thence into the Thames that some good use might be made of serveing coale (in such conjuncture of time as this) in good proportions to London. But the soyle being the lords' in point of revenew I was convinced it was not fit for your Majesty to purchase the soyle and be at charge with the works, and if the mines be likely to be usefull unto London in any point of extremity I think that wilbe don better by private undertakers then any officers of your Majestys."	Ibid, pp. 117–8.
	Treasurer Southampton to the Deputy Lieutenants of Kent concerning their reply of Nov. 10 last to his letter to them of Oct. 24 last relating to the state of preparedness of the county. Complains of the general nature of the assurances given in said answer, viz. "that you did not doubt the county would be ready in a short warning to answer any insult of the Dutch ... and that you would be ready to give an encouragmnt to volunteers; the militia money you were about levying," &c. Calls on them to put themselves into such a state as may obviate danger, and that every Colonel and Captain of Horse should give an account of the state of the force under him.	Ibid, pp. 118–9.
[?] Oxford.	Money warrant for 500l. as equipage to William Temple, Esq., whom His Majesty has thought fit to send to Brussels as his Resident there with the Governor of Flanders: also for [300l. for] a quarter's advance on his ordinary of 100l. a month to date from Novr. 1 last.	Ibid, p. 107.
	Appending:—Royal warrant for same. dated from Oxford.
Dec. 15	Warrant from Treasurer Southampton and Lord Ashley, dated from Oxford, to Sir Henry Vernon, Sir William Doyly and Robert Scowen (the persons empowered to pay the officers and waggons, &c., employed in bringing up the Royal Aid of 2,477,500l.) to act in a similar capacity for the bringing up of the additional tax of 1,250,000l.	Early Entry Book XIII. p. 118.
	Money warrant for 200l. to Sir Gilbert Talbot for extras as Envoy Extraordinary to the King of Denmark.	Ibid, p. 116.
	Treasurer Southampton and Lord Ashley, dated from Oxford, to Mr. Price, suspending him from being Receiver of the Royal Aid for co. Hereford, and informing him of the appointment of William Bowdler in his place: on account of said Price having so ill answered the moneys collected by him either into the Exchequer or in [meeting] the assignments on him.	Ibid, p. 141.
	Prefixing:—Royal warrant for same, dated Oxford, Dec. 11.
	Same to Mr. Colles, Solicitor for the Royal Aid in co. Hereford, concerning the above, requesting an account of all moneys received as above by said Price and to cause him to send up all the moneys in his hands.	Ibid, p. 148.
Dec. 16	Report to the King from Treasurer Southampton on the petition of Sir Robert Paston, praying a grant of a small part of the Customs which is divided from the rest, being some bulky and straggling commodities which by long practice are exempted from the common search method and entry and aces of landing that the rest are liable to, and by the diversity of practice have been and still are vulgarly esteemed as goods scarce under the direction of the Act for Tonnage and Poundage, viz. foreign unwrought wood or timber, glass, stone, earth, simple or manufactured, and oranges and lemons: as to which petitioner asserts that on an average of the last 40 years they have not yielded 500l. per an., and in no year up to 1663 (when their importation was at its height) will amount to 2,500l. He further asserts that the present farmers of the Customs after holding it for six months under the great farm of the Customs sublet it as a separate item, adding salt to it and getting 5,800l. a year out of the lot. The patent granted to the Duke of Buckingham for the sole making of looking glasses in England, and the consequent prohibition of the import of that article will cause a deduction of 700l. per an. He therefore prays a grant thereof for 21 years on the same condition, &c., as the present farmers and their sub-farmers hold by.	Ibid, pp. 119, 121–3.
	Finds hereupon that the present lease has till 1667, Sept. 29, to run, and that in one year to 1664, Sept. 29, it produced 4,741l., including looking glasses, since prohibited. The rent of the sub-farm at the present is 4,000l. per an. Sir Robert Paston offers 2,700l. per an. rent. Leaves the matter to the King "haveing not sufficiently weighed the consequence of taking small farms out of the great."
	Prefixing:—Note of said Paston's petition and order of reference dated Oxford, Nov. 5 last.
	Appending:—Report by the Customs Farmers hereon and account of the clear receipts of the sub-farm, said accounts being signed by William Dickenson, Surveyor.
	Commission by Treasurer Southampton and Lord Ashley to William Bowdler to be Receiver of the Royal Aid and the Additional Aid for co. Hereford.	Ibid, p. 147.
Dec. 16	A circular letter from Treasurer Southampton and Lord Ashley to the 12 Auditors and Receivers of the King's revenues in the counties concerned, touching the rents of leases and fee farm rents which since Lady Day, 1664, are made payable to the Queen Consort as part of her jointure, requesting them not to intermeddle any more therein, but as they may be employed therein by the said Queen or her Council; and further to pay moneys already received and belonging to her to John Hervey, Her Majesty's Treasurer and Receiver General.	Early Entry Book XIII p. 149.
Dec. 18 Oxford.	Money warrant for half a year to Sir Herbert Price on both his pensions, the King having taken off the suspension of his pension.	Ibid, p. 124.
Dec. 19	Same for 20l. to Capt. John Coghlan for service done to His Majesty.	Ibid, p. 132.
	Treasurer Southampton and Lord Ashley to Sir Robert Long, dated from Oxford. "Wee understand that severall persons are ready upon credit of the last additionall Act of 1,250,000l. to make loanes unto His Majesty of mony which they will pay into the Exchequer and others are ready to serve in wares into the office of the Navy and Ordnance: both which persons are by the Act of Parliament the one upon his tally of loane the other upon registering his certificate from the officers where he hath served in his wares immediately to receive orders for their repayment of the mony so lent with interest after the rate of six per cent. and of the money by the certificate acknowledged to be due for their wares: these are to authorize you by virtue of the sayd Act forthwith upon any such tally of loane or certificate from the office of Navy or Ordnance to draw up one or more orders of the date you register the tally or certificate ... And we require you your registers be kept very plaine and distinct that so all lenders or servers in of commodities as aforesayd may readily and justly see who are to be payed before them and precisely in what course or order they shalbe payd, which is the cheife ayme of the Act in order to the encouragement of such as lend or furnish wares as aforesayd. And because their quick dispatch likewise is a greate parte of their encouragement wee direct you some clerke be forthwith appointed to keepe the registry in your office at Westminster where all men may have free recourse thereunto: and some one Teller (which wee thinke fit shalbe Sir George Downing or his deputy) to receive all loanes there untill His Majesty thinke fit to remand the Exchequer to Westminster [from Nonsuch] againe, which we hope may safely be done speedily." Further with a view to the convenience of lenders and to inspire trust, direct that no distinction of payments be made between the three sorts. viz., loans, money due upon certificates of goods, and payments appointed by His Majesty, but each to come in course in the order of date as entered in the register, and that the said order of date as in the register shall be the final order or course of payment, whether a payee take out and perfect his order immediately or not.	Ibid, pp. 127–8.
[?] Oxford.	Warrant from Treasurer Southampton to William Horne, Woodward for co. Southampton, to sell the moores of trees in New Forest and other forests in co. Southampton.	Ibid, p. 128.
Dec. 20 Oxford.	Treasurer Southampton to the Attorney General for preparation of a grant of the place of Comptroller of Customs of Bristol to Thomas Jennings and Robert Woodward on the surrender of Samuel Dale: as by a royal warrant dated Oxford the 13th inst.	Early Entry Book XIII. p. 129.
Dec. 21	Report [to the King] from Treasurer Southampton and Lord Ashley on the petition of Sir Ernestus Byron for a grant of a proposed discovery.	Ibid.
	Prefixing:—Note of said petition and order of reference thereon dated Oxford, Oct. 12 last.
Dec. 21 Oxford.	Treasurer Southampton and Lord Ashley to the Commissioners of Excise forthwith to return to their office in St. Bartholomews lane, London, and there constantly attend the service; the removal of their office to Vauxhall ("Foxhall") by reason of the contagion having been found very prejudicial to the revenue and a loss to the Farmers "besides your meeting but twice a weeke whereas the affair requires a constant attendance"; and further to be careful to keep up the King's rights.	Ibid, p. 132.
Dec. 21 Oxford.	Same to Kettford Brayne and Thomas Creed to take special care to prevent the spoils which are daily committed in the underwood and cover of Dean Forest, co. Gloucester.	Ibid, pp. 132–3
	Treasurer Southampton to William Rolles, Steward of His Majesty's Court of St. Briavels in Dean Forest, and to John Wade or any other officer of said Forest, &c., to permit Sir John Wintour to peruse the records, notes, and papers in their hands touching the said forest and waste lands, the King having resolved at the desire of the House of Commons to raise nurseries there for the future growth of ship timber: the prosecution of the King's rights herein being committed to said Wintour.	Ibid, p. 133.
Dec. 21	Warrant from same to the Attorney or Solicitor General for letters patents in terms prefixed in full for the Treasurer, &c., to cause repayment of all moneys lent, with interest, and of all wares upon certificate as by the Act for the Additional Aid of 1,250.000l. "And because the present course herein prescribed differs from the former course of the Exchequer, part of the charge of the Navy and Ordnance being to be accompted for by the Treasurer of the Navy and Paymaster of the Ordnance and other parte of the charge of both those officers being paid immediately to those that furnished wares ... not by way of imprest or to be accompted for but by way of payment, to the end therefore that wee may duly understand the complete and entire charge of our Navy or Ordnance for each yeare" the Auditor of the Receipt shall in the prest certificates to be made out as above particularly certify by way of memorandum, though not by way of charge, the several sums that have been issued upon certificates as aforesaid.	Ibid, pp. 130–1.
Dec. 22	Money warrant for 20,000l. to Sir Steven Fox for raising new men and towards the advance of pay of the several garrisons: as by the Privy Seal of the 16th inst.	Ibid, p. 131.
	Same for pensions, viz.: Mr. Norton, 500l.; Lady Frazier, one year; Earl of Rochester, one year; Sir Herbert Price, half a year on both his pensions; Mrs. West and Mrs. Harden, half a year; Mrs. Booth, half a year; Sir William St. Ravy, one year; Mr. Bowman, 300l.; Mrs. Lichfield, 100l. more; Mrs. Lisle (Sir George Lisle's sister), 100l.; Mr. Berkeley and his family, 200l. as bounty; Mr. Levet, page of the backstairs to the late King, one year's pension.	Ibid p. 134.
Dec. 24	Treasurer Southampton [to the Excise Commissioners] dated from Oxford, to seal the lease of the farm of the Excise of co. Lincoln, although "wee have not time or opportunity to examine [the farmers' proffered security]; the persons they offer are unknown to us and my Lord Ashley being gone out of towne to returne within a fortnight."	Early Entry Book XIII. p. 116.
	Royal warrant to Treasurer Southampton to charge a further 100,000l. for the Ordnance on the Additional Aid; half on the first year and half on the second.	Ibid, p. 137.
	Treasurer Southampton to Sir Henry Worsley desiring him forthwith to furnish the 1,000l. which he had promised to advance on the credit of the Additional Aid; His Majesty designing the said 1,000l. to the use of the garrison of Portsmouth. "If you please to pay the same to the Governor .. I doe promise you upon notice thereof forthwith to enter your loane in the Exchequer ... Your course will be to be repayed within the first year."	Ibid, p. 135.
Dec. 27	Same to Sir Francis Cobb, sheriff of co. York, dated Oxford, in reply to said Cobb's letter proposing the acceptance of provisions in place of money payments [for the discharge of assessments to the Additional Aid]. It might be attended with a very ill consequence. I pray you struggle with difficulties, as, I am sure, we all doe.	Ibid.
	Money warrant, dormant ("this general and leidger warrant"), for the repayment seriatim, with formalities as follows, of moneys lent on the Additional Aid, with interest thereon, on certificates in accordance with the Act for said Additional Aid. "For the better ease and despatch of all persons that shall make any loanes or serve in commodityes there [shall] be one generall order given for striking their tallyes of loane and [for] drawing their orders for such payment as in either kind shall be due unto them without any other warrant than their tally of loane or certificate from the officers of the Navy or Ordnance as by the said Act is directed."	Ibid, p. 136.
	Money warrant for the following sums to Sir George Carteret: viz., (1) for 182,500l. on the Privy Seal of the 19th inst. for the wages, wear and tear of 5,000 men for one year to make 25,000 men into 30,000 men for the last year "for whome His Majesty ordered that provision alsoe should be made the 11th of November 1664 according to an estimate thereof by ... the Duke of York and the principal officers of the Navy signed and allowed"; (2) for 37,959l. 17s. 8d. on a second Privy Seal of the 19th inst. for the charge of the Navy in harbour for one year from 1664 June 24 according to the customary rates and allowances granted by His Majesty in 1660 to the principal officers and Commissioners of the Navy according to an estimate thereof also signed and allowed; (3) for 800l. by a third privy Seal of the 19th inst. to be employed for secret service without accompt.	Ibid, pp. 136–7.
	Treasurer Southampton to the Auditor of the Receipt forwarding four privy Seals of the 25th inst. for the following sums to Sir George Carteret, viz. (1) for 1,277,500l. for wages, wear and tear of 35,000 men to be employed at sea for one year according to an estimate signed and allowed by His Royal Highness [the Duke of York, Lord High Admiral] and the principal officers of the Navy; (2) for 10,000l. for the widows and orphans of commanders and seamen slain; (3) for 40,000l. for sick and wounded; (4) for 60,000l. to be by him remittedinto Flanders to the Bishop of Munster by bills of exchange. For payments on these several heads orders are to be drawn on the 280,000l. remaining unassigned of the 430,000l. ordered as in the royal warrant of the 20th ult.	Ibid, pp. 137–8.
Dec. 27	Treasurer Southampton to Sir George Carteret concerning all the above seven privy Seals, and proposing the charging of the same as above. How to fix further payments pray settle with the officers of the Exchequer before you come from thence, and give such assignations upon the orders of the victualler [of the Navy] as may make them useful by being transferable one from another. We have need of all complying thoughts one towards another that this great worke may be carryed on. And therefore I have written to the officers to be very carefull as to observe the forms of the Act so chiefly to give despatches to all. I send you herewith two letters, one from York signed by the sheriff and others offering provisions of beef, pork, butter, oatmeal, cheese, wheat and barley; I cannot judge how convenient it may be to the Victualler. Another from Coventry which offers us broad cloth, which I think we have little need of. I have written back and given no encouragement to either, because I had much rather to keep them unto money payments than provisions, which may be cheap where they are offered, and yet will be dear to His Majesty before brought where they are used. God give you courage and good success in your getting money. I need not stir up you who so well know the concern, but you shall be sure of a fellow labourer in me.	Early Entry Book XIII. pp. 138–9.
	Same to the Earl of Drogheda, dated from Oxford, concerning the Earl of Arran's discontent at Treasurer Southampton's opposition to the proposition about the aulnage in Ireland. I was only actuated by a consideration of the state of the cloth trade in England, we having such a deadness in all trade here.	Ibid, p. 139.
Dec.—	Warrant from Treasurer Southampton to the Surveyor and Woodward of the forest of Alice Holt and Woolmer, co. Southampton, to pay to William Legg, Lieutenant of said forest, the proceeds of the sale of lops and tops, without accompt, for repairs there: as by the Privy Seal of June 27 last.	Ibid, p. 140.