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Nature and Substance of the Entry. |
Reference. |
| Nov. 16. |
William Lowndes to Bartholomew Burton to pay 133l. 17s. 4¾d. to John Bellamy for 2 per cent. reward on 7,500l. lent by him 1694, Dec. 22, on credit of the Hereditary and Temporary Excise. |
Disposition Book XIII, p. 64. |
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180l. 15s. 1d. to Thomas Browne for same on 10,000l. similarly lent by him 1694, Dec. 8. |
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Same to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue 11,600l. to the Earl of Ranelagh on the unsatisfied order in his name as Paymaster of the Forces: to be issued out of loans to be made by said Earl on credit of the Exchequer in general: and to be applied as follows, viz.: |
l.
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Ibid, p. 67 |
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to be remitted to Mr. Hill in Flanders in part of 15,000l., being the value of 150,000 guelders by him borrowed to satisfy the advance for forage |
3,000 |
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for providing 320 horses for the Marquis de Mirmont's Regiment, to wit, 80 horses to make up the four present Troops to 60 in each and 240 for the four new Troops at 12l. a horse and accoutrements |
3,840 |
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for providing 480 horses for remounting Col. Lloyd's Regiment of Dragoons taken at Dixmude |
3,760 |
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in part of the value of 11,725 Rex Dollars for recruiting 469 men wanting in Prince Christian's Battalion of Foot “taken in Dixmude”: at 25 Rix Dollars per man |
1,000 |
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£11,600 |
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Same to same to issue 30,400l. to said Earl on the like order: to be issued out of the like loans: and to be applied to the payment of subsistence to the Forces in England for four weeks, Oct. 28 last to Nov. 25 inst. |
Ibid.
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Same to the Earl of Ranelagh to apply as above the said sums of 11,600l. and 30,400l. The Treasury Lords desire you will immediately receive the sum of 20,000l. from Mr. Knight and Mr. Burton “upon the said tallies” [of loan] and to apply 11,600l. thereof as above and the remaining 8,400l. as in part of the said 30,400l.
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Ibid.
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Same to the Customs Commissioners. My Lords have directed a warrant to be prepared for an allowance to be made “by law” to Mr. Arthur Baily upon payment of his impost duty on tobacco as in your memorial of the 11th inst. |
Out Letters (General) XV, p. 31. |
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Same to the Auditor of the Receipt, enclosing a letter [missing] from the Navy Commissioners touching monthly accounts of moneys issued to the Treasurer of the Navy out of the Exchequer. You are to transmit such certificates monthly to the Navy Board. |
Ibid.
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Same to the Principal Officers of the Ordnance. On your letter of the 7th inst. the Treasury Lords appointed Tuesday week, the 26th inst., for the hearing of the matter in dispute about the King's
moiety of the guns in Sir William Pritohard's custody, which were saved out of the London's wreck. |
Ibid.
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As to your desire touching the importing of a certain quantity of sulpher for his Majesty's service, Customs free, my Lords are of opinion the duty thereon cannot legally be remitted, as the revenue arising by the Customs is appropriated. |
| Nov. 16. |
William Lowndes to the Earl of Ranelagh to certify my Lords with all speed what sums you have paid here to the Bank of England for the subsistence of the Forces in Flanders since 1695, May 20, specifying the funds upon which the tallies for the said subsistence were levied, the dates, and how and at what times the payments thereupon were answered by the said Bank to Mr. Hill in Flanders. |
Out Letters (General) XV, p. 32. |
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Treasury reference to the Excise Commissioners of the petition of Gertrude Sherbourn, praying that the sum of 505l. which her husband, Essex Sherbourn, late a collector of Excise, returned to be paid into the Excise Office by one Richard Branton, may be allowed on his accounts, the said Branton being run away and no part thereof to be recovered. |
Reference Book VII, p. 117. |
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Same to the Treasury [sic for Salt] Commissioners of the petition of the saltmakers of Droitwich, shewing that the Act of Parliament for granting the duties on salt “takes place” from 1694, March 25; that at that time they had divers quantities of salt in their hands made before that time, for which the officers demand a duty because not sold or delivered; that petitioners gave bond to satisfy same within six months on condition the bonds be delivered up if the duty was adjudged to be not due; and that now they are advised that the Act did not intend to charge any salt made before the said date: therefore praying delivery of their bonds. |
Ibid.
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Same to the Agents for Taxes of the petition of Hugh Horton, praying an allowance of 180l. for his extraordinary charges as Receiver General of the second 4s. Aid and second Quarterly Poll for co. Bucks. |
Ibid, p. 118. |
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The like of Thomas Truman's petition for allowance of 187l. for like expenses as same of same for cos. Notts and Leicester. |
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The like of the petition of William Love, same of same for co. Hants, for the transfer of 46l. 12s. 7d. overpaid by him of the second 4s. Aid, to his account of the third 4s. Aid. |
| Nov. 18. |
Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners to employ William Martin (an extraordinary tidesman, Dartmouth port) as a tidesman in fee there loco Edwd. Corbin, lately deceased. |
Out Letters (Customs) XIII, pp. 218, 219. |
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John Skinner as tidesman at Falmouth loco Thomas Brewsie, who stands as boatman on the establishment of Plymouth, and was heretofore removed to Falmouth loco Jno. Cokram, one of the tidesmen there, who has hitherto supplied his place at Plymouth: the said Brewsie being lately dead. |
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The said Cokram to be established at Plymouth [in said Brewsie's said place there]. |
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Jno. Tillotson as additional assistant or clerk to the Surveyor of the Warehouse, London port, loco John Davis, who is preferred to be assistant to the said Surveyor. |
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John Davies (additional assistant or clerk to said Surveyor) to be assistant as above loco Benjamin Clarke, who is preferred to be Surveyor. |
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Edward Gregory as officer to inspect the management of the new duty upon coal and culme in the Country, with 20s. a day during such employment for the whole charge of his service: his employment being an itinerant one “and generally in motion,” and may require a servant to his assistance. |
| Nov. 18. |
Treasury reference to the Auditor for Wales of the petition of the four Messengers of the Receipt of the Exchequer, shewing that they dispersed Proclamations into the several counties of England and Wales and hope they are the proper officers for doing tha same “and pray such allowance as was usually made the two Pursuivants out of the 800l. per an. allowed [to] the Lord President [of the Council of Wales] for extraordinary expenses.” |
Reference Book VII, p. 117. |
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Same to Samuell Travers [Surveyor General of Crown Lands] of the petition of Seymour Tredenham, esq., praying an allowance of 80l. for the repair of the [Cornwall] Duchy prison at Lostwithiel. |
Ibid, p. 118. |
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Same to the Customs Commissioners of the petition of Simon Berange, merchant, for delivery of a seizure of a parcel of Allamodes sent him from Holland, which arrived before advice thereof “and consequently before he could take out a licence for importing of them.” |
Ibid.
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Same to same of the petition of David Delglass, shewing that he had a parcel of silk of the produce of Italy sent him overland from Leghorn to Amsterdam according to certificates and which he ordered to be shipped thence to London, but there seized on pretence of their being not of the growth of Italy, but which he can prove: therefore praying a non pros to the information. |
Ibid.
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| Nov. 19. |
Treasury warrant dormant to the Receiver General of the Duchy of Cornwall and to the Auditor of same for payment of the salary of 80l. per an. to John Penneck as one of the four Supervisors of Tin Blowing Houses in cos. Cornwall and Devon. |
Money Book XIII, p. 38. |
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William Lowndes to the Customs Commissioners to report on the enclosed extract [missing] of the Journal of the Council and Assembly of Maryland touching the passing of a law in that Province for prohibiting the exportation of bulk tobacco thence. |
Out Letters (General) XV, p. 32. |
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Treasury warrant to same to employ Benja. Clarke (assistant to John Lodge, Surveyor of the Warehouse in London port, lately deceased) as Surveyor of the said Warehouse. |
Out Letters (Customs) XIII, pp. 217, 218. |
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John Westcomb as a landwaiter, London port, loco John Ditchfeild, deceased. |
| Nov. 19. |
Treasury letters patent constituting John Penneck as a Supervisor of Tin Blowing Houses, ut infra, as below. |
Warrants not Relating to Money XV, p. 50. |
| Nov. 20. |
Royal warrant, dated Kensington, to the Clerk of the Signet for a privy seal for a salary of 80l. per an. to John Penneck as one of the four Supervisors of the Tin Blowing Houses in Cornwall and Devon loco Robert [Cock], gent., viz. one blowing house each in the parishes of St. Allen, St. Agnes, Illogan, Redruth, Gwennap, Penryn, and one other called Trecoas, lately built near Penryn. |
King's Warrant Book XVIII, p. 289. |
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Same to same for a same for 50,000l. to Edward Nicholas, esq., as imprest for salaries, wages or other allowances to the servants of the late Queen and for payment of debts to tradesmen and others for goods etc. for the said Queen and towards payment of such allowances as the King has established or shall establish for the said servants and for other necessary contingents relating to such establishment. |
Ibid, p. 289. |
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Same to the Treasury Lords to direct payment of 627l. 10s. 7½d. for 1695, Sept. 29 quarter, for the Lottery Pensioners, detailed, ut supra, p. 1226. (Money warrant dated Dec. 6 hereon.) (Money order dated Dec. 23 hereon.) |
Ibid, p. 290. Order Book IV, p. 247. |
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Royal sign manual for 10,000l. to William Lowndes for secret service, without account. (Money warrant dated Dec. 6 hereon.) (Money order dated Dec. 9 hereon.) |
King's Warrant Book XVIII, p. 290. Order Book IV, p. 242. |
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William Lowndes to the Navy Commissioners. The Victualling Commissioners have returned [forwarded by bills of exchange] to Cadiz, Alicant and Scanderoon for the service of the Victualling in those parts several sums of money amounting to 131,089l. 14s. 11½d., which they pray to be allowed after the rate of 2½ per cent., the Treasury Lords having agreed that they should have that allowance for the first 50,000l. thereof. My Lords conceive that 1½ per cent, is sufficient for the residue. You are therefore to allow the Victuallers in their accounts 1,250l. for the first 50,000l. remitted by them, being at the rate of 2½ per cent., and 1,216l. 6s. 3d. for the last 81,089l. 14s. 11½d., being at the rate of 1½ per cent., making 2,466l. 6s. 3d. in all. But as the Victualling Commissioners received 1,089l. 0s. 9d. for interest incurred on the orders assigned to them for the said first 50,000l. before the bills drawn upon them were payable you are duly to charge them with the said amount as to his Majesty's use. |
Disposition Book XIII, p. 68. |
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Same to Mr. Fox to report on the enclosed petition [missing] of Thomas Jones, principal creditor and administrator of Major Jenkin Morgan, deceased, praying that said Major's arrears may be paid to petitioner and that the stop on same (for money pretended to be due to one Mr. Sizer from the said Major) may be taken off. |
Out Letters (General) XV, p. 32. |
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Same to the Customs Commissioners to send to the residence in St. James's Street of Monsieur Hoffman,
the Emperor's Resident, a case of wine lately arrived with the convoy from Holland on board the William and Mary and to deliver same on payment of Customs. |
Ibid.
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| Nov. 20. |
William Lowndes to the Customs Commissioners to permit goods as follows to be shipped on the Queen Mary, Mathew de Urier (Unier) master, for Rotterdam for the use of his Highness the Prince Lewis of Baden: the Treasury Lords having directed Mr. John Knight [the Customs Cashier] to pay the duties, if any, thereon. |
Out Letters (General) XV, p. 33. |
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Appending: list of said goods etc. (including 60 braces of hounds, a silver watch, 12 doz. pack of “carts”). |
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Same to said Mr. Knight to pay Customs on said goods as above. |
Ibid.
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Treasury subscription for the execution of a warrant dated Oct. 17 last from the Earl of Dorset, Lord Chamberlain, to Sir Francis Lawley, Master of the Jewel House, for the delivery to James Allen of a gilt mace for his Majesty's service in the kingdom of Ireland for a Serjeant at Arms there; to be disposed as Lord Capel, Lord Deputy of Ireland, shall direct. |
Warrants not Relating to Money XV, p. 52. |
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Royal constitution under the King's sign manual of Cha. Thomas to be Receiver of Crown Revenues (rents, revenues, prizes, fines, escheats, forfeitures and other profits and duties whatsoever arising payable to the Crown) in the Colony of Barbados and all arrears thereof excepting only such duties and impositions for the receipt whereof the King has otherwise provided: all loco Sir Edwin Stede, kt., deceased. |
Ibid, p. 50. King's Warrant Book XVIII, p. 291. |
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Royal warrant to the Lord Deputy, Ireland, to take in the King's behalf a power and authority by deed from James, Duke of Ormonde, to empower the King's officers to collect the duty of Prizage and Butlerage in Ireland for the term of seven years on payment of 1,500l. per an. to said Duke, to be payable out of all the revenue of Ireland: all by reason that no proceedings have yet been had upon the royal letter of April 25 last directing the making of such an arrangement; it being the King's pleasure that same should be put in execution. |
Out Letters (Ireland) VII, pp. 55–6. |
| Nov. 21. |
Money warrant for 20l. to Dr. Hoddy for the use of Abraham Slade, clerk, who is going chaplain to the Leeward Islands and is for the charges of his transportation thither. (Money order dated Dec. 23 hereon.) |
Money Book XIII, p. 39. Order Book IV, p. 246. |
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Treasury warrant to the Receipt to issue 417l. 10s. 0d. on the unsatisfied order in the name of Thomas Lloyd as Paymaster of the Works: to be by tallies on the Post Office revenue: and to be paid to William Roberts, gent., Paymaster for the Works of Windsor Castle, in part of 835l. to defray the present necessary works and repairs there as by an estimate approved by Sir Christopher Wren. |
Money Book XIII, p. 39. |
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Money warrant dormant for the fee or salary of
1,000l. per an. to Sir Edward Ward, constituted by the great seal of June 8 last to be Chief Baron of the Exchequer Court. |
Ibid.
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The like to Sir Thomas Rokeby, constituted 25 Oct. last to be a Justice of the King's Bench. |
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The like to Sir Littleton Powys, constituted by patent of 28 Oct. last to be a Baron of the Exchequer Court. |
| Nov. 21. |
Money warrant for 2,500l. to Henry, Seigneur D'Auverquere, Master of the Horse to the King, as imprest for the year commencing 1695, Sept. 29, for providing horses and geldings for his Majesty's service. (Money order dated Nov. 25 hereon.) |
Money Book XIII, p. 40. Order Book IV, p. 244. |
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Same for 5,876l. 7s. 6d. to same, without account: for the year Jan. 1 last to Jan. 1 next for uses and services relating to the King's Stables. (Money order dated Nov. 25 hereon.) |
Money Book XIII, p. 40. Order Book IV, p. 244. |
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Same for 118l. 12s. 6d. to Andrew Lawrence for 3¼ years from 1685, June 24, on his fee of 2s. a day as Surveyor General of his Majesty's ways, gates and bridges. |
Money Book XIII, p. 40. |
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Same for 1,400l. to the Agents for Taxes for an overpayment made by Gilbert Spencer, Receiver General for co. Kent, on his account of the second 4s. Aid: same to be immediately repaid into the Receipt on his account of the third 4s. Aid. (Money order dated Nov. 25 hereon.) |
Money Book XIII, p. 40. Order Book IV, p. 244. |
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William Lowndes to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue 6,000l. to Edward Russell on the unsatisfied order in his name for the service of the Navy: to be issued out of loans in the Exchequer on the third 4s. Aid: to be placed to the head of wages and paid over to the Treasurer for Sick and Wounded and Exchange of Prisoners on account for that service. |
Disposition Book XIII, p. 68. |
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Same to same to issue 1,868l. 16s. 8d. to the Earl of Ranelagh on the unsatisfied order in his name for the service of the Forces: to be issued out of loans to be made by said Earl on credit of the Exchequer in general: and to be applied as follows, viz.: |
l.
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s.
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d.
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Ibid, p. 69. |
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for a third of 2,881l. for recruiting the loss of the English Foot before Namur at 3l. for each man killed and 20s. for each wounded man, besides the English Guards and the Regiment of Ingoldsby |
960 |
6 |
8 |
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for a third of 1,488l. 10s. 0d. for recruits for the Dutch, Danish and Hanover Foot for their loss at Namur |
496 |
3 |
4 |
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for a third of 1,237l. for recruits for the Dutch, Danish and Hanover Horses for their loss at Namur and Boness |
412 |
6 |
8 |
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Also to issue 547 10s. 0d. to same out of loans in the Exchequer on the Duties on Coal and Glass; which sum his lordship is to pay over to Brigadier Stewart on account of his pay to 11th Jan., 1694–5, as Brigadier. |
| Nov. 21. |
William Lowndes to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue (out of the Duties on Low Wines) 117l. 10s. 0d. to John Corkish and Robert Daniel on their bills for salary and riding charges as messengers attending the Chancellor of the Exchequer. |
Disposition Book XIII, p. 70. |
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Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners to pass the debentures for 13 hogsheads of tobacco entered and shipped by James Ball of London, merchant, before June 25 last on the Prince Casimere for Rotterdam, being two days “within” the year allowed by law for drawing back the moiety of the subsidy, additional duty and new impost: which ship was taken into the King's service afterwards, by means whereof the said tobacco was taken out and put on board the Noah's Ark, bound for Rotterdam, the cockett being endorsed by one of the King's searchers June 28, which happened to be the day after the year was elapsed, for which reason the officers make a difficulty in passing the said debenture. |
Out Letters (Customs) XIII, p. 220. |
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Same to same to employ Edward Willy as Comptroller at Barbados of the Four and a Half per cent. Duty and also of the [Plantation] Duty imposed by 25 Car. II [c. 7]: all loco John Stede, deceased. |
Ibid, pp. 221, 222. |
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Samuell Tayler as tidesman at Exeter loco Titus Priest, who has quitted that employment. |
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John Mead (a watchman, London port) as a weighing porter Ibid. loco George Davies, who (by reason of infirmity contracted in the service) is to be a watchman loco said Mead. |
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Same to same to permit Arthur Bayly, a considerable Virginia trader, to take up his impost bonds with 6 per cent, discount on some tobacco, for which he gave bond in Sept. last, but was unable (without great loss) to procure silver by the day limited to discharge his bonds, but is now in a position to clear them; thus giving him the benefit of the King's indulgence to the Virginia merchants concerning discount on impost bonds discharged in ready money before Sept. 29 last in consideration of the difficulties that were upon the traders in raising silver money to pay the said duties. |
Ibid, p. 223. |
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Treasury reference to the Agents for Taxes of the petition of John Newsham for allowance of 177l. for his extraordinary charges as Receiver General for co. Warwick of the second 4s. Aid and second Quarterly Poll. |
Reference Book VII, p. 119. |
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Same to the Customs Commissioners of the petition of John Long, master of the ship Justice, shewing that he took in a freight at Hamburg for London, among which were 12 bales of paper which for aught appearing to him was the manufacture of that country, but is seized as being French and condemned as such, and his ship prosecuted in the Exchequer. |
Ibid.
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Same to Samuell Traverse, Surveyor General of Crown Lands, of the petition of William Sydenham and William Lawrence, proposing to farm his Majesty's Duties of the Stannaries or tin mines in Cornwall and Devon at 4,000l. per an. for a
lease of 14 years freed and discharged from all pensions, salaries and other charges at any time heretofore settled or allowed of [thereout], with power to dispose of all places or employments in the Stannaries that are only held during pleasure. |
Ibid.
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| Nov. 21. |
Treasury warrant subscription for the execution of a warrant, dated Oct. 23 last, from the Earl of Dorset, Lord Chamberlain, to Sir Francis Lawley, Master of the Jewel House, to call in all his Majesty's maces in service and to new gild the same. |
Warrants not Relating to Money XV, p. 52. |
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Entry of the Treasury Lords' subscription of the docquet of a lease to George Long of a coal mine in Perthill in the manor of Stralton super Fosse, part of the Duchy of Cornwall: for 31 years at 20s. per an., ut supra, p. 1209. |
Ibid.
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The like of an in custodiam lease under the Exchequer seal to John Reynolds of divers lands and tenements in co. Norfolk, part of the lands of Francis Cremer outlaw: at a rent of 46s. 8d. and fine of 4l. 13s. 4d.
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Ibid.
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The like of a same to William Iliffe of several lands and tenements in co. Leicester, part of the lands of William Bradgate, esq., outlaw: at a rent of 9s. 8½d. and fine of 19s. 5d.
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Ibid.
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| Nov. 21. |
Treasury warrant to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands for a particular of part of the Old Spring Garden on the backside of Wallingford House to be conveyed to trustees to be annexed for ever to the Office of Lord High Admiral: with a clause to prohibit any building thereon without licence from the Crown. |
Ibid, pp. 53–5. |
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Prefixing: report, dated Oct. 10 last, from S. Travers, Surveyor General of Crown Lands, on the [Admiralty Lords'] memorial desiring a lease of said ground. I append a plan [missing] of all the land called the Old Spring Garden. I find that divers parts thereof (the inheritance of the whole being undoubtedly in the Crown) had been passed by leases since 1660 to the Earl of Arlington, Sir Edward Nicholas, Sir William Morice and Sir Charles Cotterell, none of which leases ever passed the [Crown Lands] Surveyor's Office. From perusals of the copies thereof it appears that by lease dated 1661, May 30, Charles II. granted to Secretary Sir William Morice (for 80 years terminable on the lives of John and William Morice) the messuage or mansion house with new buildings thereto lately added in the Old Spring Garden and the piece of land adjoining thereto. John and Nicholas Morice are both living and the lease has long since been assigned to Sir Robert Southwell, who by virtue thereof claims the waste ground behind Wallingford House, alleging it to be the same acre so granted in Morice's lease,” though I do not find that the same was ever enjoyed in severalty with the said mansion house, but always lay open until very lately that some part of it has been taken in for gardens to the Admiralty Office. And I find that the whole ground which Sir Robert Southwell now enjoys, together with the common stable yard in the north part thereof, and part also of
that held by Sir John Nicholas (containing 8½ perches, which I take to be excluded by the dimensions in Secretary Nicholas's lease) do make very near an acre of land; whether that or the ground now desired, being about 15 perches more than an acre, is what was passed to Secretary Maurice for the said two lives is left to” the Treasury Lords' consideration.” |
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In 1675 Sir Robert Southwell obtained a, new lease for 99 years of the said mansion house and gardens, but without mentioning therein the said acre of land,” which seems to me to have been done for securing other persons in the common use of the said stable yard during the continuance of their respective leases.” |
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What is included in the draft is desired by the Admiralty Lords, whereof a small part at the south-east corner is taken out of the Park; and they are well content to allow necessary ways to the houses of Sir Robert Southwell and Sir John Nicholas, for which I think the 14 foot passage on the plan with liberty to turn a, coach at the north-west corner may be sufficient. |
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This ground has been three or four times petitioned for to build on since the late happy Revolution and valued on that account at 260l. per an. But it was not thought fit to grant same. |
| Nov. 21. |
Treasury warrant to the Excise Commissioners to constitute John Betteley as one of the clerks in the Office of the Comptroller of Excise (where he has been employed for three months past during the indisposition of Mr. Thomas Fitzharris) as in place of said Fitzharris at the salary of 80l. per an.; Betteley being a good clerk and well qualified for that business, as from Sept. 29 last. |
Warrants not Relating to Money XV, p. 55. |
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The Treasury Lords to the Lord Deputy, Ireland, to report on the enclosed petition [missing] of James Dunkin, praying that a sum of 684l. by him answered in corn and grain to the late King James (as an arrear due from him as Farmer of Hearthmoney for cos. Down and Antrim in 1687) may be allowed on his account and his bond for the security [of his accounts as such Farmer] be discharged. |
Out Letters (Ireland) VII, p. 56. |
| Nov. 22. |
William Lowndes to the Earl of Ranelagh to give directions to Mr. Hill, said Earl's Deputy in Flanders, forthwith to proceed in stating the accounts of Messrs. Machado and Pereira and all other the several contractors for forage, bread and bread waggons for the service of the Army in Flanders to Nov. 1 inst., as well upon their contracts before that time determined as for those then in being. Direct him to be very careful in examining the vouchers to the said accounts, to wit, the warrants by which the said forage, bread etc. was from time to time delivered out and the receipts given upon such deliveries. |
Out Letters (General) XV, p. 34. |
| Nov. 23. |
Same to Mr. Povey. I have read to my Lords yours of the 30th ult., with the memorial of Sir Thomas Lawrence, Secretary of Maryland, praying that the penny per lb. on the side trade of Pennsylvania, together with the arrears, may be granted for
the maintenance of one or more Protestant divines to be sent thither. My Lords are of opinion that whatever encouragement the King shall think fit to give in this matter it will better be done by granting a certain [fixed or ascertained] salary out of the revenue than to grant the revenue itself. Please represent this to the Committee for Trade and Plantations. |
Ibid, p. 34. |
| Nov. 23. |
William Lowndes to the Customs Commissioners to report on the enclosed draft of an Act to prevent ingrossing, forestalling and exporting of provisions, arms and ammunitions sent to Jamaica. |
Out Letters (General) XV, p. 34. |
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Treasury fiat for royal letters patent to constitute John Latton, esq., as King's searcher in Plymouth port loco William Kemp, deceased. |
Out Letter (Customs) XIII, p. 222. |
| Nov. 25. |
Additional Establishment and Regulation of pay under the King's sign manual for the officers of the Company of Cadets belonging to the Regiment of Dutch Foot Guards: to make same equal to the pay of the Captains and Lieutenants of that Regiment: to date from April 1 last (4s. a day additional to the Captain; 1s. 2d. to the First Lieutenant; 1s. 8d. to the Second Lieutenant: total additional establishment, 124l. 14s. 2d. per an.). |
King's Warrant Book XVIII, p. 286. |
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Money warrant for 600l. to Aaron Smith [Treasury Solicitor] as imprest for Crown law charges. (Money order dated Nov. 25 hereon.) |
Money Book XIII, p. 41. Order Book IV, p. 241. |
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William Lowndes to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue 300l. to said Aaron Smith out of loans on the Letter Office now remaining in the Exchequer; on such warrant and order as are or shall be signed for that purpose. |
Disposition Book XIII, p. 70. |
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Same to same to issue 150l. to Paul Foley, esq., for Sept. 11 to Oct. 11 on his allowance of 5l. a day as Speaker of the House of Commons: to be issued out of loans as above by way of advance. The necessary warrants for the regular issue shall be sent as soon as they can be passed. |
Ibid, p. 69. |
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Same to same to similarly advance (out of like loans) 1,000l. to said Foley, “which the King is pleased to allow him for his equipage.” |
Ibid.
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| Nov. 26. |
Same to Mr. Cranfeild. I have read to my Lords your petition setting forth that the Island of Barbados is now very sickly and such a distemper reigning there that as soon as it seizes a man if he be not carried off the island [it] proves mortal; and praying leave to appoint some one to officiate in your absence if absolutely necessary at any time for your health to go off the island. |
Out Letters (General) XV, p. 35. Out Letters (Plantations Auditor) I, p. 437. |
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My Lords grant your request. You are further to transmit them forthwith an account of all the compositions that have been made upon bonds in the Naval Office in Barbados. |
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Report to the King from the Treasury Lords on the petition of Thomas Savery, praying letters patent for the sole benefit of a new invention by him found out of a small work to grind and polish looking
glass and coach glass plates etc.: same being referred to the Treasury Lords by the Lords Justices of England to see if they had any objection in relation to the late Act granting Duties on Glass etc. |
Warrants not Relating to Money XV, p. 51. |
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We have considered the petition and have no objection (in regard to the said Act) to the granting of same. |
| Nov. 27. |
Royal sign manual for 150l. to Paul Foley for his allowance as Speaker of the House of Commons as above, p. 1245. (Money warrant dated Dec. 10 hereon.) (Money order dated Dec. 14 hereon.) |
King's Warrant Book XVIII, p. 291. Money Book XIII, p. 44. Order Book IV, p. 243. |
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Same for 1,000l. to same for and towards providing his equipage as Speaker of the said House of Commons, “being what hath usually been allowed to former Speakers upon that occasion.” (Money warrant and order ut supra.) |
King's Warrant Book XVIII, p. 291. Money Book XIII, p. 44. Order Book IV, p. 243. |
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William Lowndes to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue 722l. 15s. 6d. to me [Lowndes] to complete the orders in my name for 10,000l. for secret service: to be issued out of the Duties on Low Wines. |
Disposition Book XIII, p. 70. |
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In the margin. issued out of loans on the Excise. |
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Same to the Customs Commissioners to enquire into the following information (sent to my Lords by Secretary Trumbull) concerning goods brought from France and landed at Bulverhithe in Sussex. |
Out Letters (General) XV, pp. 35–37. |
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Appending: affidavit by Thomas Carman of Fairlight, husbandman, and Thomas Harwood of Gesting [Guestling], carpenter, that on Nov. 15 inst. coming from Lewes they saw a shallop which they supposed to be French at anchor near Bulverhithe and watched her, and about dusk saw a boat come from her and five men from Bulverhithe House met it, one being John Yong, who is said to be a great smuggler, and one Roberts, who is master of Bulverhithe House, and Thomas Pope of Backsell [Bexhill], a Customs officer, and they all went to Bulverhithe House to drink at the invitation of said Pope: thereafter the Frenchmen landed the goods (16 packs and a pack of hats) out of the boat under the direction of said Pope, who was afterwards joined by Mr. Hall, the head Customs officer, who lives at Hastings, and who also assisted in landing the remainder. In the morning the goods were carried to Hastings to Mr. Hall's house. At the time of the said landing the Frenchmen delivered to Pope a large pacquet of letters. |
| Nov. 28. |
Same to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue to Charles Bertie 3,387l. 16s. 10½d. on the unsatisfied order in his name as Treasurer and Paymaster of the Ordnance: to be issued out of loans to be made by said Bertie on credit of the Duties on Coals, Glass etc.: and to be as in part of 6,775l. 13s. 9d. demanded by the Board of Ordnance, to wit 557l. for the purchase money of a certain piece of ground beyond Greenwich whereon to build a powder house; and 6,218l. 13s. 9d. for the charge of building the same with a wharf and other necessaries upon the said ground. A third part of said charge is to be placed to the head of land service and two-thirds to the head of sea service of the Office of Ordnance. |
Disposition Book XIII, pp. 70–71. |
| Nov. 28. |
William Lowndes to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue 6,739l. 10s. 0d. to the Earl of Ranelagh on the unsatisfied order in his name for the service of the Forces: to be issued out of loans to be made by said Earl on credit of the Exchequer in general: and to be applied as follows, viz.: |
l.
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s.
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d.
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Disposition Book XIII, p. 71. |
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to the account of Contingencies, to wit, to answer a bill drawn by Mr. Robinson, his Majesty's Agent in Sweden, for special service relating to the war |
800 |
0 |
0 |
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for the advance upon the contract for the forage “and makes 6,000l. issued in part of 15,000l., being the value of 150,000 guilders borrowed for that service by Mr. Hill in Flanders” |
3,000 |
0 |
0 |
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for recruits for Prince Christian's Battalion of Foot taken at Dixmude” and makes 2,000l. issued in part of 3,048l. 10s. 0d., being the value of 11,725 Rix Dollars demanded for that service at 25 Rix Dollars per man” |
1,000 |
0 |
0 |
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for recruits for the Dutch, Danish and Hanover Foot for their loss at Namur” and makes 992l. 6s. 8d. issued in part of 1,488l. 10s. 0d. for that service” |
496 |
3 |
4 |
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for recruits for the Dutch, Danish and Hanover Horse for their loss at Namur and Boness “and makes 824l. 13s. 4d. issued in part of 1,237l. for that service” |
412 |
6 |
8 |
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for providing the recruit horses for Lord Galway's Regiment for the like number killed and taken by the enemy the last campaign |
105 |
0 |
0 |
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for Lord Galway on account of his pay as Lieut. Gen. of the Forces in Savoy to Sept. 30 last |
926 |
0 |
0 |
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£6,739 |
10 |
0 |
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Same to the Commissioners for the Duties on glass to report on the enclosed letter [missing] from Oliver Herring concerning two glassmen who desire to pay a certain yearly sum for their share of the new Duty on Glass. |
Out Letters (General) XV, p. 37. |
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Same to the Customs Commissioners to certify the nature and duty-value of the goods in (a) infra.
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Ibid.
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Appending: petition to the King from William Williams, shewing that the Customs officer at Rye has lately seized several pacquets of goods just come from France as hats, gloves, alamodes etc., and that same are forfeit and the King is entitled to two thirds thereof: therefore praying a grant [remission] of the King's said share. |
| Nov. 30. |
Same to Mr. Henning to make up a state of the whole debt to the Gardens at Michaelmas, 1695. |
Ibid, p. 38. |
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The like letter to the Commissioners for Transports for the debt due to the transports. |
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The like to the Commissioners for Sick and Wounded for the debt due in their Office. |
| Nov. 30. |
William Lowndes to Mr. Jollivet to make up a state of the whole debt due to the Stables at Michaelmas, 1695, distinguishing the debt incurred since Christmas, 1688, from that (if any) grown due before that date. |
Out Letters (General) XV, p. 38. |
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The like letter to the Paymaster of the Works for the debt due in his Office. |
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The like to the Master of the Robes. |
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The like to the Earl of Bradford for the Cofferer's Office. |
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The like to Lord Edward Russell for the Treasurer of the Chamber's Office. |
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The like to the Earl of Montagu for the Great Wardrobe. |
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The like to the Earl of Portland for the Privy Purse. |
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The like to Sir Francis Lawley for the Jewel Office. |
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Same to the Customs Commissioners to permit the exports of goods as follows to Holland for the use of George Stepney, Envoy Extraordinary to the Princes on the Rhine. |
Ibid, p. 39. |
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Appending: schedule of said goods (bottles, blue livery cloth, a chariot etc.). |
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Privy seal for 20s. a day as ordinary to Mathew Prior, esq., “who is remaining at the Hague in Holland on our particular service”: to commence as from 1695, Aug. 1, together with the usual clause for allowance of his extraordinaries. |
King's Warrant Book XVIII, p. 321. |
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And further for the payment to him of all arrears to 1695, Aug. 1, on his allowance of 20s. a day by the privy seal of 1695, July 21, which privy seal is hereby to cease and determine. |
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Same for 250l. for equipage and 5l. a day as ordinary to George Stepney, esq., as Envoy Extraordinary to the several Princes of Germany, to commence from Nov. 22 inst., with the usual clause as to extraordinaries. |
Ibid, p. 322. |
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And further for the payment forthwith to him of all arrears to the 22nd inst. on his ordinary of 4d. a day as by the privy seal of 1694, Dec. 13, which privy seal is hereby to cease and determine. |
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Treasury reference to the Customs Commissioners of the petition of Thomas Botela for a grant of the 1,200l. due to the King on account of informations relating to the Customs: the said sums being not appropriated. |
Reference Book VII, p. 121. |
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Same to same of the petition of John Smith, Customer of Chichester port, praying payment of 222l. for recompense of his service and for loss of two horses in discovering a fraud of a great parcel of silks embezzled out of the custody of Mr. Prat, collector of Newhaven, in 1693, “by which means a verdict was obtained by the King for 1,192l.” |
Ibid.
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