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| Oct. 18. |
Treasury warrant to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue 3000l. in
Exchequer Bills to Charles Fox and Lord Coningsby on the unsatisfied order in their names as Paymasters of the Forces, Ireland: as
imprest: to be for the Transports Commissioners on account for the
Transport service. Disposition Book XIV, p. 114. |
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William Lowndes to same to issue 25000l. to Edward Russell Esq.
[sic for Earl of Orford] on the unsatisfied order in his name as Navy
Treasurer: to be issued out of loans made on Exchequer Bills on
credit of the Exchequer in general: to be applied to the discharging
[the wages] of workmen in the yards. Ibid. |
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Same to Mr. Clark to procure a letter to be signed by the Lords
Justices, England, to authorise the Paymasters of the Forces,
Ireland, to pay 3000l. to the Transports Commissioners on account
of the transport service. Out Letters (General) XV, p. 355. |
| Oct. 18/28. |
Royal warrant under the King's sign manual dated "at our
Court at Loo" to the Lords Justices of Ireland (Charles, Marquess of
Winchester; Henry, Earl of Galway and Edward, Earl of Jersey)
to give orders for preparing a Collar of S.S. with the King's effigies
on a medal, to the value of 770l. sterling which the King is pleased
as a mark of royal favour and bounty to bestow upon the city of
Dublin to be worn by the Mayor of the said City for the time being
for ever; and for the same to be presented to Bartholomew Van
Homrigh the present Mayor to be worn by him during his continuance in that office: the charge hereof to be satisfied out of the
revenue of Ireland. Out Letters (Ireland) VII, p. 282. |
| Oct. 19. |
Treasury order for 12l. 10s. 0d. to William Wardour and 10l. to
John Lowe for last Michaelmas quarter on their allowance for
locking up and taking care of his Majesty's treasure. (In the
margin Lowe's name is incorrectly entered as Le Neve). Order
Book IV, p. 414. |
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William Lowndes to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue 10000l.
to the Treasurer of the Ordnance on the unsatisfied order in his
name for the service of the Ordnance; to be issued out of loans
made in Exchequer Bills on credit of the Exchequer in General:
to be applied for discharging the Train of Artillery in Flanders.
Disposition Book XIV, p. 115. |
| Oct. 19. |
Same to Mr. Blathwaite. My Lords think it will be most proper
to pay the 10 per cent for the second Subscription for Circulating
Exchequer Bills out of the loans now making in such Bills [on credit
of the Exchequer ut supra Treasury Calendar Vol. XII, p. 342.]
Please have the enclosed warrant [missing] cancelled by the King,
if he so please, and obtain his Majesty's signature to the enclosed
warrant in its place for so satisfying the said interest or reward.
Out Letters (General) XV, p. 362. |
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Same to Mr. Henry Baker to forthwith make up and bring in to
my Lords your account [of Crown Law expenses] to Michaelmas
last. (The like letter to Mr. Nicholas Baker). Ibid. |
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Same to John Knight, Customs Cashier. My Lords direct that
in all payments or returns of Exchequer Bills which you shall make
hereafter into the Exchequer you deliver a list of each parcel of
Bills to the Teller or Tellers in whose Office the same shall be paid.
This list is to be signed by yourself and is to contain the number,
date, principal sum and interest due on each Bill with a blank space
as below to the end the Tellers may note [enter] or make remarks
thereupon [of the names of the persons] to whom they issue the
said Bills in payment. The said lists are to remain in their Offices
to be applied [referred] to upon occasion. |
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Appending: the said form |
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No. |
Date. |
Principal and Interest. |
Persons to whom, and time when issued from the Exchequer. |
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(Similar letter, with the like draft form appended, to the Glass
Duty Commissioners; Excise Commissioners; Mr. Lilly, Receiver
General of the Post Office; Mr. Pennyman, Receiver General of the
Duty on Stamped Paper; and a letter to the Auditor of the Receipt
informing him of this direction and requiring him to signify same
to the Tellers that they govern themselves accordingly). Ibid, pp.
363, 364, 365. |
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Treasury reference to the Customs Commissioners of the petition
of Christopher Coke of Exeter, merchant, shewing that he is indebted
100l. to the King for Duty on tobacco and having had great losses
by the war is disabled to go on with his trade: therefore praying to
be discharged from the said Duty, he having paid many thousand £ in
Customs. Reference Book VII, p. 241. |
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Same to same of the petition of Thomas Proudfoot of London,
merchant, shewing that he is indebted 2371l. 6s. 5d. to the King for
Customs, for which his goods are seized on an extent; that he has
traded as a merchant there 20 years and paid 3000l. per an. for
Customs and been a considerable loser by the present war: therefore praying acceptance of a composition of 3s. in the £. Ibid. |
| Oct. 20. |
Treasury allowance of the 1697 Michaelmas quarter's salary bill,
detailed, of the Hackney Coaches Office: total 190l. 10s. 0d. Money
Book XIII, p. 385. |
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The like of the incidents bill, detailed, of same for same quarter:
total 95l. 7s. 7d. Ibid. |
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William Lowndes to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue 50l. for
the poor of St. James's ut supra p. 116 out of such of the Lottery
tickets remaining in the Exchequer as have no benefits attending
them. Disposition Book XIV, p. 115. |
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Same to Mr. Lilly [Receiver of the Post Office] to pay 1200l. into
the Exchequer out of the Post Office moneys in your hands. Ibid. |
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Treasury warrant to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue 13000l.
in Exchequer Bills to the Earl of Ranelagh on any unsatisfied
order in his name as Paymaster of the Forces: as imprest: for 14
days' subsistence of the Forces in England from Oct. 24 inst: |
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and 17000l. to the Earl of Orford on the unsatisfied order in his
name as Navy Treasurer: as imprest: and is intended for wages
to seamen. Ibid, p. 116. |
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William Lowndes to same to pay 26312l. 4s. 8d. to the Earl of
Ranelagh on the like order as above: to be issued out of loans made
in Exchequer Bills on credit of the Exchequer in general: to be
applied for the clearing and disbanding the two Regiments of Dutch
Horse commanded by the Baron de Rechteren and Count Steenboch.
Ibid, p. 117. |
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Same to same to issue 1000l. to same on the like order: out of
the like loans: to be paid over to the Victualling Commissioners
for provisions furnished for the Forces sent to Newfoundland. Ibid. |
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Same to same to issue 5000l. to the Earl of Orford on the unsatisfied order in his name as Navy Treasurer: out of loans as above:
and is intended for the Victualling Commissioners to be by them
applied as follows: viz. |
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£ |
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for the course of payments in the Victualling Office |
3000 |
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for imprests |
2000 |
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Ibid. |
£5000 |
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Same to Mr. Sansom to take care that the Earl of Portland's
equipage be forthwith landed and with the greatest respect to his
lordship, particularly that his strong box in which are his papers
be not opened. Out Letters (General) XV, p. 365. |
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Same to Mr. Yard to insert a notice in to-morrow's Gazette as
follows: viz.: in the Gazette of the 11th inst. notice was given that
guineas would be received at 21s. 6d. each (with a discount and
interest therein mentioned) for loans [to the Exchequer] only. My
Lords are informed that by occasion thereof a difficulty is arisen
in taking guineas from his Majesty's revenues and taxes and do
therefore hereby give notice that it was not intended but that all
Receivers of Taxes and Public Revenues should receive guineas for
the same to his Majesty's use at the rate which they did before the
said advertisement was published. Ibid. |
| Oct. 20. |
Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners to employ
Andrew Duxbury (coastwaiter at Bristol) as landwaiter London
port loco Henry Colchester dismissed. Out Letters (Customs) XIII,
p. 378. |
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Same to same to deliver to Eggia de Mezar, Zachary David and
other Armenian merchants 15 pieces of Persian silk and 24 handkerchiefs for presents which they brought with them coming lately
overland from Persia by way of Holland to buy English manufactures
and which were seized at Harwich under the Navigation Act; it
being affirmed and proved on the part of the said merchants that
they are considerable merchants and exporters of the woollen
manufactures of this kingdon and are come over to negotiate a
trade of that kind and that they brought the above small parcels
overland and from Holland by the English pacquet boat so that
no foreign shipping has been used in the importation and although
the Customs Commissioners suppose this manner of conveyance to
be contrary to the Navigation Act yet petitioners seem to be altogether inadvertent and ignorant thereof and may therefore deserve
favour. Ibid., p. 379. |
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Treasury reference to Sir Christopher Wren of the petition of
Richard Bentley for the speedy repair of his Majesty's library at
St. James's. Reference Book VII, p. 241. |
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Same to the Customs Commissioners of the petition of John
Mockford an officer of Faversham port shewing that going to visit
a vessel lying in [East] Bourne Road in May 1688 in order to do his
duty the vessel proved to be a French privateer who took petitioner
and carried him prisoner to Dieppe and there kept him ten months,
during which time it cost him 35l.: therefore praying payment of
his said charges. Ibid., p. 245. |
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Treasury flat for royal letters patent to constitute Benjamin
Johnson gent. as a King's waiter London port loco William Turner.
Warrants not Relating to Money XV, p. 401. |
| Oct. 21. |
William Lowndes to the Agents for Taxes to write to the Receiver
of Taxes to take especial care that where Exchequer Bills are tendered
for any taxes pursuant to law the party tendering the same do
endorse them with a date and sign the endorsement before they
be received: and that the said Receivers do give direction to the
parochial collectors to take the like care that the persons paying
in such Bills do make the like endorsements, as the Acts of Parliament require. Out Letters (General) XV, p. 366. |
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Same to Mr. Vernon. The Lords Justices have intimated to my
Lords that the Dutch Regiments of Horse now in England be paid
off in order to their embarcation for Holland. My Lords desire their
Excellencies to signify same in writing with such orders as are to
be observed in the doing thereof. Ibid. |
| Oct. 21. |
William Lowndes to the Agents for Taxes to report on the
enclosed representation [missing] from Mr. William Middleton
touching some fraudulent practices relating to taxes. Out Letters
(General) XV, p. 367. |
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Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners to pay Isaac
Bernard the King's part of 2 pieces of silk part of the 9 pieces ut
supra Treasury Calendar Vol. XII, pp. 264–5; he having made oath
that they were part of the parcel mentioned in the former petition.
Out Letters (Customs) XIII, p. 380. |
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Same to Sir Thomas Trevor, Attorney General, for a noli
prosequi to the proceedings on the inquisition for finding a
sum of money alleged to be in the hands of a merchant of London and
belonging to Peter Sartre (brother to James Sartre) an alien enemy:
the said James having petitioned shewing that finding the matter
not so plain as the law requires he has come to an agreement with the
person whom he prosecuted and does therefore pray a noli prosequi.
Warrants not Relating to Money XV, p. 399. |
| Oct. 22. |
William Lowndes to the Excise Commissioners to take care that
bills of exchange [representing remittances of Excise money to
London] to be paid in specie for any branch of his Majesty's revenue
of Excise shall be paid in the same specie wherein they were drawn;
and that where the collectors [of Excise] in the country receive
new money or guineas they do not send bills of exchange for other
species. Out Letters (General) XV, p. 366. |
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Same to same. My Lords having now under consideration the
mismanagement in several offices of the Excise mentioned in your
memorials do direct you to let them know if there have been any
other abuses or mismanagement in your Office since his Majesty's
accession; with an account what remedies have been applied where
such have been discovered; and with your opinion what may be
further done for the more effectual collecting and answering to the
King the Duties of Excise and the preventing abuses therein. Ibid.,
p. 367. |
| Oct. 25. |
Treasury warrant to the Receipt to renew a torn money order
No. 3261 for repayment of 100l. lent in the name of Charles Bertie
Esq. on the Salt and Glass Duties; same having been assigned to
John Gillam. Order Book IV, p. 411. |
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William Lowndes to the Agents for Taxes enclosing a letter
[missing] from several gentlemen in Cambridgeshire relating to
Mr. Mason, the Receiver of Taxes there, refusing to take Exchequer
Bills for the 3s. Aid and [refusing to take] guineas at 22s. Please
give him the necessary orders to observe the Act of Parliament
touching the said Bills and the Gazette advertisement relating to
guineas. Out Letters (General) XV, p. 367. |
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Same to the Customs Commissioners to send to St. James's, to
be there opened, two boxes and a pacquet arrived from Holland to
the Princess of Denmark with [containing] some goods for her use.
Ibid., p. 368. |
| Oct. 25. |
Same to Mr. Twitty for an account how far payments are made
on the several Annuity Acts and upon the first Lottery Act and
whether some [payees thereon] are paid further than others; also
whether my Lords' orders concerning the payment thereof have
been duly observed; and if not, by whom have same been disobeyed.
Ibid. |
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Same to the Customs Commissioners to examine into the matter
of complaints against the Customs officers as in the Order of Council
as follows; and to take effectual care that for the time to come
there be no just cause for any such complaints. Ibid. |
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Appending: order of the Lords Justices in Council dated Oct.
21. Having received frequent complaints that the Customs officers
employed in preventing the exportation of wool from Romney
Marsh and other places on the coast of Kent do not perform their
duty with that diligence and industry as they ought the Lords
Justices direct the Treasury Lords to direct the Customs Commissioners to require in their officers greater care for the future in the
execution of their trust. Ibid. |
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Same to the Excise Commissioners to permit Mr. Richard Taylor,
a clerk to the Trustees for circulating Exchequer Bills, to inspect
any entries, books or papers relating to the receipt of the Excise
as he shall desire, for the better finding out any abuses that have
been made by false endorsements on Exchequer Bills. (The like
letter to the Customs Commissioners for the Customs Books and
to the Auditor of the Receipt for all books, entries and papers
relating to any payments into, or from, the Exchequer in Exchequer
Bills). Ibid., p. 369. |
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Same to Lord FitzHardinge to present to my Lords the chief
clerk in your Office [of a Teller of the Receipt] in order to his being
approved by them and sworn pursuant to the Act [of 8 and 9 Wm.
III c. 28]. (The like letter to Henry Carew, another of the
Tellers). Ibid. |
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Same to the Auditor of the Receipt to signify to the Tellers that
they receive guineas at 22s. pursuant to the advertisement in the
Gazette of Thursday last. Ibid., p. 370. |
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The Treasury Lords to the Mayor of Newark. Having been
informed that Tho. Rokeby, a Surveyor of the Duties on Houses
and on Marriages in Co. Notts. has endeavoured to make a survey
of the town of Newark according to his duty but there met with
such treatment and opposition as made it difficult if not impossible
to perform the same; but that you had sent to him and promised
and undertaken that he should meet with no disturbance in relation
to the said survey of the town; we did then forbear to take any
notice to you of the tumultuous proceedings of some of the
inhabitants. But it is represented to us that William Wynne,
another of the said Surveyors endeavouring to make a survey of
the town on Tuesday the 12th inst. the common people of the town
got together in a tumultuous and disorderly manner and with
stones, dirt and other things forct the said officer from his duty.
We are obliged to take notice thereof to you and to desire you to
certify us the names and abode of the offenders and of the constables
refusing to obey your order, in order that proceedings may be had
thereon according to law. The Act of Parliament gives the officers
all power necessary for making such survey and they may therefore
enter into any house if it shall be necessary in the manner directed
by the said Act: and 'twill be expected from you that he have all
due assistance accordingly. Hereof fail not. Out Letters (General)
XV, p. 370. |
| Oct. 25. |
William Lowndes to Sir Robert Howard, the Auditor of the
Receipt, to signify to the Tellers my Lords' instructions that they
bring all such [Exchequer] Bills as they charge upon the Subsidy,
12d. Aid [sic? for 3s. Aid] and New Customs into your Office the
very day they charge the same, in order to being entered and
cancelled there: and that a regular certificate thereof be transmitted to my Lords "and any mistake which may happen may
be the better and more timely rectified." Ibid., p. 371. |
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Same to Mr. Clarke to procure a warrant to be signed by the
Lords Justices to authorise the Paymasters of the Forces Ireland
to pay 50l. to Capt. Daniel Wood "on account for his service in
Ireland": but before you deliver out the said warrant you are
to take up and cancel the warrant supra p. 127 for the like payment
to him on account of arrears for his service in Ireland. Ibid., p. 372. |
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Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners to employ
Thomas Chamberlain as coastwaiter at Bristol loco Andrew Duxbury
preferred to be a landwaiter London port. In the Margin: vacated
see infra p. 143. Out Letters (Customs) XIII, p. 381. |
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Same to same to admit to entry the goods (beaver skins) as follows
imported by Thomas Byfeild et al merchants and inhabitants of
London; they having petitioned my Lords shewing that the ship
Beaver of and from New York, Robert Sinclair commander bound
for London, some time since was taken by a French privateer and
afterwards re-taken by a Zealand privateer and carried to Flushing
where her whole lading was sold; that petitioners being owners
of great part of her lading became bidders and purchased a considerable part thereof; but that by reason of the mingling of the
parcels they cannot make positive oath that the parcels so bought
are the individual parcels whereof they were the sole proprietors
before the capture: on which petition the Customs Commissioners
have reported that the beaver skins in question being originally
shipped in an English ship duly navigated the said captures and
all other the involuntary durations under those restraints are not
such violation of the Navigation Act as ought to prejudice the
importation, the same being redeemed by the original proprietors.
Ibid. |
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Same to Mr. Baber to deliver to Geo. Townesend gent. all papers
and writings in your hands concerning his Majesty's service in
several causes depending before the Commissioners of Excise and
the Commissioners of Appeals in Excise. Warrants not Relating
to Money XV, p. 399. |
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Same to the Auditor of the Receipt to affix blank papers as
follows to Exchequer Bills which are filled up with endorsements:
all by reason that it may happen that some of the said Bills are or
will be (by passing several times through the revenue) so endorsed
that there will not be room for making any further endorsements
thereupon. It is therefore hereby ordered that on the bringing
of any such Bills to your Office by the Trustees for Circulating the
said Bills or by any others you cause a blank paper to be affixed
on the back of every such Bill at one corner thereof with a wafer
or paste and to seal the said blank paper at the place where it so
affixed with the same seal the Bill itself is sealed with and then
to deliver back the said Bills to the persons so bringing them to
your Office. Ibid., p. 400. |
| Oct. 26. |
William Lowndes to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue 25l. 9s. 6d.
to Hen. Bendyshe out of any disposeable money in the Receipt.
Disposition Book XIV, p. 118. |
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Same to the Attorney General. The matter against Reginald
Marriott is of a very high nature, himself having owned that he
has forged endorsements for above 20,000l. My Lords desire you
to take care on the King's behalf that there be sufficient bail. They
desire to speak with you to-morrow morning concerning that matter.
Out Letters (General) XV, p. 371. |
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Same to Mr. Blathwaite enclosing for the King's signature a
royal warrant "prepared pursuant to his Majesty's pleasure signified
by you" for granting to Lord Woodstock, son and heir to the Earl
of Portland, the forfeited estate of the late Earl of Clancarty. Ibid. |
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Treasury reference to the Prizes Commissioners of the petition
of William Lewin et al merchants shewing that they bought 58
tun of prize wines from the said Commissioners, being taken by the
Portland and brought into Guernsey and thence imported by
petitioners to London and fairly entered and Duty paid; but one
Barton has exhibited an information against them, pretending that
same ought not to be brought into this kingdom from Guernsey:
therefore praying that the said Commissioners may be heard in the
matter and that a noli prosequi may be granted. Reference Book
VII, p. 241. |
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Same to the Customs Commissioners of the petition of Cornelius
Mason and Company praying a noli prosequi to the King's part
of a seizure of several pounds of tobacco seized under the Act of
Frauds for omitting to deduct the allowance inwards for damage,
which was done through ignorance. Ibid. |
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Treasury subscription for the execution of a warrant dated Oct.
22 from the Earl of Sunderland, Lord Chamberlain, to the Honble.
Heneage Montagu, Master of the Jewel House, for the delivery of
5893 ounces of white plate and 1063 ounces of gilt plate to the
Earl of Portland as Ambassador Extraordinary to the French King.
Warrants not Relating to Money XV, p. 400. |
| Oct. 26. |
Treasury approval of Charles Twitty as first clerk in the office of
Sir Robert Howard, Auditor of the Receipt. |
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Prefixing: said Howard's certificate of Twitty's having taken
the oath. |
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The like of Henry Ferne, as First Clerk in the office of Henry
Carew, one of the four Tellers of the Receipt. |
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Prefixing: the like certificate by said Carew. Warrants not
Relating to Money XV, pp. 409, 407. |
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Warrant by the Lords Justices of England to the Lords Justices of
Ireland to replace James Barnard on the list of French Pensioners
on the Establishment of the Forces, Ireland for the pension of 3s.
a day in such [first] vacancy as shall happen: his said pension having
(by reason of his employment in his Majesty's service abroad) been
disposed of to J. Villemison: see supra Treasury Calendar Vol. XII,
p. 309. Out Letters (Ireland) VII, pp. 288–9. |
| Oct. 27. |
William Lowndes to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue 50l. to
me [Lowndes] on the unsatisfied order in my name for Secret
Service: to be issued out of such Malt tickets remaining in the
Exchequer for the Civil List as have no prizes attending them.
Disposition Book XIV, p. 120. |
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Same to Mr. Nich. Baker [Treasury Solicitor] to prosecute
Mr. Reginald Marryot on the new matter against him "and
to take as good bail for him as you can get." Out Letters
(General) XV, p. 372. |
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Same to the Earl of Ranelagh to report on the enclosed petition
[missing] of Capt. Francis Byam praying payment of some part of
the arrears due to him on his pension granted by Charles II. Ibid.,
p. 374. |
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Treasury reference to the Customs Commissioners of the petition
of the Danish Resident for delivery of a small parcel of linen
presented to him for his own proper use by a friend and countryman
"the master of the ship as well as himself supposing that no Duties
would have been demanded for the same, no such thing being required
from any minister in the country of the King his master." Reference
Book VII, p. 242. |
| Oct. 28. |
Money order for 10l. to John Broadhurst, porter at the Exchequer
Gate, for half a year to Sept. 29 last for attendance at the said gate
and on the officers of the Receipt. Order Book IV, p. 413. |
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William Lowndes to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue as follows
out of new moneys proceeding from loans on the Malt Duties viz. |
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£ |
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to me [Lowndes] for secret service |
150 |
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to Richard Welbeck |
21 |
5 |
10 |
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to Abraham Freeman |
10 |
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to the Treasurer of the Chamber for the
Gentlemen of the Chapel in lieu of 3 deer |
20 |
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£201 |
5 |
10 |
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Disposition Book XIV, p. 118. |
| Oct. 28. |
Same to same to issue as follows out of loans made in Exchequer
Bills on credit of the Exchequer in general: viz. |
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£ |
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to the Navy Treasurer for wages |
30000 |
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to ditto for the Victuallers for the Victualling
course |
3000 |
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to ditto for the Victuallers for fresh provisions
and short allowance money for the West India
ships |
3000 |
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to the Treasurer of the Ordnance for land services
of the Office of Ordnance |
10000 |
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£46000 |
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Ibid. |
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Treasury warrant to same to issue 3900l. in Exchequer Bills to
the Earl of Ranelagh on the unsatisfied order in his name as Paymaster of the Forces: on imprest: and is intended for 2 weeks'
subsistence to the Troops first expected from Flanders. Ibid, p. 119. |
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William Lowndes to Mr. Hume and Mr. Creamer. The Treasury
Lords direct you to attend daily in the Receipt of Exchequer and to
take notice of all payments in Exchequer Bills made there for
revenues, impositions, taxes or on any other account whatsoever;
and to keep a book expressing every such payment in Exchequer
Bills by the name of the Receiver or payer of the revenue, impost,
tax or other cause, and the sum paid; and to see that the tally
agrees with the entry in your book; and in case you find any Bills
defective or mistaken in the form of their endorsements that you
object against the same [so] that the persons who by law may and
ought to make those endorsements do rectify the same in point of
form; and in case you shall suspect any Bills or endorsements to
be counterfeited, falsified or unduly practised upon, that you
forthwith acquaint my Lords or the Trustees for Exchequer Bills
with the grounds of your suspicion, so that inquiry may be made
and speedy punishment for any fraud may be inflicted; |
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and that as to such Bills which from time to time are paid into
the Exchequer on the cancelling funds (that is to say those granted
for the service of the war in the year 1697) you do take especial care
to see that they be cancelled and afterwards kept safe so that
recourse may be had to them if there shall be occasion: |
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and that you keep another book and in the first column thereof
do forthwith enter the numbers, beginning with one and so proceeding in arithmetical progression as far as numbered Bills are
or shall be made forth pursuant to the Acts; and as any Bill shall
be cancelled as aforesaid its sum and interest is to be expressed
in the second column; and in the third column some proper notice
as you shall think fit referring to the bundle where the cancelled
Bill is to be found: |
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and that you do every morning when the Trustees for Exchequer
Bills shall be sitting transmit to them one list of all the Bills cancelled, specifying the day, the Receiver [of Taxes] or payer who
brought them to the Exchequer and the sum [thereof chargeable]
upon each revenue, tax or other fund; and another list of all the
Bills [not to be cancelled] brought in upon such revenues, taxes
or funds whereupon they are to be issued again, specifying also the
day, the name of the [Taxes] Receiver or payer and the sum paid. |
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You are also to see that the Tellers or their clerks do fairly and
exactly keep their books wherein every particular Bill by them
received and which is either cancelled or issued again, ought to be
entered; and that once in every week at least you compare their
receipts in Bills with their issues in Bills and with those cancelled
and thereby satisfy yourselves whether they don't issue [an amount]
in Bills more than they regularly receive and what balance in Bills
they ought justly to be charged with. |
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From time to time you are to assist the person appointed or to
be appointed by the Trustees in the inspecting, searching and finding
out any abuses or ill practices relating to the said Bills in the
Exchequer. |
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And in order that a retrospection may be made for the time past
you are to immediately make an account from the entries of the
tallies or by the Tellers or by the best means as shall occur to you
of the payments which have been made into the Exchequer in the
said Bills until this time, shewing the day of payment; the [Taxes]
Receiver or [other] payer; the revenue, tax or other fund upon
which paid; the sum paid; how many of the Bills so received
have been issued again or cancelled and how many now remain
in the Tellers' hands or charge. Send one copy thereof to the
Treasury Lords and another to the Trustees with your observations. |
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And forthwith take care to enter in your aforesaid book of cancelled
Bills all those particular Bills that are or ought to be already sunk
[cancelled] upon the said cancelling funds "which as their Lordships
are informed do amount to above 450,000l." Out Letters (General)
XV, pp. 373–4. |
| Oct. 28. |
Treasury reference to the Customs Commissioners of the petition
of Sir Peter Killigrew shewing that at the request of one Carpenter,
a merchant in Cornwall, he became bound for 255l. 4s. 8¼d. for Duty
on tobacco imported at Falmouth; that learning Carpenter was
like to become insolvent petitioner consulted the Customs Commissioners who directed their late Secretary [Solicitor] Mr.
Hutchinson to assist him and Carpenter's person and goods were
seized; that some time after Carpenter sued petitioner for wrongful
prosecution, upon which petitioner went to the Exchequer Court
for a copy of the venditioni exponas but the clerk who issued same
being dead it could not be obtained; whereby the said Carpenter
had a great advantage over petitioner: that in 1693 Carpenter applied
to the King for said debt to be remitted who ordered the Treasury
Lords to do as they thought fit: therefore praying a Treasury
warrant for delivery of his bonds. Reference Book VII, p. 243. |
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The Treasury Lords to the Lords Justices, Ireland to report on
the enclosed petition [missing] of Sir Edward Byron for a grant
of some forfeited lands in Ireland to the clear yearly value of 100l.
Out Letters (Ireland) VII, p. 288. |
| Oct. 29. |
Warrant by the Lords Justices, England to the Treasury Lords
to pay 630l. to Paul Foley for 126 days June 24 last to Oct. 28 inst.
on his usual allowance of 5l. a day as Speaker of the House of
Commons. (Money warrant dated Nov. 2 hereon). (Money order
dated Nov. 3 hereon). King's Warrant Book XIX, p. 434, Money
Book XIII, p. 387, Order Book IV, p. 414. |
| Oct. 29. |
Money warrant for 154l. 9s. 6d. to Henry Seagar gent. for the
charges of the entertainment of the officers of the Mint and the
jury of goldsmiths at the Trial of the Pix in July last at the Mint
in the Tower. (Money order dated Nov. 3 hereon). Money Book
XIII, p. 386, Order Book IV, p. 414. |
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William Lowndes to the Earl of Ranelagh to pay Archibald
Hutchinson, Agent for Col. Henry Holt's Regiment of Foot in the
West Indies, the 800l. remaining in your hands on account of that
Regiment; 200l. thereof to complete the 700l. advanced by him
for the use of the Colonel and officers of the said Regiment and
600l. for the subsistence of the officers now in England. Disposition
Book XIV, p. 119. |
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Same to the Navy Commissioners enclosing an account [missing]
exhibited to my Lords by Geo. Dodington of interest received by
him on several orders of loan issued to the Navy Treasurer for the
service of the Navy and how the same has been certified and applied.
You are to certify whether the said sums are all that the Treasurer
ought to be charged with on account of such interest and whether
same has been certified and applied as stated therein. Out Letters
(General) XV, p. 397. |
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Treasury order to the Customs Commissioners to observe an order
of the Lords Justices in Council as follows: |
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Prefixing: said order dated Whitehall Oct. 21 that all orders and
directions formerly given at the Council Board for taking bonds
and securities of masters and owners of ships outwards bound not
to go to France or to any of the dominions of the French King be
hereby superseded and revoked: the present order being made
upon a presentment of the Customs Commissioners praying directions
in the above particular. Out Letters (Customs) XIII, p. 382. |
| Oct. 30. |
Money warrant for 500l. to Phillip Ryley: without account:
towards carrying on the works necessary to be done in the Great
Park at Windsor and in his Majesty's park at Greenwich. (Money
order dated Nov. 6 hereon). Money Book XIII, p. 388. Order
Book IV, p. 415. |
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Same for 21l. 5s. 10d. to Richard Welbeck for 1¾ years to Sept.
29 last on his fee as Stable keeper at Reading. Money Book XIII,
p. 388. |
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William Lowndes to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue 10000l.
in Exchequer Bills to the Earl of Ranelagh on the unsatisfied order
in his name as Paymaster of the Forces: to be applied towards
disbanding three Regiments of Horse viz. [Earl of] Macclesfield's,
Harvey's and Windsor's. (In the margin: applied to other uses
see infra under date Dec. 9.) Disposition Book IV, p. 120. |
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Same to the Customs Commissioners. My Lords have considered
your proposal for preventing abuses in the receipt and payment of
Exchequer Bills. They approve thereof and direct you to take
especial care that the methods as therein be duly put in execution.
Out Letters (General) XV, p. 376. |
| Oct. 30. |
William Lowndes to the Excise Commissioners to put into
execution as above their proposal for preventing the above abuses.
Out Letters (General) XV, p. 376. |
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Same to Mr. Bartholomew Burton to attend the Trustees for
Exchequer Bills this afternoon and produce to them such of your
books and papers as they shall desire: also take with you such of
your clerks as they shall desire; and on Monday next you are
with the said Trustees to attend my Lords at the Treasury Chambers.
Ibid. |
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Same to the Customs Commissioners enclosing a letter from Mr.
Vernon with the account given by the Sick and Wounded Commissioners of the good condition the ship Isabell appears to be in.
You are to give her the same liberty as any other ship. Ibid. |
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Treasury subscription for the execution of a warrant of Oct. 21
from the Earl of Sunderland, Lord Chamberlain, to the Honble.
Heneage Montagu, Master of the Jewel House for the delivery to
the Earl of Essex of 130 ounces of gilt plate as a gift from the King
at the christening of his child. Warrants not Relating to Money XV,
p. 401. |
Nov. 8.
new style. |
Royal warrant under the King's sign manual dated "at our
Court at the Hague" to the Lords Justices, Ireland for a patent
to pass the great seal of Ireland for a grant to William Bentinck
Esq. commonly called Visct. Woodstock, son and heir of the Earl
of Portland, of the forfeited estate of Donogh, late Earl of Clancarty
of which the said Earl was possessed at the time of his treason or
at any time since, and of all the Crown's title thereto: to hold to
him the said Bentinck and his heirs for ever as fully as the same
were held by the said late Earl: together with a grant of all the
arrears and mesne profits of the premises: "which estate according
to a report by you lately transmitted to the Commissioners of our
Treasury here did amount at the time of the time of the forfeiture to the full
yearly value of 5643l. 8s. 8d. and after the death of the Countess of
Clancarty and of Margaret, Countess of Fingal will amount to
7156l. 8s. 8d. per an. or thereabouts; and out of the same the rents
payable to the Crown by the Acts of Settlement and Explanation
were 858l. 8s. 11¾d. but were afterwards reduced to 600l. per an."
Out Letters (Ireland) VII, pp. 290–1. |
| Oct. 30. |
William Lowndes to the Lords Justices, Ireland. According to
your desire as in yours of the 27 Sept. last my Lords have caused
three sets of weights to be prepared and adjusted by the Mint
Officers here to be standard for money current in Ireland. The
said three sets are delivered to Mr. Robert Rutter sealed up for
delivery to you. Out Letters (Ireland) VII, p. 288. |
| Oct. 31. |
Treasury reference to the Excise Commissioners of the petition
of Arthur Shallet shewing that being under contract with the said
Commissioners to return [to London by bills of exchange] the
Excise moneys arising within the town of Newcastle and places
adjacent he has accordingly satisfied the said moneys except about
2322l. 12s. 9d. which he offers to pay in Exchequer Bills but
the said Commissioners refuse to accept same without Treasury
order. Reference Book VII, p. 242. |
