B

Backstairs. See Chamber, The.

Bank Of England

Act (8-9 Wm. III, c. 20), 34.

action by a Teller of the Receipt against, 19, 167.

borrowing money in Holland for the Army, proposal for, 12.

Court of, 392, 397.

deserted by Agents to the Treasurer of the Navy, 398.

fund for (100,000l. annually), deficiency on, 34, 236
-, issue for, 41, 288.

Gentlemen of, 397
-, to attend or attending the Treasury, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 36, 40, 44, 45, 53, 54, 56, 59, 60, 79.

Governor of (A. Houblon), 79, 392, 397.

Governor and Company of, 76.

incorporation of, patent of, 288.

loans by, 13, 15, 16, 36, 40, 41, 42, 44, 45, 48, 53, 54-5, 59, 76, 100, 143, 146, 149, 154, 189, 247, 252, 253, 258-9, 276-7, 304, 310, 390, 392-3, 396, 397, 398, 404, 408
-, additional security for, 393
-, interest on, 14, 16, 40, 45, 247, 259, 392-3, 396, 397, 398, 399.

note, action concerning, 167.

orders on the Duties on Coals and Culm assigned to, 403.

subscriptions, patent for taking, 288.

tallies deposited with, adjustment of overplus of, 70.

Barber Surgeons Hall, Master and Wardens of, payment for medicines, drugs, etc., supplied to Hospital ships, 334.

Barges
-, crew, at New York, 204
-, petition of masters and owners concerning charges made for drawing barges with horses at Hampton Court, 131, 147. See also Queen's Barges.

Barilla, taken as prize, 337, 446.

Barley, for Army horses, 443.

Barometers, for the Emperor of Morocco, 465.

Baronetcy fee, discharge of, 301.

Barony, named : Magunihy.

Bastards, estates of, 167, 366.

Beaver skins
-, tribute payable for grant of Mounthope by, 200, 294, 354
-, yearly acknowledgment payable by Pennsylvania, 199
-, payable by Hudsons Bay, 200.

Bed
-, field, for the Queen at Bath, quarter blankets for, 376
-, velvet bed, at Kensington Palace, 410.

Beds, for the Army, 292.

Beef, for the Navy, 114.

Beer, duties on. See Exciseduties.

Beggar in the streets, debt of, 239.

Bibles, for the Private Chapels at Windsor and St. James's, 430.

Births, duties on. See Marriages.

Biscuit
-, for the Navy, 114
-, shipped to Portugal, no Customs fees to be taken for, 391.

Bishopric, mean profits of, 118.

sede vacante revenues, account of, 70, 312, 357
-, Receiver of, 341.

Bishops
-, Commissary in Virginia of (J. Blair), 202, 217, 272
-, temporalities to, 68.

Black Rod. See Gentleman Usher Black Rod.

Blankets
-, for the Army, 318
-, for the officers of the Royal Household, 417.

Bluemantle Pursuivant. See Heralds.

Boatmen. See Customs.

Body Guard. See King's Body Guard.

Books
-, taken as prize at Vigo, 351
-, Rushworth's "Collections," 21.

Bookseller
-, payment for transcribing a volume of Leagues and Treaties, 274
-, stamped paper burned in house of, 211.

Boom, for St. John's harbour, Newfoundland, 257, 268.

Booty, taken at Vigo, 39.

Bowling Green, at Ludlow Castle, 383.

Bran, for the Navy, 23.

Brandy, brought into port by Her Majesty's ships of war, 264.

derelict, discovery of, 317.

Excise of, appropriation to, 325.

French, from St. Sebastian, 57-8
-, duties on. See Customs duties, Additional Impositions.

imported contrary to law, forfeiture of, 156.

prosecution for buying, 431.

running, prosecution for, 164, 315.

seized, 201, 451.

Bread
-, for the Army, 144, 443 : for Kilmainham Hospital, 449
-, for the Navy, 114.

Breaming, ships at Portsmouth with heath and furze from the New Forest, 452.

Brewhouse, lease of, 206, 475.

Bricklayer. See Works.

Bridge, built by Charles I over the Tweed, allowance for repair of, 430.

Broker, 451.

Brooms, for the House of Commons, 232.

Buckhounds. See Royal Buckhounds.

Bullion
-, recovered from shipwrecks in the West Indies, grant of, 343, 362
-, seizure of, 368
-, taken as prize by the Navy in the expedition to Vigo, to be coined into current coins of the realm, 135, 136.

Burglary, fines for, 211.

Burials, duties on. See Marriages.