Declared Accounts, 1708: Hawkers and Pedlars

Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 22, 1708. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1952.

Citation:

'Declared Accounts, 1708: Hawkers and Pedlars', in Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 22, 1708, ed. William A Shaw( London, 1952), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/cal-treasury-books/vol22/dcv-dcvi [accessed 24 November 2024].

Hawkers and Pedlars


DECLARED ACCOUNTS: LICENCES FOR HAWKERS AND PEDLARS.

PIPE OFFICE: ROLL 1733.
Samuel Atkinson, John Henley and Michael East, Commissioners for Licensing Hawkers, Pedlars and Petty Chapmen.
	24 June 1707 to 24 June 1708.
	Charge.	£	s.	d.
	Arrears: remaining in the hands of these Accomptants as on the foot of the last Accompt	448	7	5½
	depending upon several persons at the foot of last Accompt	1,292	11	6
	Receipts: due upon 2,318 foot licences to sundry hawkers, pedlars, petty chapmen, etc., at 4l. each	9,272	0	0
	licences to sundry of the said hawkers, etc., for travelling with 163 horses at 4l. each horse	652	0	0
	fees for 2,158 single foot licences at 12d. each	107	18	0
	fees of 160 licences for travelling with 163 horses at 2s. each licence	16	0	0
	the charge of 37 bonds for securing the latter moiety of the licence duty at 12d. each bond	1	17	0
	(total receipts 10,049l. 15s. 0d.)
	total charge and receipts	£11,790	13	11½
	Discharge.	£	s.	d.
	Salaries to the Commissioners and Officers	1,355	0	0
	allowances for prompt payment at 2s. in the 1l. on 2,281 licences and 160 licences for travelling with 163 horses	488	16	0
	incident charges	892	12	1
	(total of the above 2,736l. 8s. 1d.)
	money paid into the Exchequer by dates	6,869	19	10
	total payments and allowances	£9,606	7	11
	and so remains	2,184	6	0½
	against which:
	depending upon sundry persons in arrear for their licences, detailed by years as in previous Accompt but adding 50l. for the year to Midsummer 1708	1,342	11	6
	and so these Accomptants are Indebted	841	14	6½
	Declared 23 March 1712–13.