Warrant Books: June 1709, 21-25

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June 1709, 21–25

June 21. William Lowndes to James Brydges, Paymaster of the Forces Abroad, to assign [to any persons ready to advance money on same] tallies and orders on Malt anno 1709 to the amount of 78,476l. 3s. 9½d. (out of the 100,000l. such tallies first in course which were issued to you at the Exchequer the 17th inst.) [and to apply same] to answer the following services: viz.
£ s. d.
in part of 301,748l. 7s. 11¼d. for the extra-ordinaries of the war.
for arrears of subsidies due to the Landgrave of Hesse Cassel in the late war, amounting to 254,000 Rix dollars pursuant to the Treaty 60,476 3 9½
in part of 553,845l. 14s. 4d. for subsidies to the Allies anno 1709.
for Sir Theodore Janssen and is together with 8,000l. ordered this day [June 22 infra p. 216] to complete 26,000l. for two months' ordinary subsidy to the Duke of Savoy to Oct. 3 next 18,000 0 0
£78,476 3 9½
Interest on the said sums is to commence from the day of the date [sic erratum for assignment] of the said orders of loan. On [your] transmitting the said orders here with your assignments thereupon, warrants will be given to the Exchequer for such interest. Disposition Book XX, p. 4.
June 21. William Lowndes to the Attorney General. The Lord Treasurer is informed by Mr. Norton, the Warden of the Forest of South Bere in Co. Southampton, that there are two cottages erected on the Queen's waste in the said forest inhabited by people of evil fame who destroy her Majesty's timber and being extra parochial do harbour disorderly people and deer stealers to the ruin and destruction of the said forest. You are to give order to Mr. Borrett to prosecute the offenders. Out Letters (General) XIX, p. 64.
Treasury reference to the Customs Commissioners of the petition of Geo. Courtney, Vice Admiral of Devon, shewing that a quantity of brandy was wrecked and brought in to Tinmouth [Teignmouth] by his officers but the Customs Commissioners have put locks on the cellars holding same, to the great damage and decay of the brandy, which he presumes is what they can't justify: therefore praying directions therein. Reference Book VIII, p. 362.
Same to the Queen's Remembrancer of the petition of Lionell Herne and Samuel Edwards, the officers for paying interest on Exchequer Bills, proposing their sureties, detailed, for their said office. Ibid.
June 22. Order by Treasurer Godolphin for all due care to be taken for saving to the public the interest on Exchequer Bills for the time or times during which such Bills shall or may remain in the hands of the several Paymasters of any public services, to wit until they shall be actually paid by such Paymasters to the persons and uses for which they were issued. When the said Paymasters pay away any of the said Bills they are hereby to take especial care to reckon the interest then due on each Bill (together with the principal) towards making the payment: and as often as they receive such Bills in satisfaction of bills of exchange accepted, but in point of time not due, they take care to reckon not only the interest incurred thereon at the time of such application thereof but also the interest to grow due on every one of them till maturity of the said bills of exchange and that same go in payment towards satisfaction of said bill of exchange in like manner. And the said respective Paymasters are to voluntarily charge themselves with so much interest so taken in payment as the same amounts to, and to keep particular account thereof and to transmit such account monthly to the Lord Treasurer. Money Book XX, pp. 42–3.
June 22. Letter of direction for 6,000l. to John Tailer: out of loans in the Exchequer on tin: and is for the building at Woodstock. Disposition Book XIX, p. 312.
William Lowndes to Mr. How, Paymaster General of Guards and Garrisons. The Lord Treasurer orders you to apply as follows the 22,000l. directed to you April 23 last [supra, p. 149]: viz.
£ s. d.
for account of Guards and Garrisons anno 1709.
to Brigadier Whetham's and Col. Gore's Regiment for three months' subsistence and pay in advance from the time of their embarcation 3,962 3 10
to Lord Inchiquin's Regiment on the same account 1,500 0 0
for 84 days' pay in advance to the General Officers ordered to attend the Expedition 1,428 0 0
to Major Gen. Macartney and Brigadier Whetham to provide their equipage; pursuant to royal warrant 926 0 0
to Monsieur Monseguer on account 45 0 0
to Brigadier Whetham and his secretary on account 55 7 6
to the Paymaster of the said Expedition for his allowance from 26 March 1709 the date of his constitution to 24 June following 273 0 0
to satisfy several contingencies relating to the said Expedition 217 6 6
for subsistence to the Troops and Regiments in Great Britain upon account 13,593 2 2
£22,000 0 0
Ibid. XX, p. 2.
Letter of direction for issues as follows to the Navy and Forces Abroad: out of Exchequer Bills to be made forth under the Bank Stock Act: and for services as follows: viz.
£ s. d.
to Sir Thomas Littleton, the Navy Treasurer, for the head of Wages and to be imprested to Sir John Leak's secretary for contingencies of the Fleet under said Leak's command 1,000 0 0
to ditto for the same head and is to be paid over to Walter Whitfeild, Paymaster of Marines, upon account for two months' subsistence of the Marines going on the present Expedition 3,800 10 0
to ditto for the same head, being to clear pilots on their bills to Xmas 1707 11,239 0 0
to ditto for the head of Wear and Tear and is to be applied to pay bills of exchange 10,000 0 0
to ditto for the same head [and is] for the [Navy] Course and the interest thereon for the month of December 1706 38,074 0 0
to Sir Thomas Littleton, the Navy Treasurer, for the head of Victualling: [and is] for bills of exchange, necessary money, extraordinary necessary money, short allowance [money] and contingencies 19,700 0 0
to ditto for the same head [and is] for the [Victualling] Course and the interest thereon for the month of Oct. 1706 58,586 10 0
£142,400 0 0
to James Brydges, Paymaster of the Forces Abroad, as in part of 553,845l. 14s 4d. for subsidies to the Allies anno 1709: and is for Sir Theodore Janssen in part of 26,000l. for two months' subsidy to the Duke of Savoy to Oct. 3 next and is to answer the value of 106,6662/3 Crowns in his bills payable at 60 days at 58½ pence sterling to the Crown of 82 sols, money of Piedmont 8,000 0 0
June 22. (William Lowndes to the Navy Commissioners to assign 3,800l. 10s. 0d. to Walter Whitfeild for the Marines, as above.) Disposition Book XIX, pp. 2, 3.
Same for 1,000l. to Spencer Compton: out of Civil List moneys: to be paid to Tribbeko and Ruperti for the subsistence of the poor Palatines. Ibid., p. 4.
Same for 13,550l. to James Brydges, Paymaster General of the Forces Abroad: out of Exchequer Bills to be made forth under the Bank Stock Act: for the Forces abroad as follows: viz.
£ s. d.
in part of 1,081,083l. 0s. 4d. for the Forces in Spain and Portugal anno 1709.
for three months' subsistence from June 23 inst. for the commissioned Officers and two months' subsistence for the non-commissioned officers and privates of the Foot Regiments of Lepell and Munden 3,932 0 0
for the like subsistence for the Regiment of Dragoons under the Earl of Rochfort “to be computed from the time they shall embark from Ireland” 1,673 0 0
to be paid over to Brigadier George Wade, pursuant to royal warrant, without deduction [for poundage] in consideration of his having come twice express from Spain and being ordered to return again on her Majesty's service as also to recompense him for the loss of his equipage and baggage in Spain 1,000 0 0
to be paid over to Col. Anto. Columbiere, pursuant to royal warrant, as royal bounty for his losses in raising men for Lord Mordaunt's Regiment 100 0 0
to be paid over to Sir Henry Furnese for the value of 16,6662/3 Crowns (including 110l. 8s. 4d. for 3 per cent. for commission, freight and charges) put on board Sir John Jennings' Squadron at Lisbon by said Furnese's order to be carried to Barcelona for the use of her Majesty's Forces &c. there at 53 pence sterling per Crown 3,790 19 5
to reimburse Sir Theodore Janssen the 500l. advanced to the Marquis de Guiscard viz. 250l. on Aug. 7 last, 250l. on Novr. 13 last, and 5 per cent. interest thereon 518 0 7
for pay to Major General Wills as Brigadier General from 24 April 1708 to 10 June 1709 and the pay of his Major of Brigade for same time 826 0 0
for 84 days' pay to said Major General in advance as such from 1709 June 10 210 0 0
to be paid to the said Major General by way of imprest and upon account towards defraying the contingencies of the Expedition under his command 1,000 0 0
to be paid to the said Major General towards providing an equipage [for himself] for his said Expedition 500 0 0
£13,550 0 0
Ibid., p. 5.
June 22. Same for 109,212l. 10s. 0d. out of the like Exchequer Bills as above: to be issued as follows:
£ s. d.
to James Brydges, Paymaster of the Forces Abroad: in part of the order in his name for the service of 1709 80,555 13 1
to Thomas Micklethwaite, on his order as Treasurer of the Transport Service: and is to be applied to the [Transport] Course for the month of December 1706 28,656 16 11
£109,212 10 0
Ibid., p. 6.
Same to James Brydges, Paymaster General of the Forces Abroad. The Lord Treasurer approves of your disposition of the funds as follows as in your memorial of this day: viz. (1) that the sum of 48,930l. 9s. 9½d. remaining undisposed in your hands out of the tallies on the Land Tax 1709 that were struck in your name March 23 last was paid over to Sir Henry Furnese towards satisfaction of his bills of exchange on Lisbon for value of 50,000l. taken up there for the service of the war in Catalonia:
and (2) the sum of 39,000l. (part of 115,000l. ordered into your hands April 23 last) was paid by you for the service of the Forces in Spain and Portugal, to wit 37,400l. thereof to the said Furnese for remittances and drafts and 1,600l. for subsistence of the Forces [abroad but with units] payable here.
The total of these sums being 87,930l. 9s. 9½d. is to be put to the item of 1,081,083l. 0s. 4d. granted by Parliament for the Troops in Spain and Portugal anno 1709. Disposition Book XX, p. 10.
June 22. Letter of direction for 4,200l. to the Judges &c. as follows: out of Civil List moneys: and is for 1709 Easter term: viz.
£
to the 13 Judges at Westminster 3,250
to Sir Joseph Jekyll, Chief Justice of Chester 125
to six Judges in Wales on their 300l. per an. each 450
to John Pocklington, second Justice of Chester, Flint and Montgomery 100
to the eleven Masters in Chancery for 1709 Lady day quarter on their 100l. per an. each 275
£4,200
Ibid., p. 15.
William Lowndes to the Navy Treasurer enclosing a copy of an order signed this day [see supra, p. 214] by the Lord Treasurer relating to the interest which shall incur on any Exchequer Bills issued for the public service from the respective times of issuing to the days that the respective Paymasters shall actually pay them to the persons or to the uses for which they were intended.
Please comply therewith so far as relates to your Office. (The like letter to the Treasurer of the Ordnance; the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded; the Paymaster of Marines; the Commissioners of Victualling; the Treasurer of Transports; Mr. How and Mr. Brydges as Paymasters respectively of the Guards and Garrisons and of the Forces Abroad.) Out Letters (General) XIX, p. 81.
Instructions by Treasurer Godolphin to be observed by the officers of the Exchequer relating to the issuing, paying and accompting for Exchequer Bills that are or shall be issued in pursuance of the Act 7 Anne, c. 30, for enlarging the Stock of the Bank of England, and by the officers appointed for paying the interest to be allowed on such of the said Bills as shall from time to time be issued by the Tellers of the Receipt.
(1) The Auditor of the Receipt is on the 24 June inst. to compute the sum then due to be paid to the Bank of England on the 3 per cent. allowance for circulation upon the whole sum of 2,500,000l. issuable in the said Exchequer Bills for her Majesty's supply, to wit from the date of any such issue to the said 24th June and to send a certificate thereof to the Lord Treasurer and so from time to time quarterly in future, including the Bills so issued for her Majesty's Supply and the Bills issued at the end of each quarter for the amount of such 3 per cent. allowance so due to the Bank.
(2) The Auditor of the Receipt shall similarly compute and certify quarterly the sum due to the Bank on such Bills issued for the said 3 per cent. allowance to said Bank for circulation (“upon the said allowance of 3 per cent. per an. for circulation upon all the Bills that at the end of every or any such quarter shall have been issued to pay, or raise money to pay, the interest after the rate of 2 pence per cent. [per 100l.] per diem borne upon the said Bills when the said Bills shall come to be re-issued at the Exchequer”.)
The above certificates are to the end that warrant may be given for the issuing of Exchequer Bills for the satisfying of the 3 per cent. allowance so due quarterly to the Bank.
(3) And whereas it is enacted that the Bills to be re-issued from time to time or at any time at the Exchequer after 1709 June 24 shall be re-issued for the principal money thereof only, the following directions are to be observed in order to reimbursing to the Tellers of the Exchequer who re-issue such Bills so much as they shall have allowed to the payers or lenders of such Bills for the interest thereon: viz.
(4) An officer or officers to be appointed herefor by the Lord Treasurer shall enter in a book fairly to be kept for that purpose all Exchequer Bills issued to him or them for paying or raising money to pay such interest on the said re-issued Bills, the said book to contain columns for the number, sum and date of each Bill, the name of the person to whom same is disposed, the time when [so disposed], the number of days between the date of the Bill and the time [date] of disposing the same and the sum allowed for interest in that time: with which interest the said officer or officers are to surcharge themselves in their accounts from time to time.
(5) The Auditor of the Receipt is to cause a register to be kept with each Teller of the Receipt to contain the entry of the Bills received from time to time in each Teller's Office with columns for the day when received, numbers, dates and sums of each Bill and distinct columns for inserting against each particular Bill the time from and to which interest is allowed, the number of days and the sum of interest allowed on each Bill.
(6) Each respective Teller in order to receive money to reimburse the interest allowed by him on Bills to be re-issued shall make lists of such Bills in the same manner and form in all respects as he is hereby directed to register the said Bills upon receiving them: and the officer or officers that shall be appointed as above on receiving such lists from the Tellers shall pay to each such Teller the sums contained in the interest column in the said lists and take such Teller's receipt for the same accordingly.
(7) Once every week or oftener the Auditor of the Receipt shall call for the list so paid by the said officer or officers to be so appointed and shall compare the said list with the Register Book of Bills received by the Tellers “which is to be kept by him” and shall certify the agreement thereof on the said list: and the lists so certified, together with the respective Teller's receipts as aforesaid shall be a good and sufficient voucher to the officer or officers [so to be appointed as above for paying such interest sums] and shall be allowed on their accounts accordingly.
(8) On Friday in every week the officers so to be appointed for paying such interest are to send to the Lord Treasurer a general certificate and account of their receipts and payments in such week charging themselves therein with the sums received in that week in Exchequer Bills for raising money to pay such interest, and discharging themselves by the Bills disposed in that week for such purpose; and again charging themselves with the money received for Bills so disposed and with the interest accrued on the Bills so disposed [from the time of their receipt of such Bills] to the time of disposing the same and then discharging themselves by the sums paid in the said week to the Tellers for interest on Bills re-issued according to lists as above.
Memorandum: These Instructions were cancelled and new ones were signed by Treasurer Godolphin of the same date, which for instructions 1–4 are practically identical: but instruction 5 is re-cast so as to provide that the Register of Exchequer Bills paid in shall be kept not by the Tellers themselves but by the Auditor of the Receipt and thereby should be a cheque upon the Tellers which was obviously the arrangement contemplated in instruction 7.
In this new form instruction 5 is as follows: “The Auditor of the Receipt is to cause a Book or Register to be kept in which shall be entered from time to time in a numerical manner every parcel of Bills that shall be paid into the Receipt of her Majesty's Exchequer; in which book there may be four columns for the four Tellers, that it may appear how many parcels of Bills each Teller is possessed of and how much of each parcel is principal and how much is interest.”
Articles 6 and 7 are altered so as to make it consonant with this new arrangement. (6) “Each respective Teller in order to receive money to reimburse interest allowed by him in Bills to be re-issued shall deliver every list of such Bills (to be attested by him or his chief clerk) to the officer or officers appointed as aforesaid . . . .
(7) The Auditor of the Receipt shall once in every seven days or oftener call for the receipts so given by the Tellers and compare the number and sum of each parcel contained in the said receipts with the Register Book of Bills received by the Tellers and on agreement shall certify such his examination on the said receipts. Warrants not Relating to Money XX, pp. 374–8, 385–8.
June 22. Letters patent by Treasurer Godolphin constituting Lionell Herne and Samuell Edwards to be the officers for paying interest as above on Exchequer Bills issued under the Act [7 Anne, c. 30] for Enlarging the Capital Stock of the Bank of England.
Followed by petition from said Herne and Edwards offering their securities, detailed, in 8,000l. for their said office; and warrant by Treasurer Godolphin dated June 25 to the Queen's Remembrancer to take the said security. Ibid., pp. 378–381.
June 23. Royal sign manual for 20,000l. to John Tailer gent., Deputy to Surveyor General of Crown Lands: without account: to be applied to the charge of building the mansion house in Woodstock Park begun by direction of the Duke of Marlborough. (Money warrant dated June 28 hereon.) (Money order dated June 30 hereon.) Queen's Warrant Book XXIV, p. 81. Order Book VII, p. 256.
Royal warrant dated St. James's to the Clerk of the Signet for a privy seal concerning the administration of the Prince of Denmark's personal estate. John Smith, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Sir Charles Hedges, Judge of the High Court of Admiralty, to whom the said administration was committed by privy seal of May 19 last have since June 6 inst. declared two accounts of Spencer Compton (who was Treasurer and Receiver General of said Prince's revenues and Treasurer of his Household from 1707 April 26 till said Prince's death): both which accounts were stated by John Ball who was appointed by the said Prince as his auditor, which said accounts cover respectively 1707 Lady day to 1708 Lady day (charge 57,000l., discharge 51,018l. 18s. 2¼d.) and 1708 Lady day to Oct. 28, being the date of death of said Prince (charge 20,481l. 1s. 9¾d., discharge 13,027l. 14s. 2¾d., leaving said Compton indebted 7,453l. 7s. 7d. to the personal estate of the said Prince). The Queen hereby declares her approbation of the said accounts and indemnifies the said administrators against all charges relating to the said personal estate and likewise the said Spencer Compton, save and except only as to the said remain of 7,453l. 7s. 7d. Further the Queen thinks it just and reasonable to pay out of the said estate an entire quarter on the following schedule of salaries and other allowances of the servants of the said Prince for the time from Michaelmas 1708 to the time of his death and afterwards till the time of his interment or of their being discharged, “which sums do make in the whole 41,914l. 3s. 4d.” as in the first schedule hereto.
Further the Queen is hereby pleased to bestow (out of that part of the said Prince's personal estate which by the distribution thereof is to come to the Queen's own particular use) the sums as in the second schedule hereto, amounting to 444l. 15s. 0d. being one quarter similarly on the pensions formerly allowed by said Prince.
“And forasmuch as there will be occasions to make further payments as well out of the said whole personal estate for funeral charges, debts and other demands whereunto the same is liable, as out of that part which by the distribution will accrue to us [to wit demands] for bounties, pensions, allowances or other causes, all which future payments according to the respective natures thereof are to be placed to account” it is hereby further directed that the said administrators shall make such future payments out of the said whole personal estate “or out of our part thereof respectively” as they shall be directed to make from time to time by royal sign manual and same shall be allowed in their accounts and they shall hereby be indemnified for same.
Appending: (a) a schedule of the sums whereunto the salaries and other allowances of the servants of his late Royal Highness the Prince of Denmark do amount for a quarter of a year:
£ s. d.
Groom of the Stole viz. John, Lord Delawarr 300 0 0
Gentlemen of the Bedchamber, viz. William, Lord Byron; Thomas, Earl of Westmorland; Thomas, Lord Howard of Effingham; Archibald, Earl of Rosebery; Henry, Earl of Lincoln 150l. each 750 0 0
[Keeper of the] Privy Purse and Master of the Robes, Christian Siegfried de Plessen Esq. 100 0 0
Secretary and Secretary for Foreign Affairs, John George Hugk Esq. 110 0 0
Grooms of the Bedchamber, viz. Thomas Maule, John Hill, Samuel Masham, Charles Churchill, George Churchill, Hugh Boscawen, James Vernon, Francis Godfrey Esqrs., 100l. each 800 0 0
Pages of the Backstairs, viz. Peter Loroch [page] and barber, Daniel Croharre, Samuell Nash, John Custis respectively 35l., 20l., 20l., 20l. 95 0 0
Servant to the Pages of the Backstairs Mr. Peter Person 5 0 0
Yeoman of the Robes and barber Mr. Carsten Buckholt 27 10 0
Assistant to the Yeoman of the Robes, Mr. Matthew Barrow 10 0 0
Page of the Presence, Mr. Charles Lucas 10 0 0
Gentlemen Ushers, viz. Thomas Beverley and John Layng Esqrs. 37l. 10s. 0d. each 75 0 0
Gentlemen Waiters, viz. John Chamberlaine, Charles Nicholas Eyre, Richard Steel, Michael Kinkard Esqrs. 25l. each 100 0 0
Yeoman of the Cellar, Mr. Thomas Hopgood 15 0 0
Chaplain Mr. John Tribbechow 50 0 0
Chapel Keeper Mr. John Christian Jacobi 7 10 0
Laundress and Sempstress Mrs. Dorothy Cooper 37 10 0
necessary woman Mrs. Eliz. Towers 11 10 0
Master of the Horse, Scroop, Earl of Bridge-water 250 0 0
Equerries, Peter Wentworth, Henry Durell, Benj. Mildmay, Henry Hawley Esqs. 75l. each 300 0 0
Pages of Honour, viz. Thomas Poultney, John Chudleigh Esqrs. 37l. 10s. 0d. each 75 0 0
Yeoman Rider and Capt. of the Arms, Timothy Sheels Esq. 80 5 0
Clerk of the Stables, Mr. George Curtis 32 10 0
Purveyor of the Stables, Mr. James Herauld 30 0 0
Coachmen, viz. Michael Johnson, James Smedley, Joseph Turner each 21l. 10s. 0d. 63 10 0
Footmen, viz. John Phillpot, Roger Williams, Edward Sleyman, Joseph Holt, James Henderson, John Sheppard, Thomas Benn, Thomas Robinson 10l. 5s. 3d. each 82 2 0
Grooms, viz. William Keys, Richard Aron Dewall bottleman, Hugh Peterson, Robert Hilton, Benj. Godin, John Hawkins each 13l. 17s. 6d. and Dewall 4l. [extra as bottleman] 87 5 0
Chaiseman, Erasmus Peterson 13 17 6
helper to the Chaiseman, Richard Darlington 5 0 0
helper to the Purveyor of the Stables, Thomas Garbet 5 12 6
Groom Farrier, Richard Simcockx 5 0 0
Chairmen, viz. John Clarke, Henry Irons, Richard Stanley, Thomas Turnhill each 9l. 19s. 4½d. 39 17 6
Keeper of the Stableyard at St. James's, Samuel Thornley 6 0 0
Master of the Buck and Stag Hounds, viz. Sir Sewster Peyton and Walter Chetwynd Esq. 275 0 0
Huntsman for keeping the harriers, Joseph Webb 50 0 0
Harbourer, Roger Webb 5 0 0
Master of the Setting Dogs, Mr. Peter Beaubisson 62 10 0
Dog Keeper, Mr. Peter Kirke 25 0 0
Master of the Barge, Mr. Christopher Hill 7 10 0
ditto for 18 watermen 13 10 0
Attorney William Etterick Esq. 5 0 0
Solicitor Thomas Webb Esq. 5 0 0
Treasurer, the Honbl. Spencer Compton Esq. [fee] for himself and clerks 155 0 0
Auditor, John Ball 37 10 0
gamekeeper at Winchester, Robert Young 10 0 0
Keeper of the Little House at Windsor, Faith Browne 10 0 0
for looking after the Guard Chamber at St. James's, Sarah Young 3 15 0
office rent 10 0 0
Gardener at the Little House at Windsor as by contract, Richard Watts 45 0 0
Stud Master, Richard Marshall Esq. from 1 Aug. to 1 Nov. 1708 90 16 3
physician, Dr. John Arbuthnott 87 10 0
Deputy Privy Purse, Cort Waleking Esq. 50 0 0
Attorney, William Etterick Esq. 95 0 0
Secretary, John George Hugk Esq. 50 0 0
Yeoman of the Robes, Mr. Crasten Buckholt 7 10 0
Hautbois, viz. John Aubert, Stephen Lefever, Peter Latoure, Humphrey Denby, James Graves, William Smith, Charles Babell, John Ernest Galliard 14l. each 112 0 0
Music, viz. John Shore, James Paisible each 25l. 50 0 0
Page of the Backstairs, Daniel Croharre 7 10 0
Assistant to the Yeoman of the Robes, Mr. Matthew Barrow 2 10 0
for the Little House at Windsor, Mr. Thomas Dawson 1 7 7
Laundress and Sempstress, Mrs. Dorothy Cooper 12 10 0
mole catcher, Henry Badger 3 15 0
Tailor, Godfrey Whittich 15 0 0
Pages of the Backstairs, viz. Mr. Peter Laroch and Mr. Dan. Croharre 20 10 0
Harrier to the Stud, Robert Simcockx 5 0 0
Bitmaker to the Stud, John Hardcastle 2 10 0
£4,914 3 4
(b) a schedule of the sums whereunto the pensions and bounties formerly allowed by his Royal Highness the late Prince of Denmark do amount for one quarter of a year:
£ s. d.
Edward, Earl of Sandwich 250 0 0
Henry William Ludolph Esq. 50 0 0
Eliz. Debnam 1 10 0
Alice Bailey 0 15 0
Aves Wright 1 10 0
Katherine Cadick 1 0 0
Grace Hurry 1 10 0
Gab. Mary Cabin 10 0 0
Edward Normand 4 10 0
Anthony Knight 4 10 0
James Elliott 5 0 0
Richard Clarke for Samuel Aymes' children 2 0 0
Mary Helbig 2 0 0
Alice Beetham 2 0 0
John Stedwell 5 0 0
Ann Henderson 2 0 0
Love Burch 2 10 0
Dorothy St. Loe 5 0 0
Jane St. Loe 5 0 0
Sarah Harrison 5 0 0
Ann Walthorpe 2 0 0
Mary Barber 2 0 0
Mr. Peter Voyer Richause 50 0 0
Thomas Atkinson 5 0 0
Windsor School 7 10 0
Dove Crusius 17 10 0
£444 15 0
Queen's Warrant Book XXIV, pp. 82–87.
June 23. Royal sign manual for 200l. to James Griffin Esq., son of the late Edward, Lord Griffin; as royal bounty: in consideration of several debts and claims out of the forfeited estate of his said lord “to which, according to divers reports which have been laid before us, he seems to have some equitable title.” (Money warrant dated June 27 hereon.) (Money order dated June 28 hereon. In the margin a later confirmation dated 1710 Aug. 18 of this order.) Queen's Warrant Book XXIV, p. 87. Order Book VII, p. 255.
Money warrant for 903l. 7s. 6d. for one year to 1708 Sept. 29 to the Sergeants at Arms on their fee of 3s. a day and board wages of 2s. 6d. a day: being 100l. 7s. 6d. each to Thomas Charnock, Samuel Powell, Edmond Williamson, Thomas D. Crittz, John Templer, Daniel Gardner, Mathew Hutton, Thomas Turst, Joseph Lawson. Money Book XX, p. 46. Disposition Book XX, p. 16.
William Lowndes to Mr. Baker to report on the enclosed petition [missing] of Lawrence Goldfinch for his expenses in apprehending George Parton in Romney Marsh for coming from France. Out Letters (General) XIX, p. 65.
J. Taylour (in the absence of William Lowndes) to the Queen's printer to deliver John Pearce 90 copies of the Act [7 Anne, c. 26] for purchasing land for fortifying Portsmouth, Chatham and Harwich for distribution to the Commissioners for said Act.
Prefixing: request by C. Musgrave, William Brydges and Ja. Craggs for said copies. Ibid., p. 80.
Same to the Postmasters General. It is the Queen's pleasure that you send by this night's post to the respective dioceses, post free, the new forms of Prayer that are appointed to be used during the war. You will receive same from the Queen's printers. Ibid., p. 81.
Treasury reference to the Customs Commissioners of the petition of Thomas Palmer merchant concerning the additional Duty of two thirds demanded on 250 tons of currants imported by him from Zante in the Venetian ship Judith, praying delivery of the goods under security “till that matter be settled by Parliament.” Reference Book VIII, p. 362.
June 23. Royal warrant dated St. James's to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to order the raising, with all expedition, of a Regiment of Foot of 12 Companies of 50 privates each to be commanded by Sir John Wittewrong, whose commission bears date April 22 last: the commission Officers to be paid from April 22 last and the privates &c. from the day 25 men per company are raised; and to pay 3l. British money per man as levy money for 45 men in each Company (Entered at the Signet Office the 25th day of June 1709). Out Letters (Ireland) IX, pp. 93–4.
Same dated same to the Attorney or Solicitor General for a great seal to appoint Archibald Douglas to be Receiver General of all the Crown Land Rents and Casualties whatsoever in Scotland and all arrears of the same and Paymaster of all salaries, pensions and allowances under any Establishments or warrants under the sign manual: with a salary of 400l. for himself and 50l. for a deputy or clerk as from 1709 Lady day and with provision for payment of same from 1st May 1707, the date of the Union.
[This warrant replaces that of May 5 supra, p. 163, and differs from it by eliminating all taxation receipts or revenue receipts other than Crown rents and casualties.] Out Letters (North Britain) II, pp. 62–4.
Same to the Clerk of the Signet for a privy seal for the payment of salaries in Scotland according to the Establishment signed by the Queen ut infra, pp. 262–4: the present warrant and privy seal thereon being to replace the like of May 16 last supra, pp. 173–4. The difference between the two warrants consists in making the said Establishment payable out of the Crown Rents and Casualties of Scotland instead of out of the Exchequer of England: this is done by the insertion in the present version of provisions for the issue by the Barons of the Exchequer of Scotland of their precepts to the Paymaster of said Establishment to pay quarterly the fees, salaries and charges relating to the Court of Session and Justiciary and Exchequer Court in Scotland in such proportions out of the Crown revenues and casualties of Scotland as the said Barons shall think fit and further that the said Paymaster out of moneys so received by him from Crown land rents and casualties shall from time to time pay all such other fees, salaries or allowances contained in the said lists as have no relation to the said Courts of Session, Justiciary or Exchequer. Further in order that the said Paymaster shall be duly charged with moneys received by him from the Customs and Excise the said Barons are to direct the Customs Cashier and Excise Cashier to send to the proper auditors [the Auditor for Scotland] and to the Queen's Remembrancer of the Exchequer Court of Scotland quarterly certificates of the moneys paid by them to said Receiver: and it is further hereby declared that the payments made by the Receiver General of Customs amounting to 26,000 pounds Scots shall be good payments &c. ut supra, p. 174.
Further the provision in the privy seal of May 21 last supra, pp. 173–4, for imprests out of the Exchequer of England to the said Paymaster of Scotland [and by consequence all the directions as to accountancy for same] and likewise the directions by divers other privy seals for payment of the salaries of the Barons of the Exchequer Scotland, the Queen's Remembrancer of Scotland, the Clerk of the Pipe of Scotland and the Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer in the Exchequer of Scotland, are hereby revoked, determined and made void. Out Letters (North Britain) II, pp. 56–60.
[? June 24.] Establishment under the royal sign manual for the yearly charge of the office of Master of the Buckhounds: total 1,100l. per an. being 500l. for his own wages, buying of horses and maintaining them, servants' lodgings and all other extraordinaries whatsoever and 600l. for keeping of hounds, wages to huntsmen and all other charges relating to the said office. Queen's Warrant Book XXIV, p. 70.
June 24. Warrant by Treasurer Godolphin to Spencer Compton to pay to John Tribbeko, George Andrew Ruperti, Mr. — Ludolf and Mr. — Sherrer the 80l. per day royal bounty for the relief of the poor Germans [Palatines] arrived or which may hereafter arrive from Holland: same to be paid according to directions from the Commissioners for Trade.
Appending. memorial from said Tribbeko and Ruperti dated London June 23 desiring help in the work, they being unable to hold out longer under the burden of it by reason of the great numbers arrived and arriving. Those that were lodged in barns must now be removed at midsummer. The Queen has ordered us 1,000 tents for them, but it is impossible for us to find places for the tents and to see to the pitching of them and removing the people into them. By warrants provision is only made for 4,000 Palatines but there is already 6,600 of them actually here: so that we have been obliged to pay a good sum to the remaining 2,600 out of the allowance of the 4,000. Care must be taken of these 2,600 if they are to be kept from starving or begging. Money Book XX, pp. 43–44.
Same by same to the Receipt to reserve and apply to annuities purchased anno 1707 (“for or towards the making good such quarterly payments on the annuities purchased under the Act of 5 Anne [6 Anne, c. 2] for Sale of Annuities as shall incur or grow due at or before Michaelmas 1710”) the sum of 14,613l. 10s. 0½d. which is the overplus remaining in the Receipt of the Exchequer on the 24th June 1709 from the Excise granted [by 4 Wm. and Mary, c. 3] for 99 years appropriated for the payment of several annuities.
Prefixing. certificate by the Auditor of the Receipt of said surplus at said date. Ibid., p. 53.
William Lowndes to Mr. Borrett enclosing Mr. Bulstrode's letter [missing] concerning the trial in relation to the Lord Wenam [Richard Wenman Visct. Wenman of Tuam]. Take care of the cause in her Majesty's behalf. Out Letters (General) XIX, p. 65.
Same to Mr. Cardonel. The Lord Treasurer has been acquainted by Sir Henry Furnese that bills are frequently drawn by Mr. Sweet and Capt. Cartwright for considerable sums for the Forces in Flanders notwithstanding [the fact that] my Lord doth take care constantly to order money for remittances for a month or two months' subsistence beforehand. Please represent this to the Duke of Marlborough as a matter not only prejudicial to the public with respect to the exchange but also very irregular in not mentioning the services for which they are drawn and which perhaps are for such as my Lord knows nothing of: and that Sweet and Cartwright be directed not to draw any more bills for the future till my Lord [Treasurer] has been acquainted with the occasions and has approved thereof. Ibid., p. 83.
June 24. Treasury reference to the Customs Commissioners of the petition of James Benn (for four years a deputy Queen's waiter London port) praying for the land surveyor's place at Cowes loco Mr. Filks deceased. (This reference apparently takes the place of that of 16 May last supra, p. 173). Reference Book VIII, p. 357.
June 25. Allowance by Treasurer Godolphin of the salary bill, not detailed, of the Salt Office for 1709 June 24 quarter: total 1,137l. 10s. 0d. Money Book XX, p. 36.
Money warrant for 20l. to Edward Hudson, clerk, for the charge of his passage to Virginia whither he is going chaplain.
20l. to William Brody (Brady) for the like as a chaplain to Virginia. Ibid., p. 44. Order Book VII, p. 257. Disposition Book XX, p. 16.
Warrant by Treasurer Godolphin to the Receipt to take in loans to the amount of 10,936l. 0s. 2d. on credit of the Act of 6 Anne [c. 73] for Continuing the Half Subsidies: [the said sum] representing the interest due for one quarter on 729,067l. 15s. 6¾d. loans taken in on said Act.
Prefixing: certificate by the Auditor of the Receipt that there is still wanting 7,196l. 0s. 2d. to complete the sum of 10,936l. 0s. 2d. for three months' interest on said total loans to March 9 last and a further 10,936l. 0s. 2d. for a further quarter to 1709 June 9. Money Book XX, p. 45.
Money warrant for 86l. 16s. 0d. to the Agents for Taxes for half a year to 1708 Xmas for incidents, not detailed, for their office. Ibid., p. 46. Order Book VII, p. 258. Disposition Book XX, p. 16.
William Lowndes to Mr. Brydges to apply as follows the 80,555l. 13s. 1d. directed to you the 22nd inst., and a further 21,523l. 16s. 2½d. remaining undisposed [in your hands] of the 100,000l. tallies and orders on Malt anno 1709 directed to you the 17th inst.: viz.
£ s. d.
in part of 553,845l. 14s. 4d. for subsidies to the Allies anno 1709.
for subsidy to the King of Prussia for three months ending 4 July 1709 12,500 0 0
[ditto] to the King of Denmark for three months ending [July] 15 9,375 0 0
[ditto] to the Landgrave of Hesse for six months ending 30 May last for maintaining two Regiments of Horse for the service of her Majesty and the States General according to a new Treaty 7,936 1 0
[ditto] to the Elector Palatine for three months ending 24 June last 1,190 9 7½
[ditto] to the Elector of Treves for three months ending same time 1,488 1 10½
for the agio, bread and forage of the 12,000 Prussians serving in the Netherlands [and is] for the months of May, June and July 1709 viz. 2,670l. 2s. 9½d. for their agio; 1,822l. 13s. 6d. for bread and 5,993l. 11s. 5¼d. for forage 10,486 7 8½
in part of 220,000l. for the Troops of Augmentation anno 1709.
for her Majesty's proportion of four months' subsidy payable to the King of Prussia ending July 15 next for maintaining 6,205 Prussian Troops of Augmentation in the service of her Majesty and the Allies in the Low Countries according to the new Treaty for that purpose 33,986 4 10½
for her Majesty's proportion of the pay of the Saxon Troops of Augmentation in the Low Countries to July 15 next pursuant to the new Treaty 16,129 2 4
for 30,000 Crowns, being her Majesty's share of 60,000 Crowns payable by her Majesty and the States General to the Elector Palatine as an extraordinary subsidy for eight Regiments of Foot and 15 Squadrons of Horse of his troops as an augmentation to act this campaign in Flanders in the service of her Majesty and the States General 7,500 0 0
£102,079 9 3½
Interest on the said orders of loan for 21,523l. 16s. 2½d. is to commence from the date [of the assignment] of said orders. On your transmitting them to the Treasury with your assignment thereon the Lord Treasurer will give warrants to the Exchequer for paying the said interest. Disposition Book XX, pp. 6–7.
June 25. Letter of direction for the issue of 125,200l. as follows out of Exchequer Bills to be made forth under the Bank Stock Act [7 Anne, c. 30]: viz.
£ s. d.
to James Brydges Paymaster of the Forces abroad:
in part of 301,748l. 7s. 11¼d. for extraordinary charges of the war.
for an arrear due to the King of Prussia in the late war, of 56,000 Crowns agreed to by Treaty 13,333 6 8
to same in part of 1,081,083l. 0s. 4d. for the Forces in Spain and Portugal anno 1709.
towards answering bills of exchange drawn from Barcelona by Mr. Mead 40,000 0 0
to answer the several bills following for the use of the prisoners in France viz. one bill drawn by Vanderheyden and Drummond of Amsterdam, dated Feb. 1708–9 for value of 50,000 livres advanced on their credit at Paris to Col. Arnott 10 Feb. last to clear several debts in quarters of the private centinels of her Majesty's Forces, prisoners in France, pursuant to the Duke of Marlborough's orders in order to their [the said private centinels] being exchanged 3,697 17 3
one bill drawn by ditto March 22 last for the value of 100,000 livres similarly advanced at Paris to Col. Arnott towards completing the subsistence of the prisoners to March 24 last 7,225 14 0
one bill drawn by ditto for the value of 70,000 livres similarly advanced which completes the subsistence to March 24 last 5,160 3 0
one bill advanced by ditto for the value of 70,000 livres and another on June 7 for 10,000 livres similarly advanced: which is for two months' subsistence to the Officers to May 24 last 5,807 12 9
£75,224 13 8
to John Howe, Paymaster of Guards and Garrisons:
for account of Guards and Garrisons anno 1709.
for 28 days' subsistence from June 25 inst. to July 22 next for the Troops and Regiments in Great Britain 19,246 5 8½
for 61 days' subsistence from June 24 inst. to Aug. 23 next to the Battalion of Guards in Holland 4,542 8 9
for 93 days' pay to the several General and Staff Officers from 1708 Dec. 23 to March 25 last 3,039 12 4½
for account of the 5,000 men for sea service anno 1709.
for 28 days' subsistence June 25 inst. to July 22 next for the several Regiments part of the said 5,000 men 2,920 13 2
for subsistence for same time to the Officers of Brigadier Handasyde's Regiment [to wit those officers thereof who are] in England 226 6 4
£29,975 6 4
to Harry Mordaunt, Paymaster of the Ordnance:
for sea services of the Ordnance 10,000 0 0
for land services of same 10,000 0 0
£20,000 0 0
Ibid., pp. 7–8.
June 25. William Lowndes to Secretary Boyle concerning Samuell Schmettau's petition for a patent for the better making of salt. The Salt Commissioners have no objection thereto in case the nature of the salt be not altered by the said invention: and the said Mr. Schmettau having subscribed a writing importing his consent to submit to any covenant to that effect in the patent (to wit that the nature of the salt shall not be altered by the said invention), the Lord Treasurer has no objection to a patent accordingly with such covenant. Out Letters (General) XIX, p. 82.
Treasury reference to Mr. Walpole of the petition of Capt. Alexander Gordon showing that being disabled by loss of both his legs he had a pension of 50l. per an. payable out of the funds in Scotland, but he is in arrear thereon since the Union: therefore prays that said pension may be put on the Establishment of Guards and Garrisons. Reference Book VIII, p. 364.
A list of [Lord Chamberlain's] warrants countersigned by the Lord Treasurer relating to [deliveries of provisions out of] the Great Wardrobe: [relating mainly to the funeral of the Prince of Denmark, the Queen's husband. The dates of the original Lord Chamberlain's warrants are not stated; each item represents a separate warrant.]
£ s. d.
mourning liveries for the Yeomen of the Guard &c. 1,420 0 0
20 yards of black bays for the Queen's service 5 0 0
two umbrellas for Mrs. Hill and one for Mrs. Forrester's lodging 15 0 0
surplices &c. for her Majesty's chapel 286 0 0
six pair of sheets for her Majesty's footmen 23 0 0
Holland sheets for the Queen's service 310 0 0
four pillows covered with white satin that belong to her Majesty's bed at Kensington 16 0 0
Turkey leather chairs &c. for the Treasury Chambers 27 0 0
necessaries for the Queen's service &c. at Kensington 149 0 0
glass sconces &c. for the Queen's service 58 0 0
six Russia leather trunks for Pages of the Backstairs 39 0 0
furniture for the Prince's Gallery at Kensington 850 0 0
ditto for the House of Peers 310 0 0
mourning liveries for the Warders of the Tower 520 0 0
ditto for the Marshal's men 19 10 0
mourning for St. James's 630 0 0
blackcloth for trumpeters, kettledrumers &c. for the Fourth Troop of Horse Guards 55 0 0
mourning for drummers and hautboys &c. of the Second Troop of Horse Guards 58 0 0
ditto for the First Troop of Horse Guards 58 0 0
ditto for drums &c. for the Third Regiment of Foot Guards 53 10 0
Prayer Books &c. at the Chapel at Windsor covered with black 49 0 0
two canopies of state for Dublin Castle 361 16 0
watchgowns for Yeomen of the Guard and Warders of the Tower 140 0 0
Queen's barge to be covered with black cloth 38 0 0
Private Chapel at Windsor to be put in mourning 72 7 0
mourning coverings for the Council Chamber 179 7 0
a purple traverse for the Queen's receiving the Sacrament 45 15 0
the Painted Chamber to be hung with black cloth 492 0 0
mourning for St. James's Palace 2,458 0 0
stools for Henry VII's Chapel 24 0 0
mourning for the Drummers of the Household 36 0 0
necessaries for the funeral of his Royal Highness the Prince of Denmark 164 0 0
bedding &c. for Dr. Arbuthnot's lodgings at Windsor 19 10 0
writing desk covered with black velvet in the Blue Room at St. James's 17 0 0
a purse for the Lord Privy Seal 20 0 0
mourning for trumpeters and kettledrummers 174 0 0
two velvet palls &c. 213 12 6
mourning for St. James's Chapel 394 11 0
ditto for the Duke of Grafton 15 0 0
ditto for the Prince's Chapel at St. James's 36 0 0
ditto for the persons that carried the canopy over the body 73 10 0
ditto for the Lobby of the House of Lords 92 4 0
black taffata lining for the pall to be laid over the Prince's coffin 78 14 0
mourning for colours &c. 27 6 0
a mourning livery for the herbstrewer 1 6 0
mourning liveries for the children of the Chapel 190 0 0
mourning for Whitehall Chapel 56 0 0
wire screens for the Queen's beds at St. James's 72 0 0
Queen's books covered with purple cloth in the Closet of the Chapel, St. James's 24 4 0
mourning for the new Great Drawing Room and new Council Room at St. James's 1,690 0 0
necessaries for her Majesty's Private Chapel at St. James's 40 0 0
a canopy of black cloth for the Privy Chamber 58 10 0
carpenters that bore his Royal Highness's black coats and caps 52 10 0
a case curtain for her Majesty's bed at St. James's 51 11 6
mourning for [the use of] the Duke of Ormonde 15 0 0
ditto for [the use of] the Duke of Somerset 25 0 0
mourning liveries for pensionary watermen 18 0 0
ditto for the Master of the Barges and 48 watermen 350 0 0
ditto for Walter Martin, ratkiller 8 17 6
Warrants not Relating to Money XX, pp. 381–2.
June 25. Money warrant for 150l. to John Smith, 125l. thereof for himself for last Lady day quarter, which with what has already been paid to him as one of the Barons of the Exchequer Court of Scotland is to complete to him the allowance of Chief Baron of the said Court (he having executed the said office from Xmas last, to which time the Earl of Seafield, late Chief Baron, hath been already paid); and 25l. for the deputy keeper of the seal of the said Exchequer Court for same quarter. (Money order dated June 27 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated June 30 hereon.) Out Letters (North Britain) II, p. 61. Disposition Book XX, p. 16.
June 25. J. Taylour to John Smith, Chief Baron of the Exchequer in Scotland enclosing the privy seal and Establishment for payment of the salaries to the Courts of Judicature &c. ut supra, pp. 225–6, “by which you will find that the privy seals for making payments to the officers of your Court are all determined except that for 200l. per an. to Mr. Stephens, part of which being directed to be paid to him and his son during the life of the longer liver 'tis thought most proper that they should make a release of that at the Exchequer, which my Lord Treasurer desires you will cause to be executed and transmitted hither in order to be entered in the Receipt of the Exchequer before you insert his salary in the certificate to be made from the new Establishment,” so as to prevent double payment. Out Letters (North Britain) II, p. 67.
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