Declared Accounts: Hawkers and Pedlars

Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 24, 1710. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1952.

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'Declared Accounts: Hawkers and Pedlars', in Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 24, 1710, ed. William A Shaw( London, 1952), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/cal-treasury-books/vol24/cclxxv-cclxxvi [accessed 24 November 2024].

Hawkers and Pedlars



DECLARED ACCOUNTS.
PIPE OFFICE: ROLL 1735.
LICENCES FOR HAWKERS AND PEDLARS AND PETTY CHAPMEN.
Account from 24 June 1709 to 24 June 1710.
Exhibited by the Commissioner for Hawkers, &c.
Charge.	£	s.	d.
Remains in the hands of these accomptants	965	10	5½
depending upon several persons at the foot of the last accompt	1,475	7	0
receipts:
due upon 2,311 licences to sundry hawkers, pedlars and petty chapmen within England, Wales and Berwick on Tweed at 4l. for each licence	9,244	0	0
licences to sundry hawkers, pedlars and petty chapmen to travel with 143 horses at 4l. each horse	572	0	0
fees on 2,169 single licences delivered out at 12d. each	108	9	0
fees for 142 licences granted for travelling with 142 horses at 2s. each	14	4	0
for 45 pedlars' bonds at 12d. each for securing the Duties	2	5	0
total charge and receipts	£12,381	15	5½
Discharge.	£	s.	d.
salaries to the Commissioners and officers	1,355	0	0
allowances for prompt payment at 2s. in the £	481	0	0
incidents	422	12	8
money paid into the Exchequer as by tallies, detailed	8,355	0	0
total payments and allowances	£10,613	12	8
and so Remains 1,768l. 2s. 9½d.
whereof:
depending upon sundry persons in arrear for their licences, 1,642l. 16s. 4d.
and so these accomptants are indebted 125l. 6s. 5½d.
Declared 8 May 1714.