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DECLARED ACCOUNTS: TREASURY SOLICITOR. |
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PIPE OFFICE: ROLL 3020 [E351/3020]. |
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AUDIT OFFICE: BUNDLE 2318, ROLL 38 [A.O.1/2318/38]. |
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WILLIAM BORRETT, Solicitor for the Affairs of the Treasury. |
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15 October 1711 to 15 October 1712. |
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Charge. |
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£ |
s. |
d. |
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Arrears: remaining in the Accomptant's hands on the foot of his last Accompt |
218 |
4 |
3 |
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Receipts: Michaelmas term, 10 and 11 Anne; on imprest |
1,300 |
0 |
0 |
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Easter term, 11 Anne; ditto |
700 |
0 |
0 |
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money received from the Navy Treasurer, towards satisfying several charges relating to the South Sea Company |
4,010 |
18 |
3½ |
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total charge and receipts |
£6,229 |
2 |
6½ |
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Discharge. |
£ |
s. |
d. |
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Charges and expenses of several prosecutions etc.: |
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v. John Clendon for a libel |
38 |
8 |
8 |
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v. Edward Shaw and Henry Wareing for seditious words spoke at Coventry |
59 |
0 |
10 |
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v. John Darby for a libel entitled 'The Observator' |
35 |
11 |
3 |
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v. Sarah Popping for the same |
14 |
2 |
9 |
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v. Sarah Popping for a libel entitled 'The Protestant Post-boy' |
14 |
2 |
9 |
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v. Sarah Popping for a libel entitled 'An Excellent New Song called an End to our Sorrows' |
11 |
16 |
9 |
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v. Sarah Boulter for a libel entitled 'Matt's Peace' |
11 |
16 |
9 |
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v. Rebeccah Bond for a libel entitled 'She Laud' |
11 |
3 |
6 |
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v. Rebeccah Bond for a libel entitled 'A Welcome to the Medal' |
13 |
9 |
6 |
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v. Henry Hills for the said libel |
14 |
2 |
9 |
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v. Thomas Harrison for the said libel |
14 |
2 |
9 |
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v. William Hart for the said libel |
14 |
2 |
9 |
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v. Anne Boulter for the said libel |
14 |
2 |
9 |
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v. Abell Roper for a libel entitled 'The Postboy' |
12 |
12 |
9 |
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to Mr. Solicitor to attend the Queen's Bench upon charging the above-named Defendants and for the clerk's fee |
3 |
7 |
0 |
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v. Charles Collins for seditious words |
29 |
5 |
6 |
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v. Richard Cresswell for seditious words spoke at Batch |
16 |
0 |
6 |
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v. Randle Mackdonald for seditious words spoke at Bath |
14 |
2 |
6 |
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v. Benjamin Harris for a libel entitled 'The Protestant Postboy' |
15 |
9 |
2 |
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v. John Franklyn for seditious words spoke at Portsmouth |
8 |
18 |
4 |
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v. John Goulding and John Ben for a riot and assault |
9 |
3 |
6 |
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v. Lord Hinchingbrooke and others for a riot and assault |
24 |
12 |
2 |
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v. Thomas Seaman and Edward Churchill for an assault |
24 |
5 |
2 |
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v. Jabez Rickson for a high misdemeanour committed at Pembroke |
47 |
10 |
2 |
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v. Thomas Ridge, Joan Player, James Dixon, John Rolfe, Jeremy Kelly, Thomas Best and John Tyhurst, brewers, prosecuted by the Queen's Order upon the Address of the House of Commons |
104 |
18 |
6 |
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v. the Trustees and Executors of the late Queen Dowager |
16 |
16 |
0 |
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v. Francis Addison for an intrusion into the Lutheran Church in the Savoy |
13 |
19 |
2 |
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v. the Corporation of Bewdley prosecuted by the Queen's Order on the Address of the House of Commons |
1,065 |
15 |
10 |
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v. Nathaniell Shepherd for seditious words |
7 |
19 |
2 |
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v. Thomas Kirby for high treason committed at Antegoa |
34 |
15 |
11 |
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v. Charles Mason, late Receiver and Paymaster of the Transport Service |
32 |
0 |
6 |
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v. the Duke of Marlborough; proceedings by English Information in the Exchequer |
72 |
16 |
8 |
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James Jame, Edward Plummer and John Symonds, Constables of Reading, at the suit of William Clarke, being arrested for impressing the said Clarke and defended at the Queen's charge |
2 |
11 |
0 |
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v. the Mayor and Burgesses of Nottingham |
27 |
0 |
6 |
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v. Thomas Clement for setting up a project or lottery entituled the Multiplication |
10 |
6 |
2 |
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v. John Hammond and others in trover for cutting and carrying away several trees in the Forest of Holt and Woolmer |
14 |
1 |
10 |
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v. Carew Reynell and others by English Information in the Exchequer to prevent waste |
9 |
5 |
8 |
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v. the Earl of Westmorland the like for preventing waste in Rockingham Forest |
9 |
19 |
9 |
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v. the Corporation of Portsmouth |
50 |
0 |
0 |
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v. Thomas Waples for counterfeiting the Lottery tickets anno 1711 |
9 |
7 |
6 |
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fees to Counsel re Dr. Bentley, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and the said College |
52 |
6 |
0 |
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ditto re the South Sea Company |
66 |
0 |
0 |
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paid the Attorney General for his Opinion on the case of Mr. Compton touching the plate of the late Prince of Denmark in his custody |
3 |
13 |
0 |
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ditto on the paper relating to Mr. Raffur for holding correspondence with the Queen's enemies |
5 |
17 |
6 |
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ditto on the papers of Mr. Forster of Northumberland |
6 |
0 |
0 |
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ditto on the papers relating to the Exeter riot |
6 |
7 |
6 |
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ditto for attendance in the Court of Queen's Bench for discharging or continuing recognizances |
27 |
10 |
0 |
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Mr. Harcourt, the attorney in the Crown Office, for the appearance of defendants |
6 |
2 |
8 |
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to the several Officers of the Courts of Queen Bench, Common Pleas and Exchequer for fees |
7 |
6 |
0 |
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to William Borrett, junior, for attending consultations about regulating the Press |
5 |
8 |
0 |
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ditto, for taking an Inquisition of Extent in co. Northampton on the estate of William Harbord, late Treasurer and Paymaster in Ireland |
38 |
19 |
2 |
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ditto for copies of informations etc. in London and Middlesex about riots and assaults committed by the 'Mohacks' etc. |
24 |
18 |
0 |
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2,203 |
12 |
7 |
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necessary and incident charges etc.: |
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payments made upon the Lord High Treasurer's warrant: |
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fees in passing the Commission for the Privy Seal |
122 |
11 |
4 |
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ditto in passing the revocation of the Duke of Marlborough's Commission |
51 |
3 |
3 |
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to the Attorney General's clerks, named, for their trouble in drawing and copying Proclamations 31 May 1708 to 15 Sept. 1710 |
54 |
5 |
0 |
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to John King for recovering for the Queen's use a great book containing copies of the rates of the late Queen Katherine's jointure etc. |
20 |
0 |
0 |
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to John Brand for writing and embellishing a copy of the Act for settling the precedence of the Electress Sophia etc. |
30 |
0 |
0 |
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to William Pitt, keeper of Newgate prison, and others for care of the late Marquis d'Guiscard |
152 |
18 |
0 |
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charges relating to the South Sea Corporation |
4,010 |
17 |
8 |
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4,441 |
15 |
3 |
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disbursements of divers natures, including 4l. 6s. 8d. to Mr. Eyre, the attorney in the Exchequer, for transscribing all the process of the Exchequer Office against Accomptants from the time of Charles II, 26l. 13s. 0d., for fees of passing the last Accompt and 70l. to Thomas Foley for Auditor's fee |
356 |
18 |
8 |
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total for necessary and incident charges etc. 4,798l. 13s. 11d. |
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total payments and allowances |
£7,002 |
6 |
6 |
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and so the Accomptant is in Surplusage |
773 |
3 |
11½ |
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Declared 21 January 1713–14. |
