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| Jan. 11. |
Royal sign manual for 5,000l. to Samuel Molyneux for the use and service of the Prince of Wales: which is intended to be repaid to the King's use out of such annual revenue as shall be settled upon said Prince. (Money warrant dated Jan. 11 hereon.) (Money order dated Jan. 11 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated Jan. 12 hereon.)
King's Warrant Book XXVI, p. 372. Order Book IX, p. 30. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 42. |
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Money warrant for 523l. 6s. 5d. to Charles, Visct. Townshend, on his salary or allowance of 1,850l. per an. as a Principal Secretary of State, to wit from 1714 Sept. 17 to Dec. 25. |
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487l. 16s. 9½d. to the Duke of Montrose as a same as from
24 Sept. 1714 to same date. |
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497l. 19s. 7d. to James Stanhope as a same as from 22 Sept. 1714 to same date. |
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(Money orders dated Jan. 14 for the Duke of Montrose and Jan. 26
for Stanhope and Townshend.) (Letter of direction dated Feb. 1
hereon for Stanhope and Townsend.) Money Book XXIII, p. 445. Order Book IX, pp. 31, 34. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 46. |
Jan. 11, 13,
22. |
Treasury letters patent re-constituting John Aldred as searcher at Great Yarmouth, being the office held by him.
George Selby as searcher at Berwick on Tweed.
George Lisle as searcher at Poole port loco William Taunton, whose letters patent are become void by the demise of the late Queen.
John Carter as Comptroller of Ipswich port, being the place he now holds.
John Silver as searcher at Bridgwater port.
William Frankling as Comptroller of Berwick on Tweed port, with the usual salary of 5l. per an. as from Xmas 1714 loco
his father, Christopher Frankling, thereto constituted by the late Treasurer Godolphin 1702 Aug. 4, whose patent is hereby revoked.
Edward Nash as a King's waiter at Bristol port.
Henry Blaake as a same, Ibid.
Harry Browne as a same, Ibid.
John Williams as a same, Ibid.
Erasmus Darwin as searcher at Ipswich port.
Out Letters (Customs) XVI, pp. 192–3, 195, 197. |
| Jan. 11. |
Treasury reference to the King's Remembrancer of the petition of Stephen Lilly proposing his sureties for his office of Receiver General of the Post Office, viz. Mr. Lancelot Burton in Leicester Street, near
Leicester Fields, and Mr. Richard Swift in the College of Physicians in Warwick Lane. Reference Book IX, p. 208. |
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Same to the Barons of the Exchequer in Scotland of the petition of James Hart, minister of the Grey Fryers’ Church in Edinburgh, shewing that the ministers of the said church did receive from the
Treasury of Scotland 10l. sterling per an. as prebends’ fees; that
Mr. Gilbert Rule, his predecessor, did receive the same: therefore praying that the Barons of the Exchequer in Scotland may do him right in that affair. Ibid., p. 209. |
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Report to the King from the Treasury Lords on a clause in the late Queen's will. Your Majesty has been pleased to transmit to us by Secretary Townshend a copy of a paper mentioned to be a draft of the late Queen's will with signification of your Majesty's commands that we should consider that part thereof which relates to the sum of 2,000l. to be distributed amongst poor people as her
Majesty's alms, and report our opinion thereupon. The article in the said draft relating to the said Charity is expressed in the words following: |
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Item: we do hereby appoint that out of such arrears of our revenue or other moneys as are before mentioned the sum of 2,000l. shall within seven days after our demise be issued to our almoner without account, to be by him distributed according to such directions as he shall receive under our royal sign manual and (in default thereof) according to his best discretion amongst poor people as our alms. |
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[It is our opinion] that this draft, which contains several blanks and none of them filled up, can no ways operate or be construed to be her Majesty's will, nothing appearing to have been done by her said Majesty towards executing the same, nor was there in respect of this charity any designation or direction about it under her said
Majesty's sign manual before her demise. |
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Nevertheless if your Majesty in your great goodness shall think fit to order the payment of the said charity according to the designation thereof by the said draught we have nothing to object against it. Warrants not Relating to Money XXII, p. 385. |
| Jan. 12. |
Royal warrant dated St. James's to the Attorney or Solicitor
General for a great seal to grant to John Bide the office or place of
Surveyor of Customs and Subsidies in the Outports of England, Wales and Berwick loco John Jones, Esq. King's Warrant Book XXVI, p. 376. |
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Treasury warrant to Edward Stawell, Register and Controller of the Lotteries Nos. 1, 2 and 3 anno 1712, and to Thomas Jett, Paymaster of the said Lotteries, to apply the sum of 90,878l. 2s. 4½d. to the payment of interest and to the sinking of the principal of the said Lotteries as follows: viz. the said sum being the sum of
91,005l. 11s. 2½d. arising from the Rates and Duties appropriated to the service of said Lotteries by the Act of 10 Anne, c. 18, in the half year ended 1714 Dec. 25, less 127l. 8s. 10d. thereof issued and paid before 1714 Dec. 25 for charges of making out the standing orders
of said Lotteries. The [original] principal sum of 2,341,740l. of the
Tickets as well fortunate as unfortunate in the said Lotteries No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 is reduced to 2,275,950l. on which 6 per cent. interest is 136,557l. per an.: toward which the abovesaid sum of
90,878l. 2s. 4½d. is to be applied as follows: |
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to complete 68,278l. 10s. 0d. for six months'
interest on 2,275,950l. to 24 June 1714. |
5,145 |
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for the succeeding six months’ interest on same to 25 Dec. 1714. |
68,278 |
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0 |
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to discharge principal in equal proportions upon the orders next in course on each of the said three Lotteries: thus reducing the principal to 2,258,520l. |
17,430 |
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to be reserved to be applied in further discharge of principal and interest upon the next distribution. |
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14 |
2½ |
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£90,878 |
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4½ |
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Prefixing: certificate by the Auditor of the Receipt of the income of said fund as above during the half year ended 1714 Dec. 25. Money
Book XXIII, pp. 466–7. |
| Jan. 12. |
The Treasury Lords to Robert Lowther, Esq., Capt. General and
Governor in Chief of Barbados and several other Islands and Places in America. We have lately had before us for our consideration an account relating to Charles Thomas, Esq., deceased, late Treasurer for the Island of Barbados, which account appears to have been stated by the Commissioners for Public Accounts in the said Island, and was transmitted by you, the Governor of the said Island, to the late
Lord Treasurer [Oxford] in pursuance of his orders to you dated
1713 June 16. The said Commissioners have left undetermined several articles, for very considerable sums, by which means the daughter and heir of the said Thomas (whose case seems to us to be attended with uncommon hardships and severe usage) cannot have the relief intended her. We enclose a copy [missing] of the said account and of the late Lord Treasurer's letter in favour of the said
Mris. Thomas [supra, Calendar of Treasury Books, Vol. XXVII, pp. 252–3]. Please report what ought to be allowed upon the said undetermined articles. Out Letters (General) XXI, p. 334. |
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Treasury letters patent re-appointing William Bayley to be Surveyor of Crown Lands in Co. Chester and County of the City of Chester which are within the survey of the Exchequer Court, together with the usual wages and fee of 13l. 6s. 8d. per an.: and also of Cryer and
Messenger of the Exchequer Court in the said County of Chester with the fee of 4l. per an. as Messenger and 3l. 15s. 0d. per an. as
Cryer: during pleasure. Warrants not Relating to Money XXII, p. 461. |
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Same re-appointing Mark Frecker as doorkeeper to the Commissioners for Appeals in cases of Excise. Ibid., p. 462. |
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Same re-appointing William Bayley as Messenger attending the
Commissioners of Appeals in cases of Excise. Ibid. |
| Jan. 13. |
Royal warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General for a great seal to re-grant to Thomas Walker his office of Housekeeper of the
King's house at Newmarket: with the fee or salary of 200l. per an.:
as amply as he or Elizabeth Walker, his late wife, or any others have held the same. King's Warrant Book XXVI, p. 375. |
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Same to same for a same to constitute Thomas Woodford as Register of Seizures, with the fees or salaries of 106l. 13s. 4d. and 93l. 6s. 8d. per an., loco George Hutchinson, whose patent of said office dated
6 Anne is hereby revoked. Ibid., pp. 375–6. |
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Royal letters patent appointing Hugh Cholmley as Surveyor General of Crown Lands loco Alexander Pendarves, whose patent dated
22 Jan. 1713–14 is hereby revoked. Ibid. XXVII, pp. 200–202. |
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Royal sign manual for 321l. 1s. 0d. to George, Lord Lansdown, 300l. thereof for one year's rent to Xmas last for Mote Park, which was laid into Windsor Great Park, and 21l. 1s. 0d. for [Exchequer]
fees thereon. Hereof 160l. 10s. 6d. is to be issued out of arrears of the late Queen Anne's Civil List revenue and the remaining 160l. 10s. 6d. out of the present King's Civil List moneys. (Money warrant dated
Jan. 17 hereon.) (Money order dated Jan. 19 hereon.) Ibid. XXVI, p. 378. Order Book IX, p. 32. |
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Royal warrant dated St. James's to the Attorney or Solicitor
General for a great seal to re-grant to George Langton the office of
Inspector of the Outport Collectors’ accounts: during pleasure:
with the salary of 400l. per an. for himself and 200l. a year for four clerks: the present grant being to determine the patent of 6 Anne, which granted said office to the said Robert [sic] Langton of Langton, Co. Lincoln. King's Warrant Book XXVI, p. 380. |
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Treasury warrant dormant to the Commissioners for the Duties on Hides and to the Receiver General of the Duties on Houses to pay the allowance of 500l. per an. each to the said Commissioners, viz. William Walbancke, Nicholas Vincent, Paul Burrard, John
Williams, Anthony Dawley and Brian Fairfax, who are appointed
Commissioners for the said Duties and also Commissioners for holding correspondence with all the Receivers General of Taxes within Great
Britain and for Inspecting and Managing the Duties on Houses in
England, Wales and Berwick: of the said allowance 200l. per an. is to be paid out of the Duties on hides (to be inserted in the quarterly salary bills for said Office of Hides): 200l. per an. out of the Duties on Houses (to be paid quarterly as from Dec. 22 last by the Receiver
General of said Duties on Houses): and 100l. per an. out of the
Receipt of the Exchequer. Money Book XXIII, pp. 446–8. |
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Same to Charles, Earl of Orrery, Receiver General of the revenue arising by Fines for Alienations, to pay the respective fees of the officers of the Alienation Office, viz. 40l. each to Thomas Plott, John
Hungerford and Cornelius Cayley, who are Deputies and Commissioners to the Treasury Lords in said Office; 40l. to said Earl of
Orrery as Receiver General [of said Fines]; 20l. per term to
William Freeman, Master of Chancery [attending in said Office];
5l. each per term to Theophilus Newcomen and Thomas Webb, clerks in the said Office: and the incidents of said Office as certified by any two of the said Commissioners. Ibid., p. 448. |
| Jan. 13. |
Letter of direction for 124,669l. 10s. 3¾d. to John Aislabie, Treasurer of the Navy: out of loans to be made by Robert Knight, Cashier to the South Sea Company, on credit of Malt Duties anno 1714: and is intended [to be paid by said Aislabie to said Knight] to complete the sum of 139,669l. 10s. 3¾d. due to said Company for the quarter ended 29 Dec. 1714 [on the said Company's annuity]. Disposition
Book XXIII, p. 42. |
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J. Taylour to the Wine Licence Commissioners to prepare and lay before my Lords a draft Establishment of the officers to be employed by you in the management of the Duties under your care for my Lords’ perusal and approbation: with your observations on said Establishment and as to the further charge by contingents. Out Letters (General) XXI, p. 334. |
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Same to the Attorney General enclosing copies [missing] of two clauses relating to the office of Receiver General of Customs and other officers of the Customs. You are to cause the last of the said clauses (mentioned to be in Mr. Hutchinson's constitution) to be inserted in the patent now passing to Henry Ferne as Receiver General of the Customs. Ibid., p. 335. |
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Same to the Attorney and Solicitor General to report on the enclosed commission [missing] which has been passed in Scotland pursuant to a warrant of which a copy was sent to you Dec. 24 last. Ibid. |
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William Lowndes to the Attorney General enclosing papers [missing]
which were laid before the Treasury Lords by the Board of Ordnance relating to Mr. Eversfeild's refusing to transfer the cash belonging to that Office [of Ordnance] to Mr. Mordaunt, his successor in the office of Treasurer of the Ordnance. Please attend my Lords with your opinion what is fit to be done for recovering the public money in this case. Ibid. |
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J. Taylour to the Customs Commissioners to report on the enclosed memorial [missing] received from Sir John Schaw relating to a method for preventing the importation of corn and cattle &c. from Ireland into Scotland, together with an estimate of the necessary charges for the performing thereof. Ibid., p. 336. |
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Same to Mr. Beranger to attend my Lords here [at the Treasury]
to-morrow morning with such proposals as you shall think fit to offer about selling the tin now at Hamburg. (The like letter to Sir John
Lambert.) Ibid. |
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Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners to send to the
Treasury Lords an exact account of all the debts relating to the
Customs, Subsidies and other Duties which have incurred since the
Revolution and were owing at Michaelmas last anno 1714 as well from collectors who are dead or removed as from merchants and their sureties: the said account setting out in tabular form the persons'
names; description whether collector or merchant &c.; the port;
the whole [amount of the] original debt; when incurred; how much thereof recovered and actually paid into the Exchequer; the amount still resting due on the 18 Oct. 1714; the charges of prosecution
paid by the Crown; the sums discharged by compositions; the sums paid for [on] the said compositions; when paid. |
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These accounts are to be attested by the officers concerned. You are further to acquaint my Lords how far the General Accounts of the Customs and other Duties are actually passed and whether you conceive any other method than what hath been hitherto practised to be more safe or expeditious for bringing them up [to date], it being very obvious that great losses have happened to the Crown and great inconveniences and damage to the subjects by those accounts lying so far behind and unpassed. “And we do hereby direct that within one month after every quarter of a year for the future there be constantly laid before us or the High Treasurer or Commissioners of the Treasury for the time being like accounts or states of the debts from the foot of that abovementioned, shewing how much of the debts owing at Michaelmas last shall have been recovered and answered to the Crown since that time and the charges of the prosecutions for the same. And lastly we do hereby direct and require you to cause another distinct account to be made and laid before us within one month after the end of every quarter of a year for the future
(together with the account above directed) of all debts which shall have incurred or grown due from collectors, merchants or others at any time from and after Michaelmas last aforesaid either in the port of London, the outports or the Plantations: and you are to make such remarks upon the whole and to propose such rules and methods and orders for the better management of the said revenues as you shall conceive to be for his Majesty's service.” |
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Appending: form of said account or state. Out Letters (Customs)
XVI, pp. 189–90. |
| Jan. 13. |
Treasury letters patent re-appointing George Medcalfe to be
Assistant Solicitor to the Customs: with the salary of 50l. per an. payable by the Solicitor of the Customs and 100l. per an. from the
Crown: he having been continued by Treasury warrant dated 1695
Sept. 18 as assistant to John Brydges, then made Solicitor of the
Customs: Medcalfe having been Assistant Solicitor of the Customs for several years. Ibid., pp. 191–2. |
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Treasury reference to the Comptrollers of Army Accounts of the petition of Widow Barkham shewing that her late husband had an additional Company in Gen. Farrington's Regiment, for the completing of which he paid levy money for 51 men at 4l. each [? drafted] to
Montandre's and Windsor's Regiments, which amounts to 204l. and subsisted them together with himself, a Lieutenant, Ensign, two
Serjeants, three Corporals and two drummers from 24 June 1710 to
24 Aug. following; that the levy money is in Mr. How's Office [the late Paymaster General of Guards and Garrisons], for payment whereof he [How] desires a [royal] warrant, “and [further praying] that the pay of the said 51 men from the said 24 June 1710 to 24 Aug. following may be charged to Montandre's and Windsor's Regiments” and that the sum of 84l. 17s. 10d. which her said husband was in disburse to the Capt., Lieut., Ensign, two Serjeants, three Corporals and two drums may likewise be paid her. Reference Book IX, p. 209. |
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Same to the Excise Commissioners of the petition of John Bruere, clerk in the Office of Comptroller of the Revenues of Excise, praying renewal of his warrant for that employment. Ibid. |
| Jan. 13. |
Same to the Customs Commissioners of the petition of Nicholas
Mann, a King's waiter, London port, proposing William Taylor to be his deputy. Ibid. |
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Same to same of the petition of John Lane, Commander of a ship belonging to the East India Company, shewing that three informations were exhibited against him in the Exchequer Court for taking on board several bales of serges, 21 piggs of bullion and several tubs of tea which had not paid the Duty. In the margin: a later reference to same dated 23 Nov. 1715. Ibid. |
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Same to same of the petition of the Deputy King's [waiters, London port], praying such directions as will enable them to continue in the execution of their offices. Ibid. |
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Same to the Referees for Army Debts of the petition of the Officers of Regiments that went on the Canada Expedition, shewing that the merchants who gave them credit for their subsistence have received two-thirds of their bills; therefore praying that the remaining third may be directed out of the sum granted by Parliament towards the discharge of the debts due to the Army. Ibid., p. 210. |
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Same to the Secretary at War of the petition of the Officers of the
Regiments in Minorca, shewing that by her late Majesty's warrant dated 1713 June 4 those Regiments were reduced from 13 Companies of 60 men each to 12 Companies of 42 men each; that the Lieut.Governor of that island continues to complete them to their full complements; that from the 24th June 1713 they have not received any pay for their servants: therefore praying a [royal] warrant for the pay of the said servants. Ibid. |
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Certificate by Thomas Atterbury, Clerk of the Cheque [to the
Messengers of the Chamber], of his having sworn and admitted Robert
Stephens into the place and quality of Messenger of the Printing
Press to his Majesty, by virtue of a warrant dated Dec. 31 last from the Duke of Shrewsbury, Lord Chamberlain of the Household. Warrants not Relating to Money XXII, p. 470. |
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Treasury approval of Samuell Edwards as first clerk to Sir Roger
Mosly [sic for Mostyn] in the Office of one of the four Tellers of the
Receipt. |
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Prefixing: precedent for of presentation of a first clerk to the
Treasury Lords for approval. Ibid., p. 348b. |
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Treasury letters patent re-appointing Hopton Haines to be Weigher and Teller of the Mint in the Tower. Ibid., p. 392. |
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Treasury warrant to the Stamps Commissioners to appoint Thomas
Russell as distributor of stamps for Co. Suffolk loco John Freeman. |
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Henry Oxford as same for Co. Wilts loco the present distributor. Ibid., p. 395. |
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Same to the King's Remembrancer to take fresh securities, detailed, of Langley Banks [as Receiver General for Co. Lincoln]. Out Letters (Affairs of Taxes) II, p. 133. |
| Jan. 13. |
Royal warrant dated St. James's to the Attorney or Solicitor
General for a bill to pass the great seal of Great Britain to revoke the
Commission for the Equivalent in Scotland as appointed by letters patent of Queen Anne dated June 1707, ut supra, Calendar of Treasury
Books, Vol. XXI, pp. 300–1, 321, and in lieu thereof to appoint
William Dalrymple, Sir John Swinton, Sir James Smollett, Sir Patrick
Johnstoun, William Seaton, Alexander Abercrombie and Sir William
Kerr of Greenhead or any four of them to be Commissioners for disposing of so much of the sum of 398,085l. 10s. 0d. as remains yet unapplied and of such further sum or sums as shall arise or be anywise payable to Scotland by way of Equivalent according to [the
15th Article in the Treaty of Union and] the several Acts of Parliament in that behalf. The existing Commissioners are hereby to pay over to the said new Commissioners all moneys in their hands of the said sum. Out Letters (North Britain) III, pp. 311–12, 296. |
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Same to same for a same to re-constitute John Crookshanks, Esq., to the office of Comptroller General of Customs, Scotland, and the
Islands and Territories thereto belonging and of the accompts of all the General and particular Receivers, Collectors &c. of the Customs, Subsidies, Impositions and other Duties (except the Excise) with the fee or salary of 200l. per an. for himself and 100l. per an. for his clerks:
being the office conferred on him by the late Queen, whose patent is hereby revoked. Ibid., pp. 294–5. |
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Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners, Scotland, to continue Charles Eyre, gent., as Agent and Solicitor to the Customs in Scotland: at the salary of 150l. per an. for himself and 50l. per an. for his clerks. Ibid., p. 295. |
| Jan. 14. |
Royal warrant dated St. James's to the Attorney or Solicitor
General for a great seal to re-grant to Marmaduke Bealing the office of Register of Warrants Inwards, London port (Keeper of the Books wherein entries be made of all ships coming into the port of London either with foreign merchandise from any the parts beyond the seas or with any goods or merchandise by certificates from any parts within this realm: and of all warrants by officers of the Customs in
London port made to any waiter as well for the lading and unlading or for the taking up of foreign merchandise to be brought into said port by any merchant as well denizens as strangers as well for those for which are to be allowed portage, store or provision in the said port; and also for all certificates of goods and merchandizes brought from any other port within this realm to the said port of London), being the office held by him by patent dated 1 Anne, which patent is hereby to be revoked: to hold during pleasure. King's Warrant
Book XXVI, p. 377. |
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Same to same for a same to re-grant to Nathaniel Booth the office of Surveyor of Greenwax (Surveyor of the revenue arising by Fines, Forfeitures and sums of money commonly called Greenwax moneys):
during pleasure: with the fee or salary of 250l. per an.: the present grant being to determine the grant dated 1 Anne of said office to him. (The patent hereon is dated 7 March 1714–15.) Ibid., p. 379. |
| Jan. 14. |
Letter of direction for 60,000l. to John Aislabie, Treasurer of the
Navy: out of the money arisen by the sale of South Sea Stock:
and is intended to be applied to the services following: viz. |
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to the head of Wages. |
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for payment of wages to ships ordered to be laid up |
44,950 |
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1¼ |
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to the head of Wear and Tear. |
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to complete Midsummer and Michaelmas quarters anno 1713 to Chatham and
Sheerness Yards |
15,049 |
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10¾ |
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£60,000 |
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Disposition Book XXIII, p. 43. |
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Jo. Taylour to the Board of Ordnance to send to the Attorney
General a copy of the [fidelity] bond Mr. Eversfeild entered into as late
Treasurer of the Ordnance. Out Letters (General) XXI, p. 336. |
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Treasury reference to the Taxes Commissioners of the petition of John Cooper, late Receiver General of Taxes for Co. Northampton, shewing that he has reduced the debt due from him to the Crown to 2 or 300l. and that there is so much [as that sum] due to him for extraordinaries: therefore praying stay of process. Reference Book
IX, p. 209. |
| Jan. 15. |
Royal letters patent appointing William Salkeld to be Justice of
Carmarthen, Pembroke and Cardigan loco Edmund Bridges, Esq., whose patent dated 1712 June 29 is hereby revoked. King's Warrant
Book XXVII, pp. 451–2. |
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Same appointing William Jessop, Esq., to be Judge of the Counties of Carnarvon, Merioneth and Anglesey: being the office to which he was appointed by the late Queen Anne by patent dated 29 July
1707, which appointed the said Jessop and likewise John Meyricke to be Justices thereof, which patent the King hereby revokes. Ibid., pp. 98–9. |
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Same appointing Roger Comberbatch to be one of the Judges of Wales, to wit of the counties of Carnarvon, Merioneth and Anglesey. Ibid., pp. 286–7. |
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Same appointing William Wright as a same: to wit for the counties of Glamorgan, Brecon and Radnor: loco Charles Cox, thereto appointed
15 Nov. 1703. Ibid., pp. 287–8. |
| Jan. 17. |
Royal sign manual for 400l. to William Brocket: without account:
“which sum nevertheless our will and meaning is shall be repaid to us out of money which is in arrear on a yearly sum or pension of
400l. per an. lately payable to him by the hands of Edward Nicholas, Esq., pursuant to a warrant or Establishment signed by our late royal sister Queen Anne or out of such pension or annuity as we may think fit hereafter to allow to the said William Brocket.” (Money warrant dated Jan. 18 hereon.) (Money order dated Jan. 18 hereon.)
(Letter of direction dated Jan. 24 hereon.) Ibid. XXVI, p. 384. Order Book IX, p. 32. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 44. |
| Jan. 17. |
Royal letters patent granting to Denis Bond, Esq., the office or place of Post or Carrier of all the King's letters and despatches
“between our Court and palace of residence and the first [nearest]
post stage or Post Office of our Postmaster General and also between the offices of our Principal Secretaries of State and the first post stage or post office of our Postmaster General: with the allowance of 20s. a day as from Michaelmas last: all loco Henry Andrews thereto appointed by patent dated 23 July 1705, who has besought leave to surrender same and has done so by a writing dated 1714 Nov. 29. King's Warrant Book XXVI, pp. 403–4. |
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Money order for 3,000l. to James Stanhope, Esq., one of the Principal Secretaries of State: for secret service: as by the royal sign manual of Oct. 4 last, supra, p. 112. |
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3,000l. to Charles, Visct. Townshend, a same: for same. Order
Book IX, p. 34. |
| Jan. 17. and 18. |
J. Taylour to the Board of Greencloth. The Treasury Lords have received the King's command to lay before him a state of the debts of her late Majesty relating to the Civil Government as they stood at the time of her demise and how much of the same has been actually paid to this time. My Lords desire you to send them an exact account of what was owing to the Household at the time of her late Majesty's death, how much has been imprested to the late Cofferer since that time in part thereof and how the said debt now stands. (A like letter to the Master of the Great Wardrobe for the like debt owing in the Office of the Wardrobe.) (A like letter to Lord Delawarr for the like debt in the Office of the Treasurer of the Chamber.) (A like letter to the Auditor of the Receipt for the like debt on account of fees and salaries and pensions and annuities payable at the Receipt of the Exchequer out of Civil List fonds and what remained in the
Exchequer at the time of said Queen's death [of her Civil List funds]
towards discharging the debts due to her Civil List and how much has since been brought into the Exchequer for the said uses and upon what funds or branches [of the Civil List revenues] respectively.)
(A like letter dated Jan. 18 to the [Principal] Officers of the Works for the like debt for the Works as well for Whitehall, St. James's &c. as for Windsor.) (Same dated Jan. 18 to Sir John Vanbrugh for a state in writing of what the late Queen promised and ordered with regard to the building of Blenheim; and what passed in Parliament upon that subject; and all that is to be said for and against the demand of the workmen which were employed in that building. The
King has ordered such a state and my Lords have directed their
Secretaries to prepare it. “And to the end [that] nothing may be omitted which may justly be alleged in favour of the said demand
I am commanded by my Lords to desire that yourself (who has been long conversant in this affair) or such other person as the Duke of
Marlborough will appoint do prepare and transmit to me as soon as may be in writing the grounds of the said demand and whatsoever may be said for justifying the same, to the end they may be inserted in my Lords’ representation. And whereas it has appeared to my
Lords by the entries in the books of this [the Treasury] Office that the sum of 220,000l. for the said building was issued without any account to be rendered to her late Majesty, but the same was to be accounted for to the Duke of Marlborough, my Lords do therefore desire to know whether any such account hath been made, allowed
and passed by his Grace containing the expenditure of the money already issued for the said building.”) Out Letters (General) XXI, pp. 337, 338, 342. |
| Jan. 17. |
Treasury reference to the Taxes Commissioners of the petition of James Taylour, Receiver General of Taxes for the palaces of
Whitehall and St. James's, shewing that although he has paid into the Exchequer all the money collected for above six years according to the several Assessments, he is notwithstanding yet [liable] in
[surety] bonds to the Crown in 90,000l.: therefore praying that the said bonds may be delivered up. Reference Book IX, p. 209. |
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Same to same of the petition of Henry Nash, late Receiver General of Taxes for Co. Suffolk, shewing that he was turned out of that employment without any fault assigned, but only on account of party: therefore praying to be a collector of the Salt Duties between
Yarmouth and Colchester. Ibid., p. 210. |
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Same to the King's Remembrancer of the petition of Mathew
Barton proposing his securities, detailed [on his re-appointment] as
Comptroller of the 1,400,000l. Lottery anno 1714 [as by 13 Anne, c. 18]. Ibid., p. 211. |
| Jan. 18. |
Royal warrant dated St. James's to the Attorney or Solicitor
General for a great seal to grant to Nicholas Parke (on his paying the purchase money as below to the Customs Commissioners) the three several messuages or tenements, viz. two messuages in St. Clements
Lane in the city of London of 40l. per an. [rent] and one in Philpot
Lane of 23l. 6s. 8d. per an., which were seized for the use of the Crown for the late Richard Park's debt of 8,000l. to the Crown for tobacco bonds, the same having been found by an inquisition taken 25 Jan. 1704–5: the Crown's title to the said houses determining [will determine] on the death of Mary Parke, widow of the said Richard; and his son and heir, the abovesaid Nicholas, having proposed to purchase for 400l. the Crown's interest therein, which the Customs Commissioners think will be very much for the King's service to have a certain sum in ready money to reduce the said Richard's debt rather than wait for the slow coming in of the rents of the said houses “for that we shall be put to an annual charge in levying the same besides the hazard of the Crown's interest.” King's Warrant Book XXVI, pp. 382–3. |
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Treasury reference to the Customs Commissioners of the petition of John Silk shewing that he is surety for Thomas Perrin for tobacco
Duties for a very large sum and is now in custody for the same: therefore praying discharge out of custody and that he may have leave to apply to Parliament for a Bill to empower the Treasury Lords to compound with him for the said debt. Reference Book IX, p. 210. |
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Same to same of the petition of Heneage Robinson on behalf of himself and Benj. Whitebread and Jasper Cullam, his securities, for several tobacco bonds which they have not cleared: therefore praying as above. Ibid. |
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Same to the Barons of the Exchequer, Scotland, of the petition of James Johnston of Twickenham (“Twitnaham”) shewing that he had from King Wm. III. a grant of 4,000l. to be raised from
time to time by the fines on renewing the Bishops’ leases of tythes in Scotland, which grant was renewed by a privy seal in 1699;
that he was paid accordingly till after the Union, but there remains a great part of the money still due: therefore praying a warrant for a new privy seal for payment thereof. Out Letters
(North Britain) III, p. 296. |
| Jan. 19. |
Royal warrant dated St. James's to the Attorney or Solicitor
General for a great seal for a grant to Walter Chetwynd of the office of Chief Ranger and Keeper of St. James's Park adjoining the palaces of Whitehall and St. James's with the appurtenances thereto belonging and of the herbage and pannage of the said Park (“so far as it may not be prejudicial to the feed of our deer there”) and all the lops, tops and crops of trees and all dead and windfall trees and the custody of the said Park with the several lodges and gates belonging thereunto and of all other the usual fees for all deer that shall be killed in the said Park and allowances of a fee buck and a fee doe every season, together with all other profits, fees, commodities, advantages, perquisites and benefits whatsoever: to hold during pleasure: with the yearly salary and allowances of 260l. per an. for his own salary;
200l. per an. for feed for the fish and fowl in the said park and for nets, boats and other incident charges relating to the said fish and fowl; 50l. per an. for hay for the deer; 2s. 6d. a day each for wages to three underkeepers and two gatekeepers, being 228l. 2s. 6d. per an.; 54l. 15s. 0d. for a keeper of the Wilderness in the said Park at 3s. a day: amounting in all to 792l. 17s. 6d. per an.: all as amply as Philip, Earl of Pembroke; George, Duke of Albemarle; John, Earl of Bath; Jervice Price, Esq.; Sir Robert Thorold and William
Harbord or any other his precursor therein: and further to grant to him the office or place of Keeper of the Mall in the said Park: during pleasure: with the fee or salary of 100l. per an. as from Xmas 1714. King's Warrant Book XXVI, pp. 380–1. |
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Same to same for a same to re-grant to Christopher Wren, Esq., the office of Chief Clerk of the Works: during pleasure: with the fee or salary of 100 marks per an. Ibid., p. 381b. |
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Same to same for a same to re-grant to Samuel Edwyn, Esq., the office of Usher of the Receipt of the Exchequer and of Keeper of the
Council Chamber of the Star Chamber within the palace of Westminster: during pleasure. Ibid., pp. 381b–382. |
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Same to same for a same to re-grant to William Lord Cheyne, Visct. Newhaven, the office of Clerk of the Pipe. Ibid., p. 385. |
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Same to the Clerk of the Signet for a privy seal for paying the several yearly sums as follows out of Civil List moneys as from Xmas
1714: during pleasure: viz. to
John, Earl of Crawford, 300l. per an.
Alexander, Earl of Caithness, 200l. per an.
Alexander, Earl of Hume, 200l. per an.
William, Earl of Kilmarnock, 200l. per an.
George, Earl of Dunbarton, 300l. per an.
Alexander, Earl of Kincardin, 200l. per an.
James, Earl of Hyndford, 300l. per an.
John, Earl of Cromartie, 200l. per an.
John, Lord Forbes, 200l. per an.
John, Lord Grey, 100l. per an.
Francis, Lord Sempill, 200l. per an.
John, Lord Elphinstone, 100l. per an.
Patrick, Lord Oliphant, 200l. per an.
James, Lord Torpichen, 200l. per an.
David, Lord Lindores, 100l. per an.
George, Lord Rea, 200l. per an.
George, Lord Forrester, 200l. per an.
John, Lord Napier, 200l. per an.
George, Lord Frazer, 100l. per an.
Alexander, Lord Elibank, 200l. per an.
Robert, Lord Rollo, 200l. per an.
John, Lord Ballenden [Bellenden], 200l. per an.
Allen, Lord Cathcart, 100l. per an.
Major — Aikman, 100l. per an.
Capt. John Campbell, 100l. per an.
William Maxwell of Cardiness, 100l. per an. |
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Ibid., pp. 385–6. |
| Jan. 19. |
Money warrant for 189l. 0s. 6d. to Sir Thomas Powys, late a Justice of the King's Bench, for 124 days of last Michaelmas term 1714
June 16 (the last day of Trinity term) to Oct. 18 following (on which day his supersedeas was delivered to him). |
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185l. 19s. 6d. to Sir John Prat, who succeeded him as Justice, which completes the salary for the said term on the salary of 1,500l. per an. |
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375l. to Sir Littleton Powys for 1714 Michaelmas term as a
Justice of the King's Bench: with dormant clause for his salary in future. |
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375l. to Robert Eyres for same as a same. |
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189l. 0s. 6d. to Thomas, Lord Trevor, on his 2,000l. a year as late Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, being for 124 days of 1714 Michaelmas term, to wit from 16 June
1714 to 18 Oct. following, on which day his supersedeas was delivered to him. |
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310l. 19s. 6d. to Sir Peter King, who succeeded him as Chief
Justice, being for the remainder of said term: with dormant clause as above. |
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375l. to Robert Dormer, Esq., for said Michaelmas term as a Justice of Common Pleas. |
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375l. to Sir John Blencowe for same as a same. |
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375l. to Robert Tracy, Esq., for same as a same. |
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45l. 14s. 7½d. to the executors of Sir Edward Ward, deceased, late Chief Baron of the Exchequer, being for 30 days of said Michaelmas term, to wit 16 June 1714 (the last day of Trinity term) to 16 July following (being the day of his death): on 2,000l. per an, salary. |
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454l. 5s. 4½d. to Sir Samuel Dodd, who succeeded him as Chief
Baron of the Exchequer: and is for the remainder of said
Michaelmas term: together with dormant clause for said salary in future. |
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189l. 0s. 6d. to Sir William Banastre, late one of the Barons of the Coif of the Exchequer, being for 124 days of said
Michaelmas term, to wit 16 June 1714 to 18 Oct. following,
on which day his supersedeas was delivered to him: on
1,500l. per an. |
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185l. 19s. 6d. to Sir James Mountague, who succeeded said
Banastre, and is for the remainder of said Michaelmas term:
with dormant clause as above. |
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375l. to Robert Price, Esq., for said Michaelmas term as a
Baron of the Exchequer: on 1,500l. per an.: with dormant clause as above. |
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375l. to Sir Thomas Bury for same term as a same: on 1,500l. per an.: with dormant clause as above. |
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250l. to John Smyth, Esq., for same term on 1,000l. per an. as a Baron of the Exchequer: with dormant clause as above. |
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Money Book XXIII, pp. 449–52. |
| Jan. 19. |
Money warrant for 500l. to Sir Thomas Parker as Chief Justice of the King's Bench: for last Michaelmas term 1714 on 2,000l. per an.: with dormant clause for said salary in future. Ibid., p. 454. |
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Letter of direction for 12,000l. to Harry Mordaunt, Treasurer of the Ordnance: out of the money arisen by the sale of South Sea
Stock: and is intended to be applied towards paying the purchase money for the lands lately taken in at Portsmouth, Chatham and
Harwich for the convenience of the fortifications there. Disposition
Book XXIII, p. 43. |
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Treasury reference to the King's Remembrancer of the petition of Thomas Jett, Esq., Paymaster of the 1,800,000l. Lottery anno
1712 [as by the Act 10 Anne, c. 18] proposing his sureties, detailed, for his [re-appointment to the] said office. Reference Book IX, p. 210. |
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Same to same of the petition of Henry Harcourt, proposing his securities, detailed [on his re-appointment] as Comptroller of the
2,000,000l. Lottery anno 1711 [9 Anne, c. 16], viz. himself in 3,000l. and the Lady Persiana Bardin in 2,000l. Ibid. |
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Same to same of the petition of Thomas Burdus, proposing his securities, detailed, as Paymaster of the 500,000l. Lottery [for the
Civil List Debts anno 1713, as by 12 Anne, c. 11]. Ibid., p. 211. |
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Treasury letters patent re-appointing Sir John Humble to be Paymaster of the 1,500,000l. Lottery anno 1710 [as by 8 Anne, c. 10]. Warrants not Relating to Money XXII, pp. 395–6. |
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Same appointing Thomas Jett as Paymaster of the 1,800,000l. Lottery anno 1712 [as by 10 Anne, c. 18]. Ibid., p. 397. |
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Same appointing Thomas Burdus as Paymaster of the 500,000l. Lottery anno 1713, ut supra: with 300l. per an. fee or salary for himself and clerks and others employed by or under him in that service. Ibid., p. 398. |
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Same appointing John Chamberlaine as Comptroller of said Lottery;
to register assignments and control payments thereon: with the like fee or salary of 300l. per an. for himself and clerks &c. Ibid., p. 399. |
| Jan. 19. |
Same appointing John Benson as Paymaster of the Classis Lottery of 1,800,000l. anno 1712 [as by 10 Anne, c. 19]. |
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In the margin: This cancelled and the like constitution made forth appointing Ambrose Philips, Esq., as Paymaster of the said
Lottery 25 Jan. 1714–15. Ibid., p. 400. |
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Same appointing Henry Harcourt as Comptroller of the 2,000,000l. Classis Lottery anno 1711 [as by 9 Anne, c. 16]. Ibid., p. 401. |
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Same appointing Mathew Vernon to be Paymaster [sic? for
Comptroller, see infra, p. 448] of the 1,500,000l. Lottery anno 1711
[as by 9 Anne, c. 6]. Ibid., p. 402. |
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Same appointing William Lechmere as Comptroller of the 1,800,000l. Lottery anno 1712 [10 Anne, c. 18, loco Edw. Stawell] replaced by a like patent dated Feb. 19, infra, p. 393. Ibid., p. 403. |
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Same appointing Richard Gee as Comptroller of the Classes Lottery for 1,800,000l. anno 1712 [10 Anne, c. 19, loco Charles Turnour]. Ibid., p. 404. |
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Money warrant for 1,800l. to John Montgomerie, Master and Worker of the Mint at Edinburgh: as imprest for the fees and salaries of the officers of the Mint or Mints in Scotland and towards the providing, maintaining and repairing the houses, offices, buildings and other necessaries for assaying, melting down and coining in the Mints of Scotland: to be satisfied out of the Coinage Duties: and is for
1½ years from June 1713 to Xmas 1714. (Money order dated Jan. 22
hereon.) Out Letters (North Britain) III, p. 298. Order Book IX, p. 33. |
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Royal warrant dated St. James's to the Attorney or Solicitor
General for a great seal for a new commission of the Excise, Scotland, inserting therein George Drummond in the place of Alexander Forbes, deceased: the new Commissioners to be Alexander Wedderburne, David Ross, Sir William Bennet, Gilbert Burnet and George
Drummond, Esq. Out Letters (North Britain) III, pp. 298–9. |
| Jan. 20. |
Treasury commissions to the following as Surveyors of the Duties on Houses [being fresh commissions in each case in consequence of the demise of Queen Anne], viz.: together with in each case a Treasury warrant to the Receiver General of the House Duties in the particular county concerned to pay him the salary as below: viz.
Robert Ewen for Co. Midd., 50l. per an.
John Waldron for Co. Midd., 50l. per an.
Benj. Boyden for Co. Middlesex, 60l. per an.
John Read for Co. Dorset, 70l. per an.
Samuel Jevon for Co. Notts, 70l. per an.
James Coulton for Co. Gloucester, 80l. per an.
Robert Baker for Co. Somerset, 80l. per an.
John Cater for Co. Warwick, 60l. per an.
John Birt for Co. Hereford, 60l. per an.
Robert Winniat for Co. Essex, 60l. per an.
John Goodson for Co. Kent, 60l. per an.
Richard Whitmore for Co. Kent, 60l. per an.
William Pullein for Co. Northumberland, 60l. per an.
Hugh Ethersie for Co. Essex, 60l. per an.
John Chaloner for Co. Radnor, 60l. per an.
John Weston for Co. Devon, 60l. per an.
John Scrivener for Co. Sussex, 50l. per an.
Thomas Baylie (Bayley) for Co. Berks, 50l. per an.
William Stone for Co. Herts, 50l. per an.
Richard Clince [Clinch] for Co. Herts, 50l. per an.
Charles Trench for Co. Northants, 50l. per an.
William Jones for Co. Anglesea, 50l. per an.
Richard Carter for Co. Lancs, 50l. per an.
William Leigh for Co. Lancs, 50l. per an.
John Fuller for Co. Sussex, 50l. per an.
William Draycot for Co. Leicester, 50l. per an.
James Draycot for Co. Cambridge, 50l. per an.
Francis Edwards for Co. Pembroke, 50l. per an.
John Edwards for Co. Derby, 50l. per an.
John Edwards for Co. Monmouth, 50l. per an.
John Windebank for Co. London, 40l. per an.
Francis Lowndes for Co. London, 50l. per an.
Thomas Newington for Co. London, 40l. per an.
Thomas Bavand for Co. London, 40l. per an.
William Child for Co. Bucks, 50l. per an.
Samuel Francis for Co. Montgomery, 40l. per an.
John Vaughan for Co. Brecon, 50l. per an.
Rowland Philips for Co. Carmarthen, 40l. per an.
Thomas Gwyllim for Co. Merioneth, 50l. per an.
William Williams for Co. Cardigan, 40l. per an.
Richard Hutchins for Co. Somerset, 50l. per an.
Geo. Mashrother for Co. Yorks, 50l. per an.
John Storeaker for Co. Yorks, 50l. per an.
Henry Morris for Co. Suffolk, 50l. per an.
William Palmer for Co. Suffolk, 50l. per an.
John Calender for Co. Stafford, 50l. per an.
Geo. Hall for Co. Salop, 50l. per an.
Tho. Davies for Co. Salop, 50l. per an.
Richard Diggs for Co. Worcester, 50l. per an.
Tho. Lamb for Co. Westmorland, 45l. per an.
Cha. Darlow for Co. Huntingdon, 30l. per an.
Tho. Brenand for Co. Cumberland, 30l. per an.
John Bowes for Co. Yorks, 50l. per an.
Tho. Hansell for Co. Yorks, 50l. per an.
Tho. Williams for Co. Yorks, 50l. per an.
Joseph Hales for Co. Norfolk, 50l. per an.
Out Letters (Affairs of Taxes) II, pp. 166–9. |
