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| June 21. |
Money warrant for 184l. to the executors of William Farrington, late Sheriff of Co. Lancs, for the surplusage on his account ended
1714 Sept. 29. (Money order dated June 23 hereon.) Money Book
XXIV, p. 32. Order Book IX, p. 83. |
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Treasury warrant [to the Auditors of Imprests] to allow 40l. in the accounts of Joseph Whitehead and Thomas Edwards, joint clerks of the Hanaper in Chancery, for the year ended 1714 Sept. 29. |
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Prefixing: certificate by Jer. Oakeley, Deputy Auditor, that the said account has been delivered into Auditor Harley's Office. Money
Book XXIV, p. 32. |
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Money warrant for 56l. 19s. 9d. to Sir William Wyndham, late
Chancellor and Under Treasurer of the Exchequer: for 1714 Sept. 29
to Oct. 13 following, the day on which his grant of the said office was superseded. (Money order dated June 23 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated June 18 hereon.) Ibid., p. 33. Order Book IX, p. 92. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 77. |
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J. Taylour to Mr. Burchet [Secretary of the Admiralty] to lay before the Admiralty Lords for their report the enclosed account [missing]
of the sums voted for the Navy and Victualling and how much has been issued in part thereof: for the said Lords to advise the Treasury
Lords to what uses the residue may most necessarily be applied and by what times the services may require the same. “But it must be observed that although there should be no deficiency in the provisions by Parliament for the Supplies voted yet it is not likely that the whole money to be raised can be all touched by the end of the current year.” The Admiralty Lords are also desired to send to my Lords an estimate of what the charge of the Navy may amount unto in this present year. Out Letters (General) XXI, p. 380. |
| June 22. |
J. Taylour to the Salt Commissioners. I have read to my Lords your memorial of the 24th March last proposing the removal of the restraint laid on you from appointing new officers where you shall find occasion. My Lords do not think fit to take off the restraint, but do direct that when you find any new officers are necessary you make a presentment thereof and obtain my Lords’ warrant for same before you bring any new or additional charge upon the Government. Ibid., p. 381. |
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Same to Mr. Walpole [Paymaster of the Forces] and Mr. Pulteney
[Secretary at War] to report on the enclosed memorial [missing] of the
Scots [military] Officers discontinued upon the Union, setting forth that they were to receive several annual allowances in lieu of the posts they formerly enjoyed, payable out of the Contingencies of the Guards, Garrisons &c., and which they have received to Xmas 1710. Ibid. |
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Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners, the King's
Remembrancer et al. to accept from Robert Wise, late of London, tobacco merchant, a composition of 3,000l. (including the rents of his lands in Oxfordshire) for the debt owing by him [either for his own tobacco bonds] or as surety for Thomas Perrin and Cornelius
Denne. |
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Prefixing: two reports from the said Commissioners dated respectively 17 June 1713 and 18 June 1713 inst. on the case. Wise's own tobacco bond debt as principal was 23,018l. 19s. 11½d., which has been reduced to 16,487l. 5s. 6¾d. He was further bound with Thomas
Perrin in 2,825l. 13s. 10½d. and with Cornelius Denn in 3,361l. 12s. 1d. Wise failed in April 1712. Perrin is insolvent and a prisoner in the
Fleet. Denne is insolvent and is more indebted to the Crown on his own account than his estate can answer. Wise's securities (his brother John and one James Braine and Dean Cook) are all broke. Robert Wise hath been a very great and fair trader and hath sustained great losses and to avoid imprisonment is retired to parts beyond the seas. The earlier report of 18 June 1713 is on the petition of said Wise, Peregrine Browne and Job Matthews, praying leave to compound their debts to the Crown, but refers only to Wise's case. Out Letters (Customs) XVI, pp. 237–43. |
| June 23. |
Royal warrant dated St. James's to the Clerk of the Signet for a privy seal for 500l. per an. to Sir Gustavus Hume as a Groom of the
Bedchamber: as from Jan. 27 last: with a clause for payment to the executors of William Breton, Esq., lately deceased, whom the said Hume succeeded in the said place, for the period 1714 Aug. 1
to 1714–15 Jan. 27, being the day of his death. King's Warrant Book
XXVII, p. 46. |
| June 23. |
Same to same for a same for 40,000l. to Charles Dartiquenave, Paymaster of the Works: as imprest for the use and service of the
Works: out of Civil List moneys. (Money warrant dated July 7
hereon. This warrant quotes the privy seal as dated June 30.) (Money order dated July 8 hereon.) Ibid., p. 47. Money Book XXIV, p. 56. Order Book IX, p. 94. |
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Money warrant for 30l. to the heirs of Nicholas Yates in part of the arrears due to them in the reign of Wm. III. on their 100l. per an. which was satisfied to 1699 Sept. 29. Hereof one fifth is to be issued to Ann Tonks: to be issued out of the Civil List arrears of Wm. III. Money Book XXIV, p. 33. |
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J. Taylour to the Attorney General. Send my Lords an account what proceedings have been had against Mr. Rudge and the several other brewers and agent victuallers who were ordered by the House of Commons to be prosecuted for frauds in relation to the Victualling. What overtures or compromises have any of them offered and how do their respective cases stand? Out Letters (General) XXI, p. 381. |
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William Lowndes to James Taylour, Esq. My Lords are informed that the sum of 3,007l. 1s. 3d. is in the hands of the Earl of Carnarvon due upon the several assignments of Lord North and Grey and
Brigadier Lepell; which sum is to be received by you pursuant to the agreement lately made betwixt my Lords and Sir Bibye Lake and to be paid by you into the Exchequer immediately in the name of said Lake as part of the debt of Mr. Robert Peter[s]. You are to receive same and pay it in accordingly. Ibid., p. 382. |
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J. Taylour to Mr. Molyneux, Secretary to the Prince of Wales. In answer to your letter which my Lords received last Saturday I
am to say that the Attorney and Solicitor General were directed to consult with the Prince's Council and prepare for my Lords a draft warrant for a grant of the Principality of Wales and Earldom of
Chester. They have not yet sent hither the said draft, but as soon as it comes my Lords will lay it before the King for his signature and will give it all the despatch that may be. |
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The commission to Mr. Rogers was (my Lords are informed) the first that was ever granted for a Supervisor General of the Tin Blowing
Houses. They believe that Mr. Boscawen is able to give you the best information concerning this office: but my Lords are of opinion it was intended for guarding against the mixture of other metals in the smelting of tin and thereby debasing it so as to be an injury to the sale thereof; of which some complaints were made which occasioned the appointing that officer. |
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My Lords do not know of what use he is with respect to securing the Coinage Duties [of tin] and therefore cannot think his Royal
Highness ought to be at any charge in relation to his salary. |
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As to the charges of passing the letters patent of his Royal Highness as Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester my Lords will lay before the King the necessary warrant for paying same: but there is an article left blank for the charges and reward of the person who was employed in passing the same through the several offices. My Lords desire you to let them know what sum will be proper to fill that blank and to whom it should be paid. |
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As to Mr. Nicholas's memorial for some recompense for repairing
the house in his possession, my Lords on inquiry find that the late
Queen Mary purchased the same and intended it to be for the use of her Treasurer; that Mr. Nicholas has ever since enjoyed it [including the time] when he could not pretend to it as her said Majesty's Treasurer and (as my Lords are informed) has received rent for it for some time” so that if he has been at charges in repairs they are of opinion he has no just demand for any recompense on that account.” |
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My Lords have directed all the papers which may be in the Treasury, any ways relating to the Duchy of Cornwall and Principality of Wales to be looked out and to be copied for you as soon as possible. Out
Letters (General) XXI, p. 383. |
| June 23. |
William Lowndes to the Board of Works. By the enclosed memorial
[missing] the principal officers of the Works at Windsor have laid before my Lords several affidavits by which Mr. Thomas Rowland, lately appointed Clerk of the Works there, is accused of many great frauds and abuses. My Lords direct you to make a strict inquiry thereinto and to report. Ibid., p. 384. |
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Treasury reference to Mr. Cracherode of the petition of John
Parker, one of the Agents for Prizes at Falmouth, shewing that by a report from the Prizes Commissioners it appears he saved considerable sums to the Crown on making up and stating the accounts of former Agents: that an extent is going against him for 108l. due on the balance of his account: therefore praying that prosecution may be stopped and the debt forgiven him in consideration of his services. Reference Book IX, p. 237. |
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Same to the Taxes Commissioners of the petition of Tho. Croome for payment of 720l. for his extraordinary charges in returning
211,921l. 2s. 6½d. to the Exchequer as Receiver of Land Tax and of the Duties on Houses 1706, 1707, 1708 and 1709 for Co. Wilts. Ibid., p. 238. |
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Same to same of the petition of Ambrose Reddall, same for Co. Beds, for payment of 1,165l. for his charges in returning 247,051l. 3s. 7½d. of his moneys. Ibid. |
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Same to same of the petition of John Eyles as late same for Co. Wilts for payment of 180l. for his charges in returning 53,127l. 7s. 4d. of his moneys. Ibid. |
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Same to same of the petition of John Turner as same for Co. Essex for payment of 1,497l. 10s. 0d. for his charges in returning his receipts between 1706 and 1714. Ibid. |
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Same to Sir John Vanbrugh, Surveyor of his Majesty's Gardens, of the petition of Henry Wise shewing that from Xmas 1712 he had the keeping of the Gardens at the Garden House at Windsor; that his predecessor, Mr. Watts, had an allowance of 180l. per an. for that service; that he was also under contract with the late Lord Fitz
Hardinge [Treasurer of the Chamber] for sweeping and shelling the
Mall in St. James's Park at 50l. per an. (which was 50l. per an. less than the Crown allowed to said Lord Fitz Harding for same): that on the said two sums there is 565l. due to him: therefore praying
payment of same and that the said allowances may be ascertained for the future. Ibid. |
| June 23. |
Same to the Board of Works of the petition of Michael Studholm, Keeper of his Majesty's Private Roads, shewing that the charge of repairing his Majesty's private road leading to Fulham will amount to 943l. 3s. 9d. Ibid., p. 239. |
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Royal warrant to the Earl of Sunderland, Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland, to give order that the sede vacante rents and profits of the bishoprics of Kilmore and Ardagh, Killaloe and Raphoe may be paid over to the persons who succeeded to the said bishoprics respectively: all on the petition of Timothy [Goodwin], Bishop of Kilmore and Ardagh, Nicholas [Forster], Bishop of Killaloe, and Edward [Singe], Bishop of Raphoe: the said sums being respectively 848l. 0s. 6d. for
Raphoe for three quarters ending at Lammas 1714; 415l. 3s. 11½d. for
Killaloe by the rent roll; but the collectors of Kilmore and Ardagh have received no rent roll whereby they might determine the sede vacante profits. Out Letters (Ireland) IX, p. 629. |
| June 24. |
Same dated St. James's to the Clerk of the Signet for a privy seal dormant for 100l. per an. to John Keill, gent., as Decipherer: to be payable as from Midsummer 1714. King's Warrant Book XXVII, p. 43. |
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Royal sign manual for 100l. to Monsieur John Bihrendorff as royal bounty. (Money warrant dated June 24 hereon.) (Money order dated June 25 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated June 27 hereon.)
Ibid., p. 43. Order Book IX, p. 82. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 100. |
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Same for 103l. 14s. 2d. to Monsieur Lansberg whereof 75l. 5s. 0d. is to be by him remitted or paid over to Monsieur Tuhrer de Heimsdorff
(Further de Hermensdorff), Senator of Nuremberg, as a present [from his Majesty] “in return for some models by him sent to us and the remaining 28l. 9s. 2d. to defray the freight and charges of some plants brought from the Indies for our service and placed in our royal gardens."
(Money warrant dated June 27 hereon.) (Money order dated June 30
hereon.) (Letter of direction dated June 27 hereon.) King's Warrant
Book XXVII, p. 44. Order Book IX, p. 91. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 80. |
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Same for 100l. to James Greensheilds, clerk, as royal bounty. (Money warrant dated June 24 hereon.) (Money order dated June 25
hereon.) (Letter of direction dated June 27 hereon.) King's Warrant
Book XXVII, p. 44. Order Book IX, p. 84. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 80. |
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Letter of direction for 31l. 13s. 3d. to John, Duke of Montagu, Master of the Great Wardrobe: out of Civil List moneys. (J. Taylour to said Duke to pay same to Mrs. Jane Ireland, sempstress and starcher to the late King William III., in discharge of so much remaining due and in arrear to her in the Great Wardrobe between Michaelmas
1700 and Michaelmas 1701 for making of linen for his said Majesty and for her expenses. |
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Appending: certificate of said arrear by Thomas Dummer, deputy
to said Master of the Great Wardrobe.) Disposition Book XXIII, p. 79. |
| June 24. |
J. Taylour to Mr. Popple. By their memorial of the 10th inst. the Customs Commissioners have proposed that the Act may be repealed which passed in the General Assembly of Virginia the 23 Oct. 1705 whereby it is enacted that no person whatsoever shall from and after the publication of the said Act bear any office, civil or military, or be in any place of public trust or power within his Majesty's
Colony and Dominion of Virginia until he hath personally resided in the same the full term of three years under the penalty of 500l. current [Virginia] money and 20l. of the like money for every month he continues to act or exercise such office or place after a recovery made of the said 500l. |
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Please lay same before the Commissioners for Trade. If they agree as to said proposed repeal my Lords desire them to make a representation thereof to his Majesty in order to have the same repealed. Out Letters (General) XXI, p. 382. |
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Same to the Excise Commissioners to report on the enclosed letter
[missing] signed J. K. with a proposal for improving the Excise revenue. Ibid. |
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William Lowndes to the Customs Commissioners. It is the King's pleasure that an account be forthwith laid before the House of Commons of what quantity of cochineal has been seized as imported contrary to law between Xmas 1708 and Xmas 1714 and from thence to 1st May
1715, distinguishing the years and the places from whence imported. |
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[Likewise an account] of the burthen of all ships that have passed into any parts beyond the seas from any port of England from Xmas
1709 to Xmas 1714, distinguishing the years and places respectively. |
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[Likewise an account of the product] of the Subsidies granted by
12 Car. II. on goods exported from 30 March 1700 to Xmas 1701
and from thence to Xmas 1714, distinguishing the years respectively. |
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Likewise an account of the amount of the Duties which have been repaid by debentures from Xmas 1707 to Xmas 1714, distinguishing the years respectively. |
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You are to cause the said accounts to be forthwith made up and laid before the said House. Ibid., p. 384. |
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Royal warrant dated St. James's to George, Earl of Orkney, Lieutenant and Governor of the Colony of Virginia, or to Alexander
Spotswood, Deputy Governor there, to direct the Attorney General of said Colony to discharge the prosecution against Francis Kennedy, or if judgment be given against him then to acknowledge satisfaction on record thereof and to repay to the said Kennedy any money that may have been levied upon him: it appearing by a memorial from the Customs Commissioners that William Keith, Surveyor
General of the Southern Continent of America, had received complaints against Geo. Luke, Collector of the Lower District of James River in Virginia, and did suspend the said Luke and deputed Francis
Kennedy as Collector in said District during Luke's suspension;
whereupon an information has been exhibited against Kennedy in
"one of the Courts of Justice in Virginia for 500l. for exercising an office in the Customs contrary to an Act passed in the General Assembly of that Colony 1705 Oct. 23 whereby it is enacted that no person whatsoever shall thereafter bear any office, civil or military, or be in any place of public trust or power within said Colony or Dominions thereof until he hath personally resided in the same the full term of three years, under the penalty of 500l. current money and 20l. current money for every month he continues so to act after the recovery of the said 500l.: and the Customs Commissioners [England]
have advised with the Attorney General [England], who is of opinion that the Act of 7 and 8 Wm. III., c. 22, empowered the Treasury
Lords and Customs Commissioners to appoint officers of the Customs in the Plantations and there being no restriction therein (save that they be natural born subjects), the laws in the Plantations restraining that power given by an English Act of Parliament is void as repugnant to the said Act of Parliament and that the [said] law of Virginia not having been approved by the Crown may be repealed: and further that the abovesaid forfeiture belongs to the Crown and the Crown may direct the prosecution to be discharged or satisfaction to be acknowledged on record in case of judgment given or that it may be reversed by Writ of Error. Out Letters (Ireland) IX, pp. 624–5. |
| June 24. |
Same to the Earl of Sunderland, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, to pay 352l. 9s. 0d. to Edward Schuldham in full of his salary as late
Solicitor in Criminal Causes, Ireland, to wit for his salary at 100l. per an. for three years six months and sixteen days during which he executed the said office: it appearing that the said salary is inserted on the present Establishment of Ireland for John French, and that
William French and Edward Webber, who discharged that office for some years past, constantly received the same, without which the place would not have paid them for their time and pains. Ibid., p. 626. |
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Same [to same] to place on the Establishment of Ireland the additional pension and half pay of 1s. a day for Louis Armand to make up his present allowance [into] 2s. a day: as from Lady day last: he having served the Crown during the wars in Ireland and afterwards in Flanders for several years when Queen Anne granted him a commission as Lieut. of Grenadiers in the Regiment of Foot commanded by Count de Paulin [Paulen], but when said Regiment was broke he was by some mistake allowed only 1s. a day in the list of pensioners instead of 2s. a day. Ibid., p. 627. |
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Same to same to replace Frederick William, Earl of Lifford, on the Establishment of half pay, Ireland, for 8s. a day as from Lady day last, he having petitioned shewing that when the French Regiments were disbanded in Ireland in 1699 he was put upon half pay at 8s. a day as Col. of Foot; that in 1706 he was appointed to raise a new Regiment to serve under Monsieur de Guiscard, which he could not comply with, and therefore his half pay was taken from him ever since 24 June 1706: on which petition the Lord Lieutenant has reported that he sees no reason why petitioner should not be restored to his half pay. Ibid., p. 630. |
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Same to same to place on the Establishment of Ireland a pension of 5s. a day for Katherine Power, alias O'Hara, as from Lady day last: she having petitioned shewing that her father, Daniel O'Hara, had an estate of 800l. a year in Ireland which became forfeit to the
Crown; that the late Queen Anne granted to her and her sister a pension of 2s. a day in the name of her eldest sister, Mary O'Hara, which the said Queen intended to make up to 5s. a day when the revenue of Ireland should be in a more settled condition; but her sister dying about two years since the said pension has ever since ceased and petitioner is left with five children in a starving condition:
on which petition the Lord Lieutenant reported favourably April 2
last. Out Letters (Ireland) IX, pp. 630–1. |
| June 24. |
Royal warrant dated St. James's to the Earl of Sunderland, Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland, to place on the Establishment of half pay, Ireland, Ensign Walter Dawes, Ensign in the Earl of Delorain's late
Regiment of Foot, instead of Ensign Whetham, whose name is entered on the Establishment by mistake in place of said Dawes: to wit from the reduction of said Regiment on 4 May 1712. Ibid., pp. 631–2. |
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William Lowndes to the Barons of the Exchequer, Scotland, to report on the enclosed petition [missing] of the owners and proprietors of the sugaries at Glasgow complaining of the proceedings now against them in the Exchequer Court [Scotland] concerning
Customs and Excise from which they claim exemption. Out Letters
(North Britain) III, p. 379. |
| June 25. |
Money order for 12l. 10s. 0d. to Joseph Fox for 1715 June 24 quarter on his allowance for keeping the Registers of all the public loans in the Office of the Auditor of the Receipt. |
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5l. to Edward Milward for same quarter as Porter attending at the Exchequer Gate. Order Book IX, p. 87. |
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Treasury reference to the Commissioners for Taxes of the petition of Tho. Ashby proposing his securities, detailed, as Receiver [General for Taxes] for Co. Herts. Out Letters (Affairs of Taxes) II, p. 172. |
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Royal warrant dated St. James's to the Earl of Sunderland, Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland, to pay to Major Robert Pigott his half pay of 6s. a day from 8 Sept. 1710 to Lady day last and thenceforward quarterly in future: he having served 22 years as an Officer in the
Army and last in Spain in the Regiment commanded by Col. Edward
Stanhope, and being put by his post on the death of the Lieut. Col. he quitted the service: but on his return [to England] he petitioned the late Queen Anne, who ordered him to be placed on the Establishment of half pay in Ireland as Lieut. Col. from the time he left the service in Spain; but going into Ireland before the warrant was perfected and the said Queen dying some time after he had no effect thereof. Out Letters (Ireland) IX, p. 628. |
| June 26. |
Money warrant for 6l. 6s. 3d. to John Writtle (a riding officer at
Hastings) and 3l. 15s. 7½d. to Cornelius Smyth (an officer at Hastings):
being the moieties of sums of money seized by them on attempted export thereof in a vessel belonging to Calais and in a small boat going to Calais respectively: being the rewards in accordance with the order in Council of 19 Oct. 1714. (Money order dated Aug. 27 hereon.)
Money Book XXIV, p. 35. Order Book IX, p. 118. |
| June 27. |
Same for 2,000l. for salary to the Treasury Lords (Charles, Earl of Carlisle; Sir Richard Onslow, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Sir William St. Quintin, Edward Wortley and Paul Methuen): to wit for 1715 June 24 quarter. (Money order dated June 28 hereon.)
Money Book XXIV, p. 34. Order Book IX, pp. 85, 88. |
| June 27. |
Same for 100l. to William Weket: for same quarter for attendance on and necessaries for the Treasury Office. |
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5l. to John Farra for same quarter for extraordinary pains in carrying letters for his Majesty's service. (Money order dated June 30
hereon.) Money Book XXIV, p. 34. Order Book IX, p. 90. |
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Money order for 50l. to Daniell Smith for one quarter to June 2
inst. on his yearly salary or allowance as Lieutenant Governor of
Nevis. Order Book IX, p. 86. |
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Treasury reference to Thomas Hewet, Surveyor General of Woods, of the petition of the officers and keepers of Whittlewood Forest for payment of the arrears of their salaries (amounting to 24l. 16s. 8d. per an.), to wit from Michaelmas 1705. Reference Book IX, p. 237. |
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Same to same of the petition of the officers of Windsor Forest shewing that their salaries are in arrear ever since the 8 Dec. 1712: therefore praying payment of same and of the allowances for hay for the deer. |
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Ibid. |
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Same to same of the petition of the Marquess of Dorchester, Chief
Justice in Eyre, shewing that by the late great storm of wind on the 1st day of February last a great many trees were blown down and broke and spoiled to the value of 2,473l. 9s. 4d.: therefore proposing that the same may be taken care of. Ibid., p. 238. |
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Same to Mr. Walpole [Paymaster of the Forces] of the petition of
Thomas Bruce, late Muster Master of the Forces in North Britain, shewing that by a mistake in the Establishment for Guards and
Garrisons he cannot receive three months’ pay: therefore praying a warrant for same. Ibid., p. 239. |
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Same to the Taxes Commissioners of the petition of Samuel Bradshaw and Antho[ny] Bradshaw proposing their securities, detailed, as Receivers General of the Duties on Houses for Co. Derby. Out
Letters (Affairs of Taxes) II, p. 142. |
| June 28. |
Money warrant for 250l. to Peter Flournois for 1715 Lady day quarter on the annuity granted to him for and towards the maintenance of the late Countess of Clancarty's children and for their education in the Protestant religion. Money Book XXIV, p. 35. |
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Treasury allowance of the Stamp Office salary bill, detailed, for
1715 June 24 quarter: total 2,005l. Ibid., pp. 36–8. |
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Treasury warrant dormant to Charles, Earl of Orrery, Receiver
General of the Revenues arising by Fines for Alienations, to pay the fees as follows to the several officers in the Alienation Office, viz. 40l. each per term to Thomas Plott, Cornelius Cayley and John
Ramsden, Deputies [to the Treasury Lords] and Commissioners in the said Office; 40l. per term to you the Earl of Orrery as Receiver General thereof; 20l. per term to William Freeman, Master of Chancery
[attending there]; 5l. each per term to Theophilus Newcomen and
Thomas Webb, clerks. Money Book XXIV, p. 39. |
| June 28. |
Money order for 150l. to the Taxes Commissioners (William
Walbancke, Mich. Vincent, Paul Burrard, John Williams, Antho. Dawley and Brian Fairfax): for 1715 June 24 quarter's salaries. Order Book IX, p. 88. |
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William Lowndes to the Commissioners for Hackney Coaches. John Cook has represented to my Lords that he stands possessed of a licence to keep one Hackney Coach No. 691, but the same being expired and new ones being going to be given out he hath desired that the same or some other number may be given to him. My Lords direct you to grant him a licence for a Hackney Coach or to signify any objection you have thereto. Out Letters (General) XXI, p. 384. |
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Treasury warrant to the Stamps Commissioners to allow poundage at the rate of 18 pence in the pound to the [stamp] distributors and collectors in England and 2s. in the pound to the sub-collectors in
Scotland: all as proposed by the said Commissioners. |
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Prefixing: representation by said Commissioners desiring a general warrant for allowing poundage as above in view of the uncertainty as to the construction of the warrant of 1714 June 16 [ut supra, Calendar of Treasury Books, Vol. XXVIII, p. 312] by the late Treasurer
Oxford, as the same mentions the Continued and first additional
Duties [as by 5–6 Wm. and Mary, c. 2l, and 9–10 Wm. III., c. 25, respectively] but not the Duties commencing in 1711 and 1712 [as by 9 Anne, c. 16, and 10 Anne, c. 18, respectively], and the warrant from the Duke of Shrewsbury dated 1714 Sept. 29, supra, p. 101, relating only to the Duties which commenced in August 1714 as by
1 Geo. I., St. 2, c. 12. Warrants not Relating to Money XXIII, pp. 99–101. |
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Same to Sir Edward Northey, Attorney General, to discharge the fine on Robert Weemes and to enlarge him from the Fleet prison on his paying 100l. towards his debt of 1,510l. for Salt Duties. |
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Prefixing: (1) said Weemes’ petition; (2) report thereon from the Salt Commissioners dated 10 June inst. Ibid., pp. 110–11. |
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Same to the Salt Commissioners to enlarge Geo. Weatherby from the Fleet prison, where he has been 7½ years for being concerned in corrupting the Customs and salt officers about Newcastle in 1700
and 1701 in the certifying of shipments of fish. |
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Prefixing: (1) said Weatherby's petition praying release because of his wretched condition, he having a wife and seven small children;
three other prisoners concerned in the same matter, viz. James
Hindman, Thomas Snowden and John Yates, having been released after two years’ imprisonment. |
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(2) report by the Salt Commissioners on said Weatherby's petition. Ibid., pp. 121–2. |
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Treasury allowance of the 1715 June 24 quarter's salary bill, detailed, of the Stamp Office in Lincolns Inn for the Duties on clerks and apprentices: total 60l. Money Book XXIV, p. 55. |
| June 28. |
Treasury warrant to the Salt Commissioners to repay to officers of the Salt Duties whose salaries do not exceed 100l. per an. their assessments to the Land Taxes for the years 1713 and 1714 in consideration of the poverty of most of the said officers. |
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Prefixing: memorial by the Salt Commissioners in behalf of the said officers. Ibid., p. 64. |
| June 29. |
Money warrant for 119l. 4s. 11½d. to the Taxes Commissioners
(William Walbanck, Nicho. Vincent, Paul Burrard, John Williams, Anthony Dawley and Brian Fairfax) for incidents for 1715 Lady day quarter. |
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Prefixing: bill for said incidents. Ibid., p. 39. |
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Same for 253l. 1s. 1d. to Nicho. Turner, late Sheriff of Sussex, for the surplusage on his account ended at Michaelmas 1714. |
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Prefixing: certificate by Francis Neale, Deputy Clerk of the Pipe, of said surplusage. (Money order dated July 2 hereon.) Ibid., p. 40. |
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Order Book IX, p. 89. |
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Same for 95l. 3s. 0d. to Thomas Emerton for the surplusage on his account as Sheriff of Co. Beds. for same year. (Money order dated
July 6 hereon.) Money Book XXIV, p. 40. Order Book IX, p. 97. |
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Same for 132l. 18s. 8d. to Randal Wilbraham for same on his account as Sheriff for Co. Chester for same year. (Money order dated July 2 hereon.) Money Book XXIV, p. 40. Order Book IX, p. 90. |
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Same for 36l. to Rees Edwards for same as Sheriff of Co. Carmarthen for same year. (Money order dated July 2 hereon.) Money Book
XXIV, p. 41. Order Book IX, p. 91. |
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Same for 184l. 9s. 8d. to James Smith for same as Sheriff of Co. Devon for same year. (Money order dated July 6 hereon.) Money
Book XXIV, p. 41. Order Book IX, p. 97. |
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Same for 349l. 0s. 7¾d. to William Strode for same as Sheriff of
Co. Somerset for same year. (Money order, ut supra.) Money Book
XXIV, p. 41. Order Book IX, p. 97. |
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Same for 94l. 3s. 4d. to John Lynch for same as Sheriff of Co. Kent for said year. (Money order, ut supra.) Money Book XXIV, p. 41. Order Book IX, p. 97. |
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Same for 45l. 2s. 6d. to William Whittington for same as Sheriff of Co. Gloucester for same year. (Money order, ut supra.) Money
Book XXIV, p. 41. Order Book IX, p. 97. |
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Same for 44l. 7s. 10d. to Thomas Vere and Thomas Harwood for same as Sheriffs of Norwich for same year. (Money order, ut supra.)
Money Book XXIV, p. 41. Order Book IX, p. 97. |
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Same for 1,931l. 1s. 0d. to Sir Francis Forbes and Sir Joshua Sharpe, Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, for same: the same arising by their paying 1,440l. for apprehending and convicting 26 housebreakers and 10 highwaymen, and 491l. 1s. 0d. for other disbursements for the public service allowed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. (Money order dated July 9 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated July 9 on all the above warrants.) Money Book XXIV, p. 41. Order Book IX, p. 95. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 83. |
| June 29. |
William Lowndes to the Customs Commissioners enclosing a memorial [missing] from the East India Company. My Lords direct you to discourse with some of the Directors of said Company thereon, particularly to hear what they can offer to make it appear that the settling a certain [or fixed] rate upon the unrated goods will not lessen the revenue. My Lords are inclined to comply with the request of the Company in case you shall be satisfied that it will not be prejudicial to the fonds which are to be answered out of those revenues. Out Letters (General) XXI, p. 385. |
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Same to the Comptrollers of the Army Accounts to report on the enclosed petition [missing] of Col. Thomas Pitt on behalf of himself and the other Officers of Major Gen. [James] Pepper's late Regiment of
Dragoons [the 8th Hussars], with the several reports and papers thereto annexed, touching the sum of 1,251l. 18s. 5d. charged on them for the subsistence of two Troops of the said Regiment from
23 Sept. 1711 to 7 Jan. 1712–13, [being] more than allowed upon the Irish Establishment. Ibid., pp. 385, 413. |
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J. Taylour to Mr. Stanhope. In your letter of March 15 last my
Lords received a memorial of Maynhard, Duke of Schonberg and
Leinster with a signification of his Majesty's pleasure that my Lords should examine the allegations and report thereon. I am to transmit to you my Lords’ report accordingly in order to be laid before his Majesty. |
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Followed by: (1) Secretary James Stanhope to the Treasury Lords dated Whitehall 15 March 1714–15 to report to the King on the said petition. |
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(2) Said petition shewing that soon after the Revolution the House of Commons 24 April 1689 considered Marshal Schomberg's great services and losses and 25 April Mr. Hampden reported from Committee of Supply that 600,000l. be allowed for the charge of the Civil
Government, including therein the allowance for the Queen Regnant, Queen Dowager, Prince and Princess of Denmark and Marshal Schomberg: that the sum allowed by the House for him in the said Civil
List allowance was 100,000l.: that 16 July 1689 Sir Henry Capell
(then a Treasury Lord) acquainted the House that the King had made said Schomberg a Duke and taken care that he should have
5,000l. a year settled on him, and trustees were named so that the same might be better laid out in purchase of lands. In pursuance thereof Wm. III. immediately signed a warrant for 100,000l. to be paid out of the Exchequer by certain proportions and times within four years to said four Trustees to be by them laid out in lands for
Frederick, then Duke of Schomberg. The said grant did not pass the great seal by reason of said Frederick's sudden departure for
Ireland, where he was slain at the battle of the Boyne, nor did it pass to Duke Charles by reason of his sudden departure for Piedmont, where he was slain at the battle of Marsaglia, leaving no issue. |
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By (royal warrant dated 31 Jan. 1693–4 for) letters patent Wm. III. granted to Maynhard, the present Duke, 4,000l. a year out of the Post
Office as the interest or forbearance of said 100,000l., as his Majesty's affairs did not then permit of payment of so considerable a sum. On
18 June 1696 Wm. III. signed another warrant for a like patent. Some time before his death Wm. III. increased [promised to increase] the interest to 5 per cent. [by grant of an additional pension of 1,000l. per an. out of the Post Office], which Queen Anne confirmed by patent [the
10 April 1703, reciting that King Wm. III. died before the patent for said further 1,000l. per an. could be passed, ut supra, Calendar of Treasury Books, Vol. XVIII, p. 225], but the said patent being subsequent to the Acts [9 Anne, c. 11] which restrain grants on the
Post Office it ceased on her death. Therefore praying provision for rendering said grant effectual. |
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(3) Report by the Treasury Lords to the King dated June 28 hereon. The report consists entirely in a recital of the facts as above. “We do most humbly submit the same to your Majesty's great wisdom."
Ibid., p. 385. Warrants not Relating to Money XXIII, pp. 82–7. |
| June 29. |
Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners to deliver 40
bales of stockings imported from Jersey and Guernsey but stopped at Southampton on pretence of a Duty of 20 per cent. not before demanded. The petitioners, being merchants and inhabitants of the said islands, are to give security to answer the said Duties at the end of this Session of Parliament unless they obtain the said Duties to be discharged by some Act before the end of the said Session. |
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Prefixing: report by said Commissioners on the petition of the said merchants and inhabitants. A doubt having arisen whether the goods imported from Jersey and Guernsey of the growth and production thereof, or goods imported thither, were free from Customs as they had been for many years past by virtue of the Charters granted to the said islands, our Solicitor was instructed to attend the Attorney
General for his opinion thereon: and the Attorney General having given his opinion that the islands of Jersey and Guernsey are liable to all the Customs and Duties laid on goods imported from Great
Britain thither or imported thence into Great Britain, notwithstanding any letters patent of exemption [granted] before the making the
Acts of Parliament that imposed those Duties unless their exemptions are preserved expressly in those Acts, we thereupon gave instructions to our officers to govern themselves accordingly. The petitioners have thereupon laid before us a copy of the Attorney General's report to you, the Treasury Lords, wherein he submits whether there is not great reason if not a necessity for the preservation of those islands that application be made to Parliament for discharging the Duties on importation [into Great Britain] of goods of the produce and manufacture of those islands. We have no objection thereto. The same should also apply to Alderney and Sark. |
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“However we take leave to observe to your Lordships that several officers of the Customs were formerly appointed in those islands with such powers and instructions as were then judged proper to be given for preventing frauds and illegal practices there in prejudice of this [the Customs] revenue and of the trade of Great Britain: but that by an order of her late Majesty in Council dated 25 Dec. 1709
all the said officers were removed from the said islands except that an officer has been ever since continued in each island as a Register of Certificates, though without any power for the due execution of that office: since the removal of which officers the Board hath received several informations of divers frauds and illegal practices in trade to and from those islands, particularly in relation to the wool allowed by law to be exported to [from] Southampton for the use of those
[Jersey and Guernsey] inhabitants and of the woollen manufactures made there, the greatest part of which wool has been carried from those islands to France unmanufactured as we are informed by a person of good credit who has lately had frequent opportunities of being an eye witness of such practices. And as a confirmation thereof the Register[s] of Certificates in the said islands have seized several parcels of wool as the same were exporting from thence, which have been condemned in the Royal Courts there; and divers informations are entered in the said Courts for several quantities of wool exported from the said island in order to prosecute the offenders. |
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We further beg leave to acquaint your Lordships that it is frequently the practice of small vessels to take in considerable quantities of wine, brandy and other goods at the said islands with which cargoes they either hover on the coast of England or come into port, where they continue till they have an opportunity to run their cargoes, and if stopt or examined by the officers of the Customs in this kingdom they pretend to be bound to Ostend, Holland or France and have false bills of lading to that purpose. And several ships so laden have proceeded out of the ports of this kingdom and in two or three days have returned into port again in ballast, pretending they have landed their cargoes in foreign parts. |
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Wherefore for the better preventing the like frauds and abuses for the future and for the security of his Majesty's revenue we are of opinion that such and so many officers of the Customs should be constituted and appointed by a proper authority in the said islands respectively with such powers and instructions as shall from time to time be judged needful for the purposes before mentioned.” Out
Letters (Customs) XVI, pp. 243–6. |
| June 29. |
Treasury warrant to the Clerk of the Pipe for a lease to Thomas
Metcalfe of the soil and waste &c. in the village of Askrigg, ut supra, p. 532. |
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Prefixing: particular and memorandum of the premises by Auditor
Jett and ratal thereof by the Surveyor General of Crown Lands. |
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Followed by: undated entry of the Treasury Lords’ signature of the docquet of this lease, the lease being to Henry Metcalf at the nomination of Thomas Metcalfe. Warrants not Relating to Money
XXIII, pp. 89–91, 141. |
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Same to same for a same to William Carnaby, gent., of two fulling mills late part of the monastery of Newminster, Co. Northumberland. |
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Prefixing: particular and memorandum by Auditor Jett and ratal by Alexander Pendarves, late Surveyor General of Crown Lands. |
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Followed by: docquet entry as above. Ibid., pp. 92–4. |
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Same to Thomas Hewet, Surveyor General of Woods, to fell
395l. 18s. 0d. worth of dotard timber in Whittlewood Forest and apply same to repairs in said forest as follows: and for the future to represent some method of agreement with the officers of said forest for them to take the charge of such repairs. |
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Prefixing: report by said Hewet on the Duke of Grafton's memorial detailing the lodges and repairs desired therein: to the said total. Ibid., pp. 95–6. |
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Same to same to fell 174l. 13s. 11½d. worth of dotard timber in
Salcey Forest and to apply same in repairs there as follows. |
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Prefixing: (1) report dated 5 June 1714 by Edward Wilcox, late
Surveyor of Woods, Trent South, on the petition of George Montagu, Chief Ranger of said Forest, for repairs there. (2) Report by Thomas
Hewet on the petition of the said Ranger of said forest for repairs to the lodges, detailed, there: to the said total sum. Ibid., pp. 96–9. |
| June 29. |
Same to same to fell sufficient dotard timber in Windsor Forest as will provide for the repairs of the posts, rails and pales of Swinley
Rails in said forest not exceeding 178l. 4s. 0d. Ibid., p. 102. |
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The Treasury Lords to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to report on the enclosed petition [missing] of John Trinder praying that the
Attorney General may confess an error on a writ brought for the reversing the attainder of John Trinder, uncle to the petitioner, who was attainted of high treason in the first year of Wm. and Mary. Hereon the King refers it to us the Treasury Lords to report if the said uncle had any lands or estate in Ireland. Out Letters (Ireland)
IX, p. 632. |
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J. Taylour to Mr. Addison. The enclosed royal warrant [missing]
for granting a pension of 3s. a day on the Establishment of Ireland to Lieut. William Napier was brought to the Treasury in order to be countersigned by my Lords, but their Lordships having no previous knowledge thereof and observing there is not any notice taken in the warrant that the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland hath been made acquainted therewith, my Lords desire you to lay it before him [the said Lord Lieutenant] to let my Lords know if he has any objection to their signing it. Ibid., p. 633. |
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Treasury allowance of the salary bill, detailed, of the General Post
Office (total 2,039l. 5s. 8d.) and Penny Post Office (total 529l. 14s. 5¼d.)
for the quarter ended at Lady day last. Money Book XXIV. pp. 49–51. |
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Same of the incidents bill, detailed, of the Post Office for same quarter (including 3l. 8s. 0d. to John Kempton, beadle, for one year's watching at Xmas 1714; 10s. to Mr. Aron Pritchard, marshal in the Trained Bands; 30l. to Mr. Arnold Beeby for half a year's allowance for beer at Xmas 1714; 4l. 3s. 3d. to John Kempton, Collector for Trophy Money; 8l. to Phillip Musgrave for half a year's allowance to 1714 Midsummer for taking care of the candles; 40l. to Arnold
Beeby for two feasts due to the clerks in the Office at Midsummer
1714; 53l. 13s. 0d. to John Walker for delivering the Members’ letters at the House of Commons for two years ended 1 Sept. 1714;
179l. 17s. 0d. to Fran. Stanley for travelling charges in securing the
[various provincial] postmasters’ arrears and inspecting the work, being employed 224 days; 10l. 15s. 0d. to the Gazetteer as a new year's gift; 24l. to Arnold Beeby for 24 days’ travelling charges in inspecting the management of the Chichester branch; 14l. 8s. 0d. to Mr. Alex. Say for Xmas box money to Post boys and others;
4l. 11s. 6d. for the rector and lecturer for Xmas quarter; 25l. to
Thomas Horne for Xmas quarter 1714 for adjusting the accounts of the pacquet boats and Scotch and Irish accounts; 10s. to Mr. Jos. Lane, ratcatcher, for half a year at Xmas 1714; 7l. to Mr. Thomas James for pumping the well; 48l. 8s. 7d. for 11,623 ship letters; 3l. 16s. 0d. to Mr. John Ryalls, stone cutter, for work done
in Sept. and November: 21l. 10s. 10d. to Mr. Jos. Thompson, painter, from April 1714 to January following; 6l. 14s. 0d. to William Gosling for the loss of bad money taken by the clerks in the Foreign [Post]
Office on post nights; 49l. 8s. 0d. to the messengers of the Penny
Post for collecting the Post Office letters on post nights and bringing them to the General Post Office for one year ending the 21 March
1714–15; 144l. 4s. 0d. to John Nutt for 2½ years for Gazettes, newspapers &c.; 32l. 14s. 2d. paid for 7,850 ship letters: total
1,589l. 1s. 0d.) Money Book XXIV, pp. 52–3. |
| June 29. |
Treasury warrant to Charles, Lord Cornwallis, and James Craggs, senr., Postmasters General, to repay to officers of the Post Office of not more than 60l. per an. salary their assessments to the Land
Tax anno 1715. |
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Prefixing: memorial from said Postmasters General on behalf of said officers. Ibid., pp. 54–5. |
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Money warrant for 150l. to Sir Philip Meadows for 1715 Lady day quarter on his pension of 600l. per an. Ibid., p. 59. |
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Same for 125l. to Ann Charlot, Lady Frechville, for same quarter on her pension of 500l. per an. Ibid. |
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Same for 500l. to Thomas, Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, for same quarter on his pension of 2,000l. per an. Ibid. |
| June 30. |
Privy seal for 500l. as equipage and ordinaries of 5l. a day and
3l. a day to George Carpenter as Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Emperor of Germany, being 5l. as Envoy and 3l. as Plenipotentiary. King's Warrant Book XXVII, p. 48. |
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Order of the King in Council to permit Windsor Sandys, Esq., to pass a patent of a grant of wrecks to him granting him liberty of fishing for wrecks in the American seas between the latitudes of 12
and 27 degrees of north latitude in the West Indies for 11 years from the date thereof: reserving to the Crown a full tenth of all recoveries: the said present order being made upon a report dated the 24th inst. from a Committee of the Privy Council on the petition of Morgan Randyll opposing said grant to Sandys, which petition of said Randyll was referred to said Committee on the 17th inst.: whereupon the said Committee had heard both parties by their counsel on the said 24th June inst. The herein granted patent is to contain a proviso that if Mr. Randyll or any prior patentees shall find any wrecks and continue to take up the same Mr. Sandys shall not disturb them or fish upon the said wreck till they have left it. |
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Appending: undated draft of said patent. In this draft the amount of the royalty is left blank, but the word “tenth” is written in the margin. This addition is explained by a letter dated Treasury
Chambers July 14 from J. Taylour to Secretary Townshend as below, p. 634. Ibid., pp. 58–60. Out Letters (General) XXI, p. 392. |
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Letter of direction for 2,400l. to Sir John Humble as Paymaster of the 1,500,000l. Lottery anno 1710 [8 Anne, c. 10]: out of any unappropriated money in the Exchequer paid in there before 12
June 1714: and is to be applied in aid of the deficiency of the fond for the said Lottery. Money Book XXIV, p. 43. |
| June 30. |
Treasury warrant to Edward Harley and Thomas Foley, Auditors of Imprests, to allow in accompt to Sir John Humble as Paymaster of the above Lottery 24l. 7s. 9d. for the charges of passing his account thereof through the several Offices of the Exchequer: he having been allowed the sum of 17l. 19s. 0d. for the like charges in his account for the Million Lottery. |
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Prefixing: report by said Auditors. Ibid. |
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Money warrant for 1,185l. to Richard, Lord Cobham, late Envoy
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Emperor of Germany, 360l. thereof for 45 days from 15 April to May 30, 1715, on his ordinary of 5l. a day as Envoy and 3l. a day as Plenipotentiary, he having returned into the presence on May 30 last: and the remaining 825l. for his extraordinary disbursements in said service between 1714
Oct. 15 and 1715 May 30. |
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Appending: bill of said extraordinaries: |
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to the Yacht that carried me over |
21 |
10 |
0 |
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for postage of letters |
142 |
0 |
0 |
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for Gazettes, printed papers and Intelligence |
60 |
0 |
0 |
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for stationery ware |
40 |
0 |
0 |
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given at the new year to the several officers belonging to the Emperor [Charles VI.], the three Empresses [Eleonora Magdalena, widow of the Emperor Leopold; Wilhelmina Amalia, widow of the Emperor Joseph; and Elizabeth
Christina, wife of the reigning Emperor, Charles VI.]; and the Archduchess [Maria
Elizabeth] |
40 |
0 |
0 |
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to the officers of the Emperor's Court for two audiences |
50 |
0 |
0 |
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to the yacht that brought me over |
21 |
10 |
0 |
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expended in my journey to and from Vienna with my servants’ baggage, horses &c. over and above his Majesty's allowance for my ordinary entertainment |
450 |
0 |
0 |
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£825 |
0 |
0 |
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Followed by: Secretary Townshend's allowance dated Whitehall
27 June 1715 of said bill. “I allow the first seven articles of this bill amounting to 375l. for six months and six weeks pursuant to the Regulation [of ambassadorial extraordinaries]; and his Majesty having been informed that it has been usual to allow a sum of money for travelling charges of ministers is pleased to direct me to allow the last article of 450l. for the expenses of my Lord Cobham's journey to and from Vienna.” (Money order dated July 2 hereon.) Ibid., pp. 45–6. Order Book IX, p. 89. |
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Same for 2,275l. 17s. 4d. to the Commissioners for Trade (Sir Jacob
Ashley, Robert Molesworth, John Cockburne, Archibald Hutchinson, John Chetwynd, Charles Cooke, Paul Docminique) and to William, Lord Berkeley, late a same: being 284l. 9s. 8d. each for 1714 Dec. 13
to 1715 Lady day on their salaries of 1,000l. per an. each. (Money order dated July 4 hereon.) Money Book XXIV, pp. 46–7. Order
Book IX, p. 92. |
| June 30. |
Money warrant for 287l. 10s. 0d. to William Popple, Secretary to the
Commissioners for Trade: for 1715 Lady day quarter for salary for himself and clerks &c. in his Office. (Money order dated July 4
hereon.) |
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246l. 4s. 3d. to same for same quarter's incidents for said Commissioners: appending bill of said incidents. Money Book XXIV, pp. 47–8. Order Book IX, p. 93. |
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Same for 75l. 5s. 7½d. to Phillip Ryley for three quarters to Lady day 1715 on his fee or salary of 3s. a day and board wages of 2s. 6d. a day as a Serjeant at Arms. Money Book XXIV, p. 48. |
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Treasury allowance of the 1715 Lady day quarter's incidents bill, detailed, of the Office for the Duties on Hides &c.: total 382l. 16s. 6¼d. Ibid., p. 60. |
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Treasury warrant to the Receiver General of the Duties on Houses for Middlesex, Westminster and London to pay to the Commissioners for Taxes (William Walbanck, Nicholas Vincent, Paul Burrard, John
Williams, Anthony Dawley and Brian Fairfax) 105l. 12s. 11¼d. (as part of 213l. 11s. 6d. for the incident charges of the said Commissioners), being the proportion of the said incident charges necessarily concerned with the Duties on Houses. |
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Prefixing. bill of said incidents (including 6l. 6s. 6¼d. for Jacob
Tonson's bill for stationery). Ibid., p. 61. |
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Same to James, Earl of Carnarvon, late Paymaster General of the
Forces Abroad, to pay as follows the 27,000l. this day [see infra, pp. 578–9, under date July 2] imprested to you as in further part of the
300,000l. appropriated out of the funds of last year towards satisfying the debt to the Land Forces and to the outpensioners of Chelsea
Hospital: the debts as follows having been examined and reported to the Treasury Lords by the Paymaster General of the Land Forces, the Secretary at War and the Comptrollers of the Accounts of the
Army, to whom the same had been referred: viz. |
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11,730l. 17s. 8d. as in part of 54,750l. 2s. 8d. for forage and bread supplied by Mr. Francis Beaumont for the use of her late Majesty's Forces in the Low Countries for the winter quarters 1711–12 and the spring following, and for the incident and extraordinary charges thereupon. |
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3,153l. 9s. 6¼d. as in part of 14,717l. 16s. 11d. for forage furnished to the Prussian Troops quartered in the Duchy of
Limburg and bishopric of Liégein their winter quarters
1710–11 and 1711–12. |
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343l. 8s. 9d. as in part of 1,602l. 17s. 1½d. for forage delivered to the British Horse by Messrs. Heymans and Dieries betwixt the 4th April 1712 and the 28th May following. |
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642l. 15s. 0d. as in part of 2,999l. 16s. 8d. for forage delivered by Messrs. Boele and Elbo to 16 squadrons of British, Holstein and Walloon Dragoons in the winter quarters
1712–13. |
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1,870l. 1s. 9d. as in part of 8,728l. 0s. 8d. for bread and bread waggons furnished by Messrs. Vanderkaa and Castagno for the use of her Majesty's Forces in the Low Countries in the 1712 campaign and the incident and extraordinary charges thereupon. |
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204l. 11s. 4d. as in part of 954l. 15s. 0d. for forage furnished by
Mr. Heymans to the nine squadrons of British Horse and some Hanover Troops upon their taking the field in the spring of 1711. |
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4,545l. 14s. 0d. as in part of 21,215l. 11s. 9d. for medicines and all other necessaries furnished for the use of the Hospitals in the Low Countries in the years 1711 and 1712. |
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3,661l. 7s. 5¼ d. as in part of 17,088l. 5s. 9d. for bread, coals and other necessary disbursements for the use of the Garrison of Gibraltar from 20 June 1712 to the end of the year 1713. |
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189l. 16s. 8¼ d. as in part of 885l. 19s. 10½ d. for corn delivered at Port Mahon for the use of her late Majesty's Forces there. |
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657l. 17s. 10¼ d. as in part of 3,070l. 10s. 0d. for Officers of
Lord Mark Kerr's Regiment for their personal subsistence from 22 Feb. 1712–13, when reduced at Gibraltar, to 25 Nov. following, [being] the time they commence upon the Irish
Establishment. |
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And whereas we have also directed [see below] that as any more money shall be and remain in the Receipt of the Exchequer applicable to the said debt of the Land Forces and outpensioners, the same shall be issued to your Lordship not exceeding with the above 27,000l. the sum of
126,013l. 16s. 5d. [representing the total of the above ten items of bills], we do hereby further pray and require your Lordship to apply and pay over the same from time to time towards the satisfaction of the debts above mentioned in the like due proportions to each debt as is above specified and not otherwise. Ibid., pp. 61b–62. |
| June 30. |
Letter of direction for 27,000l. to James, Earl of Carnarvon, as late Paymaster of the Forces Abroad: out of such public moneys as have arisen and have been paid into the Exchequer since 12 June
1714: and likewise to pay to same out of similar public moneys arising between 12 June 1714 and Sept. 29 next such further sum as with the said 27,000l. shall make up the total sum of 126,013l. 16s. 5d.:
which total sum is to be accounted as part of the 300,000l. appropriated by Parliament in 1714 towards satisfying the debt on account of the
Land Forces and to the outpensioners: and to be applied by said
Earl to such public debts incurred during the time he was Paymaster, as he shall receive warrant for [from the Treasury Lords]. (This letter was cancelled and superseded by the letter of direction of July2
next, infra, pp. 578–9.) Disposition Book XXIII, p. 80. |
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Same for 700l. to Charles Dartiquenave, Paymaster of the Works:
out of Civil List moneys: and is intended to be paid over to Henry
Wise for 1715 June 24 quarter on his 2,800l. per an. for keeping his
Majesty's gardens and plantations, consisting of 140 acres at the rate of 20l. an acre as by the royal sign manual of Jan. 5 last. (William
Lowndes to said Dartiquenave to so pay same.) Ibid., p. 81. |
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William Lowndes to Mr. Walpole [Paymaster of the Forces]. By the enclosed memorial [missing] Mr. How [late Paymaster of Guards and Garrisons] desires 61,050l. 15s. 10¾d. to be paid over to him out of the moneys received by you of the fonds anno 1714 so as he may be enabled to clear the Forces for the time he continued Paymaster. My Lords desire you to report thereon. |
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I also enclose a letter [missing] sent to my Lords from the President and Council of Bermudas relating to the pay of the Independent
Company there. Please consider thereof and do therein as you shall see cause. Out Letters (General) XXI, p. 386. |
| June 30. |
Treasury reference to the Customs Commissioners of the petition of John Robertson, officer in the Isle of Jersey,” and keeping the
Register for wool there,” shewing that he discovered the transportation of some wool from thence into France for which Edward Gifford, Lovice Arnaud, Clemen Le Morlais and Simon De Caen, junr., were convicted for four several facts: and it being within the time of her late Majesty's Proclamation of 40l. reward for any such conviction he prays payment of same. Reference Book IX, p. 239. |
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Same to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands of the petition of
Hannah Warner, widow and executrix of John Warner, late of Lambert
[? Lambeth], deceased, shewing that she now stands possessed of ten houses on the south side of Pall Mall, St. James's, four whereof stand together abutting on a messuage formerly possessed by Lady
Ellis, now by John Grahame, on the east, and the messuage formerly possessed by Lady Williams, now by Edward Pauncefort, on the west, with small courts before and yards behind; and also a parcel of waste ground lying behind the said yards and extending itself to Lord
Carleton's wall: which said four houses are in the possession of
Thomas Spurrell, John Prince, Robert Barker and Dorothy Lowndes:
the other six houses abut east on the house of the said Edward
Pauncefort and west on the house formerly of Lady Shannon, now possessed by John Taylor; with small courts before and gardens behind extending to Lord Carleton's garden wall: which last mentioned houses were formerly four but now divided into six and in the tenure of Martha Curtois, John Clement, John Ellis, John Wilkins, William Tuer and Benja[min] Bedford: therefore praying extension of lease, as she must spend further large sums in their repair. Ibid., pp. 239–40. |
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Treasury warrant to the Auditor of Crown Lands for Co. Northampton to make out debentures on the Receiver of Crown Lands for said county for paying the wages of the officers and keepers of
Whittlewood Forest (being 24l. 16s. 8d. per an.) from the time of their being last paid as officers under the late Queen Dowager to the date of the Duke of Grafton's grant of said forest, to wit from the date of said Queen Dowager's death to the 19 July 1712. |
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Prefixing: (1) Certificate by J. Duncombe of the amount of said wages. |
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(2) Certificate by Robert Hewett, late Auditor, that said wages were paid during the life time of the Queen Dowager and no longer. Warrants not Relating to Money XXIII, pp. 101–2. |
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Same to the Commissioners for the 1,500,000l. Lottery anno 1711
to innovate a lost order on the said Lottery, being No. 93 in the 40th course of payment, dated 1712 June 14 in the name of Thomas Griffen and by him assigned to Edward Clark, being for the principal sum of 120l. |
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Prefixing: report by Matt. Vernon and William Thomas dated Exchequer 2 June 1715 on said Clarke's petition for same. Ibid., p. 107. |
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Treasury reference to the Commissioners for Taxes of the petition of George Baker proposing his securities, detailed, as Receiver General
of Taxes for Co. Kent for the year 1715, for which he is recommended by the Earl of Dorset. Out Letters (Affairs of Taxes) II, p. 172. |
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J. Taylour to the Customs Commissioners, Scotland. My Lords have considered your report representing that there are no appraisers on the Customs Establishment of Scotland as there are in England and proposing the appointment of George Kendall thereto. Please advise what salary you propose for him so that it may be entered in the warrant accordingly. Out Letters (North Britain) III, p. 379. |
