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| April 16. |
Money order for 276l. 3s. 3¼d. to Walter Hamilton, Captain General and Governor in Chief of the Leeward Caribbee Islands: for his moiety salary from 1715 Aug. 23 (the day he was appointed) to 1715–16 Feb. 7 (the day of his arrival at Antigua):
1,200l. to same for one year due 1716–17 Feb. 7 on his full salary as same. Both sums are to be paid out of the Four and a Half per cent. Duty. Order Book IX, p. 399. |
| April 16. |
Royal warrant dated St. James's to Charles, Duke of Bolton, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, for a patent under the great seal of Ireland to grant to Matthew Ducie Morton the office or offices of our Vice Treasurer and Receiver General and Paymaster General of all our revenues, profits and casualties whatsoever that are or shall be due to us from time to time in our Kingdom of Ireland: with the fee of 65l. 13s. 4d. per an.
and likewise to grant to him the office or place of Treasurer at Warr within our said Kingdom of Ireland with the fee or sum of 6d. of lawful English money to be taken by him or his deputies out of every 20s. of the like money which he or his deputies shall issue and pay to any person upon our Establishment for our expense in that Kingdom for salaries, entertainments, pay, subsistence, pensions or other matters whatsoever by virtue of the offices or places of Vice Treasurer, Receiver General, Paymaster General and Treasurer at War: all in place of Charles, Earl of Sunderland, whose patent of appointment to the said offices is hereby revoked. Out Letters (Ireland) X, pp. 77–8.
Treasury warrant to the Barons of the Exchequer in Scotland to pay the Civil List of Scotland, detailed, for the 1717 Lady day quarter: total 7,362l. 2s. 10d.
Prefixing: bill of said Civil List. [This list differs from the preceding quarter's Civil List under date March 7 last, supra, p. 179, in the following particulars:] |
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£ |
s. |
d. |
items in the preceding quarter's list omitted in the present list:
John, Duke of Roxburgh, Keeper of the Seal used as the Great Seal of Scotland.
James, Duke of Montrose, as Lord Register.
John Philp and Robert Arbuthnot as Auditors. the Heretable Usher of Holyrood House [see below].
items in the present list not occurring in the preceding quarter's list:
James, Duke of Montrose, as Keeper of the Seal used as the Great Seal of Scotland |
853 |
8 |
11½ |
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James Hamilton as Auditor of the Revenue from 12 Dec. 1716, being the date of his commission |
57 |
9 |
5 |
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Humphry Colquhoun as a Macer of Justiciary: from 16 Feb. 1716–17, the date of his Commission |
1 |
0 |
6½ |
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the Duke of Hamilton, Heretable Housekeeper of Holyrood House [see above] |
11 |
10 |
0 |
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the writer of Hornings |
12 |
10 |
0 |
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the four messengers in ordinary at the Receipt of the Exchequer at London for circulating two Proclamations through Scotland betwixt 29 Sept. 1716 and 25 March 1717 |
36 |
0 |
0 |
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Out Letters (North Britain) IV, pp. 67–9. |
| April 17. |
Order by the Treasury Lords to the Board of Works to estimate the charge of (a) infra.
Prefixing: the Duke of Bolton [Lord Chamberlain of the Household] to the Treasury Lords dated April 2 inst. It is the King's pleasure that a partition and 3 wainscot presses be made to keep his Majesty's linen; 3 presses to be made in the Ewry to hold linen; to carry up the wainscot over the Princesses' closet at St. James's; likewise for making necessary repairs in the Princesses' laundry and to make a cistern upon the young Princesses' platform to hold water in case of fire. Out Letters (General) XXII, p. 182. |
| April 17. |
William Lowndes to the Victualling Commissioners enclosing a copy of the Treasury warrant of April 16 to the Customs Commissioners in Scotland to send to England the salt remaining as under.
Appending: (1) representation to the Treasury Lords from said Customs Commissioners concerning the great charge the revenue there is at for cellarage of his Majesty's salt imported into Scotland before the Union and the waste in said salt since Jan. 1715–16. The merchants here are unwilling to give 12d. a bushel for it and we fear if it fell into their hands they would find ways to apply good part of it, if not all, to the curing of their fish, by which means the revenue would extremely suffer by a drawback for the same as if the salt had paid the Duties upon importation. We therefore propose that it be sent to England for the use of the Victualling Office.
(2) Copy of said warrant of April 16.
(3) scheme or statement of said salt certified by said Commissioners 27 Jan. 1715–16 shewing the amounts of salt delivered to the officers [of Customs] by the merchants before 1 June 1709 pursuant to the Act of Parliament of 7 Anne, c. 11; French salt delivered to the Commissioners of the Victualling; Spanish and Portugal salt exported by the merchants who bought the same at 1s. 4½d. per bushel, showing the various ports at which same is in store.
“Note: the ports of Aberdeen and Inverness having for a long time been in possession of the Rebels, it may be questioned whether the full quantity of salt here set down to be remaining in those parts will be found to agree when it comes to be delivered.” Out Letters (North Britain) IV, pp. 70–2. |
| April 18. |
Letter of direction for 5,579l. 15s. 3½d. to the sufferers in the late tumultuous proceedings: [see supra, pp. 184–9]: out of the moneys now remaining in the Exchequer for loans on the late Vote of Credit. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 283.
Same for 18,717l. 0s. 2d. to Henry, Earl of Lincoln, on the unsatisfied order in his name as Paymaster of the Forces: out of loans on the Vote of Credit: and is intended to be applied to such uses and services of the Forces as the Treasury Lords shall think fit to direct. Ibid.
Treasury reference to Edward Younge, Surveyor General of Woods, of the petition of James Crofts, Esq., shewing that Broomey Lodge and stables in New Forest is very much out of repair and ready to fall to the ground; and praying that the Surveyor of Woods may lay an account thereof before my Lords. Reference Book IX, p. 322.
Treasury warrant to the Stamps Commissioners to appoint William Mowbray to be their Solicitor loco John Montagu, deceased;
and Henry Montagu, son of the said John Montagu, to be Register and Comptroller of the Duty given with Clerks and Apprentices. Warrants not Relating to Money XXIV, p. 142. |
| April 20. |
C. Stanhope to Mr. Popple. The late Treasury Lords received a letter from the Commissioners of Trade and Plantations together with a letter from one Thorne directed to John Earl, merchant in Liverpool, concerning the importation of French sugars into Ireland. The said letters were sent to the Revenue Commissioners of Ireland to examine and report, and in answer thereto the said Commissioners have sent the enclosed letter [missing] which I am directed to transmit to you for you to lay it before the Commissioners for Trade. Out Letters (General) XXII, p. 183. |
