Treasury Warrants: October 1717, 1-10

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October 1717, 1–10

Oct. 1. C. Stanhope to Mr. Carkess. The Duchess of Minister has delivered to me the enclosed paper [missing] being the marks of a box which belongs to her, directed to S. Grice at the Custom House. The Treasury Lords desire that all civility may be used in the passing thereof. Out Letters (General) XXII, p. 228.
Same to the Customs Commissioners in Scotland. The Treasury Lords understand that you have been some time upon an enquiry concerning great frauds committed at Inverness. They direct you to speed your representation to them on the subject. Out Letters (North Britain) IV, p. 189.
Oct. 2. Money warrant for 50l. to Anthony Corbiere for 1717 Sept. 29 quarter on his allowance for his extraordinary service performed in his Majesty's Treasury.
150l. to the under clerks of the Treasury as follows for same quarter on their several salaries or allowances as in reward for services performed by them in the Treasury: viz.
William Lowndes 25l. on 100l. per an.
Edward Webster 25l. on 100l. per an.
Mark Frecker 25l. on 100l. per an. Thomas Bowen 12l. 10s. 0d. on 50l. per an.
Thomas Lowndes 12l. 10s. 0d. on 50l. per an. Robert Bunbury 12l. 10s. 0d. on 50l. per an. Samuel King 12l. 10s. 0d. on 50l. per an. Charles Chevalier 12l. 10s. 0d. on 50l. per an. William Wyat 12l. 10s. 0d. on 50l. per an.
(Money order dated Oct. 4 for said Corbiere hereon.) (Letter of direction dated Oct. 3 hereon.) Money Book XXV, p. 330. Order Book IX, p. 472. Disposition Book XXIV, p. 25.
Same for 400l. to James [Viscount] Stanhope, Chancellor of the Exchequer; for same quarter on his allowance in lieu of perquisites and profits of his office of Chancellor.
2,000l. to the Treasury Lords (James Stanhope, Thomas Lord Torrington, John Wallop, George Baillie, Thomas Micklethwait) for same quarter on their salaries. (Money order dated Oct. 3 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated Oct. 3 hereon.) Money Book XXV, p. 331. Order Book IX, p. 420. Disposition Book XXIV, p. 25.
Same for 65l. to Mark Frecker, gent., for the service and pains not only of himself but also of several clerks employed in making up Books containing accounts of the Income and Issues of the Customs with other the public Revenues and Taxes between Midsummer 1717 and Michaelmas. Money Book XXV, p. 332.
Treasury warrant to the Customs Cashier to pay 16l. 3s. 4d. to John Thorowkettle for 1717 Sept. 29 quarter as Messenger [of the Chamber] attending the Customs. Ibid., p. 364.
Treasury allowance of said Thorowkettle's bill of 16l. 3s. 4d. for same quarter as Messenger of the Chamber attending the Treasury Lords. (Letter of direction dated Oct. 10 hereon.) Ibid., p. 364. Disposition Book XXIV, p. 27.
Treasury warrant to Anthony Cracherode [Treasury Solicitor] to pay 120l. to William Carnaby of Great Tosson, Co. Northumberland, in full recompense for his attendance and expenses as an evidence against the Rebels at their trials at London and for all his losses and sufferings on that or any other account whatsoever during the late unnatural rebellion.
Prefixing: report by said Cracherode dated Sept. 11 last on the petition of said Carnaby, ut supra, p. 563. During the late Rebellion he had 12 of the Rebels quartered upon him by force and great part of their army rendezvoused in those parts: and he took a journey to Newcastle and there gave the Earl of Scarborough the earliest account of those treasons with the names of divers Northumberland gentlemen then actually engaged in the said Rebellion: which service of his having been made known to the Government he was sent for to London to attend the trials of those Rebels whom he had seen in arms, against whom he gave his evidence with integrity: and the long absence from his farm during the whole seed time and the prime part of the year and the loss of an employment in gathering fee farm rents in the said County of Northumberland, for which he received 20l. per an., have reduced him and his family to a deplorable condition: and one Gibson, a neighbour of his, who jointly with him attended the said trials as a witness for his Majesty had not only a subsistence of 7s. 6d. a week allowed to his family during his absence but hath received a bounty of 120l. from the Government for his said service whilst petitioner has received nothing, although his attendance was as long and his evidence as material. During the attendance of the petitioner he and Gibson were subsisted by the said Cracherode at the rate of 3s. a day each but petitioner had no other allowance for himself and his family, whereas Gibson's wife received at the same time 7s. 6d. a week from the late Alderman White of Newcastle upon Tyne, which money was afterwards repaid by the Government to the executors of the said White. Money Book XXV, pp. 440–1.
Oct. 2. Money warrant for 115l. to the Treasury Office Keeper et al. as follows: viz.
£
to Charles King, for Sept. 29 quarter on his allowance of 400l. per an. for attendance in the said Office and for candles, mops, brooms and other necessaries by him furnished for the service thereof 100
to John Farra for same quarter on his allowance for his extraordinary pains in carrying letters on sundry occasions for his Majesty's service 5
to William Empson on the like allowance for attendance and service in the said Office 5
to Richard Chetwynd for the like 5
—
£115
(Money order dated Oct. 3 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated Oct. 3 hereon.) Ibid., p. 354. Order Book IX, p. 475. Disposition Book XXIV, p. 25.
Treasury warrant to the Auditor of the Receipt, the Clerk of the Pells and the other officers of the Receipt herein concerned to apply 10,477l. 11s. 4d. of loans on tin towards the [Civil List] debts and arrears due to the servants of the late Queen Anne and others at the time of her decease: all in accordance with the privy seal of Aug. 30 last, ut supra, p. 510, under date Aug. 12. Money Book XXV, pp. 441–2.
Same to Anthony Cracherode [Treasury Solicitor] to pay 107l. 10s. 0d. to William Rooke of Carlisle, gent.: out of moneys imprested to you for his Majesty's service: and is in full satisfaction not only for his attendance, trouble and expenses at Carlisle upon the trial of the Rebels there but also of all claims whatsoever on that or any other account with respect to the said trials or any his services performed to the Crown about the same.
Prefixing: report dated Aug. 22 by said Cracherode on the petition of said Rooke, ut supra, p. 492. The petitioner's services as therein are made out by his own affidavit and Mr. Paxton hath satisfied me that petitioner was very serviceable to his Majesty by the knowledge he had of the several freeholders of the County of Cumberland and their “principals” which neither the sheriff of the said County nor his under sheriff were so well acquainted with as petitioner was. Ibid., pp. 448–9.
Oct. 2. Money warrant for 375l. to Ann Charlotte, Lady Fretchville, for three quarters to 1717 Sept. 29 on her pension of 500l. per an. (Letter of direction dated Oct. 10 hereon.) Ibid. XXVI, p. 1. Disposition Book XXIV, p. 27.
Treasury warrant to the Auditor of the Receipt to reserve, set apart and apply the sum of 7,913l. 13s. 0½d. (out of the public moneys coming into the Receipt of the Exchequer from 29 Sept. last intended by Parliament to make good the Deficiency of the 1,400,000l. Lottery anno 1714 [as by the Act 13 Anne, c. 18]) and is to make good so much as was wanting in the year ended Michaelmas 1717 to complete the Fond of 116,573l. 12s. 0d. for the said Lottery: and is to be applied and paid over by the Paymaster of said Lottery in further discharge of the principal money which became due and payable thereon at Michaelmas last on the orders in course.
Prefixing: an accompt showing the income into the Receipt of the Exchequer of the Rates and Duties appropriated to raise the yearly Fond of 116,573l. 12s. 0d. to pay principal and interest on the said Lottery and the Deficiency thereon in the year commencing Michaelmas 1716.
£ s. d.
The Exchequer is Debtor:
to the said Fond for one year ended at Michaelmas 1717		 116,573 12 0
to rewards and incident charges authorised to be paid out of the same Rates and Duties, viz. 500l. for the salary of the Paymaster and clerks thereof; 500l. for the like to the Comptroller thereof and his clerks; 1,400l. for rewards and incidents to the Commissioners appointed to make out the standing orders for the Tickets in this Lottery 2,400 0 0
—
£118,973 12 0
£ s. d.
Per Contra:
by the income of the Rates and Duties appropriated for the abovesaid purposes within the abovesaid year in the half year ended Lady day 1717, as by the certificate of the Auditor of the Receipt		 48,824 16 4
ditto in the half year ended at Michaelmas 1717 as by like certificate 62,235 2 7½
balance, being the deficiency of the Fond at Michaelmas 1717 and is to be made good out of any publique moneys unappropriated 7,913 13 0½
—
£118,973 12 0
Memorandum: The Deficiency of the Fond, if any, is by a clause in an Act 1 Geo. I, c. 2, to be made good out of any publique moneys not appropriated to any particular use by any Act of Parliament made before 12 Anne [13 Anne, c. 18], which established the said Lottery: and in default of such publique moneys to make good the same within six months of said Deficiency then same is to be supplied out of the first Aid afterwards granted by Parliament.
Also by another Act 1 Geo. I [St. 2, c. 12] relating to the enlarging the Fond of the Bank of England wherein all the publique unappropriated moneys from Michaelmas 1715 are directed to be applied to the uses and services declared in the Act, it is provided nevertheless that nothing therein contained shall hinder the making good of any Deficiency on the said Lottery Fond but that the same shall be satisfied out of any appropriated moneys as if the Act last mentioned [“this Act,” 1 Geo. I., St. 2, c. 12] had not been made. Money Book XXVI, pp. 6–7.
Oct. 2. Letter of direction for 3,500l. to Casper Frederick Henning: out of Civil List money: without account: upon the unsatisfied order in his name for the use of his Majesty's Privy Purse. Disposition Book XXIV, pp. 25, 27.
Same for 740l. to Charles Dartiquenave, Paymaster of the Works: out of Civil List moneys: and is intended to be paid over to Henry Wise and Joseph Carpenter, his Majesty's gardeners, or either of them, for 1717 Sept. 29 quarter on the allowance of 2,960l. per an. for keeping his Majesty's gardens and plantations consisting of 140 acres at 20l. an acre: pursuant to the royal warrant signed by the Prince January 11 last. (C. Stanhope to said Dartiquenave dated same day to pay same to said gardeners.) Ibid., p. 26.
William Lowndes to the Customs Commissioners to send an officer to the lodgings of Major George Skene in St. James's Street who is agent here for the Earl of Stair, his Majesty's Ambassador in France: to wit in order to pass several things which said Major has bought by order of said Earl to be sent to him at Paris. Out Letters (General) XXII, p. 228.
C. Stanhope to the Salt Commissioners. The Treasury Lords recommend to you for employment in the Salt Duties Mr. John Bannister of Harrington, Co. Cumberland. Ibid., p. 230.
Treasury warrant to the Collector Inwards, London port, to swear George Hosier into office as deputy to James Hustler, one of the King's waiters London port. Out Letters (Customs) XVI, p. 467.
Oct. 2.
et postea 		Same to the Customs Commissioners to employ Daniel Moreau (a land waiter London port) to be Surveyor of the Landwaiters there loco William Baynes, deceased (dated Oct. 2).
John Harris (Surveyor of the Act of Navigation) as landwaiter [in London port] loco said Moreau.
Steven Scot as Surveyor of the Act of Navigation loco said Harris.
Augustine Smith to be a noontender in London port loco Edward Beaumont, deceased (dated Oct. 3).
John Penney (tidesman and boatman at Tingmouth [Teignmouth] and Dawlish in Exeter port) to be tidesman at Lyme loco Charles Sydenham, superannuated.
Hammond Tucker to succeed Pinney as tidesman and boatman at Tingmouth and Dawlish.
Richard Baynton as a landwaiter in London port loco Anthony Scawen, deceased (dated Oct. 9).
William Yardley as a tidesman in the Inferior List London port loco James Lowdale, deceased (dated Oct. 3).
Jacob Coastworth (a tidesman in the preferable list in London port) as a tidesman at Newcastle loco Joseph Allum who is proposed to be put into the preferable list of tidesmen in London port (dated Oct. 9).
Prefixing: the Customs Commissioners' report of Sept. 5 last approving said exchange, they having sworn that there is no pecuniary consideration or other agreement whatsoever on account of this exchange.
Thomas Faulk as a riding officer in the coast of Norfolk loco Robert Toll, superannuated (dated Oct. 9).
Robert Knapton as waiter and searcher at Christchurch in Southampton port (loco John Stephens, superannuated) at 30l. per an. salary for himself and 10l. per an. for keeping an horse: which is to be inserted on the Establishment instead of being paid by incidents as hitherto (dated Oct. 31).
Prefixing: report by said Commissioners on the case. John Stephens is unfit for duty by age and infirmities. There is no pecuniary consideration between him and Knapton on account of this office. Ibid., pp. 462, 467; XVII, pp. 5, 6, 7, 12–13.
Oct. 2. Same to the Managers and Directors for taking the Subscriptions of Lottery and other Orders as by the Act [3 Geo. I., c. 7] of last Session to transmit to the Cashier and Accomptant General of the Bank of England lists of all such orders for which no subscription should be made according to the directions of said Act. Warrants not Relating to Money XXIV, p. 302.
Same to Edward Younger, Surveyor General of Woods, to sell all windfall trees lying within the enclosures of New Forest to the detriment and damage of young trees: and to apply the proceeds to defray the charge of works and repairs warranted by the Treasury. Ibid., p. 303.
Treasury subscription for the execution of a warrant dated 5 July 1717 from the Duke of Newcastle, Lord Chamberlain, to the Master of the Great Wardrobe for the delivery to Christopher Hill, Master of his Majesty's Barges, of furniture as follows for his Majesty's new eight-oar barge: viz., one crimson velvet Tilt lined with crimson damask with gold and silk fringe, his Majesty's cypher embroidered at each corner, with a Bayes case to put it in: one oyled Tilt lined with Bays: one cushion 1½ yards long; six others ¾ yard long of crimson velvet with gold fringe and Bayes cases: eight window curtains of crimson damask to go round the barge, with brass rings; a crimson velvet carpet lined with crimson sarsenet with a small gold and silk fringe 1½ yards square for the table: two small Turkey carpets: to an estimate of 170l. Lord Chamberlain's Warrant Book I, p. 54.
Oct. 2. Treasury subscription for the execution of a warrant dated 2 Sept. 1717 from the Duke of Newcastle to the Master of the Great Wardrobe for the delivery to Christopher Hill, Master of his Majesty's Barges, of liveries for the 12 Pensionary Watermen “as have formerly been allowed them”: to an estimate of 32l. Ibid., p. 55.
Oct. 3. Treasury allowance of the salary bill, detailed, of the Hackney Coaches Office for 1717 Sept. 29 quarter: total 200l. 10s. 0d. Money Book XXV, p. 439.
The like for the incidents bill, detailed, of said Office for the same quarter: total 123l. 7s. 5d. (including 29l. 3s. 4d. to John Pye, Solicitor [to the said Office]; 5l. 4s. 6d. paid by Mr. Wharton for expenses at several meetings [of the Commissioners] and attendances at the Lord Chief Justice [Sir Peter] King's Chambers upon arguing by counsel a case made at a trial against one of the Messengers of the Office on account of a fine imposed by the said Commissioners, in order to have the opinion of the Lord Chief Justice upon the verdict). Ibid.
Treasury warrant to Mathew Barton, Esq., Comptroller of the 1714 Lottery (the officer appointed to Register and Comptroll the payments on the Standing Orders given in exchange for the tickets on the Lottery anno 1714) to pay and apply the sum of 41,665l. 9s. 0d. to satisfy six months' interest due and payable on Sept. 29 last on the standing orders which are made forth or are to be made forth for the principal sum of 1,805,110l. as below, and to direct the payment thereof upon the said standing orders accordingly.
and further to issue, pay and apply the sum of 20,570l. (out of the remaining sum of 20,579l. 0s. 9d. as follows) to pay off and discharge so much of the principal on the said standing orders as are registered and next in course to be paid: it appearing that the tickets (as well fortunate as unfortunate) in the said Lottery for 1,400,000l. anno 1714 [as by the Act 13 Anne, c. 18] amounted to the principal sum of 1,876,400l. which sum is now reduced to 1,805,110l., and the interest upon 1,112,650l., part thereof, is to be computed and paid at the rate of 5 per cent. and the interest upon the remaining 692,460l. is to be at 4 per cent., making a total interest of 83,330l. 18s. 0d. for the year, whereof 41,665l. 9s. 0d. is the moiety for the half year as above: and it further appearing that there remained in the Exchequer on the 29 Sept. last the sum of 62,235l. 2s. 7½d. of the income of the fond established for the said Lottery to which is to be added the sum of 9l. 7s. 1½d. [carried forward from last half year] thus making a total available sum of 62,244l. 9s. 9d. [which after deduction of the said 41,665l. 9s. 0d. leaves the abovesaid balance of 20,579l. 0s. 9d.].
Appending: a state of the 1714 Lottery for 1,400,000l. with respect to principal and interest at Michaelmas 1717: as certified by Mat. Barton, Comptroller and Geo. Murray [Paymaster thereof].
blanks
£		 Prizes
£		 total
£
Principal remaining at Michaelmas 1716 1,116,740 0 0 695,360 0 1,812,000
Set off at Lady day 1717 [by warrant of 2 April 1717, supra, p. 222] 4,090 0 0 2,900 0 6,990
— — —
remains in principal unsatisfied at Michaelmas 1717 1,112,650 0 0 692,460 0 1,805,110
Half year's interest at Michaelmas 1717 27,816 5 0 13,849 4 41,665 9 0
£ s. d.
The annual Fond is 116,573 12 0
whereof received at Lady day 1717 48,824 16 4
—
the difference is what is to be applied to principal and interest at Michaelmas 1717 67,748 15 8
out of which, deducting the half year's interest as above 41,665 9 0
—
remains to be applied to [sinking the] principal 26,083 6 8
to which adding so much remaining unapplied on former warrants 9 7 1½
—
the whole sum to be applied to discharge of principal is 26,092 13 9½
after paying off and discharging orders to the amount of 20,570l. as above the total principal remaining on the said Lottery will be 1,784,540l. Ibid., pp. 436–7.
Oct. 3. Money warrants for 1717 Sept. 29 quarter's annuities [or salaries] to the Bedchamber, as follows: viz.
250l. each to the Gentlemen of the Bedchamber: viz., Charles, Duke of Richmond; James, Earl of Berkeley; Henry, Earl of Lincoln; Charles, Earl of Selkirk; Charles, Earl of Manchester; John, Lord Carteret; John, Earl of Stair; George, Earl of Orkney; John, Earl of Leicester.
125l. each to the Grooms of the Bedchamber: viz., George Fielding, Esq.; Charles Howard, Esq.; Henry Cornwall, Esq.; Philip Honywood, Esq.; James Tyrrell, Esq.; William Carr, Esq.; James Dormer, Esq.; Sir Gustavus Hume, Kt. (Money orders dated Oct. 7 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated Oct. 10 hereon.) Ibid., p. 442. Order Book IX, p. 472, 473. Disposition Book XXIV, p. 27.
Same for 150l. to Thomas Cooke, Esq., Vice Chamberlain of the Household: for same quarter on his annuity [or salary]. (Money order and letter of direction, ut supra.) Money Book XXV, p. 442. Order Book IX, p. 471. Disposition Book XXIV, p. 27.
Oct. 3. Money warrants for 462l. 10s. 0d. each for 1717 Sept. 29 quarter's allowance or salary to the Secretaries of State: viz., Charles, Earl of Sunderland; Joseph Addison, Esq.; John, Duke of Roxburgh. (Money orders dated Oct. 8 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated Oct. 10 hereon.) Money Book XXV, p. 443. Order Book IX, p. 470. Disposition Book XXIV, p. 27.
Same for 1,300l. to John, Earl of Stair, for 13 weeks June 19 last to Sept. 18 last on his ordinary as Ambassador Extraordinary to the most Christian King.
400l. to same for one bill of extraordinaries between March 19 last and June 19 last in that service: as allowed by Secretary Addison. (Money orders dated Oct. 7 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated Oct. 3 for his ordinary and Oct. 10 for his extraordinary hereon.) Money Book XXV, p. 443. Order Book IX, p. 470. Disposition Book XXIV, pp. 24, 27.
Same for 375l. to Samuel Buckley, gent.: without account: for the cost and charges of 5,000 sets of the printed letters of Baron Gortz and Count Gyllenborg which were by him provided and delivered for the use and service of the two Houses of Parliament, the Offices of his Majesty's Secretaries of State and other the publique Offices: and is at the rate 18d. for each set. (Money order dated Oct. 9 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated Oct. 3 hereon.) Money Book XXV, p. 447. Order Book IX, p. 469. Disposition Book X, p. 25.
Same for 25l. to Richard Powys, Esq., for 1717 Sept. 29 quarter on his allowance for his extraordinary service performed in his Majesty's Treasury. (Money order dated Oct. 4 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated Oct. 3 hereon.) Money Book XXV, p. 344. Order Book IX, p. 472. Disposition Book XXIV, p. 25.
Same for 125l. each to the Commissioners of Accounts (the Army Debts Commissioners for taking and stating the Debts due to the Army), being 875l. in all to them: viz., Grey Neville, John Plumptre, Leonard Smelt, Sir William Gordon, Sir Thomas Palmer, Robert Bristow and William Yonge: for the quarter due on Sept. 10 last on their allowances of 500l. each for their care and pains. (Money order dated Oct. 9 hereon.) Money Book XXV, p. 447. Order Book IX, p. 471.
Same for 750l. to James Moody (as the nominee of the abovesaid Commissioners): for the same quarter for their clerks, messengers, officers and other incident charges attending the execution of the Act appointing them. (Money order dated Oct. 9 hereon.) Money Book XXV, p. 448. Order Book IX, p. 471.
Same for 25l. to William Ireland for same quarter for extraordinary services in the office of the Auditor of the Receipt, being the like sum as used to be paid formerly to William Clayton for the like service. (Money order dated Oct. 4 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated Oct. 10 hereon.) Money Book XXV, p. 244. Order Book IX, p. 376. Disposition Book XXIV, p. 27.
Oct. 3. William Lowndes to the Customs Commissioners. The Treasury Lords direct you to permit Charles Smithson to be instructed at the waterside in the landing and shipping of goods. Out Letters (General) XXII, p. 228.
C. Stanhope to same enclosing a letter [missing] from Monsieur Borselle [Philips Jacob van Borssele van der Hooge], Envoy Extraordinary from Holland, relating to some goods coming to him from thence. The Treasury Lords desire you to use all civility and despatch in passing thereof. Ibid., p. 229.
Treasury warrant to same to permit John Bamber, merchant, to take out a licence to compound with Robert Forster, a tidesman in London, the officer who seized the diamonds as follows; provided the same be done according to the Rules of the Exchequer Court.
Prefixing: report dated Aug. 10 last from said Commissioners on said Bamber's petition. Bamber states in his petition that he was advised by his friend from Holland that Mr. Adrian van Omen of Pullicati [Pulicat] in India had sent two Bulses of diamonds for England on his own account and that Bamber not knowing there was any Duty on them was bringing them on shore when Forster seized same.
It appears that Forster was appointed to attend the ship King George from India in the stern boat and perceiving a person come from aboard of whom he had suspicion and going into a wherry he rowed up to him to search him and found tied up in the fore flap of his shirt two round yellow bags which proved to be these diamonds: that Bamber the same day sent for Forster to Erith where a Jew was in company who pretended to own the diamonds and they proferred the officer 100 guineas alleging that 50 or 60 more should make no difference between them if he would let them alter the property of them by making up two bags like them and deliver those that were seized to them and promising never to discover the matter, and telling the officer it was the great demand of the East India Company that made them attempt the running those diamonds and the petitioner at that time also said that the captain of the ship told him the officer would catch him. On a writ of appraisement the diamonds have been valued at 1,900l. We have been attended by a solicitor in behalf of petitioner desiring leave to take out a licence from the Exchequer to compound with the officer. The said officer being willing to compound the same we have given our consent provided it be done according to the Rules of the Court of Exchequer. Out Letters (Customs) XVII, pp. 13–14.
Same to same to employ William Yardley as a tidesman in the Inferior List, London port loco Samuel Lowdale, deceased. Ibid., p. 5.
Same to the Stamps Commissioners to depute William Baylis of Evesham as distributor of stamps for Co. Worcester loco William Loveday, deceased. Warrants not Relating to Money XXIV, p. 302.
Same to the Customs Commissioners in Scotland to employ Alexander Colvill to be Collector of Customs at Dundee loco Alexander Colvill, his father. Out Letters (North Britain) IV, p. 189.
Oct. 4. Treasury allowance of the salary bill of the Stamp Office for 1717 Sept. 29 quarter: total 2,102l. 10s. 0d.
Prefixing: said bill in detail, the salaries being arranged in columns under the heads (1) Salaries [for old Duties, being the first Additional Duties granted for ever to the East India Company by 9–10 Wm. III, c. 25 and c. 44]; (2) Continued Duties [as by 5–6 Wm. and Mary, c. 21, continued for 96 years by 6 Anne, c. 2]; (3) Second Additional Duty [as by 13 Anne, c. 18]; (4) New Duty [New Duties as by the Act 9 Anne, c. 16]; (5) Several Kinds of [Stamped Vellum] Duty [as by the Act 10 Anne, c. 18]; (6) Policy Duty [New Duties on Policies of Insurance as by the Act 10 Anne, c. 19]. Money Book XXV, pp. 444–6.
The like of the salary bill of the Apprentice Duty officers [as by the Act 8 Anne, c. 5]: for said quarter: total 60l. Ibid., p. 446.
William Lowndes to Mr. Coleby. His Majesty is willing to be at the expense of transporting back to Holland so many of the poor foreigners lately arrived here from Würtemberg or the Palatinate as shall be willing immediately to return home, and [is willing also] to give them some further assistance in money towards enabling them to prosecute their journey. The Treasury Lords transmit the enclosed letter [supra, p. 586] from the Earl of Sunderland signifying the King's pleasure in that behalf with a list [missing] containing the names of such of the said poor foreigners as with their families do make in all 200 persons. My Lords direct you to take up shipping upon the best and cheapest terms you can for their immediate transport to Rotterdam, and also any other such poor foreigners under the like circumstances that shall be willing to partake of this his Majesty's goodness and charity and to pay 10s. a head here to every person that shall be so transported; and to procure credit at Rotterdam for another 10s. a head more to be paid to them there on their landing, towards enabling them to proceed on their journey home.
You will please to take care to forward to your correspondent at Rotterdam a perfect list of all the persons so shipped so as he may know to whom to distribute the said bounty upon their landing. You will please order this service so as it may be performed with the greatest expedition and to lay before my Lords an account of the whole charge. Out Letters (General) XXII, p. 229.
Same to the Customs Commissioners, Scotland. Robert Stuart, late Provost of Aberdeen, is recommended to my Lords as a fit person to be Collector of Customs in that port. They direct you to present him if fit, Out Letters (North Britain) IV, p. 189.
Oct. 7. Same to the Commissioners for Stating the Debts of the Army. The Treasury Lords send you for your perusal and consideration the enclosed papers [missing] relating to a demand made by Col. Don Joseph Martin. Out Letters (General) XXII, p. 230.
Treasury reference to the Customs Commissioners of the petition of Joseph Maxey praying to succeed one Green, deputy to the Surveyor of the Wine Tasters, at half the said Surveyor's salary and to be cooper to the Custom House at 10l. per an., which [office] Mr. Green had also. Reference Book IX, p. 348.
Oct. 9. Money warrant for 50l. to Philip Horneck, gent., for 1717 Sept. 29 quarter on his salary as one of the Solicitors for negotiating and looking after the affairs of the Treasury. (Money order dated Oct. 10 hereon.) Money Book XXV, p. 360. Order Book IX, p. 406.
Oct. 9. Treasury warrant to George, Earl of Halifax, Auditor of the Receipt, Henry Pelham, Clerk of the Pells, and the rest of the officers of the Receipt concerned, to take in loans on the Malt Duties anno 1717 (the Duties on Malt, mum, cyder and perry for the service of the year 1717) to a total not exceeding 150,000l.: at 4 per cent. interest: as by an Act passed in the last session of Parliament 3 George I., c. 4. Money Book XXVI, p. 1.
Same to Samuel Edwin, Usher of the Receipt, to pay (“out of any money coming to your hands for this purpose”) 501l. 16s. 3d. to Lady Diana Fielding in full satisfaction of all demands whatsoever for the said sum paid by her former husband Thomas Howard, Esq., when [he was] one of the Tellers of the Exchequer, in building the house belonging to his Office as a Teller of the Exchequer, being in excess of the 1,400l. paid him on account of the said building. “You are to insert the said sum in your bills of liberate in order to the allowance thereof.”
Prefixing: the said Edwin's report dated Exchequer Aug. 6 on the petition of the said Lady Diana Fielding. I have caused the house to be surveyed by workmen experienced in the expense of building by whose report it appears that the carrying on of this work was managed with great frugality. Mr. Howard paid 1,562l. to the contractors for same and Mr. Swift who was clerk under Mr. Howard has certified the payments made by him for further work added to the said house amounting to 339l. 16s. 3d. It appears thereby that Mr. Howard has expended 501l. 16s. 3d. for building the said house more than he has received from the Crown. Ibid., p. 3.
Same to the Auditor of the Receipt to distribute, issue and apply the income of the General or Aggregate Fund for the quarter commencing 24 June 1717 and ending 29 Sept. 1717 to the several and respective uses and purposes specified in the following account.
Prefixing: a state of the General or Aggregate Fond for the Bank and others for the abovesaid quarter.
£ s. d.
The Fond is Debtor:
to the Bank of England for interest at 2 pence per cent. [per 100l.] per diem on 4,561,025l. in Exchequer Bills uncancelled issued in the quarter		 30,000 0 0
to ditto on the allowance of 3 per cent. per an. for circulating the said Bills for the quarter due at Michaelmas 1717 34,207 13 9
to ditto on the allowance of 45,000l. and 8,000l. per an. in consideration of their making specie or exchanging [cancelling] all the said Exchequer Bills for ready money upon demand for the said quarter 13,250 0 0
to the Civil List [as by 1 Geo. I., St, 2, c. 12] for the said quarter 30,000 0 0
to the 5 per cent. Annuities for the said quarter [as by 1 Geo. 1., St. 2, c. 19] 13,650 0 0
to Mr. Edwin for necessaries delivered 115 19 5½
to the officers of the Exchequer Bill Office on their salaries to Midsummer last 162 10 0
to the Bank of England to make good the Deficiency at Michaelmas 1717 of their annuity of 106,501l. 13s. 5d. 6,686 18 1½
—
£128,073 1 4
Balance to be reserved, in the Exchequer to attend the directions of the Treasury Lords 30,470 1 3¾
—
£158,543 2 7¾
£ s. d.
Per Contra:
by the income or produce of the Fond between Midsummer and Michaelmas 1717 [for the description of the following Duties see supra, p. 81]:
On Two Thirds Tonnage and Poundage		 32,858 6 5
Duty on Coffee, tea, chocolate &c. 7,317 3 2
Increased Duties on ditto 2,288 6 11
Half Subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage 62,428 14 3½
Duty on Hops 2,882 12 0½
15 per cent. on Wrought silk 3 7 5
25l. per ton on French wines imported 8,006 16 2½
Duty on Foreign Sail Cloth 385 4 2
brewer's forfeitures 100 16 10½
surplus of Half Subsidy at Michaelmas 1717 42,271 15 1¾
—
£158,543 2 7¾
£ s. d.
Balances on former Certificates now remaining in the Exchequer:
On the Certificate for Lady day quarter 1717		 15,696 6 0
On the Certificate for Midsummer quarter 1717 38,345 7 11
On the [present] Certificate for Michaelmas as above 30,470 1 3¾
—
£84,511 15 2¾
Money Book XXVI, pp. 7b–8.
Oct. 9. Treasury confirmation of a money order of 1714 June 26 supra, Calendar of Treasury Books, Vol. XXVIII, p. 324, for 250l. to Baron Scrope. Order Book VIII, p. 447.
Letter of direction for 425l. 16s. 8d. to Samuel, Lord Masham: out of the arrears of the late Queen Anne's Civil List: on the unsatisfied order in his name as Cofferer of the Household to the said late Queen: and is intended to be paid over to William Bromley, Esq., for seven months' board wages from 1713 Dec. 31 to 1714 July 31 as Secretary of State to the said late Queen. Disposition Book XXIV, p. 25.
Treasury reference to the Customs Commissioners of the petition of Sir Joseph Hodges for a noli prosequi to the information against him for two bales of cochineal consigned to him from France. Reference Book IX, p. 348.
Oct. 9. Same to the Postmasters General of the petition of Mr. Lovell proposing a new contract to be made for the packett between Dover and Calais at much cheaper and better rate than that now subsisting. Ibid., p. 377.
Treasury warrant to the King's Remembrancer to stay process for six months against Charles Mason, late Treasurer for the Transport Service, his accounts being before the Auditors of Imprests. Warrants not Relating to Money XXIV, p. 304.
Oct. 10. Money warrant for 6,000l. to Galfridus Walpole, Esq., Treasurer for Greenwich Hospital: as imprest and upon account: to be applied as shall be directed by the Commissioners or Governors thereof towards furnishing the said Hospital and the Chapel thereto belonging: and to be esteemed as one year from 14 May 1716 on the 6,000l. per an. as by the Act of 9 Anne, c. 17, granting a Duty on Coals for building 50 new churches &c.: and to be satisfied out of moneys to be raised in manner as by the said Act. (Money order dated Oct. 14 hereon.) (Treasury warrant dated Oct. 16 to the Receipt to take in loans on said Act to the amount of said 6,000l.) Money Book XXVI, pp. 4, 5. Order Book IX, p. 476.
Treasury warrant to the Accomptant General of the Bank of England forthwith to prepare the books relating to the 4 per cent. Annuities as required by the Act of Parliament of last session [3 Geo. I., e. 7, clause 21] and carefully to comply with the directions of the said Act of Parliament therein and in all other matters by you to be done in pursuance thereof: the Treasury Lords having by warrant of July 15 last, supra, p. 422 (grounded on said Act) caused several sums as follows amounting to 509,127l. 5s. 6¾d. to be received at the Exchequer: viz.
£ s. d.
from John Aislabie [Navy Treasurer] 391,907 18 6¼
from Harry Mordaunt [Treasurer of the Ordnance] 38,496 18 2½
from Henry, Earl of Lincoln [Paymaster of the Forces] 78,722 8 10
—
£509,127 5 6¾
as in part of the sum of 577,014l. 16s. 1¼d. mentioned in the said Act as Deficient, to make good the public supplies granted to his Majesty in the then last Session of Parliament; for which sums the said persons have tallies of sol delivered to them, and as purchasers respectively are (in pursuance of the said Act and the said Treasury warrant) to have 4 per cent. annuities out of the General Fond Established by the said Act:
and further the said Act having provided that in your [the Bank of England Accomptant's] Office there should be provided or kept a Book or Books in which should be fairly entered the names of all such persons who upon producing to you such tallies of sol should appear to be entituled to the said annuities and [therein to be entered] the several and respective annuities whereunto the said persons should be so entituled, to which Book all persons concerned might from time to time at all reasonable times have free access and to inspect the same without fee or charge.
And you are hereby required on or before the 25l. December 1717 to transmit an attested duplicate thereof fairly written on paper into the Offices of the Auditor of the Receipt of the Exchequer, there to remain for ever. Money Book XXVI, p. 9.
Oct. 10. Letter of direction for 250l. to Francis, Earl of Godolphin, on the unsatisfied order in his name as Cofferer of the Household: and is intended to be paid over to Tregonell Frampton, Esq., for 1717 Sept. 29 quarter on his allowance of 1,000l. per an. for keeping his Majesty's running horses at Newmarket. Disposition Book XXIV, p. 26.
Same for 85,025l. 17s. 6½d. to the Navy and Forces as follows: out of loans made or to be made at the Receipt of the Exchequer on credit of the Duties on Malt anno 1717: viz.
£ s. d.
to John Aislabie, on the unsatisfied order in his name as Treasurer of the Navy 20,000 0 0
to Henry, Earl of Lincoln, on the unsatisfied order in his name as Paymaster General of the Forces 65,025 17 6½
—
£85,025 17 6½
“the same being intended to be reserved in the hands of the said Treasurer and Paymaster to attend the Treasury Lords' directions as to the applying and disposing thereof”. Ibid.
Same for 750l. each to the Earl of Sunderland, Joseph Addison, Esq., and the Duke of Roxburgh, respectively as Secretaries of State and in each case for his Majesty's secret service: out of Civil List moneys. Ibid., p. 27.
William Lowndes to the Excise Commissioners. The Treasury Lords have read a petition of Benjamin Colbatch, your stationer, with another petition of Edward Castle about supplying the Excise Office with stationery ware. My Lords have referred both petitions to the Attorney General. I therefore return your report [missing] in the case of Robert Vincent who served the Office with printed wares. My Lords direct you to attend the Attorney General with it for his consideration and report thereon with the other papers. Out Letters (General) XXII, p. 230.
Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners to pay the 1717 Michaelmas quarter's salary bill of the Outports officers as certified by Robert Paul, assistant to William Burnett, Comptroller General of the Accounts of the Customs: total 11,535l. 16s. 1½d. Out Letters (Customs) XVII, p. 7.
Same to the Customs Cashiers, London port, to pay the same quarter's salary of the officers of London port: total 7,387l. 16s. 6d. Ibid.
Same to the Customs Commissioners for a noli prosequi to the information exhibited in the Exchequer Court on a seizure of snuff boxes: on terms as below.
Prefixing: report by said Commissioners on the petition of Elizabeth Nabes in behalf of her husband, a poor French refugee, who lately going to Holland in the Whitehall sloop had his trunk put on board by accident, she alleging that “it being past 12 o'clock the person he employed therein could not pass the entry and in the meantime the trunk was put on board by the porter”, and was seized at Gravesend for being without a cocquet for the goods therein.
Hereon the Commissioners report that Henry Street and John Fisher, two tidesmen who were boarded on the ship, state that the petitioner himself brought the trunk on board, the ship being then at Deptford, and told them it contained only wearing apparel but on opening it they found a parcel of snuff boxes therein. They are appraised at 80l. for condemnation. We do not object to a noli prosequi on his payment of Customs in case of export and on his satisfying the officers for their share of the forfeiture. Ibid., pp. 8–9.
Oct. 10. Treasury reference to same of the petition of Casper Fetching shewing that he bought in Holland three pieces of Hollands linen and imported same but being late in going to enter same it was seized by one Miller, a waterman to Mr. Hayward, tidesurveyor: therefore praying restoration on payment of Duty. Reference Book IX, p. 348.
Same to the Taxes Commissioners of the petition of William Cobb, Receiver General of the sixteenth 4s. Aid, Co. Chester, praying to be allowed 347l. 17s. 0d. for 3d. in the £ on the 27,828l. neat money which he paid into the Exchequer; he having cleared and passed his accounts. Ibid.
Same to same of the petition of Charles Mackrell, Receiver General of Taxes for Norwich and part of Norfolk for 1715 and 1716, praying payment of 100l. expended in guarding and remitting his moneys to the Exchequer. Ibid.
Same to the Secretary at War of the petition of John Hudson, late Director of the British Hospitals in Germany and the Low Countries, shewing that warrants were signed by the Duke of Marlborough to the Paymaster General for the expense of the Hospitals under his care, some of which warrants although certified by the proper Officers as usual are still in arrear: that he was by the late Queen's Establishment employed in the service of the Hospitals at Dunkirk and Newport [Nieuport], which [service] lasted two years and upwards and is still in arrear for that service because the General being laid aside before the service was ended could not sign warrants for the same: therefore praying relief. Ibid., p. 349.
Same to the Attorney General of the petition of Edward Castle shewing that he had a patent from his Majesty for providing and serving the Excise Office as bookseller, binder and stationer &c., that Mr. Vincent who formerly served the said Office suggested that the trade of printing was not granted to the petitioner by his patent and has desired to be continued in that service but petitioner hopes that he is justly entitled to the printing as well as the other parts of the said business. Ibid.
Same to same of the petition of Benja[min] Colebatch, stationer, shewing that in 1705 he was admitted to be one of the stationers to the Excise Office; that Mr. Churchill obtained a patent to serve the Office for 40 years and petitioner is displaced; that he hath provided a great quantity of goods for the service of that Office which the Commissioners now refuse to take from him: therefore prays that he may serve in the said goods and be continued in his employment. Reference Book IX, p. 349.
Oct. 10. A fresh reference of the petition of Gilbert More, ut supra, p. 363, under date 3 June last. Ibid., p. 328.
Same to Mr. Godolphin and Mr. Jett, Auditors of the Land Revenue, of the petition of Robert Hewett, deputy to William Aldworth, late Auditor of the Land Revenue in Cos. Lincoln, Nottingham, Derby, &c., praying a reward for his services in making states of accounts for the Treasury and in drawing inventories of the [said Aldworth's] records, for which service he was obliged to keep two clerks. Ibid., p. 350.
Treasury warrant to the Excise Commissioners in Scotland to pay to Martha Parsons so much on the allowance of 150l. per an. as covers the period from the commencement of the New [Duties of Excise as granted by 8 Anne, c. 12, from 25 March 1710] and Additional Duties [first and second Duties on candles as by 8 Anne, c. 5, and 9 Anne, c. 6. from 1 May 1710 and 25 March 1711 respectively: and the first and second Duties on hides and skins as by 9 Anne, c. 12, from 24 June 1711, and 10 Anne, c. 19, from 1 August 1712 respectively: and the Duties on starch and gilt and silver wire as by 10 Anne, c. 19, from 1 August 1712 for starch and 1 July 1712 for wire], to the 9 Nov., the day of the death of her husband, John Parsons, late Comptroller of Excise. The said payment is to be charged on the four aforesaid heads of Duties, to wit as to a quarter on each head thereof.
Prefixing: report by said Commissioners on her petition. The New Duties very much increased his business and we think she may be allowed after the rate of 150l. per an. for his attendance thereon, as allowed to Mr. Crisp who succeeded him in said Office. Out Letters (North Britain) IV, pp. 189–90.
Treasury reference to the Taxes Commissioners of the petition of Jonathan Smart, son of Jonathan Smart, to be Receiver General of Land Tax anno 1717 and proposing his securities, detailed. (Treasury warrant dated Oct. 10 to the King's Remembrancer to take the said securities in 15,000l.) (Commission dated Oct. 10.) Out Letters (Affairs of Taxes) II, pp. 248, 250, 252.
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