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| Nov. 1. |
C. Stanhope to the Earl of Lincoln, Paymaster General of the Forces. My Lords direct you to supply the sum of 63,847l. 16s. 0d. in manner following: viz. |
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out of money this day directed to you at the Exchequer of loans on the Land Tax anno 1718 |
13,250 |
16 |
0 |
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out of tallies and orders that are or shall be in your hands on credit of the Land Tax anno 1718 with 4 per cent. interest from the time of your disposing of them |
50,597 |
0 |
0 |
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£63,847 |
16 |
0 |
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My Lords direct you to apply the abovesaid sum to the following services: viz. |
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in further part of 650,000l. granted for Guards and Garrisons anno 1718.
to complete the subsistence of the Forces provided for in this sum: to 24 Nov. 1718 |
46,073 |
5 |
8 |
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for Clearings of the six Regiments of Dragoons and six Regiments of Foot ordered to be disbanded or transferred to the Establishment of Ireland: from 25 Dec. 1717 to 24 Oct. 1718, to which day they are mustered |
14,801 |
4 |
0 |
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for Bounty and Sword money to the non-commission Officers and private men of four Regiments of Dragoons to be disbanded |
728 |
16 |
0 |
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for Bounty and Sword money to the non-commission Officers and private soldiers to be reduced out of six Regiments of Foot |
67 |
0 |
0 |
in further part of 35,766l. 0s. 5d. voted for Forces in the Plantations anno 1718.
to complete the subsistence of these Forces to 24 Nov. 1718 |
2,177 |
10 |
4 |
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£63,847 |
16 |
0 |
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Disposition Book XXIV, p. 162. |
| Nov. 1. |
C. Stanhope to the Customs Commissioners enclosing a letter received by the Treasury Lords from Simon Simons dated Oystermouth 27 Oct. last, together with a state of his case and an affidavit [all missing]. Out Letters (General) XXII, p. 365.
Treasury reference to same of the petition of Hicks Burroughs in behalf of Christopher Thornton shewing that said Thornton was appointed landwaiter and searcher in Wells port loco Mr. Byfield, who was displaced as superannuated, and [Thornton] with his family removed thither at great expense, but Byfield recovering his health was restored to his office and Thornton was presented by the Commissioners to be a landwaiter at Newcastle, but not being accepted for that employment he prays some other place in the Customs. Reference Book IX, p. 408. |
| Nov. 3. |
Royal warrant dated St. James's to the Treasury Lords to pay 10,600l. to William Lowndes: for secret service: without accompt. (Money warrant dated 4 Nov. hereon.) (Money order dated 6 Nov. hereon.) (Letter of direction dated 6 Nov. hereon.) King's Warrant Book XXIX, p. 130. Order Book X, p. 184. Disposition Book XXIV, p. 160. |
| Nov. 3. |
Money order for 100l. to Hugh Cholmley for half a year to 1718 Sept. 29 on his allowance for extraordinary service and travelling charges &c. as Surveyor General of Crown Lands. Order Book X, p. 192.
William Lowndes to the Commissioners for Alienations. Send me this morning the account I asked for Oct. 17 last, supra, p. 596, of the gross and net produce of the Fines for Writs of Covenant and Writs of Entre payable in your Office for the year ended Michaelmas last: “it being very much wanted.” Out Letters (General) XXII, p. 365. |
| Nov. 4. |
Money warrant for 80l. to Sir Henry Goodrick, Sheriff of Co. York, being 40l. paid by him to Ann Raines and others for apprehending Sarah Waythorp for felony and burglary; and 40l. paid to Edward Ewbank and others for arresting Jane, alias Sara Waythorp for felony and burglary. (Money order dated 18 Nov. hereon.) (Letter of direction dated 17 Nov. hereon.) Money Book XXVII, pp. 72–3. Order Book X, p. 183. Disposition Book XXIV, p. 166.
Money order for 10l. to Francis Cudworth Masham, Esq., for 1717 Sept. 29 quarter on his salary as Foreign Apposer in the Exchequer Court. Order Book X, p. 194.
William Lowndes to the Auditor of the Receipt to send to my Lords a certificate of what remains unsatisfied on the Register for the Sixth General Mortgage anno 1710 “and how much principal and interest will likely be quarterly discharged till the whole is paid off.” Out Letters (General) XXII, p. 365.
Same to same to send to my Lords, with all the expedition that may be, an account of the Public Debts and incumbrances as they stood at Michaelmas last in the same method as the account you made last year, that it may be compared therewith. Ibid.
Same to Lord Portmore to lay before my Lords an account of the money issued to you for Contingencies upon account for the Garrison of Gibraltar from the time of your being appointed Governor. Ibid.
C. Stanhope to the Customs Commissioners. My Lords direct you to permit Antho. Furzman, a tidesman in London port, to go into the country on his private affairs for a month without having his salary stopt: as by the enclosed letter [missing] desiring same. Ibid., p. 366. |
Nov. 4, 8,
17, 18. |
Treasury warrant to same to employ John Cawley as a tidesman in the Inferior List, London port, loco Thomas Caims, dismissed (Nov. 4).
Richard Sankey as a landwaiter, London port, loco Charles Lowndes (Nov. 4).
Roger Cooke as a tidesman in the Inferior List, London port, loco John Dakens, deceased (Nov. 4).
Robert Wood as landwaiter and to act as coastwaiter in Poulton port loco Josua Miers, deceased (Nov. 4).
Richard Mathews (a tidesman in the Inferior List, London port) to be removed to the Superior List there loco John Hatch, who has surrendered (Nov. 8).
William Leicester to succeed the said Mathews in the Inferior List (Nov. 8).
Benjamin Tasker as Surveyor of Customs at Annapolis in Maryland loco William Bladen, deceased (Nov. 8).
John Street as a tidesman and boatman in Poole port loco Walter Frampton, dismissed (Nov. 8).
Hugh Doubt as a tidesman in Padstow port loco William Lock, deceased (Nov. 8).
Andrew Gilbert as a tidesman in Wells port loco David Scotland, dismissed (Nov. 17).
Joseph Culliford as a waiter and searcher at Studland Bay in Poole port loco Geo. Lawrence, superannuated (Nov. 17).
Thomas Summers as tidesman and boatman in Weymouth port loco Thomas Hunt, to be dismissed (Nov. 17).
John Bax as a tidesman and boatman at Dover loco John Talbot, deceased (Nov. 17).
Mathew Alden as a tidesman in Plymouth port loco Peter Loader, superannuated (Nov. 18).
Henry Badcock as a landwaiter in Exeter port loco Samuel Axe, deceased (Nov. 18). Out Letters (Customs) XVII, pp. 122, 123, 124. |
| Nov. 4. |
Treasury direction to the Board of Works to estimate for repairs as follows.
Prefixing: report to the Treasury from Samuel Burton, Receiver of the Savoy Rents, on the petition of the Chapel Warden and Overseer of the Poor of the Precinct of the Savoy. I find that the Savoy being some time since made a Marshalsea or prison for deserters and now a barrack for soldiers, Thomas Murphy, senior, Deputy Marshal, Capt. Clark, Adjutant to the Third Regiment of Foot Guards, and Mr. Pringle, surgeon to the said Regiment, have, under pretence of wanting room, taken possession of several empty houses which are by them let to serjeants, soldiers and others at weekly rents; that several houses have been empty several years in the Strand and by affidavit it appears that the Poor's tax is four times as much as formerly when the Master of the Savoy first gave 4l. per an. towards the relief of the poor there, which is continued down to this time. The Chapel and Chapel Yard in the Savoy are much out of repair, and it appears by affidavit that the same have always been repaired by the Master of the Savoy for the time being without any expense to the inhabitants. There does usually arise from the Burial Ground and Tolling the Bell about 13l. or 14l. per an. Reference Book IX, pp. 408–9.
Treasury warrant to the Stamps Commissioners to depute John Smith as distributor of stamps for Co. Warwick loco Jeremiah Withers.
Prefixing: memorial from said Commissioners to the Treasury shewing that Joseph Carter, who was appointed thereto by the Treasury warrant of Aug. 14 last, has refused the same; therefore proposing John Smith. Warrants not Relating to Money XXV, pp. 139–40.
William Lowndes to the Earl of Lauderdale to send to the Treasury Lords an exact list of all the officers of the Mint in Scotland with their salaries. Out Letters (North Britain) IV, p. 424. |
| Nov. 4. |
Money order for 100l. to Thomas Walker for half a year to Lady Day 1718 on his fee or salary as Housekeeper at Newmarket. (Letter of direction dated Dec. 10 hereon.) Money Book XXVII, p. 45. Order Book X, p. 172. |
| Nov. 5. |
Treasury warrant to Anthony Cracherode, Solicitor for the affairs of the Treasury, to pay 50l. to William Calderwood as royal bounty: out of money imprested to you for law charges. Money Book XXVII, p. 72.
Money warrant for 20,000l. to Samuel Edwards, George Jerman and John Stockwell, Esqrs., Paymasters of the interest on Exchequer Bills: and is to satisfy not only to the Tellers of the Receipt what they have allowed or shall allow to the payers and lenders, at the said Receipt, of the said Exchequer Bills; but also to persons and bodies politique &c. having any of the said Bills in their custody upon which six months' interest or more shall be due and unpaid although the said Bills shall not have circulated through the Revenue or Taxes. (Money order dated Dec. 4 hereon.) Money Book XXVII, p. 73. Order Book X, p. 237.
Letter of direction for 100l. to Walter Chetwynd: on the unsatisfied order in his name as [Paymaster of the King's private pensions]: and is intended to be paid over to Charlotte, Lady Lovelace, for 1718 Michaelmas quarter on the pension of 400l. per an. for herself and [her] son. Disposition Book XXIV, p. 160.
Treasury reference to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands of the petition of John Gonson showing that Martha White was possessed of [a term in] two messuages in St. Giles in the Field for 40 years from 29 Sept. 1684 at 8l. per an. rent by a lease from the late Lord Dover et al. as assignees of Henry, late Earl of St. Albans, and his trustees, who were lessees of the Crown, and Elizabeth White purchased the remainder of the said Earl of St. Albans' terms and other premises: and the said Martha White devised her interest to Thomas White, the said Elizabeth White and Eliz. Gonson, all of whom are dead. The petitioner is administrator to Hannah Gonson, who was administrator to said Elizabeth Gonson, and is legally entitled to the premises: that some persons lately building a new house next to the premises, great part of it fell down and with the shock thereof occasioned the fall of petitioner's houses: therefore petitioner prays an extension of lease. Reference Book IX, p. 409.
Same to same of the petition of the Earl of Berkeley for a fresh lease on surrender of the manor, lordship, town and castle of St. Briavels, manor of Newlands and certain parcels of land called White Mead Park in the Forest of Dean. Co. Gloucester, which the late Queen Catherine's trustees demised to the late Duke of Beaufort for several terms under the rent of 66l. 5s. 0d. per an.: which premises now vest in petitioner with about 12 years to run: prays a fresh lease under the old rent without the exceptions in the old lease of some small wood of little or no value, which are a real prejudice to the improvement. Ibid.
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| Nov. 6. |
Treasury warrant [to Deputy Auditor Duke Parsons] to allow in the account for one year ended 1717 Sept. 29, of Joseph Whitehead and Thomas Edwards, joint Clerks of the Hanaper in Chancery, 40l. for the expense of passing the said account.
Prefixing: certificate by the said Deputy Auditor that the said account has been delivered in to the Office of Auditor Foley and will be examined and prepared for Declaration with all convenient speed. Money Book XXVII, p. 74. |
| Nov. 6. |
Money order for 50l. to William Mathew for a quarter due 1718 Oct. 26 on his allowance of 200l. per an. as Lieutenant Governor of the island of St. Christopher. Order Book X, p. 195.
C. Stanhope to the Auditor of the Receipt. The Treasury Lords desire that the order lately signed for paying interest on debentures to sufferers at Nevis and St. Christopher be satisfied out of public moneys reserved in the Exchequer and appropriated to that service. Disposition Book XXIV, p. 161.
Letter of direction for 22,586l. 9s. 7¾d. to services as follows: out of loans to be made by the payees themselves on credit of the Land Tax anno 1718: viz. |
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Harry Mordaunt, on the unsatisfied order in his name as Treasurer of the Ordnance: “for which loans are to be drawn without interest” |
13,500 |
0 |
0 |
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Richard Hampden, on the unsatisfied order in his name as Treasurer of the Navy: [the loans for which are to be drawn] without interest |
9,086 |
9 |
7¾ |
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£22,586 |
9 |
7¾ |
“the same being intended to be reserved in the hands of the said Treasurers to attend their Lordships' directions as to the applying and disposing thereof.” Ibid.
William Lowndes to Mr. Young, Surveyor General of Woods, to certify my Lords the value of 45 load of rough timber mentioned in your report of March 27 last as necessary for repairing the bridges and pounds in his Majesty's manor of Bray, Co. Berks. Out Letters (General) XXII, p. 366.
Same to the Customs Commissioners. Send my Lords the accounts of the gross and net produce of the several branches, under your management, of [the Customs which form part of] the Civil List revenues, “it being extremely wanted.” Ibid.
C. Stanhope to the Auditors of Imprests enclosing a Report [missing] from the Commissioners of Army Debts in relation to an arrear due to the Troops of his Highness the Landgrave of Hesse Cassel to the day of separation [from the Troops of the Allies]. My Lords direct you to prepare a warrant for authorising the said Commissioners to act conformable to their said report; and send the warrant to my Lords to be perused and laid before his Majesty for signature. Ibid.
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| Nov. 7. |
Money warrant for 600l. to William Stanhope, Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Catholic King: without account: being due to him upon four bills of extraordinaries in that service from 1 August 1717 to 1 August 1718: |
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£ |
Appending: said bills:
(1) from 1 Aug. to 1 Nov. 1717: dated Madrid 6 Nov. 1717 old style.
pens, ink, paper and other stationery ware |
60 |
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books, Gazettes, newspapers &c. |
35 |
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Intelligence and other secret services |
25 |
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postage of letters and packets |
30 |
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£150 |
with: Secretary J. Craggs' allowance dated Whitehall 9 Oct. 1718. “I allow of this bill amounting to 150l. for three months [as being] pursuant to the Regulation.”
(2) from 1 Nov. 1717 to 1 Feb. 1717–18: dated Madrid 5 Feb. 1717–18.
Gazettes and other newspapers |
45 |
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usual new year's gifts, Intelligence &c. |
55 |
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postage of letters |
50 |
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£150 |
with: allowance as above.
(3) from 1 Feb. 1717–18 to 1 May 1718: dated Madrid 4 May 1718.
pens, ink, paper &c. |
45 |
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news papers and Intelligence |
45 |
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postage of letters, packets &c. |
60 |
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£150 |
with: allowance as above.
(4) from 1 May 1718 to 1 Aug. 1718: dated Madrid 4 Aug. 1718.
pens, paper, ink &c. |
40 |
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news papers and pamphlets |
45 |
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Intelligence |
20 |
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postage of letters |
45 |
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£150 |
with: allowance as above.
(Money order dated 8 Nov. hereon.) (Letter of direction dated 13 Nov. hereon.) Money Book XXVII, pp. 75–6. Order Book X, p. 194. Disposition Book XXIV, p. 163. |
| Nov. 7. |
Treasury warrant to the Stamps Commissioners to pay the assessments to the 1718 Land Tax on stamp officers of under 100l. per an. salary.
Prefixing: memorial to the Treasury from said Commissioners in behalf of the said officers. Money Book XXVII, pp. 78–9.
William Lowndes to the Treasurer of the Navy. The Treasury Lords direct you to dispose of so many of the tallies and orders remaining in your hands on the Land Tax anno 1718 as will amount to 15,245l. 16s. 8d. to any persons willing to accept the same at par with 4 per cent. interest commencing from Nov. 6 instant: and that you apply the said sum as follows: viz. |
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to the head of Wages.
for paying off and laying up his Majesty's ships Speedwell and Glasgow
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9,900 |
0 |
0 |
to the head of Wear and Tear.
to pay off and discharge several workmen from his Majesty's Yards to ease the growing charge |
4,000 |
0 |
0 |
to the head of Victualling.
to pay a bill of exchange due to John Gore, Esq. for supplying the Baltic Squadron with provisions |
1,345 |
16 |
8 |
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£15,245 |
16 |
8 |
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“You'll please to indorse proper warrants on the said orders, for creating interest from the said 6 November inst. accordingly and lay the same before their Lordships to be signed.” Disposition Book XXIV, p. 163. |
| Nov. 7. |
C. Stanhope to the Earl of Lincoln to send to my Lords an account of the Deduction of Poundage out of the pay of the Forces for the last war and how much thereof has been paid to pensioners and out-pensioners of Chelsea Hospital and how much remains due to them; and likewise an account of the disposition of the remainder of the said Poundage. Out Letters (General) XXII, p. 367.
Same to the Commissioners for Taxes to report on the enclosed Representation [missing] of the Excise Commissioners touching a debt owing to the Excise from Nathaniel Molyneux, heretofore a Receiver of Land Tax for Co. Lanes. What is the debt outstanding on him as Receiver and what the estate that has been extended for the same, so that the Crown may avail itself thereof in order to satisfy his debt to the Excise if his debt as Receiver be, or be near, cleared. Ibid.
William Lowndes to the Auditor of the Receipt. My Lords desire you to send to them as soon as may be a Certificate distinguishing as follows: viz.
(1) the sum which at Midsummer J 717 remained in the Exchequer of the Ho [House Duties] money granted 7 Wm. III. [c. 18] and the other branches of the Aggregate Fond [1 Geo. I., St. 2, c. 12].
(2) the total receipts in said quarter on said Ho[use] money and other branches.
(3) How much of the said sums was issued in 1717 Michaelmas quarter and to what uses, and what then remained.
(4) total receipts in the year ended 1718 Michaelmas at the Exchequer on the said Ho[use] money and other branches.
(5) How much of the remain and growing receipts was paid away in the year ended Michaelmas 1718 and to what uses and what was the Remain then in the Exchequer.
(6) the Remain in the Exchequer at Michaelmas 1717 of the Fond for the South Sea Company and the Sixth General Mortgage.
(7) the total which did arise on that Fond in the year ended at Michaelmas 1718.
(8) how much of the Remain and of the said year's receipt was paid or payable to the South Sea Company or to the Creditors on that mortgage at or before Michaelmas 1718 and what then remained at the Exchequer.
(9) the sum which in the year ended at Michaelmas 1718 did arise in part of the General Fond of 724,849l. 6s. 104/5d. per an. and the Deficiency thereof for that year.
(10) How much hath been paid upon that Fond according to the two Acts in that behalf and to what uses and how much thereof remained in the Exchequer at Michaelmas 1718.
Ibid., p. 367b.
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| Nov. 8. |
Royal warrant dated St. James's to Francis, Earl of Godolphin, Cofferer of the Household, to pay 136l. 14s. 2¾d. to Jane Ireland for so much due to her at the death of Wm. III. for wages and board wages as Starcher to the said late King, to wit from 1700 Dec. 31 to 1701–2 March 8. King's Warrant Book XXIX, p. 307.
Same dated same to same to pay 302l. 19s. 10d. to Henry Foubert [for so much] remaining due to him at the death of Wm. III. for salary as one of his Equerries. Ibid., p. 308.
Same to Walter Chetwynd to pay 100l. to Dame Elizabeth Osborne, the widow and legatee of Sir John Osborne, as in part of 440l. due to him upon a pension of 200l. per an. allowed him by Wm. III.
Appending: certificate by Edward Godfrey that said pension was paid by Edward Nicholas to Xmas 1699 and no further. Ibid., p. 315.
Same to the Treasury Lords to pay 2,000l. to Francis Negus as imprest towards the extraordinary expense of the Stables. (Money warrant dated Nov. 17 hereon.) (Money order dated 20 Nov. hereon.) (Letter of direction dated 10 Dec. hereon.) Ibid., p. 315. Order Book X, p. 200. Disposition Book XXIV, p. 172.
Money warrant for 100l. to Alexander Stevenson: without account: to reimburse the like sum expended by him for his Majesty's service according to a signification in that behalf from Secretary the Earl of Stanhope: to be issued out of Civil List moneys. (Money order dated 12 Nov. hereon.) (Letter of direction dated 13 Dec. hereon.) Money Book XXVII, p. 81. Order Book X, p. 194. Disposition Book XXIV, p. 175.
Same for 2.000l. to Anthony Cracherode as imprests for charges in prosecution and defence of law suits relating to his Majesty's service. (Money order dated 12 Nov. hereon.) (Letter of direction dated 10 Dec. for 1.000l. in part hereof.) Money Book XXVII, p. 81. Order Book X, p. 196. Disposition Book XXIV, p. 172. |
Oct. 8 [probably
a clerical
slip for
Nov. 8]. |
Money warrant for 285l. 2s. 6d. to William [Talbot], Bishop of Salisbury, for half a year to Michaelmas 1718 on the annuity for the support of the Order of the Garter. (Money order dated 12 Nov. hereon.) (Letter of direction dated 10 Dec. hereon. This entry describes the payment as six months' allowance due at Michaelmas 1718 to the Poor Knights of Windsor.) Money Book XXVII, p. 82. Order Book X, p. 196. Disposition Book XXIV, p. 172. |
| Nov. 8. |
Same for 573l. to James Jefferies, Esq., Resident with the Czar of Muscovy: 300l. thereof for his equipage and 273l. for three months in advance on his ordinary of 3l. a day to commence from the day of his departure out of the presence for the said employment. (Money order dated 10 Nov. hereon.) (Letter of direction dated 10 Dec. hereon.) Money Book XXIX, p. 82. Order Book X, p. 200. Disposition Book XXIV p. 172.
Money order for 6,000l. to Galfridus Walpole, Esq., Treasurer for Greenwich Hospital: as imprest: to be applied as the Commissioners or Governors of said Hospital shall direct, towards finishing the said Hospital and the Chapel thereto belonging: and is to be taken as one year from 14 May 1717 on the said sum as authorised by the Act of 9 Anne, c. 22: to be issued out of loans on [Duties on] coals. Order Book X, p. 193.
Same for 52l. 10s. 0d. to James, Earl of Berkeley, Constable of the Forest of Dean, for 1717 Sept. 29 quarter on the allowance of 100l. per an. to the Conservator or Supervisor of said Forest and on the 80l. per an. and 30l. per an. for six Keepers thereof for their pains in preserving the young trees and wood there and keeping the inclosures within their respective districts. Ibid., p. 195.
Same for 50l. to Edward Byam for a quarter due 28 Oct. last on his allowance as Lieut. Governor of the island of Antigua. Ibid.
Royal warrant dated St. James's to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland for reducing several pensions on the Irish Establishment and for restoring other pensions: all as follows. By the royal sign manual of Aug. 12 last, supra, p. 545, the payment of certain pensions was authorised after having been respited for particular examinations and certain other pensions amounting in the whole to 675l. 5s. 0d. per an. were to be wholly determined. Now upon further consideration thereof the King is pleased to restore all and every the persons so excepted to their several and respective pensions amounting to 675l. 5s. 0d. per an., but as the King is minded in some measure to ease the expense [in Ireland] he does choose rather to effect the same by way of retrenchment of other pensions inserted on the [Irish] Establishment than by the total suppressing of those aforementioned which “we are given to understand have been long had and enjoyed by the persons receiving the same and that the said persons are now generally worn out with age and infirmities and for the most part incapable of supporting themselves”: therefore the said pensions are to be paid as if they had not been so excepted and determined and it is hereby directed that the following pensions are to be paid according to the following retrenchment and not otherwise: as from Michaelmas last: viz. |
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Pension after Retrenchment |
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£ |
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d. |
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Mary Darsilliers |
9 |
2 |
6 |
45 |
12 |
6 |
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Philippe Basoche |
9 |
2 |
6 |
27 |
7 |
6 |
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Susanne Bonable |
9 |
2 |
6 |
27 |
7 |
6 |
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Judith Coutiers |
9 |
2 |
6 |
45 |
12 |
6 |
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Marguerite Combecrose |
9 |
2 |
6 |
45 |
12 |
6 |
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la venor du Major l'Estanquette |
9 |
2 |
6 |
40 |
17 |
6 |
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Thomas Tavier |
9 |
2 |
6 |
36 |
10 |
0 |
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Daniel la Force |
9 |
2 |
6 |
45 |
12 |
6 |
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Elizabeth Foucault |
18 |
5 |
0 |
27 |
7 |
6 |
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Lewis Laurence |
9 |
2 |
6 |
36 |
10 |
0 |
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Balthazar du Lac |
9 |
2 |
6 |
27 |
7 |
6 |
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Charlotte de Laspay |
9 |
2 |
6 |
45 |
12 |
6 |
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Marie la Moulaine |
9 |
2 |
6 |
36 |
10 |
0 |
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Sylvia and Ann de Montant |
9 |
2 |
6 |
63 |
17 |
6 |
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Martha Mercier |
18 |
5 |
0 |
27 |
7 |
6 |
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Jacob de la Mothe |
9 |
2 |
6 |
45 |
12 |
6 |
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Marguerite Nayac |
9 |
2 |
6 |
36 |
10 |
0 |
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Elizabeth la Plaigne |
27 |
7 |
6 |
45 |
12 |
6 |
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Paul la Porte |
9 |
2 |
6 |
45 |
12 |
6 |
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Francois Paul |
9 |
2 |
6 |
27 |
7 |
6 |
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Major William Riotor |
27 |
7 |
6 |
82 |
2 |
6 |
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Francois Sartres |
9 |
2 |
6 |
27 |
7 |
6 |
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Marguerite Sabbatier |
9 |
2 |
6 |
27 |
7 |
6 |
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Elizabeth de St. delis d'hencourt |
9 |
2 |
6 |
27 |
7 |
6 |
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Magdeline de St. delis d'hencourt |
9 |
2 |
6 |
27 |
7 |
6 |
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Uranie de St. delis d'hencourt |
9 |
2 |
6 |
27 |
7 |
6 |
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Susanne Thenie |
9 |
2 |
6 |
36 |
10 |
0 |
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— |
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£301 |
2 |
6 |
£1,035 |
10 |
0 |
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Out Letters (Ireland) X, pp. 221–2. |
| Nov. 8. |
Same to same to pay 2,000l. to the Trustees for the Linen Manufactory in Ireland: as royal bounty: the Treasury Lords having laid before the King the Lord Lieutenant's letter of Oct. 18 last, representing that the House of Commons in Ireland did in the year 1715 [1715–6, Feb.8] (see Commons Journal, Ireland, Vol. III, p. 82), finding that the fund granted for encouragement of said manufacture there was not sufficient to answer the end intended, did by their Address desire a [further] 1,000l. a year for two years for promoting same; but same not being obtained the House has again addressed for the same [ibid.], and the same is represented as necessary and it is now the season of the year for importing hemp [seed] and flax seed, which is expected as usual by the several counties of that kingdom and which is now more wanting than in other years by reason of the flax seed having in great measure failed. Ibid., pp. 223–4. |
| Nov. 10. |
William Lowndes to Mr. Benson. Send to me without further delay all the papers in your custody relating to the King's quarries in the Isle of Portland. Out Letters (General) XXII, p. 367.
Treasury reference to the Excise Commissioners in Scotland of the petition of Andrew Fletcher, Cashier of Excise in Scotland, praying an additional salary in regard of the great increase of business in his Office by several new additional Duties. Out Letters (North Britain) IV, p. 428. |
| Nov. 12. |
Money order for 300l. to Walter Hamilton, Esq., Capt. General and Governor in Chief of the Leeward Caribbee Islands, for a quarter due 8 Nov. inst. on his allowance of 1,200l. per an.: to be paid out of the 4½ per cent. Duty. Order Book X, p. 200.
Letter of direction for 400l. to Walter Chetwynd on the unsatisfied order in his name [as Paymaster of the King's private pensions]: as imprest and upon account: and is intended to be paid over by him to Edward. Earl of Sandwich, for half a year due at Michaelmas last 1718 on his pension of 800l. per an. Disposition Book XXIV, p. 165.
Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners to sell to the highest bidder the estate of John Hartley, who was a surety in 2,000l. for Edward Scarborough, late Collector of Liverpool, the said estate being in Barnoldswick, Coates, Shipley, Carleton and East Burn, Co. Yorks, and in the hands of the Crown by extent. Prefixing: report by the said Commissioners on the petition of Thomas Hartley, brother of said John Hartley, praying an Exchequer lease of the said estate during the extent on his paying 200l. The premises are of much greater value and it will be more equitable to sell it publicly and apply the proceeds to the discharge of the debt. Out Letters (Customs) XVII, pp. 76–7. |
| Nov. 13. |
William Lowndes to Lord Masham, King's Remembrancer. Please send to my Lords a certificate of the Exonerations that have been made before this date for double taxes by the Court of Exchequer in cases where no abatements have yet been made in respect thereof out of the quotas charged by the Act of Parliament upon the counties or places where [for which] such exonerations have been made. And as any more such exonerations shall be made in the Exchequer before the end of the present term please certify the same to my Lords. Out Letters (General) XXII, p. 367. |
| Nov. 14. |
Royal sign manual for 50l. to Don Emanuel Mercador (who resides here at present as a Deputy from the inhabitants of Minorca): to be accounted as two months' payment from Sept. 5 last on an allowance at the rate of 300l. per an. “which we are graciously pleased to make for so long time as we shall think fit to continue his stay here.” (Money warrant dated Nov. 17 hereon.) (Money order dated 18 Nov. hereon.) (Letter of direction dated Nov.—hereon.) King's Warrant Book XXIX, p. 139. Order Book X, p. 197. Disposition Book XXIV, p. 167.
Royal warrant dated St. James's to the Commissioners for Army Debts to allow several Extraordinaries as follows to the Troops of Hesse Cassel up to the day of their separation from the Forces of the late Queen Anne in the year 1712: to wit as follows: the said Commissioners in their Report to the King dated 4 Nov. inst. on the state of several demands of the Landgrave of Hesse Cassel for arrears due to his Troops up to the said day do find that the allowances therein mentioned are such as ought to be allowed to the said Landgrave on the several heads of his account pursuant to the Conventions for the said Troops: but that such allowances have always been made by particular authorities either from the Crown or the Commander in Chief of the Army and that such authorities have not been obtained [in this case], therefore they cannot proceed to give credit for the same without royal warrant. The King therefore hereby directs allowance to be made of the following sums for the several services specified and that certificates be made out accordingly to the Paymaster General of the Forces or his Deputy in order to the issue of Debentures for payment thereof: that is to say: |
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guilders. |
stivers. |
pennings |
|
for Great Britain's proportion of Forage money to the said Troops in their winter quarters at 40 rations of forage a day to each Regiment of Dragoons and 50 rations a day to each Regiment of Foot, each ration at 6 stivers, being the same allowance that is made by the Dutch to their own national Troops: [to wit] from their entering into quarters in the winter 1702–3 to their quitting the same at the end of the winter 1711–12, according to the Conventions for the said Troops, which stipulate that these Troops shall have the same advantages which the Troops of the States [General] enjoy; the said [Queen Anne's] proportion being one moiety for the Troops taken into the joint pay of Great Britain and the States General by the Conventions [made] in the years 1702 and 1703 and two third parts to the other Regiments that served in the years 1706 and 1707 pursuant to the Conventions of those years: making in Hollands money |
82,117 |
10 |
0 |
|
for the moiety payable by Great Britain of the waggon money to the said Troops for the campaign in the year 1711 and until the 6 July 1712 for one waggon for each Troop of Dragoons and Company of Foot, together with five waggons more to each Regiment for the Field and Staff Officers, at 2 guilders a day each waggon, being the allowance made by the Dutch to their own national Troops pursuant to the said Conventions |
33,176 |
0 |
0 |
|
for the moiety payable by Great Britain of Waggon and Forage Money to the Lieutenant General of the said Troops and one Aide de Camp from 16 Nov. 1702 to 6 July 1712, being for 11 waggons each day during the winter quarters according to the said Conventions and the allowances made by the Dutch as aforesaid |
27,607 |
9 |
0 |
|
for Great Britain's moiety of the extraordinary allowance to the Lieutenant General after the rate of 6,000 guilders per an. and to his Aide de Camp after the rate of 2,000 guilders per an. for the times they were actually employed in the years 1710 and 1711 and to the said 6 July 1712, according to the practice of the Dutch and the usage in former years |
5,731 |
10 |
0 |
|
for Great Britain's moiety of the allowance for men lost in action and for dead and wounded horses in the year 1711 according to the certificate of the Sieur Slingelandt, Secretary to the Council of State of the United Provinces, that the said States had ordered payment of the other moiety; upon whose certificates the same allowance[s] have been made during the course of the late war |
13,190 |
5 |
0 |
|
for Great Britain's proportion of ordinary Recruit money for the said Troops at 600 guilders per an. to each Troop and Company from the year 1703 to the year 1711, both inclusive, and from thence to the 6th July 1712 as stated in the said [Army Debts Commissioners'] Report [to wit] for 10 Companies in each Regiment of Foot according to the late Queen Anne's Establishment, the said proportion being one moiety for the Troops taken into pay in the years 1702 and 1703 and two third parts to the other Regiments that served in Italy in the years 1706 and 1707 according to the several Conventions for the said Troops |
262,831 |
4 |
07/12 |
|
for the moiety payable by Great Britain of Extraordinary Recruit money for the said [Hessian] Troops at the rate of 100 guilders per an. to each Troop of Horse and Dragoons and 200 guilders per an. to each Company of Foot from 25 Dec. 1711 to 6 July 1712 as stated in your [the Army Debt Commissioners'] Report, for the numbers borne on the late Queen Anne's Establishment of the said Forces |
3,793 |
3 |
0 |
|
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— |
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total of said allowances |
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428,447 |
1 |
07/12 |
|
“against which you [the said Commissioners] are to take care that the said Troops be charged with all such sums as they have already received in part or on account of any of the claims or demands aforesaid,” and this warrant shall be to you as well for making the said allowances and issuing your certificates for the money remaining due to satisfy the same at the current price of exchange as to the Auditors of Imprests to pass and allow the same. King's Warrant Book XXIX, pp. 308–11. |
| Nov. 14. |
Royal warrant dated St. James's to the Treasury Lords to pay 500l. to Thomas Lowther, gent.: without account: to be by him applied and paid to such uses as his Majesty shall direct. (Money warrant dated Nov. 17 hereon.) (Money order dated 12 Nov. hereon.) (Letter of direction dated 19 Nov. hereon.) Ibid., p. 311. Order Book X, p. 197. Disposition Book XXIV, p. 167.
Same to John How, heretofore Paymaster of Guards and Garrisons, to pay 279l. 8s. 0d. to Susanna Gibson, which, with the sum of 180l. before imprested (by the Earl of Ranelagh, then Paymaster General of the Forces) to Sir John Gibson, her father, is to be in full recompense and satisfaction of the demands of the said Sir John (who has been some time since deceased) for fire and candle provided for the use of the Garrison of Portsmouth, where he was Lieutenant Governor, for the years 1689, 1690 and 1691, which said imprest is [still] depending in super on the said Sir John Gibson in the accounts of the said Earl of Ranelagh: but which the Auditors of Imprests are hereby to discharge in the said Earl's accounts and in the meantime the said Auditors are to certify the King's Remembrancer in the Exchequer the allowance of the said super so that the said daughter as executrix of the estate of the said Sir John be not vexed or disquieted by process of the Exchequer for or by reason thereof.
Appending: report dated 3 Feb. 1709–10 from Auditor Edward Harley to Lord Treasurer Godolphin on the said Gibson's account. He is charged with 90l. paid to him in 1689 by the Earl of Ranelagh and 90l. similarly in 1690, or 180l. in all: against which he craves allowance of his disbursements as follows: viz. |
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£ |
s. |
d. |
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in 1689 for coals and candles for the soldiers quartered in the Barracks of Portsmouth from 1 Jan. 1689–90 to 1690 April 1 |
117 |
10 |
0 |
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in 1690 for 65 chaldron of coals at 3l. per chaldron and 29l. for candles for the soldiers quartered there between 15 Oct. and 1 April 1691 |
224 |
0 |
0 |
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in 1691 for coals and candles for the soldiers quartered there from 1 April to 1 Jan. 1692 |
350 |
0 |
0 |
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— |
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£691 |
10 |
0 |
leaving 511l. 10s. 0d. due to him.
As to the vouchers or proofs of these disbursements the accomptant alleges that the Town Major and Town Porter of Portsmouth, who were concerned in the delivery of the coals, are dead and the Officers of the several Regiments quartered therein are changed by death or removal: but upon his being appointed to provide fire and candle for the Barracks for the year 1691 he [Gibson] wrote to Mr. Blathwayt to acquaint my Lord Romney that there was no Establishment for firing for the Barracks, yet her Majesty was so sensible of the necessity and reasonableness of these expenses that her Majesty's orders were sent him by Lord Romney to provide the same for the year 1691, which being all expended out of pocket over and above what was then allowed for fire and candle on the [Guards and Garrisons] Establishment, he did not know he was ever to account for the two 90l. paid him on account for that service; and when called to account he annexed to his account an affidavit of the truth of the several matters contained therein, which was the only voucher he then had: since which he has produced an extract out of the Books of the Secretary at War's Office of the number of the Forces from time to time quartered at Portsmouth during the said three years by which it appears that the numbers of Forces quartered there in that time were generally equal to the number which her present Majesty's Establishment calls a full garrison, viz. about 17 Companies, for which 500l. a year certain is allowed for fire and candle: but upon collecting from the [Army] Paymaster's accounts the sums already allowed for fire and candle for Portsmouth for the said years and adding thereto the sums now demanded over and above the said allowance it appears that the same does exceed the present Establishment of 500l. per an. by 52l. 1s. 0d. in 1690 and 178l. 1s. 0d. in 1691, or in all 232l. 2s. 0d.
In his said account Sir John Gibson further craved allowance of the following articles: |
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£ |
s. |
d. |
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for straw for the soldiers of several Regiments to lie upon in their tents when encamped at Portsmouth in 1689 and 1690 |
5 |
14 |
0 |
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for charges of hoys and boats to ship off soldiers at several times in those two years |
11 |
10 |
0 |
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for charges of the messengers sent along the Sussex shore and frequently to the Isle of Wight for Intelligence when the French were upon the coast in the year 1690 |
8 |
10 |
0 |
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for a room for an Officer in a townsman's house at Key Gate for six weeks, there being no Officers' Guard Room at that place |
1 |
16 |
0 |
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for Poundage on the abovesaid 90l. and 90l.
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4 |
10 |
0 |
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— |
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£32 |
0 |
0 |
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These items have no relation to the account of Fire and Candle and there are no vouchers or proof of them. |
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£ |
s. |
d. |
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The accomptant's balance according to his own account is |
543 |
10 |
0 |
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deducting 232l. 2s. 0d. for the excess of [or beyond] the present Establishment and 32l. for the above particulars which have no relation to fire and candle |
264 |
2 |
0 |
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— |
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his balance for his expenditure above money received would be |
£279 |
8 |
0 |
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King's Warrant Book XXIX, pp. 312–14. |
| Nov. 14. |
Royal warrant dated St. James's to Walter Chetwynd to pay a pension of 100l. per an. to James Lidderdale, Esq.: during pleasure: making the first payment thereupon for the year ended at Michaelmas last past. Ibid., p. 318. |
| Nov. 14. |
Same to same to pay a pension of 200l. per an. to Arabella Dyot (notwithstanding her coverture): during pleasure: as from Michaelmas past. Ibid.
Letter of direction for 236l. 14s. 2¾d. as follows: out of the arrears of Civil List moneys of Wm. III. remaining in the Exchequer: viz. |
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£ |
s. |
d. |
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to Francis, Earl of Godolphin [sic for Bradford], on the unsatisfied order in his name as Cofferer of his [said late] Majesty's Household |
136 |
14 |
2¾ |
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to Walter Chetwynd, Esq., upon the unsatisfied order in his name |
100 |
0 |
0 |
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— |
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£236 |
14 |
2¾ |
Disposition Book XXIV, p. 165.
William Lowndes to the Attorney and Solicitor General enclosing a draft [missing] of a minute upon a hearing at the Treasury between the Customs Commissioners and the East India Company relating to the Duties demanded for the stores by them shipped off for their Forts in India. My Lords desire you to consider same with the Report made by the late Attorney General thereupon: and upon your reading over the old [East India] Company's charters and the indenture made between Queen Anne and the two Companies and the Act of Parliament confirming the same you will please to give your opinion in the case as soon as you can so that their Lordships can give further directions. Out Letters (General) XXII, p. 368.
Treasury reference to the Customs Commissioners of the petition of William Law of London, merchant, shewing that he gave to James Reith, who was going to France, “three finish gold watches whereof one was a Repetition” to deliver to his brother, Mr. Laws of Paris, but through the omission of an entry outwards the same were seized, together with the following money, by John Williams, tidesurveyor at Dover on the 27 Sept. last, viz. 7 Louis d'or of 36 livres each, 1 Sun Louis d'or, 31 French Crowns of 6 livres each, 1 small silver piece of 10 sols and 5 guineas: therefore praying return of the whole, “it being a case of omission through ignorance.” Reference Book IX, p. 409. |
| Nov. 15. |
H. Kelsall (in the absence of the Treasury Secretaries) to same. My Lords consent to one month's leave of absence to Mr. Culliford, Surveyor of the Customs in Southampton port, upon his own private affairs. Out Letters (General) XXII, p. 368.
C. Stanhope to the Comptrollers of Army Accounts. Hasten your report to my Lords upon the petition of Charles Bollengier in behalf of Mr. Jacobus de Coninck of Antwerp, merchant, referred to you 1716–17 Feb. 28, ut supra, Calendar of Treasury Books, Vol. XXXI, p. 161. Ibid., p. 369.
Royal warrant dated St. James's to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to put on the Establishment of Half pay in Ireland James Dowley as a reduced Ensign as from 1717 August 24, being formerly of Major General Wade's Regiment of Foot; being left out of the present Establishment although but a little before restored to it upon the former Establishment, he having been prevented by sickness from producing his case to the Lords Justices, so that he was omitted only by mistake. Out Letters (Ireland) X, p. 226. |
