Entry Book: August 1678, 1-15

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August 1678, 1-15

Date. Nature and Substance of the Entry. Reference.
Aug. 1. Warrant from Treasurer Danby [to the Receipt] to receive and take in (as by the privy seal of July 24 last) such loans of money as any person or persons are willing to lend and shall pay into the Receipt of the Exchequer upon the credit of either of the two sums granted to the King by the Act for [the Eighteen Months' Assessment, viz., the two sums of] 206,462l. 7s. 3d. and 412,925l. 14s. 6d. : so as the loans do not exceed the respective sums by the said Act limited for loans [thereupon] : and thereupon to give tallies of loans and orders of repayment for the same, and for such loans as may already have been made upon either of the said sums, so that the whole do not exceed the totals as aforesaid : including in the said orders such interest as the said Act will allow : said orders to be registered as by said Act. Money Book (General) p. 290.
Same from same to the Customs Commissioners to direct the Customs Cashier to pay 295l. to William Culliford and Daniel Hawkins for reimbursement of their charge in prosecuting the seizure of the calf skins which were seized at Newhaven : the said Commissioners having (in their report of July 26 last on the petition from said Culliford and Hawkins) reported that there was a great intention of fraud in endeavouring to export the said calf skins without paying Custom, and that there were amongst them a great number exceeding the weight allowed by Act of Parliament to be exported : the petitioners having further submitted to Treasurer Danby the evidence which was produced at the trial, "which appeared to me to be very full and plain in that behalf, I referred the examination of the truth thereof to my Lord Chief Baron and the rest of the Barons of the Exchequer, who have certified me that the evidence at the trials was rather fuller for proving the said fraud than in the said paper is expressed, yet contrary to their directions and expectation the jewry brought in the verdict against the King," wherefore Treasurer Danby is satisfied that frauds have been practised in the said port, and that petitioners should be paid their expenses, and that the seven poor men mentioned in his order of April 6 last should be defended at the King's charge in the actions brought against them about the said skins. Ibid, p. 291. Out Letters (Customs) IV. p. 85.
Aug. 2. Letter of direction on 2,000l. in further part of an order dated June 1 last for 20,000l. to Charles Bertie for secret service : on which order there has been already paid 1,472l. 7s. 10d., 2,747l. 1s. 7½d. and 6,000l. and 1,000l. : said 2,000l. to be hereby satisfied by tallies on the Customs. Money Book (General) p. 287.
Money warrant for 110,000l. to Lemuel Kingdon, Esq., as imprest for the Guards and Garrisons and contingencies thereof from June 31 last to Dec. 31 next : "and let the sum of 58,000l. thereof be satisfied by lovying tallies on the Commissioners and Receivers General of the Excise ; and the residue [52,000l. let it be satisfied] out of the Exchequer. Ibid, p. 293.
Letter of direction on 50,000l. in part of an order of March 16 last for 197,989l. 11s. 2d. to abovesaid Kingdon for payment of the new raised Forces to be employed for the support of his Majesty's alliances : said 50,000l. to be hereby paid out of the first loans which shall be paid into the Exchequer upon the credit of the 412,388l. 14s. 6d., part of the Eighteen Months' Assessment. Money Book (General) p. 293.
Money warrant for 867l. 12s. 4d. to Lawrence Hyde for extraordinaries as one of the Ambassadors and Plenipotentiaries for the treaty of peace at Nimuegen, as by a bill thereof allowed by Secretary Williamson the 19th ult.
Appending : said bill—
Ibid.
Gilders. Stivers.
Postage of letters and intelligence 365 2
Gifts and rewards. 991 15
Fees and charges 399 12
Carriage of equipage by sea and land 1004 17
Stationary ware 26 17
Travelling charges 279 4
House rent at Nimuegen before his Excellency [Hyde] came into it and since he has been at the Hague 2850 0
5917 7
£ s. d.
This Dutch money reduced into English money at 10 gilders 10 stivers per £ is 563 10 0
English account
Fees and charges [in the Exchequer, etc., on his payments, etc.] 189 3 2
Gifts and rewards 10 16 8
Charges of [carriage of] equipage by sea and land 104 2 4
£867 12 4
Letter of direction on 9,510l. 5s. 5d. in further part of an order dated 1676, Sept. 23, for 20,000l. to Charles Bertie for secret service : said sum to be hereby satisfied by tallies on Christopher, Duke of Albemarle, for moneys payable by him upon a contract for fee farm rents in the Counties of Southampton, Wilts, etc. (A further letter of direction dated Aug. 6 on 1,194l. 13s. 8d. in further part of said order : same to be hereby satisfied by tallies on the Customs.) Ibid, p. 294.
Money warrant for 354l. 3s. 7d. for the clerks and incidents of the Committee of Council for Trade and Plantations for last June 24 quarter, viz., 100l. to Sir Robert Southwell, 37l. 10s. 0d. to William Blathwaite and 25l. to same for an additional salary by order of Council for the same time, 25l. for the salary of two clerks for same time, and the balance for incidents including fire, office rent, maps, etc. (Charles Bertie dated Oct. 3 to the Customs Cashier to bring same in immediately after the weekly payments and to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue same, to pay off the several orders lately drawn for the said attendants. Same dated Oct. 29 to the Customs Cashier to bring said money in notwithstanding any former restriction.) Ibid, p. 294. Out Letters (General) p. 321.
Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the Warden, Master Worker, and Comptroller of the Mint to pay (out of moneys imprested to you for the service of the Mint) 471l. 2s. 0d. to Phillip Packer, Esq., Paymaster of the Works, to be employed for the rebuilding of the house belonging to the office of the Clerk of the Irons and Surveyor of the Meltings in the Mint, the decay thereof having been represented to Treasurer Danby by George Evans, Clerk of the Irons and Surveyor of the Meltings, and the Surveyor of the Works having reported it ruinous and unhabitable, that it is a very ancient, ill contrived timber building fitter to be rebuilt than repaired, and that the rebuilding of it on the same ground with one ground room and two upper stories of timber building and covered with lead, will amount to said 471l. 2s 0d. (Vacated : and a fresh warrant issued on the 8th August to Henry Slingsby, Esq., Master and Worker of the Mint, to so pay an identical sum, the estimate for the work as above being 454l. 12s. 0d. and 36l. 10s. 0d. more for the digging of a cellar to the same, from which 20l. may be abated in consideration of old materials.) Money Book (General) pp. 294, 297.
Letter of direction on an order of loan No. 44 dated 1670-1, Jan. 23, for 1,000l. and on another order No. 30 dated 1671, July 1, for 1,000l. [both orders being] registered on the Customs in the name of the Earl of Ogle and payable with interest ; and also on another order dated 1671, April 25, for 1,000l. similarly registered in the name of Richard Mulys, gent. : all the said orders being hereby by Treasurer Danby (who has received the King's particular directions herein) ordered to be satisfied by tallies on the Hearthmoney Contractors' half year's payment due Michaelmas next, together with interest thereon to the date of the [said] tallies.
In the margin : for the Duke of Albemarle. [This probably means that all the said orders had come to said Duke by mesne assignment and that the satisfaction of them was directed by the King particularly on said Duke's behalf.]
Ibid, p. 295
Money warrant for 1,150l. to Isaac Legouch for a jewel of that value which was given to Monsieur de Ruvigny, Envoy Extraordinary from the French King : as by the certificate of the 29th ult. from Henry, Earl of Arlington, Lord Chamberlain of the Household. Ibid.
Same for 50l. to Rebecca, daughter of William late Visct. [sic] Chandos for lest June 24 quarter on her pension of 200l. per an. (Charles Bertie dated Aug. 17 to the Customs Cashier to bring in with respect to the weekly payments, and same to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue, 150l. for three quarters to same date on said pension. "The letter to the Auditor of the Receipt thus underwritten 5 Oct., 1678 : this money is to be paid according to the directions above mentioned.") Ibid, p. 295. Out Letters (General) p. 304.
Money warrant for 250l. to the heirs of William, late Earl of Kinnoul for last June 24 qviarter on said Earl's pension of 1,000l. per an. granted by patent of 1672, July 19. Money Book (General) p. 295.
Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the Customs Cashier to pay 625l. to Robert, Earl of Sunderland, for five half quarters to Lady day last on his annuity or pension of 1,000l. as a Gentleman of the Bedchamber. Ibid.
Same from same to same to pay 40l. 10s. 0d. to the executors or administrators of William Burrough, late Customer at Newcastle, for 1½ years to Christmas, 1676, on his salary of 27l. per an. : it appearing by certificate dated 1676-7, March 12, of Richard Mounteney, late Cashier of the Customs, that said Burrough was paid only to 1675, June 24 ; and it further appearing by certificate of John Steele, clerk and register of St. Andrews, Holborn, that said Burrough was buried there 1676-7, Jan. 9. Ibid, p. 296.
Treasurer Danby's subscription of a docquet dated July of a privy seal authorising the Principal Officers and Commissioners of the Navy to make sale of the stores thereunder mentioned [not detailed in the docquet] for the use of the Navy. Docquet Book, p. 221.
Constitution and appointment, under the royal sign and sign manual, of Richard Courthop "in the office of Alienation for composition of Fines" in as full and ample a manner as his predecessors, Masters of the Chancery, have enjoyed the same. King's Warrant Book VI. p. 57.
Royal warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General for a great seal for a grant to Thomas Navill, gent., of the office of Clerk of the Works of the royal palaces of Whitehall, Westminster and St. James's in reversion after Thomas Rotheram. Ibid, p. 64.
Same to the Clerk of the Signet for a privy seal to charge Sir Stephen Fox with orders amounting to 56,805l. 19s. 9d. registered in his name for the Forces, being registered on the Country Excise, London and Country Excise, and upon the Poll Act of 18 Car. II. ; and to discharge him of as many thereof as amount to 44,349l. 19s. 9d. on his delivering them up to be cancelled [the same being worthless paper orders which could not be cashed, negotiated or assigned by reason of the stop of the Exchequer] : he being to account for the rest because he has assigned them. (Treasurer Danby's subscription dated Aug. 12 of docquet hereof.) Ibid, p. 64. p. 222.
Reference from Treasurer Danby to the Customs Commissioners of the petition of John Gould et al owners and laders of the ship Restoration, Peter Tinker [? Tucker] master, said petition shewing that said ship about 18 months since sailed from London to the Straits [of Gibraltar] with her [due] complement of English men, and about four months since, being at Leghorn, 10 of his said English seamen, in fear of the Turks, deserted the said ship and entered themselves on board his Majesty's ship the Saphir, so that petitioner's ship was necessitated to come home with more foreigners than the law allows : and therefore praying that said ship and her lading may be free from all seizure for the said cause. Out Letters (Customs) IV. p. 87.
Reference from Treasurer Danby to the Customs Commissioners of the petition of Thomas Temple, Surveyor of Weymouth, praying for his salary of 40l. per an. to be increased in consideration of his good services. Out Letters (Customs) IV. p. 104.
[?] Instructions from same to same in reply to their memorial of the 26th ult. 1. I approve of the security proposed for Timothy Hamlyn as Collector of Plymouth (viz., himself and Isaac Tillard and Richard Waddon in 2,000l.). 2. I intend to call before me Mr. Phillip Frowd to know why the bonds which you require from the masters of the pacquet boats at Dover for giving notice to the officers of the Customs for goods they import and export is refused by them before you recall your licence granted by [sic for to] them. 3. In case the admeasurement of keels at Newcastle and Sunderland for carrying of coals shall be made pursuant by bulkheads to the agreement [which] you acquaint me was formerly made with the proprietors of coals in those parts whereby you inform me the business will be carried on with satisfaction to all parties and much to his Majesty's advantage I direct you to cause half the charge of the alteration of the keels, which were in being when the said agreement was made, to be borne by his Majesty, which keels were already admeasured in the accustomed ancient way of stoak nails. The said King's share of the charge is to be placed to the account of incidents [but all on the understanding or] so as the said half charges do not exceed 400l. or 500l., which you have computed it to come to. 4. I intend to lay further before the King the evil practices of the captains of the yachts and men-of-war in bringing over merchants' goods and particularly wine in small casks without paying Custom, and will send you direction therein when I have received his Majesty's pleasure thereupon. 5. You are to allow 4l. per an. to Humphry Atweeke, late waiter and searcher at Milton, for the room which was used for a Custom house for dispatch of the King's business there during the execution of his office, which [sum] you say he had neglected to get allowed him within that time. 6. You are to add 5l. to the salary of 10l. per an. already settled on Nathaniell Oliver, waiter at Bridport and Chidcock. The like sum of 5l. per an. is to be retrenched out of the salary of 15l. per an. of Digory Gorge, waiter at Charmouth, as you desire, in regard Bridport is a port of greater business. Ibid, pp. 87-8.
Aug. 2. Reference from same to same of the petition of William Russell for leave to tranship a parcel of barley, being landed at Dover by leave of the [Customs] Commissioners out of the ship Diligence, Nicholas Upton master. Ibid, p. 87.
Same from same to same of the petition of Gilbert Metcalf about the Henry and Anne, of London, built with some of the timber of a ship burnt ; he craving allowance of the 20th part of the Customs of her first two voyages. Ibid.
Warrant from same to same to employ William Jackson as a tidesman in fee London port, loco John Kemp, dismissed. Ibid, p. 88.
Charles Bertie to the Customs Cashier. It appears by your certificate that you have received of the sheriffs of London 7,281l. 17s. 10d. which was levied on the estate of William Bellamy, merchant. By the certificate of Richard Prowse, Solicitor to the Customs, it appears that 397l. 1s. 10½d., part thereof was levied on two bonds for that sum assigned to Sir John Robinson pursuant to Treasurer Danby's warrant of Feb. 11 last. Treasurer Danby requires you to pay said 397l. 1s. 10½d. to said Robinson, who formerly upon his receipt of the said bonds from you delivered to you tallies which are your regular discharge. Out Letters (General) p. 292.
Same to [same] to pay to the Duchess of Portsmouth 120l. for two years to Lady day last on her creation money as Duchess of Portsmouth and countess of Farnham ; and 120l. to the Duke of Richmond for two years to 1677, Sept. 29, on his creation money as Duke of Richmond and Earl of March : "for which [several creation moneys] you have dormant warrants lying before you." Ibid, p. 293.
Same to same to bring in notwithstanding any restriction (and to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue) 2,000l. for one quarter of Treasurer Danby's allowance [of salary]. ("Five quarters due at Midsummer last.") Ibid.
Same to same to bring in with respect, etc. (and to same to strike tallies on the Customs for) 150l. for one quarter on the pension of 600l. per an. to the executors of Lady Fanshaw. Ibid.
Same to same to similarly bring in 50l. to be issued to Mr. Christopher Barker. (Same dated Aug. 9 to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue said sum, which has lately been brought into the Exchequer, to said Barker upon his warrant dormant for one year of his fee as one of the King's Falconers.) Ibid. pp. 293, 301.
Same to same to bring in forthwith (and to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue) 50l. for last June 24 quarter's pension to Mr. Feilding. Ibid, p. 293.
Same to same to bring in with respect, etc. (and to same to issue) 150l. for half a year to June 24 last on Mris. Buckley's pension. Ibid, p. 294.
Same to the Auditor of the Receipt to pay the 7,520l. which the Customs Cashier has this day brought into the Exchequer as follows, viz., 2,000l. for the Navy, 2,000l. for the Forces, 2,000l. for Treasurer Danby, 600l. for the Privy Purse, 550l. for the Earl of Northampton, 100l. for Sir John Howell, 20l. for Avis -Lawrance, 50l. for Christopher Barker and 200l. for the musicians. Ibid, p. 295.
Aug. 3. Same to [the Customs Cashier] to bring 36l. 10s. 0d. into the Exchequer, with respect to the weekly payments : to be issued to Mr. Nott. Ibid. p. 293.
[?] Same to same to satisfy the tallies on the Customs for 6,000l. for Tangier by giving Mr Pepys bills of exchange on the Collector of the Customs at Plymouth, to be paid out of the money in his hands of the Customs in said port. Ibid, p. 294.
[? Aug. 3.] Charles Bertie to the Customs Cashier notwithstanding any restriction, to pay off the warrant for 100l. for one year of the King's allowance for repair of Berwick bridge. Out Letters (General) p. 294.
Aug 3 Royal warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General for a great seal for a grant of one annuity or pension of 50l. per an. to Eleanor Withers for life, and of the like annuity or pension to Joane Halsnorth for life : to be payable quarterly out of the Exchequer and to commence from 1676, June 24 : all upon surrender and discharge of the great seal dated 1666, Aug. 13, which granted to said Withers (now the wife of Simon Samson), an annuity of 50l per an. out of the Crown revenues of cos. Beds and Bucks, and the like annuity to Joane Halsnorth (now the wife of Thomas Hurford), payable out of the same revenues : the King being informed that the Crown revenue of said counties is become insufficient to answer the same by reason of the sale of fee farms, having respect to the other necessary charges settled thereon ; and the King being willing to provide for the continuance of the payment thereof as very well remembering that the said grant was made to them in consideration that they were privy to his concealment "at Sir Fr. Windham's house at Trent after the battle of Worcester, and of their faithful performance of their duty about our royal person during our stay there." (Treasurer Danby's subscription dated Oct. 17 of docquet hereof.) King's Warrant Book VI. p. 87. Docquet Book, p. 7.
Treasurer Danby's subscription of a docquet of a grant to George Rodney Bridges, Esq., of an annuity or pension of 500l per an. as one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber : to be paid for his natural life out of the Exchequer quarterly : the first payment to be accounted from Midsummer last. Docquet Book, p. 221.
Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the Customs Commissioners. I have perused your report of April 27 last on the order of Council of March 1 last on the Royal Africa Company's petition complaining of the stopping the provisions by them shipped out for the preservation of the soldiers in their respective garrisons and of the negro servants carried thence to the Plantations, as also the materials intended for building and repairing their forts. And I have considered the clause in their charter by which they are to enjoy all privileges in the city of London as fully as any company of merchants established by patent ; as also the clause in the East India Company's charter giving them liberty of Customsfree export of clothing, victuals, ammunitions and implements for purposes as above. I find from your report that for divers years past several provisions, viz., beans, grout, salt, vinegar, tobacco, tobacco pipes, bread, beef and other victuals for the said Royal Africa Company's servants employed in their service on the coast of Guinea, and for such negro servants [i.e. slaves] as they ordered to be carried from the coast of Africa to the Plantations have been shipped from London, Customs free. On the other side it is affirmed by the Customs officers that to their knowledge no provisions or materials have been shipped by the Royal Africa Company or the East India Company or the former Company of Royal Adventurers or any other without a warrant first passed for the same. I order that said company be continued in their privilege of shipping free as above, but nothing is to be shipped without a warrant, or without an officer, or from unlawful quays or at unlawful hours. Out Letters (Customs) IV. p. 88.
[Aug. 3.] Royal sign manual for 240l. 16s. 0d. to Sir C. Harbord to be by him paid over to the persons entitled to the estate for life of George Bagg in a certain field and garden near the citadel of Plymouth, wherein Abraham Biggs (now deceased) had an interest, etc., ut supra, p. 824, said life estate being valued at 140l., on which 12 years' interest at 6 per cent. comes to 100l. 16s. 0d. (Money warrant hereon dated Sept. 23. Letter of direction dated 1678-9, Feb. 6, on an order dated 1678, Oct. 1, drawn hereon, same to be hereby satisfied by tallies on Anthony Rowe et al Contractors for Hearthmoney on their 35,000l. part of their advance money of 150,000l., which said 35,000l. is due to be paid in 1679, June 24.) King's Warrant Book VI. pp. 73-4. Money Book (General) pp. 313, 369.
Aug. 5. Charles Bertie to the Customs Cashier to bring in with respect to the weekly payments (and to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue) 216l. to pay off the bishop of London's order for 216l. for Dr. Morison. Out Letters (General) p. 295.
Same to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue (and same to the Customs Cashier to bring in, and another letter dated Oct. 8 to [? same] for payment [i.e. probably to bring in forthwith notwithstanding any former restriction]) 200l. for Auditor Morrice for one year on his fee as Auditor. Ibid.
Same to same for tallies on the Excise (and same to the Receivers of Excise to pay said tallies) for 500l. for last June 24 quarter on the Earl of Arlington's pension. Ibid.
Warrant from Treasurer Danby to observe an order in Council dated Whitehall, Aug. 2, as follows.
Prefixing : said order in Council for permission to be given to Monsieur Leyonbergh, the Swedish Resident, to bring into England from France such goods and necessaries as he has there bought for his use and accommodation here, not exceeding 60l. sterling in value : he having this day [Aug. 2] made application to the King in Council for such liberty.
Out Letters (Customs) IV. p. 88b.
Same from same to same to permit certain bales (lately brought in the ship Marchant of Morea) containing the equipage of the Marquis de Feuente (who was to have resided in this Court) to be imported and exported Customs free, in order to their transportation to Nimuegen, whither he desires them to be sent to him. Ibid.
Same from same to same to employ John James as a tidesman, Boston port, loco Richard Graves, who has relinquished. Ibid.
Authorization and allowance by Treasurer Danby (as Farmer of the Fines upon writs of covenant and writs of entry and of issues and profits and other things compounded for in the Office of Alienation) to Richard Courthope, one of the Masters of Chancery, to take such oaths, in the said Office, and to sign all such writs of covenant and writs of entry concerning lands or tenements holden or not holden as formerly hath been done : to hold the said place in the said office with all fees, etc., whatsoever of right due and accustomed for the same as amply, etc., as Nathaniel Crew, Esq., or any other hath heretofore enjoyed the same. Warrants not Relating to Money VII. p. 229.
Privy seal for 50,000l. to Edward Seymour, Treasurer of the Navy, or to the Treasurer of the Navy for the time being, as imprest for the wages or pay of the officers, mariners and seamen that have served or shall serve on board the royal Navy or ships at sea : and likewise for 100,000l. to same as imprest for the Navy and Victualling : all orders for both said sums to be registered on and paid in course out of the sum of 412,925l. 14s. 6d. in such manner as by the late Act of Parliament [for the Eighteen Months' tax, as by 30 Car. II. c. 1] is directed. (Royal warrant dated July 27 for said privy seal. Treasurer Danby's subscription dated Aug. 3 of docquet hereof.) King's Warrant Book VI. pp. 66, 60. Docquet Book. p. 221.
Same to supply the defects in the letters patent of 1674, Dec. 30, granting to John Cook (Cooke) 400l. per an. for seven years out of the French tunnage, and directing the payment of the said sum out of the said fund or otherwise as the Lord Treasurer shall direct : all by reason that although the said patent of 1674, Dec. 30, provided for the payment of said 400l. to Cooke direct by the Farmers of the said French duty before the moneys thereof should come into the Exchequer (for which payments the Lord Treasurer was thereby to give them allowance and authority, and if need be to have tallies of pro or assignment levied in the Exchequer on said Farmers for same) yet the said patent does neither warrant the drawing of orders in the Exchequer for the said yearly payments or the issuing thereon of any moneys brought into the Exchequer from the said French duty nor for the payment of said yearly sum out of any other fund in case the said French duty should prove deficient to supply the same : which defects the King is disposed to remedy and does hereby remedy in consideration of said Cook's many and acceptable services. (Royal warrant dated Aug. 3 for said privy seal.) King's Warrant Book VI pp. 57-8, 57.
Aug. 6. Money warrant for 1,400l. to abovesaid John Cooke, Esq., for 3½ years to Lady day last on the abovesaid annuity as by the abovesaid patent and privy soal : "and let the same be satisfied and paid by levying of tallies for the same on the Receiver General of the revenues of the Duchy of Cornwall for part of the issues of their office due at Michaelmas, 1676." Money Book (General) p. 300.
Same for 200l. to Anthony, Visct. Falkland, upon account of his pension of 300l. per an. (Charles Bertie dated Aug. 6 to the Customs Cashier to bring same in notwithstanding any restriction ; and to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue same.) Ibid, p. 295. Out Letters (General) p. 297.
Same for 195l. 10s. 0d. to Sidney Godolphin, Esq., as Envoy Extraordinary appointed to reside near the person of the Prince of Orange in the campaign ; 88l. thereof being for 22 days to June 25 last on his ordinary of 4l. a day (Secretary Williamson having certified that said Godolphin returned from his said employment into his Majesty's presence on said June 25, and that he departed from his Majesty in order to his said employment on March 4 last, on which service he has received 364l. for three months' advance) and the remainder 107l. 10s. 0d. being for his extraordinaries in that service.
Appending : bill of said extraordinaries as allowed by Secretary Williamson, July 14 last—
Money Book (General) p. 296.
£ s. d.
For his journey from the Prince of Orange's quarter at Boom by the way of the Brill with the hire of a vessel into England 55 0 0
For his return from London to Boom by the Hague 35 0 0
For an express from the Hague to London, with the hire of a vessel 17 10 0
£107 10 0
Money warrant dormant for the annuity or yearly sum of 400l. to William Bridgeman as same is already or shall hereafter become due ; as by the letters patent of 1675, Oct. 4, granting same to him for seven years : same to be satisfied by tallies on the Customs from time to time. Money Book (General) p. 296.
Same for 400l. to William Ashburnham, Cofferer of the Household, as imprest to be by him paid over to Thomas Pursell, Esq., for one year on the 400l. per an. granted by the privy seal of 1673, Sept. 30, for 20 musicians attending in his Majesty's chapel royal. Ibid.
Charles Bertie to the Customs Cashier to bring in (immediately after weekly payments) 500l. for the Earl of Feversham "and that you take care of [paying] the Gentlemen and Grooms of the Bedchamber and of the arrears of the Privy Purse." Out Letters (General) p. 296.
Same to same to bring in with respect (and to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue) 130l. upon Sir Thomas Williams' order of 1,750l. Ibid.
Same to the Speaker [of the House of Commons, viz., Edward Seymour in his capacity as] Treasurer of the Navy. Mr. Hornby has lent and paid to you 4,000l. to complete the payment of Christmas quarter to the yards and for dead men's clothes. Treasurer Danby desires you to deliver to him [Hornby] for his security a tally on the Customs now in your hands for 5,000l. dated Oct. 25 last which the Customs Cashier is directed to satisfy by wine bonds. In the meantime you are to accompt with Mr. Hornby for the interest at the rate of 8 per cent., and to pay same to him for the time he shall be unpaid his said 4,000l. The overplus of said tally you are to receive to the use of the Navy when the Customs Cashier shall satisfy the same. Ibid.
Same to same to apply the 2,000l. received this week out of the Customs to the uses following, viz., 900l. for [seamen's] tickets, 400l. for payment of the Tyger prize, 693l. for a bill of exchange from Scandercon. Ibid.
Treasurer Danby to the Duke of Ormonde, Lieutenant General and General Governor of Ireland. I enclose a report dated Aug. 3 from the Customs Commissioners to myself on the case of a ship belonging to Sam. Hobson and partners, which in her voyage from Virginia to England lost her rudder and some of her sails and rigging and by extremity of weather proving very lake [leaky] was forced to put into Londonderry, where she is now putting herself in a capacity to come for England, but the officers of said port declare that if she continue there 28 days' stay, they will then bring the goods on shore and make them pay Custom. In this their report on said Hobson's petition the said Commissioners pray that if on enquiry the facts prove true I would write your lordship for convenient time to be given him to refit and that he may not be obliged to land his goods if he sail to Whitehaven (whither she was first designed) with the first opportunity after refitting ; [this being a courtesy] not denied any nation in such cases of necessity, and this ship having given bond in Virginia for discharging her lading in England. I desire you to examine the facts and if true then to grant such convenient time so that said ship can come to England to unlade and to pay her Customs, "itt seeming to be a very great hardship to the merchantt if the goods which came by unavoidable necessity into Ireland should pay duty there and afterward be obliged to do the same heare [in England] or ells that the said merchantts should be left to soe great penaltys as would ensue by the breach of the [Navigation] laws and the forfeiture of the said bonds."
Appending : (a) said report ; (b) said Hobson's petition as above : could hardly keep said ship up until it pleased God to put them in a harbour in the Highlands of Scotland, where they could get no help of carpenters or ought they wanted : then they made for the next good port to be supplyed and came to Londonderry in Ireland.
Warrants not Relating to Money VII. pp. 230-2.
Report to the King from Treasurer Danby on the petition of the executors and administrators of several officers and soldiers of the late Sir Tobias Bridge's regiment in the West Indies as by the order of reference made thereon by the King in Council 1675, Aug. 4. I did long since enter into consideration of the said petition, and finding that there were many other claimants (besides the petitioners) to arrears for service done in the said regiment, and that the whole would come under divers qualifications, I directed some fit persons (viz., Charles Bertie, Sir C. Harbord and others) to examine their pretensions and to set forth which of them they thought fit to be paid and in what method it might best be done. It appeared to the said referees that by an order in Council of 1670, Dec. 22, for calling home the said regiment such of the soldiers only were to be paid their whole arrears whose names were in the first muster rolls, and were yet in service in the said regiment, and the officers half their arrears : [all these to be paid out] of the farm of the Four and a half per cent. duty before any other payments : and that the claims for some of the said officers and soldiers who went out of England upon the first muster at Portsmouth and continued to the disbanding do amount to 4,071l. 7s. 6d. whereof 1,404l. 2s. 7d. is claimed by "such of them as are yet living and unpaid : and by the next of kin to several of the said officers and soldiers deceased 1,494l. 11s. 11d. more thereof by the executors, administrators and assigns of several other officers and soldiers ; and the remaining 1,172l. 13s. 0d. (in the margin : 1,172l. 13s. 2d. Capt. Talbot says, but was left out of the report) is demanded by virtue of wills, administrations, letters of attorney, etc. : against several of which last, queries are made. And that there are several other demands amounting to 1,022l. 19s. 4½d., which do not come within the provision of your Majesty's said order of Council for payment, being for the pay of such officers and soldiers as were not in the first musters at Portsmouth, but were afterwards entertained at the West Indies or dyed or deserted there before the disbanding or of such who are said to be paid by Commissary Baines but [are] denyed to be received by the proper officers and soldiers or any claiming from them. All which is humbly submitted to your Majesty's great wisdom and justice." Ibid, pp. 232-3.
Warrant from Treasurer Danby [to the King's Remembrancer] to forbear issue of process or execution till the end of next Michaelmas term against Michael Arnold and William Dent as sureties for Robert Stockdale, late Collector of Dover port. Warrants not Relating to Money VII. p. 233.
Aug. 7. Charles Bertie to the Customs Cashier to bring in with respect (and same to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue) 40l. to Charles Whittacre for one year on his fee as Foreign Apposer. (Another for payment [i.e. letter to the Customs Cashier to bring said money in forthwith notwithstanding, etc.] dated Oct. 8.) Out Letters (General) p. 297.
Letter of direction on three orders as follows, viz., one No. 273 dated 1670, July 28 for 160l. to Joseph Williamson, Esq., and registered on the fee farms ; one No. 260 dated 1671, Dec. 7, for 160l. to same for one year to 1670, Christmas on his fee as keeper of the papers [of State and Council at Whitehall] and similarly registered on the fee farms ; one No. 764 dated 1668, Aug. 1, for 528l. 5s. 0d. to Capt. Thomas Stradling for what is due to the Company of Capt. Barber, deceased, and registered on the Hearthmoney. All the said three orders are hereby underwritten with these words ; "having received his Majesty's particular directions, let this order be satisfied out of any money now or hereafter being in the Receipt of his Majesty's Exchequer not appropriated to any particular service." Money Book (General) p. 298.
Royal warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General for a great seal for a remise and release to Francis Arundell, his heirs and assigns, of the covenant and grant made by Sir Francis Crane for preserving and maintaining 300 deer in the park of Stoke Bruern, co. Northampton, for the recreation, hunting and delight of the King and his successors for ever : which covenant is contained in the great seal dated Canbury 1629, July 25, granting to said Crane the said park of 505 acres 20 perches, which park is now lawfully descended and come to said Arrundell : the present release is by reason that in consequence of the late wars all the deer are destroyed in the said park, and the same is converted to other uses : the present release is also to cover all covenants and grants made by said Crane for preserving the wood and trees in the said park for the shelter and support of said deer, and all other covenants relating to the premises and all breaches and non performance thereof. (Treasurer Danby's subscription dated Sept. 7 of docquet dated Sept. hereof.) King's Warrant Book VI. pp. 71-2. Docquet Book, p. 2.
Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the Customs Commissioners to have opened at the house of the Earl of Ailesbury in St. John's, Clerkenwell, and to deliver, Customs free, several cases of clothing, necessaries and some small things for presents, same belonging to him being lately brought from Holland in the Mary yacht. Out Letters (Customs) IV. p. 89.
Appointment and authorisation by same to Anthony Segar, Richard Wynne, Abraham Parker, Daniel Morgan and Rice Hopkins to search for and seize uncustomed and prohibited goods for one month from date hereof and no longer : all mayors, sheriffs, etc., are hereby to assist them. Ibid.
Aug. 8. Money warrant for 1,022l. 13s. 10d. to Phillip Packer, Esq., Paymaster of the Works, as imprest to be by him paid over as follows, viz., 669l. 9s. 10d. thereof for the executors, etc., of John Deane, late keeper of the King's privy garden for keeping said garden, the Fountain Garden and the cleaning the long stone gallery within the palace of Whitehall for 1¾ years to 1677, Jan. 24, as by certificate of Charles, Lord Gerard of Brandon ; and 353l. 4s. 0d. to William Waite, present keeper of said garden for the like work for the year ended June 24 last : all as by the privy seal of July 31 supra, p. 1073. Money Book (General) p. 297.
Same for 390l. 19s. 10d. to said Phillip Packer as imprest to be by him paid over to such person or persons as have been keepers of the Bowling Green and Balcony Garden plots at Hampton Court for 2¾ years to June 24 : all as by the abovesaid privy seal. Ibid.
Same for 250l. to Sir Algernon May, Kt., for half a year on his fee of 500l. per an. as Keeper of the Records in the Tower. (Charles Bertie dated Aug. 9 to the Customs Cashier to bring same in with respect to the weekly payments ; and same to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue same.) Ibid, p. 298. Out Letter's (General) p. 299.
Same for 290l. to John Brisbane for extraordinary expenses 1677, Dec. 25, to 1678, June 25, as his Majesty's Agent for soliciting merchants' affairs in the Court of France.
Appending : bill of said extraordinaries as allowed by Secretary Coventry Aug. 7 inst., and as sworn to as true "to the best of his knowledge" by said Brisbane before Baron C. Spelman, Aug. 5 inst.
Money Book (General) p. 298.
£ s. d.
For several gratuities to procure expeditions [of business] 49 0 0
For port of letters 25 0 0
For journeys to St. Germain 52 0 0
For translations, extracts of proceedings and purchasing other sorts of writing 74 0 0
For going into Flanders 36 0 0
[Exchequer and other] charges in recovering his last preceding half year's salary 38 0 0
Same for recovering his last account of extraordinaries 16 0 0
£290 0 0
Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the Customs Commissioners to permit the importation of eight tons of gum seneca into London port by Adam Gronen from Holland upon payment of duty : same being a drug of the growth of the river Seneca in Africa, which is wholly in possession of the Dutch from whom only it can be had, and being of absolute necessity in dyeing, as appears by certificate of several artificers formerly transmitted to Treasurer Danby, "whereupon I then received his Majesty's pleasure touching the importation of the said drug." Out Letters (Customs) IV. p. 90.
[?] Same from same to have opened at the house of Ralph Montague, late Ambassador to France, and to deliver, Customs free, his goods as in a schedule, they being lately brought from France in the Kath[erine] yacht.
Appending : said schedule (clothes, coaches, etc.).
Ibid, pp. 90-100.
Aug. 8. Charles Bertie to the Customs Cashier. The Earl of Sunderland's privy seal [for his ordinary as Ambassador to France] being not yet passed and his occasions requiring a speedy supply Treasurer Danby desires you by this night's post to accommodate him with 1,300l. by bills to Paris, which [sum] the Lord Treasurer will speedily see repaid to you. Out Letters (General) p. 298.
Same to same to bring in with respect to the weekly payments (and to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue) 100l. 7s. 6d. for one year of Serjt. Gyde's salary and board wages.
Same to same to bring in notwithstanding any restriction (and to same to issue) 15l. for half a year to Lady day last on Mrs. Bird's pension.
Ibid.
Same to the Auditor of the Receipt for tallies on the Excise (and same to the Receivers of Excise to pay said tallies) for 125l. for last June 24 quarter on Lord Byron's pension. Ibid, p. 299.
Same to the Customs Cashier. It appears by your certificate that you have received from the sheriffs of London 7,281l. 17s. 10d. which was levied on the estate of William Bellamy. It further appears from Mr. Prowse's certificate that 405l. 2s. 7d., part thereof, was levied and paid on seven bonds assigned by Treasurer Danby's order dated 1677, Aug. 29. You are to pay said 405l. 2s. 7d. to the Rt. Honble. Sir Fr. Chaplyn, Kt., now Lord Mayor of London, you having received tallies for your discharge upon the delivery of the said bonds. Ibid, p. 297.
The like letter for the like payment to the Treasurer of the Navy of the sum of 1,136l. 1s. 10d. out of the abovesaid 7,281l. 17s. 10d., it being certified by Mr. Prowse that said 1,136l. 1s. 10d. was levied and paid on eight bonds assigned to the Treasurer of the Navy in part of a greater sum, pursuant to Treasurer Danby's order of Jan. 18 last ; and said Treasurer having formerly upon his receipt of the said bonds from you delivered to you tallies which are your regular discharge and by which he stands duly charged in the Exchequer. Ibid, p. 298.
Aug. 9. Money warrant for 10,000l. to Ralph Montague, Master of the General Wardrobe, as imprest for the service of the Great Wardrobe and in part of the 40,000l. as by the privy seal of July 31 last. Money Book (General) p. 299.
Charles Bertie to the Customs Cashier. I writ you some time since to pay 100l. into the Exchequer for the Provost and Fellows of Eton College, with respect to the weekly payments. Treasurer Danby now directs you to pay it in forthwith and also 10l. for Southwell School, notwithstanding any restriction. Out Letters (General) p. 299.
Same to same to bring forthwith into the Exchequer all the money in your hands of the Coinage duty, there being now occasion to employ it to the uses as in the Act [of 18 Car. II. c. 5 and 25 Car. II. c. 8]. Ibid.
Same to same to bring in with respect to the weekly payments (and same to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue) 25l. to Thomas D'Oyley for last June 24 quarter on his pension. Ibid.
Same to the Auditor of the Receipt to pay 400l. to Sir Phillip Lloyd upon orders drawn in his name for attendance on the Committee of Council for Trade and Plantations ; 250l. thereof to be paid out of the small branches [of the revenue] and 150l. "out of the Customs money which remains in the Exchequer of the 400l. which was formerly paid in to satisfy these orders." Ibid, p. 300.
Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the Commissioners of Alienations to permit Richard Osborne, Esq., to make out a door or passage from his chamber in the Inner Temple (adjoining the garden or outlet belonging to the Office of Alienation, being his Majesty's ground) into the said garden or outlet to walk and recreate himself there at all reasonable times at his will and pleasure without let, hindrance or molestation, which desire of his I am willing to condescend unto for his good service to his Majesty. Warrants not Relating to Money VII. p. 233.
Aug. 10. Cave that no grant pass of a parcel of the forest of Delamere called New Pale with the royalties of the forest, as cutting fern and digging turf or peat, to any other than the Earl Rivers without notice given to Lord Richardson [Baron Cramond] in Southampton Street, in Bloomsbury. Caveat Book, p. 35.
Royal warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General for a great seal for a grant to Prince Rupert of the office and place of keeping of the King's Garden lying on the South side of Windsor Castle, and of all houses, edifices, lands and buildings thereunto belonging : with the fee of 4l. per an. : to hold for 100 years in reversion after the estate for life of Elizabeth Ellis, now Elizabeth Tucke (Tueke), and upon the surrender of a term of 31 years granted in the premises to Hartgill Baron, Esq., by patent dated 1660-1, Feb. 5 : but with proviso for making the said lease void at any time after the death of the said Prince, [on] his Majesty, his heirs or successors first paying to the executors, administrators or assigns of the said Prince the full sum of 5,000l. of lawful English money ; and not before. (Treasurer Danby's subscription dated Oct. 17 of docquet hereof.) King's Warrant Book VI. p. 66. Docquet Book, p. 7.
Charles Bertie to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue as follows the 6,700l. which the Customs Cashier has this day brought into the Exchequer, viz., 2,000l. to the Navy ; 2,000l. to the Forces ; 600l. to the Privy Purse ; 250l. to the Earl of Lindsey ; 250l. to the Earl of Suffolk ; 200l. to Visct. Falkland ; 100l. to Serj. Ramsey ; 750l. to six Grooms of the Bedchamber ; 500l. to the Earl of Bath ; 50l. to Mr. Feilding. Out Letters (General) p. 301.
[?] Royal sign manual to the Governor of Maine and New Hampshire. By the Act of 25 Car. II. certain rates are imposed on certain commodities of Plantation growth shipped without bond first given for the bringing of same to England : and said rates are to be levied under such penalties as for non-payment of duty in England. The collection of said rates is by said Act to be managed by the Customs Commissioners England. In pursuance hereof said Commissioners have appointed Edward Randolph to collect same within your government. You are to give him all due encouragement and assistance therein. You are further to take effectual care that all former laws relating to the trade of the Plantations be duly observed together with the proclamation of 1675, Nov. 24, for enforcing the said laws : and you are once a year to return to the Customs Commissioners, England, a list of all ships or vessels lading within your government any of the enumerated Plantation commodities and a list of all bonds taken by you, together with such other matters as they shall desire from you. And you are from time to time to correspond with them and to inform them what you conceive further necessary for the King's service in the premises. King's Warrant Book VI. pp. 67-8.
[?] The like letter respectively to the Governor of Connecticut, the Governor of Massachusetts, and the Governor of Rhode Island. Ibid, p. 68.
Aug. 11. Cave that no grant pass of any cellars under the street nor of a certain parcel of land at Hatfield worth about 30l. per an., supposed to be given [by will by its last owner] to superstitious uses, without notice [being first given] to the bishop of London. Caveat Book, p. 35.
Aug. 12. Letter of direction on 500l. in further part of an order dated June 1 last for 20,000l. to Charles Bertie for secret service : (on which order there has been already paid 1,472l. 7s. 10d. ; 747l. 1s. 7½d. ; 1,000l. ; 1,000l. ; 7,000l. ; 2,000l.) ; said 500l. is to be hereby satisfied by tallies on the Customs. Money Book (General) p. 299.
Money warrant for 20,000l. to Edward Seymour, Treasurer of the Navy, as in part of the sum not exceeding 50,000l. authorised by the privy seal of the 4th inst. (sic : erratum for Aug. 5, ut supra, p. 1082) : to be as imprest for wages and pay of the officers, mariners and seamen that have served or shall serve in the Navy. Same likewise for 60,000l. to said Treasurer in part of 100,000l. as by the same privy seal ; to be as imprest for the Navy and Victualling : both said sums to be registered on the 412,925l. 14s. 6d., part of the Eighteen Months' Assessment in such manner as is directed by the Act for said Assessment. Ibid, p. 300.
Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the Customs Cashier to receive from Phillip Marsh, Esq., Receiver for wines, etc., in London port, bonds (on the additional duty on wines granted in 1660, and upon the additional duty lately granted upon wines and vinegar) to the value of 2,500l., and to deliver same (with the addition of the usual merchants' discount thereon, "and the proper officers are to certify to you the discount of the said bonds, according to the Act of Parliament") to Phillip Packer, Paymaster of the Works, in satisfaction of three tallies levied on the Customs, two of them dated June 28 last, the other dated July 24 last for several sums amounting in all to 2,500l. ; and for the service of the Works. Money Book (General) p. 300.
Money warrant for 62l. 10s. 0d. to Dr. Dickenson for 1¼ years to June 24 last on his fee of 50l. per an. as one of his Majesty's Physicians. Ibid, p. 301.
Same for 100l. to Sir Joseph Seymour for half a year of his salary as an Auditor of the Revenue. Ibid.
Same for 40l. to Charles, Marquess of Winchester, for two years to 1676, Lady day, on his creation money as Earl of Wiltshire. (Charles Bertie dated Aug. 13 to the Customs Cashier to pay off the order dated Aug. 12 drawn hereon for said 40l.) Ibid, p. 301. Out Letters (General) p. 302.
Same for 100l. to Mris. Katherine Gunter for half a year on her pension of 200l. per an. for the service of her late husband in the King's escape after the battle of Worcester. (Charles Bertie dated Aug. 13 to the Customs Cashier to bring said sum into the Exchequer, and to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue same.) Money Book (General) p. 301. Out Letters (General) p. 203.
Charles Bertie to the Customs Commissioners. Mr. Younger in his complaint against Mr. Sansone mentioned Mr. Flory as a material witness. I hope you have sent for him and examined him as Treasurer Danby did direct. Make a true state of the case for his lordship. Out Letters (Customs) IV. p. 100.
Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the Customs Commissioners to employ John Sanderson as a weighing porter, London port, loco Samuell George, "notwithstanding my order to the contrary."
Edward Wells as Collector of Yarmouth port, loco John Dawson, deceased.
Ibid, pp. 100, 102.
Same from same to same to observe an order in Council dated Whitehall, Aug. 2.
Prefixing : said order for the Customs Commissioners to restore to Monsieur Bulossins, Envoy from the Dukes of Brunswick, Luneburg and Hanover, some goods laden in France on an English vessel called the Prosperous, John Read commander, and bound for Hamburg and thence to Hanover : same having been seized at Portsmouth : said Envoy having this day applied to the King in Council for such release which the King orders, as considering that the said goods were not designed for England nor addressed to English merchants.
Ibid, p. 101.
Charles Bertie to the Customs Cashier to bring in. with respect to the weekly payments (and same to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue) 18l. 5s. 0d. each for seven of the Grooms of the Great Chamber to the Queen (viz., Mr. Robinson, Mr. Low, Mr. Witherden, Mr. Elton, Mr. Change, Mr. Colby and Mr. Hall) : and 105l. for the Groom Littermen that attend her Majesty (viz., 10l. each to John Eldridge, John Hosy, John Williams, Robt. Emms, Henry Baldwyn, James Goodenough, James Taylor, 5l. to Richard Jones, 20l. to Tho. Franklyn and 10l. to the executor of George Ward). Out Letters (General) p. 300.
Same to Lemuel Kingdon. My Lord Dumbarton has present occasion for 1,000l. at Paris. Treasurer Danby desires you will immediately take care to return that sum unto him by giving him credit by bill for that sum at Paris by this night's post. Ibid, p. 301.
Same to the Auditor of the Receipt for tallies on the Excise (and same to the Receivers of Excise to pay said tallies) for 125l. for half a quarter of the Countess of Dorset's pension. Ibid, p. 303.
Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the King's Remembrancer to supersede the warrant of June 22 last and to issue a writ of venditioni exponas of the goods of Thomas Chapman, of Liverpool, merchant, and to forbear process against his sureties till further order. Warrants not Relating to Money VII. p. 234.
Aug. 13. Money warrant for 50l. 3s. 9d. to Thomas Payne, for half a year of his salary and board wages as a Serjeant at Arms. (Charles Bertie dated Aug. 8 [sic] to the Customs Cashier to pay same in with respect to the weekly payments ; and to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue same.) Money Book (General) p. 299. Out Letters (General) p. 300.
Charles Bertie to the Customs Commissioners. Proposals have been made to Treasurer Danby for securing the debt due to the King from Mr. Tho. Chapman, deducting only such charges as are usually allowed in such cases. You are to send Treasurer Danby an estimate of the charges usually allowed upon the like account, to the end some final conclusions may be made of this matter. Out Letters (Customs) IV. p. 101.
Same to same. The King some time since directed the Duke of Ormonde [as then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland] to issue a proclamation for prohibiting the importation of Fuller's earth and tobacco pipe clay into Ireland. By his letters of the 5th inst. said Duke complains that said commodities are daily brought from England to Ireland as ballast and is of opinion that such proclamation would have no effect in Ireland unless the laws prohibiting the exportation of these commodities from England were duly put in execution. You are to consider this matter and advise Treasurer Danby what you think most expedient to prevent the mischief. Ibid, p. 102.
Charles Bertie to the Speaker [of the House of Commons in his capacity as Treasurer of the Navy]. You will this week receive 2,000l. out of the Exchequer. Treasurer Danby desires you to pay it as follows, viz., 1,100l. to Sir Thomas Clutterbuck in part of his bill according to contract on a bill for 2,253l. 7s. 1d. dated 1677-8, March 4 ; 500l. to the Chirurgeon General for the care of sick men at Portsmouth per bill from the Navy Board ; and 400l. to the late Victuallers. Out Letters (General) p. 302.
Same to the Auditor of the Receipt. Mr. Kirwood lately brought an account of moneys due to him on orders in the Exchequer under the stop [of the Exchequer] and not yet settled at interest. You are to certify the sums yet due and unpaid to said Kirwood and whether any interest has been paid for the said sums. Ibid, p. 303.
Aug. 14. Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the Customs Commissioners to permit the export, Customs free, of the goods and equipage of the Danish Ambassador some whereof he takes with him in the Merlin yacht, the rest in the ship Anna Maria, of London.
Appending : schedule of said goods, etc., in the yacht (including items belonging to Mr. Marshall and Mr. Heyman) signed L. C. D. Aldenbourg, and same of same in the Anna Maria (including a four square trunk wherein the King of Denmark's picture, a trunk wherein the King of England's picture and [pictures of] several other persons of quality, another trunk with pictures, a playing table, items belonging to Mr. Bessel, Mr. Hahn, Mr. Marshal, and Mr. Simon, 10 horses, 50 dogs).
Out Letters (Customs) IV pp. 102-3.
Aug. 15. Reference from same to same of the petition of Edward Randolph, collector of [the new Plantation duty in] New England, who being by his instructions injoined to constitute deputies in the several colonies there prays a yearly assignment of money for support of the said deputies. Ibid, p. 102.
Warrant from same to same to permit four horses belonging to Sir Henry Goodrick to be exported from London to Flanders. Customs free. Ibid, p. 104.
Same from same to same to permit the import at Bristol on ad valorem Custom, of a parcel of gilt hangings for a room 18 feet long and 15 feet broad [said hangings being] consigned from Flanders to Bristol for the account of Mr. Robert Aldus. Ibid.
Same from same to same to permit the export, Customs free, of the equipage of the Comtes of Corzana and D'Erbias, who being lately gone from hence to Flanders have left their said equipage in nine coffers with the Marquis of Bourgomayne, Envoy Extraordinary from Spain, to be by him transported to Flanders by way of Holland. Ibid.
Privy seal for the payment to Robert, Earl of Sunderland of 100l. per week as ordinary, and 1,500l. for equipage as Ambassador Extraordinary to France : together with the usual clause for the allowance of extraordinaries : the first three months' ordinary to be paid in advance. (Treasurer Danby's subscription dated Aug. 12 of docquet hereof.) King's Warrant Book VI. p. 70. Docquet Book, p. 223.
Charles Bertie to Sir Ed. Griffin, Treasurer of the Chamber, to pay the 20l. which has been supplied to your Office for that purpose, to Avis Lawrence to whom the King has directed same to be paid as assignee of Richard Crawley out of the arrears of his [Crawley's] pay due upon the old establishment as one of the Yeomen of the Guard of his Majesty's body. Out Letters (General) p. 305.
Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the officers of the Receipt revoking the warrant of 1677, Nov. 17, which suspended Sir William D'Oyley, Kt., from the execution of his office as one of the four Tellers of the Exchequer. The said warrant was made pending the King's further pleasure therein : and the King has since thought it for his service to have the said office executed by some deputy, in order whereto said D'Oyley, by the King's direction, deputed Bartholomew Fillingham and Nicholas Dering, Esqrs., to execute said office. In order to enable D'Oyley to [empower such deputies and so] execute said office by said deputies and not otherwise till the King's pleasure be further known, the said warrant of suspension is revoked and the said deputies are to be received and invested into the execution of the said office. Warrants not Relating to Money VII. p. 234.