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Nature and Substance of the Entry. |
Reference. |
| Feb. 1. |
Royal warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General for a great seal for a new Commission of Excise in revocation of the last Commission of Sept. 20 last: the new Commissioners to be Sir Denny Ashburnham, Sir Sam. Dashwood, Fra. Parry, Cha. Davenant, John Freind, Felix Calverd and Nath. Hornby: with all powers etc. including the power of appointing and removing sub-Commissioners and other officers for collecting and managing said revenue and of taking securities from said sub-Commissioners and officers: and with power to you or them to enter ships to search for excisable liquors: and power to administer an oath: with a salary of 800l. per an. each. |
King's Warrant Book IX, pp. 454–7. |
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Same to same for a same for a new Commission for the Hearthmoney, the new Commissioners to be Sir Thomas Yarburgh, Sir Philip Lloyd, Richard Graham, Daniell Osborne and Charles Toll: with all powers touching the levying and managing of said revenue and the surveying and numbering of all chimneys, hearths and stoves in England, Wales and Berwick-on-Tweed and the inspecting etc. all rolls, certificates and returns [of such surveys] returned into the Exchequer by any former farmers, managers, Commissioners, collectors or receivers thereof. The said Commissioners to obey the directions of the Treasury Lords in relation to said revenue. With power to said Commissioners to appoint and to remove their officers in every county and place, taking securities from them. With power to administer an oath: with a salary of 600l. per an. each. The present Commission to determine and revoke the Commission of Sept. 20 last ut supra, pp. 1316–7. |
King's Warrant Book X, pp. 1–4. Warrants Early XXXIII, pp. 1–2b. |
| Feb. 2. |
The Treasury Lords to the Customs Commissioners, signifying the King's pleasure for them to direct the officers of London port and the out ports to be very diligent in taking notice of, watching and inquiring after all persons that shall resort or come into this kingdom of England, Wales or Berwick from parts beyond the seas and to detain and secure all such persons in the respective ports where they land till they have carried them before the next Justice of the Peace, mayor, bailiff or other chief magistrate who are by virtue of these orders (or of such orders as they shall have received from the Secretaries of State) to take an account of their names and the occasions of their coming into this kingdom: which account they are to transmit immediately to one of the Secretaries of State. And they are to detain the said persons in their custody till they have received a return to those advices from one of the said Secretaries. |
Out Letters (Customs) IX, p. 92. |
| Feb. 4. |
Henry Guy to the Attorney General. Cardell Goodman has represented to the Treasury Lords that the King ordered by sign manual of Jan. 16 last that satisfaction should be acknowledged on record of the fine of 1,000l. set upon said Goodman last Michaelmas term for conspiring and contriving to poison the Duke of Grafton and Duke of Northumberland: but that you informed him you cannot safely make such acknowledgment on record without the Treasury Lords' consent. I hereby inform you that the Treasury Lords do so consent. |
Out Letters (General) VIII, p. 33. |
| Feb. 5. |
Lady Grey desires that no further grant may pass of the estate of Ford, Lord Grey, to any person till notice be given to the Earl of Berkeley at St. James's or to herself at the said Earl's [house]. |
Caveat Book, p. 28. |
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Treasury reference to Deputy Auditor Thomas Tuder of the petition of Tho. Hoblin, esq., petitioner shewing that Sir Francis Crane purchased the manor of Rushton in co. Denbigh and the right thereof is descended to petitioner; that there being an arrear of rent due to the King [thereon] and an extent granted, one Richard Parry got himself to be collector thereof with an allowance of 5s. in the £ and 40l. per an. salary: that for his private gain he delays collecting the same whereby petitioner is deprived of making any benefit of the estate: therefore prays to be made collector and he will pay the arrears in two years' time without any charge or allowance for it. |
Reference Book II, p. 185. |
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Same to Tho. Hall [first Secondary in the King's Remembrancer's Office] of the list of sureties proposed by Fra. Villers, esq., for his office of one of the Tellers of the Exchequer: said sureties being Sir Geo. Downing, Sir Edw. Villers, Knight Marshal, Col. Macartie, Sir Geo. Huit, Col. Bartlet, Sir Edw. Villers, Col. Sidney, Mr. Felton, Col. Harp, Mr. Topham, Sir St. John Broderick, Sir Tho. Vilier, Sir Tho. Bludworth, Capt. Fitz Patrick, Visct. Grandison, Tho. Howard and said Villers, the Teller, himself. (Total bond 7,000.) |
Ibid, p. 186. |
| Feb. 5. |
Treasury reference to Richard Graham and Phillip Burton of the petition of Sir Roger Norwich, bart. (as by a reference dated Whitehall, Dec. 20 last, thereof from the King to the Treasury Lords): petitioner shewing that at the election of the knights of the shire for co. Northampton to serve in the last parliament at Oxford Mr. Butler, Sir Tho. Samuell and Mr. Fleetwood being persons disaffected to the Government did at the County Court then held publicly encourage a seditious and scandalous paper against the Government called 'an address to the Knights of the Shire,' for which they have been since indicted and Mr. Butler was found guilty of reading the same and fined 500 marks and the other two, Samuell and Fleetwood, are served with process in order to their trial at the next assizes for co. Northampton: that petitioner was at the sole charge of the prosecution of said indictments and has expended 93l. 11s. 10d. therein. Prays to be reimbursed. |
Reference Book II, p. 187. |
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Same to the Customs Commissioners of the petition of William Woodall, master and principal owner of the ship Adventure of Whitehaven of 80 tons burden: petitioner shewing that about Oct., 1862, at Belfast in Ireland one John Fletcher, a merchant of Belfast, freighted petitioner for a voyage to Virginia and Maryland to return with tobacco for Belfast: and the said Fletcher gave petitioner a certificate supposed to be signed by the proper officers of the Customs that bond was given according to the law [of 25 Car. II, c. 7]: that with this petitioner proceeded on his voyage and about April, 1683, returned with his lading of tobacco to Belfast and delivered it to Fletcher according to his charter party and the goods were unladen and the Customs duty paid: that afterwards upon petitioner's return to England his ship was seized upon pretence that bond had not been given as the law directs and that the certificate so delivered him by Fletcher was a false certificate: that upon further inquiry petitioner is apt to believe [this] though at the time he received it he verily believed same to be a true certificate: that this being his first voyage into any of the Plantations he was ignorant of the law and therefore was imposed upon by Fletcher "and inasmuch as the principal intent of giving such bond is to oblige all ships to return to England or Ireland and there pay his Majesty's Customs, which your petitioner hath faithfully done," therefore prays a discharge of the seizure of his ship which is his whole estate. |
Ibid, p. 188. |
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Same to the Surveyor General [of Crown Lands] of the petition of Owen Roberts: petitioner shewing that he petitioned 12 months since for small parcels of land in Anglesea worth 5l. a year after deduction of the King's rent, of which lands there was no lease in being and they were enjoyed by persons who had no title; that after keeping said petition back from 20 Aug. to 13 Dec. Mr. Humphreys, the sub-Deputy Auditor, procured a petition for same from Thomas Edwards and Cecell his wife, who held the lands without title: further shewing that the fine of 40l. rated on the particulars of the lands [of which he desires a lease] is much too high as the said lands are not worth more than 5l. a year; that lands in Wales, particularly in Anglesea, are sold at 12 and 15 years' purchase and that fines for 31 years or three lives are taxed very often under but never above 5 years' rent: that about 30s. [per an.] part of said lands have been assigned to others and cannot be retrieved without much expense and that to pass the lease will cost 30l. to petitioner who is the King's tenant. |
Ibid, pp. 188–9. |
| Feb. 5. |
Treasury reference to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands of the petition of the Viscountess Dungannon; petitioner shewing that she has a tenant right to several parcels of lands held by several leases within co. Anglesea of a small value, not worth passing a grant: therefore praying that before any lease thereof inter al. pass to [the above-said] Owen Roberts or others they may be respectively obliged to assign to petitioner the premises now held by her on her paying her proportion of rent and of the charges of passing the lease: or otherwise petitioner prays a grant of the premises for 90 years terminable on three lives. |
Reference Book II, p. 189. |
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Same to same of the petition of Sir Richard Edgcombe shewing that he holds by lease dated 1661, May 31, for 99 years terminable on the lives of himself and his sister the water and fishing of the river Tamar called Calstock Weir, under the rent of 10l. and 26s. 8d. per an., and also the decayed weir or fishery called Pennyocke Weir within the manor of Landulph under the yearly rent of 4s., the premises being parcel of the Duchy of Cornwall: praying a new grant thereof in regard of the great damage he has sustained both these last winters by the irruption of the great floods and weight of ice which almost totally ruined the same. |
Ibid. |
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Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners to permit the shipment Customs free of Navy stores as follows on board the ship Hunter, Peter Pickard master, for Lisbon, same being intended for the service of the King's ships employed against the pirates of Sallee. |
Out Letters (Customs) IX, pp. 92–7. |
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Prefixing: schedule, signed by Fran. Hosier and attested by J. Sotherne of said stores as laden Nov. 24 last and Jan. 17 and 20 last on board said ship Hunter by warrant from the Navy Commissioners. |
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Henry Guy to the Navy Commissioners to assign payment of 20l. to Rich. Woodall, late chirurgeon of the ship Phenix, in part of 27l. 9s. 1½d. [due to him]. |
Out Letters (General) VIII p. 33. |
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Same to the Commissioners of Excise and of Hearthmoney to forthwith send order to all their collectors for the Hearthmoney to return all the money that shall be collected npon that revenue to the cashier thereof. The said cashier is to keep the account of moneys returned for arrears distinct from that of the moneys of the growing duty. therefore the collectors thereof are to return their moneys to him distinctly in the same way. |
Ibid. |
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Same to [the late Farmers of the Excise]. When you paid the first year's surplus of the Excise to the King several tallies of assignment were delivered to you as a deposit for better security to you, the said tallies being part of those struck for Sir John James and Major Huntington and charged upon the said surplus. But the said Sir John James and his partners are now satisfied all the moneys which the King owed them except 500l. and have delivered up the rest of their tallies. It is thought very necessary for his Majesty's security that all the tallies of assignment which were struck for the said James and partners, being originally intended for no more than counter security, should be vacated in the Exchequer. As the said James and partners are so near being satisfied you have no reason to keep the deposited tallies in your hands any longer as a security against their demands. The Treasury Lords therefore desire that same may be delivered to me forthwith in order to their being vacated. |
Ibid, p. 34. |
| Feb. 5. |
Money warrant for 10,000l. to Phillip Packer, Paymaster of the Works, as imprest for the building of the palace which the King has commanded to be built at Winchester and for the buying of houses and land for the accommodation thereof: and as in part of the 36,000l. as by the privy seal of Jan. 28 ult. (Money order dated Feb. 6 hereon.) |
Money Book V, p. 148. Order Book XXXIX, p. 215. |
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Henry Guy to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue as follows out of Alderman Duncombe's 50,000l. loan on the Hearthmoney, viz.: |
Disposition Book III, p. 53. |
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l. |
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to Charles Fox, Paymaster of the Forces |
4,500 |
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to the Cofferer of the Household |
1,500 |
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to Mr. Hornby for secret service |
300 |
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£6,300 |
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Same to same to issue as follows out of the abovesaid loan: |
Ibid. |
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l. |
s. |
d. |
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to Mr. Skelton |
1,150 |
0 |
0 |
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to Mr. Poley |
819 |
0 |
0 |
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to Sir William Soames |
605 |
0 |
0 |
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to Sir Henry Goodrick |
320 |
5 |
0 |
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to me [Guy] for secret service |
261 |
0 |
0 |
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to Mr. Robinson (in the margin: this sum to be respited till further order) |
606 |
0 |
0 |
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to Mr. Rycaut |
100 |
0 |
0 |
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£3,861 |
5 |
0 |
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