|
Oct. 4. |
Same to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue as
follows out of the branches of the revenue directed
to be this week paid into the Exchequer, viz.: |
Disposition Book VI, p. 109. |
|
Out of the Customs. |
l. |
|
|
|
|
to the Treasurer of the Navy on account
of the 400,000l. [for the year's naval
service beginning] from 1686, Lady day |
7,000 |
|
|
|
|
to ditto to pay off warrant officers etc.
[their wages] due before 1686, Lady
day |
200 |
|
|
|
|
to the Treasurer of the Ordnance [for one
week on the Ordnance Office's] ordinary |
1,000 |
|
|
|
|
to ditto more for stores and storehouses |
500 |
|
|
|
|
Out of the Excise. |
|
|
to the Earl of Ranelagh for the Forces |
11,000 |
|
|
|
|
(Same, dated same, to the Customs Cashier and
Excise Commissioners respectively, enclosing the
papers of disposition of the cash of those branches
of the revenue; said papers including only the
above four Customs items and one Excise item.) |
|
Oct. 5. |
Treasury reference to the Hearthmoney Commissioners
of the petition of Francis Mores for a collector's
place in the Hearthmoney in one of the adjacent
counties; he having faithfully served several persons
of quality. |
Reference Book V, p. 134. |
Oct. 9. |
Henry Guy to the Customs Commissioners to order
the Customs officers at Looe in Cornwall to restore
the jewel, plate and other goods saved out of a
ship of Ostend cast away near that place and secured
in the Custom House there; part whereof belongs
to the Marquis de Malpica, the King of Spain's
Envoy Extraordinary, and the rest to some merchants. The said officers are to assist in the recovery
of the rest of the goods of said ship as there shall
be occasion. |
Out Letters (Customs) XI, p. 171. |
Oct. 12. At our Court at Whitehall. |
Royal sign manual for 6,000l. to Henry Guy, for secret
service, without account: to be issued on the
20,000l. privy seal dormant of July 28 last. (Money
warrant dated Oct. 12 hereon. Money order dated
Oct. 13 hereon.) |
King's Warrant Book XII, p. 267. Money Book VIII, p. 251. Order Book II, p. 85. |
|
Royal warrant to the Clerk of the Signet for a privy
seal for 100,000l. to Sir Peter Apsley, kt., Cofferer
of the Household, as imprest for the ordinary and
extraordinary services of the Household. (Money
warrant dated Oct. 22 hereon. This warrant quotes
the privy seal as dated Oct. 20. Money order dated
Oct. 24 hereon.) |
King's Warrant Book XII, p. 267. Money Book VIII, p. 270. Order Book II, p. 92. |
|
Same to the Attorney or Solicitor General for a great
seal to determine and make void the patent which
granted to Francis Dickins, esq., the office of woodward of New Forest (the King being minded that
said Dickins shall no longer continue therein) and
in lieu thereof to grant said office to William Lacy
of Kilmiston, co. Southampton, esq., to execute by
himself or sufficient deputy: during pleasure. |
King's Warrant Book XII, pp. 268–9. |
|
Same to Francis, Lord Howard of Effingham, Governor
of the Colony of Virginia, to issue without any
further delay upon any account whatsoever effectual
orders for permitting Thomas Sands of London,
merchant, to ship out of Virginia for England 800
hogsheads of tobacco free of the impost of that
country [Virginia], being 2s. per hogshead, as in
lieu of the 580 hogsheads which he shipped out in
1665 on the William and Sarah, John Ruddes commander, which tobacco was taken by the Dutch
and utterly lost; he having already had several
orders of Council for allowing the same, but having
as yet had no benefit of the said orders, but put to
great charge in many years' solicitation of this
business: and the said Lord Howard of Effingham
as Governor of Virginia having been already required
by a royal sign manual of 1685, Dec. 15, to give
such directions as herein, which order has not yet
been put in execution "by reason as is alleged by
you that the revenue in our said colony of Virginia
will not be able to answer the necessary charges of
that government if all such pretensions as may be
made of this nature should be in like manner satisfied": the King being nevertheless willing to
gratify this petitioner. But the present royal letter
is not to be taken as a precedent for such allowances
to any other person on the like pretences for the
future. |
Ibid, pp. 269–70. Out Letters (Plantations Auditor) I, pp. 242–3. |
Oct. 12. At our Court at Whitehall. |
Royal warrant to the Clerk of the Signet for a privy seal
dormant for 20,000l. to be issued in such proportions,
to such persons and for such uses and services as the
King shall from time to time declare by warrant
under his royal sign manual. |
King's Warrant Book XII, p. 270. |
Oct. 12. |
Treasury allowance of the 1687, Michaelmas quarter's,
salary bill of the Customs, London port; being
4,815l. 16s. 3d. for established salaries and
153l. 13s. 3d. for additional salaries or 4,969l. 9s. 6d.
in all. |
Money Book VIII, p. 252. |
|
Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners to
direct the collectors of the outports to pay the
abovesaid quarter's salary bill of the outports, viz.
4,991l. 18s. 0d. for established salaries and 558l.
for additional salaries or 5,549l. 18s. 0d. in all. |
Ibid. |
|
Treasury allowance of the abovesaid quarter's salary
bill of the General Post Office, amounting in the
whole to 852l. 1s. 8d. as certified by Philip Frowde. |
Ibid, p. 258. |
|
Henry Guy to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue as
follows out of the branches of the revenue directed
to be this week paid into the Exchequer, viz. |
Disposition Book VI, pp. 110–11. |
|
Out of the Customs. |
l. |
s. |
d. |
|
|
to the Treasurer of the Navy [on
the Navy's] weekly money on
account of 400,000l. [for the
year's naval service beginning]
from 1686, Lady day |
7,000 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
to ditto for warrant officers etc.
[for their salaries] due before
Lady day, 1686 |
200 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
to the Treasurer of the Ordnance
[for one week on the Ordnance
Office] ordinary |
1,000 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
to me [Guy] for secret service
(3,000l., 750l., 1,250l.) |
5,000 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
to Mr. Grahme, Keeper of the Privy
Purse |
500 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
to the Lord Chancellor for a quarter |
1,000 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
to the Lord President of the Privy
Council for a quarter |
1,000 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
[sic, an erratum for 375l.] |
|
|
to the Lord Privy Seal for a quarter |
388 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
Out of the Excise. |
|
|
to the Earl of Ranelagh for the
Forces |
11,000 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
to Mr. Lloyd, the Paymaster of the
Works, for the new buildings at
Whitehall for the months of
August and September |
1,000 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
to the Queen Dowager, for a quarter |
1,500 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
Out of the Hearthmoney. |
|
|
to the Cofferer of the Household |
2,000 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
to the Treasurer of the Chamber to
clear the ordinary [of the Chamber]
for Midsummer |
1,405 |
9 |
11 |
|
|
to the Paymaster of the Band of
Pensioners for [last] Midsummer
quarter |
1,500 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
to the Gentlemen and Grooms of
the Bedchamber for [1687]
Michaelmas quarter |
2,300 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
[to ditto] more, being formerly
reserved for them |
100 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
Out of the Letter Office money. |
|
|
for the Queen Consort's quarter |
5,000 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
(Same, dated same, to the Customs Cashier,
enclosing the paper of the disposition of the Customs
cash for the present week; said paper containing
the above eight Customs items [payable out of the
Exchequer], together with the following item
[payable direct out of the Customs Office], viz.
2,500l. towards the [Michaelmas] quarter [salary]
book of the Customs [London port].) |
|
|
(Same, dated same, to the Commissioners of
Excise and Hearthmoney, enclosing the similar
paper of the disposition of the cash of those branches
of the revenue; said paper including for the Excise
the above three Excise items [payable out of the
Exchequer], together with the following item
[payable direct out of the Excise Office], viz. 1,500l.
for the Prince and Princess [of Denmark's] quarter:
and for the Hearthmoney the first four only of the
above Hearthmoney items, omitting the 100l. to the
Gentlemen and Grooms of the Bedchamber.) |
|
Oct. 12. |
Henry Guy to Mr. Arnold Browne to forthwith pay into
my [Guy's] hands the 230l. which by your obligation
was due the 9th inst. |
Disposition Book VI, p. 109. |
|
Same to the Customs Commissioners to send goods
as follows and unopened to the Earl of Rochester's
lodgings at Whitehall. |
Out Letters (Customs) XI, p. 170. |
|
Appending: schedule of said goods (boxes, trunks,
hats, wine etc.). |
|
|
Same to Mr. Duncombe to bring to the Treasury
Chambers at Whitehall the weekly certificate of
the Excise cash "as you were wont to do before
their Lordships' adjournment." |
Ibid. |
|
(The like letter severally to Mr. Kent for the
Customs and Mr. Lilly for the Post Office.) |
|
|
Same to the Attorney General to report on the enclosed
copy [missing] of the Treasury Lords' letter of
Aug. 9 last, supra, p. 1507, to the Earl of Derby
concerning the Customs of the Isle of Man. |
Ibid, p. 171. |
|
Same to the Customs Commissioners. Have you
any objection to the following request? |
Ibid. |
|
Appending: letter, dated London, Oct. 8 inst., from
the Earl of Peterborough, desiring that two cases
of paintings which are coming to him out of France
may be sent to his house and opened there "because
formerly some things of mine did suffer by rough
handling at the port." |
|
Oct 12. |
Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners to
employ Mathew Plowman as collector of Customs
in the Colony of New York in America loco Mr.
Santen, dismissed. |
Out Letters (Customs) XI, p. 68. |
|
Same to same to permit the transport, Customs free,
of Navy stores as follow on the Lumley Castle,
Capt. Darrell master, to Gibraltar for the service
of the Sallee squadron and other of his Majesty's
ships in the Straits. |
Ibid, pp. 69–72. |
|
Prefixing: schedule of said stores (boatswain's and
carpenter's stores) as certified by Sir A. Deane and
William Hewer, Navy Office, Oct. 7 inst. |
|
Oct. 12. altered to Dec. 5. |
For the commissions of this date relating to Recusants'
fines see infra under date 1687, Dec. 5. |
Warrants not Relating to Money XII, pp. 139–40. |
Oct. 12. |
Treasury reference to Auditor Aldworth of the account
as follows of interest due to Mr. Kent and Mr.
Duncombe for the quarter ended 1687, Sept. 29. |
Reference Book V, pp. 135, 136. |
|
Prefixing: said account. |
l. |
s. |
d. |
|
|
interest [at 6 per cent.] for said time
on 85,000l. tallies due to them
on the Customs |
1,355 |
6 |
6 |
|
|
less one sixth [or 1 per cent.] |
225 |
17 |
9 |
|
|
|
£1,129 |
18 |
9 |
|
|
[Repayments of principal and deductions of interest thereon.] |
|
|
|
l. |
s. |
d. |
|
|
on 1,000l. repaid [1687] June 30 |
14 |
19 |
2 |
|
|
on 1,000l. repaid July 11 |
13 |
3 |
0 |
|
|
|
£28 |
2 |
2 |
|
|
less one sixth |
4 |
13 |
8½ |
|
|
|
£23 |
8 |
5½ |
|
|
Thus leaving due on the foot of the present account
a total interest of 1,106l. 0s. 3½d. and a total of
principal of 83,000l. on the Customs. |
|
Oct. 13. |
Money warrant for 1,000l. to George, Lord Jeffryes,
Lord High Chancellor of England, for last Sept. 29
quarter on his annuity. (Money order dated
Oct. 19 hereon.) |
Money Book VIII, p. 253. Order Book II, p. 89. |
|
Same for 375l. to Robert, Earl of Sunderland, for
same quarter on his allowance of 1,000l. per an.
and royal bounty of 500l. per an. as President of
the Privy Council. (Money order dated Oct. 19
hereon.) |
Money Book VIII, p. 253. Order Book II, p. 89. |
|
Same for 388l. to Henry, Lord Arundell of Wardour,
for same quarter on his allowance in lieu of diet
as Keeper of the Privy Seal. (Money order dated
Oct. 14 hereon.) |
Money Book VIII, p. 253. Order Book II, p. 85. |
|
Treasury warrant to the Customs Cashier to pay said
Lord Privy Seal 185l. for 185 days, Mar. 27 last
to Sept. 29 last, on his fee of 365l. per an. [payable
out of the Customs]. (Henry Guy, dated same,
to same to pay same.) |
Money Book VIII, p. 253. Disposition Book VI, p. 111. |
|
Money warrant for 1,500l. to the Queen Dowager's
Treasurer for last Sept. 29 quarter on her annuity of
6,000l. |
Money Book VIII, p. 254. |
Oct. 13. |
Money warrant for 2,500l. to the Queen Consort for
same quarter on her annuity of 10,000l. as by her
patent of Dec. 3 last. |
Money Book VIII, p. 254. |
|
Same for 9,332l. 3s. 4¾d. to Lawrence, Earl of Rochester,
et al. Trustees to the Queen Consort, for same
quarter on the several allowances to the Queen as
by the patent of 1685, Aug. 28. |
Ibid. |
|
Same for 300l. to Henry, Earl of Peterborough, for
same quarter as Groom of the Stole and in that
respect First Gentleman of the Bedchamber. (Money
order dated Oct. 15 hereon.) |
Ibid, p. 255.Order Book II, p. 87. |
|
Same for 150l. each to the following for same quarter
as Gentlemen of the Bedchamber, viz. Henry,
Duke of Beaufort (his privy seal dated 1685, June 30);
James, Earl of Arran (his privy seal dated 1685,
July 23); James, Earl of Ossory (his privy seal
dated 1685, June 30); Thomas, Earl of Ailesbury
(his privy seal dated 1685, Nov. 29); Henry Edward,
Earl of Lichfield (his privy seal dated 1685, June 30);
Lewis, Earl of Feversham (his privy seal dated
1685, July 31); John, Lord Churchill (his privy seal
dated 1685, July 8); and for 150l. to Henry, Duke of
Beaufort, for the preceding quarter ended June 24
last as a same. (Money orders hereon dated Oct. 15
for Ossory and Feversham; Oct. 19 for Arran;
Oct. 20 for Churchill; Oct. 24 for Beaufort, two
orders for 150l. each; Nov. 3 for Lichfield. The
omission of the money order for the Earl of Ailesbury
is probably a mere clerical omission.) |
Money Book VIII, p. 255. Order Book II, pp. 87, 88. |
|
Same for 100l. each to the following for same quarter
as Grooms of the Bedchamber, viz.: Heneage Finch,
Francis Russell, James Griffin, Henry Slingsby,
James Fortrey, Richard Leueson, Oliver Nicholas,
David Lloyd (all their privy seals dated 1685,
June 30) and Richard Bagott (his privy seal dated
1687, July 7). (Money orders hereon dated Oct. 15
for Finch and Slingsby; Oct. 19 for Griffin and
Nicholas; Oct. 27 for Russell; Oct. 31 for Fortrey;
Nov. 9 for Bagott; Nov. 18 for Lloyd; Dec. 1 for
Leueson.) |
Money Book VIII, p. 256. Order Book II, pp. 86, 97. |
|
Same for 1,500l. to William Thomas, esq., Paymaster
of the Band of Gentlemen Pensioners, for last
June 24 quarter's imprest allowance for said Band.
(Money order dated Oct. 15 hereon.) |
Money Book VIII, p. 256. Order Book II, p. 86. |
|
Money order for 104l. 7s. 9d. to Bartholomew Fillingham as in part of the arrears due to Sir Philip Lloyd
as a Clerk of the Council, ut supra, pp. 1511–12: to be
repaid into the Exchequer as in part of the debt
due from Sir William Doyly. |
Order Book II, p. 85. |
|
Same for 323l. 14s. 9d. to Richard Kent as in full of
the abovesaid arrear to Sir Philip Lloyd, ut supra
ibid.: to be issued to Kent without account as in
part of said Lloyd's debt to him: to be issued by
136l. 4s. 9d. out of tobacco [duty receipts] and
187l. 10s. 0d. out of any unappropriated money
in the Exchequer. |
Ibid, p. 86. |
|
Henry Guy to the Customs Commissioners to deliver
to the Marquess of Powys the pictures as follows
on payment of the usual Custom, he having been
with the Treasury Lords this morning and affirmed
that same are for his own use. |
Out Letters (General) XI, p. 172. |
|
Appending: note only of the bill of lading of said
pictures; "the bill of lading was in Dutch; the
case of pictures marked W.P. No. 1." |
|
Oct. 13. |
Henry Guy to Sir John Southcott, kt.; the mayor, deputy
recorder and burgesses of Tiverton, co. Devon;
Robert Gubbs of Cleave, esq.; Rowland Whiddon
of Chagford, esq.; Jacob Clift of Exeter, gent.;
John Briddall of Exeter, gent., and Richard Moore
of Cullompton, gent. By order of the Treasury
Lords I enclose the petition of Richard Cole, who
prays a lease of the waste of Elmore, near Tiverton.
You are to certify the nature, quantity and bounds
thereof and your opinion touching the lease already
passed to Sibley. |
Out Letters (General) XI, p. 172. |
|
Same to Mr. Fisher [Deputy Surveyor General of
Crown Lands] to inform the Treasury Lords what
title Mr. Gervis Price had to the house he lately
lived in. |
Ibid. |
|
Treasury direction to the Customs Commissioners to
observe an order of the King in Council as follows. |
Out Letters (Customs) XI, pp. 72–3. |
|
Prefixing: said order, dated Windsor, Sunday, Oct. 2
inst. The King being this day moved by Mr. Pepys
from the Navy Commissioners for liberty to be
given to Joseph Martin of London, merchant, to
import in three unfree ships from Riga to his
Majesty's yards at Portsmouth and Chatham, for
this time only, such masts and stowage as shall be
for his Majesty's immediate service, does hereby
grant the said liberty; the said Martin having
contracted with said Navy Commissioners for as
many large Riga masts as can possibly be got for
the service of the Navy, "which prove of greater
lengths than can be brought by any English built
or other ship, free or unfree, now to be found qualified
for the same anywhere in this his Majesty's kingdom"
and he having been therefore constrained to take
up three foreign built ships or Catts, viz. the Rebecca,
Sicke Takes master, the Peacock, William Paauze
master, and the Elizabeth, Frederick Weyham
master. |
|
Oct. 15. |
Treasury warrant to the Receipt for tallies of assignment on the First Fruits for 5001. to Aubrey, Earl
of Oxford, for last Michaelmas quarter on his
pension. |
Money Book VIII, p. 257. |
|
Money warrant for 100l. each to Charles Toll. Charles
Twitty, William Lowndes and Tho. Townesend
for their toil etc. in stating the arrears due to the
late King's servants respectively in several books
which were made of the same and also in representing
many particular arrears and cases in special reports;
60l. to Humphry Dove, 20l. to John Taylor and
10l. each to Richard Powys and Wendiver Lowndes
for their like toil therein. (Money order dated
Oct. 15 hereon.) |
Ibid, p. 257. Order Book II, p. 88. |
|
Same for 7,233l. 18s. 2d. to Sir Robert Vyner for
plate etc. as follows, viz.: 502l. 9s. 7d. thereof to
complete the 10,502l. 9s. 7d., which by certificate
dated 1685–6, Mar. 8, from Sir Gilbert Talbot
appears due to said Vyner for gold plate delivered
by him into the Jewel House from 1685, April 11,
to 1685–6, Mar. 5; and the remaining 6,731l. 8s. 7d.
for similar particulars as follow. |
Money Book VIII, pp. 258–9. Order Book II, p. 89. |
|
Appending: certificate, dated [Jewel House] Aug. 10
last by Sir Gilbert Talbot of the chains, medals
and other goldworks and gold and white plate
delivered and store plate repaired etc. by said
Vyner from 1685–6, Jan. 11, to 1687, Aug. 6, viz.,
488l. 2s. 7d. for gold and workmanship of 70oz.
10dwt. 20gr. of angel and crown gold curiously
wrought, given to the Kings at Arms and others;
254l. 1s. 7d. for silver, gilding and workmanship
of 153oz. 1dwt. of gilt plate given in badges to watermen and others; 2,973l. 5s. 6d. for silver and
workmanship of 7,184oz. 5dwt. of white plate for
his Majesty's store, most of it curiously wrought;
113l. 9s. 11d. for silver and workmanship of
242oz. 12dwt. of white plate given away by his
Majesty in trumpets and collars of S S; 2,591l. 14s. 8d.
for new making, new gilding, repairing, boiling and
burnishing of 65,428oz. of his Majesty's store plate
and adding thereto 1,236oz. 12dwt. of silver;
123l. 1s. 2d. for engraving 646 arms and 333 J R S
and Crowns; 76l. 16s. 0d. for money by him disbursed to the coffermaker, casemaker, cutler and
other artificers and 30l. to the officers of the Jewel
House for parchment, vellum, paper, wood, coals
and other necessaries: total, 6,731l. 8s. 7d.
(Money order dated Oct. 19 hereon.) |
|
Oct. 15. |
Money warrant for 225l. to John, Philip and Joseph
Roteires for half a year to Sept. 29 last on their fee
or allowance as his Majesty's gravers in the Mint:
to be satisfied out of the Coinage Act money. |
Money Book VIII, p. 260. |
|
Henry Guy to Sir John Berry. I read to the Treasury
Lords your letter on behalf of Capt. Row, commander
of his Majesty's ship Dunbarton. My Lords made
no order therein. I desire you to move some of
the [Treasury] Lords yourself in that affair. |
Out Letters (General) XI, p. 172. |
|
Same to the Customs Commissioners to send the
following goods to the Queen's backstairs by Mr.
James Pearse, one of the landsurveyors. |
Ibid, p. 173. |
|
Appending: note to the effect that Michaell Wright,
servant to the Earl of Castlemaine, brought a
present in six several parcels from the Duchess of
Modena to the Queen, and desires delivery thereof. |
|
|
Same to Mr. Kent [Customs Cashier] to stop 25l. 1s. 0d.
out of the next money payable to Sir John Shaw,
being the amount assessed, under the last Poll Act,
upon him and his trustees as Surveyor of the
Navigation. You are to pay said sum to Vendever
Lownds or William Ummant. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to the Customs Commissioners to order the
officers in Ipswich port to deliver, Customs free,
two pieces of stuff sent to Samuel de Paz from
Holland, which cost there only 3l. 12s. 0d. and the
duty demanded thereon is about 4l. here "which
is laid upon that stuff in the nature of a prohibition,
whereof the said Mr. De Paz was before ignorant." |
Ibid. |
|
Treasury reference to Richard Graham and Philip
Burton of Mr. De la Force's letter to Mr. Guy,
desiring a Treasury warrant for the 320l. which
the King has granted to said De la Force and
Mr. Bourgeois out of the estate of one Satehell of
Taunton, a rebel convict[ed]; the said money
being in the hands of the Commissioners for the
Western Rebels' estates. |
Reference Book V, p. 134. |
Oct. 17. |
Henry Guy to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue
50l. to Samuel Morland out of Tenths; for last
Sept. 29 quarter on the annuity of 200l. |
Disposition Book VI, p. 111. |
|
Same to the Customs Commissioners to send an
officer to-day to the French Ambassador's house
to seal the goods of the Marquis de Torcy, Envoy
from the French King, in order to their being
transported to France. |
Out Letters (General) XI, p. 173. |
|
Same to Mr. Waterson. In accordance with my
letter of Dec. 21 last you have detained 20l. in your
hands for bill money due for the months of Dec.,
Jan., Feb. and Mar. last to Samuel Danvers, one
of the King's waiters [London port]. You are now
to pay said money to said Danvers. |
Ibid, p. 174. |
|
Same to Mr. Kent [Customs Cashier] to stop 15l. 13s. 0d.
from the [Customs salary or annuity] pay due to
Robert Bertie, being the money assessed on him
for the last Poll as an officer in one of his Majesty's
forests, for which he is returned in super in the
account of William Ashburnham [as late Cofferer
of the Household and Receiver of said Poll on the
Household]. |
Ibid. |
|
Treasury reference to the Deputy Auditor of the
Duchy of Cornwall of the petition of Edward Morgan,
praying to be made receiver of rents [of said Duchy]
in the county of Somerset loco Tooker, deceased;
petitioner having been entrusted by the Earl of
Feversham in the late rebellion in the West to bring
intelligence from the rebels, "which he faithfully
performed by going several times privately into
their army," as appears by said Earl's certificate;
and further, petitioner having sustained great
losses by the rebels. |
Reference Book V, p. 135. |
|
Same to same of the petition of John Yerbury for
the abovesaid office of bailiff of several manors
in co. Somerset loco said John Tooker; petitioner
having been ever loyal. |
Ibid, p. 136. |
[?] |
Same to the Attorney General of a paper of proposals
to the King concerning the militia money: said
paper setting forth that several sums of money
have been levied and collected by the several officers
from time to time for contempts and neglects in
not providing horses, armour and other furniture
and not sending them in or delivering them and
for furnishing ammunition and other necessaries as
appointed by the Act of 13 and 14 Car. II, c. 4
[sic for 14 Car. II, c. 3]: further, by the said Act
it is directed that the Lieutenants and Deputy
Lieutenants shall certify the Lords of the Privy
Council every six months the several accounts
appointed to be made to them concerning the said
money; which certification has been hitherto
neglected and by reason thereof divers considerable
sums do lie in the hands of said officers and have
not been answered to the Crown: therefore desiring
said Act to be put in execution [at the expense of
the proposers herein], with a grant to them of a
proportion of the receipts therefrom as in the case
of discoveries of the like nature. Hereon the Attorney
General is to report whether it is convenient that
such a retrospect should be made, what the charges
of prosecution would be, what proportion is fit to
allow to petitioners and what is the most legal
method to be used therein. |
Ibid, pp. 136–7. |
Oct. 18. |
Royal sign manual for 200l. to Simon Smyth, esq.,
without account: in consideration of his charges in
prosecuting several of the sureties of Sir William
Doyly, bart., late a Teller of the Exchequer: to be
satisfied out of the moneys to be brought into the
Exchequer on account of said debt. (Money warrant
dated Oct. 20 hereon. Money order dated Oct. 21
hereon.) |
King's Warrant Book XII, p. 264. Money Book VIII, p. 266. Order Book II, p. 91. |
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Royal warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General for
a great seal to determine the instrument dated
1682–3, Feb. 17, whereby James, then Duke of
York, appointed Lucas Santon "Collector and
Receiver of New York and all its dependencies
to collect and receive all and all manner of
duties, dues and revenues which should grow due
to us [said Duke of York] for Customs, Excise,
quit rents or by any other manner or way whatsoever" and in lieu thereof to appoint Mathew Plowman, gent., to said office, with the salary of 200l.
per an. out of the revenue of New York or in default
thereof out of any the King's treasure: during pleasure. |
King's Warrant Book XII, pp. 270–1. |
|
Same to the Clerk of the Signet for a privy seal for
the payment to the Duke of Albemarle of the rent
of 300l. per an. for Mote Park half yearly in future
with all arrears incurred thereon: in accordance
with the privy seal of 1673, April 26 (ut supra,
Calendar of Treasury Books IV, pp. 85, 118), which
provided that said rent should be paid for said
park until the Duke, then a minor, could give a
good title to the King for said park; and that said
rent was to be payable out of the Hearthmoney of
co. Southampton; but the Hearthmoney being
subsequently let to farm the privy seal of 1675,
Sept. 29, directed said rent to be paid out of the
Customs until the [7,000l.] purchase money should
be settled [paid in one sum] and a final conveyance
made: which latter privy seal became void by
the death of Charles II, but is hereby renewed. |
Ibid, pp. 271–2. |
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Same to the Attorney or Solicitor General to acknowledge satisfaction upon record of the fine of 500l.
set upon Henry Baker, convicted some time since
in the King's Bench for high misdemeanour in
speaking scandalous words against the Duke of
York before his accession to the throne: which
judgment the King is pleased to pardon on said
Baker's humble suit. |
Ibid, p. 272. |
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Same to same to similarly discharge John Culliford
of the fine of 200l. set upon him 1683, Nov. 10, in
the King's Bench for misdemeanour and from the
damages of 100,000l. charged upon him in execution
at the suit of the said Duke of York upon an action
de scandalis magnatum. the King being pleased to
pardon said fine and damages on the humble suit of
said Culliford. |
Ibid, pp. 272–3. |
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Same to the Clerk of the Signet for a privy seal to
vacate and cancel the bonds as follows given by
John Irving and his sureties; the said Irving being
lately appointed to manage an office for licensing of
pedlars and petty chapmen by certain patentees
who had authority from the King in that behalf,
viz. a bond in 10,000l. dated 1686, July 1, given by
William Stewart, haberdasher, and a bond in
10,000l. dated 1686, July 9, by Richard Ellis and
Jeremy Whichcott, merchants: the said Irving
having given in the accounts of his moneys received
by him and his agents thereunder; and upon an
information exhibited against him by the Attorney
General, having sworn that said account is true
and just. |
Ibid, pp. 273–4. |
Oct. 18. |
Money warrant for 232l. 2s. 1d. to Charles Toll for
6 per cent. interest on several sums by him lent for
the late King's service; as by an account thereof
made up to July 1 last by Auditor Aldworth and
allowed by the Treasury Lords Aug. 9 last. (Money
order dated Oct. 19 hereon.) |
Money Book VIII, p. 260. Order Book II, p. 90. |
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Treasury warrant to the Auditor and the Receiver of
Crown Revenues in the Archdeaconry of Richmond,
bishopric of Durham and county of Northumberland
to pay 400l. to Auditor William Aldworth for four
years to June 24 last on his allowance of 100l. per an.
granted him by the great seal of 1683, July 25,
which appointed him auditor of the casual revenue
arising to the King from any the penal laws and as
auditor of such other accounts as should be from
time to time referred to him by the Treasury Lords,
provided the same interfered not with the right of
any auditor already constituted; pursuant to which
letters patent sundry interest accounts and other
accounts have been referred to him. |
Money Book VIII, pp. 261–2. |
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Money warrant for 500l. to Henry, Earl of Clarendon,
for last Sept. 29 quarter on his annuity or yearly
pension. (Money order dated Oct. 19 hereon.) |
Ibid, p. 262. Order Book II, p. 87. |
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Same for 250l. to Frances, Countess of Portland, for
same quarter on her pension. |
Money Book VIII, p. 263. |
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Treasury warrant to the Customs Cashier to pay
142l. 11s. 3d. to Seth, Bishop of Sarum, Chancellor
of the Order of the Garter, for same quarter on the
[reduced] annuity for the support of the honour of
that Order. (Henry Guy to same to pay same.) |
Ibid, p. 263. Disposition Book VI, p. 113. |
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Money warrant for 125l. to Edward Griffin, esq., for
same quarter on his pension. (Money order dated
Oct. 19 hereon.) |
Money Book VIII, p. 263. Order Book II, p. 87. |
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Treasury warrant to the Receipt to issue to Thomas
Lloyd, Paymaster of the Works, 500l. for keeping
Audley End House in repair and 400l. for his
Majesty's paving extraordinary: to be issued on
orders in the name of said Lloyd for the [extraordinaries of the] Works: and to be for one year
from Sept. 29 last: to be paid out of the receipts of
the farm of unwrought wood. |
Money Book VIII, p. 264. |
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Money warrant for 375l. to Charles, Duke of Southampton, in further part of 750l. for 1684, June 24 quarter,
on his annuity out of the Excise. |
Ibid. |
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Same for 750l. to Henry, Duke of Grafton, for last
Sept. 29 quarter on his like annuity. |
Ibid, pp. 264–5. |
Oct. 18. |
Money warrant for 750l. to George, Duke of Northumberland, for 1687, Lady day quarter, on his like
annuity. |
Money Book VIII, p. 265. |
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Henry Guy to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue
as follows out of the branches of the revenue directed
to be this week paid into the Exchequer, viz.: |
Disposition Book VI, pp. 112–3. |
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Out of the Customs. |
l. |
s. |
d. |
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to the Treasurer of the Navy on the
Navy's weekly money, on account
of 400,000l. for the Navy for the
year beginning 1686, Lady
day |
7,000 |
0 |
0 |
|
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to ditto to pay off warrant officers
etc. [their wages] due before 1686,
Lady day |
200 |
0 |
0 |
|
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to the Treasurer of the Ordnance
[for one week on the Ordnance
Office's] ordinary |
1,000 |
0 |
0 |
|
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to the Privy Purse; as an extraordinary for the [Royal] Progress |
1,000 |
0 |
0 |
|
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to ditto for the current quarter |
500 |
0 |
0 |
|
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to me [Guy] for secret service by
way of advance |
2,000 |
0 |
0 |
|
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Out of the Excise. |
|
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to the Earl of Ranelagh for the
Forces |
13,000 |
0 |
0 |
|
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to the Duke of Southampton |
375 |
0 |
0 |
|
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to the Duke of Grafton |
750 |
0 |
0 |
|
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to the Duke of Northumberland |
750 |
0 |
0 |
|
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Out of the Hearthmoney. |
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to the Cofferer of the Household |
1,500 |
0 |
0 |
|
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to the Treasurer of the Chamber on
the ordinary of the Office of the
Chamber |
1,000 |
0 |
0 |
|
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to Sir Peter Apsley for his lady's
portion |
2,106 |
5 |
0 |
|
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to Lady Portland |
250 |
0 |
0 |
|
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to Mr. Griffin on his pension |
125 |
0 |
0 |
|
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to the Earl of Clarendon for a
quarter |
500 |
0 |
0 |
|
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Out of the Post Office. |
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to the Queen Consort, towards her
quarter |
3,000 |
0 |
0 |
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(Same, dated same, to the Customs Cashier,
enclosing the paper of the disposition of the Customs
cash for the present week; said paper including
the above six Customs items [payable out of the
Exchequer], together with the following items
[payable direct out of the Customs Office], viz.
2,469l. 9s. 6d. to complete the quarter book of the
Customs [salaries, London port]; and 142l. 11s. 3d.
to the Chancellor of the Garter for the Poor Knights
[of Windsor].) |
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(Same, dated same, to the Commissioners of
Excise and Hearthmoney, enclosing the like paper
of disposition of the cash of those branches of the
revenue; said paper including for the Hearthmoney
only the above six Hearthmoney items; and for the
Excise the above four Excise items [payable out of
the Exchequer], together with the following items
[payable direct out of the Excise Office on tallies],
viz. 1,500l. to Sir Benjamin Bathurst on his privy
seal; 1,500l. for the Prince and Princess [of Denmark's] quarter; 1,000l. for the bankers' tallies for
last week and the present week; 1,500l. for the
Queen Dowager's quarter.) |
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Oct. 18. |
Henry Guy to Mr. Griffin, Treasurer of the Chamber, to
pay 150l. to Seignior Verrio, viz. 100l. for one quarter
on his 400l. per an. as garden keeper at St. James's
and 501. for one quarter on his pension of 200l.
per an. |
Disposition Book VI, p. 110. |
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Same to the Navy Commissioners to certify the
Treasury Lords what day the 7,000l. is to be paid
to Sir Peter Paravicini for the Navy Office. |
Out Letters (General) XI, p. 174. |
|
Same to the Hearthmoney Commissioners to report
on the enclosed papers [missing], being two affidavits
and a letter addressed to Sir John Ernle and containing complaints against William Clench, an
under-collector of Hearthmoney. |
Ibid. |
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Same to Mr. [Charles] Morgan [deputy to the late
Mr. Agar, Surveyor General of Woods, Trent South],
enclosing a copy [missing] of a letter from Mr.
Woolesley, Supervisor of the Forest of Dean, relating
to a bargain made by Mr. Agar with Mr. Folio
[Foley] for 8,000 cord of wood yearly for three
years. You are to certify when and under what
circumstances said bargain was made and how far
it has been pursued. (Same to said Woolseley to
transmit said letter to said Morgan.) |
Ibid, pp. 174–5. |
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Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners to
deliver to Peter Dauphin several parcels of lace
valued at 41l. 0s. 2½d. which came in the Katherine
yacht, Capt. Clement master, from Rotterdam
and seized by Charles Robertson, a tidesurveyor.
London port, as prohibited goods; the said Dauphin
having given reasonable satisfaction to the officer
who seized. |
Out Letters (Customs) XI, p. 73. |
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Treasury reference to the Customs Commissioners of
the petition of Jacob Sheldrake for a place as
landwaiter, undersearcher or surveyor in the Customs,
he having been employed in the Excise Office under
Mr. Duncombe, "by which means he looks upon
himself fitly qualified to serve in the Customs."
He is hereby to be presented for one of the said
places. |
Reference Book V, p. 135. |
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Same to same of the petition of John Warde, praying
for the discharging from seizure of a parcel of
cittern [citron]. |
Ibid, p. 142. |
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Royal letter to the Lord Deputy of Ireland. We some
time since ordered several quantities of repairable
arms now remaining in the [Ordnance] stores of
Ireland to be brought to England to be refitted
and repaired. By a paper dated 1685–6, Mar. 24,
the charge thereof amounted to 1,354l. 1s. 10d.
By our royal letter of 1686, May 11, we directed
the Earl of Clarendon to return said sum to Charles
Bertie, Treasurer of the Ordnance, England, but
this has not yet been complied with. You are
forthwith to remit said sum to said Bertie out of the
fund for the Irish Ordnance establishment, allowing
up to 10 per cent. to the Receiver General, Ireland,
for the exchange on the said remittance. |
Out Letters (Ireland) V, p. 51. |
Oct. 20. |
Privy seal for sums not exceeding [in all] 20,000l. to
Christopher Rosse, esq., the King's jeweller; for
jewels furnished or to be furnished for the King's
service: to be paid in accordance with certificates
from the Chamberlain or Vice-Chamberlain of the
Household: to be issued without accompt. (Royal
warrant dated Oct. 12 for said privy seal.) |
King's Warrant Book XII, p. 268. |
Oct. 20. |
Treasury warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General
for a great seal as follows for a Commission to
John Phelipps, Col. Thomas Napier, Thomas Price,
Richard Sheldon and Jerome Nipho for licensing
and regulating hackney coaches. By the Act of
13 and 14 Car. II [14 Car. II, c. 2] the number of
licensed hackney coaches for London, Westminster
and suburbs and the parishes within the bills of
mortality should be limited to 400 under the penalty
of 100l. for each coach licensed above that number.
Since the expiration of said Act divers persons
taking advantage thereof have in great numbers
presumed to set up and do daily multiply supernumerary hackney coaches to drive for hire about
the said cities and suburbs without any order, rule
or government to the great annoyance of the streets,
obstruction of passage and trade and the frequent
occasions of strife and quarrels as also by reason of
their numbers and their standing frequently in
places inconvenient, in expectation of hire: all
which having been taken notice of by the Grand
Jury for Middlesex they did in Michaelmas term
last present into the King's Bench Court at Westminster that the number of the said hackney
coaches was a nuisance and a great grievance to
the subjects: and further complaint of the said
grievance to their trades and businesses has been
made to the King by divers of the said subjects and of
the great want of good rules and orders to be observed
by the drivers thereof. The King therefore "to whom
the undoubted power of punishing, removing, correcting and restraining all public nuisances, annoyances
and disorders in the common streets, highways and
passages doth of right belong" does hereby constitute
and authorise the said Phelipps et al. as above as
Commissioners for licensing, regulating, ordering and
governing all hackney coaches to be let or driven
for hire about the said cities, suburbs and parishes:
with power to licence such and so many as shall
be thought fit to keep and drive hackney coaches
for hire in and about said cities and places and so
to regulate all such licensed persons as may be most
for the benefit and ease of the people. Herein the
said Commissioners are to observe such orders as
they shall from time to time receive of the King or
the Treasury Lords. |
King's Warrant Book XII, pp. 274–7. |
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Followed by: instructions to be observed by said
Commissioners. |
|
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(1) You are to take care that no more than 400
hackney coaches be suffered to drive for hire within
the abovesaid places. |
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(2) You are to licence 400 such coaches and no
more, taking care that the 400 now licensed by the
Lord Mayor of London and Court of Aldermen be
in the first place provided for and that their widows
(if any) have their husband's licence and figure
continued to them and renewed yearly with the
rest, if qualified; and if any person be by losses
disabled from keeping such coaches they are to be
permitted to transfer their licences and figure to
some fit person in like manner as hath been heretofore
used. |
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(3) No gelding, horse or mare of less than 14
hands high according to the standard are to be
used in any of the said coaches. |
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(4) The perch of each figured coach is to be
10 feet long and they are to have cross braces
before and not braced down but to hang upon a
level and not with the hinder part higher than the
former part thereof. |
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(5) No such coach to stand nearer than eight feet
of the houses, walls and shops in any the abovesaid
places and no two coaches to stand abreast in any
street, but so far asunder that passengers may with
ease pass between them. |
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(6) A figure or mark of distinction to be fitted,
visible and plain, upon the middle of the hinder
part of the body of each coach. |
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(7) No licensed coachman to allow his number to
be put upon any other coach or to drive two coaches
at one and the same time with the same figure or
to drive any coach with any other man's figure but
his own, on pain of being suspended for a month
for first offence, three months' suspension for
the second and forfeiture of licence for the third
offence. |
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(8) No licensed coachman to use any other
trade during continuance of his licence. |
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(9) "You are to take care that every licensed
coachman do (according to the voluntary offer by
them made by their humble petition presented to
his Majesty) pay 5l. per an. by four quarterly
payments, to be disposed to such use or uses as
his Majesty from time to time shall direct and
appoint." |
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(10) No licensed coachman to take more than
10s. a day reckoning 12 hours to the day and not
above 18d. an hour for the first hour and 12d. an
hour afterwards "nor shall take from any of the
Inns of Court or thereabouts to any part of St.
James's or the city of Westminster (except beyond
Tuttle Street) above 12d. and the same price from
the same places to the Inns of Court or places thereabouts; or from any of the said Inns of Court or
thereabouts to the Royal Exchange above 12d.
and if to the Tower of London or Bishopsgate Street
or Aldgate or thereabouts not above 18d. and so
from the said places to the said Inns of Court as
aforesaid: and the like rate from and to any place
of the like distance with the places beforementioned
and if they shall refuse to go at or shall exact more
for their hire than the several rates beforementioned"
they are to be suspended for a week, a month or
three months for the first, second and third offences
respectively and forfeit their licence for the fourth
offence. |
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|
(11) No licence to be granted for longer than a
year: and a clause to be inserted therein for same
to determine sooner than the year "if his Majesty
with the advice of his parliament shall otherwise
provide." |
|
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(12) You are (at the charge of the 400 licensed
coachmen) to prosecute all offenders driving coaches
for hire without special licence, contrary to the
King's proclamation. |
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(13) No coach to be driven about the street for
hire but what shall be decent, cleanly, strong and
large enough to carry four persons at least; the
harness good and plain and the tackle substantial;
and no licensed coachman's servant to drive any
such coach but such as has been bred a coachman
and is well and decently clothed. |
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(14) The said Commissioners to appoint a clerk,
doorkeeper and messenger with the like fees and
salaries as heretofore was allowed for the officers
attending the late Commissioners for Licensing
Hackney Coaches; and such other officers as shall
be necessary to go about the streets to see that
these rules be duly observed: all which said fees
are to be paid by said 400 licensed coachmen. |
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(15) The said Commissioners to observe all other
instructions to be received from time to time from
the Treasury Lords. |
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Oct. 20. |
Royal sign manual for 2,106l. 5s. 0d. to Sir Peter
Apsley, without account: 2,000l. thereof for the
marriage portion of Dame Katherine his wife, late
Katherine Fortrey, one of the Maids of Honour to
the Queen, and 106l. 5s. 0d. for the charges and
fees on the receipt thereof: to be issued on the
20,000l. privy seal dormant of Oct. 20 inst. (Money
warrant dated Oct. 20 hereon. Money order dated
Oct. 21 hereon.) |
King's Warrant Book XII, p. 278. Money Book VIII, p. 266. Order Book II, p. 91. |
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Same for 2,000l. to Henry Guy, without account,
for secret service: to be issued on the said dormant
privy seal. (Money warrant dated Oct. 20 hereon.
Money order dated Oct. 22 hereon.) |
King's Warrant Book XII, p. 278. Money Book VIII, p. 267. Order Book II, p. 91. |
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Treasury warrant to the Receipt to strike tallies of
assignment to Sir Thomas Duppa for 350l. on the
Bishop of Exeter, ut supra, p. 1468, said Duppa
having by deed dated the 15th inst. transferred to
the King the debt of 350l. due from Edward Butler
ut ibid. |
Money Book VIII, pp. 265–6. |
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Treasury order for the execution of a warrant of the
late Treasurer Rochester, dated 1686, Sept. 27,
ut supra, p. 907, for payment of the salary of
Christopher Barratt, searcher of Yarmouth port.
(Henry Guy, dated same, to the Customs Cashier
to so pay same.) |
Ibid, p. 267. Disposition Book VI, p. 114. |
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Treasury allowance of the Hearthmoney Office salary
bill for last Sept. 29 quarter (total, 567l. 10s. 0d.). |
Money Book VIII, p. 267. |
|
Same of the like quarter's salary bill, detailed, of the
Excise Office (total, 5,082l. 13s. 0d.). |
Ibid, pp. 268–9. |
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Treasury warrant to the auditor for co. Berks to
make forth debentures for paying to Sir Theophilus
Oglethorpe, kt., keeper of New Lodge Walk in
Cranborne within Windsor Forest, 20l. per an. for
the wages of the underkeeper or underkeepers of
said Walk and for the payment forthwith of three
years thereon from 1684, Michaelmas, to 1687,
Michaelmas; and also for paying to William Clerke
(who executes the office of woodward within the
lordships of Cookham and Bray) the salary or
allowance of 25l. per an. and for the payment
forthwith of one year thereon to Michaelmas last:
with warrant to the Receiver of the Honor and
Castle of Windsor to pay said debentures from time
to time out of the revenues of said Honor and
Castle: which payments are hereby to be allowed
by said auditor on said Receiver's accounts from
time to time: all as by the privy seal of April 30
last, ut supra, p. 1273. |
Ibid, p. 270. |
Oct. 20. |
Henry Guy to the Attorney General. The King has
appointed a judge to go to the Bermudas in order
to the recovery of his Majesty's rights due from what
has been fished out of the wrecks in America and
for [judging] other pleas. The Treasury Lords desire
you to prepare a commission to constitute such judge.
Mr. Blathwayt will attend you hereon. |
Out Letters (General) XI, p. 175. |
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Same to Mr. Williamson. The Treasury Lords have
deferred the hearing of your objections on Mr.
Graham's and Mr. Burton's report until Lord Grey
comes to town. |
Ibid. |
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Same to Phil. Bickerstaff to forthwith pay to Mr.
Graham, Mr. Burton and Mr. Shaw the money
due on your account of the rents and profits of
Lord Grey's estate, in order to the passing their
accounts of said estate in the Exchequer. |
Ibid. |
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Treasury reference to the Commissioners of Excise
and Hearthmoney of the petition of James Mundy
for the place of Solicitor to the Excise, vacant since
the death of Mr. Lawrence, it having been always
thought necessary to have such a solicitor for
management of all matters wherein the Excise is
concerned. |
Reference Book V, p. 137. |
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Same to the Attorney General of the petition of
Alderman Haynes of Worce[ster] for a grant of the
tolls arising within the borough of Knighton and
the heriots within the manor of Cantermelenydd
and the tolls of Presteigne, together with certain
closes and lands and one small tenement in the
parish of Knighton or Beguildy, co. Radnor, which
are unjustly detained from the Crown by one
Thomas Harley and are now out, or near out, of
lease: the King having in contemplation of petitioner's service directed him to find out something
which could be granted to him: the present petition
being referred from the King Oct. 17 inst. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to Charles Toll et al. of the petition of Jasper
English, underhousekeeper at Hampton Court; shewing that at the death of Charles II there was 1,025l.
due to petitioner for wages paid to workmen; that
252l. thereof has been paid to him "according to the
rule" [of the order of Council concerning payment of
the arrears of the late King's servants]; but petitioner
considers that this debt is quite different from the
[case of such servants'] wages so reduced "because
those wages were certain and annexed to the officer,
but petitioner's debt was casual and uncertain and
is of the same nature of purveyance, for his money
was really expended out of his pocket"; therefore prays payment of the remainder of said
debt. |
Ibid, p. 138. |
|
Same to Mr. Blathwayte [as Secretary to the Forces]
of the petition of Peter Bristow, Lieutenant to the
Earl of Plymouth's Company of Grenadiers;
petitioner shewing that in the rebellion [in the
West] he recruited the said Company from 50 to
100 and provided several necessaries for the men,
which, with the money given them on disbanding,
amounted to 75l.: therefore praying payment
thereof as expended for his Majesty's immediate
service. |
Ibid, p. 143. |