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| Dec. 21. |
Treasury reference to the Customs Commissioners
of the petition of the Skinners Company, shewing
that they have a liberty of exporting lambskins
with the wool on them into Ireland, but it was of
late prohibited and a parcel [of such skins] was
stopped, which petitioners fear are spoiled: therefore
praying that they may be restored. |
Reference Book V, p. 197. |
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Henry Guy to Lady Wood. You have not sent the
order to me as directed, supra, p. 1669. The Treasury
Lords have therefore given direction to possess
Mr. Robinson of his 457l. 3s. 6d. and care is taken
that 200l. be left in the hands of one of the Tellers
till you give security to abide by the award of
Lowndes and Squibb. Mr. Robinson expects only
Sir Edwd. Wood's bond for this security. |
Out Letters (General) XI, p. 288. |
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Same to the Attorney General. The Treasury Lords
have laid before the King the enclosed orders of
Council concerning hair buttons, with your report
thereon. It is the King's pleasure that you prepare
a new proclamation to be issued as you advise. |
Ibid, p. 289. |
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Appending: said report, undated, from said Sir J.
Powys, Attorney General. I have perused the
orders of Council and papers annexed, see supra, pp.
1647–8, 1667, concerning hair buttons and conceive
the best way will be to issue another Proclamation
to supply the defects of the former in the points
complained of, viz. the want of some reasonable
time of notice to the importers and the want of
encouragement to informers and seizers. |
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Same to Col. Phelips, Chancellor of the Duchy [of
Lancaster], enclosing papers [missing] relating to
the rigorous proceedings of one Benja[min] Ayloff
in exacting moneys upon the inhabitants of the
town of Pontefract, co. Yorks. The Treasury
Lords look upon it as a matter solely in your power
to give relief to the inhabitants and desire same to
be given as advised in the enclosed report [missing]
of Mr. Graham, Mr. Burton and Mr. Wentworth. |
Ibid, p. 290. |
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Money order for 55l. 6s. 8d. to Francis Dickens, esq.,
late woodward of New Forest, in full of all fees
and allowances due to him for marking and felling
decayed trees in said forest. |
Order Book II, p. 111. |
| Dec. 22. |
Treasury warrant to John Fisher, Deputy Surveyor
General of Crown Lands, for a particular of the
premises of Frogmore etc., ut supra, p. 1650, with
a view to a fresh lease thereof to William Aldworth
for 60 years under the rents now in being (which
are to be appropriated to the repairs of Windsor
Castle) and without fine: and with a special clause
to enable him to dig earth and make brick in the
close commonly called the Brick Close, but with a
proviso that care be taken not to burn bricks when
the Court is at Windsor for avoiding any offence
which may be given by the smoke thereof and ill smell. |
Warrants not Relating to Money XII, pp. 191–2. |
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Prefixing: said Fisher's report, dated Dec. 12 inst.,
on said Aldworth's petition. The premises are
both called Frogmore in Windsor. The first
[messuage with several lands thereto] was granted
by Charles II to his [petitioner's] father in 1680
for 41 years on surrender of a grant of 71 years
therein to his father and grandfather, but upon
taking the last lease there were eight acres, the
chief of the arable land, taken out of this farm and
laid into his Majesty's Little Park by the Castle
and a proportionable part of the rent abated, "but
still there is 9l. 9s. 11d. per an. reserved upon that
lease, which is a great rent, the whole when it was
all together being hardly worth 40l. per an. and
the houses thereupon being formerly built with
elm timber taken off the ground were fallen into
decay and rotten, but were so substantially rebuilt
of brick by the petitioner's father and with so
handsome a prospect [front] towards his Majesty's
park, against which they are situate, that it's
believed he laid out thereupon at least four times
the value of the inheritance of the farm." The
other [part of the premises] is a farm adjoining
to it but of more land and formerly valued at near
80l. per an.; but out of this there has been 11 acres
likewise taken into the same [Windsor Little] Park
and four acres of the best meadow laid into the
avenue [leading from the Great Park to the Castle]
and yet the whole rent, which is very high, being
14l. 15s. 5d. per an., is still continued, and upon
this tenement the houses also are of timber and
very mean and decayed. The last lease thereof
was granted in 1683 to Widow Franklyn for 31
years, which [lease] the present petitioner, for the
conveniency and enlargement of his farm, purchased
at a very dear rate, as he also did for his mother's
interest after his father's death, both which cost
him much more than the inheritances are worth.
Petitioner is willing to re-edify the houses on this
latter farm both substantially with brick and
gracefully towards the view of the said [Little]
Park "to make it fit for his own habitation, or
(as the other is) for the accommodation of persons
of honour that have dependence upon the Court,
to which these houses standing a little without the
town are more desirable than most of these within,
being almost as near and more private and having
a pleasant walk through the Park up to the Castle."
In this building he will expend four times the value
of the fine on the present renewal, which fine I
estimate at 300l. The petition for leave to make
brick is a modest request never denied to any
tenant where brick earth is to be had, but he should
be confined to make them only for his own use on
the premises and not for sale. |
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| Dec. 22. |
Report to the King from the Treasury Lords on the
petition of James Dounton, mariner, ut supra,
pp. 1593–4. We have referred same to the Customs
Commissioners and fully concur with their report
thereon as follows. |
Warrants not Relating to Money XII, p. 193. |
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Appending: said report, dated Dec. 6 inst., from
said Commissioners. A clause in the Act of Frauds
limits the time for making foreign ships free and
declares what shall be accounted English ships and
what foreign. There is a proviso for such ships
as shall be taken at sea by letters of mart [marque]
or refusal and [after] condemnation made in the
Admiralty Court as lawful prize. It is certified
by Sir Robert Holmes and his deputy, Vice-Admirals
of co. Hampshire, that said ship was forfeited to
the King as a derelict ship. Though not expressly
within the words of the Act this ship seems to us,
upon the same foot of equity, to be reasonably
entitled to the freedom of a ship belonging to England. |
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| [? Dec. 22.] |
Treasury warrant to Mr. Fisher, Deputy Surveyor
General of Crown Lands, for a particular of
the premises as follow, viz. several tolls,
heriots and certain closes and parcels of land
and wood and a small tenement in Knighton
and Begildy, co. Radnor, ut supra, pp. 1553, 1605,
in order to a lease thereof to Alderman Haynes of
Worcester on terms as follow, the surviving trustee
in the last two parcels, viz. the heriots in Cantermelenydd and the tolls of Presteigne, being hereby
to assign their interest to said Haynes. |
Warrants not Relating to Money XII, pp. 194, 205. |
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Prefixing: said Fisher's report, dated Nov. 30 last,
on said Haynes' petition for same. I take the
premises to be all parcels of the great Lordships
of Melenydd, co. Radnor. The tolls of Knighton
were granted 1 James I to Thomas Messey and
Thomas Pursell for the lives of Mathew Messey and
William Blonden, the last life whereof died in
Aug., 1678, and were soon after ordered to be granted
by lease to Serjeant Beck, but he died before it
was sealed. They have been since petitioned for
by the late Earl of Anglesea, Mr. Tho. Davies and
the Marquess of Worcester, but none of them
proceeded to the perfecting of a lease. Heretofore
these tolls had been considerable and had been
leased at 13l. 6s. 8d. per an. rent, but from Queen
Mary's time they have been let without rent and
the utmost value (which was 20l. [per an.] in the
[Long] Parliament's survey) is now but 14l. per an.
This fall is occasioned by making some graziers
freemen of that borough, who bring in multitudes
of sheep and other cattle into the market and are
exempt from toll. The heriots of Cantermelenydd
have always been let at 10l. per an. by several
leases from James I and Charles I, the last whereof
was 9 Car. I for 28 years from 1633, Lady day, to
Sir Edw. Sawyer and William Gibson, which lease
expired at Lady day, 1661. I know of no other
grant since; but it seems that the heriots have
been ever since held by Tho. Harley, esq., and the
rent duly paid up to the present, but under what
grant or title is unknown. I cannot learn that
they are worth much more. The tolls of Presteigne
were granted 5 Car. I to Sir Edward Sawyer by the
then Prince's Trustees for 31 years from 1629,
Michaelmas (which expired in 1660) at the old
rent of 4l. 12s. 0d. per an., and this rent is now
answered to the Crown by the burgesses of Presteigne,
but by what title is not known. By the [Long]
Parliament's survey they were valued at 12l. 10s. 0d.
per an., but by survey returned to Sir Charles
Herbert [Harbord] in 1669 they are valued at
only 3l. above the rent. All the rest of the parcels
specified in the petition, ut supra, have mostly
names which cannot be found in the records in
the Auditor's custody or in the surveys in my
custody, but Littleton Powell, esq., one of the
Six Clerks [in Chancery], who knows them all, has
given me a particular with the values they are now
let at, amounting to 22l. 10s. 0d. per an., though
by the [Long] Parliament's survey several such
loose parcels belonging to the manor of Knighton
(some whereof seem to be part of these) are valued
at 36l. 17s. 8d. per an. above an old rent of 2l. 14s. 6d.
reserved on a lease of 4 James I to Sir Edmd. Sawyer,
which is long since expired, and no known grant
thereof since is ascertainable. But upon examination of these parcels when they were petitioned for
with the tolls of Knighton by Serjt. Beck in 1678
some of them might be included in grants of other
things or passed away in fee. Petitioner must
probably be at charge in recovering them to the
Crown by law. The rent of 2l. 14s. 6d. per an.
seems to be an ancient rent reserved for these.
For the tolls of Knighton no rent has been paid
these 130 years. The former rent of 13l. 6s. 8d.
[per an.] and the cost of collection will be more
than they arise to at this time. They may therefore
be granted at a fourth of that sum, viz. 3l. 6s. 8d.
The profits thereof for the last nine years since
1679, Aug., have been received by John Dudlike,
an undertenant to the former lessees. In July, 1684,
at the direction of the Treasury, I gave a letter
to Charles Morgan (then deputy to his uncle, Auditor
Tutor [Tudor]) to charge the said arrears in full at
his next circuit and to let them yearly at the best
rate he could. The present deputy auditor, Mr.
Humphreys, should be ordered to enquire what
was done thereon and to take care of these arrears.
The heriots in Cantermelenydd may be granted at
10l. per an. rent if Mr. Harley has no lease of them.
The tolls of Presteigne may be let at 4l. 1s. 0d.,
being the old rent still paid for them by the town.
But for these last two parcels the surviving trustee
[of Charles II as Prince] to whom they were granted
in the time of Charles I, should be directed to assign
to petitioner to assist petitioner in gaining possession
to the Crown in case of opposition. |
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| Dec. 22. |
Treasury nomination and appointment of Tho. Powell,
esq., as steward of the manor of Staunton, co.
Gloucester (which in the opinion of Sir Robert
Sawyer, late Attorney General, is estreated to the
Crown and the royalties thereof are in the King's
hands), to keep the accustomed Courts thereof in
the King's name. |
Warrants not Relating to Money XII, p. 204. |
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Henry Guy to Capt. Huitson. For divers weighty
reasons the King does not think fit to go on any
further in the business relating to the expedition
into the South Sea. I send you this notice so that
you and your partners may not put yourselves to
the charges of providing for that voyage. |
Out Letters (General) XI, p. 288. |
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Treasury warrant to the Attorney General to enter
a cessat processus to discharge the suit begun against
Dame Katherine Soame, widow of Sir William
Soame, by John Keeble, one of the sureties of
John Bigsby, late Receiver of Hearthmoney in
Suffolk, to recover a debt due from her said late
husband, the Commissioners of Excise and Hearthmoney having stopped the proceedings and given
notice thereof to Mr. Hall, Attorney for his Majesty
in the Exchequer Court, but having been lately
informed that some other attorney in the said
Court proceeds upon the King's aid for the said
Keeble against said Lady Soames notwithstanding
their said countermand. |
Warrants not Relating to Money XII, pp. 171–2. |
| Dec. 23. |
Royal warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General
for a great seal for a new Commission of the Customs;
the new Commissioners to be Sir Nicholas Butler,
Sir Dudley North, Sir John Werden, Thomas
Chudleigh and William Culliford as in place of the
present Commissioners, viz. said Butler, Sir John
Buckworth, now deceased, [North, Werden] and
Chudleigh: the new Commissioners to have, as
before, the control of Tunnage and Poundage, New
Impositions and the Four and a Half per cent. duty
and to have 1,200l. per an. salary as from 1687,
Christmas: John Sansom, esq., to be their secretary
with proviso as before for 300l. of his salary to be
paid to Robert Bertie. |
King's Warrant Book XII, pp. 338–9. |
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Royal sign manual for 1,000l. to Henry Guy, for secret
service, without account: to be issued on the
20,000l. privy seal dormant of Dec. 15 inst. (Money
warrant dated Dec. 27 hereon. Money order dated
Dec. 31 hereon.) |
Ibid, pp. 340, 341. Money Book VIII, p. 338. Order Book II, p. 112. |
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Henry Guy to Mr. Duncombe [Cashier of Excise] to
forthwith pay 1,000l. into the Exchequer without
fail, "this being for his Majesty's service." Place
this sum in your next week's certificate of the
Excise. |
Disposition Book VI, p. 140. |
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Same to the Auditor of the Receipt to advance the
abovesaid 1,000l. to me [Guy] for secret service
[as by the above royal sign manual]. The warrants
for the regular issue of this sum shall be sent you
as soon as they can be passed. |
Ibid. |
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Royal warrant to the Lord Deputy of Ireland for a
Commission to pass the great seal of Ireland to
constitute Thomas Sheridan, William Dickenson,
William Strong, Herbert Aubrey and Francis
Plowden as Commissioners for the Revenue, Ireland:
during pleasure: with the salary of 1,000l. per an.
each, payable quarterly as from 1687, Christmas.
The new Commission as herein is to determine the
present existing Commission, but the pensions of
500l. per an. to Sir William Talbott and 60l. per an.
to Charles Pleydell are to be continued during
pleasure. John Ellis is to be Secretary to the
Commission and John Thompson, gent., to be
agent and solicitor with salaries as in the present
Commission. The new Commission is to have all
the powers of the present one and to be empowered
to issue warrants to the collectors of the ports or
districts to pay salaries and incidents, for which
payments said Commissioners shall not be accomptable. |
Out Letters (Ireland) V, pp. 64–5. |
| Dec. 25. |
Money warrant for 55l. 6s. 8d. to Francis Dickens
as by the money order of Dec. 21, supra, p. 1685.
[It was unconstitutional on the part of the Auditor
of the Receipt to make out his money order before
receiving the authorisation of the present money
warrant.] |
Money Book VIII, p. 334. |
| Dec. 26. |
Treasury warrant to the Receipt for tallies of assignment on the First Fruits for 500l. to Aubrey, Earl of
Oxford, for last Christmas quarter on his pension
of 2,000l. per an. |
Money Book VIII, p. 337. |
| Dec. 27. |
Money warrant for 9,332l. 3s. 4¾d. to Lawrence, Earl
of Rochester, Henry, Earl of Peterborough, Sidney,
Lord Godolphin, Robert Werden, esq., and Sir
Edward Herbert, kt., Trustees for the Queen; as for
last Christmas quarter on the sums granted her by
the patent of 1685, Aug. 28. |
Ibid, p. 336. |
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Same for 2,500l. to the Queen for same quarter on
her annuity of 10,000l. as by the patent of 1686,
Dec. 3. |
Ibid, p. 337. |
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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. 140–1. |
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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 the
400,000l. for one year's naval
service from 1686, Lady day |
6,400 |
0 |
0 |
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Out of the imposition on wine and
vinegar. |
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to ditto in full of 7,000l. on account
as above |
600 |
0 |
0 |
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to ditto to pay off warrant officers
[on their pay etc. 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] ordinary |
1,000 |
0 |
0 |
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Out of the Excise. |
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to the Earl of Ranelagh for the
Forces |
11,000 |
0 |
0 |
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Out of the Hearthmoney. |
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to the Cofferer of the Household |
2,000 |
0 |
0 |
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to Sir William Villiers for the arrears
of the Stables |
1,000 |
0 |
0 |
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Out of the Letter Office money. |
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to the Queen |
5,000 |
0 |
0 |
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(Same, dated same, to the Customs Cashier to
pay into the Exchequer, out of his week's receipt
of the Customs, the above 6,400l. for the Navy.)
(Same, dated same, to the Commissioners of Excise
and Hearthmoney, enclosing the paper of the
disposition of cash of those branches of the revenue
for the present week; said paper including only
the above one Excise item and two Hearthmoney
items.) |
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| Dec. 29. |
Money order for 200l. to Sir Robert Howard, Auditor
of the Receipt, for one year to 1687, Christmas,
on the accustomed allowance for extraordinary
service performed in his office. |
Order Book II, p. 112. |
| Dec. 31. |
Henry Guy to the Customs Commissioners to report
on the enclosed papers [missing] of Monsieur Amiaud,
containing a complaint against the Customs officers
at Dartmouth. |
Out Letters (General) XI, p. 289. |
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Same to same, enclosing a memorial [missing] of
Monsieur de Ruvigny, desiring that some goods
coming from France for him may be delivered to
him at Greenwich. Have the goods searched at
Greenwich when the vessel comes up. |
Ibid. |
