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| July 21. |
Royal warrant [privy seal] to the Treasury Lords
for 354l. 14s. 10d. to Thomas East for engraving
seals, ut supra, p. 2016: to be issued on the 20,000l.
privy seal dormant of July 20 inst. [The issue
of the money warrant of June 20, supra, ibid,
without the prior authorisation of this royal warrant
was unconstitutional.] |
King's Warrant Book XIII, p. 58. |
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Money order for 5,687l. 9s. 2d. to Henry Guy for
secret service: without account: to be issued on
the 20,000l. privy seal dormant of the 20th inst.
[The royal sign manual of the 20th inst. and the
consequent money warrants of the 20th inst.,
which should authorise the present money order,
are not entered in extenso in the Treasury
records.] |
Order Book II, p. 166. |
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Henry Guy to Mr. Blathwayte [as Secretary to the
Forces] enclosing Mr. Thomas Holford's bill [missing]
of charges for the making of 36 colours for the
two Regiments of Foot Guards and for several
cases and tassells thereto belonging; as also for
the painting and gilding of 27 drums for the Coldstream Guards: amounting in all to 329l. You
are to prepare and [get] pass[ed] a royal warrant
for payment of this sum by the Paymaster of the
Forces out of contingencies. |
Out Letters (General) XI, p. 415. |
| [?] |
Same to, respectively, Sir Denny Ashburnham, Sir
Jno. Freind and Mr. Backwell to attend the Treasury
Lords at my [Guy's] house on Wednesday morning
next. |
Ibid, p. 416. |
| July 21. |
Same to the Customs Commissioners to deliver some
goods of the Countess De Roye which are seized
at the Custom House from a valet de ehambre [of
hers] when he came from Paris. |
Ibid. |
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Appending: said Countess's petition for same and list
of said goods (3 small portraits, scissors, lace etc.). |
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Treasury reference to Mr. Graham and Mr. Burton
of the petition of Dorothy Price, widow, shewing
that Charles II granted her husband, Capt. Thomas
Price, a term for three lives in the office of Constableship of Windsor Castle, but he died before
the patent was engrossed, whereby same did cease;
that petitioner is entitled to the profits of said
office during the lives of Beck and Orson, who are
very aged: therefore prays a renewal of her term
in the premises for the lives of her three children,
in view of her husband's services. |
Reference Book V, p. 301. |
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Same to Sir Christopher Wrenn of the petition of
Elizabeth Devonshire, shewing that she is 71 years
of age, has had great losses and now without means;
therefore praying leave to set a shed against the
Artillery wall in the highway to Finsbury. |
Ibid. |
| July 21. |
Treasury reference to Mr. Graham and Mr. Burton of the
petition of Jo[h]n Hunt, shewing that three years since
William Pestle was indebted 50l. to him by bond
and petitioner outlawed him in the Common Pleas,
whereupon 100l. is ready to be returned into the
Exchequer: therefore prays an order for payment
of said sum for satisfaction of said debt and costs. |
Reference Book V, p. 303. |
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The Treasury Lords to the Earl of Ranelagh. You
inform us you have received 12,500l. [of Irish
money] from Samuel Heron for the use of the
Forces for the calendary months of Jan., Feb.,
Mar., April and May last in part of 30,000l. out
of the revenue of Ireland for the current year:
and that you have drawn bills for this 12,500l., and
for 1,250l. for the exchange thereof, on John Price,
late Receiver General of the Revenue of Ireland.
The present Receivers General of Ireland, Sir Henry
Bond, bart., and Lewis Doe, have agreed to return
moneys from Ireland at 8 per cent. exchange. Please
therefore draw bills on Bond and Doe for 2,500l.
for each of the calendary months of June, July,
Aug., Sept., Oct., Nov. and Dec. of the present
year (with 200l. per month more for exchange).
This will complete the said 30,000l. |
Out Letters (Ireland) V, pp. 131–2. |
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Royal warrant to the Lord Deputy of Ireland to pass
a commission under the great seal of Ireland to
constitute William Dickenson, William Strong,
Herbert Aubrey Francis Plowden and John Trinder
to be Commissioners of the Revenue, Ireland:
during pleasure: with the salary of 1,000l. per an.
each. The pensions of 500l. per an. to Sir William
Talbot and 60l. per an. to Charles Playdell are to
be continued in this new commission during pleasure:
John Ellis to be Secretary and John Thompson
to be Agent and Solicitor to the said Commissioners
with salaries as in the present [hereby suspended]
Commission. Power to the Commissioners to pay
salaries and incidents. |
Ibid, pp. 132–3. |
| July 22. |
Henry Guy to the Auditor of the Receipt [sic erratum
for the Treasurer of the Navy]. The Treasury
Lords have directed 2,249l. 6s. 0d. to be issued to
you this week for wages due before Lady day, 1686, as
follows, viz. 1,151l. 14s. 9d. for the Fubbs yacht;
642l. 13s. 8d. for the Henrietta yacht; 454l. 17s. 7d. for
the Katherine yacht. Take care to pay same accordingly. |
Disposition Book VI, p. 214. |
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Same to the Customs Cashier to pay into the
Exchequer to-morrow 1,000l. for secret service.
Insert this sum in your next [weekly] certificate
of the Customs [cash]. (Same, dated same, to the
Auditor of the Receipt to issue said 1,000l. to me
[Guy] for secret service by way of advance. The
necessary warrants for the regular issue thereof
shall be sent to you as soon as passed.) |
Ibid, p. 215. |
| July 23. |
Treasury warrant to the Customs Cashier to pay
Philip Nisbett 30l. for 2½ years to 1685, Sept. 29,
on his fee as searcher of Hull port: he giving the
King a release of all claim to arrears of salary in
respect of said office. |
Money Book IX, p. 49. |
| July 23. |
Money order for 200l. to Thomas Smith, underkeeper
of the Park of East Greenwich, without account:
75l. thereof for wages to himself to 1684, Christmas
(as by the statement of Charles Toll et al. [of the
arrears of the late King's servants] "after the
usual retrenchment made") and 125l. as royal
bounty for his care and service in the said place. |
Order Book II, p. 172. |
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Same for 125l. to Thomas Hawley, gent., porter of the
Tower, for the wages or salary of 60l. per an. payable
to him by the Treasurer of the Ordnance, [being]
to 1684, Dec. 19, according to the statement of
said arrears made by Charles Toll et al. June 13
last, "after making such a retrenchment thereout
as was provided by his Majesty's order in Council
of the 16th of April, 1686." To be issued on the
20,000l. privy seal dormant of the 20th inst. |
Ibid, p. 173. |
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Same for 10l. to William Parks, porter at the gate of
the Receipt, for half a year to June 24 last for
his attendance upon the officers of the Receipt. |
Ibid, p. 174. |
| July 24. |
Money warrant for 4,000l. to Sir William Villiers,
bart., for one year from 1687, Christmas, by way
of advance on the privy seal of 1685–6, Feb. 17,
supra, p. 582: to be by him laid out in the manner
and for the uses ut ibid. (Money order dated
July 26 hereon.) |
Money Book IX, p. 48. Order Book II, p. 173. |
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Money order for 2,500l. to Henry Guy, for secret service,
without account: to be issued on the 20,000l.
privy seal dormant of the 20th inst.: as by the
royal sign manual [missing] of the 21st inst. and
money warrant [missing] of the 23rd inst. |
Order Book II, p. 166. |
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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. 215–6. |
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Out of the Customs. |
l. |
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to the Treasurer of the Navy [on the
Navy's] weekly money "on account of
400,000l. per an. from Lady day, 1686" |
7,000 |
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to ditto for warrant officers [towards
their arrears due before 1686, Lady day] |
200 |
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to the Treasurer of the Ordnance [for
one week on the Ordnance Office]
ordinary |
1,000 |
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Out of the Excise. |
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to the Earl of Ranelagh for the Forces |
12,000 |
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Out of the Hearthmoney. |
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to the Cofferer of the Household |
1,500 |
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to the Master of the Great Wardrobe |
1,000 |
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(Same, dated same, to respectively the Customs
Cashier and the Commissioners of Excise and
Hearthmoney, enclosing the paper of disposition
of the cash of those branches of the revenue: said
paper including only the above items respectively.) |
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| July 25. |
Same to the Customs Cashier to pay into the
Exchequer to-day or to-morrow without fail 2,500l.
Put this sum into your next [weekly] certificate
[of the Customs cash]. |
Ibid, p. 216. |
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(Same, dated same, to the Auditor of the Receipt
to issue same as follows, viz. 2,000l. to Lady
Powys, Lady Governess to the Prince of Wales;
500l. to me [Guy] for secret service. Both sums
are to be issued by way of advance, "his Majesty's
service greatly requiring the same." The warrants
for the regular discharging [authorising the issuing]
thereof shall be sent to you as soon as passed.) |
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| July 25. |
Henry Guy to Mr. Gilbert. I have yours of the 21st
inst. When the certificate comes of the poor
benefices that are to be discharged [from arrears
of Tenths] I will take care that the warrant is
drawn in general for all the years [arrears] as you
desire. As to your friend Mr. Nevill, the privy
seal extends only to rectories and vicarages and
not to prebends. He can therefore have no benefit
from it. |
Out Letters (General) XI, p. 417. |
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Same to the Customs Commissioners to visit the
Duchess of Portsmouth's goods to-morrow morning
at her lodgings in Whitehall and to seal them up
in order to their transport to France. |
Ibid. |
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Treasury reference to Bartholomew Fillingham,
Tho Hall, William Lowndes and Philip Ryley
[Agents for Taxes] of the state of Mris. Dashwood's
case as follows. The referees are to report as to
the sufficiency of the respective estates of, the late
Undertakers for the Irish Revenue [the former
Farmers of the great branches of the Revenue,
Ireland]. |
Reference Book V, pp. 301–2. |
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Prefixing: said state. The balance of the late
undertakers in Ireland upon their account is
76,752l. 18s. 5½d., from which is to be abated
14,254l. 15s. 5d., the money lately paid on account
of the Forths' [share of the said] farm. This
leaves a balance of 62,498l. 3s. 0½d. Two-thirds
of this sum (to which Mris. Dashwood with others
is liable) is 41,665l. 8s. 0d. Mris. Dashwood desires
to be admitted to pay only one-eighth of this
two-thirds because the persons or estates of eight
undertakers are liable, viz. Sir James Hayes, Sir
Alexander Bence, deceased, John Stepney, John
Bence, Joseph Dean, George Dashwood, deceased,
Robert Huntington, deceased, and Richard Kingdon,
deceased. The said eighth part will amount to
5,208l. 3s. 0d. But her share will be 8,333l. if
Mris. Dashwood is to pay a fifth of the said twothirds on the ground that only five of the said
undertakers' estates are reputed to be solvent, viz.
Sir James Hayes, Sir Alexander Bence, John
Stepney, John Bence and George Dashwood. On
behalf of Mris. Bence it is alleged that Lemuel
Kingdon left an estate which would have been
reached for the king's debt if his heirs since his
death had not been discharged by the King: also
that some estate is left by Major Huntingdon,
which his executors must apply to the satisfaction
of his part of this debt before any other creditors,
and his said executors have pleaded the King's debt
in bar of actions of other creditors. Mris. Dashwood
therefore prays that the estates of Kingdon and
Huntingdon be reckoned as if solvent. |
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Memorandum: there was annexed to the above
paper a [former] petition of Mris. Dashwood; a
report by the Attorney General; another by
Mr. Lowndes; another computation of the said
balance. |
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Entry of the Treasury Lords' signature of the docquet
of a demise to William Farrar (as the nominee of
Henry, Earl of Peterborough) of a messuage in
Exchange Alley and 26 other messuages or
tenements in a street called Savage Buildings, near
Tower Hill, and of the Swan Inn and four other
messuages in Newport Pagnell, ut supra, pp. 1964–5. |
Warrants not Relating to Money XII, p. 343. |
| July 26. |
Henry Guy to the Customs Commissioners to send a
Customs officer to the lodgings of Monsieur de
Zuylestein, Envoy from the Prince of Orange, to
visit and seal his goods in order to their transport
to Holland. |
Out Letters (General) XI, p. 417. |
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Appending: schedule of said goods (household goods,
clothes, tin etc.). |
| July 27. |
Same to same to deliver to the Portugal Envoy and
to permit the re-shipment, Customs free, of the
following goods arrived from Portugal for the use
of the Count de Pontevall, who was designed to
come as Ambassador from Protugal, but the said
embassage is stopped. |
Ibid, p. 418. |
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Appending: note of said goods laded at Bordeaux on
the ship —, Edward Tomlins master (a trunk containing 6lb. of sucad, 960 ounces of old fringe, white
plate and clothes). |
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Same to Sir Robert Holmes. Send to the Treasury
Lords your further answer to the enclosed reply
[missing] of Col. Arnolt Cooper to your answer on
his former petition. |
Ibid. |
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Treasury reference to Richard Coling, esq., of the
petition of Eliz. de Gloxin to the King; petitioner
shewing that her husband was Resident in this
Court from the Elector of Cologne for eleven years
past; that some months since, having occasion to
return to Cologne, his master thought fit to appoint
the Reverend Father Corker to reside here in his
place: "now it being customary upon such occasions to give some present to public ministers, she
humbly begs that she may receive what has formerly been given to the Residents of other Electors." |
Reference Book V, p. 302. |
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The referee hereon is to report " what presents
have been usually given to persons of the petitioner's
husband's quality." |
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Same to Mr Graham and Mr. Burton of the petition
of Edward Ange, praying a continuance of the
salary of 150l. per an. allowed him by the late
Lord Treasurer [Rochester] for his labours in
relation to Recusants; which salary has been
paid to 1686, Christmas. |
Ibid, p. 303. |
| July 28. |
Henry Guy to the Customs Commissioners to deliver
at the Duchess of Mazarin's lodgings at Whitehall,
on payment of Custom, a box now in the Customs
House at Dover. |
Out Letters (Customs) XI, p. 418. |
| July 30. |
Royal warrant, dated Windsor Castle, to the Attorney
or Solicitor General for a great seal for a grant to
George Bromfeild, his executors and assigns, of
the full, free and sole liberty and privilege of gathering and taking any stones useful for the making
of copperas upon any soil or ground belonging to
the Crown between the high and low water marks
of the sea within the county of Kent and upon
the said soil or ground to operate and convert the
same to the said use, for his and their sole behoof
and benefit: all for 31 years from June 24 last at
the rent of 20s. per an. payable to the Receiver
[of Crown Revenues] for said county: with a
prohibition to any other person to do as herein
in the said county or elsewhere in England, Wales
or Berwick-on-Tweed: all by reason that said
Bromfeild has, by petition, represented that there
are certain stones cast up by the tide on the shore
of Kent which he conceives may be useful to the
making of copperas: wherefore the Attorney
General has reported, May 23 last, that by law
the shore betwixt high and low water belongs to
the Crown with the stones thereon; and further,
Samuel Pepys has reported, July 10 last, that he
has advised with the Judge of the Admiralty and
is of opinion that such grant will be in no wise
prejudicial to the rights and jurisdictions of the
Lord High Admiral of England. |
King's Warrant Book XIII, pp. 59–60. |
| July 30. |
Royal warrant to the [Earl of Bath] Lord Warden of the
Stannaries and to the Parliament of Tinners. The
King has for himself and on behalf of the Prince
of Wales come to an agreement with the tinners,
in Convocation assembled, to take all the tin that
shall arise within the respective Stannaries for
eleven years from June 24 last at 3l. 10s. 0d. per
hundred stannary weight over and above
the coinage duty Further, by the mediation of the
Earl of Bath, Lord Warden of the Stannaries, the
King has admitted and accepted Sir Thomas Griffith
of London, kt., Thomas Hartop of London, esq.,
Richard Holt and James Kelke of London merchants,
to be farmers of the Pre-emption and of the Coinage
duty of tin; they having agreed to take all such
tin as shall arise within the said Stannaries during
said term at said price in such manner as the King
was to take same at the respective coinages as
hath been accustomed. It is therefore the King's
pleasure hereby that the tinners of the respective
Stannaries do from time to time deliver to the said
Farmers all such tin as they have made or shall
make within said term, they paying therefor according to the said agreement: all to the mutual
advantage of said Farmers and said tinners and
to the advancement of the revenue of the Prince,
Duke of Cornwall. |
King's Warrant Book XIII, pp. 60–1. |
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Royal letter to said Earl of Bath to signify to the
tinners the agreement as above, acquainting them
with the names of said Farmers, and that the King
will be in all things careful to preserve the tinners'
ancient rights, customs and privileges and that
accordingly a Commission is to be forthwith prepared
for said Lord Warden to treat and conclude with
the Convocation or Parliament of tinners to ratify
and confirm the premises and concerning all other
matters relating to the Stannaries. Further, as it
has been represented that the tinners may have
some apprehensions or jealousy that the late
adjournment of the Midsummer Coinage (" being,
as you have informed us, a- coinage of right")
might be prejudicial and an invasion of their rights
of Coinage, wherefore it is desired by said Earl
that it be not brought into a precedent, the said
Earl is hereby to assure the tinners that the King
neither had nor has "any such intention to invade
or infringe any of their rights or customs and the
said adjournment (as you know) was only and for
no other cause than for the good of the tinners
themselves "according to their petition and for the
carrying on of the farm, without which it could
never have proceeded. You and the Convocation
are therefore to settle the same in such manner
as that the said adjournment in this case shall be no
precedent for the future nor prejudicial to the
rights and privileges of the tinners if the same
be found contrary to the laws and customs of the
Stannaries. |
Ibid, pp. 61–2. |
| July 30. |
Royal warrant to the Clerk of the Signet for a privy
seal to empower the Earl of Bath to treat as follows
with the tinners of the Stannaries of Cornwall and
Devon. In 1686 the said tinners in their respective
Parliaments and Convocations complained representing the great decay of the Stannaries occasioned
by the combination of merchants, whereby the
price of tin was sunk so low as that their labours
and adventures were wholly discouraged, and
therefore they prayed a commission to you to treat
with them for the king's taking all their tin in
farm at such a rate as might encourage their adventures. Therefore in consideration of the constant
loyalty of the said tinners and out of a just compassion
of their ill circumstances the King by order dated
Windsor, Aug. 16 last, declared that he would
be content to take at 3l. 10s. 0d. per hundred[weight]
all the tin that should be found within the said
Stannaries, being much beyond the then price
current or what could otherwise be by them hoped
for by any other means. By the order dated
Whitehall, Nov. 29 last, you were directed to
signify whether the tinners would accept of the [said]
price with an assurance that if they did a commission
should be issued to you to conclude and treat with
them thereupon. You have communicated same
to them and they have by certain instruments
under the hands of the respective members of the
respective Parliaments or Convocations (the one
dated at Lostwithiel for the Stannaries of Cornwall,
1687, Dec. 19, the other at Tavistock for the
Stannaries of Devon, 1687, Dec. 14) declared their
cheerful assent to the said price. You are therefore
hereby authorised to forthwith repair to Lostwithiel
and Tavistock (or to such other places as may be
convenient for the said Parliaments or Convocations
to be adjourned to) and to complete and execute
the said agreement according to the articles annexed:
taking care that same be ratified in said Convocations.
Further, hereby you are authorised on behalf of
the Prince, Duke of Cornwall, to assent to all such
laws and constitutions as shall be agreed upon and
presented to you by the said Convocations for the
welfare and good government of the Stannaries
in such manner as has been accustomed. " And
whereas since the transactions abovesaid it hath
pleased God to bless us with a son, who is by birth
Duke of Cornwall, and all our interest in the
Stannaries is thereupon devolved upon our said
dearly beloved son, we do hereby declare the
agreement aforesaid to be on the behalf of our
said dearly beloved son the Duke of Cornwall and
his successors" and do hereby promise that this
agreement shall be ratified by the said Duke under
his great seal within the space of twelve months. |
King's Warrant Book XIII, pp. 62–4 |
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Appending: articles and instructions to be observed
by the Earl of Bath in execution hereof. (1) You
shall settle an agreement with the Convocations for
all the said tin at said price of 3l. 10s. 0d. per hundred
Stannary weight, "accounting 120lbs. at 16oz. to
the pound to each hundred," rebating for debased
and bad tin as has been accustomed: for 11 years
from June 24 last. (2) You shall for the King
agree that during the continuance of this farm
the tinners shall be discharged of the Coinage duty
of 4s. per hundred. (3) The price of every parcel
of tin at the said rate shall be paid to the respective
tinners within six days after the delivery of same;
or in default thereof the owner to dispose the same
at his pleasure upon payment of the Coinage duty
and Customs. (4) The King condescends and
agrees that there shall be four coinages yearly
at each coinage town at the usual times, to be
ascertained [fixed] as in former farms. (5) The
King's agents, farmers or assigns shall have a
bank or stock of 10,000l. in the whole; to be divided
and lodged in each coinage town; some thereof
(in such proportion as shall be fit) to be from time
to time lent and advanced to the tinners betwixt
the Coinages upon good security at 6 per cent for
two or three months "and if but for one month
and the tin in the [Coinage] Hall, [then] to be
lent gratis." |
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| July 30. |
Royal warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General
for a great seal for a fresh Commission for hackney
Coaches (for licensing, regulating, ordering and
governing all hackney coaches to be let or driven
within the several parishes comprised within the
weekly bills of mortality): the new Commissioners
to be John Philipps, Col. Thomas Napier, Thomas
Price, Richard Sheldon and John Baptist Nipho,
son of Jerome Nipho: in place of the said Philipps,
Napier, Price and Jerome Nipho. [The effect of
this new Commission is simply to substitute Nipho,
senr., for Nipho, junr.] |
King's Warrant Book XIII, pp. 65–6. |
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Same to the Clerk of the Signet for a privy seal for
a grant to Rowland Woodyer and William Challoner,
their executors and assigns, of all Customs or duties
on lampernes exported alive out of the Thames
or elsewhere in England to Holland and Zealand
or other places within the jurisdiction of the United
Provinces of the Netherlands: viz. from 1684–5,
Feb. 6, to 1694, Sept. 11: they paying therefor
the existing yearly rent of 20 marks (as in the
existing grant of the premises) and all arrears thereon
to Feb. 2 last and "also the same or the like yearly
rent of 20 marks from henceforth during the continuance of this grant." All officers who have
received or shall receive the profit of the said Customs
since 1684–5, Feb. 6, [are hereby authorised and
required to pay same] to said Woodyer and Challoner
to their own use. But no benefit to be had of this
grant till said arrears be paid into the Exchequer:
all by reason that Charles II, 1663, Sept. 11, granted
to Sir Joseph Wagstaffe, kt., since deceased, the
sole benefit of transporting lampernes alive from
England to Holland as above, for 31 years at the
said rent of 20 marks, and the interest and benefit
of the said letters patent have come to said Woodyer
and Challoner "and those from whom they claim
under the said letters patents did receive the Customs
or duties of the said lampernes, which were exported,
until the time of the demise or decease of our said
royal brother, since which time the Customs or
duties of lampernes exported do belong or are
supposed to belong to" the Crown by virtue of
the Act of 1 James II, c. 1, for settling on the present
King the revenue which was settled on Charles II. |
Ibid, pp. 66–8. |
| July 30. |
Money warrant for 100l. to William Carter, without
account: in reward for his extraordinary charges
and pains in seizing, prosecuting and condemning
divers parcels of wool (intended to be transported)
and the vessels exporting the same: to be satisfied
out of the moneys of goods seized. (Money order
dated July 31 hereon.) |
Money Book IX, p. 51. Order Book II, p. 174. |
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Dormant same for the salary of 1,000l. per an. to
Sir John Rotheram as one of the Barons of the
Exchequer Court: to be satisfied out of any unappropriated money in the Exchequer. |
Money Book IX, p. 51. |
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Treasury warrant to the Customs Cashier to pay
63l. 2s. 0d. to the Clerk of the Pipe for himself and
the Secondaries and clerks in his Office; 5l. 15s. 0d.
to the Comptroller of the Pipe; 11l. 15s. 4d. to
the two Deputy Chamberlains [of the Exchequer
Court]: in all 80l. 12s. 4d.: being for one year
to June 24 last on their several fees payable out
of the Customs. (Henry Guy, dated same, to
same to so pay same.) |
Ibid, p. 52. Disposition Book VI, p. 217. |
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Money warrant for 534l. 18s. 0d. to Joseph [Hornby]
and Nathaniel Hornby for 6 per cent interest
[from Mar. 25] to June 24 last on several sums
of money by them advanced and lent for the service
of the late King: as by an account thereof made
up by Auditor Aldworth and allowed by the Treasury
Lords the 13th inst. (Money order dated Aug. 3
hereon.) |
Money Book IX, p. 53. Order Book II, p. 175. |
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Same for 60l. to John, Earl of Bath, for three quarters
to June 24 last on his fee of 80l. per an. as underkeeper of St. James's House: to be satisfied out
of any unappropriated money in the Exchequer. |
Money Book IX, p. 54. |
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Same for 10l. to Lodowick Bray for last June 24
quarter on his pension: to be satisfied ut supra. |
Ibid. |
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Henry Guy, dated Windsor Castle, to the Auditor of the
Receipt to pay (out of the money and goods seized) the
above 60l. to the Earl of Bath and 10l. to Mr. Bray:
and (out of the moneys of Tenths) 50l. to Mr. Morland. |
Disposition Book VI, p. 217. |
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Same to same to issue (out of the wine and vinegar
duty moneys now in the Exchequer) 2,000l. to
the Treasurer of the Ordnance for stores and storehouses; and 534l. 5s. 1d. to Visct. Falkland,
Treasurer of the Navy, for the seamen lately
belonging to the King's ship Bristol. |
Ibid, p. 219. |
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Same to the Judge of the Admiralty Court,
enclosing a memorandum as follows concerning
the two ships Constant Love and Revenge. It is
the King's pleasure that you observe same. |
Out Letters (General) XI, p. 418. |
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Appending: said memorandum "of his Majesty's
pleasure from the Lords Commissioners of the
Treasury to Mr. Pepys." Mr. Horsdesnell, Chief
Judge of Bermudas, has by several letters to the
Committee of [Trade and] Plantations and to the
Treasury Lords, given information that Sir Robert
Robinson has defrauded the King of a considerable
part of the [Hispaniola] wreck money belonging
to his Majesty; which is supposed to have been
sent into England by him on either the Constant
Love, Capt. Bee master, or on the pirate ship
Revenge, brought home by his son, both which
ships and their lading are now under arrest. It
is the King's pleasure that as soon as the Constant
Love shall have been searched by the officers of the
Mint (who are to take an account of all the wreck
money) and the master, Capt. Bee, has given security
to answer any claim of the King he then be permitted
to unload and to dispose of the goods as he shall
see cause: but that as to the Revenge the arrest
be continued with great strictness until the like
search be made by the officers of the Mint and
until the King's further pleasure be known. |
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| July 30. |
Henry Guy, dated Windsor Castle, to the officers of the
Mint. The Treasury Lords are informed by Mr.
Constable (who was employed to take care of the
King's part of the treasure taken up from the
wreck near Hispaniola) that he received at the
said wreck the value of 500l. odd and that afterwards going to Jamaica he seized on board Capt.
Knapman's ship a quantity of silver said to be
19,9071/8 ounces, which was in the hands of Col.
Molesworth. You are to receive the said treasure
from the hands of Mr. Constable and to bring
same into the Mint to his Majesty's use: and you
are to give the Treasury Lords an account thereof.
(Same, dated same, to said Constable to deliver
said treasure to said Mint officers.) |
Out Letters (General) XI, p. 419. |
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Same to the Earl of Bath et al. The King has signed
your warrants [ut supra, pp. 2023–5]. But in regard
you will now be possessed of the tin at the ensuing
coinage before the grant [of the tin farm] pass the
seal, and [consequently] the King will not receive
the Coinage duty [on the tin you will so receive]
his Majesty thinks it reasonable that you should
forthwith pay part of the 8,000l. which you were
to advance. He therefore directs you, upon receipt
of these warrants, to pay 500l. into the Exchequer
and to give bond that when you are possessed of
the tin at the ensuing Coinage you will pay 1,000l.
more in part of the said 8,000l. |
Ibid. |
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Same to the officers of the Mint to go with Visct.
Falkland to receive the King's part of the treasure
brought from the Hispaniola wreck by the ship
or ships lately commanded by Sir John Narborough.
Bring the same into the Mint and give the Treasury
Lords an account thereof. |
Ibid, p. 420. |
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Same to the Customs Commissioners to permit Col.
Patrick Sarsfeild to export, Customs free, eight
horses to Ireland. |
Ibid. |
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Treasury reference to Mr. Fillingham et al. of the
petition of Ann Hargrave, shewing that her husband
was concerned in Wadlow's undertaking [for the
collection or management of the First Wine Act],
but [that he] never intermeddled with the receipt
of money: that there are endeavours made to
obtain a grant of the debt due [to the King] from
said Wadlow [and his partners in said undertaking]
on purpose to vex petitioner: therefore she prays
to be discharged from said undertaking "as several
or most of the other undertakers or their widows
have been." |
Reference Book V, p. 303. |
| July 30. |
Treasury warrant to the sheriff of Middlesex to deliver
to Richard Beauvoir the particulars as follow
which have been seized as forfeit to the King by
the outlawry of Sir Robert Vyner; the said particulars having been granted by privy seal to said
Beauvoir. The said Beauvoir is to give security
to re-deliver same if the Treasury Lords shall so
direct. |
Warrants not Relating to Money XII, p. 344. |
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Appending: schedule of the goods and rents of
Sir Robert Vyner and his tenants seized by the
undersheriff upon Mr. Edwards his outlawry,
viz. at the manor of Swakeleys (goods to the value
of 70l. at the great house; 13l. of Richard Osmond,
a tenant; 14l. of Eliz. Porter, widow, a tenant;
4l. of John Osmond, a tenant; 4l. of Francis Marlow,
a tenant; 2l. of William Hilliar, a tenant; 5l. on
the fishery late Preist's; 10l. of Robt. Bennett,
late Wetherley's; 74l. of William Pope; 3l. of
Sarah Greenhill: total, 199l.) |
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Same to the Trustees for sale of Fee Farm Rents to
convey to John Garland certain rents [unnamed]
as in lieu of several other rents [unnamed] to the
value of 2,191l. 6s. 10d. [formerly purchased by
him and which have proved unrealisable]. |
Ibid, p. 345. |
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Same to the King's Remembrancer for a Commission
to the following for enquiry touching moneys
levied on Recusants or other Dissenters whatsoever
and not yet answered or accompted for to the King,
all ut supra, p. 1803, viz.: |
Ibid, pp. 345–6 |
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Within the city of Canterbury and the counties of
Kent and Southampton. |
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Sir Edward Hale, bart., Sir Hen. Tichburne, bart.,
Sir Tho. Roberts, bart., Sir Rob. Holmes, kt.,
Sir Cha. Bickerstaff, kt., Thomas Manley of
Rochester, Tho. Scranton of Canterbury, Edwd.
Crayford of Canterbury, Tho. Hales of Canterbury, Edmd. Perkins of Hampshire, Tho. Price
of the Inner Temple, Patrick Fairley of the
Middle Temple, Cha. Danvers of the Inner
Temple, Richd. White of the Middle Temple,
Robt. Gibbon of the Wold [Weald] of Kent,
—Brewer, junr., of Maidstone,—
Wright, mayor of Maidstone, — Tuck,
Deputy Governor of Dover, Andrew Barry of
the Inner Temple, all esqrs.: Joseph Garthwayt
of the Middle Temple, Richd. Jobber of the
Inner Temple, Edwd. Lloyd of Westminster,
Charles Brockwell of London, gentlemen. |
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For cos. Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge and the Isle
of Ely. |
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Sir James Johnston, kt., Rob. Walpoole, Isaac
Preston, Gerrard Russell, Phillip Cadman,
Edmund Coleman, Hugh Underwood, Robt.
Sparrow, John Davey, esqrs.; Thorowgood
Upwood, Robt. Russell, William Betts, Daniell
Cole, John Challis, Cha. Brockwell, Bath.
Young, Tho. Baleston, Jonathan Perry, Tho.
Godfrey, Edward Bayley. |
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Same to same for a constat or particular of the estate
of Francis Charlton, outlawed for treason; in order
to a grant thereof to the Duke of Berwick. |
Ibid, p. 346. |
| July 31. |
Money order for 407l. 4s. 7d. to John Walker, Usher
of the Exchequer Court, as well for necessaries
delivered to the officers of said Court in Trinity
term, 1688, as for his own diet at 5d. a day for
138 days, Mar. 13 last to July 31 last. |
Order Book II, p 174. |
| July 31. |
Money order for 1,500l. to Henry Guy, for secret service,
without account: to be issued on the 20,000l.
privy seal dormant of the 20th inst., as by the
royal sign manual of the 30th inst. and money
warrant of the 30th inst. and money order of the
30th inst. |
Order Book II, p. 174. |
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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, p. 218. |
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Out of the Customs. |
l. |
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to the Treasurer of the Navy [on the
Navy's] weekly money "on account of
400,000l. per an. from Lady day, 1686" |
7,000 |
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to ditto for warrant officers [on their
arrears due before 1686, Lady day] |
200 |
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to the Treasurer of the Ordnance [for one
week on the Ordnance Office] ordinary |
1,000 |
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Out of the Excise. |
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to the Ear of Ranelagh for the Forces |
12,000 |
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Out of Hearthmoney. |
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to the Cofferer of the Household |
1,500 |
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to Sir William Villiers for the Stables |
2,000 |
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(Same, dated same, respectively to the Customs
Cashier and the Commissioners of Excise and
Hearthmoney, enclosing the paper of the disposition
of the cash of those respective branches of the
revenue: said paper including in each case only
the items as above.) |
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Same to the Navy Commissioners. It is the King's
pleasure that you stop so much of the money
due to Mr. Martin upon his contract for naval
stores as amounts to the difference between his
old and new contracts, until such time as all the
articles of his old contract be complied with. |
Out Letters (General) XI, p. 422. |
| Aug. [?1]. |
Same to the Earl of Melfort to report on (a)
infra. |
Ibid, p. 421. |
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Appending: (a) petition of Deborah Cranstun, widow,
shewing that her father was Major of Foot at
Worcester fight and was taken prisoner and
plundered; that she is a widow with three children
and was lately arrested and is like to be thrown
into prison, being abandoned by her friends for
turning to the Roman Catholic religion: therefore
prays a small pension or a sum of money for her
relief. |
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