Entry Book: August 1686, 21-31

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August 1686, 21-31

Aug. 21. Same, dated same, to the Auditor of the Receipt to forthwith advance to Sir William Trumbull the 800l. directed ut supra, p. 874. You shall have the necessary [money warrant and] orders for the [regular payment of] same as soon as they can be despatched. Disposition Book V, p. 21.
Aug. 23. Royal warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General for a great seal for a grant to Thomas Fitch, gent. of the office of Weigher and Teller of the Mint, loco Lancelott Perrott, gent., deceased: to hold during pleasure and with power to appoint a deputy. King's Warrant Book XI, p. 114.
Royal letter, dated Windsor Castle, to the Governor of the Leeward Isles. For the better managing and collecting the Four and a Half per cent. duty in Nevis, St. Christopher, Antigua and Montserrat the Customs Commissioners have provided a sufficient number of beams, scales and weights to be sent over and erected in the most usual places of shipping and landing of goods, with instructions to the officers in said islands to cause all goods to be duly weighed in order to the receiving the duties thereon "and not to take the same by compute as hath been heretofore practised." You are to recommend this matter to the principal traders and planters within your government as a thing very much for the King's service, so as to obtain a ready compliance thereto by bringing their goods to the scales with as little trouble as possible. For their accommodation proper officers shall be appointed to said scales. Ibid, p. 115.
Royal warrant to Treasurer Rochester to give warrant to the Clerk of the Pipe for a lease under the Exchequer seal to Isaac Marriott, gent., of the houses, lands and tenements as follow, with all buildings thereon situate in Surrey, Kent, Bucks, Middlesex, Berks, Sussex, Oxford, Somerset, Norfolk and Beds., being rights and hereditaments "as we are informed" of right belonging to the Crown, but concealed and unjustly withheld therefrom: to hold to him, said Marriott, his executors and assigns for 61 years from Lady day last at the rent of a moiety of the improved rents and value thereof besides 5l. per an. out of every 100l. which shall be yearly made of the other moiety thereof: the said improved rents to be ascertained from time to time by the Surveyor General of Crown Lands. The patent is also to contain a grant to said Marriott of all arrears of rents and profits due to the Crown for the premises, whereof a moiety is to be paid to the King at the Exchequer whenever recovered. The said lease to be in consideration of the great costs and charges Marriott has been at in discovering and recovering said premises to the Crown and defending the King's title thereto. Ibid, pp. 115–24. Warrants not Relating to Money XI, pp. 341–4.
(Treasurer Rochester's warrant dated Aug. 25 hereon accordingly to the Clerk of the Pipe for said lease.)
Together with: (a) report dated July 28 last from John Fisher, Deputy Surveyor General of Crown Lands, to Treasurer Rochester, touching the discoveries made by Mr. Aylesbury and Mr. Marriott as by the reference of July 16 supra, p. 839. I have considered said discoveries and also the certificates and opinions of certain Commissioners who did June 25 last propose a grant to said Aylesbury and Marriott. I conceive all real discoveries ought to be encouraged for his Majesty's service, In Mr. Aylesburye's petition I see only two and those not found by inquisition, viz. one of a tenement called Weeke House in Hackney, valued by the Commissioners at 250l. per an. and alleged to be the estate in fee of Benedict Haynes, whose issue is said to be extinct by the death of Eliz. Waldo, the last of his line, in 1682. If this be true the discovery may be good and grantable. But it is the usual practice in such cases to have the title found by inquisition before any grant pass, as thereby any pretended claims and imcumbrances may be considered. The other item is three coppices in Lillingstone Dayrell, co. Bucks. This I take to be no discovery, but are well enough known to be within and part of Whittlewood Forest, and though it may be true that a lease thereof was granted by Queen Elizabeth, which is now expired, and that Urlin bought them in the former [late] rebellious times and cut down most of the timber, yet it is certain that the whole forest, including these three coppices, is together with Salcey Forest passed to the Queen Dowager as part of her dowry and rated to her at 200l. per an. and to be preserved for the growth of wood and not to be leased "and this I take to be the reason that the Lady Phil. Mohun did not obtain a grant thereof upon her petition for them in 1664."
As to the parcels mentioned in the said Commissioners' certificate on behalf of Mr. Marriott, which extend into the abovesaid counties, but are not particularised nor found by inquisition a grant in general terms will not be according to the usual practice. Every particular is first to be ascertained so that it may be known what is granted. A certain time of five or seven years at the most ought to be limited for the lessee to recover [same to the Crown] at his own cost and what is not so recovered to be void: and no recovered item to be let at below the full yearly value and no fine or composition to be taken from any pretended owner to the prejudice of the Crown. All attornments to be forthwith certified by the lessee to the auditor of the county upon oath with the full yearly value so that same may be put in charge. The lessee not to assign any part of the premises but by special licence of the Lord Treasurer. As it is impossible to guess the yearly value of the premises, the usual covenant for delivering schedules and rentals is to be carefully observed. (b) Statement of opinion by Sir Robert Sawyer, Attorney General, dated Aug. 7 inst., on this report from the Deputy Surveyor General. I conceive the King may lease or grant the lands in question without an office found, though in such cases it has been usual to find offices for the better instruction of the King's officers.")
Appending: schedules of said premises.
In the parish of St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, co. Surrey: being parcel of the waste reputed to pertain to the late dissolved monastery of St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, in Southwark, or to the manor of Bermondsey extending from the place commonly called Duffins Slitte to the place commonly called Neckinger Corner.
a messuage or cottage in the occupancy of David Lee; a house or cottage in ditto of William O'Neal; a ditto in ditto of Sarah Green; a ditto in ditto of Richard Cotten; a ditto in ditto of Peter Newberry; a tenement in ditto of Patrick Haise; a house or cottage in ditto of James Wright; a house or tenement in ditto of — Cole, widow; a cottage in ditto of John Taylor; a cottage or tenement in ditto of Isaac Cammock; a tenement in ditto of Nicholas Mann; a cottage in ditto of Edmund Partridge; a house in ditto of John Collier; a ditto in ditto of Roger Seymour; a ditto in ditto of Richard Ellis; a ditto in ditto of Thomas Smith; a house or cottage in ditto of —, widow; a house in ditto of Luke Roche; a ditto in ditto of Robert Damerhill; a house or cottage in ditto of William Adams; a house in ditto of William Theodorick; a house or tenement in ditto of Thomas Jenkins; a house in ditto of William Eburne; a ditto in ditto of John Godfery; a ditto in ditto of — Stafford, widow; a ditto in ditto of Thomas Batcheller; a ditto in ditto of Oliver Holloway; a ditto in ditto of William Thomas; a ditto in ditto of William Thrawley; a house or cottage in ditto of Thomas Richardson; a ditto in ditto of Henry Critchett; a ditto in ditto of Thomas Gardner; a ditto in ditto of Hen. Skinner; a house in ditto of Peter Ford; a ditto in ditto of Hen. Moss; a ditto in ditto of Thomas Martin; a ditto in ditto of Thomas Cantor; a ditto in ditto of Anthony Prowce; a ditto in ditto of Thomas Higgins; a ditto in ditto of John Fowler; a ditto in ditto of William Linchfeild; a ditto in ditto of — Raven, widow: a ditto in ditto of Peter Hildidge; a ditto in ditto of Robert Shackleton; a ditto in ditto of Thomas Cooper; a ditto in ditto of William Stephens; a ditto in ditto of Robert Bovill; a ditto in ditto of Peter Pindar; a ditto in ditto of James Haidon; a ditto in ditto of Roger Bevis; a ditto in ditto of John Hoskins et al; a tenement in ditto of — Peperill; certain other tenements in the separate tenures of Simon Elliff, Peter Waggoner, Edward Jenn, John Ansheire, "and other tenements there."
Another parcel of the said waste extending from the place commonly called the Neckinger to the Sign of the George.
a house in the tenure of John Whibby; a ditto in ditto of John Stiles; a ditto in ditto of Andrew Gardner; a ditto in ditto of Henry Tomkins; a ditto in ditto of John Tristram; a ditto in ditto of Jacob Belton; a ditto in ditto of Thomas Moore; a ditto in ditto of James Berry; two messuages in ditto of — Crane, widow, and John Bardeile; two houses in ditto of Stephen Cook and Nicholas Locker; two tenements in ditto of Thomas Hoar and William Slye; 3 houses in ditto of John Pesey, John Cooke and Thomas Keite; three tenements in ditto of Barnaby Swan, George Moore and Thomas Ratherburne; three houses or cottages in ditto of John Langford, Peter Wappell and John Kendall; six ditto in ditto of John Keite, William Haynes, William Shakleton, Jacob Young, Robert Feawter and John Hammond: five tenements or cottages in ditto of John Gray, John Milburne, Andrew Drew, Edward Haynes and Robert White; "and other tenements there."
Another parcel of the said waste extending from the place called the Dockhead to the place called the Churchyard.
certain houses or cottages, garden, yard etc. in the tenure of — Snelgrave, widow.
Another parcel of the said waste extending from the place called the Dockhead to the place called the Mill there.
ten cottages or houses in the tenure of Peter Harwood, Thomas Mewse, — Buck, widow, Benjamin Barrett, Thomas Green, — widow, William Wadker, John Collier, John Bonniface, — Steele, widow; ten ditto in ditto of William West, — Sclater, John Watts, John Samuell, William Smyth, Richard Burden, —, widow, Nicholas Hartford, John Hopkins and William Alwood; 14 ditto in ditto of Thomas Allen and Thomas Newman; three empty houses in ditto of Thomas Gates, Richard Sumpter, — Sampford, — Leoman, widow; three tenements in ditto of said widow and Jeffry Blissington; two empty houses; a house or cottage in ditto of — Stuart, widow; five houses; ten cottages or tenements in ditto of William Terry, — Samford, Thomas Grove, John Hill, John Johnson, John Hopkins, John Mitchell, George Baker, John Fuller and John Daniell; "and other tenements there."
Another parcel of the said waste extending from the place called Five Foot Lane to the place called the Stonebridge.
twelve cottages or houses in the tenure of Joseph Eales, — Kempe, — Hudson, deceased, one empty, William Holder, James Chatfeild, William Lincorne, — Jones, — Docker, Joseph Eales and — Rock; 15 new houses or tenements newly built on said waste by George — and several others; a cottage or house in the tenure of — Reynolds, widow; 40, more or less, cottages or houses in ditto of — Digby et al.; several other cottages or houses built on the said waste, viz. The Anchor; a tenement in the tenure of — Cobb; a ditto called the Dyehouse; a tenement or cottage; ten cottages or houses in the tenure of — Mewse et al.; a tenement called The Catt and Shoulder of Mutton; several other houses in the tenure of Isaac Bolton et al.; a certain house called The Gloucestershire Armes; "and other tenements and buildings recently erected on the said waste."
Another parcel of the said waste extending from the place called the Star Corner to the place called the Cunney Warren.
a shop or shed in the tenure of William Cook; a yard in ditto of William Brittan; a cottage in ditto of Elizabeth Ange; a house and shed in ditto of William Smyth; two cottages in ditto of Samuel Eales; two sheds between the house of the said Eales and the house of William Jackson; a cellar and the room above it; a ditto in the tenure of Pickering Pinmaker; a house adjacent in which is a Grammar School; a shop in the tenure of William Browne; a house and shed in ditto of John Stephens; a ditto in ditto of William Goddard; a house or cottage, stable and yard in ditto of William Ashe; an orchard, yard and shed in ditto of — Royden, widow; a house, shed and yard in ditto of William Everitt.
Another parcel of the said waste extending from the Temple of Bermondsey to the place called the Starr Corner.
a house or cottage and shop in the tenure of Robert King; a house in ditto of John Holmes; a house or cottage in ditto of John Jacob and a shed extending from the said house to the Star Corner.
Another parcel of the said waste called the wall (Le Murr') extending from the house called the "Blew Anchor" to the place called Cuckold's Point in the tenure of Robert Willis.
certain tenements or cottages lately built on the said waste and all other lands, tenements, mills and hereditaments whatsoever in and upon the said waste and pertaining in any way to the waste of the said monastery or manor.
Lands and tenements in the parish of Rederith [Rotherhithe] and Bermondsey.
certain lands called Paradise in Bermondsey late in the tenure of Thomas Foster; and lands and tenements called Paradise in Rotherhithe and land called Long Lees containing 30 acres and Whittons Croft containing 19 acres, in the tenure of John Hurthis; a mansion house, garden etc. in ditto of George Feind, esq.; a mansion house or cottage and backside or garden in the tenure of Edward Hardishe; a ditto in ditto of Mathew Holt; a ditto in ditto of Anth. Buttolph; a ditto in ditto of Joanna Kirkeby, widow; a ditto in ditto of William Whitney.
A parcel of waste there which Peter Hill lately claimed containing
a mansion house or cottage and backside and garden in the tenure of Thomas Nodes; a ditto in ditto of William Stephens; a ditto in ditto of James Farrington; a ditto in ditto of Robert Barnes; a ditto in ditto of Ellen Sharpe, widow; 12 mansion houses with gardens and other edifices (half an acre) in ditto of William Gale; a ditto (two acres) in ditto of William Mounsey; twelve ditto in ditto of Thomas Jadwin; two ditto in ditto of William Gates; a ditto in ditto of Richard Duck: six mansion houses in ditto of Peter Hills and certain lands and tenements in ditto of — Mewse; six mansion houses with orchards and gardens in ditto of Richard Storey; a mansion house in ditto of Margaret Wallen; lands and tenements in ditto of — Heath; a mansion house in ditto of Fridisweed Rogers, widow; a ditto in ditto of Christopher Hurt; a ditto in ditto of James Whistler; a ditto in ditto of Thomas Hodges; a ditto in ditto of William Rowland; a ditto in ditto of Henry Clements; a ditto in ditto of Thomas Brooke; a mansion house with a garden in ditto of Jane Rollet, widow; a mansion house, orchard and backside called Gerrards Hall in ditto of John Harrison; all the lands and tenements lately granted to Sir William Gardner; nine tenements lying south and east of the church of Rotherhithe and lately demised to Sir Thomas Lake et al.; divers lands and tenements in Rotherhithe and meadow in Long Lane formerly demised to Samuel Woodcock; certain land called Pickering Marsh and Samp Shore lately granted to Richard Symonds, gent.; a mill called the Gunpowder Mill in Rotherhithe; seven tenements and sixteen cottages in Rotherhithe lately granted to Thomas Johnson; three cottages or tenements in Rotherhithe lately demised to Sir Henry Spiller; divers tenements and gardens in the parish of St. Olave's, Southwark, demised to Richard Hale in 23 Eliz.; a Hospice called the Unicorn in Southwark and divers messuages and tenements there demised to Robert Levsey, esq. et al.; certain other messuages, gardens and tenements in the parish of St. Saviour's, Southwark; and closes of land in St. Olave's, Southwark, lately granted to the Mayor, aldermen and citizens of London: divers lands and tenements in the parish of St. Olave's, Southwark, lately demised to Thomas Gwillam; the annual rent of 20l. issuing from Bermondsey and Beechfield in Rotherhithe and [the rent of] 48l. [per an.] issuing from the tenement or grange near—, Bermondsey, granted to William Cranburne, 6 James I; divers lands and tenements in Southwark granted to Richard Hale by Queen Elizabeth; six messuages in Walnut Tree Lane in St. Olave's, Southwark, granted to Arthur Withering and John Penneseth; divers lands, tenements and pastures in Rotherhithe lately granted to Samuel Woodcocke; certain lands and pastures in Rotherhithe granted 6 May, 1591, to Thomas Lake, esq., Mary Rider and Susan Rider; certain other lands and tenements in Kent Street, Southwark; a piece of garden land and nine cottages with small garden adjacent in Rotherhithe, granted to Thomas Johnson for 60 years; The Lime Wharf and certain lands and meadows in Rotherhithe granted to Nicholas Raynbeard, gent.; five messuages or tenements with garden and orchard in Rotherhithe late in the tenure of John Robinson et al., and tenement there in the tenure of same; and all other lands, tenements and hereditaments whatsoever in Rotherhithe and Bermondsey pertaining to the Crown of England, but concealed therefrom and to be recovered by Isaac Marryott, the grantee herein
Lands and tenements in Speldhurst, co. Kent. all the manor of Ferribies with its appurtenances, arable and pasture land and wood called Ferribies; containing about 12 acres: a parcel of land and wood containing about 11 acres called Ferrebyes and all rents and services etc. of said manor: three separate parcels [of land] called Rockington containing about 20 acres in Speldhurst; three other parcels of land called Stockland containing 14 acres; two parcels of land containing 10½ acres abutting north on the common way leading from Speldhurst to Lampington and east on the land of Richard Collins and on another parcel of land called the Gleablands and west on the lands of William Curdo (? Curd) and other gleab lands there: other messuages or tenements called Ox Eyes and the Kemp Plot and garden, the said premises being late in the tenure of John Walter and situate in Speldhurst; the orchard and four parcels of arable and wood land of the aforesaid messuage or tenement called Oxe Eyes containing 17 acres in Speldhurst, late in the tenure of John Streetfeild; the arable, pasture and wood land called Birchel Nicholas lands and East Fields and East Field Woods, containing 38 acres, in Speldhurst: a messuage or tenement and orchard, arable land, meadow and wood etc. late in the tenure of Richard Colin, containing 22 acres, in Speldhurst; two other messuages, one near the Churchyard Stile in Speldhurst and the other towards the Parsonage House ibid.: two other parcels of land, one called the Parsonage Wenfeild, the other called the Cunny Croft: two other pieces of land, one called the Forestawle, the other called the Barncroft, adjoining a parcel of land called the Round Croft and containing 18 acres: all other lands etc. of John Waller of Speldhurst, whether in Speldhurst or any other part of Kent: certain lands and tenements called the Dines in Maidstone, now or late in grant to Henry Drake et al.: a certain marsh called Bridge Marsh and other marsh lands in Green or Griene [Grain] Island, late demised to Hugh Southerne and Richard Pemble: six messuages in Greenwich lately demised to Thomas Ketchmay and Robert Corbet; two marshes called Redham Smith and Punvincle Marsh, alias Pinewynckle Marsh in the parish of Iwade, parcel of the manor of Teynham, and of the possessions of the Archbishop of Canterbury and lately demised to William Lewyn: a messuage and certain meadow and other lands containing 46 acres, parcel of the manor of Ripple, and lately demised to John Warren, gent.: eight acres of arable land in Minster lately demised to Thomas Paramore: three parcels of land and 13 acres of land in Doddington and two tenements in Dover formerly demised to Thomas Sare and Ady Sare and John Bendger: certain tenements in the parish of Doddington lately demised to Sir Dru Drury: a messuage and divers shops and a tenement in Dover lately demised to Emanuel Alley: certain lands in Westwell lately demised to George Baker: certain tenements in the town and port of Dover lately demised to Richard Jornes and Isaac Barger, gent.; certain messuages or tenements, garden, woodyard etc. there late in the tenure of Henry Leonard: other lands there late demised to John Symonds: a tenement, garden and 30 acres of land in the parish of Boxley and 5 parcels of land in Wavering in Boxley lately demised to Elizabeth Collier et al. the scite of the manor of St. Radigund formerly demised to Thomas Edolphe: the scite of the manor of Westwell and all customary tenements of said manor lately demised to Thomas Taylor: the scite of the manor of Teynham lately demised to Edward Fagg: a cottage, orchard and eight acres of land in Teynham lately demised to John Castlocke: a messuage lying in Shorne and East Chalk formerly demised to Sir Thomas Lake: several rents [formerly] pertaining to the free chapel of Newstead Beckingfield, payable by divers persons for tithes in Homehurst in the parish of Sutton, and for lands and tithes in Bolehurst in the parish of Cranbrook and Bowlehurst, and for certain tithe lands in tithe in Feahurst, and for certain lands out of tithe in Shersden [? Sherenden] and lately demised to Alexander Stafford: lands in tithe in the manor of Deptford and for the Park of Otford formerly demised to Rowland White, esq.: certain waste lands in the parish of Hope All Saints, near Romney, lately demised to William Kenett et al., and other waste lands there: a certain wood called Whittlewood, parcel of the manor of Otford: tenements in the Island of Sheppey lately demised to John Hawkins: the scite of the late abbey of Malling lately demised to Sir Francis Cottington: the scite of the manor of Lee lately demised to Edward Brainshopp: tenements in Minster in the Isle of Sheppey, lately demised to John Fewberry: the farm called Nethercomb, alias Eastcombe, in East Greenwich, lately demised to John Cook and Thomasin his wife.
Lands and tenements in co. Somerset.
A messuage or tenement with garden etc. in Shutterne in Taunton Dean, late in the tenure of Thomas Prowse: certain tenements lately built on the waste of Milverton in the tenure of — Granger, clerk: other wastes in the manor of St. Mary of Milverton: and all other lands, tenements etc. in the said places.
In co. Bucks.
a virgate of land in Upton, called Goodmans: a tenement and virgate of land called Kaynes with a toft and virgate of land called Thores, and a garden plot called Coppie Hall and a grove called the Grove, and other lands late in the tenure of Katherin Blackwell, and lately demised to Katherin West, widow: certain lands and tenements in Great Marlow and Little Marlow, and certain wastes and encroachments there.
In co. Midd.
a tenement and two messuages in St. Martins in the Fields, lately demised to Thomas Merry, esq.: a messuage there late in the tenure of Henry Peele: a ditto in ditto of John Downes, and lately demised to John Eldred and William Whitmore: certain lands in East Smithfield, and two closes in Islington, parcel of the manors of [Stoke] Newington, Barrow and Highbury, and tenements and cottages in St. John Street and Turn Mill Street, and certain meadows and pastures built upon in the parish of St. Martins in the Fields and certain tenements in the Strand and Clerkenwell and a tenement and garden called Patric Garden, in the parish of St. Botolphs without Aldgate, and other lands and tenements near St. James's in the Fields and certain demesne lands, meadows and pasture late pertaining to the Hospital of St. James's in the Fields [all] lately demised by several letters patent of James I to John Eldred and William Whitmore: certain lands and tenements lately granted to — Browne in Clerkenwell and St. John Street and Islington and the Saint John Baptists Head in St. John Street and Windmill Hill and Butts Close in Clerkenwell, and certain lands and tenements in Wapping of right pertaining to the Crown of England and concealed from the Crown and in the several tenures of — Joy, widow [et al.] and certain lands and tenements called Wickhouse in Hackney.
In co. Berks.
a close or grove called the Hermitage in Clewer, parcel of the manor of Clewer and lately demised to William Blake et al.: and certain meadows and a grove in Bray and Cookham, lately demised to William Molyns: and the scite of the manor of Ives in Mayden Heath [Maidenhead] in the parish of Bray: and certain woods in Cookham called the South [Coppice] and North Coppice, lately demised to Gyles Bodicot: a certain parcel of waste, lately woodland, called the Thickett and Norkett, commonly called Mayden Heath Thickett: and certain woodlands called Altwood, in the parishes of Bray and Cookham: and certain lands and tenements enclosed, erected and encroached on the waste of the manor of Cookham and Bray: certain lands and tenements lately granted to Thomas Browne or in his tenure in Bray: and a fishing in the Thames called Thorpe water in Thorpe, lately demised to William Stonehouse: and a water mill and lands thereto parcel of the manor of Tidmarsh, lately demised to Thomas Stonehouse: a messuage and half acre of land, parcel of the manor of Batteley, lately demised to John Willis.
In co. Surrey.
divers tenements and gardens in the parish of St. Olaves, Southwark, lately demised to Thomas Gwyllam: certain lands called the Croft lands in Wallington in the parish of Carshalton: certain lands, meadow and pasture called Crossbrook in Woking, lately demised to John Eldred et al.: the scite of the house of the Friar Preachers in Guildford, lately demised to Henry Atkins: and the meadow called Mill mead, lately demised to Thomas Mery, esq.: and the scite of the castle of Guildford with a garden, area etc. there lately demised to Francis Carter.
In co. Oxford.
certain lands and tenements and the rectory of Burford and chapel of Fulbrook, lately demised to Clement Payman et al.: a close called Hall Hayes: and certain lands lately demised to Thomas Catchmay et al.: and certain lands and closes in the hamlet of Grove: and certain lands, meadows, woodlands and rents in Welcombe Grove.
In co. Norfolk.
the rectory of Wootton and Tuddington [Tuddenham] lately demised to Robert Mansel: and the rectory of Sheringham, lately demised to Francis Gibon: and the rectory of Hodden and closes and meadows of the Yard Marsh, lately demised to John Clark et al.
Lands and tenements in co. Kent.
Certain lands called Granway and Palmers, lately demised to John Warren: and certain closes and pasture, parcel of the manor of Giles Lambert: the scite and demesnes of the manor of Lee, lately demised to Cordwell Anstey: a capital messuage parcel of the manor of Sedbrook, lately demised to the said Anstey: a mill, parcel of the manor of Maidstone, lately demised to Stephen Curtis: a tenement in Higham, lately demised to William Wood: certain other lands and tenements there lately demised to Stephen Curtis: a tenement in land in three separate closes near Sheriffs Court in the parish of and part of the manor of Minster, lately demised to Thomas Paramore: the scite of the manor of Northfleet, lately demised to Edward, Lord Wotton: divers rents in the parishes of Sutton, Cranbrook, Goudhurst, Brenchley and Sandhurst, lately demised to Alexander Stafford: the scite of the manor of Dean, lately demised to Richard Barton: certain woodlands parcel of the manor of Bexley, lately demised to Oliver Lee, esq.: the scite of the Priory of Tunbridge and certain woodland called Kaynwood, and of park land called Little Park of Otford, lately demised to Ursula Walsingham: certain land in Otford formerly demised to Roland White: and a marsh and divers lands in the island of Grain, lately demised to Hugh Southerne and Richard Pemble: certain woodlands and the scite of the manor of Gillingham, lately demised to Thomas and William Short: a messuage and certain lands in Bexley, lately demised to Clement Goldsmith: the scite of the manor of Kidbrooke, lately demised to Cordell Amersley: certain tenements, lands and meadow, parcel of the manor of Windmill, lately demised to George Clegat: certain lands in the parish of Eastchurch in the Isle of Sheppey, formerly demised to George Fox: the demesnes of Sow and divers lands parcel of the manor of Lee, lately demised: certain lands in Greenend, lately demised: certain lands in Eastchurch in the Isle of Sheppey, lately demised: the scite of the manor of Islingham and the rectory there: the scite or capital mansion house of Thurland, lately demised to Sir Edward Hobby: and Shutford and Modgrove, lately demised to Roger Manwood: the rent of the wood called Okensfield in Doddington: and the wood called Kaynhoe Park Wood, lately demised to Thomas, Visct. Fenton: the scite of the manor and the Manor Place of Gillingham, lately demised to Thomas and William Short: divers tenements in the town and port of Dover, lately demised to Richard Edmes and erected upon the waste in the Hundred and precinct of Dover, Charlton, River and St. Augustine, Modenden, Swinfield, Newenden, Sandwich, Newington, Leeds, Sittingbourne, Charing, Canterbury, Dartford, Malling, Wingham, Gillington, Grain. Timberwood, Rainhurst, Blackmanstone, East Wickham, East Farleigh, Beckley and Maidstone: and the scite of the capital messuage of Shurland: and two meadows containing 31 acres and all the meadow of Shurland, containing 300 acres with all their tithes: and all the messuage containing 14 acres in the parish of Eastchurch: and all that greater part of the field called Milfeild there, containing fifty acres: another parcel of land in said parish containing 23 acres, parcel of the demesne lands lately occupied with the manor of Shurland, lately demised to Sir Edward Hobby: and certain lands formerly marsh in Upper Dean, co. Kent: and the messuages, tenements and erections built upon the aforesaid lands: and the rectory of Raynhurst and all buildings etc. erected on the waste there.
Other lands and tenements in co. Surrey.
thirty acres of land and parcel of the waste in the manor of Woking, lately demised to Thomas Higinson: the scite or capital messuage of the manor of Thorpe, lately demised to William Mintern: the assignation of the reversion of the manor of Sauden Chapel granted to John Hill: the wood and underwood within the manor of Hatcham Barnes, lately demised to Thomas Gardner: a tenement in Deptford, lately demised to Robert Peterson: the park of Whitley, lately demised: the rectory of Woking, lately demised to Francis Ainger: the manor of Bagshot, lately [21 Mar. 7 James 1] demised to John Eldred and William Whitmore: the manor of Worplesdon, lately demised to John, Lord Murray: the manors of Petersham and Ham lately demised to George Cole, gent. and certain lands and tenements in Bermondsey and Rotherhithe, now or late in the several tenures of Peter Hughes and — Mathews, widow.
Lands and tenements in co. Sussex.
a messuage or tenement in Eartham, lately demised to William Pedin: and divers tenements in the city of Chichester, lately demised to Christopher Says: and the scite of the manor of Stoneham, lately demised to John Woolley: and the Grange in the Isle of Selsey called The Burgh alias Selsey Farm, with derelict and waste land within the precincts of the Island of Selsey: and the herbage, parcel of Selsey lately demised by the Lady Anna [sic], Queen of England, to Lewis Lewkener.
Lands and tenements in co. Beds.
the coney warren called the Old Warren or Old Warden Warren, and the lodge there in Warden and Southill, lately demised to John Fish: and certain parcels of land and meadow in Flitwick parcel of the manor of Flitwick lately demised to Richard Button, gent.: and certain cottages and tenements in Warden Street in the parish of Warden: and a close called Broome Close there, lately demised to William Fish, gent.
Followed by: undated docquet of the herein intended lease to said Isaac Marrott.
Aug. 23. Royal sign manual for 500l. to Henry Guy, for secret service, without account: to be issued on the 20,000l. dormant privy seal of Aug. 11 instant. (Money warrant dated Aug. 25 hereon. Money order dated Aug. 25 hereon.) King's Warrant Book XI, p. 125. Money Book VI, p. 380. Order Book I, p. 137.
Royal warrant to the Clerk of the Signet for a privy seal to John, Earl of Bath, Warden of the Stannaries, to assemble a Convocation of tinners ut supra, p. 867. (The only differences between the present warrant and that of Aug. 8 inst. supra ibid. is that the earlier warrant prescribes the assembly to be at Lostwithiel whereas the present one prescribes it "at the old and accustomed place or places used in Cornwall and Devon": and the final clause in the earlier warrant ratifying and approving the directions and powers given by the royal sign manual of Aug. 1 inst. supra, p. 861, is here in omitted.) King's Warrant Book XI, pp. 125–6.
Henry Guy, dated Windsor Castle, to the Customs Commissioners to send to the Collector of Southampton to return to London by bills as soon as possible the 1,400l. or 1,500l. in his hands; as there is no need of that money in the country. Out Letters (General) IX, p. 412.
Same to Mr. Hewer to report on the enclosed petition [missing] of Nicholas Buonacorsi against Rubert Cuthbert: and meanwhile not to pay Cuthbert any money. Ibid.
[?] Same to the Earl of Ranelagh to pay the moneys to the Agents of his Majesty's Regiments and Troops of Horse and Dragoons what is due to them to clear the May muster. All deductions for hay, oats and straw delivered to them during the encampment are to be made from the muster for July and August notwithstanding the Lord Treasurer's former direction of the 2nd inst. supra, p. 864. Ibid.
Aug. 23. Same to the Customs Commissioners enclosing the memorial of the Monsieur (or Lord) Leijonbergh, the Swedish Envoy, for the transhipment for Sweden of 20 chests of wine sent from Leghorn on an English ship now arrived in London by Queen Christina with orders to said Envoy to send same to Stockholm. You are to permit such transhipment free of Customs. Ibid, pp. 412–3.
Appending: said memorial dated Windsor, Aug. 22.
Aug. 24. Money warrant for 182l. to Sir John Lytcot, kt., for three months, April 26 last to July 5 last, on his ordinary of 40s. a day as Secretary to the Extraordinary Embassy to Rome: the first three months on his said ordinary having been paid him by way of advance April 4 last. (Money order dated Aug. 25 hereon.) Money Book VI, pp. 379–80. Order Book I, p. 137.
Appending: certificate by Secretary the Earl of Sunderland, dated Windsor, Aug. 19, that said Lytcot took leave of the King Jan. 4 last in order to his said employment.
Henry Guy to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue to Treasurer Rochester 1,000l. out of the money of the Duchy of Cornwall in further part of his order [for salary as Lord Treasurer]. Disposition Book V, p. 22.
Same, dated Treasury Chambers, to Mr. Blathwayt. Treasurer Rochester has considered the report from Mr. Fox and yourself on the petition of Lieut. John Nash and Quarter Master Abbis, ut supra, p. 482. You are to certify what proportion of money has been [? usually] allowed by the King for raising 40 soldiers' horses. Out Letters (General) IX, p. 413.
Same to the Earl of Huntingdon giving him notice of the intended warrant for felling 40 dotard trees in New Forest for Boldrode Lodge. Ibid.
Aug. 25. Warrant by Treasurer Rochester to the Customs Cashier to pay 300l. to Sir Richard Temple, Kt. of the Bath, and bart., for last June 24 quarter on his annuity. (Henry Guy to same to like effect.) Money Book VI, p. 380. Disposition Book V, p. 23.
Allowance by same of the last June 24 quarter's salary bill (not detailed) of the officers of the Hearthmoney [Office]: (total, 567l. 10s. 0d.). Money Book VI, p. 380.
Money order for 161l. 3s. 3d. to John Potenger, esq. [Comptroller of the Pipe], without account: being 80l. 12s. 7d. and 80l. 10s. 8d. for fitting and accommodating the rooms belonging to the late Star Chamber for the Trial of the Pix and the charges of two entertainments for the officers of the Mint and the Jury of Goldsmiths attending two several days, viz. July 7 and 14 last. Order Book I, p. 137.
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. Disposition Book V, pp. 22–3.
l. s. d.
Out of the Customs.
to the Treasurer of the Navy for sea officers and bills in course 400 0 0
to ditto in further part of 400,000l. for the year's service of the Navy from Lady day last, "which is intended to be applied towards repayment of a greater sum advanced for that service out of the imposition on tobacco and sugars" 5,000 0 0
to the Earl of Ranelagh for the Forces 4,000 0 0
to Mr. Herne for int[erest] to Lady day last 420 0 0
to Mr. Sleeman for interest to May last 93 10 9
to the Earl of Castlemaine 1,300 0 0
to Sir John Lytcott 182 0 0
Out of the Excise.
to the Earl of Ranelagh for the Forces 6,200 0 0
to the Cofferer of the Household 2,000 0 0
Out of Hearthmoney.
to Visct. Preston for the Great Wardrobe 1,000 0 0
to Mr. Noell for interest to May 20 last 958 15 0
Out of the Post Office.
to Mr. Graham on account of his privy seal for Bagshot 1,000 0 0
Out of the loans on the Linen Duty Act.
to the Earl of Ranelagh for the Forces 1,800 0 0
Out of the imposition on wine and vinegar.
to the Treasurer of the Navy in further part of the 400,000l. as above to be similarly applied 3,000 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 including only the above seven Customs items.) (Same dated same to the Commissioners of Excise and Hearthmoney enclosing the similar paper of the disposition of those revenues; said paper including for the Excise the above two Excise items [payable out of the Exchequer], together with the following items [payable direct out of the Excise Office on tallies], viz. 2,000l. to Mr. Toll in [part] repayment of loan; 1,700l. for the bankers' [interest] tallies: and for the Hearthmoney the above two Hearthmoney items [payable out of the Exchequer], together with the following items [payable direct out of the Hearthmoney Office on tallies], viz. 2,000l. to Mr. Noell in [part] repayment of loan.)
Aug. 25. Henry Guy to the Customs Cashier to pay to the soldiers that guarded the [bringing of the] money from Liverpool [to London] the allowance usual in such cases. (Same to same dated same to stop out of such allowance the 31l. 10s. 0d. paid to said soldiers by the Collector of Liverpool port.) Disposition Book V, pp. 23–4.
Same to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue (out of the Letter Office money) 200l. to Philip Packer for Signor Verrio for painting the new buildings in Whitehall. (Same dated same to said Packer to so pay same.) Ibid, p. 24.
Same to Mr. Pepys. There will be no need of sending a yacht for the money of his Majesty's that lay at Hull, "the collectors of that port having undertaken to return it safe by another conveyance." Out Letters (General) IX, p. 413.
Aug. 25. Henry Guy to the Customs Commissioners to deliver, Customs free and unopened, a box arrived in Stephen Warrener's ship and directed to Monsieur Galli, one of the Queen's servants. Out Letters (General) IX, p. 414.
Same to Sir Christopher Wren. I have shown to the Lord Treasurer yours of the 24th inst. concerning the lead upon the Lord Chamberlain's lodgings in Whitehall. It is to be brought into the King's Stores according to the rules and practice of your Office. Ibid.
Same to Mr. Blathwaite to report on the enclosed papers [missing] concerning the estate of Col. Colbeck, who died in Jamaica. Ibid.
Same to Mr. Read to stay in town till Mr. Marriott's particular be sent you and the lease despatched which Treasurer Rochester "would have [to be] done with all possible expedition, it being for the King's service." Ibid.
Same to the Customs Commissioners to deliver, Customs free, to Katherine Compegne, a poor French Protestant, the lace mentioned in her petition herewith [missing]. Ibid.
Same to the Attorney General to report on the enclosed report [missing] from the Customs Commissioners touching some rules for the better prosecuting of seizures; with a draft [missing] of said rules. Ibid, pp. 414–5.
Same to the Customs Commissioners to deliver to David Raverick a parcel of books which he brought from Antwerp for her Majesty's use in a box directed to Thomas Kilner, an officer of the Customs warehouse [London port]. Ibid, p. 415.
Reference by Treasurer Rochester to William Hewer of the petition of Joseph Blowes, shewing that he served at Tangier as a Trooper in Capt. Neatby's Troop and that 25 months' pay are due to [? petitioner or the said Troop], whereof said Capt. has received six months, but will not account with petitioner for same: therefore praying that the remainder be stopped in Mr. Hewer's hands till petitioner and the Captain have adjusted their accounts. Reference Book III, p. 389.
Aug. 28. Henry Guy to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue to me [Guy] out of Excise money 200l. on the 500l. order for secret service. Disposition Book V, p. 24.
Same to same for a certificate how much money has been paid into the Exchequer of what has been made of the aid lately granted to the King by the imposition on French linen, brandy and other imported commodities. Ibid.
Same to same to issue (out of Post Office money) 100l. 7s. 6d. to Philip Ryley for one year to June 24 last on his fee as serjeant at arms attending the Lord Treasurer. Ibid.
Same to the Customs Commissioners for a certificate of which patent officers of the Customs have not renewed their patents terminable by the late King's death, "but do still execute their places by virtue of the King's proclamation which was intended only for that emergency." Out Letters (General) IX, p. 415.
Aug. 28. Henry Guy to the Customs Commissioners to deliver on payment of Customs a hamper arrived in the Sophia yacht, John Warberton commander, containing china and other things for Lady Churchill, "which hamper or basket was put into the Custom House by Mr. Radford, the surveyor, but it is not known who it is directed to." Out Letters (General) IX, pp. 415–6.
Appending: copy of letter dated the Hague, Aug. 11 inst., from Robt. Innes relating to same. I could not get a skipper to take in the hamper because they say they dare not bring tea in. What I have sent is the best of the kind of everything. "There is but little good tea and all cheaney is very dear. . . I hope my Lady will like the things. As for the chaney I have sent a full sett for a desart for a large table, for I had one that had more judgment than myself to help me to buy them. I have sent a few little things for fairings for the young ladies." Together with list of said goods (tea at 2l. a pound; plates at 3s. each; desert ditto at 4s. each; basons at 6s. each; porringers with covers at 5s. each; custard dishes at 2s. 6d. each).
Warrant by Treasurer Rochester to same to deliver to Peter Gourdin, a poor distressed Protestant, on payment of Customs, the 18 barrels of flint stones ut supra, p. 791, his case appearing to be the same with that of Mathias Chagneau ut supra, p. 686. Out Letters (Customs) X, p. 159.
Aug. 31. Warrant dormant by same to the Customs Cashier to pay John Ward, gent., his salary of 52l. per an. as a King's waiter, London port: with clause for payment of what is due thereon at Michaelmas next. (Henry Guy, dated same, to the Customs Cashier to the like effect.) Money Book VI, p. 381. Disposition Book V, p. 25.
Money warrant for 1,248l. 0s. 5½d. to Richard, Visct. Preston, late Envoy Extraordinary to France, for a bill of extraordinaries 1685, April 1 to Sept. 13, except the 10th and 11th items thereof, which are disallowed by the Lord Treasurer. (Money order dated Sept. 1 hereon.) Money Book VI, pp. 381–2. Order Book I, p. 139.
Appending: said bill as allowed by Secretary the Earl of Sunderland "except the 10th, 11th and three last articles which are left to the consideration of my Lord Treasurer."
livres Tournois. sols.
for intelligence 1,193 0
for postage of letters from England 1685, April 2, to the day I left Paris 700 3
for postage of letters from several parts of France and other parts of Europe 42 10
for stationary, wares, Gazettes, prints and Gazettes à la main 526 19
for voyages and sending servants to the Court of France 386 14
for wine, bonfires, fireworks and other expenses upon the news of the defeat of the late Duke of Monmouth 482 0
to the Swiss ("Suesses") coachmen and other servants of the French King and of Madame la Dauphine at Versailles and of Monsieur and Madame at St. Cloud and to the Suisses and footmen of Monsieur de Croissy and the Introducteurs des Ambassadeurs 285 0
given to Monsieur Bonoeil and Monsieur Giraud, Introducteurs of Ambassadors, for a gratuity when they brought me a present from the French King 1,200 0
paid for a quarter's rent of my house which I was obliged to pay, having so much of my term to expire when I left Paris 775 0
for interest of plate for half a year ending the last [day of] Sept. 390 0
for expenses of my voyage to Parliament by his Majesty's [James II's] command in coming from Paris, staying here [London] and returning 2,920 0
for doctors' and apothecaries' fees and bills for myself and family since my residence in France, being three years and almost an half as has been usually allowed 145 0
for the expense of transporting myself, family, goods, coaches, horses and in general all my equipage from Paris to London; and to the Captain of the Fubbs [yacht] and the yacht's company and for a ship to carry part of my goods and horses to London 5,869 0
16,220 6
l. s. d.
which being reduced into English money at 1,230 livres Tournois for every 100l. is 1,318 14 7
Paid since in English money.
for weighing my goods and other charges at the Custom House 31 0 0
at the Admiralty for an order for my yacht 2 3 0
for fees for warrants and orders at the Exchequer on the 1,365l. for former extraordinaries and ordinary 38 5 0
for ditto on 1,517l. 2s. 7d., being the present bill, and on 375l. now also due on my ordinary 52 0 0
for interest and allowance of money 75 0 0
£1,517 2 7
Aug. 31. Money warrant for 455l. to Sir Gabriell Silvyus for three months, Feb. 26 last to May 28 last, on his ordinary of 5l. a day as Envoy Extraordinary to the King of Denmark. (Money order dated Sept. 1 hereon.) Money Book VI, p. 382. Order Book I, p. 138.
Aug. 31. Henry Guy to the Customs Commissioners to deliver, Customs free, two books of maps now in the Customs warehouse and directed to the President of the Privy Council. Out Letters (General) IX, p. 416.
Same to the Excise Commissioners to arrange a meeting with the Customs Commissioners touching the brandies that have been run of late, in order to your mutual assistance in suppressing same. Ibid.
Warrant by Treasurer Rochester to the Customs Commissioners to employ Nathaniell Sampeere as a tidesurveyor, London port loco Symon Tomlyns removed to be collector of Rochester port. Out Letters (Customs) X, p. 160.
Same by same to same and to William Jackson and Thomas Broderick, agents for the administrators of William, late Earl of Kinnoul, to pay to the said administrators the remainder of all moneys received since the death of Charles II for the duties on the importation or exportation of borillia, smalts and saffers and potashes which were farmed to the said Earl by indenture under the great seal of England dated 1666, July 30: the said receipts having been by order of Mar. 18 last [sic for 1684–5, Mar. 18, supra, p. 63] directed to be kept in hand; but a moiety thereof having been permitted to be paid by the warrant of Dec. 22 last supra, pp. 496–7. "You will have his Majesty's further pleasure herein signified to you by letters under his privy seal which are intended to be passed in a short time for that purpose." Ibid, pp. 160–1.
Reference by same to Richard Graham and Philip Burton of the petition to the King from Thomas Arundell, esq., as by a favourable reference dated Windsor, Aug. 23 inst., thereon from the King who is disposed to gratify him: petitioner shewing that he is seized in fee in right of his wife as cousin and heir to Sir Thomas Spencer, bart., deceased, of and in the manor of Ringwood, co. Southampton, and that John Ayloffe, of the Inner Temple, London, lately attainted and executed for high treason had a small freehold within said manor of the value of 50l. or 60l. per an.: therefore praying a grant of said freehold, being forfeited for said treason. Reference Book III, p. 367.