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Nature and Substance of the Entry. |
Reference. |
| Feb. 16. |
Money warrant for 370l. 10s. 0d. to the Treasurer of
Christ's Hospital for one year due at Christmas
last on the annuity to the Mayor etc. of London
for the better support of the children of that foundation :
to be satisfied by tallies on the Receiver
General of the Duchy of Cornwall, viz. on part of
John Baron's fine for a lease, ut supra, p. 1017. |
Money Book X, p. 571. |
|
William Jephson to the Auditor of the Receipt to
issue (out of the loans on the Twelve Months' Aid)
1,138l. 17s. 9d. to the Treasurer of the Navy. (Same
to said Treasurer to take the directions of the
Admiralty Lords for applying said sum to the
discharge of a bill to that amount due to Sir Joseph
Herne from the Victuallers and drawn from the
Straits.) |
Disposition Book IX,
p. 71. |
|
Same to same to issue (out of any disposable money
in the Exchequer except loans on the Twelve
Months' Aid) 400l. to Mr. Fox and Mr. Coningsby
to be by them paid to Mr. Rowe for the engines
for pressing hay for Ireland. (Same to Mr. Blathwayt
to procure a royal warrant to be signed by
the Queen to authorise this payment.) |
Ibid, p. 71. Out Letters
(General) XII, p. 458. |
|
Same to Mr. [Charles] Fox. The Committee for the
Affairs of Ireland have desired the Treasury Lords
to imprest 1,000l. to Mr. Henley at Bristol and
1,000l. to Mr. Vickers at Chester to buy oats to
be sent to Ireland. You are to write said
Henley and Vickers to draw bills on you for said
sums, which my Lords will take care shall be
immediately answered. |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 459. |
|
Same to the Earl of Montagu [Master of the Great
Wardrobe] to report on the enclosed petition
[missing] of Mary Jackson, widow, praying payment
of 709l. 5s. 8d. for goods delivered into the Great
Wardrobe. |
Ibid. |
|
William Jephson to Mr. Blathwayt. On the 6th Feb.
inst. George Dodington, James Cresset and Richard
Acton contracted with the Treasury Lords to
furnish several sorts of clothing for 15 Regiments
of the Army in Ireland, which, at the rates therein,
will come to 21,757l. 10s. 0d. There are 44 orders,
dated Jan. 29 last, registered in the name of Charles
Fox on the Act [2 Wm. and Mary, Sess. 2, c. 5] for
continuance of duties on wines etc. to a total
of 21,757l. 10s. 0d., with 8 per cent interest. By
the abovesaid contract it is agreed that on delivery
of the said clothing or any part thereof to Col.
Charles Godfrey, Col. Levison and Col. William
Selwyn the said Fox shall assign so much of the
said orders as amount to the value of such clothing
so delivered, with interest at 8 per cent from the
time of such deliveries. You are to prepare a
royal warrant to be signed by the Queen to authorise
Charles Fox and Thomas Coningsby to pay such
rates and to make assignments in such manner as
aforesaid : but they are therein to be directed to
surcharge themselves in the front of their [yearly]
account [for the Forces, Ireland] with the intermediate
interest growing due on said orders from
the dates thereof until the respective days on which,
by deliveries as above, the said clothiers become
entitled to have interest as above. Further, the
said warrant is to contain the usual clauses for
deducting the price of the said clothing from the
Regiments concerned. |
Out Letters (General) XII,
pp. 459-60. |
Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners to
employ John Horneby as deputy to the Comptroller
of Poulton port loco James Pattison, preferred
ut infra.
James Pattison, deputy to the Comptroller as
above, to be collector ibid. loco Augustine Heirdson,
deceased.
Andrew Duxbury as coastwaiter at Bristol loco
Jo[h]n Aylet, removed from that port. |
Out Letters (Customs) XII,
p. 282. |
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Same to same to discharge the bond given by William
Smyth, late collector of Rochester port, who at
the time of his dismission therefrom was indebted
to the King in 227l. 19s. 2½d., towards which he
has with much difficulty paid 100l., and he and his
sureties are too poor to pay any more : and to
discharge him from prison on giving bond to answer
the remaining 127l. 19s. 2½d. at demand. |
Ibid, p. 283. |
|
Treasury reference to same of the petition of Edward
Butler for a landwaiter's or coastwaiter's place,
London port. |
Reference Book VI, p. 296. |
|
Same to the Earl of Ranelagh of the petition of the
Commissioners of Musters, praying payment of
2,349l. 4s. 3d. due to them for Jan. 1 last, they
having neither subsistence nor quarters assigned
them : and praying that for the future they may
be on the [same] foot[ing] of subsistence with the
officers of the Army. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to the Customs Commissioners of such part of
the petition of Christopher Dodsworth, merchant,
as relates to Customs affairs ; the said Dodsworth,
on behalf of himself and others engaged with him,
having petitioned shewing that they have expended
both time and money in discovering the grievances
of the nation and for the advancing the revenue ;
that particularly they have detected and prosecuted
the persons generally reputed peccant "in melting
down and exporting vast quantities of the heavy
and current coin at the Custom House, [representing
same to the] Treasury and House of Commons,
who have thereupon passed a bill for redressing it
in future ; and further that they have obliged (by
prosecution at law) several alien merchants who
formerly paid only English duty now to pay alien
duty : further that they have discovered divers
great sums owing to the Crown by concealments
and arrears of Customs and other branches of the
revenue : that they propose to prosecute at their
own charge for an allowance of a third the amount
recovered (although the moiety is usually allowed
in the like cases) and further to allow a tenth part
to such charity as the Lord Almoner shall direct :
therefore pray an instrument to secure them the
said proportion [of a third]. |
Ibid, pp. 296-7. |
| Feb. 17. |
Treasury warrant to Thomas Lloyd, Paymaster of
the Works, to pay the 190l. 10s. 4d., appointed to
be issued to you for the Works, to Capt. James
Greenham for his disbursements to the several
carters and labourers for work done in St. James's
Park from 1689, Dec. 10, to 1690, June 28.
Appending : said Greenham's detailed bill of same ;
the said labourers and carters being William Jackson,
Richard Mathews, Roger Crompton, Jo[h]n Bennet,
William Sheppard, William Perry, Jo[h]n Reynall,
Geo. Robins, Hen. Cooly, Richard Tennison, Richard
Hutson, Antho. Craddock, Richard Hargrave,
Tho. Mathews, Edward Dun, Jo[h]n Ford, William
Crookshank, Mr. Evans, Jo[h]n Seymour, Math.
Gudrell [labourers], Robert Pennell, carter, and
James Custerton for carting gravel. |
Money Book X, pp. 572-3. |
|
William Jephson to Capt. Thomas Langley. I have
read to my Lords yours of the 12th inst. in reply
to mine of the 9th inst. concerning the relief to be
given to Dutch seamen or soldiers at Harwich.
Thereon my Lords desire you to continue the same
allowances as formerly to them until my Lords
take the King's pleasure thereon. |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 460. |
|
Same to Mr. [Aaron] Smith. According to your
report of the 14th inst., on the petition of James
Allan and others touching money returned for
paying the offreckonings of Sir Robert Douglas's
Regiment and praying the King's aid against
James Irving, my Lords direct you to prosecute
that matter in the King's name, but at the cost of
the petitioners. |
Ibid, p. 461. |
|
Same to the Customs Commissioners. Hasten your
report on the petition of Mark Wildbore, late
collector of Whitehaven port, referred to you
Jan. 19 last, supra, p. 984. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to Auditor Done. I have read to my Lords
your letter of the 14th inst., with Mr. Shales's
certificate of what provisions he delivered to the
Army in Ireland. You are to draft a warrant for
charging Mr. Harbord with deductions for [such]
provisions in his account before you. |
Ibid. |
|
William Jephson to the Attorney General. At the last
summer Assizes at Chelmsford Mr. John Cooke was
convicted for murther and executed. You are to give
warrant to the Clerk of the Petty Bag to make forth a
commission under the great seal to William Mott, esq.,
Edmund Hickringill, clerk, William Mott, jun.,
Thomas Ruse, Tho. Hickringill, Tho. Glascock,
and Tho. Parker to enquire of and to seize Cooke's
estate thereby forfeited. (Same to Aaron Smith
to have said commission passed and executed at
the King's charge.) |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 461. |
|
Same to Mr. Blathwayt to procure a royal warrant
to be signed by the Queen to authorise the payment
by Mr. Charles Fox and Mr. Thomas Coningsby
of 101l. 15s. 0d. to the present Earl of Roscommon
for his personal pay to Jan. 17 last as Lieut., Col.
and Captain of a Regiment in Ireland. |
Ibid, p. 462. |
|
Treasury reference to Philip Reyly, Surveyor General
of Woods [Trent South], of the petition of Jo[h]n
Fitch, chief workmaster in the Office of Ordnance,
shewing that by two privy seals 5,000l. is to be
raised in Whittlewood and Dean Forests and 5,500l.
in New Forest for fortifications made at Hull and
Jersey by petitioner : therefore praying Treasury
direction to the Surveyor General of Woods to raise
same forthwith, petitioner being going over to
Jersey to look after the fortifications there and
having received in the whole only 3,500l. |
Reference Book VI, p. 297. |
|
Same to the Customs Commissioners of the petition of
Ralph Williamson, Comptroller of Newcastle port,
praying to be discharged from paying 50l. per an.
of his salary to Katherine, the wife of Barnaby
Tonstall. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to same of the petition of Capt. Christopher
Billop, praying for remission of duty on 51 butts
of brandy and 24 hogsheads of wine which he took
as prize in June, 1689. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to Sir Christopher Wrenn of the petition of
John Webb, keeper of the fish and fowl in St. James's
Park, praying an order to said Wrenn to repair
the granary in said park, which is gone to decay. |
Ibid. |
|
Treasury warrant to the King's Remembrancer for
a commission, prefixed, to appoint Thomas Burgis,
gent., as Receiver of the Temporalities of the
Bishopric of Gloucester, void by the Bishop thereof
refusing the oaths of supremacy and allegiance.
(Same to Mr. Jo[h]n Knight, Comptroller of the
Revenue of First Fruits and Tenths, to take the
sureties of said Burgis : being Burgis himself in
1,000l. and Dr. Richard Parsons, Chancellor of the
diocese of Gloucester, in 500l.) |
Warrants not Relating to
Money XIII, pp. 389,
390. |
| Feb. 18. |
Treasury order to Thomas Done, one of the Auditors
of Imprests, to allow 40l. on account for the year
ended 1690, Sept. 29, of Edward Seymour, Clerk
and Keeper of the Hanaper in Chancery. |
Money Book X, p. 573. |
|
William Jephson to Mr. Thomas Fox [Customs Cashier]
to pay 1,617l. 8s. 6d. into the Exchequer out of
the Four and a Half per cent. Duty : being intended
for the Clerks of the Council [attending the Committee
of Trade and Foreign Plantations]. |
Disposition Book IX,
p. 72. |
|
William Jephson to the Customs Commissioners.
Sir Richard Haddock has desired that the accounts
of moneys paid by your officers for seamen under
the Order in Council, ut supra, p. 1009, may be
kept in the form as in the enclosed paper [missing].
Please do this. |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 462. |
|
Same to Mr. Blathwaite to procure a royal warrant
to authorise Mr. Fox and Mr. Coningsby to pay
5,000l. to Isaac Pereyra as in further part of the
advance to him on his contract preparing to be
passed under the great seal for furnishing provisions
for the Army in Ireland. |
Ibid, p. 464. |
|
Treasury reference to the Customs Commissioners of
the petition of Samuell Heron and others, owners
of the Coast frigate, shewing that in her voyage
several of the seamen died or deserted and the
master was forced to hire foreigners to navigate
her home ; therefore praying that she may be
admitted to entry as navigated with [the legal
complement of] English seamen. |
Reference Book VI, p. 297. |
|
Same to Aaron Smith of the petition of Jo[h]n Kent
and Nicho. Fenn, shewing that Sir Patrick Trant
et al. in Midsummer, 1681, contracted, in the name
of Jo[h]n Genew, for the Hearthmoney surplusage
for five years at 4,000l. per an. rent and 40,000l.
advance, for which surplus they were afterwards
forced to pay 30,000l. more to the late King James II :
and part of the money being the share which said
Trant was to raise and pay, he borrowed 5,000l.
of Richard Kent and for security entered into a
ctatute staple dated 30 June, 1687, in 10,000l. to
said Kent and the 5,000l. was by Trant actually
so paid to the Crown : and the said Trant becoming
insolvent said Kent did by virtue of the statute
staple extend some houses and tenements of said
Trant : therefore said Trant prays (for the better
fortifying his title to the equitable redemption to
said estate [by shutting out the Crown's title] ) a
grant of same to Bridget Kent, widow [of said
Richard] or to petitioner in trust for her and her
daughter and family. |
Ibid, p. 298. |
|
Same to Mr. Harbord [Surveyor General of Crown
Lands] of the petition of Thomas Cobb of Winchester,
praying a lease of the King's lands there. |
Ibid. |
|
The Treasury Lords to the Lords Justices, Ireland,
enclosing a copy of Mr. Shales's certificate [missing]
of the value of provisions by him delivered to the
Army in Ireland as late Commissary General there. |
Out Letters (Ireland) VI,
p. 50. |
|
William Jephson to the Revenue Commissioners,
Ireland, enclosing the petition [missing] of Lieut.
Col. John Skelton for certain goods of his, now
in the hands of William Tisdale in Dublin to be
sent hither [to London] unopened. Please so send
same to Mr. Clark, under-warehousekeeper, London
port, to be kept unopened till further order. |
Ibid. |
| Feb. 19. |
Royal warrant under the Queen's sign manual to the
Clerk of the Signet for a privy seal to authorise
the Exchequer to take in loans up to 1,000,000l.
on the two thirds of the Additional Excise at 7 per
cent and in manner etc. as in the Act [2 Wm. and
Mary, Sess. 2, c. 10], granting said Additional
Excise ; levying tallies and drawing and registering
orders etc. thereon in the usual method. |
King's Warrant Book XV,
pp. 284-6. |
|
Money warrant for 500l. to Aaron Smith on account
for the charges of Crown Law suits and other affairs
relating to his Majesty's service. (Money order
dated Feb. 20 hereon.) |
Money Book X, p. 573.
Order Book III, p. 145. |
|
Treasury warrant dormant to Mr. Fox [Customs
Cashier] to pay Thomas Wells his salary of 52l.
per an. as a King's waiter, London port. |
Money Book X, p. 574. |
|
Same to same to pay John Plumbly (Plumby) his
salary of 15l. per an. as a King's waiter, Bristol
port. |
Ibid, p.575. |
|
Money warrant for 20l. to Robert Bertie for half a
year to Christmas last on the annuity or pension
granted to him for the life of Mary Cock. |
Ibid, p.574. |
|
William Jephson to the Auditor of the Receipt to
issue as follows : |
Disposition Book IX,
pp. 72-3. |
|
l. |
s. |
d. |
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Out of loans on the Twelve Months'
Aid. |
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to the Treasurer of the Navy |
4,000 |
0 |
0 |
|
to the Earl of Ranelagh for the
weekly subsistence [of the Forces,
England] and the half pay to the
officers ; together with 2,200l. to
Mr. Vander Esch for the Dutch
Forces |
8,740 |
1 |
2 |
|
to ditto to answer bills of exchange
of Mr. Schulenburgh, due the
8th inst., drawn for the Regiment
of Fusiliers and [of Col.] Fitzpatrick,
and for the Irish prisoners |
3,200 |
0 |
0 |
|
to ditto in part of 2,511l. 11s. 4d
to pay Col. [William] Beveridge's
Regiment to 1689-90, Jan. 1 |
500 |
0 |
0 |
|
to ditto for Col. Gibson for coals
for the garison of Portsmouth |
90 |
0 |
0 |
|
to ditto for four master gunners
and 18 gunners belonging to the
several forts and batteries on the
Thames and Medway for their
pay from 1689-90, Jan. 1, to
Jan. 31 last inclusive ; his
Majesty having directed those
forts and batteries to be dismantled
and the gunners discharged |
514 |
16 |
0 |
|
to ditto for the Earl of Monmouth's
Regiment, upon account |
1,000 |
0 |
0 |
|
Out of 4,579l. 8s. 2¾d. of the Double
Excise and 2,562l. 5s. 9¼d. of the
residue of loans on the Twelve
Months' Aid and 2,218l. 4s. 9d.
on the [Wine duties] Continuing
Act. |
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to Mr. Fox and Mr. Coningsby to
answer a bill of exchange from
Mr. L'Barr for buying tents,
arms etc. for the Danes [Forces]
in part of 2,000l. |
700 |
0 |
0 |
|
to ditto for recruit money, several
Regiments being ordered to raise
them here |
2,000 |
0 |
0 |
|
to ditto for Capt. Mathew Ingram
by advance for the package and
carriage of clothing now providing
for the Army in Ireland |
500 |
0 |
0 |
|
to ditto for Col. Godfrey in part
of 1,400l. due to him for the last
clothing |
200 |
0 |
0 |
|
to ditto for Lieut. Col. Beversham
on account of his half pay to
Jan. 1 last as late Captain of
Foot in Ireland |
36 |
16 |
0 |
|
to ditto for 14 days' subsistence
for the sick men of Col. [Ferdinando]
Hastings' Regiment |
24 |
7 |
0 |
|
to ditto for two months' pay to 24
French Reformed officers ordered
to be paid here [in England] |
273 |
14 |
9 |
|
to ditto for Mr. Teale, Apothecary
General for [the Forces in] Ireland :
for medicines |
435 |
9 |
0 |
|
to ditto for his [Teale's] own pay
to the 1st inst. |
189 |
12 |
0 |
|
to ditto for Mr. Bridges, in part of
Mr. Periera's new contract [for
bread] |
15,000 |
0 |
0 |
|
Out of any other disposable money
in the Exchequer except loans on
the Twelve Months' Aid. |
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to the Treasurer of the Ordnance
for the land service [of the Office
of Ordnance] ; upon the estimate
for Ireland |
4,000 |
0 |
0 |
|
to Mr. Bertie for Mris. Cock |
20 |
0 |
0 |
|
to Mr. Aaron Smith ; upon account
[for Crown Law charges] |
400 |
0 |
0 |
|
£31,824 |
15 |
11 |
|
William Jephson to the Auditor of the Receipt to
issue to Mr. Cox by way of advance the 1,000l.
reserved in the Exchequer for him [supra,
p. 1014] as Envoy Extraordinary in Switzerland,
"his Majesty's service requiring the same."
Care will be taken as soon as may be to have the
same regularly [warranted to be] issued. You are
to take care to detain the Exchequer fees thereon. |
Disposition Book IX,
p. 73. |
|
Same to same to issue (out of loans to be made by
Charles Fox on the [Wines Duties] Continuing Act)
1,853l. 16s. 8d. to said Fox and Thomas Coningsby
to be applied as follows : viz. 1,347l. 17s. 2d. for
clothing the Regiment late of the Earl of Warrington ;
347l. 7s. 6d. to clear several respits on that
Regiment ; 158l. 12s. 0d. for the pay of said Earl
as Colonel and Captain from 1689, Sept. 1, to
1689-90, Jan. 1. |
Ibid, p. 74. |
|
Same to same to issue (out of the like loans by Fox)
to him and Coningsby 7,239l. 11s. 10d. for the
service of Ireland ; being intended for the clothing
of the Danish Forces. |
Ibid. |
|
William Jephson to the Earl of Ranelagh to report
on the enclosed petition [missing] of their Majesties'
drummers and fife in ordinary, praying payment
of their fee of 24l. per an., on which they have
received nothing since the King's accession. |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 462. |
|
Same to the [Principal] Officers of the Ordnance to
report on the enclosed account [missing] of 4,000
barrels of powder which were bought in Holland
for the King's service. |
Ibid. |
Same to the [Principal] Officers of the Mint. By
Treasury warrant of Jan. 22 last you were directed
to coin 600l. worth of silver out of Coinage money
and to pay same to Mr. Harris in part of 1,266l. 1s. 7d.
for seals. Hitherto you have refused to comply
therewith, in respect of the appropriation of the
Coinage money [as by Act of Parliament [1 James II,
c. 7, continuing 18 Car. II, c. 5, and 25 Car. II, c. 8].
I enclose herewith a statement of opinion by the
Attorney General concerning the same. You are
to execute the warrant according to the directions
already given you.
Appending : said statement, dated 16 Feb. inst., and
signed by Sir Geo. Treby. The Act of 18 Car. II,
c. 5, gives to the King several duties on wines etc.
to be paid into the Exchequer quarterly and there
kept distinct and to be applied to no other use
than the charge of the Mint and the assaying,
melting, waste and coinage of gold and silver and
the encouragement of the bringing in of gold and
silver to the Mint to be coined, and thereof not
above 3,000l. per an. for officers and offices in the
Mint and the overplus to be for assaying, melting
and coining. I conceive that when money arising
by the said duties is issued out of the Exchequer
and bullion is bought therewith and coined into
current money, the said new coined money may
be disposed to any use as their Majesties shall
appoint ; for the Act does not require that the
said money, so coined out of the bought bullion,
shall be laid out again to buy more bullion and so
in infinitum. The only money which the Act
appoints to be employed for the buying of bullion
is the said money leviable and payable by that
Act and which is appointed to be paid into the
Exchequer. But the money produced by the
coining of bullion, bought by the said duty money,
is not ordered to be brought into the Exchequer
and kept distinct there, but is left to the [disposal
of] the King. |
Ibid, p. 463. |
|
Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners to
employ Jo[h]n Saltonstall as waiter and searcher
at Sharperton in Berwick port loco Gilbert Lucas,
dismissed. |
Out Letters (Customs) XII,
p. 283. |
|
Treasury letters patent appointing Thomas Wells as
one of the King's waiters, London port, loco John
Kynvin, gent. |
Ibid, p. 284. |
|
Same appointing John Plumbly as a same in Bristol
port loco Thomas Alcock, disabled by palsey which
has lately seized him. |
Ibid, p. 285. |
| Feb. 20. |
Money warrant for 2,550l. to Sir Francis Child, kt.,
for jewels as follows, for which the Earl of Dorset
by letter of 1690, June 19, certified that he agreed
with said Child : viz. a diamond ring of the value
of 300l. given by his Majesty to Baron Cobb, Envoy
from Brandenburg ; a jewel of diamonds of the
value of 350l. given by his Majesty to Count Bouay,
Envoy from Flanders ; a jewel of diamonds of the
value of 1,000l. given by the King to Count Connigseck
[Konigsek], Envoy from the Emperor; a diamond
ring of the value of 300l. given by his Majesty to
Mr. Smetteau, Envoy from the Elector of Brandenburg ;
a jewel of diamonds of the value of 300l.
given by his Majesty to the Baron Bongard, Envoy
from the Elector Palatine; a diamond ring of the value
of 300l. given by his Majesty to Mr. Shoultz [Schütz],
Envoy from the House of Luneburg. (Money order
dated Feb. 21 hereon.) (William Jephson, dated
Feb. 20, to the Auditor of the Receipt to pay same
out of the 6,000l. which is or will be lent by said
Child or by his procurement on the credit of the
Act continuing the duties on wines etc.) |
Money Book X, pp. 574-5.
Order Book III, p. 146.
Disposition Book IX,
p. 74. |
William Jephson to the Customs Commissioners to
permit the transport to Ireland, Customs free, of
(a) infra for the clothing of the Danish Forces there.
Appending : (a) schedule of said clothing, viz. : cloth,
kerseys, stockings, thread, 800 leather briches,
7,000 hats at Chester, 7,000 belts, two boxes of
embroidered scutcheons etc. |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 464. |
|
Same to Mr. Blathwayt [as Secretary to the Forces]
to procure a royal warrant to be signed by the
Queen to authorise Charles Fox and Thomas
Coningsby to pay 625l. 1s. 0d. to Isaac Teale,
Apothecary General to the Army in Ireland : viz.
435l. 9s. 0d. thereof for medicines, bedding, shirts,
instruments etc. ; 153l. to pay to him from April 1
[last] to Feb. 1 inst. at 10s. a day ; 36l. 12s. 0d.
for pay to his mate at 3s. a day from April 1 last to
Dec. 1, ut supra, p. 1024. |
Ibid, p. 465. |
|
Same to same for a same to authorise same to pay
500l. to Capt. Mathew Ingram towards the charge
of package and carriage of the clothing now providing
by Mr. Dodington and partners for the Army
in Ireland, ut supra, p. 1024. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to the Customs Commissioners. My Lords
have appointed John Plumbly as above, p. 1025.
He is to allow Thomas Alcock half the profits of
the place during his life and is to give security to
this effect before entering on the said place. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to the Earl of Ranelagh to report on the enclosed
petition [missing] of Capt. Alexander Peirce, praying
to be inserted on the list of pensions and to be paid
the arrears [of pay] due from the time he was last
paid. |
Ibid, XIII, p. 1. |
|
Same to the Customs Commissioners to report on
the enclosed letter [missing] from the Lord President
[of the Privy Council] to Lord Godolphin concerning
some persons trading to France. |
Ibid. |
|
Treasury reference to Mr. Harbord [Surveyor General
of Crown Lands] of the petition of Thomas Horrell,
shewing that Charles II granted to Sir Hugh Piper,
kt., and Hugh Piper, his grandchild, the office of
Constable of the Castle of Launceston in Cornwall,
with the fee of 13l. 6s. 8d. per an. ; that said Sir Hugh
is dead and petitioner has obtained consent of the
widow to put in two lives in reversion and is willing
to repair the same [castle] : therefore prays such a
grant for two lives in reversion. |
Reference Book VI, p. 299. |
| [? Feb. 20.] |
Entry of the Treasury Lords' signature of an in
custodiam lease under the Exchequer seal to Robert
Jacob, gent., of divers messuages etc. in the parish
of St. Dunstan, Harbledown, co. Kent, being parcel
of the lands of Edward Roberts and Margaret his
wife, outlaws : at 39s. 9d. per an. rent and fine of
69s. [79s.] 6d. |
Warrants not Relating to
Money XIII, p. 391. |
| Feb. 20. |
Treasury constitution and appointment of Roger
Pemberton to be steward of the Courts Leet, Baron,
Views of Frankpledge, Courts of Survey and other
Courts whatsoever of all the manors belonging to
the Bishopric of Peterborough during the vacancy
of the see (the said stewardship being now in the
King's hands by the said vacancy) : all in as full
and ample manner as you or any other former
steward have performed the same. You are to
make up the Court rolls and records thereof and
return same yearly to John Knight and in the
meantime you are to return to him perfect extracts
thereof and of all fines, reliefs, heriots, amerciaments
and other casualties soon after any Court shall be
kept there by you, so that same may be put in
charge and collected by any bailiff or receiver who
may be thereto appointed for their Majesties'
service. And you are to make special enquiry
whether any of the demesne lands be concealed and
what ancient rights, customs and privileges may
of late years have been neglected, giving same in
charge to the homages to make due presentment
thereof in order to their recovery and revival for
the advantage of the Crown and the tenants. |
Ibid. |
Report to the King from the Treasury Lords on the
petition of Edward Davis, John Hinson and Lyonell
Delawafer and on the answer of Lord Howard of
Effingham thereto and other papers thereto annexed.
We have heard the parties concerned by counsel
and the Attorney and Solicitor General thereon.
It appears that James II by commission dated
1687, Aug. 21, appointed Sir Robert Holmes to be
sole Commissioner for suppressing pirates and
privateers in the West Indies either by force or
by assurance of pardon on their surrender within
12 months and on giving security for good behaviour.
On the 20th Jan., 1687-8, James II issued a
Proclamation reciting the said commission and
extending said period of grace to 12 months from
date of said Proclamation for places between the
tropics of Cancer and Capricorn and to 15 months for
any other parts of America ; and further charging
all Admirals, Governors etc. to aid said Holmes
in suppressing all manner of pirates and privateers
within the said limits ; but to permit all such
pirates and privateers (on production of a certificate
from said Holmes that they have so surrendered
themselves and given good security for future
good behaviour) to lawfully pass and travail by
sea or land to or from any of the King's Islands,
Plantations or Colonies or into England in order
to their receiving a full pardon : and that meantime
no indictment or other proceeding should be had
against such : but all persons not so submitting etc.
should be pursued with the utmost rigour and be
finally excluded from further mercy. And thereupon
the King gave instructions to commanders (and
particularly one dated 1687-8, Jan. 31, to Capt.
Thomas Allen, then commander of the Quaker
ketch) not to make prize any pirates going or
pretending to go to any of the Plantations in the
West Indies to surrender themselves, but to treat
them in a friendly manner and to carry them to
their designed port if not far out of his way, or
else to take them with him to his own destination,
and on his arrival to deliver the pirates and their
ships and ladings without injury to the Admiralty
officers and Chief Governor of the place, so that
they might apply to Sir Robert Holmes to qualify
themselves for pardon. Divers other orders were
sent to the same purpose from the then Secretary of
the Admiralty. Further, on the 20th Oct., 1688,
the Earl of Sunderland, then Secretary of State,
wrote to Lord Effingham that the abovesaid Davies,
Delawafer and Hinson were seized for piracy by
Capt. Row, commander of the Dunbarton, and
brought into Virginia with their money, plate and
goods ; and that the King ordered that they should
be prosecuted according to law in such manner as
Sir Robert Holmes should desire or to be discharged
to come to England for the King's pardon if Holmes
or his agent should give them assurance of pardon
as above either before or after trial.
At the hearing before us petitioners' counsel insisted
that their piracy is not proven, but only questionable,
and that if proven they ought to have the benefit
of said Proclamation ; affirming that in April, 1688,
they had notice of the Proclamation from one
Carter, then commander of the sloop Port Royal,
who afterwards made oath in Virginia that on the
15th of April, 1688, in latitude 26.30, he met with
the ship Batchellour's Delight, carrying about 30
persons, mounted with several guns, and that he
acquainted them with the Proclamation, promising
pardon (as he said) both of lives and estates; at which
they seemed exceeding joyful, and then the three
petitioners left their own ship and took passage
with him to Pennsylvania. The petitioners' counsel
also insist that upon the said notice the petitioners
in June, 1688, voluntarily rendered themselves to
Capt. Allen of the Quaker ketch, and said Capt.
gave them a certificate dated on board said ketch,
then at anchor in Patuxent River in Maryland,
and dated 1688, June 14, that petitioners being
late privateers in the South Seas rendered themselves
to him as one of the commanders of the King's
ships and laying hold of the said Proclamation for
pardon and had thereby permission to sail directly
to James River, and that they should within 10
days of their arrival apply themselves to the Governor
in order to give bond for their good behaviour, and
either in person or by their agents to apply to Sir
Robert Holmes for a full pardon : and that thereupon
petitioners sailed from said Allen to Pennsylvania
(in their way to Virginia), where they had a pass
from the Government, with which they went to
Maryland, where they had another pass from the
Governor there, and went onwards to James River
in Virginia (in order to comply with Capt. Allen's
directions), where in an open boat unarmed they
came to Capt. Row, then lying at anchor, who
seized them and their estate: that they made
application to Lord Effingham, the Governor, but
did not presently shew their certificate of rendering
because the Proclamation was not at that time
published in Virginia ; and they pretend to have
met with very hard usage : that when the Proclamation
was published in Virginia they produced their
certificate and laid hold of the Proclamation by
several petitions to the Governor : that after some
time they were discharged from their imprisonment
and upon security given for good behaviour were
at liberty to come for England. Further, to make
out their property [title] to the riches in question,
they allege they were in their possession and were
taken from them by Capt. Rowe, that there is no
proof against them nor act of law to divest them
thereof : that they were committed upon suspicion
and if there be a suspicion they ought to have the
benefit of the Proclamation and hope they shall have
the money.
On the other hand, it was urged by counsel for the
King that petitioners are pirates and have owned
themselves as such, and that the goods taken by
them as pirates are not their goods, but belong
to the Spanish subjects or the [English] King, and
that the Proclamation relates only to their persons,
not to their estates : that by the Proclamation
they were to apply to Sir Robert Holmes, but
instead thereof, being taken in Virginia and asked
whether pirates or not they insisted on innocency
upon two examinations, and the matter was confessed
by a negro that when seized the first thing
they desired was to be tried because they knew
no proof was come against them and the Governors
were commanded not to try pirates till intimation
from England that they were ripe for trial ; further,
that they insisted on innocency after the Proclamation
came to the Governor's hands and was published ;
that whilst Allen lived it was not mentioned
that they surrendered before they were taken by
Row ; that they were to surrender to Holmes or
such as Holmes should appoint, and not to Allen :
and therefore counsel moved that the goods might
remain in the King's possession.
Petitioners' counsel replied thereto that if the
crime be pardoned there is no confiscation, for
confiscation is not till conviction, and if the offence
be pardoned there can be no conviction : and that
Capt. Rowe seized them in the mouth of the river
as they were coming in, and would have seized
their certificate if it had been produced ; and as to
Lord Effingham's affirmation that being asked one
by one whether they avowed themselves pirates
and they would not, counsel says that when they
were first seized in Virginia there was no notice
there of the said Proclamation but what they
brought themselves, and therefore they were advised
by counsel not to produce their certificate ; that
Lord Effingham did not proclaim the Proclamation
till Aug. 6 and petitioners applied to him on the
16th of that month, which was within the time
limited for rendering themselves, so that, if necessary,
they might waive Allen's certificate of their first
rendering: further, that they were put in irons
and threatened to be hanged immediately, but
were told they might [go free] if they would go
without the money.
To this Lord [Howard of] Effingham replied
that Row was a person employed by him to seize
pirates and that he sent a true account to England
of all money that was taken.
Witnesses were produced to prove that Allen's
certificate was a real certificate and [the Governor's
counsel] themselves allowed that it was tendered
to Lord Effingham, who refused to read it : but
we [the Treasury Lords] observe that the petitioners
in their petition to the Government in Virginia
took no notice of the said certificate, wherefore
counsel for the King say it is probable that they
procured it of Allen after their coming to Virginia.
In fine, Lord Howard of Effingham alleged that
he had sent an account to England how these men
were taken and desired the King's judgment whether
they were within the Proclamation or not ; that he
believes they were ill-used by Capt. Rowe because
they were ill men, but when they came under his
lordship's care they were enlarged. And petitioners'
counsel finally replied that by sentences in the
Admiralty men have had the benefit of this Proclamation
without conforming to every particular circumstance
that might ensnare them.
Upon the whole matter we think that it has not
been made evident to us that petitioners have
strictly complied with the Proclamation ; but after
they left the privateer and went for Virginia we
think their intention was voluntary to yield themselves
to the Government, and we do not see that
the property of the said money and goods now
deposited in your Majesty's warehouse doth belong
to any other than themselves.
Memorandum : the petition of the abovenamed
Davis, Henson and Delawafer to the King, and
also the answer of Lord Howard of Effingham
thereto and the Order of Council referring same
to the Treasury Lords do remain at the Treasury
Chambers. |
Ibid, pp. 392-7 |
| [? Feb. 20.] |
Treasury order [to the Auditors of Imprests] to charge
William Harbord with the items as follow [in his
account as late Paymaster of the Forces in Ireland]
to a total of 4,593l.
Prefixing : account of provisions delivered to the
Army in Ireland by John Shales, late Commissary
General [there], showing how much thereof has
been deducted out of the subsistence issued by
William Harbord, late Paymaster [there], and is to
be surcharged on him in his accounts and what
remains to be charged to the several Regiments
or deducted from them upon their next clearing. |
Warrants not Relating to
Money XIII, p. 398. |
|
l. |
s. |
d. |
Provisions certified by Mr. Shales
and deducted out of the subsistence
by Mr. Harbord.
Horse. |
|
|
|
|
Col. Edward Villiers |
41 |
15 |
10 |
|
Lord Delamere |
79 |
7 |
4 |
|
Col. Coy |
99 |
4 |
8½ |
|
Visct. Hewett |
89 |
19 |
11 |
|
Lord Cavendish |
49 |
4 |
0 |
|
French Regiment |
229 |
7 |
8 |
|
Col. [Francis] Langston |
63 |
9 |
0½ |
|
Dragoons. |
|
|
|
|
Col. Richard Levison |
94 |
6 |
4 |
|
Foot. |
|
|
|
|
Major General Kirke |
202 |
9 |
4 |
|
Col. [John] Beaumont |
171 |
1 |
6 |
|
Col. [William] Stewart |
390 |
6 |
0 |
|
Sir John Hanmer |
174 |
10 |
2 |
|
Col. Wharton |
165 |
15 |
6 |
|
Earl of Meath |
258 |
11 |
0 |
|
Sir Henry Bellasis |
169 |
1 |
4 |
|
Earl of Kingston |
149 |
6 |
4 |
|
Earl of Drogheda |
121 |
7 |
6 |
|
Earl of Roscommon |
147 |
10 |
10 |
|
Visct. Lisburne |
147 |
9 |
4 |
|
Lord Lovelace |
217 |
4 |
2 |
|
Sir Edward Deering |
134 |
16 |
2 |
|
Sir Henry Ingoldsby |
185 |
6 |
10 |
|
Col. Cha. Herbert |
155 |
11 |
2 |
|
Sir Thomas Gower |
201 |
17 |
10 |
|
Col. [Thomas] Erle [Earl] |
208 |
14 |
2 |
|
Col. La Meloniere |
203 |
15 |
6 |
|
Col. Du Cambon |
165 |
5 |
3 |
|
Col. Callimote |
180 |
11 |
7 |
|
Capt. Pitts and Miners [the miners] |
5 |
10 |
6 |
|
Provost Marshal and men |
5 |
3 |
0 |
|
4,507 |
5 |
4 |
|
This sum is surcharged on Mr.
Harbord in his account with
Mr. [Auditor] Done : the following
item is charged in his account
with Mr. [Auditor] Bridges, viz. : |
|
|
|
|
Col. [William] Stewart's Regiment. |
85 |
14 |
8 |
|
Total |
£4,593 |
0 |
0 |
| Feb. 20. |
William Jephson to the Revenue Commissioners,
Ireland, to give order that the things for the clothing
for the Danish Forces mentioned in the enclosed
note [missing] may be imported into Ireland,
duty free. |
Out Letters (Ireland) VI,
p. 50.
|
