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Nature and Substance of the Entry.
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Reference.
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May 11. |
Money warrant for 955l. to Robert, Lord Lexinton,
being 500l. as equipage and 455l. as a quarter's
advance of ordinary as Envoy Extraordinary to
the Elector of Brandenburg. (Money order dated
May 14 hereon.) |
Money Book X, p. 16.
Order Book III, p. 9. |
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Treasury order for the execution of the dormant
warrant of 1684-5, Mar. 23, for tallies on the Excise
for 10,972l. 19s. 3 1/24d. per an. to Catherine, Queen
Dowager. (With marginal notes of preceding and
succeeding like Treasury orders of confirmation
and renewal : viz. of dates 1687, May 27 ; 1689,
April 2 ; 1689-90, Mar. 21 ; 1694, June 29 : each
confirmation being rendered necessary by a change
in the Lord Treasurership or in the Treasury Board.) |
Money Book X, pp. 16-17. |
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Treasury order for the execution of a dormant
warrant, dated 1684-5, Mar. 23, for tallies on
the Excise for 1,236l. 16s. 1½d. per an. for said
Queen Dowager. (Together with marginal notes
of similar confirmations and renewals, dated 1686-7,
Mar. 17 ; 1689, April 2 ; 1689-90, Mar. 21, and
1694, June 29.) |
Money Book X, p. 17. |
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William Jephson to the Auditor of the Receipt to
stop payment of Mr. John Ashton's orders for
5,000l. and 7,500l., ut supra, p. 32. |
Disposition Book VIII,
p. 5. |
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Same to the Attorney General to report on the
enclosed report [missing] of Sir Henry Pollexfen,
late Attorney General, concerning the office of Clerk
of the Pipe and Mr. Smith's certificate thereupon. |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 21. |
| [?] |
Same to same to report on the patents of 1687, April 29,
granted to the Countess of Bristol. [See supra, p. 15.] |
Ibid. |
| May 11. |
Same to the Customs Commissioners to seal the goods
of the Envoy of Denmark at his house in order to
their transportation, Customs free, he being on
his departure home.
Appending : said Envoy's'etter, undated and unsigned,
requesting same. |
Ibid, p. 22. |
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Treasury warrant to same to discharge the wines and
tobaccos of John Gourney, merchant, ut supra,
p. 110, which he brought in four small vessels to
Beaumaris ; the tobacco having been first imported
to Ireland from London and duty paid and no
allowance of repayment on his bringing it from
Ireland, where he was forced to leave behind him
all the rest of his goods. |
Out Letters (Customs) XII,
p. 10. |
Treasury reference to same of the following petitions,
viz. of :—
Adlard Cagh for a landwaiter's place, London
port.
John Milbanke for the place of collector of Colchester
port.
Robert Vernon for a King's waiter's place [London
port]. |
Reference Book VI, pp.
33, 34, 35. |
| May 13. |
Royal warrant, dated Hampton Court, to the Clerk
of the Signet for a privy seal for sums not exceeding
100,000l. in the whole to Charles Bertie, Treasurer
and Paymaster of the Ordnance : as imprest for
land and sea services of the Office of Ordnance.
(Money warrant dated May 25 hereon. This
warrant quotes the privy seal as dated the 23rd
inst.) (Money order dated May 27 hereon.) |
King's Warrant Book
XIV, p. 68. Money
Book X, p. 24. Order
Book III, p. 12. |
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Same to the Attorney or Solicitor General for a great
seal (to pass also the seals of the Duchy and County
Palatine of Lancaster) containing an indenture
between the King and Queen of the one part and
Tho. Preston, esq., of Holker, co. Lancs, of the
other part, to grant to said Preston the scite of
the late dissolved monastery in Furness and the
rectory and other premises as in the indenture of
1682-3, Feb. 24, whereby Francis, Lord Carrington,
and Humphrey Weld, then of Lulworth Castle,
surrendered to the King all said premises, ut supra,
Calendar of Treasury Books, vol. VII, pp. 842-3 ;
which said premises were by grant, dated 1683,
June 28, granted by Charles II to said Thomas
Preston for seven years at a rent of 400l. per an.
The present grant is to be for 21 years from Lady
day next at the rent of 200l. per an. in consideration
of said Preston's good services and of his great
charges, expended and to be expended in the
recovery of the premises : he covenanting hereby
to pay the several fee farm rents and other charges,
amounting in all to 190l. 13s. 4d. And whereas it
is supposed that the Crown is entitled to a tenement
called Stone Dikes Tenement and one meadow
called Gold Mere Meadows, both in Furness, and
some customary or copyhold lands in Stainton
Fields in Furness, which were purchased of George
Hilton, gent., said Preston shall hereby enjoy
same during his term, without increase of rent, if
he recover same to the Crown. |
King's Warrant Book
XIV, pp. 73-9. |
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Royal warrant to the Clerk of the Signet for a privy
seal to release and discharge the 450l. remaining due
from Jonathan, Bishop of Exeter, for the First Fruits
[? of his precedent bishopric of Bristol]. |
King's Warrant Book XIV,
p. 80. |
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Same to the Treasury Lords to pay 500l. to Sir
Bourchier Wray, bart. and Kt. of the Bath : without
account : in satisfaction of so much by him lent to
Anthony Rowe, esq., for his Majesty's use ; which
sum the King is graciously pleased to repay. (Money
warrant dated May 15 hereon.) (Money order
dated May 17 hereon.) |
Ibid, p. 81. Money Book
X, p. 18. Order Book
III, p. 10. |
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Same to the Clerk of the Signet for a privy seal for
the [renewal of the] grant of the royal oak pensions
[to indigent Loyalist officers or their widows etc.]
as granted by James II Sept 20 last, supra, Calendar
of Treasury Books, vol. VIII, pp. 2051-2 : same to
be payable as from Christmas last out of the rent
of said lottery. |
King's Warrant Book XIV,
pp. 86-7. |
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William Jephson to the Excise Commissioners to pay
1,500l. to the Queen Dowager in part of last Lady
day quarter. |
Disposition Book VIII,
p. 6. |
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Same to Mr. Russell [Treasurer of the Navy]. The
Treasury Lords have directed 7,251l. 9s. 2d. to be
forthwith issued to you. It is to be immediately
carried down to Portsmouth so as to be there
to-morrow night : 5,251l. 9s. 2d. thereof to be
applied to pay off Portsmouth Yard for 1685,
Christmas quarter ; and 2,000l. thereof to answer
any occasions his Majesty shall be pleased to direct
at that place. |
Ibid. |
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Same to Mr. Duncombe [Receiver of Excise] to forthwith
advance 5,000l. of Excise money to William
Harbord for the use of the new raised Regiments.
(Cancelled and replaced by the letter of May 16,
infra, p. 123.) |
Ibid. |
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Same to the Agents [for Taxes] for a list of all
the names of the Receivers of the last [Aid or]
land tax. |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 21. |
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William Jephson to Auditor Done for an account of
the profit to the Crown from the tin farthings or
any other farthings in the year 1684. |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 21. |
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Same to the Earl of Ranelagh to order all the [Regimental]
agents to go immediately in person to
their Regiments and stay there till further
order. |
Ibid, p. 22. |
| [?] |
Same to the Customs Commissioners to discharge
the butter as follows.
Appending : letter, dated Liverpool, May 10 inst.,
to the Treasury Lords from William Morrison, a
distressed subject from Ireland, who lost all save
90 firkins of butter which he brought off in a narrow
escape in several boats : desiring to land it and
lodge it in his Majesty's store till an opportunity
offered for Holland, which request the officers at
Liverpool deny. |
Ibid, pp. 22-3. |
| May 13. |
Same to the Commissioners of the Great Seal to pass
under the seal with all expedition the Proclamation
for appointing the Commissioners who are to execute
the Poll Act ; his Majesty's service requiring the
immediate issue thereof. |
Ibid, p. 23. |
Treasury reference to the Customs Commissioners of
the following petitions, viz. of :—
John Westmorland for a King's waiter's place,
London port.
John Trotman for a King's waiter's place, Bristol
port.
Geo. Ward for a riding surveyor's place. |
Reference Book VI, p. 34. |
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Same to Auditor Phelipps of the petition of Sir Edward
Dering for the office of Receiver of [Crown] land
revenue in London and Middlesex, lately enjoyed
by Mr. John Smith. |
Ibid. |
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Same to the Excise Commissioners of Marmaduke
Hodgeson's petition to be made gauger general of
Excise. |
Ibid. |
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Treasury order for the execution of a warrant dated
the 11th inst. from the Earl of Dorset [Lord Chamberlain]
to Sir Gilbert Talbot, Master of the Jewel
House, to prepare and deliver to the Earl of Pembroke,
Ambassador Extraordinary to the States
General, 5,893 ounces of white plate and 1,066
ounces of gilt plate. |
Warrants not Relating to
Money XIII, p. 11. |
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Treasury letters patent constituting Robert Ferguson,
gent., as housekeeper of the Excise Office, with the
fee or salary of 400l. per an. : as from Lady day
last : loco Nicholas Fenn, esq., whose patent thereof
from James II is void by being only during pleasure.
The grantee is to maintain at his own cost a porter
to attend the gate and sufficient persons to take
care of the wood yards and other yards belonging
to said house. |
Ibid, pp. 12-14. |
| May 14. |
William Jephson to the Auditor of the Receipt to
issue 1,500l. to the Band of [Gentlemen] Pensioners ;
the Treasury Lords having taken off the respite of
the 8th inst. on said issue. |
Disposition Book VIII,
p. 6. |
Treasury reference to the Customs Commissioners of
the following petitions, viz. of :—
Henry Seward for the place of warehousekeeper,
Bristol port.
John Briscoe for a landsurveyor's place, London
port.
Mathew Alured for the place of customer of
Hull.
Robert Austen for the place of Surveyor General
of the outports.
William Hull for a landwaiter's place [London
port].
Edward Thompson for the place of riding surveyor
of the Customs for the North of England.
Robert Bickerstaff for a tidesurveyor's place
[London port].
Tho. Carter for a surveyor's place [ibid.].
William Stephens for a landwaiter's place [ibid.]. |
Reference Book VI, pp.
34, 39. |
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Treasury reference to Mr. Fillingham et al. of the petition
of [certain of] the Lincolnshire ministers, shewing that
by privy seal of 1687-8, Feb. 22, supra, Calendar of
Treasury Books, Vol. VIII, pp. 1774-5, they were
discharged from their arrears of Tenths ; that
notwithstanding the Receiver has received from
them 68l. 7s. 11¾d. : therefore pray for same to
be refunded. |
Reference Book VI, p. 42. |
| May 15. |
Money warrant for 14,593l. 10s. 3d. to Robert Vyner,
their Majesties' goldsmith, for jewels etc. delivered
between Mar. 19 last and April 12 last for the
Coronation as follows. (Money order dated May 16
hereon.)
Appending : certificate, dated May 9 inst., from
Sir G. Talbot, Master of the Jewel House. I have
received into the Jewel House from said Vyner for
the service of their Majesties' Coronation jewels
set in most curious works, gold extraordinary
wrought into crowns, sceptres, banners, enamelled
Georges, enamelled badges, Garters, chains etc.
and plate, amounting in the whole to 14,593l. 10s. 3d.
as follows, viz. 7,260l. for making (and for loan of
jewels for) setting and adorning their Majesties'
four crowns, viz. a Crown of State and a Coronation
Crown for the King and the same for the Queen ;
a globe or orb and two sceptres for the King and
the same for the Queen ; a circlet or diadem for
the Queen "in all which was 2,725 diamonds,
71 rubies, 59 saphires, 40 emeralds and 1,591 large
pearls, all valued at 126,000l." : 276l. for a large
ruby ring for the King ; setting the Queen's ruby
ring ; a large ruby for one of the sceptres with
some pearls and other enamelled work : 2,185l. 7s. 3d.
for 316 ounces of fine and crown gold most extraordinary
wrought into the several aforesaid works :
763l. 2s. 1d. for 1,121 ounces of new gilt plate most
curiously wrought and enchased : 361l. 3s. 4d.
for 814 ounces of white plate : 2,682l. 2s. 4d. for
new making, new gilding and refreshing 13,221
ounces of their Majesties' gilt store plate and adding
123 ounces of silver thereto : 514l. 2s. 3d. for repairing,
boiling, planishing, burnishing and adding
silver to 20,969 ounces of their Majesties' white
store plate and taking out the [James II] arms and
engraving them with their Majesties' arms and
ciphers : 7l. for colouring and burnishing a parcel
of gold plate : 381l. 10s. 0d. for the loan of 15,298
ounces of gilt and white plate : 128l. 3s. 0d. for
money paid to the farrier, casemaker, cutler etc. :
35l. paid to Jo[h]n Gilbert, Philip Brydall and
Tho. Vyner, officers of said Jewel House, for
necessaries from 1687, June 11, to April 11 last. |
Money Book X, pp. 18-19.
Order Book III, p. 9. |
William Jephson to Sir Gilbert Talbot [Master of
the Jewel House]. From the following certificate
it appears that 62,074 ounces of plate are remaining
in the hands of several Ambassadors, great officers
and others who stand charged with the same in
the books of your Office. It is the King's pleasure
that said place be forthwith returned into the
Jewel House. You are to demand it of them and
to give the Treasury Lords a particular account
hereof so that in case of refusal or delay further
steps may be taken herein.
Appending : said certificate by said Talbot of such
plate. The persons in whose hands said plate
remains (to amounts stated in each case) are as
follows : Earl of Sandwich as Ambassador from
Charles II to Spain ; Lord Montague as ditto to
France ; Earl of Sunderland as ditto to Spain ;
Earl of Carlisle as ditto to Sweden ; Sir William
Lockhart as ditto to Holland ; Lord Berkeley
at ditto to France ; Earl of Castlemaine as Ambassador
from James II to Rome ; Sir Joseph Williamson
as former Secretary of State ; Earl of Carbery
as [former] President of [the Marches of] Wales ;
Earl of Mulgrave as Lord Chamberlain to James II ;
Earl of Sunderland as late Secretary of State ; Earl
of Middleton as ditto ; Lord Dartmouth as
Master of the Horse ; Earl of Peterborough as
Groom of Stole to James II ; Earl of Yarmouth
as Master Treasurer [of the Household to ditto] ;
Lord Waldegrave as Comptroller [of ditto] ; Lord
Godolphin as Lord Chamberlain to the late Queen ;
Countess of Peterborough as Groom of the Stole
to ditto ; Mr. St. Amand, apothecary to their late
Majesties ; Earl of Bath as Groom of the Stole to
Charles II ; ditto "received from the Bedchamber,
Backstairs and barbers at the death of King Charles
II" ; Sir Tho. Williams, chymist to Charles II ;
Mr. Thomas and Mr. Lesserteur, the late Queen's
master cooks ; John Peach, yeoman of the field
to the late King ; John Bayly, ditto ; Mr. Point
of the cellar ; Mr. Crofts, page of the Bedchamber
to the late Queen ; Mris. Dawson, dresser to ditto ;
Mr. Rondise, keeper of the late Queen's chapel ;
Mr. Bell and Mr. Pedley of the late Queen's chapel ;
Mr. Horne, page of the Backstairs to the late Queen ;
Mr. Dufour, late page of the Bedchamber ; Countess
of Powys ; Mr. Henry Fitz James ; Mr. Pearse,
late serjeant surgeon. |
Out Letters (General) XII,
pp. 23-5. |
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Same to Mr. Mountagu, enclosing the Customs Commissioners'
report [missing] concerning the ship
Prince of Orange (the owners whereof pray a licence
for her to proceed on her voyage to Barbados).
Please lay same before the King in Council. |
Ibid, p. 25. |
|
Same to Mr. Twitty for an abstract of the Register of
the loans made on the present Aid, viz. the lenders'
names and the amounts. |
Ibid, p. 26. |
|
Same to Sir Robert Howard [Auditor of the Receipt].
The Treasury Lords meet again to-morrow and
will then send you further order concerning Mr.
Ashton's money. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to Mr. Montague, enclosing the Customs Commissioners'
reports [missing] concerning the following
ships, the owners of all which pray licences to
proceed on their voyages notwithstanding the
embargo, viz. the James of Leith ; Elizabeth of
Dartmouth ; American Merchant ; Herbert ; Malaga
Merchant ; Andrew ; Katherine ; Tryall of Dartmouth ;
Adventure briganteer ; Diligence of
Limerick ; Seaflower. Please lay same before the
King in Council. |
Ibid. |
|
Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners to
admit to entry John Key's iron wire, ut supra,
p. 96 ; the said Commissioners having inquired
into the practice at the water side and finding that
steel wire paying the most advantageous duty to
the King the landwaiters passed other wire under
that denomination without strict examination,
which gave encouragement to the merchants to
import iron wire as steel wire, which practice was
grown almost general and might be the occasion
of the several parcels here in question : to reform
which practice said Commissioners have published
an order to warn the merchants not to import and
the officers not to pass any of the said commodities. |
Out Letters (Customs) XII,
p. 10. |
|
Same to the Barons of the Exchequer to take the
securities of and to swear in Humphry Fitzherbert as
Customer outwards, Bristol port, granted by
Charles II to Fownes Fitzherbert and said Humphry
in reversion of John Fitzherbert ; the said Fownes
being dead and said John's grant only during pleasure
and thereby now void, whereby said office is now
solely vested in said Humphry. |
Ibid, p. 11. |
Treasury reference to the Customs Commissioners of
the following petitions, viz. of :—
Henry Rotherham for the place of one of the
surveyors of Bristol port.
Alexander Hill for some employment in the
Customs in Sussex or Hampshire.
John Hammond for a watchman's place, London
port.
Samuell Bincks for the place of collector of
Shoreham.
Joseph Pochin for a landwaiter's place, London
port.
Gilbert Lucas for the place of waiter and searcher
at Sharperton, a member of Berwick port.
Josua Simpson for the place of a surveyor of
landwaiters [London port].
Martin Lluellyn for a searcher's place [ibid.]. |
Reference Book VI, pp.
35, 36. |
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Same to the Excise Commissioners of a paper
of Sir Vere Fane, Kt. of the Bath, Thomas Mun
and John Farthing, esq., being proposals for increasing
the revenue of Excise. |
Ibid, p. 36. |
Treasury warrant to [Deputy Auditor] R. Humphreys
(Humfreys) for a particular of the offices of steward
of the Lordship of Brecon with the annual fee of
13l. 6s. 8d. and of Chamberlain of the borough of
Brecon and the counties of Brecon, Radnor and
Glamorgan [also of the stewardships of Mallaen etc.,
Talley etc. and Mabwynion etc. as follows] : all
with a view to a grant thereof to John, Lord Vaughan,
Earl of Carbery, during pleasure : the fee of 10l.
per an. for the stewardship of Mallaen etc. to be
in future payable out of the Crown revenue of
co. Carmarthen.
Prefixing : report by said Humfreys on said Lord's
petition, supra, p. 17. The office of steward of
Brecon is of no avail to the King's service, that
manor having been long ago sold in fee to the
Morgans of Tredegar, who now enjoy same under
a fee farm rent. The said office of Chamberlain
is a necessary office for keeping the Original Seal and
other services in those counties for the better despatch
of justice there. It has been usually granted to
some honourable person. The Crown allows no
fee for it, but the subjects pay so much a writ for
the seal, which fees are known and settled. The
stewardships of the manors of Mallaen, Cayo, etc.,
are indeed three distinct stewardships with three
several fees of 10l. per an. and are thus distinguished :
the offices of steward and keeper of the courts etc.
of the manors, lands and granges of Mallaen, Cayo,
Mabdrein, Mabedrud, Maenordeilo, Kethynock and
of the forests of Glyncothy and Penant in co.
Carmarthen with the fee of 10l. per an. ; the like
offices of the lands etc. of the late monastery of
Talley, co. Carmarthen, with the like fee ; the like
of the manors etc. of Mavoneth, alias Mavonion
[Mabwynion], Gwinionedd Ucharden, Iscoed Isherwen,
Geneurglyn, Blaen, Arrian, Selean and
Talisarn Green, co. Cardigan, and the offices of
Majors there with the like fee, both which last fees
are payable out of the [Crown] revenue in general
of those counties. By patent of 1684, May 7, these
three offices were granted to Edward, Visct. Hereford,
and had long before been in that family, but through
the carelessness of their understewards the profits
of courts, fines on death and alienations and other
casual duties to the Crown were wholly lost "and
the very footsteps of those royalties of the Crown
there almost worn out as they still continue ; which
I doubt not the noble petitioner will redress."
In the [present] new grant the offices of Mayors
in the said lordships in co. Cardigan ought not to
be inserted in that the homages of those several
lordships etc. do by their tenures and ancient
usages choose their Mayors annually, who collect
the rents of the Crown there and for whom they are
answerable and obliged to make up their rents,
"which they would perhaps cease to be if their
stewards [be] made their collectors." The first abovesaid
fee of 10l. per an. may be continued payable
out of the profits of courts, "but how safe it may
be for the subject or how legal or convenient to have
a steward impose fines for himself will be fit to be
considered." The average annual profits of said
profits of courts in Mallaen etc. were 5l. under
Charles I and 8s. 5d. under Charles II : for Talley
they were 4s. 6d. under Charles I and nothing since
the Restoration : for the lordships in Cardigan
no return is possible as those profits have long
since been leased out and the farmers thereof have
delivered in no particulars. |
Warrants not Relating to
Money XIII, pp. 14-17. |
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Treasury letters patent appointing John Smith of
the parish of St. Clements Danes, co. Midd., gent.,
to be Receiver of Crown Revenues in the city of
London and counties of Middlesex, Essex, Herts,
Norfolk and Huntingdon. |
Warrants not Relating to
Money XIII, p. 17. |
| May 16. |
Privy seal authorising the Treasury Lords to issue
commissions to the General Receivers of the Poll
for the respective counties and places. (Royal
warrant dated May 8 for said privy seal.) |
King's Warrant Book
XIV, p. 64. |
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Privy seal authorising the Treasury Lords to direct the
Exchequer to take in loans on the Poll to a total of
300,000l., making out orders for same in accordance
with the Act for said Poll : at 7 per cent interest : and
likewise to make out warrants and orders for payment
for wares, goods, ships, victuals etc. furnished for
the Navy or Ordnance under the terms of said
Act : all said orders to be registered in course.
In case any such orders of loan have been already
signed as bearing only 6 per cent interest, an
additional allowance of interest of 1 per cent is
hereby to be made. (Royal warrant dated May 8
for said privy seal.) (Treasury warrant dated
May 16 to the Receipt accordingly hereon.) |
King's Warrant Book
XIV, pp. 64-66. Money
Book X, p. 20. |
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Royal letters patent constituting Charles Mountagu to
be one of the Clerks of the Privy Council : with the
salary of 250l. per an. payable as from Feb. 13 last. |
King's Warrant Book
XIV, pp. 140-1. |
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William Jephson to the Auditor of the Receipt to
issue as follows out of any unappropriated moneys
in the Exchequer, viz. : |
Disposition Book VIII,
p. 7. |
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l. |
s. |
d. |
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to the Earl of Ranelagh for a week's
subsistence to the Forces |
3,561 |
15 |
0 |
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to Mr. Harbord |
10,000 |
0 |
0 |
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to the Treasurer of the Navy [on
the Navy's] weekly money |
3,000 |
0 |
0 |
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to ditto for the Victuallers |
6,000 |
0 |
0 |
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to the Treasurer of the Ordnance |
2,000 |
0 |
0 |
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[to the Paymaster of the Works]
for the works at Hampton Court |
500 |
0 |
0 |
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for the Privy Purse |
500 |
0 |
0 |
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to me [Jephson] for secret service |
1,000 |
0 |
0 |
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to Mr. Molesworth |
955 |
0 |
0 |
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to the Treasurer of the Chamber by
way of advance : to be respited
till further order [see infra, p. 145,
under date June 3] |
466 |
13 |
4 |
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to Visct. Newport for the Household |
1,500 |
0 |
0 |
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to the Master of the Great Wardrobe |
1,500 |
0 |
0 |
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to Mr. Vyner, the goldsmith |
1,000 |
0 |
0 |
|
Same to same to issue to Mr. Harbord the 5,000l. of
Excise money which will be paid into the Exchequer
"besides what is already appointed to be paid in,"
see supra, p. 117. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to same. Several citizens of London are willing
to forthwith lend the King considerable sums on
the present Aid or the Poll. At their request and
for their convenience the Treasury Lords direct
you to accept [as cash] the [bank] notes of Mr.
Percivall and Mr. Evans, or of Mr. Atwell and
Mr. Courtney, or of Mr. St. John, goldsmiths in
Lombard Street, or of Lieut.-Col. Child or Sir
Thomas Fowlys, goldsmiths in Fleet Street. On
the lenders delivering such notes to any of the
Tellers the Teller is to throw down a bill for that
money and tallies are to be struck and delivered
to the lenders without charge or delay. All the
Exchequer officers concerned are to attend all
this afternoon and every afternoon for a week to
despatch the King's service in these loans. |
Out Letters (General) XII,
pp. 26-7. |
|
Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners to
see that no ship sail out of any port of England
without giving security not to go to Ireland or
France : the order of Jan. 29 last, supra, Calendar
of Treasury Books, Vol. VIII, pp. 2159-60, mentioning
only France, but it having been represented that
under pretext of coast trading some ships or vessels
may be going to Ireland "which may prove of ill
consequence to their Majesties' affairs." |
Out Letters (Customs) XII,
p. 11. |
Treasury reference to the Customs Commissioners of
the following petitions, viz. of :
William Gee, esq., a member of the House of
Commons, shewing that the customer's place
in Newcastle port is in possession of one that
engaged to take away the Penal Laws and
Test and never to give his vote for any to be
member of Parliament that would not consent
to taking them away and also did refuse to
take the oaths : therefore praying to replace
him in said office.
George Powell for the office of patent searcher
of Bridgwater port.
Richard Tonstall for restoration to his place of
landwaiter, London port.
James Donne for a landsurveyor's place, ibid. |
Reference Book VI, p. 36. |
|
Same to the Excise Commissioners of Tho. Aram's
petition for renewal of his patent as Solicitor for
the Excise (Solicitor for the Crown in Law Causes
for the Excise). |
Ibid. |
| May 17. |
Money warrant for 955l. to William, Lord Paget,
Envoy Extraordinary to the Emperor of Germany ;
500l. thereof for equipage and 455l. for a quarter's
ordinary in advance. (Money order dated May 24
hereon.) |
Money Book X, p. 21.
Order Book III, p. 11. |
|
William Jephson to the Customs Commissioners to
deliver, Customs free, at the Earl of Portland's
lodgings in Whitehall his goods shipped on the
George at Rotterdam, John Nibled master. |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 27. |
|
Same to the Receiver for co. Yorks of the last Aid
for a certificate of the money [receipts of said Aid]
in his hands on the last day of this instant May. |
Ibid. |
Same to Mr. Mountague to lay before the King in
Council the enclosed report [missing] from the
Customs Commissioners concerning the ships Grand
Cairo and Mary, praying protection for their seamen
and licence to proceed on their voyage, notwithstanding
the embargo.
The like of the like for the ships Charles and
Providence of Guernsey, praying the like and for
leave to carry coals, Customs free, from Newcastle
to Guernsey.
The like of the like for the ship Tyger for leave
to proceed on her voyage to Newfoundland. |
Ibid, pp. 27, 29. |
|
Same to the Customs Commissioners to give order
that till the last day of this instant May all money
payable in any outport within the districts of
Newcastle be paid to Anthony Isaacson at Newcastle. |
Ibid, p. 28. |
|
Treasury order to same to observe an order
of the Privy Council, dated Whitehall,
May 16 inst., taking off the embargo from
all ships and vessels belonging to the subjects of
the King of Spain, provided they have not on
board any English subjects : said order being
made upon a letter from the Spanish Ambassador. |
Out Letters (Customs) XII,
p. 12. |
Treasury reference to the Customs Commissioners of
the following petitions, viz. of :
George Cole for a landwaiter's place, London
port.
William Selby for a landsurveyor's place, ibid.
George Harris for the place of surveyor at the
Pill in Bristol port.
William Noye for the place of landwaiter in
Swansea port.
Watkin Stradling for the place of customer of
Cardiff.
Richard Harris for the place of customer at
Newport in Swansea port.
Arthur Bushe for a place in the Excise, he having
been collector of Athlone in Ireland, but forced
to fly, upon the revolution there.
David Heane (Hearne) for some place in the
Customs in Bristol port.
Jo[h]n Trethewy for a King's waiter's place,
London.
Geo. Wright for a watchman's place abovestairs
[ibid.]. |
Reference Book VI, pp.
36, 37. |
|
Treasury warrant to Auditor John Phelips to take
bond of John Smith of St. Clements Danes, London,
and Mary Sayer of Berkhampstead in 1,000l. each
for said Smith's due accompting as Receiver of
Crown Revenues in the city of London etc. |
Warrants not Relating to
Money XIII, p. 18. |
| May 18. |
William Jephson to Mr. Fillingham et al. [Agents for
Taxes] to prosecute Sir Edward Dering for the
King's moneys in his hands as follows.
Appending : letter, dated May 13, from Auditor
J. Phelips [to said Jephson]. Sir Edward Dering
showed me his petition to-day for Mr. Smith's
office of Receiver to be added to his own. I told
him I could not report for I thought it unreasonable
that a good officer, as Mr. Smith is, who has accompted
well, should be displaced for one that hath never
accompted since he came into his office and I thought
it fitter he should be suspended in his own receipt
till he had accompted, the rather because he has a
great sum of money in his hands. |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 28. |
|
Same to the Customs Commissioners for a report on
Robert Thorowgood's petition for the office of
customer of Lynn. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to same to respite the deputation to Mr. Flory
as collector of Lynn. |
Ibid. |
Treasury reference to same of the petition of
Robert Hayton for a landwaiter's place, London
port.
James Collins for a surveyor's place, Exeter
port. |
Reference Book VI, pp.
37, 38. |
| May 20. |
Same to same of the petition of Robert Constable
for the place of solicitor of the Treasury or
Customs.
Edward Clitherall for a landwaiter's place in
the outports.
John Colquitt for same place in the Customs. |
Ibid, pp. 37, 38. |
|
William Jephson to the Auditor of the Receipt to
give order to the Tellers that such loans as are
brought to them in guineas shall be taken at the
present current value of the guinea and no
more. |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 29. |
