|
|
|
|
Date.
|
Nature and Substance of the Entry.
|
Reference.
|
|
June 11. |
William Jephson to Mr. Fox [Customs Cashier] to
pay last Lady day quarter's salary bill of the Customs
officers, London port, by 2,000l. this week, 2,000l.
next week and the remaining 1,207l. 17s. 3d. the
week following. |
Disposition Book VIII,
p. 171. |
Same to Mr. Sotherne to lay before the Admiralty
Lords (a) infra. The Treasury Lords recommend
the case to their Lordships, as the Customs on the
tobacco will come to a considerable sum and therefore
do desire orders for the safe and speedy bringing of
said ship to Bristol.
Appending : (a) memorial, dated June 7, to the
Treasury Lords from Robert Henley, shewing that
the ship Concord of Bristol, laden with 700 or 800
hogsheads of sweet scented tobacco (which will
pay at least 7-8,000l. in Customs) coming from
York River in Maryland put in to Milford in her
way to Bristol, but had her men pressed out of her
by the men of war there in port : therefore praying
for the owners of the ship the restoration of her
company and her protection to Bristol "and that
if any men of war shall be appointed for convoy
to the ships new laden of Hey [hay] at Bristol the
commanders may be ordered to take the said ship
Concord under their convoy thither." This ship's
loading being all sweet scented tobacco none of it
will be transported again and so the whole Customs
will come entirely into the Treasury. |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 303. |
Same to the Customs Commissioners, enclosing the
petition of James Ayrey, shewing that he attended
at the Custom House four months, landing and
discharging goods, and therefore praying the place
of one Booth, a deputy King's waiter, who has
been sick in the country and has not officiated this
six months.
Hereon my Lords order that Mr. Frank, one of
the quaymen, London port, be made a deputy
King's waiter loco said Booth ; and Ayrey to succeed
Frank as quayman. |
Ibid, p. 304. |
|
Same to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue (out of
money reserved in the Exchequer for the Treasurer
of the Chamber) 585l. 5s. 0d. to Sir Rowland Gwynn,
to be by him paid over to Monsieur Gastigny, the
Master of the Buckhounds, for one quarter to
1689, Michaelmas, to him and the rest of the officers
of the Buckhounds on their allowances. (Same to
said Gwynn to so pay same.) |
Ibid. |
|
Same to Mr. Blathwayte to take the securities offered
by Mr. Brook for his place of Receiver of his Majesty's
Revenue in New York, as by your letter of the 6th
inst. : viz. himself, the Earl of Bellomont and
Sir Philip Coote jointly in a bond of 2,000l. : which
you think sufficient. |
Ibid, p. 305. |
|
Treasury reference to the Commissioners for Transport
Ships of the petition of Mary Fleming, praying
payment of 147l. 12s. 0d. due for transports : as
appears by charter party. |
Reference Book VI, p. 187. |
Treasury warrant to the Treasurer's Remembrancer
et al. for a record of surplusage to discharge the
30l. 8s. 10d. resting in surplus on the account of
James Torkington, esq., as sheriff of Cambridge
and Huntingdon for the year ended 1689, Michaelmas :
same to be hereby discharged out of the
debit of any other sheriff [remaining indebted to
the Crown on his account] after the usual manner.
Prefixing : extract of said surplusage from the Great
Roll of the Pipe. |
Warrants not Relating to
Money XIII, p. 213. |
|
June 12.
|
William Jephson to the Auditor of the Receipt to
issue as follows out of any disposable, unappropriated
money in the Exchequer : |
Disposition Book VIII,
p. 170. |
|
l. |
s. |
d. |
|
to the Earl of Ranelagh for the
Dutch Fiscal |
812 |
9 |
0 |
|
to ditto for a fortnight's subsistence,
in arrear, to all the Forces
[in England] except the Regiments
of [the Duke of] Bolton,
[Visct.] Castleton and [Sir George]
St. George and the First Regiment
of Foot Guards |
5,170 |
17 |
0 |
|
to ditto for a week's subsistence
to the Forces under his pay
including the five Dutch Regiments
paid by Vander-Esch |
6,666 |
19 |
6 |
|
to ditto to be paid to Monsieur
Vander-Esch for the Dutch Dragoons |
2,700 |
0 |
0 |
|
to ditto for Col. Trelawney's Regiment |
4,300 |
0 |
0 |
|
to ditto to clear Col. Godfry's
Regiment to Sept. 1 last |
3,650 |
0 |
0 |
|
to ditto to clear Col. Berkeley's
Dragoons to Sept. 1 last |
2,050 |
0 |
0 |
|
to ditto to pay a bill from Holland |
7,500 |
0 |
0 |
|
to ditto to clear the Troop of
Scotch Guards to May 1 |
1,863 |
8 |
0 |
|
to Mr. Lloyd [Paymaster of the
Works] to be paid over to the
Surveyor of the Mews |
140 |
0 |
0 |
|
to the Treasurer of the Ordnance
to buy 50 horses for the [Artillery]
train |
500 |
0 |
0 |
|
to Mr. Fox to be paid to Mr.
Freeman to buy 50 horses for
Pereira |
500 |
0 |
0 |
|
to ditto for Monsieur Averquerque
upon account for buying horses
for his Majesty's equipage |
2,000 |
0 |
0 |
|
to ditto for Monsieur Averquerque
for extraordinaries for the Stables,
sent for Ireland |
3,000 |
0 |
0 |
|
to ditto for the Commissaries of
the Provisions for building a
storehouse at Hoylake |
250 |
0 |
0 |
|
to ditto for the Hospital at Chester |
30 |
0 |
0 |
|
to Emanuell Scroop How for one
quarter as a Groom of the Bedchamber |
125 |
0 |
0 |
|
£41,258 |
13 |
6 |
|
William Jephson to Mr. Fox [Customs Cashier] for a certificate
how far the Earl of Shrewsbury is paid on his
allowance of 1,850l. per an. [as Secretary of State,
which is payable out of the Customs] and what is
due to him since to the 3rd inst. |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 304. |
|
Same to the Agents for Taxes to write to the Receiver
of the Poll for co. Cornwall to pay Henry Gregor
of Truro such money as arises by the Poll in that
county, to be by said Gregor invested in tin for
his Majesty's service : and to allow on said Receiver's
accounts such sums as he can show Gregor's
acquittances for. |
Ibid, p. 305. |
Same to the Customs Commissioners, enclosing (a)
infra.
Appending : (a) letter, dated Brighthelmstone, June 7,
from Robert Desmyniere (Des Mynine). I was
informed at Lewes this morning that a person
there expects orders next week from the Earl of
Dorset "to possess themselves of the wreck Canary
wines in my district, and if opposed will take it
by force, saying the Lord Dorset will send them
under his hand [a writing] to save them harmless."
This afternoon passed by this port about 50 sail
of merchantmen. One belonging to this port
reports that they are from the Canaries and near
three months since laden in the Canaries, all bound
for the Downs. A fresh gale now at south west. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to Mr. Sotherne to lay before the Admiralty
Lords the enclosed presentment [missing] from
the Customs Commissioners touching an assault
committed on a Customs officer at Portsmouth
by Capt. Rooke, Commander of one of the King's
ships. |
Ibid, p. 306. |
|
Same to the Revenue Commissioners, Ireland, enclosing
a letter [missing] from the Duke of Sconberge, dated
Lisburn, May 19 last. My Lords desire you to
hasten away for Ireland, as their Majesties' service
requires you there. |
Out Letters (Ireland) VI,
p. 25. |
|
June 13.
|
Same to Mr. Lloyd [Paymaster of the Works]
to pay to Mr. Negus, Surveyor of the Mews,
the 140l. directed to you, supra, p. 701 : same to
be applied towards rebuilding and making a new
wall with a small lodge for a porter within the
said Mews. |
Disposition Book VIII,
p. 171. |
|
Same to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue to the
Treasurer of the Navy the 4,000l. which will be
lent into the Exchequer by Thomas Rodbard on
the credit of the 2s. Aid. Same is to be by him
paid to said Rodbard towards the debt due to him
for victuals furnished in the time of the late Victuallers
of the Navy. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to Mr. Fox and Mr. Coningsby to pay (out of
moneys in your hands for the Forces in Ireland)
140l. to Capt. Sigismund D'Erlach in the Regiment
of Col. John Beaumont. |
Ibid, p. 172. |
|
Same to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue (out of
such money as shall be lent into the Exchequer by
Jeremiah Bubb on credit of the Customs) 251l. 10s. 0d.
to the Earl of Ranelagh : to be for the pay of the
garrison of Carlisle to May 1 last. |
Ibid. |
|
William Jephson to Mr. Duncombe [Cashier of Excise].
My Lords found from your last week's certificate of
[receipts from and payments out of] the unappropriated
Excise that after making the weekly payments
to the Princess [of Denmark] and to Mr.
Scawen et al. there remained in your hands
5,892l. 18s. 4½d. My Lords made their last week's
disposition for his Majesty's affairs accordingly,
not doubting but that you would have paid the
said sum into the Exchequer on Wednesday. They
now find that those who were to have received the
same out of the Exchequer are disappointed because
you have not paid it in. You are to pay it in
without fail to-day or to-morrow "and not to
keep any of the last week's money to make good the
payments for this week at the Excise Office." |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 306. |
|
Same to the Customs Commissioners, enclosing a copy
[missing] of an Order of Council of the 12th inst.,
directing some of you to attend the [Privy] Council
to-morrow morning concerning the New England
trade ; and that Sir John Werden and another of
your number attend there on the 19th inst. concerning
the new silver coins. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to the officers of the Mint to report their opinion
before Tuesday next to the Treasury Lords touching
the values of the new silver coins of this kingdom
and the causes of the great exportation thereof
at this present and how the same may be prevented. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to the Auditors of Imprests for an account,
with all speed, what moneys are in arrear to the
King from the Remembrancer of First Fruits and
Tenths ; as also of the arrears of Tenths due from
the several dioceses : and for their advice of a way
to hasten in such arrears. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to the Customs Commissioners. In reply to
your presentment of the 7th inst. touching a parcel
of cordage seized at Plymouth my Lords agree
that if the merchant who owns it shall refuse to
gratify the officer who seized it, the officer shall
be at liberty to prosecute the seizure in the Exchequer
Court. |
Ibid, p. 307. |
|
Same to Mr. Blathwaite concerning Mr. Lum and
Mr. Boddington, ut supra, p. 674. |
Ibid, p. 308. |
Treasury order to the Customs Commissioners to
observe (a) infra if the matter of the petition be
true.
Prefixing : (a) order of the Privy Council, dated Whitehall,
June 12, made upon reading this day the petition
of Peter Joye, William Baron, Thomas Byfield and
several other merchants trading for Hamburg and
places adjacent on the Elbe ; petitioners setting
forth that before the late Order of Council of April 24
last prohibiting the importation of any goods from
Hamburg, they had bought on the Elbe considerable
quantities of pipe staves, which were there laden
and came under Dutch convoy first for Holland and
then to London, where they have paid Customs
for same, but are hindered from unlading by virtue
of said order, and therefore praying liberty to
unlade. It is hereupon hereby ordered that they be
so permitted to unlade. |
Out Letters (Customs) XII,
p. 160. |
Treasury order to the Customs Commissioners to
observe (a) infra.
Prefixing : (a) order of the Privy Council, dated Whitehall,
June 12 inst. The Earl of Nottingham, Secretary
of State, having communicated to the Board the
King's pleasure that the ships which lie ready at
Hamburg and are bound for England may for this
time come away and be permitted to unlade at the
Custom House, but that in all other cases the order
of prohibition of April 24 last be continued until
the Senate of Hamburg have actually removed
Monsieur Biddall from that town : it is therefore
ordered that the King's pleasure as above be
accordingly obeyed. |
Out Letters (Customs) XII,
p. 160. |
|
Treasury reference to the Revenue Commissioners,
Ireland, of the petition of Edward Denham, shewing
that he hath traded considerably to Turkey, India
and other places beyond the seas and hath lived in
reputation in London many years, and been of the
Common Council and had many losses by land and
sea, and did immediately before the death of
Charles II petition the Earl of Rochester for a
collector's place in the Excise, which he qualified
himself for, but on said Earl's dismission from the
Treasury he proceeded no further therein : therefore
prays a place in the Customs in Ireland, petitioner
being faithful to the King and Church established
and well understanding the business of the Customs. |
Reference Book VI, p. 191. |
|
Same to the Auditor [of Crown Revenues] for co.
Sussex of the petition of Lord Lovelace, shewing
that Sir Tho. Williams and Joseph Fells, goldsmith,
detain from the Crown a parcel of waste ground in
co. Sussex under pretence of letters patent, which
are defective and void in law : therefore praying a
grant thereof for 99 years, [the Crown title] to be
recovered at petitioner's cost. |
Ibid, p. 192. |
|
June 14.
|
William Jephson to the Customs Commissioners to
enquire into (a) infra, viz. as to the real shipping
of the tobacco concerned, and the exportation
thereof in time [enough to benefit by the Proclamation
for free imports to Ireland].
Appending : (a) note of three certificates of Mr. Squire
and others relating to tobacco and other goods sent
by them from Liverpool to Londonderry on which
the duty had been paid in England [at first importation] ;
Mr. Houghton's affidavit as to part of said
tobacco ; the letter of the Customs officers of
Liverpool as to same ; Preston's affidavit as to the
landing of it in Ireland. |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 307. |
|
Same to the Attorney and Solicitor General, enclosing
an order [missing] of reference [? on a petition]
from the City of London concerning some ground
and houses upon Tower Hill. My Lords desire you
to examine into the Crown's title and the claim
of the city thereto. |
Ibid. |
|
Treasury reference to the Customs Commissioners of
the petition of Richard Patrickson for the office
of searcher of Carlisle port loco Nehemiah Williamson,
who at present holds same, but has not taken the
oaths according to law and has committed several
misdemeanours. |
Reference Book VI, p. 192. |
|
Treasury reference to the Customs Commissioners of
the petition of English seamen, late prisoners at
St. Malo, shewing that they wrought on board
the Cadiz Merchant and other prizes for which
they had in lieu of money several small parcels
of linen cloth, about 200 ells, and two small
pieces of silk, which at their arrival at Plymouth
was seized : therefore praying restoration of same. |
Reference Book VI, p. 192. |
|
Same to Mr. Talman, Comptroller of the Works,
of the petition to the King from George London
on behalf of the gardeners and others who work
by the day in their Majesties' gardens ; praying
payment of 750l. due to them for wages. |
Ibid, p. 197. |
|
For the order for repayment of loan to John Gore
see supra, p. 697. |
Order Book III, p. 96. |
|
William Jephson to the Revenue Commissioners,
Ireland, enclosing papers [missing] of Mr. Gabriell
Guichard concerning wines and other goods imported
by him into Ireland some time since. You are to
discharge the wines, duty free, but take Customs
for the rest of the goods. |
Out Letters (Ireland) VI,
p. 25. |
|
June 15
and 16.
|
[Same] to the Commissioners of Excise to pay into
the Exchequer 1,000l. a week from Wednesday
sevennight next until November 1 next : to be
issued to the Earl of Bellomont for the Queen.
(Same, dated June 16, to the Auditor of the Receipt
to so issue same weekly as it is brought in.) |
Disposition Book VIII,
p. 173. |
|
June 16.
|
Treasury warrant to Mr. Fox [Customs Cashier] to
pay the Earl of Shrewsbury 354l. 16s. 8d. for Mar. 25
last to June 3 inst. on his 1,850l. per an. out of the
Customs as a Secretary of State. |
Money Book X, p. 391. |
|
Same to Thomas Neale, Master Worker, and James
Hoare, Comptroller of the Mint, to buy 206l. 16s. 0d.
worth of silver and to coin same into current coins of
the realm and then to pay same to John and James
Roteires in full of all their demands for the silver
and the making and engraving of the great seal of
England. |
Ibid, p. 392. |
|
William Jephson to the Auditor of the Receipt to
order the Tellers to receive guineas at no other
rate than the current price. |
Disposition Book VIII,
p. 172. |
|
Same to same to issue to me [Jephson] for secret
service the 2,000l. which the Earl of Mulgrave
will lend into the Exchequer on the credit of the
Customs. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to the Farmers of the Lotteries to forthwith
pay into the Exchequer 100l. on account of last
Lady day quarter's rent of their farm, and a further
100l. at Midsummer coming on account of the
quarter's rents then due and similarly at Michaelmas
next for same then due. "These sums are intended
to be issued to me for secret service." (Same to
the Auditor of the Receipt to issue said three sums
to me [Jephson] for secret service as soon as they
are paid in.) |
Ibid, pp. 173, 175. Out
Letters (General) XII, p.
313. |
|
Same to same. Referring to the letter of May 17,
supra, pp. 634-5, concerning the 6,000l. per week
for the current service of the Navy, my Lords now
desire you that the said weekly payment be no longer
made out of the ready cash which the Treasurer of
the Navy or his cashier may find to have been lent
into the Exchequer by other persons, but that the
said Treasurer or his cashier may nevertheless
weekly for five weeks more make loans in either of
their names on the Act for the Customs [2 Wm.
and Mary, c. 4] to the value of 6,000l. [weekly]
and have orders thereon registered in course ; for
supplying the Navy's weekly payment "as was
meant by the latter part of the said former letter,
until thereby the further sum of 30,000l. shall be
paid unto him." (Same to said Navy Treasurer
not to receive the said 6,000l. per week out of the
ready money in the Exchequer, "but that you
make loans thereof every week upon the Customs
in your own name.") |
Disposition Book VIII,
p. 174. Out Letters
(General) XII. p. 307. |
|
William Jephson to the Treasurer of the Navy to send
to the Treasury Lords weekly certificates of your
receipts and payments since your last [such certificate]
and to continue to do so weekly for the future.
(The like to the Treasurer of the Ordnance.) |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 307. |
|
Same to the Earl of Montagu [Master of the Great
Wardrobe] to provide as cheaply as possible the
necessaries required (as by your memorial) to be
furnished to Dr. Stockholm, Physician in Ordinary
to the King, who is commanded for Ireland. |
Ibid, p. 308. |
|
Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners to
employ Alexander How as a landwaiter, Bristol
port, loco Charles Green, lately deceased. |
Out Letters (Customs) XII,
p. 161. |
|
Treasury reference to same of the petition of William
Ceeley for the place of surveyor of Barnstaple
port loco John Coker, disaffected to the present
Government "and guilty of several crimes in the
schedule annexed [missing]." |
Reference Book VI, p. 192. |
|
Same to the Victualling Commissioners of the petition
of Samuell Batt, merchant ; shewing that he was
employed in July last by the late Commissioners of
the Victualling Office to buy for them 200 tuns of
beer and cask and to freight ships to transport
same to the Fleet or [to] Plymouth : which orders he
obeyed and there is due to him 444l. 1s. 1d. by bills
not paid and for beer and cask : therefore prays
present payment considering he has been here six
months waiting for his due and has lost in Ireland
1,200l. worth of goods and [further lost] since his
coming here a ship bound for Virginia worth 1,100l.
with her loading ; the above debt being what part
of his little fortune he has left to maintain his wife
and children ; there being also 200l. due out of it
to others and without it petitioner dares not go
home. |
Ibid, p. 193. |
|
Instructions from the Treasury Lords to the Commissioners
appointed to manage the Revenue of Ireland.
(1) It is represented to us that it has been the usual
practice in Ireland, when the Customs were not
in farm, to have them collected by the King's
patent officers in every port, but when in farm
the farmers appointed other collectors, reserving
to the King's patent officers the fees due to them :
you are hereby (in order to save unnecessary charge)
directed to employ the patent officers in all cases
where you find it best, they giving good security.
But where you think fit not to employ them you
are hereby to appoint such collectors as you think
capable in any of the ports, reserving still to the
patent officers their fees. (2) From time to time
you are to give account to the Lord Lieutenant and
Council, and also to us, of your proceedings whenever
required and particularly every quarter from
Michaelmas last without further order. (3) You
are hereby restrained from receiving any money
yourselves, but you are to cause your collectors to
have such a dependence upon you that they will
neither issue or pay any money but by your order
and constantly hold a correspondence and state
their accounts with you : and that all money to be
received by your collectors in or near Dublin be
by your order paid in specie into the Treasury
[there] and thereupon Exchequer acquittances
given ; and that all the moneys received by the
collectors in the country be also paid by your
orders to answer such assignments as shall be
drawn upon the respective collectors by the Vice
Treasurer. (4) You are to take good security of
the several collectors and to cause them once every
month to send you abstracts of all their receipts
and payments, so that it may appear what money
they have in their hands ; and once every month
you are to give to the Lord Lieutenant an account
of moneys so remaining in the said collectors' hands
and of what has been received and paid by them
in that month, whether paid to the Vice Treasurer
or upon his orders or assignments. (5) You are to
cause all your collectors to pass their accounts upon
oath at the end of every year or every half year,
preferably the latter or oftener, unless you find it
convenient [otherwise] ; and to pay in the money
that shall thereupon be found to be due from them ;
and to insert in their accounts perfect and exact
schedules of all arrears due to the Crown in their
collections, distinguishing the branches of the
revenue on which same are due and the reasons
why same have not been collected : and to cause
a duplicate of each such collector's account to be
entered with the Auditor General and upon his
allowance to pass the same according to the usual
form and upon payment of the balance to give
discharges to the said respective collectors. (6) You
are to give quarterly accounts to the Lord Lieutenant
of what has been received and paid out of the
revenue in that quarter and at the end of every
year or oftener (if required) to transmit to us [the
Treasury Lords, England] an exact and particular
account of all the receipts and payments out of the
revenue and of the arrears standing out and also
an account of what has been by you disburst for
charges of management. (7) You are to cause all
Sub-Commissioners and under officers to take the
oaths according to law and to be especially careful
and watchful that no money be given for places
directly or indirectly and that no man be admitted
to a place for any recommendation, favour or any
respect whatsoever but who is perfectly capable to
serve their Majesties therein. |
Out Letters (Ireland) VI,
pp. 26-7. |
|
Warrant from the Treasury Lords to William Culliford,
Edward May and Edward Ford, Commissioners
as above for managing the Revenue of Ireland,
to give order to the collector of Belfast to pay 100l.
each to them for the charge of their equipage and
journey into Ireland. |
Out Letters (Ireland) VI,
p. 28. |
|
The Treasury Lords to the Duke of Ormonde. The
Revenue Commissioners, Ireland, have desired our
direction concerning the prizage and butlerage of
wines in Ireland due to you, for which in times of
peace you had a yearly rent from the King. We
consider that the present circumstances of that
kingdom are and for some time to come will be
such that no estimate can be made of the value
of those duties so as to [enable us] to allow you a
certain sum for them. It is fit, however, for the
King's service, to have said duties under the care
of the Revenue Commissioners. We desire you
to empower their officers to collect said duties and
the Commissioners shall be directed to pay you
quarterly the produce thereof : and when the
kingdom shall be reduced to obedience we will give
them further directions therein. |
Out Letters (Ireland) VI,
p. 28. |
|
William Jephson to the Excise Commissioners to
pay the tallies on the Excise for 9,000l. to the
Duchess of Buccleuch as soon as may be, without
prejudice to the weekly payments already directed
out of the Excise, and concurrently with the said
weekly payments. |
Disposition Book VIII,
p. 177. |
|
Same to the Auditor of the Receipt to satisfy (out of
loans to be made by Capt. Mathew Ingram and
Phil. Colby, gent., or either of them, on the first
12d. Aid) the 5,000l., part of an order of loan of
this day of 16,501l. 0s. 8d. in the name of said
Ingram : see supra, pp. 617-8, 657-8, 696-7. |
Ibid. |
|
For the orders for repayments of loans made this day
by Pancefort, Ingram, Cragg, Moyer et al. see supra,
p. 697 |
Order Book III, p. 97. |
|
June 17.
|
William Jephson to the Customs Commissioners,
enclosing papers sent to the Treasury Lords from
the Admiralty Lords concerning the complaints of the
Customs officers against some of the officers of
the King's ships at Portsmouth : viz. : a letter
from Mr. Sotherne ; extract of a letter from Rear
Admiral Delavall ; a letter from Capt. Roope and
others ; four letters from Capt. Jno. Ward. |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 309. |
|
Same to same. My Lords approve of your presentment
of the 10th inst. as to laying aside the two
Customs sloops at Dover and establishing eight
riding officers for the guard of that coast. They
recommend Mr. Furlong to be one of those riding
officers. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to same to report on the enclosed memorial
[missing] concerning the vacancy of a tidewaiter's
place at Stonehouse. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to same, returning their report of the 6th inst.
on the information against Capt. Birkenhead,
Surveyor of the Customs at Dover, together with
the affidavits and other papers [all missing] annexed.
You are to make a full examination hereof and
report. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to the [Assessment] Commissioners for the 3s.
[2s. and 12d. Additional] Aids for the Isle of Wight.
In yours of the 11th inst. you represent that the
Receiver General of said Aids refuses to receive
that tax in any other than English money and you
desire my Lords' order "for the relief of the island."
In answer thereto, my Lords cannot order the
Receiver to receive any other than current money. |
Ibid. |
|
William Jephson to Richard Holt, esq., at Nursted, near
Petersfeild in Hants. My Lords are informed there
have been great neglects in the execution of the Poll
in your county, not only in the under sheriff and
other officers who have not distributed the [copies
of the] Acts as they ought, but even in the Commissioners
themselves, many of whom refuse to
act : by means whereof the said Aid will not answer
the purposes for which it was intended. My Lords
are unwilling to proceed to severe methods if milder
will do. They desire you to endeavour to persuade
the Commissioners and officers concerned to do
their duties in order to the speedy assessing and
levying said Poll and to do what in them lies towards
amends for so great a neglect. If you cannot
prevail with them you are to send to my Lords the
names of such as are refractory in order to the
laying the matter before the Queen in Council. |
Out Letters (General) XII,
pp. 311-2. |
|
Entry of the Treasury Lords' signature of an in
custodiam lease under the Exchequer seal to George
Dale of three messuages in Ashburton, co. Devon,
parcel of the lands of William Savory, outlaw :
at the rent of 3s. 4d. and fine of 6s. 8d. |
Warrants not Relating to
Money XIII, p. 215. |
|
The like of same to Manwaring Davies at the nomination
of Richard Waring, gent., of the annual rent
of 200l. [belonging to —, outlaw, and] issuing
out of divers lands in co. Kent : at the rent of 33s.
per an. and fine of 66s. |
Ibid. |
|
June 18.
|
Treasury warrant to Mr. Fox [Customs Cashier] to
pay the arrears from 1684, Lady day, to 1690,
Lady day, on Walter Breame's salary of 15l. 6s. 8d.
per an. as comptroller of Sandwich port : with
dormant clause for said salary in future. |
Money Book X, p. 392. |
|
William Jephson to the Auditor of the Receipt to
issue as follows out of any disposable money in
the Exchequer : viz. : |
Disposition Book VIII,
p. 174. |
|
l. |
|
to the Earl of Ranelagh towards enabling
16 Companies of the First Regiment of
Guards to march for Ireland |
8,000 |
|
to the Marquess of Halifax |
180 |
|
Same to same to satisfy the 700l. due to Sir Thomas
Windham on his pension, out of the loans to be
made by himself on the first 12d. per £ Aid [1 Wm.
and Mary, c. 20]. |
Ibid, p. 177. |
|
Same to the Customs Commissioners to send to the
lodging of Viscountess Dursley to seal her goods
in order to their transport to Holland. |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 310. |
|
Same to the Attorney General. There are divers
tenements in Beddford Berry and in Kennaston's
Ally in the parish of St. Martins in the Fields which
by some means or devices are settled to superstitious
uses and are thereby forfeit to the Crown. You
are to give warrant to the Clerk of the Petty Bag
for a commission to William Bridgman, Walter
Brydall, Ralph Marshall, Fra. Negus, Antho.
Crachroed and Jo[h]n Tisser to inquire into and
seize same. |
Ibid. |
William Jephson to the Customs Commissioners, enclosing
(a) infra. You are to order delivery of the
goods.
Appending : (a) memorial dated June 17, of Major
Ed. Wilson, praying a bill of store for some Flanders
lace, damask, dimity and a piece of Alamode silk
which he brought with him from Flanders, "which I
was desired to buy for some friends and having no
intention to make any merchandize of them." |
Out Letters (General) XII,
pp. 310-11. |
Same to the Earl of Ranelagh to report on (a) infra.
Appending : (a) petition of James Smithsby, late
Agent to the Regiment late commanded by the
Earl of Huntingdon and now by Col. Hastings ;
shewing that the Roman Catholic officers which
were turned out of Plymouth by Col. Hastings
upon his Majesty's landing in the West prevailed
with King James to allow them four months' pay
without deductions ; which is charged by the Earl
of Ranelagh [as Paymaster General] upon petitioner,
together with 21l. 1s. 0d. for forage in 1688 : therefore
praying that said Earl may be directed to
allow him 162l. 16s. 9d. paid to said officers, 21l. 1s. 0d.
for forage and 18l. they were indebted for colours. |
Ibid, p. 311. |
|
Same to Mr. Blathwayt [as Secretary to the Forces]
to report on Sir Jo[h]n Edgworth's petition for
allowance of half pay as is granted to the rest of
the officers of his Regiment. |
Ibid, p. 312. |
The Treasury Lords to the Commissioners for the
Review of the Poll for the City of Coventry. We
have laid before the King in Council your representations
touching the behaviour of Sir John
Dugdale in lessening the sums that might have been
raised in Coventry by the said Review of the Poll.
The King has directed the Earl Marshal to suspend
him from the office of Norroy King at Arms during
pleasure. We send you a copy of said order and
thank you for your zeal in promoting the King's
service.
Appending : copy of the order of the King in Council,
dated Whitehall, May 30, so suspending Dugdale
after hearing him this day on the said complaint
whereon he was unable to justify himself in many
particulars. |
Ibid. |
|
Treasury reference to Sir George Treby, Attorney
General, of the petition of Peter Goddard, shewing
that in the parish of Garford, co. Berks, certain
lands of the value of 100l. per an., together with
a small personal estate, were given heretofore for
a nunnery to be erected in Lyford in the parish of
Hannay when Popish times should come : therefore
praying a grant of the premises, petitioner's father
and family having been reduced from a very plentiful
estate in the Civil Wars of Charles I and petitioner
having been at a considerable expence in prosecuting
this discovery in the Exchequer in 1682 and is
obliged to further expence therein : said petition
having been referred the 11th inst. from the King
to the Treasury Lords. |
Reference Book VI, pp.
193-4. |
Treasury warrant to William Harbord, the Surveyor
General of Crown Lands, for a particular of the
Hundred of Botloe, co. Gloucester, with a view to a
lease thereof to Paul Foley for 21 years from Lady
day last at 58s. 4d. per an. rent, he first "producing
discharges that he hath paid the said rent for seven
years past."
Prefixing : said Surveyor General's report, dated
May 22, on said Foley's petition for same. Petitioner
petitioned for same in 1683 and I reported thereon
that the custody of said Hundred was granted in
1662 to Thomas Foley for 21 years at rents then
esteemed to be near the full value, having been
twice raised from the old rent of 45s. to the present
rent of 58s. 4d. ; which said lease expired in 1682-3,
Mar. 24. I do [not] find that petitioner proceeded
to perfect his lease [in 1683]. |
Warrants not Relating to
Money XIII, pp. 214-5. |
Same to same for a same of the manor house at York
in order to a lease thereof to Ralph Rymer for 31
years at 10s. per an. rent : with a covenant on
the lessee's part that his Majesty shall be discharged
of the fee of 20 nobles a year payable to the housekeeper
there ; and that there be a reservation of
such rooms as are now used for the steward to
keep the courts there as has been accustomed.
Prefixing : report, ut supra, dated May 10, on Rymer's
petition, praying for same, "as was granted to
Father Lawson, one of the late King's chaplains ;
[so] that the same may be kept in repair." Hereon
the Surveyor General reports that the premises are
their Majesties' palace or mansion house under the
walls of the city of York and was granted 1687,
Nov. 24, by James II to Henry Lawson, esq. (son
of Sir John Lawson of Brough, co. Yorks, bart.),
for 31 years at 10s. rent, but it appears that said
grant was passed at the nomination and by the
procurement of Frances Lawson, a priest, one of
his then Majesty's chaplains, "who, I am informed,
converted the same to a Popish school and is now
fled the kingdom." The premises have been
formerly used, when there was a President of the
North, for the Council [of the North] to sit in ;
but that being dissolved his Majesty's Courts Baron
and Leets are kept still there by the steward, there
being several rents and dependencies of divers
townships belonging to their Majesties' manor
there. 'Twas anciently the scite of the monastery
of St. Mary's and contains about 14 acres, but the
house being ruinous and the revenue not sufficient
to support it, it is no profit to the Crown. On
passing Lawson's lease it was valued only at 30l.
per an. if made habitable ; and the use and benefit
thereof had been claimed by the Governor of York
as belonging to him with a fee of 20 nobles a year
as housekeeper there ; but what just right he had
thereto the auditor could not certify. I have
delayed my report, desiring to be satisfied whether
a lease would be prejudicial to the Crown or detrimental
to the citizens of York. I wrote to several
of the aldermen [there] and five of them replied
certifying the decays of the premises and do verily
believe that no man would give 30l. per an. for
same and stand to the repairs : but they conceive
if the [Crown's reversion or] inheritance thereof,
together with the whole manor and all the rents and
privileges thereto, were to be disposed of it might
possibly yield 1,000l. They also say they have
seen a grant from their present Majesties to Robert
Waller as housekeeper of the said manor house
during pleasure, but they find that this petitioner
keeps the possession thereof, which he claims by
virtue of a patent for said office of housekeeper
from Charles II to Capt. Richard Harland for life,
which is assigned to Thomas Rymer, petitioner's
brother. I advise a grant at rents and with reservations
etc. as above. |
Ibid, pp. 216-7. |
|
June 19.
|
William Jephson to the Auditor of the Receipt to
issue to the Treasurer of the Navy for the Victuallers
("towards the satisfaction of several persons
according to a list thereof" as below) the
8,680l. 12s. 0d. which will be lent into the Exchequer
by the following persons on credit of the Additional
12d. Aid [by 1 Wm. and Mary, Sess. 2, c. 5] : viz. :
988l. 17s. 0d. to be lent by Peter Vansittern ;
145l. 5s. 0d. by Edmd. Trimmer ; 715l. 16s. 6d. by
Nicho. Scriven ; 444l. 1s. 1d. by — Batts ;
313l. by William Gore ; 312l. by Jo[h]n Wiborn ;
903l. 18s. 1d. by Peter Renew ; 4,857l. 14s. 4d. by
Mr. Hudson ; making 8,680l. 12s. 0d. in all. |
Disposition Book VIII,
p. 175. |
|
Same to Mr. Stephens [Cashier to the Treasurer of
the Navy] to pay the abovesaid 8,680l. 12s. 0d. to
the Victuallers of the Navy to be applied to the
payment of the following debts for provisions
supplied to the Victuallers : viz. : |
Ibid, p. 176. |
|
l. |
s. |
d. |
|
John Kelly, for bread |
764 |
11 |
6 |
|
Tho. Martin, for flour |
408 |
7 |
9 |
|
Tho. Frampton, for bread |
200 |
0 |
0 |
|
Tho. Clowder, for ditto |
462 |
8 |
0 |
|
Jos. Delamot, for pease |
88 |
4 |
0 |
|
Ninian Hays, for bread |
127 |
10 |
0 |
|
Edward Lodge, for ditto |
93 |
10 |
0 |
|
Tho. Collis, for ditto |
57 |
5 |
0 |
|
Hen. Fletcher, for ditto |
112 |
4 |
0 |
|
Hen. Goodwin, for ditto |
212 |
10 |
0 |
|
Tho. Robson, for ditto |
283 |
12 |
0 |
|
Nicho. Price, for ditto |
255 |
0 |
0 |
|
Hen. Ware, for oatmeal |
196 |
5 |
1 |
|
Fra. Zouch, for flour |
1,560 |
0 |
0 |
|
Jo[h]n Jarmin, for nails |
13 |
17 |
0 |
|
Peter van Sittar, for staves |
410 |
0 |
0 |
|
William Gore, for ditto |
313 |
0 |
0 |
|
Robert Hicks, for freight |
10 |
0 |
0 |
|
Edwd. Trimmer for John King, for
salt |
145 |
5 |
0 |
|
William Dunstan, for freight |
49 |
10 |
0 |
|
Hen. Sewell, for bread |
42 |
10 |
0 |
|
Jeff. Wade, for ditto |
42 |
10 |
0 |
|
Math. Mayo, for ditto |
35 |
5 |
0 |
|
Peter Van Citter, for crocus |
421 |
0 |
0 |
|
Jo[h]n Wyburne, for flour |
312 |
0 |
0 |
|
Peter Renew, merchant, for himself
and owners, for freight |
903 |
18 |
1 |
|
Mr. Wright |
715 |
16 |
6 |
|
Mr. Batt |
444 |
1 |
1 |
|
£8,680 |
12 |
0 |
|
[Same] to Mr. Hall to attend the Auditors of Imprests
forthwith with the books and papers in your custody
relating to Lord Griffin's accounts as late Treasurer
of the Chamber ; without which the said accounts
cannot be made up. |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 313. |
|
William Jephson to Sir Christopher Wren. My Lords
wonder you have not taken any notice of their orders
of April 29 and May 6 last, supra, pp. 594, 387, concerning
the papers of Sir William Killegrew. You
are to report thereon without further delay. |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 313. |
|
Entry of the Treasury Lords' subscription of the
docquet of an in custodiam lease under the Exchequer
seal to James Bradshaw and Jane his wife of divers
messuages etc. in the city of Norwich, parcel of
the lands of Robert Daniel, outlaw : at the rent
of 8s. 2d. per an. and fine of 16s. 4d. |
Warrants not Relating to
Money XIII, p. 215. |
|
The like of a lease to Leonard Blofield, gent., of divers
lands and tenements in Hindringham and Walsingham,
co. Norfolk, being parcel of the lands of Arma
[? for Anne] Godfry, outlaw. |
Ibid. |
|
June 20.
|
Privy seal dormant for an annuity or yearly sum of
100l. to Sir Charles Cottrell, kt., Master of the
Ceremonies, as in lieu and recompense of all allowances
by bills or otherwise which the Master of the Ceremonies
did usually receive out of the Office of the
Treasurer of the Chamber : to be payable quarterly
during pleasure : further hereby 200l. is to be
paid him for two years' arrears hereon to 1690, Lady
day ; the said annuity having been paid him [only]
to 1688, Lady day. (Royal warrant dated June 2
to the Clerk of the Signet for said privy seal.) |
King's Warrant Book XV,
pp. 66-7. |
|
Money warrant for 20,000l. to the Earl of Bellomont,
Treasurer to the Queen, as in part of 50,000l. for
her Majesty as by the privy seal of May 22 last,
supra, p. 629. (Money order dated June 23 hereon.) |
Money Book X, p. 393.
Order Book III, p. 98. |
|
Same for 180l. to George, Marquess of Halifax, for
45 days, Dec. 25 last to Feb. 8 inst., on his allowance
of 4l. a day in lieu of diet as late Keeper of the
Privy Seal. (Money order dated June 23 hereon.) |
Money Book X, p. 393.
Order Book III, p. 98. |
|
Treasury warrant dormant to Thomas Fox, Customs
Cashier, to pay the salary of 52l. per an. to Rose
Peterman, esq., as a King's waiter, London port. |
Money Book X, p. 394. |
|
Money warrant for 7,265l. 2s. 0¼d. to Charles Bertie,
Treasurer of the Ordnance, to be paid over to
Thomas Westerne in discharge of debentures for
guns, shot etc. delivered to the Ordnance : said
deliveries being in further part of his contract for
30,000l. worth of said stores : the present sum to
be satisfied out of Westerne's loan to the like amount
made on the credit of the Exchequer in general.
Further hereby orders of repayment are to be
drawn for said loan, with 6 per cent interest. (Money
order for Bertie hereon accordingly dated June 23.)
(Money order dated June 25 for said Westerne in
repayment of said loan, so made by him on that
date.) |
Ibid, p. 394. Order Book
III, pp. 98, 99. |
|
Same for 125l. to Sir William Killegrew for last Lady
day quarter on his pension. |
Money Book X, p. 395. |
|
Same for 100l. to Sir Samuel Moreland, 50l. thereof
as in part of 150l. due for 1689, Lady day quarter,
on his pensions of 400l. and 200l. per an. on the
Tenths ; and the remaining 50l. as for 1688, Michaelmas
quarter, on his pension of 200l. per an. on the
Excise. |
Ibid. |
|
Money warrant for 50l. to Rudolph Kien, esq., for last
Lady day quarter on his annuity as Closet Keeper
to the King. |
Money Book X, p. 403. |
|
William Jephson to the Auditor of the Receipt to
issue 1,379l. 8s. 0d. to the Earl of Ranelagh out of
the 3,000l. lent or to be lent into the Exchequer
by Sir Edmund Andros or by his procurement.
The said sum is to be paid by said Earl as follows,
viz. 1,369l. 6s. 4d. to said Andros for the pay 1688,
Sept. 1, to 1689, April 30, of two Companies of
Foot lately in the King's service in New England ;
and 10l. 1s. 8d. for contingencies for said Companies
for said time at 10d. per day. |
Disposition Book VIII,
p. 177. |
|
Same to Mr. Russell [Navy Treasurer] to forthwith
meet the bill drawn on you for 600l. payable to
Alderman Herne for brimstone bought for their
Majesties' service in the Straits. |
Ibid, p. 178. |
|
Same to the Victualling Commissioners to forthwith
satisfy three bills drawn on you from the Straits,
payable to Alderman Herne, viz. for 1,480l. 18s. 4d.,
80l. and 250l., or in all 1,810l. 18s. 4d. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to the Earl of Ranelagh to pay Robert Allgood
and John Franks to Mar. 1 last as late Deputy
Commissaries of the Musters : according to your
report on their petition. |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 314. |
Same to the Customs Commissioners to report on
(a) infra.
Appending : (a) letter to the Treasury Lords from
E. Randolph. The sloop Speedwell, John Welsted
master, 40 tons burden, laden with oil, is lately
arrived from Boston, New England, and now at
St. Catharine's [Wharf] in the Thames. The sloop
was built by order of Sir Edmd. Andros and the
Council [of New England] at the King's charge
and was designed to seize irregular traders. The
oil was shipped by order of Symon Bradstreet,
Governor, marked M. C., for Massachusetts Colony :
'twas purchased with the money raised upon their
Majesties' subjects there. It is humbly proposed
that the sloop and oil may not be disposed of till
the King's pleasure may be known therein for the
seizure of the sloop and her furniture ; and that
in case it shall appear that the oil is embezzled
the persons concerned may be made accountable
to the King. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to Mr. Fox to pay to the executors of Mr. Richards
his salary due as a King's waiter ; my Lords having
this day signed a dormant warrant for the salary
of Rose Peterman, his successor therein. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to the Customs Commissioners. My Lords
recommend John Stephens, an extraordinary tidesman,
London port, as a tidesman in fee ibid, on the
first vacancy. |
Ibid, p. 314b. |
|
Treasury reference to Phillip Ryley of the petition
of James Greenham, overseer of the works in St.
James's Park, shewing that the charges in repairing
the Parade etc. in said Park amount to 150l. and
that the making a horse Parade near the new
Carriage House and other repairs in the Park will
amount to above 866l. : therefore praying payment
of said 150l. and of 150l. for wages and disbursements
since the accession and of 318l. due in the
time of the late King James and that money may
be appointed for the Parade and repairs. |
Reference Book VI, p. 194. |
|
Treasury reference to Sir George Treby, Attorney
General, of the petition of James Hardey, shewing that
two houses near Charing Cross, late in the possession
of Henry Marshall and Lionell Emps, eight small
messuages in Fulham, 28 acres of land at Brandford
[Brentford], lately held by Ambrose Gillman, Francis
Rogers and Richard Newman, two houses on Snowhill,
the White Horse in Milford Lane, some houses and
land in Old Street and Islington, late owned by
Mr. Brent, a lease of a house and some land at
Calverley Plain, near Tunbridge Wells, did lately
and do still belong to the Jesuits and are held in
trust for them, being 200l. per an. value by common
repute : therefore praying an inquisition therein
and a lease of the premises, petitioner to be at all
charges in clearing the Crown's title. |
Reference Book VI, pp.
194-5. |
|
Same to the Rt. Hon. William Harbord, Surveyor
General of Crown Lands, of the petition of Sir Fr.
Lawley et al. [for a lease] of the piece of three acres
of ground in St. Martins in the Fields between a
certain private way there, near adjoining on the
east the Mews Stables and on the west the great
highway by certain almshouses or houses where
such almshouses sometimes stood, the said ground
being sometime in the tenure of Tho. Garland and
afterwards enclosed with a brick wall and named
Suffolk Stable Yard and in the tenure of James, late
Earl of Suffolk, but now built upon and called Suffolk
Street ; and also of the several messuages, dwelling
houses and other edifices now erected upon said
ground. |
Ibid, p. 195. |
|
Same to Sir Christopher Wrenn of the petition of
George London, their Majesties' gardener, praying
payment of 1,540l. 3s. 8d. due to him for several
works at Kensington, "which account is passed
in the [Works] Surveyor's Office." |
Ibid, p. 199. |
|
William Jephson to the Revenue Commissioners,
Ireland, to re-employ Benjamin Chetwood in the
prosecution of lawsuits and drawing out and
examining all charges of the quit rents and other
rents of the Crown in Ireland ; he having for several
years been employed therein. |
Out Letters (Ireland) VI,
p. 29. |
