Entry Book: March 1665 | British History Online

Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 1, 1660-1667. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1904.

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'Entry Book: March 1665', in Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 1, 1660-1667, ed. William A Shaw( London, 1904), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/cal-treasury-books/vol1/pp651-656 [accessed 24 November 2024].

March 1665


Date.	Nature and Substance of the Entry.	Reference.

March 1	Warrant from Treasurer Southampton to the Auditor of the Receipt to pay 500l. to Captain Sheldon's Company at Guernsey, "which service being instant and pressing cannot admitt the time for the obteyning of a Privy Seal ... And I will speedily procure a Privy Seal to be passed for the same for the regular and due authorising the payment thereof and [will] send in money for supply of what money you take from any assignment if you satisfie it out of any assigned money, which you must doe, there being no other as I suppose."	Ibid, p. 295.
March 1	Money warrant for 500l. to Lady Lingen, widow of Sir Henry Lingen, as royal bounty. "With the first conveniency possible pay her 200l."	Early Entry Book V. p. 296.
	Warrant from Treasurer Southampton to Thomas Bigg, sheriff of Kent, to pay 60l. to Christopher Dering. Clerk of the Peace for said county for promoting the hearth money revenue.	Ibid, p. 297.
	Royal warrant to Treasurer Southampton to pay to the Master and Worker of the Mint 2,808l. 9s. 8½d. to be paid by Sir William Parkhurst, Warden of the Mint, to the several artificers of the Mint for repairs done there, including 300l. due to John and Joseph Roettiers, Chief Gravers of the Mint, for the original and master puncheons, counterpunches and matrices for coining in the new way by the mill and press.	Ibid, pp. 300–1.
March 3	Warrant from Treasurer Southampton to the Customs Farmers to pay 45l. 12s. 0d. to Viscount Fanshaw, King's Remembrancer, for the fees usually paid to him by the Customers of the outports for passing their accompts, viz. for the year 1664; and a further 233l. 0s. 2d. and 21l. 12s. 8d. to same for parchment. &c. detailed, for the Customs books for the outports and London port respectively.	Ibid, p. 298.
March 7	Same from same to Frances Stephens, Sergeant at Arms, to arrest Gifford Bale: it appearing by a certificate from the Grand Commissioners of Excise that John Windham, late Farmer of Excise in co. Somerset, had by collateral agreement taken into the said farm the said Gifford Bale who was also constituted a Sub-Commissioner, and upon the matter managed the whole affair in that county and received the most part of the moneys which should have answered the rent due to the King, which is in arrear about 1,500l.	Ibid, XII. p. 140.
	Same from same to same to similarly arrest Jeremiah Somers, of Coggeshall, Richard Green, Constable of Castle Hedingham, and Simon Facy, John Chote and John Sables, of Castle Hedingham, for assaulting and wounding the officers of Humfry Beane, Farmer of Excise of co. Essex.	Ibid, p. 141.
	Same from same to same to similarly arrest William Brumsall and Thomas Roberts, who together with Robert Austin are Sub-Farmers of Excise for co. Sussex, on which there is an arrear of 3,000l. or thereabout.	Ibid.
	Same from same to Richard Gregory, the Lord Treasurer's messenger to arrest John Cooper, a hostler at the "Crown," in Aylesbury, and William Little, tipster at the "Swan," in Aylesbury, for opposing the Excise officers in co. Bucks.	Ibid, p. 142.
March 8	Money warrant for 260l. to John Fisher to be paid to Edward Jolley for his interest in houses and ground outside the Park wall near the Cockpit: and 50l. to be paid to Adrian May for repairs of same, &c.	Ibid, V. p. 300.
March 9	Money warrant for 50l. to Mrs. Saunders as royal bounty; to come out of the 1,000l. warranted to Stephen Fox for secret service.	Early Entry Book V. p. 299.
March 11	Warrant from Treasurer Southampton to the Clerk of the Signet for a Privy Seal for 1,000l. to Stephen Fox for secret service.	Ibid, p. 300.
March 13	Money warrant for 10,000l. to Viscount Fitz-Hardinge, Keeper of the Privy Purse, for the Privy Purse.	Ibid, p. 317.
	Same for 40l. to Henry Parker, potmaker, for service done to His Majesty.	Ibid, p. 300.
March 14	Same for 71l. 4s. 4d. to Sir John Cutler for interest at 6 percent. on 5,000l. lent to His Majesty, 1660, Oct. 6, and repaid, 1660, Dec. 30.	Ibid, p. 302.
	Same for 1,410l. 5s. 4d. to Lord Widdrington. Governor of the garrison of Berwick, for pay of said garrison, 1664, Nov. 25 to the 17th inst.	Ibid, p. 303.
	Same for 150l. to Col. Legg, Lieutenant of the Ordnance, towards the repairs of St. Mawes Castle, co. Cornwall, on the petition of Sir Richard Vivian, Governor of said castle, showing that said castle (being of special use for defence of the harbour of Falmouth), with the blockhouse, bulwarks and platforms are much decayed, and that until said platforms are repaired no guns can be fired on any occasion.	Ibid.
	Warrant from Treasurer Southampton to the Clerk of the Signet, for a Privy Seal, in terms prefixed, for 2,000l. to Sir James Thynn who in 1643. May 17. became bound for the late King at Oxford with Sir Edward Hide, now Earl of Clarendon, in 4,000l. for payment of 2,000l. to Henry late Earl of Danby; in which bond Sir Christopher (now Lord) Hatton and Sir William Walter were nominated to be bound, but never sealed the same, the violence of those times causing them of a sudden to quit the town, which likewise was the cause that the said bond was not inserted in the schedule of debts for which the late King gave counter security in certain lands, &c.: the said Sir James Thynne having been further arrested on the said bond in 1653, and obliged to pay the said 2,000l.	Ibid, pp. 306–7.
	Note of the allowance by Treasurer Southampton of the salary bill for the Excise Office, London, for 1665, Lady Day quarter. (Total 940l. 2s. 6d.)	Ibid, XII. pp. 143–4.
	Warrant from Treasurer Southampton to Francis Stevens, Sergeant at Arms, to arrest William Dawgs to answer a debt of 1,200l. and upwards owing to the King by said Dawgs and his partner, late Farmer of Excise in co. Lincoln; the said Dawgs hiding himself in close places so that the usual process of law cannot be served upon him.	Ibid, p. 145.
March 15	Same from same to the Auditor and Receiver of Crown revenues for co. Middlesex, to pay 18l. to Nathaniell Hardy, D. D., Vicar of St. Martin's in the Fields, for four years to Xmas last for the tithe due to the Vicarage of St. Martin's in the Fields from the ground lately taken into His Majesty's physic garden in said parish and the close adjoining called Lower Crowfield, containing about 27 acres.	Ibid, V. pp. 301–2.
March 15	Money warrant, dormant, for the allowance of 800l. per an. to Sir Allen Apsley for the charge of falconers and hawks of all sorts: to be paid out of the Exchequer instead of out of the Crown revenues in co. Lincoln (as ordered by the Privy Seal of 1663 March 25), which latter revenue will not Fear the payment of said sum: all as by the Privy Seal of Feb. 10 last.	Early Entry Book V. p. 304.
	Warrant from Treasurer Southampton to the Auditor of Imprests to allow in the accounts of Hugh May, Paymaster of the Works, 94l. 1s. 3d., being interest on various sums, detailed, amounting to 2,800l., advanced in 1664, by Edw. Backwell to said May upon the security of tallies struck upon the Customs for the months of September and October, 1664.	Ibid. p. 334.
	Money warrant for 300,000l. to the Navy, to be by tallies struck on various receivers of the royal aid in separate amounts, detailed.	Ibid, pp. 305–6
March 16	Same for 250l. in part of 650l. to George Solby remaining unpaid on 800l. ordered to him by the King as royal bounty.	Ibid, p. 308.
	Warrant from Treasurer Southampton to the Clerk of the Signet for a Privy Seal for 5,000l. to the Earl of Sandwich towards the extraordinary charge of the Great Wardrobe since 1664, Sept. 29.	Ibid.
	Same from same to the Receipt for tallies to be struck for the discharge of the Customs Farmers for the following sums paid by them, viz., 1,794l. 16s. 0d. to Lord Belasyse for four months to the 18th inst. for Hull garrison; and 524l. 10s. 8d. to Sir Jordan Crosland for the like for Scarborough garrison.	Ibid, p 309
	Money warrant for 20l. to James Morgan, a poor shoemaker: same to come out of the pension of 120l. a year to Mr. Napier, one of the Pages of Honour who is indebted to said Morgan and is contented he should be satisfied this way.	Ibid.
	Treasurer Southampton to the Mayor of Boston concerning an affront done to the collector of said port, as servant of the Customs Farmers, by William Wilson, the King's searcher there.	Ibid, X. p. 303.
March 17	Money warrant for 30l. to Sir John Cutler as a reward for service to His Majesty.	Ibid, V. p. 303.
March 18	Same for the first half year ending at Xmas last on the pension of 1,100l. per an. granted to William Lord Crofts and Elizabeth, his wife, by letters patent of the 3rd inst, on the surrender by said Lord Crofts of a pension of 1,000l. per an. granted him by letters patent of 1662, November 20.	Ibid, pp. 309–10.
	Warrant from Treasurer Southampton to the Clerk of the Signet for a Privy Seal in terms prefixed for 865l. 14s. 6d. to Sir Roger Langley, sheriff of Yorks, for disbursements by him, of which he has made oath before one of the Barons of the Exchequer and the particulars whereof the King has seen. (Money warrant hereon dated April 25)	Ibid, pp. 311, 332.
	Money warrant for 1,000l. to the Earl of Carlisle as an additional allowance for his expenses in his extraordinary embassies to several kings and princes.	Ibid, p. 311.
March 18	Money warrant for 5,000l. to John Harvy, Treasurer and Receiver General to the Queen Consort. same remaining unpaid of the 30,000l. ordered to Her Majesty by the Privy Seal of 1663–4, Jan. 30.	Early Entry Book V. p. 269.
March 22	Same for 1,560l. to Robert Lye for jewels given to the Portuguese Ambassador, the Portuguese Envoy, and the Secretary of the Embassy.	Ibid, p. 315.
March 23	The memorial of the 8th inst. from the Commissioners for Arrears of Excise. read and entered, concerning the arrear of 294l. 17s. 1d. standing out at 1660. Dec. 25, on John Moll, Francis Goodwyn, Richard Butts, and William Stockton, late Sub-Commissioners for Excise in co. Suffolk: and proposing to allow them 100l. thereon for the extraordinary charges over and above the usual salary of 2s. in the £.	Ibid, XII. p. 148.
	Ordered:—Allowed of.
	Money warrant for 71l 17s. 4d. for the arrear due to Carlisle garrison to November 26 last: and dormant warrant for 282l. 2s. 0d. per month for said garrison to Sir Philip Musgrave, governor of same.	Ibid, V. p. 312.
	Same, dormant, for the fee of 20l. per an. to Thomas Howard for his office of Clerk of the Market.	Ibid, p. 313.
	Warrant from Treasurer Southampton to the Receipt for tallies to be levied at the Receipt on Charles Read for 301l. 1s. 0d.. being the amount of a judgment which John Viscount Rochford did acknowledge to said Charles Read, Receiver General of the Lenox lands in co. Yorks: the King having pardoned said debt.	Ibid.
	Same from same to Meredith Lloyd, of Brynelen ("Bryenlen,") co. Montgomery, receiver of firehearth revenues in said county, to pay 30l. to Rice Morgan. Clerk of the Peace of said county, for his pains about the firehearth revenue.	Ibid, p. 314.
	Money warrant, dormant, for the fee of 20 marks per an. to Walter Bridall for his office of Clerk of the Jewels, as by letters patent of 1661, April 29.	Ibid, pp. 314–5.
	Same for the sums of 30l. and 100 marks per an. to Robert Child and William Bowles, junr., for the office of Master of the pavilions, hales and tents: as by the letters patent of 1662–3, Jan 22.	Ibid, pp. 315–6.
	Same for the several annuities or sums of money as follow, which the King has granted by letters patent of Oct. 11 last in consideration of the great loyalty and fidelity of Richard Pendrell and Mary his wife, William Pendrell and Joane his wife, John Pendrell, Humfry Pendrell and George Pendrell, particularly in the time of his greatest danger after his escape from Worcester, when they used all their endeavours to secure His Majesty from the search and violent pursuit of his enemies: viz. to Richard Pendrell and Mary his wife 100l. per an.; William Pendrell and Joane his wife 100l. per an.; John Pendrell 100 marks per an. Humfry Pendrell the like; George Pendrell the like: all during their several lives.	Ibid, p. 316.
	Same for the wages of 100 marks per an. to William Dickenson for his office of Chief Clerk of all the King's works in and about His Majesty's several houses of access: as by letters patent of 1660, July 21.	Ibid, p. 317.
March 29	Warrant from Treasurer Southampton to the Receipt to pay 200l. (which is to be paid into the Receipt by Sir George Binnyon. Receiver of Crown revenues for co. Northampton) to Lady Lingen on her late Privy Seal for 500l. as royal bounty.	Early Entry Book V. p. 317
	Same from same to the Clerk of the Signet for a Privy Seal for the issue of 2.000l to John Colvile, of London. goldsmith, for secret service and without accompt.	Ibid, p. 318.
March 30	Same from same to Sir Ralph Freeman and Henry Slingsby, Masters and Workers of the Mint, to carry to the Receipt 2,808l. 9s. 8½d. in the new coined moneys arising from the sale of Dunkirk: same to be issued from the Receipt to the Warden of the Mint for repairs, &c., at the Mint. [Entry struck through].	Ibid, p. 326.