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| Date. |
Nature and Substance of the Entry. |
Reference. |
| Sept. 1 |
Report from Treasurer Southampton to the King on the petition of John Trelawny for a grant of certain copyhold estates and arrears thereon, part of the Duchy of Cornwall. viz., in Tinten, Ryme, Landulph, Leigh Durant, and West Anthony. |
Ibid, p. 28. |
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Prefixing:—Note of said Trelawney's petition. |
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Appending:—Particular of the said copyholds with the present holders' names. |
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| Sept. 4 |
Warrant from same to the Auditor of the Receipt. The counties of Chester, Cumberland, Derby, Durham, Hereford, Lancaster, Leicester, Monmouth, Northumberland, Northampton, Notts, Rutland, Stafford, Lichfield, Westmorland, Warwick and Worcester were with the City assigned as to the royal aid as follows: for Her Majesty, 20,000l.; Household, 45,000l.; Works, 10,000l.; Robes, 5,000l.; Treasurer of the Chamber, 20,000l.; King's servants and poor pensioners paid in the Exchequer, 20,000l.: in all 120,000l. "for most of which you have already as I conceave struck tallyes by virtue of my warrants." The remains of said counties, &c., amounting to 68,000l. or 69,000l. are reserved to Sir George Carteret, Treasurer of the Navy, to go towards the Privy Seal of June 17 last, ordering him 102,000l. "So as there being no particular Privy Seal for that (it being included in the General service of the Navy) you may upon any orders he hath before you strike tallyes for such sums as hee will charge thereupon." |
Ibid, p. 32 |
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Warrant from same to the Clerk of the Signet for a Privy Seal for authorising and allowing Sir George Carteret, as Treasurer of the Navy. to make half-yearly payments of interest of all such loans as he hath made or shall make in order to the former or to this present naval expedition, "the repayment of which loanes by the assignments which wee by way of tally on the Royall Ayd and other branches of our revenew doe give for the same, being like to be very remote so as a great part of the principall soe borrowed will not be repayed
in several particulars under one yeare, in others under a yeare and a halfe, in others under twoe: now unless the interest of the principall (which wee allow after 6 per cent. and the charges and award which we allow after 4 [per cent.] in all 10 per cent.) be halfe yearly payd by these assignments it will much diminish our credit and means of borrowing: which interest in this case will amount unto so great sums that it will neither be prudent nor safe for our Treasurer of our Navy to deferr the allowing thereof untill the usual time of allowing interest upon his accounts (which in the ordinary course is after the principall is payed and then calculated by one of our Auditors according to the exact time of the loane and repayment of the principall and then the same by a distinct Privy Seal is warranted and allowed) and therefore for his greater security (and yet without interrupting the course before mentioned in its due time) he hath represented unto us how needfull it will be unto him to have some extraordinary warrant and allowance for what he shall doe herein." |
Ibid, pp. 30–1. |
| Sept. 4 |
Warrant from Treasurer Southampton to the Excise Commissioners, London, to join together the farm of the Excise of cos. Cambridge and Huntingdon, and to grant both to Capt. Story and his partners, Farmers for co. Cambridge, unless Capt. Walden will continue his farm at the former rent singly. |
Early Entry Book XIII. p. 29. |
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Treasurer Southampton to the Treasurer of the Chamber to make some provision for the salary of William Smith. who was appointed to oversee and mend the bridges and passages over fords and bogs in New Forest. he having looked after the same and made them fit for His Majesty's riding during the time he was in these parts. |
Ibid. |
| Sept. 6 |
Treasurer Southampton's commission (dated from Salisbury) to Arthur Holme to be ensign of a company of foot of the trained bands, whereof Richard Davy is Captain, raised in the city of Salisbury, co. Wilts. |
Ibid, p. 37. |
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Fiat by Treasurer Southampton for letters patent to constitute James Vernon, Customer of Chester (vacated see infra, 1665, Nov. 22.) |
Ibid, p. 41. |
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Money warrant, dormant, for 3s. 4d. a day to Richard Gregory. the Lord Treasurer's messenger. |
Ibid, p. 31. |
| Sept. 7 |
Treasurer Southampton to Mr. Burges to forbear to receive any further contributions [from the county of Southampton] towards the 70,000l. granted for three years for the militia: Mr. Levet having now a commission to receive the same. "Requiring you that whatever you have received [of] it be forthwith payed into that treasury the Deputy Lieutenant appointed at Marlborough: and that it be by them lockt up there, to be disposed as His Maty shall give mee his command." |
Ibid, pp. 32–3. |
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Warrant from same to Sir Robert Long, Auditor of the Receipt. Concerning the complaints of want of money from the office of Ordnance "I find it a hard thing to understand by their letter the particular state of their business in relation to the Exchequer ... His Majesty directed that for supply of them the royal aid of the counties of Berks, Bedford, Cambridge, and Ely, Essex, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight (except 2,000l. that was assigned for Sir John Lawson) Huntingdon and Sussex should be totally assigned from Lady Day, 1665. the first three monthes of those counties being assigned unto
Sir George Carteret, Treasurer of the Navy; you are therefore to examine what tallies they have struck upon those counties and by virtue of what Privy Seales and to reserve the remaine of those counties still for them: and at present I direct you that you from time to time draw such orders (and together with the orders send mee a particular warrant to authorise the drawing of that order which I am to signe unto yourselfe) as the Lieutenant of the Ordnance shall produce Privy Seales in his name for such sums as the Master of the Ordnance and officers shall signify unto you are most pressing and instant. And that you strike tallies upon any of these counties for such summe as shall be warranted by any order upon any yeare or quarter as they shall desire: the reason whereof I have given you in a former warrant. it being that sometimes they make loanes or give security upon the remotest quarters, reserving the nighest to receive either in ready money or to be security for the most pressing parts of their service." |
Ibid, p. 33. |
| Sept. 7 |
Warrant from Treasurer Southampton to Sir Robert Long, Auditor of the Receipt, for the entire assigning of the Excise revenue as follows, viz., London. Midd and Surrey for the Guards and Household; Cornwall, Devon, Dorset. Gloucester, Hants, Somerset, Wilts, Yorks, Cheshire, Lancs, Northumberland, Cumberland, Westmorland, Durham and Kent to the Guards; Beds, Hereford, Stafford, Warwick, Worcester, South Wales. Oxford, Buckingham to the Household; Berks, Herts, Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk. Sussex, Cambridge and Ely, Hunts, Northampton, Notts, Leicester. Derby, Salop, Lincoln and North Wales to Tangier garrison; under each head with certain prior assignments, detailed. All tallies already struck upon the Excise in general not to be interrupted, but to be paid with all speed out of the first moneys, and to that end all the arrears to be hastened in. |
Early Entry Book XIII. p. 34. |
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Treasurer Southampton to the Comptroller of the Mint concerning the disappointment of Sir Stephen Fox on his order for 10,000l. out of the Dunkirk money, there not being so much money left, and that uncoined: desires an accompt forthwith for his own information. |
Ibid, p. 35. |
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Money warrant for 100l. to Michael Arnold and Nicholas Upnam, churchwardens of St. Margaret's, Westminster, to be distributed among the poor of said parish as His Majesty's charity. The like for the parish of St. Martin's [in the Fields]. Both sums to be paid without fees in view of the distress of those two parishes. At the same time tallies to be struck on the Customs for the 1,200l. already warranted and paid to Adrian May for levelling and planting His Majesty's works in Greenwich Park. these tallies being to replace and cancel the previous money warrant issued therefor. |
Ibid. |
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Warrant from Treasurer Southampton to the Receipt for tallies to be drawn on the Excise from time to time as the debentures are issued from the Receipt for the payment of the Duke of Cambridge's pension of 3,000l. per an. |
Ibid, p. 36. |
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Treasurer Southampton to Sir John Shaw, dated from Salisbury, to furnish Don Patricio Moledi, Resident in England from the King of Spain, with a bill of exchange on Antwerp for 400l., being the value of a jewel and medal which the King intended to present to him, which by reason of the death of Mr. Sympson, the King's jeweller in this place, cannot be provided. |
Ibid, p. 37. |
| Sept. 7 |
Treasurer Southampton to Sir John Shaw to furnish 300l. instead of a medal, to Don Bernardo Salinas, Envoy from the Marques Castell Roderigo, Governor of Flanders. |
Early Entry Book XIII. p. 37. |
| Sept. 8 |
Same to the Duke of Albemarle, concerning Sir George Carteret's dissatisfaction as to the tin affair, Carteret having proposed to borrow so much tin as "might lie in deposit for the money Backwell should lodge it for. which by his letter to me he said he would give the Farmers security on any tallies he had. I had given him assignments for 102,000l. for that service but he [Carteret] being out of towne and Sir Robert Long not fully acquainted with what was past and not taking notice what counties were assigned unto the Ordnance, what unto the Guards, because these officers had not struck all their tallies, where he found an emptiness there your Grace was led to pitch on Essex." Explains that Essex is assigned to the Ordnance and Dorset and Wilts to the Guards. |
Ibid, p. 38. |
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Warrant from same to the Auditor of the Receipt for the issue of 10,000l. for the Privy Purse to Baptist May, Keeper of the Privy Purse: further to appropriate to the Privy Purse the seizures, fines and forfeitures of uncustomed and prohibited goods (except the moiety thereof which is granted to the Customs Farmers under the name of double Customs): all as by the two Privy Seals of the 5th inst. |
Ibid. |
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Same from same to same for tallies on the Farmers of Excise of London, Middlesex, and Surrey for 20,000l. for the Household: further to assign in future to the Household half of the Excise of London, South Wales and seven other counties named, "the whole Excise being henceforth assigned betwixt the Guards, Tangier and the Household." |
Ibid, p. 39. |
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Treasurer Southampton to the Excise Commissioners dated from Salisbury concerning the above. "You are sensible how great disorder the present visitation is unto all our business and how personally and deeply at present Mr. Backwell is engaged. Whatever befall us in this time of our removes the King's Household must not fail and I can fix it upon no body but yourselfe to provide it." |
Ibid. |
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Warrant from same to the Auditor [of Imprests] to state the following account (dated July 31) of interest for money borrowed for the Navy. |
Ibid p. 40. |
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£ |
s. |
d. |
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Alderman Backwell |
6,121 |
15 |
5 |
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Sir Robert Viner |
8,972 |
8 |
5 |
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Alderman Meynall and partner |
3,082 |
2 |
10 |
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Edmond Hinton |
89 |
9 |
6 |
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Thomas Rowe |
17 |
2 |
10 |
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Jeremy Snow |
470 |
10 |
0 |
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John Colvill |
566 |
0 |
1 |
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Richard Howell |
7 |
10 |
0 |
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19,326 |
19 |
1 |
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Money warrant for one year's salary or pension of 500l. to Mr. Pryn as Keeper of the Records in the Tower. |
Ibid, p. 54 |
| Sept. 23 |
Warrant from Treasurer Southampton to the Excise Commissioners to grant a lease of the Excise of Westmorland and Cumberland to William Christian and George Williamson for 2¾ years from Sept. 29 next, at 2,000l. per an. in case Richard Braithwaith, who was proposed along with said Christian and Williamson, do not proceed to pay in his advance money and to enter into security forthwith. |
Ibid, p. 42. |
| Sept.— |
Treasurer Southampton to [the Receivers of the fire hearth money]. "Wee understand from the Chamberlain of the Citty of London ... the Citty of London who so seasonably supplyed His Majesty with 200,000l. and were to be repayd with the interest upon the revenew of the firehearths, yet they have received from the several Receivers of the counties very inconsiderable sums, which must necessarily disable them to make new loans, which now upon the expectation of the returne of His Majesty's fleet cannot be avoyded, there being no probability to be supplyed elsewhere," threatens further consequences if arrears are not got in and paid with zeal. |
Early Entry Book XIII. p. 36. |
