Entry Book: November 1665

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November 1665

Nov. 2 Same for 150l. to James Norfolk, Serjeant at Arms attending the House of Commons, for incidents for said House: this being to supersede a warrant for 100l. for the like issued about 12 months since, but not acted upon. Ibid, p. 59.
Same for 17,500l. to Samuel Pepys for Tangier for three months from August 4 last. Ibid, p. 54.
Same for 8,000l. to the Cofferer of the Household on the Privy Seal of June 30 last for 50,000l. to him. Ibid, p. 55.
Nov. 4 Treasurer Southampton to the Customer and Comptroller of Falmouth to see properly weighed, &c., the 300 tons of tin for which the King has contracted with the Tin Farmers. Ibid, pp. 57–8.
Money warrant for a further six months on the allowance of 5l. a day to Henry Coventry, Envoy Extraordinary to the King of Sweden. Ibid, p. 60.
Same for 500l. to James Darcy, Master of the Studs, on his fee of 200l. per an. and allowance of 800l. a year for horses. Ibid.
Same for 2,400l. to Denzill Lord Holles for six months to Oct. 29 last on his entertainment of 400l. a month as Ambassador to the French King. Ibid, p. 61.
Nov. 4 Commission by Treasurer Southampton, Ld. Lieutenant of Kent, to Sir Francis Clerk as one of his Deputy Lieutenants in said county. Early Entry Book XIII. p. 62.
Nov. 6 Money warrants for 1,340l. 18s. 0d. to Lord Belasyse for the garrison of Hull for seven months from March 18 last and for 917l. 18s. 8d. to Sir Jordan Crosland for the like period to the garrison of Scarborough. Ibid, pp. 67–8
[?] Warrant from Treasurer Southampton to the Clerk of the Signet for a Privy Seal for 5,000l. to the Earl of Sandwich, Master of the Great Wardrobe, on account of extraordinary provisions in the Office of the Wardrobe for the year to end 1666, Sept. 29, over and above the annual allowance of 20,000l. Ibid, p. 68.
Treasurer Southampton to all the officers of the Receipt of the Exchequer to attend in person duly upon their respective charges and offices, none presuming to make a deputy or to call himself a deputy or to act as such unless he be admitted by the Lord Treasurer and publicly sworn. And to the end the hours of attendance may be known and duly observed they are hereby declared to be between Easter and Michaelmas from 8 a.m. to 12 noon, and from Michaelmas to Easter from 9 till 12 noon. No officer to be absent above a week without leave and that they attend their duties in person and do not remit all to their clerks as of late hath been done. "I shall expect the punctuall performance of all these direcoons as soone as the Exchequer shall be recal'd to Westminster and in the meane time as much as may be in regard of the infecon and of the present dispersion for that cause and during the aboad at Nonsuch or other place till it please God to bless us with a return to Westminster I require the continuance of the present watch be performed by all officers indifferently." All with a view to the preservation of the ancient order of the Receipt, the neglect whereof has been the occasion of divers disorders and some complaints. Ibid. pp. 68–9
Nov. 7 Warrant from same to the Receipt for the discharge of the Baronet fee of 1,095l. due from Thomas Lorraine, of Kirk-harle, co. Northumberland. Ibid, p.63.
Money warrant for 250l. 14s. 2d. to Sir Lyonell Talmach, Ranger of New Park, being the balance due to him for repairs in said Park. Ibid.
Warrant from Treasurer Southampton to [a Sergeant at Arms] to demand of Mr. Robinson, accomptant unto Sir Martin Noel and of Mr. Noell. the said Sir Martin's son, several bonds of the value of 20,000l. or 30,000l. taken in His Majesty's name for additional duties payable to the Customs and in the custody of said Sir Martin and Mr. John Bence, together with all books of accompts, debentures and other writings concerning that duty. Ibid pp. 66–7.
Treasurer Southampton and Lord Ashley, dated from Oxford, to the Mayor, &c., of Bury [St. Edmunds], co. Suffolk &c., to permit Samuel Vincent and the other officers employed by the Farmers of Excise of Suffolk to enter and reside in Bury as long as their business shall require and not to keep them out and obstruct their proceedings under pretence of fear of the infection. Ibid, p. 69.
Nov. 7 Treasurer Southampton and Lord Ashley, dated from Oxford, to the Governor of Landguard Fort concerning the information against him from the Farmers of Excise of Suffolk of considerable quantities of beer and ale being brewed in their fort of which the officers are not suffered to take account. Your fort must claim no exemption in this case. Early Entry Book XIII. p. 70.
Warrant from same to the Excise Commissioners to pay 40l. to the widow of Jonathan Singleton, late one of the transcribing clerks in the Excise Office, London. The like for 250l. to John Howland, Register to the said Commissioners, for managing at the Excise Office in London during the contagion. Ibid, p. 71.
Same from same to same to employ Samuell Bernard, Deputy Accomptant General, as country accomptant for the Excise (for making certificates when the respective farmers have cleared their accompts &c.) in the absence of John Collins. Ibid.
Nov. 8 Treasurer Southampton and Lord Ashley to the Commissioners of London Excise pressing them not to defer or lessen their payments to the King out of any respect for their expectation of defalcations" since they may be made unto you upon the succeeding times," the tallies struck formerly being transferred unto you, and for the most part assigned to Mr. Alderman Backwell, whose absence in relation to His Majesty's [affairs] makes it very necessary for us to consider him in point of his own affairs and engagements. Ibid, p. 67.
Nov. 9 Money warrant for 10,000l. to Sir Hugh May, Paymaster of the Works, for one year from 1664, Xmas, for repair of His Majesty's palaces. &c. Ibid, p. 64.
Warrant from Treasurer Southampton to the Receipt for tallies to be struck, in manner detailed, for the payment of 1,525l. to Richard Lord Arundel, Governor of Pendennis, for the pay of the garrison. Ibid.
Treasurer Southampton and Lord Ashley to Sir Walter St. John, Sir Edward Baynton, Sir Edw. Poole, Sir John Ernly, Sir John Talbot, Sir James Thuin, Edw. Seymour, Walter Bockland, Giles Eyre, William Swanton, Rich. Greene and John Norden, Deputy Lieutenants of co. Wilts, concerning their long dispute as to their place of meeting and the rates of the Royal Aid for co. Wilts. Hope that their next meeting will wipe out all misunderstanding, that the disquiet of the country may not pay the price of longer dispute. Ibid, p. 65.
Money warrant for 62l. 10s. 0d. to Elizabeth Simpson, being due on the pension to her late husband, John Simpson, deceased. Ibid.
Same, dormant, for the annuity or fee of 80l. per an. to Anthony de Choqueux for his place of one of His Majesty's chirurgeons in ordinary, as by letters patent of March 21 last. Ibid.
Money warrant for 500l. to Humphry Weld for His Majesty's secret service without accompt. Ibid, p. 66.
Nov. 10 Warrant from Treasurer Southampton and Lord Ashley, dated from Oxford, to the Excise Commissioners to change the sureties of Sir Thomas Peniston and Robert Knollys, Farmers of Excise for co. Oxford. Ibid, p. 74.
Nov. 11 Warrant from Treasurer Southampton and Lord Ashley to Francis Stevens, a Sergeant at Arms, to arrest William Webb, of Dodington, and 23 others. detailed, on the complaint of Thomas Veele, Receiver of the fire hearth money in co. Gloucester, for great contempts and abuses vioently done to him in the execution of his office. Early Entry Book XIII. p. 73.
Nov. 12 Circular letter from same, dated from Oxford, to the respective Clerks of the Peace concerning the fire hearth money: to be communicated to the Justices of the Peace at the next session. His Majesty being informed by many of the Receivers of the hearth money of many obstacles in the receiving and collecting same has had the obstacles resolved by counsel learned in the law, with the intention only that this determination be a rule to his own officers to levy the same by. If any other person find himself aggrieved he is left to the law. The King was necessitated hereto by the compliance of many of the Justices with those who disputed this duty on any pretence; many of them by private certificate to gratify their neighbours taking off the duty which they had before certified as due into the Exchequer. The King therefore requires that no certificate of one or more justices be allowed in exemption of any duty against the record which the whole Bench has sent up into the Exchequer. And if the minister and churchwardens shall be found wilfully to have made undue certificates then to discountenance the same. And though His Majesty will not resolve whether the constables by the last Act (who certainly were by the first) are obliged to assist the receivers (who were then the sheriffs) in collecting the same, yet finding their salary is still continued he thinks the Bench might reasonably direct them thereunto. Ibid, pp. 164–5.
Appending:—Resolutions to the queries concerning hearth money.
(1) Ovens only are exempted from charge, but all chimneys and hearths although they have ovens in them are to pay.
(2) All houses that have above two chimneys are to pay, though paupers dwell in them, there being no exemption allowed to such houses.
(3) If such house stand empty and the owner not a pauper he must pay as occupier.
(4) In case of stopping up chimneys, proceed to demand and levy the duty or return the case into the Exchequer.
(5) Smiths, braziers and pewterers, if they have hearths for other uses, though in the same chimney with their furnace or forge, those hearths ought to pay.
(6) His Majesty's garrisons and castles farmed out and lodges in the King's parks, &c., are to pay.
(7) Free schools and mills are likewise to pay.
Nov. 13 Treasurer Southampton to the Auditor of the Receipt for the three bills of the Lieutenant of the Tower (for keeping prisoners, diet and fees) to be paid out of the arrears of the chimney money. Ibid, p. 73.
Prefixing:—Abstract of said bills.
Warrant from Treasurer Southampton and Lord Ashley to the Excise Commissioners, to receive all moneys offered by way of advance by any of the Farmers of Excise in the counties, allowing them thereon six per cent. interest for so long as they shall pay it in before the time due in course, "it being at this time very much for His Majesty's service to have all the moneys that by any meanes can be advanced into his severall treasuries." Ibid, p. 74.
Nov. 15 Lord Chancellor Clarendon and Treasurer Southampton to the Customs Farmers. We desire you to inform us whether the Customs of wood, earth, glass and stoneware be by you letten in a sub-farm. And if so at what rent and what defalcation is expected by reason of the Duke of Buckingham's patent and the King's prohibition of foreign looking glasses. Further desiring a statement of the receipts from said Customs. Early Entry Book XIII. p. 75.
Money warrant for 100l. to Francis Torringham for service to His Majesty. Ibid, p. 76.
Nov. 17 Same for 200.000l. to the Treasurer of the Navy on the Privy Seal of 1664, Dec. 22, for 912,050l. to the Navy Treasurer for stores and wages. Ibid.
Nov. 18 Same for 3,000l. with tallies for a further 5,000l. being 8,000l. in all, to the Cofferer of the Household, for the expense of the Household. Ibid, p. 75.
Same, dormant, for the pension of 300l. per an. to Lady Mary Killegrew, one of the Women of the Chamber to the Queen Consort; as by the letters patent of Oct. 31 last. Ibid, p. 76.
Warrant from Treasurer Southampton to the Receipt to levy tallies, detailed, for the allowance of 800l. due to Sir Allen Apsley for one year due Sept. 29 last. Ibid, p. 77.
Money warrant, dated Oxford, for 1,000l. to Robert Southwell, Esq., one of the Clerks of the Council, for secret service and without accompt. Ibid.
[?] Countersignature by the Duke of Albemarle, Treasurer Southampton and Lord Arlington of an establishment, detailed, for the garrison of Plymouth. Ibid, p. 78.
Nov. 18 Warrant from Treasurer Southampton and Lord Ashley to the Excise Commissioners to pay the following sums of money to the following officers of the Excise Office, who have "during all the time of this contagion continued at the Excise Office in London or solicited us in the country in the business thereof," viz.:—. Ibid, XII. p. 182.
£ s. d.
Edward Strange, Solicitor to the Excise. 150 0 0
John Champant, Correspondent and Keeper of the bonds 60 0 0
Sam Barnard, Deputy Accomptant General 40 0 0
Thomas Lowns, Assistant to Mr. Ball in the Treasury (of the Excise) 30 0 0
Thomas Rudyard, Teller within doors 40 0 0
John Wood, Teller abroad 40 0 0
William Stone, Messenger 15 0 0
John Coward, Messenger 10 0 0
Nov. 21 Same from same to Sir Robert Long, Auditor of the Receipt, to draw the orders (on any Privy Seal already passed in the name of the Treasurer of the Navy or Lieutenant of the Ordnance) for the several sums mentioned in the royal warrant, ut infra, mentioning in those orders that the sum is paid to him to be paid to the person and for the end mentioned in the said warrant and for the present war. And to ground the orders for Mr. Pike upon his Privy Seal already passed for the charges of bringing up the moneys out of the counties. Further requiring punctual observance of everything commanded in the Act granting 1,250,000l. towards the Dutch war. Ibid, XIII. pp. 78–81.
Appending:—Royal sign manual to the Treasury, dated Oxford, Nov. 20, concerning said Act and the directions therein for all said moneys that should be paid into the Exchequer to be entered and registered apart and distinct from all the moneys payable on the former Act for the Royal Aid of 2,477,500l., and further for regulating the payments thereout. Details the payments, amounting in all to 430,000l., considered most pressing and so to be entered first in the register, of all the three sorts of payments as in said Act. Nevertheless in order to vary as little as possible from the usual form of the Exchequer directs the order for these payments to be grounded upon some Privy Seal passed in the name of those persons hereby appointed to receive those moneys, who are to make these and no other payments out of the moneys so received by him or them, though the particular Privy Seal mention not the particular service but in general for service relating to this war. Further in order to comply with the Act in the point of assigning of orders, directs that if any person desires his payments in many orders rather than in one gross sum, he be complied with and all those orders entered in the registry of one date, and be paid in course. All loans, certificates and warrants for further payments to be entered in course and according to the Act. And upon all occasions to make as many orders for one sum (in respect of the conveniency of transferring them) as the payee shall deisre.
Nov. 22 Money warrant for 500l. to Sir Walter Vane, Envoy to the Elector of Brandenburg: as by the Privy Seal of the 8th inst.: to be without accompt for his charges in that employment. Early Entry Book XIII p. 85.
Fiat by Treasurer Southampton for royal letters patents to constitute James Vernon Customer of Chester port. Ibid, p. 81.
Nov. 23 Money warrant, dormant, for the annuity or yearly pension of 500l. to Sir William Killegrew, Vice-Chamberlain to the Queen Consort: as by the royal letters patent of the 10th inst. Ibid, p. 83.
Treasurer Southampton and Lord Ashley to the President of [the Council of] Wales, dated from Oxford, concerning the raising money on the Additional Aid, recommending him to incline the abler sorts to express their good affections by lending as considerable sums as they could on the credit of the Act for the Additional Aid in this most important and pressing occasion of the Dutch war. ("Letter to the Receivers of the 1st Aid to perfect their accounts against February 1655–6, entered in the Royal Aid Book.") Ibid, p. 84.
Warrant from Treasurer Southampton to the Auditor of the Receipt for a tally for 400l. for payment of the money warrant of August 18 last for that amount to Gervase Price for building a lodge in St. James's Park. Ibid, p. 81.
Treasurer Southampton and Lord Ashley to the sheriffs and Commissioners concerned therein, concerning the Additional Aid of 1,250,000l. engaging their utmost zeal therein: and with directions to keep the sums on the said Additional Aid distinct from those on the Royal Aid (the same assessments and warrants serving for both nevertheless). Further pressing them to lend and to encourage others to lend on the credit of the Act. Ibid, pp. 83–4.
Nov. 24 Treasurer Southampton to Sir John Shaw to furnish Mr. Southwell, Clerk of the Council, whom His Majesty is employing abroad, with a bill of exchange for 500l. Early Entry Book XIII. p. 91.
Same to the Auditor of the Receipt concerning a money order sent herewith for 1,000l. for Mr. Southwell. Prays him to speed this agent all he can. Ibid, p. 92.
[?] Warrant from same to the Clerk of the Signet for a Privy Seal, in terms of a draft prefixed, for a grant to Julyan Conyngsby, spinster, of an annuity or yearly pension of 200l. for services to the King in the escape from Worcester. Ibid, pp. 92–3.
Entry of a list of the sheriffs of England and Wales Ibid, p. 82.
Nov. 25 Warrant from Treasurer Southampton and Lord Ashley to the Clerk of the Pipe for a grant to Samuel Finnis of the office of bailiff and collector of priory and other rents in co. Lincoln lately held by Thomas Zouch, deceased. Ibid, p. 120.
Prefixing:—Particular of said office by William Chislett, Deputy Auditor.
Nov. 29 Countersignature by Treasurer Southampton for royal passes, dated Oxford, November 28 (24), for Sieur de Courtin, Ambassador Extraordinary from France, to embark with his equipage, &c., Customs free. Ibid, pp. 86, 88, 89.
The like of the royal passes, dated the 24th inst., for the ship _, &c., employed in the transportation to France of the equipage, &c., of the Duke of Verneuil, Ambassador Extraordinary from France. Ibid, pp. 87, 88, 89.
The like of the like for the ship _ employed in the transportation of the equipage, &c., of the Comte de Cominges, Ambassador Extraordinary from France. Ibid, pp. 87, 89.
The like of the like for the baggage, detailed, of the Sieur de Courtin, as above, to be conducted from London to Dover, including two pictures of the King of France with their frames gilded. Ibid, pp. 89–90.
The like for the servants and baggage of Monsieur de Cominges and of the Duke of Verneuil. Ibid, p. 90.
Nov. 30 Money warrant for 200l. to the seven violins of Mr. Banister's consort, viz. John Banister, Jeffery Banister, William Young, Richard Hudson, Theophilus Fitts, Isaac Staggins, and Simon Hopper, on the Privy Seal of 1663, August 31, for 600l. per an. to them (whereof they have only received 750l. in part of 3½ years to Sept. 29 last): in consideration of their constant attendance in that service this whole progress, by His Majesty's special command. Ibid, pp. 93–4.
A commission from Treasurer Southampton to Sir Francis Popham to be Col. of a regiment of Horse in co. Wilts. Ibid, p. 94.
Same from same to Sir Walter St. John, Sir John Ernley, Sir George How, and Sir Thomas Estcourt, to be Deputy Lieutenants of co. Wilts. Ibid, pp. 64, 84.
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