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Date.
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Nature and Substance of the Entry.
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Reference.
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Mar. 17
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Money warrant for 100l. 7s. 6d. to Serjeant Beck for one year's
salary and boardwages as a Serjeant-at-Arms.
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Warrants Early XIX.
p. 294.
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Treasurer Clifford's warrant to the Cashier of the Customs to pay
13l. 6s. 8d. to the Earl of Berkshire for creation money as
Viscount Andover, and dormant warrant for same in future.
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Ibid, p. 295.
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Money warrant for 200l. to Auditor John Philips for reward of
services in the affair of the fee farm rents.
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Ibid.
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Treasurer Clifford's warrant for the sum of 238l. 13s. 9d. to be
paid to Prince Rupert out of the revenue arising to His
Majesty out of the bishopric of Durham : being 6 per cent.
interest on 3,000l. warranted to him for the like sum expended
by him for His Majesty's service, viz., 191l. 15s. 0d. for said
interest to Sept. 29 last and 46l. 18s. 9d. for same to Mar. 5
last, on which day the last issue was made in full of said
3,000l. to him.
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Warrants Early XIX.
p. 295.
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Treasurer Clifford's warrant to the Grand Commissioners of
Excise to make allowance of 160l. to the Farmers of Excise
of Kent, Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk and Bucks, being by them paid
to the bailiffs of Great Yarmouth on a warrant of the late
Treasury Lords, dated 1671, Nov. 22, which could not be
allowed them on their rent for 1671, Michaelmas quarter,
in regard their rent was paid before the said warrant came
to their hands.
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Money Book (Excise),
p. 33.
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Treasurer Clifford's subscription of a docquet, dated 1672-3,
Jan., of a warrant to the Exchequer to pay 400l. to John
Brisbane for several services by him performed.
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British Museum Additional
MS. 28,074, p. 150.
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Same of same, dated 1672-3, Feb., of a confirmation to the
Mayor and Aldermen of Newark upon Trent, co. Notts, of all
their ancient liberties, privileges and franchises heretofore
granted them by the late King or other His Majesty's predecessors
with the several additions hereafter mentioned : viz.,
the town of Newark is henceforth to be a borough town and to
have power to elect and send 2 burgesses to serve in Parliament,
who are to be chosen by the Mayor and Aldermen or the
major part of them. All freemen and inhabitants within the
said town are exempted from payment of all tolls, piccage, &c.
The several townships of Balderton, Coddington and Winthorpe,
the castle with the site thereof and the mills called
Newark mills and the people therein are in future to be under
the government of the Mayor and Aldermen of Newark. They
are to have to the use of the Corporation all goods of felons,
felons of themselves (felos de se), fugitive persons, outlawed
waifs, estreys, treasure trove and deodands : to have a Custos
Rotulorum eligible by the Mayor and Aldermen : the Coroner
of Newark to have power in all the limits and liberties of the
Corporation : the Mayor, Recorder, last year's Mayor, and 4
senior Aldermen to be Justices of the Peace thereof and to choose
High Constables and Petty Constables, and no Sheriff or Justice
of Peace of the county to intermeddle therein : said Justices
may send felons, &c., by warrant under their seal to the county
gaol and may commit offenders to their own gaol ; the Corporation
may purchase lands to the value of 200l. per an.
above reprizes and the lands they now enjoy : they may arrest
for an action not exceeding 300l. : they are to have the return
of all writs within the limits of the Corporation : they may
keep 2 fairs yearly within the borough for ever for the buying
and selling of all kinds of cattle, goods, ware and merchandise,
by retail only, the first to begin on Tuesday week before
Palm Sunday and the other on the feast of St. Luke the
Evangelist, each to continue 2 days : and for the better
maintenance of the Vicar of the parish church of Newark
the King grants the perpetual advowson and rectory of
Winthorpe, with the appurtenances being under value and
near adjoining, to the Mayor and Aldermen for ever : with
clauses and non obstantes usual in grants of this nature.
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Ibid, p. 150-1
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Treasurer Clifford's subscription of a docquet, dated 1672-3,
Mar., of a grant to John Earl of Bridgewater of the Hundred
of Bucklow, co. Chester, for the life of him and his two sons
John Viscount Brackley and Thomas Egerton, Esq., at the
old rent of 40s. 4d. per an. and 6s. 8d. de incremento the usual
heriots and a fine of 46l. [? 4li.].
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British Museum Additional
MS. 28,074, p. 151.
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Report to the King from Treasurer Clifford on the petition of
Sir Philip Honywood and Sir Walter Vane who pray a grant
of the estate of Sir Robert Honeywood, deceased, forfeited to
the King, to be in trust for payment of the debts and portions
and for the good of the widow and two sons of said Sir Robert.
The Surveyor General reports that said estate if sold would be
little above the value of the debts to be paid thereout and that
there will be little if anything remaining for the widow and
children. Said grant may therefore be made without prejudice
to your Majesty.
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Warrants Not Relating to
Money III. p. 314.
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Treasurer Clifford's warrant to the Customs Commissioners for
an allowance of three-fourths Customs to be made to Thomas
Knights, merchant, on 60 pipes of defective and decayed
Canary wines.
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Ibid.
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Same to Sir C. Harbord, Surveyor General of Crown Lands for
a particular and ratal of a tenement in the parish of Hammoon,
belonging to the manor of Ryme, co. Dorset, parcel of
the Duchy of Cornwall, held by the life of John Jolliffe at
26s. 8d. rent, and in reversion after the life of John Ward
under that rent and 5l. increased rent, all with a view to a new
lease thereof to Tho. Bugg on surrender, Jolliffe being dead
and petitioner having agreed with said Ward.
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Ibid, p. 318.
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Sir Ro. Howard to Mr. Mountney, Cashier of the Customs, to
pay Mr. Nicholas the money due to him upon the warrant
lately received for his salary : having respect to the tallies of
anticipation already struck on the Customs.
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Out Letters General III.
p. 264.
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Same to same to pay to Lord Belasyse the money by the Lord
Treasurer ordered him for one year as Governor of Hull.
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Ibid.
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Mar. 18
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Treasurer Clifford's warrant to the Receipt to issue 800l. to
Philip Packer, Paymaster of the Works, for the ordinary
service of the Works : to be issued on such orders [in said
Packer's name] as remain unsatisfied for said ordinary service :
and to be paid out of moneys that are or shall now be paid into
the Receipt by the Receiver of Crown revenues for North
Wales.
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Warrants Early XIX.
p. 296.
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Money warrant for 20l. to the Earl of Burlington for one year's
creation money.
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Ibid.
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Entry of the reference to the Customs Commissioners of the
petition of Capt. Henry Sturt about some commodities that
were in a ship called the "River of ," condemned to the
petitioner in the Admiralty upon which there is some scruple
about the Customs duty which he prays to pay ad valorem.
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Out Letters General III.
p. 264.
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Sir Robert Howard to Mr. Morris, Sir C. Harbord and Mr.
Christian to attend the Lord Treasurer on Friday morning
about said Morris's father's title to the ground by Wallingford
House.
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Ibid, p. 265.
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Mar. 19
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Treasurer Clifford's warrant to the Customs Commissioners. By
warrant of Feb. 5 last I directed you to order the Collectors
in the outports to pay to the respective Vice-Admirals moneys
necessary for the bounty for seamen voluntarily enlisting.
In some of the outports it has happened that the Collectors
have not had money in their hands sufficient for that service.
For that cause Sir Thomas Bridges, Vice-Admiral for Somerset,
has been obliged to take up of the Collector of Bristol 100l.,
which the Collector had not sufficient authority to pay. To
facilitate the service you are to give order that where there
shall not be sufficient money in the hands of any one Collector
then the Collector of the next adjacent port shall pay to the
Vice-Admirals as above. And you are to make allowance to
the Collector of Bristol for abovesaid 100l.
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Money Book (Customs)
p. 93.
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Money warrant for 2,500l. to Henry, Earl of St. Albans, Chamberlain
of the Household, for so much due to him for plate sold
to His Majesty.
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Ibid, p. 94
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Treasurer Clifford to the Customs Commissioners to deliver to
Sir Edward Spragg certain articles detailed now imported in
the "Merlin" yacht : gloves, ribbons, tweezers, &c., &c., the
proper goods of said Spragg.
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Warrants Not Relating to
Money III. p. 315
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Sir Robert Howard to Sir Robert Long to have made and to
deliver to Auditor Phelipps a certificate or account of what
tallies have been struck on the fee farm rents.
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Out Letters General III.
p. 265.
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Same to [? the Auditors of Imprests]. "When you attended
my Lord Treasurer lately with the state of the Vice Chamberlain's
[Sir G. Carteret's] interest accounts [as formerly
Treasurer of the Navy] for money by him borrowed when he
was Treasurer of the Navy, His Lordship, if you remember,
upon your telling him that you had only compared the Bankers'
books and Mr. Fenn's, upon the stating of the same did not
think himself secure to pass it but did direct you to be very
careful in looking over that whole account and that you should
inspect the Cashiers' ledger books and also the weekly certificates
to the Navy Board from the [Navy] Treasurer of [as to]
the receipts and payments of all moneys and that by comparing
all those together and with the account brought in for
interest you should prepare such a state of the said interest
account as may be fit for his Lordship's view.
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Ibid, p. 266.
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Mar. 20
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Money warrant for 365l. to George Kirke for one year on his
pension.
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Warrants Early XIX
p. 296.
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Same for 3,000l. to Charles Earl of Berkshire as royal bounty
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Ibid.
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Same for 214l. 17s. 0d. to John Dodington for extraordinaries as
late Resident at Venice and 35l. for 14 days' ordinary from
Feb. 7 last to Feb. 22. being the day on which he returned
into His Majesty's presence.
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Ibid, p. 297.
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Treasurer Clifford's warrant to Ralph Montague, Master of the
Great Wardrobe, to assign over to Francis Pointz, yeoman
arras maker and tapestry maker to His Majesty, the 500l.
warranted to said Montague, Sept. 23 last.
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Ibid, p. 298.
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Money warrant for 236l. 8s. 3d. to Sir Edward Griffin to be by
him assigned over to the Messengers of the Chamber on several
warrants and bills signed by the Lord Chamberlain of the
Household and the principal Secretaries of State : same to be
issued on any privy seal in said Griffin's name not yet fully
charged.
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Ibid, pp. 298, 299
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Money warrant for 100l. 7s. 6d. to Roger Harsnet for one year's
salary and boardwages [as a Serjeant-at-Arms].
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Warrants Early XIX.
p. 299.
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Same for 40,146l. 14s. 6d. to Sir Stephen Fox, viz. 32,306l. 14s. 6d.
for pay of the new forces and contingencies to May 3 next (to
which time assignments have been given to all the whole [? old]
forces), and 7,840l. for levy money which has been paid to
several new raised forces.
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Ibid, p. 302.
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Treasurer Clifford's warrant, dormant, to the Cashier of the
Customs to pay 800l. per an. and no more, of the annuity of
1,200l. per an. granted by the royal letters patent of 1661-2,
Jan. 23, to the Chancellor of the Order of the Garter for the
support of said Order.
Together with :An undated warrant by Treasurer Latimer for
the execution hereof.
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Ibid, p. 303 ; Money Book
(Customs). p 94.
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Same to the Receipt to take up two tallies (one of 1665, April 11,
for 3,250l. levied on Thomas Price, Receiver of the Royal Aid
for co. Hereford, whereon there has been only received 2,450l.
leaving 800l. still unpaid, the other of 1665, July 18, for
13,046l. 5s. 10d. levied upon Sir Thomas Player, Receiver
General of the Royal Aid for the city of London, whereon
there have been received the several sums only of 3,596l. 12s. 3d.
and 192l. 12s. 9d. leaving 9,257l. 0s. 10d. still unpaid) and the
counterparts thereof, and to cancel same and vacate all the
records and entries thereof, same having been levied on the
Royal Aid [and made payable to Sir C. Carteret but by assignment]
being now remaining in the hands of said Sir T. Player :
and in lieu thereof to levy five other tallies of the respective
dates aforesaid and for the several sums as above ; Sir George
Carteret, late Treasurer of the Navy, having desired same to be
done for his better accommodation for passing his account in the
Exchequer.
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Warrants Early XIX.
pp. 304-5.
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Royal warrant for 107l. to William Shrotter for a present of
medals sent by the King to the Count de Hanau. (Money
warrant, dated Mar. 21.)
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King's Warrant Book III.
p. 241 ; Warrants Early
XIX. p. 296.
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Treasurer Clifford's warrant to the Cashier of the Customs to
pay 70l. to Henry, Marquess of Dorchester for two years on his
creation moneys of 20l. and 15l. per an.
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Money Book (Customs),
p. 94.
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Money warrant for 455l. to Sir William Lockhart for a quarter's
advance on his ordinary of 5l. a day as Envoy Extraordinay to
follow the French Court this next campaign as by the privy
seal of the 15th inst. : and also 1,000l. for his equipage and
transportation.
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Warrants Early XIX.
p. 307.
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Money warrant, dormant, for 600l. per an. for three years to the
Earl of Dover from Sept. 29 last as by the privy seal of July
22 last : to be paid out of the grand Excise of London,
Middlesex and Surrey. (In the margin : "Before this warrant
half a year was paid.")
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Money Book (Excise),
p. 33.
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Treasurer Clifford's warrant to the Auditor concerned, to allow
68l. in account to George Faunt (Fawnt), Receiver of the late
Subsidy, co. Leicester, for acting also as solicitor thereof.
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Warrants Early XIX. p.
294 ; Warrants Not
Relating to Money III.
p. 315.
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Mar. 20
and
April 3
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Treasurer Clifford's subscription of a docquet, dated 1672-3, Mar.,
of a grant to Richard, Lord Le Power of all the manors, lands
and hereditaments in the county of Waterford and Cork and
elsewhere in Ireland, late of John Fitzgarrald (Fitzgerald), Esq.,
Sir John Fitz Garrald, Sir James Fitzgarrald and Sir Maurice
Fitzgarrald, which are any ways come to His Majesty : to be
held in free and common soccage, as of the Castle of Dublin,
under the ancient rents and services : with power to keep
several courts of record in some of the said manors for trial
of actions or sums not exceeding 15l. and liberty of free warren
in 1,000 acres and other liberties and privileges specified in
former grants of the premises : and notwithstanding His
Majesty's commission to the Duke of Buckingham and others,
Commissioners concerning the affairs in Ireland.
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British Museum Additional
MS. 28,074, pp. 152, 183.
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Mar. 20
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Treasurer Clifford's entry of his discharge of John Armorett,
minister of Burton parish, co. Westmorland, George Lapidge
and John Webster, who were accused by Robert Whittacre,
formerly servant to said Armorett, of counterfeiting and
clipping the coin and other treasonable practises ; said Whittacre
having fled and there being no evidence against said
persons.
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Warrants Not Relating to
Money III. p. 316.
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Treasurer Clifford's approval of Henry Hill, John Peirce and
Edmd. Loyd as sub-commissioners of Excise for co. Salop, as
desired [by the Farmers of Excise of said county].
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Ibid, p. 324.
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An establishment for payment of the [Navy] Victuallers agreed
[upon] this day.
(1) The Lord Treasurer shall forthwith give the Victuallers
bills of exchange on the Collector of Bristol port for 3,000l.
(2) He is forthwith to procure bills of exchange for the
Victuallers at Paris for 17,000l. at usance or double usance at
54d. per crown ; and 20,000l. in Custom House bonds over
and above the discount [to merchants on such bonds], as was
formerly done.
(3) He is to cause tallies to be struck for said Victuallers
on the first quarter of the land tax now to be given [by Parliament],
payable in May next, for 80,000l.
(4) And likewise tallies on the second quarter of said tax
for 80,000l.
The Victuallers are to have the first 10,000l. on each
quarter [of said land tax] and after that the Lord
Treasurer may order what other payments he pleaseth to
intermingle with the succeeding payments of the
Victuallers while [so long as] there remains 20,000l.
unpaid on each quarter. Further the Victuallers are
not to be left to receive any part of either of the said
[two] 80,000l. on the last 20,000l. of either quarter.
Item :It is agreed that if any of these payments, either on
bills, bonds or tallies, fail to be paid as above then the deficit
shall be supplied by ready money to be paid to said Victuallers
by the Lord Treasurer.
Further it is agreed that what charge the Victuallers shall
be at in procuring moneys by way of advance on the, or any of
the, said tallies shall be allowed to them provided it exceed not
what has been allowed to their predecessors.
Further that the remainder of what shall be coming to the
Victuallers upon the declaration for 30,000 men for 8 months
and 20,000l. for petty warrants and 467l. per mensem for
ordinary, amounting [altogether] to 22,604l., shall be assigned
to them by the Lord Treasurer on the fourth quarter of said
land tax after the first 30,000l. paid in of either quarter on
which it is assigned.
The Victuallers promise and engage, upon the performance of
the payments aforesaid, to accomplish the victualling of the
Navy according to the declaration of 30,000 men for 8 months
and the petty warrants and all other incident charges that may
accrue except extra water cask and freight of victualling ships
which are to be paid for by the Navy board. Finally it is
agreed that this establishment shall not debar the Victuallers
from any just demand of interest for non-payment of money
or for any other lawful cause.
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Ibid, pp. 330-1.
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[?Mar. 20]
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Treasurer Clifford to [the Customs Commissioners or the Keeper
of the bonds in the Custom House] to deliver to the Victualler
of the Navy so many Custom House bonds as are now in being
and the remainder as they shall come in, up to 20,000l. in all,
besides the discount which is to be reckoned from this day for
the bonds in being and for the rest from the time they shall be
entered into. You shall have tallies for the bonds from time
to time as you deliver them.
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Warrants Not Relating to
Money III. p. 332.
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Mar. 21
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Treasury warrant to the Receipt for tallies to be levied on the
Country Excise for 2,000l. and 1,150l. representing the
unsatisfied remains respectively of two orders, viz. one for
10,000l. to Lord Arlington for secret service, the other for
10,000l. to Sir Stephen Fox for secret service.
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Money Book (Excise),
p. 33.
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Money warrant for 53l. 6s. 8d. to Henry Marquess of Dorchester
for two years' creation money in part of 146l. 3s. 4d. arrears
thereon for 5 years to Sept. 29 last.
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Warrants Early XIX.
p. 297.
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Same, dormant, for the yearly fee or salary of 200 marks per an
to Sir Thomas Chichely, Kt., as Master of the Ordnance and
also the allowance of 6d. a day for a clerk, 6d. a day for a
servant and 16d. a day for two men to wait on him :
amounting in all to 175l. 18s. 4d. per an. . to date from 1671,
March 25.
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Ibid, pp. 298-9.
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Treasurer Clifford's warrant to Auditor Sir Joseph Seymour to
allow in account 32l. to Margaret Williamson, widow and
executrix of George Williamson, deceased, Receiver of the
Subsidy for Westmorland and Cumberland, as an allowance for
his acting as also Solictor thereof.
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Ibid, p. 299.
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Money warrant for 24l. 8s. 0d. to the churchwardens of St.
Michael's, Cornhill, for two years on the perpetuity of
12l. 4s. 0d. per an. for the poor of said parish : as in part of
61l. for five years arrears thereon to Xmas last.
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Ibid, p. 300.
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Same, dormant, for the allowance of 80l. per an. to John, Earl
of Bath for his salary as Under-Housekeeper of St. James's ;
he having been paid said allowance up to 1665, June 24, and
His Majesty having by letters patent of 1670, Sept. 19
(granted on the surrender of former letters patent under
which said salary was paid) directed the continuance of said
allowance as formerly, with the arrears thereon from said
surrender.
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Ibid.
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Same for the creation money of 20l. per an. to John, Earl of
Bath as granted by letters patent of 1661, April 20 : on which
letters patent said Earl has not yet been paid any money.
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Ibid, p. 301.
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Money warrant (in pursuance of the order in Council of Feb. 14
last) for 33l. 15s. 6d. to Robert Gyde, a Sergeant-at-Arms for
fees for keeping Lord Napier in his custody by virtue of His
Majesty's writ, said Lord having been set at liberty by the
Earl Marshal without paying fees.
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Ibid
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Treasurer Clifford's warrant to Auditor Aldworth to allow 140l.
in account to Sir Christopher Musgrave, Kt., for his extraordinary
great charges as Receiver General and Solicitor of
the late Subsidy in co. Yorks, in conveying money from remote
places to places fit for returns, and in making said returns, etc. :
his case differing from that of most of the other Receivers to
whom returns of moneys have not only been easy but
advantageous.
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Warrants Early XIX.
p. 302.
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Money warrant for 500l. to Sir John Finch without account as
Ambassador at the Ottoman Court, being for the support of the
charge he will be at during his stay at Genoa, where His
Majesty has appointed and directed him to make some stay to
represent some matters to that state, wherewith he goes
particularly instructed from His Majesty. (Treasurer Clifford's
subscription dated Mar. 10 of docquet herefor.)
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Ibid, p. 303 ; British
Museum Additional MS.
28,074, p. 146.
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Warrant by Treasurer Clifford for the execution of a money
warrant of 1672. Nov. 2, for 126l. 13s. 4d. to John Jones, Her
Majesty's apothecary.
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Warrants Early XIX.
p. 193.
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Treasurer Clifford's subscription of a docquet, dated 1672-3,
Mar., of a grant to Sir Peter Killegrew and John Tregagle of
the office of Receiver General of His Majesty's revenue of the
Duchy of Cornwall, on the surrender by Robert Naper and
John Corance of the grant of 10 Sept., 14 Car. I. of said office
to them.
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British Museum Additional
MS. 28,074, p. 152.
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Treasurer Clifford's warrant to Mr. Mountney [and the Customs
Commissioners] to deliver some things of small value sent from
France by the Countess of Sunderland to several persons of
quality of the Court, a gown, gloves, essence and a small
travaitine [? travelling] writing cabinet.
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Warrants Not Relating to
Money III. p. 316.
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Same to Auditor Sir Joseph Seymour to allow 62l. in account to
Francis Hollingshead. Receiver General of the late Subsidy in
co. Stafford, for acting also as Solicitor thereof.
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Ibid, p. 317.
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Same to the Customs Commissioners to permit David Vauschel,
merchant, to bring up a ship of his to London port, laden with
wines and stummes, and cast on shore at Eastbourne in Sussex,
he first giving security for the Customs and not to carry them
to any other port.
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Ibid, p. 319.
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Same to the Clerk of the Pipe for a lease to John Windebank,
Dr. of Physic of the scite of the castle of Guildford, with the
paling, ditch and ancient stone wall containing by estimate
five acres and three roods : at the ancient rent of 26s. 8d. : the
lessee to covenant to keep up the premises in all manner of
necessary reparations, and to make up and deliver to the Clerk
of the Pipe a perfect particular of all the houses, outhouses,
yards, grounds, mounds, fences and boundaries within three
years, and the like every seven years, to remain of record for
His Majesty's service. The arrears of the mesne profits of
the premises since 27 April, 1671 (at which time the last lease
expired) are to be granted to said lessee, he covenanting to
compel by law the late tenants or occupiers of the premises to
make good all the ruins and dilapidations which have happened
during the time of the last lease, or have been made by any of
them to the damage of the Crown.
Prefixing :Auditor's particular and Surveyor General's ratal
of the premises.
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Ibid, pp. 321-2.
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Treasurer Clifford's warrant to the Clerk of the Pipe for a lease
to Samuell Mottershed of the Common Oven of Macclesfield,
the house adjoining thereto and the custom and profit pertaining
thereto, viz. for 31 years from Sept. 29 last on surrender
of a lease now in being (there being at September last 20 years
to come in the last lease of the premises made to William
Farringdon) and at the ancient yearly rent of 8s. and at a fine
of 24l. 13s. 4d. for renewing said lease and for taking off the
increased rent of 40s. per an.
Prefixing :Particular of the premises by deputy Auditor Thomas
Raban ; and ratal by the Surveyor General of Crown Lands.
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Warrants Not Relating to
Money III. pp. 323-4
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[?]
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Entry of demise to Nicholas Kemp of a tenement called Edon,
alias Odon, in the manor of Trelagan, co. Cornwall, parcel of
the Duchy of Cornwall : to hold for 99 years or for the lives
of said Nicholas and his son John.
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Ibid, p. 323, 331.
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Mar. 21
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Treasurer Clifford's warrant to Sir C. Harbord, Surveyor General
of Crown Lands, for a particular and ratal of certain salt
marshes or sandy ground in or near Holy Island, in the
bishopric of Durham, containing about 1,500 acres, with a
view to a fresh lease on surrender thereof to Thomas Paulden,
same having been granted to him 1661, Oct. 13, for 31 years,
at 3s. rent per an., and a fourth part of the land which should
be embanked and recovered from the sea : which said fourth
part of such land was afterwards, 1662-3, Mar. 24, granted to
Martin Luter, gent., in trust for said Paulden, at 10l. per an.
rent, the land being discovered and found by inquisition at the
charge and prosecution of petitioner : the embanking of said
land having further been no prejudice or hindrance to the
fishery of those parts.
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Ibid, p. 328.
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Mar. 22
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Same to the Customs Commissioners to make allowance to George
Tarians and William Bellamy, merchants of the custom of
10 tuns of wine for salvage as part of a wrecked cargo of
wines and brandy shipped to them from Bordeaux.
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Money Book (Customs)
p. 94.
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Money warrant for 4,400l. to Charles Lord Buckhurst, as royal
bounty, to be paid by tallies to be levied on such moneys as
will be due on contracts made by said Lord Buckhurst for the
purchase of the fee farms of 550l. per an. of the manors of
Bradbury and Hilton in the bishopric of Durham, now part
of Her Majesty's jointure.
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Warrants Early XIX.
p. 304.
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Treasurer Clifford's warrant, dormant, to the Excise Commissioners
to make punctual payment from time to time of the
sums in the schedule below (on the production of tallies
quarterly), same being by the letters patent to be paid out of
the Excise : same to be paid "before any other payments and
tallies of anticipation whatsoever in the same manner and with
the like exactness as the charge of management of the Excise
Office is quarterly paid."
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Money Book (Excise)
p. 34.
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To the Duke of York
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24,000l.
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per an.
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" the Duke of York's children
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3,000l. "
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"
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" the Duke of Monmouth
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6,000l.
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"
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" Sir Stephen Fox for Secret Service
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2,000l.
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"
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" Lady Trevor
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500l.
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"
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" Col. Somersett Fox
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300l.
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"
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" Sir Samuel Moreland
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200l.
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"
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36,000l.
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per an.
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Treasurer Clifford's warrant, dormant, to the Farmers of the
London Excise to similarly pay the following sums from time to
time before any other payments or tallies of anticipation, viz. :
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Money Book (Excise),
pp. 34-5.
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s.
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d.
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To the Queen
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10,972
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19
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3
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per an.
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" Sir Orlando Bridgeman
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2,000
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0
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0
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"
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" Lord Crofts
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1,000
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0
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0
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"
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" Sir William Killegrew
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500
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0
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0
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"
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" Col. Thomas Howard and
Lady Howard
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500
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0
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0
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"
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" the Earl of Dover
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600
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0
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0
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"
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15,572
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19
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3
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Allowance by Treasurer Clifford of the various sums as follow,
being interest items due to the various Farmers of the Excise
of the counties specified on their advance payments of their
rent before the times limited by their covenants (as by the
Treasury order of 1671-2, Jan. 23), all for the quarter ended
1672, Dec. 25, viz. : the Farmers of Excise of Beds, 6s. 8d. ;
Berks, 5s. 4d. ; Bristol, 2l. 12s. 10d. ; Cambridge, 18l. 19s. 10d. ;
Cheshire, 1l. 18s. 9d. ; Derby, 1s. 3d. ; Devon, 7s. 8d. ;
Essex, Kent, &c., 6l 6s. 8d. : Hereford, 1s. 4d. ;
Herts, 3l. 2s. 3d. ; Huntingdon, 4s. 3d. ; Leicester,
10s. 9d. ; co. Lincoln, 7d. ; Oxford, 12s. 5d. ; Shropshire,
6s. 1d. ; Somerset, 2l. 3s. 10d. ; Warwick, 9s. 7d. ;
Worcester. 1s. 7d. ; Yorks and Sussex, 4l. 13s. 5d. ; North
Wales, 2s. 7d. (Total 43l. 8s. 2d.).
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Ibid, p. 35.
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Mar. 22
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Treasurer Clifford's warrant to Richard Westcombe and Clement
Westcombe, his son, to appoint a deputy in their office as
Comptroller of Customs in Cardiff port, said Richard having
at present under his management other affairs relating to His
Majesty's service whereby he cannot attend said office, and his
said son being in remote parts beyond the seas.
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Warrants Not Relating to
Money III. p. 319.
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[?]
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Same to the Customs Commissioners to employ John Toosans as
a watchman, London port, loco Edward Creech, displaced.
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Ibid, p. 320.
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Same to the Trustees of the late Queen Mother's jointure and to
the administrators of said late Queen's goods and chattels, to
remit and discharge Dame Martha Wingfield of the fine of
320l. ut supra, p. 81.
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Ibid.
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Report to the King from Treasurer Clifford on the petition of
Lord Wootton. The Surveyor General of Crown Lands reports
thereon that of one moiety of the lands in St. John's Woods
mentioned in the petition there are yet 82 years to come of the
grants made by your Majesty to the Earl of Arlington, and 127
years on the other moiety. The reserve rent of the whole is
27l. 0s. 8d. If your Majesty grant the inheritance of the
premises to petitioner in fee simple without any rent it may
reasonably be rated at 1,300l., which your Majesty may if you
please apply to the satisfaction of part of such orders as are
due to petitioner out of the Exchequer.
Appending :(a) said petition from Charles Henry Lord Wootton
to the King. The Earl of Arlington has a grant of lands
called Great St. John's Wood, co. Midd, being part of the
possessions of the late dissolved Hospital of St. John of
Jerusalem, containing 400 acres, for 60 years from the expiry
of several other terms unexpired. By indenture of 1666,
Dec. 6, said Earl sold his rights herein to Katherine Countess
of Chesterfield for 7,050l. Said Countess devised same to
petitioner, her son. Further there are various sums due to
petitioner out of the Exchequer. Prays a grant of the fee
simple and inheritance of all the said lands and that [the fine
for] same may be defaulted out of said sums so due.
(b) Report by Sir C. Harbord, Surveyor General of Crown
Lands, to Treasurer Clifford on said petition. Said wood
contains in the whole about 500 acres, lying near Maribone and
Kilburn. Two eight parts thereof being out of lease and
containing about 126 acres were granted, 1663, Aug. 14, to
Sir William Clarke for 31 years, and since [then] same were
granted to the Earl of Arlington for 60 years. A [further]fourth
part of said wood containing the like quantity of 126 acres and
a certain hedgerow called Chalcot Lane containing 2 acres were
also granted to said Earl for 31 years and for 60 years in
reversion at 27l. 14s. 6d. for the fourth part and 2s. 8d. for
the hedgerow. The remaining moiety (excepting a part thereof
enclosed in Marybone Park) has also been granted to said Earl
for 60 years from the end of a term of 40 years granted by
Queen Elizabeth to William Wade at the rent of 12l. 9s. 0d.,
of which 40 years seven are yet to come. Further the King has
granted said Earl a further term of 60 years in said moiety
and a further grant dated 1666, Nov. 20, of power to stock
up all the woods and trees thereon, and to convert the soil
thereof to meadow, pasture and arable land. Said lands are
now let at 377l. above the old rent of 27l. 0s. 8d. and are no
more worth at present, but they are conceivably capable of
improvement by the benefit of soil lying so near this town.
When the said park of Maribone was stored with deer the
late King took great pleasure in hunting frequently therein and
in the woods then growing upon the premises, and therefore
in the first grant [to said Earl of Arlington] a clause was
inserted for His Majesty to resume same and to replenish it
with deer. But now the woods and trees being destroyed
and the lands converted to husbandry there is little use to be
made of that clause.
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Ibid, pp. 325-7.
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Mar. 24
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Treasurer Clifford's warrant to the Customs Commissioners to
see opened at Cleveland House 13 ballots or packs arrived
from France, now in the Thames in one of the King's yachts,
nine of them directed to Henry Brounker, one or two to the
Duchess of Cleveland and the rest to Sir Thomas Bond, and
containing a bed and gilt bedsted, damask for hangings, tables,
stands, gilt andirons, &c.
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Warrants Not Relating to
Money III. p. 321.
1673.
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1673.
Mar. 25
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Money warrant for 550l. to Philip Packer, Paymaster of the
Works, in part of 20,000l. for the Extraordinaries of the
Works, as by the privy seal of 1671, June 27 : to be for imprest
for the charges of altering and repairing the lodgings of the
Rt. Hon. the Lord Newport, Treasurer of the Household : to
be paid by levying a tally on the Receiver of Hearthmoney for
co. Salep.
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Warrants Early XIX.
p. 305.
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Same for 4,754l. 0s. 1d. to Edward Backwell, for the use of the
Duke of Buckingham and the Earl of Arlington in full of an
account of the expenses of their late extraordinary embassy
to the most Christian King.
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Ibid, p. 312.
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Sir Ro. Howard to Mr. Mountney, Cashier of the Customs to
immediately give to the Victuallers of the Navy bills of
exchange for 3,000l. on the Collector of Bristol port.
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Out Letters General III.
p. 267.
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Mar. 26
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Treasurer Clifford's subscription of a docquet, dated 1672-3,
Mar, of a grant of a pension of 50l. per an. to Capt. James
Read during life.
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British Museum Additional
MS. 28,074, p. 182.
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Sir Robert Howard to Mr. Mounteney, Cashier of the Customs,
to draw bills for the 1,100l. at Bristol for the Victuallers of
the Navy and to deliver same to said Victuallers as soon as
tallies can be struck for your discharge which I presume will
be to-morrow. You must likewise lay by 1,900l. to make the
1,100l. into 3,000l., which the Lord Treasurer is engaged to
pay immediately to the Victuallers. Therefore you must be
punctual and agree with him on what you must have tallies.
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Out Letters General III.
p. 266.
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Money warrant for 182l. 10s. 0d. to Sir Philip Musgrave for one
year on his fee as Governor of Carlisle Castle.
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Warrants Early XIX.
p. 306.
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Mar. 27
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Treasurer Clifford's warrant to the Customs Commissioners to
deliver to Robert Townsen, Richard Foote and Godfrey
Richards four pictures by them sent for out of Flanders for
their own private use and not for sale and also four painted
screens.
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Warrants Not Relating to
Money III p. 329.
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Same to same to deliver two packs containing eight painted
screens and one small Kaishe [caisse] containing twelve
"fired wiggerd" screens come from Flanders and which are
for the proper use of the Duchess of Cleveland.
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Ibid.
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Same to same. The Sub-Commissioners for Prizes in London
port have made sale of about 30 pipes of Vego wines and 9
pipes of Canary wines, both of them so defective that they did
not yield even the duty thereon. You are to accept such
realised price in place of the full duty.
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Ibid.
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Mar. 28
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Same to the Receipt to issue 3,000l. for the victualling on such
orders as remain unsatisfied for moneys payable to the Treasurer
of the Navy : to be by tallies levied on the Cashier of the
Customs.
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Money Book (Customs),
p. 95.
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Royal warrant to Treasurer Clifford for a grant to Francis
Smethwick of the next vacant office of one of the five undersearchers
of London port : he having yet had no benefit of the
royal grant, dated 1669, April 6, of the next vacant place of a
King's waiter in London port.
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King's Warrant Book III.
p. 255.
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Same to same for 16l. to Thomas Morgan, vicar of Turville,
co. Bucks, as royal bounty to enable him to pay the Tenths
charged on his vicarage for several years which he is no way
able to pay, his vicarage being under 20l. per an. value.
(Money warrant dated Mar. 29.)
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Ibid, p. 259 ; Warrants
Early XIX. p. 313.
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Mar. 29
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Sir Robert Howard to Mr. Mountney, Cashier of the Customs,
to prepare a list of bonds now in the Custom House and of
such as shall come in : in view of the arrangement for paying
the Victuallers 20,000l. on such bonds.
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Out Letters General III.
p. 267.
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Mar. 31
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Treasurer Clifford's warrant to the Cashier of the Customs to
pay 80l. to the Duke of Monmouth for two years' creation
money.
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Money Book (Customs),
p. 95.
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Treasurer Clifford to Lord Willoughby. By your instructions
you are to be allowed 800l. per an. out of the Four-and-a-Half
per cent. duty in Barbados until some further revenue be
settled for support of the Governor and government of
Barbados. The Farmers of said duty complain that you
demand of them sugars in specie in Barbados for said 800l.,
which they allege will be great prejudice to them in respect of
the value, in regard they cannot have any legal discharge for
such payment in any way save by a tally levied at the
Exchequer, they being to pay their rent there only ; and therefore
they pray that you may receive said 800l. per an. in
London only, which they promise to pay punctually. I conceive
they cannot safely pay elsewhere in sugars anything in
lieu of their farm rent, which is payable only in the Exchequer.
Please forbear to demand such sugars.
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Warrants Early XIX.
p. 309.
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Treasurer Clifford to the Customs Commissioners to raise the
salary of William Kirkby, one of the Riding Surveyors of the
Customs, from 80l. per an. to 150l. per an., as from Xmas last.
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Warrants Not Relating to
Money III. p. 341.
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Privy seal for 100l. a week each to Sir Lionell Jenkins and
Sir Joseph Williamson for their ordinary as Ambassadors
Extraordinary (together with the Earl of Sunderland) to the
King of France, and 2,000l. each to said three for equipage.
(Treasurer Clifford's subscription, dated April 1, of docquet
hereof.)
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King's Warrant Book III.
pp. 249-50 ; British
Museum Additional MS.
28,074, p. 183.
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