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Sept. 3.
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The Lord Treasurer orders that notice be set upon the Treasury
door and Wallingford House [as follows] :
(1) That my Lord does intend to be at the Treasury
Chambers every Wednesday and Friday to despatch the public
business of the office, viz. from 9 to 12 in the morning, i.e.
when the Privy Council shall [happen to] sit in the afternoon,
and from 3 to 6 in the afternoon when the Privy Council shall
[happen to] sit in the forenoons.
(2) That Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 9 to 12 each morning,
my Lord will, at Wallingford House, hear and give answer
to petitions and other private business of the office.
(3) That Mondays my Lord sets apart for despatch of the
business of the Customs ; and Saturdays to attend the business
of the Admiralty.
(4) And for the greater ease of all persons concerned my
Lord desires them to deliver in their business in writing, to
which they shall have answer that day sevennight, and to take
notice that my Lord will not enter into any private business
but at the times aforesaid.
[Treasury Minute Book V. p. 37.]
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Sept. 4.
At the
Treasury
Chambers.
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Present :
(A blank follows : and no minutes are entered of this day.)
[Ibid, p. 38.]
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Proposals to be received for the [Revenue] Farm of Ireland.
[Day Book, p. 96.]
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Sept. 6.
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Mr. Mounteney to pay into the Exchequer the sum of 10,000l. by
direction of the Lord Treasurer.
[Treasury Minute Book, V. p. 37.]
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Sept. 7.
Wall[ingford]
House.
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Warrant for 100l. for Mrs. Hubblethorne, due to her before her
being placed upon the establishment in Ireland.
The privy seals mentioned in the order of Council concerning the
Leeward Islands [are] to be seen : [and as to] Wheeler's and
Stapleton's [papers] copies to be taken of them. The Lord
Treasurer to be put in mind to speak to the King about Mr.
Bridgman to have the same settlement that Mr. Cooke has : and
about the order of Council concerning the Leeward Islands.
Mr. Greatbreach's petition to be answered when my Lord has
spoken to the King.
Viset. Downe's docquets to be [put] amongst the papers for the
King.
Mr. Bertie to speak with Sir Robert Howard about certificates
wanting.
Mr. Taylor's petition to be put among the King's papers.
Sir Jo. Coryton's also.
Mr. Spencer's also.
Mr. Brumskell and Lloyd's petition about capias pro fine. A
letter concerning Mr. Heber. The petition of the officers at Ludlow.
Lord Belasyse's letter. Mr. Taylor's petition. Sir Charles Harbord
and Sir Peter Ball's report about Mr. Beddingfield [all these papers
are ordered] to be produced at the Treasury Chambers to-morrow.
Mr. Pen's case and request [is considered]. My Lord will speak
with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Harbord and the
Commissioners [Trustees] of Fee Farms how to settle the accompts.
When Mr. Pen finds out any [fee farm] particulars that my Lord
can assign to him for the satisfaction of his debt my Lord will do it.
My Lord desires to know whether Mr. Trelawney will manage
the office of Say Master [Assay Master of the Duchy of Cornwall]
himself : which, if he agree to, my Lord will report in his favour.
The petition about Hounslow Heath bridges is referred to Sir
Ch. Wren to give my Lord an account how [out of what money]
they have been formerly repaired, &c.
Mr. Bernard's fee in the Remembrancer's office [is ordered] to
be allowed for the future.
Mary Ray's petition for a forfeited estate [is read]. The King's
Remembrancer to give an account how it stands in the Exchequer.
Mr. Phelips to be consulted about the petition of Mr. Seimour of
the Hanaper office.
Mr. Gawen's petition for 1,000l. upon the fee farms (being
referred to my Lord from His Majesty per Mr. Povey) is read. My
Lord finding the fee farms alienated before his [my Lords'] time
[of office as Lord Treasurer] can give him no other assurance
unless he [Gawen] can find [some other fee farms equal to] the
value in the said rents.
Mr. Leave's petition is referred to the Auditor of the [particular]
county [in question].
My Lord desires to see a copy of the lease Sir Tho. Peyton has
already.
Mr. Speight's petition is referred to the Trustees [for sale of Fee
Farms].
Mr. Finch's petition for two lives in reversion in the office of
searcher at Sandwich [is read, having been] referred by His
Majesty to my Lord. [Ordered] to be granted if His Majesty think
fit.
Mr. Ogilby's paper, Mr. Harding's petition, Col. Streater's petition
[are respectively read and ordered] to be dismissed.
My Lord cannot as yet give order in the Countess of Brentford's
business.
[Treasury Minute Book V. pp. 38-40.]
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Sept. 8.
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Proposals [due] to be received for the [farm of the] Law Duty
[their date of reception is] deferred to Saturday.
[Day Book, p. 96.]
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Sept. 9.
Wallingford
House.
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The Lord Treasurer to move the King for the Countess of
Newburgh.
Sir John Oneby's petition [is] answered [to the effect that] 'tis
in the same case as all other arrears are and if he can find any
arrears [of moneys due] in the Hanaper [my Lord will allow him]
to have it applied to the payment, and the Clerk of the Hanaper to
give his account in to the Auditor.
The petitions of the Lord Privy Seal, Mr. Legg and Mr. Paston
are to be given to my Lord on the next Council day.
Sir Francis Clerk's petition is read and referred to the Customs
Commissioners.
Eliz. Olliver's petition is referred to the Lord President.
Petition [read] from Clement Nash, fife player. Speak with
Sir Stephen Fox about it.
Petition [read] from Capt. Geo. Gallop. To be heard when the
King is in town and my Lord to be put in mind to look for Lord
Vaughan's letters about the negroes.
Petition read from Antho. Sturt. Speak to the Cofferer that the
growing [accruing] expense for the Ducks may be put upon the
establishment of the [King's] House.
Petition read from the tide surveyor of London port. Speak of
it to the Customs Commissioners on Monday next.
Petition [read] from Daniel Roberts. Referred to the Customs
Commissioners.
Mr. Harris to have the 125l. due to him paid.
Petition read from the doorkeeper attending the [Commissioners
for the] Union with Scotland.
Petition read from George Townesend. Nothing done.
Petition read from Robert Woolley. If the pictures be found [to
be] for his own use and not for sale [my Lord orders] that he have
liberty to bring them over as he desires.
Petition read from Sir Hen. Fitz James. To be given to my Lord
next [Privy] Council day.
The Chapel [Royal] music [boys, &c.] to be paid 200l.
Give my Lord an account of the whole charge of the [King's]
harriers and falconry.
The Treasurer of the Chamber to give my Lord a distinct account
what the Groom Porter's bills have come to each year from the
King's restoration to this time.
Petition read from the officers of the House of Commons : 40l.
ordered them.
Petition [read] from John Jones, [the King's] apothecary, and
respited.
Petition read from the Mayor of Macclesfield. My Lord will
speak with the King in it.
[Treasury Minute Book V. pp. 40-1.]
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[Before
Sept. 11.]
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A series of papers relating to the farm of the Irish revenue.
(1) Undated. The proposal of George Pitts on behalf of himself
and partners.
That the proposer and his associates be commissionated to
manage and receive the revenue in Ireland for seven or
nine years.
They will accompt for and pay to the King the whole product
of said revenue for said term.
They will secure and pay to the King bona fide 241,456l.
[per an.] certain, of net clear money, at such times as will be
convenient for the King's occasions : to be discounted and
allowed as part of said produce.
To be allowed for their hazard, care and pains herein 3s. out
of every 20s. of the whole produce of said revenue, but this is
not intended to diminish said sum of 241,456l. per an. for that
sum shall come clear to the King.
That the whole clear surplus above the said 241,456l. per an.
and above the said poundage of 3s. per shall be accompted
for and paid to the King.
That they will advance and pay down in England a quarter's
payment of said certain sum of 241,456l. on sealing the grant,
the King allowing interest and exchange for same : and will
give such security for performance as shall be approved.
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(2) The King's reply hereto, dated 1675, Sept. 4.
(a) The King expects Mr. Pitts and partners to advance a
quarter's rent without any allowance of interest or exchange.
(b) And to submit to the abatement of such quit rents as are
now under consideration, not exceeding 5,000l. per an.
(c) That they shall pay their rent every quarter day or in
40 days after.
(d) That they shall receive the profits of the casual revenue
as it shall be paid into the Exchequer but that it be managed
by the King's officers.
(e) On these conditions the King is contented to accept
240,000l. per an.
(f) without any defalcations.
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(3) The reply of said William Pitts and associates to these conditions
of the King.
(a) This was never put upon any farmers ; much less can it
be expected of those who are only contractors for the King's
revenue as bare trustees and managers without any propriety
in the revenue other than to secure their advance money and
their reward for management. And if the King insist thereon
(whereas it is given out by the other proposers, the late
Farmers and Undertakers, and other persons who pretend to
be knowing in the affairs of Ireland, that we have a very hard
bargain already) this is to make it, upon the whole, 7,000l.
per an. worse. And if this be expected because the [said late]
Farmers and Undertakers did in their joint proposals (as we
are informed) offer to advance a quarter's rent, without interest,
yet they reckoned it as 5,500l. per an. of 238,500l. per an.
offered by them. Therefore hope that the interest of the
advance money will be allowed and deducted quarterly out of
the 240,000l. per an. and reckoned at so much in the constant
establishment, till the repayment of the money [and] with the
[reckoning at such rate of] exchange which shall be current at
any time when same shall be repaid.
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(b) This also, as we are informed, is (in the joint proposals
of the present Farmers and Undertakers) reckoned at 5,000l.
per an., as part of their 238,500l. per an., and if it be not
allowed to us as part of the 240,000l. per an. it is a further
increase and addition to the same, which, by their reckoning,
would make our proposals to be at least 252,000l. per an., and
though we make no doubt but that our proposals will, bona fide,
be better to His Majesty than that sum, yet to engage ourselves
thereto is, in truth, to turn the management to a plain farm.
Yet we submit this matter to the King's pleasure to reduce so
much of the quit rents, charged or chargeable on the coarsest,
barrenest and most insolvent lands remaining in the King's
hands or granted unto any others, provided that not above
5,000l. per an. of the quit rents be so reduced.
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(c) It is to be considered that there are, besides Sundays and
holy days, about 300 days in a year : and to limit the payment
[as herein] is re vera to necessitate us to employ so many
hands as will do the work within 40 days and must be idle above
half their time, which is a great loss to us (who propose to get
nothing but what we can save of the poundage), if we must
spend the poundage upon idle officers.
Item. It is inconvenient for the people, if what is due from
them be exacted with rigour and severity, as it must be
in this case unless the people, upon divers emergencies,
may have time to take the advantage of fairs and
markets to sell what they have, to pay their duties.
Item. The Army and Civil List shall be better paid than
ever they have been heretofore, for the payments shall
be made in such manner that the Army, by reason of our
days of grace, shall never have above four months due
unto them, but on warrants issued there shall be effects
to discharge them immediately, and the circulation of
that little [small specie] money in the kingdom [shall
be] so quick that the Army shall have money to discharge
their quarters frequently, and the people to pay the King
and carry on the trade of that kingdom, which hath been
much obstructed by reason great heaps of money have
heretofore been gathered together to answer a three
months' or a six months' payment.
Item. The conveniencies of all interests will be answered
if one third of the certain payments be made in 30 days
after the quarter, one third more in 60 days and the
remaining third in 90 days at furthest, and the uncertain
surplus to be paid as it can be got in.
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(d) We never intended to meddle with any fines or forfeitures
upon any penal laws, forfeited recognizances for nonappearances
or any other particulars within the survey of the
Greenwax (excepting only what relates to the constant and
standing branches of the revenue) but to leave the same to be
ordered and managed according to the ordinary course of the
Exchequer, and that the produce thereof which shall be paid
into the Exchequer shall be reckoned as part of the said certain
sum [of 240,000l.], but we expect to have power to inspect the
same and to take care that whatsoever is levied on or paid by
the subject to the King's use shall be duly answered and
accompted for and paid into the Exchequer.
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(e) If we should have the surplusage to our own use it would
be very inconvenient and so alter the whole frame of this
proposal and turn this affair into a plain farm. But since His
Majesty is pleased to offer us the whole surplus we thank His
Majesty and will be content with only 3s. 4d. per of the
whole produce instead of the 3s. per , which we do to avoid
a farm, and that we may be only His Majesty's Commissioners
and officers, and humbly pray that the surplus above 240,000l.
per an. and above 3s. 4d. per on the whole produce may be
applied to such public uses for increasing the trade and the
good of the kingdom as we shall propose and the King shall
approve.
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(f) We intend no abatement, deduction, or defalcation of
the said sum of 240,000l. per an. for any foreign war which shall
happen during the term. But in such case [of war] we desire
(1) That after the term [of expiry of the present proposed
grant] we may enjoy a year of peace for every year of
war on the same terms [as in our present proposal].
(2) That a convenient proportion of the revenue may be
applied in time of war to maintain such a number of
ships to guard the seas of Ireland and secure the traffic
thereof as the King shall think fit.
(3) That the respective days of payment may, in case of
a war, be enlarged for 30 days.
(4) That the King's share of the prizes [which shall be]
brought into Ireland may be sold and disposed of there,
and that in times of a foreign war the King would
grant commissions to such privateers as shall desire
the same, [they] paying the due fees and duties.
[Treasury Minute Book V. pp. 43-5.]
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Sept. 11.
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Mr. Pitts and partners to give in their answer to the paper
[No. 2, supra p. 329] delivered to them.
The proposals for the Law Farm are to be given in.
[Day Book p. 96.]
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Sept. 11.
Treasury
Chamber.
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Present : The King, the Duke of York, Lord Keeper, Lord
Treasurer, Duke of Ormonde, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Secretary
Coventry, Secretary Williamson, Chancellor of the Exchequer.
The answer of Mr. Pitts and partners to the paper given them
the 4th inst. by the King's direction is read [and the following
resolutions are come to].
(1) The King agrees that they shall have Irish interest for
their advance quarter.
(2) They submit to the abatement of quit rents not exceeding
5,000l. per an. without pretending to be judges of what is barren
land, but when it [the hearing of any petition for abatement
of quit rents] is doing [they] desire to be heard.
(3) The King agrees that the times of payment of rent shall
be one third part 30 days after quarter day, one third more
60 days after quarter day, and the other, 90 days after quarter
day.
(4) The payment of their rent in three payments as aforesaid
is to be understood only of so much as the rent comes to,
besides 5,000l. per month which they have agreed to pay upon
every first day of the month (after the first month of the commencement
of their farm), and is to be looked upon as part of
the income of the Customs.
(5) The casual revenue is to be paid into the Exchequer and
managed by the King's officers and they to receive it out from
thence. The Attorney General is to consider how Viscount
Ranelagh's covenant on this point may square with this
occasion.
(6) They are not to have any defalcations, but the King will
add a year of peace to their term for each year of war that may
happen.
(7) Their article about Prizes and private [privateer] commissions
[is] disallowed.
(8) It being moved that most of the lands in Ireland being
held in Socage, and that, therefore, it may be pretended by
the Undertakers that a year's value of the lands is due to the
King for relief upon the death of any proprietor the King
directs that they must not pretend to make any benefit thereby.
(9) The King will have liberty, if he think fit, to make a free
port in each province according to the law in that behalf.
Of these two last articles [above] the Undertakers desire
further time to consider.
(10) They agree that the major part of them shall always be
in Ireland, fully empowered in all points without pretence of
sending for instructions from any of their partners in England,
and that the King may name two persons to be Commissioners
and sit with them and be privy to all transactions in this affair.
(11) The money which is to come next to the King is
240,000l., to be paid in manner aforesaid, and out of what they
shall collect more they are to have 3s. 4d. per for their pains,
and after that is satisfied to them the remainder is to be paid
to the King.
[Treasury Minute Book V. pp. 46-7.]
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Sep. 14/26.
Sunday.
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At the Council of Foreign Affairs, upon the going out of Mr.
Pitts and Sir John Babor, it was agreed with the rest of the
proposers for the Irish farm that, as a better security for the rents
and covenants of the said farm, they were to pay any sum not
exceeding 20,000l., over and above the 60,000l. agreed to be the
advance money, at any time when the King should think fit to
require same, the King paying Irish interest for so much thereof
and for so long as the said sum shall remain in his hands.
[Treasury Minute Book V. p. 47.]
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Sept. 15.
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The Lord Treasurer directs payments as follows :
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s.
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d.
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3,000
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0
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0
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to the Great Wardrobe.
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500
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0
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0
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to the Robes for five weeks.
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300
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0
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0
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to the Surveyor of the [King's] private ways.
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51
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11
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8
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to Mr. Mariot.
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200
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0
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0
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to the music [boys] of the Chapel [Royal].
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125
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0
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0
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to Mr. Corbyn.
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100
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0
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0
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to the doorkeepers of the House of Lords.
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420
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0
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0
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to Viscount Grandison.
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100
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0
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0
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to Sir John Mainey (Mayne).
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50
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0
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0
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to the poor of Westminster.
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210
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0
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0
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to Capt. Cook.
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5,056
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11
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8
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[Send] to know how much remains unpaid to the Treasurer of
the Chamber [of the moneys] that Mr. Kent should pay.
Col. Whitly's 6,388l. 14s. 1d. [is ordered] to be paid out of the
arrears of the Law Bill [Law duties receipts].
Sir Philip Lloyd to be spoken with about the arrears of the
Chimney money.
Mr. Le Gouche to have 2,000l. out of the Chimney rent due this
month. In the margin : Done [meaning : warrant drawn].
[Treasury Minute Book V. p. 42.]
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Sept. 16.
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Mr. Bedborough, stable keeper of Hampton Court, [is ordered]
to have a year [on his fee, viz.] 12l. 3s. 4d.
The Grooms and Pages of the King's Chamber to have 100l. for
one year's New Year's gift.
The Lord Treasurer to know how far the servants to the Council
of Plantations have been paid.
A state of the lands petitioned for by Mrs. Anne Werden is to be
given to my Lord.
My Lord will report in favour of Mr. Denny concerning the King's
moiety recovered for non-residence.
Mr. Pigeon's petition is referred to the Customs Commissioners.
Mr. Ogylby's (Ogleby's) petition is to be given to my Lord when
the Lord Keeper and Lord Privy Seal are present.
Sir Thomas Warner to produce his father's patent and what other
things may inform my Lord as to the nature and value of the
escheatorship of Barbados.
The serjeant and others of the Buckhounds are to have an answer
when the Secretary [of the Treasury] has spoken with Mr. Griffin.
Sir John Pettus [is] to say what he conceives a reasonable compensation.
Mr. Fabian Phillips's petition [and also the respective petitions
of] the Hearth Farmers, and Mr. Higgs and Alderman Backwell
are to be produced at the Treasury Chambers on Wednesday next.
Mr. Jones's witness is to apply to the Lords of the Admiralty.
The respective petitions of Mr. Apprice, Mrs. Fox, Mr. Gawen
and Mary Richardson's order of Council [are to be put among] the
King's papers.
[Ibid, p. 48.]
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Mr. Millington and Mr. Row to attend my Lord [to-day].
[Day Book p. 96.]
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Sept. 16.
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Sir Algernoon May to have half a year of his salary paid. In
the margin : Done [meaning : Warrant drawn].
Sir William Bowles to have 500l. directed upon an order drawn
for 5,263l. 6s. 8d. The like marginal note.
[Treasury Minute Book V. p. 42.]
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Sept. 17.
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A letter to be written for payment of Sir Ralph Knight's tally
upon the Customs for 1,241l. 19s. 5d. In the margin : Done.
[Ibid, p. 48.]
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Sept. 18.
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The Lord Treasurer directs that for the future in all warrants for
grants of lands it be expressed that the Lord Treasurer referred the
matter to the Surveyor General [of Crown Lands] and that he
reported so and so.
A privy seal to be drawn for a blank sum to purchase Mr.
Collop's, Mr. Thornhaugh and Mr. Thryft's ground butting upon
St. James's Park and also for the sum in arrear upon the Wine
Licences.
[Ibid, p. 49.]
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Sept. 20.
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A warrant to be drawn for a blank sum yearly out of the Exchequer
to Lieut. Col ... (Struck through.)
[Treasury Minute Book V. p. 49.]
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Sept. 21.
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[Warrant for] 400l. for Secretary Williamson on his order for
intelligence. In the margin : Done.
[The following words are ordered] to be inserted in all warrants
to the Customs Commissioners [for discharge of seizures, &c.] :
"paying Custom and other duties for the same."
The petition of the inhabitants of the Isle of Wight is read, as
also the answer thereto from the patent officers of Southampton
port. The Counsel [on behalf of the Island] says that the
inhabitants of the Isle of Wight never paid any Custom of goods
carried over to Southampton : he [further] says that the Isle of
Wight is not the open sea. The Customs Commissioners desire
that the King's Counsel may be heard to this point. The Counsel
[for the Island] desires that no other fee may be taken than what
was taken in the 4th of King James as the statute directs.
The inhabitants agree to take a sufferance [or let-pass], without
paying fee, from the officers of Cowes, Newport and Yarmouth for
all goods they carry over to market provided [that there be] no
prohibited goods, viz. wool, sheep, tobacco, pipe clay, leather, fullers'
earth [and provided also that the said goods be] of the growth and
manufacture of the Island.
Both parties [are ordered] to attend the [Customs] Commissioners
to agree the matter in dispute between the inhabitants and the
officers of the Custom House.
Half [the amount of] Col. Whitley's arrears are to be placed on
the Chimney money due in Sept. : the other half on the Law Bill.
[Ibid, pp. 49-50.]
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Sept. 22.
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Lady Fisher to have 500l. : [for] half a year. In the margin :
Done [meaning : warrant drawn].
A letter to be written [to the officers of the Receipt] for
payment of :
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s.
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d.
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100
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0
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0
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to Capt. Mansell.
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50
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0
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0
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to Mrs. Betts.
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1,000
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0
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0
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to the Earl of Inchiquin.
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50
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0
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0
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to Mr. Glascock.
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147
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13
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7
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to the King's Drummers.
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Major Porter to have 500l.
Mr. Austin to be allowed 30l. out of the King's moiety of a seizure
of French hats, wherein he was very instrumental, by His Majesty's
approbation.
Lord Frescheville to have 150l. for repairs of the manor house at
York and to have liberty to make use of the old material.
Mr. Fra. Fynch to have a grant of two lives in reversion of the
searcher's place at Sandwich.
[Ibid, p. 50.]
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Mr. Fabian Phillips's petition. Mr. Seymour to be summoned.
Alderman Backwell's petition. Sir W. Doyly, junr., and Mr.
Menell to be summoned.
Mr. Higgs's petition. Mr. Dunkley to be summoned.
The petition of the Farmers of the Law Duty. Thomas Handford
and Edward Robinson of Southwark to be summoned.
[Day Book p. 96.]
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Sept. 23.
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Upon a petition of William Gawen's for payment of a stopped
order for 1,000l., said petition having been referred to the Lord
Treasurer the 22nd inst., this petition and reference being shown
to the King by the Lord Treasurer, His Majesty was pleased to
return answer that he could not give any present satisfaction
thereupon to the petitioners.
Mr. Row's petition is read complaining of Mr. Millington. Mr.
Keck [is] Mr. Millington's Counsel. Mr. Buckworth proposed as
the person to have the matter of accompt referred to. Agreed.
Sir John King and Mr. Keck to prepare it for reference.
Mr. Henry Fanshaw, Charles Fanshaw and Simon Fanshaw [are
called in] with Viset. Castleton's Counsel, who makes his exceptions
against the patent that is [now] passing for the Remembrancer's
office. The Lord Treasurer says the King designs it for the good
of Viset. Fanshawe wholly. Viset. Fanshawe, Mr. Henry Fanshaw,
and Mr. Charles Fanshaw are to be named successively in the
patent. The young Lord's maintenance to be 200l. per an. till 10
years old, 300l. per an. from 10 to 15 years and 500l. per an. from
thence to 21. Henry Fanshaw takes time to consider whether Viset
Fanshawe shall be named first in the patent. On Saturday next to
give his answer to Mr. Keene. A clause to be inserted in the patent
that in case of failure of the three lives above-named the office [is]
to be granted to Mr. Simon Fanshaw. The clause about indemnifying
the Trustees for forfeiture is to be referred to [the King's]
Counsel.
Mr. Kerwan's and Lady Strickland's petition is to be referred.
Capt. Bowles to have a warrant for what is grown due in my
Lord's time [as Lord Treasurer].
[Treasury Minute Book V. p. 51.]
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Sept. 24.
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Mr. Pepys to have 5,400l. for Tangier out of the present half year
of Hearthmoney ending the 29th inst. : [he] depositing tallies for
the like sum with Sir Robert Howard. In the margin : Done
[meaning : directions sent to the officers of the Receipt].
[Warrant for] 2,500l. for the Stables and horses out of any money
in the Exchequer. In the margin : Done [meaning : warrant drawn].
Sir John Robinson's son's warrant to be filled up for [the arrear
due to him for] my Lord's time [as Lord Treasurer].
[Ibid. p. 52.]
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Sept. 25.
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A privy seal to be drawn for the allowance of Sir William Lock-hart's
extraordinaries upon bills to be signed by his secretary and
to be allowed by the Secretary of State : and for 2,000l. to be paid
in part thereof.
[Ibid.]
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Sept. 29.
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The Lord Treasurer directs the weekly payment of 400l. out of
the Exchequer for the ordinary and extraordinary of the Works,
upon the establishment of this year, until further order. My Lord
further orders 200l., upon the extraordinary of the Works, for the
repair of the Court of Wards.
Mr. James Ayre, pilot to the Duke of York and Prince Rupert, is
to have 30l. as royal bounty.
Warrants to be drawn for three months for the Forces, viz. for
52,500l. from Oct. 1 next to Jan. 1 next : 26,000l. thereof on the
Exchequer by 2,000l. a week and 26,500l. by tallies on the Excise.
The Cofferer's warrant for the Household for three months, Oct.,
Nov. and Dec. [coming] is also ordered, viz. for 26,750l. : to be by
tallies on the Excise.
The remainder of Secretary Williamson's order for intelligence
is also enclosed.
Secretary Coventry's ancient fee of 100l. per an. is to be paid.
Col. Thomas Howard, of Suffolk, to be paid half a year of his
pension, [viz.] 250l., given in lieu of his command. This to be so
expressed in the letter directing the payment.
Mr. Bulckly's petition is to be put among the papers for the King.
Mr. Bulstrode, the King's agent at Bristol, is to be paid the full
of his order as to his [ordinary] entertainment.
[Treasury Minute Book V. pp. 33, 52.]
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