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Date.
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Nature and Substance of the Entry.
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Reference.
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Nov. 21.
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Privy seal for an annuity or yearly pension of 200l.
to George Feilding, Esq., payable quarterly,
commencing the first payment from Michaelmas last :
during pleasure : as the King's free gift and royal
bounty. (Royal warrant dated Nov. 9 for said
privy seal. Treasurer Danby's subscription dated
Nov. 16 of docquet hereof.)
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King's Warrant Book V.
pp. 436, 429. Docquet
Book, p. 169.
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Two same to discharge the baronet fee of 1,095l. each
due to the Crown from Sir James Pool, of Poole in
Wirrel, co. Chester (and William Poole, Esq., his
brother, to whom the remainder of said baronetcy
is granted) and Sir Francis Anderton, of Losttock,
co. Lancs. (Royal warrants dated Nov. 9 for said
privy seals. Treasurer Danby's subscription dated
Nov. 19 and Nov. 22 respectively of docquets hereof.
Treasurer Danby's warrants to the Exchequer
accordingly, dated Nov. 30.)
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King's Warrant Book V.
pp. 427, 431. Docquet
Book, p. 170.
Money Book, p. 164.
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Royal warrant for 1,500l. to Sir George Carteret,
Vice-chamberlain of the Household, for his term
of two lives in being, and 31 years in reversion,
in several tenements, gardens, yards, cellars and
other conveniences lying near the fortifications at
Plymouth, which premises being marked, butted
and set out for the King's use his Majesty has
thought fit to purchase at 1,500l. for Carteret's
said interest therein and in full satisfaction for
the use and enjoyment which the Crown has already
had thereof : the assurance of said premises to
the Crown to be first perfected with the approbation
of the Attorney General and Surveyor General of
Crown Lands. (Royal warrant dated Nov. 9 for
said privy seal. Treasurer Danby's subscription
dated Nov. 16 of docquet hereof. Money warrant
dated Nov. 29 hereon.)
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King's Warrant Book V.
pp. 439, 431. Docquet
Book, p. 168.
Money Book (General)
p. 164.
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Same [to the Clerk of the Signet] for a privy seal
for payment of 19,281l. 17s. 10d. to the Treasurer
of the Ordnance for providing the guns, carriages,
breechings and tackles of the five ships to be built
ut infra, p. 800 : the orders for said sum to be
expressed and registered ut infra ibid. (Treasurer
Danby's subscription dated Nov. 27 of docquet
hereof. Money warrant dated Dec. 5 hereon.)
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King's Warrant Book V.
p. 436. Docquet Book,
p. 170. Money Book
(General) p. 167.
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Same [to same] for a same for advancing out of the
Exchequer 1,766l. 16s. 4d. to Samuel Pepys for the
Earl of Inchiquin as an advance on said Earl's
pay as Governor of Tangier : with directions to the
Exchequer that the King have defalcations thereof
out of the sum of 57,200l. per an. established for
said garrison, viz., 441l. 14s. 1d. quarterly from
1681, March 31, to Dec. 31 (1681 Lady Day to
1682 Lady Day) and that bonds be taken for
repayment in case of said Earl's death. (Treasurer
Danby's subscription dated Nov. 30 and Dec. 11 of
two docquets hereof.)
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King's Warrant Book V.
p. 436. Docquet Book,
pp. 171, 173.
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Same to the Attorney or Solicitor General for a great
seal for a grant of the office of one of the two
Auditors of Imprests (Auditors of the Prests or
Imprest Accompts, First Fruits, Tenths, Customs,
Mint and Coinage and other accompts) to Thomas
Done, Esq., in possession for life and to William
Aldworth in reversion after Broke Bridges or said
Done : all on surrender of the grant of same office
to Sir Richard Langley in possession and said
William Aldworth in reversion. (Treasurer Danby's
subscription dated Nov. 30 of docquet hereof.)
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King's Warrant Book V.
p. 434. Docquet Book,
p. 171.
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Same, dated Whitehall, to the Duke of Ormonde,
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland as follows. Sir Richard
Bellingham, heir to Sir Daniel Bellingham,
deceased (who was in his life time deputy to Arthur,
Earl of Anglesey and Sir George Carteret successively
Vice Treasurers of Ireland), formerly complained
that by reason of an intermixture of the accompts
of said late Vice Treasurer[s] said Bellingham
was charged with a very great debt due to the King.
Thereupon said accounts were referred 1673,
Aug. 28, to the Lord Treasurer of England who
reported his opinion that there had been a misapplication
[in the audit thereof] of warrants relating
to said accounts and recommended the examination
thereof in Ireland. To this end royal letters of
1673-4, Feb. 16, were sent to the Earl of Essex, then
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. His answer dated 1674,
May 16, thereto (together with the report to him
made by Sir James Cuffe, Edward Roberts, Griffith
Bodurda, Thomas Taylor and the Deputy Auditor
General of Ireland to whom said matter had been
referred the preceding April 8) certifies that warrants
to the amount of 7,525l. 8s. 9d. and more were
placed to the discharge of the Earl of Anglesey's
account, although they were really paid by said
Bellingham during the time of his being deputy
to Sir George Carteret. The whole of this matter
was referred 1674, July 14, to Lord Chancellor
Finch, then Keeper of the Great Seal, as to the best
way for the relief of said Bellingham's heir. Hereon
the Lord Chancellor reported 1674-5, Feb. 27,
advising process against the Earl of Anglesey for
said 7,525l. 8s. 9d. "We resolved in Council
and accordingly gave direction that the said Earl
of Anglesey should be prosecuted and at the instance
of the said Earl we also ordered that the said
Sir George Carteret and Sir Richard Bellingham
should be likewise prosecuted and that they should
all appear gratis : in obedience to which order we
are informed our Attorney General of that our
kingdom exhibited a bill in our Exchequer there
against all the said parties above a year since,
and that some of them have not at this time put
in their answers thereunto." The delay in the
payment of the money due to us is a prejudice to our
affairs, and the difference betwixt the accomptants
is no just ground any longer to obstruct our satisfaction.
You are therefore hereby to issue a Commission
under the great seal of Ireland to Sir James
Cuffe, Thomas Taylor, and such others as you
think fit to open the respective accompts of the said
late Vice Treasurers (the Earl of Anglesey and
Sir George Carteret) and to withdraw from each
Vice Treasurer's accompt the warrants that are
misapplied to the other's accompt and to leave each
Vice Treasurer debtor upon record so much as he
is really in arrear unto us.
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King's Warrant Book V.
pp. 434-5.
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Reference to the Customs Commissioners (on a reference
dated Aug. 4 last from the King to Treasurer Danby)
of the petition of John Ariens van Harne et al,
potters, for [remission of] the King's part [moiety]
of a seizure of painted earthenwares imported by
Christopher Seward and John Bolter, Seward's
being seized by Gerard Andrewes and appraised
at 46l. 3s. 4d. and Bolter's being seized by one
Shaw and appraised at 107l. 19s. 10d.
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Out Letters (Customs) III.
p. 382.
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Same to same of the petition of Joseph Framingham
for restoration to his place of tidesman, London port,
being about half a year ago suspended for conveying
two bags of leaf tobacco from a lighter.
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Ibid.
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Charles Bertie to Sir Nicholas Crispe, Collector outwards,
London port, to certify Treasurer Danby
what coals have been exported from London,
Customs free, by warrant from the Treasury since
1667, Sept. 29.
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Ibid
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Royal warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General
for a great seal for a grant to Thomas Lloyd, gent.,
of the office, place and charge of Paymaster of all
Works concerning the repair, new building and
well keeping of all our houses of access and others
in time of [our] progress : in reversion after Phillip
Packer. (Treasurer Danby's subscription dated
Dec. 13 of docquet hereof.)
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King's Warrant Book V.
p. 438. Docquet Book,
p. 173.
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Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the Customs Cashier
to pay the outport patent officers' salaries for
half a year. (Charles Bertie of same date to same
to pay same.)
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Money Book (General)
p. 159. Out Letters
(General) p. 177.
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Same dormant from same to same to pay the salary of
26l. 13s. 4d. per an. to William Christian as Customer
of Carlisle port ; as now due and as same shall
grow due in future. (Charles Bertie, vacated,
dated Dec. 3 to same to pay same. Same to same
dated 1677-8, Jan. 21, for said Christian's patent
salary of 32l. per an.)
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Money Book (General)
p. 159. Out Letters
(General) pp. 185, 209.
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Charles Bertie to the Customs Cashier to bring in
with respect, etc. (and to the Auditor of the Receipt
to issue) 40l. to Dr. Board for one year on his allowance
as Law Professor at Cambridge.
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Out Letters (General)
p. 178.
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The like letters for 200l. to Sir Charles Cotterell for
one year on his fee as Master of the Ceremonies
and 120l. 13s. 4d. to Mr. Cha. Cotterel for same on his
fee as Assistant to said Master.
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Ibid, p. 179.
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Charles Bertie to the Customs Commissioners to pay
in next after the weekly payments (and same to
same to issue) 25l. for last Sept. 29 quarter on
Dr. Gibbons' pension of 100l. per an.
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Ibid, p. 178.
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Nov. 22.
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Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the Auditor of the
Receipt to satisfy the principal sum of 500l. due
upon an order of loan No. 26 dated 1670-1, Jan. 18,
for 500l. registered on the Customs for 1672, Lady
day quarter and payable to Sir Allen Apsley for
the Duke of York : together with interest due
for the same from the date of said order. (Charles
Bertie dated Nov. 23 to the Auditor of the Receipt
to pay 705l. 10s. 4d. to said Apsley, 205l. 10s. 4d.
thereof being for interest for 6 years and 128 days
to 1677, Nov. 23, "and this you are to do when
Mr. Kent [Customs Cashier] brings in the
money.")
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Money Book (General)
p. 159. Out Letters
(General) p. 181.
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Letter of direction on an order of the 3rd inst. for
1,000l. to John, Lord Berkeley, for 10 weeks'
ordinary as late Ambassador to Nimuegen : to be
hereby satisfied by tallies on the Customs.
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Money Book (General)
p. 160.
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Money warrant for 125l. to George Porter for last
Sept. 29 quarter on his annuity or yearly pension
as a Groom of the Bedchamber. (Charles Bertie
dated Nov. 24 to the Customs Cashier to bring
same in according to former directions for the rest
of the Grooms : and same to the Auditor of the
Receipt to issue same.)
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Ibid, p. 160. Out Letters
(General) p. 182.
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Same for 18l. 5s. 0d. to Robert Ford for one year on
his fee of 12d. a day as Keeper of his Majesty's
house and garden at Newmarket.
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Money Book (General)
p. 160.
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Money warrant for 40l. to John Gilbert in satisfaction of
his disbursements out of his purse (which he has sworn
to be 18l.) and of his writing and several attendances
and pains in matters relating to the execution of
two Commissions for inquiry into the estates of
Popish Recusants convict within the county of
Wilts : he being recommended for said sum by
certificate of June 20 last from Sir William Jones,
Attorney General. (Charles Bertie dated Nov. 27
to the Customs Cashier to bring same in with respect
to the weekly payments ; and to the Auditor of the
Receipt to issue same "for prosecuting Recusants
in Wilts.")
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Money Book (General)
p. 160. Out Letters
(General) p. 183.
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Same for 30l. to Mris. Mary Bointon for a quarter
on her pension of 120l. per an.
50l. to Izabella Bointon, widow, for same on her
pension of 200l. per an.
(C. Bertie dated Dec. 14 to the Auditor of the Receipt
to issue same, which sums the Customs Cashier is
to bring in.)
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Money Book (General)
p. 160. Out Letters
(General) p. 189.
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Same for 13l. 3s. 4d. to Richard, Earl of Carbery, on
the privy seal of 1674, June 13, granting to said
Earl the King's part of all penalties which had been
actually levied or received before 1670-1, March 15,
upon the laws against conventicles and then remaining
in any sheriff's hands : it appearing that Giles
Dowle, gent., hath made oath that 13l. 3s. 4d.
was actually paid to Richard Stubbs and Thomas
Earle, late sheriffs of Bristol, for conventicle fines
before the said March 15, and that same was by
said sheriffs paid into the Exchequer 1673,
July 8.
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Money Book (General)
p. 161.
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Same for 100l. to Mris. Clara Bolton for half
a year of her pension of 100l. [sic for 200l.]
per an. (Charles Bertie to the Customs Cashier
to bring same in with respect to the weekly payments ;
and to the Auditor of the Receipt to pay
same.)
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Ibid, p. 161. Out Letters
(General) p. 187.
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Charles Bertie to the Customs Cashier to bring in
with respect, etc. (and same to the Auditor of the
Receipt to issue) 250l. for Sir Edw. Griffin for half
a year of Lord Hunsdon's pension.
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Out Letters (General)
p. 179.
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The like letters for 316l. 12s. 3d. for last June 24
quarter's salary and incidents to Sir Phillip Lloyd
et al attendants on the Committee of Council for
Trade and Plantations.
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Ibid.
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Nov. 23.
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Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the Receipt to take
in and cancel four tallies for 50l. each dated 1670,
March 30, June 27, Oct. 1, Dec. 30, levied at the
Receipt of the Exchequer upon the bishop of Lincoln
as Collector of the Tenths within his diocese, and
payable to Dr. John Troutbeck for one year to
1670, Christmas, on his annuity of 200l., which
said tallies remain still unsatisfied in the hands
of said Troutbeck, by reason that the said
Tenths for the said year were over charged. In
lieu hereof fresh tallies of pro are to be struck
for him for 200l. upon the present bishop of Lincoln
as Receiver of Tenths within his diocese.
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Money Book (General)
p. 160.
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Charles Bertie to the Auditor of the Receipt for tallies
on the Tenths for 337l. 10s. 0d. for a quarter on the
pensions of 500l. for Mrs. Hamilton and 850l. for her
children.
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Out Letters (General)
p. 180.
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Same to the Hearthmoney Farmers to advance
2,978l. 7s. 0d. on the tallies for the pay of the
Governor and soldiers of the Leeward Islands.
[You shall have interest] at the rate of 8 per cent.
per an. from the time you advance it, taking a receipt
from Mr. Bradshaw who [will] deliver said tallies
[to you] upon your advancing the same or [he
will] advance the same money himself upon the
same terms. So I desire you speedily to pay the
money or give me your positive answer.
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Ibid.
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Nov. 23.
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Same to the Customs Cashier to bring in with
respect, etc. (and same to the Auditor of the Receipt
to issue) 500l. [sic for 50l.] for a quarter on Mris.
Jane Berkeley's pension of 200l. per an.
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Ibid.
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Same to same to pay with respect to, etc., 241l. 13s. 4d.
to Sir John Shaw, viz., 116l. 13s. 4d. for last Sept. 29
quarter on his salary as Collector Inwards, London
port ; and 125l. for same as Surveyor of the
Navigation Act.
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Ibid, p. 181.
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Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the King's
Remembrancer for process of immediate extent
against Samuell Boys, of Wakefield, co. York,
merchant, for the sum of 1,271l. 17s. 10d. which
which Mathew Jenison, Receiver General for co.
Notts of the Seventeen Months' tax lately delivered
to him in order to the payment thereof into the
Exchequer upon account of the second quarterly
payment for said county : which said Boys drew
a bill of exchange for the said sum upon Cornelis
van Alderworld, of London, merchant, directing
him to pay the same into the Exchequer upon the
account of the said Receiver, which bill has been
refused by said van Alderworld, and said Boys
now absconds himself and oath has been made
by Richard Fisher, of Newark upon Trent, that he
conceives the King's money to be in danger to be lost.
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Warrants not Relating to
Money VII. p. 123.
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Royal warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General
for a great seal to revoke the grant to Thomas
Aram of the office of Surveyor and Receiver of the
fines, issues, amerciaments, recognisances and
other forfeitures set and forfeited in the courts of
justice in England and Wales (said office having
been granted to him with 150l. per an. salary by
patent of 1672-3, March 24, for the rectifying
and preventing of the frauds and abuses of sheriffs,
bailiffs and officers in detaining and concealing
the revenues arising from said fines, etc.), since
the date of which grant "as we are informed
the said frauds and abuses are rather increased
than reformed, which in a great measure may be
prevented by the care and industry of fit and understanding
persons. Said office is hereby to be
granted to Henry, Earl of Peterborough, Robert
Visct. Yarmouth, Henry, Lord O'Brien, baron of
Ibenkane [Iracken] in Ireland, Sir Francis Compton,
Bernard Greenvill, Esq., Henry Fanshaw, Esq., and
Percival Brunskell, gent., to them and the longest
liver of them during pleasure. (Treasurer Danby's
subscription dated [? 24 Dec.] of docquet hereof.)
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King's Warrant Book V
p. 437. Docquet Book,
p. 176.
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Nov. 24.
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Charles Bertie to the Customs Commissioners to
suspend the execution of the second article of
Treasurer Danby's instructions of the 16th inst.
to you, application having been made to Treasurer
Danby by several gentlemen on behalf of
Mr. Ettrick, Collector at Sunderland, desiring his
Lordship not to remove him unless he has misbehaved
himself there.
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Out Letters (Customs) III.
p. 382.
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Same to the Navy Commissioners. The Navy
Victuallers have presented to Treasurer Danby
your letter of Oct. 29 last, who thereupon directs
that 7,466l. 13s. 4d. (which the staple will amount
to) be paid them [the victuallers] by 10 weekly
payments, commencing at the termination of their
10 monthly payments for the year, which was
Oct. 7. Make them out bills weekly for the
same by way of imprest, payable out of your weekly
money as it shall be received by the Navy Treasurer :
in lieu whereof Treasurer Danby has appointed
the like value in wine bonds to be paid over to the
Navy Treasurer for the uses your weekly money
ought to supply.
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Out Letters (General)
p. 181.
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Nov. 26.
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Warrant dormant from Treasurer Danby to the
Customs Cashier to pay to the Mayor, bailiffs and
burgesses of Clifton Dartmouth Hardnes the
annuity of 40l. (as now due and as same shall grow
due in future) as granted to same by patent of
1485-6, Jan. 16, granting them said annuity out
of the Customs of Exeter and Dartmouth in consideration
that they had begun and would finish
a tower and bulwark there and for ever furnish the
same with guns and artillery for the defence of said
place and parts adjacent.
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Money Book (General)
p. 161.
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Same from same to same to pay the yearly fee of
78l. 6s. 8d. (as now due and as same shall grow due
in future) to James Vernon as Customer of Chester
port. (Charles Bertie dated Nov. 27 to same to
pay same.)
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Ibid, p. 162. Out Letters
(General) p. 182.
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Same from same to the Receipt for tallies of assignment
on the Receiver of Tenths of the diocese of
Llandaff for the annuity of 155l. 5s. 4d. as granted
thereout to Ellis Lloyd for three years (from the
first day of the preceding Easter term) by the privy
seal of 1675, July 13, and for a further three years
(from the first day of Easter term 1678) by the
privy seal of June 20 last : together with warrant
for 104l. 8s. 6d. which by certificate from William
Pretiman, Remembrancer of First Fruits, appears
to be due from the bishop of Llandaff for the First
Fruits of his diocese.
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Money Book (General)
p. 162.
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Money warrant for 125l. to Sir Ralph Delaval for
last Sept. 29 quarter on his 500l. per an. for three
years as by the privy seal of Aug. 9 last. (Charles
Bertie dated 1677-8, Jan. 19, to the Customs Cashier
to bring same in notwithstanding any former
restriction : and same to the Auditor of the Receipt
to issue same.)
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Ibid, p. 162. Out Letters
(General) p. 208.
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Letter of direction on an order dated Aug. 11 last
for 1,518l. 9s. 8d. to John, Lord Berkeley, for his
extraordinaries 1676, Nov., to 1677, June, as
Ambassador at Nimuegen : same to be hereby
by tallies on the Customs.
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Money Book (General)
p. 162.
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Money warrant for 200l. to her Highness, Princess
Elizabeth for half a year on her pension of 400l.
(Charles Bertie dated Nov. 27 to the Customs
Cashier to bring same in with respect, etc., and
same to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue same.)
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Money Book (General)
p. 162. Out Letters
(General) p. 183.
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Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the King's
Remembrancer to forbear or forthwith supercede
process until next term against George Pley, senr.,
Collector of Weymouth port on his debt to the
King.
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Warrants not Relating to
Money VII. p. 124.
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Report from same to the King on the report dated
Aug. 19 last from the Earl of Essex, Lord Lieutenant
of Ireland, on the petition from Sir William Petty
and Robert Marshall ; said Earl of Essex's report
being as follows. According to your Majesty's
letters of 1676, April 28, grounded upon said petition,
I have examined the matters mentioned in said
petition and in regard some of them cannot be
settled here without further directions from your
Majesty concerning same, I do at the desire of
said Petty certify (1) As to the misnomers which
are alleged by the [said] petitioners [as to the
details] of several lands passed to them by certificates
from the late Court of Claims or the letters
patent thereupon, and [also as to] double charges
of the quit rents in charge upon such lands
I conceive you may order the Barons of the
Exchequer here [in Ireland] to rectify all
such double charges, and may impower the Chief
Governor of Ireland to pass to them and their
heirs new patents of such lands as were intended
to be passed to them by their former certificates
or patents, and which have not therein been rightly
named. (2) As to the valuation which petitioners
desire to be made of the lands passed to them in
the county of Kerry, petitioners preferred a petition
to the Commissioners lately appointed for reducing
quit rents concerning the abatement [desired
by them, said petitioners] of the quit rents due
from them for lands passed to them in the baronies
of Glaneroghty [Glanaruddery] and Dunkerron, co.
Kerry. Thereupon a Commission issued to persons
nominated by the Farmers of the Revenue and by the
petitioners for examining the value of said lands and
upon return thereof the Commissioners for abatement
of quit rents did value the lands passed to Robert
Marshall, containing about 39,000 acres in Glaneroghty,
to be worth about 450l. per an., and
the lands passed to him in Dunkerron, containing
21,000 acres, to be worth about 375l. per an., and
according to these values the quit rents thereof
were ordered to be reduced to two-fifths of the
said values, viz., about 180l. and 150l. per an.
respectively. As the present Farmers [of the
Revenue of Ireland] make some exceptions to the
reducements, the certificates have been hitherto
respited. As to the arrears of quit rents out of said
lands, the said Commissioners have ordered nothing,
they being required by their Commission not to
reduce such arrears till further order from your
Majesty. I consider it necessary that a reducement
be made of the said arrears as the said lands cannot
be planted or improved or the growing rents
answered thereout while so great an arrear remains
charged on them. (3) As to the several undisposed
lands in Kerry which the petitioners desire to be
granted to them in reprisal for what lands are
due to them by the Acts of Settlement and
Explanation, I find that by order dated 1668,
May 4, of the late Commissioners for executing
the said Acts upon Sir William Petty's desiring
the lands in the stock of reprizals lying in the
barony of Iveragh and county of Kerry in satisfaction
and reprise of such interests as were to be satisfied
to him according to value, and forasmuch as no person
that was deficient in the said barony would accept
of the lands acre for acre, it was ordered by said
Commissioners that said Petty should be allowed
the undisposed forfeited lands so far as they would
satisfy him what he was to be reprized in value :
upon which order a report was made, by the sub-Commissioners
attending the said late Court of
Claims, of all the undisputed lands in the said
barony in order to passing a certificate of said lands
to said Petty and his heirs. A great part of said
lands contained in said report have been since
passed in certificate to said Robert Marshall, but
some of the coarsest lands which were not looked
upon [as] worth the charge of passing a certificate
and patent thereof were left out of the said certificate
and are now held by Sir William Petty by virtue
of a custodiam [grant of demise] out of the
Exchequer. I also find by another report of the
said sub-Commissioners attending the late Court
of Claims that several lands lying in the baronies
of Dunkerron and Glancroghty in co. Kerry, mentioned
in the said report, were certified by said
sub-Commissioners to said Court of Claims as
claimed by Robert Marshall in right of soldiers and
were allowed by said Court of Claims to be confirmed
to said Marshall and his heirs, but said Marshall
passed a certificate of only part of said lands. The
residue remain undisposed and are some of them also
now held in the said custodiam [demise] by the said
Petty from the Exchequer Court. Petty desires
patents of such of the lands (appearing by the
said two reports to have been allowed by the
Court of Claims to be confirmed to him or said
Marshall) as have not yet been passed to him or
said Marshall in any former certificate and which are
now held by him in custodiam. In regard it appears
that all the lands contained in the said two reports
were intended and ordered to be confirmed to said
Petty by said Commissioners for executing the
two Acts, and said land being generally so coarse
and barren that no others in the time of the sitting
of said Court would accept thereof as reprizals,
I conceive that such patents as above may be
passed to Petty, viz., of such lands as are yet undisposed
of and are now held in custodiam by him
under such rents as they shall be found sufficient
to bear (they being so coarse that they cannot
answer the full quit rent now payable thereout
as by the said Acts). Care to be taken on the
passing such grants that the Farmers of the Revenue
Ireland be not entitled to any defalcations by reason
thereof ; and that the present rent to the Crown
from the said custodiam be not lessened, but rather
increased. [The above said report from the Earl
of Essex being referred by the King in Council
to the Lord Treasurer] Treasurer Danby hereby
reports to the King fully agreeing with the
same.
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Ibid, p. 124-6.
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Warrant from Treasurer Danby [to the Customs
Commissioners] to deliver, on payment of Custom
ad valorem, two cases of Dutch tiles brought from
Rotterdam in the ship Griffin, Dorrick Rymes
master, for Mr. Bulstrode : same having been
seized by Thomas Jones.
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Out Letters (Customs) III.
p. 382.
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Reference from same to same of the petition of the
pott makers for superseding the order for delivering
[the abovesaid] Mr. Bulstrode's tiles. If there
be cause Treasurer Danby is pleased that the tiles
claimed by Mr. Bulstrode be not delivered till the
report on the [said potters'] present and former
petition now depending before the Customs Commissioners
be expedited.
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Ibid, p. 383.
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Warrant from same [to the Trustees for sale of
Fee Farms] to convey the rents as follows :
Prefixing : ratal of a contract for purchase by
Geo. Godday of the rent reserved for the manor
of Ellington, co. Hunts, being 68s. 10d. per an.
and the rent payable by the Mercers' Company being
13s. 4d. per an., all by reason that the rents of the
rectory of Guilsborough and Ravensthorpe, co.
Northampton being 64s. per an. had been granted
by the Trustees for Fee Farms to Sir John Banks
et al and afterwards by mistake to said Godday and his
heirs, in lieu of which he is [hereby] to have the first
recited rents which [John Philips] the Auditor of the
ratals [of fee farms] values at nothing more than
Godday paid for the said rectory rents and the
arrears due thereon.
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Warrants not Relating to
Money VII. p. 127.
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Same from same [to same] to convey to Thomas
Greene and his heirs (upon payment of 18l. 8s. 11d.
into the Exchequer, being the difference of the
purchase money) of the rent of the rectory of Zeal,
co. Devon : all in lieu of the 23s. 6d. per an.
[rent reserved out of the] manor of Petrockstow, co.
Devon which was 1674, July 6, conveyed by said
Trustees to Edward Boseawen and his heirs and
on the 9th of the same month by mistake conveyed
to said Green.
Prefixing : Ut supra.
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Ibid.
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Charles Bertie to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue
(and same to the Customs Cashier to bring in with
respect &c.) 50l. 3s. 9d. for half a year's salary and
board wages to Serjt. Bishop.
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Out Letters (General)
p. 182.
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The like letters for 200l. for the Treasurer of the
Chamber on any unsatisfied orders in his name
for the service of said Office : same to be by him
paid over to widow Christmas, for herself and
her child as royal bounty for the loss of her husband
who was slain in Poland.
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Ibid, p. 183.
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Nov. 2
[sic. erratum
for 26.]
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Charles Bertie to the Auditor of the Receipt to pay
25l. 1s. 10d. each to Serjt. John Ramsy and Serjt.
Harsnet for a quarter's salary and board wages
as Serjeants at Arms.
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Ibid.
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Same to same to issue (and same to the Customs
Cashier to bring in on Wednesday next notwithstanding
any former restriction) 3,450l. as follows,
viz., 3,000l. to the Judges of England, 175l. to
the Judges of Wales and 275l. to the Masters in
Chancery for fees and salaries for the present
Michaelmas term.
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Ibid.
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Nov. 27.
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Charles Bertie to the Customs Cashier to pay 100l.
into the Exchequer for Mr. Oglethorpe, notwithstanding
any former restriction : "for which
[sum] I writt to you some months since."
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Out Letters (General)
p. 183.
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Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the Customs Commissioners
to deliver, Customs free, a twillett,
looking glass and other necessaries for a dressing
table imported from France for the French
Ambassador here.
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Out Letters (Customs) III.
p. 383.
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Nov. 28.
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Reference from same to same (on a reference dated Nov.
23 from the King in Council to Treasurer Danby) of
the petition of Tho. Sandys, of London, merchant,
praying liberty to ship out of Virginia free of the
impost of that country 580 hogsheads of tobacco
for England in lieu of the like quantity which
after payment of the duty he exported thence in
1665 on the William and Sarah, John Ruds commander,
for London, which was taken by the Dutch
and lost to petitioner, the same being no more
than what is allowed of in England by Act of Parliament
for goods shipped out and taken or lost
and always practicable in the Customs upon the
like occasions.
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Ibid.
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Privy seal for the following sums to be paid to the
Treasurer of the Navy for building five more of
the thirty ships of war as by the Act for the Seventeen
Months' Tax, ut supra, p. 721, under date Aug. 9
last (of which five ships one is to be a first rate and
four are to be second rates) : viz., 95,300l. for
building the hulls, masts, and yards ; 21,853l. for
the rigging, ground tackle and boats ; and 8,921l.
for the boatswain's and carpenter's sea stores : all
as by the estimates approved in Council July 24
last and set out in the privy seal of Aug. 9 last,
supra, pp. 721-2. The orders to be drawn for these
sums are to specify the uses for which the said
moneys are to be distinctly issued, and are to be
registered in course on the said Act for the Seventeen
Months' Tax as therein directed. (Treasurer
Danby's subscription dated Nov. 27 of docquet
hereof. Money warrant dated Dec. 5 hereon.)
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King's Warrant Book V.
pp. 440, 436. Docquet
Book, p. 170. Money
Book (General) p. 167.
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Money warrant for 1,825l. to Sir Thomas Higgons
for one year 1676, Sept. 8, to 1677, Sept. 8, on his
ordinary of 5l. a day as Envoy Extraordinary to
the Republic of Venice. (Charles Bertie dated
Dec. 22 to the Customs Cashier to bring same into the
Exchequer one moiety forthwith and the other moiety
with respect to the weekly payments : and same
to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue same.)
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Money Book (General)
p. 162. Out Letters
(General) p. 195.
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Royal warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General
for a great seal for a grant to Richard King, junr.,
and John King of the office of Searcher of Boston
port in reversion after William Wilson, gent.,
and to be to them for life successively "as they
are named in this our warrant." (Treasurer
Danby's subscription dated 1678, March 25, of
docquet hereof.)
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King's Warrant Book V.
p. 438. Docquet Book,
pp. 191-2.
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Royal sign manual for 161l. 3s. 4d. to Edward Progers
in satisfaction of so much by him disbursed for
hay for the deer and for pales, nailing and spurring
up the posts and repairing the lodges, barns and
stables in the Middle Park of Hampton Court in
1675, 1676, and to the 17th of May, 1677, according
to an account thereof stated by Auditor John
Phelips. (Money warrant dated Dec. 8 hereon.
Charles Bertie dated Dec. 21 to the Customs Cashier
to bring same in notwithstanding any former
restriction and to the Auditor of the Receipt to
issue same.)
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King's Warrant Book V.
p. 438. Money Book
(General) p. 169. Out
Letters (General) p. 193.
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Privy seal for 2,000l. to Sir Joseph Williamson for
secret service without account. (Royal warrant
dated Oct. 25 for said privy seal. Treasurer Danby's
subscription dated Nov. 27 of docquet hereof.
Money warrant dated Dec. 13 hereon.)
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King's Warrant Book V.
pp. 443, 424. Docquet
Book, p. 171. Money
Book (General) p. 170.
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Nov. 29.
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Royal warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General
for a great seal for a grant to Major John Clarke
(Clerk) and Edward Stratford and their heirs for
ever of the sums of 144l. 10s. 9d. and 123l. 17s. 9d.
per an. ; the first sum to said Clark and his heirs
and the second sum to said Stratford and his heirs,
and to be issuable out of the Excise in like manner
as the annuities to the goldsmiths are : to commence
from Michaelmas last : it appearing by
accounts stated by Auditor Aldworth that there
is due to them from the King upon orders registered
in the Exchequer the sum of 2,409l. 3s. 5d. to said
Clerk and 2,066l. 10s. 4d. to said Stratford. (Treasurer
Danby's subscription dated Dec. 17 of docquet of
said Major Clarke's annuity.)
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King's Warrant Book V.
pp. 441-2. Docquet
Book, p. 174.
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Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the Customs Commissioners
to employ Stephen Tomlins as waiter
and Searcher at Milton, to accompt to the Collector
and to keep a boat in like manner as Humphrey
Atwick, dismissed, did.
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Out Letters (Customs) III.
p. 384.
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Same from same to same to discharge the seizure
of the ship Amity and of the 50 barrels of pitch
and tar and one bale of pepper which were brought
in her from Holland, same being seized on said
ship's arrival at Falmouth port with intention to
clear for Jamaica : it appearing from the petition
of Thomas Duck, of London, merchant, and from
the letter of the Surveyor of Falmouth that the
master of the ship declared on his arrival at Falmouth
that he came to that port to clear there
for Jamaica and intended to enter his ship and
make report of the said prohibited goods with the
rest of the lading, which he the next day did, and that
this clear way of proceeding in the regular entering
the ship and reporting all the said goods argueth
that he was ignorant of the breach of the Act of
Frauds, and the owners appearing altogether
ignorant of the matter as living so far away as
Jamaica. On this discharge the goods are to
pay duty inwards and draw back half subsidy
outwards according to law, but the officer is to
recover reasonable satisfaction.
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Ibid.
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Same from same to same to put in execution an order
of the King in Council dated Whitehall the 28th inst.
for preventing the ship Mary (being designed for
a trading voyage within the limits of the Royal
Africa Company in contempt of the King's proclamation
and several orders of the Privy Council)
from proceeding on her voyage till the master
thereof appears before the King in Council at the
next Council day : also for same of a further order
made by the King on the same day authorising
the Lord Treasurer, on any application from said
Company in the intervals of Council, to give order
for the stay of all such interlopers until the King
on hearing the parties concerned shall have declared
his pleasure therein.
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Ibid, pp. 385-6.
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Reference from Treasurer Danby to the Customs Commissioners
of the petition of Humphrey Atweeke
(Atwick) setting forth the causes of his dismission
[and praying restoration] as Customs officer at
Milton, Kent.
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Out Letters (Customs) III.
p. 386.
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Warrant from same to same and to Sir John Shaw,
Surveyor of the Navigation Act, to register as a free
ship (and to give out the usual certificates of same
for) the Hope, of London, a Scotch prize of about
250 tons burden : it being certified by Secretary
Coventry the 20th inst. that the royal warrant
dated 1675, Aug. 18, for such naturalization is
entered in the entry book in his office.
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Ibid, p. 385.
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Charles Bertie to the Auditor of the Receipt to pay
(and same to the Customs Cashier to bring in with
respect, etc.) 20l. for one quarter on Mr. Millward's
salary as provider of the Queen's robes.
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Out Letters (General)
p. 184.
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Money warrant for 66l. 13s. 4d. to John Dugdale, Esq.,
for 2 years to Sept. 29 last on his 40 marks per an.
as Windsor Herald. (Charles Bertie dated Nov. 29
to the Customs Cashier to bring same in with
respect : and same to the Auditor of the Receipt
to issue same : same dated 1677-8, Jan 19, to
the Customs Cashier to bring same in notwithstanding
any former restriction.)
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Money Book (General)
p. 162. Out Letters
(General) p. 184.
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Same for 1,750l. to Sir Thomas Williams for 1 years
on the 1,000l. per an. as by the privy seal of 1675,
June 21, for such uses and services as the King
should direct.
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Money Book (General)
p. 163.
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Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the Customs
Cashier to pay 9l. to Daniel Colwall, gent., for
three quarters to June 24 last on his salary as an
under-searcher, London port.
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Ibid.
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Money warrant for the following sums for last Sept. 29
quarter for the attendants on the Lords Committees
of Council for Trade and Plantations as by the privy
seal of 1676, June 23, viz., 100l. to Sir Phillip Lloyd ;
37l. 10s. 0d. for William Blathwaite ; 12l. 10s. 0d.
each for two clerks and 130l. 10s. 5d. for a bill of
extraordinaries. (Charles Bertie dated Dec. 21
to the Customs Cashier to bring in said 293l. 0s. 5d.
with respect, etc. : and to the Auditor of the
Receipt to issue same : same to the Customs
Cashier dated 1677-8, Jan. 19, to bring same in
notwithstanding the restriction.)
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Ibid, p. 163. Out Letters
(General) p. 193.
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Same for 437l. 10s. 0d. and 480l. to Sir Joseph
Williamson for 1 years to 1674, Sept. 29, on his
fee of 250l. per an. as late a clerk of the Privy
Council, and for three years to 1677, Sept. 29, on
his fee of 160l. per an. as Keeper of his Majesty's
papers of State at Whitehall.
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Money Book (General)
p. 164.
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Warrant dormant from Treasurer Danby to the
Customs Cashier to pay the 300l. per an. to the
Duke of Albemarle for Mote Park as by the privy
seal of 1675, Sept. 22, viz., what is due thereon
and as same shall grow due in future. (Charles Bertie
to same to bring in with respect, etc., 150l. for
half a year of said rent to Sept. 29 last : and
same to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue
same.)
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Money Book (General)
p. 164. Out Letters
(General) p. 196.
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Nov. 30.
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Warrant from same to the Customs Commissioners
to deliver, Customs free, 46 coffers and bales
lately come from France in the Kitchin yacht
which lies now at Greenwich, same containing the
baggage of the French comedians.
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Out Letters (Customs) III.
p. 385.
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Money warrant for 61,665l. 14s. 2d. to William
Ashburnham, Cofferer of the Household, as imprest
for the service of the Household.
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Money Book (General)
p. 164.
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Same for 91l. to Thomas Plot for a quarter's advance
of ordinary as Agent in the Court of the Great Duke of
Tuscany.
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Ibid, p. 165.
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Charles Bertie to [the Auditor of the Receipt] to
pay 47l. 4s. 2d. to Sir Robert Croke for a year
on his fee as Clerk of the Pipe.
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Ibid, p. 165. Out Letters
(General) p. 184.
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Nov. 31
[sic].
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Privy seal for 20s. a day to Thomas Plott for his
ordinary as Agent in the Court of the Great Duke
of Tuscany : to be payable quarterly, the first
quarter in advance. (Treasurer Danby's subscription
dated Nov. 16 of docquet hereof.)
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King's Warrant Book V.
p. 439. Docquet Book,
p. 168.
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