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Date.
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Nature and Substance of the Entry.
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Reference.
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Oct. 2.
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Charles Bertie to the Auditor of the Receipt. In
reply to yours of the 28th Treasurer Danby directs
you to pay the several fees due to the officers of the
Exchequer at Michaelmas and the remainder of the
liberate amounting in all to 825l. 16s. 7½d. Of
this you are to pay 709l. 6s. 0¾d. out of moneys
now in the Exchequer on account of fee farms,
arrears of subsidy, arrears of the first Eighteen
Months' tax and arrears of the second Eighteen
Months' tax : and the remainder 116l. 10s. 6¾d.
out of the profits of the Mint. Out of this last
mentioned branch you are also to satisfy Capt.
Stradling's order dated 1668, Aug. 1, for 528l. 5s. 0d.
for so much due to Capt. Barber's Company.
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Out Letters (General)
p. 319.
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[Oct. 2?]
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Charles Bertie to the Customs Cashier to pay 16l. 3s. 4d.
to John Langwith for last Michaelmas quarter on
his salary, payable out of the Customs [as Lord
Treasurer's messenger] ; and to bring into the
Exchequer (and to the Auditor of the Exchequer
to issue) 16l. 3s. 4d. to same for same quarter for his
Exchequer salary.
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Out Letters (General)
p. 320.
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Oct. 2.
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Same to same to same to bring in with respect to the
weekly payments (and to the Auditor of the Receipt
to issue) 80l. for one year of Mr. Oudart's fee as
Latin Secretary.
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Ibid.
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Same to same to bring in notwithstanding any former
restriction (and to same to issue) 66l. 13s. 4d. for
two years of Treasurer Danby's creation money
to Sept. 29 last as Visct. Latimer and Earl of Danby.
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Ibid.
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Same to the Auditor of the Receipt for tallies on the
Excise (and to the Receivers of Excise to pay said
tallies) for 1,000l. for last Sept. 29 quarter on the
Lord Chancellor's salary.
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Ibid, p. 321.
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Oct. 3.
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Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the Customs Commissioners
to permit 33 pieces of Lockrams or
Dowlas to be exported for a foreign market, same
having been shipped on board the Olave Branch,
Thomas Jack and others owners : it appearing
from the petition of said owners that before
the late Act for prohibiting several French
commodities, there were imported at Exeter by
them divers sorts of French linens which paid the
duty upon importation : and that also before
the passing of said Act they shipped the same
with other goods on board said ship for Jamaica,
amongst the same being 33 pieces of Lockrams or
Dowlas, which were shipped Dec. 31 and Jan. 4
last, but by reason of their coarseness were not
found proper for the market at Jamaica and for
want of sale were returned in the same ship, without
having been carried to any parts out of his Majesty's
dominions, wherefore they pray leave to land them
or to carry them out again for a foreign market :
on which petition the said Commissioners report
the 28th ult. confirming the above statements
from the original cocquets.
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Out Letters (Customs) IV.
p. 121.
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Charles Bertie to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue
sums to persons as follows, according to their
respective interests and out of the money brought
in [to the Exchequer] last week by the Customs
Cashier, viz. : 1,685l. to the Maids of Honour
and Dressers, et al "mentioned in my letter of the
1st Aug. last" [this] alteration made by letter of
1678, Oct. 5 ; 500l. for Healing Medals ; 348l. for
the Lord Privy Seal ; 150l. to Mris. Piques ;
335l. to the Masters of the Hawks ; 232l. 15s. 0d.
to the Grooms of the Great Chamber to the Queen
and Groom Littermen.
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Out Letters (General)
p. 321.
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Sept.
[sic
erratum
for
Oct.] 3.
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Charles Bertie to the Auditor of the Receipt for tallies
on the Excise (and to the Receivers of Excise to pay
said tallies) for 312l. 10s. 0d. to the Duke of Buckingham
for half a quarter on his pension of 2,500l. per an.
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Out Letters (General)
p. 321.
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Oct. 3.
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Money warrant for 50l. 3s. 9d. to James Beck for half
a year's salary and board wages as a Serjeant at
Arms.
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Money Book (General)
p. 315.
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Letters of direction on an order dated Sept. 23 last
for 1,300l. to Ambassador Lawrence Hyde for
three months' ordinary to Aug. 19 last ; and on
an order dated Aug. 29 for 1,300l. to Ambassador
Temple for three months' ordinary to Nov. 20
next : both to be hereby satisfied by tallies
on the Customs.
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Ibid, p. 316.
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Same on an order dated the 1st inst. for 26,750l. to
William Ashburnham, Cofferer of the Household,
in part of 100,000l. imprest for the Household :
same to be hereby satisfied by tallies on the Excise.
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Ibid.
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Same on 2,500l. remainder of an order dated April 22
last for 5,000l. to the Duke of Monmouth for half
a year's advance to 1678, Sept. 28, for the Stables ;
whereon 2,500l. is already paid : same to be hereby
satisfied by tallies on the Customs.
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Ibid.
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Treasurer Danby's allowance of the 1678, Sept. 29
quarter's salary bill of the Excise Office, detailed :
(total, 2,332l. 10s. 0d.). "I approve hereof and
direct the payment of the sums mentioned in this
quarter bill, provided the Commissioners and other
officers therein mentioned who have not yet paid
[their poll money] after the rate of 2s. in the £ for
their yearly salaries above mentioned by virtue of the
late Poll Act doe in the first place pay and clear
the same."
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Ibid.
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Warrant dormant from Treasurer Danby to the Receipt
to strike tallies of assignment from time to time
upon the Collectors or Receivers of the Tenths for
the pension of 400l. per an. granted to Sir Samuel
Morland and Dame Anne his wife ; by the great seal
of Sept. 26 last : striking same as well for the
quarter due at Michaelmas last, as also for what
shall hereafter grow due thereupon, ut supra, p. 1110.
The like dormant warrant for tallies similarly on the
Tenths for the pension of 200l. per an. to said Sir
Samuel Morland and to Samuel Morland his son, as by
the like great seal of Sept. 26 last. (Charles Bertie
dated Oct. 14 to the Auditor of the Receipt for tallies
on the Tenths for 150l. for last Michaelmas quarter
on said Morland's two pensions of 400l. per an.
and 200l. per an. on the Tenths : and for a tally
on the Excise, and same to the Receivers of Excise
to pay said tally, for 50l. for same quarter on his
pension of 200l. per an. on the Excise.) [It will be
noticed that the letter of Bertie follows the lines of
the payments made to Morland before the two great
seals of Sept. 26 last, and that it is not in accordance
either with those great seals or with the present
warrant.]
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Ibid, p. 318. Out Letters
(General) p. 327.
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Money warrant for 455l. to Bevil Skelton, Esq., for
three months' ordinary to Sept. 29 last as Envoy
Extraordinary to the Emperor of Germany.
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Money Book (General)
p. 318.
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Treasurer Danby to the Rt. Honble. Lord Fairfax
(to be communicated to the rest of the Deputy
Lieutenants of the West Riding of Yorks) enclosing
an order in Council as follows. I recommend the
same to your care to be duly executed. In order
to it I desire you will appoint a meeting amongst
yourselves as soon as may be, and I can give you
no additional instructions by which to govern
yourselves in this affair, saving that what arms
shall be taken in pursuance of this order I desire
you will cause to be conveyed to Clifford's Tower
at York, and to be delivered into the custody of
Lord Frescheville or the chief officer upon the place,
taking a note under his hand for the receipt of them.
I desire you will from time to time make me a return
of your proceedings herein, that I may be enabled
to give a particular and satisfactory account to the
Privy Council in the matters expected from me.
Prefixing : said order in Council in the form of a letter
dated Council Chamber, Whitehall, Sept. 30, and
signed by 11 Lords of the Council and Sir Robert
Southwell, clerk thereof, and addressed to Treasurer
Danby, Lord Lieutenant of the city of York and
county of the same, and of the West Riding of the
county of York. Information has been given
upon oath touching a dangerous conspiracy against
the life of his sacred Majesty and in consequence
thereof, of great disturbance that must ensue in the
the kingdom. We therefore, in pursuance of his
Majesty's command, hereby require you to use
the most effectual means which you think fit, to
cause all the habitations of the Papists in that county
and city or of those who are reputed Papists,
to be searched for arms of war and offence, and
that all such arms be gathered and laid up in safe
custody. And your lordship is to send diligently
to this Board an account of all such arms and of the
parties disarmed that so, as the occasion shall
require, you may receive our further orders in this
behalf. (In the margin : touching disarming
Papists.)
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Warrants not Relating to
Money VII. p. 251.
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Constitution and appointment by same of John Smith,
gent., of the parish of St. Paul, Covent Garden,
to receive, until further order, all the crown rents
and revenues of the counties of Cambridge and
Suffolk and the arrears thereof in place of Thomas
Cawood, gent., deceased : with all the powers
of levying by distress, etc., as any other Receiver
of Crown revenues has.
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Ibid, p. 252.
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Treasurer Danby's subscription of a docquet dated
Sept. of a great seal for a grant to Christopher
Groute of the fee of 10l. per an. for life from 1674,
April 23, as limberman or harborer of his Majesty's
privy buckhounds ; which fee his predecessor,
John Crockford, had and enjoyed : said fee to
be paid out of the Exchequer on the 22nd of April.
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Docquet Book, p. 5.
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Allowance by Treasurer Danby of the last Michaelmas
quarter's salary bill of the Customs, London port.
(Total, 6,008l. 16s. 8d.) "I allow hereof and
direct Richard Kent, Receiver General and Cashier
of the Customs" to pay same, "provided the
Commissioners and other officers therein mentioned who
have not yet paid [their Poll tax] after the rate of
2s. in the £ for their yearly salaries above mentioned
by virtue of the late Poll Act do in the first place
pay and clear the same." (The words italicised are
erased and against them in the margin is written,
"raced by my Lord's commands, 19 Oct., 1678.")
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Money Book (General)
p. 315.
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Oct. 4.
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Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the Receipt to issue,
on any unsatisfied orders in the name of Lemuell
Kingdon for the Forces, 10,000l. as imprest for the
Forces and as part of 20,000l. lately brought into
the Exchequer by Anthony Rowe and his partners
in part of their advance money on their Hearthmoney
contract.
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Money Book (General)
p. 317.
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Money warrant for 1,500l. to Sir John Kirke for last
Michaelmas quarter's wages and board wages of the
Band of Gentlemen Pensioners : same to be paid
out of any money that is or shall be brought into
the Exchequer upon account of the First Fruits
and Tenths.
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Ibid.
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Same for 14,300l. to Samuel Pepys, Treasurer of Tangier,
as imprest for a quarter's pay of the said garrison
to Sept. 30 last.
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Ibid.
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Same for 1,412l. 2s. 5d. to said Pepys to complete
the arrear of 22,767l. 6s. 3d. due to said garrison
for an arrear of pay which was postponed for several
years past : same to be received as imprest for
said garrison.
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Ibid.
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Royal warrant to the Clerk of the Signet for a privy
seal for a grant to John Brett, gent. (brother of
Thomas Brett, merchant, who lately made away
with himself, and has been found felo de se within
the island of Barbados, whereby his estate is forfeit
to the King) of all the goods, chattels, leases, ready
money, wares, merchandise, commodities, debts,
rights and other personal estate whatsoever of said
Thomas Brett : the officers of the Exchequer
and the officers in Barbados are to do all necessary
things for making this grant effectual either by
delivering or paying over said estate or by making
and passing him any further grants or orders for the
said estate, or so much thereof as lies in Barbados.
(Treasurer Danby's subscription dated Oct, 9 of
docquet hereof.)
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King's Warrant Book VI.
pp. 93-4. Docquet
Book, p. 5.
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Charles Bertie to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue
10,000l. for the Navy upon any unsatisfied, unappropriated
orders in the name of. Edward Seymour,
Treasurer of the Navy : to be issued out of the
money brought in by way of advance by Mr. Rowe
and his partners upon their Hearthmoney contract.
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Out Letters (General)
p. 322.
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Same to same to issue accordingly the 100l. which the
Customs Cashier brought into the Exchequer last
week for Lady Sayers.
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Ibid.
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Same to the Customs Cashier notwithstanding any
former restriction to forthwith bring 300l. into the
Exchequer for the Paymaster of the Works to be
laid out for the Queen's use at Somerset House.
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Ibid.
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Charles Bertie to the Customs Cashier to bring
in forthwith (and to the Auditor of the Receipt to
issue) 12l. 10s. 0d. for last June 24 quarter upon
Nicholas Estoll's pension of 50l. per an.
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Out Letters (General)
p. 322.
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Same to same to bring in with respect to the weekly
payments (and to same to issue) 122l. 8s. 0d. for
Mr. Samuel Gillabrand for one year's interest upon
two orders of loan drawn in his name for 1,120l. and
920l.
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Ibid.
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Oct. 5.
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Same to same. Treasurer Danby desires you to forthwith
advance the money upon Ambassador Temple's
tally for 1,300l. You shall be allowed 8 per cent.
interest thereon on your accounts.
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Ibid, p. 323.
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Money warrant for 500l. to Sir Stephen Fox for last
Michaelmas quarter on the 2,000l. per an. to him
for secret service as by the privy seal of 1674, Aug. 25.
(In the margin : for the Earl of Sussex.) (Charles
Bertie dated Oct. 8 to the Receivers of Excise
to bring same into the Exchequer, and to the Auditor
of the Receipt to issue same.)
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Money Book (General)
p. 319. Out Letters
(General) p. 323.
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Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the Customs Commissioners
to direct the respective collectors of the
outports to pay last Michaelmas quarter's salary
bill for the outport officers under the said Commissioners'
deputation : "but you are to direct
the said collectors before they pay the said officers
to see that they have paid [their Poll tax] for their
said salaries after the rate of 2s. per per an. as
the late Poll Act directs." (This warrant is repeated
under date Oct. 11, but without the qualifying
clause here quoted in inverted commas.)
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Money Book (General)
p. 319. Out Letters
(Customs) IV. p. 124.
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Same from same to same to pay 50l. to Juliana
(Coningsby, now wife of Amias) Hext for same
quarter on her pension.
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Money Book (General)
p. 319.
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Same from same to same to pay 127l. 10s. 0d. to
Edward Backwell for half a year to Sept. 29 last
as Comptroller of Customs, London port.
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Ibid.
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Licence and authorisation by Treasurer Danby to
Edmond Joddrell to cut, etc., decayed wood, etc.,
on his copyhold in the royal manor of Macclesfield
as by the privy seal of Aug. 31 last, supra, pp. 1105-6.
This licence to be void if not entered before his
Majesty's steward of the said manor before anything
thereby be done.
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Warrants not Relating to
Money VII. p. 252.
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Report from same to the King on the draft of a letter
coming to the Privy Council recommended from
the Duke of Ormonde, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland ;
said draft being referred by the King to Treasurer
Danby July 30 last : said draft, in the form of a
royal letter [addressed to said Duke of Ormonde],
being as follows. We are informed that all the
fishing of pike, salmon and other sea fish and eyles
in the great salmon weir called the Lax Weyre
in the county of the city of Limerick, and the fishings
in the river of Shannon, westward of the said
weyre, have been, amongst other things (by patent
under the great seal of Ireland dated 1676-7, Feb. 9,
pursuant to a certificate from the late Commissioners
for the Act of Settlement and Explanation, dated
1666, July 6), granted to Sir George Preston, his
heirs and assigns for ever under the entire yearly
rent of 5l. sterling : and that same was by him
made over or granted in mortgage to George
Matthews and James Clarke, Esqrs., their heirs
and assigns. Further that the mayor, sheriffs
and citizens of Limerick are upon some treaty
with the said Sir George Preston and the said
Matthews and Clarke to purchase the same from
them : and that all the said parties have petitioned
the King for a grant of charter of licence to the
said mayor, etc., to purchase, and to the said Preston,
Matthews and Clarke to alien and sell to them
the said weir and fishing. The King being graciously
pleased to gratify the said mayor, etc., hereby
requires the Lord Lieutenant to cause effectual
grants to pass the great seal of Ireland containing
free and full licence and liberty to said parties to
so sell, buy and hold the premises, notwithstanding
the statute of 7 Edward I., called the Statute of
Mortmain, and the statute of 15 Ric. II. or any other
statute, act or provision to the contrary hereof.
None of the said parties to be hereafter sued, grieved
or molested by the King, his heirs &c., by reason of
such sale, alienation or purchase : saving to the chief
lords of the fee the services thereout due and
accustomed, with free liberty to distrain for the same.
Said draft letter being so referred as above.
Treasurer Danby hereby reports that he sees no
inconvenience to the King's service thereby provided
care be taken to reserve the rent payable to
the Crown under Sir George Preston's grant.
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Ibid, p. 253.
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Report from Treasurer Danby to the King on the matter
of a letter as follows, on a reference thereof to Treasurer
Danby from the King at Windsor, Sept. 9 last : said
letter being [a royal warrant to the Lord Lieutenant
of Ireland] as follows, viz. : In the grant lately
made under the great seal of England to the present
Farmers of the Revenue in Ireland they have therein
covenanted inter al that the King might abate
(without defalcation to them) 1,000l. per an. of the
quit rents which then or on the 4th of Sept., 1675,
were in charge in Ireland. You are therefore hereby
to pass letters patent under the great seal of Ireland,
containing one or more effectual grants, release
or assignment from the King to such person or persons
and in such manner as you shall think fit, of so
much of the said 1,000l. per an. quit rents as shall
appear to you by certificate of the Auditor General
of Ireland or his deputy not to have been already
disposed of by the King and by particular warrant
from the King applied to the reducement or abatement
of the said 1,000l. per an. All clauses and non
obstantes to be inserted therein to make same most
effectual and also one clause more enabling [any]
the said patentee, his heirs, etc., to take process
out of the Exchequer in Ireland in the King's name,
and thereby or by any other process in his own
name to distrain, sue for, levy and recover said
quit rents. And the acquittance and discharge of said
said patentee shall be as good as if it had been
given by any of the officers of the revenue.
Said draft warrant being referred as above to
Treasurer Danby, the latter hereby reports thereon.
I cannot advise your Majesty to part with the
inheritance of your quit rents in your kingdom
of Ireland, nor to direct the making of any grant or
discharge of any part of your Majesty's revenue
until you be acquainted with the names and merits
of such persons who shall pretend to such bounty
and that the names or trustees for them be inserted
in such letters or warrants which are to authorise
the said grants. But if upon knowledge thereof
your Majesty shall think fit to extend such favour
to any person, I think same may be best done by
a temporary grant or remittal.
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Warrants not relating to
Money VII. p. 254.
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Oct. 7.
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[Treasurer Danby] to the Duke of Ormonde, Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland dated from the Treasury
Chambers. Directions were formerly given that the
[Irish] revenue might not be diverted from the proper
uses it was designed to, and (to that end) that the
collectors and receivers might neither pay nor
remit any money without the knowledge and consent
of the Commissioners of Inspection, who were
likewise to take care that the cash received in
Dublin should be paid directly into the Exchequer,
so that the [Irish Revenue] Farmers might not be
able to draw out and misapply the same. Notwithstanding
the abovesaid directions, the King is
lately informed that the said Farmers, contrary to
these commands, have underhand prevailed with
their collectors to pay and remit [to] them several
sums of money, more particularly the cash received
in Dublin, by which means they are said to have
got into their hands a considerable sum of money
and refuse to account for the same. I am also
informed that they have kept from the [Irish
Revenue] Commissioners [of Inspection] those
necessary accounts which should enable them to
return to the King a state of their condition, which
is represented to be so bad that 'tis affirmed they
are really indebted at this day to his Majesty (the
utmost days of grace being allowed them) on account
of their rent above 50,000l., besides the three months
allowed them in the beginning of their farm, and
month of grace which is 80,000l. more, to answer
which the utmost that is said can be justly pretended
by them is an arrear of 50,000l., whereof one half
at least is also said to be insolvent. Upon these
informations I am commanded by the King to put
you in mind that the directions in the former letters
may be speedily put in execution and an answer
returned thereto as speedily as may be. I am
informed that the most effectual way of doing this
will be by requiring forthwith from the Deputy
Vice Treasurer an account of their [the Farmers']
payments together with an account of the arrears
solvent and insolvent from each collector. But your
Grace understands the way of doing it so well
that I only presume to give a hint of what is suggested
to myself.
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Warrants not Relating to
Money VII. p. 255.
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Charles Bertie to the Speaker [of the House of
Commons, i.e., Edward Seymour, in his capacity
as Treasurer of the Navy] to apply as follows the
10,000l. lately issued to you out of the Exchequer
out of the Hearthmoney Contractors' advance
money, viz., 4,000l. for payment of tickets of seamen
which have been discharged out of several of his
Majesty's ships in the Channel to reduce their
complement to those appointed in times of peace ;
and the remaining 6,000l. for payment of ships
whereof there is presently to be paid off the Foresight,
Henrietta and Assurance and the Portsmouth frigate
as the Admiralty Lords shall direct ; and what
remains [of said 6,000l. is] to be reserved for other
ships.
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Out Letters (General)
p. 323.
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Oct. 8.
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Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the Customs Commissioners
to employ Robert Dashwood as a waiter
and searcher at Watchet in Minehead port, loco
Andrew Weaver, deceased.
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Out Letters (Customs) IV.
p. 122.
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Reference from same to same of the petition of Capt.
Robert Bradshaw, shewing that in consideration
of his service to the King in the late wars he was
at the Restoration constituted Collector of Chichester
and surveyor of the whole port, which place he
executed for eight years until Mr. Garway coming into
commission procured petitioner to be displaced (though
he committed no crime at all) to bring in a friend
of his : and therefore praying restoration or some
other fit place. With the petition are also referred
the certificate annexed [missing], testifying his
sufferings and good behaviour in the port of
Chichester.
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Ibid.
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Warrant under the royal sign manual to Richard, Earl
of Ranelagh, Vice Treasurer of Ireland, to pay
and return over [by exchanges to England] to
William Roberts 1,000l. a month out of the 27,000l.
per an. which under the present establishment of
the kingdom of Ireland is reserved to be paid to
such uses or persons without account as the King
should appoint by warrant under his sign manual.
Said payment is to be for the further carrying on
of the buildings at Windsor, the first payment to be
made on the 10th Nov. next, and from thenceforth
the like payment on the 10th day of each succeeding
month.
Prefixing : (a) A similar royal warrant to Visct.
Ranelagh, dated Whitehall. 1677, Oct. 20, for
the payment (out of the same 27,000l. per an.) of
5,000l. to Charles Bertie.
(b) Charles Bertie's acknowledgment dated 1677,
Nov. 20 (and witnessed by Sam. Langford,
A. Stephens and Rich. Brett) of the receipt of said
5,000l. from Visct. Ranelagh.
(c) Royal warrant dated 1677, Nov. 6, to said Charles
Bertie to pay over the said 5,000l. to Dr. John
Taylor.
(d) Endorsement on (c) by Jo. Taylor dated 1677,
Dec. 10 (and witnessed by Saml. Langford, Rich.
Brett and A. Stephens) of the receipt of said 5,000l.
from said Bertie.
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King's Warrant Book VI.
p. 96.
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Charles Bertie to the Customs Cashier. Before I went
my late journey I wrote to Mr. Shales to advance
by same hand 1,473l. odd money on a tally, which he
did, and now wants his money, which I earnestly
entreat you to satisfy him and take up the said
tally ; for which you shall have interest on your
account.
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Out Letters (General)
p. 323.
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Same to same to bring in (and to the Auditor of the
Receipt to issue) 13l. 6s. 8d. to Christopher Tadman,
clerk to the late Commission against Recusants in
the East Riding of Yorkshire.
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Ibid.
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Same to same out of such money as shall come in by
the Customs over and above the weekly payments
to issue 5,000l. to the Treasurer of the Navy upon
a tally which he will deliver to you, and which
is to be first satisfied before any other payments
whatsoever.
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Ibid.
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Charles Bertie to the Auditor of the Receipt for tallies
on the Tenths of York, Exeter, etc., for 250l. for
last Michaelmas quarter on the Earl of Sunderland's
pension of 1,000l. per an.
And for tallies on same for 500l. for same quarter
on the Countess Dowager of Bristol's two pensions of
1,000l. per an. each.
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Out Letters (General)
p. 323.
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Same to the Customs Cashier to pay 13l. to Roger
Charnock for last Sept. 29 quarter on his salary
as a King's waiter [London port] and to bring in
(with respect to the weekly payments) 25l. 1s. 10d.
for same quarter to same as a Serjeant at Arms.
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Ibid, p. 324.
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Same to same (with respect to the weekly payments)
to bring 100l. into the Exchequer for Sir Tho.
Allen, Governor of Sandgate Castle.
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Ibid, p. 323.
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The like letters for 276l. for Mr. Christopher Bernard.
250l. for the Rt. Honble. the Earl and Countess of
Lindsey.
56l. 13s. 4d. for the Rt. Honble. Earl of Lichfield.
50l. for Sir Edward Carteret, Usher of the Black
Rod.
25l. for Mr. Hill, keeper of Battles Walk in Windsor
Forest.
51l. 11s. 0d. for Col. Buller.
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Ibid, pp. 323b, 324.
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Oct. 9.
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The like letter for 20l. for Mr. Henry Fanshaw.
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Ibid, p. 324.
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Charles Bertie to the Auditor of the Receipt for tallies
on the Excise (and to the Receivers of Excise to
pay said tallies) for 125l. for last Sept. 29 quarter
on Lady Charlotte Paston's pension.
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Ibid.
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Privy seal for 900l. to Sir Samuel Morland in repayment
of several sums of money which "by our
direction and command and for our immediate
service" he has expended : this payment to be
without account. (Royal warrant dated Oct. 30,
altered to Nov. 30 [sic but doubtless should have
been altered to Sept. 30] for said privy seal. Treasurer
Danby's subscription dated Oct. 9 of docquet hereof.
Money warrant dated Oct. 16 hereon.)
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King's Warrant Book VI.
pp. 92, 94. Docquet
Book, p. 5. Money
Book (General) p. 324.
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Same for the payment out of the 412,925l. 14s. 6d.
[part of the Eighteen Months' Assessment] of sums
(as the Lord Treasurer shall think necessary), not
exceeding 200,000l. to the Commissioners and
Receivers General of Excise for the better enabling
them to pay off and discharge in their due course
and order the tallies struck and levied and to be
struck and levied upon them as in settlement of the
200,000l. which the King borrowed on the credit of
the Act for the Additional Excise, which loan was
necessitated by the extraordinary occasions of his
Majesty's service "by reason whereof and for
that the money arising by the said Act [for the
Additional Excise] is duly paid and to be paid
into the Receipt of our Exchequer to repay and
discharge the said loan and the interest thereof
many of the tallies levied and to be levied for
our ordinary service upon the Commissioners and
Receivers General of our revenue of Excise doe
and will remain unsatisfyed and are and will
be in so remote a course of payment as will be
inconvenient for our service and prejudiciall to the
credit which that [Excise] branch of our revenue
has allwayes afforded us ;" further the Act for the
Eighteen Months' Assessment having taken
notice of the said loan for 200,000l., and that the
Commons were engaged for the repayment thereof :
to the end therefore that the said Excise Commissioners
and Receivers General of Excise may be duly
charged with what money they shall so receive
and may account for the same, as if it had been
part of the Excise revenue, certificates are to be
made from the Exchequer of all such moneys as shall
be so issued to them from time to time : [and said
certificates are to be sent] to the Auditor and [other]
officers of the Excise who are to charge the said
Commissioners and Receivers General with the
same as if it had been part of the Excise revenue.
And the said Commissioners and Receivers General
are hereby to apply the said money to the payment
and discharge of such tallies as aforesaid. (Royal
warrant dated Sept. 27 to the Clerk of the Signet
for said privy seal. Treasurer Danby's subscription
dated Oct. 9 of docquet hereof. Money warrant
dated Oct. 16 hereon : the orders to be drawn
hereon are to be levied and paid in course out of the
412,925l. 14s. 6d., part of the Eighteen Months'
Assessment.) [The effect of this privy seal was
simply to charge upon the Eighteen Months' Assessment
the liquidation of the previous loan of
200,000l. taken in on the credit of the Act for the
Additional Excise.]
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King's Warrant Book VI.
pp. 89-91. Docquet
Book, p. 6. Money
Book (General) p. 324.
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Oct. 10.
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Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the Customs Commissioners
to employ Henry Allyborne as a watchman,
London port, loco Thomas Worrall, deceased.
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Out Letters (Customs) IV.
p. 122.
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Same from same to same to admit to an entry, and
to permit to be exported again two bales of silk
and ribbons which, as appears from the petition
of Edmund Warner, et al of London, merchants,
were laded at Genoa on the Genoa Merchant,
Captain Hurlock commander, to be delivered at
Cadiz : the rest of the ships loading were bound for
Amsterdam, but the said ship meeting the convoy
off Cadiz, bound for Amsterdam, could not stay
at Cadiz to deliver said bales without losing the
benefit of the convoy, and so ventured to carry them
to Amsterdam and thence hither [to London] to be
sent for Cadiz : on which petition the Customs
Commissioners report that John Hall, of London,
merchant, has sworn that said bales were by him
ordered to be delivered to Mr. Gardner and Company
at Cadiz, and not to be carried to Amsterdam or
brought hither, but to be shipped afterwards from
Cadiz to the Canaries, but that Capt. Hurlock
coming near Cadiz met the convoy at sea, etc.,
as above. Petitioners are to pay the Customs
due at importation, and on re-export are to draw
back the half subsidy and additional duty by
debentures, and as to the prohibited goods, which
in strictness of law are liable to forfeiture upon the
importation, in regard they were involuntarily
brought hither without design to be vended here, they
are to be permitted to be landed and put in the
King's warehouse and re-exported, paying duty
ad valorem and drawing back the half as by the
Book of Rates. Bond to be given for their re-export
to Cadiz or the Canaries.
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Ibid, p. 123.
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Treasurer Danby to Sir Nathaniel Herne, Governor
of the East India Company dated from the Treasury
Chambers. If his Majesty's affairs did not require
a further loan from the East India Company, I
should not now have given you or them this
trouble. But his Majesty remembering with what
affection and readynesse they supplyed him the
last yeare, he doubts not (the occasion being
now as great) that they will as cheerfully give
their assistance in supplying him with the loan of
30,000l. in money and 20,000l. in salt petere : for
[re] payment whereof they shall have assignments
upon the Customs of their own goods, which shall not
be diverted to any other use till the Company shall
be fully satisfyed as they desire. I hope the
[unsatisfied] remainder of last year's loan will be
noe obstruction to this, considering how very
acceptable and seasonable service it will be to his
Majesty, of whose constant kindness they have
from time to time received such large testimony.
I desire you to communicate this to the Company,
and to assure them that no further loan will
be desired from them till this be fully repaid : and
as I question not to find a ready complyance herein
soe they shall never fail of the best services which
can be paid them by myself.
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Warrants not Relating to
Money VII. p. 255.
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Warrant from same to the Auditors of Imprests.
By the privy seal of Aug. 31 last the King has directed
the finding out embezzlements, concealments, abuses
or other fraudulent or indirect practices whereby
he has been defrauded or defeated of the value or
proceed, or any share thereof, of any prize ships
or goods which were brought into the ports of
London, Portsmouth and Hull during the two
Dutch wars and to bring to account all officers,
clerks, etc. You are hereby to permit Henry
Fanshaw, Esq., Charles Osborne, Esq., James
Symes and Joseph Embrey, gent., or any of them
in accordance with the said privy seal, to inspect
and peruse all accounts, states of accounts and other
papers remaining before you touching the premises
and to take copies or extracts thereof for their
better information.
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Ibid, p. 256.
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Same from same to Edward Seymour, Esq.,
Treasurer of the Navy. I lately directed that
there should be satisfied to Sir Tho. Clutterbuck
several bills of imprest for Victualling in the
Mediterranean for the months of May, June and July,
amounting to 7,300l. 1s. 0d. by orders in your name
registered on the 412,925l. 14s. 6d. [part of the
Eighteen Months' tax] for which [orders till their
payment in their due course] interest is to be
allowed him. You are hereby to secure to said
Clutterbuck by other orders remaining in your
hands and registered in the like manner the interest
for the said sum of 7,300l. 1s. 0d. and to
adjust with him and to pay to him (after payment
of the said orders in the Exchequer) interest for
the said sum after the rate of 6 per cent. per an.
and 2 per cent. more by way of gratuity from the
date of said orders to the time of their payment in
the Exchequer.
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Money Book (General)
p. 320.
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Money warrant for 625l. to Thomas, Earl of Ossory,
for half a year and half a quarter to June 24 last
on his pension of 1,000l. per an. as a Gentleman
of the Bedchamber, which pension is payable out
of the Customs, but failing that, then out of the
Exchequer : it appearing from a certificate of the
7th inst. from the Customs Cashier that said
pension is paid to Michaelmas, 1677, and 125l. in
part of 1677, Christmas quarter and no further :
the present warrant is to be satisfied by tallies
on the Hearthmoney Contractors' rent due 1679,
Sept. 29.
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Money Book (General)
p. 320.
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Letter of direction on an order dated Aug. 6 last
for 1,365l. to Sir Thomas Higgons, Kt., for three
quarters' ordinary to June 8 last as Envoy to Venice :
same to be hereby satisfied by tallies on the Customs.
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Ibid, p. 321.
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The like letter of direction on an order dated Sept. 20
last for 364l. to Thomas Chudleigh for six months'
ordinary to Sept. 11 last as Secretary to the Embassy
at Nimuegen.
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Ibid.
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Money warrant for 125l. to Henry Savile, Esq., for
last Sept. 29 quarter on his pension of 500l. per an.
(Charles Bertie dated Oct. 4 to the Customs Cashier,
with respect to the weekly payments, to pay 125l.
into the Exchequer for Mr. Savile : In the margin :
for Mris. Hambleton [Hamilton].)
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Ibid, p. 321. Out Letters
(General) p. 322.
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Same for 20l. to Edward, Earl of Sandwich, for
one year's creation money to Michaelmas last.
(Charles Bertie dated Oct. 18 to the Customs Cashier
to bring said 20l. into the Exchequer with respect
to the weekly payments.)
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Money Book (General)
p. 321. Out Letters
(General) p. 329.
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Same for 76l. 19s. 2d. to Richard Mounteney, Esq.,
late Receiver General and Cashier of Customs as in
full of his surplusage on his account for the Customs
for three quarters of a year to 1677, June 24. (Charles
Bertie dated Nov. 20 to the Customs Cashier to
forthwith satisfy said Mounteney's tally for said
sum.)
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Money Book (General)
p. 321. Out Letters
(General) p. 344.
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Charles Bertie to the Customs Cashier to forthwith
bring into the Exchequer 150l. of the Coinage
money for Lady Barbara Villiers's executors.
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Out Letters (General)
p. 324.
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Same to the Auditor of the Receipt for tallies on the
Excise (and same to the Receivers of Excise to
pay same) for 250l. for last Sept. 29 quarter on the
Earl of Bath's and Lord Hawley's pension of
1,000l. per an.
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Ibid.
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Same to same for tallies on the Tenths of the diocese
of Lincoln for 50l. for last Sept. 29 quarter on
Dr. Troutbeck's pension.
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Ibid, p. 326.
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Oct. 11.
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Money warrant for 200l. to Mris. Justina Vandike, now
the Lady Stepney, for one year on her pension.
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Money Book (General)
p. 319.
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Charles Bertie to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue
123l. upon any orders drawn in the name of Ralph
Montague for the service of the Wardrobe : paying
same out of money remaining in the Exchequer
of the profits of Recusants' estates. (Same of same
date to said Montague to pay same to Mr. Francis
Poyntz, the arras maker.)
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Out Letters (General)
p. 325.
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Charles Bertie to the Customs Cashier to bring 150l.
into the Exchequer for Col. Giffard at two payments,
viz., 75l. this week and 75l. with respect to
the weekly payments.
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Out Letters (General)
p. 325.
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Same to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue 350l.
(which the Receivers of Excise have brought into
the Exchequer) to Dr. Taylor in full of the order
lately drawn for that sum for last Sept. 29 quarter
on the 1,400l. per an. payable to him for secret service.
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Ibid.
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Same to the Receivers of Excise to forthwith pay 1,250l.
to Mris. Gwinne, whereof 1,000l. for herself and
250l. for the Earl of Burford for last Sept. 29 quarter
to each of them : "for which you shall have a
regular discharge."
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Ibid.
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Same to the Customs Cashier to pay (with respect
to the weekly payments) the following 13 King's
waiters, London port, 13l. each for a quarter on their
respective salaries, viz., Gerard Andrews, Nicho.
Park, John Marshal, Francis Roberts, Hugh
Bantock, John Shaw, Andrew Haines, Samll.
Ward, Francis Dacket, Thomas Raymond, Samuel
Phillips, Lawrence Corbet and Samuel Danvers :
and 26l. to Ellis Lloyd for half a year on same.
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Ibid, p. 326.
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Oct. 12.
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Treasurer Danby's allowance of 30l. to Richard Snead,
Esq., late high sheriff of co. Hereford as in part of
his cravings of 38l. 5s. 0d. for the year's [shrievalty]
ending 1677, Sept. 29 : said 30l. being allowed by
Baron Thurland.
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Warrants not Relating to
Money VII. p. 256.
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Warrant from same to the Customs Commissioners
to admit to an entry four bales of
Dimetys, four small baskets of drugs and a box
of rhubarb, which were about May last, by John
Jolliffe, a merchant living at Leghorn, laded on board
the ship Teneriffe Merchant, Roger Paxton master,
who consigned the same to John Newland, a merchant
living at Malaga, and the said master signed bills
of lading accordingly : but his Majesty's ship
the Leopard (which was convoy) making no stop
at Malaga, the said master was compelled to bring
them to London for fear of losing his convoy. Said
goods are of the growth of Turkey, and are not
imported in such a ship or a ship so navigated
as the Act of Navigation directs, and so are seized
as are also a bag of rhubarb and a box of manna
shipped on same ship to be delivered to Mr. Benjamin
Rogueby and Mr. John Gardner at Cadiz. The
abovesaid goods are to pay the Customs due at
importation, and are to draw back the half subsidy
and Additional duty by debenture upon re-export ;
security to be given for such re-export, and that
they be not landed again ; and the officer who made
the seizure is to have reasonable satisfaction.
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Out Letters (Customs) IV.
p. 127.
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Same from same to same to discharge the seizure of the
ship Diligence, 200 tons burden and 16 guns, Nicholas
List master, who swears that about the middle of
June, 1677, he sailed with 31 men, all English
(whereby he allegeth he was exempted from the
payment of the one per cent. duty mentioned in the
Act of Frauds for all goods then exported by him)
and that on arriving at Leghorn the King's ship
James, galley, pressed four men from him, and four
more were pressed from him into the Great Algerine
[ship] riding there, and that at Malaga, homeward
bound, four more were pressed from him aboard the
Middle Algerine, Capt. Blag commander, and that
one man at Taranto, three at Oneglia and two at
Altieri ran away from him, so that in June last
he took in six foreigners to help to bring home
his ship (from the Straits) for that he could get no
Englishmen there, and so arrived with 20 men,
six thereof foreigners, wherefore said ship is seized
by the Deputy Surveyor of the Navigation Act
and also the one per cent. duty is required for want
of the complement of English.
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Ibid, pp. 124-5.
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Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the Customs
Commissioners for discharge of the ship Sarah
and Anne, of London, George Jay master, who
about June, 1675, went out mate of the said ship,
then manned with 12 men, all English, for Salerno :
at Leghorn he was made master, the other master
being there dismissed took his boy with him, so Jay
was forced to take a stranger to be his boy, not being
able to get an English boy there : at Leghorn
two of his men the very day he sailed were pressed
from him by Capt. Blage, and he was forced to take
in two Frenchmen to bring home his ship, which
must otherwise have been forced to stay there :
at Genoa one of his Englishmen died, and he was
forced to come home with nine men, three thereof
strangers, and so is seized by the Deputy Surveyor
of the Navigation Act because his ship was not
navigated with the master and three-fourths of the
mariners English during the whole voyage, being
laden with hemp and other commodities mentioned
in the Navigation Act.
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Our Letters (Customs) IV.
pp. 125-6.
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The like warrant for discharge of the ship True
Merchant, of London, Crin van Doorne master,
who sailed with said ship from London in March,
1676 [? 1676-7], manned with 12 English and
1 stranger : at Dort all his men but one Englishman
left him, and being bound for Wiborg in the East
[land country] he shipped three Englishmen [being]
as many as he could get, three Scots, one of his
Majesty's subjects born at New York, and two
strangers, one of them having a wife in England :
at Wyburgh one of his Scots ran away, and not
being able to get any more he was forced to bring
home his ship with nine men, two thereof being
Scots and two other strangers. The Deputy
Surveyor of the Navigation Act has certified that
said Van Doorne has been a denizen and inhabitant
here [in England] for some years, and that the
proprietor of the said ship is John Varn, merchant,
in Philpot Lane, London.
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Ibid, pp. 126-7.
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Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the Treasurer of the
Navy to secure to the Victuallers of the Navy (by
orders remaining in your hands and registered
on the 412,925l. 14s. 6d., part of the late Assessment)
the 6 per cent. interest and 2 per cent. gratuity
on the orders for 44,273l. 12s. 3½d. to them lately
directed as in settlement of their imprest bills
for the Victualling for the months of May, June
and part of July : said interest and gratuity
to be adjusted and paid after payment of the orders
for said bills.
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Money Book (General)
p. 320.
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Letter of direction on 4,000l. in further part of an
order of Sept. 28 last for 20,000l. to Charles Bertie
for secret service : same to be hereby satisfied by
tallies on Edward Backwell as Receiver of [the
remains of] the Queen's dowry.
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Ibid, p. 322.
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Letter of direction on an order of Sept. 20 last for
455l. to William Soames for three months' ordinary
to Aug. 10 last as Envoy Extraordinary to the
Duchess Regent of Savoy : same to be hereby
satisfied by tallies on the Customs.
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Money Book (General)
p. 322.
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Money warrant for 250l. to George Nicholas for half
a year to Sept. 29 last on his patent fee as Surveyor
General of the Customs.
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Ibid.
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Same for 250l. to Thomas Elliot, Esq., Master of his
Majesty's Harriers, for same time upon his allowance
of 500l. per an. in lieu of all fees and allowances
for keeping his Majesty's harehounds and all other
charges belonging to them.
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Ibid.
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Same for 273l. to Sir Peter Wyche, Kt., for three
months in advance on his ordinary of 3l. a day
as Resident with the Hanse Towns. (Letter of
direction dated Nov. 8 on an order dated Oct. 14
drawn hereon : same to be hereby satisfied by
tallies on the Customs.)
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Ibid. pp. 322, 334.
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Same for 7,000l. to Edward Seymour, Treasurer of the
Navy, as in further part of 50,000l. as by the privy
seal of Aug. 5 last for wages of officers and seamen
of the Navy at sea : to be registered [on] and
paid in course out of the 412,925l. 14s. 6d., part of the
late Act [for the Eighteen Months' Assessment].
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Ibid, p. 323.
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Charles Bertie to the Customs Cashier to bring into
the Exchequer, 'notwithstanding any former
restriction,' 250l. for the new Royal Foundation
[of the King's Mathematical boys at Christ's
Hospital]. (Same to same dated Dec. 5 to bring
this sum in 'presently.')
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Out Letters (General)
p. 325.
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Same to same to bring into the Exchequer (with
respect to the weekly payments) 160l. for Mr. Gurle,
his Majesty's Gardener, of St. James's Garden.
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Ibid, p. 326.
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Same to same to similarly bring in 100l. for Capt.
Mansell.
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Ibid.
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Same to the Auditor of the Receipt for tallies on the
Excise (and to the Receivers of Excise to pay
said tallies) for "as hath been usual" a quarter's
payment of Sir William Killegrew's pension of
500l. per an.
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Ibid.
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Oct. 14.
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Same to Robert Ekins (Ekings), late searcher at Poole
(and similarly to Henry Jubber, late Surveyor
there, George Cruft, late tidesman there, Peter
Bennet, late deputy searcher there) to attend
the Customs Commissioners at the Custom House,
London, on Wednesday morning next to testify
your whole knowledge with regard to certain frauds
at Poole port, Treasurer Danby being informed
that your evidence will be very material for discovery
thereof.
(In the margin : about Mr. Younger and [the
frauds at the port of] Poole.) (The like letter
dated Oct. 19 for Capt. Geo. Towery to attend
the said Commissioners on Monday, Oct. 21.)
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Out Letters (Customs) IV.
p. 128.
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Charles Bertie to the Customs Cashier to bring into
the Exchequer (with respect to the weekly payments)
100l. for Mris. Kelly to be issued upon her
pension.
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Out Letters (General)
p. 326.
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Same to [same] to bring in immediately after the weekly
payments [are satisfied] and before other payments
706l. 16s. 7d. for the gardeners of the Privy Garden
at Whitehall and the Garden plots and Green at
Hampton Court.
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Ibid.
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Same to the Auditor of the Receipt for a tally on the
Customs (and same to the Customs Cashier to pay
said tally with respect to the weekly payments) for
150l. for last Michaelmas quarter upon the pension
of 600l. per an. to Lady Fanshawe's executors.
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Ibid, p. 327.
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Same to same to issue to Serjeant Topham for half
a year's salary and board wages the 50l. 3s. 9d.
which the Customs Cashier has brought into the
Exchequer for him.
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Ibid.
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Same to same for tallies on the Receiver of First
Fruits for 500l. for last Sept. 29 quarter on the Earl of
Oxford's pension of 2,000l. per an.
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Ibid.
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Oct. 15.
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Same to the Customs Cashier to bring 10l. into
the Exchequer for Mr. Robert Bertie : with respect
to the weekly payments.
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Ibid, p. 328.
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