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| Date. |
Nature and Substance of the Entry. |
Reference. |
| Sept. 18. |
Money warrant for 76l. 2s. 0d. to Samuell Powell, esq., Serjeant at Arms attending the House of Commons, in satisfaction of his disbursements for coals, candles, sweets, mops, brooms and other necessaries provided for the service of said House from 1693, Nov. 13, to 1694, April 25, and also in reward to messengers for serving of orders according to the direction of said House within said time. (Money order dated Sept. 20 hereon.) |
Money Book XII, p. 268. Order Book IV, p. 123. |
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Henry Guy to the Navy Commissioners. In reply to yours of the 13th concerning the disposal of the money received by the Navy Treasurer for the thirds of the product of the prizes, my Lords direct that the said thirds be divided into four equal parts and be distributed to the four heads or branches to which same is applicable by the Act of Parliament for Prizes, viz.: one quarter to the Commissioners for Sick and Wounded; to be employed in taking care of such seamen as are put on shore from their Majesties' ships for care: one quarter to the Chest at Chatham for pensions and smart money to seamen wounded in their Majesties' service: one quarter for necessaries put on board for relief of sick and wounded men at sea: one quarter for bounties to widows, children and parents of seamen slain in their Majesties' service. |
Out Letters (General) XIV, p. 295. |
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Same to the Prizes Commissioners. Arising out of the above, please certify my Lords what money has been paid to the Navy Treasurer on account of the thirds of prizes: and to so certify my Lords from time to time hereafter as you pay any such money to said Treasurer. |
Ibid, p. 296. |
| Sept. 19. |
Treasury warrant dormant to the Receipt to pay 1,000l. per an. to Charles, Duke of St. Albans, and Diana his wife, out of the moneys of First Fruits and Tenths as by the patent under the great seal of the 14th inst., granting them for life an annuity of 2,000l., half thereof out of First Fruits and Tenths from June 24 last: and to issue 250l. hereon [for the quarter from June 24 last]: to be by tallies on the Receiver of First Fruits or upon the Tenths of any diocese. |
Money Book XII, p. 269. |
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Same to the Commissioners of Alienations and the Receiver General of same to pay said Duke and Duchess 500l. per an. out of Alienations, as part of said annuity under the abovesaid patent and hereon to pay 125l. forthwith. |
Ibid, pp. 269–70. |
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Same to the Auditor of North Wales and South Wales and to the respective Receivers of Crown revenues there to pay said Duke and Duchess 500l. per an. out of said revenue as part of said annuity as above: and hereon to pay 125l. forthwith. |
Ibid, pp. 270–1. |
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Money order for 1,176l. 10s. 0d. to Ralph Williamson. Receiver General of the first 4s. Aid and Review of the Poll in co. Yorks: 1,136l. 10s. 0d. thereof for 1 per cent. allowance on 113,660l. 16s. 7d. returned by him into the Exchequer on said Aid and 40l. for his extraordinary charge? relating to the receipt of the Review of the Poll. (Money order dated Sept. 21 hereon.) |
Ibid, p. 271. Order Book IV, p. 124. |
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Henry Guy to the Navy Commissioners. By an account of the Marine Regiments made up to 1692–3, Feb. 17, it appears that 7,576l. 9s. 8d. was deducted as for so much paid for land pay to the officers of the two said Regiments. But it since appears by the certificate of Mr. Lyddall, one of the Navy Commissioners, that the officers received 7,381l. thereon, thus leaving 195l. 9s. 8d. still unpaid thereon and due to the Earl of Pembroke, then Colonel of one of the said Regiments. You are to make forth a bill for said sum to said Earl and to pay same out of the tallies in the hands of the Navy Treasurer struck on the Vellum Duties. |
Disposition Book XII, p. 138. |
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Same to the Governor and Company of the Bank of England to pay into the Exchequer on Friday morning next 54,738l. 4s. 7d. out of the 300,000l. representing the second quarter of the subscriptions to said Bank. The said sum is to be issued for the following services, viz.: |
l.
|
s.
|
d.
|
Out Letters (General) XIV, p. 296. |
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to Charles Bertie, Treasurer of the Ordnance |
1,850 |
0 |
0 |
|
to the Earl of Ranelagh [for the Forces] |
21,950 |
0 |
0 |
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to Charles Fox [for the Forces in Ireland] |
5,000 |
0 |
0 |
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to Edward Russell, Treasurer of the Navy |
18,738 |
4 |
7 |
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£54,738 |
4 |
7 |
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Treasury reference to the Excise Commissioners of the petition of Richard Kinch, distiller, praying to be discharged of a debt of 250l. owing for Excise. |
Reference Book VII, p. 65. |
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Report to the Queen from the Treasury Lords on the memorial of the Danish Resident as by the order of reference of July 26 last thereof from the Privy Council; the said Resident desiring that the Danish ships lately brought into the Downs may upon their discharge be freed from the payment of several duties mentioned therein. |
Warrants not Relating to Money XIV, p. 334. |
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We have referred same to the Customs Commissioners and are of opinion that the 54l. 2s. 3d. due for “Custom and other duties on the said corn” may be remitted. But as to the 63l. for Tonnage Duty, it cannot be remitted, as the said Duty is applicable to the payment of the yearly fund to the Bank of England and other annuities appointed by that [Tonnage] Act. If discharged it must be supplied out of other moneys. |
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Same to same from same on the petition of John Mauger of Jersey, merchant, concerning the Duties demanded for the French prize ship Lewis; as by the order of reference dated Aug. 23 last thereof from the Privy Council. We have referred same to the Customs Commissioners and agree with their report as follows thereon. |
Ibid, p. 335 |
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Appending: said report dated July 18 last. The
French ship Lewis was taken some time since by a privateer of Jersey and has been duly condemned in the Admiralty Court and the King's fifth part has been paid. A short time after, the owners sent her to London with oil of turpentine, Paris plaster and oranges, all prize goods, and 56 tons of Jersey pebble stones for ballast. The Customs officers have compelled him to pay 6d. per ton Custom for said ballast, although they are Jersey stones, and 10s. a ton for Tonnage Duty, and the officers of Trinity House have demanded 5s. a ton from her as an unfree bottom, although she has made no voyage since her capture, but came here in expectation to be made free. |
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The above allegations are true. The 6d. per ton for ballast will be repaid on proof that the stones are Jersey stones. As to the 5s. per ton duty, we know nothing thereof, as it is cognisable only before the Master etc. of Trinity House. But we insist upon the Tonnage Duty by virtue of the late Act of Parliament [5 and 0 Wm. and Mary, c. 20] as from a ship bringing French goods from Jersey. This is agreeable to an opinion of the Attorney General and other learned counsel on a late question whether vessels importing from Jersey and Guernsey were subject to said duty, on which their opinion was that it seems to be casus omissus for that it is commonly understood that Jersey and Guernsey are not bound by Acts of Parliament where not named (as they are not in said Act), but if any goods from foreign parts are brought hither [thither] and thence to England the duties will be due and payable. |
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Treasury warrant to John Digbye, clerk to the Commissioners or Trustees for Sale of Fee Farm Rents, to make and send to the Treasury Lords forthwith a perfect and detailed schedule or rental of all the rents reconveyed to the said Trustees by reason that after being sold they proved defective [as being undiscoverable, or illeviable etc.] and were accordingly surrendered in return for reprises of other rents. |
Warrants not Relating to Money XIV, p. 336. |
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Entry of the Treasury Lords' signature of the docquet of a lease to Simon Mayne, esq., of the tithes of corn and hay of the demesne lands of the manor of Dinton, co. Bucks; for 31 years at 5l. per an. rent. |
Ibid.
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| Sept. 20. |
Royal warrant, under the Queen's sign manual, to the Treasury Lords to give warrant to the Clerk of the Pipe for a lease under the great seal to John Latten of the lodge in his possession situate in Richmond Old Park and the gardens etc. thereto and also a parcel of woodland in said park lately in the tenure of Thomas Barnes and now in the tenure of said Latten, containing six acres, and all the divers other parcels of land in said park now or late in the tenure of said Barnes as tenant at will, viz. Virginia Close, containing 25 acres, Walk Close, containing 12 acres, Lovell Close, containing 30 acres, and Town Close, containing 30 acres; and also the divers parcels of land in said park in the tenure of said Barnes as the lessee of Edward Villers, esq., viz, Brown's Close, containing 12 acres, Frayles Close, alias le Flayes, containing 12 acres, and Triangle Close, containing 18 acres; also the house with its appurtenances in said park, formerly in the tenure of Peter Thorne and now in the possession of John Thorne his son, the said appurtenances comprising Barne Close (together with the yard there), containing 18 acres. Banqueting Close, containing 9½ acres, Thorne's Close, containing 7½ acres: being all reputed part of the manor of Richmond or West Sheen. |
King's Warrant Book XVIII, pp. 9–11. |
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The present lease is to be at 13s. 4d. rent for 31 years concurrent with any title or interest in being by any grant from the Crown to any person heretofore made and all trustees of the premises for the Crown are to stand seized thereof in trust for said Latten without further warrant or direction. The consideration for this lease is said Latten's good services and a fine of 300l.
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Followed by. the Treasury warrant dated Sept. 25 hereon accordingly to the Clerk of the Pipe for said lease, with a special clause of re-assumption to the Crown: to which warrant is prefixed the usual constat and ratal. |
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Henry Guy to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue as follows from the Exchequer, viz.: |
l.
|
s.
|
d.
|
Disposition Book XII, pp. 137–8. |
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Out of Contributions for Annuities.
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|
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to the Earl of Ranelagh in part of 23,227l. 17s. 4d., the last payment on Sir Joseph Herne's sixth letter of credit for 92,911l. 9s. 4d., being the subsistence in Flanders for one month to Sept. 17th inst. |
11,020 |
1 |
6 |
|
Out of the second quarter of the subscriptions for the Bank to be paid into the Exchequer on Friday morning next.
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|
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to ditto to complete the said 23,227l. 17s. 4d. as above |
12,207 |
15 |
10 |
|
to ditto for six weeks' subsistence on account to the Regiments of Colt, Gibson, Steenboch and the Dutch Foot Guards |
5,429 |
17 |
0 |
|
to ditto for two weeks' subsistence to Belasyse's Regiment from the 2nd to the 15th inst. |
410 |
1 |
2 |
|
to ditto for Capt. Prince's Company |
265 |
12 |
0 |
|
to ditto to clear the subsistence to two Troops of Wynn's Dragoons from Aug. 19 to Sept. 29 inst. |
434 |
14 |
0 |
|
to ditto for the Blue Regiment of Dragoons on account of their pay and in further part of 4,000l. which Monsieur Vander Esch borrowed for that purpose by the King's command |
1,000 |
0 |
0 |
|
to ditto for Peter Careless, one of the Engineers, on account of his salary |
202 |
0 |
0 |
|
to ditto for the addition to contingencies for one week to the 15th inst. |
9,000 |
0 |
0 |
|
to ditto for Mr. Blathwayt on his contingent warrant for 1,000l.: “and makes 800l. issued in the whole” |
200 |
0 |
0 |
|
to the Treasurer of the Ordnance towards answering bills for the [Artillery] Train in Flanders |
1,000 |
0 |
0 |
|
to ditto for the gunmakers |
500 |
0 |
0 |
|
to ditto in further part of 8,738l. 12s. 6d. for a proportion of arms to be sent to Jamaica; and other services relating to that expedition: “and makes 1,250l. issued in the whole” |
250 |
0 |
0 |
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to ditto for the fortifications at Sheerness |
100 |
0 |
0 |
|
to Mr. Fox to be paid to the Commissioners of Transports in part of 11,739l. 13s. 4d. for carrying soldiers to Jamaica |
5,000 |
0 |
0 |
|
to the Treasurer of the Navy for Sick and Wounded: to be placed to the account of wages |
1,200 |
0 |
0 |
|
to ditto for same: to be placed to the account of Victualling |
800 |
0 |
0 |
|
to ditto for recalls |
9,663 |
6 |
3 |
|
to ditto to satisfy bills payable to Mr. Knight on account of seamen's wages |
4,984 |
13 |
9 |
|
to ditto for imprests and bills of exchange, whereof 400l. is to be applied to answer a bill of exchange dated 10 Aug. last, drawn on the Navy Commissioners by John Naish, one of the Purveyors in Ireland, and payable to William Robinson, esq. |
1,000 |
0 |
0 |
|
to ditto for the Victualling Commissioners |
1,090 |
4 |
7 |
|
Out of Contributions on Salt.
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|
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to ditto, more for the Victualling Commissioners |
1,261 |
15 |
5 |
|
Out of loans on the Hereditary and Temporary Excise.
|
|
|
to ditto, more for the Victualling Commissioners; for Admiral Russell's Fleet on account of the year 1695 |
6,000 |
0 |
0 |
|
to ditto, more for the Victualling to the present expedition to Jamaica |
1,000 |
0 |
0 |
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to me [Guy] for secret service |
900 |
0 |
0 |
|
to Lady Arabella Macharty |
100 |
0 |
0 |
|
£75,020 |
1 |
6 |
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Henry Guy to the Commissioners for Sick and Wounded to take care that out of the 2,000l. directed this day to you as above there bo provision made for buying of ground and the building a prison thereon for the safekeeping of prisoners at Plymouth, the charge whereof is not to exceed 656l. 19s. 6d.
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Disposition Book XII, p. 140. |
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Same to Mr. Shales, enclosing an account [missing] of money paid to ships etc. between the 1st and 7th inst. and the 7th and 14th inst. |
Out Letters (General) XIV, p. 297. |
| 1694. Sept. 21. |
Treasury warrant to Mr. Knight, Customs Cashier, to pay 45l. 12s. 0d. to Henry Ayloffe, King's Remembrancer of the Exchequer, for the fees to him and his clerks heretofore usually paid by the customers of the several ports of England and Wales; and is for passing their accounts for the year ended 1693, Christmas. |
Money Book XII, p. 271. |
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Same to same to pay same 37l. 15s. 4d. for the usual bill for parchment etc. for the blank books of the Surveyor General of Customs, London port, for the year ended Christmas next. |
Ibid, p. 272. |
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And 340l. 14s. 4d. to same for same for the like blank books for the outports for same year. |
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Henry Guy to Bartholomew Burton to pay 2,500l. into the Bank of England, being for the second payment on the 10,000l. subscribed by the Queen to the said Bank. The Treasury Lords “will take care to repay you the same out of loans on the Hereditary and Temporary Excise.” |
Disposition Book XII, p. 139. |
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Same to same to pay as follows out of the remainder of the 5,000l. lately put into your hands, ut supra, p. 746, viz.: |
l.
|
s.
|
d.
|
Ibid.
|
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to the Paymaster of the Works for fitting up an office in the Star Chamber for the Tellers and others employed about the first Million Act |
153 |
11 |
10½ |
|
to ditto for repairs in the Star Chamber |
116 |
1 |
3 |
|
£269 |
13 |
1½ |
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Same to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue out of low wines 485l. 3s. 0d. to me [Guy] for secret service. |
Ibid.
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Same to the Navy Commissioners. By two bills dated 1690, June 30 and Nov. 3, there are due to Mary Carpenter, administratrix to John Carpenter, late Agent to the second Marine Regiment, the following sums for moneys disbursed by him for said Regiment for shoes etc. viz.: 1,056l. 11s. 10d. and 200l., which are part of 1,791l. 11s. 10d. deducted from the Marine Regiments in their accounts made up to 1692–3, Feb. 17. You are to cause the said two bills to be paid out of the tallies and orders in the Navy Treasurer's hands on the new duties on vellum etc. |
Ibid, p. 140. |
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Same to same to report on the enclosed extract [missing] of a report made by the Auditors of the Imprests upon the demands made by Sir Josiah Child and partners, late Contractors for Victualling the Navy. |
Out Letters (General) XIV, p. 296. |
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Same to Mr. Ince. Although this be a holiday, yet the officers of the Exchequer are to attend to receive the moneys which the Governor and Company of the Bank of England were desired to pay in there. Therefore my Lords expect that same be paid in this morning there accordingly. |
Ibid.
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Same to the Customs Commissioners to give notice to John Ford, searcher of the coast of Sussex, to attend my Lords on Tuesday next according to your report of Aug. 10 last on the petition of John Auriol et al.
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Ibid.
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Henry Guy to Mr. Travers [Surveyor General of Crown Lands] and Sir Christopher Wren. It is the Queen's pleasure that so much ground should be set out at Greenwich adjoining the new unfinished house there as shall be necessary for the convenience of an Hospital to be founded for the relief of seamen. You are to view same and report what ground you think proper for said purpose. |
Out Letters (General) XIV, p. 297. |
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Same to Mr. Shales, returning the copy of a paper presented to the Treasury Lords by the Admiralty Lords concerning the recalls of ships. |
Ibid.
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Same to Sir Christopher Wren to report on the enclosed estimate [missing] of Capt, Studholme for making necessary repairs in the private road from Whitehall to Kensington House. |
Ibid.
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The Treasury Lords to the Lords Justices, Ireland, to report on the enclosed petition [missing] of Lady Jane Dowdall concerning some money put out for her by her son Patrick Dowdall, who died in rebellion in 1690. |
Out Letters (Ireland) VI, p. 453. |
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Same to same to report on the enclosed petition [missing] of Sir James Caldwell, bart., for a grant of some forfeited lands, as in a schedule thereto, in consideration of his services and losses in Ireland. |
Ibid, p. 454. |
| Sept. 22. |
Treasury fiat for royal letters patent to constitute Thomas Lowther as searcher of Cardiff port loco Mansell Stradling, esq., deceased. |
Out Letters (Customs) XIII, p. 110. |
| Sept. 24. |
Royal warrant, under the Queen's sign manual, to Charles Fox and Thomas, Lord Coningsby, Paymasters of the Forces, Ireland, to pay to John D' Remi de Montigni, executor to Eliz. Guillebuer Sequevills de Montargyer, 32l. 5s. 0d. for the pay of the late Capt, — Montargyer and his servant from 1690, June 17 (when he was commissioned as Captain in a Troop of the Regiment of Horse, of which Visct. Galway is now Colonel), to July 17 following, being pay for a month omitted by mistake from the muster rolls. |
King's Warrant Book XVIII, p. 13. |
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Henry Guy to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue (out of the Hereditary and Temporary Excise) 500l. to the Earl of Montagu on the unsatisfied order in his name for the service of the Great Wardrobe: to be applied towards defraying the charge of providing furniture for the new yacht. |
Disposition Book XII, p. 141. |
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Same [to same] to pay or apply (out of same) 2,000l. towards satisfaction of interest at 6 per cent. on loans made on credit of the Exchequer in general which have been “since directed to be satisfied out of the Quarterly Poll.” |
Ibid.
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| Sept. 24. |
Same to the Commissioners of Transports. I have read to my Lords your report of the 17th inst. on the petition of Henry Beach, Robert Tindall, Joseph Stroud and Jonathan Megrim, masters of ships employed in the Irish transport service. You are to make up their accounts by the month. |
Out Letters (General) XIV, p. 297. |
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Royal warrant, under the Queen's sign manual, to the Lords Justices, Ireland, for a pension of 10s. a day to René la Faucille from 1693, June 1, until further order in consideration of his services and of his having no allowance as Lieutenant Governor of Sligo town. |
Out Letters (Ireland) VI, p. 457. |
| Sept. 25. |
Money warrant for 320l. to William Cawthorpe and Christopher Rands, Receivers for co. Lincoln of the first and second Twelve Months' Aid, the first Quarterly Poll and Review of the Poll, and the first 4s. Aid, for their industry and extraordinary charges therein in bringing up by strong guards and by bills of exchange upwards of 210,000l. of the moneys thereof. (For the money order hereon see infra, p. 960, under date 1694–5, March 24.) |
Money Book XII, p. 272 |
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Same for 500l. to Aubery, Earl of Oxford, for half a year to June 24 last as a Gentleman of the Bedchamber. (Money order dated Sept. 26 hereon.) (Henry Guy to the Auditor of the Receipt dated Sept. 26 to pay same out of loans on the Hereditary and Temporary Excise.) |
Ibid, p. 273. Order Book IV, p. 125. Disposition Book XII. p. 142. |
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Same for 40l. to Samuell Powell, Serjeant at Arms attending the House of Commons, to be distributed to the housekeeper, messenger and doorkeepers attending said House for their pains, constant attendance and service during the last Session of Parliament. (Money order dated Sept. 25 hereon.) |
Money Book XII, p. 273. Order Book IV, p. 125. |
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Same for 20l. to George Hudson, clerk, in reward of his services and towards the charge of transporting himself to Virginia, whither he is going chaplain. |
Money Book XII, p. 273. |
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Same for 15,000l. to Thomas Browne in repayment of so much lent by him the 15th inst. on credit of the Hereditary and Temporary Excise. |
Ibid, p. 275. |
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Henry Guy to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue 636l. 9s. 3¾d. to the Earl of Nottingham out of the Hereditary and Temporary Excise; 250l. thereof for salary as late Secretary of State and 386l. 9s. 3¾d. on his order for interest on the purchase money of his house at Kensington. |
Disposition Book XII, p. 141. |
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Same to same to issue as follows out of the Lottery rent reserved in the Exchequer, viz.: |
l.
|
s.
|
d.
|
Ibid, p. 142. |
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to Sir Charles Slingesby et al., the poor pensioners, as in the order of Aug. 22 last, supra, p. 742 |
137 |
10 |
7½ |
|
to Mris. Leighton, named in the said order |
25 |
0 |
0 |
|
to Mris. Berkley: named in the same |
50 |
0 |
0 |
|
to Mris. Needham: named in the same |
75 |
0 |
0 |
|
£287 |
10 |
7½ |
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Same to Bartholomew Burton to pay (out of 5,000l. ut supra, p. 746) 200l. to Thomas Browne for 2 per cent. allowance on 10,000l., part of 25,000l. by him lately lent on credit of the Hereditary and Temporary Excise. |
Ibid, p. 141. |
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Henry Guy to Bartholomew Burton to similarly pay 600l. to Jo. Knight, esq., for the like allowance 1693, Sept. 6, to 1694, Sept. 6, on 30,000l. lent by him on credit of the fourth of the Customs. |
Disposition Book XII, p. 142. |
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Same to Mr. Shales, enclosing an account [missing] from the Navy Commissioners of money received and paid by the Navy Treasurer between the 1st and 7th inst.; also an account [missing] of money paid similarly to ships between the 14th and 21st inst. |
Out Letters (General) XIV, p. 297. |
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Same to the Customs Commissioners, enclosing an information or certificate [missing] of the parishioners of Brixham and places near Torbay, co. Devon, touching several sums unjustly obtained from their Majesties by one Emanuel Leverance. Make enquiry of the officers at Dartmouth as to these abuses and report. The complaint is that he received 140l. for a vessel sunk at Torbay to prevent the landing of the French, half of which [vessel] 15 years since cost him but 15l., and he hath taken up to his own use 9l. for powder and ball furnished the country at the same time, 22l. for quartering part of his Majesty's Army when he landed at Torbay and 18l. for hire of pilots the same time, all which suggestions the information says are false. |
Ibid, p. 298. |
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Same to the Earl of Ranelagh for a state of the debt in the Office of Paymaster of the Forces as it will stand at Michaelmas, 1694, distinguishing the debt incurred since 1688, Christmas, from any part grown due before that date. |
Ibid.
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The like letter to the Victualling Commissioners for the debt in the Victualling Office. |
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The like to the Navy Commissioners for the Navy debt. |
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The like to the Earl of Romney for the Ordnance Office debt. |
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The like to Mr. Fox for the debt in the office of Paymasters of the Forces, Ireland: leaving out the last clause. |
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Same to the Governor and Company of the Bank of England to pay 65,472l. 9s. 7d. into the Exchequer as follows, as the residue of the second 300,000l. quarter part of the subscriptions to the Bank, viz.: |
l.
|
s.
|
d.
|
Ibid.
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On Friday morning next.
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|
|
for the Earl of Ranelagh [for the Forces] |
30,000 |
0 |
0 |
|
for Charles Bertie, Treasurer of the Ordnance |
1,850 |
0 |
0 |
|
for Edward Russell, Treasurer of the Navy |
26,150 |
0 |
0 |
|
On Saturday morning next.
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|
|
for Edward Russell, Treasurer of the Navy |
7,472 |
9 |
7½ |
|
£65,472 |
9 |
7½ |
|
In the margin: “This letter rectified in several particulars,” see infra, p. 774. |
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Henry Guy to the Earl of Ranelagh. My Lords have considered your report of Aug. 1 last on the petition of Capt. Bettsworth, in which you certify that by the establishments in the late King's time the bounty for the loss of a limb in the service was a year's pay, but that you do not find any regulation of that kind fixt to the establishments since their Majesties' accession. By a wound at the battle of Landen petitioner was obliged to have his leg and part of his thigh cut off. If that bounty be granted it comes to 146l. It is the Queen's pleasure that he be relieved [accordingly] by a contingent warrant [a warrant for that sum on the head of Army contingencies] without making a practice or drawing the same in practice for the future. Please prepare a royal warrant for 146l. to Bettsworth accordingly. |
Out Letters (General) XIV, p. 299. |
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Treasury reference to Thomas Hall of the petition of William Glanvill, proposing his securities, detailed, for his place as Receiver of First Fruits and Tenths. |
Reference Book VII, p. 65. |
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Same to the Customs Commissioners of the petition of Morgan Phillips for a tidesurveyor's place. |
Ibid.
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Same to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands of the petition of John Congdon for a fresh lease on surrender of a small tenement in the manor of Climsland Prior, parcel of the Duchy of Cornwall. |
Ibid.
|
|
Same to same of the petition of Henry Lane for extension of lease of a tenement in the manor of Trelowia, part of said Duchy. |
Ibid.
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|
Treasury subscription for the execution of a warrant dated Aug. 27 last from the Earl of Dorset, Lord Chamberlain, to Sir Francis Lawley, Master of the Jewel House, to deliver to Dr. William Stanley, Clerk of the Closet to the Queen, 80 ounces of gilt plate as a gift from the Queen at the christening of his child. (Cancelled and replaced by the warrant of Dec. 17, infra, p. 853.) |
Warrants not Relating to Money XIV, p. 341. |
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Treasury reference to Sir Christopher Wren of the petition of Simon de Brienne, esq., praying the Treasury Lords to order money for repairing the stables at Kensington. Wren is to view same and prepare an estimate of the charge. |
Reference Book VII, p. 70. |
| Sept. 26. |
Henry Guy to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue as follows out of low wines, viz.: |
l.
|
s.
|
d.
|
Disposition Book XII, p. 142. |
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to me [Guy] for secret service |
58 |
10 |
3½ |
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to Mr. Prior, Resident in Holland, on his 20s. a day ordinary |
273 |
0 |
0 |
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to the Paymaster of the Works, to be paid to Capt. Studholme in part of 232l. 13s. 0d. for repairs of their Majesties' private road from Whitehall to Kensington |
100 |
0 |
0 |
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to Jo[h]n Steether as their Majesties' reward for discovering Thomas Sparkes and others transporting corn to France |
200 |
0 |
0 |
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to Jo[h]n Fish and Edmd. Reading for apprehending Robert Lewis and Jasper Merry, two housebreakers |
20 |
0 |
0 |
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£651 |
10 |
3½ |
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Henry Guy to Mr. Povey. In reply to yours of this date please inform the Committee for Trade and Plantations that my Lords have no objections against appointing Mr. Murray to be Commissary General of the Stores and Provisions to attend the Expedition to Jamaica and to execute the offices of Paymaster, Commissary of the Musters and Judge Advocate of the Forces, with a salary of 500l. per an. for himself and 120l. per an. for his clerks. My Lords are of opinion he may have a further allowance of 60l. per an. for an additional clerk. They also approve the proposed allowances of 20s. a day to a physician and 200l. per an. to an apothecary and 50l. per an. to his mate during the time of the Expedition. As to the estimate for 7,088l. 5s. 10d. for the cost of provisions for 1,700 men, my Lords will take care to furnish same to the Victuallers according to the necessity of the service. |
Out Letters (General) XIV, p. 299. |
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Same to Mr. Fox to report on the enclosed memorial [missing] of Sir Richard Atkins concerning the subsistence and levy money due to his Regiment; also a memorial [missing] of Capt. John Wildman and Capt. Martin Laycock of Visct. Charlemont's Regiment concerning the subsistence due to their Companies. |
Ibid.
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Same to Mr. Ince. In answer to yours of the 25th inst. relating to the time of paying into the Exchequer 7,472l. 9s. 7½d. by the Governor etc. of the Bank of England, my Lords are content that it be paid in on Monday, Oct. 1 next, instead of on Saturday next. “In my letter yesterday, supra, p. 772, the sum of 26,150l. was inserted for the Navy. Now (instead of that sum for that use) my Lords direct 25,000l. to be brought in for the Navy and the remaining 1,150l. for Mr. Fox.” |
Ibid, p. 300. |
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Treasury warrant to the King's Remembrancer to take the securities, detailed, of William Glanvill, junr., esq., for his office of Receiver of First Fruits. |
Warrants not Relating to Money XIV, p. 339. |
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Prefixing: Thomas Hall's report on said Glanvill's petition, proposing said securities. |
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Same to the Excise Commissioners to permit reshipment of brandy, ut supra, p. 757, on board their Majesties' ship Winchester, after taking security from the captain and purser not to land same in any part of England. |
Ibid, pp. 239–40. |
| Sept. 27. |
Henry Guy to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue as follows out of the Exchequer, viz.: |
l.
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s.
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d.
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Disposition Book XII, pp. 143–4. |
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Out of Contributions for Annuities.
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to the Earl of Ranelagh to answer the first payment on Sir Joseph Heme's seventh [letter of] credit for 98,533l. 7s. 4d., being the subsistence in Flanders for one month from the 16th inst. to Oct. 13 next, including the subsistence to the Regiments of Cutts, Coljear and de Rada, lately sent thither: and is in part of 24,633l. 6s. 10d. for that purpose |
6,236 |
3 |
6½ |
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Out of the second quarter of the Subscriptions to the Bank, to be paid into the Exchequer on Friday morning next.
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to ditto to complete the abovesaid 24,633l. 6s. 10d.
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18,397 |
3 |
3½ |
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to ditto on account of the addition to Contingencies for one week ended the 22nd inst. |
6,000 |
0 |
0 |
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to ditto for two weeks' subsistence to the Earl of Oxford's Regiment to Aug. 18 last |
964 |
19 |
0 |
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to ditto to make up the subsistence of Gibson's and Colt's Foot Regiments and Steenboch's Horse Regiment and the Dutch Blue Guards for six weeks from June 23 last |
421 |
0 |
0 |
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to ditto for 12 Companies of the First Regiment of Guards at 200l. a week subsistence for the private men to the 29th inst. |
800 |
0 |
0 |
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to ditto for six Companies of the Coldstream Regiment at 100l. a week for subsistence for the same time |
400 |
0 |
0 |
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to ditto for Stewart's Regiment of Foot for three weeks' subsistence, on account |
615 |
1 |
9 |
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to ditto for Capt. Thomas Jones of [Lord] Hastings' Regiment on account of pay, he being wounded |
50 |
0 |
0 |
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to ditto for Mr. Blathwayt in full of his contingent [Contingency] warrant for 1,000l.
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200 |
0 |
0 |
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to ditto for the Commissaries of the Musters for eight weeks' subsistence to Aug. 18 last |
181 |
1 |
4 |
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to ditto for the Compa[ny] of Invalids at Windsor to the same time |
227 |
5 |
4 |
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to ditto for the inhabitants of Petersfeild for damages done by Capt. Hyde's Company |
13 |
9 |
3½ |
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to ditto for the Blue Regiment of Dragoons on account of pay, in further part of 4,000l. borrowed by Monsieur Vander Esch. |
1,000 |
0 |
0 |
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to ditto: to pay Exchequer fees [on issues for the Forces] |
400 |
0 |
0 |
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to ditto for subsistence to two Companies in Beaumont's Regiment and to two Troops of Leigh's Dragoons |
300 |
0 |
0 |
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to ditto for Lieut. William Steward on account of pay, he being wounded |
30 |
0 |
0 |
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to the Treasurer of the Ordnance towards answering bills for the Train [of Artillery] in Flanders |
1,000 |
0 |
0 |
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to ditto for the gunmakers |
500 |
0 |
0 |
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to ditto in further part of 8,738l. 12s. 6d. for a proportion of arms for Jamaica |
250 |
0 |
0 |
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to ditto for the fortifications at Sheerness |
100 |
0 |
0 |
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to the Treasurer of the Navy for the Victuallers |
5,000 |
0 |
0 |
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to ditto for imprests and bills of exchange |
1,000 |
0 |
0 |
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to ditto for naval uses to be directed |
19,000 |
0 |
0 |
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to Mr. Fox for subsistence to the Regiment of Atkins and two Companies of Visct. Charlemont's Regiment |
506 |
9 |
2 |
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to ditto for the Commissioners of Transports in part of 2,568l. 8s. 11d.
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643 |
10 |
10 |
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Out of Bank money to be paid in next Monday to complete the second quarter of the Bank Subscriptions. |
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to the Treasurer of the Navy for naval uses to be directed |
7,472 |
9 |
7½ |
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Out of loans on the Hereditary and Temporary Excise.
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|
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to the Treasurer of the Navy for victualling the Mediterranean Fleet, on account of the year 1695 |
4,000 |
0 |
0 |
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to ditto in further part for the victualling to the present Expedition to Jamaica |
1,000 |
0 |
0 |
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£76,708 |
13 |
2 |
| Sept. 28. |
Treasury warrant to the Receipt to issue 630l. to Edward Russell, Treasurer of the Navy, on any-unsatisfied order in his name: to be issued out of moneys to be paid into the Exchequer for the executors of Sir William Poole, late collector of Bristol, on his account for Customs due before 1688, Christmas: to be applied to satisfy the like sum due to said Poole on 23 Navy bills for half pay due in the Navy Office to him as commander of the ship St. George in the late Dutch war. |
Money Book XII, p. 273. |
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Money warrant for 1,000l. to William Cawthorp and Christopher Randes in repayment of an overpayment on their account as Receivers for co. Lincoln of the 2s. Aid and Additional 12d. Aid; as by the tally for same dated 1690, Oct, 9, which is to be vacated on this payment. (Money order dated Oct. 2 hereon.) |
Ibid, p. 274. Order Book IV, p. 141. |
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Same for 20l. to John Fish and Edmund Redding as reward for discovering and apprehending Robert Lewis and Jasper Merry for felony and burglary. (Money order dated Oct. 2 hereon.) |
Money Book XII, p 274. Order Book IV, p 126. |
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Money order for 200l. to John Sheether, gent., for discovering Thomas Sparkes and Thomas Jefferies and prosecuting them in the Exchequer May 1 last for loading wheat and peas on board a French shallop for transport to France. (Money order dated Oct. 2 hereon.) |
Money Book XII, p. 274. Order Book IV, p. 126. |
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Same for 273l. to Matthew Prior, “who is remaining in their Majesties' service at the Hague in Holland”: for nine months 1693, Nov. 1, to 1694:, Aug. 1, on his ordinary. (Money order dated Oct. 2 hereon.) |
Money Book XII, p. 275. Order Book IV, p. 125. |
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Henry Guy to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue out of the new duty on coffee and tea 20l. to Mr. Hudson, who is going chaplain to Virginia, and 40l. to Serjeant Powell. |
Disposition Book XII, p. 144. |
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Same to same to issue out of low wines 50l. to the churchwardens of St. James's, Westminster, ut supra, p. 722. |
Ibid.
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Same to the Earl of Ranelagh to report on the enclosed petition [missing] of Rebecca Dawes, widow, concerning a debt of 100l., principal money due to her from Lieut. Col. William Culliford. |
Out Letters (General) XIV, p. 300. |
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Same to William Blathwayt to lay before the King, for his pleasure thereon, the enclosed petition of the Principal Officers of the Ordnance, praying to be exempt from the several taxes granted to their Majesties; together with the Attorney General's opinion and other papers relating thereto. |
Ibid.
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Report to the King from the Treasury Lords on the petition of the Principal Officers of the Ordnance, praying to be reimbursed their assessments to taxes. Petitioners insist that they are comprehended in the several clauses of the Acts for said taxes which exempt military persons therefrom; and offered a report of the Attorney General thereon, hereto annexed [missing], stating their case in point of law. The moneys of said Acts being appropriated, we do not think it is in our power to discharge them or to stay process against them. The exemptions in the said Acts are differently worded, and petitioners before they parted with their money might have been heard in the Exchequer Court whether they be military persons or not. “But it seems to us that the petitioners chose rather to abide your Majesty's determination.” |
Warrants not Relating to Money XIV, p. 340. |
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Henry Guy to the Earl of Ranelagh to report on the enclosed petition [missing] of Gilbert Heathcote about the clothing of 80 new raised men to be added to the two Companies at New York. |
Out Letters (General) XIV, p. 300. |
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Same to the Navy Commissioners to state immediately the accounts with Mr. Dodington for clothing the Marine Regiments which are not satisfied. |
Ibid.
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Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners to make out debentures for 400 pieces of calicoes to David Barry, merchant, who in March last bought from the East India Company by Robert Wooley, his broker, 200 pieces of Cossaies containing 20 yards each piece, “which at the common reckoning makes 400 callicoes,” imported in the ship Tonqueen by said Company from the East Indies: on which he paid all inward duties, and on the 15th of the same month entered them by Bartram Paustian, his man, on board the Elizabeth, Gerard Lunen master, for Rotterdam, where they are all since landed, but said Paustian entered only 200 calicoes, thinking in his ignorance of that trade that Cossaies and calicoes were all one. |
Out Letters (Customs) XIII, pp. 110–11. |
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Treasury reference to the Master Worker etc. of the Mint of the petition of Cha. Atherton, Serjeant Plumber, and Alexander Foot, Master Joiner, shewing that by their patent they ought to enjoy their said offices in all their Majesties' Works, notwithstanding which the officers of the Mint employ other persons; therefore praying that they may be employed in those Works. |
Reference Book VII, p. 66. |
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Same to the Excise Commissioners of the petition of Matthew Walker and Joseph Hornby, shewing that in James II's time they became securities for William Horneby, a collector of Excise; that in 1691 fresh security was required, whereupon they applied to Mr. Chambers, the Accomptant [for the Country Excise], who told them he had passed all his accounts and was not indebted above 30l. [to the Crown thereon], whereas said Horneby “being discharged” is indebted 530l. on the old security and 718l. since: therefore praying to be discharged from said 530l. on paying said 718l.
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Ibid.
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Treasury letters patent constituting John Hewitt, gent., to be Receiver of Crown Revenues for cos. Lincoln, Warwick and Leicester. |
Warrants not Relating to Money XIV, p. 341. |
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William Hayhurst, gent., as same for cos. Lancs, Westmorland and Cumberland. |
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William Hawkins, gent., as same for cos. Northampton and Rutland. |
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Entry of the Treasury Lords' signature of the docquet of a lease to John Latten of premises, ut supra, p. 653. |
Ibid.
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| Sept. 28. |
The Treasury Lords to the Lords Justices, Ireland, to report on the enclosed petition [missing] of Eliz. Downton, widow, concerning a debt of 100l. principal money owing to her by Mathew Barnwall of Archers-town, co. Meath. |
Out Letters (Ireland) VI, p. 454. |
| Sept. 29. |
Henry Guy to Mr. Vernon. My Lords are informed that great abuses have been lately committed and wastes made in Needwood Forest and particularly that you have felled several trees there. Send them word forthwith by what authority you have done same. (The like letter to Mr. Smith.) |
Out Letters (General) XIV, p. 301. |
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Same to the collector of rent in Needwood Forest. You claim and have sold several trees in said forest which have been blown down. By what authority do you claim same? |
Ibid.
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Same to Mr. Laycock. In reply to yours of the 26th inst. concerning the abovesaid wastes, my Lords have ordered the three letters as above. See them delivered and give my Lords an account of what quality and condition the said persons are. |
Ibid.
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Henry Guy to the Navy Commissioners. Send my Lords a copy of the answer which you have prepared to the paper lately put into your hands concerning recalls. My Lords will hear you thereon on such day as shall be agreed to by the Lords of the [Privy] Council. |
Out Letters (General) XIV, p. 301. |
| Sept. 30. |
Same to Mr. Clarke to procure a royal warrant, to be signed by the Queen, to authorise the Paymasters of the Forces, Ireland to pay 5,000l. to the Commissioners of the Transportation upon account of freight and provisions for the Forces going to Jamaica. |
Ibid.
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