Entry Book: October 1686

Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 8, 1685-1689. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1923.

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October 1686

Oct. 11. Royal warrant to the Duke of Ormonde, Lord Steward of the Household, Francis, Visct. Newport, Treasurer of same, William Lord Maynard, Comptroller of same, and to the rest of the Board of Greencloth to pay Francis Gwyn's pension of 1,000l. per an. quarterly from 1685, April 30, during pleasure. King's Warrant Book XI, p. 165.
Oct. 11. Royal warrant to the Duke of Ormonde, Lord Steward of the Household, Francis, Viset. Newport. Treasurer of same, William Lord Maynard, Comptroller of same, and to the rest of the Board of Greencloth to pay as follows to the persons named. being officers and servants of the Stables, their salaries and allowances for the quarter ending 1685, June 30, for which they have not been paid. whereas all other the servants of the said Stables have been paid for said quarter: viz. 32l. 10s. 0d. to Tho. Pudsey, yeoman rider: 56l. to John Grahme, clerk of the Stables; 45l. 15s. 0d. to Tho. Roper, yeoman sadler; 11l. 15s. 0d. to Henry Vaughan, purveyor and granitor; 3l. to Tho. Duffeild, mewskeeper; 3l. to Edward Hewson, mewskeeper: 3l. 15s. 0d. to Jno. Banks, messenger of the Stables. King's Warrant Book XI, p. 167.
Same to same to pay to Mary Pomeroy, widow, one of the servants of the late King's brother the Duke of Gloucester, 20l. per an. from 1685, June 30, for life, as additional to her 10l. per an.: the late King having by a warrant dated 1662, May 7, ordered her 60l. per an., which allowance was afterwards reduced to 30l. per an. and was by the late retrenchment and by the present establishment [of the Royal Household] further reduced to 10l. per an., which [his Majesty thinks] is too small a maintenance to support her in her old age. Ibid.
Same to same to pay to Mary Hope and Elizabeth Luck, widow. daughters of Robert Hope, esq., deceased, late Clerk of the Spicery, the pensions of 30l. and 50l. per an. respectively from April 1 last for their lives. the king being pleased to grant same in consideration of their father's services to Charles I, Charles II and James II and of their poor and deplorable condition; said Luck having eight small children without any provision of maintenance. Ibid, p. 168.
Oct. 15. Same to the Attorney or Solicitor General for a privy seal to authorise Philip, Earl of Chesterfield, Henry, Earl of Clarendon (now Keeper of the Privy Seal and Lieutenant General of Ireland), and William Montague, esq., to assign and transfer to Lawrence, Earl of Rochester, Lord Treasurer, Lewis, Earl of Feversham, Thomas, Visct. Fauconberg, Richard, Visct. Preston, Sir Richard Belling, Henry Frederick Thynne, Sir James Butler and Henry Thornhill all their interests in divers manors, lands, tenements and hereditaments of which they stand possessed in trust for Katherine, Queen Dowager (their said trust being for her life and thereafter for the King, his heirs, etc.): the said Queen Dowager having prayed that in regard many of her trustees are dead the said trusts may by their survivors [said Earl of Chesterfield et al. as above] be transferred to the Earl of Rochester et al. as above for the residue of the several terms unexpired in the said premises and on trusts as abovesaid. Ibid, pp. 184–5. Warrants Early XXXIII, fo. 41 ab.