Entry Book: February 1688, 11-20

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February 1688, 11-20

Feb. 13. Money warrant for 955l. to John Stafford, esq., Envoy Extraordinary to the King of Spain; 500l. thereof for equipage and 455l. for three months in advance on his ordinary of 5l. a day. (Money order dated Feb. 14 hereon.) Money Book VIII, p. 366. Order Book II, p. 125.
Henry Guy to Sir John Temple [Solicitor General of Ireland]. Hasten your report on the business concerning Sir James Shaen and partners, late Farmers of the Revenue of Ireland; which has been long in your hands. Out Letters (General) XI, p. 310.
Feb. 13. Henry Guy to the Customs Commissioners, enclosing Sergt. Ryley's return [missing] on the warrant against Dawes and Venns. Hasten your report on the paper concerning persons to be dismissed [from the Customs service]. Out Letters (General) XI, p. 310.
Same to the Commissioners for Hackney Coaches. Attend the Treasury Lords with your answer to the enclosed petition [missing, see supra, p. 1652] of James Mallam et al. Ibid.
Same to the Earl of Ranelagh [Paymaster of the Forces] to attend the Treasury Lords with a report on the enclosed petition [missing] of Richard Thomas, praying for the place of master cook in Chelsea [Hospital]. Ibid, p. 311.
Same to Sir Henry Dering. The Treasury Lords are pressed very much for his reprisals of the fee farms. Send an account what fee farms remain undisposed of to make good such reprisals. Ibid.
Same to Dr. Wynn to report on the enclosed list [missing] of sureties proposed by Edward Turner, the clipper, for his offending no more. Ibid.
Same to the Navy Commissioners for a certificate of the application of the 200l. per week for [Navy] officers [arrears due before 1676, Lady day]; and what is now in arrears [thereon] with a list of the persons to whom same is due. Ibid.
Same to Visct. Preston [Master of the Great Wardrobe] to cause new liveries to be made for the King's and Queen's watermen against Easter next; their last liveries having been made in Dec., 1686, at a charge of 300l. Ibid, p. 312.
Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners to employ Francis Free as tidesman and boatman at Bickham in Dartmouth port at 15l. per an. salary and 2s. a day when employed on ships. Out Letters (Customs) XI, pp. 111, 112, 113
George Wills as same at Torquay in Dartmouth port at salary etc. as above.
Benjamin Maggett as same in Lynn Regis port loco Andrew Soward, who will not accept said employment.
Jno. Lloyd to act for the searcher in Fowey port for the searcher's fees or 20l. per an. from the searcher and 10l. per an. from the King.
Charles Anderton as waiter and searcher in Padstow port loco Edward Hitchcock, lately dismissed.
Daniell Picard (Surveyor at Dover) as surveyor at Southampton loco Will. Porter, lately deceased.
William Birkenhead (a landwaiter, Southampton port) as surveyor at Dover loco abovesaid Picard.
Treasury reference to the Commissioners of Excise and Hearthmoney of the petition of James Macghee, shewing that the King has promised to provide for him and that Dyer Colston has resigned his pretensions of transcribing the books of the Hearth Office at 2s. 3d. the 1,000 names; therefore praying to have the transcribing all the said names. Reference Book V, p. 214.
Feb. 13. Treasury reference to the Customs Commissioners of the petition of William Tasburgh for a King's waiter's place; he having suffered much by the pretended Popish Plot and having had the education of a merchant. Reference Book V, p. 214.
Same to the Attorney General of the petition of John Keeble, shewing that on the King's writ of aid he prosecuted Lady Soames as executrix to her late husband for a debt of 100l. due to petitioner on bond; and that the Treasury Lords have ordered a cessat processus: therefore praying that same may be recalled. Ibid.
Same to same of the petition of Geo. Turner, esq., concerning the King's waste lands at Wingfield in Surrey, with a certificate from the inhabitants of Lingfield that the opposing petition in their name was contrived without their privity by persons who are really encroachers on the wastes and that the said [opposing] petition is wholly false. Ibid.
Same to the Attorney General of the petition of the inhabitants of Lingfield, praying that no grant may pass to abovesaid Turner of all the commons and heath in said parish, which will be near 10,000l. loss to the landholders there. Ibid, p. 219.
Same to the Customs Commissioners of the petition of Joseph Hern for liberty to send over 66 pounds of Crewel Inshades yarn to his friend at Antwerp. Ibid, p. 215.
Same to Mr. Fisher [Deputy Surveyor General of Crown Lands] of the petition of Tho. Gibbs for extension of lease of the farm of Englishcombe, co. Somerset, which was purchased by his father-inlaw, John Rosewell, whose only surviving child is petitioner's wife; the farm being lessened 15l. per an. Ibid.
Same to same of the petition of William East with his bills of charges in looking after the King's manor of Great Staughton. Ibid.
Same to Charles Toll et al. of the petition of James Marriott, shewing that his arrears of wages as wardrobe keeper at Hampton Court were not inserted in the state of arrears [due to the late King's servants]; therefore praying that same may be stated and paid. Ibid.
Same to the Excise Commissioners of the petition of Langford Dawes for a collector's place in the Excise: he having been ever loyal. Ibid.
Same to Mr. Graham and Mr. Burton of the petition of Robt. Blythe, shewing that his goods are extended to near the value of his debt to the King and he a prisoner on the common side of the King's Bench prison; therefore praying enlargement. Ibid.
Same to the Customs Commissioners of the petition of Tho. Morgan for a landwaiter's place in Bristol port, where he has served as a tidewaiter for many years. Ibid, p. 216.
Same to William Hewer of the petition of Kath. Spotshead, shewing that her husband being mad[e] chirurgeon of Tangier the Earl of Inchequin, then Governor, assigned him a house and as it was in a very ruinous condition promised him 300 dollars towards repairing it; but by the said Earl's removal same was never paid; therefore praying relief herein, the better to enable her to bring up her children. Ibid.
Feb. 13. Treasury warrant to the Clerk of the Pipe to discharge the super of 692l. 14s. 33/8d. due to the King at the foot of the account of Henry, Visct. Brouncker, deceased, as Cofferer of the Household; as by the privy seal of the 9th inst., supra, p. 1738, and to issue a quietus thereon to Sir Charles Littleton as executor of said Brouncker. Warrants not Relating to Money XII, p. 230.
Same to the King's Remembrancer for a constat or particular of all the lands, tenements and hereditaments in cos. Devon and Dorset whereof Mathew Bragg lately executed in the west for high treason was seized in reversion after the death of his wife. Ibid.
Same to same to take the sureties of Lady Frances and Althamea Vaughan and Sir Rice Williams in 100l. for the said ladies' due answering the collection of the 25l. 1s. 0d. per an. rents of the manor of Iscoed Gwynnionedd and Moyddin, co. Cardigan, as by their patent of grant of Aug. 22 last, supra, pp. 1476–8. Ibid, p. 231.
Feb. 14. Same to the Attorney or Solicitor General for a great seal for a new Commission of the Customs; the new Commissioners to be Sir Nicholas Butler, Henry Browne, esq., son to Frances, Visct. Montacute [Montagu] of Cowdray, co. Sussex, Sir Dudley North, Sir John Werden and William Culliford: they to have the management of the Four and a Half per cent. duty as before: with 1,200l. per an. salary each as from Christmas last: John Sansom to be their Secretary and 300l. per an. out of his salary to be paid to Robert Bertie as before: Richard Hutchinson to be agent and solicitor as by his patent, supra, p. 1313. King's Warrant Book XII, pp. 396–7.
Same to the Clerk of the Signet for a privy seal to assign to Dame Sophia King, widow of Sir Robert King, and commonly called Sophia, Viscountess Wimbledon, at the request of Sir Samuel Barnardiston, all the King's title and interest arising by the decree made in the Exchequer Court in Easter term last in a suit between Sir Robert Sawyer, kt., late Attorney General, and Sir Samuel Barnardiston and Sir Thomas Barnardiston and others, whereby it was ordered that the said Sir Thomas should pay to the King 2,000l. and 6 per cent. thereon (in all amounting to 2,480l., the said Sir Thomas being indebted to the said Sir Samuel in 2,000l. principal and 480l. interest on mortgage of divers lands and tenements) and that thereupon said Sir Samuel should deliver up said mortgage and said Sir Thomas should be indemnified against him: all by reason that said Sir Samuel was lately indebted to the King in 10,000l. by virtue of a fine in the King's Bench, towards which the King has received only 1,240l. 6s. 7d., thus leaving 8,759l. 13s. 5d. still due. The present grant and assignment is to be to the said Viscountess Wimbledon in consideration of the sum of 2,480l. paid at the Exchequer by her and also of the further sum of 190l. which has grown due for further interest of said 2,000l. Ibid, pp. 398–9.
Feb. 14. Royal warrant to the Attorney General to enter a noli prosequi in all suites which are or may be had in the King's name in aid of John Keble against Lady Soames; the said Keble (as surety of John Bigsby, late Receiver of Hearthmoney, co. Suffolk) having used the King's aid against said Lady Soames for a debt due from Sir William Soames, her late husband. King's Warrant Book XII, p. 399.
Same to the Attorney or Solicitor General to acknowledge satisfaction upon record of the judgment of 100 marks fine and committal passed on Richard Farewell, mariner, at the last assizes for co. Somerset for speaking scandalous words against Henry, Duke of Beaufort, as is certified by Lawrence Swanten, clerk of the assizes for said county: the King being pleased to remit said fine and discharge his imprisonment. Ibid, pp. 399–400.
Same to the Attorney General for a privy seal to discharge the baronetcy fee of 1,095l. due from Sir James Chapman Fuller of the Inner Temple. Ibid, p. 400.
Royal sign manual for 1,800l. to Henry Guy, for secret service, without account: to be issued on the 20,000l. privy seal dormant of Dec. 15 last. (Money warrant dated Feb. 14 hereon. Money order dated Feb. 16 hereon.) Ibid, p. 400. Money Book VIII, p. 374. Order Book II, p. 126.
Royal warrant to the Clerk of the Signet for a privy seal for the payment to Thomas Chudley, esq., of the yearly sum of 1,200l. out of the Customs in consideration of his good service to Charles II: to be payable quarterly from Christmas last during pleasure. King's Warrant Book XII, p. 401.
Same to the Attorney or Solicitor General for a great seal for a new Commission of Excise and Hearthmoney: the new Commissioners to be Sir Denny Ashburnham, Sir John Freind, Francis Parry, Charles Davanant, Nathaniel Hornby, Richard Graham and John Wilcox, esq. (in place of the present Commissioners, who are said Ashburnham, Parry, Davenant, John (now Sir John) Freind, Calvert, Hornby and Graham): with a salary of 1,000l. per an. each, payable quarterly, from Christmas last. Ibid, pp. 402a–b.
Money warrant for 109l. 10s. 0d. to Lawrence, Earl of Rochester, for one year to Christmas last on his fee of 6s. a day as Keeper of New Park, near Richmond. Money Book VIII, p. 366.
Treasury warrant to Philip Burton to pay 500l. to Richard Graham for Crown law charges. Ibid, p. 367.
Henry Guy to [the Auditor of the Receipt] out of 1,157l. 7s. 4d. of money of the Duchy of Cornwall and 109l. 4s. 7d. of moneys of Tenths (making in all 1,266l. 11s. 11d.) to issue as follows, viz. 40l. to the officers of the Pipe; 30l. 13s. 4d. to Mr. Taylor, Secondary in the Remembrancer's Office: 68l. 10s. to Visct. Preston, Master of the Great Wardrobe; 157l. 14s. 2d. to Edward Carleton and Fisher Dilke; 18l. 6s. 8d. to Mr. Ford, housekeeper at Newmarket; 23l. 6s. 8d. to the Paymaster of the Works for the Chapel at the Tower; 40l. to Charles Bertie; 16l. 3s. 4d. to Mr. Langwith, messenger; 40l. to Dr. Oxinden; 40l. to Dr. Brady; 100l. to Dr. Johnson; 63l. 17s. 6d. to Sir Edward Sherburne; 21l. 4s. 8d. to St. Magnus Church; 55l. 6s. 8d. to Major Dickens; 6l. 1s. 8d. to Mr. Wellbacke; 6l. 17s. 0d. to Mr. Carey; 25l. to me [Guy] for secret service; 80l. to Mr. Cooke, Latin Secretary; 25l. to Dr. Gibbon; 60l. to Mr. Goulding; 10l. to Mr. Low; 48l. 6s. 8d. to Mr. Whitfeild, Clerk of the Estreats; 30l. to Mr. East, Clerk of the Estreats in the Common Pleas; 50l. 3s. 9d. to Sergt. Ryley; 100l. to Mr. Du Puy; 100l. to Sir Robert Howard; 10l. to Mr. Bray: making 1,266l. 11s. 11d. in all. Disposition Book VI, p. 155.
Feb. 14. Henry Guy to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue as follows out of the branches of the revenue directed to be this week paid into the Exchequer, viz.: Disposition Book VI, pp. 156–7.
Out of the Customs. l. s. d.
to the Treasurer of the Ordnance [for one week on the Ordnance Office] ordinary 1,000 0 0
to ditto for stores and storehouses 1,500 0 0
to the Treasurer of the Navy for the cr[editors] of the Navy 1,000 0 0
to the Keeper of the Privy Purse 1,000 0 0
Out of the impost on wine and vinegar.
to the Treasurer of the Navy [on the Navy's] weekly money on account of 400,000l. per an. 7,000 0 0
to ditto to pay warrant officers [their arrears due before 1676, Lady day] 200 0 0
Out of the Excise.
to the Earl of Ranelagh for the Forces 7,000 0 0
to the Duke of Southampton 375 0 0
to the Duke of Grafton 750 0 0
to the Duke of Northumberland 750 0 0
to Sir William Killegrew 125 0 0
to Somerset Fox, esq. 75 0 0
Out of loans on the Linen Duty Act.
to the Earl of Ranelagh for the Forces 4,000 0 0
Out of Hearthmoney.
to the Cofferer of the Household 1,500 0 0
to the Treasurer of the Chamber on the ordinary [of the Chamber] 2,000 0 0
to the Paymaster of the Works for the new buildings at Whitehall in the garden, for the month of December 500 0 0
to ditto for the new building towards the water, first payment 200 0 0
to the Earl of Rochester as keeper of Richmond New Park 109 10 0
to Mr. White in full of his account for New Park 485 0 0
to Sir William Villiers for the Stables 500 0 0
Out of the Post Office.
to me [Guy] for secret service 1,750 0 0
(Same, dated same, to the Customs Cashier, enclosing the paper of the disposition of the Customs cash for the present week; said paper including only the above four Customs items.) (Same, dated same, to the Commissioners of Excise and Hearthmoney, enclosing the like paper of disposition of the cash of those branches of the revenue; said paper including for the Hearthmoney only the above seven Hearthmoney items: and for the Excise the above six Excise items [payable out of the Exchequer], together with the following items [payable direct out of the Excise Office on tallies], viz. 1,000l. to pay off Excise tallies in the hands of Sir John Freind and Mr. Calverd; 500l. to[wards] the bankers' tallies; 1,500l. for the Queen Dowager's quarter; 1,500l. for the Prince and Princess [of Denmark's] quarter.)
Feb. 14. Henry Guy to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue to me [Guy] 1,000l. for secret service out of the money paid in by Lord Ossulston; "on such warrant as you shall receive." Disposition Book VI, p. 157.
Same to the Customs Commissioners to examine and report as to Joseph Champion, who is taken into custody by Serjeant Ryley. Out Letters (General) XI, p. 311.
Same to same to permit the Earl of Newburgh to transport from Rye to Dieppe four pads, with their furniture and apparel for himself and servants. Ibid, p. 312.
Treasury reference to the Customs Commissioners of the petition of Esdras Emery for some employ in the Customs, he having had his bread from Charles I and II ever since he was 17 years of age, but his pension being very inconsiderable for his maintenance. Reference Book V, p. 216.
Same to Mr. Ange of the petition of William Rowland et al., praying restitution of 20l. [levied upon them] upon account of Recusancy and remaining in the hands of Edwd. Jones, Clerk of the Peace for co. Carnarvon. Ibid.
Treasury warrant to William Spencer, sheriff of Lancs., to pay to Charles, Lord Brandon, 194l. 6s. 1d. levied on the estate of Charles, Earl of Macclesfield, by virtue of writs out of the Exchequer directed to the Chancellor of the County Palatine of Lancaster; the King having granted to said Lord Brandon the profits of said estate. Warrants not Relating to Money XII, pp. 231–2.
[?] Entry of [the Treasury Lords' signature of] the docquet of an in custodiam lease under the Exchequer seal to Margarett Woolrich, widow, of divers lands and tenements of Edward Walsh of Stockton, co. Worcester, outlaw: at the rent of 3s. 4d. per an. and fine of 6s. 8d., which said fine was paid into the Exchequer Dec. 14 last and a tally thereon levied. Ibid, p. 232.
[?] Same of same of a same to Henry Loveridge of divers lands and tenements of Bernard Loveridge, junr., of Musbury in co. Devon: at a rent of 23d. per an. and fine of 3s. 10d. Ibid.
Feb. 14. Treasury warrant to Mr. Fisher, Deputy Surveyor General of Crown Lands, for a particular and ratal of Buriton Hall, co. Hereford, ut supra, p. 1733, with a view to a lease thereof to Thomas Deeme for 31 years at 20s. per an. rent: he to repair at his own charge such of the buildings belonging to said Hall as shall be needful. Ibid, pp. 232–3.
Prefixing: said Fisher's report on said Deeme's petition for same. I have nothing [in the records] before me concerning said Hall and no lease of it has ever been enrolled before the auditor of said county since it came to the Crown, which was by purchase of Sir Henry Lindley, kt., by James I in 1604 and rated then at 20s. per an. and put in charge at that value, which rent is constantly answered to this day, but by whom the auditor cannot say, the rent being paid to Sir Thomas Williams, the Receiver [of Crown revenues for said county], who never passed any accounts since he has had the grant of his office. The manor of Buriton was formerly in the Crown and sold off in fee to Robert, Earl of Lindsey, by Charles I in 1632, but with a special exception of this Buriton Hall and appurtenances, which anciently had a large house upon it and many outbuildings that are now many of them fallen down and the rest much in decay. If petitioner will repair same he deserves a lease without fine at the above rent, which I take to be near the full value.
Feb. 14. Treasury warrant to the Clerk of the Pipe for a patent under the Exchequer seal to constitute Richard White of the Middle Temple, London, to the office and offices of high steward of the Honor of Otford, Kent, bailiff and collector of the rents of the manor, woodward and keeper of the woods and underwoods and understeward and keeper of the Courts of the manors belonging to said Honor and of all lands belonging to same: to hold during pleasure: all loco Philip Packer, esq., deceased, who had a grant thereof for life. Warrants not Relating to Money XII, p. 239.
Feb. 16. William Lowndes (in the absence of Henry Guy) to Mr. Slingsby [late Master Worker of the Mint]. The Treasury Lords have received a report from the Mint officers and the Auditors of Imprests on your petitions and papers. You have not yet accounted for the following items. You are to send in your vouchers relating to these items at once in order to the stating of your account, viz.: Out Letters (General) XI, p. 312.
l. s. d.
money imprested to you as Secretary to and as one of the Council of Trade and Plantations 1,750 0 0
imprested to you for making presses tools and engines for coining 1,600 0 0
paid to you by Sir William Parkhurst (then Warden of the Mint) for services of the Mint 1,934 0 0
paid to you by Henry Brouncker for making of Healing medals 2,974 5 0
paid to you by Sir Thomas Littleton (then Treasurer of the Navy) for providing gold chains and medals 200 0 0
balance to your account of the Dunkirk money 4,239 5 9
Henry Guy to Mr. Blathwaite [as Secretary to the Forces]. It is the King's pleasure to continue the pension of 4s. a day which Charles Houston had before being made an officer in the Regiment now under the Earl of Lichfield. It is to commence "from the time of his discharge out of the said Regiment." Prepare a [royal] warrant for this. Ibid, p. 313.
Feb. 16. Henry Guy to Visct. Preston [Master of the Great Wardrobe] to prepare new liveries against May day next for the Serjeant Trumpeter and the rest of the Trumpeters; they having had none last year. Out Letters (General) XI, p. 313.
Same to the Board of Greencloth to continue (and to place on the establishment of the Household) the pension of 60l. per an. allowed to the children of Loud Cordell during their minority; which was payable in the name of said Cordell's widow: the King having on their petition consented to its continuance. Ibid.
The Treasury Lords to the Lord Deputy of Ireland. We have sent you herewith the new Establishment [of Expense, Ireland, ut supra, pp. 1743–7] which commences from Jan. 1 last. You will find therein that the 500l. per an. to the City of Dublin, the 200l. per an. to Lieut. Col. Dorrington, the 200l. per an. to Lieut. Col. Sheldon and the 10l. a year to Major Lyne are continued as you desired; and that Mr. Cuff and Mr. Carr are reduced to 150l. each as you proposed with their own consents and Mris. Hubblethorne to 100l. per an. These last are to make such releases or discharges of the overplus as you think necessary. The 180l. per an. rent for the Parliament House is omitted in this establishment on the reasons given by you, but two petitions having been presented to the King, one on behalf of the children and orphans of the late Bishop of Ossory and the other by Mr. William Robinson, you are to peruse them as herein enclosed [missing] and report thereon to the King. Out Letters (Ireland) V, pp. 90–1
The King noted your observations concerning the Muster Master General. It is his pleasure that the said Muster Master should no longer continue the taking of one day's pay from the Army, although the King was well satisfied that no alteration should have been made in the establishment whereby the charge might either be increased or decreased without knowledge of the Treasury Lords according to a standing rule formerly made in that behalf. You are therefore to consider and certify what additional allowance may be fit to be made to said Muster Master's salary in recompence of said one day's pay.
As to Sir Robert Reading, it is the King's pleasure that you proceed against his patent for the 500l. a year for keeping the lighthouses, upon the grounds you represent. If the grant be avoided by law the King will order that the lighthouses (which are said to be very necessary) shall be maintained, but he will be at no more charge than you shall represent as needful therein.
As to your observations on the 1,600l. per an. for necessaries for the Office of Ordnance, the King commands it to be continued for one year longer, at the end whereof an account of its application is to be given. You will find that the name of Lady Stephens is inserted in the pension list and a blank left for the [amount of] same. You are to inform yourself whether she has any other subsistence to live upon and how much. The King will thereupon declare his pleasure as to her pension. Also you are to report on the enclosed proposal [missing] of Sir Henry Bond and Mr. Doe for the place of Receiver General of Ireland. Post-script : The Earl of Castlehaven being dead, the 500l. per an. is inserted in the pension list by mistake. No payments are to be directed on that pension "in which behalf your Excellency will receive his Majesty's order in short time."
Feb. 16. The Treasury Lords to the Revenue Commissioners, Ireland, enclosing from the King a paper [missing] of remarks made by Mr. William Joseph upon Mr. Price's accounts as well those which concern the revenue as those which relate to the fees and poundage taken in his [Price's] Office: and herewith also the report [missing] thereupon by one of our Treasury clerks after discourse with said Mr. Joseph. From the latter it seems plain to us that there has been no want of directions on this side or in the government there [in Ireland] to establish a sure and regular method of accounts in Ireland and that there should constantly be a sufficient comptrol not only upon the accounts of the respective receivers, collectors etc. but also upon the running cash in the hands of the Receiver General and that the accounts should be finally determined every year in the ancient course of the Exchequer. But it not being known to us whether the officers concerned in keeping or making said accounts or comptrols have done their duty according to those directions we desire you to strictly enquire thereinto and particularly in the offices of the Accountant General and the Clerk of the Pells and as to whether the accounts of the particular collectors and receivers be constantly passed with the Auditor General according to the Earl of Clarendon's late order; and whether the general account of the gross produce be duly passed by the Accomptant General as prescribed by the late Treasurer Rochester. A neglect in these matters may tend to the King's great damage: therefore send us an account thereof. Out Letters (Ireland) V, pp. 92–3.
As to Mr. Joseph's remarks, you are to enquire and inform us how does it come to pass that Mr. Price is not charged till the year 1686 with moneys proper to the years 1684 and 1685: and are not sufficient accounts kept by the Clerk of the Pells and Accountant General to be a constant, full and sure checque on the Receiver General's receipts and payments and remains from time to time: also whether the Accountant General does not keep a ledger and therein an account with every particular Receiver, Collector etc.: and whether there be such differences as Mr. Joseph affirms between the accounts of the Receiver General and the respective collectors in reference to the moneys allowed to them as paid to him and charged upon him as received of them; and if there be any such differences how they come to pass: also the true reason why the late King had but 50l. for First Fruits and Twentieth Parts from Christmas, 1682, to 1683–4, Mar. 20, and why the allowances in the Sheriff's accounts so much exceed the revenue in their charge.
Privy seal for the salary of 38l. per an. to be paid out of the Customs of Berwick port to Richard Anguish and Edmond Anguish, junr., sons of Edmund Anguish, esq., for their office of collector of great and petty Customs, Yarmouth port, granted them for life 1678, May 31, in reversion of their father, who held during pleasure only and whose grant is therefore void by the death of Charles II. Further, the arrears on said salary from 1684, Christmas, are hereby forthwith to be paid them. (Royal warrant, dated Feb. 3, for said privy seal.) (Treasury warrant, dated Feb. 28, to the Customs Cashier to pay said salary in future and 114l. for three years thereon.) (Henry Guy, dated same, to same to so pay same.) King's Warrant Book XII, pp. 383–4. Money Book VIII, p. 384. Disposition Book VI, p. 162.
Feb. 16. Money warrant for 125l. to Sir William Killegrew for last Christmas quarter on his pension. Money Book VIII, p. 367.
Same for 375l. to Charles, Duke of Southampton; 50l. thereof to complete 1684, June 24 quarter, on his annuity out of the Excise; and the remaining 325l. as in part of 1684, Sept. 29 quarter. Ibid, p. 368.
Same for 750l. to Henry, Duke of Grafton, for last Christmas quarter on his same. Ibid.
Same for 750l. to George, Duke of Northumberland, for 1687, June 24 quarter, on his same. Ibid.
Same for 750l. to Somerset Fox for 1687, Sept. 29 quarter, on his pension. Ibid.
Feb. 18. Henry Guy to the Earl of Ranelagh [Paymaster of the Forces] to report on the enclosed petition [missing] of Bryan Turbervile, late Master Gunner in the Garrison of Hull. Out Letters (General) XI, p. 313.
Same to the Board of Greencloth. It is the King's pleasure that you give order to the Cofferer of the Household to pay 81l. to Henry Purcell for charges by him expended and to be expended in putting the organ in the Chapel Royal in repair and for providing harpsichords for his Majesty's service from the time of his Majesty's access to the Crown until Christmas last: and likewise that you insert on the establishment of the Household an allowance of 56l. per an. from Christmas last to said Purcell for keeping said organ in repair and for providing harpsichords for his Majesty's service for the future: both said sums being thought reasonable by the Bishop of Durham, Dean of the Chapel Royal. Ibid.
Appending: Henry Purcell's account of what hath been laid out since Lady day, 1685, for repairing the organ and providing harpsichords as above, together with what it will amount to every year.
l. s. d.
the organ at present is so out of repair that to cleanse, tune and put in good order will cost 40l. and then to keep it so will cost 20l. per an. at the least 20 0 0
for the loan of a harpsichord, portage and tuning to three practices and performances of each song to the King at 4l. per song for four several songs at least 16 0 0
whereas the salary of the place in the late King's time was 60l. per an. for any care and trouble which will unavoidably occur 20 0 0
£56 0 0
wherefore I humbly pray that I may be established at the yearly salary of 56l. to commence from Christmas, 1687.
and whereas it will cost to put the organ in repair as is above mentioned about 40 0 0
and my bill already delivered in, which ended at New Year's day, 1686[–7], amounts to 20 10 0
since which the service performed amounts to about the like sum of 20 10 0
total £81 0 0
I humbly pray that order may be given for the present payment of the said sum of eighty-one pounds.—Hen. Purcell.
Followed by: note of allowance, dated 1687–8, Feb. 12, by N[athaniel], Bishop of Durham, of said bill: "I conceive that the demands for the time past as well as for the yearly service are both very reasonable."
Feb. 18. Treasury reference to the Customs Commissioners of the petition of Charles Stubs to the King, petitioner shewing that upon the late Duke of Monmouth's landing he rid very near him to observe his strength and seeing the rabble flock in upon him he came immediately to London to give his Majesty a true account of the same, who was pleased to say that care should be taken of him: therefore prays a landwaiter's place, London port. Reference Book V, p. 217
Same to Mr. Toll et al. of the petition of Robt. Williamson and several others, assignees upon registered orders; shewing that they lent to the late King's servants several sums of money on credit of said orders and that the present King granted a privy seal for payment of the said assignments pursuant to his order in Council: therefore pray payment of same. Ibid.
Same to the Attorney General of the petition of Sir Richard White, ut supra, p. 1618, upon petitioner's making out a probable title to the King. Ibid.
For Lucas Santen's assignment, to the King, of debts in New York see supra, pp. 1706–7. Out Letters (Plantations Auditor) I, pp. 274–8.
Two money orders for 20l. each to John Lowe and Peter Le Neve, Deputy Chamberlains of the Receipt, for Michaelmas and Hilary terms, 1687, on their allowance of 40l. per an. each as an additional increase of fee in respect of extraordinary service in sorting and ordering records as well foreign as domestic remaining in the Treasury at Westminster. Order Book II, p. 126.
Feb. 20. Treasury warrant to the Auditor of the Receipt [sic erratum for the Customs Cashier] to pay 20l. to William Christian, Customer of Carlisle port, and 18l. to Matthias Miller, comptroller ibid., on their allowance of 40s. per an. each for returning the port books: viz. from 1677, Aug. 25, and 1677–8, Feb. 6, respectively, to 1686–7, Feb. 6. (Henry Guy to same, dated same, to so pay same.) Money Book VIII, p. 369. Disposition Book VI, p. 157.
Same to William Hewer to pay 69l. 10s. 0d. to Sir John Mordaunt, kt., for the value of five houses demolished at Tangier which were not included in the report of the Commissioners appointed to adjust that affair [of the evacuation of Tangier]; and likewise 23l. 15s. 0d. for two other houses taken by him in execution from Col. Fitzgerrald, numbered 117 and 118 in the Commissioners' said report. Money Book VIII, p. 369.
Feb. 20. William Lowndes (in the absence of Henry Guy) to Mr. Duncombe [Cashier of Excise] for an account what tallies struck for the bankers' interest do remain unpaid. Out Letters (General) XI, p. 315.
Same to Sir Henry Dering to return [a list of] such fee farm rents as the Treasury Lords spoke to you about for Lord Ossulston. Ibid.
Same to Mr. Blathwayte [as Secretary to the Forces] to place the following persons, officers of the Tower, upon the establishment of the Army for the allowances as follows to commence from June 24 last. Prepare a, royal sign manual for your doing this. Ibid.
Appending: list of officers of the Tower to be established on the Army.
Per an.
l. s. d.
the Lieutenant, salary 500 0 0
Gentleman Porter at 1s. 4d. a day. 24 6 8
the Yeomen Warders, 27 in number, at l.s 2d. each per day 574 17 6
Note. the warders are to sink to 24 in number and then their salary will be 511l 20 0 0
the Physician 20 0 0
the Chirurgeon 10 0 0
the Apothecary 10 0 0
the Gentleman Gaoler 20 0 0
the water pumper 12 0 0
the Yeoman Porter for oil and candles for the gates 16 0 0
the scavenger 6 0 0
the clock keeper and bell ringer 4 0 0
repairs, intelligence and sweeping chimneys 24 0 0
fuel for the warders 6 13 4
£1,227 17 6
Henry Guy to Mr. Ange to pay to James Rowe and Henry Tolcher (when you receive it) the 41l. 2s. 1d. levied on them for Recusancy by Thomas Northmore, undersheriff of Devon, who is to-day directed by the Treasury Lords to pay same to you in order to its being so restored. Ibid, p. 318.
Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners to employ Thomas Allen (deputy to Dr. Henry Titchburn, a patent waiter, London port) as a landwaiter ibid, loco Thomas Salter, removed as below. Out Letters (Customs) XI, p. 113.
Thomas Salter (a landwaiter, London port) as collector in Bridgwater port at 60l. per an. loco Laurence Culliford, newly removed to be comptroller in that port.
Treasury reference to Thomas Hall, one of the Secondaries in the King's Remembrancer's Office, of the petition of Mr. Nash, Receiver [of Crown Revenues] of South Wales, proposing the following, viz. Joseph Radcliff, Thomas Combee, Thomas Rawlinson and Thomas Stringer in the place of some of his sureties who are dead or removed. Reference Book V, p. 217.
Feb. 20. Treasury reference to the Customs Commissioners of the petition of Jean Dubois, French Protestant refugee, shewing that he had bought from an individual in London 3½ dozen of hats made in France and same have been seized by Edward Pingwell and appraised at 12l. 4s. 0d. Reference Book V, p. 218.
Same to Mr. Fillingham et al. of the petition of Hen. Brabant, son of Sir Henry Brabant, deceased, shewing that his said father as Farmer of Excise of Northumberland and Durham was indebted to the King in 1,372l. 9s. 0d. at Midsummer, 1668, at which time his term in the said farm ended, which debt was occasioned by the great sickness and the first Dutch war: and further that he was likewise indebted in 140l. received for the Customs in Sunderland during the suspension of the collector there: that his said father died leaving but a very small personal estate and no real estate and that much encumbered and a widow and four children: therefore petitioner prays a grant of said debts with liberty to sue in the King's name for the recovery of part thereof "out of his said father's encumbered estate." Ibid.
Same to William Blathwayte of the petition of Robert, Visct. Teviot, ut supra, p. 1716, together with the report [from Auditor Phelips] thereon. Ibid, p. 219.
Treasury flat for royal letters patent to constitute Joseph Jordan, esq., as one of the King's waiters, London port: to hold during pleasure: being the office which he held at the death of Charles II. Warrants not Relating to Money XII, p. 233.
Treasury warrant to Sir Tho. Powys, Attorney General, to issue a quo warranto against Robert Syderfin, gent., to ascertain the King's title to the manors of Withypoole and Hawkridge: all by reason that James Boevy, esq., on behalf of himself and others, farmers, sub-tenants and commoners of the Forest of Exmoor, co. Devon and Somerset, has represented that the said Syderfen, proprietor of the said manors within the jurisdiction of said forest, doth claim the soil and land of 1,750 acres called Withepoole Common and also 1,370 called Hawkridge Common, endeavouring thereby the disinherison thereof from the Crown notwithstanding said lands are parts and parcel of said forest and the ancient demesne of the Crown and the King seized in fee in right thereof: and further under pretence of said claim the said Syderfen impounds petitioners' cattle, thus molesting them in their ancient liberty of depasturing their cattle upon the said forest. Ibid, p. 234.
Same to the King's Remembrancer for a particular or constat of all lands, tenements and hereditaments and other premises concealed, encroached upon and unjustly withheld from the Crown in or near the Forest of Arkingarthdale and also of the said forest [itself] within the manors of Middleham and Richmond, co. Yorks, all as found by inquisition (and with a view to a lease thereof to Col. Douglas). (Cancelled and replaced by a like warrant under date 1688, April 30.) Ibid, pp. 235, 305.
Feb. 20. Treasury constitution of Laurence Culliford as comptroller of Bridgwater port loco Thomas Venn, late same ibid. Warrants not Relating to Money XII, p. 236.
Treasury warrant to the Clerk of the Pipe for a lease to Joseph Saule of a tenement and water mill in Austell [St. Austell], co. Cornwall, part of the manor of Austell and late appertaining to the Priory of Tywardreth and now annexed to the Duchy of Cornwall; and likewise of another tenement in Austell containing 1 acre 1⅓ virgate formerly in the tenure of Nicholas Sawle: the present lease to be for 31 years from Michaelmas last on surrender of the present term therein, on a fine of 25l. and at the ancient rents of 46s. 8d. and 9s. respectively, to be paid to William Hooker, Deputy Receiver of the Duchy of Cornwall. Ibid, pp. 241–3, 277.
Prefixing: (a and b) particular and memorandum of the premises made out by Richard Meredith, Deputy Auditor [of the Duchy of Cornwall]. The first premises were demised to Henry Seymour 1661, Dec. 31, and the second (together with the said first) were demised to Nicholas Sawle 1626–7, Feb. 17: both premises are now held by Joseph Sawle, esq., in the former case by assignment from said Seymour dated 1662, June 17, and in the latter case as tenant at will since the expiry in 1657 of the lease to said Nicholas. This second item as being worth very little was not inserted in Mr. Seymour's patent as not worth passing.
(c) Ratal by John Fisher, Deputy Surveyor General of Crown Lands, of said particular.
(d) Entry, dated April —[? 1], of the Treasury signature of the docquet of this demise.