Entry Book: April 1688 | British History Online

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

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'Entry Book: April 1688', in Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 8, 1685-1689, ed. William A Shaw( London, 1923), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/cal-treasury-books/vol8/pp2172-2173 [accessed 8 November 2024].

April 1688



April 27.	Money order for 1,250l. to Charles, Duke of Richmond, ut supra, p. 1872.	Order Book II, p. 143.
April 30.	Col. Hender Molesworth to the Treasury Lords, dated from Jamaica. I wrote you the 28th current that I had shipped you on board the Prudence, Capt. Joseph Knapman commander, for London 10 chests of plate or pieces of Eight which I had received for the King's tenths out of the sloops that arrived here from the [Hispaniola] wreck. I also therein sent you one of the bills of lading. On the 28th current Mr. William Constable with Sir Richard Derham and others, by virtue of a warrant from the Duke of Albemarle, went on board the said ship with a deputy marshal, broke open the bread room door where the said chests were laid and seized them and forcibly carried them away, Mr. Constable delivering to the commander that bill of lading which he had from me (which I expected he would send to you) with his discharge on it. I enclose you a copy [missing] of the Duke of Albemarle's said warrants, and of the captain's protest. Constable's action is not qualified [legally justified] by the copy of the power he gave me to consider when he demanded the said silver. In his warrant the Duke recites the King's order of July 30, which I never saw, and conclude to be the original warrant upon [which] the order of Aug. 4 (of which a copy was delivered me) was grounded, "which is generally more extensive than the warrant itself and more fully explaineth the same." If Constable had found the warrant fuller and more to his purpose than the order he would have sooner shewn it me. I therefore still think the seizure very irregular and illegal. It is also a hardship to me that after the Duke had forced me to give so vast a security for answering this money to the King he should thus seize it out of the ship in which I designed to accompany it.	Out Letters (Plantations Auditor) I, pp. 307–8