P.

Packet boats. See Post Office.

Page of Honour, annuity for, 345, 404, 441.

Paper, duty on (as by 8–9 Wm. III, c. 7), 128; petition for discharge from payment of, 213; proposal for a further duty, 301.
-, seizures of, 25, 128, 143, 208, 364.
-, stamped. See Stamp Duties.

Papists. See Roman Catholics.

Parchment, stamped. See Stamp Duties.

Parks. See King's Parks.

PARLIAMENT—
-, Acts of, printing of, 344.
-, dissolution of, 393.
-, fines imposed by, 375.
-, funds granted or to be granted by, 76.
-, considered insufficient, 100.
-, for the Civil List, 69, 75, 86, 284.
-, for subsistence of the Forces in Flanders, 85, 89, 103, 112.
-, proportions to be applied to land and sea service, 103–4.
-, transfer of loans on the Exchequer in General to, 115.
-, Members of, 308, 372, 426.

Peace. See Treaty.

Pedlars. See Hawkers and Pedlars.

Peers, House of. See Lords, House of.

-, -, Ireland. See Ireland.

Penny Post. See Post Office.

Pensions. See Annuities.

Perpetuities, 173, 259, 293, 352.

Petty Bag, Clerk of, 425.

Physician. See King's Second Physician.

Piastres, 160, 340–2.

Pictures. See King's Pictures; Royal Academy; William III.

Pirates and privateers, 134, 164, 398.

Pistoles, Spanish, counterfeit, 88.

Pitch, 241; importation of, from Germany and the Netherlands forbidden by Act 14 Car. II, c. 11, 366.

PLANTATIONS—
-, Duty (as by 25 Car II, c. 7). collectors of, appointments, 151.
-, farthings sent to, 68.
-, Rules of, concerning the payment of salaries of officers removed or dying, of those acting until the arrival of the newly appointed officer, and of the succeeding officer, 93, 95, 97.
-, ships built in, granting of Mediterranean passes to, 267.
-, See also Trade and Plantations

Plate, permission to export, 234, 237, 383. See also Jewel House; Mint.

Playhouses and players, 88, 311.

Plenipotentiaries. See Ambassadors.

Poet Laureat (N. Tate), salary of, 141, 226, 297, 370.

Poor, the, corn imported for the relief of, 28.
-, King's alms for, 104, 398.
-, proportion of Excise fine for, 19.
-, And see London; London and Westminster, Streets and places in—St. James' Westminster, St. Margarets' Westminster, and St. Martin's in the Fields.

Poor Jack, codfish commonly called, 149.

Portcullis Pursuivant. See Heralds' College.

POST OFFICE.
-, Annuities on. See Annuities.
-, bag, lost, 185.
-, bills of exchange received, to be answered in the same species as they were drawn in, 34, 148.
-, Court Post (W. Van Huls), new grant of the office of, 169, 279; allowance for, 192.
-, deputy postmaster of Sudbury, petition for increase of salary, 387.
-, officers of, assessments on, 34, 76, 161.
-, Oxford to Evesham stage, debt of the Receiver of, 281.
-, packet boats, 89, 131, 174; between England and Holland, smaller boats to be used, 337; exempted from French shipping duty, 333; prizes taken by, captains' and crews' shares of, 34, 55, 240–1; share of, to be applied towards defraying the charges of the boats, 240–1.
-, Penny, collector of, threatened suspension of, 159; Comptroller of (W. Dockwra), 247; officers of, assessments on, 247.
-, pensions on. See Annuities.
-, postmaster at Sandwich, 185.
-, Postmasters General, 240, 241; allowance payable by, 169; attending the Treasury, 34, 65, 99; directions to, etc., 148, 157, 159, 161, 173, 192, 209, 227, 232, 246, 247, 285, 337, 350, 357, 377, 409; petitions referred to, 44, 174, 185, 281, 387; prosecutions by, 65, 253; report of, 55.
-, Receiver General of (S. Lilly), 129, 130, 157, 159, 227, 240, 285.
-, Revenue, appropriation of 600l. per week out of, 157, 209, 227, 232, 377,
-, issues out of, 53, 74, 116, 285.
-, loan on, 74.
-, payments into the Exchequer, 1, 56, 130, 157, 209, 227, 232, 246; in Exchequer bills, directions concerning, 129; respited or stopped, 16, 285.
-, tallies on, discharge of, 285, 435.
-, thefts from, 90, 99, 253.

Prayer, Forms of, printing of, 344.

Printers. See King's Printers.

Prisoners of War, Commissioners for. See Sick and Wounded; debt due for subsistence of, 248. See also Brownjohn, R.

Privy Council, 42, 85, 102, 116, 125, 324, 384.
-, Chamber, destroyed by fire, 51.
-, books, papers, etc. for, 324.
-, Keepers of (B. Coling; N. Cox), office of, grants of, 240; caveat entered against, 373.
-, salaries of, 115, 116.
-, servant to, 373.
-, Clerks of (W. Blathwaite; W. Bridgeman; R. Cooling; Sir J. Nicholas), salaries of, 214, 224; for attending to business relating to Trade and Plantations, 244, 297.
-, Lord President of (Duke of Leeds), allowance and bounty for, 220, 224.
-, Orders of the King in Council, 107, 108, 111, 208, 260, 262, 278, 324, 364, 439, 441.
-, printing for, 344.

Privy Purse, issues for, 86, 95, 104, 108, 185, 288, 354, 404, 427, 439; Keeper of (Earl of Portland), 404, 439.

Privy Seal, 66, 115, 156, 167, 171, 186, 191, 219, 223, 234, 240, 241, 272, 284, 286, 291, 306, 307, 319–21, 330, 332, 344–6, 351, 353–5, 359, 362–4, 372, 374, 375, 385, 440.

-, Lord (Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery), fee and allowance of, 220, 224; letter to, 59; printing for, 344.

PRIZES, 259, 265, 369.
-, account of, to be prepared, 256.
-, Agents for: at Antigua, 174; at Barbados, 356; at Falmouth, 347; at the Island of Providence, 356; at Jamaica, 356; at Jersey and Guernsey, 248; at Milford Haven, 225, 245.
-, allowance of 10l. per gun taken (as by Act 4 and 5 Wm. and Mary, c. 25), 218.
-, customs on cargoes sold, 148, 225, 245, 278, 288, 333, 334.
-, discovery of, petition for reward for, 85, 321.
-, Principal Commissioners of, 71, 73, 111, 152, 158, 174, 225, 240, 241, 245, 256, 276, 278, 288, 321, 333, 334, 347, 356, 432.
-, accounts to be made up and cleared, 57, 72, 74, 229.
-, commission to be terminated, 72.
-, Office of, charge to be discontinued, 57, 72, 229.
-, officers of, assessments on, 161.
-, payments by, 74, 97.
-, payment to, 97.
-, petitions referred to, 123, 135, 212, 248, 349, 355.
-, to continue to act without salary, 72.
-, provisions taken as prize, 56.
-, Receiver General of (J. Herbert), payments by, 189, 369.
-, sale of, 123, 135, 148, 158, 212, 217, 225, 240, 268, 276–7, 288, 333, 334, 349.
-, several taken into the Leeward Islands, 174.
-, shares of proceeds of, due to the King, 212, 257, 350, 369; the Navy Treasurer, 240, 277, 350; the captors, 34, 55, 240–1, 349–50.
-, taken by the French. See Ships.
-, wine and brandy condemned in Jersey and Guernsey, account of, to be submitted, 111, 432; importation of, to be permitted, 135, 158.

Proclamation rewards, 119, 147, 150, 285, 296, 298, 373, 378, 383.

Proclamations, printing of, 344.

Prunes, seized, 367.

Pursuivants at Arms. See Heralds' College.

Pyx. See Mint.