V.

Vellum, stamped. See Stamp Duties.

Vinegar, duty on. See Customs—duties; Excise.

W.

Waiters. See Customs.

Wardrobe, Great, debt of, state of, required, 146.
-, establishment of, 100.
-, Master of (Earl of Montagu), 257; directions to, 22, 142, 159, 263; issues to, 152, 410, 441.
-, presents repaired in, 159, 257.

-, Removing, charge to be lessened, 101; officer of, estimate by, 360; Yeoman of, 389 (2).

Watches. See Clocks.

Whalebone, importation prohibited, 151.

Whale fins, 288, 333.

Whale oil, 333.

Wheat, price of, in the year 1694, 28.

Widowers, duty on. See Marriages.

Window tax. See Houses, duty on.

Windsor Herald. See Heralds' College.

Wine Licences, Commissioners of, 72, 278; money advanced by, on the Wine Licence farm contract, accounts of principal and interest repaid, required, 27, 145, 153.
-, revenue of, account of, 308; required, 72, 278.

Wines, duty on, see Customs—duties; imported from St. Sebastian, seized, 76, 77, 165, 292; prize, 111, 135, 158, 432; salved, 321, 347, 363, 371; seized, 208, 364, 390, 412; smuggled, 69, 172.

Wines, Low, duty on. See Excise.

Woods and Forests, claim by each of the verderers and by the clerk of Sherwood Forest to a tree annually, as a fee, 171, 226.
-, coppices in Chertsey, purchased for the Crown, 55, 63, 87, 242, 250, 332.
-, enclosures of nursery timber in Dean Forest, 216.
-, Navy trees, sale of the tops of, 68, 260.
-, Surveyor General of, Trent North (T. Hewitt), 171, 226.
-, Surveyor General of, Trent South, (P. Ryley), 250; charges brought by, 68, 260; fee of, 447.
-, timber, preservation of, in the New Forest, bill before the Lords for, 84, 319; sale of, 235, 242, 251, 261.
-, Warden, Chief Justice and Justice in Eyre, Trent South (Lord T. Wharton), 250; annuity for, 410.

-, named:—
-, Dean; Fangrove, Knowlegrove and Stubridge coppices in Chertsey; New Forest; Salcey; Sapley; Sherwood; Whittlewood.

Wool, preventing the exportation of, 333; Act for, 106, 412; employment of Dragoons for, 108; instructions to the Customs Commissioners concerning, 111, 133, 141, 262, 439; into Scotland, riding surveyor for, 252; Orders in Council re, 107, 108, 133, 141–2, 439; proposals for, 263; sloops for, 278. See also Owlers.
-, prize, 241.
-, proposal for a duty on, 44.
-, prosecutions for exporting, 387, 424.
-, seized, 443.
-, vessels laden with, stopped, 259, 262, 265.

Woollen manufactures, 131, 307; proposal for a duty on, 44; protection of, 333.

WORKS, England:
-, Clerk Engrosser (W. Dickenson), 215.
-, Comptroller of (W. Tallman), 215.
-, issue for, 56.
-, late Paymaster of (P. Packer), accounts, 191; process against his executors, 209.
-, master bricklayer (R. Stacey), 215.
-, master carpenter (M. Banks), 215.
-, master carver (G. Gibbons), 215.
-, master glazier (W. Ireland), 215.
-, master joiner (A. Fort), 215; see also King's joiner.
-, master mason (J. Oliver), 215.
-, master plasterer (J. Grove), 215.
-, officers of, issue to, 224; salaries of, 215.
-, Paymaster of (T. Lloyd), issues to, 188, 212–3, 295, 332, 363; payments by, 225, 343, 360, 363.
-, plumber at Windsor (M. Roberts), 215.
-, purveyor of (C. Hopton), 215.
-, sergeant plumber (C. Atherton), 215.
-, Surveyor General of (Sir C. Wren), salary of, 215; matters referred to, 247, 363.
-, weekly issues for, ordered, 228.

-, performed or to be performed: building a new bridge at Audley End, 228; erection of scaffolding in Westminster Hall, 71; fitting the Volary and Cockpit lodgings, Whitehall, 228; repairing, etc. the Office for the Trustees for Exchequer Bills, 126; repairing, etc. the Doghouse at Richmond Park, 228; repairing, etc. part of the Star Chamber, 213, 225; repairing the King's Library at St. James, 131; repairs in Greenwich Park and Windsor Great Park, 20, 139; wainscotting a room at Windsor, 228; works in Whitehall, 295; works in the office of the Commissioners for Trade, 343.
-, See also King's Parks; Royal Mews.

Works, Ireland. See Ireland.

Wreck, King's share of wines salved from, 347, 357, 363, 371.

Y.

Yeoman of the Guns. See Royal Household.

Yeomen of the Guard, issue for, 301; late Corporal of, arrears of, 378.

Yeomen Harbingers (Messrs. Merritt and Verheast), 389.

Yeomen Bedgoers. See Royal Household.

York Herald. See Heralds' College.