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| Date. |
Nature and Substance of the Entry. |
Reference. |
| Aug. 4. |
Henry Guy to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue as follows the 2,500l. which is to be lent into the Exchequer this day by Mr. Kent and Mr. Duncombo, and the 3,700l. of Excise money which is to be paid into the Exchequer this week, viz.: |
Disposition Book II, p. 254. |
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l. |
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to the Paymaster of the Forces for sub-sistence |
2,000 |
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to ditto for off-reckonings |
2,000 |
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to the Cofferer of the Household |
1,750 |
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to me [Guy] for secret service in part of 5,000l. |
200 |
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to Mris. Eleanor Gwynne |
250 |
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£6,200 |
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Henry Guy to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue as follows out of Customs money directed to be this week paid into the Exchequer, viz.: |
Disposition Book II, p. 253. |
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l. |
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to the Treasurer of the Navy for one week of the Navy's weekly money, whereof 1,000l. is for the Victuallers |
2,500 |
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to ditto for Portsmouth yards |
5,614 |
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to the Treasurer of the Ordnance for [one week of the Ordnance Office's] weekly money |
500 |
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to the Mint Commissioners |
1,500 |
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to the Lord President of the Privy Council |
375 |
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to the Lord Privy Seal |
364 |
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to the Auditors of Imprests |
100 |
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£10,953 |
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| Aug. 9. |
Money warrant for 100,000l. to Charles Fox, Paymaster of the Forces, as imprest for the Guards, Garrisons and contingencies thereof for the half year commencing July 1 last. (Money order dated Aug. 10 hereon.) |
Money Book IV, p. 243. Order Book XXXIX, p. 97. |
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Same for 2,500l. to Richard Kent and Charles Duncombe and in repayment of so much by them lent into the Exchequer the 4th inst.: together with 6 per cent. interest thereon: to be satisfied by tallies on the Excise. (The money order hereon is fictitiously given the date July 4, being the date of the tally of loan.) |
Money Book IV, p. 244. Order Book XXXIX, p. 97. |
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Same for 125l. to Sir William Killegrew for last June 24 quarter on his annuity or pension. |
Money Book IV, p. 244. |
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Same for 75l. to Somerset Fox for same on his same. |
Ibid. |
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Same for 5,000l. to Sir John Buckworth, Charles Duncombe and James Hoare, Mint Commissioners, as upon account for the charges of the Mint. (Money order dated Aug. 10 hereon.) |
Ibid, p. 245. Order Book XXXIX, p. 97. |
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William Lownds, dated from Windsor, the Treasury Lords being there, and in the absence of Henry Guy, to the Hearthmoney Contractors to be more speedy in delivering to [Auditor] Aldworth your books to enable him to do his duty. |
Out Letters (General) VII, p. 197. |
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Same to Bernard Turnor. You have not brought in the books of your late sub-farm of Excise. You are forthwith to deliver them to the Excise Commissioners. |
Ibid, p. 198. |
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Same to Sir Richard Haddocke, apprising him of the 2,000l. directed ut supra for warrant officers of ships formerly discharged. Send the Treasury Lords a list of such officers as you think most necessary to be paid off in the first place out of said sum. |
Ibid
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Same to the Navy Commissioners. The Treasury Lords have considered your estimate of July 11 last of 16,000l. for materials still wanting to carry on the repairs of the Navy, the works of the new ships in hand and to employ the workmen who are in pay till Christmas next. My Lords design a provision of 10,000l. by 1,000l. a week for 10 weeks to
being speedily "and hope that this sum will enable you to perform the services in that estimate." |
Ibid. |
| Aug. 9. |
William Lownds to Mr. Hall at the Excise Office. You must remove into Dr. Croon's lodgings at Michaelmas next. |
Out Letters (General) VII, p. 199. |
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Same to the Excise Commissioners. The Treasury Lords yesterday read the petition of William Urwin for an abatement out of the 55l. per an. he now pays for selling coffee. They find on calculation that his duty by the gallon is computed to 107l. 18s. 0d. They remit the petition to you to use your discretion therein. |
Ibid. |
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Same to Sir Rich. Mason, Jno. Ramsey and Bar. Fillingham [late Agents for Taxes] forwarding the following papers [all missing] (1) a letter from the Earl of Pembroke to the Treasury Lords; (2) an account from Sir Henry Coker of the receipts, disbursements and arrears of 1,944l. charged on co. Wilts for one month's [quota of the three months' militia] assessment at 70,000l. per mensem; (3) an abstract of the accounts of the several Treasurers of the Militia in co. [Wilts] from 1675, May, to 1683, Aug. |
Ibid. |
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Henry Guy to [? the Auditor of the Receipt]. Mr. Duncombe has lent into the Exchequer 2,500l. to make up this week's 8,000l. This sum the Treasury Lords have disposed as follows, viz.: |
Disposition Book II, p. 253. |
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l. |
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to the Paymaster of the Forces for sub-sistence |
2,000 |
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to ditto for off-reckonings |
2,000 |
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to the Cofferer of the Household |
1,500 |
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[to me Guy] for secret service [in part of 5,000l.] |
200 |
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to Mris. Gwynne |
250 |
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for the bankers' tallies |
800 |
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quarterly bill |
1,000 |
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£8,000 |
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Same to the Excise Commissioners forwarding the distribution of the 8,000l. a week out of the Excise. When it is known what overplus the Excise yields above said 8,000l. per week the Treasury Lords will direct the application thereof. |
Ibid, p. 254. |
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Appending: said scheme of distribution, viz. for the eight successive weeks ending respectively Aug. 11, 18, 25, Sept. 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29, Forces, subsistence 2,000l. per week; ditto off-reckonings, alternately 2,000l. and 3,000l. per week; Cofferer, 1,750l. for Aug. 11, and then 1,000l. per week; Mris. Nelly [Gwynn] 250l. on Aug. 18, Sept. 1 and 15; [Henry Guy] for secret service, 200l. per week; bankers, 550l., 800l., 800l., 175l., 800l. 50l., 904l. 17s. 6½d., 200l.; the Queen, 500l. Aug. 11, 1,000l. Aug. 25, 1,000l. Sept. 8, 500l. Sept. 15, 895l. 2s. 5½d. Sept. 22; and 29; Duke of Grafton, 750l. on Aug. 18; Duke of Monmouth, 1,000l. on Sept. 1; Duke of Southampton, 375l. on Sept. 1; Earl of Lichfield, 300l. on Sept. 29; Earl of Sussex, 300l. on Sept. 29. |
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| Aug. 9. |
William Lowndes, dated from Windsor, to Anthony Stephens [Cashier to the Treasurer of the Navy]. |
Ibid. |
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The Treasury Lords have directed Mr. Duncombe to pay into the Exchequer the following sums for the Navy. |
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l. |
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to pay the warrant officers of ships formerly discharged which are most necessary to be paid off in the first place, by 500l. a week in four weeks |
2,000 |
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for the Reserve's men |
1,400 |
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for freight of the Marg[are]t
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220 |
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for finishing the repairs of the Sovereign, to be provided first |
500 |
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| Aug. 9. |
Henry Guy to the Auditor of the Receipt. To-morrow the East India Company will pay into the Exchequer 10,000 guineas or 10,750l. as a voluntary present to the King. Reserve this sum for the Treasury Lords' direction. |
Disposition Book II, p. 254. |
| Aug. 10. |
Same to same to pay to Mr. Philip Burton 159l. 18s. 6d. out of money to be paid into the Exchequer by Samuel Astry, coroner of the King's Bench, for King's Bench fines. |
Ibid, p. 255. |
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Same to same to issue as follows out of such Excise money as is directed to be this week paid into the Exchequer, viz.: |
Ibid. |
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l. |
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to the Paymaster of the Forces for subsistence |
2,000 |
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to ditto for off-reckonings |
2,000 |
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to the Cofferer of the Household |
1,750 |
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to me [Guy] for secret service in part of 5,000l. |
200 |
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£5,950 |
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Same to same to take in on loan from Sir Nathl. Johnson et al. 6,500l. on credit of the Hearthmoney rent which is due 1684, Mar. 25, and payable by the utmost days of grace 1684, Sept. 19. |
Ibid. |
| Aug. 11. |
R[obert] S[quibb] (in the absence of Henry Guy) to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue as follows out of such customs money as is to be this week paid into the Exchequer: |
Ibid. |
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l. |
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to the Treasurer of the Navy for [one week of the Navy's] weekly money, whereof 1,000l. is for the Victuallers |
2,500 |
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to the Treasurer of the Ordnance for [one week of the Ordnance Office's] weekly money |
500 |
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£3,000 |
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William Lownds, dated from Windsor, to the Auditor of the Receipt. The Treasury Lords have directed Mr. Kent and Mr. Duncombe to pay into the Receipt 1,000l. for 10 weeks to buy materials for repairs of the Navy and the works of the new ships; and 100l. a week for five weeks upon account of quarters and cure of Sick and Wounded: the first of these weekly sums to be paid in next Monday. you are to issue said sums to the Treasurer of the Navy for said uses accordingly. |
Ibid, p. 256. |
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Same to same to issue as follows out of the 10,000 guineas now paid into the Exchequer as a present from the East India Company, viz.: |
Ibid. |
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l. |
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to Baptist May for the Privy Purse, being intended for a quarter's allowance |
4,000 |
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to Henry Guy, on an order to be drawn for secret service |
1,000 |
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to the Earl of Dunbarton for his journey into France to condole on the death of the Queen there |
500 |
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£5,500 |
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| Aug. 11. |
William Lownds dated from Windsor Castle (in the absence of Henry Guy) to Visct. Falkland. The 10,000l., which is to be issued to you by 1,000l. a week from Monday next, is to be applied for materials wanting in the dockyards to carry on the repairs of the Navy, the works of the new ships, and to keep in full employment the workmen which are in pay upon the estimate signed by the Navy Board July 11 last. |
Out Letters (General) VII, p. 200. |
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Same to Mr. Duncombe to pay into the Exchequer either by yourself or [with] Mr. Kent 1,000l. a week for 10 weeks from Monday, the 13th inst., for the uses as above; and further 100l. a week for five weeks from same date for the quarters and cure of sick and wounded. "And because you are to do this the Treasury Lords intend that you shall forthwith receive the sum of 5,250l. which is undisposed of the East India Company's present in the Exchequer in part of the debt which the King owes you." |
Ibid. |
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Royal warrant to the Clerk of the Signet for a privy seal to the Treasury Lords, the Judge Advocate et al. of the High Court of Admiralty et al. for the issue of commissions to such persons as Edmund Gregory shall nominate with the consent of the Treasury Lords for enquiring into any embezzlements, concealments, abuses or frauds whereby the King has been defrauded of any prize ships or goods which were brought into any ports of England, Wales or Berwick or the proceeds thereof during the two wars with the Dutch: the King having by the privy seal of 30 Car. II. [1678, Aug. 31 supra, Calendar of Treasury Books, V, p. 1105] directed the issue of commissions for such inquiries and for calling to account all officers, clerks and other persons indebted to the King on account of the moneys arising from such prizes; but being now informed that by reason of such embezzlements etc. he [the King] is still defrauded and that several officers and others employed therein have not duly accompted and that divers moneys imprested for services relating to the said service are also unaccompted for. All the moneys which shall be brought in by virtue of the present privy seal are to be paid into the Exchequer and there kept apart from other the King's treasure; and said Gregory or his assigns are to be paid without account to his own use four-fifths of such moneys as shall be brought in by virtue hereof within four years from date hereof. Gregory to have power, with the approbation of the Treasury Lords, to make compositions with persons chargeable in respect of the premises and to discharge such persons by his acquittance. |
King's Warrant Book IX, pp. 200–1. |
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Same to the Attorney or Solicitor General for a great seal for a grant to William Livesay, junr., of the
Inner Temple, and John Pettyward of Putney, co. Surrey (as the nominees of Sir Thomas Clarges, kt., of St. Martins in the Fields, and as trustees for him and his heirs) of the scite of the late monastery of Reading, co. Berks, with the mansion house and all structures within the walls of said scite and the court called the Forbery, containing 2½ acres, and the parcel of land called the Inner Court, containing ½ acre, and the parcel of land called the Grange, containing 1½ acres, the little garden called the Timber Hayes, containing 1 rood, the court within the cloisters, containing ½ acre; the garden called the Great Garden, containing 1½ acres and the dove house adjoining thereto; the orchard called the Fermory Garden, containing 1 acre; the woodyard, containing 1 rood; the tenement with a malt house, garden and orchard, called the Fermory Garden, abutting south on the river Kennet and east on the way leading from the Forbery to the Ort bridge, and containing 1 acre 10 perches; the garden or orchard abutting north on the said Forbery and south on the Great Yard there, and containing 1 acre 3 roods; the messuage situate at the west gate entering into the said Forbery, together with a little yard, garden and the outhouse adjoining abutting north on the said Forbery, and west on the prison called the Counter and containing 20 perches; the messuage with the wood wharf adjoining, called the Grange Wharf, lying near the Ort bridge, with a stable and storehouse adjoining in the tenure of John Blake; the parcel of land called an Ayte, near the bank of the Kennet adjoining certain land called the Orte; the meadow or pasture called the Grange Close, abutting north on the meadow called the Little Plummery and the Eastmead, and south on the said Grange Wharf and containing 4½ acres; the meadow or pasture called the Little Plummery abutting north on the Eastmead and south on the Grange Close, and containing 1½ acres, the meadow or pasture called the Great Plummery abutting north on the Eastmead and south on the Forbery and containing 10 acres: all the said premises being part of the late monastery of Reading and granted 1673–4, Mar. 19, to the said Clarges for 40 years at 40s. per an. rent; and also the house in or near the said Forbery and lately inhabited by George Harrison and [then] by Sir William Armorer, and the six houses lately erected on part of the said Forbery and now reduced into five houses lately in the possession of William Odes and now inhabited by the King's purveyor, grooms and smith there, and the house and forge lately erected at the King's charge on part of the said Forbery, and the part of the said Forbery adjacent to the said houses and the King's barns and stables there, containing 1½ acres, extending from the corner of the wall of St. Lawrence churchyard on the way leading north to the little house in the occupation of Jeffery Weeden and so to the meadow called the King's mead, and all the stables within the premises used for the keeping of the horses of the King or his predecessors and all the barns or granaries used for the keeping of hay and provisions for the said horses, and all the parcel of the said Forbery, containing 374 feet east along the road leading to the King's meadow and abutting north on the way now leading from Reading by the said Forbery and the wall which divides the said Forbery from the Great Plummery; (being all
parcel of the said late monastery and excepted out of the said previous grant to said Clarges); together with all buildings thereon, and rights etc. The present grant to be for ever as of the manor of East Greenwich in free and common socage by fealty and the rent of 40s. per an. payable half yearly, and at a fine of 998l. to be first paid for same. |
Ibid, pp. 201–4. |
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Appending: certificate by Sir Robert Sawyer. I have perused this draft. |
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| Aug. 11. |
Four separate royal sign manuals for respectively 1,000l., 285l. 12s. 6d., 257l. 4s. 7d. and 375l. to Henry Guy for secret service, without accompt: to be issued on the 10,000l. privy seal dormant of May 23 last. (Four separate money warrants dated Aug. 13 hereon. Four separate money orders dated Aug. 14 hereon.) |
King's Warrant Book IX, p. 204. Money Book IV, p. 245. Order Book XXXIX, p. 98. |
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Royal warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General for a great seal to appoint William Boreman to be overseer and keeper of game as well of venery as of falconry in and about the manor of Greenwich and within seven miles of the manor house thereof: all loco Thomas Boreman, deceased: with the fee of 12d. a day payable quarterly at the Receipt. |
King's Warrant Book IX, p. 205. |
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Royal sign manual for 500l. to George, Earl of Dunbarton, without account: for the charges of his journey into France, whither he is to go from the King to condole on the death of the Queen there: to be issued on the 10,000l. dormant privy seal of May 23 last. (Money warrant dated Aug. 11 hereon. Money order dated Aug. 14 hereon.) |
Ibid, p. 204. Money Book IV, p. 245. Order Book XXXIX, p. 98. |
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Same to the officers of Windsor forest signifying that it is by the King's permission and pursuant to agreement that Anne Lisle, widow, tenant of Shaw farm, near Windsor, has cut down 80 elms and two small oaks mostly of short trunks and small value on certain parcels of land (parcel of the said farm) taken into the avenue lately made [by the King] at Windsor: same being to be employed in the necessary repairs of said farm. |
King's Warrant Book IX, p. 205. |
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Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners to employ John Bolitho as waiter and searcher at Penzance loco Thomas Bolitho, deceased. |
Out Letters (Customs) VIII, p. 222. |
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Same to same to discharge the seizure of two sums of money, 21l. and 58l. respectively, taken by Capt. Stysted from Dowa Hobbs and Sierp Peters, two Dutch skippers, being seized under the statute of 2 Hy. IV: all on the memorial of the Dutch ambassador. In the margin: cancelled 6 April, 1684. |
Ibid. |
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Same to the Customs Cashier to pay 102l. to Edward Randolph, customs officer in New England, he having been lately sent for to England to attend the Committee for Trade and Plantations and being forthwith to return thither, 42l. being for the charge of bringing over three witnesses against the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay and 60l. for his own journey and for passing a writ of Quo Warranto against that government. |
Money Book IV, p. 244. |
| Aug. 13. |
Henry Guy to the Excise Commissioners, enclosing the following papers [all missing] received by the
Treasury Lords from Secretary Jenkins; viz. letters from Mr. Leftwich Oldfield in behalf of Mr. Wilton, the gauger of Nantwich, Mr. Cholmly in behalf of ditto, and the Deputy Lieutenants and Justices of Cheshire in behalf of ditto. |
Out Letters (General) VII, p. 179. |
| Aug. 14. |
R[obert] Sq[uibb], in the absence of Henry Guy, to [the Auditor of the Receipt] to issue as follows out of the 10,750l. now remaining in the Exchequer of the East India Company's present to the King, viz.: |
Disposition Book II, p. 256. |
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l. |
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to the Treasurer of the Navy in part of 30,000l. for buying stores |
3,000 |
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to ditto in part of 10,000l. for buying materials for repairing the new ships |
2,000 |
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to Mr. Pearce, chirurgeon for Sick and Wounded |
250 |
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£5,250 |
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Henry Guy to the Navy Commissioners to pay a list enclosed, written in Sir Richard Haddock's hand, to the total of 2,601l. 19s. 7d. to the respective persons therein by way of imprest by 500l. a week for four weeks and the balance the fifth week. Mr. Duncombe is directed to send the said sums into the Exchequer to meet same. |
Out Letters (General) VII, p. 200. |
