F

Farthings. See Mintmoney.

Fee farm rents. See LandsCrown Lands, Rents and revenues.

Fines, Comptroller of, for cos. Chester, Flint and Carnarvon (Sir R. Mostyn), fee of, 320.

Receiver General of, 279.

remission of, clause in 1 Anne, St. 2, c. 9 and, 307.

See also Post Fines
-, Pre Fines.

Fire-dogs, tongs and shovels for the Drawing Room at St. James's, 184.

Firehearths and Stoves, Duty on. See Hearthmoney.

Firelocks, sent to the Duke of Savoy, 495.

Fires
-, insurance against, 59
-, in the Tower, 350
-, in Warwick (in 1698), 136.

First Fruits And Tenths

annuities and pensions on, 61, 159, 252, 376, 499.

arrears of, applications for discharge from, 31
-, Attorney General's opinion whether they can be granted on livings of over 30l. per annum with respect to the Act and Charter for Queen Anne's Bounty, desired, 72, 500.

on all livings under 50l. per annum, Queen's supposed intention to discharge, 302.

proceedings against Bishops for, stayed, 123, 150, 268, 351.

charter or patent for settling the revenues of, for the augmentation of poor livings, 72, 500
-, charge of passing, 424.

composition money for First Fruits, 268.

grant of growing Tenths, petition for, 31.

grants or incumbrances charged upon, account of, required, 486.

produce of, account of, required, 548.

Receiver of First Fruits (R. Squibb), account of, 438.

Remembrancer of First Fruits, 160
-, Deputy ( Butler), 548.

tallies of assignment on, 158, 252, 499.

First Fruits and Twentieths. See Index of Persons and PlacesIreland.

Fish, curing of, at sea, clause in 1 Anne St. 1, c. 21 for preventing, 102.

duties on. See CustomsDuties
-, Salt Duties.

exported, 102, 531, 539.

foreign, sale of, stopped, 198.

imported from Ireland, Attorney General's opinion as to Acts 14 Car. II, c. 11, 15 Car. II, c. 7. 18 Car. II, c. 2 and 1 Anne, c. 21 and, 143
-, seized, 4, 5 (2), 102, 108, 143.

taken as prize, 198, 239, 529.

Fisheries
-, See North Sea and Herring Fishery
-, Index of Persons and Places Newfoundland.

Florins, exchange equivalence of, 275.

Flotsam. See Wrecks.

Foreign Coins. See Coins.

Foreign Ministers. See Ambassadors.

Forests. See Woods.

Forfeited estates
-, 62, 78, 83, 86, 151, 170, 188, 190, 204, 224, 301, 334, 345, 353, 377, 407, 418, 446, 455, 494, 505, 547, 561
-, an Act for seizing (1 Anne St. 2, c. 16), 455.

-, Ireland. See Index of Persons and PlacesIreland.

Four And A Half Per Cent. Duty

accounts, cash and general, fees for auditing, 295.

collectors of, 550.

Husband of (T. Scott ; J. Thrale), 15, 158
-, appointment, 235.

payments into the Exchequer, 490
-, to be hastened, 15, 158.

payments out of, 15, 234, 550.

Barbados, a Commissioner of (T. Brewster), debt of, 453.

Comptroller of (W. Hart ; J. Stephens), appointment, 239.

dismissed officer of, petition, 189.

Caribbee Islands, account of, 490.

Nevis, Commissioners of (J. Flynn ; E. Perry), appointment, 189, 242.

St. Christophers, warrant for levying in the part gained from the French, 8, 135.

Franking of letters and packets. See Post Office.

Frauds, Act of (14 Chas. II, c. 11), 143.

French :

Chapel at St. James's. See Index of Persons and PlacesLondon and Westminster, St. James's.

goods, duties on. See Customs Duties.

smuggling of, 461
-, preventing the, dragoons employed in, 480
-, riding officer for, 559-560.

in Canada, war against, 35.

in Jamaica, 187.

in Massachusetts Bay, war against, 477.

infesting the coast of Sussex, 560.

language, former instructress to the Queen in, 33.

merchants, 409.

ministers, in Ireland, 272, 346.

in the Savoy, annuity for, 109, 314, 319, 359, 471.

issue for, 287.

part of St. Christophers, taking of, 8, 135, 213.

pensioners in Ireland, 104, 272.

prisoners. See Sick and Wounded and Prisoners of War.

prizes. See Prizes.

protestant refugees, 84, 85, 505.

in Ireland, 346.

issue for, 39, 287.

ships, 509, 523
-, 5s. per ton duty on, 537. See also Prizes.

ships taken by the. See Ships.

silks. See Silks.

smugglers, 133, 406, 407.

spy, 408.

wines. See Wines.

Frenchmen as landwaiters, petition against the employment of, 505.

Furniture
-, for Royal Houses, 36, 184, 187, 263, 289, 290, 291, 317, 336, 373-374, 413, 414, 420, 437, 446, 481, 498, 499
-, for the Queen's service in progresses, 290, 317, 413.

Fusils (Fuzies), 282.

Fustian, 317.