Treasury Warrants: March 1716, 16-20 | British History Online

Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 30, 1716. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1958.

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'Treasury Warrants: March 1716, 16-20', in Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 30, 1716, ed. William A Shaw, F H Slingsby( London, 1958), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/cal-treasury-books/vol30/pp141-143 [accessed 25 November 2024].

March 1716, 16–20



March 16.	Treasury warrant to the Excise Commissioners to pay 160l. to the owners, adventurers and fishermen of Great Yarmouth for one year to 1715 Sept. 29 for the Excise of strong beer for the North Sea Herring Fishery. Money Book XXIV, p. 389. Same dormant to George Murray, Paymaster of the 1,400,000l. Lottery anno 1714, and Mathew Barton, Comptroller of the same, to pay to Thomas Cornwallis, Christopher Tilson, Nehemiah Arnold and Christopher Rhodes, Commissioners for taking in Lottery Tickets and for making out the orders in lieu thereof, 1,600l. by four equal quarterly payments commencing on and from 23 May 1716 as recompense for their pains in the said work for the year ending 23 Feb. 1716–17. Prefixing: memorial to the Treasury from said Commissioners shewing that they have had the care of this great and voluminous work which will terminate in the dealing out securities to the multitude of persons concerned for the principal sum of 9,015,490l. representing 530,500 tickets delivered up and for which tickets there has or will be made forth 90,800 orders at least: and that they have had super-added to the aforesaid work the business of receiving, paying and accounting for the sum of 135,740l. which was issued to them at the Exchequer, to wit 54,240l. to pay principal on the three payments first in course on the Lottery anno 1712 and 81,500l. to pay six months' principal and interest on the Lottery anno 1711 in the vacancy of a Paymaster; as likewise the adjusting the properties of persons claiming title to Benefit Tickets in all the said Lotteries and certifying the same into the Exchequer, with the [work of] reducing orders for small sums into orders for greater and innovating orders where the originals have happened to be lost: that notwithstanding they have sought all ways and means of bringing their business to a conclusion and for that end (contrary to the practice of all other officers in the Exchequer) have attended their duty every day, not excepting holydays, morning and evening constantly without intermission, yet there remained on the 23 Feb. [last] 19,842 of the said tickets to be brought in and entered and for which orders are to be made forth, and about 12,000 tickets to be taken in for 2,000 orders that are ready to be delivered out: besides their work of making up the account of the 1,400,000l. Lottery anno 1714 (as they have done for all the former Lotteries) when it shall be brought nearer to a conclusion: wherefore they pray continuation of their usual reward of 400l. each for one year longer out of the Lottery fund. Money Book XXIV, pp. 502–3.
March 16.	William Lowndes to the Navy Commissioners. Admiral Aylmer has applied to my Lords for the half pay due to him during the time he was unemployed as Admiral of the Fleet, pursuant to the late Queen's warrant. Please certify how long he was so unemployed. Out Letters (General) XXII, p. 57. Same to Mr. Clayton. My Lords are applied to by Mr. Marshall for the balance of the enclosed account [missing] for keeping his Majesty's Stud at Hampton Court and Running Horses at New-market for last Xmas quarter. Please state what is due to him thereon according to the agreement made with him for the same as by the King's warrant of 15 Nov. 1715 [ut supra, Calendar of Treasury Books, Vol. XXIX, pp. 830–1]. Ibid. Same to the Surveyor General [of Crown Lands]. There is a little ale house adjoining St. James's House [Palace] between Osander's Coffee House and the wall of the royal palace which may be very dangerous to the palace in case of fire. Please examine the title, whether it be in grant from the Crown as pretended and what may be fit to be done to obtain the possession thereof for the Crown. Ibid. Treasury warrant to Edward Harley, one of the Auditors of Imprests, to allow the salaries incidents bill, detailed, of the Salt Office for the year ended 1712 Lady day to a total of 3,062l. 14s. 7¾d. Prefixing: said Harley's report on said bill. The salaries exceed those of the preceding year by 531l. 3s. 8¾d. due to new salt works &c. The same allowance of poundage is made to the [Customs] officers employed at the seaports to collect the Duties on Foreign Salt imported as in previous years' accounts, being 6 pence in the pound to the Collector and 6 pence more to the Surveyor for the whole sum collected at each port: which [allowance in all] amounts to 488l. 18s. 2¾d., “but no warrant has been produced to me for allowing thereof.” Warrants not Relating to Money XXIII, p. 361.
March 20.	Same to the Receipt to take in 25,000l. in loans on the Duties on coals as by the Act 9 Anne, c. 17, for building 50 new churches in London and Westminster; at 5 per cent, interest (altered to 6 per cent.). Prefixing: certificate [or precept] dated Lincolns Inn 24 Feb. 1715–16 by the Commissioners for building the said Churches requisitioning from the Treasury a further 25,000l. towards the said building. In the margin: “The Commissioners for Churches having desired that the interest for the loans in this warrant mentioned might be at 6 instead of 5 per cent. the Lords of the Treasury did agree thereto and ordered the warrant to be altered with respect to the said interest accordingly.” Money Book XXIV, p. 391.
March 20.	William Lowndes to the Navy Commissioners. I have read to my Lords yours of the 19th in answer to mine of the 16th relating to Admiral Aylmer's half pay. Has he received any half pay from 25 Jan. 1710–11 to 28 Oct. 1714, and how much does the half pay of an Admiral of the Fleet amount to for that time? Out Letters (General) XXII, p. 58.