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| April 21. |
Treasury reference to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands of the petition of Judith Macdowal for extension of her term in three tenements on the north side of Pall Mall Street, parcel of Pall Mall Field, in the Bailiwick of St. James's, Co. Middlesex. Reference Book IX, p. 273. |
| April 24. |
Money warrant for 180l. 8s. 9d. to the sufferers at Nevis and St. Christopher for three years' interest to 25 Dec. 1714 on 11 debentures (not detailed, see supra, p. 187, and Calendar of Treasury Books, Vol. XXIX, pp. 463–486). Money Book XXIII, p. 546. |
| April 25. |
Same for 285l. 2s. 6d. to William [Talbot], Bishop of Salisbury, Chancellor of the Order of the Garter, for half a year to 1716 Lady day on the annuity or yearly pension for the support of said Order. (Money order dated April 27 hereon.) Ibid. XXVII, p. 434. Order Book IX, p. 216.
Same for 19l. 4s. 6d. to Sir Christopher Wren, the Comptroller of the Works at Windsor Castle, and 30l. 16s. 3d. to John Ball, the Surveyor or Clerk of the Works within the Honor and Castle of Windsor, for two years and 39 days from Xmas 1713 to 3 Feb. 1715–16 on their respective fees of 9l. 2s. 6d. per an. and 14l. 12s. 6d. per an.: the King having by patent of 1715–16 Feb. 3 revoked and determined and for ever suppressed and made void the said offices. (Money orders dated May 7 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated May 14 hereon. To be paid out of the late Queen's Civil List arrears.) Money Book XXIV, pp. 437–8. Order Book IX, p. 220. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 161.
Treasury warrant dormant to the Auditor of the Receipt to satisfy out of Civil List moneys from time to time the debentures for Richard Topham's salary of 500l. per an. as Keeper of the Records in the Tower: as by the dormant warrant of 1714–15 Feb. 9. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 155. |
| April 26. |
Same to the Auditors of Imprests to allow items as follows in account to Edward Godfrey, gent., “in his account with the Crown” [as Paymaster of the King's private pensions from Sept. 1714 to Sept. 1715]: viz. |
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£ |
s. |
d. |
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[paid] to Charles Bint, [his] bill for fees disbursed by him to the Tellers of the Exchequer and other offices for money imprested to Edward Godfrey, and other fees and contingent charges to March 1715 |
665 |
2 |
2 |
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[paid] to Paul Jodrell, [his] bill for Votes of the House of Commons, [to wit copies thereof supplied] for his Majesty from 1 Aug. 1714 to 20 Oct. 1715 |
13 |
16 |
0 |
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[paid] to Thomas Boniface and Charles Bint for three quarters of a year's allowance from Xmas 1714 to Mich. 1715 for being employed in his Majesty's service for carrying the Votes and other business as hath been usually allowed [viz.] to each 45l.
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90 |
0 |
0 |
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— |
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£768 |
18 |
2 |
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Money Book XXIV, p. 432. |
| April 26. |
Treasury warrant dormant to the Auditors and the Receivers of Crown Land Revenues in Co. Middlesex to make forth and to pay debentures for paying to Charles, Duke of Somerset, all moneys due and in arrear to him on the wages &c. as follows and similarly to pay same for the future: the late Queen Anne having appointed him by patent dated 1710 Oct. 5 to sundry offices in Hampton Court House Park for life with sundry fees &c. as follows: viz. |
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per an. |
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£ |
s. |
d. |
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the office of Keeper of the Park called the New Park, alias the House Park, with the wages and fee of 4d. a day |
6 |
1 |
8 |
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the office of Paler of the said Park with the wages or fee of 4d. a day |
6 |
1 |
8 |
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the office of Mower of the Brakes in the said Park with the wages and fee of 20s. by the year |
1 |
0 |
0 |
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for mowing and making of hay in the meadows the allowance of 35l. per an |
35 |
0 |
0 |
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for the wages of two underkeepers the yearly sum of 26l.
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26 |
0 |
0 |
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— |
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£74 |
3 |
4 |
Ibid., pp. 432–3.
Same dormant to the Customs Cashier to pay the salary of 15l. per an. to Ingolsby Draper as a King's waiter in Bristol port. Ibid., p. 434.
Money warrant for 50l. 3s. 9d. to Joseph Lawson, Esq., without account, for half a year to 1715 June 24 on his fee or salary of 3s. a day and board wages allowance of 2s. 6d. a day as a Serjeant at Arms. (Cancelled and replaced by the warrant of June 12, infra.) Ibid., p. 433.
Treasury warrant to the Customs Cashier to pay to John Smith and George Leslie, Deputy Chamberlains of the Exchequer Court, 155l. 5s. 11d. for their allowance of 2s. per 1,000l. for joining and entering the tallies for 1,552,990l. 11s. 4d. of Customs money paid into the Exchequer upon account of the several branches of that revenue in 1713.
Prefixing: report by T. Foley, one of the Auditors of Imprests, as to the amount of said allowance on said total payment. Ibid., p. 435. |
| April 26. |
Money order for 150l. to Daniel Smith, Lieutenant Governor of Nevis, for three quarters to 1715–16 March 2 on his allowance or salary. Order Book IX, p. 225.
William Lowndes to Mr. George Bampfeild. Mr. Secretary Stanhope has signified to my Lords the King's pleasure that a present be forthwith provided for the Five Indian Nations [at New York] consisting of the particulars contained in the enclosed list [missing]. My Lords direct you to lay before them an estimate of the charge of each particular [item] to the end they may direct the purchasing thereof. Out Letters (General) XXII, p. 68.
Same to the Comptrollers of Army Accounts to report on the enclosed lists [missing] signed by the Deputy Governor and Judge Advocate at Gibraltar of the number of persons victualled in that garrison every lunar month between the 2 Jan. 1715–16 and March 25; as also a certificate [missing] signed by the said Deputy Governor of the quantity of provisions imported by the contractor into the Stores there on the 22 Feb. last. Ibid.
Same to the Customs Commissioners. In a letter to my Lords from Mary Holmes, wife of Richard Holmes, late Inspector of the Exchequer Books in the Outports, she alleges that there is due to her husband a quarter's salary in respect of the said office, which she prays for her support in consideration of the great necessity he has left her in, he being gone beyond seas. How much is so due to the said Holmes? Ibid.
Treasury reference to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands of the petition of Stephen Child for extension of lease of a tenement in Richmond, Co. Surrey, which he holds by several mesne assignments under a rent of 15l. per an.: the premises being very ruinous. Reference Book IX, p. 276.
Treasury warrant to Sir Edward Northey [Attorney General] to enter a noli prosequi to the information exhibited in the Exchequer in Hilary term last in the name of Thomas Hardwick, an officer of the Customs, London port, against a parcel of white lace seized by him for being landed without payment of Customs.
In the margin: Theresie Julienne. Warrants not Relating to Money XXIII, p. 377.
Same to Thomas Hewett, Surveyor General of Woods, to fell sufficient timber in any of the royal forests or parks to defray the whole charge of making the works and repairs as follows: viz. |
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£ |
s. |
d. |
in New Forest in Co. Southampton.
repairing Rinefield Lodge and stable |
130 |
0 |
0 |
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repairing the house belonging to the Master Keeper of the Inner Bailywick Walk |
100 |
0 |
0 |
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— |
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230 |
0 |
0 |
in Windsor Forest.
repairing the lodge of the Ranger of Bigshot Rails and Sandhurst Walk |
47 |
19 |
7 |
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new deer pens &c. and railing in Cranburne Chase |
39 |
5 |
4 |
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repairs at the Lodge and stables &c. at Swinley Rails |
108 |
7 |
7½ |
in his Majesty's Park called the Little Park at Windsor.
repairing the palisades which are in the park wall, and gratings for making two deer pens and 16 deer racks and a deer house, making six vermin traps, repairing the pales round the Plantations and altering the locks on the gates |
50 |
1 |
7 |
in his Majesty's Park called the House Park at Hampton Court.
repairing the Lodge inhabited by Richard Marshal, his Majesty's Studmaster |
16 |
3 |
4½ |
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repairing the Keeper's lodge |
10 |
0 |
4 |
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repairing the stables belonging to the Paddock |
24 |
18 |
7 |
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repairing the stables in the meadows, with the fences towards the Thames and the Royal Garden |
29 |
8 |
5 |
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making two new stables 43 feet long by 17 feet broad |
166 |
6 |
4 |
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135 rod of paling ledged at top, to make two paddocks round the two new stables |
70 |
0 |
0 |
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workmen's bills |
66 |
10 |
0 |
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— |
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£383 |
7 |
0½ |
in his Majesty's Park at Greenwich.
368 rod of paling and ditching round the two groves there |
276 |
0 |
0 |
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fitting up the said groves with new trees in the room of such as have been destroyed |
20 |
0 |
0 |
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583 elm trees, 289 chesnut trees and 165 beech trees wanting to make good the plantations there, carrying away the old exhausted earth, two load of loam to each tree, boxing and fencing with posts and rails and watering for the first year |
388 |
17 |
6 |
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— |
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£684 |
17 |
6 |
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Warrants not Relating to Money XXIII, pp. 377–9. |
| April 27. |
Money warrant for 115l. 10s. 1½d. to Benjamin Bennet, Lieut. Governor and Commander in Chief of the Bermuda or Summer Islands in America, for 124 days 1715 May 28 (the date of his commission for the said Government) to Sept. 29 following on his salary of 240l. per an. and allowance of 100l. per an. in lieu of presents from the Assemblies. (Money order dated May 17 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated April 20 hereon.) Money Book XXIV, p. 436. Order Book IX, p. 219. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 154. |
| April 27. |
William Lowndes to the Excise Commissioners. The Commissioners for Trade and Plantations have desired the Treasury Lords that an account be sent them of the Duties now paid upon calicoes printed or stained in this kingdom and the gross produce of those Duties [as by 13 Anne, c. 18, clause 6] for the last year. Please send such an account to the Treasury Lords for the said Commissioners. Out Letters (General) XXII, p. 69.
Treasury reference to the Customs Commissioners of the petition of James Davis for restoration of 75l. lately seized by Mr. Boughton, Surveyor of Deal port, from the Great Cabin of the ship King George bound to the East Indies, there being no intention to export it, being only intended to be laid out at Deal whilst the ship lay there. Reference Book IX, p. 272.
Same to the Auditor of the Receipt of the petition of John Hunt shewing that on the 5th July 1678 Robert Ryves, goldsmith, was entitled to a yearly sum of 982l. 1s. 8d. out of the Hereditary Excise by letters patent from Charles II. dated 5 July 1678; that the said Ryves the 21 January 1679–80 by deed poll assigned to Ralph Stowell [Stawel], Esq., and his heirs 153l. per an., part of the said 982l. 1s. 8d. per an. in satisfaction of a debt of 2,550l.: that on the 19th July 1688 Ralph Stowell (afterwards Ralph, Lord Stowell [Stawel]) made his will in writing, devised his estate to Sir William Portman, Henry Bull, the said John Hunt [the present petitioner], John Ryves and John Sandford and their heirs and executors in trust for payment of his debts and legacies and made them executors till payment thereof and then gave his son the residue: that in the 5th and 6th year of William and Mary by a private Act [No. 17] of Parliament the personal estate of John, Lord Stowell [Stawel], was vested in Robert Cecil, Esq., Sir John Austin, Edward Berkley, the said John Hunt and Gerrard Newcomb: that Sir William Portman, Henry Bull, John Ryves, John Sanford, Robert Cecil, Sir John Austin, Edward Berkley and Gerrard Newcomb are all dead, so that the said yearly sum of 153l. assigned to Ralph Stowell and the provisions made for the same by the Act of Parliament [2–3 Anne, c. 9] for satisfying the Bankers' debts do now belong to the said John Hunt, the surviving trustee of the said will and Act of Parliament: that one Richard Ryves, fishmonger, having clandestinely obtained letters of administration to the said Ralph, Lord Stowell, as if he had died intestate, did on the 18th June 1711 obtain an order at the Exchequer and signed by the Earl of Oxford, Lord Treasurer, and Robert Benson, Chancellor of the Exchequer, for payment to him [Richard Ryves] of 76l. 10s. 0d. per an. [being the reduced moiety value of the said 153l. per an.] in lieu of the said 2,550l. and wrongfully received 439l. 7s. 6d. for five years and nine months' annuity [thereon]: that the said Richard Ryves being dead his son Richard Ryves has taken out letters of administration to his father and is consenting to have the said order quashed and to repay the said 439l. 7s. 6d. to the end a new order may be made out [for due payment of said annuity at the Exchequer] to the said Hunt and the said 439l. 7s. 6d. and the growing annuity paid to them: therefore petitioner prays that the said [Exchequer] order may be quashed and a new order made out for payment of the annuity to the petitioner and that the said 439l. 7s. 6d. be paid to him by the said Richard Ryves the son. Ibid.
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| April 27. |
Treasury reference to the Attorney General of the petition of Richard, Visct. Fitz William, and George Pitt, trustees for Mary Fitz William, daughter of Thomas, late Visct. Fitz William, who by will bequeathed to his said daughter 10,000l. for her portion, and on the 24th Jan. 1708–9 the petitioners (by approbation of a Master in Chancery) put 2,500l. thereof out at interest to George Collingwood of Eslington, Co. Northumberland, on a mortgage of his then manors or lordships of Eslington, Whittingham and Barton in the said county: that the said Collingwood being taken at Preston in the late Rebellion they [petitioners] acquainted the Attorney General with the said security and that they intended to get possession of the said mortgaged premises; that they did accordingly procure the tenants of the said premises to attorn to them and hoped [they, petitioners] should have had quiet possession thereof until their said debt and charges were fully paid: but since [then] the said Collingwood hath been convict and executed, the undersheriff of the said county hath by an order from Mr. Cracherode [the Treasury Solicitor] forbid the said tenants paying their rents till further order, which if suffered to go in arrear may waste the rent and become insolvent: therefore petitioners pray that they may continue in the possession of the said mortgaged premises and receive the rents and profits thereof until their said debt and charges shall be fully answered. Reference Book IX, p. 273.
Treasury warrant to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands for a particular of the manor of Northsted, Co. Yorks, in order to an extension of lease thereof to William Thompson.
Prefixing: said Surveyor General's report on said Thompson's petition, ut supra, p. 169. The lease from the late Queen Dowager and her trustees is dated 20 Dec. 1715 for 7½ years from 18 Aug. 1728 at 27l. 6s. 8d. per an. I find by the surveys that the improved value of the premises over and above the reserved rent is 185l. 4s. 8d. per an. I rate a fine of 170l. for filling up the petitioner's term to 31 years. Warrants not Relating to Money XXIII, p. 379. |
| April 28. |
Same dormant to the Customs Cashier to pay 8l. per an. to Warren Lisle for his salary as searcher of Poole port. Money Book XXIV, p. 436. |
| April 30. |
Money warrant for 125l. to Robert Bristow for one quarter from [sic for to] 1715–16 March 10 as one of the Commissioners for taking and stating the Debts due to the Army, to which duty he was appointed by Act of Parliament of 1 Geo. I. in place of Thomas Smith, deceased. (Money order dated May 2 hereon.) Ibid., p. 437. Order Book IX, p. 218.
The Treasury Lords to the Lords Justices of Ireland to report on the enclosed petition [missing] of Capt. George Carleton praying that he may receive the allowance of half pay which was settled for him on the Establishment of Ireland, to wit from 25 March 1711 (when the same was struck off the said Establishment) to the 25th March 1715 (when he was again restored to half pay). Out Letters (Ireland) X, p. 42. |
