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| Dec. 17. |
Royal warrant dated St. James's, under the sign manual of the Prince of Wales as Guardian of the Kingdom, to the Treasury Lords to pay 706l. 16s. 11¾d. to Charles, Visct. Townshend, late a Principal Secretary of State: without account: for 86 days Sept. 17 last (to which date he was last paid) to Dec. 12 inst. (when he delivered up his seals of office) on the allowance of 3,000l. per an. for secret service. (Money warrant dated Dec. 19 hereon.) (Money order dated Dec. 20 hereon.) (For a letter of direction which includes this sum see infra, p. 609, under date Dec. 22.) King's Warrant Book XXVIII, p. 133. Order Book IX, p. 331. |
| Dec. 17. |
Money warrant for 375l. 1s. 4½d. to Charles, Visct. Townshend, for 74 days Sept. 29 last to Dec. 12 inst. on his allowance of 1,850l. per an. as late a Principal Secretary of State, he having delivered up the seals of office on the said Dec. 12 inst. (Money order dated ? Dec. 15 hereon.) (For a letter of direction which includes this sum see infra, p. 609.) Money Book XXV, p. 146. Order Book IX, p. 331.
Same for 120l. 5s. 5¾d. to same: without account: for one year and 74 days 1715 Sept. 29 to 1716 Dec. 12 on the patent fee of 100l. per an. as late a same. (Letter of direction, ut supra.) Money Book XXV, p. 146.
Money order for 621l. 17s. 6d. to William Chetwynd, late Envoy Extraordinary to the Republic of Genoa, as by the royal warrant of July 30 last: without account: which sum with 1,486l. already issued completes 2,107l. 17s. 6d. due to him on several bills of extra ordinaries between 10 Dec. 1709 and 12 Dec. 1712: to be paid out of the late Queen's [Civil List] arrears. Order Book IX, p. 330.
William Lowndes to the Auditor of the Receipt. Send to my Lords an account of the sums which [up] to this day have been paid into the Exchequer on the head of Forfeitures for Treason; and by whom; and how much thereof remains undisposed. Out Letters (General) XXII, p. 146b.
Treasury allowance of the salary bill of the Excise Office in Scotland for 1716 Sept. 29 quarter, viz. 1,149l. 14s. 11½d. for Excise; 30l. for the Candle Duties; 158l. 15s. 0d. for the Duties on hides and skins; 8l. 15s. 0d. for the Duties on gilt and silver wire, first Duty on starch and additional Duty on hides and skins; 7l. 10s. 0d. for the Duties on soap, paper and calicoes: total 1,354l. 14s. 11½d. Out Letters (North Britain) II, p. 568.
Same of the incidents bill of the said Excise Office in Scotland for said quarter: total 207l. 18s. 1¾d. Ibid., p. 569.
Same of the salary bill, detailed, of the Customs in Scotland for the quarter ended 1716 Sept. 29: total 3,662l. 8s. 3d. (including 75l. for the Comptroller and his clerks which was omitted in the bill for the preceding quarter). Ibid. IV, pp. 2–12.
The like of the salary bill, detailed, of the Salt Officers in Scotland for said quarter: total 806l. 5s. 0d. Ibid., pp. 13–15. |
| Dec. 18. |
Treasury warrant to Anthony Cracherode [Treasury Solicitor] to retain for your own use 500l. (out of moneys in your hands for Crown Law suits) as in recompense and satisfaction of your extraordinary care, labour and pains in and about the several criminal prosecutions that have been carried on by you for the service of the Government at any time before or since the breaking out of the late unnatural Rebellion to the date hereof. Money Book XXV, p. 146. |
| Dec. 18. |
Money warrant for 250l. to Anthony Cracherode [Treasury Solicitor] for half a year from 1 June 1716 to 1 Dec. 1716 on his allowance of 500l. per an. in lieu of all termly and other fees and for clerks, coach hire &c. as Treasury Solicitor. (Money order dated Dec. 20 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated 1716–17 Jan. 3 hereon.) Ibid., p. 147. Order Book IX, p. 333. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 246.
William Lowndes to the Commissioners for making forth Lottery Orders. My Lords have read your report about the printers' bills and are satisfied with the same so far as concerns the matters then referred to you. But they are inclined to believe that the Offices served by the printers have greater quantities of all things than are necessary for them to have. My Lords direct you to consider and adjust that article of expense and to report to them, with the prices you think reasonable to be paid to the printers for what they shall serve for the future. Out Letters (General) XXII, p. 146b.
Same to the Master of the Jewel Office. My Lords desire to know what care is taken by you to call in his Majesty's plate when such of his officers who indent for the same, or are entrusted therewith, be displaced or relinquish their offices. And likewise what plate has been returned [into your Office] since his Majesty's accession and how much of his Majesty's plate is now out in other hands, how much remains in the [your] Office and how much thereof is become unfit for future service. Ibid.
Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners to pay 50l. to Thomas Hollinworth for services in relation to services as follows.
Prefixing: report by said Commissioners on said Hollinworth's petition. Petitioner set forth that he was willing to serve the Government and able to prove that senna (which in the Act of Parliament [3–4 Anne, c. 3, clause 8] was reckoned among dyers' wares) was notwithstanding a drug and liable to pay a larger Duty, and he applied to the Customs Commissioners and was instrumental in bringing the matter into the House of Commons. He produced certificates to our approbation and the satisfaction of the House of Commons that senna was a medicinal drug and not used in dyeing and the clause in the late Act of Parliament [1 Geo. I., St. 2, c. 43, clause 3] for remedying that inconveniency will by increasing the Duties on senna be of considerable advantage to the revenue. He deserves 50l. for a recompense and for his expenses therein. Out Letters (Customs) XVI, p. 402.
Same to Henry Ferne, late Receiver General and Cashier of Customs, to lay before the Customs Commissioners schedules or inventories of the bonds of all denominations remaining in your hands and to obey the orders of said Commissioners as to the delivering over the same to such persons as they shall direct: to wit in three classes or categories as follows, viz. bonds solvent, bonds insolvent and bonds standing out for interest only, “so as the merchants and the revenue, which are alike liable to suffer as long as the said bonds do remain in the present useless and inactive state and condition, may both find their account.” Appending: presentment dated Dec. 8 inst. from said Commissioners to the Treasury Lords. As soon as Mr. Hawes was sworn Receiver General and Cashier of Customs we directed Mr. Ferne to deliver to him all books, bonds, deposits, papers and other matters relating to his office with the privity of the proper officers. He returned answer soon after that by his patent our power over the Receiver General is limited to orders of incidents and that in all other cases he was under the directions of the Treasury Lords and could not with safety to himself do what we had directed without the said Lords' warrant, whereupon we recommended Mr. Hawes, Mr. Ferne, the Comptroller General [of Customs] and the Comptroller of the Receiver General's issues and payments to adjust matters between the late and present Receiver General of Customs. Since then, in pursuance of your Lordship's warrant of Sept. 5 last Mr. Hawes has received of Mr. Ferne 1,130 bonds amounting to 233,336l. 6s. 3d., being merchants' bonds for Duties on wine and tobacco.
But Mr. Ferne stood charged with and owned to have in his hands at Michaelmas last 4,757 bonds for Duties on wines and tobacco to the amount of 499,515l. 6s. 7d., besides which we are informed he has still in his possession a considerable number of bonds which he calls bonds standing out for interest only, “though according to the Attorney General's opinion [such interest] is to be deemed principal when the debt on those bonds shall be rightly computed.” Being acquainted by our Solicitor that several of those bonds having been put in suit “he”had obtained judgment and that the merchants were ready to discharge them we directed Mr. Ferne to prevent further clamour to adjust the debt on each bond and to receive the money due thereon agreeable to what has been practised in other public Offices on the like occasion [of change of officer] and as Mr. Ferne did with respect to bills of exchange then in his hands.
To this Mr. Ferne replied that he had given liberty to the present Receiver General and his clerks to have recourse to the bonds he stood charged with and that he had nothing more to do than clear his accounts and deliver over those bonds as your Lordships should direct.
We then discoursed the present Receiver General [Mr. Hawes] whether he had any objection to receiving the remainder of the bonds in Mr. Ferne's hands, who acquainted us that the bonds which are insolvent would only be a clog on his accounts and therefore hoped they might be delivered to the [King's] Remembrancer [of the Exchequer Court], but that he had no objection to receiving any other bonds that shall be deemed solvent.
In regard therefore that the late Receiver General insists that he is not obliged to receive any money due on the bonds remaining in his custody nor to deliver them over without authority from your Lordships and the present Receiver General refusing to charge himself with the insolvent bonds we must observe that whilst this matter remains undetermined the revenue suffers in the want of money due and ready to be paid and the merchants and their sureties are clamorous for the discharge and cancellation of their bonds. We therefore propose that Mr. Ferne be directed to compute (according to the Attorney General's opinion) what is due on each bond in his hands as well those on which he allows principal to be due as those he calls bonds standing out only for interest and after this computation has been examined and allowed by the Comptroller of the [Customs Cashier's] Issues and Payments that Ferne be charged therewith as a debt in his accounts with the Comptroller General [of Customs] and [with] the said Comptroller of Issues and with the Auditors [of Imprests], and that the solvent bonds be forthwith delivered to the present Receiver General by schedule and the remaining insolvent bonds be delivered by schedule to the King's Remembrancer and duplicates of the said schedules to be lodged with the said Comptrollers and thereupon Ferne to be discharged and the present Receiver and the King's Remembrancer respectively to be charged, pro tanto.
As to the bonds standing out for interest only we cannot obtain from Mr. Ferne a perfect account of the number and value thereof; and the Comptroller of the Receiver General's Issues has no particular account thereof in his books, “we being informed by Mr. Killigrew, the present Comptroller, that his predecessors looked upon themselves [as] discharged from any further cognizance of those bonds from the time the principal was fully discharged by the merchants, and Mr. Ferne being nowhere charged with those bonds either with the Comptroller General [of Customs] or the Auditors [of Imprests]” we advise that to prevent a loss to the revenue a separate lock or locks be immediately put on those bonds jointly with Mr. Ferne by such person as your Lordships shall think proper till the same can be adjusted. Out Letters (Customs) XVI, pp. 402–4. |
| Dec. 18. |
Treasury reference to the Customs Commissioners of the petition of Robert Atkyns et al. praying that debentures may be made out for their full drawback on six tons of Couries taken out of the ship Henry and re-shipt on board the Whidah.
In the margin: memorandum: in the petition the Duty was said to be paid 4 March 1715, but [the said date was by the petitioner] desired after it had been long time at the Custom House to be altered to 1714. Reference Book IX, p. 302.
Treasury warrant to Sir Edward Northey, Attorney General, to give a warrant to the Clerk of the Petty Bag for a commission to Thomas Kilpin and four others, detailed, to enquire of the estate of Henry St. John, late Visct. Bolingbroke, in Cos. Berks and Surrey upon [or as it existed at] the 24th June 1715 or at any time since and which, by reason of his attainder for high treason, are become forfeited to his Majesty. Warrants not Relating to Money XXIV, p. 41.
Same to the Excise Commissioners to permit the following merchants to reduce imported rum to proof or to make post entry, viz. John Richardson, William Shackle, Robert Fairman, Stephen Creagh, William Parrot, John Kelly, William Wickham, William Corderoy, William Jenks, Capt. Newton, John Hide, Edward Bridgen, John Campbell, William Macklure, John Blake, Bryan Severn, Arthur Norman, Henry Coleman, Int. Barras, Samuel Trevor, William Johnson, Samuel Buck, Capt. Simonds, Samuel Browse, William Miller, John Davis, Thomas Stafford, Henry Springthorp.
Prefixing: the said Commissioners' report on the said merchants' petition. Ibid., p. 45.
Same to the Commissioners for managing the Duties on Hides to admit George Payne to be clerk assistant to the Secretary in their Office loco John Powle, deceased.
John Warder to be assistant to the Accountant in your Office loco [the abovesaid] George Payne. Out Letters (Affairs of Taxes) II, p. 209. |
| Dec. 18. |
William Lowndes to the Revenue Commissioners, Ireland. The Treasury Lords have granted leave of absence to Mr. Strickland, one of your number. Out Letters (Ireland) X, p. 70.
The Treasury Lords to the Commissioners for Forfeitures in Scotland. We send this to remind you that it was thought necessary that some person as an agent should take care that ail the moneys should be brought into the Exchequer of Scotland which should be brought in by the late Act for inquiry into the Forfeited Estates. We nominated Sir Robert Constable for that purpose with your knowledge and as we took it with your approbation we directed him to attend you for your instructions and hoped he would have been serviceable to the public.
But by several letters he has represented that you will not let him see the minutes and orders entered in your books; and that your directing him to receive money in any places other than Edinburgh will require many hands and subject the money to great hazards and losses by mobs and robbers; that you had ordered security to be taken from the buyers for payment at time and the goods thereupon to be delivered and that those securities should be in his name; that he should never refuse to take money from anybody willing to give it, granting receipts only for the sums he should receive; and that money has been tendered to him without his knowing how much he was to receive or for what.
We desire to know from you the state of these facts. And at present we can do no better than refer you to the Act itself [1 Geo. I., St. 2, c. 50] which prescribes that you should make inventories of the forfeited goods and just appraisements upon oaths and sell the goods to the best of your skill and make entries in your books of the goods sold, buyers' names, prices agreed for, and give the buyers certificates under your hands and seals expressing the particulars bought, the prices and time of sale and that thereupon the buyers should pay into the Exchequer within the time fixed by you and then the particulars be delivered to the buyers and in default of payment that they forfeit one third of the sums contracted for and that you proceed to a new sale.
By this it appears to be incumbent on you to make the inventories and appraisements &c. and as the buyers are under a penalty for non-payment we cannot but think it would be an ease and encouragement to them to have a fit person (in whom they might confide) to make their payments regular and to have Exchequer acquittances to warrant your delivery of the goods to them and to secure their property therein.
We think the said Agent should oblige himself to those buyers that will entrust him to pay the money for them, but then it will be necessary for him to know for what goods such payments are to be made and to see the documents prescribed by the Act.
We therefore earnestly recommend to you the giving to Sir Robert Constable such lights and assistance as may enable him duly to perform the trust reposed in him. Out Letters (North Britain) III, pp. 570–71.
Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners in Scotland to employ Charles Macallaster as Collector of Customs at Campbeltown at 30l. per an. loco John Murray, whose deputation is to be superseded, who is not active enough by reason of his infirmity and want of experience. Murray is to be presented for such vacancy as he is capable of executing. Out Letters (North Britain) III, p. 572. |
| Dec. 19. |
Royal letters patent under the great seal appointing Evelyn, Duke of Kingston, to be Keeper of the Privy Seal: with the fee of 365l. per an.: in place of Charles, Earl of Sunderland, who was thereto appointed by the patent of 2 Sept. 1715, who with the King's consent went to Aix la Chapelle to drink the waters, and the King granted a patent dated 1716 Aug. 20 to Edward Southwell, James Vernon and Andrew Tharlton (Tharston) [Charleton] for the custody of the said seal in the said Earl's absence: all which latter patents are hereby revoked. King's Warrant Book XXVIII, pp. 501–2.
Treasury warrant to the Receipt to take in loans not exceeding 20,000l. on the Duties on Coals as by the Act of 9 Anne, c. 17, for building fifty new Churches in and about London and Westminster.
Prefixing: precept dated Palace Yard, Westminster, Dec. 10 inst. from the Commissioners for building the said Fifty New Churches to the Treasury Lords calling for the raising of said 20,000l. loan for the said purpose. Money Book XXV, pp. 147–8.
Money warrant for 30,000l. to John Leacroft, Treasurer and Receiver of the moneys for building the abovesaid fifty churches, as imprest and upon account for purchasing land &c. and building churches and making and enclosing cemeteries or churchyards for new intended parishes &c. as by the Act as above. (Money order dated Dec. 20 hereon.) Ibid., p. 148. Order Book IX, p. 332.
Same for 125l. each to the Commissioners for Army Debts (Thomas Pelham, Grey Neville, John Plumtree, Leonard Smelt, Sir William Gordon, Sir Thomas Palmer and Robert Bristow) for the quarter due Dec. 10 inst. on their allowances of 500l. per an. each for their care and pains in executing their trust. (Money order dated Dec. 20 hereon.) Money Book XXV, p. 148. Order Book IX, p. 332.
Same for 750l. to James Moody, Esq., for the incident charges of the abovesaid Commissioners for the same time. (Money order, ut supra.) Money Book XXV, p. 149. Order Book IX, p. 332.
Same for 285l. 2s. 6d. to William, Bishop of Sarum, Chancellor of the Order of the Garter, for half a year to 1716 Sept. 29 on the annuity or yearly pension for the support of said Order. (Money order dated 1716–17 Jan. 2 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated Jan. 3 hereon.) Money Book XXV, p. 156. Order Book IX, p. 339. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 246.
Letter of direction for 874l. 2s. 3¼d. to Samuel Edwyn, Usher of the Receipt, in full of 1,674l. 2s. 3¼d. for necessaries delivered to the Officers of the Receipt before the late Queen's demise, to wit in Michaelmas and Hilary terms 1713: to be issued out of moneys remaining in the Exchequer for sale of tin belonging to her said late Majesty. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 240.
Same for 400l. to William Clayton on the unsatisfied order in his name: out of Civil List moneys: and is intended to be paid to Richard Marshall on his 1,600l. per an. for keeping his Majesty's Stud at Hampton Court and six Running Horses at Newmarket for 1716 Xmas quarter. Ibid.
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| Dec. 19. |
Same for 473l. 12s. 6d. to Charles Bodvile, Earl of Radnor, on the unsatisfied order in his name as Treasurer of the Chamber: out of Civil List moneys: and is as imprest and upon account to be paid and applied as follows: viz. |
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£ |
s. |
d. |
|
to the Master of the [King's] Barges, the 48 watermen and 12 pensionary watermen for half a year's wages to 1716 Xmas |
143 |
15 |
0 |
|
more to said Master and the 48 watermen on their bills of service from 1715 Dec. 25 to 1716 Dec. 7 pursuant to a warrant signed by the Lord Chamberlain in that behalf |
329 |
17 |
6 |
|
— |
|
£473 |
12 |
6 |
Ibid., p. 241.
Same for 9,725l. 0s. 11d. to Charles Dartiquenave on the unsatisfied order in his name as Paymaster of the Works: out of moneys remaining in the Exchequer arising out of the sale of tin belonging to the late Queen: and is intended to be applied in manner following [towards the debt on the Works before the death of the said Queen]: viz. |
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£ |
s. |
d. |
|
to clear the expense of the Works (the repairs of Windsor Castle included) for the months of Oct., Nov. and Dec. 1713 |
9,469 |
18 |
11½ |
|
for Henry Wise in further part of 380l. 6s. 7d. for keeping the Gardens at the Little House at Windsor and shelling the Mall in St. James's Park before the demise of the late Queen |
57 |
10 |
0 |
|
for Col. Richard King to defray the charge he was at in 1713 for fitting up lodgings at Whitehall, afterwards employed as an Office for the Secretary of State for Scotland |
197 |
11 |
11½ |
|
— |
|
£9,725 |
0 |
11 |
Ibid., p. 243.
Treasury warrant to the Collector Inwards of London port to swear John Bryan into office as deputy to Robert Ewen, Esq., a King's waiter, London port.
Prefixing: note of the presentation by said Ewen of said Bryan for same and of the approval thereof. Out Letters (Customs) XVI, p. 405.
Same to the Customs Commissioners to direct the Comptroller General of the Accounts of the Customs to make up and to transmit to the Treasury Lords yearly at Xmas, instead of quarterly as heretofore, the several accounts as follow: the said Commissioners having represented on the 12th inst. that the General Accounts of the Customs are very much behind, but that by the care and application of the present Comptroller they will be soon brought up and regularly passed in future and that in order not to retard the growing business of his Office the accounts which by the former [Treasury] directions were to be sent to the Treasury Lords quarterly (within a month of the end of each quarter) from 29 Sept. 1714 may be delivered annually from Xmas to Xmas, being the times of the said Comptroller's balancing his accounts: to wit accounts as well of what shall have been recovered of the debts owing at the [respective making up] time and the charges of the prosecutions thereupon as [also] of what shall have incurred and grown due from collectors, merchants or others at any time from and after the said 29 Sept. 1714 either in London port, the outports or Plantations.
Hereby the balancing of the said Comptroller's accounts will be done with more ease to his Office and of the other officers concerned in such accounts both in London ports and the outports. Out Letters (Customs) XVI, p. 411. |
| Dec. 19. |
Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners directing that the books and papers of all officers of the Customs be upon their death or removal delivered to the successors of such officers: all by reason that the said Commissioners in their memorial of Sept. 12 last touching the debts owing since the Revolution upon the several branches of the revenue under their management and standing out on the 29 Sept. 1714, have represented that by causing a general state or account to be formed by the Comptroller General [of Customs Accounts] from the several particular accounts relating to the said debts they find some defects in the said General Account occasioned by the want of several books of entries in the Office of the Receiver General [of Customs] and in the Office of the Solicitor [of the Customs] which [books] since the Revolution have been taken away by former Receivers General and Solicitors when they left their Offices: wherefore the said Customs Commissioners have proposed (for the better carrying on of the business of the Customs by preserving regular accounts of all matters transacted) that when any officer in the service of the Customs shall resign or be removed he be required to deliver over to his successor all books, letters or other papers properly relating or belonging to the business of such office to be there kept for that service: and the like in case of death for the like records remaining in the care of an assistant, deputy or chief clerk: provided that the Receiver General or other officer having any account to pass be permitted to detain in his custody such thereof as he may have occasion to use as vouchers or otherwise for passing such account until the same be actually passed and no longer.
All which the Treasury Lords conceive to be for his Majesty's service and do hereby direct, authorise and require accordingly. Ibid., pp. 415–16.
Treasury reference to Hugh Cholmley, Surveyor General of Crown Lands, of the petition of Lewis Johnson for a further term in a messuage called the Whitehart and a cottage and little close called Pursefeild and two Pightles, all in Holborn and forming part of the grant from Charles II. to the Earl of St. Albans and now vested in petitioner by mesne assignments. Reference Book IX, p. 303. |
| Dec. 19. |
Same to same of the petition of Rebecca Paulden, widow, shewing that Charles II. granted to her late husband, Thomas Paulden, parcel of a waste sandy ground containing 1,500 acres “known by the name of the Holy Island, lying between the County of Northumberland and Durham,” under the rent of 10l. per an. to the Crown: that all the industry which has been used can't keep out the water from the said land and never any benefit having yet arisen to the petitioner or her said husband from the grant, but on the contrary they have been ruined by the attempts which they have made to drain the premises: therefore praying that the rent may be remitted. Ibid.
Same to same of the petition of Isabella Lambart for a further term in several tenements in Charles Street [in Westminster] and in a paved passage leading out of Charles Street into St. James's Market Place. Ibid.
Treasury warrant to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands for a particular of parcels of ground, one in St. James's Street, the other in St. James's Place, in order to a further term therein to John Kenrick.
Prefixing: said Surveyor General's report on said Kenrick's petition for same. The premises were demised 6 April 1694 to Edward Darell. On the piece in St. James's Street there are two houses built, one abutting south on the Thatched House Tavern and contains 31 foot fronting east to said street and 61 foot in depth and may be worth 70l. per an. at a rack rent. The other [house] adjoins the forementioned house to the south and a passage into a stable yard north and contains 18 foot fronting St. James's Street east and 61 foot depth and 4 foot built over a yard to the west 18 foot from the ground and may be worth 40l. per an. at a rack rent.
The parcel in St. James's Place abuts on Cleveland Court east and is 62 foot north by 60 foot west and 99 foot south abutting on a stable yard and contains four brick tenements which together may be worth at a rack rent 185l. per an. I advise a fine of 855l. for the renewal. Ibid., pp. 66–7.
Same to Antho[ny] Guidot, gent., to grub up the coppice woods called Highberrie Wood and Little St. John's Wood, formerly parcel of the manor of Newington Borough, alias Highberrie: and to convert the said ground into pasture, which will be an improvement of the estate held by said Guidot from the Crown.
Prefixing: report dated Dec. 5 inst. from the Surveyor General of Crown Lands on the petition of said Guidot for leave to grub up same. Petitioner holds same by lease from Queen Anne for 28½ years from Michaelmas 1716 under the several yearly rents of 2l. 11s. 8d. and 40s. The premises contain 78 acres whereof 25 are coppice ground, which he prays to convert into pasture. There being no timber growing thereon I am of opinion that the grubbing up will improve the estate. Ibid., p. 67.
Same to the Customs Commissioners in Scotland to employ John Hall as a tidewaiter at Prestonpans loco Thomas Campbell, deceased: at 20l. per an. Out Letters (North Britain) III, p. 571. |
| Dec. 20. |
Same to Francis Lynn, Esq., late Agent for the Garrison of Annapolis Royal, to pay (out of the money remaining in your hands as late Agent for the Independent Companies there) 300l. to Capt. Lawrence Armstrong, who commands one of the said Companies: [and is] upon account of his own and his said Company's pay. Money Book XXV, p. 128. |
| Dec. 20. |
Treasury warrant dormant to the Customs Cashier to pay the salary of 52l. per. an. to James Tate as a King's waiter, London port. Ibid., p. 3.
William Lowndes to the Navy Treasurer. My Lords desire that out of the money which you are to raise by a deposit of tallies and orders on the funds anno 1716 you pay and apply 2,979l. 11s. 0d. to satisfy bills of exchange drawn by the Agent Victualler for the service of the Baltic Squadron and payable to John Gore and Company. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 241.
Letter of direction for 10,161l. to Francis, Earl of Godolphin, on the unsatisfied order in his name as Cofferer of the Household: out of Civil List moneys: and is as imprest and upon account to clear the expense of the Household to Michaelmas 1716. Ibid.
Same for 11,079l. 15s. 3½d. to William Clayton, Esq., on the unsatisfied order in his name [as Paymaster of the King's private pensions]: out of Civil List moneys: and is as imprest and upon account to be applied to satisfy all sums due at Michaelmas 1716 on any the bounties, pensions and other payments established by his Majesty and payable by the hands of the said Clayton. Ibid., p. 242.
Same for 6,272l. 14s. 5d. to Charles Bodvile, Earl of Radnor, on the unsatisfied order in his name as Treasurer of the Chamber: out of Civil List moneys: and is as imprest and upon account to be by him paid over and applied to satisfy all sums payable in his Office at Michaelmas 1716: that is to say: |
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£ |
s. |
d. |
|
on the certain established allowance: for the quarter ended 1716 Michaelmas |
5,100 |
9 |
6 |
|
for stationer's bills for the Office of the Secretaries [of State] |
268 |
19 |
3 |
|
for the Housekeeper at Westminster on his allowance |
32 |
6 |
8 |
|
to him more for looking after the Court erected in Westminster Hall from Xmas 1715 to Michaelmas 1716 |
69 |
15 |
0 |
|
to the Rat-killer in full of his bills to Michaelmas 1716 |
28 |
19 |
0 |
|
to Sir Godfrey Kneller for six pictures of his Majesty at whole length |
322 |
10 |
0 |
|
for rent of a house hired for the Czar of Muscovy's Ministers |
346 |
3 |
0 |
|
to Mr. Somerset English for lodging his Majesty's Chaplains in Waiting at Hampton Court |
26 |
0 |
0 |
|
to Mr. Thomas Williams, Page of the Removing Wardrobe, for disbursements for his Majesty's service |
38 |
19 |
0 |
|
£ |
s. |
d. |
|
for Mr. Trebeck for reading of prayers at St. James's for two years to 1 Aug. 1716 |
30 |
0 |
0 |
|
for Mr. John Loftus, barge builder, for repairing his Majesty's barges and shallop to Michaelmas, 1716 |
8 |
13 |
0 |
|
— |
|
£6,272 |
14 |
5 |
|
Ibid.
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| Dec. 20. |
William Lowndes to Mr. Pulteney [Secretary at War]. My Lords are acquainted by a memorial from Mr. Medlycot, the Commissary for Gibraltar (which memorial you laid before my Lords) that the soldiers there are in great want of shoes and stockings. My Lords desire you to treat with such persons as you think fit for such numbers of each specie and at such prices as you think reasonable and to report to them. Out Letters (General) XXII, p. 146b.
Same to Mr. [Peter] Heywood [Deputy Auditor of Jamaica]. My Lords are acquainted by yours from Jamaica of Sept. 13 last that Lord Archibald Hamilton has deposited in your hands at his going off the said island 1,481 ounces of Spanish money in Ryalls and half Ryalls, that was seized upon and was supposed to be pirates' money. My Lords think themselves obliged to you for the information and since you desire their directions what you shall do therewith you are hereby desired to consign the said foreign silver by the first and safest conveyance to Sir Isaac Newton, Master and Worker of the Mint at the Tower of London, to be there coined into the money of this kingdom. My Lords have written to him [Sir Isaac Newton] and given directions that the produce thereof be paid into the Exchequer and that Sir Isaac do take a tally for the same, which (besides the record made thereof) will have proper words written thereupon to import your discharge. In the margin: delivered to Mr. Cooley to be given to Sir Geo. Heathcot. Ibid., p. 147.
Same to Mr. Cholmley, Surveyor General [of Crown Lands]. It is represented to my Lords by William Watkins, Esq., Surveyor of his Majesty's Private Roads, that the Littlehouse [little house] at the first Gate next St. James's called Pimlico is fallen to the Crown by the expiration of a lease granted to one Lawrence, who was Surveyor of the Roads to Charles II.; and it being of particular service to his Majesty's road leading to Fulham to have a trusty person placed in that house (which is now inhabited as he alleges by persons of ill repute) he has desired that directions be given for ejecting the present possessors. Please examine and state the title which the Crown is presumed to have to the said house and the title of the present possessors and report to my Lords thereon. (In the margin: “the Surveyor General to send an account of the Crown's title to Pimlico Gate leading to Fulham Road.”) Ibid.
Same to Mr. Young, Surveyor [General] of Woods [Trent North and South], to report on the enclosed memorial [missing] from the Duchess of Marlborough relating to the taxes assessed and now remaining unpaid on such lands as within late memory have been purchased by the Crown at Windsor. Send my Lords an account of said assessments and upon what lands. Ibid.
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| Dec. 20. |
William Lowndes to Mr. Stephens, Solicitor of the Customs. It is represented to my Lords that the estate late of Cornelius Den in Co. Huntingdon, extended for a Customs debt, is at present under the care of one Horton who lives at considerable distance and that tenants commit great waste in ploughing up the grass ground and cutting the wood. My Lords direct you to appoint Aldred Clarke of Godmanchester, near Huntingdon, to manage said estate instead of said Horton. Out Letters (General) XXII, p. 148.
Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners to pay 200l. to Henry Canby as the moiety of a 400l. seizure as follows: the remaining 200l. to be paid into the Exchequer for his Majesty's use.
Prefixing: memorial by said Commissioners to the Treasury Lords. In June and July last Henry Beauford entered outwards in the ship Providence, Adam Wetherell master, for Hamburg certain East India goods which are prohibited to be worn here, viz. 100 pieces of Romalls, 100 pieces of Bafts and 100 pieces of blue Byramports and gave bond in 400l. (being double the value) with one Thomas Wallis for exporting and not re-landing, as the law requires. Henry Canby, Surveyor of the Searchers of London port, on searching the ship before her departure found that the bale of Byramports had been opened and 40 pieces conveyed on shore “and the rest conveyed amongst the sails” and that the Romalls and Bafts were also taken away and the boxes filled with ballast, old matts and other rubbish. To colour this fraud the master made oath that he was robbed and that Beauford the exporter was ignorant thereof. But Canby believing that this affair was concerted between the master and the proprietor was so diligent in prosecution thereof that by the assistance of some persons upon promise of good encouragement he has discovered that Beauford, the pretended exporter, proved to be one Gerard Bergholt, a Hamburg merchant. We ordered our Solicitor to prosecute them as cheats at the Old Bailey, but rather than undergo the prosecution they paid the bond penalty. The Attorney General is of opinion that this money is not appropriated to any public use nor to the Civil List, but may be disposed of as his Majesty shall direct. We advise a reward of a moiety to Canby to enable him to gratify the persons who assisted him. Out Letters (Customs) XVI, pp. 405–6.
Same to same to let John Appleton have the liberty of his person.
Prefixing: report dated Sept. 26 last from said Commissioners to the Treasury Lords on the petition of said Appleton, a corn factor, shewing that he is a prisoner in Wood Street Compter for 1,257l. for treble the value of goods (mace, cloves, nutmegs, brandy, pepper, Spanish juice) lodged at his house in which he had no property, but which belonged to Thomas Hagget and David Woolf, petitioner praying his liberty to enable him to pay part of said fine. Petitioner was prosecuted in Easter term 1715 by Mr. Turpin, a landcarriage officer of London port. The goods were brought into petitioner's house privately in the night time and he has sold and disposed thereof to several persons. He made no defence and has lain six months in the Compter for the same. He has no effects and his circumstances are very mean. Ibid., pp. 407–8.
Treasury fiat for royal letters patent to constitute John Carr as Customer of Chichester port loco Lancellott Whitehall. Ibid., p. 408. |
| Dec. 20. |
Treasury warrant to the Attorney General to non pros. the information against the Camberwell galley, English built, for being manned contrary to the Act of Navigation.
Prefixing: report by the Customs Commissioners on the petition of John Clarke, master of said galley. He laded oil at Gallipoli for England. On the voyage the boatswain died and four Englishmen deserted at Leghorn and went into the Venetian service for three months' pay advanced to them and petitioner was obliged to admit a foreigner named Joseph Anderson, who had served four years and upwards in his Majesty's Navy, and five other foreigners, and arrived in London port June 18 last. Petitioner says his complement of men admitted a dispute only of one man, but he was manned with 22 English and 11 foreigners and his ship was seized by Mr. Scott, then Surveyor of the Navigation Act. It does not appear that Anderson's said service in the English Navy during the last war with France was after the 25th of April 1708, “which was necessary by the Act [6 Anne, c. 64, cl. 11] of the late Queen to make him a British mariner.” The affidavit of the desertion is made by the said master, William Clarke, chief mate, John Urquhart, late gunner, Uriah Ross, late steward, and John Clark, junr., late belonging to the said ship. “There is good reason to suspect that the frequent desertions of our British seamen in foreign parts so much complained of by masters of merchant ships have very often been occasioned by the masters pinching their men in their allowances or not giving them wholesome provisions or other ill usage of them to the great discouragement of our British seamen, and to the prejudice of the trade and navigation of this kingdom, which practices should in our opinion be discouraged as much as may be. But it does not appear to us to be so in the present case.” Ibid., pp. 409–11.
Same to the Customs Commissioners to stay prosecution against Adrian van Brakell of London, merchant, on a bond which he gave for some French wines imported by him in Aug. 1714 and afterwards sold in London port for 150l. 7s. 5d. less than the Duties thereon.
Prefixing said Commissioners' report dated Oct. 1 last on said Brakell's petition to be relieved against said bond. Besides loss by fire of parts of said wine petitioner has wholly lost the prime cost and freight of all the said wines without any manner of benefit thereby. We advise that he be not prosecuted on the bond, “but in regard the Duties are payable on the importation of the said wine, of which there appears to be short paid only 152l. 7s. 5d. as aforesaid the petitioner cannot be wholly discharged from the same.” Ibid., pp. 412–13.
Same to same to give order for the making out of certificates for goods as follows so as to entitle the petitioners to drawback.
Prefixing: said Commissioners' report dated Dec. 11 inst. on the petition of Herman Lovis and Company of London, merchants, shewing that about April 23 last they laded on the ship John and Charles, Capt. Searle, for Antigua divers certificate goods in expectation of the ship sailing every day: but a difference happening between the captain and the owners the ship did not proceed on the voyage. Thereupon the Searchers took out all her loading and put it on board another ship, Capt. Henry Baker commander, in August last, amongst them being 347 calicoes, part of petitioner's cargo, which the Searchers refuse to certify.
Hereon the Commissioners report that the first shipment was within the time allowed for drawback and the re-shipping was not occasioned by any act of the merchants. They therefore ought to have the benefit of the drawback. Out Letters (Customs) XVI, p. 413. |
| Dec. 20. |
Treasury reference to the Secretary at War of the petition of Edward Rudge and Thomas Ayles of London, merchants, agents to Nicholas Herne, Consul at Alicante, and in behalf of Solomon Gospright, an English merchant residing in that city, praying satisfaction for their provisions embargoed and lost at Alicante. Reference Book IX, p. 302.
Treasury warrant to the Clerk of the Pipe for a lease to Anne Rochford of that piece of ground lying within the precincts of his Majesty's Mews in the parish of St. Martin in the Fields, containing 7 feet 7 inches in length from the house now in the possession of Anne Rochford fronting west to the high street leading from Pall Mall to Charing Cross and 47 feet 7 inches fronting south west to the said street: at 13l. 15s. 0d. per an. rent, without fine.
Prefixing: particular and memorandum of the premises made out by Auditor Thomas Jett and ratal and plan by Hugh Cholmley, Surveyor General of Crown Lands.
Followed by: undated entry of the Treasury Lords' signature of the docquet of this lease. Warrants not Relating to Money XXIV, pp. 41–3.
Same [to the Stamps Commissioners] to appoint Thomas Barwell as a stamper loco Giles Quinney. Ibid., p. 43.
Same to Hugh Cholmley, the Surveyor General of Crown Lands, for a particular of a house in the Privy Garden now in the possession of the late Countess of Mar, in order to a new lease thereof to her, at 60l. per an. rent.
Prefixing: report from said Surveyor General on the memorial of the said late Countess. The house contains in front to the Privy Garden 39 foot 6 inches and in depth 50 foot with a small yard and buildings to the south adjoining thereto, and 27 foot in length east to west and in depth 21 foot at the east end and 18 foot at the west end, and is worth at a rack rent 180l. per an. It has not been in lease before nor any rent answered to the Crown for the greater part of 20 years past. I advise a rent of 60l. per an., otherwise such lease or grant will be void by the limitations of the Civil List Act. I advise a clause of re-assumption in case of the rebuilding Whitehall. Ibid., p. 44.
Same to the Customs Commissioners in Scotland to employ James Phelan as tidewaiter at Leith loco Jonathan Collins, who declines that service: at 20l. per an.
William Garnett as officer of the Salt Duty in Kirkcaldy Collection loco Alexander Kellye, who went into the Rebellion: at 25l. per an. Out Letters (North Britain) III, p. 572.
The Treasury Lords to the Lords of Council and Session in Scotland. By letter dated the 6th inst. from Sir Robert Constable, our Agent at Edinburgh, we have received a printed paper styled a petition of Sir David Dalrymple, his Majesty's Advocate, and Sir James Steuart, his Majesty's Solicitor, according to which paper your Lordships upon the application of creditors of forfeiting persons have appointed Factors for managing and ingathering the rents of several forfeited estates now vested in his Majesty and a list of the said Factors is contained in the said printed paper; and the petitioners do therein represent several matters against that method and desire that those Factors may be recalled and that the care of the forfeited estates may be left to the Commissioners of Enquiry.
The said matters being new to us, the duty we owe to the King and public requires us to desire you to acquaint us as particularly as may be with all the proceedings which have been in your Court relating to the late Act of Parliament [1 Geo. I., St. 2, c. 20] for encouraging superiors, vassals, landlords and tenants in Scotland continuing in their duty and loyalty to his Majesty and for discouraging such thereof as should be guilty of rebellious practices there and for making void fraudulent conveyances for barring the effect of forfeitures and for calling suspected persons to appear to find bail for their good behaviour; and particularly that you will send us an account what estates real or personal in Scotland have been forfeited for high treason, and the produce thereof and who have received the profits thereof; and also what applications were made by the King's Advocate or his deputies and by his Majesty's Solicitor in Scotland after [between] 1 Sept. 1715 and 23 Jan. 1715–16 for requiring persons to appear according to the said Act, and who for contempt or disobedience have forfeited to his Majesty the penalty of Single and Life Rent Escheat and the fine of 500l. sterling by that [abovesaid] Act. Ibid. IV., p. 17. |
| Dec. 21. |
Treasury warrant to Anthony Cracherode [Treasury Solicitor] to pay 101l. 13s. 4d. for the fees, detailed, in passing the commission for the Commissioners of the Privy Seal through the various Offices, [see supra, p. 596, under date Dec. 19].
Prefixing: bill of said fees: August 1716: |
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£ |
s. |
d. |
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Secretary [of State's] Office, warrant and bill, three names, 18l. 5s. 0d.; stamps, 7l. 6s. 0d.; immediate warrant, 6l. 7s. 6d.
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25 |
0 |
0 |
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Attorney General, 7l. 10s. 0d.; engrossing clerk, 5s.
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7 |
15 |
0 |
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Signet Office, 4l.; Privy Seal Office, 1l. 6s. 8d., and Office Keeper, 5s.
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5 |
11 |
8 |
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Lord Chancellor, receipt 1l. 6s. 6d.: Deputy, seal bearing, 10s. 9d.; his Lordship's porter, 5s.
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2 |
2 |
3 |
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Crown Office, 6l. 3s. 6d.; Deputy, 10s. 9d.; Ingrossing Clerk, 5s.; stamps, 6l. 1s. 0d.; private seal, 2l.
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15 |
0 |
3 |
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Hanaper Office, 6l. 13s. 6d.; clerk, 5s.; sealers and chafe-wax, 5s.
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7 |
3 |
6 |
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tin box for the Broad Seal |
0 |
1 |
0 |
[fees on the warrant for the] Commissioners of the Privy Seal [for] their allowance [or salary]:
Secretary [of State's] Office, warrant and bill, 18l. 5s. 0d.; stamps, 7s. 6d.; warrant for passing grants depending &c., 6l. 15s. 0d.
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25 |
7 |
6 |
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£ |
s. |
d. |
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Signet Office, 4l. 10s. 6d.; privy seal, 1l. 6s. 8d.; Office keeper, 5s.; stamps, 6l. 1s. 6d.
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12 |
3 |
8 |
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Treasury docquet, 15s.; entering the privy seal, 13s. 6d.
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1 |
8 |
6 |
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— |
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£101 |
13 |
4 |
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Money Book XXV, p. 149. |
| Dec. 21. |
Treasury warrant to Edward Harley, one of the Auditors of Imprests, to allow 828l. 7s. 9d. to Philip Papillon in his account as heretofore Cashier (for the Affairs of the Victualling) to the Earl of Orford, late Treasurer of the Navy: all upon the report of the Navy Commissioners of 1715–16 Feb. 29, “and upon hearing the said Philip Papillon, who was then present, touching the same”: being for services following: |
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£ |
s. |
d. |
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for brokerage on disposing of tallies, upon bills [upon or as stated in a bill] made out by the Victualling Commissioners in the name of the Accomptant [Papillon], No. 956 and dated 23 Oct. 1699, being said to be paid [to] Francis de Cassare “for that service” |
16 |
5 |
0 |
|
to ditto, more on a like bill made out in the name of the Accomptant likewise, No. 957 and dated 23 Oct. 1699, being said to be paid to Benjamin Levy “for that service” |
92 |
10 |
0 |
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for ditto, more on a like bill made out in the name of Edward Searle, No. 959, and dated the 2 June 1699 |
15 |
16 |
6 |
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for coach hire and other petty expenses |
30 |
0 |
0 |
|
for charges in passing the final account through the several Offices |
73 |
16 |
3 |
|
for several officers and clerks employed by the accomptant in transcribing the said accounts “both for the Commissioners of the Navy and Victualling,” attending the Auditors of Imprests and several other services within the course of |
600 |
0 |
0 |
|
— |
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£828 |
7 |
9 |
Ibid., p. 150.
Same to Charles Dartiquenave, Paymaster of the Works, to pay 197l. 11s. 11½d. to Col. Richard King in full of all particulars paid by him for fitting up his lodgings in Whitehall.
Prefixing: report by the Board of Works on the said Col. King's petition for same. Ibid., p. 151.
Money warrant for 179l. 17s. 3d. to Evelyn, Duke of Kingston, Warden and Chief Justice Itinerant of all his Majesty's Forests, Parks, Chaces and Warrens, Trent North, for 109 days and 1½ years from 1714 Dec. 7 to 1716 Michaelmas on his annuity or annual rent of 100l. as by his patent dated 1714 Dec. 7 for his said offices. (Letter of direction dated Jan. 11 hereon.) Ibid., p. 152. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 249. |
| Dec. 21. |
Same for 1,500l. to William Smith, Receiver and Paymaster of the Band of Gentlemen Pensioners, for 1716 Sept. 29 quarter for the wages and board wages of said Band.
Appending: certificate of said wages and board wages: |
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£ |
s. |
d. |
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the Duke of St. Albans as Captain thereof |
250 |
0 |
0 |
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William Seymour, Esq., as Lieutenant thereof |
125 |
0 |
0 |
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William Wynn, Esq., as Standard Bearer thereof |
72 |
10 |
0 |
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Philip Pendock, Esq., as Clerk of the Cheque |
30 |
0 |
0 |
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and the following as Gentlemen thereof, viz. Sir Charles Norton, Kt., Nicholas Arnold, Esq., Paul Colton, Esq., Gregory Westcomb, Esq., Robert Coleby, Esq., Sir Thomas Saunders, Kt., William Westcomb, Esq., John Grub, Esq., Thomas Gery, Esq., William Lancaster, Esq., Jeremy Sambrooke, Esq., John Gashone, Esq., Robert London, Esq., William Smyth, Esq., Edmund Bedingfeild, Esq., Henry Pope, Esq., Jeoffery Saunders, Esq., Richard Farmborough, Esq., John Mum, Esq., Henry Freckleton, Esq., Henry Trent, Esq., William Taylor, Esq., James Kentish, Esq., Sir Andrew Chadwick, Kt., Edward Horner, Esq., Thomas Stanfall, Esq., Peter Power, Esq., James Barnard, Esq., Nathaniel Lambert, Esq., John Mohun, Esq., Nicholas Blowing, Esq., George Bellamy, Esq., Colveley Legh, Esq., George Maddison, Esq., Thomas Hutches, Esq., Adam Woolley, Esq., William Gisborn, Esq., James Brett, Esq., Henry Barnesley, Esq., Samuel Savile, Esq.: each |
25 |
0 |
0 |
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Richard Reeves, Gent. Harbinger |
17 |
10 |
0 |
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— |
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£1,500 |
0 |
0 |
“There is no cheque this quarter.”
Philip Pendok.
Wm. Wynne.
(Money order dated 1716–17 Jan. 2 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated Jan. 11 hereon.) Ibid., pp. 152–3. Order Book IX, p. 340. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 249.
Letter of direction for 600l. to Edward Nicholas [late Paymaster of the late Queen's Private Pensions and Bounties] on the unsatisfied order in his name for sundry debts of her late Majesty under his care of pay: and is intended to be paid over to Abel Tassin D'Allonne, Esq., for two years due at Xmas 1713 on his pension of 300l. per an. established by her said late Majesty: and is to be paid out of moneys remaining in the Exchequer for [arising by] sale of tin belonging to her said late Majesty. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 245.
A fresh reference to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands of the petition of Faith Heather for a new lease of a messuage and 40 acres in Sharleston, Co. York, ut supra, Calendar of Treasury Books, Vol. XXIX, p. 656, under date 1715 July 27. Reference Book IX, p. 245. |
| Dec. 21. |
Treasury warrant to the Clerk of the Pipe for an additional term to James Tyrrell, junr., Esq., in certain waste ground and soil, coppices, woods and underwoods in the Forest of Shotover and Stowood, Co. Oxford, parcel of the possessions of the Crown of England: at the two ancient rents of 50l. per an. each and fine of 200l.
Prefixing: (1) particular and memorandum dated 13 Dec. 1715 by Auditor Thomas Jett of the premises: viz. as follows:
Rowe Coppice, 58 acres.
Horse Pathe Coppice, 111 acres.
Elderstubb Coppice, 45 acres.
Wheateley Coppice, 80 acres.
Redhill Coppice, 131 acres.
Thornhill Coppice, 175 acres.
Burroughhill Coppice, 80 acres.
Quarry Coppice, 176 acres.
Lodge Coppice, 75 acres.
the lodge and mansion house in said forest now in the tenure of Sir Timothy Tyrrell and the close called the Rayle thereto of 45 acres, parcel of the said Redhill Coppice.
the lodge in the tenure of Richard Eldridge with the Rayle Close of 35 acres, parcel of the said Redhill and Lodge Coppices, being near the parishes of Heddington [Headington], St. Clements [St. Clement], Horse Pathe [Horsepath], Cowley, Forest Hill and Wheately [Wheatley].
and likewise the farm of all the tythes of corn, grain and hay and all other tythes thereon.
reserving out of the said demise certain waste ground and soil and coppices and underwoods in Shotover Forest viz.: 170 acres of Quarry Coppice; the west part (60 acres) of Burrough Hill Coppice; the south part (30 acres) of Elderstubb Coppice; the west part (30 acres) of Rowe Coppice; the north part (30 acres) of Old Thorn Coppice; 60 acres of Wheatley Coppice, 20 acres of Woodgrove and 30 acres for highways and all timber and mines royal and prerogatives.
Marginal note by the Auditor. William III. by patent of 16 June 1696 demised the first rent of 50l. to Charles Bertie, Samuel Travers, James Herbert and Richard Powys in trust for the late Duke of Leeds for 31 years from the death of the late Queen Dowager Catherine [see supra, Calendar of Treasury Books, Vol. XI, pp. 98–101]. Appended to the Auditor's memorandum is a schedule of the abovesaid excepted lands showing the bounds thereof as now assigned to the towns as follows: being all parcel of Shotover within the forest called Shotover and Stowood, which were excepted out of the demise of the tenements of 19 Feb. 1665–6 to Sir Timothy Tyrrell and which by compositions and agreements and other causes and considerations were set out and assigned respectively to the towns of Heddington, St. Clements, Cowley, Horsepath, Forest Hill and Wheately.
(2) Ratal of the premises by the Surveyor General of Crown Lands.
(3) Followed by: (a) a later Treasury order dated 1717 April 26 for the execution of this warrant.
(b) undated entry of the Treasury Lords' signature of the docquet of this lease. Warrants not Relating to Money XXIV, pp. 46–55.
Same to same for a lease to Judith Mackdowgall of three messuages or tenements and gardens on the south side of Pall Mall Street, two whereof stand next Pall Mall Street, 39 foot in front, and the other stands in a little Court behind the said houses,t and are 151 foot in depth from the said street to the Royal Garden in the possession of Lord Carleton.
Prefixing: (a) particular and memorandum by Auditor Thomas Jett; (b) ratal by the Surveyor General of Crown Lands.
Followed by: undated entry of the Treasury Lords' signature of the docquet of this lease. Ibid., pp. 56–9, 73. |
| ? Dec. 21.] |
Treasury subscription for the execution of a warrant dated Aug. 31 last from the Duke of Bolton, Lord Chamberlain, to the Duke of Montague, Master of the Great Wardrobe, for the delivery to the Honble. Grey Maynard, Esq., Yeoman of the Removing Wardrobe, of materials for the said Wardrobe (canvas wrappers, packthread and packneedles); a pair of large crimson paragon window curtains for the Outward Waiting Room in the young Princess's Apartment at St. James's; an umbrella for their Dining Room there; and to cover an arm chair with crimson mohair and laced with crimson Arras lace; a false case of yellow taffeta for a chair in the Princess of Wales's Apartment; and to take down the furniture at St. James's and to carry glasses to Hampton Court; and 17 fine large cane sashes with brass bolts and rings for his Majesty's and their Royal Highnesses' [the Prince and Princess of Wales] Apartments at Hampton Court; and three umbrellas for the Princesses' Dining Room: to an estimate of 150l. Lord Chamberlain's Warrant Book I, p. 27. |
| Dec. 21. |
Same for same of a like warrant dated Dec. 10 to the said Master of the Great Wardrobe to deliver to Mr. Christopher Hill, Master of his Majesty's Barges, liveries for the 12 pensionary watermen, as have been formerly allowed them: to an estimate of 32l. Ibid.
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| Dec. 22. |
Letter of direction for 1,202l. 3s. 9¾d. to Charles, Visct. Townshend, late one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, on the respective warrants [for his salary. This letter covers the three warrants of Dec. 17 for 706l. 16s. 11¾d., 375l. 1s. 4¼d. and 120l. 5s. 5¾d., supra, pp. 590–91]. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 243.
William Lowndes to the Earl of Lincoln [Paymaster of the Forces]. The Treasury Lords direct you to raise 55,000l. by an absolute sale of tallies and orders on the Land Tax anno 1716, “and to negotiate the said loan at 4 per cent, interest from the day the sale shall be made”: and to apply the money so raised to the services following: viz. |
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£ |
|
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in further part of 993,015l. 4s. 5d. voted for Guards and Garrisons anno 1716.
upon account of the pay of the said Guards and Garrisons &c. |
48,500 |
|
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in further part of 34,383l. 17s. 10½d. voted for Forces in America in 1716.
upon account of their pay |
1,500 |
|
|
in further part of 100,146l. 15s. 0d. voted for half pay anno 1716.
upon account of half pay, being to enable the Officers to come to town to be examined and to clear their quarters |
5,000 |
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|
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— |
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|
|
£55,000 |
|
|
|
Ibid., p. 244. |
| Dec. 22. |
William Lowndes to the Treasurer of the Navy. The Treasury Lords direct that the particular services as follows be supplied and paid by you in manner following: viz. |
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£ |
s. |
d. |
|
out of money received on Land Tax tallies anno 1715, the same coming in course of payment without being [without having been] disposed of |
4,000 |
0 |
0 |
|
out of moneys raised by a deposit of tallies and orders on the fonds anno 1716 |
9,338 |
19 |
9 |
|
— |
|
£13,338 |
19 |
9 |
|
The abovesaid sum is to be applied to the services following: viz. |
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£ |
s. |
d. |
to the head of Wages.
for paying off and laying up ships lately arrived from foreign parts |
4,000 |
0 |
0 |
|
for subsisting sick seamen set on shore from his Majesty's ships at several ports |
4,338 |
19 |
9 |
to the head of Victualling.
for Short Allowance Money to the Companies of his Majesty's ships lately come home from the Baltic |
5,000 |
0 |
0 |
|
— |
|
£13,338 |
19 |
9 |
|
Disposition Book XXIII, p. 244. |
| Dec. 29. |
Royal warrant dated St. James's, under the sign manual of the Prince of Wales as Guardian of the Kingdom, to pay 500l. to Thomas Lowther: without account: to be by him applied and paid to such uses as shall be directed. (Money warrant dated Dec. 31 hereon.) (Money order dated Dec. 31 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated Jan. 2 hereon.) King's Warrant Book XXVIII, p. 136. Order Book IX, p. 334. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 245.
Money order for 5l. to Edward Milward, porter attending at the Exchequer Gate, for 1716 Xmas quarter on his allowance for the better securing his Majesty's treasure. (Letter of direction dated 3 Jan. 1716–17 hereon.) Order Book IX, p. 312. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 246.
Same for 12l. 10s. 0d. to Joseph Fox, gent., for same quarter on his allowance for making and keeping the Registers of all the public loans in the Office of the Auditor of the Receipt. (Letter of direction dated 3 Jan. 1716–17 hereon.) Order Book IX, p. 313. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 246.
Same for 195l. 8s. 4d. to Henry Pelham, Clerk of the Pells, for one year to 1716 Xmas on his allowance of 50l. per an. for locking up his Majesty's treasure; 100l. per an. for attending the Treasury Lords for despatch of his Majesty's affairs; and 45l. 8s. 4d. per an. for his attendance in vacation for despatch of service incident to his Office and in lieu of 20l., 16l. 13s. 4d. and 8l. 15s. 0d. per an. anciently allowed him by tally of assignment from the Customs. (Letter of direction dated 3 Jan. 1716–17 hereon.) Order Book IX, p. 323. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 246. |
| Dec. 29. |
Same for 200l. to George, Earl of Halifax, Auditor of the Receipt, for one year to 1716 Xmas on his allowance for extraordinary business performed in his Office. (Letter of direction dated 3 Jan. 1716–17 hereon.) Order Book IX, p. 326. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 246.
Same for 150l. to the Commissioners for Taxes (Nicho. Vincent, Paul Burrard, John Williams, Anthony Dawley, Brian Fairfax and Sir Harcourt Masters, Commissioners for holding Intelligence and to correspond with the Receivers General of the Public Taxes and for bringing in Arrears of Taxes): for 1716 Xmas quarter on their respective allowances of 100l. per an. each. (Letter of direction dated 3 Jan. 1716–17 hereon.) Order Book IX, p. 333. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 246.
Same for 25l. to Richard Powys for same quarter on his allowance for his extraordinary service performed in the Treasury. (Letter of direction dated 3 Jan. 1716–17 hereon.) Order Book IX, p. 333. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 246.
Same for 50l. to Thomas Talmash, Esq., Lieutenant Governor of the Island of Montserrat, for same quarter on the allowance of 200l. per an. for his support and maintenance in that employment and in lieu of all presents from the Assemblies there. Order Book IX, p. 335.
Same for 50l. to Francis, Earl of Godolphin, for half a year to 1716 Xmas on his allowance for hay for the deer in the House Park at Windsor. (Letter of direction dated 3 Jan. 1716–17 hereon.) Ibid., p. 339. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 246.
A fresh reference [to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands] of the petition of John De Remy de Montigny for a further term in two tenements in Duke Street, ut supra, p. 383. Reference Book IX, p. 290.
The like of the petition of Israel Anthony Aufrere for a further term in a messuage in Charles Street, St. James's, ut supra, ibid. Ibid.
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| Dec. 31. |
Royal warrant dated St. James's, under the sign manual of the Prince of Wales as Guardian of the Kingdom, to the Treasury Lords to pay 116l. 12s. 6d. to Francis Coleman, gent., being 107l. 10s. 9d. as royal bounty and 9l. 2s. 6d. for the [Exchequer] fees on the receipt of same. (Money warrant dated 1716–17 Jan. 1 hereon.) (Money order dated Jan. 1 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated Jan. 2 hereon.) King's Warrant Book XXVIII, p. 134. Order Book IX, p. 333. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 246.
Same to Henry, Earl of Lincoln, Paymaster of the Forces, to pay Thomas Missing 3,661l. 3s. 9d. on his contract for victualling the Garrison of Gibraltar: viz. as follows: |
|
£ |
s. |
d. |
|
for a moiety of 2,524l. 16s. 11¾d. for provisions imported on Aug. 11 |
1,262 |
8 |
6 |
|
for a moiety of 814l. 17s. 0d. for ditto imported Sept. 8 |
407 |
8 |
7 |
|
£ |
s. |
d. |
|
for a moiety of 428l. 14s. 0½d. for provisions imported 24 Sept. 1716 |
214 |
7 |
0¼ |
|
for a moiety of ditto imported Oct. 6 |
34 |
0 |
9 |
|
for a moiety of the charge of victualling 1,991 persons in which the said Garrison consisted according to the monthly lists thereof signed by the Lieut. Governor and the Judge Advocate: at the rate of 3s. 1¼d. per man per week from 16 July 1716 to 12 Aug. |
607 |
3 |
6 |
|
ditto for 1,982 persons from 13 Aug. 1716 to 9 Sept |
614 |
11 |
2 |
|
ditto for 1,693 persons from 10 Sept. to 7 Oct. 1716 |
521 |
4 |
2¾ |
|
— |
|
£3,661 |
3 |
9 |
|
King's Warrant Book XXVIII, pp. 134–5. |
| Dec. 31. |
Royal warrant dated St. James's, under the sign manual of the Prince of Wales as Guardian of the Kingdom, to the Treasury, Lords to pay 200l. each to Col. John Armstrong and Jacob Ackworth Esq., for their services in reporting the state and condition of the port and haven of Mardyke and their charge and expenses in any attendances or otherwise upon account thereof. (Two separate money orders dated Jan. 4 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated Jan. 3 hereon.) Ibid., p. 136. Order Book IX, p. 340. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 246.
Same to same to pay 628l. to George Dodington without account in full recompense for his service and expenses in attending in the year 1706 the Commissioners for the Union with Scotland in quality of their Secretary and in maintaining clerks and providing otherwise for the service “of that Office” [of Secretary to the said Commissioners], he having hitherto had no satisfaction for the said charge or recompense for his own service and attendance during the whole course of the said Treaty. (Money order dated Jan. 2 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated Jan. 9 hereon.) King's Warrant Book XXVIII, p. 137. Order Book IX, p. 337. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 247.
Same to same to pay 1,250l. to Henry Segar, gent., as in lieu and satisfaction of the like sum due to him at the decease of the late Queen to complete the sum of 7,000l. which the said Queen granted to him out of wood sales in the Forest of Dean, Co. Gloucester: to be issued out of the late Queen's arrears. (Money warrant dated Jan. 2 hereon.) (Money order dated Jan. 2 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated Jan 9. hereon.) King's Warrant Book XXVIII, p. 137. Order Book IX, p. 336. Money Book XXV, p. 164. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 247.
Same to same to pay 1,000l. to Sir William Fazakerley, Chamberlain of the City of London, to be distributed by him to the several parishes in the City and Liberties as his Majesty's charity and benevolence towards the support and relief of the poor inhabiting therein, in such proportions as the Bishop of London and the Mayor of London shall direct. (Money order dated Jan. 4 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated Jan. 3 hereon.) King's Warrant Book XXVIII, p. 138. Order Book IX, p. 346. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 246. |
| Dec. 31. |
Same to same to pay 20,000l. to Charles Dartiquenave, Paymaster of the Works, as imprest for the debts and arrears incurred in the Office of the Works for any time in the late Queen's reign: to be issued out of the said late Queen's Civil List arrears. (Money warrant dated Jan. 1 hereon.) (Money order dated Jan. 3 hereon.) King's Warrant Book XXVIII, p. 138. Order Book IX, p. 339.
Same to same to pay 854l. 10s. 0d. to Daniel Pulteney: out of the late Queen's Civil List arrears: and is in full of all his demands for extraordinaries in her said late Majesty's service between 18 Aug. 1709 and 18 Oct. 1712 as Envoy Extraordinary to the King of Denmark: which demands were included in his bills of extraordinaries for that time but exceeded the Regulation and were postponed when the arrears were paid to the public Ministers in the year 1713: the Prince of Wales having taken the same into his consideration and thinking it reasonable that the following aricles should be paid: viz. |
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£ |
s. |
d. |
|
for sending his Secretary express to England with despatches for her said late Majesty's service and for the extra expense of maintaining him [Pulteney] there [during] the three months he was kept by the said Queen's order; and for travelling charges of his return with despatches for her said Majesty's service |
150 |
0 |
0 |
|
for couriers sent with despatches for her said late Majesty's service when letters were stopped and opened by order of the Danish Court |
45 |
0 |
0 |
|
for an express sent by the Dutch Envoy and himself to the Hague with despatches about renewing the Treaty of Alliance with Den- mark; for which the said [English] Envoy's share came to |
19 |
10 |
0 |
|
for the expense of his journey from Copenhagen to Holstein to follow the King of Denmark by her late Majesty's order |
90 |
0 |
0 |
|
for the extraordinary expense of keeping his Secretary at Copenhagen to do business with the Regency there whilst he was obliged to take and maintain another Secretary to be with him in following the said King of Denmark in Pomerania, Jutland and Holstein, being in all above a year and at a time when the plague was at Denmark |
150 |
0 |
0 |
|
for travelling charges and other extraordinary expenses of following the said King to the Army and staying there by express order from the Queen in 1711 |
250 |
0 |
0 |
|
for his extraordinary expenses of following the Court to Holstein and Jutland and travelling charges to return to Copenhagen in 1712 |
150 |
0 |
0 |
|
— |
|
£854 |
10 |
0 |
|
(Money order dated Jan. 7 hereon. To be paid out of the said late Queen's Civil List arrears.) (Letter of direction dated Jan. 9 hereon.) King's Warrant Book XXVIII, p. 139. Order Book IX, p. 344. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 247. |
| Dec. 31. |
Royal warrant dated St. James's, under the sign manual of the Prince of Wales as Guardian of the Kingdom, to Edward Nicholas to pay 100l. to William Philips as by the late warrant [ut supra, Calendar of Treasury Books, Vol. XXVIII, p. 392] dated 1714 July 27 from Treasurer Oxford to said Nicholas. King's Warrant Book XXVIII, p. 140.
Same to John How, late Paymaster General of Guards, Garrisons and Land Forces, to pay 219l. 12s. 0d. (out of any moneys remaining in your hands for the service of the Forces of the late Queen): and is intended to clear the debts left unpaid by the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards in the several places where they were quartered between 25 June 1713 and 24 Aug. following; the said debt having been occasioned by the entertaining in the said Regiment during the said time 36 private men more than was allowed by the Establishment and is the amount of the subsistence of the said 36 men for the said time, it appearing reasonable that the said Regiment should be eased of so much of the expense of the said 36 men; but all further demands, if any, for the said men are to be made good by the said Regiment and placed to their account. Ibid.
Treasury allowance of the salary bill, detailed, of the Hackney Coaches Office for 1716 Xmas quarter (total 200l. 10s. 0d.):
likewise of the incidents bill, detailed, for same quarter (total 105l. 16s. 4d.). Money Book XXV, p. 154.
Treasury warrant to the Auditors of Imprests to allow 434l. 10s. 3d. to William Clayton in his account with the Crown [as Paymaster] for his Majesty's pensions and bounties: being for fees at the Treasury and Exchequer on the receipt of 31,985l. 3s. 11½d. [for such pensions &c.] and for incidents of his Office for one year. Ibid., p. 155.
Money warrant for 37l. 10s. 0d. to Richard Topham, Supervisor of the work of digesting the Records in Caesar's Chapel in the Tower: for 1716 Xmas quarter on his allowance for three clerks to be employed in that business besides the chief clerk.
25l. to George Holmes for same quarter as Chief Clerk in the said business of digesting &c. (Money order dated Jan. 2 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated Jan. 3 hereon.) Ibid., p. 155. Order Book IX, pp. 336–7. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 246.
Same for 2,000l. to Anthony Cracherode as imprest for the charges of Crown Law suits. (Money order dated Jan. 2 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated Jan. 3 hereon.) Money Book XXV, p. 156. Order Book IX, p. 337. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 246.
Same for 462l. 10s. 0d. each to Paul Methuen and James Stanhope for 1716 Xmas quarter on their allowance or salary of 1,850l. per an. as Secretaries of State. (Money orders dated Jan. 2 hereon.) (Letters of direction dated Jan. 3 hereon.) Money Book XXV, p. 156. Order Book IX, p. 338. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 246.
Same for 6,561l. 7s. 1d. to Samuel Smithen, his Majesty's Goldsmith, for diamonds, gold works, gilt and white plate delivered into the Jewel Office between 24 June 1716 and 29 Sept.
Appending: certificate dated 24 Nov. 1716 by Ja. Brudenell [Master of the Jewel Office] of the said diamonds &c. so delivered in: viz. 2,560l. for two rich onyx Georges set and adorned with diamonds and two Garters richly set and adorned with brilliant diamonds: 465l. 0s. 6d. for 69 ounces of gold works curiously wrought and enamelled: 416l. 17s. 11d. for 659 ounces of gilt plate, most part finely wrought and enchased: 2,562l. 10s. 9d. for 6,763 ounces of white plate, great part finely wrought and enchased: 51l. 15s. 0d. for gilding 335 ounces of store plate: 254l. 3s. 5d. for boiling and repairing 19,687 ounces of white store plate; 64l. 10s. 0d. to the officers for their fees for the said Georges and Garters; 178l. 19s. 6d. to the engraver, casemaker, cutler &c.; 7l. 10s. 0d. to the officers [of the Jewel Office] for one quarter's allowance ended Michaelmas 1716. (Money order dated Jan. 2 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated Jan. 31 hereon.) Money Book XXV, p. 157. Order Book IX, pp. 344, 356. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 255. |
| Dec. 31. |
Same for 287l. 10s. 0d. to William Popple, Secretary to the Commissioners for Trade, for 1716 Xmas quarter's salaries for himself, the deputy secretary, seven clerks and others employed under the said Commissioners [in said Popple's Office]. (Money order dated Jan. 2 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated Jan. 3 hereon.) Money Book XXV, p. 158. Order Book IX, p. 339. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 246.
Same for 2,000l. to the Treasury Lords (Robert Walpole; Sir William St. Quintin; Paul Methuen; Thomas, Lord Torrington; Richard Edgcombe) for 1716 Xmas quarter on their salaries. (Money order dated Dec. 31 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated Jan. 3 hereon.) Money Book XXV, p. 39. Order Book IX, p. 310. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 246.
Same for 155l. to the clerks of the Treasury as follows for same quarter on their yearly salaries for services performed in the Treasury: |
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£ |
s. |
d. |
|
William Lowndes, junr., on 100l. per an. |
25 |
0 |
0 |
|
Edward Webster on ditto |
25 |
0 |
0 |
|
Mark Frecker on ditto |
25 |
0 |
0 |
|
Thomas Bowen on 50l. per an |
12 |
10 |
0 |
|
Thomas Lowndes on ditto |
12 |
10 |
0 |
|
Robert Burnbury on ditto |
12 |
10 |
0 |
|
Samuel King on ditto |
12 |
10 |
0 |
|
Cha. Chevalier on ditto |
12 |
10 |
0 |
|
William Wyatt on ditto |
12 |
10 |
0 |
|
William Empson on 20l. per an. |
5 |
0 |
0 |
|
— |
|
£155 |
0 |
0 |
(Money order dated Dec. 31 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated Jan. 3 hereon for said sum to the under-clerks of the Treasury.) Money Book XXV, p. 158. Order Book IX, p. 334. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 246.
Same for 25l. to William Ireland, gent., for his extraordinary service performed in the Office of the Auditor of the Receipt in same quarter; being the sum formerly paid to William Clayton for the same service. (Money order dated Dec. 31 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated Jan. 2 hereon.) Money Book XXV, p. 158. Order Book IX, p. 334. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 246. |
| Dec. 31. |
Money warrant for 100l. to Thomas Mann for 1716 Xmas quarter for attendance and for disbursements for the Treasury Office:
5l. to John Farra for extraordinary pains in carrying letters on several occasions for his Majesty's service in said quarter. (Money order dated Dec. 31 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated Jan. 2 hereon.) Money Book XXV, p. 159. Order Book IX, p. 335. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 246.
Same for 400l. to Robert Walpole for same quarter on his allowance of 1,600l. per an. in lieu of perquisites and profits formerly enjoyed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. (Money order dated Dec. 31 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated Jan. 2 hereon.) Money Book XXV, p. 159. Order Book IX, p. 335. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 246.
Treasury warrant to the Customs Cashier to pay John Thorowkettle 14l. 10s. 0d. for same quarter as Messenger attending the Customs.
Treasury allowance of said Thorowkettle's bill of 14l. 10s. 0d. for same quarter's attendance on the Treasury. Money Book XXV, p. 160.
Letter of direction for 740l. to Charles Dartiquenave on his unsatisfied order as Paymaster of the Works: and is intended to be paid over to Henry Wise, his Majesty's gardener, for last Xmas quarter on the allowance of 2,960l. per an. for keeping his Majesty's Gardens and Plantations of 148 acres at 20l. an acre. (William Lowndes to said Dartiquenave to pay same to said Wise.) Disposition Book XXIII, p. 245.
William Lowndes to the Attorney General to report on the enclosed petition [missing] of Robert Watson of East Greenwich praying a noli prosequi. Out Letters (General) XXII, p. 148.
Rules and Instructions from the Treasury Lords to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands to be observed by him on all reversionary leases to be granted by the Crown.
We think it for his Majesty's service and for the better preservation of the land revenues of the Crown that in all Reports and Particulars hereafter to be made in order to any reversionary leases from the Crown that the particulars following be remembered and advised: viz.
that a rent of 12d. per annum or some other small rent be made payable to the Crown during the present lease or leases upon which the reversionary lease is to depend or expect, whereby the lands or tenements for which the future rents are to be payable by the reversionary leases and the tenants thereof for the time being may be better known and ascertained.
that the rents reserved on the lease in being be mentioned and the yearly value of the premises rated at the time of granting, whereby it may always appear that as much rent is reserved on the reversionary lease as is required by the statute anno regni [1 Anne, c. 1]. that all assignments which shall be made of the present leases and every of them or of any parts or parcels of the premises assigned whereupon any reversionary lease is or shall be hereafter desired, be recorded with the proper Auditor of the land revenue before the reversionary lease pass under seal; and that a condition be inserted in every reversionary lease for enrolling the same with such Auditor within six months.
And we do hereby direct the Surveyor General of his Majesty's Lands and the respective Auditors of the land revenue for the time being carefully to observe these orders and for that purpose to cause copies thereof to be affixed publicly in their respective Offices.
Memorandum: copies of the aforegoing Instructions attested by Secretary Lowndes were sent to Auditor Jett and Auditor Godolphin, the two Auditors of his Majesty's Land Revenue, to be affixed publicly in their respective Offices. Warrants not Relating to Money XXIV, pp. 64–5. |
| Dec. 31. |
The Treasury Lords to the Lords Justices of Ireland. A memorial has been presented to us by Martin Bladen, your Secretary, representing the differences between the Establishment made for the General Officers in Ireland, which commenced 25 March 1715, and that which was lately, Nov. 12/23 supra, pp. 561–2, signed by his Majesty, wherein he apprehends some difficulties are like to arise by the payments made beyond Lady day last to those who are left out of the new Establishment, which is designed to commence from Lady day last. We intend to lay the matter before his Majesty and in the mean time [we] desire that no more money may be issued to any General Officers, except to your Excellencies, upon the Irish Establishment until his Majesty's further pleasure be sent to you. We also desire you to send us an account to what day each General Officer and Aide de Camp on that Establishment is paid. Out Letters (Ireland) X, p. 70.
Treasury subscription for the execution of a warrant dated Dec. 21 from the Duke of Bolton, Lord Chamberlain of the Household, to the Duke of Montague, Master of the Great Wardrobe, to deliver to the Duke of Kingston, Lord Privy Seal, a rich purse: for his Majesty's service: to an estimate of 21l. Lord Chamberlain's Warrant Book I, p. 28. |
