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Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 32, 1718. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1962.

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'Declared Accounts: Treasury Solicitor', in Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 32, 1718, ed. William A Shaw, F H Slingsby( London, 1962), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/cal-treasury-books/vol32/ccclxxvi-ccclxxxi [accessed 24 November 2024].

Treasury Solicitor

DECLARED ACCOUNTS: TREASURY SOLICITOR.

AUDIT OFFICE: BUNDLE 2319, ROLL 44 [A.O.1/2319/44].

Anthony Crachrode, Solicitor for the affairs of the Treasury.

2 June 1717 to 1 June 1718.


Charge.				£	s.	d.

Arrears: remaining in the Accomptant's hands at the end of his last preceding Accompt, none, he being in surplusage					nil
but depending upon several persons, particularly named at the foot of the said last Accompt				100	10	6
Receipts: money had out of the Exchequer: Easter term, 3 & 4 George I, by way of imprest, by General Letters Patent dormant of 14 Aug. 1 George I				4,000	0	0
Michaelmas term, 4 George I, ditto, by the same				3,000	0	0
Easter term, 4 & 5 George I, ditto, by the same				1,000	0	0
Voluntary charge: money received for costs in The King v. Wood and Blakeway in Shropshire, which did not go to trial				35	2	11
				—
total charge and receipts				£8,135	13	5
Discharge.	£	s.	d.
Surplusage of the preceding Accompt				2,014	11	1½
charges and expenses of several prosecutions etc.: v. Bly, for seditious words in Middlesex	6	11	0
v. Bell, clerk, a Jacobite conventicler	13	2	0
v. Bisse, clerk, (fn. 1) for seditious sermons and words	104	14	6
v. Batt et al., for a misdemeanour in Kent	2	1	0
v. Cook et al., for seditious practices at Beaumaris	7	14	6
v. Constable, for seditious words in London	7	14	6
v. Crisp and Nodes, (fn. 2) for fraud in Chelsea Hospital	17	17	0
v. Clark, for a misdemeanor in Middlesex	0	2	0
v. Carter and Gosling, for seditious words in Kent	11	9	8
v. Cheape, for publishing a libel in London	51	17	6
Battin v. Coleman and other Officers in the New Forest, for searching records at the Tower for Perambulations of the New Forest etc.	1	0	0
v. Nicholas Dalton, on information of intrusion	34	17	6
v. Dorrison, for seditious words in Middlesex	6	11	0
v. Dodd, for cursing the King	9	14	0
v. Carberry, clerk, for a libel	6	14	0
v. Edwards, for seditious words	19	3	6
v. Edwards, for a riot at Beaumaris	7	14	6
v. Gordon, for moneys due to the Crown	23	18	10
v. Gray alias Skelton, for seditious words in Middlesex	6	11	0
v. Harding et al., rescuers of Bisse	3	5	6
v. Harrison, for seditious words	3	5	6
v. Heathcote, for publishing libels in Middlesex	6	11	0
v. Higden et al.	1	1	0
v. Hawkins, for high treason	17	1	0
v. Hawes, clerk, for holding a conventicle	38	11	0
v. Hicks, for seditious words	6	11	0
v. Harley and Foley, Auditors of the Imprests, (fn. 3) on Information for misdemeanours in their offices	188	5	4
v. Heap, for seditious words (indicted in Middlesex for calling the Pretender King)	9	18	6
v. Hare and Mann, to reverse a grant	184	0	4
v. Inger, for drinking the Pretender's health by the name of King James	6	11	0
v. Ingleden, for seditious words	6	11	0
v. King et al., Executors of Sir William Robinson	2	4	6
v. Lambert, Jones and Purcell, for drinking the Pretender's health at Cardiff	30	6	0
v. Lewis, clerk, for writing, printing and publishing a libel called The Scourge	6	11	0
v. Lewis, for seditious practices at Beaumaris	7	14	6
v. Locker, for seditious words in Middlesex	8	10	10
v. Lowey, for seditious practices at Beaumaris	7	14	6
v. Leonard, for high treason	17	1	0
v. Morphew, for publishing The Scourge	10	0	0
v. McManus, for seditious words	6	11	0
v. Nash, for seditious words in Middlesex	6	16	6
Attorney General at the relation of Gen. McCartney v. the Earl of Orrery	3	5	6
v. Portman, for calling the Pretender King and drinking his health	6	14	0
Palmer et uxor v. the Attorney General etc.	3	14	6
v. Redmayne, for printing and publishing a libel in London	5	19	0
v. Rokeby, for seditious words in Middlesex	4	11	0
v. Simanitt, for publishing a libel in London	6	16	6
v. Scriven, for seditious words in Middlesex	6	16	6
v. Shepheard, for high treason	35	17	0
v. Shepheard and forty seven others, for being present at a conventicle	6	11	0
v. Twisall, for a riot and assault at Newcastle	6	11	4
the Attorney General v. Whitfield, Executor of Whitfield, late Paymaster of Marines	5	11	0
v. Williams, for seditious practices at Beaumaris	7	14	6
v. Weyborne et al., rescuers of Bisse when first taken	22	6	0
v. Walker, for seditious words at Doncaster	6	16	6
v. Wood et al., for a riot in Shropshire	10	2	0
promiscuous disbursements by Richard Combes and by Barnabas Legard in several causes	6	10	3
	—			1,060	6	7
payment to sundry persons for business done and for disbursements: Richard Harcourt, of the Crown Office	598	10	0
James Pearse, attorney in the King's Remembrancer's Office (v. Eversfield for not accompting for public money; v. Dalton, on information of intrusion concerning Pimlico House; v. Baker and Newton, for a trespass in Windsor Forest; v. Lord Isla, in the case of Whitfield, late Paymaster of Marines; v. Gordon, late Garrison Paymaster of Annapolis; v. Lord Orrery at the relation of Gen. McCartney; v. Hare and Man on scire facias to reverse a grant)	57	14	2
several attornies-at-law etc. (John Richardson, Preston (v. Scarisbrook, Ashton and Gregson on their surrender to the outlawry for rebellion in Lancashire); Daniel Underhill (v. Heap and Portman at Hicks's Hall); Robert Tournay (v. Carter and Gosling at Rochester); William Ingram (v. Vavasour); John Dovey (v. Traherne, Wood and Blakeway, in Shropshire); John Skrymsher (ditto); David Duarne (in a Chancery suit, the Marquis de Novarez v. Craven et al.); Alexander Kellet, Clerk in Court (ditto); John Richards (v. the Tiverton rioters); John King (in the Sheriff's Court, defending Nost v. Thornton et ux'); Henry Williams, in Wales	368	12	9
the Attorney General, for attending to take care of recognizances; five terms to Easter term 1718	27	5	0
the Attorney and Solicitor General, for attending at the trial of the rebels in Middlesex and Surrey	22	0	0
Francis Breton, Clerk of the Crown, for travelling expenses from London and Preston to the Special Commission at Carlisle, etc. (including a payment to Mr. Rook, attorney)	165	19	2
the Under-Officers of the Courts at Westminster Hall, for attending the trials of the rebel prisoners	74	13	8
Thomas Parker, Cryer to the Special Commissioners of Gaol Delivery at Westminster and the Marshalsea	25	16	0
the Attorney and Solicitor General, for Consultations and Opinions	225	9	6
Mr. Hall, a clerk at the Enrolment Office, for enrolling the surrender to the King of the Government of the Bahama Islands etc.	4	10	5
Mr. Woodward, bookseller, for Acts of Parliament	2	3	0
Michael Letten, for errands	11	15	6
	—			1,584	9	2
money paid on Orders of the Principal Secretaries of State: James Doyne and Thomas Richardson of Handasyd's Regiment, for travelling charges to Bedfordshire to prosecute Francis Attwood for treasonable words	11	6	8
William and Mary Nost, for defending themselves against an unjust prosecution	0	10	8
the same William Nost, for expenses through the malicious prosecution by James Thornton and Sarah his wife	4	8	6
Mary Leake, Elizabeth Luke and Mary Williams, for prosecuting Anne Carpenter at Maidstone for reflecting and approbatious words against the King and Government	6	5	9
Nehemia Lodge, for prosecutions at Norwich	7	8	8
the same, for prosecuting Richard Clarke for words against the King and Government	15	6	10
Thomas Burton, for charges in prosecuting three hawkers at Quarter Sessions, Rygate, co. Surrey, for dispersing a scurrilous paper The King's Letter to the Prince of Wales and the Prince's Answer	3	3	2
William Greenhalgh, a Justice of the Peace for the County Palatine of Lancaster, for expenses of the prosecution of Thomas Whitehead for high treason in the late Rebellion at Preston	4	14	6
John Brown, for retaking John Stone, since convicted of counterfeiting coin	21	0	0
James Lappan, for expenses of a journey to Scotland to give evidence against the Rebels	30	0	0
James Bell, for sending witnesses from Newcastle to London for the trial of rebel prisoners	33	0	0
Mary Bromwich, for expenses of attending the trial of Charles Hornby and other publishers of libels	2	0	0
R. Turton, for expenses etc. in the prosecution of the Marquis Paleotti (on the Coroner's Inquest and on the Statute of Stabbing)	19	0	0
William Calderwood, to go to Lancaster for the trials of Robert Scarisbricke and other rebels	20	0	0
the same, for necessaries and for his return home	10	0	0
the same, for a journey out of the country to give testimony	2	0	0
Mary Nost, for 52 weeks' subsistence while her husband was detecting the printers and publishers of seditious libels	72	16	0
William Shaw, William Macintosh, William Calderwood and Robert Patten, clerk, evidences against the rebels, for 49 days' subsistence	24	10	0
Crain Liddell, for 40 days' subsistence while in Town as evidence against James Leonard in custody for high treason	4	0	0
John Tench, for fees of ten Commissioners for trying pirates in the West Indies	915	0	0
	—			1,206	10	9
sundry persons, pursuant to Treasury Warrant: Thomas Briggs and Samuel Done, Doctors of Physick, for attention to rebel prisoners at Liverpoole	363	7	0
Thomas Crispe, late High Sheriff of the County Palatine of Lancaster, for further disbursements on accompt of the Special Commission for trying rebel prisoners etc.	1,000	0	0
William Wall, for expenses at the Assizes at Liverpoole etc.	107	10	0
William Rooke, for the like at the Carlisle trials	107	10	0
William Carnaby, for the like at the London trials	120	0	0
James Preston, late Under-sheriff of Middlesex, for expenses of the trials of the rebel prisoners brought from Lancashire to London	500	0	0
Robert Patten, clerk, William Calderwood (at 20l. each) James Lappan and William Paton (at 10l. each)	60	0	0
James Lindsey, Edward Shaftoe and Crain Liddell at 2l. each, Aeneas Cameron, 10l.	16	0	0
Kenneth, late Lord Duffus, for 19 weeks' subsistence while a prisoner in the Tower	57	0	0
William, late Lord Nairn, and Robert late Earl of Carnwath, for the like for 7 weeks	42	0	0
John Darby, Keeper of the Marshalsea prison, for fees of five Swedish prisoners, committed on suspicion of piracy but afterwards discharged	8	6	8
Olof Nordborg, for subsisting the said Swedish prisoners while detained after discharge for the prison fees	7	5	5
Robert Heaton, for charges of the prosecution at Lincoln Assizes of Lewellyn Gwyllin, a papist, for speaking seditious words etc.	21	18	0
Francis Brace, for ditto of Robert Thomson at Bedford Summer Assizes, 1716 for dispersing a book English Advice to the Freeholders of England	50	11	5
Samuel Elisha, for charges in prosecuting seven rioters at the Lent Assizes for Salop in 1717	17	16	0
Thomas Lister, for charges in prosecuting several persons for riots and breaking his windows in St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, and in prosecuting Thomas Brooks, then parish constable, for not suppressing the said riot etc.	50	0	0
this Accomptant, for expenses relating to the trial of the Earl of Oxford [see Vol. XXXI, pp. 56, 633]	358	0	5
John Evans, for fees of honour to the King's Servants upon Prince Frederick and the Duke of York being put in nomination to be elected Knights Companions of the Garter	185	16	4
Thomas Foley, for the Auditor's fee	70	0	0
	—			3,143	1	3
fees paid at the Treasury and Exchequer and allowances to the Accomptant etc.				257	10	6½
(total allowed as above 7,251l. 18s. 3½d.)
				—
total payments and allowances				£9,266	9	5
and so remains in surplusage				£1,130	16	0
to which is added money depending: on Nathaniel Nichols, for subsistence of witnesses on the road to London	17	7	0
and on Gilbert Douglas, for the like of the King's evidence in Lancashire and for his own expenses	83	3	6
	—			100	10	6
				—
and so the Accomptant is in Surplusage				£1,231	6	6
Declared 23 October 1727.