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DECLARED ACCOUNTS: ORDNANCE. |
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PIPE OFFICE: ROLL 2696 [E351/2696]. AUDIT OFFICE BUNDLE 1863, ROLL 121 [A.O.1/1863/121]. |
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The Hon. HARRY MORDAUNT, Treasurer and Paymaster of the Ordnance. |
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30 June 1710 to 30 June 1711. |
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Charge. |
£ |
s. |
d. |
£ |
s. |
d. |
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Arrears: remaining in the Accomptant's hands on the end of the last Accompt |
233,267 |
14 |
4¼ |
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depending upon sundry persons as shown at the foot of the last Accompt |
497,695 |
18 |
9¾ |
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730,963 |
13 |
2 |
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Receipts: |
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money had out of the Exchequer within the time of this Accompt: |
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Easter term 9 Anne in part of 300,000l. by privy seal 2 June 9 Anne |
15,332 |
14 |
7½ |
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Michaelmas term 9 & 10 Anne in further part of the same |
61,000 |
0 |
0 |
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Easter term 10 Anne ditto |
30,000 |
0 |
0 |
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106,332 |
14 |
7½ |
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voluntary charge: |
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for interest due upon tallies, Exchequer bills and Irish debentures, detailed without names |
3,326 |
13 |
5¾ |
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for exchange of money (Gabriel Soulden for exchange of money from Ireland and John Merring for ditto from Barbados) |
838 |
10 |
0 |
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for freight of goods (Jacob Watcher and Alexander Mackdonnel for freight from Lisbon, Thomas Couts, owner of the Thomas, and Captain Thomas Young, master of the Hatley frigate, ditto from Barcelona) |
1,042 |
2 |
0 |
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the Vice-Treasurer of Ireland for small arms |
5,824 |
15 |
3½ |
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John Barker, being so much paid him by John Hooper at Portsmouth |
530 |
0 |
0 |
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more paid him by Christopher Germaine there |
76 |
2 |
2 |
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John Christian Germain for the like sum received of John Hooper for the fortifications there |
300 |
0 |
0 |
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several persons for money paid them by Thomas White |
453 |
18 |
11½ |
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Captain Evans of the Defyance for 48 1b. of powder and two pair pistols by him delivered in Barbary |
4 |
15 |
0 |
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John Baxter for the like sum paid him by John Jeffries, Paymaster of the train in Spain |
4,119 |
18 |
5 |
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more ditto by Nicholas Hunton in Spain |
98 |
1 |
6 |
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William Dixon for pay advanced him as a Commissary |
11 |
4 |
0 |
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John Walford in part of 15l. 12s. 2½d. paid by him to Capt. Cox for repairing the water engine in the Tower |
1 |
12 |
2½ |
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ditto in full of the above |
14 |
0 |
0 |
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Thomas Bowerbank for the like sum paid by John Hooper |
250 |
14 |
8 |
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William Wogan for 7 quarter-tun fatts [vats] for packing up arms |
4 |
4 |
0 |
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William Partridge for three barrels of powder received from on board the Diamond for the use of the Pelican in New England |
21 |
0 |
0 |
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John Collett, bombardier, for the like sum paid him by William Hawys |
4 |
4 |
0 |
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Colt Tichborne, for materials sold him |
43 |
0 |
0 |
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John Pearne, deducted out of a debenture |
4,769 |
9 |
11 |
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John Lloyd for plank and other materials delivered him by James Felton, store keeper at Woolwich |
41 |
7 |
5½ |
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William Edge for the like sum paid him by Thomas White |
350 |
0 |
0 |
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more ditto by John Hooper |
374 |
0 |
0 |
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Matthew Wallis, gunner of the Panther, for stores wanting in his Expense Accompt |
3 |
4 |
9 |
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Thomas Grieve, late Storekeeper at Berwick; salary |
15 |
0 |
0 |
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more to the same |
5 |
0 |
0 |
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Dr. John Gardiner, for the like sum received from John Pattison "appointed Surgeon on an Expedition, but afterwards refused going" |
13 |
5 |
0 |
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Henry Bosseville, for saltpetre "delivered him to make powder, which he did not comply with" |
1,188 |
3 |
3½ |
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23,724 |
6 |
1¼ |
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total charge and receipts |
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£861,020 |
13 |
10¾ |
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Discharge. |
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Wages and entertainments of the Principal Officers of the Ordnance, and their Clerks, the several Armourers, Storekeepers, Engineers, Fireworkers, Gunners, Artificers, Labourers, etc.: |
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The Principal Officers of the Ordnance: |
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John, Duke of Marlborough, Master General of the Ordnance |
1,500 |
0 |
0 |
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Thomas Erle, Lieut. General of the same |
800 |
0 |
0 |
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William Brydges, Surveyor General of the same |
400 |
0 |
0 |
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Christopher Musgrave, Clerk of the same |
400 |
0 |
0 |
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Robert Lowther, Keeper of the Ordnance Stores (¼ year) |
100 |
0 |
0 |
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Edward Ash succeeding him (¾ year) |
300 |
0 |
0 |
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James Craggs, clerk of the Deliveries |
300 |
0 |
0 |
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Harry Mordaunt, Treasurer and Paymaster |
500 |
0 |
0 |
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James Craggs, Secretary to the Master General |
200 |
0 |
0 |
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4,500 |
0 |
0 |
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clerks daily attendant (named) |
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960 |
0 |
0 |
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storekeepers, armourers and furbishers (ditto) |
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1,018 |
0 |
0 |
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engineers (Talbot Edwards, second engineer, and others named) |
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700 |
0 |
0 |
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gunners (Col. James Pendlebury, master gunner, and others named) |
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1,201 |
2 |
6 |
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bombardiers (Col. Jonas Watson, master bombardier, and twelve bombardiers) |
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483 |
12 |
6 |
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petardiers (John Faucett, chief petardier, and others named) |
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146 |
0 |
0 |
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fireworkers (Lieut. Col. Henry Hopkey and others named) |
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590 |
0 |
0 |
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yeoman of the tents and toils (John Trovilla and Thomas Fosbrooke succeeding him) |
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20 |
0 |
0 |
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waggon master (Charles Ball) |
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100 |
0 |
0 |
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proof masters (John Blake and John Allen) |
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40 |
0 |
0 |
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purveyor (Isaac Bennet) |
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40 |
0 |
0 |
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messenger (Thomas Watson) |
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60 |
0 |
0 |
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clerk of the checque (William Wright) |
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60 |
0 |
0 |
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60 labourers |
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1,560 |
0 |
0 |
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total for wages etc. as above 11,478l. 15s. 0d. |
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wages of the additional engineers, gentlemen of the Ordnance, Bombardiers and Gunners, detailed |
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2,449 |
16 |
3 |
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allowances settled on several Officers of the late Regimental Train of Artillery (Edward Williamson, Ralph Wood, George Brittenstein, Edward Glover, Roger Colbourne, George Spencer, Thomas Newton, Zachariah Smith, Thomas Heydon, Richard Silver and James Fenney) |
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470 |
0 |
0 |
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wages of sundry Officers and others of the Field Train in North Britain (Captains John Sleezer and Theodore Drury, Lieut. David Livingstone, Alexander Campbell, Commissary of the Train, and others, some named) |
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1,475 |
18 |
9 |
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total for additional engineers etc. and for allowances as above 4,395l. 15s. 0d. |
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emptions and provisions, detailed at length (including iron ordnance, cohorne mortars, round shot, mortar shells, hand grenades, ship-carriages, carts, powder, parchment-cartridges, small arms, swords, flints, shot, flags, fuzes, leather harness, pikes, cushions for the office barge, etc.) |
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116,125 |
1 |
6½ |
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hire of ships etc. for the expedition under Earl Rivers and for Holland, Jamaica, Barcelona and Catalonia |
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13,031 |
3 |
6 |
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repairs at several castles and forts (detailed): |
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the Tower of London |
1,047 |
11 |
9¾ |
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Woolwich |
56 |
1 |
5½ |
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Greenwich |
386 |
11 |
9 |
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Tilbury Fort and Gravesend Blockhouse |
107 |
7 |
3¼ |
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Sheerness |
944 |
14 |
11½ |
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Portsmouth |
23,117 |
15 |
3 |
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Plymouth |
39 |
15 |
5 |
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Hull |
140 |
10 |
1½ |
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Deal Castle |
412 |
8 |
2½ |
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26,252 |
16 |
3 |
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travelling charges, not detailed |
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1,055 |
9 |
6 |
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gunners' stores: |
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sundry Commanders of the Queen's ships for money laid out, viz., by Capt. Coney of the Maidstone at Barbadoes, Capt. Windsor of the Milford ditto, Capt. Martin of the Blackwall ditto, Capt. Harland of the Severn at the East Indies, Capt. Scott of the Mary galley at Genoa, Capt. Leake of the Newport ditto, Capt. Cutter of the Newcastle ditto and at Leghorn, Capt. Huntington of the Guernsey at Boston, Capt. Boyce of the Nonsuch at New York, Capt. Riddle of the Mairmaid ditto, Capt. Cavendish of the Antelope at Genoa and Leghorn, Capt. Stuckey of the Deptford at Boston, Capt. Steward of the Garland at Leghorn, Capt. Hubbard of the Panther ditto, Capt. Elves of the Revenge at Genoa. Capt. Faulkner of the Enterprise ditto, Capt. Mordaunt of the Resolution ditto, Capt. Davenport of the Enterprise at Genoa and Leghorn, Capt. Stanhope of the Milford at Leghorn, Capt. Hubbard of the Elizabeth at Genoa, Capt. Lestock of the Fowey at Leghorn, Capt. Fairborne of the Centurion ditto, Capt. Taylor of the Tryton at Genoa, Capt. Jackson of the Sorlins at Leghorn, Capt. Hughes of the Winchester ditto, Capt. Jennings of the Falcon at Genoa, Capt. Walpoole of the Poole at Leghorn, Capt. Leake of the Colchester ditto, Capt. Massam of the Faulcon ditto, and John Horsey for the Chichester, Rupert, Lancaster, Restauration, Defyance, Poole and Dunkirk at Leghorn |
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7,432 |
19 |
2½ |
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disbursements of several natures: by storekeepers, paymasters and others, detailed |
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90,501 |
17 |
9¼ |
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rewards: to John Gardiner and William Chalmers, surgeons; to Charles Bissell for inspecting titles of lands needed for better fortifying Portsmouth; to Edward Read of the Endeavour; to Alexander Mead for fetching stores from Edinburgh for the garrison at Inverlochy; to Jonathan Dowson for his good behaviour on reinstatement; and to Robert Whitehand |
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141 |
9 |
6 |
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salaries and allowances by debentures, detailed |
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8,896 |
5 |
11½ |
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rents, detailed |
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1,265 |
13 |
3 |
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total for carriage of stores, for repairs, for travelling charges, rewards, rent and other necessary disbursements 257,269l. 17s. 3¼d. |
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total payments and allowances |
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£273,147 |
13 |
11¼ |
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and so remains 587,872l. 19s. 11½d. |
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whereof depending on sundry persons for money imprested to them (detailed at length with names), 26 March 1673 to 30 June 1711: |
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by Sir George Wharton, Treasurer and Paymaster: |
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from 26 March 1673 to 30 June 1673 |
1,851 |
0 |
0 |
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from 30 June 1673 to 30 June 1674 |
2,013 |
0 |
0 |
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from 30 June 1674 to 30 June 1675 |
320 |
0 |
0 |
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from 30 June 1675 to 30 June 1676 |
80 |
0 |
0 |
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from 30 June 1676 to 30 June 1677 |
170 |
0 |
0 |
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from 30 June 1677 to 30 June 1678 |
6,715 |
0 |
0 |
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from 30 June 1678 to 30 June 1679 |
915 |
0 |
0 |
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from 30 June 1679 to 30 June 1680 |
4,548 |
8 |
2 |
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from 30 June 1680 to 30 June 1681 |
1,516 |
2 |
4 |
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by Charles Bertie, late Treasurer and Paymaster: |
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from 30 June 1681 to 30 June 1682 |
135 |
0 |
0 |
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from 30 June 1682 to 30 June 1683 |
85 |
0 |
0 |
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from 30 June 1683 to 30 June 1684 |
539 |
3 |
4 |
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from 30 June 1684 to 30 June 1685 |
1,532 |
0 |
0 |
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from 30 June 1685 to 30 June 1686 |
305 |
10 |
0 |
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from 30 June 1686 to 30 June 1687 |
1,062 |
0 |
11 |
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from 30 June 1687 to 30 June 1688 |
928 |
6 |
8 |
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from 30 June 1688 to 30 June 1689 |
1,700 |
14 |
2 |
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from 30 June 1689 to 30 June 1690 |
7,526 |
7 |
8 |
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from 30 June 1690 to 30 June 1691 |
4,455 |
17 |
0½ |
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from 30 June 1691 to 30 June 1692 |
1,170 |
5 |
0 |
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from 30 June 1692 to 30 June 1693 |
531 |
16 |
8 |
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from 30 June 1693 to 30 June 1694 |
663 |
1 |
4 |
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from 30 June 1694 to 30 June 1695 |
732 |
19 |
3 |
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from 30 June 1695 to 30 June 1696 |
1,799 |
14 |
5 |
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from 30 June 1696 to 30 June 1697 |
2,324 |
16 |
8 |
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from 30 June 1697 to 30 June 1698 |
262 |
3 |
1 |
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from 30 June 1698 to 30 June 1699 |
2,621 |
6 |
9¼ |
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from 30 June 1699 to 30 June 1700 |
2,272 |
16 |
2 |
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from 30 June 1700 to 30 June 1701 |
254 |
16 |
0 |
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from 30 June 1701 to 30 June 1702 |
1,631 |
14 |
9 |
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from 30 June 1702 to 30 June 1703 |
1,388 |
2 |
0 |
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Edward Hubbalds, clerk to Charles Bertie, for the value of two imprests paid to him |
360 |
0 |
0 |
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from 30 June 1703 to 30 June 1704 |
1,039 |
14 |
4¼ |
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from 30 June 1704 to 30 June 1705 |
2,304 |
0 |
9¼ |
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from 30 June 1705 to 30 June 1706 |
42,131 |
5 |
0¼ |
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from 30 June 1706 to 30 June 1707 |
49,465 |
12 |
11¾ |
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from 30 June 1707 to 30 June 1708 |
52,600 |
5 |
3¼ |
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from 30 June 1708 to 30 June 1709 |
59,613 |
19 |
9¼ |
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from 30 June 1709 to 30 June 1710 |
93,324 |
12 |
2¾ |
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from 30 June 1710 to 30 June 1711 |
68,873 |
15 |
10¼ |
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£421,765 |
8 |
7¾ |
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and so the Accomptant is indebted 166,107l. 11s. 3¾d. |
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Declared 25 May 1715. |
