Warrant Book: December 1712,1-15 | British History Online

Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 26, 1712. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1954.

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'Warrant Book: December 1712,1-15', in Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 26, 1712, ed. William A Shaw( London, 1954), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/cal-treasury-books/vol26/pp532-543 [accessed 24 November 2024].

December 1712



Dec. 1.	T. Harley to the Customs Commissioners to pass the goods of Monsieur Le Marquise de Montelon [Don Isidro Casado de Azevedo de Rosales, Marques de Monteleon, Ambassador and Minister Plenipotentiary from Spain to England] as accustomed to be done for the goods and equipage of Ambassadors arrived here. Out Letters (General) XX, p. 311.
Dec. 2.	Privy seal for 1,500l. as equipage and 100l. a week as ordinary to Charles, Duke of Shrewsbury, as Ambassador Extraordinary to the Most Christian King [of France]. Queen's Warrant Book XXV, p. 378.
	Money warrant for 180l. to William Hanbury in full satisfaction of all claims for the services of himself and Mr. Elphinston, his deputy, and all others employed by him in looking after the Cottonian Library from 1708–9 Mar. 14 to this time: to be payable out of Civil List moneys. (Money orders dated Dec. 3 hereon for 120l. to Hanbury and 60l. to Elphinston.) (Letter of direction dated Dec. 12 hereon.) Money Book XXII, p. 105. Order Book VIII, pp. 249–50. Disposition Book XXII, p. 72.
	Same for 185l. 14s. 9d. to Samuel Baylie, Esq., late Receiver General for Co. Stafford, of the 4s. Aid annis 1706 and 1707, and the Duties on Houses annis 1707 and 1708: as for his extraordinary charges in his receipt. (Money order dated Dec. 3 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated Dec. 5 hereon.) Money Book XXII, p. 105. Order Book VIII, p. 249. Disposition Book XXII, p. 70.
	William Lowndes to Mr. Borret. My Lord Treasurer is informed that by the will of Sir William Robinson some part of his estate may belong to her Majesty or be at her disposal for charitable uses. You are to prosecute her Majesty's interest.
	You are also to prosecute at her Majesty's charge the two persons who robbed Mr. Annesley. Out Letters (General) XX, p. 311.
	T. Harley to Mr. Brydges. Monsieur Mallerde, [Pietro, Conte di Mellarede] Envoy from the Duke of Savoy, has represented to my Lord Treasurer that by his master's orders he has bought a number of horses in England for his Royal Highness's service; and desires that what is due on the said Duke [of Savoy's] Subsidy may be paid to him (Mellarede) to enable him to pay for the said horses. Please lay before my Lord an account what is in arrear on the said subsidy and how it may most properly be supplied. Ibid., p. 312.
Dec. 2.	William Lowndes to Mr. Burchett for a list of all the ships that are already ordered to be put out of pay and [those that] are still intended to be discharged. Ibid.
	Subscription by Treasurer Oxford for the execution of a Lord Chamberlain's warrant of Oct. 2 last [to the Board of Works] for the repair of Lord Cornbury's lodgings at Somerset House: to an estimate of 247l. 13s. 5d. Warrants not Relating to Money XXI, p. 20.
Dec. 3.	Warrant by same to Spencer Compton to pay 50l. to James Greensheilds, clerk, as royal bounty.
	150l. to Thomas Park, gent., as same. Money Book XXII, p. 106.
	T. Harley to the Customs Commissioners to seal the goods of the Duke of Shrewsbury in order to their transport to France. Out Letters (General) XX, p. 312.
	William Lowndes to the Taxes Commissioners for their observations on the enclosed answer [missing] from Mr. Longden, Receiver General of Taxes for Co. Gloucester, to your report of the 7th inst., "wherein he still makes several complaints." Ibid.
Dec. 4.	Letter of direction for 20,000l. to Lord Masham, Cofferer of the Household: out of Civil List moneys: to be issued by 2,000l. a week from the termination of a former like letter for 20,000l. Disposition Book XXII, p. 69.
	William Lowndes to the Treasurer of the Ordnance. My Lord Treasurer directs that the 2,050l. 13s. 0d. directed to you by his warrant of Nov. 20 last (being for the last Midsummer dividend on the South Sea Stock assigned to you by Harry Mordaunt [your predecessor] for the use of the public) be applied towards three months' payment to the artificers and for carrying on other services in the Ordnance Office. Ibid.
	Same to Mr. Brydges enclosing Auditor Harley's report [missing] on some demands of Sir Solomon de Medina for bread delivered to the English Troops in the 1710 campaign. Please attend my Lord hereon to-morrow. Out Letters (General) XX, p. 313.
	T. Harley to the Comptrollers of Army Accounts enclosing a representation [missing] from the Board of Ordnance about bedding for the men in Garrison at Gibraltar. It is necessary the said Board should know what number of Troops are designed to be kept there before any orders be given for sending the said bedding. My Lord Treasurer directs you to inform yourself of the state of the said Garrison and report same to him with your opinion as to the charge of said bedding and whether it ought not to be placed to the accounts of those Regiments who receive same. Ibid.
	Same to the Victualling Commissioners. The several contracting brewers now under prosecution by the Queen on the Address of the House of Commons (fn. 1) have petitioned my Lord acknowledging their offences and submitting to his determination. For his better information my Lord directed Mr. Borret, Solicitor to the Treasury, to draw a state of the several cases from the English informations and answers. Please assist Mr. Borret therein and thereupon report to my Lord what is due from the brewers to the Crown. Out Letters (General) XX, p. 313.
Dec. 4.	Treasury reference to the Customs Commissioners of the petition of Marmaduke Bealing, Register of the Queen's Warrants Inwards, London port, praying leave to resign his said place to his relation William Petre, who is fitly qualified. Reference Book IX, p. 101.
	Same to the Postmaster General of the petition of Anne Rogers shewing that her late husband, Zachary Rogers, was Agent to the pacquet boats at Falmouth and did in 1705 undertake by contract to victual the seamen in that service at 7d. a head per diem; that by a general dearth and scarcity of corn all sorts of provisions came to an exorbitant price, by means of which he sustained a loss of above 600l.: therefore praying consideration. Ibid.
	Same to Mr. How [Paymaster of Guards and Garrisons] of the petition of Brigadier Andrew Windsor shewing that pursuant to the Queen's order of 1712 Aug. 1 the private men of his Foot Regiment were disbanded Aug. 27 and the commissioned and non-commissioned Officers thereof posted at the head of the private men of Col. Lucas's Regiment in Ireland Oct. 6 last: that "the said Regiment" having received their subsistence only to Aug. 24 last [therefore petitioner] prays orders for its full pay from 28 Aug. to Oct. 5 amounting to 801l. 11s. 0d. Ibid.
Dec. 4.	Same to the Comptrollers of Army Accounts of the petition of the Officers of the Regiments late the Earl of Essex's and Lieut. Gen. Carpenter's serving in Spain, shewing that the detachments of the said Regiments serving in Spain, being taken prisoners at the battle of Almanza, some of the said prisoners were subsisted in France from that [battle] time to great part of the year 1709 and the charge thereof being transmitted from [Mr. Brydges] the Paymaster [of the Forces] Abroad to the [said Howe] Paymaster of Guards and Garrisons, he has placed the same to the accounts of the Regiments, by which means they are charged with double pay for several men for many months, her Majesty having been pleased to order the said Regiments to raise and complete the detachments in England in 1708, which was done accordingly: therefore praying that they may not be charged with the pay of the said prisoners any longer than it appears from the muster rolls that they were mustered and that the remaining sum may be allowed upon account of prisoners, the Officers' whole pay being not sufficient to answer the same. Ibid.
Dec. 5.	Letter of direction for 36,964l. 15s. 1d. to Charles Cæsar, Treasurer of the Navy: out of Contributions in the Exchequer on the Class Lottery anno 1712: and is to be applied as follows: viz.
		£	s.	d.
	on the head of Wages.
	for the Marines and to be paid over to Sir Roger Mostyn, their Paymaster, upon account for subsistence to the Officers and men now on shore from 25 June 1712 to 24 Aug. following	3,163	0	5
	towards paying off 12 of her Majesty's ships at Chatham, Portsmouth and Plymouth	15,000	0	0
	on the head of Wear and Tear.
	towards paying bills of exchange	2,219	19	7
	more on the head of Wear and Tear, being to be accounted as part of the sum voted by Parliament to make good the Deficiency of the grants anno 1711.
	towards paying bills of exchange	1,281	15	1
	for carrying on the new Course of the Navy	15,000	0	0
		£36,964	15	1
	Disposition Book XXII, p. 70.
	William Lowndes to Visct. Fitz-Hardinge, Treasurer of the Chamber. My Lord Treasurer has this day directed 1,500l. to be imprested to you. He desires that out of it you pay such bills as shall be due in your Office upon the Queen's removing from Windsor and also as follows to the three Messengers [of the Chamber] appointed to attend the Duke of Shrewsbury in France, viz. 173l. 9s. 4d. to Griffantius Philips, 83l. 6s. 6d. to Joseph Chancey and 37l. 12s. 4d. to John Bill, being all that remains due to them for travelling charges. Please send my Lord Treasurer a list of the bills you shall pay as above on account of the Queen's remove, Ibid., p. 71.
Dec. 5.	For the reference to Mr. Dodd and Mr. Waters of the case of Sir Nicholas Trevanion, see supra, p. 489. Out Letters (General) XX, p. 293.
	William Lowndes to Auditor Harley to state Mr. Borrett's account of his receipts and payments for Crown prosecutions and to report on his memorial for an annual allowance for his extraordinary trouble and attendance therein. Ibid., p. 314.
	T. Harley to Mr. Brydges [Paymaster of the Forces Abroad] enclosing the report [missing] of the Comptrollers of Army Accounts on Mr. Hardwick's petition for the extraordinary charge of 10d. a day for every sick man taken into the Hospital at Port Mahon, whereof he was Director, over and above the allowance of 5d. a man per diem placed to the Regimental account. Please report to my Lord Treasurer whether Hardwick has received anything towards the said extraordinary charge from any your Deputies abroad and whether and what charge her Majesty hath been at in supplying him or the said Hospital with medicines, necessaries &c. for the sick men and whether he ought not to make the same good in case the said extraordinary demand be allowed him. Ibid.
	Same to the [Principal] Officers of the Mint for an extract of the several proposals that have been referred to you since her Majesty's accession for making halfpence and farthings; and your reports thereon. Ibid.
	William Lowndes to the Customs Commissioners. The cessation of arms between her Majesty and the Crowns of France and Spain is renewed and in the beginning of next week it will be sent to them in form. In the meantime my Lord Treasurer directs you to give notice thereof to the merchants, that there may be no interruption in their trade. Ibid., p. 315.
	Treasury reference to the Taxes Commissioners of the petition of John Osborne et al., sureties of Robert Brown, late Receiver General for part of Norfolk, shewing that he became insolvent shortly after they became bail for him: and praying a further stay of process till Midsummer next. Reference Book IX, p. 102.
Dec. 6.	Money orders for 1712 Michaelmas term's salaries to the Welsh Judges as follows: viz.
	75l. to William Jessop as Second Justice of Merioneth, Carnarvon and Anglesea.
	75l. to Edward Jefferies as Second Justice of Pembroke [Carmarthen and Cardigan].
	75l. to William Banastre as Chief Justice of Pembroke, Carmarthen and Anglesea [sic for Cardigan].
	75l. to William Brydges as Second Justice of Glamorgan, Brecon and Radnor.
	75l. to Charles Cox as Chief Justice of Glamorgan, Brecon and Radnor.
	50l. to John Ward as Second Justice of Denbigh, Flint and Montgomery.
	50l. to same as Second Justice of Chester.
	75l. to Sir Joseph Jekyll as Chief Justice of Chester.
	Order Book VIII, p. 251.
Dec. 6.	Letter of direction for 1,000l. to Charles, Duke of St. Albans: out of Civil List moneys. Disposition Book XXII, p. 76.
Dec. 8.	Royal warrant dated Windsor Castle to the Clerk of the Signet for a privy seal for 3,000l. to Henry, Visct. Bolingbroke, one of the Principal Secretaries of State: for secret service: without account. (The privy seal hereon is dated Dec. 20.) (Money order dated 15 Jan. 1712–13 hereon.) Queen's Warrant Book XXV, p. 330. Order Book VIII, p. 263.
	Same to Spencer Compton to pay the royal bounty of 200l. per an. to Jacob de Blagny for the Society of French Gentlewomen at the Hague: the same having been directed by royal warrant of 1703 Aug. 17, Calendar of Treasury Books, Vol. XVIII, p. 371, to be paid to [Nicholas de Monceau de] L'Estang, gent., for their use, and he being lately deceased and the said Society having humbly besought us that the said yearly allowance may be paid to said Blagny. Queen's Warrant Book XXV, p. 330.
Dec. 9.	Same dated Windsor Castle to the Clerk of the Signet for a privy seal for 1,000,000l. to Charles Cæsar, Esq., Treasurer of the Navy: as imprest for the Navy and Victualling. (Money order dated Dec. 13 hereon.) Queen's Warrant Book XXV, p. 329. Order Book VIII, p. 250.
	Same to Treasurer Oxford to pay 1,115l. to William Bromley, Speaker of the House of Commons: for 223 days 1712 May 15 to Dec. 24 on the usual allowance of 5l. a day as Speaker. (Money order dated Dec. 15 hereon.) Queen's Warrant Book XXV, p. 329. Order Book VIII, p. 253.
	Money warrant for 400l. to the four Clerks of the Privy Council, William Blathwaite, John Povey, Edward Southwell and Christopher Musgrave: without account: for one year to Xmas 1711 on their allowance for the despatch of business relating to the Commission for Trade. (Money order dated Dec. 8 hereon.)
	The like for 250l. each to same for same time on their salaries as Clerks of the [Privy] Council. Money Book XXII, p. 106. Order Book VIII, p. 253.
	Same for 99l. 18s. 6d. to Walter Mosely, Sheriff of Co. Stafford for the year ended 1711 Sept. 29, for the overpayment or surplusage on his account; the same having arisen by his payment of 120l. to Robert Gillyver et al. for apprehending Mary Lynly for housebreaking and Samuel Booker and William Rowley for false coining.
	Prefixing: certificate by the Deputy Clerk of the Pipe of the said surplusage. (Letter of direction dated 1712–13 Jan. 6 hereon.) Money Book XXII, p. 107. Order Book VIII, p. 275.
	William Lowndes to the Navy Commissioners enclosing a list [missing] of ships paid off and intended to be paid off. Please certify my Lord Treasurer (1) how much has been paid to every ship in the said list out of pay and for what time; (2) how much is due to every of the ships still intended to be paid off and for what time. Out Letters (General) XX, p. 315.
Dec. 9.	Subscription by Treasurer Oxford for the execution of a Lord Chamberlain's warrant dated Sept. 26 last to the Master of the Great Wardrobe for the provision of furniture as follows for Kensington [Palace], viz. chimney-glasses and glass frame; altering a chimney-glass and frame and new silvering the said glass; leathers for tables and stands; umbrells for Lord Masham's lodgings and several other accessories: to an estimate of 80l. Warrants not Relating to Money XXII, p. 4.
	The like of a same of Nov. 11 last to same for the delivery to Grey Maynard [Yeoman of the Removing Wardrobe] of six pairs of sheets, 12 towels and 12 pillow biers for the Queen's footmen: to an estimate of 19l. Ibid.
	The like of a same of Sept. 26 last to same for the delivery to same of matting for Windsor; willow green silk lacing; 20 yards of larger and five tassels with leads; 45 yards of crimson silk lyor with 10 large tassels: to an estimate of 46l. Ibid.
	The like of a same of same date to same for the delivery to same of furniture for St. James's, viz. walnut tree corner cupboard for her Majesty's Dressing Room; four new umbrells for the Chapel; walnut tree frame for a kneeling stool for her Majesty; three can'd sashes in the Chaplain's room; altering Canopies of State several times; and for the delivery to Grey Maynard of a hassock and cushion of crimson Genoa velvet for the Queen: to an estimate of 70l. Ibid.
	The like of a same dated Nov. 20 last to same for the delivery to Rowland Fryth, Esq., Lancaster Herald, of a Coat of her Majesty's Arms: to an estimate of 48l. 10s. 0d. Ibid.
	Warrant by same to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands for a particular of certain rooms in the Gateway next the Tiltyard leading to King Street, Westminster, and other rooms in the Paper Building adjoining to said Gateway over the Gallery leading to the Great Stairs into St. James's Park and the piece of ground &c., ut supra, p. 189, in order to a lease thereof to William Vanhuls, Esq., Clerk of her Majesty's Robes and Wardrobes.
	Prefixing: said Surveyor's report on said Vanhuls' petition, ut supra, ibid. The Gallery is so decayed and the timbers pressed out from under the said rooms that they will fall in if not speedily supported. The piece of ground is 40 foot in length from the Gateway towards the Banqueting House and 38 foot in depth (which is the dimensions of the said Gateway from north to south). He desires to build some [domestic] offices thereon, the want of which hath always made his lodgings very inconvenient, and he desires liberty to make a door in the wall of the passage under the Gateway next the Privy Garden opposite the Earl of Arran's for a communication between the offices he designs to build and his lodgings. There would be no inconvenience in this. There ought to be a clause of re-assumption especially here since 'tis to be hoped her Majesty may be enabled to rebuild that palace [of Whitehall]. I think he may be allowed to use the rubbish and old materials on the ground. I take notice that there has been lately a large privy or house of office made on this piece of ground by the Office of Works which is very noisome and offensive and in my opinion ought to be removed to some more convenient place near the waterside whether the premises be granted to petitioner or not.
	Followed by: report by the Officers of the Works as to the said rubbish. The ruins [of the palace since the late fire] have been twice in great part already turned over upon several occasions and what was most valuable in them taken out. Ibid., pp. 27–8.
Dec. 9.	Treasury reference to the Barons of the Exchequer, Scotland, of the petition of James Anderson, Esq., shewing that there remains due to him 740l. out of the 1,040l. which the Parliament of Scotland recommend[ed] for carrying on the works of publishing and describing the charters, seals, coins and medals of her Majesty and her ancestors "and that her Majesty would supply the losses he suffered by the interruption of his employment in prosecuting that work": that there is 41l. 13s. 4d. payable yearly to her Majesty forth of the Isle of Islay of which petitioner has a farm, which [rent] is in arrear since Whitsunday 1707: therefore praying a release and acquittance for said arrear and a grant of same in time coming. Out Letters (North Britain) II, p. 400.
Dec. 10.	Letter of direction for 20,000l. to Charles Eversfeild, Esq., Treasurer and Paymaster of the Ordnance, half for sea service and half for land service of the Office of Ordnance: out of Contributions in the Exchequer on the Classis Lottery anno 1712: and is to be taken as part of 589,839l. 17s. 4d. to make good the Deficiencies of the grants anno 1711. Disposition Book XXII, p. 71.
	Same for 36,900l. to James Brydges [Paymaster of the Forces Abroad]: out of Contributions as above: and is for the services following: viz.
				£
	in part of 328,956l. 16s. 7d. for Subsidies to the Allies.
	for agio, bread and forage for the 12,000 Prussians serving on the Rhine and is to be paid over to Math. Decker for the value in his bills on Amsterdam payable at two days' sight: at the [exchange] rate of 10 guilders 5 stivers to the pound sterling			20,000
	in further part of 589,839l. 17s. 4d. to make good the Deficiencies of the grants anno 1711.
	for account of her Majesty's proportion of the pay of the Palatine Troops which served in Catalonia			15,000
	in part of 243,020l. 17s. 6d. for Extraordinary charges of the war [anno 1712].
	for account of the pay and Contingencies to the Commissioners appointed for Inspecting the Affairs of the War in Spain and Portugal, and is in part of 6,205l. for that service			1,900
				£36,900
	Ibid., p. 72.
	Same for 1,000l. to William Lowndes: out of Civil List moneys: for secret service. Ibid., p. 77.
Dec. 10.	T. Harley to Sir John Stanley [Governor of the Tower]. My Lord Treasurer is informed by my Lord Dartmouth that Capt. Marwood, Commander of her Majesty's ship Greyhound, then in the Downs, has brought with him the lion that the Bey of Tunis hath sent to her Majesty. It is by the Lord Chamberlain's directions that presents of this kind are received and taken into the Tower. My Lord Treasurer desires you to obtain the Lord Chamberlain's directions accordingly. Out Letters (General) XX, p. 315.
	Treasury reference to the Customs Commissioners of the petition of John Wright for a grant of the place of William Cock, a weigher at the Custom House, who is willing to resign to him as a near kinsman. Reference Book IX, p. 102.
	Same to Mr. Brydges [Paymaster of the Forces Abroad] of the petition of Paul Margarett, late Surgeon General of her Majesty's Forces in Spain and Principal Surgeon of the Hospital belonging to the said Forces, praying payment of 161l. 14s. 9d. due to him on account of medicines delivered to the said Hospital, and 73l. 12s. 6d. on account of his pay as Principal Surgeon, and 43l. 8s. 7½d. omitted by error in the account delivered by Mr. Chabanes, Director of the Hospital, "as appears by the [Hospital] books." Ibid.
Dec. 11.	William Lowndes to Visct. Fitz-Hardinge [Treasurer of the Chamber]. The Lord Treasurer desires you to pay her Majesty's watermen so much as their wages and bills do amount to at Xmas 1712. Disposition Book XXII, p. 72.
	Same to the Customs Commissioners to pass the goods of the Duke D'Aumont [Louis due d'Aumont, Ambassador Extraordinary from France to England] in the manner accustomed for the goods and equipage of Ambassadors arriving here. Out Letters (General) XX, p. 315.
	Money warrant for 60l. to Robert Stevens, Messenger appointed to look after the Printing Press: 50l. thereof for one year to 1710 Xmas on his allowance or salary therein and 10l. for his charges and expenses in carrying on the business of the said employment for the said year. Money Book XXII, p. 107.
	Warrants by Treasurer Oxford to the Customs Commissioners to observe orders in Council of the 11th inst. to discharge from quarantine the ships Nathaniel and John, Charles Hales master; John, Charles Hales master; Vine, John Welford master; Baltick Merchant, Richard Hill master; Love's Increase, John Lemon master; Roterdam Merchant, Ralph Southern master; Rachel, Benjamin Doncaster master; Beginning, Paul Holiday master; Crown, Robert Bayley master; Merchants' Good Will, Edm. Wallington master; Dewall frigate, William Foreman master; Susanna, William Harvey master; Friendship, Geo. Hockinson master; Jo[h]n and Ann, Richard Hales master: with iron, deals, flax, hemp, potashes, hogs' bristles, cloth, sturgeon, pipe staves, linen yarn, fats, 'oales' [? oils] from Gothenburg, Riga and Dantzic: all on the petition of Randolph Knipe.
	Likewise the Grape, Matthias Giles master; Rose, Edward Stocker master; Koninsberg, Miles Walker master: with flax, hemp, iron and linen from Konigsberg and Riga: on the petition of Henry Norris, merchant.
	Likewise the Richard and Sarah, Thomas Holman master; Langley, Richard Herner master; Martha, Geo. Munton master; Thomas, Tho. Perkins master: with iron and deals from Gothenburg: on the petition of David Watson, merchant.
	Likewise the Maidstone, Ralph White master; Hopewell, Spencer Tillam master; Ann, John Duck master; Sea Venture, Thomas Scott master: with iron, deal, tar, plank, staves from Gothenburg: on the petition of said David Watson, merchant. Out Letters (Customs) XV, p. 461.
Dec. 12.	Warrant dormant by same to Henry Ferne [Customs Cashier] to pay the salary of 52l. per an. to Babington Stavely as a Queen's waiter, London port. Ibid. XVI, p. 1.
	Warrant by same to Sir W. Wyndham, the Secretary at War, to prepare a royal warrant to authorise John Howe, Paymaster of Guards and Garrisons, to pay 1,075l. 5s. 6d. (being 358l. 8s. 6d. each) to the Commanding Officers of the three Regiments of Dragoons quartered in North Britain, (being of 354 horses each) to defray the charge of supplying them with forage, being at the rate of one penny a day for each horse for 243 days from Oct. 1 last till May 31 next: and to be placed to the account of each Regiment and borne by them.
	Appending: report and computation by Major General Whetham as to said forage. In the hands of contractors the above allowance would not be sufficient, but if paid to the Officers they will be able with careful management to keep their Troops in good condition. Warrants not Relating to Money XXII, pp. 30–31.
	Signature by same of a Lord Chamberlain's warrant dated Nov. 29 last to the Master of the Great Wardrobe for the delivery to John Warner, Master of her Majesty's Barges, of liveries for himself and 48 watermen for the year 1712: to an estimate of 353l.: and of the like for four pensionary watermen for the same year: to an estimate of 13l. 5s. 0d. Ibid., p. 4.
Dec. 13.	Letter of direction for 15,000l. to Charles Cæsar, Treasurer of the Navy: out of Contributions in the Exchequer on the Class Lottery anno 1712: and is to be applied as follows: viz.
				£
	in part of 589,839l. 17s. 4d. to make good the Deficiencies of the grants anno 1711.
	on the head of Victualling: for carrying on the new Course of the Victualling			10,000
	for Short Allowance money due to the Companies of Admiral Baker's Squadron			5,000
				£15,000
	Disposition Book XXII, p. 73.
	William Lowndes to Visct. Fitz-Hardinge, Treasurer of the Chamber. My Lord Treasurer desires you to pay (out of the 1,500l. imprested to you this day) 50l. to Mr. [Michael] Dahl for her Majesty's picture, according to a Lord Chamberlain's warrant in that behalf: and out of the remainder to pay so much as is due to clear the established allowances in your Office [of the Chamber] to Midsummer 1711. Please certify my Lord how much will then remain in your hands of the said 1,500l. Disposition Book XXII, p. 73.
Dec. 13.	Letter of direction for 23,500l. 15s. 2d. to John Howe, Paymaster of Guards and Garrisons: out of Contributions in the Exchequer on the Class Lottery anno 1712: and is for the services following: viz.
		£	s.	d.
	in part of 589,839l. 17s. 4d. to make good the Deficiencies of the grants anno 1711.
	towards 30 days' subsistence Nov. 22 last to Dec. 21 inst. for the Troops and Regiments in Great Britain	10,802	4	0
	in part of 243,020l. 17s. 6d. for extraordinary charges of the war.
	for subsistence for the Troops and Regiments in Great Britain and is (together with the foregoing sum and 3,110l. 4s. 9d. remaining unapplied in said Howe's hands) to complete 23,603l. 18s. 5d. for the abovesaid 30 days	9,691	9	8
	for the same 30 days' subsistence for the Garrisons in North Britain	380	17	6
	for 1712 Sept. 29 quarter's allowance to the Secretary at War and the Comptrollers [of Army Accounts] to enable them to pay the clerks of their Office [their respective Offices]	1,047	0	10
	to satisfy her Majesty's warrant to M. G. Wightman [Major General James Wightman] for his service and expenses in repairing to Hull, Newcastle and Berwick to disband the Regiments of Sir Charles Hotham and Col. Clayton	344	10	0
	to satisfy a like warrant to Col. King for repairing to Deal to disband a detachment of the Marquis de Montandre's and Brigadier Windsor's Regiments	22	5	0
	to satisfy a like warrant to Mr. John Campbell for forage furnished to the Regiment of Dragoons in North Britain from 14 May 1711 to Oct. 14 following	1,212	8	2
		£23,500	15	2
	Ibid., p. 74.
	William Lowndes to Mr. Blathwayte. The Bishop of London has proposed to my Lord Treasurer the building a church in each of the two towns where Indians inhabit in Virginia and maintaining a minister and assistant at each of them with 200l. per an. for that purpose out of the quit rents of Virginia. Please lay before my Lord Treasurer an account of the said quit rents and to what uses they are or ought to be applied. Out Letters (General) XX, p. 316.
	Same to the Commissioners for Stating the Debts of the Army. In yours of the 11th inst. you desire a copy of a memorial which you are informed was laid before the late Lord Treasurer by Major General
Dec. 13.	Maccartney relating to his commanding an intended Expedition to Canada and of his quitting his Regiment to Brigadier Sutton. I have made diligent search in this Office, but no such memorial can be found here and I cannot learn that the same was ever brought hither. Ibid.
	Same to [Secretary] Dartmouth enclosing the East India Company's memorial [missing] touching the adjusting of the Duties on East India goods upon a Treaty of Commerce between England and France. Ibid.
	Same to the Taxes Commissioners returning their report of the 4th inst. on the petition of Mr. Foxall for his fees and charges in executing extents against the sureties of George Nixon [sic for Dixon]. My Lord Treasurer is of opinion that debtors to the Crown ought to bear expenses of this kind and you are to consider some method of helping petitioner in some other manner than bringing it upon her Majesty. Ibid., p. 317.
	Same to the Bishop of London. In reply to yours of the 3rd inst. to my Lord Treasurer I am to say that Mr. Nicholson's commission is in the nature of a commission of enquiry and it is usual therein to make the powers as extensive as may be and afterwards to regulate same by Instructions. If you conceive your jurisdiction to be at all prejudiced thereby (which regards only the enquiry after money, stores &c. supplied by the Crown) please offer to my Lord Treasurer such Instructions as you think necessary and they may be added to those which Nicholson is to have before he goes. Your proposal as to two churches in the Indian towns is referred, ut supra, p. 542, to Mr. Blathwaite. My Lord Treasurer will be ready to give your proposition all due consideration and assistance. That part of Mr. Nicholson's commission for his enquiring of moneys for propagating the Established Religion of the Church of England shall be restrained by a particular instruction if you have any objection to it. Ibid.
Dec. 15.	Money order for 272l. 18s. 4d. to Charles Heneage, Chief Usher of the Exchequer Court; 270l. 5s. 10d. thereof for necessaries delivered by him to the officers of said Court in Michaelmas term anno 1712 and the remaining 2l. 12s. 6d. for 126 days' diet for himself at 5d. a day between Aug. 9 and Dec. 13 last. Order Book VIII, p. 254.