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DECLARED ACCOUNTS: TREASURY SOLICITOR. |
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PIPE OFFICE: ROLL 3023 [E.351/3023]. |
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AUDIT OFFICE: BUNDLE 2318, ROLL 41 [A.O.1/2318/41]. |
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Edward Borrett, Solicitor for the Affairs of the Treasury. |
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Final Account: 15 October 1714 to 1 June 1715. |
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Charge. |
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£ |
s. |
d. |
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Arrears: depending upon George Drummond, late Accomptand to the Commissioners of Excise in Scotland |
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300 |
0 |
0 |
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money remaining in the Accomptant's hands, nil, he being in surplusage |
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nil
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Receipts: money imprested to the Accomptant out of the
Exchequer: |
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Michaelmas term, 1 George I; by General Letters Patent
Dormant of 14 Aug. 1 George I |
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10,077 |
7 |
6 |
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Easter term 1 & 2 George I; by the same |
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1,000 |
0 |
0 |
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total charge and receipts |
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£11,377 |
7 |
6 |
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Discharge. |
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Surplusage on the preceding Accompt |
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1,171 |
6 |
0 |
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expenses of prosecutions in 45 suits for treason in Antegoa, for riots, seditious words etc.: |
£ |
s. |
d. |
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for Counsel's fees in the said 45 causes |
429 |
18 |
6 |
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for fees to their clerks |
37 |
5 |
0 |
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to Mr. Harcourt in the Crown Office and to Mr. Eyres, a Clerk of the Exchequer
Court |
363 |
0 |
1 |
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for term fees |
5 |
9 |
6 |
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to several attorneys etc. |
289 |
5 |
6 |
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to several other persons for copies of papers and expenses |
22 |
1 |
6 |
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for disbursements |
12 |
3 |
0 |
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for expenses at several meetings etc. |
30 |
18 |
5 |
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1,190 |
1 |
6 |
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for charges and disbursements in the execution of a special Commission of Oyer and Terminer, etc. for the City of
Bristol on occasion of the riot there: |
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for Counsel's fees at 100l. each |
400 |
0 |
0 |
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for their clerks |
43 |
0 |
0 |
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to the Cryer of the Court |
5 |
7 |
6 |
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to the Clerk of the Assizes and others |
123 |
5 |
0 |
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for necessary expenses of the Judges etc. |
390 |
0 |
10 |
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to the Accomptant for his extraordinary trouble |
53 |
15 |
0 |
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1,015 |
8 |
4 |
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for sundry charges relating to the said Prosecutions, detailed |
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533 |
0 |
0 |
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for sundry extraordinary services, detailed, pursuant to Treasury Warrants and
Orders: |
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for passing Privy Seals etc. |
287 |
8 |
8 |
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for preparing etc. a conveyance to the |
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King of the Housekeeper's house at St. James's |
10 |
14 |
0 |
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to Sir James Mountague and Sir Robert
Eyre, the late Attorney and Solicitor
General, for their advice on matters sent them by the Commissioners of Trade etc. |
177 |
7 |
6 |
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for a moiety of the charges of the sickness and funeral of Mrs. Ruth Sparks who died of injuries by the fall of a scaffold at the Coronation and to Edward
Milward for money paid to others so injured |
108 |
1 |
5 |
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paid to James Tyton, Clerk to the
Justices, appointed to buy up cattle sick of the contagious distemper in
1714, for money paid to the owners as the King's Bounty and for the charge of burying the dead cattle etc.
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5,995 |
16 |
0 |
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to this Accomptant for his salary to 1
June 1715 when he was superseded |
217 |
0 |
8 |
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to the same for finding where the Public
Accomptants lived and for bringing them to render their Accompts etc. and for recovery of 2,500l. from the
Executors of William Harbord, late
Paymaster General of the Forces in
Ireland |
750 |
0 |
0 |
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more for recovering arrears for taxes and other duties |
100 |
0 |
0 |
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to Edward Harley for the Auditor's fee |
40 |
0 |
0 |
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7,686 |
8 |
3 |
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total payments and allowances |
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11,596 |
4 |
1 |
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whereunto is added the money depending on George Drummond, late Accomptant to the Commissioners of Excise |
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300 |
0 |
0 |
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£11,896 |
4 |
1 |
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and so the Accomptant is in Surplusage |
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518 |
16 |
7 |
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Declared 8 December 1724. |
