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August 1715, 22-31 |
| Aug. 22. |
Same to the Customs Commissioners to stay prosecution on the bonds entered into by the several merchants and inhabitants of the Islands of Jersey and Guernsey for the Duties demanded by the Customs officers for some stockings imported from those islands;
for the delivery of which a Treasury warrant was issued June 29
last, ut supra, p. 567. All by reason that the Treasury Lords have referred to the said Commissioners a later petition of the inhabitants of the islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Sark and Alderney concerning the Duties on goods manufactured in the said islands and have discoursed thereupon with some of the said Commissioners, who do not object to the granting them a further liberty to the end of the next
Session of Parliament for applying to obtain an Act to discharge the Duties demanded for the said goods. Out Letters (Customs) XVI, p. 261. |
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Treasury reference to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands of the petition of Rachael Briggins, widow of a glazier (who by a fall in repairing the Savoy broke his leg and died), praying to be permitted to live in one of the houses in the Savoy of which she was
put in possession by the Duke of Shrewsbury when Lord Treasurer. Reference Book IX, p. 248. |
| Aug. 22. |
Treasury reference to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands of the petition of William Dawson, Esq., for a new lease, upon surrender, of the grange called Heworth Grange and a windmill and lands thereto in Co. Yorks. Ibid. |
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Treasury commission to Evan Meredith to be a Surveyor of House
Duties loco William Williams. (Treasury dormant warrant dated
Aug. 22. to the Receiver General of said Duties for Co. Cardigan to pay 40l. per an. salary to said Meredith from date hereof.) |
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to John Meredith to be same loco Samuel Francis. (The like warrant to the like Receiver General for Co. Montgomery for 40l. per an. salary.) |
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to Robert Hague to be same loco John Edwards. (The like warrant to the like Receiver for Co. Derby for the salary of 50l. per an.) |
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to Charles Beane to be same loco Abra. Grooby, dismissed. (The like dormant warrant to the like Receiver for Co. Cheshire for the salary of 50l. per an.) |
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to William Williams to be same loco John Vaughan. (The like dormant warrant to the like Receiver for Co. Brecon for the salary of 50l. per an.) |
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to Evan Philips to be same loco Rowland Philips. (The like dormant warrant to the like Receiver for Co. Carmarthen for 40l. per an. salary.)
Out Letters (Affairs of Taxes) II, pp. 162, 165. |
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Royal warrant dated St. James's to Charles, Earl of Sunderland, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, to continue until 25th March last (from which date begins the new Establishment of Ireland as authorised by his present Majesty) the payment of all salaries, pensions and other allowances appointed and directed by the last Establishment signed by Queen Anne for the Kingdom of Ireland and by all letters and warrants signed by the said late Queen subsequently to the said
Establishment, for such payments: except the yearly pension of
1,200l. granted by her said Majesty's warrant of 1712 July 15 to
Edward Conway; the yearly pension of 800l. granted by like warrant of 1712 July 18 to Thomas Edwards, Esq.; the yearly pension of
500l. granted by the like warrant of 1713 Oct. 20 to Henry St. Pierre, Esq., “which pensions being as we are informed in fictious names there is great cause to suspect that our said late dear sister was deceived in her grant thereof and that the same were applied to unwarrantable uses and purposes and our intention is that they shall cease and determine from the time of the decease of her late Majesty and that no order be given or payment made thereof beyond that time": and also excepting the annual pension of 182l. 10s. 0d. granted by her said late Majesty's warrant of 3 July 1711 to Capt. Hugh Owen, which it is our pleasure shall from the time of her said Majesty's death be paid to Capt. Richard Hill as it now stands upon our Establishment for Ireland. And whereas several persons are left out of our
Civil and Military Establishment by reason of their being at this time provided for or dead who were not so on the 25th day of March last, our further will and pleasure is that their respective pensions, half pay or other allowances shall notwithstanding be duly paid and answered to them until the time of such provision or death: and whereas in the new present Establishment on the military list of
pensions the name of James Barry is by mistake inserted for a pension of 200l. per an., which should have been Richard Barry, this correction is to be made thereon. Out Letters (Ireland) X, p. 1. |
| Aug. 23. |
Money warrant for 31,976l. 3s. 6d. to Edward Godfrey, gent., for one year from 1714 June 24 as imprest for pensions &c. as by the
Establishment, supra, pp. 673–682: to be satisfied out of Civil List moneys. (Money order dated Aug. 23. hereon.) Money Book XXIV, p. 93. Order Book IX, p. 111. |
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Treasury warrant to the South Sea Company to permit Thomas
Micklethwaite, late Paymaster for the Transport Service, to assign and transfer the stock remaining in his name in the books of the said
Company for the use of the public, amounting to 3,491l. 16s. 1d., to John Hill, Esq., Paymaster of the Transports: upon account for the service of the Transports. Ibid. |
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Jo. Taylour to Robert Walpole [Paymaster of the Forces]. The
Treasury Lords direct that out of the money which they have this day [supra, p. 287] authorised you to borrow from the Bank of
England upon a sufficient deposit of tallies and orders in your hands on the Malt Duties anno 1715, you apply the sum of 16,098l. 17s. 8d. to the services following: viz. |
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s. |
d. |
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in further part of 265,754l. 7s. 6d. voted for pay and levy money of Additional
Forces anno 1715. |
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for subsistence upon account to 13 Regiments of Dragoons and eight Regiments of Foot at 500l. each Regiment |
10,500 |
0 |
0 |
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upon account of the said Additional Forces |
540 |
0 |
0 |
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in further part of 35,912l. 19s. 2d. voted for the Forces in Flanders anno 1715. |
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for two months’ subsistence from 25 Aug. 1715. to 24 Oct. following to Brigadier [Richard]
Stearne's Regiment of Foot [the 18th Foot]
in Flanders |
1,460 |
19 |
0 |
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for one month's subsistence from 25 Aug. 1715 to 24 Sept. following to the Regiments of Grove [Henry Grove, the 10th Foot] and
[Thomas] Harrison [the 6th Foot] lately arrived from Flanders |
1,528 |
6 |
0 |
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in further part of 57,759l. 14s. 7d. voted for the Forces and Garrison in Minorca anno 1715. |
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to answer the stoppages entered here out of the subsistence of the Regiments at Minorca for two months from 25 Aug. 1715. to
24 Oct. following |
1,125 |
4 |
8 |
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in further part of 37,192l. 14s. 9½d. voted for the Forces and Garrison in Gibraltar anno 1715. |
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to answer the like stoppages of the Regiments at Gibraltar for the same time |
944 |
8 |
0 |
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£16,098 |
17 |
8 |
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Disposition Book XXIII, p. 101. |
1715.
Aug. 23. |
J. Taylour to Mr. Beranger. My Lords are informed that bills are drawn by Mr. Elliot or his deputy, Mr. Vincent, for 3,200l. or thereabouts in part of the 23,000l. which you agreed to furnish for paying for the tin of last Midsummer [Stannary] coinage. My Lords desire you to take care that the said bills be duly paid. Out Letters
(General)XXI, p. 405. |
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The Treasury Lords to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. We have received your letter with an extract of one from the Lords Justices of Ireland concerning the charge of transporting the Regiments of
Sabine, Windress and Preston [Joseph Sabine, 23rd Foot; William
Windress, 37th Foot; George Preston, 26th Foot] from Ireland to
England and desiring to know on what fund the said charge is to be borne. We take this opportunity to represent to you that there are not any moneys on this side [in England] but what are strictly appropriated by Acts of Parliament to particular uses from which they cannot be diverted and we cannot think it reasonable to advise his
Majesty to bear this charge out of his Civil List Revenue: and we hope, in regard Ireland will be eased for some time of the charge of these three Regiments, this expense may properly be borne on that side: and as soon as you inform us how much it amounts to we shall be ready to obtain a royal warrant for the regular payment thereof. Out Letters (Ireland) X, p. 2. |
| Aug. 24. |
Money warrant for 14l. 4s. 11½d. to William Bromley, late a Secretary of State: for 52 days 1714 Aug. 1. to Sept. 22 (when he delivered up the seals of his said office), on his patent fee of 100l. per an. Money
Book XXIV, p. 98. |
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Treasury reference to the King's Remembrancer of the petition of Arthur Onslow, Esq., offering his security, detailed, in 5,000l. on his appointment as Receiver General of the Post Office revenue. Reference Book IX, p. 248. |
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Same to the Customs Commissioners of the petition of James Smith adding to his case, ut supra, p. 394, that upon trial it was proved that
Lucas was guilty of perjury and was suborned thereto by Jones and Ashurst, wherefore petitioner prays remission of the fine of 350l. and restoration of his goods in the hands of the Sheriff. Ibid. |
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Same to same of the petition of Sir Robert Dunckley shewing that being considerably indebted to the Crown for tobacco Duties (occasioned by great losses and accidents in trade) he obtained his liberty for 12 months, by means whereof he has discharged upwards of 1,400l. of his said debt: and having no other way but by his industry as an exchange broker either of supporting himself and his family or of discharging the remainder of said debt, he prays the liberty of his person in order thereto. Ibid., p. 249. |
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Treasury warrant to the Clerk of the Pipe for a lease to Richard
Dalton of a messuage or tenement in Pall Mall Field late in the parish of St. Martins in the Fields and now in the parish of St. James's within the Liberty of Westminster, in or near the street called Pall Mall
Street and now or late in the tenure of William Aldworth, Esq., with a court before the said house whereon two little tenements are lately erected, and also a yard and garden behind the same; and also that other messuage or tenement thereto adjoining and then or late in the possession of — Hatton Esq., with a court before the said house and a yard or garden behind it; and also another messuage or tenement next adjoining the last named messuage and then or late in the possession of — Braber, Esq., with a court before the said house and a yard or garden behind it: which said three messuages lie between Pall Mall Street on the north and St. James's Park wall on the south and are now divided into nine several messuages whereof five stand in Pall Mall Street and are in the several tenures of Richard
Dalton, Charles Hunt, Richard Girling, John Parker and Robert
Hendley, gent., and the other four are situate in a court adjoining thereto called Pall Mall Court and are in the several tenures of Rupert
Billingsley, Jonathan Watson, William Walcut and Hugh Hayes, Esqrs.: all which nine tenements contain 101 foot in front next the
Park wall and 151 foot in depth from the said Park wall to the Royal
Garden in the possession of Lord Carleton: which premises formed part of the Pall Mall Field containing 45 acres as granted 1662 Sept. 23
to John Harvey of Ixworth, Co. Suffolk, and John Coell of Lincolns
Inn, at the petition of Henry, Earl of St. Albans, for 29 years from
1691 Sept. 29, and again granted 1674 Sept. 10 to said Harvey and
Coell at the nomination of said Earl for a further 20 years. |
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Prefixing: particular and memorandum of the premises as made out by Auditor Thomas Jett and ratal thereof by the Surveyor General of Crown Lands. |
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Followed by: undated entry of the Treasury Lords’ signature of the docquet of this demise. Warrants not Relating to Money XXIII, pp. 186–90. |
| Aug. 25. |
Money warrant for 35l. 8s. 1½d. to William, Visct. Cheyney, for three quarters to 1715 Lady day on his fee of 47l. 4s. 2d. per an as
Clerk of the Pipe: and 45l. for same time on the allowance of 60l. per an. payable at the Exchequer to the Clerk of the Pipe for drawing down and charging the convictions, rents and seizures of Recusants. (Money order dated Sept. 13 for said 45l. hereon.) Money Book XXIV, p. 101. Order Book IX, p. 127. |
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John Taylour to the Customs Commissioners to send an officer to the lodgings in the Haymarket of Monsieur Narijskin [Semen
Grigorevic Naryskin], who was sent hither by the Czar of Muscovy to compliment his Majesty on his accession, and who is on his return home: to wit to see his goods put up and to seal them in order to their transportation, taking care that the Duties be first paid for such of them (if any) as are customable. Out Letters (General) XXI, p. 405. |
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Same to Mr. Missing enclosing a copy [missing] of Mr. Conduitt's letter from Gibraltar dated the 24th July 1715, old style, wherein he signifies that though you were to have begun to victual that garrison on the 1st of June last according to your contract, yet your agent arriving so late he could not enter upon the victualling till the 18th of
July last. My Lords direct you to attend the Victualling Commissioners to let them know if the fact therein mentioned be true and if so what was the reason your agent did not arrive there sooner (by the time agreed upon). (Same dated Aug. 26 to the Victualling Commissioners to the like effect. Report a state of this matter to my Lords and let them know when the three months’ provisions which were sent
by you for the service of the said Garrison arrived there.) Out
Letters (General) XXI, pp. 405, 406. |
| Aug. 25. |
Treasury reference to the Customs Commissioners of the petition of John Lyne et al., merchants and owners of the ship Lyne galley
of Plymouth, Jo[h]n Saunders master, shewing that the said master had orders at his arrival at Hamburgh from the Straits to dispose of his cargo there and re-lade with Hamburgh goods and bring them directly to Plymouth; that at the ship's arrival the master reported the cargo as the law directs, but she having on board a quantity of pitch and tar one Bickerton, a Customs officer, seized her and her cargo as forfeited for importing pitch and tar: petitioners allege they gave no directions to the master to bring pitch and tar and that he was ignorant such an importation was against law: therefore they pray a non pros. to the information of seizure. Reference Book IX, p. 249. |
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Treasury warrant to the Clerk of the Pipe for a lease to Robert
George of three tenements as follows, whereof two are in trust for
William Rayman and Nathaniel Hill [respectively] at rents of
3l. 7s. 10d. for said George's own tenement, 2l. 10s. 0d. for Rayman's and 3l. for said Hill's. |
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Prefixing: (1) particular and memorandum by Auditor Thomas
Jett. The premises form part of a certain piece of ground called the Round Rundles in the parish of St. Martins in the Fields and in the new parish of St. James's within the Liberty of Westminster, or one of them, and parcel of the bailiwick, manor or manors of St. James's in the Fields, sometime in the possession of the Crown of
England and [which] before [were] parcel of the lands late purchased from the Abbot of Westminster and other persons. The premises lie in or near a street called Marybone Street on the south side thereof, next the ground in the possession of — Collins on the south, the house of William Ryman, clerk, towards the east, and several messuages in the tenure of — Malden, — Collins, — Browne, — Syler, — Lyne towards the west: being 59 feet and 29 feet by 109 feet and the messuage or house, stable and other buildings thereon and a little way or passage of about 5 feet in breadth and 41 feet long at the south-west and leading out of the same into a certain street called
Ayr Street: and also that parcel of ground in the said Round Rundles and in Marybone Street lying next a messuage or house of
Nathaniel Hill on the east and a messuage or house of Mr. Robert
George on the west and containing 38 feet or 34 feet by 86 feet or
93 feet: and the messuage thereon now in the tenure of William
Ryman. |
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And also that parcel of ground in said Round Rundles and Marybone Street as above adjoining the ground or buildings of — Collins and — Patterson on the south and — Andrews on the east and the house of William Ryman, clerk, on the west and containing 39
feet or 34 feet by 82 feet or 86 feet; and the house thereon now in the tenure of — Billings, widow. |
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All the said premises were built upon parcel of the ground lately called Round Rundles and the Dog Yard bounded by the Great Road leading from Piccadilly towards Knightsbridge southwards and the way leading from Piccadilly towards Paddington northwards and eastwards and a new street called Ayr Street, Westminster, and were demised 17 July 1672 by Henry, late Earl of St. Albans, Sir
Robert Long, bart., Sir Charles Harbord, Kt. (surviving Trustees of the late Queen Mother Henriette Maria) to John Harvey of Ixworth, Co. Suffolk, and John Coell of Lincolns Inn for 23 years from 1691
Lady day at the rent of 7l. 16s. 10d. and afterwards by Charles II. 1674 Sept. 10 (at the nomination of said Earl of St. Albans) were demised to said Harvey and Coell, then Sir John Coell, Kt., for a further term of 20 years. |
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(2) ratal by Hugh Cholmley, Surveyor General of Crown Lands. |
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Followed by: undated entry of the Treasury Lords’ signature of the docquet of this lease. [In the docquet the third name is spelled
Ryman.] Warrants not Relating to Money XXIII, pp. 198–203, 255. |
| Aug. 25. |
Royal warrant dated St. James's to the Earl of Sunderland, Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland, to insert on the Military Establishment of
Ireland Brigadier General Richard Waring, Esq., for full pay as
Captain of a Troop of Horse: it appearing from the said Lord
Lieutenant's letter of Aug. 13. inst. and the said Brigadier General's memorial, that though he is a Colonel of a Regiment of Horse on the
Establishment of Ireland he has no Troop and therefore desires the full pay of a Captain of a Troop on that Establishment till a vacancy shall happen in his Regiment: and the King is pleased to grant said request: to commence from March 25 last. Out Letters (Ireland) X, p. 3. |
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Treasury warrant to the King's Remembrancer to take the securities of Mr. [Arthur] Onslow in 5,000l. [as Receiver General of the Post
Office Revenue]. |
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Prefixing: report by Fr. Butler [Deputy King's Remembrancer] as to the sufficiency of said securities, ut supra, p. 696. Warrants not
Relating to Money XXIII, p. 228. |
| Aug. 26. |
Royal warrant dated St. James's to the Attorney or Solicitor
General for a privy seal to grant to the inhabitants of the island of
Portland, Co. Dorset, leave, licence and authority to dig, raise and take stone within the commons of the said island, as by custom and constant usage they have heretofore done, subject to prosecution in the steward's Court of the King's manor there for irregular or promiscuous working or making waste of the said stone or other offences: and further to grant to the nominees of the said inhabitants and as in trust for the said inhabitants, the sum of 9d. per ton out of the Duty of 12d. for every ton of stone digged within the said commons
(except what is taken for the service of the Crown), being the fee anciently paid to the King of England as Lord of the said manor and island, the said inhabitants having always had some benefit or share out of the same in consideration of the great damage done to the herbage on the said commons, where they have a right to feed their cattle. The remaining 3d. per ton is hereby to be accounted for to the King in manner accustomed. Further, in order to enable the inhabitants to know what share of the stone digged is taken for the service of the Crown and so is free of the said Duty it is hereby declared that only such stone as is digged by warrant of the Surveyor
General of the Works shall be accounted to be taken for the immediate and particular use of the Crown. And the said inhabitants are hereby to be released and discharged from any liability to account for any stone so digged as above and from the Duty thereon from the demise of Queen Anne (which demise terminated the grant dated
1708 Nov. 29 by which the said Queen granted in substance as herein)
to the date of the present herein grant. King's Warrant Book XXVII, pp. 113–14. |
| Aug. 26 |
Royal warrant dated St. James's to the Clerk of the Signet for a privy seal to authorise the Auditors of Imprests to pass as follows the accounts of John Aislabie, Treasurer of the Navy (to which office he was appointed by a great seal dated 1714 Oct. 15), notwithstanding any preceding account or accounts of former
Treasurers of the Navy do or may remain undeclared: in order thereto the said Aislabie is to be charged only with such supers and imprest bills as have been cleared within the time of his accounts and whereof he shall have received allowance in his said accounts; which [supers and imprests] are to be particularly expressed in front of his Leidger Books of Accounts (which are to be delivered to the Auditors of Imprests from time to time) as his Voluntary charge, “and to be signed by three or more of the Principal Officers and
Commissioners of our Navy expressing the time when and the persons to whom and for what service the moneys therein specified [in the said supers &c.] were so imprested.” And further, according to the usual practice of the Navy Office, the said Treasurer is to have full allowance in his accounts of all sums shown in his said Leidger Books as issued and expended about the service of the Navy Royal and
Marine affairs: which Leidger Books the said Treasurer is to prepare and exhibit in the first place to the Navy Commissioners to be inspected and examined and thereupon signed by them and so to be taken as a sufficient warrant and voucher to the Auditors to give full allowance of all payments and sums therein. And the Treasury and Barons of the Exchequer Court, the Auditors of Imprests and all other officers and ministers of the Exchequer are to allow, pass and declare the said accounts without any further warrant from his Majesty. Ibid., pp. 115–16. |
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Royal sign manual for 100l. to Rowland Gwyn: out of Civil List moneys: as royal bounty: without account. (Money warrant dated
Sept. 1 hereon.) (Money order dated Sept. 3 hereon.) Ibid., p. 116. Order Book IX, p. 118. |
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Royal warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General for a great seal for a grant to William James, Esq. of the office and offices of
Keeper of the Gawle above the wood within the Forest of Dean, Co. Gloucester, and of one of the Riding Foresters and of the Ale Conner in the said Forest and Keeper of the Gawle under the wood within the said Forest: with all wages, fees, profits &c. thereto: all as amply &c. as William, Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, Sir
Baynham Throgmorton, Charles, Marquess of Worcester, John How or any other formerly holding the said offices. King's Warrant Book
XXVII, p. 117. |
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Royal sign manual for 200l. to Thomas Norgate, gent.: out of
Civil List moneys: without account: as royal bounty for the use of Charles, Lord Paston. (Money warrant dated Sept. 1 hereon)
(Money order dated Sept. 3 hereon.) Ibid., p. 117. Order Book
IX, p. 118. |
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Same for 800l. to Charles Harell, executor of Christian Harell, late one of the Physicians in Ordinary to Wm. III.: which the present
King is pleased to bestow upon him in recompense of all charges, expenses and other demands the said Charles and Christian have been at in building, fitting up and keeping in repair a small house or lodging belonging to St. James's Palace and now resumed by the King, of which the said Christian had possession by warrant of Wm.III. dated 1698 April 18. (Money warrant dated Sept. 6 hereon.) (Money order dated Sept. 8 hereon.) King's Warrant Book XXVII, p. 118. Order Book IX, p. 123. |
| Aug. 26. |
Same for 131l. 17s. 4½d. to Henry, Earl of Suffolk and Bindon, as royal bounty: being so much as the salary of one of the Commissioners of Trade doth amount to from Lady day 1715 (at or about which time he was nominated thereto loco William, Lord Berkeley of Stratton, who then laid down that employment) to May 12 following, being the date of said Earl's commission therein. (Money order dated Sept. 3 hereon.) King's Warrant Book XXVII, p. 122. Order
Book IX, p. 119. |
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Treasury warrant to Edward Godfrey [Paymaster of the King's private pensions and bounties] to take care that the following sums be deducted or reckoned as so much paid on the relative respective pensions: in accordance with the privy seal as follows. |
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Prefixing: a list of the several sums which have been paid since his Majesty's accession to the Crown, to the several persons undernamed: which [sums] according to the privy seal of 19 Aug. inst., supra, pp. 682–3, are to be reckoned as so much paid in part of their respective pensions as in the Establishment, supra, pp. 673–682: |
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paid. |
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£ |
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John Butts, on 30l. per an |
20 |
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Rebecca Bruges, alias Pride, on 80l. per an |
20 |
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Countess Dowager of Cassilis, on 200l. per an |
200 |
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Thomas Cornwallis, Esq., on 100l. per an |
100 |
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Lord Colepeper, on 600l. per an |
100 |
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Edith College, on 80l. per an |
40 |
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Anne Christian, on 60l. per an. |
40 |
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Eleanor Conway, on 20l. per an. |
10 |
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Jane Dummer, on 150l. per an |
75 |
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John Dwyre, on 36l. 10s. 0d. per an |
20 |
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Jane Dickenson, on 20l. per an. |
20 |
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— Griffith, widow, on 300l. per an |
100 |
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William Grahmes, on 200l. per an. |
200 |
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Col. Philip Howard, on 200l. per an. |
200 |
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Henrietta Howard, on 200l. per an |
200 |
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Judith Hawley, widow, on 300l. per an |
150 |
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Uriah Ironmonger, on 10l. per an |
20 |
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Anne Kershe, on 20l. per an |
20 |
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Charlotte, Lady Lovelace, on 400l. per an |
300 |
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Lady Anne Morgan, on 200l. per an. |
150 |
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Frances Mackenzie, on 100l. per an |
70 |
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Anne, Frances and Rachel Mansel, on 30l. per an. |
30 |
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Lady Mordington, on 20l. per an |
20 |
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Lady Newport, on 200l. per an |
50 |
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Cecilia Newberry, on 40l. per an |
40 |
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Elizabeth Newman, on 20l. per an |
20 |
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Judith North, on 20l. per an |
20 |
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William Powell, on 20l. per an |
20 |
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Charles Palmer, on 20l. per an |
15 |
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Elizabeth Rossington, on 30l. per an |
30 |
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Charles Rycaut, on 40l. per an |
40 |
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George Townshend, Esq., on 200l. per an. |
150 |
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Thomas Tagg, on 10l. per an. |
10 |
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Anne Whittle, on 20l. per an. |
20 |
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Lord Almoner, for private pensions or charities, on
800l. per an. |
600 |
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ditto for an Arabic Professor at Oxford and at Cambridge at 50l. each, on 100l. per an. |
75 |
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£3,185 |
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Money Book XXIV, pp. 99–100. |
| Aug. 26. |
Money warrant for 15l. to the underkeepers of Cranburne Chase for three quarters to 1715 Lady day on the usual allowance of 20l. per an. for providing hay for the deer in said chase: to be satisfied out of Civil List moneys. (Money order dated Sept. 1. hereon.) Ibid., p. 8. Order Book IX, p. 119. |
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Treasury allowance of the salary bill, detailed, of the Hackney
Coaches Office for 1715 June 24 quarter: total 200l. 10s. 0d. (This list includes the name of Humphrey Wanley as Housekeeper and
Surveyor at 40l. per an.) Money Book XXIV, p. 102. |
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Same of the incidents bill, detailed, of said Office for said quarter:
total 176l. 8s. 0d. (including payments to James Fisher, the late
Solicitor [to said Commissioners], and 12s. 6d. for engraving the Mark of a Rose to be marked on the tin plates for the coaches.) Ibid., pp. 102–3. |
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Money warrant for 1,500l. to six of the Commissioners for Trade
(Sir Jacob Astley, bart., Robert Molesworth, John Cokburne, John
Chetwynd. Charles Cooke and Paul Docminique) for 1715 June 24
quarter's salary. (The money order dated Sept. 1 hereon is for 1,750l. for seven Commissioners, the additional name being Archibald
Hutcheson.) Ibid., p. 106. Order Book IX, p. 116. |
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Same for 287l. 10s. 0d. to William Popple, Secretary to the Commissioners for Trade, for same quarter for the salaries of his Office. (Money order dated Sept. 1 hereon.) Money Book XXIV, p. 107. Order Book IX, p. 117. |
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Same for 199l. 5s. 9d. to same for the incidents, detailed, of the
Board of Trade for said quarter. (Money order dated Sept. 1 hereon.)
Money Book XXIV, p. 107. Order Book IX, p. 116. |
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Same to 750l. for the four clerks of the Privy Council (William
Blathwaite, Edward Southwell, Sir Christopher Musgrave and the executors of John Povey) for three quarters to 1715 Lady day on their salaries. Money Book XXIV, p. 108. |
| Aug. 26. |
Money order for 50l. to William Mathew, Esq., Lieutenant Governor of St. Christopher, for one quarter to July 26 last on his allowance of 200l. per an. for his support in that Government and in lieu of all presents from the Assemblies. Order Book IX, p. 115. |
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Letter of direction for 22,741l. to the Earl of Godolphin, Cofferer of the Household: out of Civil List moneys grown due since 1 Aug. 1714: “being the sum computed and certified by the Board of Greencloth to have incurred in that Office for the expense of his Majesty's
Household and Stables and for emptions, wages and board wages there between Lady day and Midsummer 1715.” Disposition Book
XXIII, p. 90. |
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J. Taylour to the Customs Commissioners enclosing an anonymous letter [missing] the writer whereof proposes to discover an officer of the Customs who hath connived at the defrauding of his Majesty of his Customs. My Lords direct you to insert an advertisement in the Gazette for the writer thereof to attend your Board and make out what he therein proposes. Out Letters (General) XXI, p. 406. |
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Treasury reference to the Attorney General of the petition of George, Earl of Halifax, shewing that the late Queen by patent dated 1709
June 3 granted to Charles, then Lord, afterwards Earl of Halifax, and his heirs several offices at Hampton Court for lives [ut supra, Calendar of Treasury Books, Vol. XXIII, pp. 176–7]: therefore praying that he may have three lives in all the offices so granted. Reference
Book IX, p. 249. |
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Treasury warrant to the King's Remembrancer to stay process against John Parker, late one of the Agents for Prizes at Falmouth. |
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Prefixing: report by A[nthony] Cracherode [Treasury Solicitor] on the two petitions of said Parker. In his first petition he sets forth that for several years together he had rendered considerable services to the
Government as well by taking [account] of the prize goods at Falmouth as by going several times to all the ports between Plymouth and Lands
End to make up the accounts of a former Agent [for Prizes], which accounts he [petitioner] discharged for less than 200l. though “he"
[the former Agent] demanded near 600l.; and that whilst the petitioner was ill his partner, Nich. Davy (the other Agent for prizes at Falmouth), and the Accomptant of the Prize Office made up petitioner's accounts as they pleased and made him debtor 216l. and the said
Davy creditor for 90l. odd, “but that the said money was not to be paid to the said Davy unless it could be got from the said Parker"
and that if the said accounts of petitioner and Davy had been fairly stated Davy would have been in arrear to the Crown and petitioner would have been in surplus: yet petitioner is prosecuted in the
Exchequer and the Solicitor of the Prize Office induced petitioner's attorney by fair promises to confess a judgment: and petitioner laid his case before the late Treasurer Oxford, but the said Lord
Treasurer (by the solicitation of Sir Richard Vivian in favour of said
Davy) ordered petitioner to pay 180l. by 29 Sept. 1713, which Parker was utterly unable to do, and was threatened with an extent. By the second petition he states that he was taken up as he was coming from the Chambers of said Cracherode on Aug. 5. inst. |
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Hereon Cracherode reports that by a certificate of Thomas Baker and William Gosselin, late Agents for bringing in the Arrears of Prizes,
it appears from the Books of Prizes that 216l. 2s. 9½d. is due from
Parker for money imprested to him by the late Commissioners of
Prizes and [for] what he secured for prize goods disposed of by him in the said port during his agency. Thereon a judgment was obtained against him in the Exchequer for 1,000l., being the penalty of his bond given on entering on his said office. By warrant dated 10 July
1713 the then Lord Treasurer Oxford authorised Baker and Gosselin to allow Parker in his accounts 180l. 2s. 9½d. for his extraordinary charges and services on condition of paying 180l. before 29 Sept. 1713; which payment he did not make. |
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I cannot as yet report my opinion hereon. But the petitioner insists that if he had his freedom he could make out by witnesses from
Cornwall and Lancashire the truth of the statements in his first petition. If he were granted such freedom and failed therein he and his securities would still be liable for said debt. Warrants not
Relating to Money XXIII, pp. 191–2. |
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Treasury warrant to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands for a particular of premises as follows, viz. all that wood, underwood or woody ground called St. John's Wood in the parish of Chipping Wycombe, Co. Bucks, containing 275 acres, in order to a new lease thereof to John
Gibbons for 31 years on surrender of the lease in being and on a fine of
22l. 10s. 0d. and at the old rental of 30l. per an. |
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Prefixing: said Surveyor General's report dated May 31 last on the petition of said Gibbons. The premises were granted to him
1692–3 March 10 for 31 years from 1693 March 29.The petitioner's father-in-law, Andrew Hunt, expended above 210l. in maintaining the title of the Crown against seven adjacent parishes which claimed right of common and weeding in the said woods and obtained a verdict in the Exchequer against them. The premises are worth 45l. per an. at a rack rent. Ibid., p. 193. |
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Same to same for a same of a house in Scotland Yard within the circuit of Whitehall Palace and a small slip of ground adjoining: in order to an extension of lease thereof to Ann Gibbons. |
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Prefixing: said Surveyor General's report on the petition of said
Ann Gibbons. Her late husband, James Gibbon, Esq., an ancient servant to the Crown, was granted the said house by the late King
24 Sept. 1689 for 31 years at a reserve rent of 6s. 8d. per an. in consideration of 300l. spent by him on the premises. The house occupies
22 feet by 22 and the adjoining slip of ground is 10 foot by 12. The whole may be worth at a rack rent 20l. per an., but will require some money to be laid out in repairs in a short time. Ibid., pp. 204–5. |
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Same to same for a same of a tenement called Heworth Grange with the land, meadow and pasture thereto in Co. Yorks, in order to a new lease thereof to William Dawson. |
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Prefixing: report by said Surveyor General on the petition of said Dawson. The premises were granted to petitioner by the late
Master and Chaplains of the Hospital of the Savoy for three lives, of which petitioner alone survives. I have no survey of the premises. They are represented to me as worth 50l. per an. I rate a fine of
120l. Ibid., p. 210. |
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Royal warrant dated St. James's to the Earl of Sunderland, Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland, to pay to Lady Letitia Russell the sum of
69l. 13s. 2d. now in the Exchequer of Ireland paid in there by some of the terre tenants of the quit rents as below, to which sum she seems justly entitled: and further to pay her all moneys arising in the
Exchequer from the said quit rents from time to time within the space of three years from date hereof; the same to be applied and accounted as for so much paid in discharge of the arrears due on her annuity of 600l.: and further to give allowance to Katherine, Countess of Dorchester, of all sums paid or hereafter to be paid to said Lady
Russell on her said annuity of 600l. as paid by the said Countess in pursuance of William III.'s grant thereof out of the reserved rent payable by the said Countess: all by reason that James II. granted to the said Countess divers quit rents in Ireland for 99 years terminable on her life under a reserved rent of 1,500l. per an.; out of which reserved rent Wm. III. granted an annuity of 600l. for 31 years to said Lady Russell as from Lady day 1692; and it appears by certificate of William Burgh, Accomptant General of Ireland, that there remained due to the said Lady Russell the sum of 4,131l. 2s. 0¾d. to clear her said annuity to Michaelmas 1714 beyond the sum of 1,416l. 11s. 11¼d. which remained in the hands of the agent of the said Countess of
Dorchester “which” ought to be paid over to the said Lady Russell;
and further that 69l. 13s. 2d. has been paid into the Exchequer of
Ireland, and does there remain, which was paid in by tenants as above, and that the said Lady Russell is entitled thereto as also to what can be recovered of the sum of 1,603l. 18s. 9d. of the said rents lying out in old arrears uncollected or balances unadjusted.Out Letters (Ireland)
X, pp. 3–4. |
Aug. 26.
and 27. |
Entry of the acknowledgment by E. [Erasmus] Lewis as for the
Earl of Oxford of the receipt of copies of papers ordered by the House of Lords on the 12th August inst. to be permitted to be copied from the Treasury records in connection with the proceedings against said Earl: |
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Received of Mr. Thomas Bowen the 26th day of Aug. 1715
the several copies before mentioned, being made at my request for the use of the Earl of Oxford pursuant to an order of the House of Peers in that behalf: |
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E. Lewis. |
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Prefixing: (a) Copy of the order of the House of Lords of Saturday
Aug. 12., ut supra. [For this order dated Aug. 13. see Lords Journals XX, p. 165.] |
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(b) Request by said E. Lewis dated 16 Aug. 1715 for copies as follows in accordance with said order of the House of Lords: |
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The Secretaries of the Treasury are desired to cause copies to be made of all warrants, letters, memorials, references, reports or other papers relating to |
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the Canada Expedition; the distribution of the clothing provided for the said Expedition; the contracts for providing the said clothing; and the warrants for paying for the same. |
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warrants and other transactions, since the Peace [of Utrecht], relating to the Queen Dowager's annuities. |
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the Estimate of the Civil List debts laid before the House of Commons in 1712–13. |
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the account of the disposition of the 500,000l. granted by
Parliament [by 12 Anne, c. 11] towards the payment of the said debts. |
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an account of any other sums of money ordered by her late
Majesty to be applied towards the discharge of the said debts and out of what Branches of her Civil List Funds. |
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(c) A Schedule of the papers [relating to the above matters] copied for the Earl of Oxford from papers, attested copies and entries in the
Treasury:
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(1) copy of an Estimate of the debts of the Civil Government
[Civil List Debt] at or about Midsummer 1710: dated
25 June 1713. |
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(2) copy of an Estimate of the Civil List debts at Midsummer
1713. |
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(3) copy of Mr. Netmaker's commission to be Commissary of the Stores in the Expedition under General Hill from an attested copy signed Geo. Tilson. |
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(4) copy of a contract between the Rt. Honble. Henry St. John, Esq., and Mr. Blake dated 5 Jan. 1710–11. |
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(5) copy of a contract between Mr. Secretary St. John and
Mr. Blake dated 3 March 1710–11. |
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(6) copy of Mr. Netmaker's certificate of the receipt of the goods delivered by Mr. Blake pursuant to his first contract. |
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(7) copy of his [Netmaker's] certificate of the receipt of goods delivered by Mr. Blake pursuant to his second contract. |
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(8) copy of a memorial from Mr. Brydges to the Treasury Lords for 38,036l. 5s. 0d. for Mr. Blake pursuant to the two contracts abovesaid; with a copy of a letter to Mr. Brydges from Mr. Secretary St. John and an abstract of Mr. Blake's contracts 21 May 1711. |
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(9) copy of a second memorial 4 June 1711 from Mr. Brydges for the same. |
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(10) copy of a letter signed by Mr. Lowndes 30 June 1711
to the Comptrollers of Army Accounts about the arms and accoutrements furnished by Mr. Blake. |
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(11) copy of a letter 4 July 1711 signed by Mr. Lowndes to the Auditor of the Receipt to pay Mr. Brydges 28,086l. 5s. 0d. for Mr. Blake. |
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(12) copy of a letter 5 March 1711–12 to the Comptrollers of Army Accounts about supplying men and arms lost at
Canada. |
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(13) copy of a warrant from General Hill to Mr. Netmaker to deliver clothing to Col. Vetch for Annapolis Garrison with Col. Vetch's receipt 9 Sept. 1711. |
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(14) copy of a letter dated 20 Dec. 1711 signed T. Harley to the Comptrollers of Army Accounts, Secretary at War and
Mr. Brydges about the Canada accounts. |
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(15) copy of a letter 24 Dec. [1711] to Mr. Whitfeild to pay over to Col. Arnott all sums by him paid to the Marines on the Canada account. |
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(16) copy of a letter 29 Dec. 1711 signed William Lowndes to the Comptrollers of Army Accounts, the Auditors of
Imprests, Secretary at War and Mr. Brydges about stores bought in New England. |
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(17) copy of a letter dated 1 Feb. 1711–12 signed Thomas
Harley to the Comptrollers of Army Accounts about the
Officers whose Regiments suffered shipwreck in the river
Canada. |
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(18) copy of a letter 1st April 1712 signed W. Lowndes to the
Comptrollers of Army Accounts about stores brought from
Canada. |
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(19) copy of a letter dated 8 May 1712 signed William Lowndes to the Comptrollers of Army Accounts about the disposal of stores brought from Canada. |
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(20) copy of a report dated 31 May 1712 by the Comptrollers of Army Accounts touching the disposal of stores brought back from the Expedition to Canada. |
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(21) copy of the [Army Accounts] Comptrollers’ report dated
26 Feb. 1714–15 of all their proceedings upon the stores sent with the Expedition to Canada. |
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(22) copy of a memorial of John Netmaker dated
23 March 1714–15 about stores delivered by him to Col. Vetch. |
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(23) copy of Col. Arnott's warrant dated 10 April 1711 to be Paymaster of the Forces on the intended Expedition to
Canada. |
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(24) copy of the late Queen [Anne's] Instructions dated
12 April 1711 to Col. Arnot. |
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(25) copy of a warrant signed by her late Majesty dated
21 June 1711 for 28,036l. 5s. 0d. to Mr. Blake for arms &c. provided for the Canada Expedition. |
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(26) copy of a royal sign manual dated 23 Dec. 1713 for paying the Queen Dowager [Catherina of Braganza's]
jointure. |
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(27) copy of a warrant dated 24 Dec. 1713 signed by Treasurer
Oxford for 9,332l. 3s. 4¾d. to the Queen Dowager's
Trustees. |
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(28) copy of a warrant dated 24 Dec. 1713 signed by Treasurer
Oxford for 2,500l. to the Queen Dowager on her pension of 10,000l. per an. “for the same time." |
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The above papers were received by Mr. Erasmus Lewis on the
26 August from Mr. Thomas Bowen. |
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(29) an extract of the disposal of the 500,000l. given by
Parliament [by 12 Anne, c. 11] for payment of the late
Queen Anne's [Civil List] debts to Midsummer 1713. |
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This was delivered to Mr. Lewis the 29th August 1715. |
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Papers received the 27th August by Mr. Erasmus Lewis from
Mr. Samuel King ("I delivered to Mr. Lewis on Saturday morning about 9 a'clock all the copies” as hereafter. S. King). |
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Warrants and other transactions relating to money paid to Mr. Thomas
Harley or his order on account of his journeys to Hanover or any other account: [likewise of] warrants and other transactions relating to money paid to Mr. Prior on account of his being employed in France or any other account: [likewise of] warrants and other transactions relating to money paid to Sir Patrick Lauless or to any other person on his account. |
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A List or schedule of copies of several warrants signed by her late
Majesty and [countersigned by] the Earl of Oxford:
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(1) copy of a warrant for paying 400l. to Mr. Drift for the use of Matthew Prior, Esq. |
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(2) same of a same for paying 660l. to Mr. Arthur for the use of Matthew Prior, Esq. |
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(3) same of a same for paying 500l. to said Arthur for said
Prior. |
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(4) copy of a warrant for paying 1,000l. to Mr. Prior or his assigns without account in consideration of his journey to and from
France and residing there. |
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(5) same of a same for 90l. 9s. 3d. to Mr. Decker for Mr. Harley. |
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(6) same of a same for 550l. to Daniel Arthur, Esq., for special services. |
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(7) same of a same for 300l. to Mr. Arthur for special services. |
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(8) same of a same for 600l. to Mr. Arthur for Mr. Prior. |
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(9) same of a same for 600l. to Mr. Arthur for Mr. Prior. |
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(10) Same of a same for 800l. to Mr. Arthur for Mr. Prior. |
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(11) same of a same for 600l. to Mr. Arthur for Mr. Prior. |
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(12) same of a same for 800l. to Mr. Arthur for Mr. Prior. |
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(13a) same of a same for 515l. to Mr. Mead in satisfaction of so much by him advanced to Don Patricio Lauless. |
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Memorandum: the above warrants were all signed by
Lord Oxford, then Lord High Treasurer of Great
Britain. |
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Warrants signed by her late Majesty Queen Anne for payment of several sums undermentioned: |
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(13b) copy of a warrant for paying 1,000l. to Mr. Decker for
Mr. Harley. |
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(14) same of a same for paying 1,000l. to Mr. Decker for Mr. Harley. |
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(15) same of a same for paying 373l. 15s. 9d. to Mr. Decker for Mr. Harley. |
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(16) same of a same for paying 500l. to Mr. Arthur for Mr. Prior. |
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(17) same of a same for paying 1,300l. to Mr. Arthur for Mr. Prior. |
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(18) same of a same for paying 1,000l. to Mr. Decker for Mr. Prior. |
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(19) same of a same for paying 1,000l. to Mr. Decker for special services. |
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(20) same of a same for paying 1,100l. to Mr. Arthur for Mr. Prior. |
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(21) same of a same for paying 1,000l. to Mr. Arthur for special services. |
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(22) same of a same for paying 2,000l. to Mr. Decker for Mr. Harley. |
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(23) same of a same for paying 1,200l. to Mr. Arthur for Mr. Prior's. bills [of Ambassadorial extraordinaries]. |
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(24) same of a same for paying 1,200l. to Mr. Arthur for special services. |
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(25) same of a same for paying 2,000l. to Mr. Arthur for Mr. Prior's bills [of Ambassadorial extraordinaries]. |
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Warrants not relating to Money XXIII, pp. 194–7. |
| Aug. 27. |
Money warrant for 150l. to Sir Charles Cotterell, Master of the
Ceremonies; for three quarters to 1715 Lady day on his fee or salary of 200l. per an. Money Book XXIV, p. 101. |
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Treasury warrant to Sir Christopher Wren, Surveyor General of the Works, and the rest of the Board of Works to pass and allow on the books of the Office of Works the sums of 380l. 6s. 7d. (as owing
from the late Queen) and 181l. 5s. 2d. (as owing from his present
Majesty) and to be paid to Henry Wise as follows: |
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for keeping the Gardens at the Garden House at Windsor with the Greenhouse and plants belonging thereto in manner and with all things as the same were heretofore agreed to be kept by Richard Watts, who was turned out by her said late Majesty from keeping thereof:
to wit for one year and 213 days from 30 Nov. 1712 (to which date the said Watts was paid)
to 1 Aug. 1714., the day of the late Queen's demise: at 180l. per an., being the like allowance as the said Watts received for the same |
300 |
6 |
7 |
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for keeping, sweeping and shelling the Mall in
St. James's Park at 50l. per an. from 1712
Xmas (to which time Visct. FitzHardinge was paid as Keeper of the Mall) to 1 Aug. 1714 |
80 |
0 |
0 |
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£380 |
6 |
7 |
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on the books of the debt of the Office of Works due from his present Majesty. |
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for keeping the same Gardens, Greenhouse and plants at Windsor as above from 1 Aug. 1714. to 24 June 1715 at the like rate of 180l. per an. |
161 |
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2 |
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for keeping, sweeping and shelling the Mall from 1 Aug. 1714. to 25 Dec. [1714], from which time the said Mall together with St. James's Park were put under the care of
Walter Chetwynd |
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£181 |
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Prefixing: report by Sir J. Vanbrugh dated 21 July 1715 on Wise's petition for said sums. The contract for keeping the garden belonging to the Little House at Windsor is not included in the general contract for the [Royal] Gardens. In the Cofferer's Office there is entered an agreement made with Richard Watts dated 6 Aug. 1702. to keep the said gardens for 180l. per an. and same was paid to Mr. Watts to 30 Nov. 1712, when Mr. Wise by the Queen's verbal order without any new agreement took that garden into his care and has continued to keep it ever since in good order and condition, together with a large greenhouse well furnished with plants. |
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The general contract with Mr. Wise is calculated upon the foot of 20l. per acre. The allowance of 180l. per an. for this garden is above that proportion and there are some additions at Hampton
Court not yet included in the [general] contract which Mr. Wise has kept in order for five years without any allowance. I offer for consideration that the garden at the Little House at Windsor and the additions at Hampton Court be measured and for the future allowed for at the rate of 20l. per acre. as the other [royal] gardens are. Ibid., pp. 108–10. |
| Aug. 27. |
Letter of direction for 18,000l. to the Honble. Harry Mordaunt, Esq., Treasurer and Paymaster of the Office of Ordnance: upon
account towards paying the purchase money for the lands taken in at Portsmouth, Chatham and Harwich for the convenience of the fortifications there: to be paid out of the 18,000l. paid this day into the Exchequer by the Trustees for sale of South Sea Stock. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 91. |
| Aug. 27. |
Jo. Taylour to the King's printers to send to William Pulteney, the Secretary at War, 1,000 copies of the Articles of War according to the said Pulteney's request. |
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Prefixing: letter dated Aug. 25 from said Pulteney to William
Lowndes. His Majesty has signified his pleasure to me that 1,000
copies of the Articles of War be forthwith printed, the same being much wanted. I desire you to give the necessary directions to the
King's printers. Out Letters (General) XXI, p. 406. |
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Same to the Board of Works to report on the enclosed memorial
[missing] of Thomas Rowland, Clerk of the Works at Windsor, containing several complaints against Charles Brown and James Brown, former Clerks of the Works there, for insulting him in the execution of his office, with other matters therein. Ibid., p. 407. |
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Subscription by the Treasury Lords for the execution of a warrant dated Aug. 9 inst. by the Duke of Bolton, Lord Chamberlain, to the Duke of Montague, Master of the Great Wardrobe, for the delivery to Chr. Hill, Master of the King's Barges, of liveries for two pensionary watermen for the year 1715: to an estimate of 6l. 10s. 0d. Warrants not Relating to Money XXIII, p. 204. |
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Treasury warrant to John Hill, Receiver and Paymaster for Transports, to observe the same rules and directions as were observed by his predecessor, Thomas Micklethwaite, Esq., in applying and paying the moneys imprested to him for the said service: and in accordance therewith to pay same from time to time to satisfy such warrants, bills and accounts as shall be assigned on you by Samuel Atkinson, Nicholas Roop and Thomas Colby, who by royal sign manual dated
July 15 last were appointed to execute all matters relating to the
Transport service until the first day of Michaelmas term next, they having been Commissioners nominated by the late Queen Anne for the Transport service. Ibid., pp. 205–6. |
| Aug. 28. |
Royal warrant dated St. James's to Samuel Lynn (Muster Master
General to the late Regiments of Marines) and to Nicholas Roope and Thomas Layton (two of the Commissioners lately appointed for
Disbanding the said Marines) and to Sir Roger Mostyn [late Paymaster of said Marines] forthwith to repair to the quarters of the
Detachment of Marines belonging to the Regiment lately commanded by Lieut. Gen. Holt which have arrived in this kingdom from foreign voyages since [expiry of] the said commission for Disbanding; and to take a muster thereof and immediately to adjust their accounts of subsistence and clothing and to pay the money due thereupon and the Bounty money upon Disbanding to the Officers and men:
the said mustering, paying and disbanding to be done and performed at one and the same time. King's Warrant Book XXVII, p. 119. |
| Aug. 29. |
Royal letters patent authorising and empowering Edward Godfrey
(to whom by the privy seal of 19 Aug. inst., supra, pp. 682–3, the
moneys are to be paid for the Establishment of pensions to a total of
31,976l. 3s. 6d. per an., ut supra, pp. 673–682) to take and detain the following poundage for the pains and services of him and the clerks employed by him, to his own use during pleasure, viz. 6d. per pound out of all payments upon the said pensions of 100l. per an. as above and to take no poundage on lesser annuities nor upon the 800l. per an. to the King's Almoner. Further the Treasury Lords are hereby to allow in his accounts such sums as were usually allowed in the accounts of Spencer Compton and Edward Nicholas for the like Establishment payments. Ibid., pp. 120–21. |
| Aug. 29. |
Money warrant for 300l. to William Blathwaite, Edward Southwell and Sir Christopher Musgrave, bart., three of the clerks of the Privy
Council and to the executors of John Povey, late a same: for three quarters to 1715 Lady day on their 400l. per an. for attendance on the despatch of Trade and Plantation Commissioners’ business at the
Privy Council: out of Civil List moneys. (Money order dated Sept. 3
hereon.) Money Book XXIV, p. 114. Order Book IX, p. 120 |
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Same for 30l. to Thomas Hoy, Dr. of Physic, for same time on his fee as Reader of Physic and Professor of same in the University of Oxford. Money Book XXIV, pp. 113, 114b. |
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Same for 3,000l. to Anne, Duchess of Buccleuch, for same time on her annuity or pension. Ibid., p. 114c. |
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Same for 30l. to James Bouchier, Dr. of Laws and Reader of the same in the University of Oxford: for same time on his fee as such. Ibid. |
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Same for 30l. to Dr. Green for same time as Professor of Physick and Reader of the same in the University of Cambridge. Ibid. |
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Same for 30l. to Francis Dickins, Dr. of Laws, for same time as
Reader of Laws in the said University. Ibid. |
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Same for 86l. 5s. 0d. to James Chase, Apothecary in Ordinary to his Majesty's person, for same time on his fee of 115l. per an. In the margin: a later Treasury confirmation dated 1715 Oct. 19 hereof, “Let this warrant be executed.” Ibid., p. 115. |
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Treasury warrant to the Auditors of Imprests to allow in account to the Commissioners appointed for making forth orders in lieu of
Lottery Tickets the sum of 202l. 15s. 5¾d. for incidents in their service as follows. |
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Prefixing: representation to the Treasury Lords from T. Cornwallis, N. Arnold and Christopher Tilson, the said Commissioners:
shewing that upon Mr. Hutchins declining the office of Paymaster of the 1711 Lottery [for 1,500,000l. as by 9 Anne, c. 6] (which he did at or about Lady day 1714) the then Lord Treasurer [Oxford]
considering how prejudicial it might be to the public credit for the interessed to attend [wait] for the proportion of money then to be distributed amongst them till a new Paymaster should be appointed and his security given and other preparations adjusted, did order the said money to be issued to us at the Exchequer, “and we thereby became Paymasters for the interim of the said
dividend, which amounted to 82,522l. 16s. 0d.” [for the year 1714
for the said Lottery]. This expedient had its intended effect, for the disposition of the money amongst the interessed was made with as great or greater expedition than it could or would have been if the office of Paymaster had not been declined. This work, although added as it were to what we were before charged withal could not but occasion an incident expense, but yet not being able in passing of our bills of incidents so to sever the articles as to point out with exactness what might properly belong to these payments and what to the business of the Queen's [500,000l. or Civil
List Lottery], which was then our principal concern, we have thought it most equitable to make an apportionment of the said expenses in gross and do crave allowance thereof. |
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Followed by: said apportionment of said expenses. Money Book
XXIV. pp. 103–4. |
| Aug. 29. |
Money warrant for 3,521l. 10s. 8d. to Samuel Smithin, his Majesty's
Goldsmith, for plate delivered into the Jewel Office for his Majesty's service between 1715 March 25 and June 24. |
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Appending: certificate by Lord Guernsey, Master of the Jewel
Office, of the said deliveries within said time: to wit 284l. 2s. 6d. for 49 ounces 13 pennyweight 10 grain of gold work finely wrought and enamelled; 719l. 2s. 11d. for 1,091 ounces of new gilt plate, most part finely wrought and enchased; 2,106l. 5s. 8d. for 5,552 ounces
2 pennyweight of new white plate, great part finely wrought and enchased; 166l. 2s. 11d. for new making 1,194 ounces of his Majesty's store plate; 112l. 7s. 8d. for repairing and boiling 7,952 ounces of store plate; 125l. 19s. 0d. to the engraver, cutler, case maker &c., and 7l. 10s. 0d. for one quarter's allowance to the officers of the Jewel
Office. (Money order dated Aug. 31 hereon.) Ibid., pp. 105–6. Order Book IX, p. 115. |
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Letter of direction for 1,247l. 11s. 8d. to the Earl of Godolphin, Cofferer of the Household: out of Civil List moneys grown due since
1 Aug. 1714.: and is to discharge 11 months from 1 Aug. 1714. to
30 June 1715 grown due to the French, Dutch and Lutheran Chapels
[at St. James's] upon an Establishment newly signed by his Majesty for same (and directed to be paid by the Cofferer of the Household). Disposition Book XXIII, p. 90. |
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Treasury reference to the Board of Works of the petition of Thomas
Kynaston, Clerk of the Works at Somerset House, shewing that his predecessors [in his said office] enjoyed a convenient lodging there till about 1685, when the Queen Dowager [Catharine of Braganza]
came to live there, and being straitened in room desired Mr. Rotheram, the then Clerk [of Works], to remove and she allowed him 20l. a year for lodging elsewhere: when the said Queen retired to Portugal the
Earl of Feversham, being her Chamberlain, by virtue of his place put his niece, Mrs. Mallows, into the said lodgings, who has lived in them ever since and pretends a grant of them from the King, but produces none: therefore praying that, for the better enabling him to execute his office, direction may be given to Mrs. Mallows to quit the said lodgings to him or that he may have such allowance made him as was made in the Queen Dowager's time. Reference Book IX, p. 249. |
| [? Aug. 29.] |
Same to the Excise Commissioners of the petition of Tho. Benson, late Collector of Excise in Lancashire, shewing that in 1701 and 1702
he returned the moneys in his receipt (as three preceding collectors had done) by Mr. Nathaniell Molineux [to wit taking his factors’ or exchange agents’ bills for same], which were well met till Molineux failed in Feb. 1702, when Carter, “his” [Molineux's] factor, had given the petitioner a bill for 1,216l. 8s. 3½d., and one Smith, another of the said Molineux's factors, a like bill for 460l., being for Excise money received [in] that round; both the said bills being drawn on
Moor and Company; which bills were not paid by reason of Molineux's failure: that thereupon petitioner took out an extent against Molineux which is frustrated by his being formerly a Receiver General for Taxes in
Co. Lanes and by a prior extent being sued against him: that there still remains due on the petitioner's Excise account 1,676l. 8s. 9½d.:
that Molineux obtained an Act of Parliament [1 Anne, c. 7, cl. 29] for his composition and the then Agents for Taxes thought it reasonable that 2,880l. should be allowed him for losses &c., which reduced the debt to 820l., and proposed that the debt should be compounded for 500l., “and whether his ill circumstances or the Excise extents prevented the payment of that sum [by Molineux] he [petitioner]
knows not, but for want thereof the benefit of the composition is lost": that 800l. is paid or ready to be paid into the Exchequer out of the profits of Molineux's estate and [said estate] is so considerable that if it were sold it would clear off both the Land Tax debt and the Excise debt: that though the benefit of the composition was lost he [petitioner] hopes that he may come in on the foot of the allowances or may be discharged of the [Excise] debt in such manner as is usual where collectors have fallen under hardships by returns, since Molineux is dead and his estate in the hands of the Crown:
and further in consideration of petitioner's expenses in carrying on the prosecutions he prays a reimbursement [thereof] out of the Excise revenue. Ibid., p. 250. |
| Aug. 30. |
Royal warrant dated St. James's to the Clerk of the Signet for a privy seal for 200l. per an. to Henry Portman, Esq., Keeper of Hyde
Park, as well for the wages or salary of the underkeepers of said Park and to a person attending at the Gate as for hay and beans for the deer: to be payable as from 1714 Midsummer: during pleasure:
without account. King's Warrant Book XXVII, p. 12a. |
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Money warrant for 450l. to Sir Fra. Wyndham, bart., for three quarters to 1715 Lady day on his pension of 600l. per an. Money
Book XXIV. p. 105. |
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Same for 146l. 17s. 6d. to Richard Wright for three quarters to
1715 Lady day on his fees of 20 marks per an. and 10s. a day as Knight
Harbinger to his Majesty. Ibid., p. 106. |
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Letter of direction for 3,000l. to John Aislabie, Treasurer of the
Navy: out of the money arisen by the sale of South Sea Stock:
and is to be paid over to Sir Roger Mostyn, bart., as imprest and upon account for paying and disbanding a detachment of Marines belonging to the Regiment late under Lieut. Gen. Holt, “which [detachment]
have lately arrived in this kingdom from foreign voyages since the
[last date to which the] Commission for Disbanding the Marine
Regiments remained in force.” Disposition Book XXIII, p. 91. |
| Aug. 31. |
Money warrant for 91l. 5s. 0d. to John Inglis for three quarters to 1715 Lady day as assistant to the Master of the Ceremonies: out of Civil List moneys. |
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75l. to John Inglis: for same time as Marshal of the Ceremonies. Money Book XXIV, p. 110. |
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Same for 200l. to Henry Portman, Keeper of Hyde Park: without account: to defray the charges and expenses of watering the Ring and the way leading thereto in the said park in the year 1715; being the like allowance that hath been yearly made for that service. (Money order dated Sept. 3 hereon.) Ibid., p. 111. Order Book IX, p. 119. |
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Privy seal for 3l. a day as ordinary to George Paddon as Plenipotentiary to treat with the Emperor of Fez, Morocco, Tafilet and
Sus: to commence from 28 July 1715 and to be payable quarterly until his return into the presence. King's Warrant Book XXVII, p. 133. |
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Same for 3l. a day as ordinary to Cyrill Wich, Esq., whom the
King has thought fit to continue as his Resident with the Hanse
Towns. Ibid., p. 153. |
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Money warrant for 50l. 3s. 9d. to Thomas Turst for half a year to 1714 Xmas on his fee or salary of 3s. a day and board wages allowance of 2s. 6d. a day as late one of his Majesty's Serjeants at Arms. Money Book XXIV, p. 134. |
