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| Sept. 21. |
Royal letters patent granting to Henry Lowman and Mary his wife the office and place of Housekeeper and Wardrobe Keeper of
Kensington Palace, to them and the longer liver of them: with the yearly salary or allowance of 300l. from date hereof: [being the office already held by them by grant from the King's predecessors]. King's
Warrant Book XXVII, pp. 181–2. |
| Sept. 21. |
Treasury warrant to the Auditor of the Receipt, the Clerk of the
Pells and other officers of the Receipt concerned, to strike tallies importing the payment by Thomas, Earl of Strafford, Farmer of
Post Pines, of 2,276l. for one year's rent to 1714 Sept. 29 due to the
Crown on his said farm: the said sum having been answered direct to the Crown by the respective Sheriffs. |
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Prefixing: certificate by Francis Neale, Deputy Clerk of the Pipe, of the Post Fines answered direct to the Crown by the respective
Sheriffs. Money Book XXIV, p. 133. |
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Jo. Taylour to Mr. Walpole, Paymaster of the Forces. The Treasury
Lords direct you to apply to the services as follows the 15,000l. which you are authorised to borrow of the Bank of England on a sufficient deposit of tallies and orders on Malt Duties anno 1715: viz. |
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in further part of 425,900l. 14s. 6d. voted for Guards and Garrisons in Great Britain and Forces in the Plantations anno 1715. |
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towards one month's subsistence 1715 Sept. 25 to Oct. 24 to the several Regiments, Troops and Companies upon this Establishment except the Regiments of Carpenter and Kerr already directed |
15,000 |
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Disposition Book XXIII, p. 102. |
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Same to the Customs Commissioners. I have read to my Lords your favourable report of April 8 last on the petition of Thomas
Combs, one of the extraordinary tidesmen in London port, praying the next vacancy of an established tidesman. You are to present him on a vacancy for the place of a tidesman in fee. Out Letters
(General) XXI, p. 415. |
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Treasury reference to same of the petition of the Deputies of the islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and Sark shewing that upon application concerning the Duties lately demanded on goods of those islands imported into Great Britain the Treasury Lords issued their warrant of Aug. 22. last, supra, p. 693, “to deliver to the merchants et al. of those islands all manufactures as should be imported before the end of the next Session of Parliament"; that the Customs officers of Southampton port allege that the warrant extends to manufactures only and thereupon refuse security for Duties on goods of the growth and product of those islands: therefore petitioners pray that (according to what is proposed and agreed to by the Attorney General and Commissioners of Customs in their several reports of the 21 April and 25 May 1715) it may be ordered that such goods may be imported upon giving such security. Reference Book IX, p. 253. |
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Treasury warrant to the Auditor of the Receipt to make forth and transmit to the Treasury Lords one or more orders in the usual form for paying to Edward Noell and John Perry the several annuities as follows (commonly called Bankers’ Annuities) amounting in all
to 131l. 4s. 2d. from 1705 Dec. 26 for ever in trust for themselves and the rest of the creditors of Thomas Price and Samuel Price: the said Noell and Perry being assignees of a commission of bankrupt issued against Thomas Price and Samuel Price 7 July 1710, by which commission the said annuities as follows were found to be the property of the said Thomas Price and Samuel Price. All subject to redemption as by the Act [2–3 Anne, c. 9] for the better and more regular paying and assigning the 3 per cent. Annuities payable to several
Bankers or other patentees or those claiming under them: all in accordance with the certificate as follows from the Auditor of the
Receipt and with the reports thereto annexed as follows from Sir
Edward Northey [Attorney General] dated 13 April 1714 and 3 Aug. 1715. |
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Prefixing: certificate dated Exchequer 10 May 1711 from Lord
Halifax, then Auditor of the Receipt, now deceased. By my certificate
1705 Oct. 19 made to the late Lord Treasurer Godolphin (in pursuance of the said Act 2–3 Anne, c. 9) concerning the assignees of Sir Robert
Viner or claimants under him I certified that Richard Graham and
Philip Burton (assignees of Thomas Price, who claimed under said
Viner) were the proprietors by grant dated 26 Oct. 1686 from said
Price of an annuity of 13l. 10s. 0d. (in lieu of the principal sum of
450l.) and of another annuity of 115l. 2s. 2d. (in lieu of the principal sum of 3,837l.): and the said annuities were assigned to them [in the
Exchequer] by direction of the late Lord Treasurer Rochester. “In the late Lord Treasurer's warrant for drawing the orders pursuant to the said certificate the said annuities of 13l. 10s. 0d. and 115l. 2s. 2d. are excepted.” |
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By another certificate dated 1705 April 30 to the late Lord Treasurer of the assigns of John Portman, made in pursuance of the aforesaid
Act of Parliament, I certified that Richard Graham and Phil. Burton as assignees of Thomas Price (assignee of Peter Hayles, who claimed under the said Portman), by grant from said Price dated 26 Oct. 1686
appeared as proprietors of an annuity of 2l. 12s. 0d. (in lieu of
86l. 13s. 4d. principal money at 3 per cent.), which assignment was made to them by direction of the Earl of Rochester, then Lord
Treasurer. In the “late Lord Treasurer's warrant for drawing orders pursuant to the said certificate the said annuity of 2l. 12s. 0d. is excepted.” |
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Since the transmitting of the said certificates it appears by entries in my Office that 1685 Dec. 30 a writ of extent issued out of the
Exchequer to the Sheriff of Middlesex reciting an inquisition taken the day before whereby it was found that the said Thomas Price had received for the King's use from John Price, Esq., 10,602l. 6s. 9d. and had not paid it [to the King's use] and thereupon 1686–7 Jan.5
several estates of the said Thomas Price were extended and seized into the hands of the Crown, but the said annuities of 13l. 10s. 0d., 115l. 2s. 2d. and 2l. 12s. 0d. (formerly 27l., 230l. 4s. 4d.and 5l.4s. 0d., per an.) are not particularly taken notice of in the said inquisition. |
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By patent dated 4 April 1693 Wm. III. granted to Ralph Cooke of Grays Inn the said debt of 10,602l. 6s. 9d., and all such estates of Thomas Price owing to the Crown, during the Crown's interest therein. |
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It is certified by Edmd. Cradock, deputy of Orlando Bridgman, that 19 Jan. 1685–6 a commission of bankrupt issued against said
Thomas Price and one Samuel Price directed to Thomas Goodwin, John Ainger et al., who found by examination that said Thomas Price and Samuel Price had for two years past exercised the trade of goldsmiths and bankers in Lombard Street, seeking their living by buying and selling, and the said Commissioners of bankrupt assigned to
Thomas Fountaine, Chr[istopher] Dering, John Perry and Edward
Noell (for themselves and others the creditors of said Thomas and
Samuel Price) the yearly sum of 90l. (now reduced to 45l.) from Sir
Robert Vyner payable to said Thomas Price out of the Hereditary
Excise; and by a warrant of the late Lord Treasurer dated 7 Sept.
1709 (made on my certificate of 4 Feb. 1708–9) an order was made
accordingly for 45l. per an. to said Fountaine et al. for the said
creditors. |
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On the 7th July 1710 a second commission of bankrupt issued
against said Thomas Price and Samuel Price directed to Richard
Woollaston, Thomas Jones et al. and by an assignment dated 27 July
1710 the said Commissioners [of bankrupt] assigned to Edward Noell
and John Perry for themselves and others, creditors of the said Thomas
and Samuel Price, the said annuities of 27l.(now reduced to 13l. 10s. 0d. ),
230l. 4s. 4d. (now reduced to 115l. 2s.2d.) and 5l. 4s. 0d. (now reduced
to 2l. 12s. 0d. ). |
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Appending: (1) statement of opinion by Sir Edward Northey, Attorney General, dated 13 April 1714 on the petition of John Perry
and Edward Noell, surviving Commissioners of bankrupt as above.
Upon the above assignment of 27 July 1710 the Auditor of the Receipt
certified the said petitioners’ title 1711 May 10 to the Treasury Lords.
I have heard the petitioners and they produced to me an indenture
dated 15 Aug. 1712. between Dr. James Ladds, executor of Thomas
Burton, executor of said Philip Burton (who survived said Richard
Graham of the one part and said Edward Noell and John Perry of
the other part), which said indenture recited that the assignments
to Burton and Graham were made towards securing the said debt
of 10,602l. 6s. 9d. and further recited the privy seal of 1691 July 17,
ut supra, Calendar of Treasury Books, Vol. IX, p. 1232, whereby the
estate of John Price was quitclaimed, the said debt being secured
out of the estate of said Thomas Price, whereupon [by the said indenture] the said Dr. Ladds assigned to Noell and Perry the abovesaid
three reduced annuities in trust for all “said Price's” creditors:
which said indenture has been entered in the Office of the Auditor
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I am of opinion there is a legal title in the petitioners to the said
reduced annuities in trust for the creditors of the “said Price; the
said Burton and Graham (who were [at] first Trustees for the Crown
for securing the said 10,602l. 6s. 9d.), that debt being otherwise satisfied,
then becoming Trustees for the said Price.” |
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John Glover, merchant, appeared before me pretending title to the
said reduced annuities, shewing that Sir William Poole, collector of
Bristol port, and Arnold Brown and Benjamin Poole, his securities
in 11,000l. by [fidelity] bond dated 1685 Sept. 29, owed Wm. III.
1,250l. 14s. 2d. due on said Sir William Poole's collection, which debt
Wm. III. granted to Thomas Wilkins by privys seal dated 30 April
1695, and by deed dated 14 May 1695 the said Wilkins declared that
the said grant was only in trust for the said John Glover; and there-
upon an extent issued against Arnold Browne on the said bond to
find his debts and by inquisition taken 30 April 1702 Samuel Price
and Thomas Price were found indebted to said Browne on their bond
dated 23 May 1685 in 10,000l.; whereupon on the 12th June [1702]
an extent issued against Thomas Price and by inquisition taken
thereon 23 July [1702] it was found that said Thomas Price was possessed of the said reduced annuities and they were thereupon seized as belonging to the said Price. |
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Till that seizure be removed I am of opinion it will not be proper
[for the Auditor of the Receipt] to make out orders for [payment yearly of] the said annuities to the said Perry and Noell, but they will be obliged to plead to that inquisition the assignment to themselves via Burton and Graham, which plea being confessed that extent will be avoided and then the petitioners will be entitled to have the orders made out [in the Exchequer] according to their prayer. |
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(2) A later statement of opinion dated 1715 Aug. 3 by said Sir Edward Northey on the petition of the said Edward Noell and John Perry of Aug. 2 inst., ut supra, p. 661. In Michaelmas term last, since my previous report as above, the title of the said Burton and Graham was pleaded to the inquisition of 23 July 1702 and in Trinity term last the plea was confessed by the Attorney General according to the course of the Exchequer, the Attorney for the interest of Glover declaring that he would not reply to the same; and [thereupon]
the said extent [of 12 June 1702] and inquisition [of 23 July 1702]
"was by judgment of the said Court set aside. Therefore I am of opinion the petitioners [Noell and Perry] are entitled to have orders made out [in the Exchequer] for [the regular payment of] the said reduced annuities and the arrears thereof.” Warrants not Relating to Money XXIII, pp. 229–33. |
| Sept. 21. |
Treasury subscription for the execution of a warrant dated July. 27
last form the Duke of Bolton, Lord Chamberlain of the Household, to the Duke of Montagu, Master of the Great Wardrobe, for particulars as follows for his Majesty's service, viz. varnishing three large tables and six large stands for the Great Drawing Room at St. James's;
removing twice the sconces and branches from Somerset House and putting them up in the Ball Room at St. James's and repairing them with an addition of several pieces of glass broken off, and new lacquering the branches: mending a sconce in the Princesses’ apart-
ment and a screen in the Governess's lodgings: taking off the black varnishing of the sconces in the Great Council Chamber and new lacquering the brass work and all the branches: taking down the sconces in the Great Drawing Room, taking them out and putting them up again: mending the gilding of three large tables and six stands in the Great Drawing Room at St. James's and putting up three great glasses: all to an estimate of 35l. Ibid., p. 252. |
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Same for same of a like warrant dated July. 27 last for delivery to
Grey Maynard, Yeoman of the Removing Wardrobe, of the following particulars for St. James's, viz. a fine walnut tree desk and book case on brass wheels for the Princess of Wales; a walnut tree desk and book case for the young Princess Carolina; two chimney glasses for
Count Platon's [Platen] lodgings in the room of Mrs. Hills; a walnut tree hanging glass for Mrs. Schulemberg's apartment and two ditto in gilt frames and a gilt japanned Beaufett, and a dressing table and card table of walnut tree and a table and two pair of large stands and a pair of brackets of walnut tree, all for the said Mrs. Schulemberg's apartment: a hanging glass in a glass frame and two pair of sconces for the Bedchamber: and 12 brass candlesticks and six pair of snuffers for his Majesty's service at Somerset House: all to a total of 160l. Ibid. |
| Sept. 21. |
Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners, Scotland, to meet the Convention of Boroughs as often as there shall be occasion and with them to consult and treat about the fees of the officers of the Customs; and having agreed a table thereof with the said Con-
vention of Boroughs to send the same to us the Treasury Lords for our directions therein: all by reason that it must necessarily tend to the great ease and conveniency of trade and the mutual satisfac-
tion as well of the merchant or trader as of the Customs officers if the said officers’ fees, which are not yet fully known to the merchants or properly settled, be reduced to a certainty and a Table thereof publicly hung up at every Custom House for every person to resort to and be informed therein in case of any dispute between them and the officers about fees: and you have represented to us that the Royal
Boroughs do concur with relation to the fixing and settling such a certain [or fixed] Table of Fees. Out Letters (North Britain) III, p. 420. |
| Sept. 22. |
Royal sign manual for 20,000l. to Spencer Compton, Treasurer or Receiver General to the Prince of Wales: out of Civil List moneys:
without account: to be disposed as the said Prince shall direct. (Money order dated Sept. 23 hereon.) (Money order dated Sept. 24
hereon.) King's Warrant Book XXVII, p. 154. Order Book IX, p. 129. |
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Same for 200l. to the Marquis de Santa Cruz: as royal bounty:
out of Civil List moneys. (Money warrant dated Sept. 22 hereon.)
(Money order dated Oct. 5 hereon.) King's Warrant Book XXVII, p. 161. Order Book IX, p. 134. |
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Royal warrant dated St. James's to the Treasury Lords to pay to Edward, Earl of Sandwich, from 1714 June. 24 by the hands of
Edward Godfrey, the yearly pension of 800l. which the King is pleased to allow him from the said date to be paid by the said Godfrey, who is appointed Paymaster of certain annual pensions or annuities estab-
lished by the King. Hereon 800l. is to be paid forthwith for one year to 1715 June. 24. (Treasury warrant dated Sept. 24 to said Godfrey hereon accordingly.) King's Warrant Book XXVII, p. 156. |
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The like warrant and Treasury warrant for an annuity or yearly pension of 800l. to Thomas, Lord Howard of Effingham: and for one year thereon forthwith as above. Ibid., p. 157. |
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The like royal warrant and Treasury warrant for a pension or annuity of 600l. to William, Lord Hunsdon: and for one year thereon forthwith as above. Ibid., p. 158. |
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Money warrant for 30,000l. to Samuel Travers to be by him paid over towards discharging such debts as incurred for work and materials upon account of the building at Blenheim on or before 1 June 1712:
out of the 500,000l. for the Civil List arrears of the late Queen Anne:
according to bills thereof to be examined by William Lowndes, senr., James Craggs, senr., and William Sloper. (Money order dated
Sept. 22 hereon.) Money Book XXIII, p. 130. Order Book IX, p. 129. |
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Treasury warrant to Edward Harley and Thomas Foley, Auditors of Imprests, to allow to Robert Walpole, Esq., late Treasurer of the Navy, in his final account as such, the sum of 1,625l. 5s. 3d. as follows. |
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Prefixing (1) memorial to the Treasury from said Walpole dated
Sept. 21 inst. My accounts as late Treasurer of the Navy being now finished and carried to the Auditors of Imprests for obtaining a quietus thereupon I lay before your Lordships the allowances I have been obliged to make to my officers and clerks for despatching and bringing the same to a conclusion. The services on which they have been employed are as follows: (1) in paying away (after I was discharged from my said employment) large sums of money and tallies to the several branches of the Navy and Victualling amounting to upwards of 400,000l.: (2) in complying with several precepts received from the Commissioners of Public Accounts requiring me to render a state of all my receipts and payments of whatever nature; as likewise an account of the disposal of all tallies, Exchequer Bills &c. and stating the interest occur'd [accrued] on them, which being very voluminous several hands were employed in expediting the same:
(3) in closing and finishing my accounts in the ordinary method with the Navy Board and Auditors of Imprests, taking in all perfect [Navy]
bills brought to the [my] Office by sundry persons to clear their imprests, and settling and stating interest accounts with the Bank of England and private persons for moneys formerly borrowed on tallies deposited with them. |
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(2) An account of the sums disbursed to officers and clerks as above: |
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salaries to several clerks employed in preparing, making up and transcribing my ledgers for the Navy Commissioners and the Auditors of
Imprests, settling and adjusting Parliamentary tickets, Yard tickets, lists of arrears and other services relating to my accounts. |
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paid to Mr. Burton, Mr. Hawes and Mr. Seawell for passing the aforesaid accounts with the
Navy and Victualling Boards and for their trouble in paying away upwards of 400,000l. in tallies to the Courses of both [the Navy and the Victualling] Offices. |
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fees and charges in the several Offices for passing my final accounts. |
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coach hire and other petty expenses. |
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Money Book XXIV, pp. 130–31. |
| Sept. 22. |
William Lowndes to the Customs Commissioners. The Treasury
Lords have by their letter of the 12th inst., supra, p. 731, directed you to put up to sale the extended estate lately belonging to Edward
Carlton at Carshalton, Co. Surrey. The executors of Dr. Radcliff and
John Fellows, Esq., have petitioned my Lords relating to said estate. You are to suspend the sale until my Lords have heard them by counsel. Out Letters (General) XXI, p. 415. |
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Same to Lord Cheney, Clerk of the Pipe. Complaint is made to my Lords that there were great delays given to the despatch of business in your Office by the residence in the country of your deputy, Mr. Neale. My Lords desire you to take care that the duty of the said Office be better attended for the future and all reasonable despatch given to the business thereof. Ibid. |
| Sept. 22. |
Jo. Taylour to the Taxes Commissioners to report on the enclosed petition and affidavit [missing] of Laurence Ambrose, late Receiver
General of Taxes for Co. Berks, wherein it is asserted that Mr. Shermer's securities for this year's Land Tax and House Duties are not sufficient and that the said Shermer is a person disaffected to the present Government. Ibid., p. 416. |
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Same to same to certify my Lords what moneys of the public taxes remain in the hands of the following Receivers General, viz. Francis
Wyvill, Receiver for Co. Yorks; Jervais Bradgate, Receiver for
Co. Leicester; James Philipps, Receiver for South Wales: and what sums of money they have paid into the Exchequer since my Lords respited them from having new commissions [as Receivers for the present year]. Ibid. |
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Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners to cause the hemp as follows to be delivered to John Radburne upon his satisfying the officer who seized. |
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Prefixing: report by said Commissioners on said Radburne's petition, ut supra, p. 673. By the Act of Frauds 14 Car. II., c. 11, goods shipped coastwise without a sufferance or warrant first had from the Customs officers are forfeit. Notwithstanding all due care it was found that goods were frequently shipped coastwise without sufferance or the presence of any Customs officer, to the prejudice of the revenue and of trade. “We therefore the 25th of June last caused the annexed order [missing] to be fixed in the Long Room and on the wharfs at the Custom House, Bridge House &c. setting forth the law above recited and signifying that wherever any goods should be found to have been shipped contrary thereto they should be subjected to the penalties thereof: and at the same time we directed the officers of the several ports of this Kingdom to take special care that the said law was duly observed.” |
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In regard it appears by the affidavit of Thomas Butt and the petitioners that the said hemp has paid Duties at importation we do not object to its being delivered. Out Letters (Customs) XIV, pp. 267–8. |
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Treasury reference to same of the petition of William Maister, executor of George Dickinson, late Collector of Customs of Hull port, shewing that the said Dickinson did in Jan. 1695–6 by order of the Customs Commissioners pay to Arthur Todd, Deputy to the Vice Admiral of the Fleet, 215l. for raising 500 seamen;
that the receipts for the said payments are lost or mislaid, but that he has [in his hands] attested copies of the said receipts; but for want of the originals his account cannot be regularly discharged or his [surety] bonds delivered up: therefore praying relief. Reference
Book IX, p. 253. |
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Treasury warrant to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands for a particular of the mills at Portsmouth (which were purchased from
Thomas Beeston in pursuance of an Act of 8 Anne, c. 23): in order to a lease thereof to Jane Beeston, widow. |
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Prefixing: said Surveyor General's report on said Jane Beeston's petition for same. Warrants not Relating to Money XXIII, p. 211. |
| [? Sept. 22] |
Entry of the Treasury Lords’ signature of the docquet of an in custodiam lease under the Exchequer seal to Hugh Kisse and John
Venable of messuages in Tamworth, Co. Warwick, and of lands in
Co. Leicester, parcel of the lands and tenements of Joshua Paul, outlaw.Warrants not Relating to Money XXIII, p. 233. |
| Sept. 22. |
Treasury warrant to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands for a particular of the extra parochial tithes granted to Sir John Shaw as follows; the Treasury Lords being inclined to advise his Majesty to grant to the Earl of Torrington the moiety reserved to the Crown of the clear profits of the premises. |
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Prefixing: report by Sir Edward Northey, Attorney General, dated 22 July 1714 on the case of the said Earl. By grant from the
Crown the said Earl has 2,000 acres of extra-parochial lands for which those tithes are to be paid. The Queen cannot make any lease of the said moiety to bind her successor, the same being but in the nature of a rent reserved on a lease which, by the Act of the Civil List
[1 Anne, c. 1], cannot be leased, but her Majesty may grant or lease the same for her own life and not otherwise. |
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Appending: (1) statement of the case of the extra-parochial tithes. About 13 Nov. 1661 Charles II. demised to Sir Charles Barkley and
Sir Bernard Gascoins the tithes of the extra-parochial lands of Bedford
Level &c. for a term since expired, and during that time the tenants paid about 4d. per acre as a modus or composition for the said tithes. Wm. III. by patent of 1690 May 14 granted 10,000 acres of fen land part of the said Level, to the Earl of Torrington and his heirs for ever with all tithes, oblations, obventions and profits whatsoever. Nearly
2,000 acres of the said 10,000 acres are esteemed extra-parochial and at the time of said Earl's grant were leased out to several under tenants at a small rent. One Dr. Vernon procured a lease [10 Mar. 1711–12, ut supra, Calendar of Treasury Books, Vol. XXVI, p. 183, and XXV, pp. 592–3], in his trustees’ name, of the extra-parochial tithes and threatens the tenants with law suits for seven years past, their leases being near expiring [and] rather than engage in a troublesome law suit [they or some of them] paid an unreasonable tithe. In 1712 March 29 Dr. Vernon surrendered back said patent to the Queen, who granted the extra-parochial tithes within that Level and bounds, therein mentioned, to Sir John Shaw [as the nominee of said Vernon], he to be accountable to the Queen for a moiety as should be recovered from those lands after deduction of the charges and law suits. Under said grant said Shaw has created and continues to carry on a great many vexatious and chargeable law suits against the Earl of Torrington and others. What the Earl requests is desired for prevention of all such vexatious and unreasonable suits. He desires either a grant of the Queen's moiety or to purchase the said moiety. |
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(2) Report dated 1714 April 24 by Alexander Pendarves [Surveyor
General of Crown Lands] on said case. The grant to Shaw was by the nomination of Dr. Vernon and reserved to the Crown a third of the produce of the tithes and a moiety of the arrears thereof recovered “ with a power to call to his assistance all her Majesty's officers and ministers”: all which power the said Shaw covenants in full and expressive words to exercise. By report from the Auditor for Co. Lincoln I find that the clear yearly profits of the tithes have been very different and uncertain, in 1710 47l. 19s. 8d.; in 1711
10l. 4s. 8d.; in 1712 15l. 8s. 3d.; in 1713 7l. 13s. 0d. So that they
cannot seem worth more than 30l. I should therefore rate a lease of the premises for the remainder of Sir John Shaw's term at 260l. under some small rent. Ibid., pp. 234–6. |
| Sept. 22. |
Same to the Clerk of the Pipe for a lease to Anne Gybbon, widow, of a house lately erected by James Gybbons within the circuit of Whitehall Palace, in St. Martins in the Fields, abutting east on a yard called Scotland Yard, west on the house of Thomas
Neal, north on the house of John Chase, apothecary, being 21 foot by 19 foot. |
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Prefixing: particular and memorandum of the premises by Auditor
Thomas Jett and ratal 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 lease. Ibid., pp. 238–40, 260. |
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Treasury subscription for the execution of a warrant dated July 13
last by the Duke of Bolton, Lord Chamberlain of the Household, to the Duke of Montagu, Master of the Great Wardrobe, for the delivery to the Honble. Grey Maynard, Yeoman of the Removing
Wardrobe, of two canopies of State of plain crimson velvet, one for the King's Presence [Chamber] at St. James's with the arms embroidered and trimmed with silk lace of the same colour; an arm chair, two stools, a cushion and footstool of the same velvet trimmed with silk lace; the other for the Prince of Wales's Presence with two arm chairs of the same. |
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Likewise to give order for a new frame for the Canopy of State in the Privy Chamber; new lines for the curtains in the Presence and gilt nails for the chairs in the Council Chamber: also for mending and new varnishing the glasses, tables and stands: all to an estimate of 778l. Ibid., p. 243. |
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Same for same of a like warrant dated July 20 last from the Duke of Bolton to the Duke of Montague for particulars for his Majesty's
Chapel Closet at St. James's, viz. an armed chair, two back chairs, two square stools, two footstools, eight cushions of crimson velvet trimmed with a gold fringe and lace: to an estimate of 220l. Ibid. |
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Same for same of a like warrant dated July 21 last for furniture for the Princess of Wales's apartments at St. James's, viz. for the
Presence a Canopy of State, two arm chairs, eight square stools, hangings, three pair of window curtains, valance of crimson damask trimmed with crimson silk Orrice with lines and tassels to draw the curtains; false cases of crimson paragon for the chairs and stools;
a Turkey carpet to lay under the Canopy: for the Privy Chamber, hangings; two pair of window curtains and valance; two arm chairs;
six square stools of crimson damask trimmed with crimson Orrice with lines and tassels for the curtains and false cases of crimson paragon for the chairs and stools: for the Drawing Room, hangings;
curtains; chairs, stools and false cases as for the Privy Chamber:
to an estimate of 1,450l. Ibid., p. 244. |
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Same for same of a like warrant dated July. 21 for the delivery to Thomas Ridding, Chapel Closet Keeper, of Bibles and Prayer
Books, detailed, in folio, quarto and octavo, for the King's seat in
the Closet at St. James's; and for the front [seat] of the four side seats: to a total of 140l. Warrants not Relating to Money XXIII, p. 244. |
| Sep. 22. |
Treasury subscription for the execution of a like warrant dated
July 29 for particulars for his Majesty's service at St. James's, viz. a pearl colour double camlet bed, all complete with counterpane of the same trimmed with gold coloured silk lace; a fine Flanders tick feather bed and bolster; a paid of down pillows; a pair of fine large and a paid of small blankets; a large calico quilt; a thick checquered mattress; two pair of pearl coloured double camlet window curtains and valance suitable to the bed with curtain rods, lines and tassels; a half headed bedstead; a feather bed and bolster;
three blankets and a coverlid; ten cane chairs; eight matted charis;
two ordinary chairs; a large oval table: to an estimate of 110l. Ibid., p. 245. |
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Same for same of a like warrant dated July 29 for six canopies for the Field beds lately made for his Majesty's service at Hampton
Court; 10,000 large tacks; 10,000 twopeny nails; seven yards of yellow silk lyer; six yards of yardwide serge of a pearl colour for two windows in Mr. Mahomet's lodgings at St. James's; 14 yards ditto of a light blue for two pair of window curtains for Mr. Mustapha's lodging; and to cover the forms and benches in the Side Closets in the Chapel at St. James's with crimson serge: to an estimate of
85l. Ibid. |
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Treasury letters patent appointing John Dutton Colt to be Pay-
master of the 2,000,000l. Lottery anno 1711 loco Charles Blunt, whose commission for the same is hereby superseded: with the fee or salary of 500l. per an. for himself, clerks and others to be employed in the said service. Ibid., p. 246. |
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Treasury warrant to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands for a particular of six tenements on the south side of Pall Mall 103 feet in front next Pall Mall and 99 feet in depth extending from an alley leading from Warwick Street to Warwick Court and in the several tenures of Gerhard Smith, — Lambeth, — Roberts, Oliver
Fiesier, John Smith and Francis Coleman: all in order to a new lease thereof to Ambrose Dickins. Ibid., pp. 249–50. |
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Same to Michael Studholme, Surveyor or Keeper of his
Majesty's Private Roads, to proceed on work as follows when the season shall be proper for same. The officers of the Works are to survey and measure same from time to time as performed and on their certificate that same is well and substantially done so much will be issued to the Paymaster of the Works as will defray the charge thereof, not exceeding 817l. 12s. 0d. |
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Prefixing: report from the Board of Works on the order of refer-
ence of 23 June last, supra, p. 559, on said Studholm's proposition relating to repairs of the King's Private Road to Fulham. We have viewed and measured the road and are of opinion it may be necessary to lay it with gravel the breath of 12 foot and 9 inches deep one place with another and will require about 6,300 solid yards of gravel which at 2s. 3d. per yard will amount to 708l. 15s. 0d.; and to
clear and scour the ditches, being in length 2,167 rods, at 12d. each comes to 108l. 7s. 0d., making in all 817l. 2s. 0d. |
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“We take this occasion further to observe to your Lordships that this expensive repair would not have been necessary in many years if drays, brick carts and other heavy carriages had not been suffered to enter at the King's gates into the said roads; and the only expedient we can at present think of to offer to your Lordships for preventing the same for the future is that an allowance of 5l. per an. be given by the King to the Keepers of three of the Gates, viz. those of Pimlico, Fulham and the World's End, with positive orders upon no account whatsoever to suffer brick carts, brewers’ drays, waggons or stage coaches to pass upon the said road.” Ibid., p. 358. |
| Sept. 22. |
Same to the King's Remembrancer to take the securities in 2,100l. of Langley Banks as Receiver General of House Duties for part of Co. Lincoln. (Treasury commission dated Sept. 22 to said
Banks.) |
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Of John Cowper in 2,800l. for Cos. Northampton and Rutland. (Commission, ut supra.) Out Letters (Affairs of Taxes) II, pp. 143, 144, 145. |
| Sept. 23. |
Royal warrant dated St. James's to the Clerk of the Signet for a privy seal for an annuity or pension of 1,000l. per an. to Charles, Duke of St. Albans, as from 1714 June. 24: and is to take the place of the like annuity granted to him by patent of the late Queen Anne upon the determination of his logwood grant as from 1704 Sept. 29:
which patent is become void by the death of said Queen. Hereon one year to 1715 June. 24 is to be paid forthwith. King's Warrant
Book XXVII, pp. 159–60. |
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Same to the Treasury Lords to cause to be paid (by the hands of
Edward Godfrey, Paymaster of the King's [Private] Pensions), a pension or annuity of 1,000l. to Maynard, Duke of Schonberg: as in lieu of the like pension granted to him by the late Queen Anne, which became void by her demise: and is to be payable as from 24 June 1714, and hereon one year to 24 June. 1715 is to be paid forthwith. (Treasury warrant dated Sept. 24 hereon accordingly to said
Godfrey.) Ibid., p. 170. |
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Treasury warrant to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue and pay out of Civil List money 108l. 12s. 6d. to Sir Isaac Newton, Master
Worker of the Mint, as imprest for the charge of making 30 medals of gold for the respective Foreign Ministers, ut supra, pp. 740–1. Money Book XXIV, p. 132. |
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Same to the Commissioners for the Transport Service to cause
65l. to be paid to Lieut. Charles Combe by John Hill, Paymaster for the Transport Service: out of Transport moneys: the same being to repay to said Combe the like sum advanced by him for the transportation of the Prince of Wales's Regiment of Welsh Fusiliers
[the 23rd Foot] from Ireland to England: the said sum to be deducted from the account for the charge of transportation of said
Regiment. Ibid. |
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J. Taylour to the Customs Commissioners. My Lords direct you to give orders to the Receiver General of Customs and to the
respective Collectors of Customs to keep distinct accounts of the arrears of that part of the Customs which is appropriated for the uses of the
Civil Government and which shall become due at or upon Sept. 29
inst., [to wit distinct] from what shall incur and arise thereupon from and after that date: and that the said Receiver General pay
"it” at the Exchequer distinctly and apart from all other his receipts. (The like letter to the Excise Commissioners and to the Receiver
General of the Post Office.) Out Letters (General) XXII, p. 1. |
| Sept. 23. |
J. Taylour to the Customs Commissioners. It is the King's pleasure that you immediately despatch orders to the Customs officers in all the ports particularly on the western coast to use all possible diligence to arrest and secure the person of Sir William
Wyndham and if they apprehend him to give notice thereof forthwith to one of the Principal Secretaries of State. Ibid. |
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Treasury warrant to same to establish a Customs smack at Hull as follows. |
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Prefixing: presentment from said Commissioners shewing that in some late memorials to the Treasury they have proposed Establishments for several [Customs] smacks or sloops “ which were found useful in the former peace and were then thought necessary to be re-settled for his Majesty's service”: therefore they now propose an Establishment for such a smack at Hull with station from
Newcastle to Humber; with a commander, William Robinson, at 50l. per an.; a mate, Francis Gream, at 25l. per an.; 11 mariners at 15l. per an. each; a boy at 8l. per an.; and allowance of victualling for 14 men at 7½d. a day each: total Establishment, 407l. 13s. 9d. per an. Out Letters (Customs) XVI, pp. 268–9. |
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Treasury reference to the Board of Works of the petition of James
Thornhill shewing that he was employed by the Earl of Halifax to paint the ceiling of a room in the Palace of Hampton Court called, or intended to be, the Prince and Princess's [of Wales] Bedchamber;
which being completely finished he prays payment for the same in such manner as hath been usual. Reference Book IX, p. 253. |
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Same to the Comptroller of the 1,500,000l. Lottery anno 1711, [9 Anne, c. 6], and to the Paymaster thereof, of the petition of
Elizabeth Jeffs for innovation of a lost order for 50l. thereon. Ibid., p. 254. |
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Treasury subscription for the execution of a warrant dated Aug. 12 last from the Duke of Bolton, Lord Chamberlain of the Household, to the Duke of Montague [Master of the Great Wardrobe] for allowing the following items which have been provided and hired by Mr. Lockman, one of his Majesty's Gentlemen. |
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Appending: list of said goods to a total of 393l. 0s. 10d., being household goods, upholsterer's work, hire of tapestry hangings, kitchen furniture; damask bought of Mr. Hinchliffe and of Mr. Hubert;
a screen; and goods bought of Mr. Hibbert. Warrants not Relating to Money XXIII, p. 253. |
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The Treasury Lords to the Lords Justices of Ireland to report on the enclosed petition [missing] of Ann, Mariana and Robert Ducasse praying a pension of 5s. a day each on the Establishment of Ireland
to preserve them from utter ruin: in regard of the loss of their uncle at the battle of Almanza and other their misfortunes. Out Letters
(Ireland) X, p. 7. |
| Sept. 24 |
Money order for 20l. to John Harrison, minister of Annapolis:
as royal bounty: to defray the charges of his return to Annapolis. Order Book IX, p. 131. |
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Jo. Taylour to the Commissioners of Transports. The owners of the transport ships who carried soldiers to Placentia have laid before my Lords their observations on your report relating to that service. I enclose it [missing] for you to report thereon to my Lords as soon as conveniently may be. Out Letters (General) XXI, p. 416. |
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Same to the Stamps Commissioners. My Lords have read your presentment of Thomas Winter to be distributor of stamps for Co. Kent loco George Bowles, whom you have removed from that employment. Send my Lords the reasons for your dismissal of Bowles and for the future always lay before my Lords the grounds and motives for removing any officers of the Stamp Duties and receive my Lords'
warrants or directions thereupon for so doing. Ibid.XXII, p. 1. |
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Treasury warrant to same to employ John Raynham as distributor of stamps for the town of Colchester, Co. Essex, loco Thomas
Streaton. Warrants not Relating to Money XXIII, p. 246. |
