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Letters Patent, Privy Seals, Royal Sign Manuals
and Warrants, Treasury Warrants, Commissions,
Orders, Letters, Memorials, Reports and Other
Entries: All Not of the Nature of Treasury
Minutes.
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Date.
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Nature and Substance of the Entry. |
Reference. |
| 1689-90.
Jan. 1. |
Royal warrant to William Harbord, Treasurer and
Paymaster General of the Forces employed for
the reduction of Ireland, to make the deduction of
12d. per £ from the pay of the Danish Forces employed
in his Majesty's service in like manner as
by the royal warrant of July 23 last is done from
the pay of his Majesty's Forces employed in the
reduction of Ireland : said deduction to be disposed
of in like manner, viz. as the King shall direct by
his sign manual. |
King's Warrant Book
XIV, p. 319. |
| Jan. 2. |
Treasury warrant to the Customs Cashier to pay
45l. 12s. 0d. to Henry Ayloffe, King's Remembrancer,
for one year to Christmas last for the
fees usually paid to him and his clerks by the
Customers of the [out]ports of England and Wales
for passing their accounts. |
Money Book X, p. 162. |
Same to same to pay same 340l. 14s. 4d. and 37l. 15s. 0d.
for parchment and other necessaries, detailed, for
blank books for the Customers, Comptrollers and
searchers in, respectively, the outports and London
port for one year ending Lady day next.
Prefixing : bill of said necessaries (the parchment
being charged at 50s. the roll). |
Ibid, pp. 162, 163. |
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Money warrant for 8l. to Edward Jones, Receiver
General of the 'present' Aid for co. Carmarthen ;
for his extraordinary charges in bringing to Chester
850l. of his receipts thereof. (Money order dated
Feb. 4 hereon.) |
Ibid, p. 165. Order Book
III, p. 54. |
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William Jephson to the Auditor of the Receipt to
satisfy out of any disposable money in the Exchequer,
after completion of Mr. Dyves' 1,500l. loan as follows,
the 525l. ordered Nov. 9 last, supra, p. 299, to
Col. Wolseley : it appearing that Mr. Dyves did
lend 1,000l. the 20th ult. on the 12d. Aid, ut supra,
ibid, but the credit thereon being completed he is
willing to lend the remaining 500l. on the 2s. Aid. |
Disposition Book VIII,
p. 73. |
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Same to Mr. Mountague to lay before the King in
Council the enclosed presentment [missing] of
Dec. 31 last from the Customs Commissioners for
taking off the stop on ships bound for Portugal
which have lead on board. |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 154. |
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Sam. Langford (in William Jephson's absence) to
Mr. Sansom for an account of what sums have
been furnished by the Customs collectors in the
North to Mr. Fotherby for the use of the Danish
Forces ; and of the answers from the said collectors
etc. to the Treasury letters requiring said payments
to be made. (The like letter to Mr. Noell for the
Excise officers.) |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 154. |
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Same to same. What answer is received from the
officer at Chester to the Treasury letter of Nov. 23
last requiring 500l. to be paid to Henry Greenhill,
which money "I find" was upon account of the
Danish Forces? (The like letter to Mr. Noell regarding
the 1,000l. similarly ordered [from the Excise].) |
Ibid. |
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The Treasury Lords to the [Assessment] Commissioners
for the 2s. Aid in co. Beds (and the like for
every respective county, city and place as in the
Act for said Aid). The remiss execution of the
Act for the 12d. Aid has caused that tax to fall
very short of what was justly expected from it.
We earnestly recommend to you to diligently
intend the execution of the present Act and to
take especial care to appoint able and conscientious
assessors in your respective divisions and to
administer them the oaths prescribed by the said
Act : and also that you will have regard to the
review of the 12d. Aid as by a clause in the said
Act. |
Ibid, p. 155. |
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Treasury fiat for royal letters patent to constitute
James Howard, esq., as Customer of Berwick port
loco James Waring. |
Out Letters (Customs) XII,
p. 96. |
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Treasury reference to the Surveyor General of Crown
Lands of the petition of Sir Tho. Wilbraham, bart.,
for a grant of the [Crown reversion of the] manor
of Mottram in Longdendale, co. Chester, granted
by Mary I to Richard Wilbraham and Dorothy
his wife, being [then] of the value of 400l. per an.,
but now leased at 89l. 13s. 0d. ; same being now
vested in petitioner, and he desirous of settling
it on Thomas Newport, his grandchild, and other
the younger sons of Richard Newport, but cannot
dispose thereof by law while the reversion remains
in the Crown. |
Reference Book VI, p. 114. |
| Jan. 3. |
Money warrant for 83l. 6s. 8d. to the University of
Cambridge for 6¼ years to 1688, Lady day, on the
perpetuity for a Divinity Lecturer. |
Money Book X, p. 164. |
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Same for 45l. to John Newsham, Receiver of the
late Six Months' Assessment and the Poll in cos.
Warwick and Coventry, for his charges in bringing
up to London under strong guard 11,500l. of his
receipts in three journeys. (Money order dated
Jan. 11 hereon.) |
Ibid, p. 164. Order Book
III, p. 51. |
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Same for 30l. to the Agents for Taxes as on behalf
of abovesaid Newsham, being overpaid by him
on account of the abovesaid [Six Months'] Tax.
They are immediately to repay same into the
Exchequer on said Newsham's account of the
12d. Aid for said county. (Money order dated
Jan. 11 hereon.) |
Money Book X, p. 167.
Order Book III, p. 51. |
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Treasury warrant to the Receipt to take in loans
from any person on the 2s. Aid and to deliver out
tallies of loan and to draw orders of repayment
with 7 per cent interest etc. as in the Act for said
Aid. |
Money Book X, p. 165. |
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William Jephson to the Auditor of the Receipt to
issue to Mr. Perkins the 6,000l. reserved in the
Exchequer for the King's particular direction : as
in part of 12,000l. for a jewel. |
Disposition Book VIII,
p. 73. |
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Same to the Customs Commissioners to discharge the
seizure of some cloth sent from York for clothing
Col. Mackay's and Col. Ramsey's Regiments in
Scotland, same having been seized by the Customs
officer at Berwick. It is to pass Customs free. |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 155. |
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Same to the Earl of Ranelagh. It is the King's
pleasure that John Lehunt be continued on the
[Army pension] list for his pension of 6s. a day
and that Michael Robinson be inserted in the list
for half pay of a quartermaster. |
Ibid, p. 156. |
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Same to the Excise Commissioners to report on the
enclosed proposal [missing] for farming the Excise
upon strong waters at 14,000l. per an. rent. |
Ibid. |
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Treasury order to the Customs Commissioners to
observe an order of the King in Council, prefixed,
dated Whitehall, Jan. 2 inst., for the said Commissioners
to permit any ships whatsoever, laden with
lead, to depart on their voyages : notwithstanding
the Order in Council of Dec. 19 last : the present
order being made after reading a presentment
from said Commissioners concerning merchant ships
trading to Portugal. |
Out Letters (Customs) XII,
p. 95. |
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Treasury warrant to same to employ Thomas Temple
as a coastwaiter, London port, loco Thomas Wisdome,
who has relinquished same ; said Temple having
been faithfully employed a considerable time at
the quays in delivering goods. |
Ibid, p. 96. |
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Treasury reference to Mr. Blathwayt of the petition
of Chidly Brook, praying the usual advance of 100l.
for expedition [or equipment and passage] money
and 30l. for [office] books, he being constituted
Receiver of New York. |
Reference Book VI, p. 114.
Out Letters (Plantations
General) I, p. 320. |
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Treasury order for the execution of a warrant of
Dec. 28 last from the Earl of Dorset, Lord Chamberlain,
to Sir Gilbert Talbot, Master of the Jewel
House, for the delivery to William Sampson, Cock
of the King's house, of one piece of plate "after
the fashion of a cock and also the Crown and letters
W. R. such as have formerly been delivered." |
Warrants not Relating to
Money XIII, p. 124. |
| Jan. 4. |
William Jephson to the Auditor of the Receipt to
issue as follows out of any disposable money in
the Exchequer, viz. : |
Disposition Book VIII,
p. 73. |
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l. |
s. |
d. |
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to Mr. Harbord to be paid to
Monsieur Overkirk for buying
horses for recruits for Ireland |
2,450 |
0 |
0 |
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to the Earl of Ranelagh for recruits
for Visct. Colchester's Regiment. |
1,800 |
0 |
0 |
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[to ditto for] subsistence [of the
Forces] |
3,418 |
18 |
0 |
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to Mr. Smith for [Crown] lawsuits |
100 |
0 |
0 |
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to the Privy Purse |
500 |
0 |
0 |
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to me [Jephson] for secret service |
500 |
0 |
0 |
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£8,768 |
18 |
0 |
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William Jephson to the Customs Commissioners, enclosing
a copy [missing] of an Order in Council of the 2nd
inst. concerning merchant ships outward bound.
Send with all speed the account required, and review
and examine the lists mentioned in said order. |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 156. |
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Same to the Excise Commissioners. The Treasury
Lords direct you to forthwith lend again into the
Exchequer the 25,000l. which you received back
two or three days ago of your loans on the impositions
appropriated to the States General, same to
be towards further satisfaction of the debt due to
the said States. |
Ibid. |
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Same to the Earl of Kingston. The Treasury Lords
will hear Mr. John Mason on Friday next. Please
attend by counsel then. |
Ibid. |
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Same to Mr. Dickens. My Lords have read your
memorial of Dec. 16 last. As to the 1st, 2nd and
3rd articles relating to wastes, spoils, embezzlements
etc. in New Forest and the claims of the
Master Keeper of Burley Bailiwick, my Lords
think the offenders ought to be presented at the
Swanemoot Courts and direct you to do so, but
if no proper remedies be provided to punish same
and prevent same for the future you are to report
to my Lords and they will send down Serjt. Ryley.
As to the 4th article, whether the wood claimed
by fuellers should be assigned them by the officers
of the forest or they left at liberty to take same,
as they claim, my Lords think it most absolute
for the King's service that an assignment be given
them from time to time by the proper officers. |
Ibid, p. 158. |
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Same to Mr. Blathwayt to procure a royal warrant
for allowing in William Harbord's account [of
moneys for the service of the Forces in Ireland]
the following items, on his producing vouchers for
[shewing he has paid] same : |
Ibid, p. 161. |
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l. |
s. |
d. |
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to Monsieur Sculimberg at the
Hague |
3,000 |
19 |
4 |
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Lord Auverquer[qu]e to buy horses |
2,200 |
0 |
0 |
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Mr. Whitley's bill |
200 |
0 |
0 |
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Monsieur Van Lone for medicaments |
400 |
0 |
0 |
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Tho. Fotherby, esq., for subsistence
[money to the] Danes [Forces] |
12,000 |
0 |
0 |
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Mr. Morgan Whitley's bill |
3,000 |
0 |
0 |
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Mr. Gringill's bill |
500 |
0 |
0 |
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the Censors of the College of
Physicians for drugs for the
Army |
1,417 |
0 |
0 |
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Mr. Fotherby for the Duke of
Wurtemberg. |
510 |
0 |
0 |
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subsistence [money] for a Company
of Danish Foot at Chester |
200 |
0 |
0 |
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£23,427 |
19 |
4 |
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Treasury reference to Mr. Fillingham et al. of the
petition of John Brice, gent., Receiver General of
the 'present' Aid in co. Somerset, praying an
allowance for his extraordinary charges therein. |
Reference Book VI, p. 114. |
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Same to the Customs Commissioners of the petition
of Josuah Solard, a French Protestant, for the
delivery of 20 hogsheads of molasses imported from
France and seized as being forbidden to be imported
by a late order and by reason of the prohibition
he cannot export them and same are lying in a
perishing condition in the warehouse at a charge
of 6s. per week. |
Ibid. |
| Jan. 7. |
Treasury warrant to Tho. Fox, the Customs Cashier,
to pay John Taylor 37l. 10s. 0d. for making an
account of the receipt and particular application
of the revenue of the Customs and for other services
between Michaelmas and Christmas, 1689. |
Money Book X, p. 166. |
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Money warrant for 500l. to Aaron Smith for Crown
Law charges. (Money order dated Jan. 8 hereon,
together with : a later undated order of the succeeding
Treasury Lords [subsequent to 1689-90, Mar. 18]
for the execution of the unsatisfied remainder
thereof.) |
Ibid, p. 166. Order Book
III, p. 51. |
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Same for 40l. to John Cruwys, esq., Receiver General
of the Poll for co. Devon and Exeter, for his services
in getting in 12,045l. 10s. 0d., being his receipts
thereof. (Money order dated Jan. 13 hereon.) |
Money Book X, p. 167.
Order Book III, p. 52. |
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William Jephson to the Auditor of the Receipt to
issue 161l. 5s. 6d. to Sir John Hewley and 45l. to
Mr. Newsham. |
Disposition Book VIII,
p. 74. |
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Same to same to issue, out of any unappropriated
money in the Exchequer, 2,000l. to the Treasurer
of the Navy ; 1,500l. thereof to be imprested to
Capt. Greenhill for the transport ship now in service
and 500l. towards payment of the transporting
ships now discharged. |
Ibid. |
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Same to the Commissioners for Coining Tin Farthings.
In reply to your presentment of the 2nd inst., my
Lords direct you to deliver to William Harbord
all such farthings as you have already coined and
what you shall hereafter coin till further order
herein. Harbord is to pay you for same and to
take care of transporting them to Ireland. |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 157. |
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Same to said Harbord, apprising him of the above.
Send said farthings to Ireland for the use of the
King's Army there without disposing of any of
them here. |
Ibid. |
Same to the Customs Commissioners, enclosing (a)
infra. Send to the Admiralty the lists and accounts
required.
Appending : (a) letter dated Jan. 6 inst. from the
Admiralty Lords to the Treasury Lords. At our
late attending the King in the Robes Chamber he
ordered us to obtain a perfect list of the names of
all ships going abroad from the outports and the
number of men borne and allowed to each ship.
Please order this from the Customs Commissioners.
We have already received from the [Privy] Council
two lists, one of ships going from London port,
giving the men each carries, and one for the
outports, giving only the number of ships and men
in general. Till this latter return be made in the
method of the list for London port we cannot give
the directions which the King ordered us to. |
Ibid. |
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Treasury order for the execution of a warrant of the
2nd inst. from the Earl of Dorset, Lord Chamberlain,
to Sir Gilbert Talbot, Master of the Jewel House,
for the delivery to John Webb, his Majesty's fowl
keeper in St. James's Park, of two pieces of plate
for badges, one to be a duck and the Crown with
the letters W. R. for the breast and the other a
dolphin and Crown with the same letters for the
back : all of the quantity and proportion as
formerly. |
Warrants not Relating to
Money XIII, p. 126. |
| Jan. 8. |
William Jephson to Mr. Stephens to forthwith send
the order for 15,000l. to the Downs that it may be
ready there to be assigned to yourself by Admiral
Russell as soon as he comes thither from Holland.
It is a matter of importance. |
Disposition Book VIII,
p. 74. |
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Treasury reference to Aaron Smith [the Treasury
Solicitor] of the petition of Alice Bond, Mary
Greening, Mary Gardner, Susan Jones, "et al." prisoners
in New Prison, praying to be discharged, they
being unable to pay their misdemeanour fines :
said petition being referred from the King to the
Treasury Lords Jan. 6 inst. |
Reference Book VI, p. 115. |
| Jan. 9. |
Treasury warrant to the Customs Cashier to pay
11l. 5s. 0d. to Capt. Edwd. Furlong for three quarters
to Sept. 29 last (when he was dismissed) on his
salary as late a King's waiter, Bristol port. |
Money Book X, p. 166. |
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William Jephson to the Auditor of the Receipt to
satisfy out of any unappropriated money in the
Exchequer the 2,000l. ordered Dec. 19 last, supra,
p. 337, for Capt. Michael Studholme : it appearing
from your certificate that said Studholme has
procured 5,000l. to be lent into the Exchequer,
ut supra, ibid. |
Disposition Book VIII,
pp. 74-5. |
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Same to Mr. Mountague to lay before the King in
Council the enclosed presentment [missing] of the
8th inst. from the Customs Commissioners concerning
taking bonds of all ships, not fully laden, bound
for Spain and Portugal. |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 158. |
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Same to the Earl of Kingston. The business about
Mason and his partners is put off till Monday next,
as my Lords are to attend the King at Kensington
to-morrow afternoon. |
Ibid, p. 159. |
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Same to Mr. Bowles. I have read to my Lords the
Admiralty Lords' letter of the 4th inst. desiring
that the Excise officers in Plymouth port may be
ordered to supply John Addis, the King's storekeeper
and muster master there, with what money
he needs on his giving bills for same on the Navy
Commissioners. My Lords desire to know what
services the credit is to be applied to and what
sums will be requisite. They have already given
order that credit shall be given in said port to the
Victualling Commissioners for such sums as they
shall have occasion for. |
Ibid. |
Copy of an order of the King in Council, dated Whitehall
this day, prescribing the following table of
allowances to ambassadors for their extraordinaries,
being as reported [and proposed] by the Secretaries
of State and the Treasury Lords in a report,
appended, of Dec. 13 last : viz. :
to the Ambassadors to Spain, France, Holland,
400l. each per quarter : to Sweden, Denmark "etc.,"
300l. each per quarter.
to the Envoys or Residents to the Emperor of
Germany, Spain, France, Holland, 150l. each per
quarter : to Sweden, Denmark, Venice or Florence,
100l. each per quarter : to Portugal, Savoy, Flanders,
Hamburg, Ratisbon, Luxembourg or to any other
of the Electors or Princes of Germany, and to
Switzerland, 75l. each per quarter.
and that no other extraordinaries be allowed
save by the King's particular order or for such
expences as shall appear absolutely necessary in
case there be not time to receive the King's directions
therein. |
Warrants not Relating to
Money XIII, pp. 1-2. |
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Treasury warrant to the King's Remembrancer for
constats or particulars of all the premises returned
in three several inquisitions taken at Monmouth
Oct. 4 last, Abergavenny Nov. 4 last and Harwoods
Inn, co. Hereford, Nov. 14 last, which were found
by jurors to have been settled to Jesuits or Popish
or superstitious uses, and which for that cause are
seized into the King's hands : all with a view to
the King's making a grant thereof : the premises
comprising lands, a priory house, chapel etc. |
Ibid, p. 123. |
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Report to the Treasury Lords from William Blathwaite
on the petition of Chidley Brook, ut supra,
p. 439. On the like petition of Mathew Plowman,
late collector of the revenue in New York, I certified
in 1687 that 100l. was advanced as half a year's
salary to his predecessor, Lucas Santon, and about
the same time 30l. 7s. 0d. was paid him for books,
papers etc. : and on said certificate I was directed
to allow Plowman 100l. and 30l. 16s. 0d. |
Out Letters (Plantations
General) I, pp. 320-1. |
| Jan. 10. |
William Jephson to the Customs Commissioners,
enclosing (a) infra. Send with all speed the list
desired.
Appending : (a) order of the King in Council, dated
Whitehall, Jan. 9 inst., ordering an exact list to
be procured of all the ships with their complement
of men that have gone out of any of the ports of
the kingdom within these last three months past :
and also of what ships are now going out and of
their respective number of seamen. |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 159. |
Same to the Solicitor General to report his opinion
on the following paper, which my Lords have
received from Mr. Hartley concerning the review
of the Poll. My Lords think it of great consequence
to his Majesty's service. You are to discourse Mr.
Hartley thereon.
Appending : said paper : (1) Reasons why no more
money was raised by the Poll Act : many parishes
not rated ; many persons not rated at half ; most
servants not rated proportionate to wages ; many
esquires and others so reputed not rated as such ;
many gent. and so reputed not rated as such ;
many lawyers and physicians under rated ; many
officers under rated : a method to prevent the like
abuse in the intended review of the Poll and [in] an
Additional Poll Act : the Commissioners named
in the Act for the 'present' Aid [1 Wm. and
Mary, c. 3] should be Commissioners for this Act :
they should have power by all lawful ways without
oath to enquire into the value and substance of
such persons as are chargeable and to set such
rates as are according to the intent of the said
[intended] Act. |
Ibid, p. 160. |
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William Jephson to the Customs Commissioners, enclosing
Tobiah Bilvah's petition [missing] for restoration
to his place as a landwaiter, London port, loco
John Hoard, lately deceased. Have you any
objections? |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 160. |
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Same to same, enclosing extracts [missing] of two
presentments from the Principal Commissioners for
Prizes. Have you any objections against doing
what is desired? |
Ibid. |
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Treasury reference to same of the petition of Thomas
Walker for a coastwaiter's place, London port. |
Reference Book VI, p. 115. |
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Same to Cha. Toll, Cha. Twitty, William Lowndes,
Tho. Townsend and Tho. Hall of the petition of
Isaac Cotton, one of the messengers [of the Chamber],
shewing that in the account of the arrears [of the
servants of Charles II] made up in the late King's
time he was by mistake of Mr. Dove left out for
180l. 0s. 7½d. [arrears due to him]. Prays that
same may be inserted in the account now making
[of the arrears due to the servants of Charles II]. |
Ibid. |
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Same to the Customs Commissioners of the petition
of Samuell Hayne for the office of Petty Customer
Outwards, London port. |
Ibid, p. 127. |
