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| Date. |
Nature and Substance of the Entry. |
Reference. |
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Aug. 16
and 18. |
William Jephson to the Auditor of the Receipt to
take in the 6,500l. in guineas at 1l. 2s. 0d. each
which Mr. Evance has agreed to lend. My Lords
will take care that they be issued out again at the
same equivalence. (Cancelled and replaced by a
letter on Aug. 18 shewing that the said 6,500l. so
to be taken in guineas from Mr. Evance was by
him desired to be so accepted as part of the 8,000l.
lent into the Exchequer the 14th inst. in the name
of Thomas Lake, esq., on credit of the Post Office
revenue.) |
Disposition Book IX,
pp. 2, 3.
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Aug. 16. |
Same to the Customs Commissioners to deliver and
open at William Harbord's house in Newport Street
some goods lately arrived from Holland, on payment
of Custom.
Appending : schedule of said goods (chocolate for
the Earl of Portland ; a tea drum for the Queen ;
Delft ware for Mr. Russell and me [? means Harbord]
and clothes and plate for my own journey and
my servants ; goods for Mris. Goldsey, including
linen for Mademoiselle Schlestine, one of the Queen's
dressers ; "in one of my trunks is a box signed
and sealed by the Brandenburgh Envoy at the
Hague and directed to my Lord Nottingham, being
Articles of Peace" ; 2lb. of tea for the Earl of
Nottingham from Visct. Dursley). |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 344b.
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Same to Mr. Gregor to give my Lords an account
forthwith what you have done in relation to the
tin which you were desired to buy for the King's
service. |
Ibid.
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|
Same to the Customs Commissioners, enclosing a
letter [missing] from the Victualling Commissioners
concerning the shipping of 150 tons of defective
provisions to the Western Islands by Mr. Nelson,
Customs free, to whom they have sold the said
provisions. You are to permit Nelson to ship same
in the Prince of Orange. Josuah Daniell master,
Customs free, in order to their transport to the
Western Islands. |
Ibid, p. 345.
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Aug. 18. |
Money warrant for 150l. to William Snow, Mahaleel
Windham, John Smart, Thomas Romerill (Romerith),
John Hankox (Hanckox), David Davis, John Lea
(Lex) and Ralph Bradford, the present eight doorkeepers
of the House of Peers, for their attendance
and service in the last three sessions of Parliament.
(Money order dated Aug. 19 hereon.) |
Money Book X, p. 450.
Order Book III, p. 114.
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Same for 45l. to John Troy, Solicitor in co. Kent for
the 12d. Aid [1 Wm. and Mary, c. 20], for his great
pains and expences therein, whereby he much
improved the produce of that tax there. (Money
order dated Aug. 19 hereon.) |
Money Book X, p. 450.
Order Book III, p. 114.
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|
Treasury warrant dormant to the Customs Cashier
to pay Roger Clutterbuck's salary of 10l. per an. as
searcher of Southampton port. |
Money Book X, p. 451.
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Money warrant for 30l. 10s. 0d. to the churchwardens
of St. Michael, Cornhill, for 2½ years to June 24
last on their perpetuity of 12l. 4s. 0d. for the maintenance
of the poor there. |
Ibid.
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|
Money warrant for 100l. to Richard Cocks, Solicitor to
the Commissioners for the 12d. Aid in cos. Gloucester,
Worcester and Hereford, for his expenses and
services therein, by which he improved that tax
2,000l. more than the former Aid : to be satisfied
out of the moneys of said Aid. (Money order
dated Aug. 19 hereon.) |
Money Book X, pp. 451-2.
Order Book III, p. 114.
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|
Treasury warrant to the Receipt to issue to Charles
Bertie, Treasurer of the Ordnance, by way of
imprest the 9,182l. 0s. 7½d. remaining of the 30,000l.
worth of guns, shot, granados etc. which Thomas
Westerne contracted to deliver to the Office of
Ordnance : towards which contract he has [already
delivered to the value of 20,817l. 19s. 4½d. and
had money warrants and orders thereupon and
advancing the money for same has] had orders of
loan to that amount, viz. as follows : 1690, April 4,
1,000l., 1,000l., 1,000l., 1,000l., 916l. 18s. 3d. ;
June 25, 7,265l. 2s. 0d. ; July 24, 4,325l. 13s. 1d. ;
Aug. 15, 4,310l. 6s. 0½d. The total thereof,
20,817l. 19s. 4½d., is hereby to be satisfied with
interest out of the loans on the 2s. Aid [1 Wm. and
Mary, Sess. 2, c. 1] in their proper order on the
register of said loans. The balance of 9,182l. 0s. 7½d.
remaining of said contract is hereby to be issued
to the Paymaster of the Ordnance as above, it
being certified that Westerne is under contract for
said balance and has provided the goods and divers
of them lie ready for proof. But no interest is to
be made payable in orders of loan for this last named
sum, which it is intended that the Paymaster of
the Ordnance shall pay over to him when and as
the debentures are regularly made forth in the
Ordnance Office. [There is no order of loan hereon
in the Order Book.] |
Money Book X, pp. 453-4.
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Money warrant for 90l. to Geo. Oxinden, esq., for
2¼ years to Lady day last on his fee as Professor
of Civil Law in the University of Cambridge. |
Ibid, p. 454.
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|
Same for 375l. to Sir Algernoon May for three quarters
to June 24 last on his pension in recompense for
his office of Keeper of the Records in the Tower. |
Ibid, p. 458.
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Aug. 18
and 23. |
William Jephson to the Auditor of the Receipt to
issue to the Treasurer of the Navy for the subsistence
of the Marine Regiments (being 3,000l. for each
Regiment) the 6,000l. which Mr. John Carpenter
has agreed to lend on credit of the unappropriated
Excise. (Cancelled and replaced by a like letter
of Aug. 23 for the issue of 6,000l. to same for said
Marine Regiments out of the 6,000l. which will
be lent on credit of the said Excise by the Treasurer
of the Navy or by Mr. Stephens, his deputy.) |
Disposition Book IX,
pp. 2, 6.
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Aug. 18. |
Same to same to issue (out of the money reserved
in the Exchequer for the Treasurer of the Chamber)
498l. 11s. 0d. to Sir Rowland Gwynn, said Treasurer ;
to be by him paid to Robert Greenway, their
Majesties' locksmith. |
Ibid, p. 3.
|
Same to the Earl of Nottingham to give order for a
royal warrant for granting to Derick Storke, his
Majesty's body coachman, the profits of the toll
of the Haymarket, which he has petitioned for
and which his Majesty has been pleased to grant
him.
Appending : said petition (undated) for said toll,
consisting of 6d. for every load of hay and 2d. for
every load of straw sold there : the King having
promised said grant to petitioner at the intercession
of the Earl of Portland and Lord Overkirke. |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 345. Reference Book
VI, p. 224.
|
Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners to
stop the vessel as in (a) infra and to report on the
petition therein.
Prefixing : (a) Order of the Queen in Council, dated
Whitehall, Aug. 15 inst., made upon reading a
petition of John Briscoe concerning the vessel
St. Peter, laden with lead, sole leather and jumps
intended for Dunkirk and stopped by him at Deptford :
which petition is hereby referred to the
Treasury Lords and meanwhile the vessel is to
be stayed. |
Out Letters (Customs) XII,
p. 180.
|
Same to same to employ William Williams as waiter
and searcher at Stonehouse in Plymouth port loco
Jonathan Fryer, deceased.
John Man as boatman in Colchester port loco
Thomas Child, lately dismissed.
John Smyth as same in Newhaven port loco
Henry Peircy, dismissed. |
Ibid, pp. 180, 181.
|
Treasury reference to William Lowndes of the petition
of several officers of the Yard at Portsmouth,
shewing that they are again assessed to the present
[Second] Poll for their salaries and have been forced
to avoid distress by payment ; that they are informed
they are exempt by the Act [of 2 Wm.
and Mary, c. 2, for the Second Poll], "being in
muster and pay by land, upon which the other
[Naval] Yards are eased" ; therefore praying relief.
Prefixing : Order of the Queen in Council, dated
Whitehall, July 18 last, referring said petition to
the Treasury Lords. |
Reference Book VI, p. 221.
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|
Same to Mr. Knight of the petition of Sir Charles
Porter, Remembrancer of First Fruits and Tenths,
shewing that he was ordered to take no fees from
such of the clergy as should pay their whole [Tenths]
dues beforehand "praemanibus," which petitioner has
done since 1677, Christmas, whereby there is due
[to him for such fees] 148l. 11s. 2d. : and likewise
there is due to him 146l. 13s. 4d. for two years' yearly
allowance for the Chief Baron's Auditor's fees in
passing accounts : therefore praying a warrant
to the Receiver of First Fruits and Tenths to pay
said 295l. 4s. 6d. |
Ibid.
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|
Treasury warrant to the King's Remembrancer to
take bond in 5,000l. from Ralph Snow for his trust
as Receiver sede vacante of the temporalities of the
Archbishopric of Canterbury. |
Warrants not Relating to
Money XIII, p. 333.
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|
Aug. 19. |
William Jephson to the Auditor of the Receipt to
direct the Tellers to receive from Thomas Fox,
upon account of his receipt of the Customs,
2,462l. 17s. 3d. in guineas at 1l. 1s. 9d. each, at
which rate he received the same from Charles Fox
in answer of two bills of exchange which he [Thomas
Fox] paid in silver. Care shall be taken that said
guineas be issued out again at the same equivalence. |
Disposition Book IX, p. 4.
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|
William Jephson to the Navy Commissioners to report
on the enclosed proposal [missing] presented to the
Treasury Lords by John Bowles, merchant, for the
measuring, surveying and superintending the burthen
and tonnage of all ships and vessels hired and taken
up for their Majesties' service and for the stating
and drawing out accounts of what is or shall be
due to any ships or vessels so employed. |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 345.
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|
Same to the Revenue Commissioners, Ireland, enclosing
the petition [missing] of Thomas Owgan for the
place of tidesurveyor at the Cove of Cork loco
Samuel Bolton, deceased. My Lords recommend
him for same, if you have no objections to him. |
Out Letters (Ireland) VI,
p. 32.
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|
Aug. 20. |
Treasury warrant to John Wildman, esq., Postmaster
General, to pay out of the revenue of the Penny Post
Office 70l. per an., by quarterly payments, to such
persons and in such proportions as he shall think
fit, as an increase of salary : all by reason that
Thomas Lawe and Francis Golling, respectively
Accomptant and Collector in the Penny Post Office,
have petitioned for an augmentation of salaries ;
upon which the said Postmaster General has reported
the 5th inst. that the small receipts out of which
that [the Penny Post Office] revenue arises are
exceeding numerous and constant entries must be
kept thereof, and the work of visiting all the several
offices which are very far distant from each other
and of supervising all the hourly messengers and
correcting their failures is exceeding laborious so
as to allow of no rest or intermission to the officers,
wherefore he proposed an allowance as above to
be disposed of and divided for increasing the salaries
of said Accomptant and Collector of the Penny
Post Office as shall be suitable to their merits, or
else to be in part for them and part for some
additional officer to help them to enable them to
visit more frequently the several offices and the
walks of the messengers ; a like allowance of 500l.
per an. additional having been made to the officers
of the General Post Office for increase of salaries. |
Money Book X, pp. 455-6.
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|
Same to same to direct the Receiver General of the
Post Office to pay 434l. 3s. 0d. to Francis Bastinck,
undertaker and contractor for furnishing pacquet
boats at Dover, as towards his claim of 496l. 0s. 5d.,
ut supra, pp. 580-1 ; on which claim the said
Postmaster General has reported July 31 last
advising allowance of 24l. for wages of the extraordinary
seamen for the Newport pacquet boat ;
260l. for the boat and its furniture taken by the
French ; 149l. 13s. 0d. for disbursements for the
maintenance of prisoners ut ibid. : making 434l. 3s. 0d.
in all. |
Ibid, p. 459.
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|
William Jephson to the Victualling Commissioners.
My Lords have considered the article in your late
memorial which relates to the 9,055l. 3s. 3d. comprehended
in the list delivered by the last [late]
Commissioners of the Victualling to be satisfied
out of the [400,000l.] moneys appropriated [by
the Act of 1 Wm. and Mary, Sess. 2, c. 1], being
due for cask, demurrage, freight, iron bars, ropes,
tar, clothes, printing, and for glaziers, masons,
plumbers, smiths etc. My Lords have also perused
the opinion of the Attorney General that what is
used and commonly comprehended in the account
of victuals supplied to the Navy may be paid out
of the said appropriated money. My Lords have
therefore no doubt but that the said particulars,
if they be incident charges relating to the Victualling
and such as have been usually allowed in Victualling
accounts, are to be paid for out of the said appropriated
money. |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 346.
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|
Treasury reference to William Blathwayte [as Auditor
General of the Plantations] of the petition of Jahleel
Brenton, shewing that the place of Surveyor of
Woods in the Colonies of New England is at present
vacant and by reason of such vacancy great waste
and spoil will in all probability be daily committed
by cutting down and defrawing such trees as would
make the best masts in the whole world for the
Navy: therefore praying for said employment
"as the yearly supply from thence doth much
conduce to their Majesties' service, as also the
trade therein and the profit thereby may be further
increased to the full supply of this kingdom without
any dependency on any other for the same." |
Reference Book VI, p. 222.
Out Letters (Plantations
Auditor) I, p. 335.
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|
Same to the Customs Commissioners of the petition
of John Taylor, merchant, shewing that in May
last he contracted to deliver, this summer, a considerable
quantity of masts into the stores and was
promised immediate convoy for such ships as he
should send from England to import same ; but
that convoy was not allowed of when expected and
the time being uncertain when his Majesty's other
occasions would admit of it, petitioner ordered his
factor at Riga to freight one or more Swedish ships
to load said masts bought there ; and accordingly
freighted the City of Riga, Leonard Goasten master,
but same with her lading of masts and clap boards
etc. is seized by the Customs officer at Deptford
on the pretext that said ship was not built in Sweden,
which is unknown to petitioner, he having freighted
her for a free Swede : therefore praying a discharge
of said seizure. |
Reference Book VI, p. 222.
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|
Same to same of the petition of Nathaniell Gould to
the like effect concerning his freighting the Armes
of Riga, Hans Garretz master, for bringing contract
naval stores from thence, which is now seized in
London on the like pretext, although petitioner had
the greatest assurance of the ship's freedom, [she]
having laden the same goods three several times for
England before. |
Ibid, p. 223.
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|
Same to same of the petition of Benedicto Bassano,
shipowner, shewing that in March last he and some
other merchants laded his ship at San Remo with
1,200 chests of lemons for Rotterdam and unladed
there about the middle of July last ; that said ship
sailed thence to Lisbon and in her passage was
overtaken by one of his Majesty's ships and brought
into Dartmouth about the end of July and was
brought to a trial in the Admiralty Court, when
it appeared that she was a free ship of Genoa and
bound from a free port to a free port, whereof
Sir Cha. Hedges, Judge of said Court, was well
satisfied and did declare there was no just cause
for seizing her and decreed her restoration : but
petitioner is informed that she is since stopped by
Order in Council upon a misinformation of some
malicious persons. |
Ibid.
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|
Treasury warrant to the Clerk of the Pipe for a new
grant to Stephen Godfrey of the offices of bailiff
and collector of the Liberty of the late Monastery
of St. Mary near the walls of the city of York and
of the manor of Whitgift and Armin, co. Yorks ;
his patent for same being only during pleasure and
therefore void by the present King's accession. |
Warrants not Relating to
Money XIII, p. 334.
|
|
Entry of a memorandum [of a Treasury memorial to
the Privy Council] as follows. The Treasury Lords
have received certain information of a wreck
discovered upon the Serranillas about 40 leagues
south of the west end of Jamaica, where several
of his Majesty's subjects have already taken up
silver and continue at work to come at the hulk
of the ship, wherein they have received disturbance
from the French, as they may do from other nations
and the privateers in those parts ; therefore their
Lordships propose that a small fourth rate frigate
may be sent out of the Squadron now at the Leeward
Isles to Jamaica and thence to said wreck with
orders to countenance and protect the King's
subjects at the wreck for such a time as may be
requisite and to follow such other directions as the
commander thereof may receive from the Admiralty
at the instance of the Treasury Lords. |
Out Letters (Plantations
General) I, pp. 324-5.
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|
Aug. 21. |
William Jephson to the Auditor of the Receipt to
take in at the Receipt guineas from the Chamberlain
of London at 1l. 2s. 0d. each for what money he
shall this day lend on the unappropriated Excise.
The Tellers are to note on their bills how many
guineas they so receive. |
Disposition Book IX, p. 4.
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|
Same to same to issue as follows out of the 15,113l. 5s. 6d.
residue of 38,500l. reserved for the Treasury Lords'
disposal and out of any other disposable moneys
in the Exchequer : viz. : |
Ibid, p. 5.
|
|
|
l. |
s. |
d.
|
|
to the Treasurer of the Navy for
the current service of the Navy |
2,000 |
0 |
0
|
|
to Dr. Colvile |
20 |
0 |
0
|
|
to Emanuel College in Cambridge |
50 |
0 |
0
|
|
to the Dean and Chapter of Westminster
for the French ministers
at the Savoy |
60 |
0 |
0
|
|
to Serjt. Topham for the doorkeepers
etc. of the House of
Commons |
80 |
0 |
0
|
|
to [the poor of] St. Michael's, Cornhill |
80 |
10 |
0
|
|
to Dr. Oxinden |
90 |
0 |
0
|
|
to the doorkeepers of the House of
Peers |
150 |
0 |
0
|
|
to Serjt. Trenchard, surplus [fees] |
73 |
9 |
6
|
|
to the Vicars [Choral] of Lichfield
[Cathedral] |
45 |
0 |
0
|
|
to the poor of St. James's [Westminster] |
50 |
0 |
0
|
|
to Mris. Cock |
20 |
0 |
0
|
|
to Southwell School[master] |
20 |
0 |
0
|
|
to the Vicars of the Tower of
London |
43 |
6 |
8
|
|
to Mr. Fox for the shoemakers
employed by Col. Godfrey |
600 |
0 |
0
|
|
to ditto for Mr. Wharton on
account of the carriage horses |
600 |
0 |
0
|
|
to ditto for 14 days' subsistence
for the Regiment of Horse under
Lord Cavendish |
420 |
0 |
0
|
|
to ditto for [ditto to] the Royal
Regiment of Dragoons |
560 |
0 |
0
|
|
to ditto f or [ditto to] Col. Beaumont's
Regiment of Foot |
357 |
17 |
0
|
|
to ditto for [ditto to] Col. Hasting's
Regiment |
357 |
17 |
0
|
|
to ditto for a week's subsistence of
46 Gentlemen of the Guards |
46 |
0 |
0
|
|
to ditto to answer two bills of exchange
drawn by Mr. Coningsby,
one for 100l., the other for 50l. |
150 |
0 |
0
|
|
to ditto (which with 2,000l. already
at Chester makes 25,000l. to be
sent for Ireland) : whereof
21,613l. 5s. 6d. is to be in guineas
at 1l. 2s. 0d. each |
23,000 |
0 |
0
|
|
to the Treasurer of the Ordnance
towards the works at Sheerness |
600 |
0 |
0
|
|
to the Earl of Ranelagh for a
week's subsistence of the Forces
[in England and Holland] |
6,666 |
19 |
6 |
|
to ditto for the growing week's
subsistence : of which last two
items 2,462l. 17s. 3d. is to be in
guineas at 1l. 1s. 9d. each |
7,158 |
13 |
0 |
|
to Mr. Aaron Smith [for Crown
Law costs] |
400 |
0 |
0 |
|
to me [Jephson] for secret service |
1,100 |
0 |
0 |
|
to the Earl of Shrewsbury in part
of what is due to him |
500 |
0 |
0 |
|
to the Earl of Nottingham in part
of [3,000l. for] secret service |
500 |
0 |
0 |
|
to the Cofferer of the Household
upon account |
400 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
£46,149 |
12 |
8 |
|
William Jephson to Mr. Fox [Customs Cashier] to pay
into the Exchequer 500l. of Customs money per week
from this week to Nov. 1 next, for the Treasurer of
the Navy ; to be applied to the Victuallers. (Same
to the Auditor of the Receipt to so issue same to said
Treasurer as it is paid in to the Exchequer.) |
Disposition Book IX, p. 6.
|
|
Treasury reference to the Commissioners for Transporting
Forces to Ireland of the petition of Mark
Wildbore, praying payment of 1,480l. 9s. 6d. which
he expended by order of said Commissioners "as
by the account annexed" [missing]. |
Reference Book VI, p. 223. |
|
Aug. 22. |
Money warrant for 50l. to the churchwardens of
St. James's, Westminster, for one year to May 19
last on the annuity for the poor inhabitants there.
(Money order dated Aug. 23 hereon.) |
Money Book X, pp. 456,
456b. Order Book III,
p. 115. |
|
Same for 45l. to the Vicars [Choral] of Lichfield
Cathedral for three years to Christmas last on
their annuity. |
Money Book X, p. 456. |
|
Same for 50l. to the Master, Fellows and Scholars
of Emanuell College, Cambridge, for same to same
date on a perpetuity. |
Ibid, p. 457. |
|
Same for 43l. 6s. 8d. to the Vicars of the Tower of
London for 6½ years to 1688, Christmas, on a same. |
Ibid. |
|
Money warrant for 66l. 13s. 4d. each to Brook Bridges
and Tho. Done for one year to Lady day last on their
fee as Auditors of Imprests. |
Money Book X, p. 457. |
|
Same for 20l. to Thomas Haseldon, master of Southwell
School, for two years to Lady day last on a perpetuity. |
Ibid, p. 458. |
|
Same for 20l. to Robert Bertie for half a year to
June 24 last on the annuity for Mris. Mary Cock. |
Ibid. |
|
Same for 60l. to the Dean and Chapter of Westminster
for one year to June 24 last on the annuity for the
ministers of the French Church in the Savoy. |
Ibid, p. 459. |
|
Same for 20l. to the University of Cambridge for
two years to 1689, Michaelmas, on the perpetuity
for a preacher. |
Ibid, p. 460. |
|
William Jephson to the Excise Commissioners to satisfy
in their course without interest five tallies levied
this day for [in all] 1,301l. 11s. 7d. payable to
Edward Russell, Treasurer of the Navy, out of
the Hereditary Excise and the unappropriated
fourth part of the Excise. |
Disposition Book IX, p. 4. |
|
Same to the Auditor of the Receipt to order the
Tellers to take in guineas at 1l. 2s. 0d. each from
any lenders for a week from to-day. |
Ibid, p. 6. |
|
Same to same to issue the above 66l. 13s. 4d. each
to Auditors Bridges and Done out of the small
branches of the revenue reserved for officers and
ministers of the Exchequer. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to same to issue as follows out of any disposable
unappropriated moneys in the Exchequer : viz. : |
Ibid, p. 7. |
|
l. |
s. |
d. |
|
to the Earl of Ranelagh for one
month's pay to the six Regiments
that are now to embark at Portsmouth |
1,773 |
0 |
0 |
|
to ditto for a fortnight's subsistence
to the [same] soldiers |
2,151 |
6 |
0 |
|
to Mr. Fox for two months' pay
for the Regiments of Beaumont
and Hastings, being likewise to
embark |
1,171 |
0 |
0 |
|
to ditto for a fortnight's subsistence
to the [same] soldiers |
715 |
14 |
0 |
|
"You are to issue what guineas you have ovér
and above 5,811l., which was yesterday directed,
towards payment of this sum at 1l. 2s. 0d. each." |
|
Same to the Navy Commissioners to return to the
Treasury Mr. Bowles's proposal [supra, p. 783] on
which you have reported. |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 346. |
|
Same to Mr. Aaron Smith, enclosing the Earl of
Nottingham's letter of the 21st inst., signifying
the Queen's pleasure that the master of the Hopewell
and the merchant that sent lead on board her for
France be prosecuted for high treason. You are
to prosecute accordingly and to consult Mr. Hutchinson,
the solicitor of the Customs, about putting
in suit the ship's bond in 800l. not to go to France. |
Ibid, p. 347.
|
|
Same to the Customs Commissioners. Other great
quantities of defective provisions have been sold
[by the Victualling Commissioners] to Mr. Nelson,
as by advices from Portsmouth, which, with the
150 tons, supra, p. —, will make in all 300 tons.
You are to permit Nelson to ship same, Customs free. |
Ibid. |
Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners to
employ George Jackson as riding surveyor of
Customs at Lulworth in Weymouth port loco
Nicholas Culliford, who quits the service.
Hugh Keese as tidesman at Dartmouth loco
Stephen Harvey, who has quitted the employment.
Anthony Tayler as surveyor, waiter and searcher
at Bridgwater loco Roger Thirkly, who has quitted
the service.
Thomas Bankes as a coastwaiter, London port,
loco Wareham Jemmett, who is gone over into
Ireland. |
Out Letters (Customs) XII,
pp. 181, 182. |
|
Treasury confirmation of the warrant for 2,000l. to
Secretary the Earl of Nottingham for secret service,
ut supra, p. 11. |
Order Book III, p. 1. |
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Aug. 23. |
William Jephson to the Auditor of the Receipt to
issue to me for secret service (after first satisfying
former [existing] letters of direction) the 3,400l.
which Mr. Herne and Mr. Evance will lend into the
Exchequer on credit of the General Letter Office ; and
1,600l. out of any disposable money in the Exchequer. |
Disposition Book IX, p. 7. |
|
Same to Serjeant Ryley to take care that no Navy
timber be felled under the warrant of July 21 last,
supra, pp. 738-9, for 5,500l. worth of felling in
New Forest. If there chance to be any felled fit
for the Navy either as knees, standards or compass
timber you are to reserve them for that use. Certify
my Lords in what places of said forest 500 Navy
trees can best be spared. |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 348. |
|
Same to the Navy Commissioners. The Customs
Commissioners have applied to you for payment of
their expences in procuring what seamen they could
for the King's service : to which you answered that
you had no orders therein. The Treasury Lords
therefore desire you to pay such moneys under the
enclosed minute [missing], which was taken upon
the Order in Council of July 5 last directing the
Customs Commissioners to procure such seamen. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to the Customs Commissioners. On your report
on the petition of John Johnson, master of the
Amos of Stockholm, lately seized by your officers,
my Lords leave the matter to you to proceed according
to law. |
Ibid. |
|
Aug. 25. |
Treasury warrant to John Wildman, Postmaster
General, to pay Phillip Frowde 296l. 18s. 6d.,
which, with 78l. 1s. 6d. ordered April 15 last, supra,
p. 579, makes 375l., as for a quarter's salary to
1689, June 24, as late Governor of the Post Office,
he having been at great trouble and expence in
attending the making up of the accounts of that
Office. |
Money Book X, p. 460.
Order Book III, p. 116. |
|
Money warrant for 23l. 10s. 0d. to Symon Smith
for his charges in seizing into the Crown's hands
the estate of Sir Edmund Doyley on account of the
baronet fee of 1,095l. due from Doyly's grandfather.
(Money order dated Aug. 28 hereon.) |
Money Book X, p. 461. |
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Treasury warrant to John Smith, Receiver General
of Crown Revenues for London, Middlesex, Essex
and Herts, to pay 100l. to John Phelips, one of the
auditors of the revenue, for half a year to 1689,
Michaelmas, on his annuity or yearly pension
granted 1674-5, Feb. 27. |
Money Book X, p. 461. |
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William Jephson to the sheriffs of Middlesex to pay
into the Receipt the fine of 100l. lately set upon
John Clancy at the Quarter Sessions for Middlesex
as soon as you levy same. In the margin : "this
letter was cancelled." |
Disposition Book IX, p. 7. |
|
Same to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue to the
Earl of Ranelagh 100l. out of the above Clancy's
fine. In the margin : "this letter was cancelled." |
Ibid. |
|
Same to the Customs Commissioners. Hasten your
report on the East India Company's petition about
coffee. |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 349. |
Same to the Earl of Ranelagh to report on the enclosed
petition of William Wallis, agent to Col. Beveridge's
Regiment. Send my Lords a state of the case of
said Regiment.
Appending : said petition, shewing that said Regiment
is in arrears upwards of 15 months, for which the
officers are very pressing with petitioner for money
"and tells him that other Regiments which are
in Scotland have been paid their clearings some
time since till Jan. last." |
Ibid. |
|
Same to Mr. Browne. My Lords have desired Sir
Samuell Moreland to report concerning the mill
and engine at Windsor and in order thereto he
desires of you an exact account of what moneys
you have received since May, 1685, from Richard
Talbot, miller, and of what you have paid for
repairs of the mill and engine. Send this account
with all speed. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to Sir John Guise. In reply to yours of the
23rd inst. you are to voluntarily charge yourself
with what money you have received upon the late
Revolution "as is usual in the like cases." |
Ibid. |
|
Same to Mr. Gregor. In reply to yours of the 21st inst.
you are to send my Lords an account of what money
you have received and disbursed [in the purchase of
tin] and then they will give you further orders.
Also send them your opinion when will be the
best time to buy more tin, whether now or after
Michaelmas. |
Ibid, p. 350. |
|
Same to Mr. Russell [Treasurer of the Navy], enclosing
John Bowles's proposal touching the measuring
and tonnaging of merchant ships employed in the
King's service, together with the Navy Commissioners'
report thereon. The Treasury Lords agree
to that part of the proposal which relates to the
reward desired by Mr. Bowles and desire you to
lay the matter before the Admiralty Lords "that
you may there consider whether what is therein
proposed be practicable or how it may be made so." |
Ibid. |
|
Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners to
order that the allowances to the three superannuated
landwaiters in London port (viz. 40l. per an. to
Mr. Willey, 40l. to Mr. Bathurst and 30l. to Mr.
Turner) be for the future paid out of the [salaries
of the] six junior landwaiters as follows, viz. the
senior of them 10l. per an. and the other five
20l. per an. each and to be discharged in turns as
the said superannuated men die off or as other
junior landwaiters are admitted. |
Out Letters (Customs) XII,p. 182. |
|
Treasury reference to Aaron Smyth of the petition
of the ministers of the parish church of Leyland,
shewing that they petitioned to have settled on
the poor vicar of Leyland a house and lands in
said parish dedicated to superstitious uses, which
petition was referred by the Privy Council to the
Treasury and thence to the Attorney and Solicitor
General, who reported thereon, and thereupon
Mr. Smyth was ordered to prosecute the business
[of the seizure thereof] for the Crown, which has
been done : wherefore petitioners pray a settlement
of the house and lands accordingly. |
Reference Book VI, p. 224. |
|
Same to the Attorney General of the petition of
James Hardey, shewing that he is able to discover
certain lands in Staffordshire that do belong to the
Crown : therefore praying an inquisition in order
to a [seizure and] new lease thereof [to petitioner]. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands of
the petition of Jane Bake, executrix of Henry
FitzWilliams, setting forth that in 1689 said Henry
petitioned for extension of term in a house in the
Castle Close at Exeter and on reference Mr. Fisher
proposed a fine of 14l. for same : therefore praying
that on payment of said fine she may be admitted
to fill up said term. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to the Customs Commissioners of the petition
of Cornelius Gliften, shewing that he has made a
discovery for the removing of several officers of the
Excise, which will be much for the advantage of
the revenue ; therefore praying a place as landwaiter
or surveyor in the Customs. |
Ibid, p. 225. |
|
Same to same of the petition of Robert Clerke for a
landwaiter's place in any of the outports, he having
appeared in arms for the present King and being
fitly qualified for any station in the Customs. |
Ibid. |
Report [to the Treasury Lords from William Blathwayt]
on the petition of Mr. Brenton, ut supra, p. 784.
Within the Provinces of Maine and New Hampshire
in New England there is great store of excellent
timber for shipping and masts reputed to be the best
and largest in the world, which have not only been
made use of in New England and the Plantations,
but frequently brought into this kingdom for the
Royal Navy. These two Provinces were for many
years past possessed by the Corporation of the
Massachusetts Bay or Government of Boston in
New England ; in 1676 (upon a report of the two
Lord Chief Justices to the Privy Council) the
propriety of New Hampshire was adjudged to
belong to John Mason, esq., and the Government
thereupon vested in the Crown : and upon a judgment
given in the last year of Charles II against
the charter of the Massachusetts Bay the propriety
and Government of the Province of Maine were
also vested in the Crown. Thereupon a commission
was granted to Edward Randolph to be Surveyor of
the Woods in those Provinces. The timber and
masts are now very much exposed to destruction
and waste as well by the late invasion of the French
and Indians as otherwise and the preservation
thereof is of great necessity and benefit to the
shipping as well of New England and other Plantations
as also of this kingdom. This may well be
effected by such a survey [office] as is proposed
and by a careful execution of this office ; for which
I think petitioner very fit. "But inasmuch as the
Government of those Provinces has been lately
altered so as not to be at present under their
Majesties' immediate direction and authority I
humbly conceive it will be difficult for such a commission
from their Majesties to be put in force
until the jurisdiction and property of those countries
be brought under a due and proper settlement."
Prefixing : note of said petition and reference thereon,
ut supra. |
Out Letters (Plantations
General) I, pp. 335-6. |
|
Treasury confirmation of Symon Smith's order for
96l. 12s. 3d., ut supra, p. 508. |
Order Book III, p. 59. |
|
Aug. 26. |
Treasury reference to Auditor Bridges of the petition
of the inhabitants of Chester, Liverpool, Whitchurch
and Shrewsbury, shewing that they furnished
Mr. Frith at Chester with divers provisions for
the service of Ireland to the value of 4,200l., for
which there is credit allowed him in his accounts :
therefore praying that they may have a tally for
same on the Excise at the usual interest. |
Reference Book VI, p. 225. |
|
Aug. 27. |
Money warrant for 84l. to the Provost and Fellows
of Eton College for two years to Christmas last on
their perpetuity. |
Money Book X, p. 462. |
|
Treasury orders for the execution of dormant warrants
of 1689, June 21, for the salaries of Thomas Apprice
and William Talman as King's waiters, London
port, ut supra, p. 160. |
Ibid. |
|
Money warrant for 42l. 9s. 4d. to the churchwardens
of the parish of St. Magnus, London, for two years
to 1689, Michaelmas, on the perpetuity for the poor
of that parish. |
Ibid, p. 463. |
|
William Jephson to Mr. Kemp, undersheriff of Norfolk,
to forthwith pay into the Exchequer the moneys
levied on the estate of Sir William Doyley on the
baronet fee debt of 1,095l. due to the Crown from
Sir William Doyley, his grandfather. |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 353. |
|
Treasury reference to the Customs Commissioners of
the petition of Edward Jerman for a landwaiter's
place in the Customs, for which he is certified fit. |
Reference Book VI, p. 225. |
|
Treasury warrant to Thomas Newton, Woodward of
Whittlewood Forest, to fell 26 loads of timber, not
fit for the Navy, in Wakefield Walk, and also
sufficient dotard trees to raise 56l. 10s. 0d. for the
repair of the lodge in said walk, as petitioned for
by William Ryder, lieutenant of said forest and
master keeper of said walk : he covenanting to
keep the premises in repair thereafter : an account
of the offal wood to be presented before the end of
Hilary term next. |
Warrants not Relating to
Money XIII, p. 335. |
|
Aug. 28. |
William Jephson to the Auditor of the Receipt to
issue as follows out of any disposable unappropriated
money in the Exchequer : viz. : |
Disposition Book IX,
pp. 8-9. |
|
|
l. |
s. |
d. |
|
to the Earl of Ranelagh for a
fortnight's subsistence to the
Regiments of [Charles] Churchill,
[Charles] Trelawney, [Earl of]
Marlborough, [Sir John] Hales,
[Sir David] Collyer and Fitz
Patrick over and above what was
ordered them last week |
2,151 |
6 |
0 |
|
to ditto for the growing week's
subsistence [of the Forces in
England and Holland], not including
the above Regiments [to
be paid in] what gold [guineas]
there is in the Exchequer, to be
issued at the respective rates it
was taken in at |
6,083 |
0 |
0 |
|
to ditto for Sir Robert Holmes to
repay so much he took up from
the Receiver [of Taxes] in the
Isle of Wight for the service of
said island |
81 |
2 |
10 |
|
to ditto for two months' pay to the
commission officers of the 4th
Battalion of the 1st Regiment
of Guards : the other three
[Battalions] having received it |
250 |
0 |
0 |
|
to ditto for the 2nd Battalion of
the Coldstream Regiment for an
arrear of subsistence due to them
before May 14 last |
850 |
0 |
0 |
|
to ditto for Lord Lucas, as Governor
of the Tower, and Col. King
as Lieutenant Governor, for their
pay to 1689, May 1 |
386 |
3 |
2 |
|
to Mr. Fox for 14 days' subsistence
for the Regiments of [John]
Beaumont and [Ferdinando]
Hastings |
715 |
14 |
0 |
|
to ditto for a week's subsistence
to Lord Cavendish's Regiment
of Horse |
210 |
0 |
0 |
|
to ditto for ditto to the Royal
Regiment of Dragoons |
280 |
0 |
0 |
|
to ditto for ditto to 46 Gentlemen
of the Guard[s] |
46 |
0 |
0 |
|
to ditto to answer a bill of exchange
drawn by Mr. Coningsby |
400 |
0 |
0 |
|
to ditto for the wives and families
of the late Duke Schonberg's
Regiment of Horse |
65 |
10 |
0 |
|
to ditto for Lieut. Geo. Giles on
account of his half pay as late
Lieut. of Foot in Ireland at 2s.
per day |
30 |
6 |
0 |
|
to ditto for Mr. Bridges in part of
provisions he is to buy for 30,000
men for 20 days |
2,000 |
0 |
0 |
|
to ditto for Mary Bernier |
15 |
5 |
0 |
|
to ditto for Dr. Fairclough on
account |
30 |
0 |
0 |
|
to Sir Samuell Moreland in part on
his pension[s] |
100 |
0 |
0 |
|
to the Provost and Fellows of Eton
College |
84 |
0 |
0 |
|
to the poor of St. Magnus, London |
42 |
9 |
4 |
|
to the Treasurer of the Chamber
for the Gentlemen of the Chapel |
20 |
0 |
0 |
|
to me [Jephson] for secret service |
125 |
0 |
0 |
|
to the Treasurer of the Ordnance
for the train now sent to sea |
500 |
0 |
0 |
|
to ditto for a further supply for the
works at Sheerness |
600 |
0 |
0 |
|
to ditto for the works at Portsmouth |
300 |
0 |
0 |
|
£15,365 |
16 |
4 |
|
William Jephson to the Agents for Taxes. Alderman
William Allen, agent at Chester for Mr. Charles Fox,
has heard nothing from the Receiver of Poll money,
co. Salop, as to the 2,000l. which you were directed,
supra, p. 777, to order him to pay at Chester to said
Fox's order. Write by this night's post to said
Receiver to so pay it. |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 350. |
|
Same to the Customs Commissioners, enclosing a
letter [missing] from Capt. Pottinger, commander
of the King's ship Dartmouth (which letter was sent
by the Admiralty Lords to the Treasury), concerning
his having secured at Glasgow two vessels which
have unladen their tobacco without entering the
same in England. The Treasury Lords direct you
to take care in this matter. |
Ibid. |
|
Treasury reference to Auditor William Aldworth of
the petition of Sir Robert Rich, kt., et al. in behalf
of the town of Dunwich, co. Suffolk, shewing that
there was anciently a quit rent of 65l. per an. due
to the Crown from said town, but most of the land
being swallowed up by the sea and the inhabitants
thereof becoming very poor, in King Hy. VIII's
time the quit rent was reduced to 12l. per an. for
60 years, and the said term being elapsed and the
town becoming more necessitated through poverty
they applied to Charles II, who reduced the quit rent
to 5l. per an. till further pleasure ; which said 5l.
per an. has ever since been punctually paid ; that
the said quit rent being part of the Queen Dowager
[Catarina's] jointure, by a mistake in the patent
is set at 60l. per an., but in the schedule thereto
annexed is put at 5l. per an., which the agents of
the Queen Dowager have all along received until
Dec. 25 last ; but since that date by order of the
Queen Dowager's Commissioners process is taken
out in the Exchequer against the town for 1,400l.
arrears of said ancient rent, which will be to the
utter ruin of the inhabitants for that the said town
is now so poor that they are scarce able to pay said
5l. per an. : therefore pray a stay of said proceedings
and that the town be discharged of all further
demands save said 5l. per an. |
Reference Book VI, p. 226. |
|
Aug. 29. |
William Jephson to the Auditor of the Receipt to
issue to the Earl of Ranelagh the 400l. 18s. 10d.
which will be lent into the Exchequer by the Earl
of Monmouth, or by his procurement, on the unappropriated
Excise : same being intended to be
paid by the Earl of Ranelagh to clear the Earl of
Monmouth's Regiment to Jan. 1 last. |
Disposition Book IX, p. 9. |
|
Same to same to issue (out of such loans as shall be
made by Charles Fox on credit of the unappropriated
Excise) 261l. 5s. 3d. to said Fox to be by him paid
over to Thomas Fotherby for the balance of his
account relating to the Danish Forces. |
Ibid. |
|
William Jephson to the Attorney General to give
warrant to the Clerk of the Petty Bag for a commission
to Sir John Carew, bart., Sir Bouchier Wray, bart., Sir
William Massingbear, kt. and bart., Sir Edward
Ascough, Sir John Morton, Sir Robert Napier, kts.,
Thomas Chaffin, William Savery, Courtney Crocker,
Edmund Philips of Hampt, Josias Calmady, William
Cary, Hump. Bestland, Simon Hale, James Gould,
esqrs., Machaell Langdon, Richard Eare, Henry
Gregor, Thomas Ridler, Thomas Cooper, Robert
Neilder, John Neele of Plymouth, Aaron Pengry,
gent., to enquire of oosey and sandy grounds in
several parts of England and Wales between high
and low water marks belonging to the Crown, daily
overflowed and of no advantage to the Crown, but
which may with some pains and charges be made
good and profitable ground. |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 351. |
|
Same to William Blathwaite [as Secretary to the
Forces] to prepare a royal warrant authorising
Charles Fox and Thomas Coningesby, Paymasters
of the Forces in Ireland, to pay 2,000l. to Monsieur
Isaac Pereyra, as in part for providing biscuit,
wheat or wheat meal for bread for 30,000 men of
the said Forces [in Ireland] for 20 days. |
Ibid. |
|
Aug. 30. |
Same to the Victualling Commissioners. My Lords
have considered your late memorial touching
several particulars relating to the old debt of
the Victualling. Their opinion on the several
articles therein is as follows : (1) As to the payment
of several bills of exchange, amounting to
981l., which are not comprehended in the list
delivered by the last [late] Commissioners for
Victualling, my Lords agree that same shall be
paid ; but no further bills of that nature. (2) As to
the 851l. 18s. 0d. owing to Charles Shales for biscuit
and the 1,000l. to John Shales for victuals, my
Lords think it necessary to strike these two debts
out of the list to be paid by you ; and that the
late Commissioners for Victualling give certificates
to said Charles and John of what they received to
discharge them "and that they charge themselves
with the same." (3) As to the 9,758l. 15s. 3d.
computed to be owing for necessary money, short
provisions and freights, my Lords do not think
that any part of the money you have to pay should
be reserved towards payment of that sum. |
Ibid, pp. 351-2. |
|
For the order of repayment for Thomas Lloyd's
10,000l. loan see supra, p. 697. |
Order Book III, p. 116. |
