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Nature and Substance of the Entry.
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Reference.
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May 11.
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Money warrant for 12l. to Samuel Finney, esq.,
Receiver General of the First Six Months' Aid for
co. Chester ; for his extraordinary charges in
paying in his moneys. (Money order dated May 13
hereon.) |
Money Book XI, p. 53.
Order Book III, p. 167.
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William Jephson to the Auditor of the Receipt to
issue to the Earl of Portland for the Privy Purse
the 7,000l. directed to be reserved the 4th inst.,
supra, p. 1134. |
Disposition Book IX,
p. 125. |
Same to same to issue to the churchwardens of St.
John Baptist, Walbrook, 7l. 13s. 4d. out of the
moneys of the fourth part of the Customs now
reserved in the Exchequer. |
Ibid. |
Same to same to issue to me [Jephson] for secret
service 63l. 17s. 6d. out of the moneys of the small
branches of the revenue in the Exchequer. |
Ibid. |
Same to Mr. [Charles] Fox to report on the enclosed
petition [missing] of the tradesmen who clothed
the Regiment late under the Duke of Norfolk and
Earl of Lichfield, praying payment of 1,008l. 12s. 8d.
due to them on that account. |
Out Letters (General) XIII,
p. 59. |
Same to same to report on the enclosed petition
[missing] of the executors of Sir Edward Deering
concerning a tally given to them for payment of
the clothing of that Regiment. |
Ibid. |
Same to the Agents for Taxes, enclosing two papers
[missing] from the [Assessment] Commissioners for
[co.] Cardigan "about the difference between the
Commissioners for putting in execution an Act
[2 Wm. and Mary, Sess. 2, c. 1] for granting
1,651,702l. 18s. 0d." Please send an answer to the
said Commissioners that sent the papers. |
Ibid, p. 60. |
Same to Mr. Blathwayt. I have read to my Lords
your memorial concerning notifying to the Lords
Justices of Ireland the Queen's pleasure concerning
the provisions and diet furnished to the Army by
the inhabitants there. As her Majesty's pleasure
herein has been signified "at the Cabinett Council"
the Treasury Lords are of opinion it should be
transmitted into Ireland by the Secretary of State. |
Ibid. |
Same to the Earl of Ranelagh. I have laid before
my Lords your memorial containing a [proposed]
method of issuing the tallies struck for your Office
[of Paymaster of the Forces]. They approve your
proposal and desire you to dispose of the tallies
accordingly. They desire you to deliver to Lord
Fairfax a tally for a quarter due on his annuity
at Lady day last. [This latter item cancelled and
replaced by the letter of disposition of May 25
infra.] |
Ibid. |
Same to Mr. [Charles] Fox. My Lords approve,
ut supra, your memorial containing a method of
disposing the tallies in your hands for paying the
Army in Ireland. They desire you out of the
remaining tallies to detain in your hands 1,600l.
for Exchequer fees and 500l. to be delivered to
Col. La Meloniere on account of his pay, in regard
of his late loss. |
Ibid. |
William Jephson to the Customs Commissioners to
permit the export to Holland, Customs free, of
nine horses belonging to Ralph Grey, esq. |
Out Letters (General) XIII,
p. 60. |
Treasury reference to Mr. Aaron Smith of the petition
of Elianor Monfort, shewing that there is 22l.
detained by one Vane Rice "by means of her
husband's misfortunes" ; and praying it may be
paid to her. |
Reference Book VI, p. 316. |
Same to the Customs Commissioners of the petition of
Edward Randolph, praying the office of Collector
and Receiver General of the Customs and Revenue
in the Province of New York loco Mr. Brooks,
deceased. |
Ibid, p. 317. |
Same to Brooke Bridges and Thomas Done, Auditors
of Imprests, of the petition of Sir Thomas Duppa,
shewing that he was deputed by the late Bishop of
Sarum to collect the Tenths of that diocese and
paid into the Exchequer on the said late Bishop's
last account 168l. 5s. 0½d. more than he collected,
which still remains as a surplusage thereon, but
the auditors cannot transfer same to the account
of the present Bishop without Treasury order :
therefore praying a warrant to the auditor to
allow said surplusage. |
Ibid, p. 318. |
Treasury order, by way of subscription, for the execution
of a warrant dated May 11 from the Earl of
Dorset, Lord Chamberlain, to Sir Francis Lawley,
Master of the Jewel House, to deliver to Lord
Lexinton, Ambassador to Spain, 5,893 ounces
of white plate and 1,066 ounces of gilt plate, being
the allowance heretofore given [to Ambassadors of
his rank]. |
Warrants not Relating to
Money XIII, p. 414. |
Same for same of a same dated May 9 from the said
Lord Chamberlain to the said Master to deliver
for the service of the Second Troop of Horse Guards
commanded by the Duke of Ormonde, two silver
trumpets "of the same manner, fashion, quantity and
proportion as other his Majesty's trumpets are of." |
Ibid, p. 415. |
The Treasury Lords to the Revenue Commissioners,
Ireland. We have yours of the 22nd April last
concerning the duty on tobacco imported into Ireland
by William Squire, with copy of your previous letter
of Feb. 24 last relating thereto and an account of
tobacco imported there by other persons between
1689, Nov. 1, and 1689-90, Feb. 1. Yet in commiseration
of Mr. Squire's great sufferings we desire
you to deliver his tobacco duty free : but we do
not intend that you should repay any other persons
their duty in consequence of this favour to Squire. |
Out Letters (Ireland) VI,
p. 62. |
William Jephson to Charles Fox. My Lords have
considered your report of April 8 last on the petition
of Hugh Hulse and Samuel Thorold, apothecaries,
and John Cook, instrument maker, for the payment
of several sums for medicines, drugs, instruments etc.
furnished to several surgeons for several Regiments
which are or lately have been in the service of
Ireland, viz. as follows : 40l. 19s. 0d. for Visct.
Castleton's Regiment ; 20l. 11s. 0d. for Lord Forbes's
Regiment and 39l. 3s. 0d. to the same Regiment
since the Earl of Meath commanded it ; 25l. 17s. 0d.
to Col. [Ferdinando] Hastings' Regiment ; 17l. 11s. 0d.
to Col. [Charles] Herbert's Regiment ; 12l. 1s. 0d. to
Col. [Francis] Langston's Regiment ; 12l. 10s. 0d.
to Sir John Hanmer's Regiment ; 7l. 5s. 0d. to Col.
[John] Beaumont's Regiment ; 36l. 15s. 3d. to
Col. [Thomas] Erle's Regiment ; 12l. 13s. 5d. to Col.
[Edward] Villiers' Regiment ; 5l. 18s. 0d. to the Earl
of Drogheda's Regiment ; 35l. 17s. 3d. to Lord Lovelace's
Regiment, [which is now] broke ; 13l. 2s. 3d.
to Col. [Richard] Cunningham's Regiment. The
said sums are vouched by the surgeons and no
part thereof is as yet satisfied, as appears by the
certificate of William Harbord, late Paymaster of
the Forces, Ireland. You are therefore to deduct
the said sums out of the arrears due to the said
Regiments when they come to be paid, and you
are to pay to the said Hulse, Thorold and Cook
such sums as you shall so stop from time to time. |
Out Letters (General) XIII,
pp. 68-9. |
May 12.
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William Jephson to the Auditor of the Receipt to
issue to me [Jephson] on any unsatisfied orders in
my name for secret service 1,800l. out of loans to
be made by Monsieur Hilaire Reneu on credit of
the Act [2 Wm. and Mary, Sess. 2, c. 4] for duties on
East India goods ; the same being intended for his
Majesty's charity to the French Protestants. |
Disposition Book IX,
p. 125. |
Treasury order, by way of subscription, for the execution
of a warrant dated Mar. 26 last from the Earl
of Dorset, Lord Chamberlain, to Sir Francis Lawley,
Master of the Jewel House, for the delivery to the
Earl of Nottingham of 120 ounces of gilt plate,
as a gift from the King at the christening of his
child. |
Warrants not Relating to
Money XIII, p. 414. |
May 13.
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Royal warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General
for a great seal to constitute Philip Darcy, Sir
Roger Langley, Sir Edward Ayscough, Sir Edmund
Jennings, Jo[h]n Parkhurst, Cha. Middleton and
Robert Murray to be Principal Commissioners for
Prizes in place of the said Darcy, Langley, Ascough,
Jennings, Parkhurst, Jo[h]n Carpenter (now deceased)
and Middleton, ut supra, p. 1060, with
powers ut supra, ibid. : but none of the salary of
the said Murray to be paid him till the arrears of
salary due to the executors of said Carpenter be
satisfied. John Dive is hereby continued and
appointed secretary to the said Commissioners at
500l. per an. salary. |
King's Warrant Book XV,
pp. 342-4. |
William Jephson to the Auditor of the Receipt to
issue 20,000l. to the Treasurer of the Navy out of
the loans on the Twelve Months' Aid. |
Disposition Book IX,
p. 125. |
Same to Mr. Blathwayte [as Secretary to the Forces]
to procure a royal warrant to be signed by the
Queen to authorise Charles Fox and Thomas
Coningsby, Paymasters of the Forces in Ireland,
to pay 300l. to the Reformed Officers of the French
Regiment of Horse for the buying of horses. |
Out Letters (General) XIII,
p. 61. |
William Jephson to Lord Willoughby. My Lords are
informed that in the forest or chase of Needwood, co.
Stafford, part of the Duchy of Lancaster, there are
great wastes committed by felling and cutting down
timber and wood and lopping trees on pretence of
browsing for the deer, "but indeed converting
the same to their [the officials'] own use," and
that the same is done as well by the officials as by
others of the country. Further, my Lords are
informed that there are good quantities of timber
fit for the Navy [in said forest] and particularly
that the timber there affords many crooks and
knee timber ; also that Mr. Smyth, proprietor of
the herbage of Hanbury Park, a member of the
said forest, has already felled 20 trees there and
intends to fell 400 or 500 more very shortly : likewise
Lord Dartmouth's tenants in Tutbury Castle
Hayes have stubbed up some thousands of oak
trees and converted the land to tillage. You are
to examine into this matter in order to its being
laid before the Queen. |
Out Letters (General) XIII,
p. 61. |
Same to the [Principal] Officers of the Ordnance to
report on the enclosed account from Mr. Bowles
concerning his admeasurement of the ship Mary
Catt, which was employed in the King's service by
your Board. |
Ibid, p. 62. |
Same to the Commissioners of Transports not to
pay any money to any of the transport ships until
they produce to you a certificate from Mr. Bowles
that they have been re-measured by him or his
agents. |
Ibid. |
Treasury reference to the Customs Commissioners of
the petition of [several] merchants of Bristol,
proposing to pay the duty of all the tobacco smuggled
at the scale and by burning the books and making
new [ones], which [frauds] "they make amount
to about 2,772l. upon the [tobacco in the ship]
Bristol Merchant and the ship Factor ; and all the
King's charges [to be paid by them : they] having
their agents, Smith and Sawyer, forgiven and to
deliver up their books to be perused by which they
make up their accounts" and [offering to] discover
what they know about the officers : and desire,
the better to enable them to so obtain their money
from Byron the jerquer, to have his bond given
them and they will engage to prosecute it. |
Reference Book VI, p. 317. |
Same to the Excise Commissioners of the petition
of Thos. Leech and Eliz. Spencer, widow [of] Tho.
Speneer ; shewing that said Leech and Thomas
Spencer were surety for William Johnson, collector
of Hearthmoney in co. Cambridge, who absconded
and is indebted 277l. 16s. 2d. to the King : and
praying to be released from the security, as they
are much impoverished. |
Ibid. |
Same to the Customs Commissioners of the petition
of William Richardson of London, merchant,
shewing that his servant had a small venture of
copper lately come from Barbary, which petitioner
bought before landing, "and therefore entered it
in his own name, altho' his said servant is a stranger,"
for which reason the copper is seized and petitioner
is threatened to be prosecuted for the difference
[between natives and aliens' Customs] : therefore
praying stop of said proceedings and delivery of
said goods. |
Ibid. |
Treasury order to the Customs Commissioners to
observe (a) infra.
Prefixing : (a) Order of the Queen in Council, dated
Whitehall, May 7 inst., that all ships giving bond
to go to Newfoundland and to no other part of
America be permitted to sail, notwithstanding the
Order of April 30 last. |
Out Letters (Customs) XII,
p. 312. |
May 14.
|
Royal warrant to the Treasury Lords to pay (out of
unappropriated moneys in the Exchequer) 500l.
each to the Commissioners for Public Accounts
appointed by the late Act of Parliament [2 Wm.
and Mary, Sess. 2, c. 11], viz. Sir Robert Rich,
kt. and bart., Sir Thomas Clarges, kt., Paul Foley,
esq., Col. Robert Austen, Sir Mathew Andrews, kt.,
Sir Benjamin Newland, kt., Sir Samuell Barnardiston,
bart., Sir Peter Colliton, bart., and Robert
Harley, esq. They are to be paid same "at such
times and in such proportions as is directed by the
said Act." |
King's Warrant Book XV,
p. 340. |
Same to the Attorney or Solicitor General for a great
seal to appoint John Baber, gent., to be solicitor
for the prosecution of all causes before the Excise
Commissioners and Commissioners of Appeals in
Excise, with the salary of 200l. per an. from Lady
day last : all loco Thomas Aram, esq., who is
appointed a Commissioner of Excise. |
Ibid, p. 341. |
Money warrant for 4,500l. to Sir John Trevor, Sir
William Rawlinson and Sir George Hutchins,
Commissioners for the Great Seal, for one year to
Lady day last on their allowance of 1,500l. per an.
each. (Money order dated May 15 hereon.) |
Money Book XI, p. 53.
Order Book III, p. 167. |
Treasury warrant dormant to Thomas Fox [Customs
Cashier] to pay the salary of 28l. per an. to Thomas
Wolstenholme as customer of Bridgwater. |
Money Book XI, p. 54. |
The like for the salary of 52l. per an. to William Turner
as a King's waiter, London port. |
Ibid, p. 55. |
William Jephson to the Auditor of the Receipt to
issue as follows out of the Exchequer : viz. : |
Disposition Book IX,
p. 126. |
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l. |
s. |
d. |
Out of the Additional 12d. Aid. |
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to the Earl of Bellomont for the
Queen |
1,000 |
0 |
0 |
to the Cofferer of the Household |
1,931 |
0 |
0 |
to me [Jephson] for secret service |
40 |
0 |
0 |
Out of the Double Excise. |
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to the Earl of Ranelagh for the
growing week's subsistence [of
the Forces, England] and the
half pay to the officers |
9,336 |
9 |
2 |
to ditto in part of 248l. 1s. 9d. to
Lieut. Col. Windham to pay a
contingent warrant for Lord
Fitzhardinge's Regiment |
100 |
0 |
0 |
to ditto to pay a contingent warrant
for fire and candle for the
Dutch Guards and for the postage
of letters and other contingencies
relating to the Deputy Commissary
of the Musters to April 30 last |
97 |
0 |
8 |
to ditto for Monsieur Vander Esch
for the wives, sick and impotent
soldiers etc. of the Regiments
of Nassau, Brandenburg and
[Col.] Groben |
80 |
1 |
10 |
to Mr. Fox and Mr. Coningsby for
Major Ingram for shoes |
500 |
0 |
0 |
to ditto for the Commissioners of
the Transports upon their memorial
of the 13th inst |
1,000 |
0 |
0 |
to the Treasurer of the Ordnance
for Sir Polycarpus Wharton |
500 |
0 |
0 |
to ditto to pay a bill of exchange
for brimstone |
200 |
0 |
0 |
Out of Wine Licence money. |
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to me [Jephson] for secret service |
100 |
0 |
0 |
William Jephson to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue
5,375l. to Visct. Newport, Cofferer of the Household,
out of the loans on the Hereditary Excise and the
fourth of the Temporary Excise. |
Disposition Book IX,
p. 126. |
Same to same to issue 500l. to Charles Fox and Thomas
Coningsby out of any disposable unappropriated
money in the Exchequer. (Same to said Fox and
Coningsby to pay same to such person as the Duke
of Leinster shall direct, as in part of 1,500l. for
buying horses for recruiting the Danish Regiments.
Take care it be placed to the account of the Danish
Troops.) |
Ibid, p. 127. |
Same to Mr. Harbord [as Surveyor General of Crown
Lands] to report on the proposals [missing] of
Robert Forder and Thomas Cobbe for a lease of
their Majesties' lands near Winchester. My Lords
desire you [and] Sir Christopher Wren to send them
a state of the debt for the buildings there. |
Out Letters (General) XIII,
p. 62. |
Same to Mr. [Charles] Fox. I have read to my Lords
your report of the 6th inst. on the petition of several
tradesmen who clothed the Regiment of Horse late
under Lord George Hewyt. My Lords agree that
petitioners ought to be paid out of the tallies for
the offreckonings [of said Regiment] to Jan. 1 last.
You are to deliver the tallies to them accordingly. |
Ibid. |
Same to the Customs Commissioners to permit the
export to Ireland, Customs free, of goods for the
Duke of Wurtemberg.
Appending : schedule of said goods (dried sweetmeats,
wet sweetmeats, comfits, stock fish, cloth,
capers, Vermigelly Truttes, Morills, wines etc.).
(Same to the Revenue Commissioners, Ireland,
dated May 13, to permit the import of same into
Ireland, Customs free.) |
Ibid, pp. 62-3. Order
Book III, p. 62. |
Same to Mr. Sotherne [Secretary to the Admiralty]
to lay before the Admiralty Lords the enclosed
presentment [missing] from the Customs Commissioners
concerning an abuse and assault committed
by Lieut. Harwood, of the King's ship Hampton
Court, on two [Customs] officers at Deal and forcibly
carrying away from the ship Tiger six casks containing
12 gallons each, and pressing Joseph Williams,
an officer of the Customs, for endeavouring to
secure the said casks. |
Out Letters (General) XIII,
p. 63. |
William Jephson to the Customs Commissioners to permit
three horses belonging to Lord Lisburne to be exported
to Ireland, Customs free. (Same to the
Revenue Commissioners, Ireland, to permit the Customs
free import of same into Ireland.) |
Out Letters (General) XIII,
p. 63. Out Letters (Ireland)
VI, p. 63. |
Treasury letters patent appointing William Turner
a King's waiter, London port, loco Daniel Lawrence,
gent. : during pleasure : with the fee of 52l. per an. |
Out Letters (Customs) XII,
p. 306. |
Treasury order, by way of subscription, for the execution
of a warrant dated May 9 inst. from the Earl of
Dorset, Lord Chamberlain, to Sir Francis Lawley,
Treasurer of the Jewel House, for the delivery of a
silver trumpet for the service of the Third Troop
of Guards commanded by the Earl of Marlborough. |
Warrants not Relating to
Money XIII, p. 415. |
William Jephson to Mr. Coningsby [one of the Paymasters
of the Forces, Ireland]. My Lords have
received yours of the 2nd inst., enclosing an account
of neat money paid [for the Forces] in Ireland from
Jan. 1 [last] to May 1 inclusive. You therein
discharge yourself of only 142,101l. 10s. 8d., without
stating the remains in your hands at May 1. Within
the same period there has been sent to you from
here 190,500l. My Lords therefore desire forthwith
a statement of your balance in cash on Jan. 1 last,
your receipts out of England and out of the revenue
of Ireland, a full account of the disposal of same
to May 1 inst. and how much was then remaining
in cash. |
Out Letters (Ireland) VI,
p. 62. |
Caveat entered on behalf of the officers of the Works
against any grant of the custody of the Palace of
Winchester, until they be first heard thereon. |
Caveat Book, p. 23. |
May 15.
|
Money warrant for 125l. each to the Commissioners
for Public Accounts (Sir Robert Rich, Sir Tho.
Clarges, Paul Foley, Col. Robert Austen, Sir Mathew
A[n]drews, Sir Benj. Newland, Sir Samuel Barnardiston,
Sir Peter Colleton and Robert Harley) : being
for one quarter to April 25 last on their allowance
of 500l. each. (Money order dated May 16 hereon.) |
Money Book XI, p. 54.
Order Book III, p. 168. |
William Jephson to the Auditor of the Receipt to
issue out of any disposable unreserved money in
the Exchequer 301l. 10s. 0d. to Charles Fox and
Thomas Coningsby : to be paid over to Mr. Vander
Esch for recruits of the Regiment of Nassau. |
Disposition Book IX,
p. 127. |
Same to the Earl of Montagu [Master of the Great
Wardrobe] for a certificate of what is due in your
Office to the Pages of the Queen's Bedchamber and
to the Page of the Queen's Robes. |
Out Letters (General) XIII,
p. 63. |
Same to Mr. Blathwayt [as Secretary to the Forces]
to procure royal warrants, to be signed by the
Queen, for authorising payments as follow by
Mr. Charles Fox as by the enclosed five several
accompts [missing] received from said Fox : viz. :
2,050l. 1s. 11d. paid to the Reformed Officers of
the Marquis de Ruvigny's Regiment of Horse ;
571l. 7s. 0d. paid to several English Reformed
Officers, notwithstanding their being continued on
the establishment, and to Dr. Fairclough (in the
margin : this to be respited till further signification) ;
891l. 0s. 2d. paid to the Reformed Officers of Col.
Bellcastle's Regiment of Foot ; 994l. 11s. 0d. paid
to ditto of Col. Du Cambon's Regiment of Foot ;
1,374l. 5s. 9½d. paid to ditto of Brigadier La
Melonier's Regiment of Foot. |
Ibid, p. 64. |
William Jephson to the Commissioners for Coining Tin
Farthings. My Lords have read your memorial of the
4th inst. concerning the disposal of farthings and
halfpence with least charge to the King and without
grievance to the people and desiring directions about
the quantities of the said coins to be provided for
Ireland and the Plantations. My Lords leave it
to you to disperse the said coins as you shall think
best. You are to cause the said coins to be coined
as fast as may be for the service of Ireland. |
Out Letters (General) XIII,
p. 65. |
The Treasury Lords to the King. In accordance
with your commands left with us at your going
hence we have treated with Sir Joseph Herne for
the constant return [forwarding by bill of exchange]
of the weekly subsistence for the [English] Forces
in Flanders and the monthly payment of 3,600l.
for the Wolfenbuttel Troops [Herne furnishing
bills] upon credit of tallies. We have received
from him a proposal by which he undertakes to
return the money for the Forces in Flanders and
to pay them the same value of the money by which
they have hitherto been paid there and to give
credit for 3,600l. per month for four months for the
Wolfenbuttel Troops without demanding anything
for commission money and himself to be at all
charge and hazard, "upon which we have come to
an agreement with the said Sir Joseph unless your
Majesty shall think fit to send us any directions to
the contrary."
We desire your Majesty to signify your pleasure
to Monsieur Schulenberg to forthwith prepare and
transmit to us an account of all the bills he has
drawn on the Earl of Ranelagh for the pay of any
of your Majesty's Forces in Flanders from 1689-90,
April 26, to the 1st inst. old style, according to
our letter to said Schulenberg by this post ; and
particularly to note in his said account the sums
he has stopped or received on each bill for exchange
losses or charges and how he has disposed of the
money.
Also we desire an establishment or a copy of
the establishment of the Wolfenbuttel Troops. We
have lately countersigned an establishment of
double pay to the [? officers of the] First and Second
Regiments of Guards, the grounds whereof, we
are informed, are that the Dutch Guards have the
same and have no servants allowed them. We
humbly offer it to your Majesty's consideration
whether in regard of this increase of their pay it
be not reasonable that the officers should not have
any servants allowed them likewise in their musters
for the future. |
Ibid, pp. 65-6. |
Same to Monsieur Schulenberg, requesting the account
of bills as above. |
Ibid, p. 67. |
William Jephson to the Customs Commissioners.
My Lords have referred to you a memorial in (a) infra
concerning arms brought from Holland for Ireland,
but seized by the Customs officers. Monsieur
D'Allonne has since sent another letter concerning
same, which I enclose [missing]. If you find the
allegations true you are to pass the goods, Customs
free.
Appending : said memorial. Antho. Exsell, adjutant
of the Regiment of Horse of Col. Schaeck in Ireland,
has a passport of the States General for 34 carabines,
one firelock, 40 pairs of pistols and other items
detailed (swords, belts, tents etc.). |
Ibid. |
Treasury reference to the Excise Commissioners of
the petition of Hinton Rogers, praying payment of
35l. due to him as one of the clerks to Charles Deering,
late Comptroller of Hearthmoney, as part of 210l.
due to said Deering. |
Reference Book VI, p. 318. |
Treasury order to the Revenue Commissioners, Ireland,
to observe (a) infra.
Appending : (a) Order of the Privy Council, dated
Whitehall, May 14 inst. Upon reading the petition
of Peter Renew et al., merchants of London, praying
that the four ships hired by the Commissioners for
Transportation to carry ammunition to Ireland
(Susanne, John Tayler master ; Biscay Merchant,
Luke Lopdell master ; Henry and William, John
Downer master ; Endeavour, Thomas Woodman
master) may have liberty to sail to the West Indies
before the convoy and with protection for their
men according to a contract made with the said
Commissioners and to the promise made by the
Committee for the Affairs of Ireland and notwithstanding
the Order in Council of April 30 last : it
is hereby ordered that such leave be given. |
Out Letters (Ireland) VI,
p. 63. |
May 16.
|
William Jephson to the Auditor of the Receipt to
strike as follows the tallies of loan which are intended
to be delivered to Sir George Hutchins for one
year of his fee of 1,500l. per an. as one of the Commissioners
for the Great Seal, viz. one tally in his
own name for 1,216l. 8s. 10d., one tally in the name
of Sir Anthony Keck for 283l. 11s. 2d. |
Disposition Book IX,
p. 127. |
Same to Mr. Sotherne [Secretary to the Admiralty]
to lay before the Admiralty Lords, for speedy
redress, the enclosed letter [missing] received by
the Customs Commissioners from Mr. Francklynn,
surveyor of Deal port, containing a further account
of the abuse committed by Lieut. Harwood of the
King's ship Hampton Court. The Treasury Lords
desire to know what has been done upon the former
complaint, ut supra, p. 1150. |
Out Letters (General) XIII,
p. 66. |
Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners to
employ Benj. Jerrat (Jerratt, for some time an
extraordinary watchman, London port) as a watchman
in fee ibid. loco A[n]drew Twentyman, deceased. |
Out Letters (Customs) XII,
p. 306. |
Treasury reference to Sir Christopher Wrenn and
Philip Reyly of the accounts to May 1 inst. of
John Webb, pondkeeper of St. James's Park, for
oats for the fowls etc. and for hiring men to break
the ice etc., and for Dutch baskets and hempseed ;
amounting to 152l. 5s. 0d. |
Reference Book VI, p. 318. |
May 18.
|
Money warrant for 61l. to Sir George Treby, kt., for
three quarters to Lady day last on his fee as Attorney
General : to be satisfied out of loans to be made
by said Treby on credit of the duties on East India
goods. |
Money Book XI, p. 55. |
Same for 66l. 13s. 4d. each to Brook Bridges and
Tho. Done for one year to same date on their patent
fee as Auditors of Imprests. (William Jephson to
the Auditor of the Receipt to pay same out of the
small branches of the revenue.) |
Ibid, p. 55. Disposition
Book IX, p. 127. |
William Jephson to the Auditor of the Receipt to
issue 500l. to me [Jephson] for secret service : out
of the moneys of First Fruits and Tenths. |
Disposition Book IX,
p. 127. |
Same to same to issue 1,125l. to the Commissioners
for Public Accounts for April 25 quarter : out of
the moneys arising by the Double Excise. |
Ibid, p. 128. |
Same to same to satisfy the salaries of the Judges etc.
as follows to a total of 10,472l. 10s. 0d. out of loans
to be made by them respectively on credit of the
Duties on East India Goods : viz. 9,000l. to the
Judges of England and Wales for Trinity, Michaelmas
and Hilary terms last ; 525l. to the Judges
of Wales for same terms ; 825l. to the Masters in
Chancery for three quarters ; 22l. 10s. 0d. to Baron
Bradbury for said terms on his fees amounting to
7l. 10s. 0d. per term ; 100l. to ditto for same on
his fees amounting to 133l. 6s. 8d. per an. |
Ibid. |
Same to same to issue 151l. 13s. 0d. to Charles Fox
and Thomas Coningsby on any unsatisfied orders
in their names as Paymasters of the Forces in
Ireland : to be issued out of loans to be made by
said Fox on the credit of Duties on East India goods :
and to be paid to the executors of the late Duke [of]
Schonberg on account of what remains due to him
for pay as Colonel of Horse. |
Ibid. |
Same to same to issue 3,980l. to Charles Bertie, on
any unsatisfied orders in his name as Treasurer
of the Ordnance : to be issued out of loans to be
made by said Bertie on the credit of the Duties
on East India Goods : and to be paid by him to the
said executors of the Duke [of] Schonberg for what
remained due on said Duke's fees and allowances
as Master of the Ordnance and for money lent for
buying arms. |
Ibid, p. 129. |
Same to Mr. Blathwayt [as Secretary to the Forces]
to procure royal warrants, to be signed by the
Queen, to authorise Charles Fox and Thomas
Coningsby, Paymasters of the Forces in Ireland,
to pay the 1,000l. to the Transports Commissioners
and the 500l. to Major Ingram, ut supra, p. 1150 ;
and 227l. to Monsieur la Meloniere in part of 500l.
to him for pay and 1,000l. to Mr. Pereyra. |
Out Letters (General) XIII,
p. 68. |
The like for like warrants to authorise same to pay
17,812l. for the offreckonings of several Regiments
as follow : viz. : 3,005l. to Sir John Hanmer's ;
2,807l. to Col. [William] Stewart's ; 3,322l. to
Col. [Ferdinando] Hastings' ; 1,946l. to Col. Deering's ;
2,130l. to Col. [Charles] Herbert's ; 971l.
to Col. Du Cambon's ; 631l. to Col. Belcastle's ;
3,000l. to be advanced to the Royal Regiment of
Horse [and the Regiments of Major General] Kirke
and [Col. Charles] Trelawney, to wit 1,000l. each. |
Ibid, p. 70. |
Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners to
accept a composition of 2,772l. from the merchants
of Bristol port for the [tobacco duty] frauds upon
the two ships Factor and Bristol Merchant, as by
the memorial of Mr. Colt, collector of Bristol port,
and of Mr. Hutchinson, solicitor of the Customs :
"in regard it is not only as much as may be probably
recovered by a prosecution at law, but also will
let you into a more certain knowledge of the officers
and a further discovery of frauds." The 263l. 16s. 6d.
which was received by Mr. Rowe, the chief discoverer
of the frauds, as a private reward from the merchants,
is to be accounted a part of the said 2,772l., and is
to be accepted by Rowe as part of his recompense
from the King. |
Out Letters (Customs) XII,
p. 307. |
Same to the Attorney General and to the Customs
Commissioners to enter a noli prosequi upon the
information against a small venture of copper
imported from Barbary by a servant of William
Richardson of London, merchant, which the said
Richarsdon bought of him before landing and
unadvisedly entered with his other goods in his
own name, whereas the said servant is a stranger
[and should therefore have paid aliens' duties
thereon] ; the difference in the Customs being only
6s. 9d. : said Richardson being reported to be a
merchant of good credit and a fair trader in the
port of London and pays considerable Customs to
the King. |
Ibid. |
Same to same to direct the collectors of the outports
[for the outports officers] and the Receiver General
of Customs [for the London port officers] to pay
the taxes assessed upon salaries of officers below
60l. per an. on the Twelve Months' Aid [2 Wm.
and Mary, Sess. 2, c. 1] and to reimburse to such
officers any money already paid by them thereon :
all in accordance with the said Commissioners'
memorial of the 22nd inst. [ult.]. |
Ibid, p. 308. |
Treasury reference to John Knight of the petition
of Thomas Paynall et al., shewing that petitioners
were overseers of the poor in the Liberty of Saffron
Hill, Hatton Garden and Ely Rents in the parish
of St. Andrew, Holborn, co. Midd., and paid 6d.
weekly to 12 poor widows, for which petitioners
are out of pocket 7l. 10s. 0d. : therefore praying
payment of said sum. |
Reference Book VI, p. 318. |
Same to the Earl of Ranelagh to report on the enclosed
memorial [missing] of the Earl of Drumlanrig,
praying that his Troop of Scotch Guards may be
paid as complete from 1689-90, Jan. 1, to 1690,
May 31, during which time no muster rolls were
made. |
Ibid, p. 319. |
Same to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands of
the petition to the Queen from the Dean and Chapter
of the Cathedral Church of the Holy Trinity at
Winchester, shewing that Sir Henry Tichburne's
estate in a farm called Thurmunds was judged
convenient for part of a park to Winchester House
and was to be surrendered to petitioners in order
to their making a new lease in behalf of Charles II :
and praying that they may not be obliged to make
such lease if it be not used for such purpose as
originally designed. |
Ibid. |
Treasury reference to the Customs Commissioners of the
petition of Robt. Johnson, gent., for a searcher's or
landwaiter's place, London port. |
Reference Book VI, p. 319. |
Same to same of the petition of Deborah Dioness,
widow, for the delivery of 450l. worth of chocolate
"or otherwise to give leave for exporting it again
into Holland." |
Ibid. |
Treasury warrant to the King's Remembrancer for
a commission under the Exchequer seal to Henry,
Duke of Beaufort, Lord Warden of Dean Forest ;
William Harbord, Surveyor General of Crown
Lands ; Philip Ryley, Surveyor General of Woods,
Trent South ; Sir Duncomb Colchester, kt., William
Cook, Reginald Pinder, Edward Cook, William
Boevy, Thomas Peck, John Viney and John Kirle,
esqrs., as Commissioners to execute the following
instructions in Dean Forest.
Prefixing : said instructions. |
Warrants not Relating to
Money XIII, pp. 416-19. |
(1) To view and perambulate said forest and
certify what coppice wood is fit to be cut and what
may be fit to be cut for seven years proportionably
and what is the probable produce thereof : and
whether the whole underwood should be disposed
of to any person, with liberty to cut the same in
21 years' time upon a covenant of repairing and
keeping up the enclosures and what such a grant
may be worth and what its consequences might be,
whether tending to the preservation of the young
spring of timber or destruction thereof : and whether
there be great numbers of beech in said forest and
whether likely to become timber, and what number
of saplings are growing in the Lea Bayly and
in the places mentioned in the Act of 20 Car. II,
c. 8, for a nursery ; and whether the ironworks there
should be again set up as formerly. |
(2) What will be the charge for the next seven
years and 21 years of supplying and maintaining
the enclosures heretofore and lately made by the
Crown in said forest, viz. of the mounds, stone
walls, gates, stiles, bridges etc.? |
(3) What coalpits are taken into the said enclosures
which might be conveniently left out for the benefit
of the country? |
(4) What the salaries of the officers of the forest
amount to and how usually paid and whether
St. Briavels Castle and the lodges thereto are in
good repair? |
(5) Certify what quantities of trees have been
felled in said forest under the privy seal of 1690,
April 28, supra, pp. 586-7, how disposed of, at
what rates, "and what moneys hath or might be
raised to the Crown thereby." Also to enquire
into wastes and spoils committed at any time since
1688-9, Feb. 13, and in what condition their
Majesties' enclosures are and the names of persons
committing spoil therein or breaches in the mounds
and fences or driving in any cattle to depasture
or digging any mines, coal, tiles or cinder there
and whether the officers have been negligent therein. |
(6) To inquire how the Forest Courts are kept
and where, and how the officers discharge their
duties in the preservation of the coverts and woods
and enclosures ; and what sums have been paid
at the Forest Courts by trespassers and for pound
breaches, cutting fur[ze], burning fern, depasturing
sheep or keeping pigs "or any cattle in the Fence
Month and Winter Hayning," digging pits and
quarries of stone, building lime kilns and burning
lime or by what pretence of right to trespass and
surcharge the common of the forest to the prejudice
of the young wood : and what stores of cabins and
cottages are in the said forest, by whom erected
or set up, and how same may best be regulated or
demolished. |
(7) Any other matters conducing to the better
governing said forest according to the intention of
the said Act of Parliament. |
The Treasury Lords to the Lords Justices, Ireland,
concerning Mr. Knox, who obtained the King's
warrant for the place of searcher, packer and gauger
in Wexford port, which office it appears [from your
letter] was before granted to one of his [Mr.
Coningsby's] servants. Petitioner [Knox] is well
esteemed for his zeal to the Government and was
recommended to their Majesties by the Prince of
Denmark and had a promise, though not a warrant,
for said place upon the death of the late patentee
before his Majesty's going into Ireland : "and
although the disposition of places of this nature
may be in the Chief Governors of that kingdom,
yet considering the merits of this gentleman and
his relations, particularly of his father, who (as we
hear) was chiefly instrumental in the seizing of
the town of Wexford for their Majesties' service,
we earnestly desire your Excellencies to take him
into your particular care ; and seeing he is not to
have the said office of searcher, packer and gauger,
that your Excellencies will bestow some employment
upon him in Ireland equivalent thereunto." |
Out Letters (Ireland) VI,
pp. 63-4. |
May 19.
|
Money warrant for 500l. to William, Earl of Portland,
for 1690, Christmas quarter, as First Gentleman
of the Bedchamber and Groom of the Stole. (Money
order dated May 21 hereon.) |
Money Book XI, p. 56.
Order Book III, p. 169. |
Same for 250l. each to the following for same quarter
as Gentlemen of the Bedchamber, viz. : James,
Duke of Ormonde ; Aubery, Earl of Oxford ;
Charles, Earl of Monmouth ; Charles, Earl of
Selkirk ; James, Earl of Drumlanrig ; Richard,
Earl of Scarborough, and John, Earl of Marlborough :
and for 750l. to Henry, Visct. Sidney, for three
quarters to 1690, Christmas, as a same, and for
1,000l. to John, Earl of Clare, for one year to same
date as a same. (Money orders hereon dated May 21
for Sidney, Monmouth, Ormonde, Silkirk, Drumlanrig
and Oxford ; June 3 for Clare ; June 5 for Marlborough,
and June 10 for Scarborough.) |
Money Book XI, p. 56.
Order Book III, p. 169. |
Same for sums as follow to the Grooms of the Bedchamber,
viz. 375l. to Hatton Compton for three
quarters to 1690, Christmas ; 125l. to John Sayers
for 1690, Christmas quarter ; 500l. to Charles
Trelawney for one year to 1690, Christmas ; 500l.
to Peircy Kirk for same ; 125l. each to Adrian van
Borcelan and James Stanley for 1690, Christmas
quarter. (Money orders dated May 23 for Compton ;
May 25 for Sayers ; May 30 for Kirk and Trelawney ;
June 29 for Stanley ; and for 250l. dated July 2
for Borcelan representing the present money warrant
and that of May 1 last, supra, p. 1130.) (For
Capell and How see supra, ibid.) |
Money Book XI, p. 56.
Order Book III, pp. 169,
171, 182. |
Money warrant for 219l. 17s. 11d. to the executors of
Frederick, Duke [of] Schonberg, for 1¼ years to 1690,
June 24, on his several fees and allowances, amounting
to 175l. 18s. 4d. as Master of the Ordnance : to
be satisfied out of loans to be made by said executors
on credit of the Duties on East India goods. |
Money Book XI, p. 57. |
Same for 1,596l. to the Commissioners of the Privy
Seal (William Cheney, Sir John Knatchbull and
Sir William Pulteney) for 399 days, 1689-90, Feb. 19,
to 1691, Mar. 25, on their allowance of 4l. a day
in lieu of the ancient diet of 16 dishes of meat :
to be satisfied out of loans to be made by themselves
on the duties on East India goods. (Money order
dated May 23 hereon.) |
Ibid, p. 59. Order Book
III, p. 170. |
William Jephson to the Auditor of the Receipt to
issue to the Earl of Monmouth to complete his order
of Oct. 29 last, supra, p. 863, for 750l. as a Gentleman
of the Bedchamber : to be satisfied out of
loans to be made by said Earl on the duties on East
India goods. (The like letter for the like issue to
the Earl of Oxford on his order of Oct. 30 last,
supra, p. 863.) |
Disposition Book IX,
p. 129. |
Same to same to issue 250l. to Sir William Killigrew
on his warrant : out of the moneys of First Fruits
and Tenths. |
Ibid. |
Same to same to issue 3,000l. to Daniell, Earl of
Nottingham, on any unsatisfied warrants in his
name for secret service : to be satisfied out of loans
to be made by said Earl on the duties on East
India goods. (The like letter for 1,000l. to Henry,
Visct. Sidney, for secret service similarly.) |
Ibid, p. 130. |
Same to same to issue 1,628l. 12s. 0d. to the Earl of
Shrewsbury, 1,503l. 12s. 0d. thereof on the unsatisfied
orders in his name as late Secretary of State, being
for secret service, and the remaining 125l. as on
his patent salary of 100l. per an. : to be satisfied
out of loans to be made by said Earl of the duties
on East India goods. |
Ibid. |
Same to the Earl of Ranelagh. By your report of
Dec. 15 last on the petition of Francis Molyneux
it appears that 397l. 9s. 0d. remains due to him
for clothing the Regiment of Fusileers. You are
to stop this sum upon the tallies remaining in your
hands for the pay of said Regiment and to pay it
over to said Molyneux. |
Ibid. |
Same to the Auditor of the Receipt. His Majesty's
service requires that a considerable sum be paid
to-morrow to Mr. Fox and Mr. Coningsby. You
are to give notice to the officers of the Exchequer
to attend in their respective offices for that purpose
to-morrow morning. |
Out Letters (General) XIII,
p. 68. |
Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners to
demand no more duties from the merchants as
follows, inhabitants of New York, for their goods
imported here than if they were natives of New
York : it appearing that Gerrard Vanheythuijsen
has petitioned the Treasury on behalf of himself
and others, merchants, inhabitants of New York,
setting forth that the said colony with the inhabitants
thereof hath been under the government of England
since 1664, ever looking upon themselves as free
subjects of England ; that they were left without
a Governor the latter end of the late King James's
reign, whereby they were exposed to the incursions
and attempts of the French ; nevertheless according
to their duty and allegiance the said inhabitants
remained steadfast to the government of this
kingdom, fixing (under God) their sole dependence
thereupon ; and as soon as they had notice of the
accession of William and Mary they did readily declare
for them ; and have for these two years maintained
and defended themselves against all the attempts of
the French : notwithstanding which, some officers
of the Customs have demanded strangers' duties
for the goods of the said [petitioners] inhabitants
on pretence that they are not natives of New York :
wherefore they pray, for their encouragement, that
their goods may pass free of aliens' duties : and
the said petition being referred by the Treasury
Lords to the Customs Commissioners, the latter
reported on April 9 last that the Collector Inwards
of London port doth insist upon the aliens' duties
for the goods imported on account of certain merchants,
inhabitants of New York, because they
are either natives of Holland and not naturalized
by any Act of Parliament or not born within the
said colony since the same hath been in the possession
of any of their Majesties' predecessors : but forasmuch
as they are become their Majesties' subjects,
carrying on considerable trades for the benefit of
their Majesties' Plantations, and are equally concerned
in the defence and preservation of the said
colony (against the French or other enemies) with
any of their Majesties' other subjects there, the
said Commissioners are of opinion they should have
the like privilege in point of duties with their
Majesties' natural born subjects and should pay
no other or greater duties for their goods imported
hither than if they were natives of New York. The
Treasury Lords agree with the said report and
hereby order as above. |
Out Letters (Customs) XII,
p. 309. |
Treasury order to same to observe (a) infra.
Prefixing : (a) Order of the Privy Council, dated
Whitehall, 14 May inst., granting leave to the
ship Mary, Richard Hyde master, to go to Nevis
[by the route] north about Ireland before the convoy,
notwithstanding the Order in Council of April 30
last : with protection for her complement of men :
all on the petition of John Carey of Bristol, merchant,
owner of said ship, which has been laden with
perishable goods seven months since. |
Ibid, p. 310. |
The like order on the like Order in Council for the
ships Mathew and Aleppo Merchant to sail to the
West Indies with the convoy going thither or
the Newfoundland convoy.
The Valencia Merchant, burthen 110 tons, with
12 men, to go north about Ireland from Liverpool
to Leghorn with a cargo of salmon : on the petition
of James Bateman et al.
The Samuel and Mary, 250 tons, with 18 men,
Tho. Skues master ; the Antegua Merchant, 100
tons, with 10 men ; the Speedwell, 100 tons, with
10 men, John Codner master ; the Owners' Adventure,
50 tons, with five men, Joseph Warner master ; to
go to the West Indies north about Ireland before
the convoy : all on the petition of John Hicks et al.
merchants of Bristol.
The Tyger, 250 tons, with 20 men, Richard
Jeffreys master ; the Concord, 250 tons, with 20
men, Nicholas Lupp master ; the Providence, 50
tons, with five men, Hen. Branch master ; to go to
Virginia [north] about Ireland before the convoy :
all on the petition of John Swymmer et al., merchants
of Bristol. |
Ibid. |
Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners to deliver
a suit of tapestry hangings to the Earl of Devonshire
on payment of only single duty ; the same being
lately brought from Flanders : the Customs Commissioners
having reported the 15th inst. that although
the rate of the Customs is generally 5 per cent., that
is 12d. upon the £ value, yet in divers instances it falls
out far otherwise and the duty is oftentimes laid
upon certain commodities in the nature of a prohibition
to encourage the manufacture of the like
in this kingdom, and so it happens upon stuffs
made of or mixed with wool, which are rated to
pay 15d. a yard, although such stuffs are not of
half the value of the duty ; and in this present case
they are informed that the parcel of tapestry is not
worth above 40s. the ell and that the mixture of
gold and silver in them is not above one-third part
of the value, yet they are rated in the Book of
Rates at 8d. the ell, which duty the Customs officers
cannot exercise a discretion to alter or abate, but
that the Treasury Lords have sometimes in particular
cases for private use moderated the duty. |
Out Letters (Customs) XII,
p. 311. |
Treasury reference to Mr. Chudleigh, Comptroller of
the Accounts of the Treasurer of the Chamber, of
the petition of Robert Greenway, their Majesties'
locksmith, praying payment of 542l. 10s. 10d. for
work done in 1688 and 1689, as by bills signed by
the Lord Chamberlain : there being likewise 500l.
due for work done since. |
Reference Book VI, p. 319. |
Treasury warrant to the Excise Commissioners to appoint
Theophilact Blechynden to be clerk of the securities
and assistant secretary of the Excise loco John Baber,
who is preferred to be Solicitor of the Excise. |
Warrants not Relating to
Money XIII, p. 420. |
May 19
[altered
from
April 19].
|
Money warrant for 1,125l. to Thomas, Marquess of
Carmarthen, Lord President of the Council, for
three quarters to Lady day last on his allowance
of 1,000l. per an. in lieu of diet and 500l. per an. as
the King's bounty. (Money order dated June 15
hereon.) |
Money Book XI, p. 72.
Order Book III, p. 179. |
May 20.
|
Same for 35l. to Noah Starling, gent., Receiver
General for co. Berks of the First Six
Months' Aid, First Poll, 12d. Aid, the Review and
Additional Poll and the last Poll : for his extraordinary
charges in bringing up his moneys
(24,690l. 18s. 4½d.) by strong guards to the Exchequer.
(Money warrant dated May 23 hereon.) |
Money Book XI, p. 57.
Order Book III, p. 170. |
Money warrant for 100l. to Samuell Bradshaw as
Receiver General for co. Derby for the 3s. Aid [2s.
Aid and Additional 12d. Aid], Additional Poll and
last Poll ; for the like charges in four journeys :
his receipts being 20,500l. and upwards. (Money
order dated May 23 hereon.) |
Money Book XI, p. 58.
Order Book III, p. 176. |
Same for 95l. to same as same for co. Derby for the
First Six Months' Aid, first Poll and 12d. Aid :
for like charges. (Money order dated May 23
hereon.) |
Money Book XI, p. 58.
Order Book III, p. 176. |
Same for 57l. to Thomas Allen as same for co. Somerset
and city of Bristol of the first Poll and Review
and Additional Poll : for like charges. (Money
order dated May 23 hereon.) |
Money Book XI, p. 58.
Order Book III, p. 176. |
Same for 60l. 10s. 0d. to Thomas Love as same for
co. Suffolk of the First 12d. Aid and Review of the
Poll : for like charges. (Money order dated May 23
hereon.) |
Money Book XI, p. 58.
Order Book III, p. 176. |
William Jephson to Mr. Mattocks. The Treasury
Lords have written Sir Edward Seymour to pass
his accounts as late Treasurer of the Navy. He
informs them that you are his agent in that affair.
You are forthwith to attend the passing of these
accounts. |
Out Letters (General) XIII,
p. 69. |
Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners to
employ Thomas Smyth (waiter and searcher at
Fowey) as tidesurveyor at Falmouth loco John
Butcher, dismissed.
John Plat as surveyor, waiter and searcher at
Fowey.
Henry Vade as searcher at Shields. |
Out Letters (Customs) XII,
p. 311. |