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| Date. |
Nature and Substance of the Entry. |
Reference. |
| Aug. 22. |
Henry Guy to the Excise Commissioners to await
the Treasury Lords' directions before disposing
of the place of one Allen, a collector of Excise at
Bristol, lately reported dead. |
Out Letters (General) XIII,
p. 347. |
| Aug. 23. |
Royal warrant to the Clerk of the Signet for a privy
seal for 500,000l. to the Earl of Ranelagh, Paymaster
of the Forces, as imprest of the Guards,
Garrisons and Land Forces and contingencies
thereof. (Money warrant dated Aug. 29 hereon.
This warrant quotes the privy seal as dated Aug. 26.)
(Money order dated Aug. 30 hereon.) |
King's Warrant Book
XVI, p. 315. Money
Book XI, pp. 389-90.
Order Book III, p. 298. |
|
Same for 10,000l. to Henry Guy for secret service,
without account. (Money warrant dated Aug.
24 hereon.) (Money order dated Aug. 26
hereon.) |
King's Warrant Book
XVI, p. 315. Order
Book III, p. 297. |
Same to the Clerk of the Signet for a privy seal,
authorising the Admiralty to dispose of decayed
ships and stores which upon a survey have been
found unuseful for their Majesties' service in the
Navy.
Appending : schedule of said ships and stores, dated
Navy Office, July 13 last : the ships being as
follows : |
King's Warrant Book
XVI, pp. 318-9. |
At Deptford.
Pellican, fireship.
Richard and John, fireship.
Nathaniell, fireship. |
At Portsmouth.
Speedwell, fireship.
Young Spragg, fireship.
Roe Buck, fireship.
Fanfan, sloop. |
At Sheerness.
"a water boot."
The stores comprise : brass, cloth, engines,
glasses, iron, lanthornes, leather, tin and two
horses with their harness belonging to the
tow engine at Chatham. |
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Treasury warrant dormant to John Knight, Customs
Cashier, to pay the salary of 12l. per an. to Thomas
Chiffinch as one of the two searchers of Gravesend
port and the like salary to John Berkeley, now
Lord Fitzharding, and Christopher Walters for the
other searcher's place there. |
Money Book XI, p. 391. |
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Henry Guy to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue
1,229l. 16s. 0d. to the Earl of Ranelagh upon any
unsatisfied order in his name for the service of the
Forces : to be issued out of a loan to the like amount
to be made by said Earl on credit of the three fourths
of the Customs : and to be paid to Francis Molineux
on account of clothing furnished to the Regiment
of Horse late under Visct. Colchester. |
Disposition Book X, p.
180. |
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Same to the Agents [for Taxes], enclosing a letter
[missing] from John Child, with [containing] an
account of the second payment of the Quarterly
Poll in co. Wilts. |
Out Letters (General) XIII,
p. 347. |
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Same to Mr. [Charles] Fox to report on the enclosed
petition of William Wallis and Edward Wigg,
agents to the Regiments of the late Lieut. Gen.
Kirke and Sir John Hanmer, praying four months'
pay due to them to pay them equal with Brigadier
Steward and others. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to Mr. Clarke to procure a royal warrant, to be
signed by the Queen, to authorise the Paymasters
of the Forces lately in Ireland to pay 600l. to the
Commissioners of Transportation upon account for
the Scotch [ship]masters and 65l. 16s. 6d. on account
of pay [sic probably for hay] for transport ships. |
Ibid. |
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Henry Guy to the Attorney General to report on the
enclosed petition of Adolph Curtius for a grant of
Newnham Abbey, co. Beds., which is seized into their
Majesties' hands. |
Out Letters (General) XIII,
p. 348. |
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Same to Mr. Clarke to give notice to the officers of
the Army who have not entered their commissions
in the Secretary at War's Office to forthwith enter
same, otherwise they will receive no pay. |
Ibid, p. 349. |
Treasury order to the Customs Commissioners to
observe (a) infra.
Prefixing : (a) Order of the Queen in Council, dated
Whitehall, Aug. 18 inst., granting leave to the
sloop Neptune, Stephen Elliot master, riding at
anchor in the Hope, to make entry notwithstanding
the quarantine ; the master having come from
Jamaica with a pacquet sent from the President
and Council there to acquaint their Majesties with
the unhappy condition of that place by reason of
a violent earthquake which happened there June 7
last : the said master's petition shewing that at
the time of his departure the said island was in
good health and free from any contagious distemper,
and that the crew have been and are all healthy ;
as is supported by the oaths of Robert Walker and
Robert Smithel, and therefore praying to be admitted
to entry, so that the ship may be speedily fitted
again for the island to carry advice what supplies
are designed for that place. |
Out Letters (Customs) XII,
p. 434. |
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Treasury reference to the Agents for Taxes of the
petition of Charles Brawne and Thomas Allen,
Receivers General of the Twelve Months' Aid for
co. Somerset and Bristol city, praying an allowance
for their extraordinary charges in returning their
moneys. |
Reference Book VI, p. 418. |
Royal warrant under the Queen's sign manual to
Visct. Sidney, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, to allow
in account to the Receivers General of Revenue,
Ireland, 862l. 0s. 10d., being in excess of the allowance
of Concordatum comprehended in the establishment
of Ireland ; all by reason that for want of
a fund for contingencies several sums as follow, to
that total, have been paid out of Concordatums
which ought not to have been paid out of that fund.
Appending : schedule of said payments : |
Out Letters (Ireland) VI,
pp. 194-5. |
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l. |
s. |
d. |
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to Michaell Parker, by him disbursed
for relief of prisoners of
war sent to Lambay Island |
20 |
0 |
0 |
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to Thomas Prise as Town Major
of Dublin |
45 |
0 |
0 |
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to John Rotton for his service and
extraordinary pains in prosecution
of several persons to the
outlawry who were guilty of the
late rebellion in Ireland |
200 |
0 |
0 |
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to Lieut. Hutchinson for his pains
and charges in carrying Lieut.
Gen. Hamilton prisoner to Chester |
16 |
15 |
0 |
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to Richard Cox, esq., for his extraordinary
charge and pains in
settling and ordering the Militia
of the county of Cork |
150 |
0 |
0 |
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to Israell Feilding, 303l. 14s. 0d.
for expresses to and from the
Camp, and 46l. 4s. 8d. for
stationery ware delivered to the
Office of Secretary at War, and
60l. 17s. 2d. in six sums paid for
coals, candles, doorkeepers' salary
etc. for that office |
410 |
15 |
10 |
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[? the last above item] being
part of a Concordatum for
531l. 10s. 4d. |
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to Lieut. John Hutchinson for his
charges and pains going into
several parts of the country to
muster the Irish raised for the
Emperor's service |
19 |
0 |
0 |
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£862 |
0 |
10[sic] |
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Royal warrant under the Queen's sign manual to
Visct. Sidney, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, for a
patent to pass the great seal of Ireland for a
release to the Provost etc. of Trinity College,
Dublin, of 247l. per an., part of the quit
and Crown rents of 257l. per an. payable to the
Crown by said College : the release to be for three
years from Easter day last : all in consideration of
the miserable state of said College occasioned by
the late wars in Ireland. |
Out Letters (Ireland) VI,
pp. 195-6. |
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Same to same for a same for an annual payment or
yearly sum of 600l. to William Robinson for many
good services, especially in the pay of the Army
in Ireland : to continue until he be found some
employment of equal or better value. |
Ibid, pp. 197-8. |
| Aug. 24. |
Money warrant for 1,000l. to Lancelot Burton in
repayment of the like amount lent the 20th inst.
on credit of the Exchequer in general.
500l. to William Paulet, similarly lent. |
Money Book XI, p. 380. |
|
Same for 9l. 2s. 6d. to Richard Welbeck, stablekeeper
at Reading, for three quarters to Lady day last on
his fee of 12l. 3s. 4d. per an. |
Ibid, p. 386. |
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Treasury warrant to Sir Robert Cotton and Thomas
Frankland, Postmasters General, to pay 75l. to
Monsieur Vanderpoole, Postmaster at the Brill,
for three quarters to June 24 last on an allowance
of 100l. per an. which the Queen is pleased to allow
him, from Michaelmas last, out of the profits of
the Post Office, in consideration of his care in
despatching their Majesties' letters and for other
services performed by him : as intimated by Secretary
Nottingham's letter of the 12th inst. to my
Lords. Together with a dormant clause for payment
of said allowance quarterly in future. |
Ibid, p. 387. |
|
Money warrant for 360l. to Isaac Richier for 1½ years
to July 3 last on the allowance of 240l. per an. for
and towards his support as Lieutenant Governor of
the Bermudas : to be satisfied (together with the
60l. remaining unpaid on an order of 1690-1, Feb. 14)
out of the moneys of the Four and a Half per cent.
Duty. (Money order dated Aug. 26 hereon.) |
Ibid, p. 387. Order Book
III, p. 297. |
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Money warrant for 42l. to the Provost and Fellows of
Eton College for one year to 1691, Christmas, on
their perpetuity. |
Money Book XI, p. 388. |
|
Same for 10l. to the schoolmaster of Southwell School
for one year to 1692, Lady day, on an ancient
perpetuity. |
Ibid. |
|
Treasury warrant to John Knight, Customs Cashier,
to pay 100l. to Samuell Clarke, warehousekeeper at
the Custom House, for the charges he was at upon
account of the tin which was sent from Truro for
their Majesties' use. |
Ibid, p. 389. |
|
Same dormant to the Receiver and the Auditor of
the revenue of the Duchy of Cornwall to pay the
salary of 80l. per an. to Geo. Treweek, one of the
four supervisors of the tin blowing houses. (Henry
Guy to said Auditor and said Receiver to issue and
pay the debentures for said salary and the arrears
thereon, notwithstanding the restriction of May 19
last, supra, pp. 1640-1.) |
Ibid, p. 389. Disposition
Book X, p. 183. |
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Henry Guy to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue
2,876l. 7s. 6d. to Henry [Nassau], Seigneur De
Auverquer, esq., Master of the Horse : to be issued
out of loans to be made by said Nassau on credit
of the three fourths of the Customs : same being
to complete the sum of 5,876l. 7s. 6d. for one year's
advance to Jan. 1 next for the use of the Stables. |
Disposition Book X, p.
180. |
|
Same to same to take in the 20,000l. which will be
lent by the Excise Commissioners and Mr. Duncomb
in the name of Thomas Browne or of some other
person on credit of the Hereditary and Temporary
Excise. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to same to issue to the Earl of Montagu, Master
of the Great Wardrobe, 612l. 8s. 2¾d. on the unsatisfied
order in his name for the service of the
Great Wardrobe : to be issued out of a loan to the
like amount to be made by said Earl on credit of
the three fourths of the Customs : and to be paid
to the tradesmen that furnished trumpeters' liveries,
colours etc. to the Regiment of Horse late under
Sir John Lanier. |
Ibid, p. 182. |
|
Same to the Customs Commissioners to permit the
goods, horses and equipage of the Lord Lieutenant
of Ireland to be shipped from Chester, Customs
free. |
Out Letters (General) XIII,
p. 348. |
|
Same to Mr. [Charles] Fox to report on the enclosed
petition [missing] of Elizabeth Watson, praying
payment of 113l. 19s. 0d. due to her late husband
as Captain in Col. Byerly's Regiment of Horse. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to the Customs Commissioners to send to the
lodgings of the Envoy Extraordinary from Portugal
his goods arrived here as in the enclosed schedule
[missing], Customs free, except for the wines. |
Ibid. |
|
Henry Guy to the Earl of Ranelagh to report on the enclosed
petition [missing] of Richard Stanyon in behalf
of himself and inhabitants of the town of Higham
Ferrers, co. Northampton, praying payment of a
debt of about 46l. due for quarters from Capt.
Boade's Troop in the Regiment late under Sir
John Lanier. |
Out Letters (General) XIII,
p. 348. |
|
Same to the Excise Commissioners. My Lords are
willing that you should constitute Mr. Allen to the
place of Excise collector at Bristol, void by the
death of his father. But you are to provide for
Mr. Clarke, late collector of Excise in co. Salop,
by constituting him to the first collection of like
value that shall fall vacant and lie convenient
for him. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to the Duke of St. Albans. The accounts of Lord
Griffin as late Treasurer of the Chamber are delayed
for want of some of the signets for the pensionary
falconers. Please direct them to produce same
to Auditor Done at his office in Lincoln's Inn
Fields. |
Ibid, p. 349. |
|
Same to the Postmasters General. I have read to
my Lords yours of the 19th inst. concerning a bill
drawn upon you by Mr. Lambert Blackwell, their
Majesties' Consul at Leghorn, for 409l. 16s. 0d.,
being so much more expended by him in the charge
of the Vellocita Tartann. You are to meet said
bill when due. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to Mr. Smith. Take care to receive at the
Exchequer the 500l. which my Lords have this day
directed for the Earl of Portland for the Privy
Purse. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to the Navy Commissioners to make forth bills
to the Treasurer of the Navy to pay 90l. to John
Addis of Plymouth, merchant, for freight of his
vessel sent from Barbados as a pacquet boat, as
per his petition [missing] enclosed and Mr. Povey's
report [missing] thereon enclosed. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to Mr. Shales, enclosing an account [missing] of
money paid from the 15th to the 20th inst. out of
the second [Twelve Months' Aid appropriation of a]
million to ships etc. |
Ibid, p. 350. |
Treasury order to the Customs Commissioners to
observe (a) infra.
Prefixing : (a) Order of the Queen in Council, dated
Whitehall, Aug. 18 inst., for licence to the Diligence
of Topsham, Thomas Adams master, 100 tons,
now at Plymouth, to proceed on her voyage to
Lisbon with eight English seamen, on such security
as was given last year by ships loading to Portugal.
The like for the brigantine George and [the]
Teneriffe Merchant to return to New England.
The like for the Peter and Elizabeth to go to
Virginia as an advice boat. |
Out Letters (Customs) XII,
p. 433. |
Same to same to observe (a) infra.
Prefixing : (a) the like Order for permitting the
following ships to proceed on their voyage to Italy,
provided they be ready to sail before Nov. 1 next,
except such of them as carry fish, and they to go
at the proper season : provided bond be given in
the same form as was given for the ships permitted
last year to go to Italy : (all on the report of the
17th inst. from the Customs Commissioners about
settling the number of ships for this year's trade
to Italy and distributing the number of 511 seamen,
being the residue of 700 seamen allowed to that
trade for this season, 189 being already allowed to
four ships by particular permission from the Council
Board).
Venetian, 280 tons ; 31 English mariners ; 20
foreigners and landsmen ; John Flower, master.
Union frigate, 200 tons ; 20 English mariners ;
14 foreigners and landsmen ; Samuell Skinner,
master.
Terra Nova Merchant, 160 tons ; 15 English
mariners ; 12 foreigners and landsmen ; Peter
Daniell, master.
George, 250 tons ; 29 English mariners ; 19
foreigners and landsmen ; Robert Saunders,
master.
Prosperous African, 350 tons ; 38 English
mariners ; 30 foreigners and landsmen ;
William Lambert, master.
Happy Returne, 90 tons ; 8 English mariners ;
5 foreigners and landsmen ; Isaac Carver,
master.
Phenix, 130 tons ; 16 English mariners ; 15
foreigners and landsmen ; Ralph Thorpe,
master.
Christopher, 70 tons ; 8 English mariners ; 5
foreigners and landsmen ; — Rich, master.
Tho[mas] and Francis, 160 tons ; 16 English
mariners ; 9 foreigners and landsmen ; Nich.
Osmond, master.
Golden Frigott, 220 tons ; 22 English mariners ;
18 foreigners and landsmen ; Nath. Gould,
master.
Merchant's Good Will, 250 tons ; 21 English
mariners ; 13 foreigners and landsmen ; John
Papwell, master.
Joseph, 120 tons ; 13 English mariners ; 7
foreigners and landsmen.
Happy Returne, 65 tons ; 7 English mariners ;
4 foreigners and landsmen ; Tho. Downing,
master.
Good Success, 180 tons ; 20 English mariners ;
12 foreigners and landsmen ; Joseph Ould,
master.
John, 70 tons ; 7 English mariners ; 4 foreigners
and landsmen ; William Mullens, master.
Expectacon, 200 tons ; 21 English mariners ; 14
foreigners and landsmen ; Tho. White, master.
Eliz[abeth] and Mary ketch, 60 tons ; 6 English
mariners ; 2 foreigners and landsmen ; Tho.
Woodhouse, master.
Tyger, 250 tons ; 21 English mariners ; 13
foreigners and landsmen ; William Jeffryes,
master.
Orange Flower, 50 tons ; 5 English mariners ;
2 foreigners and landsmen ; — Garrett,
master.
Citty of Cadiz, 200 tons ; 21 English mariners ;
13 foreigners and landsmen ; Tho. Ayres,
master.
Jacob, 350 tons ; 40 English mariners ; 28
foreigners and landsmen ; John Smith, master.
Ruby, 230 tons ; 25 English mariners ; 15 foreigners
and landsmen ; Alex. Kenton, master.
Oxinden, 200 tons ; 20 English mariners ; 13
foreigners and landsmen ; Edwd. Swaine,
master.
Sarah, 300 tons ; 31 English mariners ; 20
foreigners and landsmen.
Fairfax, 180 tons ; 20 English mariners ; 13
foreigners and landsmen ; Nich. Fairfax,
master.
Prince George, 280 tons ; 30 English mariners ;
20 foreigners and landsmen.
Totals : English mariners, 311 ; foreigners and
landsmen, 340. |
Ibid, p. 435. |
|
Treasury reference to the Customs Commissioners of
the petition of Charles Horde of London, merchant,
to the Queen, praying licence to redeem the ship
Friends' Adventure, William Lowndes [master],
lately taken [by the French] and carried into St.
Malo. |
Reference Book VI, p. 418. |
|
Same to Mr. Clark of the petition of Capt. Clifford
et al., who came in at the capitulation of Limerick,
for such an allowance as late Capt. in Col. Clifford's
Regiment of Dragoons as other officers of the like
circumstances had. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to the Warden etc. of the Mint of the petition
of Andrew Lawrence for 63l. 17s. 6d. due to him
at June 24 last on his patent fee of 2s. a day [to
be paid him] out of a parcel of clippings and clipped
money which he lately seized in the parish of St.
James's. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to Robert Griffith, agent of the first Marine
Regiment, of the petition of Walter Brough, a
Lieutenant in Capt. Cooper's Company of Mariners
[Marines], petitioner shewing that his commission
is dated 1690-1, Feb. 23, and that from date thereof
to the present he has received 3l. 10s. 0d. only for
two fortnights' subsistence for himself and servants :
therefore praying an order to the Agent [of the
Regiment] to pay him the four months' pay now
ordered to him, he coming in upon the death of
Nathaniell Price, whose executors have received
eight months' pay of twelve which was due to
them. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to Sir Christopher Wren of William Clarke's
estimate for repairs in St. James's Park, amounting
to 35l. 1s. 0d. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to Mr. Aaron Smith [Treasury Solicitor] of the
petition of George Pit (Pitt), junr., to the Queen,
shewing that he was found guilty of manslaughter
for killing John Hoyle, esq., and was pardoned,
but cannot be restored to his goods without a
particular privy seal : therefore praying same. |
Ibid. |
|
Treasury warrant to Thomas Musgrave to make
leases to such of the owners and inhabitants of
houses adjacent to that long slip of ground in the
parish of St. Margaret's, Westminster, without the
walls of St. James's Park, extending from the
house now or late in the possession of John Webb,
as will accept of same at the rate of 10s. a foot for
the unbuilt ground and 15s. a foot for the built
ground : and in case of refusal then to be at liberty
to erect any new buildings on any part thereof as
unleased : the said ground having been granted to
said Musgrave and Richard Kent, since deceased,
by patent of 1690, June 7, at the rent of 6s. 8d.
per an., with covenants to make such compositions
and agreements with the owners and inhabitants
of the adjacent houses as should be directed by
Treasury warrant, but they having refused to
accept the above prices. |
Warrants not Relating to
Money XIV, p. 66. |
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Treasury warrant to the Revenue Commissioners,
Ireland, to pay William Culliford his salary as late
one of the said Commissioners, viz., up to the date
of the present [new] Commission ; he not having
been suspended until the 14th inst., and all the
remaining Commissioners having been paid to the
date of the new Commission. |
Out Letters (Ireland) VI,
p. 196. |
|
Entry of a Treasury caveat in behalf of the Earl of
Rochester that no grant pass to any person of any
reserved rents in the forest of Wychwood till notice
be given to his lordship. |
Caveat Book, p. 28. |
| Aug. 25. |
Henry Guy to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue as
follows out of the Exchequer : viz. : |
Disposition Book X, pp.
180-1. |
|
l. |
s. |
d. |
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Out of 7,514l. 7s. 11¼d. of the
complements of the Excise ; 1,000l.
of low wines ; 4,400l. 11s. 9¼d. of
general loans ; 2,550l. 5s. 0¾d.
of the first quarter of the Poll ;
1,500l. of loans on the fourth of
the Customs ; 5,000l. of the loan
to be made by Mr. Nott ;
2,911l. 12s. 1¾d., part of 3,000l.
to be paid by Mr. Knight of the
fourth of the Customs : making
24,876l. 16s. 11d. in all. |
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to the Earl of Ranelagh for the
growing week's subsistence, as
well to the Forces in Flanders,
including the Train of Artillery
and contingencies, as to the
Forces remaining here |
20,987 |
5 |
2 |
|
to ditto for the gunners in the
several garrisons in further part
of their arrear |
107 |
18 |
4 |
|
to ditto towards paying the charge
of the bread waggons |
1,000 |
0 |
0 |
|
to ditto for Sir Joseph Herne in
further part of the money returned
[forwarded abroad] by
bills for Hanover Forces |
1,208 |
6 |
8 |
|
to Charles Fox in further part for
the Danish Forces |
1,000 |
0 |
0 |
|
to ditto for a week's subsistence to
Col. Foulk's Regiment |
175 |
19 |
7 |
|
to ditto for Brent Smith, an
Ensign, in part of his arrear |
50 |
0 |
0 |
|
to ditto for the Commissioners of
the Transports for the masters
of 15 ships hired to carry horses
to Holland |
347 |
7 |
2 |
|
Out of loans on the second Twelve
Months' Aid. |
|
|
|
|
to the Treasurer of the Navy,
8,000l. for wear and tear and
4,016l. 5s. 9d. for wages to the
ships going to the West Indies |
12,016 |
5 |
9 |
|
Out of the loan to be made by Mr.
Duncombe. |
|
|
|
|
to ditto to complete the charges of
building two fourth rate ships |
1,000 |
0 |
0 |
|
to ditto for the Victuallers, upon
account of extraordinary service |
1,000 |
0 |
0 |
|
Out of the Hereditary and Temporary
Excise as is in or shall come into
the Exchequer. |
|
|
|
|
to the Cofferer of the Household |
1,000 |
0 |
0 |
|
to ditto for the [part of the] Household
[accompanying the King]
abroad |
800 |
0 |
0 |
|
to the Master of the Horse for the
[part of the establishment of the]
Stables [accompanying the King]
abroad |
407 |
0 |
0 |
|
to me [Guy] for secret service |
300 |
0 |
0 |
|
to Mris. Fitzharrey |
25 |
0 |
0 |
|
to the Privy Purse |
500 |
0 |
0 |
|
to Mr. Hugh's, Agent in Germany |
225 |
0 |
0 |
|
to Mr. Herwart |
500 |
0 |
0 |
|
to the Earl of Ranelagh for Thomas
Fotherby, esq., Commissary
General of the Ammunition etc.,
for the West Indies ; upon
account of his equipage upon his
entering into that service |
200 |
0 |
0 |
|
to the Treasurer of the Ordnance
upon the estimate for Sheerness |
200 |
0 |
0 |
|
£43,050 |
2 |
8 |
|
Treasury warrant to the Navy Commissioners to
apply abovesaid 8,000l. to wear and tear and
4,016l. 5s. 9d. to wages as in part of the 1,000,000l.
appropriated by the Act for the second Twelve
Months' Aid. |
Money Book XI, p. 378. |
|
Same to Mr. Clarke to procure a royal warrant, to
be signed by the Queen, to authorise the Earl of
Ranelagh to pay 200l. to Thomas Fotherby for
equipage as above. |
Out Letters (General) XIII,
p. 350. |
|
Same to Mr. Van Homrigh. Send my Lords an
entire account of all the receipts of moneys and
provisions, with an account of all payments made
and provisions issued by the Commissaries General
during the war in Ireland, with the vouchers thereto,
in order to pass the account with the Auditor. |
Out Letters (Ireland) VI,
p. 197. |
|
Same to the Commissioners for Stating the Accounts
of the Army. Send my Lords forthwith an account
of the debts due from the Army to the inhabitants
in Ireland and of all things else chargeable on the
said Army that is come to your knowledge : in order
to the making up the accounts of the same. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to the Officers of the Ordnance in Ireland. Send
my Lords a speedy account of all arms, ammunition
and other stores of war delivered to the Army that
ought to be charged to their [the Army's] accounts,
"especially the account of such as was delivered in
the time of Mr. Ayleways acting as Comptroller of
the Ordnance." |
Ibid. |
| Aug. 26. |
Royal warrant to the Attorney General to enter a
noli prosequi to the information against John Strong,
who was prosecuted for perjury, and William Claver,
an officer of the Customs, Weymouth port, the said
Claver having prosecuted Richard Strong in 1683
for transporting wool, who was fined 90l., and
thereupon brought an action against Claver for
117l. 10s. 0d. as money lent, supporting same at the
trial by said John Strong, his son, and obtained a
verdict, thereby reducing Claver and his family to
great poverty ; whereupon Claver prosecuted said
John for perjury, who was found guilty at the
Assizes at Dorset in Michaelmas term, 1687, but
no fine was set, nor was Strong ever taken thereupon.
The present warrant is by reason that said
Richard Strong is willing to repair to said Claver
all his damages, who therefore prays this noli
prosequi on Strong's behalf as a means of repairing
his [Claver's] losses, "though Strong, the person
convicted, deserves no favour." |
King's Warrant Book
XVI, p. 316. |
|
Money warrant for 225l. to Hugh Hughes, gent.,
Agent in Germany, for three quarters to June 24
last on his ordinary of 300l. per an. (Money order
dated Aug. 29 hereon.) |
Money Book XI, p. 388.
Order Book III, p. 298. |
|
Treasury warrant dormant to the Customs Cashier to
pay the salary of 5l. per an. to Christopher Barret
as searcher of Yarmouth port. |
Money Book XI, p. 447. |
|
Henry Guy to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue
4,000l. to the Duke of Schonberg out of a loan to
the like amount to be made by Stephen Monginott
on credit of the East India goods duties. |
Disposition Book X, p.
182. |
|
Same to Mr. [Charles] Fox, enclosing the petition of
Henry Nelthorpe et al., late Captains in Col. Foulke's
Regiment. You are to observe his Majesty's
pleasure, as by Secretary the Earl of Nottingham's
letter of Feb. 23 last upon their former petition. |
Out Letters (General) XIII,
p. 350. |
|
Same to the Earl of Ranelagh to report on the enclosed
petition [missing] of Phillip Colby concerning the
money due to him for clothing Visct. Fitz-Hardinge's
Regiment of Dragoons. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to the Navy Commissioners to cause the following
method to be observed in the payments to be made
by the Treasurer of the Navy upon tickets for
seamen's wages : viz. : (1) that the persons who
served and appear for the money be paid ; (2) the
widows and administrators of the dead ; (3) the
real attorneys of others who have not sold their
tickets : "and that no other persons be paid upon
tickets by the said Treasurer of the Navy, other
than those above specified." |
Ibid. |
|
Same to the Customs Commissioners to report on the
enclosed memorial [missing] presented to the Queen
by Monsieur Bade. |
Ibid, p. 351. |
Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners to employ
William Collins as waiter and searcher at Wivenhoe
in Colchester port loco Robert Legg, deceased.
William Jacomb as collector of Poole port loco
Geo. Coldham, who declines same.
Jos. Shepard as chief boatman at Bristol loco
Samuell Dunkum, who declines same.
Sidney Bligh as waiter and searcher at Penzance
loco Jo[h]n Napper. |
Out Letters (Customs) XII,
p. 421. |
Treasury order to same to observe (a) infra.
Prefixing : (a) Order of the Privy Council, dated
Whitehall, Aug. 23 inst., granting licence to the
Bonaventure, Robert Tisdale commander, 26 guns,
40 men, to sail to the Canaries out and home without
convoy : on the like bond as was given last year
by ships going to the Canaries. |
Ibid, p. 436. |
Same to same to observe (a) infra.
Prefixing : (a) Order of the Queen in Council, dated
Whitehall, Aug. 18 inst., taking off forthwith the
embargo from two lists of ships [missing] intended
for the West Indies, which have agreed with the
Victualling Commissioners to carry provisions,
stores and soldiers for their Majesties' service in
those parts : provided they are ready to sail with
the West Indies convoy by the end of next month
according to agreement. |
Ibid. |
|
Treasury reference to Mr. Clarke of the petition of
Capt. Charles Egan, Capt. Owen Ferris and Capt.
Jeremiah Hollyhand, shewing that they came over
from the enemy in Ireland upon their Majesties'
proclamation, and being resolved to serve their
Majesties in Flanders and praying to have 12l. apiece
to enable them to go over. |
Reference Book VI, p. 419. |
| Aug. 28. |
Henry Guy to the Navy Commissioners. My Lords
have thought it expedient for their Majesties' service
that weekly certificates should be returned to them
by Geo. Dodington, esq., of such part of the payments
under the Treasurer of the Navy as are
committed to his charge. They think it reasonable
to allow a clerk at 60l. per an. salary for the performance
thereof as from June 24 last. You are to
arrange for such payment [salary] to such person as
Dodington shall nominate. |
Out Letters (General) XIII,
p. 353. |
| Aug. 29. |
Same to the Earl of Ranelagh to report on the enclosed
petition [missing] of John Rodway, Thomas Hawgood
and others concerning the money due to them
for clothing the First Regiment of Foot Guards. |
Ibid, p. 351. |
|
Same to the Customs Commissioners to deliver,
Customs free, to the Envoy of Portugal one tun
of wine, the same being for his own drinking. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to Mr. Clarke to procure a royal warrant, to be
signed by the Queen, to authorise the Paymasters
of the Forces lately in Ireland to pay 201l. 14s. 5d.
(without deduction of poundage) to Mr. Richard
Roberts for the like sum by him advanced to several
officers of the Regiment of Foot late under Col. Toby
Purcell and now under Sir John Morgan. |
Ibid. |
Treasury order to the Customs Commissioners to
observe (a) infra.
Prefixing : (a) Order of the Privy Council, dated
Whitehall, Aug. 25 inst., to permit the small buss
called the Margaret, 40 tons, Augustin Head master,
with five men, to sail to Jamaica, north about
Scotland without coming to London to join a
convoy, on the like bond as given last year for ships
going thither (excepting for going and coming with
the convoy) : it appearing from the petition of
Gilbert Heathcote and partners, owners of said
vessel, that they are great sufferers by the late
earthquake at Jamaica to the value of about 6,000l.
or 8,000l., and that their loss will be very much
increased if a speedy supply of coals, iron work etc.
be not sent over for rebuilding their storehouses
and works, for which purposes they have provided
said buss and laden her at Newcastle. |
Out Letters (Customs) XII,
p. 437. |
|
Treasury warrant to the Commissioners of Excise
and Hearthmoney to discharge Lydia Wood, relict
of Robert Wood, late a collector of Hearthmoney
in London, of the 17l. 16s. 10d. which he is indebted
to the Crown on his account ended at Michaelmas
and Lady day, 1689 : in consideration of her poor
and desolate condition, great charge of children
and her husband's long fit of sickness. |
Warrants not Relating to
Money XIV, p. 72. |
| Aug. 30. |
Same to Brooke Bridges and Thomas Done, Auditors
of Imprests, to allow to the Earl of Ranelagh in
his account for 15 months [to Mar. 31 last] as
Treasurer of the Royal Hospital near Chelsea,
456l. for one year and three months to himself for
his pains in looking after the building of said Hospital
at the rate of 20s. a day. |
Money Book XI, p. 390. |
|
Money warrant for 50l. to John Topham, one of the
Serjeants at Arms attending the House of Commons,
to be paid over to the doorkeepers and messengers
attending said House for their pains and service
in the last three Sessions of Parliament. (Money
order dated Sept. 5 hereon.) |
Ibid, p. 390. Order Book
III, p. 299. |
|
Henry Guy to Mr. Knight, Customs Cashier, to pay
into the Exchequer forthwith 500l. of the moneys
of the fourth of the Customs. (Same to the Auditor
of the Receipt to issue to me [Guy] for secret service
the said 500l.) |
Disposition Book X, p.
183. |
|
Same to Mr. Clarke to procure a royal warrant, to
be signed by the Queen, to authorise the Paymasters
of the Forces late in Ireland to pay 50l.
to Brent Smyth in part of his arrears of pay as
Ensign in Col. Brewer's Regiment of Foot. |
Out Letters (General) XIII,
p. 351. |
Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners to
employ Samuell Dunkum as boatman in Bristol
port loco John Byard, dismissed.
Richard Forster (for some years a quayman in
London port) as landwaiter, Ipswich port, loco
Thomas Burdet, who declines the employment
rather than remove to another port.
Tristram Dawson as waiter and searcher, Rochester
port, loco Geo. Fitz Rowlandson, dismissed.
Abell Abey as weighing porter, London port,
loco William Ball. |
Out Letters (Customs) XII,
p. 438. |
|
Treasury reference to William Tailer, Deputy Surveyor
General of Crown Lands, of the petition of Charles
Bertie, shewing that the Queen Dowager demised
to Richard Bertie, in trust for petitioner, the manor
of Deeping for 31 years from 1676, Michaelmas,
and Charles II demised to others in trust for petitioner
a further term of 41 years therein at 94l. 1s. 3½d.
per an. during the life of the Queen Dowager and
4l. 1s. 3½d. to the Crown thereafter : therefore
praying an extension to 99 years of the remaining
term of 56 years in the premises. |
Reference Book VI, p. 419. |
Treasury warrant to Richard, Earl of Ranelagh,
Paymaster of the Forces, to pay (in accordance
with the Queen's sign manual of May 24 last) out
of the two thirds of the deduction of 12d. per £
from the pay of the Forces the several sums as
follow for work done and things supplied for the
Royal Hospital near Chelsea.
Prefixing : an abstract of a book entitled "Chelsea
Royal Hospital" :
Charges in finishing the building of the washhouse
and bakehouse and new building the
Engine house and Cistern house with the
pipes and cisterns thereto, the whitster's house
and posts in the drying yard : in building 2
summer houses next the Thames and raising
and underpinning several other walls and
making several drains : in making a great
store yard for coals, ditching round the kitchen
garden and several other ditches and sinking
the canals and making a new pair of stairs to
the common canal : in planting trees and
making the gardens and the roads and several
other works for 15 months ended 1692, Mar. 31.
Thomas Hill, 2,339l. 5s. 10¾d. ; Mathew Bankes,
2,840l. 6s. 2½d. ; Morris Emmett, 2,450l. 11s. 11d. ;
Charles Hopson, 3,027l. 9s. 10½d. ; Thomas
Dobbins, 1,775l. 12s. 5d. ; William Bushell,
1,304l. 17s. 4d. ; Robert Streeter, 506l. 14s. 1d. ;
Stephen and George Emmett, 91l. 15s. 8d. ;
John Martyr, 127l. 6s. 0d. ; Thomas Franklyn,
703l. 13s. 8d. ; George London and Henry
Wise, 1,609l. 1s. 11d. ; William Woster,
18l. 5s. 6d. ; Will. Emmett, 36l. 8s. 0d. ; John
Wilkinns, 5l. 1s. 0d. ; John Barrett, 28l. 5s. 10d. ;
Henry Margetts, 268l. 1s. 9¼d. ; William Fells,
148l. 2s. 2d. ; William Newton, 161l. 6s. 9d. ;
Robert Aldersey, 260l. ; John Smith, 157l. 10s.
4d. ; William Partridge, 114l. 16s. 5½d. ; Paull
Winckles, 385l. 8s. 7d. ; Jo. Vile, 289l. 17s. 10¾d. ;
Jo. Frankland, 9l. 11s. 9¾d. ; Samuell Forrest,
192l. 16s. 4d. ; Leonard Gammon, junr.,
12l. 10s. 0d. ; Leonard Gammon, senr., 77l. :
total, 19,941l. 17s. 4d. |
Warrants not Relating to
Money XIV, pp. 68-70. |
Report to the Queen from the Treasury Lords on the
petition of Edmund Prideaux, Henry Ustick and
Matthew Remington, esq., as by the order of reference
of July 21 ; petitioners praying a privy seal
(upon a warrant signed by the King before he went
for Flanders) for a grant of a third of such moneys
as they should discover and recover from divers
persons who formerly levied several sums upon
Dissenters in case of recusancy etc., and did not
pay same into the Exchequer. The King's warrant,
signed as above, remains at the Treasury not
countersigned, and no further progress made thereon.
We thought the same not advisable in consideration
of the powers and interest which petitioners desired.
(1) They were not the first discoverers, but had
their information from others who were concerned
in prosecuting the same in the reign of the late
King. (2) It would give vexation and disturbance
to a great number of your Majesty's subjects,
especially such as have served as Mayors, Sheriffs,
Justices of the Peace or other public employments.
(3) It would be almost impossible to have any certain
cheque or control upon the petitioners if they should
make any underhand compositions.
We prefer that the Attorney General, upon
information from time to time, should sue on the
Crown behalf, with a third part of the recoveries
as a reward to the discoverers, "and finding that
Thomas Baker and Peter Stepkins were early in
the discoveries of these concealments and that
they have actually informed us of several sums
to the value of 2,500l. or upwards in the hands of
several particular persons, we have agreed to
employ them in the method before mentioned
without passing any grant for the same under the
great or privy seal." |
Ibid, pp. 70-1. |
| [? Aug. 30.] |
Treasury reference to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
of the petition [missing] of Geo. Phillips, esq.,
together with the several reports and papers annexed
[missing]. |
Out Letters (Ireland) VI,
p. 198. |
| Aug. 30. |
Henry Guy to the Revenue Commissioners, Ireland,
to report on (a) infra.
Appending : (a) petition of James Clarke of Dublin,
merchant, shewing that William Robinson, Commissary
of the Provisions of the Army, took 174
barrels of salt belonging to petitioner in the city
of Waterford and worth 300l. : that petitioner being
bound with one Terence Dermott to the late King
in the sum of 196l. 17s. 6d. [for Dermott's Excise
or Customs debt], he was forced to pay same to
the collector of Dublin : therefore praying to be
paid his 300l. and that said 196l. 17s. 6d. may be
restored to him out of Dermott's effects. |
Ibid. |
|
Treasury caveat in behalf of John Evelyn, esq., that
no lease or grant of Says Court, West Broomfield,
Brickclose or any parcels of land now in lease to
him in or near Deptford do pass to any person till
he be first heard. |
Caveat Book, p. 28. |
|
Same in behalf of Nicholas Harby that no grant pass
of the office of collector of the woollen cloth and
petty customs [London port] till he be first heard. |
Ibid, p. 29. |
| Aug. 31. |
Royal letters patent appointing Thomas Addison, esq.,
to take immediate possession of the late Jesuits'
College in the Savoy (viz. of the houses, edifices
and buildings which are described in the plan
[missing] hereto annexed and of the several goods
as in schedule below) and to keep same for such
uses as their Majesties shall from time to time
appoint, during pleasure : all by reason that said
Addison did lately inform that there were several
houses and buildings in the Savoy which had lately
been possessed by Jesuits and other forfeiting
persons who had left the same, whereupon the
said buildings and the goods therein were seized
into the King's hands and made use of for the
keeping of prisoners of war, and it is necessary to
appoint some person as keeper to have the custody
thereof and to look after the repairs and preservation
thereof.
Appending : schedule of the goods remaining with
Sir John Dowse et al. in the Jesuits' College and
other houses in the Savoy to be delivered to the
custody of said Addison, who "by the Treasury
Lords is appointed to be housekeeper there and
to receive and be accomptable for the goods"
(including 50 flox beds ; tongs and fender etc. in
the Guardroom ; things in the kitchen, hall,
chapel etc.). |
King's Warrant Book
XVI, p. 321. |
Treasury warrant to the Auditor of the Receipt to
[register and] repay to the respective lenders the
loans as follow to a total of 41,333l. 8s. 7d. out of
moneys to arise by the second and fourth quarters
of the Quarterly Poll in the order and course as
below : and to register same in the Office of the
Auditor of the Receipt accordingly : paying the
6 per cent. interest thereon out of the unappropriated
fourth of the Customs : all on the lines of the
previous warrants of July 27 last and Aug. 3 inst.,
supra, pp. 1742-4 and 1752, which did register loans
to the amount of 393,901l. 6s. 5d. on the three last
quarters of the said Poll.
Appending : schedule of the loans to be registered as
above : |
Money Book XI, pp.
391-2. |
On the second quarter of the Poll.
Edward Russell, esq., 5,908l. 8s. 7d. : lent Aug. 5 :
to register after 129,000l.
Sir Stephen Evance, 2,000l. : lent Aug. 8 : to
register after 134,908l. 8s. 7d.
Sir John Read, 2,500l. : lent Aug. 9 : to register
after 136,908l. 8s. 7d.
Earl of Montagu, 5,000l. : lent Aug. 30 : to
register after 139,408l. 8s. 7d. |
On the fourth quarter of the Poll.
Marquess of Carmarthen, 875l. : lent Aug. 5 : to
register after 48,662l.
Leonard Robinson, 2,400l. : lent Aug. 4 : to
register after 108,464l.
ditto, 1,000l. : lent Aug. 8 : to register after
110,864l.
James Grey, 250l. : lent Aug. 11 : to register
after 111,864l.
Leonard Robinson, 1,000l. : lent Aug. 12 : to
register after 112,114l.
Hugh Squire, 1,400l. : lent Aug. 12 : to register
after 113,114l.
Edward Russell, 8,000l. : lent Aug. 16 : to register
after 114,514l.
Richard Lasells, 5,000l. : lent Aug. 16 : to register
after 122,514l.
Richard Roberts, 1,500l. : lent Aug. 11 : to
register after 127,514l.
James Eyton, 3,000l. : lent Aug. 18 : to register
after 129,014l.
Lancelot Burton, 1,000l. : lent Aug. 20 : to
register after 132,014l.
William Paulet, 500l. : lent Aug. 20 : to register
after 133,014l. : total of the above on the
second quarter, 15,408l. 8s. 7d. ; on the fourth
quarter, 25,925l. : or in all, 41,333l. 8s. 7d. |
|
Henry Guy to the Navy Commissioners to apply to
the recalls to ships paid off the 4,016l. 5s. 9d. directed
by the Treasury warrant of the 25th inst., supra,
p. 1792, to be applied to the wages of ships going
to the West Indies : by reason that the said ships
are not yet ready to sail to the West Indies. |
Disposition Book X, p.
184. |
|
Same to the Customs Commissioners to send to Lord
Paget's house in Southampton Square, who is
going as Ambassador to the Grand Seignior, to
seal his goods in order to their transport. |
Out Letters (General) XIII,
p. 352. |
|
Same to the Agents for Taxes. Inform my Lords
what is the endorsement on the second quarter's
return of the Poll Act for the seven hundreds of
Gloucestershire touching Sir Robert Atkins, junr. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to Mr. Clarke to procure a royal warrant, to
be signed by the Queen, to authorise the Paymasters
of the Forces lately in Ireland to pay
1,399l. 1s. 6d. to Aubery, Earl of Oxford, in full
of the arrears of the following officers belonging to
the three broken Troops of the Royal Regiment of
Horse which were not cleared at the breaking of
the said Troops in Ireland, being at that time sent
into England to raise recruits for the 1st Regiment :
viz. 314l. 19s. 6d. each to Captains Selby, Cornway
and Leigh ; 205l. 2s. 0d. to Cornet Moore ;
124l. 10s. 6d. each to Quartermasters Slow and
Bird. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to same for a same to authorise same to pay
635l. 15s. 0d. to Aubery, Earl of Oxford, for the
non-commission officers and soldiers of the Royal
Regiment of Horse. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to same for a same to authorise same to pay
347l. 7s. 2d. to the Commissioners of Transports for
carrying horses to Holland. |
Ibid, p. 353. |
|
Same to the Customs Commissioners, enclosing
William Jacomb's petition. If the matter be as he
suggests, you are to present him for the collector's
place at Poole. |
Ibid, p. 354. |
Treasury order to same to observe (a) infra.
Prefixing : (a) Order of the Queen in Council, dated
Aug. 18 inst., forthwith taking off the quarantine
laid on the 1st inst. on all ships and vessels coming
from Jamaica : the present Order being made upon
reading several letters and affidavits touching the
health of their Majesties' subjects in that island. |
Out Letters (Customs) XII,
p. 437. |
|
Treasury reference to the Commissioners of Excise
and Hearthmoney of the petition of Mathias Bisbie,
praying to be forgiven a debt due to the Crown from
him as a collector of the late revenue of Hearthmoney. |
Reference Book VI, p. 419. |
|
Same to the Customs Commissioners of the petition
of the Royal Africa Company to the Queen, shewing
that they had obtained licence to import about
80 tons of redwood from France, which was taken
[prize by the French] from petitioners and since
[redeemed and] purchased by them ; that they
were to import same within three months, but the
vessel could not bring all the said quantity, and
the remaining 28 tons have exceeded the three
months' limit : therefore praying liberty to bring
same in. |
Ibid, p. 420. |
Treasury reference to the Customs Commissioners
of the petition of Tho. Minors for a landwaiter's
or other place in the Customs.
Ditto of Richard Freeman for the like. |
Reference Book VI, p. 420. |
|
Same to the Excise Commissioners of the petition of
Anthony Philips, brewer, praying payment of
1,170l. 3s. 6d. to enable him to pay his Excise duties,
"there being a much greater debt due to him from
the Victualling." |
Ibid. |
Treasury warrant to the Clerk of the Pipe for a lease
to Eliz. Loup, widow, of the meadow or pasture
called Whitwell, in the parish of Holy Trinity,
Dorchester, co. Dorset, formerly in the tenure of
John Trenchard, gent., and now or late in that of
Thomas Loup, and parcel of the manor of Fordington
and Duchy of Cornwall, together with the
issues and profits of the market in the said manor
and of fugitives in the forest of Blackmore in said
county, parcel of said manor : all as formerly
granted to Thomas Loupe (Loop) 1661, Aug. 8, for
31 years, at 43s. 4d. per an. for the land and 3l. 6s. 8d.
per an. de incremento and 20s. per an. for the fishery,
markets and fugitives. The present grant is to
be for 31 years from 1692, Aug. 8, at the ancient
rent of 2l. 3s. 4d. without increment and 1l. respectively
and fine of 50l.
Prefixing : (a) particular and memorandum of the
premises ; (b) ratal by William Tailer, Deputy
Surveyor General of Crown Lands.
In the margin : a later confirmation dated 1693,
May 23, but reducing the fine to 16l. 13s. 4d. |
Warrants not Relating to
Money XIV, pp. 73-4. |
|
Same to the Commissioners of Excise and Hearthmoney
to pay 188l. 13s. 0d. to Francis Parry and
Nathaniel Horneby out of the arrears of Hearthmoney
in discharge of an overpayment as follows,
viz. : William Probert, Receiver General of Hearthmoney
in North Wales and part of South Wales,
stood charged for the 1685, Michaelmas [half year's
account], with 3,768l. 14s. 0d., plus 7s. 9d. remain :
and on his said account he was credited with
3,957l. 14s. 9d. : which is 188l. 13s. 0d. more than
he is charged with from the receipt of that duty,
and was occasioned by an advance of that sum by
Nathaniel Horneby, then one of the Hearthmoney
Commissioners, by order of 1686, April 13, for
payment of several allowances and incidents of
seven collectors sent down in that collection, which
could not be paid then out of the produce of said
half year ended 1685, Michaelmas, the said Robert
[Probert] having before the stating the said seven
collectors' accounts paid the whole produce of that
half year into the office and the same was answered
into the Exchequer ; and the said Horne was
afterwards reimbursed said 188l. 13s. 0d. by mistake
out of 500l. imprested to the Commissioners out of
the Excise, whereupon said Parry and Horneby
(two of the then Commissioners) gave an acquittance
to Mr. Duncombe, the Excise Cashier, and the said
500l. now stands charged on them in the account
of the Excise, thus leaving the 188l. 13s. 0d. still
owing to Parry. |
Ibid, p. 75. |
|
Treasury warrant to the Auditor of Excise and the Comptroller
of Excise to allow in account to the Commissioners
of Excise 60l. paid for a pardon for three
Excise gaugers and officers who at the Lent Assizes
for co. Warwick in 1686 were indicted and convicted
for the murder of a person who happened to be
killed at Coleshill, they [the said three officers] being
casually in the company, though the murder was
actually done by one Ryley, who escaped, whereupon
Treasurer Rochester procured a royal warrant for their
pardon upon a certificate from the Judge of Assize of
the nature of their case, but they lying in gaol and
reprieved for some short time were too poor to
pay the cost of passing their pardon, whereupon the
said Commissioners directed Mr. Noell to procure
their pardon to be passed under the great seal. |
Warrants not Relating to
Money XIV, p. 76. |
Royal warrant, under the Queen's sign manual, to
the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to discharge the
sums as follow, part of a total of 400l. 4s. 1d., in
the accounts of any receivers or collectors of the
revenue concerned, and to pay to James Hamilton,
esq., of Fallimore (Tollimore), the remaining
part of said total, with a view to enabling him to
discharge same : he with other gentlemen of Ulster
having by bonds and otherwise engaged themselves
to several persons for that amount for the use of
the Association in Ulster in 1688, divers of which
sums were procured from the collectors and other
officers of the public revenue : the said Hamilton
having made affidavit that said sums were justly
expended by him for the public benefit, although
in respect of the nature and urgency of the service
sufficient vouchers could not be had nor a regular
account kept of the same : of the truth whereof the
Queen is well satisfied.
Appending : (a) said Hamilton's account of money
taken by him in the Province of Ulster upon the
Public Association of the nobility and gentry of
that province to defend the Protestant interest
and assert their Majesties' Government : viz. about
the months of 1688, Dec., and 1688-9, Jan. and
Feb. : |
Out Letters (Ireland) VI,
pp. 199-200. |
|
l. |
s. |
d. |
|
from Mr. John Latham, collector
at Lisburne |
36 |
0 |
0 |
|
from Geo. McCarty, collector at
Belfast |
100 |
0 |
0 |
|
from Thomas Veesham, collector at
Strangford |
80 |
0 |
0 |
|
from James McCarty, who advanced
the same as a private
person |
25 |
14 |
6 |
|
from Geo. McCarty, 20 barrels of
salt, a cask of brandy and a
parcel of bullets brought to
Hillsborough for the use of the
Forces |
19 |
13 |
7 |
|
from Mr. Thomas Knox, merchant,
for powder |
60 |
0 |
0 |
|
from Rowland Brown in powder
and lead sent for to Chester at
the said Mr. Hamilton's desire |
20 |
0 |
0 |
|
from Ralph Smith, Thomas Cornwall
and Ann Burton, for which
Hamilton gave bond 26 Feb.,
1688-9, and is sued by the said
persons |
58 |
16 |
0 |
|
£440 |
4 |
1 |
|
(b) Certificate, dated June 4 last, by Ed. Corker,
William Molineux and W. Palmer of their examination
of said account. |
