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November 1737



Nov. 3.	154. Charles Carkesse to John Scrope, dated from the Custom House, London, enclosing for the Lords of the Treasury copies of correspondence, as below. 1 page. Appending:—(a.) J. Burchett to Carkesse, dated from the Admiralty Office, 1737, October 6, concerning the complaint to Earl Waldegrave, as in (b.) infra. 1½ pages. (b.) Extract of a letter from Earl Waldegrave to the Duke of Newcastle, dated 1737, October 5. “At the same time Mons^r. Amelot complained that one of our guardships had pursued a smuggling vessell under the walls of Calais, that the tide being low the guardship could not board the smuggler, but fir'd at her, and some of the bullets went over the outward forts of Calais.… The Cardinal, as well as Mr. Amelot, did not doubt but His Majesty would disapprove the Captain of the Guardship's conduct, and I take it for granted they have wrote about it to Mr. de Cambise or to Mr. de Bussey.” 1 page. (c.) Charles Carkesse to Mr. Burchett, dated Custom House, London, 1737, October 7, in reply to (a.). 1 page. (d.) Same to same, dated 1737, November 3, in reply to same. On inquiry of the Customs officers finds that none of the vessels in the service of the Customs were guilty of the matters complained of, “neither can they learn of any other vessels that were.” 1 page. [Treasury Board Papers CCXCVI. No. 7.]
Nov. 29. Whitehall, Treasury Chambers.	155. Present: Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Sundon, Mr. Dodington. A petition read in the name of John Lortan, agent for the owners and freighters of the ship “Fleuron,” taken by Governor Matthews in the West Indies, praying that the payment of Matthews' salary at the Exchequer may be stopped, so as to answer what the produce of a Guinea ship stopped by Mr. French, Governor at Martinique, may fall short of answering the damage suffered by the owners of the abovesaid French ship, condemned as alleged at Montserrat. “My Lords say they cannot give any order upon this petition.” A petition in the name of William Dawson, executor and residuary legatee of Lady Barbara FitzRoy, deceased, eldest daughter of the late Duchess of Cleveland, read, praying that the Lord Chancellor's decree, concerning a yearly sum of 666l. 13s. 4d., decreed to him out of an annual sum received by the Duke of Cleveland from the Excise, be made effectual by a Treasury warrant to the Excise to that purpose. Referred to the Attorney General. The King is pleased to grant to the Countess of Kinnoull, towards the maintenance of herself and children, 600l. per an. from 1737, midsummer, to be paid to the Duke of Portland for that purpose. Order for a warrant for a Privy Seal for paying same at the Exchequer accordingly. [Treasury Minute Book XXVIII. p. 59.]