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Declared Accounts : Stamps.
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Duties on Stamped Vellum, Parchment and Paper, account exhibited by
Robert Pawling, Comptroller and Accomptant General for the said Duties.
1 August 1704 to 1 August 1705.
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Charge. |
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l. |
s. |
d. |
l. |
s. |
d. |
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Remains. viz. supers depending :
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in the hands of several Distributors for the
Single Stamp Duty first granted for
four years |
948 |
1 |
11 |
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in the hands of Charles Pratt, warehousekeeper
of unstamped goods : for the
value of several sorts and sizes of parchment
and paper |
816 |
6 |
3¼ |
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in the hands of Norton Curtis warehouse
[keeper] of stamped goods for the value
of goods and stamps thereon |
13,606 |
19 |
2¼ |
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in the hands of several Distributors for
money and the value of goods and stamps
in their hands |
51,893 |
15 |
0¾ |
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Robert Granget et al. on a bond for 50l. for
the Continued Duty (25l.) and the
Additional Duty (25l.) |
50 |
0 |
0 |
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on a like bond from John Cater |
50 |
0 |
0 |
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John Baddely, carrier of Staffordshire for
the value of goods and stamps thereon
consigned to John Riley, distributor of
Staffordshire |
43 |
18 |
0 |
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George Cooper, Register of the university
of Oxford |
0 |
2 |
0 |
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67,409 |
2 |
5¼ |
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l. |
s. |
d. |
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Money payable for the
Duties arising by
stamping of Vellum,
Parchment and Paper
in the year ended
1 August 1705 : viz.
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Stamps on Vellum etc.
at the Head Office
in London
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on the Continued Duty |
28,853 |
3 |
3 |
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on the Additional Duty |
26,002 |
18 |
7 |
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54,856 |
1 |
10 |
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Stamps on parchment
etc. delivered to the
Warehousekeeper to
supply the Country
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on the Continued Duty |
19,877 |
16 |
10 |
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on the Additional Duty |
16,943 |
6 |
10 |
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36,821 |
3 |
8 |
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George Cooper, Register
of the University of
Oxford and Robert
Grove, Register of the
University of Cambridge
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477 |
18 |
0½ |
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the Prothonotaries, Secondaries
and other
law Officers of the
Courts of Judicature
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the Continued Duty |
283 |
15 |
0 |
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on the Additional Duty |
283 |
15 |
0 |
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567 |
10 |
0 |
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Carried forward |
£67,409 |
2 |
5¼
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l. |
s. |
d. |
l. |
s. |
d. |
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Brought forward |
67,409 |
2 |
5¼ |
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Sundry Officers of the
Courts in the
Country
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on the Continued Duty
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153 |
18 |
0 |
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on the Additional Duty |
135 |
14 |
6 |
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289 |
12 |
6 |
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money arising by
penalties for deeds
engrossed before they
were stampt
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25 |
0 |
0 |
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value of paper and
parchment in the
hands of the warehousekeeper
of unstampt
goods |
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3,612 |
16 |
0½ |
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value of overplus goods
in the hands of the
warehousekeeper of
stamped goods
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73 |
15 |
0 |
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96,723 |
17 |
1 |
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money overpaid within the time of this
account for these Duties |
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57 |
15 |
2¼ |
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money due to her Majesty upon bonds
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200 |
0 |
0 |
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money imprested in the preceding cash
account depending upon John Montagu,
Esq., Solicitor to this Office
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150 |
0 |
0 |
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Total charge and receipts |
£164,540 |
14 |
8½ |
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Discharge. |
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l. |
s. |
d. |
l. |
s. |
d. |
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Money accounted for in the account of Cash
for the year ended 1 August 1705 viz.
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paid into the Receipt of the Exchequer |
79,750 |
15 |
1 |
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charges of the Head Office |
1,433 |
1 |
4 |
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parchment, paper and prints bought by
the Commissioners of these Duties
within this year |
2,712 |
2 |
0 |
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salaries to the Commissioners and officers |
4,990 |
0 |
0 |
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rent of the Head Office in London |
160 |
0 |
0 |
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discount allowed at the Head Office on
prompt payment for 10l. parcels and
upwards |
1,313 |
2 |
4½ |
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90,359 |
0 |
9½ |
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overpaid within the time of the last account
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57 |
15 |
2¼ |
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allowed to distributors, detailed, in the
country for incidents and discount on
prompt payment
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3,227 |
11 |
6 |
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Total payments and allowances |
£93,644 |
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5¾ |
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Remains |
70,896l. |
7s. |
2¾d. |
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Whereof
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l. |
s. |
d. |
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depending
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upon the several warehousekeepers,
distributors and others, detailed, for
so much remaining in their hands either
in stampt paper or parchment or in
money or bonds received for the same
the 1st August 1705 the time of the
determination of this accompt as well
on account of the Duties on stamped
vellum, parchment and paper first
granted for four years as on account of
the Continued Duties and the Additional
Duties since granted thereupon
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70,896 |
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2¾ |
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So this General Account is Quitt.
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Memorandum [by the Auditor]. In pursuance of the
Act of Parliament made in 20 Car. II ("for the better
payment of money received to the use of the Crown")
the several Distributors of stamped paper hereafter
named are chargeable with damages after the rate of
12 per cent. per an. for the respective sums by them
received remaining in their hands on the first General
Account of these Duties ending 1 August 1703 and here
charged upon them from thence to 1 August 1705 the
determination of this accompt, to the end the same may
be charged upon them by judgment of the Exchequer
Court. [The last following on this entry contains 20
items which are not totalled.]
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Declared 25 April 1706.
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