|
| Date. |
Nature and Substance of the Entry. |
Reference. |
|
April 1 |
Treasury order for 500l. to Sir Francis Worsley in repayment
of loan. |
Order Book XXXVII.
p. 474. |
|
Same for 62l. 10s. 0d. each to Sir Denny Ashburnham, Mr.
Wyngate and Mr. Finch. |
Ibid, p. 261. |
|
For 50l. to Mr. Ball. |
|
For 35l. to Mr. Howland and Mr. Champante. |
|
For 41l. 5s. 0d. to Mr. Dugdale, Mr. Collins, and Mr.
Gaywood. |
|
For 750l. to the Duke of York's children. |
|
Same for 20l. to Robert Swan. |
Ibid, p. 109. |
|
And for 37l. 10s. 0d. to Charles Gifford. |
|
Same for 18l. 8s. 0d. to Samuel Gillibrand, assignee of Dorothea
Colvile, relict and executrix of John Colvile, deceased, as
reward for loan. |
Ibid, p. 206. |
|
[?] |
For 8,267l. to Sir Edw. Griffin, Treasurer of the Chamber
[for the Chamber.] |
|
[?] |
For 40l. each to Edw. Martin and John Baggott, Pages of
the presence to the late King. |
|
April 2 |
Royal sign manual for 50l. to Joseph Haynes as royal bounty.
(Money warrant hereon, dated May 16. Treasury order, dated
May 18.) |
Warrants Early XVa.
p. 142; XVIII.
p. 406; Order Book
XXXVII. p. 111. |
|
April 3 |
Treasury order for 5l. to William Parkes, porter [of the Receipt
of the Exchequer.] |
Order Book XXXVII.
pp. 109, 110, 111. |
|
For 75l. to Dame Rebecca Williams. |
|
For 50l. to Major Edward Trelawney. |
|
For 50l. to Col. John Ramsey. |
|
For 12l. 10s. 0d. to Nicholas Estoll. |
|
For 5l. to William Parkes, porter. |
|
For 300l. to Jervis Price. |
|
Same for 200l. to Sir Robt. Vynor in repayment of loan |
Ibid, p. 86. |
|
Same for 900l. to Robert Worsley in repayment of loan |
Ibid, p. 474. |
|
The Treasury Lords to the Customs Farmers. We are informed
that many abuses are committed by false entries of brandies in
the Custom House in the names of other persons who are very
poor and not the proper owners thereof; all to His Majesty's
great loss. You are to take special care that all brandies be
entered in the names of the real importers or of known able
persons. |
Out Letters General II.
p. 157. |
|
April 4 |
Treasury order for 31l. 10s. 0d. to Ann Cogan, relict and executrix
of Anthony Cogan for rent of Mulbury Garden and for
80l. 10s. 0d. to same. |
Order Book XXXVII.
p. 86. |
|
Same for 6l. 16s. 0d. to Will Fox as reward for loan |
Ibid, p. 221. |
|
Same for 50l. to Lieut. Serres on his pension of 100l. per an. |
Ibid, p. 109. |
|
April 4 |
Sir G. Downing to Mr. Levesey and Mr. Soames. The Treasurer
of the Household has acquainted the King with your propositions for the new impositions upon beer, ale, &c. You are to
attend the Treasury on Thursday to present your proposals in
writing to the King. |
Out Letters General II.
p. 443. |
|
Money warrant for 10l. to Anthony Seager for Lady Day quarter
last as chamber keeper of the Treasury. (Treasury order,
dated April 5.) |
Warrants Early XVIII.
p. 391; Order Book
XXXVII. p. 109. |
|
Royal warrant to the Treasury Lords for 200l. to Charles Bertie
(Bartie), Envoy Extraordinary to the King of Denmark, for
secret service without accompt. (Treasury order hereon, dated
April 8; with a later letter of direction, dated April 14.) |
Warrants Early XVa.
p. 121; Order Book
XXXVII. pp. 110, 472. |
|
April 6 |
Thirteen Treasury orders for, in all, 41,000l. to William
Ashburnham, Cofferer of the Household, for the service of the
Household. |
Order Book XXXVII
p. 472. |
|
Treasury order for 150l. to John Durell, Doctor of Divinity, in
repayment of loan. |
Ibid, XXXVII. p. 474. |
|
Same for 7,000l. to Sir Dennis Gawden [in part] for sea victuals
for 25,000 men for the year. |
Ibid, p. 470. |
|
Same for 200l. to William Hevington, Esq., in repayment of
loan. |
Ibid, p. 117. |
|
Royal sign manual to the Treasury Lords to admit Francis
Smethicke into the first vacant place of King's Waiter or of
one of the four Searchers of London port, he having performed
very good and acceptable service to the King. |
Out Letters Customs I.
pp. 237–8. |
|
Report to the King from the Treasury Lords on the petition of
Elizabeth Prideaux praying a grant of a fee farm rent of
83l. 14s. not named in the grant to the Trustees for sale of Fee
Farms. The great sufferings and constant loyalty of petitioner's
father, Sir Bevill Grenville, are known to your Majesty, as
also the merits of her husband, Peter Prideaux, who upon all
occasions has shown great marks of his loyalty and zeal. |
Warrants Early XXXVIII.
p. 35. |
|
Sir G. Downing to Mr. Bridgeman. Send me presently the
certificate I gave you directions in for all warrants signed by
the Treasury Lords for the Privy Purse from 1669–70, Jan. 1,
to 1670–1, Jan. 1. |
Out Letters General II.
p. 443. |
|
Same to the Attorney and Solicitor General and the rest of the
King's Counsel. His Majesty has to-day been pressed by the
present Farmers of the London Excise on the following
covenant in their grant, viz., "and the said William Bucknall,
Dannett Forth, &c., do covenant and grant to and with His
Majesty . . . that if at any time during the said term of
three years any the rates or duties of Excise hereby demised
shall by authority of Parliament be raised, or if at any time
hereafter any Act of Parliament shall be passed whereby the
rates and duties of Excise shall or may be more generally
imposed or extended to any other persons or made demandable
. . . in more places or from more persons than by the
present laws of Excise they are or ought to be, then and in
such case they the said William Bucknall [and partners] shall
thenceforth during the residue of the said term yield and pay
such further increase of rent as shall be proportionable to the
increase or extent of the said rates and duties of Excise and as
by the Lord Treasurer or Commissioners of the Treasury and
Chancellor of the Exchequer for the time being shall be thought
reasonable, whereupon the said Farmers desiring to be heard
by their Counsel as to the meaning and interpretation of the same
the King directed them to be heard before the Lord Keeper
accordingly. The Lord Keeper has appointed Saturday next
for this. The Treasury Lords desire you to attend then, and
having heard the matter to state your opinion in writing what
you conceive to be the meaning of the said covenant and
whether the word proportionable is relative to the present
rent or to the true value of the farm. |
Ibid, pp. 443–4. |
|
April 7 |
Money warrant, dormant, for the salary of 500l. per an. to Sir
Job Charlton. Chief Justice of Chester, as an addition to the
profits of his said place; and 200l. per an. to Sir Rob. Mylward
for the like as one of the Justices of Chester: as granted by
the letters patent of March 28 last from Michaelmas last. |
Warrants Early XXVIII.
p. 106. |
|
Sir G. Downing to Sir R. Long, to certify my Lords what is
charged upon the fee farm rents in the shape of [orders of
repayment of] actual loans thereupon and what in the shape
of fictitious loans |
Out Letters General II.
p. 444. |
|
April 8 |
Royal warrant for 200l. per an. to Nathaniel Bradley for his entertainment as Consul at Tripoli: to be accompted from Xmas last. |
Warrants Early XVa.
p. 140. |
|
Privy seal for 1,000l. to Robert Roberts as royal bounty without
accompt. (Money warrant hereon, dated April 26. Treasury
order, dated May 13.) |
Ibid, p. 131; XVIII.
p. 399; Order Book
XXXVII. p. 477. |
|
Treasury order for 2,000l. to Sir Ste. Fox for secret service. |
Order Book XXXVII.
p. 471. |
|
For 200l. to Sir Edw. Griffin for the Maundy. |
|
Treasury warrant to the Customs Farmers to pay 500l. to Prince
Rupert for Lady Day quarter last on his annuity of 2,000l
(This warrant to replace a money warrant, erased, of same date
and amount.) |
Out Letters Customs II.
p. 157; Warrants
Early XXVIII. p. 107. |
|
April 10 |
Treasury order for 6,000l. to Sir Allen Apsley for the Duke of
York. |
Order Book XXXVII.
p. 472. |
|
Same for 100l., 125l. 17s. 6d. and 86l. 12s. 6d. to Edward
Backwell as gratuity for loan. |
Ibid, p. 203. |
April 10
[Feb. 10] |
Money warrant for 40l. to Silius Titus, Captain of Deal Castle,
for two years to Xmas last on his fee of 20l. per an., payable
at the Receipt. |
Warrants Early XVIII.
p. 384. |
|
April 10 |
Treasury warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General to prepare
a bill to pass the Great Seal for a grant to Richard Breton
and Francis Thorneton of the office of Comptroller of petty
Customs in London port; on the surrender of Col. Thomas
Neville and Thomas Neville his son. |
Out Letters Customs I.
p. 234. |
|
April 11 |
Same to the Customs Farmers to pay 15l. to Richard Gregory for
Lady Day quarter last as messenger attending the Customs. |
Ibid, II. p. 158. |
|
Same to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands to send to the Auditor
for a particular of a tenement and certain fields called Lantinan,
Scruberiow, Dinas, and Molunion, in the parish of St. Anthony,
and a decayed house in St. Ives, being parcel of the manor of
Porthea Prior and of the Duchy of Cornwall: all with a view
to a fresh grant thereof to Anne Spry. |
Warrants Early XXXVIII.
pp. 64–5. |
|
April 11 |
Money warrant for 1000l. to the Earl of Ossory for one year as
a Gentleman of the Bedchamber. |
Warrants Early XXVIII.
p. 107. |
|
[?] |
Same (erased) for 602l. 10s. 0d. to the Earl of Sandwich, Master
of the Great Wardrobe, for the funeral charges of the late
Duchess of York, and for the service of the Maundy and for
house rent. (Treasury order, dated April 27.) |
Ibid. p. 108; Order Book
XXXVII. p. 476. |
|
April 11 |
Treasury warrant to the Customs Farmer to pay 50l. to the Earl
of Clare for 2½ years' creation money to Lady Day last. |
Warrants Early XXVIII.
p. 109. |
|
April 12 |
Treasury order for 45l. 10s. 0d. to Thomas Lisle, His Majesty's
barber. |
Order Book XXXVII.
p. 117. |
|
For 70l. 10s. 0d. to Ralph Foliard, as same. |
|
Same for 250l. to Viscount Hinchinbroke for the Earl of Sandwich
for interest and gratuity. |
Ibid, p. 128. |
|
April 13 |
Warrant for a privy seal for 4,500l. to Sir John Nicholas in full
satisfaction for and in consideration of his interest in the late
park called the Great Park of Windsor granted to his father,
Sir Edward Nicholas, by indenture of date, 1662, April 12,
for 31 years. (Privy seal hereon, dated April 20. Money warrant,
dated April 28. Two Treasury orders hereon for 1,500l. and
3,000l., dated April 28.) |
Warrants Early XVa.
p. 125; XXVIII.
pp. 110–1; Order Book
XXXVII. p. 118. |
|
Sir G. Downing to Sir R. Long to certify my Lords what is
now charged and remaining unpaid upon the London and
Country Excise, and what stands now charged on the new farm
of the Customs. |
Out Letters General II.
p. 444. |
|
Same to Col. Webb. My Lords have considered the certificate
returned by you about Mr. Collins [his] security for the
receipt of the Hearthmoney of the West Riding, but in regard
of Mr. Wadlowe's settling his estate on his son they do not
think fit to accept him for one of the said securities. |
Ibid. |
|
April 14 |
Treasury order for 1,000l. to George Raynton, gent., in repayment of loan. |
Order Book XXXVII.
p. 474. |
|
Twelve Treasury orders for 500l. each (6,000l. in all) to Sir Allen
Apsley in repayment of loan. |
Ibid, pp. 743–4. |
|
Entry of the Treasury allowance of the 1671 Lady Day quarter's
incidents bill (detailed) for the office of the Agents for Hearthmoney (total, 29l. 6s. 6d.). |
Warrants Early XXI.
p. 44. |
|
April 15 |
Letter of direction on a Treasury order of the 8th inst. for 200l.
to Sir John Griffin. |
Order Book XXXVII.
p. 472. |
|
Treasury order for 1,000l. to Richard Mulys, gent., in repayment
of loan. |
Ibid, p. 86. |
|
Money Warrant for 180l. to Sir William Swan for three months
ordinary to Lady Day last as Resident at Hamburg. (Treasury
order, dated April 17.) |
Warrants Early XXVIII.
p. 108; Order Book
XXXVII. p. 86. |
|
The Treasury Lords to the Customs Farmers in reply to theirs of
March 21 last "wherein you inform us of the difficulty of
returning of moneys from the outports hither and that you are
necessitated to adventure a great deal of the moneys of the rent
of your farm by sea and desiring our directions for the bringing up the moneys of the late Wine Act." You are to take the
same course in order to the bringing up of the said moneys as
for the moneys of your farm. Where returns cannot be had by
good bills of exchange you are to bring the moneys to London
by sea or otherwise according to your discretion. |
Out Letters Customs I.
p. 235. |
|
April 17 |
Money warrant for 3,000l. to the Earl of Bath for one year to
Lady Day last on his several annuities of 2,000l. in lieu of
plate out of the Jewel House, and 1,000l. in lieu of livery out
of the Wardrobe. (Undated Treasury order hereon.) |
Warrants Early XVIII.
p. 418; Order Book
XXXVII. p. 206. |
|
Treasury order for 1,000l. to Robert Ryves, goldsmith, in repayment of loan. |
Order Book XXXVII.
p. 118. |
|
Same for 544l. to Nicholas Johnson in repayment of loan |
Ibid, p. 86. |
|
Same for 2,000l. and 2,000l. to Thomas Holder, Esq., in repayment of loan. |
Ibid, p. 474. |
|
Sir G. Downing to Sir R. Long, Sir C. Harbord, Sir W. Doily
and Mr. Sherwyn to meet to-morrow to consider what number
and proportions of security is tit to be given by each Receiver
of the subsidy in the respective counties. Meanwhile my
Lords request Sir W. Doily to look over and compare the
rates of the former assessments in each county and thereby
make a scheme of what security will be fit to be given [by each
receiver appointed] for the receipt of this subsidy. |
Out Letters General II.
p. 445. |
|
Same to Mr. Pepys. My Lords have considered your letter of
Nov. 3 last about the difference between the King and the
East India Company concerning the freight of the "Leopard"
and other His Majesty's ships sent formerly to the East Indies
upon an agreement with the said Company. My Lords desire
you will again meet Sir John Bankes or whom else the Governor
of the East India Company shall appoint, and make a state of the
whole matter of fact, "and then that you in person [on behalf
of His Majesty and someone else] in behalf of the East India
Company attend the Attorney General, who will hear the
whole business and report his opinion thereupon to my Lords." |
Ibid. |
|
Same to the Attorney General to hear the abovesaid matter
and report. |
Ibid, p. 446. |
|
Same to Mr. Sherwyn and Col. Webb. My Lords have been
acquainted by you that the Receivers of Hearthmoney for
Oxford, Berks. Cambridge, Ely and Suffolk, have made very
good payments of the moneys of their respective receipts. My
Lords well approve of their proceeding in the collection of the
Lady Day duty, and desire you to write to them to proceed
accordingly. |
Ibid, p. 445. |
|
Same to the Trustees for sale of Fee Farms. My Lords again
press you to despatch in informing yourselves from the respective
Auditors of the revenue as to what perpetuities or other constant payments there are charged upon His Majesty's fee
farm rents in each county, and to consider what rents may be
most fitly set apart for payment of the same. |
Ibid. p. 446. |
|
Money warrant for 400l. to Capt. Tho. Fisher and John Cory,
and 81l. 8s. 9d. to Mary Kent, relict of Tho. Kent, being
481l. 8s. 9d. in all: same being the fourth part of a discovery
of 1,925l. 15s. 0d., payable to the King by Sir Roger
Cuttance, James Ward and James Pearce in satisfaction for
several prize goods taken in the late war, by them embezzled,
unjustly gotten and detained. |
Warrants Early XVIII
pp. 393–4. |
|
April 17 |
Money warrant for 100l. to Sir Francis Anderson as reward for
service in the assistance and sitting with the officers of the
Customs in Newcastle port before the expiration of the last
and beginning of the present Farm of the Customs. (Treasury
order hereon, dated April 20.) |
Warrants Early XVIII.
p. 394; Order Book
XXXVII. p. 110. |
|
Same for 280l. to Isaac le Gouche, His Majesty's jeweller, for
one diamond ring, certified by the Lord Chamberlain on the
31 Jan. last to have been bought by the King at that rate. |
Warrants Early XVIII.
p. 395. |
|
Same for 60l. to the Earl of Manchester for three years' creation
money to Lady Day last. |
Ibid, p. 396. |
|
Same for 1,500l. to the Earl of Lauderdale for 1½ years to Lady
Day last on his pension. |
Ibid, XXVIII. p. 109. |
|
The Treasury Lords to Viscount Fanshawe, King's Remembrancer, to forbear process against the executors of George
Gipps, deceased, late Receiver of the monthly assessments for
Suffolk, upon their accounts "in regard they are perfecting
the same." |
Ibid, XXXV. p. 21. |
|
Treasury warrant to Auditor Richard Aldworth for a particular
of the office of bailiff of Richmond and steward of the forest
within that liberty and keeper of the castle of Middleham, co.
Yorks, with the yearly fee of 50l. 6s. 4d. with a view to a grant
of same to Coniers Darcy, son, and John Darcy, grandson, of
Coniers Lord Darcy, on the surrender of said Lord Darcy. |
Ibid, XXXVIII. p. 36. |
|
[?] |
Entry of the grant [under the Exchequer seal] of the rent of
22l. 6s. 0d. issuing from and payable for the hundred of Willey
and half hundred of Bucklow. co. Beds., to James Hornigold
for his natural life without any reserve rent. |
Ibid. |
|
April 18 |
Privy seal for 1,500l. to Peter Prideaux as royal bounty without
accompt. (Money warrant hereon, dated April 25. Treasury
order, dated April 27.) |
Warrants Early XVa.
p. 130; XXVII. (reverse)
p. 58; Order Book
XXXVII. p. 203. |
|
April 19 |
Treasury order for 29l. 6s. 6d. to Richard Sherwyn and William
Webb for incidents for the Hearthmoney. |
Order Book XXXVII.
p. 128. |
|
Letter of direction upon a Treasury order of 1670, Nov. 28,
for 200l. to Sir John Trevor. |
Ibid, p. 110. |
|
Treasury order for 133l. to Sir Ste. Fox for [himself as] the
secretary of His Majesty's forces. |
Ibid, pp. 474–5. |
|
For 837l. 18s. 0d. to same for a foot company in the Isle
of Wight. |
|
For 14,678l. 8s. 3d. to same for the Guards and Garrisons. |
|
For 93l. 2s. 0d. to same for Sir Charles Wheeler. |
|
For 10,640l. to same for recruits of the Guards. |
|
Eighteen Treasury orders for, in all, 26 382l. 8s. 3d. [to Sir Ste.
Fox for the Guards and Garrisons]. |
Ibid, pp. 475–6. |
|
For 7,000l. to Edward Backwell in repayment of loan. |
|
Treasury order for 80l. 10s. 0d. to John Tregunnell in repayment
of loan. |
Ibid, pp. 117, 118 |
|
For 31l. 10s. 0d. to Ann Cogan for same. |
|
For 1,000l. to Baptist May for healing medals. |
|
Same for 125l. to Richard Sherwyn and William Webb, Agents
for the Hearthmoney, as salary. |
Ibid, p. 127. |
|
For 37l. 10s. 0d. to John Heither, John Lynn, clerks to
them, and William Ashpoole, messenger to them. |
|
April 19 |
Money warrant for 500l. to Baptist May, Keeper of the Privy
Purse, for healing medals. (Treasury order, dated
April 22.) |
Warrants Early XXII.
p. 28; Order Book
XXXVII. p. 245. |
|
Same for 200l. to John Lawrence for one year to Lady Day past
for soliciting business relating to His Majesty's revenue.
(Treasury order, dated April 29.) |
Warrants Early XVIII.
p. 395; Order Book
XXXVII. p. 111. |
|
Same for 50l. to the Treasurer of the Hospital called King
Charles's Hospital in Westminster, as royal bounty to the poor
of said Hospital, as by the privy seal of 1669–70, Feb. 12.
(Treasury order, dated April 26.) |
Warrants Early XVIII.
pp. 396–7: Order Book
XXXVII. p. 110. |
|
Same for 180l. to John Berkeley for 1½ years to June 24
on his 120l. per an. as one of His Majesty's pages of
honour. |
Warrants Early XVIII.
p. 397. |
|
Sir G. Downing to Mr. Pingry, clerk of the Petty Bag. My
Lords desire you to deliver to John Onby, messenger of the
Receipt of the Exchequer, all the commissions for putting in
execution the Subsidy Act of the present Parliament: and also
that you deliver to him all the printed Acts sent to you by
His Majesty's printer to be sent [out] with the said
commissions. |
Out Letters General II.
p. 446. |
|
April 20 |
Treasury order (on the subsidy) for 500l. to Edward Arden for
the Commissioners of Accounts. |
Order Book XXXVII.
p. 478. |
|
Same (on the Exchequer in General) for 500l. to same for same.
[In the margin: "May 17."] [This order is most probably
duplicate of the preceding and represents a letter of direction
rather than another order, that is to say this second order
makes the 520l. (ordered in the first one) to be payable out of
a different fund.] |
Ibid, p. 111. |
|
Letter of direction on a Treasury order of 1670, Sept. 13, for
300l. to Sophia Stuart in repayment of loan. |
Ibid, p. 110. |
|
Two Treasury orders [? duplicates in both cases] for 59l. 10s. 0d.
to Sir Robert Vyner as reward [for loan.] |
Ibid, pp. 29, 111. |
|
And for 14l. 17s. 0d. to John Weekes for same. |
|
Treasury order for 1,000l. to Richard Powle, gent., in repayment
of loan. |
Ibid, p. 476. |
|
Sir G. Downing to Sir W. Doily, Mr. Sherwyn and Col. Webb
enclosing a list of the names of the persons appointed Receivers
of the subsidy in the several counties. You are to write to
them for the names of their securities and report the
sufficiency of same with as much speed as may be because it
is a business that requires great haste. The sums in which
they are to be bound are as is set down in the paper sent me
from Sir W. Doily and Sir C. Harbord yesterday. |
Out Letters General II.
p. 447. |
|
Treasury warrant to the King's Remembrancer to deliver up
the bonds of John Newsham, late Receiver of Aids, Poll, and
Eleven months' tax for co. Warwick and Coventry, he having
passed his accounts. |
Warrants Early XXXV.
p. 21. |
|
The like warrant for delivery of the bonds of Francis
Hollingshead, late Receiver of same for Lichfield and co.
Stafford, hehaving passed his accounts. |
Ibid. p. 22. |
|
[? April 20] |
The Treasury Lords to the King's Remembrancer to suspend
process against Thomas Harlackenden, late Receiver of Aids
and Poll [co. Kent], there being an act passed in this
present Parliament for sale of part of his estate for satisfying
his debt to the Crown. |
Warrants Early XXXV.
p. 22. |
|
April 21 |
Treasury warrant to the Clerk of the Pipe for a lease to Mr.
Anderson, the present Vicar of Hull, of the church and rectory
of Kingston upon Hull, part of the lands of Edw. VI. coming
to him from the dissolved chantries. |
Ibid, XXXVIII. pp. 50–1. |
|
Prefixing:—Particular of the premises ("this lease is long since
expired and there is 55l. depending upon the present tenant
there for part of the said rent of 10l. in arrear and unpaid
since His Majesty's restoration, at Michaelmas, 1669") and
Surveyor General's ratal of said particular. |
|
|
April 22 |
Treasury order for 300l. to Dr. Denton in repayment of loan
For 500l. to Robert Lord Brooke for same. |
Order Book XXXVII.
p. 476. |
|
April 24 |
Treasury warrant for 100l. to Sir Gilbert Talbott for two years to
Sept. 29 last of his annuity or pension of 50l. as Master of His
Majesty's Jewel House. |
Warrants Early XVIII.
p. 397. |
|
Same for 150l. to Andrew Lawrence in full of 300l. as by the
privy seal of 1669, June 15, for his service as Guide and
Surveyor of the Ways. (Treasury order hereon, dated
April 27.) |
Ibid, p. 398; Order Book
XXXVII. p. 110. |
|
Sir G. Downing to the present and late Commissioners of the
Wine Act, and to Sir R. Long, Sir C. Harbord, Auditor
Aldworth and Mr. Wadlow to attend my Lords on Friday next
at the hearing of the business of Mr. Wadlow's accompts and
what other business of Mr. Wadlow's is now depending. |
Out Letters General II.
p. 447. |
|
Same to the late Farmers of the Customs and Auditor Beale to
attend my Lords on Saturday about said Farmers' accounts. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to Mr. Levet, Receiver of Hearthmoney for Wilts, and
Mr. Churchill, same of same for Somerset. My Lords take
notice of the small payments of money made by you upon your
collection. You are forthwith to come up to London to give
an account why the said moneys are not collected, or if
collected why not paid into the Exchequer. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to the Customs Farmers to certify my Lords what moneys
have been received in London and the outports on the duty of
4l. per ton on wines and other liquors and what thereof paid
into the Exchequer: also what moneys have been received in
London port and the outports on the Wine Act commencing
June 24 last and what thereof paid into the Exchequer. For
the future you are. every fourteen days without fail, to pay into
the Exchequer all your receipts upon this accompt and you are
to return weekly certificates of your receipts and payments
upon this accompt. |
Ibid, p. 448. |
|
Same to Mr. Payne, Mr. Hall, and Mr. Lawrence. As Sir W.
Doily, Mr. Sherwyn, and Col. Webb are out of town my
Lords have added you to them for considering and examining
the securities of the Receivers of the subsidies. Hasten your
report hereon. And you are to certify the estates of said
Receivers as well as of their sureties. You are to meet at
Mr. Paine's chambers in Tanfield Court in the Inner Temple. |
Ibid. |
|
April 24 |
Sir G. Downing to the Trustees for sale of fee farms to attend my
Lords to-morrow. |
Out Letters General II.
p. 448. |
|
Same to the King's officers of the Customs above stairs for
an accompt on Friday next what moneys have been received
in London port upon the 4l. per tun on wines and other
liquors, and also upon the Wine Act commencing June 24
last, and for the future to send weekly certificates of
receipts upon this accompt. |
Ibid, p. 449. |
|
Same to Sir Edmo. Turner, surveyor of the outports, for the
like account for the outports; and that you send a certificate
presently after next quarter day and so for the future quarterly
of your said receipts. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to the Auditors of the revenue. My Lords have appointed
to meet every morning this week for the declaring of the
accompts of the Receivers of the revenue. You are to attend
them with an account of those who do not apply to you for the
despatch of their accounts. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to Sir John Talbot and Major General Egerton. The
24th of June draws on apace. You are forthwith to despatch
and bring a list of the persons who are to be the Farmers in
each county, together with the rents and advance money to be
made by each of them respectively. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to Sir John Earnly and Sir R. Long. My Lords have
appointed Mr. Davis to be Receiver of the subsidy for co.
Wilts. Give him notice of it so that he may take care to
receive his commission and put in his security; and let him know
that Sir W. Doily, Mr. Sherwyn, Mr. Webb and Mr. Lawrence
are appointed to examine the securities and do sit at Mr. Payne's
chambers in Tanfield Court in the Inner Temple every day
both forenoon and afternoon. |
Ibid, p. 450. |
|
Treasury warrant to the King's Remembrancer to take the
sureties detailed, of James Collins as Receiver of Hearthmoney for York city and West Riding and for a commission to
issue forth to William Richardson and Thomas Williamson,
of York city, to take the security of Thomas Heber, one of
said sureties. |
Warrants Early XXXVI
p. 207. |
|
Same to same to prepare the patent of said appointment for said
James Collins, loco Walter Strickland, deceased, but not to
deliver same out till he has given security and taken the
oaths. |
Ibid. p. 208. |
|
Same to the Attorney General to enter a noli proscqui to the
prosecution against the merchants and tradesmen of the city
of Exeter, the Treasury Lords having heard them by Mr.
Offley, their Counsel, in the presence of Mr. Dickenson et al.,
and having found that the allegations in their petition are
true and having so reported to the King in Council, who
thereupon by order in Council commanded stay of
prosecution. |
Ibid. XXXIII. p. 162. |
|
Same to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands to rate a particular
of several concealed messuages and lands in Middlesex and
Surrey found by two inquisitions (said particular having been
received from the King's Remembrancer with whom said
inquisitions remain of record) with a view to a lease thereof to
Sir Edmond Wyndham. |
Ibid, XXXVIII. p. 38. |
|
April 25 |
Sir G. Downing to Col. Birch. Your sudden going out of town
has hindered Mr. Wadlow's business which you know is of
great concernment. My Lords have put off this business till
your return, and desire you to be in town without fail before
next term. |
Out Letters General II.
p. 450. |
|
Same to Sir Ed. Windham to attend him to-morrow at the
Treasury Chambers. |
Ibid. |
|
Treasury warrant to Auditor Parsons for a particular of all the
mines within the manor of Rialton and Ryterth, co. Cornwall,
with a view to a grant thereof to Sidney Godolphin, one of the
Grooms of the Bedchamber, and as granted to Sir William
Godolphin, brother to said Sydney. |
Warrants Early XXXVIII.
pp. 38–9. |
|
Money warrant for 60l. to George Sayer for half a year to Xmas
on his annuity or yearly sum of 120l. as one of Her Majesty's
Pages of Honour. |
Ibid, XVIII. p. 398. |
|
April 26 |
Royal warrant for a privy seal for 563l. 5s. 0d. and 18l. to
Col. Roger Whitley, Knight Harbinger, for hire of lodgings
for the retinue and servants of the Prince of Orange from
Oct. 28 last to Feb. 11 last, and for fire and candles, also for
the allowance of himself and two yeoman harbingers on the
said service at London, Newmarket, Audley End, Windsor,
and Oxford; and 18l. for the charge of passing the privy
seal. (Privy seal hereon, dated April 29. Money warrant,
dated May 17. Treasury order, dated May 20.) |
Ibid, XVa. pp. 131,
141; Out Letters
Customs II. pp. 159–60
Order Book XXXVII.
p. 29. |
|
Same for a same for registering on the [new] Additional Excise. |
Warrants Early XVa.
p. 131. |
|
Treasury warrant to [? the Treasurer of the Chamber] to pay
234l. 13s. 4d. to Dame Jane Mercer, relict of Sir James
Mercer, being due for riding journeys, &c., she having petitioned
for the money as being in great necessity, "and we will take
care the same shall be allowed you in the next assignment to
your office." |
Ibid, XVIII. p. 399. |
|
Sir G. Downing to Mr. Lawrence. Mr. Wren has been spoken
to about writing to Dover for stopping the proceedings against
the officer for collecting the 4l. per tun on wines. This he
has promised to do, but first he must be informed of the names
of the plaintiff and defendant and in what court at Dover the
suit is commenced. Attend Mr. Wren with the papers from
the Customs Farmers to inform him hereof. |
Out Letters General II.
p. 450. |
|
Same to Mr. Agar. Send my Lords a list of the names of all the
clerks of the peace within the respective counties of England
and Wales that have been from Lady Day, 1664. to Lady Day,
1669, and what alterations by death or otherwise have been of
any of them within that time, so as to show for how much of
the said five years each has served. |
Ibid, p. 451. |
|
Same to the Warden of the Fleet. Mr. Cooper has not yet paid
in the money of the Aids due by him to the King. You are to
forthwith remand him to prison. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to the Grand Commissioners of Excise to attend my Lords
on Friday to consider how to distinguish the moneys to be paid
in upon the present Excise and those upon the [new] Additional
Excise, there being distinct registers kept of [orders charged
upon] these two [funds]. "Also their Lordships intend then
to speak with you about lending of brewing vessels in the town
of Boston, they being informed by Sir Robert Carr of the
necessity of doing something of that kind in that place." |
Ibid, p. 452. |
|
April 26 |
Sir G. Downing to Mr. Slingsby. This morning Mr. Birkin, the
copper merchant, and his partner have consented to make
the copper for farthings at 14 pence half farthing per livre, and
that they will bring in the copper by August and Sept. next.
My Lords desire that you will agree with them in this business. |
Out Letters General II.
p. 452. |
|
Same to Mr. Lawrence. My Lords desire you to use your utmost
in prosecuting Mr. Cooper and his brother and thereupon let a
lease be prepared for letting each of their lands as they shall
be extended. Take care that I speedily have a list of all the
Receivers. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to Mr. Wharton [Treasurer of the Ordnance] to attend my
Lords this week about paying the Earl of Craven his 700l. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to Sir C. Harbord to advise with the other Trustees for
sale of fee farms what allowance is fit to be made to Sir Gilbert
Gerard and Sir John Heath for quitting their interest in the
drawing of conveyances [of said fee farms]. |
Ibid, p. 453. |
|
[? April
27] |
Letter of direction upon a Treasury order of 1670, August 9, for
1,400l. to Henry Baker, gent., in repayment of loan. |
Order Book XXXVII.
p. 476. |
|
April 27 |
Treasury order for 300l. to Thomas Townesend in repayment
of loan. |
Ibid, p 477. |
|
Sir G. Downing to the Marquess of Worcester and the Earl of
Pembroke to attend my Lords to-morrow, who have been
applied to about changing some Commissioners' names for the
subsidy in co. Monmouth: my Lords thinking fit not to do
anything therein without acquainting you therewith. |
Out Letters General II.
p. 451. |
|
Same to the Clerks of the Privy Seal to attend my Lords
to-morrow. |
Ibid, p. 453. |
|
Same to Mr. Brounckerd to attend my Lords on May 11 next at
the consideration of Mr. Urthwayt's docquet for passing
the Great Seal for the King's waiter's place in London port
upon the death of Mr. Eccleston. |
Ibid, p. 456. |
|
Same to Sir William Bucknall and Sir John Shaw to attend my
Lords this day fortnight about the business of Col. Molesworth's
petition for the place of warehouse keeper in London port. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to Sir Edmond Windham to attend my Lords this day
forthnight to show why Edward Goldegay's petition about an
escheat should not be granted. |
Ibid. |
|
The Treasury Lords to Lords St. John, Sir W. Bucknall and the
rest of the new Farmers of the Customs. We are informed
that as yet you have paid into the Receipt little above 100,000l.
in part of your 250,000l. advance on your farm. As this whole
advance is [already] charged [by orders drawn thereon] and
His Majesty's affairs suffer very much for want of the paying
in thereof His Majesty commands us to let you know that he
expects the whole remainder to be speedily paid in. |
Warrants Early XXVIII.
p. 110. |
|
April 28 |
Treasury order for 180l. to Thomas Russell, gent., in repayment
of loan. |
Order Book XXXVII.
p. 118. |
|
Treasury warrant for payment of a Treasury order of 1668,
July 5, for 500l. to William Prynn: the original order having
been lost, as appears by an affidavit of Mrs. Kath Clerk. |
Ibid, p. 128. |
|
April 28 |
Royal warrant for a privy seal for 1,700l. to Philip Packer, Paymaster of the Works, for repairs of the King's house at
Lyndhurst and the stables there: to be paid out of the lops,
tops, and offal, &c., of New Forest and the forests of Alice
Holt and East and West Bere. (Privy seal hereon, dated May 6.) |
Warrants Early XVa.
pp. 133, 152–3. |
|
Royal sign manual for 100l. to Col. Miles Man as royal bounty.
(Money warrant hereon, dated May 2.) |
Ibid, p. 138; XVIII.
p. 399. |
|
Royal warrant for a privy seal for making good the 15,000l. orders
of date 1668, June 20, registered on the Hearthmoney and
overcharged on the Queen Mother's privy seal of 1666–7, Mar. 22,
for 30,000l.: the said orders being now by several assignments payable to Edward Backwell, who furnished the money
upon the same. "And whereas the said orders being only
registered and no entry of payments thereupon appearing in the
records of issues kept in the Receipt of our Exchequer, other
orders were after drawn and issues made for the sum of 10,000l.
in part of the said 30,000l., and likewise the sum of 7,500l.
assigned by Sir Stephen Fox in further part thereof upon
orders registered in his name upon the Eleven Months' tax, so
that the said orders of 15,000l. registered upon the said duty
of Firehearths as aforesaid do now by reason of the subsequent
payments abovementioned exceed by 10,000l. the sum of 30,000l.
payable by our said letters of privy seal." Therefore as there
was much more due to said Queen Mother at the time of her
decease upon the allowance of 30,000l. per an. (agreed upon
between said Queen Mother and his present Majesty as a composition in satisfaction of a pension of 40,000l. per an. granted
her by the late King out of the Customs that is to say 20,000l.
thereon for the year ending at Xmas, 1668, and 15,000l. for
half a year ended at 1669, June 24, over and above the said
overcharge of 10,000l.: therefore the abovesaid 15,000l.
registered on the Hearthmoney is hereby authorised to be fully
and entirely paid by the officers of the Receipt, notwithstanding it is 10,000l. more than the said privy seal of 1666–7, Mar.
22, will bear. (Privy seal hereon, dated May 15; for the
money warrant see infra, p. 843.) |
Ibid, XVa. pp. 132. 154–5. |
|
Money warrant for 125l. 9s. 4½d. to Sir James Norfolke, one of
the serjeants at arms for 1¼ years to Lady Day last. |
Ibid, XVIII. p. 408. |
|
Sir G. Downing to Alderman Backwell. My Lords have granted
a warrant to Sir W. Temple, on the first quarter of the subsidy,
for three months' ordinary and desire you to presently furnish
him with 500l. for the supply of his pressing occasions. |
Out Letters General II.
p. 453. |
|
Same to Sir Francis Cob to attend my Lords this day fortnight
about the arrears of the first Poll Bill for Northumberland. If
you do not then appear my Lords will grant this collection to
some others. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to the Auditors of the Revenue to bring my Lords a statement of the account of the late Chimney Farmers. |
Ibid. p. 454. |
|
Same to Sir R. Long for a certificate how much is charged and
unpaid upon imported salt. |
Ibid, p. 454. |
|
Same to Sir Gilbert Talbot and Auditor Beale to attend my
Lords on Thursday next with the Jewel Office Accounts. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to the clerks of the Privy Seal for a certificate what fees
have been received by you belonging to the Lord Privy Seal and
what you have paid to Mr. Roberts according to His Majesty's
letters of privy seal and what remains now in your hands. |
Ibid. |
|
April 28 |
Sir G. Downing to Sir W. Doily to attend the Lord Mayor and
the rest of the Commissioners for the assessments of the city
of London about getting in the arrears of the said assessments;
acquainting them that His Majesty is not satisfied with their
former answer and therefore you are to press them to it with
all speed. Also you are to attend my Lords from time to
time to let them know what is necessary to be done for
quickening in the arrears of assessments in the respective
counties. Also as to what is done in Mr. White's business
about beer for the victualler [of the Navy]. |
Out Letters General II.
p. 454. |
|
The Treasury Lords to the Lord Keeper. "We being informed
that Sir Jervas Elwes, bart., is a very fitt person to serve His
Majesty in a commission for putting in execution the late Act
of Parliament for granting a subsidy to His Majesty in the
county of Essex, and that without him there will be a want of
Commissioners in the parts of the said county where his
residence is" you are to add his name in the said commission. |
Warrants Early XXXIII.
p. 163. |
|
Same to same similarly requesting them to add the names of Sir
Edward Worseley, Sir John Oglander, bart., John Richards
and John Musprat for the county of Southampton, they
being "left out of the commission lately sealed by a very
unhappy mistake." |
Ibid. |
|
Treasury warrant to the Attorney General for a grant to pass the
Great Seal of the office of bailiff, &c., of Richmond, steward
of the forest within the liberty of Richmond and constable of
Middleham Castle, to Conyers Darcy and John Darcy, respectively son and grandson of Conyers Lord Darcy. |
Ibid, XXXVIII. pp. 39–40. |
|
Prefixing:—Particular of said office and memorandum or ratal
thereof. |
|
|
The Treasury Lords to the Sheriff of Norfolk. Process of extent
has issued out against Tho. Gaudy and John Kendall, sureties
for Christopher Jay, the late Receiver of Hearthmoney for co.
Norfolk. Proper care has not been taken herein whereby the
bringing in of the money has been obstructed. Both
sureties have a considerable estate and there are more lands to
be found than are already seized. You are to use your best
care and diligence in finding out same and causing same to be
extended. |
Ibid, XXXVI. p. 165. |
|
[After
April 28] |
Treasury subscription of a warrant under the royal sign manual,
dated April 28, to Sir Henry Wood et al. to pay out of the
revenues of the Queen Mother's jointure 1,000l. per an. to
Henry Earl of St. Albans as the rest of the Trustees of the
said late Queen Mother shall be paid: to date from 1669,
Sept. 29: the royal letters patent under the Great Seal of
1670, July 15, having settled the salaries and allowances of
said Trustees to begin from 1669, Sept. 29, but the salary to
said Earl of St. Albans as one of said Trustees and as late
Lord Chamberlain of the Household to said Queen Mother,
having been left blank in said letters patent. |
Ibid, XLII. p. 25. |
|
April 29 |
Treasury order for 400l. and 600l. to Thomas Boone in repayment of loan. |
Order Book XXXVII.
p. 477. |
|
For 400l. to Jane Appleby for same. |
|
Same for 1,000l. to James Bridgman, Esq., in repayment of loan |
Ibid, p. 118. |
|
Royal warrant for [a privy seal for] granting leases of the
Excise for three years from 1671, June 24. |
Warrants Early XVa.
p. 132. |
|
April 29 |
Privy seal for 100l. per an. to John Ward, consul at Algiers: to
date from 1666, Xmas. |
Warrants Early XVa.
p. 165. |
|
Treasury warrant to the Customs Farmers to pay Robert Bridges
his salary of 52l. per an. as one of the King's waiters, London
port, loco Andrew Mills resigned. |
Out Letters Customs II.
p. 158. |
|
Money warrant for 20l. to the Earl of Burlington for one year's
creation money to Sept. 29 last. |
Warrants Early XVIII.
p. 400. |
|
Same, dormant, for the wages or fee of 2s. a day and 6d. a
day to Dr. Christopher Wren for the office or place of Surveyor
of the Works as by the letters patent of 1669, March 29, granting him said office: viz, 2s. day for himself and 6d. a day
for his clerk. |
Ibid, p. 402. |
|
Sir G. Downing to Col. Birch. I have your certificate of the
18th inst. and wonder much at your disowning the receipt of
my warrant for the Receivers in the out districts to pay you
the money which they have received upon bonds. I find such
a warrant entered in my office and send you a copy herewith. |
Out Letters General II.
p. 454. |
|
Same to Sir R. Long. The King has given directions that such
moneys as shall be paid into the Exchequer on the buying in
of any of the improved rents in the Duchy of Cornwall be not
disposed of without his direction. So keep them distinct and
only issue them by special warrant from my Lords. |
Ibid, p. 455. |
|
Same to Mr. Napper to keep distinct all such moneys as above as
are paid on buying in said improved rents and to distinguish
such moneys when paying them into the Exchequer, and in
case of warrants for payment drawn upon him not to pay same
out of said moneys save by special command. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to Sir R. Long to certify my Lords how much is charged
on every quarter of the new Farm of the Customs. |
Ibid. |
|
Treasury warrant to Lord Hawley and the rest of the trustees for
sale of fee farms. In accordance with His Majesty's direction
you are to sell the fee farms of under the value of 10l. per an.
at the rate of 18 years' purchase; and those of or above
10l. per an. at 16 years purchase giving preference in both
cases to the tenants. |
Warrants Early XXXVIII.
pp. 40–1. |
|
Same to the Attorney or Solicitor General to prepare a grant to
pass the Great Seal to Silius Titus and Sir Edward Massy of
all the personal estate of Richard Bell (Best), late of London,
mercer, forfeited on the murder of John Phinney (Phynny) at
Clifton, co. Yorks, on the 27 April, 22 Car. II [sic] for which
said Bell was convicted at the assizes for said county on the 13th
July following: said estate having been granted to said Titus
and Massy in 1668 [sic] on condition of their discharging the
just debts of the partnership between said Bell and one Benjamin
Kendall, of London, mercer, to prevent the ruin of said Kendal
and his family by reason of said Bell's offence, but the Surveyor
General of Crown lands having since, on the 12th inst.,
reported that the said Richard Bell is since executed for a
second murder by him committed and died nothing worth, and
his whole estate at the time of his first felony will amount to
more than 700l. in book debts, &c., which said Bell had
fraudulently made over to one John Long of purpose to defraud
his partner Kendall. |
Ibid, pp. 41–3. |
|
April 29 |
Treasury warrant to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands to
rate the particular of a tenement in the manor of Shippon, co.
Berks, and 14 acres called Brewers in Laverton, co. Somerset,
with a view to a re-grant thereof to Henry Seymour, one of His
Majesty's bedchamber. |
Warrants EarlyXXXVIII
p. 48. |
|
Prefixing:—Said Surveyor General's report on said particular. |
|
|
Same to same to rate the particular of the scite and demesne of
the manor of Gillingham, Kent, with a view to a grant thereof
to Henry Brounker. |
Ibid, p. 49. |
|
Same to same to send to the Auditor for a particular of a tenement
in Trelagan parcel of the manor of Trelagan, in the Duchy of
Cornwall, with a view to a new lease thereof to Nicholas Kemp. |
Ibid, p. 58. |
|
April — |
Royal warrant for a privy seal for 288l. to Sir Edward Walker
being money payable by John Morrice and Robt. Clayton for
fines for the soil and demesnes of the manor of Kennington, and
390l. 10s. 0d. being money payable by John Arrundell for the
meadows and wharves there. |
Ibid. XVa. p. 131. |
|
April — |
Treasury warrant to the Clerk of the Pipe for a lease under the
Exchequer seal to Thomas Bland, Receiver General of Crown
revenues for co. York of 16 several parcels of land, viz., three
acres called Bury Inge in Middlethorpe, co. Yorks, several
tenements in Beverley, a portion of a cottage in Cottingham,
late in the tenure of William Bamburgh and afterwards of
William Kirkby and Richard Goure, and of another portion of
said cottage late in possession of Robert Holdesworth and afterwards of John Lye and John Wardell; and a tenement in
Bowbrig Lane, Beverley, in the tenure of Rowland Stockhill. |
Ibid, XXXVIII. pp. 51–4. |
|
Prefixing:—Two particulars of the premises and the Surveyor
General's ratal thereof. |
|
|
[? April
—] |
Same to the [Clerk of the Signet] to prepare a commission to the
Archbishop of Canterbury et al., detailed, for assessing the
peers in their personal estates in accordance with the late
Subsidy Act. |
Ibid, XVa. pp. 127–9. |
|
[? April
or May] |
Report to the King from the Treasury Lords on the petition of
Lady Sanderson. "Upon consideration of the long and constant services of the petitioner to your Majesty's royal family,
and in regard of her and her husband's great age and their
necessities" advise a grant of a pension of 200l. to them or
the longest liver, with the proviso that same shall not be
drawn into a precedent, nor be granted to any other that
shall hereafter succeed petitioner in her employment of mother
of the maids of honor to Her Majesty. |
Ibid. XXXIII. p. 164. |
|
[? April
or May] |
Same to same from same on the petition of Robert Raworth,
William Manwood and William Comondele, executors to
Charles Read, Esq., appointed by Charles I Receiver General
of Coleraine, concerning the 426l. 10s. 5d. due from said Read
on his account to 1641, Mar. 25. |
Ibid, p. 165. |
|
[? April
or May] |
Same to same from same on the petition of Elizabeth Wolsely.
We find no objection to the grant of the reversion of the manor
of Walton to John Ferrers for a fine of 200l. It rests with
your Majesty as to granting said fine to said Elizabeth Wolsely
in regard of her husband's services and loyalty. |
Ibid, p. 166. |
|
[? April
or May] |
Same to same from same on the petition of John Ferrers. We
see no convenience in the grant of the reversion of the manor
of Walton and the advowson thereof, "there being yet four
heirs male alive within the knowledge of the said John Ferrers
besides himself and his son." |
Ibid. |
