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| May 1. |
Ch. Stanhope to the Customs Commissioners to send to the Treasury Lords a complete list of all the officers employed under them both abroad and at home and their salaries and allowances and whether paid out of incidents or on the Establishment of the Customs.
a like letter to the Excise Commissioners.
a like letter to the Salt Commissioners.
a like letter to the Wine Licence Commissioners.
a like letter to the Postmaster General.
a like letter to the Hawkers and Pedlars Commissioners.
a like letter to the Commissioners for Alienations.
a like letter to the Commissioners for [Duties on] Hides &c.
a like letter to the Paymaster [sic for Principal Officers or Board] of the Works.
a like letter to the Commissioners for Stamps. Out Letters (General) XVIII, p. 184.
Same to Mr. Clayton to send to my Lords a list of the [King's private] annual pensions and bounties established by his Majesty and payable by you. Ibid., p. 185.
Money warrant for 155l. 19s. 6d. to Capt. William Hanmer: without account: “which with 100l. before paid him is not only to recompense his own care, trouble and expense in conducting the Count de Gyllenborg to the Castle of Plymouth and returning from thence, but also to defray the charge of hiring horses, coaches and other carriages employed in the said journey with all other incidental expenses and the fees on receiving thereof.” (Money order dated May 2 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated May 3 hereon.) Money Book XXV, p. 288. Order Book IX, p. 403. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 286.
Treasury reference to the Customs Commissioners of the petition of Samuel Dawson, a King's waiter London port, proposing Henry Garret as his deputy. Reference Book IX, p. 323.
Same to the Board of Works of the petition of Sir John Vanbrugh shewing that the great water engine in Windsor Castle is so faulty and worn that it is incapable of any further repair, so that there seems an absolute necessity for an entire new engine. Ibid.
Same to Auditor Harley of the petition of Harriet Ramondon, daughter and sole executrix of Dr. Laurence, late Principal Physician to his Majesty, setting forth that Dr. Shadwell, who succeeded her father as Principal Physician to his Majesty, has unwarrantably been paid his [her father's] salary two months and a half before the date of his [Shadwell's] admission to that employment; that her father died an incumbent on the 25 Sept. 1714, notwithstanding which the said Dr. Shadwell has received the salary of Principal Physician from the 1 Aug. 1714 to 15 Oct. following though his warrant bears date only the 15 Oct.: therefore petitioner hopes she has a right to her father's salary till the admission of Dr. Shadwell.
In the margin: This petition, with Auditor Harley's report thereon, was referred 15 Jan. 1717–18 to the Attorney General who is to hear the parties concerned and inspect the evidence and report. Ibid., p. 324.
Same to Mr. Cracherode of the petition of Thomas Crisp, late Sheriff of the County Palatine of Lancaster, shewing that the business of the said county from which the sheriff's profits should and usually have arisen being almost wholly stopped by the late Rebellion and petitioner having been obliged for the necessary service of the Government to be at so very great and further expense not only in attending the further execution of the special Commission at Preston and executing five of the rebels at Lancaster and in and about the outlawing 94 persons that were indicted for rebellion and fled for the same, but also in sending through the county to find out and make return of the personal and real estates of all traitors and of estates given to superstitious uses to the Commissioners of Enquiry pursuant to their precepts from time to time directed to him and his undersheriff for that purpose: therefore petitioner prays that same may be reimbursed to him by the public, and his undersheriff and agent may be further considered for their diligence and service to the Government. Mr. Cracherode is hereon to report how far the Crown by usage or custom ought to be charged with such demands. Ibid., p. 326. |
| May 1. |
Treasury warrant to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands for a constat of a piece of waste ground lying within the precincts of Whitehall Palace as follows in order to a lease thereof to Lord Henry Herbert for 30 years at 10l. per an. rent: with a clause of reassumption to the Crown without compensation in case of the rebuilding the palace of Whitehall.
Prefixing: said Surveyor General's report on the petition of the said Lord Herbert. I have viewed the said piece of ground of 78 feet by 120 feet and find it almost covered with heaps of rubbish, part of the ruins of the said palace. It abuts south on a little garden called Queen Mary's Garden; south west on a passage leading from the Privy Garden to the abovesaid garden and is bounded north west and north east on other ruins of the said palace. Warrants not Relating to Money XXIV, pp. 185–6.
A fresh reference from the Treasury Lords to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland of the petition of Lieut. Col. Irwyn as referred Feb. 13 last, supra, p. 145, praying to be put on the Half Pay Establishment of Ireland. Out Letters (Ireland) X, p. 73.
Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners, Scotland, to employ John Sanders as a tidewaiter at Orkney loco Patrick Black: at 12l. per an.
James Milne as a tidewaiter at Inverness loco John Niccoll: at 18l. per an.
Thomas McGill as tidewaiter at Dundee loco Andrew Aitoun: at 18l. per an.
Arthur Forbes as tidewaiter at Inverness loco John Keill: at 18l. per an.
John Gardner as boatman at Dumbarton at 20l. per an. Out Letters (North Britain) IV, p. 62.
Same to the Salt Commissioners, Scotland, to employ John Cosnan as “your Secretary, Solicitor, Correspondent, Examiner and Clerk of the Securities for the Salt Duties under your management”: at the established salary of 100l. per an. loco William Edgar who (being otherwise provided for in the Kingdom of Ireland) hath resigned his said offices.
Prefixing: report by the said Commissioners (William Cleland, Ja Campbell, J. Haldane) dated April 18 last recommending the said Cosnan as well known [knowing] in the laws and experienced in the practice of that [the Salt] Duty and as having already been very serviceable in settling and regulating that branch of the revenue in another station. Out Letters (North Britain) IV, p. 77. |
| May 1. |
Treasury warrant to the Salt Commissioners, Scotland, to employ the following as officers of the said Salt Duty: viz.
John McAllaster as Collector of the Salt at Campbeltown loco Edward Bruce: at the established salary of 5l. per an.
William Allan as watchman of the Salt at Borrowstounness collection loco James Monteith: at 15l. per an.
William Manley as Collector of the Salt in Ayr collection loco John Ballantine: at 5l. per an.
John Muirhead as Collector of the Salt at Alloa loco Walter Murray: at 30l. per an.
Robert Wemyss as Collector of the Customs at Anstruther loco John Muirhead: at 30l. per an.
John Muirhead as Collector of the Customs at Alloa: at 30l. per an.
Thomas Sterling as tidewaiter at Inverness loco Gilbert Affleck: at 18l. per an.
Geo. Bennet as tidewaiter at Dumfries loco John Murray: at 15l. per an.
Robt. Miller as tidewaiter at Inverness loco John Shields: at 18l. per an.
William Montereiff as a tidewaiter at Leith loco William Kerr: at 20l. per an. Ibid., p. 77. |
| May 2. |
Royal warrant dated St. James's to Edward Nicholas to pay (out of such moneys as are or shall be imprested to you at the Exchequer for this purpose) 300l. to James Vernon, Esq., in full of the arrear for half a year to 1714 June 24 on an annual pension of 600l. which the late Queen Anne established payable to him by the hands of said Nicholas. King's Warrant Book XXVIII, p. 257.
Same to Lord Cornwallis and James Craggs, senr., his Majesty's Postmasters General, to appoint officers as follows and to placethem on the Establishment of the Post Office in accordance withyour memorial proposing same as likely to conduce very much to the Post Office revenue, which memorial the Treasury Lords have laid before the King: viz. |
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per an.
£ |
|
as assistant to the Comptroller [of the Post Office] at |
100 |
|
two persons to take care of the franks and of the mis-seal letters at 100l. per an. each |
200 |
|
one Inspector of the accounts between the Clerks of the Roads and the Accountant at |
90 |
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one to cheque the letter carriers at |
60 |
|
|
— |
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|
£450 |
Ibid., p. 262.
Treasury warrant to the Auditor of the Receipt et al. to strike tallies on the Farmers of the Post Fines for 2,276l. in discharge of the rent of said farm for the year ended at Michaelmas 1716: the said sum having been answered to the King by the respective sheriffs upon the determination of their respective accounts.
Prefixing: certificate by Fra[ncis] Neale, Deputy Clerk of the Pipe, of the moneys so answered to the Crown by 19 sheriffs, detailed, being Post Fines money demised 18 July 1696 to Thomas, Lord Raby (now Earl of Strafford) at the yearly rent of 2,276l. Money Book XXV, p. 297. |
| May 2. |
Money warrant for 1,539l. 16s. 3d. to Thomas, Earl of Strafford, Farmer of Post Fines, being Post Fines moneys answered to the Crown by sheriffs in excess of the abovesaid 2,276l. farm rent for the abovesaid year ended Michaelmas 1716. (Money order dated May 6 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated May 11 hereon.)
Prefixing: certificate as above. Ibid., p. 298. Order Book IX, p. 405. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 288.
William Lowndes to the Attorney General to report on the enclosed draft [missing] of a warrant concerning a reversionary grant of the offices of the two Auditors of Imprests. May the said offices be legally granted to take effect in reversion and particularly after a forfeiture and if either of them be now void by any default or misfeazance will a grant in reversion be valid in law? Please report your opinion thereon tomorrow forenoon. Out Letters (General) XXII, p. 185. |
May 2, 3,
7, 8, 9, 10,
18, 22, 30,
31. |
Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners to employ Edward Worthey (one of the tidesmen of London port) as waiter and searcher Blackwall in London port loco Joseph Woollames.
Edward Hall to succeed said Worthey as tidesman.
George Moore as Collector at Barnstable loco Robert Rowe, deceased: at 50l. per an. for himself and 10l. per an. for a clerk.
Richard Francis as landwaiter at Exeter loco Thomas Davey, deceased.
Robert Cobbe as riding officer from Wells to Lynn Regis loco Jeffry Man, deceased (entry dated April 7 and already calendared, supra, p. 252, but probably an erratum for May 7).
Joshua Mires as landwaiter and to act as coastwaiter in Poulton port loco Henry Green, deceased.
John Howell as tidesman and boatman at Dall [Dale] in Milford port loco William Knethell, deceased.
Samuel Bissett as waiter and searcher at Polruan in Fowey port loco Thomas Alston, deceased.
James Fair as a watchman in London port loco John Smith, dismissed, at the established allowance of 6l. 15s. 0d. per an. besides the allowance of 2s. a night in the summer and 2s. 6d. in the winter.
Thomas Smith as a tidesman and boatman at Liverpool loco his father in law, John Parker, disabled to execute it any longer.
Thomas Freestone as a noontender in London port loco John Shaw, deceased.
Richard Parry as riding officer at Folkestone loco John Jones, superannuated: at 90l. per an. for himself, a servant and two horses.
Edward Martin as riding officer for the wool business at Bourne [Eastbourne] and Pevensey loco Thomas Roots, dismissed.
Leonard Breads as riding officer at Lewes in Newhaven port loco Thomas Elphick, superannuated.
Robert Cummins as a tidesman in the superior list London port loco Walter Buckby, deceased.
John Roop as a tidesman at Plymouth loco Pierce Blachyndem, deceased. Out Letters (Customs) XVI, pp. 440, 441, 442. |
| May 2. |
Treasury reference to the Customs Commissioners of the petition of John Goodwin, a King's waiter London port, proposing William Thomas as his deputy. Reference Book IX, p. 323.
Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners, Scotland, to employ Gilbert Smith as a tidewaiter at Inverness loco James Gregg: at 18l. per an. Out Letters (North Britain) IV, p. 62. |
| May 3. |
Money warrant for 300l. to Thomas Onslow, Out Ranger of Windsor Forest, for half a year to Lady day 1717 on his salary or allowance of 600l. per an. for his service and pains and for all his charges therein. (Money order dated May 4 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated May 11 hereon.) Money Book XXV, p. 299. Order Book IX, p. 406. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 288.
Same for 50l. to Philip Horneck, gent., for 1717 Lady day quarter on his salary as one of the Solicitors for looking after and negotiating the affairs of the Treasury. (Money order dated May 4 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated May 11 hereon.) Money Book XXV, p. 246. Order Book IX, p. 406. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 288.
Same for 135,000l. to Sir Andrew Chadwick as imprest for the yearly fund established by the Act 9 Anne, c. 16, for the 1,500,000l. Lottery anno 1711: to wit for the year commencing 29 Sept. 1716 and likewise for such further sums as shall arise and be paid into the Exchequer out of the said fund in the said year over and above the said 135,000l., “the said surplus being likewise appropriated by the said Act towards paying and discharging the principal money payable by virtue thereof.” (Money order dated May 7 hereon.) Money Book XXV, p. 299. Order Book IX, p. 406.
Same for 20,000l. to Samuel Edwards, Geo. Jerman and John Stockwell, Esq., Paymasters duly authorised in this behalf, as imprest to pay interest on Exchequer Bills not only to the Tellers of the Receipt for so much as they shall allow for interest after the rate of 2 pence per cent. [per 100l.] per diem “to the payers or lenders at the said Receipt of the said Exchequer Bills at the respective times of their paying or lending the same”, but also to persons having Exchequer Bills in their custody on which six months' interest or more shall be due. (Money order dated May 8 hereon.) Money Book XXV, p. 300. Order Book IX, p. 409.
Same for 100l. to Edward Willes, Master of Arts, for half a year to 1717 Lady day on his salary as Decipherer (“for his pains and service in the art of decyphering”). (Money order dated May 4 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated May 11 hereon.) Money Book XXV, p. 300. Order Book IX, p. 405. Disposition Book XXII, p. 288.
Letter of direction for the following issues out of Civil List moneys: |
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£ |
s. |
d. |
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Samuel Edwyn for necessaries by him delivered to the Old Offices [in the Receipt of the Exchequer] in Michaelmas and Hilary terms 1715 |
1,633 |
5 |
7¾ |
|
Conyers Darcy and Francis Negus, Commissioners for executing the office of Master of the Horse: upon account for extraordinaries of the Stables |
1,300 |
0 |
0 |
|
Sir John Fortescue Aland, late [one of] his Majesty's Counsellor at Law, on 40l. per an.: to wit from 5 Jan. 1714–15 to Dec. 25 following |
38 |
7 |
1¼ |
ditto more as late his Majesty's Solicitor General: to wit on 107l. 10s. 0d. per an. for the business of [the Board of] Trade:
from 21 Dec. 1715 to 8 Feb. 1716–17 |
121 |
18 |
7½ |
|
ditto more for his clerk on 10l. 15s. 0d. per an. [for the like business] on 10l. 15s. 0d. per an. for same time |
12 |
3 |
10¼ |
|
ditto more as one of the Barons of the Exchequer Court to complete Hilary term 1716, see supra, p. 276 |
345 |
7 |
10¾ |
|
Matthew Prior, late Envoy to the Court of France: on his ordinary |
444 |
17 |
1 |
|
Disposition Book XXIII, p. 286. |
| May 3. |
C. Stanhope to the Treasurer of the Navy to apply as follows 12,188l. 4s. 10d. out of the 100,000l. issued to you at the Exchequer in tallies and orders on credit of the Vote of the House of Commons of March 5 last: viz. |
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£ |
s. |
d. |
to the head of Wages.
to pay off his Majesty's ships Rochester and Chester
|
10,792 |
0 |
0 |
to the head of Wear and Tear.
for the old and new Course of the Navy |
1,396 |
4 |
10 |
|
— |
|
£12,188 |
4 |
10 |
Ibid., p. 287
Confirmation by the Treasury Lords of the money order of March 2 last, supra, p. 162, for 40l. to Geo. Porter and Richard Poole, for an overpayment on their account as sheriffs of the City of Coventry for the year ended at Michaelmas 1714. Order Book IX, p. 380.
William Lowndes to the Board of Works. It is represented to my Lords by Mr. Wise, his Majesty's gardener, that one William Comfort, late a servant and day labourer in the gardens at Hampton Court, keeps possession of one of the garden houses upon the Bowling Green there against the said Wise and his orders although he [Wise] has thought fit to dismiss him [Comfort] for misbehaviour and enormities that made him unfit to be continued therein. My Lords direct you to take care that the said William Comfort be required immediately to depart out of the said house and to clear the possession thereof for the said Wise “within whose contract for keeping his Majesty's gardens the same is comprehended”. Out Letters (General) XXII, p. 185.
Treasury warrant to the Collector Inwards, London port, to administer the usual oath to Henry Garret as deputy to Samuel Dawson, a King's waiter London port.
Prefixing: report by the Customs Commissioners on the petition of said Dawson proposing said Garret as his Deputy. Out Letters (Customs) XVI, p. 440. |
| May 3. |
Treasury warrant to the Collector Inwards, London port, to administer the like oath to William Thomas as Deputy to John Goodwin, a King's waiter London port. Ibid., p. 441.
Same to the Customs Commissioners, Scotland, to employ Duncan Lamont, a tidesurveyor at Arran and Lamlash loco Thomas Wallace, deceased. Out Letters (North Britain) IV, p. 63. |
| May 4. |
Same to John Aislabie, Treasurer of the Navy,to pay to the South SeaCompany (out of any money in your hands: for the service of the Navy and Victualling) the sum of 57,668l. 9s. 4½d. to answer to the said Company the Deficiency of their fund of 600,000l. per an. and 8,000l. per an.: to wit the Deficiency in and for the quarter ended at 25 Dec. 1716: all as by the Act of 1 Geo. I, c. 21, for enlarging the capital stock of the said Company.
Prefixing: certificate [by the Auditor of the Receipt] of the receipts during said quarter from the Duties [appropriated by said Act to the service of said Fund: for the description of the several items of this Fond see supra, p. 240]: |
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£ |
s. |
d. |
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[out of Duties on] Wines |
2,350 |
0 |
0 |
|
[out of Duties on] Tobacco |
21,600 |
0 |
0 |
|
[out of Duties on] East India goods |
40,300 |
0 |
0 |
|
[out of Duties on] whale fins |
2,850 |
0 |
0 |
|
[out of Duties on] Salt (since 31 July 1706) |
7,030 |
5 |
9 |
|
[out of] Apprentices Duty (since 1 May 1715) |
785 |
6 |
2½ |
|
[out of] Candles Duty (since 1 May 1715) |
10,015 |
18 |
8 |
|
[out of] Additional Impositions |
9,400 |
0 |
0 |
|
— |
|
94,331 |
10 |
7½ |
|
Deficiency being amount required to make 152,000l. due for said quarter on said Fund |
57,668 |
9 |
4½ |
|
— |
|
£152,000 |
0 |
0 |
Money Book XXV, p. 311.
Money order for 30,244l. 12s. 11d. to Edward Elliot, Receiver and Paymaster of the money for buying tin in the counties of Devon and Cornwall: upon account: to be by him applied in manner following, viz., 580l. 18s. 8d. thereof to complete the payment for the tin coined in the said counties at Michaelmas coinage 1716; and the remaining 29,663l. 14s. 3d. to pay for all the tin coined in the said counties at Xmas coinage 1716 and for other services relating to the contracts made with the tinners in that behalf. Order Book IX, p. 407.
Letter of direction for payment of 21,964l. 11s. 2½d. to the abovesaid Edward Elliot (in part of the above sum of 30,244l. 12s. 11d.) out of money as follows: |
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£ |
s. |
d. |
|
out of moneys arising by sale of tin |
16,384 |
11 |
2½ |
|
out of loans on sale of tin |
5,580 |
0 |
0 |
|
— |
|
£21,964 |
11 |
2½ |
|
Disposition Book XXIII, p. 291. |
| May 4. |
William Lowndes to Mr. Chancellor [the Lord Chancellor] enclosing a copy [missing] of a Treasury minute which my Lords find entered in the Books of the Treasury upon a hearing had by the late Treasury Lords between Mr. Woolaston and the heirs of Mr. Preston about a lease of the manor of Furness, Co. Lanes, [which lease is] now lying before your Lordship for [sealing with] the great seal [see Treasury Minutes under date 1717 April 3, supra, pp. 9–10]. Out Letters (General) XXII, p. 185. |
