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| March 17. |
Royal sign manual for 7,150l. to William Lowndes: out of Civil List moneys: and is for Secret Service. (Money warrant dated March 18 hereon.) (Money order dated March 18 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated March 18 hereon.) King's Warrant Book XXIX, p. 19. Order Book X, p. 64. Disposition Book XXIV, p. 83.
Royal warrant dated St. James's granting to Sir Charles Hotham, Sir Michael Warton, burgesses of the town of Beverley, Co. Yorks, and to the Mayor and Aldermen of Beverley liberty during the space of three years from date hereof to cart and carry away out of the late Dissolved Monastery of St. Mary's within the Manor Yard at York, such and so many of the stores as are there useless but proper for repairing the church of Beverley: provided that they make reasonable satisfaction to Robert Waller, the present lessee, for such damage as may be done to the herbage or otherwise in taking and carting away the said stores:
all by reason that the abovesaid parishioners of the formerly Collegiate and ancient church of St. John's or the Minster of Beverley have petitioned showing that the north Isle and several other places of the said Minster by length of time and the violence of some late storms are become so ruinous that they cannot be repaired without taking down great part thereof and that the parishioners are not able of themselves without aid to repair the same, wherefore they have besought the liberty to take as above the stones of the late dissolved Monastery of St. Mary's: and the Surveyor General of Crown Lands has reported thereon that the late King William and Queen Mary 16 March 1691–2 granted to Robert Waller for 31 years the scite of the Monastery of St. Mary's, to wit the palace or mansion house lying without the walls of the city of York, and that the stones desired are only the old walls of the church and of no use to the Crown. King's Warrant Book XXIX, pp. 79–80.
Same to the Attorney or Solicitor General for a great seal for a grant to Thomas, Lord Torrington, of the office of one of the Four Tellers of the Receipt, void by the death of the late Richard, Lord Onslow. Ibid., p. 81.
Royal sign manual for 1,000l. to Thomas Lowther: without account: out of Civil List revenues: and is intended to be by him applied and paid to such uses as his Majesty shall direct. (Money warrant dated March 18 hereon.) (Money order dated March 18 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated March 20 hereon.) Ibid., p. 85. Order Book X, p. 72. Disposition Book XXIV, p. 84.
Royal warrant dated St. James's to the Clerk of the Signet for a privy seal for 1,500l. per an. to Charles, Earl of Sunderland, as President of the Privy Council, 1,000l. per an. thereof as in lieu of an allowance of 10 dishes every meal formerly made to the President of the Privy Council and the remaining 500l. per an. as of the royal grace and bounty:
and further for an annuity or yearly salary of 3,500l. for the better support of the honour and dignity of the said office or place; being the like annuity or yearly sum as was granted to Daniel, Earl of Nottingham, and to William, Duke of Devonshire, when the said office was executed by them respectively. All the said allowances or yearly sums amounting together to 5,000l. per an. are to commence and be payable from the day he was sworn into said office. King's Warrant Book XXIX, pp. 96–7. |
| March 17. |
Money warrant for 15l. to the clerks in the Office of Pleas in the Exchequer Court for so much due from Easter 1706 to Easter 1716 on their fee of 60s. payable at Easter in every second year by debenture.
Appending: certificate by the Earl of Halifax, Auditor of the Receipt, of the sum so due. Money Book XXVI, p. 185.
Same for 40l. to Thomas, Earl of Thanet, Sheriff of Westmorland, for so much paid by him to John Hunter et al. for apprehending and convicting Thomas Allen for felony and burglary. Ibid., p. 239. Disposition Book XXIV, p. 90.
Same for 1,500l. to Anthony Cracherode [Treasury Solicitor]: as imprest for the charges of law suits &c. relating to his Majesty's service. (Money order dated March 19 hereon: with a later Treasury order dated March 28 for execution thereof.) (Letter of direction dated March 20 hereon.) Money Book XXVI, p. 241. Order Book X, p. 72. Disposition Book XXIV, p. 84.
Treasury warrant to the Auditors of Imprests to allow in account the incidents bill, detailed, of Horatio Walpole, senr., and Francis Hawes, as Customs Cashiers for the period from 25 Dec. 1716 to 27 Nov. 1717, amounting in all to 435l. 14s. 7d.
Prefixing: said bill and Auditor T. Foley's report thereon. Money Book XXVI, pp. 242–3.
Same to same to similarly allow the incidents bill of Antony Lechmere and Francis Hawes from 6 July 1717 to 25 Dec. following as Customs Cashiers: amounting in all to 375l. 3s. 7d.
Prefixing: bill and report ut supra. Ibid., pp. 243–4.
Money warrant for 107l. 17s. 7d. to the Taxes Commissioners (Nicholas Vincent, Paul Burrard, John Williams, Anthony Dawly, Brian Fairfax and Sir Harcourt Masters) for their incidents bill for 1717 Michaelmas quarter for the Land Tax.
Prefixing: said bill. (Money order dated March 20 hereon.) Money Book XXVI, p. 248. Order Book X, p. 73.
Treasury allowance of same quarter's incidents bill, detailed, for the Duties on hides: total 317l. 4s. 0¼d. Money Book XXVI, p. 248.
Treasury warrant to Sir William Fazakerley, Receiver General of the Duties on Houses for Co. Middlesex &c., to pay 114l. 19s. 10½d. to the abovesaid Taxes Commissioners for same quarter's incidents, detailed, in connection with the Duties on Houses. Money Book XXVI, p. 249. |
| March 17. |
Treasury warrant to Samuel Burton, Receiver of the Rents and Revenues of the [late Hospital of the] Savoy, to pay 20l. to the 12 workmen employed in making an estimate of the repairs necessary to be done in the Savoy.
Prefixing: said Burton's report on the work of said workmen in making said estimate. Ibid., p. 253.
Money warrant for 120l. to David Gansell, Sheriff of Essex, for rewards paid to John Vandebord et al. for apprehending George Humphreys for burglary; to Margaret Dalzell et al. for apprehending Thomas Mitchell for burglary; and to Simon Archer for apprehending William Berth for robbery on the King's highway. Ibid., p. 321.
C. Stanhope to the Victualling Commissioners enclosing the account of John Conduit, with the Treasury Lords' warrant thereupon, which you are to comply with. Out Letters (General) XXII, p. 281.
Same to the Earl of Carlisle apprising him that Richard Gilpin, in behalf of Joseph Dacre Appleby and the creditors of James Dacre, deceased, has entered a caveat against any lease of the scite of Lanercost and other lands granted to your Lordship. What day will you be prepared for a hearing at the Treasury Board? Ibid.
Same to the Customs Commissioners to send up to London unopened any parcel arriving in Dover port from France directed to the Abbot Dubois. (Letter repeated May 9 on a fresh memorial from the said Abbot Dubois.) Ibid., p. 282.
Treasury warrant to the Excise Commissioners to permit the following merchants to reduce imported brandy and rum to proof or to make post entries so as the single Duty of brandy or rum may be paid for the same.
Prefixing: report dated 1717 Dec. 14 from the Excise Commissioners on the petitions of said merchants as follows: viz.
William Coleman.
Peter Chavalier.
William Fairbrother.
Samuel Wilson.
Thomas Wharton.
Isaac Travers.
Capt. Hudson.
John Richardson.
Daniel Fox.
John Sorocold.
Samuel Barnard.
William Parrot.
Augustin Adams.
Silvanus Graves.
Capt. Plumb.
Richard Everett.
Nathaniel Bernardeston Tilden.
Maine Francis Melmott.
Pat. Jefferies.
Rowland and William Tryon.
John Cary.
Robert Chester.
John Barbotaine.
Jonathan Parry.
Julius Certie.
Thomas Wharton.
Thomas Sandford.
Abraham Coleman.
John Barbotaine.
Thomas Robins.
Peter Sharp.
John Scott.
John Hunter.
John Balderstaine.
John Hide.
Jonathan Parry.
Capt. Gwalkin.
Nicho. Jackson.
Isaac Howard.
Elias Pearce.
John Richardson.
Richard Thompson.
Joseph Lowe.
John Richardson.
Samuel Richards.
Capt. Gwalkin.
Stephen Montage.
Nathaniel Carpenter.
Henry Wilde.
Nathaniel Barnardiston.
William Wickham.
Fenwick Amly.
John Arnold.
Joseph Lowe.
Samuel Foote.
Thomas Ascough.
Warrants not Relating to Money XXV, pp. 27–8. |
| March 17. |
Same to the Commissioners of Excise in Scotland to pay George Drummond, late Accomptant General of Excise, 80l. per an. as an extra allowance for the time that he was Accomptant General of Excise, in consideration of the new Additional Duties of Excise, to wit from the commencement thereof to 10 Feb. 1714–15.
Prefixing: report dated Excise Office, Edinburgh, 20 Feb. 1717–18 on the said Drummond's petition. The said new Additional Duties very much increased his business in preparing books and schemes for the regular keeping of those accounts which obliged him to a necessary attendance much beyond office hours “and wee very well knowing that he discharged the Accomptant General's business with very good abilities.” The said 80l. could be paid thereout in the following proportions, viz. 20l. out of the new Duties of Excise; 20l. out of the first and second Duties on candles; 20l. out of the first Duties on hides and skins; and 20l. out of the Duties on starch, gilt and silver wire and Additional Duties on hides and skins.
Appending: said Drummond's petition shewing that he was appointed on the Union as General Accomptant of Excise and continued therein to 10 Feb. 1714–15 at 120l. per an. salary. After his appointment there were several new Duties put under the receipt and management of the Excise as follows:
new Duty of Excise commencing 25 March 1710.
the first Duty on candles commencing 1 May 1710.
the second Duty on candles commencing 25 March 1711.
the first Duty on hides commencing 24 June 1711.
the first Duty on soap &c. commencing 10 June 1711.
the Duty on gilt and silver wire, starch, and second Duty on hides and skins commencing 1 Aug. 1712.
These occasioned much extraordinary trouble upon the commencement and fully doubled the regular business of the Office. He received no additional salary therefor: but since his Majesty's accession the Comptroller, Auditor and Secretary of Excise have obtained additional salaries in respect thereof. Further, the Excise Commissioners finding the business too much for one man have allotted to petitioner's successor the Duties in force at the Union and have appointed another Accomptant General for said Additional Duties at a salary of 80l. per an. Out Letters (North Britain) IV, pp. 265–6. |
| March 17. |
Entry of a caveat at the request of Lord Coningsby that no commission be granted to any person to be Receiver of the Land Tax for Herefordshire for the year 1718 before he be heard on behalf of Mr. Bangham, the present Receiver General. “Entered by order of Mr. Secretary Lowndes.” Caveat Book, p. 66. |
| March 18. |
Royal warrant dated St. James's to the Attorney or Solicitor General for a great seal to appoint Thomas, Lord Onslow, to be a Teller of the Exchequer in the place of Richard Hampden, whose letters patent thereto are hereby to be revoked. King's Warrant Book XXIX, p. 82.
Same dated same to the Clerk of the Signet for a privy seal for a pension of 1,200l. per an. to Thomas Erle “for good causes and considerations us hereunto moving”: payable out of the Exchequer. Ibid., p. 83.
Constitution and appointment, under the King's sign manual, of Walter Chetwynd to be Paymaster of all annual pensions, annuities or other yearly sums made payable by any Establishments or warrants signed by the King and lately payable by William Clayton: and with the like allowance of poundage as was retained by said Clayton and with such allowances for incidents of the said Office as “hath” been accustomed. Ibid., p. 84.
Royal warrant dated St. James's to the Treasury Lords to allow in account to John Chetwynd, late Envoy Extraordinary to the Court of Turin, the sums of 500l. and 1,256l. 9s. 0d. in his account of moneys by him received and had from James Brydges, now Earl of Carnarvon, late Paymaster General of the Forces Abroad, to wit moneys received by Chetwynd to be remitted to Spain for the use of the late Queen's Forces there and to defray the charges of shipping and provisions for the transportation of German and Italian Troops from Italy and Spain in 1707 and 1708, as also for providing necessaries and defraying the charges in making the Campaign in Piedmont in the year 1710: the said Chetwynd in the said account being charged with an ipsum of 1,909l. 4s. 10¾d. [set upon him in the accounts of the said Paymaster General], but hath had no allowance therein for his equipage for making the campaign in the year 1711 as was allowed him in former campaigns and as has been allowed to others on the like occasions, and hath had no allowance for negotiating and paying the sum of 251,290l. 3s. 8d. charged in the front of his said account. He is hereby to be allowed 500l. for the said equipage in 1711 and also 1,256l. 9s. 0d. for 10s. per 100l. for negotiating the said sum of 251,290l. 3s. 8d.
Appending: Treasury warrant dated 9 May 1718 to the Auditors of Imprests, the King's Remembrancer, the Clerk of the Pipe and all other officers concerned to make said allowance accordingly. Ibid., pp. 85–6. |
| March 18. |
Same to same to pay 2,043l. 15s. 9d. to Charles Hodges, Esq., without account other than such as he is hereby required to render to Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough: the said sum being intended to be applied as she shall from time to time direct for the performing of sundry works and repairs in Windsor Great Park and the supplying of many necessaries, that is to say the putting into repair the paling of the said park quite round with new posts, rails and pales where wanted and the providing several new gates; repairing the five Keepers' lodges, barns, stables and outhouses; also all the bridges in the said park and 13 pondheads and the gravelling such as are proper and have been usually gravelled; the repairing and fencing in 14 plantations in the said park consisting of 1,354 rod or thereabouts; as also the repairing the several deer pens with posts, rails and pales and the racks and barns to lay hay in for the deer; the providing new locks and keys to the park and plantation gates with chains, hasps and staples where wanting; the building of the Lodge called Franks Lodge, as likewise a little house for a gate keeper in the Long Walk: all which the said Duchess has undertaken to have done in the most substantial and workmanlike manner “without putting us to any further or other charge whatsoever on account thereof or of any other works and repairs which our said park may at this time require.” (Money order dated April 3 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated April 4 hereon.) Ibid., p. 89. Order Book X, p. 85. Disposition Book XXIV, p. 89.
Money warrant for 15l. to Jane Browning, relict of Micha Browning late Commander of the Mountjoy of Londonderry: for 1717 June 24 quarter on her pension. (Letter of direction dated April 4 hereon.) Money Book XXVI, p. 2. Disposition Book XXIV, p. 88.
Same for 80l. for the Under Sheriff of Exeter: ut infra, p. 442. Money Book XXVI, pp. 394–5.
Same for 20l. to Alexander Deucher for [the charges of] his passage to Barbados, whither he is going a minister. (Money order dated March 20 hereon.) Money Book XXVI, p. 159. Order Book X, p. 65. Disposition Book XXIV, p. 89.
Treasury warrant to the Excise Commissioners to pay 160l. to the owners, adventurers and fishermen of Great Yarmouth for the Excise of strong beer for the North Sea and herring fishery for one year to 1717 Sept. 29. Money Book XXVI, p. 250. |
| March 18. |
Letter of direction for 118l. 17s. 9¼d. to Spencer Cowper for 1714–15 Jan. 5 to 1717 Xmas on his salary of 40l. per an. as one of his Majesty's Counsel Learned in the Law. Disposition Book XXIV, p. 83.
Treasury reference to the Commissioners for Taxes of the petition of Herbert Price and Richard Lloyd, Collectors of the Land Tax for the Verge of his Majesty's Palaces, shewing that at the time of his Majesty's Proclamation [calling down the guinea] they had received on the Aids for 1716 and 1717 the sum of 563½ guineas in gold and there was detained in several [Household Treasurers' or Paymasters'] Offices for [or on account of] taxes the sum of 2,127½ guineas which they [petitioners] were obliged to take at the rate [at which] they [the said Offices] received them [therefore praying allowance of the loss thereon]. Reference Book IX, p. 382.
Same to the King's Remembrancer of the petition of Thomas, Lord Torrington, proposing his security as follows for his office of one of the Four Tellers of the Receipt of the Exchequer: viz. |
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Same to same of the petition of Edmund Barker proposing his security as follows for the office of Receiver of the Revenues of First Fruits in England, Wales and Berwick on Tweed: viz. |
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Treasury warrant to the Clerk of the Pipe for a lease under the Exchequer seal to Robert Apreece of the custody of the Hundred of Normancross, Co. Huntingdon, with the office of Bailiff there, as granted by James I. 26 March 1611–12 to Sir Robert Cotton and Thomas Cotton, his son, and John Cotton, son of the said Thomas.
Prefixing: (1) report dated March 15 inst. from Auditor Thomas Jett on the petition of said Apreece, ut supra, pp. 216–17.
(2) certificate by Francis Neale, Deputy Clerk of the Pipe, concerning said grant by James I.
Followed by: undated entry of the Treasury signature of the docquet of this lease, the grant being for the lives of him, Thomas his son and of Henry Apreece, brother of the said Robert. Warrants not Relating to Money XXV, pp. 29–30, 31.
Same to Edward Tucker, gent., Keeper of his Majesty's piers, cranes and quarries in the island of Portland, to permit the Navy Commissioners at Portsmouth to take 600 tons of stone from his Majesty's quarries there, to be employed for repairing the stone Docks in his Majesty's Yard there.
Prefixing: letter dated Navy Office 28 Dec. 1717 from the Navy Commissioners to [the Admiralty Commissioners]. We understand by letter of yesterday from [our fellow] Commissioner Townsend at Portsmouth that no warrant is yet sent down for raising the Portland stone wanted for the Docks there and at Plymouth as desired by our letters of the 2nd inst. and 4th Oct. last, whereby the said works are near at a stand. We pray you move the Treasury Lords for a warrant accordingly. Ibid., pp. 30–1. |
| March 18. |
Same to the Clerk of the Pipe for a lease to John Parsons of the messuage called the Spotted Dog with a yard behind it, part of Pall Mall Field, alias St. James's Field, late in the parish of St. Martins in the Fields and now in the new parish of St. James's within the Liberty of Westminster, and in or near a certain place called St. James's Market Place on the north side thereof between the said Market Place and Jermyn Street on the north and ground on the east in the tenure of Jeremiah Ridge and Edmond Butler: and also two messuages standing upon the said yard or garden, one thereof standing in Jermyn Street and now in the several tenures of Thomas Townson and James Flaxman: and also of two messuages or houses with two several yards or backsides thereto on the south side of Piccadilly next the ground or buildings in the tenures of Charles Handson, Nathaniel Brooks or Thomas Whitehead: and also of a messuage in St. James's Market Place now in the tenure of Thomas King: and also of a messuage in the said Market Place in the tenure of Jeremiah Ridge, which last two messuages are worth at a rack rent 44l. per an.
Prefixing: particulars of the premises made out by Auditor Jett: and memorandum and ratal thereof by H. Cholmley, Surveyor General of Crown Lands.
Followed by: undated entry of the Treasury Lords' subscription of the docquet of this lease.
In the margin: a later Treasury warrant dated 1718–19 Feb. 5 for the execution of the present warrant. [The docquet entry is probably later than Feb. 1718–19.] Ibid., pp. 32–5, 192.
Same to Edward Harley and Thomas Foley, Auditors of Imprests, to accept the charge which the late Commissioners of Transports (Samuel Atkinson, John Henley, John Ellis and Thomas Hopkins) have in their accounts made upon themselves, to wit of 3,791l. 4s. 8d. for interest moneys by them received on tallies and orders paid or issued to them for Transport service: all in order to the finishing “the said accompt which by reason of a defect of form hath lain so long unfinished.”
Memoranda are to be entered at the foot of the account reciting the certificate of the Auditor of the Receipt and the oath of the accomptants, and that if it shall appear to the said Auditor [of the Receipt] that any further sums have come to the hands of the accomptants for the interest of any tallies paid or issued to them beyond what they have charged themselves with they shall be charged therewith and answer and account for the same.
Appending: (a) said certificate by the Earl of Halifax, Auditor of the Receipt, dated Exchequer 28 January 1717–18, that “search hath been made through the Registers of loans remaining in my Office to find out what orders have been assigned in the name of Charles Fox, Esq., late Paymaster of the Forces, and delivered over by him or his agents to the Commissioners of Transports for Transport service in the two late wars; and whether after such assignments the said Commissioners or their agents received any interest upon such orders: and upon examination it appears that not many of the said orders (although great numbers have been delivered over to the said Commissioners as acknowledged in an account produced at the Exchequer) have been registered to them or their agents: so that by the Books remaining with me it does not appear what orders of loan were delivered for the service above mentioned. Nor can I make out any regular account of interest whereby the said Commissioners may be charged.
Prefixing: (b) Report to the Treasury Lords from Sir Edward Northey, Attorney General, dated 1717–18 March 12, on the petition of the said Commissioners. They represent that in the latter part of their accounts for Transportation from 26 Dec. 1692 to 31 May 1702 (for the passing of which your Lordships ordered the Auditors to prepare a privy seal) they have charged themselves with 3,791l. 4s. 8d. for interest received at the Exchequer on tallies and orders issued to them by Charles Fox, then Paymaster of the Army. Two of the petitioners have made oath as by 2–3 Anne, c. 11 (for the better charging accomptants with interest) that the said sum was all the interest they received between 30 Nov. 1693 and 25 Feb. 1713–14 and that no other interest came to them on any [other] tallies and orders, but that the said [other] tallies and orders together with the interest [accrued or accruing] thereupon were really and bona fide from that time assigned, paid and delivered over to the respective creditors for Transport service.
Hereupon the Attorney General reports that by the Act in question the Auditor of the Receipt doth or can charge accomptants with interest received on tallies and orders that are satisfied and discharged in the said Receipt: but that it is difficult to charge such accomptants with interest moneys upon such tallies or orders as are standing out and unsatisfied, and that it is impossible for him to charge upon such accomptants the interest then after to be paid upon any such unsatisfied tallies and orders until the principal thereupon comes in course of payment and the tallies and orders be brought to the Receipt to be discharged; and that it will be a great detriment to the service of the Crown if the final accounts of Treasurers &c. be deferred until all the said tallies &c. be fully discharged. Wherefore the said Act (and the Act 12 Wm. III., c. 11, cl. 28) prescribed that the accomptants charge themselves with interest, specifying the particular orders or tallies and the assignments thereof, and thereupon the Auditor of the Receipt to surcharge the account with such interest moneys, and further to certify the Auditors of Imprests of all such interest on orders coming in course of payment, within two months after the end of each half year.
The accomptants have made oath as to interest received by them as above. And the Auditor of the Receipt has further certified as above. I therefore think that in this case it will be proper to give directions for finishing the accounts as above on the making of memorandums as above. Warrants not Relating to Money XXV, pp. 37–40. |
| March 18. |
Treasury warrant to Edward Harley, one of the Auditors of Imprests, to give allowance of the sum of 642l. 4s. 0d. to William Chetwynd for several payments by him for the service of her late Majesty's Forces in Spain in his accounts now preparing for Declaration of remittances from Genoa for the use of the said Forces and other services of the war.
Prefixing: said Harley's report dated 30 Dec. 1717 on said Chetwynd's memorial praying allowance of said items. As to the 292l. 11s. 0d. and 76l. 10s. 0d. for several expenses paid by him in 1708 by order of Visct. Stanhope, late Commander in Chief of the British Forces in Spain, they appear to have been made for the travelling charges of the petitioner or others that went from Genoa to Turin, Leghorn and other places to receive money for the Forces in Spain, and of escorting and shipping off the same, and of his going to Vado to see the Imperial Troops embarked there which came from Italy in 1708; and of postage of letters; and for travelling charges of several Officers sent express to England or elsewhere by warrant of the Commander in Chief. The said two sums were not allowed in the accounts of John Mead, Deputy Paymaster General of the Forces (as he had done for all other the petitioner's payments); which is the reason they were not allowed in petitioner's accounts. They ought to be allowed him.
The item of 158l. 12s. 6d. was paid by him to several masters of transport ships which, lying unemployed, were hired (employed) to make a voyage to the Levant by several merchants at Genoa; said sum being for Primage, being a customary allowance made to masters of ships on their arrival at Constantinople, which according to a certificate of the late Commissioners for Transports ought to have been paid by the freights of the said ships and not by the public. The accomptant alleges that as he returned an account of the said payment to the Transport Office, they ought to have stopped the same from the [ships'] masters for [the purpose of] reimbursing [to the Queen] the said charge: wherefore he prays that the loss may not fall upon him as there is not a means at this distance of time of his recovering from the merchants or freighters. This is submitted to your Lordships. As to the 170l. craved for the charge of his privy seal &c. for allowing his accounts it appears that the charge of the privy seal was 75l. 16s. 6d. and the fees for passing his account through the several offices will come to 114l. 10s 6d.
Appending: report from Thomas Colby dated Transport Office 13 March 1717–18 as to the above item of 158l. 12s. 6d. On Mr. Chetwynd's transmitting hither [to the Transport Office] an account of the money earned by the ten transport ships for carrying corn as abovementioned and [shewing] that the merchants had stopped therefrom the said sum for Primage (which their agent in Turkey paid the said masters) the Transports Commissioners returned their opinion to him 16 March 1710–11 that in such cases it was always customary for merchants or freighters to pay the same over and above the freight agreed on as an encouragement to the masters to take care of their cargoes and bills of lading signed by him for Primage and Average Accustomed. So her Majesty had no right to pay that charge, nor more especially [had] the masters who had no advantage by the said freight.
“But, may it please your Lordships, in regard the [British] Government had so manifest a benefit by the freight of the said corn which [advantage or freight] amounted to as much as their [the transports'] hire to the publique came to: but if that service had not happened they must nevertheless have lain the whole time unemployed at the expense of the Government: and as Mr. Chetwynd might not be so well accustomed to the method of merchants in the article of Primage and Average, and that there might not be at the time when he was better informed thereof as well as there is not now at this distance a means of recovering the said payment from the merchants or freighters, I humbly conceive an allowance to him for the same may be but reasonable, if your Lordships shall think fit.” Warrants not Relating to Money, XXV, pp. 42–4. |
| March 18. |
Treasury warrant to the Clerk of the Pipe for a 32 years' lease to John Snooks of a parcel of ground, part of the Round Rundles and Swallowfield, late in the parish of St. Martins in the Fields, Co. Midd., and now in the new parish of St. James's in the Liberty of Westminster, fronting east on Great Swallow Street and lying next a stable yard there in the possession of Mr. Rouse and west on Mrs. Burden's tenement and containing three tenements or messuages of 60 foot front in all and in the several tenures of John Snooke, Benjamin Wells and William Coker and worth 21l. per an. at a rack rent:
and also three messuages, tenements or houses abutting on Great Swallow Street and Little Swallow Street, of 50 foot front in all, in the tenures of Richard Bayley, — Novis, widow, and John Johnson, and worth 15l. per an. at a rack rent:
and also four messuages, five stables and a coachhouse in said streets next John Haines' ground on the north and of 100 foot front in all, and now in the several tenures of Anthony Bruce, David Kitson, Anne Coke, Dorothy Phillips and Dorothy Morgan, and worth 44l. per an. at a rack rent:
and also a tenement in Glasshouse Street, of 66 foot front, next Mr. Baxter's stables and late in the tenure of — Finch and — Farlow and now of Thomas Enley and Peter Martin, and worth 35l. at a rack rental: all at the rent of 14l. 7s. 6d. per an. and fine of 130l. In the margin: a later Treasury confirmation dated 5 Feb. 1718–19 for the execution hereof.
Prefixing: particular of said premises and Memorandum by Auditor Thomas Jett dated 22 Jan. 1717–18: and ratal thereof by H. Cholmley, Surveyor General of Crown Lands.
Followed by: undated entry of the Treasury signature of the docquet of this lease, being to John Parsons as the nominee of said Snookes. Ibid., pp. 47–9, 170.
Same to Henry Harcourt, Esq., Comptroller of the late fond for the Classis Lottery anno 1711, to innovate three tickets Nos. 6696, 6697 and 6698 in the said Lottery taken out by John Mark of London, goldsmith, from John Blunt, one of the Receivers of said Lottery, and which were lost or mislaid before 27 May 1717, and no Standing Orders have been made out for [or in lieu of] any of them.
Prefixing: report dated 1717–18 Jan. by Sir Edward Northey [Attorney General] on said Mark's petition. The Malt Act of the year 1717 made provision for such renewal of lost tickets. The said Blunt paid in the full money for the said tickets under a caveat against Marks, but Marks subsequently made satisfaction to said Blunt, Marks alleging in excuse of his delay of payment of his instalments that he had 300 tickets and did not know the number of the three tickets in question and had enquired of the Cashiers of the Bank of England who were appointed Receivers for several Lotteries “and they had assured him that when any of the payments on the tickets in those Lotteries became due they always paid to the Government the full moneys due thereon, and that several people did make default in payment and that the said Receiver [sic? for Cashiers] always paid the money to the Government on account of the people that were possessed of the said tickets, though they did not know who they were, and that the several persons who made such default, upon their paying to the said Receivers the payment which they had omitted to make did receive their tickets [sic ? for Standing Orders] with all advantages as if they themselves had paid the payments at the several times they ought to have done.” Ibid., pp. 52–4. |
| March 18. |
Same to the Clerk of the Pipe for a lease to Miles Harper for 26½ years from 1740 of two several messuages, tenements or houses on the north side of Jermyn Street in or near Pall Mall Field next a stable and stable yard on the north, Mildman's house on the east and James Supple's house on the south, and containing 30 feet front by 97 feet deep, and now in the tenures of Peter Rivall, William Benney and George Rissow:
and also a certain way or passage of about 54 foot long and 4 foot broad leading from Piccadilly, alias Portugal Street, into the said stable yard:
and also a messuage on part of Pall Mall Field with the yard or garden thereto near Market Street on the west and the yard or ground of John Combes on the east, commonly called Black Swan Court, and the messuage or ground of Joseph Swift on the south and the messuage and ground of Miles Harper on the north; and containing 18 feet by 70 feet and now in the tenure of Richard White:
and also the messuage or tenement with the yard or backside on part of the said Pall Mall Field and the said street called Market Street, next the messuage of — Odell on the west, that of Richard White on the south and that of William Robertson and George Mallett and William Plumer on the north, and containing 18 feet by 70 and now in the tenure of Miles Harper:
and also the messuage or tenement and little yard thereto on the west side of Market Street and abutting on the said Mallett and Harper west and south and on the messuage of Henry Garnett on the north, and containing 18 feet by 41 feet, and now in the possession of William Robertson:
and also that piece or parcel of ground part of Pall Mall Field in or near Jermyn Street and Duke Street, abutting east on Duke Street, west on the ground of — Robson, north on that of William Carter and south on Jermyn Street, and containing three messuages 36 feet by 84, in the several tenures of Peter Demontbray, Thomas How and Mary Edlyn.
Prefixing: particular and memorandum of the premises made out by Auditor Thomas Jett and dated 4 March 1717–18; and ratal thereof by Hugh Cholmley, Surveyor General of Crown Lands, dated 1717–18 March 12.
Followed by: undated entry of the Treasury Lords' signature of the docquet of this lease.
Together with: a later Treasury confirmation dated 4 June 1719 of this lease. Ibid., pp. 55–9. |
[? March
18.] |
Same to James Craggs, Secretary at War, to prepare a royal warrant to authorise Henry, Earl of Lincoln, Paymaster General of the Forces, to pay 1,412l. 7s. 0½d. to John Forbes of Culloden as in full (together with 240l. paid to him by the Earl of Sutherland) of all his claims, demands and expenses for subsisting several numbers of men raised by the Deputy Lieutenants of the County of Inverness for his Majesty's service during the time of the late Rebellion in Scotland.
Prefixing: report dated Pay Office, Horse Guards, 17 Feb. 1717–18, by said Craggs on the memorial of said Forbes. There are two accounts.
(1) for 1,141l. 1s. 0½d. signed by Jonathan Thompson, Commissary of the said Forces, for subsisting men raised and put under the command of the following persons: |
|
|
|
|
£ |
s. |
d. |
|
subsisting 716 private men under Capt. George Grant from 14 Nov. 1715 to 1 Dec. at 3½d. a day each |
177 |
10 |
2 |
|
150 privates of Lord Lovat's from 22 Nov. 1715 for eight days at the same rate |
17 |
10 |
0 |
|
124 men of Col. Munroe's from 18 to 26 Nov. 1715 |
14 |
18 |
10 |
|
350 private men of Col. Munroe's from 26 Nov. to 11 Jan. |
234 |
15 |
10 |
|
110 men [under —] from 11 to 17 Jan. |
9 |
12 |
6 |
|
300 private men under Capt. George Grant from 22 Dec. to 7 Jan. |
74 |
7 |
6 |
|
75 private men belonging to Sir Archibald Campbell from 18 Dec. 1715 to 2 Jan. following |
5 |
9 |
4½ |
|
350 private men belonging to Lord Lovat from 10 to 16 Jan. 1715–16 at 4⅓ pence per diem each man |
37 |
18 |
4 |
|
subsisting the Town Militia Guard of private men consisting of — men with an Adjutant and drummer from 3 Dec. to 16 Jan. 1715–16 |
47 |
3 |
0 |
N.B. Several orders are produced from the Deputy Lieutenants for subsisting the foresaid men and certificates of the subsisting: but no muster rolls are produced of any of the men, occasioned by the uncertainty of their continuing together for any time in one place.
for contingencies of the said Forces, buying of shoes &c. and salary of the Commissary and his clerks at 8s. 6d. a day from 12 Nov. 1715 to 6 Feb. following, being 87 days |
104 |
4 |
8 |
|
for victualling the said Forces from 16 Jan. 1715–16 to 6 Feb. following as per a particular account by Lord Lovat and two Deputy Lieutenants |
244 |
6 |
9 |
|
expenses and charge in building a Guard House and repairing the Castle Works and Castle at Inverness by order of the Deputy Lieutenants |
173 |
14 |
1 |
|
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
1,141 |
1 |
0½ |
|
paid in part thereof by Mr. Alexander Gordon by direction of the Earl of Sutherland |
240 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
£901 |
1 |
0½ |
|
Second account, signed by Alexander Frazer, Agent and Steward to Mr. Forbes, for the charge of subsisting several men in Garrison at Inverness and the house of Culloden within two miles of that place: viz. |
|
|
|
|
£ |
s. |
d. |
|
subsisting 40 men at 6d. a day each from 12 Sept. 1715 to 3 Oct., being 26 days in Garrison at Inverness |
26 |
0 |
0 |
|
80 men at the same rate in Garrison there from 3 Oct. to 12 Nov. following, being 42 days |
84 |
0 |
0 |
|
90 men at Garrison at the same rate from 12 Nov. 1715 to 27 Feb. following, being 107 days |
236 |
5 |
0 |
|
30 men in Garrison at Culloden from 12 Nov. 1715 to Feb. 27 following at the same rate, being 107 days |
80 |
5 |
0 |
|
pay of eight Officers belonging to the said men at Inverness and Culloden at 1s. 6d. a day each and for two Paymasters at 2s. a day each from 12 Nov. 1715 to 27 Feb., being 106 days at 16s. a day |
84 |
16 |
0 |
|
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
£511 |
6 |
0 |
|
Warrants not Relating to Money XXV, pp. 60–2. |
| March 18. |
Treasury warrant to the Clerk of the Pipe for a lease to William Hargrave (for 25 years from 1740 at 5l. 5s. 0d. per an rent for the first part of the premises; and for 32 years from 1734 at 9l. 13s. 0d. per an. rent for the other part) of premises as follows: viz. a corner piece of ground and part of the field or close called Pall Mall Field, alias St. James's Field, in two streets there called Piccadilly and Eagle Street, adjoining west to the ground of — Browne and north to a passage and the ground of Sir William Milman, Kt., and containing three messuages and a stable, two of which front to Piccadilly and the remaining tenement and stable stand in the back thereof and fronting 30 feet to Piccadilly and 48 feet to Eagle Street, and 51 feet in depth, and now in the tenures of Thomas Bartholomew, Elizabeth Audsley and Mary Roberts and worth at a rack rent 26l. per an.:
and also the use and benefit of the said passage, being 3 feet 3 inches broad and 19 feet long, at the north end of the said ground in common with the said Sir William Milman:
and also the messuage, tenement or house with the yard thereto situate on part of the said Pall Mall Field and in a certain street called Jermyn Street on the south side thereof between the houses of Richard Sands and — Cross, and containing 15 feet by 51 feet and now in the tenure of Martin Search and worth 16l. per an. at a rack rent.
Secondly of the parcel of ground in or near the place called Round Rundles or Swallow Field and commonly called or known by the name of Naked Boy Alley and fronting south to Piccadilly Street and adjoining Little Swallow Street on the north, and west on the ground and buildings commonly called Murrell's Yard, and east on the messuage and ground of John Coombes: and containing six several messuages or tenements, two of which are devised to William Hargrave by the will of his father in law, John Coombes, one whereof fronts 21 feet to Piccadilly and is in the tenure of Thomas Lappinton, the other fronts 22 feet to Vine Street, late the dwelling house of John Coombes and now in the tenure of said Hargrave, both being 137 feet in depth, including the yards or gardens between, and worth 26l. per an. at a rack rent: and the other four messuages are devised by will of said John Coombes to Mary Coombes, his daughter, two thereof fronting 30 feet to Piccadilly and two fronting 30 feet to Vine Street and all 139 feet in depth, including the yards or gardens between, and are now in the tenure of Richard Fast, Benjamin Snaggs, Mary Taylor and James Anderson and are worth 52l. per an. at a rack rental: which said premises stand upon a certain close or piece of ground called Swallow Field, together with a parcel of ground called the Round Rundles thereto adjoining and of boundaries and extents here detailed.
Prefixing: Auditor Thomas Jett's particular and memorandum of the premises, dated 10 Jan. 1717–18: and ratal dated 27 Feb. 1717–18 thereof by Hugh Cholmley, Surveyor General of Crown Lands.
Appending: undated entry of the Treasury signature of the docquet of this demise.
In the margin: a later Treasury confirmation dated 5 Feb. 1718–19 for the execution of this warrant. Warrants not Relating to Money XXV, pp. 66–9. |
| March 18. |
Treasury warrant to the Clerk of the Pipe for a lease to John Ludby (for 26 years from 1740 at 23l. 12s. 6d. per an. and fine of 117l. 2s. 6d.) of premises as follows: viz. a messuage or tenement with the yard or garden thereto in Pall Mall Field on the north side of Jermyn Street and adjoining east to the messuage of Mr. Lawes and west on that of Mr. Vander Common and now divided into two messuages, one fronting 20 feet to Jermyn Street, the other fronting 20 feet to Piccadilly, and both 146 feet deep from Jermyn Street to Piccadilly, and are now in the tenure of John Ludbey:
and also two little messuages on the south side of Piccadilly and adjoining east on Mr. Ryley's messuage and west on that of Mr. Heepwell, which two little messuages are now divided into four messuages or tenements, one fronting 20 feet to Jermyn Street and 117 feet deep and now in the tenure of Joseph Barrett, the other three fronting 33 feet to Piccadilly and in the tenures of Thomas Page, Anne Barlam and Henry Long:
all which premises are worth 113l. per an. at a rack rent:
and also the messuage or tenement with the yard or backside thereto on the south side of St. James's Market Place between the said Market Place on the north and Sir Peter Killegrew's garden in Charles Street on the south and adjoining east on widow Hull's messuage and west on widow Hamersley's messuage and fronting 18 feet to St. James's Market Place and 69 feet in depth and now in the tenure of Thomas Bland:
and also that messuage on the south side of Piccadilly adjoining south the yard or garden of Richard Boswell, butcher, and west on Thomas Turpin's messuage and east on Mr. Emblin's messuage, and is now in the tenure of Mary Brooks, “which said last mentioned premises are worth at a rack rent 46l. per an.”
and also the messuage in Pall Mall Street adjoining west on the messuage of Mr. Ward, baker, and east on the messuage called the Green Dragon, in the tenure of Mr. Townesend, and fronting 20 feet to Pall Mall Street and 42 feet in depth, and now in the tenure of John Green and worth 30l. per an. at a rack rent.
Prefixing: particular, memorandum and ratal as above.
Together with: undated entry of the Treasury signature of the docquet hereof. Ibid., pp. 70–2. |
| March 18. |
Same to same for a lease to Isabell Lambert (for 26 years from 1740 at the rent of 19l. 7s. 6d. per an. and fine of 96l. 17s. 6d.) of premises as follows: viz. three messuages, tenements or houses in Pall Mall Field and on the north side of Charles Street and west of a certain paved passage there leading out of St. James's Market into the said Charles Street and fronting east to the said passage and adjoining west to the messuage of — Banks, gent.:
and also two messuages on the west side of the paved passage abutting east on the house of the said Banks, north on Thomas Carter's messuage and south on Richard Marsh's tenement:
which said five messuages contain 95 feet in front and 18 feet in depth and are in the several tenures of Edward Bowling, James Gray, George Giles, Eliz. Smith and John Woodward:
and also three messuages with the yards thereto on the east side of the said paved passage and fronting west thereto and abutting east on the ground and buildings of Mrs. Harding, north on the little passage going into St. James's Market and south on the house of Grace Booty, widow, which is nearest to Charles Street: and containing in all 58 feet front and 19 feet in depth, and are in the several tenures of Joseph Warner, John Jackson and William Rench:
and also three messuages with the yards thereto on the east side of the said paved passage, and fronting it west and abutting east and south on the ground and buildings of Lady Killegrew and north on Grace Booty's messuage, which is nearest St. James's Market: and containing in all 53 feet front by 19 feet depth and are in the several tenures of Thomas Robinson, Prudence Davis and Richard Russell:
and also the corner messuage or tenement on the north side of Charles Street and divided into two messuages, which contain together 44 feet front and 18 feet depth and are now in the tenure of John Spillett.
Prefixing: particular, memorandum and ratal as above.
Followed by: entry of the Treasury Lords' signature of the docquet of this lease. The lessee is herein named George Ward as the nominee of the said Isabella Lambert.
In the margin: a later Treasury confirmation dated 5 June 1719 for the execution hereof. Ibid., pp. 73–5, 88.
Same to same for a lease to Hugh Trimnall (for 26 years from 1740 at 17l. 10s. 0d. per an. rent and fine of 87l. 10s. 0d.) of premises as follows: viz. a messuage, tenement or house with the yard or backside thereto belonging, on the west side of Duke Street and part of Pall Mall Field and abutting west on the ground or buildings of George Watson and north on a messuage of Richard Smith and grounds or buildings of William Horton and south on houses in a place called Princess Court: and containing 18 feet fronting to Duke Street and 38 feet depth and now in the tenure of William Horton:
and also four messuages with the yards and backsides thereto and the four backhouses thereto on the east side of Bury Street in Pall Mall Field, alias St. James's Field, and abutting east on the stables and coachhouses of the Marquess of Winchester, north on the messuage of — Roche, widow, and south on the messuage of Monsieur Rougeatt, chirurgeon: and containing in all 74 feet front towards Bury Street and 69 feet depth, and are now in the tenures of Charles Smith, William Fownds, Charles Russell and Frederick Peterson:
and also a messuage on the north side of Jermyn Street abutting north on the stables of the Whitehorse Inn, east on Isaac Banister's messuage, west on the messuage of Charles, Lord Carrington: and containing 33 foot front towards Jermyn Street and 82 feet depth, and now in the tenure of William Senyor, together with the licence to build on the party brick wall standing between the said messuage and the messuages of the said Lord Carrington:
and also the messuage with the yard or garden thereto on the north side of Jermyn Street, 14 foot front on the first floor and 17 foot on the second floor, which is built over an alley leading out of Jermyn Street into the White Horse Inn and 64 feet in depth and now in the tenure of Henry Collins:
all which premises are worth 140l. per an. at a rack rent.
Prefixing: particular, memorandum and ratal ut supra.
Followed by: undated entry of the Treasury Lords' signature of the docquet of this lease. This entry describes Hugh Trimnall as a druggist.
In the margin. a later Treasury confirmation dated 1719 June 4 for the execution thereof. Warrants not Relating to Money XXV, pp. 76–8. |
| March 19. |
Royal sign manual for 529l. 14s. 8d. to John, Earl Paulett, for or towards wages and board wages due to him as Steward of the Household to the late Queen Anne: whereof 400l. is to be out of moneys now in the Exchequer of loans on tin and the remaining 129l. 14s. 0d. out of the present King's Civil List money. (Money warrant dated March 19 hereon.) (For the letter of direction hereon see infra under date March 28.) King's Warrant Book XXIX, p. 87.
Royal warrant dated St. James's to the Clerk of the Signet for a privy seal to determine and make void as from and after March 25 inst. the pension of 2,000l. per an. granted by the great seal of 6 May 1714 to Thomas, Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery. Ibid., p. 88.
Same to the Treasury Lords to pay 500l. to James Preston, gent.: without account: the King being graciously pleased to allow same to him in consideration not only of his great pains, diligence and attendance in the quality of Undersheriff of Middlesex in and about the bringing on and during the tryals of such of the Rebels taken in Lancashire as were tried in the said county, but also of his expenses and loss of business by means thereof. (Money warrant dated March 24 hereon.) (Money order dated March 26 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated April 4 hereon.) Ibid., p. 90. Order Book IX, p. 76. Disposition Book XXIV, p. 90.
Same to same to pay 100l. to Cloud Henrickson as royal bounty: without account: out of Civil List money. (Money warrant dated March 22 hereon.) (Money order dated March 26 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated April 4 hereon.) King's Warrant Book XXIX, p. 91. Order Book X, p. 86. Disposition Book XXIV, p. 90. |
| March 19. |
Same to same to pay 500l. to Thomas Dalston, late Mayor of Newcastle, as royal bounty: without account: in reward of his service performed to us in the time of the late Rebellion. (Money warrant dated March 22 hereon.) (Money order dated March 26 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated April 4 hereon.) King's Warrant Book XXIX, p. 91. Order Book X, p. 76. Disposition Book XXIV, p. 90.
Same to Walter Chetwynd to pay an annual pension of 300l. to Thomas Day, Esq., as from Midsummer 1717: during pleasure. King's Warrant Book XXIX, p. 92.
Same to the Attorney or Solicitor General for a great seal to revoke the royal letters patent which appointed Sir Richard Sandford to be Keeper of the Change and Money within the Tower of London and Keeper of the Coinage of Gold and Silver within that part of Great Britain called England: and in place thereof to appoint William Thompson, Esq., to the said office: during pleasure: to be exercised by himself or his deputy. Ibid., p. 95.
Royal sign manual for 150l. to Drew Whotley: as royal bounty without account: out of Civil List moneys. (Money warrant dated March 24 hereon.) (Money order dated March 26 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated April 4 hereon.) Ibid., p. 97. Order Book X, p. 75. Disposition Book XXIV, p. 90.
Royal warrant to Walter Chetwynd (Paymaster of the King's Pensions and Bounties) to establish and pay a pension of 100l. per an. to Agnes Leigh, during pleasure: as royal bounty. King's Warrant Book XXIX, p. 129.
Royal letters patent constituting Thomas White, Esq., to be Clerk of the Ordnance within the Kingdom of Great Britain, with the fee of 2s. a day from date of the herein patent: loco Edward Ashe, Esq., thereto appointed by patent dated 1714 Dec. 2, which patent is hereby revoked. Ibid., pp. 140–1.
Money warrant for 20l. to Richard Tresham, clerk, for [the charges of] his passage to Jamaica, whither he is going minister. (Money order dated March 22 hereon.) Money Book XXVI, p. 172. Order Book X, p. 73. Disposition Book XXIV, p. 89.
Treasury warrant to Anthony Cracherode [Treasury Solicitor] to pay the accustomed fees to his Majesty's servants on Garter knighthoods, viz. 92l. 18s. 2d. for fees on Prince Frederick and 92l. 18s. 2d. for the like on the Duke of York, being dignified with the said knighthood.
Appending: schedule of fees due and payable to the King's servants for a Knighthood of a Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter: |
|
|
|
|
£ |
s. |
d. |
|
the Earl Marshal of England |
10 |
0 |
0 |
|
the Heralds |
8 |
10 |
0 |
|
the Gent. Ushers of the Privy Chamber |
5 |
0 |
0 |
|
the Gen. Ushers Daily Waiters |
5 |
0 |
0 |
|
the Gent. Usher Assistant |
1 |
5 |
0 |
|
the Grooms of the Privy Chamber |
5 |
0 |
0 |
|
the Gent. Ushers Quarter Waiters |
4 |
0 |
0 |
|
the Knight Harbinger |
3 |
6 |
8 |
|
the Gent. and Yeoman Harbinger |
5 |
6 |
8 |
|
the Robes |
4 |
0 |
0 |
|
the Wardrobe |
2 |
5 |
4 |
|
the Pages of the Bedchamber |
4 |
0 |
0 |
|
the Serjeants at Arms |
5 |
0 |
0 |
|
the Serjeant Porter |
2 |
0 |
0 |
|
the Serjeant Trumpeter and the Trumpeters |
3 |
0 |
0 |
|
the Sewers of the Chamber |
2 |
0 |
0 |
|
the Drum Major |
0 |
13 |
4 |
|
the Grooms of the Chamber |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
the Page of the Presence |
0 |
10 |
0 |
|
the Surveyor of the Ways |
0 |
10 |
0 |
|
the Surveyor of the Dressers |
0 |
10 |
0 |
|
the Yeoman of the Mouth |
1 |
16 |
0 |
|
the Gent. of the Cellar |
1 |
12 |
0 |
|
the Yeomen Ushers |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
the Master Cook |
1 |
5 |
0 |
|
the Keepers of the Council Chamber |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
the Corporals of the Yeomen of the Guard |
5 |
0 |
0 |
|
the Porters at the Gate, Footmen and Coachmen |
3 |
10 |
0 |
|
the Register of the College of Arms |
1 |
8 |
2 |
|
the Closet Keeper |
0 |
10 |
0 |
|
more to the Pages of the Bedchamber for being knighted within the Verge thereof |
3 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
|
|
— |
|
Money Book XXVI, p. 245. |
£92 |
18 |
2 |
| March 19. |
Treasury warrant to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue 529l. 14s. 8d. as follows on the order dated 1714 August 14 in the name of Samuel, Lord Masham, late Cofferer of the Household [to Queen Anne]: viz. 400l. out of moneys now in the Exchequer of loans on her late Majesty's tin and 129l. 14s. 8d. out of Civil List moneys of his present Majesty: being intended to be applied by said Masham towards the wages and board wages due to John, Earl Paulett, as Steward of the Household to the late Queen. (See infra, p. 287, under date March 28.) Ibid., p. 251.
Same to the Auditor of the Receipt, Henry Pelham, the Clerk of the Pells, and the rest of the officers of the Receipt concerned, to distribute, issue and apply the income of the General Fond for Annuities for 1717 Xmas quarter as follows, taking care that the excess be reserved in the Exchequer to attend the disposition of Parliament as by the Act [3 Geo. I., c. 7] establishing the said Fond.
Appending: account of the income of the General Fond established for raising 724,849l. 6s. 101/5d. to pay annuities on the Act 3 Geo. I., c. 7, for Redeeming the Lottery Fonds and other purposes therein: to wit for the quarter ending Xmas 1717: |
|
£ |
s. |
d. |
£ |
s. |
d. |
The Exchequer is Debtor to the said General Fond for the said quarter.
10l. Lottery anno 1711.
subsidy, leather and coals |
14,597 |
7 |
5 |
|
|
|
|
2s. per chaldron on coals &c. |
15,152 |
14 |
9 |
|
|
|
|
additional Duty on candles |
10,412 |
7 |
9 |
|
|
|
|
20s. per 100l. on exports to Mediterranean |
— |
|
|
|
|
|
5s. per piece on white woollen cloths |
— |
|
|
|
|
|
— |
40,162 |
9 |
11 |
Class Lottery anno 1711.
700l. per week out of the Post Office |
9,100 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
|
|
hides, skins and vellum |
22,913 |
17 |
10½ |
|
|
|
|
Hackney coaches rent |
— |
|
|
|
|
|
Hackney chairs rent |
— |
|
|
|
|
|
vellom, parchment, paper, cards and dice |
2,630 |
7 |
1 |
|
|
|
|
rock salt |
180 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
|
|
— |
34,824 |
4 |
11½ |
10l. Lottery anno 1712.
soap |
32,152 |
1 |
11 |
|
|
|
|
paper, paste boards &c.; chequered and striped linen; and all linens printed and dyed; and engrossed, printed and written things |
1,746 |
3 |
7 |
|
|
|
|
— |
33,898 |
5 |
6 |
Class Lottery anno 1712.
hides and skins |
30,620 |
2 |
11½ |
|
|
|
|
additional on vellom &c., starch, coffee &c., gilt and silver wire |
3,777 |
4 |
5 |
|
|
|
|
policies of insurance |
750 |
6 |
10 |
|
|
|
|
— |
35,147 |
14 |
2½ |
Hereditary Excise.
being one quarter of 39,855l. 15s. 71/5d. per an. out of 3,700l. per week for Bankers' annuities |
9,963 |
18 |
10½ |
|
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
153,996 |
13 |
5½ |
|
balance (Deficiency of the Fond in and for this quarter) |
27,215 |
13 |
3 |
|
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
£181,212 |
6 |
8½ |
|
(Memorandum: The Act provides that at Michaelmas yearly the Deficiency shall be computed and be supplied out of the first Aid next after to be granted. The Surplus at the end of any one quarter either in the General Fond or in the Excess of the Fond is to attend the disposition of Parliament: but appropriated to discharge the principal and interest of such national debts and incumbrances as were incurred before 25 Dec. 1716 in such manner as by future Acts shall be directed.) |
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| [The Exchequer is] Creditor.
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£ |
s. |
d. |
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by one full fourth part of the said General Fond for the quarterly payment become due at Xmas 1717 |
£181,212 |
6 |
8½ |
| The General Fond, ut supra, is Debtor |
£ |
s. |
d. |
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to the Managers and Directors for pains and service |
8,100 |
0 |
0 |
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to the Cashier of the Bank for the quarter's annuity at 5 per cent. on 9,533,195l. 10s. 5¾d., being the amount of the orders entitled to such annuities |
119,164 |
19 |
0 |
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to ditto for 4 per cent. annuities on tallies of sol levied at the Exchequer for that purpose computed from the dates of the said tallies to Xmas 1717 |
4,134 |
4 |
3 |
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to answer 4 per cent. interest from 24 June 1717 to 25 Dec. 1717 on debentures upon certificates made forth by the Army Debts Commissioners, the certificates to that time made forth by the said Commissioners amounting to 40,157l. 8s. 5d.
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403 |
3 |
2½ |
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— |
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131,802 |
6 |
5½ |
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balance (being the excess of the Income in this quarter over and above sufficient to discharge the annuities and other payments issuing out of the General Yearly Fond in and for the same quarter) |
22,191 |
7 |
0 |
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— |
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£153,996 |
13 |
5½ |
| [The General Fond is] Creditor.
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by the income of the General Fond in and for this quarter as above, per contra
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£153,996 |
13 |
5½ |
The Debtor side of this last account contains the following explanation referring to the 4 per cent. Annuities: “The contributions for the said Annuities have been applied to the uses following: viz.
to make good the Deficiency of the Public Supplies for the year 1716 on tallies levied the 19 July 1717 |
509,127 |
5 |
6¾ |
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for satisfying bills of exchange drawn for the service of the late Expedition to Canada on tallies levied 31 Oct. 1717 (5,448l. 0s. 0½d.) and 14 Nov. 1717 (18,747l. 18s. 1½d.)” |
24,195 |
18 |
2 |
|
|
|
|
— |
|
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|
£533,323 |
3 |
8¾ |
|
Money Book XXVI, pp. 257–9. |
| March 19. |
William Lowndes to Sir Isaac Newton to report on the enclosed petition of John Mills with Mr. Cracherode's report thereon. Have you any objection to paying the sum therein out of the 400l. per an. granted by Parliament for apprehending clippers and coiners? Out Letters (General) XXII, p. 282.
Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners to permit the goods on the Levant galley to be transhipped without entry, in order to their being carried to Holland, to which place they were originally bound.
Prefixing: report by said Commissioners dated March 13 inst. on the petition of Peter Jackson, master of said galley, shewing that in November last said ship sprang a leak, being then in the Hope with a lading part for London, part for Amsterdam, and he obtained leave to dock her in the river (in a dock at Deptford) without importing the Amsterdam part of the cargo: but the leak cannot be found without moving that part of the cargo, therefore praying to tranship same for Amsterdam.
Hereon the Commissioners report that they gave leave for docking as above and put six tidesmen on board for a guard, yet they are informed that 20 bags of coffee berries were run while she lay in the dock and 20 more bags while she lay in the Hope “for which we have ordered the persons concerned to be prosecuted.” Our officers examined the ship and found her honey combed, worm eaten and leaky and not fit to go to sea, not being sheathed. As the goods belong to merchants abroad (in Holland) the petitioner refuses to enter his goods inwards and export them again by certificate. We therefore do not oppose the transhipment under the care of proper officers and without being first entered. Out Letters (Customs) XVII, pp. 69–70.
Treasury reference to the King's Remembrancer of Thomas, Lord Onslow, proposing his securities, as follows, for the office of one of the four Tellers of the Receipt of the Exchequer: viz.: |
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£ |
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himself in |
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3,000 |
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Arthur Onslow, Esq., of the Middle Temple |
2,000 |
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Samuel Edwards of St. Margaret's, Westminster |
2,000 |
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— |
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£7,000 |
Reference Book IX, p. 383.
Treasury warrant to the King's Remembrancer to take the security, detailed, of Thomas, Lord Torrington, as one of the four Tellers of the Receipt of the Exchequer.
Prefixing: report by John Harding, Deputy King's Remembrancer, as to the sufficiency of said securities. Warrants not Relating to Money XXV, p. 36.
Same to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands for a constat of a piece of ground in St. Giles's in the Fields, whereon five poor tenements are standing, in order to a lease thereof to Joseph Fisher for 31 years at 8l. per an. rent on his covenanting to assert the Crown's right thereto at his own expense: one of the tenements belonging to him, “which piece of ground the petitioner alleges he has reason to believe belongs to the Crown.”
Prefixing: report dated 17 March 1717–18 by H. Cholmley, Surveyor General of Crown Lands, on said Fisher's petition. Warrants not Relating to Money XXV, p. 46. |
| March 19. |
Royal warrant dated St. James's to Charles, Duke of Bolton, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, for a patent under the great seal of Ireland for a grant to Joseph Addison, Esq., of an annuity or yearly sum of 1,600l. of lawful money of Great Britain: out of the revenues of Ireland: from Xmas last for his natural life: in consideration of good and faithful services to us performed: the same to be inserted on the present and all future Establishments of the Civil Expense of Ireland. Out Letters (Ireland) X, p. 164.
Same to same to determine and make void as from Xmas last the pension of 1,500l. per an. granted by his Majesty during pleasure out of the Civil List of Ireland to Henry, Earl of Grantham. Ibid., p. 165.
Same to same for a patent under the great seal of Ireland for a pension of 600l. per an. to Pattee Byng, his executors &c.: out of the revenue of Ireland for 31 years from Xmas last: in consideration of the long and faithful services of his father, Sir George Byng, bart., Admiral of the White, and the many actions he has served in through the course of the wars wherein his country has been engaged from the time of the Revolution, but more particularly for the said Admiral's good conduct in defeating the Pretender's intended invasion of these realms in our late dear sister's reign and for his great vigilance and resolution whereby he prevented the said Pretender during the late unnatural rebellion from receiving those supplies of men and ammunition which were intended to be sent to his assistance from Havre de Grace and other parts beyond the seas. Ibid., pp. 166–7.
Treasury warrant to the Revenue Commissioners in Ireland to pay an additional 200l. per an. to James Forth, their Secretary, in consideration of his diligence in his said office and the great addition of business therein: as from Xmas last: and to insert same on the Establishment of salaries of officers of the revenues under their management. Ibid., pp. 165–6. |
| March 20. |
Royal letters patent appointing Charles, Earl of Sunderland, John Aislabie, John Wallop, George Baillie and William Clayton to be the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury in place of James, Viscount Stanhope (then James Stanhope, Esq.), Thomas, Lord Torrington, Thomas Micklethwaite, George Baillie and William Clayton, whose letters patent of 1717 April 15 are hereby revoked and determined. King's Warrant Book XXIX, pp. 92–3.
Money warrant for 750l. each to Richard Grantham, Geo. Treby, Arthur Ingram, George Gregory, Sir Richard Steele, Sir Henry Houghton, Patrick Haldane, Sir Thomas Hales, Robert Munro, Henry Cunningham and Dennis Bond, the Commissioners for enquiring into the Estates of Traitors: and is for three quarters to 1717 Xmas on their salary of 1,000l. per an. each. Money Book XXVI, p. 250. |
| March 20. |
William Lowndes to the Secretary at War enclosing the report [missing] made by the Comptrollers of Army Debts on the petition of the widow of Lieut. General Maitland for 126l. 3s. 7d. for bedding furnished by her said late husband to the Garrison of Fort William. My Lords desire you to prepare a contingent [royal] warrant for payment thereof. Out Letters (General) XXII, p. 283.
Same to the Army [Debts] Commissioners to report on the enclosed report [missing] from the Comptrollers of Army Accounts on the petition of Thomas Hall and Samuel Green, clothiers of the Royal Regiment of Dragoons. Out Letters (General) XXII, p. 297.
Treasury warrant to the King's Remembrancer to take the securities, ut supra, p. 257, of Thomas, Lord Onslow, as one of the four Tellers in the Receipt of the Exchequer.
Prefixing: report by J. Harding, Deputy King's Remembrancer, on the sufficiency of said securities. Warrants not Relating to Money XXV, p. 45.
Treasury subscription for the execution of a warrant dated 1717–18 March 18 from the Duke of Newcastle, Lord Chamberlain of the Household, to the Honble. James Brudnall, Master of the Jewel Office, for the delivery to James Craggs, junr., one of the Principal Secretaries of State, of 1,000 ounces of white plate; to be made into such vessels and after such fashion as he shall direct: to an estimate of 400l. Lord Chamberlain's Warrant Book I., p. 62. |
