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| July 16. |
Royal warrant dated Kensington to the Commissioners for Army Debts to allow and certify payments as follows amounting in all to 4,262l. 16s. 99/28d. made by the Earl of Carnarvon for extraordinaries to the Foreign Forces and other services relating to the Army which have not [hitherto] been allowed in his accounts as late Paymaster of the Forces Abroad in the late war: the said Commissioners having reported that the said payments should reasonably be allowed but that they have not been warranted by any authority from the Crown, by which reason the said Commissioners report that they cannot certify the same without royal warrant: but the King being apprized that the said payments are agreeable to the Treaties for the said Foreign Troops and that the payments for Contingencies to the British Troops as specified therein are such as have been usually paid and allowed to them and that the said payments were omitted in the accompts rendered by the said Earl and passed in the Exchequer: all in order to the issuing of debentures for payment of the said sums: viz. as follows: |
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£ |
s. |
d. |
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money paid to Sieur Hallungius for the late Queen's proportion of extraordinaries to the Bishop of Osnaburg's Regiment of Foot in 1706 and 1707 according to a certificate of the Sieur Slingelandt, Secretary to the Council of State of the United Provinces, setting forth that the States General had allowed the same and had ordered payment of their proportion thereof |
229 |
5 |
8½ |
|
paid to the same person for the late Queen's proportion of extraordinaries to the same Regiment in the year 1708 according to the like certificate |
468 |
2 |
55/7 |
|
paid to the same person for the late Queen's proportion of extraordinaries to Baron Walef's Regiment of Dragoons in 1703 and 1704, according to a like certificate |
38 |
1 |
10¾ |
|
paid to the same person for the late Queen's proportion of sundry extraordinaries allowed the said Regiment for the year 1704, according to a like certificate |
138 |
16 |
7 |
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paid to the same person for the late Queen's proportion of sundry extraordinaries allowed the same Regiment for the year 1707 according to a like certificate |
43 |
13 |
4 |
|
paid to the same person for the late Queen's proportion of extraordinaries to the said Regiment in the year 1709, according to a like certificate |
111 |
8 |
66/7 |
|
paid to the same person for the late Queen's proportion of extraordinaries to the Regiments of Foot of Osnaburg and Oostfriezlandt for the years 1703 and 1704, according to the like certificate |
377 |
19 |
0¾ |
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paid to the same person for the late Queen's proportion of extraordinaries to the Regiment of Foot of Oostfriezlandt for the years 1706 and 1707, according to a like certificate |
380 |
14 |
3¼ |
|
paid to the Sieur Meinertzhagen for the late Queen's proportion of extraordinaries to the Royal Prussian Troops for the year 1703, according to like certificates |
1,777 |
2 |
4¾ |
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paid to the Sieur Petkum for the late Queen's proportion of extraordinaries to the Troops of Holstein Gottorp in the winter 1704–5, according to the like certificate |
344 |
15 |
2¾ |
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paid for the subsistence of several Invalids at Alicante in the year 1707 who had belonged to several Regiments that served in Spain and were reduced after the battle of Almanza till there was a conveniency of sending them home or until they were orthewise discharged |
187 |
5 |
7 |
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paid to Lieut. Gen. Thomas Erle for his allowance for maintenance of 20 mules allowed him as Lieut. General in the Expedition under the Earl of Rivers from 23 May 1707 to 23 Dec. following |
140 |
0 |
0 |
|
paid to William Gill on account of his pay as Commissary in Flanders attending the exchange of prisoners of war in the year 1712 |
25 |
11 |
8 |
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|
|
— |
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£4,262 |
16 |
97/8 |
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King's Warrant Book XXIX, pp. 206–8. |
| July 16. |
Money warrant for 81l. 8s. 0d. to Thomas Spence, a Sergeant at Arms, for 296 days from 1717 Sept. 2 (to which time his predecessor, Thomas Sybergh, in that office was paid) to June 24 last on his fee or salary of 3s. a day and board wages of 2s. 6d. a day. (Letter of direction dated July 22 hereon. In this letter he is described as Sergeant [at Arms] of the House of Commons.) Money Book XXVI, p. 261. Disposition Book XXIV, p. 128.
Same for 24l. 5s. 3¼d. to Thomas Powell for the surplusage on his account as Sheriff of Salop for the year ended Michaelmas 1717.
Prefixing: certificate by Francis Neale, Deputy Clerk of the Pipe, of said surplusage. (Money order dated July 23 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated July 29 hereon.) Money Book XXVI, pp. 416–17. Order Book X, p. 155. Disposition Book XXIV, p. 132.
Same for 219l. 16s. 0d. to William Lowen, Keeper of New Lodge Walk in Windsor Forest, for his charges in providing hay for the deer from Midsummer 1713 (to which time he was last paid) to Midsummer 1717, the same being certified by Francis Negus to be extremely reasonable and very necessary considering the number of deer in the said Walk “and the said William Lowen's manner of feed”: viz. |
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£ |
s. |
d. |
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28 load of hay fr their feed to 1714 taken in at 2l. 10s. 0d. per load |
70 |
0 |
0 |
|
ditto for 1715 at 40s. per load |
56 |
0 |
0 |
|
ditto for 1716 at 1l. 12s. 0d. per load |
44 |
16 |
0 |
|
ditto for 1717 at 1l. 15s. 0d. per load |
49 |
0 |
0 |
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|
|
— |
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£219 |
16 |
0 |
Here of 70l. is to be paid out of any money applicable to the late Queen Anne's Civil List debt; and the remaining 149l. 16s. 0d. out of the present King's Civil List moneys. (Money order dated July 22 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated July 16 for 149l. 16s. 0d. hereof.) Money Book XXVI, p. 400. Order Book X, p. 153. Disposition Book XXIV, p. 127.
Treasury warrant to Anthony Cracherode to pay 55l. 3s. 0d. to John Vat in full of his claims and expenses about the transportation of the Palatines back to Germany.
Prefixing: report by Thomas Colby, dated Transport Office 20 June 1718, on Vatt's account of said expenses. They begin 6 August 1717 and he has produced a full certificate signed by Dr. Bray, minister of St. Botolphs, Aldgate, that himself seeing in his parish a great number of poor foreigners begging and the people murmuring and casting reflections upon account of those strangers coming over, he desired Mr. Vatt as understanding their language on Tuesday 6 August [1717] to go among them and inquire into their true state and circumstances and to take a list of their families, distinguishing their names, places of birth, religion, trade, age and sex, who amounted to 526 persons; employing him likewise in transcribing several copies thereof to lay before such persons as he (the said Dr. Bray) knew to be charitably disposed; by which means he procured relief for them: and afterwards [he Bray employed Vatt] in transcribing a petition to be presented to his Majesty together with the said list praying the speedy transportation of the said poor people backwards or forwards: which [petition] Dr. Bray lodged with Mr. Robethon at Hampton Court and sent Mr. Vatt the 14th of the said month of August to remind him of it. From that time Dr. Bray certifies that Mr. Vatt began to be employed in the said affair by the Government to propose expedients and carry orders to the Palatines relating to their transportation backwards or forwards and that Mr. Vatt had been employed in the said affair and of transporting the people, some forwards and some backwards, from the said 6th of August to the 16 Oct. 1717 without any consideration for his loss of time, pains and expenses from him [Bray]. The said certificate, together with a list of the said Palatines, and a copy of the petition to his Majesty and other papers referred to in the said certificate [are] hereto annexed [missing], Vatt alleges that the same took up his whole time. |
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£ |
s. |
d. |
Followed by: Vatt's bill of expenses:
coach hire, boat hire and horse hire from Kingston, Hampton Court, the Transport Office |
7 |
1 |
0 |
|
expenses at several coffee houses not less than 12d. a day |
3 |
12 |
0 |
|
expended at several times |
8 |
10 |
0 |
|
I think he deserves 10s. a day for 72 days in reward for his pains |
36 |
0 |
0 |
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|
|
— |
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£55 |
3 |
0 |
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Money Book XXVI, pp. 402–3. |
| July 16. |
Letter of direction for 40l. to Richard Mence the Sheriff [? Undersheriff] of Co. Worcester for the surplusage on his account. (Money order dated Aug. 4 hereon.) Disposition Book XXIV, p. 127. Order Book X, p. 161.
William Lowndes to the Taxes Commissioners enclosing Charles Mason's memorial [missing]. My Lords desire you to certify a state of his debt [as Receiver General for Co. Oxford] and your opinion what is fit to be done thereon. Out Letters (General) XXII, p. 320.
Same to the Commissioners for Trade. My Lords find that the Duties on salt are extremely diminished by the allowances for exported fish and conceive that the same has been occasioned in a great measure by frauds practised in curing the fish for which those allowances are made or [by] re-landing the same fish after the drawing back of those allowances. They desire your observations in relation to the trade of the English or the Scotch fisheries and particularly whether the English and Scotch fish exported have the same reputation abroad as they formerly had and whether the vent thereof at foreign markets hath increased in proportion to the said drawbacks for fish [which] have increased from year to year for nine years past; or how far that vent hath increased or decreased according to advices from any your Correspondents. My Lords also desire you to peruse the allowances given by Act of Parliament upon export of the several kinds of fish entitled thereto and how much salt is necessarily used in the well curing the respective sorts thereof. These matters are of great importance not only to the publique revenue but also to the fair trading merchants and dealers and the keeping up the credit of the English fishery in general.
Appending: an account of the payments into the Exchequer from the salt Duties and of the allowances on export of fish from 25 March 1709 to 25 March 1718: |
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Payments in to the Exchequer |
Payments for fish exported. |
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£ |
s. |
d. |
£ |
s. |
d. |
|
from 25 March 1709 to 25 March 1710 |
172,317 |
18 |
4 |
29,886 |
14 |
10¼ |
|
from 25 March 1710 to 25 March 1711 |
181,180 |
10 |
9 |
34,539 |
16 |
4½ |
|
from 25 March 1711 to 25 March 1712 |
151,120 |
19 |
9 |
50,220 |
12 |
9¾ |
|
from 25 March 1712 to 25 March 1713 |
145,468 |
8 |
8 |
62,412 |
5 |
0¼ |
|
from 25 March 1713 to 25 March 1714 |
137,868 |
19 |
9½ |
86,217 |
4 |
10 |
|
from 25 March 1714 to 25 March 1715 |
142,905 |
19 |
3½ |
105,051 |
4 |
8½ |
|
from 25 March 1715 to 25 March 1716 |
117,858 |
7 |
5 |
122,770 |
0 |
1½ |
|
from 25 March 1716 to 25 March 1717 |
138,491 |
15 |
11½ |
94,275 |
14 |
8 |
|
from 25 March 1717 to 25 March 1718 |
122,128 |
12 |
8½ |
120,317 |
11 |
9¼ |
|
Ibid., p. 321. |
| July 16. |
Treasury warrant to the Salt Commissioners to employ the respective officers as follows and to place them on the Establishment at the salaries named.
Prefixing: memorial from the said Commissioners dated Salt Office 17 June 1718. There are new salt works erecting at Ross in Northumberland which will require an office and watchman to attend them and some neighbouring officer to collect and survey them at the usual salaries of 40l. per an. to the officer; 8s. a week to the watchman and 10l. a year to the Collector and Surveyor.
It is for the service of the revenue to have another watchman at Starcross at 7s. a week, being thought necessary by the Collector of Topsham.
The Supervisor of Cornwall has proposed that Philip Paskoe, a boatman at Falmouth at 20l. per an., a very trusty man, should be removed to Fowey and made chief boatman there with 5l. per an. added to his salary.
We think it will be of service to the revenue.
Soon after the establishment of this [our] commission we took notice that the annual accounts of the revenue were not finished and delivered into the Auditor's Office within six months after the expiry of the year as directed by Act of Parliament, but frequently exceeded even the whole year. We were obliged to have an assistant clerk in the Accountant's Office at 50l. per an. payable out of incidents. On experience we find him absolutely necessary to be continued. Warrants not Relating to Money XXV, p. 107.
Same to the King's Remembrancer to stay process until next issuable term against Susannah and Elizabeth Aldworth, executrixes to their late father, William Aldworth, Receiver of Crown Land Revenue in the Archdeaconry of Richmond, bishopric of Durham and Counties of York and Northumberland, pending answers to some queries made by Auditor Jett to their accounts.
Prefixing: petition from said executrixes and said Auditor Jett's report dated July 15 inst. on their petition. Warrants not Relating to Money XXV, p. 108. |
| July 16. |
Treasury warrant to the Receipt to cancel tallies of sol for 25,221l. 17s. 0½d. issued to John Dutton Colt, 15 July 1717 out of his Annuity Contributions, as Paymaster of the Classes Lottery anno 1711: ut supra, Calendar of Treasury Books, Vol. XXXI, p. 422. Ibid., p. 117. |
| July 17. |
Royal warrant dated Kensington to the Treasury Lords to pay 2,500l. to Thomas Gage, Esq., as our free gift and royal bounty: without account. (Money order dated July 22 hereon.) (Money order dated July 22 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated July 22 hereon.) King's Warrant Book XXIX, p. 208. Order Book X, p. 151. Disposition Book XXIV, p. 128.
Money warrant for 720l. to Alexander, Lord Polwarth, for 1718 25 March quarter's ordinary of 5l. a day as Envoy Extraordinary and 3l. a day as Plenipotentiary to the Kings of Denmark and Prussia.
William Stanhope, 720l. for same quarter's similar ordinaries as Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Catholic King.
1,300 to William, Earl of Cadogan, for 13 weeks (1717 Dec. 21 to 1717–18 March 21) on his ordinary of 100l. per week as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the States General. (Money orders dated July 18 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated July 22 hereon.) Money Book XXVI, p. 404. Order Book X, pp. 151, 152. Disposition Book XXIV, p. 128.
Treasury warrant to Anthony Cracherode to pay 10l. to John Jones, victualler, for service and losses as follows.
Prefixing: report from said Cracherode dated 11 June 1708 on said Jones's petition, ut supra, p. 309. In December 1716 he informed against Joseph Nunnery before Justice Wallis for cursing his Majesty; upon which Nunnery was prosecuted by me at Hick's Hall at his Majesty's charge and was convicted and underwent sentence. On the 26th Dec. the said Nunnery, his wife and two daughters riotously entered the petitioner's dwelling house and bred a great disturbance in the neighbourhood and petitioner has been ruined in his trade of a cook for that many disaffected persons did pass to and fro before his house and cry'd out to customers whom they observed to be entering into his house, “Take care, don't go into that house; he is an informer.” Petitioner is now reduced to great poverty and is become an object of his Majesty's charity. Money Book XXVI, pp. 405–6.
Same to the Auditor of the Receipt, the Clerk of the Pells and the other officers of the Receipt concerned, to distribute and apply the 1718 Lady day quarter's income of the General Fond for the 5 per cent. and the 4 per cent. annuities under the Act 3 Geo. I [c. 7] redeeming the Lottery funds, taking care that the excess of the income above what is sufficient to satisfy those uses be reserved in the Exchequer to attend the disposition of Parliament as in the said Act is directed.
Appending: statement of the income and liability for said quarter of the General Fond established for raising 724,849l. 6s. 101/5d. per an. to pay annuities on the Act of 3 Geo. I., c. 7, for redeeming the Lottery Fonds and other purposes.
Income.
The Exchequer is Debtor to said Fond: |
|
£ |
s. |
d. |
£ |
s. |
d. |
for the 10l. Lottery anno 1711.
subsidy on goods exported, including Duty on leather and on coals |
7,957 |
13 |
7 |
|
|
|
|
2s. per chaldron on coals, culme and cynders water borne |
5,830 |
11 |
6 |
|
|
|
|
Additional Duty on candles |
25,706 |
2 |
2 |
|
|
|
|
20s. per cent. on goods exported in certain ships to the Mediterranean |
— |
|
|
|
|
|
5s. per piece on white woollen cloth |
— |
|
|
|
|
|
— |
39,494 |
7 |
3 |
for the Classics Lottery of the year 1711.
700l. per week out of the Post Office |
9,100 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
|
|
Duties on hides and skins, vellom and parchment |
26,690 |
10 |
11½ |
|
|
|
|
rent of Hackney coaches and chairs |
2,000 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
|
|
Duties on vellom, parchment, paper, cards and dice |
4,363 |
12 |
9 |
|
|
|
|
Duties on rock salt |
343 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
|
|
— |
42,497 |
3 |
8½ |
for the 10l. Lottery of the year 1712.
Duty on soap |
26,253 |
12 |
2½ |
|
|
|
|
Duty on paper, pasteboards and scale boards and on books, prints and maps: and also Duties on chequered and striped linen and on all linens printed, painted, stained and dyed |
2,536 |
1 |
10½ |
|
|
|
|
Duties on several engraved, printed and written things |
— |
|
|
|
|
|
— |
28,789 |
14 |
1 |
for the Classics Lottery of year 1712.
Duties on hides and skins |
26,030 |
19 |
4 |
|
|
|
|
Additional Duty on vellom and parchment: and also Duties on starch imported: and also new Duty on coffee, tea and drugs: and also gilt and silver wire imported |
3,339 |
11 |
11½ |
|
|
|
|
Policies of Insurance |
610 |
5 |
11 |
|
|
|
|
— |
29,980 |
17 |
2½ |
|
Hereditary Excise, being one quarter of 39,855l. 15s. 7½d. per an. payable out of the 3,700l. per week of the Excise, for Bankers' Annuities |
9,963 |
18 |
10½ |
|
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
150,726 |
1 |
1½ |
|
Balance is the Deficiency of the Fond in and for the said quarter |
30,486 |
5 |
7 |
|
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
£181,22 |
6 |
8½ |
|
£ |
s. |
d. |
|
|
|
The Deficiency of the Fond:
at Xmas 1717 was |
27,215 |
13 |
3 |
|
|
|
|
at Lady day quarter 1718 as above |
30,486 |
5 |
7 |
|
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
£57,701 |
18 |
10 |
|
|
|
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.
Surplus at the end of any one quarter either in the General Fond or in the Excess of the Fond above what is sufficient to answer the annuities and other payments chargeable thereupon is to attend the disposition of Parliament: but [is] appropriated to discharge the principal and interest of such national debts and incumbrances as were incurred before the 25 Dec. 1716 in such manner as by future Acts shall be directed. |
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|
|
£ |
s. |
d. |
The General Fond ut supra is Creditor [by payments as follows]:
to Thomas Jones, to clear all charges and expenses of books, clerks and other things whatsoever incident to the taking of the subscriptions of Lottery orders |
540 |
0 |
0 |
|
to the Cashier of the Bank of England, for one quarter's annuity at 5 per cent. due at Lady day 1718 on 9,533,195l. 10s. 5¾d., being the amount of the orders entitled to such annuities |
119,164 |
19 |
0 |
|
to ditto for annuities at 4 per cent. for the same quarter on 946,929l. 0s. 8¾d., being the amount of the tallies of sol entitled to such annuities |
9,469 |
5 |
9 |
to ditto to answer 4 per cent. interest payable in the nature of annuities on the sum of 182,190l. 8s. 1½d., being the amount of the lists of Debentures for Army Debts transmitted to the said Cashier and to the Accomptant General of the Bank by the respective Paymasters making forth the same according to a Certificate from the said Cashier in that behalf; which amounts on all the said debentures being to commence from 24 June 1717 according to the directions of the Act of Parliament [4 Geo. I, c. 9, cl. 8, for payment of Army Debts] there becomes due to be paid in this quarter as follows: viz.
for the half year's annuity due at Xmas 1717 on the said whole sum in debentures after abating 403l. 3s. 2½d. for so much directed to be applied to the like [or duplicated] amounts by the warrant: making the distribution of the said General Fond for the quarter then ended, 3,240l. 12s. 11¼d.:
for Lady day quarter s annuities on whole sum in debentures, 1,821l. 18s. 0¾d.: or in all |
5,062 |
11 |
0 |
|
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
£134,236 |
15 |
9 |
|
Balance is the excess of the Income (viz. 150,726l. 1s. 1½d.) in this quarter over and above sufficient to discharge the annuities and other payments issuing out of the General Fond in and for the same quarter |
16,489 |
5 |
4½ |
|
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
£150,726 |
1 |
1½ |
Money Book XXVI, pp. 407–9.
Followed by: A similar warrant for distribution of the 1718 June 24 quarter's income of said Fond: and a similar statement of the income and liability thereof: as follows:
Account of the Income of the General Fond established for raising 724,849l. 6s. 101/5d. for purposes as above.
The Exchequer is Debtor to the Income of said Fond for June 24 Quarter: |
|
£ |
s. |
d. |
£ |
s. |
d. |
the 10l. Lottery anno 1711.
subsidy on goods and merchandises exported, including Duty on leather and on coals |
8,718 |
1 |
2½ |
|
|
|
|
2s. per chaldron on coals, culme and cinders, water borne |
6,151 |
16 |
3 |
|
|
|
|
Additional Duty on candles |
16,861 |
5 |
0½ |
|
|
|
|
20 per cent. on goods exported in certain ships to the Mediterranean |
— |
|
|
|
|
|
5s. per piece on white woollen cloth |
— |
|
|
|
|
|
— |
31,731 |
2 |
6 |
for the Class Lottery anno 1711.
the 700l. per week out of the revenue of the Post Office |
9,100 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
|
|
Duties on hides and skins, vellom and parchment |
21,574 |
17 |
10 |
|
|
|
|
rent of Hackney coaches and chairs |
1,700 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
|
|
Duties on vellom, parchment, paper, cards and dice |
3,884 |
13 |
2 |
|
|
|
|
Duties on rock salt |
139 |
10 |
0 |
|
|
|
|
— |
36,399 |
1 |
0 |
for the 10l. Lottery anno 1712.
Duty on soap |
33,898 |
0 |
8½ |
|
|
|
|
Duty on paper, pasteboards and scale boards and on books, prints and maps, and Duties on chequered and striped linens and on all linens printed, painted, stained and dyed, and Duties on engrossed, printed and written things |
1,585 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
|
|
policies of insurance |
— |
|
|
|
|
|
— |
35,483 |
0 |
8½ |
for the Class Lottery anno 1712.
Duties on hides and skins |
27,869 |
2 |
10½ |
|
|
|
|
Additional Duty on vellom and parchment: and Duties on starch imported: and new Duty on coffee, tea and drugs: and Duty on gilt and silver wire imported |
3,600 |
12 |
10½ |
|
|
|
|
policies of insurance |
419 |
19 |
0 |
|
|
|
|
— |
31,889 |
14 |
9 |
|
Hereditary Excise: being one quarter of 39,855l. 15s. 71/5d. per an. payable out of the 3,700l. per week of the said Excise for the Bankers' annuities |
9,963 |
18 |
10½ |
|
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
145,466 |
17 |
10 |
|
Balance: being the Deficiency of the Fond for the quarter to meet the 181,212l. 6s. 8½d. due at Midsummer 1718 |
35,745 |
8 |
10½ |
|
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
£181,212 |
6 |
8½ |
|
Deficiency of the Fond at Lady day 1718 |
57,701 |
18 |
10 |
|
|
|
|
ditto at Midsummer |
35,745 |
8 |
10½ |
|
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
£93,447 |
7 |
8½ |
|
|
|
Memorandum: as in the preceding account as to the Deficiency and Surplus.
The General Fond is Creditor [for payments as follows out of the Exchequer]:
to the Cashier of the Bank of England for said quarter's 5 per cent. annuities on 9,533,195l. 10s. 3¾d., being the amount of the orders entitled to such annuities |
119,164 |
19 |
0 |
|
to ditto for 4 per cent. annuities for said quarter on 946,929l. 0s. 8¾d., being the amount of the tallies of sol entitled to such annuities |
9,469 |
5 |
9 |
|
to ditto to answer 4 per cent. interest payable in the nature of annuities on the sum of 182,190l. 8s. 1½d., being the amount of the lists of Debentures for Army Debts transmitted to the Cashier of the Bank and the Accomptant General of the Bank by the respective Paymasters making forth the same: according to a certificate from the said Cashier in that behalf, for the said quarter |
1,821 |
18 |
0¾ |
|
|
|
|
— |
|
|
|
|
130,456 |
2 |
9¾ |
|
Balance is the excess of the income in this quarter over and above what is sufficient to discharge the annuities and other payments issuing out of the General Yearly Fond in and for the said quarter |
15,010 |
15 |
0¼ |
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£145,466 |
17 |
10 |
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Money Book XXVI, pp. 410–12. |
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| July 17. |
Treasury allowance of the salary bill, not detailed, of the Post Office for 1718 June 24 quarter: total 2,151l. 15s. 8d. Ibid., p. 416.
Treasury confirmation of the money order of 1717 Oct. 31 for 225l. to Richard Woollaston, ut supra, Calendar of Treasury Books, Vol. XXXI, p. 627, under date 1717 Oct. 29. Order Book X, p. 9.
Ditto for same for 1,637l. 6s. 9d. to Caleb Powell, ut supra, Calendar of Treasury Books, Vol. XXXI, p. 629. Ibid., p. 12.
Ditto for same for 479l. 10s. 11d. to James Phillips, ut supra, Calendar of Treasury Books, Vol. XXXI, p. 628. Ibid., p. 13.
Ditto for same for 2,397l. 19s. 6d. to James Caswall, ut supra, Calendar of Treasury Books, Vol. XXXI, p. 653. Ibid., p. 14. |
| July 17. |
William Lowndes to the Secretary at War to report on the enclosed petition [missing] of Patrick Strachan of Glenkindy to the King praying payment of several sums which he claimed were advanced by him for his Majesty's service in the late Rebellion, and for reward for his service and loss. Out Letters (General) XXII, p. 322.
Treasury reference to the Surveyor General [of Crown Lands] of the petition of Col. Henry Hawley for a 31 years' lease of an old house with a stable and coach house thereto belonging situate at the bottom of Hedge Lane near the Mews, which the late Queen Anne gave him to live in and wherein his present Majesty is pleased to continue him: the premises having cost him above 300l. in repairs. Reference Book IX, p. 400.
Same to the Earl of Halifax, Auditor of the Receipt, of the replication of Reginald Ryley to the indirect and frivolous report of the Paymasters of the Lottery orders upon his petition about passing and paying away his Lottery orders for 220l. principal money by virtue of forged and counterfeit assignments. Ibid., p. 401.
Treasury warrant to the Clerk of the Pipe for a lease under the Exchequer seal to Tancred Robinson for 26 years from 1722 March 16 of the scite of the late monastery of St. Mary's in the suburb of the city of York with the appurtenants thereto, containing in all 13 acres now or late in the tenure of Sir John Keresby [Reresby], Governor of the said city: at the old rent of 10s. per an. and fine of 80l.
Prefixing: Auditor Thomas Jett's particular and memorandum of the premises and ratal thereof by H. Cholmley, Surveyor General of Crown Lands. There must be inserted a covenant from the lessee to discharge the Crown from the 10 marks per an. payable to the Keeper of the said [scite or] mansion house, and also liberty for the Steward of the Manor to make use of all the places used for keeping the Courts of the said manor.
Followed by: undated entry of the Treasury Lords' subscription of the docquet of this lease. Warrants not Relating to Money XXV, pp. 110–12.
The Treasury Lords to the Barons of the Exchequer in Scotland to prepare a signature to grant to Jane, wife of James, late Lord Drummond, the lands and things settled upon her in jointure and also the third of her husband's household plenishing and furniture, being what she would have been entitled to in case her said husband had been naturally dead.
Appending: report from said Barons dated 23 Jan. 1717–18 on the petition of the said Jane, the said report giving an account of the said estate and incumbrances thereon. Out Letters (North Britain) IV, pp. 364–7. |
| July 18. |
Royal warrant dated Kensington to the Treasury Lords to pay 500l. to William Lowndes: for Secret Service: out of Civil List moneys.
A like warrant for 620l. to same for same: out of same. A like warrant for 400l. to same for same: out of same. (Three money warrants dated July 22 hereon.) (Three money orders dated July 23 hereon.) (Letter of direction for 1,520l. dated July 22 hereon.) King's Warrant Book XXIX, p. 81. Order Book X, p. 112. Disposition Book XXIV, p. 128. |
| July 18. |
Same dated same to the Clerk of the Signet for a privy seal dormant for a fee, salary or allowance of 500l. per an. as from 1 August 1714 to the person having the office of Ranger and Keeper of Windsor Great Park which is vested in James Craggs, Samuel Edwards and Charles Hodges by patent of the late Queen Anne for the lives of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, Mary, Duchess of Montague, and Henrietta, now Countess of Godolphin, but in trust nevertheless for the said Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, “and to attend such assignment, grant or disposition as she by any writing or writings under her hand and seal shall direct and appoint”: the King being pleased to make this present grant in consideration of the said office and of the charge of supplying hay for the feed of the deer and the wages of the underkeepers, gatekeepers and the subordinate officers. King's Warrant Book XXIX, pp. 213–14.
Treasury warrant of the incident bills of the Post Office for the half year ended 1718 Lady day: total 1,878l. 8s. 11d.
Prefixing: said bill (including 113l. 5s. 0d. paid to John Hopkins, assignee of Edmund Dummer, for interest of 377l. 9s. 7d. advanced for the service of the West India packet boats from 20 Nov. 1711 to 20 Nov. 1717; 54l. 17s. 6d. paid for 13,170 ship letters Dec. 16 at a penny per letter; 58l. 12s. 6d. for 14,070 ship letters Dec. 24; 5l. 10s. 10d. to William Pennock for brasses and stamps; 25l. to Thomas Home for stating and adjusting the accounts of the packet boats and the Scotch and Irish [post] accounts; 33l. 15s. 0d. to John Gaymer for leathern bags; 8l. to John Williams for his care in receiving and delivering out candles for one year; 5l. 4s. 0d. to James Chapman for half a year for pumping the well of the Office; 56l. to James Harrison, Tim Lewis, Hugh Stanhope and Samuel Richardson for a quarter for looking after carriers and coaches; 67l. 10s. 0d. to Sir Mathew Decker for a fire engine for the Office; 14l. 5s. 6d. to Joseph Archer for disbursements for Xmas box money to post boys and new year's gifts to others; 18l. 10s. 7d. to Elizabeth Nutt for Gazettes and newspapers for one quarter; 15l. 12s. 0d. for the poor [rate] of St. Mary, Woolnoth; 24l. to Robert Lewin, collector for the Convex Lights for half a year; 10l. to Francis Butler for fees at the King's Remembrancer's Office for entering the 1715 Post Office account; 6l. to John Taylour for fees for entering the said account at the Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer's Office; 36l. 18s. 8d. to Joseph Cranmer for fees for passing the said account in the Pipe Office; 44l. 16s. 0d. on March 17 for 10,752 ship letters; 9l. 6s. 0d. to Jonathan Johnson, painter; 2l. 2s. 0d. to John Brain, collector for New River water; 6l. to Mrs. Bridget Row, additional letter receiver, for 1½ years; 1l. 14s. 0d. to John Kempton, beadle, for the Watch; 3l. 2s. 6d. to John Chapman, clockmaker, for his bill for a year; 10l. to Samuel Angier for half a year's rent for two rooms added to the Post Office; 2l. 14s. 0d. to William Sedgwick, chimney sweeper, for his bill; 5l. 14s. 6d. to Joseph Archer for a quarter's tythes to the Rector and Lecturer of St. Mary, Woolnoth, to 29 Sept. 1717, and 4l. 11s. 6d. for Dec. 25 quarter's same; 10l. 10s. 0d. to the Gazetteer as a new year's gift; 20l. 16s. 0d. to Richard Titterton, Richard Scurr, Ga. Lipton and John Grigsby for carrying the General Post letters to the Post Office four times every post night from the Receiving Houses for a year; 28l. 12s. 0d. to 11 Penny Post messengers for collecting the General Post letters on post nights; 30l. allowance for half a year for beer for clerks in the Office. King's Warrant Book XXIX, pp. 414–15. |
| July 18. |
C. Stanhope to the Taxes Commissioners to attend my Lords on Tuesday morning next with a state of the accounts of the Receiver of Taxes of Co. Oxford. Out Letters (General) XXII, p. 310. |
