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Oct. 1.
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The Attorney General, Solicitor General and Mr. Courtney are
discoursed [with by the Lord Treasurer] in the tin affair. My
Lord orders the persons detected for stealing the tin seized for non
coinage to be prosecuted and all other embezzlers. Mr. Courtney
to attend with the heads of a letter to the Lord Warden [of the
Stannaries].
[Ibid.]
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Oct. 2.
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The Lord Treasurer orders the Prince [Rupert's] pension to be
paid, and tallies to be struck accordingly.
The like for the Earl of Oxford.
[Ibid.]
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Oct. 5.
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Lord Buckhurst and the Earl of Middlesex are to have a quarter
each on their pensions.
"A warrant for Col. Rumsey's pension : blank."
A letter to Sir Ro. Howard to pay Mr. Slingsby 375l. upon an
order of his of date 1673, Oct. 22.
A warrant for Mr. Waller, Lieutenant of the Ordnance, [for] one
year of his fee [of] 66l. 13s. 4d. [per an.]
[Warrant for] a year for the Masters of Requests.
Sir Ed. Wood to have 915l. for six months of his [ordinary]
entertainment.
Sir John Paul to have 546l. for six months of his [ordinary]
entertainment.
"A letter [to be written] to Lord Odyke to pay Alderman Backwell's
brother the proportion of Zealand 50,000 guilders."
The Lord Treasurer directs Sir John Holmes's 295l. [to be paid]
out of the 59,000l. payable to Mr. Stevens [for the Navy
Victuallers].
The Lord Treasurer directs the immediate payment of 1,500l. to
the officers of the Works.
The Lord Treasurer directs 2,500l. for the Ordnance [to be paid]
at present.
A letter to be written to Sir Ro. Howard to pay to Sir William
Temple half a year's interest upon his two orders for 920l. and
1,120l. [respectively].
[British Museum Additional MS. 28,077, pp. 135-6.]
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Oct. 6.
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The Lord Treasurer directs the Earl of Rochester to have a
quarter on his pension of 1,000l. [per an.] and half a year of his
500l. [per an.]
[Warrant for] Mris. Fanshaw's 150l. [for] a quarter.
[Warrant for] half a year to the Duke of Albemarle on his
pension as a Gentleman of the Bedchamber to bring him even with
the rest.
Warrant for a quarter to the Yeomen of the Guard [viz.]
1,387l. 10s. 0d. [as in] part of Mr. Griffin's quarterly establishment
for Michaelmas quarter.
The Lord Treasurer directs the payment of half a year of Madame
Charlotte Paston's pension.
Mr. Skinner to have the first place that shall fall [vacant] of the
six surveyors of the landwaiters or the two surveyors of the
searchers [in London port]. The Lord Treasurer to be put in
mind of it.
Sir William Godolphin's docquet to be presented.
The Countess of Brentford to have a warrant for half a year on
her pension.
Lord Widdrington to have a year of his established pay as
Governor of Berwick.
[Ibid. pp. 136-7.]
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Oct. 9.
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The Lord Treasurer directs tallies to be struck for payment of
500l. for half a year due at Michaelmas last to the Duchess of
Richmond.
Sir John Shaw to have half a year of each of his Custom House
salaries.
Give the Lord Treasurer an account how the arrears stand up to
Michaelmas last with the Collectors of the Hearthmoney.
Give the Lord Treasurer an account of Sir Charles Harbord's
grant of Wymondham.
The Excise Commissioners are called in, Sir Stephen Fox and
the Cofferer of the Household being present at the same time. The
said Commissioners present to the Lord Treasurer a state of the
pay of the Forces with their observations thereon. Capt. Kingdom
observes that several stopped orders of Sir Steven Fox have been
converted into tallies. The Commissioners observe that 27,000l.
is doubly charged. Mr. Kent affirms the contrary. "The Lord
Treasurer is of opinion that Sir Steven Fox may lend [borrow] at 7
per cent. (being enabled to do it by the King) when others cannot
afford it at the same rate." The Excise Commissioners offer to provide
5,000l. per month till 80,000l. be paid for the use of the Forces
[advancing the money] at 10 per cent. ; and to pay the tallies in
course.
The Cofferer of the Household to speak with the Commissioners
of the Excise to see how far they can comply with his demands.
Send to the Excise Commissioners the list of what [payments]
the Lord Treasurer has placed upon that revenue.
Warrants to be prepared for these new quarters both for the
Household and the Forces. The Household's establishment commences
from Michaelmas, 1674, at 107,000l. [per an.]
A warrant [to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands] to rate a
particular for the [intended grant to the] Pendrells.
[British Museum Additional MS. 28,077, pp. 137-8.]
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Oct. 10.
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The Lord Treasurer directs the payment of Sir Denny
Ashburnham's order for 187l. 10s. 0d. of [date] the 19th of March,
1673-4.
Samuel Sheafe to be restored to his employment as a tidesman in
London port, which he deserted when he went into His Majesty's
sea service.
[Ibid. p. 138.]
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Oct. 14.
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The Lord Treasurer directs a letter to be written to Sir Robt.
Howard for payment of 24,000l. to the Treasurer of the Navy ;
whereof 12,000l. is intended for two weeks of the allowance upon
the late establishment, the other 12,000l. for paying off ships.
Capt. Harman to have 182l. 10s. 0d. [as] the year's pay of a
captain of a third rate ship as His Majesty's bounty for his wounds,
&c. : to be out of the 59,000l.
A list of payments [ordered by the Lord Treasurer] out of the
Excise.
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£
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s.
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d.
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To the Forces
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200,000
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0
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0
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" " Household
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100,000
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0
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0
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" " Stables and for horses
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10,000
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0
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0
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" " pensions
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75,822
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19
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3
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" " Tangier
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30,000
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0
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0
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" " Ordnance
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30,000
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0
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0
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" " management
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10,000
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0
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0
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" " secret service
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10,000
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0
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0
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£465,822
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19
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3
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[A list of payments similarly ordered by the Lord Treasurer out
of the] Chimney money.
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£
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s.
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d.
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To the Privy Purse
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38,000
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0
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0 per an.
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" " Office of the Works
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12,000
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0
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0
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" " Robes
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5,000
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0
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0
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To the Healing medals ([per an.
payable] monthly)
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1,200
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0
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0
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" " dormant privy seals ([in
all payable] monthly)
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10,000
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0
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0
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" " Secretaries of State (intelligence)
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4,000
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0
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0
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" " Jewel House
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" " Post [office] defalcations
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" interest of money to be borrowed
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30,000
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0
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0
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[British Museum Additional MS. 28,077, p. 139.]
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Oct. 16.
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To put the Lord Treasurer in mind of placing the arrears of the
Master of the Robes on the Excise : which [said arrear] is 5,500l.
A report to be drawn upon Sir John Robinson's petition concerning
Farming wood, &c., same having been referred to the Lord
Treasurer by His Majesty : also another report, on the like reference,
to be drawn on his petition for payment of his orders.
A letter to be written to Lord Widdrington [to the effect] that
the Lord Treasurer has examined the matter in Lord Widdrington's
letter concerning the sub-commissioners and Collectors of the
Excise, and that Mr. Parsons (who was the late Farmer of Excise
of that county) will take care to redress all complaints made against
his officers.
Put the Lord Treasurer in mind about the allowance Sir John
Shaw craves for the collection of the Coinage duty and [for] passing
that accompt.
The Lord Treasurer directs a warrant for half a year's salary to
Sir John Shaw upon both his patents, viz. as Collector Inwards
[London port] and as Surveyor of the Act of Navigation.
The Lord Treasurer directs 2,000l. to the Ordnance upon the
Customs : to complete the 7,500l. for Michaelmas quarter to the
Ordnance.
When Mr. Pepys attends the Lord Treasurer [take care] to lay
before his Lordship the letter from the Lords Commissioners of the
Admiralty on behalf of the pursers and captains ; and to put his
Lordship in mind of the increase of the Navy charge beyond the
establishment.
Lady Sayers to have 100l. [being] the [unpaid] remainder of a
warrant for 200l.
Mr. Jones, the [King's] apothecary, [is ordered by my Lord] to
have one year's salary.
The Earl of Carlisle to have half a year of his pension of 1,000l.
per an. upon Coals, &c.
The Lord Treasurer to be put in mind to speak with Sir Stephen
Fox about Lord Vaughan's business of Jamaica.
A report to be made upon Mr. Brerewood's petition ; on the order
of reference of same [from the King to the Lord Treasurer].
[Ibid. pp. 140-1.]
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Oct. 17.
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The Lord Treasurer directs the Bishop of Sarum's warrant [as
Chancellor of the Garter] to be drawn for half a year for the Poor
Knights of Windsor.
[Ibid. p. 141.]
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Oct. 19.
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The Lord Treasurer directs Mr. Brisban's order of 250l. to be
paid [being the unpaid] remainder of [his order for] 400l.
Mr. Thornton's warrant [is ordered] for 28l. as Clerk of the Robes
[Warrant for] the Duke of Buckingham for a quarter on his
pension [as a Gentleman of the Bedchamber].
[Warrant for] Sir Fr. Windham's lady for half a year on her
pension of 400l. per an.
Sir Edward Dering to have one year of his pension.
[British Museum Additional MS. 28,077, p. 141.]
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Oct. 21.
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The Lord Treasurer directs the Lord Privy Seal to have half a
year of his diet money.
[Warrant for] Lord Crofts [for] 250l. [for] a quarter.
[Warrant for] Lady Falmouth [for] a quarter : 250l.
[Ibid.]
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Oct. 21.
Wednesday.
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The Lord Treasurer will hear the Cashiers of the Excise and Sir
Stephen Fox on Friday morning next.
Lord Belasyse and Sir H. Cholmely [to be heard] upon this day
week.
On Wednesdays, in the morning, the Lord Treasurer will, with
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, sit upon accounts [with a view to
the declaration and passing of same].
Write Mr. Breedon to attend the Lord Treasurer about the arrears
of the farm of the London Excise.
The petition of several sub-collectors of the Royal Aid is read
about a distress made at Hammersmith. Ordered that Thomas
Bromly and Edward Weedon be sent for to attend the Lord
Treasurer this day week.
The Lord Treasurer orders payment of the 63l. due upon warrant
to the Provost and Fellows of Eton on their perpetuity.
One year's interest to be paid upon Mr. Gawen's orders of 1670-1,
Mar. 14, for 1,000l.
The tally for the last quarter, amounting to 13,875l., for [the
garrison of] Tangier, [and which had been] struck upon the
Customs is to be paid forthwith.
[Ordered] "To have warrants for tallies upon the Excise in
course as [desired by] Sir S. Fox and the Cofferer."
[Ordered] that the pursers be paid in the course [in which] they
stand on the list and the pensioners [to be paid] quarterly, as
salaries are.
[Ibid. pp. 141-2.]
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Oct. 22.
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The Lord Treasurer directs the payment of the 1,508l. remaining
due to Sir Joseph Williamson and Sir Leolin Jenkins, upon their
extraordinaries.
Mr. Twitty's 240l. [is ordered] to be paid as Sir Robert [Howard]
proposed.
La[dy] Sanderson to be paid a quarter.
Healing medals [warrant for] 300l. Mr. Knight, the Serjeant
Surgeon, to be spoken with.
A warrant to the Surveyor [of the Works] to examine Mr.
Doughty's account for building in the Mews.
A warrant for the Earl of Clare's creation money.
[Ibid. p. 142.]
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Oct. 23.
Treasury
Chambers.
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Present : Lord Treasurer, Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Alderman Forth called in. The Lord Treasurer to be put in
mind to direct a letter to be written to the Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland about the Irish [revenue] farm.
The Lord Treasurer to move the King in Council this afternoon
about Lord Vaughan's privy seal.
Mr. Thruppe to wait on the Chancellor of the Exchequer with
his petition.
Draw warrants for the Earl of Nottingham for a quarter on each
pension : [to be drawn] on the Customs.
Mr. Shales to give a speedy account of the money imprested upon
account of the prizes.
The Excise Commissioners and Sir Stephen Fox are to attend at
the Treasury Chamber on Monday morning.
[British Museum Additional MS. 28,077, p. 143.]
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Oct. 26.
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"Mr. Secretary" to speak with Sir Stephen Fox about the petition
of Col. Pretty and others.
A state of the Duke of Richmond's account is to be given to the
Lord Treasurer on Wednesday when said Lord Treasurer goes to
[the Privy] Council.
Lord Hatton to have 250l. [for a] quarter of a year.
Viscount Ranelagh : warrant for 750l. for half a year : [to be
charged] upon the Excise.
The Lord Chamberlain to have 500l. [for] one quarter due at
Midsummer.
The Navy : [warrant for] two weeks' allowance.
The Earl of Bath to be paid a quarter on his pensions.
A letter for Mr. Newport and Mr. Darcy for a quarter on their
salary.
[Ibid.]
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Oct. 26.
[? Afterncon.]
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Present : Lord Treasurer, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord
Chief Baron, Baron Turner, Baron Thurland and Baron Littleton.
Upon a complaint made by Mr. Vere Bertie (Master of the
Remembrancer's office) against the eight sworn clerks in his office
both parties are called in. The Remembrancer thinking it requisite
to make some regulation in the office made 16 rules, to some of
which the clerks agreed and refused to submit to the others, upon
which a hearing is appointed before the Lord Treasurer. Mr.
Serjeant Maynard opens the case and says the clerks are the
Remembrancer's servants and that great abuses have been practised
by them ; upon which several orders were lately made to redress
such inconveniencies ; which they positively refused to obey. He
further observes that the said clerks are servants and no officers
[being] sworn by the Remembrancer [himself] and not [by] the
[Barons of the Exchequer] Court ; that the Remembrancer is
responsible for the clerks' actions ; and therefore Mr. Bertie ought
to have the government of the office in point of damage to the King,
in point of damage to the subject and in point of security to himself.
Mr. Sawyer, counsel for the clerks, says there has been time out
of mind certain sworn clerks in the offices of Westminster Hall
independent of the respective Masters : he affirms that these eight
clerks have a right of freehold, instances in several offices as the
Clerk of the Pipe, the Treasurer's Remembrancer, &c. He further
observes that the Masters have never made any orders but [that
such orders have been made by the Exchequer] Court ; and [the
Master] has no power to abridge the interest of any of these eight
clerks. They are clerici domini Regis in officio Rememoratoris and
the Master is only the chief clerk. The clerks approve the choice
of the Master in introducing any new ones. They have distinct
fees from the Crown and the custody of the records and have a
constant form of oath that is administered. Without the Master
they may take recognizance before the Barons. They are altogether
entrusted with the subject's business. He says the new rules
intrench upon the right of the subject. He concludes that the
right of making rules is only in the Court of Exchequer.
Serjeant Mainard says unless these rules be established the King
will be abused.
The Solicitor General says the Court has a superintendent power
over the Remembrancer. The clerks were formerly the immediate
servants of the Remembrancer. The greater part of these new
orders is allowed by the clerks themselves.
Mr. King says the Clerks are sworn to the Court but not to the
Remembrancer. When an oath is given in court 'tis said praestitit
sacramentum and so one of the clerks puts his hand to it. The
clerks, together with the Master, have usually prepared the orders.
The Solicitor General instances in a book of orders made by the
Master in the Queen [Elizabeth's] time.
Mr. Serjeant Mainard says that 'tis said all records are to be in
custodia Rememoratoris and not of the clerks.
The whole business is [by the Lord Treasurer] referred to the
Barons [of the Exchequer Court] to determine.
On Friday morning to pass Viscount Yarmouth's accompts of the
wood farm.
[British Museum Additional MS. 28,077, pp. 143-6.]
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Oct. 27.
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Sir John Heath's warrant to be executed. (In the margin.
Done.)
Sir Allan Apsly's order of 800l. [is ordered] to be paid by 200l.
per week. (In the margin. Done : meaning only, letter written to
the Exchequer to that effect.)
[Ibid. p. 146.]
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Oct. 30.
Treasury
Chambers.
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Present : Lord Treasurer, Chancellor of the Exchequer.
The Lord Treasurer to speak to the King this afternoon for 100l.
to Col. Moldesworth.
Sir John Clayton and Mr. Brewer called in upon [the subject of]
Viscount Yarmouth's defalcations [on his wood farm]. A half
year from Michaelmas to Lady Day not included in the last accompt :
[there is] 1,535l. 3s. 4d. made less by Viscount Yarmouth of the
King's rent and a defalcation thereof desired. This to be represented
to the King and His Majesty's pleasure to be known in it.
The King to be moved in [the matter of] Secretary Coventry's
[money] orders.
The King to be moved in [the matter of] Oakes' debt for whom
Sir William Roberts and Mr. Waring are sureties.
The Excise Commissioners are called in. The Lord Treasurer
takes notice of a particular clause of their letter to him [to the
effect] that Sir Stephen Fox has [had] assigned [to him] by the
Lord Treasurer a great deal more than is necessary for the carrying
on the service of the Forces for the present year. Sir Stephen
answers that some of this money has been applied to the service of
other years. Mr. Kingdom says that the 230,000l. is either part of
what was imprested to Sir Stephen Fox or not : he says that this
was by tallies in 1673. Sir Stephen Fox coming in says that he
never had any assignments confined [strictly appropriated] to the
establishment of the [particular] years ; that he had a liberty to
make use of stopped orders. As for the interest of 7,000l. applied
to [the years] 1670 and 1671, he answers it is upon a declared
accompt [which before declaration had been, in the regular course,]
referred to an Auditor.
The Lord Treasurer moves for the payment of the [current] cash
of the Excise into the Exchequer. Sir Stephen Fox seems to
comply with the Lord Treasurer for that part which relates to the
Forces provided it might come as cheap [i.e. that no Exchequer fees
should be charged on the issues out again of any part of such
moneys] and the despatch might be as quick. Sir Robert Howard
affirms that he hath not taken one farthing [in the way of Exchequer
fees] for the [? Eighteen Months'] tax and that despatches have
been quicker given [in the Exchequer] than in other places. The
Lord Treasurer refers the whole business to the further consideration
of Sir Robert Howard, Mr. Bertie, Sir Cha. Harbord, Sir Phill.
Floyd and Mr. Sherwin.
Mr. William Legge's petition is referred to Sir C. Harbord.
[British Museum Additional MS. 28,077, pp. 147-8.]
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Oct. 31.
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The Lord Treasurer directs a year [to be paid] to Sir Charles
Windham. A warrant [to be made] for a quarter, and a letter [to
be sent to the Receipt for tallies to be levied] for three quarters
[thereof]. In the margin : Done.
[Warrant for] 200l. to Capt. Mansell. In the margin : Done.
[Warrant for] a year to Sir Timothy Turner. In the margin :
Done.
[Warrant for] half a year to Dr. Troutbeck. In the margin :
Done.
Sir Gilbert Talbot's warrant to be executed. In the margin : Done.
Speak with the Cofferer of the Household about [paying] the
chapel [Royal] music [boys].
[Warrant for] half a year to Viscount Brouncker. In the margin :
Done.
[Letter of direction for] Sir Peter Wyche for 164l. as the [unpaid]
remainder of an order for 364l. In the margin : Done.
Sir George Downing to be sent for.
A warrant for 1,000l. per an. out of the Exchequer, during
pleasure, to the Duchess of Richmond.
Col. Kingwell to have 200l. In the margin : Done.
A reference to be made to Mr. Banks [? of the business or petition
of Mr.] Gregory.
[Ibid. p. 148.]
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