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Date.
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Nature and Substance of the Entry.
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Reference.
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| Aug. 1.
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Warrant from Treasurer Danby [to the Receipt] to
receive and take in (as by the privy seal of July 24
last) such loans of money as any person or persons
are willing to lend and shall pay into the Receipt
of the Exchequer upon the credit of either of the
two sums granted to the King by the Act for [the
Eighteen Months' Assessment, viz., the two sums
of] 206,462l. 7s. 3d. and 412,925l. 14s. 6d. : so
as the loans do not exceed the respective sums
by the said Act limited for loans [thereupon] :
and thereupon to give tallies of loans and orders
of repayment for the same, and for such loans as may
already have been made upon either of the said
sums, so that the whole do not exceed the totals
as aforesaid : including in the said orders such
interest as the said Act will allow : said orders to be
registered as by said Act.
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Money Book (General)
p. 290.
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Same from same to the Customs Commissioners to
direct the Customs Cashier to pay 295l. to William
Culliford and Daniel Hawkins for reimbursement of
their charge in prosecuting the seizure of the calf
skins which were seized at Newhaven : the said
Commissioners having (in their report of July 26
last on the petition from said Culliford and Hawkins)
reported that there was a great intention of fraud
in endeavouring to export the said calf skins without
paying Custom, and that there were amongst them
a great number exceeding the weight allowed by
Act of Parliament to be exported : the petitioners
having further submitted to Treasurer Danby
the evidence which was produced at the trial,
"which appeared to me to be very full and plain
in that behalf, I referred the examination of the
truth thereof to my Lord Chief Baron and the
rest of the Barons of the Exchequer, who have
certified me that the evidence at the trials was
rather fuller for proving the said fraud than in the
said paper is expressed, yet contrary to their
directions and expectation the jewry brought in the
verdict against the King," wherefore Treasurer
Danby is satisfied that frauds have been practised
in the said port, and that petitioners should be
paid their expenses, and that the seven poor men
mentioned in his order of April 6 last should be
defended at the King's charge in the actions brought
against them about the said skins.
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Ibid, p. 291. Out Letters
(Customs) IV. p. 85.
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| Aug. 2.
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Letter of direction on 2,000l. in further part of an
order dated June 1 last for 20,000l. to Charles
Bertie for secret service : on which order there
has been already paid 1,472l. 7s. 10d., 2,747l. 1s. 7½d.
and 6,000l. and 1,000l. : said 2,000l. to be hereby
satisfied by tallies on the Customs.
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Money Book (General)
p. 287.
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Money warrant for 110,000l. to Lemuel Kingdon, Esq.,
as imprest for the Guards and Garrisons and contingencies
thereof from June 31 last to Dec. 31
next : "and let the sum of 58,000l. thereof be
satisfied by lovying tallies on the Commissioners
and Receivers General of the Excise ; and the
residue [52,000l. let it be satisfied] out of the
Exchequer.
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Ibid, p. 293.
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Letter of direction on 50,000l. in part of an order of
March 16 last for 197,989l. 11s. 2d. to abovesaid
Kingdon for payment of the new raised Forces to
be employed for the support of his Majesty's
alliances : said 50,000l. to be hereby paid out
of the first loans which shall be paid into the
Exchequer upon the credit of the 412,388l. 14s. 6d.,
part of the Eighteen Months' Assessment.
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Money Book (General)
p. 293.
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Money warrant for 867l. 12s. 4d. to Lawrence Hyde
for extraordinaries as one of the Ambassadors and
Plenipotentiaries for the treaty of peace at
Nimuegen, as by a bill thereof allowed by Secretary
Williamson the 19th ult.
Appending : said bill—
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Ibid.
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Gilders.
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Stivers.
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Postage of letters and intelligence
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365
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2
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Gifts and rewards.
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991
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15
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Fees and charges
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399
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12
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Carriage of equipage by sea and land
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1004
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17
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Stationary ware
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26
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17
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Travelling charges
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279
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4
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House rent at Nimuegen before his
Excellency [Hyde] came into it
and since he has been at the
Hague
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2850
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0
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5917
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7
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£
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s.
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d.
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This Dutch money reduced into
English money at 10 gilders
10 stivers per £ is
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563
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10
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0
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English account—
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Fees and charges [in the Exchequer,
etc., on his payments, etc.]
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189
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3
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2
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Gifts and rewards
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10
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16
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8
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Charges of [carriage of] equipage by
sea and land
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104
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2
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4
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£867
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12
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4
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Letter of direction on 9,510l. 5s. 5d. in further part
of an order dated 1676, Sept. 23, for 20,000l. to
Charles Bertie for secret service : said sum to be
hereby satisfied by tallies on Christopher, Duke of
Albemarle, for moneys payable by him upon
a contract for fee farm rents in the Counties of
Southampton, Wilts, etc. (A further letter of
direction dated Aug. 6 on 1,194l. 13s. 8d. in further
part of said order : same to be hereby satisfied
by tallies on the Customs.)
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Ibid, p. 294.
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Money warrant for 354l. 3s. 7d. for the clerks and
incidents of the Committee of Council for Trade
and Plantations for last June 24 quarter, viz.,
100l. to Sir Robert Southwell, 37l. 10s. 0d. to
William Blathwaite and 25l. to same for an additional
salary by order of Council for the same time, 25l. for
the salary of two clerks for same time, and the
balance for incidents including fire, office rent,
maps, etc. (Charles Bertie dated Oct. 3 to the
Customs Cashier to bring same in immediately
after the weekly payments and to the Auditor of the
Receipt to issue same, to pay off the several orders
lately drawn for the said attendants. Same dated
Oct. 29 to the Customs Cashier to bring said money
in notwithstanding any former restriction.)
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Ibid, p. 294. Out Letters
(General) p. 321.
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Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the Warden, Master
Worker, and Comptroller of the Mint to pay (out of
moneys imprested to you for the service of the
Mint) 471l. 2s. 0d. to Phillip Packer, Esq., Paymaster
of the Works, to be employed for the
rebuilding of the house belonging to the office
of the Clerk of the Irons and Surveyor of the
Meltings in the Mint, the decay thereof having
been represented to Treasurer Danby by George
Evans, Clerk of the Irons and Surveyor of the
Meltings, and the Surveyor of the Works having
reported it ruinous and unhabitable, that it is a very
ancient, ill contrived timber building fitter to be
rebuilt than repaired, and that the rebuilding of
it on the same ground with one ground room and
two upper stories of timber building and covered
with lead, will amount to said 471l. 2s 0d. (Vacated :
and a fresh warrant issued on the 8th August to
Henry Slingsby, Esq., Master and Worker of the
Mint, to so pay an identical sum, the estimate for
the work as above being 454l. 12s. 0d. and 36l. 10s. 0d.
more for the digging of a cellar to the same, from
which 20l. may be abated in consideration of old
materials.)
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Money Book (General)
pp. 294, 297.
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Letter of direction on an order of loan No. 44 dated
1670-1, Jan. 23, for 1,000l. and on another order
No. 30 dated 1671, July 1, for 1,000l. [both orders
being] registered on the Customs in the name of the
Earl of Ogle and payable with interest ; and also
on another order dated 1671, April 25, for 1,000l.
similarly registered in the name of Richard Mulys,
gent. : all the said orders being hereby by Treasurer
Danby (who has received the King's particular directions
herein) ordered to be satisfied by tallies on the
Hearthmoney Contractors' half year's payment
due Michaelmas next, together with interest thereon
to the date of the [said] tallies.
In the margin : for the Duke of Albemarle. [This
probably means that all the said orders had come
to said Duke by mesne assignment and that the
satisfaction of them was directed by the King
particularly on said Duke's behalf.]
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Ibid, p. 295
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Money warrant for 1,150l. to Isaac Legouch for a jewel
of that value which was given to Monsieur de
Ruvigny, Envoy Extraordinary from the French
King : as by the certificate of the 29th ult. from
Henry, Earl of Arlington, Lord Chamberlain of the
Household.
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Ibid.
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Same for 50l. to Rebecca, daughter of William late
Visct. [sic] Chandos for lest June 24 quarter on her
pension of 200l. per an. (Charles Bertie dated
Aug. 17 to the Customs Cashier to bring in with
respect to the weekly payments, and same to the
Auditor of the Receipt to issue, 150l. for three
quarters to same date on said pension. "The
letter to the Auditor of the Receipt thus underwritten
5 Oct., 1678 : this money is to be paid
according to the directions above mentioned.")
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Ibid, p. 295. Out Letters
(General) p. 304.
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|
Money warrant for 250l. to the heirs of William, late
Earl of Kinnoul for last June 24 qviarter on said
Earl's pension of 1,000l. per an. granted by patent of
1672, July 19.
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Money Book (General)
p. 295.
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Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the Customs
Cashier to pay 625l. to Robert, Earl of Sunderland,
for five half quarters to Lady day last on his annuity
or pension of 1,000l. as a Gentleman of the Bedchamber.
|
Ibid.
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Same from same to same to pay 40l. 10s. 0d. to the
executors or administrators of William Burrough,
late Customer at Newcastle, for 1½ years to Christmas,
1676, on his salary of 27l. per an. : it appearing
by certificate dated 1676-7, March 12, of Richard
Mounteney, late Cashier of the Customs, that said
Burrough was paid only to 1675, June 24 ; and it
further appearing by certificate of John Steele,
clerk and register of St. Andrews, Holborn, that
said Burrough was buried there 1676-7, Jan. 9.
|
Ibid, p. 296.
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|
Treasurer Danby's subscription of a docquet dated
July of a privy seal authorising the Principal Officers
and Commissioners of the Navy to make sale of the
stores thereunder mentioned [not detailed in the
docquet] for the use of the Navy.
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Docquet Book, p. 221.
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Constitution and appointment, under the royal sign
and sign manual, of Richard Courthop "in the
office of Alienation for composition of Fines" in
as full and ample a manner as his predecessors,
Masters of the Chancery, have enjoyed the same.
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King's Warrant Book VI.
p. 57.
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Royal warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General
for a great seal for a grant to Thomas Navill, gent.,
of the office of Clerk of the Works of the royal
palaces of Whitehall, Westminster and St. James's
in reversion after Thomas Rotheram.
|
Ibid, p. 64.
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Same to the Clerk of the Signet for a privy seal to
charge Sir Stephen Fox with orders amounting to
56,805l. 19s. 9d. registered in his name for the Forces,
being registered on the Country Excise, London
and Country Excise, and upon the Poll Act of
18 Car. II. ; and to discharge him of as many
thereof as amount to 44,349l. 19s. 9d. on his
delivering them up to be cancelled [the same being
worthless paper orders which could not be cashed,
negotiated or assigned by reason of the stop of the
Exchequer] : he being to account for the rest because
he has assigned them. (Treasurer Danby's subscription
dated Aug. 12 of docquet hereof.)
|
Ibid, p. 64.
p. 222.
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|
Reference from Treasurer Danby to the Customs Commissioners
of the petition of John Gould et al owners
and laders of the ship Restoration, Peter Tinker
[? Tucker] master, said petition shewing that said ship
about 18 months since sailed from London to the
Straits [of Gibraltar] with her [due] complement of
English men, and about four months since, being
at Leghorn, 10 of his said English seamen, in fear
of the Turks, deserted the said ship and entered
themselves on board his Majesty's ship the Saphir,
so that petitioner's ship was necessitated to come
home with more foreigners than the law allows :
and therefore praying that said ship and her lading
may be free from all seizure for the said cause.
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Out Letters (Customs) IV.
p. 87.
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Reference from Treasurer Danby to the Customs
Commissioners of the petition of Thomas Temple,
Surveyor of Weymouth, praying for his salary of
40l. per an. to be increased in consideration of his
good services.
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Out Letters (Customs) IV.
p. 104.
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| [?]
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Instructions from same to same in reply to their
memorial of the 26th ult. 1. I approve of the
security proposed for Timothy Hamlyn as Collector
of Plymouth (viz., himself and Isaac Tillard and
Richard Waddon in 2,000l.). 2. I intend to call
before me Mr. Phillip Frowd to know why the
bonds which you require from the masters of the
pacquet boats at Dover for giving notice to the
officers of the Customs for goods they import and
export is refused by them before you recall your
licence granted by [sic for to] them. 3. In case
the admeasurement of keels at Newcastle and
Sunderland for carrying of coals shall be made
pursuant by bulkheads to the agreement [which]
you acquaint me was formerly made with the proprietors
of coals in those parts whereby you inform
me the business will be carried on with satisfaction
to all parties and much to his Majesty's advantage
I direct you to cause half the charge of the alteration
of the keels, which were in being when the said
agreement was made, to be borne by his Majesty,
which keels were already admeasured in the accustomed
ancient way of stoak nails. The said King's
share of the charge is to be placed to the account of
incidents [but all on the understanding or] so as
the said half charges do not exceed 400l. or 500l.,
which you have computed it to come to. 4. I intend
to lay further before the King the evil practices
of the captains of the yachts and men-of-war in
bringing over merchants' goods and particularly
wine in small casks without paying Custom, and
will send you direction therein when I have received
his Majesty's pleasure thereupon. 5. You are to allow
4l. per an. to Humphry Atweeke, late waiter and
searcher at Milton, for the room which was used
for a Custom house for dispatch of the King's business
there during the execution of his office, which
[sum] you say he had neglected to get allowed him
within that time. 6. You are to add 5l. to the
salary of 10l. per an. already settled on Nathaniell
Oliver, waiter at Bridport and Chidcock. The
like sum of 5l. per an. is to be retrenched out of
the salary of 15l. per an. of Digory Gorge, waiter
at Charmouth, as you desire, in regard Bridport
is a port of greater business.
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Ibid, pp. 87-8.
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| Aug. 2.
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Reference from same to same of the petition of William
Russell for leave to tranship a parcel of barley, being
landed at Dover by leave of the [Customs] Commissioners
out of the ship Diligence, Nicholas
Upton master.
|
Ibid, p. 87.
|
|
Same from same to same of the petition of Gilbert
Metcalf about the Henry and Anne, of London,
built with some of the timber of a ship burnt ;
he craving allowance of the 20th part of the Customs
of her first two voyages.
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Ibid.
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Warrant from same to same to employ William
Jackson as a tidesman in fee London port, loco
John Kemp, dismissed.
|
Ibid, p. 88.
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|
Charles Bertie to the Customs Cashier. It appears
by your certificate that you have received of the
sheriffs of London 7,281l. 17s. 10d. which was levied
on the estate of William Bellamy, merchant. By
the certificate of Richard Prowse, Solicitor to the
Customs, it appears that 397l. 1s. 10½d., part thereof
was levied on two bonds for that sum assigned to
Sir John Robinson pursuant to Treasurer Danby's
warrant of Feb. 11 last. Treasurer Danby requires
you to pay said 397l. 1s. 10½d. to said Robinson,
who formerly upon his receipt of the said bonds
from you delivered to you tallies which are your
regular discharge.
|
Out Letters (General)
p. 292.
|
|
Same to [same] to pay to the Duchess of Portsmouth
120l. for two years to Lady day last on her creation
money as Duchess of Portsmouth and countess of
Farnham ; and 120l. to the Duke of Richmond
for two years to 1677, Sept. 29, on his creation
money as Duke of Richmond and Earl of March :
"for which [several creation moneys] you have
dormant warrants lying before you."
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Ibid, p. 293.
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Same to same to bring in notwithstanding any restriction
(and to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue)
2,000l. for one quarter of Treasurer Danby's allowance
[of salary]. ("Five quarters due at Midsummer last.")
|
Ibid.
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Same to same to bring in with respect, etc. (and to
same to strike tallies on the Customs for) 150l.
for one quarter on the pension of 600l. per an. to
the executors of Lady Fanshaw.
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Ibid.
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Same to same to similarly bring in 50l. to be issued
to Mr. Christopher Barker. (Same dated Aug. 9
to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue said sum,
which has lately been brought into the Exchequer,
to said Barker upon his warrant dormant for one
year of his fee as one of the King's Falconers.)
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Ibid. pp. 293, 301.
|
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Same to same to bring in forthwith (and to the Auditor
of the Receipt to issue) 50l. for last June 24 quarter's
pension to Mr. Feilding.
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Ibid, p. 293.
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Same to same to bring in with respect, etc. (and to same
to issue) 150l. for half a year to June 24 last on
Mris. Buckley's pension.
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Ibid, p. 294.
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Same to the Auditor of the Receipt to pay the 7,520l.
which the Customs Cashier has this day brought
into the Exchequer as follows, viz., 2,000l. for the
Navy, 2,000l. for the Forces, 2,000l. for Treasurer
Danby, 600l. for the Privy Purse, 550l. for the Earl of
Northampton, 100l. for Sir John Howell, 20l. for
Avis -Lawrance, 50l. for Christopher Barker and
200l. for the musicians.
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Ibid, p. 295.
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| Aug. 3.
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Same to [the Customs Cashier] to bring 36l. 10s. 0d.
into the Exchequer, with respect to the weekly payments :
to be issued to Mr. Nott.
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Ibid. p. 293.
|
| [?]
|
Same to same to satisfy the tallies on the Customs for
6,000l. for Tangier by giving Mr Pepys bills of
exchange on the Collector of the Customs at
Plymouth, to be paid out of the money in his hands
of the Customs in said port.
|
Ibid, p. 294.
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| [? Aug. 3.]
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Charles Bertie to the Customs Cashier notwithstanding
any restriction, to pay off the warrant
for 100l. for one year of the King's allowance for
repair of Berwick bridge.
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Out Letters (General)
p. 294.
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| Aug 3
|
Royal warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General
for a great seal for a grant of one annuity or pension
of 50l. per an. to Eleanor Withers for life, and of the
like annuity or pension to Joane Halsnorth for life :
to be payable quarterly out of the Exchequer
and to commence from 1676, June 24 : all upon
surrender and discharge of the great seal dated
1666, Aug. 13, which granted to said Withers (now
the wife of Simon Samson), an annuity of 50l per an.
out of the Crown revenues of cos. Beds and Bucks,
and the like annuity to Joane Halsnorth (now the
wife of Thomas Hurford), payable out of the same
revenues : the King being informed that the
Crown revenue of said counties is become insufficient
to answer the same by reason of the sale of fee farms,
having respect to the other necessary charges settled
thereon ; and the King being willing to provide
for the continuance of the payment thereof as
very well remembering that the said grant was
made to them in consideration that they were privy
to his concealment "at Sir Fr. Windham's house
at Trent after the battle of Worcester, and of their
faithful performance of their duty about our royal
person during our stay there." (Treasurer Danby's
subscription dated Oct. 17 of docquet hereof.)
|
King's Warrant Book VI.
p. 87. Docquet Book,
p. 7.
|
|
Treasurer Danby's subscription of a docquet of a grant
to George Rodney Bridges, Esq., of an annuity
or pension of 500l per an. as one of the Grooms
of the Bedchamber : to be paid for his natural
life out of the Exchequer quarterly : the first
payment to be accounted from Midsummer last.
|
Docquet Book, p. 221.
|
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Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the Customs Commissioners.
I have perused your report of April 27
last on the order of Council of March 1 last on the
Royal Africa Company's petition complaining of
the stopping the provisions by them shipped out
for the preservation of the soldiers in their respective
garrisons and of the negro servants carried thence
to the Plantations, as also the materials intended
for building and repairing their forts. And I have
considered the clause in their charter by which
they are to enjoy all privileges in the city of London
as fully as any company of merchants established
by patent ; as also the clause in the East India
Company's charter giving them liberty of Customsfree
export of clothing, victuals, ammunitions
and implements for purposes as above. I find
from your report that for divers years past several
provisions, viz., beans, grout, salt, vinegar, tobacco,
tobacco pipes, bread, beef and other victuals for
the said Royal Africa Company's servants employed
in their service on the coast of Guinea, and for such
negro servants [i.e. slaves] as they ordered to be
carried from the coast of Africa to the Plantations
have been shipped from London, Customs free.
On the other side it is affirmed by the Customs
officers that to their knowledge no provisions
or materials have been shipped by the Royal Africa
Company or the East India Company or the former
Company of Royal Adventurers or any other without
a warrant first passed for the same. I order that
said company be continued in their privilege of
shipping free as above, but nothing is to be shipped
without a warrant, or without an officer, or from
unlawful quays or at unlawful hours.
|
Out Letters (Customs) IV.
p. 88.
|
| [Aug. 3.]
|
Royal sign manual for 240l. 16s. 0d. to Sir C. Harbord
to be by him paid over to the persons entitled to the
estate for life of George Bagg in a certain field
and garden near the citadel of Plymouth, wherein
Abraham Biggs (now deceased) had an interest,
etc., ut supra, p. 824, said life estate being valued
at 140l., on which 12 years' interest at 6 per cent.
comes to 100l. 16s. 0d. (Money warrant hereon
dated Sept. 23. Letter of direction dated 1678-9,
Feb. 6, on an order dated 1678, Oct. 1, drawn
hereon, same to be hereby satisfied by tallies on
Anthony Rowe et al Contractors for Hearthmoney
on their 35,000l. part of their advance money
of 150,000l., which said 35,000l. is due to be paid
in 1679, June 24.)
|
King's Warrant Book VI.
pp. 73-4. Money Book
(General) pp. 313, 369.
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| Aug. 5.
|
Charles Bertie to the Customs Cashier to bring in
with respect to the weekly payments (and to the
Auditor of the Receipt to issue) 216l. to pay off
the bishop of London's order for 216l. for
Dr. Morison.
|
Out Letters (General)
p. 295.
|
|
Same to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue (and same
to the Customs Cashier to bring in, and another
letter dated Oct. 8 to [? same] for payment [i.e. probably
to bring in forthwith notwithstanding any
former restriction]) 200l. for Auditor Morrice
for one year on his fee as Auditor.
|
Ibid.
|
|
Same to same for tallies on the Excise (and same
to the Receivers of Excise to pay said tallies) for
500l. for last June 24 quarter on the Earl of
Arlington's pension.
|
Ibid.
|
Warrant from Treasurer Danby to observe an order
in Council dated Whitehall, Aug. 2, as follows.
Prefixing : said order in Council for permission to
be given to Monsieur Leyonbergh, the Swedish
Resident, to bring into England from France such
goods and necessaries as he has there bought for
his use and accommodation here, not exceeding
60l. sterling in value : he having this day [Aug. 2]
made application to the King in Council for such
liberty.
|
Out Letters (Customs) IV.
p. 88b.
|
|
Same from same to same to permit certain bales (lately
brought in the ship Marchant of Morea) containing the
equipage of the Marquis de Feuente (who was to have
resided in this Court) to be imported and exported
Customs free, in order to their transportation to
Nimuegen, whither he desires them to be sent to
him.
|
Ibid.
|
|
Same from same to same to employ John James as a
tidesman, Boston port, loco Richard Graves, who
has relinquished.
|
Ibid.
|
|
Authorization and allowance by Treasurer Danby (as
Farmer of the Fines upon writs of covenant and
writs of entry and of issues and profits and other
things compounded for in the Office of Alienation)
to Richard Courthope, one of the Masters of Chancery,
to take such oaths, in the said Office, and to
sign all such writs of covenant and writs of entry
concerning lands or tenements holden or not holden
as formerly hath been done : to hold the said place
in the said office with all fees, etc., whatsoever
of right due and accustomed for the same as
amply, etc., as Nathaniel Crew, Esq., or any other
hath heretofore enjoyed the same.
|
Warrants not Relating to
Money VII. p. 229.
|
|
Privy seal for 50,000l. to Edward Seymour, Treasurer
of the Navy, or to the Treasurer of the Navy for
the time being, as imprest for the wages or pay
of the officers, mariners and seamen that have served
or shall serve on board the royal Navy or ships
at sea : and likewise for 100,000l. to same as imprest
for the Navy and Victualling : all orders for
both said sums to be registered on and paid in course
out of the sum of 412,925l. 14s. 6d. in such manner
as by the late Act of Parliament [for the Eighteen
Months' tax, as by 30 Car. II. c. 1] is directed.
(Royal warrant dated July 27 for said privy seal.
Treasurer Danby's subscription dated Aug. 3 of
docquet hereof.)
|
King's Warrant Book VI.
pp. 66, 60. Docquet
Book. p. 221.
|
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Same to supply the defects in the letters patent of
1674, Dec. 30, granting to John Cook (Cooke) 400l.
per an. for seven years out of the French tunnage,
and directing the payment of the said sum out of the
said fund or otherwise as the Lord Treasurer shall
direct : all by reason that although the said
patent of 1674, Dec. 30, provided for the payment
of said 400l. to Cooke direct by the Farmers of the
said French duty before the moneys thereof should
come into the Exchequer (for which payments
the Lord Treasurer was thereby to give them
allowance and authority, and if need be to have
tallies of pro or assignment levied in the Exchequer
on said Farmers for same) yet the said patent
does neither warrant the drawing of orders in
the Exchequer for the said yearly payments or
the issuing thereon of any moneys brought into the
Exchequer from the said French duty nor for the
payment of said yearly sum out of any other fund
in case the said French duty should prove deficient
to supply the same : which defects the King is
disposed to remedy and does hereby remedy
in consideration of said Cook's many and acceptable
services. (Royal warrant dated Aug. 3 for said privy
seal.)
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King's Warrant Book VI
pp. 57-8, 57.
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| Aug. 6.
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Money warrant for 1,400l. to abovesaid John Cooke,
Esq., for 3½ years to Lady day last on the abovesaid
annuity as by the abovesaid patent and privy
soal : "and let the same be satisfied and paid
by levying of tallies for the same on the Receiver
General of the revenues of the Duchy of Cornwall
for part of the issues of their office due at Michaelmas,
1676."
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Money Book (General)
p. 300.
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Same for 200l. to Anthony, Visct. Falkland, upon
account of his pension of 300l. per an. (Charles
Bertie dated Aug. 6 to the Customs Cashier to bring
same in notwithstanding any restriction ; and to
the Auditor of the Receipt to issue same.)
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Ibid, p. 295. Out Letters
(General) p. 297.
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Same for 195l. 10s. 0d. to Sidney Godolphin, Esq.,
as Envoy Extraordinary appointed to reside near
the person of the Prince of Orange in the campaign ;
88l. thereof being for 22 days to June 25 last on
his ordinary of 4l. a day (Secretary Williamson
having certified that said Godolphin returned
from his said employment into his Majesty's
presence on said June 25, and that he departed
from his Majesty in order to his said employment
on March 4 last, on which service he has received
364l. for three months' advance) and the remainder
107l. 10s. 0d. being for his extraordinaries in that
service.
Appending : bill of said extraordinaries as allowed
by Secretary Williamson, July 14 last—
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Money Book (General)
p. 296.
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£
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s.
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d.
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For his journey from the Prince of
Orange's quarter at Boom by the
way of the Brill with the hire of a
vessel into England
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55
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0
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0
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For his return from London to Boom
by the Hague
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35
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0
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0
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For an express from the Hague to
London, with the hire of a vessel
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17
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10
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0
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£107
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10
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0
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Money warrant dormant for the annuity or yearly sum
of 400l. to William Bridgeman as same is already or
shall hereafter become due ; as by the letters patent of
1675, Oct. 4, granting same to him for seven years :
same to be satisfied by tallies on the Customs from
time to time.
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Money Book (General)
p. 296.
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Same for 400l. to William Ashburnham, Cofferer
of the Household, as imprest to be by him
paid over to Thomas Pursell, Esq., for one year
on the 400l. per an. granted by the privy seal of
1673, Sept. 30, for 20 musicians attending in his
Majesty's chapel royal.
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Ibid.
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|
Charles Bertie to the Customs Cashier to bring in
(immediately after weekly payments) 500l. for the
Earl of Feversham "and that you take care of
[paying] the Gentlemen and Grooms of the Bedchamber
and of the arrears of the Privy Purse."
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Out Letters (General)
p. 296.
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Same to same to bring in with respect (and to the
Auditor of the Receipt to issue) 130l. upon
Sir Thomas Williams' order of 1,750l.
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Ibid.
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Same to the Speaker [of the House of Commons, viz.,
Edward Seymour in his capacity as] Treasurer of the
Navy. Mr. Hornby has lent and paid to you
4,000l. to complete the payment of Christmas quarter
to the yards and for dead men's clothes. Treasurer
Danby desires you to deliver to him [Hornby]
for his security a tally on the Customs now in your
hands for 5,000l. dated Oct. 25 last which the
Customs Cashier is directed to satisfy by wine bonds.
In the meantime you are to accompt with Mr. Hornby
for the interest at the rate of 8 per cent., and to
pay same to him for the time he shall be unpaid
his said 4,000l. The overplus of said tally you
are to receive to the use of the Navy when the
Customs Cashier shall satisfy the same.
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Ibid.
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Same to same to apply the 2,000l. received this week
out of the Customs to the uses following, viz.,
900l. for [seamen's] tickets, 400l. for payment
of the Tyger prize, 693l. for a bill of exchange from
Scandercon.
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Ibid.
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Treasurer Danby to the Duke of Ormonde, Lieutenant
General and General Governor of Ireland. I enclose
a report dated Aug. 3 from the Customs Commissioners
to myself on the case of a ship belonging
to Sam. Hobson and partners, which in her voyage
from Virginia to England lost her rudder and some
of her sails and rigging and by extremity of weather
proving very lake [leaky] was forced to put into
Londonderry, where she is now putting herself
in a capacity to come for England, but the officers of
said port declare that if she continue there 28 days'
stay, they will then bring the goods on shore and
make them pay Custom. In this their report on
said Hobson's petition the said Commissioners pray
that if on enquiry the facts prove true I would
write your lordship for convenient time to be given
him to refit and that he may not be obliged to land
his goods if he sail to Whitehaven (whither she was
first designed) with the first opportunity after
refitting ; [this being a courtesy] not denied any
nation in such cases of necessity, and this ship
having given bond in Virginia for discharging her
lading in England. I desire you to examine the facts
and if true then to grant such convenient time
so that said ship can come to England to unlade
and to pay her Customs, "itt seeming to be a very
great hardship to the merchantt if the goods which
came by unavoidable necessity into Ireland should
pay duty there and afterward be obliged to do the
same heare [in England] or ells that the said
merchantts should be left to soe great penaltys as
would ensue by the breach of the [Navigation]
laws and the forfeiture of the said bonds."
Appending : (a) said report ; (b) said Hobson's
petition as above : could hardly keep said ship
up until it pleased God to put them in a harbour
in the Highlands of Scotland, where they could
get no help of carpenters or ought they wanted :
then they made for the next good port to be
supplyed and came to Londonderry in Ireland.
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Warrants not Relating to
Money VII. pp. 230-2.
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Report to the King from Treasurer Danby on the
petition of the executors and administrators of
several officers and soldiers of the late Sir Tobias
Bridge's regiment in the West Indies as by the order
of reference made thereon by the King in Council
1675, Aug. 4. I did long since enter into consideration
of the said petition, and finding
that there were many other claimants (besides the
petitioners) to arrears for service done in the said
regiment, and that the whole would come under
divers qualifications, I directed some fit persons
(viz., Charles Bertie, Sir C. Harbord and others) to
examine their pretensions and to set forth which of
them they thought fit to be paid and in what method
it might best be done. It appeared to the said
referees that by an order in Council of 1670,
Dec. 22, for calling home the said regiment
such of the soldiers only were to be paid their
whole arrears whose names were in the first
muster rolls, and were yet in service in the said
regiment, and the officers half their arrears : [all
these to be paid out] of the farm of the Four and
a half per cent. duty before any other payments :
and that the claims for some of the said officers
and soldiers who went out of England upon the
first muster at Portsmouth and continued to the
disbanding do amount to 4,071l. 7s. 6d. whereof
1,404l. 2s. 7d. is claimed by "such of them as are
yet living and unpaid : and by the next of kin
to several of the said officers and soldiers deceased
1,494l. 11s. 11d. more thereof by the executors,
administrators and assigns of several other officers
and soldiers ; and the remaining 1,172l. 13s. 0d.
(in the margin : 1,172l. 13s. 2d. Capt. Talbot
says, but was left out of the report) is demanded by
virtue of wills, administrations, letters of attorney,
etc. : against several of which last, queries are
made. And that there are several other demands
amounting to 1,022l. 19s. 4½d., which do not come
within the provision of your Majesty's said order
of Council for payment, being for the pay of
such officers and soldiers as were not in the first
musters at Portsmouth, but were afterwards
entertained at the West Indies or dyed or deserted
there before the disbanding or of such who are said
to be paid by Commissary Baines but [are]
denyed to be received by the proper officers and
soldiers or any claiming from them. All which
is humbly submitted to your Majesty's great wisdom
and justice."
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Ibid, pp. 232-3.
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Warrant from Treasurer Danby [to the King's
Remembrancer] to forbear issue of process or
execution till the end of next Michaelmas term
against Michael Arnold and William Dent as sureties
for Robert Stockdale, late Collector of Dover port.
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Warrants not Relating to
Money VII. p. 233.
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| Aug. 7.
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Charles Bertie to the Customs Cashier to bring in with
respect (and same to the Auditor of the Receipt
to issue) 40l. to Charles Whittacre for one year on
his fee as Foreign Apposer. (Another for payment [i.e.
letter to the Customs Cashier to bring said money in
forthwith notwithstanding, etc.] dated Oct. 8.)
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Out Letters (General)
p. 297.
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|
Letter of direction on three orders as follows, viz.,
one No. 273 dated 1670, July 28 for 160l. to Joseph
Williamson, Esq., and registered on the fee farms ;
one No. 260 dated 1671, Dec. 7, for 160l. to same
for one year to 1670, Christmas on his fee as keeper
of the papers [of State and Council at Whitehall]
and similarly registered on the fee farms ; one
No. 764 dated 1668, Aug. 1, for 528l. 5s. 0d. to
Capt. Thomas Stradling for what is due to the
Company of Capt. Barber, deceased, and registered
on the Hearthmoney. All the said three orders
are hereby underwritten with these words ; "having
received his Majesty's particular directions, let
this order be satisfied out of any money now or
hereafter being in the Receipt of his Majesty's
Exchequer not appropriated to any particular
service."
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Money Book (General)
p. 298.
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|
Royal warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General
for a great seal for a remise and release to Francis
Arundell, his heirs and assigns, of the covenant and
grant made by Sir Francis Crane for preserving
and maintaining 300 deer in the park of Stoke
Bruern, co. Northampton, for the recreation,
hunting and delight of the King and his successors
for ever : which covenant is contained in the
great seal dated Canbury 1629, July 25, granting
to said Crane the said park of 505 acres 20 perches,
which park is now lawfully descended and come
to said Arrundell : the present release is by reason
that in consequence of the late wars all the deer
are destroyed in the said park, and the same is
converted to other uses : the present release is also
to cover all covenants and grants made by said
Crane for preserving the wood and trees in the said
park for the shelter and support of said deer, and all
other covenants relating to the premises and all
breaches and non performance thereof. (Treasurer
Danby's subscription dated Sept. 7 of docquet
dated Sept. hereof.)
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King's Warrant Book VI.
pp. 71-2. Docquet
Book, p. 2.
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Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the Customs Commissioners
to have opened at the house of the Earl
of Ailesbury in St. John's, Clerkenwell, and to
deliver, Customs free, several cases of clothing,
necessaries and some small things for presents,
same belonging to him being lately brought from
Holland in the Mary yacht.
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Out Letters (Customs) IV.
p. 89.
|
|
Appointment and authorisation by same to Anthony
Segar, Richard Wynne, Abraham Parker, Daniel
Morgan and Rice Hopkins to search for and seize
uncustomed and prohibited goods for one month
from date hereof and no longer : all mayors,
sheriffs, etc., are hereby to assist them.
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Ibid.
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| Aug. 8.
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Money warrant for 1,022l. 13s. 10d. to Phillip Packer,
Esq., Paymaster of the Works, as imprest to be
by him paid over as follows, viz., 669l. 9s. 10d.
thereof for the executors, etc., of John Deane,
late keeper of the King's privy garden for keeping
said garden, the Fountain Garden and the cleaning
the long stone gallery within the palace of Whitehall
for 1¾ years to 1677, Jan. 24, as by certificate of
Charles, Lord Gerard of Brandon ; and 353l. 4s. 0d.
to William Waite, present keeper of said garden
for the like work for the year ended June 24 last :
all as by the privy seal of July 31 supra, p. 1073.
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Money Book (General)
p. 297.
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|
Same for 390l. 19s. 10d. to said Phillip Packer as imprest
to be by him paid over to such person or
persons as have been keepers of the Bowling Green
and Balcony Garden plots at Hampton Court for
2¾ years to June 24 : all as by the abovesaid privy
seal.
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Ibid.
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|
Same for 250l. to Sir Algernon May, Kt., for half
a year on his fee of 500l. per an. as Keeper of the
Records in the Tower. (Charles Bertie dated
Aug. 9 to the Customs Cashier to bring same in
with respect to the weekly payments ; and same
to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue same.)
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Ibid, p. 298. Out Letter's
(General) p. 299.
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Same for 290l. to John Brisbane for extraordinary
expenses 1677, Dec. 25, to 1678, June 25, as his
Majesty's Agent for soliciting merchants' affairs
in the Court of France.
Appending : bill of said extraordinaries as allowed
by Secretary Coventry Aug. 7 inst., and as sworn
to as true "to the best of his knowledge" by said
Brisbane before Baron C. Spelman, Aug. 5 inst.
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Money Book (General)
p. 298.
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|
£
|
s.
|
d.
|
|
For several gratuities to procure
expeditions [of business]
|
49
|
0
|
0
|
|
For port of letters
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25
|
0
|
0
|
|
For journeys to St. Germain
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52
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0
|
0
|
|
For translations, extracts of proceedings
and purchasing other sorts of
writing
|
74
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0
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0
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For going into Flanders
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36
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0
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0
|
|
[Exchequer and other] charges in
recovering his last preceding
half year's salary
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38
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0
|
0
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|
Same for recovering his last account
of extraordinaries
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16
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0
|
0
|
|
£290
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0
|
0
|
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Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the Customs Commissioners
to permit the importation of eight tons
of gum seneca into London port by Adam Gronen
from Holland upon payment of duty : same being
a drug of the growth of the river Seneca in Africa,
which is wholly in possession of the Dutch from
whom only it can be had, and being of absolute
necessity in dyeing, as appears by certificate of
several artificers formerly transmitted to Treasurer
Danby, "whereupon I then received his
Majesty's pleasure touching the importation of
the said drug."
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Out Letters (Customs) IV.
p. 90.
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| [?]
|
Same from same to have opened at the house of
Ralph Montague, late Ambassador to France,
and to deliver, Customs free, his goods as in a
schedule, they being lately brought from France in
the Kath[erine] yacht.
Appending : said schedule (clothes, coaches, etc.).
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Ibid, pp. 90-100.
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| Aug. 8.
|
Charles Bertie to the Customs Cashier. The Earl of
Sunderland's privy seal [for his ordinary as Ambassador
to France] being not yet passed and his
occasions requiring a speedy supply Treasurer
Danby desires you by this night's post to
accommodate him with 1,300l. by bills to Paris,
which [sum] the Lord Treasurer will speedily see
repaid to you.
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Out Letters (General)
p. 298.
|
Same to same to bring in with respect to the weekly
payments (and to the Auditor of the Receipt to
issue) 100l. 7s. 6d. for one year of Serjt. Gyde's
salary and board wages.
Same to same to bring in notwithstanding any restriction
(and to same to issue) 15l. for half a year to
Lady day last on Mrs. Bird's pension.
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Ibid.
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|
Same to the Auditor of the Receipt for tallies on the
Excise (and same to the Receivers of Excise to
pay said tallies) for 125l. for last June 24 quarter
on Lord Byron's pension.
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Ibid, p. 299.
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|
Same to the Customs Cashier. It appears by your
certificate that you have received from the sheriffs
of London 7,281l. 17s. 10d. which was levied on
the estate of William Bellamy. It further appears
from Mr. Prowse's certificate that 405l. 2s. 7d.,
part thereof, was levied and paid on seven bonds
assigned by Treasurer Danby's order dated 1677,
Aug. 29. You are to pay said 405l. 2s. 7d. to the
Rt. Honble. Sir Fr. Chaplyn, Kt., now Lord
Mayor of London, you having received tallies for
your discharge upon the delivery of the said bonds.
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Ibid, p. 297.
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|
The like letter for the like payment to the Treasurer
of the Navy of the sum of 1,136l. 1s. 10d. out of the
abovesaid 7,281l. 17s. 10d., it being certified by
Mr. Prowse that said 1,136l. 1s. 10d. was levied and
paid on eight bonds assigned to the Treasurer
of the Navy in part of a greater sum, pursuant to
Treasurer Danby's order of Jan. 18 last ; and said
Treasurer having formerly upon his receipt of the
said bonds from you delivered to you tallies which
are your regular discharge and by which he stands
duly charged in the Exchequer.
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Ibid, p. 298.
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| Aug. 9.
|
Money warrant for 10,000l. to Ralph Montague,
Master of the General Wardrobe, as imprest for the
service of the Great Wardrobe and in part of the
40,000l. as by the privy seal of July 31 last.
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Money Book (General)
p. 299.
|
|
Charles Bertie to the Customs Cashier. I writ you
some time since to pay 100l. into the Exchequer
for the Provost and Fellows of Eton College, with
respect to the weekly payments. Treasurer Danby
now directs you to pay it in forthwith and also
10l. for Southwell School, notwithstanding any
restriction.
|
Out Letters (General)
p. 299.
|
|
Same to same to bring forthwith into the Exchequer
all the money in your hands of the Coinage duty,
there being now occasion to employ it to the uses
as in the Act [of 18 Car. II. c. 5 and 25 Car. II. c. 8].
|
Ibid.
|
|
Same to same to bring in with respect to the weekly
payments (and same to the Auditor of the Receipt
to issue) 25l. to Thomas D'Oyley for last June 24
quarter on his pension.
|
Ibid.
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|
Same to the Auditor of the Receipt to pay 400l. to
Sir Phillip Lloyd upon orders drawn in his name
for attendance on the Committee of Council for
Trade and Plantations ; 250l. thereof to be paid
out of the small branches [of the revenue] and
150l. "out of the Customs money which remains
in the Exchequer of the 400l. which was formerly
paid in to satisfy these orders."
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Ibid, p. 300.
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|
Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the Commissioners
of Alienations to permit Richard Osborne, Esq.,
to make out a door or passage from his chamber
in the Inner Temple (adjoining the garden or outlet
belonging to the Office of Alienation, being his
Majesty's ground) into the said garden or outlet
to walk and recreate himself there at all reasonable
times at his will and pleasure without let, hindrance
or molestation, which desire of his I am willing
to condescend unto for his good service to his
Majesty.
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Warrants not Relating to
Money VII. p. 233.
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| Aug. 10.
|
Cave that no grant pass of a parcel of the forest of
Delamere called New Pale with the royalties of
the forest, as cutting fern and digging turf or peat,
to any other than the Earl Rivers without notice
given to Lord Richardson [Baron Cramond] in
Southampton Street, in Bloomsbury.
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Caveat Book, p. 35.
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|
Royal warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General
for a great seal for a grant to Prince Rupert of the
office and place of keeping of the King's Garden
lying on the South side of Windsor Castle, and of all
houses, edifices, lands and buildings thereunto
belonging : with the fee of 4l. per an. : to hold
for 100 years in reversion after the estate for life of
Elizabeth Ellis, now Elizabeth Tucke (Tueke), and
upon the surrender of a term of 31 years granted in the
premises to Hartgill Baron, Esq., by patent dated
1660-1, Feb. 5 : but with proviso for making
the said lease void at any time after the death of
the said Prince, [on] his Majesty, his heirs or
successors first paying to the executors, administrators
or assigns of the said Prince the full sum
of 5,000l. of lawful English money ; and not before.
(Treasurer Danby's subscription dated Oct. 17 of
docquet hereof.)
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King's Warrant Book VI.
p. 66. Docquet Book,
p. 7.
|
|
Charles Bertie to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue
as follows the 6,700l. which the Customs Cashier
has this day brought into the Exchequer, viz.,
2,000l. to the Navy ; 2,000l. to the Forces ; 600l.
to the Privy Purse ; 250l. to the Earl of Lindsey ;
250l. to the Earl of Suffolk ; 200l. to Visct. Falkland ;
100l. to Serj. Ramsey ; 750l. to six Grooms of the
Bedchamber ; 500l. to the Earl of Bath ; 50l. to
Mr. Feilding.
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Out Letters (General)
p. 301.
|
| [?]
|
Royal sign manual to the Governor of Maine and
New Hampshire. By the Act of 25 Car. II. certain
rates are imposed on certain commodities of
Plantation growth shipped without bond first
given for the bringing of same to England : and
said rates are to be levied under such penalties
as for non-payment of duty in England. The
collection of said rates is by said Act to be managed
by the Customs Commissioners England. In
pursuance hereof said Commissioners have appointed
Edward Randolph to collect same within your
government. You are to give him all due encouragement
and assistance therein. You are further
to take effectual care that all former laws relating
to the trade of the Plantations be duly observed
together with the proclamation of 1675, Nov. 24,
for enforcing the said laws : and you are once
a year to return to the Customs Commissioners,
England, a list of all ships or vessels lading within
your government any of the enumerated Plantation
commodities and a list of all bonds taken by you,
together with such other matters as they shall
desire from you. And you are from time to time to
correspond with them and to inform them what you
conceive further necessary for the King's service
in the premises.
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King's Warrant Book VI.
pp. 67-8.
|
| [?]
|
The like letter respectively to the Governor of
Connecticut, the Governor of Massachusetts, and
the Governor of Rhode Island.
|
Ibid, p. 68.
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| Aug. 11.
|
Cave that no grant pass of any cellars under the street
nor of a certain parcel of land at Hatfield worth
about 30l. per an., supposed to be given [by will
by its last owner] to superstitious uses, without
notice [being first given] to the bishop of London.
|
Caveat Book, p. 35.
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| Aug. 12.
|
Letter of direction on 500l. in further part of an order
dated June 1 last for 20,000l. to Charles Bertie for
secret service : (on which order there has been
already paid 1,472l. 7s. 10d. ; 747l. 1s. 7½d. ; 1,000l. ;
1,000l. ; 7,000l. ; 2,000l.) ; said 500l. is to be
hereby satisfied by tallies on the Customs.
|
Money Book (General)
p. 299.
|
|
Money warrant for 20,000l. to Edward Seymour,
Treasurer of the Navy, as in part of the sum not
exceeding 50,000l. authorised by the privy seal of
the 4th inst. (sic : erratum for Aug. 5, ut supra,
p. 1082) : to be as imprest for wages and pay of the
officers, mariners and seamen that have served
or shall serve in the Navy. Same likewise for
60,000l. to said Treasurer in part of 100,000l.
as by the same privy seal ; to be as imprest for the
Navy and Victualling : both said sums to be
registered on the 412,925l. 14s. 6d., part of the
Eighteen Months' Assessment in such manner
as is directed by the Act for said Assessment.
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Ibid, p. 300.
|
|
Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the Customs Cashier
to receive from Phillip Marsh, Esq., Receiver for
wines, etc., in London port, bonds (on the additional
duty on wines granted in 1660, and upon the
additional duty lately granted upon wines and
vinegar) to the value of 2,500l., and to deliver
same (with the addition of the usual merchants'
discount thereon, "and the proper officers are
to certify to you the discount of the said bonds,
according to the Act of Parliament") to Phillip
Packer, Paymaster of the Works, in satisfaction
of three tallies levied on the Customs, two of them
dated June 28 last, the other dated July 24 last
for several sums amounting in all to 2,500l. ; and
for the service of the Works.
|
Money Book (General)
p. 300.
|
|
Money warrant for 62l. 10s. 0d. to Dr. Dickenson
for 1¼ years to June 24 last on his fee of 50l. per an.
as one of his Majesty's Physicians.
|
Ibid, p. 301.
|
|
Same for 100l. to Sir Joseph Seymour for half a year
of his salary as an Auditor of the Revenue.
|
Ibid.
|
|
Same for 40l. to Charles, Marquess of Winchester,
for two years to 1676, Lady day, on his creation
money as Earl of Wiltshire. (Charles Bertie dated
Aug. 13 to the Customs Cashier to pay off the order
dated Aug. 12 drawn hereon for said 40l.)
|
Ibid, p. 301. Out Letters
(General) p. 302.
|
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Same for 100l. to Mris. Katherine Gunter for half
a year on her pension of 200l. per an. for the service
of her late husband in the King's escape after the
battle of Worcester. (Charles Bertie dated Aug. 13
to the Customs Cashier to bring said sum into
the Exchequer, and to the Auditor of the Receipt
to issue same.)
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Money Book (General)
p. 301. Out Letters
(General) p. 203.
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Charles Bertie to the Customs Commissioners.
Mr. Younger in his complaint against Mr. Sansone
mentioned Mr. Flory as a material witness. I hope
you have sent for him and examined him as Treasurer
Danby did direct. Make a true state of the case for
his lordship.
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Out Letters (Customs) IV.
p. 100.
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Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the Customs Commissioners
to employ John Sanderson as a weighing
porter, London port, loco Samuell George, "notwithstanding
my order to the contrary."
Edward Wells as Collector of Yarmouth port, loco
John Dawson, deceased.
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Ibid, pp. 100, 102.
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Same from same to same to observe an order in
Council dated Whitehall, Aug. 2.
Prefixing : said order for the Customs Commissioners
to restore to Monsieur Bulossins, Envoy from the
Dukes of Brunswick, Luneburg and Hanover,
some goods laden in France on an English vessel
called the Prosperous, John Read commander, and
bound for Hamburg and thence to Hanover :
same having been seized at Portsmouth : said
Envoy having this day applied to the King in
Council for such release which the King orders,
as considering that the said goods were not designed
for England nor addressed to English merchants.
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Ibid, p. 101.
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Charles Bertie to the Customs Cashier to bring in.
with respect to the weekly payments (and same
to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue) 18l. 5s. 0d.
each for seven of the Grooms of the Great Chamber
to the Queen (viz., Mr. Robinson, Mr. Low,
Mr. Witherden, Mr. Elton, Mr. Change, Mr. Colby
and Mr. Hall) : and 105l. for the Groom Littermen
that attend her Majesty (viz., 10l. each to John
Eldridge, John Hosy, John Williams, Robt. Emms,
Henry Baldwyn, James Goodenough, James Taylor,
5l. to Richard Jones, 20l. to Tho. Franklyn and
10l. to the executor of George Ward).
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Out Letters (General)
p. 300.
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Same to Lemuel Kingdon. My Lord Dumbarton has
present occasion for 1,000l. at Paris. Treasurer
Danby desires you will immediately take care
to return that sum unto him by giving him credit
by bill for that sum at Paris by this night's post.
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Ibid, p. 301.
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Same to the Auditor of the Receipt for tallies on the
Excise (and same to the Receivers of Excise to
pay said tallies) for 125l. for half a quarter of the
Countess of Dorset's pension.
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Ibid, p. 303.
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Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the King's
Remembrancer to supersede the warrant of June 22
last and to issue a writ of venditioni exponas of
the goods of Thomas Chapman, of Liverpool,
merchant, and to forbear process against his sureties
till further order.
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Warrants not Relating to
Money VII. p. 234.
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Money warrant for 50l. 3s. 9d. to Thomas Payne,
for half a year of his salary and board wages as
a Serjeant at Arms. (Charles Bertie dated Aug. 8
[sic] to the Customs Cashier to pay same in with
respect to the weekly payments ; and to the Auditor
of the Receipt to issue same.)
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Money Book (General)
p. 299. Out Letters
(General) p. 300.
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Charles Bertie to the Customs Commissioners.
Proposals have been made to Treasurer Danby for
securing the debt due to the King from Mr. Tho.
Chapman, deducting only such charges as are
usually allowed in such cases. You are to send
Treasurer Danby an estimate of the charges usually
allowed upon the like account, to the end some
final conclusions may be made of this matter.
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Out Letters (Customs) IV.
p. 101.
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Same to same. The King some time since directed
the Duke of Ormonde [as then Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland] to issue a proclamation for prohibiting
the importation of Fuller's earth and tobacco pipe
clay into Ireland. By his letters of the 5th inst.
said Duke complains that said commodities are
daily brought from England to Ireland as ballast
and is of opinion that such proclamation would
have no effect in Ireland unless the laws prohibiting
the exportation of these commodities from England
were duly put in execution. You are to consider
this matter and advise Treasurer Danby what you
think most expedient to prevent the mischief.
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Ibid, p. 102.
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Charles Bertie to the Speaker [of the House of
Commons in his capacity as Treasurer of the Navy].
You will this week receive 2,000l. out of the
Exchequer. Treasurer Danby desires you to
pay it as follows, viz., 1,100l. to Sir Thomas
Clutterbuck in part of his bill according to contract
on a bill for 2,253l. 7s. 1d. dated 1677-8, March 4 ;
500l. to the Chirurgeon General for the care of sick
men at Portsmouth per bill from the Navy Board ;
and 400l. to the late Victuallers.
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Out Letters (General)
p. 302.
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Same to the Auditor of the Receipt. Mr. Kirwood
lately brought an account of moneys due to him
on orders in the Exchequer under the stop [of
the Exchequer] and not yet settled at interest.
You are to certify the sums yet due and unpaid
to said Kirwood and whether any interest has been
paid for the said sums.
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Ibid, p. 303.
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Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the Customs Commissioners
to permit the export, Customs free, of
the goods and equipage of the Danish Ambassador
some whereof he takes with him in the Merlin
yacht, the rest in the ship Anna Maria, of London.
Appending : schedule of said goods, etc., in the yacht
(including items belonging to Mr. Marshall and
Mr. Heyman) signed L. C. D. Aldenbourg, and
same of same in the Anna Maria (including a four
square trunk wherein the King of Denmark's picture,
a trunk wherein the King of England's picture
and [pictures of] several other persons of quality,
another trunk with pictures, a playing table, items
belonging to Mr. Bessel, Mr. Hahn, Mr. Marshal, and
Mr. Simon, 10 horses, 50 dogs).
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Out Letters (Customs) IV
pp. 102-3.
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Reference from same to same of the petition of Edward
Randolph, collector of [the new Plantation duty in]
New England, who being by his instructions injoined
to constitute deputies in the several colonies there
prays a yearly assignment of money for support
of the said deputies.
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Ibid, p. 102.
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Warrant from same to same to permit four horses
belonging to Sir Henry Goodrick to be exported
from London to Flanders. Customs free.
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Ibid, p. 104.
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Same from same to same to permit the import at
Bristol on ad valorem Custom, of a parcel of gilt
hangings for a room 18 feet long and 15 feet broad
[said hangings being] consigned from Flanders to
Bristol for the account of Mr. Robert Aldus.
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Ibid.
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Same from same to same to permit the export, Customs
free, of the equipage of the Comtes of Corzana and
D'Erbias, who being lately gone from hence to
Flanders have left their said equipage in nine coffers
with the Marquis of Bourgomayne, Envoy Extraordinary
from Spain, to be by him transported to
Flanders by way of Holland.
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Ibid.
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Privy seal for the payment to Robert, Earl of
Sunderland of 100l. per week as ordinary, and
1,500l. for equipage as Ambassador Extraordinary
to France : together with the usual clause for the
allowance of extraordinaries : the first three months'
ordinary to be paid in advance. (Treasurer Danby's
subscription dated Aug. 12 of docquet hereof.)
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King's Warrant Book VI.
p. 70. Docquet Book,
p. 223.
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Charles Bertie to Sir Ed. Griffin, Treasurer of the
Chamber, to pay the 20l. which has been supplied
to your Office for that purpose, to Avis Lawrence
to whom the King has directed same to be paid
as assignee of Richard Crawley out of the arrears
of his [Crawley's] pay due upon the old establishment
as one of the Yeomen of the Guard of his
Majesty's body.
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Out Letters (General)
p. 305.
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Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the officers of the
Receipt revoking the warrant of 1677, Nov. 17,
which suspended Sir William D'Oyley, Kt., from
the execution of his office as one of the four Tellers
of the Exchequer. The said warrant was made
pending the King's further pleasure therein : and
the King has since thought it for his service to
have the said office executed by some deputy, in
order whereto said D'Oyley, by the King's direction,
deputed Bartholomew Fillingham and Nicholas
Dering, Esqrs., to execute said office. In order
to enable D'Oyley to [empower such deputies and
so] execute said office by said deputies and not
otherwise till the King's pleasure be further known,
the said warrant of suspension is revoked and the
said deputies are to be received and invested into the
execution of the said office.
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Warrants not Relating to
Money VII. p. 234.
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