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Date.
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Nature and Substance of the Entry.
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Reference.
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Nov. 1.
[? 11].
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Charles Bertie to the Customs Cashier to forthwith
pay into the Exchequer all the Coinage money now
in your hands.
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Out Letters (General)
p. 334.
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Nov. 1.
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Same to the Auditor of the Receipt to forthwith cause
the order of Oct. 18 last, ut supra, pp. 1129-30, for
200,000l. to Sir John James and Robert Huntington,
to be registered as follows on the Act therein recited,
viz., 27,000l. on the fourth quarter of the said tax after
60,000l. for the Navy : 87,000l. on the fifth quarter
after 1,000l. to the Prince of Orange, 86,000l. on the
sixth quarter after 1,000l. to the Prince of Orange.
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Ibid, p. 335.
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Same to the Speaker [of the House of Commons, i.e.,
Edward Seymour in his capacity as Treasurer of the
Navy]. The Navy Board have made out a bill
of imprest to Mr. James Pearce for 600l. for provision
for sick men set ashore from his Majesty's
ships in several ports. Same is assigned for payment
out of such money as Treasurer Danby should
appoint. You are hereby to pay same out of the
500l. a week to be paid to you over and above the
2,000l. weekly.
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Ibid, p. 336.
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Nov. 2.
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Same to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue
to Mr. Kingdon upon any unsatisfied orders in his
name for the service of the Forces the 20,000l.
[which has been] paid into the Exchequer by
Mr. Row and his partner[s] for the third payment
of their [Hearthmoney farm] advance money.
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Ibid, p. 335.
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Same to the Customs Cashier to pay 50l. to Mr. Culliford
for last Michaelmas quarter on his salary as
Register of the Seizures.
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Ibid, p. 336.
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Same to the Navy Commissioners. Treasurer Danby
has seen an estimate for 1,550l. for repairing the
Yarmouth for seven or eight years' service. That
part thereof which is for wages will be comprised
in the quarterly charge of the yard : but if there
shall be occasion for the other part (viz., that of
stores) to have ready money, his Lordship directs
that in order to prevent the interrupting of payments
in course, such provision should be made by way of
imprest and the money furnished out of the 2,000l.
per week paid to the Treasurer of the Navy out of the
Customs.
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Ibid.
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Nov. 3.
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Royal warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor-General
for a great seal for a grant to Joane, Lady Howard,
relict of Thomas, late Lord Howard, baron of
Escrick, of an annuity or pension of 500l. for life :
payable out of the Exchequer quarterly, commencing
the first payment from Michaelmas last. (Treasurer
Danby's subscription dated Nov. 19 of docquet hereof :
the first payment to be made at Christmas next.
The patent of this grant is dated Nov. 27. See
infra under date 1678-9, March 15.)
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King's Warrant Book VI.
pp. 100-1. Docquet
Book, p. 9.
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Same [to the Clerk of the Signet] for a privy seal
for 100l. per an. to William Chiffinch from
Midsummer 1676, during pleasure and without
account ; being to be paid over to Giles Driver
or any other who shall be Keeper of Greenwich
Park, for wages and salary for himself and servants,
for repairing the keeper's lodge (repairing the lodge
there), for making hay for the deer, and other
necessary disbursements there upon any emergencies
in that place. (Treasurer Danby's subscription
dated Nov. 27 of docquet hereof. The privy seal
hereon is dated Nov. 30 : see infra under date
1678-9, Feb. 28.)
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King's Warrant Book VI.
p. 101. Docquet Book,
p. 10.
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Same to same for a same for 100l. per an. to Gerrit
Wylenbourch (Weighlingbourgh) for keeping and
cleansing his Majesty's pictures ("whom his Majesty
has appointed Purveyor and Keeper of his Majesty's
pictures to cleanse and amend the same") : to
commence from Christmas, 1676, and to be paid
quarterly out of the Exchequer without account
and during pleasure. (Treasurer Danby's subscription
dated Nov. 27 of docquet hereof.)
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King's Warrant Book VI.
p. 101. Docquet Book,
p. 10.
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Royal sign manual for payment of 212l. to Lucy,
Countess Dowager of Huntingdon, as royal bounty,
without account. (Money warrant dated Nov. 4
hereon. Charles Bertie dated Dec. 11 to [the
Customs Cashier] to bring said sum into the
Exchequer for said Countess.)
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King's Warrant Book VI.
p. 101. Money Book
(General) p. 332. Out
Letters (General) p. 350.
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Nov. 5
[altered
from
Oct. 25].
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Money warrant for 125l. to William, Lord Alington
one of the Council of Foreign Plantations, for one
quarter on his annuity or yearly pension of 500l. :
same to be paid out of the Exchequer : (this clause
of direction which belongs to Oct. 25 was altered on
Nov. 5. as follows : to be satisfied by tallies on the
Customs).
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Money Book (General)
p. 327.
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Nov. 5.
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Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the Receipt for the
issue of the unsatisfied remainder of the 52,000l.
charged upon the Exchequer in general in the
name of Lemuell Kingdon for the pay of the Guards,
Garrisons and contingencies in part of 110,000l.
appointed for the half year commencing June 31
last : to be satisfied by tallies on the Customs.
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Ibid, p. 331.
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Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the Receipt for the
issue of the unsatisfied remainder of the 20,000l. which
was charged upon the Exchequer in general in the
name of Baptist May for the Privy Purse in part
of the 38,000l. as by the privy seal of March 28
last : to be satisfied by tallies ut supra.
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Money Book (General)
p. 331.
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Money warrant for 5l. to Anne [altered to Elizabeth]
Gould for her charges in keeping Eliza[beth]
Pinckney, widow, in her sickness whereof she
died, and for the charges of her funeral.
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Ibid, p. 332.
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Warrant from Treasurer Danby [to the Comptroller
of Excise and Receivers and Managers of Excise]
to enter in their weekly book of disbursements
(once a quarter at such time as the payments to the
goldsmiths are to be made) the respective sums
mentioned in the original grant to the several
goldsmiths as paid [to] them and their assigns
without any special regard to the particular
assignments made for them : all by reason that
the said creditors as above [the bankers and their
assigns] upon assignments made to them do levy
tallies upon the Excise according to the respective
assignments which are very numerous, and consequently
the particular entry of them weekly in the
book of certificates from the Receivers of Excise [is]
very burthensome and difficult to be done so as the
said certificate may be duly complied withal, wherefore
this present regulation is made to prevent
further and unnecessary charge to the King in
keeping the accounts thereof. And in order to the
more clear and full stating of the account thereof by
the Comptroller and Auditor of Excise, you [the
said Receivers are] the next quarter day after such
payments as above become due and so successively
to produce and deliver up to said Auditor and
accomptant General all the tallies which are brought
in to you upon the said account that it may appear
how far the said payments to the goldsmiths or
their assigns are satisfied or what remains chargeable
upon you for the arrears thereof upon every respective
quarterly payment and how afterward such arrrears
are made good.
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Warrants not Relating to
Money VII. p. 259.
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Same from same to the Customs Commissioners
to discharge the seizure of the ship
Prosperous, of London, Steward Dare master, which
sailed from London May 15 last with 12 men, 9 thereof
the King's subjects and three foreigners, the master
being necessitated to take them by reason of the
great press [he] having had several times men
pressed from aboard of the ship in the time
of his lading insomuch that he could not possibly
complete his complement without the three foreigners
and he returned with three foreigners, himself and
eight English, wherefore his ship is seized with her
lading of hemp and potashes by the Deputy
Surveyor of the Navigation Act.
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Out Letters (Customs) IV.
p. 136.
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Same from same to same to deliver, Customs free,
the goods of Sir William Swan, Kt., late Resident
in the Hanse Towns, part thereof having been shipped
at Hamburg port on the Merchants' Goodwill,
John Tremlett commander, and other part on the
ship William Bushell.
Appending : schedule of said goods, (inter alia, three
boxes of pictures and a hapsicall, sedan glasses in
the first named, and other pictures in the second
named ship).
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Ibid.
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Nov. 6.
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Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the Customs Cashier
to pay the patent officers of the outports half a year
on their respective fees or salaries. (Charles Bertie
to same dated Nov. 6 to pay same with respect
to the weekly payments.)
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Money Book (General)
p. 331. Out Letters
(General) p. 337.
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Charles Bertie to the Auditor of the Receipt for tallies
on the Excise (and same to the Receivers of Excise
to pay said tallies) for 500l. for a quarter on Lord
Arlington's pension
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Out Letters (General)
p. 337.
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Same to same to pay to the Treasurer of the Chamber
7,500l. upon any unsatisfied orders in his name for
the service of his Office, viz., 6,500l. out of that
payment of [Hearthmoney farm] advance money
which is to be made by Mr. Rowe and his partners
on the 1st of February next, and the remaining
1,000l. out of the similar advance money to be paid
by them March 1 next.
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Ibid.
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Same to same to pay off Mr. Wardour's order for
100l. out of money in the Exchequer of the profits
of the Mint.
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Ibid, p. 338.
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Same to same for tallies [on the Excise] and same
[to the Receivers of Excise] to pay said tallies, for
125l. for one quarter on Lady Trevor's pension of
500l. per an.
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Ibid.
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Same to the Customs Cashier to bring into the Exchequer,
with respect to the weekly payments, 112l. 10s. 0d.
for Richard Le Bas, Master of the Ceremonies.
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Ibid.
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Fresh reference [from Treasurer Danby] to the Customs
Commissioners of the petition of David Horton :
same having been referred to said Commissioners
May 18 last and by them reported on Aug. 20 last is
hereby referred back again with other papers thereon,
on a second petition from said Horton, to report
if they find any reason to make petitioner any greater
allowances than in their former report.
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Out Letters (Customs) IV.
p. 137.
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Warrant from same to same to permit the landing,
and delivery, Customs free, of eight horses, two
coaches and other goods belonging to Monsieur
Muller, Envoy from the Dukes of Brunswick
and Luneburgh, same being sent with his secretary
in the ship Alexander from Rotterdam.
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Ibid.
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Same from same to the Surveyor. Comptroller
and other officers of the Works to put gates at
the King's bridge at the new Palace, near the
Receipt of the Exchequer, to be locked up at night
by the Constable's watch to be kept there, as
hath heretofore been used in the new Palace, and
to return the keys to the Usher of the said Exchequer
upon breaking up their watch in the morning :
the charge whereof is to be put upon the extraordinaries
of the Works : Treasurer Danby
being informed by the officers of said Exchequer
that said bridge is an open landing place at all
hours in the night, where evil minded persons may
suddenly land to execute dangerous attempts.
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Warrants not Relating to
Money VII. p. 261.
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Nov. 8.
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Money warrant for 125l. each to Henry Savile and
Henry Guy, Esqrs., for one quarter on their
respective pensions as Grooms of the Bedchamber.
(Charles Bertie dated Oct. 28 to [the Auditor
of the Receipt] to pay them said sums ; "for
which purpose I am informed" that the Customs
Cashier has brought 250l. into the Exchequer.)
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Money Book (General)
p. 322. Out Letters
(General) p. 333.
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Warrant dormant from Treasurer Danby to the
Customs Cashier to pay Edward Agberow the yearly
fee of 52l. as one of the King's waiters London
port, what is already due thereon, and what shall
hereafter grow due thereon.
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Money Book (General)
p. 332.
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Letter of direction on an order dated Oct. 17 last
for 76l. 19s. 2d. to Richard Mounteney, ut supra,
p. 1132 : to be hereby satisfied by tallies on the
Customs Cashier.
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Ibid.
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Warrant from Treasurer Danby to "Sir John
James, Kt., and Robert Huntingdon, Esq., Grand
Commissioners and Receivers General of Excise
and to his Majesty's Auditor of the said Revenue"
to detain and receive to your [said James' and
Huntington's] own use out of the rents and revenue
of the Excise 900l. per an. by quarterly payments,
commencing from 1675, Christmas, as a recompense
of your own pains and care and for the satisfaction of
those employed, or which you shall hereafter
employ in that service : and to continue the same
so long as you shall execute and officiate in the
said employment of Receivers General and Managers
of Excise : all by reason that the King by the
privy seal of 1671-2, Jan. 16, authorised the
Treasury Lords or Lord Treasurer to appoint fit
persons to receive the moneys of Excise, in pursuance
whereof Treasurer Danby by warrant of date
1675-6, Jan. 22, constituted said James and
Huntington to be Receivers General and Managers
of the revenue of Excise to receive from the Farmers
of Excise and others moneys due to the King for the
rent or revenue of Excise, they to have such allowance
and salaries to themselves and the officers
employed by them therein as Treasurer Danby
should think fit.
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Ibid, p. 333.
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Charles Bertie to the Navy Commissioners. There
is a sum of 30,000l. borrowed by Treasurer Danby
from the East India Company. It will be paid
to the Treasurer of the Navy to be by him issued
to the uses following, viz., 14,000l. for payment
of the Yards, 8,000l. for salary and half pays, and
rent, etc., of your own [Navy] Office for half a year,
6,000l. for bills of exchange of [from] Sir Tho.
Clutterbuck, etc., 2,000l. [to be paid to] Mr. Gibson
for sick and wounded. Treasurer Danby desires you
to assign payment thereof accordingly, so that the
bills may be ready for payment as soon as the money
shall be received.
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Out Letters (General)
p. 338.
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Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the Customs Commissioners
to employ John Holland (altered to) Rob.
Doughty as Collector of Customs, Yarmouth, loco
John Dawson, deceased.
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Out Letters (Customs) IV.
p. 137.
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Nov. 9.
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Same from same to Edward Seymour, Treasurer
of the Navy, and to the Treasurer of the
Navy for the time being, to pay and allow to the
Auditors of Imprests (and similarly to the said
Auditors of Imprests to allow in account) 25l. for
every 100,000l. accompted for in the declaration
of the Treasurer of the Navy's accounts as well for
the account of the late Treasurer of the Navy
ended 1673, July 12, as for all other accounts of the
Navy not yet passed and declared [? and so henceforth
for the future] and so proportionably for
every greater or lesser sum to be accounted for
over and besides the 20l. anciently allowed the
said Auditors in consideration of necessaries
expended in their offices : the said Auditors
having petitioned for an increase of their annual
allowance for their pains in auditing the accounts
of the Treasury of the Navy : which petition was
referred to Charles Bertie, Sir C. Harbord and John
Lawrence, Esq., who have reported that the accounts
of the Treasurer of the Navy are much enlarged
beyond what they were in the reigns of King James
and King Charles I., although the said Auditors'
fees for said accounts are still the same ; but in the
beginning of Charles I.'s reign, Treasurer Weston
finding said accounts increased from about 40,000l.
to near 100,000l. per an., allowed them by warrant
10l. per an. for an increase of salary for auditing
thuse accounts as well for the year 1625 as for four
years then last past, which said allowance was by said
warrant to be continued to said Auditors so long
as those accounts should be of that greatness ; wherefore
the abovesaid referees consider that the said
accounts being now much more increased, viz., in
time of peace to about 400,000l. per an., and in time
of war to about double that sum, and that the
supers in those accounts (which rarely in the times
of King James and King Charles I. did amount
to 1,000l. per an., and were contained in half a sheet of
paper at the utmost) do now extend by reason of the
multitude of sums imprested yearly (contrary
to the ancient course of those accounts) [upon
subsidiary imprest accomptants, each one responsible
to account therefor, such items of supers being
until accounted for annually debited or carried
forward or] charged upon every year's account,
do amount to very vast sums, and take up usually
between 20 and 30 sheets of large royal paper written
on both sides ; and also that the King hath of
late years taken away the allowance of poundage
from the said Treasurer of the Navy and reduced the
pay for that service to a certain salary, whereby
no gratuity can be expected by the said Auditors
from the Navy Treasurer proportionable to their
pains as formerly ; wherefore the said referees
consider that as the King receives so great
advantage by the reduction of the poundage heretofore
allowed to the Treasurer of the Navy by
giving him a certain salary, [he] may reasonably allow
said Auditors [an additional] 25l. per 100,000l.
accounted for, for their pains in auditing, examining
and engrossing said accounts, being once fair
written in paper and twice in parchment.
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Money Book (General)
pp. 333-4.
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Royal warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General
for a great seal for the payment to the East India
Company of 50,000l. with 6 per cent, interest for
same ; being as security and repayment of a loan of
30,000l, in money which the said Company has
agreed to advance and lend to his Majesty, and of
363 tons 12½ cwt. 25 lbs. of saltpetre which said
Company has agreed to furnish to the [Ordnance]
Stores, the said saltpetre amounting at the price
to 20,000l., thus making 50,000l. in all. The interest
for the said 30,000l. is to commence from the time
of the loan made and the interest for the 20,000l.
for the saltpetre is to commence from the time
of the delivery thereof ; and both interests to
continue to the respective times of payment of the
principal, but to sink and be abated proportionately
and as fast as any part thereof shall be paid off.
The whole is to be paid out of the Customs of East
India commodities imported or to be imported
by the said Company after satisfaction to them of the
60,000l. (and interest thereof) mentioned in the
letters patent of [Jan. 24, ut supra, pp. 878-9] last.
Tallies are to be struck at the Exchequer on the
Customs for said 50,000l. and interest and to be
delivered to said Company for the better securing
and payment of the said 50,000l. and interest.
And as the said Company have by their charter
six and six months' time for the payment of their
Customs from their respective times of entry or
importation, they are hereby to be allowed discount
of interest for the said time of six and six months'
to be computed and certified from time to time by
the Customs officers. All other clauses are to be
inserted for the due and orderly payment of said
50,000l. and interest without interruption or further
warrant [and] preferable to any other payments
to be made out of the said Company's Customs
duties. (A previous similar warrant dated Nov. 3
but vacated ; on identical lines to the above, but
refers only to the cash loan of 30,000l. without
reference to the saltpetre transaction. Treasurer
Danby's subscription dated Nov. [? 19] of docquet
hereof. The docquet covers both the 30,000l.
loan and the 20,000l. saltpetre transaction. Treasurer
Danby's warrant dated Nov. 28 hereon to the
Customs Cashier to pay the tallies for said 30,000l.
and 20,000l. after the tallies for said 60,000l. as
above, together with interest ; the interest for
said 30,000l. to commence from Nov. 12 inst., the
time of the loan made, and that for the 20,000l. to
commence also from Nov. 12 inst., being the time
of the delivery of the saltpetre as certified by the
officers of the Ordnance, discount for six and six
months' being from time to time allowed to said
Company on their Customs as above. This
warrant quotes the letters patent as dated the
22nd inst.)
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King's Warrant Book VI.
pp. 102-3, 100. Docquet
Book, p. 9. Money
Book (General) p. 340.
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Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the Customs Commissioners
to deliver, unopened and Customs free,
at the Earl of Plymouth's lodgings in Whitehall
a parcel belonging to him which lately came from
Faversham.
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Out Letters (Customs) IV.
p. 137.
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Charles Bertie to [the Customs Cashier] to pay in their
course according to date the tallies struck on you
for 273l. for a first quarter's ordinary to Sir Peter
Wyche as Resident with the Hanse Towns ; and if
you will in the meantime advance the said sum,
Treasurer Danby will allow you 6 per cent, interest
and 2 per cent, gratuity for so doing.
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Out Letters (General)
p. 338.
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The like letter relating to the [tallies for] 300l. to
Roger Meredith for his equipage and 182l. for his
ordinary.
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Ibid.
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Charles Bertie to [the Customs Cashier] to pay 250l.
to the Duke of Albemarle for a quarter on his
pension as a Gentleman of the Bedchamber and
150l. more for half a year's rent to Sept. 29 last
for Mote Park.
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Out Letters (General)
p. 339.
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Same to same to pay 500l. to Charles, Lord Gerard
of Brandon for a quarter on his two pensions, one
thereof as a Gentleman of the Bedchamber.
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Ibid, pp. 339, 340.
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Same to same to pay Thomas D'Oyley 25l. for last
Sept. 29 quarter on his pension ; paying same
next after the weekly payments are satisfied.
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Ibid, p. 339.
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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 Sept. 29 quarter
on Lord Byron's pension.
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Ibid.
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Same to same for tallies on the Tenths of the dioceses
of Yorks, Exeter, Winchester, Lincoln and Sarum
for 50l. for half a year to Sept. 29 last on the pension
of 100l. per an. to John Rogers and Anne his wife.
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Ibid.
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Same to same for a tally for 100l. to Mr. Whitgrave
for half a year to Sept. 29 last on his pension.
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Ibid.
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Nov. 11.
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Same to same to issue 450l. to the Paymaster
of the Works upon his two orders for the
gardeners of the Privy Garden at Whitehall and
of the Garden Plot and Bowling Green at
Hampton Court "by such proportions on each
order as the said gardeners shall agree." Same
is to be paid out of the 455l. 18s. 8½d. mentioned
in the Auditor of the Receipt's last certificate [as
being in the Exchequer, having been paid in under
the head] of First Fruits and Tenths.
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Ibid.
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Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the Customs Commissioners
to permit the landing, and to deliver,
Customs free, the goods (6 portmanteaus, 2 great
baskets and 22 trunks) belonging to the Company
of Italian comedians lately arrived and not forbidden
by the late prohibitions in the Poll Act, "the same
being, as I am informed, cloaths and other necessarys
for their own use."
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Out Letters (Customs) IV.
p. 138.
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Treasurer Danby's subscription of a docquet of a great
seal for a reversionary grant to John Fitch, Esq.,
of the office of Workmaster for the building and
repairing of all his Majesty's forts, castles, fortifications
and other works of what nature soever in
England and Wales ; with the fee of 120l. per an.
payable quarterly out of the Exchequer and all other
profits and advantages thereto belonging ; to hold for
life in reversion alter Philip Lanyon the present
officer.
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Docquet Book, p. 8.
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Nov. 12.
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Same of same of a same for a grant to Sidney Godolphin,
Esq., of the office of Gentleman and Master of his
Majesty's Robes with the allowance of 5,000l. per an.,
to be paid out of the Exchequer half yearly from
Midsummer last ; whereof 4,500l. is to be employed
towards the maintenance of the charge incident
to the said offices and is to be accounted for as
formerly and the 500l. residue thereof is to be
detained to his own use without account : together
with such other clauses as were contained in the
grant of said office to Laurence Hide, Esq., who
has surrendered the same to the King.
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Ibid.
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Charles Bertie to the Auditor of the Receipt for tallies
on [? the Excise] (and same to ? the Receivers of
Excise to pay said tallies) for 125l. to the Rt. Honble.
the Countess of Dorset for half a quarter on her
pension.
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Out Letters (General)
p. 340.
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Same to the Customs Cashier to pay in course
according to their date the tallies for 227l. 10s. 0d.
for Sir R. Bulstrode : and if you will in the meantime
advance the same you are to be allowed 6 per
cent, interest and 2 per cent, gratuity.
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Ibid.
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Nov. 14.
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Same to same to pay in its course and according
to its date, a tally for 910l. to Sir Edward Wood
for three months' ordinary : and if you will in the
meantime advance the said sum, Treasurer Danby
will allow you 6 per cent, interest and 2 per cent,
gratuity therefor.
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Ibid, p. 337.
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Same to same to similarly pay and advance 546l.
each to Sir John Paul and Sir William Swann on
two tallies for their ordinary.
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Ibid.
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Same to Mr. Stephens. Treasurer Danby desires
that out of the money remaining in your hands
of Sir William Warren's bills you immediately pay
2,000l. to Mr. Kingdon "which 1 [Bertie, out of my
secret service fund] will make good to you again."
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Ibid, p. 343.
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Same to Thomas Kirwood to advance 3,000l. to abovesaid
Kingdon, which Treasurer Danby bids me tell
you he will see you paid again in a short time.
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Ibid.
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Nov. 15.
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Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the [Exchequer]
Auditors of the revenue. In pursuance of the
powers given me by the Act [of 29, Car. II.
C. 1] for 584,978l. 2s. 2½d. for building 30 ships
of war, you are hereby in your respective audits
or divisions to give allowance to the respective
Receivers General of the said tax (who have
returned up duplicates for their districts) of the
salary of 2d. in the £ allowable by said Act.
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Warrants not Relating to
Money VII. p. 262.
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Same from same to the Receipt. There are
in the hands of Edward Seymour, Treasurer of the
Navy, 4 tallies dated 1675, Aug. 21, for 5,000l. each,
another of the same date for 2,000l., two others
dated 1675, Sept. 9, for 3,000l. each, three others
dated 1676, Oct. 19, for 5,000l. each, and three others
dated 1676, Oct. 20, for 5,000l. each ; all which
13 tallies for, in all, 58,000l. were stricken on Richard
Mounteney then Receiver General and Cashier
of the Customs ; and were for the service of the
Navy and Victualling. By reason of the alteration
[in the holder] of the Receivership of the Customs,
said tallies cannot now be made use of. You are hereby
to take same in and cancel them and the counter
parts and all entries thereof, and in lieu thereof to
strike one or more new tallies for, in all, 58,000l.
on Richard Kent, Esq., present Receiver General
of Customs, and to deliver same to the Treasurer
of the Navy, taking care nevertheless that he remain
charged by the record and entries in the Exchequer
to account for the said sum of 58,000l. as he does
already [so stand charged].
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Money Book (General)
pp. 334-5.
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Money warrant for 20l. to Lieut. William Serecold
without account in reward for his diligence and
good service in apprehending one James Tompson
suspected to be a dangerous Papist, with several
popish books and suspicious papers.
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Money Book (General)
p. 335.
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Letter of direction on 1,000l. remainder of an order
dated May 24 last for 2,000l. to Sir Joseph
Williamson for secret service : said 1,000l. to be
hereby satisfied by tallies on the Customs.
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Ibid.
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The like letters of direction on the following orders,
viz., of the 8th inst. for 100l. to Sir John Reresby
for half a year to Sept. 29 last on his salary as
Governor of the town and fort of Bridlington.
Of Oct. 29 last for 125l. to Thomas Turner, Esq.,
for last Sept. 29 quarter on his pension of 500l.
per an.
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Ibid.
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Money warrant for 455l. to William Soames, Esq., for
a quarter's ordinary Aug. 10 last to the 9th inst.
as Envoy Extraordinary to the Duchess Regent of
Savoy : to be satisfied by tallies ut supra.
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Ibid.
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Same for 150l. to Thomas Baker, Esq., for half a year
to Nov. 2 inst. on his salary of 300l. per an. as his
Majesty's Agent and Consul General in Tripoli.
(Letter of direction dated Nov. 27 on an order dated
Nov. 25 drawn hereon : same to be hereby satisfied
by tallies on the Customs.)
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Ibid, pp. 335, 339.
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Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the Customs Commissioners
to pay 66l. 13s. 4d. to the Earl of
Denbigh for two years' creation money as Earl and
as Visct. Feilding. {Charles Bertie dated Nov. 16
to same to pay same.)
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Ibid, p. 335. Out Letters
(General) p. 341.
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Money warrant for 66l. 13s. 4d. each to Brooke Bridges
and Thomas Done, Esqrs., for one year to
Michaelmas last on their fees as Auditors of Imprests ;
to be by tallies on the Customs.
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Money Book (General)
p. 336.
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Same for the amount due to Benjamin Coling and
Nathaniel Cox to Sept. 29 last on their several fees
of 2s. 6d. a day each as Keepers of the Council
Chamber : to be by tallies on the Customs.
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Ibid.
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Same for 750l. to the Earl of Bath for a quarter on his
annuities of 1,000l. and 2,000l. per an. in lieu of
liveries and plate as Groom of the Stole and First
Gentleman of the Bedchamber, and 250l. each
to the Duke of Newcastle, and Earls of Oxford,
Lindsey and Suffolk for same as Gentlemen of the
Bedchamber ; and 125l. each to Bernard Greenvile,
Henry Seymour, David Walter, George Rodney
Bridges, Richard Lane, Robert Phillips, Edward
Progers, Thomas Killegrew, George Porter and
Thomas Felton for same as Grooms of the Bedchamber.
[It is doubtful whether or not this
entry is a duplicate of the money warrants of Oct. 17
and 25, supra, p. 1141, 1147. The letters of direction
there quoted refer to the present warrant.]
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Ibid.
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Royal warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General
for a great seal for a grant to Sir Thomas Twisden, Kt.
and Bart., one of the Justices of the King's Bench
at Westminster, of the annuity or pension of 500l.
payable out of the Exchequer at or upon the last
day of every term in the year by equal portions
during his natural life, commencing the first payment
upon the last day of this present Michaelmas term
a clause to be inserted therein to forbid and determine
the payment of any further sum to said
Twisden upon his salary of 1,000l. per an. hitherto
paid to him as Justice. (Treasurer Danby's subscription
dated Nov. 27 of docquet hereof.)
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King's Warrant Book VI.
p. 105. Docquet Book,
p. 9.
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Royal warrant to the Clerk of the Signet for a privy
seal confirming an agreement with Leonard Manning
and Nathaniel Sweete who have made a proposition
which the King is pleased to accept to plant in the
New Forest yearly, at their own charges, 500 oaks
for seven years, commencing from Michaelmas last,
and to preserve the same and renew them in case of
decay ; having liberty to take in 10 acres of ground
in the Forest for a, nursery and to have agistment
in the Forest for six horses or oxen ; and for 21 years
from the expiration of the said seven years they are
to plant in the said Forest 500 oaks [per an.] to
be taken out of the nurseries and as many more as the
nurseries will produce, for which they are to be
allowed a salary of 55l. [per an.] and [an allowance of]
6l. per an. in lieu of woodmen's garments ; [said
payments] to commence from Michaelmas last
and to be paid for the said term of 7 years and
21 years, with further allowance (proportionable
to the said 55l. for 500 trees) for such other trees
as they shall set and preserve above the said
number of 500 : the said allowance of 6l. per an.
to be made at Lady day next : and [further
allowance to be made of] 22l. for [the office charges
of] passing the [present] privy seal and preparing
themselves for the said service. (Treasurer Danby's
subscription dated Nov, 27 of docquet hereof.)
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King's Warrant Book VI.
p. 105. Docquet Book,
p. 10.
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Same to the Attorney General for a great seal for a
grant to Richard, Lord Arundel of Trerice,
his executors, administrators and assigns, of all
that the King's manor or reputed manor and forest
and chase or reputed forest and chase of Exmoor
in cos. Somerset and Devon in as large and ample
manner as the same has been usually granted :
to hold for 31 years, to commence after such particular
estate or estates as are now in being or in case
no particular estate be now in being then for 44 years
from the date of "such our [present] grant" :
and [this grant] to be made with a reservation
of the like rents to the crown as are now paid or
payable for same. (Treasurer Danby's subscription
dated Dec. 13 of docquet hereof.)
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King's Warrant Book VI.
p. 106. Docquet Book,
p. 12.
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Privy seal dated from the Palace of Westminster
revoking and determining the letters patent under
the great seal dated 1676, May 26, and both the
annuities thereby granted ; the said great seal
having granted to Sir John Duncombe, Kt., from
1676, Lady day, the yearly rent of 1,000l. reserved
to the King upon the present lease made to Horatio,
Lord Townsend, of 4s. per chaldcr, Newcastle
measure (part of the duty imposed upon sea coals)
which great seal also granted to said Duncombe
an annuity or further sum of 1,000l. per an.
during pleasure out of the overplus of the revenue
upon fines for Alienations upon writs of Covenant
or writs of entry sur disseisin en le post, above the
rents reserved and charges thereon. The said
yearly sums are from henceforth for ever to cease
and be determined.
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King's Warrant Book VI.
p. 106.
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Privy seal for the issue to Sir Thomas Player,
Chamberlain of the City of London and present
Treasurer or Receiver of the moneys appointed for
the rebuilding of the church of St. Pauls (or to the
Treasurer or Receiver thereof for the time being)
of one full moiety of such moneys as now are or from
time to time hereafter shall be paid into the
Exchequer upon account of the [moiety of the]
Greenwax moneys reserved to the King and not
granted out in the grant by the great seal of May 25
last, and also one full moiety of the yearly rent of
250l. reserved to the King by said grant and of the
arrears thereof (which said great seal granted to
the Earl of Peterborough et al all fines, penalties
and sums of money payable upon all judgments
quod capiatur and capias pro fine and a full moiety
or half part of the revenue of Greenwax with all
arrears thereof except all fines, penalties and forfeitures
arising upon any penal statute or conviction
of Popish Recusants and except all penalties and
forfeitures upon other penal statutes which should
or might be recovered upon informations and actions
popular, Qui tam, etc., and except all Post Fines,
with power to the King to pardon any fine or penalty
as if the said grant had never been made : all for
31 years from date thereof at the rent of 250l. per an.
reserved to the King : which said great seal of
May 25 last revoked the privy seal of 1676, June 14,
which had directed the revenue of Greenwax to be
disposed by equal moieties for the building of the
Cathedral church of St. Paul's and for repairing
the castle and carrying on the works at Windsor
until those respective works should be finished
or order given to the contrary). The issues to be
made by virtue of the present privy seal are in consideration
of the King's continuing his gracious
intention to encourage so pious and glorious a work
as the rebuilding of the said church of St. Pauls ; and
they are to be made from time to time as the said
moneys and arrears shall come into the Exchequer
or by levying tallies of assignment upon the said
[Earl of Peterborough et al] Farmers or Patentees
or the survivors of them : and all said sums so
issued to the abovesaid receiver are to be employed
towards rebuilding the said church until the same
shall be finished or order given to the contrary :
and are to be received without account, imprest or
other charge other than such as said Player (or
other Treasurer or Receiver) is to give to the
Commissioners appointed for rebuilding said church.
The other moiety of the abovesaid moneys verbatim
is hereby similarly to be paid to Will. Roberts,
gent., Receiver of the rents and revenues of the
Honor and Castle of Windsor, by way of imprest
and upon accompt to be employed and expended
in the rebuilding and repairing the several lodgings
set apart for the reception of the Queen and the
Duke of York in said Castle until said work be
complete or order to the contrary given. Further
there is hereby to be paid to said Receiver of said
Castle and Honor of Windsor all such moneys as
are or shall be or remain in the Receipt of the
Exchequer of the Queen Consort's portion and such
other sums as by royal sign manual shall be
from time to time directed to him as imprest and
upon account for the building, rebuilding and
repairing the King's houses and buildings within
the said Castle. All the moneys hereby directed
to be issued are to be kept apart in the Exchequer
from other the King's revenue and are to be paid
for the uses hereby intended and not otherwise.
"And whereas the said William Roberts hath
received great sums of money for the service of
our works at Windsor as well at the Receipt of the
Exchequer as by the hands of our trusty and well
beloved servant Will. Chiffinch, Esq., and others
by our direction ; and upon his account thereof
several allowances may be fit and reasonable to be
made unto him which cannot be made by the strict
rules of our Exchequer, you [Treasurer Danby]
are hereby directed and required to take care that
he be fully charged with all the moneys by him
received for the service of our said works at Windsor,
and that you make unto him such allowances as the
Court of our Exchequer will admit and such other
[allowances] as we shall direct by warrants under
our royal sign manual. (Treasurer Danby's subscription
dated Nov. 15 of docquet hereof.)
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King's Warrant Book VI.
pp. 112-4. Docquet
Book, p. 8.
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Charles Bertie to the Customs Cashier to bring 2,000l.
into the Exchequer to-morrow for a quarter on
Treasurer Danby's own allowance.
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Out Letters (General)
p. 340.
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Same to same to pay 56l. 10s. 10½d. to Mr. Ady and
Mr. Cole for joining tallies struck on the Customs
in the year ended 1677, Sept. 29 ; being at the rate
of 2s. for every 1,000l. as appears by the certificate
of Mr. Mounteney, late Customs Cashier, and of
yourself.
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Ibid, p. 341.
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Same to the Speaker [of the House of Commons, i.e.,
Edward Seymour, in his capacity as Treasurer
of the Navy]. Treasurer Danby desires that the
4,000l. remaining in orders in your hands and reserved
for payment of wages being registered on the
412,925l. part of the last [Eighteen Months'] tax
be applied to the repayment of the like sum
advanced by me [Bertie, out of my secret service
money] for the payment of wages to the workmen
employed in his Majesty's yard at Portsmouth.
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Ibid, p. 342.
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