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| Oct. 11. |
Royal warrant to the Duke of Ormonde, Lord Steward
of the Household, Francis, Visct. Newport, Treasurer
of same, William Lord Maynard, Comptroller of
same, and to the rest of the Board of Greencloth
to pay Francis Gwyn's pension of 1,000l. per an.
quarterly from 1685, April 30, during pleasure. |
King's Warrant Book XI, p. 165. |
| Oct. 11. |
Royal warrant to the Duke of Ormonde, Lord
Steward of the Household, Francis, Viset. Newport.
Treasurer of same, William Lord Maynard, Comptroller of same, and to the rest of the Board of
Greencloth to pay as follows to the persons named.
being officers and servants of the Stables, their
salaries and allowances for the quarter ending
1685, June 30, for which they have not been paid.
whereas all other the servants of the said Stables
have been paid for said quarter: viz. 32l. 10s. 0d.
to Tho. Pudsey, yeoman rider: 56l. to John Grahme,
clerk of the Stables; 45l. 15s. 0d. to Tho. Roper,
yeoman sadler; 11l. 15s. 0d. to Henry Vaughan,
purveyor and granitor; 3l. to Tho. Duffeild, mewskeeper; 3l. to Edward Hewson, mewskeeper:
3l. 15s. 0d. to Jno. Banks, messenger of the Stables. |
King's Warrant Book XI, p. 167. |
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Same to same to pay to Mary Pomeroy, widow, one
of the servants of the late King's brother the
Duke of Gloucester, 20l. per an. from 1685, June 30,
for life, as additional to her 10l. per an.: the late
King having by a warrant dated 1662, May 7,
ordered her 60l. per an., which allowance was
afterwards reduced to 30l. per an. and was by the
late retrenchment and by the present establishment
[of the Royal Household] further reduced to 10l.
per an., which [his Majesty thinks] is too small a
maintenance to support her in her old age. |
Ibid. |
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Same to same to pay to Mary Hope and Elizabeth
Luck, widow. daughters of Robert Hope, esq.,
deceased, late Clerk of the Spicery, the pensions of
30l. and 50l. per an. respectively from April 1 last
for their lives. the king being pleased to grant
same in consideration of their father's services to
Charles I, Charles II and James II and of their
poor and deplorable condition; said Luck having
eight small children without any provision of
maintenance. |
Ibid, p. 168. |
| Oct. 15. |
Same to the Attorney or Solicitor General for
a privy seal to authorise Philip, Earl of Chesterfield, Henry, Earl of Clarendon (now Keeper of the
Privy Seal and Lieutenant General of Ireland), and
William Montague, esq., to assign and transfer to
Lawrence, Earl of Rochester, Lord Treasurer,
Lewis, Earl of Feversham, Thomas, Visct. Fauconberg, Richard, Visct. Preston, Sir Richard Belling,
Henry Frederick Thynne, Sir James Butler and
Henry Thornhill all their interests in divers manors,
lands, tenements and hereditaments of which they
stand possessed in trust for Katherine, Queen
Dowager (their said trust being for her life and
thereafter for the King, his heirs, etc.): the said
Queen Dowager having prayed that in regard
many of her trustees are dead the said trusts may
by their survivors [said Earl of Chesterfield et al.
as above] be transferred to the Earl of Rochester
et al. as above for the residue of the several terms
unexpired in the said premises and on trusts as
abovesaid. |
Ibid, pp. 184–5. Warrants Early XXXIII, fo. 41 a–b. |
