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| Mar. 21. |
Henry Guy to the officers of the Jewel House. By
order of Council you are to provide the following
particulars for the Coronation. You are to keep in
readiness such as you have by you and to provide
the rest. |
Out Letters (General) IX, p. 33. |
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Appending: "further particulars to be provided by
the Master of the Jewel House for his Majesty's
Coronation: read in Council the 20th of Mar.,
1684–5." |
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a gilt bowl and cover for the Mayor of Oxford as
Under Butler: of about 108 ounces. |
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another for the Champion: of 30 ounces. |
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another for the chief Cupbearer: 26 ounces. |
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two gilt basons, one ewer and an assay cup for
the Lord Great Chamberlain: about 342
ounces. |
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two gilt basons for the Chief Almoner: about
305 ounces. |
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| Mar. 21. |
Henry Guy to the Customs Commissioners to present
John Sheppard for the next vacant place of landwaiter, London port; he being well recommended
to the Lord Treasurer. |
Out Letters (General) IX, p. 33. |
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Same to the Navy Commissioners. In reply to yours
of yesterday you are to take Mr. Taylor's proffered
securities for the performance of his contract [for
stores] if you think them sufficient. |
Ibid. |
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Same to the Auditor of the Receipt. Hereafter before
any imprest rolls be delivered forth by you they
are to be examined and signed by the Clerk of the
Pells. |
Ibid. |
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Same to Mr. Darcy, Mr. Benyon and Col. Philips
enclosing a letter [missing] from the Lord Chamberlain concerning mourning for the porters. You are
to provide them with fitting mourning without
having regard to what hath been done formerly. |
Ibid. |
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Same to same for an account what the liveries of the
Chapel will come to: also at what time they had
their last liveries. |
Ibid. |
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Order by Treasurer Rochester for the execution of a
warrant of the late Treasury Lords dated 1684,
Aug. 20, for tallies for the bankers' perpetual interest
due at (the quarter ended) Midsummer, 1682. |
Money Book VI, p. 14. |
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Warrant by same to William Wardour, Clerk
of the Pells. "Whereas the imprest rolls of
accomptants are now usually made out and signed
by the Auditor of the Receipt of Exchqeuer I do
think fit and hereby direct and appoint (to prevent
all mistakes for the future) that you" examine
and sign all such imprest rolls whatsoever that
shall be made out at any time by the Auditor of
the Receipt before they shall be delivered forth. |
Warrants not Relating to Money XI, p. 21. |
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Henry Guy to the Auditor of the Receipt to advance
to Edward Griffin, esq. [Treasurer of the Chamber]
for the King's immediate service for the King's
Maundy 200l. out of the moneys of goods seized
and remaining in the Exchequer. |
Disposition Book IV, p. 13. |
| Mar. 22. |
Warrant by Treasurer Rochester to the Surveyor
General of Crown Lands for a particular or constat
of the ground and buildings thereon, near Old
Street, called Rotten Row, with a view to a lease
thereof for 31 years to Col. Morgan at 10l. per an. rent. |
Warrants not Relating to Money XI, pp. 22–3. |
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Prefixing: report dated Dec. 6 from said Surveyor
General to the late Treasury Lords on said Col.
Morgan's petition for same. I have had the houses
and ground again surveyed. It is a triangular
piece 487 foot long by the little lane side called
Rotten Row and 116 broad at the west end next
Goswell Street leading from Aldersgate towards
Islington over against the Charterhouse garden.
It is bounded north by Old Street and runs along
Old Street eastward. There have been 30 mean
houses formerly erected thereon and sub-divided
into nearly 50 dwellings, but most of them now
decayed and those that are inhabited are possessed,
divers of them, by rag gatherers and such kind of
poor people, others by victuallers and petty tradesmen who bestow some little cost upon them to
keep them up: most of the poorer sort pay no
rent and those that do amount to about 30l. per an.
which is collected by one Mr. Man for the use of
the city as is pretended. On the whole they are
of very small value, as now they are but a nest for
thieves and ill persons to shelter in and must be
all new built. If petitioner will undertake to assert
the King's title and to re-edify them of brick (most
of them being now of timber and boards, very
dangerous to be set on fire) a grant may be made
to him at 10l. per an. rent. |
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| Mar. 23. |
Henry Guy to the Dutch Ambassador. Treasurer
Rochester has received from the Revenue Commissioners, Ireland, a letter dated the 12th inst. in
reply to that from the late Treasury Lords containing
your memorial, the affidavit of Peter Cransborough
and other papers touching the ship the Castle of
Purmurent, Claes Schelder skipper. Therein the
Revenue Commissioners state that from the Collector
of Dungarvan port they had on Mar. 25 the first
notice of said ship, though she arrived there some
time before loaden with wines and brandy, which
were landed and secured in the King's warehouse;
of which before they had notice the master had
sold seven casks of wine and if the markets had
answered his expectation he would doubtless have
so disposed the whole cargo: that the said Collector
by letter dated Mar. 8 (which the Revenue Commissioners received April 2) informed them of the
disability of said ship whose misfortune for what
appeared then to them might have happened
whilst she was in the harbour and that the day
before another ship was arrived from Holland to
take in and transport the unsold wines and brandy;
and the Collector desired directions concerning the
duty to be paid. Whereupon the said Revenue
Commissioners April 8 sent him directions upon
which he received for duty 179l. 13s. 10d. as for
goods landed and afterwards exported which the
Revenue Commissioners thought lawful and reasonable in regard the master had sold part of his cargo
and had the benefit of the port, the King being at
the charge of keeping officers on board the ship
before the delivery of the goods. As to the damage
of 500l. sworn to by Cransborough, the said
Commissioners say there cannot be the least shadow
of pretence for it since the ship from Holland arrived
Mar. 27 and they had notice thereof only on April 2
and they sent their directions on the 8th following,
which they could not sooner despatch, the distance
between them and Dungarvan being 100 miles and
therefore if any damage be claimed it must be such
as happened between the 2nd and 11th of April
"which they judge to be an unanswerable pretence." |
Out Letters (General) IX, p. 34. |
| Mar. 23. |
Henry Guy to Sir Robert Viner. As to the three new
maces for the sergeants at arms the same warrants
must be procured from the Lord Chamberlain for
the other two as was delivered to you by the sergeant
at arms that attends the Lord Treasurer. Thereupon
Treasurer Rochester will give directions for them. |
Out Letters (General) IX, p. 35. |
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Same to the Hamburgh Company to report to Treasurer
Rochester (in the same method as was desired by
my letter of July 25 last supra, Calendar of Treasury
Books, Vol. VII, pp. 1250–1) upon the petition of
Francis Moncke et al. to the late King for a Commission to put in execution the laws prohibiting the
exportation of sheep, wool, woolfells, etc.; and
[likewise to similarly report on] the other papers
relating thereto lying before you. (The like letters
severally to the Royal Africa Company, Turkey
Company, Russia Company, East India Company,
Eastland Company.) |
Ibid. |
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Same to the Navy Commissioners for a certificate
what bills of imprests are made out (and not yet
assigned for payment) to Richard Brett and partners,
late Victuallers of the Navy. Also you are to
hasten your certificate for the balance of their
[Brett and partners'] six years' accounts. |
Ibid. |
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Same to Mr. Stephens. Send to-morrow your draft
of the letter to be sent by the Lord Treasurer to the
Navy Commissioners concerning the [Navy] debts
of the second book. |
Ibid. |
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Same to the Attorney General enclosing (a) infra.
In the charter which is now renewing you are to insert
such a clause as may be for his Majesty's service in
that matter. |
Ibid. |
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Appending: memorandum: that a proviso [may be
inserted] in the new charter of [the town of] Kingston
to exempt them from any jurisdiction or cognizance
of any presentments for misdemeanours within the
manor of Richmond, co. Surrey, belonging unto
his Majesty, but that all presentments for any
offences committed within the said manor shall be
tried in his Majesty's Court Leet holden at Richmond
and not by the Corporation of Kingston. [Signed]
Jo. Freeman. |
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Report to the King from Treasurer Rochester on the
petition of George Porter to the late King (as by
order of reference of Feb. 17 last): petitioner
praying a grant of his own personal estate forfeited
by the manslaughter of Sir James Hackett. I am
advised by the Attorney General that such grant
may be made to petitioner. |
Warrants not Relating to Money XI, p. 21. |
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Fiat by same for letters patent to constitute Sutton
Oglethorpe, esq., searcher of Customs, Carlisle port,
and of the members and creeks of said port in
Cumberland and Westmorland: as held by him
at the death of Charles II: during pleasure and
as amply as Thomas Addison or any other his
predecessors therein. |
Ibid. |
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Same by same for same to constitute Thomas Mitton,
esq., Comptroller of the port of Kingston upon Hull
loco Thomas Thornton, deceased: to hold during
pleasure. |
Ibid, p. 22. |
| Mar. 23. |
Warrant by Treasurer Rochester to the Customs
Commissioners to order Mr. Lucas, tidesurveyor, to
deliver a seizure of gloves to the claimer on payment
of 18l. to himself. |
Out Letters (Customs) X, p. 7. |
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Same by same to the Excise Commissioners, Excise
Auditor, Excise Comptroller, the King's Remembrancer et al. to discharge the sum of
598l., being the arrear of rent resting upon
Sir Samuel Starling, kt., Francis Meinell, John
Man, Hugh Hovell and Morice Hunt, as Farmers of
Excise of Norfolk and Norwich for 2¾ years ended
1668, June 24: it being certified by the late Sir
George Downing and by John Lawrence that in 1671
said Farmers were indebted 2,098l. to the King
for arrears of rent and being sued for same did
apply to the then Treasury Lords for an abatement of
rent by reason of the plague etc. and that upon
full hearing and debate of the matter the Treasury
Lords decided, on their payment of 1,500l., to
allow them the residue of their said rent: and
that said Starling did afterwards pay said 1,500l.,
but owing to Starling's death the order for the
discharge of the balance of 598l. was omitted to
be taken out; wherefore the said Farmers have
now petitioned for such discharge. |
Money Book VI, p. 20. |
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Dormant warrant by same to the Receipt for
tallies of assignment to be levied from time
to time for the Countess of Plymouth for moneys
due upon the annuity of 1,000l. granted by
patent of 1678–9, Mar. 20, to Peregrine Bertie,
Charles Bertie and Charles Osborne out of Alienations ("out of the money which should arise to
his Majesty, over and above the present reserved
rent, for fines upon writs of covenant and writs of
entry sur disseisin en le post or otherwise out of
the Alienation Office") as in trust in accordance
with the indentures of 1678, Aug. 30, and 1679–80,
Mar. 20, relating to the marriage between the late
Earl of Plymouth and Bridget, daughter of the
Earl of Danby, and with remainder clauses as
therein set out. The said Countess has desired that
said annuity may be paid her by tallies of assignment
and it is certified that it has been paid up to 1684,
Christmas. |
Ibid, pp. 15–16. |
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(This warrant is annotated in the margin with
notes of three subsequent confirmations or fresh
warrants for its execution, viz. 1686–7, Feb. 26, by
the Treasury Lords; 1688–9, Jan. 2, by G. H.
Prince D'Orange; 1689–90, Mar. 20, by the
Treasury Lords.) |
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Same by same to same for like tallies of assignment
for said Countess from time to time for her annuity
of 2,000l. out of First Fruits, or in case of failure
thereof, out of Tenths, being her life interest in the
annuity granted by the patents ut supra, and to
trustees ut supra. The said Countess has desired
that payment be made to her by assignment and it
is certified that same has been paid up to 1684,
Christmas. (Annotated in the margin with the
same three later orders of confirmation as above.) |
Ibid, p. 16. |
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Same by same to the Auditors of [Imprests as the
Auditors of] First Fruits and Tenths to allow from
time to time in the accounts of Robert Squibb as
Receiver of First Fruits and Tenths Enstalled the
yearly fees of 100l. for himself and 20l. for a clerk
to be taken by him quarterly in accordance with
the terms of the great seal of his appointment
dated Mar. 5 inst. |
Ibid, p. 17. |
| Mar. 23. |
Dormant warrant by Treasurer Rochester to the
Receipt for tallies of assignment to be levied
from time to time for all moneys paid out
of the Excise by the Commissioners or Farmers
thereof on the annuity of 10,972l. 19s. 31/24 granted
to the present Queen Dowager by the patent of
1672, Dec. 20: all upon the production to the
officers of the Receipt of the acquittances for such
payments. |
Money Book VI, p. 17. |
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Same by same to same for the like tallies of assignment
from time to time for all payments of the annuity of
1,236l. 16s. 1½d. granted out of the Excise to the
said Queen Dowager by the patent of 1674, Oct. 9:
all on the production of acquittances as above. |
Ibid, p. 18. |
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Same by same to the Customs Cashier to pay from
time to time the 1,850l. per an. each to Robert,
Earl of Sunderland, and Charles, Earl of Middleton,
the two Principal Secretaries of State: as by privy
seal of the 18th inst. |
Ibid, p. 19. |
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Money warrant for 125l. to John Rogers and Anne
his wife for 1¼ years to Christmas last on their
pension. |
Ibid. |
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Warrant by Treasurer Rochester to Auditor Done
to allow in account to Edward Seymour, Deputy
Clerk of the Hanaper in Chancery, 40l. for the
expence of passing his account for the year ended
1684, Sept. 29. |
Ibid. |
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Prefixing: said Auditor's certificate that said account
has been delivered in. |
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Reference by same to the Commissioners of
Excise and Hearthmoney of the petition of
Charles Frith, shewing that upon a previous
application for a collector's place in the Excise he
had a reference and was sent into Staffordshire to
learn the duty and is now qualified. |
Reference Book III, p. 37. |
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Same by same to William Hewer of the petition of
Ja. Bush and Paul Harris; shewing that they
petitioned the late Treasury Lords for 861l. 2s. 0d.
for wine furnished [by them] to the soldiers working
on the fortifications of Tangier by order of Col.
Kirke, the then Governor, and the Treasury Lords
ordered they should have satisfaction when the
arrears to the soldiers should be paid; that they
could never afterwards [have access to] acquaint
their lordships "with the hard and different
circumstances we lye under upon the account of
this our service"; that the greater part of the
money is due to merchants who are out of patience
for their money: therefore praying consideration
or they must perish. |
Ibid, p. 41. |
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Royal warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General
for a privy seal to appoint Bartholomew Fillingham,
Thomas Hall and William Lownds to be Agents
for holding intelligence and correspondency with
the Receivers General of Assessments in England
and Wales, to take care and see that they duely
and speedily pay into the Exchequer all their
receipts upon former Acts or any future Acts of
Parliament to be hereafter passed and to inspect,
manage and look after the bringing in of such arrears
as are standing out and unpaid on any former
assessments, aids, subsidies, Hearthmoney, benevolence or poll bills and to inspect and take care that
the accomptants to the King be duely and timely
brought to pass and finish their accounts, that all
ipsums, supers, or other debts to the King upon
any accounts be duely prosecuted and recovered to
the King's use and that all rents or other beneficial
matters reserved to the King upon any grants not
yet put in charge may (as they can be discovered)
be duly brought and put in charge. The said
Agents to be under the direction of the Lord
Treasurer or Treasury Lords: with a yearly salary
of 200l. each and with such allowance for a clerk,
messenger, office rent and incidents as the Treasury
Lords shall allow from time to time: all by reason
that it has been found necessary for the more easy
and speedy bringing in of aids etc. to appoint such
Agents to correspond with the Receivers General,
to take from them accounts, to take notice of their
payments and returns, and to quicken the payments
thereof into the Exchequer by returns of bills or
otherwise as may best suit with the condition of
the subject in their trade and commerce. [The
effect of this privy seal is merely to renew the
existence of the Agents for Taxes, the latest form
towards the end of Charles II's reign of the Office
of Exchanges.] |
King's Warrant Book X, pp. 57–9. |
| Mar. 23. |
Royal warrant to the Attorney General to acknowledge
satisfaction upon record of the fines of 100l. and
50l. set upon John Williamson and Thomas
Williamson respectively at a late assizes at Carlisle
for barratry: the King being pleased to pardon
said fines. |
King's Warrant Book X, p. 59. |
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Same to the Clerk of the Signet for a privy seal for
50,000l. to William Hower, Treasurer for the affairs
of the late city and garrison of Tangier, as imprest
for the expense and charge of the said late garrison:
"and forasmuch as the necessities of the said
garrison have required and may for the future
require the advance of money which cannot be
otherwise supplied than by borrowing the same
on tallies struck on some branch of our revenue
for the use and service of the said garrison "6 per
cent. interest is hereby to be allowed [to said Hewer
or through him to his lenders] for all such moneys
as have been or for the future shall be borrowed,
advanced or lent for the said service. At the end
of every six months the Lord Treasurer is to give
warrant to enable said Hewer to pay and discharge
such interest accordingly, which [payments of
interest] are hereby to be allowed in said Hewer's
accounts by the Auditors of Imprests. |
Ibid, p. 60. |
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Same to same for a same dormant for the payment
to Sir Robert Viner, kt. and bart. [the King's
goldsmith], of all such moneys (not exceeding [in
the whole] 10,000l.) as are and from time to time
shall be due to him for gold works, gilt and white
plate and other things by him delivered or to be
delivered into the Jewel House as by certificate
thereof under the hand of the Master of the Jewel
House. The said payments to be received by
Viner without account, imprest or other charge. |
Ibid. |
| Mar. 24. |
Royal warrant to the Clerk of the Signet for a privy
seal for payment to Christopher Rosse, the King's
jeweller, of all such sums as the Lord Chamberlain
or Vice-Chamberlain of the Household shall signify
to the Treasury to be the price of such jewels as he
hath furnished or from time to time shall furnish for
the King's service (with 6 per cent. interest, if by
agreement interest be to be paid): [all to a total]
not exceeding 20,000l.: same to be received
[by Rosse] without account, imprest or other
charge. |
King's Warrant Book X, p. 61. |
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Same to the Attorney or Solicitor General for a great
seal for a grant to John Warren, one of the Justices
of Chester, of the sum of 200l. per an. as an addition
to the profits of his place there: the same having
been added to the said profits upon the augmentation
of the salary of all the Judges at Westminster and in
North and South Wales: said addition to be paid
him quarterly upon the last day of each term, the
payment for last Hilary term to be made presently.
In case of his vacating said office this addition is
to be reckoned only up to the actual date of such
vacating. |
Ibid. |
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Same to the Clerk of the Signet for a privy seal for
1,500l. to William Hewer for hangings as follows.
The privy seal of 1681, Sept. 30 (ut supra, Calendar
of Treasury Books, Vol. VII, p. 251), directed 3,000l.
to said Hewer for so much advanced by him for
redeeming and purchasing divers curious pieces
of tapestry hangings which were delivered by him
into the Great Wardrobe. In part of said privy
seal 1,500l. was paid to said Hewer and an order
was drawn 1683, April 18, and signed by the then
Treasury Lords for the remaining 1,500l., but said
order remains still unsatisfied and by reason of the
death of Charles II is become void. It is hereby
ordered that 1,500l. be paid to John Knight [for
the Great Wardrobe] to be by him (under warrant
to be received from Marmaduke Darcy, George
Benyon and Robt. Philipps) paid over to said
Hewer to complete said 3,000l. Care is to be taken
that the 1,500l. remaining unpaid at Charles II's
death to Ralph Montague [then Master of the Great
Wardrobe] for the same purpose be not now paid.
"And whereas there was made over to the said
William Hewer by the aforesaid privy seal seven
pieces of painting called Raphaell's Designs, for
better securing payment of the said 3,000l. and
interest to him according to the tenor of the said
privy seal; these are further to command and
require you that upon payment of the said 1,500l.
in full of the said 3,000l. together with the interest
due thereon to the said William Hewer you take
care that the aforesaid seven pieces of painting
called Raphael's Designs now in the custody of
Thomas Povey, esq. be delivered back by the said
William Hewer for our use into the custody of the
said Marmaduke Darcy, George Benyon and Robt.
Philipps, who are intrusted by us in affairs relating
to our Great Wardrobe, and their receipt for the
same shall be a sufficient discharge to the said
William Hewer, his executors" etc. |
Ibid, pp. 62–3. |
| Mar. 24. |
Warrant by Treasurer Rochester for the execution
of a dormant warrant of the Treasury Lords dated
1681, April 12, for tallies of assignment quarterly
on the First Fruits or, failing that, on the Tenths,
for the annuity of 1,000l. to Louisa, Duchess of
Portsmouth, granted by the patent of 1680–1,
Mar. 4. |
Money Book VI, p. 21. |
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Same by same to the Receipt to cause the three tallies
of assignment struck upon John Lawrence, late
Receiver of First Fruits, viz. of 1684, Oct. 31, for
290l. and 210l. and of 1684–5. Jan. 22, for 500l.
(all for the Earl of Oxford for respectively 1684,
Michaelmas and Christmas quarters, on his pension
of 2,000l. granted by patent of 1673, June 19) to
be charged upon the present Receiver of First
Fruits by reason they remained unpaid at the
death of said Lawrence for want of money to pay
them. |
Ibid. |
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Henry Guy to the Auditor of the Receipt. I have paid
Mris. Anne Roper, late one of the Maids of Honour
to the Queen Dowager, 400l. out of moneys put
into my hands for the late King's secret service.
You are to make memorials thereof in your books
to prevent double payment. |
Disposition Book IV, p. 13. |
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Same to same to issue as follows out of such Customs
money as is directed to be this week paid into the
Exchequer, viz.: |
Ibid, pp. 13, 14. |
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l. |
s. |
d. |
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to the Treasurer of the Navy,
intended for one quarter to the
Yards at Chatham and Sheerness |
7,761 |
15 |
0 |
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to ditto to pay off the Mary yacht |
1,338 |
16 |
6 |
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to ditto towards fitting out several
ships to sea according to a list
from the Navy Board |
500 |
0 |
0 |
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to ditto for buying New England
masts |
300 |
0 |
0 |
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to ditto towards paying off the sea
officers whose ships have been put
out of pay and [are] to be paid
in course |
200 |
0 |
0 |
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to ditto for the Victuallers on their
weekly money |
600 |
0 |
0 |
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to ditto for Mr. Gore for hemp
bought and delivered over and
above 1,450l. lately ordered on
this account |
1,108 |
0 |
0 |
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to Philip Packer, esq. as advance
in further part of Sir Christopher
Wren's estimate for preparing
for the Coronation |
400 |
0 |
0 |
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to me [Guy] for secret service |
500 |
0 |
0 |
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£12,708 |
11 |
6 |
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(Same of same date to the Customs Cashier enclosing
the paper of the disposition of the Customs cash
for the present week, said paper including the above
nine items [payable out of Customs money in the
Exchequer] together with the following item [payable
directly out of the Customs Office on tallies] viz.
2,000l. to Richard Kent and Charles Duncombe
in [repayment of] part of their debt. Total disposition 14,708l. 11s. 6d.) |
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| Mar. 24 |
Henry Guy to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue as
follows out of such Excise money as is directed to
be this week paid into the Exchequer, viz.: |
Disposition Book IV, pp. 14, 15. |
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l. |
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to Charles Fox, Paymaster of the Forces |
5,000 |
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to [the Cofferer of the] Household |
1,500 |
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to the Duke of Grafton |
750 |
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to the Duke of Northumberland |
1,225 |
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to Sir Robert Vyner towards the charge
of the Coronation in the Jewel House,
by way of advance till his privy seal
passes |
500 |
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£8,975 |
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(Same dated same to the Commissioners of Excise
and Hearthmoney enclosing the paper of the disposition of the cash of the Excise and Hearthmoney
for the present week: said paper including the
above five items [payable out of Excise money in
the Exchequer] together with the following items
[payable directly out of the Excise Office on tallies]
viz. 1,000l. to Charles Toll in part of his debt;
500l. to Mr. Hornby in part of his debt; 1,500l. to
Mr. Freind and Mr. Calverd in part of their debt:
and similarly [payable directly out of the Hearthmoney by tallies thereon] 2,000l. to Mr. Fryer in
full of 3,000l. lent by him on the half year's Hearthmoney rent at Michaelmas last, there being only 1,000l.
paid him last week. Total disposition, 13,975l.) |
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Same to Sir James Hayes and partners. If you
do not forthwith proceed to the clearing your
accounts the King will order process to issue against
you. |
Out Letters (General) IX, p. 36. |
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Same to the Navy Commissioners. The Lord Treasurer
intends suddenly to make an addition of 400l. a
week to the weekly money of the Navy which is
to be continued [to be applied] to the uses formerly
appointed. This additional 400l. per week is to
be applied as follows, viz. 200l. a week towards the
satisfaction of the commission and warrant officers
who have served in the ships at sea [to be taken]
in the respective courses of their several discharges
and payment of the ships to which they belonged:
200l. a week for the payment of [Navy] bills of the
second book as they are there entered and numbered
in their respective courses and precedency in the
several years since the postpone in 1671. This
money is to be restrained to the discharge of those
bills only which come under the heads of disbursements, rents and travelling charges, pilotage and
chirurgery, free gifts, bounties, freight and
transportation, victuals, extraordinary necessary
money and volunteers' diet. The Lord Treasurer's
meaning nevertheless is that such further provision
may be made by you out of the other usual weekly
money of the Navy (as the same will admit thereof)
for the satisfaction of the bills under any of those
heads which you shall find most pressing and judge
[the payment thereof] to be best for his Majesty's
service. |
Ibid. |
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Fiat by Treasurer Rochester for letters patent to
constitute Christopher Warren, esq. and Robert
Warren, esq. his son to the office of Customer and
Collector of Plymouth port as amply etc., as the
said Christopher Warren or any other previously. |
Warrants not Relating to Money XI, p. 23. |
| Mar. 24. |
Fiat by Treasurer Rochester for letters patent to
constitute John Harrison, gent., Comptroller of
Ipswich port, co. Suff. loco William Haggarth,
deceased. |
Warrants not Relating to Money XI, p. 24. |
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Report to the King from Treasurer Rochester on the
petition of the East India Company as by the
reference from the King of the 6th inst. supra, p. 73.
The Ordnance Officers desire a particular account
of the numbers and natures of all the guns and
that they be proved with the usual proof by
the proofmaster for the subject and likewise that
security be given by the Company that said guns
shall be employed only for fitting their garrisons
and forts belonging to their factories in India and
for their small vessels employed there. The Customs
Commissioners have also reported that by the
statute of 33 Hy. VIII, c. 7, all sorts of metal whereof
brass guns may be made are prohibited to be exported
but the law is not clear as to guns themselves, yet
in construction and practice brass guns have been
all along understood to be restrained by that law
and the searchers have not passed them without a
warrant from the Treasury. As the meaning of
this prohibition is to prevent the neighbouring
countries from being furnished with artillery and
this [our own] kingdom be in want thereof, it does
not in strictest consideration apply in the present
case. Therefore a warrant for export may be
granted. The Customs thereon would come to
250l. for the brass guns (after the rate of 12d. per £
upon a supposed value of 100l. per ton) and 6l. 5s. 0d.
on the iron guns. There have been some precedents
for permitting such shipments to pass Customs
free. |
Ibid, pp. 24–5. |
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Warrant by Treasurer Rochester to the Barons of the
Exchequer to take the securities of Charles Orchard
as Customer of Exeter and Dartmouth and to swear
him in: the said office having been granted 1660,
Sept. 12, to John Roope, gent. and the place of
Customer of Barnstaple and Bideford to Humphrey
Prideaux by patent of 1660, Oct. 1, and the place of
Customer of Exeter, Dartmouth and Barnstaple
to John Morrice by patent of 1663, Oct. 17, in
reversion of said Roope and Prideaux and the
said Prideaux having afterwards surrendered his
said grant to the late King, who thereupon by
grant dated 1675, Nov. 20, granted to Charles
Orchard to be Customer of Exeter, Dartmouth,
Barnstaple and Bideford for life for Barnstaple and
Bideford in possession and for Exeter and Dartmouth
in reversion of said Roope; and the said Roope's
patent is now determined by the late King's death. |
Out Letters (Customs) X, p. 10. |
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Henry Guy to Lord Dartmouth to forthwith repair
the 50 partizans which the Ordnance Office has in
store and to alter the letter "C" into the letter "J." |
Out Letters (General) IX, p. 36. |
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Same to the Customs Commissioners to deliver tomorrow (notwithstanding it is a holy day) the 30
coach horses arrived from Rotterdam for the
ambassadors that are coming from Holland. Mr.
Laurence Dorville will give you the name of the
ship. |
Ibid. |
| Mar. 24. |
Henry Guy to the Commissioners of Excise and Hearthmoney. Treasurer Rochester is informed that one
Broughton who is employed in receiving the Hearthmoney in the North is disaffected to the Government
and that his father drew up the indictment against
Charles I. Inquire into the truth of this. |
Out Letters (General) IX, p. 37. |
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Same to Mr. Blathwayt [as Secretary of War]. It
is the King's pleasure that Capt. Edmd. Barry,
Lieut. Terence O'Brien and Lieut. James Barret
shall receive half pay as do other officers in their
circumstances, as from Lady day coming. You
are to prepare the warrants for this. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to Charles Fox. The officers of the Scotch
Regiment have applied to Treasurer Rochester that
27 sick soldiers first quartered at Dartford upon
their arrival from Tangier might receive their
clearing to the time of their first muster. Report
hereon to my Lord. |
Ibid, p. 39. |
| 1685. Mar. 25. |
Privy seal dormant for repayment of loans with 6 per
cent. interest as follows. Divers of our subjects
have lent to us or to our brother Charles II several
sums at the Receipt which remain un[re]paid.
And divers subjects may hereafter by argeement
lend other sums into the Receipt at interest not
exceeding 6 per cent. As the privy seal issued by
Charles II to warrant the repayment of such loans
with 6 per cent. interest is determined by his death
it is hereby directed that all moneys so lent and
due as above or so to be lent in future be repaid
to the lenders with 6 per cent. per an. interest "or
the same rate [of interest] to be made principal at
the end of every half year or quarter of a year
as the case [of each particular agreement with the
Lord Treasurer] may require." (Royal warrant
dated Mar. 16 to the Clerk of the Signet for said
privy seal.) |
King's Warrant Book X, p. 45. |
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Same for the payment of interest as follows to Charles
Toll. By an account made up to Jan. 1 last and
allowed by the late Treasury Lords Jan. 12 last
it appeared that Charles II owed said Toll
39,441l. for principal money lent. It is hereby
ordered that 6 per cent. thereon be paid him quarterly
as from Jan. 1 last (or to be made principal at the
end of every quarter), the interest to be abated or
deducted proportionably as the principal is paid off. |
Ibid, pp. 46–9. |
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Further Anthony Sturt, junr. lent 1683, Nov. 20,
the late King 2,000l. on the Customs and 5,000l.
on Dec. 6 and 3,000l. on Dec. 7 or 10,000l. in all
and 6 per cent. interest and 2 per cent. reward has
been paid thereon to said Sturt to 1684, June 30.
And Anthony Sturt, senr. also lent 1683, Oct. 22,
to the late King the several sums of 4,250l. 19s. 5d.,
2,500l., 2,500l., 500l., 249l. 0s. 7d or 10,000l. in all
on credit of the Customs and had an order of
repayment for same dated 1683, Dec. 22, and
interest and reward thereon has been paid ut supra.
The tallies for the said sums of 10,000l. and 10,000l.
are now in the hands of Charles Toll and the said
Sturt, senr. and junr. have by deed dated the 12th
inst. declared that said 20,000l. may be repaid
to said Toll. But it is supposed that the orders for
repayment cannot now be executed by reason of
the death of Charles II. It is hereby ordered that
said 20,000l. be so repaid him, said Toll, and also
6 per cent. interest and 2 per cent. reward from 1684,
June 30, to Sept. 30, and thereafter 6 per cent.
interest only. |
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Further there are in the hands of said Toll several
unsatisfied tallies of assignment amounting in all
to 36,000l., levied at the Receipt for Edward Noell
on the Hearthmoney for satisfaction of divers
loans made by said Noell, viz. four tallies dated
1684, May 27, for 5,000l. each on the 1684, Sept. 29
half year's Hearthmoney and 5 tallies on the
succeeding half year, viz. for 3,000l. and 2,333l. 6s. 8d.
and 666l. 13s. 4d. dated 1684, June 25, and for
5,000l. and 5,000l. dated Oct. 3. By instruments
dated 1684, July 7, and 1684–5, Jan. 26, Noell has
declared that his name was used therein in trust
for Toll to whom he delivered said tallies for his
own use. It is hereby ordered that 6 per cent.
interest be paid to Toll (or made into principal
at the end of every quarter) from Oct. 20 last
(to which time interest and reward is agreed to be
paid to said Noell). |
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Further there are in said Toll's hands four tallies
for 1,000l. each dated 1683, Nov. 9, struck in the
name of James Nihill on the Excise for which
interest has been paid to 1684, Mar. 30. It is
hereby directed that 6 per cent. interest be paid
thereon to said Toll from 1684, Mar. 30, or to be
made into principal ut supra. |
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Further George, Marquess of Halifax, lent 1683,
April 28, to the late King 4,000l. on the security
of dotard trees in New Forest. There has been
thereon paid to said Marquess and to Charles Toll
3,200l. of the principal and part of the interest.
It is hereby ordered that out of the proceeds of such
dotard trees the remaining 800l. be paid to said Toll
and all the interest remaining payable upon said
order of loan, the said Marquess having by indorsement made. 1683–4, Feb. 29, upon the said order
assigned [to Toll] the [principal] money then
remaining due and all the interest due thereon.
(Royal warrant dated Mar. 16 to the Clerk of the
Signet for said privy seal.) |
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| Mar. 25. |
Privy seal for the payment to Sir Richard Bulstrode
of all his ordinary and extraordinaries up to the
death of Charles II as Resident with the Governor
of the Spanish Low Countries as by the privy seal
of 1675–6, Jan. 5. Further his said ordinary
(of 50s. a day) is to be hereby continued to him
quarterly henceforward and similar allowances of
extraordinaries to be made him, the King having
appointed him Resident in that Court. |
King's Warrant Book X, p. 66. |
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The like privy seal in the case of Richard, Visct.
Preston, as Envoy Extraordinary to France, viz.
for the arrears of his ordinary and extraordinary
up to the death of Charles II as by the privy seal
of 1681–2, Jan. 18, and for the continuance thereof
from the [death of Charles II, being] the date of
the determination of said privy seal: the King
having appointed him his Minister in that Court,
in the same quality of Envoy Extraordinary. |
Ibid, p. 73. |
|
The like warrant in the case of Charles, Viscount
Lansdowne, as Envoy Extraordinary to Spain.
The 500l. equipage and the 5l. per day ordinary
as by the privy seal of Dec. 10 last are hereby
to be paid him: the King having resolved to send
him to Spain in the same quality and he having had
a quarter's advance of ordinary thereon. |
Ibid, p. 75. |
| Mar. 25. |
Privy seal for the payment to Richard Kent and
Charles Duncombe of interest at the rate of 6 per
cent. (made principal at the end of every 3 months)
on such sums as they have advanced or shall advance
to the late or present King, and as are yet unrepaid
to them. (Royal warrant dated Feb. 24 to the Clerk
of the Signet for said privy seal.) |
King's Warrant Book X, p. 25. |
