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July 2.
Whitehall,
Treasury
Chambers. |
Present : all my Lords.
[No entry of any minute.]
[Treasury Minute Book 99/1, p. 81.] |
afternoon.
Present : ut supra.
Mr. Fox called in. He offers to lend 20,000l. on the fourth part
of the Customs not appropriated by Act of Parliament, his repayment
to commence on Nov. 1 next, as he is already secured,
and then to continue it on the same security or to transfer (struck
through) and to be at liberty to transfer it on the Hereditary
[Excise] revenue, and he is to have 1,000l. paid him in consideration
of 2 per cent for 30,000l. formerly lent and repaid him June 21
last and in consideration of lending this 20,000l. at 6 per cent
for a year from this day.
[Ibid.] |
July 4.
Whitehall,
Treasury
Chamber. |
Present : ut supra.
The Commissioners of Sick and Wounded to attend this afternoon.
The Attorney and Solicitor General and Mr. Trevor to attend
this afternoon.
Mr. Lownds and Mr. Hall to attend on Monday next at Hicks's
Hall and to speak to some other [Assessment] Commissioners
[of Middlesex] to be there touching some complaints of the assessments.
Mr. Ryly and Mr. Fitch called in. My Lords agree that Mr.
Fitch shall have a privy seal for 5,500l. out of the wood sales
in New Forest and 5,000l. more out of the money arising by
other general wood sales.
[Treasury Minute Book 99/1, p. 82.] |
July 4,
afternoon.
Whitehall,
Treasury
Chamber. |
Present : Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Ste. Fox, Mr.
Pelham.
Ordered that 2,000l. be forthwith issued to the Commissioners
of Sick and Wounded.
My Lords agree to the following proposal and order it to be
entered in the Minute Book :
"Upon your Lordships' desire that the Receiver General
of the Customs would lend 20,000l. for their Majesties'
pressing occasions it was consented to upon the security
of the Customs according to the conditions that it was
lent at before. And thereupon your Lordships did agree
that 1,000l. should be presently paid to the Cashier in
consideration of the charges he hath been at and the taxes
he hath paid amounting to the sum of 875l., which he
prayeth may be understood [thus, viz. :] that 600l. thereof
is allowed him in full of the charges he hath been at for
the time past and that the other 400l. is a gratuity of
2 per cent for 20,000l. for a year to come, viz. from the
21st of June, 1690 (when his account ended), to the 21st
of June, 1691. So that he is not to expect for said year
any more the [than] 6l. per cent : which interest of 6 per
cent that it may be entire he doth pray to have a dormant
warrant to pay quarterly as it becomes due without being
at the charge of passing an account for the same. It
is further humbly desired that it may be understood that
he hath liberty to continue his security as already settled,
by the great seal, upon the Customs, not interfering with
the [appropriating clauses in the] Act of Parliament [of
2 Wm. and Mary, c. 4] or to have it secured upon the
Hereditary Excise [according] as he shall be advised.
And that your Lordships may not think that you have
been imposed upon the Cashier might have had a 1,000l.
for lending 20,000l. and interest at 8 per cent to commence
some time past, which he refused because he hath never
dealt that way but reserved himself to be directed by your
Lordships. It is humbly proposed that in case it shall
be thought necessary to pass a new great seal for the
[Customs] Cashier's security, it may be at their Majesties'
charge. The substance of this is humbly desired may
be made a minute in the Treasury : Tho. Fox, 4 July,
1690."
[Ibid, pp. 82-3.] |
July 7.
Whitehall,
Treasury
Chamber. |
Present : all my Lords.
The Excise Commissioners to attend this afternoon.
The Commissioners of the Navy and Mr. Stephens to attend
this afternoon.
[Ibid, p. 84.] |
July 7,
afternoon.
Whitehall,
Treasury
Chamber. |
Present : all my Lords.
The officers of the Ordnance to attend on Wednesday morning
next.
Mr. Aaron Smith to attend on Wednesday morning next (struck
through).
Mr. Ryly to attend on Friday afternoon next.
Write the Excise Commissioners to know on what day
positively my Lords may depend on the 25,000l. proposed to be
lent on the Hereditary Excise.
[Treasury Minute Book 99/1 p. 84.] |
July 9.
Whitehall,
Treasury
Chamber. |
Present : ut supra.
The Excise Commissioners to attend on Friday morning next.
[Ibid, p. 85.] |
July 11.
Whitehall,
Treasury
Chamber. |
Present : Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Ste. Fox, Mr.
Pelham.
The Earl of Ranelagh and Mr. Jollivett to attend on Monday
afternoon.
[Ibid, p. 86.] |
July 14.
Whitehall,
Treasury
Chamber. |
Present : all my Lords.
Mr. Young to attend on Friday afternoon next.
[Ibid, p. 87.] |
July 15.
Whitehall,
Treasury
Chamber. |
Present : Vice Chamberlain, Sir Ste. Fox, Mr. Pelham.
Write the Customs Commissioners to give orders to their officers
that no boats, ketches or smacks be suffered to go off from
shore, that so all correspondence with the enemy may be
prevented.
Mr. Russell, Treasurer of the Navy [is by my Lords] desired
to issue 300l. by way of imprest for the subsistence of 2,000l.
of the Marine Regiments, and my Lords will take care to reimburse
him.
Major Matthews, prisoner in the Tower, is to have 40s. a week
from this day for a month.
Sir William Hussey [is] called in. He moves for 400l. in
pursuance of the Queen's commands signified by the Earl of
Nottingham for his journey to Vienna in his way to Turkey.
My Lords offer it him on the Hereditary Excise upon the register
[of loans thereon] now passing. He accepts of it.
[Ibid, p. 88.]
[Out Letters (General) XII, p. 326.] |
July 16.
Whitehall,
Treasury
Chamber. |
Present : all my Lords.
[No entry of any minute.]
[Treasury Minute Book 99/1, p. 89.] |
July 18.
Whitehall,
Treasury
Chamber. |
Present : ut supra.
[No entry of any minute.]
[Ibid, p. 90.] |
July 21.
Whitehall,
Treasury
Chamber. |
Present : all my Lords.
Sir Charles Meredith and Mr. Lowther, two of the Commissioners
of the Revenue of Ireland, to attend on Wednesday morning
next.
Auditor Aldworth to attend on Friday morning next.
A letter [to be sent] from my Lords to Sir Robert Southwell
recommending to him the passing of Sir Jo. Edgworth's patent,
the King having been pleased to declare his pleasure at this
Board that Sir John should have it.
Mr. Hutchinson to attend on Wednesday morning next.
Mr. Thompson and Mr. Robinson, the Chamberlain [of the
City], to attend on Wednesday morning next about the Poll
money.
[Treasury Minute Book 99/1, p. 91.] |
July 23.
Whitehall,
Treasury
Chambers. |
Present : Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Ste. Fox, Mr.
Pelham.
My Lords order that Mris. Devitt's muslins and tea shall not
be delivered till she make oath of [hers being] the property and
[until] Mr. Hosyer's fees be paid.
Write Mr. Blathwayte to prepare a [royal] warrant for [allowing
in account] the 80l. which Sir Robert Holmes has received of the
Poll money in the Isle of Wight.
Write the Exchequer to receive at the value of 22s. each such
guineas as shall be lent between this and Saturday night next.
My Lords order that the salaries of the officers of the Customs
in London port for Midsummer quarter last be paid in three
weeks, viz. 1,500l. next week, 1,500l. the week following and the
remainder the week after.
Mr. Booth and the Deputy Clerk of the Pipe are called in.
My Lords order the Clerk of the Pipe to make a report in writing
upon Mr. Booth's petition for his salary as Surveyor of the Greenwax.
My Lords order that the tally struck upon the Excise on account
of secret service which is in Mr. Jephson's hands, be delivered
to Sir William Hussey and that it be paid in course.
Auditor Bridges and Mr. Herriott to attend my Lords on
Friday afternoon next upon Mr. Anderton's letter.
My Lords will order money next Wednesday to satisfy Visct.
Dursley's bill of exchange for 6,500l. for gunpowder.
[Ibid, p. 92.] |
afternoon.
Present : all my Lords.
Mr. Fox informs my Lords that Sir Joshua Allen has received
25,000l. and expects more daily ; and Mr. Fox is directed to
write to Sir Joshua that a convoy will be appointed, by which
time the rest of the money will be ready to go.
The Earl of Ranelagh moves for 13,600l. for Sir John Eyles
and [says] that Mr. Zulenburgh remonstrates in what bad condition
the Forces and himself are for want of money and that the six
battalions in Flanders (who have only subsistence to the 16th)
will all run away, and that the Queen earnestly recommends
this matter, all credit being lost in Holland upon news of the sea
engagement. They [the Forces] are all cleared to the 1st of April
and [are] subsisted to the 16th July, old style. And there is
another bill of 15,700l. that must be paid, though not presently.
The 13,600l. is [hereupon by my Lords] ordered.
As for clearings to the Forces here the Earl thinks only to the
1st Jan. [last] may serve till the King's return.
My Lords direct that Sir Charles Meredith and Mr. Lowther
go for Ireland as soon as may be.
[Treasury Minute Book 99/1, pp. 92-3.] |
July 25.
Whitehall,
Treasury
Chambers. |
Present : all my Lords.
[No entry of any minute.]
[Ibid, p. 94.] |
July 28.
Whitehall,
Treasury
Chambers. |
Present : ut supra.
Guineas to be taken at 2s. [means 22s., see infra, pp. 406-7] till
Thursday night.
Mr. Wardour to attend my Lords this afternoon without fail.
Mr. Smith to hasten the Commissions of enquiry into the
estates of the Marquess of Powys etc., now outlawed for treason,
and to give my Lords an account what progress is made in that
business.
[Ibid, p. 95.] |
afternoon.
Present : Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Ste. Fox, Mr. Pelham.
Mr. Young and Auditor Aldworth are called in about the Wine
Licence Account. The Auditor is ordered to make up the account
according to the contract comprehending therein the arrear due
at Michaelmas, 1682.
Mr. Snow called in. [My Lords] proposed to him to receive
the rents and profits of the Archbishopric of Canterbury during
the present vacancy. He accepts of it and my Lords order that
he have a commission accordingly.
Sir Tho. Pinfold and Mr. Francklyn to attend on Wednesday
morning next about the prize goods taken in the East Indies.
Mr. Harbord's deputy to attend on Wednesday next about the
business of Winchester.
[Ibid.] |
July 30.
Whitehall,
Treasury
Chambers. |
Present : all my Lords.
Mr. Bertie moves for 50l. a week for Sir Polycar. Wharton to
enable him to go on with his powder works. My Lords agree
to pay it and will advance 200l. presently for one month.
Write Mr. Roberts, Receiver of Windsor, to attend the Auditor
forthwith with his accounts in order to their stating forthwith.
[Ibid, p. 96.]
[Out Letters (General) XII, p. 333.] |
