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Letters Patent, Privy Seals, Royal Sign Manuals
and Warrants, Treasury Warrants, Commissions,
Orders, Letters, Memorials, Reports and Other
Entries: All Not of the Nature of Treasury
Minutes.
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Date.
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Nature and Substance of the Entry.
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Reference.
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| 1689.
April 10. |
Royal warrant to Richard, Earl of Ranelagh, Paymaster
of the Forces, to pay at Chester 2,000l. to
Sir John Hanmer or to the officer in chief with
the regiments of which Major-General Kirke and
the said Hanmer are Colonels. |
King's Warrant Book XIV,
p. 27. |
Same to the Receipt to forthwith pay by way of
advance the following sums amounting in all to
30,670l. ; it being necessary that same be paid
out of the ready money which is or shall be in the
Exchequer "before regular issues can be made
of the same by virtue of warrants to be passed
under the great or privy seal," viz. :—
2,170l. to William Harbord for the service of
the Forces designed for Ireland ; to be paid
out of loans on the present Aid.
1,000l. to Mr. Vyner for jewels and plate.
2,000l. to the Cofferer for the service of the
Household.
500l. to Monsieur Bentinck for the Privy Purse.
3,000l. to Edwd. Russell, esq., Treasurer of the
Navy, for weekly money.
12,000l. to the Earl of Ranelagh for the Forces.
10,000l. to same for the Dutch Troops. |
Ibid. |
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Same to the Clerk of the Signet for a privy seal to
authorise the officers of the Receipt to take in
loans up to a total of 370,000l. on the credit of
and in accordance with the terms of the Act for
the Six Months' Assessment : with interest at
6 per cent. per an. payable quarterly. The orders
of repayment to be registered as prescribed in
said Act. |
Ibid, pp. 28-9. |
Same to the Attorney or Solicitor General for a great
seal for a grant to Richard, Lord Coote, of the
kingdom of Ireland, of the Crown's interest and
title in the moiety of the clear profits arising or
which may arise as reserved to the Crown for the
last eight of the fourteen years of the term in the
patent granted 1686-7, Jan. 25, to Sir Robert
Clerk, kt., Robert Brent and Talbot Clarke, esq.,
of practising an invention by them then lately
found out, being several sorts of furnaces, vessels,
ways and means for the cheap extracting of metalline
bodies, particularly gold, silver, copper, lead and
tin, out of their ores or minerals and reducing
them into their respective malleable metal.
The present grant is in consideration of the
many faithful services performed by said Coote
to the King and is in response to said Lord's petition
ut supra, p. 14. It is to be subject to the payment
of an annual rent of 13s. 4d. for the said eight years. |
Ibid, pp. 29-30. |
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Treasury warrant to the Excise Commissioners to
forthwith pay to the Prince and Princess of Denmark
3,000l. in part of 7,500l. for last Lady day quarter
on the several annuities amounting to 30,000l.
per an granted to trustees for them. |
Money Book IX, p. 125 ;
X, p. 1. |
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William Jephson [the Treasury Secretary], to the
Customs Commissioners to permit Lieut. John
Maccellane, who belongs to Col. Ramsey's Regiment,
to transport to Scotland, where the said
Regiment is, 624 pair of stockings, 624 hats, 624
shirts and 624 cravats, he having order to provide
same and they now lying ready in the merchants'
hands. |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 1. |
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Same to Mr. Neale to deliver to Visct. Newport,
Treasurer of the Household, the 515 gold [Coronation]
medals which are provided for the members
of the House of Commons. (Same to said Visct.
to deliver same to the Speaker to be by him distributed
to the Members.) (Same to the Speaker
to give one to each Member, one to the Clerk and
one to the Serjeant-at-Arms attending the House.
You are desired to give the Treasury Lords an
account of what medals remain over.) |
Ibid. |
Same to the Customs Commissioners to deliver to
Marshal Schomberg's secretary, on payment of
Customs, some hams of bacon and Portugal wine
which said Marshal's servant in Portugal has sent
him as a present and are now on board the George
ketch from Lisbon, Capt. Parr master.
Appending : said Schomberg's petition for same. |
Ibid, p. 2. |
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Same to same to deliver, Customs free, some West-phalia
hams, smoked beef and some butter arrived
in the St. Marke, Jacob Faredunck master ; the
same being consigned to the Earl of Portland, but
belonging to Monsieur Dychvelt, one of the
ambassadors from the States General. |
Ibid. |
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Treasury reference to same of the petition of
Capt. Hercules Davys, shewing that 30 hogsheads
of claret were consigned to him at
Chester from Belfast in Ireland, being all he
could save from the spoils of the Popish army
there ; and that the Customs Commissioners
demand full duty thereon ; therefore praying that
such duty may be discharged, he having paid the
Customs on said claret in Ireland. |
Reference Book VI, p. 1. |
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Treasury confirmation of a warrant, dated April 6th
inst. from the Earl of Dorset [Lord Chamberlain]
to Sir Gilbert Talbot, Master of the Jewel House,
to prepare for his Majesty's service six large new
covers and eight lesser covers for dishes of the
same fashion as the Princess Ann of Denmark's
are of, his Majesty having seen them and approved
of the same. |
Warrants not Relating to
Money XIII, p. 7. |
| April 12. |
Treasury warrant dormant to Mr. Fox [Customs
Cashier] to pay 274l. per an. (by half-yearly payments)
to Sir John Cope, the heir of Sir Anthony
Cope, being for the ground rent of the Custom
House under the lease of 1675, May 2 and 3. |
Money Book X, p. 3. |
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Treasury reference to the Customs Commissioners of
the letter dated Bristol. April 1 inst., sent to the
Treasury Lords from Sir William Poole, shewing
that he is put out of his employment of collector of
Bristol port and that merchants have since brought
actions against him for deducting 4 per cent. out of
the new impost on tobacco and sugar, also for
10 per cent. on roll tobacco : which will be the
ruin of petitioner and his family unless adjusted
by the Treasury : therefore praying that he may
be [set] at liberty to look after some other employment
by which he may get bread. |
Reference Book VI, p. 1. |
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Same to William Lowndes of the petition of Thomas
Preston as referred to the Treasury Mar. 28 last
from the Privy Council ; petitioner praying a
grant of the King's title and interest in a capital
messuage called the Manor and in several messuages,
lands and hereditaments in Furness, co. Lancs,
of the yearly value of 400l. besides fee farm rents
annually paid of above 200l. |
Ibid. |
| April 13. |
Treasury warrant to the Receipt to levy tallies of
pro on the Excise for such sums as are already lent
by several citizens of London in the name of Sir
Peter Rich, kt., Chamberlain of the city of London,
viz. for such sums as have not already had tallies
of pro stricken therefor ; and for the like tallies
from time to time as any further like loans shall
after this day be made : "always taking care that
when the tallies of pro are levied the tallies of loan
be taken in and vacated." |
Money Book X, p. 4. |
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Same dormant to Thomas Fox [Customs Cashier] to
pay the salary of 30l. per an. to William Kemp as
searcher of Plymouth port. |
Ibid, p. 95. |
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William Jephson to the Customs Commissioners to
deliver to Elizabeth Gigou 173 dozen, 8 pairs of
gloves sent to her out of France and seized by the
Customs officers, petitioner being ignorant gloves
were prohibited and being recommended by Marshal
Schomberg. |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 2. Reference Book
VI, p. 2. |
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Treasury warrant to the King's Remembrancer to
take Henry Maynard's securities, ut supra, p. 24, for
his office of one of the four Tellers of the Receipt,
forfeited by Sir George Downing, bart., for misdemeanours.
(Same to the Barons of the Exchequer
to swear said Maynard into said office.) |
Warrants not Relating to
Money XIII, p. 1. |
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Treasury reference to Auditor Aldworth of Stephen
Lilly's account of the charge of the Post Office
for 1689, Lady day quarter, as "by the weekly
certificates delivered" to the Treasury Lords
(incidents, 296l. 14s. 2d. ; wages to letter carriers,
26l. 1s. 0d. per week ; for returned letters, 90l. 7s. 9d. ;
payments to [country] postmasters, 368l. 12s. 9d. :
total bill, 1,094l. 7s. 8d.). |
Reference Book VI, p. 20. |
| April 15. |
Royal warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General
for a great seal to renew the Customs Commission,
viz. to constitute George Boothe, esq. (brother
to Henry, Lord Delamere), Sir Richard Temple,
bart., Sir John Werden, bart., Sir Robt. Southall,
bart., Sir Robert Clayton, kt., Sir Patience Ward,
kt., and Thomas Pelham, esq., to be such Commissioners
for Customs, subsidies, new impositions and
the Four and a Half per cent. duty with 1,000l.
per an. salary each as from Lady day last : John
Sansom, esq., to be their secretary, with a clause
as in the last Commission for 300l. a year to be
paid out of his salary to [old] Robert Bertie, esq. |
King's Warrant Book
XIV, p. 33. |
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Royal warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General
for a great seal to renew the Commission of
Excise and Hearthmoney, viz. to constitute
Sir Henry Fane, kt., Sir Henry Ashurst, kt., Sir
Humphrey Edwyn, kt., Thomas Franckland,
Francis Parry, John Danvers and John Wilcox,
junr., as Commissioners thereof with 800l. per an.
salary each as from Lady day last. |
King's Warrant Book XIV,
pp. 34-5. |
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Same to the Clerk of the Signet for a privy seal for
200,000l. to Edward Russell, esq., Treasurer of
the Navy, as imprest for the Navy and Victualling.
(Money warrant dated April 20 hereon. Money
order dated April 22 hereon.) |
Ibid, p. 34. Money Book
X, p. 1. Order Book
III, p. 4. |
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Same to same for a same for 500l. per an. to John
Trenchard, esq., Chief Justice of Chester, as an
addition to the profits of his place there : that sum
having been [formerly] granted upon the augmentation
of the salary of all the judges : to be payable
termly, the first payment at the end of the present
Easter term. |
King's Warrant Book
XIV, pp. 35-6. |
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William Jepson to the Customs Commissioners to
send an officer to the Countess of Stirum's lodgings
in Whitehall to visit her goods in order to their
transport to Holland. "Sir John Werden is
desired to see this order immediately put in execution." |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 3. |
