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| Date. |
Nature and Substance of the Entry. |
Reference. |
| Sept. 11. |
Treasury warrant to the Receipt to satisfy to Thomas
Cass his three orders of April 26 last for, in all,
3,000l. with interest thereon, ut supra, p. 577, next
after the 6,031l. 10s. 10d. to John Hayward, viz.
out of loans made or to be made by said Cass
or by any other person on the 2s. Aid. [The orders
on p. 577 supra are the money order simply : the
corresponding loan orders which in the present
entry are quoted as dated April 26 do not appear in
the Order Book nor in the list of loans on the 2s. Aid
in the Appendix to the present volume.] |
Money Book X, p. 469. |
|
The like order for satisfaction of 682l. 2s. 6d. to Sir
John Pelham on an order, supra, p. 744, dated
July 19 last, with 6 per cent interest : next after
the above 3,000l. to Cass and out of the like loans. |
Ibid, p. 470. |
|
Money warrant for 60l. to Thomas Francklyn, gent.,
for his charges and pains as Solicitor for the 12d.
Aid [1 Wm. and Mary, c. 20] in co. Northampton,
his exertions having contributed to the improvement
of the produce of that tax by near 3,000l. more
than the former Aid. (Money order dated Sept. 12
hereon.) |
Money Book X, pp. 469-70.
Order Book III, p. 116. |
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William Jephson to the Auditor of the Receipt to
issue as follows out of any disposable, unappropriated
moneys in the Exchequer : viz. : |
Disposition Book IX,
pp. 11-12. |
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l. |
s. |
d. |
|
to the Earl of Ranelagh for subsistence
[of the Forces in England
and Holland] |
6,783 |
0 |
0 |
|
to ditto for two months' pay to
the officers in Flanders |
2,378 |
2 |
8 |
|
to ditto to pay the two Companies
in New York what is behind of
July and August |
152 |
8 |
0 |
|
to ditto more for them for three
months' advance from Sept. 1 |
586 |
19 |
0 |
|
to Mr. Fox for subsistence for
Lord Cavendish's Regiment |
210 |
0 |
0 |
|
to ditto for subsistence for the
Royal Regiment of Dragoons |
280 |
0 |
0 |
|
to ditto for 46 Gentlemen of the
Guards |
46 |
0 |
0 |
|
to ditto to answer Exchequer fees
on 95,000l. sent for Ireland and
15,000l. received here [in London
for the Forces in Ireland] |
687 |
10 |
0 |
|
to ditto to answer the 3d. lost by
800 guineas taken at 2s. and paid
at 1s. 9d. by order |
100 |
0 |
0 |
|
[sic for 10l.] |
|
to the Cofferer on account for the
Household |
400 |
0 |
0 |
|
to the Navy for timber for the
Yards |
2,500 |
0 |
0 |
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to me [Jephson] for secret service |
70 |
0 |
0 |
|
£14,193 |
19 |
8 |
|
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[sic for £13,293 |
19 |
8] |
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Same to same to issue (out of Poll money) 3,000l. to
Thomas Robson with interest on his order of loan
on the Poll. |
Ibid, p. 12. |
|
Same to same to issue 2,967l. 10s. 0d. to Sir Rowland
Gwyne, Treasurer of the Chamber, to be paid
to the Officers and Yeomen of the Guard to clear
them to Lady day last : to be issued out of the
3,000l. agreed to be lent by John James, esq., on
credit of the Additional 12d. Aid [1 Wm. and Mary,
Sess. 2, c. 5]. |
Ibid. |
|
The Treasury Lords to Lord Kingston [as Chief
Justice in Eyre, Trent North], advising him of the
issue of a Treasury warrant for felling 1,500l. worth
of timber in Sherwood Forest as a grant to the
Earl of Clare towards building his house at Haughton
and making a park there, ut supra, p. 772. |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 357. |
|
William Jephson to the Earl of Ranelagh to report
on the enclosed papers [missing], transmitted to
the Treasury by Mr. Blathwayte from Capt. Crawford,
Lieutenant Governor of Sheerness, concerning
fire and candle for that garrison. |
Ibid. |
|
Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners to
employ Thomas Allexander (an extraordinary
watchman, London port) as a watchman in fee
ibid. loco John Francis, lately deceased. |
Out Letters (Customs) XII,
p. 186. |
|
Report [to the Treasury Lords from William Blathwaite]
on the petition concerning Col. Stede's
salary. By the instructions to the Governors of
the several Plantations it is directed that upon the
death or absence of the Chief Governor one moiety
of his salary and perquisites should be paid to the
Lieutenant Governor or Commander in Chief. In
pursuance thereof 600l. per an. has been assigned
to Col. Stede as such moiety to him as Lieutenant
Governor of Barbados from 1685, July 16, the time
of the departure of Sir Richard Dutton, the late
Governor in Chief thereof, to 1690, May 12, the time
of the arrival of Col. Kendall, the present Governor,
and a privy seal has been passed for same out of the
Four and a Half per cent Duty in the Caribbee
Islands. The Auditor of the Receipt certifies that
no payment [in the English Exchequer] has been
made to Col. Stede on this account since 1687-8,
Jan. 17 ; so there remains due to him 13,389l. 0s. 7½d.
[sic for 1,389l. 0s. 7½d.] for two years and 115 days
thereon. Col. Stede has been very diligent in the
service of the Crown according to his trust and has
not only shown great readiness in proclaiming and
acknowledging their present Majesties within his
Government, but has also sent charitable assistance
and early succours to the neighbouring islands for
the preserving them from the French and Irish in
those parts. He is deserving of favour both in the
payment of his arrears and otherwise. |
Out Letters (Plantations
Auditor) 1, p. 326. |
| Sept. 12. |
Treasury warrant to the Receipt to issue 6,152l. 8s. 4¾d.
to Charles Bertie on any unsatisfied orders in his
name as Treasurer of the Ordnance, as imprest to
satisfy the unpaid remainder of the 13,771l. 8s. 3½d.
due to William Benge, founder, for brass and iron
ordnance, granado shells, round shot etc. by him
delivered to the Ordnance ; towards which total
there is due to Benge orders of loan to a total of
7,618l. 19s. 10¾d. (viz. three such orders dated
May 28 last for 1,000l., 1,000l. and 1,220l. 11s. 3d.
and a like order dated Sept. 8 last for 4,398l. 8s. 7¾d.) :
which said orders of loan are hereby to be satisfied
to said Benge, with 6 per cent interest, out of loans
on the 2s. Aid whether made by said Benge himself
or by any other person whatsoever ; and next
after the sum of 682l. 2s. 6d. to Sir John Pelham,
ut supra, p. 809. No interest is hereby to be made
on said balance of 6,152l. 8s. 4¾d., as same is intended
to be paid to him [in cash] when and as the debentures
are made forth in the Office of Ordnance for
the goods which he is yet to serve in. |
Money Book X, pp. 471-2. |
|
William Jephson to the Auditor of the Receipt to
issue to Mr. Fox and Mr. Coningsby for the service
of Ireland the 2,000l. which will be paid into the
Receipt by John Staynier as Receiver of the Poll
for co. Salop. |
Disposition Book IX,
p. 12. |
|
William Jephson to Mr. Russel [Treasurer of the Navy].
In reply to the Navy Commissioners' letter to you
concerning providing 2,300l. to complete a quarter
to the Yards, the Treasury Lords desire you to raise
that sum on the tallies formerly given you for the
service of the Navy, and to pay it to the Yards
accordingly. |
Disposition Book IX,
p. 12. |
|
Same to the Customs Commissioners to report as to
Mr. Chiffinch not having qualified himself for the
office of one of the head searchers at Gravesend
by taking the oaths. |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 357. |
Same to same to report on (a) infra.
Appending : (a) letter dated Whitehall, Sept. 12 inst.,
from Blathwayt to William Jephson. A sperm
whale of a considerable value was lately cast on
shore at the Bermudas, the oil of which the Council
would have had the Governor to have preserved for
his Majesty's use, but he refusing so to do has sent
home upon his own account four casks of sperm oil
of the value of about 200l., two of which are entered
by his son at the Custom House and yet remain
there. They should be detained there for the
King's use as belonging to the Crown in right of the
Admiralty as a wreck or the proceed of a royal
fish. |
Ibid, p. 358. Out Letters
(Plantations Auditor) I,
p. 330. |
|
Same to Mr. Whitebread. There is a tally levied
on you for 250l. to be paid to the Navy Victuallers
out of your receipt of the Poll money for co. Beds.
You are forthwith to satisfy same. If you prove
to be in surplusage upon your account [of the said
Poll in consequence of this payment] the Treasury
Lords will take care you be paid such surplusage,
together with your reward for bringing in said Poll,
"without any charge or trouble to you to be occasioned
by such surplusage." |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 358. |
|
Same to the Earl of Ranelagh to report on the enclosed
account [missing] of Sir John Guise relating to
moneys received and paid by him upon his Majesty's
landing in the West. |
Ibid. |
Treasury order to the Customs Commissioners to
comply with (a) infra by sending an officer to the
Dutch Ambassador's house to see the books referred
to put up in order to their transportation.
Prefixing : (a) Order of the Queen in Council, dated
Whitehall, Sept. 6, ordering (upon a memorial of
the States General's Ambassador) that the library
of the late Dr. Isaac Vossius be permitted to be
transported, Customs free. |
Out Letters (Customs) XII,
p. 186. |
|
Treasury warrant to same to employ Nicholas Wrixon
(who has served for three years as a tidesman
extraordinary in Plymouth port) as a tidesman
in fee ibid. loco Philip Evance, lately dismissed. |
Ibid. |
Treasury reference to the Earl of Ranelagh of the
petition and account of Mr. Copley, Lieutenant
Governor of Hull, for fire and candle for the garrison
there, 1689, May 1, to 1690, Sept. 1 (540l. 6s. 0d.),
and for his own personal pay, "deductions of
providing being made by Mr. Toll," (74l. 3s. 6d. :
making a total of 614l. 13s. 6d.).
Prefixing : said account. |
Reference Book VI, p. 229. |
|
Treasury reference to the Customs Commissioners of the
petition of William Gore, merchant, for leave to reimport,
Customs free, some indico of an inferior sort
not worth above 9d. a pound, imported from India
about three years since, on which he paid duty
at 2d. per lb. on import (though the best sort of
indico worth 7s. a pound paid no more) and which
about a year after he re-exported without drawback,
but finding no market for same beyond sea he has
again re-imported it. |
Reference Book VI, p. 229. |
|
Same to Samuel Langford, Comptroller of the Treasurer
of the Chamber's accounts, of the petition of John
Warner, Master of the [King's] Barges, for his
salary of 60l. per an., which by mistake is entered
in the establishment of the Treasurer of the Chamber
as 30l. per an. |
Ibid. |
|
William Jephson to the Revenue Commissioners,
Ireland, enclosing, with the Treasury Lords' recommendation,
Jerome Russell's petition for the office
of clerk of the securities or of assistant to the
Register of Securities in Ireland. |
Out Letters (Ireland) VI,
p. 33. |
|
Treasury warrant to Col. Stede, giving him leave to
return to England for the recovery of his health,
leaving some fit person in his office of Receiver of
the King's Casual Revenue [in Barbados] during
his absence, "for whom you will be answerable
to execute that office till your return to that island." |
Out Letters (Plantations
Auditor) I, p. 327. |
| Sept. 15. |
Royal warrant to the Attorney General to acknowledge
satisfaction on record of the fine of 100l. set upon
John Clancy, late of the parish of St. Paul, Covent
Garden, at the General Quarter Sessions of the
Peace at Hicks Hall in February last for speaking
dangerous words against the King and Queen, for
which he was sentenced to three months' imprisonment
with said fine.
Appending : release to the Crown by said Clancy,
dated Sept. 6, of 100l. out of the "considerable
sum" due from the Crown to him as agent to the
Regiment lately commanded by Col. Roger
Mac Eligott. |
King's Warrant Book XV,
p. 161. |
|
Treasury warrant to the Receipt to issue to Charles
Fox and Thomas Coningsby (on any unsatisfied
orders in their names as Paymasters of the Forces
in Ireland) 5,362l. by levying tallies on Morgan
Whitley, Receiver General of the last Poll for
cos. Chester, Anglesea, Carnarvon and Merioneth ;
"which tallies are to be applied to the satisfaction
of the like sum paid by said Morgan Whitley to
Sir Joshua Allen for the service of their Majesties'
Forces in Ireland." |
Money Book X, p. 470. |
|
Same to Thomas Fox [Customs Cashier] to pay
96l. 12s. 0d. to Thomas Robson, clerk or paymaster
of the bills of impost upon wines ; being for a bill
of impost due to Sir Thomas Pilkington, Lord
Mayor, and the sheriffs et al. of London : as in part
of the 3,675l. for impost wines for the year 1689,
Christmas, to 1690, Christmas. |
Ibid, p. 472. |
|
Same to Thomas Neale, Master and Worker of the
Mint, to pay to Grezill Bowers, widow of George
Bowers, late graver of the Mint, 81l. 5s. 0d. for her
husband's services, 1689, Christmas, to 1689-90,
Mar. 1, when he died, on his fee or allowance of
325l. per an., and for his charges in settling himself
in a house which he took in the Tower for carrying
on their Majesties' service. |
Ibid, p. 473. |
|
William Jephson to the Auditor of the Receipt to
issue 1,800l. to me [Jephson] for secret service :
out of the loans to be made by Sir John Chardin
on the unappropriated Excise. |
Disposition Book IX,
p. 13. |
|
Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners to
repay to Mark Wildbore 39l. 12s. 0d. which he,
being then collector of Whitehaven port, expended
in freighting the Deliverance of Whitehaven, William
Nicholson master, to carry from that port to Ireland
such arms and ammunition as Capt. James Hamilton
should direct : all pursuant to an order of the
Treasury Lords of 1688-9, Feb. 11. |
Money Book X, p. 483. |
| Sept. 16. |
Same to the Receipt to issue to Charles Bertie,
on any unsatisfied orders in his name as Treasurer
of the Ordnance, 2,892l. 12s. 10½d. as
the balance of the 4,000l. worth of stores which
Samuel Lash, carpenter, has contracted to provide
for the Office of Ordnance : for his deliveries on
which contract said Lash has already received an
order of loan for 1,107l. 7s. 1½d., dated June 2 last,
supra, p. 668, which said order is hereby to be
satisfied with interest out of any loans on the 2s.
Aid, whether made by said Lash or any other
person. The payment of the balance as above is
to be [by cash and] without interest. |
Ibid, p. 474. |
|
The like warrant for satisfying out of any loans as
above (next after the above 4,000l. to Lash) the
seven orders of May 28 last for, in all, 9,507l. 2s. 2d.
to Edward Silvester, master smith to the Ordnance ;
and the interest thereon : ut supra, p. 652. |
Ibid, p. 475. |
|
The like warrant for satisfying out of like loans the
orders of May 28 last for 1,325l. 4s. 9d. and interest to
John Uthwayte, ut supra, p. 652 : and for the issue
of 3,100l. to Charles Bertie, Treasurer of the Ordnance,
to be paid to said Uthwayte (without interest) on
debentures as for the balance of Uthwayte's contract
for 4,425l. 4s. 9d. for cordage etc. for the Ordnance :
of which balance he has delivered part and has
provided the remainder. |
Ibid, pp. 476-7. |
|
The like warrants for respectively the following orders
of June 5 last, supra, p. 669, to be paid out of loans
as above in the order of their sequence as herein
(and after the above last-named item to Uthwayte) :
viz. : John Silvester, 799l. 8s. 3¼d. ; Peter English,
467l. 6s. 8d. ; John Hill, 533l. 6s. 8d. ; Tho. Hawgood,
1,813l. 16s. 7d. ; William Cooling, 1,050l. ;
Nathaniel Hunt, 1,317l. 14s. 0d. ; Ann Markes,
207l. 4s. 0d. |
Ibid, p. 477. |
Money warrant for 3,984l. 11s. 1d. to Bernard Eales,
their Majesties' goldsmith, for gilt and white plate
and jewels delivered by him into the Jewel House
from 1689, Dec. 11, to 1690, Aug. 6. (Money order
dated Sept. 18 hereon.)
Appending : certificate by Sir Francis Lawley, Master
of the Jewel House, of said deliveries etc. : viz. :
221l. 10s. 0d. for new making the Cross of his Majesty's
Crown of State [and] a large diamond George and
Garter for the Duke of Brandenburg, [and] gold
work for and new setting of 395 diamonds and
adding 48 rose diamonds ; 233l. 9s. 0d. for
36oz. 6dwt. 6gr. of gold wrought into a Collar of
the Order [of the Garter] and enamelled gold
Georges etc. ; 666l. 17s. 11d. for 1,480oz. 11dwt. 12gr.
of gilt plate most part wrought and enchased and
some enamelled ; 1,513l. 15s. 10d. for 3,409lb. [sic
for oz.] 11dwt. 12gr. of white plate ; 653l. 18s. 4d.
for new making 4,860oz. 15dwt. 12gr. of their
Majesties' store plate ; 155l. 3s. 8d. for new making,
new gilding and refreshing 1,153oz. 8dwt. of store
plate ; 381l. 18s. 4d. for mending, boiling, planishing
and burnishing 22,527oz. 8dwt. of store plate ;
84l. 2s. 0d. for engraving arms and cyphers on
several parcels of plate ; 17l. 6s. 0d. for money
paid to the cutler case maker and coffer maker ;
46l. 10s. 0d. paid to several persons for finding the
plate stolen out of their Majesties' lodging ; 10l.
paid to the officers of the Jewel House for paper,
pens, ink, coals and other necessaries. |
Ibid, pp. 478-9. Order
Book III, p. 117. |
|
Money warrant for 22l. 10s. 0d. to the clerks of the
Treasurer's Remembrancer's Office for the two years
ended Easter last on their ancient fee payable every
second year at Easter term. |
Money Book X, p. 479. |
|
William Jephson to the Auditor of the Receipt to
issue to me [Jephson] for secret service the 32l. 10s. 0d.
remaining of Mr. John James's loan, together with
17l. 10s. 0d. out of any other disposable money in
the Exchequer. |
Disposition Book IX,
p. 13. |
|
Same to the Commissioners of Wine Licences to
forthwith deliver to Auditor Aldworth their accounts
of the Wine Licences for two years ended Lady day
last. |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 359. |
|
Same to Mr. Gregor. In yours of the 1st inst. you
say you have received 3,400l. from Mr. Tregeare
and have laid out about 2,300l. in tin. Send my
Lords an account of what tin you have bought
and at what rates. When the tin is shipped they
desire you to send them a particular account of
the rest of the charges. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to Mr. Oliver Lyme, comptroller of Chester
port, to attend the Treasury Lords forthwith on
the matter of the Customs Commissioners' complaint
against you. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to Mr. Blathwayt to report on the enclosed
letter [missing] from Mr. Robinson concerning two
barrels of Parmaceti [sperm] oil, seized at the
Custom House, which were sent over by Sir Robert
Robinson, Governor of Bermudas. You are to
examine Mr. Robinson's pretensions. |
Ibid, p. 360. |
|
Same to the Customs Commissioners to report on the
enclosed letter [missing] from Col. Stede, Receiver
of the casual revenue in Barbados, praying liberty
to come to England for his health. |
Ibid. |
Treasury warrant to same to employ William Noy
as comptroller, waiter and searcher at Aberdovey,
in Milford port, loco George Ryard, who has quitted
the service.
Abraham Morrell as waiter and searcher at
St. Mawes, in Falmouth port, loco Richard Cuttance,
dismissed. |
Out Letters (Customs) XII,
p. 187. |
|
Treasury reference to Brook Bridges and Thomas
Done of the petition of John Adye and Hen. Ballowe,
Deputy Chamberlains [of the Exchequer Court],
praying their fee of 2s. per 1,000l. on Customs
moneys paid into the Exchequer for the half year
ended 1689, Lady day, being for joining, entering
and transmitting to the Pipe all tallies on the said
account. |
Reference Book VI, p. 230. |
|
Same to Mr. Lowndes of the petition of William
Aldworth, shewing that he audited the accounts
of the late Managers of the Hearth Duty for five
years ended 1684, Lady day, and also the accounts
of the Hearthmoney surplus granted to John Genew,
and with so much fidelity that Sir Patrick Trant
et al. [said managers] submitted to a surcharge of
above 80,000l., of which 30,000l. was paid into the
Exchequer : further that he executed the duty
as well of Auditor as of Comptroller, yet he is not
paid by 950l. of what has been since allowed to
the Comptroller alone : therefore praying payment
of said 950l. out of the profits of the Archbishopric
of York during the late vacancy. |
Ibid. |
|
William Jephson to the Revenue Commissioners,
Ireland, recommending Thomas Badham for restoration
to his place as collector of the revenue in cos.
Cork and Limerick, from which he was dismissed
in the late reign and also imprisoned and his estate
seized, as appears from the petition of Jane Badham,
his wife. |
Out Letters (Ireland) VI,
p. 33. |
|
[William Blathwayt] to William Jephson concerning the
sperm oil as above, pp. 812, 815. I have examined Mr.
Robinson's patent. In the one, by which I conceive
he means his father's commission and instructions,
I do not find any pretence of right granted him
either to wrecks or royal fish ; only there is a power
given him to grant licences for the whale fishing
which differs much from his present demands. In
another patent, by which I suppose he means his
father's commission of Vice Admiralty, there is an
express clause reserving all wreck and royal fish
(such as are the sperm whales) to the Lord High
Admiral, who is the King. But inasmuch as the
two barrels of Sperma Ceeti oil now in question
are of small value and that there is due to his father
for salary a greater sum, I think they may be
delivered to him as part of the said salary, or that
he should give security to answer the value thereof
when the salary shall be paid. |
Out Letters (Plantations
Auditor) I, p. 330. |
| Sept. 17. |
Royal warrant to the Clerk of the Signet for a privy
seal dormant for the salary or allowance of 600l.
per an. to Thomas Baker as Consul at Algier : to
be payable quarterly from 1690, Michaelmas, out
of the Customs : the first payment to be by way
of advance for the two quarters ending Lady day
next : and further for the payment of such his
extraordinary expences in said service as shall
appear by bills subscribed by one of the Secretaries
of State : and further for the payment to him
forthwith of 300l. as royal bounty and 155l. which
is to be laid out by him in buying such things as
the King has directed for an addition to the present
designed last year for the Dey of Algiers. (Treasury
dormant warrant dated Sept. 26 hereon to the
Customs Cashier to pay said salary as above :
together with clauses for payment of said 300l. and
155l. as above.) |
King's Warrant Book XV,
pp. 137-8. Money Book
X, p. 487. |
|
Royal warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General for
a great seal for a Commission of Wine Licences as
from Lady day next ; in the form of an indenture
between the King and Queen of the one part and
Stephen Evance, William Young, Nicholas Fenn,
Peter Percivall and Thomas Lake of London, esqrs.,
of the other part : all in place of the like indenture
under the royal warrant of 1689-90, Jan. 29, by which
the King and Queen authorised William Young,
Gerard Russell, John Matchell, Daniell Germain and
Albion Chair to be Commissioners and Agents for
Wine Licences for the residue of a term of years
which will expire at Lady day next. The present
indenture is in consideration of the sum of 30,000l.
paid or agreed to be paid, 10,000l. thereof before
and 10,000l. on the sealing hereof, and the remaining
10,000l. by Oct. 10 next : with power to grant
licences for not more than 10 years save by special
consent of the Treasury Lords : and with power to
receive and recover all rents of licences, fines,
penalties and forfeitures : with power to said
Commissioners, in case of death, to make up their
number by nomination, subject to the approbation
of the Treasury Lords : the indenture to endure
for 10 years from Lady day next : in order to the
repayment of their abovesaid 30,000l. advance
money with 6 per cent interest and 2 per cent allowance
of reward or gratuity they are to have tallies
of pro on said revenue payable by 1,500l. a time
half yearly at Michaelmas and Lady day during
the said 10 year period, together with interest and
gratuity as above : and said tallies are to be allowed
in the accounts of said revenue without further
question : and if the said revenue be so diminished
during said period either by fire, plague or other
accident or by Act of Parliament that said 30,000l.
be not completely payable thereon, the King
guarantees the payment of the deficit out of some
other of his treasure and the said Commissioners
shall not be removed from their places till such
repayment be complete : the Commissioners to
have out of said revenue 1,000l. per an. for their
salaries, to be equally divided among them, and
800l. per an. for such officers as shall necessarily
be employed under them and for house rent and
incidents, excepting the salaries of the Comptroller
and Solicitor of said revenue : they to pay their
net receipts (after deductions as above) into the
Exchequer half yearly, and to keep fair accounts
to be passed yearly : with power to them to appoint
or to remove solicitors, clerks, messengers and
other officers under them : none of the said Commissioners
to use the trade of a wine merchant or
vintner during the said 10 years or to make any
contract of or for said revenue or any part thereof
to the Company of Free Vintners of London or to
the Company of Coopers of London. |
King's Warrant Book XV,
pp. 137-55. |
|
Same to same for a same to commission and empower
John Bowles, merchant, at his own charge to
admeasure and survey all ships and vessels hired
or taken up for the King's service at any time
between 1688-9, Feb. 13, and the date hereof,
thereby to ascertain the true burthen and tunnage
thereof : the said admeasurements to be made by
the rules established in the Navy, viz. by multiplying
the length of the keel into the main breadth of the
ship from outside to outside and the product thereof
by the half breadth and then dividing that result
by 94, whereby the number of tons sought for shall
be found in the quotient : and with full power to
state the accounts of what is due to the owners for
the freight of said ships. All the departments
concerned in freighting such ships are hereby to
send to said Bowles, free of any fee, exact lists of
such ships and of their burthens according to the
measures which were taken of them or by which
they were hired, the master's name, place to which
same belong, place of discharge and copies of the
charterparties. If Bowles discover any frauds in
such measurements he is to report same to the
Treasury in order to the making deductions : and
no bills to be made out or money paid (save by
way of imprest) for such freight until Bowles make
certificate of such his admeasurement. As soon as
it be made appear that 20,000l. is in such manner
saved to the Crown by means of said Bowles, then
he to have 5,000l. reward for same and a fourth
part of all savings beyond said 20,000l. But if
such savings do not, within 12 months hereof,
amount to 20,000l., then Bowles not to expect any
reward. |
Ibid, pp. 157-61. |
Royal warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General for
a great seal for a grant and assignment to Robert
Nott of London, esq., and George White of London,
merchant, at the nomination of Arnold Brown,
junr., of all the messuages etc. as in the schedule
hereto mentioned to be the share of Tho. Price
as follows and settled for the ensuring of houses
from fire, and one full twenty-first part of the
profits in respect of said Tho. Price's share in
the said insurance or undertaking to insure houses
from fire, together with all arrears of same and of
all the Crown's title thereto by reason of extents
and seizures : all by reason that by indenture
tripartite of 1683, Dec. 18, between Samuel Vincent
of Buckenham, co. Norfolk ; Nicholas Barbone of
London, Dr. in Physic ; Benjamin Bartlett of
London, gent. ; Samuel Tookie of London, gent. ;
John Parsons of London, esq. ; Bernard Turner of
Little Court, co. Herts, esq. ; Fenix Calverd of
Fornix [Furneaux] Pelham, co. Herts ; John Wilson
of Stratford Langhorn, co. Essex, gent. ; Sebastian
Lyford of Reading, co. Berks ; Tho. Price of London,
goldsmith ; Samuel Newton, citizen and innholder
of London ; Edward Noell of the Inner Temple,
gent., and John Hind of London, goldsmith, of
the one part ; and Sir Michael Heneage of St. Giles
in the Fields, kt. ; Sir William Warren of Wapping,
kt. ; Peter (now Sir Peter) Rich of London, alderman ;
Edward Maynard of Chelsea, esq. ; William
Thompson of the Middle Temple, esq. ; Ralph
Hartley of Kingsbury, co. Midd., gent. ; Nathaniel
Hawes, citizen and fishmonger of London ; George
Bradbury of the Middle Temple, esq. ; Sir James
Ward of London, kt. ; William Morris ; Samuell
Rawstorne and Tho. Lathwell of London, gent., of
the second part ; and Sir Richard Haddock of
London, kt. ; Samuell (now Sir Samuel) Dashwood,
then sheriff of London ; Anthony Sturt of London,
esq., and Rowland Ingram of London, merchant,
of the third part ; several messuages in a schedule
thereto (and as follows) were to be the share of
said Tho. Price, being part of certain messuages,
tenements and ground rents in the parish of St.
Martins in the Fields and were inter al. conveyed
to said Heneage, Warren, Rich, Haddock, Dashwood,
Sturt and Ingram upon trusts and purposes
as therein for insuring houses from fire, the said
assignees by deed of 1683-4, Feb. 20, authorising
said Price to receive the rents and profits of said
messuages etc. : and further by reason that Arnold
Brown, junr., of London, gent., by obligation
dated 1678, April 8, became bound to Charles II
in 11,000l. on which bond an inquisition was taken,
in London, 1685, Nov. 28, upon a writ of extent
against said Brown and thereupon it was found
that said Price was indebted to said Brown in
586l. 16s. 0d. and was further bound to him in
20,000l. by bond dated 1685, May 23, which debt
and obligation were seized into the hands of James II
by virtue of said inquisition : and thereupon an
extent, 1685, Nov. 30, issued against Price for
said debt and bond and thereupon inquisition was
taken in Middlesex the same day, when it was
found that said Price was possessed of three twentyfirst
parts or shares in the Insuring or Undertaking
to insure houses in London and Westminster and
elsewhere from fire [the said undertaking being]
therein mentioned to be lately erected by Dr.
Nicholas Barebone and others, commonly called
the Assurance Office against Fire : which three
parts were there and then seized into the King's
hands : and further by inquisition in Middlesex,
1685, Dec. 29, it was found that said Tho. Price
had received to the use of King James II from
John Price (then Receiver General of the Revenue
of Ireland) several sums, amounting in all to
10,602l. 6s. 9d., and was indebted to said King in
that sum : and by inquisition in Middlesex, dated
1685-6, Jan. 5, on an extent for said debt the said
three twenty-first parts were [again] found and
seized into the King's hands : and further the said
Arnold Brown of Stepney, co. Midd., by bond
dated 1685, Nov. 9, became bound to James II in
12,220l. and by inquisition in London, 1685-6,
Jan. 20, on an extent of said bond it was found
that Tho. Price was bound to said Brown in 20,000l.
by bond dated 1685, May 23 [as above], which
obligation was [again] seized into the King's hands
and thereupon an extent issued 1685-6, Jan. 21,
against Price for said 20,000l., and by inquisition
in Middlesex Jan. 26 thereon the said three twentyfirst
parts were [again] found and were [again]
seized into the hands of the King ; the above two
extents of 1685, Nov. 30, and 1685-6, Jan. 26,
being in aid of said Arnold Brown, junr., and
further the Exchequer Court in Hilary term,
1 James II, ordered that the extents for the said
King's debt of 10,602l. 6s. 9d. should have preference
before all other the [said] extents and the extents
in aid of said Brown should rank next thereafter :
and further one of the said three twenty-first parts
is or was intended to be the part or share of the
said Tho. Price in the abovesaid indenture : and now
it is the King's pleasure that said Arnold Brown, junr.,
should have the said one part towards satisfaction
of the moneys owing to him by said Price
and all the Crown's title thereto and all other
messuages, lands, goods etc. of said Price which
were seized for satisfaction of said debt of
10,602l. 6s. 9d.
Appending : schedule of said houses (a lease of 183 foot
of land in the Strand fronting to St. Martin's
Lane, let to Geo. Cooke at 14l. per an. : lease by
John West of six houses to Samuel Hunt at, in all,
110l. 10s. 0d. per an. rent, being in "the" [? St.
Martin's] Lane, south of the churchyard. |
King's Warrant Book XV,
pp. 163-71. |
|
Treasury warrant to the Receipt to satisfy to John
Hill the order of loan dated June 5 last for 533l. 6s. 8d.
with interest, ut supra, p. 669, out of loans on the
2s. Aid, whether made by said Hill or any other
person : viz. next after 467l. 6s. 8d. to Peter English,
ut supra, p. 814. |
Money Book X, p. 477. |
|
[William Jephson] to the Auditor of the Receipt to
issue 200l. to me [Jephson] for secret service ; out
of any disposable money in the Exchequer. |
Disposition Book IX,
p. 13. |
|
Same to the [Principal] Officers of the Ordnance to
report on the enclosed petition [missing] of Mary
Howard, wife of Christopher Howard, master of
the Susanna and Elizabeth of London, praying
payment of 152l. 5s. 0d. due to her husband on a
bill signed by the Duke of Schonberg for the hire
of said vessel. |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 360. |
The like commissions to Tho. Newcomb, ut supra,
p. 764, to be sede vacante Receiver of the temporalities
of the Bishopric of Ely.
Ralph Snow to be ditto of the Archbishopric of
Canterbury. |
Warrants not Relating to
Money XIII, p. 233. |
| Sept. 18. |
[William Jephson] to the Auditor of the Receipt to
issue as follows out of any disposable unappropriated
moneys in the Exchequer : viz. : |
Disposition Book IX,
p. 13. |
|
l. |
s. |
d. |
|
to the Earl of Ranelagh for subsistence
[of the Forces in England
and Holland] |
6,783 |
0 |
0 |
|
to ditto to pay a bill from Holland |
6,000 |
0 |
0 |
|
to Mr. Fox for a fortnight's subsistence
to Count Schonberg's
Regiment of Horse, they being
to embark at Hoylake |
420 |
0 |
0 |
|
to ditto for ditto to the Royal
Regiment of Dragoons |
560 |
0 |
0 |
|
to ditto for a week's subsistence
to 46 Gentlemen of the
Guards |
46 |
0 |
0 |
|
to ditto for two months' pay to
the French Reformed Officers |
273 |
14 |
9 |
|
to ditto for two months' subsistence
to the wives and families of
the three French Regiments of
Foot in Ireland |
139 |
12 |
0 |
|
to ditto on account for a month's
pay to the officers of the two
Regiments now going for Ireland |
806 |
3 |
8 |
|
to the Treasurer of the Navy for
the Victuallers |
1,000 |
0 |
0 |
|
to ditto for the Commissioners for
Sick and Wounded |
500 |
0 |
0 |
|
to the Privy Purse |
1,000 |
0 |
0 |
|
£17,528 |
10 |
5 |
|
William Jephson to the Auditor of the Receipt to
issue 39l. to Charles Goodwyn out of the first
moneys of the 12d. Aid [1 Wm. and Mary, c. 20]
after satisfaction of the loans thereon. |
Disposition Book IX,
p. 14. |
|
Same to same to issue 22l. 10s. 0d. to the clerks of the
Treasurer's Remembrancer's Office, out of the small
branches of the revenue reserved for the officers and
ministers "thereof" [of the revenue or Exchequer]. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to the Judge of the Admiralty, enclosing papers
[missing] received from the said Revenue Commissioners,
Ireland, relating to the ship Providence of
London. Give my Lords an account of your
proceedings therein. |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 360. |
|
Same to the Customs Commissioners, enclosing a
letter [missing] from the same Revenue Commissioners
concerning the exportation of tobacco out of
England into Ireland. If you have no objections
to the method prescribed for preventing abuses
for the future you are to give orders to your officers
accordingly. |
Ibid, p. 361. |
|
Same to the Excise Commissioners, enclosing a petition
[missing] of the innkeepers and victuallers of
Halesowen, co. Salop. Give order therein as you
think best. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to the Customs Commissioners. Your presentment
of July 9 last, desiring the Customs officers
to be eased in the Poll Assessment, was laid before
my Lords on receipt thereof : but they did not think
fit to allow that tax to the officers in regard it was
but small and everybody ought to bear some share
of the common charge. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to Mr. Brisco to bring or send to the Treasury
forthwith your orders of loan for the debt due to
you in the Ordnance Office. If you have assigned
any part thereof give this notice to your assignees
in order to your and their being registered on the
2s. Aid by this day week, "otherwise you will be
put out of your course." (The like notice severally
to Mr. Waterman ; Mris. Baker ; Mris. Braybrook ;
Mris. Cawthorne ; Mr. Bateman ; Mr. Boddington ;
Mr. Lum ; Mr. Cragg ; Mr. Pancefort ; Messrs.
Derby, Prigg and Wakelyn ; Mr. Silver ; [T. Lloyd]
the Paymaster of the Works ; Mr. Coleby.) |
Ibid, pp. 361-2. |
|
Treasury reference to Sir Christopher Wrenn of the
petition of Thomas Harrison, paviour, praying
payment of 72l. 16s. 9d. due to him for paying in
St. James's Park and the Tilt Yard. |
Reference Book VI, p. 230. |
| Sept. 19. |
Money warrant for 50l. to John How for half a year
to 1689, Sept. 29, on his fee as Keeper of the Pall
Mall in St. James's Park. |
Money Book X, p. 479. |
|
Treasury warrants to the Receipt to pay out of any
loans on the 2s. Aid the orders of June 7 last, supra,
pp. 669 and 674, to the following : all on the lines
of the similar warrants, supra, pp. 814 and 820 :
viz. : Judith Bateman, 1,016l. 0s. 4d. ; Tho. Briscow,
1,003l. 13s. 6d. ; William Waterman, 1,022l. 8s. 10½d. ;
Eliz. Baker, 2,014l. 3s. 4d. ; Mary Braybrook,
1,001l. 4s. 6d. ; Anne Cawthorne, 485l. 17s. 10d. ;
Math. Bateman, 1,080l. 18s. 11d. ; Hester Gibbon,
3,914l. 3s. 0d. ; John Hardwyn, 925l. 4s. 7d. |
Ibid, p. 480. |
|
The like warrant for like payment of nine orders dated
June 7 last for, in all, 4,147l. 0s. 1½d. to James
Boddington, ut supra, pp. 674, 699. |
Money Book X, p. 482. |
|
The like for five orders dated June 7 last for, in all,
2,036l. 16s. 6d. to Elnatham Lum, ut ibid. |
Ibid. |
|
Money warrant for 1,389l. 6s. 7½d. to Col. Edwyn
Steed, Lieut. Governor and Commander in Chief
of Barbados, for two years and 115 days, 1687-8,
Jan. 17, to 1690, May 12, on 600l. per an. as moiety
of the Governor's salary allowance, during the
absence of a Governor thereof : to be paid out
of the Four and a Half per cent Duty in said island.
(Money order dated Sept. 22 hereon.) |
Ibid, p. 481. Order Book
III, p. 117. |
|
Same for 3,000l. to Thomas Robson, with 6 per cent
interest, in repayment of so much lent by him
into the Exchequer the 16th inst. (Money order
dated Sept. 22 hereon.) |
Money Book X, pp. 481-2.
Order Book III, p. 117. |
|
Confirmation by the Treasury Lords of Joseph Flight's
salary warrant, supra, p. 255. |
Money Book X, p. 98. |
|
William Jephson to the Auditor of the Receipt to
issue to Bernard Eales, their Majesties' goldsmith,
3,984l. 11s. 1d. out of the 8,000l. which said Eales
will lend or procure to be lent on the general credit
of the Exchequer ; which loan the Treasury Lords
have agreed shall be transferred to the register of
loans on the 2s. Aid in course after what is already
registered thereon. |
Disposition Book IX,
p. 14. |
|
Same to same to issue 381l. 13s. 4d. to me [Jephson]
for secret service ; 340l. thereof out of the 17,000l.
reserved in the Exchequer and the remaining
41l. 13s. 4d. out of any disposable money in the
Exchequer. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to same to issue 50l. to Mr. How, Keeper of
the Pall Mall, out of any disposable money in the
Exchequer. |
Ibid, p. 15. |
|
Same to the Customs Commissioners to seal the
Archbishop of Dublin's goods at his lodgings in
order to their being sent unopened to Ireland via
Chester. (Same to the Revenue Commissioners,
Ireland, to permit the import of same on payment
of Customs and six coach horses Customs free.) |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 363. Out Letters
(Ireland) VI, p. 33. |
|
Same to the Attorney General. In preparing Mr.
Bowles's patent for the measuring of ships you are
to leave out the clause for the carriage of his letters
post free. |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 363. |
|
Same to the Earl of Ranelagh to report on the enclosed
petition of James Allen, Alexander Monro and
William St. Claire, clothiers, concerning the 1,000l.
which ought to have been remitted to them by
Robert Irwyn, agent to Sir Robert Douglas's
Regiment in Flanders, in part of a greater sum
due to them for clothing said Regiment "and
whereof they have attached 800l. in Sir Francis
Child's hands." |
Ibid, p. 364. |
|
William Jephson to Mr. Shales. From Mr. Harbord's
certificate concerning the money and provisions
imprested to you, my Lords find it requisite that
you deliver in a voluntary charge of the money
imprested and the provisions delivered to you for
the service in Ireland. Do so with all speed. |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 364. |
|
Same to the Revenue Commissioners, Ireland, enclosing
Eliz. Foulke's petition [missing] for a collector's
place in the Customs, Ireland, for her husband.
My Lords recommend him. |
Out Letters (Ireland) VI,
p. 34. |
| Sept. 20. |
Same to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue
as follows out of any disposable money in the
Exchequer : viz. : |
Disposition Book IX,
p. 15. |
|
l. |
|
to Mr. Fox to be paid to Mr. Atkinson at
Hoylake upon account for provisions
for transporting a Regiment of Horse
and one of Dragoons into Ireland |
300 |
|
to the Treasurer of the Navy to be paid to
the Earl of Pembroke upon account for
subsistence for his Marine Regiment |
300 |
|
to the Earl of Ranelagh to be paid to
Monsieur Vander Esch upon account of
the Dutch Troops to enable him to
repay [to Sugden] the like sum paid to
them by Mr. Sugden, deputy receiver
in Yorkshire |
906 |
|
£1,506 |
|
Same to Mr. Russell [Treasurer of the Navy] to raise
3,700l. on the tallies formerly given you for the
service of the Navy, and to employ same in buying
timber. My Lords will make good this sum on or
before Oct. 1 next, together with the 2,300l. ordered
the 12th inst. to be raised in a similar manner for
the Yards : and in the meantime my Lords will
not employ any more of those tallies to other uses
than what the [Principal] Officers of the Navy
have designed them for. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue, out of
any disposable money, 130l. to Mr. Bertie, Treasurer
of the Ordnance ; to be by him paid to Mr. Howard
for freight. |
Ibid, p. 16. |
|
Same to the Attorney General to report on the enclosed
report [missing] from the Attorney General concerning
Mr. Chiffinch not having qualified himself for
his post as one of the searchers at Gravesend by
taking the oaths etc. |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 363. |
|
Same to the Customs Commissioners to deliver at
the Queen's backstairs in Whitehall, on payment
of Customs, three boxes of sweetmeats arrived in
a ship from Rotterdam, Samuel Sente master ;
being for the Queen. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to the Earl of Ranelagh to report on the enclosed
petition [missing] of Thomas Richers, praying
payment of 45l. 13s. 10d. for the charges of carrying
money to Portsmouth. |
Ibid, p. 364. |
|
William Jephson to Mr. Shales. The Transport Commissioners
cannot make up their accounts because
you delay to deliver them the charterparties of the
ships taken up by you. You are to forthwith
deliver them. |
Out Letters (General) XII,
p. 364. |
|
Same to Mr. Maddocks. The Treasury Lords desire
to speak with you concerning Sir Edward Seymour's
accounts as late Treasurer of the Navy. |
Ibid, p. 365. |
|
Same to the Customs Commissioners to put in force
the Order in Council, ut infra, p. 825, for an embargo.
As the Treasury Lords do not sit till Monday I
may not get the signatures of a quorum to-day,
but will without fail send you the original order
with their warrant thereon either to-day or Monday.
Meanwhile it is important that the King's service
do not suffer by the delay. |
Ibid. |
|
Same to Col. Steed. My Lords grant you leave to
come to England for your health. You are to
appoint some honest, fit person in your absence,
for whom you will be answerable. |
Ibid. |
|
Treasury reference to the Customs Commissioners of
the petition of Tho. Swan for a landcarriageman's
place [in the Customs, London port]. |
Reference Book VI, p. 230. |
|
Same to the Auditor of the Receipt of the petition
of the persons [creditors] who have assignments
upon the late Disbanding Act, amounting in all
to 4,520l. 19s. 9d., praying for orders to be registered
in course for said debt according to the direction
of said Act [viz. the Act for the Eighteen Months'
Assessment, 1678, and for the Six Months' Assessment,
1679]. |
Ibid, p. 232. |
|
William Jephson to the Revenue Commissioners,
Ireland, enclosing the Customs Commissioners'
report [missing] concerning Mr. Squire's tobacco
sent from Liverpool to Londonderry. Send my
Lords your observations thereon. |
Out Letters (Ireland) VI,
p. 33. |
