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1733–4.
[Before
January 2.] |
1. Memorial to the Treasury from Thomas Walker, Surveyor General of Crown Lands. There being no particular place appropriated by the Crown for the despatch of the business of his office, nor for depositing the records and surveys of His Majesty's lands, memorialist was obliged to fit up desks and presses in an apartment in his own house, at a cost of 19l. 15s. “Mr. John Cartwright, formerly a clerk in the Surveyor General's office, having made and being possessed of a General Index to all the Books of Entry, containing in substance an inventory of all such His Majesty's lands as have passed through that office since the Restoration, and your memorialist, apprehending such a book was very improper to remain in private hands, purchased it of him for 25l. and has annexed it to the schedule as an office book for His Majesty's service.” Prays allowance of the two.said sums.
Minuted as under 1733–4, January 2, infra. 1 page.
[Treasury Board Papers CCLXXXV. No. 1.] |
January 2.
Whitehall,
Treasury
Chambers. |
2. Present:—Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Dodington, Mr. Clayton.
Captain Thos. Blagrave's petition on behalf of Hamilton's regiment of foot for 1,619l. 16s. for the exchange of money from Ireland to pay them on board the fleet in the service of England, read and referred to the Secretary at War.
The Navy Commissioners' report of December 17 ultimo, read, on David Dunbar's petition for travelling charges on surveying His Majesty's woods in America. Agreed to allow 340l.; Dunbar to be ordered not to employ more deputies than necessary, and with residences as near as possible to their work so as to retrench these travelling charges.
Colonel Saml. Gledhill's petition as to provisions supplied by him to Placentia garrison, but destroyed by fire, read and referred to Comptrollers of Army Accounts.
The report of the Revenue Commissioners, Ireland, read, on Francis Allen's petition concerning his debt to the Crown. In regard to the necessities of his family, their Lordships agree to discharge of the debt by instalments.
Order for a warrant for 44l. 15s. to Thos. Walker, Surveyor General, for the charge of fitting up desks and presses in his own house for the records and surveys of His Majesty's lands, and for the purchase from John Cartwright (‘Carteret’) of a General Index Book to all the Books of Entry relating to His Majesty's lands.
The Taxes Commissioners' report, of December 18 ultimo, concerning the proceeds of the sale of the house at Lynn Regis, late the property of Wm. Allen, formerly Receiver General for part of Norfolk, read and agreed to.
The memorial of the Customs' Commissioners, of December 19 ultimo, for the share arising to Cornelius Denn, formerly a tobacco merchant, failed indebted to the Crown, by the Stour Navigation, to which the Crown is entitled by an extent, to be sold to the highest bidder, read and agreed to.
Michael How to be a noon tender, loco Truth Camplin, at the recommendation of Mr. Sam. Kent.
General Sabine's letter of 1733, April 1, concerning the provision storehouse at Gibraltar, together with the plan of the old storehouse, and the project and estimate of 1,458l. 17s. 2d. for a new one, referred to the Board of Ordnance.
Order for 20l. as royal bounty to Mr. Giles Batchelor, at the hands of Mr. Lowther.
Same for 35l. 14s. 2d. to Samuel Barnsley and John Sheppard for their journeys and attendance at Hampton Court last summer, to be paid by Mr. Lowther, out of the King's money in his hands. [Treasury Minute Book XXVII. pp. 234–5;
Letter Book XIX. pp. 200, 202.] |
| January 4. |
3. The Commissioners of Excise, Scotland, to the Treasury. In consequence of the proclamation forbidding the currency of the gold coins commonly called Broad Pieces, and requiring the receivers of public revenues to accept them in all payments at a certain rate, there is now in the hands of the cashier of Excise 6,000l. in that specie. This retards the remittances to the Exchequer on account of malt tax, 1733. As the time for receiving the said Broad Pieces is near expiring, desire directions how they shall be transported from the Excise Office to the Tower Mint. 1 page.
[Treasury Board Papers CCLXXXV. No. 3.] |
January 4.
Whitehall,
Treasury
Chambers. |
4. Present:—Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Dodington, Sir Wm. Yonge.
Thos. Watson to succeed Thos. Moore, deceased, late landwaiter at Newcastle.
Sir Richard Lane's petition read, concerning stay of proceedings against him by the sheriffs of Worcester county and city for salt duties at Droitwich. Sheriffs to be ordered to supersede same, pending the Attorney and Solicitor General's instructions.
Order for a warrant appointing the Earl of Cromarty receiver of the rents of the Earldom of Ross at the ancient allowance.
Tuesday next appointed to hear the merchants on the matter pending between them and the Customs Commissioners concerning the drawback on Barbary copper. The Commissioners to forward a copy of their last report concerning same. Mr. Lockwood to have notice of the above.
Order for a sign manual for 6,000l. to John Scrope for secret service. [Treasury Minute Book XXVII. p. 236;
Letter Book XIX. pp. 200, 201.] |
| January 5. |
5. The Privy Council to the Treasury. For the issue of 200l. as usual for the under clerks of the Council for attendance on councils and committees, and writing to the various offices, &c. 1733. 1 page. [Treasury Board Papers CCLXXXV. No. 4.] |
January 8.
Whitehall,
Treasury
Chambers. |
6. Present:—Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Dodington, Mr. Clayton, Sir Wm. Yonge.
Sundry merchants attend concerning the debentures on export of Barbary copper, said matter having been in dispute seven years, no drawback having been allowed, nor debentures issued. “Their Lordships are of opinion this case will require an explanation by same clause in an Act of Parliament before anything can be done therein; and if the merchants think fit to apply for such clause, their Lordships shall acquiesce, provided nothing further shall appear than what the merchants have now opened to them relating to this affair.”
The King has agreed to the payment of Mr. Sollicoffre's bill of expenses and demands for reclaiming the ship “Eagle,” captain John Chilley, which was taken by a Sallee rover; as also to the issuing 1,000l. to Sir Charles Wager, to provide a present for the Emperor of Morocco.
Valence Comyn to be a searcher at Gravesend, loco Joseph Alston, deceased.
“Governor and Company of Chelsea Water Works having desired permission to lay pipes to take water from the canal in Hyde Park when it comes to such height as to run to waste, Mr. Chancellor Exchequer acquaints my Lords that the Queen has consented thereto. So prepare a proper authority for the doing thereof.”
Order for Mr. Lowther to pay, out of the King's money in his hands, 35l. and 15l. to John Brooks, deputy to Mr. James Wright, one of the messengers of the Exchequer, for extraordinary journeys for the King's service last summer, not included in Mr. Wright's bills.
Same for same to pay out of same 955l. to Mr. Arnall for printing and writing the “Free Briton” from 1733, October 11 to the 10th instant. [Treasury Minute Book XXVII. p. 237.] |
| January 10. |
7. Letters patent by writ of Privy Seal for a yearly annuity of 5,000l. to Lord Talbot, Baron of Hensol, Glamorgan, during his custody of the Great Seal of Great Britain; to date from 1733, November 29. [King's Warrant Book XXXI. pp. 226–8.] |
[Before
January 16.] |
8. Memorial to the Treasury by way of a memorandum from Jezreel Jones for his expenses in connexion with his attendance on Morocco Ambassadors. The Crown has been at the expense of all the charges for Ahmed ben Ahmed Cardenas, viz. from Barbary to Portsmouth. Jones was sent to receive him with two of the Queen's coaches, and paid his expenses from Portsmouth to London, and also upon his return to Portsmouth, and to put him on board the man-of-war there, Captain Cavendish; and when the man-of-war put into Plymouth Jones was ordered thither to pay his expenses, and he was put on board Sir Thos. Hardy, then at Plymouth. Demand for same, as by Wm. Vanburgh's report of 1708, September 13, 1,515l. 6s. 6d. Cardenas was allowed a house at 7l. or 7l. 10s. per week. Jones at first agreed for it at the rate of 250l. per annum, but the Moorish servants being careless and destructive, the addition was made by the late Lord Mansell. Cardenas was allowed one of the Queen's coaches till it was abused, and Jones hired him a coach at 5l. per week. 3l. per week was allowed to Jones therefor. Cardenas had 100l. per month allowed for his entertainment during his stay, and the usual presents when he went away. The allowances were paid to him from the Board of Green Cloth by Jones and the presents by Sir Charles Cotterell.
Dn. Joseph Dias was received and acknowledged as Ambassador from the Emperor of Morocco and brought to Jones's house, then in Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, by Sir Charles Cotterell, with all his retinue and five lions, with express orders from the late Earl Godolphin, the Duke of Kent, and the Earl of Sunderland, but Jones had no allowance ever paid him. Dias had the usual presents paid by Sir Clement Cotterell, out of which Jones had only 40l.
Dn. Bentura de Zary had credentials and audiences of the Queen, and was admitted as an Ambassador, but as from the Alcaid, the present Bashaw Ahmet's father, who was then Governor and Captain General of the Court and the Army before Ceuta, and came upon account of trade, but had no allowance, was here several years and is interred at Westminster. His Majesty paid his funeral charges and ordered the late Lord Stanhope to request the Treasury to pay Jones 400l. of which he received but 200l. for the uses of Dezary, his brother.
Endorsed:—16 January, 1733–4, “Read. Mr. Chancellor observes that his talk is chiefly of his owne affaires, but declares that the present Ambassador is to have 25l. per week for his entertainment, 200l. per annum for house rent, and that Mr. Negus will take care a coach be hired for him, the charge whereof it is hoped may be had out of the 25l. per week.” 4 pages.
[Treasury Board Papers CCLXXXV. No. 7.] |
January 16.
Whitehall,
Treasury
Chambers. |
9. Present:—Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Dodington, Sir Wm. Yonge.
The memorial of the Excise Commissioners, Scotland, read, concerning the manner of transporting from Scotland to the Mint in the Tower about 6,000l. in Broad Pieces. Left to their judgment. The Commissioners of Customs and other receivers of revenue there to take the same opportunity of transmitting their Broad Pieces, sharing the expense pro rata.
The Auditor of York to allow to Mary, executrix of Peter Whitton, late Receiver General for part of said county, 459l. 13s. 9d. being allowance at 5 per cent. on land tax, 1731.
The memorial of Mr. Frecker and others, administrators of Mr. Norton, read, concerning timber on his estate felled by the heir-at-law. Mr. Attorney General to advice as to recovery of same, pending the trial as to Norton's will.
“The Dutchess Dowager of Cleveland having made application that her jointure out of the pensions payable at the Excise Office to the Duke, her son, may be paid to her separate and apart, transmit to the Commissioners of Excise the draft of the warrants prepared for that purpose and direct them to order their solicitor to attend Mr. Attorney General with the letters patent and deeds mentioned in the said warrant and to take his opinion as to the matter desired.”
John Walthoe, junior, is to be paid by Mr.Lowther, out of the King's money in his hands, 163l. 6s. 8d. for “Corn Cutter's Journals,” delivered by him to the Post Office from 1733, October 1 to December 25. [Treasury Minute Book XXVII. p. 238;
[North Britain Book XI. p. 49.] |
| January 17. |
10. Royal sign manual to the Treasury for payment of 1,000l. to Sir Charles Wager for a present to be sent to the Emperor of Morocco.
Appending:—List of articles composing said present.
[King's Warrant Book XXXI. pp. 229.] |
11. Same to same for 1,334l. 9s. to John Leonard Sollicoffre for, expenses of his journey from Tetuan to Mequinez to reclaim an English ship called the “Eagle,” John Chilley, master, taken by Sallee rovers in 1732, and for presents, detailed, made to the King of Morocco, his court and servants on that occasion.
Appending:—Bill of said expenses:—
N.B.—Four blanquilles make one ounce.
Six ounces make a piastre.
One piastre is worth 43d. sterling. [Ibid, pp. 230–2.] |
| January 18. |
12. J. Scrope to Mr. Paxton, concerning Mr. Vansittart's title to Mote Park, “which you were directed by my letter of the 27th of January, 1730–1, to bring into a way of being conveyed to trustees for the use of the Crown, the king being desirous, as was then signified to you, that the purchase thereof should be completed as soon as possibly it could.” Demand is now made from Sir Richard Hudson for three years' rent, “which the king would have been freed from in case this affair had been pursued as my letter directed.” [Letter Book XIX. p. 202.] |
| January 18. |
13. Letters patent by the King, granting to the Chelsea Waterworks Company to lay a pipe into the new canal in Hyde Park so as to carry off the waste water of the canal, said company having with great expense been endeavouring ever since 1723 to bring their works to such perfection as to supply the city and liberties of Westminster and places adjoining with water for their use and comfort, by regular services without failure or disappointment either in the summer or the winter season, but having, notwithstanding their expense, reaped as yet “no interest whatever from it, the difference as well as the uncertainty of the tides being such that though they are able to draw up several thousand tons every year in spring tides if they had a reservoir to contain them, yet the neap tides, by reason of the west and south-west winds, are often so low that at those times their services fall short and many families are made uneasy thereby ”; the said company also proposing by the above permitted means fully to supply Kensington Palace and the reservoir in the paddock there with water for the future.
[King's Warrant Book XXXI. pp. 232–4.] |
| January 22. |
14. Treasury warrant to the Clerk of the Pipe or his deputy for a lease to Wm. Lord Harrington of certain lands near the parish of Petersham, formerly part of Richmond park, abutting northward on the road from Richmond Hill to Petersham, containing in all 24 acres 3 roods, and another piece of land with a right to water arising from four springs in said park for 31 years at the reserve rent of 50s. and a fine of 65l.
Prefixing:—Constat of the premises made forth and rated by T. Walker, Surveyor General of Crown lands.
[Crown Lease Book III. pp. 139–40.] |
January 24.
Whitehall,
Treasury
Chambers. |
15. Present:—Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Dodington, Mr. Clayton.
Messrs. Haywood, Bell, Neal and Norris attending, acquaint their Lordships of the great hardships the traders in tea are under, desiring their assistance in an application to Parliament for redress. “Mr. Chancellor tells them this Board was not sufficiently informed of the state of their case, and that as this being the last session of Parliament and might possibly be a short one, their Lordships could not have time to give it a proper consideration. Therefore excused themselves from meddling therein and recommended it to them if they mean to apply to stay their application till next session.” [Treasury Minute Book XXVII. p. 239.] |
| January 24. |
16. Treasury warrant for the execution of a Lord Chamberlain's warrant for furniture to the estimate of 3,157l. or thereabouts, for His Majesty's service at Hampton Court, St. James's, Kew, and Kensington, including, inter al. items for Lady Susan Hamilton's servant at Kew and for the Prince of Orange at Kensington.
[Lord Chamberlain's Warrant Book I. pp. 447–50.] |
January 29.
Whitehall,
Treasury
Chambers. |
17. Present:—Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir George Oxenden, Mr. Dodington, Mr. Clayton, Sir Wm. Yonge.
The Customs Commissioners' report of December 11 ult. read, on Champin Bramfill's petition, regarding the removing prisoners for great sums or great offences from insecure gaols to the Fleet Prison. Their Lordships approve the Commissioners' practice for so doing herein. [Treasury Minute Book XVII. p. 240.] |
