Treasury Books and Papers: December 1737

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'Treasury Books and Papers: December 1737', in Calendar of Treasury Books and Papers, Volume 3, 1735-1738, (London, 1900) pp. 349-357. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-treasury-books-papers/vol3/pp349-357 [accessed 25 April 2024]

December 1737

Dec. 1.
Whitehall,
Treasury
Chambers.		 156. Present: Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Sundon, Mr. Dodington.
Order for the following issues out of public funds anno 1737:—
£ s. d.
To the Treasurer of the Navy, to answer services as in his memorial of the 22nd ult. 31,620 5 3
To the Treasurer of the Ordnance, for services as in his same of same date 30,000 0 0
Same for same as follows, out of the Civil List Revenues:—
£ s. d.
To the Cofferer of the Household, to complete 26,735l. for 1737, midsummer quarter 10,735 0 0
To the Paymaster of the Works, to complete 10,384l. 10s. 1d. for same quarter 5,384 10 1
To Mr. Paxton 1,000 0 0
The memorial now read for rewarding the soldiers assisting the revenue officers in Scotland in like manner with the soldiers assisting said officers here, referred to the Customs Commissioners, Scotland, to consider of it with the Excise Commissioners there.
The Surveyor General of Crown Lands to hasten the despatch of the Duchess of Buckingham's lease, “and if it be not done to let their Lordships know what hinders the despatch thereof.”
George Burrington's petition for 200l., as part of his arrears of salary as late Governor of Carolina, to be paid over by Mr. Hammerton, Receiver General of Revenues in South Carolina, read and agreed to “Mr. Hammerton being authorized to pay Mr. Burrington's salary by His Majesty's royal sign manual, dated the 30 January 1730.”
Mr. Secretary at War and other officers being present my Lords order a letter to the Secretary at War, desiring him, together with the Paymaster of the Forces, to advise and return their opinion as to the following particulars:—
What orders are proper to be given for turning over the private men from the Earl of Rothes to Mr. Oglethorp's regiment.
What subsistence ought to be paid for Mr. Oglethorp's men raised here, and how the subsistence, which will be paid to the Earl of Rothes men at Gibraltar till turned over to Mr. Oglethorpe, will be made good.
What levy money is to be allowed Mr. Oglethorpe per man and for how many men, and the method proposed for the same.
From what time the Earl of Rothes' regiment is to be discharged of the men turned over to Mr. Oglethorp, and how the Earl of Rothes is to recruit again, at what allowance per man, and how the charge thereof is to be paid.
The Customs Commissioners' report of the 17th ult. on George Bridge's proposal for preventing the exportation of wool from Ireland, read, “and the proposer being shown the report will find it is proper to pursue what he has to offer before the Commissioners of the Revenues in Ireland.”
[Treasury Minute Book XXVIII. pp. 60–1; Letter Book XIX. p. 456.]
Dec. 1. 157. Royal warrant, countersigned by the Lords of the Treasury, to Thomas Foley, one of the Auditors of Imprests, to pass the accounts of the Paymaster of the Works for the year ended 1736, December 31, notwithstanding that the said accounts exceed by 24,285l. 0s. 1¾d., the allowance for said works limited by the instructions of King George I., of date 1726, June 20, whereby the expense of the Office of Works was not to exceed 14,400l. per an.
Appending:—Said account in detail. (Total, 38,685l. 0s. 1¾d.)
[King's Warrant Book XXXII. pp. 473–6.]
Dec. 1. 158. Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners, authorising the allowance in the accounts of the Customs collectors in the Leeward Islands of a sum of 80l. per annum, to be by them furnished to the Surveyor General of Barbados, the Leeward Islands, and Bermudas to defray his expenses in hiring sloops, &c., to convey him from island to island in the execution of his office, and for the allowance of 137l. 14s. 4½d. and 1,366l. 13s. 10d. to Edward Perrie and Charles Dunbar, respectively for the like expenses from 1715 to 1731.
Appending:—Report to the Treasury from said Commissioners on the petition of Jonathan Perrie, son and executor of Edward Perrie, late Surveyor General of Customs in Barbados, Leeward Isles, and the Bermudas, and of Charles Dunbar, present same for their expenses as above. Perrie was appointed Surveyor General in 1709, and during the war was carried, by an order from the Admiralty, from station to station on men-of-war. But after the peace there were few men-of-war on that station, and he had to hire sloops, as also did Dunbar, who succeeded Perrie 1717, April 30. Advise allowance of the above sums.
[Customs Book XIV. pp. 246–9.]
Dec. 7. 159. Treasury letters patent appointing Horatio Walpole, Inspector General of Exports and Imports, and to make and keep a particular, distinct and true account of the importations and exportations of all commodities into and out of this kingdom, and to and from what places the same are exported and imported, and also upon what shipping such exports and imports are made, and to examine into the decay (if any) of the trades of this kingdom into foreign parts, and into the increase of freight of foreign shipping using this His Majesty's kingdom of Great Britain: and out of the said account once in every year and as often as he shall be thereunto required by the Treasury or Board of Trade or Customs Commissioners to make and present a fair and exact scheme of the Balance of Trade as it then stands between Great Britain and other parts of the world: all in succession to Anthony Balam, Esq., deceased: with yearly salaries of 500l. to himself and 280l. for clerks and substitutes. [Customs Book XIV. p. 254–5.]
Dec. 8.
Whitehall,
Treasury
Chambers.		 160. Present: Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Sundon, Mr. Dodington.
Order for the following issues out of the Civil List Revenues:—
£ s. d.
To the Wardrobe 1737, midsummer quarter 8,541 19 3¼
To the Privy Purse 3,000 0 0
To the Commissioners for Trade and their Secretary 2,567 6 8½
To the Treasurer of the Chamber, for the expense of messengers 1,000 0 0
To the Paymaster of the Works, towards the repairs of Fulham Road, 400l. this week and 400l. next 400 0 0
The Secretary at War's letter of the 7th instant read concerning the orders given with respect to Col. Oglethorp's regiment and the Earl of Rothes', from which Oglethorp is to be supplied with men, and concerning the issues and other requisites to prevent confusion in accounts, and as to bringing from Gibraltar the men of Rothes' regiment that shall not be turned over to Oglethorp, and the levies to be made in Ireland to recruit Rothes' regiment again. Their Lordships agree with the Secretary at War and Paymaster General of the Forces herein. Such orders as are proper for the Treasury to give herein are to be despatched.
[Treasury Minute Book XXVIII. p. 62; Letter Book XIX. p. 458.]
Dec. 8. 161. Treasury warrant to the Auditor and other officers of the Receipt to draw orders for paying to the South Sea Company 1,092,088l. 2s. 7d., being one year's annuity to Michaelmas 1738 on a capital stock of 27,302,203l. 5s. 6d. (to which amount said capital stock has been reduced by redemptions paid at the Exchequer, amounting to 6,500,000l.), and proportionate expenses of management for same period.
Appending:—A computation and adjustment of the whole principal money and of the annuities thereupon, and of the allowances for management, which from 1737, Michaelmas, are to be paid respectively to the South Sea Company and to the Bank of England, claiming under said Company as purchasers of 4,000,000l. of its capital stock.
[Money Book XXXIX. pp. 143–6.]
Dec. 13.
Whitehall,
Treasury
Chambers.		 162. Present: Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Dodington, Lord Sundon.
Order for the issue to the Treasurer of the Navy, out of funds anno 1737, of 10,500l., for services as in his memorial of this day.
Same for same, out of the Civil List Revenues, of so much as will clear the foreign ministers on their ordinary and extraordinaries to 1737, midsummer.
The memorial of the Paymaster General of the Forces on Sir Joseph Eyles's proposal for remitting the subsistence money to Gibraltar and Minorca 1737, December 25, to February 23 following, read and agreed to as follows, the rates of exchange being certified to be as usual:—15,800 dollars for Minorca, payable at sight in gold, at 55d. per dollar; 22,500 dollars for Gibraltar, payable at sight in gold, at 54½d. per dollar.
Mr. Lowther is to pay out of the King's money in his hands 250l. to Mr. John Peele, for money expended by him for His Majesty's service. [Treasury Minute Book XXVIII. p. 63.]
Dec. 20. 163. (a.)-(t.t.) Weekly cash papers, being weekly statements of disposable money in the Exchequer, so disposable under the following heads:—(1) For His Majesty's Civil Government. (2) For the late King's debts. (3) For Queen Anne's debts. (4) “For uses to be appointed” or “Reserved to be issued by authority of Parliament.” (5) Public supplies of years where the services of those years have been satisfied. (6) For the service of the year 1737: all for the weeks ending as follow:—1736–7, January 4; January 11 enclosing (b.) (i.), a paper of unsatisfied warrants for which letters of direction are written, and of warrants signed, but unsatisfied for want of such letters; January 18 (enclosing (c.) (i.) ut supra); January 25 (enclosing (d.) (i.) ut supra); February 1 (enclosing (e.) (i.) ut supra); February 8 (enclosing (f.) (i.) ut supra); February 15 (enclosing (g.) (i.) ut supra); February 22 (enclosing (h.) (i.) ut supra); March 1 (enclosing (i.) (i.) ut supra); March 8 (enclosing (j.) (i.) ut supra); March 15 (enclosing (k.) (i.) ut supra); March 22 (enclosing (l.) (i.) ut supra); March 29 (enclosing (m.) (i.) ut supra); April 5 (enclosing (n.) (i.) ut supra); April 12 (enclosing (o.) (i.) ut supra); April 19 (enclosing (p.) (i.) ut supra); April 26 (enclosing (q.) (i.) ut supra); May 3 (enclosing (r.) (i.) ut supra); May 10 (enclosing (s.) (1.) ut supra); May 17; May 24 (enclosing (u.) (i.) ut supra); May 31; June 7 (enclosing (w.) (i.) ut supra); June 21; June 23 (sic ? 28); July 5 (enclosing (z.) (i.) ut supra); July 12 (enclosing (aa.) (i.) ut supra); July 19; July 26 (enclosing (cc.) (i.) ut supra); August 2 (enclosing (dd.) (i.) ut supra); August 9 (enclosing (ee.) (i.) ut supra); August 16; August 23; August 30; September 6 (enclosing (ii. )(i.) ut supra); September 13; September 20; September 27 (enclosing (ll.) (i.) ut supra); October 11; October 18 (enclosing (nn.) (i.) ut supra); October 25 (enclosing (oo.) (i.) ut supra); November 1 (enclosing (pp.) (i.) ut supra); November 29 (enclosing (qq.) (i.) ut supra); December 6; December 13 (enclosing (ss.) (i.) ut supra); December 20. 78 pages.
[Treasury Board Papers CCXCVI. No. 14.]
Dec. 20.
Whitehall,
Treasury
Chambers.		 164. Present: Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Dodington, Lord Sundon.
“Let the sum that is wanting to clear salaries and pensions payable at the Exchequer to midsummer last be now satisfyed; and a letter signed for the same accordingly.”
Mr. Whitworth's memorial read relating to the underwood in Fan Grove and Knowlegrove Coppices, Surrey. Their Lordships agree to the felling of said underwood under Whitworth's directions, who is to receive the money arising thereby, and account for it.
A petition read in the name of Thos. Coxeter and John Talbot, proposing, as first discoverers thereof, to make good at their own charge the King's title to a moiety of the Manor of Lechlade, Gloucestershire, by way of escheat, and praying a grant thereof. Their Lordships say petitioners are not the first discoverers thereof, for that the Treasury was some time since apprized of this escheat by Mr. Harding, Clerk of the House of Commons, the same happening by the death of Elizabeth Harding, his relation, without heir or testament.
Order for Mr. Lowther to pay, out of the King's money in his hands, 42l. 13s. 4d. to Edward Bryant, for the travelling charges and attendances on Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer at Houghton in Norfolk and at Hampton Court in 1737.
[Treasury Minute Book XXVIII. p. 64.]
[Before
Dec. 25.]		 165. Statement of the Offreckonings and Clearings of the Forces anno 1737, and estimates for the subsistence of the Forces 1737, December 25, to 1738, March 25, together with statement of the payments made by the Paymaster General to the Earl of Rothes' regiment of foot on the establishment of Ireland, but now serving at Gibraltar, from 1734, December 25, to 1737, December 25. 1 page. [Treasury Board Papers CCXCVI. No. 16.]
[After
Dec. 25.]		 166. An abbreviate of the receipts and payments of the Excise revenue and other duties under the management of the Commissioners of Excise, Scotland, for the quarter ending 1737, December 25. Certified by Robert Forrest, Accomptant General, J. Pimme, Cashier, and Alexander Wright, Deputy Comptroller of said duties. 1 sheet. [Ibid. No. 19.]
Dec. 28. 167. Treasury warrant to the Auditor of the Receipt for the issue of 105l. to John Lawton, for himself and three clerks for Christmas quarter, for sorting, digesting, and methodizing the records and writings in the Exchequer Court.
Appending:—Lawton's certificate, dated Exchequer, December 24. “Since Michaelmas last Mr. Stewart has been sorting divers kinds of Records of Edward the 3rd's reign, Mr. Smart has been sorting Star Chamber Records, Mr. Whiston and Mr. Farley have been methodizing the books of the Court of Wards and Liveries, and Mr. Strachey has been sorting Star Chamber Records.”
[Money Book XXXIX. p. 129.]
Dec. 29.
Whitehall,
Treasury
Chambers.		 168. Present: Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Dodington Lord Sundon, Mr. Winnington.
Order for the issue out of this week's cash for the Civil List of 33,686l. 5s. 0½d., for the purposes specified in the several letters to the Exchequer of this day.
Mr. Walker to attend the Treasury on Tuesday next about the Duchess of Buckingham's affair.
“Write to the Publick offices as usual for the estimates intended to be laid before the Parliament the ensuing Session.”
“Write to the Commissioners of Excise for accounts of the gross and net produce of the duties on sweets from 24 June 1737, of the duties on all spirituous liquors from the 29 September 1736, of the duties on coffee, tea and chocolate from the time the Act passed against smugglers 9 Geo. II., and direct them to make such observations for their Lordships informacon as they shall think necessary, and to transmit an account of the coffee, tea and chocolate seized since the Act 9 Geo. II., and the value thereof: and if the assistance of the Commissioners of Customs is wanting they are to apply for same.”
William Empson, messenger, doorkeeper and bag carrier to the Secretary of the Treasury, being dead, Charles Kemmetter is to succeed him at a salary of 40l. per an. from Christmas last.
[Treasury Minute Book XXVIII p. 65; Letter Book XIX. p. 459.]
Dec. 29. 169. Treasury warrant to the Excise Commissioners to cause the respective yearly pensions of 3,000l., granted to Charles, Duke of Cleveland, by Charles II., by letters patents, dated 22 October, 26 Car. II., and 1,000l., being part of a yearly pension of 3,000l., granted by the same letters patents to George, Duke of Northumberland (which said pensions were by a Treasury warrant of 1734, April 22, ordered to be paid one-third to Anne, Duchess of Cleveland, and two-thirds to William, Duke of Cleveland), to be issued and paid by quarterly payments from time to time in manner following: —
£ s. d.
To Anne, Duchess Dowager of Cleveland 1,333 6 8
To William, Duke of Cleveland 1,333 6 8
To Thos. Pulteney, in trust for the residue of 21 years from July 1724 666 13 4
To William Dawson, for residue of same term 666 13 4
Appending:—(a.) Report dated 1737, December 17, to the Treasury from Dudley Ryder, Attorney General, on the petition of William Dawson, concerning his interest in the above. Petitioner Dawson is executor and residuary legatee of Lady Barbara FitzRoy, deceased, eldest daughter of Charles, late Duke of Cleveland. Said Duke was entitled to grant one-third of his pensions, as above, payable at the Excise, to a wife in jointure, and another third to trustees for 21 years for raising portions for daughters. By deed of date 1724, July 22, he granted to Thos. Pulteney and Charles Mein 1,333l. 6s. 8d. per an. for 21 years for this latter purpose. Said Duke died in 1730, leaving a daughter, Grace, married to the Hon. Henry Vane, Esq., and two daughters unadvanced in marriage, Lady Barbara and Lady Anne, who after raising 8,000l. and interest became entitled to equal moieties of the said 1,333l. 6s. 8d. per an. The Duchess Dowager of Cleveland received the said annuity quarterly for her daughters, but neglecting to account with her daughters for the same, William, Duke of Cleveland, or his agents, by some suggestions, obtained a Treasury warrant of date 1734, April 22, to receive 2,666l. 13s. 4d., being his own third portion and the third portion of his sisters. By colour of such warrant he has since received his sisters' portion in violation of their right. On the 15 July 1737 petitioner Dawson obtained a decree in Chancery against said Duke and the Duchess Dowager hereupon.
(b.) Certificate by Wm. Poyntz, dated Excise Office, 1737, December 28, of the payments, as above, to the Duke and Duchess Dowager of Cleveland, respectively to 1737, midsummer.
[Warrants not relating to Money XXVI. pp. 21–26.]
Dec. 29. 170. Royal warrant to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, countersigned by the Lords of the Treasury, to issue orders for clothing in black, for mourning on the death of the late Queen, the Company of the Battle Axe Guards (being 44 men and two Serjeants at a cost of 8l. 6s. per man) and the trumpeters and messengers, detailed, attending the State in the kingdom of Ireland.
[Irish Book IX. pp. 115–6.]
171. Same to same, to remit to the Paymaster General of the Forces in England 9,079l. 7s. 6d., being the Irish pay of the regiment of foot commanded by the Earl of Rothes, said regiment being upon the establishment of Ireland, but now serving at Gibraltar, and having been paid by said Paymaster General according to or on the foot of the English establishment, and the Parliament of Great Britain having only provided the difference of pay between the English and Irish establishments. [Ibid. pp. 116–7.]
Dec. 30. 172. J. Scrope to the Master of the Ordnance, the Paymaster General of the Forces, the Secretary at War, Mr. Burchet, respectively requesting the transmission to the Treasury of the estimates which may be proper to be laid before the House of Commons in the ensuing Session for land and sea services in the office of Ordnance, the service of the Forces, and the service of the Navy and the Victualling thereof. [Letter Book XIX. pp. 458–9.]
173. Same to the Navy Commissioners, for a copy of the estimate of the debt due to the Navy at Christmas last.
[Ibid. p. 459.]
174. Statement of account of the expense, detailed, occasioned by the death and funeral of her late Majesty the Queen. (Total, 22,985l. 13s. 9d.) 1 page.
[Treasury Board Papers CCXCVI. No. 21.]
[1737.] 175. Petition of Robert Wilson to the Treasury, for some provision on account of the merits of his father, Richard Wilson, who served 40 years first in England, and then in the revenue, Ireland.
Together with a letter of Richard Wilson, a revenue officer, Ireland, to the Lords of the Admiralty, dated London, 1732–3, January, and containing “a memorial in favour of the exports of the woollen manufactures in England and import duties of the revenue, Ireland.” The French traders and their agents, who are very numerous in Ireland, have for many years made an easy purchase of Irish wool by running brandy, silk, &c., and can thus afford to undersell English merchants in foreign markets. And they have improved the trade of their manufactures abroad to that degree as to give 11s. 6d. a stone for Irish wool, whereas the constant price for many years till of late seldom exceeded 7s. 6d. per stone, and often under. Proposes regulations for the frigates and sloops stationed on the coast of Ireland, the restricting the free ports to Dublin, Waterford, and Cork, and certain articles to be settled by Parliament for the compulsion of smugglers found hovering within certain leagues of the coast, together with the prohibition of the carriage of wool to the mountainous county of Kerry, where no manufactures are. “I have only at present to add three articles more, in order to unite England and Ireland in their wool trade as formerly, and that granting any of them will turn the dispositions of the Protestant gentlemen in Ireland to a man in favour of the English interest: and how they stand now affected is no secret. (1) That they may export their woollen manufactures to foreign markets as formerly. (2) That the English traders may allow a reasonable good price for their wool. (3) That Irish worsted and woollen yarn may be encouraged to be imported into England.
Endorsed:—Memorandum left at Mr. Scrope's house. 7 pages.
[Treasury Board Papers CCXCVI. No. 22.]
176. Papers of estimates as follow:—
(a.) Charge of the Guards, Garrisons, and other His Majesty's Land Forces in Great Britain for the year 1737. (Total, 647,549l. 11s. 3½d.) In duplicate. 3 pages.
(b.) Same of His Majesty's Forces in the Plantations, Minorca and Gibraltar, for same year. (Total, 215,710l. 6s. 5½d.) In duplicate. 2 pages.
(c.) Same of the Office of Ordnance for same year. (Total, 80,328l. 5s. 5d.) In duplicate. 2 pages.
(d.) Same of the Outpensioners of Chelsea Hospital for same year. (Total, 28,707l. 5s. 10d.) In duplicate. 2 pages.
[Ibid. No. 25.]
[? 1737.] 177. Memorial to the Treasury from William Latton, Plenipotentiary and Consul General to the Emperor of Morocco. Having made diligent enquiry relating to several donations for the redemption of captives, finds among other things that Mr. Thos. Betton, deceased, of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, by his will, dated 1723–4, February 15, devised the moiety of his real and personal estate, being of very considerable value, to the Ironmongers' Company of London, on trust to pay the income of it for the redemption of British slaves in Turkey or Barbary, The money which has been annually received for the above trust therefrom amounts now to several thousands of pounds, and would probably soon be paid over if proper application was made. 1 page.
Appending:—(a.) Extract from Betton's will in the registry of the prerogative Court of Canterbury. 2 pages.
[Treasury Board Papers CCXCVI. No. 26.]
[? 1737.] 178. Memorial to the Treasury from Onslow Burrish. In 1731 was appointed Secretary to His Majesty's Commissioners for settling a new tariff for the Austrian Netherlands at Antwerp, and from that time to the end of 1736 employed himself occasionally in searching the records of the Plantation office, and in selecting and transcribing proper papers of a large extent for the use of that Commission. Prays some gratuity for his services. In duplicate. 1 and 1 pages. [Ibid. No. 27.]
[? 1737.] 179. An account of services incurred anno 1737, and not provided for by Parliament. (Total, 14,395l. 4s. 6d.) In duplicate. 2 pages. [Ibid. No. 28.]
[? 1737.] 180. Same of such of the public revenues of Excise as are applicable to the payment of the public debts calculated on the medium of the five years' accounts given in to the Parliament anno 1737, detailed under the head of the various funds or duties with the respective appropriations out of same. (Gross produce of said duties, 1,902,479l. 7s. 4¼d.; payments out of same, 173,604l. 2s. 1d.; leaving a disposable net produce of 1,728,875l. 5s. 3¼d.) 1 page. [Ibid. No. 29.]
[? 1737.] 181. Same certified by W. Luke and Hen. Lane, Commissioners of Hawkers and Pedlars, of the various Acts of Parliament regulating the appropriations to which the revenues under the management of the said Commissioners are liable. 2 pages.
[Ibid. No. 30.]
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