Minute Book: March 1665 | British History Online

Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 1, 1660-1667. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1904.

'Minute Book: March 1665', in Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 1, 1660-1667, (London, 1904) pp. 632-633. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-treasury-books/vol1/pp632-633 [accessed 24 April 2024]

March 1665



Mar. 11.	The memorial from the Excise Commissioners, read and entered, proposing to repay to Nicholas Jackson, William Streete, and Job Sayer, of London, retailers of tobacco, certain sums, amounting in all to 93l. 11s. 5d., for drawback of orders on tobacco by them shipped out before 1660, Dec. 25. Ordered: that said sums be paid, and that the Auditor and Comptroller of Excise allow same in account. [Early Entry Book XII. p. 142–3.]
March 15.	The memorial of this day from the Commissioners for the Arrears of Excise, read and entered, concerning the arrear of 828l. 2s. 1½d. standing out at 1660, Sept. 29, on the accounts of George Gill, Robert Leppington and Robert Stockdale, late Sub-Commissioners for Excise in the East and North Ridings in Yorkshire: and proposing to comply with their request for the allowance for 1¼ years from 1660, Sept., of the establishment of 100l. a year formerly settled on the officers of the ports in their district, and further proposing an allowance of 50l. to them for their extraordinary charges in and about the inland Excise. Ordered: allowed of. [Ibid. pp. 145–6.]
March 18.	The memorial of the 23rd November last from the Commissioners for the Arrears of Excise, read and entered, concerning the arrear of 483l. standing out on Phillip Thorpe, John Blith, William Collins and Henry Thrist, late Farmers of Excise in co. Lincoln and the Isle of Ely, on their account for one year to 1658, March 25, and the further arrear of 1,200l. charged upon them as an augmentation in consequence of the increase of 6d. a barrel set on strong beer. Said Thorpe has appeared before said Commissioners (Collins and Thrist being dead and Blith in prison for debt), and has set forth the damage which they sustained by the coming forth of the Act which imposed the said increase of 6d. per barrel, as the said Act took away the coercive power from the farmers in whom it was vested at the taking of the farm, and gave it to the Justices of the Peace within three months after the commencement of the farm. The Commissioners therefore propose to discharge the arrear of 483l., and to accept 64l. in settlement of the augmentation of 1,200l., that sum being all they ever received on account of the same. Ordered: allowed of. [Ibid. pp. 146–7.]