Minute book: July 1695, 1-15 | British History Online

Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 10, 1693-1696. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1935.

'Minute book: July 1695, 1-15', in Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 10, 1693-1696, (London, 1935) pp. 1388-1393. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-treasury-books/vol10/pp1388-1393 [accessed 19 April 2024]

July 1695, 1–15



July 1. Afternoon.	Present: All my Lords.
	[Send] a letter to the Receivers of Taxes in Cornwall and Devon to furnish the Clerk of the Cheque at Plymouth with such sums as his Majesty's service shall require in the [Navy] Yard there; he at the same time giving Bank bills to the Receivers to the value of what they shall pay him. Mr. Lowndes is to direct the Agents [for Taxes] to write this letter.
	The Customs Commissioners [are called in and] inform my Lords that if wine be imported in uncertain cask above gauge it is carefully gauged and pays by its content; if the cask be under gauge the King gains by them, though there be a law against importing in uncertain cask.
	The Customs Commissioners are to consider and advise whether aliens made denizens are not to pay Aliens' Duties, notwithstanding clauses in their charters of denization [to the effect] that they shall pay no other duties than such as are payable per English; and if they are [found to be thus] liable whether it may not be prudential to charge them with those high Duties in regard to [the condition of] trade.
	[Order of repayment to be made out for the] 15,000l. to be lent per Mr. Burton on the Post Office [revenue].
	[Letter of direction for the issue of] 32,739l. 14s. 3d. to the Ordnance to complete the proportion for sea service of the Ordnance: to be issued to Mr. Bertie out of loans in his own name on the 300,000l. per an. of the Customs.
	The Excise Commissioners are called in. Sir S. Dashwood says [that] till the causes of the decay of the Excise mentioned in their report are removed the Excise cannot be raised by any management whatsoever.
	The proposal of Mr. Hornby et al. is to be sent to the Excise Commissioners, who are to consider the same and give my Lords their opinion.
	My Lords tell Mr. East they cannot think of separating the London and country Excise. He is at liberty to make what further proposals he pleases.
	[Treasury Minute Book VIII. p. 53.]
July 2. Forenoon.	Present: Lord Godolphin, Sir Stephen Fox, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Smith.
	Mr. Fanshaw [is] to be heard this day fortnight.
	Mr. Ince [is] to have interest at 6 per cent. for the sum of 51,246l. 7s. 1½d., being so much fictitiously lent by him this day on the Post Office [revenue] to make good the first year's deficiency to the Bank of England.
	Mr. Young et al. come in about the accounts of the late Commissioners and Managers of Wine Licences. Mr. Young insists that they should be accountants [and not farmers] for the [said] revenue and not be tied to the strictness of the contract, which he says was illegally broken [by the State] before their [farm] time was out, [viz.] by the King's granting a new commission to Albion Chaire and others; and he offers a paper of reasons [in support thereof], which is read: he urges [in evidence] a letter of Mr. Jephson to Mr. [Auditor] Aldworth [directing the said Auditor] to make up the account as he [Young] has made it.
	My Lords are of opinion that the account be made up according to the contract; and Mr. Young and his partners must answer separately the arrears upon the preceding account of the Wine Licences; and if they have any claims of defalcations they must be put in writing and presented to my Lords to determine.
	Mary Bedford [is ordered to have] 10l. and to expect no more; and Mary Lancaster to have 10l. to go to the place where she was born; and she is to have no more.
	[Ibid. p. 54.]
July 3. Forenoon.	Present: ut supra.
	The distribution [of the weekly cash] is made.
	[My Lords order] 13,647l. 14s. 10½d. to complete the proportion for the Victualling out of loans on the Duties on Coals and Glass; out of which they [the Victualling Commissioners] are to pay 4,000l. to the Excise Commissioners towards their debt, the said Commissioners at the same time giving to the Victuallers a new credit for 2,000l. and taking care that the officers of the Victualling in the several ports be not molested by the Excise officers till money be furnished for satisfaction of the residue of the debt. And the rest is for the General Victuall[ing].
	Order for 4,000l. for Wear and Tear of the Navy, to be advanced to Mr. Dodington; to be applied to pay bills come from Admiral Russell and Capt. Wilshaw for disbursements for the Straits Fleet.
	Order for 20l. (on the Bishop of London's letter) to be paid to William Young for Hen. Deane.
	My Lords, upon hearing several of the Messengers [of the Chamber] concerning their bills, adhere to their reducement of the 24th July last, with these alterations, viz.: the half crown a day for safe keeping [prisoners] to be 3s. 4d. a day and the half crown a day for diet to be also 3s. 4d. a day; and that their payments be made to them in ready money.
	Mr. Fanshaw to be heard next Tuesday afternoon.
	[Treasury Minute Book VIII. p. 55.]
eodem die Afternoon.	Present: ut supra.
	Sir William Russell and the creditors of Richard and Andrew Dalton and Sir William Ashurst are heard by their counsel concerning a grant made by the late Queen enabling Sir William Ashurst to receive out of the estate of the said Daltons a debt of 1,218l. 0s. 6d. due to him with all interest that was and should be due and such charges as he should be at in the prosecution thereof.
	Mr. Selby, on the side of Sir William Russell and other creditors, saith that Richard Dalton in Dec, 1688, made an assignment of his estate to his creditors and then left Dublin: that Andrew continued peaceably in Dublin and carried on his trade there and sent over for a letter of licence, which Sir William Ashurst signed and prevailed on several others of Andrew's creditors to sign also; that notwithstanding Sir William had signed this letter of licence, yet he clandestinely transacted the abovesaid grant without the privity of the rest of the creditors and that by obtaining this grant it hath sunk so [much] the estate of the Daltons that the remainder of it will bear no proportion to the payment of the rest of the creditors: therefore prays the grant may be reversed or that Andrew being innocent may have leave to reverse his outlawry and assign his estate to his creditors.
	Mr. Crisp, on the other side, saith that Mr. Richard Dalton went over to the French Army before the battle of the Boyne and continues still in France in open rebellion against his Majesty; that Andrew stayed in Dublin, but [only] after the battle of the Boyne, and then went into Limerick, where he continued in arms till the surrender of that place; that if his outlawry be reversed the whole estate of Richard will be claimed by Andrew, though they were co-partners, and consequently Sir William [be] defeated of the benefit of his grant.
	Sir William Ashurst owns he signed a letter per licence for Andrew, but the said letter did not arrive at Dublin till two days after the said Andrew went into Limerick; so that he never received it and ought to claim no benefit by it; that he then (in his own name and of others the creditors of the Daltons) did petition the late Queen [Mary] in Council so that 'tis very unjustly alleged that he did clandestinely transact this grant.
	Mr. Baker, who was Sir William's solicitor at the Council, attests the same and produceth the petition, which being read to my Lords, it appeareth to be in the name of Sir William Ashurst and others the creditors of Richard and Andrew Dalton.
	That her Majesty out of her great grace and favour and in consideration of his faithful services when Lord Mayor of London was pleased to grant to him so much (and no more) as was due to himself from the said Daltons, though he petitioned in the name of the rest of the creditors, but he supposes they were all unknown to her Majesty, and that it is still in his Majesty's power to grant the remainder of the estate of the Daltons to the rest of their creditors if his Majesty shall be graciously pleased to do the same.
	My Lords, upon hearing the parties, find no cause to move his Majesty for altering the grant made by the late Queen.
	[Treasury Minute Book VIII. pp. 55–56.]
July 8.	Present: Lord Godolphin, Sir Stephen Fox, Mr. Smith.
	Mr. Fox's report is read, on the petition of Mrs. Helena Dering. [My Lords decide] to speak with Mr. Fox.
	[Send] a letter to Mr. Doddington to attend my Lords tomorrow afternoon. [Send] a letter to some of the gentlemen of the Bank to be here to-morrow in order to meet Mr. Dodington.
	A new Commission to be drawn for Greenwich Hospital and a large blank to be left for inserting the [names of the] Commissioners and another blank for the Quorum.
	[My Lords order] Capt. Elliot to have 250l. and to apply for the remainder at his Majesty's return.
	[My Lords read the] petition of Lady Fingall. Referred to the Lord Deputy of Ireland.
	[My Lords order] 1,000l. to the Robes: [to be issued by] tally on the Excise.
	[Send] a letter to the Commissioners of Excise to attend my Lords to-morrow afternoon.
	[My Lords read the] petition of John Hanson. Referred to the Revenue Commissioners, Ireland.
	Mr. Tailour [is] to see out of what money Sir Thomas Southwell may be paid 180l. 7s. 6d. for transporting French Protestants into Ireland.
	The tenants of [the forfeited lands of Visct. Preston in] Cumberland and Mr. Aaron Smith are to attend my Lords to-morrow.
	[My Lords order] Jeane Barbot to be paid 190l. out of 1,160l. 7s. 6d. due to the executors of Sir John Trenchard on account of secret service.
	Mr. Henry Hoare to be assistant to his grandfather, Mr. James Hoare, Comptroller of the Mint, to qualify him for the employment, but without salary, my Lords not thinking it fit to increase the charge of the Mint at this time.
	[Treasury Minute Book VIII. pp. 56–57.]
July 9. Afternoon.	Present: All my Lords.
	A warrant for a privy seal for 3,000l. secret service money to the Duke of Shrewsbury (the former warrant being taken in the pacquet boat which was lately carried into Dunkirk) is read to my Lords and ordered to be sent to Mr. Blathwayt [to obtain the King's signature].
	A warrant [is ordered] for a privy seal to discharge Sir John Trenchard's executors of the plate delivered to him out of the Jewel House as Secretary of State.
	[Send] a letter to Mr. Franklin to send to my Lords a copy of the will of Sir [the Sieur] de la Brettonières.
	The Victualling Commissioners and the Excise Commissioners are called in. My Lords declare to them that when they [my Lords] order any money to the Victuallers to pay any part of their old debt to the Excise they intend that the Excise Commissioners shall give new credit to the Victuallers for half that sum, for which they shall not be engaged personally. But if they increase the debt further they shall be looked upon to be engaged personally for it.
	The Victuallers withdraw.
	The Excise Commissioners present their report on the proposal for management, which was read.
	Upon a complaint of the gentlemen of the Bank that Mr. Doddington drew money from them faster than his occasions required, Mr. Doddington in answer says he never had any directions from the Treasury Lords to the contrary; however, he never did draw any money from them but what was for the immediate service of the Navy.
	My Lords recommend it to Mr. Doddington as they have done to my Lord Ranelagh and other public officers, that he be as assistant as he can to the gentlemen of the Bank, it being thought for the King's service to leave all public money in their [the said Bank's] hands till the service requires it.
	[Ibid. pp. 57–58.]
July 10. Forenoon.	Present: Lord Godolphin, Sir Stephen Fox, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Smith.
	Proposals are read of Mr. A. Barnaby for the discovering and preventing for the future the frauds of the brewers.
	Mr. George Clark's letter to Mr. Smith for 77l. 16s. 6d. due to him from the three French Regiments of Foot [is read and ordered] to be referred to Mr. Fox.
	Mr. Lownds when he next writes to Mr. Blathwayte [is to say] that by my Lords' order he desires him to lay before the King the yearly charge of the additional allowance of 8d. a day [per man] to the Earl of Oxford's Regiment.
	[My Lords order] Mr. Aaron Smith to enquire and take care of the estate of the Tripeman.
	[My Lords order] Mr. Glanvill to wait on my Lady Trenchard and acquaint her that there is a petition of Dean Barbot, merchant, a French refugee, presented to my Lords for 190l. due to him from Sir J. Trenchard for secret service.
	[My Lords order] Mr. Tailor to pay Dr. Oates 150l., but to tell him it must be in part of his allowance of 200l. per an. and must be defalked therefrom by degrees.
	[My Lords order] 10l. to be paid to the Mansells by Mr. Taylour.
	A letter to be sent to the Customs Commissioners for the passing the Lord Deputy of Ireland's goods etc. according to custom.
	[Send] a letter to the late Commissioners of Hackney Coaches that they remove none of the books or papers that did belong to their Office.
	A petition of Seymour Tredenham, esq., is read for 80l. for repairing Lostwithiel gaol, and is referred to Mr. Travers.
	Mr. Knight and Mr. Burton by their memorial pray their Lordships' bounty (in proportion to what the Chamberlain of London and others have had) for procuring loans. My Lords direct Mr. Lowndes to state what allowances have been made to the Chamberlain [of London] in the like case.
	The bills for the late Queen's coffin are to be paid by the Treasurer of the Chamber: and my Lords will assign money next week.
	Upon the proposal of Joseph Rosington to be employed in enquiring into the frauds in the payment of tickets for seamen, Mr. Lownds [is directed] to lay before my Lords (at his coming to town) the letter sent from the Admiralty relating to this matter.
	[My Lords read the] petition of William Clements and others for their charges and a reward in discovering and apprehending one Chapman, a notorious coiner, who hath impeached More, the tripeman, and others his confederates. My Lords say they shall be rewarded out of forfeitures.
	The memorial of the [Principal] Officers of the Mint is read, proposing remedies to prevent the further progress of clipping and counterfeiting the coin of this kingdom.
	[Treasury Minute Book VIII. p. 59.]