Declared Accounts: First Fruits and Tenths

Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 21, 1706-1707. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1952.

'Declared Accounts: First Fruits and Tenths', in Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 21, 1706-1707, (London, 1952) pp. cccxxi-cccxxii. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-treasury-books/vol21/cccxxi-cccxxii [accessed 23 April 2024]

First Fruits and Tenths


Declared Accounts: First Fruits and Tenths.

AUDIT OFFICE, BUNDLE 1227, ROLL 184.
John Fenn, Remembrancer of First Fruits and William Glanville, Receiver of the same.
	1 January 1705–6 to 31 December 1706.
	Charge.	l.	s.	d.	l.	s.	d.
	Arrears: depending on several persons shown on the foot of the last Accompt				55,214	19	4
	Receipts:
	issues of First Fruits of divers Archbishoprics, Bishoprics, Deaneries, Rectories, Vicarages etc. (by months)				4,209	5	3¼
	total charge				£59,424	4	7¼
	Discharge.
	Surplus as on the foot of the last Accompt to John Fenn, Remembrancer	0	4	10¼
	to William Glanville, Receiver	25	2	7¾
					25	7	6
	money paid by the Receiver to the Remembrancer to be paid by him to Sir Edward Ward, kt., Chief Baron of the Exchequer for the examination of this Accompt..	10	0	0
	ditto to the said Remembrancer for the costs of the chiief Baron, two Auditors, and clerks for the examination of obligations etc. touching the said Accompt	10	0	0
	Money paid to the two Auditors of First Fruits	13	6	8
	money paid to the Remembrancer for his duties	40	0	0
	money paid to the Receiver for his fee and clerk-hire	120	0	0
	money paid by the Receiver to John Baber, Comptroller, for his fee	150	0	0
	total ordinary payments..				343	6	8
	money paid at the Receipt of the Exchequer, by dates				5,250	4	9
	total allowances and payments				£5,618	18	11
	and so remains				53,805	5	8¼
	whereof depending:
	on divers incumbents etc. for arrears for three years prior to 31 Dec. 1660				320	4	7
	ditto for arrears for 25 years to 31 Dec. 1685				3,606	15	8
	ditto for arrears charged in this Accompt and pending on the foot of the last Accompt, viz.:
	for the year ending 31 Dec. 1686	20	10	3
	ditto 1687	605	17	5¼
	ditto 1688	4	9	9
	ditto 1689	2	1	0
	ditto 1690	39	12	10½
	ditto 1691	2,699	5	10
	ditto 1692	21	2	7½
	ditto 1693	8	10	7½
	ditto 1694	3	1	0
	ditto 1695	433	3	10
	ditto 1677	614	13	1½
	ditto 1678	23	8	4½
	ditto 1700	171	14	1½
	Carried forward	£4,647	10	10¼	£3,927	0	3
	Brought forward	4,647	10	10¼	3,927	0	3
	for the year ending 31st Dec. 1701	9	6	0
	ditto 1703	20	14	0
	ditto 1704	147	10	11¼
	ditto 1705	2,260	15	6
	ditto 1706	2,453	15	8¼
					9,539	12	10¾ (fn. 1)
	on Laurence Steele, deceased, late Receiver of First Fruits				9,424	7	1
	on John Pretyman, kt. and bt., late ditto				19,864	9	9
	on William Pretyman, deceased, late Remembrancer of First Fruits				10,549	0	3⁵/8
	on Robert Squibb, deceased, late Receiver of First Fruits				447	10	9½
	on Charles Porter, deceased, late ditto				52	16	7⁷/8
	total supers as above				53,804	17	8¾
	and depending on William Glanville this Receiver					17	11¼
	and on John Fenne nil because he has a surplusage of 9s. 11¾d.
	total depending				£53,805	15	8 (fn. 2)
	Declared 19 Nov. 1707.
Declared Accounts: Treasury Solicitor.
AUDIT OFFICE, BUNDLE 2317, ROLL 32.
William Borrett Solicitor to the Treasury.
	16 October 1705 to 15 October 1706.
	Charge.
	Arrears: none, he being in surplusage
	Receipts:
	money received from the Exchequer by virtue of several dormant patents:
	Michaelmas term 4 and 5 Anne	750	0	0
	Easter term 5 Anne	900	0	0
	total charge and receipts..				£1,650	0	0
	Discharge.
	surplusage at the foot of the last Accompt	409	3	3
	sums paid to the Attorney General and others for fees of prosecutions for libel and other offences etc. including that of Capt. Rigby for high treason, detailed	983	7	7
	sundry incidents etc.	567	1	3
	total discharge				£1,059	12	1
	and so this Accomptant is in surplusage..				309	12	1
	Declared 6 March 1706–7.