Warrant Books: September 1708, 21-25

Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 22, 1708. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1952.

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'Warrant Books: September 1708, 21-25', in Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 22, 1708, (London, 1952) pp. 395-399. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-treasury-books/vol22/pp395-399 [accessed 8 May 2024]

September 1708, 21–25

Sept. 21. Money warrant dormant for payment of the salary of 300l. per an to Charles Whitacre as Chief Justice of Carmarthen, Pembroke & Cardigan loco Phillip Neave deceased. Money Book XIX, p. 378.
Letter of direction for 6000l. to John Tailer: for buildings &c at Woodstock: out of money now remaining in the Exchequer of loans on tin. Disposition Book XIX, p. 212.
Sept. 21. Treasury reference to Auditor Jett of the petition of Richard Blackbourn Dr. in Physic ut supra, pp. 152–3 together with the Solicitor General's report thereon. Reference Book VIII, p. 312.
Same to Henry Baker of the petition of Joshua Western, prisoner in the Castle of Lincoln, shewing that he has been there for 5 years on a judgment for 1000l. for transporting wool; that one William Marshall of Theddlethorpe was the only prosecutor & is dead & his son in compassion for petitioner's sufferings has freely executed a general release & thereby acquitted his moiety of said fine: therefore praying remission of the Queen's moiety, without which he & his family must unavoidably perish. Ibid., p. 329.
Sept. 22. Privy seal for 20s. a day ordinary to Robert Jackson “who hath resided at Stockholm as our Commissary there for several years during the absence of John Robinson, our Envoy Extraordinary to the King of Sweden, whom we have thought fit to employ elsewhere,” the said Jackson having been very faithful & diligent in discharging his duty in that place & has been useful to our subjects trading to those parts as well as to our affairs in corresponding from time to time with our Principal Secretaries of State and doing carefully such other matters as were committed to his charge for our service: & has been at considerable expense therein; for which he has hitherto had no allowance. This present grant is to commence as from 1702–3 Feb 9 being the date of his commission as Commissary at Stockholm. Queen's Warrant Book XXIII, p. 438.
Sept. 23. Treasury reference to the Agents for Taxes of the petition of the Commissioners for Land Tax for the Division of Ongar shewing that they are prosecuted for a deficiency in that Division “to raise which they have issued their warrants upon reassessment”: therefore praying stay of process. Reference Book VIII, p. 328.
Sept. 24. Money warrant for 33897l. 4. 4½ to Nehemiah Arnold, Paymaster of the Malt Lottery Ticquets: for the 92nd & 93rd payments of principal & interest thereon; which are the next payments in course.
Appending: statement of said payments.
£ s. d.
principal money due on the 92nd payment after abating 40l. for 4 benefits above 20l. each 9960
interest of 996 tickets from Lady day 1700 to 24 Sept 1708 being 3105 days at a halfpenny a day each 6442
benefits in the 92nd payment 370
£16772 17 6
principal money due on the 93rd payment after abating 30l. for 3 benefits above 20l. each 9970
interest of 997 tickets from Lady day 1700 to 24 Sept 1708 being 3105 days at a halfpenny a day each 6449 6 10½
benefits in the 93rd payment 705
£17124 6 10½
Money Book XIX, p. 362. Order Book VII, pp. 191, 192.
Sept. 24. Warrant by Treasurer Godolphin to the Receipt to distribute & apply the sum of 93362l. 6. 10 to Deficient Funds as follows; the said sum representing the income between Aug 27 last & Sept 24 next from branches of the revenue as follows viz 77l. 17. 1½ from Whale fins; 35639l. 7. 7 from New Customs; 1079l. 9. 8 from Additional Impositions; 1898l. 5. 6 from Vellum; 42797l. 6. 2 from Continued Impositions; 6543l. 18. 7½ from Salt; 5326l. 2. 2 from Windows: the said distribution & application to be hereby as follows.
Deficiencies as computed by Act of Parliament How they stood on the Register the 24 Sept 1708 The distribution & application hereby ordered
£ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d.
Exchequer Bills 515165 4 7¼ 274902 9 8 20566 6 9½
First 3s. Aid 415099 367098 18 3½ 16571 10 2½
Paper for Plate [Paper Duties 20 per cent] 15400 13900 614 15 11
Malt Ticquets 579060 320725 23117 2 8½
Leather 504438 358643 2 0 20138 1 9
Third Quarterly Poll 212770 17 0 182604 2 6 8494 4 0
Third 3s. Aid 25823 2 9 22771 6 3½ 1030 18 1½
New East India Company 65518 0 7¾ 20728 6 2½ 2615 12 0
General Society [East Indies] 5354 10 5¾ 1694 0 10 213 15 4
£2338628 15 5¾ £1563067 5 9½ £93362 6 10
Money Book XIX, pp. 363–4.
Letter of direction for 12035l. 15. 1½ to Visct FitzHardinge, Treasurer of the Chamber: out of Civil List moneys, by 1000l. a week in 11 weeks from this day and the remaining 1035l. 15. 1½ in the subsequent week: the same being to be applied as follows viz
£ s. d.
to complete the 1707 Xmas quarter on the established allowances of the Office of the Chamber Treasurer 3259 8 0½
more for the entire quarter [on said allowances] due at Lady day 1708 4988 0 6½
to Mary Foyson, necessary woman, the Grooms of the Privy Chamber, the Gentlemen Ushers Quarter Waiters, the Grooms of the Great Chamber, the Pages of the Presence: [to all for] their riding charges last year to Kensington per [the Lord Chamberlain's] warrants 440 12 9
to George Henderson, late child of the Chapel per [like] warrant 20
to Timothy Goodwin for stationery wares for the Lord Chamberlain's Office anno 1707 per [like] warrant 29 10 10
to Robert Elliot for lodging the chaplains in waiting at Kensington to 25 June 1708 50 14 0
to 48 watermen in full of their bills of service to 25 June 1708 40
to John Incledon, Housekeeper of Westminster, on his allowance of 6s. 8d. a day 60 13 4
to John Thornborough, chapel closet keeper, for his riding charges to Windsor & the Bath in 1703 9 3 0
to 39 messengers in ordinary in full of their bills of service for one whole year from Lady day 1707 to Lady day 1708 2288 18 7½
to Thomas Tompion for a new clock for the Council Chamber at St James's “by a Lord Chamberlain's warrant: to be allowed by sign manual” 126 4 0
upon account to defray the charge of lodgings & other expenses in the Treasurer of the Chamber's Office to such servants as are to attend her Majesty in her intended progress to Newmarket 400
to Grimlin Gibbons, carver, for Sir Cloudesley Shovell's monument erected in Westminster Abbey 322 10 0
£12035 15 1½
Disposition Book XIX, p. 213.
Sept. 24. William Lowndes to Mr. Brydges [Paymaster General of the Forces Abroad] to report on the enclosed letter [missing] from Col. Cuisack touching his demand of pay. Out Letters (General) XIX, p. 4.
Same to the Auditors of Imprests. In the last Session the House of Commons addressed the Queen to order the stating the accounts of the Officers and soldiers of the 3 French Regiments. The Agent of the said Regiments has now brought to the Lord Treasurer the said accounts or demands. I enclose same which you are to state pursuant to the said Address. Ibid.
Warrant by Treasurer Godolphin to the Customs Commissioners to cause the allowances of 12 superannuated tidesmen to be borne and defrayed by way of average by the 12 junior tidesmen on the establishment from time to time; the said Commissioners having proposed to constitute new tidesmen in their place to do duty for their weekly pay only, leaving the annual pay for the said superannuated officers “the said charge to be borne by way of average among the said new officers”: and further that the “six new [officers] succeeding to the 35l. list [saddled] with this charge [of superannuation] should be first removed into the 40l. list”: which latter proposal the Lord Treasurer sanctioned by his warrant of May 14 last, supra, p. 238, but it is now represented that although several new tidesmen have been since appointed the deductions for the subsistence of the said superannuated officers are still made out of the salaries of the twelve” officers appointed in the said warrant of May 14; which is contrary to what was intended thereby. Out Letters (Customs) XV, p. 134.
Treasury reference to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands of the petition of Richard Sowray for a fresh lease of the manor called the Chapter of Beverley, granted by Charles II 1678 July 16 to Hanah Dodgein of Great Yarmouth, which she (under the name of Hanah Reeve) did transfer [to petitioner]. Reference Book VIII, p. 329.
Sept. 24. Same to the Customs Commissioners of the petition of Richard Dent, a landwaiter in London port for 29 years and formerly at Bristol, praying leave to exchange places with Daniel Bate, present surveyor of Exeter port formerly an officer in London port. Ibid., p. 330.
Same to the Navy Commissioners of the petition of Sir James Wishart shewing that he was allowed half pay as rear admiral during his being on shore & was taxed on same by the assessors of the Tower Ward for the years 1706 & 1707 & is returned into the Exchequer for non payment thereof: therefore prays that, being exempted by Act of Parliament, he may be struck out of the list so returned into the Exchequer. Ibid.
Letters patent by Treasurer Godolphin appointing (at the instance of John Duke of Marlborough) Tilleman Bobart jointly with John Vanbrugh & Henry Joynes to oversee &c the buildings at Woodstock; the said Godolphin having thereto appointed the said Vanbrugh as Surveyor of the said works by instrument dated 1705 June 9 and Henry Joynes & William Boulter as joint comptrollers thereof by instrument dated 21 June 1705, and further united the said three by instrument dated 29 July 1706 & the said Boulter is since dead, in whose place the Lord Treasurer hereby appoints the said Bobart. Warrants not Relating to Money XX, p. 260–1.
Sept. 25. William Lowndes to the [Principal] Officers of the Mint for an estimate for new dies or stamps for the Stamps Commissioners, they having represented that the present dies are so much worn. Out Letters (General) XIX, p. 4.
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