Warrant Books: June 1709, 26-30

Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 23, 1709. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1949.

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'Warrant Books: June 1709, 26-30', in Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 23, 1709, (London, 1949) pp. 232-240. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-treasury-books/vol23/pp232-240 [accessed 25 April 2024]

June 1709, 26–30

June 26. Warrant dormant by Treasurer Godolphin to the Customs Cashier to pay the salary of 52l. per an. to Lewis Mountgomery (Montgomery) as a Queen's waiter in London port. Money Book XX, p. 59.
June 27. Money warrant for 80l. to John Tucker for half a year to 1709 June 24 on his salary as keeper of her Majesty's Paper Office. Ibid., p. 46. Disposition Book XX, p. 16.
Same for 500l. to William Borrett as imprest for Crown Law charges. Money Book XX, p. 47. Order Book VII, p. 255. Disposition Book XX, p. 18.
Letter of direction for 24,000l. to Harry Mordaunt, Paymaster of the Ordnance: half for sea service, half for land service: out of Exchequer Bills issuable under the Bank Stock Act. Disposition Book XX, p. 9.
J. Taylour (in the absence of William Lowndes) to the Navy Treasurer. The Lord Treasurer understands that the Bank of England has agreed to advance 50,000l. on the tallies and orders in your hands [standing or ranking for payment] in a near course on the eleventh 4s. Aid anno 1708 [the Land Tax by 6 Anne, c. 35]. You are to accept same and to assign the equivalent value in such tallies &c. to said Bank with 5 per cent. interest from the date you receive the money. On your sending to the Treasury the said orders with your assignments [endorsed] thereon, warrants will be given to the Exchequer for paying the interest accordingly. The said sum is to be applied to wages and recalls and placed to account of the quota for wages anno 1708. Ibid., p. 12.
Letter of direction for 750l. each to the Earl of Sunderland and Henry Boyle Secretaries of State: for secret service: out of Civil List moneys. Ibid., p. 18.
June 27. William Lowndes to the Excise Commissioners to report on the petition of Elizabeth Clifford widow, whose husband was a brewer in Southwark and 36l. in debt for Excise, for the security of which he put certain writings into the hands of Mr. Noel, then a Commissioner of Excise: which writings she prays the return of, otherwise she is in danger of losing an estate they relate to. Out Letters (General) XIX, p. 84.
June 28. Allowance by Treasurer Godolphin of the salary bill, not detailed, of the Excise and Malt Office for 1709 June 24 quarter: total 6,439l. 4s. 7¼d. Money Book XX, p. 47.
Money order for 5l. to John Broadhurst for 1709 June 24 quarter's allowance as porter attending at the Exchequer Gate.
12l. 10s. 0d. to Thomas Fox for same quarter for making and keeping the Registers of all the public loans in the Office of the Auditor of the Receipt.
10l. to Peter Le Neve, senior Deputy Chamberlain of the Exchequer Court, for same quarter's allowance for locking up [and delivering out to the Tellers] her Majesty's treasure. Order Book VII, pp. 259–260.
Same for 400l. to John Smith Esq., Chancellor of the Exchequer, for 1709 June 24 quarter's allowance in lieu of perquisites appertaining to the place of Chancellor of the Exchequer but relinquished by him. Ibid., p. 263.
William Lowndes to Mr. Brydges, Paymaster General of the Forces Abroad. The Lord Treasurer has reason to hope that the expense which has been so long continued of maintaining [the British] prisoners in France will soon be at an end by the general exchange [of prisoners] lately made and desires from you an account of moneys issued for the subsistence of such prisoners in France and likewise an account of what the pay would have been of the discontinued Regiments which [pay] was intended to be the fund for the maintenance of the said prisoners: all in order that the money may be properly charged.
The Lord Treasurer also notices that your certificates of receipts and payments are not regularly transmitted hither [to the Treasury] and those which he has seen do not answer his expectation, for your payments therein are not ranged under the proper heads but put confusedly together so that his Lordship can in no case judge whether the money received by you be applied to the service directed by his Lordship, to wit those services on your memorials which he agrees to from time to time. In your future certificates you are to take care that the balance brought over be so particularised that his Lordship may know to what heads of expense it belongs; and that all the money issued to you within the time of each certificate be charged under the proper heads for which it was issued and so in like manner discharged under the same proper heads as it is applied and paid by you from time to time and the remains at the foot of each certificate distinguished again so as to show the particular heads of expense for which it is intended.
The Lord Treasurer likewise desires to know in what forwardness your accounts are, especially those relating to the Forces in Flanders about which you have long since received his Lordship's particular directions but do not acquaint him how they are prosecuted. Out Letters (General) XIX, pp. 84–5.
June 28. Treasury reference to Mr. Walpole of the petition of the Officers of Brigadier Wynn's Regiment shewing that whilst their men were on board the transport ships that were to bring them from Ireland to England the petitioners at their own expense provided bedding and necessaries for the men, most of whom were sick; notwithstanding which 175l. 0s. 10d. is stopped from the Officers' pay upon account of the said transportation: therefore praying repayment “of the said sum which falls upon the personal pay of the said Officers.” (See infra under date 1710 Oct. 24.) Reference Book VIII, p. 362.
June 29. Royal warrant dated St. James's to the Attorney or Solicitor General for reducing the number of Commissioners for the Equivalent, the House of Commons having presented an Address to the Queen for such reduction, in regard the greatest part of the money paid to Scotland by way of Equivalent is already issued out to the several persons having interest therein. The great seal of 5 June 1707 which appointed Sir Andrew Hume and 24 others detailed as such Commissioners is hereby revoked and in place thereof the following are hereby to be commissioned viz. Sir Andrew Hume, William Dalrymple, Sir Robert Sinclair [of Stevenson], Sir Thomas Burnett [of Leys], Sir John Erskine [of Alva], Sir John Swinton [of the same], Sir James Campbell [of Aberuckell], Sir James Smollet [of Bonhill], Sir Patrick Johnstone, John Bruce [of Kinross], William Seaton the younger [of Pittmedden], Alexander Abercromie [of Glasough], John Pringle [of Haning], Sir John Cope and John Brydges to dispose of the unapplied remains of the Equivalent sum of 398,085l. 10s. 0d. Out Letters (North Britain) II, pp. 65–6.
Money warrant for 3,200l. to Lionell Herne and Samuell Edwards (appointed to be Paymasters for the purposes as hereunder) as imprest for reimbursing or paying to the Tellers of the Exchequer so much as they shall from time to time allow for interest at the rate of two-pence per day to the payers or lenders at the Receipt of the Exchequer for Exchequer Bills issued by virtue of the Act 8 Anne [7 Anne, c. 30] for enlarging the capital stock of the Bank of England.
The money order hereon is to be satisfied out of like Exchequer Bills in such proportions at a time as the Auditor of the Receipt shall think fit to issue.
Prefixing: certificate by the Auditor of the Receipt of the amount of Exchequer Bills issued at the Receipt of the Exchequer by virtue of said Act, to wit up to June 23 inst.; and of the interest thereon:
Amount issued. Number of days. Interest thereon.
£ s. d. £ s. d.
1709, May 3 182,900 0 0 52 792 11 4
4 34,500 0 0 51 146 12 6
5 6,000 0 0 50 25 0 0
12 201,800 0 0 43 723 2 4
17 20,000 0 0 38 63 6 8
19 81,337 10 0 36 244 0 3
21 60,750 0 0 34 172 2 6
1709, May 24 58,000 0 0 31 149 16 8
25 10,000 0 0 30 25 0 0
26 138,775 0 0 29 335 7 5½
28 116,312 10 0 27 261 14 0¾
June 4 24,600 0 0 20 41 0 0
6 127,350 0 0 18 191 0 6
18 220,755 0 0 6 11 0 9
23 273,162 10 0 1 22 15 3¼
£1,357,562 10 0 £3,204 10 3½
Money Book XX, pp. 47–8. Order Book VII, p. 256.
June 29. Warrant by Treasurer Godolphin to Mr. Wilcox, Surveyor General of Woods Trent South, to pay 60l. to Henry Portman alias Seymour, Esq. the Ranger or Keeper of Hyde Park, for repairing the road round the Ring in said park and the way leading from the first gate to the said Ring; it being represented that the same is full of holes and mightily out of repair to the danger and hazard of the persons being overturned who (with her Majesty's permission) are suffered to drive with their coaches there; and the said Portman having gravel in the said park fit to repair the said way and having proposed to do same substantially for said sum. Money Book XX, p. 49.
Money warrant for 3,000l. to William Smith, Paymaster of the Band of Gentlemen Pensioners; for half a year to 1708 Xmas for the wages and board wages of said Band. Ibid., p. 50. Order Book VII, p. 259. Disposition Book XX, p. 17.
Letter of direction for 1,000l. to Spencer Compton: out of Civil List Funds: for the poor Palatines. Disposition Book XX, p. 9.
Same for 1,000l. to William Lowndes: out of same: for secret service. Ibid.
Same for 5,666l. 11s. 10d. to Visct. FitzHardinge, Treasurer of the Chamber: out of Civil List moneys: by 1,000l. a week from the 8th June inst.: and is intended to be applied as follows: viz.
£ s. d.
for 1708 Xmas quarter's wages [payable in the Office of Treasurer of the Chamber] according to the Establishment, deducting 67l. 3s. 9d. already paid to the Queen's watermen for that quarter 5,088 15 7
to John Lenton, Groom of the Vestry, for necessaries and cleaning the Chapel Royal for a year to 1709 Lady day 10 0 0
to John Walsh, musical instrument maker, in full of his bills for the year 1708 20 6 0
to Walter Martyn, ratkiller, in full of half a year's bills due at Lady day 1709 28 19 0
to Mr. Randue, housekeeper of Windsor Castle, for 1709 Lady day quarter 80 0 0
to Benj. Bedford for rent and furniture of a house for the Muscovite Princes and their retinue to the time of their going away 377 1 3
to Jeremy Hancock, brazier, for six copper braziers for ayring the mourning furniture in her Majesty's apartment at St. James's and Windsor 61 10 0
£5,666 11 10
Disposition Book XX, p. 10.
June 29. Letter of direction for 41l. 17s. 6d. to Charles Dartiquenave, Paymaster of the Works: out of Civil List moneys: to be paid over to Michaell Studholme, Surveyor of her Majesty's Roads, for 1½ years to April last on the yearly allowance of 20l. which by agreement is to be paid to John Piggott for keeping the Queen's private road betwixt Stansted and Hockerill, and the remaining 11l. 17s. 6d. for several small disbursements by said Studholme in repairing her Majesty's road to Kensington and Fulham. Ibid., p. 12.
William Lowndes to the Attorney General to report on the petition of Sir John St. Barbe sent to you Dec. 22 last touching the quit rent of 6l. 6s. 8d. reserved to the Crown on a lease of a farm called Cox Leasows in New Forest [and which is] claimed by the Duke of Bolton as Warden of said forest. Out Letters (General) XIX, p. 86.
Same to Sir Christopher Wrenn to proceed on the alteration desired by Mr. Clayton in the Queen's stable adjoining his house so as to prevent the inconvenience he suffers from the noise of the horses; the Duke of Somerset [as Master of the Horse] having assented to same. Ibid.
Treasury reference to Thomas Baker and William Goslin (appointed the officers to receive arrears of prizes) of the petition of the wives of the ship's company of the Tartar pink, praying payment of their husbands' share of the prize called Child's Play taken by said pink, and which they allege to be in the hands of the Treasurer for Prizes. Reference Book VIII, p. 363.
Letters patent by Treasurer Godolphin appointing George Collins to inspect the fishing of all wrecks by Thomas, Lord Fairfax or his substitutes under the grant to the said Lord dated 1707 April 3 of all wrecks between the 6th and 36th degrees of north latitude in the West Indies. The said Collins is to transmit an account of his acts and doings herein every six months at least. Warrants not Relating to Money XX, p. 355.
Warrant by same to the Queen's Remembrancer for stay of process against the late Commissioners for Sick and Wounded (Dr. James Welwood, Thomas Addison, Anthony Sheppard, Christopher Kirkby and David Elder); the state of their final account having been laid before the Lord Treasurer. Ibid., p. 383.
[? June 29.] Same by same to Arthur Maynwaring, one of the Auditors of Imprests, to prepare the abovesaid final account for declaration.
Prefixing: said account: charge 9,225l. 19s. 6¾d., being the balance depending upon them on the foot of their last account ended at Lady day 1699; discharge 5,974l. 0s. 1d.: remains 3,251l. 19s. 5¾d. (The discharge items include 42l. for bounty money to 21 English prisoners that came from France, to engage them to enter into her Majesty's service at sea; 816l. 0s. 5d. and 4,711l. 9s. 3d. lost by discounting tallies and Malt Lottery tickets; 100l. paid to Robert Mitchell for commissions upon furnishing Christopher Kirby, one of the accountants, at Cadiz with 2,000l. and 100l. and 7l. 10s. 0d. for commission on his furnishing 150l. in new money for the service of the Commissioners at Plymouth; 297l. 0s. 5d. paid by Mr. Povey to Sir Lambert Blackwell for his disbursements on poor seamen that came from Gholoun to Leghorn.) Ibid., pp. 383–4.
June 30. Royal warrant dated St. James's [to the Clerk of the Signet] for a privy seal for exonerating and discharging from seizure as follows the lands in Denton Co. Norfolk (being a messuage and 55 acres of the yearly value of 37l. 10s. 0d.) part of the lands of Samuel Pacey late of Lowestoft Co. Suffolk (as appears by inquisition taken at Norwich Castle 1708–9 Feb. 11) and then in the occupancy of John Fowle, and likewise a messuage in Great Yarmouth of the yearly value of 7l. lying between the lands heretofore of John Wakeman lately of Thomas Green on the east, of Thomas Edwards on the west and abutting south on the common street or way heretofore called Kingston Rowe and then commonly called Old Broadrowe: all which premises were seized into the Queen's hands upon the finding the said inquisition: all by reason that William Pacey as administrator and brother of said Samuel Pacey has agreed to sell same to Nathaniell Newton of Beccles Co. Suffolk for the sum of 1,050l. and the said William Pacey has desired that the purchase money may be paid direct into the Exchequer and not to the Sheriff so as to avoid the Sheriff's poundage which would have to be paid under the said extent, “which proposal of the said William Pacey appearing to us to be equally beneficial to us and the said purchaser we are graciously pleased to accept of the same.” The said purchase money is first to be so paid into the Exchequer. Queen's Warrant Book XXIV, pp. 88–90.
Same to Richard Norton, Warden or Lieutenant of the Forest of East Bere alias South Bere alias Bere in Co. Southampton, to forbid, restrain and effectually stop, rate and put an end to all and all manner and sort of hunting whatsoever within the said forest for the time to come at all times and seasons of the year as well in winter as in summer excepting so as you shall judge convenient or necessary for our service: it appearing that such hunting has been greatly to our prejudice by driving our deer out of the said forest (it being of small extent) into the neighbouring woods and grounds where great numbers of them have been killed by the borderers and others, and that by being almost continually in winter as well as in summer disturbed and driven from their usual places and proper times of rest and food by hounds and huntsmen they have been found some years to be hardly warrantable and so often overheated and surfeited that great numbers do die in the winters; which will cause an entire destruction of the said deer unless a speedy stop be put to such practices. Ibid., pp. 93–4.
June 30. Royal warrant to the Clerk of the Signet for a privy seal for 100,000l. to Francis, Visct. Rialton, Cofferer of the Household, as imprest for the ordinary and extraordinary expense of the Household. (Money warrant dated July 26 hereon. This warrant quotes the privy seal as dated July 16.) (Money order dated Aug. 5 hereon. In the margin. a later confirmation dated 1710 Aug. 15 hereof.) Queen's Warrant Book XXIV, pp. 96–7. Money Book XX, p. 98. Order Book VII, p. 290.
Warrant by Treasurer Godolphin to Spencer Compton to pay 100l. to Dame Ann Sylvius as royal bounty. Money Book XX, p. 48.
Allowance by same of the salary bill and incidents bill, both detailed, of the Hackney Coaches Office for 1709 June 24 quarter: totals respectively 207l. 10s. 0d. and 77l. 15s. 3d. Ibid., p. 50.
Money warrant for 75l. to William Wekett for June 24 quarter for attendance and disbursements for the Treasury Office.
5l. to John Farra for same quarter for carrying letters on several occasions [for the Treasury]. Money Book XX, p. 60. Order Book VII, p. 258. Disposition Book XX, p. 17.
Same for 10l. 3s. 3d. to Gustavus Young, one of the surveyors of Hull port, as a moiety of a seizure of money shipped for transportation and condemned. Money Book XX, p. 62. Order Book VII, p. 267. Disposition Book XX, p. 17.
William Lowndes [to the Navy Commissioners] to assign 78,794l. 7s. 1d. as imprest to Walter Whitfeild, Paymaster of Marines, to clear the several Regiments of Marines to 1708 June 24: to be satisfied out of tallies and orders on the Half Subsidies anno 1708 [by 6 Anne, c. 73] remaining in the hands of the Navy Treasurer: an assurance having been given to the Lord Treasurer both by said Whitfeild and by Mr. Cornish (to whom a good part of this sum is to be paid for the clothing of the said Marines) that the said orders shall not be disposed of so as to be discounted to the prejudice of the public credit. Disposition Book XX, p. 11.
Letter of direction for the issue of 144,937l. 10s. 0d. as follows: out of Exchequer Bills under the Bank Stock Act [7 Anne, c. 30]: viz.
£ s. d.
to the Navy Treasurer for the head of Wages and is for Walter Whitfeild, Paymaster of Marines upon account for subsistence and two thirds pay of the said Marines 7,779 18 0
to ditto for the same head: and is for the Chest at Chatham 2,000 0 0
to ditto for the same head and is to be paid over to Thomas Savery, Treasurer for Sick and Wounded, for three fifths of 8,166l. 12s. 4d. for services as follows viz. 3,166l. 12s. 4d. to complete the debts in quarters at the small ports and one year at the great ports; 1,000l. for subsistence of prisoners of war; 4,000l. for salaries, contingencies and necessary expenses of the Office for Sick and Wounded 4,899 19 4½
to ditto for the head of Victualling and is to be paid over to said Savery for the remaining two fifths of the said 8,166l. 12s. 4d. 3,266 12 11½
to ditto for the Ordinary of the Navy 9,400 0 0
£27,346 10 4
to James Brydges, Paymaster of the Forces Abroad:
in part of 901,827l. 13s. 6d. for the 40,000 men [in Flanders] anno 1709.
for one month's subsistence from July 24 next to Aug. 23 next for the Subject Troops and full pay to the foreign Troops composing said body 67,543 17 0¾
for same month's full pay to the General Officers of said body 1,982 1 8¾
for same month's contingencies 833 6 8
in part of 177,511l. 3s. 6d. for the Additional 10,000 men anno 1709.
for two months' subsistence from June 24 inst. to Aug. 23 next to the Subject Troops and full pay to the foreign Troops composing said body 18,457 5 8
for same two months' forage money, waggon money and recruit money for the foreign Troops of said body 1,543 6 8
in part of 34,251l. 13s. 4d. for 3,000 Palatines anno 1709.
for two thirds (being her Majesty's share) of the pay for one month to Aug. 23 next of said Palatines employed in the service of her Majesty and her allies 2,854 6 1½
in part of 43,251l. 12s. 6d. for the 4,639 Saxons anno 1709.
for her Majesty's proportion (being a moiety) of same month's pay of said Saxons 3,604 6 0½
in part of 9,269l. 16s. 6d. for Bothmar's Regiment of Dragoons anno 1709.
for her Majesty's share of the same month's pay of that Regiment in the pay of her Majesty and the States General 772 9 8½
in part of 1,081,083l. 0s. 4d. for the Forces in Spain and Portugal anno 1709.
to answer two bills of exchange drawn by Mr. Chetwynd from Genoa for value advanced there by Sir Henry Furnese's correspondents for the use of her Majesty's Forces in Catalonia May 25 last and June 1 inst., to wit 80,000 pieces of Eight at 60 pence sterling each 20,000 0 0
£117,590 19 8
June 30. (William Lowndes to the Navy Commissioners to assign the abovesaid 7,779l. 18s. 0d. to Walter Whitfeild and said 8,166l. 12s. 4d. to said Thomas Savery accordingly.) Disposition Book XX, pp. 13, 14, 15.
Treasury reference to the Agents for Taxes of William Denison's petition for a surveyorship of the Duties on Houses. Reference Book VIII, p. 362.
Same to the Customs Commissioners of the petition of James Cock and Company, merchants in Plymouth, shewing that they have bought [from the Prize Officers] about 8,000 Bank fish and three hogsheads of train oil taken [prize] in the ship Marquee de la Brelack; that same will spoil by unloading: therefore praying that the ship and cargo may proceed to Portugal on security that no part thereof shall be landed in Great Britain. Ibid.
Same to the Agents for Taxes of the petition of Francis Sterne who was appointed to receive 463l. 10s. 3d. arrears set in super upon the executors of Sir Hugh Everard, Receiver of Houses for Co. Essex; which petitioner received and accounted for, but his salary thereon amounts to only 3l. 15s. 4d. though the charge of passing his account will come to 10l. Ibid., p. 363.
Same to same of the petition of Richard Whittingham, Receiver General for part of Co. Lincoln of the tenth 4s. Aid anno 1707, praying the transfer to his account of Land Tax anno 1708 of his overpayment of 665l. 13s. 10¾d. on his account of same anno 1707. Ibid.
Warrant by Treasurer Godolphin to the Salt Commissioners to enlarge John Yates from the Fleet prison: his case being like that of Thomas Snowdon and James Hirdman ut supra, pp. 155, 194.
Prefixing: said Commissioners' report on the case. Warrants not Relating to Money XX, pp. 389–91.
Same by same to the Clerk of the Pipe for a lease to John Howse of premises as follows.
Prefixing: particular and memorandum of the premises made out by S. Godolphin, Auditor of Wales, and ratal thereof by the Surveyor General of Crown Lands. The premises comprise (1) annual reliefs amounting to 6l. 13s. 4d. arising from vills in Cos. Carnarvon, Anglesea and Merioneth; (2) a messuage in Kilkennis comprising the moiety of the vill of Kilkennis in the lordship of Denbigh, commote of Uchdulas and County of Denbigh; (3) the manor of Rosemarket in Co. Pembroke and the water mill called Rosemarket mill; (4) two messuages in Castellan in Co. Pembroke; (5) several parcels of lands in the parishes of Fishguard, Newport and Navarne in Co. Pembroke; (6) a messuage in the fields of Tempance (Temperance) in the lordship of Haverford West; (7) lands in Haverford West and lands called the Veild House formerly appertaining to the Priory of Haverford West; (8) the messuage called Redigellie; (9) lands called Palleslands in the town of Pembroke; (10) the fullers mill called Burgess Mill in the town of Brecon; (11) parcels of escheat lands in Clunnarke &c. in the commote of Uchorvey and county of Carnarvon. Ibid., pp. 393–404.
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