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DECLARED ACCOUNTS: HACKNEY AND STAGE COACHES. |
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PIPE OFFICE: ROLL 1587 [E351/1587]. |
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AUDIT OFFICE: BUNDLE 1326, ROLL 18 [A.O.1/1326/18]. |
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EDWARD WHARTON, Receiver General of moneys arising by the Licensing of Hackney and Stage Coaches. |
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Midsummer 1711 to Midsummer 1712. |
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Charge. |
£ |
s. |
d. |
£ |
s. |
d. |
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Arrears: remaining in the hands of this Accomptant on the end of his last Accompt |
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193 |
10 |
0 |
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depending upon sundry hackney and stage coachmen in arrear, etc. |
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722 |
0 |
0 |
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Receipts: for the rent of 700 hackney coach licences at 4l. each |
2,800 |
0 |
0 |
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for the Queen's moiety of eight forfeitures at 5l. each |
20 |
0 |
0 |
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for the Queen's moiety of 35 forfeitures at 40s. each |
35 |
0 |
0 |
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for the Queen's moiety of one forfeiture at 20s
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0 |
10 |
0 |
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for the Queen's moiety of 18 forfeitures at 10s. each |
4 |
10 |
0 |
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2,860 |
0 |
0 |
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for the rent of the licences of 200 hackney chairs at 10s. each per an. payable quarterly |
100 |
0 |
0 |
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for the Queen's moiety of 16 forfeitures for hackney chairs at 40s. each |
16 |
0 |
0 |
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116 |
0 |
0 |
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total receipts 2,976l. |
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total charge and receipts |
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£3,891 |
10 |
0 |
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Discharge. |
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Salaries: |
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Daniell Blake, Charles Heron, Abraham Magny, Edward Jollivett and George Clark, Commissioners, 500l.; Edward Wharton, Receiver, 62l.; Charles Bolton, clerk, 50l.; Humfrey Wanley, Housekeeper and Surveyor, 40l.; George Edes and Michael Browne, messengers, 80l.; Richard Colton and Edward Dickenson, Streetkeepers 70l. |
802 |
0 |
0 |
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Office-rent to Mrs. Joyce Collins of the house in Surrey Street |
38 |
0 |
0 |
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incident charges: |
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Edward Wharton; James Tisser, Solicitor; Edward Castle, stationer; George Grafton, ditto; the door-keeper of the House of Commons, on the Commissioners attending there; Robert Stephenson for mending the admeasuring wheel; Hugh Powell for his moiety of a fine upon the conviction, on his complaint, of John Norwood and John Osborne, chairmen to M. Vicetti, Envoy of Genoa; Michael Brown, for fees paid the Steward's Court at Westminster on being sworn as a constable and for his constable's staff; George Edes for expenses of executing warrants; coals; office necessaries, etc.; Charles Bolton for Treasury fees paid |
258 |
3 |
4 |
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Officers' taxes |
80 |
4 |
0 |
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total for the above charges of managing this revenue 1,178l. 7s.4d. |
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Auditors' fee; to Arthur Maynwaring |
15 |
0 |
0 |
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money paid into the Exchequer: |
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out of the money arising by hackney coaches |
1,673 |
12 |
8 |
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ditto by hackney chairs |
100 |
0 |
0 |
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1,773 |
12 |
8 |
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total payments and allowances |
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£2,967 |
0 |
0 |
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and so remains |
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924 |
10 |
0 |
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whereof depending on several hackney and stage coachmen for arrears of rent of licences and for the Queen's moiety of forfeitures [as in Vol. XXV, p. cdxxxiii] |
722 |
0 |
0 |
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and so this Accomptant is Indebted |
202 |
10 |
0 |
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Declared 24 August 1714. |
