Warrant Books: August 1715, 11-20

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'Warrant Books: August 1715, 11-20', in Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 29, 1714-1715, (London, 1957) pp. 671-693. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-treasury-books/vol29/pp671-693 [accessed 25 April 2024]

August 1715, 11-20

Aug. 11. Letter of direction for 15,346l. 4s. 4½d. to Charles Dartiquenave [Paymaster of the Works]: out of Civil List moneys in the Exchequer: and is intended to satisfy the debt in the Office of Works incurred between 1 Aug. 1714 and 30 March 1715, that is to say:
£ s. d.
[works for] the Tower of London 577 7 8
[works for] Whitehall 2,700 7 1
[works for] St. James's [Palace] 4,249 5 10
[works for] Westminster [Palace] 393 17 1
[works for] Denmark House 868 18 7½
[works for] [the King's palace at] Winchester 61 17 11
[works for] [the King's house at] Newmarket 106 9 10
allowances 1,192 13 10
public paving 71 17 10
[works at] Hampton Court House 1,491 19 8¾
[works at] Hampton Court Gardens 517 12 9¼
[works at] Hampton Court Bason 595 5 7
[works at] Hampton Court peers [piers] 240 15 1½
[works at] Kensington House 1,048 18 5½
[works at] Kensington Gardens 223 2 1
[works at] the Savoy 186 14 3
[works at [the King's] Mewses 492 13 4¼
fees ordinary 55 0 0
fees extraordinary 65 0 0
more for Henry Wise on the allowance of 412l. 14s. 7d. per an. for himself and the underkeepers and gatekeepers of St. James's Park and also for hay and corn for the deer and proper food for the fish and fowl there for six months from Midsummer 1714 to Xmas following according to the Establishment made by her late Majesty in that behalf; from which time the Rangership of the said Park and the allowances her Majesty has been pleased to settle for the same are granted and made payable to Walter Chetwynd 206 7 3½
£15,346 4 4½
Disposition Book XXIII, p. 87.
Aug. 11. William Lowndes to Secretary Stanhope. My Lords have read and considered your letters to them of the 8th and 23rd July last with the project therein proposing the abolition of the office of Surveyor General of Minorca, as being of no use, and in the room thereof to allow 20s. a day to the Lieutenant Governor and 30s. a day to the Chief Engineer. My Lords have likewise received a letter from the Office of Ordnance signifying his Majesty's pleasure that Col. Durand and the said Chief Engineer be despatched immediately to Minorca with materials necessary “for the said service”; which by his [the Ordnance Office] estimate amount to 2,965l. 10s. 0d., together with a monthly allowance of 1,000l. “for the carrying on the said service.”
I am commanded by my Lords to signify to you that as there is not any provision made by Parliament for this expense my Lords cannot think it reasonable to pay the same out of the money appropriated for the expenses of his Majesty's Civil Government. Out Letters (General) XXI, p. 403.
Same to Mr. Godolphin. The Treasury Lords direct you to send the accounts mentioned in the enclosed letters [missing] to the Board of Trade as soon as conveniently may be.
Appending: note of said accounts:
(1) an account of the number of ships that have cleared from New England from Xmas 1709 to Xmas 1714, specifying from what ports they have cleared and to what ports they went.
(2) an account of the tonnage of the said ships. in which accounts it is desired that it may be distinguished what ships were British and what were foreign. Ibid., p. 404.
Aug. 11,
12, 18, 29,
30.		 Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners to employ Thomas Pemberton as a tidesman in Bristol port loco Robert Leawsly, who 30. has surrendered that employment.
Robert Page as a same in the inferior list, London port, loco John Bigg, dismissed.
Joseph Hardin as a same in Bristol port loco Daniel Chub, dis missed.
George Gibbs as waiter and searcher at Start Point in Bridgwater port loco John Millard, deceased.
Cha. Tregrea as riding officer for the Customs from Chapel Angather to St. Ives in Padstow port loco John Lanyon, who is to be forthwith dismissed.
John Roberts as a watchman in London port loco Hugh Jones, deceased.
John Fursman (for some years paid by incidents at Ryde) and Edward Tratle as riding officers in the Isle of Wight, viz. Fursman at Ryde and Tratle at Chene: at 40l. per an. each for themselves and an horse each and the 10l. a year at present allowed to the Surveyor of Cowes for keeping an horse is to be sunk in regard the occasion of his riding will cease by the establishing the said two riding officers: as proposed by said Commissioners in their memorial of July 8 last. Out Letters (Customs) XVI, pp. 259, 260, 262.
Aug. 11. Treasury reference to same of the petition of John Radburne shewing that in July he shipped a bale of hemp from Sir Charles Cox's wharf in Southwark for Southampton, where it was stopped by a Customs officer for not being [expressed] in the Sufferance, “which was a neglect of the wharfinger's clerk and not intended to defraud the King,” the Duty having been paid by Richard Cambridge of whom petitioner bought it. Reference Book IX, p. 247.
Same to Hugh Cholmley, Surveyor General of Crown Lands, of the petition of Edward Pauncefort for extension of his lease of two dwelling houses in Pall Mall in the bailiwick of St. James's, being part of a lease to the late Earl of St. Albans: petitioner having repaired the premises at great expense. Ibid.
Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners to supersede the warrant (of July 29 last supra, p. 658) for the approbation of Richard Wheeler as Deputy to John Dennis, a King's waiter, London port, and in place thereof to continue John Hardwick as deputy to said Dennis.
Prefixing: report by said Commissioners on the petition of said Hardwick. Petitioner has acted as deputy for five years with diligence and fidelity and to the advantage of the revenue and despatch of business. Warrants not Relating to Money XXIII, p. 88.
Aug. 12. Establishment under the royal sign manual of certain annual pensions or annuities which the King's pleasure is shall commence from the 24th June 1714 and be payable quarterly during pleasure:
per an.
£ s. d.
the Countess of Arlington 1,000 0 0
Catherine Armstrong; Mary Armstrong; Thomas Atterbury; each 100 0 0
John Arnold 40 0 0
Nehemiah Arnold for Susanna Arnold; Mary Ashton; Mathias Ayscough: each 30 0 0
Margaret Abernathy 20 0 0
Mary Austen 8 0 0
Col. Baggot, an old soldier 200 0 0
Richard, Earl of Bellomont 300 0 0
Jane Berkley 200 0 0
Theodore Ballisis 150 0 0
Rebecca Bruges, alias Pride 80 0 0
Williamina Bunce 50 0 0
Deborah Birch, widow 100 0 0
Susanna Benson 50 0 0
Elizabeth Battle, widow of Dr. Battle 50 0 0
Richard Miller for Brassley's children 44 0 0
Elizabeth Bedford; Richard Bradley; Anne Bing; Frances Bew: each 40 0 0
Walter Butler. 30 0 0
Grisel Burghill 40 0 0
John Butts 30 0 0
John Button, an old soldier 27 7 6
Elizabeth Boucher; Mary Boucher, her sister; Elizabeth Belcher; Martha Bastin; Jane Bell: each 20 0 0
Katherine Buck 15 0 0
Sarah Brown 11 0 0
Elizabeth Batten, widow: from the Princess. 10 0 0
John, Lord Colepeper 600 0 0
Countess Dowager of Cassilis 200 0 0
Sir Henry Dutton Colt 200 0 0
Thomas Cornwallis, Esq. 100 0 0
Edith College. 80 0 0
Anne Christian, widow 60 0 0
Ursula Church 40 0 0
Magdalen Cuningham; Elizabeth Calvert; Capt. Timothy Crow, an old soldier: each 30 0 0
Matthew Clark; Anne Collins; Marmaduke Conway; Elinor Conway, widow: each 20 0 0
Thomas Chamberlaine 18 0 0
Isaac Crocker for service 12 0 0
Elinor Clauson 8 0 0
Edmund Chaloner for — Farquhar's children 20 0 0
the Countess Dowager of Dalhousie 200 0 0
Susanna Durell 300 0 0
Jane Dummer, daughter of Edmund Dummer, late Surveyor of the Navy 150 0 0
Elizabeth Doyley 100 0 0
Dame Jane Douglas and her daughter 70 0 0
Ann Duke 45 12 6
John Dwyre, 2s. a day at the Exchequer 36 10 0
Hester Dawson 30 0 0
Elizabeth Disney; Anne Disney; Jane Dickenson: each 20 0 0
Anne Eden 100 0 0
Charles, Lord Fitzwater [Fitz Walter]. 600 0 0
Lucius Henry, Lord [Viscount] Falkland 400 0 0
Henry Foubert for service 500 0 0
Anne Feilding for herself and four brothers and sisters 250 0 0
Elizabeth Farthing 100 0 0
Susanna Foxton, a Colonel's widow 100 0 0
Benjamine La Fontaine; Anne Fitzharry: each 50 0 0
Mr. La Fountaine for Herman's children 40 0 0
Rebecca Foster 30 0 0
William Fachin, an old soldier. 27 7 6
Rebecca Flower; Judith Fitzharry: each 20 0 0
Oswald Fawn 18 0 0
Martha Francis 50 0 0
Mary Griffith, relict of a late Commissioner of the Salt Duties, in great want 300 0 0
William Grahme, Esq. 200 0 0
Alice Grahme, widow of Dr. Grahme 150 0 0
Elizabeth Grove, widow of Bishop [Robert] Grove 100 0 0
Edward Godfrey 140 0 0
John Goslin, clerk; Gregory Genuini: each 50 0 0
Bernard Gates; Mary Graham, widow: each 40 0 0
Isabella Gwillims; Anne Gourney; Anne Goldsborough: each 20 0 0
Elizabeth Gibson 15 0 0
Eleanor Goddard 12 0 0
Judith Hawley, widow 300 0 0
Elizabeth, Lady Hay 200 0 0
George Frederick Hendell [Handel] 200 0 0
Col. Philip Howard 200 0 0
Mrs. Henrietta Howard 200 0 0
Philip Herbert, Esq. 200 0 0
James Howard, Esq., son of Col. Philip Howard 120 0 0
Mrs. Lucy Howard, relict of Edward Howard. 100 0 0
Katherine Hildsley; Elizabeth Hyde; Major Nathaniel Hill, an old soldier: each 50 0 0
Katherine Harlackenden; Mary Hill: each 40 0 0
George Holder 22 0 0
Sarah Hussey; Elizabeth Hall; Elizabeth Harris: each 20 0 0
Mary Hutton; Penelope Hutton: each 12 3 4
Anne Head; Tabitha Haughton: each 10 0 0
the administratrix of Samuel Johnston, clerk. 300 0 0
Mary, Lady Inchiquin 200 0 0
the Earl of Jersey for his younger brother 100 0 0
Doctor Irish 100 0 0
Frances Ireland; Jane Ireland; Evert Jollyvet: each 50 0 0
Margaret Jolliffe 20 0 0
Uriah Ironmonger 10 0 0
Barbara Killigrew, widow of Sir Robert Killigrew 150 0 0
Alice King; Mary Kerr: each 100 0 0
Mary Kirke, widow, till her son be provided for 100 0 0
Elizabeth Killigrew, daughter of William Killigrew 80 0 0
Abraham Kempe 40 0 0
Anne Kershe 20 0 0
Lady Charlotte Lovelace and her son 400 0 0
Martha Lockhart 300 0 0
Susanna Leighton 100 0 0
Richard Lloyd and John Jones 100 0 0
Oliver Lambert, a younger son of the late Earl of Cavan, till otherwise provided for 50 0 0
Mary Lee; Richard Longbotham: each 50 0 0
Josina Lower 20 0 0
Jone Launce 10 0 0
Lady Mary Mordington 20 0 0
Lady Ann Morgan 200 0 0
Sarah Matthews, widow of Col. Matthews; Frances Mackenzie: each 100 0 0
Sir Winwood Mowatt 40 0 0
Elizabeth Minshall 50 0 0
Margaret Morrison 40 0 0
Milborne Maddox, an old soldier; Elizabeth Mackdonnell; Elizabeth Mackraken; Mary Marshall: each 30 0 0
Abraham Magney 50 0 0
David Morris 20 0 0
Rachel, Anne and Frances Mansel 30 0 0
Mary Mackneal; Mary Michell: each 20 0 0
Sarah Miller 13 4 0
Margaret Marr 15 0 0
Susanna, Lady Newport 200 0 0
Cecilia Newberry 40 0 0
Judith North; Elizabeth Newman: each 20 0 0
Rebecca Otes, widow of Dr. Otes 300 0 0
Sarah Okover 30 0 0
Frances Otway 10 0 0
Guy Palmes, Esq., to be paid to his own hands and not to any assignee 600 0 0
William Palmes, jun. 400 0 0
Lady Mary Philips 150 0 0
Mary Patillo; Robert Paltock; Mary, Lady Prestwich; Rowland Peirce; Mary Purdon: each 40 0 0
Frances Pluncket; Anne Pack: each 30 0 0
Rebecca Pauldon 25 0 0
Edward Purcell; Jane Piggot; William Powell; Charles Palmer; Anne Pugh: each 20 0 0
Samuel Pack 10 0 0
Henry Quin 60 0 0
John Rowley 150 0 0
Joanna Rivett, widow of Col. Rivett; Lieut. Col. Francis Rainsford; Elizabeth Ramsay; Frances Ralegh, widow of Philip Ralegh, Esq.: each 100 0 0
Mary Robins, Queen Mary's goddaughter 40 0 0
Anne Richbell, widow; Charlotte Ricaut: each 40 0 0
Deborah Rolleston; Anne Ross; Magdalen Ross: each 30 0 0
Mary Reeves 60 0 0
Elizabeth Rossington, widow 30 0 0
Capt. Roger Raven; Arthur Reynolds: each 27 7 6
Elizabeth Reynolds; Katherine Roberts: each 10 0 0
George Sayers, Esq., Vice-Chamberlain to Queen Mary 500 0 0
Sir John Sayers. 200 0 0
Charles Shales for the daughters of Capt. Shales, in consideration of a debt owing to their father 100 0 0
Mary Swintoun 50 0 0
Thomas Smith, an old soldier 30 0 0
Rabsey Smithsby; Alice Shipton; Richard Sydenham; Victoria Slingsby: each 20 0 0
Mary Shelly 41 10 0
Mary Simmons; Elizabeth Sewell; George Simpson; Elizabeth Slingsby: each 20 0 0
Margaret Simpson; Sarah Simpson: each 15 0 0
Maro Saintlo; Anne Struther: each 10 0 0
George Townshend, Esq. 200 0 0
Margaret Townsend, widow of the late Clerk of the Wardrobe 100 0 0
Dorothy Torway, late Mrs. Hyde 50 0 0
Mary Thornycroft 60 0 0
Elizabeth Tottersell 20 0 0
Windham Tomson; Clifton Tomson; Katherine Tessin; Magdalen Thomas; Thomas Tagg: each 10 0 0
James Vernon, Esq., sen 600 0 0
Col. Villiers’ children, per Lady Orkney 200 0 0
Anne Villiers, widow of the said Colonel 100 0 0
Alice Vaughan, a blind woman 20 0 0
George Whichcoate, Esq. 400 0 0
Elizabeth Winstanley, widow of the engineer that built the Eddystone [Lighthouse] 100 0 0
Elizabeth Waggot; William Watson: each 80 0 0
Elizabeth Wandesford 50 0 0
Margaret Whittle 40 0 0
Winefrid Whaley, widow of Col. Whaley 30 0 0
Mary Walter; Sarah Wright: each 20 0 0
Anne Wilkinson; Elizabeth Wilkinson: each 20 0 0
Jane Walter 15 0 0
Anne Whittle 20 0 0
John Whittle, clerk, who came over with King William 26 0 0
Teresa Wroughton 6 0 0
Katherine Walters 5 0 0
Mercy Young; Frances Young: each 30 0 0
witnesses in the Assassination Plot against King William:
Sir John Maclean 365 0 0
Capt. George Porter 260 0 0
Capt. Richard Fisher 260 0 0
Capt. William Boyce 156 0 0
Thomas Bartram 78 0 0
Robert Inwood 78 0 0
John Lunt 52 0 0
Edward Brown 26 0 0
Other pensions or charities granted or continued by her late Majesty Queen Anne.
the Lord Almoner for [the said Queen's] Private Pensions or Charities 800 0 0
ditto for an Arabic Professor at Oxford and at Cambridge: each 50 0 0
Cyprian and Paul Appia: each 10l. by the hands of Dr. Hill 20 0 0
the Minister of Albany in New York for the time being 50 0 0
the Bishop of London for the time being, for a minister in New England 100 0 0
ditto for maintaining Henry and John Giraud 60 0 0
the Minister of the English Church at the Hague for the time being 30 0 0
the Minister of the English Church at Amsterdam for the time being 100 0 0
the Minister of the English Church at Rotterdam for the time being 100 0 0
the Minister of Greenwich in lieu of tithes for Greenwich Park. 5 2 6
the Vicar of Westminster in lieu of tithes for land belonging to Kensington House 4 11 0
the Vicar of Old Windsor in lieu of tithes for lands laid into Windsor Great Park 25 0 0
the Rector of Hampton Church in lieu of tithes for lands enclosed in Hampton Court Park 36 1 8
the Chaplain of Hampton Court Palace 50 0 0
the Reader there 20 0 0
the Minister of the French Church at Wapping 40 0 0
Francis Hewardine 80 0 0
the Minister of Kensington, afternoon preacher 20 0 0
the schoolmaster at Wapping for the time being 20 0 0
the Schoolmaster at Newmarket 50 0 0
the Schoolmaster at Kensington 30 0 0
the Schoolmaster at Windsor 30 0 0
Henry Werndley, clerk, for service in Switzerland 100 0 0
the Church and poor at New Windsor 50 0 0
ditto for lands laid into the House Park [of Windsor Castle] 50 0 0
the Corporation of Windsor for loss in their bridge toll and lands by the building of Datchett Bridge 20 0 0
the poor of Hampton parish 50 0 0
the Churchwardens of Westminster in lieu of a poor's rate formerly charged on Kensington House 5 0 0
the poor of St. Margaret's, Westminster 50 0 0
the Hospital in Tuttle Fields 50 0 0
the poor of St. Martin's in the Fields 100 0 0
the poor of St. James's 50 0 0
the poor of Kensington 25 0 0
the Minister of Kensington for tithes 0 17 6
the Dean and Chapter of Windsor in lieu of tithes 0 12 8
the Surveyor of the Highways at Paddington 1 10 0
the Churchwarden of Paddington 0 15 0
the Collector of the tithes of Paddington 1 0 0
£24,656 3 6
King's Warrant Book XXVII, pp. 79–88.
Aug. 12. List or Establishment of pensions or annual sums which the King is pleased to grant or allow to divers persons of quality, widows and children of officers slain in service who are French Refugees for religion and some others: to commence from 24 June 1714 and to be payable during pleasure by the hands of Jacob De la Motte Blagny, gent., or such other person as the King may hereafter think fit to appoint in this behalf:
per an.
£
Madam the Duchess de la Force 500
the Society of French Gentlewomen at the Hague 200
Charlotte de Dangeau 100
Mark Anthony Davessein and Magdalen his wife 100
Bernard du Vigneau 80
Helene de Maranein and Mary Cornet her daughter 70
Claude de Venevelle 70
Charlotte Justell; Michael le Vassor; Henriette Pons de Thors: each 60
Mary and Magdalen Alix 60
Jane de Bene de Louvigny 40
Henriette and Mary de Louvigny her daughters 60
Anne Deveille; Lucrece de Chavernay; Mademoiselle Marie de L'Isle du gast; Pierre de la Touche; Magdalen Errard; Elizabeth Boucher; Mademoiselle de Monceau, sister of the late Major General de la Meloniere; Catherine Siegler: each 50
Mary de There and Mary de Blagny 60
Susanna Petit; Claude de Davesnes; Mary de Champagne; Susanna de Molein: each 40
Margaret and Henrietta de Villeneave 40
Anne Daniel de Grangue and her daughter 40
Jane de la Salle; Elizabeth Salnave; Susanna de Cantiran; Charlotte Tallemont de Marmande; Francis Guiraud: each. 40
Judith Benigne and Charlotte de Goisy 45
Mary du Rosell 40
Henriette de Haut Charmois 36
Elizabeth and Benigne Tourteron. 34
Magdalen Dornand; Louise Aimeè de la Maugère: each 30
Mary and Hester du Mont 30
Henriette Mary de la Muce; Victory Pardaillan; Katherine de Dollon; Anne de Boisrousseau; Elizabeth Sixte Dalem; Magdalen de la Martinere; Judith de Proisy Debte de Tugny: each 30
Anne de Mauclere 30
Mariane de la Mothe du Tour; Anne Grosvenor; Mary Boitou; Mary de Lomaria; Constance de Lomaria; Mary Beveridge: each 30
Edward and Maximilien Bourdigues; Anne Guerin; Thomas de la Cour Vicouse; Hester de Ceville; Elizabeth de la Barre: each 30
Blanche de Fournier; Susanna la Penotière: each 25
Henriette de Bellefons 30
Magdalen Chamier 25
Catherine de Bourbon 36
Rose Barricave; Frances Dalon; Mary Frances de St. Paul; Martha Doffranville; Judith Valentine: each 25
Anne de la Borde; Mary de la Ferriere: each 24
Mary and Susanna de Champlaurier 30
Emilie Kaysers 24
Susanna Culan de St. Mesme; Susanna Palie; the Baron de Neufville; Mary Barnier; Elizabeth Marmande dacere; Catherine Du Bac; Isabeau de Brassalaye; Mary Benigne de Franquefort; Louise de Lounay; Claude Duncan; Elizabeth Perigoix; Magdalen de la Chesnay; Bonne Green de Percourt; Mary de la Chesnay; Margaret de la Crosiette: each 20
Mary and Catherine du Chail 20
Judith de Roux and Mary de Roux her daughter 20
Susanna de Blance; Mary Dancourt; Claude Margaret de Neufville: each 20
John Braguire and Catherine de Fos 20
Mary de Barquet; Mary Gacherie; Angelique Le Goux; Hypolite de Pressac; Mariane Le Gendre; Louise de Foissac; Olympe de Longuevergue: each 20
Hester and Lucrece de Longuevergue. 30
Mary Jaucourt 20
Pierre Balmier 30
Catherine Prat de la Deverse; Anne Gabriele Cossard: each 20
Susanna de Sarriere 30
Jaqueline Godeau de la Roche 17
Frances, John, Catherine and Margaret Marioge 20
Anne Benigne de Groix; Charlotte Monguion: each 15
Susanna de Sercler 20
Judith Becone; Anne Gabriele de Montmeillan; Margaret Barre de Montmeillan: each 15
André, Pierre and Henriette de lay Primaudaye 15
Hester Gohin; Margaret Lorrain; Judith Ricard; Elizabeth Verron; Anne Guinebaut de la Milliere; Frances de Grandy de Bette: each 15
Mary de Pechelves 25
Isabella de Bacalan; Mariane de Court; Mary Veniere; Blanche Samasan; Mary de Samasan; Henriette de Samasan; Mary La Pie; Michael de Monsegur: each 15
Judith de Bruggire; Elizabeth de Vebron; Mary Verveillon: each 12
Mary Berault 30
Mary Joly de Chadignac; Bernardine de Falquerols; Angelique Doudart; Mary du Breuil; Frances Sarette: each 12
Mary St. Faust Vicouse 25
Susanna Marolle; Emerauld le Grand: each 12
Louise Pignot; Mary Pignot: each 15
Frances Mary Renaud; Jane Mouchard; Susanna de Bette: each 12
Mary Jouneau; Anne de Clou; Margaret Sarrau; Isaac de Malray; Susanna Sarrau; Susanna de Reneval: each 10
Frances Pascal 6
the Lady Charlotte de Roussy 400
the Marquis de Rochegude 100
John de Rochegude his [the Marquis’] nephew 50
Pierre Perrault; Clement Patonnier: each 40
Mark Anthony Reboul; John Baru: each 20
John Larden 25
Benjamin Germain and Susanna his wife 20
Claude du Bos; Daniel Bascoul: each 20
— Maturin, a minister, aged about 80 years 50
Mademoiselle de Champagne de Juigny 25
Mademoiselle de Souselles of the Society of Haarlem 20
Margaret Joly; Mademoiselle de St. Clair; Louise le Tresor du Mesnil Lambert: each 20
Mademoiselle Verriere 15
Camille Catelet 25
Madame—Barbot 30
Susanna and Catherine de Portneuf 30
Louise Dagneau; Mary Dagneau: each 15
the Marquis des Biars de Montgomery 30
Mademoiselle de Rosset a Veugle [sic? aveugle] 12
Mary Anne de Courey 15
Elizabeth Robethon and Susanna Robethon 40
Mary de Chabanne 10
the two sisters of Martigny 30
Isabella de la Verie 16
Mary Perer 15
the Princess of Holstein Beck 200
the young Prince de Nassau Siegen 100
Anne de Langrac 50
Emilie de Styrumb 50
Abel Tassin d'Allome [Allonne], who was Secretary to the late Queen Mary, and afterwards to the late King William 200
John Remy de Montigny, gentleman to the said late Queen Mary 100
[Isaac] Dalais, who was Secretary to the late Queen Anne at Hanover 100
Constantin de Reneville 50
the Sieur de la Menardiere 40
Mariane de Charon 15
Marie Bonnet 15
— Falaiseau 200
Mary Urseline de Styrumb 50
£7,320
“which sum of 7,320l [per an.] our pleasure is shall be from time to time paid to the said Jacob de la Motte Blagny or such other person or persons as we may hereafter appoint to receive the same for the persons abovenamed,” to wit for so much as is due to Midsummer last and thenceforward quarterly during pleasure: yet so as that he or they shall produce a certificate signed by three at least of the principal Refugees residing in London, between each payment, of the alterations made in the said Establishment by the death of any of the persons therein named: and the said de la Motte Blagny is to deliver over every quarter the acquittances of the persons paid to the person from whom he receives the moneys for the said Establishment to the end the same may be delivered over to the Auditors of Imprests, who are to pass the accounts of the said moneys. King's Warrant Book XXVII, pp. 89–94.
Aug. 12. Royal warrant to the Clerk of the Signet for a privy seal for 250,000l. to James, Earl of Carnarvon: as imprest towards satisfying the debt due for subsidies [to allies] and arrears on account of the Land Forces. (Money warrant dated Aug. 26 hereon. This warrant quotes the privy seal as dated Aug. 19.) (Money order dated Aug. 30 hereon: together with a later Treasury confirmation dated 1717 Nov. 14. “Let this warrant be executed as to the sum of 18,747l. 18s. 1½d. for the Canada bills.") Ibid., pp. 94–5. Money Book XXIV, p. 100. Order Book IX, p. 114.
Same to same for a same for 40,000l. to John Hill, Esq., Receiver and Paymaster for Transports: as imprest towards defraying the charge of transporting Land Forces. (Money warrant dated Aug. 26 hereon. This warrant quotes the privy seal as dated Aug. 19.) (Money order dated Aug. 30 hereon: together with a later Treasury confirmation dated 1717 May 25. “Let this order be executed as to what remains unsatisfied thereupon.") King's Warrant Book XXVII, p. 95. Money Book XXIV, p. 100. Order Book IX, p. 114.
Same to same for a same for payment of the Establishment of certain annual pensions or annuities during pleasure to divers persons therein named to a total of 31,976l. 3s. 6d. per an. [being the combined total of the above two Establishments for respectively 24,656l. 3s. 6d. and 7,320l., supra, pp. 679 and 682]: to be paid out of Civil List revenues arising since 1 Aug. 1714 and to be paid by the hands of Edward Godfrey, gentleman, or such other person as the Treasury Lords shall hereafter think fit. And further that such further sums be issued to the said Godfrey as shall be sufficient to satisfy such other pensions or sums as the King shall hereafter think fit to direct by warrant under his sign manual.
And whereas several of the persons named in the said above Establishments have received several sums by the King's direction since his accession, the Treasury is hereby to certify same to the said Godfrey, who is to deduct same out of the payments he is to make pursuant to the said Establishments. King's Warrant Book XXVII, pp. 96–7.
Aug. 12. Same to the Attorney General to acknowledge satisfaction on the judgment against Ann Brittain, who at the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace for Co. Middlesex on 29 April 1712 was indicted for unlawfully receiving the goods of John Hill knowing them to be stolen and was fined 20l. thereon and committed to Newgate Gaol till payment thereof, where she still remains in a very miserable condition, lying on the common side of the said prison and utterly unable to pay any part of her said fine. Ibid., p. 97.
Royal sign manual for 10,000l. to Spencer Compton, Treasurer or Receiver General to the Prince of Wales: out of Civil List moneys: without account: to be disposed as the said Prince shall direct and to be accounted for before his own officers and ministers as hath been usual in like cases. (Money warrant dated Aug. 17 hereon.) (Money order dated Aug. 19 hereon.) Ibid., p. 101.Order Book IX, p. 111.
Royal warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General for a great seal for a grant to Sir Joseph Jekyll of the several and respective salaries of 200l. per an., 500l. per an. and (for diet) 30l. per an., making in all 730l. per an., payable quarterly out of Civil List moneys at the Exchequer as from 1714 Trinity term as Justice of Chester and Flint and of Denbigh and Montgomery: it being the King's pleasure that the whole 730l. per an. shall for the future be paid at the Receipt of the Exchequer. In the margin. of this sum only the sum of 500l. per an. was before this time payable at the Exchequer and 230l. per an. by the Receiver [of Crown Revenues for North Wales]. King's Warrant Book XXVII, pp. 122–3.
Same to same for a same for a grant to Edward Jeffreyes, Second Justice of Chester, Flint, Denbigh and Montgomery, of the respective yearly salaries of 200l. and 200l.: to commence as from the last day of Trinity term 1714: out of Civil List moneys in the Exchequer: the said second sum of 200l. per an. having been granted by Queen Anne as an augmentation and in lieu of 80l. per an. formerly payable to said Judge out of the revenue of Wales. In order to prevent any further payment out of the revenue of Wales the present grant is to be enrolled before the Auditor of Wales. Ibid., pp. 124–5.
Money warrant for 20,000l. to Samuel Edwards, Charles Low and Thomas Fletcher, Paymasters herein: as imprest to satisfy to the Tellers of the Receipt the interest allowed by them from time to time on Exchequer Bills at the rate of 2 pence per 100l. per diem “to the payers or lenders of the said Exchequer Bills at the said Receipt at the respective times of their paying or lending the same” and also to satisfy interest to any person or persons on Exchequer Bills in their custody on which six months’ interest or more shall be due and unpaid, although the said Bills shall not have circulated through his Majesty's revenue or taxes. This warrant is to be satisfied out of the funds settled [by Parliament] for paying interest on Exchequer Bills. (Money order dated Aug. 17 hereon.) Money Book XXIV, p. 94. Order Book IX, p. 113.
Aug. 12. Money warrant for 20l. to Bernard Mecan, clerk: without account: [as royal bounty] for the charges of his passage to Jamaica, whither he is going as minister of the Gospel.
Charles Porter, 20l. for the like as a same to Jamaica. (Money orders dated Aug. 13 hereon.) Money Book XXIV, p. 6. Order Book IX, p. 59.
John Taylour to Mr. Aislabie, Treasurer of the Navy, to apply and pay over to the services as follows the sum of 15,881l. out of the 37,960l. 13s. 5¾d. lately received by you from Charles Cæsar, late Treasurer of the Navy: viz.
£
to complete the pay to Officers [of the Navy] who have passed their accounts 5,000
for Flag pay and for answering bills due to pilots, bounties to widows &c. 5,881
for further carrying on Recalls 5,000
£15,881
Disposition Book XXIII, p. 89.
Same to same to apply and pay over out of the abovesaid 37,960l. 13s. 5¾d. the sum of 1,200l. for carrying on the services following: viz.
£
for impresting [pressing] of men and for manning the ships lately ordered to be fitted out 1,000
for Mr. Thomas Corbett, Secretary to Sir George Byng, for defraying the Contingent charges of the Squadron under his command 200
£1,200
Ibid.
Same to the King's Printers. My Lords direct you to send to the Secretary at War 300 printed copies of the last Acts of Parliament [1 Geo. I., St. 2, c. 34, and 1 Geo. I., St. 2, c. 9] for the better preventing Mutiny and Desertion, in order to be distributed among the Officers of the Standing Corps. Out Letters (General) XXI, p. 404.
Treasury reference to the Customs Commissioners of the petition of Jo[h]n Appleton of London, corn factor, shewing that he has been prosecuted in the Exchequer Court upon an information of Edward Turpin, a Customs officer, for concealment of uncustomed goods and a verdict of 1,200l. obtained against him: and praying to compound same for 100l., he being unable to pay more and having a wife and several small children to maintain. Reference Book IX, p. 247.
Treasury warrant to the Clerk of the Pipe for a lease to Thomas Pitt (Pitts) of two messuages in a field formerly called Pall Mall Field, now Pall Mall Street, late in the parish of St. Martins in the Fields, between Pall Mall Street on the north and the wall enclosing his Majesty's park called St. James's Park on the south, the house of Sir John James on the east and that of Sir Richard Durham on the west: which said messuages contain 41 foot 6 inches in front next the Pall Mall and 144 foot in depth to the said park wall and were late in the tenure of William Gawen, gent., and John Taberner, gent., and are now turned into one tenement in the possession of said Pitts.
Prefixing: particular of the premises and memorandum by Auditor Thomas Jett; and ratal by the Surveyor General of Crown Lands.
In the margin: the tally for the fine bearing date after the alteration of the Treasury Commission, this warrant was underwritten 15 Nov. 1715 by the new Treasury Lords, “Let this warrant be executed.”
Followed by: undated entry of the signature by the Treasury Lords (both sets of Lords as above) of the docquet of this lease. Warrants not Relating to Money XXIII, pp. 174–8.
Aug. 12. Same to same for a same to Robert Watson of a shed or building erected by him on the north side of the park wall of Greenwich and now in his possession, containing 150 foot in length and 16 feet 2 inches in breadth adjoining at the west end to the Gate into the said Park: and also of the slip of ground at the east end of said building and now in his possession, being 3 feet by 27 feet, adjoining to a conduit or water house on the south: and also all that piece of waste ground in his possession on the west side of said Gate, being 20 feet by 12 feet, adjoining to the Park wall: and also that piece of ground within Greenwich Park in his possession, 144 feet by 33 feet 6 inches: all for 31 years at 40s. per an. rent.
Prefixing: constat and sketch plan and ratal of the premises made out by H. Cholmley, Surveyor General of Crown Lands.
Followed by: undated entry of the Treasury Lords’ signature of the docquet of this lease. Ibid., pp. 178–80.
Same to the King's Remembrancer to stay process against Montagu, Earl of Abingdon, upon account of taxes assessed on his salary in the Tower Hamlets as late Constable of the Tower of London: he having produced a certificate from the collectors of Taxes for the Verge of Whitehall shewing that he has paid said taxes and prays stay of process in order to his adjusting the said double assessment before the Barons of the Exchequer. Ibid., p. 25.
Same to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands for a particular of premises as follows in order to a new lease thereof to James Tyrrell, jun., Esq., at a fine of 200l. and reserve rents of 50l. and 50l.: and in reversion of the terms in being.
Prefixing: report by the said Surveyor General on said Tyrrell's petition. By patent of 19 Feb. 1665–6 Charles II. granted to Sir Timothy Tyrrell the waste and soil lying in Shotover within his Majesty's forest of Shotover and the several coppices of wood, underwood and wood ground called Row Coppice, Horsepath Coppice, Elderstub Coppice, Wheatly Coppice, Redhill Coppice, Thornhill Coppice, Burrough Hill Coppice, Quarry Coppice, Lodge Coppice with the lodge in the said forest in the possession of said Sir Timothy Tyrrell and a close called the Rayle thereto belonging; also the lodge in the possession of Richard Eldridge and a close called the Raile thereto belonging at a rent of 50l. per an. to the King and 50l. per an. to the Bishop of Oxford. By patent of Wm. III. dated 1696 June 16 the premises were granted to Charles Bertie, Samuel Traverse, James Herbert and Richard Powis in trust for the Duke of Leeds for 30 years from the death of the Queen Dowager, which term will expire in Dec. 1736. Warrants not Relating to Money XXIII, pp. 181–2.
Aug. 12. Treasury warrant to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands for a particular of a messuage or tenement in the bailiwick of St. James's situate in a street leading from St. James's Street to Cleveland House on the north side thereof: in order to a lease thereof to John Pultney: at 2l. per an. rent and fine of 52l. 10s. 0d.
Prefixing report by said Surveyor General on the petition of said Pultney. The premises were granted by Charles II. to Sir William Pultney for several terms which will expire in Feb. 1722–3. Ibid., p. 183.
Aug. 13. Privy seal for 500l. as equipage and 5l. a day as ordinary to George Bubb, who is appointed Envoy Extraordinary to the Catholic King: his said ordinary to commence from May 27 last. King's Warrant Book XXVII, p. 19.
Royal warrant dated St. James's to the Attorney General for a privy seal for discharging Sir Christopher Tench of Low Layton, Co. Essex, from the baronetcy fee of 1,095l. (Privy seal dated Aug. 25 hereon.) Ibid., pp. 4, 99.
Royal letters patent appointing Andrews Jelfe (already appointed Clerk and Storekeeper of the Works at Newmarket) to be Clerk Itinerant to the Office of the Works: at the salary of 50l. per an. formerly payable for the same. He is hereby directed (over and above his ordinary duty) to make copies of such drafts and designs as the Surveyor of the Works shall think fit, to the end the same may be kept in the Office of Works for reference, together with the plans, elevations and surveys of all the royal palaces. Ibid., pp. 106–7.
Aug. 16. Royal warrant dated St. James's to Sir Christopher Wren, Surveyor General of the Works, to continue on the books of the Office of the Works the allowance of 2s. 6d. a day for an assistant or clerk to the Comptroller of the Works, being required since the late Regulations for the better management of the Works took effect: and is to date from the appointment of John (now Sir John) Vanbrugh to the said office of Comptroller of the Works. Ibid., p. 103.
Same to same to enter on the books of the Office of Works an additional allowance of 100l. per an. to the Clerk of the Works for [the palaces of] Whitehall, St. James's and Westminster: the late Regulations having appointed that there should be a Clerk of Works of the same with a better allowance than the rest [of the Clerks of Works], he being also as Secretary to attend the Board at every meeting to take the minutes, draw up reports, estimates, memorials, fill up blanks left for prices in passing the books and to cause fair entries to be made by the respective writing clerks of all proceedings at the Board. The same is hereby to date from Lady day 1715 during pleasure. Ibid.
Aug. 16. William Lowndes to the Customs Commissioners to give immediate despatch to the baggage of Monsieur Cienfuegos [Alvaro Cienfuegos] which is lately arrived in the river [Thames] from Lisbon but intended to be carried to Holland and therefore desired to be removed from one ship to another: “the said Monsieur Cienfugos, who was the Emperor's Plenipotentiary to the Court of Portugal, being upon his return to Venice”: all in accordance with the enclosed letter [missing] from Monsieur Hoffman which has been transmitted by Secretary Stanhope to my Lords. Out Letters (General) XXI, p. 404.
Treasury reference to the Taxes Commissioners of the petition of Edward Conway, Receiver General of Taxes for Co. Cheshire, praying payment of 3,000l. due to him for extraordinary allowances for returning [his] moneys into the Exchequer. Reference Book IX, p. 247.
Same to same of the petition of Francis Manaton, Receiver General of Taxes for Co. Cornwall, shewing that divers houses and lands of Mr. Quash, late Receiver General for part of Co. Devon, seized into the Crown's hands by extent, are of little value, for want of necessary repairs: therefore praying that as he hath an extent in aid for 3,500l. against said Quash he may become a purchaser thereof at a reasonable valuation “and that he may have a grant thereof by privy seal.” Ibid.
Entry of a Treasury caveat in favour of George Fury, agent to the Levant Company, in behalf of himself and Mr. John Frederick Shiere, merchant at Vienna, against the issuing any money at the Exchequer to the Earl of Peterborough or his executors or assigns either on his ordinary or extraordinary allowances [as Ambassador to the Emperor of Germany] until an exact account be transmitted from Vienna of what moneys his Lordship took up there from the parties concerned, during his embassy there. The Right Honble. Lord Cobham being fully informed of the case has preferred Mr. Shiere's petition to the King and his Majesty was pleased to say justice should be done to them.
Notice to be given to Cha. Lechmere in Cursitor Alley, Chancery Lane. Caveat Book, p. 65.
Aug. 17. Money warrant for 2,000l. to John Baskett, gent.: without account: as in part of 3,014l. 19s. 5d. due to his Majesty's printers for paper and printing Acts of Parliament, Proclamations, Forms of Prayer, speeches and other things by them delivered to the Archbishop of Canterbury and divers public Offices: and likewise for stationery wares by them delivered for the service of the two Houses of Parliament from 1 Aug. 1714. to 24 June 1715. (Money order dated Aug. 18 hereon.) Money Book XXIV, p. 96. Order Book IX, p. 110.
Same for 75l. to the Mayor &c. of Berwick on Tweed for three quarters to 1715 Lady day on their allowance of 100l. per an. towards their disbursements in repairing the bridge built by Charles I. over the Tweed. Money Book XXIV, p. 96.
Treasury warrant to Robert Walpole, Paymaster General of the Forces, to assign and pay 2,000l. (in tallies and orders of loan on the Malt Duties anno 1715 [1 Geo. I., St. 2, c. 2] resting in his hands) to be applied as in part of 20,000l. for the support of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea and for the pay of the Outpensioners for the year 1715 (over and above the poundage and day's pay applicable thereto): all as proposed in the memorial of said Walpole dated the 5th inst.: "together with the interest to grow due thereupon from the time of your assigning the same. But you are to take care to surcharge yourself in your accounts not only with the intermediate interest incurred upon the said orders from the date thereof to the date of your assigning away the same for the uses aforesaid but with all such other sum and sums of money as are already incurred and shall hereafter incur upon any tallies and orders of loan which are or may be imprested or put into your hands for the service of the Forces under your pay or for the Royal Hospital at Chelsea from the dates thereof respectively to the days of your assigning or paying away the same.” Disposition Book XXIII, p. 88.
Aug. 17. Jo. Taylour to Mr. Walpole. The Treasury Lords direct that out of the money which they have this day [see supra, p. 286] authorised you to raise on tallies and orders in your hands on Malt Duties anno 1715 you apply 51,908l. 16s. 8d. to services as follow according to your memorial of the 16th inst. in that behalf: viz.
£ s. d.
in further part of 425,900l. 14s. 6d. voted for Guards and Garrisons in Great Britain, 12 Companies of Invalids and Forces in the Plantations anno 1715.
to complete one month's subsistence July 25 last to Aug. 24 inst. of the said several Regiments, Troops and Companies 12,478 19 7
to clear the 12 Companies of Invalids from 25 Dec. 1714 to 24 June 1715 764 8 0
to be paid to the Forces now in Great Britain upon account of their pay for the year 1715, to enable the Officers to buy horses, tents and other necessaries for putting them in a condition for service 10,000 0 0
for one month's subsistence 24 Aug. inst. to 24 Sept. next of the said several Regiments, Troops and Companies 24,700 10 1
in further part of 33,525l. 1s. 8d. voted for pay of the seven Battalions brought from Flanders from 29 Sept. 1714 to 25 March 1715.
upon account of the pay of the said seven Battalions for the said time 2,361 17 0
in further part of265,754l. 7s. 6d. voted for the pay and levy money of Additional Forces anno 1715.
upon account of the pay of the said Additional Forces 1,603 2 0
£51,908 16 8
Ibid., p. 100.
Aug. 17. Treasury reference to the Customs Commissioners of the petition of John Heather for stay of proceedings against him as a security with others for John Fox of London, Virginia merchant, for tobacco Duties. Reference Book IX, p. 248.
Royal warrant dated St. James's to the Treasury Lords and to the Barons of the Exchequer in Scotland to pay to John Campbell the allowance of 400l. per an. as the whole allowance in respect of the office of Master of the Works in Scotland: there being in the Establishment for Civil Affairs in Scotland an allowance of 400l. inserted for two Masters of Works there, but the King having thought fit to appoint and constitute the said Campbell to be sole Master of the Works there: as from 1714 Nov. 16, the date of his commission as such. Out Letters (North Britain) III, p. 412.
Aug. 18. Money warrant for 202l. 10s. 0d. to the Officers and Keepers of Waltham Forest for three quarters to 1715 Lady day on their several fees and allowances, viz. 7l. 10s. 0d. to the Chief Ranger; 15l. to the Woodward and Keeper of the woods in Chapel Henault Walk; 15l. each to the underkeeper respectively of Waltham Stow Park, Leighton Walwood and Homefrith Walk, Woodford Walk, Loughton Walk, New Lodge Walk, Lambourne Walk, Chingford Walk, Epping Walk, East Henault, West Henault; and 30l. to the four Under Rangers to be equally distributed amongst them. (Money order dated Aug. 26 hereon.) Money Book XXIV, pp. 96–7. Order Book IX, p. 68.
Treasury warrant dormant to Mr. Ferne, Customs Cashier, to pay to James Tate, gent., the salary of 52l. per an. as a King's waiter, London port. Money Book XXIV, p. 141.
Treasury reference to Lord Cornwallis and James Craggs, Postmaster General, of the petition of John Hopkins praying payment of two assignments to Mr. Nicholas Goodwin with interest, from Mr. Dummer, contractor for the East India packet boats, which assignments were made under a power from the late Postmaster General and duly registered by the Treasurer [Receiver General] of the Post Office and are now lawfully in the possession of petitioner; being for 500l. each payable to said Dummer out of the money due to him on or before 20 Nov. 1711 by virtue of his contract [as contractor as above]. Reference Book IX, p. 248.
Same to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands of the petition of William Wallis for extension of lease of a piece of ground on the west side of Swallow Street, parcel of a field called Mulghay, alias Dogfield, belonging to the bailiwick of St. James's and containing 230 feet by 150 feet, on which are standing divers old tenements which must be rebuilt. Ibid., p. 250.
Treasury warrant to same for a particular of 11 several houses in the bailiwick of St. James's in order to an extension of lease thereof to Thomas Owen and Susanna his wife.
Prefixing: said Surveyor General's report on the petition of said Thomas and Susanna Owen. The houses contain 54 feet in front towards Jermyn Street on the north and 146 feet towards Market Street on the west and 55 feet towards St. James's Market Place on the south. They are 11 in number and are worth at Rack Rent 250l. per an. The petitioners hold them for the remainder of a term granted to the Earl of St. Albans or his trustees. I advise a ground rent of 2s. 6d. in the £ on the additional term, which makes 31l. 5s. 0d. per an., and a fine of 125l. for making up the term in being to 50 years. Warrants not Relating to Money XXIII, p. 184.
Aug. 19. Royal letters patent dated St. James's constituting and appointing Leonard Wooddeson to be Clerk of the Works at the Palace of Winchester: the nomination of the several Clerks of the Works being reserved to the King by the eighth article of the Orders and Instructions to the Office of Works [see supra, p. 494]. King's Warrant Book XXVII, p. 101.
Same directing and declaring that the Rule and Instructions for the Office of Works in general [supra, pp. 493–6] shall extend to the Works in the Castle of Windsor: and further that from the time the Office of Works commenced their examination of the bills and expenses of the Works they shall likewise examine the bills and expenses of the Works in the said Castle “and shall from that time enter the expense of the Works in our said Castle on the books of the Office of our Works in general; to be paid and accompted for from thenceforth from time to time in like manner with other the expenses of our Works.” Ibid., p. 102.
Royal warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General for a privy seal to discharge and release Thomas Folke (one of the executors of Thomas, Lord Jermyn, late Governor and Captain of the Isle of Jersey), Sir Robert Davers (executor of Lady Mary Dowager Jermyn, the other executor of the said Lord Jermyn) and Phillip Pypon and their lands &c. from the fines and forfeitures upon the information exhibited in the Exchequer Court by the Attorney General demanding an account of all fines and forfeitures upon penal laws which the said Lord Jermyn (as Governor and Captain of said island) and the said Pypon (as his farmer and Receiver of the Revenues of said island) did receive and apply to their own use and which remain not accounted for to the Crown: all by reason that the Treasury Lords have laid before the King the Attorney General's report in this matter, shewing that in the said information it was insisted upon that such fines and forfeitures did not pass to the dependants by their grant, being in their nature not grantable by the Crown before they became due, but the dependants insisted that the same did so pass as well as any other fines being equally the revenues and profits of the said island and had always been accounted to belong to the Governor thereof, who out of the revenues of the said island was to pay the salaries of public officers there and the charges of repairing public buildings, and were never called to account for such fines and forfeitures: and it appeared by the proofs taken in the said cause that the Governors or their farmers and Receivers have constantly received the Crown's part of statute penalties together with all other fines and forfeitures accruing to the Crown in the said island and that the same was reputed there to belong to them: and the then Barons of the Exchequer being equally divided in opinion upon hearing the said cause the defendants did apply to the late Queen Anne to be discharged of the said prosecution, which was under consideration at the time of her death: and the defendants have since applied to the present King for such discharge and the Attorney General has no objection thereto: the matters claimed being but of small value. Ibid., p. 104.
Aug. 19. Same to the Clerk of the Signet for a privy seal for a salary of 1,000l. per an. each to the Commissioners for Trade, viz. Henry, Earl of Suffolk and Bindon; Sir Jacob Ashley, Robert Molesworth, John Cockburn, Archibald Hutcheson, John Chetwynd, Charles Cooke and Paul Docminique, the salaries of the last seven to commence from Lady day last (the date to which they were last paid); that of the Earl of Suffolk from May 12 last (the date of his appointment): likewise for 400l. per an. to the four clerks of the Privy Council for attending the despatch of Trade and Plantation business: 73l. per an. to the two Keepers of the Council Chamber: and 1,150l. per an. to William Popple, Secretary to the Commissioners for Trade, being 500l. for himself; 100l. for Bryan Wheelock, Deputy Secretary or chief clerk; 390l. for seven clerks and 160l. for doorkeepers, messengers and necessary woman. Ibid., pp. 105–6.
Royal sign manual for 1,500l. to William Cadogan, Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the States General and at the Congress at Antwerp: “the same being intended to repay him the like sum which he has disbursed for secret intelligence by our particular order.” (Money warrant dated Aug. 20 hereon.) (Money order dated Aug. 25 hereon.) Ibid., p. 107. Money Book XXIV, p. 97. Order Book IX, p. 112.
Royal warrant to Sir Edward Northey, Attorney General, to acknowledge satisfaction on the record as to the King's part of a judgment obtained against Charles Warden, late mate of the ship Recovery, from India, for being concerned in 1710 with Robert Carless in running a parcel of 50 pieces of muslin with the privity of the tidesmen: all on the petition of Mary, wife of said Warden, and in consideration of her mean circumstances, she being left with three small children, and on condition of her paying 40l., which is all that she can raise by the help of her friends, so that her said husband may return home to maintain his said family; his goods having been already seized to the value of 30l. 4s. 6d. King's Warrant Book XXVII, p. 108.
Orders under the royal sign manual to be observed by the Surveyor of the [Royal] Gardens and Waters belonging to the several Palaces within that part of Great Britain called England.
On 15 June last Sir John Vanbrugh was constituted Surveyor of the Gardens and Waters to perform all matters therein according to Instructions to be given in that behalf. In accordance therewith he is hereby
(1) to oversee and take care that the Gardens be kept and maintained according to the contracts as well in the Gardens of pleasure as in the kitchen and fruit gardens “and that our tables and kitchens be duly served with all things necessary and proper for the same.”
(2) prepare and make drafts and designs for all new works or alterations and present same to the Treasury with an estimate.
(3) constantly take care of the rivers, conduits, pipes, engines relating to supplying the palaces and gardens with water.
(4) take care that no extravagant or unnecessary expense be brought upon the King relating to the said gardens and waters.
(5) lay before the Treasury an exact plan or draft of the several and respective gardens and contents thereof and a description of the conduits, rivers, rivulets or streams used for supplying the said palaces and gardens with water.
(6) and to represent to the Treasury from time to time all matters he thinks necessary relating to the premises: and before any new charge relating thereto be gone in hand he is to make an estimate thereof and present it to the Treasury and, if relating to the Board of Works, then to be referred to them “and in all things be executed according to the Rules and Methods already prescribed for the Office of Works save only that our said Surveyor of our Gardens and Waters shall see to the performance thereof in the best and most substantial manner and that he jointly with the Board of Works to sign the contracts for same and to pass and allow the bills for same.
King's Warrant Book XXVII, pp. 110–11.
Aug. 19. Royal sign manual for 500l. to Leonard Welsted, gent.: without account: “for our especiall service.” (Money warrant dated Aug. 20 hereon.) (Money order dated Aug. 22 hereon.) Ibid., p. 112. Order Book IX, p. 113.
Royal warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General for a great seal for a grant to Henry Lowman and Mary his wife of the office of House Keeper and Wardrobe Keeper of Kensington Palace: with the pay of 300l. per an., being the office granted to him by Queen Anne. King's Warrant Book XXVII, p. 112.
Jo. Taylour to the Salt Commissioners. My Lords direct you to employ John Senhouse of Cumberland, who is recommended to my Lords, as an officer in the salt works in that county. Out Letters (General) XXI, p. 405.
Treasury warrant to William Pultney, Secretary at War, to prepare a royal warrant to authorise Robert Walpole, Paymaster of the Forces, to pay 394l. 3s. 0d. to General Lumley, Col. of his Majesty's Own Regiment of Horse: without account: to defray the charge of clothing in rich liveries the Kettle Drummers and Trumpeters belonging to the said Regiment.
Prefixing: report by said Pultney dated May 18 last on the said Lumley's petition, ut supra, p. 456. Since the raising said Regiment Queen Mary allowed it 867l. 6s. 0d. for said clothing. On the disbanding the Army [after the Treaty of Rijswick] King William reduced the Trumpeters [from two to] one in each Troop and ordered 394l. 3s. 0d. for said clothing to 11 Aug. 1699. Since the [commencement of the] last war the Trumpeters were again added, but upon application made to Wm. III. his Majesty reduced all the banners, badges and six standards, which reduced the 867l. 6s. 0d. to 543l. 4s. 10d., “which last sum has always been allowed every clothing (every two years) since the raising of the Regiment”: but the same is now, since the conclusion of the peace, reduced to one Kettle Drum and nine Trumpets. The 394l. 3s. 0d. may be allowed as the Regiment is now to be new clothed. Warrants not Relating to Money XXIII, p. 158.
Aug. 20. Royal letters patent constituting Lawrence Carter, Esq., as one of his Majesty's learned Counsel in the Law: with the wages or fee of 40l. per an.: during pleasure. King's Warrant Book XXVIII, pp. 293–4.
Royal sign manual for 690l. 19s. 2d. to William Bromley, whereof 263l. 11s. 2½d. is for 52 days on his allowance or salary of 1,850l. per an. as late a Principal Secretary of State, to wit from 1714 Aug. 1 to Sept. 22 (on which day he delivered up the seals of said office); and 427l. 7s. 11½d. for the like period on the allowance of 3,000l. per an. for secret service. (Money warrant dated Aug. 23 hereon.) (Money order dated Aug. 26 hereon.) Ibid. XXVII, p. 99. Order Book IX, p. 113.
Money order for 10,000l. to William Lowndes: for secret service: without account: as by the privy seal of 1714 Sept. 29 and the royal sign manual of the 19th inst. Order Book IX, p. 111.
William Lowndes to the Trustees for sale of South Sea Stock. The Office of Ordnance has an immediate occasion for 18,000l. to satisfy the demands of those persons whose lands were purchased for the better fortifying Portsmouth, Chatham and Harwich. The Treasury Lords desire you to treat with the Bank of England to advance that sum upon credit of being repaid in course with 5 per cent. interest out of the moneys that shall come to your hands by the sale of the South Sea Stock. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 88.
Treasury warrant to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands for a particular of two messuages in Bore Street, Abingdon, Co. Berks, in order to a lease thereof to Joseph Spinage.
Prefixing: said Surveyor General's report on said Spinage's petition for same. The premises were granted 1687 July 12 to John Sawyer, being part of the escheated lands of Martha Smith, late wife of Henry Smith and daughter and heiress of John Arnold, deceased; being escheated to the Crown for want of heirs. The said Sawyer assigned to petitioner 1688–9 Feb. 17. Warrants not Relating to Money XXIII, p. 185.
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