Declared Accounts: Treasury Solicitor

Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 31, 1717. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1960.

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'Declared Accounts: Treasury Solicitor', in Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 31, 1717, (London, 1960) pp. cccxci-cccxcvii. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-treasury-books/vol31/cccxci-cccxcvii [accessed 19 March 2024]

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Treasury Solicitor

DECLARED ACCOUNTS: TREASURY SOLICITOR.

AUDIT OFFICE: BUNDLE 2319, ROLL 43 [A.O.1/2319/43].

Anthony Crachrode, Solicitor for the Affairs of the Treasury.

2 June 1716 to 1 June 1717.

Charge. £ s. d.
Arrears: remaining in the Accomptants' hands at the end of his last preceding Accompt, none, he being in Surplusage nil
but depending upon several persons particularly named at the foot of the said last Accompt 100 10 6
Receipts: had out of the Exchequer:
Easter term, 2 & 3 George I, by way of imprest, by General Letters Patent Dormant of 14 Aug. 1 George I
7,000 0 0
Michaelmas term, 3 George I, ditto, by the same 9,000 0 0
Easter term, 3 & 4 George I, ditto, by the same 2,500 0 0
Michaelmas term, 3 George I, for the charges of Letters Patent creating Prince Ernest Augustus, Duke of York, Albany and Ulster and for ditto appointing the Prince of Wales Guardian of the Kingdom, by General Letters of Privy Seal 29 Sept. 1714 and Royal Sign Manual of 11 Feb. 1716–17 1,252 11 0
19,752 11 0
money received of John Aislabie, late Treasurer of the Navy, to satisfy the bill of charges of the fifth subscription:
to the South Sea Corporation and unsatisfied charges of the earlier subscriptions
1,841 0 8
surcharge for money placed to his accompt as paid to Daniel Underhill as Solicitor at Hicks's Hall, being more than was actually paid 1 6 8
1,842 7 4
total charge and receipts £21,695 8 10
Discharge. £ s. d. £ s. d.
Surplusage on the preceding Accompt 1,546 13
charges and expenses of several prosecutions etc.:
v. Anderton and others, for high treason in the late Rebellion
89 2 0
v. Ashburn, for printing ‘the Shift Shifted 6 14 0
v. Sarah Alexander, for publishing the same 3 7 0
v. Attlesey and others, for a misdemeanor at Norwich 8 9 11
v. Ashton, for seditious words 3 7 0
v. Buttler et al., for high treason in the late rebellion 76 15 0
v. Balfour et al., for ditto 54 15 0
v. Bishop, for printing a libel at Exeter 9 2 0
v. Barnett, for a misdemeanour at Shaftsbury 13 14 0
v. Bull and Bowers, for ditto in Oxfordshire 2 6 2
v. Bedford, for a misdemeanour 0 17 0
v. John Batt et al., for ditto in Kent 44 17 2
v. Humphrey Batt et al., for ditto 6 13 0
v. Baker, for a trespass in Windsor Forest 2 5 6
v. Brown, for cursing the King (indicted at the Sessions at Hicks's Hall) 9 2 2
v. Burnett, for a misdeameanour at Norwich 6 14 0
v. Bays, for seditious words (prosecuted at Hicks's Hall) 2 10 0
v. Benson, for the like (indicted at Hicks's Hall) 3 7 0
v. Baker, for the like in Berks. 7 18 0
v. Brooks, for a misdemeanour in Shoreditch 7 0 8
v. Barwick, for suffering a conventicle in his house at Norwich 14 4 7
v. Breet, for a misdeameanour in Norfolk 11 4 6
v. Cheap, for publishing a libel 14 9 6
v. Cole, for a misdemeanour in Kent 6 9 0
v. Cowper, for publishing a libel 10 3 6
v. Cookson, for publishing a libel in Yorkshire 14 7 0
v. Cavenah alias Robroy, for publishing seditious words 7 18 0
v. Crisp, for frauds in Chelsea Hospital 7 18 0
v. Douglas, for a misdemeanour in Antegoa 13 16 6
v. Isaac Dalton, for printing and publishing a libel, for cursing the King, for persuading the soldiers at Newgate to drink the Pretender's health 79 5 4
v. Lord Dupplin, for treasonable practices 2 5 6
v. Dover, for printing and publishing libels 11 2 6
v. Dale, for endeavouring to suborn witnesses 19 0 6
v. Mary Dalton, for publishing a libel 21 3 6
v. Dowel et al., for high treason 2 4 6
v. John Dormer, for seditious words 6 14 0
v. Davies and Edwards, for a misdemeanour in Denbighshire 2 8 0
v. Michael Dalton in the Exchequer, by information of intrusion on Pimlico House on the King's private road to Fulham 0 15 0
v. Darbyshire, for seditious words 10 1 0
v. Douglas, for the like 6 14 0
v. Alice Dixon, for the like 6 14 0
v. Dowden et al., for high treason in Dorsetshire 20 1 10
v. Dugard, for seditious words 7 18 0
v. Francia, for high treason (indicted at the Old Bailey) 413 5 0
v. George Flint, for publishing a libel 27 17 6
v. Fox, for seditious words in Devonshire 9 2 0
v. Mary Flint, for publishing ‘the Shift Shifted 15 11 0
v. Fluck, for seditious words (tried at Hicks's Hall) 6 12 8
v. Freeman, for the like (ditto) 6 11 2
v. Fish, for a misdemeanour in Yorkshire 1 16 8
v. Gibson, upon affidavits from Lancashire 2 5 6
v. Gurley, for seditious words 6 11 2
v. Harley and Foley, Auditors of the Imprests, on information for misdemeanours in their office (fn. 1) 191 9 4
v. Harvey, for high treason 17 19 0
v. Hornbey, gentleman, for publishing a libel 35 10 6
v. Howard, for high treason in the late Rebellion 78 4 2
v. Home, for the like 54 15 0
v. Hornby, the hawker, for the like 14 9 6
v. Harris, for a misdemeanour in Derbysire 24 10 0
v. Hussey, Recorder of Shaftsbury 2 5 6
v. Howell, for publishing a libel (tried at the Old Bailey) 26 11 0
v. Hornyold, for a misdemeanour (indicted at the Old Bailey) 6 14 0
v. Hill, for printing ‘the Shift Shifted’ (tried at the Old Bailey) 15 11 0
v. Halsted, for seditious words at Oxford 5 15 0
v. Humphreys, for seditious words (indicted at the Old Bailey) 3 7 0
v. Hesketh, for high treason in Lancashire 10 15 0
v. Hodges, for seditious words (prosecuted at Norwich) 11 9 2
v. Keymer, for publishing a libel 6 14 0
v. Kitchen, for seditious words (indicted at the Old Bailey and tried at Westminster 16 10 0
v. Layburn, for high treason in the late Rebellion (tried in Southwark) 76 15 0
v. Langham, for publishing a libel (tried at the Old Bailey) 15 11 0
v. Mackentosh et al., for high treason (at Westminster Hall) 79 8 0
v. Mynors, for printing and publishing a libel sermon 11 5 0
v. Duncan Mackentosh, one of the Preston rebels, for high treason 8 12 0
v. Montgomery, for holding a conventicle 2 5 6
v. Morphew, for publishing ‘Mercurius Politicus(fn. 2) 14 7 0
v. Milton, for a misdeameanour 7 7 4
v. Newberry, for a riot in Warwickshire 25 8 9
v. Nodes, for frauds in Chelsea Hospital (fn. 3) 7 18 0
v. Nichols, for seditious words in Kent 13 8 0
v. Nichols, clerk, for a seditious sermon 6 14 0
v. Nash, for seditious words (indicted at Hicks's Hall and tried at the Old Bailey) 24 5 6
v. Nunnery, for the like (indicted at Hicks's Hall) 7 4 0
in defence of Craven, sued by the Marquis of Navarres et al., for recovering jewels etc. seized by defendant Craven when Governor of Carolina 31 11 6
v. Osborne, for printing the ‘Shift Shifted 15 11 0
v. Pearks, for a misdemeanour in Worcester 3 7 0
v. Paul, for high treason in the late Rebellion 82 10 0
v. Pitts, for high treason in permitting Thomas Foster to escape [See Vol. XXX of this Calendar, p. vi] 56 9 2
v. Paynter, for high treason in Cornwall 65 14 7
v. Puleston et al., for misdemeanours in Denbighshire 59 0 6
v. Plowman, for high treason in Dorsetshire 6 14 0
v. Row, for a lease forfeited by the felony of Row 3 7 0
v. Read, for publishing a libel 6 14 0
v. Robins, for a misdemeanour in Norfolk 7 18 0
v. Redmayn, for affirming by printing that the Pretender hath a right to the Crown 33 2 6
v. Rokeby, for seditious words 15 8 6
v. Strahan, for publishing a libel 27 17 6
v. the Earl of Scarsdale, for treasonable practices 2 5 6
v. Smith, for publishing a libel 14 9 6
v. Stanton, for a riot at Birmingham 4 11 0
v. Shaftoe et al. for high treason in the late Rebellion 54 15 0
v. Satchfield, for seditious words 3 7 0
v. Scriven, for the like 13 3 0
v. Sunderland, for publishing a libel 19 17 0
v. Standish et al., for treason in the late Rebellion 76 15 0
v. Spinks, for distributing money to nonjuring clergy 2 5 6
v. Sheffield et al., for frauds in mingling tobacco with hops and other leaves 1 0 0
v. Simanit, for publishing a libel 19 19 6
v. Thornton et al., for high treason in the late Rebellion 153 10 0
v. Taylor et al., for a riot at Shoreditch 6 14 0
v. Talbot, for high treason 30 7 0
v. Trueman, for seditious words 17 7 6
v. Tarran, for seditious words in Yorkshire 17 6 8
v. Vavasour, for seditious words 7 18 0
v. Watson, for publishing a libel 6 14 0
v. Sir William Windham, bt., for misprision of treason ((See Vol. XXIX of this Calendar, p. x) 60 0 0
v. Wild, Hopwood, Allen and Jenings, for a misdemeanour in Staffordshire 56 0 0
v. Watson, for a misdemeanour in Kent 2 5 6
v. Woodhouse, for cursing the King 6 14 0
v. Walker, for seditious words at Doncaster in Yorkshire 66 16 4
v. Weston, for seditious words 30 14 6
v. Whitmore and Ravenagh, for the like 6 14 0
v. Williams et al., for riot near Norwich 26 12 4
v. Warmworth, for seditious words 7 18 0
v. Yemes, for a misdemeanour in Norwich 6 14 0
v. Yates, for printing and publishing a libel (tried at the Old Bailey) 12 4 0
3,118 8 10
payments to sundry persons for business done and for disbursements:
Mr. Harcourt of the Crown Office
1,106 10 9
John Richardson, Attorney at Law, Preston, for disbursements 1,400 10
the Attorney General 76 6 0
Richard Combs, William Dixon and — Downe, for discovering libels, etc. 8 3 2
James Shaler, Matthew Tanner and Daniel Underhill, for taking trials in shorthand, filing indictments, etc. at Hicks's Hall and the Old Bailey 55 8 2
Gerard Fitzgerald, for copies of two Acts of Parliament and Robert Sanderson for copy of a grant from Queen Elizabeth relating to the prosecution of George Rowe 8 3
this Accomptant, for coach-hire 33 4 7
Michael Letton and others, for errands 31 8 11
Joseph Mellish and George Werden, for Counsels' fees v. Whitaker and others at Nottingham and York Assizes 9 15 8
99 persons for expenses of witnesses etc. 896 9 9
3,626 0 7
money paid on Orders of the Principal Secretaries of State:
Ralph Bethel and Mossom Wye, for services to the Government
70 0 0
Jeremiah Grebell, Richard Verralls and others, for discovering suspected persons 74 13 8
William Downes, John Wright and others, for detecting printers and publishers of libels etc. 66 13 0
Mrs. Howard, for subsistence of herself and family while her husband was on Government service 26 12 0
Robert Read, victualler in Salisbury Court, for his damage 50 0 0
William Jones and John Tench, for fees for discharging George Ridpath's recognizance and for the pardon of Thomas Shaw and others etc. 135 19 8
Samuel Bayley and other attorneys 512 15 1
Mr. Richardson, attorney-at-law at Preston 107 10 0
several witnesses for necessaries 428 11 10
John Venables, of the Duchy of Lancaster, for preparing warrants 2 3 0
1,474 18 3
payments by Treasury Warrant:
Joseph Crisap, for cleaning firearms etc.
89 9 0
Thomas Gibson and Robert Patten, clerk 200 0 0
Thomas Gill at the Roebuck in Cheapside 200 0 0
John Fog, of Bolton, co. Lanc., for services when the rebels were approaching Preston 50 0 0
Richard Werge, minister at Alnwick, of the Royal Bounty, for service and losses when the rebels were in Northumberland 100 0 0
Thomas Ogle, of Linkhouse, co Northd., clerk, as of the Royal Bounty 40 0 0
Thomas Aldcroft, for expenses in defending himself against a malicious prosecution 36 0 0
Thomas Read, of Salisbury Court, for losses in a riot 400 0 0
three Hanoverian soldiers who conducted Lord Duffus to England, to enable them to return home 50 0 0
Capt. Ralph Whitfield, to reimburse damages and expenses in conducting witnesses to London 125 0 0
Lord Duffus, Earl of Carnwarth and the Lord Nairn for their subsistence in the Tower 249 0 0
Jeremiah Sambrook, William Jones and Joseph Wace, for fees of passing patents etc. 1,272 18 2
Robert Knight, late Cashier of the South Sea Company for charges of the fifth subscription etc. 1,841 0 8
Edward Harley, for the Auditor's fee 70 0 0
this Accomptant, for his care and expenses in the prosecutions before and since the Rebellion 540 7 6
5,263 15 4
charges and expenses of the Special Commissions at Preston, Carlisle, Liverpoole etc., detailed:
to Sergeant Page and three other Counsel; to Henry Masterman, sent to collect evidence; to Francis Bretton, Clerk of the Crown, and others named; Sir John Fortescue Aland and Laurence Carter, Counsel at Preston and Carlisle; to five other Counsel; to Nicholas Paxton, as Solicitor to his Majesty; to Thomas Holland and John Perry, for coach hire; to Francis Bretton, Samuel Harris and other Officers of the Court and Judges' servants; to Thomas Crisp, High Sheriff of Lancashire
5,139 8 5
sundry other charges, detailed; to the Attorney General, for settling the two Commissions in Cumberland; to Nicholas Paxton, for settling evidence against the Scotch rebel prisoners to be tried at Carlisle and for disbursements; to Daniel Chandler, for disbursements for the Judges and Counsel on the road etc.; and to sundry others for disbursements etc. 2,837 18 9
7,977 7 2
this Accomptant for fees at the Treasury 602 6 3
(total allowed as above 22,062l. 16s. 5d.)
total payments and allowances £23,609 9
and so remains [in Surplusage] 1,914 0
to which is added money depending on Nathaniel Wilcocks for subsistence of witnesses on the road 17 7 0
and on Gilbert Douglas for the like in Lancashire and for his own expenses 83 3 6
100 10 6
and so the Accomptant is in Surplusage
Declared 8 December 1724.
2,014 11

Footnotes

  • 1. See D.N.B. under “Harley, Edward”. The Auditors were accused of embezzlement but proved that their Accounts were correct but for a clerical error of 3s. 4d.
  • 2. Daniel Defoe, while awaiting the judgment of the Court of King's Bench for a libel on Lord Annesley, was secured by the Government as a clandestine ally; having been first directed to write a weekly paper in opposition to the ‘Shift Shifted’, he soon laid this aside for a monthly journal called ‘Mercurius Politicus’ but on Dyer's death undertook the management of and became owner of a share in the ‘News Letter’. [Torrens ‘History of Cabinet’. Vol. I, pp. 187, 188 and ‘D.N.B.sub voce ‘Defoe’.]
  • 3. See also Crisp above.