Entry Book: November 1678, 16-30

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'Entry Book: November 1678, 16-30', in Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 5, 1676-1679, (London, 1911) pp. 1165-1175. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-treasury-books/vol5/pp1165-1175 [accessed 6 May 2024]

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November 1678, 16-30

Date. Nature and Substance of the Entry. Reference.
Nov. 16. Money warrant for 60l. to Anthony Segar to satisfy the extraordinary charge of coach hire, horse hire and other expenses of several clerks and of himself and others in attending the affairs of the Treasury at Windsor during his Majesty's continuance there this summer. (Charles Bertie dated Nov. 19 to the Customs Cashier to bring said 60l. into the Exchequer.) Money Book (General) p. 336. Out Letters (General) p. 343.
Charles Bertie to Lemuel Kingdon. Treasurer Danby desires that Lord Dumbarton's regiment may be forthwith paid with the money in your hands for that purpose "and that you will receive the Lord General's direction for their removal." Out Letters (General) p. 341.
Same to Phillip Parker [sic for Packer, Paymaster of the Works] to pay the 450l. which you have lately received at the Exchequer to the present gardeners of the Privy Garden Plots and Bowling Green at Hampton Court in part of what is due to them. Ibid.
Charles Bertie to [the Navy Commissioners]. Treasurer Danby desires you to assign the payment of the tickets for [the] joiners lately discharged from Chatham [Yard] out of the weekly money [paid out of the Customs to the Navy]. Said tickets amount to about 360l. Out Letters (General) p. 341.
Same to the Treasurer of the Navy. The Navy Commissioners having writ very earnestly for money for the slopsellers, Treasurer Danby desires that 3,000l. may be paid to them out of the 500l. per week payable [to the Navy] out of the Customs over and above the 2,000l. per week ; and that same may be paid next after the payment of what is already charged on said 500l. per week : also that a bill of Mr. Henry Browne's of 51l. 8s. 10d. be satisfied in like manner, being for necessaries for the soldiers sent to Jamaica. Ibid, p. 342.
Nov. 17. Same to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue 2,000l. of the Coinage money now in the Exchequer, upon any unsatisfied orders in Mr. Slingsby's name for the service of the Mint. Ibid.
Nov. 18. Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the Clerk of the Pipe for a lease to Richard Lansdowne, his executors, administrators or assigns, of coal mines in the common or waste called Barrow in Stratton super Fosse, co. Somerset, now or late in the occupation of William Long and Hercules Horler, being parcel of the Duchy of Cornwall : said lease to be for 14 years from 1692, Aug. 14, at the quarterly rent of 13s. 4d.
Prefixing : note of the particular of the premises and of the Surveyor General's report [sic for ratal] thereupon.
Warrants not Relating to Money VII. p. 262.
Same from same to the King's Remembrancer for the issue of a Commission of enquiry as follows to Hen. Fenshaw, Cha. Orborne and Henry Nevill, Esqrs., James Symes, Joseph Embrey and Will. Carter, gent., to be returnable within three weeks of Michaelmas next at latest.
Prefixing : articles of instruction for said Commission. (1) To decide most convenient time and place for executing said Commission. (2) To find out by oaths of good and lawful men of the city of London and counties of Middlesex, Southampton and Yorks and by all other lawful ways the names and surnames and places of abode of the commanders or chief officers or seamen of any the king's ships who have been present at the taking of any prize ships or goods during the two late Dutch wars, which were brought into London, Portsmouth or Hull ; and to find out to whom such prize goods have been delivered or to whose hands they have come which have not been accompted for to the King and the true values thereof and all embezzlements, concealments, abuses or other fraudulent or indirect practices whereby the King has been defrauded. (3) To inquire who were Commissioners or sub-Commissioners of Prizes or store keepers, deputies or agents during said period, charged with receipt of any part of said prizes ships or goods and by what authority and to whom they were disposed or accounted for and whether any part thereof has been embezzled and not brought to account. (4) To enquire what sums have been imprested to any treasurers, sub-treasurers, cashiers, receivers, collectors or chief clerks for prizes or by any person on account of prizes as aforesaid and which are not yet accompted for. (5) To enquire the names of persons who have contracted for or bought any [such] prize ships or goods and have not yet paid the moneys due on their contracts ; and what remains due thereon. (6) To enquire of all other matters for the better discovery of the premises.
Ibid, pp. 262-3.
Charles Bertie to Edward Backwell, Esqr. Treasurer Danby desires you to advance 2,000l. to Mr. Roberts for the works at Windsor upon tallies for so much stricken upon you as Receiver of the remainder of the Queen's [dowry] portion. You are to be allowed 6 per cent, interest and 2 per cent, reward for the advance till your repayment out of the said fund. Out Letters (General) p. 342.
Same to the Customs Cashier to bring into the Exchequer 50l. 3s. 9d. [? each] for Serjt. Ramsey and Serjt. Harsnett, notwithstanding any restriction. Ibid, p. 343.
Nov. 19. Same to the Customs Commissioners. The Master of the Ordnance has complained to Treasurer Danby that some of your officers demand some fees upon the exportation of some powder and other ammunition and stores now in the Thames ready to be carried for the supply of the garrison of Tangier which [fees] ought not to be demanded. You are to order said officers not to any more make such undue demands to the prejudice of the King's service, the transportation of the said stores having been interrupted by reason thereof. Out Letters (Customs) IV. p. 138.
Warrant from Treasurer Danby to same to permit the landing and to deliver to William Chiffinch, Customs free, two cases and one long roll with the contents thereof, being eight pictures [the cases being] marked C. R., lately brought out of Holland by Capt. Sanders in the Charlotte yacht for his Majesty's use and directed to said Chiffinch. Ibid.
Same from same to the Surveyor General of Crown lands for a particular and ratal of two tenements called Sturt and Malletdowne alias Frogmeere, parcel of the manor of Climsland Prior, co. Cornwall, with a view to a lease thereof to Margaret Leach, widow of Walter Leach.
Prefixing : said Surveyor General's report on said Leach's petition for a lease thereof for three lives. The premises became in hand by the death of Robert [Leach] and Symon Leach, for whose lives a lease thereof was made in 1664 to Henry Seymour in reversion of a life then in being and at the old rent of 20s. 3d. and 9l. per an. de incremento. The last of said lives died in Aug. last. Premises are valued by the [Long] Parliament's survey at 19l. a year at which rate an estate for three new lives may be valued at 200l., reserving the old rent of 20s. 3d. Any arrears of the increased rent of 9l. per an. should be paid before grant of the new lease and meantime the petitioner to stand charged with the mean profits from Aug. last according to the reasonable value thereof.
Warrants not Relating to Money VII. p. 264.
Charles Bertie, in place of a similar letter dated Nov. 12 and vacated, to [? the Hearthmoney Contractors]. Treasurer Danby desires you to advance the money on a tally for 300l. struck upon you and payable in March next, said tally being in the hands of Mr. Chace, his Majesty's Apothecary [who received same] from the Treasurer of the Chamber. You are to be allowed 8 per cent, on such advance till same becomes payable in course. Out Letters (General) pp. 343, 340.
Money warrant for 80l. to Sir Edward Bish for two years on his patent fee as Clarencieux King at Arms. (Charles Bertie dated Nov. 19 to the Customs Cashier to bring said 80l. into the Exchequer.) Money Book (General) p. 337. Out Letters (General) p. 343.
Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the Receipt to issue 20,000l. to Edward Seymour on any orders in his name for the service of the Navy and Victualling (such orders not being appropriated to particular uses by Act of Parliament) : to be by tallies on the Customs. Money Book (General) p. 337.
Letter of direction on an order dated the 8th inst. for 250l. to Sir Edward Hales for half a year to Sept. 29 last on his pension : same to be hereby satisfied by tallies on the Customs. Ibid.
The like direction on an order dated July 23 last for 125l. to Sir Ralph Delaval for June 24 quarter on his pension. Ibid.
Royal warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General for a great seal for a grant to Katherine Crofts, sister of the late William, Lord Crofts, her executors and assigns of a reversionary term in the two pieces of ground as follows, viz., the piece or parcel of ground lying in or near a certain place called the Old Spring Garden in the parish of St. Martins in the Fields containing in length from the west side next the high way leading into St. James's Park 208 foot or thereabouts, and on the north side towards the street 126 foot or thereabouts, and on the east side towards the stables of Sir William Morris 100 foot or thereabouts, and on the south side towards the said Park 206 foot or thereabouts : which said piece of ground was by patent under the great seal dated 1661, May 9, granted to Sir Charles Cotterell, Kt., for 61 years at the rent of 40s. per an. with power to erect thereon a mansion or dwelling house, stables or other edifices or buildings : and secondly to grant to the same Katherine Crofts her executors, etc., all that piece or parcel of ground lying and being in or near the aforesaid garden called Old Spring Garden, containing 154 foot in length on the west side towards the stables of Sir William Morris and Sir Edward Nicholas, and 142 foot in length towards the houses that do look into the street, and 51 foot in breadth towards the north, and 16 foot in breadth towards the south, which said second plot was by indenture under the great seal of England dated 1664, July 28, granted to Henry, Earl of Arlington by the name of Sir Henry Bennett, Kt., for 61 years from 1664, Lady day, under the rent of 20s. per an. and with power to erect stables and other buildings thereon : upon which said pieces and parcels of ground there have been since erected a fair messuage or mansion house and several coach houses, stables, outhouses and other edifices and buildings and a small messuage or house sometime in the possession of Col. Napier : both of which said pieces of ground and the said fair messuage, stables, coach houses, outhouses, edifices and buildings thereupon and other the premises did by several mesne assignments and grants thereof come lawfully to William, Lord Crofts late deceased, and for several years before his death were in his possession, use and tenure. The present grant is to give said Katherine Crofts a future interest of 54 years in the first piece of ground and of 51 years in the second piece of ground, with the buildings thereon respectively, from the expiry of the abovesaid respective estates therein and under the yearly rents as above. (Treasurer Danby's subscription dated 1678-9, Feb. 1, of docquet hereof. The Docquet Book entry describes the grantee as Lady Crofts.) King's Warrant Book VI. pp. 120-1. Docquet Book, p. 20.
Charles Bertie to the Auditor of the Receipt. According to your last week's certificate [of receipts, issues and remains in the' Exchequer] there remains in the Exchequer the following disposeable moneys— Out Letters (General) p. 344.
l. s. d.
[Sheriffs'] proffers, [? petty] customs, Recusants' [convictions], profits of the Mint, rent of lands, and for fines and forfeitures 459 4
Fee farms in money 48 11 9
Second [? quarter's arrears of the 1672] Eighteen Months' tax 54 17
£562 12 11¾
Treasurer Danby desires you out of said money to satisfy two orders held by Secretary Williamson, one an order of loan No. 273 dated 1670, July 28, for 160l. with interest thereon to this day ; the other dated 1671, Dec. 7, for 160l. for one year to 1670, June 24, of his fee as keeper of the records [and papers of state and Council] at Whitehall. Further, out of the abovesaid money you are to pay 150l. to Col. Giffard for half a year to Sept. 29 last on his pension. (Vacated : See infra, p. 1172, under date. Nov. 22.)
Nov. 20. Treasurer Danby to Sir William Scroggs, Chief Justice of the King's Bench. The Law Duty Farmers have acquainted me that by the consent of the Chief Justices of the King's Bench and Common Pleas they have hitherto had the receipt of the duty arising upon all writs sealed at the Greenwax seal belonging to the said Courts by an officer of their own attending there for that purpose and [for] the stamping all writs which pass that seal; and that they find they have just cause for changing their said officer and therefore desire your favour to them therein. I cannot doubt of your giving them all due encouragement in whatsoever shall occur to your Lordship in relation to the said duty, and particularly in changing their said officer, which they inform me will be as well for his Majesty's service as their own. Warrants not Relating to Money VII. p. 264.
Warrant from same to Bartholomew Fillingham. In pursuance of the privy seal of Aug. 31 last for 2,400l. to you for secret service, I directed same by money warrant of Sept. 28 last to be satisfied by tallies on the Receivers of the Duchy of Cornwall. Said tallies are struck accordingly, and you are hereby to deliver them to Dame Frances Green or her order. Money Book (General) p. 338.
Money warrant for 100l. to and among the following as doorkeepers of the House of Lords in compensation of their service and attendance on the House of Peers during the 15th session of Parliament ended May 23 last, according to what his Majesty has usually allowed, viz., James Noble, Archibald Calender, James Turnor, John Snow, William Snow, John Gouge, John Smart and Thomas Romerell. Money Book (General) p. 338.
Royal sign manual to Treasurer Danby to pay 75l. 4s. 9d. to John Warner, Master of the King's Barges, as interest from 1677, Sept. 29, to 1678, Sept. 29, on an order No. 781 for 1,254l. registered on the Hearthmoney and payable to him, same being in compensation for two houses at Greenwich purchased from him by the King : said interest being certified as due by certificate of the Auditor of the Receipt dated Oct. 22 last. (Money warrant dated Dec. 2 hereon ; same to be satisfied by tallies on the Customs.) King's Warrant Book VI. p. 109. Money Book (General) p. 341.
Charles Bertie to [? the Customs Cashier] to satisfy in course Sir William Godolphin's tally struck the 12th inst. [on the Customs] ; and if you advance the money presently, Treasurer Danby will allow you 8 per cent, interest till the tally becomes payable in course. Out Letters (General) p. 343.
Same to the Speaker [of the House of Commons, i.e., Edward Seymour in his capacity as Treasurer of the Navy]. Through Mr. Stephens I have seen the Victuallers' letter to yourself about having 10,000l. out of the East India [Company's] loans. Treasurer Danby has made provision for them for this [sum] elsewhere [on another fund]. Ibid, p. 344.
Same to the Navy Commissioners. In answer to yours of the 18th inst. Treasurer Danby does direct that your two payments of imprest for repair of the Yarmouth be made out of the 2,000l. a week paid over [by the Customs Cashier] to the Treasurer of the Navy for your necessary occasions : also that a bill of 11l. 2s. 6d. to Sir William Jennens be satisfied out of the said weekly money, and another bill of his for 35l. odd, whereof 30l. is imprest so that 5l. only or thereabouts is payable to him on the said bill. Ibid, p. 345.
Nov. 22. Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the Commissioners and officers of Excise. A dispute has arisen concerning the payment of Excise for beer served into the King's buttery for the use of his Majesty's Household. I have examined the methods that have hitherto been used for charging the said beer and think it convenient that besides the oath of the brewer the certificates of the officers of the Board of Greencloth be produced to ascertain the price and quantity thereof. I hereby direct that the gauger do charge all the beer that shall be brewed by John Parsons and his partners for his Majesty's buttery and served into the same as aforesaid [according to the price of or] as if it were strong [beer] : but that upon the oath of the said brewers and the certificates of two or three officers of the Greencloth expressing the quantity of said beer served into the Buttery at a small beer price, viz., at 6s. 9d. per barrel or under (the Excise being included in the price) you discharge the said John Parsons and partners of the difference or surplus above "the said 9d." per barrel for such small beer. Warrants not Relating to Money VII. p. 265.
Money warrant for 73l. 18s. 0d. to Anthony Segar without account ; 63l. 18s. 0d. thereof being for disbursements for the Treasury Office during last Michaelmas quarter and the remaining 10l. for same quarter's salary. (Charles Bertie dated Nov. 27 to the Customs Cashier to bring same into the Exchequer this week "together with the 60l. for him [Segar] and my clerks that I have already writ to you for." [Supra, p. 1165.] Money Book (General) p. 337. Out letters (General) p. 347.
[Jan. 22, altered to Nov. 22.] Same, dormant, for 500l. per an. to Thomas Killegrew as one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber ; as same is already grown due and shall hereafter from time to time grow due. Money Book (General) p. 337.
The like dormant warrant for payment of said Killegrew's pension of 400l. per an. payable out of the Exchequer. Ibid.
Nov. 22. Money warrant for 1,300l. to Sir William Temple, bart., for a quarter's ordinary in advance to Feb. 19 next as Ambassador to the States General : to be by tallies on the Customs. Ibid, p. 338.
Letter of direction on an order dated Aug. 31 last for 7,500l. to Sir Edward Griffin for June 24 quarter for the Office of the Treasurer of the Chamber : same to be hereby satisfied by tallies on Anthony Row and partners [future] Managers for the Hearthmoney, viz., 5,000l. thereof out of the part of their advance money to be paid in on Feb. 1 next and 2,500l. out of same to be paid on March 25 following. Ibid.
Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the Customs Commissioners to deliver, Customs free, two bales containing 14 services or suits of damask arrived from Bruges in the ship whereof Thomas Winn is master, being intended for Count Egmont, the Spanish Ambassador. Out Letters (Customs) IV. p. 139.
Same from same to same to permit the export, Customs free, part for Hamburg and part for Holland, of the goods (boxes, cloths, cabinets, valises, books, etc.) belonging to Monsieur Bulow the Envoy of the Dukes of Brunswick and Luneburg. Ibid.
Charles Bertie to the Auditor of the Receipt to pay to Mr. Packer for the gardeners of the Privy Garden at Whitehall and the Garden Plots and Bowling Green at Hampton Court 256l. 16s. 7d. out of the 327l. 9s. 6½d. mentioned in your last weekly certificate [of receipts, issues and remains as being in the Exchequer arising out] of First Fruits and Tenths. You are to pay same by such proportions upon their respective orders as the present gardeners shall agree. Out Letters (General) p. 345.
Charles Bertie to the Auditor of the Receipt. [According to your last weekly certificate] the following [items of disposeable moneys] are [now] in the Exchequer. Out Letters (General) p. 346.
l. s. d.
[Sheriffs'] proffers 302 5 2
Rents of lands seized 6 6
Fines and forfeitures 1 10 0
[Convictions of] Recusants 65 4 5
Profits of the Mint 53 7
Customs 14 0 10½
Treasurer Danby desires you out of the above to satisfy Secretary Williamson's order of loan dated 1670, July 28, for 160l. with interest to this day ; and to pay 150l. to Col. Giffard for half a year to Sept. 29 last on his pension ; and 6l. 6s. 7½d. to Richard Wellbeck for half a year to Sept. 29 last on his fee as stablekeeper at Reading. "Please to cancel my letter of the 19th inst. [supra, p. 1169] relating to this business."
Same to the Customs Cashier to bring into the Exchequer 38l. for Lord Frescheville. Ibid.
Nov 23. Same to same to pay in course according to its date a tally on the Customs for 1,000l. to Secretary Williamson for secret service ; and if you shall in the mean time advance the same you are to be allowed for the time and sum 6 per cent, interest and 2 per cent, gratuity. Ibid.
Nov. 25. Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the Customs Commissioners to employ Thomas Carpender (Carpenter) as a deputation searcher at Gravesend, loco Robert Burstall, who relinquished : all "notwithstanding my order of the 18th of May last." Out Letters (Customs) IV. p. 139.
Charles Bertie to the Speaker [of the House of Commons, i.e., Edward Seymour in his capacity as Treasurer of the Navy]. Treasurer Danby directs that the 4,000l. remaining in your hands ([out] of those for 12,000l. reserved for payment of wages and registered on the 412,925l. [part of the Eighteen Months' tax]) be applied to borrow [secure the borrowing of] the like sum of 4,000l. [which is] to repay so much advanced by me [Bertie to you out of my secret service money] in August last to pay workmen employed in the Yard at Portsmouth. Out Letters (General) p. 346.
Nov. 26. Same to Mr. Kirwood. Treasurer Danby desires you to advance 2,000l. more on the account of the Forces and that you pay the same to Mr. Ant. Stevens for his repayment of so much lent by him "which in the whole makes up 5,000l. and was for the arrears of my Lord Dunbarton's regiment." Ibid, p. 347.
Same to the Customs Cashier. Sir Richard Wiseman and John Knight, Esq., are to be paid each of them a pension of 400l. per an. out of the Excise till Midsummer, 1680. An advance thereon to Midsummer next has been made to them. They have now made application to Treasurer Danby to have the other year from 1679, Midsummer, advanced also. If you will advance the 800l. to them as desired Treasurer Danby will satisfy the same to you out of the tallies that are to be struck quarterly in my [Bertie's] name for 5,000l. a quarter on the Excise [for secret service]. Ibid.
Nov. 27. Report to the King from Treasurer Danby on the petition of Thomas Hawley, your Majesty's servant, as by the reference thereon from the King. Petitioner prays for 6,970l. 7s. 3d. due to him for principal and interest for work done and wares and goods served into the Great Wardrobe. It appears by the certificate of Auditor John Phelips that the principal so due is 5,182l. 16s. 0d. and the interest computed to this time at the usual rate would enlarge the whole demand to above 8,000l. It is also attested by another certificate that petitioner was imprisoned and tried for his life and his estate sequestered for his loyalty in the late times of rebellion. He is reduced to pressing necessities very much aggravated by the rigour of his creditors. He is deserving of favour. But what part of his debt (in respect of your [monetary] affairs) your Majesty shall think fit to pay at present is humbly submitted to your wisdom. Warrants not Relating to Money VII. p. 265.
Entry of [Treasurer Danby's subscription of] a docquet of a demise to Elizabeth Viscountess Mordaunt of parcel of the domain lands of Curry Mallet part of the manor of Curry Mallet, co. Somerset : for 2 lives at 27l. 13s. 4d. per an. rent. Ibid, p. 266.
Same of a docquet of a demise, by in custodiam lease under the Exchequer seal, to William Laundry and Anne his wife of a messuage and two closes of pasture in Market Rasen, co. Lincoln, parcel of the lands of Edmund Wright, outlaw. Ibid.
Warrant [from Treasurer Danby to the King's Remembrancer] to swear in John Shales as an Auditor of the revenue, loco Richard Lightfoot, lately deceased. Ibid.
Reference from same to the Customs Commissioners of the city of London's proposal for ascertaining [defining and fixing] matters touching Commissioners to be appointed for admeasurement of keels and boats. Out Letters (Customs) IV. p. 140.
Warrant from same to same to permit the transport to Holland, unopened and Customs free, of the equipage of the Comtes de Corzana and D'Erbias ; a warrant for their export, subject to opening, having been issued Aug. 15 last, but it having been represented by the Marquis of Bourgomaine, Envoy Extraordinary from Spain, that the said equipage is contained in nine coffers, the keys of which are carried into Flanders, and that they will receive damage to be opened and that there is nothing in them but necessaries. Ibid.
Letters of direction on an order dated Aug. 22 last for 1,565l. 18s. 6d. to Sir Robert Viner for two years' interest ; and on an order of Aug. 21 last for 1,642l. 8s. 0d. to same for moneys due to him from the King and for the interest thereof : both said orders to be hereby satisfied by tallies on Anthony Rowe and his partners, Contractors for the Hearthmoney, out of the 35,000l. (part of their total advance money of 150,000l.) payable by them on June 24 next. Money Book (General) p. 339.
Same on an order dated Aug. 31 last for 100l. to William Ashburnham, Cofferer of the Household, for half a year to June 24 last on the 200l. per an. payable in his name for Nicholas Dixon, his Majesty's Lymner : same to be hereby satisfied by tallies on the Excise. Ibid.
Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the Receipt to issue 1,826l. 10s. 0d. on any unsatisfied, late orders in the name of Sir George Wharton, Bart., Treasurer of the Ordnance, for land and sea service of the Office of Ordnance : to be by tallies on Anthony Rowe and partners, Contractors for the Hearthmoney, out of the 35,000l. payable by them June 24 next in part of their 15,000l. advance. Said 1,826l. 10s. 0d. is designed to purchase lands, tenements and other conveniences for the enlargement and accommodation of his Majesty's fort and works at Gosport, near Portsmouth (whereof a survey and valuation have been made by Sir Charles Harbord) and to pay the contingent charges relating thereto. Money Book (General) p. 339.
Money warrant for 40l. each to James Bowles, John Shillingford alias Izard, Thomas Bignall and Nathaniel Bird for one year on their several fees as Yeoman Prickers of his Majesty's Privy Harriers. Ibid, p. 340.
Charles Bertie to the Auditor of the Receipt for a tally to be struck on Alderman Backwell (as Receiver of the Queen's portion) for 50l. for a quarter on Lieut. Armstrong's pension due at Midsummer last as by the dormant warrant for said pension. Out Letters (General) p. 347.
Nov. 29. Warrant from Treasurer Danby to the Customs Commissioners to observe an order of the King in Council as follows.
Prefixing : said order, dated Whitehall Nov. 15, for the Customs officers to permit certain bundles or packs of charts, plans and maps, now lying at Calais, to be imported without search or opening, they being for the King's own use and sent for by his particular command. Special care to be taken that under colour hereof no other prohibited goods or merchandise be suffered to be imported.
Out Letters (Customs) IV. p. 140.
John Taylor, Esq., having a reference [from Treasurer Danby] to Sir Charles Harbord upon a petition for a reversion of the Hundred Courts of Wirral in Cheshire, desires that no grant may pass of the same to Mr. Dodd or any other person till he have notice at Mris. Mills' house next the Rose Tavern, in Cursitor Alley [he, petitioner,] being able to make appear that it is more for his Majesty's service that he should have it than any other person. Caveat Book, p. 36.
Nov. 30. Mr. Ephraim Greene desires on behalf of Mr. Dodd that no grant may pass of the reversion of the Hundred Courts of Wirral in Cheshire to Mr. John Taylor or any other till he have notice at Mr. Herbert's the watchmaker in Charing Cross ; Mr. Dodd having had a warrant signed for the same ever since July last, but neglected to be taken out by his solicitor, and now Mr. Taylor has a reference to Sir Charles Harbord upon a petition for the same reversion : Dodd being in present possession. Ibid.
Letter of direction on Sir George Wharton's order for 50,000l. for land and sea service of the Office of Ordnance : same to be hereby paid by tally on the Customs. Money Book (General) p. 340.
Money warrant for 10l. to the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield and 15l. to the Sub-chanter and Vicars Choral of the Cathedral Church of Lichfield for one year on their perpetuities. Money Book (General) p. 341.
Charles Bertie to the Receivers of Excise. Mr. King will have 75l. due to him at Christmas. If you please to advance this to him it shall be allowed to you as formerly. For the year to come from Christmas next he desires you to advance that also ; which if you think fit to do you are to take notice that he has had 100l. of his 300l. already, so that your credit to him must not exceed 200l. for the said year, to be repaid to you by 50l. a quarter as formerly. Out Letters (General) pp. 347-8.