Entry Book: Miscellaneous, 1669-1670

Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 3, 1669-1672. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1908.

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'Entry Book: Miscellaneous, 1669-1670', in Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 3, 1669-1672, (London, 1908) pp. 754-755. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-treasury-books/vol3/pp754-755 [accessed 19 March 2024]

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1671. Letters Patents, Privy Seals, Royal Sign Manuals and Warrants, Treasury Warrants, Commissions, Orders, Letters, Memorials, Reports and other Entries: all not of the nature of Treasury Minutes.

Miscellaneous, 1669-1670

Date Nature and Substance of the Entry. Reference.
1669–70.
? Jan. or after.
Undated set of instructions given to Francis, Lord Aungier, for his guidance in his office of Vice-Treasurer and Receiver General of Ireland (Vice-Treasurer and Receiver General of all His Majesty's rents and revenues, compositions, and casualties of what kind soever, and Treasurer at War in Ireland; the docquet of the patent of grant of which office is dated Jan., 1669–70, Signet Office Docquet Book XVI, p. 287. In Aug., 1671, he was suspended from said office till 1675, Dec. 26, "if the grant of the [farm of the] revenue of Ireland lately made to Viscount Ranelagh et al. shall so long continue," ibid, p. 445). Out Letters Ireland l. pp. 1–5 (reverse).
1670.
Oct. 26
Treasury warrant to the King's Remembrancer to suspend process against Isaac Viccary, employed as Collector of Hearth money for part of Devon by Edward Rutter, Sub-Farmer thereof, the matter between them being to be heard before the Treasury Lords. Warrants Early XXXVI. p. 203.
[? Nov. 16] The Treasury Lords to the Farmers [of the revenue] of Ireland to pay Wentworth, Earl of Roscommon. 1,000l. out of the quit rents of Ireland. Out Letters Ireland I. pp. 51–2.
Prefixing:—Royal sign manual dated 1670, Nov. 14, for said sum to be paid to said Earl "within one year after the date hereof."
Appending:—Bond, dated 1670, Nov. 16. given by said Earl (in the presence of Phi. Lloyd, Hartgill Baron, Roger Charnock and John Lawrence) in 2,000l. to repay to the Exchequer of Ireland [the abovesaid] 1,000l. on the 16th Nov., 1671.
Nov. 18 Report to the King from the Treasury Lords on the petition of Daniell Hutchinson, of Dublin, merchant, as by the order of reference hereon from the Privy Council of date the 4th inst. Said petition sets forth that there yet remains due to him 2,810l. on account of certain lands, &c., of his at Newtown imparked for your Majesty's use in the deer park near Dublin, and prays a confirmation of the report hereon made Sept. 9 last, by the Lord Lieutenant and Council of Ireland. We find petition just and advise payment. Ibid, p. 53.
Appending:—Unfinished copy of said report of Sept. 9.
Same to same from the Treasury Lords and from the Lords of Ireland. In pursuance of the order in Council of the 19th Oct. last we have considered three several drafts of letters transmitted from the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland for your Majesty's approbation, viz. (1) a draft of a letter for levying the year's value, the making a new applatment and installing thereof: (2) another draft for prohibiting the passing and making all sorts of brass pence and half-pence without licence: (3) and one other draft touching a commission of enquiry upon lands belonging to your Majesty's manor of Athlone, and granting leases or fee farms thereof. The two latter drafts we entirely dislike, there being no occasion for any other pence and half-pence there [in Ireland] than what shall be current here [in England], which when resolved in the case of [the proposal for making] farthings now depending here will be current there and may be applicable to the occasions of that kingdom. And as for leases or fee farms to be granted of the said manor in the way proposed we apprehend it has been matter of great dissatisfaction formerly and much uncertainty still. But if convenient power be proposed to your Majesty by advice of the Privy Council in England you may be pleased to consider thereof. "And as to the said first draft there having upon occasion of our debate there of come before us an accompt of a composition proposed to the 29 men, and subscribed by some of them, for what is due to them by the Acts of Settlement and Explanation, we are humbly of opinion that the same though seemingly carring an advantage to your Majesty is wholly unfit for your Majesty to admit of." As to the matter of the rest of the said first draft for quickening the execution of the said Acts for levying the [year's value of] 300,000l., your pleasure was fully declared in the former direction of July 15 last. Ibid, p. 54.
Dec. 9 Report to the King on the petition of the merchants of the West India Co. of France, praying payment to Peter Barre, merchant, their attorney, of 2,438l. 10s. 1d., for goods taken into the stores at Plymouth out of the ship "St. John Baptist," of Hamburg. By a report of the Navy Commissioners it appears that said goods were taken, to said value, and no compensation has been made. Further it appears from the books in the Registry Office of Prizes that said ship was not a prize. It was seized in April, 1665, Jeronimo Wilkin, master, brought into Portsmouth but discharged on the 23 June by the Commissioners for Prizes, pursuant to a decree of the Admiralty Court. Warrants Early XXXIII. p. 156.
Dec. 12 Treasury warrant to the Customs Farmers to re-deliver to William Waller and William Paull, et al., Farmers of the Prizage of Wines, all such wines as have been seized in the Custom House of London and elsewhere for payment of the additional duty of 4l. per tun imposed on wines by the late Act of Parliament (the said Farmers of Prizage wines, petitioners herein, conceiving said wines not chargeable to said duty), and that said Farmers of Prizage be suffered for the future to enjoy such wines exempt from said additional duty. Out Letters Customs I. p. 220.