Minute Book: March 1666 | British History Online

Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 1, 1660-1667. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1904.

'Minute Book: March 1666', in Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 1, 1660-1667, (London, 1904) pp. 702-703. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-treasury-books/vol1/pp702-703 [accessed 27 April 2024]

March 1666



[After March 3.]	The report of the 3rd inst. from Sir Edward Atkins and Sir Christopher Turner, Barons of the Exchequer, read and entered, concerning the farm of the Greenwax as granted by indenture under the Great Seal of England, 1661, Oct. 4, to Thomas Earl of Berks and Sir Robert Howard at a rental of 577l. 5s. 5d.: on which rental there is now charged an annuity of 250l. a year, payable to the Lady Barbary Villiers by virtue of the King's letters patent under the Great Seal, dated 1662–3, Jan. 6: which said patent not being enrolled at the Receipt the officers there (the Clerk of the Pipe) cannot make allowance of said 250l. to said farmers in their rental. To prevent this irregularity in future conceive that the King's grant to said Villiers should be entered in the Tally Office, and that the Clerk of the Pipe should be authorised to make allowance accordingly. Ordered: Let this report be registered and observed in the Exchequer. [Ibid. pp. 185–6.]
March 6.	The report of the 5th inst. from the Excise Commissioners, read and entered, on the proposed securities of Thomas Willughby for the farm of the Excise of co. Lincoln. Ordered: said securities allowed of. [Ibid. XII. p. 183.]
	Same of the 1st inst. from same, read and entered, concerning the surcharge brought by the Auditor of Excise against James Smith, William Oakes, Paul Amyas, and John Phillips, sometime Sub-Commissioners of Excise for cos. Cheshire and Lancashire, and in particular on the said James Smith for 979l. 7s. 6d. received by him for the Excise of salt there in 1659 and 1560; the said Commissioners proposing to accept 200l. in discharge thereof. Ordered: allowed of. [Ibid. p. 184.]
[?March 8]	John Hingston's affidavit, read and entered, as to the fees paid by him at the Exchequer Offices and the Privy Seal Office on the receipt of the 900l. for the Great Organ in His Majesty's Chapel Royal at Whitehall in the years 1662–3–4. (Total fees 50l. 9s. 0d.). Ordered: to be allowed to said Hingston. [Early Entry Book XIII. p. 189.]
March 10.	Petition from Francis Hodges, read and entered, concerning the inconveniencies met with by him in his commission to prosecute, in the Exchequer, bonds taken to His Majesty's use for the additional duty during the time the Customs were in commission. Referred: to the Customs Farmers, who are to certify what actually come in from petitioner's prosecution. [Ibid. X. p. 324.]
March 19.	Petition from Frances How, relict of Jobe How, who was interested in the farm of the Excise of Bucks with Mr. Weedon and Mr. Dawson, praying for a just account from the said co-Farmers before any allowance be made them for towns visited with the plague: and further praying to be joined in the present farm. Referred: to the Excise Commissioners. [Ibid. XII. pp. 184–5.]
March 24.	The letter of the 21st ult. from the Customs Farmers to Sir Philip Warwick, read and entered, concerning the accounts of Captain Applegarth, late collector in Carlisle port, in particular concerning his collecting rates on Irish cattle imported at said port from August, 1660 to January, 1660–1 by the old book of rates and the then practice of the said port instead of by the new book of rates, and as to his exacting aliens' Customs on Scotch linens, presuming the Scotch merchants liable thereto as aliens intended by Carta mercatoria; and further as to Customs exacted by him on Scotch cattle subsequently remitted by a Lord Treasurer's warrant of 1661, May 20, in accordance with two votes of the House of Commons. Referred: to the said Farmers again, with queries on all the above-said points raised. [Ibid. X. p. 326.]