Minute Book: January 1679 | British History Online

Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 5, 1676-1679. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1911.

'Minute Book: January 1679', in Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 5, 1676-1679, (London, 1911) pp. 858-860. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-treasury-books/vol5/pp858-860 [accessed 26 April 2024]

January 1679



1678-9. Jan. 1.	2,000l. a week agreed to be paid by Mr. Kent for the Forces as soon as his warrant for his patent shall be signed. Treasurer Danby to have a calculate from Mr. Lytcot of the [probable yield of the] new Additional duty for the three years [for which it is] granted. Mr. Kent and Mr. Duncombe promise not to call upon the Excise Commissioners for the payment of the Fifth part of the Excise but will ease them as much as they can in order to the [Excise Commissioners'] supplying Treasurer Danby with present money for disbanding the army excepting 5,000l. or 6,000l. for their present occasion. Mr. Kent offers to add 30,000l. to the 130,000l. [loan] provided that the security on the new Additional duty on wines, etc., will answer [suffice for] it and if not then [on condition that they are] to have some other security to their liking. Mr. Kent's undertaking, ut supra, pp. 856-7 [is ordered] to be inserted in his patent. To know the King's pleasure about the determination of the Earl of Sunderland's embassy. The Acts for the Poll and the [Eighteen Months'] tax are to be brought in to Treasurer Danby for his perusal. [Treasury Minute Book VI. p. 57.]
[? Jan. 2.]	Note of [the New year's gifts given by the King this Christmas, the items apparently being as under date 1677-8, Jan. 2, supra, p. 834 ; and of the excess thereof above the 3,660l. allowed by the privy seal for such new year's gifts]. The Exchequer fees [on the privy seal for this year] come to 92l. 8s. 0d. so that the money falls short this year 27l. 15s. 7d. which is 13s. more than the last year came to. [Ibid. p. 27.]
Jan. 6.	Agreed to by Treasurer Danby and the Excise Commissioners and Receivers of Excise as follows, viz., that the said Commissioners will lend a credit of 100,000l. to Treasurer Danby [as] part of their 200,000l. on the [part of Eighteen Months'] tax for the disbanding of the army. To secure this loan Treasurer Danby will cause tallies to be struck on the Excise for the like sum and interest, and [will] cause a great seal forthwith to pass to regulate the payment of those tallies by [or out of] the surplus of the Excise which [i.e., such surplus as] by covenants now in force or by any other future agreement with the present Managers and Farmers [of Excise] or any other persons shall exceed the rent of 560,000l. per an. for two years from June 24 last ; and what[ever] that [surplus] shall fall short of their repayment [is by the said great seal] to be paid out of the whole revenue of Excise : [together] with a covenant [which is to be inserted in the said great seal for said Farmers and Receivers] to continue [as the Excise] Receivers until repayment to them of the said loan with all other money that they have advanced or shall advance upon the said revenue of Excise in due course of payment [and] with interest. That Treasurer Danby [will] settle [on some fund the repayment of the] 35,000l. "disburst to the Forces, beyond settlement." That Treasurer Danby [will] move the King for 2 per cent. to be allowed them over and above 8 per cent, for the Fifth [part of the Excise]. That their agreement for [advancing moneys to] the Forces and the Household and the allowances therein be made good to them. That a warrant be forthwith prepared for tallies to be struck and for a bill for a patent [in accordance with the above]. And if it shall be for his Majesty's service to change the said security on the surplus of the Excise the Excise Commissioners and Receivers of Excise abovesaid will agree thereto, provided they may first have equivalent security for their abovesaid 100,000l. and interest to be repaid them as soon at least as the surplus aforesaid is covenanted to be paid [such equivalent security to be] either by such money as shall be next raised by Act of Parliament or by some other fund which shall be reasonable and safe : all which is to be referred to the opinion of Counsel on both sides. [Treasury Minute Book, p. 57.]
Jan. 11. Saturday.	The Lord Chancellor will be at the Treasury Chambers on the afternoon [of this day] about the business of Wadlow and the Vintners. The Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer is also desired to be present at the hearing. The Farmers of the Law duty are to be heard [on the same afternoon] upon their petition whilst the Lord Chancellor is here. The Earl of Mulgrave's petition for the inheritance of Mulgrave and Seaton [is] to be read [on the same afternoon] with the Surveyor General's and the Attorney General's report. Sir Charles Harbord to attend about it. [Day Book p. 147.]
Jan. 13. Monday.	The Customs Commissioners are to attend Treasurer Danby at the Treasury Chambers [on the afternoon of this day]. Sir Francis Leake with Sir Thomas Chichley, Sir Jonas Moore, and Sir Charles Harbord are to attend [on the same afternoon] and shew cause why the transcript should not be signed for a lease to Mr. Raifes of the ground he has now in possession near the fort at Gravesend. Sir Peter Killegrew's business about Falmouth [is] to be considered [on the same afternoon]. [Ibid.]
Jan. 18. Saturday.	The Lord Chancellor directs that the Six Clerks be summoned to attend the Treasury on the afternoon [of this day] and that they have notice for what [they are to so attend, so] that they may be prepared with Counsel. The Law duty Farmers are to attend at the same time with their Counsel. And the business [between said Farmers and said Six Clerks is] to be then heard if Treasurer Danby [so] please. [Day Book p. 147.]
Jan. 31.	Treasurer Danby directs that Sir Jonathan Trelawney shall have 200l. forthwith [in part] of his pretension amounting to 524l. for disbursements and for his own pay upon disbanding his troop : which [said 200l.] is to be repaid per Mr. Kingdon [to the Exchequer : or more probably the money is to be presently advanced by said Kingdon and to be made good again to Kingdon out of the Exchequer]. Sir George Carteret's 1,500l. for land at Plymouth taken in to the citadel is to be settled on some remote fund. Lord Wotton's debt of 6,000l. is to be paid, viz., 1,000l. presently and the remainder at the end of the second and third years by moieties. Mr. Bedloe to be paid at the rate of 10l. per week for his diet according to order of Council ; and a month thereof to be advanced presently. Mr. Benjamin Heron to have 100l. for secret service. Whitehall Treasury Chambers, Jan. 31. My Lord Treasurer being moved by Mr. Collingwood for an arrear of 890l. due to the town of Berwick for quartering his Majesty's soldiers who were (upon his Majesty's letter to the Mayor of Berwick) suffered to march out of the town notwithstanding their quarters was not paid, his Lordship has ordered that this debt shall be satisfied to the town by eight quarterly payments of 111l. 5s. 0d. per quarter, the first payment to be made in June next. Memorandum : A copy of this minute was given to Mr. Collingwood, signed, Cha. Bertie, 31 Jan., 1678-9. [Treasury Minute Book VI, p. 58.]