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Declared Accounts
Customs, Tobacco

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Calendar of Treasury books, Volume 31: 1717

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William A. Shaw and F. H. Slingsby (editors)

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1960

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'Declared Accounts: Customs, Tobacco', Calendar of Treasury books, Volume 31: 1717 (1960), pp. CCCVII-CCCXIII. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=85371 Date accessed: 20 June 2013. Add to my bookshelf

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Customs, Tobacco

DECLARED ACCOUNTS: CUSTOMS: TOBACCO: GENERAL ACCOUNT.

AUDIT OFFICE: DECLARED ACCOUNTS: BUNDLE 647, ROLL 254 [A.O.1/647/254].

Robert Hunter, Comptroller General of Customs.

25 December 1716 to 25 December 1717.

Charge.	£	s.	d.	£	s.	d.

Arrears: remaining in the hands of the several Receivers and Collectors at the end of the preceding General Accompt in money	181,461	8	1
ditto, in bonds	487,069	7	6½
	—			668,530	15	7½
Receipts: money due and payable for the New Impositions on Tobacco within the time of this Accompt: London port: Sir John Shaw, bt., Receiver Inwards, in money	45,385	7	10
ditto, in bonds	172,015	11	10
(total London port 217,400l. 19s. 8d.)
Outports: Barnestaple (George Moore, in money 41l. 11s. 7d. and in bonds 833l. 6s. 3d.)	874	17	10
Bristol (Jacob Reynardson, in money 24,514l. 13s. 6d. and in bonds 19,240l. 8s. 7½d.)	43,755	2	1½
Bydeford (Thomas Jans, in money 349l. 14s. 10½d. and in bonds 9,824l. 19s. 3d.)	10,174	14	1½
Chester (Joseph Sewell, in money)	539	7	11¼
Cowes (John Dale, bonds)	4,091	14	9½
Dartmouth (Arthur Robinson, in money 119l. 2s. 10¼d. and in bonds 523l. 16s. 9d.)	642	19	7¼
Exeter (William Sprye, in money 302l. 0s. 10d. and in bonds 2,360l. 3s. 10½d.)	2,662	4	8½
ditto (Charles Bridgeman, bonds)	690	0	0
Falmouth (William Pye, bonds)	362	16	3¼
Lancaster (Thomas Bateman, in money 164l. 12s. 6¾d. and in bonds 1,948l. 6s. 5d.)	2,112	18	11¾
Leverpoole (Nathaniel Smith, in money 2,557l. 9s. 11¾d. and in bonds 24,072l. 17s. 4¼d.)	26,630	7	4
Lyme (George Lisle, in money 462l. 11s. 1¼d. and in bonds 2,893l. 3s. 7¾d.)	3,355	14	9
Newcastle (Anthony Isaacson, in money 306l. 10s. 1¼d. and in bonds 1,543l. 14s. 6¼d.)	1,850	4	7½
Padstow (John Cock, in money)	487	5	1
Plymouth (David Morris, in money 109l. 15s. 1½d. and in bonds 2,415l. 4s. 10¾d.)	2,525	0	0¼
Weymouth (Philip Taylor, in money 2,017l. 6s. 8¾d. and in bonds, 1,305l. 4s. 9½d.)	3,322	11	6¼
Whitehaven (Henry Blencow, in money 96l. 0s. 10½d. and in bonds 13,184l. 1s. 0d.)	13,280	1	10½
	—			334,759	1	3
interest received on bonds not satisfied in due time: Horatio Walpole and Francis Hawes, Receivers General	605	3	6
Anthony Lechmere and Francis Hawes, ditto	186	6	10
Jacob Reynardson at Bristol	34	10	10¾
Nathaniel Smith at Leverpoole	431	14	5¼
David Morris at Plymouth	1	3	1¼
	—			1,258	18	9¼
overpayments, detailed by Collectors and places				26,571	15	11
				—
total charge and receipts				£1,031,120	11	6¾
Discharge.
Overpayments on the preceding Accompt				60,374	8	6
money remitted to the Receivers General within the time of this Accompt				244,285	17	3½
Officers' salaries and incident charges				2,135	19	3½
repayments upon debentures for Tobacco exported:
	£	s.	d.
Barnstaple (George Moore)	723	0	6
Bristol (Jacob Reynardson)	20,086	14	6
Bydeford (Thomas Jans)	9,059	17	9
Chester (Joseph Sewell)	225	3	3
Cowes (John Dale)	4,224	12	2½
Dartmouth (Arthur Robinson)	661	14	8¼
Exeter (William Sprye)	2,696	2	10½
Falmouth (William Pye)	527	3	0
Lancaster (Thomas Bateman)	523	8	10
Leverpoole (Nathaniel Smith)	19,533	10	5½
Lyme (George Lisle)	1,190	5	10½
Newcastle (Anthony Isaacson)	5	10	2
Plymouth (David Morris)	1,700	10	5
Weymouth (Philip Taylor)	1,582	6	11½
Whitehaven (Henry Blencow)	8,669	19	6
	—			71,410	0	11¾
repayments on certificates for tobacco damaged or overentered: Barnstaple (George Moore)	27	9	6
Bristol (Jacob Reynardson)	605	15	1½
Bydeford (Thomas Jans)	347	10	5¾
Chester (Joseph Sewell)	14	2	6
Dartmouth (Arthur Robinson)	2	12	10¾
Exeter (William Sprye)	70	3	9½
Falmouth (William Pye)	20	5	2¾
Lancaster (Thomas Bateman)	69	0	3¾
Leverpoole (Nathaniel Smith)	583	14	10½
Lyme (George Lisle)	234	9	1¼
Padstowe (John Cock)	18	18	7¼
Plymouth (David Morris)	105	16	1¾
Weymouth (Philip Taylor)	139	2	9
Whitehaven (Henry Blencow)	1,386	10	9¾
	—			3,625	12	1½
				—
total payments and allowances				£381,831	18	2¼
and so remains				649,288	13	4½
against which depending on the several Receivers and Collectors for money or bonds in their hands at Xmas 1717: Sir John Shaw, bt., Receiver in London port, for bonds				7,521	11	10
Anthony Lechmere and Francis Hawes, Receivers General, for bonds				207,427	14	7½
the King's Remembrancer's Office, for bonds delivered there to be prosecuted				33,953	4	1½
Barnstaple (Robert Rowe, money)				84	2	6¾
ditto (George Moore, in money 139l. 18s. 1d. and in bonds 602l. 12s. 0¾d.)				742	10	1¾
Bristol (Jacob Reynardson, in money 3,896l. 11s. 8¾d. and in bonds 24,440l. 3s. 11½d.)				28,336	15	8¼
Bydeford (Thomas Jans, in money 698l. 0s. 6¼d. and in bonds 3,305l. 15s. 11¼d.)				4,003	16	5½
Chester (Joseph Sewell, in money 80l. 13s. 1½d. and in bonds 120l. 10s. 4½d.)				201	3	6
Dartmouth (Arthur Robinson, in money 198l. 1s. 2¼d. and in bonds 47l. 2s. 5½d.)				245	3	7¾
Exeter (William Spry, in money 230l. 10s. 5¼d. and in bonds 90l. 19s. 5½d.)				321	9	10¾
Falmouth (William Pye, in money 62l. 4s. 1d. and in bonds 278l. 1s. 4½d.)				340	5	5½
Gweek (Bernard Penrose, money)				96	0	0½
Lancaster (Thomas Bateman, in money 326l. 0s. 1¾d. and in bonds 1,906l. 16s. 8d.)				2,232	16	9¾
Leverpoole (Nathaniel Smith, in money 897l. 15s. 10¾d. and in bonds 38,285l. 15s. 10d.)				39,183	11	8¾
Lyme (George Lisle, in money 65l. 19s. 8¾d. and in bonds 1,219l. 2s. 5d.)				1,285	2	1¾
Milford (William Goodacre, money)				71	12	8½
Newcastle (Anthony Isaacson, in money 100l. and in bonds 2,164l. 14s. 6¼d.)				2,264	14	6¼
Padstowe (John Cock, money)				22	9	4
Penrynn (Ambrose Thompson, bonds)				148	10	0¼
Plymouth (David Morris, bonds)				2,321	7	6¼
St. Ives (Richard Upton, money)				3	8	6½
Sandwich (Benjamin Fisher, money)				5	3	6
Swanzey (William Gwynn, money)				5	3	11
Weymouth (Philip Taylor, in money 134l. 3s. 8½d. and in bonds 1,253l. 3s. 1¼d.)				1,387	6	9¾
Whitehaven (Henry Blencowe, in money 455l. 12s. 4d. and in bonds 14,257l. 18s. 11¼d.)				14,713	11	4
and on the following late Receivers and Collectors: Henry Ferne, Receiver General, for bonds				133,436	16	11½
Richard Hutchinson, solicitor, ditto				197	18	2
Michael Wicks, Receiver in London port, ditto				26,484	19	10
Thomas Grainger, ditto, for money				421	11	9
and in the Outports for money: Barnstaple (Thomas Clinton)				83	17	2¾
Beaumaris (William Lewis)				64	16	9¾
Boston (John Clark)				60	0	0
Bridgewater (Henry Beaumont)				701	3	5
Bristol (John Sansome)				3,300	17	3¾
Bydeford (Richard Ustick)				763	3	5½
Chester (Thomas Tindale)				284	8	2¼
ditto (Edward Smith)				45	18	6
Chichester (James Whitwood)				376	1	10¼
ditto (Samuel Bincks)				417	11	6
Cowes (Thomas Cole)				377	0	9½
Dartmouth (Thomas Jenkinson)				506	3	7¼
Deale (James Smith)				1,036	19	0¾
ditto (Salathiel Rolfe)				48	13	1½
Exeter (Thomas Jans)				1	14	1¾
Falmouth (Edmund Harry)				132	13	0
ditto (William Peirson)				467	5	5
ditto (Ambrose Thomson and Richard Jennings)				47	14	7¼
Faversham (Charles Sherman)				2	5	2
ditto (Nicholas Mattson)				150	0	0
Fowey (John Dagg)				396	13	10¾
Lancaster (John Forster)				3	17	11¼
ditto (Joseph Bentley)				216	17	9¼
Leverpoole (Edward Scarborough)				9,239	14	7¼
Lyme (Peter Southwick)				90	10	3¼
ditto (Henry Badcock)				225	17	1
Milford (Walter Middleton)				7,245	18	1
ditto (David Morris)				4	2	7¾
ditto (Joseph Sewell)				61	19	4½
Minehead (Thomas Wolstenholme)				347	17	0¼
Newcastle (John Pye)				828	18	1½
Newhaven (Edward Mann)				151	16	3½
Padstowe (Francis Leister)				365	12	4¾
ditto (John Bligh)				135	8	8¾
ditto (William Tayler)				448	4	8½
Penzance (Charles Jones)				37	0	1¾
ditto (Thomas Medcalfe)				523	16	9
Plymouth (Thomas Swanton)				254	17	5
ditto (William Peirs)				4,060	15	9½
Poole (William Jacombe)				195	19	8½
ditto (William Bowles)				984	9	11¾
Portsmouth (Samuel Bincks)				3	16	3¾
Rochester (John Moore)				11	10	0¼
ditto (John Pope)				25	5	9¼
Sandwich (Michael Walford)				490	15	11
Scilley (Lodowick Jackson)				4	15	9¾
Shoreham (John Goldham)				3	8	4
Southampton (Adam de Cardonnel)				778	3	10¼
Swanzey (Alexander Trotter)				376	2	9½
Weymouth (Lodowick Jackson)				712	1	1
ditto (Thomas Bower)				219	14	10
Whitehaven (Richard Marshall)				116	11	3½
ditto (John Fotherby)				3	14	6
ditto (Warwick Arthur)				1,047	19	0¼
				—
				545,942	19	0½
and on Henry Ferne, late Receiver and Cashier, for money remitted to him 25 Dec. 1715 to 24 June 1716 for which he is to accompt: for the New Impositions to 31 July 1710	8,121	4	3¼
for ditto to 31 July 1712	3,873	17	10½
for ditto to 31 July 1714	14,884	1	4½
for ditto from 1 Aug. 1714	76,466	10	9¾
	—			103,345	14	4
				—
total of the arrears				£649,288	13	4
and so this General Accompt is Even and Quit. Declared 22 April 1723.

DECLARED ACCOUNTS: CUSTOMS: TOBACCO: CASH ACCOUNT.

PIPE OFFICE: ROLL 1243. No Audit Office Roll.

The Final Account of Horatio Walpole and Francis Hawes, Receivers General and Cashiers of Customs.

26 December 1716 to 27 November 1717 inclusive.

Charge.				£	s.	d.

Arrears: remaining in these Accomptants' hands in money on the foot of the preceding Accompt, none, they being in surplusage					nil
but the value of bonds taken for the New Impositions on Tobacco as at the foot of the said Accompt				171,812	17	9½
	£	s.	d.
Receipts: money received of the several Receivers and Collectors for the said New Impositions within the time this Accompt: London port: Sir John Shaw, bt., Receiver, in money	6,527	1	11½
ditto, in bonds	46,922	7	9
the King's Remembrancer's Office, in money or in bonds to be prosecuted	5	14	3½
sundry merchants, for interest on bonds	605	3	6
(total London port 54,060l. 7s. 6d.)
Outports: Barnstaple (Robert Rowe, in money)	267	12	7½
Bristol (Jacob Reynardson)	8,735	1	8¾
Bydeford (Thomas Jans)	1,301	4	4¾
Chester (Joseph Sewel)	410	0	0
Exeter (William Spry)	49	1	4
Lancaster (Joseph Bentley)	12	14	10
Leverpoole (Nathaniel Smith)	6,866	18	9
Lyme (George Lisle)	972	11	2¾
Newcastle (Anthony Isaacson)	0	2	8
Padstow (John Bligh, late Collector)	316	18	3½
Plymouth (David Morris)	230	0	0
Portsmouth (John Arnold)	2	12	3½
Weymouth (Philip Taylor)	25	0	0
Whitehaven (Henry Blencow)	912	10	7
	—			74,162	16	2¾
(total Outports 20,102l. 8s. 8¾d.)
the value of bonds delivered over by Henry Ferne, late Receiver General				24,198	6	2
				—
				£270,174	0	2¼
Discharge.				£	s.	d.
Surplusage on the preceding Accompt				12	10	2½
fees and salaries: Sir John Shaw, for extraordinary clerks, 100l.; Robert Shaw, Computer of these Duties under him, 50l.; the four Examiners of the Outport Books, 15l.; the Surveyor General and the Comptroller and Surveyor, London port, for extraordinary clerks, 30l.; these Accomptants, for the like, 100l.; Thomas Foley, for the Auditor's fee, 12l. 10s.				307	10	0
money repaid on debentures for Tobacco exported				105,071	18	3
ditto on certificates of damaged and defective Tobacco				816	19	1
(total repayments 105,888l. 17s. 4d.; total for salaries and repayments 106,196l. 7s. 4d.)
money paid into the Exchequer, detailed by dates				32,105	6	5
the value of bonds delivered up to Anthony Lechmere and Francis Hawes, the succeeding Receivers General				131,884	16	6¾
				—
total payments and allowances				£270,199	0	6¼
and so these Accomptants are in Surplusage Declared 7 November 1718.				25	0	4

DECLARED ACCOUNTS: CUSTOMS: TOBACCO: CASH ACCOUNT.

AUDIT OFFICE: BUNDLE 789, ROLL 1001 [A.O.1/789/1001].

Anthony Lechmere and Francis Hawes, Receivers General and Cashiers of Customs.

21 June 1717 to 25 December 1717 (inclusive).

Charge.				£	s.	d.

Arrears: none, this being the Accomptants' first Account					nil
but the value of sundry bonds for payment of the New Impositions on Tobacco received of Horatio Walpole and Francis Hawes, late Receivers General and Cashiers, as at the foot of the preceding Account				131,884	16	6¾
	£	s.	d.
Receipts: money and bonds received of the several Receivers and Collectors for the said Impositions within the time of this Accompt: London port: Sir John Shaw, Receiver Inwards, on the Plantation Receipt, in money.	38,858	5	10½
ditto, ditto, in bonds	120,863	18	3
sundry merchants, for interest on bonds	186	6	10
(total London port 159,908l. 10s. 11½d.)
Outports: Barnstaple (George Moore)	30	0	0
Bristol (Jacob Reynardson)	12,657	1	9½
Bydeford (Thomas Jans)	653	3	9¼
Chester (Joseph Sewell)	835	10	0
Exeter (William Sprye)	815	13	11
Leverpoole (Nathaniel Smith)	3,510	18	6
Lyme (George Lisle)	836	14	6
Newcastle (Anthony Isaacson)	196	0	0
Padstow (John Cock)	300	0	0
Weymouth (Philip Taylor)	1,530	17	11
Whitehaven (Henry Blencow)	265	0	4½
	—			181,539	11	8¾
(total Outputs 21,631l. 0s. 9¼d.)
				—
total charge and receipts				£313,424	8	3½
Discharge.				£	s.	d.
Surplusage due to Horatio Walpole and Francis Hawes, late Receivers General and Cashiers, at the foot of their last preceding Account				25	0	4
fees and salaries: Sir John Shaw, bt., for extraordinary clerks, 100l.; Robert Shaw, Computer of these Duties under Sir John Shaw, 50l.; the four Examiners of the Outports, 15l.; the Surveyor General, the Controler and the Surveyor in London port, for extraordinary clerks, 30l.; these Accomptants, for ditto, 25l.; Thomas Foley, for the Auditor's fee for the General Accompt to Xmas 1713, 25l., and for this Accompt, 12l. 10s.; in all 37l. 10s.				257	10	0
repayments upon debentures for Tobacco exported				43,433	16	9
repayments on certificates of damaged or defective Tobacco				334	4	1
(total repayments 43,768l. 0s. 10d.; total salaries and repayments 44,025l. 10s. 10d.)
money paid into the Exchequer, detailed by dates				61,983	12	10½
				—
total payments and allowances				106,034	4	0½
				—
and so remains				£207,390	4	3
against which the value of bonds for payment of those Duties in the Accomptants' hands at the determination of this Account				207,427	14	7½
and so these Accomptants are in Surplusage Declared 31 January 1718–19.				37	10	4½
Editor's Note. Although these Accountants took over from 21 June 1717 inclusive the previous Final Cash Account includes certain arrears up to 27 November of that year, causing an overlap in the periods of the two accounts.

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