Declared Accounts: Tenths for Poor Clergy

Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 31, 1717. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1960.

'Declared Accounts: Tenths for Poor Clergy', in Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 31, 1717, (London, 1960) pp. ccclxxxix-cccxc. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-treasury-books/vol31/ccclxxxix-cccxc [accessed 26 April 2024]

Tenths for Poor Clergy

DECLARED ACCOUNTS: TENTHS FOR THE POOR CLERGY (QUEEN ANNE'S BOUNTY).

AUDIT OFFICE: BUNDLE 2239, ROLL 2 [A.O.1/2239/2].

John Ecton, Collector and Receiver of the perpetual yearly Tenths of all Dignities, Offices, Benefices and Promotions Spiritual, granted to the Corporation of the Governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne for the Augmentation of the Maintenance of the Poor Clergy.

26 December 1716 to 25 December 1717.


Charge.	£	s.	d.

Arrears: none, this being the first Accompt		nil
Receipts: money due and payable within the time of this Accompt for the yearly Tenths of the Clergy in the several Dioceses: Canterbury	20	2	8½
Chester	376	12	0½
Carlisle	124	2	11¾
Landaffe	77	9	11¼
Lincoln	1,292	4	2¼
Meneven' [St. David's]	209	10	0¼
Norwich	608	17	11
Oxford	206	0	10¼
Peterborough	432	4	4
Rochester	196	18	11
Sarum	799	7	1
Winchester	692	4	8¾
	—
total charge and receipts	£5,035	15	8½
Discharge.
Money paid into the Exchequer, by dates	£4,756	15	6
and so remains	279	0	2½
against which there is depending on the divers incumbents in the several Dioceses for money due and unpaid: Canterbury (benefices named etc.)	20	2	8½
Chester (ditto)	6	1	11¾
Lincoln (ditto)	118	12	3¼
Norwich (ditto)	13	0	7¼
Oxon' (ditto)	19	10	5½
Peterborough (ditto)	20	8	6¾
Rochester (ditto)	9	0	11¾
Sarum (ditto)	22	18	4
Winton' (ditto)	6	8	11¾
Landaffe (ditto)	3	11	2
Meneven' (ditto)	38	13	8
	—
	278	9	8½
and so the Accomptant is Indebted	0	10	6
Examined by the Deputy Auditor to Edward Harley but not formally declared before the Treasury. This is the first Account of this Service. (A.O.1/2239/1 is an Account (1657 to 1658) by Lawrence Steele, Treasurer to the Trustees for Ministers' Maintenance.)