Declared Accounts: Ordnance

Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 24, 1710. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1952.

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'Declared Accounts: Ordnance', in Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 24, 1710, (London, 1952) pp. clxxxix-cxc. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-treasury-books/vol24/clxxxix-cxc [accessed 24 April 2024]

Ordnance

DECLARED ACCOUNTS: ORDNANCE.
PIPE: 2695.
THE HON. HARRY MORDAUNT, Treasurer and Paymaster of the Ordnance.
30 June 1709 to 30 June 1710.
Charge. £ s. d. £ s. d.
Remains in this accomptant's hands at the determination of his last preceding account ended 30 June 1709 201,903 4 7½
depending upon certain persons particularly named among the Supers in the said accompt 414,409 6 8
total arrears 616,312 11 3½
Receipts: money out of the Exchequer:
Easter term 8 Anne 319 9 2¼
Michaelmas term 8–9 Anne 158,706 10 10
Easter term 9 Anne 83,459 16 10
Easter term 9 Anne 18,000 17 8½
260,486 14 6¾
voluntary charge for stores sold and several other occasions 2,876 16 3
total charge and receipt £879,676 2 1¼
Discharge. £ s. d.
wages and entertainment of the Principal Officers of the Ordnance; and clerks, armourers, storekeepers, engineers on the Quarter Books of the Office of Ordnance: detailed 15,141 17 2¼
emptions and provisions bought into the Stores: detailed 61,975 6 2
cleaning and repairing of arms 3,561 10 10
repairs done to several of her Majesty's Castles and forts: detailed 13,663 3 4¼
disbursements of various natures (repairs to ships' [gun] carriages, powder, barracks &c.) 6,730 10 9
payments for the service of her Majesty's Trains of Artillery, for subsistence and clearings and for contingencies of the Train, suits for gunners, for Matrosses and Pioneers of the Flanders Train, blue cloth for the 20 watermen belonging to the Ordnance Office; hats for the service in Spain &c 9,875 11 6¼
land and water carriage of the stores 22,142 16 3¼
salaries and allowances, detailed, by debentures 11,554 4 0¼
travelling charges 2,093 12 2
rent 1,065 10 0
rewards detailed 908 6 8
total of payments and allowances £148,712 8 11¼
and so Remains 730,963l. 8s. 2d.
against which £ s. d.
Depending on persons detailed for moneys imprested:
31 March 1673 to June 30 following 1,851 0 0
30 June 1673 to 30 June 1674 2,013 0 0
30 June 1674 to 30 June 1675 320 0 0
30 June 1675 to 30 June 1676 80 0 0
30 June 1676 to 30 June 1677 170 0 0
30 June 1677 to 30 June 1678 6,715 0 0
30 June 1678 to 30 June 1679 915 0 0
30 June 1679 to 30 June 1680 4,148 8 2
30 June 1680 to 30 June 1681 1,516 2 4
30 June 1681 to 30 June 1682 135 0 0
30 June 1682 to 30 June 1683 85 0 0
30 June 1683 to 30 June 1684 539 3 4
30 June 1684 to 30 June 1685 1,532 0 0
30 June 1685 to 30 June 1686 305 10 0
30 June 1686 to 30 June 1687 1,062 0 11
30 June 1687 to 30 June 1688 928 6 8
30 June 1688 to 30 June 1689 1,710 14 2
30 June 1689 to 30 June 1690 8,039 14 8
30 June 1690 to 30 June 1691 4,877 11 0½
30 June 1691 to 30 June 1692 1,265 5 0
30 June 1692 to 30 June 1693 553 16 8
30 June 1693 to 30 June 1694 751 1 4
30 June 1694 to 30 June 1695 1,392 3 3
30 June 1695 to 30 June 1696 1,799 14 0
30 June 1696 to 30 June 1697 2,324 16 8
30 June 1697 to 30 June 1698 282 3 1
30 June 1698 to 30 June 1699 2,628 1 9½
30 June 1699 to 30 June 1700 2,272 16 2
30 June 1700 to 30 June 1701 260 16 0
30 June 1701 to 30 June 1702 7,356 15 7½
30 June 1702 to 30 June 1703 9,299 3 8
30 June 1702 to 30 June 1703 360 0 0
30 June 1703 to 30 June 1704 5,347 7 9¾
30 June 1704 to 30 June 1705 8,639 17 8½
30 June 1705 to 30 June 1706 50,715 7 9½
30 June 1706 to 30 June 1707 57,092 8 4¾
30 June 1707 to 30 June 1708 99,369 10 9¼
30 June 1708 to 30 June 1709 99,725 1 11
30 June 1709 to 30 June 1710, within the time of this accompt 108,015 19 5½
total imprests £497,695 18 9¾
And so this accomptant on the determination of this accompt is indebted 233,267l. 14s. 4¼d.
Declared 7 Dec. 1714.
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