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DECLARED ACCOUNTS: HANAPER. |
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PIPE OFFICE: ROLL 1719 [E351/1719]. |
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AUDIT OFFICE: BUNDLE 1398, ROLL 257 [A.O.1/1398/257]. |
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THOMAS EDWARDS and JOSEPH WHITEHEAD, holders in survivorship of the Office of Clerk or Keeper of the Hanaper. |
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Michaelmas 1711 to Michaelmas 1712. |
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Charge. |
£ |
s. |
d. |
£ |
s. |
d. |
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Arrears: respited moneys in the hands of divers persons as at the foot of the last Account |
373 |
7 |
3 |
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remaining in the Accountants' hands, as at the foot of the last Account |
199 |
13 |
9 |
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573 |
1 |
0 |
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Receipts: money received of the issues and profits of Charters or Letters Patent, Commissions, Indentures and other Deeds: |
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small patents: 398 at 2s. each |
39 |
16 |
0 |
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sheriffs' patents: 46 at 3s. each |
6 |
18 |
0 |
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commissions of sewers: 15 at 2s. 6d. each |
1 |
17 |
6 |
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exemplifications: 17 at 16s. 4d. each |
13 |
17 |
8 |
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archdeaconries and prebends: two at 16s. 4d. each |
1 |
12 |
8 |
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presentations: 37 at 16s. 4d. each |
30 |
4 |
4 |
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dispensations: 40 at 16s. 4d. each |
32 |
13 |
4 |
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grants of office for life: one at |
0 |
16 |
4 |
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ditto during pleasure: ten at 32s. 8d. each |
16 |
6 |
8 |
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ditto, ditto: twelve at 16s. 4d. each |
9 |
16 |
0 |
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denizations: one at |
0 |
16 |
4 |
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appeals and adjuncts: 19 at 16s. 4d
. each |
15 |
10 |
4 |
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indentures: one at |
0 |
16 |
4 |
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special commissions: two at 32s. 8d. each and one at 16s. 4d
. |
4 |
1 |
8 |
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special licences: six at 24s. 4d. each |
7 |
6 |
0 |
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special pardons and de cursu: one at |
0 |
16 |
4 |
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grants of great fee: four at 7l. 11s. 8d. each |
30 |
6 |
8 |
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fines thereof |
6 |
13 |
4 |
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220 |
5 |
6 |
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moneys received for fines of Statutes Staple and for profits of Original Writs: fines of Statutes Staple |
20 |
4 |
2 |
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farm of the profits of the Seals of the Queen's Bench and of the Common Pleas, leased to George, Duke of Northumberland, and his heirs male |
1,653 |
14 |
0 |
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farm of the Common Fines, leased to the Lord High Treasurer for seven years |
1,546 |
12 |
0 |
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farm of the Sixpenny Writs, leased to Anne, Countess Dowager of Newburgh, for 41 years from 13 Jan. 1688–9 |
1,000 |
0 |
0 |
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total charge and receipts |
£5,013 |
16 |
8 |
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Discharge. |
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Payments by letters patent: |
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Simon, Lord Harcourt, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, for diets, for his annuity, for extraordinary attendance, for robes, for his allowance of Gascon wine and for wax |
1,098 |
2 |
0 |
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Sir John Trevor, Master of the Rolls, and the eleven other Chancery Masters for their winter and summer robes |
82 |
8 |
0 |
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George Wrighte, Clerk of the Crown in Chancery, for his fee |
60 |
0 |
0 |
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these Accomptants, for their several yearly allowances |
98 |
3 |
11 |
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Matthew Snow, Prothonotary of the Chancery, for his allowance |
100 |
0 |
0 |
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Matthew Johnson, Clerk of the Parliaments, for his fee |
40 |
0 |
0 |
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William Oaker, General Scrivener of Chancery Leases, ditto |
20 |
0 |
0 |
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John Roberts, Clerk of the Writs in Chancery |
20 |
0 |
0 |
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the two Auditors of the Hanaper |
10 |
0 |
0 |
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Woolcom's Pollexfen, one of the Six Clerks of the Chancery and Clerk Comptroller of the Hanaper, for his fee as of old |
10 |
0 |
0 |
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Thomas Harris, Chafewax, for wax |
360 |
0 |
0 |
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the same for his wages of 2½d. a day as aforetime |
3 |
16 |
3 |
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the Crier of the Chancery and other Officers for their yearly allowances of parchment |
282 |
12 |
0 |
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John Trevor, Crier of the Chancery, for his wages and for thread, needles, etc. |
8 |
10 |
7 |
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total under letters patent 2,193l. 12s. 9d. |
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payments by warrant: |
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George Wrighte, Clerk of the Crown, for writing patents, etc. |
179 |
13 |
4 |
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Woolcom' Pollexfen, Clerk Comptroller of the Hanaper, for engrossment of the Comptrol Books |
13 |
6 |
8 |
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John Walker, deputy to Matthew Johnson, Clerk of the Parliaments, for copying and engrossing several public bills, etc. |
110 |
7 |
6 |
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the same for several Journals copied in the House of Lords and delivered to Simon Harcourt, Lord Keeper |
228 |
0 |
0 |
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Edward Castle, stationer, for stationery for the House of Lords and Privy Council |
135 |
19 |
0 |
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James Tonson, ditto, for stationery wares for the Secretaries and Clerks of the Lord Keeper |
266 |
18 |
4 |
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Sherrard Serjeant, for necessaries for the Court at the Lord Chanceller's house |
84 |
14 |
10 |
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Charles Harper, stationer, for stationery wares for the Crown Office |
73 |
19 |
0 |
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Robert Briscoe, Queen's Messenger attending the Great Seal, for his usual fee of 3s. a day |
54 |
18 |
0 |
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the same, for his charges and those of his deputies in carrying and delivering several Writs of Election |
287 |
10 |
0 |
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the same, for his expenses in attending the Great Seal |
18 |
10 |
0 |
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Israel Harrison, stationer, for stationery wares for the Hanaper Office |
43 |
10 |
1 |
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these Accountants, for the increased cost of parchment |
73 |
4 |
0 |
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David Davies, embroiderer, for a richly embroidered bag to hold the Great Seal |
55 |
0 |
0 |
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Joseph Harvey, Sealer, for diets, wages, necessaries and winter robe |
43 |
0 |
3 |
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Thomas Lees, smith, for a press for the Great Seal |
16 |
0 |
0 |
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Thomas Harris, Chafewax, for diets, etc. |
28 |
13 |
4 |
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William Wekett, Joseph Richards, Samuel Clarke and John Barrett, four messengers attending the Great Seal, for expenses in publishing Proclamations |
235 |
0 |
0 |
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Joseph Harvey, Sealer, Thomas Harris, Chafewax, and Robert Lindsey, clerk to these Accountants, for expenses in attending the Great Seal in the summer of 1712 |
45 |
0 |
0 |
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James Hunter, for sweeping Westminster Hall |
1 |
6 |
8 |
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these Accountants for the charges and expenses of passing this Account |
40 |
0 |
0 |
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the Auditor of the Hanaper, for his yearly additional fee for checking and engrossing this Account |
20 |
0 |
0 |
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total payments by Warrant 2,054l. 11s. 0d. |
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payments by way of reward: |
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Sir John Trevor for keeping the House of Converts, with two Chaplains, a Clerk and two Converts, viz., Peter Samuell and John Meza; and for his care and examination of Originals in the Chancery |
37 |
4 |
7 |
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total payments and allowances |
£4,285 |
8 |
4 |
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and so remains |
728 |
8 |
4 |
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against which respited moneys [as in the preceding Account, Vol. XXV, p. cdxxxviii] |
373 |
7 |
3 |
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and so these Accomptants are Indebted |
355 |
1 |
1 |
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Declared 24 December 1714. |
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For the nature of the second Hanaper Account for this period, AUDIT OFFICE; BUNDLE 1398, ROLL 258, see EDITOR'S NOTE on p. cdxxxviii of Vol. XXV. |
