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DECLARED ACCOUNTS: HAWKERS AND PEDLARS. |
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PIPE OFFICE: ROLL 1740 [E.351/1740]. |
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AUDIT OFFICE: BUNDLE 1425, ROLL 19 [A.O.1/1425/19]. |
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Samuel Atkinson, Thomas Earsby and Francis Brown, late Commissioners for licensing Hawkers and Pedlars and Petty Chapmen. |
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Final Account: 24 June 1714 to 23 June 1715. |
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Charge. |
£ |
s. |
d. |
£ |
s. |
d. |
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Arrears: remaining in the hands of these
Accomptants at the end of their last
Accompt. |
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63 |
4 |
7½ |
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and depending on several persons at the foot of the said last Accompt. |
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1,799 |
4 |
6 |
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Receipts: money arising within the time of this Accompt for licences to Hawkers and Pedlars etc.: |
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for 1,812 licences granted for a year to
Midsummer 1715 at 4l. each |
7,248 |
0 |
0 |
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for licences for travelling with 137 horses at 4l. each horse; same time |
548 |
0 |
0 |
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for 1,675 single foot licences at 12d. each |
83 |
15 |
0 |
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for 137 lincences for travelling with 137
horses at 2s. each |
13 |
14 |
0 |
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for 18 bonds for securing the latter moiety of the Duty at 12d. each bond |
0 |
18 |
0 |
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7,894 |
7 |
0 |
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total charge and receipts |
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£9,756 |
16 |
1½ |
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DECLARED ACCOUNTS: HAWKERS AND PEDLARS. |
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Discharge. |
£ |
s. |
d. |
£ |
s. |
d. |
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Salaries: |
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Samuel Atkinson, Thomas Earsby and
Francis Brown, Commissioners, to
15 June 1715; George Townsend, Montague Bacon and Francis Bacon succeeding them; at 100l. per an. each |
300 |
0 |
0 |
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Hadley Doyley, Solicitor |
50 |
0 |
0 |
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Philip Sanderson, Cashier |
90 |
0 |
0 |
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John Mountfort and Michael Este, Clerks to the Commissioners |
100 |
0 |
0 |
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William Este, Riding Surveyor General |
200 |
0 |
0 |
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Riding Surveyors, named (two to Xmas
1714, thereafter four to Midsummer
1715) |
300 |
0 |
0 |
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London Surveyors, named |
150 |
0 |
0 |
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Richard Harrington, messenger |
30 |
0 |
0 |
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1,220 |
0 |
0 |
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allowance for prompt payment at 2s. per 1l.: |
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for prompt payment of 3,588l., being the latter moiety of the Duty on 1,794
licences |
358 |
16 |
0 |
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for prompt payment of 274l. on 137
licences for travelling with horses |
27 |
8 |
0 |
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386 |
4 |
0 |
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necessary and incident charges and disbursements, detailed, including stationery
(172l13s. 4d.), office rent (15l.), remittance of money (4l.), coals (11l. 5s. 6d.), office necessaries etc. (63l. 5s.), law charges (13l. 11s. 4d., 6l. 6s. and 27l., the last for law charges and extraordinary expenses at Oxford and prosecuting several traders at Bury who sold goods a fortnight after the fixed time for keeping that fair and for other Petty
Sessions prosecutions in Essex), inquiry into sufficiency of securities (10l.), transcribing accompts (50l. 12s. 6d.), copying papers for Parliament (4l. 19s.), Exchequer fees etc. (37l. 2s. 6d.), stamps on bonds etc. (153l. 15s.), and the Auditor's fee to Thomas Foley (25l.) |
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616 |
5 |
7 |
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(total allowed as above 2,222l. 9s. 7d.)
money paid into the Exchequer, by dates |
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5,535 |
6 |
1½ |
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total payments and allowances |
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£7,757 |
15 |
8½ |
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and so remains |
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1,999 |
0 |
5 |
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against which depending on sunday persons, detailed, in arrears for their licences or for the value of bonds not yet answered: |
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for the year to Midsummer 1698 |
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377 |
13 |
6 |
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ditto 1699 |
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196 |
0 |
0 |
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ditto 1700 |
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302 |
18 |
0 |
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ditto 1701 |
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247 |
10 |
0 |
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ditto 1702 |
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42 |
15 |
0 |
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ditto 1703 |
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21 |
7 |
0 |
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ditto 1704 |
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11 |
10 |
6 |
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ditto 1705 |
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24 |
10 |
0 |
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ditto 1706 |
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5 |
15 |
0 |
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ditto 1707 |
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15 |
5 |
0 |
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ditto 1708 |
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23 |
0 |
0 |
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ditto 1709 |
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8 |
0 |
0 |
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ditto 1710 |
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9 |
14 |
0 |
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ditto 1711 |
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20 |
15 |
0 |
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ditto 1712 |
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12 |
0 |
0 |
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ditto 1713 |
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4 |
0 |
0 |
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ditto 1715 |
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24 |
0 |
0 |
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and on William Batchelor, late Riding Surveyor |
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100 |
0 |
0 |
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and on Thomas Wells, late an officer in these Duties |
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189 |
9 |
0 |
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and on John Whitley, for the value of sundry licences for which he has not accompted |
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157 |
7 |
6 |
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and on Philip Sanderson, deceased, late Cashier, for money unaccompted for |
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177 |
15 |
11 |
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and upon Hadley Doyley, Solicitor, for money received on bonds |
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27 |
15 |
0 |
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£1,999 |
0 |
5 |
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and so the Accomptants are even and Quit. |
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Declared 8 March 1717–18. |
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Auditor's Memorandum.—Three late Riding Surveyors are accountable for several licences with which they were entrusted within the time of this
Accompt: |
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James Macburny |
62 licences |
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Francis Nelson |
50 licences |
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John Whitley |
15 licences. |
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Their Security Bonds remain in the Solicitor's hands. |
