Declared Accounts: Wine Licences

Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 21, 1706-1707. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1952.

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'Declared Accounts: Wine Licences', in Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 21, 1706-1707, (London, 1952) pp. cccviii. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-treasury-books/vol21/cccviii [accessed 22 April 2024]

Wine Licences

Declared Accounts: Wine Licences.
PIPE OFFICE, ROLL 3184.
Thomas Lake, John Harwood, Robert Lowndes, Thomas Goodall and William Congreve, Commissioners and Agents for granting Licences for selling wine by retail thereto appointed by patent dated 26 Dec. 4 Anne.
26 Dec. 1705 to 25 Dec. 1707.
Charge. l. s. d. l. s. d.
Remains: nil: they being 14l. 0s. 4d. in surplusage at the end of their last accompt.
arrears depending in super on several persons for rent of their licences as at the end of the said last preceding accompt 6,724 18 2
voluntary charge being receipts on old arrears. received in the year1706
on arrears of 1701 18 15 0
ditto 1700 3 0 0
ditto 1699 2 10 0
ditto 1698 2 10 0
ditto 1691 5 0 0
31 15 0
received in the year 1707
on arrears of 1698–1700 4 10 0
ditto 1683–1689 150 0 0
154 10 0
total arrears 6,911 3 2
receipts from the rent of wine licences within the time of this accompt:
from divers persons [not detailed] in the several counties of England for rent of Licences
in 1706 5,022 5 0
in 1707 5,065 5 0
10,087 10 0
from sundry persons for agreements for retailing wine without Licence in preceding years and of others who elapsed the times of taking licence: being sums agreed to be paid by defaulters 181 10 0
total charge £17,180 3 2
Discharge.
surplus of the preceding accompt 14 0 4
money paid for salaries of officers, detailed, employed therein and for incidents of management 4,050 8 2
money paid into the Exchequer by tallies, detailed, between 13 April 5 Anne and 28 July 6 Anne 6,500 0 0
total payments and allowances £10,564 8 6
Remains 6,615l. l4s. 8d.
against which there is depending in super, for rents of licences and agreements, on persons detailed at excessive length, being wine retailers named in towns and places detailed, county by county, for the years 1707 and 1706 5,007 6 3
ditto for 1705 312 16 4
ditto for 1704 292 8 2
ditto for 1703 391 5 0
ditto for 1702 456 5 0
advanced for horse hire and riding charges 140 0 0
total of supers £6,600 0 9
and so these Accomptants remain indebted 15 13 11
Declared 7 Dec. 1714
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