Declared Accounts 1707: Customs, Tobacco

Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 22, 1708. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1952.

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'Declared Accounts 1707: Customs, Tobacco', in Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 22, 1708, (London, 1952) pp. ccclix-ccclxiv. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-treasury-books/vol22/ccclix-ccclxiv [accessed 19 April 2024]

Customs, Tobacco

DECLARED ACCOUNTS: CUSTOMS: TOBACCO: GENERAL ACCOUNT.
PIPE OFFICE: ROLL 979.
Rowland Holt, Comptroller General of Customs: General Accompt of the New Impositions on Tobacco.
25 December 1706 to 25 December 1707.
Charge. £ s. d.
Arrears: remaining in the hands of several Receivers and Collectors in the Port of London and Outports of England upon the end of the last Accompt:
London port :
Sir John Shaw, Receiver on Plantnation goods in London port, for bonds taken to secure the said duty remaining in his custody at Christmas 1706 35,883 15 6
Thomas Granger, late Comptroller of the said duty there, for money in his hands at the same time 513 8 0½
Henry Ferne, Receiver General of the said duty, for bonds remaining in his hands at the same time 198,499 15 0½
The Queen's Remembrancer's Office for bonds delivered there to be prosecuted 35,846 13 8¾
total London port 270,743 12 3¾
Outports:
Sundry collectors named in the last Account for money and bonds in arrear at Christmas 1706 208,109 8 4½
478,853 0 8¼
sums due within the time of this accompt:
London, port:
Sir John Shaw (cash 9,017l. 16s. 0½d., bonds 177,753l. 13s. 6d.) 186,771 9 6½
Charge. £ s. d. £ s. d.
Outports (Collectors named):
Barnstaple (bonds) 267 15 3
Berwick 181 17 3
Bristol (money 8,978l. 1s. 8¾d., bonds 50,827l. 12s. 9d.) 59,805 14 5¾
'Bydiford' (money 401l. 10s. 5d., bonds 4,629l. 8s. 6d.) 5,030 18 11
ditto (bonds) 112 10 0
Cowes (bonds) 882 0 0
Exeter ('Exon', money 95l. 5s. 7¾d., bonds 1,020l. 14s.) 1,115 19 7¾
Falmouth (bonds) 1,669 17 0
Fowey (bonds) 941 11 9
Lancaster (money 87l. 19s. 7½d., bonds 2,920l. 16s. 9d.) 3,008 16 4½
Liverpool (money 882l. 19s. 7¾d., bonds 49,472l. 2s. 9d.) 50,355 2 4¾
Lyme (money 5l. 4s. 4¼d., bonds 712l. 13s. 0d.) 717 17 4¼
Milford (money 72l. 14s. 10½d., bonds 1,143l. 17s. 6d.) 1,216 12 4½
Newcastle (bonds) 1,472 15 6
Padstow (bonds) 216 15 0
Plymouth (money 697l. 3s. 5¼d., bonds 5,032l. 15s. 9d.) 5,729 19 2¼
Poole (money 101l. 11s. l¾d. bonds 765l. 6s. 3d.) 866 17 4¾
Portsmouth (money 46l. 12s. 3d., bonds 324l. 10s. 9d.) 371 3 0
Whitehaven (money 16l. 12s. 5d., bonds 29,505l. 19s. 9d.) 29,522 12 2
Rochester (money) 3 2 1½
Weymouth (money) 531 13 2¼
164,021 10 4¼
total payable as above 350,792l. 19s. 10¾d.
interest received on bonds not satisfied in due time 195 18 10¼
money overpaid by several Collectors, detailed, on their accompts for 1707 25,150 7 11¾
total charge and receipts £854,992 7 5
Discharge.
Money remitted to the Receiver General and Cashier of Customs 154,474 19 8¾
money overpaid by several Collectors (detailed on the preceding Accompt, including 20,037l. 18s. 3¼d. at Bristol and 1,304l. 8s. 7¼d. at Whitehaven) 22,934 12 4½
money remitted upon debentures for tobacco exported: £ s. d.
Barnstaple 1,759 19 9
Bristol 7,980 17 9¾
'Bydiford' 3,251 13 11½
ditto 171 8 9
Chester 146 0 0
Cowes 855 15 9
'Deale' 753 19 2
Dover 84 0 7¾
Exeter ('Exon') 92 17 0
Fowey 2,543 13 6
Lancaster 3,278 2 0
Liverpool 36,215 11 4¾
Lyme 26 6 7½
Milford 217 7 3
Discharge. £ s. d. £ s. d.
Newcastle 169 0 6
'Penrynn' 308 16 3
Poole 891 13 6½
Weymouth 366 9 3½
Whitehaven 29,851 16 6
Falmouth 971 14 6
Lyme 38 8 9
Milford 105 3 3
Plymouth 6,179 1 11¼
96,259 18 1½
money repaid on certificates of damages and overentries (detailed) 15,432 16 11
total payments and allowances £289,102 7 1¾
and so remains 565,890 0 3¼
against which depending:
on sundry Receivers and Collectors for money or bonds remaining in their hands at Christmas 1707:
London port:
Sir John Shaw, bt., for bonds in his custody 13,552 10 0
Henry Ferne for arrears of this duty 62,055l. 17s. 6½d. and for 'the present duty' 231,065l. 18s. 8d. 293,121 16 2½
the Queen's Remembrancer's Office for bonds delivered there to be prosecuted 38,379 1 0¾
total for London port 345,053l. 7s. 3¼d.
Outports:
Barnstaple (money 12l. 0s. 11d., bonds 576l. 12s.) 588 12 11
'Beaumarris' (money) 11 13 8½
Berwick (money) 180 2 3
Bristol (money 5,251l. 9s. 1d., bonds 66,925l. 18s. 6d.) 72,177 7 7
Bideford (money 23l. 11s. 0d., bonds 5,995l. 7s. 9d.) 6,018 18 9
Chester (money 21l. 19s. 4¾d., bonds 1,357l. 9s. 10¼d.) '1,379 9 3
Cowes (money 376l. 9s. 10½d., bonds 20l. 0s. 6d.) 396 10 4½
Dartmouth (money) 506 15 8½
Dover (money) 47 6 11¾
Exeter (bonds) 848 15 3
Falmouth (bonds) 441 7 2
Lancaster (money 1,109l. 17s. 4¼d., bonds 700l. 1s. 3d.) 1,809 18 7¼
Liverpool (bonds) 47,953 6 0
Lyme (money) 537 18 10
Milford (money 90l. 4s. 7¼d., bonds 1,220l. 9s. 2½d.) 1,310 13 9¾
Newcastle (bonds) 1,394 4 0
Padstow (money 85l. 7s. 1d., bonds 107l. 18s. 6d.) 193 5 7
Penryn (bonds) 456 5 6
Penzance (money) 60 0 7¾
Plymouth (money 2,403l. 12s. 7½d., bonds 4,805l. 15s. 0d.) 7,209 7 7½
Portsmouth (money 291l. 10s. 10¾d., bonds 32l. 11s. 3d.) 324 2 1¾
Rochester (money) 3 2 1½
Southampton (money) 778 3 10¼
Truro (money) 2 11 1¾
Whitehaven (bonds) 19,609 4 9
London (Richard Weeks, late Collector, bonds) 26,484 19 10
ditto (Richard Hutchinson, late Solicitor, bonds) 197 18 2
ditto (Thomas Granger, late Collector, money) 513 8 0½
Barnstaple (late Collector, money) 83 17 2¾
Berwick (ditto, ditto) 0 1 9
ditto (ditto, ditto) 60 0 0
Bridgwater (ditto, ditto) 701 3 5
'Bydiford' (ditto, ditto) 763 3 5½
Chester (ditto, ditto) 345 4 6
Chichester (ditto, ditto) 376 1 10¼
Chester (ditto, ditto) 0 8 9¾
ditto (ditto, ditto) 417 11 6
Deal (ditto, ditto) 1,036 19 0¾
Dover (ditto, ditto) 410 3 9¼
Falmouth (ditto, ditto) 212 10 4¾
ditto (ditto, ditto) 467 5 5
ditto (ditto, ditto) 77 8 3¾
Feversham (ditto, ditto) 2 5 2
ditto (ditto, ditto) 150 0 0
Fowey (ditto, ditto) 396 13 10¾
Lancaster (ditto, ditto) 3 17 11¼
Liverpool (ditto, ditto) 9,031 9 5¼
ditto (ditto, ditto) 1,711 6 10¼
Looe (ditto, ditto) 4 6 0
Lyme (ditto, ditto) 110 2 4¾
Milford (ditto, ditto) 7,245 18 1
Minehead (ditto, ditto) 347 17 0¼
Newcastle (ditto, ditto) 828 18 1½
Newhaven (ditto, ditto) 151 16 3½
Padstow (ditto, ditto) 365 12 4¾
Penzance (ditto, ditto) 3 0 0¾
Plymouth (ditto, ditto) 254 17 5
Poole (ditto, ditto) 198 18 10½
ditto (ditto, ditto) 1,015 3 6¾
Portsmouth (ditto, ditto) 21 10 1¾
Poulton (ditto, ditto) 86 0 10½
Rochester (ditto, ditto) 217 10 10¼
ditto (ditto, ditto) 7 17 8
ditto (ditto, ditto) 11 10 0¼
Sandwich (ditto, ditto) 490 15 11
Stockton (ditto, ditto) 174 17 3¾
ditto (ditto, ditto) 244 11 5
'Swanzey' (ditto ditto) 376 2 9½
Weymouth (ditto, ditto) 787 15 9
Whitehaven (ditto, ditto) 116 11 3½
ditto (ditto, ditto) 64 17 9¼
ditto (ditto, ditto) 26 17 7
£565,890 0 3¼
total arrears in money 41,708l. 8s. 6¼d., and in bonds 524,181l. 11s. 9d.
and so the General Account is Quit.
Declared 30 June 1714.
DECLARED ACCOUNTS: CUSTOMS: TOBACCO: CASH ACCOUNT.
PIPE OFFICE: ROLL 1234.
Henry Ferne, Receiver General and Cashier of Customs.
25 December 1706 to 25 December 1707.
Charge. £ s. d. £ s. d.
Arrears: remaining in the hands of this Accomptant in money nil (surplusage 150l. 0s. 11½d.) but in bonds for the duties ending 29 Sept. 1701 36,224l. 13s. 2½d., for duties ending 31 July 1706 59,982l. 5s. 10d. and for duties from 1 Aug. 1706 102,292l. 16s. 0d. 198,499 15 0½
Receipts: money received within the time of this Accompt of several Receivers and Collectors for the Impositions on Tobacco:
for the duties ending Michaelmas 1701:
several merchants in the port of London for interest on bonds 77 16 3½
John Sansom, Collector at Bristol 3,002 12 9
John Clough, Collector at Whitehaven 114 19 0
3,195 8 0½
for the duty ending 31 July 1706:
London port; several merchants for interest on bonds 93 9 2¼
Barnstaple 200 0 0
Bideford 1,987 14 10
Chester 60 2 1¾
do. 340 0 0
Falmouth 71 5 5
Lancaster 341 1 3¾
Plymouth 65 16 4
Penryn 335 2 0
Padstow 0 8 7
Penzance 20 0 0
Whitehaven 100 0 0
do. 1,407 11 0
Weymouth 316 12 10
5,339 3 7¾
for the duty since 1 Aug. 1706:
Sir John Shaw, Receiver in the port of London (money 9,174l. 16s. 0½d.) bonds 200,084l. 19s. 0d., 209,259 15 0½
Bristol 16,891 13 11
Barnstaple 103 10 10½
Bideford 1,814 5 10½
Chester 5 0 0
Dartmouth 20 8 10
Exeter 85 1 1
Fowey 152 3 8¾
Liverpool 5,467 11 2½
Lyme 1,481 16 3¼
do. 485 18 10½
Lancaster 559 10 0¾
Milford 222 6 11¾
Plymouth 1,577 12 5¼
Penryn 107 12 2¾
Padstow 535 6 2
Poole 209 16 11½
Portsmouth 44 0 0
Weymouth 1,041 12 8
Whitehaven 497 6 0
240,562 9 2½
total receipts 249,097l. 0s. 10¾d.
total charge and receipts £447,596 15 11¼
Discharge.
Surplusage of money on the last Accompt 150 0 11½
repayments for tobacco exported 51,826 6 5½
repayments for decayed and defective tobacco 9,005 0 3½
£ s. d.
salaries:
Sir John Shaw and Mr. Charles Shaw for clerks employed in the Plantation Receipt 300 0 0
Thomas Andrews, Horatio Mitchell, Samuel Gellibrand and William Heyes, four examiners of the Outport Books (from 7 May to Mich. 1707) 11 10 9¼
Arthur Maynwaring as Auditor's fee 25 0 0
this Accomptant for extraordinary clerks 100 0 0
436 10 9¼
money paid into the Exchequer, as by tallies, detailed by dates:
out of the new impositions ending 29 Sept. 1701 3,448 14 10½
out of the said duties ending 31 July 1706 11,456 18 5½
out of the said duties since 1 Aug. 1706 78,301 9 1
93,207 2 5
total payments and allowances £154,625 0 10¾
and so remains 292,971 15 0½
against which:
remaining in the Accomptant's hands upon sundry bonds 293,121 16 2½
and so the said Accomptant is in Surplusage 150 1 2
Declared 19 April 1709.
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