Warrant Books: May 1709, 11-20

Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 23, 1709. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1949.

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'Warrant Books: May 1709, 11-20', in Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 23, 1709, (London, 1949) pp. 171-179. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-treasury-books/vol23/pp171-179 [accessed 18 April 2024]

May 1709, 11–20

May 11. J. Taylour (in the absence of William Lowndes) to Mr. How and Mr. Walpole to report on the enclosed petition [missing] of Robert Sisterton concerning the 174l. 4s. 3d. certified by the Governor of Tinmouth Castle to be due to him as surgeon to the Invalids there. Out Letters (General) XIX, p. 68.
William Lowndes to the Attorney and Solicitor General for their opinion on a case relating to the quorum of the Customs Commissioners in Scotland. Out Letters (North Britain) II, p. 29.
May 12. Same to Mr. Morrice. I have read to the Lord Treasurer your letter of the 4th inst. wherein you represent the general discourse of a peace, and offer your service on such occasion to go to the Court of Spain in order to recover the debt due from his Catholic Majesty according to the treaties in that behalf. In answer my Lord commands me to acquaint you that as those discourses are not without some ground so it is necessary to be prepared for the consequences of it. He therefore directs you to make and send to him a state of what has been advanced and what her Majesty may justly demand of his Catholic Majesty: and when matters are more ripe my Lord will be very ready to contribute what in him lieth towards employing you therein. But if her Majesty shall think it more proper to put that affair into the hands of Mr. Stanhope or any others nearer to the King of Spain his Lordship will be mindful of his promise to employ you at home on your return. Out Letters (General) XIX, p. 69.
May 13. Treasury reference to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands of the petition of James Craggs, Samuel Edwards and Charles Hodges (lessees in trust from the Queen for the Duchess of Marlborough) of the ground and buildings commonly called the Fryery near St. James's Palace, praying a new lease thereof on surrender; and for part of the ground of the royal garden contiguous thereto in order to re-building on the premises. Reference Book VIII, p. 357.
May 14. J. Taylour (in the absence of William Lowndes) to the [Principal] Officers of the Works to report on the enclosed memorial [missing] of Lady Granville concerning the repairs of the Housekeeper's lodgings at St. James's Palace. Out Letters (General) XIX, p. 70.
Treasury reference to the Customs Commissioners of the petition of Jo[h]n Baldwyn concerning a bill for 1,500l. drawn on him by Mr. Sansome, late collector of Bristol port, for which petitioner is prosecuted, but which he can make appear was paid to the Receiver General of Customs. Reference Book VIII, p. 357.
May 16. Royal warrant dated St. James's to Spencer Compton to pay 16l. a day as from May 10 inst. to John Tribbeko and George Andrew Ruperti, two of the Lutheran ministers residing here, to be by them paid and distributed among the 852 poor Protestants lately arrived from the Palatinate in a starving condition and having not wherewithal to support themselves and must perish if some immediate provision be not made for their present subsistence. The said Tribbeko and Ruperti are to exhibit to said Compton an account from time to time of the application and distribution of the said daily allowance. Queen's Warrant Book XXIV, p. 40.
Money warrant for 2,800l. to Charles, Visct. Townshend, 1,500l. thereof for equipage and 1,300l. for the first three months in advance on his ordinary as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the States General. Money Book XX, p. 15. Order Book VII, p. 244. Disposition Book XIX, p. 291.
Warrant by Treasurer Godolphin to the Receipt to take in loans to the amount of 10,936l. 0s. 2d. on credit of the Act of 6 Anne, c. 73, for Continuing the Half Subsidies: the said sum representing the interest due for three months to 1708–9 March 9 on 729,067l. 15s. 6¾d. loans taken in on credit of said Act.
Prefixing: certificate by the Auditor of the Receipt of the interest so due. Money Book XX, p. 16.
May 16. Letter of direction for 69,962l. 10s. 0d. to Sir Thomas Littleton, Navy Treasurer: out of Exchequer Bills to be made forth under the Bank of England Stock Act: and is for services as follows: viz.
£ s. d.
to the [Navy] Course under the head of Wear and Tear for the month of Sept. 1706 including Mr. Winter's bills on the Course which were sold to Mr. Heath and Mr. Cole and the interest to be paid thereupon pursuant to an Order of Council in that behalf 31,898 10 0
for the Victualling, to be applied to pay bills in course for the month of July 1706 and interest thereon 38,064 0 0
£69,962 10 0
Disposition Book XIX, p. 290.
Same for 750l. to William Lowndes: for secret service: out of Civil List funds. Ibid., p. 291.
William Lowndes to Mr. Burchett, Secretary [of the Admiralty] returning the papers relating to the galleon taken by Admiral Wager. Out Letters (General) XIX, p. 70.
Treasury reference to the Customs Commissioners of the petition of John Anger et al. shewing that they bought several parcels of woollen manufacture of this nation and shipped them on the pacquet boats to Portugal but same was seized as forfeited for being put on a pacquet boat: therefore praying leave to compound. Reference Book VII, p. 357.
Same to same of the petition of James Benn (for four years a deputy Queen's waiter London port) praying the surveyor's place at Whitby. Ibid.
Commission by Treasurer Godolphin to William Tisbery to be Surveyor of the Duty on Houses loco Richard Birchet who is hereby superseded.
(Warrant dated May 24 by same to the Receiver General of said Duties for Co. Surrey to pay 50l. per an. salary to said Tisbery.) Affairs of Taxes I, pp. 152, 181.
Royal warrant for a commission, under the great seal appointed to be kept in place of the Great Seal of Scotland, to John Phelp and Robert Arbuthnot to be Auditors of the Revenue in Scotland (auditors of all accounts of our revenues, aids, taxes, casualties, or moneys whatsoever accountable in the Exchequer Court Scotland, except Excise revenue accounts): with salaries as in an Establishment as therein expressed as below. Out Letters (North Britain) II, pp. 31–2.
Same to the Clerk of the Signet for a privy seal for payment of salaries &c. at Edinburgh to officers and others in Scotland without fee or charges, to wit the salaries and allowances contained in an Establishment made and signed by the Queen commencing from 1709 Lady day ut infra, pp. 262–4, which salaries and allowances the Queen is graciously pleased (for the ease and encouragement of the officers and persons entitled) shall be paid to them at Edinburgh clear of all fees and charges on the receipt thereof. Quarterly lists thereof are to be sent by the Barons of the Exchequer of Scotland to the Lord Treasurer in England who shall thereupon direct payment thereof to Archibald Douglas of Cavers as imprest and upon account to pay same clear of all fees and demands. The quarterly lists or certificates are to be examined and signed by the Barons of the Exchequer of Scotland and are to be sent by them to the Auditors of Scotland and to the said Receiver General. The Auditor of Receipt [England] is to make yearly an imprest certificate of all moneys so imprested to said Douglas and said certificate is to be sent to the Barons of the Exchequer Court of Scotland and by them to the Queen's Remembrancer of the said Court to be recorded by him and then sent to the Auditors of Scotland to enable them to make a charge upon the Paymaster Douglas. And whereas the Receiver General of Customs in Scotland has made several payments amounting in all to 26,000 pounds Scots to the Lords of Session and Justiciary there, on claims made by them of certain annual allowances charged on the Customs by Acts of Parliament passed before the Union, and some doubt hath arisen whether the Customs as now settled are chargeable therewith, it is hereby declared that all such payments hitherto and hereafter to the said Lords of Session and of the Justiciary pursuant to the said several Acts of Parliament are good and due payments and are to be so allowed.
Further whereas several of the salaries and allowances in the said Establishment are already [before the date of the said Establishment] authorised by privy seal to be paid in the Exchequer [England] such payment is hereby to cease and no payments are to be made on the said privy seals beyond 1709 Lady day.
Cancelled and replaced by the royal warrant of June 23 infra, p. 225. Out Letters (North Britain) II, pp. 33–6.
Followed by: entry of Treasurer Godolphin's signature dated May 21 of the docquet of the privy seal in accordance with the above royal warrant. Ibid., p. 36.
May 17. Letter of direction for 3,000l. to Spencer Compton: as imprest for such services as her Majesty hath directed: out of Civil List moneys. Disposition Book XIX, p. 291.
William Lowndes to Mr. Brydges enclosing Secretary Boyle's letter concerning divers poor German Protestants lying at Rotterdam in great numbers for a passage over to England and that her Majesty has directed Mr. Dayrolle to take care of providing the necessary transport there and of subsisting them in their passage hither. Please write to Mr. Sweet by this night's post to furnish Dayrolle with such money as may be necessary for this service and to draw on Spencer Compton in refund thereof.
Appending. copy of said Boyle's letter dated this day. Out Letters (General) XIX, pp. 70–71.
Same to the Salt Commissioners to report on the enclosed petition [missing] of Samuel Schmettau for the sole exercise for a term of 14 years of a new invention for boiling and making salt: with the Attorney General's report [missing] thereon. Ibid., p. 71.
May 18. Money warrant for 28,452l. 19s. 7d. to Sir Patrick Johnston, William Gordon, Gilbert Stuart, Robert Forrest of Edinburgh merchants and Hugh Montgomery of Glasgow merchant as imprest and upon account to satisfy and pay money due on debentures before July 15 next for allowances for fish and flesh cured with foreign salt imported into Scotland before 1 May 1707 (the date of the Union) and exported or entered for exportation after that date.
Likewise 23,299l. 15s. 0d. to same as imprest and upon account to pay the moneys due before July 15 next on certificates to be made out as directed by the Act of last Session [7 Anne, c. 11] for foreign salt imported into Scotland before 1 May 1707 remaining in the hands of her Majesty's subjects there which being fit for use shall before June 1 next be delivered to the officers appointed by the said Act to receive the same for the purposes mentioned in the said Act. (Two separate money orders dated May 20 hereon for the above sums separately.) Money Book XX, pp. 16–17. Order Book VII, pp. 245, 246.
In the North Britain Book II, pp. 39, 40 and 41, duplicate entries occur of the above money orders. These entries are followed by a series of instructions as follows.
Orders by Treasurer Godolphin to be observed by the said Sir Patrick Johnston et al. as above in the paying and applying the several sums to be issued to them as well for discharging the allowances on exportations of fish, beef and pork cured with foreign salt imported before 1st May 1707 as also to pay for such foreign salt so imported and still remaining in the hands of her Majesty's subjects in Scotland.
(1) All debentures and certificates to be paid and discharged by you are to specify all particulars and are to be signed, produced and registered in the manner required by the Act of last Session herefor. (2) Acquittances are to be given on the back of the debentures or certificates. (3) “And whereas it will so happen that the sums which I shall put into your hands for this service will be in Exchequer Bills, which Exchequer Bills carry with them from the date thereof an interest after the rate of twopence per diem for every 100l. and so in proportion for lesser sums, you are therefore to take care that the interest that shall accrue on all and every of the said Exchequer Bills from the days you receive them to the respective days you shall actually pay them away in discharge of the said debentures or certificates [shall] be computed and [such or] so much interest . . . [shall] be taken by the party receiving the same [said Bills and that such accrued interest shall be reckoned by the recipient] as in discharge of so much of the sum payable to him on such debentures and certificates: with this caution nevertheless that the sums allowed by Parliament to discharge the said debentures or certificates severally are not to be exceeded.” (4) You are to keep books showing your daily payments and proceedings and to send me an account thereof fortnightly. (5) You are to surcharge yourselves with the accrued interest as above and to pass your accounts of the whole before the Barons of the Exchequer of Scotland before 1st March 1710.
In the margin. these orders were delivered to John Montgomerie Esq., Secretary to the Duke of Queensberry, to be sent to the persons concerned: which he undertook to do this 31 May 1709. Out Letters (North Britain) II, pp. 42–3.
May 18. Allowance by Treasurer Godolphin of the incidents bill detailed of the Post Office for 1709 Lady day quarter: total 1,191l. 0s. 10d. (including 120l. to Benjamin Waterhouse for six feasts due to the officers in the Post Office at Xmas 1704; 2l. 15s. 0d. to Robert Robinson for carrying the soil from the office; 30l. to William Frankland for half a year's allowance for beer for the clerks in the office at Xmas 1708; 10l. 15s. 0d. to the Gazetteer for a gift; 30l. 17s. 1d. for 7,405 ship letters; 10l. 10s. 0d. to Thomas Stone engraver; 3l. 4s. 6d, for measuring and surveying the Diligence pacquet boat for the Lisbon service). Money Book XX, pp. 26–27.
Money warrant for 300l. to Sir Francis Windham for half a year to Xmas 1707 on his pension. Ibid., p. 36. Disposition Book XIX, p. 296.
Letter of direction for 11,375l, to Thomas Micklethwaite, Treasurer of the Transports: out of Exchequer Bills to be made forth under the Bank Stock Act: and is intended to be applied to the [Transport] Course for the month of September 1706. Disposition Book XIX, p. 295.
William Lowndes to Mr. Borret. The Sheriffs of London have petitioned the Lord Treasurer to be defended at her Majesty's charge against an action for 40l. reward for convicting Thomas Williams for a robbery in a street near Newgate; which [reward] they refused to pay. The Lord Treasurer conceives this matter to be of consequence to her Majesty's revenue and you are to defend the sheriffs at the Queen's charge. Out Letters (General) XIX, p. 71.
Same to Mr. Hewet, Surveyor of Woods Trent North, to report on the Duke of Newcastle's proposals for making a park of his lands at Chambers, Hardwick &c. see infra, p. 202.
Appending: the said Duke's proposal. Ibid., p. 72.
Same to Mr. Brydges and Mr. Walpole to report on the enclosed petition [missing] relating to the many respits on the Captains of Lord Paston's Regiment: and likewise the petition of the Captains of Col. Churchill's Regiment touching the respits on their pay and the charge on them for arms and tents. Ibid., p. 74.
[?] Treasurer Godolphin to Mr. Shakerlay. “I have received your letter shewing the great uneasiness of the country upon the exportation of corn when it bears so great a price at home and there is so great a scarcity of it. I endeavour to discountenance this mischief as far as the law will allow but the merchants know the law is on their side and tho' this thing was foreseen by the Government and laid before the House of Commons towards the close of the Sessions but the House declined to enter upon the consideration of it. I am very much obliged to you for the friendly advertisement you have given me in this matter.” Ibid.
May 19 Royal warrant dated St. James's to the Attorney or Solicitor General for a great seal for a grant to Charles, Lord Halifax of several offices at Hampton Court as granted by Charles II. to William Young 1677 April 7 (for the lives of the Duchess of Cleveland and George Duke of Northumberland) viz. the office of keeper and the custody of Bushey Park alias the South Park near Hampton Court; the office or offices of Paler of the same park and mower of the brakes there; and the office of Housekeeper and custody of the capital messuage or mansion house of the Honor of Hampton Court: all with the respective fees of 4d. a day, 4d. a day, 33s. per an. and 6l. 13s. 4d. per an.; and also the herbage and pannage and browsings of Bushey Park without any account thereof to be rendered “with the full, whole and due allowance for hay and corn for the sustentation of the deer in the time of winter to be bought and expended” all the estate and interest in which said offices and fee are come by good assignment to said Lord Halifax:
and further the office of keeper and the custody of the park called the Middle Park alias the North Park of Hampton Court, the office or offices of Paler thereof and mower of the brakes there as granted by the same patent to said William Young with the wages and fees of 4d. a day for the keepership and 4d. a day for the office of Paler and 30s. per an. for the office of mower and also the herbage and pannage and browsings, windfall and dead wood of the said park with the full, whole and due allowance of hay and corn for the deer therein in the time of winter to be bought and expended; and also the office of keeper and custody of the warren called the Hare Warren at Hampton Court between the towns of Kingston and Hampton and of all kinds of game within the said warren with the fee of 2s. a day; to hold in reversion of Edward Progers and for the lives of said Duchess of Cleveland and Duke of Northumberland: and the said Progers is still living and the reversion therein is vested in said Lord Halifax by like mesne assignments: all which interests above, the said Lord is prepared to surrender in return for the fresh lease as herein. Such new grant is hereby to be made to him for three lives such as he shall nominate as amply and beneficially as the said William Young or any other have enjoyed the premises:
and likewise to grant him the office of Chief Steward of the Honor of Hampton Court and the office of Feodary of the said Honor and the office of Ranger, Chief Master and Governor of the Parks called the Middle Park alias the North Park and Bushy Park alias the South Park and warren called the Hare Warren and also the office of Lieutenant and Keeper of the Chase of Hampton Court with the respective yearly fees of 7l. 13s. 4d., 66s. 8d., and 10l. all as granted by Charles II. by the said patent to the said William Young;
and likewise to grant to said Lord Halifax the office and keeping of the Game in and about the Honor of Hampton Court and Hounslow Heath from Staines Bridge to Brainford Bridge with the fee of 2s. a day and 26s. 8d. for a livery yearly, as granted by another patent of Charles II. dated 1660 Sept. 8 to Sir Edward Nicholas and John Nicholas [his son].
This grant is to contain a clause requiring said Lord Halifax to repair at his own cost the Lodge in the said park called Bushey Park. Queen's Warrant Book XXIV, pp. 41–8.
May 19. Treasury reference to the Stamps Commissioners of the petition of Mathew Wesley and Richard Fownes sureties for Timothy Wesley distributor of stamps Co. Berks who is in arrear to the Queen, the petitioners being reduced to bankruptcy by the decay in trade and other losses “and have been prosecuted as such and so are made at present incapable of either answering the Queen's demands or supporting their families”: pray a stay of process as they are now by the help of friends put in a way to answer her Majesty in time. Reference Book VIII, p. 358.
May 19. Treasury reference to Mr. Walpole [Secretary at War] of the petition of Brigadier General Braddock in behalf of himself and other the Captains of the Second Battalion of Guards praying that the extraordinary charge for tents and other necessaries for their march to North Britain against the Pretender may not remain a charge on that Regiment but be satisfied out of contingencies. Ibid.
May 20. Money warrant for 200l. to Rachel [Windham] and Frances Windham, daughters of Dame Anne Windham, for half a year to “Xmas last 1707” on their pension. Money Book XX, p. 17. Disposition Book XIX, p. 296.
Same for 60l. to John Pottinger, Comptroller of the Pipe, for 1½ years to 1708 Xmas on his salary. Money Book XX, p. 19. Disposition Book XIX, p. 296.
Letter of direction for 40,000l. to Harry Mordaunt, Treasurer of the Ordnance: out of Exchequer Bills to be made forth under the Bank Stock Act: and is intended to be applied half for sea services and half for land services performed and to be performed by the Office of Ordnance. Disposition Book XIX, p. 295.
William Lowndes to Mr. Brydges, Paymaster of the Forces Abroad, to apply as follows the 30,750l. directed to you on the 20th inst. together with 9,950l. 4s. 0d. out of the tallies on the Land Tax anno 1709 which were put into your hands March 23 last viz. to pay the total 40,700l. 4s. 0d. to Sir Theodore Janssen for the value in his bills payable to the Duke of Savoy for services as follows: viz.
£ s. d.
in part of 553,845l. 14s. 4d. granted by Parliament for Subsidies to the Allies anno 1709.
for the Duke of Savoy to complete his ordinary subsidy for the two months ending Aug. 3 next and is to answer the value of 66,975 Crowns 15 sols in Sir Theodore Janssen's bills payable in Turin at 60 days' sight at the rate of 58½ pence sterling per crown of 82 sols, money of Piedmont; the residue of the subsidy for the said two months being paid to Mr. Cornish for clothing furnished here for the use of the said Duke 16,325 4 0
for the said Duke more for his extraordinary subsidy: and is to answer to Sir Theodore the value of 100,000 Crowns in his bills payable at 75 days' date at the like rate of exchange 24,375 0 0
£40,700 4 0
You are hereby to assign to Sir Theodore the said Land Tax orders for said 9,950l. 4s. 0d. with interest to commence as from 18 May inst.: and on your sending the said orders here [with your assignments thereon] the Lord Treasurer will give warrant to the Exchequer to pay interest accordingly. Ibid.
May 20. Letter of direction for 20,750l. to James Brydges, Paymaster of the Forces Abroad: out of Exchequer Bills to be made forth under the Bank Stock Act: and is intended to be paid to Sir Theodore Janssen as above:
Likewise 10,000l. out of loans to be made by said Janssen himself on Malt anno 1709: and is to be similarly paid to him as above. Ibid., p. 296.
Order by Treasurer Godolphin to Thomas Baker and William Goslin (officers for the arrears of prizes) to observe (a) infra.
Prefixing: (a) order of the Queen in Council dated St. James's May 19 that for the relief of the widows of the captors of the several prizes taken by her Majesty's ship Enterprize in the Mediterranean in May 1707 the regulation relating to the furnishing by the Navy Commissioners to the Prizes Commissioners of a list of captors certified from the ship's muster book, be in this case dispensed with: and that the ship Enterprize (which was unfortunately lost with all her company) be paid according to a list of its company transmitted from Leghorn to the Prizes Commissioners by Christopher Crow, Prizes Agent there, who had the disposition of the prizes so taken. Warrants not Relating to Money XX, pp. 362–3.
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