Warrants for Minor Appointments: 1734

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'Warrants for Minor Appointments: 1734', in Calendar of Treasury Books and Papers, Volume 2, 1731-1734, (London, 1898) pp. 679-688. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-treasury-books-papers/vol2/pp679-688 [accessed 11 April 2024]

1734

TABLE III.
1734.
Letters Patents, Royal Sign Manuals and Warrants, Treasury Warrants, Commissions and Orders relating to Appointments.
1733–4.
Date. Nature of Order or Entry and Substance of Appointment. Reference.
Jan. 3 Treasury warrants. George Newton, riding officer, Newhaven, loco Edward Beard, superannuated; Robert Sergeant, same, Winchelsea, loco Thos. Jenkins, senr. deceased; Nathl. Peagrim, junr. mate of the “Rye” sloop, stationed from Dungeness to Beachy Head; Wm. Ditty, additional tidesman and boatman, Poole, loco Joseph Wadham, preferred. Customs Book XIII. p. 440.
Treasury letters patents. Henry Fane, Clerk or Keeper of the Foreign Estreats in the Court of the Exchequer, loco John Cooke, deceased. Warrants not relating to Money XXV. p. 98.
Jan. 4 Treasury commission. Samuel Wilmot, Receiver General of Land Tax and House Duties, 1733, for Oxfordshire. Affairs of Taxes IV. pp. 76–7.
Treasury warrant. Thos. Watson, landwaiter, Newcastle, loco Thos. Moore, deceased. Customs Book XIII. p. 440.
Same. Robert Perran, searcher and surveyor of cards and dice, loco Thos. Somers, deceased. Warrants not relating to money XXV. p. 99.
Jan. 8 Same. Saml. Hall, surveyor, waiter and searcher at Frodsham, Liverpool port, loco John Dutton, deceased; James Kimpland, tidesman, Appledore, Bideford port, loco Antho. Bass, deceased; Michael How, noon tender, London, loco John Fox, deceased. Customs Book XIII. p. 445.
Edward Walpole to the Commissioners of Taxes. To admit Francis Sorrell as Secretary to their Board, loco Robert Manning. Letter Book XIX. p. 202.
Jan. 15 J. Scrope to the Customs Commissioners. John Ford to be instructed at the waterside at Barnstaple. Ibid, p. 204.
Jan. 16 Treasury warrants. John Smith, comptroller of Customs, Fort William, loco Adam Cuninghame, dismissed; Archibald Buchanan, tide surveyor, Greenock, loco Wm. Mynatt, deceased; Alexander Campbell and John Gray, tidesmen, Fort William, locis Archibald Potter and Joseph Baird, dismissed; Andrew Walker, boatman, Leith, loco Matthew Lilburne, deceased; John Fairlie, collector at Irvine, at 50l. per annum, and Lawrence Nugent, same at Ayr, at 40l. per annum, to change places; Robert Gordon, officer of the salt duty at Alloa, loco Alexander Fraser, dismissed; James Ferguson and Patrick Batson, tidesman at Aberdeen, locis Nicholas Wright and Alexander Strachan, dismissed; James Dalgety and Charles Bannerman, tidesmen at Dunbar, locis Wm. Stark and Alexander Reston, dismissed; Walter Graham, land surveyor, Port Glasgow, loco Charles Shelley, resigned; Wm. Sibbald, boatman at Alloa, loco Robert Hunter, deceased. North Britain Book XI. p. 48.
Jan.16 Treasury warrant. John Cross, riding officer at Ryde, Cowes port, loco John Fursman, superannuated. Customs Book XIII, p. 445,
Treasury order for royal letters patent. Valens Comyn, joined with Richard Gee, on the death of Joseph Alston, junr. in the office of one of the two under searchers, Gravesend. Ibid, p. 448.
Jan.22 Treasury warrant. Wm. Smith, tidesman, inferior list, London port, loco Wm. Burge, deceased. Ibid, p. 453.
Jan.24 Same. Earle Bambrigg, assistant warehouse keeper of un- stamped parchment and paper, to be warehouse keeper of same, loco Thos. Say, deceased; John Smith to be assistant, same, loco Bambrigg. Warrants not relating to money XXV. p. 101.
Same. Isaac Sampson, copying clerk of entries inwards, London port, loco Henry Mory, deceased; John Goodchild, additional boatman at Ipswich, loco Jacob Cheney, drowned; Stanley Pugh, coastwaiter at Portsmouth, to be landwaiter there, loco John Williams Flower, dismissed; Richd. Smalley to succeed Pugh as coastwaiter. Customs Book XIII. p. 445.
Jan.29 Same. Wm. Hall, waiter and searcher, Whitehaven, loco Wm. Savage, deceased; Richard Righton, coastwaiter, London port, loco Edmond Robson, deceased. Ibid, p. 453.
Feb.2 Same. Edmond Spencer, tidesman, inferior list, London port, loco Robert Dunbar, preferred to be deputy King's waiter there; Wm. Foster, tidesman, superior list, London port, loco Wm. Goodeve, deceased; John Barmby to succeed Foster in the inferior list; Robert Grove (? James Garway), tidesman, inferior list, ibid, loco Richard Barnes, deceased; Thos. Groves, waiter and searcher, Dartmouth, loco John Hodder, deceased; Robert Avoke to succeed Groves as tidesman there; Thos. Gates, waterman, London, to be surveyor of Greenwich, loco Thos. Dorrell, deceased. Ibid, p. 455.
Feb.4 J. Scrope to the Customs Commissioners. John Whitehead to be instructed at the waterside, Exeter. Letter Book XIX. p. 205.
Feb. 5 Treasury warrant. Lamb Wiggmore, boatman, Mersea Island, Colchester port, loco Thos. Legg, resigned; Henry Crawley, collector of Shoreham, loco Samuel Firth, deceased. Customs Book XIII. pp. 455, 457.
Feb. 8 Same. Charles Rowland, boatman, Brancaster, Wells port, loco Robert Wattson, junr. superannuated; John Sydal, same, ibid, loco Wm. Church, superannuated; John Lewis, waiter and searcher and assistant to the boatmen at Start Point, Bridgwater port, loco Richard Hyllard, deceased; John Keen, boatman, Combwich, same port, loco Francis Gatcombe, deceased. Ibid, p. 460.
Feb.19 Same. Joseph Tolcher, waiter and searcher, Plymouth, loco John Coats, deceased; John Bayly, boatman, Chepstow, loco John Campbell, deceased; John Bryant, tidesman and boatman, Harwich, loco James Smith, deceased; Samuel Howard, waiter and searcher at Hull off Bank, Boston port, loco John Pierrepoint, deceased; John Barrow, watchman, London port, loco Thos. Andrews, deceased. Ibid, pp. 459, 464.
Feb.26 Same. Herbert Legg, tidesman, superior list, Bristol port, loco Charles Rogers, preferred; John Watkins to succeed Legg in the inferior list; Wm. Reade, same, superior list, ibid, loco Charles Power, superannuated; Wm. Parrett to succeed Reade in the inferior list; David Roberts and George Cogswell, watchmen, Bristol port, locis Mark coules and John Sharpe, superannuated. Ibid, p. 465.
Feb. 27 Treasury warrant. Henry Barnes, tidesman, inferior list, London port, loco Joseph Everett, superannuated. Customs Book XIII. p. 466.
Mar. 6 Letters patent by the King. Thomas Wardroper, Surveyor General of royal lands, North Carolina. King's Warrant Book XXXI. pp. 250–1.
Same. Charles Duke of St. Albans to have the custody of the lodge and walks in Cranborne Chase, loco Henrietta Maria Wither. Ibid, pp. 247–8.
Treasury warrant. Edward Meadmore, tidesman and boatman, Cowes, loco Thos. Harvie, resigned. Customs Book XIII. p. 465.
Mar. 7 Same. Wm. Bourne, boatman, Hastings, Rye port, loco Wm, Bourne, his father, superannuated; John Waters, tidesman and boatman, Colchester, loco George Sudell, superannuated. Ibid.
Mar. 11 Same. Charles Northcote, landwaiter, Weymouth, loco Thos. Ledoze, deceased. Ibid.
Mar. 22 Same. John Price, tidesman, inferior list, London port, loco John Rocke, superannuated; Simon Wills, deputy to Edward Naish, King's waiter, Bristol port; Wm. Foster appointed deputy comptroller at Shoreham, loco John Humphrey, deceased, to be placed on the establishment of the Customs for the allowance made to the deputy comptroller there by the Crown; John Charnells, tidesman, inferior list, London port, loco Richard Brainton, dismissed; Richard Spinks to succeed Charnells as tidesman; Abraham Lovell, tidesman and boatman, Plymouth, loco John Pearce, superannuated; Nicholas Marshall, preventive officer at Boscastle, Padstow port, to be riding officer there; Josias Fuge to succeed Marshall as preventive officer; Richard Score, junr., collector, Padstow, loco Wm. Taylor, dismissed; Nathaniel Joliffe, register of certificates at Guernsey, Southampton port, loco Thos. Day, deceased; Wm. Noakes established landwaiter at Newhaven, at 40l. per annum; George Ensor, waiter and searcher, Saltfleet, Boston port, loco Wm. Leigh, dismissed; Michael Owen, deputy comptroller of Lyme, to be placed on the establishment for fees, detailed; Thos. Newsham to succeed his father, John Newsham, as waiter and searcher at Carmarthen. Ibid, pp. 466, 469.
Treasury order for royal letters patent. Wm. Taylor, gent. comptroller of Customs, Plymouth, loco John Wolrige. Ibid, p. 468.
1734.
Mar. 25		 Treasury letters patent. Edward Jackson, gent, inspector of the Customs books of the Outport officers, that office having been neglected since its last occupant, Samuel Sturges. Ibid, pp. 475–7.
Mar. 26 J. Scrope to the Customs Commissioners. To appoint Joseph Downing waiter and searcher at Plymouth, cancelling the deputation to Joseph Tolcher for the same. Letter Book XIX. p. 216.
Commission from the King. Wm. Forbes, Lieutenant General of Montserrat, loco Thos. Diggs. King's Warrant Book XXXI. p. 364.
Mar. 28 J. Scrope to Customs Commissioners. Thos. Stuart to be instructed at the waterside, London port. Customs Book XIII. p. 469.
Treasury warrant. Joseph Harvey, commander of the smack in Lynn Regis port, loco Robert Day, deceased. Ibid, p. 465.
April 3 Same. Samuel Philips, commander of the smack in Harwich port, loco his brother, John Philips, deceased. Ibid, p. 469.
Treasury commission. Richard Millan, Receiver General of London and Westminster. Affairs of Taxes IV. p. 87.
Treasury warrant. Thomas Gordon, deputy to Horatio Walpole, as auditor in the Leeward Islands. Warrants not relating to money XXV. p. 128.
April 4 Warrant under the royal sign manual. Sir Nicholas Williams, Chamberlain of the town and borough of Brecon, and the counties of Brecon, Radnor, and Glamorgan, &c. loco Charles Duke of Bolton. King's Warrant Book XXXI. pp. 262–8.
April 4 Treasury warrants. George Inkson to succeed his father John, as waiter and searcher, Lynn Regis; Joseph Tyson, tidesman at Helbre and Hoylake, Liverpool port, loco Hugh Topping, superannuated. Customs Book XIII. p. 469.
April 8 Same. Henry Rice, tidesman, inferior list, London port, loco Thos. Berry, superannuated. Ibid, p. 465.
April 10 Same. Richard Kemp, boatman, Torcross, Dartmouth port, loco Henry Brimblecorne, superannuated; Frances Willerton, waiter and searcher, Saltflect, loco George Ensor, declined; Wm. Kennicott, tidesman and boatman, Dartmouth, loco Ambrose Wotton, superannuated; Thos. Fox, tidesman and boatman, Dartmouth, loco Laurence Wood, deceased; Thos. Walker, waiter and searcher, Broad Fleet, Lancaster port, loco Christopher Canny, deceased; Samuel Templeman, tide surveyor, Weymouth, to be surveyor there at the established allowance, viz. 50l. per annum and 10l. for a house in lieu of incidents; Edward Fizard, senior, tide surveyor, loco Temple- man, at 50l. per annum instead of 30l. Ibid, p. 477.
Same. George Westfaling and Jonathan Burward, junr. to hold the office of one of the five under searchers, London port. Ibid, p. 485.
April 11 J. Scrope to Customs Commissioner. George Hall, extraordinary waiter and searcher at Fosdyke, Boston port. Ibid, p.478.
Royal warrant. Robert Ewing, chamberlain and collector of the revenues payable out of the Earl of Morton's estate in Orkney and Shetland, at 500l. per annum, loco Ewing, lately deceased. North Britain Book XI. p.92.
Treasury letters patent. Edward Dennis, the officer in the Exchequer to control all payments for annuities, principal, interest and other payments due, &c. on the several and respective lotteries for 1710, 1713, 1714, and 1719 (second lottery), loco his father, George Dennis. Warrants not relating to money XXV.p. 137–8.
April 12 Royal sign manual to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, for letters patent appointing Richard Edgcumbe and Pattee Viscount Torrington to the office of Vice Treasurer and Receiver General and Paymaster General of His Majesty's Revenues, Profits and Casualties, Ireland, locis Hugh Viscount Falmouth and Richard Edgcumbe. Irish Book IX. pp. 20–2.
April 15 Treasury warrant. John Pennington, comptroller of the cash of the cashier of Excise, loco Sir Joseph Pennington, at 600l. per annum, for himself and clerks. Warrants not relating to money XXV. p. 138.
April 16 Letters patent by writ of Privy Seal. Sir Nicholas Williams, Chamberlain of Brecon borough and Brecon, Radnor and Glamorgan, &c. loco Charles Duke of Bolton. King's Warrant Book XXXI. pp. 321–3.
Treasury commission. Thos Holder, senior, surveyor of houses, Suffolk, loco Thos. Symonds, dismissed. Affairs of Taxes IV. p. 10.
April 20 Royal commission. John Campbell, Governor of Milford, Pembrokeshire, and of all water batteries, floating fortifications, castles, forts, and blockhouses, in said haven or any of its creeks, &c at the yearly fee of 40 marks, loco Charles Duke of Bolton. King's Warrant Book XXXI. p. 418–20.
Royal letters patent. Arthur Onslow, Treasurer of the Navy Royal and ships, and Receiver General of all sums appointed or to be appointed for support, maintenance and reparation of same, for emptions and provisions appertaining to and necessary for said wages and ships, or for wages of any officers, &c. whatsoever belonging to said Navy, with an annuity of 2,000l. per annum, and a salary of 1,700l. for the paymaster, cashier, accomptant, and other officers; loco Viscount Torrington. Ibid, p.278–81.
April 22 Royal warrant to the Lord Lieuteuant of Ireland, for new commissions, as follows:—Wm. Harrison, Edward Thompson, Robert Sawyer Herbert, Marmaduke Coghill and Edward Riggs, Commissioners of Excise, Ireland, and Wm. Harrison, Edward Thompson, Robert Sawyer Herbert, Giles Earl, Marmaduke Coghill, Edward Riggs, and John Lord Galway, Chief Commissioners and Governors of Revenue, Ireland. Irish Book IX. pp. 3–4.
April 23 Treasury warrant. Wm. Wright, weighing porter, London port, loco Richard Bryington, dismissed; Joseph Hodgson, collector at Beaumaris, loco Fetherstone Nicholson, deceased; John Berkinhead and Hugh Dyke, tidesmen, Liverpool, locis Daniel Fish and Randle Shaw, dismissed. Customs Book XIII. p. 488.
April 27 Same. John Lloyd, deputy to Jonathan Burward, one of the five under searchers of London; Thos. Tomlinson to succeed James Tomlinson, his father as deputy to the comptroller of Lancaster port. Ibid, pp. 491–2, 495–6.
Same. James Hall, riding officer under Wm. Hamilton; John Comrie, comproller of Customs at Fort William, loco John Smith, declined; James Tom, tidesman at Leith, loco Henry Venter, deceased; Duncan Cameron, boatman, Alloa, loco Robert Hunter, dismissed; George Balfour, tidesman, Montrose, loco Robert Auchterlony, deceased; George Munro, watchman of salt duty, Alloa, loco James Miller, resigned; Edward Ross, same, ibid, loco John Sym, deceased; George Campbell, tidesman, port Glasgow, loco Robert Gordon, preferred; Alexander Strachan, same Campbeltown, loco Patrick Ferguson, dismissed; John Campbell, same Borrowstounness, loco David Kennedy, deceased; John Murray, same, Stranraer, loco Charles Grott, deceased; Francis Irwin, tidesman, Dumfries, loco Wm. Walker, deceased. North Britain Book XI. p. 109.
April 29 Same. Thos. Sanden, comptroller of Chichester port, loco John Sanden, his father. Customs Book XIII. pp. 494–5.
Royal warrant. James Kerr, assay master of the Mint, Edinburgh, loco James Penman. North Britain Book XI. p. 108.
Same. John Lord Belhaven, General of the Mint, Scotland, loco Charles Earl of Lauderdale, with salary of 300l. per annum. Ibid, p. 111.
April 30 Treasury warrant. Sir Alexander Brown, register of British ships, Scotland, loco Walter Home, superseded; James Dundas's deputation as inspector of seizures, Scotland, to be revoked; James Aitkins, tidesman, Dumfries, loco Adam Dickson, dismissed. Ibid, p. 109.
Same. John Winder, tidesman, Whitehaven port, loco John Hews, deceased; Robert Aire, boatman, Newcastle, loco John Wetherburne, deceased. Customs Book XIII. p. 495.
May 1 Christ. Tilson to the Salt Commissioners. James Gambier, their cashier, loco Joseph Windham Ash. Letter Book XIX. p. 227.
May 4 Warrant under the royal sign manual for a new Commission for Stamps, viz.:—Sir Brocas Gardiner, John Shorter, Richard Shelley, Wm. Fisher, Barrington Goldsworthy, in place of Sir Brocas Gardiner, John Turner, John Shorter, Wm. Hewett, Rich. Shelley. King's Warrant Book XXXI. pp. 290–1.
May 6 Royal letters patent. Wm. Wallbutt, one of the gamekeepers for 10 miles round Richmond Palace and Hampton Court Palace, loco Theophilus Aldridge, lately deceased. Ibid, p. 292.
May 7 Treasury warrant. Henry Harnage, assistant to the surveyor of the warehouse in examining East India goods, to be surveyor of the searchers, London port; David Davies to succeed him as assistant; Wm. Rogers, tidesman and boatman, Milford, to assist the surveyor on all occasions, loco Nicholas Dunn, deceased. Customs Book XIII. pp. 498, 503.
May 21 Treasury warrant. Robert Rogers, tidesman, inferior list, London port, loco Wm. Travell, deceased. Customs Book XIV. p. 1.
June 4 Same. Nicholas Strong, waiter and searcher, Lostwithiel, Fowey port, loco John Jones, deceased; John Free, tidesman (? boatman), Padstow, loco Peter Sampson, deceased; Francis Castillion, preventive officer (? boatman), Plymouth, loco John Brawton, superannuated. Ibid, p. 2.
June 5 Same. Wm. Wright, weighing porter, London, loco Charles Hodges, superannuated; John Trapneal, boatman, Ipswich, loco John Pennyfee, deceased; John Smethurst to succeed his father, James, as deputy searcher and waiter and searcher, Lancaster port; Samuel Jones, landwaiter, Liverpool, loco Robert Wakefield, deceased. Ibid, pp. 1–2.
June 12 Royal warrant for a new Commission for Appeals, and regulating the Excise, viz., Humphrey Fowle, James Montague, Sir More Molyneux, John Paul Yvonnet, and Edwyn Coney, in place of Humphrey Fowle, James Montague, Duncomb Drake, since deceased, Sir More Molyneux, and John Paul Yvonnet; at salaries of 200l. per annum each. (Letters patent, dated 1734, July 15.) King's Warrant Book XXXI. p. 297.
June 12
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later.		 Treasury commissions. To Receivers General, detailed, of house duties, 1734, for various counties. Affairs of Taxes IV. pp. 59–60.
Same. To the Receivers General, detailed, for the various counties, &c. of land tax, 1734. Ibid, pp. 101–4, 112.
[June14?] Treasury warrant. Richard Frost, a watchman in the Stamp Office, loco John Glynne, deceased. Warrants not relating to money XXV. p. 169.
June 19 Same. Wm. Dodd, chief boatman, Arundel port, loco Thos. Middleton, superseded; Michael How, noon tender, London, and Benj. Crabb, preferable tidesman, to exchange places; Richard Pearson, boatman, Bridlington, loco Thos. Hawson, deceased; George Williams, waterman, London port, loco Jarvis Mason, superseded. Customs Book XIV. p. 3.
June 20 Same. Richard Frost, watchman in the Stamp Office, loco John Glynn, deceased; Richard Brown, boatman, Lynn Regis, loco David Brown, deceased. Ibid, pp, 3–4.
June 26 Same. Gervas Cooper, waiter, searcher, and riding officer, Broadstairs, loco Thos. Paramore, superseded; Wm. Hewet to succeed Cowper as waiter and searcher at Margate. Ibid, p. 4.
July 2 Same. John Dyer, searcher, Bristol, loco John Edwards, superannuated; John Spelman, land carriageman, London, loco Hamlet Robinson, deceased; Lawrence Crump, surveyor, Gloucester port, loco John Rodway, incapable; Edward Gilbert, deputy to Samuel Dawson, King's waiter, London port. Ibid, pp. 8, 10.
Same. William Henderson, a stamper, loco Isaac Moat, deceased. Warrants not relating to money XXV. p 170.
July 5 J. Scrope to the Customs Commissioners. Isaac Pryor to be instructed at the waterside, London port. Letter Book XIX. p. 234.
July 9 Treasury warrants. John Booth, tidesman, superior list, London, loco Philip Kemp, superannuated; Edmund Roe to succeed Booth in the inferior list; Wm. Temperance, boatman, Hull, loco Joseph Lee, dismissed. Customs Book XIV. pp. 10, 12.
July 11 Same. Truth Camplin, watchman, London port, loco Richard Tarling, superannuated; Wm. Morgan, waiter and searcher, Mumbles and Blackpool, Swansea port, loco Timon Simons, superannuated. Ibid, p. 12.
July 17 Same. Henry Cruwys, solicitor to the Stamp Office, loco Wm. Mowbray, deceased. Warrants not relating to money XXV. p. 170.
Same. Joseph Dicker, riding officer, Brighton, Dover port loco Wm. Lane, deceased. Customs Book XIV. p. 15.
July 23 Treasury warrant. Benjamin Hall, assistant warehouse keeper of stamped parchment and paper and entering clerk of cards and dice, loco Major Carpenter, resigned. Warrants not relating to money XXV. p. 174.
Treasury letters patent. Wm. Vaughan, inspector of the moneyer's presses in the Mint and to clean and polish the dies, &c. Ibid, pp. 174–5.
Same. Lawrence Noakes, landwaiter at Newhaven, loco Wm. Noakes, deceased; John Marsden, landwaiter, Liverpool, loco Henry Parr, dismissed (cancelled); Hubert Tassell, collector and surveyor, Rhode Island, New England, loco Robert Kay, deceased; Roger Ormond, collector at Bath Town, North Carolina, loco Wm. Owen, deceased. Customs Book XIV. pp. 19–20.
July 24 Edward Walpole to the Revenue Commissioners, Ireland. Recommending Robert Manning as solicitor or correspondent to them, loco Fra. Sorel, promoted to be secretary to the Commissioners for Taxes. Irish Book IX. p. 41.
July 25 J. Scrope to Customs Commissioners. Edward Jackson to be instructed at the waterside, Bristol port; Warren Lisle, commander of the, “Walker” sloop, Weymouth port, loco James Stear, deceased. Customs Book XIV. p. 29.
July 26 Treasury warrant. James Glen, inspector of seizures of prohibited and uncustomed goods, Scotland, loco James Dundas, superseded, at 12d. per £ allowance. North Britain Book XI. p. 146.
July 27 Same. Robert Henley, supervisor of the riding officers, Weymouth, loco Warren Lisle, preferred to the command of the “Walker”sloop. Customs Book XIV. p. 31.
July 30 Letters patent by writ of Privy Seal. Peregrine, Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, to be Warden and Chief Justice in Eyre, Trent North, loco John Viscount Lymington. King's Warrant Book XXXI. pp. 440–2.
Aug. 1 Treasury warrant. Lawrence Etough, tidesman in the inferior list, Liverpool, to be landwaiter there. Customs Book XIV. p. 31.
Aug. 6 Same. Andrew Rose, surveyor, Shetland, loco Robert Dowglas, deceased; James Dowglas, landwaiter and searcher there, loco Rose preferred. North Britain Book XI. p. 146.
Same. James Cooke, additional messenger and surveyor of the Hackney Coach Office at 40l. per annum. Warrants not relating to money XXV. pp. 178–9.
Same. John King, additional assistant to the surveyor of the warehouse, London port, loco Charles Carkesse, junior, preferred to be searcher at Gravesend, loco Wm. Parker, superannuated; Jonas Tettlay, riding officer at Robin Hood's Town, Whitby port, loco Thomas Medd, deceased. Customs Book XIV. p. 31.
Aug. 8 Same. Wm. Lowen, weighing porter, London, loco Thos. Ewbank, resigned; Hubert Tassell, collector and surveyor, Rhode Island, loco Robert Kay, deceased, at the established salary of 100l. per annum. Ibid.
Aug. 20 Same. James Harrison, established waiter and searcher at Reighton, Scarborough port. Prefixing:—Customs Commissioners' report. Ibid, pp. 35–6.
Aug. 22 Treasury Commission. Ralph Rance, surveyor of houses, Middlesex, loco Richard Griffith, dismissed. Affairs of Taxes IV. p. 10.
Treasury warrant. Thos. Betts, boatman at Cockbush, Chichester port, loco Richard Outen, deceased; Isaac Bradford, same, Ramsgate, Sandwich port, loco John Jell, deceased; John Kaynes, tidesman, Lynn Regis port, loco John Pinney, deceased. Customs Book XIV. p. 34.
Aug. 23
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April 29.		 Note of warrants for Privy Seals. George Earl of Cromarty, Chamberlain of the Earldom of Ross, Lordship of Ardmeanach, and Barony of Delny and Meddate, loco John late Earl of Sutherland, deceased, for the crops and years 1733, and all preceding rents yet unpaid.
Same for Alexander Earl of Leven to be Chamberlain of Fife and Strathern. N.B.—“In the last warrant he was called Melvil Earl of Leven, instead of Alexander.”		 Treasury Board Papers CCLXXXVI. No. 34; North Britain Book XI. pp. 88–9, 113–4, 153–6.
Aug. 29 Treasury warrant. Thos. Wells, an additional riding officer for hawkers and pedlars, to inquire after such as trade without a licence. Warrants not relating to money XXV. p. 185
Sept. 4 Same. Thos. Baughs, collector at Aberdovey, loco Rees Jones, dismissed; Nicholas Teage, collector at Penzance, loco Henry Badcock, dismissed. Customs Book XIV. p. 36.
Sept. 12 Same. John Marsden, landwaiter, Liverpool, loco Henry Parr, dismissed; Etough's deputation to same to be superseded, and he to be restored to his office of tidesman, inferior list, Liverpool. Ibid, p. 29.
Treasury commission. John Robins, surveyor of houses, Cornwall, loco John Baron, deceased. Affairs of Taxes IV. p. 10.
Royal sign manual for a bill to pass the Great Seal. John Eckersall, Receiver General and Cashier of Customs Revenues, the several subsidies of tunnage and poundage, and all other impositions and duties whatsoever, loco Henry Selwyn, deceased. King's Warrant Book XXXI. p. 369.
Sept. 18 Treasury warrants. Joseph Macham, surveyor of the warehouses, London port, loco Samuel Grice, deceased; Francis Manning to succeed Macham as landwaiter in the superior list, ibid; John Warner to succeed Manning in the inferior list of same, ibid; Francis Jackson, surveyor of the East India warehouses, London, loco Samuel Grice, deceased; Robert Harrison to succeed Jackson as landwaiter in the superior list, ibid; Thos. Hester to succeed Harrison in the inferior list of same, ibid; John Smith, established collector, Aldeburgh, at 40l. per annum from the Crown, and to act for the customer for his fees or 20l. per annum, loco Robert Crabbe, deceased; Charles Turner, one of the examiners of outport books, loco Robert Parker, superseded; Mainwaring, Arthur, comptroller of the warehouses for prohibited East India goods, loco Thos. Hester, preferred; John Atkinson, landwaiter, Newcastle port, loco Jeremiah Robinson, resigned; John Massingham, riding surveyor between Sherringham and Happisburgh, Yarmouth, loco James Wells, deceased. Customs Book XIV. p. 41.
Sept. 25 Same for letters patent to pass the Exchequer seal. Wm. Walmesley, Comptroller of Chester and Flint, and master mason and carpenter of Chester Castle. Warrants not relating to money XXV. pp. 190–1.
Same. Thos. Meares, tidesman and boatman, Southampton, loco John Price, deceased; George Lylles, noontender, London, loco Thos. Collrill, deceased; Catherine Daniel, established as housekeeper of the Custom House, Bristol port, at 40l. per annum; George Keene, boatman, Faversham, loco Henry Rogers, resigned; Francis Edwards, waiter and searcher, Poole, loco Michael Farewell, deceased. Customs Book XIV. p. 42.
Sept. 26 J. Scrope to Customs Commissioners. John Freemantle to be instructed at the waterside, London port. Ibid, p. 29.
Oct. 2 Treasury warrant. Robert Henry Gale, assistant warehouse-keeper of unstamped parchment and paper, loco John Smith, preferred. Warrants not relating to money XXV. p. 192.
Same. Charles Malden, collector of Customs, Malden port, loco Walter Walker, resigned; Wm. Lantrow,collector, Barnstaple port, loco Nathaniel Moore, deceased; Wm. Coham, waiter and searcher, Bideford, loco Walter Solby, dismissed; Gregory Bowden, master of the “Calshot” sloop, Southampton port, loco Thos. Mears, preferred. Customs Book XIV. p. 45.
Treasury letters patent. John Wright, searcher, Milford port, loco Rosendall Lloyd, deceased. Ibid, pp. 46–7.
Oct. 10 Treasury warrant. John MacFun, officer of salt duty, Kirkcaldy, loco James Dowglas, preferred; Wm. Munro, watchman of salt duty, Alloa, loco George Munro, declined; Robert Macgilligan, same, Prestonpans, loco John Duncan, dismissed; James Crawford, tidesman, Irvine, loco Robert Paterson, dismissed; Alexander Murray, boatmen, Dumfries, loco James Affleck, dismissed; Wm. McKie, tidesman, Stranraer, loco John Gordon, dismissed; Wm. McMaster, same, ibid, loco John Murray, declined; Archibald Wales, landcarriage waiter, Edinburgh, loco Wm. Hercus, deceased; James Younie, watchman of salt duties, Alloa, loco Adam Robertson, dismissed; James Doughty, same, ibid, loco Edward Ross, declined; George Douglas, officer of the salt duty, Kirkcaldy, loco Archibald Campbell, deceased; John Fowle, tidesman, Irvine, loco Gilbert Neilson, deceased; George Mearns, tidesman, Kirkcaldy, and Patrick Beatson, same, Aberdeen, to exchange stations; Wm. Robertson, landwaiter and searcher, and Robert Halyburton, officer of salt duty at Prestonpans, to exchange stations; John Neilson, riding officer under Wm. Hamilton, Surveyor General of riding officers for preventing importation of cattle from Ireland into North Britain, and for hindering the running of uncustomed goods in the west and south coast of Scotland and the islands thereto belonging. North Britain Book XI. pp. 174–5.
Same. John Hall, tidesman and boatman, Sunderland, loco John Harding, deceased. Customs Book XIV. p. 45.
Oct. 16 Same. Alexander Kinlock, comptroller, Port Glasgow, loco John Fuller, deceased. North Britain Book XI. p. 180.
Oct. 23 Same. Samuel Butter, noontender, London port, loco Richard Turner, deceased; Thos. Streaton, surveyor at Colchester, loco Paul Angier, deceased. Customs Book XIV. p. 49.
Same. Thos. Southouse, tidesman, Borrowstounness, loco Alexander Houston, deceased. North Britain Book XI p. 180.
Oct 24 J. Scrope to the Revenue Commissioners, Ireland. To appoint Hugh Dickson collector of Cork, loco John Love. Irish Book IX. p. 46.
Oct. 30 Treasury warrants. James Bruce, supervisor of salt duty, Prestonpans, loco Archibald Campbell, deceased; Alexander Fleming, watchman of salt duty, ibid, loco Wm. Forbes, dismissed; Patrick Mackellar, George Haliday, and Adam Dix, tidesmen, Dumfries, locis Thos. Simpson, David Johnston, and Archibald Steuart, dismissed. North Britain Book XI. p. 180.
Oct. 31 Same. Robt. Stone, boatman, Torcross, Dartmouth port, loco Ralph Rachbill, deceased; Peter Elliot, waiter and searcher, Bantham, Bigbury Bay, Dartmouth port, loco Robert Griffith, deceased; Thos. Thunder, riding officer, Ramsgate, Sandwich port, loco his fathre, Richard, superannuated; Hugh Ball, boatman, Kingswear, Dartmouth port, loco George Broughton, deceased. Customs Book IV. p. 49.
Nov. 27 Same. Richard Kemp, tidesman, Kingswear, Dartmouth port, loco George Broughton, deceased; Wm. Merchant to succeed Kemp as boatman at Torcross, same port; John Ford, surveyor of Customs, Bideford, loco Thos. Burgoyne, dismissed; Thos. Davies, tidesman and boatman, Hull, loco Robert Keld, superannuated; Gregory Bowden, mate of the “Calshot” sloop, Southampton port, to be commander there, loco John Mears, deceased; Wm. Rice to succeed Bowden as mate Customs Book XIV. p. 55.
Nov. 28 Treasury commission. Herbert Lewis, surveyor of houses, Radnor, loco Thos. Lewis, dismissed. Affairs of Taxes IV. p. 10.
Dec. 2 Treasury warrant. John Nevill, tidesman and boatman, Stockton port, loco Wm. Bagwith, deceased. Customs Book XIV. p. 55.
Dec. 10 Same. Ambrose Corby, boatman, Colchester port, loco Wm. Rawlins, dismissed; Bernard Sampson, warehouse keeper, Topsham, loco Bartholomew Anthony; Wm. Dewhurst, tidesman at Helbre and Hoylake, Liverpool port, loco John Sherlocke, superannuated; John Button, tidesman, Liverpool port, loco Wm. Stennett, dismissed. Ibid, p. 59.
Same. Abraham Walton, searcher and surveyor of cards and dice, loco George Tompson, deceased; Oliver Peard, distributor of stamps, co. Devon (city of Exeter and town of Plymouth excepted), loco Nathaniel Thorne, deceased. Warrants not relating to money XXV. p. 199.
Dec. 11 Treasury commission. Thos. Cross, surveyor of houses, Middlesex, loco Philip Pott, deceased. Affairs of Taxes IV. p. 11.
Dec. 18 Treasury warrant. James Chamness, tidesman, inferior list, London port, loco George Brinklow, superannuated. Customs Book XIV. p. 62.
Dec. 21 Royal warrant to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Wm. Tighe, Keeper of the Rocords in the Tower of Berningham, Ireland, on the surrender of Arthur Hill, who was appointed on the surrender of Joseph Addison. Irish Book IX. p. 51.
Dec. 26 Treasury order for royal letters patent. Peter Buck, comptroller, Chichester port, loco John Miller, deceased. Customs Book XIV. p. 62.
Dec. 31 Treasury warrants. John Marshall, riding officer, Sheppey Island, Rochester port, to succeed John Bingham, deceased, as waiter and searcher, to act for the collector of Faversham; John Jelly to succeed Marshall as riding officer; Wm. Gribble, tidesman, Truro port, loco John Lifchild, deceased. Ibid, p. 65.
1730 Sept. 22 Letters patent by writ of Privy Seal. Sir Philip Medows and Alan Viscount Middleton, Comptrollers of the Accounts of the Army, at a salary of 1,500l. for themselves, 300l. to their secretary, and allowance of 900l. for the whole office charge; all in succession to Sir Philip Medows and James Bruce. King's Warrant Book XXXI. pp. 334–5.
Nov. 26 Same in Latin by writ of Privy Seal. Grant to Wm. Benson of the reversion of the office of one of the Auditors of Imprests and Foreign Accounts, First Fruits, &c, Impositions, Customs, Subsidies, &c, Exchange and Moneys, &c, loco Edward Harley, appointed same by letters patent of 6 March, 11 Queen Anne, or Thos. Foley, of Stoke Court, constituted same by letters patent of 13 August, 12 Queen Anne. Ibid, XXXII. pp. 114–21.
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