Entry book: July 1695, 6-10

Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 10, 1693-1696. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1935.

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'Entry book: July 1695, 6-10', in Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 10, 1693-1696, (London, 1935) pp. 1148-1155. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-treasury-books/vol10/pp1148-1155 [accessed 26 March 2024]

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September 1694, 1–15

July 8. Same to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue as follows out of loans on the Hereditary and Temporary Excise: l. s. d. Disposition Book XIII, p. 24.
to Mr. Wheatly for apprehending highwaymen 160 0 0
to Mr. Joller, the like 160 0 0
to Mr. Rymer 150 0 0
to Mr. Tate 25 0 0
to the Treasurer of the Chamber for a quarter's charity 125 0 0
to the Cofferer for the poor at the gate, a quarter 54 12 0
to the Paymaster of the Works for Mr. Samuell Chute for repairs of the Stable at Hampton Court 450 0 0
£1,124 12 0
Same to same to issue 1,500l. to Henry, Sieur D'Auverquer, on the unsatisfied order in his name for 20,000l. for mourning and for the extraordinary expense of the Stables: 500l. thereof to be out of loans on the Hereditary and Temporary Excise and the remaining 1,000l. out of loans to be made on said revenue by Evert Jollyvet. Ibid.
Same to same to issue 694l. 13s. 1d. to the officers of the Works [ut supra, p. 1137] out of loans to be made by themselves severally, or by their appointment, on credit of the Hereditary and Temporary Excise. Ibid.
Same to same to issue 2,000l. to Charles Fox and Lord Coningsby on the unsatisfied order in their name for the Forces [Ireland]: to be issued out of loans in the Exchequer on the Coals and Glass Duties: and to be applied to the Commissioners of Transports in further part of 9,925l. 6s. 5d. as in their memorial of June 21 last. Ibid, p. 25.
1,600l. to Edward Russell, on the unsatisfied order in his name as Treasurer of the Navy: to be issued out of the purchase money of reversions on annuities: and to be paid by the Victualling Commissioners to the Commissioners for Sick and Wounded as in part of their proportion out of the head of Victualling.
2,400l. to George Dodington, Agent to the said Navy Treasurer: to be issued out of loans on the third 4s. Aid: to be for the Commissioners of Sick and Wounded in part of their proportion on the head of Wages.
July 8. William Glanvile (in the absence of William Lowndes) to the Earl of Ranelagh to report on the enclosed petition [missing] of Capt. John Smith for payment of 167l. 17s. 6d. due to him as Capt. of Horse in the Duke of Schonburgh's Regiment and of 107l. 19s. 0d. for disbursements on account of his Troop. Out Letters (General) XIV, p. 405.
Same to the Attorney General to report on the enclosed Representation [missing] relating to the assessment on the Admiralty Lords, the officers of the King's Remembrancer's Office and the Office of Pleas in the Exchequer to the third 4s. Aid, “which they refuse to pay.” Ibid.
The Treasury Lords to the Lord Deputy, Ireland, to report on the enclosed petition (received by us from the King) from Thomas Burdett, esq., praying remission of the 120l. arrears of quit rents due to the Crown out of his lands of Garahill in co. Catherlow, or that he may have a year's respite, in consideration of his great losses and sufferings by the late troubles in Ireland. Out Letters (Ireland) VII, p. 42.
July 9. William Glanvill (in the absence of William Lowndes) to the Paymasters of the Works to pay to Samuel Shute, Surveyor of the Mews at Hampton Court, the 450l. this day directed to you: to be on account of works and repairs there estimated by Sir Christopher Wren at 918l. Disposition Book XIII, p. 25.
Same to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue as follows out of loans made at the Exchequer by Bartholomew Burton on credit of Hereditary and Temporary Excise, viz.: l. s. d. Ibid, p. 26.
to Lord Lucas, 400l. and 248l. 8s. 7d. 648 8 7
to Col. Phillip Howard 150 0 0
to Mr. Clerk for Bagshot Rails 97 10 0
to Mris. Browning 0 0 0
to the Paymaster of the Works for John Webb, fowl keeper in St. James's Park 67 12 0
to the French Ministers in the Savoy 60 0 0
to Mr. Macy 0 0 0
to Mris. Foxton 100 0 0
to Mris. Mary Kirk 25 0 0
to Sir Robert Atkins 500 0 0
to the Duke of Devonshire as Chief Justice in Eyre 100 0 0
to Mr. Tilson. 9 16 0
to Henry Dean, going as chaplain to Barbados. 20 0 0
£2,058 6 7
July 9. William Glanvill (in the absence of William Lowndes) to the Commissioners for Sick and Wounded. Col. James Kendall, late Governor of Barbados, has memorialised my Lords for payment of 825l. disbursed by him to several captains of ships in 1691. By your report of the 1st inst. you certify that he disbursed same for the charges of sick men sent on shore from his Majesty's ships, and that he took bills for same drawn on the Navy Commissioners, who sent same to you with other bills for 300l. more drawn for the same service. You are to satisfy same out of the 4,000l. lately ordered to be paid to you, viz. 2,400l. by the Navy Treasurer and 1,600l. by the Victualling Commissioners. Disposition Book XIII, p. 26.
Same to Mr. Blathwayte to procure the King's signature to the following warrants and to return same with a signification of his Majesty's pleasure for my Lords' countersigning thereof, viz.: Out Letters (General) XIV, p. 405.
(1) Duke of Shrewsbury: 3,000l. for secret service.
(2) Lady Trenchard: privy seal for discharge of plate.
(3) Mr. Bertie: sign manual for 1,000l., being 2 per cent. gratuity on a loan of 50,000l. on the three-fourths of the Customs.
(4) Mr. Fox and Lord Coningsby: privy seal for 50,000l.
Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners to employ Roger Williams as a landwaiter, London port, loco John Frederick, who is grown in years and very much weakened by a fall; Williams to allow out of his salary 40l. per an. to Frederick, who is willing to surrender provided he may be provided for as other superannuated officers of that rank have been by an allowance on the establishment. Out Letters (Customs) XIII, p. 197.
Same to same to make allowances to the officers etc. as follows relating to the management of the Duty of Tonnage on ships, as in your presentment of Feb. 5 last. Ibid, pp. 198–200.
Appending: said presentment to the Treasury Lords. By our presentment of [1694], May 22, we laid before you the instructions we had prepared for putting in execution the Act [5 and 6 Wm. and Mary, c. 20] for the said Duty and for the collection of same in the outports and the allowance proper to be made to Sir John Shaw, who collects the Foreign Duty, Sir Nicho. Crisp, who receives the Coast Duty, and Mr. Backwell, who keeps a comptroll upon both the said collectors' accompts of the said revenue in London port. For the saving of charge we then proposed to use the Customs boats and officers, but did not fix the latters' remuneration. We now propose an allowance of 3s. per ship to the persons employed in the actual admeasurement of every ship, great or small, in London port, or the outports; the said 3s. to be divided thus, viz. in London port 6d. per ship to the watermen attending the admeasurers, the remaining 2s. 6d. to be divided equally among the principal admeasurers who are always to be three in number at each admeasurement.
For the more regular admeasurement in London port we took the assistance of Walter Henshaw and James Meyor, two men of art in the business of gauging. Henshaw joined the officers in the said work for some time, but finding it inconvenient to him in his private business desired to be excused. We propose to give him 10l. reward, he having given great [in] sight and instruction to the officers in the business of gauging for two months' time. We propose an allowance of 6l. to Meyor, besides his share in the said 2s. 6d. per ship, as he has no other relation to the revenue than as assistant in the admeasurement. In the outports we propose that the 3s. be equally divided among the persons concerned by the port collector.
Mr. Colt, the collector of Bristol port, reports that the officers there are obliged to give more than ordinary attendance upon this business by reason of the particular incommodiousness of the river. We propose an additional 10l. to them for one quarter [of a year] only, to be distributed equally by the collector.
In some of the outports the officers are obliged to travel several miles by land from the principal place to measure ships arriving and discharging at creeks. We propose an allowance of 3d. per mile for their travelling charges.
For the clerical work of receiving and accompting we propose 4d. per ship to the port collector and 2d. per ship to the port comptroller: also 2d. per ship to the examiners in London port who are appointed to revise and check the calculations.
For rendering the accounts more easy and perspicuous we have thought fit to keep a Register and Alphabetical List of all ships imported and measured in London and the outports and we propose 2d. a ship for the clerks employed in this service: also 2d. a ship to the clerks that make up the account of ships imported and measured in London port and the outports respectively: also 2d. per ship to the clerks in the [Customs] Secretary's Office and the Office of the Comptroller General of the [Customs] Accounts in view of the increase of service which has happened by reason of this duty.
The total clerical charge is therefore 1s. per ship, which makes the full charge of admeasurement 4s. per ship.
July 9. Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners to insert on the establishment an allowance of 100l. per an. to Richard Bretton, customer of Sandwich port; to be as from June 24 last till the end of the war: he having served as collector at Dover, a member of Sandwich port, for near 20 years without any salary or allowance, in which collection his predecessor had 100l. per an.: it appearing that during the present war the patent fees and profits of this office are near lost and yet the trouble in this collection very much increased chiefly by the late imposts and additional duties and the constant care for the security of the duty on prize goods brought into Dover port which are subject to great embezzlements, besides the general inspection incumbent on him into the carriage and behaviour of the several officers within the whole county of Kent, visiting them on divers occasions and making very effectual returns. Out Letters (Customs) XIII, pp. 200–1.
Treasury warrant to Sir Thomas Trevor, Attorney General, to enter a noli prosequi to the information against William Malthus of London, merchant, who in Aug., 1693, freighted a ship called the Exchange, English built, owned and manned, to Norway for deals, which she discharged in London port, and then she went to the West Indies: it appearing that the shortage of her English manning amounts to only a part of a man, there being seven men in the voyage to Norway besides Geo. Hoyle, the master, and of the said seven Joseph Pulman and John Wilson were born in England of English parents, John Moyet was born in Ireland, two men were housekeepers in Wapping and were hired as English. Out Letters (Customs) XIII, pp. 201–2.
July 10. Money warrant for 40l. to Samuell Powell, esq., Serjeant at Arms, attending the House of Commons, to be distributed to the housekeeper, messenger and doorkeepers attending the said House in reward for their constant attendance and service during the last Session of Parliament. (Money order dated July 15 hereon.) Money Book XII, p. 566. Order Book IV, p. 214.
Same for 79l. 16s. 0d. to Christopher Tilson for fees of warrants and other charges paid by him for his Majesty's service by order of the Treasury Lords. (Money order dated July 12 hereon.) Money Book XII, p. 567. Order Book IV, p. 213.
Treasury warrant to the Postmasters General to pay the tallies for the 3,365l. to Lord Edward Russell, lent by him July 4 inst., paying same as fast as the Post Office revenue will admit without interfering with the weekly payments charged thereupon before that date: with 6 per cent. interest. Money Book XII, p. 567.
Money warrant for 158l. 8s. 0d. to Edmd. Davenport, late sheriff of Kent, for the year ended 1694, Sept. 29, as in part of 402l. claimed by him for money expended in removing prisoners and for apprehending highwaymen; the remainder of said 402l. being satisfied to him by allowance in his [sheriff's] account. The said 158l. 8s. 0d. is to be satisfied out of such moneys as said Davenport shall pay into the Exchequer, viz. 155l. 12s. 0d. on the Poll of 2 Wm. and Mary and 2l. 16s. 0d. on the Poll of 4 Wm. and Mary. (Money order dated July 15 hereon.) Ibid, p. 568. Order Book IV, p. 213.
Same for 456l. 19s. 3d. to Sir Thomas Abney and Sir William Hedges, kts., sheriffs of London and Middlesex, for the above year as in part of 753l. 15s. 2d. similarly claimed by them, whereof the residue is satisfied by allowance in their account. Of the said 456l. 19s. 3d. the sum of 358l. 3s. 3d. is to be satisfied out of moneys which they shall pay into the Exchequer, viz. 35l. 12s. 0d. on the 12d. Aid of 1 Wm. and Mary, 14l. 10s. 0d. on the Poll of 1 Wm. and Mary, 107l. 14s. 0d. on the Poll of 2 Wm. and Mary, 176l. 4s. 3d. on the 2s. Aid and the Additional 12d. Aid of 1 Wm. and Mary and 24l. 3s. 0d. on the Quarterly Poll of 4 Wm. and Mary. The remaining 98l. 16s. 0d. is to be satisfied out of any [disposeable] money in the Exchequer. (Money order dated July 15 hereon.) Money Book XII, p. 568. Order Book IV, p. 212.
William Glanvill (in the absence of William Lowndes) to the Earl of Ranelagh to apply as follows the 14,655l. 7s.d. directed this day to you out of loans on the Duties on Coals and Glass, together with 28,033l. 16s.d. remaining undisposed of the loans in your hands on the Marriage Duties, viz.: l. s. d. Disposition Book XIII, p. 27.
in further part of 99,274l. 18s. 0d. for the month's subsistence [to the Forces] in Flanders to July 5 inst. (marginal note: the Exchequer certificate makes 10l. more issued) 4,655 7
to make the foregoing up to 33,000l., which then completes 66,000l. in part of the said month 18,344 12 11½
for the week's subsistence [of the Forces] in England to July 16 inst. 7,600 0 0
for Brigadier Hastings in part of 700l. due to him for pay as Col. and Capt. in the Regiment of Foot now under Sir John Jacob as by the King's warrant of April 24 last 300 0 0
for Col. John Gibson for so much disbursed by him on several encampments near Portsmouth before and after the late Brest Expendition 140 0 0
for Mr. Cole, collector of Customs in the Isle of Wight, for the like disbursements on the encampment of 10 Regiments of Foot there immediately after the said Expedition 250 0 0
for the King's bounty to Capt. Phill[ip] Armstrong in consideration of his wounds and losses at the Battle of Lander [Landen] 150 0 0
for pay to the Earl of Oxford's Regiment on their extraordinary allowance of 8d. a day to 1694, June 24 1,249 3 4
£42,689 3 4
Same to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue as follows: l. s. d. Ibid, p. 28.
to the Earl of Ranelagh on the unsatisfied order in his name for the Forces: out of loans on the Duties on Coals and Glass 14,655 7
to Charles Fox and Lord Coningsby for the Commissioners of Transports in further part of 9,925l. 6s. 5d. for services as in their memorial of June 21 last: out of the like loans 2,000 0 0
to Edward Russell, on the unsatisfied order in his name as Treasurer of the Navy: out of the purchase money of reversions on annuities: to be for the Victualling Commissioners on account of the Victualling in General 5,000 0 0
£21,655 7
William Glanvill (in the absence of William Lowndes) to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue as follows out of loans on the Hereditary and Temporary Excise, viz.: l. s. d. Disposition Book XIII, p. 28.
July 10. to Sir William Trumbull, one of the Principal Secretaries of State: for secret service 1,000 0 0
to the Treasurer of the Chamber for the inhabitants of Kensington for lodging his Majesty's chaplains etc. in the year 1694 122 16 0
to Theodore Randue, Housekeeper of Windsor Castle, for half a year's wages to 1695, Lady day 131 1 8
to the Gentlemen of the Chapel in lieu of three deer 20 0 0
to the doorkeepers of the House of Peers 50 0 0
to ditto of the House of Commons 40 0 0
to Mr. Stepney 364 0 0
to Mr. Pryor 91 0 0
to Mr. Lowndes for secret service 160 0 0
£1,778 17 8
Same to Mr. Aaron Smith to take care on the King's behalf of the estate of John Moor, “a Tripe man” at Westminster, who is now in Newgate condemned for coining. Out Letters (General) XIV, p. 406.
Same to the late Commissioners for Hackney Coaches not to remove out of the office the books and papers which concerned the regulating or licensing of hackney coaches or stage coaches. Ibid.
Same to Mr. Franklin. Please send to my Lords a copy of the Sieur de la Brettonieri's will as proved June 27 last by the executors, Nicholas Gambier and Hester Le Heup. Ibid.
Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners to pay the assessments to the present 4s. Aid on the salaries of Customs officers of not more than 60l. per an. salary. Out Letters (Customs) XIII, p. 201.
July 10. Money warrant for 188l. 15s. 0d. to Charles Brawn (Brawne), esq., Receiver General for Somerset of the first 4s. Aid and Review of the Quarterly Poll, for his extraordinary charges and service in his receipt. (Money order dated July 20 hereon.) Money Book XII, p. 572 . Order Book IV, p. 219.
Same for 20l. to William Young for the use of Henry Dean, clerk, for the charges of said Dean's transportation to Barbados, whither he is gone chaplain. (Money order ut supra.) Money Book XII, p. 572. Order Book IV, p. 219.