Entry Book: June 1694, 21-25

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'Entry Book: June 1694, 21-25', in Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 10, 1693-1696, (London, 1935) pp. 664-673. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-treasury-books/vol10/pp664-673 [accessed 25 April 2024]

June 1694, 21–25

Date. Nature and Substance of the Entry. Reference.
June 21. Henry Guy to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue as follows out of the Exchequer, viz.: l. Disposition Book XII, p. 90.
Out of contributions on salt.
to the Treasurer of the Navy for Mr. Taylor in further part of 13,250l. on his contract for hemp 3,625
to ditto for recalls 3,000
to ditto towards imprests and bills of exchange 2,000
to ditto for the Victuallers on account of the Victualling in general 8,000
to ditto for same for victualling the men going for Barbados and New York, 400l. and 1,600l. 2,000
Out of the fine of a lease 915l. and out of Alienations 85l.
[to ditto] to be returned to Monsieur D'Hervart for the French Protestants in Switzerland 1,000
Out of Alienations.
to Mris. Baker on her pension 50
£19,675
June 21. Henry Guy to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue 310l. to the Messengers of the Exchequer, out of the arrears of such taxes as are unappropriated. Disposition Book XII, p. 91.
Same to same to issue 20l. to Walter Wallinger and Thomas Cole out of moneys paid into the Exchequer by the sheriff of co. Salop on the Eighteen Months' Assessment of 30 Car. II. Ibid.
Same to same to issue 200l., out of Alienations, to Aaron Smith for Crown law charges. Ibid.
And 53l. to me [Guy] for secret service: 37l. 12s. 9d. thereof out of Alienations and 15l. 7s. 3d. out of the new duty on coffee.
Same to same to issue 200l. to Lord Culpeper out of loans on the Hereditary and Temporary Excise reserved in the Exchequer. Ibid.
The Treasury Lords to the Commissioners of the 4s. Aid in co. Cornwall. We are informed that the amount of the duplicates for the present [second] 4s. Aid within the Hundreds of East, West and Powder are 1,356l. 16s. 2d. short of what was charged on same for the like Aid last year; and that the duplicates for the Quarterly Poll within the said Hundreds do also fall considerably short of those of last year, “which we cannot but attribute to some defect or negligence in the assessors.” We earnestly recommend to you diligently to revise the duplicates and to amend same agreeably to the Acts therefor and to the trust reposed in you. Out Letters (General) XIV, p. 259.
Treasury reference to the Commissioners for Hackney Coaches of the petition of the Hackney coachmen, shewing that the said Commissioners refuse to give licences “to the major part of the 400 established licence[e]s in regard several of them bought their licences from the city and [from] others who had them by Act of Parliament (and your petitioners' names not being inserted therein [in such transferred licences]) to the utter undoing of them”: therefore praying that those who bought from the city and from others who had them by Act of Parliament may be admitted to have new licences. Reference Book VII, p. 57.
Same to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands of the petition of Obadia Boot, gent., praying a lease of certain coal mines in the manor of Alfreton, co. Derby, at the rent of 20s. per an., and that he may be assigned wood out of Sherwood Forest to carry on the work. Ibid.
Henry Guy to the Revenue Commissioners, Ireland, By patent of 1678, Dec. 2, Charles II granted to Francis, Earl of Longford, quit rents to the total of 557l. 19s. 5¾d. [per an.] in the counties of Longford, Louth and Meath for 21 years. By mesne assignments same are vested in Col. Edward Fitz-patrick, who has represented to the King that same are in arrear since 1688, Michaelmas. It is their Majesties' pleasure that 883l. 9s. 2d. per an. be paid to said Fitzpatrick for six years out of the Crown rents and quit rents in Queen's County for the rents due and for those to grow due on the said former grant. The Treasury Lords desire you to adjust with Fitzpatrick's agent so many of such lands as will make the said sum Send my Lords a certificate of same. Out Letters (Ireland) VI, p. 424.
June 22. Royal licence and permission, under the Queen's sign manual, to William Blathwayt to raise one story and build some conveniences to the two houses called Little Wallingford House and Pickering House in St. Martin's in the Fields, of which he has a lease under the Exchequer seal dated 1690, June 17; the same being necessitated by the rebuilding of Wallingford House adjoining to his said tenements. King's Warrant Book XVII, p. 423.
Royal warrant, under the Queen's sign manual, [to the Attorney or Solicitor General] for a great seal to contain an indenture of grant to Sir Joseph Herne et al. to make copper coins and half pence as follows, viz.: Ibid, pp. 451–9.
The indenture to be between the King and Queen of the one part and Sir Joseph Herne of London, kt., Francis Parry and George Clark, both of the parish of St. James's, Westminster, Abell Slaney of London, woollen draper, and Daniel Barton of London, pewterer, of the other part: they to have the sole power and privilege for seven years from the 24th inst. of coining at their own cost in the Tower of London any number or quantity of tokens or pieces of copper to go for farthings and half pence not exceeding 700 tons of copper, for the whole period of seven years, the farthings and half pence to be entirety of good, fine, pure and merchantable English copper, to be coined into the equivalent of 21 pence per pound avoirdupois, with a remedy of two farthings per pound weight: and if the making of same [in the Tower] be found impracticable or inconvenient for reasons allowed by the Treasury Lords they may be coined at some other public and convenient place in the city of London or suburbs thereof as the said Heme et al. shall decide with Treasury consent:
and that said Herne et al. may at their own will and pleasure vend, issue and dispose of the said farthings and half pence to their best advantage and profit within England, Wales, Berwick or any of their Majesties' Colonies or Plantations in America, but only on the rates hereafter decreed: the coins to be coined with engines and to have the effigies of their Majesties on the one side and on the other a woman sitting on a globe with a shield and the word Britannia or any other inscription which may be warranted under the sign manual:
the said coins to pass and be generally used between man and man or between any persons that shall voluntarily and willingly (and not otherwise) pay and receive the same as tokens:
all other presons arc forbidden to make or counterfeit the said coins or import any such so made and counterfeited into England, Wales, Berwick or the said Colonies and Plantations during said term: and power is given to said Heme etc. to enter any ship, vessel, house or place on suspicion of such import to search for same or for tools for the making thereof and to seize such coins or tools to the proper use of said Herne et al.:
they to pay 200l. per an. for the said seven years for the salary of a Comptroller to be appointed by their Majesties: further they will deliver to Thomas Neale, Master of the Mint, at the Copper Mills now situated in Surrey such quantities of good, fine, pure English copper as shall be sufficient for answering the coinage hereby authorised as good as a standard piece of copper to be forthwith lodged with the said Master at the Office of the Mint in the Tower: the same to be, by workmen appointed by the said Master, melted, rolled and cut into blanks at 21 to the pound and made fit for stamping and thence removed to the Tower or other agreed place as above to be stamped or coined by workmen to be appointed by the said Master, and then to be delivered so stamped and coined to the said Herne et al.; they paying to the said Master for such cutting, rolling, carriage, stamping etc. and for repairing the tools etc. 5d. for every pound weight of farthings and half pence:
but if the said grantees prefer to have the said copper blanks delivered to them and to only stamp and coin the same he shall be paid 2d. per pound weight for such stamping and coining; but if the said Master fail in any of the said particulars the Treasury may appoint others to do such cutting etc., stamping etc., whereupon such allowances to said Master shall cease.
All the profits of the making and issuing said coins as above are hereby granted to said Herne et al. for said period to their own use without account or other thing rendered to their Majesties other than the said yearly sum of 200l.
Herne et al. covenant to coin not only so many such farthings and half pence as shall be sufficient to change all the true farthings and half pence of tin which shall be brought to be changed, but also so many as shall be sufficient for the use and accommodation of their Majesties' subjects in England, Wales, Berwick and the said Colonies and plantations in and for the change of their small moneys and in relation to their retailing trade and other commerce and business, so as the total exceed not the said 700 tons, and that they will not, in the uttering of the same, take or demand more than the fourth part of a penny for every farthing and the half of a penny for every half pence, and that at their own charge they will keep an office in London or the suburbs for such changing and uttering and vending, and that they will there change the said tin coins for equal copper coins at all times without any difficulty or delay provided that in any one week they be not obliged to change more than 200l. worth.
and that they will from time to time melt down the said tin coins to their own use, so that none thereof shall ever afterwards be uttered, or vended or remain unmelted for more than 14 days after receipt of them.
Herne et al. to submit in all things herein to the direction of their Majesties or the Treasury Lords: and to have the use of the implements lately made for the making of tin farthings and half pence,
their Majesties having accepted the proposal of the said Herne et al., as embodied in the above, as tending to the convenience and accommodation of their subjects in their trade and commerce by way of retail and to obviate the loss and damage the subject does now frequently suffer by the great quantities of counterfeit farthings and half pence resembling tin which are daily imposed upon them.
June 22. Royal sign manual for 637l. 10s. 7½d. to the Lottery pensioners, ut supra, p. 168, for last Lady day quarter, on their pensions allowed as royal bounty out of the rent of the Lotteries. (Money warrant dated June 26 hereon.) (Money order dated June 27 hereon.) See infra, p. 684. King's Warrant Book XVII, p. 460. Money Book XII, p. 236. Order Book IV, p. 98.
Same for 1,000l. to John Ince, gent., towards defraying the charges and expenses incident to the management and execution of a commission for taking subscriptions for a Bank [ut supra, p. 651]. (Money warrant dated June 26 hereon.) (Money order dated June 27 hereon.) King's Warrant Book XVII, p. 461. Money Book XII, p. 236. Order Book IV, p. 97.
Same for 1,000l. to Philibertus d'Hervart, Envoy Extraordinary to the Swiss Cantons, to be distributed by him among the poor and distressed Protestants in Switzerland as royal charity and benevolence. (Money warrant dated June 26 hereon.) (Money order dated June 27 hereon.) King's Warrant Book XVII, p. 461. Money Book XII, p. 236. Order Book IV, p. 97.
Same for 500l. to Charles Bertie, without account: as reward or gratuity at 2 per cent. per an. for 1693, Nov. 26, to 1694, May 26, on a loan of 50,000l. made in his name at the Exchequer 1693, May 26, on credit of the three fourths of the Customs. The present sum is intended to be distributed by the said Bertie to the assignees upon the orders for the said loan. (Money warrant dated June 26 hereon.) (Money order dated June 28 hereon.) King's Warrant Book XVII, p. 462. Order Book IV, p. 99.
Royal warrant to Brook Bridges, one of the Auditors of Imprests, to allow to the Earl of Ranelagh in his account of the Forces 1689–90, Jan. 1, to 1690, Dec. 31, the sum of 7,266l. 8s. 9d. paid by him to the Regiment of Foot now in the West Indies, formerly commanded by the Duke of Bolton, and lately by Col. Godfrey Lloyd, on account of their pay from 1690, April 1, to which date they have been cleared: the said sum not being allowable by the Auditor save by royal warrant: the said Ranelagh as Paymaster of the Forces is to deduct same from the clearings of the said Regiment and is to surcharge himself therewith in his account of the Forces: the said sum having been paid by him as follows, viz.: l. s. d King's Warrant Book XVII, p. 465.
to Peter Guery, agent to the said Regiment, on account of recruits 2,252 6 8
to same, in farthings consigned to Col. Coddrington for the said Regiment 2,500 0 0
to same for Capt. Morley 76 10 6
to same for Major Nolt 40 0 0
to same for Capt. Dobbins 165 0 0
to the Victualling Commissioners for provisions for the said recruits 2,232 12 1
June 22. Money warrant for 200l. to Aaron Smith as imprest for Crown law charges. (Money order dated June 27 hereon.) Money Book XII, p. 230. Order Book IV, p. 97,
Same for 50l. to Ann Baker, widow, in part of 75l. for 1692, Christmas quarter, on the pension for maintenance of her and her children. Money Book XII, p. 232.
Treasury warrant to the Postmasters General to pay 2,350l. out of the Post Office revenue to the Duchess of Cleveland for half a year to 1692, Christmas, on her annuity. (Henry Guy to same to satisfy same out of Post Office moneys [left after, or] over and above the weekly payments already directed.) Ibid, p. 232. Disposition Book XII, p. 92.
Henry Guy to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue [as follows] to the Earl of Ranelagh such sums as are or shall come into the Exchequer by contributions for annuities, viz.: Disposition Book XII, p. 91.
to pay bills from Flanders for subsistence to April 1 last, 6,500l.
for subsistence to the Regiments lately before Brest, 3,850l., 11,700l., 9,559l. 15s. 0d., and 8,113l. 17s. 7d.
Same to Mr. Shales, enclosing an account [missing] from the Navy Commissioners of money received and paid by the Navy Treasurer between May 1 and 31 last. Out Letters (General) XIV, p. 259.
Same to the Victualling Commissioners. My Lords approve of your proposed form as follows of a general certificate or credit which you propose to send to Admiral Russell. Send it him by the next post. Ibid, pp. 259–60.
Appending: said form: addressed “to all English merchants and others residing in the parts of Spain, Portugal and Italy where their Majesties' Fleet of Great Britain under the Rt. Honble. Edward Russell, Admiral of their Majesties' Fleet, may happen to come.” The Treasury Lords have secured in our hands 50,000l. sterling to be furnished to said Russell for supply of said Fleet in those parts as occasion shall require: for which sum we have sent letters of credit to said Russell on merchants at Cadiz, Alicante and Genoa. But lest it should so happen that the said Admiral and Fleet should arrive or be in such parts or places where he could not receive or procure the moneys on those credits, we hereby declare and assure all merchants that shall furnish money to the said Russell that such bills of exchange as he shall draw upon us according to the course of exchange for any part of the said sums shall be duly accepted and paid according as is usual among merchants.
Same to the Customs Commissioners, enclosing a copy [missing] of the memorial from the Victualling Commissioners concerning the new duty of tonnage being demanded by you from ships employed in the Victualling: and also the Attorney General's report [missing] thereon. (The like letter to said Victualling Commissioners.) Ibid. p. 260.
The Treasury Lords to the Commissioners for the 4s. Aid in the Hundred of Halfshire, co. Worcester. In yours of the 11th inst. you are now of opinion that the salt springs ought to be rated at a greater value than [was originally] returned to you. But we think it a very great oversight that the same persons were entrusted with a second assessment who ought to have been fined for having so notoriously neglected the duty of their office in omitting to charge the salt springs in their first [assessment]: salt springs and salt works being particularly mentioned in the Act as subject to pay the present 4s. Aid. Although you acquaint us that two of the quarterly payments are already collected we are not willing to infer that you think it reasonable that the parties concerned should have any advantage by their doing wrong and defeat their Majesties of 501l. 9s. 0d., because they have surprised you with a defective assessment and paid the money to collectors of their own recommendation. We again recommend you to set a rate agreeable to the Act either by altering the assessments unduly made and unadvisedly allowed or else by charging it [the said deficit] on the two subsequent assessments. Ibid.
June 22. The Treasury Lords to Mr. Shales, enclosing an accompt [missing] of moneys paid by the Navy Treasurer to ships between the 14th and 21st inst. Out Letters (General) XIV, p. 261.
Same to the Excise Commissioners My Lords are informed that Mr. Hook, who is employed under you, will be a very necessary person to assist in making up the last account of Sir Edward Seymour as Treasurer of the Navy in the time of Charles II, and the first account of Visct. Falkland, who succeeded him. Please permit him to be absent from the Excise Office for that purpose as often as he may be spared. Ibid.
Treasury reference to the Attorney and Solicitor General of the petition of the University of Oxford relating to the new duty on paper etc., “which are to be paid in the Universities.” Reference Book VII, p. 57
Same to the Surveyor General [of Crown Lands] of the petition of Capt. James Greenham, shewing that he discovered a mine in co. Somerset, wherein he is informed is a considerable quantity of silver ore [and which is] designed to be opened and worked this summer: therefore praying to be made overseer thereof. Ibid.
Same to the Customs Commissioners of the petition of Edward Long, praying to be made Collector of Harwich port loco Mr. Banks, who has surrendered. Ibid.
Same to Mr. Travers [Surveyor General of Crown Lands] and Sir Christopher Wren of the memorial of Joseph Craigg. shewing that he having petitioned for a lease of a piece of ground near Scotland Yard, it was referred to the Surveyor General, but Sir Humphrey Edwyn, assignee of Tho. Hall, esq., pretends a right thereto by grant and has taken possession thereof: therefore praying that the Crown title thereto may be examined, Ibid.
June 22. Treasury reference to Sir Christopher Wren of the petition of William Storey for payment of his charges in keeping birds and beasts in St. James's Park from 1687, March, to 1692, Sept., amounting to 394l. 18s. 9d., as by bills examined by Mr. Harbord and Mr. Meridith. Reference Book VII, p. 57.
Entry of the Treasury Lords' signature of the docquet of an in custodiam lease, under the Exchequer seal, to William Simpson of several lands etc. in Harworth, co. Notts, being part of the lands of Radic' Hansby, esq., outlaw: at a rent of 6s. 8d. per an. and fine of 17s. 4d. [sic for 13s. 4d.]. Warrants not Relating to Money XIV, p. 307.
[?] Same of same of a lease to John Luddington et al. in trust for the inhabitants of East Stockwith, in the Lordship of Kirton in Lindsey, parcel of the Duchy of Cornwall, ut supra, p. 516, for 31 years at several annual rents and a fine of 55l; and likewise of a piece of ground and two tenements in Grimsby, being escheated land, as in trust for Jane Maddison at 10s. per an. rent. Ibid.
[?] Same of a same to Sir Mathew Andrews of demesne lands in the manor of Meer, co. Wilts, and other lands there, parcel ut supra, p. 300, for 23 years at 31l. 10s. 0d., 4l. and 20l. per an. rent: and of wood lands there at the rents of 55s., 40s. and 60s. for 99 years terminable on the lives of Henry Langford, Thomas Lucas and Thomas Harding: all at a fine of 1,200l. Ibid, p. 309.
June 22. Establishment, with names and salaries, detailed, of the officers necessary for the Office for [Stamped Vellum and] Paper; as allowed and approved by the Treasury Lords, being four clerks, a ware-housekeeper and surveyor of stamped paper, a distributor of stamped paper, an inspector of parchment, 11 other officers and 42 stampers. Ibid, pp. 310–11, 307.
The like of persons to be distributors of the [stamped] parchment and paper in all the counties of England and Wales and to be collectors of the duty thereby arising, as follows: Ibid, pp. 311–12.
Berkshire: John Paise of Reading.
Beds: Francis Brace.
Bucks: Charles Herle.
Cambridgeshire: William Percivall.
Cheshire: Richard Backwell and Robert Foulks.
Cornwall: Thomas Horwell.
Cumberland: Robert Jackson.
Derbyshire: Peter Gery.
Devonshire: Benj. Robins.
Dorsetshire: Jos. Watson and Peter Clinton.
Durham: William Roper.
Essex: William Wright and Francis Blythe.
Gloucestershire: Walter Marshall, Edward Bulstrode and Thomas Wale.
Hampshire: Thomas Shory and Paul Burwood.
Herts: Francis Isaacson of Barnet.
Herefordshire: Thomas Mathews.
Hunts: John Mason.
Kent: Thomas Raworth of Dover and Thomas Cason of Maidstone.
Lancs: William Townsen of Lancaster and — Dodd of Preston
Leicestershire and Rutland: John Cradock.
Lincolnshire: Edward Cowly.
Monmouthshire: Walter Marshall.
Norfolk: Edward Barnes and Henry Marriott.
Northants: Edward Butler.
Northumberland: Cha. Sanderson and Samuell Wilson.
Notts: John Bury.
Oxfordshire: William Busby and John Langston.
Shropshire: William Leake.
Somerset: Humphry Burton of Tiverton and — Babb of Taunton.
Stafford: Geo. Nevell and John Dunster.
Suffolk: Robert Warren.
Surrey: John Balchen.
Sussex: John Dee, Richard Holmes, John Newton of Lewes and Samuel Bruer of Battle.
Warwickshire: Jer. Withers.
Westmorland: John Procter.
Wilts: Robert Cutler of Sarum.
Worcestershire: William Collins.
Yorks: Geo. Maynard for the West Riding; John Hall for the North Riding; William Lyster for the East Riding.
Town of Hull: Jos. Claver.
Denbighshire: John Lloyd.
Anglesey, Montgomery, Merioneth and Carnarvon: Samuel Howson and Richard Wright.
Flintshire: Robert Foulks.
Carmarthenshire, Cardiganshire and Pembrokeshire: John Evans.
Glamorganshire: Edward Thomas.
Radnorshire: Cha. Jones.
Brecknockshire:— Davys.
June 22. Royal warrant, under the Queen's sign manual, to the Lords Justices, Ireland. By Treasury direction you were to raise 5,200l. in Ireland on credit of the revenue there for the levy money of four new Regiments. You have by letter put forward four several proposals made by divers persons for advancing the said sum and you think the last the fairest to wit to advance said sum on the revenue of Hearthmoney in Ireland provided same may be secured on that branch [of it which is] to be paid in March, 1695, and [provided] that the clothing money for the two Regiments of Col. Cunningham and Lord Donegal [see supra, p. 631] be directed to be paid in manner as formerly signified and agreed to until the same be fully satisfied. We are graciously pleased to consent thereto and hereby direct you to agree for the said loan in the said manner and on said conditions and to give all necessary orders for the due repayment thereof in March next, 1695, out of the Hearth-money and for satisfying the money remaining due for the said clothing in manner as lately signified to you [ut supra, ibid.]. Further, you are hereby to give order for the speedy returning hither [to England] of the sum of 3,250l., part of the said 5,200l., to Charles Fox and Lord Coningsby to be applied as follows, viz. 650l. for half the levy money of Visct. Charlemont's Regiment; 650l. for the like for Lord Mountjoy's Regiment; 650l. for the like for Col, John Courthopp's Regiment and 1,300l. for the like for the whole Regiment of Sir Richard Atkins, kt., raised here for the service of Ireland: and that the remaining 1,950l. be paid in Ireland to the respective Colonels of those three (Mountjoy's, Charlemont's and Courthop's) Regiments or their agents there to complete the levy money of the same. Out Letters (Ireland) VI, pp. 424–5.
June 25. Henry Guy to Mr. Shales, enclosing an account [missing] of moneys received and paid by the Treasurer of the Navy between the 1st and 14th inst. Out Letters (General) XIV, p. 261.
[?] Same to Mr. Richards [in the Treasurer of the Chamber's Office], enclosing a paper [missing] containing a discovery of many unjust practices used by the Messengers [of the Chamber] in making up their bills for riding charges and otherwise. You are to carefully revise such bills as are now before you and report a state of them to my Lords, with your opinion what is fit to be done. Ibid.
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