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May 22.
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Royal warrant to the Clerk of the Signet for a privy seal for the
issue to Dame Frances Bathurst, relict and executrix to Sir Benjamin
Bathurst, late Cofferer of the Household, of such moneys as shall be
necessary to clear the Household to April 1 last. Queen's Warrant
Book XXII, p. 202.
Same to the Attorney or Solicitor General for a great seal to revoke
the grant to Philip Bertie of the office of Auditor of the Duchy of
Cornwall and in place thereof to grant same to Albemarle Bertie.
Ibid., p. 203.
Royal sign manual for 900l. to Mary, Duchess of Buckingham :
as royal bounty. (Money warrant dated May 23 hereon). (Money
order dated May 26 hereon). Ibid., p. 203. Order Book VI, p. 143.
Disposition Book XVII, p. 97.
Same for 450l. to Robert Harley Esq., Speaker of the House of
Commons, for 90 days Jan. 31 last to April 30 last on his allowance
of 5l. a day. (Money warrant dated May 23 hereon). (Money order
dated May 26 hereon). Queen's Warrant Book XXII, p. 204. Order
Book VI, p. 118. Disposition Book XVII, p. 97.
Royal warrant to the Clerk of the Signet for a privy seal for
100,000l. to Francis Godolphin, Treasurer of the Household, as
imprest for the ordinary and extraordinary of the Household as
from April 1 last. (Money warrant dated May 25 hereon. This
warrant quotes the privy seal as dated May 25). (Money order dated
May 27 hereon). Queen's Warrant Book XXII, p. 205. Money Book
XVII, p. 136. Order Book VI, p. 114.
William Lowndes to the Excise Commissioners for their answer to
the enclosed representation [missing] of the Assessment Commissioners
for the city of London relating to [Land Tax] assessments on
yourselves and your officers. Out Letters (General) XVII, p. 381.
Warrant by Treasurer Godolphin to the Customs Commissioners
to employ John Stephens as Comptroller of the Four and a Half
per cent. Duty in the island of Barbados loco William Hart lately
deceased. Out Letters (Customs) XIV, p. 317.
Same by same to same to deliver to Simon Lynch and the rest of
the owners of the William and Mary privateer the perished fish
ut supra p. 198 taken in the prize Prophet David : free of Duty,
on payment of 84l. 15s. 9d. for the Duty on the fish already sold.
Ibid., p. 318.
Warrant by Treasurer Godolphin to the Queen's Remembrancer
to take the securities, detailed, of Thomas Coke Esq. as one of the
four Tellers of the Exchequer. (Same dated May 24 to Sir Edward
Ward, Lord Chief Baron, to swear him in). Warrants not Relating
to Money XVIII, pp. 241, 243.
Same by same to same for stay of process against Sir William
Robinson on his accounts of moneys imprested to him and
Bartholomew Van-homrigh as Commissaries General of the Provisions
for the Army in Ireland : to give the said Robinson time to get his
vouchers transmitted hither from Ireland. Ibid, p. 241.
Same by same to Sir Roger Mostyn bart., approving Gabriel
Edwards as his deputy as Constable of Flint Castle and Keeper of
the Gaol there ; Thomas Fowlkes as Comptroller of the Records,
Pleas, Fines and Amerciaments in cos. Chester and Flint ; and John
Lloyd as Comptroller of the Pleas, Fines and Amerciaments "of
North Wales in co. Carnarvon." Ibid., p. 243.
Indenture of contract (the eleventh contract) for the circulation
of Exchequer Bills for one year from 1704 June 16 under the late
Act of Parliament for making good the deficiency of several Funds
8-9 Wm. III c. 20 and the late Act for the Subsidy and Land Tax
8-9 Wm. III c. 24 : not exceeding 1,200,000l. over and above the
1,500,000l. as by the former of the two Acts [8-9 Wm. III c. 6
and 8-9 Wm. III c. 24] and so as the maximum at any one time shall
not exceed 2,000,000l. : the contractors hereto engaging themselves
hereby to pay to the Trustees for Exchequer Bills (Sir James
Bateman, John Heathcote and Henry Fermer) moneys in instalments
as therein for the encashment or exchange of such Exchequer Bills
as may be desired not to be renewed when they come in course of
payment, or as may be refused or not accepted in satisfaction of
tallies or orders of loan which come in course of payment. [The
names of the Contractors are not given.] Ibid., pp. 247-250.
Royal warrant to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to ascertain
what share and proportion the estate of Lord Bophin (now vested
in the Crown by the failure of payment of 25,000l. as below) and the
estate of William, late Earl of Clanrickarde shall respectively bear
and be charged with for the residue of the debt of 2000l. as follows
and it is the Queen's pleasure that in the meantime the said Lord Bophin
be not permitted to receive the rents of said estate : all by reason that
Lieut. Gen. Stewart and Katherine, Viscountess Grandison, his wife,
have petitioned, setting forth that she and her former husband Brigadier
Edward Fitzgerald Villiers in 1687 obtained a decree in Chancery
against William, late Earl of Clanrickarde, Lady Purbeck et al. for
2,000l. to be paid with interest out of a debt of 25,510l. decreed by
Chancery in 1682 to said Lady Purbeck against said Earl of Clanrickarde :
and on the 3 May 1693 they further obtained a decree against Richard
now Earl of Clanrickarde and Lord Bophin and others to have the
said 2000l. out of the estate of William, Earl of Clanrickarde, then
deceased : and that from May 1697 to July 1700 the said Viscountess
received by sequestration the rents of several parts of the estate of the
Clanrickarde family in Ireland as subject to the said decree, but at
the latter date the Trustees for Irish Forfeitures entered on the said
sequestered estate as forfeited by the treason of the late Lord Galway
and Lord Bophin, sons [sic? for son and brother respectively] of
Richard, Earl of Clanrickarde ; whereupon the Viscountess exhibited
her claim to the said Trustees for the balance of said debt : that
further by an Act of Parliament made in England [1 Anne st. 2 c.
18 clause 12] provision was made for the Protestant children of
the said Earl of Clanrickarde and for Lord Bophin, and that the
said Bophin might enjoy his estate but subject to all decrees allowed
by the said Trustees and subject to the payment of 25,000l. into the
Exchequer of Ireland, failing which the estate to be vested in the
Crown, and the said estate is now so vested by reason the said moneys
have not been paid : and on the whole matter the Attorney General of
England is of opinion that the aforementioned Acts in favour of Lord
Bophin are now void, the moneys thereby directed to be paid having
not been paid and that the petitioners are justly entitled to the
remains of the said 2000l. and interest, their case resting "on the
Act of Irish Forfeitures made the 11th of our late Royal brother
King William by which the claims allowed by the Trustees are
confirmed so as not afterwards to be impeached, avoided or called
in question by us, our heirs or successors." Out Letters (Ireland)
VIII, pp. 310-11.
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March 23
[sic
erratum
for
May 23].
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Money warrant for 450l. to Peter Hume and Robert Cremer for
1 years to 1704 Lady day on their respective allowances of 180l.
and 120l. per an., as examiners of the vouchers of annuity payments
at the Receipt. (Money order dated May 23 hereon). Money Book
XVII, p. 135. Order Book VI, p. 116. Disposition Book XVII,
p. 97.
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May 23.
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Same for 30l. to the Earl of Ranelagh, Ranger of Cranbourne
Chase in Windsor Forest, for 1 years 1702 Michaelmas to 1704
Lady day for the charge of hay for the deer within the said chase.
(Money order dated May 25 hereon). Money Book XVII, p. 135.
Order Book VI, p. 119. Disposition Book XVII, p. 79.
Same for 184l. 6s. 10d. to Jezreel Jones for the expenses of his
journeying to and from the Emperor of Morocco in 1701 and 1702
and for translating several letters out of the Arabic and Spanish
tongues for her Majesty's service in 1703 and 1704. (Money order
dated May 25 hereon). Money Book XVII, p. 136. Order Book
VI, p. 119. Disposition Book XVII, p. 97.
Warrant by Treasurer Godolphin to the Receipt to distribute and
apply 79,038l. 19s. 10d. to Deficient Funds as follows : said sum
representing the receipts between April 25 last and May 23 inst.
from branches of the revenue as follows : viz. 7432l. 2s. 4d. from
Windows ; 5028l. 11s. 5d. from Additional Impositions ; 2485l.
3s. 0d. from New Duty on Paper Continued ; 27,358l. 6s. 10d. from
New Customs ; 2293l. 13s. 8d. from Marriages ; 34,441l. 2s. 6d. from
Continued Impositions : the said distribution and application to be
hereby as follows : viz.
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Deficiences
as computed
by Act of
Parliament.
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How they
stood upon
the register
23rd May, 1704.
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The distribution
and application
hereby
ordered.
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s.
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d.
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s.
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d.
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s.
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d.
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First 4s. Aid
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55622
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10
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5
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37930
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1
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2
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902
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8
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10
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Third 4s. Aid
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407372
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0
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3
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214798
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9
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3
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6609
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7
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4
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Fourth 4s. Aid
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917111
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13
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2
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457199
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10
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0
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14879
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8
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6
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Second Quarterly Poll
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89275
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13
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4
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63665
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13
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4
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1448
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8
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11
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Three Fourths Customs
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218447
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15
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9
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103047
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15
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9
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3463
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1
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3
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Salt, Glass &c.
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1711500
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0
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0
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522929
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5
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8
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27768
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1
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4
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Two Thirds Additional Excise
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160000
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0
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0
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46315
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0
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2
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2595
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18
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1
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Additional Impositions
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449177
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7
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4
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270200
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0
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0
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7222
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14
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9
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Vellum
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224114
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7
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8
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146006
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17
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8
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3636
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2
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5
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Marriages
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648000
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0
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0
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308783
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11
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9
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10513
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8
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3
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4871611
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8
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0
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2170876
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4
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11
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79038
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19
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10
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Money Book XVII, p. 138.
William Lowndes to the Attorney General to report on the enclosed
memorial [missing] of Sir Charles Duncombe concerning certain
woods and timber in co. Wilts. belonging to the see of Winchester
and of which he has the custody. Take speedy care to prevent
further waste. Out Letters (General) XVII, p. 381.
Same to Mr. How enclosing an order in Council relating to what
is wanting for the pay, clothing and provisions of the Company of
Foot at Newfoundland for the year 1704. You are to frame your
demand for same accordingly in your next [weekly cash requirement]
memorial. Ibid.
Same to Mr. St. John [Secretary at War] to report on the enclosed
petition [missing] of George Jenkins, executor of the late Col. Brewer,
in behalf of Richard Brewer, his infant son, praying that the 1544l.
16s. 2d. stopped out of said Colonel's pay for the clothing of said
Regiment may be paid out of the growing offreckonings of said
Regiment (now under Col. Livesey) according to the usual custom
of the army for discharging debts for clothing. Ibid., p. 382.
Same to Auditor Harley to prepare the accounts of the two late
Marine Regiments as by the enclosed state thereof [missing]. Ibid.
Warrant by Treasurer Godolphin to the Customs Commissioners
to employ Robert Carnsew as tidesman and boatman at Fowey loco
David Bell who relinquisheth same.
Henry Hayting as tidesman in the inferior list, London port, loco
Joseph Brown deceased.
Edward Perry as one of the Commissioners of the Four and a Half
per cent. Duty at Nevis loco James Thynne deceased. Out Letters
(Customs) XIV, pp. 305, 317.
Same by same to same to accept the oath of William Coleman
servant to Ebenezer Travers instead of the said Travers himself
now deceased, in order to the passing of the debentures for the
merchandise exported by the said Travers in 1695 and 1696, in order
to the satisfaction of his creditors, ut supra Tr. Cal. XVIII, p. 475.
Ibid., p. 319.
Same by same to same to continue the vessel commanded by Capt.
Richard Upton which was fitted for the guard of the coast of Cornwall :
at the established allowance of 1800l. per an. ut supra Tr. Cal :
Vol. XVIII, p. 445, to wit until Michaelmas day next and no longer :
the merchants, masters of the ships and inhabitants of Cornwall
having by their representations set forth the great benefit they have
received especially in their fishery and coasting trade in being
defended and secured by the said vessel and having therefore prayed
the continuance thereof until their fishing season be over. Ibid.,
p. 320.
Treasury reference to Auditor Harley of the petition of William
Bradbury shewing that he served in the First Marine Regiment as
Captain from the beginning to the end of the last war and there is
due to him 215l. 8s. 10d. "according to an account signed by the
Colonel and agent of the said Company" : therefore praying
payment towards his support, in regard he is out of service and
lame of the gout. Reference Book VIII, p. 107.
Warrant by Treasurer Godolphin to the Queen's Remembrancer
for stay of process against the Earl of Ranelagh on his accounts as
late Paymaster General of the Forces : his accounts to 1702 Dec. 24
when he left office, being now delivered in to the Auditors of Imprests.
Warrants not Relating to Money XVIII, p. 240.
Report by same to the Queen on the representation from the
Commissioners of Trade and Plantations touching a fitting salary
for John Bridger, lately employed to enquire what naval stores
could be had in New England. The Navy Commissioners propose
that his accounts be first determined before any such salary be
settled. Ibid., p. 257.
William Blathwayt [as Auditor of the Plantations], dated from
Whitehall, to Mr. Byerley, acknowledging his first quarterly account
from 1703 July 31 to Sept. 29. Visct. Cornbury's certificate should
have mentioned that same had been viewed in Council : and you are
to swear same before him or the Chief Judge instead of a Baron of the
Exchequer and this oath is to be certified. Out Letters (Plantations
Auditor) II, pp. 166-7.
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Same to Mr. Clarke. Since my last [to you] I have two letters
from you of the 13th Sept. and 29 Nov. last. With the first [thereof]
I received the draft of the Q[ueen's] Farm [near West Chester church
New York] and also of the half acre of land called the Governor's
Garden. As to the church at West Chester I expect from you an
accompt thereof for my Lord Treasurer's further satisfaction.
With the latter [letter] I received Col. Byerly's accompt from the
time of his entering office 31 July to 29 Sept. 1703 which I have
acknowledged to him as above by this conveyance and do acquaint
him that on receiving accompts for three quarters more they would
be prepared as annual accompts for declaration.
For the method of these accompts I have acquainted him that
they are approved by my Lord Treasurer except as to two particulars
(1) mention should have been made therein that they have been
viewed by his Lordship [the Governor] in Council : (2) the Receiver
General Mr. Byerly should have sworn the truth thereof before his
Lordship in Council or the Chief Judge ; of which oath certificate
is to be made hereafter on the several accompts "by which method
they will become perfect and fit for declaration." Concerning this
you will take care to confer with Mr. Byerly.
Of all the intermediate accounts between those of Mr. Weaver and
Mr. Byerly there is yet wanting the accompt of the Commissioners
appointed to manage the revenue from 25 March to 31 July which
it is necessary you should demand of them and send to me with a
certificate of their oath as to the truth thereof for the time between
Mr. Weaver and Mr. Byerly.
I was in good hopes and my Lord Treasurer expected that my
Lord Cornbury would before this time have returned Mr. Weaver's
accompts after due examination in pursuance of my Lord
[Treasurer's] order [of 1702-3 March 3 supra Tr. Cal. vol. XVIII, p.
163]. But I find by yours that the gentlemen that are answerable
for Mr. Weaver have made several difficulties and I have myself
received a letter from them wherein they express their scruples and
say that those accounts were to be re-examined before the Governor
in Council and that no such order had been yet given by his
Excellency. To this I do only answer that my Lord Treasurer's
order directs the examination of the several articles of receipts and
payments by his Excellency but it would come more authentic if
viewed in Council as other accounts should be : which need not
hinder the examination of them by you and such other person as
the Governor may appoint preparatory to the audit in Council.
This you will represent to the Governor and to Mr. Weaver's security,
letting these gentlemen know that if they delay any longer the
suffering their accounts to be re-audited my Lord Treasurer will
give immediate directions for a process to be issued out against them.
P.S. You would do well to advise the gentlemen that have given
security for Mr. Weaver that in order to the final clearing his accompts
it will be necessary when they shall be returned by Lord Cornbury
to my Lord Treasurer that they appoint an agent in England to
attend the declaration thereof before my Lord Treasurer and to take
out Mr. Weaver's quietus, without which they cannot be discharged.
Followed by : said Blathwayt's letter, dated May 24, to the said
securities of Mr. Weaver viz. Samuel Staats, John De Peyster, Isaac
de Riemer, and Jacob Leisler Esq. Out Letters (Plantations Auditor)
II, pp. 159-163.
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May 24.
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Money warrant dormant for 500l. per an. to the Auditor of the
Receipt as from 1704 March 25 for himself and his clerks for issuing
the payments on the annuities as by the late Act [23 Anne c. 3]
for granting an Aid by selling Annuities. Money Book XVII, p. 123.
Same for 500l. per an. to the four Tellers of the Receipt as from
1704 Lady day for their care and pains in paying the annuities as by
the abovesaid Act. Ibid., p. 137.
Warrant by Treasurer Godolphin to William Borrett to pay 100
guineas each to the Attorney General and Solicitor General for the
year last past, as reward for all business relating to the Plantations
by them despatched. Ibid., p. 139.
Warrant dormant by Treasurer Godolphin to the Customs Cashier
to pay the fee or salary of 10l. per an. to Roger Clutterbuck as
searcher of Southampton port. Money Book XVII, p. 136.
Money warrant for 500l. to William Borrett, for Crown Law
charges. (Money order dated May 26 hereon). Ibid., p. 136.
Order Book VI, p. 117. Disposition Book XVII, p. 97.
Same for 191l. 18s. 5d. to the Earl of Nottingham as late
Secretary of State, 50l. thereof for half a year to 1704 March 25
on his patent fee and 141l. 18s. 5d. for 28 days March 25 last to April
22 last (when he resigned his said employment) on his salary of
1850l. per an. (Money order dated May 30 hereon). Money Book
XVII, p. 139. Order Book VI, p. 120. Disposition Book XVII, p. 92.
Letter of direction for 1500l. to the Honble. Francis Godolphin,
Cofferer of the Household : out of Civil List moneys : and is intended
to be applied to discharge a bill drawn from Portugal for several
quantities of wine bought there for the service of the Household :
and [further] upon account of her Majesty's removal to Windsor and
other necessary expenses. Disposition Book XVII, p. 94.
William Lowndes to the Navy Commissioners to assign payment
of 151l. 2s. 6d. to the executors of Capt. Richard Kirby (who was
executed at Plymouth) for so much remaining due to him on account
of half pay from 24 Aug. 1698 to 1699 Sept. 30 : the stop which was
put on the said half-pay on his being executed being now removed.
Ibid., p. 95.
Same to the Excise Commissioners to pay into the Receipt
(about Wednesday week May 31) all the money of the several
branches of Excise under your management that shall be then in
your hands or power to pay. Out Letters (General) XVII, p. 382.
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Same to Mr. St. John [Secretary at War] to prepare a royal warrant
for levy money of 20s. per man for 102 men detached from the
Regiments of Brigadier Farington, Sir Richard Temple and Col. de Lalo
to complete the Regiments of Lord Mountjoy and Col. Brudenall on
their going to Portugal and for the allowance for their clothes, arms
and accoutrements and for carriage of same from Chester to Harwich.
Appending : report from the said H. St. John and Jos. Tredenham
[one of the Comptrollers of Army Accounts] on the memorial from
said Colonels for said allowance. Ibid., p. 383.
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Same to Mr. Popple to lay before the Committee of Trade and
Plantations the enclosed observations on the [Colonial] Act for sealing
a public revenue for the support of the Government of Jamaica.
Appending : said observations :
Skin 1. line 22. If goods be reshipped within 12 months the
Receiver is to pay back half the Customs according to the rates,
whereas it should be half the net money received by him after
deductions made.
Skin 1. line 31. There is a penalty for running goods after
sun set and before sun rise, but there is no provision in the bill for
goods run in the day time.
Skin 2. line 6. The goods of new settlers are discharged from
all Duties : Query : whether that exemption should not be restrained
to the Duties granted by this Act.
Skin 2. line 7. There is a proviso that the merchant shall pay
Duty for no more than he sells or disposes of within the Island.
Query : Whether the charge is to be made upon the importation or
the sale and if upon the latter how can the Duty be ascertained :
and whether the goods imported and exported again without being
sold or disposed in the island will be discharged of the whole by this
proviso or of half by the preceding clause ; for they [the said two
clauses] seem to be repugnant. Out Letters (General) XVII, p. 384.
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Letters patent by Treasurer Godolphin constituting James Taylor
to be assistant and chief clerk in the Transfer Office loco John Thrayle
lately deceased. Warrants not Relating to Money XVIII, p. 242.
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Warrant by same to the Receipt for tallies on the Farmers of the
Post Fines for the sum of 2276l. answered direct to the Crown by the
sheriffs for the first year of her Majesty.
Prefixing : certificate of the sums so answered direct by said
sheriffs : the rent of said farm being answered to the Crown up to
1702 Sept. 29 [for which the said tallies are to serve as vouchers], and
there being 2276l. due for the like for the year ended 1703 Sept. 29
Ibid., pp. 253-4.
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Royal warrant to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland for a discharge
to William Chartres of the city of Cork, merchant, of the 1600l. bond
as follows : on the 30 May 1693 the ship Mary of Dublin 60 tons,
Dominick Sausiness master, arrived at Dingle with salt, vinegar,
pitch and oars[ores] from St. Sebastian and landed same and paid Duty
thereon : and on 12 June following Nicholas Green shipped part
thereof for Cork on the James of Cork, 60 tons burden, James Butler
master, and had a cocquet for same but as the said ship was sailing about
she was taken as prize by Capt. Andrew Lake, then Commander of
the Greenwich man of war, who carried her into Kinsale, where James
Waller, then agent for the Prizes Commissioners, seized her on
supposition that her lading was of the growth of France : whereupon
Green procured an order from the Lords Justices of Ireland, for delivery
of said ship and lading on his finding bond for 1600l. whereupon the
said William Chartres out of friendship became bound with Green
in 1600l. to answer the determination of the law therein : and two
years later without notice the said Waller had the ship condemned
as prize in the Admiralty Court of England and put the bond in
suit and Waller's widow intends to take out execution and levy
thereon : further it appearing that in the time of the late troubles
in Ireland the said Chartres' house was burnt and all his estate taken
away and himself kept in prison in a dungeon and arraigned for his
life and he his wife and nine children will be utterly ruined if the
money recovered under said bond be levied on him : and he was not
interested in the said ship other than as surety as above. Out Letters
(Ireland) VIII, pp. 313-4.
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May 25.
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Royal warrant to the Attorney General to discharge William
Miniter from his forfeited recognizance of 100l. and to release him
from Newgate on condition he list himself as a soldier : he with
Michaell Harold in 1700 having failed to appear as witnesses at the
trial of four persons by them accused of being Popish priests.
Queen's Warrant Book XXII, p. 208.
Warrant by Treasurer Godolphin to the Customs Cashier to pay
20l. 11s. 0d. to Henry Vade, an officer of the Customs at Shields, as
reward for seizing sword blades and hanger blades run ashore out
of a vessel from Rotterdam. Money Book XVII, p. 140.
William Lowndes to Sir John Shaw. You have sworn in James
Benn as deputy to Edward Heron, a Queen's waiter, London port,
without the Lord Treasurer's approbation of said deputy. For the
future you are not to swear in deputies where the patentee's constitution
provides first for such approbation by the Lord Treasurer.
Out Letters (General) XVII, p. 385.
Treasury reference to the Agents for Taxes of the petition of
John Farrer for moderation of his composition as a surety for Mr.
Mason, Receiver General of Taxes for co. Cambridge : in regard to
petitioner's distressed family and his great age. Reference Book
VIII, p. 103.
Same to the Agents for Taxes of the petition of John
Gape, surety for Thomas Richards (late Receiver General for co.
Herts) and Receiver in his place on the suspension of said Richards,
shewing that on the account of the Duties on Marriages &c. to 1697
March 25 the said Richards is in surplusage 1477l. 0s. 10d. : therefore
praying that same may be applied to his arrears on other Aids.
Affairs of Taxes I, p. 36.
William Lowndes to the Revenue Commissioners of Ireland, to
report on the enclosed petition [missing] of the Duke of Ormonde
praying compensation for the loss he sustained by consenting to the
last lease [to the Crown] of the Prizage and Butlerage on Wines for
seven years at 1500l. a year : and proposing a further seven years'
lease to the Crown. Out Letters (Ireland) VIII, p. 312.
William Blathwayt to Mr. Gibbs. I have already answered your
letters of Jan. 11 and Feb. 5 last desiring you to hasten Mr. Thomas's
missing accompts. I repeat my desire that in case of refusal or
delay you oblige him by process of law to accompt, to which you may
truly add that my Lord Treasurer is resolved to put him out of the
office unless he do speedily comply. You are to examine and audit
his accompts, he swearing to them before the Governor and Council,
of which [attestation] I am to have a certificate from the Governor or
clerk of the Council. Out Letters (Plantations Auditor) II, p. 163.
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