Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 22, 1708. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1952.
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'Declared Accounts, 1708: Customs, Tobacco', in Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 22, 1708, (London, 1952) pp. dlix-dlxiv. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-treasury-books/vol22/dlix-dlxiv [accessed 26 April 2024]
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Customs, Tobacco
| DECLARED ACCOUNTS: CUSTOMS: TOBACCO: GENERAL ACCOUNT. | |||||||
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| PIPE OFFICE: ROLL 980. | |||||||
| Rowland Holt, Comptroller General of Customs: General Accompt of the Impositions on Tobacco. | |||||||
| 25 December 1707 to 25 December 1708. | |||||||
| Charge. | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | |
| Arrears: remaining in the hands of several Receivers, and Collectors in the Port of London and Outports of England upon the end of the last Accompt | 565,890 | 0 | 3¼ | ||||
| sums due within the time of this Accompt: | |||||||
| London port: | |||||||
| Sir John Shaw, Receiver there on the Plantations Receipt (money 6,919l. 10s. 7½d., bonds 187,380l. 1s. 9d.) | 194,299 | 12 | 4½ | ||||
| Outports: | |||||||
| Barnstaple (money 148l. 9s. 7½d.; bonds 2,046l. 0s. 3d.) | 2,194 | 9 | 10½ | ||||
| Beaumaris (bonds) | 2,940 | 12 | 6 | ||||
| Bristol (money 4,262l. 1s. 7¼d. bonds 18,569l. 0s. 9d.) | 22,831 | 2 | 4¼ | ||||
| ditto (money 742l. 2s. 1d., bonds 12,711l. 5s. 0d.) | 13,453 | 7 | 1 | ||||
| ditto (money 1,986l. 12s. l¾d., bonds 18,885l. 10s. 0d.) | 20,872 | 2 | 1¾ | ||||
| 'Bydiford' (money 372l. 17s. 2d., bonds 3,830l. 7s. 0d.) | 4,203 | 4 | 2 | ||||
| Chester (money 108l. 3s. 9½d., bonds 1,957l. 2s. 6d.) | 2,065 | 6 | 3½ | ||||
| Cowes (money) | 8 | 11 | 5 | ||||
| Dartmouth (money) | 27 | 10 | 5¾ | ||||
| Exeter (money 6l. 4s. 2½d., bonds 76l. 5s. 0d.) | 82 | 9 | 2½ | ||||
| Falmouth (bonds) | 594 | 15 | 9 | ||||
| Ilfracombe (money 3l. 8s. 6d., bonds 1,240l. 1s. 0d.) | 1,243 | 9 | 6 | ||||
| Liverpool (money 760l. 15s. 9½d., bonds 51,305l. 14s. 0d.) | 52,066 | 9 | 9½ | ||||
| Lyme (money 19l. 13s. 3¾d., bonds 1,423l. 15s. 0d.) | 1,443 | 8 | 3¾ | ||||
| Milford (money) | 4 | 9 | 5 | ||||
| Newcastle (bonds) | 1,276 | 0 | 9 | ||||
| Padstow (bonds) | 1,074 | 5 | 3 | ||||
| Penryn (bonds) | 486 | 13 | 0 | ||||
| Plymouth (money 449l. 12s. 9d., bonds 1,007l. 10s. 0d.) | 1,457 | 2 | 9 | ||||
| ditto (money 253l. 19s. 1½d., bonds 3,769l. 12s. 0d.) | 4,023 | 11 | 1½ | ||||
| Poole (bonds) | 890 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Rochester (money) | 7 | 12 | 3 | ||||
| Whitehaven (money 15l. 10s. 6d., bonds 16,989l. 13s. 9d.) | 17,005 | 4 | 3 | ||||
| ditto (bonds) | 8,327 | 15 | 0 | ||||
| 158,579 | 12 | 8 | |||||
| total money 16,097l. 4s. 9½d., bonds 336,782l. 0s. 3d., in both 352,879l. 5s. 0½d. | |||||||
| money received for interest on bonds the time of payment of which was expired | 1,424 | 2 | 3¼ | ||||
| money overpaid by Collectors, detailed, on their Accompts for the year 1708 | 24,328 | 17 | 0¼ | ||||
| total charge and receipts | £944,522 | 4 | 7¼ | ||||
| Discharge. | |||||||
| Money overpaid by Collectors, detailed, on their Accompts for the year 1707 | 25,150 | 7 | 11¾ | ||||
| money accompted for in the Cash Accompt for this year | 256,685 | 4 | 8½ | ||||
| money repaid on debentures for tobacco exported: | |||||||
| Barnstaple | 836 | 18 | 3 | ||||
| Beaumaris | 2,275 | 10 | 3 | ||||
| Berwick | 167 | 15 | 6 | ||||
| Bristol | 5,421 | 17 | 11¾ | ||||
| ditto | 12,863 | 5 | 4 | ||||
| ditto | 6,855 | 15 | 10½ | ||||
| 'Bydiford' | 1,998 | 0 | 9 | ||||
| Chester | 373 | 2 | 0 | ||||
| Cowes | 20 | 0 | 6 | ||||
| Exeter | 13 | 16 | 6 | ||||
| Ilfracombe | 733 | 14 | 6 | ||||
| Discharge. | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | |
| Lancaster | 12 | 10 | 0 | ||||
| Liverpool | 21,130 | 19 | 1¾ | ||||
| Milford | 244 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| Newcastle | 929 | 2 | 3½ | ||||
| Padstow | 415 | 18 | 3 | ||||
| Penryn | 86 | 9 | 3 | ||||
| Plymouth | 1,272 | 3 | 0 | ||||
| ditto | 1,138 | 19 | 11 | ||||
| Portsmouth | 298 | 1 | 10½ | ||||
| Whitehaven | 8,373 | 16 | 3 | ||||
| ditto | 3,236 | 18 | 3 | ||||
| 68,698 | 17 | 11 | |||||
| money repaid upon certificates of damaged or over-entered tobacco, detailed by Collectors and ports | 16,700 | 16 | 2 | ||||
| total payments and allowances | £367,235 | 6 | 9¼ | ||||
| and so remains | 577,286 | 17 | 10 | ||||
| against which depending: | |||||||
| London port: | |||||||
| Sir John Shaw, bt., Receiver there on Plantation goods, for bonds remaining in his hands at Christmas 1708 | 34,226 | 9 | 9 | ||||
| Thomas Granger, late Receiver General, ditto | 421 | 11 | 9 | ||||
| Henry Ferne, Receiver General | 259,274 | 7 | 3½ | ||||
| Michael Weeks, late Collector there, ditto | 26,484 | 19 | 10 | ||||
| Richard Hutchinson, late Solicitor there, ditto | 197 | 18 | 2 | ||||
| The Queen's Remembrancer's Office for bonds delivered thereto to be prosecuted | 37,904 | 11 | 3¾ | ||||
| 358,509 | 18 | 1¼ | |||||
| Outports: | |||||||
| Barnstaple (money 125l. 8s. 3d., bonds 632l. 8s. 6d.) | 757 | 16 | 9 | ||||
| Beaumaris (money 20l. 17s. 7½d., bonds 557l. 7s. 0d.) | 578 | 4 | 7½ | ||||
| Bristol (money) | 3,300 | 17 | 3¾ | ||||
| ditto (money) | 292 | 8 | 7¼ | ||||
| ditto (money 6,474l. 12s. 4¾d., bonds 62,392l. 14s. 3d.) | 68,867 | 6 | 7¾ | ||||
| Bideford (money 479l. 0s. 8¼d., bonds 5,396l. 19s. 11d.) | 5,876 | 0 | 7¼ | ||||
| Chester (money 614l. 8s. 7d., bonds 2,158l. 7s. 10d.) | 2,772 | 16 | 5 | ||||
| Cowes (money) | 385 | 1 | 3½ | ||||
| Dartmouth (money) | 506 | 15 | 8½ | ||||
| Exeter (bonds) | 76 | 5 | 0 | ||||
| Falmouth (money 7l. 13s. 5d., bonds 1,028l. 9s. 6d.) | 1,036 | 2 | 11 | ||||
| Ilfracombe (money 3l. 8s. 6d., bonds 412l. 19s. 3d.) | 416 | 7 | 9 | ||||
| Lancaster (money) | 1,326 | 17 | 1¾ | ||||
| Liverpool (money 1,276l. 0s. 3d., bonds 65,849l. 17s. 9d.) | 67,125 | 18 | 0 | ||||
| ditto (money) | 9,031 | 9 | 5¼ | ||||
| Milford (money) | 167 | 1 | 0¼ | ||||
| Lyme (money 177l. 14s. 3¼d., bonds 1,423l. 15s. 0d.) | 1,601 | 9 | 3¼ | ||||
| Newcastle (money 20l. 18s. 10d., bonds 1,395l. 6s. 6d.) | 1,416 | 5 | 4 | ||||
| Padstow (money) | 718 | 13 | 9¾ | ||||
| Penryn (bonds) | 322 | 15 | 0 | ||||
| Plymouth (money) | 4,060 | 15 | 9½ | ||||
| ditto (money 219l. 0s. 2¾d., bonds 3,074l. 5s. 6d.) | 3,293 | 5 | 8¾ | ||||
| Poole (bonds) | 890 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Rochester (money) | 10 | 14 | 4½ | ||||
| Whitehaven (money) | 413 | 5 | 11¼ | ||||
| ditto (money 1,725l. 16s. 3d., bonds 22,600l. 0s. 9d.) | 24,325 | 17 | 0 | ||||
| and upon late Collectors (named) at the following places, for money in all cases: | |||||||
| Barnstaple | 83 | 17 | 2¾ | ||||
| Berwick | 0 | 1 | 9 | ||||
| Boston | 60 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Bridgwater | 701 | 3 | 5 | ||||
| Bideford | 763 | 3 | 5½ | ||||
| Chester | 345 | 4 | 6 | ||||
| ditto | 0 | 8 | 9¾ | ||||
| Chichester | 376 | 1 | 10¼ | ||||
| ditto | 417 | 11 | 6 | ||||
| Deal | 1,036 | 19 | 0¾ | ||||
| Dover | 47 | 6 | 11¾ | ||||
| Falmouth | 212 | 10 | 4¾ | ||||
| ditto | 467 | 5 | 5 | ||||
| ditto | 77 | 8 | 3¾ | ||||
| Feversham | 2 | 5 | 2 | ||||
| ditto | 150 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Fowey | 396 | 13 | 10¾ | ||||
| Lancaster | 3 | 17 | 11¼ | ||||
| Looe | 4 | 6 | 0 | ||||
| Lyme | 110 | 2 | 4¾ | ||||
| Milford | 7,245 | 18 | 1 | ||||
| Minehead | 347 | 17 | 0¼ | ||||
| Newcastle | 828 | 18 | 1½ | ||||
| Newhaven | 151 | 16 | 3½ | ||||
| Padstow | 365 | 12 | 4¾ | ||||
| Penzance | 37 | 0 | 1¾ | ||||
| Plymouth | 254 | 17 | 5 | ||||
| Poole | 198 | 18 | 10½ | ||||
| ditto | 1,015 | 3 | 6¾ | ||||
| Poulton | 86 | 0 | 10½ | ||||
| Rochester | 217 | 10 | 10¼ | ||||
| ditto | 7 | 17 | 8 | ||||
| ditto | 11 | 10 | 0¼ | ||||
| Sandwich | 490 | 15 | 11 | ||||
| Southampton | 778 | 3 | 10¼ | ||||
| Stockton | 174 | 17 | 3¾ | ||||
| ditto | 244 | 11 | 5 | ||||
| Swansea | 376 | 2 | 9½ | ||||
| ditto | 787 | 15 | 9 | ||||
| Whitehaven | 116 | 11 | 3½ | ||||
| ditto | 182 | 11 | 9¼ | ||||
| ditto | 26 | 17 | 7 | ||||
| Truro | 2 | 11 | 1¾ | ||||
| total outports | 218,776 | 19 | 8¾ | ||||
| total depending (money 50,986l. 19s. 8¾d., bonds 526,299l. 18s. 1¼d.) | £577,286 | 17 | 10 | ||||
| and so this General Accompt is Quit. | |||||||
| Declared 9 April 1715. | |||||||
| DECLARED ACCOUNTS: CUSTOMS: TOBACCO: CASH ACCOUNT. | |||||||
| PIPE OFFICE: ROLL 1235. | |||||||
| Henry Ferne, Receiver General and Cashier of Customs. | |||||||
| 25 December 1707 to 25 December 1708. | |||||||
| Charge. | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | |
| Arrears: remaining in the hands of this Accomptant, nil in money (surplusage 150l. 1s. 2d.) but in bonds for the duties ending Michaelmas 1701 33,887l. 2s. 3½d., do. ending 31 July 1706 28,168l. 15s. 3d., do. commencing 1 Aug. 1706 231, 065l. 18s. 8d.) | 293,121 | 16 | 2½ | ||||
| Receipts: money received within the time of this Accompt of several Receivers and Collectors for the Impositions on Tobacco: | |||||||
| London port: | |||||||
| Sir John Shaw, on the Plantation Receipt (money 6,762l. 10s. 7½d., bonds 166,706l. 2s. 0d.) | 173,468 | 12 | 7½ | ||||
| Thomas Granger, late Receiver (money) | 91 | 16 | 3½ | ||||
| interest on bonds | 115 | 11 | 8¼ | ||||
| (total London port 173,676l. 0s. 7¼d.) | |||||||
| Outports: | |||||||
| Barnstaple | 843 | 2 | 5¾ | ||||
| Beaumaris | 50 | 12 | 4 | ||||
| Bristol | 13,250 | 19 | 10 | ||||
| do. | 11,479 | 0 | 4 | ||||
| do. | 3,209 | 10 | 6 | ||||
| Bideford | 141 | 13 | 4 | ||||
| do. | 1,567 | 9 | 2 | ||||
| Penzance | 23 | 0 | 6 | ||||
| Chester | 146 | 7 | 9 | ||||
| Dartmouth | 27 | 10 | 5¾ | ||||
| Dover | 410 | 3 | 9¼ | ||||
| Exeter | 755 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Lancaster (Joseph Bently) | 336 | 10 | 1½ | ||||
| do. (fn. 1) (Sir Barnabas Scudamore) | 8,972 | 10 | 10 | ||||
| do. (Luke Singleton) | 1,711 | 6 | 10¼ | ||||
| Lyme | 379 | 17 | 10½ | ||||
| Milford | 851 | 8 | 1¾ | ||||
| Newcastle | 250 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Penryn | 407 | 8 | 6 | ||||
| Penzance | 3 | 0 | 0¾ | ||||
| Plymouth | 1,934 | 14 | 0¾ | ||||
| Portsmouth | 21 | 10 | 1¾ | ||||
| Whitehaven | 2,328 | 3 | 1¼ | ||||
| do. | 60 | 15 | 0 | ||||
| total outports 49,161l. 15s. 2¼d. total | 222,837 | 15 | 9½ | ||||
| money received from the Impositions on Tobacco in Scotland from Mr. Charles Graydon, Receiver there | 44 | 14 | 3½ | ||||
| total charge and receipts | £516,004 | 6 | 3½ | ||||
| Surplusage of money on the last Accompt | 150 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| repayments for tobacco exported | 175,700 | 2 | 6½ | ||||
| do. for decayed and defective tobacco | 8,946 | 7 | 0 | ||||
| salaries: | |||||||
| London port: | |||||||
| Sir John Shaw and Mr. Charles Shaw for clerk hire | 300 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Outports: | |||||||
| Thomas Andrews, Horatio Mitchell, Samuel Gellibrand and William Heyes, the four Examiners of outport books | 30 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Edward Harley as Auditor's fee | 25 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| and to this Accomptant for extraordinary clerks | 100 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 455 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| money paid into the Exchequer as by tallies, detailed by dates, including 151l. 16s. 5½d. out of the impositions before 1 August 1706 | 71,583 | 15 | 5½ | ||||
| money paid into the Exchequer out of the money arising by the said new Impositions in Scotland | 44 | 14 | 4 | ||||
| total payments and allowances | £256,880 | 0 | 6 | ||||
| and so remains | 259,124 | 5 | 9½ | ||||
| against which: | |||||||
| remaining in the Accomptant's hands upon sundry bonds | 259,274 | 7 | 3½ | ||||
| and so the said Accomptant is in Surplusage | 150 | 1 | 6 | ||||
| Declared 6 April 1710 | |||||||