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Excise
DECLARED ACCOUNTS: EXCISE: GENERAL ACCOUNT. | ||||||
PIPE OFFICE: ROLL 1437 [E.351/1437]. | ||||||
AUDIT OFFICE: BUNDLE 1079, ROLL 734 [A.O.1/1079/734]. | ||||||
The Commissioners and Governors of Excise. | ||||||
24 June 1713 (exclusive) to 24 June 1714 (inclusive). | ||||||
Charge. | £ | s. | d. | £. | s. | d. |
Arrears: remaining in neat money at 24 June 1713 | 82,289 | 11 | 5 | |||
remaining due from sundry brewers and others in the several Country Collections | 34,593 | 9 | 6¼ | |||
ditto, ditto in London | 13,048 | 2 | 10¾ | |||
ditto from sundry former Country Collectors | 25,058 | 11 | 4¼ | |||
resting due from sundry present ditto | 3,506 | 6 | 3 | |||
ditto from several Collectors of Imported Liquors in the Outports (952l. 7s. 3½d.) and from Richard Butler upon bond in Plymouth port (37l. 13s. 4d.) | 990 | 0 | 7½ | |||
ditto from persons concerned in collecting the Duties on Coffee, Cyder and Mead, etc. in London | 1,316 | 8 | 8 | |||
ditto from the Navy Treasurer for bills drawn on him | 99 | 6 | 1 | |||
resting to be accompted for by several noblemen and others [as in previous accompts] | 18,723 | 12 | 0¼ | |||
money imprested to the Cashier | 500 | 0 | 0 | |||
180,125 | 8 | 10 | ||||
Receipts: the whole produce of the Excise due and payable for a year to 24 June 714: | ||||||
produce of the several Country Collections | 733,138 | 14 | 11¾ | |||
produce of the Excise in London, Westminster and Bills of Mortality | 335,503 | 0 | 4¾ | |||
produce of the Excise for Imported Liquors, London port and Outports | 24,559 | 16 | 7¾ | |||
received from John Haines, Clerk to the Register, for the Queen's part of London fines | 78 | 14 | 7 | |||
1,093,280 | 6 | 7¼ | ||||
Receipts: the whole produce of the Excise due and payable for a year to 24 June 714: | ||||||
produce of the several Country Collections | 733,138 | 14 | 11¾ | |||
produce of the Excise in London, Westminster and Bills of Mortality | 335,503 | 0 | 4¾ | |||
produce of the Excise for Imported Liquors, London port and Outports | 24,559 | 16 | 7¾ | |||
received from John Haines, Clerk to the Register, for the Queen's part of London fines | 78 | 14 | 7 | |||
1,093,280 | 6 | 7¼ | ||||
sundry additions and overbalances etc: | ||||||
overbalances in London (to Edward Pilsworth, junior, formerly a clerk in the Distillery Office 8l. 2s. 8d. and to John Moore, Collector of London port, 9l. 19s. 3d.) | 18 | 1 | 11 | |||
balances due to Country Collectors, detailed | 325 | 3 | 10½ | |||
balances due to Collectors in the Outports, detailed | 1 | 18 | 6 | |||
gross produce of the Duty on Sweets intermixed in vouchers with Exciseable Liquors | 40 | 9 | 10¾ | 385 | 14 | 2¼ |
total charge and receipts | £1,273,791 | 9 | 7½ | |||
Discharge. | ||||||
Overbalances due to several Collectors and others from the preceding Accompt: | ||||||
to Edward Pilsworth, junior [as above] | 8 | 2 | 8 | |||
to several Country Collectors | 419 | 1 | 3 | |||
to several Collectors in the Outports | 2 | 7 | 4 | 429 | 11 | 3 |
salaries, riding charges, incidents etc.: | ||||||
Collectors’ salaries in the Country etc. | 70,835 | 9 | 6¼ | |||
riding charges | 4,853 | 2 | 6 | |||
incident charges | 1,755 | 10 | 6 | |||
Officers’ taxes | 3,482 | 14 | 2 | |||
charges of returning money to London | 447 | 18 | 1½ | |||
81,374 | 14 | 9¾ | ||||
allowances for exports etc.: | ||||||
allowed for Excisable Liquors exported as merchandise | 897 | 8 | 10¼ | |||
allowed persuant to Justices’ Warrants | 210 | 12 | 6½ | |||
allowed the fishermen of Great Yarmouth in consideration of their payment of Excise on strong beer provided for their North Sea and herring fishery | 160 | 0 | 0 | |||
1,268 | 1 | 4¾ | ||||
exports and over-charges allowed by the Commissioners in London: | ||||||
allowed to sundry brewers for Beer exported | 299 | 5 | 11½ | |||
allowed for Spirits exported as merchandize | 43 | 2 | 0 | |||
allowed for Cyder ditto | 3 | 13 | 4 | |||
(total exports 346l. 1s. 3½d.) | ||||||
allowed to sundry brewers for overcharges | 360 | 2 | 5¾ | |||
allowed to several distillers for Low Wines and Spirits overcharged | 8 | 12 | 9 | |||
allowed for Cyder overcharged | 17 | 9 | 1 | |||
(total for overcharges 386l. 4s. 3¾d.) | ||||||
732 | 5 | 7¼ | ||||
allowances for incidents and overcharges in London port and the Outports: | ||||||
incident charges, London port | 357 | 6 | 0 | |||
allowed for brandy and rum over-entered there | 42 | 1 | 6 | |||
(total London port 399l. 7s. 6d.) | ||||||
poundage and salaries to Collectors etc. of the Excise on Imported Liquors in the Outports | 271 | 9 | 9½ | |||
incident charges there | 51 | 9 | 5 | |||
overcharges there | 17 | 8 | 4 | |||
(total Outports 340l. 7s. 6½d.) | ||||||
allowed to Peter Weket, Collector of Westminster and set in super on John Wallis for his bills unpaid for money taken up of Weket | 243 | 19 | 10¾ | |||
allowed upon the accompt of Clement Warren, Collector of Hants, and charged to the accompt of John Natt's Malt accompt | 5 | 8 | 9 | |||
(total 249l. 8s. 7¾d.) | 989 | 3 | 8¼ | |||
total payments and allowances as above 84,364l. 5s. 6d. | ||||||
ready money received and particularly accompted for | 1,032,607 | 5 | 8 | |||
total payments and allowances | £1,117,401 | 2 | 5 | |||
and so remains | 156,390 | 7 | 2½ | |||
whereof: | ||||||
neat money unaccompted for, to be charged in the next year's Accompt | 58,017 | 16 | 1 | |||
remaining in arrear and unpaid by sundry brewers etc.: | ||||||
in the several Counties in England and Wales | 35,653 | 2 | 10¾ | |||
ditto in London (beer and ale 4,544l. 14s. 10¾d.; strong waters 1,143l. 1s. 5¼d.; low wines 2,468l. 3s. 5½d.; coffee 2,832l. 5s. 10d.; cyder 1,329l. 4s. 3¾d.; mead 476l. 18s. 11d.; and sweets 296l. 12s. 4d.) | 13,091 | 1 | 2¼ | |||
48,744 | 4 | 1 | ||||
arrears unpaid by Collectors and others for the balances of their accompts and bills of exchange, detailed: George Murray, late Collector, Bedford; the Earl of Danby, received of Richard Tooth, late Collector, Bristoll; William Liggon, for bills of exchange unpaid; Henry Benson, late Collector, Durham; Sir Edward Bathurst, late Collector, Gloucester; Ambrose Thelwell, late Collector, Hertford; Francis Hill, late Collector, Lancaster; Thomas Benson, ditto; John Stevenson, late Collector, Northumberland; Thomas Cowden, late Collector, Norfolk; William Hornby, late Collector, Hertford, Lincoln North, Middlesex and Surrey; John Kiffin, late Collector, York SouthWest; Rivers Dickenson, received of Andrew Clayton, late Collector, Middlesex and Surrey; Simon Donjoy, late Collector, Surrey; George Newton, late Collector, Wales East; John Trotman, late officer, Wales Middle; Thomas Jervis, late an officer there; William Benson, | ||||||
late Collector, Westmorland; Ephraim Sandford, late Collector there; Richard Andrewson, late Collector, Wales North; Ferdinando Huddleston, late Collector, York North; John Jenings, late Collector, Worcester; Thomas Bird, late Collector, Oxford and Berks.; Richard Breynton, received of Thomas Clarke, late Collector, Hereford and Worcester; Thomas Crundell, for the remainder of his note; Peter Parr and Arthur Jefferies; part of a bill on accompt of John Lyford, late Collector, Hants.; Joseph Field, remainder of a bill taken off from John Rampley, late Collector, Suffolk; Sarah Dodd, remainder of two bills of exchange; John Gwin upon bond in Hereford and Worcester collections; John Grocer for a bill in Suffolk collection; Jacob Sheldrake, for a bill relating to Macclesfield collection and for part of a bill relating to Worcester collection, Henry Willet, late Collector, Suffolk; Thomas Woodward for two bills in Derby collection; Ralph Deane, late Collector, Gloucester; Joseph Renoldson, for bills of exchange not accepted; Thomas Combe, late Collector, Canterbury; John Powell, late Collector, Exeter; John Hill, late Collector, Lancaster; Francis Johnson, late Collector, Taunton; Ralph Leicester, late Collector, Westmorland; Edmund Carter, for money received of William Hornby, late Collector, Hertford; Benjamin Child, part of a bill received of Charles Parry, late Collector, Reading; Charles Wind, late Collector, Chester; William Raine, late Collector, Lancaster; Thomas Bretton late Collector, Hants.; Ezekiel Polsted, late Collector, | ||||||
Lichfield; Pawlet Asterly, late Collector, Tiverton | 25,059 | 14 | 1½ | |||
remaining in arrear and unpaid by several Collectors for the balance of this year's accompts | 2,673 | 15 | 8 | |||
remaining in arrear from Edward Herne and from John Franks and John Courtney in London port | 271 | 11 | 6¾ | |||
remaining in arrear for balances due from several former and present Collectors in the Outports on this year's accompts | 946 | 5 | 7 | |||
and from Richard Butler, late Collector Plymouth port, for the duty of Brandy on bond | 37 | 13 | 4 | |||
remaining in arrear and unpaid for balances due from sundry Collectors etc. in London detailed [as in previous accompts] | 1,316 | 8 | 8 | |||
remaining unpaid on several bills of exchange drawn upon the Navy Treasurer, detailed | 99 | 6 | 1 | |||
(total in arrear and unpaid by Collectors and others 30,404l. 15s. 0¼d.) | ||||||
depending upon several Noblemen and others [as in previous accompts] | 18,723 | 12 | 0¼ | |||
imprest money | 500 | 0 | 0 | |||
£156,390 | 7 | 2½ | ||||
Declared 3 July 1718. | ||||||
DECLARED ACCOUNTS: EXCISE: CASH ACCOUNT. | ||||||
PIPE OFFICE: ROLL 1358 [E.351/1358]. | ||||||
AUDIT OFFICE: BUNDLE 914, ROLL 107 [A.O.1/914/107]. | ||||||
The Governors and Commissioners of Excise. | ||||||
24 June 1713 to 24 June 1714. | ||||||
Charge. | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. |
Arrears: remaining as by the end of the last Cash Accompt | 23,716 | 9 | 6¾ | |||
depending upon the late Sub-Commissioners, Farmers and others for arrears due before 25 Dec. 1660 | 32,605 | 6 | 5½ | |||
depending upon the late Sub-Commissioners, Farmers and others for receipts in the years 1661 and 1662, for rents at Mich. 1665, Mids. 1668 and Mids. 1674 and for money paid without sufficient warrant | 22,224 | 12 | 4 | |||
(total depending 54,829l. 18s. 9½d.) | ||||||
78,546 | 8 | 4¼ | ||||
Receipts: moneys received within the time of the Accompt upon the following: | ||||||
the Hereditary and Temporary Excise since 8 March 1701–2: | ||||||
Michaelmas quarter 1713 | 125,547 | 3 | 9½ | |||
Xmas quarter 1713 | 109,223 | 16 | 11½ | |||
Ladyday quarter 1714 | 115,822 | 0 | 4½ | |||
Midsummer quarter 1714 | 119,100 | 14 | 2¼ | |||
469,693 | 15 | 3¾ | ||||
the Additional 9d. for 99 years from 25Jan. 1692–3: | ||||||
Michaelmas quarter 1713 | 41,169 | 3 | 2¼ | |||
Xmas quarter 1713 | 35,064 | 16 | 8¼ | |||
Ladyday quarter 1714 | 36,686 | 5 | 1 | |||
Midsummer quarter 1714 | 38,044 | 9 | 2 | |||
150,964 | 14 | 1½ | ||||
the Additional 9d. for 16 years, continued by Stat. 4 Anne [4 & 5 Anne, v. 18, s. 6]: | ||||||
Michaelmas quarter 1713 | 45,845 | 4 | 2¼ | |||
Xmas quarter 1713 | 37,825 | 14 | 10½ | |||
Ladyday quarter 1714 | 37,440 | 3 | 5½ | |||
Midsummer quarter 1714 | 39,421 | 18 | 10½ | |||
160,533 | 1 | 4¾ | ||||
the Additional or Bank 9d. commencing 17 May 1697: | ||||||
Michaelmas quarter 1713 | 41,169 | 3 | 1½ | |||
Xmas quarter 1713 | 35,064 | 16 | 8½ | |||
Ladyday quarter 1714 | 36,686 | 4 | 11¾ | |||
Midsummer quarter 1714 | 38,044 | 9 | 2 | |||
150,964 | 13 | 11¾ | ||||
the Additional 3d. on Beer, Ale, Cyder etc. for 32 years from 26 March 1710: | ||||||
Michaelmas quarter 1713 | 15,117 | 0 | 10½ | |||
Xmas quarter 1713 | 13,410 | 16 | 8¼ | |||
Ladyday quarter 1714 | 14,169 | 8 | 3½ | |||
Midsummer quarter 1714 | 14,445 | 14 | 8½ | |||
57,143 | 0 | 6¾ | ||||
Low Wines and Spirits of the First Extraction for 96 years from 24 June 1710: | ||||||
Michaelmas quarter 1713 | 6,215 | 0 | 1 | |||
Xmas quarter 1713 | 7,100 | 12 | 10 | |||
Ladyday quarter 1714 | 6,988 | 17 | 11¾ | |||
Midsummer quarter 1714 | 6,696 | 6 | 2¼ | |||
27,000 | 17 | 1 | ||||
ditto before 24 June 1710: | ||||||
Michaelmas quarter 1713 | 2 | 17 | 6 | |||
Xmas quarter 1713 | 2 | 17 | 6 | |||
Ladyday quarter 1714 | 2 | 17 | 6 | |||
Midsummer quarter 1714 | 2 | 17 | 6 | |||
11 | 10 | 0 | ||||
money received in part of London fines and penalties: | ||||||
Michaelmas term 1713. | 78 | 14 | 7 | |||
total receipts as above 1,016,390l. 7s. 0½d. | ||||||
total charge and receipts | £1,094,936 | 15 | 4¾ | |||
Discharge. | ||||||
Salaries and rents to the following: | ||||||
George Townsend, Philip Ryley, Sir Marmaduke Wyvill, bt., Edward Noell, Christopher Montague, Whitlock Bulstrode, James Vernon and John Price, year to Ladyday 1714; William Strong, decd., to 7 Dec. 1713, and John Whetham succeeding him, from 2 Feb. 1713–14; each at 800l. per an. as Commissioners | 7,074 | 3 | 6¼ | |||
Sir William Honeywood, bt., and Walter Hunger ford, year to Ladyday 1714; Thomas Goodman and William Lyndall, three quarters to Xmas 1713; Duncan Dee, Edward Hung[er]ford and William Gower 17 Feb. 1713–14 to Ladyday 1714, each at 200l. per an. as Commissioners for Appeals. | 761 | 13 | 3¾ | |||
the officers, named, attending upon the Commissioners for Appeals | 180 | 0 | 0 | |||
Robert Davers, late Auditor of the Excise, for himself and clerks. | 700 | 0 | 0 | |||
Thomas Sydney, Comptroller of the Excise, for ditto | 1,320 | 0 | 0 | |||
John Bruere, a clerk in the Comptroller's office | 80 | 0 | 0 | |||
John Brougham, Secretary to the Commissioners, for himself and clerks | 450 | 0 | 0 | |||
Thomas Yarbrough, Registrar, and John Haines, his clerk | 390 | 0 | 0 | |||
Edward Pauncfort, Receiver General and Cashier | 1,550 | 0 | 0 | |||
John Ellis, Solicitor | 350 | 0 | 0 | |||
Richard Hill, a Teller | 80 | 0 | 0 | |||
Mrs. Mary Howard, Housekeeper, and Mrs. Elizabeth Gibbons, Deputy Housekeeper | 250 | 0 | 0 | |||
John Matthew, Clerk of the Securities | 100 | 0 | 0 | |||
and several under officers for their salaries | 11,866 | 15 | 5¾ | |||
Thomas Frederick, for rent of his house in St. Olave in the Old Jewry, London | 264 | 0 | 0 | |||
Thomas Porter, for coach houses and stables; half year to Ladyday 1714 | 25 | 0 | 0 | |||
25,441 | 12 | 3¾ | ||||
(The above is allowed as follows:out of the Hereditary and Temporary Excise 11,905l. 19s. 6¼d., out of the 9d. for 99 years 3,887l. 19s. 7¾d., out of the 16 years 9d., 4,006l. 12s. 4d.,out of the Bank 9d., 3,887l. 19s. 7½d.,out of the Additional 3d., 1,337l. 1s. 2¼d., out of the Duty on Low Wines 416l.): | ||||||
Payments to trades men, artificers and others, for work and materials and for incident charges, detailed | 3,430 | 1 | 9½ | |||
Charles, Duke of Cleveland, for his pension | 3,000 | 0 | 0 | |||
George, Duke of Northumberland, the like | 3,000 | 0 | 0 | |||
Charles, Duke of Grafton (£2,000) and the Duchess Dowager of Grafton (£1,000) | 3,000 | 0 | 0 | |||
payments for officers’ taxes; by special warrant from the Lord High Treasurer (allotted to the several Duties) | 1,490 | 12 | 0 | |||
allowed the money paid by Edward Pauncfort for Exchequer charges | 199 | 5 | 4 | |||
allowed for money paid to William Harvey towards the repair of the former Excise Office, Broad Street, London; ditto; ditto | 100 | 0 | 0 | |||
allowed for money paid to James Jenkinson and Robert Wind for expenses in seizing and condemningThe White Elephant and her cargo; ditto; ditto | 34 | 14 | 4½ | |||
allowance for beer etc. exported as merchandise, and for overcharges, detailed | 762 | 13 | 4¾ | |||
money paid into the Exchequer, detailed by dates: | ||||||
on the Hereditary and Temporary Excise | 453,604 | 7 | 3 | |||
on the Additional or Fund 9d. for 99 years | 148,629 | 13 | 0½ | |||
on the Additional 9d. for 16 years | 158,121 | 19 | 4 | |||
on the Additional or Bank 9d. | 148,629 | 13 | 0 | |||
on the Additional 3d. | 56,293 | 9 | 5 | |||
on the Duty on Low Wines and Spirits of the First Extraction for 96 years from 24 June 1710 | 26,777 | 1 | 6 | |||
on ditto, before 24 June 1710 | 13 | 8 | 4 | |||
and out of Fines and Penalties | 78 | 14 | 7 | |||
992,148 | 6 | 5½ | ||||
total payments and allowances | £1,032,607 | 5 | 8 | |||
and so remains | 62,329 | 9 | 8¾ | |||
whereof depending on sundry Sub-Commissioners for money collected in part of arrears to 25 Dec. 1660 and upon sundry late Farmers of the Excise for rent due to 25 March 1658 and money received for fines and money in the hands of two Tellers named; all as in previous Cash Accompts | 32,605 | 6 | 5½ | |||
and depending on various late Sub-Commissioners of Excise, named, for Excise due since 25 Dec. 1660, and on divers late Farmers of Excise for rents; and upon former Commissioners of Excise and their Cashier for passing their Patent without sufficient warrant; all as in previous Cash Accompts | 22,224 | 12 | 4 | |||
£54,829 | 18 | 9½ | ||||
and depending upon the Commissioners: | ||||||
for money imprested to the Cashier for incidents | 500 | 0 | 0 | |||
for a quarter's salary of a deceased Country Accomptant for which no acquittance is yet produced | 20 | 0 | 0 | |||
for two errors in the salary bills | 24 | 18 | 10¼ | |||
for the money arising out of: | ||||||
the Hereditary and Temporary Excise | 3,288 | 3 | 3¼ | |||
the Additional 9d. for 99 years | 1,070 | 13 | 4½ | |||
the Additional 9d. for 16 years | 1,070 | 13 | 2½ | |||
the Additional or Bank 9d. | 1,070 | 13 | 2½ | |||
the Additional 3d. from 26 March 1710 | 382 | 3 | 1¾ | |||
the Duty on Low Wines from Midsummer 1710 | 72 | 4 | 10½ | |||
the Lottery 9d. from 17 May 1697 | 0 | 0 | 0¾ | |||
the Duty on Low Wines to 24 March 1705–6 | 0 | 0 | 0½ | |||
the Additional and Double 9d. | 0 | 0 | 9½ | |||
the Duty of 2s. per gallon on Brandy | 0 | 0 | 1¼ | |||
£7,499 | 10 | 11¼ | ||||
Declared 6 August 1716. | ||||||
DECLARED ACCOUNTS: EXCISE: MALT: GENERAL ACCOUNT. | ||||||
PIPE OFFICE: ROLL 1452 [E.351/1452]. | ||||||
AUDIT OFFICE: BUNDLE 1079, ROLL 735, PART 1 [A.01/1079/735/1]. | ||||||
The Commissioners and Governors of Excise. | ||||||
24 June 1713 inclusive to 24 June 1714 exclusive. | ||||||
Charge. | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. |
Arrears: none, this being the first Accompt under the Act 11 Anne [12 Anne c. 2] | nil | |||||
Receipts: the whole Duty and produce of the Duty on Malt, Mum, Cyder and Perry for the period 24 June 1713 to 24 June 1714: | ||||||
Gross produce in Country Inland collections: | ||||||
Malt at 6d. a bushel | 515,437 | 17 | 10 | |||
Cyder at 4s. a hogshead | 14,285 | 1 | 6 | |||
Compounders | 4,503 | 15 | 0 | |||
the Queen's share of fines | 333 | 4 | 2¾ | |||
surcharges from the Examiner's Office | 6 | 16 | 0¼ | |||
interest on bills of exchange returned | 10 | 17 | 10¼ | |||
charge of protest | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||
taxes received back from the Land Tax Collectors | 0 | 6 | 1 | 534,578 | 0 | 6¼ |
Gross produce in the Outports: | ||||||
Cyder at 4s. a hogshead | 33 | 15 | 0 | |||
Mum at 10s. a barrel | 61 | 13 | 8¾ | 95 | 8 | 8¾ |
Gross produce in London port: | ||||||
Cyder at 4s. a hogshead | 0 | 3 | 9½ | |||
Mum at 10s. a barrel | 78 | 2 | 2¼ | 78 | 5 | 11¾ |
Gross produce in London: | ||||||
Malt at 6d. a bushel | 829 | 14 | 4½ | |||
Cyder at 4s. a hogshead | 1,198 | 13 | 6¾ | |||
surcharges from the Cyder ledger | 0 | 0 | 0½ | 2,028 | 7 | 11¾ |
total produce as above 536,780l. 3s. 2½d. | ||||||
overbalances (Collectors and Districts named) | 150 | 13 | 6½ | |||
money added proper to Arrear Accompt, being overpaid on this General Accompt | 60 | 0 | 0 | |||
total charge and receipts | £536,990 | 16 | 9 | |||
Discharge. | ||||||
Salaries and incidents etc.: | ||||||
salaries of Collectors etc. (not detailed) | 40,235 | 19 | 2½ | |||
riding charges | 2,669 | 5 | 0 | |||
incident charges | 885 | 8 | 0½ | |||
Inferior Officers’ taxes | 2,008 | 1 | 9¾ | |||
returns of money to London | 295 | 19 | 9¼ | |||
allowed the Collectors in the Outports for poundage | 6 | 18 | 11 | |||
46,101 | 12 | 9 | ||||
allowances: | ||||||
allowed for Malt and Cyder exported | 27,370 | 10 | 9 | |||
allowed for Cyder overcharged in London | 8 | 12 | 6½ | |||
allowed as per Justices’ Warrants | 1,535 | 7 | 5¼ | |||
28,914 | 10 | 8¾ | ||||
total for salaries and allowances as above 75,016l. 3s. 5¾d. | ||||||
ready money received and particularly accompted for in the Cash Account | 265,295 | 8 | 9½ | |||
£340,311 | 12 | 3¼ | ||||
and so remains | 196,679 | 4 | 5¾ | |||
whereof remaining in arrear for Malt Duty commencing 24 June 1713: | ||||||
remaining unpaid by several Malsters in the Country, not named | 23,845 | 11 | 0 | |||
remaining due from several Malsters in London, ditto | 3 | 16 | 10 | |||
remaining due from sundry Collectors in the Country, ditto | 475 | 9 | 7½ | |||
24,324 | 17 | 5½ | ||||
cash in the hands of the Cashier | 3,310 | 9 | 3½ | |||
money received after Midsummer 1714 on accompt of sundry Country Collectors | 168,585 | 17 | 9¾ | |||
ditto on the accompts of sundry Collectors in the Outports | 65 | 18 | 9½ | |||
ditto on the accompt of London Ports and on accompt of sundry Malsters and Cydermakers in London | 392 | 1 | 1½ | |||
172,354 | 7 | 0¼ | ||||
£196,679 | 4 | 5¾ | ||||
Declared 26 February 1718–19. | ||||||
DECLARED ACCOUNTS: EXCISE: MALT: CASH ACCOUNT. | ||||||
PIPE OFFICE: ROLL 1376 [E.351/1376]. | ||||||
Audit Office: Bundle 914, Roll 108 [A.O.1/914/108]. | ||||||
The Commissioners and Governors of Excise. | ||||||
24 June 1713 to 24 June 1714. | ||||||
Charge | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. |
Arrears: remaining in the hands of the Commissioners: | ||||||
out of the Duty on Malt commencing 24 June 1713 | nil (first Accompt) | |||||
ditto, determined 23 June 1713 | 19,164 | 17 | 6¼ | |||
ditto, determined 23 June 1712 | 391 | 11 | 10 | |||
ditto, determined 23 June 1711 | 65 | 4 | 6 | |||
ditto, determined 23 June 1710 | 823 | 4 | 6¼ | |||
ditto, determined 23 June 1709 | 3 | 0 | 5¼ | |||
ditto, determined 23 June 1708 | 0 | 0 | 0¼ | |||
ditto, determined 23 June 1707 | 3 | 4 | 7½ | |||
ditto, determined 23 June 1705 | 0 | 0 | 0¼ | |||
ditto, determined 23 June 1703 | 0 | 0 | 0¼ | |||
out of the Duty on Sweets determined 25 March 1707 | 5 | 14 | 3½ | |||
out of the Old Duties on Malt and Leather | 0 | 0 | 4¾ | |||
20,456 | 18 | 2¼ | ||||
remaining upon Thomas Tresham, a late Officer in the Excise [as in previous years] | 682 | 9 | 0 | |||
Receipts: money received out of the various Duties on Malt, Mum, Cyder, and Perry: | ||||||
on the Duty on Malt etc. from 24 June 1713 | 268,605 | 18 | 1 | |||
on ditto to 23 June 1713 | 232,480 | 16 | 4¾ | |||
on ditto to 23 June 1712 | 124 | 10 | 1½ | |||
on ditto to 23 June 1711 | 623 | 3 | 5½ | |||
on ditto to 23 June 1710 | 72 | 1 | 6¾ | |||
on ditto to 23 June 1709 | 0 | 19 | 10½ | |||
on ditto to 23 June 1707 | 1 | 10 | 5¾ | |||
on ditto to 23 June 1705 | 218 | 16 | 6¾ | |||
on the Duty on Sweets for 99 years from 25 March 1707 | 292 | 6 | 3¼ | |||
502,420 | 2 | 9¾ | ||||
total charge and receipts | £523,559 | 10 | 0 | |||
Discharge. | ||||||
Salaries etc.: | ||||||
Robert Davers, Auditor, and his clerk; Ladyday quarter 1714 | 15 | 0 | 0 | |||
Thomas Sidney, Comptroller, for his Deputy and two clerks; year to Lady- day 1714 | 140 | 0 | 0 | |||
the Assistant Accomptants, named; ditto | 300 | 0 | 0 | |||
John Matthew, Clerk of the Securities, and Samuel Johnson, Correspondent, ditto | 100 | 0 | 0 | |||
Anthony Cossens and John Tooker, two Accomptants General; ditto | 160 | 0 | 0 | |||
Jervas Clark, Assistant Doorkeeper, ditto | 5 | 0 | 0 | |||
Edward Willett, Accomptant for the London Distillery Cyder etc.; ditto. | 10 | 0 | 0 | |||
William Puriour, Assistant to the Clerk of the Diaries; ditto | 40 | 0 | 0 | |||
John Gibbons, Clerk of the Stores, for his Assistant (named) | 40 | 0 | 0 | |||
Thomas Denny, Messenger; ditto | 50 | 0 | 0 | |||
James Lambert, Chief Examiner of the Country Examiners’ books; ditto; and other Examiners (by quarters, not named) | 324 | 5 | 10½ | |||
John Francis and John Howson, Receivers and Billmen; Robert Nesbitt, another, and Roger Bastin succeeding him; ditto | 120 | 0 | 0 | |||
William Taylor, Doorkeeper, for disbursements | 56 | 13 | 2½ | |||
Robert Davers, Auditor, at 60l. per an. from 3 Feb. 1712–13 to Xmas 1713 | 53 | 6 | 8 | |||
1,414 | 5 | 9 | ||||
payments to tradesmen, artificers and others, named, for goods delivered, work done, law charges etc. | 1,885 | 5 | 1½ | |||
payments by special Warrants, detailed | 74 | 13 | 4¼ | |||
payments for overbalances and overpayments to Collectors for Malt exported and for Sweets etc. overcharged, detailed | 4,810 | 1 | 9½ | |||
ready money paid into the Exchequer, detailed by dates: | ||||||
out of the Malt Duty from 24 June 1713 | 262,088 | 19 | 9½ | |||
out of ditto to 23 June 1713 | 247,799 | 17 | 7½ | |||
out of ditto to 23 June 1711 | 277 | 17 | 11 | |||
out of ditto under the Act 2 Anne [to 23June 1705] | 218 | 16 | 7 | |||
out of the Duty on Sweets. | 282 | 18 | 9 | |||
510,668 | 10 | 8 | ||||
total payments and allowances | £519,133 | 16 | 8¼ | |||
and so remains | 4,425 | 13 | 3¾ | |||
whereof depending on Thomas Tresham [as in previous accompts] | 682 | 9 | 0 | |||
and depending on the Commissioners of Excise: | ||||||
out of the Malt Duty from 24 June 1713 | 3,310 | 9 | 3½ | |||
out of ditto to 23 June 1713 | 14 | 15 | 8½ | |||
out of ditto to 23 June 1712 | 344 | 11 | 10½ | |||
out of ditto to 23 June 1711 | nil | |||||
out of ditto to 23 June 1710 | 61 | 17 | 3½ | |||
out of ditto to 23 June 1709 | 4 | 0 | 3¾ | |||
out of ditto to 23 June 1708 | 0 | 0 | 0¼ | |||
out of ditto to 23 June 1707 | 4 | 15 | 1¼ | |||
out of ditto to 23 June 1703 | 0 | 0 | 0¼ | |||
out of the Duty on Sweets from 25 March 1707 | 2 | 14 | 3½ | |||
out of the Duty on Malt to 20 July 1699 | 0 | 0 | 3½ | |||
out of the Leather Duty to 20 April 1704 | 0 | 0 | 1¼ | |||
3,743 | 4 | 3¾ | ||||
£4,425 | 13 | 3¾ | ||||
Declared 6 August 1716. | ||||||
The Audit Office Roll contains an Abstract of the foregoing Receipts and Payments (in Arabic numerals throughout). | ||||||
DECLARED ACCOUNTS: EXCISE: HOPS: GENERAL ACCOUNT. | ||||||
PIPE OFFICE: ROLL 1463 [E.351/1463]. | ||||||
AUDIT OFFICE: BUNDLE 1079, ROLL 735, PART 3 [A.O.1/1079/735/3]. | ||||||
The Commissioners and Governors of Excise. | ||||||
24 June 1713 to 24 June 1714. | ||||||
Charge. | £ | s. | d. | |||
Arrears: remaining in neat money to be further accompted for | 2,564 | 17 | 6 | |||
remaining due from sundry Hop planters and others in the Country Collections | 1,352 | 13 | 2¾ | |||
resting due from sundry present Country Collectors | 3 | 0 | 7¾ | |||
3,920 | 11 | 4½ | ||||
Receipts: the whole produce of the Duty on Hops 24 June 1713 to 24 June 1714 | 23,057 | 1 | 8 | |||
Overbalances; detailed by places and Collectors | 27 | 13 | 6¼ | |||
total charge and receipts | £27,005 | 6 | 6¾ | |||
Discharge. | £ | s. | d. | |||
Overbalances due to Country Collectors from preceding years | 32 | 14 | 4½ | |||
salaries, etc.: | ||||||
salaries to additional Officers in the Country | 1,092 | 12 | 10½ | |||
incident charges | 107 | 2 | 3¼ | |||
charges in returning money to London | 11 | 8 | 6¼ | |||
1,211 | 3 | 8 | ||||
allowances etc.: | ||||||
allowed to sundry persons for hops exported | 2,553 | 10 | 7½ | |||
allowed as per Justices’ Warrants | 16 | 9 | 4 | |||
2,569 | 19 | 11½ | ||||
total salaries and allowances 3,781l. 3s. 7½d. | ||||||
ready money received and particularly accompted for in the Cash Account | 18,126 | 11 | 2¼ | |||
total payments and allowances | £21,940 | 9 | 2¼ | |||
and so remains | 5,064 | 17 | 4½ | |||
whereof remaining in arrear and unpaid by sundry hop planters and others in the Country | 2,319 | 14 | 0 | |||
and remaining due from sundry Country Collectors | 87 | 0 | 10 | |||
2,406 | 14 | 10 | ||||
cash in the hands of the Cashier | 143 | 11 | 5 | |||
resting to be accompted for on accompt of sundry Country Collectors for money received after 24 June 1714 | 2,511 | 15 | 3¼ | |||
money received after 24 June 1714 and proper to the year ended Midsummer 1713 | 2 | 15 | 10¼ | |||
2,658 | 2 | 6½ | ||||
£5,064 | 17 | 4½ | ||||
Declared 28 September 1721. | ||||||
DECLARED ACCOUNTS: EXCISE: HOPS: CASH ACCOUNT. | ||||||
PIPE OFFICE: ROLL 1388 [E.351/1388]. | ||||||
AUDIT OFFICE: BUNDLE 914: ROLL 109 [A.O.1/914/109]. | ||||||
The Commissioners and Governors of Excise. | ||||||
24 June 1713 to 24 June 1714. | ||||||
Charge. | £ | s. | d. | |||
Arrears: remaining in the Commissioners’ hands as by the end of the last preceding Cash Accompt | 856 | 5 | 7¼ | |||
Receipts: money received out of the Duty on Hops within the time of this Accompt | 17,413 | 17 | 0 | |||
total charge and receipts | £18,270 | 2 | 7¼ | |||
Discharge. | ||||||
Incident charges; payments to tradesmen, artificers and others, named, for work and materials | 318 | 2 | 8¼ | |||
Officers’ taxes | 14 | 0 | 0 | |||
money paid to Edward Pauncfort for his charges in paying money into the Exchequer | 13 | 9 | 9 | |||
allowance for hops exported as merchandise | 1,061 | 19 | 1 | |||
ready money paid into the Exchequer, detailed by dates | 16,718 | 19 | 8 | |||
total payments and allowances | 18,126 | 11 | 2¼ | |||
and so remains | 143 | 11 | 5 | |||
whereof depending on William Taylor, for money imprested | 100 | 0 | 0 | |||
and on these Accomptants | 43 | 11 | 5 | |||
£143 | 11 | 5 | ||||
Declared 6 August 1716. | ||||||
DECLARED ACCOUNTS: EXCISE: CANDLES: GENERAL ACCOUNT. | ||||||
PIPE OFFICE: ROLL 1471 [E.351/1471]. | ||||||
AUDIT OFFICE: BUNDLE 1079, ROLL 735, PART 2 [A.O.1/1079/735/2] | ||||||
The Commissioners and Governors of Excise. | ||||||
24 June 1713 to 24 June 1714. | ||||||
Charge. | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. |
Arrears: remaining in neat money, received in part of the produce of this Duty to 24 June 1713 | 11,906 | 4 | 6¼ | |||
remaining due from sundry Tallow chandlers and others in the Country Collections | 965 | 19 | 0¼ | |||
ditto, ditto in London | 40 | 6 | 6¾ | |||
resting due from sundry Country Collectors | 63 | 2 | 11½ | 12,975 | 13 | 0¾ |
Receipts: the whole produce of the Duties on Candles, 24 June 1713 to 24 June 1714: | ||||||
London: | ||||||
tallow candles, the growing Duty at 1d. per lb. | 38,045 | 4 | 7¾ | |||
wax candles at 8d. per lb. | 668 | 10 | 0 | |||
surcharges from London ledger | 33 | 19 | 3½ | |||
compositions | 55 | 0 | 4¾ | |||
the Queen's part of fines | 78 | 19 | 9 | |||
38,881 | 14 | 1 | ||||
Country Inland Collections: | ||||||
tallow candles, the growing Duty as above | 83,751 | 7 | 8½ | |||
wax candles, ditto | 1,533 | 9 | 10 | |||
compositions | 240 | 15 | 6 | |||
the Queen's part of fines | 148 | 3 | 11¾ | |||
interest and protest of bills of exchange returned | 1 | 10 | 0½ | |||
interest on Exchequer bills and surcharges from the Examiners’ Office | 4 | 2 | 2½ | |||
85,679 | 9 | 2¾ | ||||
total produce as above 124,561l. 3s. 3¾d. | ||||||
Overbalances, paid into the Excise Office | ||||||
by sundry Collectors, named, with places | 55 | 17 | 1¼ | |||
total charge and receipts | £137,592 | 13 | 5¾ | |||
Discharge. | ||||||
Overbalances allowed to Country Collectors from the preceding Accompt | 62 | 18 | 1 | |||
salaries etc.: | ||||||
salaries in the several Collections | 8,235 | 0 | 6¾ | |||
riding charges, Sheffield Collection | 25 | 4 | 0 | |||
necessary and incident charges | 159 | 16 | 0 | |||
charges of returns of money to London | 40 | 6 | 4 | |||
inferior Officers’ taxes | 386 | 3 | 10½ | |||
Nicholas Pollexfen, a Commissioner of Excise, for charges of his circuit | 20 | 0 | 0 | 8,866 | 10 | 9¼ |
allowances: | ||||||
allowed to persons in the Country for candles exported | 679 | 7 | 4½ | |||
allowed as per Justices’ Warrants in the Country | 6 | 18 | 7 | |||
allowed for Candles overcharged in London | 31 | 18 | 1 | |||
718 | 4 | 0½ | ||||
total for salaries and allowances as above 9,584l. 14s. 9¾d. | ||||||
ready money received and particularly accompted for | 115,135 | 17 | 0¼ | |||
total payments and allowances | £124,783 | 9 | 11 | |||
and so remains | 12,809 | 3 | 6¾ | |||
whereof remaining in arrear and unpaid by sundry Tallow chandlers and others in the Country | 1,171 | 15 | 3¾ | |||
ditto, ditto, in London | 76 | 13 | 2¼ | |||
resting due from several Country Collectors | 183 | 10 | 7¾ | 1,431 | 19 | 1¾ |
and resting due to be accompted for by the Commissioners: | ||||||
cash in the hands of the Cashier | 213 | 2 | 3½ | |||
money received after 24 June 1714 on accompt of sundry Country Collectors | 7,554 | 13 | 8¾ | |||
ditto on accompt of sundry Tallow chandlers in London | 3,581 | 11 | 0 | |||
ditto on accompt of sundry Country Collectors, proper to the preceding accompt | 14 | 2 | 6½ | |||
ditto on accompt of sundry Tallow chandlers in London, proper to ditto | 13 | 14 | 10¼ | |||
11,377 | 4 | 5 | ||||
£12,809 | 3 | 6¾ | ||||
Declared 26 February 1718–19. | ||||||
DECLARED ACCOUNTS: EXCISE: CANDLES: CASH ACCOUNT. | ||||||
PIPE OFFICE: ROLL 1396A [E.351/1396A]. (fn. 1) | ||||||
AUDIT OFFICE: BUNDLE 914, ROLL 111 [A.O.1/914/111]. | ||||||
The Commissioners and Governors of Excise. | ||||||
24 June 1713 to 24 June 1714. | ||||||
Charge. | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. |
Arrears: remaining in the hands of these Accomptants, as by the end of the last preceding Accompt | 3,258 | 5 | 8¾ | |||
Receipts: sums received by these Accompt ants etc. out of the Duties on Candles within the time of this accompt: | ||||||
on Candles: commencing 1 May 1710 | 56,005 | 18 | 11 | |||
on Candles: commencing 25 March 1711 | 56,005 | 14 | 11 | |||
money received on accompt of London fines | 78 | 19 | 9 | |||
112,090 | 13 | 7 | ||||
total charge and receipts | £115,348 | 19 | 3¾ | |||
Discharge | ||||||
Salaries: | ||||||
Isaac Hide, Accomptant General | 70 | 0 | 0 | |||
Henry Wilcox, Accomptant for London and the Country (Ladyday 1713 to 24 April 1713) and Thomas Wyvill suc ceeding him (from 24 April 1713 to Ladyday 1714) | 80 | 0 | 0 | |||
John Lawton and John Phillips, Assis tant Accomptants | 100 | 0 | 0 | |||
Adam Anderson, Assistant to the Clerk of the Stores | 45 | 0 | 0 | |||
Gervas Clerk, Assistant Doorkeeper | 5 | 0 | 0 | |||
Robert Hussey and Francis Oldham, Examiners | 110 | 0 | 0 | |||
Robert Shawter, Messenger | 50 | 0 | 0 | |||
Henry Middleton, Assistant to the Clerk of the Securities | 20 | 0 | 0 | |||
Thomas Sidney, Comptroller, for a clerk | 60 | 0 | 0 | |||
Edward Clarke and Edward White, two General Surveyors | 250 | 0 | 0 | |||
eight Surveyors, not named | 440 | 0 | 0 | |||
Officers for surveying wax and tallow candles (35, 33, 33, 33 in successive quarters) | 1,623 | 14 | 6¼ | |||
Thomas Walker, Assistant Officer (Lady day 1713 to 11 Jan. 1713–14) and William Clark succeeding him (11 Jan. 1713–14 to Ladyday 1714) | 35 | 0 | 0 | |||
William Taylor, Doorkeeper, for salaries paid by him | 28 | 5 | 1¾ | |||
2,916 | 19 | 8 | ||||
payments to tradesmen, artificers and others, named, for work and materials | 1,052 | 1 | 2 | |||
Inferior Officers’ taxes | 302 | 10 | 0 | |||
and to Edward Pauncfort, Cashier, for his charges in paying money into the Exchequer | 27 | 15 | 7¼ | |||
payments for exports (out of the Duty commenced 1 May 1710, 37l. 10s. 6d. and out of the Duty commenced 25 March 1711 33l. 14s. 6d.) | 171 | 5 | 0 | |||
ready money paid into the Exchequer: | ||||||
out of the Duty commenced 1 May 1710 | 55,341 | 4 | 10½ | |||
out of the Duty commencing 25 March 1711 | 55,345 | 0 | 11½ | |||
out of fines and penalties | 78 | 19 | 9 | |||
110,765 | 5 | 7 | ||||
total payments and allowances | £115,135 | 17 | 0¼ | |||
and so remains | 213 | 2 | 3½ | |||
whereof depending on William Tayler for money imprested. | 100 | 0 | 0 | |||
and on John Gibbons for ditto | 50 | 0 | 0 | |||
and on these Accomptants | 63 | 2 | 3½ | |||
£213 | 2 | 3½ | ||||
Declared 6 August 1716. | ||||||
DECLARED ACCOUNTS: DUTIES ON HIDES, SKINS ETC.: GENERAL ACCOUNT. | ||||||
PIPE OFFICE: ROLL 1478 [E.351/1478]. | ||||||
AUDIT OFFICE: BUNDLE 640, ROLL 234 [A.O.1/640/234]. | ||||||
Philip Ryley, George Townsend, Richard Shoredich, William Walbanck, Roger Millart, Justinian Isham, Thomas Leigh and Reginald Ryley, Commissioners for the Receipt and Management of the Duties on Hides, Skins, Vellum and Parchment. | ||||||
24 June 1713 to 24 June 1714. | ||||||
Charge. | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. |
Arrears: depending on sundry tanners etc., for money due at Midsummer 1713: | ||||||
for the Duty commencing 24 June 1711 | 1,958 | 16 | 8 | |||
for the Additional Duty commencing 1Aug. 1712 | 1,182 | 19 | 8 | |||
3,141 | 16 | 4 | ||||
and upon sundry Collectors for ditto remaining in their hands: | ||||||
for the Duty commencing 24 June 1711 | 664 | 12 | 10 | |||
for the Additional Duty | 149 | 19 | 8½ | |||
814 | 12 | 6½ | ||||
and upon the late Commissioners for money remaining in their hands at the foot of the last Cash Accompt: | ||||||
for the Duty commencing 24 June 1711 | 1,689 | 10 | 8½ | |||
for the Additional Duty | 23 | 4 | 3¼ | |||
1,712 | 14 | 11¾ | ||||
and upon these Accomptants for money due from sundry Collectors at Midsummer 1713 and since paid: | ||||||
for the Duty commencing24 June 1711 | 19,877 | 13 | 6¼ | |||
for the Duty commencing 1 Aug. 1712 | 8,122 | 12 | 4½ | |||
28,000 | 5 | 10¾ | ||||
total arrears as above 33,669l. 9s. 9d. | ||||||
Receipts: money due and payable for the Duties on Hides etc. within the time of this accompt: | ||||||
the produce of the Duty on Stock in hand | 2 | 11 | 9 | |||
the produce of the Duty on Hides etc. | ||||||
from Midsummer 1711 under the Act 9 Anne [c. 12]: | ||||||
Bedford (Thomas Poole) | 1,221 | 9 | 10¾ | |||
ditto (John Taylor) | 276 | 10 | 2¾ | |||
ditto (Matthew Denton) | 661 | 8 | 10½ | |||
Bristoll (George Lomax) | 3,070 | 16 | 8 | |||
Cambridge (Thomas Sheppard) | 2,855 | 16 | 2¼ | |||
Canterbury (Jacob Lynn) | 3,707 | 9 | 9½ | |||
Chester (Thomas Walbanke) | 2,729 | 19 | 0 | |||
Cornwall (Thomas Simonds) | 1,393 | 13 | 3¾ | |||
ditto (John Weston) | 519 | 6 | 9 | |||
Cumberland (John Hodgson) | 920 | 2 | 3¼ | |||
Derby (John Morris) | 1,873 | 1 | 3 | |||
Dorset (Thomas Cornelius) | 2,313 | 12 | 8¾ | |||
Durham (Thomas Billings) | 1,670 | 1 | 5½ | |||
Essex (Edmund Haddock) | 2,438 | 6 | 8½ | |||
Exeter (Edward Binlawes) | 2,712 | 5 | 11¾ | |||
Gloucester (William Brown) | 240 | 7 | 0¾ | |||
ditto (John Meredith) | 1,561 | 10 | 2¼ | |||
Grantham (John Brooke) | 1,358 | 11 | 6½ | |||
Hants. (Thomas Sanderson) | 4,325 | 19 | 2½ | |||
Hereford (Edward Halford) | 1,846 | 14 | 2 | |||
Hertford (Henry Marmion) | 5,095 | 2 | 10 | |||
Isle of Wight (Benjamin Everard) | 193 | 6 | 2¾ | |||
Lancaster (Edward Burghall) | 2,209 | 4 | 10 | |||
Leeds (Matthew Slack) | 3,197 | 11 | 1 | |||
Litchfield (William Bainbrigg) | 2,095 | 5 | 6 | |||
Lincoln (Samuel Power) | 1,427 | 14 | 6½ | |||
Marlborough (Thomas Hope) | 1,739 | 14 | 0¼ | |||
Northampton (John Wyatt) | 2,653 | 8 | 1 | |||
Northumberland (John Wilcox) | 939 | 18 | 5½ | |||
Norwich (Thomas Boococke) | 3,395 | 17 | 3¼ | |||
Oxford (Leonard Benton) | 1,544 | 8 | 1¼ | |||
Reading (Thomas Gibbons) | 2,240 | 16 | 11½ | |||
Richmond (William Archer) | 1,307 | 7 | 2¾ | |||
Salop (Maurice Pugh) | 2,550 | 8 | 0½ | |||
Sheffield (John Rockett) | 2,527 | 17 | 1 | |||
Suffolk (Richard Eeles) | 3,655 | 4 | 4¼ | |||
Surrey (William Morton) | 4,350 | 17 | 0½ | |||
Sussex (Thomas French) | 2,183 | 6 | 5¼ | |||
Taunton (Joseph Wheeler) | 2,786 | 5 | 4½ | |||
Tiverton (Stewkly Goodwin) | 1,831 | 19 | 0½ | |||
East Wales (Edward Kemeyes) | 1,019 | 10 | 10 | |||
Middle Wales (John Jenkins) | 1,194 | 0 | 4¾ | |||
North Wales (William Gough) | 674 | 15 | 4¾ | |||
West Wales (John Picton) | 795 | 14 | 8½ | |||
Westmorland (William Askew) | 1,895 | 3 | 6 | |||
Worcester (Walter Warlow) | 3,244 | 8 | 6½ | |||
York (Gervas Raynes). | 1,913 | 6 | 11½ | |||
London and the Bills of Mortality (these Accomptants) | 10,780 | 18 | 0¼ | |||
107,140 | 14 | 2¼ | ||||
for the Additional Duty from 1Aug. 1712under the Act 10 Anne [c. 19]: | ||||||
Bedford (Thomas Pool) | 658 | 19 | 11¾ | |||
ditto (John Taylor) | 149 | 14 | 9½ | |||
ditto (Matthew Denton) | 365 | 14 | 9 | |||
Bristoll (George Lomax) | 2,121 | 14 | 8¼ | |||
Cambridge (Thomas Sheffard) | 1,570 | 4 | 9¼ | |||
Canbterbury (Jacob Lynn) | 2,075 | 12 | 10 | |||
Chester (Thomas Walbanck) | 1,618 | 15 | 10½ | |||
Cornwall (Thomas Simonds) | 786 | 7 | 7½ | |||
ditto (John Weston) | 290 | 16 | 0 | |||
Cumberland (John Hodgson) | 574 | 14 | 7¾ | |||
Derby (John Morris) | 1,120 | 8 | 11½ | |||
Dorset (Thomas Cornelius) | 1,300 | 3 | 0¾ | |||
Durham (Thomas Billings) | 1,103 | 13 | 2¾ | |||
Essex (Edmund Haddock) | 1,415 | 6 | 2 | |||
Exeter (Edward Binlawes) | 1,799 | 0 | 6¼ | |||
Gloucester (William Browne) | 133 | 4 | 3½ | |||
ditto (John Meredith) | 891 | 19 | 2 | |||
Grantham (John Brooke) | 865 | 0 | 8 | |||
Hants. (Thomas Sanderson) | 2,502 | 15 | 11¾ | |||
Hereford (Edward Halford) | 1,073 | 16 | 5¾ | |||
Hereford (Henry Marmion) | 3,512 | 11 | 8½ | |||
Isle of Wight (Benjamin Everard) | 109 | 0 | 5¼ | |||
Lancaster (Edward Burghall) | 1,244 | 17 | 7 | |||
Leeds (Matthew Slack) | 1,832 | 10 | 2¼ | |||
Litchfield (William Bainbrigg) | 1,215 | 0 | 5¼ | |||
Lincoln (Samuel Power) | 831 | 11 | 4 | |||
Marlborough (Thomas Hope) | 994 | 14 | 5 | |||
Northampton (John Wyat) | 1,590 | 17 | 11 | |||
Northumberland (John Wilcox) | 578 | 13 | 11¾ | |||
Norwich (Thomas Boococke) | 1,872 | 9 | 11 | |||
Oxford (Leonard Benton) | 930 | 14 | 6½ | |||
Reading (Thomas Gibbons) | 1,249 | 7 | 2¼ | |||
Richmond (William Archer) | 793 | 13 | 2½ | |||
Salop (Maurice Pugh) | 1,577 | 4 | 0½ | |||
Sheffield (John Rockett) | 1,412 | 14 | 3¾ | |||
Suffolk (Richard Eeles) | 2,081 | 18 | 11¾ | |||
Surrey (William Morton) | 2,543 | 19 | 8¾ | |||
Sussex (Thomas French) | 1,248 | 16 | 0 | |||
Taunton (Joseph Wheeler) | 1,589 | 2 | 2½ | |||
Tiverton (Stewkley Goodwin) | 1,046 | 11 | 8½ | |||
East Wales (Edward Kemeyes) | 601 | 8 | 7¼ | |||
Middle Wales (John Jenkins) | 700 | 5 | 5 | |||
North Wales (William Gough) | 425 | 9 | 7¾ | |||
West Wales (John Picton) | 501 | 3 | 1¼ | |||
Westmorland (William Askew) | 1,066 | 0 | 6 | |||
Worcester (Walter Warlow) | 1,988 | 17 | 6¼ | |||
York (Jeremias Raynes) | 1,152 | 5 | 8 | |||
these Accomptants in London and the Bills of Mortality | 7,107 | 12 | 1¾ | |||
64,217 | 16 | 11 | ||||
money arising for the Queen's part of prizes and penalties within the time of this accompt, detailed as above | 312 | 3 | 0¼ | |||
money surcharged on the Collectors for interest on bills of exchange returned for repayment and upon several tanners etc. in London etc.: | ||||||
interest on bills of exchange returned, detailed by Collectors and places: onaccompt of the First Duty 5l.13s. 8d.and on accompt of the Additional Duty 2l. 4s. 8d. | 7 | 18 | 4 | |||
surcharges made on sundry Collectors detailed in the Examiners’ Office inLondon on accompt of the First Duty 2l. 11s. 4¾d. and on accompt of the Additional Duty 1l. 5s. 1½d. | 3 | 16 | 6¼ | |||
George Lomax, Collector at Bristoll, for profit made by returning money to London, on accompt of the Additional Duty | 0 | 10 | 0 | |||
and surcharged upon these Accomptants from the London ledger; on the First Duty 1½d. and on the Additional Duty 1½d. | 0 | 0 | 3 | |||
12 | 5 | 1¼ | ||||
total receipts as above 171,685l. 10s. 11¾d. overpayments, detailed: | ||||||
on the Duty from 24 June 1711 | 132 | 11 | 8½ | |||
on the Additional Duty from 1 Aug. 1712 | 205 | 17 | 2¼ | |||
238 | 8 | 10¾ | ||||
money received back from an Officer for not officiating as directed; on accopmpt of the Duty from Midsummer 1711 1l. 3s. 9½d.and on accompt of the Duty from 1 Aug. 1712 14s. 3½d. | 1 | 18 | 1 | |||
total charge and receipts | £205,695 | 7 | 8½ | |||
Discharge. | £ | s | d | |||
Overpayments in the time of the preceding accompt, detailed: | ||||||
on the Duty from 24 June 1711 | 72 | 14 | 0½ | |||
on the Duty from 1 Aug. 1712 | 198 | 11 | 5¼ | |||
271 | 5 | 5¾ | ||||
salaries and incidents: | ||||||
salaries of the Commissioners and other Officers in London and within the Bills of Mortality (viz. out of the First Duties 1,922l. 7s. 10¾d.and out of the Additional Duties 1,153l. 8s. 9d.) | 3,075 | 16 | 7¾ | |||
salaries of the Collectors and other Officers in the several Collections, detailed with names of Collectors (viz.out of the First Duties 14,599l. 5s. 4¼d.and out of the Additional Duties 8,759l. 11s.) | 23,358 | 16 | 4¼ | |||
26,434 | 13 | 0 | ||||
incident charges in London: | ||||||
out of the First Duty 1,126l. 0s. 0¼d.and out of the Additional Duty 662l. 14s. 5d. | 1,788 | 14 | 5¼ | |||
incident charges in the Country: | ||||||
postage etc. detailed by Collectors | 412 | 12 | 11¾ | |||
riding charges, ditto | 1,297 | 6 | 0 | |||
Officers’ taxes repaid | 938 | 2 | 2¼ | |||
charges in returning money to London | 62 | 7 | 7½ | |||
4,499 | 3 | 2¾ | ||||
(total for incidents in the Country 2,710l. 8s. 9½d. viz. out of the First Duties 1,694l. 7s. 1d. and out of the Additional Duties 1,016l. 1s. 8½d.) | ||||||
total for salaries and incidents etc. 30,933l. 16s. 2¾d. viz. out of the First Duties 19,342l. 0s. 4¼d. and out of the Additional Duties11,591l. 15s. 10½d. | ||||||
money repaid within the time of this Accompt upon debentures: | ||||||
money repaid in London upon debentures for hides and skins exported: | ||||||
out of the First Duties 5,735l. 17s. 7½d.and out of the Additional Duties 2,864l. 5s. 1½d. | 8,600 | 2 | 9 | |||
ditto in the Country Collections for ditto, detailed by Collectors; out of the First Duties 1,213l. 4s. 1½d. and out of the Additional Duties 600l. 16s. 8½d. | 1,814 | 0 | 10 | |||
total for hides exported etc. 10,414l. 3s. 7d.; viz. out of the First Duties 6,949l. 1s. 9d.and out of the Additional Duties 3,465l. 1s. 10d.) | ||||||
repayments for an overcharge in London, detailed; out of the First Duties | 0 | 19 | 1½ | |||
ditto for overcharges in the Country, detailed by Collectors | 11 | 4 | 3¼ | |||
(total for overcharges 12l.3s. 4¾d., viz. outof the First Duty 7l. 12s. 10¼d. and out of the Additional Duty 3l. 11s. 5d.) | ||||||
total repayments (viz. out of the First Duties 6,957l. 13s. 8¾d. and out of the Additional Duties 3,468l. 13s. 3d.) | 10,426 | 6 | 11¾ | |||
money paid into the Exchequer: | ||||||
out of the produce of the Duties from Midsummer 1711 | 83,349 | 16 | 10½ | |||
and out of the produce of the Additional Duties from 1 Aug. 1712 | 45,711 | 12 | 5½ | |||
129,061 | 9 | 4 | ||||
total payments and allowances | £170,692 | 18 | 0¼ | |||
and so remains | 35,002 | 9 | 8¼ | |||
against which depending: | ||||||
money due from sundry tanners etc., not named, in the several Collections, detailed: | ||||||
out of the produce of the Duties from Midsummer 1711 | 2,154 | 4 | 5 | |||
out of the produce of the Additional Duties from 1 Aug. 1712 | 1,338 | 1 | 9¼ | |||
3,492 | 6 | 2¼ | ||||
money in arrear in the hands of the several Collectors, detailed: | ||||||
on accompt of the Duties from Midsummer 1711 | 331 | 8 | 9¼ | |||
on accompt of the Additional Duties from 1 Aug 1712 | 86 | 0 | 11¼ | |||
417 | 9 | 8½ | ||||
money imprested or in the Commissioners’ hands: | ||||||
arrears in the Commissioners’ hands at the foot of their Cash Accompt, on accompt of the Duties from Midsummer 1711 | 413 | 18 | 0¾ | |||
money imprested to Francis Sorrill, Sec retary, for incident charges, out of the same | 191 | 4 | 4 | |||
and remaining in the Commissioners’ hands for money received after the determination of the Accompt; on accompt of the Duties from Midsummer 1711 19,022l. 12s.9½d. and on accompt of the Additional Duties from 1 Aug. 1712 11,464l. 18s. 7¼d | 30,487 | 11 | 4¾ | |||
31,092 | 13 | 9½ | ||||
total arrears at Midsummer 1714;on accompt of the Duties from Midsummer 1711 22,113l. 8s. 4½d. and on accompt of the Additional Duties from 1 Aug. 1712 12,889l. 1s. 3¾d. | £35,002 | 9 | 8¼ | |||
and so this General Accompt is even and Quit. | ||||||
Declared 3 July 1718. | ||||||
DECLARED ACCOUNTS: DUTIES ON HIDES AND SKINS ETC.: CASH ACCOUNT. | ||||||
PIPE OFFICE: ROLL 1402 [351/1402]. (fn. 1) | ||||||
AUDIT OFFICE: BUNDLE 784, ROLL 974 [A.O.1/784/974]. | ||||||
Philip Ryley, George Townsend, Richard Shordich, William Walbanck, Roger Millart, Justinian Isham, Thomas Leigh and Reginald Ryley, Commissioners for the Receipt and Management of the Duties of Hides, Skins, Vellum and Parchment. | ||||||
24 June 1713 to 24 June 1714. | ||||||
Charge. | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. |
Arrears: remaining in the Accomptant's hands upon the end of the previous Cash Accompt: | ||||||
on accompt of the Old Duties | 1,689 | 10 | 8½ | |||
on accompt of the Additional Duties. | 23 | 4 | 3¼ | |||
1,712 | 14 | 11¾ | ||||
Receipts: money received of the several Receivers and Collectors within the time of this Accompt: | ||||||
for the old. Duties from Midsummer 1711: | ||||||
Bedford (Thomas Poole) | 1,372 | 15 | 8¾ | |||
ditto (John Taylor) | 189 | 12 | 8¼ | |||
ditto (Matthew Denton) | 301 | 0 | 0 | |||
Bristoll (John Hardy) | 13 | 14 | 9 | |||
ditto (George Lomax) | 2,595 | 17 | 1¾ | |||
Cambridge (Thomas Sheffard) | 2,468 | 8 | 1¼ | |||
Canterbury (Jacob Lynn) | 3,164 | 13 | 6¾ | |||
Chester (Thomas Walbancke) | 2,319 | 5 | 5¼ | |||
Cornwall (Edward Binlawes) | 361 | 18 | 1 | |||
ditto (Thomas Symonds) | 1,074 | 10 | 9½ | |||
ditto (John Weston) | 110 | 16 | 8 | |||
Cumberland (John Hodgson) | 635 | 18 | 8 | |||
Derby (William Bainbrigg) | 352 | 6 | 11½ | |||
ditto (John Morris) | 1,199 | 10 | 11¾ | |||
Dorsett (William Sherborne) | 70 | 0 | 0 | |||
ditto (Thomas Sanderson) | 447 | 17 | 11½ | |||
ditto (Thomas Cornelius) | 1,394 | 10 | 0¾ | |||
Durham (Thomas Billings) | 1,383 | 14 | 5¾ | |||
Essex (Jacob Lynn) | 28 | 6 | 3¾ | |||
ditto (Edmund Haddock) | 1,804 | 8 | 10¾ | |||
Exeter (Thomas Symonds) | 423 | 19 | 4¾ | |||
ditto (Edward Binlawes) | 1,640 | 9 | 1½ | |||
Gloucester (Henry Marmion) | 395 | 9 | 6 | |||
ditto (William Browne) | 186 | 10 | 3¼ | |||
ditto (John Meredith) | 1,005 | 13 | 1½ | |||
Grantham (Gervas Raynes) | 357 | 7 | 10¼ | |||
ditto (John Brookes) | 737 | 13 | 11 | |||
Hants. (Thomas Cornelius) | 982 | 14 | 10¼ | |||
ditto (Thomas Sanderson) | 2,823 | 10 | 3¾ | |||
Hereford (William Browne) | 358 | 0 | 6½ | |||
ditto (Edward Halford) | 1,160 | 19 | 6¼ | |||
Hertford (Edward Halford) | 959 | 14 | 3½ | |||
ditto (Henry Marmion) | 3,533 | 10 | 0 | |||
Isle of Wight (George Sponge) | 29 | 13 | 11½ | |||
ditto (Benjamin Everard) | 114 | 4 | 8½ | |||
Lancaster (Edward Burghall) | 1,873 | 17 | 9½ | |||
Leeds (Matthew Slack) | 2,721 | 14 | 4¼ | |||
Litchfield (Walter Warlow) | 468 | 4 | 3¼ | |||
ditto (William Bainbrigg) | 1,242 | 10 | 5¾ | |||
Lincoln (William Morton) | 310 | 13 | 2½ | |||
ditto (Samuel Powers) | 895 | 1 | 2 | |||
Marlborough (Thomas Hope) | 1,475 | 17 | 6¼ | |||
Northampton (John Wyatt) | 2,243 | 0 | 11½ | |||
Northumberland (William Pulleine) | 0 | 4 | 8¼ | |||
ditto (John Willcocks) | 763 | 5 | 3¾ | |||
Norwich (Thomas Boococke) | 2,846 | 18 | 4 | |||
Oxford (Leonard Benton) | 1,245 | 12 | 8 | |||
Reading (Thomas Gibbons) | 1,918 | 15 | 2¾ | |||
Richmond (William Archer) | 954 | 5 | 1½ | |||
Salop (Maurice Pugh) | 2,253 | 13 | 7½ | |||
Sheffield (John Rockett) | 2,093 | 16 | 1¼ | |||
Suffolk (Richard Eeles) | 3,077 | 11 | 4¼ | |||
ditto (John Bunn) | 0 | 11 | 5¼ | |||
Surry (Samuel Power) | 768 | 5 | 0 | |||
ditto (William Morton) | 3,258 | 12 | 1¼ | |||
Sussex (Thomas French) | 1,840 | 7 | 2½ | |||
Taunton (Joseph Wheeler) | 2,244 | 3 | 0¾ | |||
Tiverton (Stewk’ Goodwin) | 1,469 | 17 | 0¼ | |||
East Wales (Edward Kemeys) | 805 | 1 | 5 | |||
Middle Wales (John Jenkins) | 950 | 6 | 4½ | |||
North Wales (William Gough) | 510 | 0 | 11¾ | |||
West Wales (John Picton) | 559 | 18 | 3¾ | |||
Westmorland (William Askew) | 1,503 | 9 | 5½ | |||
Worcester (John Morris) | 545 | 17 | 3½ | |||
ditto (Walter Warlow) | 2,264 | 1 | 11¼ | |||
York (John Brooke) | 261 | 10 | 11½ | |||
ditto (Jervis Raynes) | 1,014 | 4 | 5 | |||
these Accomptants in London | 10,622 | 15 | 5 | |||
91,003 | 3 | 2¾ | ||||
for the Additional Duties from 1 Aug. 1712: | ||||||
Bedford (Thomas Poole) | 666 | 5 | 2 | |||
ditto (John Taylor) | 109 | 18 | 8 | |||
ditto (Matthew Denton) | 170 | 0 | 0 | |||
Bristoll (George Lomax) | 1,777 | 17 | 7¼ | |||
Cambridge (Thomas Sheffard) | 1,209 | 2 | 6¾ | |||
Canterbury (Jacob Lynn) | 1,645 | 13 | 7½ | |||
Chester (Thomas Walbanck) | 1,348 | 0 | 4¾ | |||
Cornwall (Edward Binlawes) | 47 | 15 | 2½ | |||
ditto (Thomas Symonds) | 584 | 11 | 11 | |||
ditto (John Weston) | 6 | 1 | 8 | |||
Cumberland (John Hodgson) | 304 | 10 | 0 | |||
Derby (William Bainbrigg) | 130 | 13 | 0¼ | |||
ditto (John Morris) | 664 | 13 | 0½ | |||
Dorsett (William Sherborne) | 0 | 19 | 7½ | |||
ditto (Thomas Sanderson) | 247 | 17 | 6 | |||
ditto (Thomas Cornelius) | 787 | 18 | 1¼ | |||
Durham (Thomas Billings) | 850 | 13 | 1½ | |||
Essex (Edmund Haddock) | 1,008 | 1 | 1¼ | |||
Exeter (Thomas Symonds) | 371 | 17 | 4¾ | |||
ditto (Edward Binlawes) | 1,129 | 8 | 1¼ | |||
Gloucester (Henry Marmion) | 91 | 10 | 6 | |||
ditto (William Brown) | 97 | 0 | 10¼ | |||
ditto (John Meredith) | 570 | 11 | 4½ | |||
Grantham (Gervas Raynes) | 106 | 1 | 11½ | |||
ditto (John Brookes) | 479 | 13 | 2 | |||
Hants. (Thomas Cornelius) | 446 | 3 | 5½ | |||
ditto (Thomas Sanderson) | 1,594 | 12 | 1¼ | |||
Hereford (William Browne) | 127 | 6 | 9¼ | |||
ditto (Edward Halford) | 668 | 19 | 11 | |||
Hertford (Edward Halford) | 489 | 3 | 8½ | |||
ditto (Henry Marmion) | 2,449 | 10 | 0 | |||
Isle of Wight (George Sponge) | 3 | 11 | 6 | |||
ditto (Benjamin Everard) | 62 | 18 | 5 | |||
Lancaster (Edward Burghall) | 957 | 6 | 0¼ | |||
Leeds (Matthew Slack) | 1,464 | 13 | 0 | |||
Lichfield (Walter Warlow) | 133 | 7 | 6¾ | |||
ditto (William Bainbrigg) | 718 | 1 | 2 | |||
Lincoln (William Morton) | 60 | 13 | 10¾ | |||
ditto (Samuel Powers) | 515 | 4 | 1½ | |||
Marlborough (Thomas Hope) | 661 | 18 | 8 | |||
Northampton (John Wyatt) | 1,196 | 12 | 0½ | |||
Northumberland (John Wilcocks) | 403 | 9 | 4½ | |||
Norwich (Thomas Boococke) | 1,364 | 2 | 0¾ | |||
Oxford (Leonard Benton) | 625 | 12 | 7¼ | |||
Reading (Thomas Gibbons) | 988 | 9 | 2¼ | |||
Richmond (William Archer) | 457 | 7 | 5 | |||
Salop (Maurice Pugh) | 1,366 | 16 | 9½ | |||
Sheffield (John Rocket) | 1,090 | 8 | 0¼ | |||
Suffolk (Richard Eeles) | 1,563 | 17 | 9 | |||
Surry (Samuel Power) | 467 | 13 | 6 | |||
ditto (William Morton) | 1,795 | 8 | 9¼ | |||
Sussex (Thomas French) | 806 | 6 | 10½ | |||
Taunton (Joseph Wheeler) | 1,224 | 15 | 9¼ | |||
Tiverton (Stewk’ Goodwin) | 763 | 12 | 9½ | |||
East Wales (Edward Kemeyes) | 357 | 18 | 3¾ | |||
Middle Wales (John Jenkins) | 439 | 9 | 10½ | |||
North Wales (William Gough) | 227 | 13 | 4 | |||
West Wales (John Picton) | 238 | 6 | 9½ | |||
Westmorland (William Askew) | 810 | 18 | 7¾ | |||
Worcester (John Morris) | 302 | 1 | 7¾ | |||
ditto (Walter Warlow) | 1,399 | 9 | 1¼ | |||
York (John Brooke) | 134 | 12 | 2 | |||
ditto (Gervas Raynes) | 622 | 6 | 6¾ | |||
and these Accomptants in the London Collection | 7,008 | 11 | 1 | |||
50,416 | 6 | 5¾ | ||||
total receipts as above 141,419l. 9s. 8½d. | ||||||
total charge and receipts | £143,132 | 4 | 8¼ | |||
Discharge. | ||||||
Salaries etc. under the Establishment of 18 July 1711: | ||||||
Richard Shorediche, William Walbancke, Roger Millart and Justinian Isham, Commissioners for these Duties, year to Ladyday 1714; Philip Ryley and George Townsend, Ladyday 1713 to 19 Nov. 1713; Thomas Leigh and Reginald Ryley succeeding them, to Ladyday 1714 | 1,200 | 0 | 0 | |||
Edward Foley, Cashier; year to Ladyday 1714 | 510 | 0 | 0 | |||
Francis Sorrill, Secretary; same time | 50 | 0 | 0 | |||
Leonard Reresby, Comptroller; same time | 100 | 0 | 0 | |||
Henry Needler, Accomptant General; same time | 100 | 0 | 0 | |||
John Bach, Comptroller's clerk; same time | 50 | 0 | 0 | |||
three Assistants, named, to the Accomptant General, two at 50l. per an., one at 60l. per an.; same time | 160 | 0 | 0 | |||
Richard Does, Examiner of the Officers’ Ledgers, at 60l. per an. and Henry Buck, his Assistant, at 50l. per an.; same time | 110 | 0 | 0 | |||
Anthony Radcliffe, Storekeeper; same time | 50 | 0 | 0 | |||
William Richins, General Surveyor in London; same time | 80 | 0 | 0 | |||
John Huggins, Solicitor and Clerk of the Securities; same time | 150 | 0 | 0 | |||
John Powle, Assistant to the Secretary; same time | 20 | 0 | 0 | |||
John Rolfe, Registrar; same time | 60 | 0 | 0 | |||
doorkeeper, housekeeper (for herself and servants), messenger and porter, named; same time | 140 | 0 | 0 | |||
officers for surveying tanners; tawers etc. named | 295 | 16 | 7¾ | |||
3,075 | 16 | 7¾ | ||||
incidents etc.: | ||||||
stationery wares etc. | 1,548 | 15 | 1¼ | |||
a moiety of the rent of the Leather Office | 25 | 0 | 0 | |||
Edward Harley, for the Auditor's fee | 150 | 0 | 0 | |||
Officers’ taxes | 43 | 10 | 0 | |||
Exchequer fees etc. | 21 | 9 | 4 | |||
1,788 | 14 | 5¼ | ||||
total for salaries and incidents 4,864l. 11s. 1d. (viz. out of the First Duty 3,048l. 7s. 11d. and out of the Additional Duties 1,816 3s. 2d.) | ||||||
repayments upon debentures for hides exported and for an overcharge: | ||||||
on hides exported; out of the First Duties 5,735l. 17s. 7½d. and out of the Additional Duties 2,864l. 5s. 1½d. | 8,600 | 2 | 9 | |||
to John Horne, currier, for an overcharge | 0 | 19 | 1½ | |||
8,601 | 1 | 10½ | ||||
money paid into the Exchequer detailed by dates: | ||||||
out of the First Duties from 24 June 1711 | 83,349 | 16 | 10½ | |||
out of the Additional Duties from 1 Aug. 1712 | 45,711 | 12 | 5½ | |||
129,061 | 9 | 4 | ||||
total payments and allowances | £142,527 | 2 | 3½ | |||
and so remains | 605 | 2 | 4¾ | |||
whereof depending on Francis Sorrill for money imprested | 191 | 4 | 4 | |||
and so the Accomptants are Indebted | 413 | 18 | 0¾ | |||
Declared 3 July 1718. | ||||||
DECLARED ACCOUNTS: EXCISE: GILT AND SILVER WIRE AND STARCH: GENERAL ACCOUNT. PIPE OFFICE: ROLL 1466 [E.351/1466]. | ||||||
AUDIT OFFICE: BUNDLE 1079, ROLL 735. PART 5 [A.O.1/1079/735/5]. | ||||||
The Commissioners and Governors of Excise as Managers and Governors for these Duties. | ||||||
24 June 1713 to 24 June 1714. | ||||||
Charge. | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. |
Arrears: remaining in net money to be further accompted for | 3,838 | 4 | 5¾ | |||
remaining due from sundry starch-makers etc. in the Country Collections | 176 | 3 | 0½ | |||
ditto, ditto in London. | 26 | 7 | 5¼ | |||
ditto from sundry present Country Collectors | 44 | 16 | 5½ | |||
4,085 | 11 | 5 | ||||
Receipts: the whole produce of the Duties on Gilt and Silver Wire and Starch within the time of this Accompt: | ||||||
London: | ||||||
British gilt wire; the growing Duty at 8d. and ounce | 3,156 | 9 | 7¼ | |||
British silver wire; ditto at 6d. an ounce | 2,812 | 5 | 7¼ | |||
British starch; ditto at 1d. a lb. | 5,937 | 12 | 4 | |||
surcharged from the starch ledger | 0 | 0 | 5 | |||
the Queen's part of fines | 4 | 4 | 0 | |||
11,910 | 11 | 11½ | ||||
Country Inland Collections: | ||||||
British starch; the growing Duty at 1d. a 1b. | 4,311 | 3 | 9 | |||
the Queen's part of fines | 7 | 3 | 1½ | |||
interest on bills of exchange returned | 0 | 10 | 0 | |||
4,318 | 16 | 10½ | ||||
total receipts as above 16,229l. 8s. 10d. | ||||||
Overbalances, detailed by Collectors and places | 41 | 3 | 1 | |||
total charge and receipts | £20,356 | 3 | 4 | |||
Discharge. | ||||||
Overbalances from the preceding year | 34 | 11 | 7¼ | |||
salaries etc.: | ||||||
salaries of sundry Country Collectors | 126 | 18 | 9¼ | |||
Officers’ taxes | 1 | 10 | 0 | |||
riding charges for a clerk in the Oxford Collection | 2 | 7 | 3 | |||
incident charges | 14 | 3 | 11 | |||
charges of returning money to London | 3 | 13 | 8¼ | |||
148 | 13 | 7½ | ||||
allowances for exports etc.: | ||||||
to sundry persons for starch exported as merchandize | 15 | 3 | 5 | |||
to ditto in London for starch over charged | 4 | 1 | 9 | |||
to ditto in the Country pursuant to Justices’ warrants | 28 | 5 | 5 | |||
47 | 10 | 7 | ||||
total for salaries and allowances 196l. 4s. 2½d. | ||||||
ready money received and particularly accompted for in the Cash Accompt | 16,947 | 3 | 3¼ | |||
total payments and allowances | £17,177 | 19 | 1 | |||
and so remains | 3,178 | 4 | 3 | |||
whereof remaining in arrear and unpaid by sundry starchmakers in the Country | 142 | 16 | 0¾ | |||
ditto, ditto in London | 26 | 4 | 0¾ | |||
remaining due from sundry Country Collectors. | 52 | 2 | 0¼ | |||
221 | 2 | 1¾ | ||||
balance of the Cash Accompt in the Cashier's hands | 2 | 4 | 4¼ | |||
money received after 24 June 1714 on accompt of sundry Country Collectors | 1,110 | 1 | 1¾ | |||
ditto on accompt of sundry refiners and starch makers in London | 1,843 | 9 | 8½ | |||
ditto on accompt of sundry Country Collectors, but proper to the preceding accompt | 1 | 6 | 10¾ | |||
2,957 | 2 | 1¼ | ||||
total depending | £3,178 | 4 | 3 | |||
and so this General Accompt is even and Quit. | ||||||
Declared 26 March 1719. (fn. 1). | ||||||
DECLARED ACCOUNTS: EXCISE: GILT AND SILVER WIRE AND STARCH: CASH ACCOUNT. | ||||||
PIPE OFFICE: ROLL 1391 [E.351/1391]. | ||||||
AUDIT OFFICE: BUNDLE 914, ROLL 110 [A.O.1/914/110]. | ||||||
The Commissioners and Governors of Excise. | ||||||
24 June 1713 to 24 June 1714. | ||||||
Charge. | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. |
Arrears: remaining in the Accomptant's hands, as by the end of the last preceding Accompt | 358 | 14 | 6¾ | |||
Receipts: sums received by these Accomptants etc. out of the Duties on Gilt and Silver Wire and Starch within the time of this Accompt | 16,590 | 13 | 0¾ | |||
total charge and receipts | £16,949 | 7 | 7½ | |||
Discharge. | ||||||
Salaries: | ||||||
Isaac Hide, Accomptant General | 30 | 0 | 0 | |||
Jasper Bull, John Middleton, Benjamin Legross, Arthur Ingram Thornton, four Assistant Accomptants | 60 | 0 | 0 | |||
Henry Buck, who receives entries and administers the oaths | 15 | 0 | 0 | |||
John Ulney, Surveyor | 60 | 0 | 0 | |||
the seven Officers for surveying these Duties (not named, by quarters) | 356 | 19 | 2 | |||
William Surridge, Assistant Officer; three quarters to Ladyday 1714 | 26 | 5 | 0 | |||
Thomas Frederick, for a year's rent | 10 | 0 | 0 | |||
William Tayler, for salary paid to Benjamin Newman | 5 | 10 | 10 | |||
563 | 15 | 0 | ||||
payments to tradesmen, artificers and others for work and materials, detailed with names | 189 | 18 | 3¾ | |||
Officers’ taxes, by special Treasury Warrant | 31 | 10 | 0 | |||
allowance for Gilt and Silver Wire and Starch exported | 1,056 | 7 | 0½ | |||
ready money paid into the Exchequer, detailed by dates: | ||||||
out of these Duties | 15,101 | 8 | 11 | |||
out of fines | 4 | 4 | 0 | |||
15,105 | 12 | 11 | ||||
total payments and allowances | £16,947 | 3 | 3¼ | |||
and so remains depending on these Accomptants | 2 | 4 | 4¼ | |||
Declared 6 August 1716. | ||||||
DECLARED ACCOUNTS: EXCISE: SOAP ETC. DUTIES: GENERAL ACCOUNT. | ||||||
PIPE OFFICE: ROLL 1474 [E.351/1474]. | ||||||
AUDIT OFFICE: BUNDLE 1079, ROLL 735, PART 4 [A.O.1/1079/735/4]. | ||||||
The Commissioners and Governors of Excise. | ||||||
24 June 1713 to 24 June 1714. | ||||||
Charge. | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. |
Arrears: remaining in nett money to be further accompted for | 27,284 | 11 | 3¾ | |||
remaining due from sundry soap boilers in the Country Collections | 6,264 | 6 | 6¼ | |||
ditto, ditto in London | 1,924 | 3 | 9½ | |||
resting due from sundry Country Collectors | 181 | 0 | 6¼ | |||
35,654 | 2 | 1¾ | ||||
Receipts: the whole produce of the Duties on Soap, Paper and Printed Silks, Callicoes etc.; within the time of this accompt: | ||||||
for the growing Duty in London, Westminster and Bills of Mortality | 80,243 | 8 | 5¾ | |||
for the growing Duty in the Country Collections | 56,804 | 16 | 10¾ | |||
137,048 | 5 | 4½ | ||||
overbalances, detailed by Collectors and places | 265 | 16 | 0¾ | |||
total payments and allowances | £172,968 | 3 | 7 | |||
Discharge. | ||||||
Overbalances due from the preceding accompt | 145 | 0 | 3 | |||
salaries, riding charges, incident charges etc.: | ||||||
salaries of Country Collectors | 3,103 | 8 | 9½ | |||
taxes assessed on officers | 87 | 3 | 7 | |||
riding charges | 16 | 10 | 9 | |||
charges of returning money to London | 8 | 16 | 3¾ | |||
incident charges | 178 | 13 | 2½ | |||
3,394 | 12 | 7¾ | ||||
allowances for exports etc.: | ||||||
allowed for soap, paper and calicoes exported as merchandize | 905 | 3 | 9 | |||
ditto for soap consumed in the woollen manufacture | 1,464 | 11 | 11½ | |||
ditto for over entries in London | 132 | 8 | 6¾ | |||
ditto for overcharges in London on stock in hand | 4 | 8 | 1 | |||
ditto pursuant to Justices Warrants in the Country | 184 | 2 | 3½ | |||
2,690 | 14 | 7¾ | ||||
ready money received and particularly accompted for in the Cash Accompt | 128,672 | 10 | 3¼ | |||
total payments and allowances | 134,902 | 17 | 9¾ | |||
and so remains | 38,065 | 5 | 9¼ | |||
whereof remaining in arrear and unpaid of these Duties in the Country at 24 June 1714 | 6,199 | 14 | 10¼ | |||
ditto by soap makers and others in London | 1,822 | 14 | 7 | |||
remaining due from sundry Country Collectors | 135 | 10 | 5¾ | |||
8,157 | 19 | 11 | ||||
money resting to be accompted for by the Commissioners: | ||||||
balance in the Cashier's hands | 388 | 10 | 10 | |||
money received after 24 June 1714 on accompt of sundry soap merchants etc. in London | 16,369 | 0 | 3¼ | |||
ditto on accompt of sundry Country Collectors | 13,149 | 14 | 9 | |||
29,907 | 5 | 10¼ | ||||
£38,065 | 5 | 9¼ | ||||
Declared 16 June 1719. | ||||||
DECLARED ACCOUNTS: EXCISE: SOAP ETC. DUTIES: CASH ACCOUNT. | ||||||
PIPE OFFICE: ROLL 1398 [E.351/1398]. | ||||||
AUDIT OFFICE: BUNDLE 915, ROLL 112 [A.O.1/915/112]. | ||||||
The Commissioners and Governors of Excise. | ||||||
24 June 1713 to 24 June 1714. | ||||||
Charge. | £ | s. | d. | |||
Arrears: remaining in the Commissioner's hands at 24 June 1713 | 4,041 | 3 | 8¼ | |||
Receipts: money received during the period of this Accompt out of the Duties on Soap, Paper and Printed Silks etc. | 125,019 | 17 | 5 | |||
total charge and receipts | £129,061 | 1 | 1¼ | |||
Discharge. | £ | s. | d. | |||
Salaries etc.: | ||||||
Isaac Hide, Accomptant General | 100 | 0 | 0 | |||
Jasper Ball, John Middleton, Benjamin Legross and Arthur Ingram Thornton, four Assistant Accomptants | 180 | 0 | 0 | |||
Henry Buck, who receives entries, etc. | 45 | 0 | 0 | |||
several Officers for surveying these Duties; by quarters | 750 | 0 | 0 | |||
several Assistant Officers, ditto | 466 | 2 | 7 | |||
John Spelman, Surveyor | 60 | 0 | 0 | |||
several Officers for surveying the Duty on Callicoes; by quarters | 477 | 4 | 9¾ | |||
William Salmon, another; 13 June to 24 June 1713 | 1 | 12 | 11½ | |||
Thomas Frederick, for rent | 26 | 0 | 0 | |||
eight Surveyors; three quarters to Lady day 1714 | 30 | 0 | 0 | |||
William Tayler, for salary paid to | ||||||
Anthony Scawen, 23 Feb. 1713–14 to Ladyday 1714 | 8 | 6 | 8 | |||
2,144 | 7 | 0¼ | ||||
payments to tradesmen, artificers and others, for work and materials, detailed | 1,058 | 14 | 1 | |||
payments by special Treasury warrant Officers’ taxes | 109 | 0 | 0 | |||
to Edward Pauncfort, Cashier, for Exchequer charges | 0 | 11 | 0 | |||
allowance for exports etc. | ||||||
allowed for soap etc. exported | 3,190 | 3 | 1¼ | |||
ditto for soap etc. overcharged | 12 | 2 | 11¼ | |||
ditto for soap consumed in the woollen manufactures | 122 | 12 | 6½ | |||
3,324 | 18 | 7 | ||||
ready money paid into the Exchequer, by dates | 121,987 | 14 | 1½ | |||
ditto, being part of fines adjudged against soap boilers | 47 | 5 | 5½ | |||
total payments and allowances | £128,672 | 10 | 3¼ | |||
and so remains | 388 | 10 | 10 | |||
whereof depending on William Tayler, for money imprested | 300 | 0 | 0 | |||
and on John Gibbons for ditto | 50 | 0 | 0 | |||
and on the Commissioners | 38 | 10 | 10 | |||
Declared 6 August 1716. | ||||||
DECLARED ACCOUNTS: SALT DUTIES: GENERAL ACCOUNT. | ||||||
PIPE OFFICE: ROLL 2885 [E.351/2885]. | ||||||
AUDIT OFFICE: BUNDLE 2093, ROLL 119 [A.O.1/2093/119]. | ||||||
John Danvers, Thomas Aram, Humphrey Griffith, Edward Brereton and Martin Killegrew, Commissioners for the Duties on Salt and Rocksalt. | ||||||
25 March 1713 to 25 March 1714. | ||||||
Charge. | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. |
Arrears: remaining in the hands of sundry persons at the determination of the previous General Accompt: | ||||||
of sundry Collectors for money due for the Duties on Foreign Salt imported, remaining locked in the cellars | 5,017 | 0 | 0 | |||
of sundry Salt Proprietors for money due at 25 March 1713 | 27,735 | 4 | 11 | |||
of sundry Collectors for money and bonds ditto | 43,959 | 8 | 8¼ | |||
of the Commissioners for so much received of the Collectors since 25 March 1713 | 14,621 | 3 | 1 | |||
91,332 | 16 | 8¼ | ||||
Receipts: money due and payable within the time of this Accompt, as well for Salt imported as for Salt made in England, Wales and Berwick-uponTweed, and for money arising by fines etc. and by interest on bonds, as certified by Edmund Longbridge, Deputy Comptroller: | ||||||
money payable for the Duties on Salt: | ||||||
Bideford (William Petty) | 2,104 | 16 | 1½ | |||
Bishops Lidiard (John Pavie) | 358 | 14 | 7 | |||
Bristol city and port (Christopher Cole) | 3,232 | 10 | 5 | |||
Chepstow (Edward Hemming) | 23 | 5 | 10 | |||
Cockerham (John Jon) | 586 | 19 | 9¾ | |||
Droitwich (John Kent) | 62,293 | 0 | 0 | |||
Flimby (Thomas Johnson) | 1,876 | 5 | 5 | |||
Flint (Richard Bell) | 625 | 12 | 6 | |||
Grain Isle (William Jeffryes) | 282 | 14 | 7 | |||
Llaugherne (John Furnivall) | 1,942 | 3 | 4 | |||
Lemington (Joseph Slater) | 21,707 | 2 | 6 | |||
Leverpoole (John Troughton) | 32,725 | 19 | 7 | |||
Midlewich (Samuell Blechynden) | 27,105 | 7 | 11 | |||
Namptwich (Jonathan Brown) | 17,432 | 13 | 4 | |||
North Sheales (John Wheelwright) | 42,722 | 10 | 0 | |||
Northwich (Thomas Stephenson) | 93,618 | 7 | 6 | |||
Pensford (Maurice Price) | 500 | 15 | 6½ | |||
Plymouth (Arthur Keay) | 614 | 0 | 0 | |||
Portissick (Christopher Conyers) | 417 | 17 | 6½ | |||
Portsea (William Dodd) | 4,461 | 7 | 11 | |||
Sherbourne (Charles Jennings) | 733 | 13 | 4 | |||
Shirleywich (John Carvile) | 8,754 | 0 | 0 | |||
South Sheales (John Bell) | 103,477 | 1 | 2¼ | |||
Topsham (Richard Mounteny) | 2,744 | 5 | 10 | |||
Yarmouth (Michael Pulteney) | 6,647 | 11 | 8 | |||
Barnstaple (Robert Rowe) | 1,221 | 6 | 8 | |||
Bidiford (Charles Jones) | 2,467 | 13 | 4 | |||
Cardigan (Francis Howell) | 55 | 13 | 4 | |||
Colchester (James Bruce) | 17 | 10 | 0 | |||
Cowes (John Dale) | 0 | 18 | 10½ | |||
Dartmouth (James Jenkinson) | 1,643 | 13 | 4 | |||
Dover (John Ball) | 47 | 1 | 2¼ | |||
Exeter (William Chamberlaine) | 275 | 9 | 3 | |||
Falmouth (William Pye) | 11,435 | 6 | 8 | |||
Fowey (Charles Lamb) | 7,314 | 6 | 8 | |||
Gweek (Bernard Penrose) | 2,218 | 13 | 4 | |||
Hull (Hugh Mason) | 151 | 0 | 0 | |||
Lancaster (Joseph Bentley) | 0 | 10 | 0 | |||
London (William Bertram, Collector) | 1,426 | 15 | 0 | |||
Looe (John Dyer) | 977 | 0 | 0 | |||
Lynn Regis (Henry Hare) | 3 | 13 | 4 | |||
Minehead (Francis Webber) | 113 | 6 | 8 | |||
Padstow (William Taylor) | 54 | 13 | 4 | |||
Penryn (Ambrose Thompson) | 5,567 | 13 | 4 | |||
Penzance (Richard Score) | 3,040 | 13 | 4 | |||
Plymouth (David Morris) | 3,572 | 0 | 0 | |||
Poole (Ambrose Stevenson) | 687 | 13 | 4 | |||
Portsmouth (Samuel Binckes) | 0 | 11 | 8 | |||
St. Ives (Richard Upton) | 1,322 | 0 | 0 | |||
Sandwich (Benjamin Fisher) | 72 | 3 | 4 | |||
Scilley Isles (Francis Ley) | 27 | 0 | 0 | |||
Southampton (Daniel Cardonnell) | 200 | 0 | 0 | |||
Whitby (Hamlet Woods) | 2 | 10 | 0 | |||
Yarmouth (Thomas Moore) | 526 | 5 | 0 | |||
481,431 | 17 | 5¼ | ||||
money paid for fines, seizures and surcharges; detailed by Collectors and places | 274 | 13 | 4 | |||
money gained by interest on bonds etc.; ditto | 6 | 13 | 5¾ | |||
total receipts as above 481,713l.4s.3d. | ||||||
overpayments within the time of this accompt, detailed as above | 483 | 10 | 7¼ | |||
total charge and receipts | £573,529 | 11 | 6½ | |||
Discharge. | ||||||
Money accompted for in this year's Cash accompt | 222,642 | 4 | 2¼ | |||
money defalked by Collectors, detailed, for overpayments in the time of the previous Accompt | 1,516 | 19 | 6½ | |||
salaries of Collectors, Supervisors, Surveyors and others, detailed at length with names of places and persons | 10,824 | 18 | 10¼ | |||
poundage allowed to and defalked by the Collectors at the Ports, and Surveyors of foreign salt imported, detailed | 809 | 16 | 11¾ | |||
necessary and incident charges | 2,297 | 11 | 11½ | |||
Officers taxes repaid | 649 | 11 | 0½ | |||
money repaid upon debentures for salt and salted fish exported | 110,316 | 3 | 3½ | |||
premiums for returns of money | 639 | 14 | 6½ | |||
discount allowed for prompt payment | 20,204 | 19 | 11¾ | |||
allowance for salt lost at sea | 2,467 | 7 | 1 | |||
allowance for rock-salt refined | 45,446 | 19 | 3½ | |||
allowance for salt over-entered | 49 | 3 | 4 | |||
allowance for waste on salt carried coastwise | 11,219 | 10 | 1¼ | |||
money allowed in lieu of riding charges | 60 | 0 | 0 | |||
total for salaries and allowances etc. as above 204,985l. 16s. 5½d. | ||||||
total payments and allowances | £429,145 | 0 | 2¼ | |||
and so remains | 144,384 | 11 | 4¼ | |||
against which depending on sundry salt proprietors, makers and refiners of salt and several Collectors at the Ports, for money due at Ladyday 1714: | ||||||
money due from the Collectors at several Ports for the Duties on Foreign Salt imported and remaining locked up in cellars: | £ | s. | d. | |||
Bristoll (Christopher Cole) | 45 | 13 | 4 | |||
Falmouth (William Pye) | 4,508 | 6 | 8 | |||
Fowey (Charles Lamb) | 829 | 6 | 8 | |||
Gweek (Bernard Penrose) | 777 | 13 | 4 | |||
Penryn (Ambrose Thompson) | 2,646 | 6 | 8 | |||
Penzance (Richard Score) | 1,591 | 0 | 0 | |||
Poole (Ambrose Stephenson) | 29 | 6 | 8 | |||
St. Ives (Richard Upton) | 696 | 0 | 0 | |||
(total 11,123l. 13s. 4d.) | ||||||
and depending on salt proprietors and others at the following places: | ||||||
Bristoll (Thomas Hooper, late refiner of salt at Sodbury in Gloucestershire, in arrear) | 181 | 7 | 0 | |||
Cockerham (Simon Gullin, Nathaniell Moore, Thomas Martin, George Smith, Nicholas Hartley, John Bolton, George Stephenson, Thomas Houghton, Humphrey Ellis, Thomas Nealson, Francis Benson, John Gatonby, on five bonds of which due and unpaid 97l. 9s. 10d.; Joshua Lawson, Robert Frame and Thomas Walker by bond 10l. 6s. 8d.) | 107 | 16 | 6 | |||
Droitwich (Richard Smallbrooke and Abell Gower. by bond) | 80 | 0 | 0 | |||
Isle of Grain (William Armiger, Christopher Josten, and John Aynsworth, by bonds) | 1,172 | 16 | 8 | |||
Laugherne (John Higgins, late refiner at Naylaund in Pembrookshire) | 8 | 13 | 4 | |||
Lemington (Daniell Gates, Thomas Elmes, John Edwards, John Carter, John Beere, by bonds) | 439 | 6 | 3½ | |||
Leverpoole (James Butler, merchant, in arrear; Peter Clinton, ditto, ditto; Sir Thomas Johnson, salt-refiner at Hilbree, ditto; Robert Hitchmough, ditto at Dungeon, ditto; John Percivall, Peter Clinton, Thomas Andoe, George Ryley, William Anderton, John Kelley, William Hawkins, by bonds) | 1,339 | 19 | 7 | |||
Middlewich (Ralph Thorp, James Haynes, Edward Hyde, by bonds) | 152 | 17 | 6 | |||
Namptwich (Ralph Thorp, Thomas Cart wright, Richard Knight, John Twem lowe, John Baddiley, William Sunder land, John Lunt, by bonds) | 1,056 | 5 | 4¾ | |||
North Shields (Valentine Rilstone, Christopher Frankling, John Rutherford, Andrew Johnson, Robert Cook, Thomas Raffolds, John Pye, George Burrell, Henry Bayley, Benedict Errington, Alexander Hall, Robert Mills, Charles Coatsworth, Thomas Clark, Charles Vaughan, Thomas Martin, John Dogget, John Weston, Francis Partis, Mathias Partis, Ursula Milburne, Michaell Hall, Stephen Good, Theophilus Nicholson, Mathew Currey, Benjamin Dogget, John Woosely, Richard Woosley, Henry Robinson, Thomas Banks, William Mason, Andrew French, Thomas Granger, William Christian, Robert Michelson, Charles Erington, George Harbottle, by bonds; Philip Bickerstaff, late proprietor of the salt-works, at Amble in Northumberland, in arrear; an Exchequer bill miscarried in 1697) | 3,604 | 15 | 9 | |||
Northwich (Robert Pownell, agent to Dr. Benjamin Woodroff, Ralph Broom, Nathan Blease, Thomas Neild senior, Otwell Broom, Thomas Neild, junior, Thomas Nickson, Ralph Nickson, John Dean, Edmund Soame, Robert Whitlowe, Cornelius Denn, Daniell Fenn, William Mascall, by bonds; Sir Thomas Johnson, Richard Gildart, Peter Hall, Richard Kelsall by bond; William Greenway, merchant in Leverpool in arrear; Ralph Broom, late proprietor of a saltwork in this Collection in arrear | 4,115 | 13 | 6½ | |||
Portissick (Henry Sampson & Co., salt refiners at Lower St. Columb in Corn wall, in arrear) | 0 | 1 | 4¾ | |||
South Shields (Philip Bickerstaff, Joseph Milburn, John Hutchinson, Samuell Cooper, William Wann, Ralph Pattison, Leonard Hitchin, John | ||||||
Cougham, Michaell Hall, Francis Partis, Mathias Partis, Robert Linton junior, Lancelot Cramlington, Robert Linton, senior, Charles Coatsworth, Theophilus Nicholson, John Woosley, John Shaftoe, William Kitteridge, Jacob Wilkinson, William Medcalf, William Wightman, by bonds) | 4,444 | 13 | 3¼ | |||
Topsham (Thomas Tounson, late saltrefiner there, in arrear; Thomas Clap, ditto, ditto; Edward Yendall, ditto, ditto; George Borne, ditto, ditto) | 287 | 17 | 1½ | |||
Yarmouth (Thomas Bendish, late saltrefiner at Southtown in Suffolk; John Burton, ditto at Cobholm in Norfolk; Francis Hollis, salt-refiner at Gorlston in Suffolk; William Maltyward, ditto at Yarmouth; John Gosling late ditto ditto; John Bass, late ditto in Suffolk; Anthony Burward, salt-refiner ditto; Samuel Brandling, late ditto at Ipswich in Suffolk; Jonathan Bass, saltrefiner at Manningtree in Essex; Thomas Hollester, late ditto at Colchester in Essex) | 871 | 13 | 0¾ | |||
also depending in the following ports: | ||||||
Berwick (Robert Cook, part of a bond mislaid) | 13 | 6 | 8 | |||
Cardigan (William Rogers, James Rogers and Walter Lloyd, by bond) | 80 | 0 | 0 | |||
Dover (William Armiger and Christopher Josten, by bond) | 440 | 13 | 4 | |||
Gweek (Francis Jones and Philip Stephens, by bond) | 20 | 2 | 0 | |||
London (Thomas Bryant and Abraham Trent by two bonds; Thomas Briant and Amos Short by bond; Robert Hinton and Christopher Blower, by bond; Elias Measurier and Thomas Measurier, by two bonds; William Armiger and Christopher Josten, by several bonds; John Higgs, senior and John Higgs, junior by bonds) | 5,799 | 14 | 5 | |||
Milford (John Higgins, and William Field, by two bonds) | 603 | 6 | 8½ | |||
Padstow (John Curtis, Thomas Flamanche and John Leverton by bond for 85l. 13s. 1½d., partly for imported liquors and part for salt imported) | 64 | 13 | 4 | |||
Rochester (William Armiger and Christopher Josten by three bonds) | 1,591 | 13 | 4 | |||
37,600 | 19 | 6½ | ||||
and remaining due from Collectors etc. to balance their respective accompts: | ||||||
Bideford (William Petty) | 61 | 13 | 6¾ | |||
St. Agnes, Cornwall (Robert Hall, late Officer of Excise) | 0 | 2 | 6 | |||
Sodbury (Ralph Dean, late Collector) | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||
Bristoll (Christopher Cole, in bonds) | 3,688 | 0 | 0 | |||
Chepstow (George Richmond, late Collector) | 21 | 19 | 0¼ | |||
Cockerham (John Jon, in bonds) | 127 | 0 | 0 | |||
Droitwich (John Kent, ditto) | 113 | 14 | 2 | |||
Flimby (Richard Vriell, late Collector) | 13 | 13 | 5½ | |||
Flint (Richard Bell) | 23 | 14 | 8 | |||
Isle of Graine (William Jeffreys) | 17 | 19 | 7 | |||
Swanzey (Henry Fox, late Collector) | 7 | 13 | 5¼ | |||
Carmarthen (Edward Hynde, late Officer of Excise) | 2 | 0 | 0 | |||
Lemington (Thomas Parish, late SubCollector) | 379 | 0 | 5½ | |||
ditto (Timothy Parker, late Supervisor, in arrear) | 46 | 14 | 6½ | |||
ditto (Joseph Slater, bonds 1,068l. 6s. 8d., money 3l. 6s. 3½d.) | 1,071 | 12 | 11½ | |||
Liverpoole (John Troughton, in bonds) | 14,894 | 10 | 5 | |||
London (Jacob Sheldrake, late keeper of the Bills of Exchange in the Excise Office, part of a bill for which he did not accompt) | 200 | 0 | 0 | |||
Middlewich (Samuel Blechynden, in bonds) | 565 | 17 | 1 | |||
Amble (George Murray, late Collector) | 2 | 16 | 6 | |||
ditto (John Stephenson, ditto) | 5 | 0 | 0 | |||
North Shields (William Marshall, late Officer in that Collection) | 14 | 18 | 7 | |||
ditto (John Wheelwright, bonds, 4,008l. 6s. 8d., money 40l. 7s. 9½d.) | 4,048 | 14 | 5½ | |||
Northwich (Thomas Stephenson, in bonds) | 29,188 | 18 | 4 | |||
Portissick (Christopher Conyers) | 2 | 2 | 4¾ | |||
Portsea (Robert Elliot, late Collector) | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||
ditto (William Dodd, bonds 95l. 16s. 8d., money 7l. 16s. 1½d.) | 103 | 12 | 9½ | |||
Sherborne (Charles Jennings) | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
Shoreham (Stephen Coven, late Collector) | 4 | 11 | 2½ | |||
Southshields (John Bell, bonds 15,561l. 13s. 4d., money 1l. 8s. 1d.) | 15,563 | 1 | 5 | |||
Barnstaple (Thomas Clinton, late Collector) | 168 | 9 | 4¾ | |||
ditto (Robert Howe) | 1,221 | 6 | 8 | |||
Bideford (Charles Jones, bonds 2,920l., money 55l. 17s. 7d.) | 2,975 | 17 | 7 | |||
Cardigan (Francis Howell, bonds 53l. 6s. 8d., money 2l. 4s. 4d.) | 55 | 11 | 0 | |||
Chepstow (Walter Aldey, bonds 66l. 5s. 10d., money 10l. 16s. 8d.) | 77 | 2 | 6 | |||
Colchester (James Bruce) | 0 | 0 | 4½ | |||
Dartmouth (James Jenkinson, in bonds) | 1,025 | 0 | 0 | |||
Exeter (William Chamberlaine, in bonds) | 266 | 13 | 4 | |||
Falmouth (William Pye, in bonds) | 4,416 | 6 | 8 | |||
Fowey (Charles Lamb, in bonds) | 653 | 13 | 4 | |||
Gweeke (Bernard Penrose, in bonds) | 1,184 | 13 | 4 | |||
Lancaster (Joseph Bentley) | 0 | 9 | 3¼ | |||
London (Edward Hyrne, late Collector) | 94 | 0 | 9¼ | |||
ditto (John Stockwell, late Collector) | 0 | 0 | 4 | |||
ditto (John Dyer, bonds 512l. 13s. 4d., money 1l. 1s. 3¼d.) | 513 | 14 | 7¼ | |||
Lynn Regis (Robert Thorowgood, late Collector) | 1 | 16 | 10¼ | |||
ditto (Henry Hare) | 6 | 2 | 0¼ | |||
Minehead (Thomas Wolstenholme, late Collector) | 7 | 14 | 7 | |||
ditto (Francis Webber) | 10 | 13 | 0¼ | |||
Padstow (John Bligh, late Collector) | 0 | 6 | 8 | |||
ditto (William Taylor) | 47 | 1 | 6 | |||
Penryn (Ambrose Thompson, bonds 3,267l. 13s. 4d., money 0l. 0s. 0¼d.) | 3,267 | 13 | 4¼ | |||
Penzance (Richard Score, bonds 512l. 6s. 8d., money 237l. 10s. 9¼d.) | 749 | 17 | 5¼ | |||
Plymouth (David Morris, bonds 613l. 6s. 8d., money 10l. 1s. 11d.) | 623 | 8 | 7 | |||
Poole (Ambrose Stephenson) | 1,460 | 0 | 0 | |||
Portsmouth (Samuel Bincks) | 39 | 1 | 5 | |||
Rochester (John Pope) | 0 | 19 | 6 | |||
Rye (George Shuckborough) | 3 | 8 | 4 | |||
St. Ives (Richard Upton) | 297 | 13 | 4 | |||
Sandwich (William Farnolds, late Collector, one bond) | 329 | 6 | 8 | |||
ditto (Benjamin Fisher) | 5 | 19 | 5 | |||
Scilly Islands (Francis Ley) | 35 | 0 | 0 | |||
Wells (John Keene) | 0 | 3 | 3 | |||
Weymouth (Lodovicus Jackson) | 60 | 6 | 9 | |||
Whithaven (Alfrid Lawson) | 0 | 9 | 10½ | |||
Yarmouth (Thomas Moore) | 0 | 14 | 6¾ | |||
89,771 | 0 | 10 | ||||
and dependent on these Accomptants for money paid by sundry Collectors since the determination of this Accompt | 17,012 | 10 | 11¾ | |||
£144,384 | 11 | 4¼ | ||||
and so this General Accompt is even and Quit. Declared 10 April 1717. | ||||||
DECLARED ACCOUNTS: SALT: CASH ACCOUNT. | ||||||
PIPE OFFICE: ROLL 2864 [E.351/2864]. | ||||||
AUDIT OFFICE: BUNDLE 2071, ROLL 20 [A.O.I/2071/20]. | ||||||
John Danvers, Thomas Aram, Humphrey Griffith, Edward Brereton and Martin Killegrew, Commissioners and Governors for the Management of the Duties on Salt. | ||||||
25 March 1713 to 25 March 1714. | ||||||
Charge. | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. |
Arrears: remaining in the Accomptant's hands upon the end of their last Accompt | 2,016 | 17 | 6¼ | |||
Receipts: money received of the several Collectors of the Duties on Salt within the time of this accompt: | ||||||
out of the Old Duty commencing 25 March 1694: | ||||||
Bristol city and port (Christopher Cole) | 0 | 1 | 11½ | |||
Chesterfield, co. Derby (Daniel Norcote, late Collector) | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
Chepstow, co. Monmouth (Edward Hemming) | 0 | 1 | 0½ | |||
Cockerham, co. Lancaster (John Jon) | 24 | 16 | 7 | |||
Droitwich, co. Worcester (John Kent) | 14,498 | 2 | 10¼ | |||
Flimby, co. Cumberland (Thomas Johnson) | 324 | 14 | 6¾ | |||
Isle of Grain (William Jeffries) | 64 | 1 | 9½ | |||
Lemington, co. Hants. (Joseph Slater) | 5,450 | 0 | 7½ | |||
Leverpoole (John Troughton) | 395 | 11 | 0 | |||
Laugharne, co. Carmarthen (John Furnivall) | 0 | 0 | 2¼ | |||
Middlewich (Jonathan Dix. late Collector) | 19 | 10 | 0¾ | |||
ditto (Samuel Blechynden) | 2,241 | 3 | 0¼ | |||
Namptwich (Jonathan Brown) | 4,454 | 6 | 1 | |||
Northshields (John Wheelwright) | 7,598 | 8 | 0½ | |||
Northwich (Thomas Stephenson) | 7,643 | 14 | 0½ | |||
Portissick (Thomas Cornelius, late Collector) | 0 | 6 | 7¼ | |||
ditto (Christopher Conyers) | 1 | 6 | 8¼ | |||
Portsea (William Dodd) | 1,159 | 19 | 7¾ | |||
Sherburn, co. Dorset (Charles Jennings) | 33 | 7 | 7¼ | |||
Shirleywich, co. Stafford (John Carvile) | 2,278 | 17 | 1¼ | |||
Southshields (John Bell) | 16,500 | 7 | 2¾ | |||
Topsham (Richard Mounteney) | 276 | 1 | 0 | |||
Yarmouth (Michael Pulteney) | 276 | 15 | 3 | |||
Barnstaple (Robert Rowe) | 90 | 0 | 0 | |||
Falmouth (William Pye) | 796 | 8 | 11¼ | |||
Feversham, co. Kent (John Smalman) | 0 | 10 | 4¼ | |||
Fowey (Thomas Bulley, late Collector) | 34 | 16 | 2 | |||
ditto (Charles Lamb) | 571 | 6 | 9¼ | |||
Gweek (Bernard Penrose) | 36 | 0 | 0 | |||
London port (William Bertram) | 381 | 5 | 5¾ | |||
Looe (John Dyer) | 94 | 4 | 7¼ | |||
Lyme (Thomas Jans) | 0 | 12 | 4¾ | |||
Penrynn (Ambrose Thompson) | 330 | 11 | 9½ | |||
Penzance (Richard Score) | 199 | 10 | 5½ | |||
Plymouth (David Morris) | 198 | 10 | 0 | |||
St. Ives, co. Cornwall (Richard Upton) | 139 | 16 | 0 | |||
Sandwich (Benjamin Fisher) | 13 | 15 | 7¾ | |||
Southampton (Daniel Cardonnel) | 3 | 1 | 6½ | |||
Whitby (George Trotter, late Collector) | 0 | 0 | 11 | |||
ditto (Hannibal Woods) | 0 | 15 | 3½ | |||
Cowes (John Dale) | 0 | 9 | 10¼ | |||
Colchester (James Bruce) | 5 | 10 | 1 | |||
Dartmouth (James Jenkinson) | 141 | 0 | 0 | |||
Exeter (William Chamberlaine) | 191 | 3 | 4¼ | |||
Yarmouth (Thomas Moore) | 73 | 0 | 4½ | |||
Matthew Greenwood, Receiver of Fines etc. in London | 25 | 15 | 3 | |||
66,569 | 19 | 3 | ||||
out of the East India Fund commencing 25 December 1699: | ||||||
Bristoll (Christopher Cole) | 0 | 4 | 7 | |||
Chesterfield (Daniel Norcot, late Collector) | 0 | 2 | 4 | |||
Chepstow (Edward Hemming, Collector) | 0 | 2 | 5½ | |||
Cockerham (John Jon) | 57 | 18 | 7½ | |||
Droitwich (John Kent) | 33,828 | 19 | 10¾ | |||
Flymby (Thomas Johnson) | 757 | 14 | 1¼ | |||
Isle of Grain (William Jefferys) | 149 | 10 | 10¼ | |||
Lemington (Joseph Slater) | 12,716 | 14 | 11¼ | |||
Leverpoole (John Troughton) | 922 | 18 | 11¾ | |||
Laugharne (John Furnivall) | 0 | 0 | 5¼ | |||
Middlewich (Jonathan Dix, late Collector) | 45 | 10 | 2 | |||
ditto (Samuel Blechenden) | 5,229 | 6 | 11 | |||
Namptwich (Jonathan Brown) | 10,393 | 7 | 8¼ | |||
Northshields (John Wheelwright) | 17,729 | 12 | 0¾ | |||
Northwich (Thomas Stephenson) | 17,835 | 6 | 2 | |||
Portisick (Thomas Cornelius, late Collector) | 0 | 15 | 4¾ | |||
ditto (Christopher Conyers) | 3 | 2 | 3¼ | |||
Portsea (William Dodd) | 2,706 | 12 | 6½ | |||
Sherburn (Charles Jennings) | 77 | 17 | 9¼ | |||
Shirleywich (John Carvile) | 5,317 | 6 | 7¾ | |||
Southshields (John Bell) | 38,500 | 17 | 2½ | |||
Topsham (Richard Mounteney) | 644 | 2 | 4¼ | |||
Yarmouth (Michael Pulteney) | 645 | 15 | 6½ | |||
Barnstaple (Robert Rowe) | 210 | 0 | 0 | |||
Falmouth (William Pye) | 1,858 | 7 | 6½ | |||
Feversham (John Smalman) | 1 | 4 | 1¾ | |||
Fowey (Thomas Bulley, late Collector) | 81 | 4 | 4¾ | |||
ditto (Charles Lamb) | 1,333 | 2 | 5 | |||
Gweek (Bernard Penrose) | 84 | 0 | 0 | |||
London port (William Bertram) | 889 | 12 | 9¼ | |||
Looe (John Dyer) | 219 | 17 | 4¾ | |||
Lyme (Thomas Jans) | 1 | 8 | 11¼ | |||
Penrynn (Ambrose Thompson) | 771 | 7 | 5½ | |||
Penzance (Richard Score) | 465 | 11 | 0½ | |||
Plymouth (David Morris) | 463 | 3 | 4 | |||
St. Ives (Richard Upton) | 326 | 4 | 0 | |||
Sandwich (Benjamin Fisher) | 32 | 3 | 2¼ | |||
Southampton (Daniel Cardonnel) | 7 | 3 | 7½ | |||
Whitby (George Trotter, late Collector) | 0 | 2 | 1½ | |||
ditto (Hannabal Woods) | 1 | 15 | 8½ | |||
Cowes (John Dale) | 1 | 3 | 0¼ | |||
Colchester (James Bruce) | 12 | 16 | 10 | |||
Dartmouth (James Jenkinson) | 329 | 0 | 0 | |||
Exeter (William Chamberlaine) | 446 | 1 | 2 | |||
Yarmouth (Thomas Moor) | 170 | 7 | 6¾ | |||
Matthew Greenwood, Receiver of Fines and Seizures in London | 60 | 2 | 3 | |||
155,329 | 18 | 10¼ | ||||
total receipts as above 221,899l. 18s. 1¼d. | ||||||
total charge and receipts | £223,916 | 15 | 7½ | |||
Discharge. | ||||||
Salaries, allowance for fish and salt exported, officers’ taxes and incident charges etc. in London: | ||||||
salaries etc.: | ||||||
John Danvers, Thomas Aram, Humphrey Griffith and Edward Brereton, Commissioners for the Salt Duties; year to Xmas 1713 | 2,000 | 0 | 0 | |||
James Cardonnel, another; Ladyday quarter 1713 | 125 | 0 | 0 | |||
Martin Killigrew, succeeding him; three quarters to Xmas 1713 | 375 | 0 | 0 | |||
Thomas Hall, Comptroller, for himself and clerks; year to Xmas 1713 | 350 | 0 | 0 | |||
Francis Brydges, Cashier, ditto; same time | 430 | 0 | 0 | |||
Thomas Holdip, Secretary; same time Matthew Greenwood, Correspondent to the Commissioners and Clerk of the Securities; also as Assistant Secretary and for a clerk; same time | 180 | 0 | 0 | |||
William Johnson, Solicitor; same time | 100 | 0 | 0 | |||
William Sumpter, Chief Accomptant; same time | 100 | 0 | 0 | |||
two Accomptants and their assistant clerk, named; same time | 200 | 0 | 0 | |||
a housekeeper, a storekeeper and a messenger, named; same time | 140 | 0 | 0 | |||
William Bertram, Collector, London port; same time | 60 | 0 | 0 | |||
Nicholas Amhurst, Assistant Searcher there; same time | 60 | 0 | 0 | |||
two Surveyors, London port, named; same time | 100 | 0 | 0 | |||
a clerk to the Correspondent, named; same time | 50 | 0 | 0 | |||
a clerk to the Assistant Secretary, named; same time | 30 | 0 | 0 | |||
a porter, watchmen and boatmen, named | 130 | 0 | 0 | |||
Thomas Furnace, clerk at Dublin; same time | 20 | 0 | 0 | |||
William Swaile, for preventing frauds off the Coast of Wales; same time | 20 | 0 | 0 | |||
4,570 | 0 | 0 | ||||
necessary and incident charges, detailed | 2,117 | 18 | 10½ | |||
allowance for fish and salt exported | 77,148 | 7 | 9½ | |||
discompt at 10l. per cent. for six months on prompt payment of Duties on salt condemned as Prize etc. | 47 | 14 | 10 | |||
total allowed as above 83,884l. 1s. 6d. | ||||||
salaries of Collectors, incidents etc. in the Country: | ||||||
salaries, detailed | 695 | 16 | 9 | |||
incident charges, detailed | 176 | 8 | 4¾ | |||
Officers’ taxes repaid | 16 | 17 | 9 | |||
889 | 2 | 10¾ | ||||
money paid into the Exchequer, detailed by dates out of the Duty commencing 25 March 1694 | 41,413 | 19 | 8 | |||
out of ditto commencing 25 Dec. 1699 | 96,455 | 0 | 1½ | |||
137,868 | 19 | 9½ | ||||
total payments and allowances | £222,642 | 4 | 2¼ | |||
and so the Accomptant is Indebted | 1,274 | 11 | 5¼ | |||
Declared 10 April 1717. |