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DECLARED ACCOUNTS: TREASURY SOLICITOR. |
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PIPE OFFICE: ROLL 3022 [E. 351/3022]. |
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AUDIT OFFICE: BUNDLE 2318, ROLL 40 [A.O.1/2318/40]. |
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15 October 1713 to 15 October 1714. |
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William Borrett, Solicitor for the Affairs of the Treasury. |
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Charge. |
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£ |
s. |
d. |
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Arrears: remaining in the Accomptant's hands on the foot of his last accompt, none, he being in Surplusage |
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nil
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Receipts: Michaelmas term, 12 & 13 Anne, on imprest |
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2,000 |
0 |
0 |
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Easter term, 13 Anne and 1 Geo. I, upon accompt |
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2,100 |
0 |
0 |
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total charge |
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£4,100 |
0 |
0 |
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Surplusage on the last accompt |
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607 |
13 |
11 |
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Discharge. |
£ |
s. |
d. |
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Charges and expenses of several prosecutions: |
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v. Samuel Smith, for seditious words at Nottingham |
16 |
8 |
2 |
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v. Sarah Whitfield, Executrix of Walter Whitefield, late Paymaster of Marines |
24 |
8 |
6 |
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v. Col. Cobham and other Officers in the Marine Service |
10 |
13 |
8 |
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v. Hilkiah Bedford, for a libel, ‘The Hereditary Right of the Crown Asserted’ |
233 |
18 |
6 |
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v. Henry Smith, Samuel Watkins, Daniel Mackinnen and Thomas Kirby, for High Treason, at Antegoa |
82 |
11 |
4 |
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v. John Stone, for a libel ‘ Seasonable Queries on the Birthright of a Certain Person’ |
29 |
3 |
2 |
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v. Richard Cooke, servant to the Morocco Embassador |
7 |
14 |
6 |
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v. Samuel Webber, who came from France consultations relating to the Mayor, Aldermen and Sheriffs of Dublin |
465 |
5 |
10 |
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v. Luke King, Thomas Putland and Francis Annesley, pretended Executors to Sir William Robinson, deceased |
9 |
7 |
6 |
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v. George Mackartney, said to be taken prisoner at the Isle of Man |
16 |
6 |
2 |
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v. Edward Nicholls, for seditious words at Plymouth |
23 |
17 |
4 |
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v. John Nash, for ditto in Kent |
46 |
12 |
10 |
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v. Thomas Freeman, for seditious words |
11 |
0 |
4 |
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v. John Hanmer alias Hunt, for exercising the function of a Romish priest |
24 |
1 |
6 |
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v. John Barber, for a seditious libel ‘The Public Spirit of the Whigs’ |
16 |
11 |
4 |
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v. Reynold Evans, for seditious words |
3 |
14 |
6 |
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v. John Harris, for seditious words |
3 |
14 |
6 |
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v. the Corporation of Bewdley |
76 |
19 |
0 |
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v. the inhabitants of Horton, co. Bucks, for not mending their ways |
1 |
14 |
10 |
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v. ditto of Heston, co. Middlesex, for the like |
4 |
2 |
8 |
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v. ditto of Ealing, co. Middlesex, for the like |
4 |
2 |
8 |
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v. Samuel Ridge and James Dixon, contracting brewers at Portsmouth |
3 |
18 |
6 |
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v. John Rolf, brewer at Harwich |
2 |
9 |
0 |
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v. Joan Player, brewer at Portsmouth |
2 |
9 |
0 |
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v. Jeremy Kelly, brewer at Deal |
2 |
12 |
7 |
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v. Thomas Best and Modestly Best, brewers at Chatham |
5 |
11 |
5 |
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v. John Tyhurst and Charles Ferne, brewers at Rochester |
4 |
2 |
6 |
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v. John Bernardi and others, prisoners in Newgate for the Assassination plot, on their moving to be discharged |
7 |
17 |
6 |
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v. Daniel Defoe, for a seditious libel |
7 |
19 |
0 |
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v. James Rooke and others, for a riot in Lidney in Gloucestershire |
9 |
7 |
6 |
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1,167 |
0 |
10 |
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disbursements of divers natures: (Privy Seal to recall Mr. Sweet from Holland; licence for the meeting of the Convocation of the Province of Canterbury; Commission of Sewers for Kingston-upon-Hull; removal of leases within the bailiwick of St. James's; Sir William Robinson's estate; Thomas Manning's estate; removal from Cambridge to Newgate of Benjamin Pain and William Thompson; Thomas Ekins and others v. James Vernon and others; Thomas Griffith's estate; four copies of ‘Supersedeas’ to remove Lord Chief Justice Trevor, Sir Thomas Powis, Baron Bannastre and Solicitor General Raymond; Caveat to prevent Lady Frances Keightley from administering to the late Queen; v. Capt. Kelly for listing men for the Pretender; v. Charles Mason, late Paymaster of Transports; repeal of the Bewdley Charter; prosecutions at Portsmouth; riot at Bristol; Commission for disbanding the Marines, etc.) |
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861 |
0 |
8 |
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customary allowances, detailed, including 70l. to Thomas Foley for the Auditor's fee |
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458 |
7 |
5 |
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payments under Treasury warrants for passing patents, privy seals, commissions etc., detailed |
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1,877 |
3 |
2 |
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total payments and allowances |
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£4,971 |
6 |
0 |
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whereto is added money depending on Mr. George Drummond, late Accomptant to the Commissioners of Excise in Scotland |
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300 |
0 |
0 |
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and so the Accomptant is in Surplusage |
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1,171 |
6 |
0 |
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Declared 12 April 1715. |
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