Treasury Warrants: April 1717, 6-10

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'Treasury Warrants: April 1717, 6-10', in Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 31, 1717, (London, 1960) pp. 235-259. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-treasury-books/vol31/pp235-259 [accessed 24 April 2024]

April 1717, 6–10

April 6. Money order for 37l. 10s. 0d. to Charles Harrison, Esq., Solicitor for his Majesty's affairs in the Exchequer Court, and is for his salary for 1716 Sept. 29 quarter. (Letter of direction dated April 6 hereon.) Order Book IX, p. 300. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 278.
Letter of direction for payment of a list of foreign Ministers et al. to a total of 17,974l. 1s. 10d.: out of Civil List moneys. [The separate items composing this list are accounted for by the individual money warrants under date April 2 and March 30, supra, pp. 217–19 and pp. 223–8, with the exception of the following items:]
300l. to Lord Cadogan to complete a warrant signed 18 Sept. 1716 for 1,028l.
43l. 10s. 0d. to the Duke of Kent as Governor of Windsor Castle.
50l. 3s. 9d. to Serjeant Ryley for salary.
Disposition Book XXIII, p. 278.
April 6. William Lowndes to the Auditor of the Receipt. The House of Commons has addressed his Majesty for the underwritten account: viz.
an account of the gross and net produce of the several fonds applicable to the sinking the principle or payment of the interest of the National Debt, distinguishing each of the said Fonds and the annual Exceeding or Deficiency of them respectively from Lady day 1710 to Lady day 1717.
an account how much of the said Deficiencies have been made good by Parliament. (fn. 1)
My Lords desire you to cause the said accounts “so far as the Exchequer is capable of giving the same” to be made out with all expedition and laid before their Lordships for their perusal. Out Letters (General) XXIII, p. 175.
Same to the Customs Commissioners similarly to make out and lay before their Lordships, on the abovesaid address of the House of Commons, accounts of the gross and neat produce of the several Duties and revenues as follows: viz.
for annuities anno 1706 [as by the Act 4–5 Anne, c. 18].
accounts of the One Third Additional Customs of Tonnage and Poundage.
for annuities anno 1708 [as by the Act 6 Anne, c. 48].
account of a moiety of the Old Subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage upon wines, goods and merchandizes.
for annuities at 9 per cent. [as by the Act 8 Anne, c. 12].
account of the 18 pence per pound on pepper; 5s. per hundredweight on raisins; double Duty on nutmegs and other spices; 3s. per pound on snuff.
for the 10l. Lottery anno 1710 [as by the Act 8 Anne, c. 10].
account of the 3s. per chaldron on coals.
for the 10l. Lottery anno 1711 [as by the Act 9 Anne, c. 6].
account of the Subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage upon exported goods; 2s. a chaldron on coals; New Additional Duty on candles.
10l. Lottery anno 1712 [as by the Act 10 Anne, c. 18].
account of 15 per cent. ad valorem on foreign printed, painted or stained linen and Duties on soap, paper &c.
for Class Lottery anno 1711 [as by the Act 9 Anne, c. 16].
account of the Duty on rock salt exported and new Duties on hides and skins and vellum and parchment, cards and dice.
for Class Lottery anno 1712 [as by the Act 10 Anne, c. 19].
account of the 12 pence a pound on coffee, 2s. a pound on tea and 20 per cent. ad valorem on drugs.
ditto of 8 pence an ounce on gilt wire and 6 pence an ounce on silver wire imported; new Additional Duties on hides and skins and vellum and parchment, cards and dice.
for the Lottery anno 1714 [as by the Act 13 Anne, c. 18].
account of 1 penny a pound on foreign soap.
Duty on coals exported in foreign bottoms (5s. a chaldron) and in British bottoms (3s. a chaldron).
for the Aggregate Fond [as by the Act 1 Geo. I., St. 2, c. 12].
account of the Two Thirds Tonnage and Poundage,
coffee, tea and chocolate &c. [Duties].
increased Duties on ditto.
increased Duties on calicoes &c.
Half Subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage.
Additional Duties on French wines.
Plantation Duties and Duties on hops.
for the South Sea Company [as by the Act 9 Anne, c. 15].
account of the Additional Impositions; wines and vinegar, tobacco, East India goods and whale fins.
new Duties on candles.
Ibid., pp. 175–6.
April 6. Same to the Excise Commissioners to prepare and lay similarly the following accounts, on the abovesaid Address of the House of Commons: viz.
for annuities of 14 per cent. and survivorships [as by the Act 4 Wm. and Mary, c. 3].
account of the 9d. per barrel Excise.
for annuities for lives and years [as by the Act 5–6 Wm. and Mary, c. 20].
account of the Two Sevenths 9d. per barrel Excise.
for annuities anno 1706 [as by the Act 4–5 Anne, c. 18].
account of third additional 9d. per barrel Excise.
for annuities anno 1707 [as by the Act 6 Anne, c. 2].
account of Duties on low wines.
Duties on sweets.
for annuities at 9 per cent. [as by the Act 8 Anne, c. 12].
account of 3d. per barrel on beer, ale and other liquors.
for the 10l. Lottery anno 1711 [as by the Act 9 Anne, c. 6].
account of the Additional Duty of a halfpenny a pound on tallow candles and 4d. a pound on wax candles.
for the 10l. Lottery anno 1712 [as by the Act 10 Anne, c. 18].
account of 1d. a pound on soap, 6d. a yard on silks, 3d. a yard on calicoes and 2d. a yard on linens and stuffs printed, painted and stained in Great Britain.
Duties on paper, paste boards and books.
for the Class Lottery anno 1712 [as by the Act 10 Anne, c. 19].
account of the new Duty on starch and Duties on gilt and silver wire.
for the Lottery anno 1714 [as by the Act 13 Anne, c. 18].
account of the halfpenny a pound on soap made in Great Britain: Additional Duty on paper, starch &c.
for the Bank of England [as by the Act 5–6 Wm. and Mary, c. 20].
account of the Five Sevenths of the second additional 9d. per barrel Excise.
for South Sea Company [as by the Act 9 Anne, c. 15].
account of the Duties on candles.
for the Aggregate Fond [as by the Act 1 Geo. I., St. 2, c. 12].
account of the Duties on hops.
Out Letters (General) XXIII, p. 177.
April 6. William Lowndes to the Leather Duty Commissioners similarly to prepare and lay the following accounts, on the abovesaid Address of the House of Commons:
for the 10l. Lottery anno 1710 [as by the Act 8 Anne, c. 10].
account of the additional Duty on windows.
for the Class Lottery anno 1711 [as by the Act 9 Anne, c. 16].
account of the Duty on leather &c. 1d. per pound.
for the Class Lottery anno 1712 [as by the Act 10 Anne, c. 19].
account of the Additional Duty of a halfpenny a pound on leather &c.
for the Bank of England [as by the Act 7 Anne, c. 30].
account of the Duties on houses or windows.
Ibid., p. 178.
Same to the Hackney Coaches Commissioners similarly to prepare and lay the following account, on the abovesaid Address of the House of Commons:
for the Class Lottery anno 1711 [as by the Act 9 Anne, c. 16].
account of the 5s. a week on 800 Hackney coaches and 10s. per an. on 200 Hackney chairs.
Ibid.
Same to the Commissioners for Licensing Hawkers and Pedlars similarly to prepare and lay the following account, on the abovesaid Address of the House of Commons:
an account of the gross and net produce of the Duties under your management [as by the Acts 6 Anne, c. 2; 6 Anne, c. 39; and 1 Geo. I., St. 2, c. 12].
Ibid., p. 179.
Same to the Commissioners of Stamp Duties similarly to prepare and lay the following accounts, on the abovesaid Address of the House of Commons: viz.
for annuities anno 1707 [as by the Act 6 Anne, c. 2].
account of the Additional Duty on stamped paper and vellom.
for the Class Lottery anno 1711 [as by the Act 9 Anne, c. 16].
account of the new Stamp Duties on bills of lading, almanacs, licences and certificates.
6 pence per pack on cards and 5s. a pair on dice.
for the 10l. Lottery anno 1712 [as by the Act 10 Anne, c. 18].
account of the new Stamp Duties on surrenders; 2s. 3d. on every transfer of stock in any Company.
Stamp Duty on newspapers &c.
for the Class Lottery anno 1712 [as by the Act 10 Anne, c. 19].
account of the 2s. 4d. on policies of Insurance.
for the Lottery anno 1714 [as by the Act 13 Anne, c. 18].
account of the Additional Stamp Duties on vellom, parchment, paper &c.
for the East India Company [as by the Acts 9 Wm. III, c. 25; 9 Wm. III., c. 44].
account of the Additional Duties on stamped paper and parchment.
for the South Sea Company [as by the Act 9 Anne, c. 15].
account of the Duty on money given with clerks and apprentices.
Ibid.
April 6. Same to the Salt Commissioners similarly to prepare and lay the following accounts, on the abovesaid Address of the House of Commons: viz.
for the East India Company [as by 9 Wm. III., c. 44].
account of the 28 pence per bushel on salt.
for the South Sea Company [as by the Acts 8 Anne, c. 14, and 9 Anne, c. 15].
account of the 12 pence per bushel on salt.
Ibid., p. 180.
April 7. Money order for 20l. to Thomas Napleton as royal bounty towards the charges of his passage to Barbados, whither he is going a minister. Order Book IX, p. 390.
April 8. Royal sign manual for 2,306l. 19s. 6d. to James, Earl of Carnarvon: and is intended to be applied to defraying certain charges relating to the late war which incurred and became due within the time that he continued as late Paymaster of the Forces Abroad. (Money warrant dated April 9 hereon.) (Money order dated April 10 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated April 10 for same to be paid out of [arrears of] funds as follows, viz. 1,362l. 5s. 11¾d. out of the second 4s. Aid anno 1708 after satisfying all loans and interest charged thereupon; and 944l. 13s. 6¼d. out of the twelfth 4s. Aid after similarly satisfying all loans and interest charged thereupon.) King's Warrant Book XXVIII, p. 229. Order Book IX, p. 390. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 280.
Same for 1,300l. to Conyers D'Arcy and Francis Negus, Esqrs., Commissioners for the office of Master of the Horse: as imprest: to be paid and applied for the extraordinaries of the Stables. (Money warrant dated April 9 hereon.) (Money order dated April 18 hereon.) King's Warrant Book XXVIII, p. 244. Order Book IX, p. 400.
Treasury warrant to John Aislabie, Treasurer of the Navy, to pay to the South Sea Company 18,400l. to answer the Deficiency of their Fond for the quarter ended 1717 March 25.
Prefixing: certificate by the Earl of Halifax, Auditor of the Receipt, that on the annual sums of 600,000l. and 8,000l. payable to said Company by quarterly or weekly payments there has been paid during said quarter the sum of 133,600l., thus leaving a deficiency of 18,400l. to complete the sum of 152,000l.: the said payments having been as follows [all the funds enumerated below being made into the South Sea Company's Fund by the Act 9 Anne, c. 15]:
£
out of Salt Duty [imposed] since 31 July 1706 [as by 8 Anne, c. 14] 4,390
out of Candles [Duties imposed] since 1 May 1715 [as by 8 Anne, c. 5] 22,760
out of wines [as by 8 Anne, c. 14] 48,200
out of tobacco [as by 8 Anne, c. 14] 10,100
out of East India, goods [as by 8 Anne, c. 14] 40,100
out of apprentice Duty [imposed] since 1 May 1715 [as by 8 Anne, c. 5] 950
out of whale fins [as by 8 Anne, c. 14] 600
out of Additional Impositions [as by 8 Anne, c. 14] 6,500
—
£133,600
Money Book XXV, pp. 269–70.
April 8. H. Walpole to the Navy Commissioners to make forth a Navy bill for paying 180l. to Francis Hawes to recompense his labour, pains and expenses in receiving 549,900l. loans borrowed in 1713 for the pressing services of the Navy and in afterwards repaying same to the several lenders, “for which 2,084 receipts were taken by the said Hawes from the said persons”; in performing which service he was at an extraordinary charge for clerks to assist him therein and has now desired consideration for the same. You are to assign payment of said bill out of money remaining in the hands of Cha. Cæsar, Esq., late Treasurer of the Navy, of dividends on South Sea Stock. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 281.
Treasury reference to the Customs Commissioners of the petition of Sir Richard Houblon, Sir Geo. Mathew et al. of London, merchants, in behalf of themselves and great numbers of other merchants, late separate traders to India by licence, which [licensed] Trade expired at Michaelmas 1714; [they shewing that they] have imported into this kingdom great quantities of East India goods as well rated as unrated, which were entered at the Custom House according to the ancient method and were sold by candle pursuant to the Act of Parliament, [petitioners] always having a special regard for the Duties paid, [the said sales] being the chief measure or standard of the profit and loss of the trade, and after such sales the petitioners paid, divided, accounted and balanced all the neat produce of their respective trading: that the Attorney General about Feb. 1714–15 exhibited a bill against the East India Company and (on suggestion of some frauds committed) obtained a decree in the Court of Exchequer at Westminster against the said Company for a new way of computing and paying those Duties according to the rules of Algebra, but the said decree was not extended to private persons or separate traders licenced as aforesaid: that in Easter term last the Attorney General exhibited a great many informations by English bill against the petitioners and others to compel them to pay further and greater sums of money (than they ever paid during the said separate trade) pursuant to the new Algebraic method, although they had (before the expiration of that trade) paid the Duties demanded of them for the said goods: also [petitioners represent] that if such prosecutions should be carried on against them and others for those new demanded Duties they must inevitably be ruined and undone: therefore they pray stay of said proceedings against them and such others as are in the like case. Reference Book IX, pp. 321–2.
April 8. Treasury warrant to Henry Harcourt, Comptroller of the Classes Lottery of 2,000,000l. anno 1711, to innovate a lost order No. 1269 for 115l. on the said Lottery in the name of Mary Andrews, the assignee thereof: they to give a letter of indemnity.
Prefixing: (a) report by said Harcourt on the case in reply to William Lowndes's letter of the 4th inst. The order was made out on 2 April 1702 in the name of Mrs. Jane Sherrard of Westminster, widow. The assignment in Dec. 1714 to Mary Andrews was not registered, as it ought to have been. I advised the said Andrews and William Bower of Bread Street, London (whom the said Andrews entrusted with the order) to put an advertizement in any one of the public papers with an offer of 5 guineas reward, which was done several times, without result.
(b) certificate by Sir Thomas Bury, a Baron of the Exchequer, of the affidavit of the loss of said order. Warrants not Relating to Money XXIV, pp. 115–16.
Same to the Clerk of the Pipe for a lease to Charles Killigrew of a piece of land or garden in the circuit of Whitehall Palace in or near the parish of St. Martins in the Fields, with a corner of an oblong yard there extending between the said garden and the plot leading from the said palace towards Charing Cross, abutting south on the said yard and north on a house extending from the great gate of the said palace to the said garden, and east on a little house and area called the Back Yard and being 100 feet by 40 and late in the tenure of Walter Strickland, Esq.: which premises were granted by Charles II. 1661 April 30 to Sir Philip Warwick. The present lease is to be for 26 years from Lady day 1722 at 40s. per an. for the additional term and fine of 200l.
Prefixing: (1) particular and memorandum of the premises made out by Auditor Thomas Jett. [In this case the particular is an unusually defective copy of the original Latin entry in the Auditor's Books. Killigrew's title is not deduced.]
(2) ratal thereof by the Surveyor General of Crown Lands.
(3) undated entry of the Treasury Lords' subscription of the docquet of this lease. Ibid., pp. 134–6.
Treasury subscription for the execution of a warrant dated March 5 last from the Duke of Bolton, Lord Chamberlain of the Household, to the Duke of Montagu, Master of the Great Wardrobe, for the delivery to Mr. Christopher Hill, Master of the King's Barges, of liveries for himself and 48 watermen for the year 1717: to an estimate of 353l. Lord Chamberlain's Warrant Book I, p. 31.
Royal warrant dated St. James's [to Charles, Duke of Bolton. Lord Lieutenant of Ireland] to direct payment of 253l. 0s. 7¾d. to Lady Letitia Russell, being the sum remaining in the Exchequer in Ireland, having been paid in by the tenants of the lands granted by James II. to Catherine, Countess of Dorchester: all by reason that Wm. III. granted 600l. a year for 31 years from 1692 Lady day to the said Lady Letitia Russell, the same to be paid out of the 1,500l. per an. rent reserved as payable to the Crown out of James II.'s said grant of lands to the said Countess: and the Revenue Commissioners of Ireland having reported to the Treasury Lords in England that there is an arrear of 4,885l. 2s. 0½d. due to the said Lady Letitia Russell as unpaid on her said 600l. annuity, towards which arrear there remained in the Exchequer in Ireland the said sum of 253l. 0s. 7¾d. Out Letters (Ireland) X, p. 83.
April 8. Royal warrant dated St. James's to Charles Bodville, Earl of Radnor, Treasurer of the Chamber, to place on the Establishment of the Office of the Chamber the sum of 200l. per an. as an addition to the King's alms on Maundy Thursday; the King having by warrant dated 4 July 1716 appointed 500l. per an. to be paid to his Almoner “for our daily alms and for our alms on Maundy Thursday” and 200l. by way of addition to the alms on Maundy Thursday; and it has been represented that the said 200l. per an. additional is not sufficient to answer the allowances which have been usually made “and that our late royal sister Queen Anne was graciously pleased to supply the deficiency thereof out of her Privy Purse.” Hereon the Treasurer of the Chamber is to pay 200l. on account for the ensuing Maundy. (Letter of direction dated April 12 hereon for 200l. to the Treasurer of the Chamber for the Lord Almoner as an addition for the ensuing Maundy.) King's Warrant Book XXVIII, p. 96. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 281.
Same to the Clerk of the Signet for a privy seal for allowing payments and sums as follows to Sir Henry Furnese, bart., deceased, in his account of remittances of money abroad for the service of the late Queen Anne: being for the value and cost of the said remittances and his own allowance for commission and other charges in negotiating the same: viz. allowances amounting in the whole to 4,235,629l. 11s. 3d. The said accomptant being hereby to be charged not only with the said sum of 4,235,925l. 5s. 8d. [sic for 4,230,925l. 5s. 8d.] paid to him by the Earl of Carnarvon for the said remittances but also with the sum of 4,040l. 5s. 4d. as a profit made by the said remitter in the rates of his own bills remitted to his Correspondents, the King thinking it “just and reasonable that the accomptant should be answerable and accompt to us for the same”; and likewise with the further sum of 871l. 17s. 1d. paid by said Earl of Carnarvon to said Furnese and standing in super upon him in the said Earl's account for the year 1712: thus making a total charge of 4,235,837l. 8s. 1d.
By several agreements with Treasurer Godolphin the said Furnese contracted to remit abroad all the money necessary for the service of the Forces of the late Queen Anne in the Low Countries or Germany and to make the remittance for the said Queen's best advantage and profit as often as ready money should be directed for the same; to insure the payment thereof and to give an accompt of the value and real cost of all bills by him bought up in England or drawn upon him from abroad for answering the said remittances and to be accomptable for what the said particular bills might produce more than the general bills by him given to the Paymaster of the Forces.
In consideration thereof Furnese was to be allowed 11s. per 100l. from the commencement of his contract to the 13 Aug. 1706 and thereafter 12s. per 100l. as in full satisfaction for the risque of all the said bills and for his own commission and brokerage and other charges relating thereto.
In pursuance thereof the said Furnese's accounts have been rendered to Edward Harley, one of the Auditors of Imprests, to wit: of moneys received by him for the said purpose between 25 May 1705 and 11 Aug. 1710 (at which time he quitted the negotiating the said remittances); and it thereby appears that 4,230,925l. 5s. 8d. was paid to him by James [Brydges, now] Earl of Carnarvon, as Paymaster of the Forces, for bills to the value of 44,601,876 guilders 16 stivers Hollands money for bills drawn by Furnese on his Correspondents at Amsterdam and Antwerp payable to the order of said Paymaster.
[In discharge of said sum] there has been paid and applied by the said Furnese for the cost of bills bought by him of sundry merchants in London, and for the value of other bills of exchange drawn by himself, and for the cost of several quantities of bullion and foreign money remitted by him from England to his Correspondents, and for money paid [by Furnese] upon bills drawn on him by them [his Correspondents] from abroad to enable them to answer the general bills given as aforesaid to the said Paymaster; and including money detained by him for his allowance of commission and charges: all as follows: viz.
in the year 1705:
361,218l. 17s. 10d. sterling for the value of 3,737,249 guilders 15 stivers 8 pennings in bills of exchange bought of sundry merchants in London to be remitted to his said Correspondents, as appears by the Second Bills and the accompts of the Correspondents.
17,625l. for the value of 185,514 guilders 4 stivers 8 pennings remitted to the said Correspondents in Furnese's own bills: which have been placed to account at the current rates.
84,215l. 18s. 1d. for money paid for 864,678 guilders 10 stivers taken up in Holland by the said remitter's Correspondents upon bills of exchange by them drawn on him, “which sum the said remitter appears to have paid (by the original bills and by the accompts of the Correspondents who drew the same.”
2,546l. 15s. 10d. for the allowance to the said remitter for his own commission, risque of bills, charges of brokerage, postage and other expenses), being at the rate of 11s. per 100l. according to his agreement with the Treasury:
which allowance, together with the aforesaid several payments for remittances made by him in 1705, amount in the whole to 465,606l. 11s. 9d. sterling.
In the year 1706
he similarly paid or detained for the charge of remittances the sums following: viz.
530,434l. 15s. 10d. for the cost of 5,488,674 guilders 11 stivers 1 penning in bills of exchange bought of several merchants in London, as appears by the Second Bills and the accompts of the Correspondents who received the same.
46,105l. 18s. 2d. for 475,088 guilders 15 stivers 7 pennings in the said remitter's [Furnese's] own bills as appears by the accompts of the said Correspondents “which bills having been valued higher by the said remitter than the current rates of exchange by the sum of 112l. 10s. 9½d. sterling” the Auditor has proposed that the said sum be deducted out of the aforesaid valuation of his said bills.
29,215l. 2s. 7d. for the cost of bullion and foreign money by him remitted to his said Correspondents and sold by them for 303,796 guilders 1 stiver Holland's money, the price whereof is agreeable to the rates then current in England for the like species, and the produce thereof at the aforesaid sum in Hollands money is the same which the Correspondents appear by their accompt to have accompted to the said remitter.
285,790l. 11s. 2d. for money paid for 2,918,810 guilders 6 stivers 8 pennings taken up in Amsterdam and Antwerp upon drafts made on the said remitter by his Correspondents there, the payment whereof is vouched by the original bills and the accompts of the Correspondents who drew the same.
5,023l. 4s. 6d. for allowance to the remitter for his own commission, risque of the aforesaid bills, brokerage and other charges after the rate of 11s. per 100l. for moneys remitted before 13 Aug. 1706 and 12s. per 100l. for money remitted after that date.
making a total of 896,569l. 12s. 3d. for the remittances made in the year 1706.
for the year 1707:
342,040l. 0s. 11d. for the cost of 3,635,797 guilders 16 stivers remitted in bills bought of sundry merchants in London; the payment of which is vouched by the Second Bills and the accompts of the Correspondents who received the same.
68,521l. 3s. 2d. for 684,788 guilders 12 stivers 8 pennings in the remitter's own bills; as appears by the accompts of the Correspondents to whom the same were remitted; which bills having been valued higher by him than the current rates of exchange by the sum of 643l. 3s. 5¾d. the Auditor proposes that the said sum be deducted out of the aforesaid valuation of these bills.
11,142l. 12s. 3d. for the cost of bullion and foreign money by him remitted to his said Correspondents and sold by them abroad for 119,670 guilders 4 stivers Hollands money; the cost whereof is charged by the said remitter at the prices current in England; and the aforesaid sum in Hollands money is the same which the said Correspondents have accompted for to him in their accompts as the produce of the said bullion and foreign money.
373,567l. 5s. 0d. paid for 3,809,044 guilders 14 stivers taken up in Amsterdam and Antwerp upon drafts made on the remitter by his Correspondents there; the payment whereof appears by the original bills and by the accompts of the Correspondents that drew the same.
4,786l. 13s. 7d. for the allowance to the remitter for his commission, risque of bills, brokerage and other charges at 12s. per 100l. pursuant to his agreement with the Treasury: making a total for the year 1707 of 800,057l. 14s. 11d.
for the year 1708:
228,477l. 10s. 9d. for the cost of 2,282,567 guilders 13 stivers 4 pennings remitted in bills bought of sundry merchants in London, the payment whereof appears by the Second Bills and the accompts of the Correspondents that received the same.
208,829l. 7s. 2d. for 2,117,752 guilders 4 stivers 8 pennings in the said remitter's own bills, as appears by the accompts of the Correspondents to whom the same were remitted; which bills having been valued higher than the current rates by the sum of 2,224l. 7s. 4d. the Auditor has proposed that the said sum be deducted out of the aforesaid valuation of these bills.
445,777l. 11s. 10d. for money paid for 4,514,786 guilders 8 stivers 14 pennings taken up in Amsterdam and Antwerp upon drafts made on the said remitter by his Correspondents there; the payment of which sum is vouched by the original bills and the accompts of the Correspondents who drew the same.
5,294l. 17s. 7d. for the allowance to the remitter for his commission, risque, brokerage &c. as above at 12s. per 100l.: making a total for the year 1708 of 882,379l. 7s. 4d.
for the year 1709:
148,821l. 5s. 8d. for the cost of 1,508,913 guilders 16 stivers 6 pennings remitted in bills bought of sundry merchants in London; the payment of which sum is vouched by the Second Bills and the accounts of the Correspondents that received the same.
16,509l. 3s. 5d. for 164,266 guilders 17 stivers 8 pennings in the remitter's own bills: as appears by the accompts of the Correspondents to whom the same were remitted; which bills having been valued higher than the current rates by the sum of 355l. 5s. 2d. the Auditor hath proposed that the said sum be deducted from the aforesaid valuation of the said bills.
261,877l. 14s. 3d. for the money paid for 2,612,506 guilders 6 stivers 6 pennings taken up in Amsterdam and Antwerp upon drafts made on the said remitter by his Correspondents there; the payment of which sum is vouched by the original bills and the accompts of the Correspondents who drew the same.
2,587l. 6s. 0d. for the allowance to the said remitter for his own commission, risque &c. as above at the aforesaid rate of 12s. per 100l.: amounting in all for the year 1709 to the sum of 429,795l. 9s. 4d.
for the year 1710:
174,305l. 11s. 11d. for the cost of 1,748,176 guilders 3 stivers remitted in bills bought of sundry merchants in London; the payment whereof is vouched by the Second Bills and the accounts of the Correspondents who received the money payable on the said bills abroad.
63,975l. 9s. 0d. for 633,500 guilders in the remitter's own bills; as appears by the accompts of the Correspondents to whom the said bills were remitted; which bills having been valued higher than the current rates by the sum of 704l. 18s. 7d. the Auditor hath proposed that the said sum should be deducted from the aforesaid valuation of the said bills.
300,000l. for the cost of 2,940,000 guilders in bills of exchange taken of the Bank of England upon Holland at the rate of 9 guilders 16 stivers per £ in pursuance of an order of the Treasury dated 12 Dec. 1709; as appears by the said order, the Second Bills and the accompts of the Correspondents to whom the same were remitted.
218,391l. 14s. 9d. for money paid for 2,167,599 guilders 1 stiver taken up in Amsterdam and Antwerp upon drafts made upon the aforesaid remitter by his Correspondents there; the payment whereof is vouched by the original bills and the accompts of the Correspondents that drew the same.
4,548l. for the allowance to the said remitter for his own commission, risque, brokerage &c. as above at the rate of 12s. per 100l.: thus making a total of 761,220l. 15s. 8d. sterling for the year 1710 and a grand total of 4,235,629l. 11s. 3d. sterling for the whole period of this accompt for five years for remittances for the use of the Forces.
And it appears by the aforesaid state of the said account that the produce of the aforesaid remittances in Bank Money of Holland, together with the agio allowed there on turning the same into Current Money of Holland (with which [agio] the said remitter appears to have charged himself in his accompt), amounts in the whole to 44,960,776 guilders 1 stiver 9 pennings of the said Current Money, which exceeds the sum payable upon the General Bills given by him on his Correspondents to the Paymaster General [in London] of the Forces [abroad] by the sum of 358,899 guilders 5 stivers 9 pennings, and that the said sum hath been detained by the remitter's Correspondents abroad either for the charge of discompting part of the bills remitted to them for satisfying the aforesaid General Bills on them in due time [? or] for rectifying a mistake made by them in computing the said agio, or for their own commission at the rate of one third part of a guilder per cent. [per 100 guilders], which charge and allowance being vouched by the original accounts of the Correspondents with the said remitter and by certificates of the rates of discompt current from time to time in Holland and Antwerp, and being agreeable to the practice of merchants in the like cases, we are graciously pleased to approve and allow of;
and it being the opinion of the Treasury Lords (on considering and hearing the aforesaid state of this account) that the several payments made as above by the said Sir Henry Furnese for the cost of the said remittances ought to be allowed notwithstanding that it appears that part of the said remittances were bought at rates below the common course among private merchants; and that other part thereof was made in bills on places where the rates of exchange were less beneficial than on Amsterdam and Antwerp; and that other part thereof was returned by drafts from abroad where the course of exchange was lower than in London from 5 groots to 10 groots in the pound [sterling], and although part of the said drafts were made at distant times of payments and thereby cost more than if the same had been drawn at sight, yet it appears that the said remitter used these methods of exchange because bills sufficient could not be got here upon Amsterdam and Antwerp for so large sums as he had to remit and because no certain rate is observed by all merchants in the price of their bills of exchange, they varying one from another as bills are plenty or scarce or according to their own occasions and the degrees of their credit: and it also appears that the said remitter (instead of receiving [in repayment from the Treasury] ready money in which he contracted to be paid for his remittances) was paid large sums in tallies or Exchequer Bills at a discompt and that he thereupon was necessitated to make a great part of his remittances by drafts at distant times of payment for lessening the loss that would have arisen by an immediate discompting of the said tallies and Exchequer Bills: and therefore the sum of 11,596l. 9s. 0¼d. (mentioned in the said report [of the Auditors of Imprests] as an advantage that the said Sir Henry Furnese might probably have made by the distance of the times of payment of part of the bills so drawn on him from abroad) ought not, in justice, to be charged upon him in consideration that he appears (by certificates from the Earl of Carnarvon's Office) to have received the sum of 1,769,405l. 11s. 6½d. in Exchequer Bills for part of the said remittances and the further sum of 575,989l. 0s. 3d. in tallies, and that according to the certificates of several brokers there was so great a discompt on the said Exchequer Bills and tallies at the times they were issued to the said Sir Henry Furnese that the loss by the said discount did far exceed the profit which the said Sir Henry could possibly make from the remoteness of the times of payment of the aforesaid drafts:
but that as to the sum of 4,040l. 5s. 4d. mentioned in the said report to have been placed to accompt by Sir Henry Furnese for his own bills more than the value thereof amounts to at the current rates, the same is a profit made by him and ought to be charged upon him and accounted for as such by Sir Robert as executor and heir of the said Sir Henry Furnese, it is therefore hereby the King's pleasure that Sir Robert Furnese is to be allowed 4,235,629l. 11s. 3d. in account for all payments and allowances as above and that he be charged with 4,235,925l. 5s. 8d. [sic ? for 4,230,925l. 5s. 8d.] as paid by the Earl of Carnarvon to the said Sir Henry Furnese and also with the aforesaid profit of 4,040l. 5s. 4d. and likewise with the sum of 871l. 17s. 1d. standing in super upon the said Sir Henry in the accompt of the said Earl as Paymaster of the Forces in Flanders for the year 1712: all which said several charges amount to 4,235,837l. 8s. 1d. [sic and will thus leave the accompt in debit by the sum of 207l. 16s. 10d.]. King's Warrant Book XXVIII, pp. 234–9.
April 9. Money warrant for 1,180l. to William Kennedy for the salaries of the inferior officers employed under the Commissioners for Forfeitures in Scotland and for incidents of said Commissioners: to wit for half a year to 1716 Xmas: of which incidents the sum of 160l. is meant and intended to be paid over to Sir Robert Constable, an agent attending the said Commissioners on behalf of the public. (Money order dated April 10 hereon.) Money Book XXV, p. 270. Order Book IX, p. 395.
Treasury warrant to Thomas Foley, one of the Auditors of Imprests, to make up and prepare for Declaration the account of Anthony Cracherode, Solicitor for the affairs of the Treasury, to wit for one year ended 1716 June 1.
Prefixing: abstract of said account and the said Auditor's remarks thereon. The first item is vouched by bills and acquittances of the Attorney General. The second item consists of such customary and casual disbursements as have been allowed to former Solicitors, and bills and receipts are produced for the greatest part of them, as similarly for the fourth item:
£ s. d.
Charge.
money received out of the Exchequer 9,738 15 4
Discharge.
money paid and disbursed by him for sundry prosecutions at law 3,997 2 1
several customary and casual disbursements within the time of this account 636 4 7½
money paid on several occasions by letters from the Treasury and Secretaries of State 533 17 2
money paid and expended in the execution of the special commission in Lancashire 3,279 4 2
payments by warrants from the Treasury to several people 2,668 9 10
in supers on Douglas and Wilcox 100 10 6
—
£11,215 8 4½
surplusage 1,476l. 13s. 0½d.
Warrants not Relating to Money XXIV, p. 117.
April 9. Royal warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General for a great seal for a new commission of Excise in Scotland: the new Commissioners to be Alexander Wedderburne, David Ross, Sir William Bennet, Gilbert Burnet and Charles Cockburne in place of the said Wedderburne, Ross, Bennet, Burnet and George Drummond: with a salary of 400l. per an. each. (Letters patent hereon dated April 27.) Out Letters (North Britain) IV, pp. 60–1, 78–80.
Same dated St. James's for a patent under the great seal of Scotland to grant to John Ewing of Crayton, his executors and assigns for 21 years from Martinmas next the office of Chamberlain and Collector of the rents, revenues, few farms and other Duties payable to the Crown out of the estates of Orkney and Zetland held by James, Earl of Morton, his heirs and assigns: together with the annuity or yearly pension of 500l. per an. as from Martinmas next: all to be terminable on his Majesty's life. Ibid., p. 63.
Treasury subscription for the execution of a warrant dated March 18 last from the Duke of Bolton, Lord Chamberlain of the Household, to the Duke of Montagu, Master of the Great Wardrobe, to deliver new liveries to each of the nine trumpeters and a kettle drummer of his Majesty's Royal Regiment of Horse under the command of the Marquess of Winchester, viz. a velvet coat trimmed after the same manner and fashion as his Majesty's trumpeters have; and also nine banners for the trumpets and one for the kettledrum and nine standards: to an estimate of 1,000l. Lord Chamberlain's Warrant Book I, p. 30.
April 10. Money warrant for 271l. 10s. 6d. to Thomas Smith for the surplusage on his account as Sheriff for Co. Worcester for the year ended at Michaelmas 1716. (Money order dated April 16 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated April 18 hereon.)
57l. 0s. 2d. to Julius Hutchinson for the surplusage on his account as Sheriff for Co. Notts for same year.
79l. 18s. 7d. to John Eyles for the surplusage on his account as Sheriff of Co. Wilts for same year.
68l. 2s. 2d. to Stephen Offley for the surplusage on his account as Sheriff of Co. Derby for same year.
24l. 6s. 5d. to Sir Robert Hesilrige, bart., for the surplusage on his account as Sheriff of Co. Leicester for same year.
244l. 14s. 6d. to Hen. Walters for the surplusage on his account as Sheriff of Co. Somerset for same year.
12l. 7s. 6d. to Robert Ridlington for the surplusage on his account as Sheriff of Co. Rutland for same year. (The letter of direction incorrectly gives the name as Bridlington.)
55l. 18s. 10d. to Thomas Birch for the surplusage on his account as Sheriff of Co. Stafford for same year. Money Book XXV, p. 245. Order Book IX, p. 380. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 283.
April 10. Treasury warrant to Edward Harley and Thomas Foley, Auditors of Imprests, to allow in account to Horatio Walpole, senr., and Francis Hawes, Cashiers of Customs, the sum of 245l. 13s. 0d. for the charges of paying into the Exchequer the Customs moneys between 1716 Midsummer and Xmas and 49l. 18s. 10d. for the charge of passing their accounts of the Customs for said half year and 108l. 19s. 1d. for same for passing their accounts of the New Impositions for said half year.
Prefixing affidavit by said Hawes and certificate by Auditor Harley as to said charges. Money Book XXV, pp. 274–5.
[?] Same, dormant, to the Customs Cashiers to pay the salary of 52l. per an. to John Goodwyn as a King's waiter, London port. Ibid., p. 276.
April 10. Treasury warrant to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue and apply the income of the General or Aggregate Fund to the several and respective uses as follows: by virtue of the Act 1 Geo. I., c. 12, establishing the said Fond for the Bank of England and others.
Prefixing: state of the said Fond for the quarter ended Lady day 1717:
£ s. d.
The Fond is Dr.
to interest at 2 pence per 100l. per diem on 4,561,025l. in Exchequer Bills uncancelled issued [i.e. current] in this quarter		 10,000 0 0
to the Bank of England on the allowance of 3 per cent. per an. for circulating the said bill for the said quarter 34,207 13 9
to ditto on the allowance of 45,000l. and 8,000lper an. in consideration of their making specie or exchanging [cancelling] all the said Exchequer Bills for ready money upon demand for the quarter ended the 30th Jan. 1716–17 13,250 0 0
to the Civil List for the quarter ended at Lady day 1717 30,000 0 0
to annuities at 5 per cent. for said quarter 13,650 0 0
to Mr. Edwyn [Usher of the Receipt] for necessaries delivered [for the Exchequer Bill Office] 293 9 1½
to the officers of the Exchequer Bill Office on their salaries to Xmas last [1716] 326 0 0
to the Bank, being so much overdirected the last quarter towards making good the deficiency upon their annuity of 106,501l. 13s. 5d. 306 18 3¾
to ditto more to make good the deficiency at Michaelmas 1716 on their said annuity of 106,501l. 13s. 5d. payable out of the Duty on Houses 34,844 6 1
—
136,877 7 3¼
balance to be reserved in the Exchequer to attend the directions of the Treasury Lords in that behalf 15,696 6 0
£152,573 13 3¼
Per contra:
The Fond is Cr.
by the income or produce of the said Fond between Xmas 1716 and Lady day following [for the description of the items of this Fond see supra, p. 81]:
on the Two Thirds Tonnage and Poundage		 33,334 10 9
on the Duty on coffee, tea, chocolate &c. 8,265 18 81
on the increased Duties on ditto 3,036 13 61
on the Half Subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage 31,122 18 10
on the Duty on hops 190 15 2
the brewers' forfeitures 101 9 1
on the 25l. per ton on French wines imported 10,302 1 11½
on the Duties on foreign sail cloth 464 9 3
on the Plantation Duty 55 5 0
on the prize Duty from the Plantations 300 0 0
on the surplus Two Sevenths Excise at Lady day 1717 8,379 17 51
on the surplus of the Annuity Fonds [annis] 1706 and 1707 at Lady day 1717 over and above what will satisfy the annuities of 40,000l. per an. 46,034 10 7
surplus of the Half Subsidy at Lady day 1717 10,985 12 11¼
—
£152,573 13 3¼
Money Book XXV, pp. 276–7.
April 10. Treasury warrant dormant to the Auditor of the Receipt to pay to Walter Hamilton, Captain General and Governor in Chief of the Leeward Caribbee Islands, 1,200l. per an. (to wit 700l. per an. for his support and maintenance in that employment and 500l. per an. in lieu of all presents in gifts from the Assemblies of the said islands) as from 23 August 1715, the date of the letters patent appointing him to the said Government; to wit a moiety thereof for the period 23 Aug. 1715 to 7 Feb. 1715–16 (the day on which he arrived at Antigua) and thereafter in full.
Appending: affidavit by William Byam of the island of Antigua, aged 35, one of the members of the Council of the island of Antigua, that he was present in the town of St. Johns in the said island on the 7th Feb. 1715–16, on which day the said Walter Hamilton arrived in the harbour of the said town; and that he and Archd. Cockran, Speaker of the Assembly of said island, were sent by the Lieutenant Governor to compliment the said Chief Governor upon his arrival; and that he, the deponent, was present in Council the said day when his Majesty's commission was read appointing the said Governor, who at the same time took the oaths and subscribed the Declaration required by law. Ibid., pp. 278–9.
April 10. Money warrant for 170l. 1s. 3d. to William Pitt, Esq., Keeper of Newgate Prison, for his disbursements and expenses in passing a pardon for convicts in Newgate and in conducting and delivering them on shipboard, being 54 malefactors who were conducted by him to Gravesend and there put on board some merchant ships in order to be transported to his Majesty's Plantations in America at the charge of Francis March, merchant, according to an agreement [made by the Treasury with the said March] in that behalf.
Prefixing: Pitt's bill of said charges (including 4l. 1s. 0d. for bread, beef, beer, brandy, cheese &c. sent with 30 of the said prisoners and their guard; 10s. “paid and given those prisoners who were almost naked”; 32l. 8s. 0d. for 54 pair of irons for hands and feet at 12s. per head; 36l. for fees to the Clerk of the Peace for 54 persons at 13s. 4d. each; 40l. 1s. 0d. for fees to the Keeper for the same persons at 14s. 10d. each; 10l. 15s. 0d. for “my own trouble and attendance four days in passing the pardon and two days and two nights in shipping the prisoners.” (Money order dated April 16 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated May 3 hereon.) Ibid., p. 281. Order Book IX, p. 400. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 285.
Same for 1,881l. 2s. 9d. to Samuel Smithin, his Majesty's Goldsmith, for gold works, gilt and white plate &c. delivered by him into his Majesty's Jewel Office between 29 Sept. and 25 Dec. 1716.
Appending: certificate by Ja. Brudenell, Master of the Jewel House, of said plate &c. so delivered. (Money order dated April 16 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated April 30 hereon.) Money Book XXV, pp. 283–4. Order Book IX, p. 400. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 285.
Same for 200l. to Thomas Beak, gent., to be by him distributed among the under clerks of the Privy Council (himself being one) as reward for their great pains and expenses in writing letters and orders to Lords Lieutenants, Custodes Rotulorum, Justices of the Peace &c., as also to the Offices of the Treasury, Admiralty, Navy, Ordnance, Victualling &c., for one year ended 1716 Dec. 25. (Money order dated April 16 hereon.) (Letter of direction dated May 3 hereon.) Money Book XXV, p. 288. Order Book IX, p. 401. Disposition Book XXIII, p. 286.
H. Walpole to the Board of Works. The Treasury Lords direct that the expense of the small building now making or made at one of the pavilions in Hampton Court House Park for the accommodation of Mr. Tilson and his lodgings there be entered on the books of the Office of Works and paid in course with other his Majesty's works entered therein. Out Letters (General) XXII, p. 180.
April 10. Christopher Tilson (in the absence of the Treasury Secretaries) to the executors of Mr. Thomas Savery (late Treasurer for Sick and Wounded). The Treasury Lords direct you to pay to Sir Charles Cox the 74l. 18s. 7d. balance of the enclosed account [missing] for the cure and quarters of sick seamen, the same having been examined and passed by the late Commissioners for Sick and Wounded. Ibid., p. 181.
April 10.
11, 12, 30.		 Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners to employ John Rousbey as collector of Pattuxon [Patuxent] River in Maryland loco John Dansey, deceased. (Warrant dated April 11.)
Robert Randall as a landwaiter in Plymouth port loco Caleb Curle, superannuated. (Warrant dated April 10.)
Ralph Grange (a boatman at Wilcove in Plymouth port) as warehousekeeper there loco the said Robert Randal. (Warrant dated April 11.)
Nath[aniel] Deeble to succeed the said Grange as boatman at Wilcove.
Robert Mason, tidesurveyor at Hull, to be superannuated.
Lancelot Iveson as tidesurveyor at Hull in place of said Mason.
William Harrison as surveyor, waiter and searcher in the Isle of Man loco John Hale, dismissed.
William Johnson as collector of Boston port loco Samuel Oldfield, who is to be superannuated. (Warrant dated April 12.)
Charles Dunbar as Surveyor General of [Customs at] Antigua, Barbados, the Leeward Islands and the Island of Bermuda loco Edwd. Perry, deceased. (Warrant dated April 30.)
George Sedgwick as riding officer at Itchenor loco his brother, John Sedgwick, who petitioned for this change in consideration of his not being any longer able to execute the same by reason of colds catcht in the execution of his said office.
Robert Cobbe as riding officer from Wells to Lynn Regis loco Jeffry Man, deceased. (Warrant dated April 7 [? a clerical slip for May 7, see infra, p. 291].) Out Letters (Customs) XVI, pp. 436, 437, 439, 441.
April 10. Treasury reference to same of the petition of John Barker, late tidesman in Bristol port, praying to be restored; he having been dismissed by a complaint of the collector of that port. Reference Book IX, p. 322.
Same to Hugh Cholmley, Surveyor General of Crown Lands, of the petition of Sir Phillip Parker, bart., and Thomas Heath, proposing to be tenants to the Crown of the several lands and tenements lying at and near Harwich lately purchased by the Crown, which are not [at present] made use of by the [Office of] Ordnance: the petitioners proposing for a term of 31 years and to give more for the same than any other person has offered. Ibid.
Treasury warrant to the Clerk of the Pipe for a reversionary lease to Samuel Lynn, Esq., of a piece of land lying in the place called the Wilderness or the Woodwork on the north side of St. James's Park in the parish of St. Martins in the Fields and containing 1 rood 33 perches, ending in the south east by a brick wall lately built and north west on a passage leading from Old Spring Garden to St. James's Park, extending on that side 200 feet from the said park to a little edifice lately erected and now in the possession of the gatekeeper of the said passage, thence extending 18 feet north west from the said little edifice and thence 10 feet north east and abutting north east on the wall of a yard called the Stable Yard formerly in the possession of Laurence, Earl of Rochester, 189 feet from the edifice of the said gatekeeper and 246 feet alongside the said Wilderness and separated from the rest of the Wilderness. The lease is to be for 15 years from 2 June 1751 at the old rent of 6s. 8d. per an. and fine of 20l.
Prefixing 9a) particular and memorandum of the premises made out by Auditor Thomas Jett. The premises, bounded as above, are part of the possessions of the Crown of England and were demised 2 June 1701 to George London.
(b) ratal by the Surveyor General of Crown Lands.
(c) a later Treasury confirmation dated 26 April 1717 hereof.
(d) undated entry of the Treasury Lords' subscription of the docquet of this demise. Warrants not Relating to Money XXIV, pp. 118–120.
April 10. Same to same for a reversionary lease to Stephen Child of a messuage or tenement within the circuit of the ancient palace of Richmond, parcel of the ancient possessions of the manor of Richmond, alias West Sheen, and now or late in the tenure of Jane Armitage, spinster, abutting west on three tenements now or late in the tenure of — Eldridge, Joseph Rogers and Thomas Rayes, and east on the ground called Richmond Green and the road near Edward Darrell's land, and north on a part of the said ancient palace in the tenure of George Cholmondley. The new lease to be for 14 years from 9 Dec. 1733 at the old rent of 15l. per an. and fine of 13l.
Prefixing: (a) particular and memorandum by Auditor Jett. The premises were demised 9 Dec. 1703 by the late Queen Anne to Joseph Ayloff, Esq.
(b) ratal by the Surveyor General of Crown Lands.
(c) a later Treasury confirmation dated April 26 1717 hereof.
(d) undated entry of the docquet of this demise. Ibid., pp. 120–2.
Same to H. Cholmley, the Surveyor General of Crown Lands, for a particular of several parcels of land on the south side of Holborn in the parish of St. Giles in the Fields in order to a lease thereof to Lewis Johnson.
Prefixing: report by said Surveyor General on the petition of said Johnson for same. The ground contains 133 foot in front to High Holborn from east to west (including a passage called the Turn Stile leading out of High Holborn into Princes Street, which is in breadth 15 feet); and 137 foot in depth from north to south on the west side and as much on the east side, and in front to Princes Street (including the aforementioned passage) 106 feet: upon which piece or parcel of ground there is now standing 19 messuages or tenements which are worth at a rack rent 330l. per an. The premises are much out of repair and will require new building before the present terms expire. Ibid., p. 123.
Same to the Clerk of the Pipe for a reversionary lease to William Clarkeson of a messuage standing on part of the field called Pall Mall Field, late in the parish of St. Martins in the Fields and now in the new parish of St. James's within the Liberty of Westminster, on the south side of Charles Street fronting the said street north and the yard of the said house south, next the messuage called the St. Albans Tavern, now or late in the tenure of Henry Collins, on the east and next a messuage now or late in the tenure of — Massey on the west: and containing 23 feet by 40 feet deep: and also the yard thereto adjoining next John Stedwell's ground on the east and the said Massey's on the west and containing 14 feet by 23 feet: being parcel of the bailiwick, manor or manors of St. James in the Fields, sometime in the possession of the Crown of England and before, parcel of the lands late purchased from the Abbot of Westminster and other persons.
Prefixing: (1) particular and memorandum of the premises made out by Auditor Thomas Jett.
(2)ratal by the Surveyor General of Crown Lands.
(3) undated entry of the Treasury Lords' signature of the docquet of this demise.
(4) later confirmation dated April 26, 1717, by the new Treasury Lords. Warrants not Relating to Money XXIV, pp. 125–8.
April 10
and 12.		 Treasury warrant to Edward Harley, one of the Auditors of Imprests, to allow 67l. 10s. 1d. to Thomas Edwards in his account as late Paymaster of the Lottery for 1,500,000l. anno 1711: to wit for the incident expenses of his office.
Prefixing: said Harley's report on the particulars of said accompt of incidents from 9 Oct. 1714 to 20 Feb. 1714–15 during the time Edwards continued in that office. Ibid., p. 129.
Same (dated April 12) to Thomas Foley, an Auditor of Imprests, to similarly allow 131l. 18s. 11d. to said Thomas, in his account as late Comptroller of said Lottery and afterwards Paymaster of the same: to wit for his incidents therein, including 13l. 1s. 5d. for his own trouble and expenses in attending the payments from 14 Dec. 1715 to the 24 of the same month computed at the rate of his annual salary, it appearing that he continued paying to that time. Ibid., p. 130.
Same to the Surveyor General of Crown Lands for a particular of several dwelling houses with gardens on the south side of Pall Mall within the bailiwick of St. James's in order to a further lease thereof to Hannah Warner, widow; at an [additional] rent of 2s. 6d. in the pound, which on the rated yearly value of the premises amounts to 56l. 5s. 0d. per an.
Prefixing: said Surveyor General's report on said Warner's petition. The first parcel contains four houses that stand together on the south side of Pall Mall 62 feet in front next the street and 75 feet deep. The other parcel, on which were formerly four houses now divided into six, contain 127 feet in front next Pall Mall and 149 feet in depth from the said street to the Royal garden in the possession of Lord Carleton. The 10 houses may together be worth 450l. per an. at a rack rent. I advise a fine of 225l. on a rent as above. Ibid., p. 132.
April 10. Same to same for a same of three tenements or messuages in St. James's Street and one fronting the royal palace, in order to a further lease thereof to Edward Nelthorpe, at a fine of 780l. and a rent of 2s. 6d. in the £ on the rated yearly value of the premises for the additional term.
Prefixing: report ut supra. The premises were granted by Charles II to Sir William Pulteney for a term which will expire in Feb. 1722 “without any reservation of rent to [the King from] the said Sir William Pulteney or any claiming under him.” They were again granted 6 April 1694 to Edward Darell for a term of years concurrent with the estate in being, subject to the several trusts in the will of the said Pulteney. I have caused the houses to be viewed and surveyed. They all lie together and are in front to St. James's Street 90 foot and in length from east to west 75 foot on the north side and in breadth only 77 foot on the west side by reason of a break of 19 foot, and are together worth at a rack rent 260l. per an. The premises are very old and will need rebuilding. Ibid., pp. 133–4.
April 10. Same to the Clerk of the Pipe for a lease to Joanna Oakes of all those parcels of land at Gosport purchased [for fortifications] in pursuance of the Act of 8 Anne, c. 23, from Henry Player and Thomas Woodman: the present lease to be for 31 years at a rent of 25l. per an. with a clause of reassumption at any time.
Prefixing: constat of the premises made out by the Surveyor General of Crown Lands and memorandum and ratal thereof by same. The premises bought of the said Henry Player contain 12 acres 2 roods 10 perches and abut east to other lands of the said Player and west to the lands of — Goodeve and north to the lands of Nendick and low water mark and south to the garden of said Goodeve. The other parcel bought of the said Thomas Woodman contains 20 acres 2 roods and 13 perches and abuts east to the lands of Christopher Moreland and of the said Henry Player, west and south to other lands of the said Player and north to the low water mark.
Followed by: undated entry of the Treasury signature of the docquet of this lease. Ibid., pp. 137–8.
[?] Entry of the Treasury signature of the docquet of a lease to Robert Walpole of a mansion house within the Royal Hospital of Chelsea: for 31 years: at a rent of 10l. Ibid., p. 138.
April 10. Treasury warrant to the Clerk of the Pipe for an extension of lease to Peircy Kirke of a parcel of ground and the old shed or lodgings thereupon late in the tenure of Mary Kirke, widow, and now in that of said Peircy Kirk, situate in or near that part of the royal palace of Whitehall where the Old Bowling Green was formerly used, and is 18 foot east to west including the wall towards King Street and 46 feet long, fronting east on said Bowling Green, and west on the yards of the houses which front to King Street and south on a shed wherein the Lady Saiers now lives and north on the Fountain Wall there: at the rent of 10s. per an. and fine of 80l.
Prefixing: (1) particular of the premises and memorandum made out by Auditor Thomas Jett: the premises were demised 28 Sept. 1682 to Peircy Kirke. (2) ratal by the Surveyor General of Crown Lands.
Appending: (3) undated entry of the Treasury Lords' signature of the docquet of this lease. Ibid., pp. 139–41.
Same to same for a lease to Esther Lampriere, widow, of lands as follows in Co. Lincoln, parcel of the possessions of the Crown of England late in jointure to Catherine, Queen Dowager, deceased, viz., lands, detailed, 4 acres in Slothby Ings in the tenure of Thomas Liverathe; messuage and 26 acres and 32 acres in Hoggsthorpe, Anderby and Mumby; tenement and 14 acres in the tenure of John Turner; messuage and 24 acres ibid. in the tenure of John Brewster alias Brewcer; messuage and 20 acres and 2 acres in Hoggsthorpe and Willoughby in the tenure of William Hawes; messuage and 18 acres and 2 acres and 10 acres ibid. formerly in the tenure of William Young and now of William Markby; 2 messuages and 51 acres in Hoggsthorpe and 5 acres in Anderby and 7 acres in Mumby and 6 acres in Willoughby in the tenure of Thomas Syke the younger; messuage and 20 acres in Hoggsthorpe late in the tenure of William Ranner and now of Thomas Curtis; messuage and 15 acres in Hoggsthorpe and Willoughby formerly in the tenure of Simon Baker and now of Daniel Richardson; messuage called Devehouses and 17 acres ibid. heretofore in the tenure of Simon Baker and late of John Darebarne and now of Richard Cunys; messuage and 4 acres, 3½ acres and 4½ acres ibid. in the tenure of Valentine Cawforth; messuage and 12 acres, 2 acres and 6 acres in Hoggsthorpe, Anderby and Willoughby in tenure of said Cawforth; messuage called Camell House and 1 acre and 2 acres in Slothby Marsh and 3 acres called Nether Grounds and the toft called Camell House and 2 acres abutting on Bridgedale and 2 acres in Anderby Ings, and 5 acres in Swindich and Alcroft and 18 acres in Allencroft late in the tenure of Robert Bougham and now of John Biggot: all parcel of the manor of Hoggsthorpe and heretofore parcel of the possession of the late Lord Willoughby and Sir Thomas Heneage exchanged: and were demised by the Queen Dowager 28 Aug. 1696 to John Clarke of the parish of St. Dunstans in the West, London, vintner, at rents amounting in all to 43l. 12s. 4d. per an. for 15 years from 25 March 1711.
and the messuage and 4 acres, 5 acres and 6 acres in Hoggsthorpe sometime in the tenure of John Coken and afterwards in the tenure of Robert Betteson and after of Richard Lowis; and the messuage and 27 acres ibid. and sometime in the tenure of Walter Rishall and after of the said Lowis and being all parcel of said manor and of the possessions of said Lord Willoughby and Sir Thomas Heneage and similarly demised by the said Queen Dowager.
Prefixing: (1) particular and memorandum of the premises made out by Auditor S. Godolphin and (2) ratal thereof by the Surveyor General of Crown Lands. Warrants not Relating to Money XXIV, pp. 142–9.
April 10. Treasury warrant to the Clerk of the Pipe for a lease to Thomas Highmore of several messuages in Pall Mall Field, ut supra, p. 80, viz., the White Horse Inn with the gateway, little yard and yard thereto and coach houses and stabling and rooms there (on the south side of Piccadilly or Portugal Street between the said street north and the gardens or backsides belonging to several houses in Jermyn Street now or late in the several tenures of — Cason, widow, — Gerard, — Smith, — Banister and Elizabeth Lloyd, widow; abutting east on a messuage of Jacob Joy; and west on a messuage of John Russell, — Lucas, the Countess Dowager of Northumberland and — Reading); and also the little alley or passage leading out of the said yard into the said street called Jermy Street: which said inn and premises were heretofore in the possession of John Brown, innholder; and also the messuage or tenement with the little yard thereto situate in part of Pall Mall Field (on the south side of Piccadilly or Portugal Street between the said street and the said yard of the White Horse Inn abutting east on certain tenements belonging to — Man, widow, and west on a tenement in the tenure of widow Vouchier) and is now in the possession of John Orme and others.
and also the messuage in the said Field on the south side of Piccadilly between the said street and the said yard and stables and now or late in the tenure of John Russell.
and also 3 several messuage on the south side of Piccadilly next John Stiffe's messuage on the east and in the tenures of — Vouchar, widow, — Atkinson and — Ellis.
and also 2 messuages on the south side of Piccadilly in the tenure of Browne lying east of a messuage in the possession of — Russell, widow, and west of a messuage in the tenure of Margery Parsons and are now in the several tenures of — Lucas and — Petty; and also that piece of ground on the south of Piccadilly abutting south on the stables and stable yard of Mrs. Bond, east on the ground or buildings of James Hardy and west on ditto of Mrs. Pyper.
and also the 2 messuages in the said parcel of ground now in the possessions of Andrew Parker and — Mackensy.
and also the piece of ground there lying backwards between the said stables of Mrs. Bond and the back part of a messuage in Jermyn Street now in the possession of Mr. Ransford South and certain messuages of James Hardy and Mr. Darcy.
and also the little tenement standing in the said piece of ground and now in the tenure of said Thomas Highmore and the yard thereto, bounding north on a stableyard in the possession of Mrs. Bond and south on a messuage in Jermyn Street in the possession of Mrs. Deane.
and also 2 messuages with yard and backsides thereto on the north side of Jermyn Street and bounding west on a messuage in the tenure of — Cressett, widow, and now in the several tenures of Thomas Gilbert and Francis Clarke.
and the said houses of the said Gilbert and Clarke except a certain way or passage between the said 2 houses about 3 feet wide leading from Jermyn Street to the ground or buildings of the said Thomas Highmore, which passage is to be used in common by the persons who have right thereunto as the same now is and hath been for many years last past used and enjoyed.
all on a rent of 34l. 10s. 0d. per an. and fine of 150l.
Prefixing: (1) particular and memorandum made out by Auditor Thomas Jett: (2) ratal thereof by the Surveyor General of Crown Lands.
(3) undated entry of the Treasury Lords' signature of the docquet of this lease.
Followed by: a later Treasury confirmation dated 1717 April 26 hereof. Ibid., pp. 150–6.
April 10. Same to same for a lease to John Hill et al. (viz., William Dowson, William Bayley, George Peirson, Robert Harrison, John Readman, William Ness, Robert Peirson, Thomas Peirson, John Faro, John Hill, Robert Peirson, junr., James Hebden, Thomas Robinson, Robert Peirson, William Readman and Robert Watson) of messuages in Co. Yorks as in the particular below:
to William Craven at 4l. 6s. 8d. per an. for William Dowson.
to William Bayley at 18s. 4d. per an.
to Christopher Hobson, John Hobson and Stephen Hobson at 3l. 16s. 8d. per an. for the said George Peirson.
to Barbary Peirson at 1l. 17s. 0d. per an. for the said Robert Harrison.
to John Readman at 19s. per an.
to George Lyth and Thomas Lyth at 2l. per an. for the said William Ness.
to Henry Potter, Michael Wilkinson and Christopher Wilson at 4l. 3s. 9d. per an. for the said Robert Peirson.
to John Readman at 6l. 10s. 4d. per an. for the said Thomas Peirson.
to Mathew Faro at 3l. 16s. 11d. for the said John Faro.
to John Hill at 2l. 7s. 8d. per an.
to John Peirson at 2l. 4s. 6d. per an. for the said Robert Peirson, junr.
to Roger Park and John Park at 2l. per an. for the said James Hebden.
to Richard Brewster, Thomas Brewster, Thomas Barker and William Horseley at 9l. 8s. 0d. per an. for said Thomas Robinson.
to George Ward at 2l. 13s. 4d. per an. for the the said Robert Peirson and William Readman.
to Robert Watson at 2l. 18s. 2d.
Prefixing: particular of the premises and memorandum by Auditor Jett and ratal by the Surveyor General of Crown Lands; and undated entry of the Treasury Lords' signature of the docquet and followed by: a later confirmation dated April 26 by the succeeding Treasury Lords. In the particular the premises are detailed as follows. The premises are parcel of the possessions of the Crown of England and were late in jointure to Catherine, Queen Dowager, deceased.
(a) Messuage or tenement in Rosedale 56 acres in the tenure late of William Craven, then of Christopher Craven, now of William Dowson and demised by the said Queen Dowager 27 June 1676 to William Craven of Rosedale, Yeoman.
(b) ditto of 13 acres and 2 acres there in the tenure late of William Bayley and demised in 1676 as above to William Bayley of Rosedale, husbandman.
(c) third part of a messuage and of divers closes and the Intacks containing 132 acres ibid. in the tenure late of Christopher Hobb and now of George Peirson: and demised as above in 1676 to Christopher Hobson, John Hobson and Stephen Hobson of Rosedale, husbandmen.
(d) tenement and 20 acres and one oxgang in Lockton and 1 acre in Cropton West field, parcel of the possessions of the dissolved Priory of Rosedale, Co. Yorks, in the tenure heretofore of James Wood and now of Robert Harrison and demised as above in 1676 to Barbary Peirson of Lockton, widow.
(e) parcel of land called upper Stone Bank Myers and one Intack, containing by estimation 3 acres with a house, barn and hay house on the said Intack and 18 acres of waste land encroached at Stamebankhead “near the rate of 2d. per an. acre”, all in Rosedale and part of the manor of Rosedale and in the tenure heretofore of Jane Burmingham and George Burmingham and now of John Readman and demised as above in 1676 to John Readman of Rosedale, husbandman.
(f) the messuage with 3 closes and 6 oxgangs in Newton upon Rocliffe in the tenure of William Ness and demised in 1676 as above to George Lyth and Thomas Lyth of Newton upon Rocliffe [Rawcliff], yeomen.
(g) messuage or tenement in Rosedale in the tenure late of Lawrence Hobson, afterwards of William Bayley, William Ward, and William Wilkinson and now of Robert Peirson and demised as above in 1676 to Henry Potter, Michael Wilkinson and Christopher Wilson of Rosedale, husbandmen.
(h) messuage or tenement and divers closes and the Intacks comprising 74 acres in Rosedale in the tenure heretofore of George Potter and now of Thomas Peirson and demised as above in 1676 to John Readman of Rosedale, yeoman.
(i) house or tenement and closes, detailed, in Southfield and three parts of the Intacks above the said house lying in Northdale in Rosedale in the tenure late of James Rogers and now of John Faro and demised as above in 1676 to Mathew Faro of Rosedale, husbandman.
(j) close in Westgate in Thornton cum Formanby in the tenure heretofore of Robert Kiddy and now of John Hill and 2 oxgangs there in the tenure heretofore of Henry Robinson and now of said Hill and demised in 1676 as above to John Hill of Thornton, Co. Yorks., gent.
(k) parcel of land in Northdale in Rosedale in the tenure heretofore of William Suggit then of Henry Peirson and now of Robert Peirson, junr., and demised in 1676 as above to John Peirson of Rosedale, yeoman.
(l) 4 cottages and 24 swathes of meadow in the Wastings of Pickering late in the tenure of John Lening afterwards of Robert Leming and now of James Hebden and demised in 1676 as above to Roger Park and John Park of Pickering, husbandmen.
(m) two messuages or tenements in Middleton with 3 closes and 7 oxgangs in Middleton in Pickering Lythe in the tenure heretofore of Robert Brewster and Thomas Clerk and now of Thomas Robinson; and a cottage in Middleton in the tenure heretofore of Ralph Hick and now of the said Thomas Robinson and demised in 1676 as above to Richard Brewster, Thomas Brewster and Thomas Barker all of Middleton, husbandmen, and William Horsly of Cropton, gent.
(n) messuage or tenement called North Dale in Rosedale with divers closes or Intacks late in the tenure of George Agre, afterwards of Richard Rogers, afterward of Henry Pynder and now of Robert Peirson and William Readman and demised as above in 1676 to George Ward of Rosedale, weaver.
(o) moiety of a messuage or tenement with the moiety of divers closes and the Intacks, containing 61 acres, in Rosedale in the tenure heretofore of William Medd, son of John Medd, and now of Robert Watson; and one acre encroached lying between the farms of widow Sheles and William Medd in Rosedale heretofore in the tenure of William Medd and now of Robert Watson and demised as above in 1676 to Robert Watson of Rosedale, husbandman. Warrants not Relating to Money XXIV, pp. 158–81.
April 10. Subscription by the Treasury Lords for the execution of a royal sign manual dated March 1 last to James Brudenal, Master of the Jewel Office, to provide for Thomas, Earl of Haddington, “this day created Knight of the Thistle,” a great collar of the said Order according to the usual form and weight, with an enamelled St. Andrew appendant thereto, according to the form lately directed by us: to an estimate of 190l. Out Letters (North Britain) IV, p. 62.

Footnotes

  • 1. See Commons Journals, Vol. XVIII, p. 523. 3 April, 1717.
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