Entry Book: May 1691, 26-31

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'Entry Book: May 1691, 26-31', in Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 9, 1689-1692, (London, 1931) pp. 1173-1183. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-treasury-books/vol9/pp1173-1183 [accessed 25 April 2024]

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May 1691, 26-31

Date. Nature and Substance of the Entry. Reference.
May 26. Money warrant for 169l. 18s. 9½d. to Nathaniell Rich, esq., Receiver General for co. Essex of the First Poll, the 12d. Aid, the Review and Additional Poll, the 3s. Aid [the 2s. Aid and Additional 12d. Aid] and the last Poll : 161l. 15s. 0d. thereof for his care therein and charges in bringing up his receipts, being 106,000l., by strong guards to London, and the remaining 8l. 3s. 9½d. for a surplus on his 12d. Aid account. (Money order dated June 20 hereon.) Money Book XI, p. 72. Order Book III, p. 180.
Same for 245l. 10s. 0d. to Charles Brawne and Thomas Allen as same for co. Somerset of the 12d. Aid, 3s. Aid and last Poll for the like pains and charges ; their receipts being 78,200l. and upwards. (Money order dated June 3 hereon.) Money Book XI, p. 73. Order Book III, p. 178.
William Jephson to Mr. Vander Esch. My Lords are informed by Mr. Aaron Smith [Treasury Solicitor] that 17l. 7s. 9d. remains in your hands late the estate of Bartho. Monfort, attainted of high treason at the late Michaelmas Sessions for co. Middlesex, and executed for same. They desire you to forthwith pay same into the Exchequer. Disposition Book IX, p. 134.
Same to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue to me [Jephson] for secret service the above 17l. 7s. 9d. Ibid.
Same to Sir Rowland Gwyn [Treasurer of the Chamber] to pay (out of the 1,300l. issued to you last week) to pay 28l. 12s. 0d. to Mr. Norris, joiner [to the Privy Chamber] upon three bills. Ibid, p. 135.
Same to Mr. Blathwayt [as Secretary to the Forces]. The Earl of Ranelagh has acquainted my Lords that you make scruple to prepare warrants for the Queen's signature to vouch what he, said Earl, has paid and is now directed to pay to the Battalion of Irish Guards, the Regiments of Foot commanded by Colonels Anthony Hamilton and Roger McEligot and the Regiment of Irish Dragoons under Col. John Butler to the time of their respective disbandings, "although what now remains to be paid is only to the Protestant officers of those Regiments." My Lords desire that the warrants for the pay of the said Regiments be forthwith prepared for the Queen's signature, so that the Earl of Ranelagh may be enabled to clear what is due to them out of tallies which he has received for that service, and to insert the said payments, [as] properly they ought to be, in his sixteen months' account [of the Forces] ending 1689, April 30, which account is now passing. Out Letters (General) XIII, p. 71.
Treasury reference to the Customs Commissioners of the petition of Major Peter Ceely to the Queen for some compensation for services at Torbay Reference Book VI, p. 321.
May 27. Royal warrant to the Earl of Ranelagh, Paymaster of the Forces, to prepare debentures for the pay of the Troop of Scots Guards commanded by the Earl of Drumlanrig from 1689-90, Jan. 1, to 1690, May 31, according to the musters taken in Scotland of the said Troop for the month of June by Sir Alexander Bruce, Commissary General of the Musters for Scotland. King's Warrant Book XV, p. 316.
Same to Thomas Done and Brook Bridges, Auditors of Imprests, to allow in account to Charles Fox and Thomas Coningsby on their accounts to May 1 inst. as Paymasters of the Forces, Ireland, 36,259l. 4s. 9d. paid by them to Jaco. Vander Esch by royal direction, "and you are not to charge the said Jacob Vander Esch with the said sum of 36,259l. 4s. 9d. or any part thereof, we reserving the examination of the particular disbursements of the same to our royal self or to such as we shall appoint." Ibid, p. 344.
Same to the Attorney or Solicitor General for a great seal to contain a lease to John Williams of the Lotteries : in the form of an indenture between the King and Queen of the one part and John Williams of Llangibby, co. Monmouth, of the other part : as follows : By patent dated 1669, April 16, Charles II did (with the consent of the Loyalist Indigent officers and of Lawrence Du Puy and his partners, who had then some interest in the Royal Oak Lottery) grant to Sir Thomas Sandys, kt. and bart., et al., a patent for holding one or more plate lotteries for six years for the use of the said Loyal officers ; and by a later patent of 1674, June 19, did grant to the said Sandys et al. the sole use and exercise of the said Royal Oak Lottery with full licence to set forth, erect and publish the same in any town or place in England, Wales or Berwick for 13 years from the termination of the aforesaid six years. The said 13 years' term expired 1688, April 16. By an indenture of the third year of his reign [supra, Calendar of Treasury Books, Vol. VIII, pp. 1421-2] James II granted to Randolph Ashenhurst, Stephen Hales, Michael Cope and Thomas Ashenhurst the sole use and exercise of the said Royal Oak Lottery and all other lotteries whatsoever in the above places for three years and 166 days from 1688, April 16, which term will expire at Michaelmas next. The present indenture witnesses that in consideration of 5,000l. to be paid into the Receipt by said John Williams before Aug. 31 next without interest and by way of advance of rent, the King grants to him and his heirs etc. the sole use and exercise of the said Royal Oak Lottery and of all other lotteries whatsoever that are or shall be used or exercised in any the abovesaid places (places of divine worship only excepted), with full power to publish, use and exercise such lottery and lotteries and for that purpose to erect, use and have such bank houses and to perform all such other matters as shall be necessary and to enjoy all the rents, issues and profits thereof to his own use for seven years from Michaelmas next without any account to be thereof rendered to the King. On his part the said Williams covenants to pay a yearly rent of 5,000l. for same, the first quarterly payment to be made at Christmas next subject to defalcations in the last year as follows herein : and further to pay 5,000l. advance money as above. The King hereby grants him power to appoint commissioners, deputies or other officers and to have one common seal of office with their Majesties' pictures and the inscription Sigillum Sortilegii to be engraven thereon. All other persons are hereby forbidden to set forth any lottery during the said term. This grant to be determined if the rent be unpaid 21 days after each quarter day. Williams hereby covenants to keep true and fair accounts to the best of his knowledge of all the moneys arising by this grant and will permit same and all his actings herein to be examined by persons appointed by the King or the Treasury and will submit the accounts of receipts and payments and all matters relating to the management of said revenue to such persons as above, "whereby their Majesties, their heirs and successors may from time to time have the better knowledge and information of the premises." Williams is hereby authorised to deduct and detain his 5,000l. advance money out of the last two years of his rent, viz. by 625l. a quarter from 1696, Christmas. "And whereas their Majesties are at this time engaged in a war against the French King and to suppress a great rebellion in Ireland, by which war and rebellion the revenues and profits arising by the said lotteries are or may be much diminished," the said Williams hereby covenants to demand no defalcations for the first two years on the ground of the said war or rebellion : and the King covenants that if the war continue beyond Michaelmas, 1693, the lessee may deduct 500l. from his quarter's rent due at Michaelmas, 1694, if the war have continued for the whole third year of this lease, or proportionably if for less continuance of such war ; and similarly 1,000l. at Michaelmas, 1695, or proportionably less for the fourth year of this lease ; and similarly 1,000l. at Michaelmas, 1696, or proportionably less for the fifth year of this lease : and so similarly for the last two years thereof 1,000l. (or proportionably less), but for these two years same is to be defalced by quarterly defalcations of 250l. If this grant become void by any reason, the King covenants to repay the 5,000l. advance money. If the profits of this grant be lessened by plague, pestilence, fire, Act of Parliament, or any other war or rebellion other than the above war and rebellion already provided for, the lessee shall have such further defalcations as the Treasury shall think reasonable. Lastly, the King covenants to renew this grant for a further seven years' period if desired, if the rents and covenants have been duly paid and performed. Ibid, pp. 345-61.
Royal warrant to the Clerk of the Signet for a privy seal as follows to authorise the Treasury Lords to manage the revenue of the vacant bishoprics. The sees of the archbishopric of Canterbury and of the bishoprics of Ely, Gloucester, Peterborough, Bath and Wells, and Norwich, have lately been void and the temporalities thereof severally were in the King's hands. It is the King's intention that the receipts therefrom during such sequestration shall be collected and paid into the Exchequer by such persons as are already appointed or as the Treasury Lords shall hereafter appoint for the collecting, answering and managing the same. Therefore hereby the Treasury Lords and such persons as they shall so appoint as above are empowered to levy, recover and receive all the revenues and arrears arising from the premises and per contra to pay all castle guard rents, nomine decimae rents, rents seck, rents service, fee farm rents, assart rents etc. arising payable from any the premises herein during the sequestration, and the said Lords are hereby empowered to so appoint such persons with power to pay and allow all officers, stewards, receivers, bailiffs, reeves etc. such salaries etc. as the said Lords shall think fit ; but the Treasury Lords not to be responsible (save in case of their own voluntary default or misfeasance) for any of the said officers. Further, the King hereby appoints John Knight, gent., to audit the accounts of the premises during such vacancy as above, under Treasury direction, and with such salary to him and a clerk as the Treasury Lords shall think fit. King's Warrant Book XV, pp. 361-6.
Royal warrant to the Clerk of the Signet for a privy seal for the issue of 500,000l. to Charles Fox and Thomas Coningsby, Paymasters General of the Forces in Ireland, as imprest for the pay and contingencies of the Forces there. (Money warrant dated June 12 hereon. This warrant quotes the privy seal as dated June 11.) (Money order dated June 20 hereon.) King's Warrant Book XV, p. 367. Money Book XI, p. 78. Order Book III, p. 179.
Same to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Barons of the Exchequer to dispose as follows the 789l. due from Herbert Jones. The said Jones, as undersheriff of co. Monmouth for the years 1667, 1670, 1672-7, levied upon the inhabitants of said county sums amounting in all to 789l. for not repairing their highways, and upon discharging the respective sheriffs for said county in the Exchequer the said Jones produced certificates yearly under the hands of two justices that they had received the said moneys from him for repairing the highways according to the Act of Parliament and thereupon obtained discharges and debits upon the [under] sheriffs' accounts, though in truth no part thereof was paid ; which fraud being discovered, John Arnold, upon the complaint of several inhabitants of said county, prosecuted said Jones in the Exchequer Court, and in Trinity term, 1689, it was ordered that Jones should account for the several sums charged in the several accounts of the said undersheriffs respectively and it was referred to the Deputy Remembrancer to take the said account, who has made his report thereon and certified that 685l. was due from Jones over and above the 100l. brought by him into the Exchequer. Thereupon Jones was ordered to stand charged to the Crown for said 685l. over and above said 100l. In the prosecution hereof said Arnold has expended 170l. which he prays may be repaid him and that the balance of said 789l. may be paid over to trustees for repairing the highways of said county. It is hereby ordered that the 100l. deposited as above be paid to Arnold as in part of his said expenses and the remaining 70l. thereof to be paid out of the next moneys which shall be paid in by said Jones : and thereafter the balance of said 789l., after deduction of said 170l., is hereby to be paid to Sir Trevor Williams, bart., John Arnold, James Morgan, Charles Hughes, John Floye and Roger Oates, to be by them employed in repairing the highways of the said county. King's Warrant Book XV, pp. 368-9.
Royal warrant to the Attorney or Solicitor General for a great seal for a grant to George Meese of the respective annuities of 40l. and 40l. as follows : it appearing from the petition of said Meese that the manor or lordship of Stanford Hall, co. Essex, is charged with the said rents of 40l. and 40l. per an. during the lives of Richard Petre and Robert Petree (Petre), who about Michaelmas, 1678, were convicted for being in orders in the see of Rome and were severally outlawed or attainted upon an indictment of high treason, and the said rents for said life term were declared forfeit to the Crown by decree of the Exchequer Court in Michaelmas term, 1684 : but that same have not hitherto been accounted for to the Crown : wherefore said Meese prayed a grant thereof : which the King is pleased to grant in consideration of his faithful services. King's Warrant Book XV, pp. 368-70.
Money warrant for 443l. 5s. 0d. to William, Lord Paget, for two bills of extraordinaries as follows as Envoy Extraordinary to the Emperor of Germany. (Money order dated May 29 hereon.)
Appending : said bills.
(1) For 1689, Dec. 6, to 1689-90, Mar. 6, as allowed by Secretary the Earl of Nottingham May 26 inst. by the Queen's command, "the Queen having been made acquainted with this bill" :
Money Book XI, pp. 74-5. Order Book III, p. 177.
l.
for intelligence, Gazettes, writings and prints 20
for extraordinary expenses at Augsburg, my house being at 20l. per week from Dec. 6 to Jan. 29, old style, being above eight weeks, and for gratuities and other necessary charges when the Emperor and the Courts left that place 120
for the extraordinary expenses of my voyage from Augsburg to Lindau and back again of 14 days, viz. from Jan. 29 to Feb. 12, old style 70
for ditto of my voyage from Augsburg to Vienna, begun Feb. 13, old style, to follow the Court ; with [my] goods, servants and horses ; where I arrived Mar. 2, being 18 days 100
for postage of letters in this quarter 26
£336
(2) For 1689-90, Mar. 6, to 1690, June 6 ; as similarly allowed save the 2nd item ; the item of fees being also referred to the Treasury Lords as properly belonging to their cognizance :
l. s. d.
for intelligence, Gazettes, writings, prints and particular gratuities 26 0 0
extraordinary expenses for mourning for the Duke of Lorraine and the Dauphiness ; which all the Court here [Germany] were obliged to be at 120 0 0
for postage of letters in this quarter 30 0 0
for several journeys to Luxembourg while the Court stayed there ; being six weeks 25 0 0
for Exchequer fees and other charges on the receipt of my last money being 843l. 26 5 0
£227 5 0
Treasury warrant dormant to the Excise Commissioners to pay 80l. per an. salary to Daniell Lawrence as a teller in the office of Charles Duncombe, Cashier of Excise, and 40l. per an. each to George Shenton, John Francis and Thomas Stent as receivers and billmen in said office : all during the continuance of the Double Excise Duties : said Duncombe having represented to the Treasury that by reason of the doubling of the Excise he has been forced to employ said four additional officers. Money Book XI, p. 75.
Same to Brook Bridges, one of the Auditors of Imprests, to give allowance to Richard, Earl of Ranelagh, as Treasurer of the Royal Hospital near Chelsea, of the sum of 730l. in his account for two years ended 1687, Dec. 31, of his receipts and payments for said Hospital : said sum being the 20s. a day which he has craved for his charges and pains in looking after the building of said Hospital. Ibid, p. 80.
William Jephson to Mr. [Charles] Fox to pay 4,000l. to the Treasurer of the Ordnance in part of 20,000l. which said Treasurer is to pay to Monsieur Schulenberg for pontoons etc. The said 4,000l. is to be paid out of the 140,000l. advanced or to be advanced to said Fox out of the impositions reserved for the Dutch. Disposition Book IX, p. 134.
Same to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue (out of the revenues of the Duchy of Cornwall) 1,500l. to the Queen Dowager. (See infra, p. 1191, under date June 12.) Ibid.
Same to Mr. Blathwayt [as Secretary to the Forces] to procure a royal warrant, to be signed by the Queen, authorising Charles Fox and Thomas Coningsby to pay 760l. 8s. 4d. to Mr. Isaac Teale, Apothecary General to the Army in Ireland, for medicaments and other necessaries provided by him and Jonathan Lee for the use of the Hospital in Ireland. Out Letters (General) XIII, p. 72.
Treasury reference to the Agents for Taxes of the petition of Charles Williams, Receiver General for co. Monmouth, for his extraordinary charges of 223l. 10s. 0d. in his said receipt. Reference Book VI, p. 321.
Same to same of the petition of John Elwill et al., Receivers General of the 3s. Aid [2s. Aid and Additional 12d. Aid] and last Poll for Devon and Exeter, praying payment of their extraordinary expenses therein and of 24l. 3s. 1d. for a surplus paid by said Elwill. Ibid.
May 28. William Jephson to the Auditor of the Receipt to pay the money warrants to the following public Ministers out of loans to be made by them or their agents respectively on credit of the East India Duties : the said warrants being ut supra, pp. 1163 to 1168 and 1171, 1177-8 ; viz. Mr. Stanhope, 1,518l. 12s. 0d. ; Sir Paul Rycaut, 630l. 17s. 7d. ; Mr. Herwart, 612l. 19s. 10d. ; Mr. Duncombe, 1,170l. 7s. 6d. ; Sir William Dutton Colt, 910l. ; Mr. Molesworth, 910l. ; Visct. Dursley, 1,114l. ; Lord Paget, 898l. 5s. 0d. ; Mr. Hughes, Agent in Germany, 208l. 6s. 3d. ; Mr. Eckhart, 390l. 5s. 4d. ; Mr. Cox, 455l. ; Mr. Johnston, 2,029l. 18s. 0d. Disposition Book IX, p. 135.
William Jephson to the Excise Commissioners to pay the revenue arising by low wines [under the Act 2 Wm. and Mary, Sess. 2, c. 9] monthly into the Exchequer and to keep the account thereof apart [and distinct from that of the Excise] "and what you have now in cash you are immediately to pay in." Disposition Book IX, p. 135.
Same to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue as follows out of the Exchequer : Ibid, p. 136.
l. s. d.
Out of the 2s. Aid and Additional 12d. Aid.
to the Cofferer of the Household to complete 2,000l. a week 1,424 4
to me [Jephson] for secret service 645 0 0
Out of any other disposable money in the Exchequer except what is appointed to be reserved.
to me [Jephson] for secret service out of First Fruits money 196 0 0
to the Earl of Ranelagh for the growing week's subsistence [of the Forces, England] and half pay to the officers 7,860 16 10
to ditto for the English [Army] pensioners in further part of 985l. due to them for four months ending 1690, April 30 300 0 0
to ditto for a fortnight's subsistence for a Battalion of the Second Regiment of Guards going to Portsmouth 149 0 3
to ditto for Mr. Carr in part of his pension 45 12 6
to Mr. Fox and Mr. Coningsby for Monsieur Vander Esch in part of 2,048l. 10s. 0d. remaining due for the recruiting of the Regiments of Brandenburg, [Col.] Groben and Dragoons as part of 9,350l. 1,000 0 0
to ditto for the French Reformed officers to enable them to go to their Regiments in Ireland 218 5 0
to ditto for the Danish officers for the carrying into Ireland themselves and the recruit horses for their Regiments 300 0 0
to ditto in further part for buying horses for the Duke of Leinster's Regiment 1,000 0 0
to the Treasurer of the Ordnance 1,000 0 0
£14,138 18 10¼
William Jephson to Mr. Tempest. The Excise Commissioners have represented that 3,572l. 14s. 2d. is due from you as a Receiver of Hearthmoney for cos. Northumberland etc., which you have neglected to pay in spite of several letters. My Lords have forborne proceedings against you out of respect to you. They desire you to clear your account forthwith. Your immediate despatch herein will be very acceptable in respect of the urgency of their Majesties' affairs at this juncture. Out Letters (General) XIII, p. 72.
Same to the Commissioners of the Transports, enclosing a petition [missing] of Col. John St. Leger. You are to transport to Ireland, free of freight, four horses belonging to him. Ibid.
Royal signature, under the Queen's sign manual, and Treasury countersignature to the Establishment for Ireland : to date from 1690, Dec. 25. Hereunder no salaries or allowances for any further time back than the said date are to be paid save by special direction under the sign manual.
Prefixing : said Establishment [compare with the Establishment for the year 1683, supra, Calendar of Treasury Books, Vol. VII, Part II, pp. 1002-12. Compare also the similar Establishment for the year 1684, ibid., pp. 1057-9. The following items are additional to or departures from the items in that list ; otherwise the items herein stand as in the first of the said lists] :
Out Letters (Ireland) VI, pp. 67-74.
Court of Exchequer.
William Harbord, present Vice Treasurer of Ireland (besides the old fee of 50l. per an.), 1,000l. per an. in lieu of all other fees, salaries and profits formerly annexed to the said office.
Auditor General, 50l. per an. more for transmitting yearly accounts into England.
(Total of Exchequer Court, 4,196l. 14s. 2d. per an.)
Court of King's Bench.
(Total unchanged : 1,407l. 10s. 0d. per an.)
Court of Chancery.
(Total unchanged : 1,297l. 19s. 11d. per an.)
Court of Common Pleas.
(Total unchanged : 1,307l. 10s. 0d. per an.)
Officers and Ministers attending the State.
(Total : 2,155l. 15s. 2d. per an.)
Physician to the State, 66l. 13s. 4d. per an.
Lord Mayor and citizens of Dublin, 500l. per an.
Incidents.
(Total : 2,055l. per an.)
25l. for rent of a house for the Receipt is omitted and [in place of it] 25l. per an. is established for the Receiver General for paper and parchment.
Officers of the Customs.
(Total : 238l. 6s. 8d. per an.)
"and our pleasure is that as the said offices of customers, comptrollers or searchers of our Customs shall determine or become void by death, forfeiture, surrender or otherwise, the new grants thereof shall be made to hold during the pleasure of our royal husband and ourself and not otherwise : and that the said fees or salaries of such of the said officers as are to be in places not yet reduced to our obedience shall be in the meantime saved to our use."
Perpetuities.
(Total : 563l. 15s. 6d. per an.)
to the minister of the French Church 50l. per an.
printing the Bill of Mortality 12l. per an.
tythe of land in Phœnix Park 12l. per an.
[The heads of Debts and interest of money to be advanced and of Temporary payments which occur in the Establishments of 1683 and 1684 disappear from the present Establishment and are represented only by the item of 500l. per an. to the Mayor etc. of Dublin included above, under the head of Officers and Ministers attending the State.]
Payments for extraordinaries by Concordatums.
for freight, transportations etc., ut supra, ibid., 2,000l. per an.
"and our pleasure is that no payment or allowance be made by Concordatum but by warrant drawn by the Clerk of our Council of Ireland and passed openly at our Council Board there and signed by our Lords Justices or any two of them, or by the Lord Lieutenant, Lord Deputy or other Chief Governor or Governors, and by any three or more of the officers following, viz. : the Chancellor, Treasurer, Vice Treasurer, Chancellor of our Exchequer, Chief Baron, Master of the Rolls and Secretary of State : and for default either by exceeding the sums limited, by anticipation or otherwise or by not observing this our direction in every point, our pleasure is that all sums that shall be otherwise allowed and paid there shall be set in super as debts upon our Lords Justices, Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors, our Under Treasurer and all others that shall sign the same, to be defalked to our use upon their several entertainments" : and this Establishment shall be duly paid according to our directions and not exceeded.
Total of the Civil List for Ireland (for the nine heads as above, viz. Exchequer Court, King's Bench, Chancery, Common Pleas, Officers attending the State, Incidents, Customs, Perpetuities and Concordatums, 15,222l. 11s. 5d.).
Military List.
l. s. d.
to the Lords Justices or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland for the time being for all their allowances and entertainments 6,593 6 8
for fire and candle for the Guard at Dublin 60 0 0
The Auditor General for Ireland is hereby not to make out debentures for payments or to make any payments on any of the salaries or allowances contained in this Establishment for any further time back than the 25th Dec. last, 1690, notwithstanding the dates of any patents or other authorities formerly given to the contrary, save by special warrant under the royal sign manual.
May 29. Money warrant for 2,500l. to the Agents for Taxes (Bartholomew Fillingham, Thomas Hall, Edmund Woodruff and Phillip Ryley), to be by them immediately paid back into the Receipt on account of Ralph Williamson, Receiver General of the present taxes for Durham and Northumberland, as on account of the Twelve Months' Aid ("the last Land Tax"), the same having been by mistake paid in on the account of the 2s. Aid and Additional 12d. Aid. (Money order dated May 30 hereon.) Money Book XI, p. 76. Order Book III, p. 177.
Same for 1,500l. to the Queen Dowager of England for 1690, Midsummer quarter, on her annuity of 6,000l. Money Book XI, p. 76.
William Jephson to Visct. Dursley. Sir Stephen Fox has delivered to my Lords your memorial containing a proposition of a discovery to be made of a certain concealed revenue due to the Crown, in which you say the King has approved thereof and directed you to lay same before my Lords. I am to acquaint you that the King's pleasure therein should be signified to my Lords by one of the Secretaries of State. Out Letters (General) XIII, p. 72.
Same to Mr. Blathwayt [as Secretary to the Forces] to procure royal warrants, to be signed by the Queen, to authorise Charles Fox and Thomas Coningsby, as Paymasters of the Forces in Ireland, to make payment to the several French Reformed officers as follows, to enable them to go to their Regiments in Ireland : viz. : in La Melonier's Regiment, 22l. 10s. 0d. each to Captains Courteille, Chabrolles, Joysell, Rosoy and Vaury ; 6l. 7s. 6d. each to Lieutenants La Pointelle, Papin de Molange ; 5l. 2s. 6d. to Ensign Molie and 9l. to Ensign Guy : in Du Cambon's Regiment, 11l. 5s. 0d. each to Lieutenants Cazalet, De la Bene and Pau Bourdanous : in Bellcastle's Regiment, 22l. 10s. 0d. to Capt. Fortelle ; 11l. 7s. 6d. to Lieut. Vernous ; 9l. 2s. 0d. to Ensign Caritas : (total, 206l. 6s. 6d.). Ibid, p. 73.
Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners to employ John Green as a noontender, London port, loco Thomas Bishopp, preferred as follows.
Thomas Bishopp (a noontender ibid.) as a watchman ibid., loco Samuell Mills, deceased.
Out Letters (Customs) XII, p. 315.
May 30. William Jephson to Mr. [Thomas] Fox [Customs Cashier] to forthwith pay 5,055l. into the Exchequer out of the fourth part of the Customs. (Same to the Auditor of the Receipt to issue said sum as follows : viz. : Disposition Book IX, pp. 136, 136-7.
l.
to Lord Lexington, Ambassador to Spain 2,800
to Mr. Methwyn, Envoy to Portugal 955
to me [Jephson] for secret service 1,000
to be reserved for the Treasury Lords' disposal till further order 300
Same to the Customs Commissioners to permit the import, Customs free, of five cases of arms for the use of the Dutch Foot Guards : the said arms being on the ship Breil, Capt. Wylligh master, convoy from Holland, and now lying in the river about Gravesend.
Appending : request signed by Kretschmar for such importation.
Out Letters (General) XIII, p. 73.
William Jephson to Mr. Blathwayt [as Secretary to the Forces] to procure royal warrants, to be signed by the King, to authorise Charles Fox and Thomas Coningsby to pay as follows : viz : Out Letters (General) XIII, p. 74.
l.
to the Honble. Charles Bertie, Treasurer of the Ordnance, for provisions and necessaries for the Ordnance as part of 20,000l. transmitted to Monsieur Schulenburg 4,000
to the Duke of Leinster upon account for buying horses to remount his Regiment 2,500
to Mr. Gasperstein, the Danish Secretary, to carry over [to Ireland] several Danish officers and recruit horses 300
£6,800