Volume 178: July 1-20, 1714 | British History Online

Calendar of Treasury Papers, Volume 4, 1708-1714. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1974.

'Volume 178: July 1-20, 1714', in Calendar of Treasury Papers, Volume 4, 1708-1714, (London, 1974) pp. 602-610. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-treasury-papers/vol4/pp602-610 [accessed 28 April 2024]

July 1–20, 1714



July 1.	1. M^r Burchett, for the Lords of the Admiralty, to M^r Lowndes. Asks him to lay the petition from the sea captains for their halfpay before the Lord High Treasurer, and to move his Lordship on their behalf. Dated Admiralty Office, 1 July 1714. Minuted:—“2 July 1714. The Trea[sure]r Navy is the proper off^r & all applicac[i]ons for money should come to the Treary from him, & he in his mem^lls from time to time is to set forth y^e necessity of his demands & how they are signifyed to him.” The petition referred to. 2 pages.
July 1.	2. Lord Lexington to the Lord High Treasurer. Her Majesty had graciously given the plate delivered from the Jewel Office to the Ambassadors on their return, as a mark that she was pleased with their negotiations. Asked for the same favour, and for a privy seal to discharge him. Dated 1 July 1714. Minuted:—“A w^t to be prepared.” 1 page, quarto…
July 2.	3. Report of the Com^rs for Duties on Hides to the Lord High Treasurer on the petition of Thomas Lloyd, Esq., late Receiver General of Chester, Denbigh, and Flint. Proposed that process against him should be stopped till the 1^st day of Michaelmas term. Unless 1,000l. were paid before that, they would recommend no further stay of process. Dated 2 July 1714. 2 pages.
July 2.	4. The case of Patrick Gallway, commander and sole owner of the “Bolingbroke” yacht. Had carried the Government messengers and expresses, and had petitioned the Lord High Treasurer for 400l. per ann., or 20l. for each messenger carried by him. His L^p had referred him to the [postmasters], whom he begged to make a favourable report of his case. Dated 2 July 1714. 1½ pages.
July 2.	5. Establishment of two independent companies to be formed out of the regiment of foot at Jamaica, commanded by Col. Roger Handasyde, to commence from 25 Aug. next, when the said regiment would cease. Dated 2 July 1714. 1 large page.
July 2.	6. Similar establishment of general and staff officers to serve with the forces in Flanders and in the garrison of Dunkirk, to commence from 25 June. Same date. 1 large page.
July 3.	7. Com^rs of Customs, Scotland, to Thomas Harley, Esq. Send the establishment or salary bill for officers employed in the collection and management of the salt duty and their representation on the same. Notwithstanding the great quantities of salt stored up in prospect of this duty, yet the proprietors at several pans have begun to make new salt, of which the duty is regularly collected. Forward also the Lord High Treasurer's warrant for payment of the salaries. Ask his assistance as regards their own salaries. Dated Custom House, Edinburgh, 3 July 1714. The establishment, &c. referred to. 8 pages.
July 3.	8. Report of the Attorney General (Northey) to the Lord High Treasurer. Had considered the memorial of James Johnson, Esq., and certified that Sir Roger Strickland being outlawed and attainted of high treason, committed 1 May 1689, it was found by inquisition that he was seised (inter alia) of 12 farms in Catterick, in the county of York, of the yearly value of 350l. 11s. 4d. His then Majesty had leased these farms to the memorialist. Other claims to the lands were put in, which were contested by the memorialist. Was of opinion that M^r Johnston and his brother deserved well for their prosecution and defence of the suits for the service of the Crown, &c. Dated 3 July 1714. Minuted:—“14 July 1714. Gen^l Cholmondley may have a copy of this rep^t as desired in his mem^l.” The memorial referred to and a copy of the report. 13 pages.
July 3.	9. Francis Gwyn to W^m Lowndes, Esq. Had the establishment of Chelsea Hospital under his consideration. Sent an abstract of the whole, with his opinion on the alterations proposed, to be laid before the Lord High Treasurer. Dated Whitehall, 3 July 1714. 1 page, quarto.
July 3.	10. The same to the Lord High Treasurer on the petition of Doctor Edward Coatsworth, Apothecary General of the army. The garrison at the beginning had been extremely sickly. There were at least 2,400 men sick at one time. Between 1 Aug. 1712 and 5 Apr. 1714 the medicines, &c. furnished by the petitioner for the hospital at Dunkirk amounted to 11,879l. 13s. 9d., of which no part had been paid to him. There should be a warrant to the Paymaster General to make payment of the same out of the poundage of the forces. Dated 3 July 1714. 2½ pages.
July 4.	11. W. Cheyne to W^m Lowndes, Esq. As to a lease of the tithes of Dinton in the co. of Bucks, which he was anxious to secure for “his cousin Serjeant,” whose father (?) was dead and the family very poor. M^r Simon Maine, the present tenant, no longer resided in the county. Dated Bois, July 4, 1714. 1 page, quarto.
July 5.	12 Report of M^r Francis Gwyn to the Lord High Treasurer on the report made by M^r Howe, Paymaster General of guards and garrisons, on a petition of Major Gen^l Trelawny, praying to be paid an additional allowance of 56s. a day as Governor of Plymouth from 24 June 1713. Could not propose out of what fund the allowance could be paid. Dated Whitehall, 5 July 1714. M^r Howe's report and the petition and a copy of a warrant. 4 pages.
About July 5.	13. List of persons to whom quarterly payments were made, viz., to Midsummer 1714. Signed “E. Nicholas.” Minuted:—“L~re signed 5 July 1714.” 1 page.
July 5.	14. M^r Francis Gwyn to W^m Lowndes, Esq., as to the provision made for Irish Roman Catholic officers, who served her Majesty in the late war. The Committee of Supply had voted 300,000l. on account, in which the money referred to was comprehended. Dated Whitehall, 5 July 1714. 1 page, quarto.
July 6.	15. Great Wardrobe, 6 July 1714. A memorial for the various sums required by that department from Midsummer 1713 to Midsummer 1714. 1 page.
[? About July 6.]	16. Petition of Elizabeth, the widow of L^t Col. Minshull, to the Lord High Treasurer. Her Majesty had granted her a pension of 50l. a year in consideration of the loss of her husband, brother, and son in her Majesty's service. Prays payment. Minuted:—“L~re sign'd 6 July 1714.” 1 page.
July 6.	17. Report of the Com^rs of Ordnance to the Lord High Treasurer. Had attended the Com^rs for determining the rights and interests of the proprietors of the lands, &c. to be purchased for the fortifications at Portsmouth, Chatham, and Harwich, and the Com^rs (who were all lawyers) came to the resolutions enclosed. No time should be lost in executing the commission. Dated 6 July 1714. Minuted:—“12 Aug^t 1714. M^r Attorney will bring a list of lawyers proper for this Comⁿ.” The resolutions referred to. 3 pages.
July 7.	18. Report of Alex. Pendarves to the Lord High Treasurer on the petition of M^r Vincent and M^r Tonkin, advising that a reversionary life should be added to the lease of the toll of tin in the Duchy of Cornwall granted in 1674. Dated July 7, 1714. The petition. 2 pages.
May 17–July 7.	19. “Proceedings of S. S. Comp^a on Informac[i]on of Johnson.—2.” A paper, thus docquetted, entitled, “A full account of the proceedings of the South Sea Company, upon the information of Cap^t Rob^t Johnson, commander of her Majesty's ship the Anglesea.” The proceedings were taken before the South Sea Company, and relate to a conspiracy to get certain goods conveyed in her Majesty's ship “Anglesea,” which was to carry “factors” to the West Indies in pursuance of the “Assiento.” The vessel was to touch at Cadiz and carry the Prince of Santo Bueno, Viceroy of Peru, and the Marquis of Villa Rocha, Governor of Panama, to Cartagena or Porto Bello. The parties, whose conduct was inquired into, were Captain Johnson, M^r Moore, M.P., a director, M^r Da Costa, a merchant, and M^r Dowdall. The scheme was to get the goods on board in the night when the ship was in the Downs and convey them without the knowledge of the company. The thanks of the Court were given to Johnson, but Moore was declared guilty of a breach of trust, and incapable of serving in the office of director. Between 17 May and 7 July 1714. 32½ pages.
July 2–8.	20. Copy of examinations in the House of Lords as to the proceedings of the Board of Trade in relation to the treaty of commerce with Spain. Various persons were examined, but the principal witness was Brian Wheelock, who testified to having seen a paper transferring to her Majesty from the King of Spain certain reservations which his Majesty had made to himself out of the Assiento contract. Between 2 and 8 July 1714. 6½ pages.
July 8.	21. Report of Ja. Bruce, Controller of Army Accounts, to the Lord High Treasurer on the memorial of Major-General Wynne on behalf of his late regiment, viz., as to charges on the regiment by pursers of the men-of-war which carried the same from Cork and Kinsale. The case was hard, but was of so long standing that the controller could not name a fund out of which the petitioners might be relieved. Dated Controller's Office, Privy Gardens, 8 July 1714. 3 pages.
July 8.	22. M^r G. Pepper to the Lord [High Treasurer]. Presses for the consideration of his memorial for payment of the money advanced by him to support the sick and wounded. There were 400 and odd pounds due. It would be a further “suasive” if his L^p would consider the trouble and expense he had been at in laying facts before the Crown relating to the death of his brother Parke; besides which, he communicated the scheme of S^t Christopher's to “M^r Prior & Stradford,” in connexion with the treaty of peace. Dated Dublin, 8 July 1714. 2 pages.
July 10.	23. — to the Right Hon. Lord Viscount Bolingbroke, Principal Secretary of State. Sending the returns he had received. Among them were the return of forfeited estates [in Minorca], their value, and the grants that had been made out of them. Their value was very inconsiderable to the Crown. Submitting to her Majesty's justice the return of them to the proprietors. Dated Mahon, 10 July 1714, O.S. Two enclosures. 2¼ pages.
July 10.	24. Petition of John Harrison, Chaplain to the garrison of Annapolis Royal, in North America, to the Queen for arrears of his allowance at 6s. 8d. a day. Had only received 66l. 5s. from Governor Vetch. “R. from y^e Queen July 10, 1714.” Minuted:—“12 July 1714. To M^r How.” 1 page.
[About July 12.]	25. Brief of counsel for the defendants in a cause between Nicholas Mason and others, plaintiffs, and Anna Williams, widow, executrix of Thomas Williams, defunct, and others, defendants. Also two memoranda of the solicitor in the case, one being dated 12 July 1714. 4½ pages.
July 13.	26. M^r Howe's memorial [to the Lord High Treasurer] relating to the payment of the out-pensioners belonging to the Royal Hospital at Chelsea; proposing methods for paying them, &c. The number consisted of about 5,000. More than two-thirds of them were allowed to go into the country on furlough. Dated 13 July 1714. Minuted:—“21 July 1714. My Lord approves and the Sec[reta]ry-at-War to be writ to accordingly.” Again:—“12 Aug^t 1714. To M^r How to require from the hospitall the regimentall list.” 4 pages.
July 13.	27. Report of M^r Ja. Bruce, Controller [of Army Accounts], to the Lord High Treasurer on the memorial of Major-General Evans in behalf of the regiment of dragoons under his command, as to allowance to the regiment of 703l. 8s. 6d. and other sums consequent on their removal from Scotland to Ireland. Dated Controller's Office, Privy Garden, 13 July 1714. Three other papers touching the same. 5 pages.
July 13.	28. Memorial of Henry Wise to the Lord High Treasurer. The planting in the new plantation at Windsor would not be performed this next season unless orders were speedily given for stakes, rails, &c. Dated 13 July 1714. ½ page.
March 3– July 13.	29. Reports and other papers connected with the affairs of the Com^rs for Sick and Wounded. Between 3 Mar. and 13 Jury 1714. 7 pages or parts of pages.
Jan.– July 13.	30. Memorials, reports, &c. of Sir Roger Mostyn to the Lord High Treasurer as to the affairs of the marine regiments, viz., as to their pay, off-reckonings, arrears of clearings, &c. Dated Pay Office. Between Jan. and 13 July 1714. 10 papers and enclosures.
July 13.	31. Report of Alexander Pendarves, Esq., Surveyor General, to the Lord High Treasurer on the petition of M^rs Addison, widow and executrix of Thomas Addison, Esq., deceased, recommending that she should have a lease, at the old rents, for a building term of 50 years of certain messuages in the Savoy, excepting what had been granted to the Lutheran Protestants, on payment of 400l. into the Exchequer. Dated July 13, 1714. The petition and a copy of a previous report of M^r Travers on the same subject; also a copy of the constitution appointing Thomas Addison keeper of the houses (which were lately possessed by the Jesuits) as described in a plan annexed, and, further, of the goods described in a schedule, also annexed. 12½ pages.
July 14.	32. Memorial of M^r John Drummond, her Majesty's Commissary for settling the commerce of the Spanish Netherlands, for allowance of his extraordinary expenses from 30 Dec. 1713 to 30 June 1714. Dated London, 14 July 1714. At the foot is:—“Whitehall, 15 July 1714. I do allow this bill. W. Bromley.” 1 page.
[About July 15.]	33. “Copy. M^r Gwyn's report of the cases of several Roman Catholick officers who upon her Majesty's proclamation quitted the enemy in the late war.” Also “Abstract of the pretensions of the Roman Catholick officers who came over to the Allies upon her Maj^t'^s proclamation, & claim the Queen's Bounty answerable to the posts they quitted in the enemy's service.” The following are the officers' names:—
	Sir Timothy Daly.	Capt. Rob^t Talbot.
	Col. Tho. Macarty.	Capt. Mich. Fitz Gerald.
	Col. Walter Butler.	Capt. Patr. Maly.
	Capt. Math. Cowdall.	Major Hub^t Jennings.
	Capt. Patr. O'Hara.	Capt. Cha. Molloy.
	Capt. Gerard Dillon.
	Their cases are individually reported on. Minuted:—“15 July 1714. Dillon, Fitzgerald, Jennings & O'Hara to be paid their proportions within mentioned, on the same conditions w^th the other officers, & M^r Sec[reta]ry-at-War to prepare a w^t for that purpose. The rest to be referred to M^r Sec[reta]ry-at-War to be further examined.” 6 pages.
July 15.	34. M^r Henry Neal to the Lord High Treasurer. Sending a duplicate of an answer sent by him to a letter from the Earl of Bolingbroke giving such information as he was possessed of. The produce of the royal patrimony in corn was not so much as that of last year, “occasioned by its being a plentiful harvest in the island, and in all the neighbouring countries,” as well as by the good effects of the peace, which made trade and navigation secure. When her Majesty had given the settlement intended, a scheme might be offered for the increase of the royal revenue. Had intimations from Majorca that they would be very willing to obtain the protection of England by an annual payment, but was not a competent judge of an affair of that importance. Dated Mahon, 15 July 1714, O.S. The enclosure named. The people would with the greatest cheerfulness submit to such form of civil government as her Majesty should establish. Two ministers of the Church of England should be established, one at Mahon, the other at Ciudadella, independent of the military. Minorca should be made a free port, with small duties. A lazaretto should be erected. It was better to leave the coin quiet and easy. When any change was required it would be better to set up a mint. Cattle should be supplied from Argiers as required. The place was as convenient as Marseilles or any other place to manufacture hard marble soap, the island of “Mayorca” producing large quantities of oil, and most of the other requisites for the manufacture, and would produce considerable quantities of good wine. Her Majesty's ships carried off great quantities of wood, and the troops consumed a great deal. A sufficient stock of Newcastle coals should be sent. The fortifications would be reported on by more competent hands. The town of Mahon lay more convenient than Ciudadella for the court of justice, and the Lieut.-Governor resided there. 5 pages.
July 15.	35. Petition of Elizabeth Preston, widow, to the Queen. Was lessee for a term under the Crown of the site of the late dissolved monastery of Furness, in Lancashire, the title to which she and her husband had to defend in expensive suits. Prayed that the fine of 1,000l., advised on renewal, might be remitted, or that it might not exceed the last fine. Minuted:—“R. from ye Queen July 15, 1714. The Queen wil have application to give back such part of ye fine set by ye surveyor as of her royal bounty she shal think fit.” 1 page.
July 15.	36. Attorney General (Northey) to —. Asking that the hearing of M^r Noel and other assignees in bankruptcy against Thomas and Samuel Price, touching an annuity payable at the Exchequer, might be put off. Dated 15 July 1714. Minuted:—“16 July 1714. To know when M^r Attorney can be ready.” 1 page, quarto.
July 16.	37. Report of Charles Cæsar, Treasurer of her Majesty's Navy, to the Lord High Treasurer on the petition of Peter Gaudy, complaining of a stop put on the payment of his pension of 70l. per ann. The pension was not inserted in the privy seal. Dated 16 July 1714. Minuted:—“20 July 1714. This penc[i]on was particularly excepted in the report of the Com^ee.” His petition, in which he says he was lieutenant of a man-of-war in Holland, and was sent for out of the service of the States General by King William's special order; was several times in council consulted and employed in the designs for a descent into France; had served ten or twelve campaigns, and had been in several engagements, at Beachy, Camaret, and particularly in the fight in the Mediterranean Sea under the command of Sir Cloudesly Shovel. He was then 74 years of age, with a numerous and necessitous family. Also a copy of letter from the Com^rs of the Navy, stating that his pension bills had been quarterly assigned on the Treasurer of the Navy. Dated 7 July 1714. 3 pages.
[About July 16.]	38. Arrears payable by the Hon^ble Spencer Compton, Esq., to her Majesty's French pensioners in part. The names and amounts follow. Minuted:—“L~res signed 16^th July 1714.” 5 pages.
July 16.	39. W. Bromley (Secretary of State) to the Lord High Treasurer. Sends a letter received from Lord Strafford relating to a pension which he desired might be settled on the postmaster of the Briel, for the consideration of his Lordship. Dated Whitehall, 16 July 1714. Minuted:—“19 July 1714. To postma^rs.” The extract. 2½ pages, quarto.
[After July 16.]	40. Moneys issued to the cofferer of her Majesty's household since Christmas 1713. The last issue was on 16 July 1714. Also “An account showing to what time her Majesty's family is paid by the cofferer, and how much there was due to the last day of June 1713, and also what hath been received since.” Dated July 31, 1713. There is another account of the ordinary and extraordinary expenses of the household to the same date. 3 pages.
July 17.	41. Duke of Ormonde to the Lord High Treasurer. When Brigadier Preston was sent to take possession of Nieuport, her Majesty allowed him a gratuity of 500l., there being no other appointment for the commander in that garrison. There was no other expedient to advance that sum but by charging it to his regiment. M^r Preston still stood chargeable to the regiment, and his Grace desired that he might be relieved. Dated S^t James's, 17 July 1714. Minuted:—“20 July 1714. Send to M^r Brydges for a state of this matter.” Also the memorial of Brigadier Preston on the same subject. 3 pages.
July 19.	42. Queen's warrant for the grant for three lives of the office of constable and keeper of Gloucester Castle, viz., to Charles Hyet and his two sons, Benjamin and Nicholas. Dated 19 July 1714. 2 pages.
Jan. 6–July 19.	43. Proposals of Sir John Lambert to the Lord High Treasurer to give his bills for Port Mahon and Gibraltar at certain rates. Dated 6 Jan., 18 May, and 19 July 1714. 5 pages.
July 19.	44. Report of M^r James Bruce, Controller [of Army Accounts], to the Lord High Treasurer on a memorial on behalf of three regiments of dragoons commanded respectively by Col. General Ross, Major-General Evans, and Col. Kerr, and of the regiment of horse commanded by Major-General Sibourg, viz., as to the difference between English and Irish pay, the former of which they claimed. Dated Controller's Office, Privy Garden, 19 July 1714. 1½ pages.
[? About July 19.]	45. Petition of Captain Mark Lynch to the Lord High Treasurer, a previous memorial, and another to Lord Bolingbroke for relief for his great sufferings, service, and losses for her Majesty's service. Minuted:—“19 July 1714. There appears nothing in the Treasury of his services.” There is also a printed narrative by him, relating to a project formed in France, after the peace at Ryswick, for burning the English fleet then at Portsmouth and Chatham. From this it appears he passed 13 years and 4 months in the Bastile. 5½ pages.
[? About July 19.]	46. Report of Alexander Pendarves, Esq., Surveyor General, on the petition of Arthur Bevan, Esq., as to the grant of a lease to make up thirty-one years of Eglwys-Cymmin mill, in the county of Caermarthen. The petition. Minuted:—“19 July 1714. Agreed.” 2 pages.
July 20.	47. Case concerning the renewal of leases in the bailiwick of S^t James, submitted for the opinion of the Attorney General; with his opinion thereon. Dated 20 July 1714. Minuted:—“21 [July 1714]. Read and to be observed in the renewing of leases accordingly.” Also a copy thereof docquetted:—“Attorney General's report concerning building leases.” 4½ pages.
July 20.	48. — to the Lord High Treasurer. Had found that the clergy in Virginia were but meanly provided for, not having 20l. a year. Proposed that there should be allowed a hogshead or two of tobacco customs free to each poor clergyman. It was “verily believed that if her sacred Majesty was made sensible of the state of the clergy here she would consider 'em, who has extended her royal bounty to the order already, beyond all the rest of her predecessors.” “It would be for the encouragement for learned and good men to go over to the plantations, and so piety and good literature would be advanced.” Dated 20 July 1714. Minuted:—“Read 26 Oct. 1714.” 1 page.
July 20.	49. Duke of Ormonde to the Lord High Treasurer. In favour of M^r Walef who had forsaken all for the Queen's service. By the stopping payment of his pension in Ireland he was reduced to such circumstances as deserved consideration. He had distinguished himself when her Majesty's service required it. Dated St. James's, 20 July 1714. Minuted:—“19 July 1714. The Queen will order his penc[i]on to be paid.” Letter from Mons. Walef on the same subject. (French.) He says the Hollanders had imprisoned him and driven him from the army for following the Queen's orders. 6 pages.