Declared Accounts: Hawkers and Pedlars

Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 28, 1714. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1955.

'Declared Accounts: Hawkers and Pedlars', in Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 28, 1714, (London, 1955) pp. cdxlv-cdxlvi. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-treasury-books/vol28/cdxlv-cdxlvi [accessed 26 April 2024]

Hawkers and Pedlars


DECLARED ACCOUNTS: HAWKERS AND PEDLARS.
PIPE OFFICE: ROLL 1739 [E.351/1739].
AUDIT OFFICE: BUNDLE 1424, ROLL 18 [A.O.1/1424/18].
Samuel Atkinson and Thomas Earsby, Commissioners for Licensing Hawkers and Petty Chapman.
24 June 1713 to 23 June 1714.
Charge.	£	s.	d.
Arrears: remaining in the Accomptants’ hands at the end of their last Accompt	135	6	0
and depending on several persons as at the foot of the said Accompt	1,905	0	3
Receipts: money arising within the time of this Accompt for licences under the Act [9 Wm. III c. 27 continued by 6 Anne, c. 2]:
for 1943 foot licences granted for a year to Midsummer 1714 at 4l. each	7,772	0	0
for licences for travelling with 166 horses at 4l. each horse, for the same time	664	0	0
for 1,777 single foot-licences at 12d. each	88	17	0
for 166 licences for travelling with 166 horses at 2s. each	16	12	0
for seven bonds for securing the latter moiety of the Duty at 12d. each bond	0	7	0
total receipts 8,541l. 16s. 0d.
total charge and receipts				£10,582	2	3
Discharge.
Salaries:
Samuel Atkinson and Thomas Earsby, Commissioners, 200l.; Culverwell Needler, Solicitor, 50l.; four clerks, named, 200l.; five Riding Surveyors, named, 500l.; Surveyors for the City of London, named, 150l.; Richard Harrington, messenger, 30l.; William Este, Riding Surveyor and General Surveyor, at 200l. per an., from 9 Dec. 1713, 109l. 3s. 6d.				1,239	3	6
allowances for prompt payment:
for prompt payment of 3,872l. being the latter moiety of the Duty on 1,936 licences, 387l. 4s.; and for prompt payment of 332l. being the latter moiety of the Duty on 166 licences for travelling with horses, 33l. 4s.				420	8	0
necessary and incident charges:
Mary Fawkner, stationer, for books etc.; William Thornburgh, junior, for office-rent; Philip Haynes, for remitting from the country at 2d. per 1l.; Robert Watts for coals; Francis Jones and John Rice, for surveying ten counties etc.; Richard Harrington for disbursements; the Executors of Culverwell Needler for law charges; Joseph Zigenhorne for inquiring into the sufficiency of securities; Treasury and Exchequer fees etc.; Edward Harley for the Auditor's fee 25l.				660	1	7½
total of the above charges for managing these Duties 2,319l. 13s. 1½d.
money paid into the Exchequer, by dates				6,400	0	0
				£8,719	13	1½
and so remains				1,862	9	1½
against which depending on sundry persons in arrears for their licences or for the value of bonds not yet answered, detailed:
Midsummer 1697 to Midsummer 1698				377	13	6 (fn. 1)
Midsummer 1698 to Midsummer 1699				196	0	0
Midsummer 1699 to Midsummer 1700				302	18	0
Midsummer 1700 to Midsummer 1701				247	10	0
Midsummer 1701 to Midsummer 1702				42	15	0
Midsummer 1702 to Midsummer 1703				21	7	0
Midsummer 1703 to Midsummer 1704				11	10	6
Midsummer 1704 to Midsummer 1705				24	10	0
Midsummer 1705 to Midsummer 1706				5	15	0
Midsummer 1706 to Midsummer 1707				16	10	0
Midsummer 1707 to Midsummer 1708				25	0	0
Midsummer 1708 to Midsummer 1709				9	0	0
Midsummer 1709 to Midsummer 1710				15	4	0
Midsummer 1710 to Midsummer 1711				28	15	0
Midsummer 1711 to Midsummer 1712				14	0	0
Midsummer 1712 to Midsummer 1713				8	0	0
Midsummer 1713 to Midsummer 1714				6	0	0
on William Batchelor, late a Riding Surveyor				100	0	0
on Thomas Wells, an Officer employed in these Duties	189	9	0
and on John Whitley for the value of licences in 1713 for which he has not accounted	157	7	6
				£1,799	4	6
and so the Accomptants are Indebted	63	4	7½
Declared 6 August 1716.