Guard Chamber: Clerks of the Cheque to the Messengers 1660?1837

Office-Holders in Modern Britain: Volume 11 (Revised), Court Officers, 1660-1837. Originally published by University of London, London, 2006.

'Guard Chamber: Clerks of the Cheque to the Messengers 1660?1837', in Office-Holders in Modern Britain: Volume 11 (Revised), Court Officers, 1660-1837, (London, 2006) pp. 90-91. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/office-holders/vol11/pp90-91 [accessed 18 April 2024]

Clerks of the Cheque to the Messengers 1660–1837

The clerks of the cheque to the messengers were appointed by the lord chamberlain. Originally, there were two such clerks of the cheque. One was eliminated on 14 Nov. 1782. (fn. 1) Circa 1695 they were paid £49 17s 6d per annum apiece plus fees for `chequeing'. After a scandal involving messengers' bills was uncovered in 1699, this was raised to £99 15s under Queen Anne. (fn. 2)



1660	2 July	Reading, A.
1660	2 July	Edwards, T.
1663	11 July	Clarkson, G.
1674	19 May	Farr, R.
1678	4 Oct.	Gregory, W.
1682	13 Apr.	Phillips, H.
1683	28 Apr.	Bromwich, G.
1688	3 Oct.	Atterbury, T.
1689	24 July	Bowyer, Sir W.
By 1691		Clark, S.
1692	22 Jan.	Loggins, J.
1693	16 June	Smith, T.
1695	25 Mar.	Poyke, R, jun.
1700	3 May	Gellibrand, J.
1700	3 May	Sharpe, W.
1702	9 July	Atterbury, T.
1715	7 Sept.	Barbon, J.
1733	26 Feb.	Sharpe, N.
1737	6 May	Cocksedge, H.
1744	31 Jan.	Sharpe, P.
1761	28 Sept.	Chetham, T.
1772	27 July	Dring, T.
1799	13 Oct.	Betty, S.
1816	13 Feb.	Martins, W.