A. P P E NDIX,

No. XXIV.

Sir Thomas Littleton, per Treasury Warrants
His Executors the balance

Thomas Clutterbuck, Efq.

George Doddington, Esq. (1) ditto

Includes the allowance for the extraordinary trouble occafioned by the rebel prifo

foners in the years 1745 and 1746

7 31

George Doddington, Efq. (2)

APPENDIX.

No. XXV.

ACCOUNT of the Fees, Rewards, and Gratuities, craved by and allowed to the Officers and Clerks in the office of the Paymafter General of the Forces, from the year 1688 to the prefent time, prepared pursuant to a precept from the Commiffioners of Accounts, dated July 17, 1781.

For making up the accounts of Richard Earl of Ranelagh, Pay- £• S. d. mafter General of the forces, from the 31ft of March 1688, to the 24th of December, 1702

For making up the accounts of John Howe, Efq. Paymaster General of the forces, from the 25th of December, 1702, to the 24th of October, 1714

For making up the accounts of Robert Walpole, Efq. Paymafter General of the forces, from the 24th of October, 1714, to the 25th of October, 1715

For making up the accounts of the Earl of Lincoln, Paymafter
General of the forces, from the 17th of October, 1715, to the
24th of June, 1720
For making up the accounts of Robert Walpole, Efq. Paymafter
General of the forces, from the 11th of June, 1720, to the
24th of June, 1721

For making up the accounts of the Earl Cornwallis, Paymafter
General of the forces, from the 25th of June, 1721, to the
24th of April, 1722

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For making up the accounts of the Earl of Wilmington, Pay-
mafter General of the forces, from the 25th of June, 1722, to
the 24th of June, 1730
For making up the accounts of Henry Pelham, Efq. Paymaster
General of the forces, from the 25th of June, 1730, to the
24th of December, 1743. Mr. Pelham was an accountant for
upwards of twenty millions

For making up the accounts of Thomas Winnington, Efq. Pay-
fter General of the forces, from the 25th of December. 1743,
to the 24th of June, 1746. Mr. Winnington was an ac-
countant for upwards of seven millions
For making up the accounts of William Pitt, Efq. Paymafter
General of the forces, from the 25th of June, 1746, to the
24th of December, 1755. Mr. Pitt was an accountant for
upwards of twenty millions

For making up the accounts of the Earl of Darlington, Lord
Dupplin, and Mr. Potter, Paymasters General of the forces,
from the 25th of December, 1755, to the 24th of June, 1757.
Earl of Darlington, Lord Dupplin, and Mr. Potter, were ac-
countants for upwards of four millions

2,572 10 o

3,580 0

1,901 120

1,901 13 O

4,658 40

10,836

59515

11,151

3,970

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N. B. We

N. B. We have not been able to learn what fees, rewards, and gratuities were allowed to the officers and clerks of the Pay Office, for making up the ac counts of Robert Walpole, Efq. on his first appointment of Paymafter General of the forces, or for making up the accounts of the Earl of Lincoln.

To the Commiffioners appointed by Act of Parliament to examine the Public Accounts of the Kingdom.

Gentlemen,

IN pursuance of your requifition, that the proper officer do tranfmit to you an exact account of the falaries, fees, and gratuities received by the Auditor and his clerks, in the receipt of his Majefty's Exchequer, from the 31ft of December, 1779, to the 31ft of December, 1780, I gave my orders to expedite the fame as foon as the circumstances of the account would permit.

N. B. The accounts of the Exchequer, by long cuftom, are made up at Eafter eve and Michaelmas eve; therefore ordered the following account for a. complete year from Michaelmas 1779, to Michaelmas 1780.

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The following fees and allowances are likewife received by the Auditor, viz.

Paid, for land tax and other duties, new year's gifts, clerks, and other extraordinary expences, relative to the office of the Auditor

£. s. d. 100 O 6

70 13 3 345 7 0

of 5,865 18 10

Net balance this very extraordinary year received by }

the Auditor

14,016 4 I

The reafon of this receipt being fo large, and more than double to what it is in time of peace, is owing to the iffues to the army, and to divers perfons being paid on the civil lift five quarters, and fome fix quarters.

It appears by the books in my office, that the fum of 22,275,9791. 175. 9 d. has been iffued; for which neither the faid Auditor or clerks have taken any fees.

Nor for any accounts made out and prefented to Parliament, which for fome years paft have been voluminous and expensive.

All the faid extraordinary bufinefs hath been done by additional number of clerks, and the expences paid by the Auditor,

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