Auditor

per cent.

Clerks

per cent.

£. s. d. £. s. 6.

New Year's gifts from the King

Queen Dowager's Treasurer

Band of Penfioners, per quarter

For drawing, preparing and examining all orders for the public loans

For directing and entering all principal and interest payable from the said loans

For regiftering affignments of orders upon all the faid

loans

Nil.

Nil.

For making books of abstracts of each number, and fum payable, of the faid feveral orders of loans, as they are directed weekly for interest

For making other books of abstracts from each of the
registers, of every particular order and fum lent,
denoting what fum each particular order stands
registered and payable after, and endorfing the
fame on the back of every order of loan
For making accompts thereof from time to time for
the Lords Commiffioners of the Treafury, touching
the fame

For entering privy feals (or copies)

entering letters patent (or copies) of one skin
entering affignments of penfions

entering powers of attorney and probates of wills

for penfions

APPENDIX. No. XXXIV.

Adhuc Coia de Termio Sci Michis Anno Quarto Regis Gulielmi et Reginæ Merie. Adhuc Record.

Anglia
Secium

Compertum eft in quodam LibroOrdinacon five Decret hujus Sccij. (viz.

D tenore cujufdm Ordin P. cur hic fact
tangen Feod Officiar Recept Sccij Dat
Regis & Das R's p1 Recepcos five
Efitu omn Denar Sumar
concefs Paliquem Actum
Parliamenti Anno
Regni fui tertio

Auxil & Supplement hic irr.

Inter Ordin five Decret de hoc Termio

Sci Michis Anno Quarto Regni Regis et Regine Gulielmi et Marie Fol in Sccio remanen & ibm in Cuftod Rememator dcor Dnor Regis et Regine exiften ut fequitr. ff Martis viceffimo quinto Die Octobris fs. Whereas in and by an act of this prefent Parliament made in the Third Year of the Reign of their prefent Majefties King William and Queen Mary, intituled, “An A&t for granting an Aid to their Majesties, of the Sum of Sixteen hundred Fifty-one thousand Seven hundred and two Pounds Eighteen Shillings, towards the carry ing on a vigorous war against France," it is provided and enacted, That no fees fhould be demanded or taken by any Officer of the Exchequer, or of any the Officers thereof, for the receiving or iffuing any of the Money granted by the faid Act, or any other A&t of this prefent Parliament, for Aids and Supplies to their Majefties, but such ancient and legal Fees as fhall be allowed by the Lord Chief Baron and Barons of the Coife at the Court of Exchequer, to be fuch and not otherwife; and that the faid Chief Baron and Barons shall, and are thereby required to prefent a table or schedule of the faid fees fo by them allowed, to the Lords and Commons affembled in Parliament, at the next Seffion to be holden for this or any next fucceeding Parliament. In purfuance therefore of the faid Act of Parliament, we have called before us the Of ficers of the Receipt of the Exchequer, and received information of the Fees demanded or taken by the faid Officers for the receiving and iffuing of the afore faid monies; and upon hearing of them, and Confideration of the whole Mate ter, we do allow the Fees mentioned in the Tables or Schedules hereunto annexed, and no other, to be ancient legal fees, and from henceforth to be ancient legal fees, and from henceforth to be demanded and taken by the faid off cers, for the receiving or iffuing any of the money aforefaid. And we do pre

fent a Table or Schedule of the faid Fees fo allowed as aforefaid to the Lords and Commons affembled in Parliament, and according to the faid act of Par liament.

VOL. VI.*

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The

The Auditor.

A Table or Schedule of the ancient and legal Fees allowed by the Lord Chief Baron and Barons of the Coife of the Court of Exchequer, to be demanded and taken by the Auditor of the Receipt of the Exchequer, for the receiving or iffuing any of the monies granted by an Act of Parliament, intitled, “ An act for granting an aid to their Majefties, of the fum of fixteen hundred aftyone thoufand feven hundred and two pounds eighteen fhillings, towards the carrying on a vigorous war against France," or any other act of this prefent Parliament for aids and fupplies to their Majefties.

For the receiving of Money.

For every tally upon land taxes or polls, be the fums more or lefs iiij
For every thousand pounds paid in for excife by tally, being the
like fee which hath been paid for monies paid in for customs

Memorandum.-That all aids and fupplies are comprehended
under these two heads.

} vje

For iffuing of money.

Nil

For three millions and one hundred thousand pounds, exprefsly' by the faid acts appropriated to the navy, and for all other fums that have been issued, or what fhall hereafter be iffued to the navy For all monies arifing by thefe aids and fupplies which have] been appropriated or iffued to the land forces, according to an agreement made in the year 1667, by the then Lord Treafurer, Lord General and Chancellor of the Exchequer, by and with the confent of the officers of the Exchequer, attefted by the right honourable Sir Stephen Fox, Kt. one of the Lords [ Commiffioners of their Majefties Treafury; by which agree-> iij3 vjd ment, the Auditor's fees are leffened from 2d. in the pound, per cent. which amounts to 16s. 8d. per cent. and were the ancient legal fees for fervices of this nature, to 8% per pound, which is his fhare of 11⁄2 pound, settled by the aforefaid agreement for all the officers of the Exchequer, fo that his and his clerk's fhare amount to

680

Memorandum.-That thefe fees are deducted from the foldiers
out of their pay, and are not placed upon the King's ac-

count.

For

7

For all penfions, annuities, rewards, free gifts, fa-
laries, fees, &c. without account, if the fame be
paid by order or debenture

For the fame, if the fame were paid by tally of af-
fignment de regardo
For money iffued under the title of fecret fervice;
by which many penfions, free gifts, &c. have
been paid; but under this head, the fervices be-
ing not known, the fee could not be reduced to
a proper head, and therefore by agreement were
abated to half fees

The fees hereafter mentioned, are attefted by a
table of fees received from Mr. William
Burges, in the year 1676, who had been a
long time a clerk in the faid office, as afferted
upon the oath of Mr. George Raynton, now
a clerk in the faid office; which fees were an-
ciently brought under the head of pensions;
falaries, wages, &c. the officers hereafter
mentioned making divers payments to those
ufes, and then paid the fee of 25s. per cent.
as before, but for many years last past were
brought under particular heads, and the fees
were, by agreement or ufage in the Exche-
quer, leffened according to feveral propor-
tions, viz.

cent.

The Mafter of the Horfe

-

js iijd

The Lieutenant of the Tower per quarter for his bills xiijs iiijd

iij iiij

For every tally upon land taxes or polls, be the fum more or lefs

For every thousand pounds upon tallies for excife or cuftoms

For iffuing of money,

For three millions and one hundred thousand pounds,
expressly by thefe a&s appropriated to the navy, and
for all other fums that have been iffued, which are
much more, or what fhall hereafter be iffued to the
navy
For all monies arifing by thefe aids and supplies,
which have been appropriated or iffued to the land
forces of a farthing per pound, which is

TCOU

For all other monics arifing by thefe aids and supplies, which have been iffued to other ufes than before, mentioned, the clerk of the Pells hath received fees according to the heads of the ufes for which they were iffued; a particular of which heads, with the fees belonging to them, are as followeth, viz.

For all penfions, annuities, rewards, free gifts, falaries, fees, &c. without account to the master, per fent.

iiij

4.4 4.4.

ja vijd per cent,

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