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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44642	An account of the state of His Majesties revenue, as it was left by the Earl of Danby at Lady-day, 1679 in a letter to a friend : occasioned by his lordships Answer to An examination of the state of the case of the Earl of Danby / by Sir Robert Howard.	Howard, Robert, Sir, 1626-1698.	1681 (1681)	Wing H2990; ESTC R15504	14,852	25

252467 l. 10 s. 5 d. besides the further Sum of 14640 l. as should be privately directed to be distributed in New-years-gifts by Mr. Berty's hands which Sum in the half years Accompt of the Exchequer is placed under the Head of Secret Service there being no other proper Head for it according to the Methods of the Exchequer This Sum being then added to the former will make the Total of Secret Service for those Three years to amount to 309556 l. 11 s. 4 d. As to the payment of my Lord Treasurers Pension of 8000 l. per annum 't was never included in the Accompts of Secret Service for those Three years which I suppose the Examiner must mean for it was alter'd by a Privie Seal bearing date the 19th of July 1676. to express the particular Service of that Sum the first Payment to commence from Christmas 75. But neither when the Service was expressed as well as before did my Lord Treasurer ever pay Fees for his Salary or the Chancellor of the Exchequer pay any for his as the Examiner rightly affirms The next thing is in the State of the Revenue left by my Lord Clifford The Matter of Fact is thus My Lord Clifford made a State of the Revenue the 10th day of June 1673. as follows viz. The Customs were Charg'd with about 153000 l. for the Navie Ordnance c. and I hope this last Fleet will go neer to clear it Almost two thirds of the Rents of the Excise for the Quarter due at Michaelmas next is charg'd for the Forces Cofferer c. All the Forces are provided for until the 25 of July and the last new additional Levies till Michaelmas next The Houshold is provided for until Lady day last The Treasurer of the Chamber until Christmas last except the Old Arrear in the late Lord Treasurers time The Office of the Works until Lady day last The Great Wardrobe hath been supply'd from time to time as their most pressing Occasions have required Tanger is Weekly provided for on the Customs The Ordnance hath had as much yearly in proportion as in the former Dutch War but by reason that that Office hath not kept the Accompts I cannot justly say how that Office stands The Victualler is paid within a small matter except the last Agreement for the Land-men The first three Quarters of the Tax given by Parliament are assigned the three last are untouch'd which amount to about 600000 l. There will be in October and November for payment of the Fleet and Yards in ready money these three following Sums From the Advance of the Excise 150000 l. From the French Money 112500 l. Upon the three Quarters of the Subsidy 080000 l. The Chimney-money and Law-Bill are left free to be charg'd as there shall be occasion The Original of this Paper was drawn by Sir Philip Lloyd by my Lord Clifford's directions of which I have had a Copie by me ever since that time I cannot say whose Hand it is directly but I can affirm this to be a true Copie of it and it was so acknowledg'd by Sir Philip Lloyd to a Gentleman that I sent to shew it him but denied that Paper to be his hand I did after this about the 21 of June make some further Examinations for the Service of my Lord Danby then Lord Treasurer and did presume the increase of Charge on the Customes by that time was 92905 l. 17 s. 8 d. which if reckon'd together with the former Charge makes up the sum of 245905 l. 17 s. 8 d. But in the same Exanation I gave my Lord the Excise agreed very neer with the sum in the Copie before recited I did also present the Hearth-duty to be Charg'd with 22318 l. 11 s. 0 d. but withal explain'd it in these words This Charge may be paid by the Arrears of Hearth-money due at Lady day last and at Michaelmas there will be half a year due to the King which amounts to 67500 l. which at Michaelmas will begin to be paid by about 2500 l. per week so that the Variation herein will amount but to about 93000 l. in case my Lord Danby is pleased to give my Calculation the greatest Credit I do further acknowledge in that Paper I presented my Opinion that the Customes would not have paid its Charge at the Christmas following probably by 40000 l. but it seems the good management of the Customs and the fulness of Trade gave Mr. Mounteney occasion to write this Letter to me which I have now by me SIR I Have a List sign'd by the late Lord Treasurer Clifford and confirm'd by the present Lord Treasurer the said List being wholly paid onely 8400 l. payable to the Treasurer of the Navie I do hear there are several Talleys struck on the Customs but I know not of what value nor to whom payable I understand the persons have made their applications to my Lord Treasurer and that my Lord intends to make a new List which is all I can say to this affair Sir Your very humble servant Ri Mounteney Custom-house Lond. 10 Novemb. 73. And it is very true I was then Auditor of the Receipt and not Secretary to his Lordship at that time In the same Paper before mentioned I likewise acknowledge to have given a short State of the Revenue and the Expences for that Year wherein at a General Guess I calculated by way of Debtor and Creditor that the Expences would exceed the Ordinary Income by One million one hundred sixty three thousand four hundred pounds I could not but admire at the ingenious use my Lord Danby makes of what I then presented for I believe no unprejudic'd man could imagine that I should give such a State as that so great a Revenue as the King then had should not supply the Ordinary Charges of the Government by above a Million in one year But my Lord Danby was pleas'd to pick out of the Paper onely such words as he thought might be useful to his purpose for had he exprest the true Cause I gave of such a State which was the time of the War the matter had been explain'd the Expence of the War being stated by the Commissioners of the Navie to amount in one year to the sum of 1400000 l. And in the same Paper I also added in the very next words another Calculation for the Ensuing year 74. where my Lord Danby might have likewise found if he had pleased these words The State for the ensuing year 74 if i● peace will be Debtor by Expence Creditor by Income 1167400. 1386500. To Balance 219100.   1386500.   So that by a like Calculation in times of Peace the yearly Income would exceed the Expence by Two hundred and nineteen thousand one hundred pounds I will not make any further Reflections on these things but keep onely to my Rule of Matter of Fact The last thing that occurs is the State of the Revenue how it was left Charg'd by my Lord of