The
Deplorable
Condition
of
the
Assignees
of
sundry
Goldsmiths
,
Entitled
by
the
Letters-Patents
of
King
Charles
the
Second
,
to
Annual
Sums
out
of
the
Hereditary
Revenue
of
Excise
.
WHEREAS
his
said
Majesty
being
Indebted
to
Sir
Robert
Vyner
,
Edward
Backwell
,
Esq
and
others
,
Goldsmiths
,
near
Thirteen
hundred
thousand
Pounds
,
which
he
stopped
in
the
Exchequer
,
in
lieu
thereof
and
to
Enable
them
to
pay
their
Debts
,
in
April
1677.
by
his
said
Majesty's
Letters-Patents
were
Granted
to
the
said
Goldsmiths
,
respectively
,
Rents
,
or
Annual
Sums
,
after
the
Rate
of
Six
Pounds
per
Cent.
per
Annum
,
to
be
paid
Quarterly
out
of
the
Hereditary
Revenue
of
Excise
for
ever
,
unless
Payments
should
be
made
of
the
Principal
Money
and
the
Arrears
of
such
Annual
Sums
.
The
said
Letters-Patents
were
Printed
by
Order
of
his
said
Majesty
in
Council
,
for
information
of
the
said
Goldsmiths
Creditors
;
and
by
the
said
Patents
were
Granted
,
Directed
and
Appointed
,
that
Tallies
struck
for
the
said
Quarterly
Payments
,
should
be
preserable
before
any
other
Warrant
,
Order
,
or
Direction
of
any
after
Date
,
excepting
necessary
Sums
for
Management
of
the
said
Revenue
,
and
12209
l.
15
s.
4
d½
.
per
Anum
to
the
then
Queen
Consort
,
also
24000
l.
to
the
then
Duke
of
York
.
The
House
of
Peers
were
pleased
on
the
10th
of
July
1678.
to
pass
a
Bill
for
confirming
the
said
Letters-Patents
,
but
that
Session
soon
ending
,
the
said
Bill
was
not
Read
in
the
House
of
Commons
.
All
which
Encouraged
many
of
the
Creditors
of
the
said
Goldsmiths
to
deliver
up
their
other
Securities
,
and
to
take
Assignments
under
the
said
Letters
Patents
of
the
said
Annual
Sums
for
what
was
due
to
them
,
and
for
the
said
Sums
Tallies
were
struck
in
the
said
King's
Reign
,
for
Five
years
and
a
half
,
and
no
more
;
and
by
reason
of
slow
Payments
thereof
,
some
of
the
Proprietors
by
Course
of
Law
recovered
their
Money
on
the
said
Tallies
.
Whereupon
the
Lords
Commissioners
of
the
Treasury
,
by
their
Letters
to
the
Officers
of
the
Exchequer
,
did
forbid
their
striking
more
Tallies
,
without
their
particular
Directions
;
which
caused
one
of
the
Proprietors
to
bring
his
Petition
before
the
Barons
of
the
Exchequer
;
but
before
their
giving
Judgment
,
his
said
Majesty
died
,
and
his
said
Suit
abated
.
In
the
Reign
of
K.
James
II.
the
said
Letters-Patents
were
so
well
approved
of
,
that
Tallies
were
struck
for
three
Quarterly
Payments
of
the
Arrears
remaining
in
the
former
Reign
,
and
the
Lord
Treasurer
,
and
after
,
the
Lords
Commissioners
of
the
Treasury
,
by
their
several
Letters
also
forbid
the
Officers
striking
Tallies
without
their
particular
Directions
,
whereby
Payments
were
made
to
and
for
Lady-Day
,
1683.
and
no
longer
,
and
the
Proprietors
durst
not
then
hazard
their
Title
to
the
Censure
of
the
Judges
.
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