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Auction archive: Lot number 89

WILLIAM III ( King of England , 1689-1702) and MARY II ( Queen of England , 1689-1694). A series of contemporary accounts for the public revenue, taxes and loans, comprising: 'An Abstract of the Particular Accounts of Each Branch of His Majesty's Rev...

Auction 08.06.2005
8 Jun 2005
Estimate
£4,000 - £6,000
ca. US$7,274 - US$10,911
Price realised:
£9,000
ca. US$16,366
Auction archive: Lot number 89

WILLIAM III ( King of England , 1689-1702) and MARY II ( Queen of England , 1689-1694). A series of contemporary accounts for the public revenue, taxes and loans, comprising: 'An Abstract of the Particular Accounts of Each Branch of His Majesty's Rev...

Auction 08.06.2005
8 Jun 2005
Estimate
£4,000 - £6,000
ca. US$7,274 - US$10,911
Price realised:
£9,000
ca. US$16,366
Beschreibung:

WILLIAM III ( King of England , 1689-1702) and MARY II ( Queen of England , 1689-1694). A series of contemporary accounts for the public revenue, taxes and loans, comprising: 'An Abstract of the Particular Accounts of Each Branch of His Majesty's Revenue as Also the Taxes and Monyes Borrow'd' [and variant titles], Michaelmas 1687 - Lady Day 1688, 5 November 1688 - Midsummer 1692, Michaelmas 1694 - Michaelmas 1702, in a number of neat contemporary scribal hands, columns ruled in red, together approximately 420 leaves, folio , occasional pages loose, in 7 volumes; a retrospective 'State of the Revenue of Excise f[ro]m Michaelmas 1662 - Midsummer 1674', by commodity, 51 leaves, folio ; and a collection of transcripts of public bills, treaties and reports on public revenue and other matters in the period 1654-1717, 160 leaves, folio ; altogether 9 volumes, contemporary English red morocco, gilt panelled sides, gilt edges (a little scuffing, a few splits at spines). Provenance . Hon. Charles Hamilton (armorial bookplates). ACCOUNTS OF THE LATE STUART REALM. Each volume sets out the state of the different sources of revenue (customs, excise, wines and spirits, double excise, additional excise, East India goods, Hearth Money, Letter Money, etc), with particular expenditure set against each form of revenue: the account books provide a piecemeal but extraordinarily comprehensive cross-section of the workings of the late Stuart state, from military operations in Ireland, to the fees of the ambassadors and principal officers of state, to expenditure on the royal works and royal household. Of note are the frequent payments 'for Secret Services without Account' (most frequently to Henry Guy secretary to the Treasury). A number of payments recorded for 1688 cast some light on the minutiae of the Glorious Revolution, such as 'to Jos. Boson for Carryage of his Majesty's Ordnance (upon his first Landing) near Exeter' (£284-13-0), or the pension 'To the Queen Consort of the late King James the Second ... ended at Mich[aelm]as 1688' (£1332-3-4¾). Payments are recorded, among many others, to Elias Ashmole, Isaac Newton ('for the Mint, £13,537-18-11 in 1700-01), Titus Oates (a pension of £300 a year) and a number of Charles II's illegitimate offspring, including Charles Fitzroy, Duke of Southampton and George Fitzroy, Duke of Northumberland. The volume of bills, treaties and other papers begins with the text of 'The Assiento or Contract for the Importac[i]on of 4800 Negroes yearly for ten years to the Spanish Plantations by the French Guinea Company', 1701, and also includes an analysis of the 'State of the King's Revenue in the time of King James the 2nd from Mr Guy 1685', as well as of the revenues transferred to William and Mary in 1688. (8)

Auction archive: Lot number 89
Auction:
Datum:
8 Jun 2005
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
Beschreibung:

WILLIAM III ( King of England , 1689-1702) and MARY II ( Queen of England , 1689-1694). A series of contemporary accounts for the public revenue, taxes and loans, comprising: 'An Abstract of the Particular Accounts of Each Branch of His Majesty's Revenue as Also the Taxes and Monyes Borrow'd' [and variant titles], Michaelmas 1687 - Lady Day 1688, 5 November 1688 - Midsummer 1692, Michaelmas 1694 - Michaelmas 1702, in a number of neat contemporary scribal hands, columns ruled in red, together approximately 420 leaves, folio , occasional pages loose, in 7 volumes; a retrospective 'State of the Revenue of Excise f[ro]m Michaelmas 1662 - Midsummer 1674', by commodity, 51 leaves, folio ; and a collection of transcripts of public bills, treaties and reports on public revenue and other matters in the period 1654-1717, 160 leaves, folio ; altogether 9 volumes, contemporary English red morocco, gilt panelled sides, gilt edges (a little scuffing, a few splits at spines). Provenance . Hon. Charles Hamilton (armorial bookplates). ACCOUNTS OF THE LATE STUART REALM. Each volume sets out the state of the different sources of revenue (customs, excise, wines and spirits, double excise, additional excise, East India goods, Hearth Money, Letter Money, etc), with particular expenditure set against each form of revenue: the account books provide a piecemeal but extraordinarily comprehensive cross-section of the workings of the late Stuart state, from military operations in Ireland, to the fees of the ambassadors and principal officers of state, to expenditure on the royal works and royal household. Of note are the frequent payments 'for Secret Services without Account' (most frequently to Henry Guy secretary to the Treasury). A number of payments recorded for 1688 cast some light on the minutiae of the Glorious Revolution, such as 'to Jos. Boson for Carryage of his Majesty's Ordnance (upon his first Landing) near Exeter' (£284-13-0), or the pension 'To the Queen Consort of the late King James the Second ... ended at Mich[aelm]as 1688' (£1332-3-4¾). Payments are recorded, among many others, to Elias Ashmole, Isaac Newton ('for the Mint, £13,537-18-11 in 1700-01), Titus Oates (a pension of £300 a year) and a number of Charles II's illegitimate offspring, including Charles Fitzroy, Duke of Southampton and George Fitzroy, Duke of Northumberland. The volume of bills, treaties and other papers begins with the text of 'The Assiento or Contract for the Importac[i]on of 4800 Negroes yearly for ten years to the Spanish Plantations by the French Guinea Company', 1701, and also includes an analysis of the 'State of the King's Revenue in the time of King James the 2nd from Mr Guy 1685', as well as of the revenues transferred to William and Mary in 1688. (8)

Auction archive: Lot number 89
Auction:
Datum:
8 Jun 2005
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
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