Add MS 65140

CLIFFORD PAPERS. Vol. III (ff. 136). Papers of Clifford as Comptroller and Treasurer of the Royal Household (1666-1672) and as Treasury Commissioner and Lord Treasurer (1667-1673); temp. James I [between 1603-1625]-1673. Partly copies. The papers are very miscellaneous, consisting of proposals, orders, calculations concerning the revenue, lists of salaries of officials, etc., a few of them originating in the two previous reigns and, on the evidence of the endorsements, acquired by Clifford for reference purposes. The largest group consists of proposals and calculations, some in Clifford's hand, concerning the farm of the Excise and the proportions of taxation for the various regions; for Clifford's Treasury administration particularly in relation to this, see C. D. Chandaman, The English Public Revenue 1660-1688 (Oxford, 1975), esp. pp. 44-45, 62-63 and 230-231. For statements of the public revenue given by Clifford on his resignation to his successor, Thomas Osborne, Earl of Danby, see Add. 28078, ff. 65 and 90.

Customs and Excise: Papers of Lord Clifford rel. to the Excise: 1664-1673.

Treasury: Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh: Charles II of England: Papers of Lord Clifford as Lord of the Treasury, etc.,: temp. Jas. I-1673: Partly copies.

includes:

• ff. 1-16v James I of England: Fees of government and court officials: [1620s?]: Copy.
• ff. 17-20v Orders Military. Royal Oak: Proposal for Order of the Royal Oak: early 1660s.
• ff. 23-24, 39-42v, 55-60v Fabian Philipps, of the Middle Temple: Proposals concerning the public revenue by Fabian Philipps: 1666-1668: Signed.
• ff. 27-28 Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington: Petition to Lord Arlington rel. to the excise: late 1660s.
• ff. 32-35v Clerkenwell, Middlesex: Reports on workhouse at Clerkenwell, co. Midd: 1667.
• ff. 53-54v Charles II of England; Catherine of Braganza: Board-wages for servants: [late 1660s-early 1670s].
• ff. 71-74v Ireland: Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet: Letter, etc., to the farmers of the Irish Customs from Sir George Downing: 1668: Copy.
• f. 75 Ireland: John Hallam: Proposal for farming the Irish Customs by John Hallam: [1668?].
• ff. 81-84v Sir Stephen Fox, Paymaster-General: Secret service accounts of Sir Stephen Fox: 1671-1673.
• f. 85 Exchequer: Notes rel. to Exchequer officials: [early 1670s?].
• ff. 100-124 Subsidies: Ship-money: Charles I of England: Rates for ship money and subsidies: temp. Chas. I.