Add MS 78506

EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. CCCXXXIX. Miscellaneous loose papers, partly autograph, relating to the above offices:

1. Stamp duty; 1699-1707: accounts of produce of the stamp duty, 1699-1707; petition to the Treasury concerning method of receipt and payment of the duty, 1704.

2. The Prize Office; 1707-1710. Including: (a) legal opinions concerning the commissioners’ patent and concerning particular prizes; - (b) statements of the prize account; - [italics]printed[/italics] particulars of sales of prize goods; - (c) instructions by the commissioners to their agents in foreign ports; -(d) [italics]Reason agaist a Clause in the Bill, For the Better Securing the Treade of this Kingdom . . . which Invests the Whole Property of Prizes in the Captors.[/italics]

3. The Post Office; 1707-1717. Including: (a) notes of Sir John Evelyn concerning Post Office officials up to 1705; - (b) receipts by Sir Robert Cotton for payments from Evelyn’s salary, abstract of Post Office revenue from 1690-1710; - (c) accounts of receipts and payments by the receiver-general of the Post Office, 1710-1714; - (d) charges of managing the penny Post Office, 1685-1709; - (e) list of packet boats between Falmouth and Lisbon, royal warrant for free post of MPs’ letters, 1707; - (f) general Post Office account for America, 1707-1708; - (g) a calculation of an additional tax on letters, 1710; - (h) list of grants payable out of the Post Office, list of places and days of the week for the post, 1711-1712; - (i) orders to the officials and letter-carriers of the internal post and officers of the foreign post, 1711; - (j) description of the duties of the Comptroller of the Inland Office, 1712; - (k) account by Edward Leving, letter-carrier, of his discharge, 1717.

4. Customs; 1723-1750. Including: (a) certificate of admission for Sir John Evelyn as Burgess of Glasgow, 1723; - (b) various orders, jointly with other commissioners of Customs, 1727-1736; - (c) `List of the Patent Officers of the Customs’, London, 1750. Formerly Evelyn MS 151.