Chisholm's Account of Public Income and Exenditure 1696/1697
from the Great Return of 1868/69
25th December 1696 to 25th December 1697
| Receipts | British £ | ||||||||
| 25th December 1696 to 25th December 1697 | |||||||||
| £ | s. | d. | |||||||
| Balances in the Irish Exchequer on 25th December 1696 | 7,060 | 3 | 3 | ||||||
| Net Receipts of Public Income, deducting Drawbacks, etc., and Charges of Collection and Management | Customs and Excise, with Quit Rents (including sums assigned) and other Revenue of the Crown Lands | 261,625 | 19 | 6 | |||||
| Wool Licenses | 3,728 | 5 | 6 | ||||||
| Poll Tax | 9,961 | 11 | 4 | ||||||
| Miscellaneous | Casual Revenue | 1,640 | 5 | 11 | |||||
| Rents of Forfeited Estates | 1,066 | 15 | 1 | ||||||
| Out of the Private Estate of the late Duke of York | 355 | 17 | 9 | ||||||
| Old Stores | 167 | 16 | 0 | ||||||
| TOTAL Receipts for 1696/1697: | 285,606 | 14 | 4 | ||||||
| Issues | British £ | ||||||||
| 25th December 1696 to 25th December 1697 | |||||||||
| £ | s. | d. | |||||||
| Interest, etc. of Public Debt | Interest on Loan of 33,050l. (Irish), half year to 25th March 1697 | 1,479 | 8 | 4 | |||||
| Interest on portion of ditto remaining unpaid, to 25th December 1697 | 1,309 | 11 | 6 | ||||||
| Civil Government | Civil List | Salaries and Expenses of State Officers, Law and other Civil Officers, and Incidental Expenses, including Extraordinary Payments by Concordatum and King's Letters | 31,797 | 11 | 10 | ||||
| Pensions | 2,496 | 18 | 5 | ||||||
| Quit Rents assigned | 1,212 | 5 | 4 | ||||||
| Other Civil Expenditure | Making up and passing the Vice Treasurer's Accounts | 147 | 13 | 10 | |||||
| Receivers and Paymasters General, to make up their Annual Allowances | 369 | 14 | 11 | ||||||
| Extraordinary Payments by King's Letters | 691 | 19 | 5 | ||||||
| Military Expenditure | Army Services | Army services (French Pensioners) | 4,834 | 2 | 8 | ||||
| Army services by King's Letters | 2,368 | 15 | 6 | ||||||
| All other army services | 188,029 | 2 | 0 | ||||||
| Ordnance Services | Ordnance services by King's Letters | 184 | 12 | 4 | |||||
| All other ordnance services | 4,393 | 15 | 10 | ||||||
| Issued to pay off Three Quarter Parts of the Loan of 33,050l. (irish) | 22,880 | 15 | 5 | ||||||
| Advance for Victualling the Navy at Cork, '"to be repaid by the Commissioners of the Victuallying Office in England" (repaid in 1699) | 6,758 | 19 | 11 | ||||||
| Balances in the Irish Exchequer on 25th December 1697 | 16,651 | 7 | 1 | ||||||
| TOTAL Issues for 1696/1697: | 285,606 | 14 | 4 | ||||||