Chisholm's Account of Public Income and Exenditure 1715/1716
from the Great Return of 1868/69
25th December 1715 to 25th December 1716
| Receipts | British £ | ||||||||
| 25th December 1715 to 25th December 1716 | |||||||||
| £ | s. | d. | |||||||
| Balances in the Irish Exchequer on 25th December 1715 | 6,011 | 16 | 10 | ||||||
| Net Receipts of Public Income, deducting Drawbacks, etc., and Charges of Collection and Management | Customs and Excise, including Quit Rents and other Revenue of the Crown Lands | 352,888 | 3 | 7 | |||||
| Tax of 4s. in the pound on Pensions and Allowances of Persons absent more than Six Months in the year from Ireland | 143 | 7 | 1 | ||||||
| Miscellaneous | Casual Revenue | Green Wax | 237 | 13 | 0 | ||||
| Sheriffs' Fines | 33 | 4 | 7 | ||||||
| Reduced Fines | 4 | 9 | 3 | ||||||
| Reduced Recognizances | 2 | 8 | 6 | ||||||
| Remembrancer | 4 | 15 | 5 | ||||||
| Pipe Summons | 103 | 1 | 10 | ||||||
| Assizes | 20 | 1 | 3 | ||||||
| Estreats | 5 | 1 | 6 | ||||||
| Hanaper | 73 | 4 | 9 | ||||||
| Other Receipts | Raised by Loan (50,000l. Irish per Act 2 Geo. 1 c.7, s.3 (no limit as to amount) | 46,153 | 16 | 11 | |||||
| TOTAL Receipts for 1715/1716: | 405,681 | 4 | 6 | ||||||
| Issues | British £ | ||||||||
| 25th December 1715 to 25th December 1716 | |||||||||
| £ | s. | d. | |||||||
| Interest, etc. of Public Debt | Interest on 36,700l., part of Loan of 50,000l. (irish) for half a year, at 8 per cent | 1,355 | 1 | 6 | |||||
| Civil Government | Civil List | Salaries and Expenses of State Officers, Law and other Civil Officers, and Incidental Expenses, including Extraordinary Payments by Concordatum | 28,928 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Pensions, including French Pensions | 35,591 | 9 | 8 | ||||||
| Other Civil Expenditure | Trustees of Linen Manufacture | 2,006 | 10 | 1 | |||||
| Making up and passing the Vice Treasurer's Accounts | 1,015 | 7 | 9 | ||||||
| Extraordinary Payments by King's Letters | 4,568 | 10 | 0 | ||||||
| Parliamentary Grants | Officers of House of Commons for Services in Sessions of 1713 and 1716 | 1,546 | 3 | 1 | |||||
| Military Expenditure | Army Services | Army services by King's Letters | 1,309 | 4 | 1 | ||||
| All other army services | 309,290 | 6 | 6 | ||||||
| Ordnance Services | Ordnance services by King's Letters | 530 | 2 | 2 | |||||
| All other ordnance services | 6,642 | 14 | 7 | ||||||
| Balances in the Irish Exchequer on 25th December 1716 | 12,897 | 8 | 6 | ||||||
| TOTAL Issues for 1715/1716: | 405,681 | 4 | 6 | ||||||