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Revenue Account 1715/1717

from Journals of the House of Commons of the Kingdom of Ireland

Receipts						Irish £
						29th September 1715 to 29th September 1716				29th September 1716 to 24th June 1717
						£	s.	d.		£	s.	d.
Charge	Balance	Cash in Collectors Hands from previous account (ending Michaelmas 1715)				8,100	0	0		59,162	15	2	¾
	Arrears	Arrears then also remaining uncollected returned therein				81,852	0	0		27,293	2	6
	Other	Add the proportion of the then current Year's Hearth Money, charged also in the general State given in to Parliament				26,250	0	0		50,307	12	8
	Produce	Hereditary Revenue	Customs inwards			72,204	6	10	¾	3,503	6	6
			Customs outwards			36,819	10	6	¼	775	16	0	⅛
			Imported Excise			62,996	4	10	½	163	8	1
			Prizage of Wines			4,134	13	6		314	6	1
			Fines and Seizures			713	10	4	⅛	60,629	8	11	¼
			Light-House Duties			237	2	11	½	4,494	5	2	⅝
			Casualties			436	6	1		902	17	4
			Inland Excise upon Ale, Beer and Strong Waters			78,310	11	5	¼	45,510	0	0
			Licences for selling Ale			9,006	4	11	⅝	27,075	0	0
			Licences for selling Wine and Strong Waters			2,704	2	8		469	10	0
			Quit and Crown Rent charged by the Rent-Roll according to the Proportion of Time			60,680	0	0		23,165	2	8
			Solvent Hearth-Money clear of Collection charged according to Proportion of Time			35,500	0	0		3,376	10	8
			Alnage set for one Year from Michaelmas, 1716, to Michaelmas, 1717, at 626l. whereof charged for nin Months ending at Midsummer by Proportion			0	0	0		118	9	6
		Addtional Duties	Tobacco commencing 22nd November, 1715			13,678	17	6		35,534	5	10
			Muslin			1,951	12	2		10,219	18	7
			East India Goods			696	14	1		8,878	6	1
			Ale, Beer and Strong Waters			38,050	10	0		3,284	19	5
			Wine commencing 1st February 1715			9,065	2	4
			Spirits			7,079	19	6
		Other	Produce of the additional Duties on Linen and Callicoes imported, being collected and paid into the Treasury, together with the General Revenue, although appropriated to a particular Service, the net amount of which appears to be			0	0	0
TOTAL Receipts for 1715/1717:										915,646	11	1	¾

Payments						Irish £
						29th September 1715 to 29th September 1716				29th September 1716 to 24th June 1717
						£	s.	d.		£	s.	d.
Discharge	Charge of collecting drawbacks and estimated Insolvencies	Salaries on the Revenue Establishment				42,204	5	0		31,963	15	0
		Incident Charges, chiefly in Rents and Repairs of Customs Houses, furnishing Boats, buying Officers books and Stationary Ware, Postage of Letters and Packets related to the Revenue, Law Charges in Prosecuting the Debts of the Crown, &c.				8,086	7	0		5,709	13	0
		Portage Bills related to Trade				591	0	0		464	8	0
		Repayments to Merchants for imported Goods damnified or exported within Time				6,291	9	0		3,932	12	7	¼
		Wine Warrants allowed to the Members of his Majesty's most honourable Privy Council				881	17	0		782	8	0
		Disbursements related to the several Light-Houses, for Fire and Candles, Rents and Repairs, etc.				907	6	0		623	15	0
		Payments by way of Premium, pursuant to some late Acts of Parliament				1,563	13	0		733	19	0
		There being several wrong and double Charges in the Roll of the Quitt and Crown Rents, and Lands in Charge that cannot be found, and the some Losses do unavoidably happen in the collecting of any Revenue that is not paid down, it is necessary to crave some allowance by Way of Deduction on that Account, also as in like Cases heretofore, which in the Time of this Account may be reasonably computed to amount to				1,916	0	0		1,580	13	9	¼
	Drawbacks on Additional Duties	Tobacco commencing 22nd November, 1715				82	0	0		195	12	9
		Muslin				0	0	0		26	15	10
		East India Goods				495	0	0		82	17	7
		Ale, Beer and Strong Waters				0	0	0		16	5	0
		Wine commencing 1st February 1715				553	0	0		652	3	3	½
		Spirits				806	0	0		1,471	9	0	¾
	Paid into the Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer the sum of					0	0	0		685,762	16	4	¾
	Remaining at Midsummer, 1717, Cash in Collectors Hands, ready for Payment, and since paid in					0	0	0		17,650	0	0
	Arrears then remaining uncollected		Imported Excise from some Merchants			0	0	0		600	0	0
			Inland Excise and Licences according to the Course of that Part of the Crown Revenue			0	0	0		10,600	0	0
			Quit and Crown Rents, including a Moiety of the growing Half Year, that will become due at Michaelmas, of which a considerable part lies out upon Installments, some on Tythes that cannot be got 'till Harvest, some not to be levied without putting great Difficulty on the Subject, 'till their Corn or Cattle are sent to Market			0	0	0		55,400	0	0
			Heart Money, including a Proportion of the growing Year that will become due in January next, the Rest is in a course of Collection, and expected to be levied and entirely paid before Christmas next			0	0	0		26,250	0	0
			Balances due from former Collectors who have died or were dismist without clearing their respective Debts, and in a Way of Payment			0	0	0		6,300	0	0
	Alnage Duty not yet accounted for, but remaining due					0	0	0		469	10	0
TOTAL Payments for 1715/1717:										915,646	11	3	½

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