• Home
• Databases
• Blog
• About

Revenue Account 1777/1779

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

Receipts						Irish £
						25th March 1777 to 25th March 1778				25th March 1778 to 25th March 1779
						£	s.	d.		£	s.	d.
Balances on the Collectors Accounts at Lady-day, 1777						107,861	8	8	⅝	0	0	0
Balance in the Hands of the Paymaster of Corn Premiums						1,787	0	8		0	0	0
[Balance on] the Stamp Duties, returned by the Comproller in his Certificate						3,112	5	2	¼	0	0	0
Arrears on the Revenue, outstanding at said Time						91,972	8	1	⅛	0	0	0
Produce for one year, ended at Lady-day	Hereditary Revenue	Customs inwards				198,550	5	0	½	165,802	17	6	½
		Customs outwards				36,027	19	1	½	31,717	19	3	½
		Import Excise				131,284	3	2	½	106,070	8	1	¾
		Prizage on Wines				3,270	0	0		1,505	0	0
		Light-house Duty				661	13	11	½	615	2	5	¼
		Fines and Seizures				8,033	3	1		10,328	17	4
		Forfeitures				484	8	8	½	271	6	5	½
		Casualties				943	3	1	½	678	19	11
		Inland Excise				81,761	10	3	¼	76,335	4	2	½
		Ale Licences				7,363	0	8	¼	7,511	4	3
		Wine, and Strong Waters Licences				20,823	1	7		20,298	18	4
		Quit, &c. Rents				65,193	14	7	⅜	64,301	19	8	¼
		Hearth-Money for the Years, payable the 21st January, 1777, and 1778				61,646	5	0		60,617	2	3
		Residue of the Duties on Teas, after applying 20,000l. to the Linen, and 262l. 7s. 4d. to the Loan Funds				7,300	0	0		5,747	18	2
	Additional Duties	Old	Tobacco			47,698	19	4		52,558	7	5
			Wine, 1st			13,497	8	1		8,933	0	3
			Spirits, 1st, single proof			50,332	18	10		45,739	3	1
			Spirits, exceeding single proof			5,649	4	6		3,603	14	1
			Muslin, 1st			2,818	8	2		1,025	8	7
			East-India Silks and Stuffs			1	6	3		2	14	0
			Paper, foreign			653	12	11		635	14	2
			Ale, Beer, and Strong Waters, 1st and 2d			58,612	5	4		54,934	6	1
		New	Wine, 3d			15,934	1	11		10,530	14	4
			Spirits, 2d, foreign Brandy and Geneva			8,656	11	6		6,270	12	1
			Spirits, 3d, foreign, the like [foreign Brandy and Geneva]			8,647	19	9		6,257	18	11
			Spirits, Rum 2d			19,374	17	4		18,671	7	0
			Foreign flax-seed exported			0	11	0		13	15	0
			Foreign Wheat imported			0	0	0		178	0	11
			Strong Waters 3d			18,782	19	6	½	18,233	15	7
			Four and two-wheeled Carriages for one Year, due at Christmas 1776			2,591	10	0		0	0	0
			The like [Four and two-wheeled Carriages] for the Year, due at Christmas, 1777			0	0	0		2,444	10	0
	Stamp Duties	Stamped Vellum, Parchment and Paper and Value of Vellum, Parchment and Paper				21,174	1	9	¾	21,316	0	5	¼
		Penalties				20	0	0		50	0	0
TOTAL Receipts for 1777/1779:										1,905,724	7	3	⅝

Payments						Irish £
						25th March 1777 to 25th March 1778				25th March 1778 to 25th March 1779
						£	s.	d.		£	s.	d.
Charge of Management	Salaries to Officers on the Revenue Establishment					87,471	8	2		90,054	3	8
	Incident Charges					48,149	3	10	½	50,241	6	2	½
	Portage Bills					1,992	12	10		1,599	19	2
	Repayments to Merchants					4,007	8	8		3,424	10	6
	Repayments on Irish Beer exported					24	14	5		17	11	4	¼
	Rewards on convicting Burglarly					0	0	0		15	0	0
	Expences in keeping the several Light-houses					1,767	10	0		2,075	18	0	½
	Wines Warrants to Privy Counsellors					1,261	13	0		1,005	3	0
	Rewards for apprehending Deserters					333	0	0		621	0	0
	Quarantine Expenses					0	0	0		338	3	0
	Salaries to Hearth-money Officers					6,435	0	0		6,535	0	0
	Hearth-Money Incidents and Constables					975	1	10	½	981	0	5	½
	Allowance claimed for Hearth-Money Collectors and Guagers Balances					459	15	6		337	1	5	¼
	Arrears of Inland Excise					115	1	4		49	11	11	⅝
	Premiums on	Flax-seed imported				7,762	3	2	½	5,220	1	2
		Corn and Meal exported				6,257	5	11	½	3,465	3	7	¾
		Irish Coals brought Coastways to Dublin				87	10	0		152	12	6
		Inland Carriage of Corn, and Flour to Dublin				71,533	1	0		67,864	8	10
		Fishing Busses				13,366	11	9	½	15,331	1	5
		Irish cured Fish exported				1,255	18	11		1,881	18	0	¾
		Irish made Fish Oil exported				13	5	2		36	11	5
		Corn brought Coastways to Dublin				0	0	0		2,506	0	0
Drawbacks	Tobacco					4	8	3		2	6	4
	Wine, 1st					155	2	1		132	0	2
	Spirits, 1st					330	17	1		612	18	1
	Molasses					65	12	10		0	0	0
	Muslin, 1st					1	16	8		0	0	0
	Wine, 3d					171	17	3		146	18	7
	Spirits, 2d, foreign					41	4	7		13	16	1
	Spirits, 3d, foreign					38	17	7		9	3	9
	Spirits, Rum, 3d					131	18	4		294	5	2
	Paper, foreign					7	17	5		0	0	0
	Wheat, foreign					0	0	0		176	14	7
	Irish Beer exported					15	16	2		11	3	0	¾
Management (Stamps)	Salaries to Stamp Officers					5,469	10	1	¼	5,392	14	7	½
	Incident Charges					789	8	5		1,560	11	10	¾
	Discount Allowed to Purchasers of the Value of 10l. and upwards					287	18	10	½	272	2	3
Payments made to the Vice-Treasurers in the two Years ended Lady-day, 1779						0	0	0		1,149,483	5	11	¼
The like, out of Stamp Duties, by the Receiver General, and the several Collectors of the Excise						0	0	0		27,055	19	9	½
Whence deducting so much thereof for the Duties on Teas, as are applied to the Linen Loan Funds						0	0	0		-20,262	-7	-4
Balances on the Collectors Accounts at Lady-day, 1779						0	0	0		126,903	3	6
[Balances] on the Stamp Duties						0	0	0		4,844	1	5	¾
[Balances] And in the Hands of the Paymaster of Corn Premiums						0	0	0		389	0	10
Arrears on the Revenue standing on	Import Excise					0	0	0		410	0	0
	Dismissed and deceased Collectors					0	0	0		22,940	11	3	¾
	Hearth-Money					0	0	0		38,832	0	0
	Quit, &c. Rents					0	0	0		31,970	0	0
TOTAL Payments for 1777/1779:										1,905,724	7	3	⅝

Copyright © Duanaire, 2013