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Note: Commissionr of the duties on Hawkers and Pedlars. D bef dec 1732 Same to the Customs Commissioners of the petition of Benjamin Coode shewing that he was tidesurveyor to the Prize Office at Plymouth "from the first of the establishment [thereof] till it determined by Parliament [see 6 Anne, c. 65]" and was faithful therein: therefore praying the place of [Mr. Raynon] the present Clerk of the Securities in London port, who has been a prisoner in the Fleet for a considerable sum ever since January 1710-11, petitioner being recommended by Lord
Lansdown. Ibid., p. 76. From: 'Warrant Book: July 1712, 1-10', Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 26: 1712 (1954), pp. 339-359. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=85971&strquery=benjamin coode Date accessed: 14 June 2011.
Petition of Benjamin Coode of the borough of Saltash in Cornwall, Gent., to the Lord High Treasurer, praying to be appointed a clerk of the securities of the port of London in the room of Mr Raynon, a prisoner in the Fleet. Referred to the
Comrs of Customs.
On the back is:-"Recommende[d] June 28, 1712 by Lord Lansdowne
From: 'Volume 149: June 22-July 19, 1712', Calendar of Treasury Papers, Volume 4: 1708-1714 (1974), pp. 398-407.
Same appointing Benjamin Coode, William Luke, and Christopher Wyvill (in place of Thomas Wyvill, deceased), Commissioners for Licensing Hawkers, Pedlare, and Petty Chapmen. Warrants not relating to money XXIV.
July 7 1731
272. Petition to same from Benjamin Coode, William Luke and Christopher Wyvill, Commissioners for licensing Hawkers and Pedlars, craving that the fees of 1s. over and above the licence of 4l. for persons trading on foot and 2s. over the duty of 8l. for persons trading on horseback as by the Act 9 & 10 Wm. III. may be allowed to them. The Commissioners availed themselves of the said fees up to 1707, but were then directed by the Treasury to pay them into the Exchequer, "althou
gh it is the only instance where fees of office appointed by Act of Parliament are paid into the Exchequer." Said fees amount to 45l. per annum or thereabouts to each Commissioner.
1 page. [Ibid, No. 32.]
From: 'Treasury Books and Papers: December 1731', Calendar of Treasury Books and Papers, Volume 2: 1731-1734 (1898), pp. 105-115. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=91715&strquery=benjamin coode Date accessed: 14
June 2011.
London, England, Land Tax Records, 1692-1932
1714 Land Tax City of London Queenshithe 10/0/0
Examiners of the Out Port Books
1724 Tower, Benjamin Cood examner of teh Sufficiency of the Officers Securitiues 9/0/0
making payments in 1731, 1738, East Smithfield 1748 10/0/0
Note clerk Robert Coode Portsoken Londen 1735 St Sepulchre 1736 . Steady payment of 2/17/0. Also a Widow Coode 1735
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