Mr Boyte, minute book entry April 23, 1696, Afternoon Meeting at Kensington w/King & Lords
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'Minute Book: April 1697', in Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 12, 1697, ed. William A Shaw (London, 1933), British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-treasury-books/vol12/pp1-10 [accessed 7 October 2026].

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April 23,
afternoon. Kensington. Present:—The King; all my Lords.
The Earl of Oxford to have 2,000l. [as royal] bounty by 200l. presently and 200l. a month.
The Earl of Portland to have 4,000l. to-morrow for the Privy Purse and 2,000l. a week afterwards.
The King will allow 10 per cent. discount for loans in new money or guineas on the Malt Act but no discount for [such loans in] hammered money.
Memorandum: My Lords are to agree with Mr. Boyte for a remittance of 4,000l. to the Rhine.
Each of the Commissioners for Trade to have 1,000l. a year; their Secretary 500l. a year; the rest as my Lords think reasonable. Treasury Minute Book IX, p. 129.
April 24,
afternoon. Treasury Chambers, Whitehall. Present:—Sir Stephen Fox, Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Thomas Littleton.

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