File DG239. - Appointment of 2 as collector of all customs, subsidies and duties payable on all 'smalts, saffer and pottashes' imported at ...,

1 George [Hay], earl of Kinnoull. 2 John Lloyd of London, gent. Appointment of 2 as collector of all customs, subsidies and duties payable on all 'smalts, saffer and pottashes' imported at any port in England and Wales and all forfeitures thereof for non-payment of such duties in order to further secure repayment of £1,000 lent by 2 to 1. Recites that the said duties were farmed to 1 for 31 years on 28 May 1638, that Abraham Baker of London, gent., was by agreement entitled to a moiety of the said duties and that 2 had heretofore been 1's deputy in collecting the said duties.