Exchequer, four-hundred and thirty thousand pounds. Disbursed as followeth:

THE ACCOUNT.

IMPRIMIS, For three-and-twenty long clokes, at seven pounds ten shillings per cloke, to cover the Committee of Safety's knavery, one-hundred seventy-two pounds ten shillings.

Item, For six dozen of large fine Holland handkerchiefs, with great French buttons, for the Lord Fleetwood, to wipe away the tears from his excellency's cheeks, at twenty shillings per handkerchief, seventy-two pounds.

Item, For four new perriwigs for his lordship, at six pounds a perriwig, together with a dozen pounds of amber powder, with four wooden blocks, and half a dozen of tortoise-shell combs, fortyone pounds ten shillings.

Item, For a silver inkhorn, and ten gilt paper-books, covered with green plush and Turky leather, for his lady to write in at church, seven pounds, three shillings, and three peace.

Item, Paid his young daughter's musick.master and dancingmaster, for fifteen months arrears, due at the interruption of the parliament, fifty-nine pounds five shillings.

Item, For twelve new brass nails that were wanting in his coach, and removing all his excellency's horses shoes, and blooding his pad nag, one-hundred and sixty pounds, one shilling, and two.

pence.

Item, For four rich mantles for his lady, two laced, and two embroidered, and a brave new gown made to congratulate her husband's new honour, two-hundred and seventy pounds.

Item, Bestowed by her order, upon the journeymen taylors, and given to him that brought home and tried on her said gown, seven pieces in gold, seven pounds fourteen shillings.

Item, For changing an old fashion caudle cup, and three silver skillets that were melted, ten pounds.

Item, For the use of his excellency's rooms, his chairs and cushions, as also for candles and Scotch coals, while the Committee of Officers sat in his house, five-hundred pounds.

Item, For an innumerable company of pectoral rolls and lozenges, to dry up his excellency's rheum, at two pence a piece, thirty pounds, two shillings, and two pence.

Item, Paid the apothecary's bill, for pills and clysters for the last autumn, eighty-one pounds twelve shillings.

Item, For two rolls of Spanish tobacco for Colonel Sydenham, at twenty shillings per pound, according to the protector's rate; and five black pots to warm ale in, at twelve pence a-piece; toge ther with ten groce of glazed pipes, at nine shillings the groce, forty-five pounds, thirteen shillings, and four pence.

Item, For two gilt horn-books for his great son, at two shillings

and six pence a-piece, five shillings.

Item, Bestowed upon the Lord Lambert, to buy him the seve

ral pictures of Moses, Mahomet, Romulus and Remus, Cæsar,

a nd all those that were the first founders of large empires and king'doms, five-thousand pounds.

Item, Presented to the Lord Lambert the root of a tulip, and a certain East-Indian flower with a hard name; which, for their rarity, cost two-hundred and fifty pounds.

Item, Paid the said lord, who is now no lord, to be spent, the Lord knows how, in a certain northern expedition which came to nothing, six-thousand pounds.

Item, Laid out for seven rich new gowns, bespoke at Paris for the Lady Lambert, to be worn seven several days one after another, at her husband's coming to the crowns, every gown valued at sixty pounds one with another, four-hundred and twenty pounds. Item, For pins and gloves for the said lady, eighty-three pounds nine shillings.

Item, For seven new whisks, laced with Flanders lace of the last edition, each whisk valued at fifty pounds, three-hundred and fifty pounds.

Item, For four-hundred packs of French cards, with pictures, to play at Best and Picquet withal, two-hundred pounds.

Item, For a new pair of spurs for Colonel Clark, and a new whip with a silver handle, and a coral whistle at the end of it to call the ostler, three pounds six shillings.

Item, For vamping the said colonel's riding boots, and for new spur-leathers, ten pounds.

Item, Laid out, for wedding-clothes for the Lord Lambert's daughter, eleven-hundred and fifty pounds.

Item, Given to the Lord Wareston, to buy him a house and land here, because his lordship had expressed a very great dislike of his own country, and was then resolved never to have gone thither any more, one-thousand pounds.

Item, Given to the Lord Strickland, for his very ordinary service, a dozen of gilt nutmegs, at six pence three farthings a-piece, six shillings and four pence.

Item, Given to Colonel Berry, to buy him a three-handed sword, five-hundred pounds.

Item, Given to Lord-mayor Tichburne, to buy him a hobbyhorse and a clear conscience, three-thousand pounds.

Item, Paid to a spectacle-maker, for a spectacle with one glass for Colonel Hewson, four-hundred pounds.

Item, Paid for three great saddles for the Lord Lawrence's son, and for provender for his lofty steeds, ever since the protector's political death, five-hundred pounds.

Item, Reimbursed to the said Lord Lawrence several sums of money, which his eldest son squandered away upon poets, and dedications to his ingenuity, to the value of five-hundred pounds

more.

Item, Paid Sir Harry Vane, to defray the extraordinary charges of his fruitless voyage into the Hope, eight-hundred pounds.

Item, Given the gunner, for four salutes, as he went off the Admiral, ten pieces in gold, to the value of twelve pounds.

Item, Paid the scrivener, for writing out the league made betwixt him and the Lord Lambert, when they joined their forces together, fifteen pounds.

Item, For a great sharp knife, to cut his meat according to his stomach, with an agate handle, two pounds, four shillings, and one penny.

Item, For caudles, devoured by his lady every morning, for these last three months, sixty pounds, seven shillings, and two pence.

Item, Allowed Sir Harry Vane, five-hundred pounds, to pay for the exchange of money which he transferred into Holland. / Item, Allowed him five-hundred pounds more, to buy him Fortunatus's Cap.

Item, Given to Colonel Cobbett, three-hundred pounds, to buy him Mambrino's helmet, and the sword which St. George pulled out of the rock, in all four-hundred pounds.

Item, Disbursed to the Lady Thomas, at the request of her father-in-law, four-hundred and seventy pounds, to make her hus band a new pair of horns, his old ones being now worn out.

Item, For new chairs for the council-chamber, and for brushing the hangings, and airing the room, for fear of any infection that the Lord Lambert's enemies might leave behind them, twohundred and one pounds, three shillings, and six pence.

Item, For switches which the Lord Lambert wore out when he interrupted the parliament, and for making clean his boots the next day, forty-three pounds.

Item, Bestowed upon Mr. Holland nine-hundred pounds to buy him six new iron chests, to lock up his money in.

Item, Paid the herald for a new coat of arms for Major General Desborough, with this motto, "God speed the Plough," fifty. eight pounds.

Item, Paid, for new matting one of his bed-chambers, sixteen pounds, two shillings, and two pence.

Item, Paid the Lord Whitlock one-hundred pounds for his great Swedish cat, that it might be kept in the Tower as one of the Lord Lambert's chattels, for the publick benefit and satisfaction of the

nation.

Item, Paid the fellow that cut. the Lord Lambert's corns, the day before he went out of town, five pounds ten shillings.

Item, For a tinder-box for the Lord Lambert, with a thousand card-matches to light his candles with, when he waked in the night, sixteen pounds, fifteen shillings, and ten pence.

Item, For half a score new lasts for the Committee, to set their consciences upon when they began to pinch them, thirty pounds seven shillings.

Item, Taken by Mr. Cor. Holland five-thousand pounds, to satisfy himself for an old debt owing him by king James, paid no less than twice before.

Item, Taken by the Lord Whitlock, to satisfy himself for his ambassy into Swedeland, twenty-thousand pounds.

Item, Given to Mr. Thankful Owen, a small collop to etch out his fortunes, four hundred pounds.

Item, Given to Mr. Brandrith a thousand pounds, because he had never any thing given him before.

Item, Presented by the whole Committee to the Lady Lambert a tooth-pick case of gold, beset all over with diamonds, rubies, and emeralds, that cost fifteen-hundred pounds.

Item, For a bundle of rods, and urine to soak them in, which rods were prepared for those that voted the Lord Lambert out of commission, seventy pounds, ten shillings, and five pence.

Item, Given to Cardinal Mazarine fifty-thousand pounds, to shew him there was money stirring then in England, as well as in the protector's time.

Item, Bestowed upon Colonel Salmon five-hundred pounds, to buy him borage-water, and syrup of gilly-flowers, to keep up his heart, by reason of his continual sighing.

Item, Laid out of my own purse two-hundred and fifty pounds, for several collations and dinners both in Fish-street, and elsewhere.

Item, For bottles of wine spent in my own house, one-hundred pounds.

Item, For banqueting-stuff, and sweet-meats of all sorts, for my wife to entertain visitants, and for six new Flanders laced smocks, three-hundred pounds.

Item, For a neck-lace of oriental pearl, and three diamondrings, and a silver warming-pan, four hundred pounds, ten shillings, and six pence.

Item, For a new great powdering-tub, and a suit of tapestry hangings, sixty-one pounds five shillings.

Item, Laid out one-hundred thousand pounds, which was car. ried down to the banks of the river Tweed by way of temptation, which, being utterly refused, was afterwards distributed into private quarters, which is all the account I am able to give of it.

Item, Paid the under-clerks of the Committee several sums of money spent in ale-houses, and bawdy-houses, according to their several accounts, amounting in all to one-hundred eighty-three pounds. Item, Paid Politicus five-hundred and five pounds, to make good several sums of money by him lost in bowling-greens, and at the comb-makers ordinary.

Item, For capers, samphire, and olives, and ten bushels of Kentish pippins for lambs-wool, being all very scarce commodities in the North, to furnish the Lord Lambert's table, seven-hundred pounds, six shillings, and two pence.

Item, For a hundred bottoms of pack thread, but for what use I know not, one-hundred and three pounds.

Item, For ink, paper, pens, wax, and blue dust, one-thousand pounds.

Item, For a hundred-thousand pounds of great candles, and given in as a gratuity to the chandler's boy, for bringing them in, two-thousand five hundred pounds.

Item, Paid to link-boys, for lighting the Commissioners and Council of Officers home to their lodgings, ninety-four pounds.

Item, Paid unto the centinels, for pissing near the guard, fiftyseven pounds, three shillings, and six pence.

Item, For East-India night-gowns for the Commissioners, and the rest of the Oficers, and for night-caps for them, two-hundred and thirty-three pounds.

Item, Paid the chaplains for three fast-days, and for pome-citron to keep the Commissioners empty stomachs from wambling, seven-hundred eighty-nine pounds.

Item, For twelve pair of cut-finger'd gloves for myself to write in, ten pounds.

Item, For coffee, which the Commissioners drank every morning, especially when they had got a dose over night, three-hundred and forty pounds ten shillings.

Item, Towards the repairing the ruins of Troy, twenty-thousand pounds.

Item, For whips, tops, and jointed babies, for the Commissioners younger children, eighty-nine pounds seven shillings.

Item, For writing out the instrument of government seven times over, fifty pounds.

Item, Allowed Colonel Hewson, for his charges at the sessions-house, four-hundred ninety-five pounds.

Item, For three blue beans in a blue bladder, ninety-three pounds.

Item, Paid to Lilly, for casting the nativities of the Commissioners children, five-hundred pounds,

Item, Given to Sir Harry Vane three thousand pounds, to raise a regiment of anabaptists.

Item, Bestowed by his appointment upon inciters, promoters, and instigators, one-thousand pounds.

Item, Given, as a present to the pope, twenty-thousand pounds by the said Sir Harry, for several and sundry courtesies done him by his holiness.

Item, For a hundred new cords, which were to be used when the Lord Lambert came to town, and also for new setting the ax in the Tower, two-hundred and four pounds, five shillings, and ten pence.

Item, For a very strong padlock to be hung upon the parlia ment house door, and a silver key, which was to be delivered to St. Peter, to be by him kept till the Lord Lambert should call to him for it, one-hundred and ten pounds, twelve shillings, and eight pence.

Item, Given the porter of Wallingford House, for letting the officers in and out, and sitting up all hours in the night, one-hundred pounds.

Item, For drawing the mortgage of my Lord Lambert's house and lands, and for fees to the council, two-hundred pounds. Item, For a new riding-hat for his lordship, because he was