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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 husband 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 carried 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 Officers, 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 morn ing, 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 sessi ons-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 parliament 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-hun dred 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

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told that that, which he wore in the day of his wrath, made him look like a Finsbury archer, ten pounds.

Item, Bestowed in new-years gifts one upon another, every one giving out of the publick stock, seven thousand pounds.

Item, For a paddle, staff, and brown bill, for Major-General Desborough, when his worship pleases to walk his grounds, seven pounds ten shillings.

Item, Paid to Mr. Saloway for raisins, currants, and prunes, at excessive rates, for the keeping of Christmas, two-thousand pounds.

Item, Laid out for turbants, sashes, and scimitars for the Lord Lambert, and the rest of his adherents, nine-thousand five-hundred fifty-six pounds, which made men think they would have turned Turks, had they come into power.

Item, To the great officers in the commonwealth of Oceana, the Polemarch, the Strategus, and my Lord Epimonus, ten-thousand pounds, to buy them figs, melons, and yellow hats.

Item, Given in charity to the State of Venice, who are the bul wark of Christendom, twelve-thousand pounds.

Item, Laid out upon a great hog-trough to be set up in Rumford, as a trophy of their publick magnificence, three-thousand pounds.

Item, Sent into Lapland for the retaining of a certain necromancer, who was to assist them in the carrying on their great work, five-thousand pounds.

Item, For black wool and civet, to stop the ears of the Committee and Council of Officers from hearing any thing that might tend to their own, or the good of the nation, fifty pounds.

Item, Laid out for a new scepter, for his intended Highness the Lord Lambert, five-hundred pounds.

Item, For granado's to fire the city, one-hundred pounds. Item, Paid for a pound of May-butter, made of a cow's milk that fed upon Hermon Hill, given to the Lady Lawrence for pious uses, eighty-seven pounds ten shillings.

Item, Given to a projector, toward a certain design which he had to bring over an inchanted castle, to secure the Lord Lambert's foes in, five-thousand pounds.

Item, Paid to another projector, towards a design which he had to look into the middle of the Western Ocean, for a great Spanish Galleon that was sunk with the weight of the gold that she carried, some thirty years ago, two thousand five-hundred pounds.

Item, For a fair pair of tables, with several bales of dice, that those Commissioners, who cared not to trouble themselves with the affairs of the nation, might not want something to pass the time away withal, fifty-seven pounds five shillings.

Item, For nine mill-stones for the Lord Lambert's nine worthies to wear about their necks instead of Georges, and for blue ribbons to hang them in, five-hundred pounds.

Item, For one of the Emperor of Russia's cast furr-gowns, for

the Lord Wareston to wear while he was President of the Committee, seven-hundred and fifty-four pounds.

Item, For a shoe-maker's measure to be provided by Colonel Hewson, for the Commissioners to take the length of the people's feet, twenty-three pounds.

Item, For a ton of sallet oil, to make their tongues glib, when they were to talk with the aldermen and common-council, twohundred and thirty-three pounds, twelve shillings, and six pence.

Item, Paid the Lord Fleetwood, for scraps given to the beggars at his door, three-hundred pounds.

Item, For twenty pair of castanets, for the ladies to dance serrabands at Sir Harry Vane's son's wedding, fifty pounds. Item, Paid to the army, never a farthing.

Item, Paid to the navy, as much.

The sum total, amounting to four-hundred thirty-thousand pounds.

Thus your honours may see how vainly and profusely we have squandered away a very considerable sum, which your honours had carefully laid up for better and more important uses. I shall only say this, in the behalf of my masters, that, if you please not to be rigorous with them, and to call them to any further account, they will take it not a little courteously, and be bound to pray for your honours; though if your honours think fit to do otherwise, I do believe the whole nation in general will be more indebted to your justice.

THE MANNER OF CREATING THE

KNIGHTS OF THE ANTIENT AND HONOUR-
ABLE ORDER OF THE BATH,

ACCORDING TO THE CUSTOM USED IN ENGLAND, IN TIME
OF PEACE;

With a List of those honourable Persons, who are to be created Knights of the Bath at his Majesty's Coronation, the Twenty-third of April, 1661.

From a quarto, containing ten pages, printed at London, for Philip Stephens, at the King's Arms, over-against the Middle Temple, 1661.]

1. WHEN an esquire comes to court, to receive the order of

knighthood, in the time of peace, according to the custom of England, he shall be honourably received by the officers of the court; sc. the steward, or the chamberlain, if they be present; but otherwise, by the marshals and ushers. Then there shall be provided two esquires of honour, grave, and well seen in courtship and nurture; as also in the feats of chivalry; and they shall

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