Hereof you are not to fail; and for so doing this shall be your sufficient warrant.  Given at the Council of State at Whitehall this 25th day of October, 1659.

  “B.  WHITLOCKE, President.
  A. JOHNSTON. 
  JAMES HARRINGTON. 
  CHARLES FLEETWOOD. 
  JA.  BERRY.

“To GUALTER FROST, Esq.,

“Treasurer for the Council’s Contingencies.”

“The eighty-six persons to whom the payments are to be made are
divided into groups in the Warrant, the particular sum due to each
person appended to his name.  The first five groups stand thus:—­

L  s. d.
Richard Deane    234  7    6
"At L500 per annum each               Henry Scobell    234  7    6
William Robinson  83  0    0

At L1 per day Richard Kingdon 86 0 0

At L200 per annum each                JOHN MILTON       86 12    0
ANDREW MARVELL    86 12    0

Gualter Frost    138  0   10
At 20s._ per diem each_          Matthew Fairbank 139  0    0
Samuel Morland    88  0    0
Edward Dendy     169  0    0

Matthew Lea       56  6    8
At 6s._ 8_d._ per diem each_ [Clerks] Thomas Lea        56  6    8
William Symon     56  6    8”

Then follow the names of twenty-nine persons at 5_s._ per diem each:  viz.  Zachary Worth, David Salisbury, Peter Llewellen, Edward Cooke, Richard Stephens, Stephen Montague, Thomas Powell; Henry Symball, Joseph Butler, Thomas Pidcott, Richard Freeman, George Hussey, Roger Read, Edward Osbaldiston, William Feild, Robert Cooke (or his widow), Thomas Blagden, William Ledsom, Edward Cooke; Edward Tytan, Thomas Baker, John Bradley, Nicholas Hill, Anthony Compton, Joshua Leadbetter, Alexander Turner, Thomas Wright, William Geering, and Edward Bridges.  The occupations of the first seven are not described, but they were probably under-clerks; the next twelve were “messengers”; the last ten “serjeant deputies” under Dendy as Serjeant-at-Arms.  The sums ordered to be paid to them vary from L4 to L42 5_s._—­Forty-four more persons are added more miscellaneously, with the sums due to them respectively.  Among these I may note the following:—­“George Vaux, Housekeeper” (L69 9_s._ 8_d._), “Mr. Nutt, the Barge-keeper” (L65), “Mr. Embrey, Surveyor” (L140 12_s._ 6_d._), and “Mr. Kinnereley, Wardrobe-keeper” (L140 12_s._ 6_d._).[1]

[Footnote 1:  From Warrant Book in Record Office.  On comparing the list of persons in this warrant with that in the extract from the Order Books of Oliver’s Council of date April 17, 1655 (pp. 177-179), and with lists in a former Council minute of date Feb. 3, 1653-4, and in a Money Warrant of Oliver of same date (Vol.  IV. pp. 575-578), it will be seen that there had been changes in the staff meanwhile.  Milton, Scobell, Gualter Frost, Serjeant Dendy, Housekeeper Vaux, Bargemaster Nutt, and about a dozen of the clerks,