justify myself, and those who were my masters, for I desire to ap pear an honest man outwardly, whatever I am inwardly. I know, and am not ignorant, what a good thing it is to be a good stew. ard; for I know you love good stewards, and have thrown out the family of the Stewards, because you thought them not to be good stewards. I make no question, but your honours will find this to be a just and true account; for I learned subtraction, multiplication, and addition, while I was at Drury-House; and, I thank God, I attained also to some small knowledge of the golden rule. I could have wished with all my heart it had been more, yet I intended to have perfected my knowledge in the Committee of Safety, had my time not been so short; however, I intreat your honours to consider, that the Committee of Safety could be at no small charges, in regard of the expences that wait upon authority. We had many mouths to feed, many wanting brethren, that were in charity to be relieved; and charity, your honours know how laudable a thing it is. All men love money, all men seek for it, and are not well till they have it; and would you have the Committee of Safety more than men? Truly, I can assure your honours, they were but men at their highest, and now they are God knows what; it is thought, some of them now wish they were women. It is true, changes have been very advantageous to a great many men in these times, but there are no changes now can do them good, but such metamorphoses, as the poets speak of. I myself wish Í had been changed into an elder-tree, to have been cut out into potguns, when I first fingered a penny of their money, Truly, I think the curse of Simon Magus fell upon them; for no sooner was their money spent, but they were forced to run away; so that I may say of them, that they and their money perished together. How it perished, I hope your honours will hereby receive full satisfaction. I would have your honours contented with this account, which I have here brought; but I assure your honours, if you will not, I can bring you no other. I have one word more, hy way of petition: That your honours would be pleased to consider my condition; and, if I have laid out any money out of my purse (as you may hereby perceive that I have) that you will be pleased to restore it me again, and give me ten times as much more. It is a sad thing to be poor and needy. O hunger, hunger,' said the famous Champion of England, more sharp than the stroke of ( death, thou art the extremest punishment that ever man endured; if I were now king of Armenia, and chief potentate of Asia, yet would I give my diadem, my scepter, with all my pro. vinces, for one sliver of brown bread.' I speak this to shew you how much it concerns every man, and as well myself, as any body else, to prevent poverty; which makes me urge my petition to you once again, that you would not only not take away what I have got, but rather, as I said but just now, give me ten times May it please your honours, I have done; the Lord bless you, and incline your hearts to pity and compassion. Received, out of the treasuries of the Excise, Customs, and the

more.

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 pence.

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 pornds 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; together 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 several pictures of Moses, Mahomet, Romulus and Remus, Cæsar,

and all those that were the first founders of large empires and kingdoms, 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 picces 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 to. gether, 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 Gene ral 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 diamond. rings, 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 pippius 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.