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The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660

CHAPTER II
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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 20_s._ per diem each_ Matthew Fairbank 139 0 0 Samuel Morland 88 0 0 Edward Dendy 169 0 0 Matthew Lea 56 6 8 _At 6_s._ 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.


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