3, 1656-7, it was settled by his Highness and the Council that Lockhart's allowance thenceforward in his Embassy should be L100 a week, i.e, about L18,000 a year in present value.

Lockhart's real post being in Paris, his attendance in Parliament can have been but brief.

His fellow-Scotsman, Swinton of Swinton, also gave but brief attendance.

The Protector had taken the opportunity of Swinton's visit to London to show him special attention, and to promote in the Council certain very substantial recognitions of his adhesion to the Commonwealth when other Scots abhorred it, and of his good services in Scotland to it and the Protectorate since.

But, as his proper place was in Edinburgh, it was ordered, Dec.