Mr.
Scobell L500 _per annum_, Mr.Jessop L500 _per annum_; for the salaries of--clerks attending their office at 6_s._ 8_d._ _per diem_ (which together amount to -- --): amounting in the whole to ---- "To Mr, Edward Dendy, Serjeant at Arms attending the Council:--For his own office after the proportion of L365 _per annum_; for the salaries of his _ten_ deputies at 3_s._ 4_d._ _per diem_ a piece (which together amount to L608 6_s._ 8_d._); amounting in the whole to L973 6 8 "To Richard Scutt, Usher of the Council Chamber:--For himself and his assistants at 13_s._ _per diem_, (being L237 5_s_, _per annum_); for Thomas Bennett's salary, keeper of the back-door of the Council Chamber, at 4_s.

per diem_ (being L73 _per annum_); for the salary of Robert Stebbin, fire-maker to the clerks, at 2_s.

per diem_ (being L36 10_s.

per annum_): amounting in the whole to L346 15 0 "The first payment of the said several and respective sums before-mentioned to commence from the 1st of April instant.
"To Richard Nutt, master of his Highness's barge:--For his own office after L80 _per annum;_ for Thomas Washborne, his assistant, for his salary, after L20 _per annum;_ for the salaries of 25 watermen to attend his Highness's barge, at L4 _per annum_ to each (amounting together to L100 _per annum_): amounting in the whole to L200 _per ann._ "The same to commence from 25th March, 1655." Clearly the Council were in a mood of economy.

Not only were certain salaries to be reduced, but a good many outlays were to be stopped altogether, including Needham's subsidy or pension for his journalistic services.