But more appears from the document.

In spite of the general tendency to retrenchment, the salaries of Scobell and Jessop, the two clerks of the Council, are to be raised from L365 a year to L500 a year.

This alone would suggest that not retrenchment only, but an improvement also in the system of the Council's business, was intended.

The document as a whole confirms that idea.
It maps out the service of the Council more definitely than hitherto into departments.

Thurloe, of course, is general head, styled now "Secretary of State"; but it will be observed that the department of Foreign Affairs, including the management of Intelligence from abroad, is spoken of as now wholly and especially his, and that Meadows, with the designation of "Secretary for the Latin Tongue," ranks distinctly under him in that department.