Scobell and Jessop, as "Clerks to the Council," though under Thurloe too, are now important enough to be jointly at the head of a separate staff; the Bailiff or Constable department is separate from theirs, and under the charge of Mr.Sergeant-at-Arms Dendy; and minor divisions of service, nameable as Ushership and Barge-attendance, are under the charge of Messrs.
Scutt and Nutt respectively.

The payments of salaries are henceforward not to be vaguely through Mr.Gualter Frost, as Treasurer for the Council's Contingencies, but by warrants to the Treasury to pay regularly to the several heads the definite sums-total in their departments, their own salaries included.
Milton's case was evidently treated as a peculiar one.

It was certainly proposed that his allowance should be reduced from L288 18_s._ 6_d._ a year, which had hitherto been its rate, to L150 a year--i.e.by nearly one half.

Most of us perhaps are disappointed by this, and would have preferred to hear that Milton's allowance had been doubled or tripled under the Protectorate,--made equal, say, to Thurloe's.

Records must stand as they are, however, and must be construed coolly.