Milton's _Latin Secretaryship Extraordinary_ or _Foreign Secretaryship Extraordinary_ may have begun to seem to Thurloe an excrescence upon his own general _Secretaryship of State_, and he may have desired that Milton should retire altogether, and leave the Latin Secretaryship complete to Meadows as his own special subordinate in the foreign department.
The document, however, we have to add farther, though it purports to be an Order of Council, did not actually or fully take effect.

I find, for example, that Needham's pension or subsidy of L100 a year, which is one of the outlays the document proposed to "retrench and take away," did not suffer a whit.

He went on drawing his salary, sometimes quarterly and sometimes half-yearly, just as before, and precisely in the same form, viz.

by warrant from President Lawrence and six others of the Council to Mr.Frost to pay Mr.Needham so much out of the Council's Contingencies.

Thus on May 24, 1655, or five weeks after the date of the present Order, there was a warrant to Frost to pay Needham L50, "being for half a year's salary due unto him from the 15th of Nov.