last to the 15th of this instant May"; and the subsequent series of warrants in Needham's favour is complete to the end of the Protectorate.[1] Again, Mr.George Vaux, whom our present order seems to discharge from his house-keepership of Whitehall, is found alive in that post and in receipt of his salary of L150 a year for it to as late as Oct.

1659.[2] There must, therefore, have been a reconsideration of the Order by the Council, or between the Council and the Protector, with modifications of the several proposals.

The proposal to raise the salaries of Scobell and Jessop from L365 a year to L500 a year each must, indeed, have been made good,--for Scobell and Jessop's successor in the colleagueship to Scobell are found afterwards in receipt of L500 a year.[3] But, on the same evidence, we have to conclude that the reductions proposed in the cases of Mr.Gualter Frost and Milton were _not_ confirmed, or were confirmed only _partially_.

Frost is found afterwards distinctly in receipt of L365 a year,[4] The actual reduction, in his case, therefore, was not from L400 to L300, as had been proposed, but only from L400 to L365, or back to what his salary had been formerly (Vol.IV.

575-578).