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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2" d S. IX. April 7. '60. 



appeares) some hundred of times, oblig'd to repaire to 

 London *, to visite y e several Hospitals, Prisons, and other 

 places; besids the p'petual danger he was hourly ex- 

 pos'd to, in passing thro' the whole City during the two 

 first wars; necessitated to waite on the old Duke of Al- 

 bemarle at the Cockpit f, constantly once sometimes 

 twise, every weeke to receive Orders, and to p'cure 

 monys of the Receiver, and cary downe Slops, bundles of 

 Linnen and other accouiodacons, when Ten Thousand 

 died weekly of the contagion; And that all his Bro. 

 Com™ shifted for themselves, and left him here alone to 

 take care and charge of y« Service, in w ch they were 

 alike concerned w th himselfe For they had all their pe- 

 culiar Districts equaly assing'd them. London & its In- 

 fected Skirts, was every ones Provence ; But w ch had hee 

 deserted, or not p'sonaly supply'd, multitudes of poore 

 sick and wounded Seamen of our owne and Prisoners of 

 y« Dutch must inevitably have perished. Two of his 

 Martials imploy'd at Leeds Castle & Chelsy Prison (who 

 had frequent recourse to him) dying of y" Plague, and 

 one who came to him w ,h the Tokens upon him : For all 

 w ch dangers and Services, and vncessant motions (vseing 

 bis owne Coach & Horses onely) he never put one peny to 

 Ace' leving it to your Lp* consideracon But to his Asto- 

 nishm 1 finding halfe his real charges at once cutt of w ch 

 had he vouched by particular Bills & Reconings of In- 

 keepers & private houses where he was nftt-n fore'd to 

 Lodge, during the Contagion and since, would consider- 

 ably have surmounted the. full of forty shillings V diem 

 allowance to w ch notw ,h standing the Com" confined their 

 Expences to p'vent y° least excesse Tho'he hopes he 

 might (w ll> out imodesty) aledge that some favour might 

 be had to the Persons then employ'd (of whom y r Pet r 

 was the meanest) and most exposed S r Thomas Clifford 

 (afterwards L d high Trear) S r W m D'Oyby S r Geo. 

 Downing Barts and others : who hardly could have tra- 

 velled for 20* a days allowance All w ch consider'd it is 

 humbly hoped your Lop» will w th some distinction have 

 rcguard to the many hazards and fatigues of y r Pet r and 

 not make him a precedent to those Gentlemen who may 

 possibly hereafter be better husbands w th lesse danger. 



" As to the Sallary of the last year (of w ch your Lop 8 

 have abated three quarters) tho' the Warr and hostility 

 were ended : Yet was neither his Journey's nor trouble 



* " Having taken orders with my marshal about my 

 prisoners, and with the doctor and chirurgeon to attend 

 the wounded enemies, and»of our own men, 1 went to 

 London again and visited my charge, several with legs 

 and arms off; miserable objects, God knows I " (April 28, 

 1605.) 



" 16 ,h May. To London, to consider of the poor orphans 

 and widows made by this bloody beginning, and whose 

 husbands and relations perished in the London frigate, of 

 which there were fifty widows, and forty-five of them 

 with child." (Diary, vol. i. p. 393.) 



f " To London, to speak with his Majest}', and the 

 Duke of Albemarle for horse and foot guards for the pri- 

 soners at war, committed more particularly to my charge by 

 a commission apart." (June 5, 1665), Diary, vol. i. p. 394. 



" I went again to his Grace, thence to the Council, and 

 moued for another privy seal for £20,000, and that I 

 might have the disposal of the Savoy Hospital for the 

 sick and wounded ; all which was granted." (June 8, 

 1665), Diary, vol. i. p. 394. 



" I waited on the Duke of Albemarle, who was resolved 

 to stay at the Cock-pit, in St. James's Park." (August 8, 

 1665)", Diary, vol. i. p. 396. 



" My Lord-Admiral being come from the fleet to 

 Greenwich, I went thence with him to the Cockpit, to 

 consult with the Duke of Albemarle." (September 25, 

 1665), Diary, vol. i. p. 397. 



at an end whilst acct" & arrears were to be examined & 

 adjusted w th Deputy Chirurgions, Martials, Nurses & 

 others upon the places, til M r Gibson was Cofnission'd by 

 my L d Trear to discharge what was owing at all the 

 Ports, and requir'd y r Pet™ attendance. This therefore 

 he presumed and well hop'd might reasonably have ben 

 cast in, as some Recompence for his former services and 

 Expences for which he also brought nothing to y° Publiq 

 Ace' during either War. 



" May yo r Lop' therefore be pleas'd in consideracon of 

 the p'misses not onely to allow of his full & just ace 1 but 

 so to rep'sent it to his Gratious Mat' 10 That the Fine 

 of £150 for making up y e p'sent terme of his Lease for 

 certain Lands neer Deptford from the Crowne may be 

 Install'd and defalked out of the Debt still remaining 

 due from the Crowne, to y r Pet" wifes Father S r Richard 

 Browne to whom the Inheritance of that Estate was 

 solemnly p'mised by his late Ma ,ie King Charles the 2 ;1 

 for his long faithfull and chargable services abroad, dur- 

 ing the space of Nineteen yeares in w ch he spent his owne 

 patrimonial Estate (as is well known to my L d Godol- 

 phin S r S"> Fox and the rest of the late L d » Com") and 

 the remaining debt to be truely stated audited & allow'd 

 and that by Warr' from y» L d Trear to the auditor of y" 

 Excheq 1 for paym* thereof. But w ch S r Richards tedious 

 sickness and death hindering his Application is still owing 

 to y r Lop" Petitioner. 



"Due to y r Pet" wife as") 

 Heiresse to her father S r Richard (.5040 

 Browne as y ace' Audited & al- [ 

 low'd .-- -J 







1 To him more for his Sallary") 

 it Clerk of the Council, > 



587 10 



J-6685 10 



as Eldest v^ieiis. 01 uw uvuuhji /- 



by grant und r y e G" Seale, &c. -J 



' " Due to y r Pef for a Loane of 250 j 

 w ,h Interest as by Tally dated Nov. 16<1 in all besides 

 interest. 



" Which two last Sumes were duely payd to all the rest 

 of y e Clearks of y° Council excepting to S r Richard 

 Brown and y r Peticoner." 



This petition was submitted to the Lords of the 

 Treasury on 6th March, 170-i, and the result of 

 their decision appears from the following note on 

 the back of the document : — 



"6 Mar. 1701. 

 "My Lords will allow him 30 ,h a day for travel I' 

 charges but no Sallary after his Com " determined." 



Out of honour to the name, I have thus placed 

 Evelyn's petition at the head of a series of histo- 

 rical documents selected from the old papers of 

 H.M. Treasury, to which valuable class of records 

 I have not unfrequently called attention in these 

 pages, and which series I believe will be found 

 interesting. Time will not allow me to do more 

 than lay the documents themselves before the 

 readers of " N. & Q.," with just such a notice of 

 the more salient points as the necessity of the 

 case may require ; but if any one (and there are 

 not a few) cau and will kindly supply farther 

 illustrations from other sources, such additional 

 information will be as acceptable to me, as the do- 

 cuments themselves will doubtless be to those who 

 have hitherto been strangers to them. 



William Henry Hart. 



Folkestone House, Roupell Park, Streatham. 



