| Description | Account of the proceeds of sundry subscriptions and collections amounting to £880.17.0, and their distribution for purposes of relief from 12 October 1690 to April 1691.
Cover title: 'Conte rendu au Committee francois, le 13e Avril 1691. No. 2'.
Beginning: 'Conte de la recepte et depense tant des derniers proceddans [sic] dans souscriptions et collectes faites pour la subsistance des Protestans [sic] francois refugiez, que de partie de ceux destinez pour la rachapt des captifs a Alger''.
Receipts consist mainly of the balance of a previous account (no. 1, now missing) amounting to £669.5.2. The remainder comes from collections in churches and private benefactions, including a sum of £14.5.0 collected to ransom captives in Algiers. Outgoings in relief amount to £831.12.11. The account was signed on 13 April 1691 by T Satur, Minister; Piozet, Minister; J Le Plastrier; Paul Chaillet; De Marmande. A few names of individuals occur amongst the payments. See W A Shaw, 'The English government and the relief of Protestant refugees', Huguenot Society Proceedings, vol. V (1898), pp. 343-423, in which 'autres sommes' received by the Committee since 1 November 1689 are listed (p. 352, n. 14). |