| Description | Payments amounting to £4283.19.11 charged against a sum of £4204 net (£7500 gross) from the Parliamentary Fund granted to the King in March 1696. Signed Braguier. Examined on 12 December 1701 and signed by Willm. Fawkener and John Denew.
This may be the earliest account of the Parliamentary grant to survive: the set in the Guildhall does not contain a copy.
Cover title: '1696. An account of assistance made to the poor French Protestant refugies out of ye Parliamentary Fund granted to the King's most Excellent Majesty, in March 1696, for ye relief of ye said poor in ye said year, the distribution whereof was made by ye French Committee according to ye Regulation made by ye Rt. Honble. ye Lords appointed by his Majesty directors over this charity amounting to £4283.19.11. No. 2'
An explanation of the account appears on p. 1: 'Receiv'd out of forty tallys, four thousand two hundred and four pounds in mill'd money, which said forty tallyes were with nine more deliver'd to ye said French Committee by Edwd. Nicholas Esqr. and did amount to £7500 but being on ye hereditary and temporal excise they were by consent of ye Rt. Honble. the Lords Directors sold at a great loss as apears [sic] p. the particulars hereunto annex'd £4204.00.0'.
Income £4204, expenditure £4283.19.11, balance due to the Committee £79.19.11. This balance was carried to the credit of the Committee in the no. 1 account of the 1687 grant.
Categories of relief:
1) Persons of quality
2) Of the middle condition
3) Of the meaner sort, block grants
4) Special grants
In the third category, block grants from December 1696 onwards are included under the two heads 'poor French people inhabiting about Spittlefields' and 'poor French people inhabiting about Soho' (p. 29).
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