| Description | Payments charged against a sum of £2458.10.1, part proceeds of £4000 granted in October 1696. Signed Braguier. Examined on 29 December 1701 and signed by Willm. Fawkener and John Denew.
This account relates to a sum of £4000, in the form of tallies on the hereditary and temporal excise, delivered to the Committee in October 1696 under an Exchequer warrant dated 6 October. As to sell these tallies would have involved the Committee in considerable loss, it lodged the tallies with the Threadneedle Street Church against an immediate loan of £2085.10.9, which was spent on urgent needs. This sum was accounted for in the missing no. 1 account, and would have related to a period prior to December 1696.
Subsequently, the Threadneedle Street Church sold the tallies for a sum which enabled it, after deducting the amount of the loan and interest, to pay a balance amounting to £2458.10.1 to the Committee, which is the sum accounted for in this account book. In fact, the Committee overspent its income by £29.16.0.
Categories of relief:
1) Persons of quality
2) Of the middle condition
3) Special grants
4) Of the meaner sort, block grants
Note the reference to the distributors of relief in 1696 - Paul la [Coze] and Thomas Bureau in the Spitalfields district, and Mr Hayer and John Sabatier in the Soho district (pp. 38-39).
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