| Description | The main body of the manuscript is concerned with the sums contributed by the French Committee and the Committee for Ministers or the Ecclesiastical Committee and paid out to proselytes from 1730 to 1764, and further payments to a few pensioners, ending with one to the last survivor, Sarah Palmieri, a widow, on 10 February 1772.
From 25 February 1730 to September 1740 this record was kept by a clerk or other officer who received wages for distributing the grant. And up to August 1739 the funds for paying the proselytes came from the French Committee and Degulhon.
From 1740 to 1764 such funds came from the French Committee and Tirel and Lefevre (Treasurers of the Ecclesiastical Committee). And in 1740 a change appears to have taken place: the French Committee paid out the grants, and were re-imbursed as to one-fifth by the Ecclesiastical Committee up to 17 March 1764. After this date no receipts of funds are recorded and it is likely that the few pensioners remaining were paid out by the French Committee. |
| AdminHistory | When the system of relief to proselytes set up in 1717 was abandoned in 1730, there was a reversion to earlier practice. Special provisions were made for the existing beneficiaries and this manuscript is the record of payments made under these provisions. It begins with a recital of the warrant of 20 February 1730 effecting the change; a list of the beneficiaries and the amount each was to receive; and the orders laid down for payment of these and relief of future proselytes, by the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London, 18 February 1730. These orders enacted that the then proselytes were to be paid, by persons appointed by the French Committee and Captain Degulhon, such amounts as the French Committee and the Committee for the Ministers had contributed since the reduction of the bounty. No new names were to be added to the list prescribed; money not paid out, for persons who died or for other reasons, were to be returned to the general fund for all refugees. Future proselytes were to apply to 'the French Chappels' as they did before 1717, who would receive them as they thought fit. |