Record of money distributed to proselytes, with signatures of recipients 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. 27 Feb 1730-10 Feb 1772