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December 12. For defraying the extraordinary expence of services
performed by the office of Ordnance for land fervice, and not pro-
vided for by Parliament, in 1758

-For the ordinary of the Navy, including the half-pay to fea Officers
-Towards the fupport of the royal hospital at Greenwich, upon ac-

count

December 18. For defraying the charge of 38,000 men, of the troops
of Hanover, Wolfenbuttel, Saxe Gotha, and Count of Buckeburg,
together with that of General and Staff Officers
-For the charge of 2120 horfe, and 9900 foot, with the General and
Staff Officers, &c. the troops of the Landgrave of Heffe Caffel
-For the charges of forage, bread, bread-waggons, train of artil-
lery, and of provifions, wood, ftraw, &c. and other extraordinary
expences and contingencies of his Majefty's combined army under
the command of Prince Ferdinand, upon account, as a prefent
fupply

December 19. Towards paying off and discharging the debt of the

navy

January 22, 1759. For defraying the charge for allowances to the
feveral Officers and private Gentlemen of the two troops of horse-
guards, and regiment of horse reduced, and to the fuperannuated
Gentlemen of the four troops of horse-guards

-Upon account of the reduced Officers of the land forces and marines
-For the paying of penfions to the widows of such reduced Officers
of the land forces and marines
January 29. For enabling his Majefty to make good his engagements
with the King of Pruffia, pursuant to a convention concluded De-
cember the 7th, 1758

-For defraying the charge of what remains to be paid for 2120 horse,
and 9900 foot, with the General and Staff Officers, &c. the troops
of the Landgrave of Heffe Caffel, for 365 days, from the 25th of
December, 1758, to the 24th of December, 1759, together with
the fubfidy for the faid time, pursuant to treaty
-For defraying the charge of an additional corps of 920 horfe, and
6072 foot, with the General and Staff Officers, &c. the troops of
the Landgrave of Heffe Caffel, for 365 days, from the 1ft of Ja-
nuary, 1759, to the 31st of December following, pursuant to treaty
-For enabling his Majefty to make good his engagements with the
Landgrave of Heffe Caffel, pursuant to the feparate article belong-
ing to a treaty, concluded January the 17th, 1759
-For enabling his Majefty to difcharge a fum, raised in pursuance
of an act of the laft feffion of Parliament, charged upon the first
aids or fupplies to be granted in this feffion of Parliament
-Towards the buildings, rebuildings, and repairs of his Majefty's ships
January 31. For the out-penfioners of Chelsea hofpital, upon account
February 6. Towards the improving, widening, and enlarging the
paffage over and through London bridge
February 8. Towards enabling the Governors and Guardians of the
Foundling-hofpital to receive all children under a certain age, and
also to maintain and educate fuch as are now under their care
February 22. For the charge of transport service for the year 1758,
including the expence of victualling his Majefty's land forces within
the faid year

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February 26. For fupporting and maintaining the fettlement of Nova
Scotia, upon account

-For defraying the charges incurred, by fupporting and maintain-
ing the fettlement of Nova Scotia, in the year 1757, not provided
for by Parliament

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February 26. For defraying the charges of the civil establishment of
Georgia, and other incidental expences attending the fame, from
the 24th of June, 1758, to the 24th of June, 1759
March 19. For replacing to the finking Fund a like fum paid out of
the fame, to make good the deficiency on the 5th of July, 1758, of
the additional ftamp-duty on licences for retailing wine, duty on
coals exported, and furplus of the duty on licences for retailing fpi-
rituous liquors, made a fund by an act 30 George II, for paying
annuities, &c.

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For replacing to the finking Fund a like fum paid out of the fame,
to make good the deficiency on the 5th of July, 1758, of the duties
on glass and fpirituous liquors, to answer annuities on fingle lives,
payable at the Exchequer, granted by an act 19 George II.
For maintaining and fupporting the British forts and fettlements
upon the coaft of Africa'

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-For paying Roger Long, D. D. Lowndes's aftronomical and
metrical Profeffor in the univerfity of Cambridge, &c.
March 29. Towards defraying the charge of pay and cloathing for
the militia, from the 31st of December, 1758, to the the 25th of
March, 1760, and for repaying to his Majefty the fum of
13321. 10s. advanced for the fe:vice of the militia
Towards enabling the Governors and Guardians of the Foundling-
hofpital to receive all fuch children, under a certain age, as fhall
be brought to the hospital before the ift of January, 1760; and
alfo towards enabling them to maintain and educate thofe now un-
der their care

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April 2. For defraying the extraordinary expences of his Majefty's Jand forces, and other fervices incurred in the year 1758, and not provided for by Parliament

April 10. For enabling the Commiffioners, appointed by virtue of an act made in the laft feffion of Parliament, to make compenfation to the proprietors of lands purchased at and near Chatham, and for damage done to the lands adjacent

-For making compenfation to the proprietors of lands purchased at and near Portsmouth, &c.

-For ditto at and near Plymouth

Towards carrying on the works for fortifying and securing the harbour of Milford

April 12. For paying and discharging the debts claimed upon the forfeited eftates in Scotland

April 30. Towards enabling the East India Company to defray the expence of a military force in their fettlements, in lieu of the battalion of his Majefty's forces withdrawn from thence, and now returned to Ireland

For enabling his Majefty to give a proper compenfation to the refpective provinces in North America, for the expences incurred by

them

May 10. For paying the victuallers and innholders of the county and town of Southampton, &c. the expences they were put to by the Heffian troops

-For making good the like fum, iffued, by his Majefty, to the Judges of England, Scotland, and Wales, in augmentation of their falaries For making good the like fum, iffted to Jane Hardinge, widow, &c. for printing journals of the Houfe of Commons May 21. For making good the intereft of the feveral principal fums, to be paid in pursuance of an act of the 31st of his prefent Majefty's reign, for the purchase of several lands, &c. for the better fecuring his Majefty's docks, fhips, &c.

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GEORGE Lord DIGBY Earl of BRISTO Printed for I. Hinton at the King's Arms in Newgate

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May 21. For defraying the charges, incurred in pursuance of the

faid act

May 24. For enabling his Majefty to defray any extraordinary expences of the war, &c.

Sum total of fupplies granted by the laft feffion of Parliament

Total of the grants in 1758

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12,749,860 19 57

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7,229,117 14 62 4,073,779 II 6

The HISTORY of ENGLAND (Vol. XXIV, Page 263.) continued.
With a fine Head of George Lord Digby, Earl of Briftol.

4. As for Gawen, though he could not pofitively fay he faw him at the confult, yet he faw his hand subscribed to the refolve; and that, in July 1678, he gave them in London an account how profperous, their affairs were in Staffordshire and Shropfhire; that the Lord Stafford was very diligent, and that there were two or three thoufand pounds ready there to carry on the defign; all which he afterwards heard him declare, in father Ireland's chamber.'

Stephen Dugdale, a new witness, depo

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1. Against Whitebread, that he faw a letter under his hand to father Evers, a Jefuit, and confeffor to the witnefs; in which he ordered him to be fure to chufe men that were hardy and trufty, no matter whether they were Gentlemen: And he fwore what they were to do; that the words under his hand were in express terms,For killing the King.

2. Against Gawen he swore, that he entertained the witness to be of the confpiracy to murder the King, as one of thofe refolute fellows defcribed by Whitebread; and for that end they had feveral confultations in the country, as at Bofcobel, and at Tixall, in September 1678. And he heard them talk, in one of thofe confults, that it was the opinion of the monks at Paris, who were to affift in the confpiracy, That, as foon as the deed was done, they should lay it on the Presbyterians, and fo provoke the other Proteftants to cut their throats. That he had intercepted and read above a hundred letters to the fame purpose, to be delivered by private marks, known to father Evers.

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he was to be fent up to London by Harcourt, there to be inftructed about killing the King.

6 4. That the fame Harcourt did write word, to father Evers, of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey's being dispatched, that very night. it was done; fo that they knew of it, in Staffordshire, feveral days before it was commonly known in London. And, to confirm this teftimony, he produced Mr. Chetwin, a Gentleman, who swore he did hear it reported, as from Mr. Dugdale; and that he was not in town, when the murderers of Sir Edmundbury Godfrey were tried, or else he then would have witneffed the fame.

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5. Against Turner he fwore, That he faw him, with others, at Evers's chamber; where they confulted together to carry on this defign of bringing in Popery by killing the King." Prance depofed, That Harcourt, one day, paying him for an image of the Virgin Mary, told him there was a defign of killing the King: 2. And that Fenwick told him, in Ireland's chamber, that there fhould be fifty thousand men in arms, in a readiness to fettle their religion, and that they fhould be commanded by the Lords Bellafis, Powis, and Arundel of Wardour."

Bedloe depofed, 1. That he had seen Whitebread and Fenwick at feveral confults about the plot; and that he had heard Whitebread, at Harcourt's chamber, tell Coleman the manner of fending the four ruffians to Windsor to kill the King.

2. That he faw Harcourt take out of a cabinet about fourfcore or a hundred pounds, to give to a meffenger, to be carried to the faid ruffians; with a guinea to the meffenger, to drink Mr. Coleman's health.

3. That Whitebread told him, that

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