fifty six thousand one hundred seventy two pound clear to the Kings use The Sum also which the Author of the State calls Eight Millions two hundred seventy six thousand seven hundred sixty seven pounds accounting from Easter 73 to Lady-day 79 ought to be ten millions eight hundred sixty seven thousand one hundred twenty six pound betwixt the 23d of June 73 and Lady-day 79. He knows likewise amongst the supplies which this Examiner tells you were given by Parliament viz. Â Li. The 18 Months Tax amounting to 1238750 The Tax for building the Thirty Ships 0584978 On the fifth Part of the Excise 0200000 The Poll Act 0252900 The first Act for Disbanding the Army and other uses 0619388 In all 2896016 That the two hundred thousand pound mentioned on the 5th Part of the Excise is accounted double being part of the six hundred and nineteen thousand three hundred eighty eight pounds so grosly wilful or ignorant are the mistakes in his Calculations and one hundred fifty two thousand seven hundred fifty seven pounds part of the said six hundred and nineteen thousand three hundred eighty eight pounds is not within the foresaid sum of ten millions eight hundred sixty seven thousand one hundred twenty six pounds because so much of the said six hundred and nineteen thousand three hundred eighty eight pound was not come into the Exchequer in my time His next Head is about secret Service where he talks of a compound of mistakes but shews not one but in himself for to make proof of what he says he affirms that my Pension of eight thousand pound per Ann as Lord Treasurer was never included in secret Service whereas it was never paid otherwise until Michaelmas 1676. and by a Warrant dated the 12th of July 1676. which I procured to expresse the particular Service nor in all my Lord Southampton and Lord Clifford's time and I think the Lords Commissioners was it ever otherwise than by secret Service so that to use his own phrase in that Paragraph it will be seen to whom this instance is most unlucky Indeed he semes offended that the Exchequer does not know all the uses to which Money is applyed under the Head of Secret Service which is an Imposition that the Examiner who ever he be would be loth to have put upon himself in his own Expences how regular soever those may be For the sum of Secret Service delivered in Parliament I do not know when he means that delivery unless it were at the time of my Impeachment when by the Articles of that impeachment I was charg'd with having laid out the sum of two hundred thirty one thousand six hundred and two pound for Secret Service in two years which must then be meant from Christmas 76. to the time of my said Charge which was the 23d of December 78. But as that would have appeared to have been a very wrong Computation which was then given to the House of Commons so it will appear by Sir Robert Howard's Certificate that the Examiner is as much mistaken in his Computation of two hundred fifty two thousand four hundred sixty seven pound for Secret Service in the space of two years and three months there being no such sum in that time but I find two hundred fifty two thousand four hundred sixty seven pounds to be the just sum accounted under the Head of Secret Service in three compleat years viz. from Lady-day 76. to Lady-day 79. which amounts but to eighty four thousand one hundred fifty five pound thirteen shillings and four pence a year and is a sum I should not have thought a man expressing so much Service and Duty to his Majesty would have wondered at though it had all been laid out in the space of three years without giving him or any body else an account of it but had there been an opportunity for that account I had shewed and am at all times ready to shew and prove with his Majesties leave that fifty seven thousand seven hundred sixty three pounds at least of that sum hath been disburst for publick uses and then the remainder of this pretended grievance has been at most but one hundred ninety four thousand seven hundred and four pound in three whole years which has been but at the rate of sixty four thousand nine hundred and one pound six shillings and eight pence a year After all these Computations and Proofs pretended to by the Examiner he confesses Page the 13th That no demonstrative Argument is to be framed from the Particulars he has mentioned but will therefore betake him to Generals for the sure Proof of all which I believe is the first time of such an Undertaking and shews sufficiently how falsly this Examiner pretends to the knowledge of Exchequer Accounts When he comes to this plain Account of Generals he says he has a Copy of a Paper dated the 10th of June 73. under Sir Philip Floyd 's hand which would not pass for a Proof in this Case if it were true but that I might know the truth of it I writ to Sir Philip Floyd and had this following answer from him by which it appears both how much Sir Philip has been abused by the said printed Paper and how different a State was made up by Sir Robert Howard my then Secretary the 21st of June 73 which was but two days after my having the Staff A Copy of Sir Philip Floyds Letter to the Earl of Danby the 18th of March 1679 80. My Lord I Have received the Honour of your Lordships Letter of the 15th Instant and in answer to it I do hereby assure your Lordship that I have at no time given any State of the Revenue to any Person but to such as from time to time have been my Superiours in the Treasury and as for this thing in particular which is printed in a Phamphlet under the Title of An Examination of the Impartial State of the Case of the Earl of Danby and called a Copy of the Condition of the Revenue as it was left by the late Lord Treasurer Clifford and said to be procured under my hand I do declare to your Lordship that my name is abused in it and to convince your Lordship that such a Copy could never come from me give me leave to say that I have Examined such Papers as I have by me concerning the Revenue when your Lordship received the Staff and I find it to be false almost in every particular As for Instance I find the Customs were left charg'd with 245905 l. 19 s. 3 d. besides the weekly charge for Tangier Vpon the Excise I find 201148 l. 13 s. 8 d. Vpon the Hearth-Money 22318 l. 11 s. 0 d. The Law-Bill left quite useless and which is far different from the Examiners printed State And then for the three last quarters of the Tax they were not left clear neither as the Examiner is pleased to say For the first quarter of those three I find to have
done to that in pag. 6. wherein he says That the Rebellion in Virginia ceased quickly and while both that Rebellion and the War with Algiers hapned if there had been a considerable Fleet for Summer and Winter Guards kept out besides it had been a matter of some consideration So that where he cannot possibly deny the Facts he endeavours to blemish them by something else But in this instance that will not serve his turn the Summer and Winter Guards having been as great as the need was then for them and the Merchants will be the best Judges how their Trade was then secured as well as how that War was supported against the Algerines With this state of the Revenue at Lady-day 79. viz. that the Debt then upon it amounted to one million four hundred eighty five thousand five hundred seventy pound sixteen shillings and four pence the Examiner ends his Computations concerning the Treasury the truth of which will be best decided by the Records themselves But before he closes that part of his Book he thinks fit to leave his Civil Remarks to the Reader about me and threatens me with Ballads which by his stile it looks as if he could perform much better than matters of Account Having gone through the matters of Fact mentioned in this first part of the Examiners Paper I should take notice of some of his suggestions before I proceed to the other part of it but those being only Observations of his own who has dealt so unfaithfully in things which are visible upon Record I think it will not be necessary to say any thing to them only I will inform the Reader that whereas this Examiner says that the Office of Treasurer of the Navy depends upon the Lord Treasurer or Commissioners of the Treasury for money to pay yet those Supplies I received whilst I was Treasurer of the Navy were two parts of three in Orders and Assignments and left upon me to borrow Money as I could upon them insomuch that most of my time and care was then employed in that work although I made it far more easie afterwards to the present Treasurer of the Navy while I remained Lord Treasurer I must likewise desire the Reader to observe that although this Examiner insinuates pag. 3. that it would puzzle the Author of the State to name any persons who were of opinion that the Kings condition was in great straits for money in the first six Months after my being Treasurer yet that is not only true but is testified to be so by that state of the Revenue drawn up by Sir Robert Howard the 21st of June 73 which is mentioned in Sir Philip Floyd's Letter for he thereby makes appear as hath been said already that the Expence of that year which in the Establishments is always accounted to commence in January does exceed the Income of the said year by the sum of one million one hundred sixty three thousand four hundred pounds Now besides that State of Sir Robert Howard's my then Secretary I am confident the King and his Royal Highness will both remember the straits of the Treasury to be then such and the difficulty so great to get money for paying off the Fleet at the end of the War that it was doubted whether some Ships must not have been sent out of the River to Sea again only for want of Money to pay them and although means was used to discharge the Seamen of that Fleet without Tickets yet most of the Money was borrowed which was raised for that purpose and not without great hardship as the credit of the Exchequer stood at that time I know his Majesty will also remember that in March 1675 a state of his Revenue was delivered to himself from Sir Robert Howard which state is remaining in my custody a Copy whereof is hereunto annexed wherein Sir Robert sets forth to his Majesty that his Revenue was then in so ill a condition that it could afford him clear but six hundred fifty six thousand one hundred seventy two pound that year insomuch that it was thereupon proposed by him to help his Majesty to eight thousand pound a Week in aid of his Revenue for his subsistance and upon a condition to have all the three great Branches put into the hands of such Undertakers as should be named to his Majesty In so strait a condition was the Exchequer understood to be so many years ago by those who certainly ought to know the Condition of it much better than the Examiner and therefore it puzzles no body but himself to name persons who were of that opinion A Copy of the Paper delivered to his Majesty from Sir Robert Howard the 5th of March 1675.  li. s. d. ob The Sum that seems the foundation and measure from whence the Suspentions are made is 1351968 00 00  The Sum remaining after the Suspention made is 1175315 00 06  The Sum suspended is 0176653 00 06  The last years expences amounted to 1841931 18 02  Out of which the Navy had 0599320 04 11 ½ Spent the last year besides what the Navy had 1242611 13 02 ½ The Sum of Expence after the Suspentions made for a following year is 1175315 01 06  The Income for the following Year to discharge the Expence of 1175315 l. 1 s. 6 d. may arise from these Branches  li. Charge li. Customs 600000  100000 †The rest of the Excise is charged Excise by the moity of Pentions 050000   First Fruits 10ths 016000   Law-Duty 015000   Small Branches 020000  010000 Hearth-Duty 150000  082828 Toto 851000 Toto 194828 The clear Income remaining is 0656172 00 00 The Income short of the proportioned Expence by 0519143 01 06 He proceeds page 16 to Affairs of State in answer to which I shall trouble my self no farther than to shew his false Quotations of my Letter of the 25th of March 1678. and of the Book called The State of my Case as to so much therein as concerns that Letter leaving the malicious Inferences and Observations through this Part as well as the rest of his Pamphlet to such as are more ingenuous and more knowing in Foreign Business than I perceive the Examiner is of which this one Instance may suffice Of his Belief that the French Interest was promoted by the Marriage of the Lady Mary to the Prince of Orange Besides his frequent applying of things to me which are not only untrue but not so applyed by the Author of that State he takes the liberty to affirm that some things are in my Letter of the 25th of March which are not in it and that they are said to be so by the said Author of the State although there be not such a word in his Book and he makes one of the said false assertions a principal foundation not only of accusing me but of aspersing the King to the greatest degree imaginable whilst he would
been charg'd with 21163 l. 6 s. 8 d. before your Lordships time and of the whole of those three quarters there came only five hundred sixty five thousand odd hundred pounds into the Exchequer I could enlarge upon the errors and falshood of this Pamphlet concerning the Revenue in many other particulars but having as I humbly conceive fully answered your Lordships Commands in assuring you and shewing to your Lordship that no such Copy as the Examiner hath Printed could come from me I will give your Lordship no further trouble with any remarks of my own upon it but take leave only to remember your Lordship of a Paper which I have seen in your Lordships hands of better Authority than any thing that I can say Which is a State of the Revenue presented to your Lordship by Sir Robert Howard the 21st of June 1673. which was two days after you entered upon your Office wherein having stated the Income of the Ordinary Revenue and the Expences for that year by way of Debtor and Creditor he finds the Expence would exceed the Income by the Sum of 1163400 l. and there is no doubt but Sir Robert Howard who was furnish'd with all the means of making a true Calculation did take care to do so And that in my humble opinion my Lord will be of considerable use to your Lordship to shew the mistakes of this Examiner I beg your Lordships pardon for this long trouble and am My Lord Your Lordships most obedient and most Humble Servant Philloyd Having perused the said State of the Revenue mentioned in Sir Philip Floyd's Letter which was given me by Sir Robert Howard the 21st of June 73. and remains in my Custody I find it to agree exactly with Sir Philip's Letter both in the Calculation of the expence of the Year 1673. to exceed the Income of that year by the Sum of one million one hundred sixty three thousand four hundred pound and in the Sums which were left Charg'd upon the three great Branches of the Revenue by my Lord Clifford nor could any Copy of the said printed Paper come from his Lordship because there is not one half of it true Besides this Examiner is not only ignorant of things in the Treasury but he does not know the Officers of it at that time for he mentions a Letter from Mr. Mounteney dated the 10th of November 73 and says it was directed to Sir Robert Howard then Secretary to the Treasury whereas Mr. Bartie was then my Secretary and not Sir Robert Howard The Examiner closes his report concerning the Treasury Pages 14 and 15 wherein he pretends to shew First That the Revenue was left charged with less than three hundred thousand pound advance Money excepted at the time of my Lord Cliffords leaving his Place Secondly that there was nine hundred forty two thousand five hundred pound then left in Money And Thirdly that the said Revenue was computed to be left charged with one million four hundred eighty five thousand five hundred and seventy pound sixteen shillings and four pence at Lady-Day 1672. I suppose he means 1679. when I was removed from the Treasury Although I could no more know he means that time by the Computations he has made than I could by that year of our Lord which he has Printed The first and second of these are proved from that Copy before mentioned pretended to be from Sir Phillip Floyd to which Sir Philip's answer has been seen and consequently the truth of his sure proof But that it may be truly known how the three great Branches alone were left charg'd by my Lord Clifford's own Computation it is therein set down that  li. s. d. The Customs were then charg'd with 245905 19 03 The Excise 201148 13 08 The Hearth-Money 022318 11 00 In all 469373 03 11 besides that the smaller Branches were left useless for the said year And in the same Computation which I have in my Custody it is estimated that for the said year of 1673 there could not be expected for the service of that year from the aforesaid three great Branches any more than seven hundred forty six thousand six hundred twenty nine pounds and the Establishment of the constant yearly expence besides the great Sums owing at that time to the Fleet and Army then in being for the said year amounted to above one million three hundred thousand pound per ann And here I must have leave to observe that had it not been for that Chargeable War against the Dutch it must have been strange that any considerable Charge should have remained on the Revenue in the beginning of the year 73. which was so soon after a total Post-poning of the Kings Debts and when the Credit was so broken that through the whole year of 72 I believe there was not twenty thousand pound borrowed on the Credit of the Revenue From the same Copy of what he calls Sir Philip Floyd's Paper and his sure proof of all is made his next Calculation that there was nine hundred forty two thousand five hundred pound left in Money viz.  li. By the last 3 Quarters of the Tax 600000 From the Advance of the Excise 150000 From the French Money 112500 Upon the 3 Quarters of the Subsidy 080000 In all 942500 As to the first of these sums as I have said already the said last three Quarters brought in clear to his Majesties use but about five hundred sixty five thousand four hundred ninety eight pound which is about the sum of one hundred eighty eight thousand four hundred ninety nine pound for each Quarter one with another and the first of those Quarters was charg'd with twenty one thousand one hundred sixty three pounds and was not payable till the third of March following which was full three Quarters of a year wanting but sixteen days before I could expect the first Quarter which would then be clear but one hundred sixty seven thousand three hundred thirty six pound and yet this Examiner speaks with confidence the whole six hundred thousand pound to be left in Money The three last Sums viz. the Advance the French money and Subsidy amounting to three hundred forty two thousand five hundred pound he says will be ready in October and November for payment of the Fleet and Tards Whereas the greatest part of Advance Money goes always in Repayment of the former Advances in Case of new Farmers and is always continued by old Farmers but no new Money advanced unless there be an increase of Advance-money as at that time was made of about thirty thousand pound which Sum could only be accounted applicable to the present service For the French Money I do not know what he means unless it be a Sum of eighty five thousand pound which I find placed to the Treasurer of the Navy's Account betwixt June 73 and December 74. And for the eighty thousand pound upon the three quarters of the Subsidy it is a Sum in the Clouds