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Warrant for Payment from the Lord High Treasurer to Sir Robert Howard, Auditor of the Receipt
Authorizing payment of £1300 to Lord John Berkeley for "13 weeks entertainment" at Nijmegen where Berkeley was serving as English ambassador to the peace negotiations.
A List of Such Particulars as Have Been Paid Under the Privy Seales for Secret Service for Two Yeares Begining the 18th of June 1673 & Ending the 25th of June 1675
Among payments listed are those made to: "Mr Jones for Intelligence &c £1040;" "Mr. Killegrew for the Players £650 " (presumably Thomas Killigrew); "Mrs Hamilton for a Quarter due to her Husband & for two houses at Hide Park £533;" "the Duke of Monmouth to cleare Accompt of 2 Champaines in ffrance £1374.4.0;" "Sr John Robinson for Dutch prisoners;" "Maior Andros going to New York £300." There are lists of sums "Paid in Bountys" and "Paid Quarterly Payments" ("To the Lord high Treasurer for two yeares £16000;" "To Mrs Scarfield;" "To the Lady Byron;" "To Mrs. Quartremaine for a yeare £60"). Also, under the heading "More," a payment to "the Earle of Arlington to compleate a Privy Seal of £10000, £6000."
Bill for the Years 1672-1674 from William Watts to the Earl of Danby, Lord High Treasurer of England
A bill for £1062, 7 shillings, 11 pence for clothes made by Watts, the king's tailor, for Charles II's son, the Earl of Plymouth, upon the death of Charles II.
Forging Modernity
The Industrial Revolution provided the greatest increase in living standards the world has ever known while propelling Britain to dominance on the global stage. In Forging Modernity, Martin Hutchinson looks at how and why Britain gained this prize ahead of its European competitors. After comparing their endowments and political structures as far back as 1600, he then traces how Britain, through better policies primarily from the political Tory party, diverged from other European countries. Hutchinson's Harvard MBA allows a unique perspective on the early industrial enterprises - many successes resulted from marketing, control systems and logistics rather than from production technology alone...
