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affections of the people, he should be able when they should know what they had to trust to, to carry on His Maj^tys affairs with much more success at this important and critical juncture — M^r Walpole seemed lately, so convinced of the truth of these representations, that he was pleased to say, he could wish, Your Lord^p would, to facilitate His Maj^tys affairs, move His Grace the Duke of Newcastle in my fathers favour. Encouraged by this and by Your Lord^p's late favours, I most humbly presume to intreat your Lordship, that your Lord^p would in consideration of what is above set forth be pleased to move His Grace the Duke of Newcastle on my Fathers behalf, that he may succeed your Lord^p in that Govern^t. This will greatly facilitate his Maj^tys affairs, and as it will be some advantage to my father, and Your Lord^p has been put to great charge in passing Your Commissions ettc. I shall upon such appointment immediately pay Your Lord^p one thousand Guineas to indemnify Your Lord^p from any loss, or expence occasioned thereby, which is all that the Govern^t there under its present circumstances allows me to offer — I am

My Lord.

Your Lordships

most obedient and most humble servant

London June 20^th 1740. (signed.) George Clarke Jun^r

E. B. O'Callaghan, editor, Documents relative to the Colonial History of the State of New-York (Albany, 1855), VI, 163-164.

 

57. A Governor's Perquisites (1743-1746)

BY GOVERNOR GEORGE CLINTON

 

Clinton was governor of New York from 1743 to 1753, at a time when the position had ceased to be financially desirable. — Bibliography : Winsor, Narrative and Critical History, V, 200-204.

 

SHORT heads to show the reasonableness of Governor Clinton's application for an allowance by way of equipage money. 1743.

1^st Upon the apointment of Governors the Crown have frequently made an allowance by way of equipage money in order to assist 'em towards defraying the very considerable expence, the equipping and fitting them out for their own Govern^ts must necessarily occasion and this without any other reason ;