2. We find that the sum of 30000 l. is brought into the Companies Cash Book the 31th of March, 1694. after the Cash Book was cast up, in these words.
By Sir Thomas Cooke paid him on this Note accord∣ing to an Order of Court of the 24th of November last.
The Receipt whereof, without a Warrant, is ac∣knowledged by the said Sir Thomas Cooke, and remains in Mr. Portmans Hands in the words following.
REceiv'd the 31th of March 1694. of Mr. Edmund Portmans for the Account of the Honourable East-India Company the sum of 30000 l. which I promise to be accountable for, with Interest for the same, being for several sums advanced to several Persons, witness my Hand the Day and Year above written.
Per Tomas Cooke.
Notwithstanding which, we find the said Sum of 30000 l. carried to the Companies Debt in Charges General, and the Journal parcel of that Entry, erased, by which it plainly appears to us, that the said Jour∣nal parcel of that date, was altered, and this Sum of 30000 l. introduced some time after. Besides we find the Account of Charges General stands ballanced and carried to profit and loss, with this 30000 l. in∣cluded; but Mr. Thoroughgood, the Book-keeper, did declare upon Oath the 21th of February 1694. that the passing of this 30000 l. was an error of his; and coming to lay the Account of Charges General be∣fore Sir Thomas Cooke in November last, the Error was discovered by Sir Thomas Cooke, who gave him Orders to withdraw it from thence, and to place it to his own Account, which is now done; but the said proceeding between Sir Thomas Cooke and Mr. Thoroughgood was not made known to us, till we discovered the same in the Book. We further observe, that the said sum of 3•000 l. is taken out of the Companies Cash without a Warrant, under pretence of the afore-mentioned Order of the 24th of November 1693. which we sub∣mit to the Consideration of this Court.
