I can do numbers, I just am not sure about the German or the history :P That is to say, I'm assuming that the Rhenish Gulden is the same as the Reichsgulden, and then the conversion isn't bad given Selena's sheet. It's 4 ducats to the imperial gulden, and 2.2 to 2.5 silver livres to the Rhenish Gulden (which hopefully is the same thing).
So that would make Grumbkow's yearly bribe 4000 guldens, less than Manteuffel's, but then again he had that 40,000... I couldn't figure out what that meant from your translation, felis? Was it a lump sum payment in the past or how much he'd collected so far?
To procure success, Rottembourg might offer to Grumbkow, if he found fit opportunity, a pension of 15,000 livres, and annual "gratifications" to Ilgen and Printz of 12,000, but this must be done very cautiously.
So this would be between ~6000-6800 guldens Rottembourg might offer to Grumbkow, and ~4800-5500 guldens to Ilgen and Printz. (Depending on what the silver to gold exchange rate was at that time, I suppose; and I'm rounding to the nearest hundred.)
(This was a fascinating sheet, by the way -- thank you Selena! I'm so used to reading about currencies in books and having no idea how much any of them actually are with respect to everything else.)
Re: Rottembourg's bribery attempts
So that would make Grumbkow's yearly bribe 4000 guldens, less than Manteuffel's, but then again he had that 40,000... I couldn't figure out what that meant from your translation, felis? Was it a lump sum payment in the past or how much he'd collected so far?
To procure success, Rottembourg might offer to Grumbkow, if he found fit opportunity, a pension of 15,000 livres, and annual "gratifications" to Ilgen and Printz of 12,000, but this must be done very cautiously.
So this would be between ~6000-6800 guldens Rottembourg might offer to Grumbkow, and ~4800-5500 guldens to Ilgen and Printz. (Depending on what the silver to gold exchange rate was at that time, I suppose; and I'm rounding to the nearest hundred.)
(This was a fascinating sheet, by the way -- thank you Selena! I'm so used to reading about currencies in books and having no idea how much any of them actually are with respect to everything else.)