Simplify the following text for a Grade 10 native English-speaking person.
Original: Although the British government represented this as an act of charity , Henry and the Jacobites considered it to be a first instalment on the money which was legally owed to him .
Simplified: Although the British government said this as an act of charity , Henry and the Jacobites called it to be a first installment on the money which was legally owed to him .