Volume II 1603-1660 - The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple

38 A CALENDAR OF THE [1608
GENERAL ACCOUNT BOOK.
* Entries similar to these occur frequently in the accounts.
Account from the feast of All Saints, 5 James I., A.D. 1607, to the
same feast, 6 James I., A.D. 1608.
Sum total of the chief butler's receipts,
283/i. 17s.
For a case of knives for the bench in
Candlemas term, and for this term,* 25s.
For a play on Candlemas Day, called
" Oxford Tragedy," 511.
For napery, plate, staff torches, musicians,*
etc., for the same day.
To Parkins, a linen draper, for 7 ells of
Holland, at 2s. 21/. an ell, to make towels
for the butlers,* 15s. 21/.
To Thomas Middleton, the clerk of the
Temple church, for binding two old
books, 3s. 41/. ; for mending the bar of
the choir door, 81/. ; for a book for the
King's day, 61/.
To Walter Burton, the bricklayer, for
mending the pavement of the church,
for tiling the library, for bricks and
mortar in the cloister.
To Humphrey Waters, for nailing up the
candlesticks in the hall; for fitting a key
for a chest in the buttery, wherein the
records of the House lie ; for keys for
the Water Gate, the Great Gate going
into the Temple, and the Garden Gate;
for setting on the hinges of a settle in
the parliament house.
Stipends to Mr. Hyde, minister of the
Temple church, and to Mr. Houghton,
who succeeded him.*
For a lanthorn to hang in the church
porch.
To Paul Thorneton, the glazier, for glazing
and repairing the glass in the Inner
Temple Hall ; for procuring the arms in
the hall, to the heralds, 6s.; for the arms
of Serjeant Gawdye in the hall, los. ;
for taking down the glass in the church
for air, 3s., when this glass was set up,
it was repaired, and new banded in five
several windows, 15 ft. in a window, in
all 65 ft., at a penny the foot, 5s. 51/. ;
set in this glass, 48 quarrels, 4s.
To Leonard Becket, a bookbinder, for
making a buttery book of royal paper,
and binding and mending a book for the
library, called "iEtas Mundi," 8s. 4d.
Sum of disbursements, 221/i. 6s. 21/.
Receipts by the treasurer :-
Sum total, 794/i. 18s. iod.
Payments by the treasurer :-
For mending the roof of the church, 26s.
For building the library, and repairing the
old library, 129//.. 7s. id.
For a chest to lay in the evidences of the
House, and other work done at the equal
charges of both Houses, amounting to
I5fi. 4s. 81/., whereof this House paid a
half, 7/i. i2s. 41/.
To the glazier, for arms and other work in
the hall, 5/i.
To the King's goldsmith, for half the cup
which is to be presented to His Majesty,
333/i. 6s. 81/.
To Mr. Attorney-General, for his fee, 5/i.
For procuring the patent under seal, and
other charges concerning the same, as
appeareth by Richard Mayer his bill,
who was employed about the same,
23/i. 9d.
To the under treasurer of the Middle
Temple, 45s. 61/.
To my Lady Harrington, for the acknowledging
of a fine, 15/i.
For boat hire about the same business
and other charges, 30s.