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

1609] INNER TEMPLE RECORDS. 45
For plates and nails to make fast the
judges' table in the middle.
For a black lanthorn for Knight, the
porter, to search the stairs about the
House in the night, 2s. Iod.
For three padlocks to lock the books upon
the iron rods in the new library, i8d.
To a labourer, for making clean the churchyard,*
121/.
Paid at Bridewell for meat, drink, and
lodging, four days and four nights, of
Thomas Davis and Thomas Morgan,
and for whipping of them. They were
two which did draw beer in the buttery,
and being taken with stealing of bread,
beer, candles, and napkins, for which
they were whipped, 5s. 81/.
For a box to put writings in, to the use of
the House, 141/.
To Thomas Turner, a goldsmith, for burnishing
the plate, and for mending one
of the silver candlesticks, 14s. 41/.
For seven ells of " sheppard's hollen," at
2s. 41/., to make ten towels for the butlers.
To the gardener, for wire to nail up the
rose trees in the garden.*
For a new table for the library, los.
To a joiner and smith, for our part, for
mending the iron chest in the church,
wherein the patent lieth, 2S.
For flints for paving Hare Court.
To Auditor Sapie and his clerk for one
half the charges for the enrolling the
patent in the Exchequer, 33s. 4d.
For mending the wheaten bread bin, and
for a new candlestick for moots in the
library, 18d.
For two torches and four links to search
the House one night this vacation.*
For a new book of accounts, 3s. 6d.
To two labourers carrying rubbish out of
the church, 121/.
To William Wilson, freemason, for polishing
all the marble pillars in the church,
the one half, 5/i.
To James White, for repairing the monuments,
the one half, 4os.
To John Langford, the plasterer, for the
one half of whiting and stopping the
church, the round walk, the ceiling of
the top, the mending of the pillars, the
hall, the cloister, for poles, scaffolding
for the church, 25/i. 4s.
To Michael I3owden, the painter, for
painting the upper part of the church,
the round walk, the top of it, the pillars
in it, and in the cloister, the doors, and
the partitions, the one half, 2 2/1..
For colouring twenty-one seats, which were
enlarged, into a wainscot colour, 20s.
To William Wiltsheir, a blacksmith, for
the one half of the iron grate placed
about the monuments in the Temple
Church, i6/1.
To Robert Lynton, joiner, for making new
pews in the church, and wainscotting
the treasurer's study, 21/1.
To Paul Thorneton, glazier, for one half
of the glass in the church, and of the
new double lanthorn, and for scouring
the glass, 7/i. i2s. 8d.
For a new pane of iron for the partition of
the benchers' choir, los.
To Richard Evans, the minister, for a
year's stipend, 505.
For a brass candlestick for the bench, 25.
For a new boiler in the kitchen, 525.
Sum of the payments, 596/i. 25. 51/.
Receipts by the treasurer :-
Sum total, 314/1. I Is. 41/.
Payments by the treasurer :-
To York, the herald, for placing the arms
in the hall windows, los.
Given to my Lord Cooke's man, for bringing
venison, los.
To the goldsmith, for making a cup of
gold which was given to the King, with
a velvet case, the one half, 7/1. 3s.
For claret and muscadine wines.*
Sum total of payments, 269/i. 145. 21/.
Sum of both the receipts, 862/i. 25. 4d. ;
sum of both the payments, 865/i1 16s. 71/.;
and so there remains in emendels,
3/i. 145. 3d.