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

1615] INNER TEMPLE RECORDS. 93
For mending and burnishing 8 silver
bowls, 2$. 6d.
For mending another silver bowl, 2$. 6d.
For a new white staff for the treasurer,
od.
For a new screen, 6s.
To the University of Oxford, by order of
the bench, towards the building of their
schools there, 20/i.
To the gentleman revellers on Candlemas
Day at night,* 40s.
To Morris, the embroiderer, in part payment
of a greater sum, 30/i.
To a rat catcher, for killing the rats and
mice in the hall against the summer
reading, by Mr. Reader's commandment,*
2$. 6d.
Sum total of the receipts, 679/i. I OS. 2d.
Sum total of the payments, 6119/1.19$.
And so there remains in emendels,
59/1. 10S. I I d.
CHRISTMAS ACCOUNT BOOK.
ACCOUNT for Christmas, 1615. Amongst the items are the following:-
Mutton for "Sewbrothe " (1st week), 9$. ;
25 neats' tongues, 25$. ; mending the
cloth for the music room, 18d. ; dinner
for the gunners, Gs. ; tobacco, 2S. j bacon
for collops (2nd week), 6s. 6d.; cream
for custards, 5$. 3d. ; biscuits and carraways,
9d. ; eggs for " Florantynes,"
2$. 6d. ; brawn, 2 ; "Oryngadoe,"
12d. ; " trunches and whyt stafes," 23$.;
the drum and fife, tos. ; the jailors' fees,
6s. 8d. ; his men, 2S. ; to the watch, 2s.;
the jury, 2S. j the barber and his men,
18d. ; the loan of a scarf, 5$. ; music,
2 7/i. is. 8d. ; apples for fritters (3rd and
4th weeks), 3$. 4d. ; lamb for the high
table, 15$. ; lamb for the hall, 42$. ; to
the prisoners in the Fleet, ios. ; colouring
of staves, 18d. ; to the players, 20S. ;
drum and fife, 3os. ; to Mr. Chettwood,
for music, 22/1. 18s. 6d.; ribbon for one
knight, 3$. 6d.; ribbon for their helmets,
18d.; " more smoke, Is. "; for the ordnance,
twice, loll'.
ACTS OF PARLIAMENT.
PARLIAMENT held on 26 November, 13 James I., A.D. 1615, before
HUGH HARE, RICHARD BROWNLONVE, EDMUND PRIDEAUX, GEORGE
CROKE, and others. SIR JOHN JACKSON, treasurer.
Prideaux, who is appointed to read his double reading next
Lent, is allowed as much as the last double reader, in respect of the
great charges and pains which he is to be at.
Special admission of John Heyward, second son of Heyward, a
bencher.
The head butler is disallowed from henceforth to receive any
poundage other than for moneys collected by his rolls, but the
auditors for the treasurer's account, during the life of Richard