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

1655] INNER TEMPLE RECORDS. 317
commons as other officers of the House, but this order not to be a
precedent.
Treasurer :—Edmund Prideaux is continued for the year ensuing
and no longer.
GENERAL ACCOUNT BOOK.
ACCOUNT of Edmund Prideaux, treasurer, from 2 November, 1654,
to 7 November, 1655.
RECEIPTS.
From admissions to the House, 247/4
16s. id.
From admittances to chambers, 253/i.
PAYMENTS.
To Jones, sub-treasurer of the Middle
Temple, for our moiety of the charges
for nursing and burying a child found
at the church door, 3/i. 9d.
To Lock, his allowance for Hilary term,
I/i.
To William Mayes for watchmen and
visors at the revels,18s. 8d.
To Mrs. Locke for the term past, her
husband being dead, i/i.
To Francis Wellings for setting up a new
pump in Hare's Court and cleansing it,
7/i. 13s.
To Newman, the plasterer, for whitening
the hall, 4/i. 9s.
To Mayes, the porter, his bill for a nightgown,3/i.
5s. 9d.
To the joiner for mending the pales about
the figtree,2S. 6d.
Sum total of the receipts, 6o2/1.
16s. id.
Sum total of the disbursements,
502/i. 4s. 7d.
There remains due to the House,
ioo/i. I's. 6d.
RECEIPTS by Richard Fifield, chief butler, from Michaelmas, 1654,
to November, 1655.
From Francis Cheeke, treasurer of Lyon's
Inn, for rent of that House for two
years at Michaelmas, 1655, 8/i.
Of Richard Skynner for his shop in the
church porch for a year and a half, 3/i.
DISBURSEMENTS and allowances prayed by Richard Fifield, chief
butler, from Easter, 1654, to 7 November, 1655.
To Johnson, the minister, for three
quarters' stipend ended at Michaelmas,
1654, 45/4
To the master of the revels, by order from
the bench table, at three several times,
6/i.
To the musicians for their fee,2/i.
To Johnson, the minister, for half a year's
stipend due at Our Lady Day last,
30il.
To the treasurer for Serjeant Croke at his
going out, roll.