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

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the gentlemen of the two inns were entertained at a supper given
by the king in a room newly erected at Whitehall, at which the
bride and bridegroom were present, and they went home pleased
with themselves and with the king. The passage by water is said to
have cost not less than £300, and the entire masque, over and above
the contribution of the house, " not so little as ,61,200." 1 P. 72
Some of the details of the cost of this entertainment are found
in the books. Thus we find in the minutes of our parliament that
Mr. Warren of the king's barge is to be paid 50s. which is the part p. 8o
this house owes him, and Grays Inn is to pay the other 5os. Mr.
Lumley is to be paid f, 4 I 2S. 6d. for scarlet employed for the marshall p. 81
at the masque. From the account book we find 6 torches for the
benchers to see the masque at Ely House, 5s. : 2 torches to go to p. 76
Grays Inn, 2S. Mr. Lewis Hele at two several times towards the p. 76
masque business, £70 : Mr. Fenner towards the same business, LIo : P. 77
paid a messenger which Mr. Fenner provided to fetch Mr. Beaumont, P. 77
30s. :2 to John Hodgkins for boat hire to and fro to Winchester P. 77
House about the maske business, 2S. 6d. : Sir Baptist Hickes for silk p. 86
and velvet delivered to John Barney, £8 : paid to Morris the em- P. 93
broiderer in part payment of a greater sum, £30 : haberdasher for
money due from the gentlemen of the house, £8 6s. 8d. : Nicholas
Polhill for a debt remaining due from the house about the maske to P. 99
court, £20. An assessment was made on the members of the inn to
meet the general expenses, though the exact amount is not stated.'
As, however, the house had become much indebted by reason of P. 72
these shows and sports " which require some unwonted course of
1 An account of the masque and the festivities is given in Nichol's " Progresses of
King James I." vol. ii., p. 591. The text of the masque is given in the edition of
Beaumont and Fletcher, London, 1711, vol. vii., p. 3993. " The Masque of the
gentlemen of Grays Inn and the Inner Temple performed before the King in the
Banqueting House in Whitehall at the marriage of the Illustrious Frederick and Elizabeth,
Prince and Princess Palatine of the Rhine. Printed in the year 1711." Dyce's
edition, London, 1843, vol. ii., P. 455, contains the dedication by Beaumont to Sir
Francis Bacon, which is not in the edition of 171 I : See also the correspondence
between Chamberlain and Carleton, " Court and Times of James I.," vol. i., p. 227.
" Spedding's Bacon," vol. xi., P. 343-
' Beaumont was at this time living with Fletcher on the Bankside, near the Globe
Theatre. "Brief Lives . . . I. Aubrey," ed. by A. Clarke, M.A., Oxford, 1898, vol. i., p. 96.
That by Gray's Inn was Z.4 for each bencher, £2 los. or .4.2 for each barrister,
according to his standing, and 20S. for each student. " Gray's Inn, its History and
Associations," Douthwaite, p. 231.
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