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BL Add MS 7099 folio 8 ( Payments ), 1492 [modernised text]
7
8
LH
RH
8
th
Hen
ry
7
th
.
Oct
ober
18 ‌
th
.
It
e
m to the waits of Canterbury
£ 0
10 s
0 d

It
e
m to the waits of Dover
£ 0
6 s
8 d

It
e
m to the ferry boat of Rochester in reward
£ 0
40 s
0 d

October
24 ‌
th
.
It
e
m to the Torches burned at Rochester
£ 0
21 s
0 d

It
e
m to Ringeley Abbot
of misrule
£ 0
100 s
0 d

Nov
embe
‌
r
4 ‌
th
. Sunday the peace cried _ Calais 7 ‌
th
Nov
embe
‌
r
_ Genes 10 ‌
th
.
Calais 11 ‌
th
.
Dec
embe
r 18 ‌
th
.
It
e
m to John Flee for 8 alms
of black Cloth
£ 7
9 s
11 d

It
e
m for hiring the chapel stuff at Calais
£ 0
10 s
0 d

It
e
m to one that had Corn trodden down
£ 0
6 s
8 d

Jan
uary
1 ‌
st
.
It
e
m to the chorister at Pauls & Saint Steven
£ 0
13 s
4 d

It
e
m to Sir Edward Burgh for spices p
re
sented the
King at Westminster by a Spaniard
£ 0
40 s
0 d

January
6 ‌
th
.
It
e
m to Newark for making of a Song
£ 0
20 s
0 d

It
e
m to a woman p
re
senting white Capons
£ 0
6 s
8 d

January
7 ‌
th
.
It
e
m to my Lord of Northumberland ˄
players
in rew
ard

£ 0
20 s
0 d

It
e
m to the Warden of the friars of war for
saying of 240 masses
£ 0
40 s
0 d

January
21 ‌
st
.
It
e
m to a priest
that keeps King Harry
£ 0
3 s
4 d

January
26 ‌
th
.
It
e
m to one that gave the King a touch

£ 0
4 s
0 d

at Lambeth
Feb
ruary
14 ‌
th
.
It
e
m to a woman that was w
i
‌
t
h
child
£ 0
10 s
0 d

February
20 ‌
th
.
It
e
m to John Boome to buy him a new Doublet
£ 0
30 s
0 d

M
ar
ch 1 ‌
st
.
It
e
m to John Hedeland esquire of household
£ 0
20 s
0 d

March
2 ‌
d
.
It
e
m to Mast
er
Bray for rewards to them that
brought cooks
at Shrovetide at Westminster
£ 0
20 s
0 d

March
3 ‌
d
.
It
e
m to a Dutchman a Gunner in reward
£ 0
20 s
0 d

Ord seems to think that this payment pertains to the theatre, when it seems obvious that the cooks were being rewarded for creating a Shrovetide feast prior to the severity of Lent
q1
generally called Lord of Misrule.-
q2
aulnes or ells,
q3
Probably a Priest that watched & prayed by the body of Henr
ry
6 ‌
th
.
whom Hen
ry
7 ‌
th
. intended to have sainted.
q4
Ouche q
uae
re, v
ide
p:17.
q5
This diversion was not unco
m
mon in England in the reign of Hen
ry
2 ‌
d
, was
followed, tho' disapproved & prohibited in the time of Edw
ard
3 ‌
d
. Hen
ry
7 ‌
th
. seems
to have been fond of it as there are other Entries of this sort in his acco
un
‌
t
.
Hen
ry
8 ‌
th
built a Theatre for this purpose near Whitehall, known by the
name of the Cockpit; James 1 ‌
st
. amused himself with it twice a week.
Oliver Cromwell suppressed these meetings; tho' since brought to a
perfection hardly credible.
q5
Archaeologia v
olume
3.

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