Notices of expenses incurred by Thomas
Henn, a messenger sent to
Jonson
, December 1617 , from
Whitehall
to the Blackfriars
. The document mentions
Sir Robert Carey
(first earl of Monmouth,
?1560-1639, courtier)
, who had sent a
message to
Jonson
in the same month. The document is within a sub-bundle of Thomas
Henn's bills for 1617. The bill occupies a loose sheet in this
sub-bundle.
Eugene Giddens
Mensis Decembris Anno Regni Regis Iacobi quinto decimo
[Trans.: In the
month of December in the fifteenth year of
James
's reign]
Thomas Henn
one of the ordinarie groomes of the Prynces Chamber beinge sent in his highnes
seruice by the Comaundment of Mr
Alexander
gentleman vsher dailie waiter to his highnes, from the court at Newmarket to Tripford neare
Roystone with a messuage to Sir
Charles Howard
, and allsoe one other messuage from whithalle to Black fryers with a messuage to
Benn Iohnson which seruises beinge done he returned with answeares to the places
aforsaid, Wherfore he praieth to haue allowance for his horse and him selfe his paines
and Charges to and fro to be rated by the honnourable Sir
Robert Carye Knight Chamberlaine to his
highnes and paid by the right worshipful
Mr Addam
Newton receuer generall to his highnes Tressure.
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Bibliography
H&S, 1.232-3
Whitehall, originally the name given to the palace in York Place, Westminster , which subsequently gave its name to the street it stood on and the surrounding area. It was in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries a royal palace, having been rebuilt for Cardinal Wolsey. The Banqueting House (1619-22), built by Inigo Jones on the site of an earlier banqueting house, survives.
Blackfriars was the former location of the Dominican foundation in London, south-west of St Paul's. It retained the right of sanctuary, and in the early seventeenth century was home to many fashionable people (including, for example, the earl and countess of Somerset , and Jonson 's patron and friend Esmè Stuart, Lord Aubigny), many of whom lived in converted monastic buildings. Two parts of the former monastery housed the first and second Blackfriars theatres, in 1577-1584 and 1596- respectively; a number of Jonson 's plays were first performed here by the resident boys' companies. Blackfriars was also known as a Puritan neighbourhood, with many of its Puritan residents being engaged in the trade of feathermaking
Carey was the seventh and youngest son of Henry , first Lord Hunsdon , and brother of George Carey. He was an emissary to the Low Countries in his teens, fought there in 1587, and against the Armada. He was knighted by Essex in 1591. As he was on good terms with James VI, he managed, by careful planning, to be the one to bring the king the news of Elizabeth 's death, riding from London to Edinburgh (where he arrived on 26 Mar. 1603) in the space of two days. His reward was to be appointed a gentleman of the bedchamber; his wife gained a position in the queen 's household and his daughter became a maid of honour to Princess Elizabeth. Carey became governor of Prince Charles 's household in Feb. 1605, and in 1611 his master of the robes. When Charles was created Prince of Wales in 1617, Carey became his chamberlain. He followed Charles and Buckingham to Spain in 1623, on James 's instructions. He was created earl of Monmouth in Feb. 1626 and died in Apr. 1639.