Althorp Entertainment 1

British Library, MS Add. 25081, fols. 98 and 100

Payments relating to the entertainment in the weekly household accounts of the Spencer family, dated 11 June, 18 June and 26 June 1603, endorsed by Sir Robert Spencer. The accounts are in two folio volumes: vol. 1 (Add. 25080) covers payments from November 1599 to May 1602; vol. 2 (Add. 25081) covers payments from June 1602 to Sept. 1605.

[fol. 97]
1603. Satturdaye the xjth of Iune
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[fol. 98]
Item to iiij woomen weedinge ij dayes a peece in the new spynneye and in the double hedge in the windmill feild ij^s
... Summa totalis is of this weeke xv^lixiij^sij^d
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[fol. 99]
Satturday the xviijth daye of Iune
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[fol. 100]
Item to xij woomen j daye settinge vpp Iuye in the garden iij^s
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Item to one man helpinge the shephearde vj morninges xij^d
Item to viij taylors iij pee dayes a peece sowinge of Canuas viij ^s vij^svj^d
Item to iij taylors more ij dayes a peece xx^d
Item to iij more j daye a peece xij^d
...
[fol. 100v]
Item to Collins... for Climinge Iuye j daye vj^d
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Item to iiij woomen beinge in the garden iij dayes a peece weedinge iij^s
Item to ij woomen more beinge in the same worke vj dayes a peece iij^s
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[fol. 101v]
Summa totalis is of this weeke xlij^lixj^siiij^d
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[fol. 102]
Satturdaye the xxvjth daye of Iune
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[fol. 103v]
Item to ij men Climinge Iuye v dayes a peece v^s
[fol. 104]
Item to <i>j men more gatheringe Iuye iiij dayes a peece iiij^s
Item j man and j wooman gatheringe Iuye v dayes xviij^d
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Item to one man gatheringe Iuye j daye vj^d
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[fol. 105]
Item to Greenefor ix dayes da stickinge Iuye ix^s
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Item to iiij men taylo<r>s v dayes apeece vj^siij^d
Item to another iij daye j daye iiij^d
Item to another iiij dayes viij^d
Item to ij men j daye a peece more viij^d
Item to another iiij dayes xij^d
Item to another j daye and a halfe vj^d
Item to another v dayes xx^d
Item to one of them for iijor of silke for blewe Coates iiij^sviij^d
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[fol. 105v]
Item to one man helpinge to sticke Iuye vij dayes iij^svj^d
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[fol. 106]
Summa Totalis is of this weeke lxxxvij^li vj ^s.. v^sv^d

Bibliography
H&S, 10.394