Salisbury Entertainment 7

Hatfield House, Bills 22

Thomas Wilson 's account of expenses incurred against the £20 advance he received on 2 May for the entertainment, dated 5 May 1608. The totals appear in a second hand, possibly Wilson 's own; his signature appears at the end of the account. A note parallel to the left-hand margin confirms payment to James Blackleech , together with Blackleech's signature. One folded sheet, two folios; the account appears on p. 1; pp. 2-3, blank; p. 4, subscription. There is some damage to the right-hand margin of fol. 1.

[fol. 1]
An account of the 20^li which I receyued of Mr stuard the 2^d of May 1608 towerds setting forth the showe and adorning the lybrary against the kings cominge thether
Imprimis for 6 dosen of velum skinns to couer bookes
xxx^s
Item to Thom as Herbert bookbynder for 7 dayes work in bynding coueringe and stringing of books
xi ij s viij^d
Item spent vpon Allen Iones & Iohnson before they came to diett in my lords howse
vj^s
Item geuen to the Iugler the first day my lord badd me bring him home & geue him mony
iiij^svj^d
Item for 2 dosen more skinnes to make the circle x^s
Item for 2 glasses for the Coniurers vse
ij^s
Item to the 2 boyes that playd fancy & Barahon
xx^s
Item payd to the tyrewoman for her payns and lending the head tyres of 8 spiritts
xxij^svj^d
Item to Mr Vincent for diuers things bought into the lybrary as appeareth by his bill herunto anexed
iij^li xv^s vij^d
Item for a 2 dousen & halfe of wodden pulleys
v^s
Item for a bell and fyue brasse pulleyes<ij>s iiij^d
Item for ryall paper pastbord & strings for a great book of mapps
v^s
Item for a great booke of fortif[t]icacion
iij^s viij^d
Item for a newe Coloring 22 genelogyes of princes
iij^li
Item for newe coloringe 10 tables of arts
xxx^s
Item for xj pictures
iij^li vj^s
Item for a mapp of venice with the pictures of all the dukes
xij^s <x> d
Item for a mapp of Ireland my lord willd me to buy and bring to greenwich onsonday 27 May
ij^s vj^d
Item for a standish
ij^s vj^d
Summa xvij^li viij^s v^d
The some comes to xviij ^li xj ^s xj ^d
Tho wilson

rest in my handes of the 20^li xxix^s j^d
Remane Lj^s <v>ij^d

[parallel to left-hand margin, second hand]
20^li lj^s vij in full satisfaccion of the 20^lireceyued I paid backe in mony to Iames blackli<c>h

Ia: Blackleech.

[first hand]


[fol. 4]
Mr Wilsons Bill for the library against the King es Cominge thether Maij 5. 1608

Summa xvij^li viij^s v^d paid & dyschardged the Last of Maye 1608

[third hand]
to Mr Lister all ye billes of ye feast 6to May: 1608: with ye abstract

Bibliography
HMC Salisbury 24.148-9
McMillin (1968), 156, 159 (note)