National Archives,
E351/2794, fols. 2v and 4-4v
Exchequer: Pipe
Office
Privy Purse
(Another copy of NA, AO 1/2021/2, fols. 3-3v and
5v)
Entries for payments for jewels given as prizes, in the
Declared Accounts of
Sir David Murray
, Keeper of the Privy Purse to
Henry
, Prince of
Wales
, from 1 Oct. 1610 to 6 Nov. 1612.
[fol. 2v]
Alsoe allowed to thesaid Accomptaunte aswell for money delivered into the Princes
owne handes in golde as for mony payed to sondry persons lost at playe with Empcions and provicions of Iewelles Cabynetes and other furniturs Guiftes and Rewardes Ann
uities and Pencions and other Chardges and Paymentes all Conteynend in one particuler Booke mencioninge the parties names and Dayes of Payment and for the first yeare ended at Michaelmas 1611 subscribed by thesaid late Prince and for that yeare and all the residue of the paymentes after that tyme thesaid Sir Murray knight this Accomptaunte hath delivered thesam Booke vpon his Corporall oathe
taken before Sir George Snigge knight one of the Barons of Thexchequire The particularities whereof
are as followeth. viz
...
Iewelles bought and mad for
the Prince
at severall tymes viz. Iewelles given for the prizes at the Barriers CCCvijli
[fol.
3]
Empcions and Provicions with sondry furnitures and other neccesaries viz of ...
[fol. 4]
Guyftes and Rewardes to sondry persons by the Commanndement of the late Prince viz to
[fol.
4v]
Inigo Iones the Princes Surveyor xxxli
[fol. 5v]
[Endorsement]
Northampton
T suffolke
E
Zouche
E: Wotton
Iul. Caesar.
Examinatur per nos
Fra: goston.
Ri:
Sutton
Auditores
[Total sum spent on
emptions and provisions: £5,415,10 s, 10 d
(Including total sum spent on jewels: £2,598,
10 s, 10 d
Accounts relating to emptions and provisions: fols. 2v-3v
Total
sum spent on gifts and rewards: £3,013, 17 s
Accounts relating to gifts and rewards: fols. 3v-4v
Entire
Account: fols. 1-5v]
Bibliography
Cunningham (1842), x