British Library, MS Cotton Titus B. iv, fol. 373
Payment for the masque in an abstract of the king
's extraordinary expenses from 25 Sept. 1611 to 25 March 1612, drawn up by
Edward Wardour
, Clerk of the Pells. Other extraordinary expenses in the same account relate to
payments to ambassadors and individuals in the royal household; repayment of debts;
maintenance of royal buildings and gardens; and payments for jewels and rewards. The
account appears in a folio-sized volume of miscellaneous papers relating to court,
parliamentary and exchequer affairs,
mainly dating from the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. One single
sheet
and one folded sheet, three folios: the accounts occupy pp. 1-6.
[fol. 371]
1612.
Anno xmo Iacobi regis
An abstracte of all his Majesties Expenses Ordinarie an
Extraordinarie for one intire halfe yeare endinge at thannuntiati on of
our Lady Last drawne out of the Pellis Exitus by Edwarde Wardour Clarke of his Majesties office of the Pells.
[fol. 372v]
Extraordinaries.
[fol. 373]
Maskes.
At
the Prince
his Creacion: ml vjc xxxvjli iiijs ixd
At Christmas last 1611:
CCiiijxx li
[Total sum spent on masques: £1916, 4 s, 9 d
Total extraordinary expenses: £57847, 3 s 1 3/8 d
]
Bibliography
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