Lord Mayor's Speeches 2

Guildhall Library, MS 15869, fols. 5-12v
Haberdashers' Company Triumphs Accounts of the Wardens of the Yeomanry, 1604-99.

Detailed list of charges relating to the entertainment, in a folio-sized volume of accounts dating from 1604 to 1699. The lists of batchelors in Foines, Batchelors in Budge and Contributors by Cessement are omitted from the following transcription.

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The accompt of George Whitmore Thomas Sommer, William Woader Francis Needham, Iohn Thomas and Marten Smith Wardens of the yeomanry of the Company of Haberdashers in London , of all their Receiptes& paymentes had and made concerning the triumph before the right Honorable Sir Thomas Lowe knight Lord Maior of London at his returne from Westminster where he tooke his oth the morow after Simon & Iudes day 160<4>
The Chardge
Receaved of the bachelors in foines...
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Of the Bachelors in Budge...
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Off Contributors by cessement...
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Some totall of all the Receiptes aforesaid amount vnto
v^c xlv^li xij^sv^d
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The dischardge of the said accompt by paymentes made by the said Accomptantes
Inprimis paid for xvij broad clothes for pore mens gownes and Cotes and for dressing the same Clothes 134.14.0
Item paid for x peeces of crimson Mockadoes 010.00.0
Item paid for xij Dozen and a half of red caps with bandes at xxij^d013.15.0
Item paid for making lxxxxix gownes and xlv Cotes at xij^d007.04.0
Item paid for making the mockado sleeues 000.16.8
Item paid for making vj Ierkins and vj hose for those that caried the Banners and streamers 000.13.0
Item paid for ix dosen statute lace for the Ierkins and hose 000.09.0
Item paid for a peece of white Ieane fustian and Canvas and Buttons 001.07.6
Item paid to Cxliiij pore men for their dynners 003.12.0
Item paid to Iohn Grinkin for the Pageant, Lion, mermaides, Chariott & other thinges 046.00.0
Item geven to his men for their paines 000.02.6
Item paid to the Churchwardens of Christchurch for rome to make the pageant & other workes in 001.00.0
Item paid for taking downe & setting vp ye Tailors stall 000.03.4
Item paid to Antony Mundey for his paines 002.00.0
Item paid to Beniamyn Iohnson for his device, and speech for the Children 012.00.0
Item paid for printing the bookes of the Device 001. 0 10.0
Item paid to Thomas Kendall for furnishing the Children with apparell and other thinges needfull for the shewe 022.00.0
Item paid for hire of the iiijor Coche horses with the furniture to drawe the Chariott 001.00.0
Item paid to iiijor men to ride the horses in armor and for their Dynner 000.11.0
Item paid to Thomas Spencer for 86 yardes of Tinsell for the Caparisons and the bases 05.07.0
⎡Item paid to Tho: kendall for making the caparisons & the Baces& for⎤ and buckeram & other thinges iij^livij^swhereof he allowed back xx^sfor the stuffe being spoiled so paid ⎡to kendall⎤ 002.07.0
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Item paid to Harison the Tailor for sowing small banners and other thinges 000.04.06
Item paid to Mr Hurst for the hire of 4 armors 001.06.08
Item paid to Mr Hurst es man for his paines 000.02.00
Item paid for hire of iiijor Fethers 000.10.00
Item paid to the Sexton of Christchurch for keeping the Dore 000.02.06
Item paid for a place in Carter lane for the Pageant: and the Childrens breakfast 001.05.00
Item paid to Newball for setting the pageant and for a roome for the Children to dyne in Blackwell hall 001.00.00
Item paid to the Porters of Blackwell hall 000.05.00
Item paid to Edward Bettes&Richard Stringer porters and their Company being lxiiij men for carieng the pageant & other thinges 008.10.00
Item paid for vij dozen of Girtwebb for them 000.07.00
Item paid for vj elles Collored Taffeta for 2 Banners 003.09.00
Item paid to Francis Tipsley for painting those two banners 005.00.00
Item paid for iiijor eles of Taffeta sarcenett to make litle streamers for the pageant 001.08.00
Item paid for an ell of Taffeta sarcenett for iij weight Banners 000.07.00
⎡Item paid to the vpholsters for making of them 000.09.00⎤
Item paid for painting them 000.09.00
Item paid to Widow Layng for 7oz 3/8 fringe for the two Banners 000.14.00
Item paid to ye Porters for caryeng the streemer s 000.05.00
Item paid to the rich whiflers for their dynners on the Triumphe daie 002.07.00
Item paid to Iames Russell for the galley and the galley foist and all other thinges belonging to them 040.00.00
Item paid for x eles& a half Collored sarcenet for six cotes for service by water 002.12.06
Item paid for 12 yardes of leven taffeta for their Scarfes 001.00.00
Item paid to Iohn Glenison & Wattes for themselues and 2 others that served as greenemen with fireworkes 005.00.00
Item to Henry Miles &Iohn Fynney for 180 chambers discharged doble on the triumph day 036.00.00
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Item paid to Fawcett for his paynes in overseeing the Chambers 000.03.00
Item geven ⎡more of benevolence to them: and towardes the⎤ for curyng away a pore man that was hurt in that service 000.16.00
Item paid to the waites of the Citie 002.10.00
Item paid to Serieant Trumpeter for 34 men which served with Trumpettes on the Triumph day and for pointes 023.05.00
Item paid for 4 yards leven taffeta for his scarffe 000.06.08
Item paid to Iohn Ogle , George Bell and Alexander Lecester and seaven other, that served with drum and fifes both by land and by water and for their silke Cotes 008.00.00
Item paid for their Botehier 000.02.06
Item paid to Gilbert Rogers for himself and ten others that served with twohand swordes and finding themselues scarfes 002.10.00
Item paid for a silke cote and a scarfe for the Bargeman 000.11.00
Item paid for 37 dozens watchett and white ribbens for whifflers in Blew Cotes, painters men and others that served by water 003.14.00
Item paid to Hardis for 38 dosen of Torches for fyve daies at xvj^sper dosen 030.08.00
Item paid for iiijor dosen of small Torches 001.16.00
Item paid to the Clarke of the Company for his gowne and paynes 004.00.00
Item paid to Oswalde Wakefeild for his gowne 002.15.00
Item paid to William Waller for his gowne ⎡& paines⎤ 004.16.00
Item paid to Sanders for his gowne & paines 003.19.3
Item paid for two dynners for those that did assist v^sto cease the Company and for other meetinges about the businesses 006.15.0
Item paid to Robert Hutchenson for xxtie dozens of whifflers staues whereof the porters at Guildhall had vj dozen, and for iiijor lawnces trunchions & other thinges for the service 003.14.0
Item paid for the hire of C Iavelins from the Tower , & for cariage of them to and fro 001.11.0
Item paid for one of them which was lost 000.05.0
Item geven to Si r Amias Preston a Sugar loaf for his goodwill for the Iavelins 000.11.4
Item paid to William Bennett for xxtie skutchens of wainscott 000.13.4
Item paid to Henry Wilde for new painting & tryming of 57 targettes 5^li3^s0^d and fower pavises xx^s& a new bord for the kinges armes 006.05.0
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Item paid for a dynner for the Bachelors on the Triumphe Day 013.15.00
Item paid more for a dynner at the hall for the Bachelors after the Triumph over and aboue the Allowance yt came from Guildhall 007.04.00
Item paid to the women for making Cleane ye house 000.08.00
Item paid for washing the Lynnen vsed for the Bachelors Dynner 000.13.04
Item paid to Thomas Allard our Clark es late man for his paines 000.10.00
Item paid to Dod my Lord Maiors officer for his paines about such as refused to pay their Cesementes[0]00.15.00
Item paid to Fermer the sergeant for his paines in the like service 001.07.06
Item paid to my Lord Maiors Clarke for three warrantes 000.03.00
Item paid to Stephen Reynold es for his paines 001.10.00
Item paid for opening St Bartholmewes churchdore when the Bachelors went to my Lord Maiors to Dynner 000.01.00
Item paid to Wynington for his paines 000.02.06
Item paid to the Carpenter to remoue the stoopes at Powles gate 00 0 2.0 6 2.06
Item paid to the Pavier for breaking vp the ground there, & paving it againe 000.09.00
Item paid to David Hewes a pore man that had no gowne 000.05.00
Item paid to a pore man a porter that should haue had a gowne 000.05.00
Item paid more to y Thomas Knight , vj^s Henry Sanders v^s, Mathias Waterhouse ij^svj^d, Robert Alsopp v^s, being all pore men and had no gownes 000.18.06
Item paid to Ogle for furnishing the galley with an Ensigne 000.10.00
Item paid to Bell for furnishing ye galley foist with an Ensigne 000.10.00
Item paid to a man that serued on the galley with an Ensigne 000.04.06
Item paid to one that went on stiltes to make roome 000.02.00
Item geven to Waller for his extraordinarie paines & care 000.15.00
Item geven to Sanders for his care & diligence 000.10.00
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Item geven to Tobias Mathew for his pa our Clark es man for his paines 000.15.00
Item paid more by order of a Court of Assistentes vnto v which served as riche Bachelors, their mony back againe 016.13.4
Item paid for gilding the head of the Auncient & a paire of tasselles for the same 000.08.0
Item paid for this booke to write theis accomptes of my Lord Maiors businesses 000.02.6
Somm e totall of all the paymentes aforesaid amount vnto blank
8.00.6 Soe our receiptes surmount our paymentes the some of

Bibliography
MSC, 3.62-8