Challenge at Tilt 9

National Archives, E351/3248, fols. 3v, 4v, 5 and 5v
Pipe Office, Works.
(Another copy of PRO, AO 1/2420/44, fols. 4, 5, 5v and 6.)

Entries among payments relating to works carried out at Whitehall in the Declared Accounts of Andrew Kerwyn , Paymaster of the Works, from 1 Oct. 1613 to 30 Sept. 1614. Presented by Margaret Kerwyn , Andrew Kerwyn 's widow and administratrix. General note of preparations for three masques in the banqueting house; payment for hanging canvas to protect fencers from the sun among payments for Emptions and Provisions; payments to watchmen in the Tiltyard among payments for Wages and Entertainments; concluding note of charges for the masques. The account seems to have been endorsed some years after it was drawn up because, unusually, the endorsement is dated. The item on fol. 4v has not previously been connected to Challenge. This MS is calendared under Irish, and some of this material is repeated there.

[fol. 3v]

Also allowed to the sayd Accomptante for money by him yssued paide and defreyed for worckes and Repar aci ons done and bestowed vpon Whitehall also the new Pallace of westmynster with other places thereto belonginge and nere adioyninge within the tyme of this Accompte by Masons Carpenters, Brickleyers, Tylers, Plombers, Ioyners Plasterers, Matleyers and other Artificers worckmen and Laborers… for worckes and alteracions in preparinge and fyttinge the Banquettinge house againste three Maskes to bee performed there


[fol. 4v]


Canvas to binde pipes to bee paynted in the banquettinge house and to hange before Fencers to keepe of the Sunne viz xxvells Di midium at xvj^d the ell xxxiiij^s and lve ells at xv^d the ell lxviij^s ix^d In all
Cij^s ix^d


[fol. 5]


Watchmen watchinge of stuffe in the Tyltyarde at viij^d per noctem
xxiiij^s iiij^d


[fol. 5v]
In all the sayd workes and Repar aci ons done and bestowed at Whitehall also the new Pallace of Westminster with other places thereto belonginge and neare adioyninge within the tyme of this Accompte viz ... the banquettinge house there for the Maskes CCCliij^liiij^s v^d obolus


[fol. 17]


[Endorsement, signatures]
T suffolke
Fulke Grevyll
Io: Sotherton:

xxmo die Iunij 1618
Examinatur per Fra: goston Auditorem

[Accounts relating to works at Whitehall : fols. 3v-5v
Total sum spent on Emptions and Provisions: £1,244, 20.25 ^d
Total sum spent on Wages and Entertainments: £916, 19 ^s, 10 ^d
Total sum spent on works at Whitehall : £2,266, 8 ^s, 8.5 ^d
Entire account: fols. 1-17]

Bibliography
MSC 10.25