National Archives,
E351/3250, fols. 4v, 6 and 6v
Pipe Office, Works
(Another
copy of NA, AO 1/2421/46, fols. 5v and 7v)
Entries among payments relating to works carried out at Whitehall in the Declared
Accounts
presented by
William Swarland
(executor of the late
Margaret Kerwyn
, wife and administratrix of
Andrew Kerwyn
, late Paymaster of the Works), and
Henry Weeks
, Paymaster of the Works, from 1 Oct. 1615 to 30 Sept. 1616. Preparation of the banqueting
house; payment to
David Sampson
among payments for Taskworks; concluding note of charges for the masque.
[fol. 4v]
Also allowed to the said Accomptauntes for
money by them yssued payd and defreyed for workes and Repar
aci ons done and bestowed vpon
Whitehall
also the new Pallace of Wesminster with other places thereto
belonging and nere adioyning within the tyme of this accompt by Masons Carpenters
Bricklayers Tylers Plombers Ioyners Plasterers Matleyers and other Artificers workemen
and Laborers, ... as also for workes and alteraci ons in
pre paring and fytting the banquetting house against the Maske there
[fol. 6]
Taskeworkes viz to ...
[fol. 6v]
David Sampson
for keeping the banquetting
house dore at the Maske and other tymes xs
[fol. 6v]
In all the said workes and Repar aci ons done
and bestowed at
Whitehall
also the new Pallace of Westmynster with other
places thereto belonging and nere adioyning within the tyme of this Accompte viz ...
the
banquetting house there for the
Maske CCiiijxx xvijli xjs ixd obolus.
[fol. 23]
[Endorsement, signatures]
Fulke Grevyll
Io: Denham
Examinatur per Fra: goston Auditorem
[Accounts relating to works at
Whitehall
: fols. 4v-6v
Total sum spent on works at
Whitehall
: £2,122, 19 s, 4 d
Entire account: fols. 1-23]
See also transcription of AO 1/2421/46, 5v and 7v:
Bibliography
MSC 10.26
Orrell (1979b), 84
H&S, 10.548 (listed under Merc. Vind.); 10.552