Masque of Blackness 1

Bodleian Library,, MS Rawl. A. 204, fol. 227v (Another copy of NA, E351/543, fols. 132-132v; and PRO, AO 1/388/42, fol. 12)

Chamber Accounts, Apparelling: payment to George Pollard in the unendorsed, draft accounts of the Treasurer of the Chamber, John, Lord Stanhope of Harrington , from 29 Sept. 1604 to 29 Sept. 1605. The accounts appear on folio-size paper pages, and have been bound in vellum with a variety of other documents relating to court finances between 1578 and 1611. These include a draft of the Chamber accounts from 1610 to 1611; pay-books of the ordnance office; and papers concerning victualling of the fleet in Ireland .


[fol. 227v]
Item paid to thesaid Georg Pollard; for thallowaunce of himself; one yeoman vssher, three yeomen, two groomes of the Chamber, two groomes of the wardrobe, and one groome porter, for making readie the Banquetting Howse at Whitehall , for the maske, for the king and Queene, by the space of fower dayes, mensis Ianuar ij 1604As appeereth by a bill therof signed by the Lord Chamberlein
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[Number of Assistants: 9
Accounts relating to Apparelling: fols. 226-241v
Total sum spent on Apparelling: £1211, 10 s, 6 d Entire account: fols. 210-265v]

Bibliography
See also transcription of PRO, E351/543, fols. 132-132v: MSC, 6.99
See also transcription of PRO, AO 1/388/42, fol. 12: H&S, 10.445