National Archives,,
E351/3240, fol. 4. (Another copy of NA, AO 1/2418/37, fol. 6v)
Pipe Office, Works: entry in the Declared Accounts of
Andrew Kerwyn
, Paymaster of the Works, for payments relating to works carried out at of
Whitehall
from 1 Oct. 1604 to 30 Sept.
1605. Note: the following extract is ascribed only tentatively to masque
preparations.
[fol. 4]
makeinge readie the hall and greate chamber for plaies and showes at diverse tymes...
frameinge and settinge vpp of a greate stage in the bankettinge house xlty foote square
and iiijor foote in heighte with wheles to go on, makeinge and settinge vpp twoe particions there xlviij foote longe the pece with a retorne at one end, frameinge and settinge vpp of an other stage a greate halpace
and degrees in ye saide bankettinge house for people to sitt on to see maskes and
showes before the Kinge and Quene with paintinge the roofe overheade with cloudes and other devices
...
[fol. 7]
In all the chardges of the woorkes and reparacions donne vppon
Whitehall
also the newe Pallace of
Westminster
within the tyme of this Accompte ... with Cxlli ijsviiid obolus bestowed vppon the banquettinge house
...
[fol. 17]
I Dorset Iul. Caesar
Nowell Sotherton
viijmo die Aprilis 1608
Examinatur per
Fra: gosson Auditorem
Bibliography
MSC, 10.20
See also transcriptions of AO 1/2418/37, fol. 6v: H&S, 10.445
Orgel & Strong, 1.89