Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue 4

National Archives, E351/3252, fols. 3v and 5
Pipe Office, Works
(Another copy of NA, AO 1/2422/48, fols. 5 and 7)

Entries in the Declared Accounts of Henry Weeks , Paymaster of the Works, for making ready the banqueting house, among payments relating to works carried out at Whitehall from 1 Oct. 1617 to 30 Sept. 1618.


[fol. 3v]

Also allowed to the said Accomptaunte for money by him yssued payd and defreyed for workes and Reparacions done and bestowed vpon Whitehall also the new Pallace of Westminster with other places thereto belonging and nereto adioyning within the tyme of this Accompte, by Masons Carpenters Brickleyers, Tylers Plombers, Ioyners, plasterers Mattleyers and other Artificers workemen and Labourers, ... for workes and alteracions in preparing and fytting the banquetting house for playes and Masques there


[fol. 5]

In all the said workes and Repar aci ons done and bestowed at Whitehall also the new pallace of Westminster with other places thereto belonging and nere adioyning within the tyme of this Accompte, viz vpon Whitehall ml ixc iiijli xvjs ijd. The banketting house CCljli xvijs vd obolus ...

[fol. 18v]


[Endorsement, signatures]
Middlesex
Rich: weston.
Io: Denham

Examinatur per Fra: goston Auditorem

[Accounts relating to works at Whitehall : fols. 3v-5
Total sum spent on works at Whitehall : £2,191, 6 s, 2 1/2 d
Entire account: fols. 1-18v]



See also transcriptions of AO 1/2422/48, fols. 5 and 7:

Bibliography
MSC 10.29
H&S, 10.578
Orgel & Strong, 1.277