Masque of Augurs 4

National Archives, E351/544, fol. 145
Pipe Office, Chamber Accounts, Apparelling
(Another copy of NA, AO 1/391/60, fol. 10)

Payment to Richard Calveley in the Declared Accounts of the Lord Treasurer of the Chamber, Sir William Uvedale , from 29 Sept. 1621 to 1622. This account seems to have been declared several years after it was drawn up, and is bound together with Chamber Accounts from 1612 to 1627.

[fol. 145]


To Sir Richard Calveley knight one of his Majesties gentleman vshers daily wayters ... for the allowaunce of himselfe one yeoman vsher fower yeomen hangers twoe groomes of the warderobe and one groome porter making ready the parliament house for his Majes ties xviij dayes the greate Chamber on the Quenes syde and the banquetting house for vj plaies xij dayes, taking downe rich hangings after xpmas vj dayes, making ready the Queens great Chamber to pratize twice fower dayes, the banquetting house for the masque the first tyme vj dayes, the greate Chamber and hall for the Lordes and Comons of the parliament house to meete before the king iiijer dayes, the banquetting house fower severall tymes with rich stuffes for the king to viewe viij dayes, and for alteracions after xpmas sixe tymes xij dayes in all lxx dayes mensibus Decembris Ianuarij et Februarij 1621 lxiiij^li iij^s iiij^d


[fol. 150v]

[Endorsement]
Declaratur xviiijo Aprilis 1627

Marleburgh.
Io: Denham

Ri: Sutton
Fra: goston
Auditores.

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Number of assistants: 8
Accounts relating to Apparelling: fols. 144v-5v
Total sum spent on Apparelling: £1,091, 4 ^s
Entire account: fols. 139-150v]



See also transcription of AO 1/391/60, fol. 10:

Bibliography
MSC 6.121
H&S, 10.636