National Archives,
E351/3256, fols. 3v and 6v
Pipe Office, Works
(Another
copy of AO 1/2423/53, fols. 4v-5 and 8)
Unusually, there is a blank leaf at the
beginning of AO 1/2423/53. For the sake of consistency, foliation is recorded from
the first leaf of the account proper.
Entries among payments relating to works carried out at Whitehall in the DeclaredAccountsof
Henry Weeks
, Paymaster of the Works, from 1 Oct. 1622 to 30 Sept. 1623. Note:
Sutton
writes his own title of "Auditorem"; Bingley's is completed by the main scribe.
[fol. 3v]
Alsoe allowed to the said Accomptaunte for money by him yssued payed and defreyed
for workes and reparacions donne and bestowed within the
tyme of this Accompte vpon whiteh^ ⎡all⎤ also the newe pallace of
westminster with other places thereto
belonging and neere adioyning by Maisons Carpenters Brickleyers Plombers Plaisterers
Ioyners Matleyors Sawyers and other Artificers workemen and Labourers ... in fitting
and
setting vp the Degrees and galleries in the banquetting house and boording them againste
the maske
there, ... as alsoe for workes and Repairaci ons in and
about the Maske at
Whitehall
and the Olde Pallace at
Westminster
[fol. 6v]
In all the said workes and repairaci ons donne and bestowed at whitehall also the newe
Pallace of westminster with other places therevnto belonging and neere
adioyning within the tyme of this Accompte viz ... Maske at whitehall lxxvli xvs
ixd obolus
[fol. 23]
[Endorsement, 4 signatures]
Fra: Cottington
Io: Denham
Examinatur per nos
Ri:
Sutton
Auditorem
Geo:Bingley Deputatum
Auditoris
[Accounts relating to works at
Whitehall
: fols. 3v-6v
Total sum spent on works at
Whitehall
: £1,731, 4 s, 3 1/2 d
Entire account: fols. 1-23]
Bibliography
MSC 10.33-4
See also transcriptions of AO 1/2423/53, fols. 5 and 8: H&S, 10.650 (mis-referenced
as AO 1/2424/54)
Orgel & Strong, 1.348 (mis-referenced as AO 1/2424/54)
Reyher (1909), 527 (note)