Guildhall Library, MS
16967/4, pp. 13, 24 and 37 (no foliation)
Ironmongers' Company Court Minute Book,
1629-1646. Minutes of court meetings on 16 October 1629, detailing the
company's obligation to pay their share of the £4,300 entertainment costs; 6 November
1629, noting the renewal of the
Lord Mayor
's order for payment; 19 February 1630, noting
arrangements for payment. In a folio-sized book of minutes.
[p. 12]
At a Courte at the Hall the 16th of October
1629
...
[p. 13]
Precept for 76li:19:5 for
part of 4300li for pageantes for ye
king
es coming through the cittie
A precepte from the Lord Maior of the vjth of this moneth was nowe
read, Wherein the Company are required according to an Acte of Comon Councell of
thexiijth of October 1628 to leuy &
prouide within themselues the some of lxxvjli xixs vd being their rateable
parte of 2150: which is the halfe of 4300:li that the
Chamber of London
hath paid for making of the Pageants and Shewes against the late intended tyme of
his Majesties passage throughe the Citty requiring this Company to pay
in the said lxxvjli 19s 5d unto
the Chamber of London
the 13th of this moneth, And 76: 19: 5: at 2: six monethes after being their full
proporcionable parte of the 4300li: abouesaid Whereupon the Company after they are Informed
w
howe other Companie s are governed herein will take such
further order
herein
as shalbe requisite.
[p. 23]
At a Courte the 6th ofNovember 1629
...
[p. 24]
Precept for 153:18:10d for
pageantes for the cittie
A precept from the Lord Maior of the28
ofOctober last was nowe read being the same in effecte
with that of the vjth of th
at
is moneth: Only whereas by
that, the Company were apointed to pay to the Chamber lxxvjli: xixs: vd, by this, they are
required to pay 153: 18: 10: being their full rateable ⎡parte⎤
of 4
0
300li expended in making of Shewes and Pageants
&c Wherunto the same answeare is given as the 16th ofOctober last is
sett Downe.
[p. 36]
At a Courte at the Hall the XIXth day of February
Anno Domini 1629:
[p. 37]
The Money lent the Cittie to be receive d
Whereas by order of the2 d of Ianuary
1627: Two thousand one hundred fourty and eight poundes, was appointed to be
lent vnto the Chamber of London
in parte of 60000li leuied Vpon the
Cham
Companies of
London, W
hich was accordingly paid in the ixth of the said moneth: to receaue for
the consideracion thereof after the rate of vjli per Centum per annum for the
tyme it should be forborne:
And the pageant Mo
ney to be payde
Nowe the Chamberlaine of
London
hauing signified to the wardens that the Company may receaue
out
the same out of the Chamber, abating thereout. 153:
18: 10d being their proporcionall parte of 4300li: expended for the Pageants in the Maioralty of Si
r
Cuthbert Hackett
Knigh t as by
a
a precept grounded vpon an acte of Comon
Counsell bearing date the 28th of October 1629: appeareth
It is theruppon ordered that the wardens shall receaue and pay the said
monies accordingly, And alsoe shall pay the
.
500li owing
to the said Chamber of
London
together with the intrest thereof after the rate of 7li per Centum, out of the said
p
monies to
be receiued; And to pay In with as much conveyancy as he canne the
500li owing to one
Henry Sill
Wi
th the intrest thereof
at
and to take in the Companies
bond.
Bibliography
Nicholl (1866),
216-17