National Archives,,
E351/3243, fols. 4v-5 (Another copy of PRO, AO 1/2419/40, fols.
7-8v)
Pipe Office, Works: entries among payments relating to works carried out at
Whitehall
in the Declared Accounts of the Paymaster of the
Works,
Andrew Kerwyn
, from 1 Oct. 1607 to 31
March 1609.
Jonson
's description of the throne of Beauty corresponds to the
description of the 'greate throne of Cantes' in this MS. (A note about the making
of a
three-foot high stage in the Queen
's Dancing Chamber is omitted.)
[fol. 4v]
Alsoe allowed to the said Accomptaunte for money by him yssued paide and defreyed for woorkes and
reparacions donne within the tyme of this Accompte vpon his MajestiesPallace of Westminster
also
Whitehall
the Banquetting house there, the parliament house the Augmentacion Courte the Causey neare whitehall and other places therevnto belonging and adioyning
viz
...
[fol. 5]
making a greate nomber of Degrees on either syde of the Banquetting house both belowe
and in the galleries aboue making of a greate Stage fower foote highe from the grounde
vpon Trestles, making a great hall vnder the
king
es state and making a greate Throne of Cantes borne in the middest by a greate piller
with diverse wheeles and Devices for the moving rounde thereof frayming and setting
vp of a great stage iiijer foote highe whereon the same frame was placed
... Fraiming and setting vp a greate stage for a Maske all the height of the Banquettinghouse
with a floore in the midle of the same being made with sondry devices with greate gates and turning Doores belowe and a globe and sondry
seates above for the Queene and Ladies to sitt on and to be turned rounde aboute,
fraiming and setting vp of a halfepace vnder the king
es state and a greate nomber of Degrees on bothe sides of the said house with railes
before the same and taking downe thereof after the maske was ended &c
...
[fol. 46]
[Endorsement]Iul. Caesar. Ia: Altham
Examinatur per
Ri:
Sutton
[probably
in
Sutton
's hand]Auditorem
[Accounts relating to works at
Whitehall
: fols. 4v-12v Total sum
spent on works at
Whitehall
: xl ciiijxx xiiij li x s ij d Entire account: fols.
1-46]
Bibliography
MSC, 10.21-22
Orgel & Strong, 1.131
(incorrectly catalogued under
Queens
)
See also transcription of AO 1/2419/40,
fols. 7-8v: H&S, 10.457-8; 10.494
(incorrectly catalogued under
Queens
)