National Archives,,
E351/543, fols. 188v-189 (Another copy of NA, AO 1/388/45, fols.
10v and 11)
Pipe Office, Chamber Accounts, Apparelling: payments to
Zachary Bethell
and
Richard Conningsby
in the Declared Accounts of the Treasurer of the
Chamber,
John, Lord Stanhope
, from 29 Sept. 1607
to 29 Sept. 1608. The MS is bound together with Chamber Accounts from the
years 1596 to 1612.
[fol. 188v]
To zacharie Bethell gentleman vsher dailie waiter to the Queene for thallowaunce of himself one yeoman Vsher twoe
yeomen of the Chamber twoe groomes of the Chamber twoe groomes of the warderobe and
one groome porter for making readye Somersett house for her Majestie when her highnes practized dauncing against the time of masking, being ymploied
by the space of six daies mense
Decembris 1607Cvjs
...
[fol. 189]
To the aforesaid Sir Richard Coningesbie for thallowaunce of himself one yeoman Vsher three yeomen two
groomes of the Chamber two groomes of the warderobe and one groome porter<
XXX
> for making ready the Banqueting house and the Lord Threa
surers lodginge for the Maske for the king
and Queene and Ladies by the space of six daies eodem mense
[Jan. 1608]
Cxviijs
...
[fol. 199v]
[Endorsement]
R Salisbury
Iul. Caesar.
Nowell Sotherton
Examinatur per nos Ri:
Sutton
Fra: goston. Auditores
[Number of Assistants: 8 (Bethell); 9 (Conningsby) Accounts relating
to Apparelling: fols. 188-192v Total sum spent on Apparelling: £1,254, 16 s, 4 d Entire
account: fols. 180-199v]
Bibliography
MSC, 6.102
See also transcription of NA, AO 1/388/45 (fol. 11 only): H&S, 10.457