Chamber Books

BL Add MS 7099 folio 8 ( Payments ), 1492
7
8
8
th
Hen
ry
7
th
.
Oct
ober
18
th
.
It
e
m to the Waytes of Canterbury £0 10s 0d
It
e
m to the Waytes of Dover £0 6s 8d
It
e
m to the ferybote of Rochest
er
in rewarde £0 40s 0d

October
24
th
.
It
e
m to the Torches brened at Rochest
er
£0 21s 0d
It
e
m to Ringeley Abbot
of Mysreule £0 100s 0d

Nov
embe
r
4
th
. Sunday the Peax cried _ Calais 7
th
Nov
embe
r
_ Genes 10
th
.

Calais 11
th
.

Dec
embe
r 18
th
.
It
e
m to John Flee for 8 almes
of blake Cloth £7 9s 11d
It
e
m for hiring the Chapell stuff at Calaic £0 10s 0d
It
e
m to one that had Corn trodden down £0 6s 8d

Jan
uary
1
st
.
It
e
m to the querest
er
at Paules & Seint Steven £0 13s 4d
It
e
m to S
i
r
Edw
ard
Burgh for spices p
re
sented the
King at Westm
inste
r
by a Spanyard £0 40s 0d

January
6
th
.
It
e
m to Newark for making of a Song £0 20s 0d
It
e
m to a woman p
re
senting white Capons £0 6s 8d

January
7
th
.
It
e
m to my Lorde of Northumblande ˄
Pleyers
in rew
ard
£0 20s 0d
It
e
m to the Warden of the Freers of Ware for
saying of 240 masses £0 40s 0d

January
21
st
.
It
e
m to a Preste
that kepeth King Harry £0 3s 4d

January
26
th
.
It
e
m to one that gave the King a Touche
£0 4s 0d

at Lambeth

Feb
ruary
14
th
.
It
e
m to a woman that was w
i
t
h
Childe £0 10s 0d

February
20
th
.
It
e
m to John Boome to buye hym a new Doublet £0 30s 0d

M
ar
ch 1
st
.
It
e
m to John Hedeland esq
ui
r
of household £0 20s 0d

March
2
d
.
It
e
m to Mast
er
Bray for rewards to them that
brought Cokkes

at Shrovetide at Westm
inste
r
£0 20s 0d

Ord seems to think that this payment pertains to the theatre, when it seems obvious that the cooks were being rewarded for creating a Shrovetide feast prior to the severity of Lent

March
3
d
.
It
e
m to a Dutchman a Gunner in rewarde £0 20s 0d

generally called Lord of Misrule.-
aulnes or ells,
Probably a Priest that watched & prayed by the body of Henr
ry
6
th
.
whom Hen
ry
7
th
. intended to have sainted.
Ouche q
uae
re, v
ide
p:17.
This diversion was not unco
m
mon in England in the reign of Hen
ry
2
d
, was
followed, tho' disapproved & prohibited in the time of Edw
ard
3
d
. Hen
ry
7
th
. seems
to have been fond of it as there are other Entries of this sort in his acco
un
t
.
Hen
ry
8
th
built a Theatre for this purpose near Whitehall, known by the
name of the Cockpit; James 1
st
. amused himself with it twice a week.
Oliver Cromwell suppressed these meetings; tho' since brought to a
perfection hardly credible.
Archaeologia v
olume
3.
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