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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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" And to John Powell for 4 billiard staves with pins, 

 balls, and port provided for his majesty, paid by warrant 

 24 August, 1647 6/. 



" Paid unto Thomas Smithesby, Esquire, Saddler, for 

 horse cloths, hoods, bits, and other provisions by him fur- 

 nished to his Majesty's Coachman by warrant 13 July, 

 1647, and his acquittance - - . . 27/ 2s. 



" To him more by virtue of another warrant of the 

 same date by way of advance for providing 2 pad saddles 

 of crimson and green velvet, and 3 hunting saddles for 

 his majesty with 4 saddles for Equerries - - 60/. 



" To him more in full of his bill of 165/. 0*. 6d. for the 

 said saddles and furnitures for the stables by warrant of 

 the said Committee, dated ultimo Novem. 1647, besides 

 the said 50/. formerly paid - - - 115/. Os. 6d. 



" To M'. Clement Kynnersly for 8 Flaunders Coach 

 horses of a Chestnut colour for his Majesty's service, bv 

 warrant 18 Junii, 1647 300/. 



" To M'. William Pauncefoote for 9 suits, cloaks, and 

 coats for his Majesty's footmen, trumpeter, grooms, and 

 sumpter man, bv bill attested bv Captain Silus Titus and 

 by warrant 13 July, 1647 .' - - 15./. 16s. Sd. 



" To M' John Myller, Taylor, to be by him issued upon 

 Accompt, for cloth to make 3 suits, 2 cloaks, and a coat, for 

 2 of his majesty's coachmen and a postilion, and for ne- 

 cessaries for them, by warrant 13° Julii, 1647 - 72/. 



" To John Freeman, for the price of a gray hunting 

 horse and a dun pad horse, bought for his majesty's use 

 by warrant dated 22 Julii, 1647 - - - - 140/. 



'* To Robert Tyrwhitt, Ksquire, one of his Majesty's 

 Equerries, for a grey stone horse, bought of Colonel 

 Thomas Grantham for his Majesty's use, by warrant, 21 

 August, 1647 - - - '.. . ' - - 7U/. 



" To Thomas Lewen, his Majesty's Coachman, upon 

 accompt, for stahle provisions and for wages and board- 

 wages for himself, his fellow and 2 servants, by warrant, 

 14 Febr. 1647 10/. 



" And to M' Charles Kirk, for stable provisions for his 

 majesty's coach horses and saddle horses, and for the 2 

 equerries nags, 14 nights, from the 12*i» to the 26* of 

 November, by warrant, dated ultimo Novem. 1647 



35/. 17s. 9d. 



" Paid unto Colonel Ro. Hamond, Governor of the Isle 

 of Wight, by the hands of John Lysle, Esq", upon his 

 accompt for the King's expences, 3 weeks from the time 

 of his majesty's arrival there until M' Cressett came to 

 manage the expence, by warrant, 16" Decembr. 1647 



160/. 



" To him more by the hands of John Cheech, for the 

 relief and paj' of his soldiers in the forts, castles, and 

 guards there, by warrant, 6 Jan. 1647, in pursuance of an 

 order of the Commons House, 1 Jan. ... 200/. 



" To him more for extraordinar\- charges he hath been 

 at upon occasion of tiie King's being there, and by an- 

 other warrant of the said 6**' of Jan., in pursuance of an 

 order in the house, 31 Dec. _ - - . 200/." 



The King, having thus been brought to the Isle 

 of Wight, we will there leave him for a brief pe- 

 riod while we glance at the adventures of others 

 whose fortunes depended upon the royal revenues ; 

 of whom first in the list comes the Duke of York, 

 whose allowance is here set down : — 



" For the Duke of York. 



" For part of one month's allowance arrear and due 24° 

 Martii, 1646, and paid 1 April, 1647, as appears by one 

 acquittance 331/. 13s. 4d. 



" For the said allowance of 631/. 13s. Ad. per mensem 

 for 10 months ended 24° Januar. 1647, as by 22 acquit- 

 tances 6316/. 13s. id. 



" And in part of the said allowance due for one month 

 ended 24 Febr. 1647, as appears by 3 acquittances 600/. 



" And for the extraordinary charges and expences of 

 the said Duke, and the rest of his majesty's children and 

 their attendants in their journeys between S* James and 

 Causham, to wait on his majesty in July, 1647, paid by 

 warrant 11° August, 1647- ... 101/. Is. Cd, 



Next come the Duke of Gloucester and the 

 Princess Elizabeth, who had an allowance of 5000Z. 

 a year, which was paid to the Earl of Northum- 

 berland, their governor, for their expenses and 

 maintenance "in an honourable way, with their 

 attendants and necessaries." 



Among these are the following payments : — 



" To William Sankey, Goldsmith, for a silver warming 

 pan and other new plate, and altering plate for the King's 

 children, as by bill subscribed by the tifficers of the Jewel 

 House, and by Warrant dated 3° Junii, 1647 



35/. 15s. lid. 



" To Jane Odd}', Widow, for the service done by her 

 son William Ody to the King's children, by warrant dated 

 1 Febr. 1647 21. 



" And to M'' John Dixon, Chyrurgeon, for services by 

 him done for the Duke of Gloucester and Princess Eliza- 

 beth, and their family, by warrant, 17° Martii, 1646, 50/." 



The expenses of maintaining the various forts 

 and garrisons are next detailed : such as St. 

 Mary's Fort and Srilly Islands ; Pendennis Castle ; 

 Plymouth Fort ; Portsmouth Garrison ; Southsea 

 Castle ; the Tower of London ; all of which are 

 too long for insertion here. 



The next items give us a specimen of the nar- 

 row-minded and illiberal spirit which pervaded 

 the Puritan religionists of that day ; religionists 

 who thought that out of their own limited sphere 

 there could be nothing good or righteous, and 

 who, in carrying out their own views to their 

 legitimate ends, could see neither beauty nor ap- 

 plicability in the symbolism of art, whether, in 

 common life or in the decoration of the house of 

 prayer ; it is not surprising, therefore, that Praise- 

 God-Barebones should, in his zeal for Puritan 

 plainness, barter away what was doubtless splen- 

 did tapestry at Whitehall, in order to gratify his 

 own peculiar prejudices. 



" Paid unto M"^ John Hunte, in pursuance of an order 

 of the Commons House 14° Jan. 1647, to be issued by the 

 Committee of Whitehall for providing of bedding and 

 other provisions fitting for accommodating the forces ap- 

 pointed to be quartered in Whitehall and the Mews, bj- 

 virtue of three several warrants of this Committee 2500/. 



" Paid unto the said M"" Hunt, by waj' of Loan, to be 

 repaid out of the moneys to be raised of the sale of cer- 

 tain hangings which have superstitious and idolatrous 

 pictures in them, at Whitehall, bj' order of the Commons 

 House, 19° Febr. 1647, for to provide fire, candles, and 

 other necessaries for the said Soldiers, bv warrant dated 



21 Febr. 1647 ' - - 100/. 



William Henry Habt. 



Folkestone House, 



Roupell Park, Streatham, S. 



(7*0 be continued.') 



