8 CHATSWORTH BUILDING ACCOUNTS. 
St. James Westm™ house painter since deceased, John Cock 
of the said parish of St. James Westmins’ Plumber and Henry 
Margetts of ye parish of St. Martin in the fields in ye sd 
County of Middlesex Plaisterer, having notice the one from ye 
other or otherwise they the said Benjamin Jackson, Henry 
Lobb &c. did apply themselves to your Orator and did request 
your Orator to employ each and every of them apart in such 
part and parts of ye sd intended new building and workes as 
related to his respective Art and trade and thereupon and 
in order thereunto your Orator and the said several Tradesmen 
and Artificers after several treaties thereupon came to an 
agreement touching ye same which Agreement was put into 
writing by certain Articles Octopartite indented bearing date 
the twelfth day of February in the first year of the Reign of 
our late most gracious sovereigns Lord and Lady King William 
and Queen Mary of Blessed Memory and made between your 
Orator of the first part the sd Benjamin Jackson of the second 
part the said Henry Lobb of the third part the said John 
Creswell of the fourth part, the said Thomas Young of the fifth 
part, the sd John Apprice of the sixth part, the sd John Cock 
of the seventh part, and the said Henry Margetts of the eighth 
part, wherein and whereby the said Benjamin Jackson &c for 
the considerations in the said Articles and hereinafter mentioned 
Did thereby severally and not jointly nor the one for the other 
covenant and agree to and with your Orator to complete and 
finish the particular work of his own particular and respective 
trade aforesaid of and belonging to the great building next the 
garden and Hall front in the Inner Court and Rooms over called 
the Queen of Scots apartment with the great stone Staires of and 
for your Orator situate and being at Chatsworth in the County 
of Derby according to the direction of Mr. William Talman 
Surveyor thereof by or before the nine and twentieth day of 
September next ensuing the date of the sd Articles (except 
some Ornaments which might then happen to be unfinished 
that might not hinder the furnishing thereof nor your Orators 
inhabiting therein) and also with such expedition as that the 
