22 CHATSWORTH BUILDING ACCOUNTS. 
In witness whereof we have hereunto sett our hands the day and 
yeare abovesaid DEVONSHIRE as by the said writing (ready to 
be produced and unto which this defendt. for the more 
certainty therein referrs himselfe) itt doth and may appeare. 
And the said complt. did afterwards come to the other severall 
new agreements and writing and underwritten by the said 
Earle in the words and to the effect following (viz) WORKE 
to be done for his Grace the Duke of Devonshire att Chats- 
worth by Benjamin Jackson and to be paid for as followeth ; 
The Bathing Roome to be done with Marble and Allabaster 
according to the designe of wch One Hundred Pounds to be 
paid as soone as the workmen are att work about it And fifty 
pounds more to be paid when the work is sett up as_ high: 
as the surbace And Thirty pounds more to be paid when itt 
is all finished except the floore and Bason and Twenty pounds 
more to be paid when the Floore and Bason are finished ; To 
make four Chimney pieces of Marble and Allibaster according 
to the designe agreed on by his Grace and Mr. Talman for which 
to be paid Tenn pounds as soone as the first of them is 
begunn and Tenn pounds more when itt is finished and so 
likewise for the other three; To.pave the Hall with the 
thickest of Stoke pavers for which to be paid Tenn pounds 
when itt is begun and Tenn pounds more when itt is finished ; 
To sett up and finish the Battlement on the inside of the 
South Front and to finish the windowe in the Grotto with 
Stone and Marble and to cleare the pipe that carryes water to 
the cesterne upon the staires for which Tenn pounds to be 
paid when the Battlement is begunn on and Tenn pounds 
more when that the window and pipe are finished. All which 
amounts to Three Hundred and Twenty pounds, and when all 
these things are finished Mr.- Talman is to vallue the same 
and what he shall think they shall deserve more than Three 
hundred and twenty pounds his Grace doth promise to pay 
as soone as they are finished And if Mr. Talman values these 
workes to less itt is to be abated and alsoe to settle the whole 
account with the said Benjamin Jackson for all the work he 
