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By the Rev. Canon J. E. Jackson, F8.A. 145 
Book now on the table, so far at least as regards the provision 
of food. (Appendix, No. iv.) Ihave never seen this visit of Henry 
into Wiltshire mentioned in books, so we may reckon it as a small 
“fragment recovered from the wreck of time.” The items of the 
account are curious enough, but being too long to read now will do 
very well to print, as a specimen of the formal and careful way in 
which kitchen expenses were controlled in those days. It would not 
be amiss if in great modern establishments some such just and 
proper register were kept for every day. There would be much less 
waste and robbery, without any diminution of hospitality. The 
book itself also is a very fair specimen of its class. Our Elizabethan 
forefathers were very stately in these things. They did not use those 
insignificant pass books in red leather, stamped with the butcher 
or baker’s name, which supply our ladies with a little exercise in 
arithmetic every Monday morning, but they kept large substantial 
and portly volumes, strongly bound, with arms, devices, and some- 
times groups of sacred subjects stamped on the cover, The paper 
(all of foreign manufacture) is as thick, and almost as durable, as 
parchment. The expenses of every kind, for every meal, with the 
number of guests and names of visitors, are duly entered; and in 
many instances, every page, or at least monthly summary, is formally 
signed by the master or mistress with as much solemnity as if he or 
she were executing a will. 
Another of the Earl’s account books corroborates the eee 
about the old barn having been used for the wedding dance (1536), 
for when King Henry came down to Wulfhall on the occasion I am 
now speaking of, in 1539, the old barn, being the largest room they 
had, was again in requisition. 
‘* Paid to Cornish the paynter for dyvers colours by him bought, for makyng 
certeyn fretts & antiques on canves for my lord’s Barn and House at Wulf haull 
agenst the King’s coming thether 9th Aug. and for his cost in being sent to 
London for the same colours.”—31s. 8d. 
Tt seems, from the next entry, that the Earl of Hertford and family 
gave up the house at Wulfhall to make room for the King, and 
oceupied the old barn themselves :-— 
‘* Paid by the hands of Thomas Hethe to certain painters, joynera, carpenters 
masons and others, for their wages in preparing and trimming of the Barne at 
Wulf hall wherein my lord lay and kept his house during the King’s abode 
