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was carefully accounted for: and if not specially bought for the eccasion, was 
taken out of store, and its value charged as expense. 
The ordinary weekly expenditure on victuals, &c., under the different heads 
above given, at Tottenham Park or at Wulfhall, for my lord and lady, their 
visitors and servants, was about £22. The number dining and supping is daily 
recorded. The hour for the earlier meal, then called dinner, was at ten o’clock 
in the morning, the later meal, then called supper, about five or six in the after- 
noon. 
Only two meals per diem appear in the account of the king’s visit to Wulfhall. 
Gratuities or ‘* Rewards” bestowed by the Earl of Hertford upon the 
occasion of the King’s visit. 
“ Among the King’s household servants at my lord’s command- 
ment, at his grace’s being at W ulfhaull the 9th, 10th, 11th, and ; 
12th of August, with £4 to the clerk of the kitchen and mastercook 3013 4 
To the King’s sagbutts, the 12th of August, 20s. the violls 20s., 
the flutes 15s., the taberet 5s., the trumpetts 15s., the purveyor of 
the cellar 3. 4d., Mr. Blunt, gentleman usher and others, inall.. 718 4 
To a coke and a turnebroche ( Turnspit) that did labour in the 
kychin during the King’s being at Wulfhaull 43 07 8 
To Philip Cornish 10s., John Bedell 11s. 3d., Miles Range : 
John Miles 5s., and John Cox 5s., in reward to fen for their ee 
taken in eayatine the roff of my lord's barn, with fretts upon canvas 
agenst the King’s coming to Wulfhaull, 9th August 1.16.4 
In reward to Master Hungerford’s man for bringing my lord ee 
ridges, a capon, pigeons and brawn 03 4 
To diverse men that brought my Jord presents from eee of his 
friends, as venison, wild fowl, &c., against the King’s coming to his 
house, at Wulfhaull, where my aad lord defraid him for Saturday 
supper, Sunday and Monday all day, and Tuesday dinner the 12th 
August, with money given to diverse persons for carriage of letters 
to my Lord’s said frends for the same abt Loe OPO 
It would seem, from the next item, that his Majesty’s | officers, having supplied 
part of the provisions for the King’s fable, also paid the Earl for the hides, &c., 
of the animals taken out of Wolfhaull farm yard. 
“‘ Received by the hands of Mr. Cofferer of the King’s house, 25 
Sept., for the hides, fells and tallow of the beifes and multones ex- 
pended whiles the King was at Wulfhaull.” = oei) 8 248s 10 
Me. °V: 
Extracts from.the Steward’s Account Books of Edward Seymour, 
Earl of Hertford, (Protector Somerset), illustrative of Domestic 
Life, Prices, &c., of that period. See p. 148. 
1. TRAVELLING Expensss, &c. 
For hay, litter, and provender for 24 horses of my lord’s own for 
2 nights, 7 & 8 Oct., standing at Newbury, in my lord’s journey from 
Walfhall to London te ve + 020 0 
