THE CHAPEL. 719 



In 1635 and 1636 the influence of Laud was at its height. 

 At Corpus Christi College ' the table was altered ' at a cost of 

 35. 6d. in 1635, and a rail set before it at an expenditure of 905., 

 while 25 s. was spent on a frame for the pulpit. In the next 

 year, 'a chest, round and revayled, with lapts and pendants to 

 hold chapel vestments/ was purchased for 90^. ; and in 1638 a 

 chafing-dish was bought for perfuming and airing the copes. 

 But the most costly part of the revival was in wax candles, 

 great quantities of which were bought and burnt At S. 

 John's College, Cambridge, 243 os. <\d. were spent in chapel 

 decorations in 1636, and in one year 560 Ibs. of wax candles, 

 the College having in 1634 put a velvet cushion on the altar 

 at a cost of 6$s. %\d. 



At New College in 1636 the College paid 55 to 'Francis 

 Doone, the picture draper,' for sixty-four pictures in the chapel, 

 and hired one Richard Hawkins to gild and paint sixty-two seats 

 in the same place at 4^. 6d. a foot, each seat having 9 feet super- 

 ficial, and each buttress at 2s. This gives a total cost of 1 26 3^., 

 the painting and gilding coming to iiS 6s., and the buttresses 

 being 74^ in number. In the same year the College gave $os. 

 for eleven service-books, with choice services and anthems. But 

 I find no particular cost incurred at King's College, Cambridge, 

 and absolutely nothing at Magdalen or Eton Colleges. At 

 King's College some chapel books are bought at los. nd. t and 

 a dozen Turkey-work cushions at 4 los. the dozen. 



Here however I may digress a little in order to say some- 

 thing about the church organs of the time. In 1596 the Mag- 

 dalen College account states that .33 135. 8d. was expended 

 on organs, that the colouring and gilding them came to 

 2 125., and the wainscot frame to 3 4s. ; in all, 39 $s. Sd. 

 This is not a considerable outlay, but in 1537 an organ at 

 Oxford cost 25 TS. io\d., and in 1554 a pair at Magdalen 

 College only 13 is. id. (vol. iii. p. 570, col. iii, and p. 574, 

 col. i). Other entries are at still less cost. 



It was therefore apparently an entirely new departure when 

 in 1605 King's College, Cambridge, determined on going to an 



