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haue ffive pounds and tenn shillings for the same and his 

 mens Breakfasts and Dinners and they to fetch and 

 bring back the Comp'' Banners and Streamer." 



In 1 67 1 Mr. Alderman Francis Dashwood, an 

 enthusiastic member of the Company, presented 

 them with ^100, a considerable sum in those 

 days, to purchase bunting for their State Barge. 

 This sum we read was invested in the following 

 manner :— 



" Two Streamers each of them sixteen feet long, the 

 whole breadth of the Taffety. 



" Three Banners each to be six feet square. 



"Two dozen Pendants an ell of Taffety to make 

 four of them." 



The banners and streamers were to cost ten 

 pounds a piece, and the pennants twenty shillings 

 each. The balance of the sum was laid out in a 

 handsome canopy, or barge cloth, of the character 

 of which we shall get some notion from the 

 following minute : — ^ 



1672. Febi'uary 26th. 



" At this Cort severall persons being Imbroiderers by 

 Trade appeared about undertaking the Imbroiderery of 

 the Companye's Barge Cloth and each of them did 

 severally and apart propose the rates and prices they 

 would doe the same for and this Court finding that Mr. 



^ In an inventory of the Company's effects, as late as 1736, 

 we find mention of wooden pegs round the top of the Hall 

 " to hang the Bargecloth on." 



