1611-1613.] THE WORKS AND BUILDINGS. 279 



In the following year ^59 4^. ^d. was expended on 

 the works and buildings at the king's palace at New- 

 market. The articles included timber, 



1 • 1- 1611—1612. 



lime, gravel, sand, hair, solder, bmdmg- 



rods, reeds, straw, candles, ropes, nails, ironwork, 



glass, and glazing, to the value of ^27 5^. 4^. 



Among the workmen employed were carpenters, 



bricklayers, thatchers, plumbers, joiners, sawyers, and 



labourers. Thomas Pointer, clerk of the works, was 



employed for forty days at 4^. per day (including 



horse-hire). John Pigott received £/\. for framing, 



raising, and boarding a floor in Mr. Bohennon's 



lodgings in the privy buttery, 16 ft. long and 15 ft. 



wide, with a new pair of stairs leading up the 



same, taking down the old roof and raising a new one 



with a " dormer " window ; taking down a partition 



wall between the privy buttery and pantry, and laying 



fittings, " he only finding workmanship." Altering a 



smoky chimney cost 22s. For laths, lime, and hair 



used in the walls and ceilings of Mr. Bohennon's 



lodgings, 395-. A^\d. was charged. John Wyatt, the 



painter, was paid 27^-. \d. for repairing, stopping, and 



laying in white-lead, colour in oil, twenty-two lights 



and double casements, etc., in the presence-chamber, 



where also some new timber cornices cost 9^., while 



the same apartment was embellished with four score 



and nine yards of bulrush mats at an expense of 



493-. ^d. 



In the accounts of money laid out on the palace at 

 Newmarket for the ensuingf year, which 



1 ^ .. , / 1612—1613. 



amounted to ^162 2s. 8^., the sum ex- 



