28o THE HISTORY OF NEWMARKET. [Book V. 



pended on materials came to ^76 y. 2d.\ land carriage, 



£<^ ^s. 4^d.; wages, ^66 i^. 2^d. ; riding charges for 



the clerk of works and surveyor, ^10 Si-. ; and 3^-. 6d. 



given in reward to the keeper of the clay-pit for 



" permittinge fetchinge of xxj lodes at 2d. the lode." 



These sums were chiefly spent in defraying the cost 



of taking down two partitions between the prince's 



bed-chamber and the presence-chamber, " for his 



highness more easy passage from there into thother," 



and in mending the ranges in the kitchen, tiling 



over the king's presence-chamber and divers other 



lodgings about the house, and soldering and mending 



cracks in divers gutters. The cost of the materials 



employed, artisans' and labourers' wages are then 



given in detail, somewhat similar to, and at about the 



same rates as in, the preceding accounts. 



In the financial year of 161 2-16 13, ^85 Ss. was 



spent "in and about his Ma** House of Newmarket" 



in covering- vaults, boarding- up partitions, 

 1612-1613. . ^ ' ^ / ^ 



settmg up shelves, makmg slidmg wmdows, 



tables, trestles and forms, screwinsf and streno-thenine 

 ' '000 



the floors that were sunk ; tiling divers lodgings, 

 setting up pans, and " layeing of Footpaces," and 

 doing many other needful works there with the ma- 

 terials, quantities, prices, carriage, artificers, etc. The 

 items are much the same as before. Lord Mont- 

 gomery's lodgings were carpeted like the rooms of the 

 king and the prince (? Henry), with bulrush matting. 

 For the year 1613-1614, £4.6 gs. 1 1 d. was expended 

 upon 10 ft. of oak timber at Sd. the foot ; 



1613--1614. 



1400 of ^-in. boards at los. the hundred; 



