1620-1622.] ROYAL WORKS AND BUILDINGS. 385 



gallery, and offices for the prince. There were also a 

 farrier's office and coach-houses built. The woodyard 

 was enclosed with a stone wall. Lodgings and store- 

 houses were erected for the clerk of works. For 

 framine and raisingf " a roome on the back side of the 

 kinges privy kitchen for the Marquis of Buckingham, 

 with washing, boarding, lathing, and tileing the same, 

 quartering a partition there ; " and setting up racks, 

 mangers, and stalls, and other miscellaneous work, 

 including decorations to the ceiling of Buckingham's 

 new lodgings, considerable expenses were incurred. 

 As usual, new mats were provided for the king's 

 chambers, while in other subordinate parts of the 

 palace the old ones were mended and pieced. 



In the year 1620-21 the royal works and buildings 

 at Newmarket cost ^975 2s. 6d. This amount 

 is made up of a variety of miscellaneous 



^ ^ . 1620—1621. 



items, too numerous and diffuse to men- 

 tion in detail. ^^ A new well was sunk five fathoms 

 deep to serve the king's and prince's kitchen, for 

 which the labourer was paid at the rate of ^s. the 

 fathom. New bulrush mats were supplied for all 

 the principal apartments and stairs of the palace. 



The accounts for the ensuing year are of a some- 

 what similar description, w^hen ^238 2s. ^\d. was laid 

 out on works and buildingrs in and about 



, , , 1621—1622. 



the palace.y 



* Twelve cases of glass were ordered from, and refused by, Sir R. 

 Mansil, who enjoyed a monopoly in that article. The particulars are not 

 fit for publication. — State Papers, Dom., James I., vol. 112, No. 67 (780). 



t On October 3, 1622, a warrant was issued to pay Sir Robert Vernon 

 £\^o for lands and inheritance belonging to the Swan, at Newmarket, 

 taken for building offices for the king's use. — Docquet Book, s.d., MS., 

 P.R.O. 



