1623-1625.] THE STABLES AND KENNELS. 287 



attendance during five days at the water-side to see 

 the bricks and tiles safely laid up and loaded at 

 Freckenham. 



The works and building at the palace at New- 

 market for the following year only cost £\'^'] <^s. io\d., 

 and included boardingr and mendino- the 



11 1 1 -1 r • 1 ,1 1623—1624. 



stalls broken in the " hunting horse stable 

 and in the Duke of Buckingham's stable ; " shoring 

 up the old house on the west side of the court 

 " dangerously shaken with wynds," raising the poles 

 in the dog-yard on boards " in bredthe rounde 

 aboute ; " bringing up and finishing the stack of 

 chimneys that served the prince's bed-chamber and 

 other buildings, and mending them " for avoydinge 

 the smoake ; " taking up the paving-tiles at both ends 

 of the tennis-court and " new paveinge one end 

 agayne." A bucket for the stable well cost 2s. 6d., 

 a well rope, 2s. 6d., and a leather for the pump, is. 



The account for the year 1624-25 (which is the 

 last whole year of James I.'s reign in this series)* for 

 works and buildings at the Palace of 

 JNewmarket represents a disbursement of 

 ^148 5^-. 6hd. It thus appears that ^20,383 13J. 2d. 

 was laid out on this palace during the reign of James I., 

 from the year 1609 to ;625, being an average of about 

 ;^i274 per annum, f 



* Compare some fragmentary accounts in the British Museum from 

 1609 to 1614, sub-tit. Newmarket (MS. Add., 12, 498). Heavy expenses 

 attended the maintenance of the royal stables at Charing-cross, York, St. 

 Albans, Hampton Court, Tutbury, Theobalds, Royston, Enfield, &c. 



t L. T. R. Works and Buildings, Nos. 46-62, MS., Public Record 

 Office. 



