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committee — Colonel Rous brinjjs up the report — Collections ordered 

 for relief of the inhabitants — Further proceedings in Parliament 

 thereon — Benefactions and doles left by benevolent persons to the 

 poor of Newmarket — The bequests — What has become of tliem ? 



The earliest account, in the rei^rn of Charles I., of 

 money expended upon works and buildings at the 

 royal palace at Newmarket, occurs in the 

 year 1626-162 7, when the bill came to Newmarket. 

 ^229 ']s. Among the materials used paiace.^ 

 were deals, deal boards, paving tiles, plain 1626-1639. 

 tiles, tar, lime, sand, hair, solder, etc., to the I626-I627. 

 value of ^iio \^s. \o\d. Bricklayers were paid from 

 i^. \od. to IS. 2d. ; plumbers, \s. lod. ; plasterers, 

 IS. lod. ; mat-layers, i^. lod. ; labourers, i^. 2d. to yd. 

 a day ; and the clerk of the works and the purveyor 

 had IS. 8d. each daily, exclusive of horse hire and 

 travelling expenses. 



The bill for 162 7- 1628 amounts to ^^[13 r6^. 3W. 

 for black touch stones " for the hazard in the tennis 

 court and new paveino- and blackino- the 



1627-28 



walls, peires and butresses of the same ; " 

 planking the king's stables ; rematting and mending 

 the mats in the privy lodgings ; tileing over the 

 dormer windows and other parts over the Prince's 

 [Charles II.] new buildings, etc., etc. ; workmen's 

 wages, carriage, etc., make up the total above 

 mentioned. 



Only ^28 ys. g^d. was laid out on the palace 

 during the following year for twenty-two pounds of 

 solder at lod. per pound, two load of sand 



1628-29 



at is. a load ; candles and rosin, gd. ; 



mending and putting ironwork round the pump, y. 



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