1632-1638..] WORKS AND BUILDINGS AT THE PALACE. 67 



part of the palace fronting the street was fenced with 

 posts and rails. An altar was erected in the queen's 

 chapel, which was likewise provided with pews [Anglice 

 stools). Her Majesty's presence-chamber was, on one 

 occasion, fitted up " for a comedy to be acted there." 

 New mats were put down in the privy lodgings, and in 

 " divers noblemen's lodgings," and sundry other works 

 are mentioned which we have no space to recapitulate 

 in detail. 



The next year's accounts only amounted to 

 £^6 ^s. "/Id., and is made up with small items of 

 a miscellaneous nature, from the cost of 



1632-1633. 



blacking the tennis court to buying a rope 

 for the well. 



In 1633-1634 the sum of ^^165 ijs. ^d. was 

 expended on the works and buildings of the royal 

 establishment at Newmarket. The p^lass 



^ 1633-1634. 



windows of the tennis court were pro- 

 tected with wirework, and 6d. was now spent on 

 the purchase of wire to repair that work. The 

 entire amount charged in this account consists of 

 " small necessaries " which are unnecessary to repro- 

 duce here. 



The bill for the following year only came to the 

 modest sum of ^63 i^s. J\d.; that of 1635-1636 to 

 £^J ly. id. ; and that of 1636-1637 to 



r 7 T 01 1634-1638, 



^91 <^s. id. In 1637-1638 the sum 

 expended on the palace was £121 i^s. lo^d., for 

 {inter alia) oak timber and boards, joists, planks, 

 solder, mats, pack thread, tiles, lime, laths, sand and 

 gravel, nails, ironwork, glass and glazing, buckets and 



