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pails, wood, turf, and fuel for the plumbers ; straw for 

 thatching, binding rods, etc., sundry other " small 

 necessaries " used in these works, with workmen's 

 wages: masons at 2s. 6d., carpenters at i6d. and i8c/., 

 bricklayers at i6d., matlayers, plumbers, and thatchers, 

 at 22d., and labourers at lod. and yd. a day, make up 

 the sum total at foot of this account. 



The final account in the Record Office series of 



money expended in works and buildings at the 



palace of Newmarket, is that for the year 



1638-1639. ^ , . , . , ,, . , 



1638-1639, which IS the smallest m the 

 collection. It amounts to ^23 i<^s. ^d., of which 

 ^9 10s. 4.d. was spent on the purchase of lime, sand, 

 straw, buckets, nails of several sorts, tiles, boards, 

 thatching spits, ironwork, hanging locks, glass, and 

 glazing ; the remainder being charged to carriage 

 and workmen's wages. From this date to 1 660-1661, 

 with the exception of the years 1 644-1 645 (in which 

 there is no account of the Newmarket palace), there 

 are no accounts of the public works and buildings in 

 the Record Office series. They are, however, resumed 

 in 1660, from which period they extend to Z^;;//. 

 George III. 



From the yearly accounts of works and buildings, 

 as here summarized, it appears that the aggregate 

 amount expended on the palace of Newmarket during 

 the reign of Charles I. was ^1527 gs. lo^d. Nothing 

 is known of it during the Interregnum, beyond the fact 

 of its having been dilapidated, almost razed from its 

 foundations by the ruthless Roundheads,* 



* L.T.R. Works and Buildings, Nos. 64-86, MS., P.R.O. 



