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William Powell and Sir Georofe Marshall. Amono- 

 other officers in this department, P. Poys, Esquire, 

 was the Avenor. There were 16 esquires, 2 clerks of 

 the avory, 2 sergeant farriers, 6 supervisors of the 

 stable, I clerk of the stables, 3 marshall farriers, 

 I yeoman of the sturrup, 5 yeomen riders, 10 yeomen 

 footmen, 9 yeomen purveyors, 5 yeomen granltors, 

 I yeoman of the races — Thomas Freeman — 2 yeomen 

 of the race — Thomas Green and Gregory Julian — 



1 yeoman saddler, 2 yeomen of the close carriage, 

 4 yeomen farriers, 2 yeomen bit-makers, i yeoman 

 packman, 3 yeomen coachmakers, 3 grooms of the 

 battle horses, 6 groom coachmen, 6 groom littermen, 2 

 groom saddlers, 2 grooms of the carriage, 4 groom farriers, 

 46 groom coursers, i 7 grooms of the hunting stable, 



2 child riders — William Ankein and Gracous lez Herls 

 —2 custodians of the stables, i custodian of the riding 

 house, and 2 grooms of the coursers' stables. In the 

 queen's stables, there were employed 76 persons in 

 similar capacities, in which 96 horses and '^'^ hackneys 

 were annually maintained.* 



In connection with the royal stud we learn from a warrant 

 issued under the Privy Seal, dated December 16, 1637, that 

 pursuant to a certificate under the hand of the Earl of 

 Denbigh, Master of the Wardrobe, " there remayned then 

 due to Mary Shakespeare widdow and Executrix of John 

 Shakespeare our late bitmaker deceased the full some of one 

 thousand six hundred fower-score & twelve poundes eleaven 

 shillings for sondry parcells of Wares by the said John Shake- 

 speare made & delivered for our service in our * stables.' " 

 These arrears due to the widow Shakespeare were now, 



* State Papers, Dom., vol. cliv., No T] ; Ibid., vol. cccclxxiv., No. 3. 



