1680.] EXPENSES AT THE PALACE. 379 



entertainments of bricklayers, at 2s. 6d. and is. 6d. each per day, 

 was £$ ; of carpenters, at 2^-. 6d. and 2s., £10 ^s. ; of plumbers, 

 at 3i-., 18^. Henry Winstanley,* the clerk of the works, for 

 30 days riding charges, at is. gd. a day, together with 8j,-. 6d. 

 by him laid out for sundry small provisions, received 

 £1 IS. The taskwork cost £i$g gs. Sh^A A further sum of 

 ^195 2s. 6^d., by another account, appears to have been ex- 

 pended on the works and buildings at Newmarket during the 

 year 1679-16804 



The expenses of the king and queen at Euston Hall in 

 September amounted to ^236 ^s. old., and at Newmarket, in 

 October, to ;^552 ys. 6f^/.§ 



To Henry Carr, Esq'', Gentleman Vsher dayly Waiter for 

 his extraordinary attendance on his Ma*y at Newmarket 

 (when it was not his time to waite) from the 29'" I68O. 

 of March i6|tT to the iij'^ of Aprill following, at ^P^^i^- 

 XX' a day, by warr*, etc. A.O.R. (Rot. 118.) 



To Jervace Price, Esq"", Gentleman of the Bowes in Or- 

 dinary to his Ma"*^ in part of cxxvj" allowed him, by warr' 

 etc for his Charges in attending his Ma*'*^ with his Guns at 

 Windsor & Newmarket Clxviij* dayes between the xix^^' of 



* In 1686, Henry Winstanley, clerk of the works at Newmarket 

 Palace, published, at Littlebury, his foUo of engravings of Audley End. 

 It bears the following dedication : " To The most Excellent Majesty of 

 James 11*. By the Grace of God of England, Scotland, France and 

 Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, &c, This Book of the Ground- 

 Platt's, Generall and Particular Prospects of all the Parts of his Majesty's 

 Royal Pallace of Audley End, is most humbly ^sented & dedicated by 

 his Majesties Most Loyall Subject and Servant, Henry Winstanley, 

 Clarke of the Works of the said Pallace, and that at Newmarket." In a 

 panegyrical epistle to James, Earl of Suffolk, he explains the object of 

 executing his work, which seems to have arisen by a desire to perpetuate 

 *' the magnificence of so great a building," according to the rules of per- 

 spective, "lying obscure and not took notice of," although he considered 

 it " ought to be esteemed not inferior to any in this kingdom and equal to 

 any in Europe." There is also an engraved epistle to Sir Christopher 

 Wren, who was the author's patron and friend. The volume contains 

 twenty-four views. 



t L. T. R. Works and Buildings, No. 98, MS., P.R.O. 



X Ibid., No. 99, m. 3. 4. 



§ Cofferer's Aces. Rot. s.d. 



