26 The earliefi Accounts of 



*^ fcaccarium. Tefce rege apud Weftm. vii 

 *^ die Januar." 



Among thefe records I find the follow- 

 ing curious memorandum of the fums ex- 

 pended on the king*s building at Weftminfter 

 to the forty-fifth year of his reign. 



^^ Summa cult, operationum Weft, ab 

 '^ inceptione ufque in die dominica proxima 

 " poft feftum divi Michaelis anno regni 

 " regis Henrici xlv^°. Et cclx librae ref- 

 *^ tant folvendae pro ftipendiis alborum cif- 

 *' forum et minutorum operariorum, et pro 

 " franca petra et aliis emptionibus quae non 

 *^ computantur in hac fumma j xxix millia, 

 *' cccxLv/. XIX J. Niudy 



The laft piece I have to produce relates 

 to works to be done for die Prince and his 

 confort Eleanor; with the addition of the 

 falary of mafter William, who was allowed 

 fix-pence a day, as furveyor of the works at 

 Guilford : 



" Liberate 52. Hen. III. m. 11. Rex 

 *^ vicecom. Surr. et SufT. falutem. Precipi- 

 ^* mus tibi quod de exitibus com. praedic- 

 ** torum infra curiam noftram manerii noftri 

 ** de Guldeford quandam cameram cum 



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