Lady Arabella's Progress. 



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" Hereaftek insueth th' accompt of all 

 soche monies I have Layed forth for 

 my Ladies occasions sins the 22 th 

 of Auguste 1609." 



From Whitehall. 



" Tuesday 22. Imprimis given this daye at the garden gate at Whitehall to the 

 1609. poore as my Ladie tooke hir coache to come into countrie 3 8 . 4 d ." 



St. Alban's. 



"She supped and slept. Soper, £2. 8. 6. Breakfast 2. 11. 10. 

 Horse-mete for 20 horses £2. 2. 6. hostelers 2. 0 Musitions 

 10/- poor at the gates 10/- ringers 10/- chamblens 5/ My 

 La: Arrondale's * coatchman 1. 0. 0. A trompeter 2/6. The 

 poore on the way back to St. Alban's and Toddington 4/11" 



TODDINGTON, NEAR D UNSTABLE Co. BEDS. 



[This house had belonged to Lord Cheney , who died in 1587. His 

 estate devolved to his wife, a daughter of Thomas, Lord Went- 

 worth of Nettlestead, and was inherited by her relatives. In 

 1608 Toddington had been visited by King James I. (Ly sons' s 

 Bed/., p. 143.)] 



" At Tuddington. 



Friday 25 th Given among the officers in my ladie Cheynee's howse. Imprimis 

 Aug. to the clarke of the kytchen 1. 0. 0. 2 cooks 1. 0. 0. 2 boyes in 

 1609. the kytchen 5/. 2 in the scullery 5/. The Butler 10/. His boy 



2/6. The pantler 10/. Yeoman of the wine-cellar 10/. Porter 10/. 



Groomes of the great chamber 1 . 0. 0. Groomes man of the chamber 



5/. Landry woman 10/. The baker 10/. To a woman wayted on 



the chamber 10/. Groom of the stable 10/." 



Northampton. 



" Sat. 26 th At Northampton. To Sir James Croft's footman that came with my 

 Lady from Toddington to Northampton 10/. Given to the boy at 

 Northampton that made y e speeche before the Kinge 10/." 



Prestwould. (£7th August ) 



[Near Loughborough, Co. Leicester ; then the seat of Sir William 

 Skipwith.] 



" Mon. 28 th . P d . S r . Wm's coachman for bringing my Lady to Nottingham 1. 0. 0." 



• Lady Arrondale. This was Alethea Talbot, daughter of Gilbert, seventh Earl of Shrewsbury 

 and cousin to Lady Arabella Stuart, 



