Paid for a Bushell a halfe bushell a Peck and a halfe peck measures and bringinge them to the hallxjsiijd
Paid for a Roape for the Jynnvjsvd
Paid for a great Iron Beame & Scales to weyghe Cornexxvjs
Paid for new Leaden waightꝭ waighing CCCli vizt 5 halfe hundrede waight 1 quartern 1 halfe quarterne 1 seaven pounde 1 foure pounde 1 twoe pounde 1 pound 1 halfe pound & 1 quarter of a pound waightꝭ at 16s 8d pˀ C. comes tols
Paid for a Skreene for the Cornexjs
Paid for a sacke for that Skreeneiijs
Payd for the Carryage of the great Skreene for Corne wch the Companye did not like ofijsvjd
Paid for twoe hand treys to sell meale by in ye mˀketxvjd
Paid for a Ballattinge boxe & Bullettꝭxls
Disbursed in chargꝭ about the 4 Condempned Lancashire woemen that were brought to or Hall by the Kingꝭ Comaũnd to be searched the sume ofxsvjd

These women were examined to ascertain if any were pregnant, that if so their execution might be stayed.

1634–5. Paid to Sr Willm̃ St. George Herrauld at his genˀall visitat̃on for the severell Companies Armes in London the sume of iijli vjs viijd as his ffee & xxs amongst his Clerkꝭiiijlivjsviijd

The Company paid £16 “ship-money” this year.

Paid to the Clocke Smith for mendinge the Clockiijs

This entry is curious, being the transition name of a trade; the blacksmiths were originally the clockmakers (see [p. 399]); here we have the “clock smith” and later on the “clock maker.”

The records obtained from the Guildhall and the Tower to which reference is made in the following extracts, and which are preserved in a vellum book (still in the possession of the Company) were made by William Colet, here called “Colley.” The record from the Tower has been already fully referred to on [p. 29], etc.

Paid for searchinge in the Threasury at Guildhall and for a Coppy of Richard le Barbars beinge chosen Mr to governe the Companye for one yeare Intrat in Libro C. folio 96, and in the second yeare of Edward the Second Also in Libro H folio 73. Thomas Boyvell & Willm̃ Osney sworne Mrs for one yeare to rule the Company in the first yeare of Richard the secondxs
Paid the ffee for search in the Roles in the Towre of London for the Companies antiquityexs
Paid for a Coppy of or Companies auncient Ordynances out of those Roles The Eleaventh of Richard the secondxijsvjd
Paid to Mr Colley at twoe tymes for his extraordinary paynes in searchingexs
Paid to Mr Riley for his paynes thereijsvjd
Paid & given for a search & Coppye out of the Herrauldꝭ Office of our Companies beinge the 17th in precedency at their visitac͠on 1568xs
Given to the Porter at the Herrauldꝭ office that day or hearinge was betwixt us and the Talloughchandlersijsvjd
1635–6. Spent when Mr Inigo Jones the Kinges Surveyor came to view the back groundxjsvjd
Given to Mr Mason that drew ye plotꝭ for ye Theaterxls

1636–7. In the previous year £480 had been paid in respect of the building of the Anatomical Theatre and this year a further sum of £242 17s. 4d. This was exclusive of the cost of digging for the foundations which the Company did by their own labourers, whom they paid 16d. per day each. It was the practice of the Company to allow each workman engaged, whether labourers or mechanics, 1d. a day for “breakfast money,” and this was paid to the “chandler” for them.

Amongst the expenses incurred about the Theatre were these:—