9th April, 1632. “A gilt beere boll and cover” weighing 201⁄2 ozs. was presented by Mr. Dominic Lomeline’s[309] executors.
16th August, 1632. Mr. Thomas Borne[310] having bequeathed £6 13s. 4d. to the Company to buy a piece of plate, it was ordered that “there shalbe a faire silver salt white, with scroules of the new fashion bought and his name ingraven thereon.”
2nd January, 1635. Mr. Robert Allott, Doctor in Phisick of St. John’s Coll: Cambridge and free of the Company, gave a large round silver salt white with three scrolls, and with his arms and an inscription engraved thereon.
1636. The Company having spent large sums of money in the erection of the Theatre, and being short of cash, an order was made to sell the whole of the Yeomanry’s Plate, excepting a beer bowl the gift of Mr. James Kent.
1637. It having come to the knowledge of the Court that Mr. Alexander Baker (Master 1622) had bequeathed to the Company a cup and cover which was withheld by his executors, a suit was commenced against them.
19th May, 1637. This daye was presented to this Court by a suite & decree made in his Matꝭ Court of Requestꝭ one standing Cupp and Cover gilt of Mr Alexander Bakers gift weighing 131 ounces.
19th May, 1637. Alsoe according to orders of former Courtꝭ of Assistants the plate vizt Wm Kelletts cupp 21 oz. one cupp & cover Vanderlash 23 oz. & halfe. 3 beere bolls dropps 38 oz. 3 flatt gobletts 61 oz. & halfe. 4 tankerds 92 oz. & a halfe. 1 salt & cover Izard 9 oz. 4 standing cupps & Covers yeomanrye 102 oz. being all guilt plate amounting to 347 oz. at 5s 4d pˀ oz. cometh to 92li 10s 8d Alsoe one white cupp Turner 9 oz. 1 white cupp Harding 5 oz. 1 white cupp Bostock 10 oz. 3 beere bolls vaughan 26 oz. 3 white beakers 31 oz. 3 white salts Guilham 40 oz. 1 white boll Lakin 10 oz. 3 wine bolls white 16 oz. & a halfe being white plate weighing 149 oz. 3 quarters at 4s xjd the ounce was sould for 36li 16s 4d Soe that the whole money received for the plate that was sould cometh to in toto 129li 07s wch sale is by this Court confirmed & ordered yt that money received shall be imployed towardꝭ the buildingꝭ now in hand.
31st October, 1642. Whereas heretofore by Order of the Lords & Com̃ons in Parliament assembled Our Company was proporc͠oned to pay and lend 800li at 8li pˀ cent towards and for nothing else than the releife of Ireland. Upon which our Company did humbly certifie the Lord Maior of the Citty of our inability to pay any part of the said 800li Yet for that the present occasions forceing for presente Releife It was Ordered That 400li should be taken up at Interest and payd over into the Chamber of London for that and noe other purpose. And that now the Company would take up such a quantity of money but cannott obteyne soe much, It is now ordered That the Kings Cupp and Cover shalbe kept, And that the Mas & Wardens shall take out all our plate and view it and see which of it is fitt to be sold and that every parcell of that plate which shalbe sold a patterne or fashion of it shalbe drawne in paper and the perticuler Letters Writeings or Graveings shall likewise be written on that paper. To the intent that when the said ffoure Hundred Pounds with the Interest at 8li p. centum shalbe repayd the said Plate shalbe made againe in the same ffashions & writeings upon them as now they are which this Court doth order shall fully and really be performed accordingly when the said 400li and Interest shalbe repayd.
The following entry is curious from the fact of a blank having been no doubt purposely left in the Minutes. The Company, who had been already plucked by the Parliament, evidently feared violence in that quarter, but were afraid to put it on record, and therefore very prudently left a hiatus in the Minutes.