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 THE COEDWAINERS AND COllVESORS OF OXFORD. 277 1 on 1. Spent on the Parson before Church .... £00 00 00 1U98. H Wm. and Mary Item paid for a Barrel of Beer at the lung's coming to~l 00 16 02" 0.xford . . J &c. &c. 1099. Item for a Barr: of Beer at y^' meeting y'^ Earl ofl 01 07 06' Abingdon j &c. &c. 1 70'2. Item paid at Meeting the Queeue for Bread Cheese Tobacco Pipes Musick and 2 Lincks . . . 02 08 04' 17:34. At the time the Prince of Orange was in Town . . 03 06 02 Use of the Town Hall twice 00 02 00 The Cordwaiiiers were occasionally possessed of a little property in plate,^ which was from time to time disposed of as either the necessities, or the unsettled nature of the body, directed. Thus, in the accounts of 36 Hen. VIIL, "iiij spones of sylver to the valew of iiij crownes,"^ are mentioned as belonging to them ; which item being crossed out in the following year, it is to be presumed they were sold. In 1631, 7 Chas. I., they have " two silver bowles and thirtie spoones ; " and, as only three spoons and the bowls are left in 1633, the intervening year giving no account of plate, the twenty-seven missing spoons may have gone towards the purchase of their premises at Kennington.^ In 1634, to use the language of a benefit club, they " broke up the box," selling their property at Kennington, their house, and what plate they could spare (the latter for 22/.), and dividing 260/. 4f/., the clear produce, amongst themselves, at the rate of 61. 10s. for each master, 5/. to each warden, and 4/. Gs. Sd. apiece to the commonalty.® Still, in 1636, plate sold to Mr. Berry for 71. is credited to the Company.'^ And, lastly, 9 The whole expenses 2/. s. 9d. followed by his successoi', who did more • There is an order of March 24, 1690, than ample justice to the hospitality of the to admit the Earl of Abingdon, then High University, took most graciously the ae- Steward of the City of Oxford, to the free- enstomed gift of Woodstofk gloves, and a dom of the Company, and a Master's place, IJible, [)roniising at the same time a future voted him. Register D. sub anno. visit." — Boyce's Annals, 1702, ([uoted in - " During the recess of Parliament, the Strickland's Lives, vol. ..ii., pp. 75, 76. Queen (Anne), alarmed at the effects of For what passed on a second visit of an .asthma, which had,' in the course of Queen . ne and her husband to Oxford 1702, endangered the life of the prince, in the autunni of 1708, sec Strickland's lier husband, resolved to make a western Lives, vol. ii, p. 227, and the authority progress, from Windsor to Bath, for the there quoted. They slept there only one recovery of his health. Her ALajesty took "'ght, and Prince (jVorge, who was then Oxford in her way ; and though she rested going to Bath for his health, died at Ken- there but for one night, was received with sington, October 2!!, in the same year, the most fervent loyalty. The example of '■' Arising chiefly from silv.n- spoons of WiUiam HI., who refused to eat the ban- the estimated value of x (B. ,"5!!), given quet prep.ared for him at Oxford, on some on admission. Some left by will, ibid, suspicion of poison, in the year IG.OiJ, ^ J5. 11. ^ B. 14!!, l.il. (these accounts would give l(jy,) was not '' D. 1G;54. ' B. lo(i. VOL. VI. 1> P