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 £ s.  d.      £  s. d. Brought forward                       1099   3    10-1/2  Petty Cash (Yeoman)                     80  11     2 Implements for Properties               14  11     1 Furrier                                  2   2     6 Colours                                 13  16     1 Wiredrawer                               6  16     0 Vizards (Thomas Giles)                   4   5     0 Necessaries for Hunters                  1   1     8 Device for Thunder and Lightning         1   2     0 Chandler                                 5  15     5 Hire of Armour                           3   9     8 Buskin-maker                             0  11     4 Brian Dodmer (travelling expenses, &c.)                                     3   0     0 Boat-hire, &c., for Comptroller          1   0     0     "       "       Clerk (per John Drawater)                                1   0     0 Green cloth, &c., for Clerk              3   6     8    1,241  12   5-1/2  Summa Totalis.

£ s. d. Wages and Allowances                                     317   5   0 Emptions and Provisions                                1,241  12   5-1/2 £1,558 17   5-1/2                                                       ==================

In many cases reference is made to the bills of the tradesmen for further details. At the end of the account is appended a supplementary account, amounting to £26 3s. 2d., for the three months from March to May, 1572, during which a further airing took place. The airings involved an elaborate process of what would now be called the 'spring-cleaning' of all the stuff in the office. There is also a list of six plays and six masks performed during Christmas and Shrovetide. The plays were acted by companies of men or children who were 'apparelled and ffurnished', and provided with 'apt howses, made of canvasse, fframed, ffashioned and paynted accordingly' by the Revels Office. It is noted that the six plays were 'chosen owte of many and ffownde to be the best that then were to be had; the same also being often perused and necessarely corrected and amended by all the afforeseide officers'. Four of the masks were new; the other two 'were but translated and otherwise garnished being of the former number by meanes wherof the chardge of workmanshipp and attendaunce is cheefely to be respected'. It will be observed that the Account does not include any items for the fees of the officers or for the hire of lodgings or storehouses. The