Feb. 6. Paid M’r. Warden Alport by order of the M’r. and Wardens for 2 bedds and furniture to lodge the comaunders in att the courte parlor 0031 13 08 Mar. 26. Paid, spent on the M’r. and Wardens when they went to Collonell Tichburne to gett the souldiers removed 0000 04 10 Paid Mr. Richbell for fire and candles for the souldiers 0014 18 09 Paid, spent by the Clarke in going and coming by water to the Quarter-M’r Generall with Collonell Tichburne’s lettre to get the souldiers removed 0000 04 10 Paid a souldier that went to the Lieutenant to Whitehall and for bringing downe the souldiers’ bedds out of the Hall into the yard 0000 01 06 Paid for makeing cleane the Hall after the souldiers were gone 0000 12 04” It seems to have been considered imprudent to make the entries too explicit in all cases. Thus in 1642:— “Allowed to the Renter Warden for reasons best known to the Auditors 015 00 00” And in 1646–7 the same entry appears, but the amount is increased to, 20–03–01. Many of the other entries during this period are also worthy of note. Thus:— 1644–5. “Paid for a drincking, July 18, being a daye of Thankesgiving 0002 16 01 1645–6. “Paid to Mr. Taylor’s blinde sonne for studying a sermon by order of Courte 0001 00 00 1647–8. “Paid, loste by lighte monye received in 100_li._ 0000 02 03 1648. “Paid, loste more by Counterfett monye 0000 05 06 1648–9. “Paid for a dynner, being thanksgiving daye about Colchester 0015 10 07 1649–50. “Paid a cheater that pretended hee was to bring the Company a doe from the state 0000 05 00 1654–55. “Paid Mr. Ogelbye for a booke called Virgill by order of Courte 005 00 00 1658. “Paid for intertayning the Lord Maior and Aldermen att their going to the funerall of the Protector 0001 16 04”