Paid on the day of the queen's churching in oblations to mass L0 3 0 The queen's gift to divers minstrels attending her churching 10 0 0 The queen's gift to a female spy 0 1 0 A certain female spy, to purchase her a house as a spy 1 0 0 For the brethren at the hospital at Rhuddlan 0 1 1 For a certain player as a gift 0 8 0 For the celebration of mass for the soul of William de Bajor 0 1 10 For the messenger carrying letters to the king at London, to be sent to the court of Rome, for his expenses 0 1 0 Paid sundry bailiffs at the castle 0 4 10 For the carriage of 80 casks of wine from the water to the castle 0 22 0 For a cart bringing lances and cross bows from Ruthlan to Hope 0 1 4 For the carriage of L3,000 from the king's wardrobe to the queen's wardrobe 0 10 5 For 600 turves, to place about the queen's stew pond in the castle 0 1 0 Carriage of figs and raisins to Aberconway 0 0 1 Paid wages for 1,060 archers at twopence, with 53 captains at fourpence, with 10 constables of cavalry at 12d. a day 68 8 6 Paid the same for 1,040 archers, &c. &c. 67 4 0 GARRICK'S CUP. [Illustration [++] Garrick's Cup.] This celebrated Shakspearean relic was presented to David Garrick, by the Mayor and Corporation of Stratford-upon-Avon, in September, 1769, at the Jubilee which he instituted in honour of his favourite Bard. It measures about 11 inches in height. The tree from which it is carved was planted by Shakspeare's own hand, in the year 1609, and after having stood 147 years, was, in an evil hour, and when at its full growth and remarkably large, cut down, and cleft to pieces for fire-wood, by order of the Rev. Francis Gastrell, to whom it had become an object of dislike, from its subjecting him to the frequent importunities of travellers. Fortunately, the greater part of it fell into the possession of Mr. Thomas Sharp, a watchmaker of Stratford, who, "out of sincere veneration" for the memory of its immortal planter, and well knowing the value the world set upon it, converted the fragments to uses widely differing from that to which they had been so sacrilegiously condemned. Garrick held this cup in his hand at the Jubilee, while he sung the beautiful and well-known air, which he had composed for the occasion, beginning