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HER BEDSTEAD.

Chairman Callow, with singular discreetness, omits, it will be seen, to name the places at which he waited longest. Eleven shillings and sixpence seems very little for carrying and waiting eleven hours. But the most curious bill, and it is one with which I have been only recently supplied, is a silversmith's—in which the principal sum is a charge for making a bedstead for Nelly, with ornaments of silver, such as the King's head, slaves, eagles, crowns, and Cupids, and Jacob Hall dancing upon a rope of wire-work. The document must be given entire: —

Work done for y^e righte Hon^ble. Madame Guinne.
John Cooqūs, siluersmyth his bill.

1674.

Deliuered the head of y^e bedstead weighing 885 onces 12 lb. and I haue received 636 onces 15 dweight so that their is over and aboue of me owne siluer two hundred [and] forty eight onces 17 dweight at 7s 11d. par once (y^e siluer being a d't worse par once according y^e reste) wich

£

s.

d.

comes to

98

10

2

For y^e making of y^e 636 onces 15 d't at 2s. 11d par once; comes to,

92

17

3

	onces.	dweight.
Deliuered y^e kings head weighing	197	5
one figure weighing	445	15
y^e other figure with ye caracter weighing	428	5
y^e slaues and y^e reste belonging unto it	255
y^e two Eagles weighing	169	10
one of the crowne[s] weighing	94	5
y^e second crown weighing	97	10

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