"1560. Rec'd for the beame the Roode stood on, for
boords and other tymber parcell of the
Roode loft xlij_s_.
For the rest of the stuf belongying to the
Roode lofte ix_l_.
For the great clothe that hong before the
Rode xx_s_.
Item, paide to joyners and labowrers abowt
the takying downe and new reformyng of the
Roode Loft, &c. xxxvij_l_. x_s_. ij_d_.
Item, paide for boordes, glew, nayles, and
other neccessaries belonging to the saide
loft xiiij_l_. xiij_s_. ix_d_.
Item, paide to a paynter for payntyng the
same xij_d_.
"1562. For bearinge stones for the muringe up of the
dore of the late rood lofte viij_d_."
The rapacious Puritans, of course, did not suffer
any portion of the church-goods to escape their
sacrilegious and itching palms, if convertible into
money, so we read--
"1645. Received of Arthur Condall in part of 5li for
the screen and Organ-loft 1_s_."
MACKENZIE WALCOTT, M.A.
S.M.W., Dec. 22. 1849.
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NOTES UPON CUNNINGHAM'S HANDBOOK FOR LONDON.
_The Bagnio in Long Acre._--Mr. Cunningham mentions the Queen's Bagnio
in Long Acre. Query, was this the same as the Duke of York's Bagnio? S.
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