The story of Nell Gwyn by Cunningham Peter 1816-1869 & Goodwin Gordon

Author:Cunningham, Peter, 1816-1869 & Goodwin, Gordon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Gwyn, Nell, 1650-1687, Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685
Publisher: Edinburgh : J. Grant
Published: 1908-06-14T16:00:00+00:00

THE STORY OF NELL GWYN

Chairman Callow, with singular discreetness, omits, it will be seen, to name the places at which he waited longest. Eleven shillings and sixpence seems little for carrying and waiting eleven hours. But the most curious bill, and it is one with which I have been (1852) 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 wirevvork. The document must be given entire :—

Work done for y" righte Hon'"'*. Madame Guinne. John Cooqus, siluersmyth his bill.

1674. Deliuered the head of ye bedstead weighing 885 onces 12 lb. and I haue received 636 onces 15 dvveight so that their is over and aboue of me owne siluer two hundred [and] forty eight onces 17 dweight at 7s. I id. par once (y« siluer being a d't worse par once according y= reste) wich £ s. d.

comes to 98 10 2

For ye making of ye 636 onces 15 d't at 25. iid. par once, comes to . . • 92 17 3

onces. dweight.

Deliuered ye kings head weighing 197 S

one figure weighing . . . 445 15 ye other figure with ye caracter

weighing .... 428 5 ye slaues and ye reste belonging

unto it 255

ye two Eagles weighing . . 1O9 10 one of the crowne[s] weighing . 94 5 ye second crown weighing . 97 10 ye third crowne weighing . 90 2

ye fowerd crowne weighing . 82 one of ye Cupids weighing . 121 8 128

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