BIB_ID
130474
Accession number
MA 1292
Creator
Cheek, Thomas, approximately 1628-1688.
Display Date
undated [after 1683 Sept. 29].
Credit line
Acquired before 1949.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 55.4 cm
Notes
The acceptance of the bill is signed by Huntingdon, Bridgewater, Howard, Peterborough, Craven, Sunderland, Ailesbury, and Nicholas.
Summary
A bill giving an account (totalling £290 5s 2.5d) for the safekeeping and feeding of prisoners involved in the Rye House Plot in the Tower of London. Accounts are for the quarter-year 25 June to 29 September (Michaelmas Day) 1683. Also listing payments due to the Chaplain, the Physician, the Gaoler, the Chirurgeon, the Apothecary, the Yeoman Porter, the Water Pumper, the Scavenger, and the Clock keeper, as well as to the labourers who performed "reparac[i]ons" to the building.
Housed in
Red morocco folder (33.2 cm)
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