# The Early English Organ Builders and their work/Appendix IV

IV.
The Charges about the Organs of King's College Chapel, etc., Augusti xiiii, 1606. a Junii 22, 605, ad August 7, 606
(From the Books of King's College, Cambridge.)
| Imprimis payd to Mr. Dallam for his journey from London to Cambridge before he took the woork in hand | xv$^s$ |
| Item for his and his menes charges of their journey coming downe to work | x |
| Item for a thowsand six hundred of tynn at 3$^{li}$. 12$^s$. le C | lvij$^{li}$ xij$^s$ |
| Item for ebony for the kayes | iij$^s$ iiij$^d$ |
| Item for boxe | xij$^d$ |
| Item for vij dozen of leather, unde iij dozen ad 6$^s$ le doz$^s$ and 4 dozen ad vij$^s$ le dozen | xlvj$^s$ |
| Item for sodering coller and cyse | xxx |
| Item for v$^{li}$ white wyer ad 10$^d$ le$^{li}$ | |
| Item for vii$^{li}$ of yeollowe wyer ad 18$^d$ le$^{li}$ | x$^s$ vj$^d$ |
| Item for Ashe woodd | xij$^d$ |
| Item for xxij$^{li}$ of tyn glasse ad 3$^s$ | iij$^l$ vj$^s$ ​ |
| Item for viij dozen of glewe at 4$^s$ 6$^d$ le doz | xxxvj$^s$ |
| Item for canves to put the glewe in | xviij$^d$ |
| Item for a hamper to carry things in and corde to bynd yt | ij$^s$ |
| Item for more corde to bynd up other things | x$^d$ |
| Item for packthred to bynd the pypes | ij$^s$ |
| Item for nayles of divers kyndes | x$^s$ |
| Item for carriage of the premisses being bought in divers places of the Citie togeather with Mr. Dallam his Tooles | iiij$^s$ |
| Item to Walston Cruis for his paynes in seeing the things bought and packed to be sent to Camb. | iiij$^s$ |
| Item for flannell clothe to laye under the kayes | xij$^d$ |
| Item for fustian to cast the mettell uppon | x$^s$ |
| Item for preston clothe for the same use | vj$^s$ |
| Item for chalke to lay upon fustian | iiij$^d$ |
| Item for brasse for the shaking stoppe | iiij$^s$ |
| Item for a pan to make fyer in to remove | vj$^d$ ​ |
| Item for flaxe to glewe in the Conditts | vj$^d$ |
| Item for carriage of the tyn from London at 2$^s$ 6$^d$ le C | xl$^s$ |
| Item for carriage of the hamper, Mr. Dallam's tooles, and other things from London at dyvers tymes | xv$^s$ |
| Item for xx leaves of waynskott reddy sawne | xx$^s$ |
| Item to a Joyner for helping Mr. Dallam in his work | iiij$^s$ |
| Item for planks for benches, &c. | xiiij$^s$ |
| Item for viii double quarters for frames for the said benches | iiij$^s$ |
| Item for bords for boxes, &c. | ij$^s$ |
| Item for popler to make the Maldrells, &ce | xiij$^s$ |
| Item for turning of the Maldrells | viij$^s$ |
| Item for planke about the sound borde | ij$^s$ vj$^d$ |
| Item for a C of planks for the bellowes | xxj$^s$ |
| Item for Quarters to lyfte up the bellowes and other uses | xxxj$^s$ |
| Item for studds to make Claves [keys] | vj$^s$ |
| Item for Joysts to lay over the bellowes and other uses | viij$^s$ |
| Item for ccxl foote of Inche board | xxiij$^s$ iv$^d$ ​ |
| Item for xiiij sparres of 12 foot long | xiiij$^s$ |
| Item for viij peeces tymber of 8 foote and ij of 10 foote | x$^s$ vj$^d$ |
| Item for 4 planks of 16 foote long and 2 inches di. thicke | v$^s$ iiij$^d$ |
| Item for three peeces of 11 foote long and 2 of 9 foote di. | iiij$^s$ v$^d$ |
| Item for 83 foote of halfe ynche board to cover the organ | iiij$^s$ iiij$^d$ |
| Item for studes | viij$^d$ |
| Item for 44 foote of ynche board and a piller of 7 foote | iiij$^s$ iiij$^d$ |
| Item for the carriage of this tymber at dyvers tymes | iiij$^s$ |
| Item for the mattes to sett the greate pypes on in the Vestrie | viij$^d$ |
| Item payd to the Carpenter for the frame of tymber whereon the organs | xvj$^{li}$ |
| Item to Chapman the Joyner for 82 yards of waynscott about the sayd frame at v$^s$ the yard | xx$^{li}$ x$^s$ |
| Item for clxiii waynscotts bought unsawen for the case & wooddon pypes of the organs, unde 60 ad 3$^s$ 8$^d$, 38 ad 4$^s$ 6$^d$, 23 ad 5$^s$, 40 ad 5$^s$ 3$^d$, and 2 ad 6$^s$ in toto | xxxvj$^{li}$ viiij$^s$ ​ |
| Item payd for sawing the sayd waynscotts | vi$^{li}$ ix$^s$ |
| Item for carriage of them | vij$^s$ |
| Item for vi C of Lead at 10$^s$ le C | iij$^{li}$ |
| Item for casting of yt | x$^s$ |
| Item for sande & wood used about it | iiij$^s$ |
| Item payd to the Smithe for Iron worke ut patet | vij$^{li}$ vij$^s$ iij |
| Item geven to one that went for the Joyner and bringing of his Tooles | viij$^s$ |
| Item for the Joyner and his menes supper at their coming | xij$^d$ |
| Item paid for a grindlestone and hanging yt | iij$^s$ |
| Item paper and oyle for the Joyners windowes | ix$^d$ |
| Item for nayles &ce taken by Mr. Dallam & y$^e$ Joyner at the Chandlers, ut patet | xl$^s$ iiij$^d$ |
| Item payd to Hartop the Joyner for wages for him & his men for 10 monethes ad 18$^s$ le weeke | xxxvi$^{li}$ |
| Item geven to him at his departure in regards above his sayd wages | xxij$^s$ |
| Item in regards to his men | iij$^s$ iiij$^d$ |
| Item payd for a horse to carrye back his tooles | vj$^s$ ​ |
| Item payd to Mr. Dallam the Organmaker, for his wages and his menes for lviij weekes di. viz. from the 22nd of June, 1605, untill the 7th of August, 1606, ad 30$^s$ le weeke | lxxxvij$^{li}$ xv$^s$ |
| Item payd for the hyer of bedding for him and his men the first quarter | xij$^s$ |
| Item for the hyer of bedding for his men 3 qts. di. more ad 6$^s$ le quarter | xxj$^s$ |
| Item payd for Mr. Dallams owne lodging the sayd 3 q'ters di. at Brownings, Sampsons, and Knockells | xx$^s$ |
| Items payd for his washing and his mens all the 58 weeks of his aboade | xxv$^s$ |
| Item payd for his owne and his menes frydays and fasting night suppers at 12$^d$ a supper being in all 87 nights | iiij$^{li}$ vij$^s$ |
| Item payd for his hoshier and charges of him and his men at their departure up to London | x$^s$ |
| Item for recarriage of his tooles etc., being iiii$^c$ wayght | x$^s$ |
| Item payd to the Carver for the King's Armes standing upon the chayre organ | iij$^{li}$ ​ |
| Item to him for the Scutchins of this Colledge and Eton Armes | xxx$^s$ |
| Item to him for 2 figures or pictures that stand in the greate Organ | xxx$^s$ |
| Item payd for ix$^c$ of leafe gould at 7$^s$ 6$^d$ le C | iij$^{li}$ vij$^s$ vi$^d$ |
| Item payd to Knockle the Limber for laying the sayd gould &ce upon the pypes, Armes and scutchins of the Chayre Organ | iiij$^{li}$ |
| Item payd to him for imbossing and strawing with bice the 2 greater pypes of the chayre organ | xxvj$^s$ viij$^d$ |
| Item to him for embossing and strawing with bice the 2 lesser pypes of the sayd organ | x$^s$ |
| Item to him for gould and gilding the crownes of the sayd organ | xxvj$^s$ viij$^d$ |
| Item to him for the pastboard and byce strawed under the cut-woorke about the sayd organ & frame | xx$^s$ |
| Item payd to him for the 2 lesser pypes in the great organ imbossed & strawed with byce & for 12 wrought pypes gilded | vj$^{li}$ x$^s$ |
| Item for iiij pypes paynting with venice lake, &ce | xlviij$^s$ |
| Item to him for gould & gilding 24 small pypes in the sayd Organ | xl$^s$ ​ |
| Item to him for strawing with byce &ce & for gilding the embosses on the greate pype in the midle tower | xxvj$^s$ viij$^d$ |
| Item to him for strawing with byce and gilding the imbosses on the 2 greate pypes of the owtter towers | iiij$^{ls}$ |
| Item payd for dyvers of the imbosses used upon the pypes in the litle and greate Organs | xiiij$^s$ |
| Item for mowlds to cast the rest of the imbosses | x$^s$ |
| Item payd more to Knockle for paynting &ce of the sixe fayre great pypes ad 50$^s$ a pype | xv$^{li}$ |
| Item to him for gilding the round towars of the sd Organ | iij$^{li}$ |
| Item to him for gilding the finishing or square towars of the same Organ | iiij$^{li}$ |
| Item to him for gilding the 2 starres | ij$^s$ |
| Item for gilding and colloring the bracketts | x$^s$ |
| Item for colloring the 2 picktures or figures in the sayd organ | xiij$^s$ iv$^d$ |
| Item to him for pastbord & byce strawed under the cut-woorke on the sayd organ | xxxij$^s$ iiij$^d$ |
| Sm$^a$ total ccclxxi$^{li}$ xvij$^s$ j$^d$ ​ ||
| Item more Mr. Dallams mens dyett in the hall | xiij$^{li}$ vj$^s$ viij$^d$ |
| Item bread and beer by Mr. Dallam the Joyner and their men for the whole tyme esteemyd at | v$^{li}$ |
| Item fyering in charcoale about 5 load with candells | vi$^{li}$ |