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THE CLIFFORDS. 263
" garters, roses, and all things belonging thereunto, 60 8s. -jd. A bever and
"gold band, ^3 i6s. od. n payre of whyte kidd gloves, and 2 paire of
" stagg's leather, one plain, three trim'd with gold lace and plush, i gs. 2d.
"A malmouth capp, tufted with plush and gold lace, i8.r." A single suit
for Henry Earl of Cumberland, 1632, cost 154 qs. gd.
A great amount of money went in travelling. About the year 1620,
Lord Clifford paid 88 3$. gd. in travelling to London, a journey which
occupied eleven days. In 1635 he went to Ireland by way of Scotland,
and the journey cost ,312 45. yd. A few of the items are curious: "To
" two pipers at Carlisle, 3$. For a merlin that went to my ould lord,
"i os. od. To my lord at cards, los,"
" By my lorde's appointment, to my Lord Clifford, my Lady Clifford,
" my Lady Margaret, and my Lady Frances, to each of them in gold
" 10 twenty-shilling pieces, as new year's gift, XLIII L. Paid Sir William
" Paddie for his opinion in prescribing my lord a course for taking of
" phisicke, 3 6s. od."
1620: "For two paire of tongs and two fyre-shovels for my Lord
" Clifford's chamber, and for my little Miss her chamber. For a warming
" pan, "jd.
For the poor prisoners at Ludgate, and to the poore, all along
"the way as his lordship went to the Tower. To Mr. Gill, the barber,
" who did trimme my lorde before his lordship went to court, 6s."
In 1622, Feb. 28th: "Paid this day for the charges of Mr. Jonas,
" Mr. Tailor, the Parson, Mr. Edward Demsay, Cornelius Atkinson, &c.
"Two footmen and seven horses going to Skipton with the bodie of my
" little sweete maister, Mr. Charles Clifford, when he went to be buried,
" the sum of four pounds, and what we gave on the way to the poore in
" coming and going."
Of the festivals of this family there are few memorials ; but it may
be interesting to give some items of the finery and good cheer of the
wedding of George Clifton to Mary Nevill, of Chevet, "2ist year of the
"reign of our Sovereign Lord King Henry VIII., 1530,"
in the records
of the Cliffords, with which I will close this rather protracted portion
of my subject.
The dresses of the happy couple were rather funereal, viz., " the
"bridegroom a gown of velvet 2\ yards
i los. od., richly trimmed with
" skins, together with a jacket and doublet of black satin at 8s. per yard."
The lady was also clad in black satin. Bridesmaids are not mentioned,
but there are "3 black velvet bonnets for women," at 17^., 30 white lamb
skins at 4$., two ells of white ribbon, for tippets, at is. id., a pair of mytten
sleeves, white satin 8s., and a wedding-ring of gold i2S. 4^., six yards of
white damask at 8s. ; so there was some white, then. The total expense of
their dresses was ^30 165. id. ;
and the dinner which followed, 6 1 8s. 8d.