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^prospect is very fine ; and we could clearly distin-
- guish Sardam in North Holland, with its wind-
mills, as numerous as houses in many towns.
The approach to Amsterdam is less striking than to several other Dutch towns, few great
-objects presenting themselves to the eye. We saw near us to the left, for some miles, the great dykes
--or banks to keep out the sea ; over the tops of which the masts and sails of vessels appeared. After one we arrived at Amsterdam. We walked
- above a mile through crooked narrow streets, full of people, to our inn. Here we dined at an ordinary with a company mostly English, mer- chants' clerks, ship-captains, &c. In the after- noon we visited the stadt-house, a most noble square building, well situated in a considerable
opening. We ascended to the cupola, and thence had a very fine view over the whole city, the cir- cumjacent country, with the Zuyder zee and Haarlem meer. The size of Amsterdam appeared to us about a third of London. Its figure is
.semicircular, the harbour being its centre. The ships appear very numerous, but they occupy a much less extent than those in the Thames at
M. E. MARTIN. (To be continued.)
EXTRACTS FROM THE ALDEBURGH
RECORDS. I.
(See ante, p. 141.)
SEVERAL entries in the following instalment of these accounts may be noted as of special interest e.g., the blotting out of the faces in the church windows ; the 36jfeet of paling for making the market-pound ; taking down the lion of the cross ; the Queen's players ; the payment to Mother Benent for healing of two poor children's mouths, and the " item to M r Foxe " :
CHAMBERLAIN'S ACCOUNT-BOOKS.
1569 p d for a hole yeares wasshynge of y e church
geare ended at our Ladye aforsayd iii s iiii d For Kepynge ye Begester booke y wolle yeare ii" More for makynge of y e Inventoryes out of y e
Begester and for a grote he layd out at ye
delynge of y sayd Inventoryes at y e genall
iii 8 viiid p d mor to him th* he layd out for an homelye
booke . . . . .'. . . . . . . x iid
pd unto John mylye for blottynge oute of the
faces of y e Imags in y church wyndowes . . vi 8 pd to ye visetors the xviii th 6f apryll . .xiiii j p d to Thorns Tyndall in pte for palynge in the
churchwarde . . . . . . x iiis ji^d
p d him more for ye Best of y e churchyarde
palynge y e styll and Baylls . . ix 8 iiii d
p d for a newe gatte . . . . . . . . v s
pd Capon ye howsewryght in pte for pallynge
in the towne howse yarde . . xiii s iiii (1
pd to John Browne for Bepayeryge of y e towne howse . . . . . . . . . a . . yi 8
pd to Bodger coke and his man for workynge
in the seatts att Churche xiiii dayes . . xiiii"
p d to John Towars Smyth for makynge y a
yron mossells for all y e cast pecs for y e
towne . . . . . . . . xiii 8 iiii d
pd for a Loocke and ii Keyes for y e gonners howse . . . . . . . . . . . . xviii*
pd for carryenge y e towne gonpowder from willm Dawsons house to y e gonners chamber . . . . . . . . ii d
p d for trymynge y e townes armour . . xviii 8 vii d p d for vi locks for y e gonnes and ii quares of
whyght paper to Jafferye Freman ii s viii d p 11 to him more for his Bydynge to London with certayne p s sonars . . . . vi 8 viii d
pd to Tyndalle for makynge y e pylerie . . v 8 p d for a horskyne for y e baldry xe for y 9 belles
ii 8 viii d
pd to y e ball ye for y* haiilfe years Fearme of y e pryors hylle and y 9 towne marche ended at
myhes Anno 1570 iiii 11
p d more for y e Fyne of y markett place iii 8 iiii d p d to tyndall for iii dores to stopp y e goulles vi a viii d pd to take for an earnest penny .'. . . xii d pd to John Browne for whytynge ye towne howse . . . . . . . . ii 8
1570 p d to John towars for y e barres of y 6 church
windowes . . . . . . . . . . iii*
p tl for xi dayes bourd of a glaser . . v 8 yi d
p' 1 to Twede for kepyinge of ye rgyter . . vii" p d to thorns tyndall for iii payer of trestells for
ye market . . . . . . . . . . iii 8
pd to Thomas lovenes for his wags ended at
our Jadye in lent . . . . . . . . iii 11
p d to him for washinge of y e church lynnen iii B iiii d p d to him for kepynge y e Begester . . . . ii 8
p d to him for wrytynge y e Inventoryes to y e
genall . . . . . . . . . . v 8
pd to Capon for makynge of y e pounde in the
markett xxxvi fete of palynge . . . . xyi" p d for a lode of claye to Baine y e posts . . viii d p d to m 1 ' nellson for articles of Beligion . . iiii d
pd to m r geunte for oysters sent to Sur Bobt j
Winckfylde ii* v d
1571
Item for y e quenes Injunctions .. .. iiii d for buryeng of a dead man pished by the sea viii d to Thomas Spooner for a qt s wags for seinge
to y e hogges th l goeth astraye . . . . xx d
to Mylye for paintinge and weitinge ye Churche
for vi bushells of glovers Shredes . . . . iiii for a paier of high trensells for mylge to stade *i
upon . . . . . . . . . . xviii d
to John browne for ii bushells of glovers
shredes xviii d
for Syr Bobert wingf yelds dynner . . . . xiiii * to margaret Florans for a supper for certeyne
jentylmen y e viii th of September ..xxii 8
for a block for Cappe ye butcher . . . . viii d fetchinge a bouk from framlinghm and y e
Kepers fees . . . . . . . . . . ix 8
Item to M r . Foxe ye vii daye of Aprill and so
lie is there w th y e towne and y e towne w th
him from y e beginninge of y e worlde until!
this present daye . . . . iii 11 xvi 8 viii' 1
to m r garet Florance for breade and wyne for
y e comunyon y e whole yeare . . xiiii 8 i d to Thorns Lovenes for writinge y e Invetories
of y e Begister . . . . . . iii iiiid
