THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE 1714-1715

The Furniture History Society THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE 1714-1715 Author(s): Rufus Bird Source: Furniture History, Vol. 50 (2014), pp. 147-203 Published by: The Furniture History Society Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/43946460 Accessed: 11-08-2019 17:54 UTC JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at https://about.jstor.org/terms The Furniture History Society is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Furniture History This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE 1714-1715 By Rufus Bird On 20 September 1714 Georg (Figure 1) set foot in Britain as bo Elector of Hanover and the new King of Great Britain. As a great grandson of James I (through his mother, Sophia, daughter of Elizabeth, the 'Winter Queen', daughter of James I) he was the first Protestant in line to the throne of Great Britain. He arrived from the small but influential Electorate to rule Britain from St James's Palace, which to the King and his Hano- verian courtiers must have seemed an unremarkable and certainly less than palatial complex, at least by European standards of the day. During the eleventh or twelfth century a leper hospital dedicated to St James the Less had been constructed on the site. In 1450, in the reign of Henry VI, the hospital was Figure i. Studio of Sir Godfrey Kneller Portrait of of Eton College, placed in the care George I, 1715 - RCIN 403401 (Royal Collection from whom Henry VIII acquired Trust /© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2014)in 1531. The old leper the buildings hospital was subsequently pulled down and a new palace built, including the Great Gateway at the southern end of St James's Street. The layout of the palace was largely established at that time, wit the State Apartments concentrated in the southern and eastern parts. Until t eighteenth century, the palace played a secondary role in the galaxy of other roy palaces in and around London, especially as the nearby Whitehall Palace was the prin pal seat of the monarch until destroyed by fire in 1698, of which only Inigo Jone Banqueting House survived. After the fire St James's became by default the principal London base of th court. However, in spite of several redevelopment proposals, no plans for a new o remodelled royal palace received approval from either the monarch or governme and so St James's struggled on playing host to the court, cramped and rambling as was. Thus, the palace was thrust into service unexpectedly and while little used b © Furniture History, Vol. L (2014), pp. 147-203 This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms 148 THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE Figure 2. Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726), 'A new design for St James's House' - RCIN 926301 (Royal Collection Trust /© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2014) William III, it was greatly used by Queen Anne, George I, George II and George III of whom made St James's their principal residence. In 1809 a fire swept through south-eastern corner and destroyed some of the King's and Prince of Wales's Sta Apartments, bringing the present open-sided courtyard of Friary Court into existence, with Marlborough Road running directly in front of The Queen's Chapel, approx mately along the former eastern extremity of the palace. The arrival of George I and t establishment of the Hanoverian dynasty on the throne of Great Britain might h occasioned a full-scale rebuilding and refurnishing programme. Indeed, Sir John Vanbrugh, Comptroller of the King's Works in 1714, proposed a large-scale rebuild St James's - a plan rejected by the King (Figure 2).1 Why was no new palace built when it was abundantly clear that St James's Pal was barely adequate? The King of Great Britain was in a somewhat precarious posit a rival monarch in the person of James III, the 'Old Pretender', was still at large This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE I49 continued to command support in certain quarters: that threat would be crushed finall in 1746 on the battlefield of Culloden. Furthermore, only sixty-five years earlier in 16 the British had executed their King, Charles I. It was Parliament which wielded in ence in government, less so the King. Given the situation, it was highly probable George I, rather than embarking on a large-scale building project with the concomi patronage of craftsmen and the elaborate embellishment of a new palace (as the Ele of Bavaria, Max II Emanuel was undertaking at his new palace of Schleissheim, out Munich), George I reined in any thoughts he might have had of new development in part to avoid appearing as extravagant as some of his Stuart predecessors, and because the government was reluctant to fund new building schemes. In contrast Hanover, in Britain the separation of the administrative functions of monarchy f those of the court restricted both George I and George II in developing a culture monarchical display.3 With the exception of a recent article summarising the architectural buildi projects undertaken at St James's and Hanover during the reign of George II, an Howard Colvin's general survey in History of the King's Works , the building and furn ing history of the palace is yet to be written.4 This lack of attention may be for three reasons: first, to date almost no furnishings surviving from St James's Palace du the period have been identified in the Royal Collection, or elsewhere. Second, The Grea Wardrobe accounts for the furnishing of St James's are lengthy, especially when c pared with the relatively compact and digestible portions relating to Kensington P and Hampton Court Palace. Third, though the footprint remains, the interiors changed considerably over the intervening years. In George I's Wardrobe accounts, Wind- sor Castle and other residences are mentioned occasionally, but it is St James's Palace that dominates. Judging from the payments, the palace was constantly being furnished, refurn- ished, repaired and updated. This article will examine the furnishing accounts of The Great Wardrobe for the first year of the new dynasty's reign, from 1 August 1714 (the date of George I's accession) to Michaelmas (29 September) 1715. The seam of archival material continues very largely through the rest of the reign down to 1727, and beyond. It is hoped this will in due course be researched and published.5 The entries in the account books in the Royal Archive volumes are numbered and grouped in chronological order by quarter. Each entry is individually approved with the3. Thomas Hudson (1701-79) Figure signature of the Master of the Great Wardrobe, Portrait of John, 2nd Duke of Montagu a post held by John, 2nd Duke of Montagu (By kind permission of the Duke of from 1709 to 1750 (Figure 3). This suggests that Buccleuch & Queensberry KBE) This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms 150 THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE Figure 4. After Johann Jakob Möller (fi. 1720s) A General Prospect of the Royall House and Garding at Hernhausen - RCIN 704537 (Royal Collection/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2014) the account books were compiled as a final record of what was spent by that department. One hundred and ten individual accounts make up the first year of the Grea Wardrobe's records and the total expenditure of £29,795 7s 5^ was approved by t King personally at St James's on 15 January 1716. They reveal the range of craftsm involved in supplying materials and services to the Household through the Great Wardrobe (see Appendix A) and provide an impression of the interior of St Jam Palace during the first year of George I's reign. Large quantities of new furniture textiles were provided but it is impossible to say what was left in place by the new kin from earlier tenures. Some mention is made of repairs to faulty furniture, which woul suggest a policy of maintenance, and there are no records of disposals. Prior to his succession to the throne of Great Britain and Ireland, Georg Ludwi Elector of Hanover, lived between the Leineschloss (or Leine Palace) in the centre Hanover and the summer palace outside the city centre at Herrenhausen. The apa ments of the Leineschloss were described by John Toland in 1705 as Very fine and rich furnished' and culminated in the dynastic display of portraiture in the splendid vaulted chamber of the Rittersaal, a banqueting hall built to the designs of the Venetian Girolamo Sartorio between i685and 1688.6 (Figures 4 and 5) Toland went on to prai the sophistication of the gardens of Herrenhausen, with its basins, fountains, wat works, orangery, cascades and a 'perfect Theatre excellently cut out into garden Se ... the whole set off with many fine statues, most of 'em gilt'.7 The Elector took en mous pleasure in hunting, and maintained at huge expense a splendid hunting lo at Göhrde, which could stable over five hundred horses.8 This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE I5I Figure 5. Rittersaal, Leineschloss, Photograph from 1930s (© Historisches Museum Hannover) This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms 152 THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE Figure 6 (left). Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646-1723), George II (1683-1760) when Prince of Wales, 1716 - RCIN 406073 (Royal Collection/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2014) Figure 7 (right). Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646-1723), Queen Caroline of Ansbach (1683-1737), when Princess of Wales, 1716 - RCIN 405313 (Royal Collection/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2014) Figure 8 (left). Follower of Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt, Countess Sophia Charlotte von Kielmanseg (1669-1726) (© Sotheby's) Figure 9 (centre). German School, Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal, (Kloster Bar singhausen, BHS Cb 21, © Klosterkammer Hanover) Figure 10 (right). German School, Countess Johanna Sophie zu Schaumburg-Lippe with parrot (© Rolf Fischer, Schloss Bückeberg) This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE I53 In 1714 St James's Palace, as encountered by George I, was a sprawling jumble buildings, with state apartments remodelled by Sir Christopher Wren along the so front. The Wardrobe accounts mention three principal state apartments, one each the King, the Prince and the Princess of Wales (Figures 6 and 7). Secondary to the were the apartments for the King's retinue, namely his half-sister, Sophia Charlo Freiin von Kielmansegg, later Countess of Darlington and Leinster (1675-1725); h mistress, Gräfin Ehrengard Melusine von der Schulenburg, later Duchess of Kendal Munster (1667-1743); and one of The Princess of Wales's ladies, Johanne Sophie, Gr zu Schaumburg-Lippe (1673-1743) (Figures 8, 9 and io).9 In Britain they were kn respectively as the Countess of Kielmansegg (in the accounts she is referred to 'Killmansack'), Madame von der Schulenburg, and the Countess of Bückeburg. On account of their physical appearance, the two former ladies were known in Britai the 'Elephant' and the 'Maypole'. Little is known of the Countess of Bückeburg (Gr zu Schaumburg-Lippe) beyond her position in the retinue of first the Electress Sop and then the Princess of Wales. But history records her role in the Electress Soph death: whilst walking in the gardens of Herrenhausen, the Electress Sophia (mothe George I and chosen heir to Queen Anne) collapsed into the arms of Johanne Soph Gräfin zu Schaumburg-Lippe and died.10 Less than two months later Queen Anne also dead and George I became King of Great Britain. In 1682 George had marrie Sophia Dorothea of Celle, but divorced her in 1694, accusing her of conducting an affai with the Swedish Count Philipp Christoph von Königsmarck, after which she w confined to Schloss Ahlden, near Celle, without access to her children, until her death in 1726.11 Certainly by 1691 Georg Ludwig had begun an affair with Melusine von der Figure 11 (left). Christian Friedrich Zincke (1683/4-1767) Anne, Princess Royal, c. 1730 - RCIN 421797 (Royal Collection/ © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2014) Figure 12 (centre). Christian Friedrich Zincke (1683/4-1767) Princess Amelia, 1730 to 1735 RCIN 421822 (Royal Collection/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2014) Figure 13 (right). Christian Friedrich Zincke (1683/4-1767) Princess Caroline, 1730 - RCIN 421798 (Royal Collection/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2014) This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms 154 THE furniture and furnishing of st james's palace Figure 14. Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646-1723) Mehemet, 1715 - RCIN 405430 (Royal Collection/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2014) Schulenburg, a young lady attendant or Hoffräulein of his mother's, and s the King's mistress for the rest of his life. In 1714 The Prince of Wales travelled to Britain with his father, follo weeks later by the Princess of Wales with their daughters, the 'Young P Princess Anne (1709-59), Princess Amelia (1711-86) and Princess Caroline (Figures 11, 12 and 13), who were accommodated together in a separate ap St James's. The Prince and Princess of Wales's eldest son, Prince Frederi (1707-51), although only seven years of age, remained in Hanover until accession in 1727. Beyond these royal and semi-royal personages, came a characters, such as the King's Turkish Grooms of the Chamber, who repu his life at the Battle of Vienna in 1683, Mr Mahomet (Figure 14) and Mr M composer and organist William Croft, Master of the Children of the Chape Opell; Mrs Howard, a lady of the Bedchamber to the Princess of Wales and the Prince of Wales; Mrs Lartosa and others. The records of the Great Wardrobe contain only the orders, the briefest o tions and the cost: there are no designs or proposed interior schemes. Suc began to appear later in the century, notably from the hand of William furnishing scheme at Hampton Court Palace, undertaken between 1715 a complete the former apartment of Queen Mary II for the use of the Prince an of Wales (later George II and Queen Caroline), is the closest contemporary its surviving furnishings (Figure 15). That was essentially a conservative, l exercise in palace furnishing and there is no suggestion that the new fur St James's were stylistically any different. That style, in broad terms, w inspired in its design sources (Figure 16) and depended on the influence an designs of the court architect to William III and Queen Anne, Daniel Marot This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE I55 Figure 15. Richard Cattermole, Queen Mary's State Bedchamber, Hampton Court - RCIN 922134 (Royal Collection/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2014) which in turn relied on designs by Pierre Le Pautre (c. 1659-1744), Jean Bér (1640-1711) and others. In all likelihood, some of the most splendid furniture orde through the Great Wardrobe in 1714-15 must have resembled contemporary pie from noble patrons of the arts, which do survive. For example, the tables and mir supplied to the ist Baron Macclesfield, the gilt-gesso table supplied to Lord Cobh for Stowe, or the furniture made by James Moore for Blenheim Palace (Figures 17 18). After 1720, Richard, 3rd Earl of Burlington and his band of Italophiles such William Kent and Thomas Hewett introduced the Palladian style in British architec and interiors, taking interior decoration and, ultimately, furniture design in a n direction.12 This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms 156 THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE Figure 16 (right). John Gumley (1672-1729), pier glass or mirror, 1715 - RCIN 1090 Figure 17 (below left). James Moore, giltwood side table, c. 1714 (W.30 - 1947) (© Victoria and Albert Museum, London) Figure 18 (below right). Attributed to James Moore, carved giltwood and gesso pier table, c. 1720 (© Sotheby's) This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE 157 THE KING'S STATE APARTMENT Arriving at the Tudor palace through the Great Gateway which stands at the sou lower end of St James's Street, the visitor to the court of George I would h into Great Court (now Colour Court) with its colonnade of thirteen Tuscan along the right-hand side. As if to underline the curious presentation of the pala Swiss traveller, César de Saussure noted in 1725 that 'In the first court, whe pany of foot-guards mount guard, is a whale's carcase, twenty feet long, fa the wall by iron cramps'.13 At the far right (south western) corner stood the Gr leading up to the first or principal floor with the Guard Chamber and the p the state apartments beyond. The Guard Chamber and Presence Chamber, the rooms of the King's State Apartment were situated on the west side of Par Friary) Court. Beyond the Presence Chamber lay the Privy Chamber, a room wit windows facing south onto St James's Park. The apartment, somewhat un divided into two at this point, with the Drawing Room and Council Chambe lying to the west, and the little Drawing Room, State Bedchamber and Close the east (Figure 19). Ten years later in 1725, the Swiss César de Saussure des visit to St James's in the following terms: The King's chambers consist firstly of a big room which leads into the bedcham bed being covered with crimson velvet, braided and embroidered in gold. The be in a sort of alcove, shut off from the rest of the room by a balustrade of gilded the right of the grand ante-chamber is the drawing-room, where the King gives and receives ambassadors. In these two chambers there are canopies of purpl embroidered in gold and silver, surmounting two armchairs, also covered with c velvet. All these rooms look on to the park gardens, and are hung with beau tapestries. On the walls I saw excellent paintings, mostly original; the chandelier silver, and some of them of silver-gilt.14 The principle behind the furnishing of a Baroque state apartment was one of gra access, matched in the increasing richness of the furnishings of the rooms seque arranged. The Wardrobe Accounts mention a comparatively minimal amoun undertaken in the King's State Apartment, suggesting that the King made do wi his predecessors left behind. For instance, James Moore and John Gumley, makers to the Great Wardrobe in partnership from 1714 until 1726, invoiced in follows: In The Great Drawing Room at St James's For Mending 3 large gilt Tables and 6 Stands in divers places were the gold was off & carrying them to & fro £3. o. o For Hanging up the Three Great Glasses £1. 10. o 15 Following the convention of a Baroque state apartment, the three tables wer in the window piers, each below a mirror. At either side of the tables, pairs o supported candelabra with candlelight reflected in the mirror behind.16 The state ments at all the palaces were dominated by this arrangement. But the clearest tion that the King was content to make use of earlier furnishings is provided by in one of the upholsterers Thomas Phill & Jeremiah Fletcher's lengthy and ex detailed accounts, from the latter part of 1715: This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms 158 THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE Figure 19. St James's Palace, c. -vjyj (the area tinted blue was destroyed by the 1809 fire), after Henry Flitcroft (1697-1769) Plan of St James's House (Palace), 1729 - RCIN 741172 (Royal Collection/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2014) 1. Gate House 2. Colonnade 19. Prince of Wales's State Bedchamber 20. Prince of Wales's Dressing Room 21. Prince of Wales's Closet 3. Staircase 22. Prince of Wales's Bedchamber 4. King's Guard Chamber 23. Princess of Wales's Presence Chamber 5. King's Presence Chamber Princess of Wales's Antichamber (?) 6. Privy Chamber (today Queen Anne 24. Room) Princess of Wales's Privy Chamber (?) 7. Great Drawing Room (today Entrée25. Room) 26. Princess of Wales's Bed Chamber 8. Council Chamber (today Throne Room) 27. Princess of Wales's Dressing Room 9. King's Little Drawing Room 28. Princess of Wales's Drawing Room 10. King's State Bedchamber 29. French Chapel (today's Queen's Chapel) 11. Blue Passage Room, later King's Breakfast Room 30. German Chapel (on ground floor level) 31. New Kitchen Block 12. King's Dressing Room 32. Old Kitchen (on ground floor level) 13. King's Little Bedchamber 33. Upper part of the old Kitchen 14. King's Closet (?) 34. York House (modern nomenclature) 15. King's Picture Closet, also known as Green Closet 35. King's Old Library 16. Prince of Wales's Guard Chamber 36. Chapel Royal 17. Prince of Wales's Presence Chamber 37. Ball Room 18. Prince of Wales's Drawing Room (The King's Dressing Room (12) and the King's Closet (14) were interchanged in the reign of George III) This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE I59 For Three Men 2 Dayes taking down the Mour[n]ing in the Great Councill Chamber, and Drawing Room, and puting up the Old furniture again and Nailes used £1. 17. o 17 Although this was specifically for mourning the death of Queen Ann comes almost a year following accession. A quantity of new furniture a was ordered for the King, and the Little Bedchamber, situated near the corner of the palace beyond his Closet, was completely refurnished. As w accompanying the bed was a (walnut) armchair, supplied by Roberts an the same crimson mohair.18 The upholstery was undertaken by Hamden before his death in 1714 (and payment was made to his executors).19 G (active 1680-1715), the leading cabinet-maker to the Royal Household in three reigns, (as well as to noble households such as the Lauderdales at H supplied mirrors and other furniture to the Palace in 1715, such as a 'la gilt frame £50' for the Little Bedchamber21 and 'a large Chimney Glass a gilt frame for a Room within the Kings Bedchamber £40': this may refer Figure 20. English Mirror 1695-1705 RCIN 1409 (Royal Collection/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2014) This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms l60 THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE Figure 21. Brussels, The Toilet of Venus from The Planets series c. 1575 RCIN 28120 (Royal Collection/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2014) Closet, a small room giving off the Bedchamber projecting southwards and fitted with three windows. As well as supplying new furniture, Jensen was called upon to undertake repairs to what were presumably surviving furnishings from Queen Anne's occupation. Elsewhere in the King's State Apartment, the picture is a mixed one of repair, renewal, movement and new furniture. Again, it was Gerrit Jensen who charged 'For bringing from Somerset House a very Large Glass to St James's and packing it up £0. 10. o.'22 This could be the 'large Glass' which, a few pages later, Jensen mended and put up in the 'f foreign Councill Chamber'.23 (Figure 20) Moore and Gumley were also required to move items from Somerset House and, like Jensen, they charged For fetching 16 large Sconces wth 8 Branches each, three Ditto's [=sconces] wth 5 Branches each from Somersett House and puting them up in the Ball Room, and Repairing Severall peices that was broken off £2. 10. o .24 Several rooms were refurnished and it fullest treatment, being the only prin made by Richard Roberts. This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE l6l The walls were adorned with tapestries and paintings. In the Presence Cham hung nine pieces from The Sciences series, in the Little Drawing Room were tapestries from The Four Seasons and in the Privy Chamber hung four pieces from Planets (the set comprised The Triumph of Mars (RCIN 28121; The Toilet of Venus (R 28120) (Figure 21); The Feast of Bacchus (RCIN 28122); Mars and Venus (RCIN 28 all four survive at the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh).25 The inventory of pic taken before 1723, records few movements, which suggests that George I prefe maintain Queen Anne's picture hang, only substituting Kneller's portrait of the ters of the Duke of Marlborough with Kneller's portrait of Charles III of Spain Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor.26 It was for the Chapel Royal that the King reserved the greatest expenditure.27 crimson Genoa velvet, like that for the Presence Chamber, cost 40s per yard 40 yards were supplied by John Johnson & Co. and 76 yards by David Bosanq another silk merchant. The gold fringing was particularly sumptuous: C Matthews, Laceman, supplied 40 yards of 'naile deep' gold and silver frin 20 yards of edging weighing 129 ounces 9 penny weights and costing £64. 14. 6 King took his worship seriously; after all he was the monarch largely by virtue religion. THE PRINCE OF WALES'S STATE APARTMENT If the King made do with furniture and fittings from the previous reign, George Augustus, Prince of Wales, but to a slightly lesser extent. Although no significant royal building programme during the reigns of George I or G both settled for completing unfinished work from, mostly, William Ill's Kensington and Hampton Court Palaces, the furnishing project at St James's considerably larger. It was in the Prince's and, especially, the Princess of Wa ments, that the projects were most expensive. The Prince of Wales's apartments were laid out in the traditional sequ rooms leading off the eastern side of the Great Stair (which also allowed ac King's State Apartment to the south). The Prince of Wales's Guard Ch situated on the southern side of Great Court and on the northern side of Paradi the Presence Chamber followed in the same direction, while the Privy Ch Drawing Room, Bedchamber and Closet were ranged along the eastern side o Court, so that the Prince's apartment effectively occupied two sides (north of the court, while the King's apartment occupied the two other sides (west (see Figure 19). The Prince of Wales's Closet was therefore in close proximi King's Bedchamber and Dressing Room. Rather than ordering a new bed, th it would seem, had to make do with a faulty bed, as Richard Roberts cha 'mending a Bedd being very much broke' and at the same time he mende stools and 2 Elbow Chairs, adding Severall new parts and Varnishing them' likewise was called upon to repair, polish and 'new japan' various pieces of f in the Prince's Bedchamber and Closet. The Closet was evidently already r well furnished, as Jensen charged This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms 1Ó2 THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE For Mending, Scrapeing, and New pollishing a Wallnuttree Desk, 2 other Desks, and a Wallnuttree Scrutoire and Varnishing a ffolding Table, a Bureau & a pair of Wallnuttree Stands in the prince's Closett £3. 2. o. 30 Jensen also supplied five oval sconces, a with stands (with leather covers) for the a Wallnuttree writing Desk for ye Prince £ two tapestries, from a series referred to as Chambers received new canopies, mad Chamber this was supplemented by walnut and 2 'f forms' (a long stool). These wer Jeremiah Fletcher in crimson velvet with the canopy was placed 'a fine Smyrna carpe city in Anatolia (Izmir, in modern Turk exported to Britain through the Levant C THE PRINCESS OF WALES'S STATE APARTMENT Involving the greatest expense and probably the chief glory of the refurbishe ments at St James's Palace were the new Princess's rooms. Caroline was the Princess of Wales for over two hundred years, since Catherine of Aragon (who ma Arthur, Prince of Wales, in 1501). Intriguingly, the accounts mention a new for an unspecified location but probably to the east of the Great Gatehouse, n to provide access to the Princess of Wales's new apartments. Vanbrugh's plan shows a small, probably utilitarian staircase in this area, and the next known Flitcroft of 1729, shows a larger staircase fitted into the entire depth of the buil (Figure 22) Jensen supplied, probably for this location, 'a large Lanthorne of plate in a Brass frame gilt with Gold with four double Branches for the New St £30.0. o'.35 The climax of the Princess's apartment was the Bedchamber, pe relatively compact room as only two carved window cornices were supplied. in common with others ordered at this time, was provided by Richard Roberts, an frame or bed stock was made of oak with 'a large handsome Molding teasto Cornishes, Base moldings, and a Carved headboard' at a cost of £32, the latter carved in softwood and covered with crimson silk damask (see Figure 15 for a version at Hampton Court Palace). Accompanying the bed were two armchair stools, which together cost £19. As the principal and most exclusive space in t ment, the Bedchamber was hung with crimson damask, in common with the two State Bedchambers at St James's Palace, with the bed and seat furniture sim covered: the cost of the damask alone totalled £493 ys od.36 Next door, in the Dressing Room, the chosen colour was yellow.37 Ther three windows in the Dressing Room, and Jensen supplied a pair of mirrors, £140 'For 2 very large Arch'd Peer Glass's in Glass fframes for the Dressing R below them stood 'i Ovali Indian ffolding Tables to stand under the said Gl leather to them £16. 12.0'. Other furniture included a six-leaf 'Indian' screen This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE 163 Figure 22. After Henry Flitcroft (1697-1769) Plan of St. James's House (Palace), 1729 - RCIN 741172 - (detail) (Royal Collection/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2014) Chinese black and gold lacquer), a pair of walnut stands 'for Combs', a walnut writing desk lined with green velvet and trimmed with gold lace, an 'Umber Table' (i.e. ombre, f a popular card-game beloved of the Princess) also lined with green velvet and gold lace. Jensen delivered a 'Chimney Glass for the Anti Chamber' and 'a Pair of Glass Chimney Sconces for Ditto', 'a New black Table and Stands for Ditto'. In the Drawing Room he provided a 'black Table, Stands and Glass in a black fframe' - the latter costing £16. These 'black' pieces were likely to be painted and varnished in imitation of ebony or lacquer furniture from China, Japan and India. By far the most expensive piece of furniture in the Princess's Apartment was 'a large Glass in a Glass frame & head for ye Bedchamr' (for a comparable mirror see Figure 16) which cost £120. On top of this was placed 'a large Glass Top put over ye said Glass to reach to the Cornish £25' and underneath the mirror stood 'a large carved Table and Stands gilt richly with gold to stand under the said Glass £40'. Jensen's list continued with 'a large Indian Cabinet for Ditto Chamber': in fact this was a Chinese or possibly a Japanese lacquer cabinet, of the type imported through the East India Company and probably on a giltwood stand (Figure 23). The walls here were hung, not with tapestries (as was the case in the King's and the Prince of Wales's Apartments, but with '11 pes of Yellow Damask Hangings', which Phill and Fletcher lined with linen.38 Hanging damask seems to have been the practice in all the rooms where tapestries were not hung.39 The choice of yellow for the Princess's Dressing Room introduced a lighter note into the decoration of the apartments, the colour scheme for which was largely dominated by crimson. Payments to William Weeks, Laceman, for 10s. 1 ¥td. for '13 yds of small yellow silk Bobin line for a Bell for This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms 164 the furniture and furnishing of st james's palace Figure 23. Cabinet-on-Stand, c. 1705: the cabinet of Japanese lacquer, late seventeenth century - RCIN 35485: The stand attributed to Thomas & René Pelletier - RCIN 31186 (Royal Collection/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2014) 7 yards of large Ditto for a parrots cage' also demonstrate a lighter furnishings.40 In spite of the state requirement for magnificence, it was furnishing of the female domain that the greatest expense was incurr Furniture by Richard Roberts and Gerrit Jensen appears in the Pr ment: the only piece of furniture (in this account, the first year of the K Moore and Gumley was 'a fine large Walnuttree Desk and Bookcase o £25'.41 THE YOUNG PRINCESSES AND OTHERS Surviving plans of St James's Palace do not make clear fitted out for the accommodation of the 'Young Prince (who on the day of George I's coronation on 29 October 17 one). From the Wardrobe Account, we learn that the a of separate rooms, and included furniture for delivery the use of Princess Caroline, perhaps private rooms for th adjoining those of the Young Princesses. The lodgin comprised an Antechamber, a Blue Closet, a Bedchambe Room. The Accounts reveal a high standard of furnishin This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE 165 for a cot or other bespoke infant-furniture - perhaps such personal furnishings w brought to Britain from Hanover. Notable contents of this apartment included a four leaf Indian screen, probab an imported Chinese black and gold lacquer screen, supplied by Gerrit Jensen at a c of £6;42 two pairs of green camlet (wool) curtains, yellow serge quilts for windo (perhaps cushions for seats in a window embrasure), three beds upholstered by Ph and Fletcher in crimson mohair;43 and three square stools made by the joiner Richa Roberts, all three covered in yellow serge.44 Jensen supplied a pair of glass chimn sconces for the Antechamber, and for the Blue Closet a pair of chimney sconces and the writing desk referred to above.45 THE COUNTESS OF KIELMANSEGG'S APARTMENT In the Countess of Kielmansegg's apartment, which probably contained fou as four firescreens were supplied, there was a bed hung with crimson damas Roberts supplied the oak bedstock (or bed frame) which cost £20. The whole required nine window cornices and was furnished with twelve large 'Dutc (probably with rush seats);46 'an Easie Chair fframe the back to take off with Ir which might have been similar to armchairs with adjustable backs, such a the Queen's Closet at Ham House.47 The seat furniture was made by Richar and much of it covered in crimson damask by the upholsterers Phill and F Gerrit Jensen also supplied a large group of furniture, a mix of the utilitarian exotic, including a large arched looking glass with a carved and gilt frame.4 Fletcher's account also included 'a Suit of rich gilt leather hangings containin £35. 12.6' and '60 yards of gold welting to goe round ye Hangings', which m been rather splendid.50 Leather wall hangings were popular in the sevent early eighteenth centuries throughout northern Europe. In 1756, in the Mar Room at Ham House, the 4th Earl of Lauderdale replaced polychrome leather of c. 1675 with a new set, attesting to its continued favour.51 Crimson was not colour employed in the Countess of Kielmansegg's apartment. William Week includes an account headed 'For the Pearl Colour Camblet ffurniture in Ditto ment there'.52 This furniture was evidently deemed unsuitable as Phill and soon charged 'For altering the Pearle colour Camblet ffurniture making i another Apartment & for Nailes & puting up'.53 THE COUNTESS OF SCHAUMBURG-LIPPE'S APARTMENT Known as the Countess of Bückeburg, the Countess of Schaumburg-Lippe's was once again fitted out with a new bed of crimson damask hangings an bedstead provided by Richard Roberts who also supplied five window corni of variety was introduced with 'The Yellow Mohair furniture' charged by t William Weeks, who sent 61 yards of 'broad yellow silk figured Lace woosted at 1 Sd / yard £4. 11. 10V2.54 Gerrit Jensen supplied cabinet-work walnut chest, a pair of chimney sconces 'for the Closett'; a walnut folding This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms l66 THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE ^ r/UU laiļtul 1 Lm/úřSíúcJ man M. . - T • / /■ .V,;/... ///',, _ 0 l.'lY , •■'- ..-.■«.'.t -/ li'í1 v / <-■' ; y- -/ • /' v • ' • • m», //..• , /.,/• . . w-. ■ /. 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Wardrobe Account Book showing Samuel Lockmann's account (Royal Archives/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2014) This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE l6j pair of Eight Square Stands for Combs'.55 Crimson and yellow were not the only colou to be encountered in the Countess of Schaumburg-Lippe's apartment for there references to 'green padua Serge for the Backs & Seats' of settees and also for t 'bottoms of the Cushions' of the settees.56 A Dressing chair was covered in 'Auro colour mohair, along with door curtains, hangings, couch squab, two 'Back Chai 'curtains to draw before Books', all of which were trimmed with broad and narrow silk lace.57 Finally, there is an entry 'for green silk lace for 2 Orange coir taffata win Curtains' which must have been particularly striking.58 MADAM VON DER SCHULENBURG'S APARTMENT The apartment for Madam von der Schulenburg was likewise dominated by textiles, but although the oak bed stock was supplied by Richard Roberts at cost of £20, the hangings for it were this time of crimson 'morella' mohair cost lesser amount of 13s per yard.59 Richard Roberts's furniture included two large cornices 'Suitable to the Bed'; six further window cornices; twelve walnut back chairs; two walnut armchairs; the chairs, stools and window seats60 were covered in crimson padua serge (at 3 s per yard) which was also used to make some false cases; crimson shalloon (at 4s per yard) was employed for the chair backs and also for false cases. In spite of the considerable quantities of new furniture supplied for Madam von der Schulenberg's apartment, it seems she was either unsatisfied with what was sent, or she was given alternative lodgings, which were furnished by Ernst August Samuel Lockmann (possibly a member of the Hanoverian entourage), and whose page-long bill (written in extremely small lettering) is headed 'for ffurniture by him provided & Hired by his Maties Command for Madam Schulembourgs Lodgings Near and in Saint James's House' (Figure 24). Interestingly, the bill specifies the names of the rooms and the furniture for each of them. It was surely a spectacular apartment as it included no less than two guard chambers, each furnished with six 'matted chairs'. Besides these two rooms, her apartment included a Bedchamber, Drawing Room, Dining Room, and a ground floor parlour. Interestingly, the cost of hiring 'three pieces of fine tapestry' were also included in the account, perhaps emphasising both the temporary nature of the lodging and the value of tapestry. The apartments at St James's Palace at the beginning of George I's reign, after the restoration and refurnishing noted in the Wardrobe Accounts, presented the visitor with a striking series of late Baroque interiors. While the King was content to be surrounded by the furnishings of the previous reign combined with some new pieces of furniture, no doubt to emphasise a sense of continuity, as was the Prince of Wales, it was in the female domain that new furnishings and concomitant expenditure were lavished. By analysing the accounts and comparing the relative costs of the various furnishing schemes, we can gain a sense of the hierarchy of status within the Household and go some way to reconstructing the appearance of the state and private apartments at St James's Palace. This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms l68 THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am grateful to the following for encouraging me in the study o fruitful and stimulating discussions: Jonathan Marsden, Sir H Holmes, Sebastian Edwards, Wolf Burchard, Desmond Shawe-T indebted to the many skills of my assistant, Nicola Turner Inman. The Queen for allowing me to quote material from the Royal Arc Clark and Jill Kelsey and the staff of the Royal Archives. REFERENCES 1 W. Burchard 'St James's Palace: George II and Queen Caroline's Princip Historian, vol. 16, pt 2, December 2011, pp. 192-93. 2 See M. Tillman, Ein Frankreichbündnis der Kunst: Kurfürst Max Emanuel Sammler, 2009. 3 A. Thompson, George II: King and Elector (New Haven and London, 201 4 For the most recent and scholarly analysis of the building work underta the reign of George II, see Burchard, op. cit. pp. 177-203. A general introdu was published by K. Scott, St James's Palace: A History (London, 2010). building accounts was summarised in H. Colvin (ed.), History of the Kin iv-vi, 1982, 1976 and 1973 respectively. 5 The relevant volume of Great Wardrobe Accounts (1714-18; Royal Arc panion to the papers of the Lord Chamberlain's Office, which include the Books and Posting Books of The Great Wardrobe as well as papers for other These papers are kept at The National Archives, Kew. 6 J. Toland, An Account of the Courts of Prussia and Hanover (London, 1705 7 Ibid. p. 72. 8 W. Burchard, 'Houses and Palaces: Early Georgian Residences', in D Georgians (London, 2014), p. 62. 9 R. Hatton, George I Elector and King (London, 1978), pp. 410-12. 10 The Act of Settlement, 1700 states that only a Protestant descendant of can succeed to the Crown of Great Britain. 11 Hatton, op. cit. p. 60. 12 S. Brindle, 'Kent the Painter' in S. Weber (ed.), William Kent: Designing Georgian Britain (New Haven and London, 2013), p. 119. 13 C. de Saussure, A Foreign view of England in the reigns of George I & George II (London, 1902), p. 41. 14 Ibid., p. 42. 15 RA GEO/MAIN/8ii75r. See also G. Beard and C. Gilbert (eds), Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840 (Leeds, 1986), pp.379 and 619. This pioneering work notes several payments to the partnership of Moore and Gumley from the Great Wardrobe. RA GEO/MAIN/8ii75r. 16 Peter Thornton proposed that this arrangement of three distinct elements should be referred to as a 'triad'. P. Thornton, Seventeenth-century decoration in England, France & Holland (New Haven and London, 1978), pp. 93-94 and pis 51, 218 and 219. 17 RA GEO/MAIN/8ii7or. See also Beard and Gilbert, op. cit., p. 694. For a set of seat furniture upholstered by Phill and Fletcher see the set of six side chairs supplied to Edward Dryden for Canons Ashby in 1714 (National Trust inventory number 494468.1-6). I am grateful to Christopher Rowell for drawing this set of chairs to my attention. 18 A. Westman, 'New Light on the Textiles at Ham House' in C. Rowell (ed.) Ham House: 400 Years of Collecting and Patronage (New Haven and London, 2013), pp. 256-58. 19 RA GEO 81141V and 8ii42r. 20 R. Baarsen has argued for the attribution of much of the marquetry furniture at Ham House to Gerrit Jensen in 'Seventeenth-century European cabinet-making at Ham House', in C. Rowell (ed.), op. cit., pp. 198-203. 21 RA GEO/MAIN/81136V. 22 Loc. cit. 23 RA GEO/MAIN/8ii38r. This mirror is of uncertain provenance but was claimed by Guy Laking to have been at St James's Palace in the early nineteenth century (G. F. Laking, The Furniture of Windsor Castle (London, 1905), p. 107; H. Roberts, For the King's Pleasure (London, 2001), pp. 295-96). This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE 169 24 RA GEO/MAIN/81138V. 25 RA GEO/MAIN/81164V. 26 British Library Sto we MS 567 'Royal Pictures at Kensington, Hampton Court, Windsor & St James's'. 27 The upholsterers Thomas Phill and Jeremiah Fletcher detailed their activity for the Chapel Royal as follows: 'linen to line altar cloth, making altar cloth & carpet of crimson velvet paned with white damask & trimmed with gold fringe; upholstering 2 square stools for the altar; lining the pulpit cloth with paragon, and making it match the altar cloth (i.e. in crimson velvet), for 15 Yards of crimson parragón to line Carpets for the Lesson, Reading and Litany Desks, lined with parragón & trimmed with gold & silver fringe; tester & back cloth for the Dean's seat; 2 crimson velvet curtains lined with taffata trimmed with gold & silver fringe for the Lords' seats; 5 very large feather cushions covered with crimson velvet & trimmed with gold & silver fringe; 24 large ticken cushions covered with crimson velvet & trimmed with ditto for Lords' &c &c. RA GEO/MAIN / 81 i8ir. 28 RA GEO/MAIN/8n82r. 29 RA GEO/MAIN/8ii32r. 30 RA GEO/MAIN/8ii36r and RA GEO/MAIN/8ii37r. 31 RA GEO/MAIN/81138V. 32 RA GEO/MAIN/81164V. Possibly two from the Acts of the Apostles series woven for Charles I at Mortlake. The Blinding of Elymas the Sorcerer is the only known survivor from this series, at Hampton Court Palace (RCIN 1922). 33 RA GEO/ MAIN /81 171 r. 34 Vanbrugh's plan of c. 1715 is in the Royal Library (RL 26300), reproduced in D. Watkin, The Architect King (London, 2004), p. 38, fig. 9; Flitcroft's plan of 1729 is in The National Archives, Works 34/121, reproduced in History of the King's Works, vol. vi, p. 241. 35 RAGEO/MAIN/8ii38r. 36 299 yards of damask at 30s per yard was supplied by the mercer John Johnson, the total cost being £448. 10.0. 39 yards of a slightly cheaper variety of crimson damask at 23s per yard was also ordered and 161 yards of 'Crimson fflorence taffata' which cost £88. 16.6 was ordered to make the false cases and to line the counterpane and valances. RA GEO/MAIN/81128V. 37 Loc. cit., John Johnson supplied, as part of the same account as before, 317 yards of yellow damask at the slightly lower price of 28s per yard. The greater amount was required due to the larger size of the room. 38 RA GEO/MAIN/81146V. 39 There were no tapestries in the Princess of Wales's apartment. In the Prince of Wales's apartment, only the Drawing Room was hung with tapestries, and in the King's apartment, the Presence Chamber, Privy Chamber and Little Drawing Room were hung with tapestries. 40 RA GEO/MAIN/81165V. 41 RA GEO/MAIN/8ii7Sr. 42 RA GEO/MAIN/81138V. 43 RA GEO/MAIN/8ii5or & RA GEO/MAIN/8ii73r. 44 RA GEO / MAIN / 8 1 1 27r; RA GEO/MAIN/81131V; RA GEO/MAIN/81181V. 45 RA GEO/MAIN/81137V. 46 L. Wood, The Upholstered Furniture in the Lady Lever Art Gallery (New Haven and London, 2008), p. 70 and n.542. 47 Rowell (ed.), op. cit., p. 86, fig. 74. 48 RA GEO/MAIN/81130V; RA GEO/MAIN/81145V; RA GEO/MAIN/8ii6ir. 49 RA GEO/MAIN/81138. so RA GEO/MAIN/81145V. 51 Rowell (ed.), op. cit., p. 290, fig. 291. « RAGEO/MAIN/8ii33r. 53 RA GEO/MAIN/8114SV. 54 RA GEO/MAIN/81135. 55 RA GEO/MAIN/81137V. 56 RA GEO/MAIN/8ii48r. 57 RA GEO/MAIN/8ii48r. 58 RA GEO/MAIN/81148V. 59 Rowell (ed.), op. cit., p. 258. At Ham House, A. Westman has recently confirmed P. Thornton's idea that in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Europe the term 'mohair' referred to a watered silk using wool from an Angora goat. 60 The stools and window seats are not mentioned in Roberts' or Gumley and Moore's accounts and may be an instance of reusing earlier furniture, though given the quantities of new furniture supplied for St James's at this date, this seems unlikely. This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms 170 THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE APPENDIX A Wardrobe Account transcriptions The Accounts for the period 1 August 1714 to 29 September 1715 are not transcribed in full here. A payment is included only wh furniture or furnishing connected with St James's Palace has restored. These include payments to cabinet-makers, joiners, upho Accounts for Bargemen's uniforms, stationery, the painting of ar tenance man at the Wardrobe's offices are excluded, but in appen of all craftsmen mentioned in the period covered are noted. Th as possible by Apartment and then by individual rooms or spac enclosed by square brackets has been added by the compiler wh as to be beyond the scope of this publication. A summary of wh volume kept in the Royal Archives, the Accounts are ordered chr batch of accounts approved by Montagu on three separate occas et seq.); 15 September (account no. 45 et seq.), 10 November (acc The account was approved by the Prince of Wales 'Regent' at St J (RA GEO/MAIN/8ii84r). The King's State Apartment N:i William Barnsley, Packer For A Case Curtain for His Majesties Bedd in the little Bedchamber at Saint James's For 78 yds of fine Crimson in grain Serge at 4s £15. 12. o (RA GEO/MAIN / 81 i2Ór) N.*4 John Johnson & Co, Mercers For His Majesties little Bedchamber at St Jame's For 179 Yards lA of broad Crimson Mozella Mohair for a Bedd compleat and to cover an Arm Chair at 13s £116. 10. 3 For 100 Yards of Crimson taffata to line the Bedd Vallance at 11s £55. o. o 54 Yards of white Sattin For t thick Mattress Quilt at 14s / yard £37. 16. o (RA GEO/MAIN/8ii28r) N.'4 John Johnson & Co, Mercers For To cover a ffolding Table, Writing Desk & Umber Table, for her Royall Highness the Princess of Wales; And a writing Table for his Maties Closet at St James's For 8 yds V4 of green genoa Velvet at 32s £13. 4. o (RA GEO/MAIN/81128V) N:g Richard Roberts, Joyner For His Maties little Bedchamr at St James's For a Strong Wainscott Bedstead, 4 high Posts, a boorded bottom to han with Iron work and a large handsome molding Teastor, with Carved C headboord For a Sett £32. o. o of large For a long staff wth a hook & ferrili to turn ye Curtains with £0. 15. o Cur For an Armed Chair fframe made of the best Wallnuttree carved and pollished £2. 15. o (RA GEO/MAIN/8ii3or) This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE I7I N:io Richard Roberts, Joyner At Saint James's For Three Dozen of fine strong Beech Cane Chairs pollished for His Maties Service (RA N:io £18. o. o GEO/MAIN/ Richard For His Robert Maties Dr For mending and pollishing Chairs and Stools &c £2. o. o (RA GEO/MAIN/81132V) N:ii William Weeks , Laceman For a Bedd Compleat and an Elbow Chair for his Maties little Bedchamr at St Jame's For 250 yds of broad Crimson in grain Silk arras Lace at 3s 3 d £40. 12. 6 For 280 yards Vi of narrow Ditto at 2s 6 d £35. 1. 3 For 12 Doz 4 yards of Breed Ditto at 6s / Doz £3. 14. (RA GEO/MAIN/81132V) N:i2 Charles Matthews, Laceman For a ffolding Table, writing Desk and Umber table for her Royall Highnes Princess of Wales And a Writing Table for his Maties Closet at Saint James' For 28 yards of narrow gold arras Lace Troy weight 8 Ounces 9 pwtts at 11s / Oun £4. 13. o (RA GEO/MAIN/8ii34r) N:ią. William For His Johnson, Maties Coff Service at For 12 white Earthen Chamber potts £0. 12. o For 12 For white 18 Earthen brass Basons Candlesticks £0. £4. 12. o 10. o For 6 pair of Snuffers and panns £1. 10. o For 9 Wainscott Close Stools wth double pewter panns £11. 5. o For 3 black Leather Close Stools wth Ditto's £4. 10. o (RA GEO/MAIN/8ii35r) For His Maties Service at St James's For 6 black Leather Close Stools wth double pewter pans £7. 10. o (RA GEO/MAIN/81135V) N:i5 Gerrit Jensen, Cabinet Maker At Saint James's For a large Glass in a gilt frame for ye Kings Bedchamr £50. o. o For Mending and Cleaning 2 Indian Cabinets and a Table and Stands in the said Chamber For Kings For a £2. large Bedchamber mending the 10. o Chimn £40. gilding o. of o a Room to ye King's Bedchamr £1. 10. o For a Chimney Glass in a carved gilt frame for ye blue Room £30. o. o (RA GEO / MAIN / 8 1 1 3 6r ) [...] This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Cabine 172 THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE For His Maties Service at Greenwich For bringing from Somerset house a very Large Glass to St James's and packing it up £0. 10. o (RA GEO/MAIN/8 N:i6 At Gerrit Saint Jensen, James's For a pair of For 4 Umber Tables lined wth green Cloth for his Majties Service £12. o. o For 6 Dressing Glass's for Severall Rooms £3. 12. o For Mending a Table in his Maties privy Chamber £0. 10. o lar For Mending, Scrapeing, new pollishing & lineing wth green Velvet, a Wallnuttree writeing Table for his Maties Closett £1. o. o For taking down two Chimney Glass's where the New great Staires ar (RA GEO/MAIN/81137V) N:iy Gerrit Jensen , Cabinet Maker At Saint James's For Mending the fframe of a large Glass and putting it up in the fforreign Councill Chamber & mending two Indian Screens for his Ma tie £1. o. o (RA GEO/MAIN/8ii38r) N:iy Gerrit Jensen , Cabinet Maker At Saint James's For Altering the Sconces and mending the Branches in the Great Councill Chamber £3. o. o For a pair of black Stands for Candlesticks for his Majties use £0. 12. o (RA GEO/MAIN/81138V) N:i8 John Gumley & James Moore, Cabinet Maker At Saint James's For Varnishing Three large Tables and 6 Stands for the Great Drawing Room £4. 10. o For fetching 16 large Sconces wth 8 Branches each, three Ditto's [=sconces] wth 5 Branches each from Somersett House and puting them up in the Ball Room, and Repairing Severall peices that was broken off £2. 10. o (RA GEO/MAIN/81138V) N:22 The Execrs of Ham: Reeve, Upholsterer For The little Bedchamr at Saint James's For dyed linnen to line Teastor and headcloth £0. 16. o For Buckram to line the double Vallance and Bases £1. 5. o For Embroidering the Lace upon the double Vallance Bases and He For Making the Crimson Mohair Bedd all Compleate £25. o. o For pollished Rings and ferril Ribbon for the Curtains £0. 18. o For Sewing silk and tape used £1. 15. o For a large smooth filed Case Curtain Rodd £2. 15. o For pollished Rings and fferril Ribbon £1. 2. o For Making the Case Curtains of Crimson Serge £1. 15. o For Sewing Silk and thread used £0. 15. o For Bottoming and Backing an Arm Chair £0. 6. o For Curled hair for the Back of the Chair and a Down Cushion for ye dyed linnen to cover it £1. This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms 5. o THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE I73 For covering the said Chair with Crimson Mohair & Laceing it with Crimson silk arras (RA Lace £o. 12. o GEO/MAIN/8 For Ditto For a large Down Bedd and Bolster £18. 10. o For a Sett of Down pillows and a Bolster cover'd with white Sattin £2. 10. o For a large f fustian Mattress covered wth Ditto £3. 15. o For a Holland Quilt covered wth Ditto £2. 15. o For a large thick ffustian Mattress £3. 10. o For a pair of large fine fflannell Blanketts bound wth Ribbon £3. 15. o (RA GEO/MAIN/8ii42r) N:2/ļ Thomas Phill & Jerem: Fletcher, Upholsterers For Tables in the Councill Chamr at Saint James's For Squareing and Making 3 green Cloth Carpets £0. 15. o (RA GEO/MAIN/81146V) N:25 Thomas Phill & Jerem: Fletcher, Upholsterers For the Treary Room at Saint James's For 3 large smooth filed pully rodds and Hooks £0. 18. o For 58 yds of broad yellow fine double Camblet at 3s 9 d / yd £10. 17. 6 For 14 yds of broad Lace at 12 d / yard £0. 14. o For 84 yds of narro Ditto at 6 d / yard £2. 2. o For 33 yds of Silk Line at 6 d / yard and three tassells Suitabl For large smooth filed brass Rings and tape for 3 pair of windo C Buckram to line the Vallance £1. 2. o For Making 3 pair of yellow Camblet Yellow Lace £3. o. o For puting up the said w used £0. 13. 6 (RA81149V) N.*46 David Bosanquett, Merchant For Hangings and for a Carpett, Cushion, One Arm Chair, two Back Chairs, two Square Stools, 3 ffootstools, 2 fforms and 8 Cushions for His Maties Chappl Closett at St James's For 109 yds of Crimson genoa Velvet at 40s £218. o. o For 21 yards of Crimson Italian taffata to line a Carpet to hang before his at 11s £11. 11. o For Two Canopy fforms for his For 248 yards of Crimson genoa Velvet at 40s £496. o. o (RA GEO/MAIN/81159V) N;4¿? Richard Roberts, Joyner For His Maties Chappell Closett at St James's For 2 long fform fframes of Wallnuttree finely carved and pollis For an Elbow Chair fframe Suitable £2. 10. o For 2 Back Chair fframes Suitable £4. 10. o For 2 Square Stool fframes Suitable £4. o. o For 3 ffoot Stool fframes Suitable £1. 10. o This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms 174 the furniture and furnishing of st james's palace For His Ma ties Presence Chamber at St James's For a very large riseing State fframe with a large Moulding Cornish and Iron Screws to fix it up £6. 5. o For a large State Chair fframe For 2 large square Stool fframes Suitable £4. o. o o For a ffoot Stool fframe Suitable £0. 12. 6 For 4 large square Stool fframes Suitable £9. o. o For a large form fframe Suitable £4. 10. o (RA GEO/MAIN/8ii6ir) N:ą8 Richard Roberts , Joyner At Saint James's For taking down all the Mourning Bedds, Canopys, windo Cornishes &c. 4 dayes work for 12 men fixing up States, windo Cornishes &c. Wth Nailes & hold fasts used [...] In The Councill Chamber at Saint James's £14. o. o For fixing up the Great Canopy £0. 10. o (RA GEO/MAIN/81161V) N.*52 Richd: Chamberlayne & Compa:, Mercers For The Table in the Councill Chamber at St James's For 35 yards of green Italian Taffata to line a green (RA GEO/MAIN/8ii63r) N.*53 John Johnson & Compa:, Mercers For a Carpett for the Table in the Councill Chamber at S For 44 yds of green genoa Velvett at 36s £79. 4. o [..J To Cover a Cornish of a Canopy of State at St James's For 2 yards of rich Crimson figured Velvet at 36s £3. 12. o To Line the Vallance of Two Crimson Velvet States for his Maties and the Princes Presence Chamrs at St James's For 28 yards of Crimson Taffata at 11s £15. 8. o (RA GEO/MAIN/81163V) N.*54 Stephen Toulouze, Embroiderer His Maties Presence Chamr at Saint James's For Embroidering richly a Canopy State Cloth of Crimson genoa Ve three peices of Vallance as formerly £45. o. o (RA GEO/MAIN/81163V) N.*55 Charles Matthews, Laceman In Part for the ffurniture of His Maties Chappell Closett at St For 7 yds XA of very broad rich gold arras Lace and 31 yards o Troy wtt 44 ou 17 pwtts 12 gs(?) at 11s £24. 3. 7 Vi For 7 yds Va of very deep rich gold ffringe, 37 yards of Edging Ditto, an 25 yds Vi of naile Deep Ditto Troy wtt 173 Oun: 12 pwtts 12 gr For 15 yards Vi of gold Seaming ffringe for Cushions Troy wtt 23 Ounc 12 pwtts at 11s £12. 19. 7 For 2 very large rich gold Tassells at £3 each £6. o. o (RA GEO/MAIN/8iiÓ4r) This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE I75 N:^6 John Hasell, Laceman In Part for the ffurniture of His Maties Chappll Closett at Saint James's For 7 yards lA of very broad rich gold arras lace & 31 yds of 2 inch deep Ditto Troy wtt 44 Oun 17 pwtts 12 grs at 11s £24.13. 7V2 For 7 yds lA of very deep rich gold fringe, 37 yds of Edging Do and 2 naile Deep Do Troy wtt 173 oun 12 pwtt 12 grs at 11s £95. 9. 10V2 For 15 yards Vi of gold Seaming ffringe for Cushions Troy wtt 23 Ounces 12 pwtts at 11s £12. 19. 7 For 2 very large rich gold tassells at £3 each £6. o. o (RA GEO/MAIN/8ii64r) N.*57 John Robinson , Linnen Draper To Line 5 pees of Tapestry hangings called Joshua, 3 pes of Solebay fight One peice of Tobias for Hampton Court. Nine pees of the Sciences for ye Presence Chamr, 3 peices of the Seasons for the little Drawing Room; 4 p the Planetts for the Privy Chamr and 2 pees of the Apostles for the Prin Drawing Room at St James's For 873 yds 3/4 of fine thick Canvas at i6d / yard £58. 16. o For 216 yards of broad girt Webb at 3d / yard £2. 14. o For 19 pound of thread of Severall Colours at 4s £3. 16. o N:^8 John Vanderbanq, Yeoman Arras Worker At Saint James's For fine Silk, Woosted, Warp, Crewell, Bread, Brushes, Tacks & other Materiall to mend, clean and line 9 pees of Tapestry hangings called the Sciences for ye Presence Also Chamr the like £160. to o. o mend, clea Seasons for ye little Drawing Room £56. o. o Also the like to mend, clean and line 6 large rich pees of Tape 4 pees called ye Planetts and 2 pees of the apostles for the Pr Prince's Drawing Room £120. o. o (RA GEO/MAIN/8iiÓ4r) N:6o William Weeks , Laceman For a Green Velvet Carpett for the Councill C For [...] 24 yards Vi of very deep green silk ff For a Canopy of State, Chairs, Stools and fforms for his Majesties Presence Chamr at Saint James's For 93 yds V2 of very broad Crimson in grain Silk arras Lace at 3s 3 d / yard £15. 3. 10V2 For 214 yards of narrower Ditto at 2s 6 d £26. 15. o For 24 yards of Naileing Ditto at is 3 d £1. 10. o For 4 Dozen of Breed Ditto at 6s / Doz £1. 4. o For Sashes in the Great Drawing Room and Councill Chamb For 192 yards of large Crimson in grain Silk Lyor weigh For The windows in the Great Drawing Room there For 72 yards of Crimson in grain silk Line weight 3 For 4 Ditto pear Mould Tassells with lead Knotted and Tufted £2. o. o (RA GEO/MAIN/81165V) This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms 176 THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE N:63 Thomas Phill & Jerem: Fletcher , Upholsterers [a lengthy account, for various locations. Significant entries transcribed here] Att Saint James's For Three Men 2 Day es taking down the Mour[n]ing in the Great Councill Chamber, and Drawing Room, and puting up the Old furniture again and Nailes used £1. [...] For The Table in the Councill Chamber at St James's 17. o For Making a very large green Velvet Carpet lined with green taf fa ta with green silk ffring and Sewing Silk used £1. 15. o (RA GEO / MAIN / 8 1 1 7or ) [..J For His Maties Closet in the Chappell Royall at Saint James's For Making a very large Crimson Velvet Carpet trimed wth a deep gold Fringe and broad and Narrow gold arras Lace and lined wth Crimson taffata to hang down For before his covering pinns and Ma a tacks tie £1. large used 10. Desk £0. 15. o wth Do 6 [cushion; linen to line velvet hangings; uph crimson velvet cases trimmed with gold la & 2 stools in crimson velvet wth gold lace & 3 foot stools to match; 11 velvet cushion For 67 [making yards the of false Crimson in grain parr cases] For a very large fine Persian Carpet £14. 10. o (RA GEO/MAIN/81170V) N:63 Thomas Phill & Jerem: Fletcher , Upholsterers [a lengthy account, for various locations. Significant entries trans For His Maties Presence Chamr at St James's [..J For Making a large Canopy of State of Crimson Velvet trimed wth Crimson Silk Lace, the Vallance lined with Crimson Taffata £20. o. o [upholstery of a state chair, 2 large state stools, a foot stool, one long long cushion (+ 4 tassells to the corners), each in crimson velvet trim crimson silk lace, making false cases from 52 yds of Crimson in grain at 3s 6 d / yard £9. 2. o For a large fine Smyrna Carpet for the Canopy £12. o. o (RA GEO/MAIN/81171V) N:6ą Thomas Phill & Jerem: Fletcher , Upholsterers [a lengthy account, for various locations. Significant entries transcribed here] For His Maties Service at St James's For a Wainscott Sacking bottom Bedstead and a Molding Teastor, headboord, Cornishes and Basemoldings £6. 10.0 For 136 yds of fine pearle colour double Camblet at 3 s 9 d / yd £25. 10. o For 144 yards of gold colour silk lace at 10 d / yard £6. o. o For 360 yards of binding ditto at 6 d / yard £9. o. o For 18 dozen of breed ditto at 2 s 6 d / doz £2. 5. o This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE I77 M For a Strong Canopy Rodd wth Screw hooks and long pinns £o. 12. 6 For making the pearle colour Camblett Bedd all Compleat laced wth the same colour Lace £6. 15. o [..J For Making up two pair of pearle colour Camblett window Curtains & Vallance Suitable to the Bedd £1. 18. o [...] (RA GEO/MAIN/81172V) [account continues onto RA 8ii73r - including 'for 10 fine Wallnuttree Caned Chairs £7. 10.0; for 8 large Matted bottomed Chairs £4. 16.0; for a Wainscott Ovali Table £1.0.0; for 2 Ordinary Chairs £0.9.0 N:6/ļ Thomas Phill & Jerem : Fletcher, Upholsterers [a lengthy account, for various locations. Significant entries transcribed here] At Saint James's [for taking down all the Mourning furniture in his Maties, the Prince and Princess's Appartments etc] . . . and Repaireing and Cleaning all the Old f furniture, with Nailes, Hooks, Sewing Silk, thread & other Materials used about the said Work £26. o. o (RA GEO/MAIN/81173V) N:66 John Gumley & James Moore, Cabinet Makers In The Great Drawing Room at St James's For Mending 3 large gilt Tables and 6 Stands in divers places were the gold was off & carrying them to & fro £3. o. o For Hanging up the Three Great Glasses £1. 10. o In The Ball Room at St James's For Removeing the large Glass Sconces out of Somersett house, N the Branches, mending the same wth an addicon of Several pees of off and fixing them up again £15. o. o For The Great Councill Chamber there For taking of the black Varnish of the Glass Sconces and laquering the Brass work and Branches £10. o. o In The Great Drawing Room t For taking down the Silver Sc & hanging (RA them up GEO/MAIN/81 N:#5 John Hasell, £3. o. o i75r) Laceman In Part for ffurniture for his Majestie For 9 yards and half of naile deep gold Ditto wth 51 Oun 4 pwtts at 10s £25. 12. o For 28 yds of Seaming Ditto wth 57 Oun 16 pwtts 12 grs at 10s £28. 18. 3 For 8 yds % of 5 inch deep gold fringe wth 88 Oun 12 pwtts at 11s £48. 14. 7 For 8 yards of Naile deep Ditto and 11 yards of Edging Ditto Troy wtt 35 Oun 17 pwtts at 11s £19. 14. 4 For 3 yards of Seaming Ditto Troy wth 4 Oun 16 pwtts at 11s £2. 12. 9 This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms 178 THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE In Part for furniture for his Maties Private Chappell at Saint James's For 11 yards Vi of naile deep gold ffringe Troy wth 34 Oun 8 pennywtts 12 grains at 11s (RA N:g8 For £18. 18. Thos The : Phill Table For Making trimed wth Sewing (RA 8 GEO/MAIN/ Silk used £3. & in a ver Crim 3. 6 GEO/MAIN/81180V) For The Great Councill Chamr there For Repaireing and Naileing with gilt Nailes 36 Crimson Velvet Chairs and 2000 of gilt nails used £4. 16. o [lengthy entry follows (Chapel Roya For His Majesties Chappell at Saint J [linen to line altar cloth, making altar white damask & trimmed with gold f altar; lining pulpit cloth with paragon (i.e. crimson velvet), for 15 Yards of c Lesson, Reading and Litany Desks, li silver fringe; tester & back cloth for lined w taffata trim'd w gold & silver ffeather cushions covered w crimson 24 large ticken cushions covered w cr &c &c] For His Maties Private Chappell at Saint James's [making 2 crimson velvet carpets trimmed w gold & silver fringe for the closet mostly for making curtains & one very long feather cushion; upholstering 12 square stools, covered in crimson serge; five long squabs for the benches] (RA GEO/MAIN/8ii8ir) N:ņ8 Thos: Phill & Jere: Fletcher, Upholsterers Delete 'For' His Majties little Bedchamber at St James's For Making & Quilting a pair of large fine white Sarcenet Blankets £7. 10. o (RA GEO/MAIN/81181V) N.'99 John Johnson and Coma:, Mercers In Part for ffurniture for his Maties Chappell at Saint James's For 40 yards of Crimson genoa Velvet at 40s £80. o. o For 18 yards of rich white Damask at 18s £16. 4. o For 83 yards of Crimson taffata at 11s £45. 13. o To Line a Crimson Velvet Carpet for ye Table in ye Councill Chamr at St J For 54 yards of Crimson taffata at 11s £29. 14. o For His Majties private Chappll at St James's For 7 yds of Crimson taffata being for windo Curtains at 11s £3. 17. o (RA GEO/MAIN/81181V) This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE I79 N:ioo David Bosanquett, Merchant For a Carpet for the Table in the Councill Chamr at St James's For 70 yards of Crimson genoa Velvet at 40s £140. o. o In Part for ffurniture for his Majties Chappell at Saint James's For 76 yards V2 of Crimson genoa Velvet at 40s £*53 • °* 0 For ffurniture for his Maties private Chappell at Saint James's For 18 yards Vi of Crimson genoa Velvet at 40s £37. o. o (RA GEO/MAIN/81181V) N:io2 William Weeks, Laceman For a Crimson Velvet Carpet for the Table in the Councill Chamber at Saint James's For 32 yards V2 of Crimson in grain Belladine Silk ffringe weight 50 ounces at 3s For 6d a For / Oun Large 36 £8. windo yards of 15. o Curtain in Crimson h in (RA GEO/MAIN/8ii82r) N:io3 Charles Matthews , Laceman In Part for furniture for His Maties Chappll Royall at St James's For 40 yds Vi of naile deep gold and Silver ffringe and 20 yds of Edging Do Troy wtt 129 Oun 9 pwtts at 10s £64. 14. 6 For 57 yds of Seaming Do Troy wtt 89 Oun 1 pwtt 12 grs at 10s £44. 10. 9 For 8 yards % of five Inch deep gold ffringe Troy weight 88 Ounces 12 pwtts at 11s For 8 / Oun yards £48. of 14. Naile 7 deep Ditt 44 Oun: 14 pwtts at 11s £24. 11. 8 For 3 yards of Seaming Do Troy wtt 4 Oun 16 pwtts at 11s £2.12. 91/2 For 9 yards of gold ffringe for 12 books Troy wtt 12 Oun at 11s £6.12. o (RA GEO/MAIN/81 i82r) In Part for ffurniture for His Maties Private Chappll at St James's For 11 yards Vi of naile deep gold ffringe Troy weight 34 Oun 8 pwtts 12 grs at 11s (RA N:io4 For £18. 18. o GEO/MAIN Richard His Rob Maties For 12 Wallnuttree square Stool fframes carved and pollished £15. o. o For The Vestry there For Two Wallnuttree Cane Chairs £1. (RA GEO/MAIN/81 N:io5 Stephen 16. o i82V) Toulouze, Embroiderer For His Maties Chappell at Saint James's For Embroidering richly on an Altar Cloth v and at the four Corners with Ray's, And a Cl a Glory all Richly done with gold Wyer £60. o. o (RA GEO/MAIN/8ii83r) This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms l80 THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE N:ioņ William Johnson , Coffermaker For The Serjt of His Majties Chappell at Saint James's For 2 very large Rushia leather Trunks wth Strong inside double Bolt Locks, Brass plates, Nailes and Handles £12. o. o (RA GEO/MAIN/81183V) The Prince of Wales's State Apartment N:io Richard Roberts , Joyner For The prince's Appartmt at St James's For puting up and mending a Bedd being very much b parts of Woodwork & Ironwork £3. o. o For Mending 6 square Stools and 2 Elbow Chairs, adding Varnishing (RA them £3. o. o GEO/MAIN/8ii32r) N:i5 Gerrit For Scrapeing Jensen , and Cabinet new Maker Japaning Indian Table in the Prince's Bedchamr £2. 10 a For Leathers for the said Stands and Table £0. 12. o For Mending, Scrapeing, and New pollishing a Wallnuttr and a Wallnuttree Scrutoire and Varnishing a f folding Ta of Wallnuttree Stands in the prince's Closett £3. 2. o (RA GEO/MAIN/8ii36r) N:i6 Gerrit Jensen, Cabinet Maker For His Royall Highness the Prince of Wales Appartmt at Saint James's For Silk Sashes for the windows in ye Dressing Room and Bedch For Mending a Stand in the Presence Chamber £0. 5. o For a Sconce in a black fframe for a Cabinet £0. 15. o (RA GEO/MAIN/8ii37r) N:iy Gerrit Jensen , Cabinet Maker For Their Royall Highness's For a large Lanthorne of plate Glass in a Brass frame gilt with Gold with double Branches for the New Stair Case £30. o. o (RA GEO/MAIN/8ii38r) N:iy Gerrit Jensen , Cabinet Maker the Prince and Princess's Appartment at Saint James's For 5 New Ovali Sconce's for the Prince's Presence £10. o. o For a large pair of Chimney Sconce's engraved for Do £5. o. o For a black Table and Stands wth leather covers fro Do £4. 2. o For fixing up a Chimney Glass in Do Chamber £0. 5. o For mending a Wallnuttree writing Desk for ye Prince £0. 5. o (RA GEO/MAIN/81138V) N:ą8 Richard Roberts, Joyner For His Roy all Highness ye Prince of Wales Presence Chamber there For a very large riseing State fframe with a large moulding Cornish & Iron Screws to fix it up £6. This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms 5. o THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE l8l For 2 Elbow Chair fframes of Wallnuttree finely carved & pollished £5. 10. o For 8 Square Stool fframes Suitable £18. o. o For 2 large fform fframes Suitable £9. o. o For the Canopy of State in the Privy Chamber there For a large riseing State fframe wth a large moulding Cornish to fix it up £6. 5. o (RA GEO/MAIN/8ii6ir) N:6o William Weeks , Lucernari For a Canopy of State, Chairs, Stools, and fforms for his Royll Highness the Prince of Wales Presence Chamber there For 220 yards of very broad Crimson in grain Silk arras Lace at 3 s 3 d £35. 15. o For 348 yards of narrower Ditto at 2s 6 d £43. 10. o For 48 yards of Naileing Ditto at is 3 d £3. o. o For 16 Doz of Breed Ditto at 6s / Doz £4. 16. o (RA GEO/MAIN/81165V) N:6o William Weeks , Laceman For The windows in ye Prince's Privy Chamr there For 42 yds of yellow silk Line wtt 19 Oun % at 2s 3 d /ou £2. 4. 5% For 3 Ditto tassells wth Lead Knotted and Tufted £1. 4. o For the Princes Appartmt at Saint James's For 30 yards of blue silk Line for a Bell wtt 10 Oun % at 2s 3 d £1. 4. 2 lA (RA GEO/MAIN/8ii66r) N:63 Thomas Phill & Jerem: Fletcher , Upholsterers [a lengthy account, for various locations. Significant entries transcribed here] For His Royall Highness For Embroidering very richly the lace upon the Canopy Making it up and triming it with Crimson silk Lace the Vallance lined with Crimson taffata £32. o. o (RA GEO/MAIN/81171V) The Prince of Wales Presence Chamr there [for upholstering 2 large state chairs, 8 large square stools, 2 long fforms, in crimson velvet with crimson silk lace; 61 yds of Crimson in grain parragón at 3 s 6 d / yd £10. 13. 6 for cases] For a large fine Smyrna Carpet for the Canopy £12. o. o (RA GEO / MAIN / 8 1 1 71 r ) The Princess of Wales's State Apartment N:i David Bosanquett, Merchant For Her Royall Highness the Princess of Wales Dressing Room at Saint Jame For 86 Yards V2 of Yellow Mantua silk to line window Vallance And for false cases for Chairs, Stools and a Couch at 10s per yard £43. 5. o (RA GEO/MAIN/8ii27r) N.*4 John Johnson & Co, Mercers For a Bedd Compleat, window Curtains, Hangings & for covers for Chairs and Stools &ca for her Roy all Highness the Princess of Wales Bedchamr and Dressing Room at Saint James This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms i82 the furniture and furnishing of st james's palace For 299 yds of rich broad Crimson Damask at 30s £448. 10. o For 39 yards of Ditto at 23s £44. 17. o For 317 yards of yellow Ditto at 28s £443- 16 For 161 yards V2 of Crimson fflorence taffata for false Cases for A and Stools and to line a Counterpoint and Vallance at 11s £88. 16. 6 (RA GEO/MAIN/81128V) N.'4 John Johnson & Co, Mercers For To cover a ffolding Table, Writing Desk & Umber Table, for her Royall Highness the Princess of Wales; And a writing Table for his Maties Closet at St James's For 8 yards lA of green genoa Velvet at 32s £13. 4. o (RA GEO/MAIN/81128V) N:4 John Johnson & Co, Mercers For 2 Sashes for her Royall Highness the Princess of Wales Bedchamber t For 7 Yards of Crimson Sarcenett at ys/6d £2.12.6 (RA GEO/MAIN/81128V) N:g Richard Roberts, Joyner For Her Royall Highness the Princess of Wales Bedchamr and Dre Saint James's For a Strong Wainscott Bedstead, 4 high posts, boord'd bottom to h Iron work & a large handsome Molding teastor and Cornishes, Ba and For a Carved headboord £32. o. o a Sett of large Curtain Rodds For a long Staff wth a Hook & Ferrili to draw the Curtains wth £0. 15. o and For 2 handsome large moulding window Cornishes & fixing them up with Iron work £4. 10. o For 6 square Stool pollished £13. 10. p f o For 2 Arm Chair fframes Suitable £5. 10. o For a handsome Walnuttree fire Screen £2. 15. o For 2 Sash fframes to be covered wth Silk £0. 10. o For 2 large fine Cane Sashes wth fine Wallnuttree ff For 3 large molding windo Cornishes and fixing For 8 Square Stool fframes made of the best Wallnuttr pollished £18. o. o For 2 Arm Chair fframes Suitable £5. 10. o For a large Couch of Wallnuttree finely carved £5. o. o For a Dressing Chair of Wallnuttree, all molding work and finely pol For a handsome Wallnuttree fire Screen £2. 15. o For 3 Sash fframes to be covered wth Silk £0. 15. o For 3 large fine Cane Sashes wth fine Wallnuttree fframes Cont 51 f (RA GEO/MAIN/81 13 ir) N:ii William Weeks, Laceman For a Crimson Damask Bedd Compleate, Hangings, windo Curtains, Stools for her Royall Highness the Princess of Wales Beddchamber at S For 197 yards of broad Crimson in grain Silk arras Lace at 3 For 484 yards of Narrow Ditto at 2s 6 d £60. 10 This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE 183 For 79 yards of Naileing Ditto at i$d £4. 18. 9 For 24 Dozen of Breed Ditton at 6 s / Dozen £7. 4. o For 86 Yards of Bobin Line Ditto wtt 42 Oun at 2 s 9 d / oun £5. 15. 6 For a peice and 17 yards of Laceing Dto for Bells at 23 s / peice £1. 13. 10 ^ For 14 large tassells wth Lead Suitable at 10s each £7. o. o (RA GEO/MAIN/8ii33r) For The Yellow Damask Hangings, window Curtains, Chairs, Stools and a Couch for Ditto's Dressing Room there For 37 Yards Vi of broad Yellow silk arras lace at 2s 9 d £5. 3. 1 Vi For 328 yards of narrow Ditto at 2 s 3 d £36. 18. o For 79 yards Vi of Naileing Ditto at 12 d £3. 19. 6 For 9 Doz of Breed Ditto at 5s / Doz £2. 5. o For 99 yards of Bobin Line Ditto weight 51 ou Vi a For 10 yards of silk Lyor Ditto for a Branch wth 23 O For 23 yards of Laceing Ditto £0. 12. 1 Vi For 15 large tassells wth Lead Suitable at 8s each £6. o. o (RA GEO/MAIN/81133V) N:i2 Charles Matthews , Laceman For a ffolding Table, writing Desk and Umber table for her Roy all Highness th Princess of Wales And a Writing Table for his Maties Closet at Saint James's For 28 yards of narrow gold arras Lace Troy weight 8 Ounces 9 pwtts at 11s / Oun £4. 13. o (RA GEO/MAIN/81134) N:i6 For Gerrit Her Jensen Royall , Cabin Highness For a Chimney Glass for the Anti Chamber £5. o. o For a pair of Glass Chimney Sconces for Ditto £1. 15. o For a New black Table and Stands for Ditto £3. o. o For a Sett of leathers for the Table and Stands £0. 10. o For hanging the Ovali Sconces in Do Room £0. 6. o For a black Table, Stands, and Glass in a black fframe for the Draw For Leathers for the said table and Stands £0. 10. o For a large Glass in a Glass fframe & head for ye Bedchamr £120. o. o For a large Glass Top put over ye said Glass to reach to the Cornish £25. o. o For a large carved Table and Stands gilt richly wth gold to Stand under the said Glass £40. o. o For Leathers to reach ye ground for ye said Table & Stands £1. 10. o For a large Indian Cabinet for Ditto Chamber £30. o. o For a Wallnuttree folding Table lined with Velvet for Ditto Room £3. o. o For 2 large Peer Glass's to reach to the Cornish both in Glass fframes for Ditto Room £55. o. o New gilding th aforesaid Table and Stands that was burnt £3. 10. o For 2 very large Arch'd Peer Glass's in Glass fframes for th For 2 Ovali Indian ffolding Tables to stand under the said Glass For them £16. 12. o For a Six leafe Indian Screen for Do Room £8. o. o This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms 184 THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE For a pair of Wallnuttree Stands for Combs for Do £1. 10. o For a very large Chimney Glass in One plate and a Glass fframe for Ditto Room For a Wallnuttree writing Desk lined wth green Velvet £6. o. o For an Umber Table lined wth Ditto for Ditto Room £4. o. o For a (RA Leather N:ij Gerrit the Prince For for Ditto Table £0. 10. o GEO/MAIN/8ii37r) Jensen and mending , Cabinet Princess's the Maker Appartment Woodwork of For Making a leather cover for a writeing Desk for Ditto £0. 10. o a the c (RA GEO/MAIN/81138V) N:24 Thomas Phill & Jerem: Fletcher , Upholsterers For Her Royall Highness there [St James'es Palace] For Buckram to line the Outside and inside Vallance and Bases and Linnen for the Head Cloth of the Crimson Damask Bedd £2. 4. o (RA GEO/MAIN/81145V) [the lengthy Account - for the Princess of Wales's Bedchamber detail. Only the most significant and/or costly (>£10) entries are t For Embroidering the Lace upon the Outside & inside Vallance an headcloth and Counterpoint £15. o. o For covering and laceing the woodwork and makin trimed wth Crimson in grain Silk arras Lace ye Val wth Taffata £20. o. o [..J For Linnen to line 9 large pees of Crim: Damask Hangings £7. 10. o For Making the said Hangings lined and trimed wth Crimson silk arras Lace £6. 15. [...] (RA GEO/MAIN/8ii46r) For a fine persian Carpet for the side of the Bedd £4. 15. o For Ditto's Dressing Room there M For Covering and laceing 3 large windo Cornishes, making 3 pair of Yellow Damask windo Curtains & Vallance trimed wth silk lace and the Vallance lined wth Taffata £3. 18. o For Linnen to line 11 pees of Yellow Damask hangings £8. 5. o For Making the said Hangings being lined and trimed wth Yellow silk Lace £ [...] [upholstering 2 armchairs, 8 stools, couch & dressing chair] For Making the Damask covers for the said Chairs and Stools £2. 18. o [...] For Making false cases of Yellow Taffata for the said Chairs, Stools, Squab, pillows and windo Cushion s £4. 5. o (RA GEO/MAIN/81146V) N:ą.6 David Bosanquett, Merchant In Part for f furniture for her Roy 11 Highness the Prin Saint James's For 157 yds of Crimson genoa Damask at 23 s £180. 11. o This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE 185 For 21 yards of Crimson Italian taffata in part for false cases for the Chairs and Stools in ye Drawing Room at us £11. 11. o (RA GEO/MAIN/81159V) N:ą8 Richard Roberts, Joyner For Her Royall Highness the Princess of Wales Presence Ch For a very large riseing State fframe with a large mouldin Screws to fix it up £6. 5. o For 2 Elbow Chair fframes For 8 Square Stool fframes Suitable £18. o. o For 3 large moulding window Cornishes £4. 10. o of w For Ditto's Privy Chamr there For 2 Arm Chair fframes of Wallnuttree finely carved a For 6 Square Stool fframes Suitable £13. 10. o For 2 large moulding window Cornishes £3. o. o For Ditto's Drawing Room there For 2 Arm Chair fframes of Wallnuttree finely carved For 6 Square Stool fframes Suitable £13. 10. o For 2 large moulding window Cornishes £3. o. o (RA GEO/MAIN/81161V) N.*52 Richd: Chamberlayne & Com-pa:, Mercers In Part for false cases for the Chairs and Stools in the Princess's D at Saint James's For 21 Yds of Crimson Italian Taffata at 11s £11.11.0 (RA GEO/MAIN/8iiÓ3r) N.'53 John Johnson & Compa:, Mercers For a Canopy of State, Hangings, window Curtains, Chai Roy all Highness the Princess of Wales, Presence Chamr, Drawing Room at Saint James's For 439 yds Vi of rich Crimson Damask at 23s £ 505 . 8. 6 For 24 yards of Crimson Taffata to line State and window Vallance at N:6o William Weeks, Laceman For Her Royall Highness ye Princess of Wales Dressing Room at Saint James's For 13 yds of small yellow silk Bobin line £0. 6. 6 For a Bell for 7 yards of large Ditto for a parrots cage weight 4 ounce at M 2s 3d / oun £0. 10. 1 Vi For a Canopy of State, Hangings window Curtains, Chairs & Stools for her Roy all Highness the Princess of Wales Presence Chamr, Privy Chamber and Drawing Room there For 251 yards of very broad Crimson in grain silk arras Lace at 3s 3 d £40. 1 For 558 yds Vi of narrower Ditto at 2s 6 d £69. 16. 3 For 189 yards Vi of Naileing Ditto at is 3 d £11. 16. 10 For 26 Doz & 7yds of Breed Ditto at 6s / Doz £7. 19. 6 For 112 yards of Ditto Silk bobin Line weight 30 Oun Vi at 2s 9 d For 7 large Ditto pear mould tassells with Lead Knotted and Tufted at 1 For 4 Ditto's for a Cushion at 8s each £1. 12. o (RA GEO/MAIN/81165V) This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms l86 THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE N:6ą. Thomas Phill & Jerem: Fletcher, Upholsterers [a lengthy account, for various locations. Significant entries transcribed here] For Her Roy all Highness the - Princess of Wales Presence Chamber at Saint James's [upholstery for the curtains etc; lining 8 pes of crimson damask hangings; upholstering 2 armchairs & 8 stools in crimson damask trimmed with crimson silk lace, 53 yds of Crimson in grain parragón at 3 s 6 d £9. 5. 6 to make the false cases] [...i For Embroidering the lace upon the Canopy making it up & triming it wth Crim: Silk arras lace & the Vallance lined wth Crimson taffata £28. o. o [...] For a fine Turkey work Carpet to lay under the Canopy £11. 10. o For Ditto Privy Chamber there [making 2 pairs of curtains, covering the cornices, lining the vallances, making 7 pieces of crimson damask hangings; upholstering 2 armchairs, 6 square stools in crimson damask with crimson silk lace + 37 yards of Crimson in grain parragón at 3s 6 d £6. 9. 6 to make the false cases] (RA GEO/MAIN/8ii72r) For Ditto's Drawing Room there [making 2 Very large' pair of Crimson Damask curtains trimmed with crimson lace & lined with crimson taffata, 8 pees of Crimson damask hangings, upholstering 2 armchairs & 6 square stools in crimson damask trimmed w crimson silk lace & making false cases in crimson taffata] (RA GEO/MAIN/81172V) N:66 John Gumley & James Moore , Cabinet Makers For Her Royall Highness the Princess of Wales For a fine large Wallnuttree Desk and Bookcase on Brass wheels £25. o. o (RA GEO/MAIN/8ii75r) The Countess of Kielmansegg's apartment N:2 David Bosanquett, Merchant To Line Bedd Vallance for the Countess's of Killmansack and Buquenbourg For 17 Yards of Crimson taffata at 11s £9. 7. o (RA GEO/MAIN/8ii27r) N;5 Rich: Chamberlayne & Comp:a, Mercers For a Bedd Compleat, Hangings, windo Curtains, and to cover a Couch, Chairs, Stools, &ca for ye Countess of Killmansack's Appartmt at St James's For 502 yds Vi of Crimson Damask at 20s £502. 10. o (RA GEO/MAIN/8ii29r) N.'9 Richard Roberts, Joyner For The Countess of Killmansacks Appartment at St James's For a Bedstead all Oak, the bottom to hang low wth Iron work, a molding t Cornishes & Base moldings, a carved head boord, and Setting it up £20. o. o For 9 Molding windo Cornishes and fixing them up with Iron work £13. 10. o For 8 windo lathes & fixing them up wth Iron work £1. 12. o This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE 187 For 12 large Dutch Chairs ¿9- °- 0 For 2 For For 8 Elbow 18 Chairs large Elbow Ditto £2. 5. Wallnuttree Chairs Suitable £22. o Matted o. o For a large Couch of Wallnuttree finely carved £5. o. o For a Dressing Chair of Wallnuttree all Molding Work and finely pollish For 2 Square Stools Ditto £4- o. o For 12 Cane Chairs made of the best Wallnuttre For a Table Bedstead for the Porter £2. o. o (RA GEO/MAIN/81130V) N:ii William Weeks , Laceman For a Crimson Damask Bedd Compleat, Hanging Chairs, Stools &c for the Countess of Killmansac For 172 Yards of broad Crimson silk Lace figu For 1101 yards of narrow Ditto at 2 s 2 d £119. 5. 6 For 48 yards of Naileing Ditto at 14 d £2. 16. o For 6 Dozen of Breed Ditto at 6s / Doz £1. 16. o For 9 large Do tassells with Lead at 10s each £4. 10. o For a very large Ditto for a Bell £0. 11. o For 81 yds of Do silk Line wtt 37 oun: at 2s qd £5. 1. 9 (RA GEO/MAIN/8ii33r) For The Pearle Coulour Camblet ffurniture in Ditto's Appartmt there For 45 yards of broad pearle colour Lace covered with Silk at 18 d For 637 yards of narrow Ditto at 12 d £31. 17. o For 108 yards of Ditto bobin line all silk wtt 50 oun % at 2 For 12 large Do tassells wth Lead at 8s each £4. 16. o (RA GEO/MAIN/8ii33r) For The Scarlet Camblett ffurniture in Ditto's Appartment there For 12 yards of broad Scarlet in grain Lace covered wth Silk at For 72 yds % of narrow Ditto at 16 d / yard £4. 17. o For 27 yds % of Do silk line wtt 11 oun Vi at 3s 3 d / ou £1. 17. 4V2 For 3 large tassells wth Lead Suitable at 12s each £1. 16. o (RA GEO/MAIN/8ii33r) N:iy Gerrit Jensen, Cabinet Maker For The Countess of Killmansacks Lodgings at Saint James's For a Wallnuttree square ffolding Table £2. o. For a Wallnuttree Ovali ffolding Card Table £3. o. For a Carved Table gilt with gold and a Leather £14. 10. For a large Indian Japan'd Table and a Leather £5. 10. o o o o For an Umber Table and a Leather £3. 10. o For 2 pair of carved gilt Arms £8. o. o For a four Leafe Indian Screen £2. 5. o For a three Leafe Indian Screen £2. o. o For 2 Indian Screens wth 2 leafes each £3. 10. o For a pair of Black Stands for Candlesticks £0. 12. o For a pair of Chimney Sconces £1. 10. o For Making a Chimney Glass in a carved gilt frame £3. 10. o This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms l88 THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE For 4 fire Screens on One Pillar £4. o. o For a large Arch'd Looking Glass in a glass molding ffr about (RA N:24 For the fframe £45. o. o GEO/MAIN/81138) Thomas The Phill & Countess Jerem: of Fletcher , Killmansack's U L For linnen to line the Head Cloth of a Crimson Damask Bedd & Buckram to line the double For a Vallance pollished & Bases Compass £1. 18. rodd o with Jo For Embroidering all the Lace upon the Bedd £11. 10. o For covering and Laceing all the Woodwork and Making up all the (RA GEO/MAIN/8ii44r) [the account continues for 3 pages, consisting mostly of small amounts such 'Sewing Silk, pollished Rings and fferril Ribbon ... £1. 11. o'. Only the signif and /or costly (>£10) entries are transcribed here] [...] For a large Down Bedd and Bolster and two pillows all in fine ffustian Cases £18. o. o For Making up 9 pair of Crimson Damask window Curtains, Vallance, and covering the Cornishes all trimed wth Crimson Silk Lace £12. 3. o (RA GEO/MAIN/81144V) [•■■i For 158 yards of Crimson in grain parragón used abt the 8 Arm'd Chairs, Dressing Chair, Stools and Couch and for false cases for them at 3s 6 d £27. 13. o [...] For altering the Crimson Damask ffurniture, making it fitt & puting it up in another Appartmt and Nailes used £7. 15. [...] For 346 yards of pearle colour fine broad double Camblet for 11 pair of windo Curtains, Hangings and quilted Back and Seats at 3s 9 d / yard £64. 17. 6 [...] (RA GEO/MAIN/8ii45r) For Altering the Pearle colour Camblet ffurniture making it fitt for another Appartmt & for Nailes & puting up £4. 15. o For a Suit of rich gilt leather Hangings Containing 95 For 60 yds of gold Welting to goe round ye Hangings £2. 8. o [...] For a large 6 leafe Screen cover'd wth gilt leather Suitable to the said Hangings £13. 10. o [...] For 48 yards of Scarlet in grain fine broad double Camblet at 5s 6 d / yard £13. 4. o (RA GEO/MAIN/81145V) N.*47 Richard Roberts, Joyner For The Countess of Killmansacks Lodgings at St James's For an Easie Chair fframe the Back to take off with Iron work £4. o. o For Woodwork and Drumm Lines for 8 Umbrella's & fixing them up wth Iron Work (RA £12. o. o GEO/MAIN This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE 189 N:63 Thomas Phill & Jerem: Fletcher , Upholsterers [a lengthy account, for various locations. Significant entries transcribed here] [for upholstering an Easie Chair, back, seat & bottom of cushion covered in crimson parragón; & with a false case in crimson parragón] For covering the said Chair and Cushion with Crimson Damask laceing them and Sewing Silk and tacks used £0. 15. o (RA GEO / MAIN /811 7or ) The Countess of Schaumburg-Lippe's (known Bückeburg) apartment N:z David Bosanquett, Merchant To Line Bedd Vallance for the Countess's of Killmansa For 17 Yards of Crimson taffata at 11s £9. 7. o (RA GEO/MAIN/8ii27r) N.*5 Rich: Chamberlayne & Comp:a, Mercers For A Bedd Compleat, Hangings, windo Curtains, to cover an E for Backs & Seats for Matted Chairs &ca for ye Countess of Bu Lodgings at St James's For 274 yds of Crimson Damask at 20s £274. o. o (RA GEO/MAIN/81 i2çr) N:io Richard Roberts , Joyner For the Countess of Buquenbourg's Appartmt at St James's For a Bedstead all Oak the bottom to hang low wth Iron work, a mo Teastor, Cornishes & Base moldings, a carved headboord & For 5 molding windo Cornishes and fixing them up with Iron work £7. 10. o For 8 Walnuttree Matted bottom Chairs finely pollished £8. o. o For an Easie Chair fframe Wallnuttree finely carved & pollished £4 For 2 large Wallnuttree Settee's finely carved and pollished £15. o. o For 2 Wallnuttree Back Chair fframes £4. 10. o For a large Couch of Wallnuttree finely carved £5. o. o For a Dressing Chair Do all molding work and finely pollished £3. 10. o For 3 large fine Cane Sashes wth fine Wallnuttree frames Cont 34 ffot at 4s / (RA foot £6. 16. o GEO/MAIN/81131 N:ii William For Furniture For 147 Weeks, yards for Va of For 583 yards Va of narrow Ditto at 2s id £63. 3. 8V2 For 71 yards Vi of Naileing Ditto at 14 d £4. 3. 5 For 15 Doz 1 yard of Breed Ditto at 6s / Doz £4. 10. 6 For 44 yds of bobin Line Do wtt 18 oun % at 2 s 9 d / oun £2. 11. 6% For 4 large tassells with Lead Suitable at 10s each £2. o. o For 71 yards V2 of broad Scarlet in grain Lace covered wth Silk at 2s £7. 3. o For 612 yards Vi of narrow Ditto at 16 d £40. 16. 8 For 96 yds of bobin Line Do wth 49 ou Va at 3s 3 d £8. o. 0% For 8 large tassells wth Lead Suitable at 12s each £4. 16. o (RA GEO/MAIN/81133V) This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Lac ye Co br IÇO THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE N;i3 William Weeks , Lucernari For The Yellow Mohair furniture for ye Countess of Buquenbourg's Lodgings at St James's For 61 yards lA of broad Yellow silk figured Lace shott with woosted at 18 d / yard £4. 11. 10V2 For 302 yards of narrow Ditto at 12 d / yard £15. 2. o For 30 yards of Naileing Ditto at 10 d / yd £1. 5. o For 6 Dozen of Breed Ditto at 5s / Doz £1. 10. o For 36 yds of bobin Line Do wtt 14 Oun at 2 s 3 d / Oun £1. 4. o For 3 large tassells wth Lead Suitable at 10s 6 d each £1. 11. 6 (RA GEO/MAIN/81135) N:i6 Gerrit Jensen , Cabinet Maker For The Countess of Buquenbourg's Lodgings at Saint James's For a Wallnuttree Chest of Drawers £4. o. o For a Wallnuttree Dressing Table and Leather Covers £3. 10. o For a pair of Wallnuttree Stands for Combs £1. 10. o For a large Arch'd Looking Glass Table & Stands Wallnuttree £16. o. o For 2 pair of large Chimney Sconces £3. 10. o (RA GEO/MAIN/81136V) N:iy Gerrit Jensen , Cabinet Maker For The Countess of Buquenbourg's Lodgings at St James's For a very large Wallnuttree Chest of Drawers for Linnen £10. 10. o For a pair of Chimney Sconces for the Closett £1. 10. o For a Wallnuttree ffolding table lined wth plush £2. 10. o For a pair of Eight square Stands for Combs £1. 15. o (RA GEO/MAIN/81137V) N;25 Thomas Phill & Jerem: Fletcher , Upholsterers For The Countess of Buquenbourg's Lodgings at Saint James's [a lengthy (2V4 pages) upholstery account. Only the more significant and /or costly (>£10) entries are transcribed here] [...] For Embroidering the Lace upon the Bedd £11. 10. o For covering and laceing all the Woodwork and for making up all the Compleate and Counterpoint of Crimson Damask £17. 10. o (RA GEO / MAIN /81147^ For a large Down Bedd, Bolster and pillows in fine ffustian cases £18. o. o [..J For 56 yards of Crimson in grain parragón to line the windo and Door Vallance and for false Cases for the said Chairs at 3 s 6 d £9. 16. o For making false cases of Ditto parragón for the said Easie Chair, Cushion Back (RA Chairs £2. 8. 6 GEO/MAIN/811 [...] For 9 yds of green padua Serge for the Backs & Seats of the said Settees & bottoms of the Cushions at 3 s / yard £1. 7. o [..J For 142 yards of Aurora colour Mohair for a Couch Squab, pillows, 2 Back Chairs, One Dressing Chair, hangings, windo and Door Curtains and for Curtains to draw before Books at 7s 9 d £55. o. 6 This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE I9I [...] For making a pair of Aurora Colour Mohair window Curtains and Vallance, 2 pair of Door Curtains Ditto and 3 large Curtains and Vallance to put before Books all trimed wth broad and narrow silk Lace £6. 12. o Ul (RA GEO/MAIN/8ii48r) For 36 yards of green silk lace for 2 Orange coir taffata window 6 d / yard M (RA GEO/MAIN/81148V) £0. 18. o Melusine von der Schulenburg's apartment N.*5 Rich : Chamberlayne & Comp:a, Mercers For a Bedd Compleat, window Curtains, Cushions for the windows and to Cover Chairs and Stools, &c for Madam Schulembourg's Lodgings there For 241 yards of half Ell wide Crim: Morella Mohair at 13s £156. 13. o For 205 yards V4 of half yard wide ditto at 11s £112. 17. 9 For 49 yds of Crimson Italian taffata to line the Bedd Curtains & windo Vallance at 11s (RA N:io For For / yd £26. 19. o GEO/MAIN/8ii29r) Richard Roberts , Joyner Madam Melusine de Schul a Handsome molding teast Wainscott Bedstead & a fine Horse Cloth bottom and Setting it up £20. o. o For 2 large window Cornishes Suitable to the Bedd & fixing them up with Iron work For a £3. o. Molding o Teas Bedstead, a fine Sacking bottom and Setting it up £16. o. o For 6 window Cornishes Suitable to the Bed & fixing them up with Iron work For 12 Back Chair fframes of the best Wallnuttree finely carved and pollished For 2 Arm Chair fframes Suitable £5. 10. o For 3 fine Cane Sashes wth Wallnuttree fframes Cont (RA GEO/MAIN/81 i32r) N;i3 William Weeks , Laceman For ffurniture for Madam Melosine de Schulembourg's Lodgin For 140 yards Vi of Crimson in grain broad Silk figured Lac For 385 yards Vi of narrow Ditto at 2 s 2 d £41. 15. 3 For 72 yards Vi of Naileing Ditto at 14ā £4. 4. 7 For 12 Dozen of Breed Ditto at 6 s / Doz £3. 12. o For 80 yds of bobin Line Do wtt 32 Oun at 2s 9 d / Oun £4. 8. o For 8 large Ditto tassells wth lead at 10s each £4. o. o For 113 yds Vi of broad Crim: silk Lace shot wth woosted at 20 For 742 yards Vi of narrow Ditto at 14 d £43. 6. 3 For 73 yards of Ditto Naileing at 10 d £3. o. 10 For 18 Doz of Ditto Silk Breed at 6s / Doz £5. 8. o For 20 yards of Ditto Silk Line for Bells wtt 6 Oun Vi at 2s 9 d / This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms 192 THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE For 2 pear mold tassells Suitable at ys 6 d each £0. 15. o (RA GEO/MAIN/81134V) N:i8 John Gumley & James Moore, Cabinet Maker For Madam Melosine de Schulembourg's Lodgings at Saint James's For a large Wallnuttree hanging Glass For a black Japan'd Beaufett For a Wallnuttree Dressing Table For a Wallnuttree Card Table For a fine hanging Glass in a £13. 10. o £5. o. o £1. 15. o £2. 5. o carved and Gil For One Ditto lesser for the little Room £20. o. o For a Walnuttree Table £2. o. o For One pair of large Wallnuttree Stands £1. 15. o For One pair of large Wallnuttree Brockets £0. 6. o For a Hanging Glass in a molding Glass fframe £14. o. o For One pair of Sconces for the Bedchamber £1. 10. o For One pair of Ditto's for Do £1. 6. o For a pair of Wallnuttree Stands £1. 15. o (RA GEO/MAIN / 81 139O N:27 Thomas Phill & Jerem: Fletcher , Upholsterers For Madam Melosine de Schulemberg's Lodgings at Sain [a 3V2 page account - selected transcriptions below] [...] For covering and laceing all the Woodwork & making up the Bed Compleate with a Counterpoint all of Crimson Damask and trimed with Silk Lace £17. 10. o [•••] For 37 yards of Crimson in grain Shalloon for Case Curtain for the said Bedd at 4s £7. 8. o [•■■] For a large fine Carpet to lay under the said Bedd £11. o. o [...] For 39 yds of Crimson in grain Shalloon for ye Back of the said Chairs and false Cases for them at 4s £7. 16. o (RA GEO/MAIN/81 153O For 72 yards of Crimson padua window Seats and for false cases for them at 3s £10. 16. o [...] For a gilt leather Screen £9. o. o [..J (RA GEO/MAIN/81 154O [...] For 60 yards of broad fine Striped Camblet for a Bedd at 2 s 6 d / yard £7. 10. o [...] (RA GEO/MAIN/81 154V) N:ó4 Thomas Phill & Jerem: Fletcher , Upholsterers [a lengthy account, for various locations. Significant entries transcribed here] For Madam Schulembourg at Saint James's This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Serge THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE I93 For Altering the Crimson Damask Bedd, peicing out ye Bedding longer with an addicion of Down & Demity and puting it up again £2. 15. o (RA GEO / MAIN / 8 1 1 73 r ) N:y8 Ernst August Samuel Lockmann Craves Allowance for ffurniture by him provided & Hired by his Maties Command for Madam Schulembourgs Lodgings Near and in Saint James's house For 186 yards % of Crimson genoa Damask at 20s £186. 15. o For 53 yards of Ditto at 18s £48. 3. o For 2 pair of Glass Sconces and an Indian Screen £4. 19. 6 For a Bedstead wth 4 posts, Sacking bottom, laths, Rodds & headboord, a Sett Yellow printed Stuff Curtains, Vallance, Bases head & Teastor Cloths, a large ffeather Bedd & Bolster, a large Callico Quilt, three Blankets, One large Deal Table & 2 small ones with Drawers, One large Wainscott Table, 3 coloured Chamber Tables, 2 large Wainscott Dressing Tables, One sideboord Table, 8 f Cane Chairs and three pair of Candlesticks wth Boxes and Snuffers £20. 16. 6 For 4 Caned Chairs, One Wallnuttree table, One Chimney Glass One pr of Andirons One pair of brass tongs and Shovell, One pair of Bellows and One figured Iron Back for the Bedchamber £13. 14. 3 For 8 Caned Chairs, One Wallnuttree table, a looking Glass one pai a pair of brass Tongs and Shovell, One pair of bellows and one figu for the Drawing Room £10. 1. 3 For 8 Caned Chairs, a Wallnuttree table, a Lo Stove Grate, a pair of Tongs, Shovell & Poker, and 2 Wainscott tables for the Dineing Room £12. 7. 3 For 8 Caned Chairs, a Wallnuttree table, a Stove Grate, a pair of Tongs, Sho & poker, One pr of Bellows & a brass f fender for the ground f floor For 6 black Matted Chairs, 2 Chamr tables, a Stove Grate one pr of Tongs, Shovell & poker, a pair of bellows & an Iron fender for the first Guard For 6 black Matted Chairs, a Table, a Stove Grate, a pair of Tongs, Shovell poker and an Iron Fender for the second Guard Chamber £2. 1. o For 2 half headed Bedsteads ffeather Beds, Bolsters, Ruggs & Blankts for Servants For a use Small £12. half 10. o headed B Blankets and a Quilt for the porter £4. 17. o For One half headed Bedstead a feather Bedd, Bolster, a Rugg, t and two black Matted Chairs £6. 9. 6 For Nailes & Work puting up Tapestry hangings &c 6 Blankets, 2 Ruggs, 66 yds of Bullrush Matt, makin Leather, 8 pair of flaxen Sheets, a doz of Rings & Ri & puting them up, a Bedd Matt, a large 6 Square lant 3 Wainscott tables, two large Close Stools & pans, p times, pd theSmith for fixing the Lamp & Lanthorn Chairs, 30 brass Screws and Changing 8 Caned Chairs £28. 10. 6 For the Hire of three peices of fine Tapestry hangings, three Crimson Mantua Silk windo Curtains and Vallance, 4 pees of Imagery Tapestry hangings, 4 other pees with Horses, 2 pair of China windo Curtains, four blue silk strip't windo Curtains and the Picture of a Boy £18. 12. 1 This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms 194 the furniture and furnishing of st james's palace For the Hire of one persian Carpet, three pair of Blankets, one Callico Quilt, One coverlet and feather Bolster, a Wallnuttree table with three drawers, 2 black Matted Chairs, four square passage Lamps, a Stove Grate, two pair of Tongs, Shovell and Poker, a pair of Bellowes, a Stove Grate a ffender four figured Iron Backs, four pair of Bellowes, and 12 hold fasts, four pair of Andirons, four pair of Tongs, and Shovells, A pair of Tongs, Shovell and poker, A Wainscott Close Stool & pan & 2 pr of Bed Sheets £14. o. o Montagu [signed] 10th Novemr 10th [sic] 1715 ¿393- °- 10 (RA GEO/MAIN/81177V) Young Princesses N:2 David Bosanquett, Merchant To Cover three stools for ye Young Princess's and f Bedchamr & a Room undr the Princes Lodgings the For 38 Yards of Yellow taffata at 10 s £19. o. o For 30 Yards of Aurora Ditto at 10s £15. o. o (RA GEO/MAIN/8ii27r) N:io Richard Roberts , Joyner For the Young Princess's Lodgings there For Three Wallnuttree Square Stools £1. 10. o (RA GEO/MAIN/81131V) N:i6 Gerrit Jensen , Cabinet Maker For the Young Princess's Appartment at St James's For a pair of Glass Chimney Sconces for the Anti-Chamber £1. 10. o For fixing a Chimney Glass in Ditto Room £0. 5. o For a pair of Chimney Sconce's for the blue Closet £1. 5. o For a Wallnuttree writing Desk upon a Chest of Drawers for Ditto Close For a large Arched Wallnuttree Glass Table and Stands for the Bedchambe For leathers for the said Table and Stands £0. 10. o For a pair of Ovali engraved Sconce's for ye Waiting Room £2. 10. o (RA GEO/MAIN/81137V) N:iy Gerrit Jensen, Cabinet Maker For The Young Princess's Appartmt at St James's For a 4 Leafe Indian Screen £6. o. o For a two leafe Ditto for the Dineing Room £1. 15. o For a fire Screen in a Spring fframe £1. 10. o (RA GEO/MAIN/81138V) N:25 Thomas Phill & Jere: Fletcher , Upholsterers For The Young Princess's For 42 yards of yellow silk lace for 2 pair of yellow Taffata wind 6 d / yard £1. 1. o For 72 yards of silk line to draw up ye said Curtains at 6 d £1. 16. o For Oe's plummets, and hold fasts for the said windo Curtains & Buckram to line (RA the Vallance £1. 8. o GEO/MAIN/8ii49r) This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE I95 N:25 Thomas Phill & Jerem: Fletcher, Upholsterers For The Young Princess's Appartmt at St James's [sundry making & upholstery] [. . .] For 40 yds of broad green double Camblet at 3s 6 d / yard £7. 10. o [...] For Making 2 pair of green Camblet windo Curtains and Vallance trimed with Lace £2. o. o [...] (RA GEO/MAIN/81149V) For 52 yards of Yellow Serge for 4 Quilts for windows at 3 s / yard £7. 16. o [...] For 31 yds of Crimson in grain Serge at 4s / yard £6. 4. o [...] (RA GEO/MAIN/8ii5or) N:47 Richard Roberts , Joyner For the Young Princess Carolina's Appartmt at St James's For 6 large Elbow Chair fframes of Walnuttree finely carved and Pollished £16. 10. o For 6 Square Stool fframes Suitable £13. 10. o For a lesser square Stool fframe £1. 10. o For a 6 leafe Screen 7 ffoot high £2. 2. o (RA GEO/MAIN/81160V) N.*52 Richd: Chamberlayne & Compa:, Mercers For Windo Curtains, Arm Chairs, Stools, and a Six leafe Sk Princess Carolina's Appartment at St James's For 66 yds of narrow Crimson mohair at 11s £36. 6. o For 29 yds V2 of broad Ditto at 13s £19. 3. 6 (RA GEO/MAIN/8ii63r) N:6o William Weeks , Laceman For Windo Curtains in the Young Princess's Appartmt at St James's For 60 yards of Yellow silk Bobin line weight 28 Ounces V4 at 2s 3d / ounce £3. 3. 6XA (RA GEO/MAIN/81165V) N:63 Thomas Phill & Jerem: Fletcher , Upholsterers [a lengthy account, for various locations. Significant entries transcribed here] For The Young Princess Carolina's Dineing Room at St James's For Bottoming, Backing and Rolling 6 Arm Chairs £1. 16. o [..J For Making the Crimson Mohair covers laceing and fixing them on wth Sewing Silk and tacks used £2. 14. o For Bottoming and Rolling six square Stools £0. 15. o [...] For Making the Crimson Mohair covers laceing and fixing yem on the said Stools with Sewing Silk and tacks used £1. 10. o For 61 yards of Crimson in grain parragón at 3s 6 d £10. 13. 6 For Making false cases of Ditto parragón to the sd Chairs and Stools with Sewing Silk (RA and Claspes used £4. 13. GEO/MAIN/81169V) This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms o 196 THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE N:6ą Thomas Phill & Jerem: Fletcher , Upholsterers [a lengthy account, for various locations. Significant entries transcribed here] For the Three Young Princess's [for upholstering 3 Mohair beds, inc. 113 yds of crimson parragón to line the counterpoints, backs of the vallance & bases of the beds etc] For Making up the ffurniture of three Crimson Mohair Bedds all Compleat laced with Silk Lace £55. o. o [...] For 3 Down Bedds and Bolsters in Demity cases £42. o. o [pillows and blankets, calico quilts, fustian mattresses, holland quilts] (RA GEO/MAIN/8ii73r) N:66 John Gumley & James Moore, Cabinet Makers For the Young Princess Carolina's Appartmt at St James For a Wallnuttree Table and Stands £4. 5. o For a Hanging Glass in a Wallnuttree fframe £5. 10. o For a fine Wallnuttree Chest of Drawers £7. o. o For an ordinary Ditto for the Servants Room £4. 10. o (RA GEO/MAIN/81174V) N:66 John Gumley & James Moore, Cabinet Makers For the Princess's Appartmt there For an For Ovali The Sconce Young £1. o. o Princess Car For a fine Wallnuttree Desk and Bookcase £16. o. o (RA GEO/MAIN/8ii75r) N:<)8 Thos: Phill & Jere: Fletcher, Upholsterers For The Young Princess's - Appartmt at St James [for upholstering 2 armchairs in crimson mohair w for the Back part of One of the Chairs £3.6.0'; yellow armchairs] (RA GEO/MAIN/8ii8ir) [for upholstering 3 square stools & covering in yellow serge; making 2 pair of crimson mohair curtains] (RA GEO/MAIN/81181V) N.*99 John Johnson and Coma:, Mercers For The Young Princess's Appartment at Saint James's For 6 yds of yellow taffata for cases for 2 small Arm Chairs at 10s £3. o. o (RA GEO/MAIN/81181V) N:ioi Rich: Chamberlayne & Coma:, Mercers For The Young Princess's Crim: Mohair Bedchamr at St James's For 60 yards Vi of broad Crimson Mohair for 2 very large pair of windo Curtains and (RA Vallance at 13s £39. GEO/MAIN/81 i82r) 6. 6 N:io2 For William Weeks, Laceman Windo Curtains for the Princess For 12 yds of broad Crim: in gr. Silk Lace shot wth woosted at 18 d £0. 18. o For 70 yds of Binding Ditto £4. 2. 3 This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE I97 For 2 peices of Crimson in grain Silk Laceing £2. 6. o (RA GEO/MAIN/8ii82r) N:io4 Richard Roberts, Joyner For The Young Princess's Appartmt at Saint James's For Three Wallnuttree Square Stool fframes £2. 5. o (RA GEO/MAIN/81182V) Others N:i William Barnsley, Packer For Mr Purcell at St James's For 52 yards of Yellow Serge for windo Curtains and to hang a Room at 3 s / 6 d £9. 2. o (RA GEO/MAIN/81126V) N.*4 John Johnson & Co, Mercers For The Young Princess's Governess at St James's For 48 Yards of % wide green persian silk to line Curtains &c of a Couch Bedd at 6s/6d £15. 12. o (RA GEO/MAIN/81128V N:io Richard For Ditto's Roberts, [Young Joy Princ For 2 large Wallnuttree square Stools £4. 10. o (RA GEO/MAIN/81131V) N:io Richard Roberts, Joyner For Mrs Opells and Mrs Howards Lodgings at St James's For 16 fine large Wallnuttree Matted Bottom'd Chairs f (RA GEO/MAIN/81131V) N:io Richard Roberts, Joyner For the Young Princess's Governess there For a Couch Bedstead made all of Wainscott to fold together wi Slopelaths, Molding Cornish, carved headboord and Setting it up £6. 10. o (RA GEO/MAIN/81132V) N:ii William Weeks, Laceman For Three Camblet Bedds Compleate, Hangings windo Curtains &c for her Royall Highness's Servants at Saint James's [not transcribed, but blue silk, 'purle' silk, green and yellow silk all noted RA GEO/MAIN/81133V] N:ii William Weeks, Laceman For The large Glass Lanthorne On the New Stair Case at Saint James's For 8 yards of large blue silk Lyor weight 13 ounces at 2s 6 d / oun £1. 12. 6 For 2 very large blue silk Tassells, One with a cover to hide the pully £1. 12. 6 (RA GEO/MAIN/81133V) N:ï5 Gerrit Jensen, Cabinet Maker At Saint James's For Mending, Scrapeing and New Varnishing a Wallnuttree Table and Stands in ye Lodgings late Mrs Hill £0. 12. o For Leathers for the Said Table and Stands £0. 12. o This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms 198 THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE For Mending, Scrapeing, and new Varnishing a Wallnuttree Table & Stands in ye Lodgings late Mrs Atkinson £0. 12. o For Leathers for the Said Table and Stands £0. 12. o For Mending, Scrapeing, and new Varnishing a Walln wth new Leathers to them in the Lodgings late Mrs Coopers £1. 4. o (RA GEO / MAIN / 8 1 1 3 6r ) N:i6 Gerrit Jensen , Cabinet Maker For Mrs Opells Lodgings at Saint James's For a large Looking Glass in a Wallnuttree frame and Table and Stands Suitable For £16. Mrs o. o Lartosa's For an Arched Looking Glass in a Wallnuttree frame £6. o. o For a Table and pair of Stands Suitable £3. o. o For a Wallnuttree Chest of Drawers and pair of Chimney Sconces £5. 15. o For Mr Mustopha's Lodgings there For a large Chimney Glass £6. o. o For Mr Purcell's Lodgings there For a pair of Chimney Sconces £1. o. o For a Looking Glass in a Wallnuttree fframe £2. 5. o For Mrs Macers Lodgings there For an Arched Looking Glass in a Wallnuttree frame £6. o. o For a Wallnuttree Chest of Drawers £4. o. o (RA GEO/MAIN/81136V) N:i6 Gerrit Jensen , Cabinet Maker For The Young Princess's Governess Appartmt there For a Wallnuttree Chest of Drawers for the Dressing Room £4. o. o For a Wallnuttree writing Desk for the Closett £3. 10. o For a pair of Chimney Sconces for Ditto £2. o. o (RA GEO/MAIN/81137V) Nģ.ij Gerrit Jensen , Cabinet Maker For Mrs Meers For a pair of Glass Sconces £1. 5. o For Mrs Opells For a black writeing Desk £4. o. o (RA GEO/MAIN/8ii38r) N:iy Gerrit Jensen , Cabinet Maker For The Gentlemen of ye Bedchamrs Room at St For a large Glass in a Wallnuttree fframe For The Grooms of the Bedchamrs Room there For a large Glass in a Wallnuttree frame and a Table and Stands Suitable £15. o. o For The Young Princess's Governess there For a ffire Screen in a fframe for the Red Closett £1. 10. o For a pair of Glass Sconces for Ditto £1. 10. o (RA GEO/MAIN/8ii38r) This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE I99 N:i6 Thomas Phill & Jerem: Fletcher , Upholsterers For Mrs Opells Lodgings at Saint James's [selected entries transcribed] [...] For 126 yds of fine Scarlet in grain broad double Camblet at 5s 6 d £34. 13. o [•••] For Making 4 pair of Scarlet Camblet window Curtains and Vallance laced wth Scarlet Lace £4. [..•] o. o (RA GEO / MAIN / 8 1 1 5or ) For Mrs Howards Lodgings there [selected entries transcribed] [...] For 75 yds of Scarlet in grain fine broad double Camblet at 5s 6 d £20. 12. 6 t...] For Making 4 pair of Scarlet Camblet window Curtains and Vallance trimed with Lace £4. [..J (RA GEO/MAIN/81150V) o. o At Saint James's For 12 day es work for 7 Men to cutt and alter the Mourning in his Maties: the Prince and Princess Appartment, Altering all the cases of the Chairs fforms &c and fixing them on again £21. o. o For Making Welting to goe round all the Hanging and Sewing Silk used £4. 10. o For Nailes used about all the said work £4. 15. o (RA GEO/MAIN/81150V) For The Young Princess's Governess's Appartment at St James's [selected entries transcribed] For a fine Sacking Bottom for a Couch Bedd £0. 11. o For 88 yds of broad Scarlet in grain fine double Camblet at 5s 6 d £24. 4. o For 28 yds of broad green Lace at 12 d / yard £1. 8. o For 138 yds of narrow Ditto at 6 d £3. 9. o [...] (RA GEO/MAIN/81151V) For making up the Scarlet Camblet Couch Bedd lined wth green percian Silk, Counterpt & Squab of the same £5. 7. 6 [..J For Making the said window Curtains & Vallance of Scarlet Camblet trimed wth Lace £1. o. o [...] For Bottoming and Rolling a square Stool Stufft with Curled Hair in Linnen, covered wth Scarlet Camblet, and laced wth green silk Lace £0. 16. o For 2 Square Stools Ditto, covered with blue Camblet laced wth blue Lace and gilt [...] (RA GEO/MAIN/8ii52r) nailes £1. 18. This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms o 200 THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE N:z6 Thomas Phill & Jerem: Fletcher , Upholsterers For Mr Purcell's Room there For Making and puting up the Yellow Serge Hangings of a Room £0.11. o For Nailes and thread used about them £0. 3. 6 For 3 yds Vi of Ditto Serge for Bases at 3s £0. 10. 6 For Making thread, tape and Naileing them on £0. 4. 6 (RA GEO/MAIN/8ii52r) N:i6 Thomas Phill & Jerem: Fletcher , Upholsterers For Mr Mahomets Room at Saint James's For 26 yds Vi of Yellow Serge at 3s / yard £3. 19. 6 For 2 long windo Rodds and Hooks £0. 7. 6 For brass rings, and tape, for 2 pair of windo Curtains and B Vallance £0. 15. o For Making 2 pair of Serge windo Curtains & Vallance £0. 15. o For Sewing Silk, and tacks used and puting them up £0. 3. 6 (RA GEO/MAIN/81152V) N.*45 William Barnsley, Packer For Two window Curtains for Mr Mahomets Lodgings at Saint James's For 6 yards of pearle Colour Serge at 3s 6d £1. 1. o For Two pair of windo Curtains for Mr Mustapha's Lodgings there For 14 yards of light blue Serge at 3 s 6 d £2. 9. o (RA GEO/MAIN/8ii59r) N:ą8 Richard Roberts, Joyner In The Lodgings att Saint James's For Mending 28 Square Stools, 2 long fforms, 2 large Elbow Chairs, a St and ffoot Stool, adding Severall new ffeet, Railes &c, and pollis (RA GEO/MAIN/81161V) N:66 John Gumley & James Moore, Cabinet Makers For the Governess's Lodgings there For mending a Sconce and new heading it £0. 6. o For Count Platon's Lodgings in the Room of Mrs Hills For a Chimney Glass in a white frame £8. o. o For One Ditto lesser £5. (RA GEO/MAIN/8ii75r) 10. This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms o THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE 201 APPENDIX B List of craftsmen and women suppliers to the Great Wa 29 September 1715 (description of their trade follows Arras Workers (see below) Aird, John (Glover) Phill, Thomas (Upholsterer, in partnership with Fletcher) Barnsley, William (Packer) Port, Katharine (Housemaid) Bosanquett, David (Merchant) Petre, Robert (Tailor) Bee, John (Hosier) Pincke, John (Herald Painter) Chamberlayne, Richard (Mercer) Roberts, Richard (Joiner) [see accounts 9, 10, Colthorpe, Anne (Seamstress) 47, 49 and 104] Castle, Edward (Staconer) Reeve, Hamden [Executors of] (Upholsterer) Croft, William (Master of the Children ofDraper) His Robinson, John (Linen Majesty's Chapel) Shute, Benjamin (Linen Draper) Colledge, Edith (£100 for laceSergeant, and John linen (Running Porter to His supplied to William III) Majesty's Great Wardrobe) Desbrossés, Paul (Linen Draper) Sedgwick, Mary (Haberdasher) Dummer, Thomas (Deputy Master of the Great Smith, Jonathan (Sergeant of the Chapel) Wardrobe) Toulouze, Stephen (Embroiderer) Ebrington, John (Storekeeper) Taylors (see below) Fletcher, Jeremiah (Upholsterer - in Vanderbanq, John (Yeoman Arras Worker) partnership with Phill) Van Hüls, William (Clerk of His Majesty's Fox, Francis (Tailor) Robes and Wardrobes) Gumley, John (Cabinet Maker - in Weeks, William (Laceman) partnership with Moore) [see accounts 18 Witham, Nathaniel (Sergeant Skinner) and 66] Graham, Robert (Tailor) Arras Workers. Each was paid £20.4.0 (except Hassell, John (Laceman) where noted below) for the period 1 August Hutchinson, George (paid for maintenance repair work to the offices of the Great Wardrobe in Great Queen Street) Holmes, William (Messenger of His Majesty's Great Wardrobe) Hill, Christopher (Master of His Majesty's Barges) Johnson, John (Mercer) Johnson, William (Coffermaker) Jensen, Gerrit (Cabinet Maker) [see accounts 15, 16 and 17] Lockmann, Ernst August Samuel (not specified, but Cabinet Maker and Upholsterer) [see account 78] Matthew, Charles (Laceman) Moore, James (Cabinet Maker, in partnership with Gumley) [see accounts 18 and 66] M'Karick, Andrew (Tailor) Masham, Lord (n/a) 1714 to 25 March 17151 and £16. 2. o for the period 25 March 1715 to 9 September 17152 'N:29 Vad Tapetiar Operant Magna Garderoba Dni: Regis a primo die Augusti 1714 Usque Vicesimum quintum diem Martii 1715 Inclusive Pro 202 Diebus ad 2s per Diem Johanni Vanderbanq Davidio Demaid Johanni Perry Gilberto Abrahall Johanni Elrington Josepho White Josepho Dry den This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms 202 THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE Johanni Brathwaite Gulielmo Portal Gudfrid Appelt Johanni Hall per 197 Diebus ad 2s per Diem ... Andrew Marchant £19.14* Davis in Loco Do per 5 Diebus ad 2s Richardo Whittaker per 63 diebus ad 2Edvardo s p Diem ... £0. 10. o per diem . . . £6.6.0* Johanni Ashley in Loco Do per 139 diebus ad 2s per Diem ... £13.18 Montagu [signed] 2 June 1715 £282. 16. o' Georgio Bielbeau * = do not appear in the following entry signed by Montagu on 10 November 1715 1 RA GEO 81155 2 RA GEO 81179 This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms THE FURNITURE AND FURNISHING OF ST JAMES'S PALACE 203 APPENDIX C Rooms at St James's Palace mentioned in the Wardr 1 August 1714 - 29 September 1715 King's State Apartment Young Princesses' Lodgings /Apartment Great Drawing Room Antichamber Ballroom Blue Closet Great Council Chamber Bedchamber HM Presence Chamber Waiting Room Dining Room HM Privy Chamber HM Little Bedchamber HM Dressing Room HM Little Drawing Room HM Closet Gentlemen of the Bedchamber's Room Groom of the Bedchamber's Room Young Princess's Governess Apartment Countess of Kielmansegg's Apartment Countess of Bückeburg's Apartment Madam Schulenburg's Apartment The Treasury (?) Room New Staircase Chapel Royal Chapel Closet Vestry, Chapel Royal Lord Masham's lodgings Mr Purcell's lodgings Mr Mahomet's Room The Prince of Wales's Apartment Bedchamber Red Closet Dressing Room Presence Chamber Drawing Room Princess of Wales Apartment Bedchamber Mrs Opell's lodgings Mrs Howard's lodgings Mrs Lartosa's lodgings Mrs Macer (or Meers??) lodgings Servants lodgings Lodgings of late Mrs Hill Lodgings of late Mr Atkinson Lodgings of late Mrs Coopers Dressing Room Antichamber Drawing Room Presence Chamber Privy Chamber This content downloaded from 78.33.29.103 on Sun, 11 Aug 2019 17:54:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms