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KING'S COLLEGE CHAPEL, CAMBRIDGE.
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went on at the expense of Henry the Seventh and his executors, till July 29th,
1515, (7th of Henry VIII.), when the case of the chapel was finished. During this
time the expense of the works amounted to £11581. lis. lO^d. of which, in the first
year, from May 28th, 1508, to April 1st, 1509, £1408. 12s. 6^d. was remitted, from
time to time, to Dr. Hatton, provost of the college.
On the 1st day of March, 1509, Henry the Seventh, by indenture between him
and the provost and scholars, gave 5000/. for carrying on the building; and bound
himself and his executors to furnish the college with further sums of money, from
time to time, till the chapel should be completed; the provost and scholars on their
part, covenanting to lay out the money faithfully under the direction of such overseer
as should be appointed by the King, or his executors. On the 8th of February, in
the third year of Henry the Eighth, the executors of Henry the Seventh, by in-
denture between them and the provost and scholars, gave 5000/. more, " To the
intent that they (the provost and scholars), and their successours, by the advise,
oversight, and controllement of the sayde executours or theyr deputyes, and noon
otherwise, shal as hastily as they can or may reasonabyll, without delay, vawte the
churche of the saide colleg after the fourme of a platte there devised and subscribed
with the hand of the said executours ; and cause double deskes to be made in the
qwer of the saide chirch; glasse all the windows in the said chirch w* such images,
story, armys, bages, and other devises as shall be devised by the saide executours;
and also clerly and holy fynyshe, perfourme, and end al the warke that is not yet
done in the saide chirche in all things as wel w*n as without." The said provost
and scholars covenanting and binding themselves and their successors to the said
executors—" That they shal indever themself in that they can that the said werke of
the sayd chirche in al things shal as shortly and spedely, as conveniently may be
doon, be accomplished and fynished w'out any defaut in them to be assigned.
Provided alway that the sayd provost and scolars, nor their successours. be not
charged by the premises farther than the sayde money may extende."
The great stone roof of the chapel, the finials of twenty-one buttresses, the
towers, the stone roofs of the two porches, and sixteen small chapels, (seven of
which are annexed to the body, and nine to the choir), and the battlements of all
the small chapels and porches, were set up, by contract with the master mason, at
the following sums: for the more minute particulars of which the reader is referred
to the different indentures given in the Appendix.
The great stone roof of the chapel, divided into twelve arches, to be built of
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went on at the expense of Henry the Seventh and his executors, till July 29th,
1515, (7th of Henry VIII.), when the case of the chapel was finished. During this
time the expense of the works amounted to £11581. lis. lO^d. of which, in the first
year, from May 28th, 1508, to April 1st, 1509, £1408. 12s. 6^d. was remitted, from
time to time, to Dr. Hatton, provost of the college.
On the 1st day of March, 1509, Henry the Seventh, by indenture between him
and the provost and scholars, gave 5000/. for carrying on the building; and bound
himself and his executors to furnish the college with further sums of money, from
time to time, till the chapel should be completed; the provost and scholars on their
part, covenanting to lay out the money faithfully under the direction of such overseer
as should be appointed by the King, or his executors. On the 8th of February, in
the third year of Henry the Eighth, the executors of Henry the Seventh, by in-
denture between them and the provost and scholars, gave 5000/. more, " To the
intent that they (the provost and scholars), and their successours, by the advise,
oversight, and controllement of the sayde executours or theyr deputyes, and noon
otherwise, shal as hastily as they can or may reasonabyll, without delay, vawte the
churche of the saide colleg after the fourme of a platte there devised and subscribed
with the hand of the said executours ; and cause double deskes to be made in the
qwer of the saide chirch; glasse all the windows in the said chirch w* such images,
story, armys, bages, and other devises as shall be devised by the saide executours;
and also clerly and holy fynyshe, perfourme, and end al the warke that is not yet
done in the saide chirche in all things as wel w*n as without." The said provost
and scholars covenanting and binding themselves and their successors to the said
executors—" That they shal indever themself in that they can that the said werke of
the sayd chirche in al things shal as shortly and spedely, as conveniently may be
doon, be accomplished and fynished w'out any defaut in them to be assigned.
Provided alway that the sayd provost and scolars, nor their successours. be not
charged by the premises farther than the sayde money may extende."
The great stone roof of the chapel, the finials of twenty-one buttresses, the
towers, the stone roofs of the two porches, and sixteen small chapels, (seven of
which are annexed to the body, and nine to the choir), and the battlements of all
the small chapels and porches, were set up, by contract with the master mason, at
the following sums: for the more minute particulars of which the reader is referred
to the different indentures given in the Appendix.
The great stone roof of the chapel, divided into twelve arches, to be built of