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THE NOTE-BOOKS OF RICHARD SYMONDS 223
two French men that went with me paid but three pistols1 a man
for this Journey. Expended by the way lod.; and in enter-
teyning three Captains of Colonel Rookebeyes Regiment at
Beaumond, 2s. To the messengers master at Paris for my
Portmantue, which did weigh 36 Pound (I was allowed 5/.), at
A,d. the /., 1 of. The messenger La liberte' had of me at St.
Dennis, partly for wine, partly for passage, etc., is. $d.
11 January. My lodging at St. Cristofers in La Rue de Roy,
from Thursday night to Satterday afternoone and dyett, 10s."...
Enterd into Pension at the three Mores heads in La Rue St.
Jaque, Tuesday, 15 January3....My being in pension at the Three
Mores, in Rue St. Jaque, three weekes, to the 15 of February,
3/.; Porter, xod.; going up Nostre Dame steeple, 3^.4 and St.
Etienne, id. ; Gave my landladyes servant, 5^. ; the maid, $d.s...
Bootes mending, $d.; Paid my landlady at the Three Mores to
the 2nd. of March, two weekes at a pistol the weeke 1/. 135-. 4d.6;
The Ceremonies of the Church, is. 3d. : Paid my landlady at
Three Mores to the 9th March, 15s. ioa'....wood 10^.; Barbier,
8th March, cutting my hair, 2od. and cleansing my teeth, 40^. he
was not pleased....Paid my pension to the 16th March, one
Weeke, 16s. 8d.; razor, yd. Making cleane my watch, 2id.;
cristall for it, 2id....Paid my landlady one weeks money aforehand
to the 24th March, 16s. lod....Virgils six books of Aeneads in
latine and French, 5^.; paid one moneth hyring my lute to
29th March, 30^....Paid my Landlady at Three Mores, 1st April
to the 6th April, il. 13s. ^d. ...Bootes, setting up, etc., zs____inkhorne,
4d.; gloves mending and washing, 2od....Bleeding, 19th May,
20^....at my lodging in Rue Sept Voyes, five dayes chamber rent,
25^....Sword, blackinge scabbarde, 35. 3d. ; Prayer booke, 6d.;
gloves, mending and washing, 2od. • Looking glasse, i^d.; Paid
my pension to the 19th April, 165. $d. ; Mending my cloth suite,
etc., 4od.... bleeding, 19th May, 2od.; big leeches, 20th May, 54^.
1 i.e. about £i. xis. od. The pistole, a Spanish gold coin, was worth, in
the 17th century, from ids. 6d. to 18s.
2 Here follow numerous items of expenditure for food, wine, books,
clothing, etc.
3 Symonds stayed in Paris for nearly seven months, while Mundy only
remained in the city for one clear day. See pp. 1-24—130.
4 Mundy also "ascended" one of the "two great steeples" of the "great
Church of our Lady." Seep. 130.
5 Here follow numerous trivial items of expenditure.
e Symonds values a pistole at 16s. 81/. See above, note I.
two French men that went with me paid but three pistols1 a man
for this Journey. Expended by the way lod.; and in enter-
teyning three Captains of Colonel Rookebeyes Regiment at
Beaumond, 2s. To the messengers master at Paris for my
Portmantue, which did weigh 36 Pound (I was allowed 5/.), at
A,d. the /., 1 of. The messenger La liberte' had of me at St.
Dennis, partly for wine, partly for passage, etc., is. $d.
11 January. My lodging at St. Cristofers in La Rue de Roy,
from Thursday night to Satterday afternoone and dyett, 10s."...
Enterd into Pension at the three Mores heads in La Rue St.
Jaque, Tuesday, 15 January3....My being in pension at the Three
Mores, in Rue St. Jaque, three weekes, to the 15 of February,
3/.; Porter, xod.; going up Nostre Dame steeple, 3^.4 and St.
Etienne, id. ; Gave my landladyes servant, 5^. ; the maid, $d.s...
Bootes mending, $d.; Paid my landlady at the Three Mores to
the 2nd. of March, two weekes at a pistol the weeke 1/. 135-. 4d.6;
The Ceremonies of the Church, is. 3d. : Paid my landlady at
Three Mores to the 9th March, 15s. ioa'....wood 10^.; Barbier,
8th March, cutting my hair, 2od. and cleansing my teeth, 40^. he
was not pleased....Paid my pension to the 16th March, one
Weeke, 16s. 8d.; razor, yd. Making cleane my watch, 2id.;
cristall for it, 2id....Paid my landlady one weeks money aforehand
to the 24th March, 16s. lod....Virgils six books of Aeneads in
latine and French, 5^.; paid one moneth hyring my lute to
29th March, 30^....Paid my Landlady at Three Mores, 1st April
to the 6th April, il. 13s. ^d. ...Bootes, setting up, etc., zs____inkhorne,
4d.; gloves mending and washing, 2od....Bleeding, 19th May,
20^....at my lodging in Rue Sept Voyes, five dayes chamber rent,
25^....Sword, blackinge scabbarde, 35. 3d. ; Prayer booke, 6d.;
gloves, mending and washing, 2od. • Looking glasse, i^d.; Paid
my pension to the 19th April, 165. $d. ; Mending my cloth suite,
etc., 4od.... bleeding, 19th May, 2od.; big leeches, 20th May, 54^.
1 i.e. about £i. xis. od. The pistole, a Spanish gold coin, was worth, in
the 17th century, from ids. 6d. to 18s.
2 Here follow numerous items of expenditure for food, wine, books,
clothing, etc.
3 Symonds stayed in Paris for nearly seven months, while Mundy only
remained in the city for one clear day. See pp. 1-24—130.
4 Mundy also "ascended" one of the "two great steeples" of the "great
Church of our Lady." Seep. 130.
5 Here follow numerous trivial items of expenditure.
e Symonds values a pistole at 16s. 81/. See above, note I.