Wages paid to the Privy Chamber by the Year.

The Bedchamber:                       L  s. d. 
The Lady Cobham, by the year     20  0  0
The Lady Carewe                  33  6  8
Mrs. Blanch Apprye[8]            33  6  8

Gentlewomen of the Privy Chamber: 
Bridget Cave                     33  6  8
The Lady Howard                  33  6  8
The Lady Stafford                33  6  8
The Lady Arundell                33  6  8
The Lady Leighton                33  6  8
Frances Howard                   33  6  8
Dorothy Edmundes                 33  6  8

Chamberers: 
The Lady Bartlett                20  0  0
The Lady Drury                   20  0  0
Mrs. Mary Skydmore               20  0  0
Mrs. Katherine Newton            20  0  0
Mrs. Jane Brucella               20  0  0

Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber: 
Sir Christopher Hatton, Knight   50  0  0
John Ashley, Esq.                33  6  8

  Gentlemen Usher of the Privy Chamber: 
      Sir Drew Drury, Knight 30 0 0

Grooms of the Privy Chamber: 
Thomas Ashley 20 0 0
Henry Sackford 20 0 0
John Baptiste 20 0 0
Thomas Knevett 20 0 0
Edward Carey 20 0 0
Thomas George 20 0 0
William Killigrew 20 0 0
---------
Summa Totalis 673 6 8
=========

The above 673l. 6s. 8d. was the whole sum paid out of the privy purse; but it is to be borne in mind that these persons were allowed diet and lodging in the Court, so that, after all, the payments were not quite as insignificant as they may at first seem.  Whatever also may have been the case with the ladies, it is certain that the gentlemen had other sources of emolument derived from the Crown, such as monopolies, valuable grants of royal domains, leases of customs, &c., which altogether made up an ample income.  Sir Christopher Hatton, for instance, could not have built Holdenby out of his 50l. a year as Gentleman of the Privy Chamber.

ANTIQUARIUS.

    [8] The names are spelt precisely as they stand in the
    document itself.

* * * * *

EXTRACTS FROM PARISH REGISTERS OF EAST PECKHAM, KENT.

Sir,—­In my commonplace book I find the following notes, being extracts from the ancient Registers of East Peckham Church, Kent, which have never (I believe) been published, and which may perhaps be of service to the historian or antiquary.

1637.  This yeare was the Communion-table rayled in by the appointment of Dr. Ryves, Dean of Shorham {42} Deanery, and Chancellor to the most Reverend Father in God, William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, who commanded this uniformity to be general throughout the kingdom.

1638.  This time of lent being to be kept holy by fasting and abstinence from flesh, notwithstanding Sir Roger Twisden, Knt and Baronett and Dame Isabella his wife, being both very sick and weake, in my judgement and opinion [are] to be tolerated for the eating of flesh.

    FRANCISC.  WORRALL, Vicar.