Sir John Oglander's Notes and Accounts

Isle of Wight Record Office and Archive: OG/AA/26

p 164 (29 December–25 March)

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li. s. d.
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for salte and the minstrell 0 2 6

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p 165

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li. s. d.
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To Kinges trumpetors 0 2 0

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p 190

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li. s. d.
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for seeinge a stage playe 0 2 0

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p [195] (25 March–24 June)

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li. s. d.
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gaue to the Princes trumpetors 0 10 0

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p [197] (8 July)

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li. s. d.
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To the princes drum 0 3 0

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  • Footnotes
    • stage: a written over another letter
  • Endnote

    The Oglander family was resident at Nunwell House.

    Lumping a payment for salt and a reward to a minstrel into the same entry on p 164 seems an odd linkage, but Oglander's accounts have no order other than the order in which he made the payments, with expenses for foodstuffs, clothing, and entertainments for the children all mixed together.

    Oglander does not state exactly where he saw the play mentioned on p 190, but it certainly took place on the Isle of Wight, as the entry twelve before this one (on the previous page) is a payment to a tailor for clothes brought to Oglander's house at Nunwell, and the entry eight after the payment for the stage play is a payment 'for my horses at nuport.'

  • Document Description

    Record title: Sir John Oglander's Notes and Accounts
    Repository: Isle of Wight Record Office and Archive
    Shelfmark: OG/AA/26
    Repository location: Newport

    Sir John Oglander (1585–1655) was deputy lieutenant of the Isle of Wight and represented the island borough of Yarmouth in parliament. He lived at Nunwell House near Brading and his notebooks contain a great deal of information about the island, particularly its leading citizens and their estates. Unlike the others in this series of Oglander's notebooks, this manuscript includes accounts but few other notes.

    1 March 1620/1–7 January 1623/4; English; paper; 327 leaves; 195mm x 152mm; contemporary ink pagination; first few and last few pages have become detached; no cover, sewn binding. Formerly OG/90/1.

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