EXPENSES OF A QUEEN
The household expenses of Isabella _the she-wolf of-France"—confined at Castle Rising, Norfolk, and at Hertford after Edward II had been murdered in Berkeley^ Castle—furnish a picture of private life six centuries ago, She pays 13s 4d for four minstrels who play to her in her Lombard Street house, w'hieh' costs 25s 2d a year to rent; 6s 8d to nuns who meet her at Cheshunt ai.d the equivalent of £3000 to charity. She pays 50s to tilers, carpenters,' and plasterers, and buys bird-cages, with hempseed, for her pet birds. Writing vellujn costs 14s, and two mules £28 13s, arid in 1357 she borrowed £200 from an earl. Her extravagance on jewellery was immense. At one period she spent £1399, or £26,000 of modern money, on jewellery. A doctor received 40s for attending her and the Queen of Scotland for a month.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 20, 24 July 1934, Page 15
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145EXPENSES OF A QUEEN Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 20, 24 July 1934, Page 15
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