EXPENSES OF A QUEEN
The household expenses of Isabella, "the she-wolf of Prance”—confined at Castle Rising, Norfolk, and at Hertford after Edward 11. had been murdered in Berkeley Castle—furnish a picture of private life six centuries ago. She pays 13/4 for four minstrels who play to her in her Lombard Street house, which costs 25/2 a year to rent; 6/8 to nuns who meet her at Cheshunt and the equivalent of £3OOO to charity. She pays 50/- to tilers, carpenters, and plasterers, and buys bird-cages, with hempseed, for her pet birds. Writing vellum costs 14/and two mules £2B 13/-, and in 1357 she borrowed £2OO 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 40/- for attending her and the Queen of Scotland for a month.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19861, 26 July 1934, Page 12
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142EXPENSES OF A QUEEN Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19861, 26 July 1934, Page 12
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