Note 531 — Chapter I · THE INQUISITOR-GENERAL AND SUPREME COUNCIL.
Reading edition
Archivo de Simancas, Inquisicion, Leg. 1477, fol. 95, 100. The items of the account are:—
Rs.Mrs.
95 lbs. Genoese sweetmeats @ 10½ Rs. vellon1008
32 Talavera dishes @ 5 cuartos1828
4 Baskets @ 7½ Rs.30
6 Trays @ 212
4 Padlocks for the baskets @ 2½10
32 Glasses @ 9 cuartos3330
6 Venetian glasses for the members of the Council34
2 Talavera plates10
4 Double urinals with their covers @ 3 Rs.12
30 lbs. of ordinary sweetmeats and biscuits for the attendants @ 5 Rs.150
Porters to carry the sweetmeats to the houses of the officials and the utensils to Buen Retiro15
Beverages:—
20 Azumbres (about 10 gallons) of lemonadeRs.Mrs.
10 lbs. of loaf sugar @3 Rs.30
Lemons6
1 oz. of scented lozenges4
20 Azumbres of cinnamon water
15 lbs. of sugar45
½ lb. of cinnamon20
Charcoal to boil it5
1 oz. of scented lozenges4
20 Azumbres of cherry water
15 lbs. of sugar45
18 lbs. of cherries @ 6 cuartos13
1 oz. of scented lozenges4
10 Arrobas (250 lbs.) of snow for all the beverages @ 9 Rs.90
1 “ sent from Retiro to keep the jars from melting9
Rent of 14 garrafas (jars with ice-pails) @ 3½ Rs.49
Cost of one of them broken12
Rent of 3 small ones for the Council3
3 pecks of salt to freeze the beverages @ 22 cuartos1017
2 porters for the snow and cooling-jars10
8 do. to take them to Retiro and return24
Labor of the official who renders the account50
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Ornamenting and furnishing the staging300
20677
Apparently the utensils were a perquisite of the attendants as they seem to be furnished anew on each occasion.