Note 179 — II THE ROYAL HOUSEHOLD
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Sir Gilbert Talbot, Master of the Jewel House in 1680, represented (Archaeologia, xxii. 118) that anciently the Master was Treasurer of the Chamber, 'till that branch was taken out and made an office apart; and is now five times more beneficiall than the Jewell-House; all the regulation of expence being apply'd to the remaining parts of the perquisites of the Jewell-House, the fees of the Treasurer of the Chamber and Master of the Ceremonys being left entire'.