Independent Sub-departments: Tents, Toyles, Hales and Pavilions 1660-1702

Office-Holders in Modern Britain: Volume 11 (Revised), Court Officers, 1660-1837. Originally published by University of London, London, 2006.

Citation:

'Independent Sub-departments: Tents, Toyles, Hales and Pavilions 1660-1702', in Office-Holders in Modern Britain: Volume 11 (Revised), Court Officers, 1660-1837, ed. R O Bucholz( London, 2006), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/office-holders/vol11/pp156-158 [accessed 26 November 2024].

Tents, Toyles, Hales and Pavilions 1660–1702

The tents and toyles consisted of two masters, a clerk, a clerk comptroller, a yeoman of the tents, two yeomen of the toyles and a groom. In 1660, the comptroller, the yeomen and groom held by patent. (fn. 1) The master of the tents made £30 per annum, the comptroller £12 3s 4d; the clerk £13 7s 4d; the yeomen £10; the groom £9 2s 6d. In the toyles, the master made £66 13s 4d, the yeomen £36 per annum. (fn. 2)

Most of the subordinate officers in the department were abolished in 1685. The masters' positions were abolished in 1702.

Masters 1660–1685; 1689–1702



1660	20 June	Jeffes, T. (joint)
1660	20 June	Jones, T. (joint)
1661	21 June	Bowles, W. (joint)
1661	21 June	Child, R. (joint)
By 1685		Bowles, C. (joint)
By 1685		Spelman, J. (joint)
By 1685		Wright, J. (joint)
1689	1 Nov.	Gorsuch, W.
1699	22 May	Gorsuch, C.

Clerk of the Tents, Pavilions, Masques and Revels 1660–?1685



1660	11 Aug.	Greene, J.

Clerk Comptroller of the Tents, Pavilions, Hales, Playes, Revels and Masques 1660–1685



[1660]	June	Loyd, J.
1674	14 Feb.	Fleetwood, A.
1677	21 May	Francis, T.
1678	8 Mar.	Symes, L.

Yeomen of the Tents 1660–?



1660	25 June	Bowles, R.
1660	30 Nov.	Bowles, F.

Yeomen of the Toyles 1663–1685



1663	6 Nov.	Davyes, T.
1663	6 Nov.	Slater, R.
1667	10 Jan.	Gunn, W.
1673	23 Aug.	Wilcox, P.
1677	24 Mar.	Hoard, T.

Groom of the Tents, Hales and Pavilions 1660–1685



1660	June	Bowles, Sir W.
1673	23 Aug.	Lawrence, C.