He now set to work in earnest, as we can prove beyond a doubt if we look at his ledgers. Let us glance at an inventory of what he bought at this time, with the expenses totted up in the margin⁠—but these we omit.

• “To fifty pairs of Spanish blankets, ditto curtains of crimson and white taffeta; the valence to them of white satin embroidered with crimson and white silk.⁠ ⁠…”
• “To seventy yellow satin chairs and sixty stools, suitable with their buckram covers to them all.⁠ ⁠…”
• “To sixty-seven walnut-tree tables.⁠ ⁠…”
• “To seventeen dozen boxes containing each dozen five dozen of Venice glasses.⁠ ⁠…”
• “To one hundred and two mats, each thirty yards long.⁠ ⁠…”
• “To ninety-seven cushions of crimson damask laid with silver parchment lace and footstools of cloth of tissue and chairs suitable.⁠ ⁠…”
• “To fifty branches for a dozen lights apiece.⁠ ⁠…”

“To fifty pairs of Spanish blankets, ditto curtains of crimson and white taffeta; the valence to them of white satin embroidered with crimson and white silk.⁠ ⁠…”