Ditch and hedge, for making a, at Greenwich Park near the Lodge, 194.
Dobinson John, 91, 129, 175, 204, 216, 247, 279.
A person attached to the stable, probably a groom.
Dodisworth Walter, 160, 162, 165, 167, 171, 176, 180, 181, 187, 194,
197, 205, 210, 215, 222, 226, 229, 236, 241, 244, 246, 251, 265,
275, 281, 282.
A huntsman.
---- William, his funeral expenses paid, 141.
Does brought, 7, 42, 92, _bis_, 94, 107.
Dogs called "Cut" and "Ball," for finding, 43, 108.
---- brought, 13, 156.
----, paid to a person for making dogs draw water, 67.
This is the second entry relative to dogs being taught to perform
certain tricks, for a dog has been before spoken of "that was a
carrier."
----, collars and muzzles for, 186.
Dog-chain, for a, 94.
----, a race run against a, 220.
Dome man, _i. e._ Dumb man to the, 108, 176.
Domingo, 17, 32, 33, 37, 190, 204, 205, 267, 270.
This individual is thus noticed by Skelton:
----al his trust hanges
In Balthosor, which healed
_Domingo's_ nose, that was wheled:
That Lumberdes nose mean I
That standeth yet awry,
It was not healed alderbest.
It standeth somwhat on the west,
I meane _Domingo Lomelyn_
That was wonte to win
Muche money of the Kyng
At the cardes and haserding.
Balthasor that healed _Domingo's_ _n_ose
From the puskilde pocky pose, &c.
Skelton's Poems, "Why come ye not to Court," Ed. 1736, p. 175.
The above extract presents us with the surname of Domingo, states
that he was a Lombard, and had been under the professional care of
Dr. Balthazar. Most of the entries in which he is mentioned relate
to payments of money that he had won from the king at cards and
dice, and which in less than three years amounted to above 620_l._
As the circumstance is alluded to by Skelton, the accuracy of that
part, at least, of his account of Domingo is established. He was,
like Palmer and others, one of Henry's "diverting vagabonds," and
seems to have accompanied His Majesty wherever he went, for we find
that he was with him at Calais in October, 1532.
Dompue, to one who rode two horses at once, 218.
This word does not occur in any of the usual Glossaries of
Dictionaries. In the absence of any thing positive as to its
meaning, a conjecture may be hazarded, and if erroneous perhaps
forgiven. "Domter un cheval" is to break in a horse. Might not then
a _Dompue_ or _Dompne_, for it is doubtful in which way the word is
spelt, mean a horse breaker, and which would fully agree with the
sense in which it is here used?
Donne Sir Edward, 67.
Dorset Marchioness of, 149.
Probably Margaret, widow of Thomas Grey, Marquess of Dorset, K.G.
who died in 1530.
Doublets for, 3, 11, 23, _bis_, 39, 51, 54, 87, 98, 119, 136, 199,
277, 281, _bis_.
Douglas Master, 163.
Douglas Lady Margaret, 98, 183, 281.
The king's niece. See ANGUS.
"Dove," to the wife of the, 72, 97.
To the woman who kept an inn with the sign of the Dove. Both these
entries are to the same purpose, of money paid for linen cloth for
Anne Boleyn, and which amounted to 23_l._ between September and
December, 1530.
Dover, paid into the king's hand for his offering to our Lady of the
Rock of, 273.
----, 273, _sæpe_.
---- Prior of, 223.
---- Castle, paid for carrying the king's stuff to, 274.
All these entries relate to money expended at Dover, when Henry
landed there on his return from France in November, 1532.
Draper ----, 129.
----, to the, for table cloths, 264.
Dressing" the king's boat and "barge, 7, 11, 96, 155, 181, 281. See
BOAT.
Drinking money, paid the king's watermen for, 174.
Drombeslade, to Christopher and his fellowe, 250.
----, to two, 214.
A Dromslade is explained by Dr. Burney to be a species of
Drum:--"And there they weere set forthe be five in a ray with
standards born a fore them and _drounslats_ playing afore them alle
the way."--Fragment of a Chronicle, temp. Hen. VIII. _Cotton._ MSS.
Vespasianus, A. xxxv.
Droyt John, a minstrell, 28.
Drulardy, a Frenchman, 65.
Dumb man, to a, 108, 176.
Durisme, [Durham,] Bishop, of 46.
Cuthbert Tunstall, who was translated to Durham from London in
March, 1530. He was deprived in 1552, restored in 1553, again
deprived in 1559, and died in November, in the same year, aged
eighty-five.
Durisme, i.e. Durham House, 217.
Dyatter, i.e. dieter of the king's geldings, 29.
Dyngley Doctor, 8, 90.
Dyso John, 122, _bis_.
One of the king's watermen.
Dyrick's wife, 207.
Easter, paid against, 121.
Edgcombe Sir Piers, 153.
Ancestor of the present Earl of Mount Edgcombe. He was made a
Knight of the Bath at the creation of Prince Arthur in 1489, and a
Knight Banneret at Therouenne, and died on the 14th August, 1539.
The entry relating to him is of 7_l._ 14_s._ paid to his servants
for bringing two prisoners from Cornwall to London. A similar
payment was made to him in 1491, "Item, to the servants of Piers
Edgecombe that brought unto us two prisoners, fyve marks." Ellis's
_Original Letters_, 2nd Series, vol. i. p. 173.
Edmond, keeper of Greenwich Park, 60.
----, a footman, 67.
----, 164.
Edward, the gardener, 145.
Elderton Sir Ralph, 106.
---- Humphrey, a falconer, 225.
Eltham, 218, _bis_, 220, _bis_, 221, 223, 224, _sæpe_, 225, 226, 227,
229, 275.
----, for repairs of the king's house at, 229.
---- Park, 220.
----, to the keepers of, 94, 230, 258, 265.
Elton Robert, a waterman, 263, 288.
Elys Henry, a falconer, 8, 23, 87, 98, 119, 136, 286.
---- John, master of the king's mine in Wales, 69. See MINE.
Elys Richard, a falconer, 38, 233.
---- the elder, 39.
----, young, 39.
Embroidery, clothes of, 15.
Embroiderer, to the king's, 103, 124, 128, 280.
Emerald, paid for an, 6.
Emperor, embassy to the, 19. Lord Herbert says, on the "8th
December, 1529, he (the king) writ letters with his own hand to the
bishop of Worcester and Sir Gregory Casilis, then with the Pope, to
tell them that he had sent Sir Thomas Bolen, newly created Earl of
Wiltshire and Ormond, with John Stokesley, elect bishop of London,
and Edward Lee, as his ambassadors to the Emperor," on the subject
of the divorce. The payment of the money for their expences was not
however made until the 24th January following. We here learn that
it amounted to 743_l._ 8_s._
Emyson, Sexton's servant, 11, 94, 120, 138, 193.
Enfield chase, the rangers and keeper of, 74.
Erasmus an armourer, 22, 44, 62, 105.
Erbes. Vide Herbs.
Esthampstede, 66, 152, 153, _sæpe_.
---- Park, to the keeper of, 65, 153.
Eton, to poor women of, 36.
----, the provost of, 52, 55, 58, 63, 64.
Each of these entries excepting one, are of payments to the servant
of the Provost for bringing cakes to the king, for the making of
which we may infer that his servant was celebrated.
Evans John, a falconer, 37, 38, 51, _ter_, 78, _bis_, 110, 116, 133,
_bis_, 140, _bis_, 141, 144, 171, 185, 212, 227, _bis_, 259, 278,
286, 287, 291.
All these entries were of payments for his wages, board wages, or
for food for the hawks in his custody.
Evans Thomas, 187.
Everingham John, a waterman, 48, 108.
Evesham, abbot of, 116.
Ewelm, to the keeper of, in Oxfordshire, 154.
Ewry, one of the, 20.
Ewstace, a jeweller, 15.
Exeter, bishop of, 213.
John Voysey, dean of Windsor. He was appointed to that See in
August 1519, and resigned it in 1551.
Exeter, Marquess of, 61, 62, _bis_, 149, 152.
Henry Courtenay, eleventh earl of Devon, who was elevated to the
Marquisate of Exeter in 1525. This distinguished nobleman was the
son of William, Earl of Devon, by Katherine, youngest daughter of
King Edward the Fourth, and was consequently first cousin to Henry,
a relationship which placed him much too near to the crown to be
compatible with his safety; and, in 1538, he was suspected of high
treason. Suspicion was then equivalent to guilt, and the Marquess
was beheaded on Tower Hill, on the 9th of January 1539. "Of all
victims of the jealous tyrant," the elegant Gibbon justly remarks,
"the Marquess of Exeter is one of the most noble and guiltless."
The entries in these accounts throw no light upon his character,
nor are they of much interest, for they consist merely of rewards
to his servants, or bringing presents of hounds to the King.
Exhibition of scholars at Oxford, for the, 125.
---- of scholars, 90, 125, 231.
For some remarks on this subject, see under SCHOLARS, infra.
Eyred, for bringing a hawk that was, 60.
"To eyre," in falconry, is to build or rather to brood; hence we
must infer that this entry related to a hawk that had been hatched
at Elmley.
Falcons, for taking up, 20, 24, 187.
----, paid for, 9, 10, 92.
These items afford much information on the value of falcons at the
period. Two falcons and a goshawk cost 3_l._ Five falcons and a
tarsell were worth 8_l._ and five falcons 7_l._ 6_s._ 8_d._; so
that the value of a tarsell was about 13_s._ 4_d._
---- brought, 87, 184, 198.
Falconer, paid to a, 129.
---- to, for their coats, 142.
----, and hawks given by the King of France, for the expences of the,
275, 279.
Falcons and hawks appear to have been the most frequent, as well as
most valued presents, from one prince to another. These accounts
present two instances of the kind, the one of the payment of 23_l._
6_s._ 8_d._ to the bearer of a cast of falcons from the Duke of
Ferrara, and the other of a gift of several to Henry, from Francis
the First, at Calais. Upon that occasion falconers seem also to
have been transferred to Henry's service; for we find a payment
of 2_l._ 2_s._ 8_d._ for their exences, (p. 275) whilst some idea
may be formed of the number of birds given to Henry from the item
of 2_l._ 18_s._ 10_d._ for the expences of them for one month
only. "The best falconers were Flemings, and even those who have
attended hawks in England, until a late period, were procured from
a particular district of Flanders."--M.
Farm at Greenwich purchased for Lady Ann Rochford, 113.
This entry is more fully noticed at the commencement of the volume,
when speaking of ANNE BOLEYN, to whom it related.
Farnham, to the keeper of the place of, 151.
---- Park, to the keepers of,
Fees of the yeomen of the bows and of the Leshe, 75, 163.
Felon, paid for bringing up a, 46.
The only thing remarkable in this entry is, that such payments
should be made out of the king's privy purse, or if that was the
source of such disbursements that there should be so very few
entries of the kind in as many years.--See PRISONER and TRAITOR.
Feneux Lord, to the keeper of his house, 273.
It is almost certain from this item that Henry lodged at Lord
Feneux's house when at Canterbury. From the title of "Lord" being
applied to him, it would appear that it was the house of Sir John
Feneux, who was lord chief justice of England from 1496 to 1526.
Fenwolf Morgan, jeweller, 7, 8.
"Probably a Welshman; his name would be written Phenwolf, i. e.
Wolf's-head."--M.
Ferman George, of Waltham, 74.
Ferrara Duke of, 198.
Ferrers Lord, 62, 64, 86, 144, 145, 232, 240.
Walter Devereux, seventh Lord Ferrers of Chartley, K.G. He
succeeded his father in that dignity about 1497; in February 1550
he was raised to the dignity of Viscount Hereford, and died in
1558. All the entries respecting this nobleman refer to presents
of dogs, &c. sent to the king, excepting one, when his servant had
seized and brought up a traitor.
Ferror a, [query, a farrier,] 142.
Ferry-man's wife at Greenwich, to the, 13, 114, 263.
Ferrymen, 35, 54, 76, 83, 146, 147, 252, 255.
Ferrying paid for, 60.
---- the king's horses for, 203.
Fewater of the closet, to, 138.
Figs brought, 109.
---- of Portugal brought, 169.
Filberts brought, 66, 242, _bis_, 243, 250.
Fire pans, "going upon wheels" for two, 138.
Vessels for conveying fire from one apartment to another. "Pannes
to make fyre in: Item, twoo rounde pannes of iron made six-square
grate wise being uppon wheales to make fyre in."--_Account of the
Furniture in Henry VIII.'s Palaces_, _Harl. MSS._ 1419. A. f. 30.
Fish, paid for watching a pond with, 72.
----, to men who helped to, 98, 172.
---- brought, 150.
----, expences of the watermen for attending at hunting the, at
Greenwich, 219.
Fished, to men that fished before the king, 29.
Fishing for, 68.
It has been already remarked under "Angling," that Henry seems
to have been fond of fishing, but those notices perhaps refer to
drawing nets.
Fitzwater John, 194.
Fletcher the, 24, 40, 50, 53, 55, 125, 146, 180, 265, 280.
---- the French, 67, 188, 203, 234, 239.
---- to a, 104.
Flode ----, 132.
Florence ----, 212.
Floure ----, 248.
Flowers brought, 178.
Floyd ----, 167.
Fool, the king's, 11, 86.
----, paid for making gere for the king's, 205.
----, paid the expences for food of the king's, 247.
---- the, paid for his lodging and expences at Calais, 271.
----'s expences, paid the, at Canterbury, 274.
The subject of "Fools" has been so ably discussed by Mr. Douce
in his _Illustrations of Shakespeare_, that it is unnecessary
to say more on it here than what the entries in these accounts
suggest. The only names of Henry's fools which have reached us are,
William Somers, Sexton, and Williams. Sexton is however the only
one of them who is mentioned in these pages, unless the others
were described under the names of "Great and Little Guilliam of
the Privy Chamber," of whom there are numerous entries, though
the honourable addition of "the King's Fool," never once occurs
to their names. Those to whom that appellation is given are
"Patch and Sexton," and the manner in which they are spoken of is
strongly corroborative of Mr. Douce's opinion, that "Patch" was
another designation for "a Fool." In one page (86,) we find "Patch
the King's Fool" and Sexton both noticed. But this by no means
contradicts the idea that they were names for the same individual.
Sexton, Mr. Douce says, was presented to Henry by Cardinal Wolsey,
and the anecdote related by Cavendish of his having given another
Fool, who, it has been observed, was called Williams, to the king
after his disgrace, and the poor wretch's attachment to his master
is well known. It is manifest from these accounts that the Fool had
a man to wait upon him; for we find John Emyson frequently noticed
as "the man that waits or attends upon Sexton," "the keeper of the
King's Fool," "Sexton's man," and in others, "Sexton's servant."
All payments for the fool's food, travelling expences, &c., for
it seems he accompanied Henry wherever he went, were made to his
servant or keeper, whose wages were ij_d._ a day, (p. 45,) or about
3_l._ per annum (p. 193,) and he was allowed, like the falconers
and huntsmen, 22_s._ 6_d._ for his livery. Emyson appears however
either to have died or to have been dismissed from his occupation
before August 1532, for in that month, as well as in the October
following, Green is described to have been Sexton's servant, but
Skynner evidently attended him on his journey to Calais with Henry,
in November in that year, and who is also mentioned as waiting upon
him as early as September 1530, though Emyson was his keeper in
December, 1529. It is remarkable that every entry relating to the
Fool should be for his clothes, food, or other personal expences,
and that he should never once have received a gratuity or "reward,"
of which there are so many examples to others. It has been
conjectured that the witty sallies of these degraded creatures were
frequently rewarded by handsome presents, but no proof of the fact
in relation to Sexton occurs. Besides Emyson we find "Thomas the
Jester" sometimes mentioned, who seems to have been more fortunate
than "the Fool," for he received 20_s._ on one occasion, and 22_s._
6_d._ on another, "in reward;" whilst Henry gave the French king's
jester at Calais the large sum of 9_l._ 6_s._ 8_d._ on the day
the King of Navarre, the Cardinal of Lorrain, &c. dined with him.
According to the ordinances of the Royal Household made at Eltham,
in the 17th Henry VIII. the king's Fool was allowed one hackney.
Footmen paid to the, 25, 254.
Footman, to one that "sued to be" a, 155.
Ford William, keeper of the king's mastives, 7, 186.
Forde ----, 269, 282.
Forfeited horses paid for, 268.
This singular entry must be left to the reader's superior sagacity.
It clearly refers in some way to the "riding boys," or as they are
there called, "children of the stable," but its meaning has escaped
the editor's research.
Forked heads for the king's cross-bow, 67.
"See a former remark. They were for the arrows shot from the
cross-bow".--M.
Forms, tables, &c. for, 220.
Foster Master, 214.
Fowl, paid for keeping the, in the garden at Greenwich, 206.
Fowler, 115.
---- James, keeper of the manor of Greenwich, 78, 127.
---- John, 209.
Fox, Master Edward, 73.
The king's almoner, and Provost of Cambridge in 1532. He was
elected bishop of Landaff in 1535, and died in May 1538.
Fox a, brought, 80.
France King of, notices about his children, 59, _bis_.
Francis the first, king of France, his wife and children, were
taken prisoners by the emperor at the siege of Pavia in 1525. The
queen and the children remained in his hands until 1529, when it
was agreed by the treaty of Cambray that they should be delivered
to Francis on the payment of two millions of crowns. The money was
soon raised, and Hall gives us a circumstantial account of the
execution of the treaty, from which it appears that the Spanish
commissioners met the Great Master of France at Bayonne, in March
1530, but the former objected to part of the coin on account of
the weight, and therefore removed the children from Fountroby
into Spain. The affair being thus delayed from March until June,
Henry sent Sir Francis Bryan to pledge himself as security for the
payment, and on the 1st of July queen Eleanor and the children were
placed in the Great Master's hands. In July, Hall adds, "fyers were
made in London and divers other places for the same consideracion
and cause;" and it is worthy of remark, as a curious example of the
change in the national policy, that precisely the same rejoicings
took place when they fell into the emperor's power after the battle
of Pavia a few years before. _Hall_, pp. 693, 772. From these
accounts we learn that news of the event reached London on the 8th
of July, 1530, by a Frenchman dispatched from the Great Master, and
that on the 9th another messenger, probably from Sir Francis Bryan,
arrived with similar information. Each of them received the same
sum for their journey, namely, 23_l._ 6_s._ 8_d._
---- King of, sent a brace of greyhounds as a present, 223.
---- ----, sent hawks to the king, 270.
---- Queen of, 248.
----, to the King of France's singers and jester, 268, 269.
Francis the Jeweller, 155.
Francis, George, the king's scholar at St. Pauls, for his expences,
171, 186, 205, 231.
Francis, Nicholas, 259, 280.
Also a scholar at St. Paul's school.
Frantic man, to the, 243.
Fraternity of Jesus, to the, 46.
Freedom of London, money given to a woman to obtain her husband's and
her own, 219.
Freeman John, a jeweller or silversmith, 105, 188.
French Ambassador, 106.
---- Priest, to the, the pheasant breeder, 280.
---- Falconer, a gelding bought for the, 282.
Frenchman, paid to a, 169.
Friars, to, 41, 46, 71, 150, 175.
Friar Andrew, an Italian, 93, 144.
Frieze, coats of, 87.
"The materials of which the clothes of persons of rank were
composed about this time consisted of velvet, satin, sarcenet, gold
lace, and fur."--See Whitaker's _Craven_, 325. From the well known
lines written on the marriage of Charles Brandon with the Queen
Dowager of France,
To Mary:
Cloth of gold do not despise,
To match thyself to cloth of _frise_.
To Charles:
Cloth of _frise_ be not too bold,
Though, thou art match to cloth of gold.
"we might presume that frieze rarely formed the dress of persons of
rank, but Jamieson in voce (Supplement) quotes from an Inventory
of 1539, 'Ane goone of _freis_ claith of gold.' In the following
century frieze was more generally adopted. Fuller speaks of it as
a coarse kind of cloth, manufactured in Wales, 'then which none
warmer to be worn in winter, and the finest sort thereof very
fashionable and gentile. Prince Henry had a frieze sute out of it,'
&c. He adds, 'It will daily grow more into use, especially since
the gentry of the land, being generally much impoverished, abate
much of their gallantry.' _Worthies_, 553."--M.
Fruit brought, 15, 66, 97.
Furs, for furring Lady Ann Boleyn's gowns, 101.
---- for, 261, 269.
See _Minsheu_ in voce "Furre," notes to Way's _Fabliaux_, and
_Testamenta Vetusta_, for notices of furred garments. Numerous
legislative enactments were made from the reign of Edward III.
confining the use of fur to people of rank. See _Rolls of
Parliament_, vol. ii. pp. 278, 279, 281, 282. Vol. iii. p. 63, vol.
v. p. 505, vol. vi. 221.
Fustian, doublets of, 23, 51, 54, 87.
Fynchhampstede, 65.
Fyney, bailiwick of, 65.
Fytton, ----, 256.
Galiake, white wine of, 24.
Gaillac, a town in the department of Tarn in Languedoc, celebrated
for its wines. Three tons then cost 16_l._ 4_s._ See WINES.
Galien, the Glasier, 111.
Gallipots, 58.
Gambling, see Play, ----, 14, 15, 17, 18, 20, 22, 32, _bis_, 33, 36,
37, 50, 76, _bis_, 94, 98, 101, 113, 115, 118, 120, 131, 134,
143, 144, 159, 162, 163, 186, 188, 189, 190, 195, 204, 205, 209,
210, 211, 212, 216, 220, 226, 227, 229, 237, 243, _bis_, 246,
248, 250, 265, 267, 268, _bis_, 270, 271, 272, _bis_, 273, 274,
275, _bis_, 276, _bis_, 277, 278, _bis_, 283.
Every entry relating to money lost at any kind of game is referred
to under this head, in order that there might be one complete
reference on the subject. As they are fully noticed at the
commencement of the volume, any remarks here would be superfluous.
Gammage, Sir William, 100, 184.
Garard or Garet, Henry, shoe-maker, 30, 75, 103.
---- ----, the falconer, 28, 95, 187, 203.
Garden at Greenwich, for keeping the, in order, 50.
----, paid for trimming the, 177.
Garett's wife, paid to, 206.
Garney Master, 214.
Garnish, buttons to garnish caps, 25, 33.
"These buttons were placed on the under side of the rim of the cap.
See the portraits of the period."--M.
Garnishing and a desk, paid for, 123, _bis_.
---- books, paid for, 214, 123, _bis_.
The word is thus used by Skelton. Speaking of a book he says, "To
beholde, howe it was _garnished_ and bound encovered over with gold
of tissue fine. The claspes and bullions were worth a M pound," p.
46. See BOOK.
---- of two bonnets, &c. paid for, 268.
The four last references are inserted to show the different ways in
which the word "Garnish" was used.
Gathered for a church, to women that, 36, 257.
Collections for some pious purpose.
Geese, green, brought, 41, 99.
---- brought, 181, 187.
Gelded deer, a, 13.
Geldings, for, 12, 119, 282.
----, the boys of the running, 259, 263, 276.
----, for the diet of the, 107, 114.
Gelding, paid for a, for the king's closet, 9.
---- brought, 26, 44, 104, 149, 224, _bis_.
----, stalking, meat for a white, 132.
Gentleman of Italy, to a, 150.
George, St. to a poor woman that begged in the name of, 150.
Gere, paid for, for the children of the stable, 182.
Gere for Sexton the fool, for, 205, 215.
----, for making, 270.
As in three out of the four instances in which this word is used it
evidently referred to fantastic dresses or the appendages to them,
it may be inferred that the children of the stable were ludicrously
habited, and which is the more probable if the conjecture which has
been hazarded be correct, that they were employed in riding racing
horses. _Gere_ was, however, sometimes used for the ornamental
parts of dress, for Louis XII. king of France, is described in
a letter from the Earl of Worcester in 1514, as "devysing new
collers and goodly _gere_ for" the queen his bride.--Ellis's
_Original Letters_, second Series, vol. i. p. 236. Mr. Markland
observes "this word, _per se_, meant clothing simply. From the days
of Spenser to those of Swift, when magnificence or ornament is
implied, the word is accompanied with some epithet; thus 'gorgeous
gear' in the former, and 'glittering birth-day gear' in the latter.
See _Masking_." Shakspeare, however, uses the word in the sense
which it is supposed to be employed in the text:
"Let us complain to them what fools were here
Disguis'd like Muscovites, in shapeless _gear_."
_Love's Labour Lost_, A. 5. Sc. 2.
Chaucer uses _Gere_ for articles of any kind, but in one instance
he applies it to articles of dress:
"And for that nothing of her olde _gere_
She shulde bring into his hous, he bad
That woman should despoilen her right there
Of which these ladies weren nothing glad
To handle hire clothes wherin she was clad."
_The Clerkes Tale_, _l._ 8248.
Gibson Richard, 77, 250, 270.
Gifford, Master George, 120.
Gilding, paid for, 97, 123.
Giles, the Groom of the Crossbows, 25, 70.
Girdles, leather, paid for, for knives, 161, 168.
---- to a, for a wood-knife, 173, _bis_.
Girdles, for a, 81, 208.
----, for a chain made for a, 268.
These girdles were undoubtedly a splendid part of dress, and
were in some cases proportionably expensive. Several notices of
Girdles occur on the _Rolls of Parliament_, and in the _Testamenta
Vetusta_. Among the expenses of Peter Martyr in 1547 was, "for
riband for a gyrdel 1_s._ 2_d._" _Archæologia_, vol. xxi. p. 472.
Glamorganshire, 69.
Glasier, paid to the, 111.
Glass, paid for a, 10, 15, 51.
Glasses brought to the king, 18, 142.
It is difficult to say whether these entries referred to looking or
drinking glasses. See LOOKING-GLASSES.
---- of Rose water brought, 63.
----, a steel, 81.
A mirror of polished steel.
---- with orange water, brought, 166.
---- with waters brought, 5.
Glastonbury, Abbot of, 146, 224, 225.
Gloucester, Abbot of, 28, 43, 106, 112, 188.
Glove, Hawk's, 83.
----, shooting, for a, 46.
Gloves, paid for, 138, 146, 208.
---- Spanish, for, 267.
By the Parliament which met in the 3 and 4 Edw. IV. 1463-4,
Gloves were forbidden to be imported, _Rot. Parl._ vol. v. p.
507, and which is the only notice of them in those records. In
the bill of the expenses of Ochin and Martyr in 1547, Gloves are
frequently mentioned; for "a Hatt and _Glovys_ for Bernardinus
at Basell, 9_s._ 3_d._" "for a pair of furryd _Glovys_ for P.
Marter, 13_s._" and at London, "for two payer of Glovys for them,
15_s._"--_Archæologia_, v. xxi. p. 472.
Glover Thomas, 47.
Godsalve, clerk of the signet, 59, 106.
Gold, the hosier, 3, 23, 54, 133.
---- edges of, paid for, 76.
Goldsmith's work paid for, 155.
Goldsmith, the king's paid, 192, 236, 267.
----, to Cornelius the, 262.
Gonson William, 148, 232.
Good Friday, alms on, 40.
Good ----, of Windsor, 52.
Goodryke, Doctor, 8.
Goshawk, paid for a, 9.
----, for a, upon the cage, 16.
---- a, brought, 60, 62, 237.
---- to the keepers of the king's, 56, 80, 118, 162, 183.
Gough John, 144.
Gown, for a, 115.
----, to a priest to buy himself a, 280.
Grafton, works at, 160.
----, 159, 160, _bis_, 161, 238, 239, 240, 241, 248.
---- Park, to the keeper of, 160, 241.
Grane John de, a jeweller, 271.
Grapes brought, 168, 174, 254, 264, 267.
----, &c. brought to the Marchioness of Pembroke, 267.
Grass, paid for taking the king's horses to, 142.
Graunt Francis, 72.
Great Seal, vide SEAL, 148.
---- Master of the French King's children, to the, [Anne de
Montmorency,] 59. See FRANCE. "Grece time," for attendance on the
king during the last, 186.
Thus also used by Cavendish: "My lord continued at Southwell until
the latter end of _grease-time_," p. 255. Probably grass-time, as
both these notices refer to about the middle of June. We find in
these accounts an entry of "taking the king's horses to _grysse_,"
for grass.
Grene William, 107, 182.
Grene, ----, 247, 265.
Greenwich, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 20, 23, 33, 39, 47, 50, 53, 54, 60,
78, 79, 84, 86, 87, 88, 93, 94, _bis_, 96, 103, 110, _bis_, 113,
114, 122, 127, _sæpe_, 128, _bis_, 132, 134, 135, 139, 175, 179,
190, 192, 195, 205, 210, 211, 213, 215, 219, 224, _sæpe_, 228,
256, 275, 276, _bis_, 278, 280, 281, 283, _bis_.
----, paid to poor people of, who were expelled at the time of the
Plague, 79, 104, 125, 129, 173, 182, 207, 262. See BANISHED.
----, for the expenses of the house at, 127.
----, the bailiff of, 263.
----, to the bailiff of, for people banished that town, 173.
----, paid for trimming the garden at, 177.
----, to the daughter of the gardener of, 193.
----, Walsh, the gardener of, 165, 207, 213, 218, 225, 231, _bis_,
242, 250, 263.
----, paid for keeping the garden and house there clean, 206.
----, paid for thorns and labourers for, 205.
---- Park, to the keeper 17, 176, 189, 194, 230, _bis_.
----, to the wife of the keeper of, 127.
----, for necessaries for, 217.
----, paid to the keeper of, for mowing the brakes, 265. See BRAKES.
Gresham Richard, mercer of London, 7, 116, 261.
Father of the celebrated Sir Thomas Gresham, the founder of the
Royal Exchange, and, whom Mr. Lodge happily terms, "the great
patriarch of commerce and of commercial finance." This Richard
Gresham was a mercer in London, and, according to the same elegant
writer, was "agent for the crown with the trading interest, or, as
it was called, king's merchant, an office of the highest importance
and trust, inasmuch as it united the duty of raising money for
the royal occasions by private loans, with that of protecting
and cherishing the sources from which they were derived." He was
knighted, and became Mayor of London in 1537, and died in 1548. See
also Ward's _Gresham Professors_.
Greyhounds brought to the king, 19, 65, 70, 148, 161, 223, 236, 242,
245, 247, 256, 257, 275.
Greyhounds, chaste, 58, 174. See CHASTE.
----, to ten men that rowed in the, 127.
----, for waiting with the, 228.
A boat so named.
Griffiths ----, 165.
Grisling William, Mercer, 74, 117.
Groom Porter, the, 120.
Grooms, paid to two, 137.
Grysse, [_i. e._ Grass,] the king's horse sent to, 263.
Guard, to the yeomen of the king's, 114.
A list of the yeomen of the Guard in the 17 Hen. VIII. will be
found in the _Ordinances for the Royal Household_ made in that year.
----, one of the, sent to fetch a hawk, 115.
----, to one of the, on his marriage, 131, 218.
----, to one of the, for shooting, 135.
"They were originally Archers."
--M.
----, to one of the, 151, 197, 223, 269.
Guard, paid to the, for eating a, buck, 156. See BUCK.
Guilford, 62, 63, _sæpe_.
----, to the Friars of, 150.
---- Park, to the keepers of, 150.
---- Sir Edward, 87, 99, 184, 276, 279.
Apparently the father-in-law of John, afterwards Duke of
Northumberland. He was Marshal of Calais, Lord Warden of the Cinque
Ports, and Master of the Ordnance, and married Eleanor, sister and
co-heiress of Thomas West, Lord de La Warr, and who was probably
the lady referred to in the next article.
---- Lady, 103, 184.
Guilliam, the Crosbow maker, 19.
----, 25.
----'s Richard Ap, 40, 108.
---- the king's fletcher, 40.
----'s, the two, 11, 14, 17, 18, 38, _bis_, 44, 53, _bis_, 61, 73,
75, 78, 84, 86, 98, 121, 126, 138, 139, 153, 164, 165, 170, 173,
175, 183, 187, 197, _bis_, 200, 206, 219, _bis_, 233, 234, 259,
261, 264, 281.
----, Little, of the Private Chamber, 100, 110, 114.
----, Little, to, because he was sick, 94.
----, Little, to a surgeon for curing, 128.
----, Grand, of the Privy Chamber, 114, 130, 141, 210, 245.
Of these two individuals little, or rather nothing is known, beyond
the fact established by these accounts, namely, that they were
entirely supported at the king's expence; hence it may be inferred
that they were favourite servants, or "diverting vagabonds," to the
king, perhaps a character a shade more respectable than his jester
and fool. See, however some conjectures about the two Guilliams
under FOOL, _ante_.
Gun, a hand, brought, 104.
"The name of _hand gun_ succeeded to that of hand-cannon, and
when the lock was added, was superseded by that of arquebus." See
Specimens of each kind in Skelton's _"Illustrations of Arms and
Armour."_ M.
----, for trimming the king's, 194.
Gunner's wife, of the Tower, 105.
----, to a, to buy a horse, 180.
----, to a, 233.
Guylde, [i. e. Gild,] to, 97.
Gyngell's kind, [i. e. Gingell's breed] whelps, of, brought, 244.
Guyse, Monsieur, 268.
Hadstone Henry, 207.
Hall Mr., 39.
Hall Richard, 91, 129, 175, 204, 216, 247, 279.
Apparently a groom.
----, the treasurer's servant, 149.
----, Marshall of the King's, 243.
Hampton Court, 22, 25, 27, 43, 53, 55, 56, _bis_, 57, 58, _bis_, 60,
_sæpe_, 65, _bis_, 66, 67, 68, _bis_, 75, 77, 79, 80, _bis_, 83,
_sæpe_, 89, _ter_, 91, _bis_, 92, _sæpe_, 93, _sæpe_, 101, 139,
140, _bis_, 141, _sæpe_, 142, 144, 145, 147, _sæpe_, 177, 178,
180, 189, 254, _sæpe_, 255, _sæpe_.
----, the ferryman at, 147.
----, gardener of, 26, 75, 176, 221, 225, 255, 264.
---- Park, to the keeper of the, 26, 68, 75, 229, 255.
Hand guns, paid for a chest for the, 159. See GUN.
Handkerchiefs for, 104.
Hannibal ----, 197.
Hans, the falconer, 51.
Hanslop Park, to the keeper of, 160, 240.
Harcourt Sir Simon, 248.
Ancestor of the present Earl Harcourt. He distinguished himself at
the sieges of Therouenne and Tournay, was knighted at the battle of
Spurs, and died on the 16th January, 1547. Collins's _Peerage_. Ed.
1779. Vol. v. p. 268.
Hardwareman, to the king's, 24, 31, 73, 81, 94, 218, 234, 267.
Many of the articles which the "hardwareman" sold prove that the
trade to which the word is now applied, differs materially from
what it was at the period in question.
Hare, paid for finding a, 157.
Harington ----, a groom, 216, 247.
Harness, [_i. e._ armour "from the Celtic word Haern." M*] expences
of bringing from Bologne, 54.
---- paid to the armourer for keeping clean the king's, 155, 196.
Harper, paid to a blind woman being a, 168.
Harriers, to the, 247.
----, to the office of the, 77, 164.
Harris Hugh, a falconer, 38, _bis_, 116, _bis_, 135, 142, 145, 185,
225, _bis_, 226, 259, 278, 284, _bis_, 287, 288, 290.
Hart Peter, 78.
Hart Sir, Percival, 136, 145.
One of the Sewers of the King's Chamber.
Hart Hounds, to the office of the, 153, 255.
Hartford, 71, 72.
---- Park, keeper of, 71.
Hartwell Park, to the keeper of, 161, 240.
Harvy Master, 162.
Harvy Sir Nicholas, to the nurse and midwife of his child, 197.
Ancestor of the Marquess of Bristol. He was gentleman of the privy
chamber to the king, and one of his favorites. Sir Nicholas was
thrice married and had issue by each wife; but it does not appear
which child was honored by having the king for one of its sponsors.
Hasilbone, to the keeper of, 161.
Hasilrigg Robert, 92.
Hastings and Rye, for a plat of, 91.
As every entry relating to the fine arts is of peculiar interest,
this is deserving attention; though from the word "plat" it would
appear, that it was a plan rather than a painting. The sum paid for
it to Vincent, the king's painter, was 3_l._ 10_s._ See PLAT.
Hat, paid for a, 60, 268.
Havering, 170.
---- Park, to the keeper of, 170.
Hawe Christopher, 208. See HAWTE.
Hawks, the king's, 15.
---- brought, 47, 49, 51, 54, 62, 105, 145, 146, _ter_, 151, 162,
210, 231.
---- a, that was eyred, 60. See EYRED.
---- a, found, 70, 110.
----'s glove, 83.
----, paid for fetching a, 115.
----, paid for "lying out to take," 157.
----'s hoods and hawk's gloves for, 159.
----, meat for, 3, 5, 25, 28, 30, 31, 34, 38, 42, 51, _bis_, 52, 71,
78, 85, 95, _bis_, 116, _bis_, 129, 133, 135, 140, _bis_, 163,
171, 181, 185, _bis_, 198, 200, 212, 216, 221, _bis_, 222, 225,
227, 229, 236, _sæpe_, 253, 254, 259, _bis_, 278, _bis_, 279,
284, _bis_, 286, 288, 289.
These numerous items of money for hawks' meat are more fully
noticed at the commencement of the volume.
----, paid for taking up a, 256.
Hawks brought from the King of France, 269;
the expences of them, 275, 279.
---- to the Mew, 37.
The Mew was a close place in which hawks were confined whilst
moulting. "The Mews at Charing Cross were so called because Henry
the Eighth used them for his hawks on those occasions."--M.
Hawkyn, a falconer, 5, 31, 95, 140, 163, 181, 222, 236, 253, 287, 289.
Hawte Christopher, a falconer, 198, 216, 236, 287.
Hawys John, 47.
Hayes Cornelius, Goldsmith, 10, 134, 138, 156, 170, 179, 184, 188,
192.
Hay, paid for, 17, 86, 189, 213.
Healed, to the people that the king, 156, 160, 161, 163, 164, 170,
203, 213, 217, 221, 225, 243, 249, 253, 264, 272, 278.
These entries were of payments made to persons whom the king
touched for the evil. It appears that they uniformly received
7_s._ 6_d._ each; a gratuity which at that period, and to poor
persons, was very considerable. It tends also in a great measure
to account for the prevalence of the custom; for a more convenient
superstition could scarcely be devised.
Heath Cock, for a, 103.
Hedge and a ditch, for making a, 194.
Henawd [_i. e._ Henault] Park, to the keeper of, 170.
Henley Park, keeper of, 63.
Henchmen, for the rent of a house for the, 79, 125, 182, 209, 230,
265.
No word has been more commented upon than "Henchmen," or Henxmen.
Without entering into the controversy it may be sufficient to
state, that in the reign of Henry the Eighth it meant the pages of
honor. They were the sons of gentlemen, and in public processions
always walked near the monarch's horse: a correct idea may be
formed of their appearance from the representation of them in one
of the pictures in the meeting room of the Society of Antiquarians.
It seems from these entries that they lodged in the house of
Johnson, the master of the king's barge, and that the rent of it
was 40_s._ per annum. Observations on the word will be found in
Spelman's _Etymol:_, Pegge's _Curiala_, from the Liber Niger Edw.
IV., Lodge's _Illustrations_, vol. i. p. 359, the _Northumberland
Household Book_, Blount's _Glossary_.
Henchmen, to the yeoman of the, 209.
Hennage Sir Thomas, 8, _bis_, 25, 26, 29, _bis_, 43, _sæpe_, 50, 58,
66, 75, 79, 87, _bis_, 89, _bis_, 120, 141, 144, 148, 157, _bis_,
165, 172, 187, 195, 196, 219, 249, 254, 255.
One of the gentlemen of the privy chamber, and apparently the same
individual, who was afterwards vice-chamberlain and chancellor
of the duchy of Lancaster to Queen Elizabeth. His only child
Elizabeth, who married Sir Moyle Finchard, was created Countess of
Winchelsea, by Charles the First.
Henyngham George, 88, 132, 209, 235.
He was evidently attached in some way to the stables, as these
items are of payments of money to him for horses, or provender for
them.
Hens, to the purveyor of, 109, 119, 129.
---- brought, 103, 178, 194.
Hen taker, James Parker, the, 15, 25, 28, 33, 37, 41, 42, 56, 80, 92,
142, 168, 199, 226, 258, 282, 285, 287.
The hen taker and the Purveyor of Hens was probably the same
person. His wages to which all these entries refer, were it seems
9_l._ per annum.
Herbs brought, 4, 36, 39, _bis_, 44, 45, _ter_, 50, 56, 57, 59, 72,
87, 96, 124, 130, 200, 209.
Heremyte, [_i. e._ Hermit] to a, 42.
Hermit of Deptford, to the, 150, _bis_.
Herington Rowland, 279.
Herytage Maister, 6, 40, 49.
Query, if not intended for Sir Thomas Hennage just mentioned.
Herons, for finding, 28.
Hertford, 24.
Hide, for a bare hide to cover the king's barge, 182.
Hind a, brought, 189.
"Hinging" over the gate, paid for the, 8.
Hingings to a merchant, for hangings and other merchandize, 243.
Apparently from the price, hangings of silk or rich stuff. A
perfect idea of the richness and splendour of hangings at that
period, may be formed from the description of those in the palaces
of Henry the Eighth, in the Harleian MS. 1419, A. & B.; whilst
of those used in the early part of the fifteenth century, a full
account is given in the list of Henry the Fifth's effects on the
Rolls of Parliament, vol. iv.
Hobart James, 71, 80, 92, 109, 117, 141, 152, 172, 181, 193, 203,
258, 279.
It does not appear who this individual was, but as every entry
relating to him is of a payment for bringing marmelade, dates,
sweet oranges, lemons, and "other pleasures," it may be inferred
that he was a kind of pastry-cook.
Hobby, a dun, for meat for, 131.
----, for a, 119.
Hobbies brought, 28, 104, 224.
Hogsheads of wine, 98, 99.
Holand John, 218.
Hollys William, alderman of London, 170.
Afterwards Sir William Hollis. His will is printed in the
_Testamenta Vetusta_, whence it appears that he died in 1542. He
was Lord Mayor of London in 1539.
Holt, to the deputy of the, 151.
Honyson Guilliam, jeweller, 91.
Horden Thomas, 67.
Horns trimmed [probably for mounted] by the jeweller, for, 184.
Horses. See Gelding.
---- brought, 12, 13, 16, 54, 175, 211, 224, 245, 282.
----, for healing the king's, 20.
----, the day on which they ran, 25.
----, for drink given to the king's, 31.
----s' medicines, for the king's, 31, 118.
----, food for, 132.
---- Barbary, to the keeper of the, 133. See BARBARY.
----, to the yeoman of the, 137.
----, paid the expenses of taking the king's to grass, 142, 263.
----, food for the stalking, 194.
----, a stalking, brought, 162. See STALKING.
----, paid for the hire of, 193.
----, to a boy that ran the Barbary, 199. See BARBARY.
----, to the keeper of the Barbary horse, and for a bath for it, 204,
218.
----, to a Dompne, for riding two at once, 218. See DOMPNU.
----, paid for, 88, 128, 139, 180, 250, 257.
"We cannot gather the _prices_ of Horses from these accounts
as often as it is desirable. Gilbert Talbot, afterwards Earl
of Shrewsbury, in 1578, offers 33_l._ for two Fryseland
Horses."--Lodge's _Illustrations_, ii, 171. "There was particular
attention paid in this reign, as appears by several laws, to
promote the breed of large and strong horses. Mr. Barrington
on Statutes (p. 499) conjectures that Tournaments and other
magnificent Pageantries being in vogue in the early part of this
reign might have prompted these measures. Certainly the strength
of the Horses would contribute to render Tournaments more safe to
those engaged in them as well as heighten the general effect of the
scene." M.
Notices of the value of Horses towards the end of the reign of
Edward the First, will be found on the _Rolls of Parliament_, Vol.
i. p. 228, 245; and in the _Liber Quotidianus Contrarotulatoris
Garderolæ_, of the 28th Edw. I. _sparsim._ but particularly p.
77 _et seq._ They appear to have varied in price from one to ten
pounds, and are minutely described both as to their colours and the
purposes for which they were destined. Henry the Fifth's chariot
horses, "Chivalx de Charrettz," were sold for 95_l._ 14_s._ 10_d._
_Rot. Parl._ vol. iii. p. 237. By statute 11 Hen. VII. chap. xiii.
it was prohibited to export Mares or Horses beyond the sea. We find
from these payments that on one occasion 37_l._, and on another
53_l._ were paid for horses; and that 7_l._ 10_s._ 3_l._ 6_s._
8_d._ and 6_l._ 13_s._ 4_d._, were given at different times, for
the purchase of a horse. In 1547 two of the horses which brought
Bernardinus Ochin and Peter Martyr from Basell, were sold in
Smithfield for 4_l._ 13_s._ 6_d._ _Archæologia_, vol. xxi. p. 473.
Horse, Master of the, 41, 54, _bis_, 88, 89, 91, 100, 132, 139, 164,
175, 176, 196, 197, 209, 250, 257, 260.
Sir Anthony Browne, Knt.
Horsley Park, keeper of, 61.
Hosen, for, 11, _bis_, 18, _bis_, 19, 23, 30, 38, 44, 54, 61, 66, 73,
86, 94, 98, 109, 119, 122, 133, 136, 137, 138, 155, 164, 170,
175, 186, 200, 219, _bis_, 237, 238, _bis_, 263, 265, 279, 283.
Hosen Points, 283.
Strings to fasten the hosen.
Hounds, the king's private, 49.
---- at Woodstock, for conveying and keeping of the, 50.
----, for keeping young, 50, 178.
---- brought, 60, 62, _bis_, 64, 65, 72, 144, 149, 152, 153, 154,
_bis_, 167, 232, 240, 241, 242.
----, paid for finding the, 73.
----, to the keeper of the king's, for his wages, 92. See RAYNESFORD.
----, paid for sending the, from Ewelme to Woodstock, 154, and,
_ibid._ to Oxford, 156.
----, meat for, 125, 133, 171, _bis_, 177, 180, 187, 198, 205, 210,
215, 222, 244, 251, 282.
----, paid for removing them, 161, 165, 167, 168, 232, 234, 238, 241,
244, 246, 248, 249, 253, 260.
----, to the keeper of the king's private, 290.
Hounslow, to the Friars of, 41, 127, 208.
Hounsdon, 72, 73, 76, 81, 177, 235.
----, for the king's buildings at, 42, 60, 111, 136, 161, 174, 210.
----, to the keeper of, 72, 168, 172.
----, to the Priest at, for tythes, 214.
Hounworth Park, keeper of, 49, 66, 142, 255.
House, paid for the rent of a, for Ambassadors, 74.
----, for the rent of a, 79, 125, 182, 209, 230, 265. See HENCHMEN.
----, for the rent of a, at Greenwich, for Lord Rochford, 128.
House, to the keeper of that in which the king slept at Canterbury,
266.
Howsell, for, 38, 40, 41.
The only explanation given of "Housel" in the usual Dictionaries
and Glossaries, "the Eucharist," could not possibly apply to
either of the instances in which it is used in these accounts. It
was evidently a payment made to the king's favourite minions, the
Jester and the two Williamses, but the precise meaning of the word
has not been ascertained.
Hoyson William, Jeweller, 4.
Hubart, James. See HOBART.
Hugh, Old, 37, 38.
Hugh, Young, 38, 52, _bis_.
Hungary, for the expenses of the Ambassadors of, at Stoney-Stratford,
160.
Hunting, money lost at a wager in, 162, 163.
---- fish at Greenwich, 219.
Hunts, to the, 73.
---- to the, for their expenses going into Sussex, 232.
Hurlow Henry, 184.
Hurt Sir John, 49, 50, _bis_, 115, _bis_, 209.
From the appellation "Sir," being attributed, and the notice of a
gown having been given to this individual, it would seem that he
was a Priest; but this conjecture cannot be reconciled with his
having been paid 22_s._ 6_d._ for his livery coat, nor, perhaps,
with the frequent bets won by him at shooting. In one instance too
"his fellowes" are spoken of. It is, however, certain, that he was
one of Henry's numerous minions, in whose society he forgot the
cares and dignity of a sovereign.
Hussey Lord, his child christened, 117.
John Lord Hussey of Sleford. He was beheaded in June, 1537, for
being concerned in the insurrection in Lincolnshire. Lord Hussey
left several children, one of whom appears to have been born in
March, 1531, and to whom the king was very probably a sponsor.
Hutton Thomas, 169.
Jacson ----, 146, 218, 253, 267.
----, the hardwareman, 146, 165.
James, the Hen taker. See HEN-TAKER and PURVEYOR OF HENS.
Jasper, falconer.
----, the gardener of Beaulie. See BEAULIE.
Jenyns ----, a jeweller, 271.
Jerfalcon, [_i. e._ a Gerfalcon] paid in reward for one that died,
200.
Jerkyns leather, for, 54, 61.
Jeronom, Loyes, Jasper, and John de, 165.
Jester, Thomas the, to, 41, 126, 204.
----, to the French king's, 269. See FOOLS.
Jesus, to the Fraternity of, 46.
---- Aisle in St. Paul's, Proctor of, 114, 169.
Jewell house, 64.
----, for the redemption of a, 88.
This item admits of an inference which would establish a curious
fact in the lives of Anne Boleyn and her sister Mary, namely, that
the former had pawned a jewel to the latter, for the redemption of
which 20_l._ was paid by the king's orders.
Jewellery, for, 4, _bis_, 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, 16, 21, 82, 88, 90, 91,
97, 99, _bis_, 103, 106, 138, 139, 155, 156, 157, 169, 170, 179,
185, _ter_, 193, 195, 210, 218, 220, 236, 257, _bis_, 261, 268,
270, _ter_, 271, 280.
The immense sums expended in plate and jewellery have been noticed
in the remarks at the commencement of the volume.
Jewel house, 170, 217.
Ilgrase William, 280.
Impeached, 69. See APPEACHED.
Imperial, money lost by the king at the game of, 265, 278.
Of this game nothing is known, and perhaps these entries are the
earliest, if not the only instances in which it is alluded to.
Instruments brought to the king, 26, 210.
Clearly musical instruments. Henry's attachment, and indeed
proficiency in music, has been established by a note to Mr. Ellis's
valuable _Original Letters_, Second Series, vol. i. p. 271,
272, where an account of His Majesty's musical instruments from
the Harl. MS, 1419, A. is printed, and which are satisfactorily
explained by that eminent music master, Mr. Ayrton.
John, Duke of S----, 132.
Johnson, 265, 266.
---- Henry, Cordwainer, 109.
---- Henry, 233.
---- John, master of the king's barge, 10, 79, 125, 192, 230.
Joiner, to a, 93.
Joly Jack, 89.
Who Mr. "Jolly Jack" was does not appear.
Joungevello ----, a French minstrel, 252.
Journey, paid the costs of a, 179, _bis_.
Joselyn, Groom of the Chamber, 204.
Ipolite, a minstrel, 28.
Ireland, hawks brought from, 162.
Iron work for York Place, paid for, 111.
Italian Friar, to the, 144.
Kelsay's wife, 153.
Kendall, coats of, 42, 51, 60, 139.
Keney, Vincent, Clockmaker, 91.
Kent William A, 161.
Keyho, 45.
Keys ----, 210.
Kildare, Earl of, 224.
Gerald Fitz-Gerald, ninth Earl of Kildare. His lordship was at
this time in London. A curious account of the horses presented by
him to different individuals is given in his Household Book in the
British Museum. Harl. MS. 3756.
King's Evil, vide SICKNESS and HEALED.
King the hosier, 170, 186, 219, 237, 265.
Kingston Master, 9, 95.
---- to, for his expenses when he was sent for Cardinal Wolsey, 115.
See CARDINAL.
Sir William Kingston, K. G. a memorable person in this reign. He
filled the office of Comptroller of the Household, and Constable of
the Tower of London, and was a Privy Councillor. He died in 1541.
---- Anthony, 226, 229.
Probably the individual whom Boswell, in his _Lives of the Knights
of the Garter**_, confounds with Sir William Kingston, and who
was provost martial to the forces sent to quell the rebellion
in Cornwall in 1547. See some remarks relative to the error in
question in the _Testamenta Vetusta_, p. 693, and in Lodge's
_Illustrations of British History_, vol. i. p. 16. Note.
Kitchen, Clerk of the, 16, 119.
Knebworth, 163, 168.
Knevet Anthony, 10, 25, 86.
---- Sir Henry, 11, 17, 36, 53, _bis_, 96, 126, 183, 200, 203, 219,
_bis_, 237, 256, 259, 261, 264, 265, 281.
One of the Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber, and evidently a
particular favourite of the King's.
---- William, 5, 40, 127, 206, 241, 261, 281.
Probably the individual who is described in an inscription in
Stepney Church as a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber, and as having
married Avise, the widow of Nicholas Gibson. See _Weever's Funeral
Monuments_, 4to, p. 309. He enjoyed an annuity from the king of
20_l._
Knight, Doctor, 118.
Knives, for, 51, 174.
----, and sheathes of velvet, with girdles to them, 161.
Knives, paid for girdles and a chape for, 168.
Knives were worn at a very early period. In the 6 Edw. III. John
Lord Grey of Rotherfeild, is stated to have been committed to
prison for drawing his knife partly out of its sheath on William
Lord Zouch, of Ashby. _Rot. Parl._ vol. ii. p. 656. _Long knives_,
or other suspicious arms, were forbidden to be worn in the city of
London or Westminster in 1351 during the sitting of Parliaments
_Ibid._ p. 235.^{a} In 1363 the _knives_ of trades-people and
artificers were prohibited from being adorned with gold or silver,
or precious stones. _Ibid_, p 278,^{b} 281,^{b} and in the 3 Edw.
IV. _knives_ were forbidden from being imported, _Ibid._ vol. 5,
p. 507. Thomas Earl of Warwick, in 1400, speaks of _knives_ for
the King's coronation in his will; and Chaucer's allusion to the
Sheffield whittle is well known,
"A Shefeld thwitel bare he in his hose."
Among the expenses of Ochin and Martyr, in 1547, before cited, is a
payment of 2_s._ 8_d._ for "two payer of _Tunbridge knives_." The
knife was placed in the girdle.
Labourers, to, 30, 39, 84, 94, 205.
Lace, yellow, for, 68.
Lampreys, baked, brought, 9, 28, 29, 95, 103, 106, 108, 117, 188,
193, 195.
---- salt, brought, 111.
---- pies brought, 184.
Lamhethe, [Lambeth,] 203.
Launcelot, a child of the stable, 29.
Langille William, the king's fletcher, 125.
Langey John, jeweller, 103.
Langley Park, to the keeper of, 246.
----, 244, 246, _bis_, 248.
----, paid for repairs at, 249.
Lanthony, [in Monmouthshire,] Prior of, 49, 53, 100, 108, 195.
Lanthony Cheses, brought, 220.
Lantrissen in Glamorganshire, 69.
Larder Thomas, 125.
Larenno Cardinal de, 264.
----, money lost to him at dice and tennis, 268, _bis_.
----, to his singers, 269.
The Cardinal of Lorrain. Tennis and dice seem almost as unsuitable
to a Cardinal as a band of singers. On the 28th of October, 1532,
when Henry ordered 9_l._ 6_s._ 8_d._ to be given to the French
king's jester, and 4_l._ 13_s._ 4_d._ to the Cardinal's singers,
Hall states that the king of Navarre, the Cardinal of Lorrain, and
the Great Master and Admiral of France, dined with Henry at Calais;
and these payments were evidently made for the amusement which they
had afforded the party.
Large John, 90.
Lasala Nowell de, a minstrel, 170.
Last, and a line, for a, 48.
Query, if not a mistake of the writer for mast and a line. See MAST.
Laten, a desk garnished with, 123.
Laten, or Latton, was, Mr. Todd informs us, a mixed kind of metal,
made of copper and calamine, said by some to be the old orichalc.
The meaning of the word has, however, puzzled our best antiquaries.
Mr. Douce says it is always used for brass, whilst Dr. Meyrick
thinks it was copper gilt. See some Observations on the subject in
a Note to the _Archæologia_, vol. xxi. pp. 261, 2. In the 3 Edw.
IV. it was prohibited to import "Harneys for gurdels, of iron,
of _laton_, of stele, of tyn, or of alkamyn." _Rot. Parl._ vol.
v. p. 507,^{a} whilst in the 3 Hen. IV. Girdlers were prohibited
from garnishing girdles with stones or metal "q' de _laton_,
baterie, feer, et asser." _Ibid._ vol. iv. p. 73. In the 2 Hen.
VI. the Commons complained that people had made "diverse workes
of brauderie of unsuffisaunt stuff, and undwely wrought, as well
upon velowet, and cloth of gold, as upon all other clothes of silk
wrought with gold or silver of Cipre, and gold of Luk, or _Spanyssh
laton_." _Ibid._ p. 255.^{a} On the Rolls of the 12 and 13 Edw.
IV. we find "Basons _conterfete of Latyn_, and two other basons of
_laten_" spoken of. _Ibid._ vol. vi. p. 37. Fabian, by his Will in
1511, ordered that a stone of marble should be laid on his grave,
"about the borders whereof I will be fastened a _plate_ of laton,
within that plate graven thies words," &c. and Lady Mauley, in
1438, bequeathed xx marks "for a marble stone with her portraiture
thereon in copper or _latten_ gilt." In the agreement for the tomb
of the Earl of Warwick in the 28 Hen. VI. it is covenanted that
certain parts shall be made of the _finest latten_, and to be
gilded, and which latten was to cost x_d._ per pound.--Dugdale's
_Warwick_. It was used for crosses, candlesticks, plates for tombs,
effigies, basons, &c. _Testamenta Vetusta_, pp. 148, 235, 261,
268, 510, 511, 610, 713. From these extracts it is almost certain
that Latten, or Laton, was neither iron, steel, tin, alkamain, or
_baterie_, but the conjectures of Dr. Meyrick, Mr. Douce, and Mr.
Todd, remain uncontradicted. The metal itself still exists on the
tomb of the Earl of Warwick just mentioned, hence there are means
of settling the question.
Latimer Master, his expences in coming from and returning to
Cambridge, 73.
----, for preaching before the king, 30.
These entries are of much interest. The first has been before
noticed under CAMBRIDGE, and it is only requisite, in illustration
of the latter, to observe, that it is evident this distinguished
martyr preached before Henry on the second Sunday in Lent, namely
the 13th March, 1530, and was rewarded with 5_l._ a sufficient
proof that the king was pleased with his doctrines. "His crosier is
still preserved in St. John's College, Oxford."--M.
Latronel, a jeweller, 270.
Lanners, [i.e. Laneretts,] brought, 51, 58, 141, _bis_, 149, 221,
224, 232, 236.
----, paid to persons for taking up, 51, 200.
----, for meat of a, 30.
----, for keeping a, called "Cutte," 288.
Launder, that washes the children of the privy chamber, 75, 112.
A Laundress.
----, to the, 165, 234.
Some curious particulars relative to the King's Laundress occur in
the _Ordinances of the Household_ in the 17 Hen. VIII. p. 215, who
was, it appears, then called Ann Harris. Her wages were originally
10_l._ per annum, but she obtained an addition of 6_l._ 13_s._
4_d._ more on one occasion, and on another, 66_s._ so that she
ultimately was paid 20_l._ per annum. She was bound to provide
"as much sweet powder, sweet herbes, and other sweet thinges as
shall be necessary to be occupied for the sweet keeping" of the
articles entrusted to her; and it was expressly stated that she was
to find wood and soap and every thing else out of her wages. Two
"standard chests" were, however, delivered to her, "the one to keep
the cleane stuff, and the other to keep the stuff that hath been
occupied."
Lawson Sir George, 14, 104, 282.
Layton Doctor, 63, 89, 105.
Probably Richard Layton, who became Dean of York in January,
1539, and died in 1544. His journey to Oxford in January, 1531,
doubtlessly related to the king's divorce.
Lee Lawrence, keeper of the Hounds, 81, 92, 95, 99, 106, 112, 115,
125, 126, 134, 137, 139.
---- Robert A, yeoman of the Wafery, 52, 72, 73, 139, 177, 214, 218,
257.
----, [or Leigh,] Sir Robert A, 70, 80, 154, 237, 242.
Leman, Baptist, Jeweller, 185.
Lemons brought, 71, 92, 109, 110, 141, 152, 181, 193.
Lengar John, jeweller, 51.
Leonard Lord, 241.
Apparently Lord Leonard Grey, younger brother of Henry Duke of
Suffolk.
Lesenture Marens, 57.
Leshe, yeoman of the, 75.
----, paid for fees for the, 163, 262.
---- of lanneretts, a, brought, 221, 224.
Letters brought to the king, 26, 28, 235.
----, two packets of, paid for bringing from Venice, 92.
Letter, one, brought in a purse by a monk, 239.
This is a curious entry, and may be explained by considering that
it was deemed the most respectful, and perhaps the safest, manner
of conveying a letter.
Lettuze, [Lettuce,] brought, 58, 169, 218, 220, 256.
Lewers of crimson velvet, 159.
Hawk's lewers; they appear to have cost 14_s._ each.
Lewkenor Master, 26.
Lewte, see LUTE.
Lewys William, 37, 110.
Library at Greenwich, 87.
"The highest Library" at Greenwich contained, according to the
inventory in the Harleian MS. 1419, A. f. 62, three hundred and
twenty-nine volumes.
Lile Stephen, 273.
Lincoln, lord of, 26, 28, 67.
John Longland, Bishop of Lincoln. He was appointed to that See on
the 20th May, 1520, and died 7th May, 1547.
Line, and a Last for a, 47, 55, 59. See MAST.
Linnen for Lady Anne Boleyn, for, 72.
---- Cloth, for, 97.
---- bags, for, 103.
Linnet, a, brought, 144.
Linzano Hannibal, 118.
Lion a, brought, 193.
---- of Sittingbourne, paid to the wife of the, 274.
The woman who kept the inn with the sign of the Lion at
Sittingbourne, at which Henry seems to have stopped on the 19th
Nov. 1532, on his return to Greenwich from Calais.
Lisle Lord, 112, 166, 271.
It is very difficult to say who was the personage to whom this
title is here attributed, but most probably Arthur Plantagenet,
natural son of King Edward IV. though the patent creating him
Viscount Lisle was not dated until the 26th April, 1533.
Liveries, badges on, 16.
----, for, 8, 12, 15, 30, 31, 38, 39, 41, _bis_, 49, 53, 70, 71, 81,
101, 115, _sæpe_, 120, 179, 187, 201, 203, 205, 208, 209, 214,
217, 226.
Lock William, mercer of London, 14, 45, 74, 78, 87, 128, 144, 163,
_bis_, 261, 276, 282.
Locks, paid for, 111.
----, paid the smith that carries the locks about with the king, 238,
244, 281.
Like bolts, locks seem to have been carried for the king's chamber
door by the smith of the household wherever His Majesty went.
Lodge in Greenwich Park, the, 194.
London, water-bailiff of, 37.
----, freedom of, money given to obtain the, 219.
----, Mayor of, 48,
Sir Ralph Dormer, Knt., 226,
Sir Nicholas Lambard.
---- Thomas, 38, 287.
Longe, Master, 9, 162, 163, 275, 279.
Sir Richard Long, Knt. An account of him will be found in Mr.
Gage's _History and Antiquities of Hengrave_, p. 119, from which
it appears that he was a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber, Master of
the buckhounds and hawks, High Steward or Keeper of several of the
royal demesnes, and Captain of Guernsey. He was seated at Shengay
and Hardwicke in Cambridgeshire, and married Margaret, only child
of John Donnington, of Stoke Newington in Middlesex, and widow of
Sir Thomas Kytson of Hengrave, who died in 1540, by whom he had a
son, Henry, born 31 March, 1544, afterwards knighted, and to whom
King Henry VIII. and the Duke of Norfolk were sponsors, and three
daughters. Sir Richard Long died in October, 1544, and an abstract
of his will is given in that admirable work. His widow married
to her third husband John Bourchier, Earl of Bath, and died 12
January, 1561, æt. 52. Elizabeth, the daughter and heiress of Sir
Henry Long, his son, married William Lord Russell, of Thornhaugh.
Long bows, to the yeomen of the, 180.
Looking-glasses, for, 251.
Lorraine, Cardinal of, 264. See also De LARENO.
Lovell, gardener of Richmond, 15.
----, Peter, a Frenchman.
Lovekyn George, 61.
Lloyd Edward, 112, 126.
Lubished Master, 44.
Luke Master, 236.
Luter, to Arthur the, 131, 233.
Lute-strings for, 25, 201. See INSTRUMENTS.
Lyne Edmond, a huntsman, 53, 69, 92, 116, 141, 180, 202, 284, 286.
Lyle Richard, 233.
Lylgrave William, embroiderer, 128.
Lynney, one of the king's children of the stable, 29.
Lyveretts [Leverets] brought, 225.
Maiohu, Pilgrim, 165.
Malte John, 222, _sæpe_, 223.
Mancyon Andrew, 226.
Mantway, Marquess of, 280.
Apparently Frederick II. Duke of Mantua, who died in 1540. He
sent Henry a present of mares in December, 1532, and whose servant
received 46_l._ 13_s._ 4_d._ "in reward" for bringing them.
Mares brought, 280.
Mariner, to a, 274.
Marion, the blade smith, or cutler, 108, _bis_, 190.
Mark, of the Privy Chamber, 11, 14, 18, 38, 40, 44, 53, _bis_, 61,
73, 75, 78, 84, 86, 98, 100, 121, 124, 126, 138, 139, 153, 165,
170, 173, 183, 197, _bis_, 200, 206, 219, _bis_, 237, _bis_, 259,
261, 262, 264, 265, 281.
This person, who, it is manifest, was wholly supported at the
king's expense, and who, it may be consequently inferred, was
one of his favourite minions, was the notorious Mark Smeton,
a musician, who was accused of criminal familiarity with Anne
Boleyn, and upon whose cowardly perjury, chiefly, that victim was
condemned. The best account of him is that given by Cavendish:
"My father a carpenter, and laboured with his hand
With the swett of his face he purchast his lyvyng
For small was his _rent_, much lesse was his land;
My mother in a cottage used dayly spynnyng
Loo in what mysery was my begynnyng
Till that gentle prynce, kyng of this realme
Toke me de stercore et origens pauperem
And beyng but a boy clame upp the hygh stage
That bred was of naught, and brought to felicite
Knew not myself, waxt proud in my corage
Dysdayned my father, and wold not him see,
Wherfore nowe Fortune by hir mutabilitie
Hathe made so cruelly hir power for to stretch
For my presumption, to dye like a wretch."
As his conduct was as dastardly as his birth was mean, he was put
in irons when arrested, and afterwards hanged, whilst the other
prisoners were beheaded.
Marmalade brought, 109, 117, 172, 224.
Marriages, paid to persons towards their, 17, 23, 27, 131, 134, 138,
143, 208, 209, 218, 251, 277.
Marshal of the King's Hall, to the, 191.
Mary Guylford, the king's ship, 18.
This vessel was built in 1524, and was one hundred and forty
tons burthen. In November, 1526, she was at Bourdeaux.--Ellis's
_Original Letters_, Second Series, v. i. pp. 219, 220.
Mary, Princess, the, 13, 55, 70, 98, 127, 146, _bis_, 148, 162, 183,
202, _bis_, 221, 262, 281.
----, to a physician for attending her, 146, 202.
Mary, the king's eldest daughter, afterwards queen of England. She
was born on the 8th February, 1515, and was consequently about
fifteen when she is first mentioned in these accounts. They chiefly
refer to sums paid her for pocket money, which never exceeded
20_l._ at one time, or was less than 10_l._ Upon one occasion
10_l._ was given her to be distributed in charity. The only new
facts connected with her life which they present are, that her
royal Highness was ill in June or July, 1531, and apparently again
in March, 1532.
Masking, gere for, 270.
Money paid for masquerade dresses when the king was at Calais in
November, 1532.
Mason Richard, 24.
----, John, the king's scholar at Paris, 8, 71, 119, 190, 263.
Afterwards Sir John Mason, a Privy Councillor to Henry VIII. Edward
VI. and Queen Elizabeth, and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
Having displayed much talent in Henry's presence, he was, at
the suggestion of Sir Thomas More, sent to the university of
Paris.--See _Biog. Britann._ _Art._ "Mason."
Mass Books, for, 24.
Massy, paid to him that appeched, [i. e. impeached,] 69.
An entry of 10_s._ given to an informer.
Mast and a line, for a, 55, 59, 96.
----, paid to the watermen for a, 140.
A mast and ropes for the boat, but the different prices paid for
them are curious; on one occasion 4_s._; on another 3_s._ 6_d._;
and on a third only 1_s._ 8_d._
Master, Great, to the, 59, 268.
The first entry referred to Ann de Montmorency great master of the
king of France's children, but whether the second related to him or
to the Great Master of Henry's Household is not certain, but most
probably to the latter.
Mastiffs, the king's, 7.
----, given to the king, 36, 251.
---- collars and muzzles for, 186.
Matches, money paid for two, lost by the king, 115.
Matting a boat, for, 281.
Mayling, cloths for, 159.
Cloths for wrappers.
Maynering Henry, 166.
The person who made the king's arms.
Meat, a present of, brought, 236, 255.
Medicines for horses, 118, 263.
The annual expense of "Medsons and drinks" for horses is calculated
in the _Ordinances of the Household_, in the 17th Hen. VIII. at
10_l._
Medlars brought, 176, 274.
Melons brought, 264.
Mercer, to a, for his bill, 128, 144, 188, 189, 261, _bis_.
Merchandizes, for certain, 243.
Mew, money given when the Hawks went to the, 37. See HAWKS.
Mewles, [i. e. Mules,] brought, 33.
Michell, a Smith, 147.
---- ----, one of the king's guard, 269, 274.
Midwife, paid to a, 22, 197.
Probably money paid to a midwife when the king was Sponsor to the
child.
Mighen Peter, 18.
Milan bonnets, for, 173, 208.
Miles Thomas, 123.
Milloner, to the, 33, 99, 129, 151, 164, 173, 174, 177, 185, 187,
193, 199, 208, 213, 262.
A milloner of the sixteenth, was evidently a different sort of
tradesman from the milliner of the nineteenth century, for besides
caps, bonnets, and gloves, he then sold knives, sheaths, girdles,
jewels, &c.
Mines, the king's at Lantrissen in Glamorganshire, money to be
expended on, 69.
That Henry interested himself in mining, is, the Editor presumes, a
new fact in his character. From this item we learn that he worked
a mine at Lantrissen in Wales, and ordered on one occasion that
23_l._ 16_s._ 6_d._ should be expended on it; and on another he
caused 40_s._ to be given to a miner. "All mines containing gold
or silver were styled 'mines royal.' Of the latter the richest in
Wales are in Cardiganshire. These were leased by James I. to Sir
Hugh Middleton, and the profits enabled him to bring the New River
from Ware to London; and by Charles I. to Mr. Bushel, who had
been in the service of Sir Walter Raleigh; and from this source
of wealth he raised and clothed a regiment for the king. The
Cardiganshire mines, or perhaps its richest one, called Cwm Symlog,
which yields 100 oz. of silver to the ton of lead, may be alluded
to in the text."--M.
Miner, to a, 43.
Minstrells, to, 12, 14, 15, 28, 33, 55, 64, 70, 83, 128, 134, 170,
190, 205, 252, 266.
Numerous as the entries relating to minstrels are, no additional
information is afforded to what is contained in Dr. Percy's
elaborate essay, though they frequently corroborate the statements
therein. The frequency of these payments tend, however, to
establish Henry's attachment to music. In the _Ordinances of the
Royal Household_ made at Eltham in the 17 Hen. VIII. we find that
Hugh Woodhouse, the "Serjeant of the Mynstrills," had an annual fee
of 10_l._ 16_s._ 10-1/2_d._
Mistelden, [_i. e._ Misselden] Abbot of, 237.
Molyn Jerome, 92.
Money won at the Rounds, 134.
---- borrowed for the king, 104.
---- brought to the king, 215.
---- given to an individual to be by him safely kept for the king's
use, 231.
---- lent, 200, 210, 228, 231, 234, 244.
Monk, to a, 239.
Morant, William, 7, 166, 203.
More ----, 37.
----, for the buildings at the, 40, 49.
---- Park, the keeper of, 74.
---- William, 100, 187, _bis_.
----, to blind, and his fellows, 16, _bis_.
Moret Hubert, a jeweller, 185.
Morles William, 104.
Morys Christopher, 233.
Mote Park, to the keeper of, 252.
---- ----, 263.
Morys, _i. e._ Moors, for the board of two, 123.
Mowing, paid for, 176, 230, 256.
Mundy, Ralph, a huntsman, 5, 23, 133, 137, 142, 146, 149, 154, 156,
162, 165, 167, 171, 175, 176, 180, 181, 187, 194, 197, 205, 210,
215, 222, 226, 229, 236, 241, 244, 246, 251, 265, 275, 281, 282.
Muzzles for the king's mastiffs, 186.
Myllain, [_i. e._ Milan,] Bonet, 24. See MILAN.
Myllane, [Milan,] 54.
Myllon, [_i. e_. melon,] a, given the king by an Italian, 248.
Mynion, the King's ship, 18.
In the list of Henry's navy, written on the 22nd October, 1525, and
printed in Mr. Ellis's Second Series of _Original Letters_, vol. i.
pp. 219, 220, the _Minion_ is described to be "off the tonnege of
CLX tonne, and all newe." She was at Bourdeaux in November, 1526.
Nags brought, 39, _bis_, 104, 224, 235, 267.
Nails, for, 45, 234.
Navarre Queen of, her painter, 221.
Naylinghurst, Hugh, 59, 105, 134.
A mercer.
Nedan James, the King's carpenter, 20, 82, 93, 109, 138.
Neghen Peter, 13.
Nelson John, 72.
Nets, paid for mending the King's, 70.
----, paid for carrying the King's, 139, 177, 214, 257.
Probably, Fishing Nets, which it seems were always carried with
the king in his progresses; and hence it may be inferred that His
Majesty was fond of the amusement.
Nevill Sir John, 167, 267.
Apparently the individual who served in the vanguard at the battle
of Spurs. See Lodge's _Illustrations_, vol. i. p. 2.
---- Sir Edward, 272.
Younger brother of George Nevill, Lord Abergaveny, and ancestor of
the present Earl. Sir Edward was distinguished for his knightly
accomplishments, and was for many years honoured with Henry's
favour; but being suspected of a design to advance Reginald Pole to
the crown, he was accused and tried, and beheaded at Tower Hill on
the 9th November, 1538. Cavendish informs us that he was "a comely
knight, of a goodly personage."
Nevill, Master, to his son on his marriage, 277.
Probably one of the sons of Sir Edward.
New College, Oxford, to the children of, 244.
Newelm, 156, 248, _bis_, 249.
---- Park, to the keeper of, 248.
Newne ---- of Canterbury, 12.
New Year's Gifts, 16, 101, 119.
Nicholas, Friar, 23.
Nicholas the astronomer, 130.