Nicholas Doctor, a physician, 192.
He attended Wolsey in his last illness. See Cavendish, vol. i., p.
311.
Night-Caps, 23, 31, 218.
Night-Gown, for Lady Ann Boleyn, 223.
The minute way in which the materials for Lady Ann's night-gown are
mentioned, cannot fail to excite a smile, even if it does not shock
our modern ideas of delicacy. The whole expenses of it seem to have
been 10_l._ 15_s._ 8_d._
Nightingales brought, 235.
Nods George, a huntsman, 68.
Norfolk Duke of, 32, _bis_, 33, 41, 63, _bis_, 76, 107, 150, 156,
158, 168, 169, _bis_, 180, 212, 250, 264, 267, 268, 283.
Thomas Howard, third Duke of Norfolk, K. G. He was Lord Treasurer,
to which office nearly all these entries relate.
Norice, [_i. e._ Nurse,] to a, 22, 197.
Norman, jeweller of Paris, 9.
Norris Master, 30, 175, 224, _bis_, 275.
Sir Henry Norris, gentleman of the Privy Chamber and Esquire of
the body. His career is so well known that it is only necessary to
remind the reader that he was suspected of a criminal intercourse
with Ann Boleyn, and was consequently condemned and beheaded.
Northampton, 71.
----, Mayor of, 160.
Northern man, paid to a, 206, _bis_.
Northumberland Earl of, 18, 109.
Henry Algernon Percy, K. G: sixth Earl of Northumberland. He
succeeded to that title in 1527, and was the individual who is
supposed to have been attached to Ann Boleyn before her marriage.
He was beheaded in 1553.
Norton Wood, to the Keeper of, 161.
Nott John, Groom of the Crossbows, 287.
Nowell, the King's minstrel, 64, 83, 205, 266.
Nuns of Canterbury, 22.
Nurse, paid to a, 22, 197. See MIDWIFE.
---- to the Duke of Richmond's, 41.
Nuts given the king, 160.
As the Duke of Richmond was at this time twelve years old, it would
seem that this gratuity was given to the woman who had nursed him
in his infancy, rather than to the servant who had then the care of
him.
Oars paid for, 6, 7, 262.
These entries shew the price of Oars, which it seems were sold for
1_s._ 6_d._ each.
----, boat with sixteen, 45.
Oats, paid for, 86, 189, 213.
Odal Thomas, 136.
Offering, paid for the King's, at Windsor, 140.
----, for the King's, to Our Lady of Walsingham, 214.
----, for the King's, to Our Lady of Boulogne, and to Our Lady in the
Wall at Calais, and of the Rock at Dover, 272, 273.
Ogle Thomas, 3, 7, 12, _bis_, 18, 19, 23, 28, 29, 32, 83, 107, 114,
123, 132, 196, 198, 207, 212, 216, 217, 219, 230, 247, 259, 276,
282, _bis_, 283.
Apparently the person who is described as Gentleman Rider of the
Stables, in the account of the Funeral expences of Edward IV. on
which occasion he received 'nine yards of cloth, and the same
quantity for his four servants. _Archæologia_, vol. iii. p. 386.
From the _Ordinances of the Household_ made in the 17 Hen. VIII. it
appears that his annual wages were 20_l._ and that he was allowed
one hackney.
Oil, salad, 12, _bis_.
Oking, 59, 60, 61, 62, _sæpe_.
Oliver ----, 69.
Oranges brought, 71, 80, 92, 105, 108, 109, 110, 117, 141, 152, 171,
172, 181, 193, 203, 258, 279.
---- water, a glass with, brought, 166.
---- pies brought, 32, 205.
Ordnance, paid the expenses of three persons' journey to Portsmouth
to inspect the ordnance there, 233.
This entry is of some interest, both as it shews the manner in
which forts were inspected, and the expenses of three officers of
government travelling to Portsmouth, and their charges there for
ten days. The whole amounted but to 5_l._
Oret Andrew, 195. See PAINTER.
Organ maker, to Sir John the, 131, 280.
It is almost certain that this organ maker was a priest.
Osborne Thomas, mercer of London, 133.
---- William, skinner, 269.
Otener William, jeweller, 88, 157.
Otney William, 159.
Owche, [_i. e._ a brooch,] of gold, paid for, 193.
Ox, the stalking, brought, 112. See STALKING.
Oxenbridge, 25.
Oxford, Scholars at, 82, 125, 243, 260. See SCHOLARS.
----, 3, 8, 13, 26, 156.
Oxford Lord, 127.
John de Vere, K. G. fifteenth Earl of Oxford, and Lord Great
Chamberlain. He died in 1539.
Oxford, Old Lady, 89, 173, 277.
Most probably Elizabeth, widow of John de Vere, fourteenth Earl
of Oxford, who died in 1526, S. P. and daughter and coheir of Sir
Richard Scrope, Knt. younger son of Henry Lord Scrope of Bolton.
She married first William Viscount Beaumont, and died S. P. in
November, 1537. An abstract of her Will is printed in _Testamenta
Vetusta_, vol. ii. p. 675.
Page Master, 141, 147, 159.
Page ----, 267.
Pages of the Queen's chamber, to the, 101.
---- of the King's chamber, 14, _bis_, 119, 187.
Painter, Vincent, the King's, 44, 91.
Painters to, for their livery, 120, 174.
---- paid, 44, 91, 120, 188, 195, 221, 261.
Painter, to the Queen of Navarre's, 221.
----, to Tote the, 261.
---- to a, for the expenses of painting the king's boat, 262.
As nearly all these entries respecting Painters are noticed by Mr.
Horace Walpole in his _Anecdotes of Painting_, they afford no new
information on the subject. The names of those who are mentioned
are Vincent who painted a plat of Hastings and Rye, for which he
was paid 3_l._ 10_s._; Bartholomew Penne, Anthony Toto, Andrew
Oret, and Ambrose, the Queen of Navarre's painter. Of Vincent, Mr.
Walpole gives no account; Ambrose, he conjectures to have stood in
but little estimation, because the sum given him for a picture was
only 4_l._ 13_s._ 4_d._ but of Penne and Tote we have the following
particulars: "Penne or Penn is called by Vasari not Bartholomew but
Luca Penni; he was brother of Gio Francesco Penni, a favourite
and imitator of Raphael. He worked some time at Genoa and in other
parts of Italy, whence he came into England, and painted several
pieces for the king and some merchants here. Vertue concludes that
some scriptural subjects which he found in a small room called
the Confessionary, near the Chapel at Hampton Court, particularly
the Passion, were by Penn. Vasari adds, that Luca Penni addicted
himself latterly to making designs for Flemish engravers. Toto
was afterwards Serjeant Painter, and Rymer (vol. xiv. p. 595.)
gives his letters of Naturalization. Speaking of Ridolphi fils
de Dominique Ghirlandaio, he says, 'Chez lui il y avait Toto del
Nuntiato, qui depuis s'en alla en Angleterre, ou il fit plusieurs
ouvrages de peinture et d'architecture, avec lequel Perrin fut
amitié, et a l'envie l'un de l'autre s'efforcoit à bien faire.'
But Toto's works are all lost or unknown; his fame, with that of
his associates, being obscured by the lustre of Holbein." Painters
formed part of the royal Household, for besides the entries in
these accounts of money to Toto and Penn for their livery coats, in
the _Ordinances for the Regulation_ of Queen Elizabeth's Household,
"to the Serjeant Painter and other, to his appointment" is assigned
a fee of 100_l._ per annum.
Pale John, 60.
Pale, for scowring the new Pale of the Park of Greenwich, 230.
Palfreys, for two, 209.
Palmer Sir Thomas, 17, 22.
Palmer ----, 32, 33, 267, 270.
This individual, like Domingo and a few others, seems to have been
one of the "diverting vagabonds" of Henry's court. Upon each of the
occasions on which he is mentioned, he is stated to have won money
at dice from the King.
Pandolphin, Nicholas, a Frenchman, 6.
Pantry, Sergeant of the, 14, 108.
----, trenchers delivered to the, 191.
Paris, the King's scholar at. See MASON.
Paris ware, jewellery so called, 7, 79, 169, 257, _bis_.
Parker Henry, 118, 126,
Sir Francis Bryan's servant.
---- John, yeoman of the King's Robes, 16, 82, 254, 269, 271, 279,
282.
Parlan Park, keeper of, 67.
Paroke at Oking, to the keeper of the, 62.
A Park or Paddock, evidently derived from the Saxon Peaþþoc, an
inclosure. M.
Parr Lady, 42.
Apparently Maud, daughter and co-heiress of Sir Thomas Green, and
widow of Sir Thomas Parr, Knt. She was the mother of William,
Marquess of Northampton, and of Katherine, who married Henry the
Eighth. She died in December, 1531.
Parsons, the hen-taker, 285. See HEN-TAKER.
Partner, money given to the King to play at Cards, he to be
_partener_ with the Sergeant of the Cellar, 113, 115.
Partridges brought, 10, 64, 255.
Pasties of red deer brought, 267.
Patch, the King's fool, 19, 44, 51, 53, 86, 98. See FOOL.
Pate John, 109.
Pavics, paid for xix pavics of Stele and other ware, 5.
_Pavise_ or _Pavice_, is explained to be a large shield that covers
the whole body; but such an article could scarcely be meant in this
instance.
Paul's St. School, to the master of, 106, 186, 205, 231, 259, 280.
----, proctor of Jesus Aisle in, 29, 114.
Pawlet's Master, park, to the keeper of, 151.
Pawmpelion skins of, brought, 48.
Probably skins brought from Pampellone, a town in the department
of Tarn, twelve miles from Alby. The word "Pawmpelion" does not
occur in any Dictionary or Glossary.
Peaches brought, 253, 264.
Pearls for, 9, 82, 99.
Pears brought, 65, 106, 160, _bis_, 176, 178, 249, 252, 253, 254,
258, _bis_, 267.
Peascods brought, 136.
Peascods seem formerly to have been a favorite article of food.
In "London Lickpenny," they are said to have been cried about the
streets of London.
Peckham Lane, paid for making a way there against the king rode by,
177.
Pellets, [_i. e._ shot,] paid for, 19, 146, 157.
---- for the stone bow, 220.
Pembroke, Marchioness of, 254, 261, 272, 274, 275, _bis_, 276, 277,
282.
Ann Boleyn. See some remarks at the commencement of the volume.
Pene, Anthony, painter, 120, 174.
The Christian names both of Pene and Tote are transposed in the
last entry. See PAINTER.
Penshurst, 114.
Pension, paid to a person in, of a groat a day, 164.
Pepins brought, 109.
"Perform," [_i. e._ to make up,] a sum, 26.
Periwig, for Sexton the fool, 13.
Pero, the king's minstrel, 83, 266.
Perpount William, draper, 82.
Pery Robert, 33, 52, 83, 100.
----, servant of the Marquess of Exeter, 62.
Perys. See PEARS.
Peter, a falconer, 70.
Peter Maria, a sackbut, 173.
Petticoat, for a, 199.
Pety John, the minstrel, to, 52, 110, 114, 128, 147, 190, 234.
Pew of the Chapel, 78.
Pewe, to Our Lady of the, 174.
Our Lady of Pity, an image of the Virgin, sitting with the body
of Our Saviour extended across her lap. Anthony Woodville, Earl
Rivers, by his Will, dated on the 23rd June, 1483, ordered that
his heart should be carried to Our _Lady of Pue_ adjoining to St.
Stephen's College at Westminster, and to be there buried; and if he
died south of the Trent, he desired that his body should also be
buried before Our Lady of Pue.--_Testamenta Vetusta_, vol. i. p.
380.
Pheasants brought, 10, 181, 265, 266, 271, 276.
Pheasant breeder, to the, 273, 280.
Phenwolf Morgan, jeweller, 7, 8. See FENWOLF.
Philberts [filberts] brought, 66.
Philip, paid to, for Lute-strings, 25.
---- of the Privy Chamber, to, 25, 26, 86, 100, 110, 169, 187, 269,
271.
----'s boy, 36, _bis_, 44, 53, 73, 86, 98.
Philipps John, smith at Westminster, 88.
---- Robert's wife, of Greenwich, 103, 110.
Physician, to one that attended the Duke of Richmond, 189.
----, paid a, 192.
----, to the Princess Mary's, 202.
Pictures brought, 87, 221.
Pipewell, 109.
Pissow Park, to the keeper of, 74.
Pitch for the King's barge, 45. See BARGE.
Pitcher-House, to one of the, 251.
Pixell, servant of, 152.
Pixhalle's house, 151.
Plague, to poor people sent out of Greenwich in consequence of the,
79. See BANISHED.
Plat of Hastings and Rye, for a, 91.
Clearly a plan of those towns, the word _plat_ occurs continually
in a similar sense. Thus in the account in the Harleian MS. 1419,
of furniture in Henry the Eighth's palaces, we find "a long case
for _plattes_ covered with vellett," "a case of tynne with a plat."
"Certeyne plattes and petygrees in a Cupborde," &c. but the best
idea of a _plat_ is afforded by the plate in the second volume of
Mr. Ellis's Second Series of _Original Letters_, which is called
"A _Platt_ of Calais." In the MS. from whence it is taken is a
"_Platt_ of the Lowe Countrye and Calleys, drawne in October,
37 Henry VIII. by Thomas Pettut." As in the Harleian MS. 1419,
the word, "Mappes and Pictures" occur, it is evident that a plat
differed from both, though it would appear from the engraving
alluded to, that it partook of the character of each. The price of
the "Plat of Rye and Hastings," which was executed by Vincent the
King's painter, was 3_l._ 10_s._
Plate, baskets to carry, 20.
---- and Jewellery, for, 23, 31, 103, 104, 105, _bis_, 188.
----, standards for carrying, 43. See STANDARDS.
---- and stuff, paid to people for attending on that which belonged
to the Cardinal, 123.
----, cotton bought to truss, 190.
Play, money borrowed at, 18.
----, money lent to the King at, 76, _bis_.
----, delivered to the King for, 94.
----, money for, 76, 94, 98, 101, 113, 131, 204, 205.
----, money, delivered to Lady **** for, 131. See GAMBLING.
----, money paid to Lady Ann Rochford, to, 131.
Playing at Tennis, for, 134. See _Gambling_.
Plesurs, oranges, dates, and other "plesurs" brought, 203.
Plovers brought, 110.
Plowfeld, clerk of the Wardrobe, 183.
Plume, for a, 268.
Plymer, or Plumer, Alart, jeweller of Paris, 9, 16, 21, 99, 106, 270.
Pocket-money, to the Princess Mary for, 70. See MARY.
---- for, to the Princess Mary and Lady Margaret Douglas, 183.
Points, Hosen for, 283.
Strings or fastenings for hosen.
Poles, paid for, 22.
Pole ----, Polle, Pollo. See POWLE.
Polling John, to, 43.
Pomegranates brought, 95, 105, 141, 171, 172, 181, 258.
Ponds, for wading, 235.
----, for drawing the, at Antyll, 238.
Poor man, paid to a, in the harvest at Woodstock, 156.
---- woman, to a, that gave the King fruit, 160.
---- people, money distributed to, 282.
Pope's ambassador, 9.
---- Julius' game, money lost at, 274, 275, _bis_, 276, 277.
This game is mentioned in these accounts for the first time, hence
no description can be given of it. All which can be inferred on the
subject from these entries is, that it was played by four or more
persons, and that it was not in use at Henry's court until the end
of the year 1532. It is most probable that it derived its name from
Pope Julius the Second, who died in 1513, and was possibly very
similar to our present Pope Joan.
Popingay, one offered the King, 277.
Porpoise a, brought, 267.
Porter, to the Sergeant, 256.
Portsmouth, paid the expenses of inspecting the ordnance there, 233.
See ORDNANCE.
Posset ale, for Sexton, 34.
Archdeacon Nares says Posset was a drink composed of hot milk,
curdled by some strong infusion, which was much in favour with our
ancestors both as luxury and medicine. "Posset ale" was probably
hot milk curdled by ale, but whether given to the Fool as a
"luxury" or "medicine" does not appear, as it is included in the
expenses of his washing, shoes, and "other necessaries."
Post, paid to a, 56, 59, 196.
Pottersperry Park, paid to the keeper of, 160, 240.
Powle, the keeper of the Barra horse, 133, 165, 183, 199, 204, _bis_,
218, 247, 278. See BARBARY HORSE.
Pounder Sir William, 100, 183, 203, 214, 266, 281.
----, paid for the christening of his child, 214.
---- Lady, 124, 135, 137, 232.
It is manifest from most of these entries, that those individuals
were especial favourites of Henry, who it seems acted as sponsor
to their child, but the Editor has not been able to discover any
particulars about them.
Pount John, 135.
Powell, a merchant, 167.
Presents brought, 74, 93, 250.
Prest, 83, &c.
This word occurs continually in reference to money advanced to
servants on their wages, and clearly meant money paid to persons
before their salaries were due. In the _Shrewsbury Papers_ we find
Lord Wharton informing the Earl of Shrewsbury in June, 1557, "The
olde guarresone not paide for their half yeare, ended the xiiij
of Febr. laste; and for this other half year which shall ende the
xvjth day of Auguste, excepte money delivered _in preste_ by the
layte Treasourer which will appear upon declaracion of his accompt.
Hear is noo Treasurer knowne, nor when they shall be paide."
To which the Editor has added the following note: "This term,
derived from _pret_, French, _ready_, was always applied to money
transactions, but had various acceptations. In military affairs
prest or imprest money usually meant the gratuity by which recruits
were retained, from whence the well known phrase, '_pressing_ into
the service.' In this instance it signifies the sums issued from
time to time by the treasurer for the current use of the army."
Lodge's _Illustrations_, vol. i. p. 237. The sense, however, in
which this word is used in these accounts is derived from the
French _Prest_, a loan. Cavendish uses it in precisely the same
way. Speaking of Wolsey's pecuniary necessities he says "it was
concluded that he should have by the way of _prest_, a thousand
marks out of Winchester Bishoprick," p. 239.
Priest, paid to a sick, 77.
---- at Hounsdon, to the, 214.
---- to the, that sings at the Roods, 276.
----, money distributed to, 282.
Pricks, for making, 145, 148.
----, money won of the King at the, 266, 267.
Pricks were the points or marks in the centre of the Butts in
archery.
Primero, the game of, 263.
A game at cards, said by some writers to be one of the oldest known
in England. See Nares' _Glossary_, where the manner of playing it
is fully described.
Princess Mary. See MARY.
Printed Books, for, 101.
Printer, to a, 44.
Printer, to the king's, 101.
Prison, paid to a poor woman to redeem her husband out of, 73.
Prisoners brought up, 153, _bis_, 207. See TRAITOR and FELON.
Proctor to the, that came from Cambridge, 30.
---- of Jesus' Aisle, in St. Paul's, 29, 114, 196.
Progress, money paid on the King's, 75.
---- paid the King's fool's expenses during the whole, 247.
---- for bolts for the King's chamber doors during the, 251. See
BOLTS.
Puddings brought, 50, 89.
----, to the woman that makes the King's, 83.
Pulter James, 241.
Purton, yeoman of the Toiles, 19.
Purveyor of Hens to the, 109, 119, 129. See HEN-TAKER.
Pury Robert, 122, 287, _bis_, 291, _bis_. See PERY.
---- William, 76.
Putney, 139, 142.
Pykering Sir William, 220.
The entry relating to this individual is not a little amusing,
for it seems that he won 2_l._ 5_s._ of the King by a bet that
he would outrun his own dog. He is thus described by Lloyd. "His
extraction was not noble, his estate but mean; yet was his person
so comely, his carriage so elegant, his life so gravely reserved
and studious, and his embassies in France and Germany so well
managed, that in King Edward's days he was by the council pitched
upon as the oracle, whereby our agents were to be guided abroad;
and in Queen Elizabeth's, designed by common vote for the prince
by whom we were to be governed at home. He received extraordinary
favours, no doubt, so deserving he was: he wished no more, he was
so popular; and when his service was admitted to Her Majesty's
bosom, all fancies but his own placed his person in her bed."
_State Worthies_, Ed. 1766, vol. i. p. 415. Sir William died at
Pickering House in London in 1574, aged 58, and was buried under
a magnificent tomb in the Church of St. Helen the Great and Less.
Queen Elizabeth, according to his epitaph, was, "principi ommum
illustrassimæ summus officris devotissimus." _Pennant's London_,
p. 416. A copy of Edward the Sixth's "Instructions to Sir William
Pickeringe, Knt. one of the Gentlemen of His Highenes Chamber
toucheing the revocatione of Sir John Masone and the said Sir
William to supplie his rome as residente ambassadore in Fraunce,
dated 30th June, 1551," is preserved in the _Harleian_ MS. 353, f.
113.^{b} If, as Pennant states, he was born in 1516, he could only
have been sixteen years old when he ran a race with his dog, and
thereby won a wager of 45_s._ from Henry, a time of life suitable
to such an action; but it is singular he should have been knighted
at so early a period.
Pylleson, Michell, 240.
Pyne, the hosier, 18, 19, _bis_, 44, 61, 66, 86, 94, 98, 109, 122,
131, 138.
Pynn ----, 85.
Pynner ----, 50, 115, 201.
Pyper Hans, and Bartholomew, his fellow, Dromslades, 214. See
DROMSLADES.
Quanden Simon, a jeweller, 270.
Quariars, for wax to make, 116.
In the _Northumberland Household Book_ is an entry of "wax wrought
in Torches," and of "wax wrought in _Quarions_," which Bishop Percy
thus explains. "A Quarion was a square lump of wax with a wick in
the centre. Round lumps of the same are still used in the Royal
nursery under the name of Mortises." The word also occurs in the
same sense in a MS. dated at Eltham, January, 22 Henry VIII. and
noticed in the _Archæologia_, vol. iii. p. 156. "An account was
to be taken of all fuel, wine, &c. and wax lights, spent in the
King's Privy Chamber, returning to the chaundry all the remains of
mortars, torchers, _quarries_, prickets, and sizes."
Quarterage [_i. e._ Quarter's wages] for the watermen's, 279.
Quenay Vincent, [a Clockmaker,] 215.
Queen the, 43, 183.
An affecting proof of the little consideration in which the
unfortunate Katherine was held is afforded by the fact, that
during three years her name only twice occurs in the Privy Purse
expenses of her royal husband, and then only in reference to two of
her servants. Ann Boleyn is mentioned in almost every page, though
she was then unmarried, and every buffoon and jester of the Court
is frequently noticed, whilst the Queen of England is passed over
in silence.
Quene apples brought, 163.
Queristers [_i. e._ Choristers]. See WINDSOR.
Quick Deer, brought, 16. See DEER.
----, Seal a, brought, 37.
Quinces brought, 170, 171, _bis_, 252, 256, 264, 266.
---- pies brought, 201.
---- baked, brought, 213.
Quiver a, brought, 83.
Radishes brought, 169.
Raisins brought, 109.
Ralph the huntsman, 41.
----, shirts for, 84.
Ramsey, Abbot of, 106, 190.
Rangers of Windsor Forest, 56.
Rasin ----, 97.
Rasmus, the armourer, 123, _ter_, 135, 228, 259. See also ERASMUS.
Ratcliff Master, 200, 224, 268.
Apparently Sir Humphrey Ratcliffe one of the Gentlemen Pensioners.
Upon one occasion it seems the King lent him 100_l._ He is spoken
of in Cavendish's _Life of Wolsey_, Ed. Singer, 1815, vol. i. pp.
333, 4.
Rat-taker, to the, 228.
Raleigh Park, 16, 19.
Raynezford Humphrey, keeper of the King's private Buckhounds, 7, 19,
24, 28, 34, 38, 49, 55, 61, _bis_, 66, 67, 73, 77, 81, 86, 99,
105, 112, 115, 125, 126, 133, 137, 139, 142, 146, 154, 156, 160,
162, 165, 167, 176, 180, 181, 187, 194, 197, 205, 208, 210, 215,
222, 226, 229, 233, _bis_, 234, _sæpe_, 236, 238, 241, _bis_,
244, 246, _bis_, 248, 249, 251, 253, 260, 265, 275, 281, 282,
284, 290.
Reading, Abbot of, 65, 89, _bis_, 153, 158, 248.
Reading, 248, 249, _bis_.
Rebeck, for a, 114.
A stringed instrument resembling a fiddle. The price of a Rebeck in
1531, appears to have been xx _s._
Rede, bailiff of Greenwich, 104, 173, 263.
---- John, gardener of Beaulie, 80, 81, 103, 234, 264, 288.
---- Marshal of the King's hall, 79, 125.
Reed, for the King's barge, 45.
Reed was probably used in cleaning the bottom of the barge. On such
occasions it is affixed to a pole, set on fire, and applied to melt
the mixture of pitch, &c. with which the bottom of an uncoppered
vessel is covered.
Redemption of a jewel, for the, 88.
This curious entry is noticed under JEWELL and ROCHFORD.
Reding William, a mercer, 215.
Relick Water brought, 67, 148.
What _Relick Water_ was cannot be exactly explained. On one
occasion it was sent by the Abbot of Westminster, whose servant
received 20_s._ for bringing it; and on the other, a glass of it
was brought from Windsor to Hampton Court, the bearer of which was
paid only 12_d._ It was probably a strong scented spirit, and from
its name we may infer that its virtues were of a superior nature,
even if they were not supposed to have been derived from some
sacred object or ceremony.
Remnant of a piece of cloth of gold, 190.
Removing day, for the, 234.
The day upon which the Court removed from one Palace to another.
Renell ----, 267.
Rent of Houses, 79, 182. See HENCHMEN.
---- of a house at Greenwich, for my Lord of Rochford, 128.
Repairs of the king's house at Chatham, for, 229.
---- at Grafton, for, 241.
---- for, at Woodstock, 248.
Reppe Doctor, 8.
Retinue of Calais, for the payment of the, 43.
Rhods [_i. e._ Roods] to the priest that sings at the, 276.
Robbed, paid in charity to a man who was, 194.
Ribband for, 84.
Rice Master, 84, 167.
Richard, a falconer, 28.
Richmond, 15, 45, 60, 178.
----, the Gardener of 44, 66, 165, 168, 174, 181, 216, 249, 254, 264.
----, Keeper of, 76.
----, Duke of, 40, 41, 42, 131, 189.
Henry Fitz Roy, natural son of King Henry VIII. by Lady Elizabeth
Talboys. He was born in 1519, and on the 18th June 1525, was
created Earl of Nottingham, and Duke of Richmond and Somerset, K.
G.; on the 26th of July following he was constituted Lord High
Admiral. He married Mary, daughter of Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, but
died before consummation on the 24th July, 1536. When the Duke is
first mentioned in these accounts, he was eleven years of age:
arrows were then purchased for him, and his nurse is said to have
received 40_s._ in reward. In the same year 20_s._ were paid for a
lute for him; and it appears that in January 1532 he was ill, for a
physician was paid 40_s._ for visiting him.
Rider, to Alexander the, 184.
Riding boys, 29, 41, 83, 86, 91, 94, 98, 100, 107, 114, 123, _bis_,
131, 132, _bis_, 176, 207, 212, 216, 230, 259, 263, 276, 277. See
BOYS OF THE STABLE.
Riding bonnets, for, 99.
----, Caps of black velvet, 25.
Ridley ----, a tailor, 215.
Rigeley Rowland, 109, 195.
Rights, paid to Mark and the two Guilliams against Easter for to take
their, 121.
Upon this item the Editor is unable to throw any light. If it means
a payment of their accustomed gratuity of 20_s._ each, at Easter,
it would be intelligible, and it is difficult to explain it in
any other way; for that money should be paid to an individual for
receiving what was his "Right," seems almost absurd.
Rightwise, Master of St. Paul's school, 106.
The King ordered 13_l._ 9_s._ to be given to this person in January
1531, but for what reason does not appear.
Rings, for finding one of the king's, 20.
Rings and Bolts, for the king's chamber doors during a progress, 251.
See BOLTS.
Road, paid for improving a road against the king passed, 177.
Robes, groom of the. See CECIL and PARKER.
----, Yeoman of the, 82, 269, 271, 279, 282. See CECIL and PARKER.
----, Stuff delivered by the keeper, for the Marchioness of Pembroke,
254.
Roche ----, a mercer, 59.
Rochford Lord, 34, 37, 68, 72, 128, 144, 156, 189, 195, _bis_, 209,
_ter_, 210, _bis_, 226, 232, 263, _bis_.
George Boleyn Viscount Rochford, the brother of Queen Ann Boleyn.
The history of this amiable young nobleman is too well known to
require any further notice of him in this place. Almost all these
entries shew the high favour in which he was held by Henry, for it
is manifest from them that he was the King's constant companion,
and was always one of his parties, at shooting matches, bowls,
dice, cards, and indeed at every other species of amusement.
Rochford, Lady Mary, 88.
Apparently the sister of Lord Rochford and Queen Ann Boleyn, though
it is extraordinary that she should be called Lady Mary _Rochford_.
She married first Sir William Carey, by whom she had Henry Lord
Hunsdon, and secondly, Sir William Stafford, Knight. The entry
relating to her is not a little curious; it appears from it that
her sister Anne Boleyn had pawned a jewel to her for the sum of
20_l._ which was redeemed out of the Privy Purse expences by order
of the King.
---- Lady Ann, 108, 111, 113, 123, 133, 215.
It seems that all these entries referred to Ann Boleyn, and ought
to have been inserted under her name. They are, however, alluded to
at the commencement of the volume.
Rods, binding rods for poles paid for, 22.
Rods, [Roods] to the king's bedesman at the, 122. See also RHODS.
Roger, 67.
Rogers ----, 186, 216.
Both these entries are of payments made to him for money won from
the King at play.
Rolls, the Master of the, 33.
John Taylor, who was appointed to that office on the 27th June
1526, and held it until 1534.
Rolte John, yeoman of the Leshe, 75, 163, 263.
----, Sergeant, 155, 172, 235.
---- John, 229.
Romayne Henry, a smith, 111.
Romsaye ----, 245.
Roots brought, 4, 8, 96, 169.
Roses brought, 148.
Rosewater brought, 63, 181, 257.
Rother, [_i. e._ Rudder] for a new, 96.
Rotherham Master, 71.
Rounds, for making of, 107, 145.
A kind of Target at which arrows were shot, both for practice and
amusement. Cavendish says, that when he was sent for by Henry to
Hampton Court, after the death of Cardinal Wolsey, "I found him
shooting _at the rounds_ in the park on the backside of the garden,
and perceiving him occupied in shooting, thought it not my duty to
trouble him, but leaned to a tree intending to stand there, and to
attend his gracious pleasure. Being in a great study, at the last
the King came suddenly behind me where I stood, and clapped his
hand upon my shoulder, and when I perceived him, I fell upon my
knee. To whom he said calling me by name, 'I will,' quoth he, 'make
an end of my game, and then I will talk with you,' and so departed
to his mark, whereat the game was ended. Then the king delivered
his bow unto the yeoman of his bows and went his way inward to the
palace." _Ed. Singer_, 1815, vol. i. p. 328.
----, money won at the, 134.
Rowed, to the men that rowed the king, 127, _bis_.
Rowland ----, a keeper of Waltham Forest, 72.
Rowme, to Rutter, for his fee due for his rowme in Windsor Forest,
286.
Rowme appears to have been a common expression for "place," or
"situation," thus in Lodge's _Illustrations_, in a letter dated
28th April, 1516, "The Master of the Rolles is departed, and Doctor
Tunstalle hath his _rowme_, as the saying is." Vol. i. p. 9. The
fee in question was due to him by virtue of office, which was that
of keeper of Windsor Forest.
Running the King's geldings, 18, 29.
---- boys, 54,
Boys who rode the king's racing horses.
Rushes, to burn with salad oil, 12.
Russell, Sir John, 18, 85, 118, 241.
Ancestor of the Dukes of Bedford, and founder of the honors of that
illustrious family. He was created Baron Russell of Cheymes, on the
9th March 1538, was a Knight of the Garter, Lord Admiral, and Lord
Privy Seal, and in 1549, was raised to the Earldom of Bedford.
Russell Lady, 107, 245.
Wife of Sir John Russell just mentioned. She was the daughter and
co-heiress of Sir Guy Sapcotes, Knight, and widow of Sir John
Broughton, of Teddington, in the county of Bedford.
Rutter William, one of the keepers of Windsor Forest, 40, 180, 286.
----, 227.
Rydley Robert, a taylor, 5, 60.
---- page of the king's chamber, 23.
Rye and Hastings, for a plat of, 91. See PLAT.
Rye was at that time a sea-port of some importance, and maintained
several ships of war. In Lodge's _Illustrations_, vol. i. p. 63,
is a letter from the Privy Council, dated in 1544, in which the
following passage occurs: "The town of Rye hath all this year had
iij or iiij vessells abrode for the warres, and gayned very moche
by it."
Rynning boys. See RUNNING BOYS.
Sabellius Davy, 132.
Sables several tymb' of, brought, 105.
Sacre. See SAKER.
Sackbuts and other musical instruments, for, 86.
----, paid to, 129, 173, _bis_, 174.
----, to the one belonging to the French Queen, 248.
Persons who played on the Sackbut, _i. e._ a brass trumpet.
Saddler, the king's, 68.
Saddles, for, 257.
Sail, for a, 262.
Sakar a, brought, 91.
---- and Sakeretts, paid for, 192.
"A _Saker_ is a passenger or peregrine Hawk, for her eyrie hath not
been found by any. She is somewhat larger than the haggard falcon,
her plume is rusty and ragged, the sear of her foot and beak like
the lanner; her pounces are short; however she has great strength,
and is hardy to all kind of fowl."--_Gentleman's Recreation._
A _Sakerett_ was probably a young Saker. Six Sakers and five
Sakeretts cost, in 1532, eight crowns a-piece, the sum paid for the
eleven being 20_l._ 10_s._ 8_d._
Sakfelde, the groom porter, 120.
Salad Oil, a potell of, 12, _ter_.
---- Herbs brought, 176, 216.
Salisbury Master, 65, 156.
Salmon, a fresh, brought, 31.
Sampson Adam, 105, 110.
Sandes, Sir Richard, 91.
Sandwich, 273, _bis_.
----, Friars of, 273.
Sandys' Lord, park to the keeper of, 151.
Satin Crimson, for, 86, 117.
---- black, for a cloak, 222.
---- Bruges for, 222.
Saumon John, 229.
Sawcy, to the Lieutenant and keepers of the forest of, 241.
Salcey, in Northamptonshire.
Scassebrig Thomas, one of the Pitcher House, 251.
Scawesby ----, 46.
Scholars at Oxford, gratuities to, 8, 157, 243.
---- at Paris, a gratuity to, 119.
----, for the Exhibitions of, 46, 82, 165, 207, 260.
----, for the Exhibitions of, at Paris, 8, 71, 90, 190, 263.
Scholars, to Mr. Ratcliffe, a scholar at Cambridge, 224.
Among the few redeeming traits in Henry the Eighth's character,
was a love of learning, to which each of these entries bears
additional testimony. Besides occasional gifts to Scholars of
Oxford, Cambridge and Paris, and which in three years amounted to
83_l._ 13_s._ 4_d._ he also gave exhibitions, the whole expences
of which in the same period were 63_l._ 6_s._ 8_d._ He moreover
supported two scholars at St. Paul's School, the charges for
which were 30_l._ 3_s._; making, if 13_l._ 9_d._ paid to the
master of that school in January 1531, be included, a total of
190_l._ 12_s._ spent from November 1529 to December 1532, for the
encouragement and advancement of erudition; a trifling sum, it is
true, when compared with recent instances of Royal munificence, but
important when the value of money, and the manners of the times are
considered.
Science, paid to a jeweller to be employed in his, 156.
The use of the word _Science_ in this sense is rather curious.
Scot John, 23, 39, 87, 108, 132, 182, 205, 217, 277, 281.
A Mercer or Taylor.
---- Thomas, 173.
---- Richard, 194.
A gratuity of 20_s._ to him in consideration of his having been
robbed.
Scotland, to a gentleman of, 56.
Scottish Ambassadors, money given to the, 250.
---- Gentleman, to the, 9, _bis_.
Scowring the new pale in Greenwich Park, 230.
Scrivan', Peter the, 23.
A Scrivener, who had probably been employed in transcribing; the
sum paid to him was considerable, namely, 14_l._ 9_s._ 4_d._
Scrivener of London, to a, 84.
Scullery, to one of the, 252.
Scut John, 6.
Sele, [_i. e._ a Seal] brought, 37, 46.
Seal Great, to a poor woman to purchase out, the, 148.
Apparently a gift of 20_s._ 4_d._ to pay the fee of affixing the
great seal to some instrument affecting her interests.
Secretary Master, 26, 77, 144.
Probably the Principal Secretary of State, but it is not certain
who filled that office, in 1530 and 1531. Cromwell was not
regularly appointed to it until 1534; but it is most likely that he
was the person so designated in these accounts.
Sergeant of the Cellar, 64. See CELLAR.
----, Porter, 256.
Apparently Edmund Knyvett, who certainly held that office in August
1519. See _Testamenta Vetusta_, p. 568.
---- Apothecary, 146.
Servants, [_i. e._ Falconers, Huntsmen, &c.] wages and expences of,
from January to March 1529, 284 to 289.
Service, to a German that offered his, to the king, 117.
Sets, for those lost by the king at Greenwich, 143.
Sets meant either games or wagers.
Sexton Philip, the fool, 5, 11, _bis_, 13, 17, 21, 24, 25, 31, 34,
38, 45, 61, _bis_, 73, 75, _bis_, 80, _bis_, 86, 120, _bis_, 138,
_bis_, 139, 164, 168, 183, 193, 199, 215, 217, 231, 238, 247,
265, 271, 274, 281. See FOOL.
Seymour Sir Edward, 5, 17, 36.
Afterwards the King's brother-in-law, and Duke of Somerset, the
celebrated Protector of England. These entries show the familiar
manner in which he was treated by Henry as early as 1529. The first
item is of a payment to him of 337_l._ upon a reckoning between His
Majesty and himself, and the second and third to money lost to him
by the King at play. On one occasion Sir Edward won of Henry the
large sum of 376_l._ 10_s._
Seymour, Robert, 273.
It has not been ascertained who this individual was. The entry
relating to him is a payment of 4_l._ 13_s._ 4_d._ which he had won
of the King at Tables.
Shafts for, 47, 265.
Shalms, brought to the king, 26.
---- for Tenor and Treble, 86.
A Shalm is explained by Mr. Ayrton, whose professional reputation
renders him excellent authority on such a subject, "to be the base
Cornet." Ellis's _Original Letters_, Second series, vol. i. p. 273.
Bishop Percy informs us that "it was a wind instrument like a pipe,
with a swelling protuberance in the middle:"
[Illustration]
"Item, my Lord useth and accustometh yearly when his Lordship is
at home to gyf to iij of the Kyngs _Shames_ when they come to my
Lord yerly x s." _Northumberland Household Book_, p. 341. Cavendish
says, when the king of France came, "he danced, and others with
him, the most part of that night; my Lord's minstrels played there
so excellently all that night, that the _shalme_ (whether it were
with extreme labour of blowing, or with poisoning, as some judged,
because they were more commended and accepted with the king than
his own, I cannot tell,) but he that played upon the _shalme_, an
excellent man in that art, died within a day or twain after." Ed.
Singer, 1825, vol. i. p. 114. Perhaps the earliest drawing of a
Shalm extant, is in the Illustrations to the copy of Froissart, in
the British Museum, Royal MS. 18 E. I & II.
Sheathes for knives, of velvet, paid for, 161.
Shepey, paid the watermen for rowing the King to, 262.
----, 265, 266.
Shere Robert, keeper of the beagles, 17, 24, 39, 50, 54, 59, 75, 79,
_bis_, 89, 94, 111, 126, 136, 149, 166, 167, 177, 187, 194, 198,
204, 213, 219, 231, 246, 250, 260, 275, 287, 290.
---- John, keeper of the beagles, 125.
Sic in MS. but query, if not a mistake for _Robert Shere_.
Ship, paid for discharging the, that brought Cardinal Wolsey's goods,
112.
----s, paid when the King viewed his, 260.
Henry's attachment to naval affairs has been fully established, and
he consequently paid great attention to his ships. A curious list
of his Majesty's navy, in 1525, 6, is given by Mr. Ellis, in his
_Original Letters_, second Series, v. i. p. 218 et seq. as a note
to a very interesting letter on the subject from Sir Edward Howard,
Lord High Admiral, in 1513. See also a letter from some ladies to
the King from Portsmouth about the year 1540, acquainting the King
with the pleasure they derived from inspecting "the Great Harry."
_Ibid._ _First Series_, vol. ii. p. 126.
----, the Master Treasurer's, 6.
Evidently the ship belonging to Sir William Fitz-William,
afterwards Earl of Southampton, and which by his will dated in
September, 1542, he thus bequeathed to the King--"Item, I give
to the King's Majesty my _great ship_, with all her tackle,
and my collar of the garter, with my best George beset with
diamonds."--_Testamenta Vetusta_, p. 707. Individuals frequently
owned ships which were employed in the King's service, and which
seem to have been considered as a sufficient means of support, for
Sir Edward Howard, the Lord Admiral, in his will dated in 1512,
says, "Whereas I have two Bastards, I give the King's grace the
choice of them, beseeching his Grace to be good Lord to them, and
that when he cometh of age he may be his servant; and him that the
King's Grace chuseth, I bequeath him my bark, called 'Genett,' with
all apparel and artillery, and L _li_ to begin his stock with: the
other I bequeath to my special trusty friend, Charles Brandon,
praying him to be good master unto him; and for _because he hath no
ship_, I bequeath to him C marks to set him forward in the world."
_Ibid._ p. 534.
----, Purveyor of the, 179.
Shirts for, 17, 53, 78, 84, _sæpe_, 97, 101, 104, 119, 121, 136, 197,
261, 283.
---- for washing Sexton's, 21, 34, 45.
----, for a bag for the King's, 103.
---- for making eight for the, King, 256.
Shoes for, 30, 31, 34, 53, 119, 123, 136, 139, 183, 219, 259, 263,
264, 283.
Shoemaker, to the, 30, 31, 53, 103, 139, 259, 264, 281.
Shooters, to, 66.
----, paid to two of the, for their livery, 201.
Shooting, for, 67, 72, 76, 85, 135, 144, 145, 156.
----, money lost by the King at, 50, 118, 120, 137, 159, 226, 229,
237, 250.
All these entries refer either to money paid to individuals, as a
reward for their dexterity in shooting, or to bets lost by the King
at shooting matches.
Shots, paid for seven lost by the King, 118.
Shovelard, [_i. e._ Shoveller] a, brought, 175.
Shovillabourd, Money lost by the king at, 188, 189, 195, _bis_, 209.
Archdeacon Nares explains Shovel-board to be "a common trivial
game, which consisted in pushing or shaking pieces of money on a
board to reach certain marks. Shovel-board play is graphically
described in a poem entitled _Mensa Lubrica_, &c. written both in
Latin and English by Thomas Master. The English Poem is cited at
large in Bliss's edition of _Anth. Wood_, vol. iii. p. 84. The
table had lines or divisions marked with figures, according to
the value of which the player counted his game. It is minutely
described by Strutt, _Sports and Pastimes_, p. 267, as still in
use in pot houses, and played with a smooth halfpenny. The game
was also called Shove-groat, Shove-board, and Shuffle-board."
_Glossary._
Shrobbe, Hanley and Wakefield, to the ranger and keepers of, 160.
These three places are in Northamptonshire; the latter is now the
seat of the Duke of Grafton.
Shrobbes, to the keeper of the, 161, 241.
A walk in Whittlewood Forest.
Sick men, paid for, 77, 145.
---- priest, paid to a, 77.
---- woman, paid to a, 135.
---- people, paid to, whom the King healed, 16, 20, 37, 40, 46, 156,
160, 161, 163, 164, 170, 221, 225, 243, 249, 253, 264, 272, 277.
People supposed to be healed by the King's touch from the disease,
thence called the King's Evil. "Andrew Borde, who wrote his
_Introduction to Knowledge_, in king's reign, states, that 'the
Kinges of England, by the power that God hath gyven to them, doth
make sicke men whole of a syckness called the Kynges evyll.' This
extract and the entry above are sufficient to prove, were other
evidence wanting, that Dr. Percy was much mistaken in supposing
that 'this miraculous gift was left to be claimed by the Stuarts."
Some curious matter upon this subject is collected in a note by
Nichols, _Literary Anecdotes_, 195, II. 504, Reed, Shak. X. 243,
and see 195. Amongst the Conway papers (MSS) there is an order
for a proclamation, dated 13th May, 1625, to forbid the repair
of people to court till Michaelmas following, to be healed of the
King's Evil, and that for the future all shall bring certificates
from the minister, &c. of the parish, for that many being healed,
have disposed of their pieces of gold otherwise than was intended,
_and thereby fall into relapse_.' Sir Kenelm Digby informed Mons.
Moncenys, that if the person cured lost the piece of gold, the
complaint immediately returned. Moncenys' _Travels_, t. ii. p. 20.
Fabian Phillips, in his _Treatise on Purveyance_, asserts that the
angels issued by the Kings of England on these occasions amounted
to a charge of 3000_l._ per annum, p. 25. See Barrington _on the
Statutes_, 107, 8. M.--See also HEALED.
Sick, paid the surgeon's bill for Grand Guilliam when he was, 245.
Sickness, money given to a servant during his, 64.
Sidney. See SYDNEY.
Signet, to Godsalve, clerk of the, 106.
Silks brought, 18, 45, 78, 82, 116, 163, 262.
Silver, money in, delivered to Lady Ann Boleyn, 95.
Singers, to the French King's, and those of the Cardinal de Larenno,
268, 269.
"Rewards" given to those persons at the interview between Henry and
Francis the First in October, 1532. They had probably sung in the
king's presence, for which each party received 4_l._ 13_s._ 4_d._
Sittingbourne, 274, _sæpe_.
Skevington Master, 28, 162.
Skinner, ----, 75, 80, 265, 269, 271, 274, 281.
Sexton the Fool's servant.
----, to the, 44, 183, 261, 269.
Skins brought, 68, 72.
---- of Pawmpelion, 47. See PAWMPELION.
To which it is only necessary to add that they might have been
skins brought from Pampeluna, instead of Pampellone.
Skyppe Master, 32.
Skrenes, for stools, forms, and, 120.
Skutt John, 179, 223.
Sleves, paid for two pair of, 31.
Sloppes, paid for a pair of, 274.
Archdeacon Nares says, "Slops or trowsers, now familiarly used
for garments of all kinds," _Glossary_; and the authorities there
adduced prove the correctness of the definition. The pair bought
for the king cost 6_s._ 8_d._ "Sometimes I have seen Tarleton
play the clowne, and use no other breeches than such _sloppes_ or
slivings as now many gentlemen weare." Wright's _Passions of the
Mind_. Ed. 1601.
Smith Robert, 22.
Smythe Thomas, 170, 183, 219, _bis_, 238, 259, 261, 265, 269.
For the following Note relative to this individual, the Editor is
indebted to Joseph Gwilt, Esq. F.S.A. a descendant of his family:
"Thomas Smith, whose name so frequently occurs in these accounts,
was most probably afterwards of Campden, Co. Gloucester; he had
also a grant of the manor of Lyersocle, Co. Heref. jointly with his
son-in-law, Hugh Walshe, which was confirmed in the 35th of the
same king. That Smythe was a man of considerable importance, may
be inferred as well from his matrimonial alliances, as from the
inscription on his monument, in which he is described, '_a pueritiâ
suâ aulicus_.' In the College of Arms there is a grant to Thomas
Smith, by Christopher Barker, dated Boulogne 1544, and afterwards
confirmed by Gilbert Dethick, from which it appears that he was
at Boulogne in that year; probably attendant on the court there.
Elizabeth, the first wife of Thomas Smith, was daughter and coheir
of Eustace Fitzherbert, and relict of Edward Smith, of Cresing
Temple, Co. Essex, by whom she had two children. By Thomas Smith it
is not clear from the pedigrees, which exhibit some discrepances,
that she had issue. His second wife was Katharine, daughter of
Sir George Throckmorton, of Coughton, relict of Robert Winter, of
Hoddington; Co. Wigorn, by whom he had a numerous family. He was
Sheriff of Gloucestershire in the years 1571 and 1593 and died
1593. Over the place of his interment near the altar of Campden
Church, on the north side, is a canopied monument of the time
with his figure in knight's armour of the size of life. On the
compartments between the pedestals under the columns are bassi
relievi, representing his two wives, seven sons and six daughters.
On the western face of the monument, are the arms of Smith, viz.
a Fess between three Saltires; and in another escotcheon, the
Crest, viz. two Amphibamies indorsant. On the south side are three
escotcheons, the westernmost with the arms of Smith. The next
towards the altar, Smith impaling Throckmorton; and Olney, Spyne
and Bosson, quarterly. The last, Smith's impaling Fitzherbert in
the first and fourth, and two other coats quarterly. Against the
north wall of the chancel is the following inscription:--'Hic
jacet vir verus Christianus Thomas Smith Armiger quondam Manerii
di Campden Dominus, a pueritiâ suâ aulicus, qui suo tempore fuit
e consiliis Regis Marchiæ Walliæ bisque Vicecomes comitatus
Gloucestriæ, ac justiciarius pacis ejusdem comitatus usque ad
extremum ætatis, qui habuit duas uxores; primam Elizabetham Filiam
et hæredem Eustatii Fitzherbert Armigeri, secundam Katharinam
filiam Georgii Throckmorton Militis cum filiis et filiabus ut hic
patet qui obit die ... Anno Dom. MDXCIII.'
There is little, doubt that this Thomas Smith was the father
of Henry Smith, Esq. an Alderman of London, who is buried at
Wandsworth, and whose extensive charitable benefactions in Surrey
and elsewhere are universally known. He bore the same arms with a
difference, as appears by the funeral certificate, in the College
of Arms, Register i. 23. 30, and there are many other circumstances
which tend to strengthen such a conjecture."
It appears from the _Book of Quarterly Payments_ from the 29th to
the 33rd Henry VIII. in the library of the Royal Society, that
Smith was a Page of the Chamber, and received 10_l._ _per annum_
for his wages; and it is manifest from these entries that like
Smeton and the two Williamses, he was a peculiar favourite of
Henry, for all his apparel was paid for out of the privy purse, and
he accompanied the King to Calais in October 1532.
Smith Walter, 242.
----'s to, 111, _bis_, 238.
---- to a, in Deptford, 31.
---- the Master, 233.
---- to the, for bolts and rings for the King's chamber doors during
the progress, 251.
---- to the, for carrying locks with the King to Calais, 271, 281.
Snuffers, paid for, 4, 89, _bis_, 108.
Solicitor of the Staple of Calais, 93. See CALAIS.
Sodde wine, brought, 109.
Sodd the preterite of seethe, _i. e._ boiled.
Sokat brought, 67,
Spalding, Prior of, 137.
Spaniel a, brought, 5.
Spanish woman, to a, 110.
Spencer Master, to the keeper of his park, 157, 158, 242.
---- ----, 159, 236, _bis_.
Apparently Sir William Spencer of Althorp, ancestor of the Duke
of Marlborough and Earl Spencer. He was knighted in 1529, and in
the 23rd and 24th Henry VIII. was Sheriff of Northamptonshire. Sir
William died, however, on the 22nd June 1532, a month before his
servant is said to have brought a present to the King. His son and
heir was then very young, hence these gifts were probably sent by
his mother or guardians.
Spert Thomas, 171.
Spruce, [_i. e._ Prussia] costs of going into the land of, 181.
Spurs to the Choristers of Windsor, in reward for the King's, 55, 58,
253.
Money paid to redeem the King's spurs, which had become the fee
of the Choristers of Windsor, perhaps at installations, or at
the annual celebration of St. George's feast. No notice on the
subject occurs in Ashmole's or Anstis' _History of the Order of the
Garter_. The composition was 6_s._ 8_d._
Staber, Sir Lawrence, 132, 235.
Stable, to one of the, 23.
----, boys of the, 29, 38, 182, 230, 247, 281, 282, 283.
----, to Alexander of the, 276.
Stafferton ----, 253.
Stafford, a prisoner brought from, 207.
Stag a, brought, which the King had taken, 152.
----s brought, 66, 152, 155, 163, 193, 220, 235, 245, 254, 255.
---- paid for carrying a, to Windsor, 245.
Staines, to men of, 31.
Staker Sir Lawrence. See STABER.
Stalking Gelding, for meat for a, 132.
---- Horse, 162, 194.
---- Ox the, brought, 112.
A Stalking Horse, Archdeacon Nares informs us, was "sometimes a
real horse, sometimes the figure of one cut out and carried by the
sportsman for the following purposes. On being found that wild
fowl which would take early alarm at the appearance of man, would
remain quiet when they saw only a horse approaching, advantage was
taken of it, for the shooter to conceal himself behind a real or
artificial horse, and thus to get within shot of his game." In the
_Gentleman's Recreation_ both kinds of stalking horses, and the
manner of using them, are fully explained. All these entries on
the subject seem to refer to a real horse, and we learn from one
of them that an ox was employed for the same purpose. A _stalking
horse_ occurs in the list of Henry's horses in the _Ordinances made
at Eltham_, in the 17th Henry VIII. p. 200.
Standards, for carrying Plate, 43.
The word is used in a similar sense by Cavendish. "The King caused
to be sent him three or four cart loads of stuff, and most part
thereof was locked in great _standards_ (except bed and kitchen
stuff) wherein was both plate, and rich hangings, and chapel
stuff." Ed. _Singer_, 1825, vol. i. p. 224.
Steel Plate, bundells of brought, 87.
Stem and stem lock for the boat, 211.
Stephen, the hardwareman, 31.
----, the King's embroiderer, 124.
Steward Lord, 61.
Stocks, [_i. e._ Stockings] for pairs of, 94, 237.
Stonar Robert, keeper of Waltham Forest, 66, 164, 172, 235.
Stonar Sir Walter, 146.
Stone bows, strings for the, 19.
Stone, [in Kent] 266, 274.
Stony Stratford, 160.
Stools, for tables, forms, and, 220.
Strawberries brought, 45, 141, 147, 221.
Strene the, brought, 151.
This entry almost defies explanation. The only instance in which
_strene_ occurs in the Glossaries is synonymously with _strain_, a
race, descent, lineage. Hence it might, however unlikely, mean a
pedigree; but it is more probable that it was kind of _strainer_.
Strings for cross bows, 19.
String-maker for bows, his bill paid, 180.
Stubbes Doctor, 6, 23, 36, 114.
Stuff bought, 212, 213.
Stuff, paid for fetching, 122, _bis_, 128, 132, 139, 159, 177, _bis_,
208, 269, 274.
Stuff, for keeping the Cardinals, 126. See CARDINAL.
---- to a clock-maker, for such as the King bought, 215, _bis_.
---- paid for, 217, _bis_.
---- delivered by the keeper of the Robes for the Marchioness of
Pembroke, 254.
Sturgeon a, brought, 43, _bis_, 176, 226.
Subdean of the King's Chapel, 93, 200, 260.
Sucado brought, 184, 224.
Sugar brought, 176.
Suffolk Duke of, 15, 18, 24, 33, 64, 115, 154, 245, 251, 268.
Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, Henry's brother-in-law.
Sun, crowns of the, 126. See CROWNS.
Surgery, for, 245.
----, paid to the French fletcher towards his, 67.
Surgeon, to a, that healed Little Guilliam, 128.
Sussex, 232.
Swan a, brought, 107.
Sweet waters, brought, 81.
Swords for, 51.
----, paid for keeping the King's, 108.
----, paid the cutler for dressing the King's, 272.
Sydney Sir William, 29.
Apparently Sir William Sydney, grandfather of Robert, Earl of
Leicester, a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber. His wife, who was
probably the Lady Sydney here mentioned, was Ann, daughter of Hugh
Pagenham, Esq.
---- Lady, 32, 201, 205, 213.
Sydrons, [_i. e._ Citrons,] brought, 80.
Sympringham, Prior of, 109.
Sypres, [_i. e._ Cypress wood,] a coffer of brought, 184.
Taberet Peter, a minstrel, 70, 209.
Tabulls, [Tables,] brought, 48.
Tables for playing the game so called. See _infra_.
Table, Chess, &c. 81.
Tables, money given the king to play at the, 272, 273.
_Tables_ is considered to be the old name for back-gammon. In
the frontispiece of Strutt's _Sports and Pastimes_ an engraving
of a _Table_ occurs. Sir William Compton, by his will dated in
1523, bequeathed to Henry "a little chest of ivory, wherof one
lock is gilt, with a chess-board under the same, and a pair of
_tables_ upon it, and all such jewels and treasures as are inclosed
therein." _Testamenta Vetusta_, p. 593. Tables are thus spoken of
in a _Knight's Instructions to his Daughters_, originally written
in French, in April 1371, and translated about the reign of Henry
VI. "Ther was a gentille knight's daughter that wratthed atte the
_Tables_ with a gentill man that was riotous and comberous and hadd
an evelle hede, and the debate was on a point that he plaide that
she saide it was wronge, and so the wordes and the debate rose so,
that she saide that he was a lewde fole and thanne lost the game in
chiding." _Harleian_ MSS. 1764, f. 7^{b}
Table of wood, for a, 199.
Tables, forms, &c. for, 220.
Table-cloths, for diaper for, 264.
Taffeta, crimson, in grain, for, 87.
Talbot, Bryan, 31, 43, 83, 96, 110, 135, 166, 175, 188, 212, 281,
284, 290.
Numerous as these entries are, they afford no information on the
situation which Talbot filled. His wages were 9_l._ per annum, and
we may infer that he was one of the servants.
Tallowing the King's barge, for, 45, 211. See BARGE.
Tar for the King's barge, 45. See BARGE.
Tarsel, paid for a, 10.
---- a, brought, 62, 187, 237, 244.
Or Tassell Gentle, properly Tiercell--the male of the Goshawk. It
is called gentle, from its docile and tractable disposition. Nares'
_Glossary_. The value of a tarsell in 1529 seems to have been
13_s._ 4_d._
Tate Bartholomew, painter, 120. See PAINTER.
Taylor, to a, 44, 199, 215.
---- James, a waterman, 78.
---- George, servant to Lady Ann Boleyn, 7, 9, 61, 111, 113, 114,
145, 179, 183, 203, 250, 261, _bis_, 264.
---- John, a waterman, 59.
Tebbes ----, of Deptford, 177.
Tempest Sir Richard, 247.
A reward of 10_l._ was paid to him at Abingdon in August, 1532, but
for what reason does not appear.
Tennis, money lost by betting at, 36.
----, money for, 86.
----, money lost at, 268.
----, to one that served on the king's side at, 180.
---- Play, for the costs of, 134, 183, 193, 206, 209.
---- ----, to Anstey of the, for balls at Calais and Greenwich, 283.
Tertagats paid for, 135.
This entry must mean targets or bucklers. The cost of "divers"
amounted to so large a sum as 61_l._ 2_s._ 8_d._
Tewke Sir Bryan, 19, 22, 24.
Mr. Ellis states that this individual was Treasurer of the Chamber,
and was appointed Secretary to the King for the French tongue, with
a salary of 100 marks, in 1523. He purchased the manor of Layer
Marney in Essex in 1525, and was Sheriff of that county in 1533. He
died on the 26th October, 1545, and was buried at St. Margaret's,
Walbrooke. _Original Letters_, First Series, vol. i, p. 283. Mr.
Ellis has printed some, and referred to several of his letters.
Collins says, Tuke was Secretary to Cardinal Wolsey, _Peerage_, Ed.
1779, vol. i. p. 87. The entries respecting him in these accounts
only refer to the months of January and February, 1530, and relate
to payments of large sums to the Emperor, or for other purposes.
The whole amount paid into his hands on those occasions was
5143_l._ 8_s._
Tewksbury Abbot of, 149.
Thirlby Doctor, 262.
Afterwards the first and only Bishop of Westminster. Mr. Lodge says
of him in a note to a letter in his _Illustrations_, that he was
an able civilian, and was employed in several embassies by Henry.
He was translated to Norwich by Edward VI. and to Ely by Mary, and
died at Lambeth, 26th August, 1570. That elegant writer farther
observes, "The mildness of his conduct during the persecutions
of the Protestants by Mary, secured him a quiet retreat in the
following reign. In making a grave for the burial of Archbishop
Cornwallis, at Lambeth, in 1783, the body of Bishop Thirlby was
discovered in its coffin, in a great measure undecayed, as was the
cloathing. The corpse had a cap on its head, and a hat under its
arm."
Thomas, a footman, 94, 69, 142.
---- John, sergeant at Arms, 153.
---- the Jester, 41, 126, 204. See FOOLS.
Thomson, ----, 58, 177.
Thorns for Greenwich Park, paid for, 205.
Tierces of wine, for the lading of, 99.
Tissue, pieces of, paid for, 6, 105.
Token a, sent from the King to Sir Francis Bryan, 125.
The word _token_, per se, evidently meant any thing sent as a
mark of kindness. In this instance it was 50_l._ but it was more
frequently a jewel or other article of value. Thus in the instance
of Cardinal Wolsey, when Henry was informed by Dr. Butts that
unless he sent him some testimony of his favour he would die
within four days, "Even so will I, quoth the King, and therefore
make speed to him again, and ye shall deliver him from me this
ring for a _token_ of our good will and favour towards him, in the
which ring was engraved the King's visage within a ruby, as lively
counterfeit as was possible to be devised."--"And then he spake
to Mistress Anne [Boleyn] saying, 'Good sweetheart, I pray you at
this my instance, as ye love us, to send the Cardinal a _token_
with comfortable words, and in so doing ye shall do us a loving
pleasure.' Incontinent, she took her tablet of gold hanging at her
girdle, and delivered it to Master Buttes with very gentle and
comfortable words," &c. Cavendish's _Life of Wolsey_, Ed. Singer,
1825, vol. i. p. 226. An engraving of this scene is given from a
MS. in the possession of Mr. Douce in that interesting work.
Totehill, 107, 118, 120.
Tomb, paid for the King's, 101.
This entry is rather extraordinary, because Henry VIII. expressly
states in his will, dated on the 30th December, 1546, sixteen
years afterwards, that his tomb was not then made. He orders that
his body shall be buried in the choir of his College of Windsor,
"mid-may between the Halls and the High Altar, and an honourable
tomb for our bones to rest in be made, if it be not done by us in
our life-time." But it is evident from the item in question that
a tomb was began for him as early as December, 1530, towards the
expences of which Cromwell was then paid 13_l._ 6_s._ 8_d._
Torch Sir, the King's bedeman, at Greenwich, 33, 88, 122.
Tote Anthony, 174, 188, 251, 261. See PAINTER.
Towels for diaper for, 264.
Tower, stuff sent from the, to Windsor, 251.
----, the expences of rowing the King to the, 278, 279.
Towing, paid to the waterman for, 140.
Toyle, yeoman of the, 9, 19.
Traitor, for taking of a, 86.
Treasurer, the King's, 22, 62, 93, 117, 131, 149, 189, _bis_, 255,
272.
Until the 26 Henry VIII. 1532, Thomas Boleyn, Earl of Wiltshire,
father of Queen Anne, is said to have been Treasurer of the
Household; in which year Sir William Fitz-William, afterwards
Earl of Southampton, was appointed to that office; but in
the will of Sir David, Knt. dated in February, 1529-30, he
speaks of "Sir William Fitz-William, Treasurer of the King's
Household."--_Testamenta Vetusta_, p. 701; and there are other
causes for believing that he was Treasurer of the Household at the
whole period embraced by these accounts.
Tregonnar ----, 69.
Tremesin Peter, a dompnu, 218. See DOMPNU.
Trenchers, paid for, 14, 108, 191, 243.
Trimmed, caps trimmed and garnished with gold buttons, 33.
Trimming, paid for trimming horns, 184.
----, the King's barge, 44, 45.
----, a garden, paid for, 177.
----, the King's gun, for, 194.
These entries are inserted under the word _Trimmed_, or _Trimming_,
to shew the varied sense in which it was used.
Troughton Robert, 234.
Trussing Coffers, for a pair of, 49.
Packing Chests.
Truss, cotton brought to truss plate, 190.
To pack it so that it might not be injured by friction.
Tunbridge, 250.
Turkesses, for, 51.
_i. e._ Turquoises, which were then considered as valuable gems.
Twelfth Night, money given the King on, for play, 15.
Tyldesley William, Groom of the Chamber, 157.
Tylson James, 65.
Tymb' of Sables, brought, 105.
Tythes, paid for, 214.
Vanryketson David, 235.
Vaughan ----, Groom of the Chamber, 160.
Vellum, for, 137.
Velvet, purple bought, for Lady Anne Boleyn, 4.
---- for covering Mass Books, 24.
----, crimson upon velvet, 189.
Perhaps a kind of double velvet.
----, black, for a cloak, 222.
Venecian, paid to a, 157.
Venice, to a post from, 56.
Venison brought, 140.
Vestments, paid for making, 129.
Vice Chamberlain, to the, 283.
Apparently Sir Anthony Wingfield.
Villiers Christopher, 95.
Vincent, the King's painter, 44, 91. See PAINTER.
----, the Clockmaker, 93.
Viols, to three of the, 260.
A payment of 3_l._ 7_s._ 6_d._ to three persons who played on
the viols. Mr. Ayrton observes, "A chest of viols was a set of
instruments comprising a treble, a tenor, and bass viol, or what we
now denominate a violin, viola, and violoncello." Ellis's _Original
Letters_, Second Series, vol. i. p. 272.
Virginals, for, 37, _ter_, 110.
A Virginal is thus explained by Mr. Ayrton. "The Virginal was that
which afterwards took the name of Spinnet, and differed from it
only in shape. The Spinnet was triangular, the Virginal oblong,
like our small piano fortes." Ellis's _Original Letters_, Second
Series, vol. i. p. 272. The item in p. 37, describes the different
kinds of Virginals with their respective prices; two pair in a box
with four stops, cost 3_l._; two pair in one coffer cost 3_l._, and
a little pair, 20_s._ For five pairs, on another occasion, 8_l._
6_s._ 8_d._ were paid.
Upshot, for one upshotte that he wanne from the King, 143.
In the sense in which _Upshot_ is there used, it seems to mean a
wager or rather stake, or sum played for.
Upton, the Church of St. Lawrence at, 36.
Vyne the, 151, 152.
The seat of Lord Sandys.
Wading, a pond for, 235.
Waders for, at Greenwich, 263.
Wafery, yeoman of the, 139.
Wager in hunting, money lost in a, 162, 163.
----, a curious, won, 263.
Waits of Canterbury, to the, 266, 274.
This is perhaps the earliest instance known of the use of the word,
in the sense of nocturnal musicians, as Archdeacon Nares, does not
cite any older authority than Beaumont and Fletcher. They appear
to have played to the King whilst at Canterbury, on his route to
Dover on the 9th October, and on his return the 18th of November
1532. Among the entries in the Household expenses of Thomas Kytson,
Esq. in January 1574, is "In reward to Richard Reede, one of the
_wayghtes_ of Cambridge, for his attendance in Christmas time
xxs."--_History and Antiquities of Hengrave_, p. 201.
Wakefelde, Shrobbe, and Hanley, to the rangers and keepers of, 160.
These three places are in Northamptonshire. Wakefield Lawn is now
the seat of the Duke of Grafton.
Wales, Greyhounds brought from, 162.
---- paid the expences of a journey into, 193.
Waleston Christopher, 255.
Wall, for a new at Blackheath, 213.
Walshe Master, 4, 16, _bis_, 53, 108, 146, 232.
Apparently Sir Walter Walshe, Knight, a Gentleman of the Privy
Chamber, who was sent to the Earl of Northumberland's house to
arrest Cardinal Wolsey. See _Singer's Edition of Cavendish_, 1825,
vol. 1, pp. 272, 275, _et seq._
Walshe Walter, 4, 44, 60, 74, 76, 79, 85.
It is most likely that this was the same person who is described
elsewhere as Master Walshe.
---- ---- 9, 22.
---- William, gardener of Greenwich, 39, 50, 84, 94, 124, 137, 163,
213, 218, 232.
----'s Daughter, 228.
Walsingham, for the king's offering to the image of our Lady of, 214.
Offerings to the image of our Lady of Walsingham, were common at a
very early period. William de Ufford, Earl of Suffolk, ordered by
his will, dated in 1381, that a picture of a horse and man armed
with his arms, should be made of silver, and offered to the altar
of our Lady of Walsingham. _Testamenta Vetusta_, p. 115. In the
_Vision of Pierce Plowman_ pilgrimages to our Lady of Walsingham,
are thus noticed. "Hermits on a heape, wyth hoked staves, wenten to
Walsingham."
Walter, a falconer, 38.
Waltham, 72, _ter_, 73, 77, 163, _bis_, 164, 171, 177, 230.
---- Forest, 43, 66.
---- ----, rangers and keepers of, 74, 170, 172, 235, 254.
---- to the keeper of the abbot's park of, 180.
Wanstead, to the gardener of, 34, 58, 75, 103, 122, 142, 167, 182,
206, 230, 260, 282.
Ward for the board of a person being in, 78.
Either a person under confinement, or more probably one of the
King's wards.
Warde Thomas, 53, 90, 145, 148, 250.
It is evident that he was an artizan of some kind, probably a
builder, as many of these entries relate to repairs at Windsor; and
the others to payments made to him for new butts, rounds and pricks.
Wardens brought, 105, 110, 126, 167, 265, 266, 274.
Large pears. Cavendish describes Wolsey as eating _roasted wardens_
at the moment in which he was seized with his fatal illness. "It
came to pass at a certain season sitting at dinner in his own
chamber, having at his boards end that same day, as he divers times
had to accompany him, a mess of the Earls' gentlemen and chaplains,
and eating of _roasted wardens_ at the end of his dinner, before
whom I stood at the table, dressing of those wardens for him,
beholding of him I perceived his colour often to change," &c. Ed.
_Singer_, 1825, vol. i. p. 300. In a poem written by Lydgate temp.
Henry VI. he thus alludes to _Wardens_.
"Eke othere frutes, whiche that more common be,
Quenyngges, peches, costardes, and _wardens_."
Illustrations to a _Chronicle of London_, 4to. 1827, p. 245.
Warden Lord, [of the Cinque Ports] 267.
Washing the Chapel, stuff for, 93.
---- for, 234.
Waters [probably sweet] brought, 5.
---- sweet, brought, 5, 15.
---- bailiff of London, 37.
Watermen, to the king's, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11, _bis_, 12, 22, 24, 25,
29, 45, _bis_, 46, 47, _bis_, 54, 55, _sæpe_, 59, _bis_, 78, 79,
87, 90, 96, _sæpe_, 112, 114, 118, 119, 120, 122, 127, _bis_,
128, _bis_, 134, 136, 139, _bis_, 140, 142, _bis_, 164, 171, 174,
175, 177, 179, _sæpe_, 180, 182, _sæpe_, 192, _bis_, 195, 201,
_ter_, 208, 211, 215, 217, 219, _bis_, 228, 229, 251, _bis_, 252,
258, 260, _bis_, 262, _bis_, 277, 278, 279, 286, 291.
See BARGE and BOAT to which a set of watermen was of course
indispensable.
Waterman, to a, 89.
----, paid to a strange, 118.
Wax, for hard and fine to make Quariars, 116. See QUARIARS.
Wax, a tree of, 234.
Perhaps a taper or torch of large dimensions, standing upright like
the stem of a tree, and thus opposed to quariars.--M.
Webbe Henry, 97, 112, 168.
Neither of these entries afford any information as to who this
person was.
Weeding, paid for, 39, 50, 84, 94, 124, 206, 207.
Wellesborne Master, 97, 151, 210.
Probably Sir John Wellesborne, called in the _Ordinances of the
Household_, 17th Henry VIII. "Sir John Welshbone, one of the
Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber." On one occasion he borrowed of the
King, 60_l._ which was to be repaid in three years, and on another
he received a gift of 23_l._ 6_s._ 8_d._ "in reward."
Welshe ----, the Queen's servant, 183.
West John, one of the guard, 115, 131.
Westby Thomas, one of the King's Chaplains, 7, 24.
Westcote John, keeper of the park of Windsor, 13, 54, 140, 174.
---- ----, 275.
Westminster, 128, 142, 175, 277, 279, 281.
----, Abbot of, 148.
----, the clock-maker at, 58.
----, for the King's buildings at, 228.
---- Place, 234.
Westmoreland the Earl of, 5.
Ralph Neville, K.G. He succeeded to that dignity in 1523, and died
in 1549.
Weston Master, 15, 17, 18, 37, 38, _bis_, 44, 46, 50, 78, 86, 98,
126, 150, _bis_, 186, 227, 229, 232, 248, 265, 271, 272, 274,
275, 277, 278.
So little is known of the family of this individual, that the
following particulars may be useful. He was the eldest son of Sir
Richard Weston, of Sutton, Co. Surry, Knt. who in the Herald's
Visitations of that county, is styled "Miles pro corpore, Magister
Wardorum, Thesaurar' Calisie, et Sub-Thesaurar' Angliæ." Sir
Francis Weston was a Knight of the Bath, and Gentleman of the
Privy Chamber, and fell a victim to a supposed criminal intimacy
with Queen Anne Boleyn, in 1536. He married Eleanor, widow of Sir
Henry Knyvet, Knt. and daughter and sole heiress of Eleanor, (the
daughter and heiress of Sir Roger Lewknor, Knt. one of the co-heirs
of the Barony of Camois,) by her first husband, Sir Christopher
Pickering, Knt. By her, who remarried to her third husband, John
Vaughan, of Crickhowell, and died in 1582, Sir Francis Weston left
issue a son, Sir Henry Weston, Knt.: he was living in 1582, and had
one son, Sir Richard Weston, and two daughters, Jane and Anne. Sir
Richard was living in 1608, and his son Sir Richard was residing at
Sutton in 1623, and by Grace, his wife, daughter, and heir of John
Harper, of Chelston, in Co. Hereford, had issue Richard, then æt.
5, John, Henry, and Francis. The descendants of Sir Francis Weston
here mentioned are supposed to be extinct; and Mr. Lodge informs
us that in 1782, William Webb, Esq. assumed the name of Weston, in
compliance with the will of Mrs. Melior Mary Weston, the last of
that ancient family.--_Illustrations_, vol. i. p. 30, note. See
also the _Gentleman's Magazine_, vol. lii. p. 312. These entries
shew the high favor in which he stood with the King. Cavendish
makes him say,
"I was dayntely noryshed under the king's wyng,
Who highly favored me and loved me so well
That I had all my will and lust in every thyng,
Mynding nothing less than chaunce of my endyng;
And for my dethe that present is nowe here,
I looked not for, this fyvetie or thre-score yere."
Ed. _Singer_, 1825, vol. ii. p. 31.
Weston Lady, 32, 89, 253.
Perhaps the wife of Sir Francis Weston. She is alluded to in the
last note.
----, Young Master, 10, 11, 96, 162.
Probably Henry, the son of Sir Francis and Lady Weston, mentioned
in the preceding note. He was Page of the Bed Chamber to the
King.--_Archæologia_, vol. iii. p. 155, where he is stupidly
confounded with his father.
Wheeler of Hounslow, paid to a, 178.
Wheelwright, to the King's, 154.
Whelps brought, 175.
----, of a particular breed, brought, 244.
Wherry, paid for waiting with a, 192, 197, 201, 208, 215.
Whethers Richard, 115, 209.
Whichwood, to the Ranger and Keepers of the forest of, [in
Oxfordshire] 246.
Whistle a, brought, 253.
Perhaps a dog's call, or more likely a call for Hawks. A whistle,
was then, however, the insignia of a naval commander. Sir Edward
Howard by his will, dated in 1512, bequeathed "his rope of bowed
nobles that I hang my great _whistle_ by, containing CCC Angels, to
Charles Brandon," afterwards Duke of Suffolk. _Testamenta Vetusta_,
p. 534. The fact of Sir Edward's having thrown his _whistle_ into
the sea when forced overboard by the pikes of the enemy in an
attack upon some French ships in the harbour of Conquet, is well
known.
Whitney Chace, to the keeper of, 246.
Whittelwood, to the keeper of, 161.
Whittelwood, to the Lieutenant of, 241.
Whittlewood, or Whittlebury Forest, in Northamptonshire.
White Friars of London, to the Prior and Provincial of, 100.
Wight, the Captain of the Isle of, 51.
Wigston Roger, Solicitor of the staple of Calais, 93. See CALAIS.
Wild Fowl brought, 253, 279.
Wil---- Nicholas, 132.
William, Lord, 188, 251.
Most probably Lord William Howard, son of Thomas second Duke of
Norfolk, by his second wife Agnes sister and heiress of Sir Philip
Tilney of Boston, in Lincolnshire. He is stated by Collins, Ed.
1779, vol. v. p. 15, to have accompanied the King to France in
October, 1532, having in his retinue eleven servants and two
horse-keepers. At the coronation of Anne Boleyn he performed the
duties of Earl Marshal for his brother the Duke of Norfolk, who
was then ambassador in France. During the reign of Elizabeth he
distinguished himself as High Admiral of England, was created Lord
Howard of Effingham, and a Knight of the Garter. From his Lordship
sprung the Earls of Nottingham and Effingham, both of which titles
are extinct, and the present Lord Howard of Effingham. On the first
occasion in which he is mentioned in these Accounts he had won
9_li._ of the King at Shovel-board, and on the other 40_li._ were
given him "in reward."
Williams. See GUILLIAM.
---- John, 244.
Willy, a falconer, 71, 206.
Wiltshire, the Earl of, 8, 12, 19, 62, 137, 192, 209, _bis_, 210,
211, 221, 276.
Thomas Boleyn, Earl of Wiltshire, K. G. father of Queen Anne
Boleyn. One of these entries relates to the expences of his embassy
to the Emperor in January 1530, but the greater part of the others
are of payments of money won by him from the King at bowls and
shovel-*board.
Wiltshire, Countess of, 49.
Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, wife of the
Earl of Wiltshire, and mother of Queen Anne Boleyn.
Winchester, the Auditor of, 13.
----, 58.
Windsor Park, 32, 147, 252.
----, Gardener of, 39, 54, 105, 120, 168, 181, 201, 226, 252, 280,
286, 288.
----, keepers or rangers of the forest of, 40, 66, 77, 128, 153, 253,
254.
----, armoury at, 41.
---- Park, for land bought to enlarge the, 46, 52.
----, 49, 53, 54, 55, 58, 63, 67, _bis_, 80, 140, 145, _bis_, 146,
147, 148, 245, 249, _bis_, 250, 253.
Windsor, to the Choristers of, 55, 140, 253. See SPURS.
---- Forest, to Rutter for his "rowme" in, 286. See ROWME.
Wine white, of Galiake, paid for, 24. See GALIACK.
----, Sodd, _i. e._ boiled wine brought, 109. See SODDE.
----, for hogsheads and tierces of, 98, 99.
----, paid for the king's, 155, 231.
---- Porters, for laying in wine, to the, 182, 190.
----, two bottles of new, brought, 276.
The following memoranda of the wines used in England at that and
earlier periods, may perhaps be acceptable. In the _Vision of
Pierce Plowman_, we find
"Whyt wine of Osey, and red wine of Gascoyne
Of the Renne, and of the Rochell the rosted to defye,"
mentioned; and in the _Northumberland Household Book_ is an entry
of "x ton ij hogisheds of Gascoigne wyne, for the expensys of
my house for an hole yere, viz. iij ton of Rede wyne, v tonn of
Claret wyne, and ij ton and ij hogisheds of white wyne after
iiij_l._ xiij_s._ iiij_d._ the ton."--Ed. 1827, p. 6. In Lodge's
_Illustrations_, vol. i. p. 17, Thomas Allen, in a letter to
the Earl of Shrewsbury in 1516, says, "This day I trust to send
towards Wyndfield ij tonne wyne; wherof iiij hogshedd claret, ij
red wyne, on whit wyne, and th' oder punchin freche wyne. If hit
be well carried, I trust your Lordship will lik hit well. Hit will
cost v_li._ vj_s._ viii_d._ the tonne, wherof the weynes must have
for their labour xx_s._;" and in another letter, dated in 1517,
Allen informs the Earl; "I have bought iij ton of new Gascon wyne;
weather your Lordship woll have new or olde sent downe I cannot
tell. Your Lordship comands also iij hogsheds of wyne of ----
or of wyne of Graves, and iij hogshedds of suche Frenche white
wyne as ye had last yer of John Eston to be send; her is non yet
com, neder, as Alen Kyng sheweth unto me, wolbe befor Crismas.
Y^{r} Lordship hathe ij hogsheds of olde French wyne, of Byon, at
Coleharbert; as for Rynishe wyne there cam never non so bad as com
this yer; as sone as any comys that is good your Lordship shall
have therof. As Alen Kyng sheweth unto me ther was ij vessell of
Muscadyne wyne which wer good, the King had on, my Lord Cardinall
th' oder."--_Ibid._ p. 31. Among the expenses of the Household of
Thomas Kytson, Esq. printed in Mr. Gage's _History and Antiquities
of Hengrave_, is the following interesting account of the wines
used in the reign of Elizabeth, with their prices.--"December
1572, For xiij gallons of Muscedell, at ij_s._ viij_d._ the
gallon, xxxiiij_s._ viij_d._--for xx gallons j qrt. Malmesey, at
ij_s._ the gallon, with x_d._ for spoonage, and carriage xlj_s._
viij_d._:--for xj gallons iij qrts. Sack, at ij _s._ the gallon,
with iiij _d._ for spoonage xxiij_s._ x_d._;--for xij gallons j
qrt. Rhenish wyne xxiiij_s._ vj_d._" p. 193. No notice, however,
occurs of Gaillac wine, which we learn from these Accounts in
February, 1530, cost 5_l._ 8_s._ per ton; nor are any others than
Rhenish and Malmsey wines mentioned in the MS. dated "Apud Eltham
mense Jan, 22 Henry VIII," referred to in the _Archæologia_, vol.
iii. p. 156. The total amount expended in wines in the three years
embraced by these Accounts, was, 2,516_l._ 4_s._
Wodales Master, 13.
Woking Park, to the keeper of, 253.
Wolesnay, the treasurer of, 13.
Wolf Morgan, goldsmith, 79, 105, 169, 188, 257.
Wodde Thomas â, to, towards his marriage, 143.
Wolmer, to the debite of, 151.
Apparently a mistake of the writer for the deputy keeper of Wolmer
Forest.
----, forest of, 152.
Wolverstede, ----, of the Armoury, 49.
Wolsey. See CARDINAL.
Wolverd Thomas, 234.
Wood John, a keeper of the Goshawks, 15, 34, 56, 80, 98, 118, 162,
167, 183, 200, 258, 281, 287, 288.
Wood John â, 118.
Woodcocks brought, 131.
Woodhall, 46.
Wood-knives, 65, 153, 158, 173, 248.
What a _Wood-knife_ was has not been ascertained, nor does the
word occur in any Glossary. They were possibly knives used in
hunting. With a single exception, when 40_s._ were paid for one
with a girdle, these entries refer to presents of wood-knives from
the Abbot of Reading. "Query, if a _Wood-knife_ was that short
sharp-hanger, _couteau de chasse_, used in hunting, and with which
Sir Tristrem, and other scientific sportsmen dissected their spoil
with anatomical precision?" M.
Woodstock Park, to the Comptroller and Keepers of, 244.
----, 50, 154, 156, _bis_, 157, _bis_, 159, 241, 242, 243, _sæpe_,
244, 245, _bis_.
Woodstock, for repairs at, 248.
Woolwich, paid to a French Friar that undertook to stop the breach
at, 53.
This entry seems to be of a payment of 7_l._ to a French Friar, who
undertook to repair a breach in the walls of Woolwich.
Woman, to a poor, 30.
----, paid to a sick, 135.
Work and stuff for Ann Boleyn, 183.
Worcester, Earl of, 49.
Henry Somerset, second Earl of Worcester, and ancestor of the Dukes
of Beaufort. He succeeded to the dignity in 1526, and died in
November 1549.
---- Lady, 22.
Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Anthony Browne, and wife of the Earl
of Worcester just mentioned. The entry relating to her is of a
gratuity given to her nurse and midwife, hence it is certain that
her Ladyship was confined early in February, 1530. It must have
been one of her younger children to whom she then gave birth, for
her eldest son William, third Earl of Worcester, was born in 1527.
Worsley, Sir James, 141, 169, 224.
Ancestor of the Baronet's family of that name, he died in 1538.
Wright Andrew, 113.
Wylde William, 48.
---- Philip, of the Privy Chamber, 10.
Wylkinson John â, 14.
Wyllys William, a bargeman, 135.
Wytham ----, 14.
Wythers ----, 50.
Yardeley John, a huntsman, 33, 40, 60, 73, 83, 91, 111, 119, 132,
139, 149, 164, 175, 177, 190, 199, 214, 228, 258, 275, 285, 291.
York Place, 6, 8, 14, _bis_, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 25, 35, 43, _bis_,
45, 82, 89, _bis_, 93, 95, 101, 105, 106, _sæpe_, 108, 109, 110,
_bis_, 111, 115, 117, 127, 139, 144, 177, 188, 189, 190, 280.
York Place, Gardener of, 56, 57, 58, 59, 66.
----, Keeper of, 56.
York Place or York House, now called Whitehall, belonged to
the Archbishop of York, and was possessed by Wolsey in right
of that See. Henry seized it in 1529, and made it one of his
residences.--Hall says, "after Christmas, 1530, he [the King] came
to his manor of Westminster, which before was called Yorke Place,
for after that the Cardinal was attainted in the Premunire, and was
gone north-*ward, he made a feoffement of the same place to the
Kyng, and the Chapiter of the Cathedral of Yorke confirmed the same
feoffement, and then the King chaunged the name, and called it the
Kynges manor of Westminster, and no more Yorke Place." Ed. 1809,
p. 774. Abundant proofs, however, exist in these Accounts, that it
retained the name of York Place, until the period when they close,
December, 1532.