Note 131 — HENRY VIII 1509-1547
Reading edition
State Papers Ven., Oct. 1515, and Letters and Papers of the reign of Henry VIII, 6th Nov. 1515. Among his jewels was ‘a chayne of golde of threefolde with a whistell and a pece of a unycornes home at it inclosed in gold,’ (Cott. MSS. App. xxviii, f. 29). The whistle was the badge of the sea officer.