INDEX AND NOTES. (continued 3)

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 3000l. 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 4l. 13s. 4d.

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 6s. 8d. "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 10l. 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 6s. 8d.

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 9l. 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 13s. 4d.

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 10l. 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 61l. 2s. 8d.

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 5143l. 8s.

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 50l. 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 13l. 6s. 8d.

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 3l. 7s. 6d. 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 3l.; two pair in one coffer cost 3l., and a little pair, 20s. For five pairs, on another occasion, 8l. 6s. 8d. 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.

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, 60l. which was to be repaid in three years, and on another he received a gift of 23l. 6s. 8d. "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,

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 9li. of the King at Shovel-board, and on the other 40li. 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

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 iiijl. xiijs. iiijd. 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 vli. vjs. viiid. the tonne, wherof the weynes must have for their labour xxs.;" 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 ijs. viijd. the gallon, xxxiiijs. viijd.—for xx gallons j qrt. Malmesey, at ijs. the gallon, with xd. for spoonage, and carriage xljs. viijd.:—for xj gallons iij qrts. Sack, at ij s. the gallon, with iiij d. for spoonage xxiijs. xd.;—for xij gallons j qrt. Rhenish wyne xxiiijs. vjd." p. 193. No notice, however, occurs of Gaillac wine, which we learn from these Accounts in February, 1530, cost 5l. 8s. 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, 2,516l. 4s.

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 40s. 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 7l. 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.