Part 29

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.