Part 31

---- 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.