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 BY NICHOLAS HARRIS NICOLAS, ESQ. 
 
 
 LONDON: 
 
 WILLIAM PICKERING. 
 MDCCCXXX. 
 
LONDON : 
 
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TO 
 THE RIGHT HONORABLE 
 
 PERCY CLINTON SYDNEY SMYTHE, 
 
 VISCOUNT STRANGFORD AND BARON PENSHURST, 
 
 KNIGHT GRAND CROSS 
 
 OF THE MOST HONORABLE MILITARY ORDER OF THE BATH, 
 AND" OF THE ORDER OF THE GUELPHS OF HANOVER, 
 
 AS A MARK OF RESPECT FOR 
 
 HIS HISTORICAL ACQUIREMENTS, AND OF 
 
 GRATITUDE FOR HIS FRIENDSHIP, 
 
 THIS VOLUME 
 
 IS DEDICATED 
 BY HIS OBLIGED AND FAITHFUL SERVANT, 
 
 THE EDITOR. 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 THE value of "Privy Purse Expenses" of our 
 Sovereigns, in illustration of History, having been 
 so frequently pointed out, it is unnecessary to urge 
 the utility of this volume. 
 
 It has been edited upon the same plan as the 
 " Privy Purse Expenses of King Henry the Eighth," 
 which were published about three years ago, since 
 which time numerous records of a similar de- 
 scription have been brought to light, the greater 
 part of which are scattered in various repositories, 
 and others are in the hands of private individuals. 
 Whenever the Government may think that the 
 muniments of the Country should be rendered 
 available for the elucidation of History, manu- 
 scripts of this nature ought to be among the first 
 which are collected and indexed, even if they be 
 not published by its authority. It is proper to 
 notice that copious extracts from the Privy Purse 
 Expenses of King Henry the Seventh, between 
 
PREFACE. 
 
 December, 1491, and March, 1505, have been 
 recently printed in the " Excerpta Historica," 
 which are interesting additions to those of his 
 Queen ; and that similar accounts of the Prin- 
 cess, afterwards Queen, Mary, are in preparation 
 by Mr. Madden, of the British Museum, than 
 whom a more able Editor could not be desired. 
 
 In this volume, Memoirs of Elizabeth of York, 
 and of her sisters, will for the first time be found, 
 all of whom have been unaccountably neglected by 
 historical writers. These Memoirs present new 
 facts, and it is presumed correct many important 
 errors, in the History of the Reigns of Richard the 
 Third and Henry the Seventh. 
 
 For assistance in the compilation of the Notes, 
 the Editor is much indebted to his friends the 
 Reverend James Dallaway, and John Gage, of 
 Lincoln's Inn, Esq., to whom, and to Charles 
 George Young, Esq., York Herald, for the exer- 
 cise of his wonted kindness, he offers his warmest 
 thanks. 
 
 20M November, 1830. 
 
 
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. 
 
 THE Accounts which are contained in this volume 
 afford considerable information about the latter part 
 of the reigns of Edward the Fourth and Henry the 
 Seventh; and besides illustrating the manners of 
 the period, they throw light upon some points of 
 History, as well as upon the characters of Elizabeth 
 of York and her consort King Henry the Seventh, 
 and abound in notices of other eminent individuals. 
 
 WARDROBE ACCOUNTS OF KING EDWARD 
 THE FOURTH. 
 
 The WARDROBE ACCOUNTS OF KING EDWARD 
 THE FOURTH from the 18th April to the 29th Sep- 
 tember, 1480, though preceding, in point of time, 
 the Privy Purse Expenses of Elizabeth of York, are 
 placed at the end of the volume, because they are 
 inferior in interest ; and as might be expected, 
 they are chiefly valuable for the descriptions which 
 they contain of the costume of the monarch and his 
 court, for which purpose they were consulted by 
 the laborious Strutt. The original manuscript is 
 now in the Harleian Collection in the British Mu- 
 
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11 REMARKS ON THE WARDROBE 
 
 seum, and is numbered 4780, but extracts from it 
 only have been thought necessary for publication, 
 because the Inventories are repeated, and many 
 statements of a mere official nature are introduced, 
 which it is not desirable to print at length. All 
 the articles therein mentioned, together with the 
 names of persons, have been carefully copied ; and 
 little as such a record might appear to promise of 
 historical facts, it establishes one of very great im- 
 portance. 
 
 The Accounts commence with a statement of the 
 money received and expended for the King's ward- 
 robe. Each article is minutely described, and the 
 impressions created by the perusal are those of ad- 
 miration at the splendid appearance which persons 
 of rank must have presented, and of surprise at 
 the accuracy with which the delivery or purchase 
 of every trifle is recorded. Explanations of the 
 various things mentioned will be found in the 
 notes; and though they were compiled with great 
 labour, there are a few entries which could not be 
 illustrated, because words occur which it is presumed 
 have not been discovered in any other manuscript, 
 and it is seldom that a solitary example of the use 
 of a word enables an editor to satisfy himself of its 
 precise import. 
 
 Among the more interesting passages is the list 
 of some of Edward the Fourth's books, with a 
 description of their magnificent bindings. The price 
 of wages to workmen seems to have varied from 
 
ACCOUNTS OF EDWARD IV. HI 
 
 four-pence to six-pence a day, and the pay of the 
 Clerk of the Wardrobe was only a shilling. Infor- 
 mation will be found about the equipment of the 
 suite, and of the horses of the King ; and the idea 
 which the illuminated MSS. of the fifteenth century 
 afford of the gorgeous appearance of a tournament, 
 or other assembly of nobles on festive occasions, is 
 corroborated by these descriptions. It was always 
 the practice for the sovereign to present liveries 
 to the officers of his household, and his favourites, 
 and the notices of such presents are deserving of 
 attention, from their shewing the great change 
 which three centuries have produced in the feelings 
 and usages of society. To Lord Howard, after- 
 wards the first Duke of Norfolk, and " the Jocky of 
 Norfolk" of Shakespeare^ his royal master gave nine 
 yards of black velvet ; and to the heir-apparent of 
 the Earl of Kent, for his marriage, a gown of blue 
 velvet. Gowns were also given to the Marquess 
 of Dorset and to Earl Rivers ; and coverings for bri- 
 gandines were given to Lord Audley, to Sir Thomas 
 Montgomery and to Sir Thomas Borough, two 
 Knights of the Garter. 
 
 Most of the persons thus favoured were relations 
 either of the King or of Elizabeth Wydeville his 
 Queen, and the others held situations in the house- 
 hold. The Prince of Wales, afterwards King Ed- 
 ward the Fifth, and his brother the Duke of York, are 
 mentioned as having received, the former, five yards 
 of white cloth of gold tissue, and the latter, by the 
 
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IV REMARKS ON THE WARDROBE 
 
 hands of his chamberlain, several yards of purple 
 velvet, black and green satin, and sarcenet for 
 gowns, as well as a mantle of the Order of the 
 Garter. 
 
 The slightest glance over these Accounts must 
 establish their value in elucidating the manners, 
 dresses, and furniture of our ancestors, and more 
 particularly in relation to the court and to persons 
 of rank, towards the close of the fifteenth century. 
 For the composition of historical pictures, and for 
 the stage, such a record is of the greatest utility ; 
 and even if it were confined to points which, with 
 the superciliousness of ignorance, it may be said 
 are only worthy of the attention of a frivolous anti- 
 quary, its value in illustration of history would 
 nevertheless be considerable. 
 
 It is as requisite for an Historian to be intimately 
 acquainted with the customs of the age of which 
 he writes, as for a traveller to reside some time in a 
 country before he attempts to describe the inhabit- 
 ants, lest he may consider peculiarities in dress or 
 conduct, which arise from personal caprice, as part 
 of the national character. This is fully exemplified 
 in the instance of a learned historian of the present 
 day, who, in treating of the character of Richard 
 the Third, ascribes to him a love of splendid clothes 
 and a taste for pomp, which in fact belonged to the 
 age and not to the individual. Of the mandate to 
 the Keeper of the Wardrobe to send various dresses 
 to the King at York, that writer says, " Richard 
 
ACCOUNTS OF KDWARD IV. 
 
 specifies these with an exactness and descriptive 
 detail, as if they were as minutely registered in his 
 manly memory as in that of the Queen's mistress of 
 the robes. The abundance and variety of what he 
 sends for, imply a solicitude for his personal exhi- 
 bition, which we should rather look for from the 
 fop that annoyed Hotspur than from the stern and 
 warlike Richard ; but it was the foible of his heart, 
 and like all the secret idols of our self-love, it kept 
 its station within its interior temple, however bus- 
 tling and contrasted might be the living scenery 
 that surrounded it 1 ." Again : " the King's splen- 
 dour necessarily outshone the duke of Buckingham's, 
 and from Richard's peculiar taste was ostentatiously 
 displayed. The ducal fop was transcended by the 
 royal coxcomb," &c. " Richard enjoyed his own 
 pomp with too much self-complacency to think of 
 the duke's feelings on this subject, unless to be 
 secretly gratified with his own superiority." " His 
 fastidious use and display of his regal state revealed 
 too large a personal vanity to create attachment. 
 Every one has too much of this weakness to endure 
 it from another, and as the pomp of Richard was 
 too expensive for the less affluent of the gentry, and 
 too self prominent not to make the wealthier feel a 
 great comparative diminution in his presence, it 
 increased instead of abating his personal unpopu- 
 larity 2 ." 
 
 1 Sharon Turner's " History of England," vol. iii., p. 479. 
 2 Ibid., vol. iv., p. 76. 
 
n REMARKS ON THE WARDROBE 
 
 These inferences with respect to the character 
 of Richard the Third are, it is submitted, drawn 
 from a mistaken estimate of evidence, rather than 
 from erroneous data; and they prove the neces- 
 sity of- an historian not merely using research, but 
 of being able to attach a proper value to his mate- 
 rials. The grounds upon which the opinion of 
 Richard's vanity is built are the account of the arti- 
 cles delivered out of the Wardrobe for his corona- 
 tion, the descriptions of Chroniclers of his pompous 
 appearance on public occasions, and the clothes for 
 which he sent from York. Viewed without refer- 
 ence to similar documents in previous and subse- 
 quent reigns, the conclusion is natural, that the 
 sovereign to whom they relate was a " vain cox- 
 comb," especially if the opinion be just that that list 
 was prepared by the monarch himself. But when 
 records of this nature are compared with others, 
 and it becomes evident that the splendid dresses 
 worn by Richard formed the general costume of 
 persons of rank of the age, and when the minuteness 
 of detail which is ascribed to his own taste is 
 proved to be the usual form in which Wardrobe- 
 keepers and their officers entered the articles en- 
 trusted to their custody, the error of supposing that 
 the splendour or the accurate description of the 
 robes are in any degree indicative of Richard the 
 Third's character is manifest. A reference to these 
 Wardrobe Accounts, or to any other list of apparel 
 or jewels, in the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth 
 
ACCOUNTS OF EDWARD IV. Vll 
 
 century, will prove that there is not a single cir- 
 cumstance connected with Richard which justifies 
 the opinion that he was more fond of splendour and 
 parade than his predecessors, much less that he was 
 either a " fop" or a " coxcomb." 
 
 It is only by comparing one record with another, 
 and devoting much labour to the inquiry, that accu- 
 rate conclusions on the characters of individuals of 
 the middle ages can be formed. Man is wise, vir- 
 tuous, and humane, or silly, vain, and wicked, in 
 comparison with his contemporaries. He must be 
 estimated, not by the standard of morality erected 
 several centuries after his death, but by the standard 
 of the age and country in which he lived. There 
 is not, for example, a greater want of mental deli- 
 cacy in the female savage whose person is exposed, 
 than in the European woman whose form is nearly 
 concealed ; but educate that savage and transport 
 her to Europe, and if she refuse to imitate the 
 females by whom she is surrounded, she may then, 
 but not until then, be charged with indelicacy. If 
 Richard was the first monarch who was splendidly 
 attired, or if his subjects did not imitate him as far 
 as their purses or the laws permitted, there would 
 be some justice in accusing him of vanity ; but a 
 love of splendour in apparel was so peculiar a cha- 
 racteristic of the middle ages throughout Europe, 
 that it was restrained in England by various sump- 
 tuary statutes. 
 
 It is sufficiently evident that Wardrobe Accounts 
 
Vlll REMARKS ON THE WARDROBE 
 
 are of much greater value in illustration of History 
 than is generally supposed ; and an important fact 
 which is established by those here printed will now 
 be stated. 
 
 Margaret of York, the sister of King Edward the 
 Fourth, married Charles Duke of Burgundy on the 
 9th July, 1468. This princess is memorable for the 
 annoyance which she caused to Henry the Seventh 
 by countenancing Perkin Warbeck, who personated 
 her nephew, the Duke of York, and more especially 
 for the support which she afforded to the impostor. 
 Historians assert that the duchess tutored him in 
 the part he was to perform, by giving him accurate 
 information of her brother's court, " describing unto 
 him the personages, lineaments, and features of the 
 king and queen, his pretended parents, and of his 
 brother and sisters, and divers others that were 
 nearest him in his childhood; together with all 
 passages, some secret, some common, that were 
 fit for a child's memory, until the death of King 
 Edward. Then she added the particulars from the 
 time of the king's death until he and his brother 
 were committed to the Tower, as well during the 
 time he was abroad, as while he was in sanc- 
 tuary 1 ," &c. 
 
 Upon this passage Horace Walpole remarks, 
 " Indeed ! Margaret must in truth have been a Juno, 
 a divine power, if she could give all these instruc- 
 tions to purpose. This passage is so very import- 
 
 1 Bacon's " History of Henry the Seventh." 
 
ACCOUNTS OF EDWARD IV. IX 
 
 ant, the whole story depends so much upon it, that 
 if I can shew the utter impossibility of its being 
 true, Perkin will remain the true Duke of York for 
 any thing we can prove to the contrary; and for 
 Henry, Sir Thomas More, Lord Bacon, and their 
 copyists, it will be impossible to give any longer 
 credit to their narrations. I have said that Duke 
 Richard was born in 1474. Unfortunately his aunt 
 Margaret was married out of England in 1467, 
 seven years before he was born, and never returned 
 thither" Walpole then triumphantly asks, " Was 
 not she singularly capable of describing to Perkin 
 her nephew whom she had never seen? How well 
 informed was she of the times of his childhood, and 
 of all passages relating to his brother and sisters ! 
 Oh ! but she had English refugees about her. She 
 must have had many, and those of most intimate 
 connection with the court, if she and they together 
 could compose a tolerable story for Perkin, that was 
 to take in the most minute passages of so many 
 years 1 ." He then observes, that " twenty-seven years 
 at least had elapsed since Margaret had been in 
 the court of England," and concludes his argument 
 in words which shew that he deemed it unanswer- 
 able : " If Margaret was Juno, he who shall answer 
 these questions satisfactorily, ' erit mihi magnus 
 Apollo.'" 
 
 Next to Walpole and Laing, the strongest advo- 
 
 1 " Historic Doubts," pp. S2-84. 
 
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X REMARKS ON Till-: WARDROBE 
 
 cate of the identity of Warbeck with the Duke of 
 of York, is the historian of the Tower of London, 
 who has discussed the question 1 with great zeal, but 
 without throwing light upon the subject. An argu- 
 ment of so conclusive a nature as that the Duchess 
 of Burgundy could not possibly have tutored War- 
 beck, because she had not been in England for 
 twenty-seven years, during which time the children 
 of Edward the Fourth were born, and that so serious 
 an error weakens the other statements of the writers 
 who have committed it, is strongly pressed by the 
 disciples of Horace Walpole. Mr. Bayley observes, 
 " How the duchess could have selected this young 
 man for his likeness to her nephew, the Duke of 
 York ; how she could have described to him the 
 persons of his brother, his sisters, and others nearest 
 him in his childhood : how she could have o^iven him 
 
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 minute details of the affairs of England, and how 
 she could have instructed him in what passed while 
 he was in the sanctuary at Westminster, and more 
 especially of the transactions in the Tower, would 
 be difficult to imagine : for this princess, who is 
 represented as bitter against Henry, was married 
 out of England in 1467, before either of Edward 
 the Fourth's children was born, and as she never 
 returned, she could never have seen the Duke of 
 York, his brother, or either of the princesses, nor 
 could she have had such knowledge of the extraor- 
 
 1 " History of the Tower of London," by John Bayley, Esq., 4to., 
 pp. 347-352, and second edition, 1830, p. 349. 
 
ACCOUNTS OF EDWARD IV. XI 
 
 dinary chain of events that had since occurred in 
 England, as would have made her a capable instruc- 
 tress of a Flemish youth in the wily and difficult 
 course he would have to tread 1 ." 
 
 It is much easier to draw conclusions from pre- 
 sumed premises than to examine into the truth of 
 the premises themselves ; and had half the inge- 
 nuity which some writers have displayed in sup- 
 porting a favourite hypothesis, been bestowed on an 
 investigation of the evidence on which they build 
 it, the history of England would not be so disfigured 
 by errors and absurdities. 
 
 Nothing could be more satisfactory than the argu- 
 ment which has been quoted, for disbelieving that 
 the Duchess of Burgundy tutored Warbeck, were 
 it not certain that the Duchess paid her brother's 
 court a visit in July or August, 1480, less than 
 three years before Edward's decease. 
 
 On the 24th July, sheets, fustians, blankets, 
 arras, travasses, &c., were sent to Greenwich and 
 Coldharbour, " against the coming thither of my 
 Lady Duchess of Bourgoigne 2 ," and green sarcenet 
 was issued from the Wardrobe to make a traverse 
 for th'e Duchess 1 chapel at Coldharbour 3 , to which 
 place hooks and other materials for hanging tapestry 
 were also forwarded, in expectation of her arrival, 
 and of the arrival of the ambassadors of Burgundy 4 . 
 To the Master of the King's Barge a gown of black 
 
 1 Bayley's " Tower of London," p. 350. 
 1 p. 141-2, and p. 132. s p. 144. 4 p. 145. 
 
 c 2 
 
Xll Hl.MAHKS ON TI1K \\AKDHOBE 
 
 camlet was delivered on the same day, " against the 
 Duchess' coming." The said master and twenty-four 
 bargemen received sixteen yards of blue and murrey 
 cloth, being the colours of the livery of the house 
 of York, and forty-eight small roses embroidered, 
 to make jackets, which were to be garnished with 
 small roses ; four other persons receiving on the 
 same occasion eight large embroidered roses, 
 " against the coming to London of the Duchess of 
 Burgundy 1 ." On the 26th, green velvet, garnished 
 with aglets of silver gilt, bordered with spangles, 
 for horse harnesses, together with crimson velvet for 
 covering head-stalls and reins for ten hobies and 
 palfreys, which articles the King presented to the 
 Duchess, were issued by the Wardrobe-keeper 2 . 
 
 The Duchess of Burgundy remained in London, 
 being lodged at Coldharbour, until the end of Sep- 
 tember; and on the 18th of that month, Sir Edward 
 Wydeville the King's brother-in-law, Sir James 
 Radclyffe, knights of the body, Darcy, Tay, Wil- 
 liam Berkeley and Roger Vaughan, esquires of the 
 body, obtained an order for the delivery of purple 
 velvet and purple satin, for their jackets iigmnst 
 tin; Duchess' return, they being appointed to attend 
 her 3 ; for which purpose jackets of woollen cloth, of 
 the colours murrey and blue, were given to one 
 hundred other persons, many of whom were gentle- 
 men and servants of the household 4 . Previous to 
 
 1 p. 166. p. 153, and p. 125. p. 165. 4 pp. 163-4-5. 
 
ACCOUNTS OF EDWARD IV. Xlll 
 
 her departure, a magnificent pillion, " against her 
 going into Flanders again," was provided 1 . The 
 Duchess appears to have been treated with the most 
 marked respect and attention during her stay in 
 this country, which lasted, as near as the dates 
 admit of the inference, upwards of six weeks. In 
 her suite was the Argentier of France, to whom, on 
 the 16th August, and " to divers estates and gentles 
 being attending and awaiting" upon the person of 
 the Duchess, were given several yards of cloth of 
 silver, scarlet, violet cloth, and black velvet 2 . 
 
 The only Chronicle yet printed in which the 
 Duchess of Burgundy's visit to England is noticed, 
 is in one lately edited, entitled " the Chronicle of 
 London," where the circumstance is thus alluded to: 
 " Anno 20 Edw. IV. Also this yere the Duches 
 of Burgoyne came into England to see the Kyng 
 her brother, which shewed to her great pleasure ; 
 and so she departid ageyne 3 ." 
 
 Though the object of the Duchess of Burgundy's 
 coming is there said to be " to see the King," it was 
 probably intimately connected with the negociation 
 then entered into with that duchy ; but the positive 
 evidence that she passed many weeks in England 
 within so short a period of the death of Edward the 
 Fourth, when all his children were living, and when 
 the Prince of Wales was ten years old, and his 
 eldest sister the Princess Elizabeth fourteen, is 
 
 1 p. 163. 2 p. 160. 
 
 8 p. 147, 4to., London, printed in 1827. 
 
XIV WARDROBE ACCOUNTS OF EDWARD IV. 
 
 highly valuable, because it completely negatives 
 the assertion that the Duchess could not have given 
 Warbeck the knowledge he possessed of the royal 
 family. By destroying that hypothesis, the state- 
 ments of Lord Bacon and other writers, that Perkin 
 derived his information from her, is restored to its 
 original value, and the probability that he was an 
 impostor is of course increased. It is true that the 
 presence of the Duchess at her brother's court in 
 August, 1480, would not have enabled her to ac- 
 quaint Warbeck with what passed while the Duke 
 of York was in the sanctuary at Westminster, or 
 with the transactions in the Tower ; but his infor- 
 mation on these points was of so general a nature, 
 that he might easily have obtained it from Mar- 
 garet's agents. 
 
XV 
 
 PRIVY PURSE EXPENSES OF ELIZABETH OF YORK. 
 
 THE remarks by which the PRIVY PURSE EXPENSES 
 OF ELIZABETH, THE QUEEN OF HENRY THE SE- 
 VENTH, will be illustrated, chiefly consist of bio- 
 graphical notices of the children of King Edward 
 the Fourth, because these Accounts relate to, and 
 throw much light upon, their history ; and because 
 all previous notices of them are extremely imper- 
 fect. 
 
 King Edward the Fourth married Elizabeth, 
 daughter of Sir Richard Wydeville, and widow of 
 John Lord Grey of Groby, at Grafton, in Northamp- 
 tonshire, on the 1st May, 1464, and by her had 
 issue, three sons, Edwjird, Richard, George, and 
 seven daughters, Elizabeth, M&ry, Cecily, Marga- 
 ret, Anne, Katherine, and Bridget. 
 
 I. EDWARD, PRINCE OF WALES, was born on 
 the 14th November, 1470, and his unhappy history 
 as King Edward the Fifth is too well known to 
 require any farther notice of him. All which occurs 
 about this prince in the Wardrobe Accounts of 1480 
 is an entry of the delivery of some yards of cloth of 
 gold tissue. The articles issued from the Wardrobe 
 for him to wear at the coronation of his uncle 
 Richard the Third, are commented upon in Wai- 
 pole's " Historic Doubts." 
 
XVI REMARKS ON THE PRIVY PURSE 
 
 II. Richard of Shrewsbury. The date of the birth 
 of this prince has not been exactly ascertained, but 
 it may be assigned to the year 1472 1 . As early as 
 the 28th May, 1474, he was created Duke of York, 
 and on the 7th February, 1476-7, he was created 
 Duke of Norfolk and Earl Warren. On Thursday, 
 15th January, 1477-8, he espoused Ann, the daughter 
 and heiress of John Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, she 
 being then about six and he about four years of age. 
 A description of the ceremony on the occasion is 
 printed in Sandford's " Genealogical History of the 
 Kings of England," from a MS. in the College of 
 Arms. The duke was appointed Lieutenant of Ire- 
 land for two years, on the 5th May, 1479, and in 
 the instrument nominating his deputy, he is styled, 
 " Ricardus secundus films Illustrissimi Principis 
 Edw: quarti, &c., Dux Ebor: et Norff: Comes 
 Warren: Surr: et Nottingham: Comes Marescallus, 
 et Marescallus Anglise, ac Dominus de Segrave, de 
 Mowbray, et de Gower." The Wardrobe Accounts 
 for 1480 contain the following entries relating to 
 the young prince. A horse harness and saddle of 
 crimson velvet, and cloth of gold 2 , together with 
 cloth of gold, velvet and satin for his gowns, were 
 delivered to his chamberlain Sir Thomas Grey 3 ; and 
 a mantle of the Order of the Garter was issued for 
 his use on the 17th August, which perhaps fixes the 
 date of his installation to about that time 4 . He is 
 
 1 Hall's " Chronicle," ed. 1809, p. 345. 
 8 p. 155. 8 pp. 156 and 160. 4 p. 161. 
 
OF ELIZABETH OF YORK. XV11 
 
 supposed to have been murdered with his brother 
 in the Tower, though some writers have contended 
 that he escaped, and was the individual so well 
 known in history as Perkin Warbeck. 
 
 III. GEORGE OF SHREWSBURY, the third son, 
 was born at Shrewsbury, and was created Duke of 
 Bedford in his infancy, but he died soon afterwards, 
 and was buried at Windsor. 
 
 The daughters were, 
 
 I. ELIZABETH OF YORK, afterwards Queen of 
 Henry the Seventh, a memoir of whom will be found 
 in a subsequent page. 
 
 II. MARY OF YORK, the second child of Edward 
 the Fourth 1 , was born at Windsor, in August, 1466, 
 and Cardinal Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury, 
 was one of her sponsors 2 . On the 9th of October, 
 1468, 400/. a year were granted to her mother the 
 Queen for the expenses of the Princesses Eliza- 
 beth and Mary, but nothing more is known of 
 her than the statement of Sandford, that she was 
 present at the marriage of her brother the Duke of 
 York, in January, 1477; that it was intended she 
 should become the wife of the King of Denmark 3 ; 
 
 1 Sandford, in his " Genealogical History," who has implicitly fol- 
 lowed Speed, states that the daughters of Edward the Fourth were 
 born in the following order : 1 . Elizabeth, 2. Cecily, 3. Ann, 4. Bridget, 
 5. Mary, 6. Margaret, 7. Katherine ; whereas it is certain that they 
 followed each other thus: I.Elizabeth, 2. Mary, 3. Cecily, 4. Mar- 
 garet, 5. Anne, 6. Katherine, /.Bridget. Richard the Third, in 1484, 
 thus mentions them Elizabeth, Cecily, Anne, Katherine, and Bridget, 
 Mary and Margaret were then dead. 
 
 8 " Annals of William of Worcester," p. 510. 
 
 3 Rot. Claus., 8 Edw. IV., m. 13. 
 
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XV111 REMARKS ON THE PRIVY PURSE 
 
 that her father by his will, dated in 1475, bequeathed 
 her 10,000 marks to her marriage ; and that she 
 died at Greenwich, on Thursday before Whitsun- 
 day, i. e., the 23rd of May, 1482 l . On the Monday 
 following, her corpse was brought to Greenwich, 
 " and there had her dirige began by James Goldwell, 
 Lord Bishop of Norwich, who also sung mass the 
 next morning, there being present several lords and 
 ladies ; and in the afternoon the body was conveyed 
 into a mourning chariot, drawn by two horses, also 
 trapped with black, and adorned with lozenges of 
 her arms. Thus from Greenwich they set forward 
 to Kingston, where the corpse rested that night; 
 and from thence, the next morning, towards Wind- 
 sor, where being met by the parish in procession, 
 at the foot of the bridge next Eaton, they pro- 
 ceeded to the chapel at Windsor, where the body 
 was buried with the usual offices thereunto be- 
 longing 2 ." 
 
 III. CECILY OF YORK. The exact time of the 
 birth of this princess is not known, and the first 
 notice of her is in July, 1474, when a negociation 
 commenced for her marriage with James, the eldest 
 son of James King of Scotland 3 , the treaty for 
 which was concluded in the October following 4 , 
 and part of her dowry was paid. By a subsequent 
 treaty, it was arranged that in the event of Edward's 
 
 1 Sandfcrd's " Genealogical History." 
 
 Sandford's " Genealogical History," from MS. marked I. 2, in 
 the College of Arms. 
 
 * " Fceclera," xi., 814. 4 Ibid. p. 831. 
 
OF ELIZABETH OF YORK. XIX 
 
 not wishing the marriage to be consummated, the 
 money should be repaid, and, on the 12th of October 
 1482 1 , he claimed the sums advanced; but on the 
 1 1th of the preceding June, a negociation was entered 
 into with Alexander Duke of Albany, styling himseli 
 King of Scotland, in which, among other articles, 
 pledging Edward to support his interests, it was 
 agreed in the event of Alexander's establishing him- 
 self on the throne of Scotland, that if within a year 
 " he could make himself clear from other women, 
 according to the laws of Christian church, Edward 
 would give him his daughter Cecily in marriage ; but 
 if he could not do so, then that he would not marry 
 his son and heir, if he had one, excepting by the 
 ordinance of the King of England to some lady 
 of his blood 2 ." Cecily was present with her sisters 
 Elizabeth and Mary, at the marriage of their 
 brother the young Duke of York, which was per- 
 formed with much state on the 15th of January, 
 
 1478 3 . 
 
 The death of Edward the Fourth, and the depo- 
 sition of his son, changed the fortunes of his daugh- 
 ters. Instead of becoming Queen of Scotland, 
 Cecily Plantagenet married John Viscount Welles, 
 an especial favourite and uncle of the half-blood 
 of Henry the Seventh 4 , through whose influence 
 
 1 " Fcedera," xii., 166. 
 
 Ibid, xii., 157. See Hall's " Chronicle," ed. 1809, pp. 330-1. 
 8 Sandford's " Genealogical History," ed. 1707, p. 416. 
 4 Henry the Seventh and John Viscount Welles were thus related 
 by blood and connected by marriage : 
 
 (1 2 
 
XX REMARKS ON THE PRIVY PURSE 
 
 he obtained her hand. It has not been discovered 
 when their marriage took place, but it must have 
 been before December 1487, as at the festival of 
 Christmas in that year, when the Heralds " cried" 
 the guests at court, they addressed her in these 
 words, " Largesse, de noble Princesse la sceur de 
 la Reyne notre soveraigne dame, et Countesse de 
 Wellys," and Lord Welles is stated to have given 
 " for him and my lady his wife" twenty shillings 1 . 
 In the 7th Hen. VII., 1491-2, an act of parliament 
 was passed which recited that the Viscount promised 
 on marrying Lady Cecily to settle certain lands on 
 her and the heirs of their bodies, out of the estates 
 to which he was restored in the 1st Hen. VII.; but 
 as he was then about to accompany the King in his 
 voyage royal, it was enacted, to avoid expense, that 
 they should hold the lands in question to them and 
 the heirs of his body 2 . In the 19th Hen. VII., 1502, 
 after the viscount's decease, another settlement 
 was made securing those lands to her for her life 3 . 
 At the christening of her nephew Prince Arthur, at 
 Winchester, on the 24th of September, 1486, Lady 
 
 John Beaufort, Duke === Margaret, daughter of: 
 of Somerset, Sir John Beauchamp, 
 
 1st husband. of Bletshoe. 
 
 2ss of Edw 
 I. Fc 
 
 T 
 
 Margaret, Countess of Edward the 
 Richmond. Fourth. 
 
 ; Leo Lord Welles, 
 2nd husband. 
 
 King Henry VII. = Elizabeth Cecily of = John Viscount 
 
 of York. York. Welles. 
 
 1 Leland's " Collectanea," vol. iv., p. 235. 
 a Rot. Parl. vi., 450. 8 Ibid. p. 543. 
 
OF ELIZABETH OF YORK. XXI 
 
 Welles carried him to the font, he being wrapped 
 in a mantle of crimson cloth of gold, furred with 
 ermine, with a train, which was borne by the Mar- 
 chioness of Dorset 1 . When her sister was crowned, 
 she was in immediate attendance on her person, and 
 supported her train during the whole ceremony 2 . 
 
 Viscount Welles died on the 9th February, 1498-9, 
 and had issue two daughters, Elizabeth and Anne, 
 who both died young, and their mother married to 
 her second husband, a gentleman of the name of 
 Kyme, of Lincolnshire. At the marriage of Kathe- 
 rine of Arragon to Arthur Prince of Wales, Lady 
 Welles bore the princess 1 train 3 . 
 
 It is not a little remarkable that the precise date 
 of the birth, of the marriage, of the baptismal name 
 of the second husband, and even of the death of the 
 Princess Cecily, the sister-in-law of one King and 
 the aunt of another, should never have been ascer- 
 tained. An entry on the 13th May, 1502, of her 
 having lent her sister the Queen 3/. 13s. 4d. on 
 some occasion, is the only notice which is to be 
 found of her in the Privy Purse Expenses of that 
 year. In those of Henry the Seventh, from 1492 
 to 1505, her name does not occur; and this account 
 of her, imperfect as it is, must be closed with the 
 remark, that she is said to have died at Quarera, 
 in the Isle of Wight 4 . 
 
 1 Leland's " Collectanea," iv., 205. Ibid. pp. 220, 223, 230. 
 
 3 Hall's " Chronicle," ed. 1809, p. 494. 
 
 4 Sandford's " Genealogical History." 
 
XXli REMARKS ON THE PRIVY PURSE 
 
 IV. MARGARET OF YORK, Edward's fourth 
 daughter, was born on the 19th of April, 1472, 
 and dying on the llth of December following, was 
 buried in Westminster Abbey. This epitaph was 
 placed on her tomb : 
 
 Nobilitas et forma, decorq: tenella juventus 
 In simul hie ista mortis sunt condita cista 
 Ut genus et nomen, sexum, tempus quoq: mortis 
 Noscas, cuncta tibi manifestat margo sepulchri. 
 
 V. ANNE OF YORK. The Princess Anne must 
 have been born subsequent to June, 1475, as she 
 is not mentioned in her father's will. On the 18th of 
 July, 1479, it was agreed that Philip, the eldest son 
 of Maximilian Duke of Austria, should not, for three 
 years, form a contract of marriage with any other 
 woman than Anne the daughter of the King of 
 England 1 ; and on the 5th of August following, the 
 treaty for that alliance was concluded 2 . The mar- 
 riage, however, did not take place, and nothing more 
 is known about her until after her sister Elizabeth 
 became Queen of England. At the christening of 
 her nephew Prince Arthur, in November, 1486, she 
 carried the chrisom, which was pinned on her right 
 breast, and hung over her left arm 3 . At the feast 
 of the Order of the Garter, in 1488, she was in 
 attendance on the Queen 4 , and was present at the 
 celebration of the feast of Whitsuntide by the court, 
 at Shene, in that year 5 . Her Majesty's second 
 
 > " Fcedera," xii., 110. 2 Ibid. 130. 
 
 3 Leland's " Collectanea," iv., p. 205. 
 * Ibid. p. 241. 5 Ibid. p. 245. 
 
OF ELIZABETH OF YORK. 
 
 sttW ll W- 
 
 child, Margaret, was baptized at Westminster on 
 the 30th November, 1489, when the Princess Anne 
 again bore the chrisom, " with a marvellous rich 
 cross lace 1 ." 
 
 Early in the year 1495, she became the wife of 
 Thomas Lord Howard, eldest son of Thomas Earl 
 of Surrey, as on the 14th of February in that year 
 Henry the Seventh paid 6s. Sd. for his offering at 
 her marriage 2 . On the Rolls of Parliament of the 
 llth Hen. VII., October 1495, the agreement " be- 
 tween the Queen, with the assent of the King and 
 Thomas Earl of Surrey, for a marriage to be had 
 and solemnized between Thomas Lord Howard, son 
 and heir apparent of the said earl, and Anne sister 
 to the said Queen, which marriage is now had and 
 solemnized," is recited, and validity was given to 
 some of its provisions by the authority of Parlia- 
 ment 3 . The Princess Anne is frequently mentioned 
 in the Queen's Privy Purse Expenses for 1502; 
 whence it appears that she was mainly, if not en- 
 tirely, supported at her Majesty's expense. Her 
 husband, Lord Howard, was allowed 120/. per an- 
 num for "her diet 4 :" materials for her clothes were, 
 on one occasion, purchased 5 , and besides ten marks 
 a year 6 , her sister gave her 61. 13s. 4d. annually 
 for her own purse 7 . 
 
 1 Leland's " Collectanea," iv., p, 253. 
 
 8 Privy Purse Expenses of Henry VII., printed in the " Excerpta 
 Historica," p. 101. 
 
 3 Rot. Parl., vi., 480-1, 511. 
 
 4 p. 99. 5 p. 9. 6 p. 79. 7 p. 94. 
 
XXIV REMARKS ON THE PRIVY PURSE 
 
 Two sons were the result of her marriage, one 
 of whom died immediately after his birth, and the 
 other, named Thomas, dying on the 3rd of August, 
 1508, was buried at Lambeth. The date of Anne 
 Lady Howard's decease is unknown, but it must 
 have been before 1515, as her husband married, 
 secondly, Elizabeth, daughter of the Duke of Buck- 
 ingham, and had by her the renowned Earl of Sur- 
 rey, whose eldest son was born in 1536. 
 
 VI. KATHERINE OF YORK. Though the Prin- 
 cess Katherine was born before August, 1479, it 
 could not have been long previous to that time, 
 because there is an entry in the Wardrobe Accounts 
 between April and September, 1480, of nails being 
 purchased to cover the font at her christening at 
 Eltham 1 ; and in November in that year, Joan, the 
 wife of Robert Colson, her nurse, obtained a grant 
 from the King of five pounds per annum 2 . While 
 in her infancy, her marriage was determined upon 
 with John the son and heir-apparent of Ferdinand 
 King of Castile and Leon, the contract for which 
 was signed on the 28th August, 1479 3 ; and on the 
 2nd March, 1482, ambassadors were appointed to 
 complete the treaty 4 . This alliance did not, how- 
 ever, take place; and in November, 1487, it was 
 agreed that she should become the wife of James, 
 second son of the King of Scotland, by which 
 treaty it was also determined, that one of her 
 
 1 See p. 122. 2 Rot, Claus., 20 Edw. IV., m. 15. 
 
 3 "Foedera," xii., 110. 4 Ibid, p, 148. 
 
OF ELIZABETH OF YORK. XXV 
 
 sisters should marry the elder brother of her in- 
 tended husband, whilst his father espoused her 
 mother 1 . The death of the Scottish monarch, in 
 1488, defeated these plans, and before October, 1495, 
 when she was not more than seventeen, she married 
 the Lord William Courtenay, eldest son of Edward 
 Earl of Devon 2 , this being the second time that the 
 heir of that illustrious house married a sister of 
 the heiress to the throne of England. The settle- 
 ment made by the Earl of Devon, of his estates on 
 his son and daughter-in-law, and the heirs male of 
 the body of his son, was confirmed by parliament 3 . 
 Their issue were two sons, Henry, and, as appears 
 from the Privy Purse Expenses of the Queen, Ed- 
 ward, and a daughter Margaret. 
 
 Katherine Lady Courtenay was present at the 
 marriage of Prince Arthur, in November, 150 1 4 , and 
 at the betrothment of her niece the Princess Mar- 
 garet to the King of Scotland, at Richmond, on the 
 10th of January, 1502 5 . 
 
 Not only was Katherine partly maintained by 
 her sister the Queen, but her Majesty also paid 
 the expenses of her children, the notices of whom 
 are of some interest. Her pension from the Queen's 
 Privy Purse was 50/. per annum 6 : satin was on one 
 occasion purchased for the covering of her saddle 7 ; 
 and from entries of money being paid her for the 
 Queen's purse, in July, 1502, at Woodstock, and in 
 
 1 " Foedera," xii., p. 329. 8 Rot. Parl., vi., 481. 3 IbH. 
 
 4 Leland's " Collectanea," v., p. 363. * Ibid., iv., p. 259. 
 
 8 Sje p. 99. 7 See p. 1 7. 
 
XXVI REMARKS ON THE PRIVY PURSE 
 
 January, 1503, at Richmond, it may be inferred 
 that she was frequently her companion. Her bro- 
 ther-in-law, Henry the Seventh, sent her a present 
 of 10/., in September the same year. 
 
 The children of Lord William and Lady Katherine 
 Courtenay were placed under the care of Margaret 
 Lady Cotton, and resided chiefly at a place belong- 
 ing to Sir John Hosy, near Havering-at-Bower, in 
 Essex, until the beginning of December, 1502, when 
 they were removed to London 1 . They were attended 
 by two female servants and a groom, and for the 
 expenses of the whole establishment Lady Cotton 
 was allowed no more than 13s. 4d. a week, a striking 
 proof of the immense difference between the value 
 of money at the commencement of the sixteenth 
 and in the nineteenth century. All their clothes 
 and other necessaries were paid for by the Queen, 
 and several entries occur of the purchase of coats, 
 gowns, petticoats, hoses, shoes, medicines, bonnets, 
 &c., for their use 2 . 
 
 Lord Edward Courtenay, her second son, died on 
 the 12th or 13th of July, 1502 3 , and a servant was 
 despatched to the Queen, to know her pleasure as 
 to where he should be buried 4 ; at which time his 
 mother appears to have been with her Majesty, on 
 her journey to Woodstock. The expense of his 
 funeral, which amounted to 4/. 18s. 4d., was also de- 
 frayed by the Queen, and a present of II. 6s. 8d. 
 was made to his nurse and rocker on the occasion 5 . 
 
 1 See pp. 77,79. 2 See the INDEX, p. 189. 
 
 8 See pp. 32, 63. 4 See p. 32. * See p. 103. 
 
OF ELIZABETH OF YORK. XXV11 
 
 Lord William Courtenay having been attainted 
 in 1504, he did not succeed to the Earldom of 
 Devon on his father's decease in 1509; but on the 
 10th May, 1511, Henry the Eighth created him 
 Earl of Devon, with remainder to the heirs male of 
 his body. The earl did not survive his creation 
 many weeks, as he died at Greenwich on the 9th of 
 June following, and was interred with the honours 
 due to his rank, in St. Paul's cathedral, on the 12th 
 of that month. 
 
 The Countess of Devon, his widow, though not 
 more than three-and-thirty at his decease, never 
 married again, having on the 13th of July, 1511, 
 just a month after her loss, made a vow of chastity 
 before the Bishop of London, of which the follow- 
 ing is a copy : 
 
 " In the name of the Father, the Son, and the 
 Holy Ghost, I, Katherine Courtneye, Countess of 
 Devonshire, widow, and not wedded, ne unto any 
 man assured, promise and make a vow to God, and 
 to our Lady, and to all the Company of Heaven, in 
 the presence of you, worshipful Father in God, 
 Richard Bishop of London, for to be chaste of my 
 body, and truly and devoutly shall keep me chaste, 
 for this time forward, as long as my life lasteth, 
 after the rule of St. Paul. In nomine Patris et Filii 
 et Spiritus Sancti 1 ." 
 
 She survived the earl sixteen years, dying at her 
 
 1 Lansdowne MS., 978, f. 144. From the Register of Fitz-James 
 Bishop of London, f. xxx. 
 
 e 2 
 
XXV111 REMARKS ON THE PRIVY PURSE 
 
 manor of Tiverton, at three in the afternoon of 
 the 15th of November, 1527. Hall says that the 
 Countess was a " long time tossed in either fortune, 
 sometime in wealth, after in adversity, till the be- 
 nignity of her nephew, King Henry the Eighth, 
 brought her into a sure estate, according to her 
 degree and progeny 1 ." 
 
 A minute account of her funeral is preserved in 
 the College of Arms, and is partly printed by 
 Sandford, whence it appears that she was interred 
 with great pomp, on the 2nd of December, 1527, in 
 Tiverton church, where her son, the Marquess of 
 Exeter, erected a chapel and tomb, near the high 
 altar, to her memory, but which no longer exist. 
 The countess's seal, which is engraved in Sandford's 
 " Genealogical History," is deserving of notice for 
 its legend. Within an escutcheon, having on the 
 dexter side a dolphin, on the sinister a lion rampant 
 gardant, and surmounted by a demi rose en soleil, 
 the badge of the House of York, are her arms im- 
 paled with her husband's : per pale, Baron, Or, three 
 torteaux Gules for Courtenay, quartering Or a lion 
 rampant Azure for Rivers; Femme, quarterly, 1st 
 France and England ; 2nd and 3rd, Burgh, and 
 the 4th, Mortimer, surrounded by this inscription, 
 KATHERINA COMITISSA DEVON: FILIA: SOROR: 
 ET AMIT: REGUM. In the indenture to which that 
 seal is attached, dated 24th October, 6 Hen. VIIL, 
 
 1 Hall's " Chronicle," ed. 1809, p. 345. 
 
OF ELIZABETH OF YORK. XXIX 
 
 1514, she uses the same style, " We, Katherine 
 Countess of Devonshire, Daughter, Sister, and Aunt 
 of Kings." 
 
 Her daughter Margaret died young, being choked 
 with a fish bone. Henry Earl of Devonshire, her 
 only surviving son, was raised to the Marquisate of 
 Exeter, on the 18th June, 1525, and in consequence 
 of his royal descent through his mother, received 
 an augmentation to his arms, by placing in the 
 first quarter the royal arms within a bordure quar- 
 terly of the same. He was attainted and beheaded 
 in 1538, and left, by Gertrude, daughter of William 
 Lord Mountjoy, an only child, 
 
 Sir Edward Courtenay, who was restored in blood 
 on the accession of Queen Mary, having on the 3rd 
 of September, 1553, been created Earl of Devon, to 
 hold to him and his heirs male for ever, a limitation 
 which was, it is presumed, intended to restore the 
 Earldom of Devon to the male descendants of Hugh 
 Courtenay, who was allowed that dignity by Ed- 
 ward the Third in 1335. The Earl of Devon died 
 at Padua, on the 4th of October, 1556, unmarried, 
 when all the issue of the children of Edward the 
 Fourth, excepting of his eldest daughter Elizabeth, 
 became extinct, and the male representation of the 
 house of Courtenay devolved on the Powderham 
 branch. 
 
 VII. BRJDGET OF YORK, the seventh daughter 
 and youngest child of Edward the Fourth, was born 
 at Eltham, in Kent, on the 10th of November, 1480, 
 and the next day was baptized by the Bishop of 
 
XXX REMARKS ON THE PRIVY PURSE, ETC. 
 
 Chichester. In the Wardrobe Accounts of the reign 
 of Richard the Third, between the 9th of April, 
 1483, and the 2nd of February, 1484, the following 
 entry occurs relating to her : " To the Lady Brygitt, 
 one of the daughters of K. Edward Illlth., being 
 sick in the said Wardrobe for to have for her use 
 at that time two long pillows of fustian, stuffed with 
 down, and two pillow beres of Holland cloth unto 
 them 1 ,'' whence Walpole concludes that this child 
 was not then in sanctuary with the Queen 2 ; but 
 these articles may have been delivered before her 
 Majesty sought shelter there. From her earliest 
 years, she seems to have been devoted by her 
 mother to a nunnery, and when very young she 
 took the veil at Dartford. On the 6th July, 1502, 
 3/. 6s. Sd. were paid by her sister the Queen to the 
 Abbess of Dartford, towards the charges of Lady 
 Bridget there 3 ; and in September following, a per- 
 son was paid for going from Windsor to Dartford 
 to Lady Bridget, with a message from her Ma- 
 jesty 4 . The Queen contributed to her support out 
 of her Privy Purse, the amount allowed her being 
 13/. 6s. Sd. per annum 5 . 
 
 The Princess Bridget continued at Dartford, 
 spending her days in the seclusion and tranquillity 
 of a convent until her death, which occurred about 
 the year 1517, when she was thirty-seven years 
 of age. 
 
 1 Printed in the " Antiquarian Repertory," ed. 1 807,vol. i., p. 51. 
 
 2 " Historic Doubts. 1 ' p. 67. 8 See page 29. 
 
 4 See p. 50. * See p. 99. 
 
XXXI 
 
 MEMOIR OF ELIZABETH OF YORK, 
 
 ELDEST DAUGHTER OF KING EDWARD THE FOURTH, 
 AND CONSORT OF KING HENRY THE SEVENTH. 
 
 " Inerat illi ab unguiculis Dei timor et servitum admirabile; in 
 parentes vero mira observantia; erga fratres et sorores amor ferme 
 incredibilis ; in pauperes Christique ministros, reverenda ac singularis 
 affectio." BERNARD ANDREAS, Poet Laureate to Henry VII. 
 
 OF ELIZABETH OF YORK, the daughter, sister, niece, 
 wife, mother, and progenitrix of Kings of England, 
 the legitimate heiress to the throne, and the happy 
 instrument of terminating the wars which deluged 
 this country with blood, and who, to such historical 
 pretensions to be commemorated, united those claims 
 which beauty, virtue, and goodness confer, no Me- 
 moir, deserving of the name, has been hitherto 
 written. 
 
 This illustrious woman was the eldest child of 
 King Edward the Fourth by his Queen Elizabeth 
 Wydeville, and was born at Westminster on the 
 1 1th of February, 1 464-5 \ Her baptism was cele- 
 
 1 Sandford says she was born on the llth of February, 14C6, but as 
 
XXX11 MEMOIR OF 
 
 brated with great solemnity in Westminster Abbey, 
 her grandmother, the Duchess of York, the Duchess- 
 of Bedford, and Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, 
 being her sponsors. In the 7th Edw. IV., 1467, the 
 manor of Great Lynford, in Buckinghamshire, was 
 granted to her for life 2 , and on the 9th of October, in 
 the ensuing year, the Treasurer and Chamberlains of 
 the Exchequer were commanded to pay the Queen 
 400/. annually, in consideration of the expenses which 
 she incurred about the Princesses Elizabeth and 
 Mary, which sum was to be paid until they were 
 otherwise provided for 3 . On the 6th of November, 
 1469, the King, with the advice of the Lords of his 
 Council, determined that his daughter Elizabeth, 
 who was then in her fifth year, should marry George 
 Neville, the eldest son of John Earl of Northumber- 
 land 4 , afterwards Marquess of Montagu, and on the 
 5th of January following, that young nobleman was 
 consequently created Duke of Bedford 5 ; but this 
 intention was soon afterwards abandoned on account 
 of the defection of the Marquess, and in 1477, the 
 Duke of Bedford was degraded from all his ho- 
 nours 6 . 
 
 In June, 1475, Edward the Fourth invaded France 
 
 thirty seven persons were relieved at her Maun day in 1507, and as 
 she is said on her monument to have completed her thirty-eighth 
 year at her decease, the date in the text must be correct. 
 
 2 Rot. Patent., 7 Edw. IV., p. 2, m. 10. 
 
 3 Rot. Clans., 8 Edw. IV., m. 13. 
 
 4 Rot. Cart., Edw. IV., n. 3. 5 Ibid. 
 6 Rot. Parl., 17 Edw. IV., n. 16. 
 
ELIZABETH OF YOIIK. XXX111 
 
 with a large army, and previous to embarking he 
 made his will 1 , which is dated at Sandwich on the 
 20th of that month, wherein he noticed his sons, 
 the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York, and 
 thus alluded to his daughters. 
 
 " Item we wil that owre doughtre Elizabeth have xM 
 marc towards her mariage and that owre doughtre Marie 
 have also to her mariage xM marc soo that thay may be 
 gouverned and rieuled in thair manages by owre derrest wiff 
 the Quene and by owre said son the Prince if God fortune 
 him to comme to age of discrecion. And if he decease 
 afore such age as God defende then by such as God dis- 
 poseth to bee owre heire and by such Lords and other as 
 then shal bee of thair Counsaill and if either of owre said 
 doughters doo marie thaims self without such advys and 
 assent soo as they bee therby disparaged as God forbede 
 that then shee soo marieng her self have noo paiement of 
 her said xM marc but that it be emploied by owre execu- 
 tours towards the hasty paiement of owr debtes &c." 
 
 " Item where we trust in God owre said wiff bee now 
 with childe if God fortune it to bee a doughtre then we 
 wil that shee have also xM marc towards her mariage." 
 
 " Item to the mariage of our doughtre Cecille for whom 
 we have appointed and concluded with the King of Scotts 
 to be maried to his son and heere," &c. 
 
 The expedition into France speedily terminated 
 
 1 The will of Edward the Fourth escaped the editor of " Royal 
 Wills." The testament referred to in the text was copied from the 
 Rolls Chapel, and forms part of the inedited collections for Rymer's 
 " Fcedera," in the additional MS. 4615, in the British Museum. 
 
 f 
 
XXXIV MEMOIR OF 
 
 in a peace, one condition of which was that the 
 Dauphin should marry the Princess Elizabeth, but 
 if she died before she became of a proper age, then 
 that he should marry her sister Mary, the agree- 
 ment for which alliance was signed in August, 
 1475 1 . Three years afterwards, on the 26th of 
 August, 1478, her dowry was settled, and it was de- 
 termined that the expenses of her journey to France 
 on her marriage should be defrayed by the French 
 monarch 2 . On the 12th of May, 1480, when she was 
 in her sixteenth year, Lord Howard and Dr. Langton 
 were appointed ambassadors, to settle the ceremony 
 of her journey to France, and some other points, 
 as well as to obtain a continuation of the truce then 
 subsisting with that country, during the lives of 
 the two monarchs 8 ; but Lord Howard discovered 
 that Louis had no intention of fulfilling his en- 
 gagement, and Edward did not live to punish his 
 treachery in the way he contemplated. It is hinted 
 by Bernard Andreas 4 , that subsequent to this dis- 
 appointment, her father offered Elizabeth's hand to 
 the young Earl of Richmond, afterwards Henry the 
 Seventh, but that the Earl suspected it was merely 
 a bait to induce him to place himself in the King's 
 power. 
 
 On the death of Edward the Fourth, which 4 took 
 
 i " Foedera," xii., p. 20. 8 Ibid., p. 90. 
 
 3 Ibid., xii., p. 113. 
 4 Cottonian MS., Domitian, A. xviii. 
 
ELIZABETH OF YORK. XXXV 
 
 place on the 9th of April, 1483, at Westminster, the 
 crown devolved upon his eldest son, Edward Prince 
 of Wales, who was then at Ludlow; but the suspi- 
 cious conduct of his uncle, the Duke of Gloucester, 
 in gaining possession of his person, and his treatment 
 of the Queen's relations during the young monarch's 
 journey to London, alarmed his mother to such a 
 degree that she immediately threw herself into sanc- 
 tuary at Westminster, being accompanied by her 
 second son, the Duke of York, by her five daughters, 
 Elizabeth, Cecily, Anne, Katherine, and Bridget, 
 and by her brother, Lionel Wydeville, Bishop of 
 Salisbury 1 . At that time, the Princess Elizabeth 
 was little more than eighteen, and her youngest 
 sister Bridget not quite three years old. Edward 
 the Fifth arrived in the metropolis on the 4th of 
 May, about which day his mother took refuge from 
 the machinations of her brother-in-law. On the 
 16th of June, Richard, who on the 27th of May 
 was declared Protector of the Realm, succeeded, 
 through the eloquence of Cardinal Bourchier, in 
 inducing the Queen to resign the Duke of York into 
 his hands. That the Duke perished in the Tower 
 with his brother, Edward the Fifth, though doubted 
 by some writers, seems nevertheless to be as conclu- 
 sively proved as, in the absence of positive evidence, 
 any fact can be established ; and for a few months, 
 
 1 See a letter printed in the " Excerpta Historioa," p. 16. 
 
 f 2 
 
XXXVI MEMOIR OF 
 
 during which Edward the Fourth's widow and 
 daughters continued in sanctuary, the Usurper en- 
 joyed the throne, undisturbed by conspirators or 
 rivals. 
 
 Early in October, however, whilst at Lincoln, 
 Richard was astonished to learn that his friend and 
 supporter, the Duke of Buckingham, whom he styled 
 with some justice, " the most untrue creature living," 
 had renounced his allegiance, and was taking mea- 
 sures to dethrone him. The Duke's motives, though 
 variously stated, appear to have been, in the first 
 instance, the hope of attaining the crown, his claim 
 being founded upon his descent from Thomas Duke 
 of Gloucester, the youngest son of Edward the 
 Third 1 ; for, however absurd in the eyes of others 
 may be the pretence, there is nothing too vague for 
 ambition to lay hold on, when accompanied by 
 what is deemed sufficient power and influence to 
 
 1 Sharon Turner, after noticing this descent, says, on the authority 
 of an apocryphal speech imputed to Buckingham by Grafton, " Yet 
 the lineal right on which his heated fancy preferred to rest, was, 
 that his mother was the heiress of the house of Somerset, which, 
 by Gaunt's third wife, asserted itself to be next in succession to the 
 crown." vol. iii., p. 507. This could not possibly have been the case, 
 because the duke's mother was only the daughter and coheiress 
 of Edmund Duke of Somerset, second son of John Marquess of 
 Dorset (the eldest son of John of Gaunt by Katherine Swynford) ; 
 and John Duke of Somerset, \hzfirst son, left issue Margaret Countess 
 of Richmond, mother of Henry the Seventh. The idea that he forgot 
 the superior pretensions of the Countess until she reminded him of 
 them in a conversation near Worcester, is too weak to need refutation. 
 Grafton' s Chronicle, p. 117. Hall's Chronicle, p. 388. 
 
ELIZABETH OF YORK. XXXV11 
 
 enforce its desires. But finding that his party 
 would not support so preposterous an object, the 
 Duke espoused the cause of the Earl of Richmond, 
 who it was resolved should marry Elizabeth, the 
 eldest daughter of Edward the Fourth, and the law- 
 ful heiress to the throne. If such a transition, 
 as from being himself the claimant he became the 
 aider of another pretender to the crown, actually 
 occurred, Buckingham's real motives were undoubt- 
 edly a desire to revenge some affront or injustice 
 which he received from Richard, and his overthrow 
 does not merit the slightest sympathy. 
 
 The proposed union being communicated to the 
 Countess of Richmond, by Sir Reginald Bray, 
 she heartily approved of the design, and sent her 
 physician, Dr. Lewis, to Westminster, to discuss the 
 subject with the late Queen. Her assent was easily 
 obtained ; and she promised that if Henry would 
 solemnly engage to marry her daughter, she and 
 her friends would support the attempt in his fa- 
 vour. At that moment the Earl of Richmond and 
 his uncle, Jasper Tudor Earl of Pembroke, were 
 in Brittany, whither they fled after the battle of 
 Tewksbury, and Christopher Ursewick, chaplain to 
 the Countess of Richmond, together with Mr. Con- 
 way, were sent to that province with intelligence of 
 the plot. The rebellion began to assume a formid- 
 able character, but Richard was neither ignorant of, 
 nor indifferent to the proceedings, and made vigor- 
 
XXXV111 MEMOIR OF 
 
 ous preparations to suppress them. On the 12th 
 of October, he wrote to the Chancellor from Lin- 
 coln, informing him of Buckingham's treachery; and 
 desiring that the great seal might be sent him, in 
 case he was too infirm to come himself, adding, in 
 his own hand, that he hoped it would not be long 
 before he was in the neighbourhood of the Duke to 
 subdue his malice 1 . On the 24th of September, 
 Buckingham sent to Richmond, appointing the 18th 
 of October for the general rising, and urging him 
 to land on that day at Plymouth 2 . So much of the 
 plan as depended on the confederates in England 
 was promptly executed, but it was met by equal 
 promptitude on the part of the King. A heavy fall 
 of rain, by swelling the Severn, prevented Buck- 
 ingham from crossing that river and joining his 
 other forces ; and his followers, being perhaps intimi- 
 dated by Richard's proclamation, which was issued 
 from Leicester on the 23d of October, became dis- 
 heartened, and deserted. The Duke sought safety 
 in flight, but, being betrayed by one of his servants, 
 he was apprehended, conveyed to Salisbury, and 
 beheaded on the 2nd of November, 1483. Rich- 
 mond sailed from Brittany on the 12th of October 
 with 5000 Breton soldiers, and arrived off the coast, 
 but doubting whether the troops which were ready 
 to receive him were friends or enemies, he did not 
 
 1 Ellis's " Original Letters." 8 Rot. Parl., vi,, p. 245. 
 
ELIZABETH OF YORK. XXXIX 
 
 land. Richard having marched into the western 
 counties, his appearance struck terror into the Earl's 
 supporters ; and their leaders fled to Brittany, whi- 
 ther Richmond retired, on hearing of the execution 
 of Buckingham. On Christmas-day following, the 
 Earl of Richmond, accompanied by the Marquess 
 of Dorset, went to the cathedral of Vannes, where 
 they solemnly pledged themselves to each other, 
 and Richmond swore to marry Elizabeth of York 
 immediately after he ascended the throne. 
 
 Richard returned to London before the 1st of De- 
 cember, and in the Parliament which met at West- 
 minster on the 23rd of January, 1484, his right to 
 the crown was admitted, the marriage of Edward the 
 Fourth was pronounced void, and his children were 
 bastardized. The Earl of Richmond, the Earl of 
 Pembroke, the Duke of Buckingham, the Queen's 
 son, the Marquess of Dorset, and her brothers, Sir 
 Richard Wyde"Ville, and Lionel Bishop of Salis- 
 bury, with Morton Bishop of Ely, the Bishop of 
 Exeter, and several other persons were attainted of 
 high treason. The Countess of Richmond was de- 
 clared to have merited a similar punishment, for 
 " sending writings, tokens, and messages to the Earl 
 her son, stirring him to invade the realm;" but in 
 consideration of the services which her husband, 
 Lord Stanley, had rendered the King, he forbore 
 to attaint the Countess, but the act declared her 
 lands to be forfeited, degraded her from all titles of 
 
xl MEMOIR OF 
 
 dignity, and settled her property on her husband 
 for life, with remainder to the crown 1 . 
 
 It would appear that Queen Elizabeth and her 
 children remained for several months in sanctuary ; 
 and the sudden disappearance, if not murder, of 
 her sons, as well as the attainder and flight of 
 her brothers and friends, were calculated to in- 
 crease the fears which made her seek its protec- 
 tion. On the 1st of March, 1484, ten months after 
 they entered it, Richard solemnly bound himself 
 by a written engagement, on the word of a King, 
 that if the daughters of the Queen, whom he styles 
 " late calling herself Queen of England," would 
 quit their place of refuge, and submit to his direc- 
 tion, their lives and honour should be secured to 
 them ; that they should not be imprisoned, but be 
 supported in a manner suitable to his kinswomen, 
 and that he would marry them to gentlemen of birth, 
 giving to each an estate in lands of the yearly value 
 of two hundred marks ; and that he would strictly 
 charge their husbands to treat them as his relations, 
 upon pain of his displeasure. He moreover promised 
 to allow their mother 700 marks, 266. 13s. 4d. 
 a year, and to discountenance any reports circu- 
 lated to their prejudice. The document itself is 
 of so much interest that it is proper a literal copy 
 of it should be inserted : 
 
 1 Rot Parl., vi., p. 244 et seq., and p. 250-1. 
 
ELIZABETH OF YORK. xli 
 
 " M d . that I Richard by the Grace of God King of 
 England andjof Fraunce, and Lord of Irland, in the presens 
 of you my Lords spirituell and temporell, and you Mair and 
 Aldermen of my Cite of London, promitte and svvere verbo 
 regio upon these holy Evangelies of God by me personelly 
 touched, that if the doughters of dame Elizabeth Gray late 
 calling her selffQuene of England, that is to wit Elizabeth, 
 Cecill, Anne, Kateryn, and Briggitte, woll come unto me 
 out of the Sanctvvarie of Westminster and be guyded, ruled, 
 and demeaned after me, than I shall see that they shalbe in 
 suertie of their lyflfs, and also not suffre any manner hurt by 
 any maner persone or persones to them or any of theim or 
 their bodies and persones, to be done by way of ravissement 
 or defouling contrarie their willes, nor them or any of theim 
 emprisone within the Toure of London or other prisonne ; 
 but that I shall put theim in honest places of good name and 
 fame, and theim honestly and curtesly shall see to be 
 founden and entreated, and to have all things requisite and 
 necessary for their exibicion and findings as my kynnes- 
 women ; and that I shall do marie suche of them as now 
 ben mariable to Gentilmen born, and everiche of them geve 
 in mariage lands and tenements to the yerely valewe of cc. 
 marcs for term of their lyves ; and in likewise to the other 
 doughters when they come to lawfull age of mariage if they 
 lyff. And suche gentilmen as shall happ to marie with them 
 I shall straitly charge, from tyme to tyme, lovyngly to love 
 and entreate them as their wiffs and my kynneswomen, as 
 they woll advoid and eschue my displeasur. 
 
 " And over this that I shall yerely fromhensfurth content 
 and pay, or cause to be contented and paied, for th'exhibi- 
 cion and finding of the said dame Elizabeth Gray during her 
 naturall liff at iiij. termes of the yere, that is to wit at 
 
Xlli MEMOIR 01 
 
 pasche, midsomer, michilmasse, and christenmesse, to Jahn 
 Nesfelde, one of the squiers for my body, for his finding, to 
 attende upon her, the summe of DCC. marcs of lawfull money 
 of England, by even porcions ; and moreover I promitte to 
 them, that if any surmyse or evyll report be made to me of 
 them, or any of them, by any persoue or persones, that than 
 I shall not geve therunto faith ne credence, nor therfore put 
 them to any maner ponysshement, before that they or any 
 of them so accused may be at their lawfull defence and 
 answer. In \vitnesse whereof to this writing of my Othe 
 and Promise aforsaid, in your said presences made, I have 
 set my sign manuell the first day of Marche the first yere of 
 my Reigne 1 ." 
 
 If this document be genuine, and that it is so 
 cannot reasonably be doubted, ample evidence is 
 afforded of the interest which the country felt about 
 the children of Edward the Fourth ; and it may be 
 inferred that they quitted the sanctuary in March, 
 1484. Mr. Sharon Turner's remark, that " there 
 was indeed an unworthy jealousy of power in not 
 calling- them Princesses in his oath, and in the idea 
 of marrying them as private gentlewomen merely 2 ," 
 is not well founded, because the marriage of their 
 mother had just before been declared invalid, and 
 they were bastardized by the Act of Settlement; 
 hence, if Richard had styled them " Princesses," 
 or treated them in any other way than as private 
 gentlewomen, he would have contradicted the act 
 
 1 Ellis's " Original Letters." Second Series. Vol. i., p. 149. 
 9 " History of England," ed. 1825, vol. iv. p. 14. 
 
ELIZABETH OF YORK. xliii 
 
 of Parliament, and have impeached his own title 
 to the crown. 
 
 The death of the Prince of Wales, the eldest son 
 of Richard the Third, on the 9th of the following 
 April, plunged the Usurper into profound grief; 
 and if he were accessary to the murder of his ne- 
 phews about the same time in the preceding year, 
 the blow must have fallen with additional force 
 from the suggestions of his conscience that it might 
 have been directed as an act of retributive justice. 
 No change was produced by this circumstance in 
 the situation of the children of the late monarch ; 
 but as it became necessary to name a successor 
 to the crown, Richard selected his nephew the Earl 
 of Lincoln, son of his sister Elizabeth Duchess 
 of Suffolk. From the time when the instrument 
 by which their safety was guaranteed was issued, 
 little is known of them ; and though they are pre- 
 sumed to have lived in the Court, the only notice 
 of the mother or daughters is the remark of the 
 Chronicler of Croyland, that at the celebration 
 of Christmas by the Court, in 1484, Elizabeth of 
 York was "dressed in clothes of the same form and 
 colour as those of Queen Anne, Richard's consort, 
 from which circumstance many people supposed 
 that he intended to free himself from his wife either 
 by a divorce or by her death, and to marry his niece 
 Elizabeth." This fact could not warrant such an 
 hypothesis, and the only rational conclusion to be 
 
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 drawn from the coincidence is, that Richard strictly 
 fulfilled his engagement that his nieces should be 
 supported as became his kinswomen. 
 
 The question, whether Richard intended to marry 
 Elizabeth in the event of the death of his wife, is 
 important to his character ; and the truth of the as- 
 sertion, that before Queen Anne's decease he was 
 not only accepted, but eagerly courted, by Elizabeth, 
 is no less material to her fame. 
 
 Richard's detractors have insisted, that after he 
 discovered the intentions of the friends of Elizabeth, 
 and of the Earl of Richmond, to blend their respec- 
 tive pretensions to the crown by their marriage, he 
 was impressed with the policy of strengthening his 
 own title by making her his Queen ; that this be- 
 came apparent in the similarity of her costume to the 
 dress of her Majesty, as early as Christmas, 1484 ; 
 that to promote his wishes he actually poisoned his 
 wife ; and that after her death, which took place 
 on the llth of March, 1485, his design was aban- 
 doned in consequence of the representations of his 
 advisers, that a union between an uncle and niece 
 was so unnatural, that if it occurred, the disgust of 
 his subjects would, in all likelihood, drive him from 
 the throne. 
 
 It will tend to simplify the discussion of these 
 points, if the horror with which such a marriage 
 is said to have been viewed be first examined. 
 
 Following the example of almost every writer 
 
ELIZABETH OF YORK. 
 
 who has treated of English history, in the fatal 
 error of estimating conduct by the standard of 
 morality and customs of the present day instead 
 of by that of the period alluded to, the violent 
 assailants of Richard have found a source of ob- 
 loquy in the very possibility of so incestuous a 
 union. The legality or illegality of a marriage of 
 relations must depend upon the rules of the church 
 to which the parties belong. It was undoubtedly 
 forbidden by the canon law; but the same law 
 forbade a marriage between persons within the 
 fourth degrees of kindred. The Pope was, how- 
 ever, considered to possess a dispensing power, and 
 though, as a matter of feeling, there is a material 
 difference between the union of first or second 
 cousins, and the marriage of a niece to her uncle, 
 eacli alliance was illegal without the exercise of 
 that power. The Pontiff not only might, but often 
 did, authorize the marriage of uncles and nieces ; 
 and where would have been the crime, if Richard, 
 as a son of the church of Rome, had sought to 
 fortify his throne and prevent a civil war by avail- 
 ing himself of an indulgence which then, as now, 
 is held in all Catholic countries to be strictly legal ? 
 It is true that in England relatives so closely con- 
 nected seldom married, and, excepting under ur- 
 gent circumstances, it might not have been wise 
 to deviate so much from the general custom ; but 
 all which is contended is, that an act which was 
 
xlvi MEMOIR OF 
 
 not unusual in other countries, which was not for- 
 bidden by the common law, and which could be 
 rendered lawful in the eyes of the church, might 
 have been contemplated by Richard the Third with- 
 out rendering him the incestuous monster he has 
 been represented. 
 
 It is next desirable to inquire whether Richard 
 actually did wish to marry the Princess Elizabeth. 
 With the exception of a letter cited by Buck, from 
 her to the Duke of Norfolk, there is no evidence 
 that he ever entertained such an intention. The 
 Chronicler of Croyland, Buck, More, Grafton, and 
 those who have followed them, certainly assert that 
 such were his views. Their statements, however, 
 not only require to be supported by proofs, but 
 are open to violent suspicion, on the ground that 
 it could not have been Richard's policy to form 
 an alliance with either of Edward the Fourth's 
 daughters. 
 
 In the absence of conclusive evidence upon a 
 point of history, the obvious interests of the indi- 
 vidual concerned must be allowed great weight ; 
 and if a statement which stands on very dubious 
 authority cannot be believed without assigning to 
 him to whom it relates conduct directly at variance 
 with that which the public records shew he pur- 
 sued ; and if credence in that statement can only 
 be given by imputing to the person an inconsist- 
 ency so great, and a change of opinion so flagrant, 
 
ELIZABETH OF YORK. xlvii 
 
 that his political existence must have been endan- 
 gered, there is just cause for rejecting every thing 
 short of positive proof '. 
 
 The murder of the young princes by Richard's 
 commands may be believed, because it was impera- 
 tively his interest to remove them, and because there 
 is little doubt that they actually did disappear and 
 were never afterwards heard of. That it was not 
 his interest to marry the Princess Elizabeth, and, 
 consequently, that the strongest testimony is neces- 
 sary to prove that he intended to do so, is apparent 
 from the following circumstances. 
 
 It was the act of the first parliament, which he 
 summoned, to bastardize the children of his brother, 
 because their legitimacy would have been an insur- 
 mountable bar to his right to the throne by " inhe- 
 ritance," which was the title he pretended to pos- 
 sess J . In the only document which has been dis- 
 covered relative to them, dated in March, 1484, 
 they are treated as illegitimate ; and on the death 
 of the Prince of Wales in April, the Earl of Lincoln 
 was declared heir to the Crown. It is certain that 
 they were still considered in the same light so late 
 as August in that year, when, with the view of 
 strengthening the alliance with Scotland, Richard 
 
 1 Act of Settlement. Rot. Parl.vi., 241. The children of his elder 
 brother, the Duke of Clarence, were declared incapable of inheriting 
 by reason of their father's attainder, and the crown was settled on 
 Richard and the heirs of his body. 
 
Xlviil MEMOIR OF 
 
 promised his niece Anne, the daughter of the 
 Duchess of Suffolk, to the Prince of Scotland, she 
 being his nearest female relation whose blood was 
 not bastardized or attainted. These acts occurred 
 many months after he became aware of the design 
 of marrying the Earl of Richmond to Elizabeth of 
 York ; and there seems no greater reason why he 
 should have thought it politic to marry Elizabeth 
 after August, 1484, than previous to that time. 
 Independent of his relationship to her, there were 
 other obstacles to their union. His title to the crown 
 would not have been strengthened by marrying a 
 woman whom the law had declared a bastard ; and 
 to have repealed that declaration would be to call 
 into existence her right to the crown and to proclaim 
 himself an usurper. A measure so inconsistent with 
 his safety, so contradictory to the whole tenor of his 
 policy, seems incredible ; and can it for a moment 
 be believed that he endeavoured to effect it by 
 the murder of a wife who was fast hastening to 
 the tomb with disease, and by a marriage which 
 even the authority of the Pope could not, it is 
 said, reconcile to the feelings and manners of his 
 subjects ? 
 
 There is no difficulty in supposing that Richard 
 would commit any crime which his interests might 
 dictate; but it is not so easy to imagine that he 
 would imbrue his hands in the blood of his wife to 
 gain an object, which, so far from promoting his 
 
ELIZABETH OF YORK. 
 
 interests, must have materially injured them. The 
 worst enemies of the Usurper have contented them- 
 selves with representing him as an atrocious villain, 
 but not one of them has described him as a fool. 
 According to the authorities by whom this scheme 
 is attributed to Richard, he entertained the design 
 of raising Elizabeth to the throne about Christmas, 
 1484, at which time his Queen was taken ill, and 
 when, by the advice of her physicians, he abstained 
 from her bed. It was soon discovered that she was 
 not likely to survive beyond the ensuing February, 
 and she actually died about the llth of March. 
 Upon the coincidence between the supposed wish 
 of Richard to marry Elizabeth in December, 1484, 
 and Anne's decease in March, 1485, has her hus- 
 band been accused of murdering her, a charge 
 which is deserving of attention for no other reason 
 than as it affords a remarkable example of the man- 
 ner in which ignorance and prejudice sometimes 
 render what is called history more contemptible 
 than a romance. 
 
 It appears, therefore, that, if Richard ever se- 
 riously contemplated marrying Elizabeth, he was 
 guilty of no greater crimes than extreme folly, and 
 the indelicacy of thinking of a second wife before 
 the death of his first, " a violation of the feelings 
 which," as Mr. Sharon Turner gravely remarks, in 
 reference to Richard, " society rightly chooses to 
 exact and to make sacred," but which has been 
 
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 violated by more sovereigns and more husbands than 
 Richard the Third. The evidence of his having 
 entertained such an intention will be now examined. 
 
 Though asserted by the Chronicler of Croyland, 
 by Grafton, Fabian, Hall, Sir Thomas More, and 
 their copyists, there is only one statement on the 
 subject which has the character of proof. But 
 that statement is by no means sufficiently conclu- 
 sive to establish a point of history against proba- 
 bility, because it contradicts a material part of the 
 story as related by the writers alluded to ; and be- 
 cause the article in question was only seen by an 
 historian whose violent prejudices do not sufficiently 
 account for the mendacity for which his work is 
 remarkable. 
 
 Buck, in his Life of Richard the Third, says, 
 " When the midst and last of February was past, 
 the Lady Elizabeth, being more impatient and jea- 
 lous of the success than every one knew or conceived, 
 writes a letter to the Duke of Norfolk, intimating 
 first, that he was the man in whom she most affied, 
 in respect of that love her father had ever bore 
 him, &c. Then she congratulates his many cour- 
 tesies, in continuance of which, she desires him 
 to be a mediator for her to the King, in behalf of the 
 marriage propounded between them, who, as she 
 wrote, was her only joy and maker in this world, 
 and that she was his in heart and thought; with 
 all insinuating, that the better part of February 
 
ELIZABETH OF YORK. 
 
 was past, and that she feared the queen would 
 never die. 
 
 " All these be her own words, written with her 
 own hand, and this is the sum of her letter, which 
 remains in the autograph, or original draft, under 
 her own hand, in the magnificent cabinet of Thomas 
 Earl of Arundel and Surrey 1 ." 
 
 If this letter really existed 2 , and if Buck has cited 
 it fairly, it would be in vain to contend against such 
 testimony, and Elizabeth's fame would be irredeem- 
 ably affected, not on the ground of her relationship 
 to Richard, but from his being the author of the 
 misfortunes and disgrace of her family, if not the 
 murderer of her brothers ; and because she had 
 pledged herself but a few months before to marry 
 the Earl of Richmond. The character of Buck as 
 a faithless writer is well known ; and even if his 
 notorious inaccuracies and prejudices do not justify 
 the suspicion that the letter itself was never written, 
 it is not too much to suggest that the interpretation 
 which he has given to it is at variance with truth, 
 As Buck has inserted copies of several documents 
 of much less interest, it may be asked, why did he 
 not give this most important letter at length ? Nor 
 
 1 Ed. 1646, p. 128. 
 
 2 It is proper to observe, that Dr. Lingard, whose sagacity is not 
 exceeded by that of any other historian of England, seems to believe 
 that Richard really intended to marry Elizabeth, and does not express 
 any doubt of the accuracy of Buck's report of her letter to the Duke 
 of Norfolk. "History of England," ed. 1823, vol. v., p. 355 and 
 p. 359. 
 
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 is it less remarkable, that even if he were the first 
 person who brought it to light, no other individual 
 should have had sufficient curiosity to copy it. 
 Buck's work appeared in the days of Dugdale, of 
 Anthony Wood, and of several other eminent an- 
 tiquaries, who have left imperishable monuments 
 of their zeal in collecting historical materials, yet 
 not a single transcript, much less the original of 
 this extraordinary communication, is known to be 
 extant. No other writer than Buck ever saw it, so 
 that its existence rests upon his authority alone, 
 and every one must form his own judgment as to 
 the degree of confidence to which he is entitled 1 . 
 The Chroniclers, who impute to Richard the design 
 of marrying his niece, agree in stating that she 
 resolutely opposed his wishes. Grafton's words 
 are, " But because all men, and the maiden herself 
 most of all, detested and abhorred this unlawful and 
 
 1 If the letter cited by Buck really existed, its purport may perhaps 
 be reconciled with other facts by supposing that he mistook its date, 
 or assigned to it a wrong one ; and that, in fact, the person for whom 
 she expressed so eager a desire to marry was Henry instead of Richard. 
 Many parts of the abstract would agree with this hypothesis, for the 
 allusion to February, and Queen Anne, Buck calls an "insinuation," 
 and a passage of doubtful import becomes doubly doubtful when 
 construed by so suspicious a reporter. The only thing which renders 
 this idea unlikely is, that the letter is said to have been addressed to 
 the Duke of Norfolk, who perished at Bosworth Field; but may not 
 its address, too, have been an "inference" arising from its being in the 
 possession of the duke's descendant ? It would, however, be useless 
 to press the point farther, since there is no limit to conjecture ; but 
 any probable explanation of so dubious a version of that document 
 is entitled to attention. Sharon Turner, in his zeal to exculpate 
 Richard, suggests that, if this letter be genuine, he was the " seduced," 
 rather than the " seducer." " History of England," vol. iv., p. 24. 
 
ELIZABETH OF YORK. 
 
 in manner unnatural copulation, he determined to 
 prolong and defer the matter till he were in more 
 quietness;" and this is the only explanation he 
 gives, why, when Queen Anne died in March, 
 1485, Richard did not execute his design. The 
 Croyland Chronicler, however, offers this additional 
 reason, that twelve doctors in theology gave it as 
 their opinion that the Pope could not legalize it 
 by any dispensation. If this be true, it is not very 
 evident from what source the Pontiff derives the 
 power of authorizing such an alliance at the present 
 day, even if instances cannot be adduced of the 
 practice at the period in question. 
 
 For the reasons which have been stated, it may 
 be presumed that Richard never contemplated a 
 marriage with Elizabeth ; that the letter noticed by 
 Buck is grossly misquoted, even if any letter to that 
 purport was ever written by her; and that the 
 whole tale was invented with the view of blacken- 
 ing Richard's character, to gratify the monarch in 
 whose reign all the contemporary writers who relate 
 it flourished, an opinion which is supported by the 
 fact, that not one of them even insinuates that 
 Elizabeth consented to the alliance, but agree in 
 stating her utter repugnance to the project. 
 
 The materials for a history of the reign of Richard 
 the Third are so very meagre and imperfect, that 
 every thing which is contemporary with it merits 
 attention. For this reason it would be improper not 
 to notice a kind of metrical narrative of Elizabeth 
 
llV MEMOIR OF 
 
 of York's connection with the revolution in favour 
 of Henry the Seventh, entitled " The Most Pleasant 
 Song of Lady Bessy," written by Humphrey Brereton, 
 who represents himself to have been an Esquire 
 in the retinue of Lord Stanley, afterwards Earl of 
 Derby ; to have been privy to the manner in which 
 that nobleman was detached from Richard's in- 
 terests ; to have carried the letters to Lord Stanley's 
 son, brother, and other relatives in Cheshire, urging 
 them to espouse Richmond's cause; and to have 
 been the bearer of a communication from Elizabeth 
 and Stanley to Henry in Brittany. Of this " Song," 
 two copies, differing materially from each other, 
 are extant. One of them is a corrupt if not inter- 
 polated transcript, in the hand-writing of the reign 
 of Charles the Second, in the possession of William 
 Bateman, Esq., and has been lately printed with 
 a judicious preface and notes by Mr. Hey wood. 
 The other transcript, which is in the Harleian MS. 
 367, has suffered less from the ignorance of the 
 copyist, though it is by no means certain that it 
 is in the same state as the author wrote it. That 
 much historical information is often contained in 
 productions of this nature is well known, for of 
 many events there are no other than metrical de- 
 scriptions. It is difficult to determine to what 
 extent the statements in this " Song" are to be 
 received as truth; but that they are not wholly 
 imaginary is unquestionable. That Humphrey 
 Brereton was in the service of Lord Stanley ; that 
 
ELIZABETH OF YORK. Iv 
 
 he was entrusted with letters from his master to the 
 parties he mentions in Cheshire ; that he was sent 
 to Richmond ; and that the " Song" was written by 
 him soon after the accession of Henry the Seventh, 
 may perhaps be conceded. Many of the facts 
 which he relates are points of history that have 
 never been doubted, hence the outlines of his pic- 
 ture may be relied on ; but the nice question is, to 
 what extent did he draw upon his imagination in 
 the grouping, colouring, and filling up ? That he 
 has introduced a great deal of fiction in the minor 
 details, especially in reference to himself; that in 
 imitation of the only historians of his times, the 
 Chroniclers, he has put speeches into the mouths 
 of persons which never were spoken ; and that he 
 has not hesitated to add to the interest of his story, 
 by introducing circumstances which could not have 
 occurred, such, for example, as the Princess Eliza- 
 beth taking him in her arms, and thrice kissing 
 him, cannot for a moment be denied. Still these 
 blemishes do not divest his composition of claims to 
 be considered of some historical authority in relation 
 to events in which he was himself concerned ; nor 
 does the circumstance of his speaking of Lord 
 Stanley as Earl of Derby lessen his credibility, for 
 though that nobleman did not possess the latter 
 title when the events described took place, it was 
 usual for early writers to allude to individuals by 
 the designations borne by them at the time they 
 wrote. The most probable facts related by Brereton, 
 
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 but which rest on his authority alone, are that Eli- 
 zabeth was especially recommended to the care of 
 Lord Stanley by Edward the Fourth on his death- 
 bed ; that she lodged in his house in London after 
 she quitted the sanctuary ; that she was privy to 
 the rising in favour of Richmond ; that she could 
 write and read both French and Spanish ; that 
 Brereton was sent into Cheshire to Stanley's son, 
 Lord Strange, to his brother, and to other relations, 
 entreating them to support Richmond's cause ; and 
 that he was the bearer of letters to Henry in 
 Brittany, together with a letter and a ring from 
 Elizabeth to him. On his return, he says, that he 
 found her in London ; that she shortly afterwards 
 accompanied Stanley to Leicester ; and that she was 
 in the neighbourhood of Bosworth when that battle 
 was fought. Whether, as Brereton relates, Lord 
 Stanley w r as induced to abandon Richard in con- 
 sequence of Elizabeth's pathetic remonstrances, and 
 of the picture which she held up to his view of the 
 Usurper's character, charging him with the murder 
 of Henry the Sixth, and of the two young princes, 
 with poisoning his Queen that he might make her 
 " his leman," and all the other crimes with which 
 his enemies have loaded his memory, cannot be 
 determined, but perhaps this part of his tale is that 
 which is least worthy of credit. In these particulars, 
 however, the statements of Grafton are closely fol- 
 lowed ; and if the slightest reliance can be placed 
 on Brereton's authority, it must be concluded that 
 
ELIZABETH OF YORK. 
 
 Henry was indebted to Elizabeth alone for the sup- 
 port of the Stanleys, and consequently for his crown, 
 that Richard sought to obtain, if not her hand, at 
 least her person, that her fidelity to her engage- 
 ment with Henry remained unshaken, and that she 
 treated the Usurper's advances with scorn and ab- 
 horrence. 
 
 Grafton states that Richmond received intima- 
 tion of Richard's design to marry Elizabeth, and to 
 give her sister Cecily to " a man found in a cloud 
 and of an unknown lineage and family," and that, 
 despairing, therefore, of becoming the husband of 
 either of Edward the Fourth's daughters, Henry 
 sought to strengthen his cause by treating for a 
 marriage with the sister of Sir Walter Herbert, a 
 person of an ancient family and great influence in 
 Wales, whose other sister was the wife of Henry 
 Earl of Northumberland, but that his messenger 
 to Herbert found it impossible to proceed. The 
 inconsistency of one part of this story is so great 
 that it is unworthy of credence ; for if Richard 
 intended to elevate Elizabeth to the throne, it is 
 highly improbable that he would allow her next 
 sister to contract an obscure alliance. 
 
 The concluding events of Richard's reign do not 
 require to be recapitulated in this work. From the 
 commencement of the year 1483, until the acces- 
 sion of Henry the Seventh, all which is known of 
 Elizabeth is, that it is said she and her cousin the 
 
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 Earl of Warwick were sent to the castle of Sheriff 
 Hutton, in Yorkshire, as soon as Richard heard 
 of Richmond's invasion 1 , but this does not agree 
 with Brereton's statement that she accompanied 
 Lord Stanley to Leicester and saw the corpse of 
 Richard. 
 
 Immediately after Henry arrived in London, 
 Elizabeth was brought to the metropolis with great 
 state, and entrusted to her mother, the Queen dow- 
 ager. The nation eagerly expected the fulfilment 
 of the King's engagement to marry her, and thus 
 unite the representation of the houses of York and 
 Lancaster ; but, from a cause which has never been 
 explained, their nuptials did not take place for five 
 months after his accession. 
 
 Upon Henry's title to the crown some remarks 
 will not be considered misplaced, because a new 
 fact on the subject has been recently brought to 
 light. In discussing it the circumstance will not 
 again be adverted to that he had no hereditary 
 right whatever, because his mother, through whom 
 he descended from the house of Lancaster, was 
 alive, for in urging his pretensions he evidently 
 alluded to those which he derived from her, 
 and it may have been considered that she re- 
 
 1 An interesting little volume, entitled "An Account of Sheriff 
 Hutton Castle," has been recently published at York; and its having 
 been said that Elizabeth was sent to that place by Richard the Third, 
 has induced the author to insert an account of her with a portrait ; 
 but nothing occurs in confirmation of that statement. 
 
ELIZABETH OF YORK. IJX 
 
 signed her claims in his favour, which arrange- 
 ment the legislature would probably have sanc- 
 tioned, had Parliament recognized his right by 
 inheritance. 
 
 His only pretensions by descent, consisted in 
 being the representative of the House of Lancas- 
 ter, as sole heir of John of Gaunt, and, after the 
 death of Henry the Sixth, the next heir of that 
 monarch. The superior claims of the House of 
 York, from representing Lionel Duke of Clarence, 
 the second son of Edward the Third, do not require 
 to be pointed out. They were too obvious to de- 
 ceive Henry or his advisers ; and though it was 
 contended that the children of Edward the Fourth 
 were illegitimate, that the issue of the Duke of Cla- 
 rence were incapable of inheriting in consequence 
 of the attainder of their father, and that Richard 
 the Third left no issue, still the sisters of those 
 princes, or their children, as well as many de- 
 scendants of Isabel, the aunt of Edward the Fourth, 
 were then in existence ; and unless they too were 
 bastardized, or rendered incapable by an act of 
 the legislature, they possessed a superior claim to 
 any descendant of John of Gaunt. But Henry's 
 pretension to be the lineal heir of that personage 
 was impeached; and Richard, in a proclamation 
 dated on the 23rd of June, 1 484, observed that " his 
 mother was daughter unto John Duke of Somerset, 
 son unto John Earl of Somerset, son unto Dame 
 Katherine Swynford, and of their in double avoutry 
 
 i 2 
 
MEMOIR OF 
 
 gotten 1 ,'' by which was meant that the Earl of 
 Somerset was begotten by John of Gaunt on Kathe- 
 rine Swynford, during the lifetime of his wife and 
 of her husband ; and though the Beauforts were 
 legitimated by the King, and by Parliament, in 
 February, 1397, it has hitherto been considered 
 that the instrument for the purpose contained a 
 special exception against its conferring any right 
 to the royal dignity. This, however, was not the 
 fact, but it is extremely doubtful if Henry himself 
 was aware that his maternal pedigree was free from 
 the defect so confidently ascribed to it. The Pa- 
 tent of Legitimation, as it was originally granted, 
 as it was entered on the Patent Rolls, and as it 
 received the sanction of Parliament, rendered the 
 issue of John of Gaunt by Katherine Swynford 
 capable of taking every species of dignity, honour, 
 or office, and removed all objections on the ground 
 of impure birth. A few years afterwards, and 
 before the year 1407, when Henry the Fourth ex- 
 emplified and confirmed the said grant to John 
 Beaufort Earl of Somerset, the words " excepta dig- 
 nitate regali " were added to the enrolment on the 
 Patent Rolls, as an interlineation, though they were 
 not inserted in the copy on the Rolls of Parliament, 
 and they were also introduced into the exemplifi- 
 cation to the Earl of Somerset. But this alteration 
 
 i Ellis' "Original Letters," Second Series, vol. i., p. 164. An 
 article on the subject of the legitimacy of the Earl of Beaufort, and on 
 the connexion of John of Gaunt with Katherine Swynford, will he 
 found in the " Excerpta Historica," p. 152. 
 
ELIZABETH OF YORK. 
 
 has no legal effect, because the operative grant is 
 that which was sanctioned by Parliament, so that 
 the mother of Henry the Seventh was by law the 
 lineal heir of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. 
 
 Sensible that his title to the Crown, by descent, 
 was too defective to be urged, but being, at the same 
 time, extremely reluctant to acknowledge that he 
 was in any way indebted for the throne to his in- 
 tended union with the heiress of York, Henry re- 
 solved to obtain a recognition of his right by the 
 legislature previous to his marriage. A Parlia- 
 ment met at Westminster on the 7th of September, 
 1485, and one of its first measures was to settle the 
 crown. When the commons presented their speaker 
 to Henry, he addressed them in a short speech, in 
 which he noticed his accession " as well by just 
 hereditary title as by the sure judgment of God, 
 which was manifested by giving him the victory in 
 the field over his enemy V On the accession of 
 Henry the Fourth, Edward the Fourth, and Richard 
 the Third, the three monarchs in whose favour the 
 lineal order of descent was broken, the Act of Set- 
 tlement stated their claims to the throne by inherit- 
 ance ; but Parliament appears to have grounded 
 Henry the Seventh's right on his being King de 
 facto, before it met, and to have considered that all 
 which was necessary for it to do was to state that 
 fact, and to settle the royal dignity upon him and 
 the heirs of his body. The Act of Settlement is 
 
 1 Rot. Pavl. vi. 268. 
 
Ixii MEMOIR OF 
 
 consequently very concise, and notwithstanding the 
 hint thrown out by Henry, in his address to the 
 speaker of the commons, that his claim to the crown 
 was both by conquest and descent, no allusion to 
 either of these pretensions occurs in it : 
 
 " To the pleasure of Almighty God, the wealth, 
 prosperity, and surety of this realm of England, to 
 the singular comfort of all the King's subjects of the 
 same, and in avoiding of all ambiguities and ques- 
 tions, Be it ordained, stablished, and enacted, by 
 authority of this present Parliament, that the inhe- 
 ritance of the crowns of the realms of England and 
 of France 1 , with all the pre-eminence and dignity 
 royal to the same pertaining, and all other seignuries 
 to the King belonging beyond the sea, with the ap- 
 purtenances thereto in any wise due or pertaining, 
 be, rest, remain, and abide in the most royal person 
 of our new Sovereign Lord, King Harry the Seventh, 
 and in the heirs of his body lawfully coming, per- 
 petually, with the grace of God, so to endure, and 
 in none other 2 ." 
 
 1 One of the charges brought against Henry the Seventh, when 
 Earl of Richmond, by Richard the Third, was, that he had agreed with 
 the King and council of France " to release in perpetuity all the right, 
 title, and claim that the Kings of England have had and might have 
 to the crown and realm of France, together with the Duchies of Nor- 
 mandy, Anjou, and Maine, Gascony and Guienne, the Castles and 
 Towns of Calais, Guisnes, Hammes, with the Marches appertaining to 
 the same, and to dissever and exclude the arms of France out of the 
 arms of England for ever/' Paston Letters, vol. ii., p. 319 ; the Ap- 
 pendix to Singer's edition of Sir Thomas More's " History of Richard 
 the Third ;" and Ellis 1 " Original Letters," Second Series, vol. i., 
 p. 164. 
 
 8 Rot. Parl. vi. 270. 
 
ELIZABETH OF YORK. 
 
 Henry's own conviction was, however, that he 
 obtained the crown by conquest alone ; and this 
 opinion, to which he slightly alluded in his first 
 address to Parliament ', but found if too repugnant 
 to the feelings of the country to repeat, is apparent 
 from his will, though no historian has hitherto no- 
 ticed it. The passage alluded to is the following : 
 
 " We will that our executors cause to be made an 
 image of a King, representing our own person, the 
 same to be of timber, covered and wrought with 
 plate of fine gold, in manner of an armed man, and 
 upon the same armour a coat armour of our Arms 
 of England and France enamelled, with a sword and 
 spurs accordingly, and the said image to kneel upon 
 a table of silver and gilt, and holding betwixt his 
 hands the crown which it pleased God to give us with 
 the victory of our enemy at our first field" The said 
 image he bequeathed to God and Our Lady, and 
 ordered it to be placed in the midst of St. Edward's 
 shrine, at Westminster. 
 
 It would, indeed, have been difficult for Henry 
 to find any other title to the throne than that of 
 conquest. His descent afforded him no just pre- 
 tensions ; and had he admitted that he derived a 
 right from his marriage, he would have tacitly con- 
 fessed that he was, in the first instance, and until 
 Parliament met and recognized him as sovereign, 
 
 1 See page Ixi., ante. 
 
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 an usurper. Not satisfied with the admission of his 
 alleged right by Parliament, Henry resolved that 
 his coronation should also precede his nuptials, and 
 on the 30th of October that ceremony took place at 
 Westminster. Nearly two months more were al- 
 lowed to elapse, and still nothing was done with 
 relation to his marriage. Some writers have attri- 
 buted the delay to his intending to offer his hand to 
 the heiress of Brittany, and it has been generally 
 said that he fulfilled his pledge to Elizabeth with 
 great reluctance. If it be true that she professed a 
 desire to marry Richard the Third, and thus aban- 
 doned him for his rival, his coldness, when fortune 
 proved propitious, independent of any personal ob- 
 jections which he may have entertained, was neither 
 surprising nor unnatural. On this subject nothing 
 certain is known ; but that some suspicion was felt 
 as to his intentions with regard to Elizabeth, and 
 that the nation was most anxious for their union, 
 is placed beyond a doubt by the petition of the 
 commons on the llth of December, 1485, imme- 
 diately before the Parliament was prorogued. The 
 Speaker, Sir Thomas Lovell, then prayed the King, 
 " that in consideration of the right to the realms of 
 England and France being vested in his person, and 
 the heirs of his body, by the authority of the said 
 Parliament, he would be pleased to espouse the 
 Lady Elizabeth, daughter of King Edward the 
 Fourth, which marriage they hoped God would bless 
 
ELIZABETH OF YORK. 
 
 with a progeny of the race of Kings 1 3 to the great 
 satisfaction of the whole realm." The Lords spiritual 
 and temporal, rising from their seats, and bowing to 
 the throne, expressed their concurrence in the re- 
 quest, and Henry answered that he was willing to 
 comply with their wishes 2 . 
 
 This intimation was too decisive not to be com- 
 plied with, and on the 1 8th of January following the 
 nuptials of the King and Elizabeth were solemnized 
 with great splendour and magnificence at West- 
 minster. The doubt which has been entertained as 
 to whether Henry would have fulfilled his engage- 
 ment, had he not been addressed in so unequivocal a 
 manner by his Parliament, is somewhat strengthened 
 by the dates of the bulls for the purpose, the sanc- 
 tion of the Holy See being requisite in consequence 
 of their being related within the prohibited degrees 
 of consanguinity. Application appears to have been 
 made to the Pope very soon after the request of the 
 Commons, but the first of the three bulls which were 
 granted is dated on the 2nd of March, 1485-6, in 
 which the importance of the alliance is pointed out, 
 and Elizabeth is recognized as the undoubted heir 
 and eldest child of Edward the Fourth, but it is 
 evident that the Pontiff was ignorant that the mar- 
 riage had taken place 3 . Nor does he appear to 
 have been aware of the circumstance on the 27th 
 
 1 By this expression, "de stirpe regum," Lingard considers that 
 the Kings of each line were meant. " History of England," v. 377. 
 * Rot. Parl. vi. 278. 8 Fredera, xii. 294. 
 
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Ixv MEMOIR OF 
 
 of that month, when he issued a second rescript, 
 confirming the instrument of the 2nd of March; 
 and, after stating that the title of Henry was by 
 right of war, by indisputable hereditary succes- 
 sion, by the election of his subjects, and by the 
 consent of the three estates of the realm, he de- 
 nounced the penalties of excommunication to all 
 who might rebel against his authority l . 
 
 Power had been delegated to the Bishop of Imola, 
 the Pope's legate, to grant a dispensation to any 
 twelve persons to marry, notwithstanding the im- 
 pediment of consanguinity ; and Henry availed him- 
 self of the circumstance to avoid waiting the arrival 
 of the permission for which he applied to the Pontiff; 
 but doubts arose in the breasts of one or both the 
 parties whether their marriage, by virtue of a dis- 
 pensation under a delegated authority, and before 
 the sanction of the Holy See was obtained, might not 
 be impeached as irregular. A third bull was con- 
 sequently sought, which was granted on the 27th of 
 July. It notices the preceding rescripts, states that 
 it was granted at the instance of Henry and Eliza- 
 beth, that they had been married by virtue of Imola's 
 dispensation, and fully confirms and ratifies their 
 union 2 . 
 
 It is manifest from these documents, that the 
 dispensation was not applied for until the end of the 
 year 1485, whereas, if, from the moment of Henry's 
 
 1 Foedera, xii., p. 297. s Ibid., xii., p. 314. 
 
ELIZABETH OF YORK. 
 
 accession he intended to espouse Elizabeth, it may 
 be presumed that a dispensation would have been 
 sought some time before, even if he purposed post- 
 poning the ceremony until the legislature had re- 
 cognized his right to the throne. There is, how- 
 ever, an appearance of haste, after an unnecessary 
 delay of five months, in his availing himself of the 
 power vested in the Pope's legate instead of adopt- 
 ing the regular and more dignified course of waiting 
 for a specific bull for the purpose from Rome, which 
 tends to shew that the nation was impatient for the 
 union, and that Henry felt it would be dangerous 
 to defer the fulfilment of his engagement. To these 
 bulls much importance was attached, as a contem- 
 porary states that the King being at Coventry on 
 St. George's Day, 1487, at which time he was rais- 
 ing forces to subdue the rebellion of the Earl of Lin- 
 coln, " the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishops 
 of Winchester, Ely, London, Worcester, Exeter, and 
 the Prior of Coventry, all in pontificalibus, read and 
 declared the Pope's bulls, touching the King's and 
 Queen's right, and there in the choir, in the Bishop's 
 seat, by the authority of the same bulls, cursed with 
 book, bell, and candle all those that did anything 
 contrary to their right, and approving their titles 
 good 1 ." 
 
 It was one of the acts of Henry's first Parliament 
 to restore the widow of Edward the Fourth to the 
 
 1 Iceland's Collectanea, vol. iv., p. 209. 
 
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Ixviii MEMOIR OF 
 
 title and dignity of Queen of England, and this was 
 done by simply enacting that she should have the 
 same rank and style as she would have had if the 
 statute of Richard the Third, by which she was 
 degraded, had never been passed ^ This restitution 
 was immediately followed by the repeal of the act 
 by which her marriage with Edward was declared 
 invalid and their children illegitimate 2 , so that the 
 hereditary pretensions of the House of York to the 
 throne would have been revived, but for a clause 
 providing that nothing contained therein should 
 prejudice the act " establishing the crown to the 
 King and the heirs of his body." 
 
 Elizabeth's marriage did not, if historians are to 
 be credited, wholly remove the jealousy of her party 
 with respect to the King's conduct towards her. 
 They naturally expected that her coronation, a 
 ceremony to which more consequence was attached 
 formerly than at present, would speedily follow ; 
 but though it did not take place for eighteen months, 
 it is scarcely possible to discover any sinister motive 
 which could have induced her husband to defer it. 
 
 1 Rot. Parl. vi. 288. 
 
 2 Rot. Parl. vi. p. 289. The judges to whom the proceedings rela- 
 tive to the reversal of that act were referred determined that as it was 
 so false and slanderous, the first words of it only should be read in 
 parliament, " that the matter might be and remain in perpetual ob- 
 livion for the falseness and shamefulness of it." Year Books, Hilary 
 term, 1 Henry VII. f. 1. The original act was ordered to be removed 
 from the Rolls and burnt, and every person who possessed a copy or 
 remembrance of it was commanded to deliver the same to the Chan- 
 cellor before Easter, under the penalty of fine and imprisonment at 
 the King's pleasure. Rot. Parl. vi. 289 a . 
 
ELIZABETH OF YORK. L\ix 
 
 The delay may, in the first instance, be attributed 
 to her delicate situation, she being in the family way 
 immediately after her marriage, which was perhaps 
 the reason why she did not accompany Henry in 
 his progress to York in the spring of the year 1486 ; 
 and after her confinement, the rebellion of the Earl 
 of Lincoln must have occupied the King's mind too 
 much to allow of his attending to any other affair. 
 
 The Queen was delivered of her first child 
 at Winchester, on St. Eustacius's day, the 20th 
 September, 1486, being a month sooner than the 
 usual period of gestation. He received the name of 
 Arthur, and on the Sunday following was baptized 
 in Winchester Cathedral, with much ceremony, of 
 which a very minute description is preserved 1 .. It 
 is remarkable, as indicative of the good feeling which 
 Henry entertained towards his mother-in-law, Eli- 
 zabeth Wydeville, that she, rather than his own 
 mother, the Countess of Richmond, was a sponsor 
 to the young prince, to whom she presented a rich 
 covered cup of gold. 
 
 In testimony of her gratitude to heaven for her 
 safe delivery, Elizabeth founded a chapel, dedicated 
 to Our Lady, in Winchester Cathedral, in which her 
 arms were placed, surmounted by the words " In 
 Gloriam Dei 2 ." Her recovery from her confinement 
 was retarded by an attack of ague, but when able 
 
 1 Printed in Leland's Collectanea, vol. iv., p. 204, et seq. 
 8 Lansdowne MS. 978, f. 26. 
 
1XX MEMOIR OF 
 
 to travel she removed to Greenwich, and there kept 
 the Feast of All Hallows 1 . 
 
 About the middle of March, 1487, Henry made 
 a progress into Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk, and 
 thence into Warwickshire. On St. George's day 
 he was at Coventry 2 , and within three weeks he 
 heard of the landing of the Earl of Lincoln and 
 Lambert Simnell, in Ireland; for, on the 13th of 
 May, being then at Kenilworth, he wrote to the Earl 
 of Ormond, the Queen's chamberlain, stating that he 
 had received tidings of the landing of the rebels in 
 Ireland on the 5th of that month; that he had sent 
 to the Queen and his mother to come to him; that 
 he wished to have the Earl's advice about subduing 
 the rebellion ; and he commanded him, in pursuance 
 of his duty of attending on the Queen's person, to 
 accompany her to his presence 3 . Her Majesty and 
 the Countess of Richmond accordingly joined Henry 
 at Kenilworth, and not long after their arrival news 
 were brought that the Earl of Lincoln and his ad- 
 herents had landed near Furnesse 4 . 
 
 This effort in favour of the first of the impostors 
 who disturbed Henry's reign was quelled by the 
 battle of Stoke, on the 16th of June ; and as soon as 
 
 1 Leland's Collectanea, vol. iv., p. 207. 2 Ibid. p. 210. 
 
 3 See a letter, printed in Ellis's " Original Letters," First Series, 
 vol. ii., p. 18. The editor of that work, presuming lhat Perkin War- 
 beck and his party were alluded to, has assigned this letter to the 
 13th of May, 1492. Very little research would have proved that it was 
 written four years earlier, and in reference to a different affair. 
 
 4 Leland's Collectanea, vol. iv., p. 210. 
 
ELIZABETH OF YORK. 
 
 peace and order were fully re-established, prepara- 
 tions were made for the Queen's coronation. In 
 September, writs were issued from Warwick, sum- 
 moning the peers and others to attend that cere- 
 mony on the 25th of November following 1 . Their 
 Majesties commenced their journey from Warwick 
 on the 27th of October, and celebrated the Feast 
 of All Hallows at St. Alban's. Henry was received 
 in the metropolis on the 3rd of November as a con- 
 queror, in reference to his victory at Stoke, and he 
 proceeded to St. Paul's, attended by a numerous 
 retinue of lords, knights, and citizens. The Queen, 
 the Countess of Richmond, and other ladies of dis- 
 tinction, viewed the scene, privately, from a house in 
 St. Mary Spitell, without Bishopsgate ; and as soon 
 as the procession passed she went to Greenwich. 
 
 On Friday, the 23rd, the Queen left Greenwich by 
 water for her coronation, of which a very interest- 
 ing narrative is extant 2 . Arrayed in the robes of 
 royalty, she was accompanied by the Countess of 
 Richmond, her mother-in-law, and by an extensive 
 retinue of peers and peeresses, and was escorted by 
 the Lord-mayor, sheriffs, and aldermen of London. 
 Each Company furnished elegant barges, decorated 
 with silk banners and streamers, richly emblazoned 
 with the arms and badges, and rowed by men 
 dressed in the proper liveries, of the respective 
 crafts. Amidst the various objects of attraction, 
 
 1 Leland's " Collectanea," vol. iv., p. 216. 
 2 Ibid., p. 216-223. 
 
MEMOIR OF 
 
 the Bachelor's barge claimed particular notice for 
 its superior splendour, and from its carrying a red 
 dragon, the ensign of the house of Tudor, which 
 spouted fire into the Thames. Music of all kinds 
 lent its aid to enliven the scene, and, thus attended, 
 her Majesty arrived at the Tower. As she entered 
 it, she was received by the King in the most gra- 
 cious manner, or, to use the words of the narrator 
 himself, " the King's highness welcomed her in 
 such manner and form, as was to all the estates 
 and others there being present a very good sight, 
 and right joyous and comfortable to behold." Ele- 
 ven Knights of the Bath were then created ; and 
 on the next day, after dinner, her Majesty being 
 " royally apparelled, in a kirtle of white cloth of 
 gold of damask, and a mantle of the same suit, 
 furred with ermine, fastened before her breast with 
 a great lace, curiously wrought of gold and silk, 
 and rich knobs of gold at the end, tasselled ; 
 her fair yellow hair hanging down plain behind 
 her back, with a call of pipes over it, and wear- 
 ing on her head a circle of gold, richly garnished 
 with precious stones," quitted her chamber of 
 state. Her train was borne by her sister, the Lady 
 Cecily, and being attended by a great retinue 
 of lords, ladies, and others, she entered her litter, 
 in which she was conveyed to Westminster. Most 
 of the streets, which were lined with the city com- 
 panies in their liveries, were hung with tapestry and 
 arras, whilst in Cheapside, and some other places, 
 
ELIZABETH OF YORK. 
 
 rich cloths of gold and velvets and silks were dis- 
 played. The houses were filled with spectators, 
 and the crowd is represented as being immense, all 
 eager to " see the Queen in her royal apparel," a 
 feeling which had perhaps a deeper source than the 
 gratification of idle curiosity. Children, in the 
 dresses of angels and virgins, were placed in various 
 parts, who sung the Queen's praises as she passed ; 
 and, preceded by the Duke of Bedford as Lord Stew- 
 ard, the Earl of Oxford as Great Chamberlain, the 
 Earl of Derby as Constable, and the Earl of Not- 
 tingham as Marshal of England, by the Duke of 
 Suffolk, the Lord Mayor, Garter King of Arms, the 
 Heralds, and other official persons, and by the newly 
 made Knights of the Bath, with their banners borne 
 before them, her Majesty proceeded through the 
 city, sitting in her litter, under a canopy borne by 
 Knights of the body. Her sister Cecily, her aunt 
 the Duchess of Bedford, the Duchesses of Norfolk 
 and Suffolk, the Countess of Oxford, in two chairs, 
 and six Baronesses, mounted on palfreys, imme- 
 diately followed the Queen ; and in this order the 
 procession arrived at Westminster, where she slept. 
 The next morning she was arrayed in a kirtle and 
 mantle of purple velvet, furred with ermine laced 
 in front, and wore in her hair a circle of gold richly 
 set with pearls and other jewels. In this dress, she 
 proceeded to Westminster Hall, where she remained 
 under a canopy of state until the procession was 
 ready. From the place where she stood to the 
 
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Ixxiv 
 
 MEMOIR OF 
 
 pulpit in the Abbey the ground was covered with 
 new ray cloth, and the struggle of the crowd to cut 
 it to pieces after she passed was extremely great. 
 The Earl of Arundel bore the staff with the dove, 
 the Duke of Suffolk the sceptre, and the Duke 
 of Bedford, who was bareheaded, the crown. On 
 one side, her Majesty was supported by the Bishop 
 of Winchester, and on the other, by the Bishop 
 of Ely, and she was immediately followed by the 
 Princess Cecily, who held her train. In this order 
 she entered the west door of Westminster Abbey, 
 and took her seat near the pulpit, when the usual 
 ceremonies were performed ; after which she re- 
 turned to the Palace at Westminster. The King was 
 a spectator from a handsome latticed stage, between 
 the pulpit and the high altar, where also stood his 
 mother, and many other ladies of rank. 
 
 An account of the dinner, including even the 
 dishes, is extant, at which it would appear, that those 
 only who formed part of the procession were pre- 
 sent, the King and his mother viewing it privately 
 from a latticed seat or stage, erected out of a window 
 on the left side of the Hall. The words in which 
 the author concludes his narrative of the Queen's 
 coronation convey an idea of the deep interest which 
 the country felt on the subject, "And then the 
 Queen departed with God's blessing, and to the re- 
 joicing of many a true Englishman's heart 1 ." 
 
 1 He uses nearly the same expression when speaking of the birth of 
 
ELIZABETH OF YORK. IxXV 
 
 The next morning the King and Queen, with 
 their court, heard mass in St. Stephen's chapel, 
 after which " she kept her estate " in the Parliament 
 Chamber, the King's mother sitting on her right 
 hand, the Duchess of Bedford, her aunt, on her 
 left, and her sister Cecily at the end of the table. 
 At the side table sat the Duchesses of Suffolk 
 and Norfolk, the Countesses of Oxford, Wiltshire, 
 Rivers, and Nottingham, many Baronesses, and the 
 ladies attached to the Queen's person. After din- 
 ner her Majesty and the other ladies danced ; and 
 the following day she returned to Greenwich, in 
 consequence of Parliamentary business, which pre- 
 vented the continuance of the feast l . 
 
 From the moment in which Elizabeth of York 
 became Queen of England her life loses its political 
 interest, and the few incidents illustrative of her 
 domestic habits and of her personal character which 
 are preserved, are to be gathered from the account 
 of the private expenses of herself and her hus- 
 
 Prince Arthur, " over all Te Deum laudamus songen with ringing of 
 bells, and in the most parte fires made in the praising of God and the 
 rejoicing of every true Englishman." Leland's " Collectanea," iv. 204. 
 1 The coronation was attended by fifteen Bishops, seventeen Ab- 
 bots, two Dukes, twelve Earls, two Viscounts, twenty Barons, the 
 heirs apparent of the Earls of Suffolk and Devonshire ; the King's 
 mother, and the Lady Cecily, the Queen's sister, three Duchesses, 
 four Countesses, seven Baronesses, thirty-one Knight Bannerets, one 
 hundred and fifty Knights, besides their wives and other gentlewomen ; 
 but neither the Queen's mother, nor any of her sisters, excepting 
 Cecily, appear to have been present. Leland's " Collectanea," vol. 
 iv., p. 216 to 233. 
 
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MEMOIR OF 
 
 band. It has been asserted that Henry treated her 
 with austerity and unkindness, and that her hap- 
 piness was seriously affected both by his conduct 
 towards her, and by his severity towards her mother. 
 Bacon remarks, " that he shewed himself no very 
 indulgent husband towards her, though she was 
 beautiful, gentle, and fruitful; but his aversion 
 towards the House of York was so predominant in 
 him as it found place not only in his wars and coun- 
 cils but in his chamber and bed 1 ." There seems, 
 however, to be as little proof that Henry behaved 
 ill to his Queen, as that his conduct towards her 
 mother was cruel or rapacious. Dr. Lingard is 
 the first historian who has suggested that these 
 charges are partially, if not wholly, unfounded 2 ; 
 and the conclusions to be drawn from the Privy Purse 
 Expenses of the King, to which that writer had not 
 access, fully justify the view which he has taken of 
 Henry's behaviour as a husband. It has been ob- 
 served by an able delineator of the human character, 
 who has assumed that the ill treatment of Elizabeth 
 Wydeville, and of her daughter, by Henry, actually 
 occurred, that " if the Queen loved her mother with 
 that feminine filial tenderness which is heightened 
 by participation in calamity, she could not possibly 
 have cherished much affection for her husband 3 ." 
 
 1 " History of Henry the Seventh," ed. 1825, vol. iii., p. 122. 
 
 2 " History of England," vol. v., pp. 379, 389, 398-9. 
 
 3 See a memoir of Elizabeth, Queen of Henry the Seventh, in 
 
ELIZABETH OF YORK. IxXVH 
 
 Both these questions are so closely connected with 
 the life of Elizabeth of York, that it is requisite to 
 discuss them. 
 
 On the accession of Henry the Seventh, he found 
 the late Queen one of the most pitiable objects in 
 his dominions. Stripped of her dignity and estates, 
 her honour and virtue impeached, her children 
 bastardized, her kindred banished and attainted, 
 and herself destitute of any other means of sup- 
 port than the annuity of 233/., which Richard the 
 Third granted her l . It seems scarcely possible 
 for Henry to have increased the misery of her situ- 
 ation, excepting by depriving her of liberty ; but 
 if historians are to be credited, he seized on all 
 her possessions, and, from a suspicion of her having 
 countenanced the rebellion of the Earl of Lincoln, 
 in 1487, imprisoned her for life in the Monastery of 
 Bermondsey, the pretext being, that, after having 
 consented to her daughter's marriage with him, she 
 delivered her into the hands of Richard the Third. 
 
 Nothing can be more untrue than part, or more 
 absurd than all these statements. It was among the 
 earliest acts of Henry's reign 2 to restore her to her 
 fame as a woman, and to her dignity as a Queen, 
 by reversing the statute which had deprived her of 
 
 Lodge's " Illustrious Portraits." That writer was, however, mis- 
 taken on the subject, for he says it was one of the first acts of Henry's 
 reign to seize on all her estates, and to imprison her for life at Ber- 
 mondsey. 
 
 1 See page xlii., ante. 2 Rot. Parl., vi., 289. 
 
Ixxviii MEMOIR or 
 
 both ; and as that act did not vest in her any of the 
 lands which were forfeited by the statute that de- 
 graded her, the King, by letters patent, dated on the 
 4th of March, 1486, granted her various lordships for 
 life 1 , as part of the dower belonging to her after the 
 death of Edward the Fourth ; and the next day he 
 granted her, in full satisfaction of the residue of her 
 dower, 102/. per annum out of the fee farm of the 
 town of Bristol. Instead of being exiled from her 
 daughter's court, she was the only godmother to 
 Prince Arthur, and attended at the font. The period 
 when it is said she was placed in confinement is 
 about June, 1487, whereas, in November of that 
 year, Henry evinced his confidence in her by treat- 
 ing for her marriage with his ally the King of Scots, 
 " for the greater increase of the love and amity 
 between them ;" agreeing, at the same time, that 
 James, the second son of that monarch, should marry 
 the Princess Katherine, and that the Prince of Scot- 
 land should marry another of the daughters of Ed- 
 ward the Fourth 2 . Had Elizabeth Wydeville in- 
 curred his displeasure for aiding the revolt of the 
 Earl of Lincoln, a thing in itself incredible, and 
 been confined lest she should divulge the secret 
 that her son, the Duke of York, was still living, or 
 had Henry not felt assured that she was persuaded 
 
 1 Rot. Patent. 1 Henry VIL, p. 3 m 25, namely, Waltham, Badowe 
 Magna, Masshebury, Dunmore, Lieghes, and Farnham, in Essex. 
 
 2 Foedera, vol. xii., p. 329. 
 
ELIZABETH OF YORK. 
 
 of the death of her sons Edward the Fifth and his 
 brother, would he have given her the opportunity 
 of plotting against him which her situation as Queen 
 of Scotland would afford her l ? 
 
 The projected alliances were interrupted by the 
 rebellion of the Scotch barons, and were finally 
 frustrated by the death of the King of Scots, in 
 June, 1488; but proof exists that the Dowager 
 Queen was occasionally about the court subsequent 
 to that year, for shortly after her daughter "took 
 her chamber" for her confinement in November, 
 1489, she gave an audience to the French am- 
 bassadors, " when her mother, Queen Elizabeth, 
 and my Lady, the King's mother," are mentioned 
 as being present 2 . The latest notice of her in re- 
 lation to Henry the Seventh is on the 19th of 
 February, 1490, when he assigned her an annual 
 pension of 400/. a year, a sum fully adequate to 
 her wants even, but which does not appear to be 
 the case, if it were given in lieu of the lands granted 
 her in the first year of his reign 3 . Her will has 
 been considered evidence of her destitution and im- 
 prisonment, but such an interpretation of that do- 
 cument is not just. It is dated on the 10th of 
 April, 1492, and from being witnessed by the Abbot 
 of Bermondsey, she may be supposed to have been 
 
 1 Dr. Lingard's remarks on this subject are most satisfactory and 
 conclusive. Vol. v., p. 328-9. 
 8 Leland's Collectanea, vol. iv., p. 249. 
 8 Patent. 5 Hen. VII., m 20. 
 
IXXX MEMOIR OF 
 
 then an inmate of that monastery. She styles her- 
 self Queen of England, and orders her body to be 
 buried at Windsor, with her late husband, King 
 Edward, but forbids any pomp or great expense 
 on the occasion ; directions which indicate that she 
 would be interred wherever she might desire, and 
 that her funeral would be conducted, not like that 
 of a disgraced prisoner, but according to her ele- 
 vated rank. She proceeds, " whereas I have no 
 worldly goods to do the Queen's grace, my dearest 
 daughter, a pleasure with, neither to reward any 
 of my children according to my heart and mind ; 
 I beseech Almighty God to bless her Grace, with 
 all her noble issue, and with as good heart and 
 mind as is to me possible, I give her Grace my 
 blessing, and all the foresaid my children." Her 
 not having any property to bequeath arose from her 
 interest in her income and lands being for life only, 
 and not, as has been supposed, from Henry's having 
 seized her estates. Such " small stuff and goods " 
 as she possessed she desired might be appropriated 
 to the payment of her debts, and the health of her 
 soul, as far as they would extend, but " if any of 
 her blood " wished any part of her property, she 
 ordered them to be allowed the preference. The 
 Prior of Shene, and Doctors Sutton and Brente, 
 were her executors, and she entreated " her dearest 
 daughter, the Queen," and her son, the Marquis of 
 Dorset, to assist in seeing her wishes fulfilled. An 
 account of her funeral, and of the attention and 
 
ELIZABETH OF YORK. 
 
 kindness of her daughters to her in her illness, is 
 extant l . 
 
 Thus, so far from Henry the Seventh having de- 
 spoiled his mother-in-law of her estates, she had 
 none of which she could be deprived ; instead of 
 increasing her unhappiness, he restored her to fame 
 and rank, and granted her a competence ; instead of 
 feeling hostility towards her, he allowed her to be the 
 sponsor to the Prince of Wales, in preference to his 
 own mother ; instead of suspecting her of the absurd 
 intention of plotting against him, and consequently 
 against a daughter whom she dearly loved, and im- 
 prisoning her for life to prevent similar dangers, he 
 agreed to marry her to an independent sovereign, 
 and two of her daughters to that sovereign's sons, 
 with the view of strengthening the alliance between 
 the two countries ; and, instead of keeping her a 
 close prisoner at Bermondsey, she was present at 
 her daughter's reception of an ambassador who 
 claimed to be related to the Queen, some time after 
 the event which it is said produced Henry's rigorous 
 treatment. Such, however, is history as it is repre- 
 sented by chroniclers, and such are the effects of 
 historians repeating the statements of their prede- 
 cessors, without inquiring whether records do not, 
 as in this instance, establish the ignorance or the 
 prejudices of writers to whom implicit credence has 
 been generally given. 
 
 1 In one of the MSS. of the Royal Society, which is about to be 
 transferred to the Museum ; but, as the arrangement is not yet com- 
 pleted, access could not be obtained to it. 
 
MEMOIR OF 
 
 Though the evidence of the injustice which has 
 been done to the character of Henry the Seventh, 
 with regard to his treatment of his Queen, is not so 
 complete as in relation to his conduct to her mother, 
 it seems impossible to reconcile the notices of her 
 in his privy purse expenses, or the manner in which 
 he always spoke of her in his letters, with the idea 
 that he was wanting in tenderness or affection. 
 
 In November and December, 1487, and in Fe- 
 bruary, 1492, numerous lordships and manors were 
 granted to her for life, which grants were confirmed 
 by Parliament 1 ; and it was enacted in 1487, that 
 in consideration of the great expense which she 
 must bear in her chamber, and otherwise, she should 
 be enabled to sell and grant leases in her own name 
 without the consent of the King 2 . 
 
 On St. George's Day, 1488, Henry was at Wind- 
 sor, on which occasion the Queen and the Countess 
 of Richmond 3 , from whom, indeed, she appears to 
 have been rarely separated, were present, each being 
 habited in a gown of the Order of the Garter ; but 
 he deferred the solemnization of the feast of that 
 Saint until the Sunday following, in the afternoon of 
 which day the King, and the Knights of the Garter, 
 rode to the College, and were accompanied by the 
 Queen and her suite. Her Majesty, and the Countess 
 of Richmond, again wore the livery of the Order, 
 
 1 Rot. Par!., vi., 386, 442, 446. 2 Ibid., p. 387. 
 
 8 Leland's ' Collectanea/' iv., 238. 
 
ELIZABETH OF YORK. Ixxxiii 
 
 and rode in a rich chair, covered with cloth of gold, 
 drawn by six horses, trapped in a similar manner, 
 and followed by a suite of twenty-one ladies, among 
 whom was her sister the Princess Anne, dressed in 
 crimson velvet gowns, and mounted on white pal- 
 freys, the saddles of which were made of cloth of 
 gold, and the trappings covered with white roses, 
 the badge of the House of York ! . The Feast of 
 Whitsuntide, in the same year, was also kept at 
 Windsor; after which the Court removed to Wood- 
 stock, thence, at Allhallow's-tide, to Windsor, and 
 from Windsor their Majesties went to Westminster 2 . 
 At Christmas they were at Shene, where the Queen 
 was attended by the Countess of Richmond and her 
 sister Anne, and spent the festival of Easter 1489 at 
 Hertford, whence the King proceeded to the north ; 
 but it does not seem that the Queen accompanied 
 him 3 . 
 
 In November following Elizabeth prepared for her 
 confinement, by " taking her chamber," as it was 
 termed, with the usual ceremonies, her own mother 
 and her mother-in-law being present ; and on the 
 29th of that month she was delivered of her second 
 child, who, the next day, was baptized by the name 
 of Margaret, and became the progenitrix of every 
 monarch of these realms, since the death of Queen 
 Elizabeth. The infant derived her name from her 
 
 1 Leland's " Collectanea," iv., pp. 239, 241. 
 2 Ibid., pp. 243, 244. 3 Ibid., p. 247. 
 
 m 2 
 
MEMOIR OF 
 
 godmother, the Countess of Richmond, who pre- 
 sented her with a small box of silver gilt filled with 
 gold 1 . In consequence of the measles breaking out 
 in the palace, the Queen was privately churched on 
 the 27th, and removed to Greenwich- on the 29th of 
 December. On the 2nd of February, 1490, the King, 
 the Queen, the King's mother, and the greater part 
 of the Lords spiritual and temporal, went in proces- 
 sion to Westminster Hall, and heard divine service, 
 and at night a play was performed before their Ma- 
 jesties, and their attendants, at Whitehall 2 . 
 
 From this time the authentic narrative printed in 
 Leland's " Collectanea " ceases to afford any infor- 
 mation of Henry's Court, and the few additional 
 facts in the life of his Queen must be gleaned almost 
 entirely from the privy purse expenses of her hus- 
 band between the years 1492 and 1503, and from 
 her own expenses between March, 1502 and the 
 February following. In the former she is only in- 
 cidentally mentioned, because their establishments 
 were wholly distinct from each other; but the latter, 
 which contain almost a diary of her proceedings in 
 the last year of her life, throw much light upon her 
 character, and excite regret that similar accounts of 
 previous years have not been discovered. 
 
 On the 28th of June, 1491, at Greenwich, the 
 Queen gave birth to her second son, Henry, after- 
 
 1 Leland's " Collectanea," pp. 253, 254. 
 " Ibid., vol. iv., p. 254 to 256. 
 
ELIZABETH OF YORK. IxXXV 
 
 wards King Henry the Eighth 1 ; and on the 2nd of 
 July, 1492, her daughter Elizabeth was born, who 
 died an infant on the 4th of September, 1495 2 . 
 Whilst at Shene, in April, 1494, one hundred pounds 
 were lent her by the King 3 . In the summer of 
 1495 she accompanied his Majesty in his progress 
 into the north ; and on the 2nd of August a woman 
 was rewarded for singing before the King and Queen 
 at Latham, in Derbyshire 4 . They returned to Shene 
 on the 16th of October 5 ; and on the 16th of No- 
 vember in that year they honoured the Sergeants' 
 Feast at Ely Place with their presence 6 . Twenty- 
 seven pounds were given her by Henry's orders on 
 the 1st of February, 1496 7 ; and on the same day in 
 the next year two thousand pounds were lent to her 
 to pay her debts 8 . Thirty pounds were presented 
 to her, at Greenwich, by the King, in the May fol- 
 lowing, to purchase jewels 9 ; and in April, 1498, 
 61. 13s. 4d. were given her, possibly to gratify her 
 caprice in the purchase of some trifle which struck 
 her attention 10 . 
 
 Sandford 11 states that the Queen was confined in 
 1498 with her daughter the Princess Mary, after- 
 
 1 Sandford's " Genealogical History," ed. 1707, p. 479. 
 2 Ibid., pp. 477, 478. 8 "Excerpta Historica," p. 97. 
 
 4 Ibid., p. 104. Ibid., p. 105. 
 
 6 Bacon's " History of Henry the Seventh," and " Excerpta His- 
 torica," p. 106. 
 
 7 "Excerpta Historica," p. 107. 8 Ibid., p. ill. 
 
 9 Ibid., p. 112. 10 Ibid., p. 117. 
 
 " " Genealogical History," p. 536. 
 
MEMOIR OF 
 
 wards Queen of France, though he does not mention 
 in what month ; but the notice of a payment of 
 3/. 6s. Sd. to Robert Taylor, the Queen's surgeon, 
 on the 27th of May l , tends to fix the date of the 
 Princess's birth to about that time, the sum in ques- 
 tion probably being the payment for his services, or, 
 which is more likely, a present on the occasion. Her 
 Majesty was again confined on the 21st of February, 
 1498-9, when her third and youngest son, Prince 
 Edmund, was born at Greenwich 2 . He was chris- 
 tened on the 24th, being held at the font by his 
 godmother, the Countess of Richmond, after whose 
 husband, Edmund, Earl of Richmond, his grand- 
 father, he was named. It was customary for the 
 King's children to be baptized in the font of Canter- 
 bury cathedral, perhaps from some imaginary virtue 
 which it was presumed to possess, and the expenses 
 of bringing it on this occasion, of 6s. Sd. to the 
 bearer and 2/. to the servant of the Prior of Christ 
 Church of Canterbury, are entered in the King's 
 privy purse accounts 3 . The young prince died at 
 Bishop's Stortford, in Hertfordshire 4 , about April, 
 1500, as in May in that year 242/. Us. Sd. were 
 paid for the costs of his burial, independent of fees 
 to the Abbot and Convent of Westminster 5 . In 
 March, 1502, the Queen received five hundred 
 pounds as a loan on the security of some plate 6 . a 
 
 1 " Excerpta Historica," p. 117. 2 Sandford, p. 477. 
 
 8 " Excerpta Historica," p. 121. 4 Sandford, p. 477. 
 
 5 " Excerpta Historica," p. 124. 6 Ibid., p. 127. 
 
ELIZABETH OF YORK. IxXXvii 
 
 fact indicative of the rigorous correctness with 
 which the King's accounts were kept, security being 
 taken for a loan to his consort. 
 
 The ceremony of affiancing the Princess Marga- 
 ret, the Queen's eldest daughter, to James King of 
 Scotland, took place at St. Paul's, in January, 1502, 
 when the King, Queen, and all the Royal Family, 
 except the Prince of Wales, were present, including 
 Katherine Lady Courtenay, her Majesty's sister. 
 As soon as the ceremony was over the Queen took 
 the young Queen of Scots by the hand, and they 
 " both dined at the same mess covered," and jousts, 
 and feastings, a pageant, and other festivities, for 
 some days, testified the importance which was at- 
 tached to the event l . 
 
 Their Majesties experienced a heavy affliction by 
 the death of their eldest son Arthur Prince of Wales, 
 who expired in Ludlow Castle, on the 2nd of April, 
 1502, within five months of his marriage to Kathe- 
 rine of Castile ; an event which was celebrated 
 with every token of joy and magnificence on the 
 14th of the preceding November. The conduct of 
 the Queen on the death of the Prince has been 
 minutely described. The news was communicated 
 
 1 Leland's " Collectanea," iv., 258 to 264. The journal of the 
 herald who accompanied the young Queen of Scots to Edinburgh, 
 which is printed in that volume, is extremely interesting, and conveys 
 a better idea of the state of society amongst persons of rank in the 
 early part of the sixteenth century than perhaps any other article 
 extant. If reprinted with notes, and with the orthography modernized, 
 it could scarcely fail to be generally read. 
 
Ixxxviii MEMOIR OF 
 
 to the King by his confessor, and he immediately 
 sent for her. Finding him overwhelmed with grief 
 she suppressed her emotions, and strove to console 
 her afflicted husband ; and it was not until she re- 
 tired to the privacy of her own chamber that she 
 gave vent to her maternal sorrow, when Henry, in 
 his turn, sought to relieve her anguish by his ten- 
 derness. The whole scene is so pathetically de- 
 scribed by a contemporary, and the account tends so 
 much to disprove the common opinion, that they lived 
 unhappily together, that the passage will be given : 
 " Immediately after Arthur's death, Sir Richard 
 Poole, his Chamberlain, with other of his Counsel, 
 wrote and sent letters to the King and Counsel, at 
 Greenwich, where his Grace and the Queen's lay, 
 and certified them of the Prince's departure. The 
 which Counsel discreetly sent for the King's ghostly 
 father, a friar observant, to whom they showed this 
 most sorrowful and heavy tidings, and desired him 
 in his best manner to show it to the King. He, in 
 the morning of the Tuesday following, somewhat 
 before the time accustomed, knocked at the King's 
 chamber door, and when the King understood it was 
 his confessor, he commanded to let him in. The 
 confessor then commanded all those present to avoid, 
 and after due salutation began to say t Si bona de 
 manu Dei suscipimus, mala autem quare non sus- 
 tineamus,' and so showed his Grace that his dearest 
 son was departed to God. When his Grace under- 
 stood that sorrowful heavy tidings, he sent for the 
 
ELIZABETH OF YORK. 
 
 Queen, saying that he and his Queen would take 
 the painful sorrows together. After that she was 
 come and saw the King her lord, and that natural 
 and painful sorrow, as I have heard say, she, with 
 full great and constant comfortable words besought 
 his Grace that he would first after God remember 
 the weal of his own noble person, the comfort of his 
 realm, and of her. She then said, that my lady, 
 his mother, had never no more children but him 
 only, and that God by his grace had ever preserved 
 him, and brought him where that he was. Over 
 that, how that God had left him yet a fair prince, 
 two fair princesses ; and that God is where he was, 
 and we are both young enough ; and that the pru- 
 dence and wisdom of his Grace sprung over all 
 Christendom, so that it should please him to take 
 this according thereunto. Then the King thanked 
 her of her good comfort. After that she was de- 
 parted and come to her own chamber, natural and 
 motherly remembrance of that great loss smote her 
 so sorrowful to the heart, that those that were about 
 her were fain to send for the King to comfort her. 
 Then his Grace, of true, gentle, and faithful love, 
 in good Iraste came and relieved her, and showed 
 her how wise counsel she had given him before ; 
 and he, for his part, would thank God for his son, 
 and would she should do in like wise 1 ." 
 
 1 An Account of the Death and Interment of Prince Arthur, printed 
 from a contemporary MS. in Leland's " Collectanea," vol. v., p. 373. 
 
XC MEMOIR OF 
 
 The widowed Princess was immediately sent for 
 from Ludlow, and the Queen presented her with a 
 litter, covered with black velvet and black cloth, 
 with a valance and fringes of the same colour, for 
 her conveyance l . The unhappy Katherine was 
 placed at Croydon, and appears to have been treated 
 with great kindness by her mother-in-law. 
 
 In December, 1502, ten shillings were paid the 
 Queen, out of the King's privy purse, for the dis- 
 guisings, and twenty pounds were given her for 
 some furs which had been purchased 2 . These 
 entries, as well as others which occur at various 
 times, of money paid for gold wire for her use 3 , 
 for a corporas or communion cloth for her 4 , and for 
 gold frontlets or head bands 5 , if not conclusive 
 proofs that they lived on terms of harmony, "are at 
 least indicative of trifling but gratifying attentions 
 on his part which it would be difficult to reconcile 
 with habitual unkindness and severity. An ex- 
 change of presents between them seems not to have 
 been unusual ; and as those from the Queen were 
 such as required the exercise of female skill, it is 
 reasonable to presume that they derived their chief 
 value from being the work of her own hands. It 
 may be inferred, from the payment by the Queen 
 of five pounds for two sorts of gold and of silk, for 
 making a lace and buttons for the King's mantle of 
 
 1 See page 103. " Excerpta Historica," p. 129. 
 
 Ibid., p. 89. 4 Ibid., p. 91. 
 
 fi Ibid., p. 96, and See p. 197 of this volume. 
 
ELIZABETH OF YORK. XC1 
 
 the Order of the Garter, on the 29th of April, 
 1502 1 , that on St. George's day in that year she 
 presented him with a mantle to wear at the feast of 
 the Order ; and previous to Henry's expedition into 
 Scotland in 1497, she garnished his helmet with 
 jewels 2 . 
 
 Of the last year of Elizabeth's existence minute 
 information is contained in the accounts of her ex- 
 penditure printed in this volume, and a statement 
 of the most interesting facts, in illustration of her 
 pursuits and character, may be acceptable. 
 
 Those accounts commence on the 25th of March, 
 1502, and the first entry is of money and clothes 
 given to thirty-seven poor women, a number always 
 regulated by the age of the donor, on Shire Thurs- 
 day ; which is followed by the Queen's offerings on 
 Easter day, by rewards for the performance of vi- 
 carious pilgrimages, and by donations to various 
 shrines, anchoresses, and other holy persons. Her 
 Majesty was then at Westminster, but she soon 
 afterwards went to Richmond, and on the 2nd of 
 April removed by water to Greenwich, where she 
 remained until the 27th, when she was conveyed in 
 her barge to the Tower. She returned to Green- 
 wich on the 2nd of May, went again to Richmond 
 on the 19th, and continued there until the 4th of 
 June ; and on the 6th she went to Westminster, but 
 returned to Richmond on the 1 1th of that month. 
 
 1 See p. 8. 8 " Excerpta Historica," p. 1 12. 
 
 n 2 
 
XC11 MEMOIR OF 
 
 On the 17tli of June her Majesty was at Windsor, 
 where she remained until the 12th of July, when 
 she proceeded to Woodstock, and arrived there on 
 the 14th, having at Notley received intimation of 
 the death of her nephew, Lord Edward Courtenay. 
 Whilst at Woodstock the Queen was taken ill, when 
 she endeavoured to propitiate Heaven by offerings 
 to the altar of the Virgin, and by masses. On her 
 recovery she made a progress into Wales, which was 
 commenced about the 4th of August ; she reached 
 Flexley Abbey on the 6th, and on the 14th was at 
 Monmouth, from which place she went to Troy, 
 thence to Ragland on the 19th, and to Chepstow on 
 the 28th, and crossed the Severn near Bristol. Her 
 Majesty returned through Walstone, and Berkeley, 
 where she rested from the 29th of August to the 
 4th of September, Beverstone, Cotes Place, Fair- 
 ford, where she stopped from the 10th to the 14th, 
 and arrived at Langley on the 16th of September, 
 having been absent about six weeks. 
 
 The Queen continued at Langley until the 3rd 
 of October ; she was at Minster Lovell on the 6th, at 
 Ewelm on the 13th, at Easthampstead on the 16th, 
 and reached Richmond before the 25th. From the 
 27th of October to the 14th of November she was at 
 Westminster, and on the 3rd made her offering at 
 the celebration of the obit of Edmund, Earl of Rich- 
 mond, the King's father, in Westminster Abbey. In 
 expectation of her confinement, two nurses, one of 
 whom was a French woman, waited upon her on 
 
ELIZABETH OF YORK. XC111 
 
 the 13th and 16th. From Westminster the Queen 
 removed, on the 14th of November, to Greenwich ; 
 and thence, on the 19th, to Baynard's Castle, where 
 presents of various descriptions were brought to her 
 on the 23rd. On the 26th she went to Westminster, 
 where she remained until the 12th of December; 
 she went thence to the Tower; on the 21st she 
 went to Mortlake ; and on the 14th of January was 
 conveyed in her barge from Hampton Court to 
 Richmond. 
 
 Her confinement rapidly approached, and on the 
 26th of January she took possession of her apart- 
 ments in the Tower in readiness for that event. 
 On the 2nd of February she was delivered of a 
 daughter, who was named Katherine : within a 
 few days her Majesty was taken alarmingly ill, 
 and a messenger, who travelled night and day, was 
 sent by Henry into Kent, for Dr. Aylsworth, a phy- 
 sician, to attend her, but every effort was unavail- 
 ing, and she died on the anniversary of her birth, 
 the llth of February, 1503, having completed her 
 thirty-eighth year. The child, whose life was thus 
 dearly purchased, quickly followed its mother to 
 her grave ; and the only notice of the young prin- 
 cess in these accounts is that some flannel was 
 bought for her use. 
 
 Historians and chroniclers concur in represent- 
 ing the character of Elizabeth of York in the most 
 favourable colours, adding that her virtues obtained 
 
XC1V MEMOIR OF 
 
 for her the title of " The good Queen Elizabeth ;" 
 and every fact, with the exception of the letter 
 noticed by Bucke, upon which enough has been 
 said, tends to prove the justice of those statements. 
 The energy and talents of Henry the Seventh left 
 no opportunity for his Queen to display any other 
 qualities than those which peculiarly, and it may 
 be said exclusively, belong to her sex. From the 
 time of her marriage she is only to be heard of as a 
 daughter, a wife, a mother, a sister, and an aunt ; 
 and in each of those relations, so far as materials 
 exist by which it can be judged, her conduct reflects 
 honour upon her memory. To her widowed and 
 afflicted mother she exhibited the tenderest affec- 
 tion, which is touchingly commemorated in Eliza- 
 beth Wydeville's will. To her husband her be- 
 haviour has not only been unimpeached, but it is 
 described as ill meriting the return which some 
 writers, it is presumed erroneously, state that it 
 met with. Her treatment of her children has 
 never been censured, and this negative admission of 
 its propriety is the only evidence which is likely to 
 be found on such a subject. To judge, however, 
 from the frequent notices of them in these accounts, 
 from her affliction at the loss of her eldest son, and 
 her attention to his widow, it would appear to have 
 been consistent with the other parts of her character. 
 Besides allowing her sisters annuities, out of her 
 limited resources, she wholly supported her nephews 
 
ELIZABETH OF YORK. XCV 
 
 and niece, the young Courtenays, and on every 
 public occasion one of her sisters was about her 
 person. Old servants of her father, and a man who 
 had lent her uncle, the Earl Rivers, a house just be- 
 fore his execution, are mentioned as having partaken 
 of her bounty. To her religious duties she paid the 
 most rigid attention, and her charitable disposition 
 displayed itself in maintaining children, in burying 
 criminals, in remunerating persons who incurred 
 losses, or who were injured in her service, in paying 
 the expenses of individuals taking the veil or en- 
 tering a monastery, and in presents of money to 
 purchase horses, wedding clothes, &c. 
 
 With such evidence before him the biographer 
 of Elizabeth of York may safely ascribe to her most, 
 if not all, of the virtues which adorn the female 
 character; and this summary of her merits may be 
 closed with the panegyric of one who was fre- 
 quently admitted to her presence, without fearing 
 that the language of flattery is substituted for that 
 of truth : " She exhibited from her very cradle, 
 towards God an admirable fear and service ; towards 
 her parents a wonderful obedience; towards her 
 brothers and sisters an almost incredible love ; to- 
 wards the poor, and the ministers of Christ a re- 
 verend and singular affection V 
 
 Her person is described as having been beautiful, 
 and the portraits which are extant do not contradict 
 
 1 Bernard Andreas, the Poet Laureate and Biographer of Henry 
 the Seventh. Cottonian MS., Doraitian A xviii. 
 
XCV1 MEMOIR OF 
 
 the opinion. Of her acquirements little is known, 
 excepting on the doubtful authority of Brereton, 
 who represents her as being able to write French 
 and Spanish. It is remarkable that not one of 
 her letters is known to be preserved, and even her 
 autograph is rarely to be met with. One piece of 
 her writing, before the death of her father, which 
 occurred in a book that belonged to her, is inserted 
 in a volume of the Cottonian Manuscripts, in the 
 British Museum, and has been lately engraved 1 , 
 
 " Thys Boke ys myn Elysabeth the Kyngys dawghtyr." 
 
 In a valuable missal 2 which belonged to a female 
 friend of Henry the Seventh and his Queen, he 
 wrote, with his own hand, 
 
 " Madame I pray you Remembre me your lovyng maister, 
 Henry R. ;" 
 
 and her Majesty added immediately below, 
 
 " Madam I pray you forget not me to pray to God that I may have 
 part of your prayers, Elysabeth y e Queene." 
 
 Her signature is also attached to each page of 
 the earlier part of these accounts. 
 
 The Queen's amusements consisted in witnessing 
 the feats of players, dancers, and other performers ; 
 
 i "Royal and Noble Autographs," by J. Gough Nichols, and 
 T. Smith ; a publication of considerable interest. 
 
 Now in the possession of George Wilkinson, of Tottenham- 
 Green, Esq. 
 
ELIZABETH OF YORK. XCV11 
 
 in listening to minstrels and musicians; in playing 
 at dice, cards, and the tables ; and, from her keeping 
 greyhounds, and purchasing arrows and broad heads, 
 she, as was common with ladies at the period, ap- 
 pears to have partaken of the pleasures of the chace. 
 
 The Queen was buried with great pomp, and it is 
 evident that Henry paid all possible respect to her 
 remains. More than one description of her funeral 
 is preserved, but the fullest account is printed 
 in the " Antiquarian Repertory V where a draw- 
 ing of the procession occurs. That narrative states, 
 that " her death was as heavy and dolorous to 
 the King's Highness as hath been seen or heard 
 of, and also in like wise to all the estates of this 
 realm, as well citizens as commons, for she was one 
 of the most gracious and best beloved Princesses 
 in the world in her time being." After giving orders 
 about her funeral Henry is said to have " departed 
 to a solitary place to pass his sorrow, and would no 
 man should resort to him but those whom he had 
 appointed." On the day following her death, six 
 hundred and thirty-six masses were said in London, 
 and the King sent Sir Charles Somerset and Sir 
 Richard Guildford with " the best comfort to all the 
 Queen's servants, that hath been seen of a Sovereign 
 Lord, with as good words." 
 
 Her corpse being embalmed immediately after 
 she expired, it was placed in a leaden coffin, on 
 which there was an inscription, stating her name 
 
 i Ed. 1807, vol. iv., p. 654. 
 
XCV111 MEMOIR OF 
 
 and rank. This coffin was enclosed in another of 
 wood, covered with white, and black velvet, having 
 a cross of white damask thereon. On the next day, 
 Sunday, the 12th of February, the Queen's body 
 was removed from her chamber to the chapel of the 
 Tower, attended by the Dean of Westminster, and 
 the Dean and Chaplains of the King's Chapel. 
 Four Knights supported the canopy ; and persons 
 of the highest rank " laid their hands to the corpse." 
 Lady Elizabeth Stafford acted as principal mourner 
 on the occasion, being followed by all the other 
 ladies of her Majesty's household, two and two, 
 wearing their plainest attire. As soon as the body 
 reached the chapel it was placed under a rich hearse, 
 covered with a cloth of black velvet, having thereon 
 a cross of cloth of gold. The King's Chaplain then 
 read the psalter, lauds, and commendations, after 
 which the Dean of the Chapel, with the Peers, 
 Officers of Arms, and others went to the great 
 chamber to escort the ladies to the mass of requiem. 
 Katherine Lady Courtenay, the Queen's sister, 
 as chief mourner, being led by the Earl of Surrey 
 and the Earl of Essex, and followed by a long train 
 of persons of distinction, then entered the chapel, 
 and took her station at the head of the corpse. 
 Mass having been said, and the usual offerings 
 made, the procession returned, leaving only certain 
 Ladies, Grooms, and Officers of Arms to watch by 
 the body. This ceremony was daily repeated during 
 the ten days which the corpse remained in the 
 
ELIZABETH OF YORK. XC1X 
 
 Tower. On the twelfth day after her Majesty's 
 demise, Wednesday, February the 22nd, mass was 
 said early in the morning, and soon afterwards the 
 coffin was placed on a chair or car, covered with 
 black velvet, and drawn by six horses. An effigy 
 of the Queen, dressed in the royal robes, with a 
 sceptre in the hand and a crown on the head, was 
 carried on a kind of stage, at each corner of which 
 a Gentleman Usher knelt. Banners of Our Lady, 
 of the Salutation, of the Assumption, and of the 
 Nativity l , which, to signify that the deceased died 
 in child-bed, were painted on a white ground, were 
 borne near the car by Knights and Esquires. 
 Eight Ladies of Honour, mounted on palfreys, sad- 
 dled and trapped with black velvet, followed the 
 corpse. Citizens on horseback, and servants of 
 the King and nobility, closed the procession, which 
 was joined by the Earl of Derby, Lord High Con- 
 stable, the Lord Mayor, the Queen's Chamberlain, 
 several Peers, the Judges, Prelates, and Abbots, 
 Knights of the Garter, &c. The streets were lined 
 with persons bearing torches, and in Fenchurch- 
 street and Cheapside stood thirty-seven 2 virgins, 
 a number corresponding with the Queen's age, 
 dressed in white, wearing chaplets of white and 
 green, and each holding a lighted taper. Com- 
 panies of foreign merchants, French, Spaniards, and 
 Venetians, holding tapers, with the arms of their 
 
 1 MS. in the College of Arms. 
 
 * MS. in the College of Arms says there were three hundred. 
 
 o 2 
 
MEMOIR OF 
 
 respective nations, were also present. In this order 
 the procession arrived at the Churchyard of St. 
 Margaret, Westminster, when the Marquis of Dor- 
 set, and the Earls, "took their mantles." The 
 corpse was received by various Prelates and Abbots, 
 bearing censers and holy water, and being duly 
 "censed was removed from the car and conveyed to 
 the hearse, when the usual service was performed ; 
 after which the Peers and Peeresses, &c. retired to 
 the Queen's Great Chamber to supper. During 
 the night Ladies, Esquires, and Officers of Arms 
 watched by the body. 
 
 Early the next morning, Thursday the 23rd of 
 February, Lady Courtenay, as chief mourner, and 
 other personages, attended mass, and having retired 
 for a short time to refresh themselves, they returned 
 to the Church, when other masses were said and 
 offerings made. The late Queen's Ladies offered 
 thirty-seven palls, first kissing and then laying them 
 on the body ; of this number five were presented by 
 each of her Majesty's sisters, all of whom, it may 
 be inferred, attended the funeral. A sermon was 
 preached by Fitzjames, Bishop of Rochester, from 
 the text " Misere mei misere mei saltern vos amici 
 mei quia manus Domini tetigit me ;" " which words 
 he spake in the name of England, and the lovers 
 and friends of the same, seeing the great loss of 
 that virtuous Queen, and that noble Prince, and the 
 Archbishop of Canterbury." At the conclusion of 
 the sermon another mass was said, when the palls 
 
ELIZABETH OF YORK. Cl 
 
 were removed from the coffin, and the Ladies quitted 
 the church. The Queen's effigy was then placed 
 in St. Edward's shrine, and the Prelates, with the 
 King's Chaplains, approached the hearse. The 
 grave was opened, and hallowed by the Bishop of 
 London, and, after various prayers and ceremonies, 
 the body was committed to the grave prepared for it. 
 
 Elizabeth of York's " reason," or " word," as it 
 was termed, was " Humble and Reverence." 
 
 The Privy Purse Expenses of the Queen from 
 March, 1502, to her death in February, 1503, con- 
 sist chiefly of payments for the following purposes : 
 Rewards or gratuities to persons for bringing her 
 presents, and the donation, though generally pro- 
 portionate to the article given, was sometimes of 
 greater value. Nothing was too contemptible to 
 be received, nor was any person deemed too hum- 
 ble to be permitted to testify his respect in this 
 manner. The custom of making presents was pro- 
 bably very ancient, and was continued as late as 
 the reign of Henry the Eighth l . Among the articles 
 presented to Elizabeth of York were fish, fruit, 
 fowls, puddings, tripe, a crane, woodcocks, a po- 
 pinjay, quails, and other birds, pork, rabbits, Lan- 
 thony cheeses, pease cods, cakes, a wild boar, 
 malmsey wine, flowers, chiefly roses, bucks, sweet- 
 meats, rose water, a cushion, and a pair of clary- 
 cords, a kind of virginal. 
 
 1 See the Privy Purse Expenses of that Monarch from 1529 to 
 1532. 8vo. 1827. 
 
Cll MEMOIR OF 
 
 The disbursements were for servants' wages ; for 
 preparing apartments for her Majesty when she re- 
 moved from one place to another ; for conveying her 
 clothes and necessary furniture ; for messengers ; for 
 the repairs of her barge and the pay of the barge- 
 men ; for her chairs and litters ; for the purchase of 
 household articles ; for silks, satins, damask, cloth 
 of gold, velvet, linen, gowns, kirtles, petticoats, 
 for her own use, or the use of the ladies whom she 
 maintained ; for jewellery, trappings for horses, 
 furs, gold chains, &c. ; for the charges of her stable 
 and greyhounds ; for the salaries of her ladies ; for 
 annuities to her sisters, and the entire support of 
 the children of Katherine Lady Courtenay ; for the 
 clothing and board of her Fool ; for her numerous 
 offerings, and other demands for religious purposes, 
 principally in sending persons on pilgrimages in 
 her name; for the distribution of alms on her 
 journeys ; for the maintenance of her daughter the 
 Queen of Scots, for whose use clothes and musical 
 instruments were repeatedly purchased ; for re- 
 pairs of Baynard's Castle ; for gifts at christenings; 
 for setting anthems and carols at Christmas; for 
 making bonfires ; for gratuities to old servants, to 
 the King's painter, and to others who had done 
 anything acceptable to her ; for minstrels ; for the 
 support of children which were presented to her ; 
 for the trifling losses she incurred at cards, dice, and 
 the tables; for boat hire; for the attendance of 
 physicians and apothecaries, and for medicine ; for 
 
ELIZABETH OF YORK. Clll 
 
 the wages of priests, and for making nuns and a 
 monk, c. 
 
 Her Majesty's revenue was inadequate to all 
 these demands, and she was not unfrequently obliged 
 to borrow money, pledging her plate as security 
 for its repayment. The King sometimes relieved 
 her necessities, but the same security was given ; 
 and her pecuniary difficulties are apparent from 
 her being obliged, in most cases, to pay her trades- 
 men part of their bills only, instead of discharging 
 the whole amount. Entries occur of small sums 
 lent to the Queen by her attendants, but these 
 probably arose from her not carrying money about 
 her person, and desiring the lady in waiting to 
 purchase some object which attracted her notice, 
 or to gratify a spontaneous feeling of benevolence. 
 
 The total amount expended in the year to which 
 these accounts relate is 3,41 II. 5s. 9d., and the re- 
 ceipts in the same period were 3,585/. 19s. 10%d, 
 so that her debts were not increased in that year. 
 
 Of the low value of money at the period many 
 striking examples occur. The highest salary of the 
 Queen's ladies was 33/. 6s. 8d., and the lowest 5/. 
 For the support of her two nephews and niece, 
 two female servants and a groom, only 13s. 4d. a 
 week were allowed. Ten pence a day were the 
 daily costs of a priest whilst on a pilgrimage for the 
 Queen ; and two shillings a month were the board 
 wages of the Fool. The Master of her barge re- 
 ceived Is. 4d. a day, and the rowers Sd. A mes- 
 
CIV MEMOIR OF ELIZABETH OF YORK. 
 
 senger for going from Greenwich to London was paid 
 no more than 6d. : the expense of keeping a child, 
 which had been given to her Majesty, was 16s. a year. 
 The breakfast of one of the Ladies of the Court cost 
 9d. ; the hire of a boat from Greenwich to London 
 was 4d., and from London to Westminster 2c/., but 
 small as the sum is, it is greater than might be ex- 
 pected, and the boat was perhaps rowed by two or 
 more men. A surgeon's fee for going from London 
 to Richmond to visit the Queen was 13s. 4d. Work- 
 men and labourers' wages appear to have been 6d. 
 a day. Her embroiderer was allowed 21. a year 
 for his house rent, and Is. 4d. a week board wages ; 
 whilst women embroiderers were paid 3s. a week, 
 which included their board wages. A pair of shoes 
 for the Fool, and for footmen, cost 6d. each ; and a 
 pair for the Queen, single-soled, with laton buckles, 
 Is., but a pair of buskins for her use cost 4s. The 
 charges of a girl taking the veil were 61. 13s. 4d. ; 
 sixteen-pence a week was the allowance for board- 
 ing one of her Majesty's gentlewomen who was ill. 
 Fifty-two barrels of beer, which were given to the 
 Friars Observants of Greenwich, cost 61. 18s. Sd., or 
 2s. Sd. a barrel : the hire of a horse, to carry a 
 female servant from Easthampstead to London, was 
 Is. 4d. ; and the wages of the grooms of the chamber 
 were Is., and of the pages Sd. a day. 
 
THIES AR THE PAYEMENTES MADE BY 
 RICHARD DECOUS FROM THE XXIIIJ' 1 
 DAY OF MARCHE, ANNO XVIJ mo UNTO 
 
 FURST the same xxiiij u day of Marche de- 
 livered to Maister Richard Payn Aul- 
 moigner to the Quene for xxxvij* pore 
 women every woman iij s. j d. for hir 
 maunday upon Shire Thursday . Cxiiij s. j d. 
 
 I tin for thoffring of the Quene upon Good 
 
 Fryday . . . Ixvj s. viij d. 
 
 Itm the same day to Nicholas Maior Sadler 
 to the Quene in parte of payement of 
 suche money as to him is due for making 
 of certain stuf of his occupacion ayenst 
 the mariage of the Prince . x li. 
 
 Itm for thoftringes of the Quene upon Ester 
 day in the morning to the Crosse v s. at 
 highmasse v s. at hir housell xx d. and 
 upon Monday Tuesday and Wednesday 
 in Ester weke xv s. . . xxvj s. viij d. 
 
 Itm delivered to the Quene upon Ester day 
 for hir offering to the Coffre for hir par- 
 don .... Ixvj s. viij d. 
 
 Itm the xxviij ti day of Marche to thancho- 
 rasse of Saint Petre at Saint Albons in 
 aulmouse . . . iij s. iiij d. 
 
 B 
 
2 MARCH, J502. 
 
 Itm the same day to the Quenes purse at 
 
 Richemont . . xx s. 
 
 Itin the same day to Robert Fayrfax for set- 
 ting an Anthem of oure lady and Saint 
 Elizabeth . . . xx s. 
 
 Itin delivered to thofficers of the kechyn in 
 rewarde at Ester Ixvj s. viij d. to the 
 porters of the gate x s. to the Saulcery 
 x s. and to the Squillery x s. Sm a iiij li. xvj s. viij d. 
 
 Itin delivered to John Goose my lord of 
 Yorkes fole in rewarde for bringing a 
 Carppe to the Quene . . xij d. 
 
 Itm to Robert Aleyn for a rewarde by him 
 geven to the doughtier of the keper of 
 the Kinges place at Westm r for bringing 
 a present of almond butter to the Quene 
 to Hampton Courte . . iij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itm to a Mynstrell that played upon a droon 
 before the Quene at Richemount in re- 
 warde . . . . iij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itin to a servaunt of my lady Nevile wif to 
 S r Thomas Darcy, in rewarde for bring- 
 ing a present of Sele to the Quene to 
 Richemount . . x s. 
 
 ELYSABETH. 
 
 r Sm a pag. xxxj li. xj s. ix d. 
 
MARCH, 1502. 
 
 I tin delivered to S r William Barton preest for 
 thofferinges of the Queue to oure lady 
 and Saint George at Wyndesoure and to 
 the Holy Crosse there ij s. vj d. to King 
 Henry ij s. vj d. to oure lady of Eton 
 xx d. to the Childe of grace at Reding 
 ij s. vj d. to oure lady of Caversham 
 ij s. vj d. to oure lady of Cokthorp xx d. 
 to the holy blode of Heyles xx d. to 
 Prince Edward vs. to oure lady of 
 Worcestre v s. to the Holy Rood at 
 Northampton v s. to oure lady of Grace 
 there ij s. vj d. to oure lady of Walsing- 
 ham vj s. viij d. to oure lady of Sudbury 
 ij s. vj d. to oure lady of Wolpitte xx d. 
 to oure lady of Ippeswiche iij s. iiij d. 
 and to oure lady of Stokeclare xx d. Sm 8 xlviij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itrh to the same S r William Barton for his 
 costes going the said pilgremages for the 
 Quene by the space of xxvij dayes at 
 x d. the day . . . xxij s. vj d. 
 
 Item to Richard Mylner of Bynfeld for money 
 to bee offred for the Quene to our lady 
 of Crowham ij s. vj d. To the roode of 
 Grace in Kent xx d. to Saint Thomas 
 of Canterbury, v s. to oure lady of 
 undrecroft there v s. to Sainct Adrean 
 xx d. to Saint Augustyn xx d. to oure 
 lady of Dover xx d. to the roode of the 
 north dore in Poules xx d. to our lady of 
 Grace there xx d. to Saint Ignasi xx d. 
 To Saint Dominik xx d. To Saint 
 Petre of Melayn xij d. to Saint Fraunces 
 B 2 
 
4 MARCH, 1502. 
 
 xx d. to Saint Savioure ij s. vj d. to 
 oure lady of Piewe ij s. vj d. to oure 
 lady of Berking ij s. vj d. and to our 
 lady of Willesdone ij s. vj d. Sm a xxxviij s, vj d. 
 
 Item to the same Richard Milner for his costes 
 going the said pilgremages for the Quene 
 by the space of xiij dayes at x d. the day x s. x d. 
 
 Item to John Walker yeoman aulmoigner for 
 money by him paid for a cowle for Water 
 xij d. for iij newe bolles xij d. for a 
 basket iiij d. for flowres iiij d. for heting 
 of watier at the kechin xij d. and for 
 cariage of the same stuff from London 
 to Richemount iiij d. for the Quenes 
 Maundy upon Shirthursday . iiij s. 
 
 Item the xxix u day of Marche delivered to a 
 servaunt of the prothonotarye of Spayn a 
 reward for bringing a present of Oranges 
 to the Quene to Richemount 
 
 ELYSABETH. 
 
 * Srn a pag. vj 11 vj s. ij d. 
 
 Item the same day to a pore man that brought 
 a present of Oranges and Apples to the 
 Quene at Richemount . . xij d. 
 
 Item the last day of Marche to William Pas- 
 tone page of the Quenes beddes in re- 
 warde towardes the byeng of his wed- 
 ding clothing . . . xl s. 
 
 Item the same day to Thomas Shurley and 
 Edmond Burtone yeoman of the Quenes 
 
APRIL, 1502. 5 
 
 chambre for theire costes riding upon a 
 message of the Quenes with maistres 
 Alionore Johns by the space of ij dayes 
 eithere of theim at xij d. the day iiij s. 
 Itm for money by theim payed for the 
 cariage of certain stuf of the Quenes 
 x d. and for the dyner and botehire of 
 the said Maistres Alianor upon Shire- 
 thursday ij s. viij d. . . vij s. vj d. 
 
 Item the same day to a pore woman that 
 brought a present of Butter and Chekius 
 to the Quene . . viij d. 
 
 Item the, iiij th day of Aprelle to M. Richard 
 Payn aulmoigner to the Quene for money 
 by him dault in aulmouse upon Good- 
 fryday . xxj s. viij d. 
 
 Item the same daye to Henry Bryan of Lon- 
 don mercer in partie of payement of a 
 bille conteignyng the somme of an hun- 
 dred and seven poundes x s. q* to him 
 due for certain silkes and othere stuf of 
 his occupacxSn deliverd to th'use of the 
 Quene as by the same bille signed with 
 thande of hir grace it appereth . xxxij li. vj s. 
 
 Item the same daye to John Dufryn grome of 
 the chambre with the Quene for his 
 costes riding by the commaundement of 
 the Quene to the duchesse of Norffolk to 
 warne hir to receyve the wif of Edmond 
 de la Pole late Erie of Suff. . ij s. 
 
 Item the vj 411 day of Aprille to the Quenes 
 purse at Grenewiche by thandes of 
 maistres Lee . . . xx s, 
 
 Item the daye aforesaid to William Worthy 
 
6 APRIL, 1502. 
 
 otherwise called Phip for the bourde of 
 William the Queries fole for the moneth 
 of Marche . . . ij s. 
 
 Item the vj" 1 day of Aprille to Robert Bailly 
 and Thomas ap Howell late servauntes 
 to the Lord William Courteney towardes 
 there costs going into the west countrey 
 to Therl of Devon . . vj s. viij d, 
 
 Item the same daye to a servaunt of William 
 Bulstrode in reward for bringing a pre- 
 sent of Wardyns to the Quene to Grene- 
 wiche . . xij d. 
 
 ELYSABETH. 
 
 >* Sm a pag. xxxvij li. viij s. vj d. 
 
 Itih the same day to William Crowmer gen- 
 tilman husshere for money by him deli- 
 vered to the Quene for hire offring to the 
 high aultier at Richemount upon Estre 
 day after high masse ingoing hire stacons iij s. iiij d, 
 
 Itm the viij* day of Aprelle to Lewys Wai- 
 tier bargeman for conveyeng the Quenes 
 grace from Richemount to Grenewiche 
 the ij de day of Aprille in hire barge with 
 xxj rowers every rower taking viij d. 
 xiiij s. the maister xvj d. and the reward 
 of a barge beneth the brigge xvj d. Itm 
 a grete bote and v rowers the iiij* day of 
 Aprille conveyeng Maistres Brent from 
 Hampton courte to London by the 
 space of two dayes every rower at viij d. 
 
APRIL, 1502. 
 
 the day vj s. viij d. the maister ij dayes 
 ij s. viij d. and the rewarde of the same 
 bote ij s. . . . xxviij s. 
 
 Itin the x th day of Aprille to the Quenes purs 
 
 at Grenewiche . . . xl s. 
 
 Itm the same daye to Edmond Burtone for 
 money by him geven in reward by the 
 Quenes commaundement to the keper 
 of the litle gardyn at Windesour . vj s. viij d. 
 
 Itm the xix 01 day of Aprille to Richard Jus- 
 tice page of the robys for his costes 
 going from Richemount to London to my 
 lord the Quenes chambrelain xij d. Itm 
 for a reward geven to men that drewe 
 the Quenes barge at hir going to Hamp- 
 ton courte viij d. Itm payed for the 
 hemmyng of a kertelle of the Quenes 
 of damaske iiij d. Itm for his costes 
 being behinde at Richemount with stuf 
 of the Quenes by space of iij dayes at 
 viij d. the day ij s. Itin for mendyng of 
 a crymsyn velvet gowne iiij d. Itm for 
 mending of a gowne of blake velvet 
 iiij d. Itm for going from Grenewiche to 
 London for a stole of the Quenes vj d. 
 and for going from Grenewiche to Lon- 
 don for Lybert the goldsmyth vj d. v s. viij d. 
 
 Itin to the fraternitee of Saint George in 
 
 Southwerke . . . .vs. 
 
 Item the xxiij u day of Aprille to Evan Petre- 
 son joynour, for the stuff and making of 
 iiij working stoles for the Quene and 
 delivered to thandes of Nicholas Grey 
 price the stole xvj d . Sm a . .vs. iiij d. 
 
8 APRIL, 1502. 
 
 Item the xxviij tl day of Aprille delivered to 
 my lady Veraey for money by hire lent 
 to the Quene * . xx s. 
 
 ELYSABETH. 
 
 p r Sin* pag. v. li. xiiij s. 
 
 Item the xxix u day of Aprelle to John Grice 
 Appoticary for certain stuf of his occu- 
 pacon by him delivered to the Quenes 
 use as by a bille signed with thand of 
 hir grace it appereth . ix li. xiij s. iiij d, 
 
 Itm the same day to Fryer Hercules for a 
 pounde and a half of gold of Venys at 
 xxx s. the pounde xlv s. eight unces of 
 gold of Dammaske at iiijs. viijd. the 
 unce xxxvij s. iiij d. and for an unce of 
 silke of Venice xxd. employed aboutes 
 the making of a lace and botons for the 
 Kinges mantell of the Garter. Itm for 
 making of the same lase and botons 
 xvj s. . . C s. 
 
 Itm the furst day of May to Thabbasse of 
 the Minoresse for sending a present of 
 watier of rooses to the Quene to the 
 Towre . . . vj s. viij d. 
 
 Itin to Dampe Kateryne and Dampe Eliza- 
 beth nonnes of the Minores in aulmouse 
 vj s. viij d. and to an olde woman ser- 
 vaunt to Thabbesse ther xij d. and to 
 a doughter of William Cromer also a 
 nonne there iij s. iiij d. xj s. 
 
MAY, 1502. 
 
 Itm the same day to the fraternitie of Corpus 
 Xpi founded within the churche paro- 
 chiall of Saint Sepulcre in Londone . v s. 
 
 I tin the seconde day of May to William Bo- 
 tery for a yerd quart' dl quart' of blake 
 tynselle saten of the riche making for an 
 edge of a gowne of blake velvet for the 
 Quene at xxxiij s. iiij d. the yerd xlv s. 
 x d. Ttm a yerd quarter dl quarter of 
 blake saten for an edge of a gowne of 
 crymsyn velvet at viij s. the yerd xj s. 
 Itm seven yerdes of grene satten of 
 Bruges for a kertell for my Lady Anne 
 at ij s. viij d. the yerd xviij s. viij d. Itm 
 for xij yardes sarcenet of eight divers 
 colours for girdelles for the Quene at 
 iiij s. the yerd xlviij s. Itin iiij yerdes 
 dl of sarcenet of tawny grene and russet 
 at xxij d. the yerd viij s. iij d. . vj li. xj s. ix d, 
 
 Itiii the iij de day of May to the Queues purse 
 
 by thandes of Henry Pole at Grenewiche x s. 
 
 Itin to John Williams Thomas Nelmes Hugh 
 Dolbyn Edward Davy and John Fitz- 
 williams to every of theim iij s. iiij d. 
 in reward for gevyng attendance at the 
 house of the duchesse of SufP at Steben- 
 hith .... xvj s. viij d. 
 
 ELYSABETH. 
 
 <p r Sih a pag. xxiij li. xiiij s. v d. 
 
10 MAY, 15O3, 
 
 I tin to Windesore for money by him geven to 
 a servaunt of S r John Mortymer by the 
 commaundement of the Quene v s. and 
 to a Frencheman that brought a present 
 of pepyns to the Quene to the Tower 
 iij s. iiij d. . . viij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itin to Nicholas Maior the Queues sadler in 
 partie of payement of suche money as 
 to him is due for making of certain stuf 
 of his occupacon ayenst the mariage of 
 . the Princesse . . . xx Yi. 
 
 Itin the V th day of May to Thomas Goodriche 
 and Thomas Awdeley of London mer- 
 cers for certain velvettes and othere stuf 
 of theire occupacon by theim delivered 
 to th'use of the Quene as by a bill signed 
 with hire hande it appereth . xl ti. xiij s. v d, 
 
 Itin the same daye to my Lady Bray for a 
 rewarde by hire geven to oon William 
 Shadde for bringing a present of pud- 
 dinges to the Quene . . iij s. iiij d. 
 
 I tin for thoffring of the Quene upon the Fest 
 of Thascencon of oure Lord at Grene- 
 wiche . . .vs. 
 
 Itin the same day to the Quene of Scottes by 
 the commaundement of the Queues 
 grace . . . . xij d. 
 
 I tin the vij 111 day of May to Henry Roper 
 page of the bedds for his costes going by 
 the commaundement of the Quene from 
 Grenewiche to Londone for John Libert 
 the xvj* day of Aprille iiij d. Itin the 
 xvij th day of the same moneth for going 
 from Grenewiche to Westminster for the 
 
MAY, 1502. 11 
 
 Quenes confessour iiij d. Itin the xix th 
 day of the same moneth for going from 
 Grenewiche to London upon divers mes- 
 sages of the Quenes and there being 
 twoo dayes at viij d. the day xvj d. And 
 for foure baskettes with covers and foure 
 lokkes bought for the Queue iiij s. . vj s. 
 
 Itin the viij" 1 day of May to the Quenes purse 
 
 by thandes of maistres Lee . xx li. 
 
 Itin the X th day of May to John Browne 
 grome of the beddes for his costes being 
 behinde at Richemount with stuf of the 
 Quenes at hir departing from thens by 
 the space of twoo dayes at x d. the day 
 xx d. and for his costes going from the 
 Tower of London to Richemount to 
 prepayre the Quenes lodging there 
 against the commyng theder of thambas- 
 sadours of Hungre and there being vj 
 dayes v s. and for his costes going from 
 Grenewiche to London ij d. . vj s. x d, 
 
 ELYSABETH. 
 
 <p r Sin* pag. Ixxxij li. iij s. xj d. 
 
 Itin the same day to James Noteras for his 
 costes riding by the commaundement of 
 the Quene from London to Havering at 
 Bower for maistres Saxilby . xij d. 
 
 Itin the xij 111 day of May to Mawde Hamond 
 for keping of hire child geven to the 
 Quene for half a yere ended at Estre last 
 past .... viij s. 
 C 2 
 
12 MAY, 1502. 
 
 I tin the same day to Edmond Burton and 
 Nicholas Wyberne for theire costes going 
 from Richemount to Hampton Court 
 for maistres Brent by the space of twoo 
 dayes at xij d. the day iiij s. Itm payed 
 for the brekefast of maistres Lee at 
 Richemont ix d. Itm for the hire of a 
 bote from Grenewiche to London iiij d. 
 and from thens to Westminster ij d. ob. v s. iij d. oft. 
 
 Itin the xiij* day of May to Agnes Meting- 
 ham in aulmous by the commaundement 
 of the Quene . . . vj s. viij d. 
 
 Itin the same day to my Lady Mary for hir 
 
 Ire of pardon of the Jubilee . xij d. 
 
 Itin the xiiij th day of May to the Queues 
 
 purs at Greenwiche . . xl s. 
 
 Itm delivered to William Bulstrode for the 
 contentacon of certain sommes of money 
 by him borowed of divers personnes in 
 London for th'use of the Quenes grace 
 \vhichehad certain plate in plegge. CCvj li. xiij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itin to S r William Capell knight for money 
 
 by him lent to the Quenes grace . C li. 
 
 Itin to William Stafford for money by him 
 
 borowed for the Quenes grace . C li. 
 
 Itin for thoffring of the Quene upon the Fest 
 
 of Pentecoste and the iij dayes following xx s. 
 
 Itin the xviij* day of May to the Quenes 
 purs by thandes of maistres Alianor 
 Johns at Grenewich . xl s. 
 
 Itin the same day to maistres Cromer in re- 
 
 warde at her departing from the Courte xl s. 
 
 Itin the same day to my lady Cecill for money 
 
 by hir lent to the Quene . . Ixxiij s. iiij d. 
 
MAY, 1502. 13 
 
 I tin the xxj u day of May to oon John Decon- 
 son servaunt to the Prioure of Hechyn 
 in reward for bringing a present of 
 apples and a quysshyn to the Quene . xiij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itin the same day to maistres Belknap for 
 
 money by hirlent to the Quenes grace xx s. 
 
 ELYSABETH. 
 r Sm'pag. CCCClxxii. xxiij d. ot>. 
 
 Itin for thoffring of the Quene upon the Fest 
 
 of the Trinitee at Richemount . v s. 
 
 Itin the xxiij u day of May to Robynet en- 
 
 browdrer in reward . . xiij s. iiij d. 
 
 I tin the same day to the Quenes purs by 
 thandes of maistres Alionor Jolins at 
 Richmont . . xx s. 
 
 Itin the xxiiij" day of May to Stephene 
 Higham for certain stuff by him made 
 for the Quene x s. Itin for money by 
 him payed for the botehire of the Lady 
 Ldvel from Richemount to Grenewiche 
 ij s. iiij d. and for going from Riche- 
 mount to London to Doctour Lathis 
 xij d. . . . . xiij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itiii the same daye to a servaunt of Thabbase 
 of Syon in reward for bringing a present 
 of Rabettes and quayles to the Quene 
 to Richemount . . ij s. 
 
 Itin the xxv th day of May to Edmond Cal- 
 verd page of the Quenes chambre for 
 his costes going by the commaundement 
 of the Quene from Richemount to Lon- 
 
14 MAY, 1502. 
 
 don to William Stafford for divers stuf 
 for the King in the nyght ij s. Itm for 
 going from Grenewich to London for 
 Maister Lynche xij d. Itm for going 
 from Richemount to London to maistres 
 Lokke for bonne ttes for the Quene viij d. 
 Itm for going from Grenewiche to Lon- 
 don for maistres Stafford and maistres 
 Lees vj d. Itm for money by him payed 
 for egges butter and milke for the King 
 and Quene iij s. vj d, and for riding from 
 Grenewiche to Croydon to the Princesse 
 viij d. ... viij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itm the same day to Frary Clerc of Saint 
 Jotins for the buryeng of the men that 
 were hanged at Wapping mylne . viij s. 
 
 Itin the same day to Nicholas Maior sadler 
 to the Quene for making of six tapettes 
 for the sompter horses with the lynyng 
 grayling jagging and for worsted yerne 
 at xvj d. the pece . . viij s. 
 
 Itm for thoffring of the Quene upon the 
 
 Feest of Corpus Xpi at Richemount . v s. 
 
 Itin the same day to a servaunt of tharche- 
 bisshop of Canterbury in reward for 
 bringing a present of a Lanthony Cheese 
 to the Quene to Richemount . ij s. 
 
 Itin the xxviij u day of May to John Johnson 
 surgion in reward for his costes commyng 
 from London to the Quene to Riche- 
 mount . . . xiij s. iiij d. 
 
 ELYSABETH. 
 
 <p r Sm a pag. iiij li. xviij s. iiij d. 
 
MAY, 1502. 15 
 
 Itin the same day to maistres Alianor Jofins 
 for money by hir geven in reward to a 
 servaunt of the Lady Lovell for bringing 
 a chest of iverey with the passion of oure 
 Lord theron . . . iij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itm to John Browne for money by him payed 
 
 for pepyns for the Quene . . ij s. vj d. 
 
 Itm to John Hertley for the amending of five 
 
 barehides of the warderobe of the beddes x s. 
 
 I tin the xxix li day of May to Lewes Wai tier 
 for conveyeng the Quene in hir barge 
 with xxj rowers from Grenewiche to the 
 Tower the xxvij" day of April every 
 rower taking viij d. xiiij s. the maister 
 xvj d. Itm the ij de day of May convey- 
 eng the Quene from the Tower to Grene- 
 wiche with xxj rowers xiiij s. and the 
 maister xvj d. Itm the xix 01 day of May 
 conveyeng the Quene from Grenewiche 
 to Richemount with xxj a rowers at viij d. 
 the rower xiiij s. and the maister xvj d. 
 Itm a grete bote the same day convey- 
 eng the ladyes and gentilwomen from 
 Grenewiche to Richemount with ix 
 rowers at viij d. the rower vj s. and the 
 maister xvj d. . . Iiij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itm the same day to the said Lewes for 
 talowing dressing and for roopes and 
 othere necessaries for the Quenes barge x s. 
 
 Itin the same day to Richard Justice for 
 money by him payed for a yerd and an 
 half of tawny saten for the Quene at 
 vij s. the yerd x s. vj d, Itin for a yerd 
 
16 MAY, 1502. 
 
 and an half of blake saten at vij s. the 
 yerd x s. vj d. Item for a yerde and a 
 half of crymsyn sarcenet at iij s. viij d. 
 the yerd v s. vj d. Itin for his costes 
 going from Grenewiche to the Tower for 
 a stole covered with scarlet viij d. Itin 
 for going for a gowne of russet velvet 
 with a purfle of cloth of gold of damaske 
 viij d. Itin for going for silkes above 
 written j d. Itin for going for a gowne 
 of purple velvet with a purfle of cloth of 
 gold viij d. Itin for ij yerdes of white 
 fustyam for sokkes for the Queue xiij d. 
 and for his costes lyeng behinde at 
 Grenewiche with the Queues stuf by the 
 space of ij dayes xvj d. . xxxj 
 
 Itin the same day to the wif of oone William 
 Greneweye in reward for bringing a pre- 
 sent of peesecoddes to the Quene ij s. 
 
 ELYSABETH. 
 
 <p r Sin* pag. Cxij s. ij d. 
 
 Itin the same day to John Hertley for the 
 amending of the barehide belonging to 
 the close carre of the wardrobe of the 
 robys . . .vs. 
 
 Itin the xxx" day of May to John Hensted 
 of London wexchaundeler for twoo rollys 
 of white wex weyeng ij Ib. at viij d. 
 
MAY, 1502. I? 
 
 the Ib. ij s. viij d. Itm ten rolls yelow wex 
 at viij d. the Ib. vj s. viij d. delivered the 
 vij* day of Decembre Itm the iij^ day 
 of Aprille delivered foure rollys white 
 wex v s. iiij d. and for ten rolles of 
 yelowe wex vj s. viij d. . . xxj s. iiij d. 
 
 Itm the same daye to John Stormy of Charte- 
 sey in reward for keping of twoo pal- 
 frayes of the Quenes after the decease of 
 Richard Payne palfreyman . x s. 
 
 Itm the same daye to Elys Hilton grome of 
 the robys for money by him payed by the 
 commaundement of the Quene for cer- 
 tain stuf for the Lord William Courteney. 
 Furst for ten elnes of Holand cloth for 
 shirtes at ij s the elne xx s. Itm a furre 
 and a half of fox for a gowne of russet 
 xij s. Itm for making of the same 
 gowne xj d. Itm for a nyght bonet xij d. 
 Itm for twoo yerdes iij quarters of saten 
 of Bruges blake for the covering of a 
 sadelle for my Lady Kateryne at ij s. 
 vj d. the yerd vj s. x d. ob. Itm for a 
 yerde and a quarter of blake velvet for 
 bordering of the said sadelle and for 
 the perfourmyng of a horse harneys 
 at x s. the yerd xij s. vj d. Itm for 
 cariage of divers gownes of the Quenes 
 from the Towre to Richemount xviij d. 
 and for cariage of the same gownes 
 from Grenewiche to the Towre iiij d. 
 Sm a . . . . Iv s. ij d. ob. 
 
 Itm the same day to the Quenes purs by 
 
 D 
 
18 JUNE, 1502. 
 
 thandes of George Hamerton at Riche- 
 
 mount . . xx s. 
 
 Ttin the furst day of Juyn to Thomas 
 Acworth for thexpenses of the Queries 
 stable . . Iviij li. vs. iij d, 
 
 Itm the ij de day of Juyn to a servaunt of the 
 Prioure of Lanthony in reward for bring- 
 ing a present of cheses to the Quene . vs. 
 
 Itm the iij de day of Juyn to a servaunt of 
 Richard Smyth in reward for bringing a 
 fawne from the parke of Swalofield to 
 the Quene to Richemount . . iij s. iiij d. 
 
 ELYSABETH. 
 
 |>* Sin a pag. Ixiij li. v s. j d. ob. 
 
 Itm the iiij 111 day of Juyn to the Queues 
 purse at Richemount by thandes of 
 Maistres Alianor Johnes and John 
 Browne . . . xx s. 
 
 Itm the vj 01 day of Juyn to my Lady Bray for 
 
 money by hire lent to the Quene . xxvj s. viij d. 
 
 Itm the vj* day of Juyn to Nicholas Grey 
 clerc of the werkes at Richemount in 
 reward to him geven by the Quene 
 towardes suche losses as he susteigned at 
 the birnyng of his howse at Riche- 
 mount . . Ix s. 
 
 Itm the vij* day of Juyn to the Quenes purse 
 
 at Westfh by thandes of Maistres Brent xl s. 
 
JUNE, 1502. 19 
 
 Itin the viij* day of Juyn to Henry Roper 
 for stuf by him bought for the Quene 
 of Scottes. Furst for thre basons of 
 peauter weyeng viij Ib. dl price the Ib. 
 vj d. iiij s. iij d. Itin a chafer of brasse 
 weyeng xviij Ib. price the Ib. iij d. iiij s. 
 vj d. Itin twoo wasshing bolles xiiij d. 
 I tin a fyre panne xij d. Itin a grete 
 trussing basket vj d. Itin a payre 
 belowes ij d. and for cariage of the same 
 by water from London to Westin 
 iij d. Sin 8 . . . xj s. x d. 
 
 Itin the ix 111 day of Juyn to the dean of the 
 chapel le for thoffringes of the Quene 
 upon the Feest of Sainct George Sainct 
 Marc Philip and Jacob and the Inven- 
 con of the holy crosse . . xx s. 
 
 Itin delivered to Henry Bryan of London 
 mercer for eight yerdes of blake dam- 
 maske for a cloke for the Quene at vij s. 
 iiij d. the yerd Iviij s. viij d. Itin for 
 fyve yerdes of blake sarcenet for lynyng 
 to the same cloke at iiij s. the yerde xx s. 
 Itin for a yerde and iij quarters of blake 
 velvet for the bordring of the same at x s. 
 the yerd xvij s. vj d. Sin a . iiij li. xvj s. ij d. 
 
 Itfn delivered to the same Henry Bryan in 
 party of payement of a bille signed with 
 thande of the Quene conteignyng the 
 somme of Cvij ti. x s. q d . to him due 
 for certain silkes and othere stuf of his 
 occupacon by him delivered to th'use of 
 the Quene as by the same bill it ap- 
 pereth . . . x li. 
 
 D -2 
 
20 JUNE, 1502. 
 
 Itm delivered to the Quenes purse by thandes 
 
 of Cristofre Askue at Richemount . xl ti. 
 
 ELYSABETH. 
 
 p* Sin a pag. Ixiij li. xiiij s. viij d. 
 
 Itni the X th day of Juyn to Robert Hed of 
 Londone tailloure for making of twoo 
 cootes of blake chamlet for my yong 
 Lordes Henry Courtney and Edward 
 Courtney at ij s. the coote iiij s. ayenst 
 Cristmas anno xvj mo . Itm for making 
 of twoo cootes of blake velvet for the 
 same yong lordes ayenst Estre than 
 next ensuyng iiij s. deliverd by Wil- 
 liam Bailly. Itin for making of twoo 
 cootes of blake chamlet the same tyme 
 for the said lordes deliverd by Elys 
 Hiltone iiij s. . . xij s. 
 
 Itin to the smyth at Baynardes Castell for 
 making of ij lokkes boltes for the gar- 
 deyn dore ther weyeng ix Ib. at 
 ij d. ofo the lt>. xiij d. ot>. Itin for 
 a lokke and a staple for the same 
 dore xij d. Itm iij boltes to the hall dores 
 there xij d. for ij lokkes to the same 
 dores xx d. Itin for a lok to a dore 
 at the stayre fote xij d. Itin for a bolte 
 for gardyn dore and mending of twoo 
 
JUNE, 1502. 21 
 
 lokkes viij d. Itm for mending of ij 
 payre henges \j d. ob. . . vij s. 
 
 Itm the xj 111 day of Juyn to the Quenes purs 
 by thandes of my Lady Anne Percy at 
 Westin . . xx s. 
 
 Itm the same daye to William Antyne coper 
 smyth for spangelles settes square peces 
 sterrys dropes and pointes after silver and 
 gold for garnisshing of jakettes against 
 the disguysing . . Ivj s. viij d. 
 
 Itin the xij th day of Juyn to my Lady Bray 
 for money by hire deliverd to the frater- 
 nitie of oure Lady of Roundsevale ij s. 
 iiij d. and to the daughters of Henry 
 Wyndeslowe in reward for bringing a 
 present of roses to the Quene at Westin 
 vj s. viij d. I tiii to a servaunt of my 
 Lorde of Derby for bringing a pre- 
 sent of malvesey to the Quene iij s. 
 iiij d. . . . xiij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itm the xiij 01 day of Juyn to John Staunton 
 
 theldre towardes the byeng of a hors . vj s. viij d. 
 Itm the same day to Hampnet Clegge for 
 mone by him deliverd to the Quene 
 for hir offring to Saint Edward at 
 Westm . . v j s. viij d. 
 
 Itin the xiiij 111 day of Juyn to ij Friers of the 
 monasterie of Saint Kateryne Mount in 
 Senay for a Ire of pardon of the said 
 monasterie . . . x iij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itin the same day to the Quenes purs at 
 Richemount by thandes of Maistres 
 Alianor Jofans . . xx s. 
 
 Itin to John Hamerton for money by him 
 
22 JUNE, 1502. 
 
 delivered to the Queue for hire offring at 
 hire departing from Westfn to oure 
 Lady of Pie we and to Bowe . vij s. ix d. 
 
 ELYSABETH. 
 
 p r SnY pag. viij li. iij s. v d. 
 
 Itin the same day to Thomas Foller of Lon- 
 don mercer for vj yerdes of blake velvet 
 for a gowne for the Quene delivered the 
 vij* day of Juyn at ix s. viij d. the yerd 
 Ixij s. x d. Itin for a yerd of blake 
 bokeram for the same gowne viij d. Itin 
 for a yerd and a quarter of sarcenet 
 orange colour at iiij s. iiij d. the yerd 
 v s. v d. . . . Ixviij s. xj d, 
 
 Itin the same day to Robert Ragdale for 
 making of a peticote of scarlet for the 
 Quene viij d. Itin for making of lynon 
 peticotes for the Quene xij d. Itin for 
 making of vj payere shetes to the Quenes 
 warderobe of her robes xv d. Itin for 
 upper bodyeng sieving and lynyng of a 
 gowne of blake velvet for the Quene of 
 Scottes xx d. Itin for canvas to the 
 same iij d. Itin for making of a gowne 
 of blake sateyn for my lady Mary xx d. 
 Itin for hemmyng of a kirtelle of the 
 Quene of Scottes iij d. Itin for hem- 
 myng of a kertell for my Lady Mary 
 iij d. Itin for makyng of a payre of 
 
JUNE, 1502. 23 
 
 sieves of white sarcenet for the Quene 
 of Scottes iiij d. Itih for making of a 
 kirtell for Brigette Crowmer xij d. Itih 
 for hemmyng of a kirtelle of the same 
 Bridgettes iij d. Itm for lynyng of a 
 gowne for Maistres Zouche xij d. and 
 for mending of twoo gownes for Johanne 
 Popyncote viij d. . . x s. iij d. 
 
 Itm to Thomas Shurley for money by hym 
 delivered for thoffring of the Quene to 
 oure Lady of Pie we v d. for milke at 
 Richemount iij d. and to a pore man in 
 aulmouse somtyme being a servaunt of 
 King Edwardes the iiij 111 xx d. Sm a . ij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itih to Thomas Barton foteman to the Quene 
 for money by him geven in aulmous by 
 the commaundement of the Quene in hir 
 journeying fro Richemont to Winsore iij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itih the xvij th day of Juyn to a servaunt of the 
 Maire of London in reward for bringing 
 a present of cherys to the Quene to 
 VVindesour . . . vj s. viij d. 
 
 Itih the xviij th day of Juyn to the Quenes 
 purse at Windesore by thandes of Mais- 
 tres Weston . . . Iiij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itih the same day to my lady Bray for money 
 by hir delivered to the ministres of the 
 Kinges chapelle to drinke at a taverne 
 with a buk . . xx s. 
 
 Itm the xix th day of Juyn to the Quenes purse 
 by the handes of John Staunton thelder 
 at Wynsore . . . xlvj s. viij d. 
 
 Itih the same day to Maistres Brent at Bay- 
 nardes Gastle for a IB of golde of Venice 
 
24 JUNE, 
 
 bought of James Jentille to the Quenes 
 
 use .... xxviij s, 
 
 ELYSABETH. 
 
 r Sm a pag. xj li. xix s. vj d. 
 
 Itin the same day to John Staunton thelder 
 for money by him payed for x yerdes 
 Kendalle for a coote for the fole at viij d. 
 the yerde vj s. viij d. Itin for five elnes 
 di of canvas at iiij d. the elne xxij d. 
 Itm for di yerd of Kersey to bordre the 
 same xvj d. and for making the same 
 coote xvj d. Sin* . . xj s. ij d. 
 
 Itin the same day to Lewes Wai tier the 
 Quenes bargeman for conveyeng the 
 Quene from Richemount to Westm the 
 \j* day of Juyn in hir barge with xxij* 1 
 rowers every rower taking viij d. xiiij s. 
 viij d. and the maister xvj d. Itin a 
 grete bote and viij rowers the xj th day of 
 Juyn conveyeng the Quene from Westm 
 to Richemount v s. iiij d. the maister 
 xvj d. and the rewarde of the bote xij d. 
 Itin the Quenes barge with xxij u rowers 
 conveyeng the ladys and gentilwomen 
 from Westin to Richemount xiiij s. 
 viij d. and the maister xvj d. Sm xxxix s. viij d. 
 
 Itm the xx ti day of Juyn to the Quenes purs 
 
JUNK, 1502. '2,3 
 
 at Windesore by thandes of Maistres 
 
 Brent and Arnold Chollerton . xx s. 
 
 Itiii the same day to S r Thomas Couper 
 
 Person of Saint Benettes in London for 
 
 the tithe of Baynardes Castelle and gar- 
 
 deyn there . . . xl s. 
 
 Itin payed for vj ellis of lynnyn cloth sent to 
 
 the Quene by S r John Hardy at xx u d. 
 
 the elne . . x s. 
 
 Itin delivered to dame Margret Cotton for 
 
 the diettes of my lord Henry Courtney 
 
 my lord Edward Courtney and my lady 
 
 Margret theire suster twoo women ser- 
 
 vauntes and a grome from furst day of 
 
 February last past unto the last day of 
 May than next following that is to wit 
 
 for xvij wekes at xiij s. iiij d. the weke x li. xiij s. iiij d. 
 Itin the xxj tt day of Juyn to Henry Bryan of 
 
 London mercer for xv yerdes dl of blake 
 
 dammaske for a gowne for the Quene at 
 
 vij s. the yerd . . Cviij s. vj d. gard- 
 
 Itin the same day to John Conewey smyth 
 
 for foure transoms and xij standardes 
 
 weyeng iiij" xiiij Ib. at j d. ob. the Ib. 
 
 xj s. ix d. twoo transoms and xv standers 
 
 weyeng iiij" iij Ib. dl at j d. ob. the Ib. 
 
 x s. v d. q a . Itin in lede for the fasten- 
 
 yng of the same iron xlix Ib. at ob. the 
 Ib. ij s. ob. Itin for viij" 1 staples for a 
 
 bedde iiij d. . . xxiiij s. vj d. ob. q a . 
 
 ELYSABETH. 
 
 <p r Sm a pag. xxiij li. vij s. ij d. ob. q*. 
 E 
 
26 JUNE, 1502. 
 
 I tin payed to a mason for iiij dayes werking 
 upon the windowes at Baynardes Castell 
 for setting in of the said iron . ij s. 
 
 Itin the xxiij u day of Juyn to the Quenes 
 
 purse by thandes of my Lady Anne Percy xx s, 
 
 Itin the xxviij a day of Juyn to the gromes 
 and pages of the halle for making bone- 
 fyres upon the evyns of Sainct John 
 Baptist and Saint Peter . .vs. 
 
 Itm the same day to the Quenes purse by 
 
 thandes of Maistres Denton . xl s. 
 
 Itm the ij de day of July to William Worthy 
 ortherwise called Pfiip for the bourde of 
 William the Quenes fole for iij monethes 
 ended the last day of Juyn that is to wit 
 from the last day of Marche unto the 
 furst day of July at ij s. the moneth 
 Sm a . . . vj s. 
 
 Itm the same day to the said William Pfiip 
 for his wages for keping of the said fole 
 by the space of iij quarters of a yere 
 ended at Midsomer last past . xx s. 
 
 Itin to the same William for money by him 
 payed to Rauf Wise of Grenewiche for 
 the diettes and othere necessaryes of the 
 said fole there being sik by the space of 
 iiij wekes . . . iiij s. 
 
 Itin the same day to Edmond Calver page of 
 the Quenes chambre for a payre of shois 
 for the Quenes fole vj d. Itih for a 
 grete basket for the Quenes stuf vj d. 
 Itin for going from Richemount to Lon- 
 don by the Queues commaundement by 
 the space of ij dayes of divers erandes 
 
JVLY, 1502. <2 
 
 xvj d. I tin for botehire to feche John 
 Grice to Westin iij d. Itin for a box of 
 iverey weyeng vunces at viij d. the unce 
 iij s. iiij d. I tin for pyn powdre xij d. 
 Itin for riding from Winsore to London 
 on divers errandes for the Queue by the 
 space of iij dayes at viij d. the day ij s. viij s. xj d. 
 
 Itin the ij de day of July to Thomas Fuller of 
 Londone mercer in partie of payement 
 of a bill signed with the hande of the 
 Queue conteignyng the somme of 
 due unto him for certain silkes of him 
 bought for the behove of the Quene as in 
 the same bill it appereth . . xxx ii. 
 
 Itin the same day for the Quenes offring in 
 the colleage of Windesore at high masse 
 there . . .vs. 
 
 ELYSABETH. 
 
 r Sin* pag. xxxv ii. x s. xj d. 
 
 Itin the iij de day of July to Agnes Bretayn of 
 Londone wedowe for ix poundes and xj 
 unces of gold of Venys of hir bought 
 for the thuse of the Quene . . xxiij Ii. xvj s. 
 
 Itin the same day to John Coope of Londone 
 
 taillour for making of certain stuf that 
 
 is to wit for a coveryng of a cheyre of 
 
 cremyson cloth of gold lyned with blewe 
 
 E 2 
 
2S JULY, 1502. 
 
 satyn vj s. viij d. Itm a nothere cover- 
 ing of cremysyn velvet lyned with blew 
 satyn vj s. viij d. Itiri a coveryng of 
 blevve cloth of gold with cheverons lyned 
 with crymsyn damaske vj s. viij d. Itin 
 a covering for a litter of blewe cloth of 
 golde with cheverons lyned with crym- 
 syne dammaske vj s. viij d. Itm for 
 lynyng of x peces of riche cloth of gold 
 with blewe dammaske vj s. viij d. Itm 
 for making of xxvij quysshons vj with 
 blewe cloth of gold with cheverons the 
 oon half of the said quysshons of satyn 
 figure the othere six with crymsyn velvet 
 and six of crymsyn dammaske and six of 
 satyn figure twoo of purple velvet and 
 oon quysshon of cloth of gold xxvij s. 
 Itm for ix quysshons of cloth of gold ix s. 
 Itm for making of the coveringes for the 
 said cheyres of red cloth and blewe and 
 for the said litters v s. Sm a . Ixxiij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itm the same day delivered to my Lady Bray 
 for money by hure geven at the cristen- 
 yng of John Belles childe at Winsore by 
 the Quenes commaundement . xxvj s. viij d, 
 
 Itm the same day to the said Lady Bray for 
 money by hur geven to a Scottisheman 
 scole maister to the prince at his depart- 
 ing by the Quenes commaundement . xx s. 
 
 Itm the iiij 111 day of J uly to the Quenes purs 
 at Winsore by thandes of my Lady Anne 
 Percy . . xx s. 
 
 Itm the same day to Thomas Woodnote and 
 John Feld wayteng upon the Quenes 
 
JULY, 1502. 29 
 
 joelles from Richemount to Grenewiche 
 for oon day at vj d. the day xij d. I tin 
 from Grenewiche to Richemount for oon 
 day at vj d. the day xij d. and from 
 Richemount to Windesore for oon daye 
 xij d. Itin for the cariage of Fraunces 
 Cofer from Robynettes to the Towre 
 iiij d. Itin for theire costes riding to the 
 crysteynyng of my Lord Mounteioyes 
 childe by the space of iij dayes at xij d. 
 the day iij s. Sin* . vj s. iiij d. 
 
 Itiii the V th day of July to Robert Alyn for 
 money by him deliverd to the Queue for 
 hir offring at Windesore. Furst to the 
 Holy Crosse ij s. vj d. to Saint George 
 ij s. vj d. and to King Henry ij s. vj d. 
 and for thoffringes of the Queue of Scottes 
 xij d. ... viij s. vj d. 
 
 ELYSABETH. 
 
 p r Sm* pag. xxxj ii. xs. x d. 
 
 Itin the same day to Giles lewter for stringes 
 
 for the Queue of Scottes lewte . x s. 
 
 Itm the vj* 11 day of July deliverd to Thab- 
 basse of Dertford by thandes of John 
 Wiredon towardes suche money as the 
 said Abbasse hath layed out towardes 
 the charges of my Lady Brigit there . Ixvj s. viij d. 
 
 Itin the same day to the undrekeper of 
 
30 JULY, 1502. 
 
 Swalowfeld for the bringing of iij bukkes 
 
 from Swalowfeld to Windesore . vj s. viij d. 
 
 Itin the same day to a servaunt of William 
 Bulstrode for bringing of a present of 
 cakes apulles and cherys to the Queue at 
 Windesore . . xx d. 
 
 Itin the same day to my Lady Verney for 
 money by hire payed by the commaunde- 
 mentof the Quene. Furst in aulmous 
 iij s. iiij d. Itin in reward geven to the 
 Fery man at Datchet iij s. iiij d. Itm 
 in aulmous to an old servaunt of King 
 Edwardes vj s. viij d. Itin to hir purs 
 upon the evyn of Saint Petre xvij s. . xxx s. iiij d. 
 
 Itin the same day to a servaunt of S r John 
 Williams in reward for bringing of twoo 
 bukkes to the Quene at Windesore . iiij s. 
 
 Itin the viij th day of July to Thomas Ac worth 
 
 for thexpenses of the Quenes stable Ivj li. iij s. ob. 
 
 Itin the ix* 1 day of July to Anthony Cotton in 
 reward by the commaundement of the 
 Quene at Windesore . . xiij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itin the same day to the underkeper of Berke- 
 hampsted for bringing of a buk to the 
 Quene to Windesore . iij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itin the same day to a servaunt of William 
 ap Howell for bringing of a popyngay 
 to the Quene to Windesore . xiij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itin the X th day of July to Thomas Fisshe 
 in reward for bringing of conserva cherys 
 from London to Windesore sent from 
 Maistres Lees ij s. viij d. and for an 
 elne of lynnyn cloth for a sampler for the 
 Quene viij d. . . iij s. iiij d. 
 
JULY, 1502. 31 
 
 I tin the same day to Henry Smyth clerc of 
 the Castell of \\indesore for money by 
 him payed to a certain labourers to make 
 an herbour in the litle parke of Winde- 
 sore for a banket for the Queue . iiij s. viij d. 
 
 Itm the same day to the Quenes purs at 
 Windesore by thandes of my Lady Anne 
 Percy . . . xx s. 
 
 Itm the xj 1 * 1 day of July to the dean of the 
 Kinges chapell for thoffringes of the 
 Quene upon the Feestes of the Nativitie 
 of Saint Johne Baptist thappostelles 
 Petre and Paul Saint Thomas the Marter 
 and Relique Sonday . xx s. 
 
 ELYSABETH. 
 
 p* . Sm a pag. Ixvj li. iiij d. ob. 
 
 Itin the same day to the Quenes Aulmoigner 
 for thoffring of the Quene upon Sonday 
 next after the Nativitie of Saint John 
 Baptist at High Masse in the colleage of 
 Windesore . . .vs. 
 
 Itin the same day to the said Aulmoigner for 
 money by him geven to the children of 
 the said college of Winsore . xx d. 
 
 Itm the xij th day of July delivered to the 
 Qiiene for hire offring at oure Lady of 
 Cabroke . . . viij d. 
 
32 jn.Y, loO<2. 
 
 I tin the same day to the heremite there in 
 
 aulmous . . xij d. 
 
 I tin the same day to a poure man that guyded 
 
 the Quenes grace thider . . iiij d. 
 
 Itin the xiij 111 day of July to a servaunt of 
 dame Margret Cottons for his costes 
 commyng from Havering to Notley to 
 the Quene to knowe hir pleasire where 
 the Lord Edmond son to the Lady Kate- 
 ryne shuld be bury ed . . xx d. 
 
 Itin the same day to John Duffy n for his 
 costes riding from Richemount to Westin 
 for the Quenes confesour on Trinite 
 Sonday evyn and for delivering of a Ire of 
 the Quenes to Thabbot of Westin xvj d. 
 Itin for his costes riding from Londone 
 to Winsore for Maistres Brent and from 
 Wendesore to London ayen in message 
 to the same Maistres Brent by the space 
 of iij dayes ij s. vj d. Itin for his costes 
 riding for M. Decons whan his clerk was 
 deed to cause him to comme to the Court 
 by the space of ij dayes xx d. Itin for 
 his costes to Lambeth for countremaund- 
 ing of a cofer of the Quenes x d. . vj s. iiij d. 
 
 Itin the xiiij 111 day of July to Edmond Cal- 
 verd for his costes riding to Vektour 
 Courtney vj s. viij d. Itin for an elne of 
 yelowe sarcenet for the Quene v s. I tin 
 for his costes riding to London by the 
 space of iij dayes ij s. vj d. Itin anothere 
 tyme for riding to London by the space 
 of iij dayes ij s. vj d. and for mending of 
 a possenetof the Quenes viij d. . xvij s. iiij c 
 
JULY, 1502. 33 
 
 I tin the xix th day of July delivered to the 
 Queries Aulmoner for money by him 
 leyed out in aulmous from Windesore to 
 Woodstok . . vij s. 
 
 I tin the same day to the Quenes purse at 
 Woodstok by thandes of my Lady Kate- 
 One . . . xx s. 
 
 Jtiri the xx" day of July to Thomas Wood- 
 note for thexpenses of the Quenes grey- 
 houndes for the monethes of January 
 February Marche Aprill May and Juyn 
 that is to wit for C iiij" j dayes at ij d. 
 the day ... xxx s. ij d. 
 
 ELYSABETH. 
 r Sin- pag. iiij li. xj s. ij d. 
 
 Itm the same day to a servaunt'of the prior 
 of Lantony for bringing a present of 
 chesys to the Quene to Woodstok . iij g. iiij d. 
 
 Itm the xxiij 11 day of July to Richard Justice 
 page of the robys for his costes going 
 from Richemount to London for a gowne 
 of cloth of gold furred with pawmpilyon 
 ayenst Corpus Xpi day by the space of 
 twoo dayes every day viij d. xvj d. Itm 
 for bote hire for the same gowne xij d. 
 Itm for going from Richemount to Lon- 
 F 
 
34 AUGUST, 1502. 
 
 done for the making of a gowne of 
 crymsyn sattayn by the space of ij dayes 
 at viij d. the day xvj d. I tin for mend- 
 ing of a lokke upon the warderobe dore 
 at Westin iij d. I tin for mending a lokke 
 upon a standard ij d. Itin for botehire 
 from Westin to London for sarsonettes 
 and divers othere thinges iij d. Itin for 
 botehire from Westin to London for the 
 Querie of Scottes slevys of orenge colour 
 sarsonet iij d. Itin for going from 
 Westin to Richemount for vj gownes of 
 the Quenes by the space of oone day 
 viij d. Itin for botehire for the same 
 gownes from Richemont to Westin and 
 from Westin to Richemount ayen ij s. vij s. iij d. 
 
 Itin the xxiiij* day of July to John Rauf 
 yeoman of the close carre for a pay re of 
 \vhelys by him bought of William Roke 
 of Kydlington vj s. viij d. Itin for the 
 bynding and setting on of the strakes 
 xij d. Itin for xl Ib. of iron xvj d. ob. 
 Itin for making of iij dosyn of nailles 
 xij d. Itin for mending and eching of 
 iiij hopys to the said whelys ij d. and for 
 cariage of the same whelys from Kyd- 
 lington to Woodstok iiij d. x s. vj d. ob. 
 
 Itin the ij de day of August to Anne Saye for 
 
 iij smokkes . . iij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itin the same day to the Quenes purs by 
 
 thandes of Maistres Brent . xl s. 
 
 Itin the same day to Robert Ragdale taillour 
 for making of twoo dublettes for the twoo 
 fotemen iij s. iiij d. Itin for lynyng of 
 
AUGUST, 1502. 3d 
 
 a gowne of blake velvet for the Quenes 
 grace with vvyde slevys with black sarsenet 
 with an egge of blake sattayn iij s. iiij d. 
 and for mending of divers gownes and 
 kirtelles of the Quenes iiij s. x d. . xj s. vj d. 
 
 Itm the iij de day of August to a servaunt of 
 the Lord Mountioyes for bringing of 
 twoo bukkes from Cornebury to Wood- 
 stok to the Queue . . ij s. 
 
 ELYSABETH. 
 
 ,p r Sm a pag. Ixxvij s. xj d. ob. 
 
 Itm the same day to Robert Alyn for his 
 costes prepay ring logging for the Quene 
 from Richemount to Westin by the 
 space of iij dayes at xij d. the day iij s. 
 Itm to William Hamerton yeoman to the 
 Quenes beddes for iij dayes at xij d. the 
 day iij s. I tin to Edmond Burtone yeo- 
 man for iij dayes at xij d. the daye iij s. 
 Itm to George Hamerton grome porter 
 for iij dayes ij s. vj d. Itm to William 
 Pole grome for iij dayes ij s. vj d. and to 
 Edmond Caverd page for iij dayes ij s. xvj 
 
 Itm the same daye to the said Robert for his 
 costes prepayring logging for the Quene 
 from Windesore to Woodstok by the 
 space of vj dayes at xij d. the day vj s. 
 Itm to Edmond Levesey yeoman for vj 
 dayes vij s. Itm to George Hamerton 
 F-2 
 
36 AUGUST, 1502. 
 
 grome portere for vj dayes v s. Itih to 
 
 John Staunton grome for vj dayes v s. 
 
 Itin to John Bright page for vj dayes 
 
 iiij s. and to Henry Rooper page for iiij 
 
 dayes at viij d. the daye ij s. viij d. xxviij s. viij d. 
 Itin the same daye to the forsaid Robert Alyn 
 
 for his costes prepayring logging for the 
 
 Quene from Richemount to Grenewiche 
 
 the last day of Marche by the space of 
 
 tvvoo dayes and from thens to the Towre 
 
 of London the xxvij 1 ' day of Aprell by 
 
 the space of twoo dayes that is to wit for 
 
 iiij dayes at xij d. the day iiij s. Itm to 
 
 Edmond Lyvesey yeoman for iiij dayes 
 
 iiij s. Itm to George Hamerton grome 
 
 portere for iiij dayes iij s. iiij d. Itin to 
 
 William Pole grome for twoo dayes xx d. 
 
 Itin to Edmond Calverd page for ij 
 
 dayes xvj d. Itin to John Browne 
 
 grome of the beddes for twoo dayes 
 
 xx d. and to John Feld grome for ij 
 
 dayes xx d. . . . xvij s. viij d. 
 
 Itin the same day to my Lady Verney for 
 
 money by hur delivered by the com- 
 
 maundement of the Quene to Fyll the 
 Kinges payntour in reward iij s. iiij d. 
 Itin to John Reynold payntour for 
 making of divers beestes and othere 
 pleasires for the Queue at Windesore 
 x s. Itin to a servaunt of William Bul- 
 strowdes for bringing a present of cherys 
 to the Quene to Wycombe xx d. and for 
 hir offring to Saint Frydeswyde at Oxon- 
 ford xx d. . . . xvj s. viij d. 
 
AUGUST, 1502. 37 
 
 Itiii the iiij* day of August delivered to 
 Thabbesse of Elnestowe by thandes of 
 John Duffy n for the costes and charges 
 of litle Anne Loveday at the making of 
 hire nonne there . vj li. xiij s. iiij d. 
 
 I tin the V th day of August to Rogier Elys for 
 a barrell of greese of hym bought by 
 William Hamerton for the lycoryng of 
 the Quenes baiehydes . . xij s. 
 
 Itm the same day to a servaunt of the Prior 
 of Lanthony for bringing a present of 
 chesys to the Quene to Langley^, . iij s. iiij d. 
 
 ELYSABETH. 
 
 ,|) r Sm a pag. xj li. vij s. viij d. 
 
 Itm the same day delivered to M. Xpofre 
 Plommer for money by him geven in 
 aulmous for the Quene at divers tymes 
 in hur journeys . . . xxiij s. 
 
 Itm the vj 111 day of August to the Quenes 
 purs at Langley by thandes of my Lady 
 Anne Percy . . vj li. xiij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itm delivered for thoffring of the Quene at 
 hir being sikke at Woodstok to oure 
 Lady at Northampton ij s. vj d. and to 
 fyve preestes for v masses doon before 
 oure Lady there xx d. Itin for thoffring 
 of the Quene to the Roode at Northamp- 
 ton xij d. and to oure Lady at Linche- 
 lade ij s. v d. . . . vij s. viij d. 
 
38 AUGUST, 1502. 
 
 Itm the same day delivered for the Quenes 
 almous at hir departing from Woodstok 
 to Langley . . . xxj d. 
 
 Itm the same day to Maistres Bellknap for 
 money by hir delivered by the com- 
 maundement of the Queue to the Queue 
 of Scottes at Windesore . . xx s. 
 
 Itm delivered to Maistres Bourne for money 
 by hur payed for Maistres Anne Saye. 
 Furst for vj yerdes of fusty an price the 
 yerd vij d. iij s. vj d. Itm for lynyng 
 and lynnyn cloth to the same xvj d. Itm 
 for making of the same kirtell xij d. and 
 for hose and shone for the same Anne 
 ij s. viij d. . viij s. vj d. 
 
 Itm delivered for the Quenes offring at Flex- 
 ley Abbey to the high aulter there . v s. 
 
 Itm the xiiij* day of August to the Kinges 
 
 garde in rewarde with a buk . xx s. 
 
 Itm the same day to thofficers and kepers of 
 the Quenes stable with a buk in reward 
 at Monmouth . . x s. 
 
 Itm to Jaques Hawte for money by him de- 
 livered to a woman that brought a pre- 
 sent of cakys and pearys to the Quene xij d. 
 
 Itm the same day to certain person nes in 
 Litle Dean in the Forrest of Dean that 
 wrought in fynyng of iron in reward . x s. 
 
 Itm in rewarde to the keper of the parke of 
 Miserder for bringing thre bukkes to 
 Monmouth . . . vs. 
 
 Itm for the keper of the parke of Brymes- 
 feld for bringing twoo bukkes to Mon- 
 mouth to the Quene . . ij s. viij d. 
 
AUGUST, 1502. 39 
 
 Itm to the Kinges harbegiers in rewarde with 
 
 a buk at Monmouth . x s. 
 
 Itm delivered to my Lady Verney for money 
 by hure offred by the Quenes com 
 maundement to Saint Frydeswyde at 
 Oxonford . . . xx d. 
 
 ELYSABETH. 
 
 j) r Sih a pag. xij li. xix s. vij d. 
 
 Itm the XV th day of August to John Browne 
 grome of the Quenes beddes for carieng 
 of certain stuf from Baynardes Castell to 
 Richemounte whan thambassidours of 
 Hungry were ther iij s. iiij d. Itm for 
 his costes going from Richemounte to 
 London to Maistres Stafford by the 
 Quenes commaundement by the space of 
 iij dayes at x d. the day ij s. vj d. Itm 
 at a nother tyme for his costes going from 
 Richemount to London to Maistres Staf- 
 ford for Maistres Lokke by the space of 
 twoo dayes at xd. the daye xx d. Itm 
 for his costes going from Richemount to 
 Baynardes Castell fore bringing up the 
 bedde of a Tourney by the Quenes com- 
 maundement iiij d. Itm for an hamper 
 to carye in pepyns for the Queue vj d. 
 Itm for his costes riding to Therl of 
 N orthumbreland by the space of a day 
 x d. and for his costes riding to the Lord 
 
40 AUGUST, 1502. 
 
 of Arundell by the space of iij dayes 
 
 ij s. vj d. . . . xj s. viij d. 
 
 Itih the same daye to Thomas Hoden for 
 keping of his childe geven to the Quene 
 for the half yere ended at Mydsomer last 
 past . . . . xiij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itm the same daye to Thomas Woodnote and 
 John Felde gromes of the Quenes 
 chambre for thaire costes wayting upon 
 the Quenes joyelles from Richemount to 
 Windesore from Windesore to Wycombe 
 from Wycombe to Notley from Notley 
 to Bostall from Bostall to Woodstok and 
 for Woodstok to Langley by the space of 
 vj dayes either of theim at vj d. the day 
 vj s. Itm to the same Thomas Wood- 
 note for his costes from Windesore to 
 London by the space of iij dayes at x d. 
 the dayij s. vjd. . . viij s. vj d. 
 
 Itm the xviij* day of August to Robert 
 Johnson the Quenes taillour in partye of 
 payement of a bill signed with thande 
 of the Quene conteignyng the somme of 
 xxxij li. xvj s. j d. to him due for 
 making of certain robys gownys kyrtilles 
 and othere apparrell belonging to the 
 Quenes grace and divers ladyes and 
 gentilwomen being at hur fynding as 
 appereth by the said bill . xiij li. vj s. viij d. 
 
 Itm the XIX th day of August by Henry Ropers 
 servaunt for his costes commyng behinde 
 with the cartes of stuf from Langley to 
 Ragland by the space of vj dayes at 
 iiij d. the day . . ij s. 
 
AUGUST, 1502. 
 
 Itin the same day to the Quenes purs by 
 thandes of my Lady Elisabeth Stafford 
 at Raglang . xl s. 
 
 ELYSABETH. 
 r Sin a pag. xvij ii. ij s. ij d. 
 
 Itin the same day to Hugh Denys for money 
 by him delivered to a straungier that 
 gave the Queue a payre of clavycordes in 
 crownes for his rewarde . . u 'ij ft. 
 
 Itin the xx day of August to Robert Alyn 
 for his costes prepayring logging for the 
 Quene from Woodstok to Ragland by 
 the space of xj dayes at xij d. the day 
 xj s. Itin to Edmond Lyvesey yeoman 
 for x dayes at xij d. the day x s. Itin 
 to George Hamerton grome porter for 
 x dayes at x d. the day viij s. iiij d. Itin 
 to John Staunton grome of the Quenes 
 chambre for x dayes at x d. the day viij s: 
 iiij d. Itin to John Browne grome of 
 the beddes with the Quenes grace for ix 
 dayes at x d. the daye vij s. vj d. I tin 
 to William Gentilman page of the 
 chambre for x dayes at viij d. the day vj s. 
 viij d. and to Henry Roper page of the 
 beddes for ij dayes at viij d. the day 
 XV J d - ... Iiij s. ij d, 
 
42 AUGUST, 1502. 
 
 Itm the xxj a day of August to Arnolde Chol- 
 lerton for his costes prepayring logging 
 for the Quene from Grenewiche to 
 Richemounte by the space of twoo dayes 
 at xij d. the daye ij s. Itm to Edmond 
 Lyvesey yeoman for ij dayes at xij d. the 
 day ij s. Itm to John Browne grome 
 of the beddes for ij dayes at x d. the 
 day xx d. Itin to William Pole for ij 
 dayes at x d. the daye xx d. Itm to 
 Edmond Calverd page for ij dayes at 
 viij d. the day xvj d. Itm to the said 
 Arnold for his costes prepayring logging 
 for the Quene from Richemount to 
 Windesore by the space of twoo dayes 
 at xij d. the day ij s. Itin to Edmond 
 Lyvesey yeoman for ij dayes at xij d. the 
 day ij s. Itm to John Browne grome 
 of the beddes for twoo dayes at x d. the 
 day xx d. Itin to William Pole grome 
 for twoo dayes xx d. And to Edmond 
 Calverd page for ij dayes at viij d. the 
 day xvj d. . . . xvij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itin the xxij tt day of August to the Kinges 
 Aulmoner for the Quenes offring to 
 Saint Anne in the wood besides Bristowe ij s. vj d. 
 
 Itin the same day to John Hamerton for 
 money by him delivered to the Quene 
 for hir offring at hir departing from 
 Windesore. Furst to the high aulter 
 within the Kinges Colleage there ij s. 
 vj d. Itin to Saint George ij s. vj d. 
 Itin to King Henry ij s. vj d. . vij s, vj d. 
 
 Itin the xxiiij" day of August delivered to the 
 
AUGUST, 1502. 43 
 
 Queries grace at Tabuls by thandes of 
 Maistres Lee at Ragland . x s. 
 
 ELYSABETH. 
 
 r Sin 8 pag. viij li. x s. vj d. 
 
 Itm the xxviij" day of August to a servaunt 
 of S* Waltier Herbertes in reward for 
 bringing a goshawke to the Quene to 
 Chepstowe . . x s. 
 
 Itih the same day to the mariners that con- 
 veyed the Quenes grace over Severn be- 
 sides Chepstowe . xs. 
 
 Itm the same day to the Quenes purs at Wal- 
 
 leston by thandes of my Lady Verney xl s. 
 
 Itm the xxix u day of August to a servaunt of 
 M. Esterfeldes of Bristowe in rewarde 
 for bringing of a present of oranges and 
 sukcades to the Quene to Berkeley . ij s. 
 
 Itm the same daye to the churche of Thome- 
 bury . . . xx d. 
 
 Itm the last day of August to my Lady Anne 
 Percy for money by hire geven in re- 
 ward to a Spanyarde that camme from 
 the Princesse to the Quene into Walys xx s. 
 
 Itih the ij de day of Septembre to the Quenes 
 purs at Berkeley by thandes of Maistres 
 Brent . C s. 
 
 G 2 
 
44 SEPTEMBER, 1502. 
 
 Itm the same day to Thomas Woodnote and 
 John Felde gromes of the Quenes 
 chambre for thaire costes wayting upon 
 the Quenes joyelles from Langley to 
 Northlache from Northlache to Coberley 
 from Coberley to the Vineyarde from 
 the Vyneyarde to Flexley Abbey from 
 Flexley Abbey to Troye and from Troye 
 to Ragland by the space of vj dayes 
 eithere of theim at vj d. the day . vj s. 
 
 Itm the same Thomas Woodnote and John 
 Felde for theire costes going before with 
 the Quenes jewelles from Ragland to 
 Berkeley by the space of x dayes eithere 
 of theim at x d. the day . . xvj s. viij d. 
 
 Itm the same day to a servaunt of the Priour 
 of Lanthonys in rewarde for bringing of 
 a present of chesys to the Quene to Ber- 
 keley . . . ij s. 
 
 Itm the same day to the Quenes mynstrelles 
 
 in reward . . . xl s. 
 
 Itm the iij de day of Septembre to Edmond 
 Calverd for fyve yerdes of blake chamlet 
 at ij s. iiij d. the yerde xj s. viij d. Itm 
 for fyve yerdes of tawny chamlet at ij s. 
 the yerde x s. Itm for eight yerdes of 
 bukram at v d. the yerde iij s. iiij d. and 
 for his costes riding for the same stuf 
 from Berkeley to Bristowe by the space 
 of ij dayes xx d. . . xxvj s. viij d, 
 
 Itm the same day to a servaunt of the Lord 
 Saintmondes for bringing of twoo bukkes 
 to the Quene to Berkeley . . ij s. viij d. 
 
SEPTEMBER, 1502. 45 
 
 Itin the same day for bringing of venyson 
 from Fastern to London by the Quenes 
 commaundement . . vj s. viij d. 
 
 ELYSABETH. 
 
 ,p r Sm a pag. xiiij li. iiij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itm the iiij 111 day of Septembre to John Belly 
 yeoman of the Quenes stuf for money by 
 him layed out for certain necessaries for 
 the Quenes lytter. Furst for viij dosyn 
 silke pointes price the dosyn iij d. ij s. 
 Itin for CCC pynnes price the C iiij d. 
 xij d. Itin for fyre to drye the stuf iij s. 
 Itm for a yerde of freese vj d. Itin for 
 iij litter pynnes of iron vj d. and for ij 
 brusshis vj d. . . vij s. vj d. 
 
 Itin the same day for cariage of vj bukkes 
 
 from Fastern to Berkeley to the Quene iiij s. 
 
 Itin the V th day of Septembre for cariage of 
 the Quenes stole from London to Oxon- 
 ford and from Oxonford to Langley . xiiij d. 
 
 Itin the X th day of Septembre to a servaunt 
 of the Lord Saintmondes for bringing of 
 twoo bukkes from Blakemore to Fayre- 
 ford to the Quene . .vs. 
 
 Itin the same day of Septembre to Thomas 
 Acwurth for thexpenses of the Quenes 
 stable . . iiij" vj li. xxij d. ob. q*. 
 
 Itm the same day to John Bolton for his costes 
 
46 SEPTEMBER, 1502. 
 
 riding from Berkeley to Bristowe for 
 
 wyne for the Queue . . xij d. 
 
 Itin the xij* day of Septembre to the keper 
 of Cosham Parke for bringing of v 
 bukkes from thens to Fayreford to the 
 Quene . . .vs. 
 
 I tin the same day to a guyde that guyded the 
 Quenes grace from Cotes place to Fayre- 
 ford .... viij d. 
 
 Itin the xiij* 1 day of Septembr to a servaunt 
 of the Lord Saintmondes for bringing of 
 vj bukkes from the Forrest of Pevisham 
 and Blakemore to the Quene to Fayre- 
 ford . . . vj s. 
 
 Itin the same day to the Quenes purs at 
 
 Fayreford , . . xl s. 
 
 Itin the same day to Agnes Dean the Quenes 
 laundre for hir hors mete betwene 
 Windesore and Berkeley by the space of 
 Ix dayes at iiij d. the day . . xx s. 
 
 Itin the same day to Richard Justice page of 
 the robys for money by him payed to a 
 guyde that went from Monnaouth foure 
 myles bakewarde towardes Flexley Abbey 
 to guyde a wayne laden with stuf of the 
 Warderobe of the robys that was broken 
 to Monmouth forsaid viij d. Itin for 
 making of twoo dublettes for the Quenes 
 fotemen of crymsyn velvet at xx d. the 
 pece iij s. iiij d. Itin to the same Richard 
 for his costes riding from Wollestone to 
 Berkeley to receyve the close carre and 
 a loode of stuf that went aboute by 
 Gloucestre from Ragland to Berkeley 
 
SEPTEMBER, J502. 47 
 
 by the space of twoo dayes at viij d. the 
 
 day xvj d. . . .vs. iiij d. 
 
 ELYSABETH. 
 
 <p r Sin* pag. iiij x li. xvij s. vj d. ob. q a . 
 
 Itin the same day to John Duffy n for his costes 
 riding from Woodstok to Antell by the 
 Quenes commaundement from Antell to 
 Thabbesse of Elstowe from Elstowe to 
 Herauld for a buk for the professing of 
 a nonne of Elstowe forsaid and from 
 thens to the courte to S r Giles Brigges 
 place by the space of vij dayes at x d. 
 the day . . . v s. x d. 
 
 Itin the same day to the keper of the parke 
 of the Devyes for bringing of vj bukkes 
 from thens to Fayreford to the Quene vj s. viij d. 
 
 I tin the same day to John Staunton for money 
 by him payed to a man that guyded the 
 Quene from Flexley Abbey to Troye be- 
 sides Monmouth . . . iij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itin the xiiij 111 day of Septembre to a servaunt 
 of the Lord Saintmondes for bringing of 
 a buk to the Quene to Fayreford . xvj d. 
 
 Itin the xvj* day of Septembre to John 
 Staunton for money by him geven in re- 
 warde to a woman that brought a present 
 of apulles to the Quene to Fayreford 
 from the LadyHungreford . . iij s. iiij d. 
 
48 SEPTEMBER, 1502. 
 
 Itm the same day to a servaunt of the Lord 
 Saintmondes for bringing of twoo bukkes 
 to the Quene to Langley . . ij s. viij d. 
 
 Itm the xvij th day of Septembre to John Grice 
 appoticary for certain stuf of his occu- 
 pacon by him delivered to th'use of the 
 Quene as by bill signed with thande of 
 hure grace it appereth . . xli. xix s. xj d, 
 
 Itm the same daye for cariage of v bukkes 
 
 from Fastern to the Princesse to London x s. 
 
 Itm the same day for cariage of twoo bukkes 
 
 from Fastern to Langley to the Quene ij s. viij d. 
 
 Itm the same day to the Quenes purs at 
 
 Langley . . xl s. 
 
 Itm the xviij* day of Septembre to the keper 
 of the parke of the Devyes for bringing 
 of iiij bukkes to the Quene to Langley vs. iiij d. 
 
 Itm the xix* day of Septembre to a servaunt 
 of the Maires of London in rewarde for 
 bringing of twoo barrelles of Rynnysshe 
 wyne from London to Langley to the 
 Quene 
 
 Itm the xx u day of Septembre to the Quenes 
 
 purs at Langley . . xl Ji. 
 
 Itm for bourding of Anne Saye oon of the 
 Quenes gentilwomen being sikke at 
 Woodstok by the space of viij wekes 
 at xvj d. the weke . . x s. viij d. 
 
 ELYSABETH. 
 <p r Sin a pag. Ivj li. xj s. ix. d. 
 
SEPTEMBER, 1502. 49 
 
 Ttm the xxj u day of Septembre to Lyonard 
 Twycrosse servaunt to John Gyrce appo- 
 ticary towardes his wedding gowne . xvj s. 
 
 Itin the xxvj ti day of Septembre to the Queues 
 
 purs by thandes of my Lady Anne Percy xl s. 
 
 Itin the xxvij* day of Septembre to Robert 
 Alyn for his costes prepayring logging 
 for the Queue from Ragland to Chep- 
 stovve by the space of twoo dayes from 
 Chepstowe to Walstone ij dayes from 
 Walstone to Berkeley ij dayes from Ber- 
 keley to Beverstone twoo dayes from 
 Beverstone to Cotes place twoo dayes 
 from Cootes place to Fayreford twoo 
 dayes and from Fayreford to Langley oon 
 day that is to wit by the space of xiij 
 dayes at xij d. the day xiij s. Itin to 
 William Hamerton yeoman for ij dayes 
 ij s. Itin to Edmond Bourtone yeoman 
 for xiij dayes xiij s. Itin to George 
 Hamerton grome porter for xij dayes x s. 
 Itin to William Pole grome for xiij dayes 
 x s. x d. Itin to John Browne grome 
 for ix dayes vij s. vj d. Itin to John 
 Bright page for xij dayes viij s. and to 
 Henry Roper page for twoo dayes xvj d. 
 Sin a . . . . . Ixv s. viij d. 
 
 Itin the xxviij d day of Septembre to John 
 Weredon for his costes prepayring log- 
 ging from Richemount to Ragland and 
 from Ragland to Langley by the space 
 of xx u dayes at xij d. the day xx s. and 
 to the same John for his costes riding 
 from Windesore to Dartford to my Lady 
 H 
 
50 SEPTEMBER, 1502. 
 
 Brigget by the space of twoo dayes at 
 
 xij d. the day ij s. Sm a . . xxij s. 
 
 Itm the same day to John Browne grome of 
 the beddes for his costes riding afore from 
 Windesore to Woodstok with the Quenes 
 stuf by the space of twoo dayes xx d. 
 Itm for his costes going before from 
 Notley to Woostok with stuf of the 
 Quenes by the space of iiij dayes at x d. 
 the day iij s. iiij d. and for his costes 
 riding afore with the said stuf from 
 Ragland to Berkeley by the space of viij 
 dayes vj s. viij d. sin* . . xj s. viij d. 
 
 Itm the same day to Maister Harding clerc 
 of the Quenes closed for money by him 
 geven in aulmous at divers tymes by the 
 Quenes commaundement . . ij s. viij d. 
 
 Itm the same day to Richard Smyth yeoman 
 of the robis for money by him payed for 
 a plyte of lawnde for a shirte for the 
 childe of grace at Reding v s. Itin for 
 making of the same shirte iiij d. and for 
 offring to our Lady of Cawseham iiij d. 
 by the Quenes commaundement. sm a v s. viij d. 
 
 r Sin* pag. viij li. iij s. viij d. 
 
OCTOBER, 1502. 51 
 
 I tiii the same day to William Hamertone 
 yeoman of the beddes for money by him 
 geven in rewarde to a poure man that 
 drove the charyet from Coberley to Chep- 
 stowe by the Quenes commaundement iij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itin the ij de day of Octobre to a servaunt of 
 my Lady Herbart wif to S* Waltier Her- 
 bert Knight in reward for bringing of an 
 hert to the Quene to Langley . x s. 
 
 Itin the iij de day of Octobre to Maistres 
 Bourne at Langley for laces rybandes and 
 sarcenet for gurdelles for the Quene . xl s. 
 
 Itin the vj* day of Octobre to the Quenes 
 purs at Minstre Lovell by thandes of my 
 Lady Anne Percy . xx s. 
 
 Itin the same day to a servaunt of S r John 
 Longes in reward for bringing of a crane 
 to the Quene . . xij d, 
 
 Itiii the vy* day of Octobre to the Quenes 
 purse at Minstre Lovel by thandes of 
 John Staunton thelder . xx s. 
 
 Itiii the same day to the Quenes purs by 
 
 thandes of the said John Staunton . xx s. 
 
 Itiii the same day to William Hamerton for 
 making of a bedde stedde for the Quene 
 and for certain iron werke therunto be- 
 longing at Minstre Lovell . . iiij s. 
 
 Itin the ix* day of Octobre to Richard Cot- 
 tone for thuse of the bretherhed of Itius 
 gilde at Grantham . . iij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itin the same day to Thomas Holdeyn for 
 thexpenses of Fraunceys from Abyndone 
 to London . . x s. 
 
 Itin the same day to Griffith Morgan for 
 
 H 2 
 
52 OCTOBER, 1502. 
 
 thexpenses of Maistres Anne Say being 
 
 sikke at Abandon . xx d. 
 
 Itm delivered to oone that was foteman to my 
 
 Lord Prince in aulmous at Abyndon . iij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itm the xj* day of Octobre to a servaunt of 
 S r John Shaa Knight for brynging twoo 
 vesselles with Renysshe wyne from Lon- 
 done to Esthampsted in rewarde . xiij s. iiij d, 
 
 Itin the xiij 01 day of Octobre to my Lady 
 Gilford for money by hure delivered to 
 the Queues grace at Ewelme playeng at 
 dyce .... xiij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itm the same day to my Lady Bray for money 
 
 by hure delivered to the Quenes grace . xvj s. viij d. 
 
 <p r Sm a pag. x li. 
 
 Itm the same day to Maistres Belknap for a 
 reward geven to a servant of the Bisshop 
 of Rouchestre for bringing a present of 
 grapes to the Quene . . iij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itm the same day to Maistres Lee for money 
 by hure geven in rewarde to a servauut of 
 my Lord Prince that cam in message to 
 the Quenes grace vj s. viij d. Also for 
 money by hure delivered to the Quenes 
 grace at dice vj s. viij d. Sm a . xiij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itm to the same Maistres Lee for money by 
 hure geven in reward to a servant be- 
 longing to my lady the Kinges moder . vj s. viij d. 
 
 Itin the xvj 11 * day of Octobre to my Lady 
 
OCTOBER, 1502. 53 
 
 Bray for money by hure geven in re- 
 warde to a disare that played the Shep- 
 pert before the Quene . . iij s. iiij d. 
 
 I tin the same day to John Staunton thelder 
 
 towardes the byeng of an hors . vj s. viij d. 
 
 Itin the same day to Henry Roper for his 
 servauntes costes commyng behinde with 
 the Quenes stuf of the warderobe of hur 
 beddes from Ragland to Abyndon by the 
 space of viij dayes at iiij d. the day . ij s. viij d. 
 
 Itm the same day to the Quenes purs at Est- 
 
 hamstede . . C s. 
 
 Itin the xxiij" day of Octobre to Anne Buk- 
 nam oon of the Quenes gentil women in 
 rewardebythe Quenes commaundement Ixvj s. viij d. 
 
 Itin the xxv u - day of Octobre to the Quenes 
 purs at Richemounte by thandes of 
 Maistres Brent . . . xl s. 
 
 Itin the same day to a poure woman that 
 brought a present of apuls from Howns- 
 lowe to the Quene to Richemounte . xx d. 
 
 Itin the same day to a servaunt of Thabbottes 
 of Obourne for bringing a present of 
 woodcokkes to the Quene to Riche- 
 mounte . . . . iij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itin the xxviij* day of Octobre to Robert 
 Alyn for the Quenes offring on Symond 
 day and Jude at Westminster . v s. 
 
 ,p* SnV pag. xij li. xij s. viij d. 
 
M NOVEMBER, 1502. 
 
 Itm the same day to my Lady Verney for 
 money by hur payed to Carvenelle for 
 his costes riding to thePrincesse v s. and 
 to Robert Ragdale for making and 
 lynyng of a kirtelle and othere geere ij s. vij s. 
 
 Itm the last day of Octobre to William Shaad 
 for bringing a present of chekyns to the 
 Quene . . . iij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itm the same day to my Lady Bray for 
 money by hure geven to a poure woman 
 that brought a present of byrdes to the 
 Quene . . . . iij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itin the same day to the Quenes purs by 
 
 thandes of my Lady Anne Percy . xl s. 
 
 Itm the furst day of Novembre to the chil- 
 dren of the Kinges chapell in reward . xiij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itm for thoffring of the Quene upon the Fest 
 of Alle Saintes v s. and at hure housell 
 xx d. Sin* . . vj s. viij d. 
 
 Itm the same day to the Quenes purs at West- 
 minster by thandes of my Lady Gurden xl s. 
 
 Itin the iij de day of Novembre to Elys Hilton 
 grome of the robys for money by him 
 payed for six yerdes of sarcenet for tip- 
 pettes for the Quene at ij s. the yerde 
 xij s. Itin for twoo yerdes dl blake 
 lynyng that was put betwene the out- 
 side and the lynyng of the Quenes cloke 
 at xij d. the yerde ij s. vj d. and for 
 making the same cloke iij s. iiij d. Sm a xvij s. x d. 
 
 Itin the same day to the said Elys Hilton for 
 caryeng certain stuf of the Warderobe 
 of the beddes by water from Richemounte 
 to Baynardes Castell . . xiiij d. 
 
NOVEMBER, 1502. 55 
 
 Itm for the Quenes offring at the obyt of the 
 
 Kinges Fader holden at Westminster . vs. 
 
 <p r Sm a pag. vj li. xvij s. viij d. 
 
 Itm the iiij th day of Novembre to my Lady 
 
 Verney for money by hure payed for 
 
 thexpenses of the hors of Margret Yone 
 
 from the xiij* 11 day of Juyn anno xvij to 
 
 the xxv u day of Octobre anno xviij R s . 
 
 H. vij mi . that is to wit by the space of 
 
 Cxxxv dayes at iiij d. the day xxv s. Itm 
 
 to Robynet the Quenes brawderer for 
 
 j unce of flatte gold price .v s. Itm ij 
 
 oncz rounde golde price the ounce iiij s. 
 
 iiij d. viij s. viij d. Itm to Rawlennys 
 
 wif in reward for bringing a present to 
 
 the Quene iij s. iiij d. Sm a . xlij s. 
 
 Itin the same day to Henry Bryan in partie of 
 
 payement of a bille signed with the 
 
 Quenes hande conteignyng the somme of 
 
 Cvij li. x s. q a . to him due for certain 
 
 silkes and othere stuf of his occupacon 
 
 by him delivered to th'use of the Quene 
 
 as by the same bille it appereth . xxxij li. vj s. 
 
 Itm the same day to Robynet the Quenes 
 
 brawderer for his bourde wages and for 
 
 the hiere of othere brawderers and for 
 
 thaire bourde wages werking upon the 
 
 Quenes riche bedde and for certain stuf 
 
 bought by the said Robynet as appereth 
 
 by a bille signed with thande of the 
 
 Quene . . . v j li. xviij s. xj d, 
 
56 NOVEMBER, 1502. 
 
 Itin the same day to Richard Cokkes of Lon- 
 don berebruere for lij barrelles of bere 
 for the Fryers Observauntes at Grene- 
 wiche to theim geven by the Queue in 
 almous for an hole yere ended at Mig- 
 helmas last past . . vj li. xviij s. viij d, 
 
 Itin the v th day of Novembre to William Bul- 
 strowde for the Quenes offring to Saint 
 Edward and the reliques at Westminster vij s. vj d. 
 
 p r Sm a pag. xlviij li. xiij s. j d. 
 
 Itin the same day to Richard Bailly yeoman of 
 the chambre for his costes going before 
 and prepayring lodging by the Quenes 
 commaundement from Langley to Minstre 
 Lovelle by the space of a day xij d. and 
 from Minstre Lovelle to Abyndon for 
 twoo dayes ij s. Sm a . . iij s. 
 
 Itin the same day to John Hynsted of Lon- 
 done wex chaundeler for iiij rolles of 
 white wex cont' iiij Ib. price the Ib. 
 xvj d. Sin a v s. iiij d. and for xij rolles 
 of yelowe wex of xij Ib. price the Ib. viij d. 
 viij s. Sm a tot. . . . xiij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itin the vj 111 day of Novembre to Edmond 
 Calverd page of the chambre for butter 
 egges and milke by him bought at divers 
 tymes for the Quenes use v s. vj d. Itin 
 to John Bright for money by him layed 
 out at divers tymes for butter egz and 
 milke iiij s. and to William Gentilman 
 for money by him layed out at divers 
 
NOVEMBER, 1502. 57 
 
 tymes for butter egz and milke for the 
 
 Queries use ij s. viij d. Sm a . xij s. ij d. 
 
 Itin the same day to Thabbasse of the Mino- 
 resse in almous vj s. viij d. Itin to Dame 
 Kateryne nonne ther iij s. iiij d. Itin to 
 Dame Elisabeth also nonne of the same 
 place ij s. Itin to a nonne doughter unto 
 William Cromer ij s. and to a poure 
 woman servaunt to the said Abbasse xx d. 
 Sin* . . . xv s. viij d. 
 
 Itin the viij^day of Novembre to the Quenes 
 purs at Westminster by thandes of my 
 Lady Verney . . . xl s. 
 
 Itin the ix* day of Novembre to Maistres 
 Mary Ratclif for money by hure lent to 
 the Quenes grace . . xiij li. vj s. viij d. 
 
 r SnY pag. xvij ti. x s. x d. 
 
 Itin the X th day of Novembre to my Lady 
 Bray for Iij barrelles of bere delivered to 
 the Fryers Observauntes at Canterbury 
 for an hole yere ended at Cristmas next 
 commyng . . vj li. xviij s. viij d, 
 
 Itin the same day to John Hamerton for the 
 hyere of a hors to conveye Maistres 
 Lakyn from Esthampsted to London . xvj d. 
 
 Itm the same day to Robert Alyn for his 
 costes prepayring logging for the Quene 
 from Langley to Mynystre Lovelle by the 
 space of oon day xij d. Itin to the same 
 Robert for his costes from Minstre Lovell 
 
58 NOVEMBER, 1502. 
 
 to Abyndon by the space of twoo dayes 
 at xij d. the day ij s. Itfn to the same 
 Robert for his costes from Richemount 
 to Westminster by the space of twoo 
 dayes ij s. Itfn to Edmond Bourton 
 yeoman of the chambre for his costes by 
 the space of v dayes at xij d. the day vs. 
 Itfn to William Hamerton yeoman for ij 
 dayes ij s. Itm to George Hamerton 
 grome porter for v dayes at x d. the day 
 iiij s. ij d. Itm to William Pole grome 
 for iij dayes ij s. vj d. I tin to John 
 Duffyn grome for ij dayes xx d. Itm to 
 John Brown grome for ij dayes xx d. 
 Itfn to John Bright page for five dayes 
 at viij d. the day iij s. iiij d. and to Henry 
 Roper page for ij dayes at viij d. the day 
 xvj d. Sin a . . . xxvj s. viij d. 
 
 Itm the same day to Robert Alyn for a sheffe 
 and an half of brode arrowes at ij d. the 
 arrowe vj s. and for a sheeff of brode 
 heddes at ij d. the hedde iiij s. Sm a . x s. 
 
 ,p* Sm a pag. viij li. xvj s. viij d. 
 
 Itm the xj* day of Novembre to William 
 Pole grome of the chambre for his costes 
 going from Windesore to London with 
 venyson for William Bulstrowde by the 
 commaimdement of the Quenes grace by 
 the space of twoo dayes at x d. the day 
 
NOVEMBER, 1502. 59 
 
 xx d. Itm an othere tyme for conveyeng 
 of venyson from Windesore forsaid to 
 London to the said William Bulstrowde 
 by the space of twoo dayes xx d. Itm 
 for the hyere of an hors to cary the said 
 venyson by the space of iiij dayes at iiij d. 
 the day xvj d. Itm for his costes going 
 for M. Lynch from M. Reeds place to 
 Oxonford x d. and for his costes riding 
 from Langley to the Lady Marques into 
 Lincolnshire by the space of v dayes at 
 x d. the day iiij s. ij d. Sm a . ix s. viij d. 
 
 Itm the same day to Thomas Holden and 
 J ohn Felde for theire costes way ting upon 
 the Quenes joyelles from Langley to 
 Minstre Lovelle from Minstre Lovelle to 
 Abyndon from Abyndon to Evvelme from 
 Ewelme to Henley upon Thamys from 
 Henley to Esthampsted from Esthamp- 
 sted to Windesore from Windesore to 
 Richemount and from Richemount to 
 Westminster by the space of viij dayes 
 eithere of theim at vj d. the day . . viij s. 
 
 Itin the same day to Thomas Woodnot for the 
 expenses of the Quenes greyhoundes for 
 the monethes of July August and Sep- 
 tembre that is to wit for iiij" xij dayes at 
 ij d. the day . . . xv s. iiij d. 
 
 Itfii the xij 01 day of Novembre to Doctoure 
 Undrewood the Quenes confessoure for 
 money by him dault in aulmous in Lon- 
 don by the Quenes commaundement . xx s. 
 
 |) r Sm a pag. Iiij s. 
 72 
 
6O NOVEMBER, 1502. 
 
 Itin the same day to Thomas Woodnote and 
 John Felde gromes of the Queues cham- 
 bre for thaire costes wayting upon the 
 Quenes joyelles from Barkeley to Bever- 
 stone from Beverstone to Cootes Place 
 from Cootes Place to Fayreford and from 
 Fayreford to Langley by the space of iiij 
 dayes eithere of theim at vj d. the day 
 iiij s. Itin to the same Thomas Wood- 
 note for his costes riding from Langley to 
 London by the Quenes commaundement 
 and from London to Langley again by 
 the space of v dayes at x d. the day iiij s. 
 ij d. and for caryeng of certain stuf from 
 Londone to Langley xvj d. SnY . ix s. vj d, 
 
 Itin the same day to Jamys Gentylle and 
 Thomas Hynde mercers of London in 
 partie of payement of a bille signed with 
 thande of the Quenes grace conteignyng 
 Cxxix li. xvj s. vj d. to theim due for 
 certain stuf of thaire occupacon by theim 
 delivered to th'use of the Quene . xlvj li. 
 
 Itm xiij* day of Novembre to Lewes Waltier 
 for conveyeng the Quene in hure barge 
 with xx tt rowers from Richemounte to 
 Westminster the xxvij day of Octobre 
 every rower taking viij d. xiij s. iiij d. and 
 the maistre xvj d. Itin the same day a 
 grete bote conveyeng the ladyes and gen- 
 tilwomen from Richemount forsaid to 
 Westminster with x rowers at viij d. the 
 rower vj s. viij d. and the maister xvj d. 
 Itin the rewarde of the bote xij d. Itin 
 to the said Lewes for conveyeng the 
 
NOVEMBER, 1502. fit 
 
 Princesse in the Queues barge with xvj 
 rowers from the Bisshop of Duresme 
 Place to Westminster and from West- 
 minster again the vj th day of Novembre 
 every rowere taking iiij d. Sin a v s. iiij d. 
 and the maister xvj d. Sm a tot. . xxx s. iiij d. 
 
 ,p r Sm a pag. xlvij li. xixs. x d. 
 
 Itm the same day to S r Richard Lewes Knight 
 for a cheyne of golde with vij kuottes 
 wayeng vij onz dl and dl quarter price 
 the onz xxvj s. viij d. Sin* . x li iij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itm the same day to William Wurthy other- 
 wise called Phip for the bourde of Wil- 
 liam the Quenes fole for iiij monethes 
 ended the last day of Octobre that is to 
 wit from the furst day of July unto the 
 last day of Octobre at ij s. the moneth viij s. 
 
 Itin to the same William Wurthy for a payre 
 of hosyn by him bought for the said Foole 
 x d. Itin for a payre of shoys vij d. 
 Itin for cloughting the same shoys iij d. 
 and for a payre of sokkes for the same 
 fole ij d. Sin* . . . xxij d. 
 
 Itin to the same William Wurthy for a quarter 
 
 wages ended at Mighelmas last past . vj s. viij d. 
 
 Itm the same day to Anthony Spynelle for vij 
 
 onz of golde of Venys at iiij s. the onz xxviij s. 
 
 Itin the same day to Maistres Brent for 
 money by hure payed for xxvij" elles dl 
 
62 NOVEMBER, 1502. 
 
 of fyne lynon cloth by hure bought for 
 the Quenes use of oon Hans Merschet 
 at iij s. viij d. the elle . C s. x d. 
 
 Itin the same day to Hamlet Clegge for 
 money by him layed out by the Quenes 
 commaundement to the keper of Dachet 
 Ferrey in rewarde for conveyeng the 
 Quenes grace over Thamys there . iij s iiij d. 
 
 Itin the same day to the Quenes purs by 
 
 thandes of Maistres Brent . xl s. 
 
 Itin the xiiij 111 day of Novembre to M. Xjpofre 
 Plomer for money by him dault in 
 aulmous by the Quenes commaundement 
 at divers tymes betwene Berkeley and 
 London . . . xx s. iiij d. 
 
 Itin the same day to Richard Mylner of Bynd- 
 feld for bringing a present of fesauntes 
 cokkes to the Quene to Westminster . v s. 
 
 j>* Sm a pag. xx li. xvij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itin the same day to Maistres Harrecourte for 
 hure costes whiche camme to the Quenes 
 grace to Westminster to have been hure 
 norice by the labor of Dame Kateryn 
 Grey . . . . vj s. viij d. 
 
 Itm the same day to Thomas Acwurth for 
 
 thexpenses of the Quenes stable Cxxxviij li. xiij s. ix d.q 8 . 
 
 Itin the xv th day of Novembre to Dame Mar- 
 gret Cotton for the diettes of my Lord 
 Henry Courteney my Lord Edward and 
 
NOVEMBER, 1502. 63 
 
 my Lady Margret their stister twoo 
 women servauntes and a grome from the 
 last day of May unto the xiij th day of 
 July that is to wit for vj wekes at xiij s. 
 iiij d. the weke . . . iiij ti. 
 
 Itm to the same Dame JVIargret Cotton for 
 the diettes of my Lord Henry Courteney 
 and my Lady Margret his suster twoo 
 women servauntes and a grome from the 
 xiij* day of July unto the ij dc day of 
 Novembre that is to wit for xvj wekes at 
 ix s. the weke . . vij li. 
 
 Itm the same day to S r Raaf Verney Knight 
 for money by him geven in rewarde to 
 a man that brought a buk to the Quene 
 to Langley . . xx d. 
 
 Itin the same day to Laurance Travice for 
 his costes .going upon certain messages at 
 divers tymes for the Lord Henry Cour- 
 teney and the Lady Margret his suster 
 from Havering to London and to the 
 Courte xvj d. and to the same Laurance 
 for an axe by him bought x d. Sni a . ij s. ij d. 
 
 Itm the xvj lh day of Novembre to Maulde 
 Hamond for keping of hur childe geven 
 to the Quene for half a yere ended at 
 Mighelmas last past . . viij s. 
 
 Itin the same day to the Quenes purs by the 
 
 handes of Richard Justice . xl s. 
 
 <p r Sm a pag. C lij li. xvj s. iij d. 
 
64 NOVEMBER, 1502. 
 
 Itin the xvij th day of Novembre to Lybart 
 goldsmyth for contentacon of a bille 
 signed with thande of the Queue for 
 certain parcelles of stuf of his occupacon 
 by him delivered to the Quenes grace 
 as appereth by the same bill . xix li. vij s. j d, 
 
 Itin the same day to Agnes Dean the Quenes 
 launder for hure horsmete from Berkeley 
 Herons to Windesore by the space of xl 
 dayes at iiij d. the daye . . xiij s. iiij d, 
 
 Itin the xxiij u day of Novembre to Henry 
 Wurley of London goldsmyth in partie 
 of payement of a warrant and billes signed 
 with thandes of the Quenes grace con- 
 teignyng the somme of CC x li. xix s. 
 viij d. due unto him for certain stuf of 
 his occupacon by him delivered to th'use 
 of the Quenes said grace . . Ix li. 
 
 Itin the same day to Thomas Goodriche of 
 London mercer for thre score yerdes of 
 blewe velvet at x s. vj d. the yerd by 
 him delivered to the Quenes use . xxxj li. x s. 
 
 Itin the same day to a servaunt of S r Gil- 
 bertes Talbottes in rewarde for bringing 
 a wylde bore to the Quene . x s. 
 
 Itin the same day to William Shadde in re- 
 warde for bringing a present of trypes to 
 the Quene to Baynardes Castell . iij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itin to a servaunt of Maistres Davys in rewarde 
 for bringing a present of podynges and 
 chynes of porke to the Quene to Bay- 
 nardes Castelle . . . ij s. 
 
 Itin the xxiiij" day of Novembre to the Dean 
 of the Kinges Chapell for thoffringes of 
 
NOVEMBER, 1502. 65 
 
 the Queue upon the Feestes of Mary 
 Magdalene Saint James Saint Anne 
 Saint Lawrance Thassumpcon of our 
 Lady Saint Bartholomewe the Nativite 
 of our Lady Thexaltacon of the Holy 
 Crosse Saint Mathewe Saint Mighell 
 Saint Edward and Saint Luke that is to 
 wit for every of the said Feestes v s. Sm Ix s. 
 
 <p r Sm a pag. Cxv li. v s. ix d. 
 
 Itm the same day to John Warreyn for 
 making of a trussing bedde seler testere 
 and countrepoynt of crymsyn velvet and 
 blewe paned and for making of the cur- 
 teyns of dammaske crymsyn and blewe 
 paned according to the same xxx s. 
 iiij d. Itm for fynne lyere of red thred 
 xx d. and for grete rynges to the same 
 curteyns xvj d. Sm a . . xxxiij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itm to the same John Warreyn of London 
 bedmaker for making of a pyle cloth 
 of lynen cloth vj yerdes long and ij 
 yerdes brode and curteyns according to 
 the same x s. Itm for lyere of fynne 
 pakthred to the same xij d. Itm for 
 lyere of fynne white thred for the cur- 
 teyns of the same pyle cloth iiij d. Itm 
 for xl latyn rynges to the same curteyns 
 iiij d. Itm for iiij Ib. dl of white frynge 
 of white thred at xvj d. the Ib. vj s. Itm 
 K 
 
60 NOVEMBER, 1502. 
 
 for making a cloth of estate of crimsyn 
 riche cloth of tissue iiij yerdes depe and 
 iij yerdes brode the seler ij yerdes dl and 
 the quarter long the valance j quarter dl 
 depe according to the same xxvj s. viij d. 
 and for fynne Iyer of red thred to the 
 same ij s. Sm a . . . xlvj s. iiij d. 
 
 I tin the same day to John Vandelf and 
 Alexandre Hove goldsmythes in fulle 
 contentacon and payement of a bill 
 signed with thande of the Quenes grace 
 for certain parcelles of stuf of thaire 
 occupacon by theim delivered to the 
 Quenes said grace against the manage 
 of my Lord Prince decessed as it ap- 
 pereth by the same bille . . xlvij li. 
 
 Itfn the xxv u day of Novembre to Thomas 
 Humberston hosyer for the cloth and 
 making of vij payere sokkes for the 
 Quenes grace at vj d. the payere . iij s. vj d. 
 
 p r ' Sin a pag. Ij li. iij s. ij d. 
 
 Itin the same day for thre yerdes of blake 
 sattyn geven to John Myklowe clerc of 
 comptrolment of the Kinges houshold 
 by the Quenes grace at vj s. viij d. the 
 yerd . . . xx s. 
 
 I tin the same day to John Duffyn for his 
 costes ryding from Berkeley Herons to 
 Pevesham and Blakemore to the Lord 
 
NOVEMBER, 150*2. f 
 
 Saintmond from thens to the parke of 
 Cosham from Cosham to the Devyes 
 from thens to the forest of Savernake to 
 S r John Seymer for bukkes for the Kinges 
 grace and from thens to Fayreford by the 
 space of viij dayes at x d. the daye . vj s. viij d. 
 
 Itm to the same John for his costes ryding 
 from Langley to Savernake for certain 
 bukkes left behynde by the space of iiij 
 dayes at x d. the day . . iij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itm the same day to William Boterey of 
 London mercer in partye of payement 
 of a bille signed with the hande of the 
 Quenes grace conteignying the somme of 
 vij" poundes vj d. for certain silkes by 
 him delivered to the Quenes said grace 
 as by the same bille it appereth . xl li. 
 
 Itih the same day to Maister Payne the 
 Quenes aulmoigner for money by him 
 dault in almous from Langley to Berke- 
 ley Herons xvij s. viij d. Itm to an 
 ancoresse at Gloucestre xx d. Itm for 
 thofTring of the Queue to the Roode 
 beyond Gloucestre xij d. and to a fote- 
 man for money by him leyed out by the 
 Quenes commauudement xij d. Sm a . xxj s. iiij d. 
 
 Itm the same day to my Lady Bray for 
 money by hure geven in reward to a 
 chapellain of the Bisshop of Murreys 
 xl s. and to a poure man that was 
 somtyme servaunt to King Edward in 
 almous vj s. viij d. Sin* . . xlvj s. viij d. 
 
 c[/ Sin a pag. xliiij li. xviij s. iij d. 
 
68 NOVEMBER, 1502. 
 
 I tin the xxvj u day of Novembre to Richard 
 Justice page of the robys for his costes 
 going from Westminster to London in 
 the nyght for a gowne of blewe velvet 
 for the Quene and for his bote hyere 
 viij d. Itin for conveyeng alle the 
 Quenes lyned gownys from Westminster 
 to London by water and for mens 
 labour that bare the same gownys to 
 the water and from the water v d. Itin 
 for bringing the Quenes furred gownys 
 from London to Westminster and for 
 mens labours that bare the same to and 
 from the water v d. Itiri for his costes 
 from Westminster to London to take 
 the remaynes of suche stuf as remaineth 
 there iiij d. Itiri for going from West- 
 minster to London for vij yerdes quarter 
 di of blake damaske and for a frontlet 
 of golde for the Quene iiij d. and for 
 making a newe key to a grete standard 
 being in the warderobe of the robys and 
 for mending of boeth lokkes to the same 
 vj d. Sm a . . . ij s. viij d. 
 
 Itin the same day to Henry Bryan for xvij 
 yerdes of blake velvet for a gowne for 
 the Quene at x s. vj d. the yerde viij li. 
 xviij s. vj d. Itin for xiij yerdes of blake 
 satten delivered to Johnson for a riding 
 gowne for the Quene at ix s. the yerde 
 C xvij s. Itin for a yerde di quarter of 
 blake velvet for an edge and cuffes for 
 the same gowne at xj s. vj d. the yerde 
 xiij s. Itin for vij yerdes di of blake 
 
NOVEMBER, 1502. 69 
 
 bokeram for lynyng of the same gowne 
 at ix d. the yerd v s. vij d. ob. I tin for 
 a nayle of sarcenet for fentes for the 
 same gowne iiij d. and for an elle 
 quarter of canvas for lynyng of the 
 same gowne vj d. Sin* . xv li. xiiij s. xj d. ob. 
 
 |) r Sm a pag. xv li. xvij s. vij d. ob. 
 
 I tin the same day to a Frenche woman in 
 rewarde that came to the Quene to 
 Baynardes Castelle to have been hure 
 norice . . . vj s. viij d. 
 
 I tin the xxvij u day of Novembre to Robert 
 Machene taillour for making of the 
 covering of a lytter of blewe velvet 
 lyned with sarcenet and bordered with 
 sattyn fygure that was geven to a lady of 
 Spayne vj s. viij d. Itin for making of 
 iiij quysshens of blewe dammaske for the 
 same lytter ij s. Itin for making of a 
 gowne of sattyn fygure lyned with yelowe 
 sattyn of Bruges for the grete Flemyng 
 called Anne v s. Itin for making of twoo 
 dublettes of tawny dammaske for the 
 quenes fotemen at Warwike iiij s. Itin 
 for making of twoo gownes of tawny for 
 the same fotemen ij s. Itin for making 
 of twoo dublettes of yelowe sattyn of 
 Bruges for the said fotemen iij s. iiij d. 
 Itin for making of a gowne of blake 
 
70 NOVEMBER, 1502. 
 
 dammaske lyned with sarcenet for the 
 yong Lord Henry Courteney ij s. Itm 
 for making of a gowne of tawny medley 
 bordred with sarcenet for the same Lord 
 xij d. Itin for making of a cote of 
 murrey chainlet for the same Lord ij s. 
 Itm for making of a peticote for the 
 same Lord vj d. Itin for making of a 
 cote of murrey chainlet for my Lord his 
 broder and a cote of blake dammaske 
 iiij s. Itm for making of a peticote for 
 the same Lord vj d. and for making of 
 twoo gownys for the forsaid fotemen at 
 London ij s. Sm a . . xxxv s. 
 
 Itin the xxviij u day of Novembre to Nicholas 
 Mathewe yeoman of the Quenes chambre 
 in reward toWardes his charges whan he 
 was hurte by the servauntes of S r William 
 Sandes . . . xxvj s. viij d. 
 
 Itrn the same day to my Lady Anne Percy 
 for xiij elles iij quarter di of fyne lynon 
 cloth by hure bought for the Quenes 
 use at iij s. viij d. the elle . . 1 s. x d. ob. 
 
 * Sm a pag. Cxix s. ij d. ob. 
 
 Itm the same day to Robert Alyn for his 
 costes prepayring logging for the Quene 
 from Westminster to Grenewiche by 
 the space of twoo dayes at xij d. the 
 daye ij s. Itin to Thomas Holden yeo- 
 
NOVEMBER, J502. 7 I 
 
 man for twoo dayes ij s. to John Duffyn 
 grome for twoo dayes at x d. the day 
 xx d. I tin to George Hamerton grome 
 porter for oon day x d. Itin to Henry 
 Roper page of the Queues beddes for 
 ij dayes at viij d. the day xvj d. and to 
 Edmond Calverd page for oon day viij d. 
 Itm to the said Robert Alyn for his 
 costes prepayring logging for the Quene 
 from Grenewiche to Baynardes Castelle 
 by the space of a day xij d. Itin to 
 George Hamerton grome porter for oon 
 day x d. Itm to Edmond Calverd page 
 for oon day viij d. and to the said Robert 
 Alyn for a lokke by him bought at Bay- 
 nardes Castelle vij d. Sm a . . xj s. vij d. 
 Itm the same day to Arnolde Chollerton 
 yeoman huisshere of the Queues Cham- 
 bre for his costes prepayring logging for 
 the Quene for Abyndon to Ewelme by 
 the space of a day xij d. Itm to Edmond 
 Burton yeoman for oon day xij d. Itm 
 to John Duffyn grome for oone day x d. 
 Itm to Henry Roper page for oon day 
 viij d. Itm to John Bright page for 
 oon day viij d. Itin to the same Arnold 
 for his costes prepayring logging for the 
 Quene from Ewelme to Henley for oon 
 day xij d. It to Edmond Burton 
 yeoman for a day xij d. Itm to George 
 Hamerton grome porter for oon day 
 x d. Itin to John Duffyn grome for a 
 day x d. Itin to Henry Roper page for 
 oon day viij d. Itm to John Bright 
 
72 NOVEMBER, 1502. 
 
 page for a day viij d. I tin to the said 
 Arnold for prepayring logging for the 
 Quene from Henley to Esthampsted for 
 a day xij d. Itin to Edmond Burton 
 yeoman for oon day xij d. I tin to 
 George Hamerton grome porter for a 
 day x d. It to John Duffyn grome 
 for a day xd. Itin to Henry Roper 
 page for oon daye viij d. and to John 
 Bright page for a day viij d. Sin" . xiij s. ij d, 
 
 ,p r Sm a pag. xxv s. ix d. 
 
 Itin the last day of Novembre to the said 
 Arnolde Chollerton for his costes pre- 
 payring logging for the Quene from Est- 
 hampsted to Windesore by the space of 
 twoo dayes at xij d. the day ij s. Itin to 
 Edmond Burton yeoman for twoo dayes 
 ij s. Itin to John Duffy n grome for twoo 
 dayes at xd. the day xx d. Itrri to Henry 
 Roper page for twoo dayes at viij d. the 
 day xvj d. and to John Bright page for 
 twoo dayes xvj d. Itin to the same Ar- 
 nolde for his costes prepayring logging 
 for the Quene from Windesore to Riche- 
 mount for twoo dayes ij s. Itin to 
 Edmund Burton yeoman for twoo dayes 
 ij s. Itin to John Duffyn grome for ij 
 dayes xx d. Itin to Henry Roper page 
 of the beddes for twoo dayes xvj d. and 
 
NOVEMBER, 1502. 73 
 
 to John Bright page for twoo dayes 
 xvj d. Sm a . * . . xvj s. viij d, 
 
 I tin the same day to Lewes Wai tier barge- 
 man for conveying the Queue and hure 
 Ladys in hure barge and grete bote with 
 xxiij rowers the xiiij th day of Novembre 
 from Westminstre to Grenewiche every 
 rower taking viij d. sm a xv s. iiij d. and 
 the maister xvj d. I tin the rewarde of 
 the barge and grete bote above the 
 brigge ij s. Itm to the same Lewes for 
 conveyeng the Queue in hure barge the 
 XIX th day of Novembre from Grenewiche 
 to Baynardes Castelle with xx u rowers 
 every rower taking viij d. xiij s. iiij d. 
 and the maister xvj d. Itin to the said 
 Lewes for conveyeng the Queues grace 
 the xx vj" day of Novembre from Bay- 
 nardes Castell to Westminstre in hure 
 barge with xvj rowers every rower taking 
 iiij d. v s. iiij d. the maister xvj d. Itin 
 for conveyeng the Quenes Gentilwomert 
 and hur servauntes in a grete bote from 
 Baynardes Castelle to Westminster with 
 vj rowers every rower taking iiij d. ij s. 
 and the maister of the bote viij d. Itin 
 the rewarde of the same bote xij d. Sin a xliij s. viij d, 
 
 <p r Sin* pag. Ix s. iiij d. 
 
74 DECEMBER, 1502. 
 
 Itin the same day to Pache in revvarde for 
 bringing a present of poyngarnettes and 
 apulles to the Quene . . iij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itin delivered to George Hamerton grome 
 porter for money by him payed by the 
 Quenes commaundement at Baynardes 
 Castell for twoo quartred bourdes with 
 vysys at vj s. the pece . . xij s. 
 
 Itin the same day to John Browne for his 
 costes wayting upon the Quenes plate 
 from Woodstok to Langley for oon day 
 x d. Itin to the same John for his costes 
 going before from Woodstok to Abyndon 
 with stuf of the Warderobe and making 
 herbigage there by the space of iiij dayes 
 at x d. the day iij s. iiij d. and to the same 
 John for his costes going before with the 
 same stuf from Abyndon to Windesore 
 by the space of iij dayes at x d. the day 
 ij s. vj d. Sm a . . . vj s. viij d. 
 
 Itin the furst day of Decembre to Richard 
 Smyth yeoman of the Quenes robys for 
 Cv yerdes dT of cloth at iiij s. iiij d. the 
 yerde whiche was geven to divers per- 
 sonnes by the Quenes commaundement 
 in the yere last passed as in the boke of 
 the Warderobe it appereth . . xxij li. xv s. 
 
 Itin to the same Richard Smyth for Cxj 
 yerdes of cloth for xxxvij poure women 
 for the Quenes Maundye in the yere 
 last passed every woman iij yerdes at 
 ij s. viij d. the yerd xiiij li. xvj s. and 
 for iij yerdes di of cloth delivered by 
 the commaundement of the Quene to a 
 
DECEMBER, 1502. 75 
 
 woman that was norice to the Prince 
 brothere to the Quenes grace and iij 
 yerdes to the suster of S r Rogier Cotton 
 at ij s. viij d. xvij s. iiij d. Sin* xvli. xiij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itm to the same Richard Smyth for viij yerdes 
 iij quarter of blake velvet price the yerd 
 xs. Sin* . . iiij li. vijs. vj d. 
 
 r Sin a pag. xliij li. xvij s. x d. 
 
 Itm to the said Richard Smyth for certain 
 money by him leyed out by the com- 
 maundement of the Quene aswele for 
 apparelling of the fotemen as for divers 
 othere necessaryes as by a bill signed 
 with thande of the Quenes grace and 
 registred in the boke of the Warderobe 
 more plainly appereth . xj li. ijs. iij d. 
 
 Itm to the same Richard Smyth for certain 
 money by him payed for certain cloth 
 silkes brusshis and othere necessaries by 
 him bought by the commaundement of 
 the Quene as by a bill signed with 
 thande of hure grace and registred in 
 the boke of the Warderobe more plainly 
 appereth . . viij li. xviij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itm the ij de day of Decembre to dame Mar- 
 
 grette Cotton for money by hure payed 
 
 for hosyn shoys laces sope and othere 
 
 necessaryes for the lordes Henry Cour- 
 
 L 2 
 
76 DECEMBER, 1502. 
 
 teney Edward and the lady Margret 
 
 their sustere . . xxxvij s. vj d. 
 
 I tin to the same dame Margrette Cotton for 
 the dyettes of Edward Pallet for half a 
 yere ended at the Feest of Thassumpcon 
 of our lady last past xx s. Itin for iiij 
 yerdes of fustyan for a cote for the same 
 Edward at vij d. ob. the yerde ij s. vj d. 
 Itin for making of the same cote viij d. 
 Itin for twoo shirtes for the same Edward 
 xvij d. Itin for iiij payre of shoys xvj 
 Itin for iiij payre hose at iij d. the payre 
 xij d. and for the scole hyer of the same 
 Edward by the space of iij quarters of a 
 yere every quarter viij d. ij s Sm a . xxviij s. xj d. 
 
 Itin to the same dame Margrette Cotton for 
 the diettes of my Lord Henry Courteney 
 and my Lady Margret his sustere twoo 
 women servauntes and a grome from the 
 ij de day of Novembre unto the last day 
 of the same moneth that is to wit for iiij 
 wekes at ix s. the weke . . xxxvj s. 
 
 ,p r Sm a pag. xxv li. iij s. 
 
 Itin the iij de day of Decembre to the Quenes 
 
 purs at Westminstre . xl s. 
 
 Itin payed to John Heron for th'use of the 
 Kinges grace assigned upon the Quenes 
 landes this yere . CCCxxxiij li. vj s. viij d. 
 
 Itin to the Bisshop of the Kinges Chappelle 
 
 on Saint Nicholas even at Westminster xl s. 
 
DECEMBER, 1502. 77 
 
 Itin for thoffring of the Quene on Saint 
 
 Nicholas Day . . .vs. 
 
 Itiii for thoffring of the Quene upon Saint 
 
 Andrewes day . . .vs. 
 
 I tin the vij** 1 day of Decembre to Maistres 
 Cheyne for candelstykkes cuppebourde 
 clothes and othere necessaryes by hure 
 bought for the chambre of the Lord 
 Henry Courteney and the Lady Mar- 
 gret his suster . . . vj s. viij d. 
 
 Itin the same day to John Staunton the 
 yonger for money by him layed out for 
 horsemete and for thexpenses of certain 
 personnes that brought the Lord Henry 
 Courteney and the Lady Margret his 
 suster from S r John Hosys place in 
 Essex unto London vs. vjd. and to the 
 same John for his costes by space of 
 twoo daves at x d. the day xx d. Sm a . vij s. ij d. 
 
 Itin the viij th day of Decembre to John Staun- 
 ton thelder for money by him lent to the 
 Quene at Westminstre . . xv s. iiij d. 
 
 Itiii for thoffring of the Quene to oure Lady 
 of Pyewe upon thevyn of the Concepcon 
 of our Lady . . . vj s. viij d. 
 
 Itin for thoffring of the Quene upon the day 
 
 of the Concepcon of oure Lady . v s. 
 
 Itin to the brethei hed of Saint Ursela in London iij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itin the ix* day of Decembre to Henry Langton 
 
 an olde ser vaunt of King Edvvardes . iij s. iiij d. 
 
 <p r Sin a pag. CCCxl li. iiij s. ij d. 
 
78 DECEMBER, 1,502. 
 
 Itm the same day to Robert Machene taillour 
 for making of iiij coots of white and 
 grene sarcenet for iiij of the Kinges 
 mynstrelles against the dysguysing in 
 the yere last passed at ij s. the cote viij s. 
 Itm for making of iiij cootes of white 
 and grene sarcenet for iiij of the Kinges 
 trumpettes at ij s. the cote viijs. And 
 for making of thre cotes of sarcenet for 
 iij mynstrelles oon of my Lord Princes 
 an othere of my Lord of Yorkes and the 
 iij de of the Duk of Bukkingham at ij s. 
 the cote vj s. Sm a . . xxij s. 
 
 Itm to a man of Poynfreyt sayeng himself to 
 lodge in his house Therl Ryvers in tyme 
 of his deth in almous . . xij d. 
 
 Itm delivered to Brice yeoman cooke for the 
 Queues mouth for chekyns and larkes 
 by him bought for the Quene against 
 hure comyng to Baynardes Castelle and 
 soo to the Towre . . ij s. viij d. 
 
 Itm the xiij th day of Decembre to the Quenes 
 purs at the Towre by thandes of my Lady 
 Anne Percy . . . Iiij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itm the same day to my Lady Anne Percy 
 for money by hure payed for xxvj elles 
 of lynon cloth at xviij d. the elle . xxxixs. 
 
 Itin for thoffring of the Quene to oure Lady 
 of Pyewe at hure departing from West- 
 minstre to the Towre . . vj s. viij d. 
 
 Itm to a monke that brought our Lady 
 
 gyrdelle to the Quene in rewarde . vj s. viij d. 
 
 Itm to the gromes and pages of the Quenes 
 
 chambre in reward against Cristmas . xx li. 
 
DECEMBER, 1502. 79 
 
 Itm to Lawrance Travice for cariage of cer- 
 tain stuf belonging to the Lord Henry 
 Courteney and the Lady Margret his 
 suster from Havering at Bower to London ij. s. viij d. 
 
 p r Sin* pag. xx vj li. xiiij s. 
 
 Itm to my Lady Anne in fulle contentacon 
 of x markes due unto hure for a yere 
 ended at Mighelmas last passed 
 
 Itm the xv th day of Decembre to John Rey- 
 nolde for money by him payed to a man 
 that broke a yong hors of the Quenes at 
 Mortymer by the space of v wekes every 
 \veke ij s. sin* x s. Itin for marking of the 
 Quenes coltes at Havering xij d. Itin for 
 the marking of the Quenes coltes at Fod- 
 ringhey xij d. Itm for dryving of the 
 yong horses from Havering to Mortymer 
 by the space of v dayes and for a mans 
 costes with his hors by the same space 
 at x d. the day iiij s. ij d. Itin for 
 dryving of vj yong horses to Mortymer 
 for twoo tymes bayting and oon nyght 
 xij d. Itin to the said John and Parker 
 for thexpenses of thaire twoo horses ij 
 dayes and oon nyght x d. Itm for 
 shoing of the same twoo horses ij d. 
 Itin for casting of a donge hille at the 
 Quenes stable at Ham ij s. Sin a . xx s. ij d. 
 
 Itin the same day for brede and ale at Bay- 
 nardes Castell at the Quenes departing 
 
80 DECEMBER, 1502. 
 
 from Westminstre to the Towre xij d. 
 
 and for faggottes iiij d. Sm a . xvj d. 
 
 Itin the xvij* day of Decembre to William 
 Lewes gentilman of Thewry for a lokke 
 by him bought and sette upon Thewry 
 doore at Baynardes Castell . iiij d. 
 
 Itin the same day to S r John Grigge for 
 money by him payed to certain brikke- 
 leyers labourers and carpinters for thaire 
 wages and for brikke lyme sande and 
 naylles by him bought at divers tymes 
 for the reparacon of Baynardes Castell 
 as appereth by a bille signed with thande 
 of the Queue . . vj li. vij s. vj d, 
 
 Itin the same day to the Quenes purs by the 
 
 handes of my Lady Elisabeth Stafford . xl s. 
 
 <p r Sm a pag. ix li. ix s. iiij d. 
 
 Itin the xvij th day of Decembre to James 
 Nataresse for his costes ryding from 
 Westminstre to Newbury for Jaques 
 Hault by the Quenes commaundement 
 by the space of iiij dayes at xij d. the daye iiij s. 
 
 Itin the xix* day of Decembre to Cristofre 
 Ascue for Ixxvj elles di of lynnyn cloth 
 at ix d. the elle Ivij s. iiij d. ob. and for 
 Ixxiij elles iiij quarter of lynnyn cloth at 
 viij d. the elle xlix s. ij d. for bering 
 
DECEMBER, 1502. 81 
 
 shetes trussing sheetes and sheetes for the 
 stoele a presse sheete oon payre of fote 
 sheetes and for shyrtes for the fotemen 
 and the Queues Foele . Cvj s. vj d. ob. 
 
 Itm the same day to William Fowler of Lon- 
 don dyer for dyeng of CClxxij yerdes of 
 wardemole blevve and murrey for the 
 Quenes barge at iij d. the yerd . Ixvj s. 
 
 Itm the same day to William Hamerton yeo- 
 man of the Quenes beddes for money by 
 him layed out at divers tymes by the 
 Quenes commaundement as by a bille 
 signed with thande of hur grace more 
 largely appereth . . lj s. viij d. 
 
 Itm the xxiij* day of Decembre to a servaunt 
 of S r John Seymours in rewarde for 
 bringing of fyve does to the Quene at 
 Richemount . . . vj s. viij d. 
 
 Itm the xxiiij ti day of Decembre to Thomas 
 Barton and Richard Chollerton the 
 Quenes fotemen for thaire dryeng money 
 iourneyeng with the Quenes said grace 
 for a yere ended at Cristmas last past . xij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itiii the same day for iiij bonnettes for the 
 
 Quenes said fotemen . . vs. 
 
 I tin for thoffring of the Quene to the roode 
 at the north doore of Polles iij s. viij d. 
 and to our Lady of grace there iij s. 
 viij d. SnV. . . . vij s. iiij d. 
 
 |) r Sm a pag. xij li. xix s. vj d. ob. 
 
82 DECEMBER, 150 ( 2. 
 
 Ttin the xxv 11 day of Decembre to Robynet 
 the Queues brawderer for money by him 
 payed to certain personnes werking upon 
 the riche bedde aswele for theire wages 
 as for thaire bourde wages, Furst to oon 
 Anthony for xlj dayes ended at Cristmas 
 at iiij d. the day xiij s. viij d. I tin to 
 the same Anthony for his bourde wages 
 by the space of vij wekes and iij dayes at 
 xvj d. the weke x s. Itin to oon William 
 for xlj dayes at iiij d. the day 
 xiij s. viij d. I tin to the same William 
 for his bourde wages by the space of vij 
 wekes and iij dayes at xvj d. the weke 
 x s. Itin to oon James for his 
 
 wages by the space of vij wekes and iij 
 dayes at xvj d. the weke x s. Itin the 
 same James for his bourde wages by the 
 said space x s. Itin to oon Jofrne 
 for hur wages by the space of v wekes at 
 xvj d. the weke vj s. viij d. Itin to the 
 same Jofine for hure bourde wages by 
 the said space of v wekes vj s. viij d. 
 I tin to Margrette Stokes for hure wages 
 by the space of twoo wekes and hure 
 bourde wages v s. iiij d. Itin to Jofine 
 Pote for hur wages and bourde wages 
 by the space of twoo wekes v s. iiij d. 
 Itin to John Bolok for vj dayes werke 
 upon the awter clothes ij s. and for his 
 bourde wages by the same space xvj d. 
 Itin to the said Robynet for hys bourde 
 wages by the space of vij wekes and iij 
 dayes at xvj d. the weke x s. Itin for 
 
DECEMBER, 1502. 83 
 
 candelles by the space of vij weks and iij 
 dayes v s. Itm for searing candelles for 
 the awter clothys ij d. Itm for blake 
 crewle to purfulle the rosys vj d. Itm 
 for searing candelles for the white and 
 red rosys and clowdes v d. Itm for colys 
 for the wurkers by the space of vij wejtes 
 ij s. and for tawny thred for to leye the 
 werke upon thegge of red sattyn iiij d. 
 Sm a tot. . . . C xiij s. j d. 
 
 <p r Sin 8 pag. Cxiij s. j d. 
 
 Itm to Cornishe for setting of a carralle upon 
 
 Cristmas day in reward . . xiij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itin to a servaunt of my Lord the Kinges 
 Chambrelain for bringing vj does to the 
 Quene to Richemount . . vj s. viij d. 
 
 Itm for thoifering of the Quene upon Crist- 
 mas day v s. and for hure howselle the 
 same day xx d. Sin a . . vj s. viij d. 
 
 Itm to the children of the Kinges Chapelle in 
 rewarde to theim geven upon Cristmas 
 day xiij s. iiij d. . . xiij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itm for thoffring of the Quene upon the 
 Festes of Saint Stephen Saint John 
 Childremas day and Saint Thomas in 
 Cristmas weke . . xx s. 
 
 Itin delivered to Doc tour Uttoune for the 
 Queries offringes to Saint Thomas at 
 Canterbury iij s. iiij d. to our Lady of 
 M-2 
 
84 DECEMBER, 1502. 
 
 Undrecroft there iij s. iiij d. to Saint 
 Adrean ij s. vj d. and to Saint Augustyn 
 ij s. vj d. Sm a . . . xj s. viij d, 
 
 Ttin to the Quenes grace upon the Feest of 
 Saint Stephen for hure disporte at cardes 
 this Cristmas . . C s. 
 
 Itin to Richard Weston for certain harnesses 
 of gyrdelles by him bought for the 
 Quene beyond the see . . iiij li. x s. 
 
 Itin to George Colbronde for twoo galons of 
 Rynysshe wyne by him bought for the 
 Quene twoo wycre bottelles and for his 
 costes by the space of a day going for 
 the said wyne . . .iij s. 
 
 Itin to my Lady Verney for money by hure 
 geven in reward by the Queues com- 
 maundement to Victour Courteney late 
 page of the Queues chambre . vj s. viij d. 
 
 Itin to the keper of the parke of Odiham for 
 bringing of ten -does to the Quene to 
 Richemounte on newe yeres even last 
 passed . . x s. 
 
 Itin for thoffring of the Quene on Saint 
 
 Thomas day before Cristmas . v s. 
 
 <p* Sin a pag. xiiij li. vj s. iiij d. 
 
JANUARY, 1503. 85 
 
 I tin to Lewis Waltier bargeman conveyeng 
 the Queues grace in hure barge the xij" 1 
 day of Decembre from Westminster to 
 the Towre with xviij rowers every rower 
 taking vj d. ix s. Itm to the maister 
 xvj d. Itm the rewarde of the barge 
 beneth the brigge xvj d. Itm to the 
 same Lewes conveyeng the Queues grace 
 in hur barge the xxj day of Decembre 
 with xxiij tl rowers from the Towre to 
 Mortelake every rower taking viij d. xv s. 
 iiij d. and the maister xvj d. Itm the 
 rewarde of the barge beneth the brigge 
 xvj d. and to the said Lewes and rowers 
 for a reward to theim geven by the 
 Queues grace vj s. viij d. Sin* . xxxvj s. iiij d. 
 
 Itm to the Quenes grace for money to bee 
 
 dault in almous upon newe yeres evyn Ix s. 
 
 Itin for the Quenes offring on Newe Yeres 
 
 day . . .vs. 
 
 Itin the ij* 8 day of January to Rutte the 
 Quenes cordener for shoys and buskyns 
 by him delivered to the Quenes use from 
 the xviij 111 day of Fevere anno xvij unto 
 the xij 111 day of Decembre anno xviij as 
 herafter followeth. Furst for xij payre 
 of single soled shoes with latyn bucles 
 at xij d. the payre xij s. Itin for xxxvij 
 payre shoes for xxxvij u poure women at 
 the Quenes Maundy at v d. the payre 
 xv s. v d. Itm for xx li payre shoys for 
 the Quenes fotemen at hure departing 
 into Wai} s at vj d. the payre x s. Itin 
 for vj payre of dobled soled shoys with 
 
86 JANUARY, 1503. 
 
 latten bukcles for the Queues awn use at 
 xij d. the payre vj s. Itm for twoo payre 
 of buskins for the Quenes grace at hure 
 departing unto Walys at iiij s. the payre 
 viij s. Itm for a payre of buskins for 
 the Duchesse of Suffolk iiij s. Itffi for 
 xij payre of shoys for the Quenes fote- 
 men at vj d. the payre vj s. and for twoo 
 payre of buskins for the Quenes awne 
 use against Cristmas at iiij s. the payre 
 viij s. Sm a . . . Ixix s. v d, 
 
 p r Sin 8 pag. viij li. x s. ix d. 
 
 Itm the same day to a servant of Therl of 
 Devon in rewarde by the Quenes com- 
 maundement . . . vj s. viij d. 
 
 Itm the same day for the cariage of xj does 
 from the grete parke of Fastern to Lon- 
 don . . . xvj s. 
 
 Itiri the same day to a servaunt of John Wal- 
 lers in reward for bringing a goshawke to 
 the Quene . . . . x s, 
 
 Itin to the Quene of Scottes mynstrelles in 
 
 reward by the Quenes commaundement x s. 
 
 Itm the iiij th day of January to the fraternitie 
 of Saint Clementes without Temple 
 Barre . . . iij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itiri to Robynet brawderer for his howse rent 
 by the space of iij quarter of a yere 
 ended at Cristmas last passed . xxx s. 
 
JANUARY, 1503. 8? 
 
 Itm for thoffring of the Quene upon the 
 Feest of Saint Edward the king and 
 confessour at Richemount . v s. 
 
 Itm to William Tyler desare late servaunt to 
 
 Therl of Oxonford in reward . vj s. viij d. 
 
 Itm the v th day of January to Thomas Wood- 
 note and John Felde gromes of the 
 Quenes chambre for thaire costes attend- 
 ing upon the Quenesjouelx from Westin 
 to Grenevviche by the space of a day 
 eithere of theitn at vj d. the day xij d. 
 Itm from Grenewiche to Baynardes 
 Castelle by the space of a day eithere of 
 theim at vj d. the day xij d. Itm from 
 Baynardes Castelle to Westm and from 
 Westin to the Towre by the space of a 
 day xij d. and from the Towre by the 
 space of a day to Richemounte xij d. iiij s. 
 
 Itiii the same day to a servaunt of Morgan 
 Kydwelles that brought a present of 
 chesys to the Quene to Rechemount in 
 reward . . . iij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itm the same day to Fraunceys a purcevaunt 
 belonging to my lord the Kinges Cham- 
 brelain in reward for bringing a present 
 of oranges coynfaytes and othere thinges 
 to the Quene . . . x s. 
 
 <p* Sm a pag. C v s. 
 
88 JANUARY, 1503. 
 
 Itm the same day to William Gentilman page 
 of the Quenes chambre for his costes 
 caryeng twoo bukkes the xx 11 day of Juyn 
 from Windesore to London to William 
 Bulstrowde by the Quenes commaunde- 
 ment by the space of twoo dayes at viij d. 
 the day xvj d. and for horshyre by the 
 same space xij d. Itm to the same 
 William for caryeng of twoo bukkes from 
 Windesore to London the xxiiij 11 day of 
 the said moneth oon to the Duchesse of 
 Suff. and the othere to John Vandelf and 
 Lybart goldsmythes by the space of ij 
 dayes at viij d. the daye xvj d. and for 
 hors hyre by the same space xij d. Itm 
 to the said William for his costes going 
 before from Grenewiche to Baynardes 
 Castelle the xix th day of Novembre 
 prepayring logging for the Quene by the 
 space of a day viij d. Sm a v s. iiij d. 
 
 Itm for thoffring of the Quene upon twelf 
 
 day . . . .vs. 
 
 Itin the vj* day of January to Richard Bul- 
 lok surgion for medicynes by him 
 minstred upon the Lord Henry Courte- 
 ney . . . . x s. 
 
 Itm the vij th day of January to Thomas Wood- 
 note for thexpenses of the Quenes grey- 
 houndes for the monethes of Octobre 
 Novembre and Decembre that is to wit 
 for iiij 1 * xij dayes at ij d. the day . xv s. iiij d 
 
 Itm to Maistres Denton for money by hure 
 payed to John Hay ward skynner for 
 
JANUARY, 1503. 89 
 
 furring of a gown of crymsyn velvet for 
 the Queue of Scottes and for two skynnes 
 of pampelyon for the cuffes of the same 
 gownc vj s. Itm for half a furre of 
 shankes for the perfourmyng of the 
 same gown vj s. and for iiij tavelyns of 
 shankes for the coler and fent of the 
 said gowne ij s. . . . xiiij s. 
 
 Itiii the xiiij th day of January to a servant of 
 the Pryour of Lanthony in reward for 
 brynging of two bakyn laumpreys to the 
 Quene . . vs. 
 
 <p r Sm* pag. liiij s. viij d. 
 
 Itm the xvij th day of January to the Quenes 
 
 purs by thandes of my Lady Kateryn . Ixvj s. viij d. 
 
 Itiii the xviij th day of January to a servaunt 
 of Thabbasse of Syon in reward for 
 bringing a present to the Quene . iij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itm the xix* 1 day of January to a servaunt of 
 S r Edward Darrelles in rewarde for 
 bringing of a courser to the Queue x s. 
 
 Itm the xx u day of January to a mayde that 
 came out of Spaync and daunsed before 
 the Quene in rewarde . Hij ij <* 
 
 Itm the same day to James Notarice for his 
 costes riding from Richemount into 
 Bukkes Shire by the Quenes com- 
 maundement . in j s * 
 
 N 
 
90 JANUARY, 1503. 
 
 Itin for gifts geven upon newe yeres day Furst 
 
 to Piers Barboure . . x s. 
 
 I tin to James Braybroke . . vj s. viij d. 
 
 I tin to the Kinges Wacche . xx s. 
 
 Itin to the Kinges Hexmen . . xiij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itin to the Herauldes at Armes . . xl s. 
 
 Itin to Thewry . . xx s. 
 
 Itin to the Waffry . . . vj s. viij d. 
 
 Itin to Thomas Hunt of the Confeccionary . x s. 
 
 Itm to the Mynystres of the Kinges Chapell xl s. 
 
 Itin to a servaunt of the Bisshop of Bathe for 
 
 bringing a newe yeres gift to the Quene xxvj s. viij d. 
 
 Itin to a servaunt of the Bisshop of Excestre 
 
 for bringing a new yeres gift to the Quene xxvj s. viij d. 
 
 Itin to a servaunt of Tharchebisshop of Can- 
 terbury for bringing a Newe Yeres gift 
 
 to the Quene . . xl s. 
 
 Itm to a servaunt of the Bisshop of Ely for 
 
 bringing a Newe Yeres gift to the Quene Iiij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itin to a servaunt of Tharchebisshop of York for 
 
 bringing a Newe Yeres gift to the Quene xxvj s. viij d. 
 
 r Sm* pag. xxiij li. xvij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itin to a servaunt of the Bisshop of Win- 
 chestre for bringing a Newe Yeres gift 
 to the Quene . . . xxvj s. viij d. 
 
 Itin to a servaunt of the Bisshop of Saresbury 
 for bringing a Newe Yeres gift to the 
 Quene . . . xxvj s. viij d. 
 
 Itin to a servaunt of the Bisshop of Norwiche 
 for bringing a Newe Yeres gyft to the 
 Quene . xx s. 
 
FEBRUARY, 1503. Ql 
 
 Itin to Bygot servaunt to my Lady the Kinges 
 moder for bringing a Newe Yeres gift to 
 the Quene . . . Ixvj s. viij d. 
 
 Itm to my Lady Verney for money by hure 
 
 geven to a servaunt of the Bisshop of 
 
 Carlill for bringing a Newe Yeres gift 
 
 to the Quene . . . xxvj s. viij d. 
 
 Itin to the Kinges mynstrelles with the shal- 
 
 mewes . . . xls. 
 
 Itm to the Quenes mynstrells . . xxvj s. viij d. 
 
 Itin to John Whiting gentilman huissher of 
 
 the chambre with the Kinges grace . xl s. 
 Itm to the pages of the Quenes chambre . xx s. 
 Itin to the children of the prive kechyn . x s. 
 Itm to the lord of mysrule . xx s. 
 
 Itin to my Lord Prive Sealles foole . iij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itm to Henry Glassbury . x s. 
 
 Itm to a woman that brought a present of 
 
 caponys to the Quene . . iij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itin the last day of January to the Quenes 
 
 purs at the Towre by thandes of George 
 
 Hamerton . . . Ixvj s. viij d. 
 
 Itm the same day to William Hamerton for 
 
 thre peces of blewe wursted of the lest 
 
 cise at xiij s. iiij d. the pece xl s. Itin 
 
 for viij Ib. of blewe lyere at xij d. the Ib. 
 
 viij s. and for iij Ib. of red and white 
 
 thred at viij d. the Ib. ij s. Sin' . 1 s. 
 
 Itin the vij* day of February to William 
 
 Bulstrode for money by him payed to 
 
 the keper of Coldharbrogh for wyne 
 
 and fyre by the Quenes commaunde- 
 
 ment at hure being there . . iij s. iiij d. 
 
 p r SnY pag. xxxiij li. 
 
 N 2 
 
V'2 FEBRUARY, 1503. 
 
 Itin the same day to Maistres Lokke silke- 
 woman in partie of payemcnt of a bill 
 signed with tliande of the Queues grace 
 contcynyng the somme of Ix li. vj s. v d. 
 to hurc due for certain frontlettes bonettes 
 and othere stuf of hure occupacon by hure 
 deliverd to the Queues use as it appcreth 
 by the said bill . . xx li. 
 
 Itin the same day to Henry Coote of London 
 goldsmyth in partie of payement of C 
 markes to him due for certain plate 
 delivered to the Queues grace at Richc- 
 mount and there lost and brent at the 
 brennyng of the place there . xx li. 
 
 Itin the viij* day of February payed to 
 John Henley of London sadler for 
 hookes and crochettes by him delivered 
 to William Hamerton yeoman of the 
 Warderobe of the beddes from the last 
 day of Novembre A xvij R. H. vij mi 
 unto the furst day of Decembre anno 
 xviij that is to wite at Grenewiche M L 
 M L hookes at v s. the M*. x s. Itin V c 
 crochettes at xviij d. the C. vij s. vj d. 
 Itin at Richemount iiij M L hookes at v s. 
 the M L xv s. Itin viij c crochettes at 
 xviij d. the C. xij s. Itin at Riche- 
 mounte when the Queues grace re- 
 tourned from Walys xv hookes at vj d. 
 the C. vij s. vj d. and iij c crochettes at 
 xviij d. the C. iiij s. vj d. Sm a . Ivj s. vj d. 
 
 Itin the same day to John Whiting oon of 
 the gentilmen huisshers of the Kinges 
 chambre for money by him lent to the 
 
FEBRUARY, 1503. 93 
 
 Quenes grace at the Toure whiche was 
 geven to thofficers of the Mynt in 
 rewarde at the Quenes being there . xl s. 
 
 Itm the X th day of February to Thomas Ac- 
 wurth for the wages and bourde wages 
 of the stable for a quarter ended at 
 Cristmas last passed . qr. in ij folio sequen. 
 
 itui delivered to Pache for a present of poyn- 
 garnettes oranges and othere frutes by 
 him geven to the Queue in rewarde . vj s. viij d. 
 
 p* SiTi a pag. xlv li. xij s. ij d. 
 
 Itm the xij th day of February to Robert Ading- 
 ton for lynyng and hcmmyng of a kyrtelle 
 of blake sattyn for the Queues grace xij d. 
 Itm for making of thre dublettcs of sat- 
 tyn of Bruges for the Queues fotemen at 
 xx d. the pece vs. Itm for making of 
 iij jakettes of blake velvet lyned with 
 sarcenet for the same fotemen at xij d. 
 the pece iij s. Itm for making a payre 
 of slevys of blake sarcenet for the Quene 
 of Scottes iiij d. and for mending of viij 
 gownes of divers coloures belonging to 
 the Quenes grace from Mydsomer to 
 Cristmas at ij d. the pece xvj d. Sin a . x s. viij d. 
 
 Itm the same day to John Browne William 
 Poole and John Duffyn for thaire costes 
 going before and prepayring logging for 
 the Quene from Baynardes Castelle to 
 
94 FEBRUARY, 1503. 
 
 Westminstre by the space of twoo dayes 
 every of theim at x d. the day v s. and 
 to the said John Duffyn for his costes 
 going from Hampton Courte to West- 
 minstre for the maister of the barge by 
 the Quenes commaundement xx d. Sm a vj s. viij d. 
 
 Itm to my lady Anne for money geven unto 
 hure by the quenes grace for hure purs for 
 a yere ended at mighelmas last past vj li. xiij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itin to Oliver Aulferton keper of the Quenes 
 goshauke for his diettes out of the Courte 
 and for mete for his hauke and spanyelles 
 for the yere last passed . . xxvj s. viij d. 
 
 Itm to John Browne grome of the Quenes 
 beddes for his costes riding upon the 
 Quenes message for certain hunters in 
 Wilts' by the space of xj dayes at x d. 
 the day . . . ix s. ij d. 
 
 Itin to Robert Lanston for iiij yerdes of fllanell 
 by him bought for my Lady Kateryn the 
 Kinges doughtere at xij d. the yerd . iiij s. 
 
 r Sm* pag. ixli. xs. vj d. 
 
 Itm the XV th day of February to Lewes Wai- 
 tier the Quenes bargeman for conveyeng 
 the Quene in a grete bote from Riche- 
 mount to Hampton Court with xij rowers 
 every rower taking viij d. viij s. and the 
 maister xvj d. Itin to the same Lewes 
 for conveyeng the Quenes grace and hure 
 
FEBRUARY, 1503. 95 
 
 ladys in a grete bote with viij rowers the 
 xiiij th day of Janyvere from Hampton 
 Courte to Richemounte every rower 
 taking viij d. by the day v s. iiij d. and 
 the maister xvj d. Itm in rewarde to 
 a man that kepte the said bote in 
 Hampton Courte by the space of viij 
 dayes at ij d. the day xvj d. Itin to the 
 said Lewes for conveyeng the Queues 
 said grace and hure Ladys in hure barge 
 with xxij rowers the xxvj day of January 
 from Richemounte to London every 
 rower taking viij d. xiiij s. viij d. and 
 the maister xvj d. Sin* . . xxxiij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itin the same day to Robert Alyn yeoman 
 huisshere of the Quenes chambre for his 
 costes prepayring lodging for the Quene 
 from Westin to the Towre by the space of 
 a day xij d. Itin from the Towre to Riche- 
 mounte by the space of twoo dayes at x d. 
 the day ij s. and from Richemont to the 
 Towre again by the space of twoo dayes 
 at xij d. the day ij s. Itin to Edmond 
 Lyvesey yeoman by the space of iij dayes 
 at xij d. the day iij s. Itin to William 
 Poole grome for iij dayes at x d. the day 
 ij s. vj d. Itin to George Hamerton 
 grome porter for iiij dayes at x d. the 
 day iij s. iiij d. Itm to John Browne 
 for twoo dayes xx d. Itin to John 
 Bright page for ij dayes at viij d. the 
 day xvj d. and to Edmond Calverd page 
 for ij dayes xvj d. Sin a . . xviij s. ij d. 
 
 Itin the same day to Richard Brampton 
 
96 FEBRUARY, 1503. 
 
 gentilman of the pantry with the Queue 
 for money by him payed for the blades 
 of a payre of carving knyves xiiij s. iiij d. 
 and for a payre of smalle knyves inamyled 
 for the Quenes awne use viij s. Sin* . xxj s. iiij d, 
 
 p r Sm a pag. Ixxij s. x d. 
 
 Itm the xxvj day of February to John 
 Duffyn for money by him geven in 
 reward to Henry Glascbury wif by the 
 Quenes commaundement vj s. viij d. 
 Itm to a man that went on pilgremage 
 to our Lady of Willesden by the Quenes 
 commaundement iij s. iiij d. Sm a . x s. 
 
 Itm the same day to Thomas Humberston 
 for making of hosyn for the Quenes 
 fotemen from the xviij th day of January 
 anno xvij unto the xxviij* day of 
 February A xviij that is to wit for the 
 making and lynyng of x payre of wachet 
 hosyn at xij d. the payre x s. and for 
 makyng and lynyng of viij payre of blake 
 hosyn at xij d. the pay ere viij s. xviij s. 
 
 Itm to William Trende for money by him 
 layed out for the making of a cheste 
 and almorys in the Quenes Counsaille 
 Chambre for to put in the bokes . x s. 
 
 Itm to James Nattres for his costes going into 
 Kent for Doctour Hallyswurth phesicon 
 to comme to the Queue by the Kinges 
 commaundement. Furst for his bote hyre 
 from the Towre to Gravys ende and 
 
MARCH, J503. 97 
 
 again iij s. iiij d. I tin to twoo watermen 
 abiding at Gravys ende unto suche tyme 
 the said James camme again for theire 
 expenses viij d. I tin for horse hyre and 
 to guydes by nyght and day ij s. iiij d. 
 and for his awne expenses xvj d. Sm a . vij s. viij d. 
 
 Itin for thoffring of the Queue upon the 
 
 Feest of the Purificacon of oure Lady xxv s. 
 
 Itm for cai iage of a doe from Fasterne to the 
 Towre to the Quene against Candelmas 
 day . . iij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itin to Robert Penson skynner in partie of 
 payement of a bille signed with thande 
 of the Quene conteignyng the somme of 
 C xiiij li. v s. v d. to him due for certain 
 stuf of his occupacon as it appereth by 
 
 IT 
 
 the same bille . . . iiij ij li. ij s. 
 
 j> r Sin* pag. iiij v li. xvj s. 
 
 Itm to Symond Warde of London lorymere 
 
 for v D D bittes at xiiij s. the D D . Ixx s. 
 
 Itm the iij de day of Marche to Thomas Ac- 
 wurth for thexpenses of the Quenes 
 stable . . . C xiiij li. vj s. viij d. 
 
 Itin the same day Maister Richard Peyn the 
 Quenes aulmoigner for the buryeng of 
 Griffith late yeoman of the Quenes 
 chambre and for the making of him a 
 broder of Saint Margretts at Westminstre xiij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itm the same day to Dame Margrette Cotton 
 for the dyettes of Edward Pallet sone to 
 
 
98 MARCH, 1503. 
 
 the Lady Jane Bangham for half a yere 
 ended at the Purificacon of oure JLady 
 last passed xx s. Itm for a boke for the 
 same Edward vj d. Itm for a bonnette 
 xvj d. Itm for iij payre of shoys xij d. 
 and for iij payre of hosyn xij d. Sm a xxiij s. x d. 
 
 Itui the same day to Henry Roper page of 
 the Quenes beddes for his costes going 
 before and prepayring logging for the 
 Quene from Westminstre to the Towre 
 by the space of ij dayes at viij d. the day 
 xvj d. Itm for his bote hyre and costs 
 going for stuf to Baynardes Castelle and 
 bringing the same to Westminstre to the 
 Quene viij d. Itm for his costes going 
 before from Richemount to the Towre 
 and there being by the space of v dayes 
 at viij d. the day iij s. iiij d. and for his 
 costes going from Richemount to Lon- 
 don to Henry Wurley to bringe the 
 Quenes Newe Yeres giftes by the space 
 of twoo dayes at viij d. the day xvj d. 
 Sm a . . . vj s. viij d. 
 
 Itm to Thomas Woodnotte grome of the 
 Quenes chambre for money by him payed 
 at the Towre for Coin.... for the King 
 and the Quene . . ij s. ix d. 
 
 Itm to Henry Wurley of London goldsmyth 
 in partie of payement of a warrant 
 signed with thande of the Quene con- 
 teignyng the somme of C xliiij li. to him 
 due for certain stuf of his occupacon 
 delivered to the use of the Quene xx li. xvij s. vj d. 
 
 p r Sin* pag. C Ixx li. ix d. 
 
MARCH, 1503. 99 
 
 WAGES. 
 
 I tin to my Lady Kateryne for hir pencon for 
 an hole yere ended at Mighelmas last 
 passed . . 1 ii. 
 
 Itin to my said Lady for a quarter ended at 
 
 Ci is Unas last passed . . xij li. x s. 
 
 Itin to my Lord Haward for the diettes of my 
 Lady Anne for a yere ended at Mighel- 
 mas last passed . . C xx li. 
 
 Itni to my Lady Brygette . . Ixvj s. viij d. 
 
 Itin to my Lady Elizabeth Stafford xxxiij li. vj s. viij d. 
 
 Itin to Maistres Mary Ratcliff . . x li. 
 
 Itin to Lady Alyanor Verney . . xx li. 
 
 Itin to Dame Jaane Guldeford . xiij li. vj s. viij d. 
 
 Itin to Dame Elizabeth Peche . , Ixvj s. viij d. 
 
 Itin to Maistres Elizabeth Denton . xx li. 
 
 Itin to Maistres Anne Crowmer . x li. 
 
 Itin to Maistres Alianor Johnes vj li. xiij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itin to Maistres Mary Denys . vj li. xiij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itin to Maistres Elisabeth Catesby . C s. 
 
 Itin to Maistres Margrette Bone vj li. xiij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itin to Maistres Margrette Belknap vj li. xiij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itin to Maistres Elisabeth Lee vj li. xiij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itin to Maistres Anne Weston vj li. xiij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itin to Maistres Elyn Brent . vj li. xiij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itni to Maistres Anne Browne for half yere 
 
 ended at Mighelmas last passed . 1 s. 
 
 Itin to Maistres Margrette Wotton for half 
 
 yere ended at Mighelmas last passed . xl s. 
 Itin to Maistres Elisabeth Fitzherbert . Iiij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itin to Alice Skeling . C s. 
 
 Itin to Elisabeth Baptiste . , Ixvj s. viij d. 
 
 o 2 
 
100 MARCH, 1503. 
 
 Itin to Fraunceys Baptiste . . liij s. iiij d. 
 
 I tin to Agnes Dean the Quenes laundre . Ixvj s. viij d. 
 'Itin to Beatrix Bradowe rokker to my 
 
 yong Lord Henry Courteney . xiij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itin to Emme Bragges rokker to my 
 
 Lady Margrette Courteney . xx s. 
 
 Itin to Alice Williams rokker to my yong 
 
 Lord Edward Courteney for a yere 
 
 and quarter at Cristmas . xl s. 
 
 .Itin to Lawrance Travers . . xxvj s. viij d. 
 
 ' Sin a pag. CCC Ixxiiij li. 
 
 II 
 II 
 
 S "w 
 
 p 
 
 Itin to Maister Arthure for a yere ended at 
 
 Mighelmas last passed . xxvj li. xiij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itrn to the same M. Arthure for a quarter 
 
 ended at Cristmas last passed vj li. xiij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itin to William Denton carver to the Quene 
 
 xxvj li. xiij s, iiij d. 
 
 Itin to Hey ward Skynner . . C s. 
 
 Itin to John Staunton thelder . . Ixvj s. viij d. 
 
 Itin to Owen Whitstones messagier . xl s. 
 
 Itin to Marques Loryden mynstrelle . Ixvj s. viij d. 
 
 Itin to Janyn Marcazin mynstrelle . Ixvj s. viij d. 
 
 Itm to Richard Denouse mynstrelle . Ixvj s. viij d. 
 
 Itin to John Ricroft . . . xiij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itin to Olyver Aulferton keper of the Quenes 
 
 goshauke . . xl s. 
 
 Itin to Richard Elyot the Quenes attourney x li. 
 
 Itin to Richard Decons for his wages of thof- 
 
 fice of the Signet . x li. 
 
MARCH, 1503. 101 
 
 ItiTi to the same Richard Decons aswelle for 
 his wages for the receipt of the Queries 
 money as for his costes lyeng in London 
 aboutes the Queues rnatiers and busynes- 
 ses and ryding for the surveyeng of the 
 Queues landes . xvj li. xiij s. iiij d. 
 
 I tin to Richard Bedelle the Quenes auditor 
 
 for his fee . x li. 
 
 Itm to the same Auditour for his wages and 
 
 riding costes . . xxix li. xvj s. viij d. 
 
 Itm to the same Auditour for the compiling 
 
 of the values . . . Iiij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itm to the Clerc of the Quenes Counsaille C s. 
 
 Itm to John Holand keper of the Counsaille 
 
 Chambre . . iiij li. xj s. iij d. 
 
 Itm to John Mordant Sargeant at Lawe . xl s. 
 
 Itm to Humfry Conysby Sargeant at Lawe xl s. 
 
 Itin to James Hobert the Kings Attourney xxvj s. viij d. 
 
 Itm to Richard Empson . . xxvj s. viij d. 
 
 |) r Sin* pag. Clxxviij li. vij s. xj d. 
 
 Itm to S* Morgan Kydwelly . . xxvj s. viij d, 
 
 Itm to Richard Cutlerd . . xxvj s. viij d. 
 
 Itin to William Mordant attourney in the 
 
 Commen place . . xx s. 
 
 Itin to Henry Kemys attourney of the towne 
 
 of Bristowe for the receipt of the fee 
 
 ferme of the same towne . . vj s. viij d. 
 
 Itin to Thomas Goodman for the receipt of 
 
 the fee ferme of Barton Bristowe xx s. 
 
102 MARCH, 1503. 
 
 Itin to John Coope for keping of the Queries 
 stuf of hur warderobe of the beddes 
 within Baynardes Castel . . xxvj s. viij d. 
 
 Itm to Richard Windesore decessed for his 
 annuitee for the half yere ended at Estre 
 last past . . . xxvj s. viij d. 
 
 Itm to Alice Massy the Queues mydwif . x li. 
 
 Itm to Margrette Gough . . Ixvj s. viij d. 
 
 Itm to Thancoresse of Saint Michelle besides 
 
 Saint Albons . . . xxvj s. viij d. 
 
 ItintoRaaf Crestenere . . liij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itin to S r William Barton preest synging at 
 
 oure Lady of Berking . . vij li. vj s. viij d. 
 
 Itin to S r Robert Byrche singyng at our Lady 
 
 of Piewe . . . vj li. xiij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itm to Richard Decons for papure parche- 
 
 myn inke and wax . . Ixvj s. viij d. 
 
 Itin to Richard Bedell the Quenes auditour 
 
 for paper parchemyn inke and wax . xxxiij s. iiij d. 
 
 Itin to the Clerc of the Counsaille for papure 
 
 parchemyn inke and wax . . xxv s. 
 
 Itin to Waltier Reynold keper of the garden 
 at Baynardes Castelle for his wages for 
 a hole yere ended at Mighelmas last 
 passed . . . Ix s. x d. 
 
 <p r Sm a pag. xlviij li. vs. x d. 
 
MARCH, 1503. 103 
 
 Itin the viij u day of Marche to John Hynsted 
 of London wexchaundeler for iij rolles of 
 white wex of iij IB price the IB xv d. 
 iiij s. and for iij rolles yelowe wex of 
 iij IB price the IB viij d. ij s. by him de- 
 livered to the Queues use. Sm a . vj s. 
 
 I tiii to the same John Hynsted for iiij rolles 
 white wex of iiij IB price the IB xvj d. 
 snV. v s. iiij d. and for viij rolles yelowe 
 wex of viij IB price the IB viij d. vs. 
 iiij d. Sm* . . x s. viij d. 
 
 Itin to John Cope of London Taillour for the 
 lynyng and covering of a lytture of blake 
 velvet with blake cloth for the Quene, 
 wherin the princes was brought from 
 Ludlowe to London, frynged aboute with 
 blake valance and the twoo hed peces of 
 the same bounden aboute with blake 
 rebyn and frynged abowte with blake 
 valance . . .vs. 
 
 Itin to Thomas Eldreton for the costes and 
 charges of the burveng of the yong lord 
 Edward Courteney Son to the Lady Ka- 
 teryn Suster to the Quene iiij li. xviij s. 
 iiij d. and for money by him geven by 
 the commaundement of the Quene at the 
 defpart]u[re] of the Norice and Rokker 
 of the same lord, xxvj s. viij d. Sm a . vj li. v s. 
 
 Itin to John Rolf yeoman of the Close Carre 
 for money by him payed for twoo Ax- 
 trees for the said carre ij s. Itin for v 
 IB of clowtes vij d. oB. Itin for half an 
 hundred of nayllys ij d. Itin in oynte- 
 
104 MARCH, 1503. 
 
 ment. ij d. I tin for a stirrope for the 
 [same] iiij d. and for making of twoo lynes 
 ij d. Sm* . . . iij s. v d. oft, 
 
 Itin payed for a pece of wursted bought by 
 Richard Smyth yeoman of the Quenes 
 robys for the use of the Quene xxxiij s. iiij d. 
 
 |) r Sm a pag. ix ii. iij s. v d. ob. 
 
 I tin payed for a bonet for the yong lord 
 
 Henry Courteney . . xx d. 
 
 I tin payed to Cristofre Ascue for v yerdes of 
 Streyt white by him delivered to Nicholas 
 Sadler for the use of the Quenes grace at 
 ij s. the yerd . . x s. 
 
 Itin payed to the same Cristofre for v yerdes 
 of cotton russet of him bought by Nicho- 
 las Sadler for the Quenes Chaare at vj d. 
 the yerd . . . ij s. vj d. 
 
 Itin payed to John Lynne of London whele- 
 wright for certain necessaryes for the 
 Chare by him delivered to John Herman 
 Sergeant of the Queues said Chaare for 
 the yere last past as it appereth by a bill 
 signed with thande of the Quene . xv s. ob. 
 
 Itin the XV th day of Marche to Thomas [Ac- 
 wourth] in full contentacon of the .... 
 of the stable . . . xiij x. 
 
 Itin payed for the dyettes of John Pertriche 
 oon of the sonnes of mad Beale for a yere 
 endyng at Cristmas last past 
 
MARCH, J503. 105 
 
 Itm for ij yerdes of cloth for a gowne for the 
 same John Pertriche at ij s. viij d. the 
 yerd v s. iiij d. Itm for v yerdes fustyan 
 for a cote at vij d. the yerd ij s. xj d. 
 Itm for lynyng and making of the same 
 gowne and cote iij s. iiij d. Itm for iiij 
 shirtes ij s. viij d. Itm for vj payre 
 shoyn ij s. Itm for iiij payre of hosyn 
 xvj d. Itm for his lernyng xx d. Itrn 
 for a prymer and saulter xx d. And 
 payed to a surgeon whiche heled him of 
 the Frenche pox xx s. Sin* . xl s. 
 
 Itiri to Maulde Hamond for keping of hir 
 children geven to the Quene for a quar- 
 ter ended at Cristmas last past . iiij s. 
 
 XX 
 
 p r Sin* pag. iiij li. ij s. x d. oft. 
 
 Itm to Richard Smyth yeoman of the Quenes 
 robys in full contentacon and payement 
 of iij billes signed with thande of the 
 Quene oon bill of xiiij li. viij s. an other 
 of C vij s. xj d. and the third of iiij li. 
 x s. ix d. to him due for certain neces- 
 ryes by him bought for the Quenes grace 
 as it appereth by the same billes xxiiij li. xj s. viij d. 
 
 Itm to Jerom Bonvice in partie of payement 
 of a bill signed with thande of the 
 Quene conteignyng the somme of 
 
 remaignyng with the said Jerom xx s. 
 
 Itm to John Wyrdon by the commaundement 
 
 of the Quene xl s. 
 
106 MARCH, 1503. 
 
 Itin to John Holand for his costes riding from 
 London to the baillif of the franches of 
 Cokeham and Bray and to Stratfeld 
 Mortymer to cause them to comme to 
 London for theire accomptes . vj s. viij d. 
 
 Itin for the supplusage of the last accompte 
 as it appereth in the boke of the last 
 yere . . . . lij ti. xj s. 
 
 j> r Sm a pag. iiij xix li. ix s. iiij d. b, 
 
 SOME OF THALLOWAUNCE PAYMENTES AND LYVEREYS 
 BEFORESEID M M M CCCC XJ li. V s. IX d. q. 
 
RECEIPTS. 107 
 
 [At the beginning of the Book are the following Pages.] 
 
 HERE ENSUEN THE RECEIPTES OF RYCHARD DECONS 
 
 FROM THE Xxiilj* DAY OF MARCHE ANNO XVIJ mo 
 UNTO 
 
 TERMING PASCHE. 
 
 omerset and Furst of William Knovell receyvor ther of 
 
 Dorset. 
 
 thissues and revenues of his recept for 
 
 the said terme . . . Ix li. 
 
 [ The remainder of this Page is wholly illegible.} 
 
 TERMING PASCHE. 
 COM' WILTESHYER BERKSHIRE AND SOUTHAMPTON. 
 
 pud Grene- Qf S r Richard Nanfan fermour of the lord- 
 die Maij. ship of Odiham by thandes of Robert 
 
 Wakefeld bailiff there . xj li. ij s. viij d. 
 
 pud Grene. Of S r John Fiye preest fermour of Worthy 
 
 wiche xiii ... i ~ j 
 
 die Maij. Mortymer . . vnj h. xnj s. mj d. 
 
 die Junij. Of Waltier Sarvington receyvour there lij li. vj s. viij d. 
 
 Of the same Waltier Sarvington xxvij li. xiij s. iiij d, 
 
 f The rest of the Page is illegible} 
 
 SnY CCC Iiij xviij li. vj s. ij d. 
 P 2 
 
108 RECEIPTS. 
 
 SWALOWFELD. 
 
 Of Richard Smyth baillif there of thissues 
 and revenues of the same lordship for a 
 yere ended at Mighelmas last passed 
 
 xxiiij li. xvj s. j d. ob, 
 
 COM' HEREFORD AND WURCESTRE. 
 
 Of John Middelmore receyvor there of this- 
 sues of his receipt for the terme of Estre xxij li. 
 Of the same John Middelmore . xx li. 
 Of the same John Middelmore . . xij li. 
 
 [ The remainder of this Page is illegible.] 
 
 COM* GLOUCESTRE AND WILTS. 
 
 Of JEdmond Tame receyvor there . C lij li. 
 
 Of the same Edmond Tame in Woodstok 
 
 Ixvj li. xiij s. iiij d, 
 
 [The same.\ 
 
 COM' HERTFORD. 
 
 [This Page contains four or Jive Entries, but they are illegible^ 
 
RECEIPTS. 109 
 
 COM' ESSEX. 
 
 Of William Blake for the warde and mar- 
 riage of John Carewe sonne and heyre 
 of S r William Carewe Knight decessed xxv li. 
 
 Of William Poyntz receyvor there . xl li. 
 
 Of the same William Poyntz by thands of 
 
 Thomas Acwurth . . xxvj li. xiij s. iiij d, 
 
 [ The remainder is illegible. ,] 
 
 FEE FARMS. 
 TERMING PASCHE. 
 
 Of the fee ferme of the Monastery of Saint 
 
 Albons . . . xvj li. xiij s. iiij d. 
 
 Of the fee ferme of the towne of Bristowe Ij li. vij s. ix d. 
 Of the fee ferme of the towne of Bedford . x li. 
 Of the fee ferme of the towne of Oxonford xvij li. x s. 
 Of the fee ferme of Kynfare and Stourton . iiij li. x s. 
 Of the fee ferme of Alyseowen . . C iij s. iiij d. 
 
 [ The next two Pages are illegible^ 
 
110 RECEIPTS. 
 
 MONEY RECEIVED OF THARRERAGS. 
 
 Of Richard Harvey s receyvor of the lordship 
 of Fekenham for tharrerags of the last 
 yere . . . C s, 
 
 FINES. 
 
 Furst of Cristofre Throkemarton Squier for a 
 fyne by him made to the Quenes grace 
 for the ferine of the demaynes belonging 
 to the manor of Marcle in the Countie 
 of Hereford and for the Baillisship of 
 Marcle xx li. 
 
 MONEY RECEYVED OF THE QUENES GRACE. 
 
 Furst of hire grace by thandes of S r Thomas 
 Lovell Knight as money by him lent to 
 the Quene upon certain plate D li. 
 
 I tin receyved of hure grace by thandes of 
 Maistres Alianor Jomis at Ragland the 
 xviij 01 day of August . x li. 
 
 Itm by thandes of Thabbot of Fournesse 
 
 xxxiij li. vj s. viij d, 
 
 ,p r Sin a Dxliij li. vj s. viij d. 
 
RECEIPTS. I I I 
 
 AURUM REGINE. 
 
 Entryoccurs under this head.} 
 
 SWALOFELD. 
 
 [Ab Entry.] 
 
 FODRINGHEY. 
 
 Receyved of Benet Brocas Receyvour of the 
 Landes late belonging to the Duchesse 
 of Suff. of thissues and Revenues of the 
 same . . C. iiij" xviij li. xv. ix d. ob. 
 
 SOME TOTALL OF THE RfiCEYPTES BEFORESIDE 
 
 THIS YERE MMMDIlfj Vli. XIX S. Xdob. 
 
113 
 
 " THE Parcelles of the Accomptcs of Piers Courteys whome 
 the Kings Highnesse and goode grace hath assigned and 
 ordeigned by his high coinaundement to rule gouverne and 
 kepe his grete Warderobe within his Citee of London and 
 all his goodes and stuff beying within the same unto his 
 mooste honourable usse safly for to kepe, and also for to 
 make into the same his saide grete Warderobe monysion 
 of all maner of stuff necessary to and for his moost honour- 
 able use and behove And also for other personncs at his 
 said high comaundement And to make oute off the same 
 his grete Wardrobe deliveree of stuff at alle tymes neces- 
 sarie and behovefull by his saide high comaundement as 
 wel for his moste royal personne as for all other personnes 
 at his said high coinaundcment And also as well of alle 
 sommes of money by hym receyved provysions of stuff 
 goodes and merchandises boght and pourveyede and 
 deliveree off the same made as of all costes and expenses 
 by hym made and doon in thoffice of the same grete 
 Warderobe unto the use and behove of oure saide souve- 
 rayn Lorde the Kyngand other at his said high comaunde- 
 ment that is to wit from the xviij day of Aprille in the 
 xx tu yere of the moost noble reigne off oure souverayn 
 Lorde Kyng Edward the iiij th unto the Fest of Saint 
 Mighell tharcliaungelle than next and im medially suyng 
 that is to say by a quarter of a yere and Ixviij dayes." 
 
THE 
 
 IHarfcrobe account* 
 
 KING EDWARD THE FOURTH, 
 
 FROM 
 
 THE 18th APRIL TO THE 29th SEPTEMBER, 
 20 EDW. IV. 1480. 
 
110 WARDROBE ACCOUNTS OF 
 
 vilers from iij s. viij d. to v s. the yard ; of " Franche blac 
 cloth" from v s. iiij d. to xiij s. iiij d. the yard; of russet cloth 
 at iiij s. the yard ; for murrey and blue cloth from ij s. viij d. 
 to iij s. iiij d. the yard ; and for green cloth at vj s. viij d. 
 the yard ; to skinners for " skinnes of fox of Irland" at vij d. 
 the pccc ; for " powderings made of bogy leggs" at ij s. the 
 hundred ; for white lamb skins at xiiij s the hundred ; for " a 
 furre of blac bogy shanks" xiij s. iiij d. ; and for bogy shanks 
 vij d. each. 
 
 For crimson velvet of Mountpelier in Gascony at 
 xiiij s. and xxs. the yard; for black velvet; black velvet 
 speckled with white ; " blue velvet figured with tawny ;" 
 white velvet; white velvet with black spots; tawny vel- 
 vet; " motley velvet ;" "chekkerd velvet;" " grene chaunge- 
 able velvet;" "velvet purpull ray and white;" " velvet 
 russet figury;" "velvet cremysyn figured w r ith white" at 
 viij s. the yard. 
 
 For black cloth of gold at xls. the yard; for " velvet 
 upon velvet white tysshue clothe of golde and for xxv yerds 
 di' of velvet uppon velvet grene tisshue cloth of golde" at 
 xl s. the yard ; for " cloth of gold broched upon satyn 
 ground" at xxiiij s. the yard ; for " blue clolhe of silver 
 broched uppon satyn ground" at xxiiij s. the yard. 
 
 For white and black damask at viij s. the yard ; green 
 damask at vij s. viij d. the yard ; " white damask \\ iih 
 floures of diverse colours" at viij s. the yard ; " damask 
 cremysyn and blue with floures" at vj s. the yard ; for black 
 satin at vij s. the yard ; white satin at x s. the yard ; green 
 satin at viij s. the yard ; for " chameletts of diverse colours" 
 at xxx s. the piece; black chamelet at iiijs. the yard. 
 
 For " baldekyn of silke" at xxxiij s. iiij d. the pece ; 
 to Richard Rawson of London Alderman for " grene and 
 white sarsynett" at iij s. vj d. the yard ; to John Pykering 
 citizen and mercer of London for grene sarsinctt at 
 at iij s. ij d. the yard ;" for sarsinetts chaungcables and 
 
KING EDWARD THE FOURTH. 117 
 
 other diverse colours after v yerds to the C, price of every 
 yerde iiij s." for tawney sarcinet at iij s. iiij d. the yard. 
 
 For a piece of " grene tartaryn xviijs." for "rede 
 worsted of the moost assize" at xxxiij s. iiij d. the piece ; 
 for " rede worsted of the niyddel assise" at xv s. vj d. the 
 piece ; for " worsted grene and rede of the myddel assise" 
 at xv s. vj d. the piece ; and for red worsted " of the leeste 
 assise," at xs. vj d. the piece. 
 
 " To Alice Claver sylkwoman for an unce of sowing 
 silk" xiv d. ; for " ij yerds di' and a naille corse of blue 
 silk \veying an unce iij quarters di' price the unce ij s. viij d. 
 vs. ; for iiij yerds di' of quarter corse of blac silk weying iij 
 unces price the unce ij s. iiij d. vij s. ; for vj unces and 
 iij quarters of silk to the laces and tassels for garnysshing 
 of diverse Books price the unce xiiij d. vij s. x d. ob. ; 
 for the making of xvj laces and xvj tassels made of the 
 said vj unces and iij quarters of silke price in grete ij s. viij d. 
 and for xvj botons of blue silk and gold price in grete 
 iiij s." 
 
 For " streyte riban of silk" at xvd. the ounce ; for 
 " brode ryban of blac silk for girdelles" at xv d. the ounce ; 
 for " ryban of silk for poynts laces and girdelles" at xivd. 
 the ounce ; for ij dosen laces and a double lace of silk 
 made of ryban of silk" at xv d. the ounce ; for " a mantell 
 lace of blue silk with botons of the same" xvij s. ; for " xl 
 dosen poynts of silk ribbon at xxs. the pound and xvd. 
 the ounce ;" for " frenge of gold of Venys" at vj s. the 
 ounce ; " for frenge of silk yelowe grene rede white and 
 blue at xviijs. viij d. the pound and xviij d. the ounce ; 
 for a garter of rudde richely wroght with silke and golde 
 xvij s." 
 
 For a " counterpoynt of arras silk with ymagery con- 
 teignyng xix fT elles Ix s. ;" for "iiij counterpoynts wherof 
 j of arras with ymagery without silk oon other of greene 
 
118 THE WARDROBE ACCOUNTS OF 
 
 verdours with trees ; oon other of white verdour with a 
 scripture and the iiij th of white verdour playn" price of one 
 with the other xxij s. iiij d. each ; for " iiij costcrings of wool 
 paled rede and blue with rooses sonnes and crownes in 
 every pane xij li." 
 
 " To Lisbet Ketiller for a grete tikke xxxij s. for a 
 myddell tikke xxxi vs. for CCC Ibs. of down atxlvj s. viij d. 
 the hundred ;" for featherbeds with bolsters to them from 
 xvj s. viij d. to xx s. each. 
 
 For thread at xvj d the Ib. for Utnaid thread at vij d. 
 the Ib. ; for five ounces of ribbon of green thread at j d. 
 the ounce. 
 
 To Marty n Jumbard embroiderer for eight great roses 
 embroidered at iiij d. each, and for xlviij small roses 
 embroidered at j d. each. 
 
 For eight pair of hosen of cloth of divers colours at 
 xiij s. iiij d. the pair ; and for four pair " of sokks of fustian" 
 at iij d. the pair. 
 
 " To Petir Herton cordewaner for a pair of shoon 
 double soled of blac leder not lined" price v d. ; " v pair 
 shoon of blac ledre double soled and not lyned price of 
 every pair" xiiij d. ; for " two pair shoon of Spanish ledre 
 double soled and not lyned price the paire" xvj d. " a 
 pair of shoon single soled" vj d. ; for " a pair shoon of 
 Spanish ledre single soled" v d. each pair ; for xj pair 
 sloppes wherof oon pair of blue ledre iiij payr of Spaynyssh 
 leder v pair of tawny leder and a paire of red Spaynyssh 
 leder price of every payre xviij d. a pair of sloppes of blac 
 leder v d. and for a pair sloppes of by yond see leder price 
 vj d." " for viij paire of sloppes* lyned with blac velvet of 
 the Kings own store;" to Thomas Hatche for two pair 
 " of slippers price the pair vij d." 
 
 * Notices of Sloppes of " russet leder," " tawny leder," and of red Spanish 
 leather also occur, each of which cost xx d. 
 

 
 KING EDWARD THE FOURTH. 119 
 
 " To the same Peter Herton for ij pair patyns of leder 
 price the pair xij d." for a " pair of Botews of tawney 
 Spaynyssh leder price xvj d. for vij pair Botews of blac 
 leder above the kne price of every pair iiij s." " for ij 
 paire Botews sengle blac ledre unto the knee price the 
 pair iij s. iiij d. for iij pair of Botews of rede Spaynyssh leder 
 single above the knee ; and for viij paire of Botews of tawny 
 leder above the knee price of every paire vj s." 
 
 " The same Peter Herton for a pair of Bootes of blac 
 leder price vj s. viij d. ; and for ij paire of Bootes oon of 
 rede Spaynyssh leder and the other tawny Spaynyssh leder 
 price of either paire viij s." 
 
 To " Selys goldesmythe for M Iij ageletts of silver and 
 gilt vveying CC Ixxxj unces iij quarters and for C Iv unces 
 grete and small spangf of silver and gilt cont' in all 
 CCCC xxvj unces and iij quarters price of every unce vj s. 
 C xxviij li. vj d. with xlviij li. xviij s. iiij d. as in the price 
 of CC Ixxix unces di' of old spangf and wa floures of 
 silver aud gilt of the Kings own store delivered unto the 
 said Selys in partie of paiement of the said C xxviij li. vj d." 
 
 " For the Copersmythe for iij paire of claspes of cooper 
 and gih with roses uppon them price of every peire iij s." 
 for two paire of claspes of coper and gilt with the Kings 
 armes upon them price the pair v s. and for Ixx bolyons of 
 coper and gilt xlvj s. viij d." 
 
 For " a paire off' blac spurres parcell gilt v s." for " a 
 paire of longe spurres parcell gilt price vj s." 
 
 For iiij hattes of wolle price the pece xij d." for " a 
 hatte of wolle price viij d. ;" for " bonetts" from ij s. vj d. 
 to iij s. " every pece." 
 
 To " Hastings Purssyvant for x ostriche feders price of 
 every pece x s." 
 
 " For di' C ryngs of laton iiij d." " to John Coper- 
 smythe for CC smal gilte nailes price of every C iiij d." 
 
120 THE WARDROBE ACCOUNTS OF 
 
 To Piers Draper citizen and ironmonger for " crochetts 
 of the moost and mydell and leest assise" the first at 
 iij s. iiij d. the second at ij s. vj d. and the last at xviij d. 
 the hundred ; for " tapethooks" at vj d. and " tenterhooks" 
 at ij d. the hundred; for a " cloveliamer" xij d. 
 
 " And in the wages of diverse Taillors working in the 
 same Warderobe as well aboute the making of diverse 
 roobes and garmentes for the Kings moost royal persone 
 as for the lynyng of diverse peces of arras and tapicery ; 
 with also verdours lyned with busk" [Then follow their 
 names and the amount of each of their wages whence it 
 appears that they received from viij d. to vj d. per diem 
 each; and the whole sum paid them was vj li. x s.] 
 
 " And in the wages of John Caster skynner and other 
 diverse skynners workinge aboute the lurring of diverse 
 roobes and garmentes of owre said Souverain Lorde the 
 King and making of divers furres of sables for the same" 
 at vj d. per diem xiiij li. x s. vd. 
 
 " John Poyntmaker for pointyng of xl dosen points of 
 silk pointed with ageletts of laton for every dosen pointing 
 ij d." " and for pointing of ij dosen double laces for either 
 dosen ij d." 
 
 EXPENSES NECESSARY. 
 
 John Poyntmaker for pointing of xl dosen points of silk 
 pointed with agelettes of laton for every dosen pointing ij d. 
 vj s. viij d. ; and for pointing of ij dosen double laces for either 
 dosen ij d. iiij d. The aforesaid Richard Andrewe citezein 
 and hosier of London for making and lynyng of vj pair of 
 hosen of puke lyned with cloth of the goodes of the saide 
 Richard for lynyng of every pair iij s. iiij d. xxs. John 
 
KING EDWARD THE FOURTH. 121 
 
 Copersmythe for the amending of a broken chayer 
 emended with small' gilt nailles iij d. Rauff Vnderwood 
 wyredrawer for iij Ib. and a quart'on of wyre of iren forto 
 hang with verdours ayenst the grete bay windowe in the 
 Quenes old chambre in the Warderobe towarde the Dragon 
 price of every Ib' viij d. ij s. ij d. and for crochetts and 
 tapethooks for the hangyng of the same verdours iiij d. 
 and for his werkemanship hanging the saide* verdours iij d. 
 
 " Robert Boylet for wasshing of ij pair of shets and ij pair 
 of fustians that were occupied by Thambassiatours of 
 Fraunce whiche were loged in Maister Sutton place xij d. 
 And for wasshing of ij pair of shets of ij breds and viij pair 
 of shetes everiche of iij bredes after the Kinges departing 
 from his grete Warderobe in the monethe of JuylP the 
 xx" yere of his mooste noble reigne, for euery pair wassh- 
 ing iij d. ij s. vj d. 
 
 " And for ceryng candell' at ij tymes v d. And to Joh'n 
 Massy lawyer for tawing of a tymbre of hole sables iiij s. 
 And to Robert Boyllet for xxx burdons of risshes at divers 
 tymes whan the Kinges highnesse and goode grace rested 
 and abode at his said grete Warderobe with the cariage of 
 the same iij s. iiij d. 
 
 " William Whyte taloughchaundeller for iij dosen 
 and ix Ib' of pis candell' for to light whan the Kings high- 
 nesse and goode grace on a nyhgt come unto his said grete 
 Warderobe and at other divers' tymes price of every Ib 7 j d. 
 q a iij s. viij d. q*. And to Agneys Cosyn for making of viij 
 pair of shetes of Brussell' clothe everiche of ij bredes for 
 making of every paire vj d. iiij s. 
 
 " John Carter for cariage away of a grete loode of 
 robeux that was left in the strete after the reparacon 
 made vppon a hous apperteignyng unto the same Warde- 
 robe late in the tenure of John Malter ferrour iiij d. 
 And to a laborer called Rychard Gardyrier workyng in 
 the gardyne of the same Warderobe aboute clensing and 
 
122 
 
 THE WARDROBE ACCOUNTS OF 
 
 making clene of the said gardyne and other thyngs by 
 iiij daies di' takyng iiij d. by the day xviij d. And to Piers 
 Draper for M 1 spriggc price vj d. And for di M of latis- 
 naille price iij d. of hym so boght and expended at 
 Eltham aboute covering of the fonte att the cristenyng of 
 Lady Kateryn the Kings doughter. And payed to ij water- 
 men for bote hyre and cariage of divers chistes and cofres 
 with other divers stuff belonging unto thoftice of the Roobes 
 within the moost honourable household of oure saide souve- 
 rain lorde the Kyng from Grenwiche unto Baynardes 
 Castelle in London iiij d. ; and from thens for cariage of 
 the same stuff into his saide grete Warderobe iiij d. And 
 unto John Huntman for cariage and bringing of the Kinges 
 carre at divers tymes frome Grenewiche to London ij s. 
 
 "And to Alice Shapster for making and wasshing of xxiiij 
 sherts and xxiiij stomachers, v dosen handcouverchieffes, 
 and xij combe coverchieffes, for making and wasshing of 
 every sherte xij d., xxiiij s. ; and for making of every cou- 
 verchieffij d. xvj s. ; for making and wasshing of v pair of 
 shets, everiche of iiij bredes and v elles di' longe, for every 
 paire, making and wasshing iij s. iiij d., xvjs. viij d. : for 
 making and wasshing of xiiij pair of shets everiche of 
 iij breds, for every pair making and wasshing xx d. xxiij s. 
 iiijd. : for making and wasshing of viij pair of shetes, everiche 
 of ij breds, for every pair making and wasshing vj d., iiij s. ; 
 and for making and wasshing of iij hedeshets large xij d. 
 
 "And in money payed by the said accomptant unto John 
 Lucas of Kent for seasing of a pece of blac satyn course 
 cont' xxxviij yerdes forfait unto the Kinges highnes, that is 
 to say, for the said John Lucas rewarde for xix yerdes of 
 the same satyn, moite of the said xxxviij yerdes satin to hym 
 due by statute of suche forfeitures made, preised at vs. iiij d. 
 the yerd, Cj. s. iiij d. And for the batillage and bootehire 
 of the said accomptant as it hath bene accustumed after 
 the rate of v marc by the yerde, thai* is to witt, for a quarter 
 

 KING EDWARD THE FOURTH. 
 
 of ayere and Ixviij daies, within the tyme of this accompte, 
 after the rate of ij d. by the day, xxviij s. 
 
 Sin* pagine hue x li. xix s. viij d." 
 
 u REPARACION OFF THE KINGES CARRE. 
 
 " Costes and expenses maade and doon as well for neces- 
 sarie thingcs boght for the Kynges carre and for the repara- 
 con of the same within the tyme of this accompte, that is to 
 witte, John Jaks for a forehors bridelle, price iiij s. ; for v 
 other bridels price the pece ij s. iiij d. xj s. viij d. ; for vj 
 teyng haltres, price the pece xvj d., viij s. ; for v pair trays 
 garnyssht, price in grete xxvs.; for vj drawing colers, price 
 the pece, iij s. ; xviij s. for a crouper for the lymour, price 
 iiij s. for a doscr price ij s. iiij d. ; for a lymour sadell' price 
 v s. ; for apayre lymour hamys garnissht xviij d. ; and for a 
 payre of braying roopes price vj d. Sin* to 1 iiij li. 
 
 " And to Agneys Philipp for ij auxeltrees for the same 
 carre ij s. ; for xv Ib. cloutes at ij d. the lb., ij s. vj d. ; for 
 stiroppes viij d. ; for ij bondes of iren iiij d.; for a bedd xvj d. ; 
 for CC nailles viij d. ; for a chevel bolt and a lymour bolte 
 weying xvj lb. price in grete ij s. viij d. for iiij newe lynces 
 weying xvj lb. at ij d. xij d. ; a speringcheyne with staples 
 and hookes weying xvj lb. at ij d., ij s. viij d. ; for ij braying 
 roopes v d. ; for amending of the lokks of the same carre v d. 
 for sowing of the barehide of the same carre vj d. ; for lycour 
 for the same carre iiij d. ; and for ij grete nailles for the 
 same vj d. xvj s. Sin* in alF iiij li. xvj s. 
 
 To 1 pagine xv li, xvs. vij d." 
 
THE WARDROBE ACCOUNTS OF 
 
 " YIT EXPENSSES NECESSARIE. 
 
 " George Luf kyn for makyng of x doublettes of blac satyn 
 a doublet of purpull satyn, and a doublet of purpull velvet, 
 for every doublet making with the inner stuff unto the 
 same vj s. viij d. iiij 1. ; for the making of iij long gownes of 
 clothe of gold, iij longe gownes of velvet, and vj demy gownes 
 and a shorte loose gowne of velvet and damask, for every 
 gowne making iij s. iiij d., xliij s. iiij d. ; for making of a jaket 
 of cloth of gold ij s. ; for making of a gowne and a hoode 
 of the liveree of the Garter for the Duke de Ferrar' viij s. ; 
 and for making of a mantell of blue velvett for the saide 
 Duke deFerrar' garnyssht with a rich e garter of ruddeur vij s.; 
 
 <( And payed for the cariage of divers bedding and stuff 
 from the Coldherber into the same Warderobe at oon tyme 
 iiij d. ; and for an other cariage of federbeddes and other stuff 
 for the said Coldherber, and also the herber into the same 
 Warderobe, and also for thecostesof a man awaiting uppon 
 the same stuff vij d. 
 
 " Payed for bystovving of many harneis of Milayn oute 
 of the rayne iiij d. ; Robert Boilet for wasshing and drying 
 of ix pair of shetes of divers bredes for every pair iij d., 
 ij s. iij d. ; for wasshing and drying of iiij pair of fustians, 
 for every pair iij d , xij d. ; for wasshing and drying of a 
 blanket j d. ; for wasshing of iij rede cupborde clothes of 
 rede worsted iij d. ; for wasshing of divers old peces of 
 busk and of a paillett vj d. 
 
 " Martyne Jumbard for enbrowdering and setting of 
 CCCC xxvj vnces iij q of agelettes and spanges of silver 
 and gilt for the garnysshing of vj coursour harneys and a 
 hoby harneis of the same suyte of grene velvet for every 
 unce browderyng and setting xij d. xxj 1. vj s. ix d. ; and to 
 
KING EDWARD THE FOURTH. 125 
 
 Gilmyn sadeller for making and lynyng of the saide vij 
 barneys, for every pece xx s., vij 1. ; for xlix bokels of 
 laton for the same harneys at iiij d. the pece xvj s. iiij d. ; 
 for making and stuffing of a sadelle covered in tawny 
 velvet x s. ; for v yerds of cremesy sarsinett for stuffing 
 of the saide agelettes at iiij s. viij.d. the yerde, xxiij s. 
 iiij d . ; for vij Ib. of white threde at x d. the lb., v s. x d. ; for 
 rede threde, ceringe, sowing, and making of every C of 
 the said M 1 lij. xx agelettes for every C xxd. xvij s. vj d. 
 for vij yerdes chaynes of laton to put in the saide ageletts 
 for cutting, price of every yerde, ij d. xxiij s. iiij d. ; for the 
 making and gamysshing of x hors houses that the Kinges 
 highnesse and goode grace yave to my lady Duchesse of 
 Bourgoingne his sister price of every pece making ix s. iiij L 
 xs. ; for x sursengles of tvvyne price the pece viij d. vj s. 
 viij d. 
 
 " Richard Carter for cariage of divers parcelles 
 apperteignyng unto thoffice of the Beddes caried from Lon- 
 don unto Eltham xv d. and to the Kinges carreman for a 
 reward awaiteng uppon certen of the Kinges books put in 
 the Kinges carr viij d. and for making of iij pair hosen of 
 franche blac cloth boght of Hastinges Pursyvant for every 
 pair making with the lynyng price iijs. iiij d., xs. 
 
 " Piers Herton for lynyng of a pair botews of blue leder 
 lyned with blac velvet xx d. 
 
 " And to Alice Claver for the makyng of xvj laces 
 and xvj tasshels for the garnvsshing of divers of the 
 Kinges bookes ij s. viij d. ; and to Robert Boillett for blac 
 papir and nailles for closyng and fastenyng of divers cofyns 
 of fyrre wherein the Kinges books were conveyed and caried 
 from the Kinges grete Warderobe in London unto Eltham 
 aforesaid v d. ; Piers Bauduyn stacioner for bynding gilding 
 and dressing of a booke called Titus Livius xx s. ; for bind- 
 
126 THE WARDROBE ACCOUNTS OF 
 
 ing gilding- and dressing of a booke of the Holy Trinitc 
 xvj s. ; for binding gilding and dressing of a booke called 
 Frossard xvj s. ; for binding gilding and dressing of a booke 
 called the Bible xvj s. ; for binding gilding and dressing of a 
 booke called LeGouvernement of Kinges and Princes xvj s. ; 
 for binding and dressing of thre smalle bookes of Franche 
 price in grete vj s. viij d. ; for the dressing of ij bookes wherof 
 oon is called La Forteresse de Foy and the other called the 
 Book of Josephus iij s. iiij d. ; and for binding gilding and 
 dressing of a booke called the Bible Historial xxs. 
 
 "John Cave for making of iij beddes of rede worsted at the 
 Herber iij s.; for lyre and rynges of laton to the same iij s.; for 
 hanging of the saide bedds and divers costers there ij s. ; for 
 making of ij travasses of grene sarsinett for either pece iij s. ; 
 and for making of a travas with ij curtyns of grene sarsinett 
 for the chapelle at Coldherber whan my Lady Duchesse 
 of Bourgoingne was loged there iiij s. ; and for CC ringes of 
 laton for the same xij d.; the saide Petir Baudvin for gilding 
 of an old pair of claspes ij s. ; and for gilding of an old pair 
 of claspes ij s. ; and for gilding of olde bolyons v s. ; and 
 payed for x burdens of risshes spent in the same Warde- 
 robe at divers tymes whan the Kinges highnesse and goode 
 grace come thider, price with the cariage, xxij d. 
 
KING EDWARD THE FOURTH. 127 
 
 " REPARACON MAADE AND DOON IN DIVERSE TENEMENTES 
 APPERTEIGNYNG AND BELONGING UNTO THE SAIDE 
 WARDEROBE." 
 
 THESE were chiefly payments to a carpenter and a smith 
 for wood, iron, and labour, for the repairs of houses ; for nails, 
 hooks hinges, keys, and bolts, and for the workinens wages 
 two of whom are described as " Dawbers" who it appears 
 received from iiij d. to vj d. a day. Among these items 
 which are of no interest or importance are, " for a holowe 
 key for the galary dore of the same Warderobe viij d." "for 
 a newe key for a lokk of the Toure dore within the same 
 Warderobe iiij d." " for a lokk and a newe key for the Kinges 
 kechyn dore there viij d." " for amending of a lokk and a 
 key to the porters loge dore toward the Dragon ij d. ; " for 
 a plate of iren for a dore in the Quenes chamber j d." " for 
 vj loodes of lyme, price of every loode x d. and the iiij tk 
 parte of a ferthing" to " Alice Veysy for cole for colouring 
 of the same ho us ix d." " for ij loodes of sand price the 
 loodevj d.;" " and payed unto William Norton for borde naill 
 and lome for cering and amending of his chambre flore 
 that dust shul not falle downe uppon them that sittes and 
 occupies his halle xij d." 
 
 "To Sir Thomas Williams Person of the Parissh Chirche 
 of Saint Andrewe at Baynardes Castell in London for his 
 yerely pension of xl s. by the yere due unto hym by reason 
 of his saide chirche and benefice in recompense of certeyn 
 ofTeringes oblacons and emoluments unto the said benefice 
 due, of the graunte of the Prince of right noble memorie 
 Kyng Edward the Thirde, that is to witt, for the tyme of 
 this accompte, after the rate of j d. q' by the day, xvij s. 
 
 " To the sayde Piers Courteys whome the Kinges High- 
 nesse and goode grace hath assigned and ordeigned by his 
 
128 THE WARDROBE ACCODNTS OF 
 
 high commaundement to rule gouverne and kepe his said 
 grete Warderobe/' &c. " for the fee and rewarde of the 
 said Piers Courteys belonging and apperteignyng unto his 
 saide office after the rate of C li. by the yere." 
 
 " To William Misterton clerk of the same grete Warde- 
 robe for his wages of xij d. by the day." 
 
 " To the yeoman taillours at vj d. by the day 7 ' each ; " to 
 the portitour at iiij d. by the day ;" " to John Easter skinner 
 for his laborious attendance in the same Warderobe and 
 also for his profitable provysion and bying of furres for his 
 rewarde after the rate of x li. by the yere after vj d. ob. the 
 day;" 
 
 " To Richard Huntingdon and Thomas Dancas? 
 Clercs attending in the same Warderobe early and late for 
 their laborious attendance in the same, and their grete 
 labours, as well aboute making of many and divers enden- 
 tures warrantes acquitances and billes in the same as 
 overseing of werkemen, entring theire dayes and rekenyng 
 and accompting the wages aswelle of divers taillours skyn- 
 ners and bedmakers as of other werkemen by all the time of 
 this accompte for the rewarde of either of them after the 
 rate of * yercly. 
 
 And for and in parchemyn papir ink rede wex threde 
 nedels counters bagges of leder with many other smalleneces- 
 sarie thingesthe seide office concernyng and touching after 
 the rate of Ixxvj s. viij d. by the yere." 
 
 * In the margin is added " Ix s. p' ambobus p' temp' compi." 
 
KING EDWARD THE FOURTH. 129 
 
 STUFF REMAIGNYNG UPPON THE EENDE OFF THE LAST 
 ACCOMPTE IN THE SAIDE CRETE WARDEROBE. 
 
 zz 
 
 WOLLEN Clothe : scarlett iiij vij yerdes di' ; Clothe in 
 greyne vj yerdes di'; White wollen clothe xliij yerdes and 
 iij quarters. 
 
 Ermyn : bakkes xxviij tymbr' di' xiij bakkes. 
 
 Sables: hole vj tymbr' and ix beestes; bakkes xxvj ; 
 wombes vj tymbr' di' and x. 
 
 Bogy : skynnes blac CC Ixvij. 
 
 Whyte lambe skynnes C xlv. 
 
 Velvette : sengle ix C xij virg' j q'rt' ; double of divers 
 ; colours C xlix di' q'rt'. 
 
 Clothe of gold asvvel upon velvet grounde as satyn grounde 
 Ciiij vij yerdes and iij q'rt's. 
 
 Damask of sylke Ixxj yerdes and iij q'rt's. 
 
 Satyn of sylke CCCCix yerdes and di' q'rt'. 
 
 Chamelet: offix yerdes every pece, xiij peces and a yerde 
 cont' C xviij yerdes ; off x yerdes every pece, xli peces 
 cont' CCCC xxx yerdes di' ; of xvij yerdes and a q'rter 
 every pece, x peces cont' Clxxij yerdes di' ; off xxiij 
 yerdes and iij q'rt's every pece, xv peces cont' CCC 
 Ixxj yerdes and a q a rt'r: conteignyng in all' ioyntly 
 M 1 iiij xij yerdes and a q'rt'r. 
 
 Sarssinette C xlviij yerdes di'. 
 
 Purpulle clothe of silver xiiij yerdes di' q'rt'. 
 
 Sperver of rede damask with curtyns of sarsynett j. 
 
 Tartaryn v yerdes iij q'rt's di'. 
 
 Curtyns of sarsynet used iij. 
 
 Worsted : off the moost assise ij peces ; of the myddelle 
 assise a pece; Cupbord clothes iiij ; Counterpoynt of the 
 mooste assise j ; bedde of the moost assise j ; sperver 
 of blue worstede j ; spervers of rede worsted ij. 
 
130 THE WARDROBE ACCOUNTS OF 
 
 Carpet j. 
 
 Bokeram : long xxvij peces xj yerdes ; shorte cont' v yerdes 
 
 j pece ; shorte everiche conteignyng vij yerdes di' xxvj 
 
 peces. 
 
 xx 
 
 Lynnen cloth by vj elles to the C : Lawne v peces ; 
 
 Holand clothe M M CCC Ix ; Flemmyshe clothe ij 
 
 elles; Brussell clothe DCCvij elles iij quarters; Brownes- 
 
 wyke iiij ix elles ; Busk M M CCC iiij xiij elles and iij 
 
 quarters of a naille; Canvas Cxxix elles. 
 Fustian xx peces xj yerdes iij q* di. 
 Fustians : of iiij bredes iij pair ; off v bredes vj pair ; off vj 
 
 bredes j pair. 
 Shetes off Holand clothe, of iiij bredes viij pair ; of iij 
 
 bredes xix pair and j shete ; offij bredes ij pair ; Hede- 
 
 shetes of Holand clothe vij. 
 
 Garters, withlettres of gold xvj ; with lettres off silk C xxij. 
 Shetes off Flemmysshe clothe of ij bredes xvj pair; Shetes 
 
 off Brussell clothe of ij bredes vij pair ; Shetes of busk 
 
 of iij bredes ij pair. 
 Sylk j Ib. an unce andj quarteron. 
 Frenge, off syik x Ib. x unces ; off sylk and gold ij Ib. v 
 
 unces. 
 
 Poyntes off ryban off sylk iij groos. 
 Arras, conteignyng Cxlvj Flemmyssh elles called buscage 
 
 ix peces ; conteignyng xlvj Flemmyssh elles called bus- 
 cage ij peces. 
 
 Quysshon clothes with ymagery of sylk xij. 
 Tapicery : off wolle wroght called counterpoyntes of divers 
 
 sortes conteignyng CCxlvj Flemmyssh elles ix peces ; 
 
 chamberyng off tapicery white and grene chekked cont' 
 
 iiij xv Flemmyssh elles di' j. 
 Tykkes iiij. 
 Beddes called federbeddes stuffed with downe with their 
 
 bolsters v. 
 
KING EDWARD THE FOURTH. 181 
 
 Federbeddes with theyre bolsters all stuffed with feders xxx. 
 
 Pilowes off fustian stuffed with downe xxviij. 
 
 Pilowe beres off fustian unstuffed iiij. 
 
 Lytill bagges of fustian stuffed with ireos and anneys xxvj. 
 
 Pilowe beres of Holand clothe xxij. 
 
 Blankettes ij pair. 
 
 Paylettes of busk v. 
 
 Canvas in the Skynnery j. 
 
 Threde xlvj Ib. and ij unces. 
 
 Bonettes xij. 
 
 Gloves viij dosen pair. 
 
 Quysshons: long covered in grene velvet cloth of gold j; 
 long covered in velvet of divers colours iij ; short covered 
 in velvet of divers colours iiij ; short covered in grene 
 velvet cloth of gold j ; square covered in tawny velvet 
 ij ; uncovered ij. 
 
 Table clothes off dyaper werk ij ; Table clothes playne iiij. 
 
 Napkyns course of werk yiij. 
 
 To wails playne vj. 
 
 Brusshes of hethe xij. 
 
 Trestels iij pair and j trestell. 
 
 Tables with iiij paire tres tells iiij. 
 
 Fourmes vij ; joynede fourmes iiij ; longe j ; shorte j. 
 
 Chayers ij. 
 
 Cupborde of ostriche borde j. 
 
 Stoles xvj. 
 
 Escochons of papir in colours of the armes of Lorde George 
 Ver vj. 
 
 Double soled shoon at iiij d. the payre iiij pair. 
 
 Spervers of lynnen cloth iij. 
 
 Standing glas j. 
 
 Standisshes with weigh tes and scales iij. 
 
132 THE WARDROBE ACCOUNTS OF 
 
 THE FOREYN RECEYTE OF STUFF. 
 
 AND the said Accomptant charges hym self frely aswelle 
 of divers peces of Arras, divers federbeddes, divers 
 shetes, divers peces of worsted, divers fustians, and a 
 sperver of tawny damask. 
 
 Two peces of arras of the story of Paris and Elyn ; C liiij 
 elles of Holand clothe of oure saide souverayn Lorde the 
 Kynges provysion by the handes of Roger Cooke servant 
 unto the right high and right noble Princesse Lady 
 Margarete Duchesse of Bourgoingne suster unto oure 
 saide souverain Lorde the Kyng. ij federbeddes with 
 bolsters unto them ; a paire of shetes of iij bredes, a 
 paire of shetes of ij bredes, of Holand clothe ; ij pair of 
 fustians either of v bredes ; iij peces rede worsted of the 
 myddell assise ; a sperver of tawny damask ; v paire of 
 shetes of Holand clothe, everiche of iiij bredes and v 
 elles di' longe ; iij hedeshetes of Holand clothe, everiche 
 of ij bredes arid iiij elles longe ; xiij paire of shetes of Hol- 
 and clothe of iij bredes and iiij elles and a quarter longe ; 
 a paire of shetes of iij bredes of Holand maade of xxv 
 elles; xvj paire of shetes of Brussell cloth, wherof viij 
 pair everiche of ij bredes and iij elles di' longe ; and 
 other viij paire of shetes of Brussell clothe, everiche of 
 ij bredes and iij elles di' longe ; ij travasses maade of 
 grene sarsinet. 
 
 A sperver maade of velvet ray of the colours of rede grene 
 and whyte, conteignyng testour celour and valances lyned 
 with busk, with ij syde curtyns and a foote curtyne of sarsi- 
 net changeable, the saide sperver garnyssht with frenge of 
 sylk ; an other sperver of velvet white and blue paled con- 
 teignyng testour celour counterpoint and valance of the 
 same lyned with blac bokeram and garnyssht with frenge 
 
KING EDWARD THE FOURTH. 133 
 
 of silk, with ij side curtyns and a foote curtyn maade of 
 sarsynet white and blue, vj paire blankettes of \vhite 
 wollen clothe; a grete paire of fustians either of vj 
 bredes and v yerdes longe ; vj paire of fustians everiche 
 of iiij bredes and iij yerdes and iij quarters longe except 
 ij yerdes in all. 
 
 xxxviij yerdes of course blac satyn unto oure sayd 
 Souverain Lorde, the Kyng forfaited, arid seased as a 
 forfaite by John Lucas of Kente; and also preysed 
 by William Oriell of London mercer at vs. iiij d. every 
 yerde and entrede in the bokes of oure said Souverain 
 Lorde the King in bis Eschequier and amontethe unto 
 the somme of xl. ij s. viij d. 
 
 A pane of scarlet made of xij yerdes of scarlet boght afore- 
 hand and xxxij tymbres off ermyns used recey ved of the 
 Kinges Highnesse and goode grace; two complete her- 
 neys recey ved of the Kynges highnesse and goode grace 
 by the handes off Thomas Grafton merchant of the 
 Staple of Caleys ; and of ij pair hosen made of ij yerdes 
 and iij q a of Franche blac afore here of Hastinges the 
 Pursyvant boght. 
 
134 THE WARDROBE ACCOUNTS OP 
 
 THE TOTALL EMPCION AND EYING OF STUFF WITHIN THE 
 TYME OF THIS ACCOMPTE WITH THE FOREYN RECEYTE 
 OF STUFF, AND STUFF ALSO REMAIGNYNG UPPON THE 
 EENDE OF THE LAST ACCOMPTE OF THE YERE PRECE- 
 DENT. 
 
 Clothe off divers sorts : Scarlet, CC ix yerdes di'; Clothe in 
 greyne, xxviij yerdes di' ; Clothe of divers colours, C Ixx 
 yerdes j quart* dj'; White wollen clothe, xliij yerdes and 
 iij quarters. 
 
 Furres off dyvers sortes : Ermyns, newe, xxviij tymbr' di' 
 and xiij bakkes; used, xxxij tymbr'; Sables, hole, vj tymbr' 
 and ix bestes ; bakkes xxvj ; wombes vj tymbr' di' and 
 x wombes : Bogy blac, skynnes blac CC Ixx ; furre of 
 shankes blac j ; powderinges of shankes blac M M M 
 CCC iiij x; White lam be DCxlv skynnes; Fox skynnes 
 of Island viij. 
 
 Velvettes of divers sortes: sengle, M CCC xij yerdes dj' 
 virg. ; double C xlix virg' dj' dj' quart 1 . 
 
 Clothe of golde aswell blac of colour as of the colour* 
 white and grene velvet uppon velvet tisshue cloth of golde 
 and other clothe of gold aswell of the grounde of velvet 
 as or satyn grounde som broched with golde, CC Ixx 
 yerdes and iij quarters. 
 
 Clothe of sylver : purpull xiiij yerdes and di' quart' ; blue 
 uppon satyn grounde broched iij yerdes di'. 
 
 Damask of sylk, C iiij xviij yerdes di' quarter. 
 
 Satyn of sylk, DC xxxiij yerdes j quarter di'. 
 
 Chamelettes, of ix yerdes every pece xiij peces and a 
 yerde cont' C xviij yerdes ; of x yerdes di' every pece 
 xlj peces cont' iiij C xxx yerdes di'; of xvij yerdes 
 and a quarter every pece x peces cont' C Ixxij yerdes 
 di' ; of xxiiij yerdes and iij quarters xv peces cont' 
 
KING EDWARD THE FOURTH. 135 
 
 CCC Ixxj virg' j q': conteignyng in all joyntly M iiij xij 
 
 yerdes j quarter. 
 Baldckyns of silk vij peces. 
 Sarsinet : sarsinettes chaungeable and other divers colours, 
 
 XX 
 
 DCC iiij xv yerdes and iij quarters ; Curtyns of sarsi- 
 
 net iij. 
 Spervers of damask with curtyns of sarsinet wherof j rede 
 
 and the other tawny, ij. 
 Tarteryn, j pece v yerdes iij quarters di'. 
 Worsted: off the moos teassisev peces; of the myddel assise 
 
 xiij peces ; off the leeste assise vj peces ; Cupbord 
 
 clothes iiij ; Counterpoynt of the moost assise j ; of 
 
 the moost assise bedde j ; Sperver of blue worsted j ; 
 
 Spervers of rede worsted ij ; Celours of worsted iij. 
 Carpet j. 
 Bokeram : lorige xxvij peces xj yerdes ; shorte cont* v 
 
 yerdes j pece ; shorte everiche cont' vij yerdes di' xxvj 
 
 peces. 
 
 XX 
 
 Lynnen cloth after vj elles to the C : Lawne v peces ; Hol- 
 and clothe M M CCC Ixix eh" di'et j naylP; Flemysshe 
 clothe ij elles ; Brussell clothe DCCvij elles and iij 
 quarters. 
 
 Browneswyk, iiij ix elles. 
 
 Busk, M M CCC iiij xiij elles iij q' of a naill'. 
 
 Canvas, C xxix elles. 
 
 Fustian, xx peces xj yerdes iij quarters di'. 
 
 Fustians, of iiij bredes ix pair ; of v bredes viij pair ; of 
 vj bredes ij pair. 
 
 Shetes off Hoi and clothe: of iiij bredes xiij pair; of iij 
 bredes xxxiiij pair and a shete ; of ij bredes iij pair ; 
 Hedeshetes of Holand clothe x; Shetes of Flemmyssh 
 clothe, off ij bredes xvj pair ; off Brussell clothe, sbetes, 
 off ij bredes xxiij pair; Shetes off busk cloth, of iij 
 bredes ij pair. 
 
136 THE WARDROBE ACCOUNTS OF 
 
 Spervers off velvet garnyssht with frenge of silk : off velvet 
 with curtyns off sarsinett oon of ray velvet and an other 
 of velvet blue and white ij. 
 
 Travasses maade of grene sarsynet ij. 
 
 Garters : with lettres of gold xvj ; with lettres of silk C xxij ; 
 off ruddeur richely wroght with silk and gold j. 
 
 Sowing sylk, j Ib. ij unces and a quarter. 
 
 Riban off silk : streyte xj unces di' ; brode ix yerdes weying 
 v unces di' quarter. 
 
 Riban of silk for poyntes laces and gyrdels iiij unces. 
 
 Riban of silk and golde j unce. 
 
 Laces made of ryban of silk: ij dosen laces and a double 
 lace of riban of silk weying ij unces di' ; Mantell lace of 
 blue silk with botons of the same j. 
 
 Poyntes: made of ryban of silk iij groos; made of ryban 
 of silk weying j Ib. ij unces iij quarterons di', xl dosen. 
 
 Frenge: of sylk xv Ib. vj unces and a quarteron : of sylk 
 and gold ij Ib. v unces ; of Venys gold xj unces di'. 
 
 Corses of sylk with laces and tassels of sylk and botons off 
 sylk and gold : of blue sylk weyng an unce iij quarterons 
 di', ij yerdes di' and a nail ; of blac silk weying iij unces 
 iiij yerdes di' di' quart' ; of silk for laces and tassels, vj 
 unces and iij quarterons ; botons of blue sylk and golde 
 xvj. 
 
 Arras : cont' Cxlvj Flemmyssh elles and a quarter called 
 buscage ix peces ; cont' xlvj Flemmyssh elles called 
 buscage ij peces; of the story of Parys and Eleyn ij 
 peces; counterpoint of arras with ymagery and silk, 
 cont' xxx Flemmyssh elles j ; counterpoint of arras with 
 ymagery without silk cont' xxx Flemmyssh elles j. 
 
 Rosses embroudered ; grete viij, small xlviij. 
 
 Quysshons off arras with ymagery and sylk xij. 
 
 Tapicery, off wolle wroght with ymagery called counter- 
 pointes of divers sortes cont' CClvj Flemmyssh elles ix 
 
KIN 7 G EDWARD THE FOURTH. 137 
 
 peces; chambering of tapicery white and grene chek- 
 ked cont' iiij xv Flemmyssh elles di', j ; counter- 
 pointes of verdours without silk everiche cont' xxx 
 Flemmyssh elles vij. ; counterpointes of verdours of 
 wolle everiche cont' xx Flemmyssh elles vj ; costeringes 
 of wolle paled rede and blue with rooses sonnes and 
 crounes in every pane, wherof two peces either cont' Ix 
 Flemmyssh elles and either of the other ij peces cont' 1 
 Flemmvssh elles, and a counterpoint cont' xx Flem- 
 myssh elles, v peces. 
 
 Tykkes, iiij; gretej; myddellj. 
 
 Federbeddes: stuffed with downe with bolsters longing 
 unto the same v ; stuffed with feders with bolsters belong- 
 ing unto the same xxxviij. 
 
 Downe CCC lib. 
 
 Pilowes stuffed with downe xxviij ; Pilowe beres of fustian 
 unstuffed iiij ; Pilowberes of Holand clothe xxij. 
 
 Lytill bagges of fustian stuffed with ireos and anneys xxvj. 
 
 Blankettes viij paire. 
 
 Pailettes of busk v. 
 
 Canvas in the Skynnery j. 
 
 Threde of divers colours Iviij Ib. di' and iiij unces. 
 
 Ryban of threde xiij unces. 
 
 Corde and lyour Cxv Ib. di'. 
 
 Gloves viij dd 1 pair. 
 
 Quysshons : long, covered in grene cloth of gold j ; longe, 
 covered in velvet of divers colours iij ; shorte, covered 
 in velvet of divers colours iiij ; shorte, covered in grene 
 cloth of gold j ; square, covered in velvet tawny ij ; 
 uncovered ij. 
 
 Hosen vi paire ay paire.* 
 
 * The words in italics were afterwards added. 
 
 T 
 
138 THE WARDROBE ACCOUNTS OF 
 
 Sokkes of fustian, iiij paire. 
 
 Shoon double soled and not lynede : blac, v paire wherof iiij 
 e pair everiche paire at iiij d. the paire ; blac v paire 
 Spaynyssh leder ij paire. 
 
 Shoon sengle soled and not lynede : blac j paire, iiij d ; 
 Spaynyssh leder iiij paire, vd.; j paire, vj d. ; blac vij 
 paire xij d. ; tawny Spaynyssh leder ix paire. 
 
 Sloppes off divers sortes : blue, j paire; Spaynyssh leder, 
 iiij paire ; tawny leder, v paire ; rede Spaynyssh leder, a 
 paire at xviij d. the paire; of by yond the see leder 
 a paire, vj d. ; blac leder a paire, v d. : Sloppes of blac 
 leder not lined, ij paire ; Sloppes off divers sortes and 
 divers leders lined with blac clothe, blac j paire ; Spay- 
 nyssh leder ij paire ; russet a paire ; tawny a paire ; 
 rede Spaynvssh leder a paire : Sloppes of divers sortes 
 and divers leders lyned with velvett; Spaynyssh leder, 
 vj paire ; blue leder, a paire ; grene leder, a paire. 
 
 Slippers, iij paire. Item ij par' hatche.* 
 
 Patyns of leder, ij paire. 
 
 Botews off divers sortes and divers leders; tawny Spaynyssh 
 leder, a paire ; blac leder above the knee, vij paire ; 
 blac sengle unto the knee ij paire ; rede Spaynyssh 
 leder above the knee iij paire ; tawny leder above the 
 knee viij paire. 
 
 Bootes, blac leder a paire; rede Spaynyssh leder a paire; 
 tawny Spaynyssh leder a paire. 
 
 Spurres parcell gilt: longe, a paire; shorte, a paire. 
 
 Hattes of wolle, v. 
 
 Bonettes, xix. 
 
 Ostriche feders, xj. 
 
 Rynges of laton, iiij. 
 
 * The words in italics were added afterwards. 
 
KING EDWARD THE FOURTH. 139 
 
 Smalle gilt naill', CC. Item other CCC gtjlt nayles* 
 Crochettes : off the moost assise, C ; of the myddell assise, 
 
 CCC; of the leest assise, DCC. 
 Tapethokes, D. 
 Teritourhokes, CC. 
 Clovehamer, j. 
 
 Table clothes of diaper werk, ij ; table clothes playne, iiij. 
 Napkyns of werk course, viij. 
 Tow ails playne, vj. 
 Brusshes of hethe, xij. 
 Trestels, iij paire and a trestelle. 
 Tables with iiij paire trestels, iiij. 
 Fourmes : joyned, iiij; longej; shortej. 
 Agelettes of silver and gylt and spanges of silver and gilt 
 
 weying in all, CCCCxxvj unces and iij quarterons. 
 Claspes of coper and gilt, vj paire. 
 Bolyons of coper and gilt, Ixx. 
 
 * The words in italics were added afterwards. 
 
140 THE WARDROBE ACCOUNTS OF 
 
 FOR THE OFFICE OFF THE BEDDES WITHIN THE MOOST 
 HONORABLE HOUSEHOLD OF OURE SAIDE SOUVERAIN 
 LORDE THE KYNG, RECEYVED BY THE HANDES OFF PIERS 
 WRATON YOMAN OFF THE SAME OFFICE OFF THE BEDDES. 
 
 To oure said Souverayn Lorde the King to have 
 into thoffice of his Beddes within his moost honourable 
 householde divers stuff and bedding as may playnly appere 
 by an endenture of papir thereof made becing date the 
 xvj day of May the xx li yere of the mooste noble reigne 
 of oure said Souverain Lorde the Kyng. And also by 
 vertue of a warrant aswelle undre oure said Souverain 
 Lordes signe manuell as undre his signet bering date the 
 second day of Juyne the said xx li yere of oure said Souve- 
 rain Lordes moost noble reigne unto the said Piers Curteys 
 directe for the deliveree of the said stuff and bedding. 
 And over this busk delivered for lynyng of divers peces of 
 arras corde and Hour for liring and lowping of the same 
 arras ; and for hanging of a curtyne of paled verdour rede 
 and blue with riban of grene threde and rynges of latone 
 by vertue of the warrant aforesayd : federbeddcs xij with 
 bolsters to them stuffed with feders; shetes of Holand 
 clothe, v paire every of iiij bredes ; a paire of ij bredes ; 
 blankettes iij paire ; fustians ij pair everiche of v bredes ; 
 a paire of iiij bredes ; pilowe, j of fustiane stuffed with 
 downe and a bere of Holand clothe therunto ; busk Clxx 
 eir iij q'. di' after the grete C ; corde and Hour Iv Ib ; 
 riban, v unces of grene threde; rynges, xxx of laton. 
 
 Delivered for to make off v peire of shetes of Holand 
 clothe everiche of iiij bredes and v elles di' longe; iij 
 hede shetes of Holand clothe everiche of ij bredes and iiij 
 elles longe ; xiij paire of shetes of Holand clothe everiche 
 
KING EDWARD THE FOURTH. 141 
 
 of iij bredes and iiij elles and a quarter longe ; a paire of 
 shetes of Holand clothe of iij bredes made of xxv elles ; 
 viij paire of shetes everiche of ij bredes and iij elles di' 
 quarter longe of Brusselle clothe ; and viij paire of shetes, 
 everiche of ij bredes and ij elles di' longe, 
 
 Brussell cloth Dlx elles ; D elles di' Holand clothe. 
 
 Delivered unto Rauff Dow ell* unto the Erber for 
 the logeing of the ambassiatours of Bourgoingne iij peces 
 of rede worsted of the moost assise, wherof was made iiij 
 costers and iij counterpointes for iij beddes in iij chambres 
 there ; and also delivered unto the same Rauff foi the same 
 logeing vj peces rede worsted of the myddelle assise, wherof 
 was made iij newe testours to iij celours that were boght of 
 William Shukburgh and delivered to the same Rauf, and 
 there were made also of the saide vj peces of rede worsted 
 of the myddelle assise ix curtyns to iij beddes in the saide 
 iij chambres and costers for ij of the saide iij chambres; 
 and the saide iij old testours that were taken of from the 
 saide elours were made into iij cupbordclothes, alle whiche 
 stuff of worstedes remaigne stil there, for the logeing 
 nowe of M r . John Wode nowe undretresorer of England, 
 by vertue of a warrant uridre the Kinges signet and signe 
 manuelle bering date the xxiiij day of Juylle, in the xx" 
 yere of the moost noble reigne of oure said Souverain 
 Lorde the King, 
 
 Worsted : iij peces of the moost assise ; vj peces of 
 the myddelle assise ; iij celours ; pilow of fustiane and bere 
 of Holand cloth ; j stuffed with downe with a bere of 
 Holand clothe therto. 
 
 Delivered unto the Manoir of Grenwiche and Cold- 
 herber ayenst the commyng thider of iny Lady Duchesse 
 of Bourgoingne ij paire shetes of iiij bredes ; a paire of 
 
142 THE WARDROBE ACCOUNTS OF 
 
 shetes of iij bredcs ; a paire of fustians of iiij brcdcs ; a 
 pairc of blankettes ; iij peces rede worsted of the myddelle 
 assise ; ij peces of arras of Paris and Eleyn ; ij travasses of 
 grene sarsinet; and delivered to make of the same ij 
 travasses xlvij yerdes of grene sarsinett garnissht with v 
 unces di' riban of grene silk, by vertue of a warrant under 
 the Kinges signet and signe manuelle bering date the 
 xxiiij day of Juylle in the xx t i yere of the moost noble 
 regne of oure saide Souverain Lorde the Kyng within the 
 tyme of this Accompte, 
 
 Sarsinette xlvij yerdes grene, in ij traves ; riban of silk, 
 v unces di' streite ; arras ij peces of the story of Parys and 
 Eleyn ; shetes of Holand clothe ij paire everiche of iiij 
 bredes ; a paire of iij bredes ; fustians, a paire of iiij 
 bredes ; blankettes, a paire ; rede worsted, iij peces of the 
 myddelle assise ; counterpoint, j of xx Flemmyssh elles. 
 
 Deliverede for to make o'f a sperver of ray velvet of 
 the colours grene rede and white, the testour made of x 
 yerdes of the saide velvet, the celour of the same made of 
 ix yerdes of the same velvet, and the valance of the same 
 made of iij yerdes a quart' di' of the same velvet, and the 
 saide sperver lyned with xj elles busk. An other sperver 
 made of velvet white and blue paled, the testour made of x 
 yerdes, the celour made of ix yerdes, the valance made 
 of iij yerdes j q' di' of the same velvet, and perfourmed 
 with iij quarters of whyte satyne. And the counterpoint of 
 thes ame sperver made of xxx yerdes, and the saide sperver 
 lined thorough oute with blac bokeram and either sperver 
 with ij side curtyris, and a foote curtyne of sarsinet of the 
 colours according unto the said spervers, the same spervers 
 bound with riban of grene threde sowed with silk and 
 garnyssht with frenge of sylk, 
 
 Velvet, xxij yerdes j q' di' ray of divers colours; Iij 
 
KING EDWARD THE FOURTH. 143 
 
 yerdes a quarter di' blue and white; satyne, blue and white, 
 iij quarters of a yerde white ; sarsinette, xxj yerdes di' 
 chaungeable, xxij yerdes white and blue ; busk, xj elles; 
 bokeram longe, iij peces ; silk, iij unces di' di' q' of divers 
 colours ; frenge of silk of divers colours, iij Ib. iiij unces iij 
 q'; riban of threde di' Ib. ; threde j Ib. of divers colours. 
 
 To oure said Souverayn Lorde the Kyng to have 
 into th'office of his Beddes within his moost honourable 
 household dely vered to Windesore by the Kynges high com- 
 maundement by the handes of Thomas Frysley Ix yerdes 
 of M scarlet for to make of divers costeringes, by veriue of a 
 warrant undre the Kynges signet and signe manuelle bering 
 date the xvj day of August in the xx tl yere of the mooste 
 noble reigne of oure said Souverain Lorde the King unto the 
 said Piers Courteya for delivcree of the said stuff dirccte, 
 Scarlet, Ix yerdes. 
 
 To oure said Souverain Lorde the King to have 
 into thoffice of his Beddes within his moost honourable 
 household, a grete large federbedd and the bolster thcrunto 
 stuffed with downe ; v tapettes of verdours with crownes 
 and roses paled blue and crymysyn ; a sperver of ray 
 velvet of the colours grene rede and white, conteignyng 
 testour celour and valance of the same suyt, lined with 
 busk and frenged with frenge of silk of divers colours, with 
 ij syde curtyns and a fote curtyn of sarsinet chaungeable ; 
 an other sperver of velvet white and blue, conteignyng 
 testour celour valance and counterpointe of the same, lyned 
 with blac bokeram and frenged with frenge of silk, and the 
 valence of the sperver of velvet white and blue and par- 
 fourmed with white satyn ; a paire of fustians of vj bredes 
 and ij peire fustians either of v bredes ; iiij peirc of shetes 
 
144 THE WARDROBE ACCOUNTS OF 
 
 of Holand clothe everiche of iiij. bredes and v ellcs longe ; 
 xliiij yerdes of rede sarsinett for divers curtyns and ij hede- 
 shetes either of ij bredes and ij elles longe, by vertue of a 
 warrant undre the Kinges signet andsignemanuelle bering 
 date the xvij day of August in the xx t! yere of the moost 
 noble reigne of oure said Souverain Lorde the Kyng unto the 
 saide Piers Courteys for deliveree of the said stuff directe, 
 
 Federbedde : A grete bedde with a bolster thereunto 
 stuffed with down ; tapettes other wise called costeringes, 
 v of verdoures with crownes and rooses paled blue and 
 crymysyn ; spervers, oon of ray velvet of the colours grene 
 rede and white with curtyns of chaungeable sarsinet ; oon 
 of velvet white and blue with curtyns of sarsinet ; fustians, 
 a paire of vj bredes ; ij peir everiche of v bredes ; shetes, 
 iiij paire everiche of iiij bredes and v ell' long ; hedeshetes, 
 i, either of ij bredes and ij elles long : sarsinet rede, xliiij 
 yerdes for divers curtyns ; rynges, di' C of latone. 
 
 Delivered to make of a travas of grene sarsinett and 
 ij curtyns for the Chapelle of my lady Duchesse of Bour- 
 goingne at Coldherber whiche was lost there, by vertue of a 
 warrant under the Kinges signet and signe manuellc bering 
 date the xxiiij day of Juylle the said xx u yere, 
 
 Sarsinett xiij yerdes di' di' quarter grene. 
 
 Delivered for the garnysshing of a chaier for oure saide 
 Souverain Lorde the King garnyssht with riban of silk 
 and gold and gilt nayles, b\' vertue of the saide warrant 
 bering date the xxiiij day of Juylle the said xx u yere, 
 
 Riban of silk and gold j unce ; nailes gilt, CC smalle. 
 
 Delivered for to make of vj paire of blankettes, white 
 wollen clothe xviij verdes; white threde j unce. 
 
KING EDWARD THE FOURTH. 145 
 
 Delivered to make of a grete paire of fustians of vj 
 bredes, and vj paire of fustians everiche of iiij bredes and 
 iij yerdes and iij quarters longe except ij yerdes lakking in 
 alle, 
 
 Viij hole peces of fusliane except ij yerdes in alle. 
 
 Delivered for the conveying and trussing of ix worthy 
 gentilwomen, embroudered, 
 Busk xxx elles. 
 
 Delivered unto Piers Wratone yoman of the beddes 
 within the moost honourable household of oure said Sou- 
 verain Lorde the King whan he went to the Grace Dieu 
 and from thens unto Caunterbury, 
 
 Shetes of Holand cloth : a paire of iij bredes ; a paire 
 of ij bredes. 
 
 Delivered also to the Coldherber ayenst the commyng 
 thider of my lady Duchesse of Bourgoine for the apparail- 
 lyng of the logeing there, di' C grete crochettes CC myd- 
 del crochettes and iiij C smalle crochettes, and for th'ap- 
 paraillyng of the Erber ayeust the commyng thider of th' 
 ambassiatours of Bourgingne, C crochettes of the leest assise 
 CCC tapethokes and CC tentourhokes, 
 
 Crochettes, di* C of the moost assise ; CC of the myddel 
 assise ; D of the leest assise ; tapethokes CCC ; tentour 
 hokes CC. 
 
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 FOR THE OFFICE OFF THE ROOBES WITHIN THE MOOST 
 HONORABLE HOUSEHOLD OF OURE SAID SOUVERAIN 
 LORDE THE KYNG. 
 
 To cure said Souverain Lorde the Kyng. A longe 
 gowne made of blue clothe of gold uppon satyn grounde 
 emaylled, and 1 yned with grene satyne ; a doublet made of 
 blac satyne lyned with Holand clothe and busk ; and ij elles 
 of busk and di' elle of Holand clothe for lynyng of Bother 
 doublettes ; a demy gowne made of tawny velvett lyned 
 with blac damask; a demy gown made of blac velvet 
 lyned with purpulle satyne ; a demy gowne of grene velvet 
 lyned with blac damask ; and iiij tipettes made of blac 
 velvett ; and over this other stuff necessarie, as sloppes of 
 divers leder; shoon of divers leder ; patyns of leder; Coleyn 
 threde delivered into the Tailloury for taillours to lyne arras 
 and verdours with, and a lb' of threde delivered into the 
 Skynnery for skynners to wirk with, by vertueof a warrant 
 under the signet of oure said Souverain Lord the Kinges 
 armes signed with his owne handes bering date the xj day 
 of May in the xx u yere of the mooste noble reigne of oure 
 said Souverain Lorde the Kyng unto the saide Piers Curteys 
 by oure said Souverain Lordes highnesse for the deliveree 
 of the saide stuff directe. 
 
 Velvet, xxiij yerdes di 7 of divers colours; blue cloth of 
 gold, x yerdes di' uppon satyne grounde emayled ; blac 
 damask, xij yerdes; satyn, xxij yerdes and a quarter of 
 divers colouis; Holand clothe, ij elles; busk, iij elles; 
 threde, ij lb' colen, di'lb' white, j lb' of threde for skynners; 
 sloppes, ij paire of Spanyssh leder not lyned, a paire of 
 Spaynyssh leder lined with clothe, j payre of blac leder 
 Jyned; a paire of blac leder not lyned; shoon, a paire of 
 
KING EDWARD THE FOURTH. 147 
 
 Spaynyssh leder sengle soled and not lined ; ij paire of blac 
 leder sengle soled and not lined ; patyns, j paire of blac 
 leder. 
 
 To oure saide Souverain Lorde the Kyng to have into 
 th'office of his Roobes within his mooste honorable house- 
 hold divers stuff by vertue of a warrant undre the Kinges 
 signe manuelle and signet bering date the second day of 
 Juyn the xx tl yere of the moost noble reigne of oure said 
 Souverain Lorde the Kyng unto the saide Piers Curteys 
 direct for the deliveree of the said stuff, 
 
 Blac velvet, a yerde for lynyng of ij paire sloppes of 
 Spaynyssh leder and of divers botews; botews, a paire 
 botews unto the knee of blac leder; a pair above the 
 knee of blac leder ; v paire of Spaynyssh tawny leder ; a 
 paire of blue leder; sloppes, ij paire lined with blac velvet, 
 a paire of tawny Spaynyssh leder, viij pair of Spaynyssh 
 leder riot lined ; shoone, iij pair of Spaynyssh ledder 
 sengle soled, ij paire of by yond see leder sengle soled ; 
 patyns, j pair of leder. 
 
 To oure said Souverain Lorde the Kyng, a demy gowne of 
 purpulle velvet, double sett lyned with grenesarsinette; a jaket 
 of blue clothe of gold emayled not lined, and oon elle di' of 
 Holand clothe for to make of necessarie thinges for the 
 Kynges medicyns, by vertue of a warrant undre the Kinges 
 signe manuelle and signet bering date the xix day of Juyl 
 in the xx li yere of the moost noble reigne of oure said Sou- 
 verain Lorde the Kyng unto the saide Piers Courteys 
 direct for deliveree of the said stuff, 
 
 Velvet purpulle, vj yerdes di' double sett ; cloth of gold 
 emayled, ij yerdes blue ; sarsinett, iij yerdes grene ; Holand 
 clothe j elle di'. 
 
 To oure saide Souverayn ij doublettes of blac satyne ; 
 
148 THE WARDROBE ACCOUNTS OF 
 
 a longe gowne of blac velvett lined with tawny damask ; 
 a demy gown of grene velvet chaungeable lined with 
 blac sarsinette; a longe gowne of white damask furrid 
 with fyne sables; a doublet of purpulle satyn and a doublet 
 of crymysyn velvet both lined with Holand clothe and in- 
 terlined with busk; ij stomachers of blac satyn; half a 
 yerde of blac velvet for lynyng of ij paire of sloppes ; 
 xxiiij shertes of Holand clothe ; xxiiij brest coverchieffes 
 of Holand clothe ; and xlviij handcoverchieffes of Holand 
 clothe ; an ostriche feder ; ij paire hosen of puke ; iiij paire 
 sokkes of fustian and a paire of hunting spuries parcelle gilt ; 
 ij paire of sloppes lined with velvet, blac ; iij paire of 
 slippers ; a paire of botews of blac leder doubled soled 
 above the knee ; iij paire of botews of blac leder above the 
 knee; a paire botews of blac leder; a paire of botews 
 above the knee of rede Spaynyssh leder ; a paire of botews 
 of tawny leder ; a paire of shoon of Spaynyssh leder ; ij 
 paire shoon of tawny leder ; a paire shoon of blac leder 
 double soled ; a paire shoon double soled not lined ; and 
 iiij paire of shoon of blac leder sengle soled ; by vertue of 
 a warrant undre the Kynges signe manuelle and signette 
 bering date the xxiiij 11 day of Juyll in the xx" yere of the 
 mooste noble reigne of oure said Souverain Lorde the 
 Kyng unto the saide Piers Courteys directed for the 
 deliveree of the said stuff, 
 
 Velvett, xxij" yerdes of divers colours; damask of silk, 
 xx yerdes and iij quarters di' of divers colours ; satyn of 
 silk, ix yerdes and iij quarters of divers colours; sarsinett 
 blac, iiij yerdes ; Holand clothe, Cix elles ; busk, iij elles ; 
 sable bakkes, vj tymbre di' xiiij ; ostriche feder, j ; hunting 
 spurres, j paire parcelle gilt ; sloppes, ij paire lyned with 
 blac velvett ; slippers, iij paire ; botews, a paire above the 
 knee of blac leder double soled; iij paire of blac leder 
 above the knee ; j paire of blac leder ; a paire of rede 
 Spanyssh leder above the knee; a paire of Spaynyssh 
 
KING EDWARD THE FOURTH. 149 
 
 leder tawny ; shoone, a paire of Spaynyssh leder, ij paire 
 of tawny leder, a paire of blac leder double soled, a 
 paire double soled not lined, iiij paire of blac leder sengle 
 soled ; hosen, ij paire of puke ; sokkes, iiij paire of fustiane. 
 
 To oure saide Souverayn Lorde the Kyngalonge gowne 
 of grene velvet upon velvet tisshue cloth of gold, and a 
 longe gowne of white velvet upon velvet tisshue cloth of gold, 
 both gownes lined with blac satyn ; j unce and a quarteron 
 of grene threde for the same ; a doublet of blac satyn 
 lined with Holand clothe and busk, and to have of divers 
 thinges necessarie as more plainly apperith in the utter 
 margyne by vertue of a warrant undre the Kinges signet 
 and signe manuelle bering date the vj the day of August 
 the xx li yere of the moost noble reigne of oure said Souve- 
 rain Lord the King unto the saide Piers Courteys direct, 
 
 Tisshue clothe of gold, xxj yerdes di' of grene and 
 white velvet upon velvet; satyn blac, xxvj yerdes ; threde 
 grene, j unce j quarteron ; Holand clothe, j elle j q' ; 
 busk, j elle di'; laces of silk, xiiij laces of riban of silk; 
 pointes of silk, viij dosen ; riban of silk, vij yerdes brode 
 riban of silk for girdels ; shetes of Holand cloth, a paire of 
 iij bredes ; blankettes, a paire ; hosen, ij paire ; bonettes, 
 ij ; gloves, xviij paire ; brusshes, iij of heth. 
 
 To oure said Souverayn Lorde the Kyng a demy 
 gowne of grene velvet and a gowne of grene damask, bothe 
 gownes lyned with blac satyn, ij tipettes of blac velvet, 
 ij hattes vj bonettes, by vertue of a warrant undre the 
 Kinges signet and sign manuelle bering date xvij day of 
 August in the xx u yere of the mooste noble reigne of oure 
 said Souverain Lorde the Kyng unto the saide Piers Cour- 
 teys for the deliveree of the said stuff directe, 
 
 Velvet, vj yerdes j quart' of divers colours ; damask, vj 
 yerdes grene ; satyn, xj yerdes di' ; hattes ij ; bonettes vj. 
 
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 To oure saide Souverain Lorde the King a loose 
 gowne of purpulle velvet double sette lined with blac satyn, 
 a doublet of blac satin made and lined accordingly with 
 a base of a jaket and a stomacher, both of blac satyn ; 
 a loose gowne of purpul clothe of gold upon satin gronnde 
 furred with ermyns; a loose gowne of velvet upon velvet 
 blac clothe of gold furrid with ermyns ; a streite gowne of 
 crymysyn clothe of gold uppon satyn grounde lined with 
 blac satyn, and a doublet of blac satyn ; a pane of scarlet 
 furrid with used ermyns di' yerde of purpul velvet forto 
 lyne with an hatt by the bordure ; a paire of long spurres 
 parcelle gilt. Delivered also unto Richard Andrewe 
 hosier iij yerdes and iij quarters puke forto make of iij 
 paire of hosen, and to have into the said office of the 
 Roobes within oure saide Souverain Lordes the King moost 
 honourable household the parcels of stuff ensuyng, that is 
 to say, iiij paire of shetes of Bruselle clothe everiche of 
 ij bredes ; iiij hattes of wolle ; viij bonettes ; a groos pointes 
 of sylk of divers colours; xxiiij laces of silk of divers 
 colours; viij yerdes di' brode riban of silk for girdels; and 
 xij combe coverchieffes everiche of an elle of Holand clothe, 
 
 Scarlet xij yerdes ; puke, iij yerdes iij q' ; ermyns, vj 
 tymbre di', xvj bakkes newe, xxxij tymbre bakkes used ; 
 velvet double sett, v yerdes ; pouderinges, iij M CCCiiij x; 
 clothe of golde ix yerdes di, uppon satin grounde purpulle 
 and crymysy ; tisshue cloth of gold, iiij yerdes di' blac 
 velvet upon velvet ; satyne blac, xvj yerdes and a naille ; 
 Holand clothe, xix elles di' ; busk, an elle ; shetes of Brus- 
 selle cloth, iiij paire of ij bredes ; spurres, a paire longe 
 parcelle gilt; hattes iiij of wolle; bonettes viij; pointes, 
 a groos of silk of divers colours; laces xxiiij of silk of divers 
 colours ; brode riban, viij yerdes di' of silk. 
 
 To oure saide Souverayn Lorde the Kyng to have 
 into the office of his Roobes within his moost honourable 
 
KING EDWARD THE FOURTH. 151 
 
 householde ; a clooke maade of blac chamelet lyned with 
 blac clothe, and the cape lyned with blac velvet; ij tipettes 
 made of blac velvet ; ij par* of grene hosen and ij paire 
 hosen of blac puke. And to have of divers stuff necessarie 
 into the said office for the store and were of oure said 
 Souverain Lorde the King the parcels of stuff hereafter 
 named, that is to witt, vj brusshes of hethe ; di' lb' of white 
 threde ; di' lb' of Bruges threde ; ij paire of botews sengle 
 above the knee of Spaynyssh leder and tawny leder; ij 
 paire of botews of Spaynyssh rede leder ; a paire of blac 
 botews sengle above the knee ; iij paire of sloppes of 
 tawny leder and Spaynysshe leder; iij paire sloppes of rede 
 Spaynyssh leder of divers sortes ; a paire of sloppes of blac 
 leder not lined ; a paire sloppes of blue Spaynyssh leder 
 not lined ; and a paire of sloppes of tawny Spaynyssh leder 
 lined with velvett ; iiij paire of shoon of blac leder of divers 
 sortes ; and ij paire of shoon of Spaynyssh leder double 
 soled of divers sortes ; a paire shetes of Brusselle clothe 
 for foteshetes of ij bredes ; a paire of botews of blac leder 
 double soled above the knee, 
 
 Blac clothe, iiij yerdes ; blac velvet, ij yerdes and 
 iij q'; chamelett, xvj yerdes di' quarter parcelle of a 
 pece cont' xvij yerdes di' ; hosen, ij paire grene, ij paire 
 blac puke; brusshes, vj of heth; threde, di' lb' white, 
 di' lb' blue Bruges ; botews of divers leders and divers 
 sortes, ij paire sengle soled above the kne of Spay- 
 nyssh leder and tawny leder ; ij paire of rede Spaynyssh 
 leder ; a paire of blac sengle soled above the knee ; j 
 pair of blac leder double soled above the knee; sloppes 
 of divers leders and divers sortes, iij paire of tawny 
 leder and Spaynyssh leder; iij paire of rede Spaynyssh 
 leder of divers sortes ; a paire of blac leder not lined ; a 
 pair of blue Spaynyssh leder not lined, a paire of tawny 
 Spaynyssh leder lined with velvet ; shoon of divers leders 
 
152 THE WARDROBE ACCOUNTS OF 
 
 and of divers sortes, iiij paire of blac leder of divers sortes, 
 and ij paire of Spaynvssh leder double soled of divers 
 sortes ; shetes, j par' of ij bredes of Brusselle clothe ; bootes, 
 a paire of rede Spaynyssh leder, a paire of tawny Spay- 
 nyssh leder, a paire of blac leder. 
 
 Delyvered for the coveryng and garnysshing vj of 
 the Bookes of oure saide Souverain Lorde the Kinges, 
 that is to say, oon of the Holy Trinite, oon of Titus Ly vius, 
 oon of the Gouvernal of Kinges and Princes, a Bible, a 
 Bible Historialle, and the vj the called Frossard, 
 
 Velvet, vj yerdes cremysy figured; corse of silk, ij 
 yerdes di' and a naille blue silk weying an unce iij q' 
 di'; iiij yerdes di* di' quarter blac silk weying iij unces; 
 laces and tassels of silk, xvj laces; xvj tassels, weying to 
 gider vj unces and iij q'; botons, xvj of blue silk and 
 gold ; claspes off coper and gilt, iij paire smalle with roses 
 uppon them; a paire myddelle, ij paire grete with the 
 Kinges armes uppon them ; bolions coper and gilt, Ixx ; 
 navies gilt, CCC. 
 
KING EDWARD THE FOURTH. 153 
 
 FOR TH OFFICE OF THE STABLE. 
 
 Delivered for to lyrie with a foote cloth of.velvet iij 
 yerdes of long blac bokeram, unto Joh'n Cheyne Squier 
 for the body of oure said Souverain Lorde the King and 
 Maister of his Hors ; receyved by the handes of Joh'n 
 Frysley clerk of the Kinges Stable by vertue of a warrant 
 under the Kinges signet and signe manuelle bering date 
 the xxiiij tl day of Juylle in the xx t! yere of the mooste noble 
 reigne of oure said Souverain Lorde the King unto the 
 saide Piers Curteys for the deliveree of the saide bokeram 
 directe, 
 
 Bokeram Jonge, iij yerdes blac. 
 
 Delivered for covering and making of xvij hors har- 
 neys of grene velvett, wherof vij harrieys for coursours and 
 oon harneys for an hoby, alle garnyssht with agelettes of 
 silver and gilt and bordured with spanges of silver and 
 gilt the saide vij harneys lyned with blac bokeram, by 
 vertue of a warrant under the Kinges signet and signe 
 manuelle bering date the xxvj day of Juylle in the xx li yere 
 of the moost noble reigne of oure said Souverain Lorde 
 the King unto the saide Piers Curteys for the deliveree of 
 the said stuff directe : and viij yerdes of crymysy velvet 
 for covering of x hedstalles and x broderayns for x hobyes 
 and palfreys the whiche the Kinges highnesse and goode 
 grace yave unto my lady Duchesse of Bourgoingne, 
 
 Velvet : viij yerdes crymysy ; xvij yerdes di' grene ; 
 bokeram longe, xvij yerdes di', boght by yond the see ; 
 agelettes, M 1 Iij of silver and gilt weying CC Ixxj unces 
 and iij quarterons ; spanges, of silver and gilt 
 
 weying C Iv unces. 
 
 x 
 
154 THE WARDROBE ACCOUNTS OP 
 
 Delivered for the covering of a sadelle and an herneys 
 in russet velvet cloth of gold for an hakeriey, and a foote- 
 clothe maade of russet velvet lyned with blac bokeram, by 
 vertue of a warrant under the Kinges signet and signe 
 manuelle bering date the second day of Septembre in the 
 xx li yere of the moost noble reigrie of oure said Souverain 
 Lord the King unto the saide Piers Courteys for the de- 
 li veree of the said stuff directe, 
 
 Velvet, iij yerdes russet; velvet cloth of gold, ij yerdes 
 di' russet ; bokeram longe, v yerdes. 
 
 Deliverede for the covering of a sadelle of astate ij yerdes 
 of purpul velvet clothe of golde, by vertue of a warrant 
 undre the Kinges signet and signe manuelle beringe date 
 the xj day of Septembre in the xx yere of the moost noble 
 reigne of oure said Souverain Lorde the Kyng unto the 
 saide Piers Courteys for deliveree of the saide stuff directe, 
 Purpulle velvet clothe of gold, ij yerdes. 
 
 Deliverede for covering of iiij sadelles and iiij barneys, 
 wherof iij sadelles and iij harneis covered in blac velvet, 
 and a sadel and a harneis covered in grene velvet ; and 
 iiij foteclothes of velvet lyned with bokeram, wherof iij of 
 blac velvet and oon of grene velvet, by vertue of a warrant 
 undre the Kinges signet and signe manuelle bering date 
 the in the xx tl yere of the moost noble 
 
 reigne of oure said Souverain Lorde the King unto the 
 said Piers Courteys for deliveree of the said stuff* directe, 
 
 Velvet, xxxij yerdes grene and blac ; bokeram longe, 
 xij yerdes.* 
 
 * Here follows in the MS. a general Inventory of all the articles mentioned 
 in the preceding pages, entitled " The foote of the deliveree of stuff," 
 
 
KING EDWARD THE FOURTH. 155 
 
 YIFTES YEVEN ASWELLE UNTO THE RIGHT HIGH AND 
 MYGHTY PRYNCE THE DUKE OF YORK, SON UNTO OURE 
 SAYD SOUVERAYN LORDE THE KYNG, AS UNTO OTHER 
 DIVERS LORDES AND ASTATES AND OTHER DIVERS PER- 
 SONES BY THE KINGES HIGHNESSE AND GOODE GRACE. 
 
 To the right high and mvghty Prynce the Duke of 
 Yorke, son unto cure said Souverayn Lord the Kyng for 
 covering of an harneys and a sadelle for hyrn, by the 
 vertue of a warrant undre oure saide Souverain Lordes the 
 Kinges signet and signe manuelle bering date the xxviij" 
 day of Aprille the xx l1 yere of his mooste noble reigne unto 
 the said Piers Courteys for deliveree of the said stuff 
 directe, 
 
 Velvet cremysy, j yerde di' ; velvet uppon velvet grene 
 clothe of golde, j yerde and a quarter. 
 
 George ^Lufkyn Sergeant taillour of the grete Warde- 
 robe of the Kyng oure saide Souverain Lorde to have the 
 parcelles of stuff here in the lower margin specified for 
 to make of certeyn garmentes for the apparaille and arraye 
 of a warde unto the Kinges highnesse and goode grace 
 apperteignyng and belonging, by vertue of a warrant undre 
 oure said Souverain Lord the Kinges signet and signe 
 manuelle bering date the xj day of May the xx li yere of 
 oure said Souverain Lorde the King moost noble reigne, 
 unto the said Piers Courteys for deliveree of the said stuff 
 directe, 
 
 Chamelet, vij yerdes violet, a pece blac ; satyn, vj 
 yerdes blac; velvet, iiij yerdes blac; bokeram longe, a 
 pece ; Holand clothe, an elle ; busk, ij elles. 
 
156 THE WARDROBE ACCOUNTS OF 
 
 To the Lorde Howard to have of the yift of oure saide 
 Souverayn Lorde the Kyng, by vertue of a warrant bering 
 date the xij day of May the xx u yere of the mooste noble 
 reigne of oure said Souverain Lorde the King unto the 
 saide Piers Courteys directe, 
 
 Blac velvet, ix yerdes. 
 
 To the College off oure Lady or chapelle of oure Lady and 
 Saynt George within the Castelle of Windesore, to have of 
 the yifte of oure said Souverain Lorde the King the parcelles 
 of silke here in the margyne named, by vertue of a warrant 
 bering date the xxiiij day of May the xx yere of the mooste 
 noble reigne of oure said Souvesain Lorde the King unto 
 the saide Piers Curteys for the deliveree of the saide silkes 
 directe, 
 
 Velvet of divers colours : xv yerdes of white velvet with 
 blac spottes ; xxvij yerdes of blue velvet with braunches ; 
 xix yerdes of blac velvet with white spottes ; xj yerdes 
 iij quarters white velvett braunched. 
 
 To the right highe and myghty Prince Richard Duke 
 of York to have the parcelles of silkes hereafter named, 
 receyved by Sir Thomas Grey Knyght his chamberleyne, 
 that is to witt, v yerdes of blac satyn and v yerdes of pur- 
 pulle velvet for lynyng of the same gown ; v yerdes of grene 
 satyn for a gowne, and ij yerdes di' of blac sarsinett for 
 lynyng of the same gowne, by vertue of a warrant bering 
 date the second day of Juyne the xx li yere of the mooste 
 noble reigne of oure said Souverain Lorde the King unto 
 the saide Piers Courteys for the deliveree of the said stuff 
 directe, 
 
 Velvet purpulle, v yerdes ; satyn, x yerdes ; blac sarsi- 
 nett, ij yerdes di'. 
 
KING EDWARD THE FOURTH. 157 
 
 To th'Erle off Warrewyk to have for his were and use, 
 iiij peire of shoon double soled and a peire of shoon of 
 Spaynyssh leder sengle soled, by vertue of a warrant undre 
 the Kinges signe manuelle and signet bering date the 
 second day of Juyn in the xx u yere of the moost noble 
 reigne of our said Souverain Lorde the King, 
 
 Shoon : iiij paire double soled ; a payre of Spaynyssh 
 leder sengle soled. 
 
 To George Grey son and heyre of th'Erle of Kent, to 
 have of the yift of oure said Souverain Lorde the Kyng 
 ayenst the mariage of the same George, a gowne of blue 
 velvet lyned with blac satyn, a gowne of crymysy velvet 
 lyned with blac satyn, and a demy gowne of blac velvet 
 lyned with blac satyn, by vertue of a warrant undre the 
 Kinges signe manuelle and signet bering date the xxvj 
 day of Juyn in the xx tl yere of the moost noble reigne of 
 oure Souverain Lorde King Edward the iiij the , 
 
 Velvet of divers colours, xxvij yerdes ; satyn blac, xxvij 
 yerdes. 
 
 Edward Stanley oon off the cupberers of oure said Sou- 
 verain Lorde the King to have of the yift of the Kinges 
 highnesse and goode grace ix yerdes chamelet, v yerdes of 
 sarsinette, ij yerdes of tawny satyn, and ij yerdes of blac 
 satyn, by vertue of a warrant undre the Kinges signe 
 manuelle and signett bering date the ix day Juylle in the 
 xx li yere of the moost noble reigne of oure said Souverain 
 Lord the King, 
 
 Chamelet, ix yerdes ; satyn, iiij yerdes ; sarsinett, v 
 yerdes. 
 
 To Dame Anne Wyngfeld to have of the yift of oure 
 said Souverain Lorde the Kyng, x yerdes of blac velvet 
 
158 THE WARDROBE ACCOUNTS OF 
 
 serigle, by vertue, of a warrant under the signe manuelle and 
 signette of oure said Souverain Lorde the Kyng bering 
 date the xv day of Juylle in the xx li yere of the moost 
 noble reigne of oure said Souverain Lorde the Kyng unto 
 the said Piers Courteys for deliveree of the said x yerdes of 
 velvet directe, 
 
 Velvet, ix yerdes sengle. 
 
 To the Colleg off Wyndesore to have of the yift of 
 oure said Souverain Lorde the Kyng xxx yerdes iij quarters 
 white damask with floures, of divers colours ; and to William 
 Berkeley and Joh'n Rysley to either of hem ij yerdes of 
 tawny satyn, by vertue of a warrant undre the Kinges 
 signet arid signe manuelle bering date the xix day of Juylle 
 in the xx tl yere of the moost noble reigne of oure said 
 Souverain Lorde the Kyng unto the saide Piers Courteis 
 for deliveree of the saide stuff directe, 
 
 Damask, xxx yerdes and iij quarters white with floures 
 of divers colours ; satyn, iiij yerdes tawny. 
 
 To the saide College off Wyndesore to have of the yift 
 of oure saide Souverain Lorde the King xiij yerdes rede 
 velvet tisshue cloth of gold ; xiij yerdes blue velvet tisshue 
 cloth of gold ; xiij yerdes white velvet tisshue cloth of gold ; 
 and vij peces bawdekyns of silk, by vertue of a warrant undre 
 the Kinges signet and signe manuelle, bering date the 
 xxij u day of Juylle in the xx tl yere of the moost noble 
 reigne of oure said Souverain Lorde the Kyng unto the 
 saide Piers Courteis for deliveree of the said stuff directe, 
 
 Velvet, tisshue cloth of gold, xxxix yerdes of divers 
 colours ; bawdekyns of silk, vij peces. 
 
 To th'Erle of Warrewyk to have of the yifte of oure said 
 Souverain Lorde the Kyng for his use and were, a peire of 
 
KING EDWARD THE FOURTH. 159 
 
 shoon sengle soled of blue leder; a paire of shoon of 
 Spaynyssh leder ; a paire botews of tawny Spaynyssh 
 leder ; and ij paire shoon sengle soled ; and to Sir William 
 A Parre Knyght to have of the yift of oure said Souverain 
 Lorde the King for covering of his brygandyns, iij yerdes 
 and iij quarters of crymysyn cloth of gold uppon satin 
 grounde ; and unto the Maister off the Kinges Barge ayenst 
 the commyng of the righte high and right noble Princesse 
 Lady Margarete the Duchesse of Bourgoingne suster unto 
 our saide Souverain Lorde the Kyng, a gowne of blac 
 chamelet, by vertue of a warrant undre the Kynges signet 
 and signe manuelle bering date the xxiiij" day of Juylle in 
 the xx li yere of the moost noble reigne of oure said Sou- 
 verain Lord the Kyng unto the saide Piers Courteys for 
 deliveree of the said stuff direct, 
 
 Cremysyn clothe of gold the grounde satyn, iij yerdes iij 
 quarters ; chamelet, ix yerdes di' ; Shoon ; j paire sengle of 
 blue leder ; a paire of Spaynyssh leder sengle soled ; ij 
 paire blac ; Botews, j paire of tawny Spaynyssh leder. 
 
 To the saide College off Wyndesore to have of the yift 
 of oure said Souverain Lorde the Kyng, xx yerdes blue 
 velvet, and xx yerdes of purpulle velvet, by vertue of a warrant 
 undre the Kinges signet and signe manuelle bering date 
 the vj day of August in the xx li yere of the mooste noble 
 reigne of oure saide Souverain Lorde the Kyng unto the 
 saide Piers Courteys for deliveree of the said stuff directe ; 
 and over this unto oure Souverayn Lady the Queue and to 
 Lady Elizabeth the Kinges doughter for ij gownes for them 
 had of the Kynges yift, by vertue of an other warrant bering 
 the same date, xv yerdes of grene tisshue clothe of gold, 
 by vertue of the saide warrant here above reherced, 
 
 Velvet, xl yerdes of blue and purpulle ; tisshue cloth of 
 gold, xv yerdes grene. 
 
160 THE WARDROBE ACCOUNTS OF 
 
 To the Argenter off Fraunce to have of the yift of oure 
 saide Souverain Lorde the King xij yerdes of scarlet, and xij 
 yerdes of violet in greyne, and Ixvj yerdes and iij quarters of 
 blac velvet, and xij yerdes of clothe of silver hached uppon 
 satyn grounde, by the Kinges highriesse and goode grace 
 yeven unto divers astates and gentils, being attending and 
 awaiting uppon the person of the right high and right noble 
 Princesse Lady Margaret Duchesse of Bourgoingne suster 
 unto oure said Souverain Lorde the Kyng, by vertue of a 
 warrant undre the Kinges signet and signe manuelle bering 
 date the xvj day of August in the xx u yere of the moost 
 noble reigne of oure saide Souverain Lorde the Kyng unto 
 the said Piers Courteys for the deliveree of the saide stuff 
 directe, 
 
 Scarlet, xij yerdes; violet in greyne, xij yerdes; velvet, 
 Ixvj yerdes and iij quarters ; clothe of silver, xij yerdes 
 hached uppon satyne grounde. 
 
 To the righte highe and right myghty Prince Edward by 
 the grace of God Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwayle 
 and Erie of Chester, the firstbigoten son of oure said 
 Souverayri Lorde Kyng Edward the iiij the , to have of the 
 yift of oure said Souverain Lorde the Kyng, v yerdes of 
 white cloth of golde tisshue for a gowne, by vertue of a 
 warrant undre the Kinges signet and signe manuelle bering 
 date the xvij day of August in the xx li yere of the mooste 
 noble reigne of our said Souverain Lorde the Kyng unto 
 the said Piers Courteys for the deliveree of the said clothe of 
 gold directe, 
 
 White clothe of gold tisshue, v yerdes. 
 
 To the right high and myghty Prince the Duke of 
 York, son unto oure said Souverain Lorde the Kyng, to have 
 of the yift of his highnesse and goode grace, v yerdes of 
 
 
KING EDWARD THE FOURTH. 161 
 
 purpulle velvet for a gowne ; v yerdes of grene velvet for a 
 gowne ; iiij yerdes di' of grene damask for a gowne ; a 
 yerde di' of grene satyn ; ij yerdes di' of tawny sarsinet, 
 and v yerdes of white cloth of gold for a gowne, by vertue 
 of a warrant undre the Kinges signet and signe manuelle 
 bering date the xvij day of August in the xx tl yere of the 
 moost noble reigne of oure said Souverain Lorde the Kyng 
 unto the saide Piers Courteys for the deliveree of the said 
 stuff direct, 
 
 Velvet, x yerdes purpulle and grene; damask, iiij 
 yerdes di' grene ; satyne, a yerde di' grene ; sarsinet, 
 ij yerdes di' tawny ; tisshue cloth of golde, v yerdes white. 
 
 To the same right high and myghty Prince the Duke 
 of York to have of the yift of oure saide Souverain Lorde 
 the Kyng a mantelle of blue velvet lined with white damask 
 garnissht with a garter of ruddeur and a lase of blue silk 
 with botons of golde, by vertue of a warrant undre the 
 Kinges signet and signe manuelle bering date the saide 
 xvij day of August in the saide xx 11 ' yere of the moost 
 noble reigne of oure saide Souverain Lorde the King unto 
 the said Piers Courteys for deliveree of the said mantel, 
 
 Velvet, vij yerdes blue; damask, vj yerdes white; 
 garter, j of ruddeur ; Jace, j of blue silk with botons of 
 golde. 
 
 To the right noble Lordes the Marquies Dorset and 
 th'Erle Ryviers to have of the yift of our said Souverain 
 Lorde the Kyng to either of hem iij yerdes white tisshue 
 cloth of gold for j short gowne, by vertue of a warrant 
 undre the Kinges signet and signe manuel bering date the 
 said xvij day of August in the said xx tl yere of the moost 
 noble reigne of oure say de Souverain Lorde the Kyng unto 
 
THE WARDROBE ACCOUNTS OF 
 
 the said Piers Courteys for deliveree of the said clothe 
 of gold directe, 
 
 Tisshue clothe of gold, vj yerdes white. 
 
 To the Lorde off Audeley to have of the yift of oure 
 said Souverain Lorde the Kyng for covering of a peire of 
 brygandyns, by way of rewarde, by vertue of a warrant 
 undre the Kinges signet and signe manuelle bering date the 
 xxiiij 11 day of August in the xx li yere of the moost noble 
 reigne of oure said Souverain Lorde the Kyng unto the 
 said Piers Courteys for deliveree of the said clothe of golde, 
 
 Clothe of gold, ij yerdes crymysyn uppon satyn 
 grounde. 
 
 To John Grantfforde oon of the yomen off the Crown to 
 have of the Kinges graunte xij yerdes of scarlet to perfourme 
 the Kinges pleasire and to delivere it unto suche persormes 
 as the Kinges highnesse hath yeven hym in commaunde- 
 ment, by vertue of a warrant undre the Kinges signet and 
 signe manuelle bering date the last day of August in 
 xx tl yere of the mooste noble reigne of oure saide Sou- 
 verain Lorde unto the said Piers Courteys for deliveree 
 of the said scarlet direct, 
 
 Scarlet, xij yerdes. 
 
 To Sir Thomas Montgomery and Sir Thomas Borough 
 Knyghtes for the Body, to have of the yift of oure saide 
 Souverain Lorde the Kyng for the covering of theire 
 brygandyns, that is to say, to the said Sir Thomas Mont- 
 gomery ij yerdes and a quarter of cremysin clothe of gold 
 upon satin grounde in stede of damask grounde ; and to 
 the saide Sir Thomas Borough ij yerdes di* of crymysyn 
 clothe of gold uppon salyn grounde in stede of damask 
 grounde, by vertue of a warrant undre the Kinges signet 
 
 
KIN<; EDWARD THE FOURTH. 163 
 
 and signe manuelle bering date the last day of August 
 in the xx u yere of the moost noble reigne of oure said 
 Souverain Lord the King unto the saide Piers Courteys for 
 the deliveree of the saide cloth of gold directe, 
 
 Crymysyn cloth of gold uppon satyn grounde, iiij yerdes 
 and iij quarters. 
 
 To the Lorde Marquies and th'Erle Ryvers to have of 
 the yift of oure said Souverain Lorde the King to either 
 of them ij yerdes di' purpulle clothe of gold uppon satyn 
 grounde, 
 
 Purpulle cloth of gold upon satyn grounde, v yerdes. 
 
 Dely vered for to make off a pilion for the right high and 
 right noble Princesse Lady Margarete Duchesse of Bour- 
 goingne suster unto oure said Souverain Lorde the King 
 to her delivered ayenst her going into Flaundres ayen, 
 
 Clothe of gold, iij yerdes and a quarter blue and pur- 
 pulle ; bokeram, ij yerdes ; frenge, vj unces di' of blue and 
 purpul silk ; frenge, xj unces di' of Venys gold. 
 
 And to divers off the Kynges servantes aswelle of his 
 mooste honourable Charnbre as other divers Officers of divers 
 of his Offices and other divers men by the Kinges highnesse 
 and goode grace assigned and appointed to attende and 
 awaite uppon the conveying and bringing over the see of 
 the right high and right noble Princesse Lady Margarete 
 Duchesse of Bourgoingne suster unto oure said Souverayn 
 Lorde the Kyng to have of the Kinges yift ayenst the 
 same tyme, jakettes of vvollen clothe murrey and blue, 
 the names ofwhiche persotmes hereafter ensue and folowe: 
 
 William Rither and a man to awaite uppon hyni, either 
 of hem ajaket of blue and murrey clothe; George Chey- 
 newe and a man to awaite uppon hym, tu either of hem a 
 
164 THE WARDROBE ACCOUNTS OF 
 
 jakett of blue and murrey clothe ; Thomas Thwaytes a 
 jaket of blue and murrey clothe; Richard Bunteyn and a 
 man to awayte uppon him, to either of them a jaket of 
 blue and murrey clothe; Rauf Newham a jakett of blue 
 and murrey clothe ; Oly vere Guy on a jaket of blue and 
 murrey ; William Acham, Thomas Philippe, Roger Riche- 
 mond and a man to awayte uppon hym, Davy Morice, 
 John Coket, Humfrey Reynforde, John Kendale, Thomas 
 Fremanne, Henry Walker, Richard Scopeham, Edmond 
 Mille, James Worseley, William Kyghley, Rauf Dowelle, 
 Richard Cartemaille, John I)avy of Fowy, Richard Leder, 
 Thomas Brampston, William Parker, John Walforde, 
 John Greyson, John Hamerton, Henry Sambrooke, 
 Thomas Pyne, John Asteley, Thomas Granford, John 
 Lightfoote, John Besteney, James Warner, John Wil- 
 shawe, Thomas Hullok, Henry Langtone, Nicholas Whit- 
 feld, John Nevelle, William Dobinson, Thomas Dobinson, 
 John More, John Guylle, John Hudde, William Peny, 
 John Gonner, John Jewelle, Thomas Jackson, Richard 
 Tod and a man to awaite uppon hym, Richard Halle, 
 William Grenerigge, Thomas Heywode, Thomas Stari- 
 hope, Davy Fyssher, Robert Bray, Thomas Sparowe, John 
 Hovy, William Thorneton, Thomas* Ryder, Thomas 
 Smythson, and Osberne Walyngton, x servauntes of Sir 
 Edward Wydevile Knyghte, iiij servantes of Sir James 
 Ratclif Knyght, ij servantes of Tayes, and ij servantes of 
 Darcy, a servant to awaite uppon Thomas Dobinson and 
 William Dobinson, to everiche of hem a jaket of murrey 
 and blue cloth : 
 
 And also unto Parker of Dover, Robert Wilson, 
 Thomas Ustewayte, John Apris, Geffrey Chirke, iiij men 
 to awaite upon William Berkley, and iiij men to awaite 
 
 * This word has been erased. 
 
KING EDWARD THE FOURTH. 165 
 
 uppon Thomas ap Roger Vaghan, to everiche of hem a 
 a jaket of murrey and blue : 
 
 XX 
 
 iiij vij persories^ . 
 
 f C persones in alle. 
 xiij persones > 
 
 Clothe murrey and blue, C yerdes. 
 
 To Sir Edward Wydevile and to Sir James Radcliff, 
 Knyghtes for the Body of oure saide Souverain Lorde the 
 Kyng, to have of his yift ayenst the conveyance and 
 bringing over the see of the right highe and right noble 
 Princesse Lady Margarete Duchesse of Bourgoingne sus- 
 ter unto oure said Souverain Lorde the Kyng, to either of 
 theyme a yerde of velvet purpulle and a yerde of blue 
 velvet for theire jakettes to be made of: 
 
 And to Darcy and Tay, Squiers for the Body of oure 
 said Souverain Lorde the King, ayenst the saide convey- 
 ance of the saide right highe and right noble Princesse, to 
 either of theym, for theire jakettes, a yerde of purpul 
 satyn and a yerde of blue satyne, by vertue of a warrant 
 undre the Kinges signet and signe manuelle bering date 
 the xviij day of Septembre in the said xx li yere of the 
 said moost noble reigne of our said Souverain Lorde the 
 King unto the said Piers Courteys for the deliveree of the 
 said stuff direct; and to either of the said Darcy and 
 Tay an harneys complete ; and to William Berkley and 
 Thomas ap Roger Vaghan, to either of hem, for theire 
 jakettes a yerde of purpulle satyn and a yerde of blue 
 satyn, by vertue of the same warrant : 
 
 Velvet, ij yerdes purpulle, ij yerdes blue ; satyn, iiij 
 yerdes purpulle, iiij yerdes blue ; harneys, ij complete. 
 
 To Thomas Hatthe oon off oure wardes to have the 
 parcelles of stuff here after ensuyng of the yift of oure 
 said Souverain Lorde the Kyng for his apparaille and 
 
166 THE WARDROBE ACCOUNTS OF 
 
 arraye, that is to witt, a long gowne of russet clothe furrid 
 with white lambe, a longe gowne of chamelet furrid with 
 bogy shankes and bogy, a demy gowne of russet lined 
 with blac clothe, a doublet of velvet, a doublet of chamelet, 
 a jaket of blac satyne, iij tipetes of blac velvett, a hatte, 
 ij bonettes, iiij paire of hosen, poyntes laces aud riban of 
 silk for girdelles weying in alle iiij unces, di' groos of leder 
 poyntes, iiij paire of shoori, ij paire of slippers, a paire of 
 botews, and viij elles of Holand clothe for shertes stomach- 
 ers and coverchieffes, by vertue of a warrant undre the 
 Kinges signet and signe manuelle, bering date , 
 
 Blac clothe, a yerde di' ; russet clothe, iij yerdes iij 
 quarters di' ; white lamb, xxxij skynnes ; bogy, a furre of 
 blac shankes, iij skynnes blac ; velvet, ij yerdes di' blac ; 
 satyn, a yerde blac ; chamelet, viij yerdes blac ; riban of 
 silke, iiij unces for girdels pointes and laces ; Holand clothe, 
 viij elles ; hosen, iij paire ; bonettes, ij ; hatt, j of wolle ; 
 poyntes, di' groos of leder ; shoon, iiij paire sengle soled 
 blac ; slippers, ij paire ; botews, a paire. 
 
 Delivered unto the maister of the Kinges barge and 
 unto xxiiij bargemen to make of xxv jakettes garnyssht 
 with smalle rooses enbroudered ; and unto iiij other per- 
 sones to have of the Kinges yift viij grete roses enbrou- 
 dered ayenst the commyng to London of the right high and 
 right noble Princesse Lady Margarete Duchesse of Bour- 
 goingne sustere unto oure saide Souverain Lorde the Kyng, 
 Clothe, blue and murrey, xvj yerdes ; roses enbroudered, 
 xlviij smalle, viij grete. 
 
KING EDWARD THE FOURTH. 167 
 
 THE FOREYN AND OWTWARDE DEL1VEREE OF STUFF 
 
 FOR THAPPARAILLE OFF THE SAYDE MAISTER AND VIJ 
 
 HENXEMEN. 
 
 To John Cheyne Squier for the Body of oure said Sou- 
 verain Lorde the King and Maister of his Henxmen for 
 th'apparaille of the saide Maister and vij of the Kinges 
 Henxemen ayenst the feste of Midsomer in the xx li yere of 
 the mooste noble reigne of oure saide Souverain Lorde 
 the King, by vertue of his warrant undre his signet and 
 signe manuelle bering date the xxix tl day of May in the 
 said xx tl yere of oure said Souverain Lorde the King 
 mooste noble reigne unto the saide Piers Curteys for 
 deliveree of the said stuff directe, that is to witte, viij 
 longe gownes maade of vij peces purpulle chamelett and 
 of a pece of blac chamelett, lined with xxxij yerdes of blac 
 sarsinett ; and also xxxij yerdes of blac sarsinet delivered 
 for lynyng of viij longe gowries of vvollen clothe, and xvj 
 yerdes di' of blac satyn, and xvj yerdes di' of tawny satyn, 
 for xvj doublettes for the said maister and vij Henxemenne, 
 Satyne, xxxiij yerdes ; chamelet, viij peces ; sarsinet, 
 Ixiiij yerdes. 
 
168 THE WARDROBE ACCOUNTS OF 
 
 FOR TH APPARAILLE OFF THE KYNGES FOTEMEN. 
 
 To Robert Hert and John Topffeld the Kynges fote- 
 men, for theire apparaille, by vertue of a warrant undre 
 the Kinges signet and signe manuelle bering date the xviij 
 day of Juylle the xx li of the moost noble reigne of oure 
 saide Souverain Lord the Kyng to the said Piers Curteis 
 direct, asmuche velvet and chamelet as shalbe neccssarie 
 to make of ij doublettes for either of them ; and also 
 asmuche velvette and chamelet as shalbe necessarie 
 for two jakettes for either of them, 
 
 Velvet, iiij yerdes di' blac, iij yerdes purpulle and blue ; 
 chamelet, viij yerdes di' of divers colours. 
 
KING EDVVAHD THE FOURTH. 169 
 
 THE SOMER CLOTHING OF DIVERS OFFICERS. 
 
 To the saide Piers Courteys whome the Kinges high- 
 nesse and goode grace hath assigned and ordeigned by 
 his highe commaundement to rule gouverne and kepe 
 his saide grete Warderobe, and al his goodes beyng withjn 
 the same, unto his moost honourable use safly to keepe, 
 and to make into the same his grete Warderobe provysion 
 ot all maner of stuff necessarie to and for his use and other 
 personnes at his said high commaundement, and to make 
 oute of the same his saide grete Warderobe deliveree of 
 stuff at alle tymes necessarie by his said high commaunde- 
 ment, aswel for his moost royalle person as for all other 
 personnes at his said high commaundement, for his liveree 
 of clothing for the feste of Witson tyde in the xx 11 yere of 
 the mooste noble reigne of oure said Souverain Lorde the 
 Kyng, that is to witt, x yerdes of violet in greyne and a 
 pece of tartaryn, 
 
 Violet in greyne x yerdes, tartaryn j pece. 
 
 William Mistertone clerc of the same grete Warde- 
 robe for his Somer clothing for the said feste of Witson 
 tyde the said xx 11 yere of the moost noble reigne of oure 
 said Souverain Lord King Edward the iiij th % iiij yerdes of 
 MustrevilerSj 
 
 Mustrevilers clothe, iiij yerdes. 
 
 William Dunkam oon of the yomanne tail lours of the 
 same grete Warderobe, for his liveree of clothing for the 
 season of Somer for the fest of Witsontyde, the said 
 xx ti yere of the moost noble reigne of oure said Souverain 
 Lorde the King, iiij yerdes of Mustrevilers. 
 
 William Halle oon of the yomen taillours of the same 
 
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THE WARDROBE ACCOUNTS, &c. 
 
 grete Warderobe for his liveree of clothing for the season 
 of Somer for the feste of Witsontyde, the said xx t5 yere of 
 the mooste noble reigne of oure said Souverain Lord the 
 King, iiij yerdes of Mustrevilers. 
 
 Thomas Stanes Portitour of the same grete Warderobe, 
 for his liveree of clothing for the season of Somer for the 
 fest of Witsontyde the said xx li yere of the mooste noble 
 reigne of oure said Souverain Lord the King, iiij yerdes of 
 Mustrevilers. 
 
 Richard Huntingdon and Thomas Dancaster clerkes, 
 erly and late attending in the same Warderobe, for theire 
 liveree of clothing for the season of Somer for the feste of 
 Witsontyde the said xx 11 yere of the mooste noble reigne 
 of oure saide Souverain Lorde the King, to either of them 
 iiij yerdes of Mustrevilers. 
 
 To the Rentgeder of the mansions and tenementes 
 apperteignyng and belanging unto the same Warderobe 
 for his hole rewarde for gadering of the said rente and for 
 the overseying of the reparacion of the same Warderobe, 
 and of the said mansions and tenementes, for his Somer 
 liveree ayenst the fest of Witsontyde the said xx 11 yere of 
 the moost noble reigne of oure said Souverain Lord the 
 King, that is to witt, for alle the tyme of this accompt, 
 Mustrevilers clothe, iiij yerdes. 
 
 Richard Sheldone and John Clerk, auditors of th' Es- 
 chequier of oure saide Souverain Lorde the King, to either 
 of hem for theire Somer liveree, iij yerdes of Mustrevilers 
 clothe ; and betwix them a yerde and iij quarters grene 
 clothe for half a countingclothe, 
 
 Clothe Mustrevilers, vij yerdes and iij q\ 
 
INDEX AND NOTES 
 
 TO THE 
 
 PRIVY PURSE EXPENSES 
 
 OF 
 
 ELIZABETH OF YORK. 
 
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INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 ABINGDON, 51 52, 53, 56, 58, 
 59, 71, 74. 
 
 The queen appears to have been 
 at Abin^don about the 8th Octo- 
 ber, 1502. 
 
 Acworth, Thomas, 18, 30, 45, 
 62, 93, 97, 104, 109. 
 Apparently one of the officers of 
 the queen's household, connected 
 with the department of the sta- 
 bles, the expenses of which he paid. 
 
 Adington, Robert, 93. 
 A tailor. 
 
 Ale, for, 79. 
 
 Almond butter brought, 2. 
 
 A usual present on Good Friday, 
 when common butter was not 
 permitted to be eaten. In the 
 ancient cookery temp. Richard the 
 Second, published by the Society 
 of Antiquaries in 1790, is this re- 
 ceipt for making 4< Botyr of Al- 
 mones. Take almonde mylk and 
 let hit boyle, and in the boyling 
 cast therto a lytel wyne or vine- 
 gar, and when it is sothen take 
 and cast it on a canvas abrode, 
 tyl it be colde, then take and geder 
 it togeder and hang it up in a 
 cloth a lytel while, then lay it in 
 colde water and serve it forthe." 
 D. Paid u in rewarde for a dish 
 of almon butter presented on Good 
 Friday, iij *.," occurs in the 
 household expenses of Thomas 
 Kytson, Esq., in 1575. Gage's 
 History and Antiquities of Hen- 
 grave, p. 20C. 
 
 Almoner, the king's, 42. 
 
 the queen's, 31, 33, 67, 97. 
 
 Richard Payne, clerk. See 
 
 PAYNE. 
 
 Almorys, for, 96. 
 
 u Cibutum," in the Promptorium 
 
 Parvulorum, in the HarL MS., 
 221, is translated by an " almery 
 of mete kepyng, or a save for 
 mete ;" and Palsgrave, in Les- 
 clarcissement de la Langue Fran- 
 coys, in 1530, has tk almery to put 
 meat in, unes almoires." It ap- 
 pears, however, from this entry, 
 that almories were applied to 
 other purposes than for meat, as 
 in this instance they were used 
 for books : " and within the said 
 feretory on both north and south 
 side there were ambries of fine 
 wainscot, varnished and finely 
 painted, and gilt over with fine 
 little images very beautiful to be- 
 hold, for the reliques belonging 
 to St. Cuthbert to lye in." The 
 Ancient Rites of the Church of 
 Durham, G. 
 
 Alms, money given in, 1, 5, 12, 
 23, 30, 32, 33, 37, 38, 50, 52, 
 
 56, 59, 62, 67, 78, 85. 
 The whole amount expended " in 
 almous " was only 9/. 11*. 5r/., 
 which was distributed in small 
 sums in the queen's progresses, in 
 gifts to old servants of her family, 
 or in the gratification of any sud- 
 den benevolent impulse. The 
 practice of giving alms on jour- 
 nies was common with all persons 
 of any consequence. " Delivered 
 to my Mrs. to give by the way in 
 her little purse." Gage's History 
 of Hengrave, p. 203. 
 
 Altar cloths, for working on, 82, 
 83. 
 
 Altar cloths were frequently 
 richly embroidered, sometimes 
 with the name of our Saviour, 
 sometimes with the Order of the 
 Garter, the arms of the donor, &c. 
 Rich robes and vestments were 
 often bequeathed to be made into 
 
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 INDEX AND NOTIiS. 
 
 altar cloths. Royal fl'ills and Tes- 
 tamenta Fetusta. 
 
 Alyri, Robert, 29, 35, 36, 41, 
 49, 53, 57, 58, 70, 71, 95. 
 
 Yeoman Usher of the queen's 
 chamber. 
 
 Anchoress, an> 67, 102. 
 
 A female ant horite In the 1 8th 
 Edw. II. a piece of ground, in 
 St. Peter's, Cornhill, London, 
 which the parishioners had in- 
 closed and built upon, is said to 
 have been then the residence of 
 an anchoress ; and in the 4th 
 Edw. IV. " Alice Ripas Ancho- 
 ryse, inclused withynne the Cha- 
 pell of St. Eleyn of Pountefret," 
 was protected by the Act of Re- 
 sumption in the enjoymentof 40s., 
 which had been granted to her 
 by the king's letters patent. Rot. 
 Parl. i. 419 ; v. 546 b . 
 
 Antill, 47. 
 
 Ampthill, in Bedfordshire. See 
 a note in the Privy Purse Ex- 
 penses of Henry fill., p. 295. 
 
 Anne, Lady, 9, 79, 94, 99. 
 
 The queen's sister, who married 
 Thomas Lord Howard, son and 
 heir apparent of Thomas, Earl of 
 Surrey (afterwards second Duke 
 of Norfolk). She had issue two 
 sons, both of whom died infants. 
 In the Privy Purse Expenses of 
 Henry VII., on the 4th February, 
 1495, is an entry of G*. 8d., being 
 paid as the king's offering at her 
 marriage, which nearly fixes the 
 date of that event. See also Rolls 
 of Parliament, vi. 479, 511. 
 
 Anthem, for setting an, 2. 
 
 Antyne, William, 21. 
 A coppersmith. 
 
 Apothecary, John Eyrce, 49. 
 
 Apothecary's bills, 8, 48. 
 
 Apples brought, 4, 13, 30, 47, 
 53, 74. 
 
 Arbour, an, made in the Little 
 Park at Windsor, 31. 
 Apparently from the price, 4s. 8cJ., 
 an arbour made of twigs only. 
 
 Arrerages, i. e. Arrears, 109. 
 Arrows, for a sheaf of, 58. 
 
 Arthur, Mr., 100. 
 
 One of the queen's servants. 
 
 Arundel, Earl of, 40. 
 
 Thomas Fitzalan, K.G. He suc- 
 ceeded to the earldom of Arundel 
 in 1487, an d married the queen's 
 aunt, Margaret, daughter of 
 Richard Wydeville, Earl Rivers, 
 by whom he had, among other 
 issue, William, his son and suc- 
 cessor, and a daughter, Margaret, 
 who married her majesty's first 
 cousin, John de la Pole, Earl of 
 Lincoln, son of Elizabeth Duchess 
 of Suffolk, sister of Edward IV. 
 The Earl died in 1524. 
 
 Askew, Christopher, 20, 80, 104. 
 
 One of the queen's servants. 
 Attorney in the Common Pleas, 
 101. 
 
 William Mordaunt. See MOR- 
 
 DAUNT. 
 
 - the King's, 101. 
 James Hobert. See HOBERT. 
 
 Auditor, the Queen's, 101, 102. 
 Richard Bedell. See BEDELL. 
 
 Aulferton, Oliver, 94, 100. 
 
 Keeper of the Queen's Goshawks. 
 
 Aurum Reginse, 111. 
 
 " An ancient perquisite, belong- 
 ing to every queen consort during 
 her marriage with the king, and 
 due from every person who hath 
 made a voluntary offering or fine 
 to the king, amounting to ten 
 marks or upwards, for and in 
 consideration of any privileges, 
 grants, licenses, pardons, or other 
 matter of royal favour conferred 
 upon him by the king ; and it is 
 due in proportion of one tenth 
 part more, over and above the 
 entire offering or fine made to the 
 king, and becomes an actual debt 
 of record to the queen's majesty, 
 by the mere recording of the fine." 
 " In the reign of Hen. II. the 
 manner of collecting it appears to 
 have been well understood, and 
 it forms a distinct head in the 
 ancient Dialogue of the Exche- 
 quer, written in the time of that 
 prince. From that time it was 
 regularly claimed and enjoyed 
 
INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 175 
 
 !>y all the queens consort of 
 England until the death of 
 Heriry VIII. ; though, after the 
 accession of the Tudor family, 
 the collecting of it seems to have 
 been much neglected," which 
 agrees with the fact of no sum 
 being entered under that head in 
 these accounts. " There being no 
 queens consort afterwards, until 
 the accession of James I., the 
 nature and quantity of the queen's 
 gold became matter of doubt, and 
 on the subject being referred to 
 the Judges, their report was so 
 unfavourable to the queen's claim, 
 that she never exacted it." In 
 the llth Car. I., the king, on the 
 petition of Queen Henrietta 
 Maria, issued his writ for levying 
 it ; but afterwards purchased it 
 of her for 10,000/., " finding it, 
 perhaps, too trifling and trouble- 
 some to levy ;" and since that 
 time no attempt has been made 
 to collect this revenue, the value 
 of which was nearly destroyed by 
 the abolition of military tenures 
 at the Restoration. Blackstone'a 
 Commentaries, i. 220, 222. 
 
 Awdeley, Thomas, 10. 
 A mercer of London. 
 Axe, an, bought, 63. 
 A\letrees, bought, 103. 
 
 Bailly, Richard, 56. 
 
 Yeoman of the Queen's chamber. 
 
 Robert, 6. 
 
 One of the servants of Lord 
 William Courtenay. 
 
 Baiting horses, for, 79. 
 
 Bangham, Lady Jane, 98. 
 
 This person had a son, named 
 Edward Pallet, who was brought 
 up at the queen's expense, in the 
 house with her Majesty's nephews 
 the young Lords Courtenay ; but 
 the cause of his being so favoured 
 does not appear. In the privy 
 purse expenses of Henry VII. are 
 entries of a payment of 2/. on the 
 10th January,' 1496, to a woman 
 of Thistleworth, for keeping of 
 my Lady Jane Bongham's child 
 until the Easter following ; and 
 from entries on the 1st April, 13 
 Hen. VII., 15 March, 14 Hen. 
 
 VII., and 1 Aug. 15 Hen. VII., 
 it seems that she was allowed 31. 6s. 
 per annum for the purpose. The 
 following entry in those accounts 
 on the 8th July, 1501, tends to 
 explain the circumstance of the 
 king's charging himself with the 
 expense of one of this Lady's 
 children : " To Agnes Adams, 
 for kepyng and berying of Henry 
 Bougham, the king's godson, 
 I/. 6*. 8d." Her other son, Ed- 
 mond Pallett, was adopted by the 
 queen. 
 
 Banquet, an arbour made in 
 Windsor Park, for a banquet 
 for the queen, 31. 
 
 Baptiste, Elizabeth, 99. 
 
 Fraunceys, 100. 
 
 Two of the Queen's servants. 
 
 Barbour, Piers, 90. 
 
 One of the servants of Henry VII. 
 Among the extracts from the 
 privy purse expenses of that 
 monarch, in the Additional MS. 
 7099, in the British Museum, 
 are entries of payments to Piers 
 Barbor, for wine and gloves ; of 
 8*. paid him in January, 1503, 
 " for one that makes the king a 
 roll of his armes," and of a pay- 
 ment by him, of 9/. 0*. 8^. to 
 Mrs. Eleanor Johns, &c. 
 
 Barge, the Master of the, 94. 
 Lewis Walter. See WALTER. 
 
 Barehides, for mending and li- 
 quoring, 15, 16, 37. 
 Barehides were hides used as co- 
 verings of packages, clothes, &c. 
 Katherine Lady Hastings, by her 
 will in 1503, gave her son " three 
 barrehides for carriage; and two 
 barrehides for cloth sekks." In 
 the Privy Purse Expenses of Henry 
 Fill. p. 182, is an entry of 8/. 
 "for a bare hyde to cover the 
 king's barge;" and in the Ward- 
 role Accounts of Edward IF., p. 
 123, " for sowing of the barehide 
 of the king's car." 
 
 Barge, the : notices of the queen 
 being conveyed in her barge, 
 and the expenses attending it, 
 6, 7, 15, 24, 60, 61, 73, 85, 
 94, 95. 
 Like her son, Henry VIII., and 
 
176 
 
 INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 earlier sovereigns, the queen fre- 
 quently moved by water from Rich- 
 mond to Greenwich, and part of 
 her suite attended her in other 
 boats. See a note in the Privy 
 Purse Expenses of Henry Fill. 
 p. 298. The whole amount spent 
 from March, 1502 to Feb. 1503, 
 for conveying the queen and her 
 suite by water, was 13/. Is. 4J., 
 being about 2/. on each occasion. 
 The situation of master of the 
 royal barge was one of some im- 
 portance ; and in the Act of Re- 
 sumption 1 Henry VII., Robert 
 Savage was protected in the 
 grant of the office of master of 
 the king's barge. Rot. Parl. vi. 
 377- In the same year John 
 Calcote, citizen and painter, son 
 of " John Calecote, late of Lam- 
 beth, and maister of the barge to 
 the most Christian Prynce, King 
 Henry the VI*., late King of 
 England," obtained the reversion 
 of his father's attainder. Lewis 
 Walter was the queen's barge- 
 man. See WALTER. 
 
 Barge, for tallowing and dress- 
 ing the queen's, and for ropes, 
 &c., for, 15, 81. 
 
 Barking, i.e., Berking in Essex, 
 Lady of, 4, 102. 
 
 Barton, Sir William, a priest for 
 singing, and for going on a 
 pilgrimage for the queen, 3, 
 102. 
 
 , Thomas, 23. 
 
 One of the queen's footmen. 
 
 Baskets, for, 4, 11, 19, ?6. 
 
 These baskets were of various 
 kinds, some being provided with 
 locks, and others are termed 
 " trussing baskets," and were 
 used for conveying large parcels 
 of goods. 
 
 Basons, for, 19. 
 
 Bath, Bishop of, 90. 
 
 Oliver King, who was translated 
 from Exeter in November, 1495, 
 and died in September, 1503. 
 This prelate rebuilt the Abbey 
 Church of Bath. 
 
 Baynard's Castle, 20, 23, 25, 26, 
 
 39, 54, 64, 69,71,73, 74,78, 
 
 79, SO, 87, 88, 93. 
 Baynard's Castle, keeper of the 
 garden at, 98, 102. 
 
 According to Stow, Baynard's 
 Castle continued to be the pro- 
 perty of the Barons Fitz Walter 
 until the early part of the fif- 
 teenth century, but he was not 
 aware of the manner in which it 
 was alienated from them. In the 7 
 Hen. VI. 1428, he found, he says, 
 that after a great fire there, it was 
 rebuilt by Humphrey, Duke of 
 Gloucester, on whose attainder in 
 1446 it fell to the crown. It was 
 soon afterwards granted to Ri- 
 chard Duke of York, who lodged 
 there in 1457 ; and in 1460 his 
 son Edward, afterwards Edward 
 IV., resided there when he de- 
 posed Henry. To this it may be 
 added, that Henry VI., in 1447, 
 granted the house which belonged 
 to the Duke of Gloucester, with 
 all the appurtenances in the pa- 
 rish of St. Andrew, within the 
 ward of Baynard's Castle, to the 
 provost and scholars of St. Ma- 
 ry's College, Cambridge. Rot. 
 Parl. v. 132 b . In 1455, "the 
 grant made of the place at Ba- 
 nardes Castell, late bildyd by 
 oure uncle the Duke of Glouces- 
 ter," was resumed into the king's 
 hands. Ibid. 309. Certain com- 
 missioners, who were appointed 
 to administer the effects of the 
 duke, were authorized in 1455 to 
 take possession " of a place some- 
 tyme callid the duks warderobe 
 atte Baynardes Castell in Lon- 
 don, otherwise called Waterton's- 
 alley." Ibid. 339 b . In the 13th 
 Edw. IV., the College of St. 
 Mary's was specially protected 
 in the enjoyment of the grant of 
 the lands at Baynard's Castle. 
 Ibid. vi. 91. It was the resi- 
 dence of Cecily, Duchess of York, 
 during the reign of her son Ed- 
 ward IV., and after his decease, 
 Richard III. dated the first in- 
 strument on assuming the re- 
 gal functions, from " a certain 
 high chamber near the chapel in 
 the house of Lady Cecily, Duchess 
 York, near the river Thames, 
 called Bavnard's Castle in 
 
 
INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 Thames-street, London." Fce- 
 dera, xii. 189; and as, in 1480, 
 certain articles of Edward's robes 
 (p. 122, ante} were carried thi- 
 ther from Greenwich, it may be 
 inferred that he then visited* his 
 mother. In 1487, Stow says, that 
 Henry repaired, or rather new 
 built, the house in a beautiful 
 manner, and mentions many oc- 
 casions on which Henry resided 
 there. These entries relate chiefly 
 to repairs at Baynard's Castle and 
 to the removal of furniture to and 
 from it ; but we learn from them 
 that the queen passed several 
 days there, about the 19th No- 
 vember, 1502 ; and she seems to 
 have stopped there for a short 
 time previously to going to the 
 Tower in December following. 
 Five shillings are stated to have 
 been paid for making an arbour 
 at Baynard's Castle in the 18th 
 Hen. VII. Additional MS 7099. 
 
 Beale, mad, 104. 
 
 This entry is so imperfect, that 
 it can only be suggested that the 
 sons of a deranged person of the 
 name of Beale were charitably 
 supported by the queen. 
 
 Beasts, for painting, 36. 
 
 It is possible these drawings of 
 beasts were intended as designs 
 for tapestry, G. 
 See PAINTING. 
 
 Bed, for working on a rich, 82. 
 Ample evidence exists of the ex- 
 traordinary richness and value 
 of beds in the 13th, 14th, and 
 15th centuries. Every kind of 
 ornament, arms, flowers, devices, 
 scriptural subjects, animals, &c., 
 was embroidered on them, and 
 they sometimes had particular 
 names, and were not unfre- 
 quently strictly entailed on the 
 possessor's heirs. The bed here 
 alluded to must, from its being 
 described as " the rich bed," 
 have been one of unusual splen- 
 dour ; and three men and three 
 women were employed on it from 
 fourteen to fifty-two days each. 
 *' A bedde he had ryght well 
 
 ydyght 
 
 With ryche clothus of ryght 
 gode aray." 
 
 Legend of St. Ede of Wil- 
 ton, stanza 296. 
 
 Bed of Tourney, a, 39. See 
 
 TOURNEY. 
 Bedelle, Richard, 101, 102. 
 
 The queen's auditor. 
 Bedford, fee farm of the town of, 
 
 109. 
 
 Beds, page of the queen's, 4, 10. 
 groom of the, 11. 
 
 wardrobe of the, 15. 
 
 yeoman of the, 51, 81. 
 Bedstead, for making a, 51. 
 Bedmaker, a, 65. 
 
 Beer, given to friars in charity, 
 56, 57. 
 
 Beer brewer, 56. 
 
 Belknap, Mrs. Margaret, 13, 
 38, 52, 99. 
 
 One of the ladies in attendance 
 on the queen's person. Query, 
 if she was the Margaret Belknap, 
 daughter of Sir Richard Knollys, 
 and widow of Henry Belknap, 
 Esq., who died in 1488, and by 
 whom she had Sir Edward Belk- 
 nap, a privy councillor to Henry 
 VII. and Henry VIII. ? She was 
 living in 1488, after which time 
 nothing has been discovered about 
 her. 
 
 Bell, John, his child christened, 
 28. 
 
 The queen was, most probably, 
 
 one of the sponsors. 
 Bellows, a pair of, bought, 19. 
 
 Belly, John, 45. 
 
 Yeoman of the Queen's Stuff. 
 Berkeley, 43, 44, 45, 46, bis, 49, 
 50, 60, 62. 
 
 The queen seems to have been at 
 Berkeley from the 29th August 
 to the 4th September, 1502. 
 
 herons, 64, 66, 67. 
 
 Query, Berkeley Harness, or De- 
 mesnes ? 
 
 Berkhampstead in Hertfordshire. 
 
 the under keeper of, 30. 
 Beverston, 49, 60. 
 
 In the hundred of Berkeley^ 
 
 in the county of Gloucester. A 
 
 small castle rebuilt by the Thomas 
 
 Lord Berkeley who is mentioned 
 
 by Froissart. See Leland's Itine- 
 
 2 A 
 
178 
 
 INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 rary, vol. vi. p. 68. " T. Lorde 
 Berkeley was taken prisoner in 
 France : but after recovering his 
 losses with French prisoners at 
 the battle of Poyteres builded the 
 castell of Beverston thoroughly." 
 D. 
 
 Birch e, Sir Robert, priest, for 
 singing", 102. 
 
 Birds brought, 54. 
 
 Bits bought, 97. 
 
 Bishop of the King's Chapel on 
 St. Nicholas' Even, 76. 
 " A gift to the Boy-Bishop for 
 saying Vespers in the King's 
 Chapel on St. Nicholas' eve. In 
 the Wardrobe Account of the 28th 
 Edw. I., published by the Society 
 of Antiquaries, fo. 25, is a similar 
 item : " 7 die Decembris, cuidem 
 episcopo puerorum dicenti vespe- 
 ris de Sancto Nicholao coram 
 Rege in capella sua apud Ueton 
 juxta Novum Castrum super Ty- 
 nam, et quibusdam pueris venien- 
 tibus et cantantibus cum episcopo 
 predicto de elemosina ipsius Re- 
 gis per manus Domini Henrici 
 Elemosinar' participants inter 
 pueros predictos xls." The His- 
 tory of the Boy-Bishop is too well 
 known to require observation. G. 
 In the extracts from the Privy 
 Purse Expenses of Henry VIII. in 
 1512, in the Additional MS., 7100, 
 is this entry on the 5th December 
 (St. Nicholas' Day), " To St. 
 Nicholas, bishop, in reward, 
 61. 13*. 4rf." 
 
 Bishops, new year's gifts of the, 
 90, 91. 
 
 Blades for knives, 96. 
 
 Blake, William, 109. 
 
 This person bought the wardship 
 and marriage of John Carew, the 
 son and heir of Sir John Carew, 
 Knt., for which he paid 25/. 
 
 Blakemore, 45, 46, 66. 
 
 In the hundred of Westbury, 
 in the county of Gloucester. 
 
 Boat-hire, 5, 6, 12, 27, 33, 34, 
 68, 96, 98. 
 
 The usual wages of each rower 
 was 8d. a day, whilst the master 
 of the queen's barge received 
 double that sum : the hire of a 
 
 boat from Greenwich to London 
 was 4</. We find that 2*. 4d. were 
 paid for boat hire from Richmond 
 to Greenwich ; 1*. from Rich- 
 mond to London ; 3d. from West- 
 minster to London ; and that foi- 
 l-owing from Baynard's Castle to 
 Westminster the rowers were 
 paid 4d. each, whilst the master 
 of the barge received a whole 
 day's wages, viz. IGd. The mas- 
 ter of the other boats received 
 always double what the rowers 
 were paid. The price of a boat 
 from Gravesend to the Tower and 
 back, was, it seems, 3s. 4d. As 
 the rowers were paid so much 
 each for their services, the sums 
 paid " in reward " for boats, pro- 
 bably meant for the hire of them 
 above and below London Bridge. 
 u The hire of a barge with vj 
 men and the master" for going 
 therein to court on May-day, 1575, 
 was ix 5., " and for ij botes in com- 
 ing up with the men ijs. viijrf., 
 and in reward amongst the barge- 
 men xijd.' " Gage's History of 
 Hengrave. 
 
 Bolok, John, 82. 
 An embroiderer. 
 
 Bolton, John, 45. 
 
 One of the queen's servants. 
 
 Bolts, for, 20. 
 
 Boards, for, 74. 
 
 Bone, Mrs, Margaret, 99. 
 
 One of the queen's gentlewomen. 
 
 Bonfires, for making, on the 
 Eves of St. John the Baptist 
 and St. Peter, 26. 
 Strutt observes, " On the vigil 
 of Saint John the Baptist, com- 
 monly called Midsummer eve, it 
 was usual in most country places, 
 and also in towns and cities, for 
 the inhabitants, both old and 
 young, and of both sexes, to meet 
 together, and make merry, by the 
 side of a large fire, in the middle 
 of the street, or in some open and 
 convenient place, over which the 
 young men frequently leaped, by 
 way of frolic, and also exercised 
 themselves with various sports 
 and pastimes, more especially 
 with running, wrestling, and 
 dancing. These diversions they 
 continued till midnight, and some- 
 
INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 179 
 
 times till cock-crowing." " At 
 London," says Stow, k ' in addi- 
 tion to the bonfires on the eve 
 of St. John, as well upon that 
 of St. Peter and St. Paul, every 
 man's door was shaded with green 
 birch, long fennel, St. John's wort, 
 orpin, white lilies, and the like, 
 ornamented with garlands of beau- 
 tiful flowers. The citizens had 
 also lamps of glass, with oil burn, 
 ing in them all night, and some 
 of them hung out branches of 
 iron, curiously wrought, contain- 
 ing hundreds of lamps, lighted at 
 once, which made a very splendid 
 appearance." Stow's Survey : 
 Sports and Pastimes, 316, 317. 
 See Gage's History of Hengrave, 
 p. 198, for further illustration of 
 the pastime called the Midsum- 
 mer Watch, when it was custo- 
 mary to enter the houses of indi- 
 viduals in the city to examine the 
 state of their arms. 
 
 Bonnets, for, 92, 98, 104. 
 
 Bonnets, as is shewn by Strutt, 
 were used as well by men 
 as by women. They were com- 
 monly made of cloth, and were 
 sometimes ornamented with 
 jewels, feathers, gold buttons, 
 &c. Thus we find bonnets bought 
 for the use of the queen and for 
 the use of her nephew, Lord 
 Henry Courtenay; and in the 
 I'riry Purse Expenses of Henry 
 VIII. bonnets are mentioned, as 
 being bought for his majesty, 
 p. 15. See also BONNETS, in 
 the Index to the Wardrobe Ac- 
 counts of Edward IV. In a cu- 
 rious letter from Edward IV. 
 when Earl of March, and his 
 brother, the Earl of Rutland, to 
 their father, after thanking his 
 " noblesse and good fadurhood " 
 for the green gowns he had sent 
 them, they request him that they 
 might have " snmmefyne bunetls 
 sende un to us by the next seure 
 messigere, for necessite so re- 
 quireth." Ellis's Original Let- 
 ters, First Series, 1. 10. 
 
 night, a, 17. 
 
 for fetching, 14. 
 
 Borivice, Jerome, 105. 
 
 A Laurence Bonvice is mentioned 
 
 in the Privy Purse Expenses 
 of Henry Fll, as having received 
 2068/. 4s. lid. on the 26th May, 
 9 Hen. VII., " to employ for the 
 king, which must be repayed:" 
 and on the 1st June following, 
 1340/. 11 s. Id. to buy wools for 
 the king's use. 
 Books bought, 98, 105. 
 
 for making a chest to put 
 
 books in, in the Queen's 
 Council Chamber, 96. 
 Bostall, 40. 
 
 In the hundred of Ashenden, 
 in the county of Bucks. An in- 
 teresting account of an ancient 
 house at Borstall will be found in 
 Rennet's Parochial Antiquities. 
 
 Botery, William, 9, 67. 
 
 A mercer of London. 
 Bourne, Mrs., 38, 51. 
 
 One of the queen's gentlewomen. 
 
 Bowl, a, 4. 
 
 a washing, for the queen of 
 
 . Scots, 19. 
 
 Bow, the queen's offering at, 22. 
 Bradow, Beatrix, 100. 
 
 Rocker to Lord Henry Courtenay. 
 
 See ROCKER. 
 
 Brags, Emma, 100. 
 
 Rocker to Lady Margaret Cour- 
 tenay. 
 
 Brampton, Richard, 95. 
 
 Gentleman of the queen's pantry. 
 By the description of u yeoman of 
 the king's pantry," he and Tho- 
 mas Fysh, serjeant of the pantry, 
 were protected in the enjoyment 
 of the office of keepers of the 
 manor, park, gardens, and warren 
 of Shene; and Brampton was 
 also protected in the enjoyment of 
 the office of keeper of the park of 
 Rowndhagh, in Yorkshire, by the 
 act of Resumption, 1 Hen. VII. 
 1485. Rot. Parl. vi. 38 l a & b 
 
 Brawderers. See Embroiderers. 
 Bray, 106. See Cokeham. 
 Bray, Lady, 10, 18, 21, 23, 28, 
 bis, 52, 53, 54, 57, 67. 
 
 Probably Katherine, daughter of 
 Nicholas Hussey, esq,, and widow 
 of Sir Reginald Bray, K.G. and 
 Knight Banneret. She made her 
 2 A 2 
 
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 INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 will on the 15th of December, 
 1507, in which she ordered her 
 body to be buried in the College of 
 Windsor, near her husband, and 
 died before the 7th of February 
 following, without issue. In the 
 Privy Purse Expenses of Henry 
 VII., in March, 1495, is an entry 
 of I/. 6*. 8d. being paid her for an 
 image ; in the next year 11. 2s. 
 for stools and skrenes ; and in 
 Sept. 1498 of 20s. for the queens' 
 minstrels. 
 
 Braybroke, James, 90. 
 
 He is often mentioned in the Privy 
 Purse Expenses of Henry VII. ; on 
 one occasion, as having received 
 9s. 8d. for the painter, and on 
 another 405. for Perkin Warbeck ; 
 and he appears to have been one 
 of the king's servants. 
 
 Breakfast, paid for a, 12. 
 
 Nine-pence was the price of the 
 breakfast of one of the queen's 
 gentlewomen. 
 
 Bread for, 79. 
 
 Brent, Mrs. Elyn, 6, 12, 18, 23, 
 25, 32, 34, 43, 53, 62, 99. 
 One of the queen's gentlewomen. 
 On the 12th April, 1499, 2/. 13s. 
 4cf. were " delivered to Weston, 
 for the king, for Mastresse Brent;" 
 and in February following she 
 received 1 2s. for a fork of silver, 
 weighing three ounces. A Ro- 
 bert Brent was gentleman usher 
 of the queen's chamber, keeper 
 of Sandwich Castle, and verger 
 of that town, as well as pro- 
 vost of the town of Middleton, 
 in Kent, in the 1st Henry VII., 
 (Rot. Parl. vi. 378,) whose wife 
 or daughter Mrs. Elyn Brent pro- 
 bably was. 
 
 Bretayn, Agnes, 27. 
 
 Apparently the widow of a gold- 
 smith. 
 
 Brice, 78. 
 
 Yeoman cook for the queen's 
 mouth. 
 
 Bricklayers, 80. 
 
 Bridge, the reward of a barge or 
 boat beneath the, sape. See 
 BARGE. 
 Bridget, Lady, 29, 50. 
 
 Lady Bridget Plantagenet, the 
 
 queen's youngest sister, who was 
 born about the year 1481, and 
 having taken the veil, retired to 
 the monastery of Dertford, where 
 she died. See the INTRODUC- 
 TORY REMARKS. 
 
 Bright, John, 36, 49, 56, 58, 71, 
 72, 74, 95. 
 
 A page : his wages were eight- 
 pence a day. 
 
 Bristol, 42, 43, 44, 46. 
 
 It does not positively appear, 
 whether the queen visited Bristol 
 in her progress, but it is evident 
 that she was very near that city 
 on the 22nd of August, when she 
 offered at the chapel of St. Anne 
 in the forest of Kingswood. 
 
 , the fee-farm of the town 
 
 and barton of, 101, 109. 
 In the 7th and 8th of Edw. IV., 
 1468, the sum of 102/. 15*. (id. of 
 the farm of the town of Bristol 
 was settled for life on Elizabeth, 
 the queen of Edward IV., to be 
 received by equal portions in Mi- 
 chaelmas and Easter terms (Rot. 
 Parl. v. 625) ; and, by letters- 
 patent, dated 26th of December, 
 1487, Henry the Seventh granted 
 to his queen the same amount 
 *' to be perceived and taken of his 
 ferme of his towne of Bristowe, 
 with the suburbes and the appur. 
 tenances of the same." Rot. Parl. 
 vi. 446, which agrees with finding 
 that 5 1/. 7 s - 9</. were paid in 
 Easter term, 1502. In the act of 
 settlement upon Queen Anne 
 Boleyn, 31 March, 1530, 103'. 
 15s. Gd. was assigned her from the 
 Fee farm of Bristol, and 60/. out 
 of the manor and hundred of Ber- 
 tone juxta Bristol. 
 
 Broad heads, for a sheaf of, for 
 shooting, 58. 
 
 Brocas, Benet, 111. 
 
 Receiver of the Duchess of Suf- 
 folk's rents. 
 
 Brown, John, 11, 15,36,39,41, 
 42, 49, 50, 58, 75, 93,94,95. 
 Groom of the queen's beds. His 
 wages were }Qd. a day. 
 
 Browne, Mrs. Anne, 99. 
 
 One of the queen's gentlewomen : 
 her salary was 5/. per annum. 
 
INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 181 
 
 Brushes, for, 45, 75. 
 
 Bryan, Henry, 5, 19, 25, 55, 68. 
 
 A mercer of London. 
 
 Brydges, Sir Giles, 47. 
 
 Of Coberley, in Gloucestershire, 
 father of John, first Lord Chandos, 
 and ancestor of the dukes of Chan- 
 dos. He was knighted for his 
 valour at the battle of Blackheath, 
 June 22, 1497 ; was sheriff of 
 Gloucestershire 15 Hen. VII. ; 
 and died in 151 1. 
 
 Brymesfeld, keeper of the park 
 of, 36. 
 
 In the county of Gloucester. This 
 manor formerly constituted the 
 barony of the Lords Giffard of 
 Brimmesfield, and the house was 
 rased by the army of Edward II. 
 The manor was assigned to the 
 queen for her jointure, 21st of 
 February, 7 Heii. VII., 1492. 
 Rot. Part. vi. 462 b . It had been 
 held in jointure by Cecily, Du- 
 chess of York, and was after- 
 wards appropriated to the use of 
 Katherineof Arragon. D. 
 
 Buckles, laten, shoes with, 85, 
 86. 
 
 Buckles for the straps which 
 confined the shoe to the leg. 
 
 Bucking-ham, minstrel of the 
 Duke of, 78. 
 
 Edward Stafford, K.G., succeeded 
 his father as third Duke of Buck- 
 ingham in 1483, and was be- 
 headed and attainted in 1521. He 
 was the son of Katherine, daugh- 
 ter of Richard Wydeville, first 
 Earl Rivers, and was consequently 
 first cousin of the queen. 
 
 Buckram, for, 22, 44. 
 
 Bucks brought, 30, 35, 38, 44, 
 46, 47, bis, 48, 63. 
 
 Bucks given in reward, 38, 39. 
 These bucks were given, the one 
 to the officers of the queen's 
 stable, and the other to the king's 
 harbingers at Monmouth, together 
 with ten shillings for a feast. 
 
 for conveying, 45, 48, 67, 
 88. 
 
 Bukks Shire, i. e. Buckingham- 
 shire, 89. 
 
 Buknam, Ann, 53. 
 
 One of the queen's gentlewomen. 
 
 Bullok, Richard, 88. 
 
 A surgeon : his bill for attendance 
 on the queen's nephew, Lord 
 Henry Courtenay, amounting to 
 10*., was paid by her majesty. 
 
 Bulstrode, William, 6, 12, 30, 36, 
 56, 58, 59, 88, 91. 
 It does not appear from these ac- 
 counts what office Bulstrode held 
 in the queen's household, but it 
 was evidently a confidential one ; 
 and, as his servant is spoken of, 
 he must have been a person of 
 some consideration. He was pro- 
 bably the William Bulstrode, 
 Esq., who was supervisor of the 
 will of Thomas Ramsey of Hu- 
 cham, in September, 1500. In the 
 nth Hen. VIII., 1520, a Wil- 
 liam Bulstrode was one of the 
 gentleman ushers. Fccdera, xii. 
 71-2; and a Lady Bulstrode is 
 thrice mentioned in the Privy 
 Purse Expenses of Henry VIII. 
 between 1529 and 1532. 
 
 Burton, Edmond, 4, 7, 12, 35, 
 49, 58, 71, 72. 
 
 Yeoman of the queen's chamber : 
 his wages were 1*. a day. 
 
 Burying, expenses for burying 
 
 a yeoman of the queen's 
 
 chamber, 97. 
 Burying men who were hanged, 
 
 expenses of, paid by the 
 
 queen, 14. 
 
 To bury the dead is one of the 
 " acts of mercy ;" and that duty 
 appears to have been very fre- 
 quently fulfilled by Henry VII., 
 by his consort, the queen, and 
 by their son, Henry VIII. " To 
 the confraternities of the Miseri- 
 cordia in Catholic countries be- 
 long crowned heads and all the 
 first nobility, who frequently give 
 their personal attendance, in 
 masks, at funerals, as well as 
 contribute towards the charge of 
 burying the dead." G. These 
 accounts record an instance of 
 two criminals being interred 
 at the queen's expense. In the 
 Privy Purse Expenses of Henry 
 VIII. the payment of the bu- 
 rial of a footman is said to 
 have been done by way of alms, 
 and many other persons were in- 
 
182 
 
 INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 terred at his cost. In those of 
 Henry VII. are entries for " the 
 burying of a man that was slain 
 in my Lady Grey's chamber Gs. 
 8d. :" and " for Wodecoks burial 
 21. 1 is. 2d." The following per- 
 sons were also buried at Henry 
 Vllth's charge : 27 Febniary, 
 1494, " For Sir William Stanley's 
 burial at Syoii 15/. 19s.:" 15 
 November, 1503, "to my Lord 
 Herbert, in lone by his bille for 
 burying Sir Richard Pole, 40/. :" 
 " 8 December, 1499, for the bu- 
 rial of the Earl of Warwick, by 
 four bills 121. 8s. 2d. ob. :" " May, 
 1500, for the burial of my Lord 
 Edmund (the king's youngest 
 son) over and besides the Abbot 
 and Convent of Westmister, un- 
 rewarded, 242/. lls. 8d. :" A 16 
 Hen. VII., for burying of Owen 
 Tudor (third son of Owen Tudor 
 by Queen Katherine,) a monk at 
 Westminster, 3/. Is. 2d., which 
 entry agrees with one in the 
 churchwarden's accounts of St. 
 Margaret's, Westminster. "1501, 
 Item for the knell of Owen Tudor 
 with the bell, Gd." Nichols' //- 
 lustrations of the Manners and Ex- 
 penses of Ancient Times p. 4. 
 " To Thomas Cornew, for burying 
 of Master Hasset 21. 12s. Id., and 
 " for burying young Percy at 
 Stony Stratford, 20s." Additional 
 MS. 7099. The expenses of the 
 burial of Lord Edward Courtenay, 
 the queen's nephew, were only 
 41. 18s. 4d. p. 103. Of those 
 persons, all excepting Stanley and 
 Hassett, were connected with the 
 royal family ; but as Lord Stan- 
 ley and the Earl of Warwick were 
 criminals, both having been be- 
 headed for treason, to bury them 
 may have been considered as "an 
 act of mercy." 
 
 Buskins for the queen's use, 85, 
 86. 
 
 Buskins are presumed by Strutt 
 to have resembled " the shoes of 
 the carpenter's wife in Chaucer's 
 Canterbury Tales, which the poet 
 says ' were laced high upon her 
 legs ;' and probably both of them 
 resembled the high shoes still 
 used in the country.'' Dresses 
 and Habits, ii. 378. No earlier 
 example of the use of the word 
 
 has been found than in these Ac- 
 counts ; but Strutt considers that 
 the same article was meant by 
 fn,usiaux in the Romance of the 
 Rose, in the description of Pyg- 
 malion adorning the female sta- 
 tue he had made, who says he 
 does not put " houseaux" on her, 
 because, according to the printed 
 copies, she was not born at Pa- 
 ris : 
 
 " N'est pas de housiaux estrinee 
 Car ele n'est pas de Paris ne'e 
 Trop par fust rude cauchemente 
 A pucelle de tele jouvente." 
 but, according to the copy in the 
 Harlfian MS. 4425, which Strutt 
 follows (Ibid. p. 23C), because she 
 was so young that they would be 
 too rough for her, 
 
 " Car pas n'estoit de saison nee 
 Ce fut trop rude chausement 
 A pucelle de telle jouvent." 
 
 See Houses in Roquefort's Glos~ 
 saire de Langue Romaine. Bus- 
 kins are said to have been the 
 same article as is called sloppes in 
 the Wardrobe Accounts of Edward 
 IV. Strutt, Ibid. 345. The 
 entry in which the word oc- 
 curs proves that it was a kind of 
 large shoe suited for travelling, as 
 two pair were bought at the 
 queen's going into Wales, which 
 cost 4s. a pair. Buskins are not 
 mentioned in the Privy Purse 
 Expenses of Henry VIII. between 
 1529 and 1532. Strutt has however 
 cited an example from the Ward- 
 robe Accounts of that monarch in 
 1516 (Harleian MS. 2284), of the 
 delivery of two yards of black 
 velvet for making a pair : these 
 he thinks were for masking, 
 as he finds that crimson satin 
 buskins were used for the same 
 purpose, which were sometimes 
 ornamented with aglets of gold. 
 Ibid. p. 345 : but this conjecture 
 is very doubtful, as there is evi- 
 dence that Henry wore buskins 
 and shoes of velvet, as well as 
 of leather; for, by a warrant 
 dated 28 June, 27 Hen. VIII., 
 1535, the keeper of the great 
 wardrobe was commanded to de- 
 liver " To Henry Johnsone, our 
 cordewaner, for twentie yardis of 
 velvette of dyverse colours, alle 
 of our greate warderobe. Item 
 
INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 183 
 
 for making of three paire of vcl- 
 vette buskyiines and nine and 
 thirtie paire of velvette shooys of 
 sundry colours for oure use alle 
 of oure greate warderobe. Item 
 for syxe paire of English lether 
 bootys, and syxe paire of Spanyshe 
 lether buskynnes." Archccologia, 
 ix. 252. " A cote and a cloket, 
 ij paire of hose, a doublet, a payre 
 ofbuskyns, and spurres, a hatt, ij 
 cappes, and a payer of velvet 
 shoes," were the articles of which 
 Henry Bourchier informed his 
 mother, the Countess of Bath, he 
 stood in immediate need in June, 
 1551. Gage's History and Anti- 
 quities of Heng rave, p. 141. 
 
 Butter, for, 14, 56. 
 
 brought, 5. 
 
 Bynfel, 3. 
 
 Cabrok, (i. e. Colnbrook near 
 Windsor) our Lady of, and to 
 an Hermit there, 31. 
 
 Cakes brought, 30, 38. 
 
 Calverd, Edmond, 13, 26, 32, 
 35, 36, 42, 44, 56,71, 95. 
 Page of the Queen's Chamber. 
 His wages were Sd. per diem. 
 
 Candles, for, 83. 
 
 Candlesticks, for, 77. 
 
 Canterbury, Archbishop of, 14, 
 
 90. 
 
 Henry Deane was translated from 
 Salisbury to the See of Canter- 
 bury, on the 26th of April, 1501, 
 and is said to have died on the 
 15th or 16th of February, 1502 
 (query 1502-3") ; his successor 
 was William Warham, who is 
 stated to have been translated 
 from London 29th November, 
 1504, so that if these dates be 
 correct, the See was vacant for 
 two years. If, as is most proba- 
 ble, Archbishop Deane died in 
 February 1503, he was the per- 
 son mentioned on each occasion 
 in these accounts. 
 
 Friars Observant at, 57. 
 
 ~ . St. Thomas, St. An- 
 drean, and St. Augustin, and 
 our Lady of Undercroft, at, 3, 
 83, 84. 
 
 Capell, Sir William, Knt. 12. 
 Ancestor of the Earls of Essex. 
 Sir William was a merchant and 
 Alderman of London, and was 
 Mayor of that city in 1503 : his 
 conduct whilst filling that office 
 was made the ground, by Emp- 
 son and Dudley, for extorting 
 money from him ; and for refus- 
 ing to pay it, he was committed 
 to the Tower, where he remained 
 until the King's death. In the ac- 
 count of sums received by Emp- 
 son for the King's service, in the 
 Harleian MS. 1877, f- 47, in 1504, 
 is this entry : "For W. Capell 
 and Giles Capell his sonne, for 
 their pardons 1000/. ; by recogni- 
 zance, 900J., and \QOl. in money." 
 Bacon says " he was condemned 
 in the sum of 2,700^., and com- 
 pounded with the king for 1,600; 
 and yet after, Empson would have 
 cut another chop out of him if 
 the king had not died on the in- 
 stant." History of Henry VII. 
 The money which he lent to the 
 Queen seems to have been faith- 
 fully returned : he died in 1515. 
 See his will in Testamenta fetusta, 
 p. 531, and a notice of him in 
 Collins's Peerage, Ed. 1779, iv. 
 348. 
 
 Car, Close, the, 16, 46. 
 
 for the repairs, &c. of the, 
 
 34, 103. 
 
 chare, the queen's, at 
 
 Christmas, 104. 
 See some remarks on the subject 
 of Cars, Chairs, Litters, &c., at 
 the end of the notes. 
 
 Cards to the queen to play at, 84. 
 See a note in the Privy Purse 
 Expenses of Henry VIII. on 
 CARDS, p. 306. 
 
 Carew, Sir William, 109. 
 
 John, his wardship and 
 
 marriage, 109. 
 
 Carlisle, Bishop of, 91. 
 
 Roger Leyburn, Archdeacon of 
 Durham. He died in November, 
 1504. 
 
 Carol, for setting a, 83. 
 
 The price of setting an anthem 
 was 20*. [see p. 2.] and of setting 
 a carol on Christmas Day 13*. 4rf. 
 
184 
 
 INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 Carp, a, brought, 2. 
 
 Walton, in his Complete Angler, 
 OH the authority of Baker's Chro- 
 nicle, where these lines occur 
 Hops and turkies, carps and beer, 
 Came into England all in a year, 
 says, " there was a time, about a 
 hundred or a few more years " 
 before he wrote, " when there 
 were no carps in England." But 
 that this is erroneous appears 
 from the Booke of St. Alban's, 
 from this entry, and from the 
 Privy Purse Expenses of Henry 
 Fill., where several persons are 
 mentioned as having brought the 
 king presents of carps. Juliana 
 Berners, however, states that 
 " the carpe is a deyntous fysshe ; 
 but there ben but few e in Englande, 
 and therfore I wryte the lasse of 
 hym." 
 
 Carpenters, to, 80. 
 
 Carvenel, , 54. 
 
 One of the queen's servants. Pro- 
 bably the Piers Carvanell, who, 
 by the title of the king's "wel- 
 beloved and faithfull servaunt,oon 
 of oure gentilman hushers of cure 
 chambre," was protected by the 
 Act of Resumption, 1 Hen. VII., 
 in the enjoyment of the grants 
 made to him " of the tenements 
 and houses unto us beloiigyng 
 within our pelece of Westmyn- 
 ster, oon with the kepyng of the 
 houses called Parydyse and Hell, 
 within the Hall of Westmynster, 
 and also the tenements whiche 
 Jamys Pryse late had and occu- 
 pied ; and also the keping of the 
 Purgatory within the said Hall, 
 whiche Nicholas Whytfeld late 
 had and occupied ; with the hous 
 under the Exchequer, called Le 
 Puttans House, with the towre 
 and hous called Grene Lates," 
 &.c.Rot. Par/. VI. 372 b . By the 
 same act, Piers Carvanell, the 
 younger, was protected in the en- 
 joyment of the baileshipp of Car 
 von in Cornwall. Ibid. 359 b . 
 
 Carver, the queen's, 100. 
 
 A note on the office of Carver will 
 be found in the Journal of Bishop 
 Beckington, pp 109,110. It ap- 
 pears from the Northumberland 
 Household Book, p. 3(>2, that the 
 
 Earl's second son acted as his 
 carver, and his third son as his 
 sewer; and it is evident that 
 the office was one of much consi- 
 deration in all great establish- 
 ments. Chaucer says of the Squier 
 
 " Curteis he was, lowly, and ser- 
 
 visable 
 And carf before his fader at the 
 
 table." 
 
 See Le.land Collect., vol. vi. Todd'* 
 Illust. p. 229. Cant. Tales, v 
 7831-2, 9C46-7. 
 Catesby, Mrs. Elizabeth, 99. 
 
 One of the queen's gentlewomen. 
 Query if she was Elizabeth, wife 
 of George Catesby (who died circa 
 150G), daughter of the notorious 
 Empson. See Testamenta Vetusta, 
 p. 475 ; and Pedigrees of the 
 Catesby family. 
 
 Caversham, our lady of, 50. 
 
 Cecily, Lady, 12. 
 
 Cecily Viscountess Welles, the 
 queen's sister, whom Hall says, 
 was " not so fortunate as fair." 
 She was asked in marriage by 
 the King of Scotland, for his 
 son, Prince James, which was 
 frustrated by political circum- 
 stances, and she became the wife 
 of John Viscount Welles, by 
 whom, who died in 1498, she had 
 two daughters, Elizabeth and 
 Ann, both of whom died young. 
 
 She married secondly, 
 
 Kyme, of Lincolnshire, but by 
 him had no issue ; and dying in 
 .... was buried at Quarera, in 
 the Isle of Wight. Sandford's 
 Genealogical History of the Kings 
 of England, pp. 417, 418. A more 
 particular account of her will be 
 found in the INTRODUCTORY 
 REMARKS. 
 
 Chafer, for a, 19. 
 
 Chain, for a gold, with knots, 61. 
 In this and the next reign the 
 taste for gold chains was carried 
 to a great excess. They were 
 very generally worn by persons of 
 rank, and were often bestowed 
 by the sovereign and other su- 
 periors on their dependents, as 
 a mark of favour, the extent 
 of which was indicated by the 
 weight of the present. By the 
 
INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 185 
 
 Sumptuary Act of the 37 Ed\v. 
 III. 1363, artificers, tradesmen, 
 and yeomen, were forbidden to 
 wear chains, or any other article 
 of gold or silver. Rot. Par I. ii. 
 278, 281. Chains were frequently 
 bequeathed in wills ; and, from 
 the manner in which they are 
 often described, for example, 
 " A chain of gold of the old man. 
 ner, with the name of God in 
 each part," anno 1397 ; " a chain 
 of gold with white enamel," anno 
 1537 ; " a chain of gold with a 
 lion of gold, set with diamonds," 
 anno 1485 ; " a chain of gold, with 
 water flowers," anno 1490; &c. 
 an idea may be formed of their 
 workmanship and value. Sir 
 Thomas Parr, father-in-law of 
 Henry VIII., left by his will, 
 dated in 1517, to his son William, 
 his great chain of gold, worth 
 140/., which had been given to 
 him by that monarch, and which, 
 allowing for the workmanship, 
 must have weighed more than 
 two pounds troy. See Tcstamenta 
 Vetusta, article CHAINS, in the 
 Index. In 1531, a chain of gold 
 weighing 5 ounces cost 14/. 2s. 4d. 
 and in October, 1532, a chain 
 made of gold, weighing 3 ounces, 
 cost 7/. 14*. Privy Purse Ex- 
 penses of Henry I' III. It was 
 formerly the custom to wear the 
 George of the Order of the Gar- 
 ter, and the badges of other Orders, 
 suspended to chains instead of 
 ribbons ; and in old portraits, the 
 knights of various Orders are re- 
 presented with them in that man- 
 ner. It would seem that this 
 practice ceased about the com- 
 mencement of the seventeenth 
 century ; for, when James VII. 
 of Scotland revived the Order of 
 the Thistle in 1687, the following 
 passage was introduced into the 
 Statutes : " And we having 
 considered that it was the ancient 
 custom for the sovereign and 
 knights brethren, on their daily 
 apparel, to wear the jewel of the 
 Order in a chain of gold or pre- 
 cious stones, and that the use of 
 ribbons has been brought in since 
 the Most Noble Order of the 
 Thistle was left off, and that 
 
 chains are not now in use, we 
 have, therefore, thought fit to 
 appoint the jewel of the said Order 
 to be worn with a purple blue 
 ribbon, watered or tabled. " 
 
 Chairs, coverings of, 27, 28. 
 
 Chamberlain, the king's, 83. 
 
 Sir Charles Somerset, K.G., Cap- 
 tain of the king's guard, and 
 afterwards Earl of Worcester, 
 was the king's chamberlain in 
 June, 1502. Foedera, xiii. 13. 
 
 the queen's, 7. 
 
 pursuivant, of the 
 
 king's, 87. 
 Chamlet, 20, 44. 
 Chapel, bishop of, the king's, 76. 
 See BISHOP. 
 
 dean of, the king's, 81, 
 
 64. 
 
 ministers of the king's, 
 
 90. 
 
 money given to the mi- 
 nister of, to drink at a tavern, 
 with a buck, 23. 
 A feast given them at the queen's 
 expense. A similar entry occurs 
 in the Privy Purse Expenses of 
 Henry VII., and appears to have 
 been a common practice. 
 
 -, rewards given to the 
 
 children of the, 54, 83. 
 In the act of Resumption, 13 Edw. 
 IV., Henry Abingdon was pro- 
 tected in the enjoyment of 40 
 marks per annum, which had been 
 granted him in May, 5 Edward 
 IV., " for the fyndyng instruction 
 andgovernaunce of the children of 
 the Chapell of oure Housholde." 
 Rot. Parl. v. 594 ; vi. 86. In 
 the act of Resumption, of the 22 
 Edw. IV., Gilbert Banestre was 
 protected in the enjoyment of the 
 same salary for " their exhibition, 
 instruction, and governaunce." 
 Ibid. vi. 200. Among the Privy 
 Purse expenses of Henry the 
 Seventh, is an entry of 2/. being 
 paid " To the children of the 
 Chapel for singing Gloria in Ex. 
 celsis." Additional MS. 7099. 
 Chaplain of the bishop of Mur- 
 ray, a reward given to the, 67. 
 2 B 
 
186 
 
 INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 Chariot, to a poor man that 
 
 drove the, 51. 
 
 Charre, cotton russet for the 
 queen's. 
 
 See a Note at the end of the vo- 
 lume, on Chairs and Chariots. 
 Cheeses brought, 18, 33, 37, 44, 
 
 87. 
 
 These cheeses came from Lan- 
 thony Priory, near Gloucester, 
 and similar entries occur in the 
 Privy Purse Expenses of Henry 
 rill., from 1529 to 1532. 
 
 Chepstow, 43, 49, 51. 
 
 The queen was at Chepstow on 
 the 28th of August, 1502, on 
 which day she seems to have cross- 
 ed the river Severn near that 
 place, and passed through Thorn- 
 bury on her road to Berkeley. 
 Cherries brought, 23, 30, 36. 
 
 It is said that Henry VIII. intro- 
 duced the Kentish cherries. Hol- 
 land in his additions to Camden, 
 states that Richard Harris, fruit- 
 erer, was employed for this pur- 
 pose, and that these cherries were 
 planted in many parishes near 
 Tenham. Archceologia^ vii., p. 1 19. 
 Be this as it may, it is evident 
 from these accounts that cherries 
 were not uncommon in England 
 many years before that monarch's 
 accession. 
 
 Chertsey, in Surrey, 17. 
 
 Chest, for making a, to put books 
 in, 96. 
 
 Cheverons, cloth of gold with, as 
 chair coverings, 28. 
 Apparently ornaments placed on 
 the coverings, in the form of the 
 heraldic ordinary, called a cheve- 
 ron. Proofs will be adduced, in a 
 subsequent note, of the frequent 
 use of heraldic terms in the de- 
 scription of apparel and other 
 articles. 
 
 Cheyne, Mrs., 77. 
 
 One of the queen's gentlewomen. 
 
 Chickens brought, 5, 54, 78. 
 
 Children, for the expense of, given 
 
 to the queen, 11, 40, 63, 105. 
 
 It appears that the queen adopted 
 
 two children, one belonging to a 
 
 person called Maud Hamond, and 
 the other to Thomas Hoden ; and 
 that she paid the expenses of their 
 nutriture, which, in one case 
 amounted to 16s., and in the other 
 to 11. Gs. 8d. per annum, a differ- 
 ence which, perhaps, arose from 
 their ages. Children were also 
 given to her majesty's consort, and 
 in the Privy Purse Expenses of 
 Henry the Seventh, is an entry of 
 2Qd. being paid " to Matthew 
 Johns for a child that was given 
 the king on New Year's Day." 
 Additional MS., 7099. The prac- 
 tice of giving children to the sove- 
 reign, as a New Year's gift, seems 
 to have been continued in the reign 
 of. their son, as on the 28th of 
 December, 3rd Hen. VIII., 13s. 
 4d. were paid " to a woman that 
 gave the king two children." 
 Additional MS., 7100. 
 
 Child of Grace at Reading, 
 
 making a shirt for, 50. 
 Children of the Privy kitchen, 91. 
 
 . King's Chapel. 
 
 See CHAPEL. 
 
 Chollerton, Arnold, 25, 42, 71, 
 72. 
 
 Yeoman usher of the queen's 
 chamber : his wages were Is. a 
 day. 
 
 Christenings, money given at, 
 28, 29. 
 
 The queen was probably a sponsor 
 on each of these occasions. Simi- 
 lar entries frequently occur in the 
 Privy Purse Expenses of Henry 
 VIII. Sir Thomas Boleyn's ac- 
 count of the baptism of Henry, 
 Duke of Alen^on, to whom Henry 
 the Eighth was godfather in 1519, 
 affords information as to the man- 
 ner in which the money given 
 by sponsors, at christenings, was 
 distributed, as well as of the pre- 
 sents usually made on those occa- 
 sions. Sir Thomas says, " he pre- 
 sented the queen, in Henry's 
 name, with the salt, the cup, and 
 layer of gold," and that the 100/. 
 which the king had " sent to give 
 in reward," was bestowed as fol- 
 lows. u First, the norice, oon 
 liundreth crownes ; to iiij rockers 
 
INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 187 
 
 of the yong duke's chambre, ij 
 hundreth crownes ; to iij gentle- 
 women of the queen's privy cham- 
 ber, called femmes de ret . . . . , a 
 hundred and fifty crownes, and at 
 the offryng, xx nobils." Ellis' 
 Original Letters, First Series, i. 
 160. 
 
 Clarycords brought, 41. 
 
 " The clarichord is described by 
 Kircher, in his Musurgia Universa- 
 //*, as a Virginal. Luscinius throws 
 something like strips of cloth over 
 the strings, to damp their sounds, 
 and render the instrument more 
 fit for the use of a tranquil con- 
 vent. That the clarichords were 
 similar to spinnets, or, in fact, to 
 small harpsichords, appears from 
 the description given of them by 
 Luscinius (Musurgia, seu Praxis, 
 Musicce, 1536, p. 9,) ' Omnia haec 
 instrumenta habent plectra (sic 
 enim ilia vocant,) chordas diversis 
 in locis contrectantia,&c.' " Note 
 by Mr. Ayrton to Ellis' s Original 
 Letters, Second Series, i. 272. A 
 clarichord is said by Chambers 
 to have been " of the form of a 
 spinette, but more ancient, and to 
 have had forty-nine or fifty keys, 
 and seventy springs." Todd's 
 Johnson. Clarychords would seem 
 to have been of considerable value, 
 from 41. being given in reward to 
 the person, apparently a foreigner, 
 who presented a pair to the queen, 
 were it not that only ten shillings 
 were paid for a pair in the same 
 year by Henry the Seventh. 
 Additional MS., 7099. Among 
 the musical instruments which be- 
 longed to Henry VIII., were two 
 pair of claricordes ; and Skelton 
 thus speaks of the instrument : 
 
 "' The clarichord hath a tunely 
 
 kynde, 
 As the wyre is wrested high and 
 
 low." 
 
 An extensive list, with valuable 
 notes, of musical instruments used 
 in the commencement of the 17th 
 century, will be found in the His- 
 tory of Hengrave, pp. 23, 24, where 
 virginals are often mentioned, but 
 clarycords do not occur. " The 
 Claricord is frequently represented 
 on ancient bas reliefs in churches, 
 
 both in France and in England, 
 which differs materially from the 
 Dulcimer." D. 
 
 Clegge, Hamlet, 21, 62. 
 One of the queen's servants. 
 
 Clerk of the works at Richmond, 
 18. 
 Nicholas Grey. 
 
 Cloaks, the queen's, 19, 54. 
 
 Cloaks made of velvet and sarsnet, 
 furred, &c. were also worn by 
 men. Rot. Purl. ii. 279, 281 ; 
 iv. 227. And in the 3rd, 4th, and 
 22nd of Edw. IV., no person, under 
 the degree of a lord, was allowed 
 to wear a cloak or gown which 
 was not of sufficient length, " as 
 beyng upright, to cover his prevey 
 membres and buttocks," upon pain 
 of being fined 20s. Rot. Par/, v. 
 505; vi. 221. 
 
 Close carre. See CAR. 
 
 Closet, Clerk of the Queen's, 50. 
 Master Harding. 
 
 Cloth for, 25, 38, 74, 105. 
 
 given to divers persons, 
 
 74. 
 
 Holland, 17. 
 
 of gold, 28. 
 
 rich, of tissue, 66. 
 
 Clouds, embroidered, 83. 
 On beds, &c. See BEDS. 
 
 Cloughting, shoes for, 61. 
 
 Strengthening them with clout 
 or hob nails, and sometimes with 
 a thin plate of iron called a clout. 
 Todd's Johnson. In Palsgrave's 
 " Lesclarcissement de la langue 
 Francoyse," 4 cloute of a sho' is 
 translated, " ung talon ; ung de- 
 vant, ung debout." 
 
 Clowts, for, 103. 
 
 An iron plate to keep an axle-tree 
 from wearing. Todays Johnson. 
 
 Coals, for, 83. 
 
 Coats, for, 20, 70, 76, 105. 
 - of Kendal, for the fool, 24. 
 
 Coberley, in Gloucestershire, 44, 
 51. 
 
 The very curious and ancient 
 manor-house of Coberley, which 
 is noticed by Leland, has been 
 lately pulled down. D. 
 2 B 2 
 
188 
 
 IXDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 Coffer, a, 32. 
 
 Fraunces, 29. 
 
 Apparently the carriage of a coffer 
 belonging to a person called 
 Francis. 
 
 Cokthorp, to our Lady of, 3. 
 
 Colbronde, George, 84. 
 
 One of the queen's servants. 
 
 Coldharbour, to the keeper of, 
 91. 
 
 See this word in the index to the 
 Wardrobe Accounts of Edward IV. 
 
 Colts, expense of breaking in 
 and marking, 79. 
 
 Cokeham, 106. 
 
 In Berkshire. These lands and 
 Bray formed part of the appur- 
 tenances of the manor of Strat- 
 feld Mortimer, which was as- 
 signed as part of the queen's 
 jointure in 1495. Rot. Part. vi. 
 464. 
 
 Cokkes, Richard, 56. 
 
 A beer brewer of London. 
 
 Conewey, John, a smith, 25. 
 
 Confeccionary, the, 90. 
 
 Confessor, the queen's, 32, 59. 
 Dr. Underwood, See UNDER- 
 
 for fetching him, 11. 
 
 Conserva cherries, brought, 30. 
 A conserve of chemes. 
 
 Conyngsby, Humphrey, sergeant 
 at law, 101. 
 
 Ancestor of the Earl and Countess 
 Coningsby. He was made Ser- 
 geant at Law in 1496, became 
 King's Sergeant in 1501, and in 
 the 2nd Henry VIII. was appoint- 
 ed a Judge of the King's Bench. 
 
 Cook, for the Queen's mouth, 78. 
 In the Act of Resumption, 28 
 Henry VI., anno 1450, "John 
 Gourney, Maister Coke for our 
 mouthe," and " Thomas Cateby, 
 YomanCooke for oure mouthe," 
 are specially protected from its 
 effects. Rot. Part. v. 192, 195. 
 And a "Thomas Cornyssh, Squier, 
 Cooke for our mouthe," is pro- 
 tected in his annuity of 10/. by the 
 Act of Resumption, 7th and 8th 
 Edward IN. Ibid. p. 591. 
 
 A " Yoman Cook for the 
 mouth," and a Grome for the 
 Mouth formed part of the house- 
 hold of the Earl of Northumber- 
 land, in 1512. The duty of each 
 was " to attend hourly iu the 
 kitching at the haistry for roist- 
 ing of meat at braikefestis and 
 meallis." Northumberland House- 
 hold Book, ed. 1827, PP- 41, 325, 
 326, 415. These offices still exist 
 in the royal household. 
 
 Coope, John, 27, 103. 
 A tailor of London. 
 
 Coote, Henry, 92. 
 
 A goldsmith of London. 
 Coot's Place. See COT'S PLACE. 
 Cordener, i. e. Cordwainer, the 
 
 Queen's, 85. 
 Cornbury, in Oxfordshire, 35. 
 
 A lodge in the^forest' of Which- 
 
 wood, near Woodstock. 
 
 Cornish, , 83. 
 
 William Cornish, jun. is men- 
 tioned in Burney's History of 
 Music, as a composer of this pe- 
 riod. The extracts from the 
 Privy Purse Expenses of Henry 
 the Seventh, in the Additional MS. 
 7099, present the following no- 
 tices of him. To Cornish, of the 
 King's Chapel, ll.6s.8d. And 
 again, on the 31st December, 
 1502, 21. In the 7th Henry VII., 
 " one Cornisshe" received " for a 
 prophecy in reward 12*. ;" who 
 was probably the same person. 
 
 Corpus Christi Day, a gown 
 fetched against, 33. 
 On this feast a splendid procession 
 always took place, and from the 
 description of the gown cloth of 
 gold furred with pawmpilion 
 sent for by the queen, she was 
 probably dressed in a sumptuous 
 manner on the occasion. 
 
 Cosham, in Wiltshire, 67. 
 Cosham Park, the Keeper of, 
 46. 
 
 In Wiltshire. It formed part of 
 the lands assigned to Elizabeth, 
 queen of Edward IV. the queen's 
 mother. Rot. Par I. v. C27- Le- 
 land savs " The mansion place at 
 
INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 189 
 
 Coshara Park appertained to the 
 earldom of Cornwall, and was 
 wont to be in dowage to the 
 queene of England." Itinerary, 
 ii., p. 28. D. 
 
 Cot's Place, 46, 49, 60. 
 
 Coates, near Cirencester, in Glou- 
 cestershire. The queen appears 
 to have been there on the 12th of 
 September. 
 
 Cotton, russet, 104. 
 Cotton, Dame Margaret, 25, 32, 
 63, 75, 76, 97. 
 
 This person had the care of the 
 queen's nephews and niece, the 
 children of her sister Katherine 
 by Lord William Courtenay, and 
 of her Majesty's protegd, Edward 
 Pallet. It is difficult, if not im- 
 possible, to identify her, or either 
 of the individuals mentioned as 
 Anthony, Richard, and Sir Roger 
 Cotton. A Thomas Cotton of Cun- 
 nington, Esq., in his will proved 
 in 1517, speaks of hisson Richard; 
 his uncle Richard, and his bro- 
 thers Richard and Anthony Cotton, 
 and his sister Margaret, a nun, 
 some of whom were probably the 
 persons here noticed. The name 
 of " George Cotton" and " the 
 three Cottons" are also men- 
 tioned as having shot with Henry 
 VIII. in the Privy Purse Ex- 
 penses of that monarch, between 
 1529 and 1532. A Sir Roger 
 Cotton, knight, was protected in 
 the enjoyment of the grant of the 
 lands of William Barley, Esq., 
 by statute 11 Hen. VII. Rot. 
 Part. vi. 507- Henry VIII. paid 
 a visit to a Sir Robert Cotton in 
 January, 1511 ; and as the king 
 then offered to Our Lady of Wal- 
 singham, his seat was perhaps 
 near that chapel. Additional ^IS. 
 7100. In the churchwardens' ac- 
 counts of St. Margaret's, West- 
 minster, in 1526, is an entry of 
 6s. 8rf. being received from a 
 " Richard Cotton for his grave." 
 Nichols' Illustrations of Ancient 
 Times, p. 9. 
 
 Anthony, 30. 
 
 Richard, 51. 
 
 Sir Roger, sister of, 75. 
 
 Counsel, queen's, the clerk of 
 the, 101,102. 
 
 Chamber, keeper of 
 
 the Queen's, 101. 
 
 John Holand. 
 
 the Queen's, 
 
 for making a chest to put 
 books in, in the, 96. 
 Courser, a, brought, 89. 
 Couper, Sir Thomas, parson of 
 
 St. Bennetts, 25. 
 Courtenay, Edmond, Lord, 32. 
 Evidently a mistake for Edward. 
 See p. 103. 
 
 , Lord Edward, 20, 25, 
 
 32, 62, 70, 76, ter. 100, 103, 
 bis. 
 
 Lord Henry, 20, 25, 
 
 62, 63, bit, 70, 75, 76, 77, bis, 
 79, 88, 100, 104. 
 
 Lady Katherine. See 
 
 KATHERINE. 
 Youngest child of King Edward 
 IV., wife of Lord William Cour- 
 tenay, and mother of the Lords 
 Henry and Edward, and Lady 
 Margaret Courtenay mentioned 
 in these accounts. 
 
 Lady Margaret, 25, 
 
 63, ter, 76, 77, bis, 79, 100. 
 
 Lord William, 6, 17. 
 
 Lord William] Courtenay, son and 
 heir of Edward, seventh Earl of 
 Devon, of that illustrious house, 
 married Katharine, youngest 
 daughter of King Edward IV., 
 and died 9th June, 1511, having 
 had issue by her, Henry, who be- 
 came eighth Earl of Devon ; Mar- 
 garet, who died young, having 
 been choked with a fish bone ; 
 and, we learn for the first time, 
 from these accounts, a son Ed- 
 ward, who died on the 13th July, 
 1502 [p. 32, 63,] and the expenses 
 of whose funeral amounted to 4/. 
 18s. 4rf. [p. 103.] It appears 
 that their aunt, the queen, paid 
 the expense of their diet and 
 clothes ; that they were under the 
 care of Dame Margaret Cotton, 
 at a place belonging to Sir John 
 Hosy, in Essex, near Havering 
 
190 
 
 INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 at Bower ; that they were at- 
 tended by two female servants 
 and a groom ; and that she was 
 allowed only 1 3s. 4rf. a week for 
 their and their servants' support. 
 
 Courtenay, Victor, 32, 84. 
 Page of the queen's chamber. 
 
 Coynfayts, i.e. Comfits, brought, 
 87. 
 
 Cowle for water, a, 4. 
 
 " A vessel in which water is car- 
 ried on a pole between two per- 
 sons." TodcTs Johnson. 
 
 Crestener, Ralph, 102. 
 Crewell, black, to purfulle roses, 
 
 83. 
 
 " Yarn twisted and wound on a 
 knot or ball." Tod(fs Johnson. 
 " Crule, or caddas, saysette" 
 Palsgrave's Esclarcissement de la 
 Langue Francoyse, 1530. "A coote 
 and acappe of green clothe fringed 
 with red crule and lyned with 
 fryse," was part of the apparel or- 
 dered to be delivered for the use 
 of Sommers, Henry the Eighth's 
 fool, in 1535. Crule, of various 
 colours, also fringed his hoods, 
 & c . Archaologia, ix. 249. The 
 word frequently occurs in the list 
 of furniture in the History of 
 Hengrave : " black and yellow 
 lace of crewell" p. 32 ; "fringed 
 with crewell," p. 34. 
 
 Crowham, Our Lady of, 3. 
 
 Crowmer, William, 6, 57. 
 
 Gentleman usher of the queen's 
 chamber. A Nicholas and Wil- 
 liam Crowmer were protected in 
 the enjoyment of the offices of 
 constable and porter of Pevensey 
 Castle in Sussex, in the Act of 
 Resumption, 1 Hen. VII. Rot. 
 Parl. vi. 374 b . It was perhaps 
 the said Nicholas Crowmer who 
 was a gentleman usher to Ed- 
 ward IV. and attended his ma- 
 jesty's funeral Archcelogia, i. 
 
 353. 
 
 a daughter of, 8, 57. 
 
 A nun in the Minories, to whom 
 2s. were presented by the queen 
 11 in almous." 
 
 Bridget, 23. 
 
 One of the queen's attendants, 
 
 and probably another daughter of 
 the said William Crowmer. 
 
 Crowmer, Mrs. Ann, 12, 99. 
 
 One of the queen's gentlewomen, 
 and probably the wifeor daughter 
 ofWilliam Crowmer above-men- 
 tioned. As she was paid her salary 
 at Christmas, 1503, the entry in 
 May, 1502, of 40s. in reward " at 
 her departing from the court," 
 cannot mean that she then per- 
 manently quitted the queen's ser- 
 vice. 
 
 Croydon, 14. 
 
 The princess, widow of Prince 
 Arthur, appears to have been at 
 the Archbishop of Canterbury's 
 palace, at Croydon, in May, 1502. 
 
 Crotchets, for, 92. 
 
 Crane, a, brought, 51. 
 
 Cupboard cloths, 77. 
 
 Cloths used to cover cupboards, 
 which were a kind of side board. 
 In the list of furniture in Henry 
 VIII. 's palaces, in the Harleian 
 MS. 1419, "A large cupboard 
 carpet of grene cloth of gold, with 
 workes lyned with bockeram, con- 
 teyning in lengthe three yards iij 
 quarters," is mentioned; and the 
 word " cupboard" thus occurs in 
 it: "Item, Two cuppbordes, 
 with ambries, ij tabells with tres- 
 tels, one forme, and one stoole." 
 " One table, and a cupp horde." 
 " A cuppborde joyned to the 
 wall, conteyning a holy water 
 stock of marble," &c. See a note 
 to the Privy Purse Expenses of 
 Henry VUL, p. 313. Cupboard 
 is thus mentioned in Palsgrave, 
 Esclarcissement dc la Langue Fran- 
 coy se, 1530 : " Cupborde of plate, 
 or to sette plate upon, buffet ;" 
 " cupborde to putte meate in, 
 dressuver;" and also, " Coupborde, 
 unes almoires." " Two joyned 
 coobards made fast to the wain- 
 skote." History of Hengrave, p. 22. 
 " A large coobard carpett fur the 
 coobarde, of Turkeye work." 
 Ibid. p. 26. In the Northumber- 
 land Household Book, among the 
 " linnen cloth" were, " For a 
 cupboard cloth of ij breids for the 
 sellar, iiij elnz viz. ij elnys longe 
 and ij yerdes brode a pece. A 
 single cupboard cloth for the said 
 
INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 191 
 
 sellar, ij elnys longe and a yerde 
 brode." Ed. 1827, P- 16. In the 
 list of persons to attend the earl 
 " at his borde daily, and have no 
 more but his revercion except 
 brede and drynk," were, " a yo- 
 man of the chambre to kepe the 
 cupborde at the sellar. A yoman 
 or a grome to awayte upon the 
 cupborde as panteler. A yoman 
 or a groome to awayte upon the 
 cupborde as butler." Ibid. p. 302. 
 It was one of Lord Fairfax's 
 orders to his servants, in the mid- 
 dle of the seventeenth century, 
 " Let no man fill beere or wine 
 but the citpborderd-keeper, who 
 must make choice of his glasses or 
 cups for the company, and not 
 serve them hand over heade. He 
 must also know which be for 
 beere, and which for wine ; for it 
 were a foul thing to mix them to- 
 gether. Ibid. p. 424. 
 
 Curtain, of beds, 65. 
 
 rings, 65. 
 
 Cushion, a, brought, 13. 
 
 for various, 28. 
 
 Cutlerd, Richard, 101. 
 
 Dachet ferry, the keeper of, 62. 
 
 to the ferryman at, 30. 
 
 Damask, for, 19, 25, 65, 69. 
 
 gold of, 8. 
 
 Dancing, to a maid of Spain that 
 danced before the queen, 89. 
 Apparently one of the servants 
 of Katherine of Arragon. Pay- 
 ments of this kind were extreme- 
 ly common. In the Privy Purse 
 Expenses of Henry Vll., are en- 
 tries of payments " to the woman 
 that sung before the king and 
 the queen in reward, 6*. 8d." 
 " To a woman that singeth with 
 a fiddle, 2*." " To the queen's 
 fiddler II. Gs. 8d." " To little 
 maiden the tumbler, 20*." Addi- 
 tional MS. 7099. See Strutt's 
 remarks on dancing, tumbling, 
 &c., in his Sports and Pastimes. 
 
 Darcy, Sir Thomas, 2. 
 
 Probably Sir Thomas Darcy, K.G. 
 who was afterwards summoned to 
 parliament as Lord Darcy of 
 Chiche, and who was eminently 
 
 distinguished in the reigns of 
 Henry VII. and VIII. ; but in- 
 curring the displeasure of the 
 latter monarch, was beheaded and 
 attainted in 1538. His wife is 
 called in these accounts " Lady 
 Nevill :" he is stated to have 
 married to his first wife Dousa- 
 bella, daughter and heir of Sir 
 Richard Tempest, Knt., but whe- 
 ther she was the widow of a Knight 
 of the name of Nevill has not been 
 ascertained. In the 17th Henry 
 VII., Sir Thomas Darcy was sent 
 on an embassy to Scotland, and 
 the following entry occurs in the 
 Privy Purse of that sovereign. 
 " To Sir Thomas Darcy going in 
 embasade to Scotland 20/." 
 
 Darrell, Sir Edward, 89. 
 
 Of Littlecotes in Wiltshire, after- 
 wards vice-chamberlain to Queen 
 Katherine of Arragon, and a per- 
 son of some eminence in the reign 
 of Henry VIII. He was married 
 on the 25th April, 1512, as on 
 that day Henry VIII. offered at 
 his marriage, but whether the 
 lady was his first wife Alice, 
 daughter of Sir Richard Croft, 
 Knt., or his second, the daughter 
 of Lord Fitzwalter (Harl. MS. 
 807,) is uncertain. 
 
 Dartford, 49. 
 
 Davy, Edward, 9. 
 
 One of the queen's servants. 
 
 Davys, Mrs., 64. 
 
 Dean, Agnes, 46, 64, 100. 
 
 The queen's laundress. Her wages 
 were 3/. 6*. 8d. per annum, and 
 she was allowed 4</. per diem 
 for food for her horse when at- 
 tending her majesty on her jour- 
 nies. 
 
 Dean of the King's Chapel, 64. 
 
 Dean, Little, and forest of Dean, 
 in Gloucestershire, to a person 
 who found iron there, 38. 
 In the reign of Edward II., the 
 tythe of a mine there was granted 
 to the Bishop of Landaff; and 
 in the 2nd of Edward III., that bi- 
 shop claimed the tenth of all iron 
 within the parish of Newland, as 
 impropriator, which was allowed. 
 Rot. Parl. ii., p. 13, 85. 
 
19:2 
 
 INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 Decouns, Richard, Mr., 1, 32, 
 100, 101, 102, 107. 
 
 The receiver of the revenues of 
 the queen's lands, and the keeper 
 of the expenses of her privy purse. 
 He belonged also to the office of 
 the Signet. 
 
 Deconson, John, 12. 
 
 Servant of the Prior of Hechyn. 
 
 Denouse, Richard, 100. 
 A minstrel 
 
 Denton, Mrs. Elizabeth, 88, 99. 
 One of the ladies attached to the 
 queen's person, with a salary of 
 20/. per annum. After her ma- 
 jesty's death, on the 23rd June, 
 1503, she was paid 20., probably 
 her wages, " for the queen's 
 debts." Privy Purse Expenses of 
 Henry FII. 
 
 William, 100. 
 
 Carver to the queen. He was 
 specially protected in the enjoy- 
 ment of the carvership in the Act 
 of Resumption, 1 Hen. VII. 
 Rot. ParL vi. 356. 
 
 Denys, Mrs. Mary, 99. 
 
 A lady attached to the queen's 
 person. 
 
 Hugh, 41. 
 
 One of the queen's servants. 
 
 Derby, Earl of, 21. 
 
 Thomas, second Lord Stanley, 
 and first Earl of Derby, K.G. 
 He married Margaret, Countess 
 of Richmond, mother of King 
 Henry VII., and died in 1504. 
 
 Dertford, Abbess of, 29. 
 
 Lady Bridget Plantagenet, the 
 queen's sister, took the veil in the 
 abbey of Dertford. This notice 
 of the abbess was of a payment 
 to her of 3/. 6s. 8<l. for the ex- 
 penses of her illustrious charge. 
 
 Desar. See DISAR. 
 
 Devon, Earl of, 6, 86. 
 
 Edward Courtenay, K.G., grand- 
 son and heir of Hugh, brother of 
 Edward third Courtenay Earl of 
 Devon. He was created Earl of 
 Devon 26th October, 1485, and 
 died in 1509. The " Lord Wil- 
 liam Courtenay," his son and 
 heir, married Katherine Plan- 
 tagenet, daughter of Edward IV., 
 
 and the queen's younger sister 
 See COURTENAY, and the IN- 
 TRODUCTORY REMARKS. 
 Devizes in Wiltshire, 67. 
 
 the keeper of the park 
 
 of, 47, 48. 
 
 Dice, money for playing at, 52, 
 b is. 
 
 See a note in the Privy Purse Ex- 
 penses of Henry VII 1., p. 315. 
 
 " Disguysing," the, 21, 78. 
 
 Disguisings, so termed from the 
 performers appearing disguised, 
 and which are the origin of mas- 
 querades, very nearly resembled 
 mumming, and were the chief 
 amusement at Christmas, and on 
 other great occasions, in the 
 houses of persons of rank from a 
 very early period. Strutt states 
 that " it frequently happened that 
 the whole company appeared in 
 borrowed characters, and full li- 
 cense of speech being granted to 
 every one, the discourses were 
 not always kept within the 
 bounds of decency;" he adds 
 that they were particularly splen- 
 did in the reign of Henry VIII., 
 and extended to the lower orders, 
 but that many irregularities 
 having arisen from persons going 
 in the streets in masks, it was 
 enacted by statute 3rd Henry 
 VIII., cap. ix., that no person 
 should appear abroad like mum- 
 mers, covering their faces with 
 visors, and in disguised apparel, 
 under the pain of imprisonment 
 for three months ; and a penalty 
 of 20s. was exacted from all per- 
 sons who kept visors in their 
 houses for the purpose of mum- 
 ming. Sports and Pastimes, 223, 
 224. The entries in these Ac- 
 counts relating to the subject are 
 of payments for ornaments for 
 the jackets of the performers, and 
 of costs of the royal livery for 
 the trumpeters, and for various 
 minstrels, who assisted. An idea 
 of the expense attending these 
 amusements may be formed from 
 the following entries among the 
 Privy Purse Expenses of Henry 
 VII. and VIII., one of which 
 corroborates Strutt's statement, 
 that persons of the highest rank 
 
INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 193 
 
 condescended to take a part in 
 them. u To Walter Alwyn in 
 full payment for the Disguising 
 made at Christmas, 14/. 13s. 4rf." 
 " To Jaqnes Haute for the Dis- 
 guising, 20/." At another time 
 " for his bille for his Disguys- 
 ings, 131. 10s. 6d." "To my 
 Lord Suffolk, my Lord Essex, my 
 Lord William, and other, for 
 the Disguysing, 40." " To Peche 
 (qr. Patch the fool) for the Dis- 
 guising in reward, 267. 14s." 
 " To Lewis Adam that made dis- 
 guisings, 101." On the 2nd Sep- 
 tember, 1st Henry VIII. " For 
 the Disguysings before the Am- 
 bassadors of Flaundres, 601. 17s. 
 lid." In the Privy Purse Ex- 
 penses of the latter Monarch in 
 1532, is a payment of 111. 3s. for 
 " masking gere when the King 
 was at Calys," p. 270. 
 Disar, to a, 53, 87. 
 
 Evidently the more ancient Dis- 
 sours or Sayers, and in French, 
 Conteurs or Jestours, literally 
 Tale-tellers, who recited either 
 their own compositions or those 
 of others, consisting of popular 
 tales and romances. Gower, de- 
 scribing a coronation of a Roman 
 Emperor., says 
 " When every ministrell had 
 
 .playde, 
 
 And every dissour had sayde, 
 Which was most pleasant in 
 his ear." Stmtt's Sports and 
 
 Pastimes, p. 162, 163. 
 The entry in p. 52 justifies the 
 idea that, in 1503, a Disar or 
 Desar was an actor as well as a 
 reciter. " To a Disar, that placed 
 the Shepherd before the Queen, 
 in reward 3s. 4rf.," which it is pre- 
 sumed meant the Shepherd in 
 the Adoration. From the entry 
 in p. 86, of money paid in reward 
 " to William Tyler, Desar, late 
 servant to the Earl of Oxford,'* 
 and an entry in the Privy Purse 
 Expenses of Henry the Seventh, 
 in August 1498, of 6v. 8d. be- 
 ing given " to my Lord of Ox- 
 ford's Jocular," it appears that a 
 Disar and a Jocular, like Min- 
 strels and Fools, then formed 
 part of the establishment of per- 
 sons of rank. 
 
 Does, brought, 81,83, 84, 86, 97. 
 
 Dolbyn, Hugh, 9. 
 
 One of the Royal Servants. 
 
 Dorset, Receipt of the Queens' 
 revenues in the County of. 
 105. 
 
 Doublets, for making, 34, 46, 
 69, 93. 
 
 Dover, Our Lady of, 3. 
 
 Called " Our Lady in the Rock 
 at Dover," in the " Privy Purse 
 Expenses of Henry VIII.," p. 
 273. Henry himself paid 4s. 8<*. 
 as his offering there on his land- 
 ing at Dover from Calais on the 
 14th November, 1532. 
 
 Droon, a Minstrel that played 
 on the, 2. 
 
 A Drum. " To a droner that 
 played on the drone, 10*. " 
 Privy Purse Expenses of Henry 
 VIII. " 1579. Paid to the soiers, 
 the ansyant bearer, and to him 
 that played upon the drone." 
 Churchwardens' 1 Accounts of St. 
 Margaret's, Westminster, in Ni- 
 chols's Illustrations of Ancient 
 Times, p. 19. The person who 
 beat this instrument was also 
 called a " drombeslade" and a 
 " drounslate." Privy Purse Ex- 
 penses of Henry VIII., 1532. p. 
 316. 
 
 Drops, for, 21. 
 
 An ornament on jackets used by 
 Mummers. 
 
 Drying money, to footmen, for 
 their, 81. 
 
 The word drying thus occurs in the 
 Churchwardens' Accounts of St. 
 Mary Hill, London, in 1527, and 
 is supposed by Dr. Pegge to mean 
 cleaning. " For drying of the 
 Pix for the sacrament against 
 Ester, 4d." Nichols's Illustra- 
 tions of Ancient Times, p. 109. 
 There is no difficulty in suppos- 
 ing that the Queen's footmen 
 received an allowance of money 
 for cleaning, whilst her Majesty 
 was on a progress. 
 
 DufFyn, John, 5, 32, 37, 47, 58, 
 66, 71, 72, 93, 94, 96. 
 A groom of the Queen's chamber. 
 His wages were Wd. a day. 
 2 C 
 
194 
 
 INDEX AND MOTES. 
 
 Dung; hill, for casting a, 79. 
 Durham, Bishop of, his resi- 
 dence in London, 61 
 
 The Princess Katheriue was there 
 on the Cth November, 1502. 
 
 Dyer, to a, for dyeing cloth, 81. 
 
 Easthampstead, 52, 53, 57, 59, 
 72. 
 
 In Berkshire. The Queen ar- 
 rived there on the llth October, 
 1502, and remained some days. 
 
 Eching hoops of the wheels of 
 the car, for, 34. 
 " To Eche" is to add to or in- 
 crease. Thus Chaucer 
 44 Delitith nought in wo thy wo 
 
 to seche 
 As doen these folis that ther 
 
 sorowes eche 
 
 With sorowe, whan they han 
 misavinture." 
 
 Troilus and Creseide, i. 705. 
 It was also used synonymously 
 with to lengthen. " For echyng 
 of a veil 10 elnes of lynnen cloth." 
 Church wardens' Accounts of St. 
 Mary Hill, London, temp. Hen. 
 VII., printed in Nichols's Illus- 
 trations of Ancient Times, p. 98. 
 
 Edward, Lord. 
 
 Son of Lord William Courtenay, 
 by Katherine the Queen's sister. 
 See COURTENAY. 
 
 Edward IV., King, servants of, 
 23, 30, 67, 77. 
 
 Edward, Prince, offering to, 3. 
 Query, if to the shrine of Edward 
 Prince of Wales, son of Henry 
 the Sixth. 
 
 Eggs, for, 14, 56. 
 
 Eldreton, Thomas, 103. 
 
 Apparently one of the Queen's 
 servants. 
 
 Elnestow, in Bedfordshire, Ab- 
 bess of, 37, 47. 
 
 Ely, Bishop of, 90. 
 
 Richard Redman, who was trans- 
 lated from Exeter in September, 
 1501, and died 26th August, 1505. 
 
 Elyot, Richard, the Queen's At- 
 torney, 100. 
 
 According to Dugdale's Origines, 
 he was made a Sergeant at Law 
 
 in Michaelmas Term, 1505 ; but 
 he is described with that title on 
 the Rolls of Parliament two years 
 before, namely, in the 19th Hen. 
 VII., 1503, as a Commissioner 
 for Wiltshire in the collection of 
 the aid for Kiiigliting the Prince. 
 Eliot was made a Judge of the 
 Common Pleas in April, 1514, 
 and died in 1520. 
 
 Elys, Roger, 37. 
 
 One of the Queen's servants. 
 
 Embroiderer, to the Queen's, 13, 
 55, 82, 86. 
 
 He was allowed I6d. a week for 
 his board wages, and 21. a year 
 for his house-rent. 
 
 Empson, Richard, 101. 
 
 The celebrated instrument of 
 Henry the Seventh's extortions. 
 
 Esterfeld, Mr., of Bristol, 43. 
 John Esterfeld was one of the 
 Commissioners in Bristol for col- 
 lecting the subsidy, in the 12th 
 Hen. VII., 1496. Rot. Parl vi. 
 518. He was sheriff of Bristol 
 in 1482 and May, 1484. Evans's 
 Annals of Bristol. A person of 
 the same name represented Bris- 
 tol in parliament in 1595 and 
 1597, and was mayor of that city 
 in 1594. 
 
 Essex, receipt of the Queen's 
 revenues in the county of, 
 109. 
 
 Eton, Our Lady of, 3. 
 Estate, a Cloth of, 66. 
 
 This entry minutely describes a 
 " Cloth of Estate," or the canopy 
 under which persons of high rank 
 generally sat. 
 
 Ewelm, 52, 59, 71. 
 
 In Oxfordshire. The Queen was 
 there on the 13th October, 1502. 
 This manor belonged to Wil- 
 liam de la Pole, Earl, Marquess, 
 and Duke of Suffolk, in conse- 
 quence of his marriage with Alice, 
 daughter and heiress of Sir Tho- 
 mas Chaucer, son of the Poet, 
 and was forfeited by the Duke's 
 attainder in 1450. It was, how- 
 ever, restored to his grandson and 
 heir, Edmond de la Pole (son and 
 heir of John de la Pole, Duke of 
 Suffolk, by Elizabeth, sister of 
 
INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 195 
 
 King Edward the Fourth), in 
 1495. 
 
 Ewry, office of the, 80, 90. 
 
 The office of the Royal House- 
 hold in which the Ewers or basons, 
 &c., for washing the hands before 
 and after meals were kept. A 
 full account of this office, which 
 still exists, and of the duty of the 
 persons attached to it, will be 
 found in the Liber Niger Domus 
 Regis, Edw. IV., p. 83, printed 
 by the Society of Antiquaries, in 
 the u Collection of Ordinances 
 and Regulations for the Govern- 
 ment of the Royal Household," 
 in 1790. Mr. Sharon Turner has 
 misunderstood what was meant 
 by " the Ewry," in his History 
 of the reign of Richard the 
 Third, as he speaks of Richard's 
 having " a palace in London, 
 called the Ewer." 
 
 Exeter, Bishop of, 90. 
 
 John Arundel, who was translated 
 from Litchfield and Coventry, on 
 the 29th June, 1502, and died 
 15th March, 1504. 
 
 Faggots, for, 80. 
 
 Fairford, 45, 46, 47, 49, 60, 67. 
 In Gloucestershire. It appears 
 that the Queen was there in Sep- 
 tember, 1502. 
 
 Fairfax, Robert, 2. 
 
 Robert Fairfax, upon which name 
 Fuller observes "a pulchro ca- 
 pillitio, from the fair hair, either 
 bright in colour, or comely for the 
 plenty thereof; their motto, in 
 allusion to their name Fare, fac 
 (say do) such the sympathy it 
 seems between their tongues and 
 hearts, was of the Yorkshire 
 family of that name, was a Doctor 
 in Music of Cambridge, and was 
 incorporated of Oxford in the year 
 1511." He was an eminent Eng- 
 lish Composer during the reigns 
 of Henry the Seventh and Henry 
 the Eighth. Bishop Tanner says, 
 he was of Bayford, in the County 
 of Hertford, and that he died at 
 St. Albans, which Hawkins ob- 
 serves, "is very probable, for he 
 was either organist or chanter of 
 the Abbey church there, and lies 
 buried therein." His arms were 
 
 affixed over the place of his in- 
 terment, but have long been hid 
 by the seat of the Mayor of that 
 town. His curious collection of 
 MSS. by himself and other Com- 
 posers, were in the possession of 
 General Fairfax, upon whose de- 
 mise they formed part of the 
 Thoresby Collection. See Bliss's 
 Wood's Fasti Oxonienses, i. 34. 
 
 Fastern, 45, 48, 97. 
 Park, 86. 
 
 In Wiltshire. The park and 
 pasture of Fastern were part of 
 the Queen's jointure. Rot. Part. 
 vi. 462. 
 
 Fawn, a, brought, 18. 
 
 Feckenham, Receiver of the 
 Lordship of, 110. 
 
 Fee Farms, 109. 
 
 " A fee farm rent is a rent charge 
 issuing out of an estate in fee, of 
 at least one-fourth of the value of 
 the lands, at the time of its re- 
 servation : for a grant of lands 
 reserving so considerable a rent 
 is, indeed, only letting lands to 
 farm in fee-simple, instead of the 
 usual methods for life or years." 
 Blackstone" s Commentaries, ii. 43. 
 
 Feld, John, 28, 36, 40, 44, 59, 
 60, 87. 
 
 Groom of the Queen's Chamber. 
 His wages were six-pence a day. 
 
 Fent of gowns, 89. 
 
 " Fente of a gowne fente." 
 Palsgrave's Esclarcissement de la 
 langue Fruncoyse. This word is 
 translated by cleft, rift, slit, &c., 
 by Cotgrave. " Fente d'une che- 
 mise" is the bosom, arid as this 
 entry relates to fur for the collar 
 and fent of a gown, it probably 
 meant the part over the bosom. 
 
 Fines, money received for, 110. 
 
 Firing, for, 45, 91. 
 
 Fishe, Thomas, 30. 
 
 Fitzherbert, Mrs. Elizabeth, 99. 
 One of the Queen's gentlewomen. 
 Perhaps this lady was sister of 
 Sir Anthony Fitz Herbert, one 
 of the Justices of the Common 
 Pleas in the next reign, and el- 
 dest daughter of Ralph Fitz Her- 
 bert, of Norbury, by Elizabeth 
 Marshal, his first wife. G. 
 2 c 2 
 
196 
 
 INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 Fitz Williams, John, 9. 
 
 One of the Queen's servants. 
 
 Flannel, for, 94. 
 
 Fleming;, Ann, called the great, 
 a gown given to, 69. 
 Perhaps the person who is thus 
 mentioned in the Privy Purse 
 Expenses of Henry the Seventh, 
 in August, 1503 " To the long 
 Fleming for a horse." Add. MS. 
 7099. 
 
 Flexley Abbey, 44, 46, 47. 
 
 for offerings to 
 
 the high altar at, 38. 
 Flaxley, near Newnham, in Glou- 
 cestershire. This place was visited 
 in August, 1502, by the Queen 
 during her progress into Wales. 
 
 Flowers, for, 4. 
 
 Fool, William, the Queen's, for 
 his board, clothes, and ex- 
 penses, whilst sick, 6, 24, 
 26, bis, 61, bis. 
 Two shillings a month were 
 allowed for his board. 
 
 the Lord Privy Seal's, 91. 
 
 my Lord of York's, 2. 
 
 The fool of Henry, Duke of 
 York, afterwards King Henry 
 the Eighth. These entries afford 
 little information on the subject 
 of Fools, which has been ably 
 discussed by Mr. Douce, in his 
 Illustrations of Shakespeare (See 
 a note in the Privy Purse Expenses 
 of Henry Fill., p. 319) ; but they 
 corroborate the fact that a fool 
 always formed part of the esta- 
 blishments of persons of distinc- 
 tion. The following entries re- 
 lative to " Fools," in the Privy 
 Purse Expenses of Henry the 
 Seventh, and in those of the 1st 
 of Henry the Eighth, may be ac- 
 ceptable. " To Thomas Blackall, 
 the King's fool, 6s. 8d." " To 
 Patch the fool in reward." " To 
 the foolyshe Duke of Lancastre." 
 " To the Lord Privy Seal's fool." 
 " For a horse, saddle, and bridle, 
 for Dego, the Spanish fool, 18*. 
 6rf." " For Duk the fool's rai- 
 ment. " " To the King of 
 France's fool in reward, 4. " 
 ' To the King of Castile's 
 ftwl." Add. MS. 7099, 7010. 
 
 Of these fools the Lord Privy 
 SealY'and^ Patch* are .the only 
 ones noticed in the Queen's Privy 
 Purse Expenses. It is not a little 
 remarkable that Henry the Se- 
 venth should have allowed a fool 
 to be nick-named the " Duke 
 of Lancaster," as it was his 
 greatest pride to elevate the house 
 of Lancaster in the estimation of 
 the world. In the Churchwar- 
 dens' Accounts of St. Margaret's, 
 Westminster, in 1485, is the fol- 
 lowing entry : " Item at the bu- 
 rying of Mr. John, the Queen's 
 foole ;" and in the list of New 
 Year's gifts in 155G, was " geven 
 by the Quein's Maiestie the 
 5th of December to a woman 
 dwelling at Bury, for healing 
 Jane the foole her eye, oon guilt 
 salte with a cover," weighing 
 lOoz. 3qr. ; and " to Mr. Ayer, 
 for kepinge the saide Jane during 
 the tyme of the healing of her eye 
 two guilt salts with a cover, 18oz. 
 di." Nichols's [Illustrations of 
 Ancient Times, pp. 3, 27, 28. 
 
 Footmen, the Queen's, for bon- 
 nets, shirts, and other clothes 
 for, 46, 69, 70, 75, 81, 93, 
 96, 
 
 to the, for their drying 
 
 money, 81. 
 
 See DRYING. 
 Fotheringhay, 79, 111. 
 Fowler, William, 81. 
 A Dyer of London. 
 Fox, fur of, 17. 
 Fustian, for, 16, 38, 73. 
 Franches, i. e. franchises, 1 06. 
 Fraunceys, his expenses, 51. 
 Frese, for, 45. 
 
 Coarse Cloth. See a note in the 
 " Privy Purse Expenses of Henry 
 VHL," p. 321 . 
 
 Friars Observants of Greenwich, 
 56. 
 
 of Canterbury, 57. 
 
 Fringes for curtains, 65. 
 Frontlets, for, 92. 
 
 - gold, for fetching the 
 Queen's, 68. 
 A frontlet is described by Nares 
 
INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 197 
 
 as a forehead -band, worn to make 
 the forehead smooth. Among the 
 effects of Henry the Eighth in 
 the list in the Harleian MS., 
 1419, are, " Frontellets of crim- 
 son satten, embraudered with 
 perles." Strutt's Horda, iii. 80. 
 And in the Regulations made by 
 Margaret, Countess of Richmond, 
 for the mourning of women of 
 rank in 1492, Countesses and 
 Duchesses were allowed " one 
 barbe, one frontelett, and two or 
 four kerchiefs." Strutt's Dresses 
 and Habits, ii. 325. An entry of 
 " four old frontletts of dyvers 
 colours of velvet," occurs in the 
 Churchwardens' Accounts of St. 
 Mary Hill, London, in 1524, 
 printed in Nichols's Illustrations 
 of Ancient Times, p. 125. Though, 
 as it seems, generally made of 
 cloth, silk, or velvet, as in the 
 entry in p. 92, where, together 
 with bonnets, &c., they formed 
 part of a silk-woman's bill, it is 
 evident from p. 68, that they 
 were also made of gold. By sta- 
 tute 17 Edw. IV., the wives, and 
 daughters unmarried, of persons 
 having possessions of the yearly 
 value of 101. and upwards, were 
 permitted to " use and wear 
 frontlettes of blak velvet, or of 
 any other cloth of silk of the 
 colour of blak." Rot. Part., vi. 
 189. Among the entries in the 
 Privy Purse Expenses of Henry 
 the Seventh, is a payment in 
 1492, of 31. 13*. 4d. " To the 
 Queen's grace for frontlets" and 
 on another occasion, of exactly 
 the same sum for "frontlets of 
 gold:' Add. MS. 7099. In the 
 Privy Purse Expenses of the 
 Princess, afterwards Queen, 
 Mary, is " Payed for a frount- 
 let loste in a wager to my Lady 
 Margaret, iiij /*.," which must, 
 from the price, have been of gold. 
 
 Fruit, brought, 93. 
 
 Frye, Sir John, a Priest who 
 farmed, i. e. rented lands at 
 Worthy Mortimer, to let 
 again, 107. 
 
 Fuller, Thomas, Mercer of Lon- 
 don, 22, 27. 
 
 Fur, of fox, 17. 
 
 Furness, Abbot of, 110. 
 
 Furring of gowns, 89. 
 
 The use of Furs was confined to 
 persons of rank by various legis- 
 lative provisions. See Rolls of 
 Parliament, ii. 278, 279, 281, 
 282; iii. 63; v. 505; vi. 221; 
 and Strutt's Dresses. 
 
 Fustian, 105. 
 
 Fyll, the King's Painter, 36. 
 
 In the Privy Purse Expenses of 
 Henry the Seventh, in April, 
 1503, his name is thus men- 
 tioned "To Thomas Stirr, for 
 painting two Tabernacles, 6/." 
 " To Robert Fylle, for making 
 of the same, 81." See PAINT ING 
 and REYNOLDS. 
 
 Garter, for lace and buttons for 
 the King's mantle, of the Or- 
 der of the, 8. 
 
 Gear, for a kirtle, and other, 
 54. 
 
 This word was used with the 
 greatest latitude to indicate simi- 
 lar articles to any one which might 
 be the last spoken of. See a note 
 in the Privy Purse Expenses of 
 Henry VIII. in 1532, p. 323. 
 
 Gentleman, William, 41, 56, 88. 
 
 Page of the Queen's Chamber. 
 Gentlewomen, for the convey- 
 ance of the Queen's. See 
 BARGE. 
 
 Gentyll, James, Mercer of Lon- 
 don, 24, 60. 
 
 In the 19th Hen. VII., after the 
 Queen's death, he was paid 301. 
 for the Queen's debt by the King. 
 
 Girdle, to a Monk that brought 
 our Lady's, 78. 
 Probably one of the numerous 
 Relicks with which the monas- 
 teries and abbies then abounded, 
 and which might have been 
 brought to the Queen for her to 
 put on when in labour, as it was 
 a common practice for women in 
 that situation to wear blessed 
 girdles. In a curious MS. of the 
 fifteenth century, in the posses- 
 sion of the Rev. James Dallaway, 
 entitled " The Knowyng of Wo- 
 man Kynde," one recipe in dif- 
 
198 
 
 INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 ficult cases is, " to wryte the 
 salme of Magnificath in a longe 
 scrow and gyrdit abowte her, and 
 sche shall be delyvert." Charms 
 applied to particular parts of the 
 body, under such circumstances, are 
 perhaps not yet entirely obsolete. 
 See Brand's Popular Antiquities. 
 
 Girdle, materials for, 9, 51. 
 
 harnesses for, 84. 
 
 Numerous notices relative to the 
 use of girdles occur on the Rolls 
 of Parliament. See Rot. Part. vi. 
 278, 279, 281, 282; iii. 296, 50G, 
 542, 593 ; and iv. 73. By statute 
 3 Edw. IV., no person was per- 
 mitted to wear a girdle harnessed 
 with" gold or silver in any part 
 over gilt, who had not yearly 
 possessions of the value of 40. ; 
 but the wives of Squires of the 
 Household, Yeomen of the Crown, 
 and Squires and Gentlemen, and 
 of Mayors, Aldermen, and Bai- 
 liffs, might wear gilt girdles and 
 kerchiefs, of the price of a plyte 
 of 5s., v. 505. 
 
 Glasbury, Henry, 91. 
 
 wife of, 96. 
 
 Gloucester, city of, 46. 
 
 to an Anchoress at, 
 
 67. 
 
 to the Rood near, 67. 
 
 Receipt of the Queen's 
 
 revenues in the county of, 
 108. 
 Gold, flat and round, 55. 
 
 The latter was eight-pence an 
 ounce dearer than the former. 
 
 of Venice, 8, 23,27. 
 
 Damask, i.e., Damascus 
 
 gold. 
 
 Goldsmiths, to, 64, 92, 98. 
 Goodman, Thomas, 101. 
 Goodriche, Thomas, 10, 64. 
 
 A Mercer of London. 
 Goose, John, 2. 
 
 The Duke of York's Fool, a name 
 probably bestowed on him from 
 his situation. 
 Goshawks, brought, 43, 86. 
 
 Keeper of the Queen's, 
 94, 100. 
 Gough, Margaret, 102. 
 
 One of the Queen's servants. 
 
 Gowns, for, 16, 17, 22, 25, 34, 
 35, 40, 68, 69, 70, 105. 
 
 various, described, 68, bis. 
 
 Gowns, materials for making, 8. 
 
 for mending, 7, 93. 
 
 for furring and the cuffs 
 
 of, 89. 
 
 wedding, 49. 
 
 for the carriage of the 
 
 Queen's, 17. 
 
 for fetching divers, 33, 
 
 68. 
 
 An elaborate account of the gowns 
 worn at this and earlier periods, 
 will be found in Strutt's Dresses 
 and Habits. Henry the Seventh 
 gave the Queen in 1500, 20/. 
 " to buy gold of Venice for to 
 make a gown." Add. MS. 7099. 
 
 Grantham, to the brotherhood 
 of Jesus Guild. in, 51. 
 
 Grace, the Rood of, in Kent, 3. 
 
 Grapes, brought, 52. 
 
 Grayling of tapetts for the 
 sumpter horse, 14. 
 Tapets, cut or rounded, like the 
 partition line called in Heraldry 
 ewgrailed. Instances occur in 
 these accounts of the use of terms 
 in the notices of dress, furniture, 
 &c., which are now confined to 
 Heraldry, as Chevrons, Pales, 
 &c. Chaucer's Personnes Tale pre- 
 sents several examples of the kind, 
 " as to the first sinne, in super- 
 fluitee of clothing, whiche that 
 maketh it so dere to the harme of 
 thepeplenot only the cost of the en- 
 brouding, the disguising, endent- 
 ing or barring, ounding, paling, 
 winding or bending" The word 
 engrailed is thus used in the list 
 of articles delivered for the coro- 
 nation of Richard the Third 
 " rede cloth engreyled with vj 
 
 yerdes of white woolen cloth." 
 
 Antiquarian Repertory . Ed. 1807- 
 vol. i. p. 50. 
 
 Gravesend, 96, 97. 
 
 Grease, bought, 37. 
 
 Green way, William, wife of, 16. 
 
 Greenwich, 5, 6, bis, 9, 10, 11, 
 12, 13. 15, 16, 17, 36, 42,70, 
 74, 87, 88, 92, 107. 
 Her Majesty was at Greenwich 
 
INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 199 
 
 on the 6th, 10th, 27th April; 
 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 18th of May ; and 
 on the 14th November, 1502. 
 
 Greenwich, Friars Observants 
 of, 55. 
 
 Grey, Dame Katherine, 62. 
 
 Apparently one of the queen's 
 ladies. She probably was the 
 Lady Grey in whose chamber a 
 man was slain ; but it is difficult 
 to identify her. See BURIALS. 
 
 , Nicholas, 7, 18. 
 
 Clerk of the Works at Richmond. 
 
 Greyhounds, the expense of the 
 Queen's, 33, 59, 88. 
 The keeper of these dogs was 
 allowed 2rf. a day for their support. 
 
 Grice, John, apothecary, 8, 27, 
 48, 49, 
 
 Griffiths, , 97. 
 
 It seems that this person had 
 been Yeoman of the Queen's 
 Chamber ; and that he retired 
 to the monastery of St. Mar- 
 garet's, Westminster. The ex- 
 penses of his entering there, as 
 well as of his funeral, were de- 
 frayed by the Queen ; whence it 
 may be inferred that he was a 
 favourite Servant. 
 
 Grigg, Sir John, 80. 
 
 Grooms and Pages of the Queen's 
 Chamber, to, in reward, 78. 
 
 Guard, to the King's, in reward, 
 38. 
 
 Guides, to, 32, 46, 6w, 47, 97. 
 
 Guildford, Lady Jane, 52, 99. 
 One of the ladies attached to the 
 Queen's person, and apparently 
 Jane, the second wife of Sir 
 Richard Guildford, K.G., and 
 sister of Nicholas Lord Vaux. It 
 is probable that it was this lady 
 who accompanied the Princess 
 Mary, sister of Henry the Eighth, 
 to France, on her marriage with 
 Louis the Twelfth, in 1514, as 
 mistress of her maids of honour, 
 whose unceremonious dismissal, 
 together with all the bride's other 
 English attendants, by Louis, the 
 morning after his nuptials, is the 
 subject of complaint from Mary 
 to Henry and Cardinal Wolsey, 
 in two letters printed in Ellis's 
 
 Original Letters, First Series, i. 
 115 119. The young queen 
 calls her " my mother Guild- 
 ford," and says, she has not yet 
 seen " yn Fraunce eny lady or 
 gentill woman, so necessary for 
 me as sche ys, nor zet so mete to 
 do the kynge my brother service 
 as sche ys ;" and begs she may be 
 
 immediately sent back to her 
 
 " for," ghe adds, " I had as lefe 
 lose the wynnynge I schalle have 
 yn France, as to lose her counsell 
 when 1 shall lacke yt." In a let- 
 ter from the Earl of Worcester to 
 Wolsey, also printed in Mr. Ellis's 
 Letters, his Lordship acknow- 
 ledges the Cardinal's letter, ac- 
 quainting him with Henry's plea- 
 sure " touching the retorneof my 
 //ar/yGildford:" he then explains 
 Louis's reasons for dismissing his 
 wife's English retinue, and states, 
 that his Majesty persisted in re- 
 fusing to allow them to return. 
 Original Letters, Second Series, i. 
 244. This lady, in the 6th Henry 
 VIII., had a grant of an annuity 
 of 20/. for her services to the 
 king, to his father, his mother, 
 and his sisters the Queens of 
 France and Scotland. The Guild- 
 ford family were peculiar favour- 
 ites both of Henry the Seventh 
 and Henry the Eighth. The 
 husband, and Sir Henry the son, 
 of the lady here noticed, were 
 honoured with the Garter ; and 
 the latter, at whose marriage on 
 the 25th April, 1512. both Henry 
 the Eighth and the Princess of 
 Castile offered, was Comptroller 
 of the Household, &c., to the lat- 
 ter Monarch. In January, 1510, 
 Sir Thomas Brandon, uncle of 
 Charles Duke of Suffolk, be- 
 queathed to " Lady Jane Gylford, 
 widow," his place in South wark, 
 with his lease, which he had of 
 the Bishop of Winchester, toge- 
 ther with all his purchased lands 
 in Norfolk and Suffolk, for life, 
 she to pay to his nephew William 
 Sydney, 20 marks a year, with 
 remainder to his nephew Charles 
 (afterwards Duke of Suffolk), and 
 his heirs. A notice will be found 
 of the Guildford family in Col- 
 lins's Raronetage, vol. v. p. 1. 
 
200 
 
 INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 Gurden, Lady, 54. 
 
 One of the Queen's gen tie worn en. 
 
 Hales, to the Holy Blood of, 3. 
 " A pretended relick of the blood 
 of our Saviour, which was brought 
 from the Holy Land, and depo- 
 sited in the Cistercian Monastery 
 of Hayles in Gloucestershire, by 
 Edmund Earl of Cornwall. See 
 Collier's Ecclesiastical History, i. 
 14 ; and Petri Benediciti Vita et 
 Gest. Hen. II. &c. ii. 752." 
 Northumberland Household Book, 
 p. 438. 
 
 Hales, Owen, fee farm of, 109. 
 
 Hall, to the grooms and pages 
 of the, for making bonfires, 26. 
 
 Hallysworth, Dr., 96. 
 
 A physician who was sent for to 
 attend the Queen in her last 
 illness. 
 
 Ham, near Richmond in Surrey, 
 79. 
 
 Hamerton, John, 21, 42, 57. 
 One of the Queen's servants, but 
 the situation he held does not 
 appear. 
 
 George, 18, 35, 36, 
 
 41,49, 58, 71,72,74, 91, 95. 
 
 Groom porter. His wages were 
 Wd. a day. 
 
 William, 35, 37, 49, 
 
 51,6w, 58, 81,91,92. 
 Yeoman of the wardrobe of the 
 Queen's beds. His wages were 
 Is. a day. 
 
 Hamond, Maud, 11, 63. 
 
 A woman who had given her 
 child to the Queen, at whose ex- 
 pense it was nursed. See CHIL- 
 DREN. 
 
 Hamper, for a, 39. 
 
 Hampton Court, 2, 6, 7, 12, 94, 
 bis, 95. 
 
 Hanged, for burying men who 
 were, 14. 
 See BURYING. 
 
 Harbegiers, to the King's, 39. 
 Harbingers. Persons whose duty 
 it was to provide lodgings for the 
 king, or persons connected with 
 the Court, when on a journey. 
 
 In an unpublished letter, in the 
 Hengrave collection, dated 26th 
 July, 1560, addressed to the Coun- 
 tess of Bath, from her steward, the 
 following passage occurs. " Yo* 
 L. shall understand that I have 
 had mych adoo, in staying yo* 
 house to be takyn up by the Har- 
 byngers for the French imbassa- 
 dors which corny th for the confir- 
 macon of the pease. They thre- 
 tenyd to breke upe all the locks 
 in the house, but I w th stood them 
 as far as reason wolde, and was 
 before the counsell byfore we were 
 at stay, but 1 trust yo r house is 
 now saff enough from ther ta- 
 kyng." G. (See Herbegage.} 
 
 Harcourt, Mrs., 62. 
 
 It was intended that this person 
 should have been the Queen's 
 nurse in her last and fatal con- 
 finement. 
 
 Harding, Mr., 50. 
 
 Clerk of the Queen's Closet ; pro- 
 bably a priest. 
 
 Hardy, Sir John, 25. 
 
 Harness, horse, for a, 17. 
 
 Harnesses, for girdles, 84. 
 See GIRDLES. 
 
 Hart, a, brought, 51. 
 
 Harveys, Richard, 110. 
 
 Receiver of the Lordship of 
 Feckenham. 
 
 Hawte, Jaques, 38, 80. 
 
 One of the Queen's servants. 
 The Privy Purse Expenses of 
 Henry the Seventh state, that he 
 was Under Keeper of Kenel- 
 worth. 
 
 Hawks, for meat for the, 94. 
 
 Havering at Bower, 11, 32, 63, 
 79. 
 
 Hayward, John, 88. 
 A skinner. 
 
 Hed, Robert, 20. 
 
 A taylor of London. 
 
 Henchmen to the king, 90. 
 
 Pages of Honour. They were 
 sons of gentlemen, and in public 
 processions walked by the side of 
 the monarch's horse. See a note 
 on this word in the Privy Purse 
 Expenses of Henry y 111 '., 
 p. 327. 
 
INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 201 
 
 Henley upon Thames, 59, 71, 
 72. 
 
 Henley, John, 92. 
 
 A sadler of London. 
 Henry, King, offerings made to, 
 3, 29. 
 
 Henry the Sixth, who, from his 
 exemplary piety, enjoyed the ho- 
 nours of canonization. His shrine 
 was at Eton. 
 
 Hensted, John, 16. 
 A tradesman. 
 
 Heralds of Arms, gifts to, on 
 New Year's Day, 90. 
 
 Herauld, 47. 
 
 Harrold, in Bedfordshire, about 
 eight miles from Bedford. 
 
 Herbegage, 74. 
 
 Preparing lodgings and mak- 
 ing other arrangements for the 
 Queen's reception at the places 
 through which she passed. See 
 HARBEGIERS. 
 
 Herbert, Sir Walter, 43, 51 ; his 
 wife, 51. 
 
 Apparently Sir Walter Herbert, 
 younger son of William first Earl 
 of Pembroke. He was retained 
 to serve the king beyond the sea 
 for one year with a large retinue 
 in 1492 (Fcedera, xii. 480), and 
 was specially protected in the 
 office of Steward of the Lordships 
 of Uske, Carlion, and Treyleck, 
 " with the making of the crouner 
 and officers to the said office" 
 appertaining, by the Act of 
 Resumption, 1 Hen. VII. Rot. 
 Parl. vi. 379- His wife was Anne, 
 daughter of Henry Stafford, 2nd 
 Duke of Buckingham, but he 
 died s. P. 
 
 Hercules, Friar, 8. 
 
 In the Privy Purse Expenses of 
 Henry the Seventh, in May, 1503, 
 is an entry of 6^. 13*. 4d. " to 
 Friar Hercules, for a Psalter." 
 
 Herman, John, Sergeant of the 
 
 Queen's Car, 104. 
 Hermit, to a, at Colnbrooke, 31. 
 Heron, John, 76. 
 Hertley, John, 15, 16. 
 A tradesman. 
 
 Hichin, Prior of, 13. 
 
 Higham, Stephen, 13. 
 A tradesman. 
 
 Hiltone, Elys, 17, 20, 54, bis. 
 Groom of the robes. 
 
 Hinges, for mending, 21. 
 
 Hobart, James, the King's At- 
 torney, 101. 
 
 Attorney-general and privy coun- 
 cillor to Henry the Seventh, and 
 ancestor of the Earls of Bucking- 
 hamshire : he died whilst attor- 
 ney-general, in 1507. 
 
 Holden, Thomas, 40, 51, 59, 
 70. 
 
 A yeoman of the queen's house- 
 hold, but in what department 
 does not appear. He was proba- 
 bly the Thomas Holden, men- 
 tioned in p. 40, as having given 
 his child to the queen. 
 
 Holand, John, 101, 106. 
 
 Keeper of the Council Chamber. 
 Holburn, Abbot of, 53. 
 Horse-hire, for, 57, 59, 88, 97. 
 
 The hire of a horse for carrying 
 venison was, on one occasion, 4rf., 
 and on another (id. a day; whilst 
 the hire of one to convey a lady 
 from Esthampstead to London, 
 was IGd. 
 
 Horse, the Sompter, 14. 
 
 The sumpter horse was a horse 
 that carried clothes or furniture ; 
 a baggage horse. 
 
 Horses, towards the purchase of, 
 21, 53. 
 
 Six shillings and eight-pence was 
 the sum given iu each instance to 
 the same person, who was a groom 
 of the queen's chamber. Henry 
 VII. gave \Ql. " for six new 
 chariot horses." Several entries 
 in the Northumberland Household 
 Booked. 1827, PP- 24, 55, 120, 
 359, 360, and in the Collection of 
 Regulations for the Ruyal House- 
 hold, afford information as to the 
 persons who were allowed horses 
 in great establishments, and the 
 names by which they were de- 
 scribed as, the male horse, pal- 
 freys, nags, &c. 
 
 expenses of breaking 
 
 2 D 
 
202 
 
 INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 in, marking, driving 1 , shoeing, 
 baiting, &c., 79. 
 Horsemeat, for, 46. 
 
 Provender for horses. 
 Hosen, for, 38, 61, 75, 76, 98. 
 
 for making, 96. 
 
 watchet, 96. 
 
 Hooks, for, 92. 
 Hoops, for eching, 34. 
 
 See ECHING. 
 
 Hosy, Sir John, 77. 
 
 This person was keeper of the 
 King's Wards, with a salary of 
 1001. a year, but he has not been 
 otherwise identified. It may be 
 inferred that he was the owner 
 of the place near Havering at 
 Bower, in Essex, where the young 
 Lords Courtenay lived ; but Mo- 
 rant, in his History of Essex, does 
 not throw any light on the sub- 
 ject. 
 
 House burnt at Richmond, mo- 
 ney given in remuneration of 
 losses in consequence of, 18. 
 House rent, for, 86. 
 
 The queen's embroiderer was 
 allowed 21. per annum for his 
 house rent. 
 
 Housell, for the Queen's, 1, 54, 
 83. 
 
 The Eucharist. To housel was to 
 administer the holy communion. 
 " The Cardinal song the masse, 
 and after paxe, the King and the 
 Quene descended, and before the 
 high altar they were bothe houseled 
 with one hoste devided betweene 
 them." Hairs Chronicle, Ed. 
 1809, p. 376. When the Queen 
 takes her chamber she must be 
 " brought into the chapell or 
 church there to bee houseled" 
 Regulations of the Royal House- 
 hold, temp. Henry VII., p. 125. 
 " Toke the said John Glyn and 
 hym ymprisoned, and in the castel 
 in prison him kept by the space 
 of v cures and more, so that noon 
 of his frendes myght come where 
 he was to releve hym with drynk, 
 orjstaunche his bloode, to th' en- 
 tent'that he should have bled to 
 deth, except they suffered a Preste 
 
 to come to shryve and howsi-ll 
 hym." Rolls of Parliament, Anno 
 1472, vol. vi. 35. Thus too, 
 Chaucer, 
 
 " Man and wife 
 
 Should shew ther parish priest 
 
 ther life 
 
 Ones a yere, as saith the boke 
 Ere any wight his housel toke." 
 
 See other examples in ToJd's 
 Johnson, and in Nare's Glossary. 
 It appears that the Queen com- 
 municated thrice between March, 
 1502, and March, 1503, namely, 
 on Easter Day, on All Saints 
 Day, and on Christmas Day, and 
 that twenty- pence were paid on 
 each occasion u for her housel/' 
 In the Privy Purse Expenses of 
 Henry the Eighth, the situations 
 of the persons in relation to whom 
 the word is used induced the Edi- 
 tor to imagine that it had another 
 meaning than for the holy ele- 
 ments. In April, 1530, the two 
 Williams, who were little better 
 than jesters or buffoons, and 
 Philip's boy, were paid ten shil- 
 lings each for their housel : on the 
 26th of the same month Richard 
 Ap Guilliams was paid 4s. 8d. for 
 his howsel at Easter ; and on the 
 28th, Thomas the King's Jester 
 was paid 25s. " for his howsill and 
 his livery coat." He is now how- 
 ever convinced that he was 
 mistaken, and that the persons 
 above mentioned received those 
 sums to reimburse them'for what 
 they expended on communicating 
 at Easter, they being wholly sup- 
 ported at the King's expense. It 
 is remarkable that though in 
 1503 the Queen of England paid 
 but 20d. on such occasions, yet 
 that only twenty-eight years af- 
 terwards the King's minions 
 should have been allowed ten 
 shillings each, and that another 
 of them should have been paid 
 4s. 6d. for the purpose. In 1497, 
 six shillings and eightpence were 
 paid " for the King's offering at 
 his Housillyng ." 
 
 Hove, Alexander, 66. 
 A goldsmith. 
 
 Howuslow, 53. 
 
INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 203 
 
 Howard, Lord, 99. 
 
 Thomas Lord Howard, son and 
 heir apparent of Thomas Earl of 
 Surrey. He married, in 1495, 
 the Queen's sister, Anne, daugh- 
 ter of King Edward the Fourth, 
 by whom he had two children, 
 who died young. Lord Howard 
 signalized himself at the battle of 
 Flodden, and succeeded his father 
 as Duke of Norfolk, in 1524. He 
 was allowed 1201. per annum by 
 the Queen for the support of her 
 sister. 
 
 Howell, Thomas ap, 6. 
 
 , William ap, 30. 
 
 Humberston, Thomas, 66, 96. 
 A hosier. 
 
 Hungary, Ambassadors of, 11, 
 
 39. 
 
 A treaty was entered into in May, 
 1502, with Ladislaus, King of 
 Hungary, that Henry should assist 
 him against the Turks. Fcedera, 
 xiii. p. 5. But nothing occurs in 
 that work to justify the idea that 
 he then sent ambassadors to this 
 country. The Emperor Maximi- 
 lian, who also called himself King 
 of Hungary, in April, 1502, ap- 
 pointed Cornelius de Burghes the 
 Lord of Berselles, Knight of 
 the Golden Fleece, and Indoctus 
 Prant, Knight, his ambassadors 
 to Henry, who, doubtless, are the 
 persons mentioned as having been 
 at Richmond in the May fol- 
 lowing. 
 
 Hungerford, Lady, 47. 
 
 Hunt, Thomas, 90. 
 
 Of the office of the confectionary. 
 
 Hunters, for going after, 94. 
 
 Hynde, Thomas, 60. 
 A mercer of London. 
 
 Hynsted, John, 56, 103, bis. 
 A wax chandler of London. 
 
 Ink, for, 102. 
 
 Johnes, Mrs. Eleanor, 5, bis, 12, 
 13, 15, 18,21,99, 110. 
 
 One of the Queen's gentlewomen. 
 Though repeatedly mentioned as 
 being in attendance on. her 
 
 Majesty between March and 
 June, 1502, she is not again 
 noticed until September, 1503, 
 when she received her salary 
 of 61. 135. 4rf. She was probably 
 the wife or daughter of the Robert 
 Johnes, the King's " welbeloved 
 servaunt, and oon of the gromes 
 of cure chambre," who was spe- 
 cially protected in the enjoyment 
 of the offices of Constable and 
 Parker of Lantrishen and the 
 Isle of Bar, in South Wales, in 
 the Act of Resumption, 1 Hen. 
 VII. ; and also in the enjoyment 
 of all offices and fees which had 
 been granted to him, by the Act 
 of Resumption, 11 Hen. VII. 
 Rot. Par I. vi. 351, 471. 
 
 Johnson, John, a surgeon, 14. 
 
 Robert, 40. 
 
 The queen's taylor. 
 
 Ipswich, our lady of, 3. 
 
 Iron, for finding, 38. 
 See DEAN. 
 
 Ivory, for a box of, 27. 
 
 a chest of, brought, 15. 
 
 Jagging of tapetts, 14. 
 
 To jag is to cut into indentures, 
 now called Vandykes : " j hode 
 of blakke felwet with a typpet 
 halfe damask and halfe felwet 
 y jaggyd:" "j hode of depe 
 grene felwet jakgyd, upon the 
 rolle : " " j rydyng hode of rede 
 felwet with iiij jaggys : " a tippet 
 " with j jagge" " a jagged 
 hode," occur in the inventory of 
 the effects of Sir John Fastolfe. 
 Archcelogia, xxi. 254, 259. 
 
 Jackets, for, 93. 
 
 for garnishing, for the 
 
 disguising, 21. 
 See DISGUISING. 
 
 Jentille, James, 24. 
 See GENTLE. 
 
 Jewels, attendance on the queen's, 
 29, 40, 44, 59, 60, 87. 
 Wages of the two grooms of the 
 queen's chamber, whose duty it 
 was to take care of her majesty's 
 jewels. 
 
 Jewelry, for, 64, 66. 
 
 Henry gave the queen, on one 
 2 D 2 
 
204 
 
 INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 occasion, 3R 10*. for jewels; and 
 after her death, an entry occurs in 
 the Privy Purse Expenses of her 
 husband "To Steven Jenyns of 
 London, for pledging certain of 
 the queen's jewels, 10(M." 26 
 May, 1503. Part of the jewels 
 mentioned in these accounts were 
 bought for the queen against the 
 marriage of Prince Arthur. 
 
 Journies, costs of, 6, 32, 39, 40. 
 
 Jubilee, letter of pardon of the, 
 
 Every twenty-fifth year was a 
 year of jubilee, and the Holy 
 See then granted extraordinary 
 indulgences: of these "the let- 
 ter of pardon" was the certi- 
 ficate, the price of which was 
 only twelve-pence. In the Privy 
 Purse Expenses of Henry the 
 Seventh, 23rd September, 1501, 
 is this entry, To the official of 
 fearum that come with the money 
 of the jubilee." The year 1501 
 was the year of jubilee, and it is 
 singular that the Princess Mary's 
 letter of pardon should not have 
 been paid for until May, 1502. 
 Justice, Richard, 7, 15, 46, 63, 
 68. 
 Page of the robes. 
 
 Katherine, lady, 17, 32, 33, 89 
 99, 100, 103. 
 
 All these entries relate to Kathe- 
 rine, youngest child of King Ed- 
 ward the Fourth and wife of Lord 
 William Courtenay, son and heir 
 of the Earl of Devon. An ac^ 
 count of this personage will be 
 found in the IXTRODUCTORY 
 REMARKS. Henry the Seventh 
 sent her, by her servant, in Sep- 
 tember, 1502, 10/. 
 Kemys, Henry, 101. 
 
 Probably a relation of the wife of 
 Thomas Lucas the Solid tor-Ge- 
 neral. G. 
 
 Kendal, for, 24. 
 
 A kind of coarse cloth. 
 Kersey, for, 24. 
 Key, for making a, 68. 
 Kidlirigton, i. e., Kiddington, in 
 Oxfordshire, 34. 
 
 King, the, 8, 14, bis, 67. 
 
 King's daughter, the, 94. 
 
 The youngest child of Henry the 
 Seventh and Elizabeth of York, 
 in giving birth to whom her 
 mother lost her life. The infant 
 was born on the 2nd of February, 
 1502-3, and died soon afterwards. 
 Sandford conjectures that she was 
 named after Katherine of Ar- 
 ragon, her sister-in-law, and that 
 that princess was her god-mother ; 
 but it is more probable that 
 she was named after her aunt, 
 Katherine Courtenay. The entry 
 relating to this child is for four 
 yards of flannel for her use. 
 
 King's father, the obit of the, 
 55. 
 
 Edmond of Hadham, Earl of 
 Richmond, father of Henry the 
 Seventh, died on the 3rd of No- 
 vember, 145C, Dugdale's Baro. 
 nage, ii. 237 which date agrees 
 with the statement of 5s. being 
 paid on the third of November, 
 1502, for the queen's offering at 
 the celebration of the obit of that 
 prince. 
 
 King's Mother, the, 52, 91. 
 
 Margaret, Countess of Richmond, 
 who married to her second hus- 
 band, Sir Henry Stafford, younger 
 son of Humphrey, Duke of Buck- 
 ingham ; and to her third, Tho- 
 mas, first Earl of Derby. She 
 died 29th of June, 1509. 
 King's Place at Westminster, 
 
 the keeper of, 2. 
 Kirtles, for, 38, 40. 
 
 for hemming and making 
 
 or mending, 7, 22, 23, 35, 54 
 93. 
 
 An explanation of kirtles will be 
 found in a note to Bishop Beck- 
 ington's Journal. 8vo. 1828. 
 Kitchin, to the officers of the, 2. 
 
 the children of the privy, 
 
 91. 
 
 Knives, carving, 96. 
 
 small, enamelled, 96. 
 
 Knoyell, William, 107. 
 
 A receiver of part of the queen's 
 
 revenues. 
 
INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 205 
 
 Kydwelly, Sir Morgan, 87, 101. 
 This person, who was appointed 
 Attorney-general by Richard the 
 Third, was the first to desert the 
 sovereign to whom he owed his 
 promotion, and became one of the 
 earliest and most zealous of Henry 
 the Seventh's supporters: to 
 his treachery, Mr. Sharon Tur- 
 ner and other historians mainly 
 attribute Richard's subsequent 
 disasters. It is remarkable that 
 he neither retained his situation 
 of Attorney-general after Henry's 
 accession nor was promoted to 
 any judicial office. To what ex- 
 tent he enjoyed that monarch's 
 favour is uncertain, but these ac- 
 counts prove that he was knighted 
 and received a small annual fee 
 in consequence of holding some 
 official appointment. In the 1 
 Hen. VII. it is said that Richard 
 had made him a referee in a cer- 
 tain suit on behalf of Thomas 
 Gyldyn, and that having obtained 
 a knowledge of the claimant's 
 title, u within a little tyme after 
 that tyme, the said Morgan mar- 
 ryied one Avys which pretendit to 
 be nigh of blode to the foresaid 
 Thomas Gyldyn" took possession 
 of the lands in dispute, and " re- 
 tained the same agenst all con- 
 science and equyte, full ungodely, 
 the said Morgan beyng of greate 
 myght and favored in the said 
 shire of Dorset beyng attorney 
 to the late pretended Kyng 
 Richard the Third." #/. ParL 
 vi. 321. In 1503, Sir Morgan 
 Kydwelly was one of the Com- 
 missioners for levying an aid in 
 the County of Dorset. Ibid. 535. 
 
 Kynifare, fee farm of, 109. 
 Kanefare, in Staffordshire. 
 
 Labourers, to, 80. 
 
 Laces, for, 51, 75. 
 
 Ladies and gentlewomen, the 
 queen*s, clothes of, 40. 
 This entry proves that the ladies 
 in attendance on the queen were 
 clothed at her expense. It is re- 
 markable, as indicative of the 
 want of money, that this and 
 
 many other bills were not wholly 
 discharged at one payment, but 
 that part only, in this instance 
 not half, should be paid at one 
 time. 
 
 Ladies and gentlewomen of the 
 court, for conveying, 15, 73, 
 et sespe. 
 
 Vide BARGE. 
 
 Lady of grace at St. Paul's, 81. 
 Lady's, our, girdle brought, 78. 
 
 See GIRDLE. 
 Lakyn, Mrs., 57. 
 
 Probably one of the queen's gentle- 
 women. 
 
 Lambeth, 32. 
 
 Lampreys baked, brought, 89. 
 Lampreys were a favourite dish, 
 and one of our early monarchs is 
 said to have died from having 
 supped too plentifully off them. 
 In the Hengrave Household Ac- 
 counts is this entry, "for pre- 
 senting a lamprey pye vj rf." 
 
 Langley, 37, 38, 40, 44, 45, 48, 
 49, 51, 56, 57,59,60,63,67, 
 74. 
 
 Langley, in the hundred of Chad- 
 lington, in Oxfordshire. Her 
 majesty was there on the 5th and 
 6th of August, 16th and 20th of 
 September, 2nd October, and 15th 
 November, 1502. 
 
 Lands and revenues, receipts of 
 the queen's, 107. 
 
 Langton, Henry, 77. 
 
 An old servant of King Edward 
 the Fourth. 
 
 Lanston, Robert, 94. 
 
 One of the queen's servants. 
 Lanthony, Prior of, 18, 33, 37, 
 44, 89. 
 
 cheese, a, brought, 
 
 14. 
 
 Larks bought, 78, 
 Lathes, Doctor, 13. 
 
 Probably a physician. 
 Laton, buckles and rings of, 65, 
 85, 86. 
 
 A great deal has been said by 
 various writers on the metal called 
 
206 
 
 INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 Laton See a note to the Privy 
 Purse Expenses of Henry rill in 
 1532, p. 333, to which it is only ne- 
 cessary to add, that Palsgrave, in 
 nis Esclarcissement de la Langue 
 Francoyse, translates it by the 
 word Laton. Laiton is still com- 
 mon in France, and is defined 
 to be "cuivre jaune mele avec 
 la mine de zinc ou calamine, a 
 1'eclat d'or." That it was of a 
 pale yellow colour is proved by 
 Chaucer's saying, 
 
 "Phoebus waxe old and hewed 
 
 like la ton 
 
 That in his hote declination 
 Shone as the burned gold with 
 
 stremes bright : 
 But now in Capricorne adoun 
 
 he light 
 
 Wher as he shone ful pale, I 
 dare well sain." 
 Franke/eine's Tale, v. 11557. 
 Launderer, the Queen's, 46, 64, 
 100. 
 
 Agnes Dean. Her wages were 
 3/. 6s. &/. per annum ; and when 
 travelling, she was allowed 4d. 
 per diem for her horse meat. 
 Lawn, for a shirt, 50. 
 
 Kerchiefs of lawne, nyfels, urn- 
 pie, or eny other manere of ker- 
 chiefs, exceeding the price of 10* 
 per plight, were forbidden to be 
 sold in England on penalty of 
 paying 13*. 4d. per plight by 
 statute 3 and 4 Edw. IV. 146?1 
 4. Rot. Par/, v. 505. Several 
 pieces of lawn of the value of 3*. 
 and 3*. 4rf. the ell are mentioned 
 m the inventory of the effects of 
 
 Henry the Fifth in 1423 Ibid. 
 
 iv. 239. A lawn shirt of Arthur, 
 Prince of Wales, worked in blue 
 silk, is in possession of John 
 Gage, Esq., F.R.S., Dir. S. A., 
 to whom it was given by Mary, 
 Countess St. Martin de Tront, 
 the representative of the Bostock 
 family, a member of which was of 
 the Prince of Wales's household 
 Lead, for, 25. 
 
 Lee, Mrs. Elizabeth, 5, 11, 14 
 30, 43, 52, 99. 
 
 One of the Queen's gentle- 
 women. 
 
 Levesey, Edmond, 35, 36, 41 
 42, 95. 
 
 Yeoman of the Queen's household. 
 His wages were Is. a-day. 
 
 Lewes, Sir Richard, knight, 61. 
 Apparently a goldsmith. 
 
 William, 80. 
 
 Gentleman of the Ewry. 
 Lime, for, 80. 
 
 Linchelade, to our lady of, 37. 
 Lines for making two for the 
 
 Queen's car, 104. 
 Linnen cloth, for, 62, 65, 70 
 
 78, 80. 
 Liquoring-, for barehides, 37. 
 
 See BAREHIDES. 
 Litter, for making- a, 69. 
 
 Pins, for, 45. 
 
 for coverings of the 
 
 Queen's, 28, 103. 
 
 for the expenses of the 
 
 Queen's, 45. 
 See CAR. 
 
 Locks bought, 11, 20, 68, 71, 
 
 80. 
 Lock, Mrs., 14, 39, 92. 
 
 A silk woman. 
 
 Lodgings, for preparing, 35, 41 
 
 42,49,56,57,70,71,72,93,' 
 y), 98. 
 
 Expenses incurred in preparing 
 for the queen's reception at the 
 various places to which she 
 went. 
 
 London, Mayor of, 23, 48. 
 
 In the 17 Hen. VII. 1501-2, Sir 
 John Shaa Goldsmith, whose 
 name again occurs in these Ac- 
 counts, was Mayor of London : 
 his successor was Sir Barthol 
 lomew Rede, son of Robert Rede, 
 of Crowhurst, in Norfolk. 
 
 Long, Sir John, 51. 
 Lorimer, to a, for bits, 97. 
 Loryden, Marques, a minstrel, 
 
 100. 
 
 Loveday, Ann, 37. 
 A nun at Elnestow. 
 
INDEX AiND NOTES. 
 
 207 
 
 Lovel, Lady, 13, 15. 
 
 Perhaps the wife of Sir Thomas 
 Lovel, mentioned in the next 
 note ; but her maiden name has 
 not been ascertained. She pre- 
 sented the Queen with a box of 
 ivory, having the passion of our 
 Lord engraved thereon, in May 
 1502, and seems to have left 
 Richmond, where the Queen was 
 staying, on the 24th of that 
 month. 
 
 Sir Thomas, 110. 
 
 Apparently the " Thomas Lovell, 
 of Beecheham Wells, Gentle- 
 man," who was attainted of high 
 treason, 1 Ric. III. Rot. Parl. 
 vi. 246, but which was reversed 
 in the 1 Hen. VII. Ibid. p. 273, 
 and, it is presumed, was the 
 person who was protected in the 
 enjoyment of various grants in 
 the act of assumption of the 
 1 Hen. VII. Rot. Purl. vi. 
 284, 280, 345; by the act re- 
 storing John Lord Zouche in 
 the 11 Hen. VII Ibid. p. 486; 
 and in the act of attainder of 
 Francis Viscount Lovell, in the 
 same year. Ibid. p. 503. On the 
 accession of Henry VII., Sir 
 Thomas Lovell was made Chan- 
 cellor of the Exchequer, a Privy 
 Councillor, and Speaker of the 
 House of Commons. In 1 487, he 
 was knighted at the battle of 
 Stoke ; in 1502, was made Trea- 
 surer of the Household, was a 
 Knight of the Garter, and one 
 of the Executors of Henry's will. 
 By Henry the Eighth he was as 
 much esteemed as by the pre- 
 ceding monarch ; and he ap- 
 pointed him Constable of the 
 Tower, Surveyor of the Court 
 of Wards, and Steward of his 
 house. He died at Enfield, 25th 
 of May, 1524. These Accounts 
 state that he had advanced the 
 Queen 100/. on plate. Notices 
 of this person will be found in 
 Blomfield's History of Norfolk, 
 under the parish of Harling. 
 
 Lute, to Giles, a later, for strings 
 
 for the Queen of Scots' lute, 29. 
 
 A lute given to her sister the 
 
 Princess Mary by her father in 
 
 1504 cost 13*. 4</ Privy Purse 
 
 Expenses of Henry VII. In those 
 accounts is a notice of 13s. 4d. 
 being paid to " Watt the luter 
 that played the fool." Among 
 the Hengrave Household Ex- t 
 penses, in 1573, is, " For string- 
 ing, tuning, and fretting my mis- 
 tresses lute, ij s. vj d." Gage's 
 History of Hengrave, p. 197. In 
 the Antiquarian Repertory, ed. 
 1807, vol. Hi., p. 406, some cu- 
 rious verses will be found, de- 
 scriptive of various musical in- 
 struments temp. Henry VII., 
 from the Lodge at Lekingfeld. 
 Lybert, John, goldsmith, 7, 10, 
 64, 88. 
 
 It seems that this person was 
 often sent for from London to 
 attend the Queen, and that on 
 one occasion her majesty honored 
 him and another goldsmith called 
 Vanderf with a present of a buck 
 between them. 
 
 Lyer, for blue, 91. 
 
 of thread, 65, 66. 
 
 See LYOUR in the notes to the 
 Wardrobe Accounts of Edward 
 IV. infra. 
 
 Lynche, Mr., 14, 59. 
 
 A physician. " 14 th April 1492 
 to Master Lynche the phisicon 
 3/. 6*. 8d." Privy Purse Ex- 
 penses of Henry Vll. 
 
 Lynne, John, 104. 
 
 A wheelwright of London. 
 
 Machene, Robert, 69, 78. 
 A taylor. 
 
 Major, Nicholas, 1, 10, 14. 
 
 The queen's sadler. Query if he 
 was the " Nicholas Major " who 
 was one of the commissioners for 
 levying the aid in the borough of 
 Southwark, for knighting the 
 Prince of Wales in 1503. Rot. 
 Parl. vi. p. 537. 
 
 Malvesey, brought, 21. 
 
 A misprint for Malwesey, i. e. 
 
 Malmsey Wine. 
 Marcazin, Janyn, 100. 
 
 A minstrel. 
 Marcle, co. Hereford, 110. 
 
 This manor was one of those 
 
 assigned for the queen's dower. 
 
 Rot. Parl. vi. p. 462. 
 
208 
 
 IN'DEX AND NOTES. 
 
 Marquess, Lady, 59. 
 
 Apparently Cicely, wife of Thomas 
 Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset, 
 the queen's half brother. The 
 marchioness was the daughter 
 and heiress of William Baron 
 Bonvile and Harington : after 
 her husband's death, she mar- 
 ried Henry Stafford, Earl of 
 Wiltshire, and died in 1530. 
 She held the manor of Multon, 
 in Lincolnshire, which by her will 
 she gave to her son Richard Grey. 
 
 Mary, Lady, 12, 22. 
 
 The queen's third daughter. She 
 was born in 1498; and at the age 
 of eighteen, married Louis XII. 
 King of France ; after whose death 
 she became the wife of Charles 
 Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, and 
 i/Xv died on the 25th June, TS^ A 
 further account of her will be 
 found in the INTRODUCTORY 
 REMARKS. 
 
 Mason, to a, 26. 
 
 Masses for saying, when the 
 queen was ill, 37. 
 
 Massy, Alice, the queen's mid- 
 wife, 102. 
 
 Her salary was 10A per annum, 
 which was the same sum as was 
 granted to Margaret Cobbe, the 
 wife of John Cobbe, midwife to 
 Elizabeth, Queen of Edward the 
 Fourth, on the 15th April, 1469. 
 Rot. Part. vi. p. 93. 
 
 Mathew, Nicholas, 70. 
 
 Yeoman of the queen's chamber. 
 
 Maundy, clothes, &c. given to 
 poor women on the queen's, 
 1, 4, 74, 85. 
 
 On Maunday Thursday it was cus- 
 tomary for sovereigns and other 
 persons of rank, in imitation of 
 our Saviour, to wash the feet of 
 as many poor people of their own 
 sex as they were years old, and 
 to give them clothes, food, money, 
 &c. An account of the " Order 
 of the Maundy, made at Green- 
 wich, 19th March, 1572," is 
 printed in the first volume of the 
 Archceologia ; and the Northum- 
 berland Household Book contains 
 a minute description of the ar- 
 ticles which were given by the 
 
 Earls of Northumberland on that 
 occasion, p. 354. At present, 
 alms, &c. are distributed to the 
 same number of persons, of both 
 sexes, according to the age of the 
 king, by the royal almoner ; but 
 the more humiliating part of the 
 ceremony is not performed, even 
 by deputy. His Holiness the 
 Pope, however, still adheres 
 strictly to the ancient form, by 
 annually washing the feet of se- 
 veral poor people, and giving 
 alms to each. It appears from the 
 Northumberland Household Book, 
 that the earl, or whoever per- 
 formed the ceremony for him, 
 wore a kind of mourning gown at 
 the time, made of broad violet 
 cloth, furred with black lamb, 
 " containing two and a half 
 keippes, after thirty skins in a 
 kepe," p. 355. 
 
 Medicines, for, 88. 
 Merschet, Hans, 62. 
 A mercer. 
 
 Messagier, a, i. e. a messenger, 
 100. 
 
 Messages, for going, 63. 
 
 Several notices relative to the 
 King's Messengers occur on the 
 Rolls of Parliament ; and in the 
 12th Henry VI. the expenses of 
 them were 200/. The Liber Quo- 
 tidianus Garderobee of the 28th 
 Edward I., and other wardrobe 
 accounts of our early monarchs 
 and princes, contain some cu- 
 rious particulars of the messen- 
 gers of the thirteenth and four- 
 teenth centuries. In the Nor- 
 thumberland Household Book, one 
 division relates to "" allowances 
 of persons sent on messages," 
 p. 118. 
 
 Metingham, Agnes, 12. 
 
 Middelmore, John, 108. 
 
 Receiver of the revenues of the 
 queen's lands in Herefordshire 
 and Worcestershire. He was one 
 of the commissioners in Worces- 
 tershire for collecting the sub- 
 sidy in 1496. Rot. Part, vi.518. 
 
 Midwife, the queen's, 102. 
 Alice Massy. See MASSY. 
 Milan, St. Peter of, 3. 
 
INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 209 
 
 Milk, for, 14, 23, 56. 
 Ministers of the king's chapel, 
 
 23, 90. 
 Minories, to the Abbess of the, 
 
 8, 57. 
 
 to nuns there, 8, 57. 
 
 Minstrels, the queen's, 44, 91. 
 
 coats of white and 
 
 green sarcenet for, against 
 " the disguising," 78. 
 
 the King's, 78, 91. 
 
 the Duke of York's, 
 
 78. 
 
 the Duke of Bucking- 
 ham's, 78. 
 the Queen of Scots', 
 
 86. 
 
 to a, that played on a 
 
 droon, 2. 
 
 wages of, 100. 
 
 Dr. Percy has written so elabo- 
 rately on the subject of minstrels 
 that it is only necessary to refer 
 to his essay. It appears from 
 these Accounts that minstrels 
 formed part of the establishment 
 of every branch of the royal 
 family, and of the household of 
 other eminent noblemen. The 
 wages of the queen's minstrels 
 were 3/. 6*. Gd. per annum 
 each, and on every occasion, 
 when she rewarded those of the 
 king, of her daughter the queen 
 of Scots, and others, it may be 
 presumed that they played before 
 her. It is evident that minstrels 
 took a prominent part in all 
 " disguisings," and other festivi- 
 ties, on which occasions we learn 
 that they wore the Tudor livery of 
 white and green. 5/. were paid 
 to three string minstrels for their 
 wages. Additional MS. 7099. 
 
 Minster Lovel, 51, 56, 57, 59. 
 
 In Oxfordshire. The queen was 
 there on the 6th and 8th October, 
 1502, on her progress into Wales. 
 
 Mint, officers of the, 93. 
 
 Forty shillings were given them 
 in reward, in consequence of the 
 queen's visit to the mint, in 
 February, 1503. 
 
 Miserden Park, in Gloucester- 
 shire, 38. 
 
 Misrule, to the Lord of, 91. 
 
 A " Lord," or " Abbot, of Mis- 
 rule," was always appointed at 
 Christmas, in the king's house, 
 wherever he lodged, as well as in 
 the houses of all persons of con- 
 sequence ; he presided over the 
 sports and festivities at Christmas. 
 Some observations on the Lord of 
 Misrule will be found in the 
 Archccologia, xviii. p. 313 ; in the 
 Gentleman's Magazine y xlix. p. 
 341 ; Brand's Popular Antiquities, 
 and in Strutt's Sportt and Pat- 
 times. In a letter from the 
 council of the household of the 
 princess, afterwards Queen Mary, 
 to Cardinal Wolsey, dated 27th 
 November, 1527, they beg to be 
 informed " for the great repaire 
 of straungers supposed unto the 
 Pryncesse honorable householde 
 this solempne fest of Cristmas," 
 of the Cardinal's pleasure " con- 
 cernyng as well a ship of silver 
 for the almes disshe requysite for 
 her high estate, and spice plats, 
 as also for trumpets and a rebek 
 to be sent, and whither we shall 
 appoynte any Lord of Mysrulc 
 for the said honorable householde, 
 provide for enterluds, disgysyngs, 
 or pleyes in the said fest, or for 
 banket on twelf nyght." Ellis's 
 Original Letters, First Series, i. 
 p. 271. The " Lord of Misrule " 
 was rewarded by the queen with 
 twenty shillings, as much as was 
 given to all the pages of her 
 chamber. In the Privy Purse 
 Expenses of Henry the Seventh, 
 payments are noticed " To Bing- 
 ley, Lord of Misrule, upon a prest, 
 C s." " Bingeley, Abbot of Mis- 
 rule." To the Abbot of Misrule 
 in reward, 6/. 13s. 4/., " on new 
 year's day, 1503." " The Abbot 
 of Unreason" seems to have been 
 another name for the same person. 
 See a note to the Northumber* 
 land Household Hook, Ed. 1827, 
 p. 441. 
 
 Money borrowed for the queen, 
 and for which her plate was 
 pawned, 12, 110. 
 In May, 1502, she borrowed 
 2 E 
 
210 
 
 INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 456/. 13*. 4d., for part of which 
 her plate was pawned, a practise 
 common with many of our early 
 sovereigns. In the Privy Purse 
 Expenses of Henry VII. are the 
 following entries relative to 
 money borrowed by the queen. 
 Anno 12 Hen. VII. " To the 
 queen, to pay her debts, which 
 is to be repaid, 2000/." Anno 16, 
 " To the queen, in loan on cer- 
 tain plate, 500/." and about 
 two years after her majesty's de- 
 cease, To " William Halyland, 
 for plegging out of certain plate 
 of the queen's, 102/." Additional 
 MS. 7099. 
 
 Money lent to the queen, 13, 
 18, 77, 93. 
 
 These items relate to trifling 
 sums advanced by the queen's 
 attendants for some immediate 
 purpose, and which were soon 
 afterwards repaid them. 
 
 Monk, to a, for bringing our 
 Lady's Girdle, 78. 
 See GIRDLE. 
 
 expenses of making a, 
 97. 
 
 These expenses could not be very 
 great, as, together with the cost 
 of his funeral, they only amounted 
 to 13s.4rf. 
 
 Monmouth, 38, bis, 39, 46, 47. 
 The queen visited this place in 
 August 1502. 
 
 Moray, the bishop of, 67. 
 
 Andrew Foreman was bishop of 
 Moray from 1501 to 1516, when 
 he was translated to St. Andrew's, 
 and died in 1522. 
 
 Mordaunt, John, serjeant-at-law, 
 101. 
 
 Father of John, 1st Lord Mor- 
 daunt, and ancestor of the Earls 
 of Peterborough and Monmouth. 
 Though a lawyer, he commanded 
 a division of the king's army at 
 the battle of Stoke in 1484 ; was 
 Speaker of the House of Com- 
 mons in the 3rd Henry VII., 
 Rot. Parl. vi. p. 386 ; was con- 
 stituted King's Sergeant in the 
 llth, and Justice of Chester in 
 the 15th Henry VII., and soon 
 after became Chancellor of the 
 
 Duchy of Lancaster. Collins 
 says he was knighted in February 
 1503 and died in September 1504. 
 Peerage, Ed. 1779, iii. p. 239. 
 
 Mordaunt, William, attorney in 
 the Common Pleas, 101. 
 William Mordaunt, of Hemp- 
 stead, in Essex, esq., younger 
 brother of Sir John, and ancestor 
 of the Mordaunts of Warwick- 
 shire. He was chief prothonotary 
 of the Common Pleas, and died 
 in 1518, Ibid. p. 238, and Edmond- 
 sori's Baronagium. 
 
 Morgan, Griffith, 51. 
 
 One of the queen's servants. 
 
 Mortimer, 79. 
 
 Stratfeld Mortimer, in Berkshire, 
 which formed part of the lands 
 assigned for the queen's dower. 
 Rot. Parl. vi. p. 462. 
 
 Worthy, 107. 
 
 Mortimer, Sir John, 10. 
 
 Probably the " John Mortimer, 
 esquire for the king's body," 
 who was protected from the 
 effects of the act of Resumption, 
 22 Edward IV. Rot. Parl. vi. p. 
 201 ; and the " Sir John Morty- 
 mer," who was protected in the 
 office of steward of several lord- 
 ships in Worcestershire and of 
 the keepership of the Park of 
 Nethewode, in Herefordshire, in 
 the 1 Hen. VII. Ibid. p. 352 ; 
 and who, in 1503, was one of the 
 Commissioners in Worcestershire 
 for levying the subsidy. Ibid. p. 
 535. 
 
 Mortlake, 85. 
 
 Mouth, cook for the queen's, 78. 
 See COOK. 
 
 Montjoy, Lord, his child chris- 
 tened, 35. 
 
 William Blount, 4th Lord Mont- 
 joy : he succeeded to the barony 
 in 1485, and after filling many 
 high situations under Henry the 
 Seventh and Henry the Eighth, 
 died in 1585. It may be inferred 
 that her Majesty was sponsor to 
 his child, who was christened in 
 June or July 1502. 
 
 Myklowe, John, 66. 
 
 Clerk of the controulment of the 
 king's household. 
 
INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 211 
 
 Mylner, Richard, of Byndfeld, 
 62. 
 
 Nails, for, 103. 
 
 Nanfan, Sir Richard, 107. 
 
 A " Richard Nanfan, late of 
 Trethowle Squyer," was attainted 
 in the 1st Ric. III., but his at- 
 tainder was reversed in the 1 Hen. 
 VII. A person of those names, 
 and an esquire, if it was not the 
 same individual, was protected in 
 the enjoyment of the offices of 
 steward of the lordship of Tewks- 
 bury, and keeper of the lodge and 
 park there ; of steward of the 
 lordship of Elmley in the county 
 of Worcester, &c., and in the 
 office of sheriff of that county, 
 by the act of Resumption, 1 
 Hen. VII. ; in all grants made 
 to him, by a similar act, in the 3rd 
 Hen. VII. ; and by the name of 
 ;* Sir Richard Nanfan, Knight," 
 it was enacted in the 4 Hen. VII. 
 that the reversal of the attainder 
 of John Beaumont, Esq. should 
 not affect the lands of Tregonan, 
 in Cornwall, but that he should 
 hold and enjoy the same Rot. 
 Parl. vi. pp. 246, 273, 360, 406, 
 413. There was an ancient Corn- 
 ish family of Nanfan of Trethe- 
 well, many of which were she- 
 riffs of Cornwall in the fifteenth 
 century, and which became ex- 
 tinct in the male line in the six- 
 teenth century. A branch of the 
 Nanfan family was settled in 
 Worcestershire, and a copious 
 pedigree of them occurs in Nash's 
 history of that county. 
 
 Nattres, Natarasse, or Notarice, 
 James, 11, 80, 89, 96. 
 
 One of the queen's servants. 
 
 Nelmes, Thomas, 9. 
 
 Another of the queen's servants. 
 
 Neville, Lady, 2. 
 See DARCY. 
 
 New Year's Gifts, 90, 91, 98. 
 
 Newbury, 80. 
 
 Norfolk, Duchess of, 5. 
 
 The person thus designated 
 must, it is presumed, have been 
 Elizabeth, daughter and sole 
 
 heir of Sir Frederick Tilney, 
 then the wife of Thomas Howard 
 Earl of Surrey, son and heir 
 of John first Duke of Norfolk, 
 which dukedom Avas at that 
 time in the crown by the duke's 
 attainder, and the earl was not 
 created Duke of Norfolk until 
 15] 4, eight years after her death. 
 It is consequently not a little ex- 
 traordinary that she should be 
 styled Duchess of Norfolk in 1502 ; 
 but as the widow of John the 
 first duke died in 1494, there was 
 no other person to whom the title 
 of duchess of Norfolk could be 
 attributed. She was ordered to 
 receive the wife of Edmond de 
 la Pole, the queen's nephew, .who 
 bore the title of Earl of Suffolk, 
 apparently by courtesy only, the 
 dukedom having been forfeited 
 by his elder brother John de la 
 Pole Earl of Lincoln, in 1487, 
 and who was attainted for sup- 
 porting Perkin Warbek, in the 
 19 Hen. VII. 1503. Rot. Parl. 
 vi. p. 545. The " Duchess of 
 Norfolk" was present at the re- 
 ception of Katherine of Arragon 
 
 in the 17 Henry VII., 1502-3 
 
 Antiquarian Repertory, ed. 1807- 
 vol.ii., p. 290*, 291*. 
 
 Northleache in Gloucestershire, 
 
 44. 
 
 Northampton, to the Holy Rood 
 of, and our Lady of Grace 
 there, 3, 37. 
 
 Northumberland, Earl of, 39. 
 Henry Algernon Percy, K. G. 
 5th Earl. He succeeded to the 
 earldom in 1489, and died in 1527. 
 Norwich, Bishop of, 90. 
 
 Richard Nekke, or Nyk, dean of 
 the king's chapel ; he was con- 
 firmed in this see in 1501, and 
 died 1536. 
 
 Notarice. See NATTRES. 
 Notley, a Priory in Bucking- 
 hamshire, 32, 40, 50. 
 The queen was there in July 
 1502, and a messenger was sent to 
 her at that place to know' where she 
 wished that her nephew, Lord 
 Edward Courtenay, should be 
 buried. 
 
 2 E 2 
 
'212 
 
 INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 Nuns in the Minories, donations 
 to, 57. 
 
 Nun, expenses of making a, 37. 
 
 a buck brought for the 
 
 professing of a, 47. 
 The expenses on this occasion 
 amounted to 61. 13s. 4</., and a 
 feast appears to have been part of 
 the ceremony, as a buck was spe- 
 cially sent from Harold. 
 
 Nurse, to a lady that was to have 
 been the queen's, 62. 
 
 . of the Lord Edward 
 
 Courtenay, 103. 
 
 to a French woman, that 
 
 was to have been the queen's, 
 69. 
 
 These persons seem to have of- 
 fered themselves as the queen's 
 nurse in the confinement which 
 proved fatal to her ; but neither 
 appears to have been accepted. 
 Each was, however, rewarded 
 with 6s. 8d. for her trouble in 
 coming. 
 
 > to the queen's brother's, 
 
 75. 
 
 This item displays the affection 
 which the queen bore to her un- 
 fortunate brother the young Duke 
 of York, who, with Edward the 
 Fifth, was said to have been mur- 
 dered in the Tower. The dona- 
 tion, though trifling in itself, was 
 a special mark of favour, as the 
 poor woman is not included in 
 the thirty-seven who received the 
 Maundy. Particular attention 
 was paid by the royal family to 
 their nurses and old servants, as 
 is exemplified by many entries in 
 these accounts. Henry the Fifth, 
 in 1415, granted Joan Warren, 
 his nurse, 20/. for life. Calend. 
 Rot. Parl. p. 264. In the 28th 
 Hen. VI., Joan, widow of Thomas 
 Astley, esquire, " oure servaunt 
 and late oure nonce," was pro- 
 tected in the enjoyment of an an- 
 nuity of 201. for her life out of the 
 fee farm of Queenhithe, in the 
 city of London, and also in the 
 sum of 30/., parcel of an annuity 
 of 40/., granted her by letters pa- 
 tent out of the revenues of the 
 County of Warwick ; and in the 
 
 34th Hen. VI. she was secured 
 in the enjoyment of forty marks, 
 parcel of fifty marks, yearly 
 granted her by letters patent for 
 her, life. Rot. Par/., 199, 319. 
 Philip Ap Hoell, who is described 
 in the act of Resumption, 3 Hen. 
 VII., as " oure old servaunt and 
 well beloved nurriour," was pro- 
 tected in the grant of the Por- 
 treaveship of Lanvayl in Buelld, 
 with the toll of that town, and 
 the toll of Elvale, in the marches 
 of Wales. Hot. Parl. vi. 406. 
 The following entries occur in 
 the Privy Purse Expenses of that 
 Monarch : " To the King's 
 nurse's son ;" " To the Queen's 
 drynorisse, in reward, 31. 6s. 8d." 
 on the 31st May, 1503, who may 
 be presumed, from the date, to 
 have been the person who at- 
 tended her in her last illness. 
 
 Obit of the King's father, 55. 
 See KING'S FATHER. 
 
 Obourne, i. e. Holborn, Abbot 
 
 of, 53. 
 
 Odiham, 107. 
 Keeper of the Park of, 
 
 84. 
 
 In the county of Southampton. 
 Nicholas Gaynesford and John 
 Gaynesford, Esquires, were se- 
 cured in the enjoyment of the 
 offices of Steward of the Lordship 
 of Odiham, the Constableship and 
 Portership of the Castle of Odi- 
 ham, with the keeping of the 
 park and warren, which had been 
 granted to them for their lives, 
 by the act of Resumption, in the 
 1st Hen. VII. Rot. Parl. vi. 384. 
 
 Offerings, for the Queen's, 1, 3, 
 6, 10, 12, 13, 19, 22, 23, 27, 
 29, 31, 6zX36,37, 38, 39, 42, 
 50, 53, 54, 64, 65, 67, 77, 78, 
 83, 84, 87, 88, 97. 
 The whole amount paid as the 
 Queen's offerings between the 24th 
 March, 1 502, and February, 1503, 
 was about 321. 10*. The dona- 
 tions varied from 4d. to 21. 6s. 8d. 
 in proportion to the reputation of 
 the shrine ; and on one occasion 
 a plyte of lawn was bought for a 
 shirt for the Child of Grace at 
 
INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 213 
 
 Reading, which, with the making, 
 cost 5s. <ld. Besides sending offer- 
 ings at certain times to various 
 shrines, her Majesty " offered" 
 to the nearest saint to the places 
 through which she passed on her 
 progress, and also bestowed alms 
 011 all the hermits and anchoresses 
 on her road. Several pages of the 
 Northumberland Household Book 
 are filled with an account of the 
 offerings of the Earl and Coun- 
 tess of Northumberland, and their 
 children, pp. 332 338. 
 Ointment, for, 103. 
 
 Grease for the wheels of the 
 queen's car. 
 
 Oranges, brought, 4, 43, 87, 93. 
 
 Oxford, 45, 59. 
 
 fee farm of the city of, 
 
 108. 
 
 Earl of, 87. 
 
 John de Vere, K.G., Lord High 
 Admiral and Great Chamberlain. 
 He was restored to the honours 
 forfeited by his father in 1464, 
 attainted in 1474, again restored 
 in 1485; and died without issue 
 in 1513. 
 
 Packthread, for, 65. 
 
 Pages and grooms of the Queen's 
 Chamber, rewards to the, 78, 
 91. 
 
 Palfreyman, the, 17. 
 Richard Payne. 
 
 Painting, 36. 
 
 The only entry in these accounts 
 relative to painting or painters is 
 that, on the 3rd August, 1502, 
 three shillings and four pence were 
 given in reward to Robert Fyll, 
 the King's painter, and that on 
 the same day, John Reynold, 
 painter, received 10*. " for mak- 
 ing of divers beasts and other 
 pleasures" for the Queen, at Wind- 
 sor, and which it would seem did 
 not require much talent ; hence 
 it is probable that he was little 
 superior to a sign-painter of the 
 present day. In the Privy Purse 
 Expenses of Henry the Seventh, 
 are entries of twenty shillings be- 
 ing paid " to Maynard the King's 
 painter for pictures ; " 41. to 
 11 Thomas Painter for painting;" 
 
 " To Thomas Stirr for painting 
 two tabernacles, 61. ;" and " To 
 Robert Fylle, for making of the 
 same, 81." " For making and 
 painting of knotts, 661. 13s. 4dL" 
 The two last named persons, 
 Maynard and John Reynolds, 
 were probably the best artists of 
 their times in England ; but 
 " Thomas Painter," it may be 
 presumed, was a house-painter, 
 one or more of whom were at- 
 tached to the royal and other 
 great establishments. See Col- 
 lection of Regulations of the Royal 
 Household^ and the Northumber- 
 land Household Book, where " j 
 paynter " is mentioned among the 
 Earl's workmen in the same pas- 
 sage with the joiner and smith, 
 pp. 255, 390. In the Church- 
 wardens' Accounts of St. Marga- 
 ret's, Westminster, in!531, is this 
 entry : " Paid to Renaeever, payn- 
 tour, for paynting and gylding 
 of the LX story s of St. Marga- 
 rett's tabernacle, 31. 6s. 8d.," and 
 for " guild ing of the small ta- 
 bernacle, 21. 8s. " Nichols's Il- 
 lustrations of Ancient Times, p, 
 10. Among the New Year's 
 Gifts to Queen Mary, in 1556, by 
 Suete, painter, is a table painted 
 of the Queen's marriage. Ibid. 
 p. 14. 
 
 Palfreys, for keeping, 17. 
 
 Pallet, Edward, 76, 97. 
 
 Son of Lady Jane Bangham. 
 This lad appears to have been 
 wholly supported at the Queen's 
 expense, and, like her nephews 
 the Courteriays, was under the 
 care of Dame Margaret Cotton, 
 as payments were made to that 
 lady for his diet, clothes, and school 
 hire, and the allowance for his 
 board was fully equal to that for 
 his more illustrious companions. 
 It would be vain to inquire 
 into the cause of his being thus 
 patronized ; nor have any other 
 particulars of him been disco- 
 vered. See BANGHAM. 
 
 Paned, curtains, 65. 
 
 " Paned, variegated, composed of 
 small squares, as a counterpane 
 usually is." Todd's Johnson. See 
 " Pane " in the Index to the 
 
214 
 
 INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 Wardrobe Accounts of Edward 
 IV., infra. 
 
 Pantry, gentleman of the, 96. 
 Richard Brampton. 
 
 Paper, for, 102. 
 Parchment, for, 102. 
 Pardon, for a letter of the Ju- 
 bilee, 12. 
 See JUBILEE. 
 
 of the Mo- 
 Katherine's 
 
 nastery of St. 
 
 Mount, in Sinai, 21. 
 the Queen's offering to 
 
 the coffer for her, 1. 
 The Queen's payment to the 
 poor-box in performance of some 
 of the conditions for obtaining the 
 Easter indulgence. In 1491 the 
 Marquess of Berkeley ordered in 
 his will that his executors should 
 purchase a pardon from Rome, as 
 large as might be had for plain 
 remission of the sins of all those 
 who shall be confessed and con- 
 trite, at Longebrigge [a chapel in 
 the parish of Berkeley] from even 
 song to even song, on the feast of 
 the Trinity, and there say pater- 
 nosters, and three aves for his 
 soul, and the souls of his father 
 and son. Chaucer's description 
 of one of those itinerant venders 
 of mercy and relicks, who 
 
 " Bret-ful of pardon come from 
 
 Rome all hot," 
 
 And who, "with fained flatter- 
 ing and japes, 
 made the persone and the peple 
 
 his apes" 
 
 is well known. Of this character 
 probably were the two Monks of 
 St. Katherine's Mount, in Sinai, 
 and the monk who brought Our 
 Lady's girdle to the Queen. In 
 the Privy Purse Expenses of 
 Henry VIII., in June, 1511, is 
 an entry of 20s. " For the King's 
 offering at Westminster, and for 
 taking of the Pardon, there, at 
 Ascencion Tide." Add. MS. 7100. 
 
 Parker, ,79. 
 
 One of the Queen's servants. 
 
 Paston, William, 4. 
 
 Page of the Queen's beds. 
 
 Patch, , 74, 93. 
 
 Mr. Douce has suggested that 
 Patch was another designation 
 for a fool ; and the conjecture is 
 in this instance confirmed by an 
 entry in the Privy Purse Expenses 
 of Henry the Seventh, of money 
 given " To Patch (he Fool, in 
 reward," who appears to have 
 been principally concerned in ar- 
 ranging the Disguisings. See 
 DISGUISINGS. 
 
 Pawmpelion, a fur so called, 33, 
 89. 
 
 This word occurs in the same 
 sense in the Privy Purse Expenses 
 of Henry VllL in 1532. " For xxv 
 dousin skynns of fyne pawmpe- 
 lion, Ix li ;" and in the account 
 book of Lord Burghley, among 
 the apparel bought for Anne of 
 Cleves, was " A gown of black 
 wrought vellett, furred with paw- 
 pillon, viij li." The price of those 
 skins in 1503 and 1530 was nearly 
 the same. The word does not 
 occur in any glossary, and the 
 Editor conjectures, from the 
 name, that they were skins 
 brought from Pampellone^ a town 
 in the department of Tarn, twelve 
 miles from Alby, but Mr. Gage 
 suggests that Pamjteluna fur is 
 meant. 
 
 Payne, Master Richard, 1, 5, 
 67, 97. 
 
 The Queen's almoner. 
 
 Richard, 17. 
 
 The Queen's palfreyman then 
 deceased. 
 
 Pears, brought, 38. 
 
 Pease cods, brought, 16. 
 
 Peche, Dame Elizabeth, 99. 
 
 One of the Queen's gentlewomen. 
 
 Penson, Robert, 97. 
 A skinner. 
 
 Pepins, 9, 15, 39. 
 
 Percy, Lady Anne, 21, 26, 28, 
 37, 43, 49, 51, 54, 70, 78. 
 Though not mentioned in the 
 list in p. 99, she was undoubtedly 
 one of the Queen's gentlewomen, 
 and appears to have been in con- 
 stant attendance from June to 
 December, 1502. By the name 
 
INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 215 
 
 of "Lady Anne Percy," she "re- 
 ceived an annuity of 201. until 
 1st Hen. PHI., \b^.^ Additional 
 MS. 7100. She was probably 
 Anne, 2nd daughter of Henry 
 Percy, 4th Earl of Northumber, 
 who married William Fitz Alan, 
 Earl of Arundel, about the 28th 
 December, 1510, 2 Hen. VIII., 
 when the King paid 6*. 8d. for his 
 offering at her marriage Ibid. 
 
 Performing, i. e. for making: a 
 horse harness, gown, &c., 17. 
 Pertriche, John, 104, 105. 
 
 The son of a person called " Mad 
 Beale," who was supported at the 
 Queen's expense. The reason of 
 his being so patronised is un- 
 known, but it probably arose 
 from motives of charity, arising 
 from his parent's infirmity. That 
 one of the entries about him 
 should be mentioned in Accounts 
 intended for the Queen's eye is 
 strongly indicative of the coarse 
 manners of the time. 
 
 Petreson, Evan, 7. 
 A joiner. 
 
 Petticoats, for, 22, 70. 
 
 Pevesham, 66. 
 
 forest of, 46. 
 
 Pew, Our Lady of, 4, 22, 23, 77, 
 78. 
 
 Of Westminster. Our Lady of 
 Pity or Mercy, an image of the 
 Virgin Mary, sitting with our 
 Saviour on her lap. 
 
 Pheasants, brought, 62. 
 
 Phip, William, 6,26, 61. 
 
 Alias William Worthy ; these 
 payments were for boarding Wil- 
 liam the Queen's fool, for which 
 he was allowed two shillings a 
 month. 
 
 Physician, a, sent for, 96. 
 
 The queen died in childbed on the 
 llth of February, 1502-3 ; and it 
 is evident that this payment was 
 for the expenses of the messenger 
 who was sent by the king's com- 
 mand to fetch Doctor Hallyls- 
 worth out of Kent to attend her 
 majesty when she became in dan- 
 ger. The names of most of the 
 physicians mentioned in these ac- 
 
 counts, and in the Privy Purse Ex- 
 penses of Henry the Seventh and 
 Eighth, are here collected. Those 
 noticed in the queen's expenses 
 are Doctors Halyllysworth, and 
 Master Lynch. In the expenses 
 of Henry the Seventh, the follow- 
 ing names occur : " To Master 
 Lewes, the queen's physician, 
 2/.;" "Ralph Sentiler;" "Master 
 Domynys, the physician ; " "Vin- 
 cent Wolf, the physician ; " 
 " Master Guilliam, the physi- 
 cian. " Benet Fentre was ano- 
 ther of the physicians of Henry 
 VII., with a salary of 40/. per 
 ann., and was keeper of the 
 prince's wardrobe in London. 
 Rot. Part. vi. 355. In the 2nd 
 Hen. VIII., " Master Lewes, 
 the Princess of Castile's physi- 
 cian, was paid 100/. for his re- 
 ward in gold ;" and in 1532, Doc- 
 tor Yakisley is noticed in the 
 Privy Purse Expenses of that 
 year. 
 
 Pieces of copper, to ornament 
 thejackets against the disguis- 
 ing, 21. 
 
 Pilgrimage, costs for, person 
 sent on, by the queen, 3, 4,96. 
 Vicarious pilgrimages were by 
 no means uncommon. Queen 
 Katherine of Arragon desired in 
 her will that some person should 
 go to Our Lady of Walsingham 
 in pilgrimage, and in going by 
 the way dole twenty nobles. 
 William de Beauchamp, in 1268, 
 speaks of his son Walter being 
 signed with the cross for a pil- 
 grimage to the Holy Land on the 
 behalf of his father and mother. 
 Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of 
 Hereford, in 1361, desired that 
 a chaplain of good condition might 
 be sent to Jerusalem, principally 
 for himself and his parents, who 
 was to say masses by the way at 
 all times that he could conve- 
 niently do so for their and his 
 souls ; and also that a good and 
 loyal man should be sent to Can- 
 terbury and to offer there 40*. in 
 silver for him, and another to 
 Pomfret to offer the same sum at 
 the tomb of Thomas Earl of 
 
216 
 
 INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 Lancaster. Sir John North- 
 wode of Kent, in 1378, desired 
 that two pilgrims might be sent 
 to visit the shadow of St. Peter, 
 St. Paul, and St. James in Galacia. 
 Sir Richard" Arundel, in 1416, or- 
 dered his executors to find a man 
 who, for the good of his soul, 
 should go to Rome, to the Holy 
 Laud, to the sepulchre of our 
 Lord, and to the Holy Blood in 
 Germany ; and William Ponte 
 of Kent, in 1471, bequeathed a 
 shilling to any one who would 
 " pilgrimage for him " to St. 
 Thomas of Canterbury : but the 
 most striking instance of dele- 
 gating religious duties is that of 
 Sir Roger Beauchamp in 1379, 
 who says in his will, " Whereas 
 I am bound to do a service on the 
 infidels by desire of my grand- 
 sire, Sir Walter Beauchamp, to 
 the expense of two hundred 
 marks, I will that Roger, son to 
 Roger, my son, shall perform the 
 same when he becomes of age ; " 
 the fulfilment of the obligation 
 being thus postponed for four 
 generations. The queen adopted 
 this easy method of settling with 
 her conscience on three occa- 
 sions: once, by sending a priest to 
 make offerings in her name to 
 shrines at Windsor, Eton, Read- 
 ing, Caversham, Cockthorpe, 
 Northampton, Walsingham, Sud- 
 bury, and Ipswich, who was oc- 
 cupied on his pious tour twenty- 
 six days, and was allowed for 
 his expenses and trouble ten- 
 pence a-day; secondly, to a per- 
 son, who does not appear to have 
 been a priest, for going to various 
 shrines in Kent, who was so em- 
 ployed at the same wages for 
 eight days ; and lastly, by send- 
 ing a man in pilgrimage to Our 
 Lady of Wilsdon in February, 
 1503, who received 3*. 4d. for 
 his trouble. An interesting ar- 
 ticle on shrines and pilgrimages 
 will be found in the Retrospective 
 Review, New Series, vol. ii. p. 301 , 
 and some remarks on the subject 
 occur in the review of the Itine- 
 rary of Fitz Sftneon, in the same 
 volume. 
 Pins, for the queen's litter, 45. 
 
 Pin-powder, for, 27. 
 
 Query, powder for cleaning pins. 
 Plate, paid for, which had been 
 
 burnt in a fire at Richmond, 
 
 92. 
 
 pawned, 12, 110. 
 
 See MONET. 
 
 for attendance with the 
 
 queen's, 75. 
 
 Pleasures, for painting beasts, 
 
 and other, 36. 
 The word is used in a similar 
 sense in the ordinance for the 
 royal household 17 Henry VIII. 
 " Dispoile of pleasures and com- 
 modities in nobleman's houses to 
 be left." Also such " pleasures and 
 commodities as they have about 
 their houses, that is to say, deer, 
 fish, orchards, hay," &c. p. 145. 
 Mr. Gage remarks that in the 
 survey of Thornbury in Glouces- 
 tershire on the attainder of Ed- 
 ward Duke of Buckingham in 
 1521, the gardens are mentioned 
 as set " with rooses and other 
 pleasures." " Pleasure grounds" 
 is still in use. 
 Plomer, Mr. Christopher, 37, 
 
 62. 
 
 One of the queen's chaplains. 
 Probably the Christopher Plum- 
 mer who was collated to the Pre- 
 bendary of Cadington, in St. 
 Paul's, 9th July, 1515, and who 
 became a Canon of Windsor, but 
 was deprived by attainder for re- 
 fusing the oath of supremacy in 
 1536. Wood's Fasti Oxonienses 
 by Bliss, i. 78. 
 
 Plyte of lawn, for a shirt, 50. 
 
 The word plight occurs in the sta- 
 tute respecting lawns in 1463; (See 
 LAWN) which induced Blount 
 in his Law Dictionary to think it 
 meant " a measure then in use, 
 as yard or ell now." " Playte of 
 a gown," the only word like it 
 in Palsgrave's Esclarcissements de 
 la Langue Francoyse in 1590, he 
 . translates ply. 
 
 Points, for jackets, 21. 
 
 of silk for a litter, 45. 
 
 Pole, Henry, 9. 
 
 One of the queen's servants. 
 
INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 21 i 
 
 Pole, William, 35, 36, 42, 49, 
 58, bis, 93, 95. 
 A groom of the chamber, whose 
 wages were I0d. a-day. 
 
 Pomegranets, brought, 74, 93. 
 
 Pomfret, 78. 
 
 Popingay, a, brought, 30. 
 
 Popyncote, Joan, 23. 
 
 This person, who, it may be pre- 
 sumed, was one of the queen's 
 servants, was living in the 1st 
 Henry VIII., as in that year fifty 
 shillings were paid to her. Addi- 
 tional MS. in the British Mu- 
 seum, 7100. 
 
 Pork, chines of, brought, 64. 
 
 Porters, at the gate, 2. 
 
 Possenet, mending a, 32. 
 
 A little bason, a porringer, a skil- 
 let. Todd's Johnson. Palsgrave 
 mentions " Posnet, a lyttle potte," 
 but he gives no translation of the 
 word. In the inventory of the 
 goods of Sir Peter Freshevile in 
 1581, is this entry, " Item, brass 
 potts and posnets with a chaufer, 
 xlvj s. viij r/." Nichols's Illustra- 
 tions of Ancient Times, p. 234. 
 
 Pote, Joan, 82. 
 An embroiderer. 
 
 Pox, the French, for healing a 
 person of the, 105. 
 
 Poyutz, William, 109. 
 
 Receiver of the queen's revenues 
 in Essex. 
 
 Priests, to, for singing at vari- 
 ous places, 102. 
 
 Primer, for a, 105. 
 
 The cost of a primer and psalter 
 was Is. 6d. In the 18 Hen. VII. 
 GL 1 3s. 8d. were given to Friar 
 Hercules for a psalter, which it 
 must be inferred from the price 
 was illuminated. 
 
 Prince, the, to one of his foot- 
 men, 52. 
 
 the marriage of the, 1. 
 
 jewellery bought against 
 
 his marriage, 66. 
 " The Prince " was Arthur, 
 Prince of Wales, the queen's 
 eldest son, who was born Sep- 
 tember 20, I486 ; married Kathe- 
 rine of Arragon on the 14th of 
 
 November, 1501 ; and died on 
 the 2nd of April, 1502. 
 
 Prince, his schoolmaster, 28. 
 
 a servant of, 52. 
 
 a minstrel of, 78. 
 
 Henry, then Prince of Wales, 
 the queen's second son, after- 
 wards King Henry the Eighth. 
 The entry relating to the school- 
 master may, however, refer to 
 his deceased brother. 
 Princess, the, 10, 14, 43, 48, 
 54, 61. 
 
 Each of these entries alludes 
 to Katherine of Arragon, the 
 widow of Prince Arthur, and they 
 admit of the inference that she 
 was treated with great attention 
 by her mother-in-law. 
 Psalter, for a, 105. 
 
 The price of a psalter and primer 
 was 2Qd. See P RIMER. 
 Privy Seal, fool of the Lord, 91. 
 
 See FOOL. 
 Prothonotary of Spain, 4. 
 
 A person who probably came over 
 with the princess Katherine. 
 Puddings, brought, 10, 64. 
 Purse, money for the queen's, 2, 
 5,7, 9, 11, 12, bis, 13, 17, 
 18, bis, 20, 21, bis, 23, bis, 
 2 1, bis, 26, bis, 28, 31, 33, 34, 
 37,41, 43,6zX48, bis, 49, 51, 
 53, 54, 57, 62, 63, 76, 78, 80, 
 84, 89, 91. 
 
 Money for the queen's personal 
 expenses, or, for pocket-money. 
 Purfle, 16, 83. 
 
 A kind of border, hem, or rather, 
 trimming of gowns. Palsgrave, 
 in 1530, translates " Purfyll a 
 hemme of a gowne" by "bort." 
 In the 37th Edw. III. esquires 
 and gentles below the rank of 
 knights who had not lands of the 
 value of WOl. a-year, and their 
 wives, daughters, and children 
 were forbidden to wear " ascun 
 revers ou purfil."Rot. Parl.'n. 
 278, 281. Chaucer, speaking of 
 the Monk, says, 
 " I saw his sieves purfiled at the 
 
 hond, 
 
 With gris and that the finest of 
 the lond." 
 
 2 F 
 
218 
 
 INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 Eleanor Lady Walsyngham be- 
 queathed her daughter " a purjie 
 of sable" in 1506. Purfle, in 
 p. 83, is used as a verb, and there 
 means to embroider, crule being 
 twisted yarn. In the inventory 
 of the effects of Sir John Fas- 
 tolfe is " j gowne of blewe fel- 
 wett upon felwet longe furrid 
 withe martyrs and p erf old of the 
 same, slevys sengle." Archceo- 
 logia, xxi. 252. 
 
 Pursuivant of the King's Cham- 
 berlain, 87. 
 
 Pyle cloth, a, 65. 
 
 No other instance of the use of 
 this word has been discovered. 
 A Pyle cloth seems to have been a 
 kind of testor or canopy with 
 curtains. 
 
 Quails, brought, 13. 
 Queen, ill, 37. 
 
 a physician sent after, for 
 
 the, 96. 
 brother, of the, 75. 
 
 The young Duke of York. See 
 
 NURSE. 
 
 lands, charged with, 
 
 money for the king's use, 76. 
 revenues, 107 111. 
 
 Rabbits, brought, 13. 
 Ragdale, Robert, 22, 34, 54. 
 A tailor. 
 
 Ragland, 40,41, bis, 43,46, 49, 
 50, 53, 109. 
 
 Her majesty was at Ragland on 
 
 the 19th and 24th of August, 
 
 1502. 
 Ratclif, Mrs. Mary, 99. 
 
 One of the queen's gentlewomen. 
 Rauf, John, 34, 103. 
 
 Yeoman of the close car. 
 
 Rawlenny, , wife of, 55. 
 
 Reading, child of grace of, 3, 
 
 50. 
 Receipts of the queen's revenue, 
 
 107110. 
 Reed, Mr., 59. 
 Relick Sunday, 31. 
 
 The third Sunday after Midsum. 
 
 mer-day. 
 
 Reliques at Westminster, the, 56, 
 
 Reynold, John, 79. 
 
 painter, 36. 
 
 Whether he was the same indi- 
 vidual as is mentioned in p. 79, is 
 doubtful. See PAINTING. 
 
 Walter, 102. 
 
 Keeper of the garden at Bay- 
 nard's Castle. 
 
 Rhenish wine, brought, 52. 
 Ribbands, for, 51. 
 Richmond, 2, 4, 6, bis, 11, 13. 
 14, 15, 17, 18,23,24,26,32, 
 33, 34, 35, 36, 39, 40, 42, 49, 
 53, 54, 57, 59,60,72,81,83, 
 84, 87, bis, 92, 94, 95, 98. 
 It is manifest that the queen 
 passed great part of her time at 
 Richmond, and that the rest was 
 divided between Greenwich, the 
 Tower, and Westminster, or in 
 visiting places near town. 
 
 the residence of the 
 
 queen at, burnt, 92. 
 
 Ricroft, John, 100. 
 
 One of the queen's servants. 
 
 Rivers, Earl, to a person in 
 whose house the earl lodged 
 at the time of his death, 78. 
 Anthony Wydville, Earl Rivers, 
 the queen's uncle, was beheaded 
 at Pomfret in June 1483, by com- 
 mand of Richard Duke of Glou- 
 cester, afterwards Richard th 
 Third ; and this entry is another 
 proof of the readiness with which 
 Elizabeth relieved those "who 
 had, in however humble a degree, 
 assisted any of her kindred. 
 
 Robes, for making, 40. 
 
 yeoman of the Queen's, 
 
 his bills, 105. 
 
 Robynet, 13, 29, 55, 82, 86. 
 
 The queen's embroiderer. It 
 does not appear whether this was 
 his baptismal or surname. He 
 was boarded and lodged at the 
 queen's charge. 
 
 Rochester, Bishop of, 52. 
 
 Richard Fitz James, the de- 
 scendant of an ancient Somerset- 
 shire family, and uncle of Sir 
 John Fitz James, Chief Justice 
 
INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 219 
 
 from 1 526 to 1539 ; he was Bishop 
 of Rochester from the 17th May 
 1497 to January 1504, when he 
 was translated to Chichester, and 
 thence, in August 1506, to Lon- 
 don, and died January 15, 1522. 
 Rockers, to, 100, 103. 
 
 The situation of rocker to the 
 royal family yet exists. Those 
 mentioned in these accounts were 
 rockers to the queen's nephews 
 and niece, the children of her 
 sister Lady Katharine Courtenay, 
 and the wages of one were thirty 
 shillings per annum, but the time 
 for which the others were paid is 
 not stated. Mr. Ellis has printed 
 a warrant, which he styles a let- 
 ter, from Henry the Seventh, to 
 the treasurer and chamberlains 
 of the exchequer, commanding 
 them to pay the arrears of wages 
 due to Lady Darcy u Lady Mais- 
 tres," and " five markes sterlinges 
 unto oure welbeloved Agnes But- 
 ler and Emly Hobbes, rockers of 
 our said son, that is to say to 
 every of them, xxxiijs. iiijrf. for 
 their wages of the half yere, ended 
 at Easter last passed." Original 
 Letters, Second Series, i. p. 1?0. 
 Whence it seems that their wages 
 were Gl. 12s. 8d. each more than 
 those of the rockers of the young 
 Courtenay s. The servants in 
 the nursery of the Earl of Nor- 
 thumberland in 1512, consisted 
 of " two rokkers and a childe to 
 attend in nursery." Northum- 
 berland Household Book, p. 43. 
 In the Regulations ordained by 
 Henry VII., under the " Array 
 of her Majesty's infants," it is 
 provided that the child shall u be 
 hadde into the nursery where it 
 shall be nourished with a lady 
 governour to the nursery nurse, 
 with four Chamberers, called 
 Rockers, and the chamberlaine to 
 give them their othes." p. 127. 
 
 Roke, William, of Kidlington, 
 34. 
 Apparently a wheelwright. 
 
 Rolf, John. 
 See RAUF. 
 
 Roper, Henry,' 10, 19, 36, 40, 
 41,49,53, 58; 71,72,98. 
 Page of the beds. His duties were 
 
 to go messages, purchase articles, 
 to attend the queen in her pro- 
 gresses and journeys, to prepare 
 for her reception, &c. : his wages 
 were 8d. a day. 
 
 Roses for crewel to purfle, 83. 
 See CREWEL and PURFLE. 
 
 brought, 21. 
 
 Roundseval, the fraternity of Our 
 Lady of, 21. 
 
 A cell of St. Mary de Ronceval 
 stood on the site of Northumber- 
 land House. 
 
 Russet, gown of, 17. 
 
 A coarse cloth. In the 37th 
 Edward III., 1363, servants of 
 husbandry and other persons not 
 having goods or chattels worth 
 40s., were forbidden to wear any 
 other apparel than what was made 
 of blanket and russet cloths of the 
 value of 12rf. a yard. Rot. ParL 
 ii., 279 282. 
 
 . cotton for the queen's 
 car, 104.. 
 
 Russet is defined to be a reddish 
 brown. Dr. Johnson observes, 
 " Newton seems to use it for 
 grey, but, if the etymology be re- 
 garded, improperly." Palsgrave, 
 however, in 1530, translates 
 " Russet," by " Cm," grey. 
 
 Rutt, , 85. 
 
 The queen's shoemaker. 
 
 Sadlers, to, 92. 
 Sadler, Nicholas, 104. 
 Saddle, for covering a, 17. 
 St. Adrean, offering to, 3. 
 St. Alban's, Monastery of, 109. 
 
 . payments to the 
 
 Anchoresses of St. Peter and 
 St. Michael near, 1, 102. 
 St. Amand, Lord, 44, 45, 46, 
 47, 48, 67. 
 
 Richard Beauchamp, Lord St. 
 Amand, who succeeded his father 
 in that dignity in 1457, was at- 
 tainted in 1483, restored in the 
 1st Hen. VII., and died without 
 legitimate issue in 1508. All 
 these entries relate to bucks sent 
 by him to the queen. 
 2 F 2 
 
220 
 
 INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 St. Anne in the Wood, near 
 Bristol, 42. 
 
 In the Itinerary of William of 
 Worcester is a notice " De ca- 
 pella St. Anna? per duo miliaria 
 de Bristollia," in the forest of 
 Kings wood. D. 
 
 St. Augustine, offering to, 3. 
 St. Bennett's, London, parson 
 
 of, 25. 
 St. Clement, the Fraternity of, 
 
 without Temple Bar, 86. 
 St. Dominick, offering to, 3. 
 St. Edward, of Westminster, of- 
 fering to, 56. 
 
 St. Francis, offering to, 3. 
 St. Fredeswide, of Oxford, of- 
 ferings to, 36, 39. 
 St. George, offering to, 42. 
 St. Ignasi, offering to, 3. 
 St. John, offering to, 14. 
 St. Paul's, offering to, 81. 
 
 the rood of the north 
 
 door in, and our Lady of 
 Grace there, 3. 
 St. Saviour, offering to, 4. 
 St. Sepulchre, London, the fra- 
 ternity of Corpus Christi, in 
 the parochial church of, 9. 
 St. Sinai, Katherine's Mount in, 
 two friars of the monastery 
 of, 21. 
 St. Ursula, brotherhood of, in 
 
 London, 77. 
 Salisbury, Bishop of, 90. 
 
 Edmund Audley was hishop of 
 Salisbury from 2nd April, 1502, 
 to the 23rd August, 1524, when 
 he died. 
 
 Sampler, an ell of linen cloth 
 bought for one for the Queen, 
 30. 
 
 Sand, for, 80. 
 Sandys, Sir William, 70. 
 
 Apparently the first Lord San- 
 dys, a distinguished favourite 
 both with Henry the Seventh and 
 Henry the Eighth. 
 Sarcenets, 9, 16, 19, 22, 32, 34, 
 51, 54. 
 By statute 17th Edward IV., 
 
 1477, the wives and unmarried 
 daughters of persons having pos- 
 sessions of the yearly value of 
 20/. or upwards, were permitted 
 " to use and were in their colers, 
 ventes and slefes of their gownes 
 and hukes satcyn chamelet, sar. 
 cenet or tarteron." The wives 
 and unmarried daughters of per- 
 sons whose possessions yielded 40*. 
 and upwards per annum, might 
 also use sarcenets and tarterons in 
 this manner. Rot. Parl. vi. 189. 
 
 Sarvington, Walter, 107. 
 
 Receiver of the queen's reve- 
 nues in the counties of Wilts, 
 Berks, and Southampton. 
 
 Satin, for, 8, 9, 15, 16, 17, 66, 
 69. 
 
 By statute 3rd and 4th Edward 
 IV., 1463-4, the use of damask 
 and satin was confined to esquires 
 and yeomen of the King's house- 
 hold ; to sergeants, esquires, and 
 gentlemen, having possessions of 
 the yearly value of 40/. ; and to 
 persons of higher rank. Rot. 
 Parl. v. 504 b . See also statute 
 22nd Edward IV., Ibid. vi. 221, 
 and SARCENET, supra. 
 
 Savernake, forest of, in Wilt- 
 shire, 67. 
 
 This forest was confirmed in 
 dower to Elizabeth, Queen of 
 Edward IV. Rot. Parl. \. 027. 
 
 Saucery, the, 2. 
 
 The Saucery was, it seems, the de- 
 partment in the King's household 
 which provided the sauces. In 
 the 33rd Henry VI., the officers of 
 the saucery consisted of a ser- 
 geant, clerk, yeoman and groom 
 for the King's mouth, and of a 
 yeoman and three grooms for the 
 hall. Regulations of the Royal 
 Household, 4to. 1790, p. *22. In 
 the 17th Henry VIII., in the 
 statutes of Eltham, the duties of 
 the clerk and yeoman of " the 
 pastry and sausery" are defined ; 
 the principal of which were to see 
 all their baked meats well season- 
 ed and served, according to the 
 appointment of the clerk of the 
 kitchen, " without embesselling 
 or giveing away any of the same, 
 and also that there be no wasteful 
 
INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 221 
 
 expenses made of flower nor 
 sawce within the said office." 
 Ibid. p. 238. See SQUILLBRY. 
 
 Saxilby, Mrs., 11. 
 
 Probably the Elizabeth Saxby 
 who received 51. as part of her 
 salary in the 1st Hen. VIII. 
 Additional MS. in the British 
 Museum, 7100. 
 
 Say, Mrs. Ann, 34, 38, 48, 52. 
 One of the queen's gentlewomen. 
 Her board, whilst ill at Wood- 
 stock, cost Is. 4ef. a week. A 
 William Say, Esquire, was usher 
 of the chamber to Henry VI. in 
 1450. Rot. Parl. v. 191 b. 
 
 Sayeing 1 , gift to a man " sayeing 
 himself to lodge in his house 
 the Earl Rivers," 78. 
 " Saying," in this sense, appears 
 to mean incurring danger or in- 
 convenience ; and this person was 
 rewarded for affording shelter to 
 the Earl Rivers, the queen's 
 uncle, in the time of his distress, 
 and when it was treason to pro- 
 tect him. The word seems to be 
 the same as " assaying," which, 
 in one sense, imports trial by 
 danger or distress ; difficulty, 
 hardship. Todtfs Johnson. Mr. 
 Gage, however, suggests that 
 " saying" merely meant that this 
 person said he had lodged the 
 Earl Rivers. 
 
 School hire, for, 76, 105. 
 
 Eightpence a quarter was the sum 
 paid for the school hire of a young 
 favourite of the Queen's. See 
 PALLET. 
 
 Schoolmaster, the Prince's, 28. 
 See PRINCE. 
 
 Scots, the Queen of, 10, 19, 22, 
 23, 29, 34, 38, 86, 89, 93. 
 Margaret, the queen's eldest 
 daughter. She was born No- 
 vember 29, 1489, and in 1502, 
 being then fourteen, was affi- 
 anced to James IV., King of Scot- 
 land, and married him in the fol- 
 lowing year, after whose death at 
 Flodden Field, she remarried in 
 1514, Archibald Douglas, Earl of 
 Angus. On the death of Queen 
 Elizabeth, her great-grandson 
 became King of England in her 
 right. 
 
 Seal, a, brought, 2. 
 
 Searing, candles for the altar 
 clothes, 83. 
 
 Seler of beds and cloths of es- 
 tate, 65, 66. 
 
 Palsgrave translates " Sellar of a 
 bedde" ciel, which Cotgrave ex- 
 plains to be "a canopy for the 
 testerns and valances of a bed, 
 also the canopy that is carried 
 over a prince as he walks in state." 
 Lady Hastings, in 1503, bequeath- 
 ed to her nephew " a fedur bedde, 
 aboulster, a blanket, a chike hap- 
 ping, an old counterpoint, sillor 
 and tea tor." Among the effects 
 of Sir John Fastolf, temp. Henry 
 VI., in one of the sleeping apart- 
 ments were " j purpeyntof white 
 j seloure and j testoure" on which 
 word the editor of that inventory 
 has remarked " Seloure or seler is 
 probably the head of a bed. Ce- 
 lura is rendered by Du Cange 
 4 lecti supremum tegmen, Lat. 
 Ccelum, Gall. Ciel de Lit.' " Ar- 
 chceologia, xxi., 2C2. That celour 
 or seler also meant a canopy is 
 manifest from the account of the 
 coronation of Henry VIII., in 
 the College of Arms, and printed 
 as part of the evidence of Colonel 
 Berkeley's claim to the barony 
 of Berkeley. " Canapy to be 
 borne over the King. The Kyng 
 shall ryde opin hedded under a 
 seale of cloth of gold," &c. p. 219. 
 " The cele or canapi borne over 
 the quene." p. 220. " The seale 
 or canapy." p. 222. 
 
 Sergeants at law, 101. 
 
 Severn, for conveying the Queen 
 over the, 43. 
 
 Seymour, Sir John, 67, 81. 
 
 Father of the Protector Somerset, 
 and of Queen Jane Seymour. 
 He was knighted for his services 
 at the battle of Blackheath in 
 1497; in 1507 was sheriff of 
 Wiltshire; and was made a knight 
 banneret in 1513 for his gallantry 
 at Therouenne and Tournay. 
 He died 21st December, 1536, 
 aged sixty. Collins' Peerage^ ed. 
 1779, vol. i., p. 143. 
 
 Shadde, William, 10, 54, 64. 
 Neither of these entries afford 
 
222 
 
 INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 any information as to who this 
 person was. 
 
 Shalmewes, the, 91. 
 
 Players on the Shalms, i.e., the 
 base cornet. A note with an en- 
 graving of a shalm is given in 
 the Privy Purse Expenses of 
 Henry FIIL, p. 351, and in the 
 Northumberland Household Book, 
 where the following entry occurs: 
 " My Lord useth and accustometh 
 yerly when his Lordship is at 
 home to gyf to iij of the Kyng's 
 Shames when they com to my 
 Lord yerly, x*." 
 
 Shanks, fur and tavelyns of, 89. 
 See a note in the index to the 
 Wardrobe Accounts of Edward 
 IF. 
 
 Shaw, Sir John, 52. 
 
 A goldsmith and Mayor of Lon- 
 don in 1501. He was the son of 
 John Shaa of Rochford and Essex, 
 and was knighted on the field by 
 Henry VII. His name often oc- 
 curs in the Privy Purse Expenses 
 of Henry VII., as having sold 
 the King plate, and as being 
 paid once 4/., and another time 
 31. 3s., for a George of the Order 
 of the Garter. He appears to 
 have been one of the executors of 
 Sir Reginald Bray, K.G., in Au- 
 gust, 1503. 
 
 Sheets, for making, 22. 
 
 for various kinds of, 81. 
 
 Shepherd, to a Disar that played 
 the, 53. 
 
 It has been suggested under 
 " Disar," that this entry is of a 
 payment to a man who acted the 
 part of the shepheard in some his- 
 trionic performance. What the 
 piece was of which the shepherd 
 was the prominent part, cannot 
 perhaps be decidedly ascertained ; 
 but it may be conjectured that 
 it was the Adoration of the 
 Shepheards, which was often 
 embroidered on arras and tapes- 
 try. In the account of the ef- 
 fects of Sir John Fastolf, under 
 " Clothes of Arras and of Tapstre 
 warke," is " Imprimis, j clothe 
 of Arras, clyped the Schipherd's 
 
 clothe ;" and in the " Magna 
 Camera ultra aulam Estevalern, 
 j clothe of Arras of the Schip- 
 herds," which Mr. Douce con- 
 siders to have been a description 
 [query representation] of the 
 adoration of the Shepherds. 
 Archceologia, xxi., 257, 262. 
 
 Shire Thursday 1, 4. 
 
 Or Maunday Thursday. See 
 MAUNDAY. The etymology of 
 Shire Thursday is thus explained 
 in the "Festival" printed by 
 Wynkyn de Worde in 1511, 
 f. xxx, p. 2, and f. xxxi. 
 " Yf a man aske why Shere 
 Thursday is called so, ye may 
 saye that in Holy Churche it is 
 called (Cena Domini) our Lordes 
 Souper daye ; for that day he 
 souped with his Discyples openly; 
 and after souper he gave them his 
 flesshe and his blode to ete and 
 drynke. It is also in Englysshe 
 called Sher Thursday e, for in olde 
 faders dayes the people wold that 
 daye shere there theyr heedes, and 
 clyppe theyr berdes, and poll theyr 
 heedes, and so make them honest 
 ayenst Ester Day." A corre- 
 spondence on the word will be 
 found in the Gentleman's Maga- 
 zine, vol. xlix. 
 
 Shirts, for, 17, 76, 81, 105. 
 
 Shoes, for, 26, 38, 61, 75, 76, 
 85, 86, 98, 105. 
 
 Shrines, various, noticed, 3. 
 
 Shurley, Thomas, 4, 23. 
 
 Yeoman of the Queen's Cham- 
 ber ; _his wages were Is. a day. 
 
 Sickness, offerings made by the 
 Queen during her, 37. 
 Made to induce the saints to in- 
 tercede for her recovery. 
 
 Signet, Office of the, 100. 
 Silks, for, 5, 19, 27, 55, 67, 75, 
 
 92. 
 
 Sion, Abbess of, 13, 89. 
 Skeling, Alice, 99. 
 
 One of the Queen's attendants. 
 Skinner, Heyward, 100. 
 Skinners, to, 88, 97. 
 Sleeves, for making, 23, 93. 
 
 " Sleeves belonging to coats and 
 
INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 223 
 
 gowns were so contrived that they 
 might be either affixed to, or se- 
 parated from, them, as occasion 
 required ; they were commonly 
 made of different materials, and 
 were frequently superbly orna- 
 mented. The following articles 
 are selected from an account of 
 the apparel left in the wardrobes 
 of Henry VIII., after his de- 
 cease : ' A pair of truncke sleeves 
 of redde cloth of gold with cut 
 works, having twelve pair of ag- 
 lets of gold," and these sleeves 
 were welted with black velvet. 
 A pair of French sleeves of 
 green velvet richly embroidered 
 with flowers of damask gold, pirl 
 of Morisco work with knops of 
 Venice gold, cordian raised, either 
 sleeve having six small buttons 
 of gold and in every button a 
 pearl and the branches of the 
 flowers set with pearles.' The 
 sleeves are also said, in some in- 
 stances, to have had^cuffs to them, 
 and in others, to have been ruffed, 
 that is, ornamented with ruff's or 
 ruffles, at the hands." Strutt's 
 Dress and Habits, ii. 3CO, 375. 
 
 Sleeves belonging to gowns, 34, 
 35. 
 
 " Sleeve of a gown or any other 
 garment" is translated by Pals- 
 grave by the word manche, which 
 is an ancient heraldic bearing. 
 By statute 17 Edward IV., it was 
 ordained that it should be lawful 
 for the wives and unmarried 
 daughters of persons worth 201. a 
 year or upwards, to " use and 
 were in their colers, ventes, and 
 slefes of their gownes and hukes 
 sarcenet or tarteron." Rot. Parl. 
 vi. 189. 
 
 Smith, Henry, 31. 
 
 Clerk of Windsor Castle. 
 Smocks, for, 34. 
 
 Smyth, Richard, yeoman of the 
 Queen's robes, 18, 50, 74, 75, 
 105. 
 
 , bailiff of Swalow- 
 
 feld, 108. 
 
 A William Smyth was page of 
 the robes in the 1 1th Henry VII. 
 
 Soap, for, 75. 
 
 Socks, for fustian and cloth for 
 making, 16, 61, 66. 
 " Socke for ones foot, chausson" 
 occurs in Palsgrave. A pair for 
 the feet cost 2c/., whilst a pair of 
 hosen came to 10d. The cloth 
 and making of one pair for the 
 Queen cost 3s. 6d. 
 
 Somerset, revenues of the county 
 of, 107. 
 
 Southwark, the fraternity of St. 
 George in, 7. 
 
 Spain, Lady of, a letter given to, 
 69. 
 
 to a maid of, that danced 
 
 before the Queen, 89. 
 
 the Prothonotary of, 4. 
 
 Spaniard, to a, 43. 
 
 All the persons here mentioned 
 probably came to this country in 
 consequence of Prince Arthur's 
 marriage with Katherine of Ar- 
 ragon. In the Privy Purse Ex- 
 penses of Henry PH. is an entry 
 of two pounds being given " to a 
 Spaniard that tumbled." 
 
 Spangles, for, 21. 
 
 The entry where this word occurs 
 explains its meaning. See also 
 SPANGLES, in the index to the 
 Wardrobe Accounts of Edward IV. 
 
 Spaniels, for their food, 94. 
 Spynell, Anthony, 61. 
 
 A goldsmith, and apparently a 
 
 foreigner. 
 
 Squillery, to the, 2. 
 
 Query, Scullery, the duties of 
 which are sufficiently obvious. In 
 the Household of George, Duke of 
 Clarence, in 14C8, were " In the 
 squillery and salserie a yeoman a 
 groom and a page." It was the 
 duty of the sergeant of the squil- 
 lery, in the 17th Henry VI II., 
 " to see his vessels, as well silver 
 as pewter, to be well and truly 
 kept and saved from losses and 
 stealing." He was also sergeant 
 of the woodyard. 
 
 Stable, the expenses of the 
 Queen's, 18, 30, 45, 62, 93, 
 97, 104. 
 
 Independently of the two entries 
 where the amount has been obli- 
 
224 
 
 INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 terated, the whole sum paid for 
 the expenses of the Queen's stable 
 was 373J. 17*. 
 
 Stable, to the officers and keep- 
 ers of the Queen's, with a buck 
 in reward, 38. 
 
 Stations, 6. 
 
 " Privileged altars, where, with 
 proper dispositions, indulgences 
 might be obtained under bulls 
 from the Holy See. Thus St. 
 Peter's and the other Basilicks at 
 Rome have privileged altars to 
 which the devotion of individuals 
 frequently leads them, and the 
 visiting of which is often made 
 one of the conditions for obtain- 
 ing the indulgence of the jubilee ; 
 when the faithful are said to 
 make the stations. It appears 
 that the Queen offered at certain 
 places, which were called ' her 
 stations,' one of which seems to 
 have been the high altar of Rich- 
 mond, and others were probably 
 some of the shrines noticed in 
 these accounts. The Queen may 
 have made her stations in fulfil- 
 ment of some vow, or in satis- 
 faction of a canonical penance. 
 Besides the privileged altars in 
 churches, it must be observed, 
 that it is not uncommon to find 
 standing together in the open air, 
 as in the Coliseum at Rome, on 
 mountains, and in other places, 
 certain privileged altars or ora- 
 torios corresponding with the 
 number of stations of the Passion, 
 a practice of private devotion ; 
 and in this sense is to be under- 
 stood the passage from Chaucer 
 4 Yet I have been at Rome also, 
 And gone the statyons all a 
 row." ' G. 
 
 Stafford, Lady Elizabeth, 41, 
 80, 99. 
 
 One of the Queen's gentlewomen, 
 who had the comparatively high 
 salary of 33J. 6s. Qd. She was 
 possibly the Queen's first cousin, 
 namely, the daughter of Henry, 
 Duke of Buckingham, by Kathe- 
 rine, daughter of Earl Rivers. 
 She married Robert Ratcliife, 
 Lord Fitz Walter aud Earl of 
 Sussex. 
 
 Stafford, Mrs., 14, 39. 
 
 William, 12, 14. 
 
 Both these persons were servants 
 of the Queen, and were probably 
 husband and wife. 
 
 Standers, 25. 
 
 Apparently iron uprights used in 
 building. 
 
 Standard, key of the great, 68. 
 A large chest generally used for 
 carrying plate, jewels, or other 
 valuable articles. The word oc- 
 curs in this sense in the Privy 
 Purse Expenses of Henry VIII. 
 The clerks of the Earl of Northum- 
 berland' s foreign expenses of the 
 works of the kitchin, &c., were 
 allowed at every removal " a gret 
 standert chist for carying of there 
 Bookes. "-Northumberland House- 
 hold Book, p. 389. Among the 
 effects in Sir Thomas Kytson's 
 wardrobe, was " one great stand- 
 ard, with locke and keye bound 
 with iron." History of Hengrave^ 
 p. 34. John Cornwallis, Esq., 
 speaks in his will, in 150G," of all 
 the brewyng vessells and stand, 
 ards in the brewhouse and bake- 
 house." In the last instance the 
 word is used for tresil, stand, or 
 stadle. 
 
 Staples, for, 20, 25. 
 
 Stars, for, 21. 
 
 Ornaments for the jackets of per- 
 sons who were to perform in the 
 " disguising." 
 
 Staunton, John, 47, 51. 
 
 groom of the 
 
 Queen's chamber, 36, 41. 
 
 the elder, 21. 
 
 23, 24, 53, 100. 
 
 the younger, 77. 
 
 Possibly the son of the above- 
 named. All these entries pro- 
 bably relate to the same person. 
 
 Stebenhithe, 9. 
 
 The Duchess of Suffolk, the 
 Queen's aunt, appears, from this 
 entry, to have resided at Stepney. 
 
 Stirrups, for, 104. 
 Stokeclare, Our Lady of, 3. 
 Stoks, Margaret, 82. 
 An embroiderer. 
 
INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 225 
 
 Stole, carriage of the Queen's, 
 45. 
 
 The stole, in this sense, was a 
 kind of packing chest for robes 
 and clothes. " The King's cham- 
 berlain to assign for the ij 
 garderobes and the King's cham- 
 bre for the male and stoole, and 
 other stuff needful, to the some 
 of xii or xvj sorapter horses." 
 " The Stoole is here kept," i.e., in 
 the office of the Wardrobe. See 
 the Regulations of the royal 
 household, temp. Henry VII., 
 pp. 40, 41, whence " Groom of 
 the Stole." 
 
 sheets for the, 81. 
 
 "Sheets for the stool" were pro- 
 bably sheets laid to wrap clothes 
 in. 
 
 Stools, for fetching and making 
 the Queen's, 7, bis 16. 
 Four of these stools were " work- 
 ing stooles;" another was covered 
 with scarlet ; and the carriage of 
 one from London to Langley cost 
 14rf. It seems that they were 
 used for sitting on, rather than for 
 the feet. 
 
 Stourton, fee farm of, 109. 
 
 Stormy, John, of Chertsey, 17. 
 
 Straight-white, for five yards of, 
 104. 
 
 Cloth called " straights" is fre- 
 quently mentioned on the rolls of 
 parliament. 
 
 Strakes, for placing on the close 
 car, 34. 
 
 " The strakes or streaks of a 
 wheel are the iron plates that shoe 
 the fellows of a wheel or be nailed 
 round the circumference of it." 
 Kennett's Glossary. 
 
 Stratfeld Mortimer, 106. 
 See MORTIMER. 
 
 Stuff, for conveying, 5, 39, 50, 
 68, 74, 79. 
 Goods of various kinds. 
 
 Sudbury, Our Lady of, 3. 
 
 Suffolk, Duchess of, 9, 86, 88. 
 Elizabeth Plantagenet, second 
 daughter of Richard, Duke of 
 York, and sister of King Edward 
 IV., then widow of John de la 
 Pole, Duke of Suffolk, K.G., who 
 
 died in 1491. By him she had 
 issue John, who was created Earl 
 of Lincoln vita patris, and was 
 declared heir to the throne by 
 Richard III., in the event of the 
 death of his own son, and died 
 *. p. 1487, Edmund, who will be 
 again noticed ; Humphrey and 
 Edward, priests ; Richard, who 
 assumed the title of Duke of 
 Suffolk, was called the " White 
 Rose," and was killed at Pavia in 
 1525, s. p.; Katherine, who is 
 said to have married William, 
 Lord Stourton, but who is pro- 
 bably confounded with the Ka- 
 therine Stourton hereafter men- 
 tioned ; Ann, a nun, at Sion ; 
 Dorothy, who died unmarried ; 
 and Elizabeth, who married 
 Henry, Lord Morley, and died 
 s. p. Glover notices likewise a 
 son William, who married Ka- 
 therine, daughter of William, 
 Lord Stourton, and widow of 
 William, Lord Grey. Hart. MSS. 
 807, P- xi. The duchess is stated, 
 in Frost's Notices of Hull, to have 
 died on the 16th November, 16 
 Henry VII., 1500; but there can 
 be little doubt, from the entry in 
 p. 88, of a buck having been then 
 given her, that she was living in 
 January 1503. It is evident from 
 these accounts that she was 
 treated with much attention by 
 her niece, the Queen. Though 
 the mother of nine children, her 
 descendants became extinct in the 
 third generation. 
 
 Suffolk, Duchess of, receipts of 
 
 her lands, 111. 
 * Edmond de la Pole, 
 
 Earl of, 5. 
 
 Second son of John, Duke of 
 Suffolk, by Elizabeth Plantagenet 
 above mentioned. His brother 
 John, Earl of Lincoln, dying in 
 1487, Edmund became heir to his 
 father on his death in 1491 ; but 
 he was prevented from inheriting 
 the honours of his family in conse- 
 quence of his brother's attainder. 
 He was styled, apparently by 
 courtesy only, " Earl of Suffolk ;" 
 and from his imprudent temper, 
 frequently incurred the King's 
 displeasure, to whom his birth 
 2 G 
 
226 
 
 INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 rendered him an object of jea- 
 lousy. Having killed a mean 
 person, he was indicted for the 
 crime in 1501, and, though par- 
 doned by Henry, he was placed at 
 the bar of the King's Bench, and 
 formally arraigned, which so of- 
 fended his pride, probably becauvse 
 he deemed that he ought to have 
 been tried by his peers, that he 
 quitted the realm without the 
 King's leave, and went to his 
 aunt the Duchess of Burgundy. 
 Notwithstanding his conduct, he 
 contrived to make his peace 
 with Henry, and returned to 
 England ; but soon after Prince 
 Arthur's marriage, he went 
 again to Flanders, for which he 
 was solemnly accursed at Paul's 
 Cross, by a Bull, in October 
 1502, and was attainted in 1503. 
 It was on this occasion that his 
 wife was placed under the care 
 of the Duchess of Norfolk. 
 After remaining in exile for 
 some years, he was at length 
 brought to England, and was 
 beheaded on Tower Hill for 
 treason, on the 5th April, 5 
 Henry VIII., 1513. He married, 
 according to Dugdale, Sandford, 
 and other authorities, Margaret, 
 daughter of Richard Lord Scrope, 
 but she was, in fact, the daughter 
 and coheir of Sir Richard Scrope, 
 second son of Henry Lord Scrope, 
 of Bolton, by Elizabeth, daughter 
 of John Lord Scrope, of Upsal. 
 By her, whose will was proved in 
 May 1515, he had a daughter, 
 Ann, who took the veil in the 
 Minories about March 1511. Ad- 
 ditional MS. in the British Mu- 
 seum, 7100. Sandford's Genea- 
 logical History. Hall's Chronicle. 
 Rot. Parl., vi., 545. Testamenla 
 Vetusta, p. 530. 
 Sukcads, brought, 43. 
 
 A kind of sweetmeat. In the 
 account of the feast at the instal- 
 lation of Archbishop Warham in 
 1466, is " jely ipocras, tench flo- 
 ryshed, lampray pistr', quince and 
 orange pistr', tart melior, leche 
 florentine, marmalade succade, 
 comfettes, wafers," the two last 
 with ipocras. Leland's Collecta- 
 nea, vi, 28. Socado, or sucado, 
 
 which was the same article, is 
 twice mentioned as having been 
 brought to Henry VIII. Privy 
 Purse Expenses, pp. 184, 224, once 
 " In reward for bringing ij barells 
 of so c ado and cakes to the king's 
 grace:" " In reward for bring- 
 ing sucado and marmalado to the 
 King's grace at Eltham." 
 
 Surgeon's bills, 14, 70, 105. 
 Surveying the Queen's land, for, 
 
 101. 
 
 Swallowfield park, 18, 108, 111. 
 the under keeper 
 
 of, 30. 
 
 Tables, money given the Queen 
 at, 43. 
 
 The old name for backgammon. 
 See a note in the Privy Purse Ex- 
 penses of Henry V11I., p. 356. 
 
 Talbot, Sir Gilbert, 64. 
 
 Apparently Sir Gilbert Talbot, 
 of Grafton, K.G., ancestor of the 
 Earls of Shrewsbury of that name. 
 He was a privy councillor to 
 Henry VII., from whom he re- 
 ceived numerous favours, and 
 whom he served with ability and 
 zeal ; and died in September 1516. 
 
 Tallowing. 
 See BARGE. 
 
 Tame, Edmund, 108. 
 
 Receiver of the revenue of the 
 Queen's lands in Gloucestershire 
 and Wilts. " Afterwards Sir Ed- 
 mund. He was the son of John 
 Tame, an opulent merchant of 
 London, who purchased the 
 manor of Fairford in Gloucester- 
 shire, and built there a beautiful 
 church, which still remains in 
 nearly a perfect state, with the 
 finest stained glass in all its win- 
 dows. Following his father's ex- 
 ample, Sir Edmund Tame built a 
 church at Readcombe, an adjoin- 
 ing village. See Leland's Itine- 
 rary.'" D. 
 
 Tapetts, 14. 
 
 In this sense, cloths for the 
 sumpter horses ; but tapetts also 
 meant tapestry. See Tapets in 
 the Index to the Wardrobe Ac- 
 counts of Edward IF. 
 
INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 227 
 
 Tavelyns of Shanks, 89. 
 
 See the Index to the Wardrobe 
 Accounts of Edward IV. 
 
 Tavern, money given the mi- 
 nisters of the King's Chapel 
 to drink at a, 23. 
 
 Taylor's bill, 40. 
 
 Temple Bar, 86. 
 
 Thornbury in Gloucestershire, to 
 the church of, 43. 
 
 Thread for, 65,66, 83, 91. 
 
 Throckmorton, Christopher,Esq. 
 110. 
 
 Tippetts, sarcenet for the Queen's, 
 54. 
 
 " The tippet appears to have been 
 a part of dress something resem- 
 bling tte partelet, and worn about 
 the neck. It varied in size and 
 form ; for it was sometimes large 
 and long like a mantle, at other 
 times, it was narrow and scarcely 
 covered the top of the shoulders. 
 Like the partelet, it was used by 
 men as well as by women. " Strutt's 
 Dresses and Habits, ii., p. 3G8. 
 " The partelet," to which Strutt 
 compares the tippet, " answered 
 the purpose," he says, " of the 
 gorget which he describes on the 
 authority of John de Reun, a 
 French poet of the thirteenth 
 century, as an article which was 
 wrapped two or three times round 
 the neck, and then fastened with 
 a great quantity of pins, which 
 raised it on either side of the 
 face so as to resemble two horns, 
 whilst it was so closely attached 
 to the chin as to look as if it was 
 nailed to it." " The partelets," 
 he continues, " came into fashion 
 towards the fifteenth century, and 
 were common to both sexes. Those 
 belonging to women were made 
 of various stuffs of the most 
 valuable and delicate kind. Some- 
 times they are described as being 
 without sleeves, whence it may 
 be inferred that they sometimes 
 had them." " The tippet worn 
 by ladies at the time of mourn- 
 ing, was quite another thing : it 
 was a long narrow stripe of cloth 
 attached to the hood or to the 
 sleeves of the wearer." Ibid., 
 
 pp. 1G7, 368. Tippets were like- 
 wise worn round the head. 
 " With his tipet ybounde about 
 
 his hed, 
 And she came after in a gite of 
 
 red." Reve's Tale, 1. 3951. 
 which agrees with the following 
 ordinance which is cited by Strutt, 
 p. 323. 
 
 " Be it remembered that none 
 may weare hoodes, under the de- 
 gree of an esquire of the King's 
 household, but only tippets of a 
 quarter of a yard in breadth, ex- 
 cept in time of need, and then 
 they may wear hoodes." Occleve, 
 in his censure on the dress of his 
 times, and of the " foule waste of 
 cloth," says that a yard of broad 
 cloth was expended in one man's 
 tippet. Ibid,, p. 254. A part of 
 the costume of a priest was also 
 called a tippet ; Palsgrave trans- 
 lates " Typpet for a preest" by 
 " cornette," and William Water, 
 vicar of New Church, mentions 
 in his will in 1508, his " velvet 
 tippet." In De Moleon's " Voy- 
 ages Liturgiques," a canon of St. 
 John's, of Lyons, is represented 
 habited in his fur tippet. PI. iv. 
 
 Tithes, for, 25. 
 
 Tourney, a bed of a, 39. 
 
 Query, a bed on which was worked 
 the representation of a " tour- 
 ney" or tournament. 
 
 Tower, the, 8, 10, 11, 15, 16, 
 17, 36, 78,80,85,87,91,93, 
 95, 96, 97, 98. 
 It appears that the Queen was at 
 the Tower from the 27th April 
 to the 2nd May 1502 ; that she 
 arrived there on the 12th Decem- 
 ber in that year, and remained 
 until her accouchement, soon after 
 which she died there. 
 
 Transoms, for, 25. 
 
 Tiavice, or Travers, Laurence, 
 63, 79, 100. 
 
 This person, whose name is thus 
 variously written, was apparently 
 in attendance on the young Cour- 
 tenays, the Queen's nephews 
 and niece. 
 
 Trende, William, 96. 
 
 One of the royal servants. 
 2 G 2 
 
228 
 
 INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 Tripe, brought, 64. 
 
 Troye, 44, 47. 
 
 Troy Mitchel, or Mitchel Troy, 
 about three miles south-west of 
 Monmouth, which place the 
 Queen visited during her pro- 
 gress into Wales in September 
 1503. 
 
 Trumpeters, coats of white and 
 green sarcenet for the, 78. 
 These dresses, the colours of 
 which, white and green, were the 
 King's livery, seem to have been 
 made for the trumpeters to wear 
 at the " disguising" in the pre- 
 ceding year. 
 
 Trussing bed, for making a, 65. 
 Trussing beds were beds used in 
 travelling, when it was the custom 
 for persons of consequence to carry 
 their beds with them. Palsgrave 
 translates " Trussyng bedde" by 
 "lit de champ," i.e., field bed. 
 John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancas- 
 ter, gave, by his will, dated in 
 February 1397, to his Duchess, 
 " mes lits faites pur mon corps, 
 appelles en Engleterre, trussyng 
 beddes." Nichols' Royal Wills, 
 p. 155. In the list of horses kept 
 by the Earl of Northumberland 
 were, " A horsse for my lordes 
 cloth-sak with his bedde," and 
 " a hors for the grome of the 
 stable to ryde upon that ledes the 
 cloth-sek horsse that caryeth my 
 lords trussynge bed and all thyngs 
 belongynge yt when he rydes his 
 hors." Northumberland House- 
 hold Book, pp. 55, 120, 358, 359. 
 Dr. Percy conjectures that a 
 trussing bed could be trussed or 
 packed in a cloth-sek or portman- 
 teau. " To truss," means to 
 pack close. A pair of trussing 
 coffers were sent to the King of 
 Scotland in 1430. Fcedera, x. 470; 
 and the same articles, as well as 
 " cotton to trusse plate," are 
 mentioned in the Privy Purse 
 Expenses of Henry Fill., pp. 49, 
 190. In the " Form of Making 
 the King's Bed," temp. Henry 
 VIII., to trusse seems to be used 
 synonymously " to tuck in." 
 " The first sheete to be layed and 
 then to trusse in both sheete and 
 fustyan rounde about the bedde 
 
 of downe," u to trusse the endes 
 of the said sheete under every 
 end of the bolster." Archceologia, 
 iv., 313. A remarkable instance 
 of the use of the word trussing 
 will be found in the Wardrobe 
 Accounts of Edward IV. 
 
 Twycrosse, Leonard, 49. 
 
 A servant. 
 Tyler, William, desar, 87. 
 
 See DESAR. 
 
 Usher, the King's gentleman, 
 91, 92. 
 
 John Whiting. 
 Undrewood, Dr., 59. 
 
 The Queen's Confessor. Pro- 
 bably Edmund Underwood, who 
 resigned the prebendary of Sneat- 
 ing in St. Paul's, before the 28th 
 June, 1518. Bliss's Wood's Fasti 
 Ojconienses, i., 78. 
 
 Utton, Dr., 83. 
 
 Valance of a cloth of estate, 66. 
 
 Vandelf, John, 66, 88. 
 A goldsmith. 
 
 Velvet, for, 10, 17, 19, 22, 64, 
 65, 75. 
 
 Velvet appears then to have been 
 from 10*. to 10s. 6d. a yard. 
 
 Venice, gold and silk of, 8. 
 See GOLD. 
 
 Verney, Sir Ralph, 63. 
 
 Probably the Sir Ralph Verney 
 who was sheriff of Bedford and 
 Bucks in the third, sixteenth, 
 and thirty-second of Henry VIII., 
 and ancestor of the Earls Verney, 
 &c., in Ireland. 
 
 , Eleanor, Lady, 8, 30, 
 
 36, 39, 43,55, 57,84,91, 99. 
 
 One of the Queen's gentlewomen. 
 Her salary was 20 /'. per annum. 
 It is probable that this lady was 
 Eleanor, daughter and heir of 
 John Loutham of Northampton, 
 and widow of Sir Richard Ver- 
 ney, of Compton Murdock and 
 Warwick, Knight, who died in 
 1490, ancestor of the Lords Wil- 
 loughby de Broke. If this con- 
 jecture be correct, she must have 
 been then aged. 
 Venison brought, 45. 
 
INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 229 
 
 Venison, carriage of, 59. 
 
 Vysys, two quartered boards 
 with, 74. 
 
 Apparently, vices or screws. Sir 
 William Bruges, Garter King of 
 Arms, bequeathed by his will in 
 1449, to the church of St. George, 
 of Stamford, " a tabernacle well 
 y wrought of sylver and over gilt 
 of the wight of one marc or 
 thereabouts goying with a bill to 
 be set high upon the coupe : and 
 above upon the point of the seyd 
 tabernacle, a litel cross of silver 
 and over gilt, goyng also by a 
 vyce." 
 
 Vineyard, the, 44. 
 
 One of the country seats of the 
 Abbots of Gloucester, one mile 
 distant from that city, near the 
 road which leads to Flaxley in the 
 forest of Dean. D. 
 
 Wafry, to the, 90. 
 
 The Waferywas, and still is, one 
 of the offices of the royal house- 
 hold ; an account of it will be 
 found in the Liber Niger Ed- 
 ward IV., printed in the Collec- 
 tion of Regulations of the Royal 
 Household. 
 
 Wages of the Queen's servants, 
 99, 100. 
 
 On the 13th April, 1503, about 
 two months after the Queen's 
 death, the following entries occur 
 in the Privy Purse Expenses of 
 Henry VII. 
 
 " For the wages of the Queen's 
 ladys and gentlewomen, 681. 
 For the wages of the servants of 
 her staple, 47/. 12*. 4</." 
 It appears from the same accounts 
 and those of the 1st Henry VIII., 
 that the salaries of some of her 
 ladies continued to be paid long 
 after her decease. 
 
 of various persons, 82. 
 
 Wakefeld, Robert, bailiff* of Odi- 
 
 ham, 107. 
 Wales, shoes, &c., bought on the 
 
 Queen's going into, 85, 86. 
 when the Queen returned 
 
 from, 92. 
 
 The Queen commenced her pro- 
 gress into Wales in August 1502, 
 
 and crossed the Severn on her 
 return on the 28th of that 
 month. 
 
 Walker, John, 4. 
 Yeoman Almoner. 
 
 Waller, John, 86. 
 
 His servant was rewarded for 
 bringing a goshawk to the Queen. 
 
 Walsingham, our Lady of, 3. 
 The famous image of the Vir- 
 gin Mary, which was preserved 
 in the Priory of Black Canons at 
 Walsingham in Norfolk, was ce- 
 lebrated all over Europe for the 
 great resort of pilgrims, and the 
 rich offerings made to it. 
 
 Walston, 49. 
 
 Woolaston, in the hundred of 
 Westbury, in Gloucestershire. 
 
 Waltier, Lewis, 6, 15, 24, 60, 
 73, 85, 94, 95. 
 Master of the Queen's barge. 
 His wages were Wd. per diem, 
 and to him the wages of the 
 rowers and other expenses of con- 
 veying the Queen and her suite 
 by water, and of repairing the 
 barge, &c., were paid. See 
 BARGE. 
 
 Wapping Mill, men hung at, 14. 
 
 Ward, Simon, 97. 
 
 Lorimer of London. 
 
 Wardemole, for dyeing, 81. 
 
 " Waddemole, now called Woad- 
 mel, and in Oxfordshire, Wodne- 
 nell, a coarse sort of stuff used 
 for the covering of the collars of 
 cart horses. Ray, in his Collec- 
 tion of East and South Country 
 Words, describes it to be a hairy, 
 coarse stuff, made of Island wool, 
 [query Iceland], and brought 
 thence by our seamen to Norfolk 
 and Suffolk. Perhaps from the 
 Saxon Veob, grass, hay, weed, 
 and Mele, any hollow continent, 
 as if a collar stuffed with straw 
 or hay ; or possibly from the Island 
 Vadur, a rope, or any wod of 
 coarse hemp, and Mel, to beat or 
 mall, ' Ei in quinque virgatis de 
 Waddefnole emptis pro coleris 
 equinis hoc anno, ij sol j denar.' " 
 Kennett's Glossary. It is evi- 
 dent that Wardemole was a kind 
 of coarse cloth, and in this sense 
 the word is frequently used by 
 
230 
 
 INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 Sir Walter Scott in the " Monas- 
 tery ;' ' and in the supplement to 
 Dr. Jamieson's Dictionary of the 
 Scottish Language, no other au- 
 thority is cited for the word, 
 which is there said to mean u a 
 coarse cloth made in the Ork- 
 neys," than that delightful ro- 
 mance. 
 Wardens, brought, 6. 
 
 Large pears. See a note on this 
 word in the Privy Purse Expenses 
 of Henry VllL, p. 360. 
 Wardrobe of the Queen's beds, 
 
 53, 54. 
 Warreyn, John, 65. 
 
 A bed maker. 
 Warwick, 69. 
 Watch, King's, to the, 90. 
 
 The King's watch consisted, it is 
 presumed, of the twenty-four 
 yeomen of the crown ; and it was 
 the duty of the Wait to " pipe the 
 watch" four times during the 
 night, from Michaelmas to Shire 
 Thursday, and in summer three 
 times. Regulations of the Royal 
 Household, temp. Henry VII., 
 pp. 38, 48. 
 
 Water, for heating, 4. 
 Watermen, wages of, 6, 15, 24, 
 60, 75,94, 96. 
 See BAKGE and WALTIERS. 
 Wax, for, 16, 17, 56, 103. 
 
 White wax was I6d. a pound, 
 being double the price of yellow 
 wax. 
 
 Wayne, i. e., Wain, paid for 
 bringing one which had broken 
 down, 46. 
 
 Wedding clothes, for the pur- 
 chase of, 4. 
 
 gown for a, 49. 
 
 Sixteen shillings were given to an 
 apothecary " towards his wed- 
 ding gown," and forty shillings 
 to the page of the Queen's beds 
 " towards the buying of his wed- 
 ding clothing." The custom of 
 presenting favourites and depen- 
 dants with their wedding clothes 
 was very common, and instances 
 of it will be found in the Ward- 
 robe Accounts of Edward IF. 
 Weredon, John, 49. 
 
 One of the Queen's servants. 
 
 Westminster, 19, 2 J, 22, 24, 32, 
 34, 35, 56, 70, 87, 95, 98. 
 
 The' Queen was at Westminster 
 on the 6th and 12th June, 1502, 
 and apparently rested there for a 
 day before she proceeded to the 
 Tower for her last confinement. 
 
 Abbot of, 32. 
 
 John Islip, who succeeded in 
 1498, and died 2nd January 1516. 
 " The rebus of this abbot, a boy 
 */j'/?ping from a tree, i.e., / slip, 
 with the initials of his name, oc- 
 curs in painted glass in the 
 Deanery at Westminster." G. 
 
 St. Margaret's of, 97. 
 
 Weston, Mrs. Anne, 23, 99. 
 
 One of the Queen's gentle- 
 women. 
 
 Richard, 84. 
 
 A servant of the Queen's. Pro- 
 bably the father of the Sir Francis 
 Weston, K.B., who was sup- 
 posed to hare had an intrigue 
 with Anne Boleyn, and suffered 
 death in consequence. 
 
 Whiting, John, 91,92. 
 
 Gentleman usher of the King's 
 chamber. 
 
 Whitstones, Owen, a messenger, 
 100. 
 
 Wicker bottles, 84. 
 
 Wild boar, a, brought, 64. 
 
 Willesdon, Our Lady of, 4, 96. 
 
 Willeston, Woolaston in Mon- 
 mouthshire, 43,46. 
 The Queen was there on the 28th 
 August 1503. 
 
 Williams, Sir John, 30. 
 
 Alice, 100. 
 
 One of the rockers of the young 
 Lord Edward Courtenay. 
 
 John, 9. 
 
 One of the Queen's servants. 
 Winchester, Bishop of, 90. 
 
 Richard Fox, who was translated 
 from Durham 17th October 1500, 
 was Lord Privy Seal, and died 
 14th September 1528. 
 
 Windsor, 23, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30, 
 32, 35, 36, 38, 40, 42, 46, 49, 
 
 50, 58, 59, 64, 72, 74, 88. 
 The Queen was at Windsor in 
 June and early in July, 1502, 
 whence she went to Woodstock ; 
 
INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 231 
 
 and appears to have stopped there 
 on her return from her progress 
 into Wales. 
 
 Windsor Park, an arbour made 
 in, 31. 
 
 clerk of the castle of, 
 
 31. 
 
 the keeper of the 
 
 little garden at, 7. 
 
 to Our Lady, and St. 
 
 George, and the holy cross 
 at, 3, 29. 
 
 to the children of the 
 
 college of, 31. 
 
 Richard, then de- 
 ceased, 102. 
 
 One of the Queen's servants. 
 Wine, Rhenish, brought and 
 purchased, 48, 52, 84, 91. 
 
 sent for, 46. 
 
 A jiote on the wines used in 
 England early in the sixteenth 
 century will be found in the 
 Privy Purse Expenses of Henry 
 F///., p. 363. 
 Wise, Ralph, 26. 
 
 This person lived at Greenwich, 
 and had the Queen's fool under 
 his care during his illness. 
 Wolpitts, Our Lady of, 3. 
 Women, alms to thirty-seven 
 poor in almasse on Shire 
 Thursday, 1. 
 
 See MAUNDAY. 
 Woodcocks, brought, 53. 
 Woodnote, Thomas, 28, 33, 40, 
 44, 59, 60, 86, 88, 98. 
 Groom of the Queen's chamber. 
 To him and John Felde, another 
 of the grooms of her Majesty's 
 chamber, was entrusted the care 
 of her jewels on her removal from 
 one place to another. 
 
 Woodstock, 33, 34, 35, 37, 38, 
 40, 41, 47, 48, 50, 74, 108. 
 Her Majesty was at Woodstock 
 on the 20th July, and was there 
 visited with a fit of illness. 
 
 Worcester, to Our Lady of, 3. 
 Worsted, for, 91, 104. 
 Worsted yarn, 14. 
 
 Worthy, William, alias Phip, 5, 
 26, 61. 
 
 The Queen's fool was boarded by 
 him ; and for whom he sometimes 
 purchased clothes. 
 
 Worthy Mortimer, 107. 
 See MORTIMER. 
 
 Wotton, Mrs. Margaret, 99. 
 
 One of the Queen's gentlewomen, 
 whose salary was 41. per annum. 
 
 Wurley, Henry, 64, 98. 
 A goldsmith of London. 
 
 Wybern, Nicholas, 12. 
 
 One of the Queen's servants. 
 
 Wycombe, 36, 40, 
 
 In Buckinghamshire, through 
 which the Queen passed, and 
 where she seems to have rested 
 on the 3rd August, 1502. 
 
 Wyndeslowe, Henry, to the 
 daughters of, 21. 
 On the 2nd January 1497, 3/. 6*. 
 8d. were paid by the King for 
 " cristening of Winslow's child ;" 
 one of the daughters of that per- 
 son here spoken of was probably 
 the King's god-daughter. 
 
 Wyrdon, John, 29, 105. 
 
 One of the Queen's servants. 
 
 Yone, Margaret, 55. 
 
 This person belonged to the 
 Queen's household. 
 
 York, minstrels of the Duke of, 
 78. 
 
 Henry, the Queen's second son, 
 afterwards King Henry VIII. 
 
 Archbishop of, 90. 
 
 Thomas Savage, who was trans- 
 lated from London in April 1501, 
 and died 2nd September 1507- 
 
 fool of my Lord of, 2. 
 
 It is not certain whether the 
 duke or the archbishop of York is 
 here alluded to, probably the 
 former. 
 
 Zouch, Mrs., 23. 
 
 As the entry in which the name 
 of this lady occurs is a payment 
 by the Queen for lining her 
 gown, she was probably one of 
 her Majesty's attendants, though 
 her name does not occur in the 
 list in p. 99. 
 
INDEX AND NOTES 
 
 WARDROBE ACCOUNTS 
 
 KING EDWARD THE FOURTH. 
 
 2 H 
 
INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 Acham, William, 164. 
 
 One of the persons appointed to 
 attend the Duchess of Burgundy 
 on her visit to this country. 
 
 Ageletts, 115, 119, 120, 124, 
 125, 139, 153. 
 Ageletts were pieces of silver or 
 other metal, or tags, attached to 
 the ends of laces or points. Pals- 
 grave, in his Esclarcissement de la 
 Lanyue Francaise in 1530, trans- 
 lates " Agglet of a lace or poynt" 
 by "fer;" and in the Promptorium 
 Parvulorum, in the Harleian MS. 
 221, is " An agglot or an aglet to 
 lace with all." Apointmaker was 
 paid 2d. per dozen for pointing 
 points of silk with ageletts of 
 laton. Spenser speaks of a dress 
 " With golden aigulets that glis- 
 tered bright." 
 
 The various notices of ageletts in 
 these Accounts afford informa- 
 tion as to the different uses to 
 which they were applied. From 
 p. 125 and p. 153, it appears that 
 they were placed as ornaments ou 
 harnesses, being fixed with small 
 chains. 
 
 Ambassadors, 121, 141. 
 
 The first of these entries relates 
 to the washing of bedding which 
 had been used by the ambassadors 
 from France, and the second to 
 the delivery of beds, &c., for the 
 ambassadors of the Duke of Bur- 
 gundy. 
 
 Andrew, Richard, 120, 150. 
 Citizen and Hosier of London. 
 
 Anneys, bags of fustian stuffed 
 with, and with ireos, 131, 137. 
 Bags filled with anniseed and 
 other spices, to keep insects from 
 destroying the clothes, &c., in the 
 Great Wardrobe. That anneys 
 
 meant anniseed may be presumed 
 from finding the word so spelt, 
 under " Spyces" in the Northum- 
 berland Household Book, " Powder 
 of annes iij Ib. j quarteron," ed. 
 1827, p. ID; and in the Promp- 
 torium Parvulorum in the Har- 
 leian MS. 221, " Aneys seed or 
 spice" occurs. 
 
 Apris, John, 164. 
 
 One of the persons sent to attend 
 on the Duchess of Burgundy. 
 
 Argenter of France, 160. 
 
 The " Argentier du Roy" is the 
 master of the wardrobe, or gen- 
 tleman of the robes. The per- 
 son here alluded to seems to 
 have been in attendance on the 
 Duchess of Burgundy, and the 
 entry relates to the delivery to 
 him of scarlet and violet cloth for 
 the use of the princess's suite. 
 It is singular that he should be 
 called the Argenteer of France. 
 
 Arms, the king's, on clasps, 119. 
 
 on clasps of books, 152. 
 
 It was usual to place the arms of 
 the owner on the clasps which 
 were generally attached to books. 
 Eleanor, Duchess of Gloucester, 
 mentions in her will in 1399, " a 
 ' Chronicle of France' in French, 
 with two clasps of silver, ena- 
 melled with the arms of the 
 Duke of Burgoyne ; a book, con- 
 taining the psalter, primer, and 
 other devotions, with two clasps of 
 gold enamelled with her arms ; a 
 French bible in two volumes, with 
 two gold clasps enamelled with 
 the arms of France ; and a psalter 
 richly illuminated with the clasps 
 of gold enamelled with white 
 swans, and the arms of my lord 
 and father enamelled on the 
 clasps . ' ' Among the books of Sir 
 2 H 2 
 
236 
 
 INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 John Fastolfe were a psalter 
 clasped with silver, and his and 
 his wife's arms engraved thereon. 
 Archceologia xxi., p. 276. 
 
 Arms, escutcheons of the arms of 
 Lord George Vere, 131. 
 It is not easy to explain for what 
 purpose these escutcheons of the 
 arms of Lord George Vere could 
 have been made, or why they 
 should have formed part of the 
 contents of the great wardrobe. 
 See VERB. 
 
 Arras, 117, 120, 130, 132, 136, 
 139, 141, 146. 
 
 An arras mender " who is howre- 
 ly in the warderobe for wyrking 
 upon arres and tapestry," was at- 
 tached to the household of all 
 great persons in the fourteenth 
 and fifteenth centuries. Among 
 the " officers of the riding house- 
 hold of George, Duke of Clarence, 
 Anno 9, Edward IV.," was "A 
 broderer of Tapaceryefor amend- 
 inge of the Arrasse." Collection of 
 Regulations of Royal Households, 
 p. 99. Northumberland House- 
 hold Book, pp. 45, 48, 326. The 
 Earl of Northumberland's arras 
 mender in 1512 was allowed 33*. 
 4d. if a yeoman, and xx*. if a 
 grome, a year, for his wages, and 
 xxs. for finding " al maner of 
 stuff belonging to his faculties 
 except silke and golde.'' u Paid 
 for v days work in amending arras 
 at vj d. the day." History of Hen. 
 grave, p. 191. 
 
 Astates, 155, 160. 
 
 " Lordes and Astates," lords, and 
 persons of consequence. 
 
 Asteley, John, 164. 
 
 One of the persons appointed to 
 attend the Duchess of Burgundy. 
 
 Audley, Lord, 162. 
 
 John Tuchet, Lord Audley, who 
 succeeded his father in that ba- 
 rony in 1458, and died in 1491. 
 
 Axle-trees, for the king's car, 
 123. 
 
 Backs, 129, 134, 150. 
 
 Parts of skins so called. 
 Bags of leather, 128. 
 
 Bags of fustian, 131. 
 
 Barehide, 123. 
 
 See this word in the Index to the 
 Privy Purse Expenses of Eliza- 
 beth of York, p. 175. 
 
 Barge, king's, the master of the, 
 159,166. 
 
 Some remarks on the royal barges 
 will be found in p. 176 ante. 
 These entries relate to the equip- 
 ment of the master and rowers 
 of the barge which was to wait 
 on the Duchess of Burgundy. 
 They wore cloth jackets of blue 
 and murrey, each jacket being or- 
 namented with two small roses, 
 and the master also wore a gown 
 of black chamlet. 
 
 Bargemen, jackets for the king's, 
 166. 
 
 Base of the king's jackets, 150. 
 
 Batillage, 122. 
 
 Batillage appears to be nearly 
 synonimous with the word to 
 which it is joined boat hire, 
 from batellus, a little boat. In 
 the " Liber Quotidianus Garde- 
 robe, 28th Edward I.," is the fol- 
 lowing entry. To Dom John de 
 Langeford, among other pay- 
 ments, " Una cum batellagio 
 ejusdem Domini Johannis inter 
 Westmon. et London." p. 47. 
 Batellus occurs often in those ac- 
 counts, pp. 54, 72, and 272, &c. 
 Libera battella, a free boat, oc- 
 curs in the Plac. in Itin. at 
 Chester, 14th Henry VII. See 
 Blount's Glossary. 
 
 Baudkins, 135. 
 
 of silk, 116, 158. 
 
 A rich cloth, now called brocade. 
 The name is said to have been 
 derived from Baldacus, from Ba- 
 bylon, whence it was originally 
 brought. Blount. By statute 
 12th and 14th Edward IV., it 
 was enacted, that all cloths of 
 gold, cloths of silver, of bawdekyn 
 velvet, damask, satin, sarcenet, 
 tartaron, chamelet, and every 
 other cloth of silk made beyond 
 the sea, and then being in the 
 kingdom, and offered for sale, 
 should be sealed with the seals of 
 the collectors of the subsidy of 
 
INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 237 
 
 poundage and tonnage Rot. 
 
 Parl.vi., 155. 
 
 Baudwyn, Piers, stationer, 125, 
 126. 
 
 Baynard's Castle, 122. 
 
 See a note in the Privy Purse 
 Expenses of Elizabeth of York, 
 p. 17G. 
 
 Beasts, 129, 134. 
 
 Query, a measure containing 
 many furs, or a single one, most 
 probably the latter. 
 
 Bedding, 124, 130, 140, 141, 
 142, 143. 
 
 Bedmakers, 126, 128. 
 
 Beds, yeoman of the, 145. 
 Peter Wraton. 
 
 office of the, 140. 
 
 for making of various 
 
 kinds, 126. 
 
 Beds, 130, 137. 
 
 Berkeley, William, 158, 164, 
 165. 
 
 Esquire of the king's body, who 
 was protected from the effect of 
 the act of resumption, 22nd Ed- 
 ward IV., 1482. Rot. Parl. vi., 
 200. He was sent to wait on the 
 Duchess of Burgundy, having 
 four men to attend upon him, and 
 was present at Edward IV.'s 
 funeral. Archceologia i., 352. 
 
 Besteney, John, 164. 
 
 One of the persons sent to attend 
 on the Duchess of Burgundy. 
 
 Bible, Historical, 126, 152. 
 See BOOKS. 
 
 Bible, the, 126, 152. 
 See BOOKS. 
 
 Blankets, 124, 131, 133, 137, 
 139, 141, 142, 144, 149. 
 
 Boat hire, for, 122. 
 See BATILLAGE. 
 
 Bogy, 129, 134, 166. 
 
 legs and shanks, 116, 166. 
 Budge is described as lambs 
 fur, but it was sometimes used 
 for another kind of fur. Pals- 
 grave translates " bouge furre, 
 romenis peaux de Lombardie." 
 In the statute 37 Edward III., 
 the word " bugee" was used to 
 describe fur generally. " Ne 
 
 mil manere de Pellure ou de 
 bugee, mes soulment d'aignel, 
 conil, chat, et gopil." Rot. Parl. 
 ii., pp. 278, 281. But in the 
 Wardrobe Accounts of the 28th 
 Edward I., 1301, the word is thus 
 used, u Pro pellura di versa fururis 
 et capuciis tarn de Bog 1 quam de 
 agnis, &c.," p. 354. John Colet, 
 Dean of St. Pauls, by his will in 
 1519, bequeathed his " best coat 
 of chamlet furred with black 
 bogys." 
 
 Bolsters, 118, 131, 132, 137, 
 139, 143, 144. 
 
 Bolts, 127. 
 
 Bolyons, 119, 139, 152. 
 
 Bolions appear to have been a 
 smaller sort of button used as 
 fastenings of books, &c; they were 
 made of copper and gilded, and 
 cost about eight pence each. Pals- 
 grave translates " bullion of a 
 woman's girdle" by " close." 
 
 for gilding old, 126. 
 Bonnets, 119, 131, 138, 149, 
 150, 166. 
 
 See a note on " bonnets" in the 
 index to the Privy Purse Ex- 
 penses of Elizabeth of York, 
 p. 179. 
 
 Books, the king's, removed and 
 garnished, &c., 125, 126, 152. 
 
 silk for laces and tassels 
 
 of, and garnishing, 117, 152. 
 
 for binding, 125, 152. 
 
 The books, the titles of which are 
 mentioned, are " Titus Livius," 
 " The Holy Trinity," " Frois- 
 sart," " The Bible," " The Go- 
 vernment of Kings and Princes," 
 " La Forteresse de Foy," " The 
 " Book of Josephus," and " The 
 Bible Historial." 
 
 The " Government of Kings 
 and Princes" was, probably, 
 a translation of " JEgidius Ro- 
 manus de Regimine Principum," 
 which is conjectured by Weston 
 to have been translated into 
 English by John Trevisa. A 
 MS. entitled " Regime des 
 Princes par Gilles de Rome, a 
 IMonseigneurs fils du Roy Phi- 
 lipe le Bel," was in the library of 
 Galway Mills, Esq., in 1800, 
 
238 
 
 INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 which was stated to have been 
 translated from the Latin of JEgi- 
 dius Romanus into French verse 
 by Henri de Gauche. The volume 
 alluded to in these Accounts was 
 apparently in French. 
 
 " Froissard" was of course 
 Froissart's Chronicles, and was 
 probably highly illuminated. Per- 
 haps the most beautifully illumi- 
 nated copy in existence is in the 
 Harleian collection marked Nos. 
 4379, 4380. 
 
 Several copies of the "Le Bible 
 Historiaux," ou " Les Hystoires 
 Escolastres," are among the Royal 
 MSS. in the British Museum 
 marked 19 D ii.iii. iv. v., and 15 
 I) iii. See the Printed Catalogue, 
 p. 299. One of them has the 
 following paragraph written in it, 
 
 " Cest livre fust pris ove le 
 Roy de France a la bataille de 
 Peyters ; et le bon Counte de 
 Saresbir, William Montagu la 
 achata pur cent mars et le dona 
 a sa compaigne Elizabeth le bone 
 Countesse qe Dieux assoile. Et est 
 continus le Bible, entre ove fixt et 
 glose le mestre des Histoires et 
 Incidentes : tout en mesme le 
 volume, la quele livre la dite 
 countesse assigna a ses executours 
 de le vendre pur xl livres." 
 
 " Titus Livius." A MS. en- 
 titled " Titus Livius ; des Fais 
 des Romains : translate par Pierre 
 Bertheure avec peintures," is in 
 the British Museum, Royal MS. 
 15 D vi. 
 
 " La Forteresse du Foy." Two 
 MSS. with this title are among 
 the Royal MSS. in the British 
 Museum, the one which has only 
 the four first books, is marked 19 
 E iv., and the other 17 F vi., 
 which is thus described in Casley's 
 catalogue, " La Fortresse de la 
 Foy 5 liv. aveque belles Peinc- 
 tures faite a Lisle en Flandres 
 per Jehan du Quesne." 
 
 " The Book of Josephus." 
 Several copies of Josephus' His- 
 tory are in the British Museum, 
 marked 10 A x ; 13 D vi, and vii, 
 and 13 E viii. 
 
 Boots of various kinds, 119, 138, 
 152. 
 
 Borough, Sir Thomas, 162. 
 
 Then knight of the king's body. 
 He was the father of Sir Thomas 
 Borough or Burgh, K.G., who 
 was summoned to parliament as 
 a baron in the 3rd Henry VII., 
 and was the ancestor of all the 
 subsequent barons. 
 
 Botews, pairs of, 119, 125, 138, 
 147, 148, 151, 159, 166. 
 
 Botews were a kind of large boot, 
 covering the whole leg, and some- 
 times reached above the knee. 
 By statute 2 and 3 Edward IV., 
 1403-4, it was ordained " that 
 noo knyght under thastate of a 
 lorde, squier, gentilman, or other 
 person e, use nor were eny shoes 
 or boteux, havyng pykes passyng 
 the lengh of ij ynches," on pain 
 of forfeiting 40rf., and the same 
 penalty was to be inflicted on any 
 " cornyser" who made pykes of 
 shoen or boteux" of a greater 
 length. Rot. Parl. v., 505. In 
 the same year, the importation of 
 tanned botes, shoen, ga/oches or 
 corkes, &c., was strictly pro- 
 hibited. Ibid, p 507 ; and in the 
 4th Edward IV., cordwainers and 
 coblers in the City of London, or 
 within three miles of it, were 
 forbidden to make " eny shoes, 
 galoges or bates with pykes" above 
 two inches ; or upon any Sunday, 
 or on the feasts of the Nativity, 
 Ascension, and Corpus Christi, 
 " to sell or comaunde or make to 
 be sold eny shoes, holes, or galoges," 
 or " to put, sette or doo uppon 
 any mannes fete or legges eny 
 shoes, bdtes, or galoges upon pain 
 of forfeiting 20*-." Ibid. p. 56G. 
 In previous statutes, the only 
 articles of the kind spoken of 
 are " botes et soulers," and 
 botews seem hitherto to have 
 been confounded, and even by 
 Strutt, who cites these entries, 
 with boots. Dresses and Habits, 
 ii., 346*. That they were different 
 is clearly proved by these Ac- 
 counts ; and in the Promptorium 
 Parvulorum in the Harleian MS. 
 221, they are thus described, 
 " Bote for a mannys legge, bota, 
 ocrea ; Botew, cothurnus, botu- 
 la," which admits of the inference 
 
INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 239 
 
 that a botew was what was pre- 
 viously called the smaller boot, 
 buskin, or galoche. This, how- 
 ever, ill agrees with finding that 
 botews are mentioned as always 
 reaching " above the knee," 
 or reaching " unto the knee," 
 whilst boots are merely noticed as 
 being made of various sorts of 
 leather. Botews that came above 
 the knee were rather dearer than 
 those which only reached to it, 
 but they were of much less price 
 than boots. 
 
 Botons. 
 
 See BUTTONS. 
 
 Boylet, Robert, 121, 124, 125. 
 
 A servant of the wardrobe. 
 
 Brampston, Thomas, 164. 
 
 One of the persons sent to attend 
 on the Duchess of Burgundy. 
 
 Branched velvets, and velvets 
 with branches, 156. 
 Probably what is now termed fi- 
 gured velvet. 
 
 Bray, Robert, 164. 
 
 One of the persons sent to attend 
 on the Duchess of Burgundy. 
 
 Braying- ropes for the king's car, 
 123. 
 
 Breast coverchiefs, 148. 
 
 Coverchiefs used to cover the 
 breast. 
 
 Bridles, of various kinds, 123. 
 
 Brigandines, for coverings of, 
 159, 162. 
 
 Jackets with pieces of iron quilted 
 in them, which were generally 
 used by archers. Archccologia xxi. 
 271. It is evident from these 
 accounts that the brigandines of 
 persons of rank were sometimes 
 covered with cloth of gold, and 
 other rich stuff. 
 
 Broched, cloth broached with 
 
 gold, 134. 
 
 Cloth with words, or ornaments of 
 gold worked upon it. In Pals- 
 grave " broche with a scripture," 
 occurs. 
 
 Broderayns for horses, 1 53. 
 
 Apparently broad, or wide, reins. 
 The word occurs in the list of 
 
 articles for the garnishing of the 
 queen's litter and chares " broode 
 rayns, v covered with in cloth of 
 gold ; brydel rayns ix covered in 
 velvet." " Brydels, vj with bytts 
 bossed, with broode rayns and 
 chayns ; the same bridels covered 
 in cloth of gold and garnyssht 
 with crowns and fleur de lys, 
 chaast and gilt, and with faux 
 rayns, &c." Rayns, and " leding 
 rayns" are also mentioned. An- 
 tiquarian Repertory, ed. 1807> vol. 
 i-, P- 47. 
 Browneswyke, 130, 135. 
 
 A kind of linen cloth. No other 
 instance has been found of the 
 use of this term. Query if cloth 
 made at Brunswick be meant. 
 
 Brussell cloth, sheets of, 150, 
 
 151, 152. 
 Brusshes of heath, 131, 138, 
 
 149, 151. 
 
 Buckles for harnesses, 125. 
 Buckram, 135, 142, 143, 153, 
 
 154, 163. 
 Bunteyn, Richard, 164. 
 
 One of the persons appointed to 
 wait on the Duchess of Bur- 
 gundy. 
 
 Burdon's, i.e., loads, of rushes, 
 
 121, 126. 
 
 Burgundy, Duchess of, 125, 132, 
 140, 144, 145, 153, 159,160, 
 163, 165, 166. 
 See the INTRODUCTORY RE- 
 MARKS. 
 
 ambassadors of, 140, 
 
 145. 
 
 Buscage, 130, 136. 
 
 Busk, 124, 130, 131, 132, 135, 
 137, 140, 143, 146, 148, 149, 
 155. 
 
 A sort of linen cloth, and appa- 
 rently of a coarse and common 
 description, as it was used for 
 pailets, linings of vallances, &c. 
 The word does not occur in the 
 Rolls of Parliament, but busk ap- 
 pears to have been the article 
 called bustian in the sumptuary 
 law of the 3rd and 4th Edward 
 IV. " No man but such as hath 
 
240 
 
 INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 possessions of the yerely value of 
 xls." shall use or wear " in aray 
 for his body, any fustian, bustian, 
 nor fustian of Napuls, scarlet 
 cloth engrained, &c." /?o/. Part. 
 v., 505 a. Among the effects of 
 Henry V. were " 1 rern' de bus- 
 tian cont' xvij alnz, pris 1' aln' 
 iij d." 
 Buttons, 117,136, 152, 161. 
 
 Calais, Staple, a merchant of 
 the, 133. 
 
 Cameletts. 
 
 See CHAMLET. 
 
 Candles, 121. 
 
 Canterbury, 145. 
 
 Edward IV. visited Canterbury, 
 perhaps with a pious object, some 
 time before September in 1480. 
 
 Canvas, 130, 135, 137. 
 
 Capes of cloaks, &c., 151. 
 
 Car, the king's, 122, 125. 
 
 expenses of repairing the 
 
 king's, 123. 
 See CAR in the Additional Notes. 
 
 Carmen, the king's, 125. 
 
 Carpenters, to, 127. 
 
 Carpets, 130,135. 
 
 Carriage, for, of divers articles, 
 122, 124, 125. 
 
 Cartemaille, Richard, 164. 
 
 One of the persons appointed to 
 wait on the Duchess of Bur- 
 gundy. 
 
 Carter, Richard, 125. 
 
 One of the king's servants. 
 
 John, 121. 
 
 These two persons seem to be 
 described by the name of their 
 occupation. 
 Caster, John, 120. 
 A skinner. 
 
 Cave, John, 126. 
 
 A bedmaker. 
 Celours, i.e., ceilings of beds, 
 
 132, 135, 141, 142, 143. 
 Cering, 125, 127. 
 Cering candel', 121. 
 Chains of laten for fixing in 
 
 agelettes, 125. 
 
 Chairs, 131. 
 
 for mending, garnishing, 
 
 and repairing, 121, 144. 
 
 Chambering of tapestry, 137. 
 Tapestry used for covering the 
 sides of rooms. 
 
 Chamelet, 116, 129, 134, 151, 
 155, 157, 159, 166, 167,168. 
 
 Chests, 122. 
 
 Chevel bolt for the king's car, 
 123. 
 
 Cheynewe, George, 163. 
 
 One of the persons appointed to 
 attend the Duchess of Burgundy. 
 As he was allowed a man to wait 
 upon him, he was evidently a 
 gentleman, and was probably the 
 George Cheynu who was pro- 
 tected in the enjoyment of cer- 
 tain grants by the act of resump- 
 tion 22nd Edward IV., 1482. 
 ' Rot. Parl. vi., 201 a. Perhaps 
 he was the George Cheyney, 
 a yeoman usher, who attended 
 the funeral of Edward IV. Ar~ 
 chcKologia i., 353. 
 
 Cheyney, John, Esq., 153, 167. 
 Esquire of the body, and master 
 of the Henxmen. He attended 
 his sovereign's funeral. In the 
 reign of Richard III., his offices 
 were filled by another person, and 
 it is not improbable that he was 
 the Sir John Cheney who dis- 
 tinguished himself in the service 
 of Henry VII. at Bosworth field, 
 and who, in the 3rd Hen. VII., 
 was created a baron ; became a 
 knight of the garter, and died 
 S. P. about 1496. Archceologia i., 
 350, 368, 375. Dugdale's Ba- 
 ronage ii., 290. 
 
 Chirke, Geoffrey, 164. 
 
 One of the persons appointed to 
 attend on the Duchess of Bur- 
 gundy. 
 
 Clasps of copper gilt, 119, 139, 
 152. 
 
 Some of these clasps, which were 
 marked with the king's arms, 
 were probably used with apparel; 
 the others were for books, and 
 were engraved with roses. See 
 ARMS. 
 
 for gilding, 126. 
 
INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 241 
 
 Claver, Anne, silkwoman, 117, 
 125. 
 
 See a note on Silkwomen tinder 
 CORSE. 
 
 Clerk, John, 170. 
 
 Auditor of the king's exchequer. 
 In the 1st Henry VII., a John 
 Clerke and Richard Sheldon were 
 protected in their office of the 
 auditorship of divers lands which 
 had belonged to George, Duke of 
 Clarence Rot. Par/, vi., 355. 
 A John Clerke was appointed one 
 of the barons of the exchequer in 
 Trinity term, 1461 ; and was 
 
 dead in the 7th Henry VII 
 
 Ibid. p. 451. A person of those 
 names was also searcher of the 
 town and port of Calais in the 
 3rd Henry VILIbid. 405. 
 
 Cloaks, 151. 
 
 Cloth of gold of various kinds, 
 116, 129, 134,146, 147,149, 
 ]50, 154, 155,158, 159, 161, 
 162, 163. 
 
 of silver, 116, 129, 134, 
 
 160. 
 
 French, of various kinds, 
 
 115, 116, 134, 160, 166. 
 
 of Mustreviliers, 115, 169, 
 
 170. 
 See MUSTREVILLIEHS. 
 
 russet, 166. 
 
 See RUSSET. 
 
 Clove Hammer, 120, 138. 
 
 Cloutes, 123. 
 
 Iron plates to keep axle-trees 
 from wearing. 
 
 Coffers, 122. 
 
 Coffins, i. e., chests of fir, for 
 books, 125. 
 
 Coket, John, 164. 
 
 One of the persons appointed to 
 wait on the Duchess of Bur- 
 gundy. 
 
 Colclherber, 124, 126, 141, 144, 
 145. 
 
 Coldharbonr, or, as it was some- 
 times called, " the Harbour," in 
 Thames Street, London, was the 
 residence of Richard Neville, Earl 
 of Salisbury, in the 32d Henry 
 VI., 1453. Rot. Part, v., 450. 
 
 In the 7th Edward IV., it appears 
 to have been in the hands of the 
 crown, probably in consequence 
 of the attainder of the earl in 
 1459, as in 1467 it was granted 
 to Ann, Duchess of Exeter, the 
 king's sister, for life. Rot. Parl. 
 vi., 215, who died seized there- 
 of; but on her death in 1476, 
 Coldharbour seems to have again 
 reverted to the crown, and to 
 have been granted to John Ne- 
 ville, afterwards Marquis Mon- 
 tagu, third son of the Earl of 
 Warwick; for in the 14th Edward 
 IV., 1474, it was the king's in- 
 tention to have caused the mar- 
 quis to be attainted, which mea- 
 sure he only refrained from taking 
 at the instance of George, Duke of 
 Clarence, and other peers, but he 
 nevertheless granted to the Duke, 
 who married the coheir of the 
 marquis's elder brother, certain of 
 his lands, of which the mansion 
 or messuage called " The Har- 
 bour," was part, to him and his 
 heirs, so long as there were heirs 
 male of the body of the said 
 marquis. Ibid., vi., 125. Cold- 
 harbour again reverted to the 
 crown on the attainder of the 
 Duke of Clarence in 1477 ; and 
 in 1 480, the year to which these 
 Accounts relate, it was clearly one 
 of the royal establishments, and 
 was assigned for the residence of 
 the Duchess of Burgundy on her 
 visit to this country, and also of 
 the ambassadors from Burgundy. 
 It was for some time the Herald's 
 College. 
 
 Collars, horse, 123. 
 
 Cologne thread, 146. 
 
 Call' silke, or Cologne silk, was 
 forbidden to be imported on pain 
 of forfeiture by statute 22nd Ed- 
 ward IV. 
 
 Combe Coverchiefs, 122, 150. 
 From the number of these ar- 
 ticles, twelve, and their size, each 
 being an ell long, it may be con- 
 jectured that they were worn on 
 the head hymen as well as by 
 women. Chaucer says, 
 " Hire coverchiefs weren ful fine 
 
 of ground, 
 
 I dorse swere they weyeden a 
 pound, 
 
 2 I 
 
242 
 
 INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 That on the Sonday were upon 
 
 hire hede." 
 
 By the regulations for ladies' 
 mourning by the Countess of 
 Richmond in 1492, a duchess 
 was allowed four kerchiefs, and 
 a countess two kerchiefs, hesides 
 a barb and a frontlet to each. 
 Handkerchiefs edged with gold 
 were among the effects of Henry 
 VIII. Harleian MS., 1419. 
 
 Cooke, Roger, 132. 
 
 Servant of the Duchess of Bur- 
 gundy. 
 
 Coppersmith, John, 119, bis, 
 121. 
 
 Cord, 137, 140. 
 
 Cordwainers, 118, 119. 
 
 Corse of silk and satin, 117, 
 122, 133, 136, 152. 
 " Corse of a gyrdell, tissu. 
 Corse weaver, tissutier." Pals- 
 grave. 
 
 A corse of silk seems to have 
 been wove or plaited silk, as Cot- 
 grave explains " Tissu, a bawd- 
 rick, ribbon, fillet, or head band 
 of woven stuff," also " woven 
 plaited, interlaced, wound one 
 within another." In the 34th 
 Henry VI., to encourage our own 
 manufactures, " wrotight silk 
 throwen, ribans, laces, corses of 
 silke or eny oyer thing wrought 
 touching or concernyng silke 
 wymmens craft, the corses that 
 commen out of Geen only except," 
 were prohibited to be imported for 
 five yearsRot. Porl. v., 325. See 
 also p. 506, vi., 223. By statute 
 3rd and 4th Edward IV., knights 
 under the degree of a lord, and 
 their wives, were prohibited from 
 wearing " eny manere corses 
 wrought with gold." And esquires 
 and gentlemen, and other per- 
 sons under the rank of a knight, 
 and their wives, were forbidden 
 to wear " eny corses wrought like 
 to velvet or to sateyn frizery." 
 Ibid., vi. 505 b. 
 
 From the statute of the 34th 
 Henry VI., it appears, that the 
 manufacture of silk was confined 
 to women, by which employment, 
 it is said, that " many a worship- 
 full woman within the citee have 
 
 lyved full honourably, and ther- 
 with many good housholdes kept, 
 and many yentilwymmen and 
 other in grete noumbre like as 
 there nowe be moo than a thou- 
 sand have be drawen under theym 
 in lernynge the same crat'tes. ' ' The 
 importation of wrought silks is 
 said to have caused " grete ydelnes 
 amongs yonge gentilwymmen and 
 oyer apprentices of the same 
 craftes, and the leying down of 
 many good and notable hous- 
 holdes of them that have occu- 
 pied the same craftes which be 
 convenient, worshipfull, and ac- 
 cordyng for gentilwymmen and 
 other wymmen of worship." In 
 reformation of these inconve- 
 niences, and " also the premisses 
 tenderly considered and howe it 
 is no commoditee nor thing abi- 
 dyng to th'enrichyng of this 
 lande, but things of plesauncefor 
 theym that liken to have them, 
 whiche every Well disposed per- 
 sone of this lande by reason and 
 natural favour wold rather that 
 wymmen of their nation born and 
 owen blode hade the occupation 
 thereof than strange people of 
 other landes," pray, &c. 
 Costers, 126, 141. 
 
 Pieces of tapestry used on the 
 sides of a table, and on the 
 benches round it ; and a doser 
 was the part placed at the back. 
 Ann, Lady Maltravers, bequeath- 
 ed, by her will, in 1374, " a doser 
 of green powdered with dolphins 
 with four costers of the same 
 suit." William, Lord Morley, 
 in 1379, gave his son his " best 
 dorser,ybwr costers and one ban- 
 ker with his arms." Costers 
 were also the sides of beds. 
 Joane, Lady Bergavenny, in 
 1434, bequeathed her bed of silk, 
 black and red, embroidered with 
 woodbine flowers of silver, and 
 all the costers and apparel that 
 belongeth thereto. She also be- 
 queathed her hullyng of black, 
 red and green, with morys letters, 
 with cushions, with bancours, 
 and costers. Among the effects 
 of Henry V. were " 1 coster de 
 worstede' vermaille cont' xi verges 
 de longur' & iii verg' de large. 
 
INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 243 
 
 Item vi tapites vermaille, chescun 
 de vj verges de longur, et iiij 
 verges de large, pris le pece iiij *." 
 Also seven costers of arras of 
 gold worked with various histo- 
 ries, for instance, " Cest emprise 
 de haut noun." " Si poer voier 
 en memoire" " of Abraham and 
 Isaak," of the " vjoies de Nostre 
 Dame," &c. 
 
 Costerings, or carpets, 118, 137, 
 143, 144. 
 
 See CARPETS. Costerings appear 
 to have been very similar to cos- 
 ters. Vide also the places where 
 the word occurs. 
 
 Cosyn, Agnes, 121. 
 A sempstress. 
 
 Counters, 128. 
 
 Pieces resembling money former- 
 ly used in calculations. Palsgrave 
 translates " counters to caste a 
 count with" by " ject." 
 
 Counterpoints, for, 117, 118, 
 129, 135, 136, 137, 142, 143. 
 
 Another name for a counterpane. 
 Katherine, Lady Hastings, speaks 
 in one part of her will, dated in 
 1503, of a bed of arras, sillor, 
 testor, and counterpane; and in 
 another place, of certain " stuff 
 of bedding, that is to say, a feller, 
 tester, and counterpoint of rose- 
 mary ;" and of " afedur bedde, 
 aboulster, a blanket, a chike 
 happing, an olde counterpoint, 
 sillor, and testor." The coun- 
 terpoints mentioned in these Ac- 
 counts varied as much in size, as 
 in material and price. 
 
 Counting cloth, green cloth for 
 a, 170. 
 
 Courser harness, 115, 124, 
 153. 
 
 Courteys, Piers, 113, scepe. 
 
 Keeper of the king's Great 
 Wardrobe. A special warrant was 
 issued by the king, dated 18th 
 November, 12th Edward IV., 
 commanding that a clause should 
 be inserted in the Rolls or Records 
 of the Resumption of the Par. 
 liament held at Westminster, the 
 29th April, 3d Edward IV., in 
 favour of " our trusty and well- 
 
 beloved servaunt, Piers Curteys, 
 and Alice Russell, the provision 
 which ensueth." This provision 
 protected the said Piers and Alice 
 in the enjoyment of all grants of 
 lands made to them on the 25th 
 October, 4th Edward IV., and 
 enacted that the said grant should 
 be effectual to them and the heirs 
 males of their bodies coming. In 
 the Act of Resumption, 4th Ed- 
 ward IV., Piers Curteys, Groom 
 of the Robes, and William Trus- 
 sel, Yeoman of the Crown, were 
 secured in the possession of Deer- 
 fal Wood and Paletop Wood in 
 Leicester, and Curteys and Alice 
 Russell were then protected in 
 the enjoyment of the grant above 
 mentioned ; and again in the 7th 
 and 8th Edward IV., in the act 
 of the 13th Edward IV., and 
 in that of the 1st Henry VII., he 
 was protected in the enjoyment 
 of the offices of keeper of a 
 ward in Leicester Frith, and 
 another in Beaumont Lees, of 
 bailiff of Leicester, and feodary 
 of the king's honour there, and 
 also of the office of keeper of the 
 Privy Palace of Westminster, 
 and of the Wardrobe within the 
 same. /?/. Par/, v.,517, 536 b, 
 592, 594 b, 610 b, vi., 87,372. 
 The grant in the 3d Edward IV. 
 to Courteys and Alice Russell 
 was of divers messuages in Lei- 
 cester and Derby, which had 
 been forfeited by Everard Digby. 
 Ciilcnd. Rot. Patent., 309. 
 
 Piers Courteys preserved his 
 office of keeper of the wardrobe 
 during the usurpation of Richard 
 III. Antiquarian Repertory, vol. 
 i., p. 35. His salary was 100/. a 
 year. Seep. 128. 
 
 Coverchief, 166, hand and breast, 
 148, comb, 150. 
 The breast coverchief was worn 
 over a shirt, and the king pos- 
 sessed an equal number of them 
 and of shirts. 
 
 Among the linen of the Earl of 
 Northumberland in 1512, were 
 " al maner of kurcheifs, ande hed 
 kercheifs breest kerchiefs heede 
 kercheifs." Ed. 1827, p. 350. 
 The " head kerchief " was pro- 
 bably the article here called a 
 2 I 2 
 
244 
 
 INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 "comb-kerchief." Lady Bryan, 
 in a letter asking for linen for 
 the princess, afterwards Queen 
 Elizabeth, when a child, com- 
 plains that she had " neither 
 gown nor kertel, nor pete cote ; 
 nor no maner of linnin for 
 smokes, nor cerchefes, nor sieves, 
 nor rayls, nor body stychets, nor 
 handcerchers, nor mofelers, nor 
 begens." Ellis's Original Letters, 
 second series, ii., p. 80. 
 
 Crochets of various sizes, 120, 
 
 121, 138, 145. 
 
 Crowns, roses, and suns, em- 
 broidered on various articles, 
 118, 137,143,144. 
 A white rose, en soleil, or sur- 
 rounded by the sun, was a fa- 
 vourite badge of Edward IV. 
 The rose is said to have been 
 first used by Edward of Langley, 
 Duke of York ; and the sun was 
 assumed in consequence of the 
 singular appearance in the hea- 
 vens, on the morning previous to 
 the battle of Mortimer Cross, of 
 three suns, which, as the day ad- 
 vanced, became joined in one, 
 an omen the Yorkists afterwards 
 construed into a signal of vic- 
 tory, and which Edward thus 
 perpetuated. See Willement's 
 Regal Heraldry, pp. 45 and 53, 
 where a drawing of the badge oe- 
 curs : on the king's great seal the 
 rose and sun are represented se- 
 parately. Sandford's Genealogical 
 History. The crown was, of 
 course, introduced on the articles 
 noticed in these Accounts as indi- 
 cative of the rank of the royal 
 owner. 
 
 Cruppers, 123. 
 
 Cupbearer to the king, 157. 
 
 Edward Stanley. See STANLEY. 
 Cupboards of ostriche board, 
 
 131. 
 Cupboard clothes, 124, 129, 
 
 135, 141. 
 
 See CUPBOARD, p. 190. 
 Curtains, 126, 129, 132, 133, 
 
 135, 140, 142, 143, 144. 
 Cushions of various kinds, 131, 
 
 137. 
 
 Cushion cloths, 130. 
 
 Damasks, 115, 116, 129, 134, 
 146, 148, 158, 161. 
 Esquires, gentlemen, and other 
 persons under the rank of a knight 
 were not allowed to wear damask 
 or satin, excepting the officers of 
 the king's household, by statute 
 3rd and 4th Edward IV., and 
 22nd Edward IV. Rot. Parl. 
 v., 504, vi., 221. 
 
 Dancaster, Thomas, clerk of the 
 wardrobe, 128, 170. 
 
 Darcy, Thomas, esquire of the 
 body, 164, 165. 
 He attended the funeral of Ed- 
 ward IV. Archaologia, i., 350. 
 
 Dawbers, 127. 
 
 Davy, John, of Fowey, 164. 
 
 One of the persons appointed to 
 wait on the Duchess of Bur- 
 gundy. 
 
 Diaper work, table cloths of, 
 
 131, 139. 
 
 Dobinson, Thomas and William, 
 164. 
 
 Two of the persons who were ap- 
 pointed to wait on the Duchess of 
 Burgundy, each of whom was 
 allowed a servant to attend upon 
 him. 
 
 Dorset, the Marquis of, 161, 
 163. 
 
 Thomas Grey, K.G., Marquis of 
 Dorset, to which dignity he was 
 elevated on the 18th of April, 
 1475. He was the son-in-law of 
 the king, being the eldest son of 
 Sir John Grey, Lord Ferrers of 
 Groby, by Elizabeth Wydvile, 
 who married, secondly, King 
 Edward IV. The marquis was 
 attainted in the 1st Richard III., 
 but was restored in blood and 
 honours the 7th Henry VII., and 
 died in 1501. 
 
 Doserfor a horse, 123. 
 
 Doublets, 124, 146, 147, 149, 
 150, 166, 167. 
 
 Dowell, Ralph, 141, 164. 
 
 One of the persons appointed to 
 wait on the Duchess of Bur- 
 gundy. 
 
INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 245 
 
 Down, 137, 143, 144. 
 
 Dragon, the, 121, 127. 
 
 Probably an inn with the sign of 
 thedragon, which appears to have 
 been situated very near to the 
 Great Wardrobe. 
 
 Draper, Piers, 120, 122. 
 Citizen and ironmonger. 
 
 Dunkan, William, yeoman tay- 
 lor, 169. 
 
 Easter, John, 128. 
 A skinner. 
 
 Elizabeth, the princess, 159. 
 
 Afterwards the queen of Henry 
 VII. 
 
 Eltham, 122, 125. 
 
 It appears from one of these en- 
 tries that Katherine, the king's 
 daughter, was baptized and pro- 
 bably was born at the royal palace 
 of Eltham in 1480. 
 
 Emayled, 146, 147. 
 
 Enamelled is sometimes writ- 
 ten anelyd, as in the following 
 entry in the Churchwardens' Ac- 
 counts of St. Mary Hill, London, 
 in 1486. " Item a myter for a 
 Bishop at Seint Nycholas tide 
 garnyshed with silver and anelyd, 
 and perle, and counterfete stone." 
 Nichols' Illustrations of Ancient 
 Manners, p* 114. The word also 
 occurs in the account of articles 
 delivered from the Great Ward- 
 robe for the coronation of Richard 
 III. : " vij yerdes of crymsyn 
 cloth of gold emayled." Antiqua- 
 rian Repertory, ed. 1807. Vol. i., 
 pp. 35, 36. 
 
 Empsion, i. e., purchase, 134. 
 Ermine, 129, 133, 134, 150. 
 Escutcheons of arms, 131. 
 
 See ARMS. 
 Esquires of the body, 153, 165, 
 
 167. 
 Exchequer, auditors of the, 170. 
 
 Featherbeds, 118, 124, 130, 
 131, 132, 133, 137, 139, 143, 
 144, 
 
 Ferrara, Duke of, 124. 
 
 Hercules D'Este, Duke of Fer- 
 
 rara, Modena, Reggio, &c., was 
 elected a Knight of the Garter 
 10th February, 1'Jth Edward IV., 
 1480, and a few months after- 
 wards the taylor was paid for 
 making his gown, hood, mantle, 
 &c., of the Order. He died in 
 1505. 
 
 Ferrour, 121. 
 A blacksmith. 
 
 Fir, coffins, i. e., boxes of, 125. 
 
 Flemish cloth, scepe. 
 
 ells, 136, and scepe. 
 
 Font, for covering a font at 
 the christening of the king's 
 daughter, 122. 
 From the minute description of 
 the manner in which one of the 
 king's children was to be chris- 
 tened in the reign of Henry VII., 
 it appears that " the Font must be 
 set on hight that the pepill may 
 see the cristenynge and presse 
 not to ny ; and the Font must be 
 hangid with ariche sele and over- 
 laid about with carpets on the 
 greces [steps] and other places ; 
 and the Font must be hangide all 
 about with clothe of golde and 
 laid withine withe small lyn 
 clothe," &c. Antiquarian Reper- 
 tory, ed. 1807, vol. i. p. 305. 
 
 Foot cloths of velvet, for horses, 
 153, 154. 
 
 " A cloth protecting the feet, 
 i. e., housings of cloth which 
 hung on every side of a horse. 
 It was long considered as a mark 
 of great dignity and state." 
 Nares's Glossary; and see the 
 examples he cites. The Earl 
 of Bath, in October 1553, in a 
 letter to his countess describing 
 the coronation of Queen Mary, 
 says, " The bearer will tell you 
 how my son served me of my fote 
 cloth and horse harness which he 
 promised you, but and I had made 
 other provision myself of my owne 
 I had bynne like to have taken 
 dishonor." History of Hengrave, 
 p. 144. 
 Foot sheets, 151. 
 
 Sheets used at the bottom of a 
 bed : from the notice of head 
 sheets and foot sheets it would 
 
246 
 
 INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 seem that a sheet did not then 
 extend the whole length of abed. 
 In an account of different cere- 
 monies in the reign of Henry 
 VII., the term is thus used : 
 
 " As FOR NEW YERRIS DAY. 
 Item on new yerris day in the 
 mornynge, the kinge when he 
 comythe to his foote schete an 
 uschere of the chambre to be redy 
 at the chambre dore and say c Sire 
 here is a yerris yeft comynge from 
 the quene.' And then he shall say 
 ' Let it come in Sire.' And then 
 the uschere shall let in the mes- 
 singer with the yefte, and then 
 aftur that the greteste estates 
 servaunt is to come, echon aftur 
 othere as they bene estates : and 
 after that done, all other lordes and 
 ladys after their estats that they 
 bene of. And all this while the 
 kinge muste sit at his fote schete, 
 &c. And this done, the kinge 
 gothe to make him redy, and go 
 to his servis in what array that 
 hym likithe." " Item the quene 
 then in likewise to sit at hir fote 
 *Ae//," &c. Antiquarian Reper- 
 tory. 
 
 Footmen, clothes for the king's, 
 168. 
 
 Forfeited goods, 122, 123. 
 
 Forfeiture was then, as now, the 
 usual penalty for transgressing 
 the laws regulating the importa- 
 tion of goods. The statute under 
 which the seizure here noticed 
 was made was probably that of 
 the 3rd Edward IV., c. 4, by 
 which corses [See CORSES,] were 
 prohibited to be imported on pain 
 of forfeiture, the one -half of 
 which was to go to the king, and 
 the other half to him that first 
 seized it. 
 
 Forms, joined, and other, 131, 
 
 138. 
 Forteresse de Foy, a book so 
 
 called, 126. 
 See BOOKS. 
 
 Fox skins, 116, 134. 
 France, ambassadors of, 121. 
 Franche cloth, 125. 
 Query French cloth. 
 
 Freman, Thomas, 164. 
 
 One of the persons sent to wait 
 on the Duchess of Burgundy. 
 
 French books, 126. 
 
 Fringes of silk and gold, 130, 
 136. 
 
 Froissart's Chronicles, 126, 152. 
 See BOOKS. 
 
 Frysley, John, Clerk of the 
 king's stables, 153. 
 He held the same office in the 1st 
 Richard \\\.-ArchcEologia, L, 375. 
 
 Thomas, 143. 
 
 One of the servants of the ward- 
 robe. 
 
 Furs, 121, 128, 129, 134. 
 Furring of robes, for, 120. 
 Fustians, 118, 124, 130, 13'?, 
 133, 135, 139, 140, 141, 144, 
 145, 148. 
 
 bags of, stuffed with 
 
 ireos and anneys, 131, 137. 
 
 Fyssher, Davy, 164. 
 
 One of the persons sent to attend 
 on the Duchess of Burgundy. 
 
 Gardener, Richard, 121. 
 A labourer. 
 
 Garments, for making the king's, 
 120. 
 
 Garnishing books, 1 52. 
 See BOOKS. 
 
 Garter, a gown, mantle, and 
 hood of the Order of the, 124. 
 See FERRARA. 
 
 mantle of the Order of 
 the, 161. 
 See YORK. 
 
 Garters, 117, 125, 136, 161. 
 
 Garters of the Order of the Gar- 
 ter. 
 
 Gentils, i. e., gentry, 160. 
 
 Gentlewomen, for the conveying 
 and trussing of, 145. 
 This entry seems to defy expla- 
 nation. The only meaning of 
 "trussing" is to pack close, but 
 it is as difficult to reconcile 
 " packing" with " ix worthy 
 gentlewomen" as to conceive what 
 " thirty ells of embroidered busk" 
 
INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 247 
 
 or cloth can have had to do with 
 " conveying them." It probably 
 meant trussing or packing their 
 baggage. 
 
 Gifts, lists of, given to the Duke 
 of York and other person- 
 ages, 155. 
 Gilmin, 124. 
 
 A sadler. 
 Girdles, 117, 136, 149, 150, 
 
 166. 
 
 Glass, a standing-, 131. 
 Gloves, 131, 137, 149. 
 
 Gloves were forbidden to be im- 
 ported in the 3rd and 4th Edward 
 IV., which is the only notice of 
 the article on the Rolls of Parlia- 
 ment. 
 
 Gold of Venice, 117. 
 Goldsmiths, 119. 
 Government of Kings and 
 Princes, a book so called, 126, 
 152. 
 
 See BOOKS. 
 
 Gowns, various, 124, 146, 147, 
 148, 149, 150, 156,157, 159, 
 160, 161, 166,167. 
 Grace Dieu, 145. 
 Grafton, Thomas, 133. 
 
 Merchant of the staple of Calais. 
 
 Granford, Thomas, 164. 
 
 One of the persons sent to attend 
 on the Duchess of Burgundy. 
 
 John, yeoman of the 
 
 crown, 162. 
 
 Greenwich, 122. 
 
 manor of, 141. 
 
 Grenerigge, William, 164. 
 
 One of the persons sent to at- 
 tend on the Duchess of Bur- 
 gundy. 
 
 Grey, George, 157. 
 
 *Son and heir apparent of Edmund, 
 Lord Grey of Ruthyn, first Earl 
 of Kent, whom he succeeded in 
 his honours in 1488. He mar- 
 ried first, and on the occasion 
 here alluded" to, King Edward's 
 sister-in-law, Anne Wydville, 
 daughter of Richard Earl Rivers, 
 and widow of William Viscount 
 Bourchier, by whom he had 
 
 Richard, his son and successor ; 
 and secondly, Katherine, daugh- 
 ter of William Herbert, Earl of 
 Pembroke, and died in the 20th 
 Henry VII. 
 
 Grey, Sir Thomas, chamberlain 
 to the Duke of York, 156. 
 The name of Grey was so com- 
 mon in the fifteenth century that 
 it is difficult to identify this per- 
 son. 
 
 Greyson, John, 164. 
 
 Another of the persons appointed 
 to wait on the Duchess of Bur- 
 gundy. 
 
 Guyon, Oliver, 164. 
 
 One of the persons sent to attend 
 on the Duchess of Burgundy. 
 
 Hached, cloth of silver hached 
 on satin ground, 160. 
 " Hatch, to shade by lines in 
 drawing or graving." Todd'a 
 Johnson. 
 
 In this instance " hatched" ap- 
 pears to mean cloth slightly em- 
 broidered with silver on a satin 
 ground. 
 
 Hackney, 154. 
 
 Halle, Richard, 164. 
 
 One of the persons sent to attend 
 on the Duchess of Burgundy. 
 
 William, yeoman tailor, 
 
 169. 
 
 Halters for horses, 123. 
 
 Hamerton, John, 164. 
 
 One of the persons sent to attend 
 on the Duchess of Burgundy. 
 
 Hand coverchiefs, 122, 148. 
 See COVERCHIEFS. 
 
 Harness, for covering, 154, 155. 
 
 Harnesses for horses, 115, 124, 
 125, 133,154, 155, 165. 
 From these descriptions of the 
 harnesses of horses used by per- 
 sons of high rank, it is evident 
 that they must have presented a 
 splendid appearance ; and fully 
 agree with the representations in 
 illuminated MSS. of the period. 
 
 of Milan, 124. 
 
 Milan was long famous for the 
 manufacture of armour and other 
 
248 
 
 INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 articles of steel. Philip Lord 
 Darcy, in'1398, bequeathed to his 
 son u his coat of mail of Milan." 
 
 Hastings, Pursuivant, 119, 125, 
 
 133. 
 
 Hatche, Thomas, 118. 
 Apparently a shoe-maker. 
 
 Hatche, 138. 
 
 This entry seems to refer to that 
 in p. 118, where it is stated that 
 two pair of slippers were bought 
 of Thomas Hatche. 
 
 Hatthe, Thomas, 165. 
 
 One of the king's wards. From 
 his apparel it is evident he was a 
 gentleman. 
 
 Hats, 149. 
 
 Hats of wool, 119, 138, 150, 
 166. 
 
 " A hat of estate" about this time 
 is thus described in the list of 
 articles delivered for the corona- 
 tion of Richard III. : " ij hattes 
 of estate with rounde rolles be- 
 hind and sharp beks before co- 
 vered in crymysyn cloth of gold 
 and ftirred with ermyns which 
 were for the use of the queen's 
 gentlemen ushers who rode before 
 her at that ceremony." Antiqua- 
 rian Repertory, ed. 1807- Vol. i., 
 p. 45. 
 
 Head sheets, 122, 130, 132, 135, 
 143, 144. 
 
 See FOOT SHEETS. 
 Head stalls for horses, 153. 
 
 Palsgrave translates " Hedd stall 
 of a horse harneis" by " testiere." 
 " In the Sadler's shopp, a head 
 stall, raines crooper patnell and 
 stirrop leathers all of leather very 
 fayer studded with gilt stoodes 
 and a kind of blewe bugell for a 
 man's saddell." Gage's History 
 of Hengrave, p. 35. 
 
 Henxmen, for the clothes of the 
 master of the, and other 
 henxmen, 167. 
 
 See HENXMEN, p. 200. 
 Herber, the, 124, 126,141. 
 
 See COLD HARBOUR. 
 Hert, Robert, 168. 
 
 One of the king's footmen. 
 
 Hey wood, Thomas, 164. 
 
 One of the persons appointed to 
 wait on the Duchess of Bur- 
 gundy. 
 
 Hinges, 127. 
 
 Hirton, Peter, cordwainer, 118, 
 119, 125. 
 
 Hobies, 153. 
 
 A small horse : Palsgrave de- 
 scribes hoby to be a a horse of 
 Ireland." 
 
 Hoby, harness, 115, 124, 153. 
 Holland cloth, 132, 146, 147, 
 
 148, 149, 155. 
 
 Holy Trinity, a book called the, 
 126, 152. 
 
 See BOOKS. 
 Horse harness. 
 See HARNESS. 
 
 houses, 125. 
 
 % Probably what are now called 
 " housings," or as written by 
 Dryden "houss;" cloths originally 
 used to keep off dirt, now added 
 to saddles for ornament. Todd's 
 Johnson. 
 
 " Horse houses" are thus men- 
 tioned in the list of articles de- 
 livered for the coronation of 
 Richard III. : " To the queen 
 for her use, xvj horshouses, made 
 of xxxvj yerds di' of rede clothe 
 engreyled with vj yerds of white 
 woollen clothe and lyned with 
 xxv ells of canvas ; and for to 
 sowe the same horshouses v Ib. of 
 threde, and for to cary in to York 
 divers horshneys vij elles canvas." 
 Antiquarian Repertory, ed. 1807- 
 Vol. i.,p. 50. 
 
 Horse, master of the, 153. 
 
 John Cheney, Esq. SeeCnENEY. 
 
 Hory, John, 164. 
 
 One of the persons sent to wait 
 on the Duchess of Burgundy. 
 
 Hosen, 133, 137, 148, 149, 150, 
 151, 166. 
 
 of cloth of divers colours, 
 
 118, 120, 125. 
 
 Howard, Lord, 156. 
 
 Sir John Howard, K.G., who was 
 summoned to parliament as a 
 baron in 1470, and was created 
 
INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 249 
 
 Duke of Norfolk and Earl Mar- 
 shal, by Richard III., in the de- 
 fence of whose cause he fell at 
 Bosworth field. A memoir of 
 this eminent personage, the foun- 
 der of the honours of the house 
 of Howard, with two portraits, 
 will be found in Cartwright's 
 History of Sussex. 
 
 Hullok, Thomas, 164. 
 
 One of the persons sent to wait 
 on the Duchess of Burgundy. 
 
 Huntingdon, Richard, clerk of 
 
 the wardrobe, 128, 170. 
 Huntman, John, 122. 
 
 One of the royal servants. 
 
 Jackets, 124, 147, 150, 165, 
 
 166, 167. 
 
 Jackets of woollen cloth, mur- 
 rey and blue, 163. 
 Murrey and blue were the colours 
 of the livery of the house of York. 
 
 Jackson, Thomas, 164. 
 
 One of the persons sent to attend 
 on the Duchess of Burgundy. 
 
 Jaks, John, 123. 
 
 Apparently a saddler. 
 
 Jewelle, John, 164. 
 
 One of the persons sent to wait on 
 the Duchess of Burgundy. 
 
 Josephus, the book of, 126. 
 See BOOKS. 
 
 Jumbard, Martin, embroiderer, 
 118, 124. 
 
 Imagery, worked on counter- 
 points, 136. 
 
 Ingrain cloth, 115, 129, 169. 
 
 Ink, 128. 
 
 Ireos, bags of fustian stuffed 
 with anneys and, 131, 137. 
 Anniseed and orris powder placed 
 among linen to preserve it from 
 insects. A similar entry occurs 
 in the Churchwarden's Accounts 
 of St. Margaret's, Westminster, 
 in 1611. " Paid for a pound of 
 orris powder to ptit among the 
 church linen, lOrf." Michel's //- 
 lustrations of Ancient Times, p. 30. 
 
 Ireland, skins of foxes of, 116. 
 
 Ironmonger, 120. 
 
 Island, fox skins of, 134. 
 
 Apparently Iceland, though in p. 
 lit), fox skins of Ireland are 
 spoken of. That a communica- 
 tion existed between this country 
 and Iceland at an early period is 
 manifest from two entries on the 
 Rolls of Parliament ; the one in 
 the 3rd Henry V., when the Com- 
 mons stated, that as fish were 
 scarce on our coasts, fishermen 
 had sought them elsewhere, and 
 that having found plenty on the 
 coasts of " Island," they had 
 fished there for the last six or 
 seven years, but that strangers 
 from Norway and Denmark had 
 begged the king to prevent their 
 continuing to do so, and they 
 prayed that their request might 
 not be successful. Rot. Par/, iv., 
 78 b. The other was in the 9th 
 Henry VI., when the commons 
 stated that certain Englishmen 
 had gone to " Island" with their 
 goods and merchandize, which 
 were endangered by an edict of 
 the King of Denmark, and that 
 some of their ships and goods had 
 been seized. Ibid. p. 378. Mr. 
 Sharon Turner in his History of 
 England, has cited many proofs 
 of a trade with Iceland in the 
 reign of Richard III. 
 
 Katherine, Lady, her christen- 
 ing, 122. 
 
 The king's seventh daughter. 
 This entry fixes the date of her 
 birth to about September in 1480. 
 See the INTRODUCTORY RE- 
 MARKS, and many notices of her 
 in the Privy Purse Expenses of 
 her sister Elizabeth, queen of 
 Henry VII. See p. 204, ante. 
 
 Kendale, John, 164. 
 
 One of the persons sent to wait 
 on the Duchess of Burgundy. 
 
 Ketiller, Lisbet, 118. 
 A bed-maker. 
 
 Kent, Earl of, 157. 
 
 Edmund Grey, fourth Lord Grey 
 of Ruthyn. He was created Earl 
 of Kent in May 1465, became 
 2 K 
 
250 
 
 INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 Lord High Treasurer, and died 
 
 in 1488. 
 Keys, 127. 
 
 King, the, 121, 145, 162. 
 Knights of the King's body, 162, 
 
 165. 
 Kyghley, William, 164. 
 
 One of the persons sent to attend 
 
 on the Duchess of Burgundy. 
 
 Labourers, expenses of, 127. 
 
 The price of labour in 1480 was 
 
 from 4td. to Gd. a day. 
 Laces, 117, 120, 125, 136, 149, 
 150, 152, 161, 166. 
 
 and tassels of books, 117, 
 
 152. 
 
 Lamb's skins, 129, 134, 165. 
 Langtone, Henry, 164. 
 
 One of the persons sent to attend 
 
 on the Duchess of Burgundy. 
 
 Latisnails, 122. 
 
 Laton, 119, 120, 125, 126, 138, 
 
 139, 144. See p. 205, ante. 
 Lawn, 130, 135. See p. 206, 
 
 ante. 
 Leather, various kinds of, 118, 
 
 138. 
 
 Leder, Richard, 164. 
 Lightfoot, John, 164. 
 
 Two persons sent to attend on 
 the Duchess of Burgundy. 
 Lime, 127. 
 Linen cloth of various kinds, 
 
 130, 135. 
 Livery to divers persons, 169, 
 
 170. 
 Locks of the king's car, for 
 
 mending the, 123. 
 Lome, 127. 
 
 Clay-argille. Palsgrave. 
 Lowping, 140, 
 Query looping. 
 
 Lucas, John, of Kent, 122, 123. 
 A person who seized some contra- 
 band satins. 
 
 Lufkyn, George, 124, 155. 
 
 Sergeant tailor of the Great 
 Wardrobe. 
 
 Lycour for the king's car, 123. 
 Liquor for the barehides. In 
 
 the Privy Purse Expenses of Eli- 
 zabeth of York, is an entry of 
 " grease for liquoring barehides." 
 
 Lyour, or lyre, 126, 137, 140. 
 
 Lyring of curtains, 140. 
 
 The word is thus used in the 
 Northumberland Household Book : 
 " Item the ijd groom of the 
 warderobe for the beddis, who is 
 hourely in the warderobe for 
 lyring, sewing, and jouning of 
 stuf." Ed. 1827, p. 326. 
 
 Linches for the king's car, 123. 
 
 Lymour, a crupper for the, 123 
 
 bolt for the king's car 
 
 123. 
 
 saddle, a pair of Ly- 
 mour hamys, 123. 
 
 Malter, John, 121. 
 A smith. 
 
 Mantle, a, 117. 
 
 Mantles of the Order of the 
 Garter, 124, 161. 
 
 laces of, 136. 
 
 Marriages, gowns given on, 157. 
 It was a common practice for su- 
 periors to present their depen- 
 dants with gowns on their mar- 
 riages, and an instance of it oc- 
 curs in the Privy Purse Expenses 
 of Elizabeth of York, p. 49. 
 
 Massy, John, 121. 
 
 A tawyer. 
 
 Medicines, Holland cloth, to 
 make necessary things for the 
 king's, 147. 
 
 Probably to serve as bandages, or 
 to be made into lint. 
 
 Milan harness, 124. 
 See HARNESS. 
 
 Mille, Edmond, 164. 
 
 One of the persons appointed to 
 wait on the Duchess of Bur- 
 gundy. 
 
 Misterton, William, 128, 169. 
 Clerk of the Great Wardrobe : 
 his wages were 12rf. a-day. On 
 the accession of Henry VII., 
 he obtained a new grant of 
 his situation. In the act of 
 Resumption of the 1st Henry 
 VII., he was protected in the en- 
 
INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 251 
 
 joyment " of the office of Clerk 
 of the Great Wardrobe with the 
 wages of I2d. by the day, and 
 liveries for clothing for himself, 
 for winter and summer, and 
 clothing towards the finding of a 
 clerk under him in the said of- 
 fice," which had been granted to 
 him by letters patent dated 21 
 Nov., 1 Henry VII. Rot. Par/. 
 vi., 344. 
 
 Montpelier, a merchant of, 115. 
 
 velvet, 116. 
 
 Montgomery, Sir Thomas, 162. 
 Sir Thomas Montgomery was the 
 son of Sir John Montgomery, 
 Kut., by Elizabeth, sister of 
 Ralph Lord Sudley, who also 
 married Sir John Norbury. He 
 was a distinguished* person in 
 the reign of Henry VI. and Ed- 
 ward IV., and was honoured 
 with the Order of the Garter for 
 his fidelity and services to the 
 latter monarch. In the 28th 
 Henry VI., by the description 
 of " Thomas Montgomery, the 
 younger, Esquire," he was protect- 
 ed in the Act of Resumption in the 
 enjoyment of all gifts and grants 
 made to him, " so that our said 
 grauntes exceed not xxiij it. yerly, 
 the which we wol he have and re- 
 joice according to our lettres pa- 
 tentes made unto him, consider- 
 yng that he is a yonger brother, 
 and hath no thyng to lyve upon, 
 savyng ooiily of oure gift." Rot. 
 Par I. v., 193. In the 1st Edward 
 IV. he was a knight and one of 
 the king's carvers, with a fee of 
 40/. a-year. Ibid., 475. On the 
 accession of Henry VII., he was 
 secured in the possession of all 
 grants made to him by Edward 
 IV. Ibid., vi., 359, and died 
 about 1489. On the 28th of July, 
 in that year, he made his will, 
 from which it appears that he was 
 tAvice married, first to Philippa, 
 and secondly to Lady Lora, who 
 was the widow of John Blount, 
 third Lord Mont joy, but he had 
 no issue. In the Sumptuary Act 
 of the 22d Edward IV., Mont- 
 gomery and his friend, Sir Tho- 
 mas Burgh, whom he constituted 
 one of his executors, and six or 
 
 seven other favourites of the 
 king, were specially exempted 
 from its provisions, they being 
 permitted by it to wear cloth 
 and fur, purple and cloth of gold 
 only excepted. Rot. Part., vi., 
 221. 
 
 More, John, 164. 
 
 Morice, Davy, 164. 
 
 Two of the persons appointed to 
 wait on the Duchess of Bur- 
 gundy. 
 
 Mustrevilliers, cloth of, 115, 169, 
 170. 
 
 Apparently cloth made at a place 
 so named in France. The article 
 is thus mentioned in the Paston 
 Letters in the reigns of Henry 
 VI.- and Edward IV. : " A fine 
 gown of Must' de wyllirs furred 
 with fine beavers, and one pair of 
 brigandines covered with blue 
 velvet and gilt nails, with leg 
 harness : the value of the gown 
 and the brigandines 8." Paston 
 Letters. Vol. i., p. 61. 
 
 "My mother sent to my father 
 to London for a gown cloth of 
 Mustyrddevyllers." Ibid. p. 256. 
 
 Nails, for, 122, 123. 
 
 gilt, 119,139, 144, 152. 
 
 - latis, 122. 
 Napkins, 131, 139. 
 Needles, 128. 
 Nevelle, John, 164. 
 New ham, Ralph, 164. 
 
 Two of the persons appointed to 
 
 wait on the Duchess of Bur- 
 
 gundy. 
 Norton, William, 127. 
 
 A carpenter. 
 
 Officers of the king's wardrobe, 
 summer clothing of seven, 
 169, 170. 
 
 Oriel, William, mercer, 132. 
 Ostrich feathers, 119, 138, 148. 
 An ostrich feather then cost ten 
 shillings. 
 
 Ostrich board, cupboards made 
 of, 131. 
 
 Wainscot. Kennett's Parochial 
 
 Antiquities. The word occurs in 
 
 the will of William Bruges, Gar- 
 
 2 K 2 
 
252 
 
 INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 ter King of Arms in 1449. " I 
 ordeyn that the ij chapelles of our 
 Lady and Seynt George wythyn 
 the seyd chirch of Seynt George 
 be closed wyth ostrich boarde, and 
 clere storied, after such quantite 
 as the closure of pkyn horde there 
 now coriteineth ;" and in the 
 Churchwarden's Accounts of St. 
 Mary Hill, London, " 1485, for 
 tymbre and estrichborde forgynnes 
 and wyndowes;" "1481, A 
 standyng bed made with e*- 
 trychborde 1 ' 1 " A standyng bed 
 covvey with estricg borde of 
 beyond see makyng." Nichols's 
 Illustrations of Ancient Times, 
 pp. 97, 118. This query is added 
 in a note, " If the same with 
 East/and borde in the Ward, 
 robe Accounts of Edward I., 
 p. 119, or borde de Eastland in 
 the Foedera, iv., 730." To the 
 word " oster bord," which also 
 occurs in the Churchwarden's 
 Accounts of St. Mary Hill, Dr. 
 Pegge has added this note: 
 " Query Easter, from esterych, 
 i. e., wainscot." Ibid., p. 263. 
 
 Parformed, 143. 
 
 " The valance of the sparver of 
 velvet, white and blue, and par* 
 fourmed with white satin." In 
 this sense " parformed" seems to 
 mean made up, fitted up, com- 
 pleted. Palsgrave renders " par- 
 forme by " parfournys" as well 
 as by"je parforme." It seems 
 in one instance to be used in this 
 sense by Chaucer, 
 
 " For threttene is a Covent as 
 
 Your confessour here for his 
 worthinesse, 
 
 Shal parfourme up the noumbre 
 of his Covent." Somptours Tale, 
 1. 7843. See PERFORMING, 
 p. 213, ante. 
 Paillet, 124, 131, 137. 
 
 Pallets, small beds, so called from 
 their being generally stuffed with 
 straw. The ticks only, which 
 were made of busk, are mentioned 
 in these Accounts : 
 
 " on a paillet all that 
 
 glade night, 
 
 By Troilus he laie." Troiltu 
 und Cfes&ida, book iii., 1. 229. 
 
 In the inventory of Sir John 
 Fastolf's effects, among feather 
 beds, bolsters, materases, quilts, 
 &c., in the chamber of Lady Mi- 
 licent Fastolf are " ij sinale pay- 
 tetts." Archceologia, xxi., p. 2(>9. 
 " The beddes and payletts in the 
 king's chamber." Liber Niger 
 domus regis Edward. IF., p. 22. 
 Certain officers were to have 
 " russhes and litter for theyre 
 payletts." Ibid.,y. 40. 
 
 " Stuffe for the pallett bedd," 
 " a mantle for the queene to 
 weare about her in her pallet; 
 and other things necessarie for the 
 same pallett." Articles for the 
 Regulation of Henry Vllth's 
 Household, p. 125, 120. A pallet 
 bed stood near the state or larger 
 bed in the chamber in which 
 the queen was confined. " In the 
 chamber where the queen is to 
 be delivered there must be a 
 royall bedd therein, the flore 
 laid with carpeth over and over, 
 with a faire pallett bed, with all 
 the stuff belonging thereto, with 
 a rich sperver hanging over," 
 " a pallett by the bed arrayed ac- 
 cording to the bedd, with sheets 
 and paine, except the cloth of 
 gold on the paine to be of ano- 
 ther colour than that of the great 
 bedd, and over the pallett a large 
 sparver of crimson satin, &c." 
 Ibid., p. 125. 
 
 Paled, 118, 132, 137, 140, 142, 
 143, 144. 
 
 Paleways, or in perpendicular 
 lines. The word is explained in 
 Todd's Johnson Ci striped, from 
 pale in heraldry." 
 Palfreys, 153. 
 Panes, 118, 137. 
 
 Variegated, composed of small 
 squares, generally applied to 
 counterpanes. It would appear 
 from p. 138 that '' Pane" meant 
 any small division, written in the 
 form of a square or not. See p. 
 65 and 213 ante. 
 Paper, 128. 
 
 black, 125. 
 
 Paris arid Elyn, story of, worked 
 on arras, 132, 136, 142. 
 The inventory of the effects of 
 Henry V. on the Rolls of Parlia- 
 
INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 253 
 
 ment, iv., 230, et seq., present 
 an idea of the various subjects 
 which were represented on arras 
 and tapestry in the fifteenth 
 century. 
 
 Parker of Dover, 164. 
 
 William, 164. 
 
 Two of the persons appointed to 
 wait on the Duchess of Bur- 
 gundy. 
 
 Parr, Sir William, 159. 
 
 Son and heir of Sir John Parr. 
 He was born in 1434, and having 
 distinguished himself in the ser- 
 vice of Edward IV., particularly 
 at Barnet field, he was made a 
 knight banneret, honoured with 
 the Garter, and was comptroller 
 of the king's household at that 
 monarch's decease, whose funeral 
 he attended. Sir William married 
 Elizabeth, daughter of Lord Fitz 
 Hugh, by whom he was father 
 of Sir Thomas, and of William 
 Baron Parr of Horton. Sir Tho- 
 mas, the eldest son, was father 
 of Queen Katherine Parr, and of 
 William Earl of Essex and Nor- 
 thampton. 
 
 Patens, pairs of, of leather, 119, 
 138, 146, 147. 
 
 Paten for a fote, galoche. Pals- 
 grave. A pair then cost one shil- 
 ling. 
 
 Paylets. 
 
 See PAILLETS. 
 
 Phillip, Agneys, 123. 
 Thomas, 164. 
 One of the persons appointed to 
 wait on the Duchess of Bur- 
 gundy. 
 
 Pillion, to make a, for the 
 Duchess of Burgundy, 163. 
 
 Fis candle, 121. 
 
 Although numerous examples of 
 the use of the term " P'is 
 candle," " Paris candle," " Peris 
 candle," and " Parisch candle" 
 have been found, its precise mean- 
 ing has not been ascertained. 
 " Prociphis,discis,platellis, salsar, 
 candel paris" 1 et quatuour lib" cere 
 ad celebracionem divinorum in 
 capella, emptis'," &c. Wardrobe 
 Accounts of the 28th Edward I., 
 p. 137. The editor of that work 
 erroneously guesses that it 
 
 meant either a pair of candle- 
 sticks, or "Parisian," as Paris, 
 he adds, " is 201bs. weight or mea- 
 sure," but the authority for the 
 assertion does not bear out the 
 inference, for " Paris" in the 
 passages cited [page 351] clearly 
 refers to 20/. of money, i.e., money 
 struck at Paris which was worth 
 a fourth more than that struck 
 at Tours. Roquefort in voce 
 44 Parisis." 
 
 " Of parisch candle viij doson 
 Ib. after xij </. the dosson." Nor- 
 thumberland Household Book, p. 2. 
 44 To make provision for iiij score 
 xj dosson ij Ib. of parisch candle 
 for the expensys of my house for 
 one hole yere after xij d. the 
 dosson," Ibid. p. 14. 44 The ser- 
 geant of the bakehouse etith in 
 the hall : his iyverey for all nyght 
 is one gallon ale ; wynter Iyverey, 
 onecandyll wax, ij candy ties peris', 
 one talwood, one litter and 
 russhes," &c., 44 vj candelles wax, 
 viij peris' 1 ', viij tallowe." Liber 
 Niger Domus Regis Edw. IV., 
 1790, 4to., p. 50, 69. " Candells 
 peris," or 44 candelles perich," 1 are 
 often mentioned in other parts of 
 those regulations, pp. 43, 44, 45, 
 &c. Peris' candles are not no- 
 ticed in the Regulations for the 
 Royal Household in any other 
 place than in the Liber Niger 
 above cited, but the same article 
 seems to be meant by " white 
 lights," in the Regulations of 
 the Households of George Duke 
 of Clarence, 9th Edward IV., 
 and of Henry VII., A". 1494. 
 44 The groome porter shall fetche 
 noe woode, white lightes, ne wax," 
 &c., pp. 90, 103, 141. 
 
 Pillows, 131, 137. 
 - beres of Holland cloth, 
 131, 137, 140. 
 
 Pillow cases. The word occurs 
 in Chaucer, and in many early 
 " In his male he had a 
 Prolog. Cant. Tales, 
 
 wrters. 
 pilwc here. 
 1. COG. 
 
 Pointmaker, John, 120. 
 A pointer of laces. 
 
 Points of various kinds, 117, 
 120, 130, 136, 149, 150, 166. 
 
 Points, or short tagged laces, 
 
254 
 
 INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 were strings or fastenings for 
 hosen. " Poynt for ones hose, 
 esquilette." Palsgrave. Those 
 mentioned in these accounts were 
 generally of silk riband, pointed 
 with agletes of laton. Among 
 the effects of Henry V. were 
 380 " poyntes d'argent dorr'," 
 which were valued at 21. Is. 4d. ; 
 and seventeen small points, and 
 twelve large and six bosses " d'ar- 
 gent ennorez sauns laces." Rot. 
 Part, iv., 223, 225. 
 
 Powderings, 150. 
 
 - made of bogy leggs, 
 
 116. 
 
 of shanks, 134. 
 
 Small pieces of fur powdered 
 or sprinkled on others resem- 
 bling the spots on ermine. Pals- 
 grave has " powdred armyns a 
 furre, peau de ermyns." 
 
 Powdered meant sprinkled 
 over, and " powdered beef," i.e., 
 beef sprinkled with salt, is still in 
 use. William Bruges, Garter 
 King of Arms, in his will in 
 1449, bequeaths " a chesible dia- 
 cones, for decones, or frees of 
 white clothe of gold powdred 
 with garters." " A pair of vest- 
 ments of white damask, powdered 
 with bears and ragged staves of 
 gold," Will of Elizabeth Lady 
 Latimer, 1480. Testamenta Ve- 
 tusta, pp. 266, 356, and many 
 other instances might be cited. 
 See Index to that work, pp. 853, 
 855, 857. 
 Puke, 120, 148,150, 151. 
 
 Puke is explained in Todd's John- 
 son, to mean a colour "between 
 black and russet, now called puce, 
 and which is proved by the ex- 
 amples there cited ; but it is ma- 
 nifest, from these entries, that it 
 also meant a particular kind of 
 cloth : " hosen of puke ;" iij 
 quarters puke for to make iij 
 paire of hosen ;" " hosen ij paire 
 grene," " ij paire blac puke." 
 From the manner in which the 
 word occurs in the History of Hen - 
 grave, it is doubtful whether it 
 there means the colour or the ma- 
 terial, for immediately after 
 gowns of scarlet, violet, sad-co- 
 lour, and russet, follow " an olde 
 gowne of puke furred with 
 
 badger coarse;" " an olde gowne 
 of puke forefaced with velvitt, 
 and lyned with satten of cypress." 
 p. 117- 
 
 Pursuivant. 
 
 See HASTINGS. 
 
 Pykering, John, 116. 
 
 Citizen and mercer of London. 
 
 Pyne, Thomas, 164. 
 
 One of the persons appointed to 
 wait on the Duchess of Burgundy. 
 
 Queen, the, a gown given to, 
 
 159. 
 her chamber in the Great 
 
 Wardrobe, 127. 
 Quarterons, i.e., quarters, 153. 
 
 Ratcliff, Sir James, 164, 165. 
 
 Knight of the king's body. He 
 was appointed to attend on the 
 Duchess of Burgundy on her 
 visit to this country, and received 
 a yard of blue and a yard of 
 purple velvet for his jacket on the 
 occasion. Sir James bore the 
 banner of Our Lady at the fune- 
 ral of Edward IV. Archceologia, 
 i., 350. 
 
 Rawson, Richard, alderman of 
 London, 116. 
 
 Ray velvet, 132, 136, and s&pe. 
 Striped velvet. " To my Lord 
 Percy for his lyvery a yerde of 
 narowe violet cloth and a yerde of 
 narow rayd cloth." Northumber- 
 land Household Book, p. 347. 
 
 Rentgeder of the wardrobe, 170. 
 The rent-gatherer. 
 
 Repairs of the tenement be- 
 longing to the wardrobe, 127. 
 Reynford, Humphrey, 164. 
 
 One of the persons sent to attend 
 on the Duchess of Burgundy. 
 
 Ribands, various, 117, 118, 136, 
 140, 142, 143, 144, 149, 150, 
 166. 
 Richmond, Roger, 164. 
 
 One of the persons appointed to 
 wait on the Duchess of Bur- 
 gundy. 
 
 Rings of various kinds, 119, 
 126, 138, 144. 
 
INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 255 
 
 Hither, William, 163. 
 
 One of the individuals sent to 
 wait on the Duchess of Burgundy. 
 From his being allowed a servant 
 he must have been a person of 
 condition, and was probably the 
 William Ryder, one of the yeo- 
 men ushers who attended Ed- 
 ward's funeral. Archceologia, i., 
 353. 
 
 Rivers, Earl, 161, 163. 
 
 Anthony Wydville Lord Scales, 
 second Earl Rivers, K.G., the 
 king's brother-in-law; he was 
 beheaded 1483, and died s. p. 
 
 Robeux, query rubbish, 121. 
 
 Robes, furring the king's, 120. 
 
 office of the, 146. 
 
 Roses, embroidered on various 
 articles, 117, 118, 119, 136, 
 137, 143, 144,152. 
 The frequent occurrence of a rose 
 is explained by its being the fa- 
 vourite badge of the house of 
 York. 
 
 Rudde, 117. 
 
 Ruddeur, garters of, 124, 136, 
 161. 
 
 No other example of the use of 
 the word " rudde" has been found, 
 excepting in Chaucer, and where 
 it is presumed to mean com- 
 plexion. 
 
 " His lippes red as rose, 
 His rudde is like scarlet in 
 grain, &c." Rime of Sir 
 Thopas, 13657 ; and in a similar 
 sense in the Miller's Tale. 
 
 "His rode was red his eyen 
 grey "as goos," 1. 3317. 
 
 In these accounts rudde and rud- 
 deur evidently meant the material 
 of which the garters were made. 
 
 Rushes, burdons of, 121, 126. 
 
 Rooms were strewed with rushes 
 so lately as the reign of Elizabeth. 
 Archdeacon Nares in his Glossary 
 has cited many passages from our 
 early poets on the subject. 
 
 Ryder, Thomas, 164. 
 
 One of the persons appointed to 
 wait on the Duchess of Bur- 
 gundy. 
 
 Rysley, John, 158. 
 
 An esquire of the king's body: 
 he attended Edward IV.'s fune- 
 ral. ArcheRologia, i., 350, 352. 
 
 In the Act of Resumption 13th 
 Edward IV., a John Rysley, 
 Esq. was protected from its ef- 
 fects, and he was probably the Sir 
 John Rysley, Knight, whose at- 
 tainderin the 1st Richard III. was 
 reversed in the 1st Henry VII., 
 and who was steward of the fran- 
 chises of the Duchy of Lancaster 
 in the counties of Herts and 
 Essex, &c. ; was one of the 
 king's feoffees 7th Henry VII. ; 
 and who is afterwards often men- 
 tioned on the Rolls of Parlia- 
 ment. Rot. Parl., vi., 84, 274, 
 355, 444, 473, 474, 510,540, 531. 
 
 Sables, 120, 129, 134, 148. 
 Saddles, for making, 125. 
 
 of estate, 154. 
 
 covering of, 154, 155. 
 
 Saddlers, 125. 
 
 St. Andrew, church of, near 
 
 Baynard's Castle, 127. 
 Sambrooke, Henry, 164. 
 
 One of the persons appointed to 
 attend on the Duchess of Bur- 
 gundy. 
 Sand, 127. 
 
 Sarsenetts, for, 116, 117,124, 
 125, 129, 133, 135, 141, 144, 
 
 147, 148, 156, 167. 
 
 Satins, 115, 116, 129, 133, 146, 
 
 148, 149, 150,156, 157,158, 
 161, 165, 166, 167. 
 
 seized, pursuant to a sta- 
 tute, 122, 133. 
 Scales, pair of, 131. 
 Scarlet cloth, 115, 133, 143. 
 
 twelve yards of, to a 
 
 yeoman of the crown to per- 
 form the king's pleasure, and 
 to deliver it to such persons 
 as the king had commanded 
 him, 162. 
 
 This present seems to have been 
 a secret one. 
 Scopeham, Richard, 164. 
 
 One of the persons appointed to 
 
256 
 
 INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 wait on the Duchess of Bur- 
 gundy. 
 
 Servants, the king's, appointed 
 to attend the Duchess of Bur- 
 gundy, 163, 164. 
 All of them received jackets of 
 woollen cloth of the royal livery, 
 murrey, and blue. 
 
 Selys, goldsmith, 119. 
 
 Shanks, 134. 
 
 Skins of the legs of animals. 
 
 Shapster, Alice, 122. 
 
 Apparently a sempstress and 
 laundress. 
 
 Sheldone, Richard, 170. 
 
 One of the auditors of the Ex- 
 chequer. See CLERK, ante. 
 
 Sheets of various sizes and 
 kinds, 121, 122, 124, 130, 
 132, 135, 140, 141, 143, 144, 
 149,150, 151, 152. 
 
 See HEAD SHEETS and FOOT 
 
 SHEETS. 
 
 Shirts, 148, 166. 
 
 for making and washing, 
 
 122. 
 Shoon, shoes of various kinds 
 
 and prices, 118, 138, 146, 
 
 147, 148, 149,151, 157,159, 
 
 166. 
 
 Shukburgh, William, 141. 
 A mercer. 
 
 Silks, 115, 129, 130, 143, 149, 
 152, 156, 158. 
 
 sewing, 117, 136. 
 
 Skins, divers, 116. 
 
 Skinners, wages of, 120, 128. 
 
 Skinnery, office of the, 131, 137, 
 146. 
 
 Slippers, 118, 138, 148, 166. 
 
 Sloppes of various kinds, 118, 
 138, 146, 147, 148, 151. 
 Slops are explained in most glos- 
 saries and dictionaries to mean 
 trowsers, and there can be as little 
 doubt of the fact, as that in the 
 reign of Edward IV., slop was 
 also the name of a kind of shoe. 
 That they were not slippers is 
 evident, as shoon, slops, and slip- 
 pers occur in the same entries as 
 
 distinct articles. Palsgrave in 
 1530 has " sloppe anight gown ;" 
 and " sloppes hosyn," which he 
 translates by " brayes a mari- 
 nier," thus agreeing with the 
 generally received meaning of the 
 word at present. Sloppes is twice 
 used by Chaucer, and each time 
 for a sort of breeches. Sloppe 
 likewise meant " a mourning 
 cassocke for ladies and gentlemen, 
 not open before, and it thus oc- 
 curs in " liveries for noblemen 
 and gentlemen" at funerals: " a 
 duke to have for his gowne, sloppe, 
 and rnantell sixteen yards ;" the 
 same quantity was allowed for the 
 "gown, slop, and mantle" of a 
 marquis, and fourteen yards for 
 those of an earl, but a viscount 
 was only allowed cloth for his 
 gown and mantle, and no allow- 
 ance was made for sloppes to any 
 inferior person. Strutt's Dresses 
 and Habits, ii., 323. See also 
 pp. 337, 338. In p. 345, he cites 
 the entries in these Accounts to 
 prove that the ancient estivales 
 or buskins were what was then 
 meant by slops. 
 
 Shoon, sloppe, and botews are 
 frequently mentioned in the ac- 
 count of articles delivered from 
 the Great Wardrobe for the coro- 
 nation of Richard III. Antiqua- 
 rian Repertory, ed. 1807, vol. i., 
 pp.- 42, 50, &c. 
 
 Smiths, 127. 
 
 Smythson, Thomas, 164. 
 
 One of the persons appointed to 
 wait on the Duchess of Bur- 
 gundy. 
 
 Socks, 118, 138, 148. 
 
 See p. 223, ante. 
 
 Spangles, 115, 119, 124, 138, 
 153. 
 
 See p. 223. 
 Sparowe, Thomas, 164. 
 
 One of the persons appointed to 
 
 attend the Duchess of Burgundy. 
 
 Sparvers, 129, 131, 132, 135, 
 142, 143, 144. 
 A sparver is said by Archdeacon 
 Nares u to be the canopy or tes- 
 tor of a bed," which agrees with 
 the passages he has cited : 
 
INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 257 
 
 as quiet sleeps in a bed of cloth as 
 under a sparver of tisshue."-/:fa- 
 rington. ''In silken sparvers, beds 
 of down." Ibid. ; and with the no- 
 tices of a sparver in the Regu- 
 lations for " the Deliverance of a 
 Queene temp. Henry VII.," but 
 which is there erroneously printed 
 "sperner ;" "a royal bedde, with a 
 faiie pallett bedde with a rich 
 sperver hanging over." " Over 
 the pallett a large sperver of 
 crimson satin, with a bowle of 
 gould or silver and guilt ; and 
 above the openinge of the same 
 sperver to be embrothered the 
 king's and queen's armes, and 
 the residue with crownes of gold." 
 p 125. See also pp. 126, 127- 
 
 At the conclusions of directions 
 for making the king's bed, temp. 
 Henry VIII., printed in that 
 volume, is this passage, " And so 
 then every of them sticke up the 
 aungel about the bedde and to 
 lette downe the corteyns of the 
 sayd bedde or sparver." Archce- 
 ologia, iv., 313, where a sparver 
 is erroneously explained to be "a 
 camp or turn-up bed." 
 
 Ann, Duchess of Buckingham, 
 in 1480, bequeathed a sparver of 
 red velvet party gold with a 
 counterpart to the same of scar- 
 let. And Sir Edward Poinings, 
 in his will in 1521, speaks of " a 
 sparver of silk with curtains of 
 the same." 
 
 Among the effects of Henry 
 V. was an " Esparver palezde tar- 
 tarin vert, blanc et vermaille, de 
 novel facion pris40s."-.ftoJ. Par/., 
 iv. 231. The notices of sparvers 
 in these Accounts afford a perfect 
 idea of their appearance, and 
 prove that they were, in fact, the 
 whole of the frame work of a bed 
 to which the curtains, valances, 
 &c., were attached, and were not 
 the canopy or tester only. See 
 more particularly the description 
 of them in pages 142, 143. 
 
 Speringchain, for the king's car, 
 
 123. 
 Sprigs for, 122. 
 
 A brad or nail without a head. 
 
 Spurs, hunting, 148. 
 
 Spurs, pairs of, of various kinds, 
 
 119, 138, 150. 
 Stable, office of the, 153. 
 Standishes, with weights and 
 
 scales, 131. 
 Stanes, Thomas, porter of the 
 
 wardrobe, 170. 
 
 Stanley, Edward, cupbearer to 
 the king, 157. 
 
 Probably the Sir Edward Stanley 
 of Hornby, fifth son of Thomas, 
 first Earl of Derby, who, for his 
 services at Flodden field, was 
 created Lord Mounteagle in 1514 : 
 he was a Knight of the Garter, 
 and died in 1523. 
 
 Stanhope, Thomas, 164. 
 
 One of the persons appointed to 
 wait on the Duchess of Bur- 
 gundy. 
 
 Staple of Calais, 133. 
 
 Stationer, 125. 
 
 Stomachers, 122, 148, 150, 166. 
 
 The placard or stomacher, for the 
 terms are synonymous, is an 
 article of dress that frequently 
 occurs in the Inventories of the 
 Wardrobe of Henry VIII., in 
 the Harleian MS. 1419. Half a 
 yard of stuff was always allowed 
 for the king's placard, and the 
 same quantity for the stomacher, 
 whether it belonged to the king 
 or queen. The placards were 
 made of cloth of gold, cloth of 
 tissue, satin, and other rich ma- 
 terials, and were frequently adorn- 
 ed with jewels. They were used 
 with the gown as well as with 
 the coat and jacket, and were 
 sometimes laced over it, so as to 
 resemble the front of a woman's 
 stays." Strutt's Dresses and Ha- 
 bits, ii., 361, 376. Horda, iii., 
 75, 80. Among the apparel de- 
 livered to Richard III. for his 
 coronation, was "a doublet made 
 of two yerdes and a quarter, and 
 a half of blue clothe of gold 
 wroght with netts and pyne 
 apples, with a stomacher of the 
 same lined with oon ell of Hol- 
 land cloth, and oon ell of busk, 
 instede of green clothe of gold." 
 Archceologia, i., 368. 
 
 " Four stomnchers of satten of 
 2 L 
 
258 
 
 INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 carnation, crymson, white and 
 blacke coloures, every of them 
 lyned with the same satten," are 
 mentioned in an order to deliver 
 certain articles out of Henry 
 VIII.'s Great Wardrobe in 1535. 
 Archceotogia, ix., 247. I" the 
 Privy Purse Expenses of Henry 
 Vll., 6s. 8d. are said to have been 
 paid for a stomacher, and for "an 
 Estrych skynne for a stomacher, 
 I/. 4*." It appears from these 
 Accounts that stomachers were 
 sometimes also made of linen, 
 and were washed, as well as of 
 black satin. Palsgrave translates 
 u stomacher for ones brest" by 
 " estomachier." 
 
 Stirrups, 123. 
 
 Summer clothing of divers offi- 
 cers, 169. 
 
 Certain of the officers of the 
 king's household, and persons at- 
 tending on his person, were en- 
 titled to clothes termed liveries, 
 twice in the year for winter and 
 summer. 
 
 Suns embroidered on various 
 articles, 118, 137. 
 
 See CROWNS, ante. 
 Sutton, Mr., 121. 
 
 At his house the ambassadors of 
 
 France were lodged. 
 
 Surcingles, 125. 
 
 Tables, 131, 139. 
 
 Table clothes, 131, 139. 
 
 Tailloury, office of the, 146. 
 
 Tallow chandler, 121. 
 
 Tapestry, pieces of, 120, 130, 
 136, 137. 
 
 Tapettes, 143, 144. 
 
 Tapets, it appears from p 144, was 
 another name for costerings. See 
 COSTERS. In the Privy Purse 
 Expenses of Henry V11L, A. 1, 
 is an entry of 20/. " for embroider- 
 ing diverse lappets for the king's 
 new gallery," and of 31. " for fif- 
 teen tapetts made "for windows in 
 the Tower." Additional MS. 
 in the British Museum, 7100. 
 In the Inventory of Sir John 
 Fastolf's effects are " ij tapettis 
 with clowdes." Archceolngia, xxi., 
 
 p. 265. Among the effects of 
 Henry V. were numerous tapettes, 
 some with curtains, and some 
 without ; they were generally 
 made of worsted : also tapets em- 
 broidered with various histories 
 and legends.Ro/. Par/., iv., 231 , 
 et seq. 
 
 Joan Lady Bergavenny in 1 434 
 bequeathed a bed of velvet white 
 and black paled, with cushions, 
 tapetles, and forms that belong to 
 the same bed, and another bed 
 of blue baudkin, with cushions, 
 tapettes of worsted and forms, 
 &c. 
 
 Tapet hooks, 120, 121, 138, 
 145. 
 
 Hooks belonging to tapets. 
 Tartarin, 117, 129, 135,169. 
 Tassels, 117, 125, 136, 152. 
 Tawyer, a, for tawing of furs, 
 121. 
 
 " Tawer, a dresser of leather." 
 " To taw, to dress white leather, 
 commonly called alum leather, in 
 contradistinction from tan leather, 
 that which is dressed with bark." 
 Todd's Johnson. 
 
 " I tawe leather as a curry er 
 doeth, je courroye. This oxe hide 
 is not well tawed." "I/a^eathyng 
 that is styffe to make it soft, je 
 souple. It is styffe yet, but tawe 
 it a lytell " Palsgrave. In the 
 sense in which taw is used in 
 these accounts it appears to mean 
 dressing furs. 
 
 Tay, , esquire of the body, 
 164, 165. 
 
 He was appointed to wait on the 
 Duchess of Burgundy, and re- 
 ceived a complete harness and 
 materials for his jacket, on the 
 occasion. He was probably the 
 William Tay, Esq., son and heir 
 of Robert Tay, who obtained a 
 license from the king in the 23d 
 Edward IV .-Calend. Rot. Patent., 
 p. 327. 
 
 Taylor, sergeant, 155. 
 George Lufkyn. 
 
 Taylors, wages of, 120, 128. 
 
 Tentor hooks, 120, 138, 145. 
 
 Testours of sparvers, 132, 141, 
 142, 143. 
 
INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 259 
 
 Thread, 118, 125, 128, 131, 
 140, 142, 143, 144, 146, 149, 
 151. 
 
 Thorneton, William, 164. 
 Thwaytes, Thomas, 164. 
 
 Two of the persons appointed to 
 wait on the Duchess of Bur. 
 gundy. 
 
 Ticks for beds, 118, 130, 137. 
 Timbres of skins, 129, 133, 150. 
 
 A timber is forty skins. Blount. 
 
 Tippets of black velvet, 146, 
 149, 151, 166. 
 
 See p. 227. 
 
 Titus Livius, a book so called, 
 125, 152. 
 
 See BOOKS. 
 Tod, Richard, 164. 
 
 One of the persons appointed to 
 
 wait on the Duchess of Bur- 
 
 gundy. 
 
 Topfeld, John, 168. 
 
 One of the king's footmen. 
 
 Towels, 131, 138. 
 
 Travasses, or travers, 126, 132, 
 136,142, 144. 
 
 A kind of screen with curtains, 
 used in chapels, halls, and other 
 large rooms. In the account of 
 the ceremony of " creepinge to 
 the crosse" traverses are thus no- 
 ticed : 
 
 " First the king to come to the 
 chapel or closet, and there to tarry 
 in his traverse until the bishop," 
 &c. ; " and this done the queen 
 shall come downe out of her closet 
 or traverse into the chapel," &c., 
 and then go again to her closet or 
 traverse Northumberland House- 
 hold Book, ed. 1827, p. 436, 437. 
 Dr. Nicholas West, in a letter to 
 Henry VIII., says, " Wednesday 
 I went to Holyrode House wher 
 the kyng herd masse in a chapell 
 without any traverse," which the 
 editor erroneously explains to be 
 " a retired seat with lattice 
 work." Ellis's Original Letters, 
 First Series, i., 68. 
 
 " The clerke of the closette 
 prepareth all thinges for the 
 stuffe of the aultres to be redy, 
 and taking upp the traverse; 
 
 laying the cusshyns necessary for 
 the king and the chapleyns," 
 &c. Liber Niger Domus Regis 
 Edward. IT., p. 51. 
 
 " We will that our sonne in 
 his chambre and for all night 
 lyverye to be sette, the traverse 
 drawne anone upon eight of the 
 clocke ; and all persons from 
 thence to be avoided." Regula- 
 tions for the Household of Ed- 
 ward Prince of IVales, 13th 
 Edward IV., p. 28. Traverses oc- 
 cur among the effects of Henry V. 
 in the Rolls of Parliament. Cicely, 
 Duchess of York, in 1495 gave 
 her son William a traverse of 
 white sarsinet, and to her daugh- 
 ter Katherine a traverse of blue 
 satin ; and Katherine Lady Hast- 
 ings in 1503 bequeathed a tra- 
 verse of blue sarsinet. 
 
 Trays for horses, garnished, 123. 
 
 Treasurer, under, the, 141. 
 John Wood. 
 
 Trestels, 131, 138. 
 
 Trussing", 145. 
 
 See pages 228 and 246. 
 
 Underwood, Ralph, 121. 
 A wire-drawer. 
 
 Ustewaye, Thomas, 164. 
 
 One of the persons appointed to 
 wait on the Duchess of Bur- 
 gundy. 
 
 Utnard thread, 118. 
 
 Utter margin, 149, i. <?., lower 
 margin, see p. 155. 
 
 Vaghan, Thomas ap Roger, 165. 
 One of the gentlemen appointed 
 to wait on the Duchess of Bur- 
 gundy. 
 
 Valances, 132, 142, 143. 
 
 Vere, Lord George, 131. 
 
 Probably Sir George Vere, bro- 
 ther of John, thirteenth Earl of 
 Oxford, and father of John, four- 
 teenth earl. He was a person of 
 some importance, but no cause 
 has been discovered which ex- 
 plains the reason of escutcheons 
 of his arms being in the Great 
 Wardrobe. 
 
 Velvets, 115, divers kinds of, 
 2 L 2 
 
260 
 
 INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 116, 125, 129, 132, 134,146, 
 147,148, 149, 150, 151,152, 
 153,154, 155, 156, 157,158, 
 159, 161, 165, 166, 167. 
 
 Venice gold, 136, 163. 
 
 Verdours, 121, 137, 146. 
 
 A particular kind of stuff, per- 
 haps green baize ; but the word 
 has not been found in any glos- 
 sary. Lady Hastings in 1503 
 bequeathed " all the pieces of 
 hangings of verd that now hang 
 in my chamber and in the par- 
 lour." 
 
 Veysy, Alice, 127. 
 A tradeswoman. 
 
 Violet, ingrain, 169. 
 
 Vraulx, Piers de, 115. 
 
 A merchant of Mountpelier in 
 Gascony. 
 
 Wages of divers persons, 120, 
 127, 128. 
 
 Wales, Edward, Prince of, 160. 
 Afterwards King Edward V., 
 whose unhappy fate renders him 
 one of the most interesting per. 
 sonages in our history. This en- 
 try relates to the delivery of five 
 yards of white cloth of gold tis- 
 sue for a gown for him. He was 
 at that time about ten years of 
 age, having been born on the Nth 
 November 1470. 
 
 Walforde, John, 164. 
 
 Wulker, Henry, 164. 
 
 Walyngton, Osborne, 164. 
 
 These three persons were ap- 
 pointed, with several others, to 
 wait on the Duchess of Bur- 
 gundy on her visit to this coun- 
 try. 
 
 Wards, clothing of the king's, 
 
 155, 165. 
 Wardrobe, clerk of the, 169. 
 
 William Misterton. 
 * keeper and clerk of, 
 
 his fees, 128. 
 
 porter of, 170. 
 
 Thomas Stanes. 
 rent gatherer of man- 
 sions and tenements belong- 
 ing to the, 170. 
 
 Wardrobe, revenues of the, 115. 
 
 yeomen tailors of, 
 
 170. 
 
 William Dunkan, William Halle. 
 Warner, James, 164. 
 
 One of the persons appointed to 
 wait on the Duchess of Bur- 
 gundy. 
 
 Warwick, Earl of, 157, 158. 
 
 Edward Plantagenet, the king's 
 nephew, son and heir of George, 
 Duke of Clarence. This young 
 prince bore the title of Warwick, 
 probably in right of his grand- 
 mother, Anne, wife of Richard 
 Nevill, who was created Earl 
 of Warwick to him and his heirs 
 by the said Anne in 1449. He was 
 then about ten years of age, and 
 appears to have been clothed at 
 the king's expense, though the 
 only notice of him in these ac- 
 counts is the delivery of shoes 
 and boteuz for his use. An ob- 
 ject of suspicion both to Richard 
 III. and Henry VII., he was im- 
 prisoned by each; and he ultimate- 
 ly fell a victim to the jealousy of 
 the latter monarch on a charge of 
 high treason, being beheaded on 
 Tower Hill 28th November, 
 1499, aged twenty-nine. In him 
 expired the last male of the house 
 of Plantagenet. 
 
 Washing, for, 121. 
 
 Water flowers, 115, 119. 
 
 Ornaments made in the form of 
 water flowers. There is cause to 
 believe that a water flower was 
 the badge of Elizabeth Wydville, 
 queen of Edward IV., as the 
 back ground of her arms in the 
 window of the north transept of 
 Canterbury Cathedral is semee 
 of flowers gules, stemmed and 
 leaved vert. Willement's He- 
 raldic Notices of Canterbury Cathe- 
 dral, p. 35. If these flowers were 
 intended for water flowers, the use 
 of ornaments in that form is at 
 once accounted for. Water flowers 
 seem, however, to have been a 
 favourite device about this period, 
 as Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk, 
 in 1490, bequeathed her daughter 
 Marney " a chain of water- 
 flowers." 
 
INDEX AND NOTES. 
 
 261 
 
 Watermen, 122. 
 
 Wax, sealing, 128. 
 
 Weights and scales, 131. 
 
 White, William, 121. 
 A tallow-chandler. 
 
 Whitfeld, Nicholas, 164. 
 
 One of the persons appointed to 
 wait on the Duchess of Bur- 
 gundy. 
 
 Williams, Thomas, parson of St. 
 Andrews, near Baynard's 
 Castle, 127. 
 Wilshawe, John, 164. 
 Wilson, Robert, 164. 
 
 Two of the persons appointed to 
 attend on the Duchess of Bur- 
 gundy. 
 
 Windsor Castle, College of Our 
 Lady within, 156, 158, 159. 
 
 Wire drawer, a, 121. 
 
 for, 121. 
 
 Wode, John, under-treasurer, 
 140. 
 
 Wombes, 129, 134. 
 
 Query, the belly part of skins. 
 
 Woollen cloth, 129, 134. 
 
 given to make 
 
 blankets, 144. 
 
 Worsley, James, 164. 
 
 One of the persons appointed to 
 wait on the Duchess of Bur- 
 gundy. 
 
 Worsted of various assizes and 
 sorts, 117, 129, 132, 135, 
 140, 141. 
 
 Wratone, Piers, 145. 
 Yeoman of the beds. 
 
 Wydeville, Sir Edward, 164, 
 165. 
 
 One of the knights of the king's 
 body, who was appointed to at- 
 tend on the Duchess of Bur- 
 gundy. He was probably the 
 uncle* of the queen whom Dug- 
 dale says is generally but errone- 
 ously called " Lord Wydville." 
 He was keeper of the town and 
 castle of Porchester in the 19th 
 
 Edward IV., and was slain in Brit- 
 tany in July A 3, Henry VII., 
 being then governor of the Isle 
 of Wight, in which year he was 
 elected a Knight of the Garter, 
 but was never installed. Though 
 called the brother of Richard 
 Earl Rivers, it is much more pro- 
 bable that he was his younger 
 son, the Sir Edward Wydville, 
 brother of Anthony, second Earl 
 Rivers, who is mentioned in that 
 nobleman's will in 1483. Hall, 
 however, describes him as the 
 queen's uncle, and calls him a 
 " valiant captain and a bold 
 champion." Ed. 1809. 439. 
 Wyngfeld, Dame Ann, 157. 
 
 Query if Ann, daughter of Lord 
 Audley, and wife of Sir John 
 Wingneld, who was sheriff of 
 Norfolk in the 1st Richard III., 
 and 8th Henry VII., and father 
 of Sir Anthony Wingfield, K.G., 
 and ancestor of the baronets of 
 that name. 
 
 Yeoman of the crown, a, 162. 
 
 York, Richard, Duke of, 155, 
 156, 160, 161. 
 Richard Plantagenet, the king's 
 second son, who is supposed to 
 have been murdered in the Tower 
 with his brother, Edward the 
 Fifth. This unfortunate young 
 prince, who was born at Shrews- 
 bury, was about eight years 
 of age when the articles here 
 noticed were delivered for his 
 use. On the 15th January 1477, 
 he married Ann Mowbray, the 
 daughter and sole heiress of John 
 Duke of Norfolk, &c., and was 
 created Duke of Norfolk, his 
 titles being, in the 19th Edward 
 IV., " Duke of York and Nor- 
 folk, Earl Warren, Surrey, and 
 Nottingham, Earl Marshal, and 
 Marshal of England, Lord Se- 
 grave, Mowbray, and Gower, 
 Lieutenant of Ireland." He was 
 made a Knight of the Garter, 
 and one of the entries in these 
 Accounts is for the delivery of the 
 robes of the Order. 
 
ADDITIONAL NOTES. 
 
 CARS, CHAIRS, LITTERS, CHA- 
 RIOTS, and WAINS. 
 One of the very few papers of 
 any value in the Archceolugia, is 
 an essay on the early use of car- 
 riages in England, in the 20th 
 volume, by Mr. Markland, and 
 to which reference may be re- 
 commended for valuable infor- 
 mation. The only carriages no- 
 ticed in these Accounts, or in the 
 Wardrobe Accounts of Edward 
 IV., are 
 
 The Queen's Charre, for which 
 axletrees, nails, grease, stirrups, 
 and five yards of cotton russet, 
 &c., were bought in March 1503, 
 pp. 103,104. 
 
 The close car of the Queen's 
 
 wardrobe, pp. 16, 34, 46. 
 The Wain, p. 46. 
 The Chariot, p. 51. 
 The King's Car, in 1480, pp. 
 
 122, 123, 125. 
 
 A Litter of blue velvet lined 
 with sarcenet, with blue da- 
 mask cushions, and bordered 
 with satin figure, given to a 
 Spanish lady, p. 69. Iron 
 pins for the litter, p. 45. 
 A covering for a litter of 
 blue cloth of gold, with 
 blue damask, with chevrons 
 lined with crimson damask, 
 cushions, &c., p. 28. 
 On each of these vehicles a few 
 remarks will be submitted. 
 The QUEEN'S CnARE.-Though 
 sometimes confounded, a Chare 
 and a Car were very different 
 articles. A Char, Mr. Markland 
 observes, " differed in nothing 
 from the ancient horse litter, 
 than in having wheels and some- 
 times a roof : it is of very early 
 origin in this country, and was 
 probably the parent of close car- 
 riages ;" he adds, " that it was 
 rarely if ever used but on occa- 
 sions of ceremony, or in cases of 
 sickness." The Northumberland 
 Household Book, and other autho- 
 rities, justify however the belief 
 that it was always used by ladies, 
 if not by men in travelling, when 
 
 the horse litter was not employed. 
 " Horse lytersand chairs" formed 
 
 Eart of the Earl of Northumber- 
 ind's establishment in 1512. Ed. 
 1827, P- 351; and to the many 
 proofs adduced by Mr. Markland, 
 of the use and description of 
 Chares, the following, which cor- 
 roborate his statements, may be 
 acceptable. In a Chronicle writ- 
 ten in the 15th century, the word 
 is thus used, " An. 2. Hen. VI. 
 the King was borne toward his 
 modir chare, and he schriked and 
 cryed, and sprang, and wolde 
 nought be caryed forthere," 
 "and on the Moneday he was borne 
 to the Chare,' 1 "on Wednesday 
 he cam to London in his moder 
 barm in the Chare, rood through 
 London." Chronicle of London, 
 p. 112. In 1434, Joan Lady 
 Bergavenny speaks in her will 
 of " her hearse, her Chare, and 
 other convenable purveyance," 
 being made for her funeral, and 
 bequeaths to her son Sir James 
 Ormond, three of her best horses 
 in her Chare; to John his bro- 
 ther, her next best ; and to Tho- 
 mas his brother the next best after 
 him ; and to John the sixth best. 
 In 1495, Cecily Duchess of York, 
 mother of Edward the Fourth, 
 bequeathed to her daughter the 
 Duchess of Suffolk, her Chair with 
 the covering, all her cushions, horses 
 and harnesses for the same, with 
 all her palfreys. The word also 
 occurs in the account of the fu- 
 neral of Edward the Fourth in a 
 manner which illustrates the ar- 
 ticle meant by it. " make 
 
 an ymage like hym clothed in a 
 surcote with a mantell of estate, 
 the laces goodly lying on his belly, 
 his sceptre in his hand, and a 
 crowne on his hed, and so cary 
 him in a Chare open, with lights 
 and baners." " And when the 
 masse was don, and all other 
 solempnite, and that the lordes 
 were ready for to ryde, ther was 
 ordeyned a rioall Char covered 
 with blak velvet, having abive 
 that a blak clothe of gold with a 
 
ADDITIONAL NOTES. 
 
 263 
 
 white cross of gold, under that a 
 mageste clothe of blak sarsenet, 
 drawen with vj corsers, trapped 
 with blac velvet with certeyn 
 scochens hetyn upon sarsenet 
 betyn with fine gold. Apon the 
 fore horse and the thill horse sate 
 ij Charetmen, and on the iiij oder 
 horse sat iiij henshmen." Archee- 
 logia, i. 349, 351. It may be 
 easily imagined that Chares ad- 
 mitted of ornament, and were 
 often very splendid ; and in the 
 preparations for the reception of 
 Katherine of Arragon, in 1502, 
 it was ordered that Five charres 
 diversely apparelled for the ladies 
 and gentlemen, be ready, whereof 
 one of the chief must be richly 
 apparelled and garnished for the 
 Princess. 
 
 But the most minute descrip- 
 tions of Chairs occur in the Ac- 
 count of Stuff delivered for the 
 Coronation of Richard III. 
 
 " The queen's 4 chiefe chare' 
 was covered aforehand with cloth 
 of gold crymysyn of the Kyngs 
 own store ; v paire of draughts 
 were'newe covered with xxx yerds 
 of crymysyn cloth of gold," and 
 " iij sadels for the same chief 
 chare" were also " covered in vj 
 yerds of crymysyn cloth of gold." 
 " For the garnysshing of the 
 said chief chare" were used 
 '' iij unces of rybari of venys 
 gold, and ix unces j quartern of 
 ryban of sylk, and ij Ib. ij unces 
 frenge of ' silk purpull." The 
 body of the second chare was 
 " covered in vij yerds di of crymy- 
 syn velvet, v pair of draughts 
 for the same" were " covered in 
 xxx yerds of crymysyn velvet :" 
 the upper covering consisted of 
 " xiij yerds of velvet crymysyn," 
 and fct for the lyning of the chare 
 harneys, for the lyning of the 
 second chare within ; and for iij 
 covertours of the said chief chare, 
 the second chare, and the third 
 chare, xxxix yerds and a quarter 
 c oths" were delivered out of the 
 Wardrobe. The materials for the 
 third " chare" are then enume- 
 rated, but differ little from the 
 preceding : " iij cered cloths" are 
 however noticed, as having been 
 
 used " for to cover the said chief 
 second and third chares for the 
 weder," also materasses " to lye 
 in the bothams of them," and 
 " for the garnysshing of the for- 
 saide chares xlij Ib. of small gilt 
 nailles, and xc grete gilt nailles." 
 Antiquarian Repertory^ i., 43, 
 el seq. 
 
 THE CAR was, according to Pals- 
 grave, in his Esclarcissement de 
 la Langue Francoyse, printed in 
 1530, " a lytell carte with two 
 wheles," which agrees with the 
 notices of Cars in these accounts. 
 They were evidently covered 
 with bare hides, and were used 
 for the conveyance of light goods, 
 for which purpose one was at- 
 tached to the office of the Ward- 
 robe of the Queen's robes ; and 
 in 1480, the King's carmen were 
 paid a reward " for awaiteng 
 uppon' certen of the King's 
 books, put in the King's car," 
 p. 125. Whether Cars were 
 ever used for conveying indivi- 
 duals of rank is uncertain ; and 
 from Mr. Markland's not noticing 
 them, it would seem that he con- 
 sidered them merely as a kind 
 of cart, and consequently as not 
 coming within his object. That 
 a Car and Charre were distinct 
 articles, is also shown by this 
 entry in the Northumberland 
 Household book, " My Lord usith 
 ande acustomyth to pay yerly owt 
 of his Lordship's coffures to him 
 that standith chargede with the 
 kepynge of his Lordshipis cariages 
 yerly, viz. Horslyters, c/iayers, 
 close carres, charryats, and cartis." 
 Ed. 1827, P- 351. " My Lords 
 carre of Arom " is mentioned in 
 the same page. It is remarkable 
 that Palsgrave should give no 
 other explanation of chair than 
 " chayre to sytte in," whilst 
 car, cart and charyett are thus 
 noticed : 
 
 " Carre, a carte, chariot. 
 Carre, a lytell carte with two 
 
 wheles, char. 
 Carte, charette. 
 Charret, curre. 
 Charryet, chariot." 
 And it is equally singular that 
 the Promptorium Parvulorum in 
 
264 
 
 ADDITIONAL NOTES. 
 
 the Harleian MS. 221, which 
 was compiled in 1440, contains 
 no other explanation of chare, 
 than Currus, Quadriga, which it 
 appears was synonymous with 
 charyett, whilst car and cart 
 seem to have been deemed the 
 same thing : 
 
 " Carre, Carte, carrus, currus. 
 Carre, or lytylle carte that oone 
 hors drawythe, Monotosinus. 
 Cath. (i. e. Catholicon of John 
 of Genoa.) 
 Chayere, cathedra. 
 Chare, currus, quadriga. 
 Charyett, supra in chare. 
 THE LITTER, one of the most 
 ancient modes of travelling, was 
 continued for some time after the 
 introduction of coaches, and is 
 well described by Mr. Markland. 
 He says, 
 
 " Perhaps the chief distinction 
 between a horse litter and a 
 4 chare,' in point of construc- 
 tion, consisted in the former 
 being without wheels. In one of 
 the illustrations to Mr. Johnes's 
 translation of Monstrelet, the 
 plate, No. 7> (entitled ' the Entry 
 of Eleanor of Austria, Queen to 
 Francis I. into Toulouse,') seems 
 intended to convey the represen- 
 tation of a litter lashed on the 
 backs of two horses, one before 
 and the other behind, and covered 
 by a canopy carried by eight at- 
 tendants. 
 
 " It may be further observed, 
 that the litter appears to have 
 been the more dignified carriage, 
 and was generally used on state 
 occasions only as a conveyance 
 for a single personage of high 
 distinction ; whilst the chare was 
 employed on journeys as well as 
 in processions, and usually ac- 
 commodated several persons of 
 inferior rank. Thus on the de- 
 parture of Queen Margaret, 
 daughter of Henry VII., to Scot- 
 land, she is described as riding on 
 a " faire palfrey," but after her 
 was " convayd by two footmen 
 one varey riche litere, borne by 
 two faire coursers varey nobly 
 drest, in the wich litere the sayd 
 qwene was borne in the intrynyof 
 the good townes, or otherways to 
 
 her good playsur." Archeeologia, 
 xx., 447. 
 
 In the " Ordinance for the re- 
 ceaving of a Queene, and the co- 
 ronation of her," temp' Henry 
 VII., A. 1494, a litter is thus 
 described : 
 
 " A Litter must be ordayned 
 for her, covered with white da- 
 maske or white cloth of gould, 
 and the horses trapped with the 
 same saddle, and with five cushens 
 of the same sute, twoe longe and 
 three shorte ; and in the bottom 
 of the litter a materis of white, 
 with damaske or white cloth of 
 gould with white tartarone 
 alofte." p. 123. 
 
 In an account of the stuff de- 
 livered for the coronation proces- 
 sion of Anne, Queen of Richard 
 III., the "lyter" in which she 
 rode from the Tower to West- 
 minster is described as having 
 been " covered in xvj yerds arid 
 iij quarters of white cloth of 
 gold, and lyned within with iij 
 yerds of white damask of sylk 
 garnyssht with iij unces di' of 
 ryban of gold of venys, and ix 
 unces of ryban of silk, and ij Ib. 
 xij unces of frenge of white silk." 
 The sadels of the same liter were 
 also covered with " white cloth 
 of gold," and a matras put in the 
 bothom in the same liter was 
 " covered in ij yerds di' and quar- 
 ter of white damask and a cered 
 cloth ;" two trappours for two 
 coursours conveying the said liter 
 are also noticed. Antiquarian 
 Repertory, i., 43. 
 A CHARIOT was unquestionably 
 a large waggon drawn by six 
 or seven horses of the stronger 
 kind, called on that account 
 Ck large trotting horses ;" the 
 chariot men or waggoners who 
 accompanied it, had a nag or 
 smaller horse allowed them to 
 ride by its side. Northumber- 
 land Household Book, Archaeologia, 
 xx. 449, 450. Privy Purse Ex- 
 penses of Henry FIJI. p. 309. 
 
 In the Ordinance of the House- 
 hold of George, Duke of Cla- 
 rence, in the 8th Edward IV., 
 1469, the following provisions are 
 made for the Chair, Litter, and 
 
ADDITIONAL NOTES. 
 
 265 
 
 chariot, " v carre horses and ij 
 keepers'; vij charriotte horses." 
 
 For the Princess, v coursers for 
 the chaire, and to them iij groomes 
 with iij hakneys ; ij coursers for 
 the litter, and to them j groome 
 with one hakneye. p. 99, 100. 
 A WAIN does not require to be 
 described. The hire of three wayns 
 for carrying three tons of beer, &c. 
 from Burrowbridge to Topciyf in 
 1512, was eight pence for each 
 wayne. Northumberland House- 
 hold Book, p. 138. Sir Thomas 
 Lyttelton, Knight, one of the 
 Judges of the Common Pleas, 
 bequeathed in 1481 to his wife, 
 his best plough with all apparyl 
 thereto, .ten of his best plough 
 oxen, and his best wain, and to 
 William Lyttelton, his second 
 son, his second best wain, two 
 ploughs and ten oxen. 
 
 COTTON, SIR ROGER, 189. 
 
 Sir Roger Cotton was Master of 
 the Horse to the Queen, and was 
 probably the husband of Margaret 
 Lady Cotton so often mentioned 
 in these Accounts. Leland's Col- 
 lectanea, iv. 239. Both he and 
 
 her were present at her Majesty's 
 Coronation. Hid., 232, 233. 
 
 GREY, LADY KATHERINE, 199. 
 
 This Lady was one of the Queen's 
 Ladies of Honor. At her Ma- 
 jesty's Coronation it is said that 
 she and Mrs. Ditton went under 
 the table, where they sat on either 
 side of the Queen's feet all the 
 dinner time. Ibid., 226, 233. 
 GURDEN, LADY, 200. 
 
 Probably Lady Katherine Gordon, 
 daughter of the Earl of Huntley, 
 and widow of Perkiii Warbeck. 
 Lady Katherine was present at 
 the betrothment of the Princess 
 Margaret to the King of Scots, in 
 St. Paul's, in January, 1502. 
 Ibid., 260. It appears from the 
 notice of her in page 54, that she 
 was attached to the Queen's per- 
 son, and attended her into Ox- 
 fordshire in November in that 
 year. 
 
 KATHERINE, LADY, 94. 
 
 The Princess Katherine, youngest 
 daughter of the Queen, in giving 
 birth to whom her Majesty died. 
 See KING'S DAUGHTER. 
 
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