----, for the expenses of keeping the, at Hamptoncourt, 194. ---- cases, for, 199. Clockmaker, to Vincent the, 93. ----, to the, 94, 245, 252. ---- of Westminster, to the, 58, 68, 82, 120, 197. ----, paid the French, 189. ----, to a, 215, _bis_. About the reign of Henry the Eighth clocks became a favourite article of luxury, and these entries shew the heavy sums which that monarch spent in the purchase of them. At the royal palaces of Hampton Court and Westminster it seems a person was specially appointed to regulate the clocks. "We have the price of a clock at a very early period, anno 1292, _novum orologium magnum in Ecclesiâ (Cantuariensi) pretium_, 30_l._"--Dart's Cant. App. p. 3. "Mr. Walpole has in his possession a clock, which appears by the inscription to have been a present from Henry VIII. to Anne Boleyn. Poynet, Bishop of Winchester, gave an astronomical clock to the same king.--Buckman's _His. Invent._ vol. i. p. 454."--M. Closet, the King's, a gelding for, 9. ----, Westby, Clerk of the King's, 14, 24, 90, 174, 282. ----, to the Clerk of the King's, for necessaries, for the, 90. Cloths, of Embroidery, 15. ---- paid for, to the Taylor, for Sexton's coat, 25. ----, of silver, plain, a piece of, 82. ----, of gold, black and tawney, a piece of, 82. ----, of gold, for, 133, 188, 190. ----, of gold tissue, for, 198. Coats, for, 38, 40, 49, 66, 81, 95, 98, 119, 126, 132, 147, 225, 240, _bis_, 277, 281. ----, for making, 39. ---- of Kendall, 42, 51, 139. ----, livery, for, 130, 141, 142, 152, 162, 174, 175, 181, 198, 233, 250, 251, 252, 259, 260, 279, 281, 287. Cobham Lord, 175. George Brook, Lord Cobham, K.G. He succeeded to that dignity in 1529, and died in 1558. Cocks, the footman, 9, 19, 126, 160, 188, 278. Cofferer, Master to the, 30, 228. Coffer maker, to the, 217. ----, _i. e._ box, 37. ----'s, trussing, for a pair of, 49, 81. ----, two, belonging to the king, brought to Westminster, 208. Coffer of Cypress wood, a, 184.