---- in Greenwich Park, paid for oats and hay for the, 17, 86, 213. Delving for, 39, 50. See DIGGERS. Denmark, to the king of Denmark's secretary, 142. Denny Sir Thomas, 77. Depeche, i. e. dispatch, to pay, 44. Deptford, 31. Deptford, the smith of, 40. ----, to the hermit of, 150, _bis_. Derby Earl of, 168, 256. Edward Stanley, third Earl of Derby, to which title he succeeded in 1521, and died in 1574. The first entry is of 3_l._ 6_s._ 8_d._ paid at the christening of his lordship's son on the 4th October, 1531. The Earl had issue four sons, but as the date of their births does not occur in the peerages, it is impossible to say to which this item referred. Desk a, garnished with laten and gold, 123. Dessefort Anthony, a brush merchant, 243. Dials for, 65, 91. Dice, money given to the king to play at, and money lost by him at, 20, 32, 243, _bis_, 246, 248, 267, 268, 270, 271, 278. Dice has been a favourite amusement in this country for many centuries, and Mr. Singer, in his interesting volume on Playing Cards, gives many curious particulars on the subject. Under the word "Cards" _ante_, extracts from the statutes restricting the use of them in the reign of Edward IV. have been inserted, to which the following from the Rolls of Parliament, of the 2 Hen. IV. 1410, may be an acceptable addition. The Commons prayed that servants and labourers who offended against the statute prohibiting them to play at "Coites, _dys_, gettre de Peer, Kayles, and autres tieux Jeues," should be enforced; to the enactments in which that Parliament added a punishment of six days, whilst such Mayors as neglected to enforce it were to be fined 20_s._ and Constables 6_s._ 8_d._--Vol. iii. p. 643. In the 17 Ed. IV. 1477, a statute was enacted prohibiting "newe ymagined pleys called Closshe, Keyles, half Bowle, Handyn and Handowte, and Queke borde," it was recited that "the Lawes of the Lond" forbad "any unlawful plays, as _Dise_, Coyte, Fote ball, and such like Plays, but that every person myghty and able in bodie should use his bowe by cause that the defense of this lond stondeth much by archers." Diet [food] of geldings, for the, 107, 114. ---- for little Guilliam's, 114. Dieting of hawks, for the, 290. ---- of horses, for the, 32. Diggers, paid to, 207. Disport, to "disport," i. e. for pocket money, 98, _bis._ Ditch and hedge, for making a, at Greenwich Park near the Lodge, 194. Dobinson John, 91, 129, 175, 204, 216, 247, 279. A person attached to the stable, probably a groom. Dodisworth Walter, 160, 162, 165, 167, 171, 176, 180, 181, 187, 194, 197, 205, 210, 215, 222, 226, 229, 236, 241, 244, 246, 251, 265, 275, 281, 282. A huntsman. ---- William, his funeral expenses paid, 141. Does brought, 7, 42, 92, _bis_, 94, 107.