The Privy Purse Expenses of King Henry VIII from November MDXXIX, to December MDXXXIINicolas, Nicholas Harris, Sir
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The Privy Purse Expenses of King Henry VIII from November MDXXIX, to December MDXXXII
Nicolas, Nicholas Harris, Sir
Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547; Prices -- Great Britain; Royal households -- Great Britain
6_d._ on another, "in reward;" whilst Henry gave the French king's
jester at Calais the large sum of 9_l._ 6_s._ 8_d._ on the day
the King of Navarre, the Cardinal of Lorrain, &c. dined with him.
According to the ordinances of the Royal Household made at Eltham,
in the 17th Henry VIII. the king's Fool was allowed one hackney.
Footmen paid to the, 25, 254.
Footman, to one that "sued to be" a, 155.
Ford William, keeper of the king's mastives, 7, 186.
Forde ----, 269, 282.
Forfeited horses paid for, 268.
This singular entry must be left to the reader's superior sagacity.
It clearly refers in some way to the "riding boys," or as they are
there called, "children of the stable," but its meaning has escaped
the editor's research.
Forked heads for the king's cross-bow, 67.
"See a former remark. They were for the arrows shot from the
cross-bow".--M.
Forms, tables, &c. for, 220.
Foster Master, 214.
Fowl, paid for keeping the, in the garden at Greenwich, 206.
Fowler, 115.
---- James, keeper of the manor of Greenwich, 78, 127.
---- John, 209.
Fox, Master Edward, 73.
The king's almoner, and Provost of Cambridge in 1532. He was
elected bishop of Landaff in 1535, and died in May 1538.
Fox a, brought, 80.
France King of, notices about his children, 59, _bis_.
Francis the first, king of France, his wife and children, were
taken prisoners by the emperor at the siege of Pavia in 1525. The
queen and the children remained in his hands until 1529, when it
was agreed by the treaty of Cambray that they should be delivered
to Francis on the payment of two millions of crowns. The money was
soon raised, and Hall gives us a circumstantial account of the
execution of the treaty, from which it appears that the Spanish
commissioners met the Great Master of France at Bayonne, in March
1530, but the former objected to part of the coin on account of
the weight, and therefore removed the children from Fountroby
into Spain. The affair being thus delayed from March until June,
Henry sent Sir Francis Bryan to pledge himself as security for the
payment, and on the 1st of July queen Eleanor and the children were
placed in the Great Master's hands. In July, Hall adds, "fyers were
made in London and divers other places for the same consideracion
and cause;" and it is worthy of remark, as a curious example of the
change in the national policy, that precisely the same rejoicings
took place when they fell into the emperor's power after the battle
of Pavia a few years before. _Hall_, pp. 693, 772. From these
accounts we learn that news of the event reached London on the 8th
of July, 1530, by a Frenchman dispatched from the Great Master, and
that on the 9th another messenger, probably from Sir Francis Bryan,
arrived with similar information. Each of them received the same
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