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
Probably the individual who is described in an inscription in
Stepney Church as a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber, and as having
married Avise, the widow of Nicholas Gibson. See _Weever's Funeral
Monuments_, 4to, p. 309. He enjoyed an annuity from the king of
20_l._
Knight, Doctor, 118.
Knives, for, 51, 174.
----, and sheathes of velvet, with girdles to them, 161.
Knives, paid for girdles and a chape for, 168.
Knives were worn at a very early period. In the 6 Edw. III. John
Lord Grey of Rotherfeild, is stated to have been committed to
prison for drawing his knife partly out of its sheath on William
Lord Zouch, of Ashby. _Rot. Parl._ vol. ii. p. 656. _Long knives_,
or other suspicious arms, were forbidden to be worn in the city of
London or Westminster in 1351 during the sitting of Parliaments
_Ibid._ p. 235.^{a} In 1363 the _knives_ of trades-people and
artificers were prohibited from being adorned with gold or silver,
or precious stones. _Ibid_, p 278,^{b} 281,^{b} and in the 3 Edw.
IV. _knives_ were forbidden from being imported, _Ibid._ vol. 5,
p. 507. Thomas Earl of Warwick, in 1400, speaks of _knives_ for
the King's coronation in his will; and Chaucer's allusion to the
Sheffield whittle is well known,
"A Shefeld thwitel bare he in his hose."
Among the expenses of Ochin and Martyr, in 1547, before cited, is a
payment of 2_s._ 8_d._ for "two payer of _Tunbridge knives_." The
knife was placed in the girdle.
Labourers, to, 30, 39, 84, 94, 205.
Lace, yellow, for, 68.
Lampreys, baked, brought, 9, 28, 29, 95, 103, 106, 108, 117, 188,
193, 195.
---- salt, brought, 111.
---- pies brought, 184.
Lamhethe, [Lambeth,] 203.
Launcelot, a child of the stable, 29.
Langille William, the king's fletcher, 125.
Langey John, jeweller, 103.
Langley Park, to the keeper of, 246.
----, 244, 246, _bis_, 248.
----, paid for repairs at, 249.
Lanthony, [in Monmouthshire,] Prior of, 49, 53, 100, 108, 195.
Lanthony Cheses, brought, 220.
Lantrissen in Glamorganshire, 69.
Larder Thomas, 125.
Larenno Cardinal de, 264.
----, money lost to him at dice and tennis, 268, _bis_.
----, to his singers, 269.
The Cardinal of Lorrain. Tennis and dice seem almost as unsuitable
to a Cardinal as a band of singers. On the 28th of October, 1532,
when Henry ordered 9_l._ 6_s._ 8_d._ to be given to the French
king's jester, and 4_l._ 13_s._ 4_d._ to the Cardinal's singers,
Hall states that the king of Navarre, the Cardinal of Lorrain, and
the Great Master and Admiral of France, dined with Henry at Calais;
and these payments were evidently made for the amusement which they
had afforded the party.
Large John, 90.
Lasala Nowell de, a minstrel, 170.
Last, and a line, for a, 48.
Query, if not a mistake of the writer for mast and a line. See MAST.
Laten, a desk garnished with, 123.
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