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
Lyle Richard, 233.
Lylgrave William, embroiderer, 128.
Lynney, one of the king's children of the stable, 29.
Lyveretts [Leverets] brought, 225.
Maiohu, Pilgrim, 165.
Malte John, 222, _sæpe_, 223.
Mancyon Andrew, 226.
Mantway, Marquess of, 280.
Apparently Frederick II. Duke of Mantua, who died in 1540. He
sent Henry a present of mares in December, 1532, and whose servant
received 46_l._ 13_s._ 4_d._ "in reward" for bringing them.
Mares brought, 280.
Mariner, to a, 274.
Marion, the blade smith, or cutler, 108, _bis_, 190.
Mark, of the Privy Chamber, 11, 14, 18, 38, 40, 44, 53, _bis_, 61,
73, 75, 78, 84, 86, 98, 100, 121, 124, 126, 138, 139, 153, 165,
170, 173, 183, 197, _bis_, 200, 206, 219, _bis_, 237, _bis_, 259,
261, 262, 264, 265, 281.
This person, who, it is manifest, was wholly supported at the
king's expense, and who, it may be consequently inferred, was
one of his favourite minions, was the notorious Mark Smeton,
a musician, who was accused of criminal familiarity with Anne
Boleyn, and upon whose cowardly perjury, chiefly, that victim was
condemned. The best account of him is that given by Cavendish:
"My father a carpenter, and laboured with his hand
With the swett of his face he purchast his lyvyng
For small was his _rent_, much lesse was his land;
My mother in a cottage used dayly spynnyng
Loo in what mysery was my begynnyng
Till that gentle prynce, kyng of this realme
Toke me de stercore et origens pauperem
And beyng but a boy clame upp the hygh stage
That bred was of naught, and brought to felicite
Knew not myself, waxt proud in my corage
Dysdayned my father, and wold not him see,
Wherfore nowe Fortune by hir mutabilitie
Hathe made so cruelly hir power for to stretch
For my presumption, to dye like a wretch."
As his conduct was as dastardly as his birth was mean, he was put
in irons when arrested, and afterwards hanged, whilst the other
prisoners were beheaded.
Marmalade brought, 109, 117, 172, 224.
Marriages, paid to persons towards their, 17, 23, 27, 131, 134, 138,
143, 208, 209, 218, 251, 277.
Marshal of the King's Hall, to the, 191.
Mary Guylford, the king's ship, 18.
This vessel was built in 1524, and was one hundred and forty
tons burthen. In November, 1526, she was at Bourdeaux.--Ellis's
_Original Letters_, Second Series, v. i. pp. 219, 220.
Mary, Princess, the, 13, 55, 70, 98, 127, 146, _bis_, 148, 162, 183,
202, _bis_, 221, 262, 281.
----, to a physician for attending her, 146, 202.
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