Among the few redeeming traits in Henry the Eighth's character, was a love of learning, to which each of these entries bears additional testimony. Besides occasional gifts to Scholars of Oxford, Cambridge and Paris, and which in three years amounted to 83_l._ 13_s._ 4_d._ he also gave exhibitions, the whole expences of which in the same period were 63_l._ 6_s._ 8_d._ He moreover supported two scholars at St. Paul's School, the charges for which were 30_l._ 3_s._; making, if 13_l._ 9_d._ paid to the master of that school in January 1531, be included, a total of 190_l._ 12_s._ spent from November 1529 to December 1532, for the encouragement and advancement of erudition; a trifling sum, it is true, when compared with recent instances of Royal munificence, but important when the value of money, and the manners of the times are considered. Science, paid to a jeweller to be employed in his, 156. The use of the word _Science_ in this sense is rather curious. Scot John, 23, 39, 87, 108, 132, 182, 205, 217, 277, 281. A Mercer or Taylor. ---- Thomas, 173. ---- Richard, 194. A gratuity of 20_s._ to him in consideration of his having been robbed. Scotland, to a gentleman of, 56. Scottish Ambassadors, money given to the, 250. ---- Gentleman, to the, 9, _bis_. Scowring the new pale in Greenwich Park, 230. Scrivan', Peter the, 23. A Scrivener, who had probably been employed in transcribing; the sum paid to him was considerable, namely, 14_l._ 9_s._ 4_d._ Scrivener of London, to a, 84. Scullery, to one of the, 252. Scut John, 6. Sele, [_i. e._ a Seal] brought, 37, 46. Seal Great, to a poor woman to purchase out, the, 148. Apparently a gift of 20_s._ 4_d._ to pay the fee of affixing the great seal to some instrument affecting her interests. Secretary Master, 26, 77, 144. Probably the Principal Secretary of State, but it is not certain who filled that office, in 1530 and 1531. Cromwell was not regularly appointed to it until 1534; but it is most likely that he was the person so designated in these accounts. Sergeant of the Cellar, 64. See CELLAR. ----, Porter, 256. Apparently Edmund Knyvett, who certainly held that office in August 1519. See _Testamenta Vetusta_, p. 568. ---- Apothecary, 146. Servants, [_i. e._ Falconers, Huntsmen, &c.] wages and expences of, from January to March 1529, 284 to 289. Service, to a German that offered his, to the king, 117. Sets, for those lost by the king at Greenwich, 143. Sets meant either games or wagers. Sexton Philip, the fool, 5, 11, _bis_, 13, 17, 21, 24, 25, 31, 34, 38, 45, 61, _bis_, 73, 75, _bis_, 80, _bis_, 86, 120, _bis_, 138, _bis_, 139, 164, 168, 183, 193, 199, 215, 217, 231, 238, 247, 265, 271, 274, 281. See FOOL. Seymour Sir Edward, 5, 17, 36.