Afterwards the King's brother-in-law, and Duke of Somerset, the celebrated Protector of England. These entries show the familiar manner in which he was treated by Henry as early as 1529. The first item is of a payment to him of 337_l._ upon a reckoning between His Majesty and himself, and the second and third to money lost to him by the King at play. On one occasion Sir Edward won of Henry the large sum of 376_l._ 10_s._ Seymour, Robert, 273. It has not been ascertained who this individual was. The entry relating to him is a payment of 4_l._ 13_s._ 4_d._ which he had won of the King at Tables. Shafts for, 47, 265. Shalms, brought to the king, 26. ---- for Tenor and Treble, 86. A Shalm is explained by Mr. Ayrton, whose professional reputation renders him excellent authority on such a subject, "to be the base Cornet." Ellis's _Original Letters_, Second series, vol. i. p. 273. Bishop Percy informs us that "it was a wind instrument like a pipe, with a swelling protuberance in the middle:" [Illustration] "Item, my Lord useth and accustometh yearly when his Lordship is at home to gyf to iij of the Kyngs _Shames_ when they come to my Lord yerly x s." _Northumberland Household Book_, p. 341. Cavendish says, when the king of France came, "he danced, and others with him, the most part of that night; my Lord's minstrels played there so excellently all that night, that the _shalme_ (whether it were with extreme labour of blowing, or with poisoning, as some judged, because they were more commended and accepted with the king than his own, I cannot tell,) but he that played upon the _shalme_, an excellent man in that art, died within a day or twain after." Ed. Singer, 1825, vol. i. p. 114. Perhaps the earliest drawing of a Shalm extant, is in the Illustrations to the copy of Froissart, in the British Museum, Royal MS. 18 E. I & II. Sheathes for knives, of velvet, paid for, 161. Shepey, paid the watermen for rowing the King to, 262. ----, 265, 266. Shere Robert, keeper of the beagles, 17, 24, 39, 50, 54, 59, 75, 79, _bis_, 89, 94, 111, 126, 136, 149, 166, 167, 177, 187, 194, 198, 204, 213, 219, 231, 246, 250, 260, 275, 287, 290. ---- John, keeper of the beagles, 125. Sic in MS. but query, if not a mistake for _Robert Shere_. Ship, paid for discharging the, that brought Cardinal Wolsey's goods, 112. ----s, paid when the King viewed his, 260.