Stalking Gelding, for meat for a, 132. ---- Horse, 162, 194. ---- Ox the, brought, 112. A Stalking Horse, Archdeacon Nares informs us, was "sometimes a real horse, sometimes the figure of one cut out and carried by the sportsman for the following purposes. On being found that wild fowl which would take early alarm at the appearance of man, would remain quiet when they saw only a horse approaching, advantage was taken of it, for the shooter to conceal himself behind a real or artificial horse, and thus to get within shot of his game." In the _Gentleman's Recreation_ both kinds of stalking horses, and the manner of using them, are fully explained. All these entries on the subject seem to refer to a real horse, and we learn from one of them that an ox was employed for the same purpose. A _stalking horse_ occurs in the list of Henry's horses in the _Ordinances made at Eltham_, in the 17th Henry VIII. p. 200. Standards, for carrying Plate, 43. The word is used in a similar sense by Cavendish. "The King caused to be sent him three or four cart loads of stuff, and most part thereof was locked in great _standards_ (except bed and kitchen stuff) wherein was both plate, and rich hangings, and chapel stuff." Ed. _Singer_, 1825, vol. i. p. 224. Steel Plate, bundells of brought, 87. Stem and stem lock for the boat, 211. Stephen, the hardwareman, 31. ----, the King's embroiderer, 124. Steward Lord, 61. Stocks, [_i. e._ Stockings] for pairs of, 94, 237. Stonar Robert, keeper of Waltham Forest, 66, 164, 172, 235. Stonar Sir Walter, 146. Stone bows, strings for the, 19. Stone, [in Kent] 266, 274. Stony Stratford, 160. Stools, for tables, forms, and, 220. Strawberries brought, 45, 141, 147, 221. Strene the, brought, 151. This entry almost defies explanation. The only instance in which _strene_ occurs in the Glossaries is synonymously with _strain_, a race, descent, lineage. Hence it might, however unlikely, mean a pedigree; but it is more probable that it was kind of _strainer_. Strings for cross bows, 19. String-maker for bows, his bill paid, 180. Stubbes Doctor, 6, 23, 36, 114. Stuff bought, 212, 213. Stuff, paid for fetching, 122, _bis_, 128, 132, 139, 159, 177, _bis_, 208, 269, 274. Stuff, for keeping the Cardinals, 126. See CARDINAL. ---- to a clock-maker, for such as the King bought, 215, _bis_. ---- paid for, 217, _bis_. ---- delivered by the keeper of the Robes for the Marchioness of Pembroke, 254. Sturgeon a, brought, 43, _bis_, 176, 226. Subdean of the King's Chapel, 93, 200, 260. Sucado brought, 184, 224. Sugar brought, 176. Suffolk Duke of, 15, 18, 24, 33, 64, 115, 154, 245, 251, 268. Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, Henry's brother-in-law. Sun, crowns of the, 126. See CROWNS. Surgery, for, 245.