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
Trenchers, paid for, 14, 108, 191, 243.
Trimmed, caps trimmed and garnished with gold buttons, 33.
Trimming, paid for trimming horns, 184.
----, the King's barge, 44, 45.
----, a garden, paid for, 177.
----, the King's gun, for, 194.
These entries are inserted under the word _Trimmed_, or _Trimming_,
to shew the varied sense in which it was used.
Troughton Robert, 234.
Trussing Coffers, for a pair of, 49.
Packing Chests.
Truss, cotton brought to truss plate, 190.
To pack it so that it might not be injured by friction.
Tunbridge, 250.
Turkesses, for, 51.
_i. e._ Turquoises, which were then considered as valuable gems.
Twelfth Night, money given the King on, for play, 15.
Tyldesley William, Groom of the Chamber, 157.
Tylson James, 65.
Tymb' of Sables, brought, 105.
Tythes, paid for, 214.
Vanryketson David, 235.
Vaughan ----, Groom of the Chamber, 160.
Vellum, for, 137.
Velvet, purple bought, for Lady Anne Boleyn, 4.
---- for covering Mass Books, 24.
----, crimson upon velvet, 189.
Perhaps a kind of double velvet.
----, black, for a cloak, 222.
Venecian, paid to a, 157.
Venice, to a post from, 56.
Venison brought, 140.
Vestments, paid for making, 129.
Vice Chamberlain, to the, 283.
Apparently Sir Anthony Wingfield.
Villiers Christopher, 95.
Vincent, the King's painter, 44, 91. See PAINTER.
----, the Clockmaker, 93.
Viols, to three of the, 260.
A payment of 3_l._ 7_s._ 6_d._ to three persons who played on
the viols. Mr. Ayrton observes, "A chest of viols was a set of
instruments comprising a treble, a tenor, and bass viol, or what we
now denominate a violin, viola, and violoncello." Ellis's _Original
Letters_, Second Series, vol. i. p. 272.
Virginals, for, 37, _ter_, 110.
A Virginal is thus explained by Mr. Ayrton. "The Virginal was that
which afterwards took the name of Spinnet, and differed from it
only in shape. The Spinnet was triangular, the Virginal oblong,
like our small piano fortes." Ellis's _Original Letters_, Second
Series, vol. i. p. 272. The item in p. 37, describes the different
kinds of Virginals with their respective prices; two pair in a box
with four stops, cost 3_l._; two pair in one coffer cost 3_l._, and
a little pair, 20_s._ For five pairs, on another occasion, 8_l._
6_s._ 8_d._ were paid.
Upshot, for one upshotte that he wanne from the King, 143.
In the sense in which _Upshot_ is there used, it seems to mean a
wager or rather stake, or sum played for.
Upton, the Church of St. Lawrence at, 36.
Vyne the, 151, 152.
The seat of Lord Sandys.
Wading, a pond for, 235.
Waders for, at Greenwich, 263.
Wafery, yeoman of the, 139.
Wager in hunting, money lost in a, 162, 163.
----, a curious, won, 263.
Waits of Canterbury, to the, 266, 274.
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