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
----, armoury at, 41.
---- Park, for land bought to enlarge the, 46, 52.
----, 49, 53, 54, 55, 58, 63, 67, _bis_, 80, 140, 145, _bis_, 146,
147, 148, 245, 249, _bis_, 250, 253.
Windsor, to the Choristers of, 55, 140, 253. See SPURS.
---- Forest, to Rutter for his "rowme" in, 286. See ROWME.
Wine white, of Galiake, paid for, 24. See GALIACK.
----, Sodd, _i. e._ boiled wine brought, 109. See SODDE.
----, for hogsheads and tierces of, 98, 99.
----, paid for the king's, 155, 231.
---- Porters, for laying in wine, to the, 182, 190.
----, two bottles of new, brought, 276.
The following memoranda of the wines used in England at that and
earlier periods, may perhaps be acceptable. In the _Vision of
Pierce Plowman_, we find
"Whyt wine of Osey, and red wine of Gascoyne
Of the Renne, and of the Rochell the rosted to defye,"
mentioned; and in the _Northumberland Household Book_ is an entry
of "x ton ij hogisheds of Gascoigne wyne, for the expensys of
my house for an hole yere, viz. iij ton of Rede wyne, v tonn of
Claret wyne, and ij ton and ij hogisheds of white wyne after
iiij_l._ xiij_s._ iiij_d._ the ton."--Ed. 1827, p. 6. In Lodge's
_Illustrations_, vol. i. p. 17, Thomas Allen, in a letter to
the Earl of Shrewsbury in 1516, says, "This day I trust to send
towards Wyndfield ij tonne wyne; wherof iiij hogshedd claret, ij
red wyne, on whit wyne, and th' oder punchin freche wyne. If hit
be well carried, I trust your Lordship will lik hit well. Hit will
cost v_li._ vj_s._ viii_d._ the tonne, wherof the weynes must have
for their labour xx_s._;" and in another letter, dated in 1517,
Allen informs the Earl; "I have bought iij ton of new Gascon wyne;
weather your Lordship woll have new or olde sent downe I cannot
tell. Your Lordship comands also iij hogsheds of wyne of ----
or of wyne of Graves, and iij hogshedds of suche Frenche white
wyne as ye had last yer of John Eston to be send; her is non yet
com, neder, as Alen Kyng sheweth unto me, wolbe befor Crismas.
Y^{r} Lordship hathe ij hogsheds of olde French wyne, of Byon, at
Coleharbert; as for Rynishe wyne there cam never non so bad as com
this yer; as sone as any comys that is good your Lordship shall
have therof. As Alen Kyng sheweth unto me ther was ij vessell of
Muscadyne wyne which wer good, the King had on, my Lord Cardinall
th' oder."--_Ibid._ p. 31. Among the expenses of the Household of
Thomas Kytson, Esq. printed in Mr. Gage's _History and Antiquities
of Hengrave_, is the following interesting account of the wines
used in the reign of Elizabeth, with their prices.--"December
1572, For xiij gallons of Muscedell, at ij_s._ viij_d._ the
gallon, xxxiiij_s._ viij_d._--for xx gallons j qrt. Malmesey, at
ij_s._ the gallon, with x_d._ for spoonage, and carriage xlj_s._
viij_d._:--for xj gallons iij qrts.
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