This word is further elucidated by the following extract from a letter from Richard Onslow, Recorder of London, dated in February, 1565, stating that in consequence of a recent Proclamation several hosiers had applied to him to know whether they might "lyne a _Sloppe hose_ not cutte in panes wyth a lynung of cotton styched to the Sloppe, over and besydes the lynnen lynyng, and the other lynyng straytt to the legg: whereunto upon consideracyon of the wordes of the proclamacion I answered them all, that I thought surely they could not: and that any loose lynyng not straytt to the legg was not permytted, but for the lynyng of panes only, and that the hole upper stock being in our Sloppe uncutt could not be said to be in panes, wherewith they departed satisfyed. Sythens which tyme dyvers of them have been wyth me and declared that for as moche as they have refused to lyne the slopp so, their customers have gone from them to other hosyers dwellynge without Temple Barr, who not only have so lyned the Slopp, but also have sayd that your Honour hath declared, that they may lawfully so doe."--Ellis's _Original Letters_, Second Series, vol. ii. p. 307. Skyppe Master. A John Skyppe, clerk, was the King's almoner in the 30 Hen. VIII.--_Book of Quarterly Payments._ Spurs to the choristers of Windsor, for the King's. In the time of Ben Jonson, in consequence of the interruptions to divine service occasioned by the ringing of the spurs worn by persons walking and transacting business in Cathedrals, and especially in St. Paul's, a small fine was imposed on them called spur money, the exaction of which was committed to the beadles and singing boys.--Note to Gifford's _Jonson_, vol. ii. p. 49.--M. The custom is not yet extinct; but whether the entries referred to in these Accounts were at all connected with it, is at least doubtful, for it must first be shown that it prevailed at so early a period. Tomb, the King's. A doubt ought to have been expressed whether the payment in question did not relate to the tomb of Henry the Seventh, though the expression of "_the_ King's tomb" renders it more probable that it referred to one commenced by Henry for himself. Virginals. This instrument, with a lady playing upon it, is given in the series of cards so beautifully engraved by Jost Ammin: the fool is in a ludicrous attitude in the back ground. See Singer _On Playing Cards_, 184. Earle, in his _Microcosmography_, says, that "She, the precise hypocrite, suffers not her daughters to learn on the Virginals, because of their affinity with _organs_." p. 97.--M. In the list of "Musicians and Players" in the account of Queen Elizabeth's _Annual Expences_, p. 266, are, "Virginall players, 3, fee apeece, 30 _li_." being nearly double as much as was allowed to any other musician. Waits.