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XXX. Notices of the Tower of London temp. Elizabeth, and the Horse Armoury temp. Charles I. In a Letter addressed by Wm. Durrant Cooper, Esq., F.S.A. to Robert Lemon, Esq., F.S.A.
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The facilities which you have afforded by the publication of your Kalendar for the public use of the valuable documents preserved in the State-Paper Office, relating to the first half of Queen Elizabeth's reign, and your kindness in permitting me to make extracts from your own book of MSS. on ancient armour, consisting of the scattered Exchequer documents, enable me to send to our Society some notices of the Tower of London and of the armouries there and at Greenwich, which are very interesting in themselves, and are chiefly of a date forty years earlier than the lists communicated by William Bray, Esq. F.S.A. to our Society, and reprinted by Meyrick from the Archæologia.
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page 179 note a Vol. XI. p. 97. Mr. Bray's lists are only extracts from the document, the original of which has since beenfound in the Audit Office. It is printed at length in the Archaeological Journal, vol. iv. p. 341.
page 481 note a For description of these arms, see Archæologia, vol. XXII. p. 59.
page 482 note a Sir Edward Warner had also the stewardship of the Manor of East Smithfield.
page 482 note b Domestic, Eliz. vol. xi. No. 19.
page 483 note a Domestic, Eliz, vol. xi. No. 21.
page 483 note b The yearly value, as returned 26th Hen. VII. above all reprisals, was 315l. 14s. 11d. The return of 1560 is printed. See Ducarel's History of St. Katherine's, Bibl. Topog. No. V. pp. 96 and 119.
page 483 note c Ducarel, p. 22.
page 485 note a Domestic, Eliz. vol. xi. No. 5.
page 485 note b “Lanceæ holoserico rubro et viridi tectse, cum Henrici VIII. Angliæ Regis armatureâ; arma multa et egregia; tarn pro viris, quàm pro equis in equestri pugnâ; lancea Caroli Branden Suffolciæ, quæ tres spithamas crassa erat.” Hentzner, Itinerarium. Breslau, 1617, p. 130. An inventory of the armour in the Tower and at Woolwich, taken on the accession of James in 1603, is printed in Jordan's Hist, of Enstone, Oxon. p. 105.
page 486 note a “Crinière, a cranet, armour for the neck or mane of a horse.” Cotgrave.
page 487 note a Author of Instructions Militarie. 1595.
page 487 note b Renowned for his military services in the Low Countries; 15th June, 1606, he was appointed Constable of Portsmouth Castle and Lieutenant of Southbear Forest, Hants, for life; he was also Captain of the Brill, and died on 28th Aug. 1609.—Mrs. Green's Cal. 538, &c. His tomb, with a slab bearing his armour, is in Westminster Abbey.
page 487 note c Charles de Lorraine, Prince of Joinville, brother to the Duke of Guise, came into England May 8, 1607 (Camden's Annals), and was present when the house of Theobalds was surrendered by the Earl of Salisbury to King James I. with a poetical entertainment written by Ben Jonson on the 22nd of the same month. (Nichols's Progresses, &c. of James I. ii. 128.) He stayed here some time, and on his return made his present to Prince Henry mentioned in the text, which the Prince acknowledged by a letter of thanks, dated on the 11th February following : “I perceive, my Cousin, (he writes,) that during your stay in England you discovered my humour; since you have sent me a present of the two things which I most delight in, arms and horses,”—(Birch's Life of Prince Henry, p. 100.)
page 487 note d Louis XIII., for a marriage with whose sister to Prince Henry negociations took place.
page 488 note a Sir Henry Lee was master of the armouries to Queen Elizabeth and James. The particulars of his life are to be found in the Parochial History of Enstone, Oxon. by the Rev. John Jordan, p. 101. Writing from Ascot, 27th Sept. 1608, John Chamberlain tells Dudley Carleton that Queen Anne had dined with Sir Henry Lee, “at his Little Best”who had that summer presented the Prince “with an armour that stood him in 200l.”—Progresses of King James I. ii. 210.
page 488 note b Hentzner, p. 130; Archæologia, XL p. 97; and Meyrick, iii. p. 129.
page 488 note c The Alexanders, alias Zinzan, Henry and Sir Sigismund, were equerries to James the First, and usually engaged in the yearly tilts and other chivalric exercises.
page 488 note d This on examination turned out to be made for Henry VIII. and is fully described by Meyrick in the Archæologia, vol. XXH. p. 106, where parts are engraved.
page 489 note a Page 114.
page 489 note b In the State Paper Office is a paper (Domestic, Charles, 1625 ? vol. xiv. no. 50) giving the names of the Lieutenants of the Tower of London in the several reigns of these kings and queens following, which supplies a defect in Stowe, and differs in some respects from Bayley:—
King Henry VIII.—Sr Robert Cholmeley, Sr Edm. Walsingham, Sr Will. Sidney, Sr Antho. Knevett, (Walter) Stoner.
King Edward.—Sr John Gage, Sr John Markham, Sr Arthur Darcy, Sr Edw. Warner.
Queene Mary.—Sr John Bridges, Sr Tho. Bridges, Sr (Hen.) Benefeild, Sr (Rob.) Oxenbridges.
Queene Eliz.—Sr Edw. Warner, Sr Rich. Blount, Sr Francis Jobson, Sr Owen Hopton, Sr Michael Blount, Sr Drew Drury, Sr Rich. Barkley, Sr John Peyton.
King James.—Sr Georg. Harvey, Sr Will. Waad, Sr Gervis Helvys, Sr Georg. Moore, Sr Allen Apsley.
King Charles.—Idem Sr Allen Apsley.
To which I may add from other sources (Thomas's Hist. Notes, 613), Sir W. Balfour, removed 1641, 20 Dec; Col. Lunsford, removed 1641, 26 Dec; Sir John Byron, removed Jan. 3, 1641–2; Sir John Conyers.
page 490 note a Return of all prisoners, 26th May, 1561.
page 490 note b Strype's Annals, i. pt. 1, p. 211.