page 139 note * This list of persons who were paid monthly wages is considerably extended in the original, and includes the names of the falconers and huntsmen entertained for the king's disport. We have deemed it useless to subjoin a mere enumeration of otherwise unrecorded appellations.

page 140 note * Speaking of Cardinal Campeius, and his arrival and reception, old Stowe says, “This Cardinal, by long journeys, came into England, and much preparation was made to receive him triumphantly into London ; but he was so sore vexed with the gout that he refused such solemnities, and desired that he might, without pomp, be conveyed to his lodging for his more quiet and rest: and so, on the 9 of October, he came from S. Mary Overies by water to the Bish. of Bath's place without Temple Bar, where he was visited of the Cardinal of York, and divers other estates and prelates ; and after he had rested him a season he was brought to the king's presence, then being at Bridewell, by the Cardinal of York, and was carried in a chair between four persons, for he was not able to stand, and the cardinal of York and he sat both on the right hand of the king's throne.”—Annales, p. 909, edit. 1615. This, of course, was the “rich chair” mentioned in the text.

page 140 note † This was Sir David Lindsay. The Earl of Angus was husband to Margaret the King's sister.

page 140 note ‡ It was at Bridewell that Henry VIII. received Cardinal Campeius, and the court at which the king's marriage was afterwards debated was subsequently held in the Blackfriars. We can only guess at the purpose to which the large sum of 1000l., equal perhaps to 6000l;. or 7000l. of our present money, was to be applied.

page 141 note * The father of Sir Thomas Gresham. No doubt, this arras and tapestry was to be applied to the fitting up of the Court, 's marriage.

page 141 note * Constable of the Tower.

page 141 note † Lieutenant of the Tower.

page 141 note ‡ i. e. for finding them in provisions.

page 141 note § This name is sometimes spelt Skabo.

page 141 note || In some other entries this name is spelt Crazier.

page 141 note ¶ In the margin, instead of a sum, is written these words “i j . qr. sol. per warr.” meaning that the money was paid for two quarters by warrant. Reynold Poll can point at nobody but Reginald Pole, at this time in London, and maintained, in part at least, by the royal bounty. He soon afterwards went to Paris, and his name for some time, disappears from the accounts of the treasurer of the chamber. We shall, however, have to insert it again hereafter.

page 141 note ** i. e. schoolmaster of the henchmen or pages. It does not appear, we believe, in any account of Robert Whittington the grammarian that he had filled this office about the Court.

page 143 note * Here, as in the case of Reginald Pole, we are informed in the margin, instead of the insertion of any sum, that two quarters had been paid at once by virtue of a particular warrant. The fee was due to Sir Francis Bryan for his office of Master of the Toils.

page 146 note * William Crane was the instructor of the boys who sang in the chapel royal, and who often performed interludes at Court at Christmas and other festivals.

page 147 note * This entry, it will be observed, fixes the very day when Gardiner was dispatched to Rome on the subject of the king's divorce. Lord Herbert of Cherbury (Kennett, ii. 100) says, that Gardiner “received his instructions in Feb. 1528.”

page 147 note † Probably a proclamation against the use of cross-bows.

page 148 note * A large sum, without the statement of any purpose to which it was to be applied. This is no doubt the same Norris so confidently trusted by the king, and subsequently employed in the arrest of Wolsey. See also p. 145.

page 148 note † John Leland the antiquary, who thus appears to have been allowed 100 shillings per annum during his travels and searches. See also his “exhibition” mentioned on p. 144.

page 148 note ‡ The son of Thomas Boleyn, who had been created Viscount Rochford 18 June, 1525. He was succeeded by George Boleyn, subsequently beheaded.

page 149 note * Here we see the precise mode in which Ludovicus Vives was paid for his services, and the sum he received half-yearly.

page 149 note † Ought we not to read servant for “sonne,” and al for “as”?

page 150 note * Mentioned in a previous entry, not here extracted: so of Fowler.

page 151 note * Hence we may perhaps infer that the courier was despatched to Rome on the cardinal's, as well as on the King's, business.

page 152 note * Perhaps fees for the King's spiritual counsel.

page 152 note † A very large sum, with a very indefinite application—most likely in some way connected with the pending question of divorce.

page 154 note * On 16 August he was paid 4l. 16s. for attending the same Earl into Scotland again.

page 154 note * Opposite this entry in the margin, Sir Bryan Tuke has written with his own hand the following note: “Md this somme of Mli paid in France, is to be allowed to my lorde of Suffolk by the kinges grace upon his grace indenture, for I have non allowance of that Mli, and therfore I have not charged myself with it, but I paide somuehe the les to Sir Francis Bryan upon his rekonyng, and I have non allowance but of that I paid in redy money, as by his rekonyng appereth : my lord of Suffolk paid this Mli in France at my lord Cardinalles order, and I medled not with it. Md that Sir Francis Bryan, in that rekonyng, asked diverse extraordinary alowances for causes that he wolde not disclose unto me.”

page 156 note * The bishop of Worcester at this date was Jerome de Ghinucci, an Italian.

page 156 note † Nicholas Crazer was the King's astronomer, and was paid quarterly wages. This must have been an extraordinary gratuity for additional services.

page 157 note * We shall see that he was soon afterwards sent as ambassador to France.

page 158 note * In an entry to a servant for bringing letters he is called Lord George Bolayn.

page 158 note † This memorandum shews that Bullen was the principal person, and was allowed most for his diets.

page 159 note * Reginald Pole was probably at this time in Paris, and the money was therefore paid to his agent in London.

page 159 note † It appears by the book that another payment of 200l. was made on the same account on the 9th of November.

page 160 note * This entry shews the comparatively humble position, in 21 Henry VIII., of the future peer and chancellor.

page 160 note † Besides the two Hornbands, who were paid monthly wages.

page 161 note * This entry enables us to fix the date when Dr. Lee had returned.

page 161 note † This must be a mistake for Richard Cecill. It seems the first mention of William.

page 162 note * His father had been created Earl of Wiltshire: see next entry, and his creation, p. 161.

page 162 note † His diet was fixed at the rate of C⁸ per day.

page 164 note * The Vicar of Croydon seems to have preached oftener before the King than any one other clergyman.

page 164 note † From an entry among the quarter wages it appears that at this date, if not earlier, John Bryan (who was paid 33s. 4d. per quarter for his “exhibition”) was “Master of Art.” Hurt is here called “Sir John Hurte,” and his exhibition was 50s. per quarter. John Leland's exhibition is continued at 25s. per quarter, and Ludovicus Vives is paid 10l. per quarter.

page 165 note * This advance, of the revenue Wolsey was allowed to derive from the bishoprick of Winchester, deserves to be noted in the then condition of affairs between the King and Cardinal. See Stow, p. 933.

page 166 note * Was not this Thomas Hacluyt one of the Hakluyts of Yatton, Herefordshire, the ancestors of Richard Hakluyt ?

page 167 note * Accordingly their names appear regularly afterwards among persons to whom quarterly wages were paid.

page 168 note * The “elect of London,” in these two entries, of course means the Bishop of London elect, i.e. Dr. Stokesley.

page 168 note † The Dauphin and his brother, detained in Spain by Charles V.

page 169 note * In the commencement of these accounts George Lovekyn is only paid as “of the stable,” but here we see that he has been advanced to the office of “Clerk of the Kinges works.” Thomas Flower is also called “Clerk of the King's works.” Afterwards George Lovekyn is termed “Clerk of the Stables;” perhaps he held both offices.

page 170 note * Here in the same entry we have George Bullen so called, as well as Lord Rochford, which had been for some time his title.

page 171 note * In another entry 10l. a year is given to this messenger by way of annuity for life.

page 171 note † In a subsequent entry this gunsmith is called Cornelis Hayes.

page 171 note ‡ Note in the margin: “This mony is repaid in Jan. a^o xxijd^o, and the obligation redeliveryd.”

page 172 note * A curious entry, showing precisely how many copies of this important proclamation were issued, as well as the price paid to Berthelett for printing them.

page 172 note † This money was advanced to Sir Francis Bryan in anticipation of an embassy to France, which we find by another entry of the 13th October he had undertaken, in company with Richard Tate.

page 174 note * This entry shews that at this period the finest gold was only 2l. 1s. 4d. per ounce, and silver 4s. 4d. per ounce.

page 174 note * “The clergie of England, being judged by the K. learned counsell to be in the premunire for maintaining the power legantine of the Cardinal, were called by process into the King's Bench to answere; wherefore in their convocation they concluded a submission, wherein they called the King supreme head of the church of England, according to the law of God and not otherwise, and were contented to give the King 100,000 poundes to pardon their offences touching the premunire.”—Stow's Annales, 1615, p. 942.

page 175 note * This entry shews that in January 22 Hen. VIII. the King had taken possession of all the remaining plate of Cardinal Wolsey (or “the Cardinall,” as he is merely called in the entry), and had had it weighed by the royal officers.

page 175 note † It is not stated what kind of wine was given, but it cost 3l. per pipe.

page 175 note ‡ A similar item has occurred before, but never so distinctly stated. Just afterwards comes another entry for 250l. for the quarter to become due in June.

page 175 note § The writer, not knowing the name of the preacher, designated him as a bonhomme. The Bonhommes had only two houses in England, Ashridge in Buckinghamshire, and Edingdon in Wiltshire: see Dugdale's Monasticon (new edit.) vi. 514. On the other Sundays the preachers were Dr. Sherwood, Mr. Aldridge, and “a chaplain of the Bp. of Lincoln.”

page 176 note * Here again we have a farther point in the history of “the Cardinalles” plate.

page 176 note † The answer required long consideration, and the scribe seems to have thought it so long that in copying the entry he at first wrote days for “weeks.”

page 176 note ‡ This is the first time the title has immediately followed the name ; it has been hitherto entered as a fee paid to “George Boleyn, esquier,” and sometimes even the addition has been omitted.

page 177 note * This surplusage was over and above the monthly payments.

page 177 note † Unfortunately no date is given to this entry.

page 178 note * This entry seems to shew that the money was paid in haste on the departure of Dr. Fox, before even the warrant had been produced.