To the other references, p. 60 should have been added.

Some curious particulars of Brereton will be found in Cavendish's Life of Wolsey, Ed. Singer, vol. ii. p. 34, from which it appears that he was Gentleman of the Chamber, and Steward of the Holt in the Marches of Wales. Cavendish says he had "by colour of justice" produced the execution of one Eton,

It ought to have been remarked that Dr. Buttes is introduced by Shakespeare into "Henry the Eighth." His portrait occurs in Holbein's picture in Surgeon's Hall of Henry giving the charter to the Company of Surgeons.—Anecdotes of Painting.

Chelsea, in p. 309, is an error of the press: the place meant is clearly Chertsey in Surrey.

He was the Master of the Children of the Chapel; and in the Book of Quarterly Payments, 29-33 Henry VIII. an entry occurs of money given to him for the performance of the children, evidently in singing before the King.

He is described by Cavendish as a "Scots Physician." Ed. Singer, vol. i. p. 222. Henry gave him 100 li. by his will.

It has been since suggested to the Editor by very competent authority, that "Dompne was the old English word for "Dominus," which was often applied to a priest; and that perhaps the equestrian was such another as Sir John Hurt, see p. 330." Upon the correctness of this explanation he cannot however refrain from entertaining great doubts.

In the account of Queen Elizabeth's Annual Expences among the "Musicians and Players" are "Drumsteds 3, fee apeece 18l. 5s." Dromslade is the Dutch for Drummer.

Gloves are thus noticed in the Vision of Pierce Plowman;

And again,

On New Year's day, 32 Hen. VIII. Arcangell Arcan, Gunner, made the king a present of perfumed gloves, and received xx d. in reward. Book of Quarterly Payments, 29-33 Hen. VIII.

To the other references add pp. 26, 255.

In Whittlewood forest.

Besides what has been said on Henxmen or Henchmen, it may be useful to add that "the schoolmaster for the Henxmen" formed part of the royal establishment, and the payment of his wages occurs in the Book of Quarterly Payments, 29-33 Henry VIII. Hall also speaks of such a person: "In the laste moneth called Decembre were taken certain traytors in the citie of Coventry, one called Fraunces Philippe, scholemaster to the Kynges Henxmen," &c. Anno 15 Hen. VIII. Ed. 1809, p. 673.

It may perhaps be worth observing, that in the inventory of the effects of Henry V. we find "1 Penner, et ung Ynk horn d'argent dorrey, pois vj unc', pris l'uncÈ ijs. vjd." valued at xvs. Rot. Parl. vol. iv. p. 226. Thus it seems the word was applied to a vessel for holding ink rather than to the material of which it was made. Those mentioned in these Accounts must have been very common ones, as a dozen cost only two shillings.

The wife of this Earl, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Marquess of Dorset, received a quarterly pension from the King of 33li. 6s. 8d. Book of Quarterly Payments, 29-33 Hen. VIII.

"Mr. Anthony Kingston, Warden of the Hawks. Book of Quarterly Payments," 29-33 Hen. VIII.

It was probably to this occasion that Bishop Latimer alludes in a Sermon preached before the Duchess of Suffolk in 1552. Speaking of a woman who was accused of having killed her child, whom he visited in the prison at Cambridge, and ascertained to be innocent, he says, "Immediately after this I was called to preache before the Kyng, whyche was my firste Sermon that I made before His Majesty, and it was done at Windsor where His Majestye, after the Sermon was done, did most familiarly talke with me in a gallerye. Nowe when I sawe my tyme I kneelyd downe before His Majesty, openynge the whole matter," &c. The story is however too long to be inserted. Fol. 14. Printed at Aldersgate, 1584.

Le Neve says he was an ambassador. Lansd. MSS. 737.

His portrait was painted by Holbein, and engraved by Holler. Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting.

In April, 1530, two mules cost 22l. 10s. and in September, 1532, the sum paid for three was 35l. Thus the price continued very nearly the same.

He was gentleman waiter to the King, and was the only person permitted to follow him into his bedchamber. ArchÆologia, vol. iii. p. 155. Cavendish says he was also Groom of the Stole, vol. ii. p. 25. It would be most unjust to allude, ever so casually to Norris, and omit to state that he was offered a pardon if he would confess that Anne Boleyn was guilty, but that he preferred his honour to his life.

An owche also meant bosses, buttons, clasps, or any ornamental trinket. The custom of wearing a brooch, or some kind of ornament, in the front of the hat, is noticed by all our old poets. See Massinger, by Gifford, iv, 213; Jonson, do. ii. 406.—M.

Afterwards the celebrated Cardinal Pole, Archbishop of Canterbury. He is said to have been allowed a large pension to enable him to travel into Italy, but of which he was afterwards deprived. The entry in these accounts of 70li. was, it is most probable, a mere gratuity, or present, for we never find another instance of a similar payment. As Pole was then thirty years of age, the title of "the Kings scholar" is curious.

The name of the rat-taker in the 30 Hen. VIII. was John Wolley. Book of Quarterly Payments, 29-32 Henry VIII.

It has been suggested whether Relick water was not water in which some relicks had been immersed, with the view of giving it a sanative quality, which was probably supposed to be imparted to those who tasted of, or were sprinkled with it.

This expression was thus used by Henry the Eighth: Sir Thomas More informed Cardinal Wolsey that he asked Henry to dispatch some business on the day on which his letter was written; "his Grace lawghed, and saied, Nay by my fayth, that will not be, for this is my removing day sone at New Hall." Ellis's Original Letters, Second Series, vol. i. p. 293.

Much light is thrown upon this word, by the following entry in the Book of Quarterly Payments, 29-33 Hen. VIII.

"Item for the Kingis offeringe this Sonday at taking his Rights in the mornyng, vj s. viij d."

Thus it was clearly connected with a religious duty, though its precise meaning has not been ascertained. It is needless to observe that the conjecture on the subject in p. 347 is decidedly erroneous.

This word is thus further illustrated: Cavendish makes Brereton say,

And imputes to Norris the remark,

It is hence obvious that the explanation given in p. 348 is correct.

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.

A John Skyppe, clerk, was the King's almoner in the 30 Hen. VIII.—Book of Quarterly Payments.

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.

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.

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.

Dr. Pettingall, in his remarks on the "Gule of August," says, "what we at present call 'the waits,' or the music on the nights of the Christmas holydays, is only a corruption of the wakes or nocturnal festivities." ArchÆologia, vol. ii, p. 66.