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[first] in welcommyng and enterteignyng of theym with moost goodly countenaunce, proper communicacion, and pleasaunt passetyme in playing at the virginalles, that they greatly marvailed and rejoysed the same, her young and tender age considered. Communicacion had, and licence taken by the said gentilmen of the goodly chere was made unto theym of strawberes, wafers, wyne, and ypocras in plenty. The same nighte th❜oder shirif of London made unto theym a goodly soper. Yesterday (Sonday) my lord of Norfolk had the said gentilmen with hym at dyner, and used and entertained] theym all the day with moche goodly chere and passetyme. This present daye they entende to see the Towre, and so to depeche themselves from hens. We have at this tyme written unto the kinges highnes, and geven unto his grace our moost humble thankes for his gracious advertisement lately geven unto us, by his moost honourable lettres, concerning his moost excellent and goodly actes, passetymes, and pleasures had in those parties, like as your grace shall conceyve by the copye of our lettre whiche we sende unto you herinclosed. And almighty God have your grace in his preservacion. At....... the second day of July.

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Other signatures are burnt off. The lords who signed on the 13th June may be seen in Ellis, Orig. Letters, I. i. 176.

[P. 30]. THE expenses of WOLSEY'S EMBASSY, 1521.

The booke of Soluc'.

(Abstracted from MS. Harl. 620.)

In my lordes graces Jorneye to Cales, Bruges, and other places. Master Roberte Carter occupyinge the office of stewardeshipe. Anno xiij°.

f. 2. "Ale and beare," extending three pages. Total cciiijli. ixs. iijd. f. 3b. 66 Wyn." Total lxixli. xiijs. xd. ob.

f. 4. "Buttry." Buttry." The account for "mapylle bollys, lether pottes, ashen cuppys," &c. Total exiijs. iiijd. ob.

f. 5. "Pantre." Expenses of washing "clothys" and "covyr-payns." Total xvijs. xd.

f. 6.

f. 8.

"Ewrye." Three pages. Total lxxiijli. xijs. vd.
"Sault and sawcys."

Total xjli. ixs. ixd.

f. 9. "The pultrye." Total vjli. vjs. jd. ob.

f. 10. "Lynges, coddes, and other salt-fyschys, bought of Basdeyn and of other fyschmongars." Total xijli. viijs.

f. 11. "Beffes and muttuns." Total cclxvjli. iijs. ijd.

f. 12.

"Foreyn chargys;" that is, miscellaneous expenses, amounting to cxliiijli. xvijs. viijd. Some of them are curious, as this for the scocheons which ambassadors were accustomed to leave on their route :—

"Item, payd to Joh'n Browyn, paynter of Lundun, for dyvers scochyns bought of hym and receyved be the syght of the said officers, as apperyth be bylle,-xli. xvijs."

The following items of expenses incurred on the cardinal's attendance at the two churches in Calais may also be considered worth extracting :

"Item, payd to Wylliam Elton, for a carpynter and tymber, in seynt Mary's chyrche of Caleys, for hangyng of [the] hye auter, the iijth day of August, vjd.

"Item, for the hyer of a cart for carrying of the vestry staff from the stapylle to seynt Mary's chyrche, iiij d.

"Item, paid to the sexton of seynt Peter's, for the hyer of a carpenter, and for iiij ledges for the hye auter, and for my lordes traves, xvjd. "Item, paid for a wagon carrying of the gret standerd of the vestry to seynt Peter's chyrch, xvjd."

f. 18. "Weet" (wheat).

Total cxliijli. vjs. vijd. ob.

f. 19, 20. "Burdwages." Lists of gentlemen. (See hereafter.)

f. 21b, 22. "Burdwagys for yomen."

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These accounts continue to f. 29, where is the "Summa totalis denar' solut' pro commensalibus forensecis ccxxviijli. vijs. ijd. q."

f. 30.

f. 33.

f. 37.

f. 38.

f. 39.

"Veelys and lambys." Total iiijij li. xijs. vijd.

"Caryages." Eight pages. Total iiijij li. vijs. xd.
"Woode and coole." Total cxjli. xijs. jd.

"Rusches." Total iiijli. xvs. viijd. ob.

"Rewardes." These are curious as enumerating the presents Wolsey received, and the senders of them; but they were in England, on his route to the coast. Total, vij li. vjs. viij d.

f. 40. This commences another account, on a smaller quire of paper, entitled "The Queyre of Velwettes, Skarlettes, Redde Clothes, and of Milleyn Bonettes."

f. 41. "Blacke velvett gevyn to my lordes graces gentlemen agayn hys journé to Cales, in July an° xiij° Regis H. viijmi." To fifty gentlemen, each ten yards of black velvet at ixs. the yard, and a bonett, price iiijs. iiijd.

f. 43. "Skerllettes geven to my lordes yomen." To a hundred men three yards of black velvet at vijs. viijd. the yard, and iij yards of scarlet at viijs. vjd. the yard, and each a bonett.

f. 456. The totals here given distinguish the allowance made to the various recipients, as follows

"Velwette.-Somme totalle of velwette delyvered to 1. gentylmen aftyr the rate of x. yardes to every of theym, vc. yards at ixs. the yarde, ccxxvli. to iiijxx xvi of my lordes yomen, clerkes of his chapelle, and clerkes of his kychyn, aftyr the rate of every one of theym iij. yardes, ccmiiijxx di. yardes. To the iiij. fotemen aftyr vj. yardes di. for every of theym xxvj. yardes. To Mr. Stiward (iiij. di.). Mr. Tresorer (vj.) & Mr. Comptroller (vj.) xvi. yardes di. And to x. childyr of the chapelle xviij. yardes. In all cccxlviij yardes di. at vijs. viijd. the yarde, cxxxiijli. xjs. xd. In alle in black velwett viijem xlviij. yardes di. and in all in moneye, ccclviijli. xis. xd.

"Skarlette.-Somme totalle of money paid for skarlette delyvered unto cm of my lordes yomen, clerkes of his chapelle and clerkes of his kichyn, with the iiij. footemen, at iij. yardes for every of theym, cccm yardes; to x. prestes of his seid chapelle, and to his ij. secretaries, to every of theym iij. yardes, xlij. yardes. And to the seid x. childyr of his seid chapelle for x. cootes xxiiij. yardes di. In alle in skarlette ccclxvj. yards di. whereof Ixxviij. yardes at viijs. vjd. xxxiijli. iijs.; xlij. yardes at viijs. xvili. xvjs.; xlij. yardes at vijs. viijd. ævi li. ij s.; cmij. yardes at vijs. vjd. xxxviijli. vs.; and cmij. yardes di. at vijs. xxxv li. xvijs. vjd.; in alle in moneye, cxlli. iijs. vjd.

"Reddes.-Somme totalle of money paid for redde cloth delyvered unto iiij. vj. of my lords gromys with the gromys of the stabulle, that is to saye, to every of theym iij. yardes, and to the ij. chariotte menne and to Alan Spaynyard the mule manne, to every of theym iij quarters of a yarde, and to the sumpter manne di. a yarde, to make theym jerkyns besides theyr cootes, cclx.yards iij. quarters. And to xxvij. abbey menne, to every of theym iij. yardes iiijj. yards. In alle of redde cloth, cccmxlj. yardes iij. quarters.

Wherof cmlxxj. yardes at iiijs. the yard, xxxiiij li. iiij s. and emlxx. yardes iij. quarters, at iijs. viijd. the yard, xxxjli. vjs. jd.; in alle in moneye, lxvli. xs. jd.

"Somme totalle of moneye paid for blakke velwette delyvered to xvj. of the seid gromys, that is to saye, to v. of theym xv. yardes, to x. of theym xv. yardes, and to one of theym ij. yardes, in alle in blakke velvette xxxij. yardes, at vij s. viij d. the yarde, xijli. vs. iiijd.

"Somme totalle of money paid for cciiij.x. Millen bonnettes. Wherof delyveryd unto xlvj. of my lordes gentille menne, to cm. yomen, clerkes, and odyr, to iiijv. gromys, xxvj. abbeymenne, to x. chylder of the chapelle, to every of theym i. bonette. And M. Styward (iiij), M. Tresourer (iiij), and M. Comptroller (iiij), xij bonettes, in alle in bonettes delyvered ccmlxxix, of the whiche cciiij xx. x. bonettes ccmlxiiij. coste iijs. iiijd. the pece, and xxvj. cost vs. the pece; in alle in moneye, lxiijli. xiijs.

"And there remayneth yette in bonettes notte yette delyvered, xl. Millen bonettes.

"SOMME totalle of moneye paid for blakke velwette, skarlette, redde cloth, and for Myllenne bonettes, as it dothe appere before in this booke, Ccxlili. iiij s. ix d., over and besides xl. markes delyvered to master Tresourer and master Comptroller for theyr lyvereys."

f. 50. Here commences a fresh account, in which certain expenses, chiefly for provisions, are recorded day by day as they occur, from the 29th of July to the 4th of December. Mr. Sharon Turner, in his History of the Reign of Henry VIII. vol. i. pp. 211-213, has extracted some portions of this. It continues to the end of the volume. At the last page are these totals

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"Summa totalis denar' solut' per dictum dominum Itinerando per viam in isto itinere, prout particula patent antea, clxvli. viijs. viijd.

"Summa totalis omnium soluc' predict' in hoc libro cont' м'M'ccciiijvj li. xiiijs. vjd. q."

That is, 2,3867. 14s. 64d., not, as Turner has it, 2,3467. 13s. 6d.

A complete list of the fifty gentlemen who attended Wolsey on this occasion is supplied at f. 41, as follows

Richard Page

Thomas Henage

CAMD. SOC.

M. Fraunces
Edward Steynynges

Richard Pomerey
John Synclere

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Thomas Yorke
John Yerdeley
Richard Crooke
Lewis Powys
William Ogan
John Eston
John Gostewyk
Richard Candyshe
Miles Forrest
John Torrell
William Fayrfax
Watyr Stryklond
Henry Savelle
Cristofer Slyngesby

Raff Metford

[P. 33.] ORDER IN COUNCIL FOR THE ADVANCE OF 2000 li. FOR THE REPARATION OF CALAIS, UPON CREDIT OF THE WOOLS THERE: JULY 17, 1523.

(MS. Cotton. Faust. E. vII. f. 41. On parchment.)

The xvijth day of Juylle the xve, yere, &c. The kyng by th'avis of the lordes of his counsail and by th'assent of the maire and marchantz of the staple of Caleys, consideryng the greet reparacions that most of necessitee in alle haste be maad at Caleys and in the marches there, hathe appointed therfore that of the wolles that nowe be at Caleys, wherof the king be agreement of the said maire and marchantz shal take one peny, and the marchantz an other; that is to say, after that xxmil, marc be receyved to the kynges use of the wolles that be nowe there, and other xxmil, marc to be received to the use and disposicion of the said maire and marchantz of the same wolles there, there shal be delivered nowe anoon without delay or tarryeng by the same maire and marchantz to William Cantelowe vitailler of Caleys, wolle, suche as he wol agree him to receive, to the value of ijini.li. after the price of wolle that goothe at the said staple. The said ij mil. li. to be employed for and aboute the necessarie reparacions of Caleys asfer as it shal mowe reche. For the whiche ij milli. worthe wolle soo to be received by the said William Cantelowe the said maire and marchant3 shal haue repaiement and

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