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FURNITURE IN THE PALACES OF KING HENRY THE EIGHTH.

[Continued.]

In the Closet over the Watersteire.

First, upon the shelfe next the dore on the lifte hande, xvij boxes and coffers, whereof iiij be Iron; and under that shelfe a clocke, a glasse of steele, iiij battel axes of woodde, and ij quyvers with arrowes, a painted table, twoo wyndow leves, a paier of ballaunce with weights, a case of tynne with a plat.

Itm. in the wyndowe next that shelf a rounde mappe, a standing glasse of steele in a shipp.

Itm. dyvers plottes in a case of yellow clothe.

Itm. a braunche of flowers wrought upon wyer.

Itm. a boxe with v slippers of velvet for women, twoo bolions for cheyres, a boxe of turned cuppes.

Itm. two birdes of Araby2.

Itm. a gonne uppon a stocke wheled.

Itm. v paxes of glasse and woodde.

Itm. a tablet of our Lady and sainte Anne of wood.

Itm. a painted table with a picture of a man.

Itm. a standing glasse with ymagery made of bone.

Itm. Sampson made in allabaster.

Itm. a lace for the mantell of the gartier of silke and golde.

Itm. v calles, whereof ij be silke and golde, in a case of crymsen velvet3.

Itm. a pece of a patterne for a forte made in allabastre.

Itm. a pece of a unycornes horne.

Itm. a horne of Iverey.

Itm. a warmyng balle of copper gilte in a case of black velvet.
Itm. a standyng Diall in a case of copper gilt.

Itm. an horne glasse.

Itm. xlviij Dogges collers of sondry makings.

Itm. vj lyams of Silke and iij of lether, and dyvers papers of pynnes.

Itm. a purse of crymsen satten for a gonner embrawdered with

golde1.

Itm. a round painted table with the ymage of a king.

Itm. a case covered with prynters lether with a lace of silke.
Itm. a brussh of here.

Itm. a pronosticacon' covered with grene velvet.

Itm. a globe of paper.

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4 One of the appendages for shooting, perhaps to carry the powder or flints. 5 Query, if a kind of barometer.

Itm. a mappe made like a scryne.

Itm. a reede tipped at both ends with gold.

Itm. a cuppborde whereuppon standeth twoo tables of Imagery, two billet staves virralled1 with bone.

Itm. a table painted with floures and fruyte.

Itm, an elle of synamounde2 sticke tipped with silver.
Itm. a tosting forke tipped with copper gylte.

Itm. iij ryding roddes for ladys and a yarde of blacke tipped with white horne.

Itm. vj other walking staves th' one covered with silke and gold.

Itm. a tassell of here to make clene combes.

Itm. a table with a clothe of saynte George embrawdied.

Itm. a case of fyne carved worke.

Itm. a Table of our Ladye.

Itm. a boxe with a birde of Arrabye.

Itm. twoo long cases of blacke lether with petigres.

Itm. a case of Yrishe arrowes.

Itm. iiij patternes for gonnes.

Itm. a cuppborde ioyned to the walle conteyning a holy water stocke of marble garnished with copper gilte, with the sprincle, a rounde warming panne of copper, gilte, a coffre of bone empty garnished with copper gilte.

Itm. certeyne plattes and petygrees in a Cupborde. f. 58 to 61.

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The Lower Study being a Bayne.

First iiij xix Visars of sundry sortes.

Itm. a lytle booke of parchement with prayers covered with crymsen velvet.

Itm. two litle skrenes of silke to holde againste the fier.
Itm. a boxe with a wryting touching Quene Jane's joynter.

In the Highest Library.

First in one deske xxxj bookes covered with redde.

Itm. in an other deske xvj bookes covered with redde.
Itm. an other deske liij bookes covered with leather.
Itm, an other deske xij bookes.

Itm. an other deske xxv bookes.
Itm. an other deske xxx bookes.

Itm. an other deske xxxvij bookes.

Itm. undre the table cvij bookes.

Itm. a booke wrytten in parchement of the processe betwene King Henry th' eighth and the ladye Katheryne Dowager.

Itm. the newe Testament glosed written unbounde.

Itm. undre the table xvj. bookes.

Inlaid or ornamented with bone.

2 Cinnamon.

3 Pieces of stick used instead of riding-whips: walking-staves were walking-sticks.

4 Queen Jane Seymour.

5 Glosed, noted, or with a commentary.

Itm. in the Jakeshouse' a picture and certeyne cases.
Itm. in a long Settell is certeyne olde papers and trasshe.
Itm. in a lyke Settell is like olde papers. f. 62ь.

THE GUARDEROBE AT WESTMINSTER IN THE CHARDGE OF
JOHN REEDE.

Stooles and Footestoles.

Itm. a close stoole of purple vellat, the seate and elbowes embraudered shellwise, with two basons, a codpece, and a cundite of tynne.

Itm. one lowe square stoole for women, covered withe clothe of golde, raised with purple vellat, pirled and fringed withe purple silke.

In the Study at the nether ende of the Long Gallerie.

Itm. two tables of slate enclosed in woodde, to write uppon the walle.

Itm. vj instruments of astronomye hanging uppon the walle.

Itm. ij fote rules of metall.

Itm. a shipman's compass closed in white bone, def”.
Itm. another shipman's compass closed in woodde.

Itm. a flax copper gilte.

Itm. a cabonet of wood like a cheste, with a penner of lether garneshed with silver, and a penne of silver, a penner of silver garneshed with silver, vij paier of knyves, and iiij keithonges, and a paier of sheeres.

Itm. a case of blacke leather, with a greate compasse of woodd, for a shipman.

In the Kinge's Secrete Studie.

In the next cabon above, a man of horsbacke harnaised, ij antyques, and ij tables of nedleworke3.

In the vijth, a table of wood of all the games at cardes, a targett of steele painted.

In the xh, a table of wood with the image of Victorye and Mars painted, ij glasse flagons bounde with wykers.

In the second cabon, next the doore, &c. [among other things], "a payre of stirropes of iron, painted and gilt, a rose of counterfete jasper sett in metal gilt, an instrument of astronomye, with dialls

Jakes-House is explained by archdeacon Nares to be the privy; but it is a singular place for "a picture and certain cases." In the west of England the word jakes is now familiarly used for litter or confusion, e. g. “What a jakes the room is in."

2 According to the same writer, a settell was a bench; but it would rather seem, in this instance, to mean a case.

Notes in the margin in another hand :-"Th' one of the antiques is stone, th' other metall."

of white bone, ij cases with instruments, th' one covered with black vellat." 1

In the third, [among other things], a lytle piller of astronomye of white bone.

In the fifth, under the highest cabon, a table of th' image of the Duke of Cleave painted-a little coofer of steele enealed and parcell gilt, furnesshed with tothe pykes, vj small boxes furnesshed with tothe pikes-three round boxes with phisionomyes.

In the viijth, a man on horsbacke, the horse beinge a combe case, a glasse to reade with, a boxe with burnynge perfumes in it 2. In the next highest cabon, a square boxe with the ymage of Kinge Henrye th' Eight wrought in earth-ij stampes of iron for grotes. In the fourthe, iij cases covered with black leather, one having a pair of spectacles.

In the ix", a coofer covered with black vellatt, conteyning the phisionomye of Kinge Henrye th' eighth cutt in wood, in a case of metall.

Itm. a plaisterer's hammer, wrought and gilt3.

Itm. a bagge of white leather, containing a bawll of baulme naturall.

Itm. vj dogge collors of crymsen vellat, with vj lyhams of white leather.

Itm. the phisionomye of King Henrie th' eight painted in a table. Memo'. that the King's secrete Warderobe at Westminstre, the stuffe lefte in the Kinge's secrete juelhowse, in the studye at the nether ende of the longe gallory in the chairehouse, and in the studie next the Kinge's olde bed-chambre at Westminster, were in the only custody of the Duke of Somerset untill the tyme of his trowble, beinge in Octobre, Anno tercio regis E. vij", at whiche tyme the Keys were delyvered to the King's Most Honorable Counsaill, and by ther commaundement the doores sealed untill the said xijth daye of Novembre, at which tyme by their appoyntment S William Herbert, Knight, of th' Ordre, Master of the King's Horses, Sir Edward Northe, Knight, one of the Kynge's Pryvie Counsaill, and Sir Walter Mildmaye, Knight, entered into the same how ses, and there toke a perfecte survey vyewe of all suche thinges as they found there remaynynge; and the same stuffe, by like ordre of the Counsaill, they delyvered in chardge to t'hands of James Rufforthe, to the King's use. f. 118.

In the margin: "The instrument of astronomye taken by the King's Majestie [Edward VI.], the xijth of Novembre, 1549, and likewise two other instruments, whereof his Grace gave one to the Lorde Straunge."

"The perfumes taken owte the xijth of Novembre, 1549, to burne for the Kinge's Majestie."

3 Several entries occur of tools, which, with the notice of an ornamented hammer, perhaps justify the inference that Henry sometimes amused himself with manual labour. 4 Delivered to the Kinge's Majestie the xijth of Novembre, 1549."

INTELLIGENCES.

Of historical documents of the second class, none are more valuable than the papers of persons employed by great families residing in the country to transmit to them the intelligence of the week. They contain for the most part an authentic record of facts; and we are persuaded that many curious circumstances, of value to all who wish to study the minutiae of history, are contained in inedited papers of this description. If they do not, like state-papers, admit us to the arcana of the government, they show how much of a political transaction was, at any particular period, suffered to transpire, and what was the public impression at the time concerning events which are now become subjects of historical criticism. They are occasionally to be found in the archives of ancient families; and a few are in public depositaries. It is our intention to transfer the contents of some of these papers to our pages, adding occasionally a few illustrative notes: at present, we shall confine ourselves to the period before the Civil Wars.

INTELLYGENCE Y CAME OUT OF FRAUNCE. [April, 1558.]

In primis y' at thassembly of thaffairs in January there was graunted to the King iiij. myllyons of crownes.

It. y' Mons' de Terun ys lefte in Callys wth x. ansignes of footemen, which thinhabytaunts of S. Quyntyn placed there.

It. y' the wise and best souldyers in Fraunce do iudge y' towne unydable yf yt be spedyly besyeged.

It. y' thenterprice was attempted by Cenerponts councell, only the King takyng his pou horse.

It. ye Duke of Guyse was highely receyved at Parris, and called openly at a banket, Servator Patriæ. 1

It. they be abought to be trothe ye Dolphyn to the Queene of Skotts: whereunto the King of Navar is sent for. Howbeit one of the Dolphyns cheef men is of thopynyon y' the marryage shall

never be consummate.

It. y' the Swyseis and the Swartrutters be ceised, and the French army dispersed.

It. how the Duke of Nevers hathe taken of late a stronge hold in the cuntrey of Luxenbourghe belongyng to Kyng Philippe. The Frenche Kynge hathe nues from ye Turke y' he will cause ye Venetians to declare them selfs against Kyng Phylippe, or els make war uppon them him self. And he wilbe strong uppon the seas this nexte somer.

It. where ye Prince of Conde was coronell of ye light horse men, yt ys taken from him and gyven to the Duke of Nemours.

1 This was on his return after the taking of Calais.

VOL. I.-PART II.

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