Miscellaneous Entries relative to the Royal Tents, Halls, Pavilions, Toyles, &c.

(36 Henry VIII.)-Wages of artificers, &c. employed in making five score single roofs, every of them being of five breadths of vitrye canvas* 34 yards deep, having 12 points in every end ridged and stavyd with red buckram, delivered at Bollogne,† to the Lord Deputie there, taking up out of ships the kings tents, hales, pavilions, and timber houses. Ships, and hoys, occupied in the carriage of the King's Mats tents, hales, and pavilions, from Boulogne to the Tower wharf, taking after the burden of the said ships 3s. per ton; the Pelycan, John Verne Master, 65 tonne; the Andrew Vandergoose, Jacob Rayne Master, 40 tonne; the John Van Machlyn, Gylbert Fyshe Master, 40 tonne; the Jesus of Calais, Adryan King Master, 70 tonne; the Bull of Calies, Cornelys Cornelyson Master, 40 tonne; the George Bonaventure of London, Richard Read Master, 534 tonne; long carts and cars carrying the aforesaid from the Tower Wharf to the Charter House,‡ every long cart taking 6d. the load, and car 4d. To Fraunces Taxe, paynter, for these parcells following, by him bought and provided, to be occupied in and about the king's timber houses, at the Camp before Bollogne. First, for the horns to mend the windowes after, 3s. 4d.

* In other items vyctrye canvas.

It appears by a bill indented at that time between Sir John Gresham and Sir Thomas Cawarden, with the other officers of His Majesty's Tents, that there were provided by the said Sir John Gresham 70 ballets of fine brown canvas, containing 15,600 ells of canvas; 20 trusses of French buckram of divers colours, containing 1904 pieces; which items shew how considerable the camp equipage for this expedition was.

It will be observed that many of the dissolved monasteries were employed as government storehouses, as convenience suggested.

the C. 68. 8d.; 8lb. of ledd reddy caste, at 1d. the pounde, 8d.; 6lb. of sother (solder) 4d. the pounde 28.

Left in the captaynes hands of his grace's towne of Bullen 300 Targetts for scalling the walls.

(37 Henry VIII.) Payments for conveying tents, hales, pavylyons, and tymber houses, from the Blackfriars to Cobham Park, there setting up the same. Among other charges on this service: Nycholas Haryson, of London, glasyer, for cc horne occupyed at Chobham Parke, in reparynge of wyndowes at the settynge up the Kyng's Majestes howses ther, a' 3s. 10d. the c. 78. 8d.; to the Churche wardens of Chobham, for waxe spent of the churches in stopping of holes in sere clothes (cere cloths) over the King's and Quene's Chamber. Hobson, of London, mercer, for 20 bolts of browne threde, a' 28. 4d. 408. 8d. Will'm Smith, hackneman (hackneyman) for one horse, by the space of 6 days, occupied in fetching sundry necessaries from London, Chertsey, Stanes, and Wyndsore 28. In a fragment of an account, a charge for gilding the lead of the horn windows.

38 Henry VIII.-Charges for carrying the King's hales, timber houses, &c. from London to Hampton Court and Oatlands. Willm Kendal, of London, wax chandler, for M. M. c. di. xviiilb. (two thousand five hundred and a half and eighteen pounds) of wax spent upon the searyng (cering) of 1647 yards of new vytrye canvase for the covering of the tymber houses and banketing nowses, taking for every pound so spent 6d. Thomas Chappell, of London, upholster, 9 y'ds of red say for mending the roses of the King's round houses, at 9d the yd. Jonn Alard, glasyer, for m1 lanterne hornes, for ye wyndowes of the tymber houses, at 28. the c. 208. Charges for land carriage of Tents from Oatlands to Twyknam Park.

* These were pavises or large covering shields used by the soldiers in such operations.

(1 Jan. to 24 Feb. 1 Edward VI.)—Charges for taking downe all the kinges own lodgings that were hanged up for to drye. Carriage of two longe hales from the black friars to the Tylte yarde at Westminster, and there set up at the triumphe for the men at armes; the same taken down and brought agayn to the Blake friars.

(2 Edward VI.)-Charges for drying the tents, halles, and ruffs (roofs) that came from Skotland wetted in the shippe. (3 Edw. 6.)-Artificers repairing round howses, charges for leather, ground tackle, crow feet, rope stakes, betells, iron work for 6000 stakes, at 208. the 1000; 30 betells at 4d. the betell. (6 Edw. VI.)-Charges for repairing the King's Maties toyles for his disporte in huntinge agaynst his progress northward.

Extracts of an Inventory of unserviceable tents, halles, and pavilions of the King, and therefore probably very old camp equipage.-A great hale with the sonne beams, containing in the walls 40 bredths of canvas, 6 feet depe, and in the roof 7 bredths of 11 foote depe in every end 26 yards, with crow-foote ground tackling, a roof of a round house to the same of 52 gores, 13 foote hie. A rownde house garnished with blue buckram, laid on with red rounde lace, having token of a lyon, another 14 feet high, garnished with blew, and a red rose on the top; a hale bearing the token of the grey hinde (qu. hound?); a hale bearing the token of the flower de luce; a rownde house bearing the token of a harte; a jacks (jakes), a cresaunte to the same; a hale bering the token of the mone; beasts of tymber paynted, a lyon, a dragon, two gray hounds, and a don cowe, a bare (bear's) hide, lyned with whyte and grene; a pece of another bere hide; 6 charetts bodis without wheles; 4 cart bodys without wheles.

(44.)

Ordinances of War promulgated by Henry VIII. on occasion of his expedition to Boulogne, A. D. 1513.

This rare and probably unique printed pamphlet, which has all the rarity of a Manuscript, was found in one of the old chests in the Muniment Room at Loseley, and had probably belonged to Sir Thomas Cawarden, who we may suppose attended the royal army in his capacity of Master of the Tents.* It consists of certain statutes and ordinances of war enacted by Henry VIII. for the government of his forces, previous to his expedition into France, with an army royal, for the purpose of recovering the provinces in that Kingdom, of which Henry VI. had been in possession.

This enterprise was undertaken in the 4th year of Henry's reign; he constituted Katharine his consort Regent in his absence, passed the seas to Calais on 30th of June, 1513, and putting himself at the head of an army consisting of about 9000 effective men, laid siege to Terouenne, a frontier town of Artois, which had been considered as impregnable. Here the Emperor Maximilian came to the King in quality of his soldier, wore the cross of St. George on the surcoat of his body armour, received an hundred crowns per diem as his pay, and was lodged in a tent of cloth of gold. Having captured Terouenne, he next beleaguered Tournay, which was also reduced. In the mean time it will be recollected that the Earl of Surrey had

* Sir Thomas, then Mr. Carden, had an allowance of 781. for coats (provided on this occasion we imagine) for 490 footmen, or infantry. He had conduct or marching money for them at a halfpenny per mile, bringing them from various places to Dover. For three petty captains, being horse, he was allowed 2d. the mile.

gained the victory of Flodden Field, and James the Fourth, the ally of the French King, was in that memorable conflict slain. These events led Louis XII. to negociate terms of pacification.

The occasion of forming this Book of Military Statutes is expressly detailed in the paragraph with which they are summed up towards the conclusion.

"For as moche as our sayde soveraygne lorde, for the inwarde love, tendre zele, and entyer affecyon, which he bereth naturally to his subjettes, beynge of his said hoste and armye, would be lothest and most displeasaunt to se or understonde any of them to do that offence wherby he shuld deserve the lest punyshment by the sayd ordynaunces provyded; his Hyghnesse therefore desyreth and tenderly prayed * his sayd subjiettes to consydre and understonde his good spede in his sayd journey, the honoure of this royalme, and the wele and suretie of the same his subjiettes, stondeth upon the observacion of the sayde statutes, wherfore though it be to the grettest hevynesse and displeasure, yet must he of necessytye, when the case it requyreth, se the sayd statutes executed and the offenders punyshed.

"In consyderacyon wherof, he wylleth and straytly chargeth his sayd subjiettes to have them selfe in so good awayte, that in no wyse they offend the sayde statutes, and to th'entent they have no cause to excuse them of theyr offences by pretence or ignoraunce of the sayd ordenaunces, his hyghnesse hath, over and above the open proclamacyon of the sayde statutes, commaunded and ordeyned by way of Emprynte, dyverse and many several bokes conteygnynge the same statutes, to be made and delivered to the capitaynes of his hoste, chargynge them as they wyll

* Sic.

+ Misprint in orig. should be " of."