The Spicry.

Ginger iiib, iiis; of sinomond iiioz, xvd; ginger iioz, vid; cloves and mace vioz, xvid; pepper one lb. iis iiiid; raisons iilb, iiiid; prunes iilb, iiid.

Kechin.

In all ixs.

Acates. Multons,* iii at viis the pece; xx capons iii. doz. do. at xvid the pece, lvis; and conyes ii doz. at iiis the doz. vis, iiiili iiis.

Saltery and Pastry.

Wheate flower, ii bushels at vis viiid the bushell, xiiis iiijd.

Scullery. Wood-yarde.

Earthen potts, xvi doz. at iiis doz. xxxvis; cooles, xxx lodes at xvis the loode, xxiiiili viiis-xxvili iiiis.

Tall wood, xxv loods at iiiis viiid the loode, vl xvis viiid.
Tall wood, xii loods, at iiis iiiid.

Billets, eleven thowsande at ixs ivd the M. vl iis viiid.
Faggotts, one M. iis vid.

Russhes,† xxx doz. at xxd the doz.

P. Porterage off xxxvii loods tall wood, at xid, and viii loods billets iiiis, and xxx doz. russhes xxd from the water side to the Black Friers—in all vs viiid.

Chandry.‡

* Multo, mutto, a sheep. Kennett's Glossary. "Is the house trimmed, rushes strewed?"

Taming of the Shrew, act IV. scene 1. In Cavendish's Life of Wolsey, we have the following enumeration of various departments of the Cardinal's household the buttery, the pantry, the ewery, the larder, the scalding-house, the scullery, the cellar, the chaundery, the wafery, the wardrobe of beds, the laundry, the bakehouse, the wood-yard, the garner, the garden.

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Wax wrought, xxxvli in sizes, preckets, and quarr. at xiid le lb.*

Staffe torches, xxxii at xiiiid the peece, lxxiiis ixd. Whyght lights, xviii doz. at iiis le doz. liiiis.-vili viis ixd.

All which premisses were provided for by the seide Sir Thomas Cawerden, at her Grace's request before her officers at her howse at Dartforth,† for that her Grace at that tyme lacked money for the furniture of the same unto ye said Sir Thoms, and promisid payment agayne of the same unto the seid Sr Thoms, wherof he demaundeth allowance according to her Grace's seid promise.

Over and besydes, divers sondry fayer potts of pewter, by the seide Sr Thoms then bowght, provided, and paid for, to serve in the buttery for howshold; wherof he asketh no allowance for that, althowgh the most parte were spoyled, broken, and loste, the rest remayne in his howse

* Sises, prickets, and quarriars were different kinds of wax tapers. The sises and quarriars were so called, perhaps, from the proportion they bore to the division of the pound weight. The pricket was probably a large taper, set up in the ancient fashion on a candlestick terminating in a point.

+ Edward III. founded a nunnery at Dartford in Kent A. D. 1355, and committed its government to the order of Friars Preachers. Henry VIII. fitted up the buildings after the dissolution as a palace for himself and his successors. Edward VI. granted it, with the manor of Dartford called Wash Meade, to Ann of Cleves, in exchange for lands in Surrey; she died seised of them in the 4th of Mary, when they reverted to the Crown. Queen Elizabeth resided there two days in the 16th year of her reign. James I. granted it, with the manor of Dartford, to Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, in exchange for Theobalds, who conveyed it to Sir Robert Darcy. Some small vestiges of this building are still extant (1831).

and to his use; and over and besides bras, iron, and latten potts, pannes, kettles, skelletts, ladles, skinimers, peeles, dressing-knives, spitts, racks, fflesh-hookes, tubbes, baskets, trayes, flasketts, and diverse other utensiles and properties ffurnished in theire places in the saide office, bowght, provided, and paid for by the seide Sr Thomas, to the valew of ix1 vis viiid, partly then spoyld, broken, and loste, whereof he asketh no allowance for yt the rest remayne in his howse to his use.

And over and besides iiii garnish of new pewter vessells, then by him bowght, provided, and paid for, and there continually occupied to her use during her abode there; whereof parte were moulten, broken, and some cleane loste, yet for the same he asketh no allowance, for that he hath the rest. And also over and besides two doz. of fayre new candlesticks of pewter, deld into the chambers and chaundry, parte being broken, spoyled, and loste, the rest remayne to his use, and therfor demandeth no allowance. And over and besides sundry kindes of ffish, as carpes, pikes, tenches, and other ffresh ffishe, by him at the like request provided, and were privately drest in her seide (Grace's) laundres✶ kittehin for the tryall of cookery wherof he asketh no allowance, for that they were of his owne store to his knowledge, and ye prises not rated.

*By this it appears that her Grace had devised some experiments in the gastronomic art, which were not allowed to be made public in her household kitchin.

Papers of Sir Thomas Cawarden, of Bletchingley.

Amongst some of the earliest and not the least curious of the MSS. at Loseley, are those which relate to the offices and affairs of Sir Thomas Cawarden, or Cawerden (familiarly Carden), of Bletchingley, in Surrey. He was a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Henry the Eighth, Master of the Revels, and Keeper of the King's Tents, Hales, and Toyles.*

It belonged to his office as Master of the Revels to take charge and custody of all the garments and properties necessary for the pageants, masks, and other diversions of the Court, to provide for the erection and decoration of all such temporary buildings as might be required for those entertainments. To this office, therefore, was very naturally joined that of keeper of the King's tents and temporary lodgings, used in military expeditions or other occasions in the field.

Sir Thomas Cawarden seems to have been strongly attached to the cause of the Reformed religion, and to have stood high in the favour of King Henry VIII. He had a

* The hales were temporary sheds of timberwork, used as stables, or for other purposes. The toyles were enclosures into which game was driven. They were also used for forming the barriers at tournaments. Examples of the word in both acceptations occur incidentally in the papers of Sir Thomas Cawarden. "A toyle of canvas, taken out of the King's store of the said Office of the Tentes, to sarve for a tylte for the Lord of Misrule his triumphe and justs at Greenwich, with hobbyhorses and on foot, before the King's Majesty at Christmas."From one of Sir Thomas Cawarden's Rolls of the Office of the Revels 6th Edward VI.

grant from that monarch of the manor of Hextalls, in Bletchingley, which had belonged to Sir Nicholas Carew, of Beddington, near Croydon, who was beheaded in 1539 on a charge of having joined in a conspiracy to depose the King, and to set Reginald Pole, the Cardinal, on the throne.

Cawarden is said to have entertained Henry VIII. and his Queen Ann Boleyn, at his castle at Bletchingley; and this is not improbable, for tradition still constantly speaks of the visits paid by the royal pair to places adjacent to the valley of Holmesdale, in which vicinage the castellated mansion of Hever, the residence of the Boleyns from the time of Henry II. was situated. At the suppression of monasteries, Sir Thomas Cawarden had a grant of the church and precinct of the Black Friars, London, and of the parish church of St. Ann within the same. He demolished both edifices, but in the reign of Queen Mary was obliged to provide a place of worship for the parishioners of St. Ann; a mandate which, according to Stow, was but imperfectly obeyed.*

He was at the siege of Boulogne, (doubtless in his capacity of Master of the King's Tents,) where he was knighted by his sovereign. He was Keeper of the parks, wardrobe, and palace of Nonsuch. In the first year of Henry's successor, Edward VI. we find him Sheriff of Surrey. On the accession of Mary, his position in Court favour underwent that change which was to be expected from the Queen's bigotry and intolerance. He was five times indicted for

* "In the raigne of Queen Mary, he being forced to finde a church to the inhabitants, allowed them a lodging-chamber above a staire, which since that time, to wit, in the yeare 1597, fell down; and was againe, by collection therefore made, new builded and enlarged in the same yeare, and was dedicated on the eleventh of December."-Stow's Survey, 4to edit. p. 655.