Probably the individual whom Boswell, in his _Lives of the Knights of the Garter**_, confounds with Sir William Kingston, and who was provost martial to the forces sent to quell the rebellion in Cornwall in 1547. See some remarks relative to the error in question in the _Testamenta Vetusta_, p. 693, and in Lodge's _Illustrations of British History_, vol. i. p. 16. Note.
---- Sir Henry, 11, 17, 36, 53, _bis_, 96, 126, 183, 200, 203, 219, _bis_, 237, 256, 259, 261, 264, 265, 281.
One of the Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber, and evidently a particular favourite of the King's.
---- William, 5, 40, 127, 206, 241, 261, 281.
Probably the individual who is described in an inscription in Stepney Church as a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber, and as having married Avise, the widow of Nicholas Gibson. See _Weever's Funeral Monuments_, 4to, p. 309. He enjoyed an annuity from the king of 20_l._
----, and sheathes of velvet, with girdles to them, 161.
Knives, paid for girdles and a chape for, 168.
Knives were worn at a very early period. In the 6 Edw. III. John Lord Grey of Rotherfeild, is stated to have been committed to prison for drawing his knife partly out of its sheath on William Lord Zouch, of Ashby. _Rot. Parl._ vol. ii. p. 656. _Long knives_, or other suspicious arms, were forbidden to be worn in the city of London or Westminster in 1351 during the sitting of Parliaments _Ibid._ p. 235.^{ a} In 1363 the _knives_ of trades-people and artificers were prohibited from being adorned with gold or silver, or precious stones. _Ibid_, p 278,^{ b} 281,^{ b} and in the 3 Edw. IV. _knives_ were forbidden from being imported, _Ibid._ vol. 5, p. 507. Thomas Earl of Warwick, in 1400, speaks of _knives_ for the King's coronation in his will; and Chaucer's allusion to the Sheffield whittle is well known,
Among the expenses of Ochin and Martyr, in 1547, before cited, is a payment of 2_s._ 8_d._ for "two payer of _Tunbridge knives_." The knife was placed in the girdle.
Lampreys, baked, brought, 9, 28, 29, 95, 103, 106, 108, 117, 188, 193, 195.
Langille William, the king's fletcher, 125.
Lanthony, [in Monmouthshire,] Prior of, 49, 53, 100, 108, 195.
----, money lost to him at dice and tennis, 268, _bis_.
The Cardinal of Lorrain. Tennis and dice seem almost as unsuitable to a Cardinal as a band of singers. On the 28th of October, 1532, when Henry ordered 9_l._ 6_s._ 8_d._ to be given to the French king's jester, and 4_l._ 13_s._ 4_d._ to the Cardinal's singers, Hall states that the king of Navarre, the Cardinal of Lorrain, and the Great Master and Admiral of France, dined with Henry at Calais; and these payments were evidently made for the amusement which they had afforded the party.