Hartwell Park, to the keeper of, 161, 240.
Harvy Sir Nicholas, to the nurse and midwife of his child, 197.
Ancestor of the Marquess of Bristol. He was gentleman of the privy chamber to the king, and one of his favorites. Sir Nicholas was thrice married and had issue by each wife; but it does not appear which child was honored by having the king for one of its sponsors.
As every entry relating to the fine arts is of peculiar interest, this is deserving attention; though from the word "plat" it would appear, that it was a plan rather than a painting. The sum paid for it to Vincent, the king's painter, was 3_l._ 10_s._ See PLAT.
---- brought, 47, 49, 51, 54, 62, 105, 145, 146, _ter_, 151, 162, 210, 231.
----, meat for, 3, 5, 25, 28, 30, 31, 34, 38, 42, 51, _bis_, 52, 71, 78, 85, 95, _bis_, 116, _bis_, 129, 133, 135, 140, _bis_, 163, 171, 181, 185, _bis_, 198, 200, 212, 216, 221, _bis_, 222, 225, 227, 229, 236, _sæpe_, 253, 254, 259, _bis_, 278, _bis_, 279, 284, _bis_, 286, 288, 289.
These numerous items of money for hawks' meat are more fully noticed at the commencement of the volume.
Hawks brought from the King of France, 269;
The Mew was a close place in which hawks were confined whilst moulting. "The Mews at Charing Cross were so called because Henry the Eighth used them for his hawks on those occasions."--M.
Hawkyn, a falconer, 5, 31, 95, 140, 163, 181, 222, 236, 253, 287, 289.
Hawte Christopher, a falconer, 198, 216, 236, 287.
Hayes Cornelius, Goldsmith, 10, 134, 138, 156, 170, 179, 184, 188, 192.
Healed, to the people that the king, 156, 160, 161, 163, 164, 170, 203, 213, 217, 221, 225, 243, 249, 253, 264, 272, 278.
These entries were of payments made to persons whom the king touched for the evil. It appears that they uniformly received 7_s._ 6_d._ each; a gratuity which at that period, and to poor persons, was very considerable. It tends also in a great measure to account for the prevalence of the custom; for a more convenient superstition could scarcely be devised.
Henawd [_i. e._ Henault] Park, to the keeper of, 170.
Henchmen, for the rent of a house for the, 79, 125, 182, 209, 230, 265.
No word has been more commented upon than "Henchmen," or Henxmen. Without entering into the controversy it may be sufficient to state, that in the reign of Henry the Eighth it meant the pages of honor. They were the sons of gentlemen, and in public processions always walked near the monarch's horse: a correct idea may be formed of their appearance from the representation of them in one of the pictures in the meeting room of the Society of Antiquarians. It seems from these entries that they lodged in the house of Johnson, the master of the king's barge, and that the rent of it was 40_s._ per annum. Observations on the word will be found in Spelman's _Etymol:_, Pegge's _Curiala_, from the Liber Niger Edw. IV., Lodge's _Illustrations_, vol. i. p. 359, the _Northumberland Household Book_, Blount's _Glossary_.