----, paid to Bird for his fee, for the, 163, 263.
----, paid for pelletts, _i. e._ shot for the stone, 220.
Boys of the Stable, 3, 11, 12, _bis_, 18, 19, _bis_, 22, 23, _bis_, 29, 30, 31, 39, 44.
These items all appear to refer to the same persons, who seem to have been boys maintained for the purpose of riding race horses.
----, the carriage of, to Bury, and their expenses at, paid for, 81.
Boy, a, sent from Lord Dacres to the king, 206.
Considerable trouble is said to have been used in procuring boys for the purpose of riding the king's racing horses, and for his chapel; and the expenses of sending one from the borders of Scotland appear to have amounted to 3_l._ 6_s._ 8_d._
Brakes for mowing those in Greenwich Park, 230, 256.
Brakes are explained both by Dr. Johnson and Archdeacon Nares to be a thicket of brambles or thorns. The privilege of "mowing the brakes" is still reserved to the keepers of the royal parks in the instrument by which they are appointed. It possibly meant cutting the underwood.
Brandon Richard, 30, _bis_, 287, a Falconer.
Brass, paid for two curtalls [_i. e._ quintals] of, 170.
Browtherer, _i. e._ the Embroiderer's bill, 128.
Edmund, first Lord Bray. He was summoned to Parliament in 1529, and died in 1539.
Brennyng the barge, &c. for, 211. See Barge.
A "Master Brereton" who was a gentleman of the privy chamber, was sent from the king to Wolsey at Southwell after his disgrace.--See Cavendish's Life of Wolsey, p. 253. It was apparently this individual who was executed in consequence of his supposed connexion with Ann Boleyn.
Bridewell, to one that pretended a title to, 6.
Henry the Eighth erected a magnificent house on the scite of the ancient one of St. Bride, for the reception of Charles the Fifth, in 1522, and called it Bridewell. The king often lodged there, and held a parliament in it in 1525. It was the residence of Katherine in 1529, pending the proceedings relative to her divorce. Edward the Sixth gave it to the corporation of the city of London for an hospital. Why a person who pretended to have a title to it should be rewarded with 20_s._ it is difficult even to guess.
Bridge, for a private, at York Place, 20, 82, 93, 109.
Cavendish, in his life of Wolsey, speaking of the Cardinal's entertainments of Henry at York House, now Whitehall, says, "They thereupon looking out of the windows into Thames, returned again and showed him that it seemed to them there should be some noblemen and strangers arrived at _his bridge_ as ambassadors from some foreign prince." Ed. Singer, v. 1, p. 151. Whether it was this bridge which Needham was paid for finishing in January, 1530, is uncertain, but in July following he was employed to build a _private_ bridge.