[132] Letters and Papers, XII, No. 47.
[133] Lambecius, Bibliotheca Cæsarea Vindobonensi, II, p. 512.
[134] Kalendars and Inventories of the Exchequer, II, p. 304.
[135] That pendants were termed “flowers” is clear from W. Thomas’s Italian Grammar (1548), where a fermaglio is defined as “the hangeing owche, or flowre that women use to tye at the chayne or lace that they weare about their neckes” (Way, Prompt. parv., p. 359, n. 3).
[136] His family name was Van der Gow or Van der Goes. See L. Cust, Burlington Magazine, VIII, p. 356.
[137] An enormous number of these exist. A catalogue of them has been drawn up by Mr. F. M. O’Donoghue, of the British Museum.
[138] British Museum. MSS. No. 4827.
[139] Strickland, Queens of England, IV, pp. 262, 416.
[140] Vertue (G.), Catalogue of the collection of Charles I, p. 47.
[141] “He gave me a jewel the other day, and now he has beat it out of my hat” (Timon of Athens, Act iii.)