Datchet, [Co. Bucks,] to the feryman at, [35], [54], [146], [252].
Dates brought, [203].
Daunce Sir John, [112], [113], [114].
David St. money given for keeping his feast, [28], [114], [197].
These were probably gifts to Welshmen, to enable them to celebrate the feast of their tutelar saint. In Mr. Ellis's Original Letters, First Series, v. i. p. 273, the following notice occurs among the expences of the Household of the Princess Mary between 1536 and 1545, and which tends to illustrate these entries: "Item, geven amongs the yeomen of the King's guard, bringing a leke to my lady's Grace on Saynt David's day, xvs."—M.
Davy Hugh, servant to the Princess Mary, [148].
---- Little, [144].
----, with a slit nose, [64].
This elegant soubriquet seems to have been used to distinguish him from Hugh Davy and little Davy—all of whom had perhaps the same baptismal name.
---- the footman, paid for his burial expenses, [172].