The Privy Purse Expenses of King Henry VIII from November MDXXIX, to December MDXXXII

by Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas

All these entries relate to money expended at Dover, when Henry landed there on his return from France in November, 1532.

Draper ——, [129].

----, to the, for table cloths, [264].

Dressing" the king's boat and "barge, [7], [11], [96], [155], [181], [281]. See Boat.

Drinking money, paid the king's watermen for, [174].

Drombeslade, to Christopher and his fellowe, [250].

----, to two, [214].

A Dromslade is explained by Dr. Burney to be a species of Drum:—"And there they weere set forthe be five in a ray with standards born a fore them and drounslats playing afore them alle the way."—Fragment of a Chronicle, temp. Hen. VIII. Cotton. MSS. Vespasianus, A. xxxv.

Droyt John, a minstrell, [28].

Drulardy, a Frenchman, [65].