Knevet Anthony, [10], [25], [86].
---- Sir Henry, [11], [17], [36], [53], bis, [96], [126], [183], [200], [203], [219], bis, [237], [256], [259], [261], [264], [265], [281].
One of the Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber, and evidently a particular favourite of the King's.
---- William, [5], [40], [127], [206], [241], [261], [281].
Probably the individual who is described in an inscription in Stepney Church as a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber, and as having married Avise, the widow of Nicholas Gibson. See Weever's Funeral Monuments, 4to, p. 309. He enjoyed an annuity from the king of 20l.
Knight, Doctor, [118].
----, and sheathes of velvet, with girdles to them, [161].
Knives, paid for girdles and a chape for, [168].
Knives were worn at a very early period. In the 6 Edw. III. John Lord Grey of Rotherfeild, is stated to have been committed to prison for drawing his knife partly out of its sheath on William Lord Zouch, of Ashby. Rot. Parl. vol. ii. p. 656. Long knives, or other suspicious arms, were forbidden to be worn in the city of London or Westminster in 1351 during the sitting of Parliaments Ibid. p. [235].a In 1363 the knives of trades-people and artificers were prohibited from being adorned with gold or silver, or precious stones. Ibid, p 278,b 281,b and in the 3 Edw. IV. knives were forbidden from being imported, Ibid. vol. 5, p. 507. Thomas Earl of Warwick, in 1400, speaks of knives for the King's coronation in his will; and Chaucer's allusion to the Sheffield whittle is well known,