---- at Paris, a gratuity to, [119].
----, for the Exhibitions of, [46], [82], [165], [207], [260].
----, for the Exhibitions of, at Paris, [8], [71], [90], [190], [263].
Scholars, to Mr. Ratcliffe, a scholar at Cambridge, [224].
Among the few redeeming traits in Henry the Eighth's character, was a love of learning, to which each of these entries bears additional testimony. Besides occasional gifts to Scholars of Oxford, Cambridge and Paris, and which in three years amounted to 83l. 13s. 4d. he also gave exhibitions, the whole expences of which in the same period were 63l. 6s. 8d. He moreover supported two scholars at St. Paul's School, the charges for which were 30l. 3s.; making, if 13l. 9d. paid to the master of that school in January 1531, be included, a total of 190l. 12s. spent from November 1529 to December 1532, for the encouragement and advancement of erudition; a trifling sum, it is true, when compared with recent instances of Royal munificence, but important when the value of money, and the manners of the times are considered.
Science, paid to a jeweller to be employed in his, [156].
The use of the word Science in this sense is rather curious.
Scot John, [23], [39], [87], [108], [132], [182], [205], [217], [277], [281].
A Mercer or Taylor.