It has not been ascertained who this individual was. The entry relating to him is a payment of 4l. 13s. 4d. which he had won of the King at Tables.
Shalms, brought to the king, [26].
---- for Tenor and Treble, [86].
A Shalm is explained by Mr. Ayrton, whose professional reputation renders him excellent authority on such a subject, "to be the base Cornet." Ellis's Original Letters, Second series, vol. i. p. 273. Bishop Percy informs us that "it was a wind instrument like a pipe, with a swelling protuberance in the middle:"
"Item, my Lord useth and accustometh yearly when his Lordship is at home to gyf to iij of the Kyngs Shames when they come to my Lord yerly x s." Northumberland Household Book, p. 341. Cavendish says, when the king of France came, "he danced, and others with him, the most part of that night; my Lord's minstrels played there so excellently all that night, that the shalme (whether it were with extreme labour of blowing, or with poisoning, as some judged, because they were more commended and accepted with the king than his own, I cannot tell,) but he that played upon the shalme, an excellent man in that art, died within a day or twain after." Ed. Singer, 1825, vol. i. p. 114. Perhaps the earliest drawing of a Shalm extant, is in the Illustrations to the copy of Froissart, in the British Museum, Royal MS. 18 E. I & II.
Sheathes for knives, of velvet, paid for, [161].
Shepey, paid the watermen for rowing the King to, [262].