Shere Robert, keeper of the beagles, [17], [24], [39], [50], [54], [59], [75], [79], bis, [89], [94], [111], [126], [136], [149], [166], [167], [177], [187], [194], [198], [204], [213], [219], [231], [246], [250], [260], [275], [287], [290].
---- John, keeper of the beagles, [125].
Sic in MS. but query, if not a mistake for Robert Shere.
Ship, paid for discharging the, that brought Cardinal Wolsey's goods, [112].
----s, paid when the King viewed his, [260].
Henry's attachment to naval affairs has been fully established, and he consequently paid great attention to his ships. A curious list of his Majesty's navy, in 1525, [6], is given by Mr. Ellis, in his Original Letters, second Series, v. i. p. 218 et seq. as a note to a very interesting letter on the subject from Sir Edward Howard, Lord High Admiral, in 1513. See also a letter from some ladies to the King from Portsmouth about the year 1540, acquainting the King with the pleasure they derived from inspecting "the Great Harry." Ibid. First Series, vol. ii. p. 126.
----, the Master Treasurer's, [6].
Evidently the ship belonging to Sir William Fitz-William, afterwards Earl of Southampton, and which by his will dated in September, 1542, he thus bequeathed to the King—"Item, I give to the King's Majesty my great ship, with all her tackle, and my collar of the garter, with my best George beset with diamonds."—Testamenta Vetusta, p. 707. Individuals frequently owned ships which were employed in the King's service, and which seem to have been considered as a sufficient means of support, for Sir Edward Howard, the Lord Admiral, in his will dated in 1512, says, "Whereas I have two Bastards, I give the King's grace the choice of them, beseeching his Grace to be good Lord to them, and that when he cometh of age he may be his servant; and him that the King's Grace chuseth, I bequeath him my bark, called 'Genett,' with all apparel and artillery, and L li to begin his stock with: the other I bequeath to my special trusty friend, Charles Brandon, praying him to be good master unto him; and for because he hath no ship, I bequeath to him C marks to set him forward in the world." Ibid. p. 534.
----, Purveyor of the, [179].
Shirts for, [17], [53], [78], [84], sæpe, [97], [101], [104], [119], [121], [136], [197], [261], [283].