---- paid for carrying a, to Windsor, [245].
Staines, to men of, [31].
Staker Sir Lawrence. See Staber.
Stalking Gelding, for meat for a, [132].
---- Ox the, brought, [112].
A Stalking Horse, Archdeacon Nares informs us, was "sometimes a real horse, sometimes the figure of one cut out and carried by the sportsman for the following purposes. On being found that wild fowl which would take early alarm at the appearance of man, would remain quiet when they saw only a horse approaching, advantage was taken of it, for the shooter to conceal himself behind a real or artificial horse, and thus to get within shot of his game." In the Gentleman's Recreation both kinds of stalking horses, and the manner of using them, are fully explained. All these entries on the subject seem to refer to a real horse, and we learn from one of them that an ox was employed for the same purpose. A stalking horse occurs in the list of Henry's horses in the Ordinances made at Eltham, in the 17th Henry VIII. p. [200].
Standards, for carrying Plate, [43].
The word is used in a similar sense by Cavendish. "The King caused to be sent him three or four cart loads of stuff, and most part thereof was locked in great standards (except bed and kitchen stuff) wherein was both plate, and rich hangings, and chapel stuff." Ed. Singer, 1825, vol. i. p. 224.
Steel Plate, bundells of brought, [87].