Tables, money given the king to play at the, [272], [273].
Tables is considered to be the old name for back-gammon. In the frontispiece of Strutt's Sports and Pastimes an engraving of a Table occurs. Sir William Compton, by his will dated in 1523, bequeathed to Henry "a little chest of ivory, wherof one lock is gilt, with a chess-board under the same, and a pair of tables upon it, and all such jewels and treasures as are inclosed therein." Testamenta Vetusta, p. 593. Tables are thus spoken of in a Knight's Instructions to his Daughters, originally written in French, in April 1371, and translated about the reign of Henry VI. "Ther was a gentille knight's daughter that wratthed atte the Tables with a gentill man that was riotous and comberous and hadd an evelle hede, and the debate was on a point that he plaide that she saide it was wronge, and so the wordes and the debate rose so, that she saide that he was a lewde fole and thanne lost the game in chiding." Harleian MSS. 1764, f. 7b
Table of wood, for a, [199].
Tables, forms, &c. for, [220].
Table-cloths, for diaper for, [264].
Taffeta, crimson, in grain, for, [87].
Talbot, Bryan, [31], [43], [83], [96], [110], [135], [166], [175], [188], [212], [281], [284], [290].
Numerous as these entries are, they afford no information on the situation which Talbot filled. His wages were 9l. per annum, and we may infer that he was one of the servants.
Tallowing the King's barge, for, [45], [211]. See Barge.
Tar for the King's barge, [45]. See Barge.