Mules, [260]. Addenda, p. [366].
In April, 1530, two mules cost 22l. 10s. and in September, 1532, the sum paid for three was 35l. Thus the price continued very nearly the same.
Norris Sir Henry.
He was gentleman waiter to the King, and was the only person permitted to follow him into his bedchamber. Archæologia, vol. iii. p. 155. Cavendish says he was also Groom of the Stole, vol. ii. p. 25. It would be most unjust to allude, ever so casually to Norris, and omit to state that he was offered a pardon if he would confess that Anne Boleyn was guilty, but that he preferred his honour to his life.
Owche.
An owche also meant bosses, buttons, clasps, or any ornamental trinket. The custom of wearing a brooch, or some kind of ornament, in the front of the hat, is noticed by all our old poets. See Massinger, by Gifford, iv, [213]; Jonson, do. ii. 406.—M.
Pole Mr. Addenda, p. 365.
Afterwards the celebrated Cardinal Pole, Archbishop of Canterbury. He is said to have been allowed a large pension to enable him to travel into Italy, but of which he was afterwards deprived. The entry in these accounts of 70li. was, it is most probable, a mere gratuity, or present, for we never find another instance of a similar payment. As Pole was then thirty years of age, the title of "the Kings scholar" is curious.
Rat-taker.