Balls tennis, paid for, [283].
"Banished" to families sent out of Greenwich, [104], [125], [129], [173], [273], bis.
The last entry excepting one on this subject confirms the opinion relative to the former, namely, that they were families in which an infectious disease had appeared, and which were consequently sent out of Greenwich lest it should extend to the court, and endanger the royal person. The king however seems always to have borne the expences attending their removal, and which are deserving of notice as showing what was considered a sufficient sum for the purpose. Some of the persons thus "banished" were evidently above the lower orders, for we find that William Morley had six servants, and Hadstone, three.
Baptist John, an Italian Jeweller, [97], [99].
Barba John, a sackbut, [173].
Barbariste Horse [i. e. Barbary Horse], to Powle that keeps the, [165].
Barbary Horse, to the keeper of the, [133], [199], [204].
Henry's attachment to horses is manifested by numerous entries, and this horse, which is in one place called a "Barra horse," and in another the "Barbaristo horse," was apparently a favourite Arabian sent from some part of Barbary, from which it derived its appellation. Shakespeare also speaks of a "Barbary horse:"
"When Bolingbroke rode on roan Barbary, that horse
That thou so often had bestrid."
Rich. II. A. 5. Sc. 5.