If, as can scarcely be doubted, by "Beres" is meant Bears, this item proves that Henry had a kind of private menagerie, for it is not likely it could refer to the animals in the Tower.
Beaulie, the gardener of, [4], [5], [8], [18], [36], bis, [39], [44], [45], ter, [50], [56], [61], [72], [77], bis, [80], [81], [87], [96], bis, [103], [120], [124], [130], [142], [147], [166], [169], [176], [188], [197], [200], [207], [209], [219], [220], [224], [232], [235], [241], [256], [257], [264], [287], [288].
"New Hall, a magnificent mansion not far from Woodham Walters, formerly belonging to the Butlers, Earls of Ormond, after to Thomas Bollen, Earl of Wiltshire, of whom Henry VIII. purchased it by exchange, and making costly additions to it, gave it the name of Beaulieu, which, however, never prevailed among the generality."—Gough's Camden, vol. ii. p. 44. New Hall, or Beaulieu, is about five miles S. E. by E. of Maldon, on the side of the æstuary of the Blackwater.—"Leland states that when Henry 'ædes sibi comparassit cœperunt in immensum excrescere ingentibus Principis impensis, novumque juxta ac elegans nomen Belli Loci adsumere.' Camden informs us that the new name never prevailed among the common people; and after the king's death, it is presumed, the place resumed its original appellation of New Hall." M.
Bed, and appurtenances, paid for the making of a, [77].
Some curious descriptions of the beds of our ancestors will be found in the "Testamenta Vetusta" sparsim, from which an idea can be formed of their magnificence. Even in this era of luxury our beds are far inferior in splendour to those of the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries.—"In the inventory of household furniture of Skipton Castle, taken in 1572, we have proof that a state bedchamber of that period 'was not inferior in magnificence, as far as its accommodations went, to the same apartment in a modern nobleman's house.'—Whitaker's Crav. p. 328. A 'bed of downe with a bolster' is there valued at Cs. 'The teaster of tynsell and blake vellvett with armes, havynge curtains of sylke, with frynges, 20l.'"—M.
Bedesmen, S^{r}. Torche the king's at the rood of Greenwich, [33], [188], [122].
A beadsman, it is scarcely requisite to remark, is an individual who is bound to pray for the person by whom he is supported. From the title "Sir" being applied to Henry's beadsman, it seems that he was a priest, and we learn that he received 40s. a year.
Bedill Master, [26].
Bedwell, keeper of the park of, [71].