---- John, [201].
Bruges satin, doublets of, [23].
---- for, [222].
Bryan Sir Francis, [9], [60], [72], [76], [83], [209], [211], [212], [216], [232], [243], bis, [244], [263], [274], [275], bis, [278].
Many of the entries respecting Sir Francis Bryan, one of the brightest ornaments of Henry's court, tend to confirm the idea of the intimacy between him and his sovereign. They show that he was constantly the king's companion in his amusements at shovel board, bowls, dice, primero, and other games; and on one occasion we find 50l. was given to his servant as "a token from the king to him," an expression which no where else occurs, and which, it would seem, was a delicate manner of making him a pecuniary present. He was the only son of Sir Thomas Bryan, who died in 1517, and was one of Henry the Eighth's Gentlemen of the Bedchamber. Bryan was the author of some sonnets which are inserted amongst those of the Earl of Surrey; and he is consequently noticed by Dr. Nott, in his elegant edition of that nobleman's productions. Hall also states many curious facts respecting him, particularly of the loss of one of his eyes at a tilting match.
Bryan, keeper of greyhounds, [58].
Bryce John, [155].
Bucks brought, [26], [49], [55], [60], bis, [67], [136], [150], [194], [229], [232].
----, paid to the guard for eating a, [156].
Why the guard should have been paid 40s. for eating a buck is not easily explained. If the guard consisted of very few persons, it might have been a sort of wager.