Sackbuts and other musical instruments, for, 86.
----, to the one belonging to the French Queen, 248.
Persons who played on the Sackbut, _i. e._ a brass trumpet.
"A _Saker_ is a passenger or peregrine Hawk, for her eyrie hath not been found by any. She is somewhat larger than the haggard falcon, her plume is rusty and ragged, the sear of her foot and beak like the lanner; her pounces are short; however she has great strength, and is hardy to all kind of fowl."--_Gentleman's Recreation._ A _Sakerett_ was probably a young Saker. Six Sakers and five Sakeretts cost, in 1532, eight crowns a-piece, the sum paid for the eleven being 20_l._ 10_s._ 8_d._
Sandys' Lord, park to the keeper of, 151.
Sawcy, to the Lieutenant and keepers of the forest of, 241.
Scassebrig Thomas, one of the Pitcher House, 251.
Scholars at Oxford, gratuities to, 8, 157, 243.
----, for the Exhibitions of, 46, 82, 165, 207, 260.
----, for the Exhibitions of, at Paris, 8, 71, 90, 190, 263.
Scholars, to Mr. Ratcliffe, a scholar at Cambridge, 224.
Among the few redeeming traits in Henry the Eighth's character, was a love of learning, to which each of these entries bears additional testimony. Besides occasional gifts to Scholars of Oxford, Cambridge and Paris, and which in three years amounted to 83_l._ 13_s._ 4_d._ he also gave exhibitions, the whole expences of which in the same period were 63_l._ 6_s._ 8_d._ He moreover supported two scholars at St. Paul's School, the charges for which were 30_l._ 3_s._; making, if 13_l._ 9_d._ paid to the master of that school in January 1531, be included, a total of 190_l._ 12_s._ spent from November 1529 to December 1532, for the encouragement and advancement of erudition; a trifling sum, it is true, when compared with recent instances of Royal munificence, but important when the value of money, and the manners of the times are considered.
Science, paid to a jeweller to be employed in his, 156.
The use of the word _Science_ in this sense is rather curious.
Scot John, 23, 39, 87, 108, 132, 182, 205, 217, 277, 281.
A gratuity of 20_s._ to him in consideration of his having been robbed.
Scottish Ambassadors, money given to the, 250.
Scowring the new pale in Greenwich Park, 230.
A Scrivener, who had probably been employed in transcribing; the sum paid to him was considerable, namely, 14_l._ 9_s._ 4_d._