Footman, to one that "sued to be" a, 155.
Ford William, keeper of the king's mastives, 7, 186.
This singular entry must be left to the reader's superior sagacity. It clearly refers in some way to the "riding boys," or as they are there called, "children of the stable," but its meaning has escaped the editor's research.
Forked heads for the king's cross-bow, 67.
"See a former remark. They were for the arrows shot from the cross-bow".--M.
Fowl, paid for keeping the, in the garden at Greenwich, 206.
---- James, keeper of the manor of Greenwich, 78, 127.
The king's almoner, and Provost of Cambridge in 1532. He was elected bishop of Landaff in 1535, and died in May 1538.
France King of, notices about his children, 59, _bis_.
Francis the first, king of France, his wife and children, were taken prisoners by the emperor at the siege of Pavia in 1525. The queen and the children remained in his hands until 1529, when it was agreed by the treaty of Cambray that they should be delivered to Francis on the payment of two millions of crowns. The money was soon raised, and Hall gives us a circumstantial account of the execution of the treaty, from which it appears that the Spanish commissioners met the Great Master of France at Bayonne, in March 1530, but the former objected to part of the coin on account of the weight, and therefore removed the children from Fountroby into Spain. The affair being thus delayed from March until June, Henry sent Sir Francis Bryan to pledge himself as security for the payment, and on the 1st of July queen Eleanor and the children were placed in the Great Master's hands. In July, Hall adds, "fyers were made in London and divers other places for the same consideracion and cause;" and it is worthy of remark, as a curious example of the change in the national policy, that precisely the same rejoicings took place when they fell into the emperor's power after the battle of Pavia a few years before. _Hall_, pp. 693, 772. From these accounts we learn that news of the event reached London on the 8th of July, 1530, by a Frenchman dispatched from the Great Master, and that on the 9th another messenger, probably from Sir Francis Bryan, arrived with similar information. Each of them received the same sum for their journey, namely, 23_l._ 6_s._ 8_d._