----'s park, to the keeper of, and to his servants, 266, _bis_.
Chickens brought, 126, 131, 193, 207, 215, 218, 229, 230, 242, 255, 264.
Child, to a poor, that the king's grace healed, 150.
Children of the King of France. See France.
----, hosen for the, 109, 122, 155, 186, 219.
----, paid to one for his expenses on his journey to provide, 140.
---- of the stable, for gere, for the, 182.
----, to a poor man that had thirteen, 93.
From the ordinances made at Eltham, for the regulation of the household, it appears, that he was the head of the "Gentlemen of the Chapel," and was allowed 30_l._ per annum for his wages.
Chippings for hounds, paid for, 7, 19, 24, 45, 49.
Christening of a child, paid on the, 106, 117, 136, 145.
It may perhaps be inferred that on each of these occasions the king was one of the sponsors.
Christmas, money given against, 11, _bis_.
Christopher, Milliner, 25, 63, 65, 76, 99, 151, 173, _bis_.
Clamp Nicholas, a falconer, 17, 30, 34, _ter_, 38, 42, 71, _ter_, 85, _ter_, 95, _sæpe_, 129, _ter_, 130, _ter_, 181, 192, 198, 200, 221, 280, 285, 287, 288, _ter_.
All of these numerous entries were either payments of his wages or for food for the hawks.
Cloak, paid for a, for Lady Ann, all the materials of which are minutely noticed, 222, 223.
The manner in which even the most trifling article connected with this cloak is mentioned is not a little amusing. The whole expence attending it was 9_l._ 4_s._ 8_d._
Clock, to the keeper of, at Hampton Court, 26.
----, paid for a, 16, 51, 62, 65, 91, 109, 189.
----, paid to the Astronomer, for mending a, 130.
----, for the expenses of keeping the, at Hamptoncourt, 194.
---- of Westminster, to the, 58, 68, 82, 120, 197.
About the reign of Henry the Eighth clocks became a favourite article of luxury, and these entries shew the heavy sums which that monarch spent in the purchase of them. At the royal palaces of Hampton Court and Westminster it seems a person was specially appointed to regulate the clocks. "We have the price of a clock at a very early period, anno 1292, _novum orologium magnum in Ecclesiâ (Cantuariensi) pretium_, 30_l._"--Dart's Cant. App. p. 3. "Mr. Walpole has in his possession a clock, which appears by the inscription to have been a present from Henry VIII. to Anne Boleyn. Poynet, Bishop of Winchester, gave an astronomical clock to the same king.--Buckman's _His. Invent._ vol. i. p. 454."--M.