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Authors: Peter Brears
W.M.,
A Queen’s Delight
, 1671 edn
Walcot, M.E.C., ‘Inventories & Valuations of religious Houses ...’
Archaeologia
, xlii, 2nd series (1871)
Watkin, D.,
The Royal Interiors of Regency England
(1984)
Wilson, C.A.,
Food and Drink in Britain
(London, 1976)
Winchester, B.,
Tudor Family Portrait
(1995)
Wriothesley, C.,
A Chronicle of England 1485–1599
, Camden Society NS xx (1877)
Young, J.,
Sixteenth Century England
, Penguin History of Britain (1984)
BM | British Museum |
C | Calendar of Letters, Documents and State Papers relating to Negotiations between England and Spain |
C | Calendar of State Papers and Manuscripts Relating to English Affairs Existing in the Archives and Collections of Venice |
DNB | Dictionary of National Biography |
HO | A Collection of Ordinances and Regulations for the Government of the Royal Household |
IKH | Inventory of King Henry VIII: the Transcript |
L & P | Letters & Papers Foreign & Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII |
OED | Oxford English Dictionary |
PRO | Public Record Office |
For other references, see the Bibliography.
1
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HO
17–18.
2
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HO
63.
3
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PRO E36/241, f. 360.
4
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HO
56.
5
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HO
58.
6
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HO
228.
7
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HO
213, 211.
8
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HO
162.
9
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HO
69.
10
.
HO
175, 191.
11
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HO
193–4, 197.
12
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HO
230–1.
13
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HO
211.
14
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HO
231.
15
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HO
224, 226.
16
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HO
62.
17
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Barkeley (1874), II, 90–4.
18
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HO
228.
19
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HO
231.
20
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PRO LC6/202, ff. 148–50, 157, transcribed in Thurley (1990), 26–5.
21
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HO
229, 236.
22
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HO
238.
23
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HO
62.
24
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HO
62, 236
25
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HO
237.
26
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HO
237.
27
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HO
230.
28
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HO
67–8.
1
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HO
174, 191.
2
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HO
185–90.
3
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Wriothesley.
4
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HO
191.
5
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See DNB, Barkeley; Barkeley (1848), xl–xlii.
6
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HO
191.
7
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HO
171.
8
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HO
177–90.
9
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HO
174–5.
10
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CSP Span
, XIII, 31.
1
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Thurley (1990), 22.
2
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HO
220–1.
3
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Sneyd, 10.
4
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Simon (1944), 68–9.
5
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Elyot, 31.
6
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Venner, iii, 64.
7
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Browne, 319.
8
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Venner, 62.
9
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Simon (1944), 54; OED, Puffin.
10
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Carew, 35b.
11
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Simon (1959), 13.
12
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Simon (1944), 8.
13
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Buttes, 137–8.
14
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Shakespeare, W.,
Henry the Eighth
, Act 3 Scene 2 lines 279–82.
15
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Elyot, 21.
16
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Brears (1989), 109.
17
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Boorde, 270; Buttes, 137–8.
18
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Buttes, 137.
19
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Wilson, 118.
20
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HO
220.
21
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HO
223.
22
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HO
237, 231.
23
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Spry and Hume, 632.
24
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HO
68–70, 140, 232.
25
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HO
237, 231;
L&P
1545, I, 856; 1544, I, 1023.
26
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HO
282, 209.
27
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L&P
1546, I, 774.
28
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HO
69.
29
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Markham, 126.
30
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HO
195.
31
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Markham, 126;
HO
69.
32
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Jaine, 69–94; Seager, 304.
33
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HO
195.
34
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Boorde, 261.
35
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HO
69, 194.
36
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HO
238, 213, 196, 35.
37
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L&P
1541, p. 766; 1543, I, 623/20; 1545, I, 612, 259, 846 (1).
38
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HO
196.
39
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HO
Act 43, Eliz I, cap. 14.
40
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HO
162.
41
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HO
Thurley (1993), 230.
42
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Allan, 126.
43
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CSP Ven
, II, 219.
44
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Anon. (1775), II, 190; Rye, 101–13; Jonson, ii, 5.
45
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Brears (1989), 179–89.
46
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Nicholas, 12/12/1529.
47
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HO
63, 175, 121.
1
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L&P
1544, I, 275, 1023;
HO
239.
2
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HO
65.
3
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HO
42.
4
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Nicholas, 11–13/5/1530; Cavendish (1893), 183.
5
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HO
196.
6
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HO
227.
7
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HO
144.
8
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Thurley (1990), 18.
9
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Groos, 152.
10
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HO
234–5.
11
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Boorde, 80-9.
12
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L&P
1540, 220 (36); 1544, I, 1035 (116);
HO
285.
13
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Fairholt, 332.
14
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HO
82.
15
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HO
15.
16
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HO
195.
17
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HO
162.
18
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IKH
6000–1.
19
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Nicholas, 18/3/1531.
20
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Anon. (1775), II, 190.
21
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e.g. ‘cotton wick for candles 18d’ recorded in 1560; Emmison, 64.
22
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HO
82.
23
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HO
114.
24
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IKH
1184.
25
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L&P
1545, I, 465 (10); HO 75.
26.
Boorde, 271.
27
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Tusser, 49.
28
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Thurley (1990), 32.
29
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L&P
1544, I, 275, 1023; HO 239.
1
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PRO E36/241, ff. 581–2.
2
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HO
225.
3
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HO
289.
4
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HO
196.
5
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HO
175.
6
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Owen, 42.
7
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Boorde, 142.
8
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HO
196, 76.
9
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Seager, 213.
10
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Buttes, 211.
11
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Young, 144.
12
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Giustianino, June 1518, 193.
13
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HO
81.
14
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Nicholas.
15
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HO
81.
16
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IKH
1118.
17
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HO
81.
18
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Boorde, 286.
19
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Adams, S., 145.
20
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Dugdale, 132.
21
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Anon. (1775), III, 244–6.
22
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Ashmole, 603.
23
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HO
450.
24
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Cavendish (1962), 103; Lorwin, 388.
25
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Cavendish (1962), 102–3.
26
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Hieatt and Butler, 153.
27
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Partridge (1585).
28
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Plat, 27.
29
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Ruscelli; Dawson, II, 39.
30
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L&P
1540/41, 124; 1542, 66; 1543, II, 530; 1544, I, 1023.
31
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Nicholas, 14/8/1530, 14/6/1531.
32
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PRO E36/237, f. 442.
1
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HO
297.
2
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L&P
1543, II, 530.
3
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L&P
1541, 947 (26); 1544, II, 960 (27); 1543, II, 530.
4
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HO
62.
5
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HO
288, 296. These details of the Larder fees include the feet and belly-pieces of each ox, even though HO 297 states that they had already been taken by the Acatery. Presumably the officers concerned understood the workings of the apparent anomaly.
6
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HO
279.
7
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HO
226–7.
8
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HO
224.
9
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HO
296.