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Privy Purse Expenses, Doublets for the guard to wrestle (1532)

  • June 16, 2026
  • June 16, 2026
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4th October 1532:

“To Parker, yeoman of the Robes, for doublets for the guard to wrestle in before the King and French king at Calais, 44s.”

Henry VIII: Privy Purse Expences’, in Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 5, 1531-1532, ed. James Gairdner (London, 1880), pp. 747-762. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/letters-papers-hen8/vol5/pp747-762 [accessed 17 September 2021]. Shared via Stephen Curtin.

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