Sir William Knighton was appointed Keeper of the King's Privy Purse, and was employed in the most arduous labour of endeavouring to arrange the private accounts of his Majesty.
Keeper of my Privy Purse, to give notice to our several tradesmen that they are not to receive orders or to furnish any articles of furniture, &c.
These particulars may be gleaned from scattered entries in certain "Household Books" and "Privy Purse Accounts" of noble owners, which the invaluable labours of antiquaries have placed within reach of the curious.
Some interesting particulars in regard to pheasants are furnished by the "Privy Purse Expenses of King Henry VIII.
In this we find as conclusion, that Count Holck was a young man, according to the laws of nature given to pleasure; but he had never appealed to the king's privy purse to defray his expenses.
The latter was greatly aided by a cabinet order to the effect that the Sound dues, which had hitherto been paid into the king's privy purse, would henceforth be handed over to the Treasury.
The luxury of carving-knives was, even in the closing years of the fifteenth century, reserved for royalty and nobility; for in the "Privy Purse Expenses of Henry VII.
An entry in the accounts of the King of England's privy purse, from which we see that Cabot was back in London by August 10 (19, N.
I will give you the hundred Louis out of my privy purse; but I will discharge you the very next time you venture to present a memorial to me.
See Nicolas' note to a passage in the Privy Purse Expenses of Elizabeth of York, p.
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