Thomas Cawarden: Difference between revisions

In 1544 Sir Thomas Cawarden received a patent as [[Master of Revels|Master of Revels and Tents]], becoming the first head of an independent office and was [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]] at [[Boulogne]] in September of that year. Tents were provided for festivals, royal progresses, and in military expeditions. In July and August 1547, Cawarden provided 'hales', 'roundhouses', and a kitchen tent for the mission to Scotland during the war of the [[Rough Wooing]] which culminated in the [[Battle of Pinkie Cleugh|Battle of Pinkie]].<ref>Starkey, David, ed., ''The Inventory of Henry VIII'', Society of Antiquaries, (1998), pp. 171-2172.</ref> Cawarden paid for the tents which had been 'wetted in the shippe' to be dried and put away on their return.<ref>Kempe, ''The Loseley Manuscripts'', (1836), 104,</ref> [[Lady Jane Grey]] as queen requested tents on 19 July 1553p. On 1 January 1559 Mary I ordered her officers to collect arms and armour from Cawarden's house to counter [[Wyatt's rebellion]]. Seventeen wagon loads were taken.<ref>''HMC W. M. Molyneux104, Esq''., (1879), 610, 614-5.</ref> The patent also allowed him to keep 40 armed and liveried servants at [[Bletchingley]] Castle or Palace.<ref>''HMC W. M. Molyneux, Esq''., (1879), 597.</ref> Soon after his appointment, the revels office and its stores were transferred to a dissolved [[Dominican Order|Dominican]] [[monastery]] at [[Blackfriars, London|Blackfriars]], having previously been housed at Warwick Inn in the city, the [[London Charterhouse]], and then at the [[priory]] of [[St. John of Jerusalem]] in [[Priory of Clerkenwell|Clerkenwell]], to which a return was made after Cawarden's death.