“On 5 April 1530, George received money ‘for the use of Master Weston for 4 games which he won of the King’s Grace at tennis at 4 Angells a game.’ Although it is supposed that Henry VIII hated losing, and that his courtiers took pains to deliberately lose when playing him, the Privy Purse Expenses show this was not the case. The King regularly lost all kinds of games, and he lost huge sums of money to George Boleyn at a variety of different pursuits. Payments were made to George in August and September that year for the hunt, and for archery at Hundson.”
George Boleyn: Tudor Poet, Courtier and Diplomat
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