 The armourer made steel plates for his jousting saddles in October 1538, and delivered a skirt of plate armour in February 1540.In the same year, for his wife's coronation, the treasurer's accounts record that James personally devised fireworks made by his master gunners.When James took steps to suppress the circulation of slanderous ballads and rhymes against Henry VIII, Henry sent Fulke ap Powell, Lancaster Herald, to give thanks and to make arrangements for the present of a lion for James's menagerie of exotic pets.