time Knights took a fee here yearly, of _ten_ marks, and clothing; but because[153] their clothing is not according for the King's Knights, therefore it was left. [153] N^o 369 reads _Ray_ Clothing. Item, if he be sick, or specially let blood, or clystered, then he taketh livery, _four_ loaves, _two_ mess of great meat and roast, half a pitcher of wine, _two_ gallons of ale. This letting blood, or clystering, is to avoid pestilence; and therefore the people take livery out of the Court, and not for every sickness in man continuing in this Court. ESQUIRES FOR THE BODY. _Four_ Noble, of condition, whereof always two be attendant on the King's person, to array him, and unarray him; watch day and night; and to dress him in his cloaths. And they be callers to the Chamberlaine, if any thing lack for his person or pleasance. Their business is in many _secrets_, some sitting in the King's chamber, some in the hall with persons of like service, which is called _Knight's service_. Taking, every of them, for his livery at night, half a chet loaf, one quart of wine, one gallon of ale; and for winter livery, from All-Hallowtide till Easter, one _percher_ wax, one candle wax, two candles pric.[154] one talshide and an half, and wages in the compting-house. If he be present in the Court daily, seven-pence halfpenny; and cloathing with the Household, winter and summer, or else forty shillings, besides his other fee of the Jewel-house, or of the Treasurer of England; and besides his watching cloathing of Chamber of the King's Wardrobe. He hath, abiding in this Court, but two servants; livery sufficient for his horses in the country, by the Herberger. And if any Esquire be let blood, or else fore-watched, he shall have like livery with Knights. Litter and rushes all the year, of the Serjeant Usher of the Hall and Chamber. Oftentimes these stand instead of Carvers and Cup-bearers. [154] Fortè _Prickets_. * * * * * _In the "Statutes of Eltham."_ Esquires of the Body, every of them, to have ordinary within the Court _four_ persons, of the which to have sitting in the Hall two persons, and the residue _ut supra_ [_i. e._ to have no meat or drink within the House, but to be at board wages in the town]; and for their bouche of Court, every of them to have for their livery at night, one chet loaf, half a pitcher of wine, and one gallon of ale, one size wax, three white lights, two talsheds, and two faggots. In the appointment of Herbagage be ordinary for all Noble Estates, and others, for stabling of their horses, and beds for their servants, appointed by the King's Highness, at his Manor of Eltham, the 19th of January, in the 17th year of his Noble Reign. It is appointed to Knights for the Body, and other Knights, _six_ horses and _two_ beds. To every Esquire for the Body, _five_ horses and two beds. [N. B. Every Gentleman Usher of the Privy Chamber, whereof six, _six_ horses and _two_ beds.