[Footnote 243: Henry VII. had a fustian and sheet under his feather bed, over the bed a sheet, then ‘the over fustian above,’ and then ‘a pane of ermines’ like an eider-down quilt. ‘A head sheete of raynes’ and another of ermines were over the pillows. After the ceremony of making the bed, all the esquires, ushers, and others present, had bread, ale, and wine, outside the chamber, ‘and soe to drinke altogether.’ _H. Ord._ p. 122.] [Footnote 244: A siege house, _sedes excrementorum_. A draught or priuie, _latrina_. Withals.] [Footnote 245: An arse wispe, _penicillum_, -li, vel _anitergium_. Withals. From a passage in William of Malmesbury’s autograph _De Gestis Pontificum Anglorum_ it would seem that water was the earlier cleanser.] [Footnote 246: In the MS. this line was omitted by the copier, and inserted in red under the next line by the corrector, who has underscored all the chief words of the text in red, besides touching up the capital and other letters.] [Footnote 247: See the ‘Warderober,’ p. 37, and the ‘office of Warderobe of Robes,’ in _H. Ord._ p. 39.] [Footnote 248: þo lord{e} schalle shyft hys gown{e} at nyȝt, Syttand on foteshete tyl he be dyȝt. _The Boke of Curtasye_, l. 487-8.] [Footnote 249: Morter ... a kind of Lamp or Wax-taper. _Mortarium_ (in old Latin records) a Mortar, Taper, or Light set in Churches, to burn over the Graves or Shrines of the Dead. Phillips.] [Footnote 250: Perchers, the Paris-Candles formerly us’d in England; also the bigger sort of Candles, especially of Wax, which were commonly set upon the Altars. Phil.] [[Footnote 250a: The nuisance that the number of Dogs must have been may be judged of by the following payments in the Church-Wardens’ Accounts of St Margaret’s, Westminster, in _Nichols_, p. 34-5. 1625 Item paid to the dog-killer for killing of dogs 0. 9. 8. 1625 Item paid to the dog-killer more for killing 14 dozen and 10 dogs in time of visitacion 1. 9. 8. 1625 Item paid to the dog-killer for killing of 24 dozen of dogs 1. 8. See the old French satire on the Lady and her Dogs, in _Rel. Ant._ i. 155.]] [Footnote 251: The Boke of Curtasye (l. 519-20) lets the (chief) usher who puts the lord to bed, go his way, and says Ȝomo{n} vssher be-fore þe dore In vtter chamb{ur} lies on þe flor{e}.] [Transcriber’s Note: Footnote 252 contains supplementary notes for some items in this stanza, lines 991-994. Note that there is no independent Footnote 260 (“hey hove”), and that “bilgres” was not marked. Numbers in parentheses are the note numbers as originally printed.]