[Sidenotes: _The Duties of a Chamberlain._ He must be cleanly, and comb his hair; see to his Lord’s clothes, and brush his hose; [a] in the morning warm his shirt, and prepare his footsheet; [b] warm his petycote, &c.; [c] put on his shoes, tie up his hose, comb his head, wash his hands, put on the robe he orders. [d] Make ready his Closet in the Church or Chapel, then come home to his Bed-chamber, take off the bed-clothes. [e] Make his lord’s bed again with clean sheets, and lay hangings round the bed, and windows, &c. [f] Keep the privy clean, and the board covered with green cloth, and provide down or cotton for wiping. [g] When he goes to bed, let him wash; put him on a mantle, take off his shoes, &c. [h] Comb his head, put on his night-cap, draw the curtains round him, drive out the dogs and cats, set the urinal near, and then take leave.] [Headnote: OF THE MARSHALL AND THE VSSHER.] ¶ Here foloweth of the Marshall and the vssher. ++The Marshall and the vssher muste knowe all the estates of the chyrche, and the hyghe estate of a kynge, with the blode royall. ¶ The estate of a Pope hath no pere. ¶ The estate of an Emperour is nexte. ¶ The estate of a kynge. ¶ The estate of a cardynall. ¶ The estate of a kynges sone, a prynce. ¶ The estate of an archebysshop. ¶ The estate of a duke ¶ The estate of a bysshop ¶ The estate of a marques ¶ The estate of an erle ¶ The estate of a vycount ¶ The estate of a baron. ¶ The estate of an abbot with a myter ¶ The estate of the thre chefe Iuges & the Mayre of London. ¶ The estate of an abbot without a myter ¶ The estate of a knyght bacheler ¶ The estate of a pryour, dene, archedeken, or knyght [Fol. B 6.] ¶ The estate of the mayster of the rolles. ¶ The estate of other Iustices & barons of the cheker ¶ The estate of the mayre of Calays. ¶ The estate of a prouyncyall, a doctour dyvyne, ¶ The estate of a prothonat: he is aboue the popes collectour, and a doctour of bothe the lawes. ¶ The estate of him that hath ben mayre of London and seruaunt of the lawe. ¶ [a] The estate of a mayster of the chauncery, and other worshypfull prechours of pardon, and clerkes that ben gradewable / & all other ordres of chastyte, persones & preestes, worshypfull marchauntes & gentylmen, all this may syt at the squyers table. ¶ [b] An archebysshop and a duke may not kepe the hall, but eche estate by them selfe in chaumbre or in pauylyon, that neyther se other. ¶ [c] Bysshoppes, Marques, Erles, & Vycou{n}tes, all these may syt two at a messe. ¶ [d] A baron, & the mayre of London, & thre chefe Iuges, and the speker of the parlyament, & an abbot with a myter, all these may svt two or thre at a messe ¶ [e] And all other estates may syt thre or foure at a messe