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_Of the Chandler._
[825] He can make all kinds of candles, little and big, and
mortars of wax. [829] He snuffs them with short scissors. [833] In
bed-chambers wax lights only shall be burnt; in hall, Candles of
Paris, each mess having one from Nov. 1 to Feb. 2 (see l. 393),
and squires one too. [841] The Butler shall give Squires their
daily bread and ale all the year, and Knights their wine.
[846] May Christ bring us to His dwelling-place. Amen!]
[Footnote 1: Toom or rymthe. _Spacium, tempus, oportunitas._
P. Parv.]
[Footnote 2: AS. _wræsten_, to writhe, twist.]
[Footnote 3: grace, civility; from AS. _mennise_, human; cp. our
double sense of _humanity_. H. Coleridge.]
[Footnote 4: courteous.]
[Footnote 5: AS. _flytan_, dispute, quarrel.]
[Footnote 6: Mowe, or skorne. _Vangia, vel valgia, cachinna._
Promptorium.]
[Footnote 7: _an_ privative, unhonest.]
[Footnote 8: AS. _mod_, mood, passion, violence.]
[[Footnote 8a: Croscrist. _La Croix de par Dieu._ The
Christs-crosse-row; or, the hornebooke wherein a child learnes it.
Cotgrave. The alphabet was called the _Christ-cross-row_, some say
because a cross was prefixed to the alphabet in the old primers;
but as probably from a superstitious custom of writing the
alphabet in the form of a cross, by way of charm. This was even
solemnly practised by the bishop in the consecration of a church.
See Picart’s Religious Ceremonies, vol. i. p. 131. _Nares_.]]
[Footnote 9: to relation or friend.]
[Footnote 10: contempt, scorn, O.N. _heðung._ H. Coleridge.]
[Footnote 11: AS. _gýman_, attend, regard, observe, keep.]
[Footnote 12: thine eye]
[Footnote 13: AS. _win_, contention, labour, war; _win_, _wyn_,
joy, pleasure.]
[Footnote 14: See the duties of Prince Edward’s Porters, A.D.
1474, in _Household Ordinances_, p. *30, and of Henry VIII.’s
Porters, _ibid._ p. 239.]
[Footnote 15: Though Edward IV. had Marshals (_Household
Ordinances_, p. 84, &c.), one of whom made the Surnape when the
King was in the Hall (p. 32), or Estate in the Surnape (p. 38),
yet there is no separate heading or allowance for them in the
_Liber Niger_. Two yeomen Ushers are mentioned in p. 38, but the
two yeomen Ewars, their two Grooms and Page, p. 84, perform
(nearly) the duties given above to the Usher and his Grooms.]
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