[Footnote 16: Edward IV.’s Esquiers for the Body, IIII, had ‘for wynter lyverey from All Hallowentide (Nov. 1) tyll Estyr, one percher wax, one candell wax, ij candells Paris, one tallwood and dim{idium}, and wages in the countyng-house.’ _H. Ord._ p. 36. So the Bannerettes, IIII, or Bacheler Knights (p. 32), who are kervers and cupberers, take ‘for wynter season, from Allhallowentyde till Estyr, one tortays, one percher, ii candelles wax, ii candelles Paris, ii talwood, ii faggotts,’ and rushes, litter, all the year; which the Esquiers have too. The Percy household allowance of Wax was cciiij score vij lb. dimid. of Wax for th’ expensys of my House for oone hole Yere. Viz. Sysez, _Pryketts_, Quarions, and _Torches_ after ix d. the lb. by estimacion; p. 12.] [Footnote 17: The Liber Niger of Edw. IV. assigns this duty to one of the Gentylmen Usshers. _H. Ord._ p. 37.] [Footnote 18: See the Office of Panetry, _H. Ord._ p. 70.] [Footnote 19: See the Office of Butler of Englond, _H. Ord._ p. 73.] [Footnote 20: See Gentylmen Usshers of Chaumbre, IIII, _H. Ord._ p. 37. ‘This name ussher is a worde of Frenshe,’ p. 38.] [Footnote 21: Compare _H. Ord._ p. 39. ‘Yeomen of Chambre, IIII, to make beddes, to bere or hold torches, to sette bourdes, to apparayle all chaumbres, and suche other servyce as the chaumberlayn, or usshers of chambre command or assigne.’ Liber Niger Edw. IV. See also _H. Ord._ p. 40, Office of Warderobe of Beddes, p. 41, Gromes of Chambyr, X; and the elaborate directions for making Henry VII.’s bed, _H. Ord._ p. 121-2.] [Footnote 22: _Hoc stramentum_, lyttere, (the straw with which the bed was formerly made) p. 260, col. 2, Wright’s Vocabularies.] [Footnote 23: Sylure, of valle, or a nother thynge (sylure of a walle), _Celatura_, _Celamen_, Catholicon, in P. Parv. Fr. _Ciel_, Heauen, pl. _Ciels_, a canopie for, and, the Testerne and Valances of a Bed. Cotgrave. A tester over the beadde, _canopus_. Withals.] [Footnote 24: _Crochet_, a small hooke.] [Footnote 25: Lyowre, to bynde wythe precyows clothys. _Ligatorium._ P. Parv.] [Footnote 26: Fylowre, of barbours crafte, _Acutecula_, _filarium_. P. Parv. See note 3, p. 160.] [Footnote 27: Tapet, a clothe, _tappis_. Palsgrave, 1530. _Tapis_, Tapistrie, hangings, &c., of Arras. Cotgrave, 1611. _Tapis_, carpet, a green square-plot. Miege, 1684. The hangynges of a house or chambre, in plurali, _aulæa ... Circundo cubiculum aulæis_, to hange the chambre. The carpettes, _tapetes_. Withals.]