[Footnote 28: And he (a Grome of Chambyr) setteth nyghtly, after the seasons of the yere, torchys, tortays, candylles of wax, mortars; and he setteth up the _sises_ in the King’s chambre, _H. Ord._ p. 41, ‘these torches, five, seven, or nine; and as many _sises_ sett upp as there bee torches,’ _ib._ p. 114; and dayly iiii other of these gromes, called wayters, to make fyres, to sett up tressyls and bourdes, with yomen of chambre, and to help dresse the beddes of sylke and arras. _H. Ord._ p. 41.] [[Footnote 28a: ? some omission after this line.]] [Footnote 29: Wardroppe, or closet--_garderobe_. Palsgrave.] [Footnote 30: See the duties of Edward IV.’s Sewar, _H. Ord._ p. 36.] [Footnote 31: Manchet was the fine bread; chet, the coarse. Fr. _pain rouffet_, Cheat, or boulted bread; houshold bread made of Wheat and Rie mingled. Cotgrave.] [Footnote 32: See the ‘Styward of Housholde,’ _H. Ord._ p. 55-6: ‘He is head officer.’] [Footnote 33: See the ‘Countroller of this houshold royall,’ _H. Ord._ p. 58-9.] [Footnote 34: See the duties and allowances of A Surveyour for the Kyng, in _Household Ordinances_, p. 37.] [Footnote 35: See the ‘chyef clerke of kychyn,’ t. Edw. IV., _H. Ord._ p. 70; and Henry VIII.’s Clerke of the Kitchen, A.D. 1539, _ib._ p. 235.] [Footnote 36: The duties of the Chauncellor of Englond are not stated in Edw. IV.’s Liber Niger, _H. Ord._ p. 29; but one of the two Clerkys of Grene-Clothe was accustomed to ‘delyver the clothinge of housholde,’ p. 61.] [Footnote 37: See the ‘Thesaurere of Housholde’ in Edw. IV.’s Liber Niger, _H. Ord._ p. 56-8: ‘the grete charge of polycy and husbandry of all this houshold growyth and stondyth moste part by hys sad and dylygent pourveyaunce and conduytes.’] [Footnote 38: AS. _gerefa_, reeve, steward, bailiff.] [Footnote 39: Rents, in kind or money; AS. _feorme_, food, goods.] [Footnote 40: The Avener of Edw. IV. is mentioned in _H. Ord._ p. 69. See the Charge of Henry VIII.’s Stable, A.D. 1526, _ib._ p. 206-7.] [Footnote 41: Prouender or menglid corne--fovrraige ... _provende_. Palsgrave.] [Footnote 42: See ‘two _cast_ of brede,’ l. 631. ‘One caste of brede’ for the Steward’s yeoman, _H. Ord._ p. 56, &c.] [Footnote 43: Mayster of the horses--_escvier de escvirie_. Palsg.]