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[Footnote 44: See Rogers’s _Agriculture and Prices in England_,
v. 1, p. 280-1. The latest prices he gives for shoeing are in 1400;
“Alton Barnes, Shoeing 5 horses, a year, 6s. 8d. Takley, Shoeing 2
cart horses [a year] 1s. 8d.” A.D. 1466, ‘fore shoyinge ij.d.’
_Manners and Household Expenses_ (ed. Dawson Turner), 1841,
p. 380. (Sir Jn. Howard, Knt., 1462-9.) The Percy allowance in
1512 was “ij s viiij d. every Hors Shoynge for the hole Yere by
estimacion, Viz. a Hors to be shodd oons in iij moneths withowt
they jornay.” p. 24. A horse’s daily allowance was ‘a Peck of
Oats, or 4d. in B{re}ade after iiij Loiffes, 4d. for Provaunder,
from 29th Septr. 8 Hen. VIII. to 3rd May following,’ p. 266.]
[Footnote 45: See Edw. IV.’s Office of Bakehouse, _H. Ord._
p. 68-70. ‘The sergeaunt of thys office to make continually of
every busshell, halfe chiete halfe rounde, besydes the flowre for
the Kinges mouthe, xxvii loves, every one weying, after one daye
olde, xxiii ounces of troye weyghtes.’ p. 69.]
[Footnote 46: In Edward the Fourth’s Court, ‘Knyghts of Household,
XII, bachelers sufficiant, and most valient men of that ordre of
every countrey’ had ‘to serve the King of his bason.’ _H. Ord_.
p. 33.]
[Footnote 47: _Replier_, To redouble, to bow, fould, or plait into
many doublings. Cotgrave.]
[Footnote 48: Napkins? O. Fr. _brueroi_ is _bruyère_, heath.]
[Footnote 49: ? Du. _zijgen_ (_door een zifte ofte Stramijn_), to
runne (through a Sift or a Strainer.). _een Suyle_ a Pale or a
Water-pale. Hexham.]
[Footnote 50: covers. ‘Ovyr quelmyd or ouer hyllyde. _Obvolutus._’
P. Parv.]
[Footnote 51: A.S. _flett_, room, hall.]
[Footnote 52: See The Almonry of Henry VIII. A.D. 1526, _H. Ord._
p. 154, and p. 144; A.D. 1539, _H. Ord._ p. 239.]
[Footnote 53: Edward IV. had ‘Bannerettes, IIII, or Bacheler
Knights, to be kervers and cupberers in his Courte.’ ‘The kerver
at the boarde, after the King is passed it, may chese for hymself
one dyshe or two, that plentie is among.... Theis kervers and
cupberers ... them nedeth to be well spede in taking of degree in
_the schole of urbanytie_.’ _H. Ord._ p. 32-3.]
[Footnote 54: See the ‘Office of Chaundlerye,’ _H. Ord._ p. 82-3.
Paris candles, torches, morters, tortayes, sizes, and smalle
lightes, are mentioned there.]
[Footnote 55: Torche. _Cereus._ P. Parv.]
[Footnote 56: ? same as _tortayes_, p. 192, note 2 [[28]];
p. 204, _n._ [[54]] ]
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