[Footnote 225-5: _Hume_, History of England, ch. 49, Append. Similarly among all nations which have still preserved much of the medieval. Thus the duke of Alba, about the end of the last century, had not a single commodious hall in his immense palace, but 400 rooms for his servants, since at least all his old servants, and even their widows and families, continued to live with him. In Madrid alone, he paid £1,000 a month wages to his servants; and the son of the duke, Medina-Celi, £4,000 per annum. (_Townsend_, II, 155, 158.) In many palaces in Moscow, previous to 1812, there were 1,000 and more servants, unskillful, clad for the most part as peasants, badly fed, and with so little to do that perhaps one had no service to perform but to fetch drinking water at noon, and another in the evening. Even poor noblemen kept 20 and 30 servants, (_v. Haxthausen_, Studien, I, 59.) _Forster_, Werke, VII, 347, explains Polish luxury in servants, by the poorness of the servants there: a good German maid could do more than three Polish servants. Thus, in Jamaica, it was customary to exempt from the slave-tax persons who kept fewer than 7 negroes. (_B. Edwards_, History of the W. Indies, I, 229.) Compare _Livy_, XXXIX, 11. The luxury of using torch-bearers instead of candelabra lasted until Louis XIV.'s time. (_Rocquefort_, Hist. de la Vie privée des Français, III, 171.) Compare _W. Scott_, Legend of Montrose, ch. 4.] [Footnote 225-6: A Hungarian magnate, under king Sigismund, celebrated his son's wedding for a whole year. (_Fessler_, Gesch. von Ungarn, IV, 1267.)] [Footnote 225-7: _Müller_, Annal. Saxon, 68. Several examples in _Sckweinichen's_ Leben von Büsching, I, 320 seq. _Krünitz_, Enclycopædie, Bd. 82, 84 ff. The wedding of the niece of Ottakar II. in 1264, has long been considered a most brilliant event in the history of medieval luxury. (_Palacky_, Gesch. von Böhmen, II, 191 ff.) Even yet, in Abyssinia, on the occasion of royal feasts, only meat and bread are eaten and mead drunk; but not only the great, but even common soldiers are entertained one after the other. (Ausland, 1846, No. 79.) Magnificent as was the table of a West Indian planter, it was in some respects very simple. A large ox was slaughtered for the feast, and everything had to be prepared from that: roast beef, beef steaks, beef pies, stews, etc. (_Pinckard_, Notes on the W. Indies, II. 100 ff.)] [Footnote 225-8: _Spittler_, Geschichte Hanovers, I, 381.] [Footnote 225-9: _Tacitus_, Germ., 21 Leg., says of the Germans: _Convictibus et hospitiis non alia gens effusius indulget. Quemcunque mortalium arcere tecto, nefas habetur. Diem noctemque continuare potando, nulli probrum._]