2. A Table of 14 double dishes per diem with bread beer wine etc., or 35^s. per diem board wages, if not served in kind. But y^e L^d Chanc^r who sought all occasions to preiudice the Maist^r of the Jewell H. put the K^g upon retrenchm^t of some of the tables: and went in person to the Greenecloth (although altogether unqualifyed as being noe Officer there) and cutt off the Maist^rs table, and y^e Groome-porters, for company, that it might not look like personall malice; in lieu whereof they allowed each of them i20£ p. an: board wages: and for this they pleaded noe other ground, or shadow of reason, but because it appeared in theyre books, that once when the treasury was exhausted S^r H. Mildmay proposed to the K^g the retrenchment of the tables & desired his Ma^ty to begin with his. This the L^d Chancell^rs Law, & S^r H. Woods philosophy made an argument to cutt off the dyet from the Jewell H. And although S^r G. Talbot’s patent gave him all the rights that any of his Predecessors at any time enioyed, there was noe releife to be had in theyre Chancery. S^r G. Talbot this theyre proceeding to his Ma^ty, but the Chancellor yet swayed all things absolutely; and there lay noe appeale from him. For one yeare after they allowed him his dyet, at the greate Festivalls (Christmass, Easter, and Whitsontide): but that was thought too much and retrenched likewise. 3. 300£ p. an: out of the money presented by the Nobility, to the King, at new-yeare’s-tyde; which usually amounted to 3000£. And the profitt ariss to the Maister by 12^d in the £, and the advantage of the gold; for it was ever given away and payd in silver, till Mr. May came to the privy Purse, who gott it annexed to his office: by w^ch meanes that branch was cutt off from y^e Maist^r of the Jewell H. because the K^g was neither to pay poundage, nor allowance for gold, and y^e Maist^r had noe consideration for it, till upon the tender of severall petitions, his Ma^ty in an. 77 gave him, by Privy Seale 400£ p. an: out of the new-yeare’s-guift money, during pleasure. 4. The Maist^r of the Jewell H. received the value of 300£ p. an. (communibg annis) by carrying presents to Embassadours, till the j^st D. of Buckingham (who was an enemy to S^r H. Mildmay) prevailed w^th the K^g first, to make all his presents in iewells (and not in plate as had ever, till then, bin accustomed) and next to send them by the Maister of y^e Ceremonyes (an office erected but in K^g James his time).