10. Choice of the King’s and Queen’s Goldsmiths and Jewellers. 11. £20 in gold, upon signing of the Goldsmith’s bill. 12. Lodging in all the King’s houses. 13. A close wagon (when the Court moveth) for his own goods; and two carts for his officers. 14. Precedence in Courts and Kingdom. 15. Privilege of the Drawing room. 16. Robes at the Coronation. 17. In Procession place before all Judges. 18. He putteth on, and taketh off the King’s Crown. 19. He keepeth all the Regalia. 20. He hath lodgings, etc., in the Tower. 21. A servant there to keep the Regalia. 22. He hath no superior Officer. 23. He furnisheth plate to Ambassadors and all great Officers. 24. He remandeth it when Ambassadors return; and Officers remove or die. 25. He provideth a Garter and plain George for Knights of the Garter. Having thus recounted his rights and privileges, Sir Gilbert Talbot in a long petition to King Charles II pointed out how these had been encroached upon through, he avers, the machinations of Hyde, the Lord Chancellor. The first great grievance was that his “14 double dishes” per diem, which we have seen carried in their wake as much bread, beer, and wine as seemed good to the Keeper, were discontinued, and in place thereof he was given a meagre £120 per annum as board wages. This was indeed an economy for the Treasury, for the scale of board wages had formerly been fixed at 35s. per diem on such occasions as the fourteen double dishes, etc., could not on the line of march, for instance, be supplied. 35s. a day came to a matter of £641 per annum, so that the Keeper stood to lose each year on the deal. Naturally this raised his wrath. In connection with the next item of complaint, Sir Gilbert Talbot did somewhat better. His right of old was £300 out of the money presented to the King by the nobles in accordance with their patents at the New Year. The total sum thus presented was, we have seen, about £3000, so that the Keeper’s percentage was liberal enough; but in addition, though the Keeper received the £3000 on behalf of the King in gold, he was allowed to disburse it to those to whom it was distributed in silver, whereby he calculated to make another shilling in the pound profit, making a total of £450. King Charles, evidently bored with details, and the persistence of Sir Gilbert, compounded for £400 yearly, and that sum became the Keeper’s fixed perquisite under this head.