Item, to assign iiii butchers for serving of oxen, sheep, calves, hogges of gresse,[18] flitches of bacon, marrow bones, and such other as shall be called for. Item, to assign ii fishmongers for provision of lynges to be ready watered, pikes, tenches, breams, caller salmon, and such other dainties of the fresh water. Item, to appoint ii fishmongers for provision of sea-fish. Item, to appoint iiii poulterers to serve for the said persons of all manner poultry. Item, to provide into every lodging wood, coal, rushes, straw, and such other necessaries. Item, it is requested that there may be always two carpenters in readiness to furnish every place with such things as shall be thought good, as cupboards, forms, boards, trestles, bedsteads, with other necessaries, where lack shall be. Item, to see every lodging furnished with pewter dishes, and saucers as shall be thought sufficient. Item, to furnish every house with all manner kitchen stuff, if there be any lack of such like within any of the said houses, as broches[19] of diverse sorts, pots and pans, ladles, skimmers, gridirons, with such other stuff as shall be named by the officers of the said noblemen. Item, appoint ii men to serve all manner of sauces for every lodging. Item, to appoint ii tallow chandlers to serve for all manner of sauces. Item, to warn every owner of the house to put all their stuff of household in every office against their coming to be in a readiness. Item, the King's grocers to be appointed to serve in all manner of spices. Bill of fare for the ordinary dieting of the Emperor's attendants per diem. ccviii noblemen and gentlemen, by estimation every of them to have a mess full furnished of this fare as followeth. _ccviii messes._ _The first course for dinner._ _The first course supper._ Potage. Potage. Boiled Capon. xxxiiii-dd viii. Chickens boiled. lxix-dd. Young Veal. xxxii. Legges of Mutton. xxi. Grene[20] Gese. lxix-dd iiii. Capons. xxxiiii-dd vi. Kid or lamb. ciiii. Kid or lamb. ciiii. Custards. ccviii. Dowcettes.[22] Fruttour.[21] ccviii messes. _The second course._ _The second course._ Jussell.[23] Jelly Ipocras.[24] Chickens. cxxxviii-dd viiii. Peacocks. cxxxviii-dd viii. Peacocks. cxxxviii-dd viii Chickens. cxxxviii-dd viii. Rabbits. cxxxviii-dd viii. Rabbits. cxxxviii-dd viii. Tarts. cc. Tarts. ccviii. [Footnote 11: A sufficient quantity of provisions for four persons.] [Footnote 12: Linen.] [Footnote 13: = the answer to the question in the original written in the margin.] [Footnote 14: = the answer to the question in the original written in the margin.] [Footnote 15: = cask.] [Footnote 16: vat = about 20 gallons.] [Footnote 17: alne = ell: _i.e._ 45 inches. This refers to the dimensions of the barrel.]