ANTIQUITIES. 



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stances, as would give matter 

 for a new tragedie. Let the 

 owners and contrivers of this 

 crueltie, challenge their share 

 in so lAicharitabIc usage. But 

 let not those Gentles (whose 

 vejnesstreame with noble blood) 

 owue the least part thereof : 

 myselfe have beene the woefull 

 patiente ; yet have I soe much 

 charitie to wish the authors of 

 this my miserie (when they shall 

 have neede of it) more com- 

 fort than hath fallen to my 

 portion in this extremitie. 



Certeyne Orders and Directions to bee 



observed by the Household, Officers, 



and other Persons, Servantesto the 



Right Honourable Henri/ Earle of^ 



Huntingdon, for the better and 



?nore exquisite Performance nfcierie 



wan's datie in his seierall Place, 



as ucll toiiard his lordship as also 



toxvards the Right Honourable 



the iMdi/e Elizabeth, Countess of' 



Huntingdon, his U'ife, to their 



9nost Honour and Projitt ; which 



Orders their Honours Pleasure and 



cxpressc Commaundnient is to have 



kept and ubeycd from the Tyme of 



the Declaration and Publishing of 



them, viz. From Nichols's Hist. 



of Leicestersliire. 



Whereas their honours both by 



the atlvise of their frcnds, examples 



of persons of (heir owne ranke, and 



by their own diligent observations 



(having some few e yeres past ben 



housekeepers) do finde that nothing 



is a greater ruin to their estates than 



disorder, have entered into a dew 



and mature consideration for the 



avoyding of the former evill ; that 



thereby their house and family may 



be well guydcd, have determined, 



and hereby sett do wue and prescribed 



to their officers and servants thcss 

 precepts insuinge, to thend that 

 everie officer maie the more surelic 

 bee established audthorized in tha 

 execution of his place, without con- 

 trolment for dooing his dutic, and 

 every other hould themselves satis- 

 fied with their dooeinge according 

 to their orders, and learn thereby 

 to demeane themselves, as well par- 

 ticulerly to officers, as also gene- 

 rally one to another. And foras- 

 muche as their honours knowe jt 

 to bee vaine, and to no purpose, 

 to prescribe rules and orders, uules 

 care bee therewall had to the obe- 

 dience and pra6tize of them : there- 

 fore their honours doe straightlie 

 charge and commaund their cheif 

 officers, (namely,) the stewarde and 

 comptroller of their househould, to 

 see the same in all pointes dulie per- 

 formed : and for the encouragement 

 of those that are tradable to well- 

 dooinge, and the assuraunce of such» 

 as shalbce otherwise, what they are 

 to trust unto, their honours doe 

 perswade, exhort, and enjoyne all 

 their lovinge servants, to apply their 

 uttermoste endeavoures to the ob- 

 servation thereof ; gecving them 

 hereby to understand, that such as 

 will conl'orme themselves, shall reap 

 the benefit of their good favors ; and 

 that others disobedient (at leaste 

 wise upon admonition) are to incurr 

 their honour's heavy displeasure ; 

 and if they persevere without re- 

 formation, to be removed from their 

 service. And for that everie one 

 may knowe the charge and du(vc 

 as well of certayne perticuler offi- 

 cers, as of their owne, his lordshi]) 

 hath first se(t down the same as 

 followcth ; viz. 



The Office of the Stewarde. 



l''irst, That he have a perf.-a 



check- 



