ANTIQUITIES. 



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table every sabbath-day, or when 

 straungers be in the house. 



Item, that hee suffer no man to 

 play at cards, tables, or other game, 

 during the tyme of prayer, or on 

 the sabbath-day,nor after the bourdes 

 be covered ; and that he suffer no 

 dyce-play at all in the hall. 



Item, that after the bourdes be 

 covered, he do, in decent order, bare- 

 headed, Avalke up and downe by 

 the hall, to see all things orderly 

 observed : afid that he depart not 

 thence till all dinners or suppers be 

 done. 



Item, that uppon the appearing 

 of the server, and his going to the 

 dresser, hee, standing towards the 

 npper end of the hall, doo with a 

 loude voice say, " Gentlemen and 

 yeomen, waite on the server ; " and 

 at the coming of their honnors' 

 Bieate, he be rcadie at the screene 

 to receave the server, and they say 

 with a loude voice, "Byyourleave;" 

 and cause all men in the hall to come 

 to the other side of the hall, and be 

 bare-headed whilst their honnors' 

 meate passeth through. 



Item, that when their honnors' 

 meate is served up to the chauiber, 

 and the gentlewomens, that he call 

 with a loude voice, sayjng, " Gen- 

 tlemcns servants, to the dresser ; " 

 and come himselfe to the steward's 

 mcsse ; and that, when there arc 

 straungers, he call the groomcs of 

 the stable to waite in the hali ; and 

 yf any refuse, to give knowledge to 

 some of the head officers. 



Item, that he suffer no stranger 

 to sitt downe with those that waite, 

 but by the ap|)ointuient of some one 

 «f the liead officers ; and that all 

 those that atteiide in any office take 

 their diett at the waiters' tiiblc, ox. 

 cepting the cooks, and tho.sc under 

 tkwn. 



Item, that hee suffer none to sit^ 

 at the steward's table, but suche aS 

 shalbe appointed to be called there- 

 unto. 



Item, that he cause all men to 

 kecpe silence in the hall, especiallie 

 at dynner and supper tyme. 



Item, that he cause every man in 

 the hall to be bare-headed, when 

 their honnors' second course or fruit 

 doth passe through. 



Item, that hee suffer no waiter 

 to sitt downe before all the meate be 

 brought out of the chamber, nor 

 before the gentleman usher be come 

 downe, and be readie to sitt him- 

 selfe. 



Item, that he suffer no dogge to 

 be fedd in the hall, in the tyme of 

 dynner and supper, but cause the 

 porter to have them oute of the gates 

 before the dynner bee begonne. 



Item, that he give notice, by the 

 groonie of the hall, to the porter, 

 of the going of the server to ^he 

 dresser, that thereupon he may shut 

 up the gates. 



Item, that he suffer no man to 

 drawe or shewe any sAvorde or dag- 

 ger in the hall. 



Item, that he suffer no supper in 

 the hall npon fasting-nights, but 

 for the gentleman usher and suche 

 waiters as he shall appoint to be 

 vith him, at their honnors' rever- 

 sion. 



Item, that he shall every night 

 after supper, give intelligence to the 

 clerke of the kytchin what bread 

 and beare was spent that day in the 

 hall, and what noinber of straungers 

 dyned and supped there. 



Item, that yf any loude talke 

 shalbe made in the hall at any of the 

 tables, and the same be not for- 

 borne upon the usher's comniaund- 

 ment to speak soltlie ; then .shall 

 the u'^her, with a loude voyce, call 



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