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fitt for the state of a prince. 
_ That in my standing-house, where 
Tam resident, there be ever a con- 
yenyent store of munition and armes 
proportionable to furnish myne own 
famely withall upon any suddaine 
occassion if need require: for as it 
is both safe and princely to have it 
in geod order and readiness, so were 
it a great defect to want that in my 
court that every nobleman and gen- 
tleman will be provided of in his 
owne house, 
_,That amongst other good ordi- 
frances for my houshold, it be 
thought on and provided, that some 
one of my principall officers that és 
allowed a standing tablein my court, 
doe keepe the same so orderly fur- 
nished and attended, as that it may 
e able in good fashion to receive 
and entertayne any nobleman’ or 
stranger of account, that shall come 
to visitt me upon any suddaine, as 
many tymes it may happen: for it 
were a great indignity unto me, and 
disparagement to my court, that 
upon any such unexpected accident 
there should be no place of receipt. 
able to give good entertaynement in 
that kinde, and although this may 
be a cause of some extraordynarie 
charge, yet lett it be p’formed, and 
that expence saved in some other 
needles sup iluity, flor parsimony in 
these thing that concern the honor 
and state of my court, were as 
great an error as prodigalify in idle 
waste. 
That in the services about my 
p son or place in my house, my of- 
ficers and servants in general doe 
take knowledge from me that is nei- 
ther agreeable with my liking and 
pleasure, that any one man should 
sue or seeke for multiplicity of of- 
Aces appertayning to’ my service, 
ANNUAL REGISTER, : 1803. 
or pages, which is.neither safe yor 
especially if they be of charge or 
ymportance, for that course t doe 
well know to be a great hinderance 
to the exaci service due to a prince, 
for one office of consequence is 
cnough to imploy the witt and in- 
dustry of one man if hee discharge 
his duty there thoroughly. Ee- 
side, it deprives a prince of-the 
meanes to grace and gratifie many 
of his able and faithful servants, 
when one man ingrosseth sondry 
offices, and it deminisheth the ma- 
jesty of a court, when there are not 
so many officers as offices disposed 
of, they charge being all one, but 
the honor and benefit much lesse, 
for the prince, when he _ respects 
more any one mans p ticular avarice 
or ambition, then the advancement 
and countenance of his own service. 
Wee sce, that noblemen in the or- 
dering of their owne families, will 
admit no such confusion ; and, there- 
fore, lesse fitt to be tollerated in a 
princes court, that is well ordered 
and disciplined as it ought to be. 
That the like knowledge be taken 
from me, as a matter that I will 
have duly observed in my house or 
service; that is, that I myself doe 
make a choice and free election of 
my principall officers and servants 
without partiality or other respects, 
then for the worth or desert of the 
psons themselves, and doe accord- 
inglie dispose thereof by myne owne 
guift, to the end that thereby I may 
binde my servants the more faith- 
fully unto me, and not to transferre 
the thanck for my benefitte to other 
men. So, likewise, it is my will 
and pleasure, that the chief officers 
doe not in any sort traflique or 
conferr the inferiour offices and 
places by partiality and bribery, but 
freely and without corruption, and 
not to preferre strangers before 
; myne 
