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of the said Cloath and further to be punished at the King's Will as is 

 aforesaid." (Surelv all this savours somewhat of protection e\en at that 

 early date !) Other statutes followed in later reigns as to the length, 

 breadth, weight, and goodness oi the cloath to prevent frauds and 

 abuses in the making and selling thereof : 



Here is a curious extract from pages 28 and 2() : 



Now as a Corollary to illustrale pari of our former Discourse bv l*"xample, it will 

 not be amiss to take a view, betore we leave this subject, how our Nobilit\- formerly 

 Lived and were Attended : that we may sec how we are det^enerated, and how far 

 short we now come to the Honour and Glory of those Ages. In the Record of 

 Pontfracl an Account by Henry Leycester, Cofferer to Thomas Karl of Lancaster, for 

 one years h.xpence in the Earl's House, from the day next after Michaelmas, in the 

 Seventh year of Kdward the Second, until Michaelmas in the Eighth year of the same 

 King, viz. in the Pantry, Buttery, and Kitchin, £3405. For 184 Tuns of Wine, !kc, 

 For Grocers Ware 180 Pounds. For 6 barrels of Sturgeon. For 6800 Stockfish so 

 called, and for dried fish of all sorts, as Ling, Habberdine, &c. F^or 2319I. of 

 Tallow Candles for the Houshold. For 1870 of lights for pacis Candles call'd 

 Pearchers. For expences on the Flarls great Horses ;£^486 45. 3^. For 159 Cloaths 

 for Liveries against Christmas : viz. For one Scarlet Cloath for the Earl himself. 

 F"or one Cloath of Russet for the Bishop of Anjou. For 70 Cloaths of Blew for the 

 Knights, as the}' were then term'd. For 15 Cloaths of Medlies for the Lord Clerks. 

 For 28 Cloaths for Esquires. P^or 15 Cloaths for Officers. For 19 Cloaths for Grooms. 

 For 5 Cloaths for Archers. For 4 Cloaths for Minstrels. 



Now follows the Provision for the Summer-Liveries : For 65 Cloaths of Saffron- 

 colour for the Barons and Knights in Summer. For 12 Red Cloaths for Clerks. For 

 26 Cloaths Ray for Esquires. For i Cloath Rav for Officers Coats. For 4 Cloaths 

 Ray for Carpets and in the Hall. For Saddles for the Lords Liveries in Summer, 

 ;^5i 6s. S(f. For 168 yards of Russet Cloath, and 24 Coats for poor men, with 

 Money given to the Poor on Maundy-Thursday. Here is almost 301) Cloaths a year 

 for one Family ; a sufficient Customer for one Clothier, In the I4lh Year of the same 

 King, Hugh Spencer the Folder was condemn'd by the Commonalty and banished the 

 Realm, at which time it was found by inquisition, that the said Spencer had in sundry 

 Shires 57 Mannours ; he had 28,000 Sheep, 1000 Oxen and Steers, 1200 Kine with 

 their Calves, 40 Mares with their Colts, 160 drawing Horses, 2000 Hogs, 300 Bullocks, 40 

 Tun of Wine, 600 Bacons, So carcases (not Briskets or Ribs only) of Martlemas Beef, 

 600 Muttons in Larder, 10 Tun of Cyder. Which Pro\ision for the Household shews 

 a great family there to be kept. To come neerer to our time; in the 36th of Henry 

 the 6th, the great Estates of the Realm being called up to London, (for it seems they 

 lived in the Country in those days) the Earl of Salisbury came up to London with ^oo 

 men on Horse-back, not in Hackny-Coaches. Richard Duke of ^■ork with 4(10 men. 



Richard Nevil Earl of Warwick often had six oxen eaten at a break- 

 fast at his house in Warwick-lane. For he that had any acquaintance 

 in that House might have there so much of Roast and IHovl'd as he could 

 ])rick up and carry upon a long dagger. These are onl\- a fi-w instances 

 of the Houskeeping, Charity, and .Attendance of our ancient Xobilitv, 

 all needing to be pro\ided out of the land, either in tin- form of rents or 

 kind. In the time of our author they were persuaded that good beef, 

 mutton, veal, and lamb were much before combs, gills, pallets, frogs, 

 mushrooms, and such like French kickshawes. 



