Curialia Miscellanea, or Anecdotes of Old Times / Regal, Noble, Gentilitial, and Miscellaneous: Including Authentic Anecdotes of the Royal Household, and the Manners and Customs of the Court, at an Early Period of the English History

by Samuel Pegge

EXTRACTS FROM THE LIBER NIGER.

Knights and Esquires of the Body.

Item, that all Knights for the Body, Cup-Bearers, and Knight Carvers, Squires for the Body, &c. be put to their attendance, and a book thereof delivered from the King's Highness into the compting-house, for a quarter of a year; the quarters to begin at October, January, April, and July.

Among the provisions, it is said

Knights of the Body, Carvers, and Cup-Bearers, [may have] every of them, two Yeomen sitting in the hall; and for their livery at night, one loaf and an half, and a gallon of ale; one talshed and an half, and three sizes of white lights[150].