VISIT OF CHARLES V. TO ENGLAND (1522).
Source.—Rutland Papers (Camden Society), p. 79.
Remembrances as touching the Emperor's coming.
First, the certainty to be known how many messes[11] of meat shall be ordered for the Emperor and his nobles at the King's charge; viii messes, x messes more or less?
Item, how many of these messes shall be served as noblemen, and how many otherwise.
Item, how many messes of meat shall be served for my Lord Cardinal and his chamber at the King's charge; v or vi more or less? Or whether his grace will be contented with a certainty of money by the day to his diet, and cause his own officers to make provision for the same, and to serve it.
Item, whether the emperor and his nobles shall be served with his own diaper,[12] or else with the king's? The Emperor and his court with the king's.[13]
Item, whether the Emperor shall be served with his own silver vessels, or else with the king's? At Dover with the king's.[13]
Item, how many of the emperors carriages shall be at the king's charge, and whether any parcell of the King's carriage shall be at the King's charge or us?
Item, whether any of the great officers, as my lord Steward, Master Treasurer, or Master Comptroller, shall give attendance upon the Emperor at Dover or not?
Item, whether there shall be any banquetting, and in what places? At[14] Greenwich, London, Richmond, and Windsor.
Item, placards to be had for the purveyors of the poultry and others.
Item, letters to be directed to the Lords both spiritual and temporal, for fishing of their ponds for dainties.
Item, a warrant to be had and directed to Master Micklow for ready money.
Item, to know whether the King's grace will have any of his sergeant officers to attend upon the emperor, or yeomen for his mouth daily or not?
Wines laid in divers places for the King and the Emperor between Dover and London.
| Dover ii days. | Gascon Wine. Rhenish Wine. | iii dolia[15] i vat[16] of ii alnes.[17] |
| Canterbury iiii days. | Gascon Wine. Rhenish Wine. | iii dolia. ii vats of v alnes. |
| Sittingbourne i day. | Gascon Wine. Rhenish Wine. | i dolium. demy vat. |
| Rochester ii meals. | Gascon Wine. Rhenish Wine. | i dolium. demy vat. |
| Gravesend and upon Thames ii meals. | Gascon Wine. Rhenish Wine. | i dolium. demy vat. |
| Greenwich iiii meals. | Gascon Wine. Rhenish Wine. | Plenty. |
| To Blackfriars in London viii meals. | Gascon Wine. Rhenish Wine. | viii dolium. iii vats of vi alnes. |
| Richmond x meals. | Gascon Wine. Rhenish Wine. | Plenty. |
| Hampton Court. | Gascon Wine. Rhenish Wine. | |
| Windsor. | Gascon Wine. Rhenish Wine. | Plenty. |
Remembrances for my Lord Mayor of London.
First, to assign iiii bakers within the city of London to serve the noblemen belonging to the Emperor that be lodged in the Canons' houses of Paules and their abbots and other places within the City.
Item, to assign the King's wax chandler to serve them of torches.
Item, to assign a tallow chandler for white lights.
Item, to assign iiii butchers for serving of oxen, sheep, calves, hogges of gresse,[18] flitches of bacon, marrow bones, and such other as shall be called for.
Item, to assign ii fishmongers for provision of lynges to be ready watered, pikes, tenches, breams, caller salmon, and such other dainties of the fresh water.
Item, to appoint ii fishmongers for provision of sea-fish.
Item, to appoint iiii poulterers to serve for the said persons of all manner poultry.
Item, to provide into every lodging wood, coal, rushes, straw, and such other necessaries.
Item, it is requested that there may be always two carpenters in readiness to furnish every place with such things as shall be thought good, as cupboards, forms, boards, trestles, bedsteads, with other necessaries, where lack shall be.
Item, to see every lodging furnished with pewter dishes, and saucers as shall be thought sufficient.
Item, to furnish every house with all manner kitchen stuff, if there be any lack of such like within any of the said houses, as broches[19] of diverse sorts, pots and pans, ladles, skimmers, gridirons, with such other stuff as shall be named by the officers of the said noblemen.
Item, appoint ii men to serve all manner of sauces for every lodging.
Item, to appoint ii tallow chandlers to serve for all manner of sauces.
Item, to warn every owner of the house to put all their stuff of household in every office against their coming to be in a readiness.
Item, the King's grocers to be appointed to serve in all manner of spices.
Bill of fare for the ordinary dieting of the Emperor's attendants per diem.
ccviii noblemen and gentlemen, by estimation every of them to have a mess full furnished of this fare as followeth.
ccviii messes.
| The first course for dinner. | The first course supper. |
| Potage. | Potage. |
| Boiled Capon. xxxiiiidd viii. | Chickens boiled. lxixdd. |
| Young Veal. xxxii. | Legges of Mutton. xxi. |
| Grene[20] Gese. lxixdd iiii. | Capons. xxxiiiidd vi. |
| Kid or lamb. ciiii. | Kid or lamb. ciiii. |
| Custards. ccviii. | Dowcettes.[22] |
| Fruttour.[21] ccviii messes. | |
The second course. | The second course. |
| Jussell.[23] | Jelly Ipocras.[24] |
| Chickens. cxxxviiidd viiii. | Peacocks. cxxxviiidd viii. |
| Peacocks. cxxxviiidd viii. | Chickens. cxxxviiidd viii. |
| Rabbits. cxxxviiidd viii. | Rabbits. cxxxviiidd viii. |
| Tarts. cc. | Tarts. ccviii. |
[11] A sufficient quantity of provisions for four persons.
[12] Linen.
[13] = the answer to the question in the original written in the margin.
[14] = the answer to the question in the original written in the margin.
[15] = cask.
[16] vat = about 20 gallons.
[17] alne = ell: i.e. 45 inches. This refers to the dimensions of the barrel.
[18] = fat hogs.
[19] = spits.
[20] = Goslings.
[21] A compôte of fruit.
[22] = Pasties.
[23] The recipe for Jussell was "grated bread, eggs, sage, saffron and good broth."
[24] A kind of sweet wine.