[136] Batiffol, 93, describes a similar practice in the French household.
[137] Cf. ch. xiii (Queen's, King's).
[138] Philip Henslowe (ch. xi) seems to have passed from the 'extraordinary' to the 'ordinary' status as Groom of the Chamber.
[139] Pegge, v. 49. There were 'xx servientes, unusquisque jᵈ in die' in the Domus of Henry I (Hearne, Liber Niger Scaccarii, i. 356).
[140] Pegge, iii; Tout, 304 (1318): 'Item xxiiij archers a pee, garde corps le roi, qirrount deuaunt le roi en cheminant par pays'; H. O. 38 (1478).
[141] Sir Christopher Hatton was Captain of the Guard 1572-87, Sir Walter Raleigh 1587-1603, Sir Thomas Erskine, afterwards Viscount Fenton (1605) and Earl of Kelly (1619), 1603-32.
[142] Halle, i. 14; ii. 294; Pegge, ii. An Elizabethan book of orders for the Pensioners (1601) is in H. O. 276.
[143] Cf. App. F.
[144] On the development of the Secretaries, cf. Tout, 175; Davies, 228; Nicolas, P. C. vi, xcvii; Cheyney, i. 43; R. H. Gretton, The King's Government, 25; L. H. Dibben, Secretaries in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries (E. H. R. xxv. 430).
[145] On the Chapel, cf. ch. xii, s.v.