[156] Nichols, Eliz. ii. 47, from return of Board of Green Cloth (1576).
[157] Nichols, Eliz. ii. 45, 51. 'Bouche' or 'bouge' of court is clearly from busca, bush, firewood. The allowance was as old as 1290, for Fleta, ii. 7, notes cibus, potus, busca, and candela amongst the Chamberlain's fees (cf. p. 37). It is set out for each officer in 1318 (Tout, 270) and c. 1478 (H. O. 15).
[158] Nichols, Eliz. ii. 44.
[159] H. O. 34, 'because ray clothinge is not according for the king's knightes, therefore it was left'. But an order of June 1478 (T. R. Misc. 206, f. 11) required Lords, Knights, Squires of the Body, and others within the household to wear 'a colour of the kings livery about their nekkes'.
[160] Cheyney, i. 32; Devon, 24, 43, 67, 83; Abstract, 8; Pegge, iii. 27; Nichols, James, ii. 125; V. P. vii. 12; Hentzner, Itinerarium (quoted App. F); Addl. MS. 5750, f. 114; Lord Chamberlain's Records, v. 90, 91. The 'watchyng clothing' is as old as Edward IV (H. O. 38, 41). It seems to have been 4 yards of medley colour at 5s. a yard (Sullivan, 253). The sovereigns seem to have made some use of personal colours as distinct from the royal scarlet. Those of Edward VI were green and white (Von Raumer, ii. 71); those of Elizabeth black and white; cf. pp. 142, 161 (1559, 1560, 1564).
[161] Pegge, iii. 92.
[162] Cf. ch. xiii (Queen's).
[163] Cf. ch. iii.
[164] Carlisle, 90, with a list of many of James's Gentlemen.
[165] The order of 1526 for the Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber prescribes that one of them, Henry Norris, 'shall be in the roome of Sir William Compton, not only giveing his attendance as groome of the Kings stoole, but also in his bed-chamber, and other privy places, as shall stand with his pleasure' (H. O. 156). Naturally the post had lapsed during female reigns, although a hope of Sir Robert Sidney for a 'Bedchamber lordship' in 1597 suggests that a renewal may have been contemplated (Hatfield MSS. vii. 225). James had had Gentlemen of the Bed Chamber in Scotland. Later court usage, represented already by Chamberlayne, 262, in 1669, interpreted 'stole' as 'vestment', but I suspect that in origin it was the close stool, which was kept c. 1478 by the Wardrobe of Beds (H. O. 40); cf. Marston, Fawn, 1. ii. 46, 'Thou art private with the duke; thou belongest to his close-stool'.