[226] Robert Laneham was Keeper and describes his functions (Laneham, 59): 'Noow, syr, if the Councell sit, I am at hand, wait at an inch, I warrant yoo. If any make babling, "peas!" (say I) "woot ye whear ye ar?" if I take a lystenar, or a priar in at the chinks or at the lokhole, I am by & by in the bones of him; but now they keep good order; they kno me well inough: If a be a freend, or such one az I lyke, I make him sit dooun by me on a foorm, or a cheast: let the rest walk, a God's name!'
[227] Baldwin, 439; Cheyney, i. 81; Dicey, 68, 94.
[228] Baldwin, 450; Percy, 17.
[229] Cheyney, i. 109; Percy, 48.
[230] Cf. ch. ix.
[231] Cf. chh. xiii (Pembroke's, Worcester's), xvi (Theatre, Globe), xvii (Blackfriars).
[232] Order for Sitting in the King's Great Chamber (H. O. 113): 'If the master of revells be there, he may sitt with the chapleyns or with the esquires or gentlemen ushers.'
[233] Cf. Mediaeval Stage, i. 404.
[234] Cf. ch. xiii.
[235] Brewer, i. 24, 283, 690, 828; ii. 875, 1044, 1479; iii. 129; iv. 868; cf. Tudor Revels, 6.