The Earl and Lady were brother and sister of St. Christopher Gilde Yorke, and pd. 6s. 8d. each yearly; and when the Master of the Gild brought my lord and my lady for their lyverays a yard of narrow violette clothe and a yard of narrow rayed cloth, 13s. 4d. (i.e. a yard of each to each).
And to Proctor of St. Robert’s, Knasbruge, when my lorde and my lady were brother and sister, 6s. 8d. each.
At pp. 272-278 is an elaborate programme of the ordering of my lord’s chapel for the various services.
At p. 292 is an order about the washing of the linen of the chapel for a year. Eighteen surplices for men, and six for children, and seven albes, and five altar cloths for covering of the altars, sixteen times a year against the great feasts.
At p. 285 is an order that the vestry stuff shall have at every removal [for it was carried about from one to another of my lord’s houses] one cart for the carrying of the nine antiphoners, the four grailles, the hangings of the three altars in my lord’s closet and my ladie’s, and the sort [suit] of vestments and single vestments and copes “accopeed” daily, and all other my lord’s chappell stuff to be sent afore my lord’s chariot before his lordship remove (“Antiq. Repertory,” iv. 242).
[455] Whose emoluments at the beginning of the sixteenth century are all given in the “Valor” of Henry VIII., vol. ii. p. 317.
[456] “Valor,” ii. p. 153.
[457] “Taxatio,” p. 298.
[458] Where there was a single chaplain, he probably always had a boy who “served” him at mass, and also acted as his personal attendant.