Curialia Miscellanea, or Anecdotes of Old Times / Regal, Noble, Gentilitial, and Miscellaneous: Including Authentic Anecdotes of the Royal Household, and the Manners and Customs of the Court, at an Early Period of the English History

by Samuel Pegge

[109] The Pincernæ, Butlers,—"Pincerna, qui Vinum Convivis miscet;" Du Cange in voce: and Pincernare, he says, is "Vinum prægustare priusquam Principi propinetur;" Idem in voce. So that it seems to be what we call A Yeoman of the Mouth.

[110] William of Malmesbury; "Æstimabantur denarii fere ad centum millia libras," p. 179.

[111] The breach of his oath to Matilda.

[112] Quâ nunquam fuerat splendidior in Angliâ multitudine, magnitudine, auro, argento, gemmis, Vestibus, omnimodâ dapsilitate.

Henry of Huntingdon, Lib. viii.

[113] Lord Lyttelton, from John of Salisbury.

[114] Fitzstephen.

[115] Idem. Vide Lord Lyttelton's Life of Henry II. vol. iii. p. 483.

[116] Juncare is properly, to strew with rushes.

[117] Blount's Jocular Tenures.