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

[148] Idem, pp. 22, 23.

[149] Harleian MSS. in the British Museum, N^o 369, corrected by N^o 642.

[150] By white lights I understand tallow candles, they being so distinguished from wax in other places: which last, I presume, at that time were yellow.

[151] In the time of Henry the Eighth (as in some cases in these Orders) they used stoppages of wages in lieu of imprisonment. This was called checquing. Hence, I apprehend, the office of a Clerk of the Cheque.

[152] Of this Office, and that of the Esquires of the Body, see Mr. Pegge's Curialia, Part I.

[153] N^o 369 reads Ray Clothing.

[154] Fortè Prickets.

[155] Sic: but query if not Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber; they not being otherwise mentioned in either copy.

[156] See the "Curialia," Part III.

[157] Sic lego.