Early English Meals and Manners

by Unknown

Of the Baker.

Out of a London bushel he shall bake 20 loaves, fine and coarse.

Of the Huntsman and his Hounds.

He gets a halfpenny a day for every hound.

The Feuterer 2 lots of bread if he has 2 leash of Greyhounds, and a bone for each, besides perquisites of skins, &c.

Of the Ewerer or Water-bringer.

He has all the candles and cloths and gives water to every one.

Who may wash his hands, and where.

The bringer of Water shall kneel down.

The Ewerer shall cover the lord’s table with a double cloth, the lower with the selvage to the lord’s side; the upper cloth shall be laid double, the upper selvage turned back as if for a towel.