My mistakes I submit to correction.
[ Ffor to serve a lord.]
1. Have your table-cloths and napkins ready, also trenchers, salts, &c.
2. Bring your cloths folded, lay them on the table, then cover the cupboard, the side-table, and the chief table.
3. Bring out the chief salt-cellar, and pared loaves, and hold the carving-knives in your right hand.
4. Put your chief salt-cellar before the chief person’s seat, his bread by it, and his trenchers before it.
5. Put the second salt-cellar at the lower end. If wooden trenchers are used, bring them on.
6. Put salt-cellars on the side-tables.
7. Bring out your basins, &c., and set all your plate on the cupboard.
8. Let the chief servants have basins, &c., ready, and after Grace, hold the best basin to the chief lord, with the towel under; and then let his messmates wash.