[22.] Hoc stramentum, lyttere, (the straw with which the bed was formerly made) p. 260, col. 2, Wright’s Vocabularies.
[23.] Sylure, of valle, or a nother thynge (sylure of a walle), Celatura, Celamen, Catholicon, in P. Parv. Fr. Ciel, Heauen, pl. Ciels, a canopie for, and, the Testerne and Valances of a Bed. Cotgrave. A tester over the beadde, canopus. Withals.
[24.] Crochet, a small hooke.
[25.] Lyowre, to bynde wythe precyows clothys. Ligatorium. P. Parv.
[26.] Fylowre, of barbours crafte, Acutecula, filarium. P. Parv. See note 3, p. 160.
[27.] Tapet, a clothe, tappis. Palsgrave, 1530. Tapis, Tapistrie, hangings, &c., of Arras. Cotgrave, 1611. Tapis, carpet, a green square-plot. Miege, 1684. The hangynges of a house or chambre, in plurali, aulæa ... Circundo cubiculum aulæis, to hange the chambre. The carpettes, tapetes. Withals.
[28.] And he (a Grome of Chambyr) setteth nyghtly, after the seasons of the yere, torchys, tortays, candylles of wax, mortars; and he setteth up the sises in the King’s chambre, H. Ord. p. 41, ‘these torches, five, seven, or nine; and as many sises sett upp as there bee torches,’ ib. p. 114; and dayly iiii other of these gromes, called wayters, to make fyres, to sett up tressyls and bourdes, with yomen of chambre, and to help dresse the beddes of sylke and arras. H. Ord. p. 41.
[28a.] ? some omission after this line. [Corrigenda]
[29.] Wardroppe, or closet—garderobe. Palsgrave.
[30.] See the duties of Edward IV.’s Sewar, H. Ord. p. 36.