[31.] Manchet was the fine bread; chet, the coarse. Fr. pain rouffet, Cheat, or boulted bread; houshold bread made of Wheat and Rie mingled. Cotgrave.
[32.] See the ‘Styward of Housholde,’ H. Ord. p. 55-6: ‘He is head officer.’
[33.] See the ‘Countroller of this houshold royall,’ H. Ord. p. 58-9.
[34.] See the duties and allowances of A Surveyour for the Kyng, in Household Ordinances, p. 37.
[35.] See the ‘chyef clerke of kychyn,’ t. Edw. IV., H. Ord. p. 70; and Henry VIII.’s Clerke of the Kitchen, A.D. 1539, ib. p. 235.
[36.] The duties of the Chauncellor of Englond are not stated in Edw. IV.’s Liber Niger, H. Ord. p. 29; but one of the two Clerkys of Grene-Clothe was accustomed to ‘delyver the clothinge of housholde,’ p. 61.
[37.] See the ‘Thesaurere of Housholde’ in Edw. IV.’s Liber Niger, H. Ord. p. 56-8: ‘the grete charge of polycy and husbandry of all this houshold growyth and stondyth moste part by hys sad and dylygent pourveyaunce and conduytes.’
[38.] AS. gerefa, reeve, steward, bailiff.
[39.] Rents, in kind or money; AS. feorme, food, goods.
[40.] The Avener of Edw. IV. is mentioned in H. Ord. p. 69. See the Charge of Henry VIII.’s Stable, A.D. 1526, ib. p. 206-7.