[41.] Prouender or menglid corne—fovrraige ... provende. Palsgrave.
[42.] See ‘two cast of brede,’ l. 631. ‘One caste of brede’ for the Steward’s yeoman, H. Ord. p. 56, &c.
[43.] Mayster of the horses—escvier de escvirie. Palsg.
[44.] See Rogers’s Agriculture and Prices in England, v. 1, p. 280-1. The latest prices he gives for shoeing are in 1400; “Alton Barnes, Shoeing 5 horses, a year, 6s. 8d. Takley, Shoeing 2 cart horses Manners and Household Expenses (ed. Dawson Turner), 1841, p. 380. (Sir Jn. Howard, Knt., 1462-9.) The Percy allowance in 1512 was “ij s viiij d. every Hors Shoynge for the hole Yere by estimacion, Viz. a Hors to be shodd oons in iij moneths withowt they jornay.” p. 24. A horse’s daily allowance was ‘a Peck of Oats, or 4d. in Breade after iiij Loiffes, 4d. for Provaunder, from 29th Septr. 8 Hen. VIII. to 3rd May following,’ p. 266.
[45.] See Edw. IV.’s Office of Bakehouse, H. Ord. p. 68-70. ‘The sergeaunt of thys office to make continually of every busshell, halfe chiete halfe rounde, besydes the flowre for the Kinges mouthe, xxvii loves, every one weying, after one daye olde, xxiii ounces of troye weyghtes.’ p. 69.
[46.] In Edward the Fourth’s Court, ‘Knyghts of Household, XII, bachelers sufficiant, and most valient men of that ordre of every countrey’ had ‘to serve the King of his bason.’ H. Ord. p. 33.
[47.] Replier, To redouble, to bow, fould, or plait into many doublings. Cotgrave.
[48.] Napkins? O. Fr. brueroi is bruyère, heath.
[49.] ? Du. zijgen (door een zifte ofte Stramijn), to runne (through a Sift or a Strainer.). een Suyle a Pale or a Water-pale. Hexham.
[50.] covers. ‘Ovyr quelmyd or ouer hyllyde. Obvolutus.’ P. Parv.