[10] = "cornering."
VISIT OF CHARLES V. TO ENGLAND (1522).
Source.—Rutland Papers (Camden Society), p. 79.
Remembrances as touching the Emperor's coming.
First, the certainty to be known how many messes[11] of meat shall be ordered for the Emperor and his nobles at the King's charge; viii messes, x messes more or less?
Item, how many of these messes shall be served as noblemen, and how many otherwise.
Item, how many messes of meat shall be served for my Lord Cardinal and his chamber at the King's charge; v or vi more or less? Or whether his grace will be contented with a certainty of money by the day to his diet, and cause his own officers to make provision for the same, and to serve it.
Item, whether the emperor and his nobles shall be served with his own diaper,[12] or else with the king's? The Emperor and his court with the king's.[13]
Item, whether the Emperor shall be served with his own silver vessels, or else with the king's? At Dover with the king's.[13]
Item, how many of the emperors carriages shall be at the king's charge, and whether any parcell of the King's carriage shall be at the King's charge or us?