, the beans at two
shillings a quarter. The load of hay is at two shillings and eightpence.
When my lord is on a journey, he carries thirty-six horsemen along with
him; together with bed and other accommodation. (p. 157.) The inns, it
seems, could afford nothing tolerable. My lord passes the year in three
country seats, all in Yorkshire; Wrysel, Leckenfield, and Topclyiffe;
but he has furniture only for one. He carries every thing along with
him, beds, tables, chairs, kitchen utensils, all which, we may conclude,
were so coarse, that they could not be spoilt by the carriage; yet
seventeen carts and one wagon suffice for the whole. (p. 391.) One cart
suffices for all his kitchen utensils, cooks' beds, etc. (p. 388.) One
remarkable circumstance is, that he has eleven priests in his house,
besides seventeen persons, chanters, musicians, etc. belonging to
his chapel; yet he has only two cooks for a family of two hundred and
twenty-three persons. (p. 325.)[*]

* In another place mention is made of four cooks. (p. 388.)
But I suppose that the two servants, called in p. 325 groom
of the larder and child of the scullery, are on p. 368,
comprehended in the number of cooks.

Their meals were certainly dressed on the slovenly manner of a ship's
company. It is amusing to observe the pompous and even royal style
assumed by this Tartar chief. He does not give any orders, though
only for the right making of mustard, but it is introduced with this
preamble: "It seemeth good to us and our council." If we consider the
magnificent and elegant manner in which the Venetian and other
Italian noblemen then lived, with the progress made by the Italians in
literature and the fine arts, we shall not wonder that they considered
the ultramontane nations as barbarous. The Flemish also seem to have
much excelled the English and even the French. Yet the earl is sometimes
not deficient in generosity; he pays, for instance, an annual pension of
a groat a year to my lady of Walsingham, for her interest in heaven: the
same sum to the holy blood at Hales. (p. 337.) No mention is anywhere
made of plate; but only of the hiring of pewter vessels. The servants
seem all to have bought their own clothes from their wages.]

[Footnote 4: NOTE D, p. 132. Protestant writers have imagined, that
because a man could purchase for a shilling an indulgence for the most
enormous and unheard-of crimes, there must necessarily have ensued a
total dis