shall any way offend It is called the Green Cloth of a Green Cloth whereat they sit over whom are the Arms of the Compting House bearing Vert a Key and a Rod Or a Staffe Argent Saultier signifying their Power to reward and correct as Persons for their great wisdom and experience thought fit by His Majesty to exercise both these Functions in his Royal House The Treasurer of the Kings House is alwayes of the Privy Council and in absence of the Lord Steward hath power with the Comptroller and Steward of the Marshalsea to hear and determine Treasons Felonies and other inferiour Crimes committed within the Kings Palace and that by Verdict of the Kings Houshold Houshold Servants within the Check Roll if any be found guilty of Felony no benefit of Glergy is to be allowed him Antiently this Court might have held Pleas of Freehold also His yearly Fee 124 l. 14 s. 8 d. and a Table of 16 Dishes each Meal He bears a white Staffe and is at present Sir Thomas Clifford The Comptrollers Office is to controul the Accounts and Reckonings of the Green Cloth His yearly Fee is 107 l. 12 s. 4 d. a Table of 16 Dishes each Meal He bears a white Staffe and is at present the Lord Newport The Cofferer is also a Principal Officer hath a special charge and oversight of other Officers of the House for their good Demeanour and Carriage in their Offices and is to pay the Wages to the Kings Servants below Stairs His yearly Fee is 100 l. a Table of 7 Dishes daily and is now Colonel Will. Ashburnbam The next is the Master of the Houshold whose Office is to survey the Accounts of the House His Fee 100 Marks and 7 Dishes daily enjoyed by Sir Herbert Price The Two Clerks of the Green Cloth are Sir Henry Wood and Sir Stephen Fox and the two Clerks Comptrollers Sir William Boreman and Sir Winston Churchill The yearly Fee to each of these four is 48 l. 13 s. 4 d. and between them 2 Tables of 7 Dishes to each Table The rest of the Compting-House being less considerable shall for brevity be past over and for other Officers below stairs onely their Names and Number shall be noted their Fees being not considerable except the Sergeants Fee of each Office In the Bake-House A Sergeant a Clerk divers Yeomen a Garnitor divers Purveyors Grooms and Conducts in all 17 Persons In the Pantry A Sergeant Yeomen Grooms Pages c. in all 11. In the Cellar A Sergeant a Gentleman Yeomen Grooms Purveyors Pages in all 12. In the Buttry A Gentleman Yeoman Grooms Pages Purveyors in all 11. In the Pitcher-House A Yeoman Grooms Page and Clerk in all 5 persons In the Spicery Three Clerks and a Grocer In the Chandlery A Sergeant 2 Yeomen 2 Grooms and a Page in all 6 persons In the Wafery A Yeoman and a Groom In the Confectionary A Sergeant 2 Yeomen a Groom and a Page In the Ewry A Sergeant a Gentleman 2 Yeomen a Groom and 2 Pages In the Landry A Yeoman a Groom 3 Pages and a Draper In the Kitchin Six Clerks a Master Cook to the King a Master Cook to the Houshold 6 Yeomen 7 Grooms 5 Children in all 26 persons In the Larder A Sergeant a Clerk 3 Yeomen 3 Grooms 2 Pages In the 〈◊〉 or the Caterers Office a Sergeant a Clerk Purveyors for Flesh and Fish Yeomen in all 12 persons In the Boyling-House a Yeoman 2 Grooms In the Poultry A Sergeant a Clerk Yeomen Grooms Purveyors in all 10 persons In the Scalding-House Yeomen Grooms and Pages in all 6. In the Pastry A Sergeant a Clerk Yeomen Grooms and Children in all 11 persons In the Scullery A Sergeant a Clerk Yeomen Grooms and Pages in all 12 persons In the Wood-Yard A Sergeant a Clerk Yeomen Groom and Pages in all 8 persons Harbingers 2 Gentlemen 6 Yeomen In the Almonry Sub-Almoner 2 Yeomen Grooms Porters at Gate A Sergeant Sir Edward Bret 2 Yeomen 4 Grooms Cart-Takers 6 in number Surveyors of the Dresser 2 persons Marshals of the Hall 4. Sewers of the Hall 5. Wayters of the Hall 12. Messenger of the Compting-House 1. Bell-Ringer 1. Long-Cart-Takers 4. Wine-Porters 8. Wood-Bearer 1. The Cock 1. Supernumerary Servants to the last King viz. In the Poultry 2 in the Almonry 1 and in the Pastry 1. Besides the fore-named Officers below Stairs there are also under the said Lord Steward all the Officers belonging to the Queens Kitchin Cellar Pantry c. and to the Kings Privy Kitchin and to the Lords Kitchin together with Children Scowrers Turn-broaches c. in all 68. A List of His Majesties Servants in Ordinary above Stairs GEntlemen of the Bed Chamber whereof the first is called Groom of the Stole that is according to the signification of the word in Greek from whence first the Latines and thence the Italian French derive it Groom or Servant of the Robe or Vestment He having the Office and Honour to present and put on His Majesties first Garment or Shirt every morning and to order the things of the Bed-Chamber The Gentlemen of the Bed-Chamber consist usually of the Prime Nobility of England Their Office in general is each one in his turn to wait a Week in every Quarter in the Kings Bed-Chamber there to lie by the King on a Pallet-Bed all Night and in the absence of the Groom of the Stole to supply his place The yearly Fee to each is 1000 l. Their Names follow according to their Order John Earl of Bath Groom of the Stole and first Gentleman of the Bed-Chamber George Duke of Buckingham Charles Duke of Richmond William Duke of Newcastle George Duke of Albemarle James Duke of Ormond Earl of Suffolk The Earl of Newport Earl of Ossory Earl of Ogle Lord Gerrard Lord Crofts Lord Lauderdale Lord Mandevil Mr. May Privy Purse Sir George Carteret Vice-Chamberlain George Lord Viscount Grandison Captain of the Guard Sir Edward Griffin Knight Treasurer of the Chamber Sir John Denham Knight of the Bath Surveyor to His Majesty Grooms of the Bed-Chamber Henry Seymour Esquire John Ashburnham Esquire Thomas Elliot Esquire David Walter Esquire William Legg Esquire Sylvius Tytus Esquire Thomas Killegrew Esquire Robert Philips Esquire Edward Progers Esquire Richard Lane Esquire Henry Coventry Esquire These are not to be above the degree of Gentlemen Their Office is to attend in the Kings Bed-Chamber to dress and undress the King in private c. The yearly Fee to each is 500 l. Pages of the Bed-Chamber 6 in number whereof one is Keeper of his Majesties Closet Gentlemen Vshers of the Privy-Chamber Sir William Flemming Marmaduke Darcy Sir Paul Neale Sir Robert Stapleton These wait one at a time in the Privy Lodgings Gentlemen of the Privy-Chamber in Ordinary Sir Edward Griffin Sir Francis Cobb Sir John Boys Sir John Talbot Sir Robert Bindlos Sir Thomas Sandys c. in number forty eight all Knights or Esquires of note Their Office is 12 every
are 2 Clerks of the Avery or Avenry One Clerk of the Stable Three Surveyors 2 Gentlemen Riders 4 Yeomen Riders 4 Coachmen 8 Littermen a Sergeant of the Carriage 2 Sadlers a Squire Sadler and a Yeoman Sadler a Yeoman of the Stirrup 4 Yeomen Purveyors 4 Yeomen Granators a Sergeant Farrier 4 Yeomen Farriers a Yeoman of the Male a Yeoman Peckman a Yeoman Bilmaker a Yeoman of the Close Cart Sixty four Grooms of the Stable 26 Footmen in Liveries to run by the Kings Horse There is besides some other Officers not here named an Antient Officer in the Kings Houshold called Clerk of the Mercat who within the Verge of the Kings Houshold is to keep a Standard of all Weights and Measures and to burn all false Weights and Measures and from the Pattern of this Standard are to be taken all the Weights and Measures of the Kingdom There are divers other Offices belonging to the King of great importance which are not subordinate to any of the 3 fore-mentioned Great Officers as Master of the Great Wardrobe Master of the Ordnance Warden of the Mint c. and above all for profit is the Office of Post-Master settled by Act of Parliament on the Duke of York and worth about 20000 l. yearly but managed by the order and oversight of His Majesties Principal Secretaries of State who also are Principal Domestiques of the King of whom a farther account shall be given in the Chapter of the Kings Privy Council Master of the Robes is Laurence Hyde Esquire second Son to the late Lord Chancellour whose Office is to have in Custody all His Majesties Robes as those of Coronation of St. Georges Feast and of Parliament also the Custody of all His Majesties Wearing Apparel and of his Collar of Esses Georges and Garters beset with Diamonds Pearls c. Of this Office there is one Master 2 Yeomen 4 Grooms 3 Pages c. In the Court of King James there were many more Offices and to many Offices there belonged many more persons which King Charles the first much lessened and the present King now raigning hath yet lessened much more Of the Military Government in the Kings Court. AS in a Kingdome because Civil Governours proposing Temporal and Ecclesiastical Governours Eternal Rewards and Punishments are not sufficient to secure Peace therefore a Military force is alwayes in readiness so in the Kings Court besides Civil and Ecclesiastical Officers it is thought necessary alwayes to have in readiness Military Officers and Souldiers to preserve the Kings Person whereupon depends the Peace and Safety of all his Subjects Belonging peculiarly to the Kings Court besides above 4000 Foot and above 500 Horse who are alwayes in Pay and readiness to assist upon any occasion there are Guards of Horse and Foot The Horse Guard which the French call Garde du Corps the Germans Lieb Guardy we corruptly Life Gard that is the Gard of the Kings Body hath consisted of 500 Horsemen all or most Gentlemen and old Officers commanded by the Captain of the Guard now James Duke of Monmouth whose Pay is 30 s. a day and each Horseman 4 s. a day These Horse have been divided into Three Parts whereof 200 under the immediate Command of the Captain of the Guard 150 under Monsieur le Marquis de Blancfort and 150 under Sir Philip Howard whose Pay to each is 20 s. a day Under the Captain of the Guard are four Lieutenants Sir Thomas Sandis Sir Gilbert Gerard Major General Egerton and Sir George Hambleton the Cornet is Mr. Stanly Brother to the Earl of Derby also four Brigadeers The Office of the Captain of the Life Guard is at all times of War or Peace to wait upon the Kings Person as oft as he rides abroad with a considerable number of Horsemen well armed and prepared against all dangers whatsoever At home within the Kings House it is thought fit that the Kings Person should have a Guard both above and below Stairs In the Presence Chamber therefore wait the Gentlemen Pensioners carrying Pole-axes there are 50 who are usually Knights or Gentlemen of good Quality and Families their Office is to attend the Kings Person to and from his Chappel only as far as the Privy Chamber also in all other Solemnities their yearly Fee is 100 l. to each Over these there is a Captain usually some Nobleman at present the Lord Bellassis whose Fee is 200 l. yearly a Lieutenant Sir John Bennet his Fee 66 l. 13 s. 4 d. a Standard-Bearer Fee 100 l. a Pay-masters Fee 50 l. and a Clerk of the Check Again in the first Room above Stairs called the Guard-Chamber attend the Yeomen of the Guard whereof there are 250 men of the best quality under Gentry and of larger Stature wearing Red Coats after an Antient Mode bearing Halberds at home and Half-Pikes in Progress and alwayes wearing a large Sword Their Pay is daily 2 s. 6 d. Their Captain the Lord Grandison The Kings Palace Royal ratione Regiae Dignitatis is exempted from all Jurisdiction of any Court Civil or Ecclesiastical but only to the Lord Steward and in his absence to the Treasurer and Comptroller of the Kings Houshold with the Steward of the Marshalsey who may by vertue of their Office without Commission hear and determine all Treasons Felonies Breaches of the Peace committed within the Kings Court or Palace The Kings Court or House where the King resideth is accounted a place so sacred that if any man presume to strike another within the Palace where the Kings Royal Person resideth and by such stroke only draw blood his right hand shall be stricken off and he committed to perpetual prison and fined By the Antient Laws of England only striking in the Kings Court was punisht with death and loss of goods To make the deeper impression and terrour into mens minds for striking in the Kings Court it hath been ordered that the Punishment for striking should be executed with great Solemnity and Ceremony in brief thus The Sergeant of the Kings Woodyard brings to the place of execution a square Block a Beetle Staple and Cords to fasten the hand thereto the Yeoman of the Scullery provides a great fire of Coals by the Block wherein the Searing Irons brought by the Chief Farrier are to be ready for the Chief Surgeon to use Vinegar and Cold Water brought by the Groom of the Saucery the Chief Officers also of the Cellar and Pantry are to be ready one with a Cup of Red Wine and the other with a Manchet to offer the Criminal after the Hand cut off and the Stump seared The Sergeant of the Ewry is to bring linnen to wind about and wrap the Arm. The Yeoman of the Poultry a Cock to lay to it the Yeoman of the Chandry seared Clothes the Master Cook a sharp Dresser Knife which at the place of Execution is to be held upright by the Sergeant of the Larder till Execution be performed by an Officer appointed thereto
Quarter to wait on the Kings Person within doors and without so long as His majesty is on foot and when the King eats in the Privy Chamber they wait at the Table and bring in his Meat They wait also at the reception of Embassadours and every Night two of them lie in the Kings Privy-Chamber A Gentleman of the Privy-Chamber by the Kings Commandment onely without any written Commission is sufficient to arrest any Peer of England Grooms of the Privy Chamber in Ordinary in number 6 all Gentlemen of Quality these as all Grooms wait without Sword Cloak or Hat whereas the Gentlemen wear alwayes Cloak and Sword In the Presence Chamber Gentlemen-Ushers daily Waiters in Ordinary are 4 whereof the first hath the Office of Black Rod and in time of Parliament is to attend every day the Lords House and is also Usher of the Honourable Order of the Garter They are now Sir John Ayton Sir Edward Carteret Richard March Sir James Mercer Tho. Duppa Assistant Daily Waiter Their Office is to wait in the Presence Chamber and to attend next the Kings Person and after the Lord Chancellour and the Vice-Chamberlain to order all affairs and to obey these are all Under-Officers above Stairs Gentlemen Ushers Quarter Waiters in Ordinary in number 8 these wait also in the Presence Chamber and are to give directions to the Grooms and Pages and other under Officers who are to attend in all servile Offices next to the Grooms The Grooms of the Great Chamber are 12 the Pages of the Presence Chamber 4. Cup-Bearers in Ordinary James Halsal Charles Littleton Sir William Fleetwood Sir Philip Palmer Mr. Ayrskyn Carvers in Ordinary 4. Sewers in Ordinary 4. Esquires of the Body in Ordinary 4. Their Office to guard the Kings Person by Night to set the Watch and give the Word and keep good Order in the whole House by Night as the Lord Chamberlain and his other Officers are to do by Day Groom Porter Col. Offley His Office to see the Kings Lodgings furnisht with Tables Chairs Stools Firing to furnish Cards Dice c. to decide disputes arising at Cards Dice Bowlings c. Sergeants at Arms 16 all Gentlemen Chaplains in Ordinary 4 for every Moneth as followeth January Dr. Sandcroft Dr. Brideock Dr. Jos Beaumont Dr. Colebrand February Dr. Peirce Dr. Shute Dr. Duport Dr. Cradock March Dr. Crofts Dr. Reeves Dr. Brough Dr. Bell. April Dr. Maine Dr. Gullston Dr. Stillingfleet Dr. Creighton May. Dr. Fell Dr. Sudbury Dr. Crey Dr. Bathurst June Dr. Wood Dr. Carlton Dr. Basire Dr. Neale July Dr. Cartwright Dr. Castillian Dr. Smith Dr. John Loyd August Dr. Fleetwood Dr. Gunning Dr. Thorne Dr. Offly September Dr. Pearson Dr. Bolton Dr. Perinchief Dr. Tillotson October Dr. Ovtram Dr. Meuse Dr. Tho. Tulley Dr. Smallwood November Dr. Allestree Dr. Benson Dr. Geo. Beaumont Dr. Will. Loyd December Dr. Hodges Dr. Hardye Dr. Ball Dr. Lamplagh These 48 Chaplains in Ordinary are usually Doctors in Divinity and for the most part Deans or Prebends and all principal Predicators Messengers of the Chamber in Ordinary first 2 Clerks of the Check then 40 more in all 42. Musitians in Ordinary 62. Trumpeters in Ordinary and Kettle Drummers are in all 15. Drummers and Fifes 7. Of Wardrobes the King hath besides the Great Wardrobe now in the Savoy whereof Edward Earl of Sandwich is Master divers standing Wardrobes at Whitehall Windsor Hampton-Court the Tower of London Greenwich c. whereof there are divers Officers Lastly removing Wardrobes whereof there is one Yeoman 2 Grooms and 2 Pages Jewel House Sir Gilbert Talbot Master and three Under Officers called Yeoman and Grooms Whose Office is to take Charge of all Vessels of Gold or Silver gilt for the King and Queens Table of all Plate in the Tower of Chains and loose Jewels not fixt to any Garment Physitians in Ordinary to His Majesties Person are Sir Alexander Fraser Sir John Baber Doctor Clark Doctor Hinton Physitians in Ordinary to the Houshold Doctor Waldron Doctor Scarborough for the Tower of London Apothecaries 2 one for the Kings Person and one for the Houshold Chirurgeons 6. Barbers 2. Printers 2. Bookbinder 1. Taylers 2. Hydrographer 1. Stationer 1. In the Office of the Tents Toyles Hales and Pavilions 2 Masters 4 Yeomen 1 Groom 1 Clerk Comptroller 1 Clerk of the Tents A Master of the Revels Office to order all things concerning Comedies c. Engraver Sculptor 1 in each Office In the Office of the Robes 1 Master 4 Grooms a Purveyor Clerk Tayler and Page and a Dyer In the Matter of Ceremonies A Master Sir Charles Cotterel and one Marshal A Master of the Game of Cock-fighting Two Sergeant Skinners Three Embroiderers Two Keepers of the Privy Lodgings Two Gentlemen and one Yeomen of the Bows One Crossbow-Maker one Fletcher One Mrs Sempstress and one Laundress One Perspective Maker One Master Fencer One Haberdasher of Hatts One Comb-Maker One Coffee-Maker Shoo-maker Joyner Copier of Pictures Watch-maker Cabinet-maker Lock-Smith Library-Keeper Rat-Killer of each one Game of the Bears and Bulls 1 Master 1 Sergeant 1 Yeoman Operators for the Teeth 2. Coffer-Bearers to the Back-Stairs 2. Falconers Sir Allen Aspley Master of the Hawks and other Officers under him about London and other places belonging to the King in all 33. Huntsmen for the Buck-hounds in Ordinary John Carey Esquire Master of the Buck-hounds and under him a Sergeant and 34 other persons Otter-hounds Smith Esquire Master of the Otter-hounds and 4 more under him Huntsmen for the Harriers Master of the Harriers Mr. Elliot and 5 under him One Yeoman of the Leash Watermen 55. Silkmen 2. Perfumer Feather-maker Milliner Mercer Hosier Draper Upholster Letter-carrier Forreign Post of each one Officers belonging to Gardens Bowling-Greens Tennis-Courts Pall-Mall 10 persons Culter Spurrier Girdler Corn-Cutter Button-maker one of each Embosser Enameler of each one Armory at the Tower Master of the Ordinance now in several Commissioners William Legg Lieutenant of the Ordnance and Master Armorer and 17 under Officers Heraulds 3 Kings at Arms. Sir Edward Walker Garter Sir Edward Bish Clarenceux William Dugdale Norroy Also 4 Heraulds and 4 Pursuivants Comedians 17 Men and 8 Women Actors Gunner Gilder Cleanser of Pictures Scene-Keeper Coffer-Maker Wax-Chandler Mole-Taker Publick Notary one of each Keeper of Birds and Fowle in St. James's Park 1. Keeper of the Volery Goffe-Club-maker Sergeant Painter one for each A List of His Majesties Servants under the Master of the Horse There are FIrst 14 Queryes so called from the French word Escuyers derived from Escuyrie a Stable their Office is to attend the King on Hunting on Progress or on any occasion of riding abroad to help His Majesty up and down from his Horse c. The yearly Fee to each is 20 l. 2. The Chief Avener which place with all the following are in the Gift of the Master of the Horse so called from Avena Oates whose Office is to provide Provender and yearly Fee is 40 l. There