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Rh to bee chardged with all ordinarie sheetes, and pillbwbers; as for the finest sorte, hee is call for such to the ladie, or whom shee pleaseth shall deliver them forth, for such stranngers as in theire callinge they bee fitt for; hee is further to see as occasion serveth, that all his beddes, bolesters, and pillowes, with all the rest of furniture for beddinge, be airede, and beaten, and that there bee noe duste in them, nether any mothes bredde, which both is a greate spoile to stuffe, but in that case dried wormewoode is very good, and ofte turninge and airinge as abovesaide.

Hee is to take his chardge from the gentleman of the horsse, which is to have by inventorie all the horsses, geldinges, and mares, by name, so well for the stoode, as for the saddell, withall the furniture belonginge to the stable whatsoever, and is carefullie to look unto his chardge, soe well those horsses at grasse, as in the housse; and if any of them channce to bee sicke, or hurtt, to acquainte the gentleman of the horsse therewith, that hee may take order therein; and in his absence the yeoman is to looke into all and everie those faultes, to see remedied, so well as if the gentleman of the horsse weare in place. Hee is likewise in his absence to apointe all such horsses, for the lordes service, in his discretion, and to see the gromes doe theire dewtie; everie groome to kepe two greate horsses and foure geldinges, which hee maye well doe in the stable.

They are to bee directed whollie by the clarke of the kittchine, for the lordes diett, and the houshoulde, and to bee respective and