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 Chap. -VIH OF MANCHESTER. 253 a Cyn-hordy or dog-kennel, an Yfgubawr or granary, an Odyn even or bakehoufe, a Ty Bychan or boghoufe, and an Hundy or bedroom' 19. The fire-pan was of iron and the fuel of .wood 3 °. And the bed was merely of ftraw, t as it even conti- nued to be in the royal bedrooms of England as late as. the con<- clufion of the thirteenth century ? The king's own drefs was a fantell or mantle, and .a bais, tunic, or waiftcoat, both affuredly of woolen, .a*grya or'fhirt ,and. lawdr or breeches, both pretty certainly of linen, and efgidjeu. or fhoes, hofaneu* or itqekens, lewys or gloves ' % 9i #ttd bian.,gapan or a cap. of fkinsf 3. , And the queen's Mfrefa ^as nearly the^ fame*, her majefty only wearing JPfunenheu or Roman headbands under her capan * The great .officers of the .court were- the Pen-teulu or the mayor qf the palace, ,thte Piiflajn or feftrard bf the houfhold, the Pea-ho- bbgydd !oiv maftfer ;of the hawl^s, the .Brawdwr JLlys or? cciurti- juftkiary,. the Pep^gvyafdrawd or the > prefident of the grooms, the Gwa& Yfdafell or the. lord chamberlain, the Bardh-teulp : or the court-poet, thse*Gofdegwr or the king's ferjeanr, the Pcn- cenydd or the matter, of the 'king's hounds, the Meddyd.or ,the : king's cellarer, the .Meddyg. ; or phyfician to the houfhold* .the Txulliador butlpr, ;tha .Dryfawr or porter, the; Cog pr. cook, , and the Canhwyllyd or the .curator of the .lights, v In this efta- biifhment.of a court we, fee the head of. the falconers and the chief of the grpoms, the^ poet-laureat and the cook, all ranked - immediately among the r great officers of :ftate-. Such a^raoj^was ..naturally given them in a court generally, devoted, as all courts originally were,., and as all in .illiterate age^. muff ever he, to the pleasures of -the feaft and the divej^idns. of the chace.v. So the Pipcsrna or butler- to king Ethelwulphwat maternal grand- father tpiing. Alfred*. .So^thcmaflenqf tfyp Jjprfe .to king Al- fred is mention^ i^ the-SaxonrChronicle upd^r. the appellation of t^eHorfe* tisane,, >A n d ft* ajnangthe officers of &ng.H?rdicnute's coujrt we hay? Stir UU major domo, majorem domiis, or mayor of the palace, Edric his tptfiei* Xb*ond hi3 butcher, iuum :caj> - nificetn, & a}ios, maguae dignitatis vims* ient in a jpinticoa^* miflion with, Alirifl &rcht>ifhop of York ani Godwin '.earl of. Kent* :. %