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 Grooms were raised. And what was practically a new department was brought into existence in the Bedchamber, which had a staff of Gentlemen, Grooms, and Pages, independent of the Lord Chamberlain and controlled by their own First Gentleman, who was also known as Groom of the Stole. The Bed Chamber, chiefly composed of Scots, furnished James with his most confidential servants. As might be expected, James enlarged his hunting establishment, and one of his new appointments was a Cockmaster. He had a conspicuous Fool in Archie Armstrong. And he instituted in the Lord Chamberlain's department an officer known as the Master of the Ceremonies, whose function was to look after the lodgings and the general well-being of ambassadors, and to grapple with the knotty problems entailed by their inveterate stickling for precedence and etiquette. A separate household was formed for the Queen, to which the various grades of ladies